Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1951 — Page 17

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AR i Passive War by Yes-Men MacARTHUR inquiry has revealed some of the ~ things which can happen to our country when great responsibilities are entrusted to little men who rattle around #4 ¥The United States became involved in the war with Japan by opposing Japanese efforts to carve up China. ++: That war lasted nearly four years and cost us 300,000 casualties and more than $100 billion. +. Then China, which we had rescued from Japanese Aggression, was lost to the Russians by the stupidity of our. political leadership. How this was brought about by a small group of little men in and around our State Department is told in detail in Freda Utley’s recent book, The China Story,” which every American, including President Truman, should read. ss Now wé are in a war with Red China in Korea—a war which our officials are afraid to win on the ground

that it may involve us in a war with Russia. ba ” ”. » » » #4 [8 ARY OF STATE ACHESON, who played a F role in the China debacle—although himself a victim ‘anti-China lobby, in our opinion—got us into. this business largely by his own actions. Now he is “to write off our 70,000 battle casualties for a t which would leave our Allies, the South nothing but a prayer. uct of war is a highly technical and specialized profession, and our military establishment presumably is headed by the best talent which training and experience h field can produce. But such talent is wasted when Ain't used. Although a Red invasion, of South Korea had been anticipated by at least three years, when it occurred the United States had no “war plan” for Korea—because our military leaders did not regard the Korean Peninsula as a favorable place for American forces to, be committed. But when Secretary Acheson proposed U. 8. intervention in Korea, Defense Secrétary Johnson and the Joint Chiefs+of Staff bowed to his will, despite their unreadiness for such a mission and notwithstanding Mr. Acheson's

limifed knowledge of such problems.

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4:1#OUR MILITARY leaders did not advise intervention— Mr, Johnson said even “concur” would be too strong a term—but they did not openly oppose it. Wherein they splayed the lack of the first essential for their positions—

«Since that time, the State Department — which lost Chiria to the Reds and which has us badly messed up. in Europe and the Middle East—has dictated thé conduct of the war, acting as intermediary for the British Foreign Office. It has vetoed the pursuit of enemy planes into Manchuria, the bombing of enemy bases across the Yalu

- River and opposed a naval blockade of Red China's ports.

~ It is an insult to public intelligence to appeal for pational unity behind this kind of leadership. You can't follow men who are running around in circles to escape their own shadows.

A Press Casualty "THE PASSING of a great daily newspaper never fails

to leave a feeling of shock and sorrow in newspaper

circles. We share that feeling today with the announceth Louis Star-Times has gone out of existence, its principal assets sold to the Post-Dispatch of that is

; : inevitable talk and headshaking among those who know less about it—they cry ‘predatory But the simple fact is, as the Star-Times explains, it had gone through five years in Which ever-mounting labor and material costs had risen faster than the revenues increased. * It is an inescapable fate which so many other papers have met under these conditions. Twenty years ago there were 2044 daily newspapers in the United States. Today there are 1771. This is lamentable in a country that prides itself on the quality and the freedom of its press. Though business has been good for mewspapers in the post-war years, by Jan. 1 this year, it was found that daily newspapers generally had experienced a faster rise in labor and material costs than in their income. : A notable example is the increase in the cost of news-

print (paper used for newspapers), which is up 100 per.

cent over 1942. It is now $116 a ton in New York, as compared with $40 a ton 20 years ago. Beginning July 1, U.'S, newspapers will be paying $80 million a year more Jor their ‘basic material than they did a year ago. . Eighty per cent of the newsprint supply for our papers weotties from Canada, and is not price:controlled. Our pricecontrol officials have “protested” to Canada—so far, withwut effect. But next month a Senate Small Business sub‘Gomin will start an investigation of the price and BU of newsprint. This is vitally important if newspapers are to continue as a prirhe necessity of our economic ind cultural life.

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as $a ort-Sighted Action Pare DEPARTMENT officials have closed the playis ground in the 700 block of Fulton St. #%Their explanation . . . “The kids just tore it up . . . it costs too much to keep fixing it up.” . pindianapolis has long had a serious juvenile problem. The Times has pointed this out many times . . . as recently igg' last week with a series of seven articles pointing to the on, those needs was more playground space. i ; ‘ » 88 : ing of one playground because of the cost of ell cost this city four or five times as much

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NEW YORK-—According to an authority on heredity, uncontrolled human fertility is the most menacing force in * the world today, next to the atom bomb,

Now here is a matter we ought ‘to look into: If infants bring peril so keen, It may be high time for the world to begin to Have all the kids born at eighteen.

We've offen been peeved at their nocturnal squealing, Which covers an eight-octave

range, But maybe that's only their way of revealing That babies themselves seek ~-a change.

