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‘Confidence In Us’

“Committee was a display of intellectual power and uncompromising faith in fundamental American. principles such as had not been seen in Washington for many a day. Those who brought about his summary removal from

his command in the Far East performed an unintended service to our country.

His return has made it possible for his wise counsel to

be spoken here at home, where it was—and long has been— desperately needed. The prevailing tendency of official Washington has been to view everything Russian or Communistic through the magnifying glasses of timidity, and to speak America’s case with apologetic reservations. , Now the compelling voice of this one man has given the American people restored basis for faith in old-fashioned patriotism and courage.

FORMER Gov. Philip LaFollette of Wisconsin, who served under Gen. MacArthur in the Pacific War, is one who well understands why this great American soldier has many enemies and detractors. A large segment of the so-called intellectuals, he says, appears ‘‘determined not to face the tremendous troubles arising in 1951 from policies pursued in the 1940's.” To such, MacArthur is a most unwelcome symbol of reality. The Communists and fellow travelers hate him because “he has been the firmest and most successful leader among democratic nations in resisting their inroads wherever he had responsibility.” And he is “poison tq those in power in Washington” because “he is a doer rather than a sitter”—because he knows that “in a dynamic world, procrastination must mean inevitable defeat.” : Those who want peace and freedom, without being prepared to fight for them if need be, naturally shrink from the advice of a leader who proclaims that it is better to accept calculated risks than to compromise with evil

BUT we can preserve neither peace nor freedom unless “we have leadership with vision and courage. . : Had Gen. MacArthur, rather than Gen. Marshall, headed the mission President Truman sent to China in 1946, we may be sure he would not have advised abandonment of the Nationalists. For MacArthur knew that China, once the Communists controlled it, would become a threat to America’s safety.

Had MacArthur's advice been sought, and followed, then, we might today have 450 million friends in China instead of 450 million people whom the Reds can use against us. - Even after the disastrous Marshall mission, the China tragedy might have been averted if State Department policy had been shaped by MacArthur's counsel, instead of being turned over to Gen. Marshall as Secretary of State, and later to Dean Acheson.

It is impossible to imagine Douglas MacArthur standing hat in hand before our so-called United Nations Allies, beseeching them not to sell the Reds weapons for use against our own groups, as the American delegation felt constrained to do last week. . The vacillating ignorance of American diplomacy is losing the World War II victory which brave Americans won at fearful cost. The present war in Korea is a direct result of weak State Department leadership, itself undermined by Red termites. Some of the same men responsible for America’s defeat in China have been permitted to take over conduct of the Korean War. . = ” u 5 » » WHEN they appear for questioning by the Senate committee their plans, if any, for concluding that war should be weighed against their blunders and bad guessing which got us into the present predicament. And their strategy for the Pacific should be weighed against their failure to put real iron into plans for defense of the Atlantic. There is no quick, no easy way out of our terrible dilemma. Some tough decisions need to be made and carried through. They won't be even made, let alone carried through, if the “sitters’” continue to sit on the “doers.” Gen. MacArthur fears neither Red China nor Soviet Russia. And this is not, as his slanderers would have us believe, because he is a vainglorious military adventurer. It is because he has “confidence in us’-—confidence in the American people. Many of those who have had voices in shaping American policy since World War II 40 not share that confidence. If they did, all the Democrats on the Senate committee would not have voted against open hearings for MacArthurwould not thus have revealed their failure to understand that unwillingness to trust the people can be blamed for most ‘of our trouble. :

Short-Sighted Friends

BRITISH Malaya has sent 120.000 tons of rubber to the Chinese Communists in the last nine months, according to official figures of the British Colonial Office. This is about 100,000 tons more than the total supplied to the Chinese Reds in all of 1949. Another 40,400 tons of rubber were sold to Russia by Malaya and Singapore in the same period.

| With that additional amount of rubbér for our stock- : |

piles, it wouldn't be necessary: for our auto-makers to turn out cars with only four tires. But it's doubtful if the British Socialist ‘Government is interested in that. Put it another way, though: If we had that much more rubber, we could ease the rearmament load on Britain,

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_whichgin turn—according to pneurin Bevan—would make possid®e more dentures and eye~glasses for our short-sighted

