Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1950 — Page 14

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Get It Rolling EXOVERNMENT controls are restricting civilias use of. ~wmaterials that will be needed for the defense program. Other government controls are restricting civilian use of credit for the buying of homes and consumer goods. : The effect of these restrictions is beginning to be felt

painfully. : Manufacturers complain that they can't get enough materials to fill orders for their normal products. ' Dealers in automobiles and other consumer goods ptotest that the tightening of credit is—~choking down their sales, : Union leaders predict serious unemployment in industries affected by the controls on materials and credit. : Demands for relaxation of the controls come, in

risiig volume, from businness and labor alike. . 8 5 =» : 8 8» + - GOVERNMENT'S answer is that the controls serve an absolutely essential purpose—that, when the rearma_ment program really gets rolling, the materials now being

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~~ temporarily unemployed will find jobs. _ A better answer would be to get program really rolling in a hurry. Five. months have passed since the Korean War revealed "America's perilous condition of unpreparedness. Yet=conversion of industry to armament production on the huge scale necessary to correct that condition has little “more than started + . . ‘We need all the preparedness that work and skill and money can provide—and need it fast. Only when we get that can we hope to discourage Communist aggression and keep peace in the world. Only when we get that can we be confident of survival if we , . are forced to fight another world war. And a genuine, determined effort to get that would leave business and labor no grounds for complaint that ‘they are being unnecessarily injured by government restrictions.

Straws in Germany Q ECENT elections in West Germany have made thing clear—that if there is to bé effective German nrticipagion in plans for defending Western Europe it must be on a basis acceptable to the Germans themselves. France seems to overlook this factor in her efforts to relegate West Germany to a secondary role in the défense program. : In Bavaria Sunday, Chancellor Adenauer's Christian ~~ Democrats, leading advocates of German representation in Western Europe's defense forces, were displaced by the Socialists as the strongest single party in that state. The Christidgn Democrats’ share of the total vote dropped to 27.4 per cent. It was 52.3 per cent in 1946. The Anti-Armament Socialists polled 28 per cent, and most of the remaining votes were divided by two newly formed right-wing partiés which also oppose rearmament Uhder esisting conditions.

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3 issue in other German states which voted last week. They say they are not opposed to rearmament as such, but only to “secret rearmament without reference to the people at: _a special election.” They also demand a defense program ‘adequate to’ protect them from a Russian invasion. E qually , significant, perhaps, was the refusal of many young people to vote at all because they are dissatisfied with Germany's + present role in the European community. d These straws in the wind indicate that nothing less than equal partnership is likely to appeal to most rank-and-file Germans. When France undeistands that, it should ‘be easier to reconcile the present differences on this issue between the French and American governments. Both France and Germany want real security. But neither can have it without maximum use of the m: Anpowet of both countries.

Sic Semper Something HIS will be a cold winter with Ds of snow, and next Fourth of July will be a rainy dav, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, just out for the 159th consecutive year, Scoffers will say there's no scientific way of predicting weather ‘so far in advance. But let them not. méke light of the native gumption and Yankee sagacity that goes into the Old Farmer's Almanac with its planting tables, household hints #nd bucolic pleasantries. A ‘few near misses on the weather aren't likely to detract from this ancient yellowbacked publication which still comes out with a little hole in one corner so it may be hung on a convenient nail, as 1t will be in many a rural kitchen.

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= ou ” ” o ONE thing that interests us.about the Old Farmer's —dAlmanac. is-a-baekground-anmeedote dug reporter this year. ‘Its present publisher and editor, a tall. lanky village selectman of Dublin, *N. H., nimed Robb Sangendorph, is described as a relative of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Sangendorph employs an editor named Richard Merrifield, who, by the darndest coincidence, is said to be « a relative of John Wilkes Booth. The re porter, who recently visited the two men, found them in philosophical agreement that, after all, both Lincoln's and Booths relati ves have to wark somewhere. That sort of Yankee - common sense, if it could be exported throughout the world, would do a lot. of good.

