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charged in a report by the Senate's as, chairman of the subcommittee i ve,

‘an adverse effect upon the morale of those it mildly if what follows in the report, er on-the-spot investigations, is typical. investigated were Camp Breckenridge, Ky., 24’ m Evansville, Ind.; Camp Rucker, 75 miles southeast of Montgomery, Ala., and Ft. Leonard Wood, near Rolla,

Mo. : s and details presented, nicknames

Judging by pictures given some “habitations” by Gls are more than apt. Near Camp Breckenridge, for example, are such places as the “ocoalshed,” the “barn, the “chicken coop,” the tarpaper ghack,” the “toolshed,” the “firetrap,” and the “rat house.” ALSO 1 Breckenridge, the report asserts, a minister of the gospel 'has cut up a former CCC barracks into three tiny apartments which he rents to soldiers’ families for.a total of $148 a month, He pays $25 for the whole building. A private and his bride pay $40 a month for two cramped rooms in a converted coalshed—no running water, ‘no inside toilet, one room's ceiling so low a man 5 feet’ 8 inches tall can't stand erect in it. There is much more to back up the subcommittee's statement that “servicemen are being shamelessly victimized at the hands of civilians whose property and lives the men in uniform are dedicated to defend.” . Such conditions are revolting to every sense of decency. Outraged public opinion should” demand their prompt correction by action of Congress and [of responsible military authorities. p

Mot Insane—Just Crazy DETROIT trafic court judge has set some kind of a * new record for dealing with reckless auto drivers. The judge had before .him an old’ offender, this time charged with drunken driving and driving without a license. The judge had the offender examined by a sanity commission, which ruled him, “not insane or feeble minded” —just “a psychopathic personality of the unstable type, irresponsible, emotionally immature and a menace to

society.” : That's all. Not insane, just crazy when behind the wheel of an auto. i ; . So the judge ordered the violator locked up im an : asylum,

How's your driving these days?

Government Pay ~AIRNESS justifies a pay raise for the federal government's employees. They haven't had one since late 1949 and living costs have climbed since then, as we all know well. President Truman favors a flat 7 per cent increase for some 1.5 million classified Civil Service workers and 500,000 postal workers. A Senate committee has voted to make it 8.8 per cent for a large majority and slightly less for some in the higher salary brackets. Either plan would boost the cost of meeting the present payroll by upwards of half a billion dollars a year. Whatever plan it adopts, Congress should enforce a sharp reduction of the number of people on that payroll. One method, heretofore favored by the Senate, would be to attach to appropriation bills orders to most departments and agencies "to .dismiss 10 per cent of their employees. .The House contends, however, that a better method is to order the ’ departments and agencies to replace no more than threefourths of the workers who leave their jobs before next July. ‘With defense costs mounting, it is imperative to cut down spending and employing on the government's nondefense activities and to do so by the method mest certain

to get positive results. Fairness to the taxpayers demands that.

One a Minute

Senate investigating committee is on the trail of an alleged “Washington influence peddler” whose activities, if preliminary reports are accurate, will strongly support the theory that Barnum was right. , This man is said to have convinced a number of persons that he had inside information of government plans to go underground to avoid atomic attack and that, for a fee, he could buy them leases on government buildings and warehouses at a few dollars a year. His takings from credulous clients amounted to “a quite considerable sum,” according to Sen. Hoey, the committee's chairman. And Sen. Mundt, a member, says they could “run

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WASHINGTON, July 19—The stools in the House press gallery are too danged low. Make

. & fellow feel stiff in the knees.

