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GEN. BRADLEY'S testimony indicates that the Joint Chiefs of Staff lave been kept almost as much in the dark as Gen. MacArthur was about American and United Nations policy in Korea. He ‘told the Senate committee that on Feb; 13, and again on Mar. 15, the Joint Chiefs found it impossible to get an agreement with the State Department on Korean oblate . No agreement was reached because the State DepartJone wanted to wait until the military outlook had been clarified, while the Joint Chiefs sought a definition of political goals so they could settle on a course of military action, Gen. Bradley said. = * At the Mar. 15 meeting a decision was postponed to “some future meeting” —which has never yet been held. The issue, according to Gen. Bradley, “pertained primarily to whether or not we crossed the 38th Parallel’ this spring, and at that time “it was pretty much understood that we would not be able to get any political-military policy until we had been able to see what would happen in this next offensive.” He acknowledged that present policy still was “a wait-and-see proposition,” but he said it is hoped that the United States will be in position to “propose something” for a Korean settlement through negotiation. However, he explained, the specific terms of such a proposal would represent a ‘political decision” which would have to be made by the United Nations. With. such indecision in Washington, command in far-off Korea was confused objectives. In March those objectives were left to be determined after the enemy's “next offensive.” The enemy since then has launched two offensives and seems to be regrouping his forces for a third. ~ If it is repulsed, the hope in Washington appears to be that the Communists then may be willing to settle for a negotiated peace. But what if their attacks continue? There is no present plan to drive them out of North Korea, Gen. Bradley said. His testimony also revealed that the State Department and the Joint Chiefs have disagreed about Formosa's strategic value. .""We (the military leaders) have. always. had the view that Formosa had very considerable strategic value, if held by the enemy,” he said. That, of course, is Gen. MacArthur's view. Gry On Dec. 23, 1949, a confidential State Department memorandum to our diplomats abroad asserted that Formosa had ‘no special military significance” or strategic importance to the United States. Gen. Bradley said he didn't know who had advised the department on that subject. Maybe Secretary Acheson was acting as his own military adviser. Certainly Mr. Acheson, a civilian without military background, was announcing vital military policies which were contrary to the judgment bf our foremost military authorities. Even now there appears to be some confusion about the American position on the Formosa issue. The defense establishment has sent a military mission to assist in measures for defense of that island against a possible Communist attack. Yet a State Department spokesman insists there has been no change in the general American attitude toward China, which has seemed to be one of neutrality between the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Reds. So, if we have a policy, what is it?

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Expert Cpinion INDSAY C. WARREN says that the federal budget never will be cut as much as it should be until members of Congress are willing to economize at the expense of their own pet projects. Mr. Warren knows what he's talking about. For 16 years he was a member of Congress from North Carolina. Since 1940, as Comptroller General of the United States, he has been the official Walchdos of the . federal Treasury. The really big oppprtunities for saving money are, as he says, in government functions which Congress itself has authorized by law. Each such function has ardent supporters in Congress. And it's an ingrained log-rolling habit for the supporters of various functions to help each other protect their pets from economy. But, if there ever was a time when this bad habit should be broken, that time is now, when every dollar of unnecessary government sepnding is more fuel for inflation.

Hostile to Us

HE BRITISH judge in Hong Kong who awarded 40 American-made transport planes to Red China, holding their sale to Gen. Chennault “hostile to the interests of the Chinese people,” must have overlooked the point that the Chinese Communists are at war with the United Nations, including the British Empire. He seems also to have ignored some other pertinent facts. The Chinese Nationalist government sold the planes to Gen. Chennault and his associates on Dec. 12, 1949, At that time Britain recognized the Chiang Kai-shek regime as the “government of China.” Britain recognized the Red government at Peiping on Jan. 5, 1950. But, to square the record with his verdict, the Hong Kong judge held that British recognition was retroactive to Oct. 1,

1949, the date the Reds proclaimed their formation of a.

provisional government. Britain, having joined the United States in an arms embargo against the Chinese Reds, surely will not let these ‘ transport planes be delivered to them for use in servicing their troops in Korea. But, if there is any doubt of that, our own government should make sure that it doesn't Wappen. These planes, when sold on easy terms, were intended to help Nationalist China in a recovery program. Giving them to the Commyunists would be an act hostile to the interests of the American people.