POSSIBLY the heredity expert does know what he's talking about, but he might pick on someone his size. Besides, there seems to be some little doubt as to whether he'll ever sell his idea to any doting mamas, Unless this is an offSpring. Bables are nice to have around. Even when he throws the spinach in your lap, who wants to kill off the little goose who lays the $600 income tax exemption? But our expert says the high birth rate is bringing about a decline in intelligence, and the world is producing far more babies than it has food for. Could be. Although we never heard of a sugar daddy complaining about the cost of caviar or capon.. Nor insisting on discussing the higher arts of ancient literature with his dumb, but beautiful baby. Chances are he. never expected her to be interested in pearls (of wisdom) in the first place. Fact 1s, we're afraid that heredity man may find that having babies is one habit that's going to be hard to break.

» » ” TODAY we Papas get the break. Yep, Father's Day.

The day that any father worthy of the name feels more

closely bound to nis offspring.

than at any other time. Unfortunately, in some cases the tie isn’t much. So it's pink and green and purple. So in a day or two Junior will forget all about it, and the Old Man can just throw it away. Kidding aside, any Dad will tell you that in some ways Father's Day is even better than Christmas. For one thing, there's more time until the first of the month rolls around. And the bills for these gifts roll in. Of course, maybe Pop doesn’t have too much use for a size 10 dress, ‘or a scooter bike. But the thought is what really counts. And, if he's wise, the old boy keeps his thoughts to himself. ” . .

YET you take Sen. Kefauver; (Possibly Mr. O'Dwyer might say you could have him.) The Senator has been named Father of the Year. How happy and proud Mrs. K. and the four K-dets must be. Of course a lot of rapscallions around the country won't approve the Senator's selection. They just can’t forget those spankings the Pappy of the Year gave them during the Crime Committee investigations. - » » AND speaking of investigations, the Gallup Poll finds a majority of Americans regarding the Benate hearings on MacArthur's dismissal as healthy. At least the sessions have gone on to a ripe old age! 8 ».8 en AUNTY COMMY says: “See where Pravda now claims that people live longer in the USSR than in capitalist nations. Shucks! It only seems longer!” r . -

f » § » CONSIDER dear old dad. He's the guy who takes a back seat to almost everybody in the family . . . including the cat and dog at times.

The mailman leaves a flock of bills, dear old dad pays off. Something goes wrong with the family car and no matter who's driving it, dear old dad pays off.

Births, deaths, weddings, Christmas, holidays, Mother's Day, birthdays and even Father's Day . . . there he is . . . dear old dad with his cash out on the line . . . he pays off every time.

He's a Jack-of-all-trades, dear old dad is. Somebody wants to go for a ride or has to make & train and he’s a chauffeur. The lights go out, he’s an electrician. The sink stops up, he's a plumber. The car breaks down, he's a mechanie. * &

THERE {sn’'t anything in the world he can't do . . . but that doesn’t mean he does it right. Usually someone has to call the plumber after dear old dad has busted the drain and laid himself up for a week with a stiff back. Consider all the personality changes dad goes through. When Junior is in kindergarten and grade school, dad is a hero. My dad can beat your dad up, my dad has the biggest car in town, my dad's the smartest man in the world, nobody can tell my dad what to do, boy. Then Junior gets into high school and college and dad suddenly changes. He's an old fuddy duddy, tight with the car, won't hike a guy's allowance, trys to sabotage true love and is confining a young man’s outlook to economy. Then Junior is about to be graduated from

college and dad takes a turn for the worse. Dad's getting a little older ycu know. I can remember the times when he would hold me on his knee and tell me about life on the farm + « « how good it was and what tough winters they had. Dad sure has lived, but he's getting a little older you know, just got bifocals last week, can't hear so well any more. But when Junior becomes a promising young businessman, dear old dad is almost in the grave, He's shot. His life's almost gone. The candle has given out at .both ends.

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HE AND Junior have changed places, to hear Junior tell it, Going up to see dad today. Gotta help him put the screens in for the winter. Not as young as he used to be. Hasn't much strength left in him, He needs me, poor guy. Truth of it is that dear old dad has wised up. He's finally learned it doesn’t pay to bust your back trying to do everything in a day. Wait long enough and Junior will do it for you. You can’t beat that can you? But there’s just one thing that dear old dad

"has never been able to beat. That's the inevita-

ble tie and shirt combination that he gets on Christmas, birthday and Father's Day. Mom needs a new coat. Mary needs a new slip, stockings, perfume, bathrobe, slippers, dress, hat, gloves, necklace, and ditty bag pocketbook. Junior's gotta have a drum, record player, after-shave-lotion, shoes, tux, suits, slacks, pipe and a go-to-hell-hat. Pop? What's he need? Ahhbh , , , get 'Im a, tie and shirt. He'll like that. Yep, consider dear old dad. It's his day.

