Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1951 — Page 24

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No Time for Chintz,

ONGRESS seemingly can’t let go of the lofty post-war ideal of making the very nicedt kind of soldiers out of American troops of the future. You know—chintz curtains in the barracks, noncussing sergeants, and a genteel type of basic training not far removed from President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. It's part of the old line that we might become a “militaristic nation,” kept alive by .pressures from the moms and dads who don’t want their boys to grow up to be soldiers. . One provision of the Military: Manpower ‘Bill pissed by the Senate last week reflects this sentimé&nt. It is an error which the” House "Armed: Services Committees has~compounded instead of correcting. ~ ~ » : » ~ bd THIS provision puts control »f plans and policies for universal military training in the hands of a civilian commission in the event the present emergency abates, or is declared off. In approving machinery for UMT as part of the draft law, the House committee Tuesday added an amendment

or Senate to block UMT entirely. It could do this by reject- . ing the training plans which the five-man National Security * Training Commission would be required to submit to Congress each year for okay. In other words, as few as 110 members 6f the House (the majority of a 'quorum) out of a total of 435 could * actually prevent the start of UMT. This-vital law will be exposed to double jeopardy if that amendment is permitted to stand. UMT could be either put it off indefinitely, or so weakened by a faint- hearted, nature-boy approach to training under a civilian commission that its good effects would be nullified. . ” » » # » » IT COULD be fatal to the clear, primary objective of Universal Training, which is to provide a strong manpower base for future rapid expansion to meet any sudden emergency. » If the new military manpower law is to be effective, it must be a combination of universal service and the draft, both at their best. For that reason, military training, even if the present alarm subsides, should not be taken “out of the controlling hands of the military. The hard, unhappy fact is that America's young men will have to learn to fight as a sound basis for national security for a long time to come. Only the military can teach that, and when our youths have learned it they have improved their own chances of surviving to useful peacetime careers. Tee

11 Costs .a Great Deal

INV YESTERDAY'S Times, two very sobering articles were printed side by side. One was the story of a quiet, dignified sermon delivered in Christ Episcopal Church on the Circle.

Those who heard it will well remember the phrase used by the Rev. R. Everett Carr, La Grange, Ill: “It costs a great deal to be a Christian today.” It might have been well had he added ‘or a Jew or any other person with a religious belief.” The other story went something like this: “Wounded in the chest, body and legs, an Indianapolis Infantry scout crawled 250 yards down a hill to safety through a shower of Red bullets. Cpl. Richard C. MacGill . . . and two other scouts were sent to the top of a hill which was being stormed by the United Nations forces. They reached the top of the hill when suddenly the Communists opened fire. » » . » » ~ “HIS friends were hit almost instantly. Cpl. MacGill was trying to help them when a bullet struck him in the chest. Then a hand grenade exploded at his feet. Somehow he managed to reach cover. Two and one half hours passed before he was taken to the first aid tent; two and one-half days before he could be evacuated. He rode 65 miles in an ambulance over rough mountain roads and finally reached an army hospital in Japan by air. “ ‘They didn’t have to remove the bullet from my chest,’ he wrote. ‘It came out my shoulder.” ” It does cost a great deal to be a Christian today, or a Jew, or any other person with a religious belief, but it's well worth it. Ask Cpl. MacGill.

Profound News

"TRAFFIC Engineer Frank Gallagher gave city drivers a bit of heartening news yesterday. He made a promise, which if fulfilled, will make the motorists happier than they've been since the last buggy left the streets of Indianapolis. B"H His promise? Synchronize lights at 49 intersections to allow traffic to move at 23 miles an hour. A driver may be able to drive through the éntire downtown area without a red-light stop . . . if he holds at a steady 23. Rest assured, Mr. Gallagher, when your promise comes true there will be fewer ulcers jumping, fewer nerves frayed and fewer cases of drivers and radiators boiling over in rush hour traffic. And to say the least, the absence of profound oaths will in itself be profound.

The Truth Haters

FTHE NATURE of dictatorship is ‘such that, unless the ruler governs in a way which the governed always and readily recognize as in their interest, then the dictator must—to save his hide and office—suppress all criticism. Which is why one of the first things a wobbly dictator does is to destroy the free press. That's what Mussolini to do to establish his power. And Hitler. And Stalin. ‘mow Peron. It's all the same whether the totalitarian rule is Marxist or Fascist. Or any other despotism.

