Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1950 — Page 48

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We Believe They Ought to Know . . . " SINCERE and thoughtful reader of The Times wrote us the other day to protest the publishing of stories and pictures of the awful hardships of our troops in Korea. We don't like them either. We wish such things hadn't happened. But we can’t agree that they shouldn’t be published when they do happen. This is a democratic nation + + « in which the people rule through their elected representatives. Finally it is the people who have to decide what this nation does, and whether or when its government orders men into battle. We don't believe they ean decide intelligently unless they know all the facts.

3 ” » ~ WAR isn't now and never was, a pretty picture, as our correspondent who has served in two wars himself well knows. There's nothing glamorous about it when an Indianapolis high school boy is sent into combat with four weeks training . . . and dies there . . . as one did last week. He could have had more training . .. and a chance to survive . . . if we, the people of this country, had been willing to give it to him. If knowing about that, for instance, will give other boys a better chance . . . we believe the public ought to know,

Counsel of Defeat? I their widely circulated “Stockholm appeal” for the out- “= lawing of the A-bomb, the Russians did their work well. A good part of Europe already is acting as if the bomb were indeed outlawed. Even among those who understand the A-bomb is no more immoral than any other weapon of war, there are urgings against its use by the U. 8. unless it has been dropped on us first, This is strange reasoning from allegedly mature men. Europe's keenest observers, including some satellite diplomats, believe firmly that our possession of the atomic bomb is the one great deterrent to a Russian effort to conquer western Europe. There's not the slightest doubt that at this stage of our military preparedness the bomb is the only weapon we have which could inflict real damage on the Soviet Union should it march tomorrow. To be barred from using it is to be robbed of an effective club against Russian aggression. Furthermore, Air Force officials believe there would be grave risk in waiting to employ the A-bomb. Though doubters continue to turn up, our experts believe the Rusgians have the bomb themselves. Certainly, to play it safe, we must assume they have and can make at least a dozen or a score a year.

” ” » : WHAT would it mean to allow the Russians to drop the § bomb first? Not only colossal damage to key cities, but : possibly the immobilizing, right at the start, of our own A-bomb effort. The Russians know where our strategic air force is based, where our oil is, where A-bombs are produced, If : we're lucky, they don't know where finished bombs are of stored. But it's evident they might, with suicide squadrons carrying either the A-bomb or even just old fashioned block-busters, do irreparable harm to our key striking force before it could make itself felt. To risk that is to risk total defeat. Strategic air officers are wholly aware of this peril and it worries them greatly. So, incidentally, does the prospect of internal sabotage which might ground many bombers we'd need to carry the A-bomb to Russia.

We Must Show Unity

S readers of this editorial column know, this newspaper believes the country's interests would have been well served if Secretary of State Acheson had resigned long ago.

had not at this particular time passed resolutions asking

for Mr. Acheson's removal. Because it is a vote of “no confidence” from the “loyal opposition,” just at a time os ~when Mr. Acheson is flying to Brussels to represent the

United States at a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty organization. The Republican caucuses give the impression that our country is divided.

AS A matter matters important, our country is united. We think the President and Congress are called upon to demonstrate American unity. Our country is more important than the administration's face, or Mr. Acheson's face, or the Republican Party's face. It's long past high time that the Democrats and Republicans, the executive and legislative branches of our government, get together and present a united front to the world.

We're dealing now in terms of blood and iron.

of fact, on

Get in Line, Tovarish

THE Communists are the party of the people, remember? And we in America are wicked capitalists; remember? Then note this: General Wu and his Chinese Red delegation at the United Nations decided the other night to visit New York's famed Radio City Music Hall.' According to newspaper accounts, they demanded the best seats in the : house, immediately. : Told all seats were filled and they'd have to wait, Wu

tossed out of a seat, no matter how. impressive

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IN THE club car of the ’ Toentitth Century

