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HEN will you die on our city streets . . . or your child . . . or some other loved one? Already we have killed 23 persons in traffic accidents. Already we have injured. 1000. Already we have killed our way past last year's record of 21 dead for this same period and probably by the time youread this another crushed body will lie on the pavement with its life bleeding away. Another headline. Another set of digits in police reports. Another quiet funeral to be reported. Another family torn apart by grief. We were the nation’s leader in slaughter last year... in cities of our size. We're well on the road to that infamous honor again. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, will meet with Mayor Bayt May 1 to consider this

problem. Mr. Dearborn plans to lay the weaknesses of the city on the line to the Mayor... with nothing spared. Nothing can be spared. The cost in human lives is far too great.

The Big Bite : “HE white-hot political issue in England today is not so much whether Britons shall be forever free, but whether they shall continue to have free false teeth and spectacles. Ordinarily we do not think of our British friends as excessively addicted to store teeth and cheaters, but apparently a great many of them have been getting recaps of one kind or another. If that is the case, cartoons of the modern John Bull will have to be revised accordingly. But the subject is far graver than that. It is an issue that has split the British Socialist cabinet wide open and threatens to wreck the Labor government. It could lead to Labor's early fall and a general election which might put Winston Churchill apd his Conservative Party back ‘in power. . : The storm has been swirling about the long-haired,

‘blazing-eved Aneurin Bevan, left-wing --Labor minister

“whose brainchild is Britain's national health plan. For the ‘past three years, under Mr. Bevan's socialized medicine program, Britain has been supplying free dentures and eveglasses, and in some cases wigs, to all who have need

of same—at the expense of the taxpayers. z = 2 = ” .

LIKE a lot of early New Deal whimsy in our own country, this has run into money. Britain could well use this money to help ease the burden of a $10 billion threeyear rearmament program. Consequently, the Attlee ‘government a few months ago broached a disturbingly ‘old-fashioned plan. It would require patients to pay for . at least half the cost of their false teeth and specs, thereby ‘saving an estimated $70 million a year. Mr Bevan, who wants more socialism instead of less, has been ranting about it ever since. He complained that the rearmament expense would seriously cripple his beloved ‘ welfare state. He resigned, thus precipitating a cabinet | crisis such as Britain has not had since 1940. Whatever happens, it can hardly be for the worse— since England has been slowly succumbing to the creeping paralysis of socialism in the midst of a greater world crisis. And however ludicrous the issue, it seems fitting, and heartening, that Britain's free false teeth finally put the bite on a would-be Socialist dictator.

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HEN the Communist regime at Peiping announced its 2 willingness to supply India with a million tons of food “grains at “competitive rates,” that occasioned some surprise, “Since China has always had to import a considerable part “of its foods = However, the Leftist press in India interpreted this gesture as evidence that the Communist land-reform program had enabled China to solve its food problem in one year. : Contrary evidence is now provided by reports from Red «China itself. Peiping’s own published statistics show that : food production remains well below the pre-war average. Food production in 1950 fell short of the goal by more than a million tons. Serious local famines have been reported on Hainan Island and in Northern Kiangsu Province. Far from ‘solving the production problems, the land reform in Honan Province has resulted in serious food shortages. All of this on the authority of the Chinese Communist radio. The truth seems to be that the Chinese Red leaders are willing to let some of their own people starve in order to make communism appear attractive to the people of India. It's expensive propaganda for the hungry Chinese people, but, of course, that's of no concern to Moscow.

National YWCA Week

HIS week the nation pays tribute to the YWCA, its membership and humanitarian ideals. Many important and essential organizations started in the YWCA and its work among women has been a commendable contribution to community welfare. : The Indianapolis unit was organized in 1895. Its 3500 members are dedicated to the welfare of young women who have left their homes to find positions in business and industry for the first time. The organization has long acted as a guiding light in their formative years ‘and has helped pioneer much legislation to better community conditions for women and girls. - In 1950 the local unit had over 80,000 participants in its program and its record as a Red Feather Agency of the Community Chest is one to be proud of.