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ALTITUDE AND DOPE

“ ° y Bolivia—Cup O LA PAZ, Bolivia, Mar. 15-This is nevernever land, where flying machines have to go up instead of down to land, the ladies all wear derby hats, and innocents like me take cocaine by mistake. I flew in here from Buenos Aires with an oxygen mask on my face while Panagra’s plane keépt climbing ® in a race to beat the landscape, which also was towering upward with. each passing mile. When we were ready to land at La ‘Paz, we had to soar from a deep valley to come out even with the world’s highest airport, altitude 13,.404 feet. Outside the plane, no oxygen mask. That boom-boom-boom I heard was my own heart. It was hard work to lift my feet and why the Bolivians chose to build their leading city where it is a struggle just to keep breathing is beyond me. But build it they did and I guess there is no more spectacular sight than this city snuggled in between snow-capped peaks. One of my friends here urged me to walk slowly, eat lightly and take no alcohol if I wanted to stay out of the hospital. Only man

~ who ever did any sprinting hereabouts was a

fellow named Henry Wallace on one of his South American good-will tours. The natives still are talking about it; they can’t understand why he didn’t keel over.

So I clomped around the town, feeling older with each step, for a look at the Indian ladies in their derbies. They perch these on the top of their heads, haul babies on their backs and, if they can afford it, wear at least 14 petticoats in as many colors. On a windy day, or most of the time, they look like kaleidoscopes.

Leaf Chompers

AT THE end of a brief stroll, I felt like a gone goose. My pal said there was only one thing that would do me any good and he did not mean aspirin. So we went into a confiteria, or confectionary shop, where he ordered me a cup of mate coca cocido. This turned: out to be an almost-colorless hot fluid which, with a little sugar added, had an elegant, aromatic flavor. I ordered a second cup and somehow there was a numb feeling at the tip of my tongue by the time I'd finished it, the inside of my mouth felt as if a dentist had squirted in some pain killer. What was this I was drinking anyhow? “Just a little cocaine, is all,” said my friend. “Very good for you. Fine for the stomach.” 1 went, ulp, and asked for a glass of water, which was not available. The nearest thing to it was beer. I had a dollop of that, while 1 learned about cocaine at teatime. Boiled extract of the coca leaf is a favorite beverage in these parts; each cup contains only a small slug of cocaine. Those who

seek a stronger jolt chew the leaves, much as some Americans chomp tobacco. I met a hard-bitten American oil man, who claimed:

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that the chewing of coca leaves probably explained the frequent revolutions and shooting Bolivia seems to have had more presidents than any, other republic in the world. I had a | jong”fook at the bullet-scarred presidential palace. As late as 1946 the disgruntled voters shot up the place, hauled the president out a side window and hanged him on a lamppost under his bedroom. The current incumbent, I understand, has the situation well in hand and at the moment we are between revolutions. I hope. So if you'll stay with me tomorrow I'll tell you: about the Hon. Irving Florman, U. 8. Ambassador, leading resident of the Suckers’ Palace Hotel, and passer-outer of collapsible, gold-plated cigaret holders of his own manufacture,

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

PEORIA, IL — Bradley U. has a Rear Admiral in ifs student body, studying jewelry store management under the GI bill. The course includes watch making. Here's something really new, by gosh, To raise collegiate hopes A truly savvy, salty frosh, Who ought to know the ropes.

Yet one course has us all at sea. One notion it would scotch: That old-time sailors, such as he, ‘Would know 'most any watch!

GUEST WRITER—

By Talburt CHESS GAME .

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Paris”

PARIS, Mar, 15—The Big Four Deputies Conference here is turning into a waiting match with each side afraid to quit and go home. Even sparring grows listless.

There hasn't been a new dea expressed by ©

the Allies or the Russian delegate. The so-called compromise proposals were merely warmedovers. Nothing was presented here from the opening 10 days ago which had not been foreshadowed in the four months’ exchange of notes Neither side has budged the slightest.” Both continue to reiterate that they won't compromise on fundamentals,” Then why don’t they end the farce and adJourn? Fear of public reaction is one Jason.

little is expected from this meeting. In Si and the satellite states, Russian propaganda has built it up to tremendous proportions. In Britain, France and Western Europe generally, the public attitude is “you must not fail.”

‘Can’t Admit Failure

SO THE delegates dare not admit failure until they are certain that the public will blame the other side. The British and French governments are in

"particularly tight spots.

