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Oatis Isn't the Only One

(CITIZENS of other countries have been getting a dose of the Oatis treatment. | The British representative in Peiping has filed a joint protest from Canada, Britain, Australia, Ceylon and the United States over the treatment of their nationals in Communist China. >

The Canadian government in Ottawa especially denounced the abuse of Canadian missionaries in China, who have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and “harsh treatment.” a : The fact that these missionaries for many years have ‘been engaged in humanitarian work in China is meaningless to the Communists. Barbarism knows no humaneness. To

the Communist, any foreigner is a spy. 8 8 8 ; a 8 8

* IT IS reported that Secretary of State Acheson, British Foreign Minister Morrison and French Foreign Minister Schuman will discuss the Oatis case in their talks in Washington this week. It is an appropriate topic for their agenda. Because William N. Oatis, the American newspaperman Jailed by the Czechoslovakian Communists, is not the first victim of Communist brutishness. Nor will he be the last,

as the British, Australians, Ceylonese and others are finding out.

® 8 =» : : 8 8 8 IT MAKES no difference whether the Communists are Czechs, Chinese or Russians. Abuse, harassment and brutality are main features of the party line.

Protests, as our State Department has proven, are useless. .

It is suggested the Big Three foreign officers may consider trade reprisals as a means of freeing Mr. Oatis and protecting other nationals from Communist sadists. That's the only kind of medicine for what ails the Reds. And if it is administered jointly, the effects will be telling.

We Can Eat More

WHEN the Defense Production Act was passed by Con- * gress several weeks ago, it included several provisions wh'*h drew sharp protests from President Truman and - other administration officials.

One of these objectionable features was a joker slipped in by the dairy bloc. This group, ever watchful for special favors, wrote in a section imposing tight restrictions on imports of cheese and butter. ; : The effect of this maneuver is to cut in half the imports of foreign cheese. That's all right for the cheese producers in this country, of course, although the Agriculture Department says it actually won't help them much.

; 2 a 8 : # & » ' BUT IT isn’t all right for many cheese eaters, and it is decidedly bad policy from the standpoint of our reciprocal trade agreements. :

The people who have been hurt most by this piece of short-sightedness are in France, The Netherlands, Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland, Italy and Canada. These are our friends. Most of them are beneficiaries of the dollars we are pouring out overseas to build up defense against communism. -

How can we expect these countries to start paying their own freight if we don't give them a fair chance to earn their dollars? The present economic situation in the world answers that question emphatically. We can’t. :

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FORTUNATELY, for a different but equally practical reason, this cheese-choker faces a fair prospect of repeal. - , That's because the cotton and tobacco people, along with others with good customers in cheese-making countries, . think they soon will suffer if this special discrimination is continued. A well-founded apprehension, because it’s natural to buy where you can sell. We can't have a reciprocal trade policy operating on a one-way street. Let the cheese in. It will give us something for our dollars and, -if need be, we can eat more of it.. Nothing like variety in good cheeses.

Peace Comes First

MAN purpose of the international bank and the international monetary fund is to build up world trade. .To that end, the bank lends large sums for industrial improvements and works to develop markets and an easier * interchange of currencies. Meeting in Washington this week, representatives of the 50 nations who are members of the bank and monetary -fund lost no time in recognizing the principal obstacles to their goals: : : : » - How to keep their program going in the face of inflation, materials shortages and Communist disruption. ! - ~ J o : . » PRESIDENT TRUMAN, addressing the opening session, said the free nations are fully capable of attaining their economic objectives while building up their military strength. Ww “We are not an association for preserving things as they are,” he said. “Our great objectives are to secure peace and to create better lives for all of the peoples of the world.” But any program to better the world has two strikes Fi it as long as Communist aggression remains a potent orce. : : ~ The Communists are the mortal enemies of betterment. They are the apostles of enslavement and debasement. Their jectives are the exact reverse of the human dignity and ment for which the international bank and the moneTruman noted in his address, 3 orld’

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Politics May Make Strange Foxhole Buddies in Future

TOKYO, Sept. 12—Change the old line, *“politics makes strange bedfellows,” to ‘politics makes strange foxhole buddies.” Don't be surprised if in the years (or even months) ahead Japanese Veterans of World War II are sharing American dugouts in common defense against communism, When the final formalities of deoccupying Japan are concluded, this coun- | try . (already on a slow start) will make an all-out effort to rebuild its military muscle . . . with U. 8.

