Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1951 — Page 10

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! service in World War II. Most of them had never en part in any training activities or received any pay ja-reseevist, On their discharge after the big war, at the of the various Armed Services, they had joined the Bserve with the understanding that thay would be recalled ly in case of national emergency. They signed up generally from -patrotic motives plus to their war-earned rank in the event of an-

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5 " J rs year, without warning, Congress amended the Selective Service Law so that these reservists—who had never joined an organized unit—could be ordered to active duty without their consent. They were badly needed, of course, so the Armed Services dealt hastily and abruptly with them. No concern was shown for the reservist’s family, job or business or any other of his efforts to get a start in civilian life. Why these men were taken in ahead of thousands of others in organized units and, more recently, while the monthly draft quotas were being lowered, has never been answered. One theory was that the organized

‘always threatening global war. 4 In recognition of this inequity and in response to the lent letters of protest that have poured into Congress, B original House bill provided that such reservists, if y had served a year during World War II, could be reed after 12 months’ active duty in the Korean War. ce there was no such provision in the Senate bill, ordirily the House version.would have stood as conferees went over the we Bills

. BUT, instead, the conferees actually extended the required duty. Now the inactive reservist can be freed only after 17 months of post-Korean service. In other words, had five more months added to their active duty. - Such is the “shellacking” added to a general maladminof the reserve program since the war, An estimated 600,000 reservists of all categories are now on active | duty and, according to Rep. Van Zandt, a great majority | of them are “so sour and bitter over the treatment accorded them that upon discharge they will never have anyy to do with the reserve components of a military

. There is one hope. Now that universal military servhas been put in the deep freeze, a whole new reserve rogram is to be drawn up by a House committee. It should 6 hurried to completion. Our reservist-veterans certainly deserve a better break than they've been getting,

: The Japanese Treaty + WWHEN it became apparent that the United States and 3 Russia would be unable to agree on the terms of a Japanese peace settlement, our government sensibly opened negotiations with our other wartime Allies, leaving the Soviets to stew in their own juice. Now the British Socialists are asking for the same ient—and if hey § insist on it they should get it. Since Britain still the war in Korea, the want the Reds to represent _ China at the peace conference instead of the Nationalist government, which this country recognizes. Foreign Secreay Herbert Morrison apparently has been forced into is position by pressure from the left wing of the British

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© THE United. States fought the Pacific war to a sucot conclusion with relatively little assistance from our i Virtually the entire burden of rehabilitating 6 Japanese economy has fallen upon this country. We can arrive at a final settlement with the Japanese ‘any ‘help, if that is the way our Allies want it. ~ © If Britain and India choose to sit down with the : Chinese Reds and draw up proposals to submit to the ; s, that is their right. But it is our right to refuse tify ourselves by participation in such a farce. We not consider Red China as an Ally during the war, no valid reason exists why the Reds should have a in the war settlement. : This would seem to be as good a time as any to let n understand that there is a limit to our good nature. e British need us more than we need them, and they d be informed that we expect them to see things our y at least part of the time.

Ic mat and perhaps become Secretary of State: ss recently amended an appropriations bill so as pron semi assistance to countries which sell wartial goods to Russia and its satellites. Now ti ontendet that strict enforcement of this law

nmunist aggression. In other words, while we Ee hues wordy, wile we \ggression, they must build up the aggressor or ot be s ng enough to attack them.

units were being saved for an even greater emergency—the

Communist China, despite’

WASHINGTON, June 11-—-The Republicans were to take the hide off Secretary of State Dean Acheson in-the current Senate inquiry into Far East policy—but Democrats have given Mr, Acheson some of his toughest moments as a witness. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D, Va,) gave Mr. Acheson a rough going-over on the subject of why we had pulled our forces out of Korea before the war began there, why the U. 8. let its position grow weak there when the Russians were growing strong, and why we were caught short generally. ‘..

