Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1951 — Page 10
hirred as the United Nations delegation entered the meetng house where armed Communists stood on guard. When pictures of this scene are displayed throughout the world, it will not be difficult to represent them as the nficial record of an Allied “surrender.” It shows how stupid of our military leaders can be in situations of this kind. i. We always seem to set ourselves up for a sucker punch when we are dealing with the Communists. It is just another jusmple of the appeasement psychology which has domi- . nated United Nations policy since the intervention of Red ~~ China. i . We lick 'em on the battlefield. Then, when diplomacy | moves in, the Reds take over the driver's seat. We never seem to learn. .
about the feeding of cattle and the livestock business.”
Offers Formula MR. HARVEY gave the formulas for fattening hogs and cattle and pointed out that if the roll-backs handicap the cattle feeder he will put the grain into his hogs instead. This will vitiate the announced purpose of the roll-backs ~1to get beef back on the tables of more people —Mr. Harvey contended. ’ “If your purpose in trying to roll-back beef prices is to get more beef at equitable prices, I can say to you that you are just not going to get it,” Mr. Harvey declared. “You will for a time, yes,’ because these people who have these cattle and have them : on feed are eventually going to go to market i z . Yt with them. They will have to go to market with A Good will Campaign : fem and sell them regardless of how they THE CONGRESSIONAL resolution addressed to the “But you are not going to see those men + Russian people, expressing the friendship and good will §°o8 right back info the cattle feeding game
: the next year because, as I have said, they the American people for all the people of the earth and nave pork, and the production will flow into the area where there is a possible chance for
a profit . . .
Approach Is Wrong “I CERTAINLY DO not want to stand here in the well—I am not a cattle feeder myself— and place myself in the position of saying that you should control everything else but beef prices, but what I am trying to say is that the approach to the solution of this problem has been wrong. ‘ : . “We had extensive hearings in my commit- . tee on agriculture with Mr. DiSalle.
2 emphasizing our government's profound desire to do everything in its power to bring about a just and lasting peace, is a challenge to the Soviet leaders to let their people know the truth. ; If we can acquaint the Soviet people with the peace aims of the American people, there will be no war, as President = n has said in his letter transmitting that resolution to the President of the Soviet Presidium. This good will gesture will not be wasted, even though =the resolution and the President's letter may not be published in the controlled press of the Soviet Union. The texts of the document are to be broadcast to Russia twice each _ hour, 24 hours a day, for the next three days. There will be additional broadcasts in Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian _ for the Baltic states. Some of the people behind Russia's. ~~ Tron Curtain are bound to get the message and repeat it to theirtfriends = Go © § Itis a good beginning for what Phew be 4 tohnmitig ~~ Paper article. I submit to the m
he had no knowledge at all about the industry. Therefore, he had no knowledge about how to proceed. As a matter of fact, during the hear- ; ings when they questioned Mr. DiSalle as to
‘the prices, and the basis of his determination, knowing fully that there were many economists - “who ‘had adequate Information: in the Department of Agriculture, he testified that he formulated his decision from having read a.
campaign: to get the truth to. @fese people whose leaders - tne solition of the problem.” deny them normal communication with the outside world. 'H would be a good idea to repeat this broadcast at least once a week for the remainder of the year. The same message should be conveyed to the Russian people by the printed word and conveyed behind the Iron Curtain by every possible means. Such measures could prove highly embarrassing to the men in the Kremlin who have tried to make the Russian people believe that Americans are their enemies. . "Similar resolutions and letters, addressed to the people of China, should inform them how their sons and fathers / have been fed into the meat grinder in. Korea by Moscow's i stooges in Peiping. Moreover, all the Chinese prisoners of war in Korea should be thorougly indoctrinated on this subject before they are releaséd to return to their homeland. Ir treated with consideration, many of these prisoners can become ambassadors of truth and good will.
Taxing Isn't Enough HEN the Truman administration goes before Congress for new taxes, it talks always about its spending needs. It doesn't talk nearly enough about not spending. The House, in passing the new-tax bill, cut the administration’s request back about $3 billion. But even the House hasn't taken sufficiently vigorous companion action on the spending front.
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FOSTER'S FOLLIES
WASHINGTON-—The Air Force has a camera so sharp it can take a picture of a golf ball on a gréen nine miles below it. When your drives ring down the fairways And the pretty “birdies” sing, This new camera of the airways Happy photographs may bring.
