Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1950 — Page 16

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Our Own Defense RESIDENT TRUMAN will meet tomorrow with congressional leaders of both parties to discuss a possible declaration of national emergency and other related matters. The nation will await the outcome with grave concern. We have drifted into a situation of great danger, and the country wants to know what is being and what will be done. ; a “National unity” and “bipartisanship” are empty terms until the people are given something behind which they can unite, Our national purpose should be clearly defined and a program adopted to carry it out. The people are ready to follow wise, determined leadership, but they cannot follow leac~ 3 who don't lead. Ni The debacle in Korea has revealed our unpreparedness or a major war and the glaring weaknesses of our present military and political relations with other countries. The communique published after the Truman-Attlee meeting raised more questions than it answered, and such answers as it contained were profoundly disturbing. Our government has made vital commitments in many parts of the world. Yet how well is it prepared to fulfill any of them? A pledge has been given to reinforce our Army in Germany even while out outnumbered forces are retreating in Kora. This time we should look before leaping. - u Ld . ” ” - LAST YEAR when the Philippines, Nationalist. China and the Republic of Korea wanted to form an anti-Commu-nist front in Asia, Secretary of State Acheson dismissed the idea as “premature.” It can no longer be considered that. It may now be too late. What do our leaders propose to do about Japan? About “ihe Philippines? About Alaska? : Britain has made protection of Hong Kong, Malaya and Ceylon her first concern. France is trying to salvage something out of her investment in Indo-China. Our government should be equally concerned with protecting American interests in that part of the world: Yet, if this subject was mentioned in the Truman-Attlee talks, nothing in the joint communique suggested it. Ee The United States can no longer ignore its own defense. That should be made our first and immediate objective. Once we attain strength we are likely to have more dependable allies. We are losing support now because of our obvious weakness. And we are weak because we have neglected our own interests while going all out for other people who don't seem te be interested when we need help.

Failure of a Mission

F' THE Chinese Communists are willing to agree to a cease-fire order when their troops arrive at the 38th Parallel, the United Nations forces have nothing to lose and may save many lives by acceptihg a truce on that basis. : : Since it is apparent that Gen. MacArthur cannot be reinforced, his assignment to establish an independent, united Korea cannot be carried out, and an eventual military withdrawal is inevitable. +s However, Red China's reported terms for a general settlement of all Far Eastern controversies is a horse of &. different’ color and should not be tied in with a cease-fire crdor. » » . un » » A “. THE PEKING Reéds are demanding China's seat in the United Nations, an “equal voice” in the Japanese peace settlement, and ultimate possession of Formosa. The United States cannot afford to agree to any of these demands. If the Chinese Communists can force. their way into i the United Nations with a gun in their hands, it will mean

“not view the issue in that light. Rut Britain may be forced to choose between the United States and Red China on that very issue. The demand of the Chinese Reds for an “equal voice" or any voice at all in the Japanese peace settlement .is of course absurd. Yet it is little less absurd than the State Department's proposed Japanese peace conference in which Russia has been invited to participate. : » » . ou » .

‘ SWE ARE in possession in Japan and should make an indépendent settlement with that country without any reférence to Russia's desires. The Soviets got more out of that war than it cost them—in the loot they carried out of Manchuria—and the United States was not consulted about that. : Since the United Nations is unable or unwilling to supply the force to carry out its original program in Korea, the:United States, as an agency of the United Nations, can withdraw from that enterprise without reflection upon U. 8. integrity. It simply will have been a case where might has prevailed against right. ; ~~. But this country should not be a party to any settle ‘mefit with the Chinese Reds which involves buying ther favor by paying blackmail.

Tail Twisting NERALISSIMO FRANCO has demanded that Gibraltar—the fortress on the tip of the Spauish peninsula lich has been an outpost of the British Empire since 1704 That's hardly surprising. When Red China can twist the tail of the once proud id make it yell “Uncle,” why shouldn't Franco get into

