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@ive TAA and the People, Will Pind Their Own Woy

Soft-Hearted ‘Justice’ oe!

THERE'S an ugly little four-letter word that describes that taxi-driver found guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a little girl in juvenile court Monday. A word

we don't like to use, and don’t need to, really, since everyone

concerned will Kibow exactly what’ we mean. He was even more vicioys than most of his slimy lot, since the victim whose body he was peddling at retail was only a child of 14 and a backward child mentally, at that. But what happens to this sneaking criminal when he is convicted? Nothing fauch. He is placed “on probation” for six - months. That's all: Turned loose to-go back at his evil

racket again tonight, if he wishes. nr ” ! » . . .

SPECIAL Judge John Linder, who heard the case, said if he sent the man to jail his young wife and child would have no 6ne to support them and might have to be aided by public welfare. : To us, and we hope to them, that would be considerably less disgraceful than living off the kind of earnings the fellow .was bringing home to them. Sympathy for an appealing young wife and child we can understand, even when they are paraded in court just for that purpose by a lawyer whose conduct of himself and this case leaves much to be desired. : But how about the child whose life has béen ruined for a few filthy dollars by this scoundrel. who now goes out unpunished to prey on some more children? A little of that sympathy, it seems to us, could very well have gone her way, too, in deciding this case.

A Prophet Without Honor N JULY, 1947, President Truman sent Lt. Gen. A. : 4 Wedemeyer to the Far East with orders to appraise the political, economic, psychological and military situations— “current and projected”’—in China and Korea. This was designed as a fact-finding mission to provide a base for future American policy in that area. ' Gen. Wedemeyer was instructed to report “your estimate of the character, extent, and probable consequences of assistance which you may recommend, and the probable tonsequences in’ the event that assistance is not given.”

» n » ' THE requested reports and recommendations were made to the President in September, 1947. Subsequent vents have revealed their accuracy and foresight. But : itis one of the tragedies of history that these reports were Suppressed until they were no longer of value. *2‘And, instead of being rewarded for distinguished public irvice of the highest degree, Gen. Wedemeyer was demoted #rom his position on the Army General Staff to a relatively less important field command. The Wedemeyer reports, which presented plans to save China and Manchuria from communism, were suppressed until July, 1949. The report on Korea was denied to the public until yesterday. It contained this warning: * “The Soviet-equipped and trained North Korean People's (Communist) army of approximately 125,000 is vastly superior to the United States-organized constabulary of 16,000 Koreans equipped with Japanese small arms. ... The withdrawal of American military forces from Korea would , . . result in the occupation of South Korea either by Soviet troops, or, as seems more likely, by the Korean military units trained under Soviet auspices.” These units, Gen. Wedemeyer said, maintained active liaison “with the Chinese Communists in Manchuria.”

" » . » » » THAT was written nearly four years ago!

To meet this threat, Gen. Wedemeyer recommended a native force in South Korea, “sufficient in strength to cope with the threat from the north,” to prevent the ‘forcible establishment of .a Communist government.” Because of its private war with Chiang-Kai-shek, the State Department had decided to abandon China to the Reds. To be consistent in that position, it also chose to ‘abandon Korea. When that decision was reversed, Americans had to do the fighting. This was the payoff on the State Department's distastrous flirtation with Mao Tze-tung's “agrarian reformers.”

Mob Government

A GAINST his own better judgment, the Shah of Iran has bowed to the demands of the mob and appointed a Premier committed to so-called nationalization. of the 100,000-square-mile British-owned Iranian oil concession. But the Shah had little choice in the matter—if he wanted to live, ; Premier Ali Razmara, who, sought a sane solution of . the problem, ‘vas assassinated last month. His successor, Hussein Ala, resigned rather than go through with the nationalization program, which actually seems to’ mean confiscation. ; Whether the Iranians can operate the property successfully, once they have taken it over, remains to be shown. » 5 ” » » ” . IF CHAOS results, the British will not be the only sufferers. The Iranian government could be bankrupted by loss of that substantial part of its income which it now gets from oil royalties. The British, who have held the concession since 1901, did nothing during most of that time to endear themselves to Iran's people. They treated them ‘as social inferiors and their government as a puppet regime. Now that the British lion has lost his teeth, the angry Iranians are twisting his tail. » n » v » " » THIS whole controversy might have been avoided by substantial concessions to the Iranian viewpoint soon after the end of World War-IIl. Now there seems little apparent chance for a live-and-let-live settlement until after bad matters have become worse.

