Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1950 — Page 20

A SURIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER Ae WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MAND _ Editor Business Manager

; we Rov 'W. HOWARD President

Telephone RI ley 85881 "Give LAoht end the People Will Find Thew Own Wey _

Charles G. Ross UR heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Ross and her sons, and to President Truman. Charles G. Ross was one of the finest men we ever knew. He was a man of broad understanding and tolerance, of infinite patience—sensitive, conscientious, loyal. Charlie was not a carefree fellow, even before he took

on the responsibilities of office as Secretary to the President,’

As Washington correspondent of the St. Louis PostDispatch, Charlie was a serious-minded digger-after-facts. Even so, he seemed a lot younger, of greater bounce, and to reflect more of the joy of living, in those days when his sole concern was the quest of truth to report in his newspaper. It was “a natural” when Harry Truman became President and asked Charlie, his high school classmate, to serve as his press secretary. The very necessary and important job of buffer between the President and the press was not one which Charlie took in stride. He seemed to start aging the day he took it on. He worked hard at it. Loyal to his chief and understanding the responsibilities of a free press, Charlie never trimmed or hedged when things got rough. ° Characteristically, he died at his desk, at work, in the midst of a national crisis which he was trying to interpret in a way to reassure the American people.

70 Restore Peace

HE world situation would not seem so confusing if people would quit speculating about the “grave risk” of war end accept the fact that war began on June 27, when the United Nations moved against Red aggression in Korea. The problem now is how to win that war and restore peace. That demands a plan and the will to see it through. First, there should be no more talk of peace overtures to Moscow until the free world can talk to Russia on terms of military equality. Immediate mobilization of all of America's resources of war is therefore rfecessary. All of our foreign assistance programs should be consolidated into one rearmament program, from which those nations unwilling to accept that formula and make reasonable contributions to it would be eliminated. This will separate the dependable. from the undependable among ¢ our Allies.

.» . ” » » SPAIN and Western Germany should be invited to join in the defense of Western Europe on a basis of absolute equality without further quibbling. The urgency of the situation will not permit any more pussyfooting on these issues. The manpower of these two countries is an absolute must. In Asiz, our warfime relationship with the Chinese Nationalist government should be restored, so that the 500,000 troops in Formosa will be available for any emergency. Japan should be rearmed, and included in anti-Com-munist alliance with Nationalist China, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines—and India and Pakistan, provided they want to go along. We should pull our forces out of Korea unless they can be reinforced and prepare to meet Russia on grounds more advantageous to us if Moscow insists on a military showdown.

» ” » » . ~ TO BE so prepared, everything must be subordinated ‘o a supreme mobilization effort. The requests Britain is making for a share in our stockpiles of strategic goods should be entertained only where they will not interfere with our own rearmament program, and then only to the extent that they will contribute directly to a common defense program. The free world has enough manpower to withstand this threat, if it is mobilized, trained and armed. It has most of

..the. world's. steel and oil and capacity for industrial

production. All that it lacks is ” determined, far-sighted leadership, . 2 sound program and plain, ordinary guts. We must look to the Truman-Attlee conferences to produce these things if peace is to be restored.

Stop the Spiral Now

ECRETARY of the Treasury Snyder told a Senate committee that general price and wage controls will have to be imposed to avoid ‘damaging inflation” as a result of the expanding defense program. ; Economic Stabilizer Valentine told another Senate ‘ommittee that “we are now near a plateau” on which prices and wages should be stabilized. ~ In his public testimony, Mr. Valentine carefully avoided saying how soon he thought price-wage controls should be put into effect. It seems clear, however, that the administration is preparing to abandon all pretense of hope that inflation can be halted by such indirect curbs as restrictions ‘on credit buying If that's the case, direct action to stabilize prices and wages should come swiftly. It has been delayed dangerously too long already. . . Do » . » MR. VALENTINES “plateau” could turn out to be an elevator. ~~. More than three months have gone by since Congress voted the administration authority to put ceilings on any or all prices and simultaneous ceilings on wages and salaries. The emergency which impelled Congress to make that authority available has become far more serious. And the difficulty of using that authority also has increased. But it would