aid and blessing. Which means that

if Hirohito's troops are ready by the time the United Nations again are challenged

in Asia, boys from Ohio and from Osaka might hold the line together. :

Fourteen months ago Gen. MacArthur created a national police reserve (NPR) which has fewer than 75,000 men. ] It is armed with little more than carbines and light mortars but there is good reason to believe that soon it will have heavy mortars, heavy machine guns, 105 and 155 millimeter artillery pieces. A typical warrior now half way on the road from fighting foe to fighting friend is Masoa Ogawa, 26, a sergeant in the national police reserve. : The reserve (only thing approaching a Jap army today) is hardly concerned with the usual police work. They are combat coppers, training how to apply shot and shell to Communist cutups within Japan—and foreign Reds who might drop in for conquest. Sgt. Ogawa, whose buck teeth would delight a cartoonist, was going to high school mornings and laboring in papa's rice paddy afternoons when Premier Togo rabbit-punched Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. _ He visited his ancestors’. shrine, fixed a “thousand-stitch belt” (for luck) around his middle, signed for the imperial airwing. _ When Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to . the Philippines, in 1943, Sgt. Ogawa (same rank then), a well-trained aerial gunner, flew out to

greet him. His fighter-bomber managed 15 .

sorties on GIs wading into Luzon until jumped one day near Clark Field by three Grummans. Sgt. Ogawa caught lead in a leg and arm, the engine was fired, they crash-landed on a canefield.

‘ATOMIC AGE’. . . By Virginia MacPherson Underground Living Trends Predicted

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 12—One of Hollywood's top designers has predicted the homes of the “atomic age” will go underground—and he says that’s only 10 years off. By 1061, according to Paul Laszlo, we'll be. living

like moles—with suntans.

Because Mr. Laszlo’'s “house of tomorrow” will have gardens and swimming pools and backyards, just like we do now. The only difference is— they'll all be down in a big hole.

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“THE roof will be on a level with the street,” the famous industrial and interior designer explained. “The eaves will extend 15 or 20 feet. And the ceilings will be steel-reinforced concrete for greater protection in case of attack.” ~ Mr, Laszlo says this idea of his 1s no idle dream. # au a “I'M trying to sell the house I'm living in now,” he pointed - ‘out. “And the next one I design for myself will be the very one I'm talking about. I'm underground.”

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“And stores will shoot our purchases out to us in underground tubes—clear across

And the ‘way he sees (ft, there’ll be more time for it, too. “Everything in the house will be more improved,” Mr. Laszlo says. “Garbage, tin cans, bones, paper .’. . no = " s a “CUPBOARDS will lower at the push of a button—for short Dishwashers will really wash, No scraping. Just stack the dishes in a plastic cupboard, shut the door, push a lever and poof! ... A gadget will wash, sterilize, and dry

Mr. Laszlo admits this may -sound like a Buck -Roger-ish But he's something of an authority on houses.

| “ALL of them obsolete,” he grinned. “Now we must go

Sgt. Ogawa dragged his bleeding self and pilot to a friendly aid station. Mended, some weeks later, he joined an infantry platoon, fought against Gen. MacArthur's men until organized Jap resistance pooped. With some chums, Sgt. Ogawa hid in the jungle. On Aug. 18, 1946, planes dropped leaflets with the Emperor's message: Come in, come in, wherever you are—it's all over! Sgt. Ogawa and fellow holdouts surrendered « + .-and his education in Americanism began. He expected to be treated like a dog with rabies, instead enjoved the most filling chow he’d ever known. Medics treated his malaria.

