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Guns in Korea

THE GUNS in Korea will sound louder than words in Washington this week when the Senate committee starts re-examining America's Far East policy. The “limited war” our troops are fighting up and down that faraway peninsula grows in intensity. Casualty lists mount. There is nothing “limited” about the enemy's efforts to win—nor his objectives, which are to drive United Nations forces off the Asiatic mainland and move on to the conquest of the whole of the Orient. In the nine months of Korean fighting, the number of American dead, missing and wounded (latest official figure, 61,755) already is 50 per cent larger than in the first full year of fighting in the Pacific in World War II. That ingludes all the casualties of Pearl Harbor and Bataan. The gtakes then were the same as now-—peace in"a free world and America’s security in the Pacific. But no diplomat or politician in those days ever thought of calling that a “limited war;” none ever suggested there was any substitute for victory.

2 5 2 THE DRAMA opening in Washington this week has an all-star cast—Gen. MacArthur and the Chiefs of Staff of our Army, Navy and Air Force. The partisanship which has arisen over issues that transcend partisanship is disturbing. But the Senators serving on this committee of inquiry are among the ablest and most patriotic in that body. And we think the American people have reason to place gpecial confidence in the fairness and statesmanship of the presiding chairman, Sen. Russell of Georgia. We believe, however, Sen. Russell is making a serious St stake by insisting that the hearings be behind, closed wy To be sure, there may be some testimony involving a few military secrets—not already known to the enemy— which should not be public. Gen. MacArthur and the Chiefs ‘of Staff should agree readily as to what those few secrets are. But the preponderance of questions and answers will deal with political policy. Facts and arguments pointing to a final decision should be hammered out, not in a star chamber, but in the glare of publicity. "We need to arrive at a foreign policy the country will understand—a policy the country can live with and win with. A policy which ‘makes sense, a policy which will give hope and purpose to the brave soldiers who man our guns in Korea.

The Taxpayers’ Case

HE federal government's civil-service employees want a pay raise, and there’s strong sentiment in Congress for granting it. : The cost of living has climbed far since they got their last ingrease—averaging about $110 a year—in October. Rep. Tom Murray (D. Tenn.), chairman of tue House Civil Service Committee, favors a boost of $300 to $400 a year. The government's Economic Stabilization Agency has no objection if the new raise doesn’t exceed the 10 per cent above January, 1950, levels which national wage policy allows for workers in private industry. So the federal employees have a persuasive case. But the case of the taxpayers also deserves consideration. They want to be fair to the government employees, but they would like to see more evidence of a real effort by the government to hold down the number of people on its payroll.

= = - . WHEN the Korean War began last June there were about 2 million employees in the government's éxecutive branch. By February there were 2,308,000, according to the Civil Service Commission's latest figures. That was an increase of 66,424 since the month before, and there is every indication of continuing growth. Much of it, of course, is in defense and mobilization agencies, but the commission says that more than half of all executive-branch agencies had more civilian employees in February than in January. It's proper for Congress to consider whether federal employees are underpaid. But it's equally important for Congress to find out whether many federal departments and agencies aren't grossly overstaffed and to insist on holding down and cutting back unjustified payroll expansion.

The Welcher

JFASCIST Peron is welching again. The United Press reports columnist ‘Descartes’ of Democracia, the principal Peronist newspaper in Buenos | > Aires, as writing that— ., ‘Argentine soldiers will not go abroad to defend the Western Hemisphere because the United States and other American countries have failed to support Argentine’s claim to the British-held Falkland Islands.” The UP goes on to say that, in Argentina, “Descartes” is understood to be President Peron himself. If that's so, will Edward G. Miller Jr., our Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, please explain why he arranged to sell to this unfriendly dictator two fine, comparatively new U. 8. battle cruisers at 10 cents on the dollar:

: BATTLE cruisers don’t fight in home “rivers, inland. - They. fight at sea—in other words, abroad. t We understand that these ships still are at League Island (Philadelphia) Navy yard, being nicely overhauled before delivery to our double-crossing neighbor. Since Dictator Peron seems to be saying that he won't Might these ships in defense of the Western Hemisphere ‘unless we pay further blackmail for his dubious aid, why jdon’t we call the whole deal off? { If we have warships to spare, why not let some ifriendlier, more honest government have them—one willing ‘to help defend the community of Western Hemisphere nations? And if Peron doesn't intend to help defend this hemisphere, what does he intend to use these cruisers for?

