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ton than it is to the country at large. y should there be any actual letdown? Until now,

fault w the people.

A settlement of the Korean situation will not remove the threat of a greater war, to be sure.

it will be no less real if the Reds have found it inexpedient | to continue that particular adventure. Any relaxation in the armament effort would be a dangerous gamble. - . un = « = = WE CAN do with less scolding and more real leadership and sound direction from the defense establishment,

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‘which Secretary Marshall heads. _ The public no sooner becomes adjusted to one defense goal than it is tossed aside and a new one substituted. The people cannot support a program when they do not know what it is or how it may change. But if they are in a mood to sign no more blank checks it does not follow that it is because of a letdown as a result of peace prospects in Korea. Gen. Eisenhower told a group of visiting Senators in Paris a week ago that the American contribution to his forces in Western Europe would not exceed six divisions. That meant approximately 108,000 men. Then on Friday Secretary Marshall said the European program called for 400,000 Americans by the end of 1952— 340,000 ground troops and 60,000 for the Air Force. Of course a certain number of service troops are needed to support the six combat divisions. But 232,000 service troops seems excessive for this purpose, and that figure may have to be justified before Congress. In any event, this situation would be easier to follow if in the future the defense establishment would state its needs in the terms of actual men, rather than in divisions and other components which are less easily computed. o * " ~ " . - SECRETARY MARSHALL also has told Congress that if cuts must be made in funds, it would be better to make the reductions in our own military budget rather than in the appropriations requested for military assistance to our Allies. We dissent from that. ~ Any reductions in the proposed figure would seem most unwise, if it can be shown that the money will be put to good use. But our own needs should come first. Some of our Allies will fight, but others may not, and we should be prepared ‘for the worst. Some risks must be taken in lending arms to countries directly in the path of a prospective Russian blitz. But our own strength is our best insurance. We should have all the planes and tanks we need before putting any substantial number of either in places where they might be captured and used against us.

For a Real Challenge

HE State Department's Voice of America has “challenged” the Communist Czech government to let William Oatis, imprisoned Associated Press correspondent, broadcast to the United States. ! We don’t think it is much of a challenge, and we would not be altogether surprised if the Czech Reds went through some such hokum, ; But what assurance would there be that Mr. Oatis was broadcasting with any degree of freedom? What could he say, if a couple of Communist guards stood before him with guns at his head? The broadcast wouldn't show that. Or what assurance that he was not drugged-—as he may well have been at his farcical trial. For - those who could positively recognize the unfortunate man's voice, it would only prove that he was still alive. But it could give little hint as to the horrible ordeal he must be undergoing. His words would mean nothing, as the trial proved. No, the only challenge we'd like to see from this country and one that is consistent with United States dignity and self-respect, is that Czechoslovakia release Mr. Oatis “and deliver him safely into American hands—at once. Or suffer such wrathful consequences as an outraged American public now feels. Congress is the one to do the challenging in this matter—not our wrist-slapping State Department.

Quick Action—and Otherwise

NLY last week the commander of the Army's big tank center in Detroit admitted accepting hotel hospitality and gifts from contractors with whom he did government business. And he admitted using Army material and equipment for his personal benefit. 3 The admissions followed a House committee investiRha - ong LL ; ~ %_ Now Brig. Gen. David J. Crawford has been fired, reprimanded and told to “reimburse” the government, even though, by all accounts, he had done an “outstanding” job otherwige. This stiff punishment was announced by Secrey of the Army Frank Pace. Gi ast winter another congressional investigation, the t committee, turned up evidence that Donald ential adviser who “apparently exerted certain directors of the Recon-

the hospitality of

papermen who are exposed to their power in other countries will get the same treatment. Dr. Slavik has an intimate knowledge of Communist “justice.” His son, Dusan, who was a member of the HS Ssethosiava):