~~. Meanwhile, there is real danger that Russia will try.

to move in and take over the oil concession. The Soviets need oi] for their own war maghine. And control of the rich fields in the: Persian Gulf would enable them to deprive

Western Europe of its major source of petroleum, posing.a

for which the West has no ready answer, .

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PARTY LINE . . . By Woltman

‘Reds Smack

Gen. MacArthur

Then Remember Harry's. A Warmonger Also

NEW:YORK, May 2-—The Communists have stopped licking their chops over the dismissal of Gen. MacArthur. At first they hailed it as a triumph of the peace forces {Cominform-type) over. an “arrogant militarist” responsible for “the «useless massacre of innocent people.” “MacArthur's Halo—Pure Wall Street Gold,” headlined the Daily Worker. “Good riddance,” prpclaimed William Z. Foster, national saved him from standing trial with the 11 Red conspirators but never keeps him from pitching in when words of guidance are called for. “Then the party line changed abruptly. Running down (Gen. MacArthur, decided the CP, had the effect of building up President Truman. The issue was no longer “Truman vs. MacArthur” but “Peace vs. War.” After all, the party bosses suddenly remembered, Truman's ‘a warmonger,- too: and “the Truman ° Administration itself represents an even larger menace of war.” So, impartial in the great dispute, the Communist Party has just - dredged up a slogan from its post-World War IT drive to deliver the Far East to Russia. It goes: “Bring Our Boys Home From Korea." You're sure to hear more of that later. “. > »

“THE John Day Company's latest author, Earl Conrad, now shows up as sponsor of the Communist Party's May Day parade. He helped organize something that cails itself the

Provisional United Labor and People's Commit-

tee for May Day. His co-sponsors include sueh party stalwarts as Berfjamin J. Davis, Howard Fast, Alexander Trachtenberg, George Pirinsky and Irving Potash, one of the convicted 11 Red chieftains. ‘ Yet, in plugging his recent book, “The Public School Scandal,” (discussed here in a previous article), the John Day Co. describes Conrad simply as.a ‘‘veteran newspaperman, journalist and writer.” Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, meanwhile, has written the publisher that its Mar. 21 release on “The Public School Scandal” was “unethical” and ‘‘seriously misleading.” ‘The release had declared he was “seriously concerned about the forthconring book.” What the John Day Co. neglected to add was that the head of the: world’s largest public school system had actually written: “The. book contains false statements, partial truths, and. statements that may even be libelous.” ! On Apr. 11, Richard J. Walsh, president of the firm and husband of Pearl Buck, replied that the reference to Dr. Jansen “seemed to me simply a dignified and conservative statement of the fact ... . . This reply, answered the Superintendent of Schools, “is completely unsatisfactory. ‘I am at a loss to understand how you can say that your quote from my letter was not misleading, when you failed to state that I had complained about the false statements in the book. I consider the book libelous and I am contemplating further action.” = oe : @ ob .

THE Communist Party has put out a ukase,

forbidding any member henceforth to go to Miami Beach on vacation. To enforce this decree, announces the CP's New York State Committee, the party “will use the weapon of organization and disciplinary measures, including expulsion, against those who stubbornly persist in flouting party policy.” The Florida resort, according to the party, compels Negroes to leave the area at a 5 o'clock curfew, except those with special passes. Nevertheless, “a small grouping of white progressives, among them some party members, continue going to Miami Beach.” (One such was Alex-

ander Bittleman, .the party's theoretician and .

national committeeman who was arrested for deportation at a swank Miami Beach Hotel back in January, 1948.) So the party has singled out Miami for a ban. “Will the party make exceptions in the case of any member?” the decree continues. “No. Those who can afford it and want to go to a warmer climate for a vacation for health reasons must seek out non-discriminatory places.”