MEAT PRICES .

By Earl Richert

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Cattleman Doesn’t Think Rollbacks Are Anything To Beef About

OMAHA, May 23’ .At ‘a luncheon table in

the Ifivestock Exchange building here last week’

one of the area's biggest cattilemen offered to give a check for $40,000 to any of his companfons who would assume 4’ contract he had made to purchase 2500 head of big" steers, There were no takers. The cattleman, gray-haired Bob Cooper, told this reporter that he figured he'd lose at least $80,000 on the 2500 steers as.a result of the government's beef price rollback orders, and that $40,000 would have been a cheap way out, he “BUT I'm not squawking about it.” he said. “No one twisted my arm to make me buy. And I didn’t pay much attention to all the talk about rollbaeks. It's my own fault.” © T Mr. Cooper had agreed before issuance of the rollback orders Ao buy the big steers for summer delivéry at, prices of around 33 cents a pound. a price level on which he cannot possibly make money under the rollback SEATS.

» Astoundingly enongh, Mr. Cooper thinks i

rolihack orders are probably a good thing : “We' ve, got to think ‘about the 125 million people on the East and West coast--most of them on comparatively fixed incomes--who've got to eat.” he said. As for the cattle feeders he thinks they'll eventually make more money

DEAR BOSS :. . By Dan Kidney Jacobs Urges Acheson Quster

WASHINGTON, Democratic Rep. Andrew now wants Secretary of State Acheson fired. That would seem to leave President Truman as Mr. Acheson's sole remaining supporter, « Mr. Jacobs stoutly defended Secretary Acheson throughout his term in the 81st Congress. He pioneered in urging that lL.ouis Johnson he ousted as the then Secretary of Defense, Which was done. with the appointment of Gen. George C. Marshall as his successor, Mr. Jacohs advised President Truman to fire Gen. Douglas MacArthur, after the General's letter to the Veterans of Foreign Wars was made public last year.

In each instance he was high in his praise 3f Secretary Acheson. But on a business trip hack here “vesterday. he expressed his doubts in the forthright manner which may ' have helped him lose the election last fall.

“I just read the State Department denial that the recent speech of Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk represents a change in China policy.” Mr. Jacobs said, between puffs of his underslung pipe.

‘Don’t Believe It’

“I DON'T believe it. Dean Pusk should he fired and his speech repudiated. or Secretary Acheson should be ousted for trying to outMacArthur the General.

“If embracing the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa under Chiang Kai-shek. at this late date, isn't a switch in administration policy, what is it? “I thought President Truman was right in relieving Gen. MacArthur, except for the fact twas so helated. But if the appearance of Gen. MacArthur back here in Washington so scared the State Department that they are now reversing policy, 1 think Secretary Acheson should be fired. In anv case, Assistant Secretary Rusk shanld z0 Otherwise MacArthurism wil} have triumphed and firing of the General no longer ma'res any sense” ‘While still in Congress. Mr. Jacobs wanted Navy Secretary Matthews ousted for suggesting a ‘preventive war” against Russia. He made the same demand when Air Force Gen. “Rosy” O'Donnell made a similar suggestion.

