Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1951 — Page 14

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Their Darkest Hour

HE CHINESE NATIONALISTS on Formosa take a gloomy view of the U. 8. government's apparent ‘apathy in deciding whether to make full use of Chiang Kai-shek's forces in the war against Asiatic communism. They believe British influence is restraining us; that British self-interest dictates an appeasement line which our State Department accepts in order to cover up its past mistakes on Chinese communism. Scripps-Howard staff writer Clyde Farnsworth reports ' today from Formosa that the Nationalists fear a compromise settlement is in the making for Korea, which may mean a compromise on Formosa’ 8 future status—completing the write-off undertaken by our State Department before Korea.

If they have a kindred adage that the darkest hour is Just before the dawn, Shey might invoke it now.

» FOR THERE are growing indications that, regardless “of previous errors, we are coming around to some realistic views.on the Korean stalemate. The simple facts are these: We can’t win the war in Korea, militarily—we have Gen. MacArthur's word for that. The United Nations is doing nothing to win it politically. There is no chance of the United Nations authorizing a wider scope of operations for Gen. MacArthur, and there Is little chance that any other country is likely to contribute hore troops or military aid. «¢ Chiang Kai-shek has on Formosa the largest antiCommunist land force in Asia. These forces are now immobil"ized by President Truman's order neutralizing Formosa— “a policy that was laid down before Chinese Red intervention _irrKorea. ‘ It.is oniy common sense that t Apans to fight commupism in their o dig “hot aa "deprived of that privilege. The Hs contention that + Juployment of Chiang’'s troops would broaden the war by ringing in the Chinese Communists was dissolved when the + Peiping regime launched its own broad-scale offensive four ‘months ago. Whatever misgiving President Truman and the State ‘Department had sbout the availability and effectiveness of Chiang’s troops undoubtedly have been offset by recent ‘reports from their own observers on Formosa. Both diplo“matic and ECA representatives have pictured Chiang as .Yesolute and determined, wielding a stronger hand, and * fewly consecrated to his aim of upsetting communism in his + homeland before it solidifies.

HIS CHIEF needs are arms and ammunition and planes —in small amounts compared with what we are futilely pouring into Korea—plus the green light for his build-up _ on the mainland. This would force Mao Tse-tung to stop sending his hordes of Red troops into Korea. ; We have already started a substantial flow of military .. #id to Formosa. Surely there is no intention that this shall remain urfised while ‘American casualties pile up in Korea. ",/ If, as the Nationalists contend, President Truman and «the State Department have been swayed by British thinking, it's hard to see how this can go on much longer. You can credit the administration for being wary enough not “to fall into the trap of recognizing Red China, along with _Britain, a year ago. Surely, it is not likely to succumb to continued British pressure now.

“Let the RFC Die

MANY years ago we heard an eminent Washington official say: “Any government bureau that has been in exCk 10 years ought to be abolished. Instead, we erect a : white limestone mausoleum and inter it.” + We have since had occasion to recall that remark freuently, as government agencies, no longer serving the purfor which they were created, year in and out ask Con. - gress for ever-increasing appropriations to maintain their ever-growing payrolls. . Today such an agency most in the public eye is the "Reconstruction Finance Corp. As government agencies go, the RFC is fairly young—Iless than 20 years old—yet reason for its creation has long gone with the change of times. The RFC was a depression baby, born of necessity, when banks were closing, insurance companies were insolvent, railroads ‘and industries were without working capital to meet payrolls and taxes and buy raw materials.

THE RFC. did its job well in the '30’ s, and should have . been liquidated before the end of that decade. But came World War II, and the RFC hurriedly made itself useful as a war financing agency. Then after VJ-Day it went looking for postwar loans, although meanwhile banks and other private lending agencies had become highly liquid, their portfolios bulging with government securities. The RFC is now engaged in two principal endeavors— making defense loans at the behest of government procurement agencies, and making smaller capital loans which the banks and other private lenders will not or can not make. In view of the recent evidence of what former RFC boss Jesse Jones describes as “the flies that always gather - around the sugar,” we believe that th» RFC no longer can be considered as the proper agency for either of those functions. Let the RFC die. Put government defense lénding under Defense Mobilizer Wilson. As for capital loans for ordinary civilian enterprises, that is a job for the private credit institutions—certainly at a time when there is no scarcity of private capital, ‘