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FIGHTING FORCE . . By Clyde Famiwarh

Japan Is A Big Factor In The Skeurily Of The Western Pacific

TOKYO, Apr. 30—Japan has under arms the officer and non-commissioned officer makfhgs of a defense force nearly a million strong. This became apparent as public discussion increased on her future position in the anti-Com-munist lineup. Japan also has the makings of a great internal political squabble over the measures she has taken under American auspices to

' secyre herself against direct and Indirect Red

aggression and carry her weight in achieving security for the western Pacific. @ cb . EVEN if more’ moderate leftist elements fail to take up their cudgels against “rearmament,” an underground but vociferous Communist minority may be expected at least to raise propaganda hell with the prospective peace treaty and Japanese self-defense preparations. Both Pieping and Moscow have given the Reds their cue by their violent reaction to United States efforts to hammer out a formal

peace and a mutual assistance security setup for the Pacific. Ambassador John Foster Dulles hinted at the role Japan is expected to play when he sald material power to deter aggression reposes largely in the United States but that the United States “is prepared to combine its power with that of others: in mutual commitments so that the deterrent power that protects us will also protect others.” * % ¢ THEN he added pointedly, “Japan can, if it wishes, share in that protection.” To date Japan’s principal move in that direction under Gen. MacArthur's top guidance has been to train a so-called national police reserve of 75,000 men out of which four army-style divisions have now been organized and will begin ‘regular unit activities” this week. They've

. been in basic fleld training for several months.

In a more stable time, after the defeat of Japan, Gen. MacArthur welcomed a new Japanese constitution which forsook war as in-

If Misery Loves Company—

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By Frederick Othman

RFC Building Would Make Swell Haven for Mice and Rats, Too

WASHINGTON, Apr. 30—It's almost too much to hope for, fellow taxpayers, or even dream about, but I have visions of a majestic federal building of gray granite with a black; marble facade and a “for rent” sign on the front lawn. I've got nothing against the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, you understand, except that loan it made to a Kansas City juke-box factory. That made me sore. The RFC's other loans to snake farms, cactus nurseries, gambling joints, night clubs, and a few asorted highbinders were expengive, but perhaps , were worth in laughs the milions they cost. So there's nothing personal about this. The facts are that the UU. 8. Senate is considering abolishing the RFC. Some of this country’s best thinkers, including Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, Herbert Hoover, and Jesse Jones, who used to be old Mr. RFC, himself, are all for the idea of shutting shop on the greatest lending agency the world has ever seen. ~~ That would turn the mighty headquarters of this vast corporation into a haven for mice. It would cause 400 employees to seek other jobs, and it would be perhaps the first big-time government agency in our history to be abolished on the theory that it wasn't much good. If Congress should do away with the RFC, I can suggest a few other bureaus it might also like to turn into parking lots. But there I go, dreaming again. I hate to seem cynical about the influence of that great economizer, Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.), who wrote the bill doing away with the RFC, but I doubt if it actually becomes law, Still it's a pleasure to contemplate.

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And there was Sen. J. William Fulbright (D.

Ark.), who investigated the RFC and uncovered the snake pit (the snakes had died), and who said he believed the corporation still could serve a good purpose if it were properly managed. States like Arkansas, he said, needed the RFC. That reminded Sen. A. Willis Robertson (D. Va.) of a story told him by an unnamed Senator from Texas. “He said there was a big sign on a road in Arkansas, saying, ‘This way to Texas’, Sen. Robertson reported. “He told me those who were unable to read the sign settled down in Arkansas. Of course, I do not agree with the Senator from Texas.” Sen. Robertson said the easiest thing to do was abolish RFC. Sen. Fulbright said it would be easy to abolish the Senate, too. “It's an awful lot of trouble to operate,” he suggested. Sen. Robertson said, no, the Senate was a necessary trouble. One thing, though, he would agree about the citizens of Sen. Fulbright’'s home state. “In Arkansas they don’t even need loans for squirrel coats, much less mink,” he said.

‘Downright Stupid’ THE gentlemen called in financier Eccles, who's not afraid of anybody and never has been, no matter who he's had to fight. Grimly he, pushed his horn-rimmed glasses on his nose and grimly he told the Senators why he believes the RFC is downright stupid. It was established to help out in a depression, he said, and here it is making more and bigger loans than ever at the height of a boom. That isn’t all. While all agencies of the government are tightening up on credits, bank loans, and time payments on television sets in order to fight inflation, the RFC goes on lending millions to outfits no private banker would consider. “The liquidation of the RFC,” "” he said, “is long overdue.” I'll not argue with him. Or even attempt to prove he’s right. All I'd like to see is a government building, any old building, with cobwebs on the windows because the: tenants had gone out of business,

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particularly useful in peacetime, when we are inclined to take our defenses for granted. This year, though we're fighting a war, there'll be speeches, parades and exhibits, A Defense Department announcement says “troops and equipment will be provided in as many cities as possible. At military installations, open house will be scheduled and equipment demonstrated. A national . allocation of naval vessels, aircraft and airborne troops will be made.” As big an event as Armed Forced Day just doesn’t happen: It takes months of preparation. The Defense Department says this is necessary to arouse the public and rekindle interest in national defense. ” ” ” BUT MANY commanders— particularly in the field—think the public already is aroused. They think "it would be better satisfied if we kept right on

