Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1951 — Page 24

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Hell of a Way To Run a War

NEVER in history has an Army commander fought a war under more frustrating circumstances and conditions

than handicap Gen. MacArthur in Korea. A powerful foe is throwing all it has at him—and Gen. MacArthur can’t throw all he has back. It's true the Chinese Reds have little more than massive manpower, but this is particularly effective for two reasons: Allied manpower in Korea is limited, And the Chinese Reds are drawing on an inexhaustible source in an arca“we can’t Jouch, : a use it to destroy Communist bases just across the border in Manchuria, Why? Because he is taking his orders from the United Nations, : And the United Nations, so far as the Korean War is concerned, has deteriorated into little more than a debating society—which isn't even debating these days. . 9» 0» . » ” HOW CAN effective orders or decisions come from-a discussion group which is split four ways: The Russian

bloe, openly helping and encouraging the Chinese Communists; the nations, bellwethered by Britain, which have rec-

ognized the Peiping regime and want to do business with

“it, even admit it to the United Nations; and a U. 8. delegation trying to play Happy Hooligan to all sides. © © No wonder Gen. MacArthur bitterly concludes that under existing conditions the Allied forces in Korea have absolutely no chance of winning the war from a military standpoint. His hands are tied. He can’t do a thing but hold on with all he has and trade punches indefinitely with the Never before has a military commander had a narrower field for individual judgment and decision. Every move he makes he must submit beforehand to @n inert United Nations. i ; ; When Gen. MacArthur confesses he is at the end of his tether, that he can do no more until “vital decisions” are ‘made, what happens? i - 8 =» a» » ; AT LAKE SUCCESS: U. 8. Delegate Ernest A. Gross says it is only an “analysis” that Gen. MacArthur cannot make any recommendations. Moreover, the U. 8, delegation has had no instructions from Washington to ask the United Nations to let Gen, MacArthur blast Red bases now immune. “Within a few days,” the U. 8. may present some ideas for steps to be taken against Peiping, but they'll be in the nature of trade restrictions. . In Washington: With President Truman in Florida, and Secretary of State Acheson in Bermuda, Assistant Secretary Webb declines positive comment, except to say that Gen. MacArthur's appeal is “under study.”

80, the big run-around goes on. Meanwhile, American casualties have reached 52448. We're sending in more troops, but no other members of the

United Nations have moved to increase their token forces

in Korea. Nor is anyone pressing them to do so. It's a hell of a way to run a war,

Cotton-State Gall

(COTTON-STATE Congressmen are boiling mad at price controller Mike DiSalle. He had the temerity to ignore a recommendation by Secretary of Agriculture Brannan and order a ceiling price of 45.76 cents a pound on raw cotton. That ceiling price is 25 per cent above “parity’— the Agriculture Department's own standard of a fair price to cotton farmers. ; : The cotton-state Congressmen say Mr, DiSalle’s ceiling price will discourage production of cotton. It’s hard to believe that the cotton farmers need 25 per cent more than a fair price before they will produce. And harder, still, to believe that they need more than 25 per cent more than a fair price.

MR. DISALLE, to his credit, says he intends to maintain his cotton ceiling price unless Congress passes a new law ordering him to take it off. He intends to enforce the present law, to the best of his ability, as long as it's on the books. And the present law certainly does not say that cotton selling above parity shall be exempt from price control. Will the cotton-state Congressmen change the law? Don’t be surprised if they try. The ceiling on cotton-state Congressmen’'s gall is 100 per cent above parity.

Sam Jackson

MANY words will be spoken at the graveside of Samuel D. Jackson tomorrow. They will be quiet words filled with sincerity and remorse . . . reflecting the richness of a colorful Hoosier life. May they be as well spoken as his own. For through the power of oratory, and sound thinking, Sam Jackson helped shape the destiny-of the United States.. His words will dong ring in the hearts of those who knew him. But Sam Jackson was not just a man of words. He dedicated his life to the principles of democracy. He has been a credit to his state and his nation. Both have bene-

fited by his unselfish work.

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BIG FOUR MEETING sk By todwil Dewy... iE re Is Stalin’s Satelli te Fortress His

PARIS, Mar. 9—Stalin’s satellite fortress in Eastern ‘Europe i8 even less secure than supposed. This is what the Allied delegations at the Deputy Foreign Ministers’ Conference here gather from Russia's frantic efforts to exclude an Austrian treaty from the agenda proposed for the Big Four meeting. An Austrian treaty not only would end Russian occupation of that country. It would force the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the Danubian and Balkan satellite states. Stalin bludgeoned into the Paris satellite treaties a clause allowing him to keep troops in those countries pending an Austrian settlement. He assumed by that time he would have sufficient hold on his puppet governments and armies without Russian divisions. : Instead, he has not been able to shackle them securely enough for his proved by current and previous purges of topside. puppets.