Why Malik Walks

~ RUSSIAN United Nations delegate Jacob Malik’s public walk-out on Japanese peace treaty talks with John Foster Dulles may have been due to too much American publicity. As long as the talks were secret, Malik could indulge. But as soon as news that talks had been going on

the Russians might agree to a Japanese peace treaty on American terms, the Russians had to back out, publicly. They couldn't afford to let any of their satellite countries get the idea that there could be any collaboration with the United States. Lf k

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The Chinesé’ Nationalists may be ‘overly pessimistic.

was given out by Mr. Dulles, together with intimations that

PARIS, Mar. 12—80 far in the Big Four deputies’ sparring over an agenda for a Foreign Ministers Conference, the Allies are leading Russia on points. Stalin’s purpose in requesting this preliminary session, and in tricking the Allies into meeting without an advance Soviet commitment to put the causes of the East-West conflict on an agenda, was threefold. One was propaganda. Another was the opportunity to split the Allies, The third was to make sure that any Foreign Ministers Conference would be rigged on his terms. So far his propaganda has been only partially successful, he has not wideried the Allies’ breach and his agenda still has not been accepted.

Gromyko Stalling THIS situation accounts for the opposite - tactics now being used by the U. 8. and Russian delegates. Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko is stalling, and hoping that the other side will offer more. U, 8. Delegate Philip Jessup is trying to force a showdown while the Allied line is still intact, The propaganda battle, which the Russians have won in most other Big Four meetings is not going so well for them this time. Their technique is the same. They start by making an agreement that no details and summaries of speeches will be given to the press —only the barest generalities. The Allies naively accept this secrecy rule and observe it, while the Russians immediately leak doctored stories of.-the proceedings to the press. The Boviet news agency gives long quotes from Gromyko's propaganda orations. Then, after several days of being smeared, the Aliles wearily insist on giving factual but

not quoted brieflings to the press. They're so

far behind, however, that they never catch up.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Small Business

Will Be ‘Heard

WASHINGTON, Mar. 12 — Small business, which politicians of both parties loudly support, is beginning to kick up as much fuss about being left out in the cold in the preparedness program as have the union leaders. Like the latter, they maintain that the present setup, headed by Defense Mobilizer Charles E, Wilson, former president of the General Electric Co, is running the show for and by big business. -That is why the House Select Committee on Small Business is sending three subcommittees eager BEA field for hearings. Number one, which : Fes Ynaianapotis ‘Apr. 4. Ee Charres B. Browrnson, Indianapolis Re-

~ publican ahd a small' bussinessman himself, is

going home Mar. 17 and stay until these hearings are held. He announced that, during this Waster recess of the house, he will open an office in Room 213 in the Federal Building, with Miss Ann Harshman of his staff in charge. There they will prepare the various complaints of Marion County small manufacturers, who are ppingh of the preparedness program. iichairman - of the, Small Business dg § Rep. Wright Patman, (D. Tex.).

“Commit “Rep, C Halleck, Republican, Rensselaer, was ch > uring the GOP 80th Congress. Both have © cio members of sommities.

in Lafayette, the largest city in his district. “We are determined to gee that operators and workers in smaller plants over the nation will not suffer unnecessary hardship in the squeeze on civilian production arising from the defense effort,” Mr. Halleck explained. “Daily more and more small businessmen are . writing, calling or coming to Washington, desperate because material shortages are slowing or even stopping their assembly lines. Meanwhile, hoped-for defense orders have not come through. “Small firms protest they are unable to obtain certain needed materials from their usual sources of supply. At the same time, these materials have been offered to them on the black market at two and three times the regular price. “Meanwhile, pleading emergency, the military services are letting more and more contracts by negotiating—everything from pins to aircraft carriers. Little operators are lost in the shuffle.” A committee bill has been introduced in the house to remedy this situation by establishing a small defense plants corporation, with contractual authority. This corporation would make a complete inventory of all small plants which can be used in defense and essential civilian production. It would seek to get the government procurement agencies to utilize small plants, both as contractors and subcontractors. “The committee is concerned,” Mr. Halleck said, “with the trend toward centralization of the defense effort. Unless the present maladministration is corrected, the alternative is disruption of community life, with jobless famifles uprooted from their homes and migrating to large cities in search of work in giant industries.”