So for hours I'd been. squirming on one while the gentlemen droned on about the pricecontrol bill. “You are going to freeze the farmer in a

strait jacket,’ roaréd Rep. Ralph Harvey (R, 1nd.) That did it. In considerable pain I started to limp out through the swing-

ing door when from below came a strong, clear contralto voice warbling “The Old Gray Mare Ain't What She Used to Be.” Quickly I got back to my .stool and forgot about my knees. Singing this sad lainto the official microphone was redheaded gentlewoman from Utah, Mrs. Reva Beck Bosone. : Why she should be vocalizing an aria abou a horse while her cohorts were discussing cows was the question. The Democratic lady from Salt Lake . City took off her eyeglasses, smoothed down her light blue dress and explained,

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she said, “I supeaten so much

“Instead of singing that.” pose 1 ought to crow, I've chicken lately.” l.ast Sunday, continued Mrs. B., she had her daughter to dinner and cooked for the occagion a hamburger steak ly the time the water had.steamed out of it there wasn't much meat left. “Only a little dab.” she said. That's what pains me.” she told the other statesmen. “You who would drop controls tell us to eat fish and fowl and pork and lamb

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The Lady Sings About Meat—

Now I just love a good veal roast fixed with garlic and rosemary, but you know and I know that the best meat is beef. “And what is happening when I, a member of Congress, can't afford to buy it? What of the man who earns $3000 .a year. ‘Po his children ever taste beef?

Nobody answered that. The gentlemen, in fact, were paying Mrs. Bosone rapt attention. They waited for her to reply to her own question. “Now I don't like controls, either,” she added in a speaking voice which compared favorably with her tones as a singer. “Nobody likes controls. But who likes sulfa drugs? Who likes penicillin? Who likes castor oil? But sometimes these things are necessary and we take them.” * With that Mrs. Bosone sat down. This seemed a shame. Hers was the liveliest speech her conferees had heard in weeks. Rep. Ralph W. Gwinn (R. N. Y.) wasn't satisfied. “How much did the lady say she paid for her meat last Sunday?” :

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SEVENTY CENTS a pound,” the lady snapped. “And when cooked, just a little, teeny dab.”

“Of course” continued the courtly gentleman from New! York, “it was ground round steak.” “No, it was not, either,” retorted Mrs. Bosone. “I cannot afford ground round. It was just plain old hamburger. And I was ashamed of it» A small Republican, whom I never did manage to identify because he beat it out immediately, suggested that Mrs. Bosone's skimpy dinner last Sunday was purchased under controls of/ the Hon. Mike DiSalle. Mrs. B. smiled, but she did not seem amused. The other lawgivers then got on the same. old groove about who's a bum in the controls controversy. My knees began to hurt something awful.

WASHINGTON, July 19 How _ big an Air Force the United States should have for security is one of the most challenging subjects in Washington. It is the key to defense planning. And it is the Key to government spending and taxation. As the Air Force ig increased in glze, everything goes up

with it. No statement set

America back “on its heels more than the recent te'stimony of Gen, Hovt 8. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, before the Senate committees investigating Gen. MacArthur's firing. “THe fdct is,” he said then, “that the United States is operating a shoestring Air Force in view of its global responsibilities.

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FIRST the Rep blican leadership, led by Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R. Mich.), offered a so-called compromise amendment. It would have ordered all actual factory and labor costs to be included in price ceilings fixed for a commodity. It also would have allowed the existing beef price rollback to stand and would have permitted Mr. DiSalle to lower ceiling prices when production costs went down, such as on rubber goods when raw rubber prices dropped. But Southern Democrats were suspicious

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whelmingly with a strange show of democratic unanimity, - REN Ae ey Northern Republicans then joined Northern

' Democrats to beat down an amendment by Rep.

Eugene Cox: to ban all rollbacks on manufactured and the farm bloc amendment to kill the 10 per cent beef rollback. : * © » : THEN, just to make a record, administration supporters tried to knock out the ban on the two scheduled rollbacks, But as expected, this move was defeated by a better than two-to-one

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Technically under parliamentary procedyre, the House can still vote to permit the last two beef price rollbacks. And a roll call vote on the issue likely will be taken later. But all agree that the beef price rollback fight is ovep.