Limited rolling out of New York radio reception tions in full pa

was good and clear that night. . Over it came the voice of President Roosevelt, proclaiming a national emergency.’ Then a band played the National Anthem, and we all rose and stood in the swaying car until it ended, > : : It was very impressive. "One by one the passengers finished their drinks without saying much and went thoughtfully off to bed. But the next morning nothing much had happened. The enemy wasn't yet at our gates, The errands that had taken all those people on the train had still to be done. The Army wasn't any bigger, and the fleet hadn't put out to sea, and the production of war supplies on any effective scale was still just talk. Lite hadn't really changed much for most Americans because the nation now officially

WAL was still a good many months away, though even so it came before we had really begun seriously to get ready for war. Friday night the nation heard the President of the United States proclaim another national emergency. It wasn’t quite so im-

By Walter Leckrone isi

There Isn't Wp Time Left If This Nation of Ours Is To Survive: 5

Admit Communist China to the United Na- = would Se ity

Let Communist China and Communist Russia Tat oo the peace with Japan. * * 2 THAT ADDS up plainly to us getting out entirely from most of the Pacific area and leaving ail of Asia to rule and exploitation by Soviet Russia. Red agents already are moving n, in open or secret warfare, in Japan, in Indo Jo, in in the Philippines, in the Malay Peninsula. Conquest of the shores of the South China Sea . .. which are the richest lands on the face of the earth in potential war necessities , . .

The Trimmer

pressive. For one thing the halting, stumbling, uncertain delivery of President Truman robbed his words of much of their emphasis. The speech, when you read it, is a lot more forthright than it sounded over the radio. Perhaps it dweit overly much on ‘“negotiations” with the enemy and ‘peaceful settlements.” Maybe, for the record, it had to speak of those. But you negotiate a peaceful settlement with an enemy whe has just defeated you in battle on only one basis , . . surrender, President Truman said . . . and the country certainly demands . . . that there shall be no appeasement. On what other basis would the enemy now negotiate? Their peace terms have been made clear in the past few weeks. They’ are: Get out of Korea and turn that nation over to communism, . Abandon Formosa and quit giving either aid or comfort to Nationalist China.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Hoosiers Turn Heat on Dewey

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 — Something new was added to the Hoosier Republican Congressional leaders hatred of Secretary of State Acheson this week and that was hatred for the titular head of their own party—Gov. Thomas E. Lowey of New York. When the governor asked for a cease fire order on GOP anti-administration sharp-shoot-ing during the present crisis, Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican, promptly issued a long “Acheson must go” statement. Then he put it in the form of a resolution which was adopted by a Republican House caucus. Mr. Halleck. has been irate at the New Yorker, ever since he was turned down for second place on the national ticket in 1948, after delivering the Indiana GOP delegation on the first ballot.

Difference in Words

COMMENTING on the Dewey speech for allout mobilization, which preceded that of President Truman by 24 hours, Mr. Halleck said he had been urging increased defense upon the administration at White House meetings for months, He has attended them as a substitute for minority leader Joseph W. Martin, Recently re-elected Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.), who as a member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, sought an all-out price freeze last June 30, didn't say that Gov. Dewey doesn't know what he is talking about. He merely said: “I am sure that the governor of New York doesn’t have all the facts. Suppose we went allout for mobilization and there is no all-out war. That would mean a wrecked economy. We should take things in their stride in this mobilization matter. President Truman must give us all the facts upon. which to act.” In his latest all-out isolationist speech in the Senate, Sen. Jenner asked not only the ouster

. of Acheson but also of Defense Secretary Mar-

shall. In his latest diatribe, Sen, Jenner practically put Gov. Dewey in the same class without naming him. Here is what he said about Republicans who co-operate with “internationalists.” “America stands in desperate need of all out action to create an impregnable nationak defense under a leadership we can trust. “But for the Republican Party now to blindly fall in line behind the dangerous, untrustworthy and un-American leadership that continues to control our destiny, would be 2 raw act of unutterable folly.

‘Same Red Appeasers’ “FOR this administration is composed of the same personnel, the same Communist-doddling

appeasers tie agme--fellow-t rave HRP Co nspirgs-

tors, the same well- intentioned, yet deluded world-savers, the same moral and mental perverts, who have been ‘the architects of the present disaster... . “It is time the Republican Party stand for America. “For myself, there is no point in continuing to attack a Democratic leadership that has gone berserk, when self-appointed spokesmen for the Republican Party are down on their worshipful knees, crawling around, licking the heels of the same false gods.” Coming on the heels of the Dewey plea for national unity, Sen. Jenner's speech left no doubt as to whom he meant, .