Just Be Patient, Girls value of a Harvard education is scheduled. to take a big Jump. Edward R. Reynolds, vice president, of the. : university, says Harvard may not be able to afford maid - service for dormitories next year if wage scales continue - fo go up. This would compel students to make their own 3 If the inflationary spiral isn’t checked, it's logical to t- that the ujversity wil project this policy into o a Harvard man has: ti taught to make his ‘short step to teach him to vacuum the rugs » corridors, The result imevitably will be a marry ‘Harvard men, a new breed of -

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U.S. Defense roan Is Still Prom Much On Paper Despite Need

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—Five months after .the start of the Korean War, the nation’s new and expanded defense program scarcely has - progressed past the point-of placing orders for new machines and materiel of war. Congress gave the three Armed Services $10.268,000,000 to buy the items of war it needed after Korea. The services obligated $8 billion of that money — that is, awarded contracts worth that-much—in the first four months of this fiscal year. . But little of that materiel is. being delivered yet. And in many instances, companies holding defense contracts haven't even started producing the items ordered. It seems reassuring to note that out of an appropriation of $670 million, the Army has placed orders for $513 million worth of tanks and other combat vehicles, But the only plant now making tanks is the Detroit Arsenal—and it's not making tanks from the ground up but is converting M-26 Pershings to the more powerful Pattons. : A multi-million dollar contract was awarded last August to the Cadillac Division of General Motors to-build tanks at a World War II aircraft plant in Cleveland. But Cadillac isn't in production yet and Army Ordnance spokesmeén say they aren’t sure when it will be. :

Other Contracts BESIDES Cadillac, contracts for combat vehicles also have been placed with International Harvester, Allis Chalmers, Massey-Harris, Pacific Car and Foundry and American Car and Foundry. But none of these are ready to produce yet, either. In World War. II, were steady suppliers of tanks,

by contrast, five plants nine of them

were producing at one time, and there wor? | el

scattering of other, occasional suppliers. : The Army has obligated $3 million out of an appropriation of $4 million for small arms ma-

teriel — including the 3.5 millimeter bazooka. But only one plant in: Rock “sland, Ill. — is making bazookas, although shells and various other parts are being made in about a dozen plan ? . RE ethotesn. the Army contract commitments are far ahead of those for the last two fiscal years. Between July 1 and Oc¢t, 1. it has

committed itself to contracts totaling $1.6 billion for actual procurement—or to buy what the Army calls “hardware.” That puts it an average of 371 per cent ahead of fiscal year 1950, when it obligated $1.9 hillion during the wighle year, and fiscal year 1949, when it obligated $2.2 billion, during the year.

AIR FORCE . . . By Max Cook

Korean War Tests U.S. Planes

NEW YORK, Nov. 28--Terrible as it is, the Korean fighting is solving many problems of aerial warfare- problems that otherwise would have cogt millions in research and flight testing.

An example was the dogfight bétween the Russian-built MIG-15 - jet fighters and the Navy's carrier-based Grumman F9F Panther

Jets. Another was the effective use of F-80s in wartare their designers had not anticipated. The MIG-Panther battle took place at high altitudes. although nat. so. long ago Air Force reported that jet fighters were unable to intercept. B-36 bombers flying at 40.000 feet. Manufagturers of jet fighters in this country, Great Britain and Canada have co-operated fully with théir armed services in extensive research omthe high-altitude proble m. The British have claimed interceptions and the “shooting down” (simulated) of high-flyi ing American bombers over thé 40.000-foot mark.

Practical Testing MANUFACTURERS® claims and even flight tests sometimes don’t hold up when actual fightThe Korean W ar is offering practical testing ground. First of the jets on fhe 3cene.

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the Lockheed

F-80 Shooting Star, now is being proclaimed a superb weapon for close support by Lt. Gen.