SEN, JOHN CO. STENNIS (D. Miss.) pressed the Secretary of State hard on why the U. 8. government hasn't plugged more forcefully with the United Nations to get an effective blockade against Communist China. Ben, Walter F, George (D. Ga.) tackled President Truman's No. 1 cabinet officer sharply on a considerable range of controversial aspects of Gen, Douglas MacArthur's dismissal, As In his questioning of Gen. George C. Mar-

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shall and other military leaders earlier, Mr. George showed plainly his skepticism about the administration's Far East course. . ®* % »

HE Republicans have been tough here and

there, but they never managed the hazing of the

Secretary of State that they had forecast, In one give-and-take exchange with Sgn. Byrd, Secretary Acheson said the South Korean army had been well-disciplined and had up a ‘very good fight"”—that before the war brdke out a year dgo they had syccessfully thrown back an invasion at the 38th Parallel. But. Sen. Byrd quoted U. 8. military mission reports showing the South Koreans were inadequately armed because the U. 8. feared they would atack the North Koreans, and so they had little in the way of planes, tanks or artillery. How could they be well-trained? he asked.

Mr. Acheson acknowledged that “it was not a heavily armed force, Senator.” Mr. Acheson said the U, 8. troops were withdrawn on a United Nations recommendation, but Mr. Byrd insisted the U. 8. should

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. By Frederick C. Othman

Confusion on the Potomac—

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- We've got so many problems hereabouts that I almost hesitate to mention H. R. 4368, a bill with numerous whereases, to turn every citizen with a dollar into a motorist. Rep. Edwin Arthur Hall {R., of Biaghampton, N. Y.), the au~ thor, ‘describes his measure simply as | one “to enable all Americans to purchase automobiles by eliminating down 3 payments of more than $1.” He says autos are a glut on the market, people need 'em, credit rules are too stiff, and his law would stimulate business, revive the motorcar business and cause the whole ; country to profit immensely. The Banking and Currency Committee now is going through the motions of considering the idea of putting sedans on a-dollar-down-a-dol-lar-when-I-catch-you basis, bui I'm fearful the gentlemen may never get around to voting on it. They're too danged busy. They have so much work piled up they may not even manage to pass a new price control bill before the old one expires three weeks hence. The more they read about price wars, big sales, and bare butcher shops, the less chance there is of getting their work done any faster, Best guess now is that President Truman will be lucky to get his present control law extended for maybe 90 days. What's worrying the statesmen momentarily Is the chance of mink becoming sterile from eating the necks of doctored chickens, the marathon examination of Gen. MacArthur's firing, and-—as always—multibillion-dollar appropria-

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tions.” The latter this time have an added kicker in the line of federal limousines.

You can't buy these tor $1 down. They cost us taxpayers around $3000 each, wholesale. Every bigwig in town has one, with chauffeur to match. This pains Senators Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) and Styles Bridges (R. N, H.) who have their troubles steering their own jalopies out. of the way of the big, black federal behemoths with the white sidewall tires. For each appropriation bill they have written an amendment saying not one cent of it will be used to hire a chauffeur for anybody in the government except President Truman and the generals at the Pentagon. The generals mostly usa WACS for chauffers. Sen. Ferguson sald he will ponder this situation later, So what we have coming up is a series of sessions devoted to the luxurious riding habits of our bureaucrats.

Safety Conference

MR. TRUMAN also is concerned with automobiles and how to keep people from using them as dangerous weapons, He opens his highway safety conference Wednesday. There'll be about 4000 safety experts here attending meetings scattered all over town, Let us hope they smash no fenders. Myself, I ride streetcars. These still are spouting music from their ceilings, along with commercials about bargains in the department stores, despite a court ruling saying that passengers are entitled to silence for their 15-cent ares. Seems that the court told the Public Utilitie8 Commission, which hasn't got around to telling the streetcar company yet. As soon as the transit moguls get the word, they intend to appeal. Looks like the supreme court never will run out of work, If this dispatch has sounded a little confused, it has achieved its purpose. Confusion on the Potomac is what we're suffering now.

PRICE SUPPORT .

WASHINGTON, June 11— The government's potato price support program, dying without tears or eulogy on June 30, has cost U. 8. taxpayers a total of $540 million during its eight-year life, % Fhat's enough -money, at current prices, to dot the skies with 5400 F-80 Shooting Stars. The program, according to preliminary estimates compiled by the Department of Agriculture, took approximately 500 ~ million bushels of potatoes off the market to hold up prices to potato growers-—more than three bushels for every man, woman and child in the U 8. And of this 500 million, &9 million—or nearly one-fifth... were dumped. » ” »

MILLIONS of bushels went into the manufacture of industrial alcohol and starch, at great cost to the government. (It was much cheaper from the government cost standpoint to dump the potatoes than to transport and sed them for ‘ practically nothing “to industrial alcoho! plants.) And as many as could be used were given to the school lunch program and to charitable institutions. Several million bushels way prices were disto foreign countries,