CORY —
But whe And the ball plays tricks real tough— Ain't no camera worth a nickel That can't spot 'em in the rough.
administration doesn’t need, and couldn't wisely spend, the $10 billion it asks in new taxes. But, while the Finance Committee talks informally in this fashion, the big spending bills keep finding their way through Congress without drastic reductions.
5 » » FINANCING the defense effort without deficits is important. But it is just as important to get rid of the excess
ing Bob.”
“It was evident even in those hearings that
how he arrived at his-decision to roll back °
House that that is mot a proper ap Np the idea. that
NEWS NOTEBOOK . .. By Peter Edson
Bob Taft's New Grin Senate Finance Committee members are saying the ‘May Appeal to Voters
WASHINGTON, July 9 — Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio has already started to wear his presidential candidate’s smile, and apparently wants to be known as “SmilHe has confided to a number of people that he has definitely decided to run for the Republican nomination next year, and he’s doing everything in his power
DICTIONARY STUFF? . . . By Frederick C. Othman
Looks Like Everybody's a Little
Confused About
WASHINGTON, July 9—It is not only bu-
reaucrats who get caught with their dictionaries shut. Sometimes ordinary mortals like Ralph W. Button get tangled up in gobbledegook, too. " Mr. Button is a leading drygoodsman of New York and chairman of the Retailers’ Emergency Tax Committee. The : .
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merchants don't. much like the $7 billion boost in taxes Congress is talking about. They sent him down to explain .. why before the Sen- y. afe Finance Commit. Y8F tee. . a RI mil EX Ia ‘He was doing fine
the government WSs probably wouldn't have to hike taxes °° at all if it tried seriously to abolish its own fiscal high ™liv- Sn ing. The federals shouldn't expect the taxpayers to grin and bear it, he said, so long as the government keeps loosening its own belt and gobbling up more billions. “These new taxes,” he continued, “are regressive.” : Sen. Robert 8. Kerr (D., Okla.) winced. He blinked. He threw up his hands. He %lmost, but not quite, went, ulp. This seemed to alarm Sen. Eugene D. Millikin (R. Colo.). “Excuse me, Mr, Button,” said the latter, “but I believe the Senator from Oklahoma is interested in this regressive business.” “Yes, I am, now that you mention it,” said Sen. Kerr. He turned to Mr. Button and asked him if he knew what the word, regressive, meant, Mr. Button said he believed he did. “Can you spell it?” inquired the millionaire Oklahoman. Mr. Button spelled out—' ‘regressive. I hope that's right,” he said.
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“I hope so,’ too,” said the Senator. tell us what it means.” “Well,” said Mr, Button, “I think it means going backward.” . “Do. y have your dictionary with you?” Sen. Kerr MNgked. Unfortunately, no, said Mr. Button. . “If you had it, you'd see that it refers to infantile matters,” the erudite Senator said. “Now you are making this statement. You can leave that word in, if you want, but what I think you need is a dictionary.” : x H-m-m-m-m. This tax bill has been before Congress now since the snows of early January and nothing much has ‘happened yet. Chairman Walter F. George*(L. Ga.) of the
“Now
ready for a vote before the middle of-Sentdm-ber. I think I know one reason why. Tog
_ ‘many big words.
80 I quickly Borrowed a dictionary (Webster’'s Collegiate) from the nearest senatorial secretary and this is what it said about regressive: “Return of the libido to earlier stages of development, or to infantile objects of attachment.” Much Ado About Nothing IF I were writing a dictionary and couldn't come up with a better definition than that, think I'd skip regressive. My guess is that it means when fof grow old, they like to think about their childhood. are regressive, But I can't be sure. All I do know for certain is that Sen. Kerr is right and Mr. Button is wrong. The word regressive can't be used to describe a tax bill. And if all this seems like much ado about nothing, that’s the general idea. Sometimes the people hereabouts spout so many long words (which nobody understands except possibly Sen. Kerr), that I am surprised they get any work done at all.
By Galbraith
When they do that, they
THEATER . .