George E. Stratemever, Commander. This was not true during the first weeks of aerial fighting over. Korea... Unaccustomed- to. - “the hilly and rough térrain, the jet pilots had much difficulty in supplying necessary close ground support to troops. World War II pros peller aircraft did the job. :

Far East Air Force

*The' F-80s finally found themselves: Gen. Stratemeyer reports that the jets terrorized the ememy. “Not” only did- théy come quickly and

destroy the target with a great element of sur-

prize but also the soldiers feared them because .

f the speed and the way in which the jets suddenly appeared before the sound of their

t reached them,” a North Korean prisoner

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By Ben Burroughs.

ADVICE

WASHINGTON, Nov.'28 10 Constitue ion gives the Senate all the wi tv 1t needs to ‘'ré-exam ing. ‘investigate, make or unmake the foreign poliev of the United States , LAnd.in the lame-duck, session which opened. yesterday. it appears that more than a few Senators, mostly Republicans, wiil make use of that authority, ; Presidents and their Secre- have determined and ‘before taries ‘of State from the be- they have acted” ~ ginning have, more or less re- While” a member of the sented * Senate interference in House in 13799, John Marshall foreign policy. making. ; Jad The President. is the sole But none has ever-denied the wgan of the nation in its ex-

right of the Senate —if . it Aernal relations, and its sole shodses to exercise its au- representative with foreign nathority—td a full partnership tions.” in foreign policy, . Although this view appar--y The Constitutionr says the ently is still widely shared, President “shally have the Edward 8. Corwin, in his book power, by .and with the ad- “The President: Office and

ate, Pawers,"” treaties, providing the © Senators »ffect in the The key word = sel. Mr.

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points out that there is no definite statement to this Constitution f{tCorwin writes:

To set this pace, the Army has obligated $36 million out of an appropriation of “$122 million for other vehicles; $202 million out of $218 million for artillery; $391 million out of $439 million for ammunition; $173 million out of $336 million Yor subsistence; $114 million out of $246 million for clothing and equipage, arid $21 million out of $26 million for medical supplies. In all cases, the number of items actually ordered or being produced is secret, but the Army acknowledges the Detroit Arsenal is con-

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verting twice as many fanks per month as it did - before Korea. And at various ordnance centers tanks and other combat vehicles are being taken out of storage and made ready for combat service. Like the Army, the Air Force says its procurement is running on schedule. But, also like the Army, it's not getting much in the way of increased deliveries. Ninety per cent of the Air Force's budget of $4.342,000,000 for new planes has been obligated.

— By Talburt

CONGRESS . . , By Frederick C. Othman Gentlemen, Welcome Home; At Least I'm Happy to See You

WASHINGTON, *%¥8v. 28 That slight hiss-,

ing sound you've heen hearing 2il morning was.

me. Congress is back on the job ard nobody, not even President Truman, is happier to see the gentlemen than me, y The last act of this year's biggshow is.on and what if : —— To some of the performers do show up in the cartoons as wounded ducks with crutches under=thetr wings? I love every! o They do fu work «for

one. my

il § merely have to be there every day and my stories \practically write t h ¢ mselves. For instance There's a hig vammer

brewing about the wav the Senate chamber has been turned into a Grand Central Station with walls of cream-colored. marble.. On. the House

side. the question is; did \Speaker Sam Rayburn confound the architects by ordering the bleached-walnut woodwork dved natural color? Ways and Means Committee is ‘a magnificent fisht over how to slap: move taxes on corporations. Some Senifors are winging their way back. from still another investigation of “the Pan “American in Guatemala, which is .a particularly nice thing to investigate this time of vear, I'd better report in jassimg that Sen. Homer Ferguson ¢R. Mich.) who inv vestigated this nigh

SIDE GLANCES

. The House in the inidst of

way a couple. of years ago, has on his mantlepiece four handmade leather shoes for pigs. These beasts, said he, sre the principal travelers along this. route, but the concrete hurts their feet. Hence the boots which every pig wears when walking down the Lighway in Guatemala. The. .Banking Committee of the Senate is about to open hearings on the troubles of the poor, downtrodden auto dealers, "who cannot sell their merchandise in land-office fashion any more on account of “stringent credit niles. Practifally all of them promise immediate delivery now. those who pay Straight cash. Many are refusing “trade-ins ‘because the used car business is even worse than the new.

