Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1950 — Page 26

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Flanner House Is 52 ANYBODY boasting a little (as who doesn’t sometimes?) about the good things we do here in Indianapolis would be pretty sure to place Flanner House very high on his list. It is a civic achievement of which we are proud. It is an institution that has contributed very heavily to making Indianapolis the fine city it is. . As it marks its fifty-second anniversary of community service this week we become a little more conscious of the great job it is doing . .. a job which it does day-in, day-out, all the time, and not just on anniversary occasions . ,, and we join in heartfelt congratulations, » - - = n » ACTUALLY, though, that job is done by people... by the sincere, earnest and too often unsung folks who work there, who serve on the board that directs its programs, who give unstintingly of their time and talents that it may continue. One of those people is Wallace 0. Lee, retiring this week after 26 years as a member of that board. In more than a quarter-century, he has performed a very important service there . . . not only to Flanner House, but to the city in which he lives, Flanner House will, of course, go on under the fine able board it still has, to do its job. But they are going to miss Wallace Lee.

Congratulations i

THE job of growing up in a modern world is a tough one. The monumental task of evaluating the worth of a culture and the vital task of ferreting out and using Mother Nature's offerings to man falls to the child . . . for the child of today is the legislator, scientist, technician and laborer of tomorrow. The future life of our nation depends upon the child... and the child in turn depends upon the ability of adults for every chance of gaining an education.

» - . ~ . r YESTERDAY the Children’s Museum marked its 25th year of community service . . . marked by a spirit of unselfish guidance. The museum has been a constant source of entertainment and interest for young and old alike, And never forgetting the aim of education, exhibits are changed to keep abreast of school curriculum, and 40 minute classes are open daily for children after school hours, It is the sincere wish of The Times and the entire city that the successful work of the museum will continue for many more years. Congratulations.

New Bond Sales Chief

THE Treasury Department of the United States has done remarkably well in choosing leaders for its continuing campaign to sell U. 8S. savings bonds in this country, As of last election day it lost Perry Meek, who was elected to the state legislature and felt he shouldn't be doing

two such jobs at once ,.. though we don’t know anybody

we'd consider more likely to be able to handle them both. Almost immediately the bond division comes up with William R. Krafft as Mr. Meek's successor. They couldn't have made a better choice. One of the town’s top saleS§men, a good organizer and a business man of wide experience, he seems to us to have everything this job needs. We wish him every success in the undertaking . .. and we believe everybody else should wish him success, too . . . since this is a job he's really doing for all of us. :

No Moral Issue

PROMINENT church organization declares that maybe it would be all right for us to use the atomic bomb if it is dropped on our cities first.

“This statement: unquestionably - represents -a -deeision

_ taken after prolonged soul-searching by leading churchmen. that the atomic bomb involves a great moral issue. It clearly does not. Except for the Killing effects of radiation, the A-bomb differs from other bombs chiefly in the magnitude of its impact. It simply strikes down many more people at one time. It is no more immoral to use an A-bamb than to use a pistol if the weapon is employed in pursuit of aggressive aims. That's the point: The real moral offense is aggression, for it ie this Srime which lets down the bars to violence.

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ONCE ‘we py in a war, it must be left to the discretion

-of our high command what weapons to use and when. That

must be so whether we are fighting the Russians or the Chinese or anybody. There can be no rule that we are free to use the A-bomb against one enemy but not against another. Nor should we have to get anyone's permission to use it. And we certainly should not have to wait until the enemy employs it, for by that time it might well be too late for us to drop it with the most telling effect. Suppose for argument's sake that we should become embroiled in full-scale war with Red China. Our leaders should not yield to frantic calls that the A-bomb be pr omptly dumped on major Chinese cities. On the other hand, neither should they be deterred from using the Weapon by heartfelt tries Shat it is “inhuman.” So is a bullet,

THEIR decision should be made on the basis of the military realities they then confront. The A-bomb is costly. We don’t have an unliriited store. Is the advantage to be gained through dropping it sufficient to offset these factors? : Can the same result be achieved more effectively by other means? Or is the disposition of enemy resources such _ that the A-bomb's terrific Socentration of force can be Spied effectively? je types of questions military men would ask big war. A final decision likely would y the President as Commander-in-Chief.