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THE KOREAN STORY .

TOKYO, Apr. 24—Although Korea was not then its responsibility, MacArthur headquarters gave two or three months warning that North Koreangywith Russian materiel support probably would invade South Korea in June, 1950. As for the second great stage of Communist aggression in Korea--the Chinese Communists’ open intervehtion at the eleventh hour of the North Koreans’ defeat last fall—Gen, MacArthur's headquarters was aware in advance of that possibility, a reliable source said today. The view of Gen. MacArthur's friends here is that he was in no better position to forecast the eventual Communist decision than President Truman himself. Since it was a Communist political decision, they say, Mr. Truman and the State Department should have been in a better position to judge.

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YOU cannot find out here exactly what went on between President Truman and Gen. MacArthur in their historic Wake Island meeting before Red China openly intervened. Reports from Washington that the General flatly assured Mr. Truman that the Chinese Communists would stay on their side of the Yalu River are not believed here. “We have no pipelines into the brains of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung,” my source said. Gen. MacArthur's intelligence had reported deployment of 300,000 Chinese . Communist troops within 50 miles of United Nations advanced lines in North Korea. That could have been interpreted either as a threat of fresh aggression or as a safeguard to the Manchurian frontier. Gen. MacArthur's friends here say the decision to send the Red troops into battle~could not have been surely anticipated on the basis of military facts and figures known to Tokyo and sent on to Washington. They argue that there was no reasonable alternative for Gen. MacArthur before that but to try to consolidate the United Nations victory. ob THEY feel that a firmer judgment as to the Communist high command's intentions might have been made on the basis of political intelligence and that, they say, was more likely to be found in the world capitals than along the Yalu River or in the mountains of North Korea. Certain members of the United Nations— notably Britain—with whom the United States maintained close relations actually had diplomatic missions in Peiping at the time of the Communist intervention. They are not known to have furnished any certain warning. The emphasis Mr. Truman has put on the Chinese Communist intervention and Gen. MacArthur's alleged failure to see it coming, has raised the question here as to what Washington

REDS . . . By Frederick Woltman

Commies Rap Rosenberg Case

NEW YORK, Apr. 24—The Soviet atom spy revelations, which shocked the democracies in recent years, regularly got a contemptuous brush-off from the Communists. Confessions and convictions scarcely fazed the comrades. When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty Mar. 29, they rated but ‘Worker, o But the Rosenberg death sentences set off the wildest orgy of Communist hysteria in months. At first, the guilty, were ‘scapegoats of the Korean W4r.” The sentence was “a handwriting on the wall for the U. 8. trade union movement.” Finally, reaching far out into the stratosphere, the party came back with this answer: Anti-Semitism. The sentences, it announced, were aimed at not only America's 6 million Jews but also at American's 15 million Negroes, its Mexican-Americans, Italian - Americans, Puerto Ricans and Chinese-Americans. There was one slight hitch in the argument. The judge. Irving Kaufman, happens to be Jewish; also the prosecutor, Irving H. Saypol. Here's how the CP got around that: “The U. 8S. racists . .. get a Jewish prosecutor and a Jewish judge to do the dirty work.” Judge Kaufman ‘‘deserves the title of ‘honorary Aryan'.” Anyway, concluded the CP, why shouldn't the ‘U. S. have shared the atom secret with Russia?