What Others Say

MAN has spoken through his creation of great buildings and industries, and through science and research. But he has spoken best through poetry and faith. And when the last ding dong rings, his voice will continue to be heard even in the ruins and ashes. —William Faulkner, Nobel prize-winning suthor, declaring man can't destroy himself with atomic weapons. “9 & i» THE important thing to remember about profit sharing is that as well as being both an ideal and a way of life, it is also an intensely practical proposition, as demonstrated by the success of companies who follow it. —William Loeb, publisher, Manchester, N. H., Union-Leader. i “> AN v THEY (Italians) play love scenes very realIstically.- That's why they look so real and emotional on the screen. Picture-making is more elemental there. The love scenes aren't make-believe, they're real.—Screen starlet Doris

+ Dowling, just back from a movie-making stint in Rome.

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THERE'S powerful support in Washington for the idea of paying for the war as we go. This Is . ...'probably the first time in history that there is a virtually unanimous opinion to do that. —Ralph Robey, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers.

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HOOVER KNOCKS RFC . . .

By Frederick C. Othman

How Come the Taxpayers Foot The Bill for Distillers, Hotels?

WASHINGTON, May 2 Now it turns: out that the government has been lending money to the distillers of Old Popskull Whisky—apd also to the saloon keepers who mix the stuff with gingerale and slosh it across their bars. This® pains Herbert Hoover, who can't why the taxpayers should finance the “likker” business all the way from the essential “ingredient to the ultimate highball. }M is one. of a reasons why he wants to fold up the Reconstruction Finance Corp. which was his own idea ‘in thé ’'30s to combat the depression. He doesn’t quite put it this way, but he now regards this / mighty governmental bank almost as a Frankenstein monster, still lending. millions in boom times to people who don't need it.

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The ruddy-cheeked ex-President appeared in -

his blue double-breasted suit and polka dot

_ necktie to tell the Senate Banking Committee

why he believed the RFC should be liquidated.

He listed some of the loans that gave him the fiscal shudders, including 39 to hotels (one of which contained a gambling joint in its roof garden), 14 to hard and soft drink manufacturers, and 18 to theaters, bowling alleys and saloons. “I could have made up a list of loans to beauty parlors, pool rooms and a snake farm.” he added, “but that hardly seems necessary.” It probably isn’t. His lists were eye-openers and since they've never been published before, I think maybe we'd better take a look at some of the places our money went: :

As of June 30, 1950, said Mr. Hoover, still owed to the RFC was $331,500 by the United Distiller of America, Inc., New York: $315.000 by the James Distillery, Inc., of Baltimore: $309,000 by the Harvard Brewing Co., Lowell, Mass.; $240,000 by the: Old Rock Distilling Co., Joplin, Mo., ‘and $94,687 by the Scottish-Ameri-can Distillers, 1.td., Peoria, Ill.

Nor could the only living ex-President see any good reason for the taxpayers financing the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., of Fargo, N. D for $90,163.

The Gold Front Bar and Theater of She: boygan, Wis, which served a number of the federally financed fluids, got a loan of $85,000. The Plymouth Rock Bar of Detroit put us taxpayers on the cuff for $39,500. An assortment of bowling alleys and movie theaters borrowed several hundred thousand dollars. }

Hal Roach. Studios, ' Inc., the

one-time

custard pie comedy foundry of Culver City, Cal...-

gave the government an IOU for $1,292,950. Mr. Hoover then delved into the government's hotel loans, ranging from $9000 for the Rock Creek Tourist Camp of Whitesboro, Tex., to $1.5 million for the Sacony, a super de luxe hostelry at Miami Beach. Down thé beach a

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hung on the establishment of a military assistance and advisory group here 10 months after President Truman's neutralization of Formosa are, as thus far disclosed, BS neither very realistic from § the American standpoint nor very ‘convincing to the Communists. ) The Com- b { munists will Gen. Chase

interpret the, coincidence? American ac- : tion as it suits their pilirpose. The recently announced agreement of Feb. 9 between

ports to limit American help to “internal security or legitimate self-defense” of Formosa,

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few blocks, Harry and Jennie Simburg borrowed $1 million to finance the Sorrento Hotel, an establishment equally as plush,

Virgin Islands Loans

THE ex-President, mentioned the $1.3 mil‘jon that went to the Mapes Hotel, including a roulette room, in Reno, Nev, and then he took up the boom in federal loans to hotels in the Virgin Islands. These islands. lately have been rivals of Reno in the favor of divorce seekers. Hotels now are rising on every inlet. To the Virgin Isle Hotel went $400,000, to the Morningstar $165,000, and to the Blueheard Castle Hotel $250,000. . This last establishment, incidentally, as built originally on a cliff overlooking the sea at St. Thomas by the late, lamented .public works administration of Harold L. Ickes. What Mr." Hoover thought about all this he put in one brief senténce:

“I believe the RFC should be liquidated.”