Long Arm of the Law

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made.

Still more ominous are new notes creeping into official statements and speeches . . . building toward the next Communist ultimatum: No arming of Western Germany. No arming of Japan. Even . . . finally . . . no arming of

‘the United States of America against Commu- * nist aggression.

There can be no negotiation of such demands. The crisis is more acute . . . the emergency

By J. Hugh oy

. By Frederick C. Othman

Want a Nen-Roosterish Rooster? Slip Him a Pellet of Hormones

WASHINGTON, Dee. 16 — Okay, gents, I guess it's all right to eat fried chicken even if it's been hormonized. And it probably has.

You may not know the deal. The poultry farmer shoots a pellet of hormones, known as stilbestrol, into the neck of a rooster and he becomes fat. placid, and strictly ne nrooster ish. This has been going on now for about a year and no-

anything of it until Rep. A. L. Miller (R, Neb.) brought up the sorry case of the childless mink. Rep. Miller, who is a prac-ticing-—medico, said one of his constituents fed the heads of these

doctored chickens to his mink, which tmmedi-

ately stopped having young. Dr. Miller wondered out loud what would happen to him if he

~gte-g-ehiekernr- thet rad-had-rpit-interted under:

its skin. He said he thofight Congress ought to investigate,

It did.

The special committee of Rep. James J, Delaney (D. N. Y.) considering the chemicals that go into food, called in Dr. Arthur D. Goldhaft, eminent veterinarian of Vineland, N. J., and manufacturer of Stilbestrol for use on roosters. He-said he had planned to bring in a chicken, 1 pill and one: of his oversized hypodermic needles for a demonstration, but the U. 8. mails had fallen down. All he could do was quote medical authorities as to the harmlessness to man of sex hormones as sold by him. What

THIS IS YOUR CITY .

We Don't Want What We Say We Want

THE night is dark and cold. A little 2-year-old boy chases out into the street,

An old car . , . no lights .

They're searching for him now, How did a 14 carat heel like that get out on the streets? Who would ‘do that to a little boy? We would, You and I, almost every citizen in Indianapolis.

want what we say we want. When nauseating. criminal acts. like ' this happen, scream for law enforcement «++ . but too late.

our streets all the time,

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wheels shoots out of the. darkness, smashes him to the pavement. And is swallowed up by the night again. : Nobody knows who the driver is or where he went.

We would because we don't.

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mechanized death traps are on al S Noting new, “he same

happens to the rooster he knew about from personal experience, “The skin surface of the bird becomes smooth and glossy and the flesh tender and juicy, with an improved flavor,” he said. “All male characteristics, such as crowing and

fighting, vanish almost completely.” ¢ The elderly Dr. Goldhaft, who was almost

bald and who spoke in precise fashion, went on in this vein at length. He did not satisfy Vincent A. Kleinfeld, the committee counsel, who wondered what would happen if the farmer gave his roosters two pills, or maybe three. Would that have any effect on the man who ate a fried chicken dinner? “I hadn’t intended to make this publie,” replied Dr. Goldhaft, “but since you have brought it up I may as well tell you. I wondered, too, what would happen to man if he took large doses of stilbestrol and I have been taking it myself.” The Congressmen wen¥ “ulp.” Mr, Kleinfeld looked startled, but he said: “And how are you now, doctor?” “I'm still all right,” retorted Dr. Goldhaft in a deep bass voice. “A chicken gets 15 milligrams. So far I have taken 35 milligrams.”

Lay Eggs and Crow

“YOU MAY be better than the average,” suggested Mr. Kleinfeld.

“No, I am not,” snapped the Doc. average and . : He went on to say that his pills not only were good for roosters, but that they also had an excellent effect on broody hens. “When they quit laying,” he added, “we give them a shot of stilbestrol and they crow, and start laying eggs again.” Farmers all over the land are using his products, he said. Sale of hormonized chickéns, particularly in the New York City markets, have increased tremendously. Ditto turkeys. And so far as Dr. Goldhaft knows, human beings have not been affected one little bit, The Congressmen took this under consideration. They'll issue their verdict later.

