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Finale (We Hope) to the Owen Case

‘the 17-year-old girl in the sordid Jerry Owen case sound a little silly to anyone who cares to look at the facts. This girl made serious criminal charges against Owen, an itinerant evangelist. On the basis of those accusations he was arrested, indicted, and tried on a charge that if proved could have sent him to prison. It was not proved. The girl who made the charges smugly refused to testify in court on the grounds that to do so might “incriminate” her. Other testimony produced at the trial, it is true, left little room either for respect or Sympathy for Owen in the minds of decent people. But none of it had any bearing on this case, so of course he was acquitted. The Juvenile Court; which exists for that purpose, then undertook to continue its efforts to help this child who had fully admitted, and then clearly demonstrated by this pro‘ceeding that she was, indeed, a juvenile delinquent in need of such care.

WE DO not pretend to follow the thinking of the special judge whose decision blocked that. To us that decision showed a simply appalling lack of understanding of what a Juvenile Court is, and what it is cirected by law to do. It is not, as this ruling would imply, an agency for the punishment of criminals. In such a case as this the court, by law, stands.simply’in the position of a parent, with much the same duties, functions and obligations. Ordering it out of the case comes to about the same thing as ordering a father or mother to stop trying to keep their little teen-age daughter from wandering off on interstate week-ends with strange men. We do, though, enthusiastically agree with the lawyer who represented this child, and whose advice she professed to be following throughout, in his demand that the Bar Association conduct a thorough investigation of this whole - smelly affair. It needs it.

Gangsterism HE “struggle between communism and demoeracy” will not be decided on the battlefield, but by proving to the people which ideology vields the best results, according to Premier Nehru of India. This suggests that communism and democracy are engaged in somethihg like a world-wide popularity contest, eventually to be decided by a free choice of “the people.” : Mr. Nehru may believe this applesauce. But it is easier to think he was trying to discuss communism without saying anything which might offend Moscow. Russian communism is merely a thin mask for Russian imperialism. It challenges democracy only in the sense that it represents an armed threat against all nations which are not subservient to Moscow. - In that, respect the democratic governments are in the: same boat as Franco Spain, Tito’s Yugoslavia and the puppet French kingdom of IndoChina, ’ Currently, Red puppets of the Kremlin are attacking Tibet, on India's own border. That country is governed by the Lama monks, representing a form of Buddhism which, as Mr. Nehru knows better than most people, is about As yemote from democracy as anything could be. N .

” . ~ » " RUSSIAN communism, once in the saddle, is a system of, gangsterism under a self-perpetuating oligarchy which has about as much popular appeal as serfdom™under the old Russian .czars.” No country which has the system accepted it of its own-volition. In every case it was imposed by force. Once in power, it has never dared to submit its claims to an honest popular election. - Even so, people living under communism aren't permitted to compare its products with those of other systems because facts about other systems are banned by rigid censorship. _ Since communism advances itself only by the sword, it can be stopped only by force, or a show of force. American intervention saved Greece from communism by a show of force. But communism appears to be succeed: ing in Korea, where the Reds have countered with superior force. If Mr. Nehru ignores these hard facts and tries to turn back communism with anything less than cold steel, he will become a sadder and wiser man. But by that time he probably will have a refugee government in Ceylon or the Philippines.

- Miracle—By the Navy E- NEVER, never: contemplated a Dunkirk—not even =. faintly.” . The miracle of it is that there was no Dunkirk—a Christmas Eve miracle of 1950 on the dreary, icy beachhead of Hungnam in Korea. For that, we can thank the good Lord and the United States Navy. For that, we can underscore the Navy's pride in its achievement! “The first time in history that an entire army with all of its supplies and equipment has been successfully redeployed by sea in the face of enemy pressure.” Our five divisions on the northeast front virtually had been given up for lost. As bad news kept pouring in of the tremendous odds against them, of the insufferable weather and the terrible terrain between them and the sea, there were times when here at home we would have settled for a Dunkirk. We thought the Allied forces would be lueky if even a few thousand got out. But early on Dec. 21 the last of the 105,000 men had stepped aboard a Navyfanding craft at Hungnam. In addition, 91,000 Korean civilians, 17,500 vehicles and 350,000 tons of cargo had been successfully evacuated and Vice Adm. Struble wrote a triumphant finis to an incredible feat.