_pation.

But unfortunately it falls into the standard misconception _. Ueoiess little gadgets.

‘increasing pressure. AN other European capitals to force a showdown . with President Truman on banning the use of the atom bomb in Asia and curbing Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden of the Conservative Party are standing firmly with Mr. Attlee, The get-tough-with-Truman demand comes chiefly but not solely from the Labor-left faction in the cabinet here, and also from the French and West Europeans generally. While Mr. Attlee is not expected here to suc~ cumb completely to this pressure, he cannot entirely ignore it because widespread public senti. ment is represented. The European public is focused on the bomb as a symbol. Gen, MacArthur has become a scapegoat for dreads and frustrations.

Theoretic Disagreement

-. MR. ATTLEE may now be unable to follow the original plan of bl the atomic-use ques. tion to an informal gentlemen's agreement for advance consultation—which was known to be satisfactory to Mr, Truman. There's no immediate practical disagreement in the two men’s attitude toward use of the bomb only as a last resort. But there's theoretic disagreement over whether the United Nations, or at least Britain and others participating in Korean defense, tould veto the Truman decision for use of the mb,

Prime Minister Attlee had hoped to avoid precipitating a showdown on the issue, which

~ might never arise in fact, and which, if pressed

now, could only cause a rift when unity is needed on immediately critical questions. Renewed fanning of the issue in Britain and

ESCAPE . . . By Jerry Thorp South Koreans Flee Capital

Panic Sweeps Through City In Face of Chinese Red Push

SEOUL, Dec. T—Panic is sweeping through this South Korean capital as civilians learn that Pyongyang and other cities of North Korea have been abandoned in the face of the massive Chinese Red drive. Columns of refugees already have set out walking south from the city in the bitter cold. - They have no destination-—just anything to get away. . What they are afraid of is that they will be the victims of wholesale slaugnter if Seoul falls, They believe all civilians who were loyal to the United Nations cause will be doomed if the Reds should regain &ontrol here. Several thousand Chinese living here are particularly jittery. They're convinced they'll be the victims, not of the Chinese Reds, but of North Korean troops who would take part in any Communist drive on the city. Koreans who have been. friendly and cooperative with Americans and other United Nations personnel are seeking all possible aid to get out of Seoul. . “Our problem,” said a Korean educated in America, “is that there's no place to go. We can’t go to Japan because of the military occuAnd there's hardly any of us with enough money to go anywhere. else.” Effect of the humiliating military reverses on the thinking of Koreans generally is evident on every hand. Americans who a few days ago

were greeted with smiles and friendly nods now often find themselves roughly jostled and elbowed in the streets, Somehow it's hard to resent this new attitude or the part of Koreans who have been dazed and bewildered by the series of “liberations” they've experienced since last June. Now they are facing the prospect of being “freed” again, this time by the Chinese Reds, Their bitterness is perhaps justified. They had been led to believe that the forces of all the world's peace-loving countries had come here to drive oppression forever from their land. Now they're watching these same troops, equipped with the finest in transport and armament and air support, fleeing before the crushing weight of manpower alone—soldiers who forced the United Nations retreat with only machine guns and rifles, in most instances.

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. always catch my.pye . , . these ~pie-upon-the shelf « » +» and move: them here or move them there . « to entertain myself , . . much like a child with toys or blocks . ; . I cherish every one . . . and I delight in greeting them... whenever day is done... these lifeless statues share my life « they even share my dreams . . . and act as pins upon the map . . . where I map all my schemes. ~By BEN BURROUGHS,

SIDE GLANCES

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Already icans and weakened Mr, Attlee. The dangerous possibilities of this movement from the. Labor Party's left wing was revealed during parliamentary debate preceding

