Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1951 — Page 19

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MacArthur's Return THE HERO'S welcome which greets Gen. MacArthur on his return to his homeland expresses the gratitude and esteem of his fellow countrymen. No soldier back from the wars has better deserved such enthusiastic acclaim. Yet, though his place in history is secure, Gen. MacArthur will give further invaluable service to his country if the American people will accept his present counsel— counsel which their government has disdained. Let's look at the record. Much of the territory liberated from Japanese conquest by American arms has been lost again—Ilost to the Communists—and what is left is in process of being lost. Each foot of ground conceded to the Communists brings them that much closer to the United States and adds to the manpower and the natural resources controlled by the Kremlin. America’s political retreat by default and appeasement began at Yalta, even before World War II ended. That retreat continues today because our government is afraid to fight hard enough to win the war in Korea.

= ” ” on = ” ~~ THROUGH this whole crucial period, Gen. MacArthur, our greatest authority on Asia, was not consulted on a single basic decision. Nor were other generals and admirals with longest, most noteworthy records of experience and service in the Pacific area. Who, then, was consulted? Where our government's decisions were not made in London and handed to Washington by the British Foreign Office they have been based on the recommendations and philosophy of such men as Alger Hiss, Owen Lattimore and John Carter Vincent. Alger Hiss, it is true, is in prison now. But one of his friends, Dean Acheson, is Secretary of State in President Truman's Cabinet. And another of his friends, Dr. Philip Jessup, is America's spokesman at the current Big Four conference in Paris. Today American troops are fighting Chinese Communists in Korea. But the American Navy, by President Truman’s order, forbids the Chinese Nationalists to fight the Chinese Comfhunists in their own country. Today we have overwhelming air power in Korea. But “it ‘is not being used to knock out the enemy's supply bases in Manchuria because our intimidated military leaders say that would violate the ground rules.

- = = » = = TODAY the United States has 250,000 ground troops in Korea. But the conduct of the war is being dictated by Socialist Britain, which has 13,000 men in the field, and by Nehru’s India, which is represented by an ambulance unit. The President calls this a “peace policy.” But the waging of this policy in Korea thus far has cost more than 60,000 American casualties—had seen, as of yesterday, 10,263 Americans killed and 10,799 others listed as missing. Such a policy will buy no lasting peace. Such a policy will not deter Communist aggression. Such a policy cannot shake the Kremlin's determination to destroy America and control the world. If Gen. MacArthur can bring home to the American people full realization of their country’s mortal peril, if he can point out a way of genuine hope for stopping the present drift into a third world war, that will be the crowning achievement of his long and glorious career.

A Great Senator RTHUR H. VANDENBERG of Michigan was a member of the United States Senate for a few days more than 23 years. Throughout that long service his stature grew steadily. Even during the grave illness that kept him away from Washington for many months before his death his fine influence continued to be a potent force in national and world affairs. On most domestic issues Sen. Vandenberg was a strongly partisan Republican. The approach of World War II found him vigorously maintaining that America should adhere to isolationism. Yet, after Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into that war, he began an open-minded consideration of steps to preserve future world peace.

SO HE became the chief architect “of “the bipartisan foreign policy, co-operating loyally with President Roosevelt and President Truman in measurés which he hoped would make that policy effective. It is his country's great misfortune—but it was no fault of Sen. Vandenberg's—that the policy has been limited in application. He protested vainly against the “tragic failure” of the Truman Administration to sta1™ as firmly in Asia as in Europe against Communist domination and aggression. Had bipartisanship been the complete. reality he sought to make it, the world of today and of years to come might have been far safer from the menace of war. There are all too few men in public life today who measure up to Arthur Vandenberg in ability, integrity and courage. His death is a tragic loss to the country he loved and served wonderfully well.

Days Beyond Recall

CAY ANAGH'S in New York recently observed its 75th birthday as a restaurant and dug.up some of its menus of the 1870's. There was a sirloin steak dinner—a pound-and-a-half piece of meat—with vegetables, rolls and butter. Price 25 cents. A five-course fish dinner, including a 5-cent tip, also cost a quarter. ¢ A dozen oysters were 15 cents. 3 Today at such good restaurants as Cavanagh's you gan get a steak dinner, with the meat weighing less than a pound and a half, for around $5. Add a cup of coffee— ‘once ‘a penny—and the check may go up as much as 30 cents. “0 Well, it gives us something to shoot at if there's a price roll-back.