Satellites Are Out

HIS ACUTE -sensitiveness on any subject touching the satellites also was revealed here in his point three proposal for the Big Four agenda, German demilitarization and an arms limitation for ‘the Allies were included in the tricky provisions which would maintain Russia’s relative military superiority, But his proposed agenda does not include the satellites, even on a tricky basis. Again, the chief reason for his refusal to accept the Allies’ number one agenda proposal --'‘causes of the present international tensions

in Europe’—is that this covers the satellites, as the Allles indicated in Jre-conference notes . "= and statements, ~~ WTI he

Gen. MacArthur has overwhelming airpower, but can't

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Hoosier Wants U. S. Sales Tax

WASHINGTON, Mar. 9—A general sales tax, exempting only food, medicines, rent and similar services, has been recommended to the House Ways and Means Committee by Louis Ruthenburg, board chairman of Servel, Inc., Evansville. The well-known Hoosier industrialist and past president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, appeared before the tax committee as chairman of the National Committee for Fair Emergency Excise Taxation. . Under the chajrmanship of the venerable Rep. Robert I. Doughton (D. N, C.), the Ways and Means Committee is ‘searching out ways to gather in another $16.5 billion to.meet President Truman's demand for a “pay-as-you-go” tax pole Jey ‘during the present war emergency. Mr. Ruthenburg Mr. Doughton has set his « - « easiest tax face against a general sales tax. As always, the problem gets down té the old

French adage about the best tax being “one that

plucks most feathers with the least squawk from the goose.” I Since everyone is included among the geese in a sales tax at the consumers level, Mr. Ruthenburg argued that this will make it the easiest tax to repeal ‘after the emergency is past. Other points he advanced were that it will “raise the maximum amount of revenues available from excises, avoid discrimination and unfairness against any class of products or people, retard inflation and insure their prompt repeal after the emergency is ended.” His own business still pays the 10 per cent manufacturers excise tax levied for World War II. Treasury. Secretary Snyder has asked that these taxes be boosted to 25 per cent in the new bill ; Before the Korean War broke out they were about to be lifted by the Ways and Means Committee. Mr, Ruthenburg had aided in that, as spokesman on behalf of the National Committee for Repeal of Wartime Excise Taxes.

50 Firms Interested

IN HIS new role, Mr. Ruthenburg explained, he represents some 50 principal executives of companies paying the wartime excise levy and seeking the sales tax substitute. . Excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco and gasoline are not included, as these industries have special problems, Mr. Ruthenburg explained. Arde Bulova, watch manufacturer, also appeared with Mr. Ruthenburg. So did Leon Henderson, the Ruthenburg committee's economist, and Wilson Wyatt, former Fair Deal housing expediter. ‘Mr. Henderson reached the national spotlight as first OPA administrator under the late President Roosevelt. Using his own business to illustrate what he termed the “inconsistency” of present excise taxes, Mr. Ruthenburg said: “Permit me to cite an example of inconsistency with which I have been painfully familiar for 20 years. Food preservation is no less important than food production. Nevertheless, an excise tax of 10 per cent is imposed upon automatic refrigerators. “Now the, treasury blythly recommends an Increase of this excise to 25 per cent. On the other hand, with complete inconsistency, the American taxpayer carries the heavy double burden of taxation and high food prices in order that enormous subsidies may be paid for food production.” Also from Evansville came a delegation of southern Indiana oil men to tell the tax committee thatWunless the 271% per cent depletion allowance for prospecting is maintained the entire oil industry in the Evansville area will be wiped out.

SIDE GLANCES

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Still further proof of Stalin's uneasiness in the Balkans is his attempt to get the AngloAmerican forces out of Trieste and prevent a defensive alliance between Italy and the Red Apostate, Tito, ‘whom he has marked for slaughter, ‘ In the first two sessions here, Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko was unable to reply to Allied needling on the reasons for excluding the

Had Enough?

JUST LIKE HOLLYWOOD . .

. By Frederick C. Othman

Movie Stars Find Bobby Soxers. Abound in South America Too

PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay, Mar, 9—The international film festival was on its next to last cocktail when I hove into this resort for South American millionaires and it seemed like home in Hollywood.

