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still Chair-Bound » RESOURCES, technology, industry and arms, we may "be more than a match for Russia. But not in manpower. For there we are weak, and Russia can muster untold millions of men—the cheapest and the most plentiful of her resources behind the Iron Curtain. We are'therefore weakest where our enemy is strongest. And it is a tragic fact that our military establishment, which should be first to realize this, is still the great waster of our much-needed manpower. Startling new evidence of this is spread on the record in a report released by the Senate Armed Services Prepared‘ness Subcommittee headed by Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas. ;

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ON-THE-SPOT. investigation of 16 typical installations in this country revealed that 95784 officers and enlisted men are still taking it easy in the “chair corps.” That is, sitting at desks, driving cars, carrying messages, clerking in PX's, running movie machines and holding down dozens of other jobs that civilians or service women could take over. Most of them are presumably fit for full military duty, gince present physical standards for service are based on the premise that every man, if necessary, can go to the front with a rifle. Thus these 95,784 men—and not all the camps and bases were investigated—are the equivalent of four or five combat divisions, or nearly enough to fulfill our present

commitment in Europe. The committee is prompted to observe that: “Today a high percentage of America's finest manpower strength is desk-bound, confined to paper work or mere ‘housekeeping chores.” We cannot meet the challenge before us with a heavy percentage of our strength seated in chairs ... a nation poor in manpower cannot long ¥ndure such . » ” : r . ” A SIMILAR warning came last April in a _gefies of articles by Jim Lucas, brilliant military writer for the Scripps-Howard newspapers. They were published in this and other papers. : The Defense Department was quick to acknowledge that something had to be done about it. “Studies” and “surveys” were projected, but apparently it was too much to expect prompt results. For now the Johnson Committee has indicated how widespread the wastage is. In addition, it has made some sensible recommendations. These include the recruitment of more women, the lowering of physical standards so that limited-service men can be assigned to the “house-keeping,” and the hiring of more civilian workers for such chores. "The committe¢ also promises to keep a continuous watch on the armed serrvices—for which we can be grateful. President Truman, recognizing the seriousness of the situ "ation, has called on the government to set an example for ‘the country in manpower conservation. And the military could well set an example for the government.

Remaking the World

OUR GOVERNMENT is encountering some difficulties . in trying to give away money. Syria has refused to accept a grant for an irrigation project because landlords there suspect the State Department wants to introduce land reforms and social changes which might be inimical to their interests. The plan was to finance a small “Tennessee Valley” experiment in Syria's Ghab Valley, where model agriculcultural communities of small landowners could be set up as u practical approach to a program of economic improvement in that backward area. But instead of applauding the scheme as a measure to discourage communism among Syria's land-hungry peasants, the landowners ‘regarded it as a threat to capitalism as it is practiced in Syria. The landowners concede that the irrigation plan is sound. But they want it financed by private capital so the reclaimed land can be sold at a profit.

THIS may impress our planners as a cold-blooded rejection of a well-intended effort to rescue Syria from oits feudal decadence. But there's an old saying that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. And the Syrians who speak for their government just aren't buying our generosity. ; This is not the first experience of this kind since the United States set out to build a better world. In many places our motives are suspected because we are so ‘free-handed. More good might result if we did not attempt - to do too much, too quickly. Backward peoples do not readily adapt themselves to the Western way of doing things. And they cannot be reformed before they recognize the need for reform. But, for what it’s worth, there should be some consolation in the thought that if some people don’t want our * money, there are plenty of others who do.

Real Service ORKS BOARD came up with a cheerful nete yesterday. One that most motorists will like to hear.

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PARIS . . . By Ludwell Denny ;

Story Behind The Missing British

What's The Redl

PARIS, June 12—French authorities doubt that the missing British diplomats, Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess, who were last seen in Rennes on May 26, will be found in France. There's no evidence that the men went on a private spree here, or went voluntarily or were kidnaped and takeh to a Req, hideout on Soviet Jroperty here.

The rumor that Mr. MacLean and Mr, Bur-

gess already are behind the Iron Curtain or trying to get there remains only a rumor. Most British officials and acquaintances of the two men don't think they would put themselves under Soviet jurisdiction voluntarily. French officials lack sufficient knowledge on which to base a judgment. * + THE fact that two alleged MacLean telegrams to his mother and American wife in England were filed by an unknown third person from the Paris main post office Wednesday obviously doesn’t prove that MacLean was here, por does the fact that the French have been watching all exits mean much. The French explanation for the presumed escape from France is that authorities here were not alerted by London until three days after the British Foreign Office discovered their disappearance. This gave the men plenty of time to go where they pleased—as Mr. Burgess went to Italy, according to police there. London's attitude toward the search has become almost as big a mystery here as the men themselves. These are among unanswered questions:

LIBERAL . . . By Earl Richert

Douglas Whets Economy Ax

WASHINGTON, June 12 ~~ Sen. Paul H, Douglas, the “liberal” Illinois Democrat, is giving another performance of his now familiar, but still somewhat surprising role, as one of the country’s most ardent advocates of government economy. The first regular appropriations bill of . the session, a $2.5 billion measure of the Labor Department and Federal Security Agency, is now before the Senate. And the strongly pro-labor, pro-social security Senator is ready with amendment after amendment to reduce funds for these two government departments, where he has more personal and political friends than in any other government agency. The Senator says he is somewhat embarrassed by the situation and would like to have had a chance to vote for cuts on some

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other departments first before having to apply

the knife to the Labor and Federal Security Bill. “But,” he told his colleagues, “if we cut only on things with which we are concerned, we will never achieve economy. “We must use the knife on things which are close to our hearts, both in order to gain support from others and to win the support of the country.”

There is one major difference in the Sen-’

ator's economy stand this year, as contrasted with that of the past two sessions (he came to the Senate in 1949). In the past, Sen. Douglas says, he thought the federal budget could be balanced merely by pruning out waste. “But now,” he says, “I think it will not be possible to balance the budget merely by the elimination of waste. . “We must drop overboard ¥ome of the less essential programs and not carry out essential rograms as fully as we otherwise would have desired.”

Another Amendment

THIS MEANS, he said, cuts must be made in military and foreign aid appropriations. Sen. Douglas’ first concrete achievement came whén the Senate approved an amendment to knock $95,000 out of the Labor Department's funds to pay lawyers. This came after the Senator charged that the legal staffs of the governmemt are swollen and inflated. “If there is one commodity of which the government has a surplus, it is lawyers,” he said. Another pending Douglas amendment would seek to reduce the number of government automobiles by permitting departments to replace only half of the autos worn out every year. He figures this amendment would ~sduce the number of autos purchased by the Labor and Federal Security Agencies by 79 this year .alone, He intends to offer the same amendment to other appropriation bills,

‘These Hurt Me’

OTHER Douglas amendments would reduce federal appropriations for hospital construction by $20 million and grants to states for maternal and child health services by $3 million. “These hurt me very much,” he said. “But as the level of defense spending rises, we simply must cut back non-defense spending.” Sen. Douglas, an economics expert, figures that even if Congress approves the tentative $7 bilion tax increase bill, the federal government still will run $5 billion in the “ed next year, unless the budget is cut by that amount, He intends, he says, to do all he can to bring about that $5 billion cut in government spending.

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“Wow! How long will she be here this summer?”

Why did London wait so Paris? Why did London at that late date give Paris go little information about the men’s habits? Why was Mr. MacLean, after his “breakdown” and known instability in Cairo, made head of the American department of the Foreign Office? And why was Mr. Burgess, after his transfer from Washington for alleged misconduct and irresponsibility retained in service? The British alibi that there was no loyalty issue in either case but only personal escapades.

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The allegation that Mr. Burgess sometimes talked freely as a critic of American policy and was an apologist for Russian policy is offset by the defense that he would not draw attention to himself if he had anything to hide. None of these excuses, Bowevel answers the question of why men of such instability and possible subjects for blackmail should have been given access to confidential information. In the case of Mr. Burgess, the Foreign Office had begun to doubt his fitness, at least to the extent of not reassigning him after his recall

‘Mr. Anthony, | Have a Problem—'

HOW TO MAKE AN OMELET WITHOUT CRACKING ANY

ARMY DAMS . . . By Frederick Othman

He's Just a Poor Fish, but— He’s Got Lots of Political Power

WASHINGTON, June 12—The price of salmon is now 74 cents per ean, For this I am inclined to blame the Corps of Army Engineers. These are the babies who always are building multi-million-dollar dams across rivers, When a fish bamps into one of these he suffers (to use a’ mili- ? tary word) cdonsternation. hen he turns up his fins and dies. So there were the engineers explaining to a skeptical House Appropriations Committee, all of whose members like salmon, why it needed hundreds of millions of dollars to build more dams. The conversation inevitably turned to those poor fish in the Columbia River. Col. W. E. Potter, assistant chief of engineers for special projects, told the statesmen how he favored stepladders for fish to climb over dams, whereas the Fish and Wild Life Service insisted at first on two elevators for finny travelers across Bonneville Dam, As it turned out, said he, the fish seldom use the elevators, They prefer to flop from puddle to puddle in the ladder up the side of the dam. So then we got some off-the-record discussion on the habits of fish. The Colonel doesn’t exactly stand alone on the use of fish ladders, but there are others who insist that elevators are the only thing. Only trouble here is that sometimes when a ioad of fish climb aboard an elevator for a ride, they frequently are turned into chowder before they reach bottom. This is because of water pressure, velocity, and other scientific matters that I don’t rightly understand. Well, sir, it developed that the Columbia ordinarily produces per year 32 million pounds of fish worth $17 million. That's a lot of fish to be climbing stepladders. # The trouble seems to be that all the dams on the river have destroyed about 70 per cent of the salmon’s regular spawning grounds. This fish, it develops further, is a creature of habit. When she’s hatched in a stream far inland she goes to sea, spends four years there, and then swims upstream to where she was born before she'll lay her eggs. Let her tangle with