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( ENERAL MacArthur's testimony ‘before the Senate

i J DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Madden Woos Polish Votes

WASHINGTON, May 7—There are a lot of Polish votes in Lake County. That may account for the Dean of the Indiana Democrats in Congress, Rep. Ray Madden, Gary, a pioneer new dealer, joining the GOP anvil chorus and shouting: Q "Agreements made at Yalta

in the wastebasket.” In saying such things for second time in House speeches, Mr. Madden did preface it with ‘‘Russia has broken its promises.” ‘That doesn't place the burden entirely on the shoulders of President Roosevelt, as the Republicans do. Occasion of the latest Mad-

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Mr. Madden .. 405 outburst—on this subject

Russia, not FD was the 160th anniversary of the adoption of the Polish national constitution May 3. Reciting the patriotic history of Poland and the sad fact of its delivery to the Communists after World War II, Mr. Madden declared: “Poland has a right to demand the restoration of her eastern boundaries as they were in

+ 1839 and her western boundaries permanently

fixed on the Oder-Niesse line. This is territory of which she has been robbed and it must be returned. “The Russian betrayal, as it allowed the Nazi overlords to slaughter the Polish people, will be recorded as history's most barbarous duplicity and treachery.” :

Hits ‘Isolationists’ THE LAKE COUNTY Congressman: then assailed “isolationists’” for keeping the United States out of the League of Nations and to plead for all-out support of the United Nations now. If Russia can be made to co-operate with the United Nations, the Polish problem can be solved, he maintained. His speech concluded: - “The mistakes made at Yalta six years ago today in yielding to the Russians must be corrected and rectified. At that time, our military leaders underestimated our strength. We did not know then that the atom bomb was soon to knock Japan into surrender. “Yalta and Tehran and the results of the mistakes incident to those conclaves will be a threat to world peace until the day comes when the Soviet aggressor retreats behind its own border. Russia has broken its promises— agreements made at Yalta and Tehran should be thrown in the wastebasket.”

HEARINGS ... . By James Daniel

Censor’s Job-

WASHINGTON, May 7—An old Navy flier is proving here that it is possible to be a censor and be popular at the same time. Most censors are cordially hated—if not for the things thgy take out, then for the things they leave in. But Vice Adm. Arthur C. Davis, the censor at the MacArthur hearings, is managing to stay on good terms with all sides. - Both the Republicans, who demanded open hearings to protect the public against being given a warped version of what goes on, and the Democrats, who successfully insisted on closed ones to protect the national security. have praised his judgment. Adm. Davis is well suited for his present job. He has enough rank to be able to make his own decisions. And his regular job as staff director for the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has given him a complete familiarity with the issues involved. He's also a speed reader, one of those people who can skim th8usands of words while the ordinary person is covering a few paragraphs. Up to now, the press and the public have been getting the MacArthur testimony mostly within an hour after it is given, despite the handling required to_transcribe it, type it, pass it through the cens®f, mimeograph it and hand it to reporters. All this technical work goes on a floor below the hearing room. . « 3 & ADMIRAL DAVIS says so far he has cut out “a great deal less than one per cent” of the testimony on security grounds. Part of what he cut out was later cleared for release. Still more is to be reviewed by the Senators this week for possible giving out to the public. The Admiral was asked today if anybody senior to him in the Pentagon had given him any instructions when he was assigned to the censoring job. No,” he replied, “I've had to make up my own rules. I was in Omaha when Rear Adm. William C, Lalor, Secretary of the Joint Staff, telephoned me and said, ‘Art, pack.’ I got in Washington the next morning at 7 and went straight to the Capitol. “My rule has been not to cut out anything if I could possibly avoid it. Two things you don’t want to do. You don’t want to authenticate for the enemy what you think his capabilities are. “Second. if there are some features of your plans that haven't been made public or leaked out: don't make the enemy a -present of them"

CONTROLS . . . By Earl Richert

Cattlemen Scream fi At Price Rollback

WASHINGTON, May 7—One big figure, so big it might as well be emblazoned in neon lights, haunts the cattle industry as it screams bloody murder against the price rollback on beef. It is the Agriculture Department's calculation that as of Apr. 15, U. 8, farmers were getting prices equivalent to 152 per

cent of parity for their cattle,

and Tehran should be thrown

THE COW AND | . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Fat Man, Watch They're Packed Full of Calories

WASHINGTON, May 7--All these years I vainly have been trying to reduce. I even quit eating ice cream and turned to raspberry sherbet as a watery substitute, but the fatter I continued to grow.