DEFENSE . , . By Earl Richert

U. S. Sulphur Supply’s Short

Production Officials Face Problem of Bigger Demand

WASHINGTON, Apr, 19 — One of the toughest problems now confronting defense production officials is how to meet the sulphur shortage problem, Sulphur, like cotton, heretofore has been abundant, but in this defense period it is one of the most critical items in short supply. The supply of sulphur can't be increased sharply as is being done in the case of cotton by simply getting farmers to plant more acres. No large new sources of sulphur have been found in this country recently. The only apparent way to handle the problem is to curtail the use of sulphur and sulphuric acid on nonessential items and to re-use sulphuric acid wherever possible.

However, there are few non-essential uses. Sulphuric acid is used throughout industry.

Mild First Step

TO DISCUSS what should be done, the Defense Production Administration has called .a meeting of the Sulphur Advisory Committee today. A mild first step was to be taken yesterday with the issuance of an order allocating sulphuric acid to West Coast users and requiring users in the rest of the nation to turn in data on use to the DPA. This data will be used to find out where curtailment can be ordered. The story on sulphur is that demand has shot way ahead of supply, with the aboveground stocks now being down to about a five-month supply. Both domestic and foreign demand has gone up. And the U. S. traditionally has supplied about 90 per cent of the raw sulphur used by the rest of the world. To converse domestic stocks, the Commerce Department in the first quarter of this year cut exports by about 28 per cent, fixing a quota of 200,000 long tons for the first quarter of the year. But this reduction so strangled foreign industry that the Commerce Department made an additional emergency allocation of 30,000 tons to Marshall Plan countries and 20,000 tons to others, including Australia and Latin American countries.

Lack of Film

GREAT BRITAIN, a big user of American sulphur, has been hit so hard that showings of new movies may be halted within a few weeks because of lack of film—another item dependent on sulphuric acid. This has happened desp’ie an advance of 19,000 tons of Great Britain against its yet unannounced second quarter quota. Domestic sulphur production, it is estimated. will be down to around 5.1 million tons this year as against 5.3 million tons last year. The Commerce Department's rough goal is to limit exports (except to Canada) to around 800,000 tons. Canada, which gets all its raw sulphur from the U. 8. is getting reduced shipments. Newsprint takes one-third of the total sulphur usage by the Canadian pulp and paper industry, and less sulphur going to Canada means reduced shipments of pulp and paper back to the U. S.

Using Iron Pyrites

FOREIGN countries are seeking to offset the reduced sulphur supplies from the U. 8. by reviving the manufacture of sulphur from iron pyrites, a more costly process and one which will take time to get going again. This manufacturing process had been largely discarded because sulphur could be obtained more cheaply from the U. 8. The Export-Import Bank is trying to help out by granting a $1,875,000 loan to the Mexican Gulf Sulphur Co. of Delaware for the opening of a new sulphur mine in Mexico. It will take at least a year to get this mine into operation. It is expected to turn out about 200.000 tons annually. The sulphur problem and what to do about

it also is being discussed at an International

Materials Conference now being held.

A BABY'S SMILE

HEAVEN comes to this world of mine . . . when I see a baby smile . . . for there before my very eyes . .. is everything worthwhile . . . real purity and jovfulness . . . and something from above . . . that always brings me peace of mind . . . and fills my heart with love . .. the wonder in a baby's eyes . . . reflects a kind of glow . . . that radiates new hope to me . .. whenever I feel low . . . and rosebud lips that curl so sweet . . . but cannot speak a word ... send messages into my soul . . . like some angelic bird . . . oh what a blessing to us all + .. to see a baby's face . . . beauty beyond wildest dreams . . . nothing can take its place ++ « and Heaven comes to this world of mine ««. when I see a baby smile ... for there before my very eyes , . . is everything worthwhile. —By Ben Burroughs.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

KEOKUK, Iowa — When the city installed * parking meters, banks filled fish bowls with pennies and nickels so folks could make their own change. There has been no shortage, but one bank is a nickel ahead.

Those bankers out in Keokuk Have faith in all their fellows And in the end they are not stuck. Such honor warms and mellows.

From all that dough they leave around No particle e’er trickles. * But that's’ not quite like it might sound, These days what good are nickels?

LABOR .