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ON THE slightest provocation, the Commies like to scream ‘kept press.” This week it was their press that was kept. The Daily Worker turned down an ad for the Arthur, KoestlerSidney Kingsley play, ‘““Darkness at Noon,” which had just won the Drama Critics award. The play tells the harrowing tale of a loval leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, execute’ hy his pal in the Kremlin. The Worker, wishing to maintain its journalistic integrity. ran a long explanation. “Darkness at Noon,” in brief, is “a warmongering play’ and “a defense of Trotskyite spies.” Were Mark Twain and O. Henry alive today. they would surely sign the Soviet-inspired Stockholm Peace Appeal. This comes from no less an authority than the USSR Information Bulletin, distributed in America from the Soviet Embassy in Washington. “ As Vladimir Lindin in an article, “Books of Great Forei uthors are Popular in USSR,” put it: “When the Soviet man reads the Stockholm Peace Appeal he can visualize at the bottom the signatures of Mark Twain, O. Henry . . . and many other writers who were not indifferent either to the preservation of the finest cultural heritage of the past or the destiny of future eeneration.”

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‘Did MacArthur Give Tip Off On Chinese Intervention?

or the United Nations would have done if it had known for sure. Would they have halted a victorious campaign against the North Koreans? Would they have permitted the North Koreans to escape without pursuit to reform their ranks for another thrust into the South? Would North Korea instead of Manchuria have become the sanctuary for Red troops staging and the basing of air attack on United Nations forces? The fact is that Gen. MacArthur for five years has consistently pictured communism in the Far East as a dynamic force which will cross any frontier where the takings are large and the risk small, He was calling for opposition to Chinese Reds when Washington was trying to promote coalition between them and Chinese Nationalists and while the State Department was describing the Reds as agrarian reformers. And when the Truman administration started to write off Nationalist China because .

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it failed to “reform,” Gen. MacArthur ‘spoke out against remodeling a house while it burning. He called China a keystone of the Pacific arch and the main bulwark of the western line of defense for the Americas. > © 2 CHINESE Communist intervention in Korea was already a touch-and-go question in the realm of international politics when Gen. MacArthur's headquarters reported the presence of 11 corps along the Yalu. Much of the restraint shown by the Truman administration . and United Nations from the beginning stemmed from fear that Red China would mix in. President Truman showed his awareness of it by neutralization of Formosa and by declining the offer of Chinese Nationalist troops made by Chiang Kai-shek from Formosa immediately upon United Nations call for help. To pretend that Communist intervention was a complete surprise for anyone is unrealistic. Yet it's felt by some here that Chinese Com-

HOUSEKEEPER BLUES . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Washington Stuffed With Paper

WASHINGTON, Apr. 24—The long trains chuff into the local freight yards, bearing paper for the bureaucrats: Writing paper, carbon paper, tissue paper, wrapping paper, printing paper, and special stuff with rayon threads in it for dollar bills. Nowhere in the world is there so § much paper work, so

many typewriter rib- [= bons worn out, so

much ink, including red, consumed. I'll not bore you with

statistics on federal paper purchases; I'd rather vou'd- join me In sympathy for Jess Larson, the Oklahoman who finds himself the most harried housekeeper on earth. He keeps house for Wiles the government and as such he must take care of the paper both before and after it's used: The before part is easy, arrives in neat bundles which can be handled by truck. The after part is something else. When a bureaucrat gets a letter from somebody, he puts it in a file cabinet. When he answers it, he keeps a copy. And things kind of pile. up, particularly since bureaucrats are cautious by nature and hate to throw away a letter they might need some time in the future. So it is that our government at this moment is the unhappy possessor of 20 million cubic feet of old correspondence and answers to half-

forgotten questionnaires. Each cubic foot of

records used up a square foot of floor space, Say the average two-bedroom house being built today contains 5000 square feet. The government’s old paper would jam with filing cab-

Wiley “+f Wisconsin.

when their party isn't. .