. By Ed Wilson

“Tm just

We demand laws to control man's greatest killer, but we don't want them enforced. As soon as possible the traffic department will tow illegal parkers. And the city will break out In a rash of suits with lawyers spouting Constitutional rights Is made. all over town.

already happened other cities and it'll happen

. no license plates ...a heap on

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This war is not onthe away. © We are It S 2% Seming scale World War III befor this week ends, ¢ * : THE thin of the people of this country on this Bein gon still to be far ahead of anything President Truman told them Friday evening. The grumbling is about what looks to them like delay in getting ready for it. Congress granted emergency powers months ago, far in advance of anything asked, yet only now is the first halting use of them announced. Indianapolis factories which once turned out a flood of weapons are marking time . . . waiting for orders. The best news in the President's proclamation was the news that Charles E. wWilson will take command of mobilization , . . a

‘man whose record of organization inspires com.

fidence, and the first man of such stature to go into government service since the Truman administration began. There is a strong probability that war with Sbviet Russia has been delayed this long only because we had atomic weapons. Now Russia, too, has atomic weapons. Intelligence reports now indicate Russia, in the past few weeks, has stepped up atom bomb production sharply, almost as if some production ‘that had been holding them No doubt the United . States still has more bombs, and faster output of bombs. But the margin J is growing smaller every day. It should surprise no one, on any day, if Russian submarines attached our war ships, if Russian armies swept across Berlin and on into France and Belgium, or a “revolution” gave Russia Iran's oil fields, or Red paratroopers swarmed down into Alaska . . . or Russian bombs fell on a U. 8. city, That's the emergency President Truman was talking about Friday evening. It is real . . . and desperate . ., and immediate. ; : If this nation is to survive there is much to be done . . . and not much time to do it,

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‘Let's Stop This’ By Gold Star Mother,

IN World War II, three members of my family served overseas. I was sorry to see them

" go but glad they could be of help when our

country needed them. On the other hand, I was - bitterly disgusted with the way men got out of going into service. Big companies getting exemptions for men who could have been spared very easily, executives included. If they could work in offices, they could do desk work in the Army and relieve the more physically fit for combat duty. It is everyone's country, not just those younger men, single and married, and every man should serve his country in time of need. . db MY family will be called on again for the services of the same ones who served in World War II, and I had better not see the unfairness of the past war repeated. I'll report each case not only to the federal government, but to the FBI as well. I'm sick to death of people like my own relatives having to do the fighting for those who hide behind exemptions. I do not mean the ones who are really 4-Fs, I mean the slackers, and they were in all classes of men. I hope others will also report such

' cases, being sure of course, that it is a real

case of evasion, not cases where real physical handicaps exist. Write your Congressmen on this. - Let's put an end to having our wars fought by the same men all the time,

‘Give Him a Chance’

By Mrs. F. M. Hardesty, Mechanicsburg. THERE has been so mich fault finding and criticism concerning our President. Surely there is someone else who has peculiarities that aren’t approved of. Don't we all do things that make people talk? We aren’t supposed to judge our fellowmen because there is no one perfect and those who think they are only make fools of themselves. Now comes the children’s situation. Yes, children who are separated from their families through no fault of their own. Don’t blame a child for the way he acts. It isn’t a sin to be poor, but it is a sin to be comfortably situated and shun the poor, "os oS ; CHILDREN, whose homes are full of protection, who don’t have to be separated from their parents, should be taught to treat those who are placed in institutions or foster homes with consideration. Asef itn fee are little human beings like ourselves wi feelings that are ups Surselves | 4 upset by insults We never fly so high but what we land. So humble yourselves to the same level as those

who are unfortunate and who can't enjoy - the luxuries, -

THE CASHIER

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the uniformed cashier .. . , who is a part of

every show . . . I'll ever see or hear . . . she is the one who must be quick ... and be exact as well . . . because she deals in currency + + « and figures that must jell . . . and it is her great courtesy . . . and kindliness of way + «+ + that gives the show a pleasant start , . y and makes me glad to pay.

—By Ben Burroughts 1

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