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FCC Should Now Be Blushing

Beautiful Technicolor Pink

WASHINGTON, Dec. T—Looks to me like the ladies and gents of the Federal Communications Commission must be blushing in glorious Technicolor. Or would be, if they only know what was cooking in the way of color television. They're the bureaucrats, you doubtless remember, who ordered the

business to adopt the Columbia Broadcasting System’s spinning disk scheme of color video. Even if it would “make every black and white TV set obsolete overnight, They are the ones who added that the Radio Corporation of America’s color. tube obviously was no

' good -and why foist a flickering monstrosity,

which turned the faces .of the comics green and sometimes lavender, on the public? Haw. “RCA filed suit against CBS and the FCC, while Brig. Gen, David Sarnoff, its president, stood. over his engineers with a blacksnake whip and told ’em to improve that tube in a hurry. I won't bore you with the details, but they did an amazing job."

So Mr, Sarnoff brought his new color television set to Washington for a formal demonstration:

people, So the.

It wowed the customers. No electric motors, no _

“Spinning disks and not even any extra dials

and yet I'd say that it worked every bit as colorfully as CBS's job. Only difference was that Mr. Sarnoff’s set runs on black and white as well as color and if he could put it into operation tomorrow, the present owners of TV sets never would know the difference.

About ‘the. only people hereabouts who did -

not see the demonstration were—you guessed

above prewar. The dollar gap in trade balances is closing. The emphasis in Europe has shifted from recovery to rearmament. And the four-year period for which the Marshall Plan was conceived is about over, : k In the meantime there have been equally important

PACIFIC QUESTION .

Should U. S. Start ‘Marshall Plan’ for Asia?

WASHINGTON, Dec. T—A new job for the Marshall Plan— in Asia—1is shaping up as a result of Economic Co-operation Administrator William C. Foster's trip through the Far East. Originally the Marshall Plan was brought forward to help. European recovery. That phase is now about to run out, Western Europe has not fully reconstructed, but it has recovered remarkably, Its production rates are

it—the members of the Communications Com-

mission. Mr. Sarnoff didn’t invite ‘em. After

all, said he, when you're suing somebody in court, you don’t usually ask 'em in for Sunday breakfast. You might embarrass ‘em. But he did tell the commissioners what he was doing, informally that is, and he said he would have been delighted if they'd dropped in without an invite. They didn’t and that just goes to show how people, like nations, can euchre themselves into magnificent jams. What happens next I have no idea. All I know is that I was looking at two TV sets side by side. One picked up the program in black and white; the other in full color generated inside the tube. So there was a beautiful brunet with diamond earrings who seemed to be wrapped in layer after layer of red, green, blue, and yellow bath towels. These she started to remove in a kind of strip tease and as sh: pulled ‘em off, she said: “We are bringing wonderful, beautiful, colorful color into our homes.”

Another Lovely

WHEN the last towel came off there was the lady still fully clothed in a shimmering red evening gown, The scene switched to another lady, a blonde, in a blue-green frock. She pulled out a fresh brown and white package, ripped off the silvery top and lit herself a cigaret. “Oh,” she said, pushing the pack in my direction, “won't you have one?” I didn’t reach for it; after all, Mr. Sarnoff said it was against the. fire rules to smoke in Studio 4, where I was doing my goggle-eyed looking. The high point of the program, I guess, was still another lovely in one of the lowest-cut evening gowns since Faye Emerson, announcing that she had something beautiful to show the

clad torso, picked up a white-colored table In

On the basif of a misleading report of Mr, Truman's remarks, Labor leftists circulated a petition to Mr. Attlee demanding an ultimatum to the United States against the bomb. About 200 members of Parliament signed the petition, With the aid of a clarifying statement from President Truman, Mr. Attlee headed off the stampede. By the next day most of the peti. tioners were ashamed of this most un-British hysteria and breach of parliamentary responsibility. So Prime Minister Attlee prepared to fly to Washington with agreement from all sides to ‘unite behind the government.

Denied Shinwell Charge

BUT just as the Prime Minister was leaving, Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell made an anti-American and anti-MacArthur speech. Mr, Shinwell revived the charge that Gen. MacArthur had exceeded his authority in the North Korean crisis. In effect, he gave the lie to Foreign Minister Bevin, who had denied the charge ;

Once more the Labor government—this time

"in the Prime Minister's absence and at the

humiliating price of slapping down one of its highest ranking officials — tried to stop these stabs in the back. It officially reaffirmed Mr, Bevin's statement for Gen. MacArthur and denied the. Shinwell charge.

