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- Best Way to Avoid War

V in what obviously’ was HE PRESIDENT last night, in W } intended as a reply to Gen. MacArthur, stressed the awesome and terrible possibility” of an atomic war. . “No matter how good our air defense may be, or how big an air force we build, a determined air attack by the Soviet Union could drop bombs upon this country,” Mr. n said. he best defense against such an attack, he added, is to prevent the outbreak of another world war and achieve | peace.” : jt Americans will disagree with either statement. But it is possible to accept both without sharing the President's assurance that his present policies will prevent another world war, achieve real peace or win the war we are already Sa Secretary Marshall's self-censored testimony pefore the Senate Committee yesterday also failed to satisfy

on the same count, in our opinion. . # .

. ” . THAT testimony included an apparent contradiction 3t f Mr.- Truman's own assertions. The President said he had refused to extend the area of conflict in Korea on “the best collective military advice in this country.” - h Yer Gen. Marshall said he had “urgently recommended adoption of a proposal by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to permit “hot pursuit” of enemy planes for a stated distance beyond “the Yalu River into Manchuria, but we were Yorced to

shandon that plan because the 13 nations allied with us in ichting voted solidly against it. a fe That seems to indicate that, though the United States {s bearing 95 per cent of the war burden, vital strategy is being dictated by 13 nations represented in Korea by mere

token forces. s ” ” i their feet on THESE same nations are dragging the American proposal for economic sanctions against Red

China. : La “We cannot go it alone in Asia and go it in compahy

Mr. Truman contended. : 4 gu it be more hazardous to go it alone than to continue to let ourselves be hamstrung, against our bene judgment, by so-called Allies who insist on working So "sides of the street? Can we depend on them in Europe i 't in Asia? > mun some place, we shall have to insist that our fiends stand up and be counted. We are losing most of the blood and we have, at least, the right to expect our _ Allies to stop trading with the enemy, as some of them ing right now. pre I tais ie the “system of collective security” which the President says we are helping to set up, we should demand that it be replaced by a one-for-all-and-all-for-one arrangement. Any hitch-hikers who might leave us onZsuch a showdown would be no loss. Money we are wasting on them could be spent to far better purpose if divided among the nations, including Nationalist China, which are willing to fight. ; About all that can be gathered from those portions of Secretary Marshall's testimony that survived his censorghip is that he favors our present course because he believes it less likely than the course advocated by Gen. MacArthur to involve us in war with Russia. 2 » . B -. » THAT IS conjecture. What is more probable is that we encourage Soviet aggression by official utterances which could lead the Russians to believe that we so fear them and their atom bombs we dare not risk offending them by exerting enough force to end the war in Korea. If there is a “best way” to prevent a third world war it is to be prepared to win one if it is forced on us—so well prepared to deliver our big bombs nn the other fellow’s doorstep that he will be as anxious to avoid breaching the peace as we are eager to preserve it. Our safety depends on swift and adequate prepared- . Let's get going faster. a to PO Marshall's self-censorship didn't pass much to refute Gen. MacArthur's opinion that the Chinese Reds can be forced out of Korea by cutting off

their supplies.

Radar . . . A Life Saver

AYOR BAYT announced yesterday the city will buy two radar units to use in its war against speeding. This is a wise move and well worth the money. Local tests of units from Columbus, O., seem to indicate radar will be a great help in traffic control. We need help . . . badly. Already 1130 persons have been injured on our streets this year. Last vear, for the same period, 975 were injured. The record is not good, and there is nothing to indicate that it will become any better . . . unless we do something about it. Twenty-five were killed in this same period last year... 25 this year. Last year, Indianapolis led the nation in cities of this size in traffie deaths. Will we lead them again this year? Purchase of the radar equipment may stop-us from "reaching this infamous goal. At least it will be a good start. Indianapolis can be the safest city in the world . . . but only if the citizens are willing to take the time ...the trouble . . . and spend the money.

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It's Your Vote ... . Use It

OR MANY years now we've heard talk about dirty politics, about the people being the slaves of the politician and the powerful political machine, about fixes and deals. We've heard 1t this year and wilk hear it next. We'll hearvit as long as there is free speech in this country... thank God for that. - 4Ve've heard it from people who vote, those who don't and those who can't. But there is only one answer. The wer of fhe nation does not lie with the politician or the political candidate. It lies with the people. It’s your vote. Use it . . . the way you want to , . . but use it today. : ;

LONDON VS. MOSCOW . . . By Ludwell Denny ~~ Labor Government Puts Price Ceili

LONDON, May 8—The Labor government has given up Its policy of a Big Four Conference at almost any price, It won't postpone or cut its rearmament program as Russia demands at the Paris deputies’ agenda meeting and as Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison has been tempted to do. Another reversal by the ambitious Mr. Morrison {in search of popular favor is not impossible but he's apparently ‘learned a per-

sonal lesson of the difficulty of dealing with ~

Stalin. Moreover, Prime Minister Attic and the Foreign Office officials who have had longer experience are finally fed up with nine weeks of Boviet propaganda and run-around

at Paris. So revival of a soft British line at

, the Deputies’ Conference is unlikely.

