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IEUT. GEN. A C WEDEMEYER'S appraisal of Press ' dent Truman's Korean War strategy is more penetrating in some respects than Gen. Douglas MacArthur's, and together they have made a good case against the ‘Acheson-Marshall doctrine of limited warfare. But Gen. Wedemeyer is more convincing when he is discussing military matters than when he is dealing with the psychological aspects of the world situation. He believes the United States should not have sent ground troops into Korea, that we should have used only our air and sea arms to curb the Red aggressors. As it is, the major action is on the ground, where the enemy is strongest. Relatively little use is being made of our air ‘and sea power, where we have overwhelming superiority. Secretary Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff admit that this policy was dictated by political rather than military considerations. Yet they have contended that it is a militarily sound policy because the enemy's best troops are being destroyed. Gen. Wedemeyer's answer to that is devastating—that we are pouring our finest commodity, American manhood, into a bottomless pit, with no prospect that anything will be accomplished by it. The limitad war we are conducting in Korea cannot be expected to “bleed China to death” when eight years of all-out war with Japan left no appreciable dent in China’s manpower. If the Reds are losing some of their best troops, so are we, and we can less afford such losses. . Particularly, we cannot afford these losses in a war in which we are not fighting to win, but for a draw, which would settle nothing. 8K. ! ® 8 = SECRETARY ACHESON has testified that the United States will be satisfied with a settlement at the Parallel. Gen. Wedemeyer rightly says this would be a psychological defeat for the United States and the United Nations. It could be regarded as nothing else, since the original

objective was to drive the Reds out of Korea and reunite

the country under a representative government. Moreover, if our troops are to be withdrawn when a settlement or stalemate is reached, and we do not leave a substantial army to police the border—which does not appear to be the intent—the Communists would certainly overrun South Korea after our troops departed. If this is to be the program, it would be better to pull out now, without further American casualties, But it is’ ‘easier to agree with Gen. Wedemeyer that our troops should be withdrawn unless the present political restrictions are lifted from their operations than it is to accept his thesis that we should abandon Korea because it is not an important strategic area. Without reference to its geographic position, Korea has become the central psychological front in the entire global conflict between communism and the free world, The repercussions from an. accepted defeat there could well shatter the all too shaky fabric of the whole anti-Communis* alignment. If the Allies cannot defeat what Gen. Wede- - meyer has termed the enemy's “third team,” how could they convince anyone that they would be able to defeat Russia's first team? * = » . - ” 3 THE United States Hid not have to lose this war, either by pulling out now'or when there may be a convenient lull in the fighting. (In either case we would stand convicted of running out on the South Koreans, many of whom have fought bravely at our side.) This war can be won by hitting the enemy with what it takes to knock him out. It probably could be brought to an early and successful conclusion. by heavy air bombardments and sea blockade without exposing most of our forces to return fire.

. Russian intervention? That possibility has existed ever since the conflict started. It is not a new consideration. Yet what would Russia gain by getting into this war? No Russian blood is being shed, only Allied, Korean and Chinese blood. While we are being weakened, Soviet strength remains unimpaired. Russia can afford any number of wars of this kind. But can we?

Excellent Choices

UDGE HAROLD MEDINA of New York. once said: “I'm ~a kind of fatalist. I believe that you're going to get what's coming to you and you may as well go about your business.” His richly deserved reward came to him Monday: He was named by President Truman to succeed retired Judge Learned Hand on the U. 8. Court of Appeals in New York, second highest court of the land.

Judge Medina, a veritable “Job” of federal magistrates, presided over the nine-months trial of the 11 Communist leaders. His patience, fair-mindedness and judicial competence was further distinguished when the Supreme Court his concept of the “clear and present danger” doctrine as a landmark in constitutional law. His promotion ‘came one week after the court upheld:the Communists’ onviction under that doctrine. ~ ” » . » » NO LESS deserved was the President's nomination of ork Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy to be '8 successor on the U. 8. District bench. Mr. beta: prosecutor in the two Alger Hiss

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TROUBLE IN EUROPE .

PARIS, June 14-—-Sunday’s French election, which is supposed to solve so many national and international problems, is unlikely to settle anything. It alone can't save France from communism

or fascism because conditions which invite die- -

tatorship can't be changed overnight. After the election, the issues are the same and the means for genuine betterment are no different,

The election can't even put in office a much better government than has been struggling with hard conditions up to now, France will be lucky if the new cabinet is as good as the one now going out, At best the election can postpone a showdown for which democratic France is unprepared. At worst it will precipiate the short-cut measures and extreme methods which widen the division between right and left--the road to eventual civil war,

. By ‘Ludwell Deniiy

Can The French Settle Any Of Their Problems By An Election?