charges of treachery—meaning anti-communism-—and at first sentenced to death. The father prevailed upon the U. 8, State Department ahd other democratic foreign offices to bring pressure on the present Czech regime. Either because of “this or because the Russian stooges in Prague still fear there will be a day of reckoning, the son’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. ~ » . FOR many months the father has had no word of his son’s whereabouts. Dr. and Mrs. Slavik and a younger son, George, a student at Dartmouth, live in this country. The father spends every day in an old row house here, the headquarters for Council for a Free Czechoslovakia. The council looks after Czechoslovak democrats who have fled to Western nations. Dr. Slavik is in charge of information and relief of Czechoslovak refugees, He said he believed the Russlan.controlled government in Prague would demand a high ransom for the release of Mr. Oatis. He thinks part of it will be a demand that the United States suppress such organizations as his and silence both the Voice of America broadcasts to Czechoslovakia and the radio Free Europe station at Munich. : : . » . THIS would: amount to abandoning the Czechoslovak people to the Reds, according to Dr. Slavik. He said the Reds want to create the impression throughout Eastern Europe that there is no foreign capital

to which the people can look .

except Moscow. As to the charges that reporter Oatis was a spy, Dr. Slavik said ‘than any reporter working as an independent news gatherer would be a spy under present Czechoslovak law, The Communist constitution, modeled on the Russian one grants freedom of the press and other rights, but it is interpreted in the light of specific laws which define all information not given out by the regime as secret, “The Communists had nothing to fear from Mr. Oatis” Dr. Slavik says. “He could obtain and transmit no information which would harm them. But as long as he was there and out of prison, he was a sort of ambassador for the free world.”

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‘Small-Town Idea’ MR. EDITOR:

. 1 was surprised and shocked at your choice of headlines for the issue of Thursday. It seems amazing to me that a charge, which if invoked would affect almost 90 per cent of the population between the ages of 18 and 21, of teen-age

drinking would attract enough attention that the editors of The Times would regard it as big news. It seems logical that the recent Kinsey report would give our public enough perspective to distinguish the major problems from the petty ones. How about the much more serious teen-

age pitfall of dope addiction?

Indianapolis has come a long way and has grown into one of the great cities of our country, Times is still concerned with gossipy small-town ideas. —A Subseriber, City. EDITOR’S NOTE: Teen-age drinking here has resulted in death, assault, sex crimes, To the editors of The Times objection to this sort of thing does not consti-— - tute what this subscriber so loosely terms, We are of the opinion that most citizens of Indianapolis realize teen-age drinking is a danger to the whole community and the future of the community. They want to stop it and so do we.

but perhaps The Indianapolis

robbery, etc.

“small-town thinking.”

‘Faith in God’

MR. EDITOR:

The human race is gradually learning in We now know why prize fighters win. Listen to this from Walcott:

many fields.

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Hoosier Forum—-Teen-Agers’

Z " do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say n>

assaults go hand in hand. Is that what you

want?

It must be. And don’t put me down

for an old fogey. Incidentally I have what is

MR. EDITOR:

today.”

considered a fine chassis, but I don’t find it necessary to expose it to lewd glances.

.~~Reader, City

EDITOR’S NOTE: The writer of this letter must really have been afraid her “fine chassis” would be exposed to “lewd glances.” A check of the Post Office and city directory leads us to believe she signed a false name and address. Too bad. She might have been credited with a good idea, but we doubt it.

‘A Sincere Man’

Not long ago, I was with a group of women who were discussing world problems from a woman's viewpoint. The statement was made, “We do not have a great leader in our country

That created a reflective attitude among us for a few moments, Now, after hearing the speech Wednesday night given by Gen. MacArthur, I am rather of the opinion that these same women will feel that our America is still blessed with men well able to defend our freedom. 5 Trying to look behind Gen. MacArthur's words, I could not find any trace of what might be termed words with two meanings. Words that were meant to convey one thing to the

public, but which might in another sense be for personal ambition. 1 find myself giving credence to the speech of a man who being so near the twilight of

life, surely is sincere and God-fearing. Women, let’s hear more from Gen. MacArthur.

—Margueret D. Richardson, New Palestine

“I always said that if God is on your side

you're bound to win sooner or later.” Others have been saying Walcott's faith in God was an important factor in his success. It would seem that God is never on your side unless you have sufficient faith. ambition is to win in the prize ring, you should not limit your training to the art of boxing, but should also employ someone to teach you how to increase your faith in God. This method of gaining success might also apply to the art of robbing stores and banks. Robbers often fail and now we Know why . « » they don’t have enough faith in God. A. Jackson, Vernon.