Candy Instead of Guns

SGT. OGAWA had pie-easy duty on a road gang, acquired some English joking with laughing GI guards. Shipped back- to Nippon in 1946 he learned more about conquerors who waved candy bars instead of carbines. or 3 u Again he visited his ancestors’ shrine—to apologize for his defeat—and to offer thanks for the goodness of Douglas MacArthur, Many boyhood friends had not returned— they remained in mass graves in the steaming jungles. But his home, fortunately, was unbombed and he again plodded behind the oxen in the rice paddy. But he missed the comradeship of the barracks, the feeling of service. A year ago, walking through the streets of his village on wooden clogs, he saw a poster urging recruits for the National Police Reserve. Around the tea house the old men, who closely followed the fighting in Korea, nodded their shaved heads and said: “This is the rebirth of the Imperial Army. Gen. MacArthur, whose sword is engaged elsewhere, wants us to be able to stand off Russia. It is very wise.” Three hundred thousand boys clamored for the 75,000 positions. American-supervised doctors- fingered the candidates as carefully as a housewife inspects a butcher's porterhouse steak.

SGT. OGAWA carefully concealed his slight limp (acquired that day near Clark Field), flexed his ample biceps . . . and passed. ’ Technically, his previous experience was ignored, but in a series of exams he won his old rank. The other day, sipping a glass of Asahi heer, nibbling a bean cookie, he told me: :

“I-want to spend my life in the army. I hope

I can make a sacrifice with your great country against communism. We owe that much to Gen. MacArthur.”

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bie MASTERFUL JOB TT By Erie Hill TTR Rise in U. S. Prestige Seen In Handling of Jap Treaty

ONE-—Reparations have been scaled down

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Sept. 12—United Nations delegates, frequent critics of American

foreign policy, believe that the United States.

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American prestige, they say, has heightened throughout the /5 non-Communist world as a result of the manner in which Japan has been dealt with, John Foster Dulles, special State Department aid, is given chief credit for the writing of the treaty and for lining up the almost unanimous sup‘port of signatories. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, though criticized for his handling of certain policy aspects of the Korean War, is given full credit for the important role he played in getting the Japanese people ready to return to the family of nations. "© The conduct of the preparations, they say, has built American prestige toa point transcending even that which followed the lifting of the Berlin blockade.

Gains for the West

“THE United States has shown the kind of leadership that the world needs,” declaxed one veteran European diplomat. “If treaties with Germany and Austria can be carried off with anything like this performance, the West will have made tremendous psychological gains.”

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clined to sign or signed with reservations, the coneensus here is that the treaty accomplishes the most important essential funcions.

Three mentioned most frequently are:

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in Japan is approved because it prevents 8 establishment of a vacuum into which the Com munists would move. THREE—As a safeguard, it leaves American troops in Japan to watch for any possible rise: of Japanese imperialism. These three accomplishments are considered extremely important to peace in the Far East.

India and China Lacking

DELEGATES are sorry that Prime Mir ster

Nehru of India declined to send a delegate or

to sign. There is also a feeling that it would have been much better had China participated. But the question of deciding which Chinese government should have participated could have wrecked the conference. The failure of Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian deputy foreign minister, to create more than secondary flurries of opposition came as a surprise. . Much more was expected of Mr. Gromyko. _ While he talked considerably about peace in the Far East, he was seen as riding an old and worn out horse in placing his major demand on getting the Chinese Communists admitted to «the conference. uma Nations delegates believed he would try to get the conference to approve the plan for a seven-nation meeting on all of the problems of Asia. That proposal, it is—betieved, will be pressed again at the Paris conference of the United Nations General Assembly in November. Praise for- the ‘American handling of the Japanese treaty came in liberal amounts.

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MR. EDITOR:

Am shocked to see Scripps-Howard had’

something good to say about Mr. Truman in an editorial and in an editorial cartoon. Seems as though you were just tickled pink when Mr. Truman got a little rough with the Czech who said the Oatis case is a closed issue. Probably everyone in the U. 8. expected him to do just that except Scripps-Howard. It must have surprised the pants off of you. eo @ 9

HERE was a President who did nothing right and suddenly there he is lashing out in favor of ... of all things... a newspaperman: You almost slipped the other day too. You almost had something good to say about Mr. Acheson. Seems as though he did a god job of making the Reds butt their heads against a stone wall at the Jap peace treaty talks. That bad phrase, “Mr. Acheson did a good job,” almost slipped out of your mouth. It's a good thing it didn't. I'm sure you would loose most of your readers right off the bat if it had. You see, most of them would have died of a heart attack because Scripps-Howard coming straight out and saying anything good about both of these men in the same month would be hysterical to say the least. —Observer, City.

