Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1951 — Page 22

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‘The Public Be Damned’

; E'VE heard a great ‘deal about the importance of trueks to national defense, about the ‘public service rendered by trucking firms . .. even how trucks pass lightly over our highways without doing a bit of damage. : We didn't believe it then and we believe it even less now.. Trucks do play an important part in national defense and they do render an important public service, but they also use those two stock. phrases to gain’ their own selfish ends at the expense of the public. National defense is of vital concern to every one. But we can't understand how national defense is being served very well by overloading trucks to the point where they damage the highway network of our state and nation. “ 22 ” . - ” ” THE LAST legislature passed a law to control overweight violations but the truck lobby managed to include a bétilt-in loophole under which they can still tear up our highways in spite of public disapproval. £ “Under the law, a trucker convicted of 10 or more weight violations can be prohibited from using the roads. If the convictions number more than 10 his entire fleet of trucks can be kept off the roads. All gross weight vio. lations are reported to the Public Service Commission which has the power to remove trucks from the highways. _ But the catch is: “Violations of axle weight loads are not reported and a trick cannot be removed from the road regardless of how many times the firm has violated this particular load limit. » » . EJ » . YET, we are told, this kind of weight violation actually does more harm to the highways than gross weight violations, and constitutes a direct danger to the motoring public. “National defense and public service? «is.It doesn't appear to be. It appears trucking firms are adopting a “public be damned” attitude when they should be doing everything to fulfill their public responsibility.

Three Enemies ii PRESIDENT TRUMAN told industrial leaders meeting in

Washington Wednesday that America faces three deadly

.+v ‘Aggression. Inflation. Relaxation.

4+ Of the three, he said, the worst is relaxation. And that is true.

Aggression’s threat rises from without. Only by great and unremitting efforts can our country gain the actual and potential power to meet that threat and end it. Inflation is a malignant domestic growth. Only by stern and steadfast measures, only by suppressing the dictates of business as usual and politics as usual, can its

spread be stopped. ".._The American people and their government cannot relax without inviting disaster. "Our danger has not lessened since last summer, when Korea made it plain for all to see. Russia's rulers have not abandoned their design for our country's ultimate destruction. Our preparedness program still is rolling slowly.

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‘AND the menace of inflation has grown greater. For the impact of huge armament spending is coming with increasing force. In months close ahead, expanding military preduction will claim a much larger share of materials and manpower and the share available for civilian goods and services must shrink. For ga time after Korea, Congress saw that menace plainly. Congress, then, was quick to vote higher taxes and to give the President more authority for direct control of prices and wages than he thought was necessary. Now it is the President who wants stronger weapons for the war against inflation. And it is Congress that balks at. levying taxes adequate to pay as we go for the defense program. And Congress, under pressure from special interest groups, that threatens to disarm those who are striving to make price and wage controls effective. Mr. Truman's leadership has, in truth, been less than Inspiring. But he is right in ranking inflation with aggression as an enemy of America. And he is right in warning industry—and business and labor and agriculture and Congress—that relaxation is the potent ally of those enemies.

One-Way Rules of War

THE Chinese Reds have an important supply base at Rashin, 35 miles inside Korea and the same distance from the Soviet-Siberian border. :; The Joint Chiefs of Staff declared Rashin ‘off limits" to our bombers, as well as the Communist bases just inside Manchuria. - One reason given was that to attack Rashin might involve us with the Russians. But the “main determining factor,” according to Defense Secretary Marshall's testimony, was that “we would only accomplish an immediate

destruction of those particular stores and-an equivalent Cgrran A-eould—be—set—up—just—across the Soviet ~—

boundary.” <The thought that the use of such a base within Russian territory might involve the Soviets with us does not appear to have been considered. . We wonder whether the Kremlin regards our selfimposed restrictions as evidence of forebearance or of timidity ?