‘Don't Look Now, Bup—"

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JUNGLE ROT

By Talburt

By Frederick C. Othman

Snakes in the Truck Business

WASHINGTON, Apr. 19—After the war we donated to the Philippine Government for the

rebuilding of her ravished islands 26,000 U. S. Army trucks. This seems to have been a mistake. Thousands of these vehicles were multi-ton, dual-drive jobs that cost us taxpayers $17,000 per copy. The Filipinos were duly grateful, but the trucks were too blamed big. They were too wide to pass down the islands’ narrow roads; so heavy they ruined the pavements. The natives parked these behemoths axle to axle and offered them for sale. The years passed and the jungle, even as in the tales of Somerset Maugham, moved in. the chassis; residence.

And that brings us to Seymour Green, the Los Angeles dealer in secondhand trucks, who heard about the Filipinos selling these trucks for $250 each and who headed into the mysterious East for a look. Gnah! Snakes!

In a suit of electric blue and a cravat of crimson, Seymour was the unlikeliest-looking snake charmer ever to tell his troubles to-the House Executive Expenditures Committee. He said that in Manila he met a Mr. Yap, a Chinaman, who already was in the truck business. Mr. Yap put him in touch with the Filipino Surplus Property Commissioners. These gentlemen were delighted to sell the trucks at $250 each, except for the wreckers, which went for $200. They sold Seymour nearly 900 trucks. They said all he had to do was go get 'em. So he put on his high boots and his pith

WORLD WAR II LOANS

When Will U.S.

WASHINGTON, Apr. 19--The U. 8. Treasury is beginning to wonder when it will get back

Mango trees rooted in under the hoods vipers took up

some 410 million ounces or silver it lent to *

Allied nations during World War II All told, more than 17,000 tons of silver were passed out to eight countries that had been either in the path of hostilities or close enough to the war to feel its effect in a disappearance of local coinage. ag In some countries, the volume of pre-war coins still remaining in circulation’ was too small to convert into local money the outpouring of U. 8. military expenditures in the form of soldiers’ pay and purchases of local materials.

At the time the silver was being transferred, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. was quoted as saying that the metal all ~ would be returned within five—in some cases, ~ seven—years after the end of the war. But now it appears that the end of the war meant the final buttoning up of all the peace treaties or _ something equally far off.

Technically, the State Department says, the silver loans are not yet in default. There's nothing to prevent any country's paying up at any time, but only one has made any move to do so. The Belgians have returned the entire 261,333 ounces of silver they borrowed. India got the largest amount-—225999,904 ounces, more than half of the total. But the Indians haven't returned an ounce. It's now reported that they have called in enough silver

coins to yield approximately, the amount of b

. By Fred W. Perkins

helmet and headed into the jungle, looking for Diamond-T and White six-wheelers. “They were full of snakes and bushes,” said Seymour. ‘The tentacles of the jungle were coiled around the drive shafts. Trees were growing through the frames. All the tires of all the trucks were flat, except for those which had no wheels. He made a quick deal with the government to buy 500 wheels and tires, as accessories so he could tow his merchandise out. He had 75 men working four months with machetes, steam shovels and derricks uncovering his merchandise and, of course, shooting out the snakes. “It was very dangerous,” he said. “And one day we were whacking away and we uncovered 75 trucks that had been so covered by the jungle growth they couldn't be seen at alk” He, his two brothers and a couple of gents from Cleveland patched up their trucks in Long Beach, Cal., gave them fresh coats of paint, and fought off numerous lawsuits of chiseler-inners, who were more troublesome even than the snakes.

Reversed Itself

THE PARTNERS paid some Cleveland and Washington lawyers $95,000 to persuade the Commerce Department to allow sale of the machines in the United States. The Department, which originally had held they could be peddled

in foreign trade only, reversed itself. And Seymour was in business. His first big customer was the Atomic

Energy Commission, which paid him between $3400 and $3900 for each of 350 trucks. Lumber companies and rock crushers bought others. The brothers and their pals came out with a total profit of $450,000. Seymour's still buying trucks, but only from the Navy. They are delivered without snakes in the drivers’ seats. He estimates that thousands of trucks remain in the Philippines, but he figures they are piles of rust by now. And, anyhow, all the snakes that he met there two years ago now have great-grandchildren.

By James Daniel

Get Silver Back?

silver they owe. But they want to build their own refinery to put it in shape for return and this, it is now said, will take until 1952. By terms of the original agreements, the borrowed silver must be replaced by silver bars of the same fineness and of the same shapes and weights as the silyer bars which went out from the Treasury. Treasury silver is 99.9 per cent pure silver, whereas cdin silver contains varying amounts of baser metal.