This may determine the fate of the Paris meeting. because both the Russians and the French have been counting on Britain to cave In at the last minute, igolating the United States and forcing a Foreign Ministers’ Conference on Stalin's terms. » With Britain holding the balance of power, she can make Russia accept one of the three Allied alternative agenda proposals-—which

Soviet Delegate ‘Gromyko rejects—or fix the blame on Moscow for the-conference failure. Education of the new British Foreign Secretary—to" which Gromyko so unwittingly but.

The Thundering Herd

By Talburt

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PRICE CONTROLS /. . By Frederick C. Othman Lawmakers Dig In for Fight About Beefsteaks and Beeswax

WASHINGTON, May 8—The two-ring yack-ety-yak begins this week over the price of beefsteak, beeswax, and battering rama. Over the

price of practically everything, really. My ears already are beginning to hurt, like my pocket-

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the present price control law, under which that Cadillac salesman was arrestad in Los Angeles, expires on July 1. Unless Congress shakes {ts stumps with a new law, there won't be any price controls. So both the Senate and the House are opening hearings, With witnesses hotfooting from one side of the Capitol to the other to answer the ’ questions of ‘he statesmen. President Truman's boys want a much tougher jaw than the present one. My guess is that the law-givers will slap 'em down. The price of meat, even as in the proceedings which doomed ‘the OPA of Chester Bowles, seems to be the principal subject. I don’t know why. We don't eat the stuff at our house, except on Bundays, when we splurge with ‘99 cents-a-pound hamburger. It makes very little difference to me whether the price goes higher still, or whether meat disappears entirely from the butcher shops. I take chicken, which my bride grows under violet-ray light. and fish. fresh from the Potomac. Mike DiSalle’s meat price rollback orders mean little to me, ¢ The redoubtable Mike claims that beef prices today are 154 per cent of that mysterious thing called parity. The way I figure it, this means

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that he wants all $1.54 beefsteaks marked down to $1. The thing is a 'iitle more complicated than this, but I trust I'll get no complaints from

him about this -dispat¢h, or from the cattle

boys, either.

They're gore, They insist that when they lower the price of steaks on the hoof 10 per cent a week hence. 41; per cent more in August, and another 413 per cent in October, there isn't going to be any meat at any price. Everybody's trying to market his cattle now before the rules take effect.

That's oversimplification, too, but I wouldn't be surpriced -if there aren't some real butcher: shop bargains before this month is out. If so, I'll fill my food locker.

Thereafter, according tc the cattle feeders, they'll be out of the business of fattening steers. They predict chaos in the meat business. Already the 8enate Agriculture Committee, which throws a good deal of weight, is demanding that Mike abandon the rollback before we are turned into a nation of vegetarians.

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HE ISN'T going to do it. Fact is, he intends to put controls on the prices of lamb, veal and mutten, which he claimg are higher even than beef. I guess he's right at that. Mrz. O. said she looked at four lamb chops the other night and not having an armored car in which to bring such qua items home, ghe did not buy. We had scrambled eggs.

DiSalle, his bosses and his underlings even now are preparing their speeches for the Congressmen. 80 are the packers, the cattle raisers, the feed-lot owners, and the retail butchers. This is going to be hard on the paper supply. because they've got to make a lot of copies of their prose. Later the statesmen will consider paper. It, too, i& high in cost and short of supply. I know one good reason why.

But it has assigned six gpokesmen to sit with public and labor groups in the 18-member three - sided agency. It succeeds a nine - member board: from which the ]abor members withdrew Feb. 16 in protest againgt the present wagefreeze formu-

la. Management has pre- Or Taylor . . . diced that: ~~ Anti.Compulsion

NE: The new board will soon abandon the wage-freeze formula and through higher ceilings on wages will contribute to inflation; ; TWO: Will give labor unlons a practicable way of bypagsing the Taft-Hartley Law

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effectively contributed in the past month—is only a part of the explanation for the belated switch’ of London policy. : Another factor was the sincere miscalculation by Foreign Office experts which -is now cor-

Stalin in proposing the cofiterence was prepared

“to compromise. And they stubbornly stuck by

that faea during all these months despite the mounting evidence .to the contrary. At last they are coming around to the U. 8. State Wepartment's sizeup from the beginning that the only arms settlement acceptable to