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"a =» : a.» Be FOR reasons quite obvious we seldom pay héed to the occasional ragamuffin who hits us up downtown for a touch. If they get the idea you're a soft touch they: nickel and dime you to death. ” But when Christmas isn't far off we're just like anyone else. We relax a bit, leave our guard wide open so to speak. Anyway, the kid who hit us up yesterday seemed different. At least at first glance, he did. Sure, maybe we could be wrong, but—well, Christmas, you know, and the season being what it is and all that. In the first place there wasn't any whine in his voice. There was a directness in his manner. Hé looked straight at you. He was clean. His clothes were somewhat on the worn side. - » ¥ . » ”

BUT with a kid being what he is, who's to say when he's down at the heels? He might be in jeans or ragged, dirty slacks and shirt and be a spoiled brat from a $25,000 ranch house. He might be shabbily clean and neat and smiling and fresh from a breakfast of made-over coffee and stale, unbuttered toast. Anyway, we didn't think of all those things then. He hit us up and we handed him a quarter. It was as simple as that--for a moment. “Unh, unh,” he said, “aintcha got a couple dimes?”

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And he handed the quarter back, got the dimes, gave his thanks in kid-style and moved on. It was a funny one and when we sheltered a match

“to light a cigaret we looked back over our shoulder.

There he was, all bent over, slipping the dimes, quickly and unobtrusively, in line with the Mile-O-Dimes on Washington St.

H os » : ¥ - ~ THEN he resumed a post about where he was when he first hit us up. !

Sure, we were curious. We talked to him. Name?

Address? It was no soap. We guess there are, as we remember back through the years, some things a guy just doesn’t talk about. What was there in it for him? What did he think he'd get for Christmas? “Mebbe,” and he said it slowly, looking right at us. “Mebbe I'll get me a pair of shoes.” He scuffed his feet, kidlike, and moved on uncomfortable, and we threw away the cigaret which had gone out in our hand. : One flapping sole of a shoe caught in a crack almost

tripping him as he moved on.

We wonder if he ever went back. We did. We wonder if, “mebbe, " he'll get his pair of shoes, "By Frénk E. Adams.

GOT A MATCH? .

Ind

terials.

vs British piling

English Factories May Close

Because of Material Shortages.

from strategic ing and unemployment here within six weeks. Some plants are ‘already closed.

Warnings have been issued by Defense Secretary. Emanuel

facturers, the head of the British Federation of

‘Shinwell and leading manuincluding

ustries. Mr. Attlee on behalf of Brit: ain and France is asking President Truman for immediate sharing of four qf the most critical commodities: Sulphur, zinc, cotton and cotton linters. Other serious shortages include: Copper, manganese,

: aluminum, tin, coke and cok-

ing coal, scrap iron, iron ore, fibers for paper wool, rubber

and raw materials for syn-

thetic rubber, timber, pulp, skins and cement, Mr. Attlee is seeking from the President a general policy agreement approach regarding international control of this longer list of strategic ma-

. = MR. TRUMAN 5 expected to agree with Mr. Attlee that the original French plan for over-all global control is impossible unless there is a world war, and that the best alterna-

. tive is to attempt separate in-

ternational agreements for individual commodities. But the latter would take months to negotiate at best, and even then might fail, There, is a good chance, however, that the President and Prime Minister will work out some emergency relief on sulphur, zinc, cotton and cotton linters to prevent a slowdown of British and French rearmament. Apart from national security, Mr. Attlee has an added interest in saving his political neck <= British unemployment would bring down the Labor government. Of course the European hue and cry about American stockpiling causing raw material shortages and prohibitive prices is an over-simplifica-tion which Mr. Attlee will

