Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1951 — Page 12

ehirred as the United Nations d When pictures of this scene are displayed throughout he world, it will not be difficult to represent them as the ficial record of an Allied “surrender.” It shows how stupid re of our military leaders can be in situations of this kind. We always seem to set ourselves up for a sucker punch. when we are dealing with the Communists. It is just another

ple of the appeasement psychology which has domited United Nations policy since the intervention of Red China. : |. We lick 'em on the battlefield. Then, when diplomacy moves in, the Reds take over the driver's seat. We never seem to learn. :

: . ® A Good Will Campaign THE CONGRESSIONAL resolution addressed to the 7 Russian people, expressing the friendship and good will of the American people for all the people of the earth and. emphasizing our government's profound desire to do every- . thing 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 ple, there will be no war, as President Truman 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 This good will gesture will not be wasted, even though the resolution and the President’s letter -may not be published in the controlled press of the Soviet Union.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 - ton Curtain are bound-to get the message apd reveat it to tpirfrends LE ee TE © It isa good beginning for what should be a continuing campaign to get the truth t9” these people whose leaders my them normal communication with the outside world. would be a good idea to repeat this broadcast at least once “week for the remainder of the year. The same message Bould 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 stooges in Peiping. Moreover, all the Chinese prisoners of war in Korea should be thorougly indoctrinated on this subject before they are released 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. Senate Finance Committee members are saying the administration doesn't need, and couldn't wisely spend, the $10 billion it avks 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.

» o 5 ~ » ~ FINANCING the defense effort without deficits is important. But it is just as important to get rid of the excess baggage in appropriations. The Scnate 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 inflation which large-scale government borrowing would feed. ; ; But taxing ourselves for non-essential, dispensable or wasteful government activities is an equally dangerous handicap in our struggle against aggrassion.

Brave Woman For 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

But necessary and immensely valuable work. Like Mat 2, George Deitze and other now known FBI informers, Stall performed her ticklish job

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 ~~

—to0 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 with them. They will have to go to market with them and sell them regardless of how they come out. “But you are not going to see those men going right back into the cattle-feeding game the next year because, as I have said, they have pork, and the prodyction 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. “It was evident even in those hearings that 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 hearings when they questioned Mr. DiSalle as to

how he arrived at his decision to roll back °

the -prices, and the basis of his determination,

knowing fully that there were many economists 3

who had adequate information in the Depart-

ment of Agriculture, he testified that he formu~

lated his decision’ from having read a newspaper article. I-submit to the members of the

the solution of the problem.”

" FOSTER'S FOLLIES

WASHINGTON—The Alr 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.

And the ball plays tricks real tough— Ain't no camera worth a nickel That can't spot 'em in the rough.

NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson

Bob Taft's New Grin 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 nomiination next year, and he's doing everything in his power

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to further that ambition.

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DICTIONARY STUFF? . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Looks Like Everybody's a Little

Confused About

WASHINGTON, July 9—It is not only bureaucrats who get caight with their dictionaries shut. Sometimes ordinary mortals like Ralph W. Button get tangled up in gobbledegook, too. Mr. Button is a leading drygoodaman of New York and chairman of the Retailers’ Emergency Tax Committee. The ~~ merchants don't ° Sa much like the $7 billion boost in taxes Congress is talking about. They sent him down to explain “why before the Sen-

- ate Finance Commit- 3, ¥

‘Yee. . He was doing fine

the government ¥ “probably wolildn’t-' ‘have to hike faxes > | at all if it tried seri-

own fiscal high liv- Ter 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 an 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 %imost, but not quite, went, ulp. This seemed to alarm Sen. Eugene D. Millikin (R. Colo.). “Excuse me, Mr. Button,” said the latter, “hut 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.

SIDE GLANCES

Senate cpmmittee; says he dotbts if it'll .be ready” for wweote: before the middie of Septem‘per. - 1- think I know one’ reason why. = Too

Words, Time

“I hope so,” too,” said the Senator. tell us what it means.” “Well,” said Mr, Button, “I think it means going backward,” “Do you have your dictionary with you?” Sen. Kerr asked. . : 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.” 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

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many big words. So 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 1 were writing a dictionary and couldn't come up with a better definition than that, I think I'd skip regressive. My guess is that it means when folks grow old, they like to think about their childhood. When they do that, they 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. Pat

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‘Scripps-Howard Trash’ MR. EDITOR: : “A No-Decision Fight” (Times—July 6) .., another trashy Scripps-Howard editorial. Yes, more trouble must be expected until we are strong enough to discourage new enemy: at‘tacks. Just a few days after June 25, 1050, I mailed you an editorial demanding the United Nations drop atomic bombs, You seemed 30 Biot want to win the war anymore than Harry Tru{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 have been here and

your scandal sheet and Mr. Truman would not need be ruining the lives of thousands of young men by military service. > ¢ MANY of those American boys laying dead over there now would be alive today. The shame heaped on their decaying bodies by such writ. 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 gponsor such trash. —James J. Cullings, 107 8. Capitol Ave,

‘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 controls. 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. > &

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 course, a lot 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 lchpyists 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-

cigenta)y, Jt is my opinion, an investigation CUI), See asard on an $388, ~~ that. pompous body is concerned.

High prices won't particularly hurt business, farmers. and union men. They just keep raising prices in store and factory and om 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 0 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? save —F, M,, City.

TRY PRAYING

WHEN trouble comes inte 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 magie you . .. can face what is to be . . . and when it seems like you're alone . . . remember God is there . . . to see you,through to happiness . ,

just say a little Preyer. Bv Bin Burvoughh — y ls

. By Robert Crater

End of War to Bring

k on Gl Boredom

WASHINGTON, July 9—An end to the fighting in Korea will mean a full-scale attack on GI boredom by a

of the Armed Forces.

Servicemen without a war to fight require more entertainment. It's the job ¢f the Armed Forces Profes-

ainment Branch to see that they get it. in the enter-

He has admitted that his

reptest rival is Gen. Ee D. Eisenhower. Analyzing Ike's great popularity, Sen. Taft has decided that the secret lies in the General's warm personality and infectious 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 th overcome the handicap. He is doing everything he can to make himself more likable. 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.

NEXT trouble spot where the Commies may try to give the business to the anti-Commu-nist countries is Berlin. The time will be August and the occasion will be an East Berlin, Russian zone propaganda show. The so-call Free German Youth movement is being rallied for a demonstration there in the customary pattern. There will be parades and

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.

r ” » 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 singlé, nine million are married, widowed or divorced,

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"1 told you he'd got his self-confidence! Look, now he even talks to girls on the phone at home!"

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 to Shauge 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, cortectly esti-

tainmient world must be ob-

tained and flown to U. S. military bases throughout the

world. The task of gathering and

gending 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. S88 8 “SOMETIMES they fool me,” Col. Goetz admitted. “Take the sweet young singer who insisted we take her. husband along to Germany. “In Weisbaden we heard someone was tearing down al our posters. When we caught up with the culprit, it was the husband. He was. jealous because his wife didn't have top billing.” ’ . _Anbdther time in Germany,

pretty Yvonne de Carlo, the

movie actress, stalked into the

lobby of the unit's hotel and

“There isn't a window shade in the room,” Yvonne stormed, “How can a girl ue 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.

COL. GOETZ heads a staff of 15 persons—five officers and 10 civilians. Each has had exe perience 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 entertainment units- on the road now. A year from snow, Col. Goetz believes he will have 50 units to take care of Ameri ca's growing forces abroad.” . Often the entertainers coms plain about the transportation, food, lodging and stage facil-

- sities. But when they return

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