Mr. Halleck « + + determined

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By Galbraith

[EAST-WEST CONFLICT . +. By Ludwell Denny

Allies Stack Up Points In Big. Four Political “

Anyway Mr. Jessup, United Kingdom Delegate Ernest Davies and French Delegate Alexandre Parodi are not making gallery speeches in the meeting. They're trying to negotiate. Bo, unlike Mr. Gromyko, they're handicapped in the propaganda battle.

But despite this Soviet advantage, the re-

sults for Russia have been pretty much of a flop in the West. Gromyko’s poison undoubtedly is being lapped up in Russia and some part of

Perish the Thought

HARRY-

DO YOU SUPPOSE THERE ARE AS MANY SHARKS OUT IN THAT OCEAN AS THERE ARE (N WASHINGTON

Tad BT en Ikea WE TANS INL Fie

BUENOS AIRES

BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 12—This is a nation with so much meat that it has sirloin steaks coming out of its ears. The finest of these—hold your breath, ladies of the U. 8. A.—cost exactly 5 cents a pound. If you should want some hamburger for your dog, .my friend, Car- is los Alvarez the fou

do El Plata, will give you four or five pounds. The official price of hamburger is three cents a pound, but no self-re-specting Argentinian § ever eats the stuff, and it kind of piles up. Don Carlos is delighted to get rid of - it.

His costliest meat

there is only a few pounds of it in each steer and from it are cut such filets as North Americans never have seen. These cost almost 17 cents per pound, an incredibly high price, and Don Carlos doesn’t sell many except to the de luxe trade. His best seller is a steak two inches thick

. and tender enough to be cut with a fork. This

; sells for 11 cents a pound. Mere T-bones and | sirloins, cost less than half of that, but only | those who can afford no better ever eat them. {+ At noon the laborers on the streets build t small fires and broil steaks for lunch. A turista

| like me can’t do that; he's got to eat in a restau-. ‘trant, like La Cabana. Here I walked past a

i dozén chefs grilling a hundred steaks plus meaty + items over charcoal fires There were five of us Latin meat eaters at lunch. For an appetizer the waiter brought a

| mighty copper platter, with a flame beneath it;

| This was - piled high with kidneys, sausages, schunks of filet, and other beefy tidbits not It cost—and re¢+member we were eating in perhaps the finest (restaurant in South America—90 cents.

against the author of the

raising constituents, The story began during the war. In the manpower short-

age, all farm labor became hard to get. Self-respecting white men refused to have anything to do with tending the silly sheep. Neither would the native Indians of the western range country. Make 'um more wampum in war plant.

But people had to have mutton and wool. So Sen. McCarran fostered a move to bring Basque sheepherders from the Pyrenees Mountains of Spain to mind the sheep on Nevada's ranges. One hundred and sixtythree were brought in on temporary immigration permits. After the war, Sen. McCarran then introduced a private bill to let the Basques stay ahd be naturalized. It passed.. They stayed. ree The whole system worked so well that last year Sen. McCarran got through another bill—a public law this time— <= to admit up to 250 more Basque ‘skilled sheepherders” on regular. visas, regardless of Spanish immigration quota. Three applied for these visas and presumably came in. ~ ' : % 4 - war b |

NEWS NOTEBOOK . McCarran Bill Backfires on Its Author

the satelite states, and perhaps public opinion behind the Iron Curtain is getting so that these repetitions uf oid Nes shout TrAllied militarism aggression” Ste dsspatately needed. 1 4, the Bovie actce her could be

‘Only they're not getting very far in Western

Germany, where Russia is making such vigorous efforts to win friends and influence Wor against the Allies. In this connection the big

By Talburt

| . . By Frederick C. Othman Oh, Gad—Sirloin—5¢ a Pound— Hamburger?—Who Eats the Stuff?

