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4 Weeks’ Training “The Navy Regrets . . .’

THE Pentagon official who dispatched the grievous tele-«

graf to Raymond H. Clapper, of 190 W. Elbert St. performed a duty that has become routine. The form letter was gravely and solicitously worded. Except for the name filled. in, it was much the same as nearly 5000 other telegrams that have gone out from the ‘The Secretary

Navy Department since early last July. of the Navy... regrets—."”

The name that went into the telegram was Pvt. Norman

+ Harold Clapper, Marine.

He died in action Dec. 2,

shot

down by Chinese Communist bullets while carrying ammu-

nition to a machine gun squad.

In his last letter to his father, Pvt. Clapper complained of the food. He said he was eating C rations dated in 1945.

Pvt. Clapper, at 18, wanted to be a good soldier, but he

never had much of a chance.

He was called up by the

Marine Reserves while in his junior year at Cathedral basic training, shortly afterwards was in combat in the Chosin Reservoir

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He was given four weeks’

‘WE DON'T know how many American youngsters are fighting in Korea today with only a few weeks’ training—but even one was too many, and should not have

been necessary.

It is a shameful reproach to our defense

system that Americans as young as Pvt. Clapper, or of any age, have had to be sent to the front inadequately trained. The case of Pvt. Clapper, against the background of world crisis, adds force to the arguments for universal military training and service. We must have trained man-

power ready for war emergencies.

Universal military service would mean that all youths on reaching the age of 18 automatically would enter na-

tional service.

The able-bodied, after six months of basic

ilitary training, would put in an additional period of actual service in the branches of their own choice, then go into the reserve subject to further call in event of necessity. Those not qualified for military duty would be trained for defense production or other supporting jobs. This would afford a pool of nearly one million trained

young men each year,

It would be based on the democratic

principle of equal obligation of all citizens to defend their country. And it would immeasurably increase the chances of survival for young but better-trained Norman Clappers

in any ‘war that might be forced upon us.

Rights and Dangers

THE 10 amendments called the Bill of Rights were added to the Constitution of the United States 159 years ago

tomorrow.

They were framed and adopted to guarantee civil liberties—to protect a people who had known the tyranny of English kings from arbitrary and tyrannical acts of

their own new government.

As the anniversary nears, court decisions based on these amendments are raising grave questions as to the power of the people and their government to protect the United States from traitorous acts of persons serving the

interests of a hostile foreign power.

The Supreme Court held this week that a witness cannot be punished for refusing to answer grand jury inquiries about connections with the Communist Party. “No person...

This because the fifth amendment says,

shall be compelled in any criminal + case to be a witness

against “himself.”

Communist Party membership has not been made a -erime. But the opinion, written by Justice Black, affirms that one wdmitting employment by the party, or intimate knowledge of its workings, might reasonably fear criminal

prosecution Bier. the Smith Act.

THIS DECISION apparently means that courts, congressional committees and government agencies, as well as grand juries, cannot require persons to answer questions And that many persons facing contempt penalties for refusing to answer such questions must go free if they claimed the right to

about Communist connections or activities.

avoid “self-incrimination.”

The Smith Act is the federal law, making it a crime to teach or advocate violent overthrow of the government, under which 11 top leaders of the Communist Party were

convicted in October, 1949.

Those convictions have been upheld by a New York Federal Court of Appeals, in an opinion written by Judge [earned Hand. The case of the Communist Party leaders, who contend that the Smith Act denies liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, is now before the Supreme Court

for final decision.

Last week the same Court of : Apponls, in" another .

opinion by Judge Hand, set aside Judith Coplin's conviction

for stealing government secrets and transmitting them to

a Russian agent.

“THE GUILT is clear,” that opinion said. But,

it

added, “the conviction cannot stand,” for Miss Coplon was deprived of “due process of law’'—another right guaranteed by the fifth amendment-—when the FBI arrested her without a warrant and when the government failed to prove that evidence used against her had not been obtained

by wire-tapping.

However, Judge Hand pointed out, it is within the authority of Congress to narrow—in cases of espionage, sabotage and other heinous crimes—the legal protections

by which Miss Coplin had profited.