The weird thing was that the movie love-

lies traveled thou- = sands upon thou- cen sands of miles via = Panagra Airlines, steamship across the 7 River Plate, and streamlined train from Montevideo, only to find themselves in an exact duplicate of the Bellaire Country Club outside Los Angeles. Even the labels on the bottles were the same. Such luminaries as Joan Fontaine, Lisbeth Scott, Evelyn Keyes, June Haver, Patricia Neal, Wendell Corey and John Derek discovered that the lifé of a movie star was the same all over, including Latin bobby soxers with autograph books: Here under the Hollywood palm trees was the Hollywood swimming pool; nearby were the searchlights in front of the Uruguayan Grauman’s Chinese. The movie actors nonetheless thought they were seeing life in foreign lands —and who am I to disillusion them? I talked to some of the ladies and they were enchanted with the scene, which so perfectly duplicated what they had left. I could write out an interview with them, but I doubt if you'd be interested and anyhow I quit being a Hollywood correspondent many a year ago. So let's talk a little about Punta Del Este, a peninsula pointing into the Atlantic and studded with some of the most fanstastically beautiful mansions these tired old eyes ever saw. The town was jammed with actors, press agents, and government officials eyeing the pretty-pretties in slacks. So I found a room about 10 miles down the pike at a place called Solana Del Mar, Fabulous is the word for it.

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long as the Soviets and their agents control the police and the military they can keep the 1id on. But some State Department people believe that five years of ceaseless Kremlin propaganda still have not won the loyalty of a majority of people in these areas. They think dissatisfaction in the satellite countries may cause Moscow to fear that these people would be unreliable if Russia decided to’ push a European war, ” - - * OUR OFFICIALS hear that the appointment of Gen, Dwight Eisenhower to command a West European army gave a tremendous lift to the satellite people who in their consciences reject communism, The task for Western propaganda is to sustain their hope without inciting premature action. ; From Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary “have come reports of determined resistance | among industrial and farm

the Czechs can't deliver all the industrial goods promised to

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A syndicate of Argentine. millionaires built here a hotel super de luxe for 50 guests, under the supervision of the Spanish modern architect, Antonio Bonet. Where & pine forest met the sea Bonet built his long, low hotel of granite, mahogany, and sheets of plate glass two stories

"tall. Here trees grew inside the windows, here

a French chef produced food such as I never tasted even in France, and here I thought for sure I was going bankrupt. . The basic room rate posted on the door to my room with the ultra modern furniture and the green marble cocktail table with the wrought iron legs was $36 per day. Only this turned out to be Uruguayan dollars, and you get two of those for one American cartwheel. The rate still was high. Or was until the head waiter asked to see my passport. He wanted to make sure I wasn’t a native, because the government a special deal for us turistas. We get a 45 per cent discount on the cost of food, drink, and lodging, just because we were good enough to visit this happy land. The taxpayers foot that part of the bill. So the total cost of my stay in perhaps the most luxurious hotel I ever saw was about $9 per night, food, bed, drinks and tips included.

Made Good Impression

I SPENT a good deal of my time lolling on the terrace, playing South American millionaire while one mozo in a white coat brought me orange juice and another stood by alertly to see if my pillows needed adjusting. The management had seven servants for every guest, and it struck me that I would be silly to waste too much of my time with the cuties from Hollywood. I must report even so that they did make an excellent impression on the Uruguayans; they did not drink too much; they got into no fights except perhaps among themselves and the natives liked their first film festival so much they announced it would be an annual affair. The big news of the festival I somehow seemed to miss. Hour after hour the judges looked at movies to choose the best. It took some doing to escape joining them, but I wangled it and which film won the grand prize I have no idea. I feel as guilty as if I'd been playing hookey.

EUROPE AND WAR . . . By Charles Lucey Joe's Hands Tied by Satellite Unrest?

WASHINGTON, Mar. 9-Growing unrest in Iron Curtain countries is set down in official opinion here as a powerful deterrent to a Russian move toward war in Europe. But there is no sign of any early uprising in any of, those countries. Revolt is unlikely, say government officials studying reports from abroad, because the machine guns are all on one side. As

Russia, and are suffering a bread shortage because Russia has reduced compensating wheat shipments to Czechoslo- _ vakia. Moscow had to send a Russian, Marshal Konstanty Rokossowskl, to run the Polish military show,

~ LJ ~ SOME high officials here believe Russia's own province, the Ukraine, is fertile ground for resistance, Parts of the Ukraine have long sought independence. Early in World War II many Ukrainians greeted the Germans as liberators. Then Nazi methods

cept his proposal of Wednesday, he is oply agreeing to an Austrian discussion, which would commit him to nothing.