Now it develops that the sherbet was the villain. A dish of this : contains 257 calories, 3 while the same size plate of vanilla holds only 200. For this information and more as = startling I am indebt- ==: ed to Dr. J. H. Frand- & sen, professor emeritus ‘of the Depart- as ment of Dairy Indus- = try, University of Massachusetts, == Amherst. Dr. Frandsen probably knows more about cows than anybody else. He is a frequent visitor to Washington and when in town he nearly always manages to tip me off to an exciting story involving his favorite subject. A great and good friend he is. Now he and Dr. D. Horace Nelson have written a book entitled, ‘Ice Cream and Other Frozen Desserts.” This is a technical treatise intended strictly for the manufacturers of the stuff. Dr. Frandsen said it certainly was no story for me because who but an ice-cream maker cared about the proper way to put frozen, whipped cream rosebuds on the top of ice-cream ples? I said I did. I talked him out of a copy and from now on Drs. Frandsen and Nelson are doing the talking: An amateur can waste a lot of cream messing up those rosebuds, which are supposed to be squeezed deftly from a bag with a hole in it. It is wise for him to practice with mashed potatoes. = Mrs. Alexander Hamilton was the first hostess. to serve ice cream in the United States. It went on sale retail in New York in 1777 and it was expensive as sin. It cost $1.25 per quart. Some people like ginger ice cream, made by chopping four pounds of preserved ginger root and adding to five gallons of mix. Others go for ice cream flavored with peanut brittle, crumbled sponge cake, figs, and pistachio. This latter frequently is made with chopped walnuts, green coloring and pistachio extract. Seventy-five per cent of ice-cream eaters

SIDE GLANCES

Those Sherbets:

take vanilla. Chocolate, which is next in popularity, is difficult to freeze because it .is viscous. Only 8 per cent of the people eat strawberry ice cream.

The ice-cream soda was introduced at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. The ice-cream cone at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Even worse for reducers than raspberry sherbet is lemon pie. A piece of that is more than twice as fattening as a dish of ice cream. Considerable Research THERE can be nothing phony about ice cream. Unless it's made properly of the best and freshest ingredients any old taster can tell there's something wrong with it. One of the most important parts of the taste is the feel to the tongue. The authors have done considerable research on the feel. : They recommend numerous de luxy soda fountain delicacies. My favorite is “The Touchdown.” Put one chocolate-covered Brazil nut.in the bottom of a glass: dish, add one No. 16 dipper of butter pecan ice cream, pour over this

one ounce of heavy coffee syrup and garnish with whipped cream and a red cherry.

“Note,” the doctors add. “The chocolatecovered Brazil nut is intended to represent the football, and, when the patron eating the sundae reaches the bottom of the glass, he has ‘made a touchdown.”

Gentlemen, I thank you, and I hope your book is a best-seller in the trade. I'll never touch raspberry sherbet again.

HE IS NO FRIEND

HE is no friend who gives you thoughts . .. that keep you feeling low . . . he is no friend who says it’s dark . . . when sunshine spreads

its glow . . . he is no friend who pats your back . . . but really envies you . , . for all the things you max have done . . . and things that you might do . .. he is no friend who laughs when you ... may make a rash mistake . . . and he is not a friend who looks . . . while you piledrive the stake . .. he's not a friend who says you're right . . . when you are really wrong . . . for woe betide the fellow who . .. will always go along . .. all I have said . . . is more than true . and you'll agree of course .. . he is no friend who lets you walk , . . while he rides proud his horse.

—By Ben Burroughs.