—By Ed Wilson.

‘Speak Up, Now’ MR. EDITOR: As one of the millions of Americans who

learned first hand of blood and thunder during World War II, I have made the grievous mistake, along with otheys, of sitting back and watching the international situation get worse and worse without trying to do anything to help. I have watched with apprehension as the armchair genergls in Washington have moved the pawns back and forth at their pleasure and played the game of power politics to the hilt in a futile attempt to gain an advantageous peace. I have watched placidly while diplomats representing this nation have sought to buy the friendship of the world with dollars and failed. I have watched the gloomy clouds of war gathering first in the East, then in the West, until they poured down their blast and fire on Korea, sounding another call to arms.

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NOW, it becomes clear that unless somebody, big or little, on’ this continent sounds the call for public action and sounds it with determina~ tion we shall continue down the path to national humiliation. In recent months several weak protests have

been voiced concerning our stalemated position

in Korea, but they have been neither loud enough nor long enough to stir us from our slumbering indifference . . . The war in which Americans are fighting in Korea is a bastard war, a war without meaning, a war which has no rational warrant nor mili. tary objective, It is a war in which Americans are fighting and dying without any ethical basis for doing so, and to make matters even worse, it is a war in which we, the United States, are helping to destroy the very nation we profess fo be liberating from Soviet aggrandizement. What a belly laugh Stalin and his henchmen must be having in the Kremlin—watching us

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bloody our youth on the Korean rockpile. A dangerous precedent has been set for this nation when American blood is spilled on'such a campaign and for such a sham as liberation.

WE ARE fighting in Korea because we have been led to believe the lie that intervention in Korea will postpone Russian plans for world domination. We are fighting because the United Nations has elected us as scapegoat for the world’s ills and guardian of her financial stability. We are fighting because American policy is being predicated on the basis of fear, instead of geo-political planning. : You and I are supposed to have something to say about how our government is being run, so let's take up the reins before it's too late. Let's do something before Washington starts running us. This job is too hot for George Marshall to handle. It's up to you. Write your Congresmen and your news: papers, Speak up for Western civilization . . . now , . . before it's too late. 3 ~=Hiram C. Najarian, San Diego, Cal.

TO EVERY DAD

TO EVERY Dad in this great land . . . I offer up my praise . . . for all the good things that they do . . . in molding childish ways . . . I doff my hat to them because .,.. they are

so good and true . . . and for the many times they bring . . . each family smiling through «+ + 8a Dad Is someone who enjoys . . . the little things in life . . . like working for his family « « +» and loving his dear wife . . . he is the man who's galled upon . .. when skies are dark and gray . . . to set a good example and . . . to drive dark clouds away . . . and in return for all his love . . . he only wants to see . . . the Joyful smiling faces of . . . his happy family. —By Ben Burroughs.

EDITOR'S NOTES... . By Walter-Leckrone .

High Prices Are Only

Symptom of Inflation

President Truman's radio warning against inflation

got a receptive audience around here this week. We know about inflation, too. We've had it.

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in Indianapolis we have suffered all the ill effects he President mentioned and perhaps a few more. = i For a plan that would stop inflation, Mr. Truman

wotlld have overwhelming support in this state— which he hasn't had on a

good many other issues. In his speech to the nation he proposed no such plan. He asked only that the measures now being tried, so far without visible results, be continued for a few more years. The net impression of his radio speech was that Mr. Truman still believes inflation is caused by high prices. If that were correct, dealing with it would be as simple as the remedies he proposes. Just order the prices to go down and inflation will be cured. Actually of course, high prices are only one of the symptoms of the disease and not the disease itself. Until the federal administration recognizes that elementary fact nothing much is going to be done to cure infla-

tion.

LJ » ” SPEAKING of “high” prices 1s just another way of saying dollars are low in price, A dollar that used to be worth two pounds of beefsteak now is worth only one pound. A dollar that used to be worth an hour of labor now is worth only 30 minutes. To a very great, degree the government of the United States itself sets the price of a dollar. United States dollars are simply rectangular pieces of paper, without intrinsic value in themselves. On each is printed a promise by the government of the United States to pay the amount printed on it. In denominations of $1 the government promises to pay in silver, if asked to do so. In denominations above $1 it promises to pay in “dollars” —which is to say that if you have a 85 bill in your nocket the government of the United States promises to give you another $5 bill for it any time you ask. So our dollars actually are just “promises to pay”’—and to pay in more “promises to pay” — differing from bonds mainly in that bonds draw interest and dollars do not. Both are hacked only by the credit of the government of the United States—and nothing else.