the Sommunisia. ‘Were unable to mount only one attack in ngth through the ring or fire laid down by, es and by the guns of the Mighty Mo, two I'd Setrojers and three . rocket ships

THE high-flown statements about “constitutional liberties” that came out along with the reiease from custody of

_ It had taken more than two weeks. During that time

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

‘Baseball as Usual?’ By A. J. Schneider JUST a few days ago, we read in the newspapers. that Happy Chandler was going to be released from his. job as Czar of baseball— principally because he dared to suggest that baseball ought to be suspended during the war emergency, so that the players—some of our most able and physically fit men—could be used in the armed services. For daring to. think such heresy, he is now without a job—even if they did magnanimously offer to pay out his salary. for the full period of his contract. This raises’ a point. We are told there is a great national emergency and we all will have to- make tremendous sacrifices, many oldsters who have retired will have to come out of retirement, women- will have to come out of the kitchen and become riveters or welders, or punchpressmen, and many men will have to surrender jobs not contributing to the war effort to take up war work. But how about baseball players? Do we really need baseball as usual? And if yes, can these men not play equally as

“well in khaki as they do in flannels?

eo 5 THIS leads to thoughts abotit others who have been evaders in past war undertakings. How about the pinkoes in Hollywood? It is true that many of the Hollywoodians entertained in U.8.0. shelters, which naturally was appreciated. But could their talents have suffered by donning -khaki? Is their willingness to pesform where and when and under conditions which they themselves choose, excuse to exempt them from the hazards that face John Doe? Then there is another 1arge group of slackers who could well have a logk..from the inside of the ranks of the armed services, to better discharge their patriotic duty after the wars. This is the so-called labor leaders who were exempted during last fracas, so that they were free to stir up strikes and other crippling bottlenecks for the war effort. If they are in khaki, shoulder to shoulder with the boys who are dy in - foxholes waiting for supplies, will see wisdom. Those guys, most of whom ‘have never done an honest day's work in their lives, could be beneficially chastened by a trick in one of the armed branches. Now is the time to think of these heretofore pampered groups, before they are again

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‘Acheson Should Go’

By John L. Niblack, 5115 Carvel Ave, PEOPLE. keep wondering why there {i a clamor to replace Secretary of State Acheson. Mr. Acheson and Mr. Truman turned China over to the Communists. Now Chinese Communist armies are killing American boys in Korea... Why didn't Mr. Acheson and Mr. Marshall “lock up Chiang Kai-shek? First they withdrew support from a fighting friend, and then started selling the American people on propaganda that the Nationalist Chinese government wasn't a demoCracy. Maybe it wasn't. but it our side.» That's Why Acheson should go and take with him all the rest of the pinkies who sold us out.

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What the RepUblicans Want

By CDC, Terre Haute, A WRITER in the Forum says he doesn't know what the Republicans want. I can’t speak for the entire party but I know what those I have talked with want, and that goes for a lot of Democrats, too. First, they want to get our boys out of Korea and stop the slaughter, because if we did win a military victory we would still be the loser. Second, they want to get rid of Dean Acheson and have a house cleaning in the State Department because it is largely responsible for the mess we are in now. Third, they want to follow the plan of Herbert Hoover to defend our own country, along

‘with vital military bases and help only countries

that are willing to defend themselves.

‘Western Community’ By J. Ted Davis

LET'S all make the Western Nations the: Western Community. A pretense of friendliness put the Reds where they are. True friendliness

" should reverse the situation,

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

INDIANAPOLIS — Two bandits looped a rope “lariat” fashion around nine persons in a

loan company and robbed them of an undetermined amount. This cow-puncher business is going too far. The kids ride the range all the while, And now city bandits get right up to par By. making quick “loans” western style.

Just as When a boy throws his lasso at play And fells his old man on the stoop, These unhappy people, a punster might say, Have really been knocked for a loop.

MORE THAN. GOLD

WHEN building up a large reserve . . . I do not think of gold . . . I try to place in my reserve . . . the things no bank can hold . . . try to store a lot of faith . . . so that when heartaches niount . I ‘éan draw on my reserve . + + . then too, I store a heap of hope . without hope I'm lost . . . and so it is I fill my vault . . . with hope at any cost . , , and added to my stock of these . « I store in charity + » » for without this my other wealth , . won't mean a thing to me . ,. for what's the good of having things . + that make for happiness . . . if with them I've.no charity . . . my gain is naught or less. ! i.