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8 far as music is concerned I am practically tone deaf and in business I

have always found it more of an asset than a liability. The reason being if a high pressure gentleman tries to sell me a bill of merchandise, I become more interested in the ' quality of his merchandise than the tone

of his voice. ; * % @ - THAT may be one of the reasons why

_I never cared for the great master of

‘Let's Help, Too’ , By Mrs. Inez Strickland, City I AGREE with the person that said we are all so sorry about the boys over in Korea, and who added, like fun we are. We are so darn * selfish that we don't care much just so it's not our boys. Better not feel that way though, as it may come home to you, sooner than you think. It's the height of indelicacy, ill breeding and the iike for us to forget that this Christmas Holiday season there are many sad people among us who have loved ones over in Korea, or who have already lost them forever. Let's be a little sober in our celebration, those of us who have no one in service, and det those who do have, see that we aren't so selfish after all. I wonder how many clubs of the city are doing Red Cross work, or similar work. I wonder how many offices have decided to clothe a child this year instead of giving gifts to each other. Much more wholesome things to do, and it is up to every single one of us, whether or not we have someone in®service, to do what we can for this beloved country of ours and for those who are in service, as they fight for you, and you, and me. Instead of the best residential Christmas light displays, give that money to the Red Cross oF a similiar service work organization.

Get Rid of Acheson By C. D. C.,, Terre Haute, M. M, says that we are at war and should unite and forget the past, It is my opinion the past is a good criterion to go by to avoid making the samé mistakes in the future, so it should not be forgotten. We should all unite of course against the common enemy but it should be tempered with sanity, D

Our own State DEPAFImeRt Has been weighed

in the balance and found wanting, so Secretary Acheson should go. It permitted Communists in our government, who stole both our military and state secrets, and is largely responsible for Korea. hh : ¢ EX-SENATOR Robert LaFollete has always been considered a great liberal until he broke with Franklin D. Roosevelt over our foreign policy. He was beaten for re-election in all probability by the Communists, He is an extremely able man and if we had heeded his advice we would be living in a dif-

WASHINGTON . .. By Peter Edson Senate Gets Jitters

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — The atmosphere in Washington could not possibly be worse for finding a sensible solution to the

Korean crisis,

main prineiples. lapse in Korea. They were also trying to solve a broad range

of political and economic questions that related to the two countries, and to the whole of Europe as well. Matters which the two heads of state could not resolve themselves were being given to teams of experts for advice, with every assurance of ultimate solution. By contrast, the scene in the United States Senate was anything but assuring. The Senate is supposed to be the calm, deliberative branch of the U, 8. Congress. Yet its members revealed a bad case of jitters that amounted almost to panic. ONE: Republican Sen. James P. Kem of Missouri introduced

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to prevent a secon Yalta or Potsdam. : TWO: Sen. Irving M. Ives, always in -the past one of the calmest and sanest of the Republican Senators, gave in te public clamor and announced he would introduce a resolution demanding the resignation of Secretary of State Dean Ache-

. » NOW freedom eof speech i& a valuable thing and the unlimited and unrestritted debate In the Senate is something to be

‘It was noteworthy, however, that there was no clear voice in either party of he Senate Jutlining a course that made : complete sense. Sen. Arthur * Vandenberg of Michigan usec to exercise that leader . So

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politics who used to tell us his bed time stories and made a lot of people believe their great political papa was taking care of everything. However, to get back to the subject of music. I couldn’t tell whether a woman ‘sang like a lark or a crow. Nevertheless, in spite of being practically tone deaf, I believe if I heard a jack-

ass start braying, I probably could tell -

whether or not he came from Missouri.— By C. D. C., Terre Haute.

ferent world today. I suggest to our Senators and Representatives that they demand the -resignation of Achéson and ask for the appointment of LaFollette as Secretary of State.

Who Pays the Tax? By W. H. Edwards, Gosport ANDREW MELLON. when he was Secretary of the Treasury, once said that it seemed impossible to devise a tax structure that would place the greater burden of taxes on the ones most able to bear taxes. : As taxes, federal and state, are collected these days it is the ones at the bottom of the economic scale who are forced to bear the neaviest burdens, for they have no one lower in scale on whom to pass their tax burden. And in most cases those bearing the heavy tax burden are old people who worked for 50 to 75 cents a long day on farms or $1 a day in factories during the so-called “Gay Nineties,” if they could get any job at all. This brings us to the red-hot subject of an excess profits tax versus an increase of the straight income tax, to pay the billions of dollars it will cost to prepare our homeland against the threatening “war clouds hovering over Asia and Europe. * 2S 2

A STRAIGHT income tax can be and is passed dewn through the channels of trade, with each person trying to shift the load on down te the next lower in the economic scale.

With the final result of the tax burden falling

heaviest on those least able to pay, because they have no one to shift the burden to. An excess profit tax, on the other hand, is hard te shift down through the channels of distribution. So the threat is openly voiced by big shot businessmen that if Congress passes an excess profits tax they will spend that excess on things foreign to straight business expenses,

Father than turn that excess over to the gov_.ernment that has nourished their businesses.