” ” ” DOLLARS used to be prom{ses to pay in gold—and only as many dollars were issued as the government had gold to redeem them. That was abandoned nearly 20 years ago—so that the government could issue more dollars, and thus

make dollars cheape There is one of the basic causes of today’s “inflation” . . . which is

just another name for cheap dollars. With unlimited supplies of cheap dollars on hand, the government could spend them freely. The more it spent the cheaper they got. By the time the government had to pay for the second world war they were so cheap that it"took three of them to get what two would have got when it began. Even when the war was over the government continued to spend freely in the cheap dollars—spending, in fact, about twice as much a year for peacetime -operation as it took to fight the whole first world war a few decades before. There has been no reduction in this issuing and spending of cheap dollars since. The more that are issued and spent the cheaper they become, Or the “higher” prices go.

In scoring the National Association. of Man J and other unnamed “ interests” for making prices high, the other evening, President

. Truman did not mention the biggest single

factor that makes prices is tax. s wls SOMETHING more than 30 per cent out of every dollar earned or spent in this country today is collected by federal, state or local governments as taxes. So-tax becomes a part of the price of everything about one-third of the price, In fact. An automobile that today costs $2100 actually is a $1400 automobile—the other $700 in the price is tax. . None of this is tax for rearmament in the new defense emergency. That is still to come. When it does, it, too, will be added right into the price of things. President Truman made no mention of cutting down federal spending, even non-defense spending, in his inflation speech. Congress did make a move to cut by around 10 per cent the number of people working for two of the least useful and most overstaffed federal departments, but administration leaders fought it and many Congressmen expect President Truman will veto that saving. The Federal Security Agency, balked in its prolonged attempt to put its socialized medicine scheme into effect, even now in the midst of a defense emergency proposes a new scheme to put part of it over—in: this case “free” hospital care for everyone past 65.

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UNTIL drastic reductions In useless spending are made, and sound money policies are adopted, nothing is going to prevent more and more and more inflation. No such changes have been proposed by the administration, none were suggested by President Truman, and none are in sight, The administration's “party line” in fact points in exactly the opposite direction. A series of speeches in the past two or three weeks by administration spokesmen begins to reveal it and to reveal the road to more inflation. The current story from Mr. Truman's subordinates is that inflation really isn’t so bad—that even with prices where they are, people earn so much more néw that they really are a lot better off. = » . A FEW people are, Tiny minorities of all the workers in the nation have managed to keep their pay rising faster than prices rose—lately with the help of the federal goverhment. The vast majority of workers did not. The thousands of people on fixed incomes, pensions, salaries, and the returns from their own savings, have not been able to make their incomes go up as prices went up. They are in real distress. And they are roughly three-fourths of the people of this country. Neither President Truman's brave words against “inflation” nor futile gestures toward “price control” and “wage control” are going to help them— so long as his own administration goes steadily forward creating inflation itself.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

WASHINGTON, June 16— Frank M. McHale, Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, and Frank McKinney, Indianapolis banker and Democratic leader, called on Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) Wednesday. Shortly after their visit, the junior Senator from Indiana

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law into the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Bill. Although this meant writing legislation into a monéy blll and could have been stopped by a single Senator raising: a point of order, the Jenner amendment wae accepted by Sen, Dennis Chavez (D, N. Mex.) chairman in chirge of the bill, with Sen. Ernest W. McFarland (D. Ariz.) majority leader, on the floor. $ Informed of what happened, Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing, turned out to be the happiest man in Washington. 3 “It takes me off the hot seat,” he said. This means that if the appropriation bill, with - the. Jenner amendment, is accepted in the House-Senate conference and finally passed, Mr. Ewing will not have to rule to forfeit $18 million in federal grants-in-aid for his home state of Indiana. He has held hearings on whether of nof the new Indiana law, passed by the Republican legislature earlier this year, violated the secrecy proVisions of the Social Security Act, “I did some missionary work In the matter,” Sen. Jenner explained. “Two Democrats who were set to raise a point of order. were converted, when I told them that similar access to names and amounts, as the pew Indiana law provides, has been a courthouse custom for years under the Lien Law.” He flatly denfed that he had worked: collusively in the matter, with the visiting Democrats from Indiana, Mr. Ewing or any FSA employees. “It was purely coincidental that McHale and McKinney arrived at my office just when they did,” Sen, Jenner said. “They were here on some. pri- : the getting of a few thousand tons of steél for the United States

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