*Scripps-Howard Trash’
. MR. EDITOR:
“A No-Detision Fight” (Times—July 6) .., another trashy Scripps-Howard editorial. Yes, more trouble must be expected until we are enough to discourage new enemy at-
tacks. Just a few days after June 25, 1850, I
mailed you an editorial demanding the United Nations drop atomic bombs, You seemed to not want to win the war anymore than Harry Truman and his Democrats. : : { You refused to print my editorial. But had
"you done so and the United States government
had dropped several atomic bombs on Korea, that war of Harry Truman's would have been
‘over long ago. Peace would hive been bere and
your scandal sheet and Mr. n would not need to-be ruining the lives of thousands of young men by military service. eo ¢ MANY of those American boys laying dead over there now would be alive today. The shame heaped on their decaying bodies by such write ings as this editorial of yours and such leader«
‘ship as Harry Truman's could have been
avoided by dropping atomic bombs. Russia, and all others who wanted to fight, would know we meant business and would try for peace.
You got just what you and Harry wanted . +. a lot of money to play politics with in war and a lot of filthy writings by your ScrippsHoward papers advocating to destroy our free country by Universal Military Training. The nodecision fight is just exactly what you wanted and what Harry wanted and I am one of the suckers who wanted atomic bombs dropped who is getting a financial trimming at the hands of such papers that write: such trash and leaders who sponsor such trash. : ~—James J. Cullings, 107 8. Capitol Ave,
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‘Price Control’ MR. EDITOR:
You know, it is amazing what has happened in Washington, D. C., the past few weeks with regard to price and wage controls. Every sensible person knows what inflation means and what it will do to us. Certainly the men in Congress know, or they should not be in Congress, Yet, we stand on the very brink of abolition of all wage and price and rent conirols. Certainly, rollbacks will be barred. This rollback block started with beef control, You would think a man or woman in Congress would have more pride than to let a noisy, bullheaded group like those cattlemen who are lobbying right now, get away with the thing they have done, They actually are bragging about how they influ. enced Congress. They are cocky about it. Cone gress should rise each day and bow their heads in a moment of silence over their own dead bodies. > So
COMMENTATORS say there are two reasons for what has happened to price controls. Apathy of the people is one, That is hard to understand when you realize that everyone is griping about high prices. Rent is tied in with this thing, and you do not have to have much imagination to know what will happen in Indianapolis if rent control goes. The people had better wake up. OF eourse;-a lat of this apathy stems from the fact that prices just have not been kept down very well. The other reason given is the fact that lchbyists contribute to campaign funds. and average citizens do not. Does that mean that getting a campaign chest is more important than the welfare of the people? If so we had better ‘investigate Congress and make a few rules. In«
_cidentally, it is my opinion, an Investigation - and a few. gules are long overdue, go far as .
that pompous body 1s concerned. Ten : "High prices won't particularly hurt business, farmers, and union men. They just keep raising
prices in store and factory and on the farm,
Union men will strike and get their pay up. What happens to all the salaried ‘reople, the unorganized worker, the professional folks and so on? You smug folks had better wake up. Also, those who live on pensions, annuities and
ings. You vote, Speak up, or don’t you care? Ve —F. M,, City.
TRY PRAYING
WHEN trouble comes into your life... and skies are filled with rain . . . just say a little prayer or two . . . and sun will shine again . . . just speak your heart to God above . . . whe answers every prayer ., . . and He will give you strength anew . .. to conquer every care . . . confide in Him whenever you . . . are lost and all at sea . . . and just as if by magic you . . can face what is to be . . . and when it seems like you're alone . . . remember God is there . . . to see youcthrough to happiness . . »
just say a little prayer. —By Ben Burroughs.
. By Robert Crater
End of War to Bring
Attack on Gl Boredom
WASHINGTON, July 9—An end to the fighting in
27 9 Korea will mean a full-scale attack on GI boredom by a Nef small branch of the Armed Forces. Le Servicemen without a war to fight require more
entertainment. It's the job of the Armed Forces Profes< sional Entertainment Branch to see that they get it.
to further that ambition. He has admitted that his greatest rival is Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Analyzing Ike's great popularity, Sen. Taft has decided that the secret lies in the General's warm personality and infec tious smile. It wins people over from the very minute that he stands up, or steps on a platform to speak. Sen. Taft has never been able to be like that. But he is now taking steps to overcome the handicap. He is doing everything he can to make himself more likablé. He has even gone to the extent of stretching his mouth wider so that his smile will be more winning. And he's training himself to open his mouth to smile the moment he stands up to speak.