Sen. Bridges, a trim-appear-ing man of 52, now becomes the senior Republican Senator — the man who's been there longest. Sen. Wiley, , a plump and pleasant man of 66, takes Sen. Vandenberg’s old seat as the top Republican on the important Senate For-

Sen. Wiley ... big task

That means that, officially at least, he becomes the top Republican in the Senate on foreign affairs. The State Department will pay particular ‘attention to him and his words will carry more importance than those of the ordinary Republican Senator: . Neither is of the cloth to cagy on Sen. Vandenberg's

because the paper’

inets a town of 4000 houses. It would fill a dozen skyscrapers. There is enough steel in the cabinets to build a medium-sized ocean liner. That's where Mr. Larson comes in. As boss of the General Services Administration, he's got to use the government's property most efficiently. He figures that the office space pre-empted by old paper cost at least $2.50 a foot to build. Multiply that by 20 million and you've got $30 million worth of marble buildings tied up in old paper. So he's trying to persuade the bureaucrats to burn some of the really musty papers. He hasn't had too much luck there and he estimates now that the contents of the average filing cabinet here is from two to five years old. He took another approach. He built a number of warehouses in which to hold the old letters in bundles on shelves, without the filing cabinets. His theory was that warehouses were cheap; that the space vacated from the office buildings by the files could be replaced by people.

A Good Investment

AS OF now, he has three million cubic feet of papers in these storehouses and if he can persuade Congress to give him the money he figures it will be a good investment to build some additions. The situation, in fact, is desperate. A guinea pig kind of thing, really. Every time Mr. Larson moves out some filIng cabinets of letters, in comes a new bureaucrat with his stenographer to write more letters The government is mushrooming so rapidly, Mr. Larson says, that the records are piling up faster than he can haul them away. “Mdch faster,” he adds So he has 10 of his record centers scattered around the country now. He wants more, and in a hurry, before that pile of paper topples over and buries him hopelessly at the bottom.

FOREIGN RELATIONS . . . By Earl Richert

Can Wiley Fill Vandenberg’s Shoes?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 24—The late Sen. Arthur Vanden-

munist intervention could not have been ane ticipated with .the same certainty that Gen, MacArthur's headquarters attached to the original North Korean threat. It might be natural for Chinese Reds to deploy along the Yalu without hostile intent, but there had been no question as to the offensive character of the North Korean preparations. -4 ® * <

SOUTH KOREA was the State Department's baby. The withdrawal of American occupation forces in 1948 made it so. Under State Department auspices a 500-man American military advisory group had been assigned there to help the South Koreans build an army. But this army had been kept under wraps by the State Department fear that if it was brought to full strength with air, artillery and tank support, President Syngman Rhee might attack North Korea. The South Korean army was tailored for defense alone. The military advisory group which have or should have had an adequate intelligence setup of its own, was taken by surprise last June 25 when the North Koreans drove across the 38th Parallel with Russian-made tanks running interference. The South Koreans had nothing to stop them. Yet, Gen..MacArthur's headquarters, though not charged with the responsiblity for Korea, had predicted, I am told on good authority, the very month that this invasion would take place and had relayed to Washington a sequence of reports on strength and character of the attack to come.

Hoosier Forum

“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your rig to say it." —Voltaire.

‘Mac's Our Man’

MR. EDITOR: I sure agree with the letter from a veteran in Apr. 17 issue of The Times. Why not throw Truman out. He acts like he's a Communist. Better yet, why not hand him a rifle and drop him by parachute in Korea and let him try to fight his way out . . . also Acheson and all other top brass including the British top brass, MacArthur is a wonderful man. Send him back with all his rank and ratings to get the world out of their mess. He is the one and only man who can. He knows that part of the world and he can end all this bloodshed. Throw Truman out. I was in the World War II myself and know the horrors of fighting. MacArthur {s our man. —A Veteran and British War Bride

MR. EDITOR: . « . Let's say President Truman had a constitutional right to fire Gen. MacArthur. Mr. Truman had no constitutional right to start a war in Korea, as that is reserved by our Constitution for Congress. . . . —Veteran of ’18, City.

MR. EDITOR: . .. I realize Gen. MacArthur is getting up in years, but the native Missouri mule skinner will always be a kid. Could Truman do one-tenth as good a job ag Gen. MacArthur has. Sure he was a captain in the first war, possibly through his Jim Pendergast. It worries me that Truman hasn't taken another vacation or at least called out half of the Navy to go up and down the Potomac. The poor boy is just over worked. ...