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have had a volce in deciding to stay until the South Korean troops were ready to fight. He contended the invasion might have been averted by this. “That may be true,” answer, When Sen. Byrd insisted that leaving an untrained, poorly equipped army there was an invitation to an attack, the Secretary answered in: You may be right about that, sir.” > % » SEN. BYRD said that “somebody made a very tragic mistake” and that “there ought to be some investigation on that because that is what brought about the tragic situation we are now in.” Mr. Acheson said the troop withdrawal had been agreed to by our top military men, and commented in effect that “we were doing the best we could.” The Virginia Senator wasn't buying the Truman label of “police action” on what is happening in Korea and he drew acknowledgment from Mr, Acheson that we're fighting a

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war over there. He pressed him on the point of Congress’ power to declare , and got Mr. Acheson's further nt that he

. had advised the President—at the time war

broke out in Korea—to” take “certain steps.” “And that means war,” said Sen. Byrd. “And you admit that that means war. And now you are unwilling’to state under what conditions, if there are conditions, where the Congress should declare war preliminary to hostilities,” * ¢ ¢ @ THERE was much more on this point, all of it among the roughest going Mr. Acheson encountered as a witness, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R. Mass.), Jess partisan than some of his fellow Republicans, tangled sharply also with Mr. Acheson on some of these points. Wouldn't it have been better if congressional authorization had been sought before going into Korea? “Well, I think«that a lot of people how think that we should have; would have been satisfied if we had done it. To that extent, yes’ Mr, Acheson replied.

DEAR BOSS . . ..By Dan Kidney Homer Has No Illusions About '52

WASHINGTON, June 11—As ranking member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) was one of the key Senators and Congressmen called to the White House to hear President Truman urge increased inflation controls. Although the President had Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson, cdbinet officials and economic advisers on hand for the meeting, he did most of the talking. The President advised both extending and strengthening the defense production act controls, when the present law expires June 30. 8peaking for the Republicans, Sen. Capehart gave assurance that the law will be extended. Afterwards he expressed the viewpoint that the administration will not get all it wants in the new bill,

Represent Consumers

“I REPRESENT the consumers,” Mr, Truman told the group. “That's why I called you here.” Sen. Capehart refused to quote the President directly, as White House courtesy provides, but these direct quotes were published here. It sort of indicated what Sen. Capehart long has maintained—President Truman makes all occasions political occasions. Some weeks ago when The Indianapolis Times carriers came here, Sen. Capehart facetiously told them, as he autographed their pictures, that he hoped they all would tell their folks to vote for him for President. In somewhat the same vein, the senior Senator from Indiana came away from the White House meeting to say: “I feel encouraged. If Harry Truman can be President, why couldn't I?”

A Natural

WHEN HE returned to his office after the White House visit, he found awaiting him a young man who thinks that putting the Senator

THAIN INN E06E0.

‘Sabotage or Accident?’ MR. EDITOR: ‘The accident concerning the eight jet planes that crashed near Richmond is shocking. If it is sabotage our course in the United States is clear. The federal government must outlaw the Communist Party and all members of that party must be jailed. They are a clear and present danger to the United States as long as their sympathies are with Russia. But, perhaps out of this tragic affair two good things happened. It served notice to the people of this country that sabotage is possible. There is no reason to believe we are immune to sabotage. It could be on a much greater scale and it could serve the death blow to the defenses of our nation. “ ab Pb THE ACCIDENT (?) also served a warning to the people of Richmond. It gave them a small sized preview of what a bombing raid could be. Only thing lacking were the bombs

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

TYLER, Tex.—An attorney filed in verse a motion to dismiss a divorce suit. The defense

lawyer replied in rhyme, and the judge also was moved to poetry in entering his ruling. The judge, as well as both of the atiorneys, Who acted in a suit brought for divorce, Set forth in rhyme the wish that happy journeys Might see this couple safely”through liie's course.

Now, as we add our own felicitations, We hope those rhyming lawyers miss the curse Of dunning statements and solicitations To which the lovebirds too are nqw—a-verse?