The newly formed French cabinet here is merely a “liquidation government,” to carry on ‘until the June elections. Each party in the coalition is jockeying for position. With the Communists holding a quarter to a third of the votes and Gen. De Gaulle’s unpredictable party

“threatening to cut into” the centrist parties, the

present weak cabinet dreads the reaction of neutralist voters. ; The British lapor government hangs by a thread. It won a year ago with a minority of

, the popular vote. All polls show its public sup-

port is now declining. The British people generally are demanding that this conference produce an agenda regardless, so that the foreign ministers can meet later and make a peace settlement.” The left wing in the London cabinet is leading this semi-appeasement movement and is stronger since ill health forced Ernest Bevin out as foreign secretary. Herbert Morrison, who succeeded, is right wing and anti-Soviet. But

declining party together. neutralist voters, either,

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‘Peace Victory’ MOREOVER, Mr. Morrison has Jis own ambitions. Sensitive to the charge that*he lacks

experience, he is tempted to see a ‘‘peace victory” in a phony Soviet settlement. But fear of public reaction is not the only factor, There's a genuine belief in London and t Stalin has a real compromise to offer. That's why they insisted on holdjng this preliminary conference even though Stalin in

“I do aot agree with a word that you say, but ‘Oh, Happy Day’ hob .

MR. EDITOR: So the bill against gambling didn't pass. I'm glad. I dor’t want to live in a blue law state and just 2 little bit more added, and that’s what this state would be. The thing - that gets me is the very people who are so against gambling are the very ones who gamble when they get the chance. Of course, they don't do it where they are known, but you just watch them when they get out of town. Well, if it’s alright for the big boys, it's alright for me and Xk don’t want them telling me what to do and what not to do. There are lots of things worse than gambling. - What about these old bags that sit

—aroundvoieing their vicious thoughts about

their neighbors.” That's lots worse, I think. What about putting a bill through to shut their traps or make them pay a fine. Bov., we would coin the jack then, wouldn't we? We've sure got some old cats in our neighborhood and that’s all they do, tear their neighbors to shreds. Gambling is a lot cleaner any time. —dJ. T. Smith, city.

‘The Gettysburg Redress’'—

ONE SCORE and six years ago our fathers brought forth upon this nation a new tax, conceived in desperation and dedicated to the proposition that all men are fair game. We are now engaged in a great mass of calculations, testing whether this taxpayer so confused and so improverished can long endure. We are met on Form 1940. We have come to dedicate a large portion of our income to a final resting place with those men who here spend their lives that they may spend our money. It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this, but in the legal sense we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The Collectors, clever and sly who compute here, have gone far beyond our poor power to add and subtract. Our creditors will little note nor long remember what we pay here, but the Bureau of Internal Revenue can never forget what we report here. It is rather for us to be dedicated to: the great task remaining before us-— -that from these vanished dollars we take increased

parts of the treaty.

war. But whether to rebuild Japan’s ‘industrial and commercial might presents even graver risks. It was the old Japanese empire's business ag-gressiveness-—the desire to create a greater East Asia coprosperity sphere--that really started the last war in the Pacific. Japan wanted to domipate the whole Oriental market, with its billion potential customers. The Japanese have been, and are today, the only people in the Orient with the capacity and potential for a highly industrialized civilization At the end of the war a deliberate effort was made to cripple this capacity. In particular, plants that could make armaments were dismantled. = # ~ TODAY there is a better understanding that Japan's industry +has something to contribute to defense against Communist aggression in the Pacific area. Take steel, for example, Japag's steel producing capacity is 10 million tons a year.

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devotion to the few remaining; and that we here highly resolve that next year will not find us in a higher income bracket. From “Co-operative Currents,” published by the Washington Electric Co-operative, Inc., of Barre, Vt.

. By Peter Edson Economics ls Big Thorn in Jap Treaty :

By Ludwell Donny ee Fear of Public Reaction Makes Big Four Deputies Turn Turtle

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unity. Neutralist opinion would then believe" the lie that “American warmongers TE

a peace settlement.” Americans here don’t deny that Stalin might -: yet throw in a new trick agénda proposal 8-2 get the Foreign Ministers Conference for which he has been striving. But they think his purpose + would remain the same—not to unify a peacefilt world but to split and disarm the Allies so...

‘he could cheaply add Germany and Western

Europe to the Red empire. On the record America’s tardy realism o better based than Western Europe's belief in: miracles out. of Moscow.