Fargotten Battalion

T. GEN. JAMES A. VAN FLEET has awarded a presidential citation to the Gloucestershire (British) battalion, which lost all but 45 of its 600 men in a gallant threeday stand in April that played an important part in smashing the Red offensive in the fifth battle for Seoul. A copy of this casualty list should be posted in the British Board of Trade where some people do not seem to understand that there are grievous penalties for trading with the enemy. A 3

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DANGER IN ASIA . . . By James Daniel

Can The U. S. Get Nehru To Oppose Reds Before It's Too Late?

wasHINGTON, May 11-—The. ,American government fs still hoping that Prime Minister Nehru of India will take a stand against communism before it is.too late for himself and his country. But there are psychological obstacles in the wav, a’8 well as others. Nehru spent 12° years gal. his life in.white men's prisons. He has a sort of reverse race -prejudiee which crops. out now and then and causes him to see virtually all white men as capitalist exploiters. . . oooh A ; SECOND, he is an old Socialist, schooled with the present leaders of the British government. Even more so than they, he finds it hard to believe that the-evils of the Russian dictatorship really exist. His sister, the Indian Ambassador to Washington (and previously to Moscow), has been quoted as saying: “My brother still believes about Russia what I believed hefore I went there.” Third, ig. Nehru's view the center of world power is swinging back to Asia, in part as a result of the success of Communist arms. Belfeving that the Communists ars winning Asia, and through Asia the world, he is taking care not to offend them unduly. o> o» oe FINALLY, Nehru is aware that nations, like men, sometimes make promises which they don't intend to keep. There is a revealing story told

DEAR BOSS . .. By Dan Kidney

Bill Bray Meets An Old Friend

WASHINGTON, May 11-—-Freshman Rep. William G. Bray, Martinsville Republican, had luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel here with a Korean woman he had not seen since he was an Army colonel in Seoul . True, it was not an intimate luncheon as there were about 100 guests there to launch the CARE for Korea. The Colonel; now a Congressman, is not cnly a friend of Koreans but also a big

booster for CARE everywhere, He had accepted

the invitation to the luncheon when he learned that the principal speaker was to be Dr. #elen Kim; president of Ewha College at Seoul. It turned out that Y. T. Pyum, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, came to Washington. the. day the luncheon was held and rather took over the top spot. Nevertheless, Dr. Kim did make a stirring plea for CARE support in her country and Mr. Bray had a chance to recall their Seoul meeting. : Te As a combat tank officer in the Pacific campaign, Col. Bray came to Korea after the shooting stopped and was in charge of properties under the U. 8. Military Government. It was ‘in this role that he visited Ewha

William Bray «.. pianos and war

“College in Seoul, which has twice been evacu-

ated in the present conflict and is now in makeshift quarters at Pusan. “I was checking up on all property at the school and one of the questions I remember asking President Kim was how many pianos they had,” Mr. Bray recalled.

Perfect English

“HER reply was prompt and in perfect English. © She told me there were 50 pianos and that although she recognized the right of the U. 8. Military Government to take them all, she was confident the Colonel would not do so, as the school would like to continue with its music courses, “Of course we didn't take any of them. And Dr. Kim still is expressing her gratitude.” Dr. Kim, who has the sort of unwrinkled, ageless face and raven black hair of so many Korean women, is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and one of Korea's outstanding women. She told of the grava difficulties facing education in her wartorn homeland and of the struggle for mere survival that has been going on for months among Korean civilians-—-men, women and children, “We Koreans have had close contact with Americang on three different occasions,” Dr. Kim declared. “The first was back in 1880 when vour Christian missionaries came and established =chools and churches. “Then your Army came as liberators after the second World War. They delivered the country from the Japanese and gave it back to us. “We are now in the third contact with the Americans and so far it has not been what we had expected. Our whole future in a free world depends upon your combat troops and such relief as is provided’ by CARE.” .

Packages Stockpiled

PRESIDENT TRUMAN sent a plea for CARE-for-Korea support which was read by CARE President Murray D. Lincoln. Paul Comly French, CARE executive director, reported to the gathering that the organization already has stockpiled 32,000 food and textile packages, specifically designed for Korea, in Japan. Another 10,000 are on the way. The Korean packages contain food, underwear, socks woolen suiting, woolen blankets, cotton textile and knitting wool. They cost $7, $10 or $13, depending on the contents. More than $1 million is expected to be donated and expended on the Korean project.