Ammo for Foes

“IN EACH of these cases. including the Rusk ipeech, we gave our enemies ammunition for the charge that we are American imperialists.” Mr. Tacobs said. “If that is what Secretarv Acheson haz bherome, he also should go If the Republicans now favor world imperialism, there is no reason whv Democrats should do so. “I can remember when our efforts tn back Chiang in China was heing labelled by some nf the GOP Senators and Congressmen ag ‘Oneration Rathols' Then: as soon as the rathole wag closed. they started shouting for reopening it. T still favor keening it closed.’ The T'nited Nations has functioned like a fire denartment when it should be a world police force Mr. Jarnhs believes. “United Nations can never he successful rushing traons around the world trvine ta main-

May 23 —Even former Jacobs, Indianapolis,

tain a status aque which ans has needed changing.” Mr. Jacobs concMided. Son in War

HIS INTEREST in Korea has a deep personal meaning now that his son. Andrew Jr. is knee-deep in the fighting there with the 1J. 8. Marines. After his first battle. Pfe. Jacobs wrote home: “Coming back out of the line T gave some bread to some hungry men I took to be South Koreans. Instead they were Chinese and some of my fellow-Marines resented the gesture. They were sharply critical. I realized that these were the same soldiers who had hunted and killed my friends. It made me sad. Then I thought how we had done the same thing to them and how really none of us wanted to do it. So I just said a praver and moved on.” Such a letter only reinforces nelief in peace through law war,

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because the orders will enable them to buy the cattle cheaper and stop the frantic bidding at fantastic prices which has ‘een underway, such as contracting for calves {from ranchers before the calves are born. bb oH

MR. CQOPER suggested only one change in the rollback orders. He said he would delay the effective dates of the second and third roll backs from Aug. 1 and Oct. 1' to Ort. 1 and Dec. 1 respectively, so that. some of the smailer feeders could fatten and sell the cattle’ riow on hand without losing money. . He said the big feeders had been making for-

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some losses in the rollback adjustment process. But the little fellow, he said, should be given a chance ‘to clear his feed lots.” Not one of a number of cattlemen interviewed by this reporter in the Omaha stockvards on the first day of the 10 per cent reduction order, said he had any intention of getting out of ‘business because of the rollbacks. vy Q

“ONCE a feeder, always a feeder,” said Mike Thell, a big cattleman who's been in the business all his life, "We expect to take some losses even

in good times,” he said. average out.” Ted Fox, a tenant farmer, said there had to

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By Frederick C. Othman

| Gotta Make a (Gasp) Speech—

EN ROUTE, May 23—Yeah. En route to make a speech. And I got te thinking about the TU. S. Senate a good many years ago when I went to Washington from Chicago to work for the United Press. In charge of the Senate staff then was Lyle C. Wilson who looked at me solemnly one noon and told me to rush out into the gallery and cover a speech by Ham Lewis, You may remember the late Sen. J. Hamilton Lewis, pink whiskers and all. There he was in, his “cutaway, or speechmaking coat, delivering one of the most mellifiuous orations I ever heard The other Senators were spellbound. My cohorts®n the press gallery sat there doing nothing, as if hypnotized, Nobody did anvthing, except me. I was taking notes. And the harder 1 listened and the more I wrote, sthe surer was I that something was wrong. My notes simply did not make sense, They did not scan. :

What sounded so wonderful issuing from the I.ewis larynx was the next thing to gibberish in cold print. I noticeg my fellow reporters

glancing at me, and smiling. Wilson finally took pity and relieved me of this assignment. Turned out that I was being initiated, like the office boy being sent for a left-handed monkey wrench. Every new arrival at the press

gallery had to cover at least one speech by J. Ham. He could talk like a god, but he couldn't

write for little sour apples, disrespect for the Senator,

I mention this in no who came to be a

LABOR

WASHINGTON, May 23 -—- Sen. Edward Martin (R, Pa.), former governor of his state, and an old soldier himself, was

great and good friend but merely to point out that he was besieged constantly by editors who wanted him to write pieces for their papers. He knew his shortcomings. He turned them all down. This thing also works in reverse, Those of us who do all our thinking at the typewriter seldom can produce a thought when standing on our hind legs. Yet people who read these pieces of mine somehow seem to think that I can get before them and spiel off the same kind of stuff. Most such invitations I regret with thanks. Not long ago some ladies insisted. I made a speech at 'em, all right, with results that we'll just call disappointing. so now I'm heading to Harrisburg to talk before a gathering of journalism students. I couldn't get out of it. Poor students. And also, poor Othman. Even now my throat is growing dry and my knees are getting damp. I'll be sitting at the head table and all around the people will be happy. They'll enjoy their dinner. Some misinformed toastmaster will tell them what a smart fellow am I