Very Tender Spot IN ANY case, from this and from his phony arms reduction proposal, it's clear that the satellites are Stalin's most sensitive spot. Though the Allies are now satisfied that they have made Stalin reveal’ his weakest spot, their tentative

: _ decision is not to hammer it here, That would

break this meeting and prevent the Foreign Ministers Conference which they desire. As long as they think there is any possibility of getting a Big Four Conference, they will leave the satellite situation to be discussed then, under their “causes of European tensions” agenda item. ; But if and when-the Allied deputies are convinced Gromyko was sent here only for propaganda purposes and not to aceept an agenda covering the causes of conflict—which they made a specific condition of this meeting in their

notes to Moscow — they will respond to the : " propaganda slugging match the Russians al“Youdy. seem OR IRs PAPE, Di rE Bion

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

‘Lesson to Mankind’

MR. EDITOR: * I don’t believe anyone can completely appreciate the enormity of the thing which hit Ine dianapolis last night (Mar. 6) unless they happen to be a policeman’s wife . . . as I am. It was with a feeling of horror that I list. ened, over my police radio, to the account of the shooting of three of our city police officers. It was as though they were talking of my own husband, which they might well have been . . . maybe next time, Every day, or night, whem our husbands

“leave homie, we intermittently experience the emotions of suspense, dread and, finally, ths

wonderful blessed relief which comes with .the Ts 30dd Oh band TERING ‘footsteps. : Ey

"A CITY policeman’s first duty is to the citizens of Indianapolis, and these men well knew the possible danger they might encounter when they answered that plea for protection last night. All the officers involved walked bravely into the face of that danger. When the shooting began, and the call for help went out over the air, it didn’t take long to find where their second duty lay. It seemed that every police car in town volunteered to go to the scene and help their wounded fellow officers . . . even offering their blood before they knew it was needed. Such humanitarianism could well be a to all mankind. It's just too bad our 3 Jetson tors . . . who. didn’t see fit to give our city policemen even a “cost of living” increase in pay + + . couldn’t have learned this lesson before adJourning with such publicized hilarity. Mrs. H. G. T. Policeman's Wife, Indianapolis

‘One-Way Streets Needed’ MR. EDITOR: Mayor Bayt and his committee has worked out a plan for one-way streets north and south —an excellent plan and one of the most needed measures to speed up our traffic and to improve our horse and buggy setup. And what happens: Our Bus Company claims that it couldn’t stand the financial strain to reroute the busses. Don’t make me laugh. What difference does it make whether a bus goes down one street or another. ¢ 4 ¢ AND TO change a few bus stop signs cannot cost more than the silly ads they have been putting in the paper. It all boils down to one thing: The Trafisit Company doesn’t give a darn whether improvements are made or not. Just like them. No improvements on the lousy service despite the ever increasing fares. . . . Well, Mr. Mayor, your plan is good and sound, so disregard the wailing of the bus people and go ahead. Do what is good for the majority of the citizens and not for a few backward blockheads at a certain office. Put up stop signs and one-way street signs and tell them that's the way it's going to be. The whole city is going to back you. Citizen J. L. Turner, City

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

CARLISLE, Pa.—When the jurors filed into the courtroom after deliberation on an auto damage suit théy had to go back to the jury room for a recount. “You, foreman of this jury true, “Have they a verdict found?” “Oh, yes, we've thought this whole case through, : “We know it from the ground.” “Come, tell me then how do you find? “Who will the fudgment get?” “Well, I'll just check, if you don’t mind, “'Cause, darn it—I forget.”

lite governments may have been made stronger by putting in key positions men in whom ' Moscow's trust is absolute. + Russian dominance of Czechoslovakia may go further. There are reports a Soviet . military mission of several hundred officers and techni. cians is being sent to Czechoslovakia as happened before Moscow took ‘control of Poe land's army. . Collectivization of farm lands remains a source of some of the bitterest resistance. In Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary the Communist press reflects official concern over failure to meet produdtion quotas. Romanian reports have mentioned labor absenteeilsm, loose discipline and sabotage. There have been

workers. There are indications

alienated them. , The same U. 8. officlals are convinced that the Chinese Red leader, Mao Tze-tung has been unable to assimilate much of China and that millions of Chinese are anti-Communist. Chinese battle losses in Korea are counted on to increase disaffection. a The European satellife governments ‘continue to purge those Communist leaders who

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