Fiji Island Loan

THE BRITISH borfowed 88,072,878 ounces of silver and still have it all. So do the Dutch, who got 57,737.341 ounces. Saudi Arabia is still debited for 22,347.431 ounces. Australia for 11,773,093 ounces and Ethiopia for 5,425,000 ounces, Smallest loan was the 196,364 ounces sent to the Fiji Islands and guaranteed by the British. Treasury experts here are uncertain what value to place on the silver still in foreign possession. Government stocks of silver carried on the Treasurws books as monetary silver are assigned a higher value than the silver cost. Silver bullion considered as backing for currency has a value of $1.29 an ounce; if it’s intended to be used for coins it is valued about 10 cents higher. Troy weight—12 ounces to a pound— is used. & At the time most of the silver went out, the government was paying 71 cents an ounce {or silver; the legal price is now a shade above 90 cents.

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Hoosier Forum

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-and- demanding his removal.

‘Sad Week in History’ MR. EDITOR:

Last week was a sad week in the history of

the press of this nation. You have fanned the Truman-MacArthur incident to a point where the American people were in near revolt. Why can't you report both sides of the episode instead of slanting the news to suit your whims? Do you know, or is it that you do not wish to remind the people, that President Truman has appointed as his military advisors, Gen. Collins, for the Army; Adm. Sherman, Navy, and I think General Vandenburg for the Air Corps. The chairman of this group is Gen. Bradley. The President has chosen these men to advise him on military planning. If the President did not agree and follow their advice he would not keep them long in those jobs. Do you find fault with these men? oo BH THE PRESIDENT is concerned, along with with the joint chiefs of staff, with the world wide fight against world communism. And not with just communism in Asia alone. Future generations will hold these men responsible for the outcome of our fight against world communism and not alone for the battle in Asia. These men want to make certain we dictate the final peace terms even if it means losing some of the earlier battles. I'm sure our battle strategy for this world fight is already drawn. Eisenhower and Bradley have reported to the people and Congress many times and consulted with the joint chiefs of staff. MacArthur reports to the politician. Why hasn't he returned before for a little chat with our military leaders. Our government is holding the door open for negotiation and peace talks to the very end. May they never slam jt shut. But every time peace is spoken you scream appeasement. Ask the young widows spending long lonely evenings alone, ask the orphaned.children what price would they pay to have their‘daddy back again, Ask the tired, wet, lonely, hungry, cold, filthy, dirty doughboy out on the spear head or freezing on night patrol in no man’s land. Ask these men what they would give to return to their wives, kids and families before it is too late. Ask these people first before you scream appeasement at the administration's every attempt to discuss a settlement in Korea. Think of the most horrible thing you can and multiply it by a million and that is war, > > I NEVER heard so much talk of treason, traitor, impeachment, appeasement mentioned before in my life. But you have now shut up in a hurry. I guess it was only just some more shooting off of the mouth and nothing to talk about. The press has tremendous power in swaying the people. I am directing this at the press in general, not particularly at The Times. I don't agree with many things the President does. But he is my President for another year and one half. He is in a position to know better than I what is best for my country. I will support him. I love my country and its system of government. —Local Reader, City.

MR. EDITOR:

I have been reading the many letters and comments in your Hoosier Forum concerning the dismissal of Gen. MacArthur by the President. Most of these letters have concerned themselves with calling Harry Truman names T personally” believe that he is a small man in a job too big for him. However, it seems to me that the majority of people are missing the point entirely. It is a well known fact that only one of the presi-" dential candidates of the past 30 years has come from outside the ranks of organized politics. It is or should be common knowledge that

all the present day political leaders have ad-

vanced from the lower level of the political organizations, to the positions they hold today. That is, they have come from the ranks of local politics. If the people will look around they will realize that local politics has, in the last few years, become very corrupt. The reason for this is that there isn’t enough interest given to local politics today by the average voter. This results in the situation we see today where the presidential palace guard is made up of men of mediocre ability and petty crooks and grafters. If the bottom of your organization is corrupt, you must in the course of years, expect the same situation to appear at the top. Therefore I think it is high time we cleaned up our local organizations. —Wendell B. Iddings, City

MR. EDITOR;