SIDE GLANCES

~ here, which has the ring of truth; about a con-

versation among some non-Communist Asian leaders on whether, and how, they should attempt to stem the Red tide in Asia. :

For two days they wore themselves out in conference denouncing the old oppression of the Western colonial system. On the third day they acknowledged that. colonialism. was dead and Russian imperialism was the Teal danger. ‘All then admitted there was no hope of sufvival unless all the non-Communist Asian leaders stood together and drew major assistance from the West, especially the United States, At this .point Nehru is supposed to have re-

A Little Louder, Harry

“+ WE BARE THREE GREAT ENEMIES —

AGGRESSION = INFLATION AnD

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marked to the Philippines’ representative: “But ook" what happened to Chiang Kai-shek.” To Nehru, and to ‘other Asians, Ghiang is a symbol of an Asian leader who was used and then cast aside by the very nation to which he had committed his’ life and fortunes.

There {3 a substantial body of newspaper

and political opinion in India which is so suspicious of American Jntentions that even the saTeguards in the U.S. Senate version of the Indian wheat bill, appear as an American plot to-steal India's independence. The Senate bill would give and lend grain to India on condition that American observers

By Talburt

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PRODUCTION . . . By Frederick C. Othman Gibson's New Seat Just as Hot

WASHINGTON, May 11--Night before last I bought a vacuum-packed can of Edwin T. Gibson's best pulverized coffee. It cost me 93 cents and I suppose I shouldh’'t even mention it here. But then Gibson is a brave man. He has proved that he can take it. 8ix months ago the slim, gray-haired Gibson appeared here before the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee as vice president of General Foods Corp. New York. The Senators gave him the dickens for charging so much for coffee. He tried to explain about droughts in Brazil, Latin-American politics and all the other imponderables in the coffee trade. He said the price of coffee wasn't his fault, The more he talked the more the statesmen lambasted him and his helpers. Mr. Gibson returned to New York with a haunted look around the eyes. The months passed.

And he as a patriotic citizen succumbed to the blandishments of President Truman. He took a leave of absence from the coffee business and turned up 4h Washington as the acting administrator of* the Defense Production Administration. What do you think happened then? There was Mr. Gibson in his old hot seat in the Senate Office building, getting the business again from Senators, who were unhappy this time about the way the DPA was being run. Nobody mentioned coffee. Mr. Gibson got a break. He's only been on the job a few days. The Senators couldn't hold him responsible for what they considered the mistakes of his predecessors. Fact is, that shortly before Willlam Harrison resigned the job as boss of Defense Production, the House Appropriations Committee issued a report on the money the DPA wanted for expenses next fiscal year.

WASHINGTON, May 11 There's little reason for all the moaning about 50 and 60-cent dollars, says the government's

This indicated, according to congressional calculations, that the DPA intended to spend £1200 on travel for each one of its 300 employees, doorkeepers and typists included. “When you put it that way,” said Mr. Harrison, “it does sound absurd.” Soon thereafter Mr. Harrison quit the government and Mr. Gibson abandoned the coffee business to replace him. And as I say, he is a heroic man. He's in charge of making loans to war contractors, divvying up the business among those who want to manufacture stuff for the soldiery, and in general seeing to it that we build enough shooting irons to keep the Russkies in their place. So whatever he does about anything, somebody’s bound to think he's wrong. The coffee business never was like this, The Senators immediately demanded to know what he knew about the British selling rubber to the Chinese Reds. Did our government approve?