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

HAYWARD, Cal.—A young man due to go into the Army in two days told a traffic cop to give him “any kind of ticket you like.” The judge arranged a 1-day deferment, to be spent in jail.

In the little town of Hayward, Where the western breezes blow, Lived a fellow somewhat Wayward, - Not completely in the know. -He was going in the ‘service, So he toyed a bit with fate, But the Army wasn't nervous, They assured him, “We can wait!”

THE PADRE

IN A quaint and ancient mission . . . lives a- man of noble ways ... man of God and man of learning . . . man who toils and man who prays ... living in the peaceful mission . working in the fields nearby . . and through the years you'll find him . . . laboring beneath the sky .. in him you can place your deep trust . . . tell him all your troubles too ... . and he'll give you consolation . . . he's a friend -so kind and true ... young and old «. for he stands out like a star . . : poor in gold but rich in friendship «++ he is known both near and.far . . . and I know the world will miss him . . . when the Lord above will call . . . man of God and man of learning . . . truly loved by one and all. . -=—By Ben Burroughs.

. By Clyde Farnsworth

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‘Ask Mr. Taft’ . MR. EDITOR: : ' ~” What with the Senaté inquiry coming up, the Truman-MacArthur controversy once .more .is about to bust out all over. What T think about it matters little,’ I know. But, if you wish to quote me, you may say that I think “the quick

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brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.” ’

If that fails, however, to hit the nail on the head, I should like to-add, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the. aid of their party.” And if you don’t think so, mister, ask

. Robert A. Taft. : Ca Ben. Robert —Joe Blow, City

' MR. EDITOR:

From the look of the developments ail over .the world, especially in Korea, I would say we had better cease and desist with the “hoopla” _ of the'past two weeks and get on with the busi. ness at hand. . a : Any statesman, general, or even neighbor, who even dares to venture the opinion that Gen. MacArthur may be anything less than perfect, is subjected to all Manner of abuse. Now, if we have only one man in this country, brilliant enough to formulate policy, capable enough to map and execute military strategy, and that one man is already 71 years old, I would venture the opinion that the country is in one “helluva” fix.

MR. EDITOR: - . +. I cannot recall that any o in high authority has questioned Truman’stegal right in this respect (action of firing MacArthur), As far as I can see they were merely question« ing his wisdom and whether the Truman-Ache< son -policies were right. . . . v —C. D. C., Terre Haute

MR. EDITOR: I hardly think ‘that this is the time for an opposing political party to make an issue out of every fault or mistake made by present leaders of our country. Why not wait for election time to make your protests? : —John Q. Citizen, City, MR. EDITOR: . . .~May I remind your readers that we are engaged in a world-wide conflict with communism for our very lives. Just compare the antiCommunist record of MacArthur, Truman, Acheson and Marshall. Mac has never referred to Stalin as Uncle Joe; he has never publicly announced his friendship for a convicted Come munist, and he has never engineered the capitulation of a friendly power to communism. Now where would any thinking person put his faith?

° —Richard J. Weaver, Bloomington.

MR. EDITOR: . .. According to the almost unanimous press the State Department put the pressure on the No. 1 Pendergast stooge to fire one of the greate est American Generals of all time. . ..

—Duke Williams, City.

‘Start Drivers’ Club’ MR. EDITOR: Just a thought for the hopper, on the subject of saving human lives. People like to be recognized so why not start a driver of the day club

for folks who do obey the rules, or perform somes .

extra driving courtesy. I think it would work, Run a picture and short story on each winner. Threats and jail help some, but for the majority the above would help bring our traffic deaths back to normal or below. ' —S.. B. Scott,’ City MR. EDITOR: I see by your head lines that the deaths from traffic accidents have reached an all time high, and that police and local authorities are really concerned. Maybe this is the result of their own negligence due to the fact that they're more

interested in. sending a squad to run down one

- little guy with a baseball ticket than taking care of major violations such as youths speeding through the city streets in souped up cars, rapes and murder cases. «> ? —I. C., City MR. EDITOR: : For child safety keep the ball playing kids out of the streets.