- About all we see or hear is what President Truman did to the great MacArthur. MaecArthur may be a great man, but the greatest men I know are the soldiers who have been killed and who are still fighting. Before people come to conclusions, they should just sit down and think awhile, Think what would happen: to a soldier who had disobeyed MacArthur's wishes. That isn’t hard to answer. I had a son in World War II and I've got one in an army camp now. Believe me, it isn’t funny to tell your son goodby. God in heaven only knows the tears and the heartaches we have, Never a minute when they are off our minds. It is so hard to bear and there are so many things we don't understand, like exempting college boys. The whole thing looks like a plan. for the Republicans to get into power again and I don’t like it. Neither do the rest of the people. —Mrs. C. J. Miller, City

MR. EDITOR: We are much concerned that the press and a political party can throw our people in such a panic because our President dismissed one of his many good generals. Gen. MacArthur was not fired. He is still a general. Thanks to the good judgment of our President. Silent Cal would have had him court martialed and fired him from the army . .. as he did Billy Mitchell. MacArthur must have known he would be removed for he sat on the board that removed Mitchell for the same thing. If Mac's ideas were in conflict with those of his employers, he should have resigned, returned and then had his say. No employer can' tolerate a man in a

- position of command if he disagrees with his

policies . , . ~—E. E. Raybern, City

Is The Proposed WSB Program Unfair To Organized Business?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 19—President Truman must decide whether to set up a reconstituted Wage Stabilization Board which organized business asserts would be illegal and unfair. The President's new Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy, over protest of its mariage. ment members, has a recommended a new 18-member wage board—six each to represent the public, labor and management—with wide authority over labor. management disputes. The recommendation was made late Tuesday by the Mobilization Board. The vote .was 12 to 4, with the public, labor and agriculture members solidly against the management members, who were

Otto Seyforth ais handsome reward to labor

The Chamber of AA and the National Association of Manufacturers immediately charged that the recommendation was a victory for organized labor and the “price” of the union leaders’ return to participation in the defense effort after their holdout of more than two months. A somewhat similar situation was faced by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early days of World War II. He created the War/ Labor Board over protests of the business members in a top-level labor-management conference. There is now-this important difference —existence of the Taft-Hartley Law, which provides for handling of labor-management in a manner satisfactory to business but repugnant to union leaders. ti ¢ oO WILLIAM H. RUFFIN, president of the Manufacturers’ Association, said from his home in Durham, N. C.: “Failing ‘miserably in their appeals to the people for repeal of the law which broke their stranglehold on the economy, the labor leaders devised a new strategem to achieve by subter-

‘headed by Otto Seyferth, president of ihe u. 5 Jfuge what they copia not achieve openly and Chamber of of Commerc legally”

The Chamber of Commerce declared that the proposed new board, if and when created, will override the will of Congress as expressed in Taft-Hartley provisions “which protect the public interest in strikes of a national emergency character.” * S @

MR. TRUMAN may not heed that argument, for he has backed the union leaders’ campaign for ‘Taft-Hartley repeal. He may give more attention to the business bodies’ complaint that the Defense Production Act specifies that there must be agreement between labor and management before a Labor-Wage Board is set up. But any court challenge to the legality of the proposed new board would probably take months or more for settlement. Meanwhile, the Defense Production Act will expire on June 30, and with it any agencies set up under its authority. If Congress doesn’t like the broad authority the new board may have, it could specify otherwise. Neither the Chamber of Commerce nor ‘the National Association of Manufacturers threatened to boycott the proposed new board, in the manner of the United Labor Policy Committee which withdrew its spokesmen from the present v .

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- ‘wage board. But the two business bodies were outspoken in their denunciation of the proposal. The Chamber of Commerce said the “recommendation is a complete capitulation to the demands of labor leaders—a handsome reward for their walkout which has blocked the operations of the Wage Stabilization Board for the past two months.” Mr. Ruffin, of the Manufacturers Assocla~ tion, said: “Labor does not want stabilization. It will be satisfied with nothing less than an extra-legal government agency from which it

, hopes to receive concessions in disputes having

THE PLAN before the President is much the same as one proposed a month ago by Eco nomic Stabilizer Eric Johnston, He is a for mer president of the Chamber of Commerce. Last Thursday it was made .a labor proposal by Walter Reuther, President of the CIO United Automobile Workers. Mobilization Boss Chaties E. Wilson, who has been pictured by his union critics as the incarnation of “big business,” pre over the meeting but said little and took no part in

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