~ Somehow, we must find a way to preserve for loyal

persons the ‘liberties shielded by the Bill of Rights and

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‘ same. time safeguard our country from the agents '

with management until Negroes or other color

dress in the Senate By the junior Texas, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D.); chairman of the Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee— (The Editor.) FOr the past six months, since the outbreak of the Korean fighting on June 25, I have had an opportunity to devote considerable attention to the problems of this nation’s preparedness. Experienced and capable men, for whom 1 have only the greatest personal respect, have argued eloquently for the policy of “wait and see.” 1 say that the policy of “wait and see” must end, and it must end now. For what are we wait-

Sen. Johnson

to see tomorrow that we cannot see clearly today, or could not see on June 257 For six costly months this nation and the whole free world has been at war. .. . We have committed ourselves only to a policy of not committing ourselves. Our government has taken elaborate precautions to avoid committing this nation to any permanency in the mobilization policies. For the common defense we have thrown up a chicken-wire defense, not a wall of armed might. How long shall we continue to dignify obvious folly? 4 : ¢ + “THIS IS not World War II all over again. This is a struggle without precedent in human experience. The people of America who sent us here are patient, but they are not docile. Through the bitter experiences of two world wars they have learned well the responsibilities of world leadership. Our national spirit and unity is not expendable. The public confidence cannot be taken for granted. eternally. The

- clamor of public irritation and impatience

cannot be brushed aside like a bothersome fly with the flip and snobbish judgment that the public is not informed. : The American people have not lost faith in themselves or in their country or in the democratic institutions, but the American people are tired of —they are fed up with—double talk in Washington.... : * + @ I, FOR ONE, have more faith in the American people than to suppose that only catastrophe, only a Pearl Harbor, can unite them. They are anxious to unite. But they cannot rally around a vacuum. - i

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Jenner Has Say About Rail Bill

‘Don’t Judge Case's Merits By Way Senate Votes’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—"Never judge the merits of a case by thé number of Senate votes

cast either for or against it, After all, there were only five of us who voted against con-

firmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of

State.” This was the quip which Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) passed along to a critical colleague after his “civil rights” amendment to the bitl- providing the union shop for railroad labor was rejected 64-17. After the Jenner amendment, and a States .Rights amendment by Sen. Spessard IL. Holland (D. Fla.), had been ¥oted down, the Senate passed the measure by a voice vote. But not before Sen. Jenner had his say in a speech which

marked his first turn to -the floor since the —

election: His amendment. would provide that no railroad union could make a union shop contract

races are admitted to full membership with the same voting rights as whites.

Too Much Politics Played

“BOTH parties have been playing politics with the colored man long enough,” Sen. Jenner said. “Here we are supposed to be fighting for freedom for colored people all over the globe and yet we , continue to deny them equal rights here at home. There should be no such thing as a second-class citizen or second-class union membership. The time for us ‘to become fair and decent is right now.” The Taft-Hartley Law, Sen. Jenner maintained, requires registration and reports which the railroad unions would not have to make. “So long as Negroes are excluded from membership, or are confined to limited or auxiliary membership, In the very organizations which are supposed to represent them in the vital matter of ‘employment, then Negroes are not in any true or proper sense of the word represented.” Sen. Jenner told the Senate.

Should Know From Experience

“THEY have seen their rights of promotion, their opportunities to better themselves, even their basic opportunity to work for a railroad at all, bargained away by men whom they did not choose, and upon whom they had no means of exerting effective influence. “If we here in Congress are now to strengthen the hands of these leaders of railroad labor, - we should at the very least require them to come before us with clean hands—-not hands besmirched with the continuance of unjust, unjustifiable, un-American discrimination against those railroad workers who are of the Negro

race.

_ “That is what is proposed in the ainendment which I have offered.” |

Sen. Hill Leads Opposition

LEADING the fight against it was Sen. Lister Hill (D. Ala.), Democratic whip under F.D.R., and all the so-called “liberals” on both sides of the aisle voted it down. Sen. Hill said the Jenner amendment had no place in the bill as it would cause strife instead of peace ‘between railroad management and labor. Sen. Jenner who bought a farm near Bedford Oct. 24 and Intends to live there and operate it when not occupied here or out politicking ir

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Times ‘What Are ‘We Waiting For? . oi ol %

I believe we must immediately ackriowl-

edge three self-apparent facts:

ONE: We are at war. . . . We have been at war for six months. . . . We may well be at war for 10 or 20 years more. TWO: Our primary and immediate goal in this war is survival. . . . We must make our survival certain before we can hope for victory. THREE: We are not getting ready for war. We are in a war, but all our effort is seemingly directed toward staying out of the war we are in already. This is adolescent nonsense. : These facts . . . mean that we must

dispense with the illusion that time is on

our side. Time favors those who use it. We are not using it. Because this a war of survival . . . we must take carefully into account the limitations of our resources, our capacity, our endurance powers.