— WASHINGTON, June 12— President Truman's top Con-

gressional leaders are now con- - vinced he will be a candidate for another term in the White House,

The President hasn't given them definite. word on the much-debated : issue on which he. has sald " S& that he, and nobody else,” knows the answer, But the men meeting with him at fairly frequent inter- . vals are politiclans them- - selves, are keen in weigh- Mr. Truman ing every ...ls You ls? scrap of evidence relating to the subject, and they think they know a candidate when they see ofe. The answer they come up with ‘+ 18 not based on any one statement or action by Mr. Truman but on his attitudes on a va- \ riety of questions arising in private White House discusgions in the last few weeks. @ne of these is his reaction to demands that he a new

a dam and, as Col, Potter said, she suffers consternation. A salmon can climb a ladder up to 80 feet tall, but this is an awful effort. She might be able to make it up a 100-foot dam, but then ghe’'d probably be too tired to go farther. But say she does make it and deposits her eggs in the old home. Pretty soon these have turned into.small fish, or fingerlings. These start swimming down to the sea, and what happens? A lot of ‘em go through the turbines in the dams. This does not hurt the turbines, but it is hard on the fish. Turns ’em into hash. So a lot of people, as well as fish, in the Pacific Northwest would be pleased if the Army would take its dams and go away. This has brought on a public relations problem.

A New System

THE ARMY'S and the Fish and Wildlife.

Service's experts hope, maybe, they've got this licked with a new system. When a lady fish collides with a dam on the way upstream they milk her (their phrase) of her eggs. These they rush to other streams not blocked off by dams and await results. The minnows, not realizing they were kidnapped, swim out to sea as usual, spend the regular four years in the briny, and then beat their way back to the home that the experts chose for them. This actually seems to work, but milking fish is expensive. So is hauling their eggs around the countryside. The committee, as you may have read, stopped every new dam the Army wanted to build. Said this was to conserve labor and materials for defense. If you ask me, I think fish had a good deal to do with it.

WORD ECHOES

IF EVERY word we said could ring . . . and echo in our ear . .. I’m sure some things we often say . . . we wouldn’t want to hear . . . it would be quite a useful thing . .. an echo for our speech . . . for ' we would know just how we sound . . . to other folks we reach . ., . if this were possible I'm sure . . . we'd think before each word . . . and only say the pleasant things . . . the things that should be heard . . . but in a larger sense we have . . , the thing ‘of which T speak . .. it is the voice of other folks + . . who let the foul words leak . . . and by this token we can find ... from how it hits our ear + + + Just how we sound to others who . . . are standing very hear. —By Ben Burroughs

PRESIDENCY . .. By Charles Lucey

Harry's Still Coy About Plans for 1952

might not wish to be a candi-

secretary of state to replace Deah Acheson, Influential Democratic Congressmen, including some who believe Mr. Acheson has a considerable net balance in his favor in directing foreign policy, believe he should resign. But whenever the question is raised with Mr. Truman his firm answer

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good job. ¥ It's a guessing game in which nobody has the answer; but some administration leaders in Congress now believe Mr. Truman is determined to keep Mr. Acheson in office and to make this one of the issues on which he will go to the country next year:

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Mr, Truman seems to be itching to hit the road again in a

pitch te the people. The signs t he will clear outof Washington on a stumping tour just/as soon as Congress catches /up sufficiently on its is that Mr. Acheson is doing a + chores to take a recess.

Democratic leaders here are saying now that the President already has made a comeback since a low point in public acceptance at the time of the RFC-influence peddling disclo- #. no» sures and the “dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. He is convinced of -his ability to - win back the people as he did in his politically effective cross-country swings in 1948.

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Diplomats? from Washington. He had much less to lose

by leaving England without authority than did Mr. MacLean who was in high favor.