This was en meat for me for the day, but it was only the beginning. Soon the waiter

. came with steaks that must have weighed four

pounds each. In all my life I've néver had so much meat on the plate in front of me and I must confess it was overpowering. All around me Argentinians were plowing in similar chunks of meat and quite a sight it is to see a small lady surround a steak almost as- big- as her hand.

These steaks cost 65 cents each; I could get down only part of mine and I only wished I could wrap the rest in a napkin and take it back to the U.S.A. That, unfortunately, is impossible and in part explains the glut of meat in the Argentine. The United States maintains an embargo on meat from here, while Great Britain which used to be one of this nation’s best beef customers, is between contracts at the moment. So while the British housewives eke out their

* pitiful bits of meat with macaroni, their trade

mission is here now, arguing with the bigwigs of the Peron government on what the new price

shall be.

Shoes and Suitcases

WHERE there is meat there also are hides and if any Americano needs a new pair of shoes, this is the place. A stout pair can be had for $2, but a really good pair of shoes of the finest possible leather will set him back around $9. And that leads us to suitcases of the best cowhide at $18. Gad. + Human nature, however, remains the same all over. An Argentine friend of mine invited me to dinner without notifying his wife and apologized ahead of time. she'd only have some steaks. He added that he was sick of T-bones and tired of crown roasts. He said, in fact, that he was thinking of becoming a vegetarian. He would, too, except for the fact that vegetables cost like sin. As it is, his economical wife seldom serves them.

. By Peter Edson

‘evacuation pr!

He said he feared °'

the of } word and goal of all Germans. = al tage for a two-fold 5 drs ONE: The latest Red line from his German satellites is that unification should be by the East West German er

By specifying a Girish treaty and Two: troops in in his agendachere without including unification—which is a prior condition » BO a no It the il stupid to . outsmarted

Anyway, Stalin himself on this orie. The Allies, by. pointing out this fact to the Germans, put Stalin in impossible posi-

Dan in a Split ne a are bleeding so much from this that Mr. Gromyko had to amend his agenda formally to include unification. Because the British and French governments are ready to pay a higher compromise price for a settlement with Stalin—which the U. 8. thinks he would violate as he has all previous agree-ments-—the chief danger of this .and the proposed Big Four meeting is that Stalin will split the Allies. But so far at least the Allies have not only maintained a united front in all sessions here but have co-ordinated their moves better than

. in any previous conference. : Though this is most gratifying fit 1s not 2 _ conclusive. Moscow's proposals are such obvious

trickery there's litle temptation. to -anybody to accept them. The test of Alifed unity Wilf come if and when Gromyko begins offering alleged

bargains,

OOS\eR CORUM

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

‘Get the Facts Straight’

MR. EDITOR: This letter is in answer to F. M., Disgusted and others, who obviously are not familiar with the facts. We live on a 200-acre farm . . . grain rent. Also we farm 50 acres cash gent and 70 more acres grain rent. We are bigger than average farmers and ac-

"§ cording to almost everyone's idea, we should

have at least one Buick and Packard ath We drive a '40 Plymouth.

..+- Our cash receipts for. 250 were s1o608. our” expenses follow:

Feed purchased eoasensense res 3151181 , Fertilizers ..oceevesessslossss $1702.18 Gasoline cssasessssnnvbesses+31154.90 Repairs ..ooveeesseessssseses$1302.33 “Cash Rent cessevecisssseeaes$ 670.00 and dozens of smaller items. Totaled $7888.43. We are allowed $1056.52 per year for depreciation on farm equipment. We have about $12,000 invested in machinery. We have a net income, (including depreciation, which is deductible) of $4058.55. ® & o

WITH AN estimated 12 hours per day, (it runs 16 during planting season) we have a net income of- $1.13 per hour with not one cent for our $12,000 investment. Any time not spent on the farm was spent in hauling and exchange work, the proceeds of which were included in gross income. With $7888.43 expenses which went to others and over $2000 paid on machinery, we contributed, through our long hours, and “doing without” ourselves, some $9888.43 to other in-

dividuals or enough to enable three families ta

live and eat, even at today’s prices, for one year, Is there another individual, except the farmer, who nets $4000 a year and contributes. as much to the national employment and economy? This is the reason, and not because some six million people make their living on farms, that the government hopes to keep the farmers on the black side of the ledger and it is these other groups which help to make up the “powerful farm lobby.” ¢ & ¢

TO ANYONE anxious to board the farmers gravy train special the farm we live on is for sale . . , asking about $70,000.