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instrument of national policy. Most Japanese expected they would never again have an army. Bin the police administration was decentralized. In the past two years, however, the national police reserve and a rudimentary coast guard were organized for the double purpose, not often stated, of securing Japan from within and helping to* meet any external attack. And Gen. MacArthur proclaimed self-defense as an inalienable national right. The 75,000 men of the police reserve are described by observers as an officer-noncom “frame” that could be filled out with relative ease in a short time. * They would be a formidable defense force to back up the American garrison if the need arose. The peace treaty probably will provide for American garrisoning. Japan has no shortage of battle-seasoned veterans. They were ‘repatriated by the hundreds of thousands after the surrender five years ago. The police reserve director said his division

would consist of four 3000-man regiments. One of four will be a “technical regiment” consisting of three artillery battalions, one of engineers and one a medical battalion. . Backed ‘by a liberal. party (conservative) sweep in last Monday's local elections which brought out a record 90 per cent ef eligible voters in Japan, Premier Yoshida is able to speak with more authority on Japan's anti. Communist position. ¢ & o

“OVER-ALL peace and permanent neutrality are an amateur's idea,” he said, “and Socialists are in this sense utterly disregarding history.” Premier Yoshida seems to have heated up rival parties with a reference to centralization of authority over Japanese police, a measure already partially accomplished in the divisional setup just announced. The Secretary General of Mr. Yoshida's liberals tried to ease vpposition by disavowing any government intention of recreating a ‘police state” but he said the present localized control of the police was unsatisfactory. -

HOOSIER FORUM—'Super Road’

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

MR. EDITOR:

I should like to be among the first to add . my voice to the chorus that will soon be yelping for the newly proposed “super road to Broad Ripple.” I can think of no better solution to the traffic problem which plagues not only the

suburban but the urban residents of Indianapolis. Something definitely must be done. In Mr. George Freyn's own words quoted in Noble Reed's report last week, “Everybody knows something has to be done soon to solve increasing traffic congestion, and this is the only plan that would avoid costly underground thoroughfares.” This proposed “super road” would not only save lives and minor accidents, but also, it would save tempers from irritation and thereby raise morale.

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THE FLOW of water which the canal now carries could easily be put into a system running under the road. There would be no difficulty there. What better plan could be suggested? In this location we have the road bed partially engineered, we have the ‘over-passes already constructed, and the element of low cost. Mr. Freyn mentioned that clover-leaf style ramps would be used at the intersections of Northwestern, 30th St, 16th St, Michigan St. New York and Ohio with the Canal Road. But I should like to make the suggestion“that intersections be added at Meridian and College. Without doubt, Indianapolis is in dire need ‘of a major traffic artery that is non-stdf. Let's all back Mr. Freyn in ‘his “super road.” —R. Ronald Calkins, 2810 N. New Jersey St.

High Pressure Politics’ MR. EDITOR:

It _is certainly disheartening to the average - “thember —of the publie- to go to the Marion

a Tm and-in~an tempt “to pEY PIN,

his taxes, or any private business he has at the courthouse, be hounded by the ward healers and machine politicians to vote for a machine judge whose only background is polities . , . like Harry Truman. Two months ago everyone who went before this police court judge was dismissed or given a small fine no matter how guilty. Votes? But the public objected to this type of vote buying. 80 .. . Now everyone is guilty. Even before trial. You question this? Why, when one day after a sudden political switch everyone of 55

persons charged with speeding was found guilty? 2

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Now, after all, and make mistakes like the rest of us. The arresting officers are just doing their duty under newspaper pressure but they still can

the officers are only human

Such a drive against speeding “is very fine but a drive against other erimes is just as important. It can be easily seen that under such drives many persons are going to be arrested. If only one person out of 18.is innocent, that person should be given a fair trial, and not be considered guilty even before the trial. Such reVerse action should not get the respect of the publie.

R. E. G., City. Help for the Poor’ MR. EDITOR: The letter, “People Out of Work” hit the

situation, throughout the state, right on the head. It is a sorry situation while we ask for donations from any source for everything. The fraternal organizations are the first to cooperate in any instance, especially in a small town, and I know what I am talking about. The author of that letter was right about not making you play machines and they are not open to the public so why all the fuss? There is not a fraternal organization in this whole state that doesn’t give a party for all the children around Christmas and also take care of poor families. I suppose our Governor and Mr. Fairchild will provide all this now. Thanks to them. —Alex G., City.