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Cabinet Crisis Slows Rearmament

WASHINGTON, July 19—The Italian cabinet crisis is delaying rearmament measures but may be beneficial in the long run. ‘Stalemate has existed within the government for many months, Until that can be broken by a new alignment of political forces, and a cabinet capable of making i be decisions, neither long-

tive administration will be forthcoming. Fortunately, the leadership of Premier Alcide de Gasperi is not yet threatened. He is so obviously superior to other politicians of his Cath--olic Christian Democratic Party that his continuance as

taken for granted. The fact that his sixth cabinet fell from internal stress, rather than from a parliamentary vote of no-confidence, illustrates de Gasperi’'s strength and weakness. As boss of the majority party he is safe until the next general election. But his party is more of a coalition of convenience than a disciplined unit of similar views, and as such has a poor record in office. Public dissatisfaction was registered in the recent: municipal and provincial elections in which the Christian Democrats lost heavily. Since then the progressive wing of the party has been pressing de Gasperi to speed national reforms which he pledged in the 1948 election. But the conservative wing, led by Finance Minister Pella, blocked the way.

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MR. EDITOR:. I am a young man who is very much interested in the way our nation will be.run by our Congrgess during the remainder of the year, I think it is time for us, we the people,

to flood our Congress with letters of protest of the way they have voted out the control bills. Tell them we don’t like it and what they do

now" will go good or bad for them in the next

election. o While the nation: and all of Eyrope and Asia are living in fear of another world war, these few greedy men in the Congress work to see the bottom fall out of business because of dirty power politics and pressure groups wanting inflation to eat up our wages. I say to these persons the fight has just begun, if I have anything to do with it. So I appeal to every housewife and family to write letters to them and let them know what you think about killing controls on most foods and rents,

—Bud Kaesel, City.

‘Rent Control’ MR. EDITOR: Our Constitution provides that Congress, the Executive Branch, or the individual states shall not take the. private property of the citizens to grant its use or rent to some other private citizen. Upon a judicial action a necessity for a public use may be granted along with a full and just compensation which 18 the due process of law and a legal obligation for the use of property. No amount of finger crossing can cancel the obligation of our Constitution. The rent of property is not a principle of law. Instead it is a corny ideal of the Communists. —J. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham St.

‘Congratulations’ MR. EDITOR: In behalf of the local medical profession I would like to thank The Times for its article on Page One of the issue of July 15, 1951, which suggested that people contact medical societies in their community when they have no physician, This splendidly written article by Miss Mikels was a real community service to the profession and the people of Marion County. We congratulate you for it. —Earl W. Mericle, M. D., President, Indianapolis Medical Society

By Galbraith NATIONAL DEFENSE . .. By Peter Edson U. S. Needs Larger Air Force for Security

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This has forced the overdue government re.

organization. De Gasperi cannot ignore t Pella group. It is too strong in the oy a he any case de Gasperl is sympathetic with its anti-inflation, sound money policy, But he hopes in the new cabinet to achieve a comPromise nich will permit a more liberal in1 nd r 5 ious an earmament program and faster Failure of the over-cautious 1 last cabinet is demonstrated ies of tte lion unemployment figure, unsatisfactory production, peasant land seizures, and slow motion rearmament. Despite all the Marshall Plan aid received by Italy, the condition of the average Italian is almost as bad as ever,

United Front

THE THREE immediate problems are communism, defense and poverty. Actually they are one permanent problem—poverty. That is what

creates communism, and its continued growth in Italy. And that is what limits defense expenditures. This problem by its nature cannot be solved by partisanship—the widest possible national unity is required. De Gasperi’s statesmanship has consisted in keeping the government coalition widely representative, including Republicans as well as Christian Democrats. Extreme conservatives of the small so-called Liberal Party are probably out of the coalition permanently, but de Gasper! hopes before winter to lure the anti-Red Socialists back ints the cabinet. 3 A united front of all anti-Com

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‘What's Wrong With The Times?’