They Sneak Out

I WILL have a pain in my middle, because 1 could not digest the chicken in the lace-paper pants. I'll need a drink of water, but there won't be any, because I've already consumed it. Terrified, I'll start to talk. The students at first will regard me with polite interest (I know because this has happened to me hefore) and then they will stare either at the floor or the ceiling. The longer I talk the more frightened I'll become. I'll know I should stop, but somehow I'll be unable to. Pretty soon a few members of the audience will sneak out the side door. Then a few more. I'll collapse to my seat in the middle of a paragraph and the applause will be perfunctory. I mean, if you want any writing done, see me. That's my business. If vou need a speech, see a Senator. J. Hamilton Lewis has some succesors I can recommend highly.

By Fred W. Perkins

Lawmaker to Mark Time With New Watch

But it is intense. The Tariff Commission has started hearings on the subject, and feelings are taut enough to snap a

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“Those city neopes have to eat,” he said. “I sold an old canner cow two weeks ago that weighed 1200 pounds to a packing company and got $391. Isn't that awful? She wasn't worth more than $100.” Several cattlemen said they objected primarily to the principle of taking away from one group to give to another. Price Boss Michael DiBalle estimates that the rollbacks will cut the city consumer's meat bill by $700 million annually—taking that much away from the cattle growers. “It'll be just like prohibition, too,” said Hugo Rodenburg, an Iowa cattleman. “It can't be enforced.” “We should try to do what they want us to do,” said Mr. Cooper, who said he had never voted for a Democrat for national office. on o» oe “WHAT I object:to,” he Sontinued “ig alle those fictitious figures some of our crowd is sending down to Washington about our production costs, A group of those cattlemen wanted me t6 come to a protest meeting and I wouldn't

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What a crop of millionaires.” Mr. Cooper, a millionaire himself and one of the biggest feeders, ranchers and farm owners In the Midwest, has been paying an average of about $1000 a day in income taxes.

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Hoosier Forum

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

‘A Fine Job’ MR. EDITOR: I read with interest Mr. Leibowitz’ article on penal reform in Sunday's paper. He has done a flne job. It is important to bring this to public attention until’ action is taken. Public indifference usually is jolted by some screaming headline such as the tragic shooting of the state trooper several years ago. The committee that investigated parole at that time recommended the survey. By the time the survey was done the public was no longer demanding action. A basic feed for action was a statewide citizens committee on penal reform. group, composed of judges, lawyers, personnel managers, representatives of business and labor, some of the trustees of prisons ... a well rounded group, selected for a sincere interest in the problems should have been set up back in 1947. This committee could have studied the report and recommendations and prepared a program of legislation to modernize and integrate the whole penal system. I was secretary, later chairman of the Marion County Citizens Committee that did the Child Welfare Survey in 1947. ‘The continuous work for three years after the survey, done by the citizens committee, has had amazing results. I am sorry The Times staff in writing the “Our Fair City” column in Sunday's paper did not know that this was one survey that did get the community its money's worth, We made a report on progress each fall—in 1948, '49 and '50. Continuation of work on this has been carried on by the Health and Welfare Council since the Citizens Committee disbanded.

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mts My—eXperience-with=—thé Child~Welfare Sur

vey is why I feel Indiana should have had a follow through committee for the penal survey, —Mrs. John K, Goodwin, 1220 Pickwick Place,

‘Not One World’ MR. EDITOR:

. . I made quite a pow to MacArthur as a great organizer who would remove any officer who tried tosgplay politics instead of doing his job. I want to give him his due, as a general. The Hoosier Forum will bear witness. that T was critical of our State Department and our foreign policy many years before the newspapers, magazines and Congressmen began to open their eyes. My feeling is that in the “hate Truman” complex we may jump at the first violent opposition that is offered and in so doing condemn ourselves to a foreign policy that is even worse than the Truman foreign policy. Our foreign policy, if we can really call it that, in the last 20, or even 40, years has been formed in pretty much that manner, Certainly I would not want to live in a “one world” . a MacArthur one world. We have fought against a Kaiser one world, a Mussolini one world, a Hitler one world and a Stalin one world. 1 don't propose to fight for a MacArthur one world. And that is what I feel MacArthur, in the vanity of his old age and dotage, is proposing. If MacArthur were younger, I would say, as T have remarked through the Hoosier Forum before, I wouldn't know of a commanding general I would prefer to serve under. But there does come a time when old soldiers are supposed to fade away. —Ts La

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Patton, Crawfordsville

AFL Jewelry Workers, has a can see for different story. He gays that time vou 25,000 people are now em-

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"He always tells me the same old thing—I eat too much! |. just wonder if he’ s keeping up with the new viruses! !

given a new watch the other night. Thanking the donors for it, he recalled that in the SpanizhAmerican War he carried a big. heavy watch that came from Riz father; that inh World War I he had another watch, and in World War 11 still another This new one, he sald, he would use '‘‘while I just fade away.” This was at the banquet here of the American Watch Workers © Union, attended by all 26 delegates to the national convention ‘of that union, which is one of the smallest national labor organ{zations in the country but is full of what its president, Walter W. Cenerazzo, says is mission, n o 2 THIS mission is to convince Congress, the White House, the

U. 8. Tariff Commission, and

other government agencies that the American jeweledwatch industry. should be protérted from foreign competition (mainly Swiss) operating on lower wages, This controversy fs a “sma: ork when it is compared with® others on the national scene.

‘business of

mainspring. Here are the particulars: Jeweled watches are those in which from one to 21 jewels rubies or something equally durable --are built into the works ‘to take the friction of fast-moving parts that go con-

tinuously. (This writer just looked at one of American manufacture given to him in 1921. That would be 30 years. So figure out the number of ticks for yourself I make it

946,080,000 seconds.)

n on n THERE used to be more than

50 American companies making jeweled watches. Now there are only three Elid, of Elgin, Ill, and Lincoln, Neb.; Hamilton, of Lancaster, Pa., and Waltham of Waltham,

Mass. In 1936 our government entered into a reciprocal trade agreement with Switzerland which reduced the duty son Swiss watch movements ported into this country. A dozen or more importing companies have taken up the “casing” the Swiss

watch movements and placing them on the American market, That's why there is so much

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pass the display window of a jewelry store.

n ” ” THE Swiss competition holds down the prices to the American purchaser of watches. The head of the American Watch Workers Union says the competition comes because Swiss watch makers get only 60 cents an hour, and American pay for the same kind of work is $1.70 an hour, Mr. Cenerazzo, head of the American union, claims only 8500 members, which is all the workers there are in the industry now, compared with 20,000 in 1920.

Herbert Barenheim, for the

ployed in this country on the finishing of Swiss watch movements. They have to be cased and timed and fitted up with gadgets alluring to the retail buyer. Here you have an argument between - 8500 workers in an old industry and 25000 in a new one, according to the unfon leaders.

But there is the additional .

fact that American watch makers are highly important in producing timing mechanisms for war equipment. The workers in the competing new industry don’t claim as much skill in that sort of thing.

What Others Say

CONSERVATION of soil and water must always be an essential part of any adequate and realistic farm . program that is designed to safeguard permanent abundance and prosperity.—Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, DESPITE the fact that HolIlywood’ is .covered. by more than ‘00 reporters, no one ready knows what the town is like.—Adolphe ‘Men jou.

WE must never hesitate, nor falter in our search for peace, no matter how long the road,

or rough the way.—Secretary

of the Navy Francis P, Matthews. AFTER all, I'm the repre-

sentative of some 7,000,000 people in Ohio and I owe them/ a-report on:the actions of Congress.—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.), on campaigning for re-election,

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