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mobilization of our productive capacity *

and our military strength. We cannot safely anticipate that our enemies will again be so generous as to grant us another six months 4n which to discuss and debate and do little. -1 believe we can see the outline of what is needed now:

First, above all else, we must evolve a long-range, over-all global plan of strategy for the war to which we are now committed. We have no such definite plan now. The absence of such a plan could well be Te »

The military planners tell us they are not certain what we will need because they are waiting to hear from the joint chiefs of staff; the joint chiefs of staff explain their assumptions are tentative because they have not heard from the Department of State; the Department of State insists

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By Frederick C. Othman

Racket Boss Plays Expected Role

WASHINGTON, Dee. 14—From now on I'm going easy on criticizing Hollywood for exaggerating life. I mean I've just spent the day watching Joe Adonis, the celebrated racket boss from New Jersey, make it easy for himself to go to jail on senatorial contempt charges. He looked as though he'd stepped out of a “B"” movie concerning gun mollis, gangsters, and dapper keepers of gambling dens de luxe. He was almost portly, but not quite; his gray hair was slicked back over his bald spot with bear grease. His handsomely tailored brown suit was sedate, while the giant ruby on his little finger flashed discreetly. : His freshly shaved whiskers were blue on his jowls. At first I thought his black eyes were squinting into the klieg lights of the newsreels, but when Sen. Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.), the ¢rime investigator, ordered these turned off, the nonjovial Joe kept creasing his peepers half shut, like Humphrey Bogart. What worries me -now learned this from Bogart, or vice versa.

Talked in Low Voice

80 JOE talked in a low voice, which sounded menacing to a movie fan like me, and about all he would say was that he declined to answer on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. He wouldn't teil what his business was, or agree that he was the proprietor of an assortment of gambling halls, or tell how much money he had. Every time he refused to answer a question that seemed innocuous to the Senators, they made a note of it. When finally they'd finished with him and his brow was glistening with

is ‘whether Adonis Boo!

sweat, they told him they intended to sock him’

with contempt charges. “Thank you;"” said the man who is supposed

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to have made a big business of gambling and then to have used his profits to buy into legitimate enterprises. He seemed to mean it. Joe, after all, is faced with tough charges in New Jersey and also in New York, and it may well be that he feels a federal clink is a more comfortable place than a state prison. He didn’t say. As in the movies, he was saying nothing about Suything. | no matter how the cops bent his arm.

Long List of Arrests

HE DID admit that he'd been convicted once of disorderly conduct and again of bootlegging. He's also been arrested on countless other charges, ranging from kidnaping to such minor matters as robbery and assault and battery, but. in each case the accusations were dismissed. “How do you earn your living?” demanded Rudolph Halley, the committee counsel,

—*I decline to answer,” replied the soft-voiced - Adonis, taking a deep drag on his cigaret.

He said he'd read in the papers that he. was known as the racket boss of Brooklyn, but added that he'd moved from there to New Jersey in 1944. That brought the only laugh of the day. “Why did you move?" Mr. ‘Halley inquired. “I liked the clinmte better in Jersey,” Adonis said. © “You mean it was not so hot?” Mr, Halley asked. “Exactly,” replied the man from the bottom feature on a double bill. “It is 300 feet higher there.” ~ That's about the only question he did answer. The others, numbering at least 100, he declined. He should receive his contempt papers

in the next few days.