Stlain 1s a complete Alljed sellout and that the’

major purpose of any conference is to divide the Allies by propaganda and trickery. British public and press demand for a Big Four Conference virtually on Stalin's terms had

been maintained at a high pitch until about a

fortnight ago. Since then it has receded. So far as the public is concerned, Gromyko has overplayed his hand. And as a result the Labor Government: ts less a prisoner of appeasement hysteria than before. > In speeches Sunday night, Secretary Morrieon and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gaitskell began to prepare the public for collapse of the Paris sessions. a Illogically, or at least unexpectedly, the left{st labor revolt led by resigned Labor Minister Bevan enabled the Attlee-Morrison right wing to take a firmer attitude toward Russia. Mr.

Bevan, after his inability to marshal a sizable parliamentary following, decidled on second"

thought to limit his revolt for the moment to criticizing but not voting against the government and ‘thus not forcing the Tory-desired general election. Even without these domestic developments, however, the labor. government probably would have decided in view of the international sityation that Britain could not afford to split with the United States at the Paris conference. The raw materials shortage will be grave here soon unless Britain gets larger allocations from America. This applies not only to the rearmament program but also directly to the life-or-desth export industries. .

Withéut more raw materials from the U. 8,

Hoosier Forum--‘What a Laugh’

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‘All Politics’

MR. EDITOR: You Republicans kill me. You say you want the investigation of the current foreign affairs problem public and open. Now, if they were open, and someone dared to insinuate that Gen, MacArthur was anything less than perfect in his handling of the Korean War, you would be shouting, “Smear, smear, smear.”

On the other hand, if the hearings were closed, you would shout, “Whitewash, whitewash, whitewash.” You don’t want anything in this world more than you want a political issue to keep waving ‘back .and forth from now until the elections in 1952. ‘No matter how dangerous that may be for the unity of the people in the face of a common enemy or for the unity of this country and its Allies, just get some politics to help the good old Republican cause. “ Hrd

FOR my money, that is pretty close to treason. What difference does it make whether vou aid and comfort the enemy for money or for political reasons? H=2 has your secrets both ways, doesn't he? I want to know what -has been and is going on all down the line, let the chips fall where they may. I don't relish, however, seeing this country made a monkey of before the whole world. s Incidentally, if the Gen. Wedemeyer papers of 1947 were no more definite than what you published the other night, what has the shouting been about? Pretty dull, if you ask me. —Local Reader, City.

‘Let's Have the Truth’ MR. EDITOR: :

When I went home from work the other night, I caught your headline, which read something like this: “Some One Down .the Line Vetoes Chief of Staff Decision.” the inference was, that the Joint Chiefs agreed with MacArthur in Korea and someone, probably Mar. shall or Truman, vetoed the whole idea.

Now, I read the questions and answers about _

that which appeared in your paper. What the Chiefs of Staff were agreeing to in no way

resembled what MacArthur and his followers have been saying. Someone wishes the people to believe something which just is not there to date. The sad part of this is that the vast majority of people read headlines and a paragraph here and there, or listen to some radio commentator, who wishes to push his ideas and never get the actual facte.

The original ‘documents show what the Chiefs of Staff agreed to Jan. 12 was: ONE: To strengthen our blockade of China, which we certainly have done. TWO: To further the blockade, including other nations, if and when the situation in Korea became stabilized, or we were driven out, Would vou say either of those conditions had been fulfilled to date? Nevertheless, we are still trying to get the rest of the world to blockade China. THREE: To permit our planes to reconnoiter beyond the Yalu. Now reconnaisance is not bombing bases, by a long shot. This is not all by any means, but it is just a sample of how the people are being fooled unless they read exactly word for word what is said in this investigation. -—F. M., City

By Galbraith LABOR...By Fred W. Perkins

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there will be unemployment and bankruptcy. Under these ciréumstances, the Anglo-American disagreement over China is serious enough

without adding a conflict over the Big Four

Conference to infuriate the Americans.

On top of that the Iranian nationalizationof British oil rights in violation of contract is’

patently the severest blow to the British Empire since the loss of India. Especially is this trus because Iraq and others are waiting to see whether Iran gets away with it. Meanwhile Egypt is threatening to kick the ‘British out of the Suez zone military base, the biggest in the Mid-East.

Probably the only thing that can save Britain in the Middle-East—her essential oil source and communications lifeline with the Commonwealth Nations—is quick and close Anglo-American co-operation, in that area. Though the British public 18 almost completely unaware of the size of the stakes involved, Messrs. Attlee and Morrison and Conservative leaders Churchill and Eden are deeply concerned.