. avoid at the White House as

he asks a sharing. Among the reasons the Al-

“lles have been unable by

agreement to prevent or control this chaos are the extreme conflicts of interests among themselves, and also within each country. Several are essentially producers and others consumers, while still others are both. The United States is the biggest seller of cotton, but the biggest buyer of wool; she is long on petroleum and some minerals but short on others. . » ” BRITAIN lacks all strategic materials except coal. Nevertheless, the major commodity

one side of the fence, sometimes on the other, and often straddling. Britain's shifting commodities policy, plus a slow uptake on rearmament and stockpiling, is partly responsible for the current crisis here, Another difficulty here, as in Washington, is knowing when and how to apply internal controls and priorities. While it was relatively simple in World War II, nobody has an exact formula for partial priorities in this twilight war period. A decision to interfere with the

peacetime economy {is even -

harder when that economy is such as it is here than when it’s healthier as in the United States. Britain’s export item leaders, which few in Britain can buy, are Scotch whisky, which takes scarce grain, and autos, which take scarce metals. Also governments preferring some inflation to deflation for political reasons Hesitate to use monetary controls on the com~

modities problem. Their cheap -

credit rates encourage private firms to hoard, and misuse of scarce commodities ups prices and interferes with legitimate government stockpiling for defense. Though all European countries are in the same boat, Britain is in the worst fix, She depends more on foreign raw materials than any industrial nation. 3 ® » » HER foreign commodity car tels (such as rubber and tin) have gouged others when possible, and now others are gouging her back. Her government blocked international control agreements (such as wool) wanted by others, who now are blocking the international controls she desperately needs. Hence, the anti-British feeling among American businessmen, Congressmen and government officials. America cannot be expected to share scarce strategic materials with Britain as long as there is any doubt that she will get the maximum rearmament from them. Prime Minister Attlee should be able to convince President Truman that the Labor government means business. If so, the present British spectre of idle factories, unemployment

* and insecurity can soon be

changed into the opposite problem of converting factories fast enough and finding a Iabor ‘supply to work hours for rearmament.,

. By Frederick C. Othman

Lighter Boys Cookin’ With Gas

be ensier to wse-today than 2 few Weeks |

“| do not agree with a word that ,ou say, but

‘We'll Never Forget’ ‘By Dr. W. W. Silverman, Providence, R. I. : IT WAS with much shame and disappointment in human nature that I read a recent article in my newspaper stating that only 458 out of the 1500 soldiers invited to Thanksgiving dinners showed up. | During the last war I was stationed at the Naval Armory out at Riverside Park and have never forgotten, or ever intend to forget, the hospitality extended to me and my friends by the Hoosiers of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana. I realize that this shows poor manners on the part of the servicemen stationed there and may have dampened your spirits somewhat, but I do want you- to.know that there are many servicemen in all corners of these United States

hat. do. remember. your, generdtty and. hospi-.

tality and will always see to it that no Indiana boy will go without a welcome when he is far from home,

What About Korea?

By J. B. Noel, Spencer

"+ 1 HAVE been following.your editorials and can agree with most everything you say concerning the present bloody conflict. I do not think our political and military

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1 wil doford to the death your r right to say it.”

leaders are giving our fighting men or our civilian population the proper leadership. Everyone wants to know, what the U. 8. government is going to do about the United Nations forces in Korea. What I want to know is, Mr. Editor, what can we do to save our nation from the blundering of our leaders? As a minister of the Gospel, I know what it will take for the spiritual salvation of America. I believe all Christians will agree that, if America will turn to God for wisdom and guidance and not put. their trust in the hands of a few dollar-drunk politicians, we would need not fear all the Communist forces in the world.

‘Is This Fair?’ By Thomas Markey, 1468 Central Ave.

WHY don't they take men like me into the armed forces? I was in World War II and had a rough way to go. Now they've got boys in

“there that ‘are not -eut of school yet. ‘Is that

fair? : Why don’t they take guys like me back? I am as good as I ever was. J have talked with men that were in World War II also and they think they are safe and laugh about it. Let's get the old timers back in and let the young boys get their education and learn the facts of life... and live. Let's see if anyone can answer this and I know a lot of fellows feel ‘ust as I do.

DEAR BOSS .

by the highly controversial FCC decision which awarded color television to the Colum-

‘ “bia Broadcasting System. Fighting that decision, among others, is Brig. Gen.