That, of course, would settle nothing.. But it would be the end of France. . France is still a sick nation. Convalescent, certainly—thanks to American help and French effort. But she is still anemic and neurotic. She's unable to stand severe strain, make hard « decisions or sustain decisive action, Many ills of the French nation, which wish ful thinkerg expect the election to cure miraculously, are” very old. Some are older than the United © States, maladies which the French Revolutign couldn’t cure. Others were created by it. Still others are a heritage of the Third Republic which went under in 1940, Then war, enemy occupation and the Vichy regime gH. lated ch democracy. « The new post-wan, Fourth Republic. Has had neither the stren nor the time to set things right. The worst and oldest French maladies are

‘Look, We Got Our Name in the Paper’

SCIENCE

By Frederick C. Othman

Watch Out for Those Hormones

WASHINGTON, June 14._Now our Congressmen are worrying about the hormone goos that ladies rub on their pretty faces to make them prettier. Do these produce on elderly cheeks what Rep. Arthur L. Miller, the Republican physician of Kimball, Neb, is pleased to call the bloom of youth? Or is the advantage strictly psy ¢ hological? And what else, if anything, happens to females who cream their faces with new and myvsterious chemicals? These questions are directly connected, as i* develops, to the problem of sterile mink. You undoubtedly have read about the lawgivers’ concern over the hormone pellets injected by farmers into the necks of roosters to make them tenderer in .he frying pan. The evidence indicated that mink fed the heads of these doctored chickens were unable to produce minklets, That was bad enough, but what worried Dr. Miller was the effeet of a diet of new-day drumsticks on ‘a fellow like himself? Long weeks of hearings on this subject were held by the

‘House Select Committee on Chemicals in Foods.

Results were inconclusive. Several scientists insisted that hormones in chickens had no effect on man. Others, equally as famous, said they'd be dad-blamed {if they'd eat such birds. Knowingly, that is, One of them happened to mentinn that a number of new and expensive cold creams for ladies contained these same hormones. Gad. So the gentlemen investigated that, too. They called In numerous physiologists and chemists to tell the facts about the so-called estrogen creams. There seemed to be some

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doubt that they did much for a lady's beauty. There also was considerable question about the female skin absorbing the hormones in any large quantity. The Congressmen then called in Dr. Willard Machle of New York University, 4 leading cancer authority. He said cancer still was a mystery. That at this stage of the game it was difficult to condemn any particular food or drug as the cause of the disease, When he'd finished, the committeemen asked him about cold creams. Well sir, -Dr. Machle was one of those who felt that his wife was beautiful the way nature made her. No hormone creams for her. He'd forbid 'em as a health hazard. Rep. Miller said, yes, but say a lady is homely. She plasters her face with these creams, looks in the mirror, and thinks she detects an improvement. Isn't that a psychological benefit? Dr. Machle said he guessed it was. He then cited the horrendous things that can happen to people who take hormones they don’t need, but he used such big and scientific words that I'm not the fellow to quote him. Let's just say the results are not good.

Who Can Say?

HE WENT on to say that if the hormones were carried in a lanolin or pine oil base, the chances were excellent of them being absorbed by the skin. Particularly if the cream happened to be warm and the lady rubbed it in well. “Maybe these estrogens don't hurt some women and harm others” suggested Rep. Miller. “Who shall have the authority to say?” Dr. Machle said he supposed it was up to the government, My own bride, insofar as I know, does not use hormone creams, Or at least she hasn't yet. I shall read this dispatch aloud to her tonight. Some of those creams cost $18 per small jar. At that price estrogens for wives could make their husbands old and bankrupt long before time. They are a menace to the pocketbook and I'm against 'em.

By Galbraith PRICE SUPPORTS

[5] U.S. Splits

WASHINGTON, Jupe 14 The government is sending out “dividend” checks totaling nearly $75 million to cotton farmers.