Give the drivers a chance, .

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Too many kids. are running in the streets now,

—Neighbor, City.

‘Food and War’ MR. EDITOR:

Those who remark that a $70 billion military bill is ten times more than it took to run the whole government a few years ago, might add that it would also go far toward removing its own necessity if applied to food and other essential materials in parts of the world we are _ now trying to defend against communism by military means. Communism is basically a political philosophy with a military arm, just as in the case of any other governmental concept. If we cannot prove our way is. better without resorting to arms, the military effort will be wasted or worse. —City Reader

Air Raid Protection’ MR. EDITOR:

If the people of west Indianapolis, Maywood, Mars Hill, are to be protected from an air raid, you better give us something we can ‘hear, Unless you were standing on Kentucky Ave, over White River you could not hear anything except the everyday grind of traffic, trains and noises from the factories around here at Blaine and Kentucky Aves. ... ’ Believe me, we are in the path of any kind of an air attack." ..

—Mrs. Harry Appel, 1716 Blaine Ave.

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About Formosa?

Washington and Taipeh pur-

nomic, is indivisible from Son! st the

TAIPEH, Formosa, May 2—In connection with the new military mission to the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa, the U. 8. government is trying to kid itself or the Moscow-Peiping axis,

It may have succeeded in the first instance. Explanations and provisos which the State Department has

Chiang Kai-shek has repeatedly plédged and is in a token way already carrying out.

» » » IT WAS a striking coincidence that yesterday, when

Maj. Gen. Willlam C. Chase.

was expected to arrive for the formal establishment of the new mission, Chiang Kai-shek reiterated his old promise to break the oppressive Red rule of the mainland. “In the near future I shall come to your recue,” he told mainland workers m a broadcast Labor Day message, “and deliver you from such sufferng.” < Over the week-end the China Union Press, a Nationalist news agency closely affiliated

ported that Chiang’s guerrillas

made an amphibious raid on

the coastal.city of Yunkia, 235 miles south of Shanghai. The Nationalist government

acceded last June to President

Truman's neutralization becau

it had no other choice at It has not formally

recognized any American curtailment of its right to go on fighting Communists. " n »

IT NO doubt weicomed the

‘security and the breather thus

gained for its hard-pressed and inadequate air and naval forces, At the same time it went ahead organizing guerrillas on the mainland, supplying them as best it could and using them occasionally in pin-prick-ing raids. As Secretary of State Dean Acheson suggested last. week in describing the strings attached to the new ‘American did, Chiang’'s government may have a d to make no direct

‘use of this help in carrying the

fight to the mainland. But the indirect benefits are inescapable. Every makeshift rifle replaced by a new American

weapon among Formosa's ‘‘de-.

fense force” can become another gun for mainland guer-

‘rillas. That is the simplest illu-

stration of the indivisibility of American help to Formosa. : "now OBVIOUSLY Washington can chetk any direct use of its

assistance. But it’s doubtful

that Chiang contemplated any

What Washington casts away with its published restrice tions is not so much the longrange plans of Formosa's Nationalists as the short-range hopes of the mainland's millions, The Nationalist Chinese be lieve that the ultimate decision on how American help shall be used rests more with the Kremlin than the State Department They foresee the Kremlin's goal as absolute domination of Asia, regardless of momentary pauses or turnings, and they know that China is the key to the Kremlin's successes or failures. Since there is no other choice, they'll wait until Washington sees likewise. - » » ; -

MEANWHILE, they're care ful not to queer the half turn already made in American pole icy on Formosa by talking too much. There never was such a season of official silence here as followéd the Truman-Maec-Arthur blowup. . Sy Thus far Foreign Minister ‘George Yeh and Defense Minister Lieut. Gen. Kuo Chi-chiao are the only top figures to comment: on the new American mission, They did so cautiously,

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