—Everett McLain, City.

MR. EDITOR: . . « With victory in sight the General refused to stop at the China frontier to permit the aggressor to escape defeat. In view of the outrageously cruel assault made on our boys by the Reds, the General refused to accept half a victory. . . . The authority to fire the General may exist but no American will agree as to the moral right. . .. «—J. F. Frantz, 7150 Ketcham St.

MR. EDITOR: Now that the boot licking has started to subside we would like to-ask, why-all of the hysterical uproar and national lunacy over the firing of a sacred cow General? Verily, it hath raised more of a commotion than throwing a dead skunk in a hen lot and the political fumes are stifling. This ham acting Caesar should be asked to explain why he blundered his army into the death trap of North Korea, while assuring the world China would not enter the war. ... —Will H. Mitchell, 5819 E. Washington.

MR. EDITOR: . « « I am backing President Truman 100% in his firing of Gen. MacArthur. I had two brothers in World War I, one of whom was killed in action, and the other wounded. My brother's life was as dear to our family as any soldier who lost his life in any other war, vet

it seems from the tone of many letters nro- ©

testing the dismissal of MacArthur that they do not hold that same view , . -—Mrs. Lucille Barlow, Columbus, Ohio.

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berg’'s accouterments of Republican seniority in the U. 8. Senate fall to Sens. H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Alexander

Seniority is all-important in Congress. The men who possess it wieid great power when their party is in control, and a lot even

tradition of leadership of a bipartisan foreign policy.

Sen, Bridges is an ultra-con-servative Republican. He has delivered many vitriolic attacks on the administration, ranging from spending policies to the Truman-Acheson handling of che China problem. His position on China is almost identical with that of Gen. MacArthur.

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SEN. WILEY, an isolationist in his early Senate days, has in recent years followed Sen. Vandenberg’'s leadership on foreign affairs. His thinking on the current China issue leans strongly toward Gen. MacArthur's. But he say$§ he can see the ‘other side too— isn't wise to take steps that would lead to an all-out war when we're illprepared. He says people should try to stay calm so that the big issue can be worked outrsensibly. ® .

Sen. Wiley expects to issue a statement of his views on foreign policy early next week.

“YOU CAN park me down,” he said, “as a man of independent judgment who {is interested in any policy that advances the welfare and safety of this country and of our leadership of the free nations. “It is imperative, so far as it is humanly possible, that the Republicans and Democrats work together for the welfare of our people.” The Wisconsin Senator, however, isn't regarded as a man who can duplicate Sen. Vandenberg's feat of swaying a large segment of his party to his way of thinking on foreign affairs, ' Sen. Wiley is not a Vandenberg-type orator. He's a man who llkes to quote

“ poetry to illustrate his points. His colleagues like him and his | give

ranking position will weight to his views. But he's not expected to be able to lead the flock. * » ” ” IT IS doubtful that anyone will appear for a long time who cdn fill Sen. Vandenberg’s shoes as a leader of the Re-

publican Party on foreign af-

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fairs. Some regard Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts as a logical successor to Vandenberg as the leader. But it will take Sen. Lodge years to achieve it. Sen. Bridges assumes the role of senior Republican Senator at an almost unprecedented early age. That's because of the high mortality rate among Republican Senators and the fact that he comes from a rock-ribbed Republican state.

When he came to the Senate °

on Jan. 5, 1937, at the age of 39, there were only 17 Republican Senators. He now has survived all of them.

There are 10 Democrats with °

longer tenure than Sen. Bridges. The senior Democrat, Kenneth McKellar, of Tennessee, has been in the Senate since Mar. 4, 1917—20

years longer than Sen. Bridges. With his seniority, Sen.

Bridges can have any spot he wants on the Republican side of the Senate. ‘But he's happy

. with what he’s got, the rank-

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