—L.

‘No Shorts in Public’ MR. EDITOR:

1 was interested in the item of shorts being worn on the streets. I think it's time the “old” kids grew up and that the young kids were Shorts should not be worn on the streets of our fair city. They are vulgar and there is no other word for them when worn in public places. Chicago paper had a vote on the subject, and the answer was ‘no, shorts should not be worn

taken in hand so to speak.

~ in public.”

.Shorts worn in public provoke filthy thoughts Is that what you want? as no girl or woman who considers herself .a lady would be seen in such immodest garb. Shorts worn on the streets,

in men,

By Galbrait

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FOSTER'S FOLLIES

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A .cross-word puzzle fan had another man arrested when the latter chased a woman throug brickbats, and began cursing loudly. A helping hand ofttimes gets slapped, A feeding hand gets bitten, And that's how this poor guy got trapped, That's why in jail he's sittin’,

the house, threw

He merely meant to lend a phrase Which might help solve the puzzle. Alas, instead of thanks and praise, He gets a cross word muzzle.

CRITICS

MY POEMS have been scrutinized . . . by

tiny bits .

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, pride . .

It must be, beings . .

rape, attempted

men of learning who . » and made me eat them too . . . they sald they lacked in this and that... until 1 didn’t know . . . just what to say or what to . or even where to go . . . one chirped, “your poems are too long” . “too short” . .. it got so I began to think... my works to them were sport . . . but one thing that they all agreed . . . . was each and every poem had . . . its human interest side . . . . derived some kindly thought . . . then I am satisfied to know . they were taught.

. + . have torn them into

. « another said

while swallowing their so if these learned . . by my words

—By Ben Burroughs

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Controls Act May Give Capehart

WASHINGTON, July 30 Should prices soar after the new Defense Production Act price controls become effective (taking for granted it will be passed by the House and signed by : President Truman) part of the blame may be right. fully laid at the door of Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.). Should it work well & and “hold the price line,” he Sen. Capehart .. can be chalked Explains program up with one assist, For it was the senior Senator from Indiana, as ranking minority member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committe, ‘who brought into the Senate-House conference the price-rollbacks compromise which was accepted, That broke the deadlock and the Senate approved ghe conference forwith. =

and then the Senators. It permits rollbacks in prices on everything but agricultural commodities to the highest price between Jan. 1 and June 24, 1950, But the Office of Price Stabilization must also take into account any cost increases up to July 26 of this year. Here is the way Sen. Capehart explained it: 5 “What the amendment doe is to permit a seller to add whatever increase in costs he may have had, cost of materials, indirect and direct labor, factory advertising, production costs, distribution, transportation and administrative costs except such as the President may determine tc be unreasonable or excessive, If the seller's price should higher than is warranted after adding those increased costs, OPS rolls the price back, If the present price is less than it would be after adding these

The two. justices testi- __ fied In the Mr. Frankfurter first iss “volfunteer” trial, which" "’ ‘ resulted in a deadlocked jury. The pill recommended by the Judiciary Committee first was introduced in 1949 after that trial by Congressman Kenneth B. Keating (R. N. Y.). But the committee decided to delay action until the perjury charges against Hiss had been finally disposed of. Mr, Keating, a Rochester lawyer who studied at Harvard under Justice Frankfurter, then a law professor, reintroduced his bill in the present

Congress. He called the appearance of the two justices ‘unseemly

conduct” and said that instead of testifying they should have pointed out “the impropriety, embarrassment to their associates and unfortunate precedent resulting from the appearance, thus breaking a tradition as old as the Supreme Court itself.” There is no record of any other Supreme Court Justices

predicament, thus depriving a defendant of his judicial rights.” : - » » BUT HE said the most persuasive argument for his bill was the “possible influence which the personal appearance of Supreme Court Justices may have on a lower court.” The committee report will not be unanimous, although nearly so. The chairman, Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. N. Y.), will file a minority report challenging the constitutionality of the Keating bill. The bill does not apply to judges of other courts and would not bar even a Supreme Court Justice from testifying to facts in a trial. For instance he might be the only witness to an auto accident and Mr. Keating says to “deprive him of the right to testify in such a case might defeat the ends of justice.”