But others were on the loose from a different direction. This time it was argued that Mr, Attlee should have taken Mr. Churchill or Mr, Eden with him to Washington. When this charge reached Parliament last night Mr, Churchill said he-approved of Mr, Attlee going alone. He supported the acting Prime Minister's explanation that it would have been Improper for Mr. Attlee to ask the opposition party to share responsibility for the ‘Truman-Attlee de. cisions. But today others are Yeopening the Mac. Arthur controversy in Parliament.

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

‘Korean Climax’

By Theo. B. Marshall, City ~~ - AGAIN we have played right into the hand of Stalin. We are forced now.to either withdraw from Korea or fight an all-out war with China, This is not the result of wrong military strategy but more bungling by our policy makers wha

‘should have seen the folly of sending troops to

Korea. They have tried often enough to bluff Stalin and have failed. Communist expansion cannot be stopped in the Far East unless we feel that we alone are able to wage war in the East and in Europe at the same time and rea~ sonably sure of success, which we cannot be.

~ Our reason for sending troops to Koréa was

given as an effort to allow free choice of gov ernment by the South Koreans and as a check to Communist expansion, This was stated as a police action and treated as a sort of holiday for our troops. . ® oo

FOR YEARS China has been ripe for a

+ change in government, For something that would

be for the good ofall the people, that would give them a little more than a chance for the meanest kind of existence. The Communists have of fered them something better and they are ready to accept it, All this time we have done nothing but spend the taxpayers’ money in an effort to perpetuate and strengthen the corrupt govern. ment of Chiang Kai-shek. Our actions in China were exactly the opposite of democratic. The actions of the United States have been far from altruistic. On the contrary they have been and are largely in the interests of capital and trade, In fact it has devoted to the cause of capitalism far more than to the cause of demoeracy: Present day conditions make for more friction between nations, as the interests of one overlap the interests of the others and natural resources become scarce. This condition calls for the highest kind of statesmanship and some concessions by each and all governments, with. frank discussions. and not so many smoke screens and attempts to hide the real meaning in a fog of double talk.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

MONTE CARLO, Monaco—Robert W, Serve ice, author of “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and other favorites was robbed of $7000 in jewels and cash. He wrote the tale of Dan McGrew; And Sam Magee, that joker, Who in a furnace, cold and blue, Called loudly for a stoker.

camera slithered down her green- .. . .

front of her and came to rest—honest injun, = @

I swear I'm telling the truth—on a ham: Pink

where it was sliced and studded with yellow:

pineapple slices and red cherries; You get the idea. The thing works. Mr, Sarnoff said if it weren't for a war and a lawsuit he'd he able to get the sets into volume production in perhaps another year. .Commissioners, I'd suggest you pull your hats down over your eyes and sneak in for a look.

. By Peter Edson

WITH Communist pressure from Red China increasing, Burma, Thailand and perhaps even India itself will need greater support. What all this seems to do is to cut a lot of cordwood to throw on the fires of debate over the Pacific question, sure to be a top issue in the new Congress. Giving the Marshall Plan more work to do in the Far East is therefore an im-

had run

job in Europe, even if on a reduced. schedule, First test on this Asian aid program will come when the Truman administration sends to Congress a request for a new $250 million aid program for the Philippines. An agreement for such aid, under Marshall Plan administration, has just been concluded in Manila between Philippine President Elpidio Quirino and ECA Administrator Foster. i

2 = . MAIN reason was the financial crisis In the Philippines. Since the end of the war, the * Jewiy-indepsndent government

through o 000,000 in U., 8. ald, The ig economy was headed for the rocks. The

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laid it on the line flat that if the Quirino government got any more American ald it would have to be under the same terms that Marshall Plan aid was given to Europe. Having made this clear, Mr. Tg. ter took off for Korea 10 another inspection. He yi) ®

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