baggage in appropriations. The Senate threatens to rewrite completely the administration’s tax bill, It is a political tax bill, written with the 1952 elections in mind. And the revenue estimates claimed for it are oper to serious questions. So it needs rewriting. But, while it is being rewritten, Congress should work vigorously at the twin job of writing down appropriations. . When the government raises a man’s taxes, it compels him to retrench—a sacrifice he makes to help the defense effort. Similar sacrifice by the government is fully as essential. High taxation threatens to be with us for a long time, It is necessary, to.pay as we go for defense and to curb the Spifla tion which large-scale government borrowing would But taxing ourselves for non-essential, dispensable or wasteful government activities is an equally dangerous ~ handicap in our struggle against aggrassion. ]
Brave Woman JOR SIX years an attractive beauty-shop operator in Washington led a double life. She played the role of a Communist, and told the FBI what she saw and heard, Dangerous work. And not the _ kind designed to make friends with loyal American neighbors
acquaintances, Russian zone propaganda show. and But Sos The' so-called Free German
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one NEXT trouble spot where the
business to the anti-Commu-nist countries is Berlin. The time will be August and the occasion will be an Kast Berlin,
necessary and immensely valuable work. Like Mat yoo t 12 Debree Tale Deitze and other now known FBI informers, Hed for & demonstration there leup Markward performed her ticklish job in the customary pattern.
There will be parades and
Commies may try to give the’
missioner John J. McCloy calls the outfit the “Slave German Youth.” Communist youth organizations tried a similar march on West Berlin a couple of years ago. It was broken up by strong counter - propaganda measures in the American, Brittish and French zones, Though this first demonstration was a complete flop, the Commies are now back again for a repeat performance.
» n ” THERE are far more married women than single women in the United States labor force today, according to the U. 8. Bureau of Census. The ratio is approximately two
working married women to one .
bachelor girl. This is a complete reversal of the picture of 11 years ago, before World War II, when single working women outnumbered married women.
In March, 1940, there, were approximately 14 million women working. Nearly seven million were single, six million married, two million widowed
or divorced. Today, with nearly
18 million women working, five million are single, nine million are married, three millio widowed or divorced, 3
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sidered an effective treatment for irregular heart beat, which has caused many fatalities in cases of coronary thrombosis.
The drug is now in the hands of physicians, and is adminis-
; tered by mouth.
- - ~ OFFICIALS of Washington's swank Army and Navy Club have discovered anew ‘that it's not easy 0 Shunge the
by the front door. Instead, they were required to use a side entrance. : ; Finally the men relented and posted a notice that women might use the front door. None
of them did. The men then
posted a notice that women “must” enter through the front door. None of the ladies complied. Finally, correctly estimating the power of women,
Top names in the entertainment world must be ob-
tained and flown to U. S. military bases throughout the
world. The task of gathering and sending entertainment units formerly was handled by the individual branches of service with the help of the USO. But Assistant Defense Secretary Anna M. Rosenberg ended that. She ordered unification for entertainment purposes, and the AFPEB came into being. . Commanding officer of the group is Col. Joseph F. Goetz, once a successful theater executive in Cincinnati. He knows the big names and he understands stage temperament.
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“SOMETIMES they fool me,”
Col. Goetz admitted. “Take the -. _ sweet young singer who in-
sisted we take her husband along to Germany. “In Weisbaden we heard someone was tearing down all our posters. When we caught up with the culprit, it was the husband. He was jealous because his wife didn't have top
billing.” .
Anbther time in Germany, movie actress, stalked into the’
pretty Yvonne de lobby of the
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“There isn't a window shade in the room,” Yvonne stormed. “How can & girl . .. Well, I won't!” The management took Yvonne back to her room and
showed her how to operate the massive, steel shutters. They were the most effective shades the movie star had ever seen,
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COL. GOETZ heads a staff of 15 persons—five officers and 10 civilians. Each has had experience in show business,
Making arrangements for the entertainers to make trips is a big undertaking. The USO provides the showmen, but it's up to the AFPEB to see that they get their inoculation shots, passports, security checkups, passes into military zones, transportation, hotels and meals,
THE AFPEB has 28 enter~ tainment units on the now. A year from now, Col. Goetz believes he will have 50 units ‘to take care of Amerie ca’s growing forces. abroad. . Often the entertainers come plain about the transportation, food, lodging and stage . ities, But: when they urn they're soon ready for another
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