David Sarnoff, Radio Corporation of ‘America board chairman, who has denounced it as ““sefentifically unsound and against the public interest.” His company is demonstrating their turned-down RCA product here and getting reams of publicity in. praise of it. Mr. Coy admitted that awarding color-TV to CBS was highly controversial and then added philosophically: “But it was just like all our radio decisions, only more so.”

mighty indus-

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—I don’t suppose there is a smoker in America who doesn’t have

among the socks in the top drawer of his bureau -

a couple of beaten-up, nonsparking, long-dry cigaret lighters. The blamed things are no good, but their optimistic proprietor never gives up

hope. He'll oo

buy another 4s soon as a new model comes out. "That's why cigaret light-

WN ~, ers, including nN -—

the workable and the cussable, are a $5 million a year business today. This

try of the

cotton stuffing saturated with" gasoline, now is at the crossroads. A revolution has rent it. - All over the place the industrialists are rip-

ping out their old production lines and installing

new to produce cigaret lighters that cook with gas. They work like stoves. Inside the case is a small tank of compressed butane gas. You turn on the burner, spin the wheel, and you've got a small Same to fire your cigaret.

bs —— glass showcases, full of merchandise consisting

—

There is supposed to be enough gas inside to light 2000 times, Then you throw the tank away

-and slip in a new one for 50 cents,

It just happens that I am an expert on this subject. About a month ago I was in Paris and was wandering down the boulevards when I came to the George V Hotel, which is said to be one of the world’s fanciest. So I strolled in to buy a drink and make believe for a moment that I was rich like Aly Khan. In the lobby there was a beautiful blonde.

This Mlle. was in charge of a row of plate-

mostly of M. Crillon's high-pressure cigaret lighters. So I got to talking to her, it being the gentlemanly thing to do.

She gave me a cigaret and a butane light for it. All France, she said, was proud of M. Crillon, the inventor.

Pocket Insurance

HER IDEA was that I needed one to bring back to America. As an old cigaret lighter fancier, I agreed. Only what were the chances of the thing exploding in my pocket? She said = M.Crillon guaranteed buy me a new pocket,

I still am lighting my smokes with M. Crillon’s invention and it has not explodéd yet. It works fine, except on really cold days when the gas seems to contract, and the pressure goes down. Then I've got to warm it in my hands, like a snifter of brandy. So now one of the biggest fountain-pen makers in America is producing M. Crillon’s light-

ers here; they should be on the market in time

for Christmas.

his ‘merchandise. He'd

. By Dan Kidney

Bristaias. however, for his

eldest son, Stephen, will be home from Amherst for the holiday and his younger son, Wayne Jr., will be on vacation from Landon School in nearby ‘Bethesda, Md. While the home folks hear constant complaints about Washington bureaucrats and

" bureaucracy, there are exceptional men here who give their

jobs much that they have little Yime left for anything else. Mr. Coy always has been one to do so. As Assistant Federal Security Administrator he had to spend a year in the Marine hospital at Baltimore recovering an illness he contracted while with Mr. McNutt in the Philippines,

-where the former governor had

‘been High Commissioner. Cav lA SE k = 3 § HIS recovery, Mr. work and at one time was confidential assistant to th

pointed FCC Chairman by President Truman. “I'm just dead tired now and the doctor says that I need a whole month off to get rid of fatigue,” Mr. Coy explained.

ANOTHER Raed: working Hoosier bureaucrat, Vice

Chairman Oswald Ryan of the.

Civil. Aeronautics Board, is on vacation now, Last summer he was credited with engineering a controversial international route order which in the aviation field has caused about as much comment as the FCC decision on video in color. That wis the one where

President Truman overruled he CAB majority to favor American as against:

Fa It climaxed the most bitterly fought batlle in the

12-year history of the board,

Republican mémber of CAB

the late a

went

Wayne Coy Under Doctor's Orders to Rest

~~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Chairman’ Wayne Coy of the Federal Communications Commission is all in and his doctor has ordered him to take a complete rest for at least one month. The one-time secretary to former Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, who is rated as top-flight among Washington bureaucrats, laughed today -when asked if his illness had been caused

Trans-World Airlines, which fought the sale bitterly, was awarded stops at London and Frankfurt, but found itself with PAA competition in Paris ‘and Rome. They 'claimed it broke an agreed 7-year route pattern, but Mr, Ryan disagreed. He maintained that the original 3-2 order, which the President finally reversed, would have made “the American taxpayer the forgotten man.” In both cases, such decisions are so full of conflict that any conscientious bureaucrat — such as these Hoosiers—needs a long rest.

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