Got a Short Rest MR. GIBSON doubted that ~but he didn't really know much about the Oriental rubber policies of Great Britain, Sen, A. Willis Robertson (D. Va.) said he —uinderstood the British recently had cut drastically their shipments of rubber to Hong Kong. “If they had 100,000 men in Korea instead of 10,000,” he added, “this thing would have coma to a head long before this.” That gave Mr. Gibson a short rest, but it wasn't long before he was defending his organization for the way {it had treated small businessmen, located new factories and issued loans. The Senatorial concensus seemed to be that he had treated big business far better than small, This Mr. Gibson denied. He was suave about it, but earnest. He sounded almost the same as when he was denying a few months ago that his firm was guilty of skulduggery in the coffee trade. I wish him well. Maybe now that he's a government administrator he can do something about the price of coffee.

By Galbraith INFLATION . . . By Earl Richert

Is the Dollar as Bad Off as We Think?

The net effect, he said, is that the average family of today eats better, dresses better, works fewer hours, has

inspect its distribution, that India publicize out contribution, and indivdual Indians are benefited without regard to caste or creed. These

‘are standard requirements for the ald given to .

‘European countries under ECA. : But in a radio speech last week, Nehru implied that to. accept even such innocent térms would be bartering away part of Indian's freedom. He knows this is: not true. The kindest explanation here for his attitude comes from Rep. Walter Judd (R. Minn.), who says Nehru Is indulging in “adolescent rebellion” and the usual” jingoism of new nationalist leaders. The best opportunity the U. 8. had to make Nehru an ally was two years ago when he came here on a State Department tour. But that was In the heyday of the “wait for the dust to settle in Asia.” Dally; Nehru's Sate Department hosts found him more and more remote. Toward the end of his visit Louis Johnson, then Defense Secretary, renewed a wartime acquaintance and warmed Nehru up. Later, Mr. Johnson confidently predicted that India would be on our side in a showdown. The Defense Secretary was then hopeful for a U. §. policy that would block Communist conquest of Asia, and apparently had convinced Nehru we would do just that.: But the State Department's softness toward communism did not escape Nehru, and as {t continued in effect India was not with us at the showdown—on Korea. Nehru chose a benevolent neutrality,

Hoosier Forum

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

‘Ghastly Error’ MR. EDITOR:

Gen. Marshall in his defense 6f the never ending “limited war” in Korea, puts this forward as the purpose: To kill as many Chinese as possible and thus destroy their will for aggression. But, he very carefully avoids mentioning the slaughter of millions of Korean civilians, consequent upon such a policy and the complete reduction of Korea to rubble and confusion, to say nothing of the American casualties. Other small countries in the possible orbit of Russian aggression, would probably welcome Russian occupation to the United Nations and U. 8. type of “limited war” liberation. To have entered Korea with the determina-

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"tion to use every possible facility to gain a

Communist world aggression. He recalled that the cost of living became a household word soon after we began

quick decision would have been a proper decision. But, to enter the struggle the MarshallAcheson way of limited war with the terrible results from such a policy, constituted the most ghastly error in American history. It would have been much better to stay out . , .—L. A. B., ity.

‘Peace With Honor?’ MR. EDITOR:

I suppose Harry considered Old Tom Pendergast honorable because he never broke his friendship with Old Tom even after he was sent to the pen for fraud. Likewise Dean Acheson wouldn't turn his back on Hiss after he was proved to be a Communist and perjurer. . Now Harry tells us he wants to make an

some of his Fair Deal followers can explain to us how he can make an honorable peace ‘with the Reds even if they show any inclination to" make peace. My understanding is that such a peace would have to be made between persons of honor who would keep their word. Can anyone believe a Communist would keep his agreement if it was not to his best interest to do so? Furthermore how can any negotiated peace be made without the recognition of the Chinese Reds as the lawful government of China?

—C. D. C., Terre Haute.

‘Restore Confidence’ MR. EDITOR:

I wish to express my approval of your splendid editorial “Confidence in Us” (Times, May 7). Gen. Marshall in his testimony seemed weak and contradictory. Seemed to be troubled by a fear complex as does the President and his Secretary of State. I would like to nominate Gen. MacArthur to be our first deputy commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. This would restore confidence in our people and put fear in our enemies.