MR. EDITOR:

What in the world has happened to The Times in the last month or so?

I don't know.why you are changing your style, but I don't like it. Formerly, I could get

news on the front page, served up in a readable fashion. Now I have to look all through the paper and, more often than not, I find the most important news items inside. For what inexplicable reason I can’t imagine. The issue of Sunday, July 15, really disgusted me. The first page was devoted almost exclu sively to three articles: arthritis cure, city jail and housing racket. Any one of which might have been good alone, but three of the same ore Sate them all have a rather “trumped-up effect.”

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I HAD to turn to another paper to see what was happening in the world, and sure enough, on its front page I found news of peace negotiations in Korea, the flood, ete. Surely they are too important to be stuck away where a reader has to hunt for them. Don't you think your readers care what happens any place but Indianapolis? I thought The Times was a darned good paper up to now. What's gone wrong with it?

—Mrs. R. J. Adams, Brazil

EDITOR'S NOTE: Reports of floods, Korea, etc, on Page 1 of the “other newspapers’ Sunday had al! been Page 1 news In The Times on Saturday, went inside Sunday to make room for new news most. of which other newspapers did not publish prior to Monday. Stories on inside pages were still Important, but definitely “old” to regular Times readers.

SAD AWAKENING

LAST NIGHT I took a trip upon... a silver clouded dream . . . toward a real Utopia . where people Hved serene . . . and as I floated down to land , .., great throngs of people came + + + to welcome me with open arms . . . and ask me of my name . .. oh words cannot explain how great, . . the feeling in my heart . . . for happiness seemed to abound . . . and words were sweet not tart... yes, I had found Utopia + «+» and days rolled into years . . . for I was living in a place . . . that never heard of tears + «+ » but suddenly the spell was broken . when my clock rang seven sorrow and with awe . heaven.

«+ « I woke with « «. I was on earth, not —By Ben Burroughs

the battle of Kasserine Pass,

anywhere, any time. Hence the be effective in shooting down in Tunisia. shock of having the top Air high level strategic bombers. "a n = Force general refer to his com- » » * ANSWERS to the problems

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mand as a “shoestring.” What was overlooked in Gen. Vandenberg's statement was his qualifying clause, “in view of its global responsibilities.” . ” ” n THIS qualifier has since been re-emphasized and clarified. What Gen. Vandenberg wanted to make clear was that if the United States was to be required to fight a Pacific war, a European war, a Mediterranean or Middle East war and also launch a devastating strategic air attack on Russia, then its Air Force was a shoestring operation. For the defense of the United States alone, the present 87-group Air Force might be sufficient. But if any outside work had to be done, it is not. ; . The Air Force still sticks to the story that if Russia should attack the United States, American strategic bombers

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THERE is one other important factor which enters into this calculation. It is simply

that the B-36 bomber ig rapidly becoming obsolete. It is obsolete in the sensé that jet interceptor planes have been improved to such a degree that they can overtake the slower B-38 and destroy it. This is true of even the Russian MIG 15 jet, which Gen. Vandenberg declared ‘has superior speed and climb to American and British jets. U..8. jets have greater fire power and better fire control. Also, American pilots are better trained. That has given the United Nations Air Forces superiority over Communist air-craft-in Korea. But it is pointed out that the United Nations advantage in numbers of aircraft in Korea has in recent months been rapidly decreas-

If the fighting in Korea were to’ continue, American troops

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periority for the first'time since

raised by growing obsolescence of the B-36 and improvement in Russian jet aircraft are the

obvious demands for better

and necessarily more expensive alreraft, and more of them. Better bombers are being built in the B-47, the B-52 and even a B-58 about which little has been said. The claim is made that within two years the U. 8. Air Force will be able to double the force of its strategic attack on any enemy. Production of newer aircraft will not really begin to roll until February of next year. It will be the end of 1952 before the 85-group U. 8. Air Force is in being. But the plans for 125, then 150 and 180 groups are actively being developed.

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