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committees, after the Senate gets through amending the House-passed bill. — — Three factors seem to have influenced Congress to pass.an excess profits tax. Perhaps the most important was psycho-

killed and® wounded and frozen in Korea, seems too great for those who “stay at home. Secondly, the government - collected nearly $40 billion from excess profits taxes in

over $24 billion after taxes. _ It's too important a source of 7 Tevenue to overlook, no “matter what the difficulties in collecting it. ‘Treasury Departrhent's final audit of corporation . income taxes has been. Completed 9 on through 1947. But for the 2

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"DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan

Capehart Ey Eyes Foreign Relations

pm when the incoming 82d Congress is organized afier Jan. 3, it will be a signal victory don the exception of the junior Senator Jeaner, Sen. Cape-

Le SPEINGTO I Rau en Re nt to powerful Senate Foreign Relations -

Capehart

could air his Sen. Capehart ~ isolationist : as oma « + « isolationist record

considerable more authority by getting himself chosen for foreign relations. f Maybe he could carry out the idea once

voiced by Oscar Wilde, who had a character in

one of his plays say: “We owe a debt to history—rewrite it.” If the policy of Western Hemisphere isolationism, which Chairman Brien McMahon (D. Conn.) of the’ Senate Atomic Energy Committee, termed recent speech of former. President Hoover,

IN THE CHIPS NOW

_against the Communist menace.

“appeasement” in commenting on the

“shaid be adopted with Sen, Capeharts help. we would indeed be rewriting some 400 years of the Western World, : It would mean the complete domination of the entire Eurasian land mass by Soviet Russia, me A Ne tr AE people fro oO e e 0 Marlborough, who argued no one power should ever have such domina Debate in the new Congress will center-on such principles, just as they have been spelled out from the opposite extremes by-Gov. Thomas

and Mr. Hoover. ‘Sen. Robert A. Taft

E. Dewey “ (R. 0.) will also have his say and may advocate

some middle course for the GOP to follow. The administration and bipartisan foreign policy supporters will continue to argue that no great nation, such as ours can pursue an isolationist course, but must necessarily baek free men, wherever we find them, in the struggle

still Has Friends =

IN AN efiort to make the new year news a bit more promising, after the grim Christmas

holiday reports, James Reston, diplomatic cor-

respondent for the New York Times wrote: “It has become popular in the last few weeks to say that the republic faces the greatest crisis

in its history. Somehow many of those who

a month ago were planning, somewhat prematurely to welcome the Army home for Christmas, are now, just as prematurely, acting as if we had lost everything, including our ability to meet our honorable commitments “The United States has not, however, lost its power to punish an aggpessor more severely than any aggressor was ever punished in the history of warfare. It has not lost its capacity to deny to that aggressor in Europe any rewards he may hope to gain by aggression. It has not lost its friends, weak though they may be for the moment, and it has not lost its capacity to make itself and them much stronger than they are. In short, it has not lost its power to turn aggression nto disaster for the aggressor.” ;

By Earl Richert |

Uncle Waits for Korean Debts

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-—End of the year finds Uncle Sam’s bank account in unbelievably good ¢ondition—considering that we've been fighting in Korea for six months. This is because costs of the war and preparedness program still haven't really begun to come in. In December so far the government is.only $365 million in the red., At the same time last year, thi government was $2.8 billion in the red. Both Treasury and private economists think that January and March personal income § tax payments will balance the government's books for the fiscal year, at least for a short time. £3 Some government economists 3 think this period of budget sur- Sen. Byrd plus will last only a day or $25 billion two because defense spending was stepped up after the Chinese Reds entered the Korean War. But some private economists think the “in-the-black” period will last for possibly two or three months because income tax payments will be far greater than what the government expects, Corporation quarterly income tax payments are helping the government's bank account now. - They have caused the federal deficit to

- tumble from $1.1 billion on Dec. 1 to the present

$365 million figure. Total government spending is still behind a year ago—expenditures for the fiscal year to date being $18.1 billion as against $19.9 billion during the same period a year previous.

PROPAGANDA

Both the Army and Navy have spent less actual cash this year than last. But Air Force spending already is up about $1 billion. Government departments where spending is down sharply include: The Commodity Credit Corp. (farm price supports), which has spent only a third as much this year as last; the Economic Co-Operation Administration (Marshall Plan), which has spent $550 million less, and the Reconstruction Finance Corp. which has spent or loaned $330 million less, The period of near financial solvency on current operating costs cannot last long, of course, without sharply .increased revenues. Sen. Harry Byrd (D. Va.), foresees a federal deficit of as much as $25 billion for the next fiscal year, starting July 1.