A Few Questions SEN. ESTES KEFAUVER (D. Tenn.) is ‘ returning from Los Angeles; where he has been trying to discover what goes with gangster: '.Miekey €iohen. The Senajor will have a report on that: he'll also be subjected to interviews on what, if anything. his, Chicago ¢rime investigations had to do with the Democratic election fizzle there. Sen."Scott.Lucas (R. Ill.), who had nothing whatever to do with the get-rich-quick sheriff turned up there by Sen. Kefauver, blames the latter in large part for his defeat. Millard F. Tydings. the long-time Democratic Senator from Maryland, will be singing what the political writers call his swan song. He is

perhaps: the. best speechmaker in ‘the Senate and his song undeubtedly will be a graceful one, unless, of course, he's hoarse from breath-

ing too much smoke. Sen. T. has more than 100 file cases of correspondence, all of which he must clean out, Some of his more confidential documents he stuffed into the marble fireplace of his office. He lit a match. ‘Achoo.. Not: until too late did he realize that every fireplace in the Senate “office building is a chimneyless dummy. Yes, sir, gentlemen, welcome home, no idea how 1 missed you.

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SUSPENSE | os Can Happen In the United Nations

LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. now in the United Nations approach to the Far East crisis except a major reversal of international communism. Though Russia and her satellites are but a handful, several factors have coincided fo favor appeasement of communism by the United Nations majority. This appeasement may well include admission of the Chinese Communists to the United Red -acquisition of’ final the Chinese Nationalist government on that strategic island, and a deterioration of American position in the West-

This week a Peking "delegation is to be given free rein to speak its propaganda piece on “American aggression” against Chita and Korea.

THIS in etoin Tor off-the-record opportunity ‘to

“This money is budgeted to provide 4380 planes a year, at the delivery rate of 330 planes per month, compared to the pre-Korea schedule of 1460 planes a year at a rate of 110 a month, The Air Force claims the rate of delivery already has started to increase, despite the fact it fakes from nine months to a year and a half to build a plane, depending on its size, This has been possible, it says, because early last July it issued letters of intent to aireraft

_manufacturers for all the planes needed in the

expanded program. These letters. in effect, told . the manufacturers to get ready to produce the planes, but not to start making them until given the word. As a result, says the Air Force, its contractors were ready to go the moment Con“gress appropriated the new money last October. Air Force contracts have been awarded to Boeing, Consolidated Vultee, Douglas, Fairchild, Grumman, Lockheed, North American, Northrop, Paisecki, Republic and Sikorsky. All of them now have planes ordered after Korea in production. In contrast with the Army and Air Force, ths achievements since Korea of the Navy seem outstanding. The Navy has reached the half- -way, mark in its fiscal 1951 goals.

More Combat Ships BUT THAT edge is due largely to the fact that the Navy's job is concerned chiefly with converting or preparing for service vessels which already exist. The Navy, since Korea, has increased its combat ships—by dipping into its mothball fleet —from 243 to around 260. Its July, 1951, goal is 282. Similarly, it is about half-finished in the job of increasing mine and patrol ships from 100 to 118; amphibians from 91 to 280, and auxiliary ships from 195 to 225. More than half the submarine fleet of 75 has been equipped with snorkels (“breathing” towers). And between 300 and 400 of its mothball air arm of 2000 planes have been readied for action, The Pentagon will ‘ask Congress for another $10 billion. In explaining its need for the money, it probably will make two significant points; One is that 33 per cent of the Defense Depart ment’s expenditures are used for wages and salaries, while Soviet Russia spends only 7 to 10 per cent of its defense budget for the same purpose. And the second is that, whereas in 1943 it cost Uncle Sam only $5000 per man in the Armed Forces, it now costs $10,000 per man.