This is the profit which the government made after the outbreak of the Korean War on 1948 crop cotton acquired under price support loans to farmers, The government isn't keeping its profits. Rather, it's divvying them up among the farmers who chose to let the government take over their cotton in pref. erence to repaying the government loans which averaged 30.74 cents a pound. The amount of 1948 cotton turned over to the government was approximately 3.8 million bales,

HAD the government lost $75 million on the 3.8 million bales, the loss would not have been assessed against the farm. ers, say Agriculture Department officials, . » That isn’t the way the cotton pooling system now in use « works, Under it, all cotton * taken over by the government

dates in a year is pooled for the ac.

those of disunity. The ancient church-state con“flict continues in‘ this election in the issue of state aid to church schools. ‘The old struggle between peasant and city can still topple cabinets, The hoary tradition of tax inequality and evasion goes on, preventing fiscal reform, inviting monetanginstability and perpetuating class warfare. Private monopolies master the state until it creates state monopolies which enslave it in turn. There's a timeless bureaucracy which France can’t live with and can't live without. There also is the struggle between military and civil power, which has recurred so often in the past and now so largely colors the current election issues of “neutralism” and “Gaullism.” And France's chronic inability to translate industrial production and profits into higher living standards deepens the desperation of millions of underpaid workers who on Sunday will cast a protest vote for communism, in which they do not believe. Of course none of these internal conflicts is peculiar to France. All have been inherent in the political and industrial revolutions which all modern nations have endured in one form or another. But it’s been Frances misfortune to find fewer adjustments ta these common problems than her sister democracies—the United States and Great Britain. For every inherited, unsolved American issue, France has a dozen. So the fruits of French democracy.are not what they should be. It's paradoxical.that the nation which in so many ways has led the world in liberty, equality and fraternity failed to produce the general well-being, stability and unity essential to democratic progress. It's the lack of these things which makes this election campaign so bitter, the voters so frustrated and the politicians seemingly so futile. None of the basic conflicts can be resolved constructively until France finds national unity as the leader toward higher European unity, above sect, caste and class, ‘ America and Britain are apt to miss the meaning of this election, and end up in a mud-

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dle of self- and defeatism fo. ail France, unless there's sympathetic understanding of the appalling weakness here. Yet France with all her weakness is more important than the United States and Britain to Europe. Democracy isn’t in imminent danger in those sounder countries. But 4t fs in peri} throughout Europe. And if democracy can't survive in France, where its roots are deepest, there's little chance of its flowering for’

long in Germany or Italy much less in Eastern Europe. Europe knows this. So does Stalin with his large Communist Party here. The future of many nations is involved because France is the military as well as the political key to Europe. Though the June 17 election won't decide the issue of democratic survival here or elsewhere the struggle will go on regardless—it will make a trend. Itswill lengthen or shorten the time left to work out peaceful solutions to the grave political and social problems which burden a worn and cynical European civilization. Time is needed desperately,

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‘Not an Easy Job’

MR. EDITOR: I recently read a letter written by a Mr. Lee about the trolley operators on' the Riverside line. It seems he is under the impression that we do not like to carry patrons to and from Victory Ball Field. This is a friendly reply to him in defense of these same trolley operators. I am one of the Sunday operators on that line. As far as the sounding off that we may de, I wonder if Mr. Lee would or could ever realize the amount of sounding off that we take every day. Yet, we are supposed to consider that maybe the patron sounding off to us is out of humor or has trouble at home, etc. And we are expected to just “forget it.” Does he realize what it is to load and carry that number of passengers every day and still keep a smile on your face? Does he realize what dt is to carry that many passengers and fight to keep that car on schedule?

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PERSONALLY, I would rather carry a large load of people as it makes my day go faster, but he must realize we have a lot more to contend with to get him there, than he has just to ride to the game. It is our job to keep those cars running and to get the patrons to their destination safely and as sooh as possible. And believe me we all try to perform the chore. And because we might get upset once in a while, we are ridiculed and labeled as not wanting to do our job, I don't believe, Mr. Lee, that Indianapolis Railways is trying to dream up some way to stop you riding to 18th and Harding Sts. on a straight fare. The special busses are run out there and charge 50 cents round trip for those who - are appreciative enough for this added service to pay a little extra for a direct ride to the ball game.

If it was at all possible for me to do so,

I would give my wages and driver’s seat to Mr. Lee for one day and let him do my job and see if he can still keep a smile on his face at

+ all times. I believe he would change his mind.

—A Trolley Operator, City.