By Galbraith

“MR. EDITOR: oT Si May I, through your Hoosier Forum, make

Hoosier Forum

“1 do not agree with 8 word that you tay, * but | will defend to the death your right - fo say it."—Voltaire. :

SOIETRTREENRININIININ

‘Radar’s Not Impressive’ MR. EDITOR: May I put in my two cents worth about the radar device and the traffic problem in general? First off, I am not at all impressed with the. radar device you seem so anxious for Indianapolis to purchase. You see, speeding is only one of many causes for the terrible. fatality rate due to automobile accidents. The same

for drunken driving. Both are very serious viola-

tions. : However, a person driving 32 miles per hour, or one having had two or three highballs, especially if, it is a first offense, does not deserve the. same penalty as that of an habitual offender, Speeding should be more glearly defined as in our Indiana State law for the highway which is. .I "believe, reasonable and .proper. For in-

zone is obviously driving entirely too fast. Yet out on the highway the same speed is usually dangerously slow. Tiger As for the driver license issued and driver tests, in Indiana they are far from perfect. Anyone . . .no exceptions . . .not mentally or physically able to drive a car should certainly be denied a driver's license. However, we all know there are many unfortunate people, some can’t see well, others just too old, who should never be behind the wheel of an automobile. There should be much more drastic laws concerning the “junkers” operating by the thousands in both tfle cities and the country. Some may have faulty brakes or a bad windshield wiper. Most important and by far most foolhardy are the individuals driving slowly down the highway with no sign of a tail light. This too, is the cause of many terrible wrecks. I know, because I've seen human beings crushed in a jumbled mass of steel and glass . . . all because of no tail light. Let us pity and recognize the hot rod and its young driver. This is a phase very much in existence and Indianapolis should wage up to that fact. In many other simflarly progressive cities, prominent citizens have helped organize various clubs for these boys and arranged for a suburban area to be set up so they would be able to have their drag races and the like under the safest conditions 2. LET US consider, not least by any means, and the one thing traffic enforcement officers cannot regulate in any way. Courtesy. What a peculiar thing that respectable men and women, when once under the wheel, become wild animals with little or no regard for the other fellow. Dim your lights always when following as well as approaching another car. In heavy traffic, if you see a fellow trying ‘to pull out of a side street, let him through. You'll be surprised how a little courtesy for the other fellow can make things look a bit brighter for yourself. One thing more—if you are in the country on a heavily traveled highway and you want to go slow, try swinging over to the shoulder, with conditions permitting. I've seen State Police do it. You try it sometime. Catching speeders may help, but in the long run it is up to you and me . . . —Richard E. Riley, Anderson.

‘Clean Up Streets

a few pertinent suggestions in conjunction with the current traffic drive and clean up week. First of all, I suggest that the City set a good example of clean up week by having the winter's filth cleaned out of the gutters. In some streets south, it is curb-deep, and as yet no signs of the street cleaners. = And about the traffic drive . . . how about cracking down on all offenders . . . not just spedders. There are other practices just as dangerous, such as throwing open car doors and stepping out in the line of traffic. Also improper lighting on cara at night. These two offenses especially, I note almost daily everywhere, Another suggestion I'd like to make is to make filling station operators, and others who load and unload to stay within their own boundaries and not block sidewalks, making it necessary. for pedestrians to walk out in the street. One thing more which I think would help cut down accidents considerably. Pass a law outlawing use of the horn on a car except for warning purposes. This would make drivers rely more on their brakes and common-sense driving instead of the horn which makes many of them. arrogant. - ? —Both Driver and Pedestrian, City.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

HOLLYWOOD-—Tennis cutie Nancy Chaffee is going to go Gussie Moran one better, with white knitted shorts, highlighted with beads outlining a tiny tennis court. : These lovely shorts on tennis courts Are really quite a racket. From all the sports we get reports, They'll fill the house—yes, pack it.

And if perchance those fancy pants Of lovely Nancy Chaffee Do not entrance at just a glance - Then, brother, we're plain dafty!

LABOR . . . By Fred Perkins

t Will Southern Strikes Reveal Wage Policy?

WASHINGTON, May 7—Governmeént efforts to settle the Southern textile strike are being watched closely by management and union leaders for a key to future policies of the new Wage Stabilization Board.