—A. T. Cain, 1717 N. Talbott Ave.

‘Food Booby Trap’ MR. EDITOR:

Please allow me to say just a few words about the way the super-markets are handling the meat business. The package system is a booby trap to cover up every kind of fraud on the market. It's a good way to sell meat that Is months old, but kept in refrigeration until it is unfit for human consumption.

~Mrs. M. E. Jones, 2878 LaSalle St.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Pleading guilty to felonious escape from Bing Sing Prison, a former trusty told the court he was tired of his own cooking.

‘Now, I don't mean to be too contrary, “Some things in this jail aren't bad. “Bread and water, and deep solitary; “Things like that always made me feel glad.” “But my diet would drive men to riat, “It just wasn't fit for a crook. “If you try it, you'll never deny it— “The joint sadly needs a new cook!”

well-being is to be found in totalitarian aggression; that the basic cause of inflation is the steps which we must take

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| comm. 1981 sy wea bens met AEG. 4, & PAT. OO. "| wouldn't think you'd raise such a fuss about a little

©’ avardraft, vith the dollar 10 cheap”

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top economist in effect. Chairman Leon Keyserling of the Presjdent's Council of Economic Advisers

bright side to the picture of sharp deterioration in the dollar's purchasing power over the last two decades. He doesn't defend or condone what has happened. He

Mr. Keyserling ... bright side

merely argues that the situ-

ation, as regards the dollar, isn't black at all. “A dollar, it is true, can buy less now than it could 10 or 20 years ago.” he told the Senate Banking Committee. ‘But because we have maintained our freedom, increased our pfoduction, and expanded our economy, the total number of dollars in our national income has risen miich faster than the decline in the’buying

i poweg of a single dolar.

more mechanical comforts and conveniences, - and also has moref personal savings and social security, than the average family of 10 or 20 years ago.

: Thiis, as Mr. Keyserling sees

it, the drop in purchasing power of the dollar hasn't hurt the average family at all, It has so many more dollars today that its total purchasing power is greater. Mr. Keyserling's family,” of course, {isn't one which has been living on a fixed income or pension. It is one whose bread-winners have received normal wage iIncreases, The chairman of the President’s council deplored the fact that there are some who say inflation is a greater menace to this country than Stalin. ” ” ” “HOW much was the franc

“average

worth when the Germans took

over France?’ he asked. Mr. Keyserling said that although inflation was a serious problem it was not our greatest one. The supreme task, he said, was to reglstMbe menace of

to resist Prussian militarism 35 years ago. The same problems returned in World War II. “There were even some,” he

sald, “who thought in those: earlier periods that we should .

slow down our defense pro-

grams to protect the value of

the dollar. If we had done that, we would have lost not only our dollars but our country.” Next to resisting communism, Mr. Keyserling ranked increase in production in importance. After that he named inflation controls. n ” .

HE SAID the present level-ing-off in inflationary pressures was only temporary and would become extremely serious at the end of this year, if proper control steps were not taken. He said it was imperative that Congress enact a $10 billion tax increase’: program promptly. “There cannot be a sound

underpinning for a stabilization program without a real--

to meet that aggression; and that only through winning out in this historic struggle can we in the long run protect the American dollar, the American

- family and our freedom.”

IRREPLACEABLE YOU

IT SEEMS to me that years have passed . . . since we sald our goodbyes . . . for all my hours have been blue . . . and rain has filled my skies . . . I feel as though there's nothing left . . . and I'm without a heart . . . for it was yours the night we met . . . but now we are apart . , . I am like a ship that's lost at sea. . . and knows not where to turm . . . yes, I'm all at sea my love + + « because for you I yearn + + + I cannot seem to laugh or sing . . . I cannot even smile + + . because without you darling dear... life doesn’t seem worthwhile . . . yes, days are blue . . . and. nights are long ¢ + +» my life has gone astray . + + and all because you said goodbye . . . and took yeur love away. ot

~By Bea Burroughs.

“honorable peace with the Reds In Korea. Maybe ~~

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