RE a he

With $25,000 spent for fences, modernizing

barns, house, etc., $20,000 investment in stock, $12,000 for machinery and about 3000 man-hours

‘ labor, you should be able to gross about $30,000

per year in a couple of years at present prices with about $10,000 to $12,000 net income. . . . IF the hogs don’t get some disease, you don't lose a lot of calves, and if the poor working man F. M. describes doesn't come out and beat you over the head for robbing him,

I believe that group misunderstandings rep-

resent the most fertile potential breeding grourels for communism in America today. Let's get facts before we see red, Mr. F. M. —Farmer’'s Wife

WASHINGTON, Mar. 12—The stiff, controversial McCarran Act intended to keep subversive immigrants out of the United States and control those who are already in, has now backfired act, Sen, Nevada. It's all because of those Basque sheepherders Sen. MecCarran wanted to import for the benefit of his Nevada sheep-

Pat McCarran of

But then Congress passed the big McCarran Act. It bars from admission anyone who is now or ever has been connected with a totalitarian government or movement, . This barred Commies, Hitler Nazi groups, Italian Fascists and Spanish Falangists. This last included the Basque sheepherders.

They might have been admitted -on temporary visas if they could prove no =official connection with the Spanish Falange. But Sen. McCarran and the sheep raisers wanted them in permanently. So 247 of the 250 have been barred. There's a new bill now before Congress instructing the Immigration Service to interpret the McCarran Act more liberally. It has passed the House, It will have to pass the Senate soon to bring relief to the U. 8. sheep raisers if it's to do any good for the Basques, because the bill to admit the 250 expires ,, this June 30.

IN THE first two months that the new 81st Congress has been in session only two bilis were enacted into law. One permits Wenbers of the Armed

Forces to import gifts free of duty. The other authorizes congressional committees on taxation to get data direct from Bureau of Internal Revenue, without going through the Treasury. Over a thousand new bills have been introduced in. the Senate, and over 3000 in the House. But only 79 have heen passed by the Senate and only 151 by the House. None of

these measures was passed by .

both branches, That's the speed with which the country's problems get solved in time of crisis. » » ” WHILE the United States Is shelling out for many relief and rehabilitation projects throughout the Arab world, the Arabs themselves are having trouble raising money to build a Mohammedan mosque in Washington. Ground was broken and foundations put In last year at a site on famed Massachusetts Ave. overlooking Rock Creek Park Valley. Then it was found that building costs had risen so much that work had ‘o be slowed down.” The Egyptian ambassador to Washington, Moharn-

_ med Kamil Bey Abdul Rahim,

chairman of the Mosque Committee, has heen” putting the bite on the heads of all Arab states for more money. La~ test to come is the Emir of Kuwait, rich oil stale '

at the northeast corner of Arabia. He has kicked in $10,000. Work is being re sumed.

» o ~ W. ELMER HARBER, Okla homa banker chairman of Ree construction Finance Corpse who is trying to effect swespe ing reforms in that much-bat-tered government lending agency, recently asked its legal department for an opinion on the advisability of making a certain loan. He got back a 16-page typewritten brief which beat all around the buch and never did come to any conclusion. Harber called in the lawyer who drafted it and asked him how come. “Wall, it's a complicated situation,” the lawyer explained. “Take it back and put it on one page,” said the cnairman. ‘I'm a poor Feader. 2

APROPOS sen. Carl Mundt's proposal for a GOP-Dixiecrat alliance, much was made of the fact that Gov. Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina sat next to Rep. Clarence Brown, Ohio Republican stalwart, who was guest speaker at the recent

=» South Carolina Press Associa-

don banquet in Columbia. South Carolina editors caution, however: “Don’t let this throw you completely off the deep end. South Carolina Isn't going to go Republican or uroduce any sizeable Republican vote in the visible future.”

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