Only the gravest cause could have induced Mr. MacLean to leave his pregnant wife and children and professional preferment-—if indeed

. he did intend to flee. He could not have been

fleeing official suspicion or he would have been stopped when he left England. One reason why British officials believe that Mr. MacLean left England for private motives or foibles and intended to return soon is that he made no effort to cover his tracks at the start. A disloyal, escaping official would be more likely to use a false passport than one marking him as a diplomatic officer. He would not pick a round-trip excursion steamer on which he would have to book a stateroom and use his own name for such a purpose. He would not hire a special automobile and conspicuously roar up to the boat. He would not leave luggage in his stateroom to start inquiries. He would not skip ship in the small port of Saint Malo or have taken a long cross-country taxi trip to catch the train to Paris. * & 2 THE CASE already has had widespread international results. It has put the British security system on the spot at home or abroad. It has made the American and other governments more hesitant to share confidential information with the British. It has made close liaison between British and French security authorities more difficult. And it has publicized again for Stalin how democratic governments are retaining unstable, vulnerable men in confidential positions.

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Hoosier Forum

*| do not agree with a word that you «ay, but | will defend to the death your right fo say it."—VYoltaire. 3

‘Landlords, Organize’ MR. EDITOR: Landlords, wake up. The most vicious and tyrannical rent bill is now before Congress, which if enacted, will bankrupt the property owner, besides placing him in the same class as the common criminal. Shall the people who own income property let them completely enslave us, or shall we protest this nefarious bill? It is high time we face the facts and do something about it. Write to our Representatives, Sen. Capehart and Sen. Jenner at the Senate Office, Washington, D. C. and to Charles Brownson, House Office. Also, write to as many other Congressmen as possible. * * WHEN labor speaks, Congress listens. Why? Because they are organized. When the farmers protest regimentation, Congress sits up and takes notice. Why? Because they are organized and represent a large bloc of votes. When the property owner asks for a small share of the ‘Fair Deal” Congress looks the other way, Why? They are not so well organized. Why isn't the property owner organized? Because he has nothing to lose except his property, his livelihood, life's saving, freedom a : few other trifles. you want to know more about the im - ing bill, join the American Home ova — > % & WILD geese make a pretty picture On a frosty autumn day, Tyme by formation oward the Southland far a 3 Geese are stupid creatures, wey They are not very wise, But do know they must stick together And that it pays to organize. ~—An American Home Owner, City

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‘Harry's War’ MR. EDITOR: Harry tells us if we don’t stop inflatio e Russians will have won the war Daca Be a shot and if the record of his two Democrat predecessors is any criterion to go by we would probably be just as well off if they did. Wilson told us his war was to end all wars and make the world safe for democracy. It Sin’ end } ars and we not only lost a lot of ur own om but it OUP Sur fren made the world a haven I can’t recall that Roosevelt ever told us what his war was about but the majority of people seemed to believe if the old master politiclan wanted us to fight a war it was certainly the right thing.to do or he wouldn't tell us to. “> dd SOME of his loyal political stooges as well as those of the press and radio did give us a few generalities about a brave new world and used those overworked words freedom, democracy and making the world a better place to live in. At least we had all ought to be 1 agree at this late date on one thing et ever we fought for we didn’t get, Harry's war over. in Korea seems to be to stop aggression but he seems to be afraid to bomb it at its Source so we are fighting a limited war. Just how we can stop aggression with a limited war no one except Harry, Dean Acheson and George Marshall can quite understand. However, we all had ought to know one thing, if we win a military victory over in Korea we are still going to be the loser. * <¢ «4 WE WILL have to feed the natives, rebuild the country and the Communists will stir up trouble somewhere else and let us fight another war in some" other part of the world, However; the philosophy of the Democrat Party never has worked except as a war economy so as long as we keep them in power we can expect wars because peace would brin unemployment and financial disaster, . =C. D, C.,, Terre Haute.

ered his first term and not his second term, because it was the first to which he had been elected. But he pointed out that, anyway, the anti-third = term constitutional amendment adopted recently made no difference to him because it specifically exempted him from the limitation. - Again, when Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan said he hoped Mr: ‘Truman would be a candidate again, a public expression of appreciation came from the President rather than a repudiation.

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SOME of the President's closest advisers have speculated that the one condition that could make him a certain candidate next year would be

discussion of next year's Presi- ® x » for the Republicans to get set dential race, at Thursday's THE party's leaders who to nominate Sen. Robert A. press conference, Mr. Tru- Met recently at Denver Taft of Ohio The President

man showed sharp resentment to a suggestion by Sen. Paul Douglas (D. 111.) that it might be a good idea to nominate Gen. Dwight Eisenhower next year, on both Democratic and ‘Republican tickets. Actually, Mr. Douglas had conditibned this only on the possibility that ' the President: himself

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and “Mr. Republican” have clashed repeatedly over the years on many issues, and although Mr. Truman has sald he likes his former Senate ‘colleague personally, the feeling is that he' would fight JAgainst any developnrent which would let a man of such oppo‘site views go to the . ‘House.

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