By Galbraith ‘My Gift

I have no kingdom I ean give , . . for kisses fond and true . . . I lay no diamonds at you feet . . . though I take all of you . ;. and I confess I've no excuse . , , to offer when I'm late . . . but you know dear "twas not because . . , I chanced to hesitate . . ; but I

a virtue that . , . can take the piace of all , . . the jewels and the precious things + + the castles. strong and tall «++I give to you my dearest sweet . . . a heart that's good and true . . . that lives and beats for one alone . , . that : one my love is you... and if 3 the scales of life could weigh ++. my love as it does gold . . . I'm sure you'd have your fondest wish . . . the moon and stars you'd hold.

| =—Ben Burroughs

So They Say

SOME DAY the Soviet men-

lantic force, will, it is s come to an end.—British servative Duncan Sandys.

I DO believe that the exand _obstructionism

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that mare information is needed from the of Defense.

This site of sontusion must end. Fa te

WE; NOT Russia, must dscide where.

we shall fight and where we can fight. It is not dishonorable, it is not cowardly

"to acknowledge that certain limitations

of our strength do exist.and that these limitations make it as imperative that we not fight in some areas as that we do fight in other areas.

The second requirement .is the im- : mediate full mobilization of our available

manpower. This is long overdue.

1 recognize -that the military explains

that it takes time to make camps ready to: . receive men for training, but I also know that it takes much time to make those. men ready for combat. 1 urge again now that all National Guard units and all reserves presently on drill pay status be ordered into federal -:

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THE THIRD requirement is the prompt mobilization of our economy. This can wait no longer. The tax dollars that would have bought 100 miles of field wire before Korea would buy only 85 miles in September, and only 78 miles in November. We know that the failure to take defi nite and positive steps to mobilize our economy is doubly taxing the American public. : I know, and I believe we all know, that price and wage controls alone cannot solve the problems of our economy. But we also know that there is no use dilly dallying, waiting for better answers. . . . We are’ going to have to live with controls until we find the courage and determination to remedy the basic cause of our economic ill health. That cause is a shortage of production capacity. There are other steps we must take to mobilize our economy. . . . We must not permit the tax money which could go for defense to be depleted by unjustified demands for government programs . . . which do not contribute to our survival. Beyond this, there is still one supremely important deficiency to be filled in our economic mobilization. ' That is the need for hard-driving, head-knocking; for-ward-moving personal leadership.

* TELL THE ¥ opie what should be done—and why—and they will mobilize themselves far better than memoranda and directives can do. : If we answer the challenge with courage and confidence and with the ability of which we are capable, we can; I am sure, triumph over our foes.

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

| will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Let's Wake Up’ By A Soldier’s Mother

WHAT a disheartening and sickening thing it is to read the war news and to look at pictures like the ones on the front page of Wednesday's Times. A few. short years ago my own son was a carrier for that same paper. Then he grew up, went to college. But now, without being allowed to finish, he has been ordered into Uncle Sam's mighty ~rmad services like a Nazi storm trooper. It's awful to think that it may have been my own son in that picture. It will be even more awful when we see thousands of those youngsters return home, scarred and crippled for the remainder of their lives. We should be proud of ourselves. We pare ents who could do such a grand job of choose ing leaders who could bring about all this. Oh, yes! We should feel very proud of the fact that we can sit comfortably in our cozy homes and go merrily on our way while those kids battle an old fashioned war to make the world safe for a lot of unthankful, ungodly, barbarian in fidels. Instead of spending a lot of money for gifts this Christmas for the youngsters remaining at home, perhaps we should buy them toy pistols, machine guns, and what have you. Let them do a little brushing up for the next few years so that when Uncle 8am decides he needs more cannon fodder, they'll be ready. 4 &

REMEMBER that Rome burned while Nero fiddled. And our boys are being killed by the hundreds while our leaders do nothing but talk, talk and talk. They give our ‘boys a lot of outmoded equipment no better than that of any other nation’s. The equipped foot soldier of today is about as safe as King Arthur’ s horsemen with swords. If it is up to us to whip the whole cockeyed world, let us wake up to a few of the evident facts and start doing something about it. Let us get out of office the stupid leaders and elect some one who knows just what they are do‘Ing, and let us get those who aren’t afraid to track down those who are send our vital material to other pations. ‘And let our Army leader withdraw the armed forces from other countries until we have built an air force that no country dares buck. Let us use the #tom Sowb - Jorever forget it. 8 Korean War fails to arouse th ican people to facts, may God_have iri fm ig

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