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‘Sam Pays for Ads’ 4

MR. EDITOR: oid Congress uses the taxpayers money to subsi=:’ dize everybody but the mailman. Grocery stores. send out advertisements house to house to at" tract people to their stores so they can make Fy profit, and Congress pays for it to the tune of-~

$200 million of tax money. Let the mailman"

ask for a raise to buy groceries. What happens. No, the budget can’t stand that.

The book clubs that mail books out monthiges, are charging 21 cents and more to cover Po

and handling. The actual postage charge is nod, . more than 12 cents, a difference of 9 cents per. mailing. TeX

This leaves an extremely tidy profit for the « book clubs and companies and yet the rate is so™*

money to pay for the delivery of these books. .« Magazines are ahother thing that Congress” pays for the delivery of. In 1948 Ladies Home: Journal had a circulation of 4,522,474. Each: magazine that was sent through the mail cost’, the taxpayer 6 cents. Ter The loss on each class of mail is as follows:

low that it takes millions of —dollars—of tax.

Second class malil......$200,000,000 rol

teeees 136,000,000 - 73,000,000 4, 9,617,600 ran 3,298,000 ae

Third class mail. Fourth class mail.. Special delivery ....... Postal notes .....cce00 Registered mail ....... 12,218,000 Ne CODmMail «ov.evvnesne. 6,900,000 "

Tolal icesennnses . .$514,228,600 The men that use the taxpayers money to

the delivery of advertisements, magazines and.: books, they cut down on delivery of first class * mail, so you taxpayers can have all the advan-_ tages of circulars. Read them carefuMy because: they really cost you every year. What would happen if the mailman asked for a raise of $514,228,6007 You could hear Con~ gress yell clear out to Korea. If anyone cares: to check these facts, just write the Supt. of Docs: uments, Washington, D. C., and send 15 centse; Ask for H. R. 2945 (an act to readjust postal rates.) —A Mailman, City. -

THE steel industry did not have enough cons". fidence in the country to expand adequately: Steel executives should get the dust out of their ° eyes and go ahead with the rest of us.—General.. Motors Corp. President C. E. Wilson. a

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 15—Purely economic aspects of making a peace treaty with Japan present some interesting problems. Most attention so far has been paid to the political and military Whether or not to rebuild Japan's army and navy and to make Japan an independent nation is of course fhe first worry of countries which the Japs overran in the last

Only 10 per cent of U. 8. capacity, but it's important. If the Communist. bloc of countries ‘had it, it would be that much of an additional strain on American steel-making capacity, and it might throw the balance in favor of the Com-

mies. So Japanese steel pro-’

duction must be maintained. The same is true of electric power, aluminum and copper production, textile and chemicals production. The trouble is that Japan's former sources of raw materials for these manufacturers have been cut off, » IN THE case of ted), Japan formerly got its iron ore and coking coal from Manchuria. Red China and Russia now control those supplies. So if Japan’s ‘steel production is to be kept going at capacity, it may be up to the United States, Canada, India, Indonesia ‘and - other «countries to make up the deficiencies. And if the Commies take over all of Southeast Asia, Japan's rice supplies will cut off. This may hen the setting up of some ne ade patterns

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on top of the old patterns which contributed to Japan's prosperity before the war. In the opinion of American trade experts, this can be done. But in doing it, a lot of opposition from the British, Australians, New Zealanders, Filipinos and other neighbors of Japan must be overcome. They all fear revival of Japanese competition in the Pacific. They don’t want to see the Japanese merchant marine fleet built up again. It was

"third largest in the world be-

fore the last war. Japanese competition made it awfully tough for other sea-faring nastions because, with cheaper labor, they could undercut rates. :

~ » » THAT is also true with regard to Japanese manufacturers. Even American manufacturers would look with disfavor on any big revival of cheap Japanese export trade to the United States because of its price advantages in the American market. There is some belet, however, that Japanese exports can be directed to benefit U.S. government interests. The Point Four program offers an example. Building up the econ-

omy of so-called” underdevel- ’

oped countries required a lot of plows, hand tools and oJther

hardware that they can't make. themselves. If these countries.

could buy it cheaper from: : Japan, it might ease the... burden on the U. 8. Haye ol somewhat,

Collecting reparations trom. the Japanese is another sub<'* ject close to the heart of many... countries overrun by the Japs:This is particularly true of thé" Filipinos, who are having &- hard time making both ends’ meet. They would like ready’ cash damages from Japan. = .-.

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