What Others Say—

THE winter is a real nice time of year, you know, especially after you've won.—Rookie Pitcher Ed Ford of the champion New York Yankees. . i : THE wives should ignore their husbands’ champagne tastes to the extent of including more hash and stew in their menu%. — Restaurateur Louis Kahn, advising housewives on how to deal with higher meat prices.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—Already. even before home-front : gets rolling, things are happening here which sound like never-never

« For example: One company-—and one alone in the entire country—is now operating under government price control. And the price control is being administered by an

‘do with the business of imposing price ceilings. « Stranger still, the concern whose prices are béing controlled is an automobile com-pany—Kaiser-Frazer, General Motors. and Forde have just told Economic Stabilization Chiefs Alan Valen- Cy tine and Michael DiSalle that Mr. Harrison they couldn't suspend their new - .. the man price increases, as requested. Costs have risen too much, they said. a But Kaiser-Frazer, under terms of its latest loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (RFC), cannot raise®its prices without the prior written consent of RFC. In other words, it must come to the government for approval before it can raise prices. | And the RFC, which puts price curbs on Kaiser-Frazer, has just raised the price of one grade of synthetic rubber by 12 per cent and another grade by 32 per cent. (RFC controls the production and distribution of synthetic rubber.) Another restriction imposed on Kaiser-Frazer by the latest loan of $25 million, made Dec. 5, is that production must be eut to not more

RED CHINA ‘ . By James British Intentions

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12--An early test of British intentions toward Communist China may come in Hong Kong this month, The Colonial Supreme Court is to review a decision by its chief justice earlier this year that the colony was powerless to recognize American title to 72 planes i formerly owned by the Chinese Nationalists because of British ' recognition of the Chinese Reds. The planes originally were given to China under lendlease, A year ago when the Nationalists were being driven from the mainland, turncoat ™ employees of two government. . owned airlines attempted to hand over the valuable fleet of planes to China's new Red masters,

Gen. Chennault To prevent their falling into , , . holds title

Communist possession when, as expected, the British recognized the Reds, title to the planes and to other assets of the Chinese airlines was sold to an American corporation organized by Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault (ret.). The British court at Hong Kong, however, refused to recognize the deal on the contention of the Chinese Reds that the planes belong to them since they had taken over all Nationalist Government assets on the mainland. Though the court recognized the “sovereign immunity” of the red regime, it impounded all the planes at Kai Tak Airfield at Hong Kong. Some observers saw in this a British attempt to win Communist good will for Hong Kong by the

than 50 per cent of the

1 Me. Oét. 12 output rate ’ (1400 cars daily) by Jan, 1. This is to save--materials, ° ; ils it . The man who's supposed to issue orders . curtailing civillan production for the benefit of the preparedness effort is William Henry Harrison of the National Production Authority, Mr. Harrison so far has chosen to restrict use '- of materials in civilian goods but not to tell companies specifically how much they can pros

. duce, as has RFC in this instance.

No Protests ~~ THEN there's the case of steel. The govern. ment made no protest when steel companies recently granted wage increases and then upped their prices about 7 per cent. But they took the position that the increased steel and labor costs should be absorbed hy General Motors and Ford. . ’ - ot And there's cotton. : S Government and industry officials are now

seriously concerned about a probable critical” -

shortage of cotton here next spring and summer . —a prospect which has sent cotton prices to the * highest levels in 30 years. * oie But there's no sign that Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan will reverse himself and tighten up on cotton exports enough to assure that there will be no’ ~otton shortage. It. was Mr. Brannan's post-election relaxation of export controls on cotton--permitting more cotton to be sent overseas—that sent cot. ton prices soaring. The present rate of cotton exports permits ted by the government is just as great as that of a year ago when cotton supplies in this coun. try were bountiful and when there had not been ene of the shortest cotton crops in years. :

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hint that the planes might be turned over to the Reds at some future time. . While the ownership of the planes has been’ In dispute, repeated efforts have been made by the Communists and some British trading ine terests in Hong Kong to smuggle out radio and engine parts which were stored af Hong Kong with the planes. Last spring, 800 crates were found on a freighter about to sail from Hong. Kong, marked “typewriters” and “automotive parts.” Opened, they turned out to be aireraft parts. 3 : The freighter, incidentally, was operated by a British trading company which also maintains air service in the Far East in competition with Civil Air Transport, Inc, Gen. Chennault’s: China Airline. . ; Recent dispatches from Korea have empha . sized the great need of additional airlift, even - for some elementary requirements as carrying out American wounded, :

Red Chinese or U. S.