“1 do not agree with a word that Jou say, but 1 will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Attempt to Cover Up’ By Theo B. Marshall, City AFTER reading the article entitled “Take Another Look” in the Forum of Nov. my desire for ‘fair play, protection of the helpless and the common good as opposed to political graft and migtreatment of the ‘poor and helpless inmates of Julietta prompts me to oppose all such attempts to protect spolitical hoodlums by any and all, especially by amateurish, -small-fry politicians and friends of such. : The writer takes great pains to describe the arrangements and furnishings of the place,

wleanliness “and happy contentment of the inmates. In fact he or she has overdone the picture. This is often done when an attempt

is made fo cover up an ugly or wicked act. The Times reporter who made this investi=

..gation adopted the only means that could be

used to learn facts and see things under normal conditions. This public spirited act I am sura will be censured by none except unscrupulous politicians and their friends or those who seek favor from same.. 2 ata dd

THE Indianapolis Times and reporter Bob

Bourne, I am sure, had no reason for their act

other than a desire to do a public service and any attempt to make it appear’ otherwise by any group or person is open to suspicion as being an attempt to protect the guilty. ...1 toa. .have visited Julietta and. talkedsto a number of inmates concerning the food and vermin. The information I received bears out the truthfulnes of The Times stories. Some of the inmates I. approached were reluctant to talk; however, enough of them did convince me of the trath of The Times story. People who-attempt to cover up mismanages= ‘ment and corruption of. political officials have little place in human society and are detrimental to good government. ° ~'Any political appointee who would take advantage of the poor and helpless to further their own financial interests should be sent to “Russia: He has no place in a democracy and’ those who attempt to protect: him are little better. 2

Juvenile Crime - By Jeanne Seymour, City THE article on juvenile crime in The Times bv Charles Boswell, chief probation officer, certainly was worth reading. The sooner’ these underworld characters are uprooted the better it .will be for our youth. A good punishment for those who_ continue to disobey the law would be to send them to Korea and let them feel the sting of war. Then maybe some of the boys who have good objectives in life could come home.

. By Clyde Forrisworth

28—Almost anything can happen

French hope to placate Pes king and drive an ‘entering wedge between Peking and Moscow can be understood on a basis of national interest: ONE: . The British investment in China, retention of Hong Kong, and the desire for an easing of the Red guerrilla résistance in Malaya. TWO: The French stake in keeping Indo-China, within: the French Union instead of having it added to the interna. tional Communist: sphere. , THREE: British and French fear that American military potential will continue to be

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8 “advice.”

‘Senate is not

Thus, the merely an agency of veto. The... word advice gives it affirma-

tive authority it has often used, nd may use again.

jn a famous debate early in -

his century, a Georgia Senator said: ” "» “IN THE making of treaties + It is proper for the Senate tp ‘advise at all stages’. . . we do not advise men after. they have made up their minds and

- after they have. aoted; we ad-

vise men while they are con-

“What the Constitution does, and all it does. is to confer upon. the President certain powers capable of affecting our foreign relations, and certain other powers of the same gensral nature upon the Senate,

. and still other powers upon

Congress; but which of these organs shai have the decisive and final voice in determining

the course of the American na- =

tion is left Yor events to resolve.” :

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where does not have an opportunity ‘either to advise on or consent to a formal treaty. - t. Mr, Corwin concludes t “history's verdict is that

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the substantive American foreign policy is a

divided power, with the lion's. .. share usually falling to the : ‘President, ove | by. no means always."

content of

out Peking on its price for peace, however tentative, and the prospects, however thin, of alienating Peking's affection for Moscow. The role played by ‘Tite's own delegation to the United

Nations, Dr. Ales Bebler, now

. president of the Security Coun-

cil, is of possible. importance in the latter connection. ; Mr, Bebler seems to have

"been principally responsible for

granting a free hand. tothe Chinese Red delegation,

The ostensible leader: of the:

Appeasement move is Britain, with France and the United -tawes trating. "The British-

diverted to the Orient at the expense of European defense. As for the United States, the appeasement issue has been drawn ‘by fears. of greater military involvement in Korea and China on one hand and a threat to ‘American strategic position in the Western Pacific’ on the other." . -° The American mix-up with the Russians qver preliminary

negotiation of térms. for the

Japanese Peace Treaty, forced into. the open last week by Moscow, clearly indicates that

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