. By Earl Richert

Hoosier Forum-‘Shocking News’

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

on the national ticket next year would be “a natural.” He is E. T. Colosimo, editor of “The Steelworker News” at Gary. He was one of the CIO men who worked for the Indiana GOP state committee in the election last year, which resulted in a landslide for Sen, Capehart for a second time, Mr. Colosimo said he had just come from a visit with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in Albany, N. Y. He said he is sure the governor wants the Republicans to nominate Gen. Dwight Eisenhower for the presidency, as he h publicly announced. The visiting Hoosier then promptly suggested Sen. Capehart for second place on the Eisenhower ticket. He declined to report Gov. Dewey's reaction to this suggestion.

Kept Off Ticket

.. THE NEW YORKER kept Indiana's Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, off the ticket in 1948 after the Indiana delegation was deliv ered to Gov. Dewey on the first ballot. With Gov. Dewey pulling the strings and actually putting Gen Eisenhower over, it is quite unlikely that any better treatment would be accorded Sen, Capehart. But there may be no Dewey string-pulling nor any Eisenhower nomination, unless President Truman would turn the Democratic place over to him. Commenting on Mr. Colisimo’s proposal, Sen. Capehart laughed:“Did he want me or Gen. Eisenhower in first place? If he wants to speculate on a national ticket, he should have put me at the head of it. Nobody runs for Vice President.” In a more serious vein, Sen. Capehart said that he is “wasting neither time nor money” on any effort to get himself a place on the national ticket.

“I have no Hlusions in this matter,” he concluded.

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and anti-aircraft fire. Mavis some of them, along with all other Hoosiers, will take eiyl defense a little more seriously. The threat of a third world war is real and it could well be fought on our own soil this time, We must be ready, we. must be prepared for any type of enemy action against this country. I do not advocate the free and careless spending of money for civil defense. These things must be carefully planned and considered or we will wind up with useless equipment on hand . . . equipment that serves only to waste material,

—Defense Minded, oa

‘Prices and Wages’

Here we go again. Probably another rate hike for Bell soon. If they don’t watch out the cost of having a telephone is going to be out of sight. I suppose if Bell gets it, the street car company will ask for another. The price of food is still going up along with almost everything else but someplace along the line something has to give way. Economic experts constantly warn the consuming public to save money ... don't contribute to inflation by buying things you don’t need. But after food, rent, transportation and utilities

* what's left of the average family pay check?

Maybe enough to have your teeth fixed or something else. We've got price control and wage control but that doesn’t solve anything. Prices k:ep going up. So do wages, but a little slower than prices . . . a lot slower in the case of people like teachers, etc. What's going to happen? Boom and bust? Who knows? Slim Pickins, City.

What Others Say

THE TELEVISION of operations is even better than being right in the operating room.— Dr. Henry Swan, of U, of Colorado Medical School. ® 4 4

AMERICA must unite. We can express our differences in an earnest and honest search for truth, but we must base our actions upon a determination for unity without which all our strength is gone.—Frances P. Bolton (R. 0.).

Spuds to Fall Off Subsidy Stilts June 30

though potatoes are one of the most difficult commodities to ship. The government has been in the process of getting out from under the potato price support program for two years now.

And the resulting benefits fo

housewives in cheaper prices

re easily digoernible,

Potatoes are one of the few foods cheaper now than a year ago, before Korea. And the present market price is not completely a free one since the government is still supporting the price (until the June 30 cutoff) of 1850 crop ppiatoes, It is the new, 1951 crop potatoes that are moving In a free market for whatever the trafic will bear,

Here are national average retail price figures on potatoes, compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Apr. 15, 1951, price of 674 cents for 15 pounds of potatbes is a drop of 26 per cent from the Apr. 15, 1948, price of 91.1 cents when potatoes were supported by the government at 90 per cent of parity, The price drop shown in the Apr. 15, 1950, figure was a fesult of the government dropping its support level

from 00 to 60 per cent of parity. » ” » ANOTHER result of the

government's gradual exit from the potato field has been a general deflation in potato growing sections, particularly

in the nation's No. 1 potato

growing area, Arrostook 1 ~

That area enjoyed an “oils field” boom when the government supported potato prices at 90 per cent of parity. But now land prices are down from 15 to 20 per cent and potato land which rented. at $50 to $60 an acre now is bringing only $10 to $15.

Congress ordered an end to potato price support a year ago, applicable to the 1951 crop. But the law required continued support for the 1950 crop potatoes and the agriculture department has kept on buying. Estimates .are that the government will have bought nearly 100 ° million bushels of the 1950 crop at the June 30 cutoff date at a cost of about $65 million, and will have dumped nearly half of them.

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