A FEDERAL judge in San Francisco on Dee. 2 confirmed Gen. Chennauit's legal right to certain bank deposits here in the name of the former Nationalist Chinese Airlines. The court’ order was issued after the U. S. State Departs ment submitted a note stating that the Nationalist Government was the only Chinese regime recognized by the U. 8. ; Since the bank deposits were covered by the same bill of sale which transferred ownership of the disputed planes to Gen. Chennault, the British in Hong Kong are now faced squarely

* with a choice as to which “sovereign immunity”

they honor more—that of Red China or the United States. ; wel

SNOWED IN . . . By Frederick C. Othman

How About U.S. Weather Curbs?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—~There's one fellow who's doing something about the weather. Name of Clinton P. Anderson, U. 8. Senator from New Mexico. He's going to put the government in full charge of it, from “A” for atmosphere to “Z" for zephyrs. p> His idea is ; that a good blizzard dumped-on thdse “Chinese, - for instance, would be as good as an atombomb and considerably cheaper. Thenifthe: federal weather makers could put a full - fledges tornado to chasing them back north, the United Nations could * stop. worrying... I hope this doesn't sound silly. The Senator's serious and go, by gollies, am I. A little weather, mamifactured to order where ahd when needed, could solve a lot of problems. As of the moment, I'd like to push a button “and be snowbound for the next couple of days. But that's a minor matter. - As the Senator said, quoting Gen. George C. Kenny: “The nation which first, learns to plot the paths of air masses accurately and learns to control the time and place of precipitation will dominate the globe.” w 30 : . * The Russians, I suppose, already claim t have accomplished this, but just in case they're bragging again Sen. Anderson has introduced a bill called the weather control act of 1851. It would establish a weather control commission te do just what the name says: Control the stuff. . :

Sen. Anderson + + « where's that snow?

“only part of the job.

The commission would study weather, modify: _ it where necessary, and in general turn rains and snows, as well as floods and disasters, to; its own uses. This, according to the Senator, ig : not so far-fetched as it sc°ms. Rain makers have been working with their dry ice and their’ iodine molecules in the clouds the last four... years and they've accomplished so miich they're not even sure themselves what they have: wrought. oo Consider, for instance, Dr. E. J. Workman. of the New Mexico School of Mines, who has been generating gases at the hases of mountain ranges. to turn dry clouds into wet ones these. many months. Making rein turns out to bat

“I feel almost certain that it- is possible tors moderate what otherwise would be a violenf™™ storm, whether it results from wind, excessive, rainfall, hail, lightning, or combinations of these features,” the Doc said.

Who Knows? .

SEN. ANDERSON also quoted Dr. Vincent _ J. Schaefer of the General Electric Research . Laboratory, Schenectady, N. Y., another cele-

brated. weather maker; whose approach to the. § ~~

subject was strictly. scientific, Dr. Schaefer . went on to say, though, that he wouldn't be

~. Surpgised if Dr. Workman's cloudland operas

tions" in New Mexico this year hadn't affected the weather over much of the nation. He didn't. - go into detail, but who knows? Maybe that... New Mexico tinkering is what snowed in Pitts

burgh a couple of weeks ago and nearly blew. . ~down New York Cty. —— hag I hadn't. intended to-quote Mark Twain of." -

the weather, but I did get to worrying about him. You may remember the quotation: tre “Everybody talks about the weather, but no- : body does anything about it.” To get this right, I checked with the librarian of the U. §. Senate. - “The quote’s right,” said he, “but the man's’ wrong.” ria Mark Twain didn't say it. The author was: Charles Dudley Warner, in an editorial of ths _ Hartford (Conn) Courant of 1890. Mark Twain merely quoted him and got the credit for it.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 12—A war involving larger forces thap - Are engaged In the present Korean struggle is under way insiders China, according to a report just furnished to the gS Federation of Labor. g ? oh Guerrilla forces which carry on a continuing f i the Chinese Communist regime Mg ight agamth Chinese mainland, says Willis who has been in toueh with the Free Labor League ‘on Formosa. Starting with a few bands have expanded until in the south of China alone, nearly a half a million guerrillas are organized against the Communists.

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