‘What a Deal’ MR. EDITOR: Line up suckers. You joined ‘the reserves because you thought that in event of war you would want to and have to go. Now you find vourself breaking up your home and leaving the first real job you ever had, while your neighbor, who is a few years younger (young enough to have missed the last draft), stays securely at home, ready and able to take over your job. Mrs. Rosenberg says he isn’t needed because casualties have been light. But you're needed, perhaps to be a light casualty. I am what the Army calls a volunteer reservist but you fellows in organized units are almost as big suckers as I am. We hdve all sat by and watched the mothers badger the politicians and brass into laying off our boys. Now, this is not meant to be critical of the letter-writing mothers, they acted naturally and perhaps admirably, But it is meant to be critical of all fools that took the Army at its word and signed up for any kind® of a reservist deal. ® <2 9

IT’S VERY easy and painless to fill Korea with a bunch of dopes that don’t have enough

By Earl Richert

sensé to complain when they are walked on. We have been chalked off as a forgotten generation, delegated to fighting wars and police actions while younger and smarter men step on our knuckles on the way up the ladder of civilian success.

The Indianapolis Times had an editorial on this subject recently. They are to be commended. The press has taken very little notice of this fantastic mockery of equality. Why should they as long as the victim gives his silent consent?

I have written four letters to Congressmen but I'm all done now. I took my physical last Week. The company has started to train a successor for my Job, He is four years younger than I am but recently married and stands very little chance of being drafted. I'll see you in Korea, suckers. —A “Volunteer” Reservist Who Thought He Would Follow Non- Veterans to the Front

What Others Say

RELIGION, that is a true knowledge of God, is. the queen of the sciences . . . not because the churches say so . . . but because of the nature of reality—Henry P. Van Dusen, president, Union Theological Seminary. Sh b>

WE DON'T try to make a womanly woman look 16, but neither will she wear a matronlylooking style any more.—Mayda Williams, dress . designer. & ¢

FREEDOM is achieved only by a complex but just structure of law, impersonally . . , enforced against both rulers and the governed. —Robert H. Jackson, associate justice Supreme Court. * ° 9%

GROWERS, feeders and packers (in the meat industry) who made millions in the last few years now threaten to stop an effort that might ald the consumer. They are against price controls.—Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D. IIL).

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

NEW HAVEN—A Yale University professor repo, on that Scribonius Largus, ancient Roman phySician, used the charge of an electric fish for relief of headaches.

Scribonius in days of old Made use of fish electric. His treatments and the charge were bold For folks with headaches hectic.

Until a doubting Roman said, “This fish stuff sure sounds phony, “His scale calls for five bucks a head— “A fish fin for Secriboni!”

Profits With Cotton Farmers

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its, when made, being distributed on a pro rata basis after deduction of carrying and handling costs. All losses are to be borne by the government.

The disbursement of the $75 million in “Korean War” cotton profits by the government is in sharp contrast to what happened in World War IL

Then, the government made a net profit of nearly $200 million on long-held 1934 and 1037 crop cotton which it had acquired under the price support program,

BUT THIS cotton hadn't been “pooled” and the government got.to keep its profits. What caused this change? “It was brought about by pressure from certain members of Congress (the cotton bloc),” said a high ranking Agriculture Department official. The board of directors of the Commodity Credit Corp. ‘(the price support agency) took ad- - ministrative action ‘to set up the cotton pooling system “in 1938 and’ft has -been in use

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“BUN” said the agriculture official, “we'll never be able to _point to cotton profits turned into the Treasury again, We have to pass them out.” The “pooling” system is not in use on any other agricultural product acquired under price support. If the government would acquire a bushel of wheat under price support for $2 and sell it for $2.25, it would keep the profit,

But profits haven't been showing up in the grains and most other commodities bought by the government to hold up prices to farmers, ‘‘Pooling” was tried on wheat for a time back in the Thirties. But since there were no profits, the pooling system was dropped.

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“IF it ‘begins to look like we’ might make profits “on some

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* assured pressure will build up for pooling,” said another agriculture edticial.

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The dividend checks now being received by cotton farmers represents an average return of about 11 per cent on the loans they obtained. The government sold the cotton, acquired for about 30% cents a pound, at prices ranging up to 38 and 39 cents.

A TRUE LOVE

TRUE love is never glamorized or placed upon a shelf . .. true love is something that iles deep . « . within one’s inner self , + « It 1s not shown by song or word . . . but by your every deed . . . for action speaks the loudest , . « to a heart that is In need . . . true love Is born of sacrifice . . . of heartaches and of tears . .. it doesn’t come to you by night «+. it's built up with. the years +++ It Is life’s most sought after thing . «. « and it cannot be bought . . . for it is. moulded in the heart ... where all good things sre wrought . . . un dying as the moon and stars + + « and steadfast as the sun « + « true love is there to cheer you on . . ., when other loves

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