MINT LIPS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Kool Kisser Keeps The Kissers Kool?

WASHINGTON, July 30—Kissed your best girl lately? And‘noticed something extra and also julepy? !

That's what I thought.

is because one of the biggest soap outfits in the world (it also makes oleomargarine) has a subsidiary that specializes in the goos that ladies smear on their pretty faces. For the last several months this concern has been turning out lipsticks flavored with mint. This makes for cool kisses, but that was not the idea of the

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wily lipstick magnates. I am informed that the plot was to plaster a female's lips with a specially pleasant flavor, like

chewing gum. » " »

SO SHE'D get all prettied up and, will, power or no, she couldn’t resist running the tip of her tongue over her own spicy lips. A little of this and she'd need to apply more lipstick. Sales would boom. They did. All over this land are ladies with mint-tlavored - lips. No wonder they get kissed. Or so I suggested to Mrs. O., who is my own expert on subjects of such technical nature. Not so, said she. She almost sounded insulted, She said a kiss did not need artificial flavoring. She said, In fact, a good deal more. I did not argue with her. The mint-flavored lipstick fellows, meantime, knew a good thing when they tasted it. Maybe there were other tasty flavors that would appeal to the feminine sex. They experimented.

to roll back the price of all gougers to a fair and reasonable level but will protect the fair and reasonable profit of thosé who have merely added to their pre-war prices the necessary and unavoidable costs of doing business which they have since incurred.” A further amendment requires that all retailers and wholesalers be permitted at

least their “customary percentage margin of profit over costs of materials during the period May 24 to June 24, 1950.” - Clayton Knowles, writing in

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Kissing around this nation

lately has been especially popular. Or so I hear tell. This

Chocolate was not &xactly the thing. Vanilla was better, but still not quite right. Too much like an ice-cream goda. Strawberry flavor was

difficult to “achieve. So was raspberry. . Eventually the gentleman

came up with the lipstick flavor of 1951: Cloves. This soon will be on the market and, I must confess, the reasoning behind it puzzles me. In the long, long ago when saloons had swinging doors, they also had on the bar a dish of cloves, This was for the benefit of the gents who were afraid to go home with the aroma of beer on their breath. Now ladies have invaded the saloons, which are called cocktail lounges, These do not furnish cloves to the customers. It may be that the new taste is for the use of girls who spend good deal of time on bar stobls. This I am inclined to doubt, because such ladies still are in the minority, while clove-flavored lipstick is destined for national distribution. n ” " WHETHER the clove kiss will prove as popular as the mint osculation remains to be seen. But it does seem to me that our own government could look into this and put a little flavor and/or efficiency, into its old-fashioned, grueltasting postage stamps. The glue on the backs of these still is made of sweet potatoes. This is nourishing, I will admit, but it isn’t habit forming. My idea is to give each stamp a different flavor. One-centers would be cinnamon, three-centers marjoram, air mails spearmint, and special deliveries thyme. That way a busy man could stamp his letters in the dark. He might find mailing a postcard a reasonable satisfactory substitute for being kissed. The subject has untold pos sibilities. How I got onto it, when I'm supposed to report the doings of statesmen, I'm not exactly certain.

‘Assist an “Assist the New York Times, came to this conclusion:

“In combination, these major pricing provisions, permitting absorption of cost increases and normal percentage margin of profits, as contrasted to dollar margins of profit, seemed to set the stage for a largescale break-through in the general price freeze of Jan. 25.” The usually loquacious Price Administrator Michael DiSalle said nothing after the Senate acted Friday afternoon. On Saturday his press agent's office wasn't even answering the phone.

What Others Say—

THE Kremlin respects nothing but strength. . « « When we and our allies are strong enough we will find an entirely different political situation in the world. Confidence will replace fear ‘among the free countries.--W. Averell Harriman, presidential

adviser, >

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TODAY we are in greater danger of dying by our own hand than ever before in history. Talking about democracy is not

enough. Knowledge

of democracy acquired in democratic ex-

perience is”likely to produce democratic habits. —Frank H. Well,

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