Taasssesssessasenss

‘He's a Great Guy, but... MR. EDITOR: Well, MacArthur is a great guy, but in my opinion he'd be a much greater guy if he would have confined his parades to say, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and then have urged the other cities to spend the money they would have spent on confetti, decorations and the like for the cancer fund, or some other worthwhile fund. Wonder if any agree?

Also a question that came to my mind is this. How many of you who went to see his parades would .go to greet the soldiers coming back from Korea? I'll bet darned few, and what a shame

. that we would accord one man so much honor

and those under him or some other general so little. One is just as high in my estimation as the other, maybe higher, for all I know.

Remember the saying, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and the things to God

~ that are God's.” Well. I think we certainly got

out of hand on MacArthur, You'd think he was God the way people acted. And the booing of the President at the ball game wag an indication of just how low we can get. Of all the uncultured displays, that was it.

—James V. Sutherland, City.

SERVICEMAN

EVERY man who wears the colors , . . of the old red, white and blue . . . is a guardian of freedom . .. and all that is good and true « « . be he soldier or a sailor . . . or Unifed States Marine ... he deserves respect from people. . . . who enjoy a peace serene ... may the good Lord always bless him . . . may He keep him safe from harm . . . and may dear God guide him homeward . . . home to city or to farm . .. so it is I write this message . . . with ‘the hope that he will know . . . that a million prayers are with him . . . in each place that he may go. ~—By Ben Burroughs.

Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY MOSCOW . celebrated May Day with Stalin reviewing the Red army amid war whoops for peace, t oh JUDGING from his pictures, Aneurin Bevan should be battling for free haircuts. o& o» “oe IT IS A wonder more radio commentators don't blow their tops séreaming at us to be calm. > So IT MAY be difficult to put a ceiling on beef, but it is impossible to curb beefing in the U. 8S. A.

*. 9% & . NONE OF the college basketball crooks got their primary education in a one-room school with an under-paid teacher, °o 4. PD

MAYBE Harold Stassen can arrange a meeting between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. ¢ 4 ¢ MENTAL Strength for Home Defense —guided misetied sometimes miss. “° IF MAN .can survive A-bombs as well as picnic ants do DDT he is here to stay.

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(which Mr. Truman and union leaders oppose);

THREE: Will mean the substitution of government decrees for collective bargaining dure ing the defense emergency.

Objection No. 3 contemplates there will be actually compulsory arbitration-—not in that form, but through official findings enforced by the government's prestige. The business spokesmen asserted that was the way operations of the War Labor Board worked out in World War II. :

5 2 8 =n SUPPORTERS in Congress of the Taft-Hasrtley I,aw have been asked by biiainess spokesmen to observe operations of the wage stabilization board. If the evils turn up as pre-

*dieted, Congress could act, pos-

¢ibly by changing the Defense Production ‘Act, under which 4 oa

wage as well as price stabilization is being attempted. It will expire June 30 and must either be temporarily extended or enacted In revited form, Dr. George W. Taylor, University of Pennsylvania professor on eave to act as chair. man of the wage board during its organizational period—has opposed substitution of government compulsion for voluntary bargaining between labor and management.

How the entire board will line up on this question will be seen soon after the members are sworn in and begin to function today. Paul LL. Styles, a former union official who is now a member of the National Labor Relations Board enforcing the Taft-Hartley Law, warned against ‘‘shortcuts” to the bénefita of collective bargaining. This was in a Philadelphia gpeech before a convention of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, 8 MR. STYLES made no mention of the Wage Stabilization Board, and associates said he

Management Distrusts New Wage Board

WASHINGTON, May R8-—~The new Wage Stabilization Board will begin this week to write its record. And management gpokesmen predict it will not be good, from their standpoint. Management. as represented by the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, has resisted the added powers given by President Truman to this board.

did not have that agency In mind. But he expressed alarm

because “we hear quite a bit of talk that seems to suggest that collective bargaining should ba ‘emporarily sidetracked, and that it is a luxury we cannot afford in such times 6f crisis.”

The NLRB member said, “Before either management or labor, for reasons of their own immediate advantage, decide to follow a will-of-the-wisp substitute for collective bargaining .. . let them remember that industry and labor not only enjoy more freedom but are more productive when they work together under mutually agreed terms than under conditions dictated by government.

“Emergency and stabilization measures mean modification of collective bargaining,” Mr. Styles said, but “management and labor, to preserve and augment their joint strength, should fashion those modifications through negotiation. To do otherwise ia to forget the lessons of recent history and in the process lose the larger

fight in which we are now engaged.” ~

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