Pay-as-You-Go BUT the administration has announced it will ask for new taxes in the first few weeks of the 82d Congress. The President's policy continues to _be to put the defense program on

a pay-as-you-go basis, if at all possible. The budget now contemplated for the next fiscal year may run about $75 billion. Various private and government economists have said repeatedly that taxes could be raised sufficiently to pay for a $75 billion annual budget without wrecking the economy. Although Treasury Secretary John Snyder has kept mum on details of the upcoming tax increase proposals, he repeatedly has said that all Americans will have to bear much higher taxes. This leaves little room to doubt that much higher taxes for individuals will be proposed. Present individual income taxes are about 5 per cent below the World War II peak.

By Clyde Farnsworth

In the Name of ‘The People’

LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 29—Two popular mistakes about Oriental communism have put the United States—and the United Nations—over a barrel in the Far East. We won't get off —for good, that is—until we get things straight about Peking’s military potential on one hand, and the fractional character of its political power on the other, Comments like Prime Minister Clement Attlee’'s reasons for British recognition of Peking—*control” of the mainland and “obedience” of the Chinese people—won't help. Nor Secretary Acheson's old thesis that it was not force of Communist arms but a loss of popular support by the Nationalist government that brought the Chinese Communists to power. Any argument for recognition of Peking based upon a presumption of acceptance of that regime by the bulk of the Chinese people or of Communist control of the

Gen. Wu ++. a complex

“country in an Occidental sense is wide open

to question. mistake about the popular base of communism’ “Nn China has been fairly constant, but we've gone. from one foolish extreme to the other in evaluating Oriental Communist soldiers. Only recently we've had an inkling of bitter first-hand truth in Korea. ‘First they -were a clod-hopper lot, simple peasants imbued with agrarian social ideals only

. By Peter Edson

ations reporting no net income numbered 169,000.

» » » : FOR mining companies the rate of income in 1947 was 12 per. cent. For manufacturers 13 per cent, construction 20 per cent, agriculture 15 per cent, trade 19 per cegt, services 17 per cent, finance, insurance and real estate 11 per

6 per cent. al fog. normal t, the present inLL last Bgure Sxpldins hid come tax a be applied to e House a pro n in its earnings. excess profits its bill allowing 3 The a 6 per cent return on their per :

to aid small busin the floor. The ceiling would be 67 per cent of any company's earnings. In the last war it : cm. was 80 per cent. Senate tax leaders think it should be cut to 60 per cent. When a tax expert sits down and applies this formula to any company’s earnings, it becomes a little clear. Here are twp examples which are said to be average cases: :

nominally related to the world communism. Then they emerged as indoctrinated, fanatical supermen of incredible courage, fighting with a tactical savvy impossible to match. So the propaganda pendlum has swung, and our ideas with it. We are now being sold the biggest bill of goods so far—the solidarity of Asiatic masses under Chinese Communist leadership. We can accept that communism has embarked on a vast aggressive movement in Asia. We would be blind if , we did not.

People . .. People... TO ACCEPT the Communist threats and claims at face value is to surrender half a world as the first installment of the whole. We needn't. There are sound reasons to believe that the Reds are lying as usual. - Gen. Wu Hsiu-chuan, the Moscow-trained political commissar ‘sent here to demand a United Nations surrender, has—despite his lying —indicated Red China as the base of a larger Asiatic aggression. People. People, People. The Moscow-Peking axis has always called its doings and desires the will of the people. The People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China does everything in the name of a people who even on a restricted local basis have been’ given no opportunity even to confirm by ballot the government that rests upon them, More than one year after its proclamation, the People’s This of the People’s That has found it inadvisable or impossible to rig a national “election” even in familiar Soviet pattern. Why?

Excess Profits Tei Seems to. Be Inevitable

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—In spite of protests from business, Congress now seems determined to pass some kind of an excess tax. The only question is what kind, how big, and what Hundrads of technical difficulties are being raised. It is impossible to know what the final version will contain, since this will have to Be worked out in conference by taxation

. That's $150,000 would be subject to the 30 per cent excess profits

tax. This would be $45,000. AS ITS normal taxes and

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