Some of them anticipate that the dispute eventually will get

That's 52 per cent mare than the so-called official yardstick says is a tair price for cattle— measured against the cost of the things the cattlemen must buy at today’s prices. The department savs that on Apr’ 15 farmers were receiving an average of $30.20 per hundred pounds for their cattle while £19.90 per hundred would have been sufficient to give them full 100 per. cent of parity. With this situation existing, the cattlemen aren't getting much sympathy from the Office of Price Stabilization, which recently ordered price ceilings on raw. cotton when it was only 125 per cent of parity.

a " uv BUT THE cattle industry, growers and packers -allke, are raising a shout that, if It weren't for the MacArthur -hearings, would be making the front pages. The announced intentioh— since they can't get anyplace with Price Administrator Michael DiSalle—is to get beef prices exempt from price ceil:

ings in the price control renewal law. which must be passed before June 30, if price controls are not to expire,

The packers and cattlemen are descending on Washington in delegations to enlist their Con en and Senators in their cause, One small packer, Chris Finkbeinér .of Little

at

Rock. Ark.. announced, for example, that he had been successful in lining up his state's seven Congressmen and two Senators against beef price controls But the cattlem:n sav they still are far from having their fight won in Congress. (Hearings on the renewal bill open today).

- ” “WE DO not have sufficient commitments yet to indicate that the blocking of the beef order can take. place,” said C. B. Heinemann, president of the National Independent Meat Packers Ass'n. Price control officials say the success of the beef rollback and stabilization program is the keystone of the whole controls setup. “If we can't do anything - about the sky-high beef prices, I don't see how we can hold the lid on anything else,” said one top official. The cattlemen say" experience shows that price controls just won't work on : beef there'll be black marketing and shortages no matter how well OPS does on enforcement. As did the cotton men, they claim beef i5 a commodity which does not lend itself to price controls its whole marketing and distribution process is too complicated.

5 ” ” : THEY claim that black marketing already has started and shortages have appeared in

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certain areas. A lot of beef will be lost, it is said, because cattle feeders won't buy and fatten out cattle on wgh-priced grain. (The Agriculture Dehowever; that all grain prices are still below parity. : Tie small packers say taney are being ‘squeezed hard” and are losing money, particularly

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most small slaughterers. They claim they can’t get any promises of relief from Mr. DiSaile’'s office, although their plight Fas been recognized. \ Mr. DiSalle has answered all pleas for cancellation of the rollback program by saying that it sho out. If it doesn't work, he has

indicated he would be ‘willing - Lo make changes, - :

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be given a try-

to that agency, furnishing a test of its settlement powers in

cases involving money as well

as non-economic issues.

The new board has been given jurisdiction over both

categories despite opposition from managemeént spokesmen.

In the 40 to 50 textile mills involved wage and related issues predominate. However, non-economic issues appear in some mills — including the CIO Textile Workers Union ac-

cuses the company of refusal to-bargain collectively.

THE textile strike could go to the Wage Board if Presi-

dent Truman decided that fur- -

ther mediation efforts offer no hope and that the stoppage of production is a menace to national defense preparations.

Cyrus 8. Ching, director of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Board, has asked the 40,000 strikers in half a dozen states to return to work dat once and has offered to set up a special panel to help the union and mill owners get together, This would be a medi-

ating panel--not a fact-finding -

or recommending one.

In his telegram tq the union and 24 companies MM Ching

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strike, although he said he was

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tension is essential to our national safety ard welfare.” ’ ~ EJ ~

BASIL BROWDER, vice president. of the Dan River Mills at Danville, Va.—largest company in the strike -— said that more - than 8300 of the concern’s 11,700 employees had

returned to work, that it has - and ’

no production problem, that all defense work is on schedule,

Emil Rieve, president of the Textile Workers, is a labor member of the new Wage Board. He led the union revolt against the wage-freeze formula. The strike is a chapter in a long conflict between Southern textile mills and unions which

have partially organized them. -

Wages are generally lower

. there than in Northern textile

centers. The union places the average hourly wage of Southern textile workers at $1.21 an hour

. 12 cents less than for identi-

cal work in the North. The union is’ demanding a Tl; per cent equalizing wage increase, an increase in the number of paid holidays, severance pay, and in some cases recognition of the union.

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