ARMED FORCES DAY No Time to Train—Big Show’s Got to Go On

Who's Out of Step?’ MR. EDITOR: This is one voter who likes to pick his own candidates whether or not they are running for President, governor, mayor or dog catcher. I want no part of any candidate that: has sold his soul for a pomination before the voters have even voted. Such things have happened here before. Not one political party but both of them have been guilty. In listening to Judge Alex Clark’s opening of his campaign, one thing that impressed me very much was that he promised no mink coats or jobs. Just the best administration possible, with the help of all the Stina, not just the Republicans.

He pledged himself to a clean campaign, no mud slinging and misrepresentation of fact, That is something Mr. Ober has not done in this campaign. He has seen fit to strike below the belt at Judge Clark in the Watts case. Now Mr. Ober asks in his campaign literature if you would like to be considered for a job. Now he says it's the machine that puts the wrong interpretation on the job consideration deal, because this big bad wolf, the machine, is for Judge Clark. This is the same machine Mr. Ober likes to shoast about serving so -weil—as—

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tie “Repudiitall = Party his become a machine? It just looks to- me that everyone is out of step but Cy. —Arthur M. Bowman, 26 S. Senate Ave.

‘Why Not Be Fair?’

MR. EDITOR:

I have been a reader of your paper a long time and have always thought that you were the champion of the people, I understand that Lawrence William Weimer has been running as a candidate for mayor of Indianapolis as a people’s candidate under the heading “The Republican Dark Horse.” Why is nothing said about Mr. Weimer and almost every day your paper carries news about other candidates? Is it because they have money and politicians behind them and you do not want the public to know that a man i= in the race who will help the people and be for them? I don’t think this is carrying out your motto as stated in the paper. Why not be fair to the public? After all, we buy your paper whether we agree with you or not. —Puzzied Reader, City.

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Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY IF HE accepts all the invitations, Gen. MacArthur is certain to go down in history as the Old Soldier who faded away with the most fanfare. “5. b GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S aide =aid the General “hasn't the faintest notion” why he was fired. Obviously he hasn't been reading the Congressional Record. ®* © AS A AA member of the Press Gallery and promoter of the radio program ‘Meet Your Congress,” Blair Moody knew what he was getting. into when he qessenddq to the Senate. oi © ® HAVING ard a big bite out of the British budget, those free teeth are now gnawing away at the Cabinet. * &- ¢RED GUNS in Korea are making it increasingly hard to hear the latest Great Debate. o- dp Td WHO DONE IT?—According to all the testimony before Congressional committees, nobody is to blame for the High Cost of Living or making too much out of it. * © 9 DESPITE all our complaints, most Americans don't lack much but sleep.

Conferences. They're designed

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WASHINGTON, Apr. 30—The armed forces are so anxious to “sell” their training programs to the public that it's sometimes difficult to find time for the training. Take Armed Forces Day, for instance. It comes on May 19 It replaces the Army, Navy and Air Force Days we once celebrated. As such, it serves a useful purpose. It's

with our training programs. Particularly with a war on. “Preparations for Armed Forces Day already have upset our training program,” a commanding officer at one of the Army's biggest training bases said recently, “We haven't been told what we're to do, but we have a general idea and we've started getting ready. The directives and special orders are coming in.

“We've been told we are to be ready to produce anything needed to make this the biggest show ever. You can't think about training with that hanging over your head. It will tear up our training schedules. We won't do much good during the first weeks of May.” Everyone of any importance in any service will make The speaker's list grows every day. Dozens alhave been scheduled

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. Louisville, Gen. Mark Clark at Sacramento, Marine Gen. Clifton B. Gates at Nashville, Gen. J. Lawton Collins at Seattle, Viee Adm. John Dale Price at Corpus Christi, Gen. Omar Bradley at Los Angeles, Lt. Gen, Curtis LeMay at Columbus, Brig. Gen. Vernon Megree at Tulsa and so on. Already, there are more than 50 speaking dates on the assignment board. Each man will fly to his speaking engagement in a military airplane. ” ” ” SEVEN area pproject officers —colonels and Navy captains —have been assigned full time to the job of making Armed Forces Day a success. Each has four assistants—one from each service. He has a staff of enlisted men and women— typists, clerks, etc. And, of course, the Defense Department already has published a “consolidated list of reports required from area project officers.” It's formidable, involving much paper work. 8ince the late James Forrestal was eae Defense Department conducted Civilian Qrientation

to acquaint selected civilians— usually -top men in science, industry. and education—with military's problems. A conference consists of a series of lectures in Washington and a conducted tour of Army, Navy and Air Force bases. A large staff works the year around at nothing else,

” - . WHEN the Korean war started, one of those orientation conferences was under way.- The next one on the list was dropped. But we've started again. Several hundred bigname civilians take ‘these tours — to Quantico, Va. to watch the Marines, to the

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the Army's Infantry Center at Fort Benning and to the Naval Alr Training Station at Pensacola, Fla.

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