‘I Want To’

DEAR EDITOR: ‘The decline of - civilization comes to that personal statement “I Want To.” It all starts at Mother's knee, and uncorrected it grows into a mammoth spirit that invades the very depths of a person’s being. Everywhere I go I hear of our modern looseness of living, bad habits, rebellions to rulership, and law violations. People talk of it as though surprised. Why should one be astounded when children are being wilfully taught self expression. Parents are speaking of not to deny their children anything. This makes weaklings. When a place in life arrives where self-denial or yielding to another's wishes

What Others Say—

SOCIAL security was a step in the right direction, but it isn’t enough. It's been in operation for 15 years and all the old folks get is an average of $50 a month. No one can live decently on that amount.—Dr. Francis E, Townsend, pension plan advocate. oe © 9

DON'T underestimate us 80 million of the Commonwealth and 160 million of the United States. Boiind by deep and comprehensive ties . what have we to fear? What danger can come to us? We seek no advantages.—Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain. od

rr GOD, doesn’t act in your way or mine but in. His way, and it is up to us to recognize His

way and to accept it.—Rev. Dr. Albert J. Penner, of Broadway Tabernacle Congregational Church, N. Y. . SQ bh WITH each new law there comes . . . a greater degree of specialization: (for a lawyer). This goes on until it is little wonder that many of us can qualify as experts in the sense of one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.— Roger M! Blough, vice president, U. 8. Steel Corp.

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start in life.

Prof. Edwin E. Witte, head of the University of Wisconsin Economics Department, cussed jobs for the older people in this period of manpower shortage. He said only a limited number can work because of disabling illnesses. :

PROF. WITTE said only 45 per cent of all I over 65

is right, they can't adjust. This tears up other lives involved. . id Try to find a happy home. Why the divorces? Look at the unruly teen-agers. All are individ‘uals unable to cope with strong powers that try their right to selfish attitudes they have been used to. People .are marrying under excitement, live wild scrambles of trying to obtain material things, and can’t stand losses. The sweet ecstasy of contentment is far from their minds. The peacefulness of balancing is unknown to them. Words are flying from their lips heedlessly, not knowing that judgment seats on them. Five

minutes from words spoken and the speaker

does not know what he said, or cares.

Sentiment runs wild. A diamond ring must’ be for sweetheart even if there is not enough.

money for the first-meal after marriage.

All these things add up to make an Ameri-" can what he is, a cocky sentimental self-willed - individual with a rather unclean attitude toward - God, whom he claims he worships. He speaks,

“I Want To.”

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Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY SEN. O'MAHONEY revealed the armed services have developed “fantastic devices with which man conquers the atmosphere itself.” He means they leave

“ SH KANSAS CITY Editor Roy Roberts reports Gen. Eisenhower is “a good Kansas Republican.” That gives the Taft forces a new slogan: “Remember Landon—Maine and Vermont.” ; > H» +» SOME schools are so crowded the truant officer may get a sabbatical leave. ¢ © & PARENTS who used to be shy about . telling children where they came from, now hesitate to ask where they are going. “> ob» & GROMYKO said the Jap peace treaty “contains the seeds of war.” Then he picked tip his hoe and went back to his war gardening. > * © o CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S Communist government is undergoing a shakeup. The five-year plan didn’t produce enough iron for a curtain to keep out those toy balloons,

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OLD FOLKS . . . By Arthur J. Snider Aging Population Problems Growing

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 12—How shall we support the old folk who are seemingly unwanted not only by society but by their own families?

Leaders of the second International Gerontological

Conference this week, cerned with the problem of aging, said whether we like to admit it or not, the truth is that the majority of families consider their aged elders a burdensome nuisance.

o n » SONS and daughters explain the cost of living does not permit them to carry the double load of supporting their parents and at the same time giving their own children a fair

con- s » =» HOW about savings, traditionally the most secure source of income? Less than 10 per cent of old people can depend on them, Prof. Witte said. Company pensions? They're received only by a few hundred thousand older people,” he . added. ;

” o " PROF. WITTE believes there should be an extension of government programs. : ; “The most desirable of these is contributory old age and survivors insurance,” he said, “but there is need for old age assistance.” : : SE nn ara ly AS OF NOW, there are about 3 million people receiving old age insurance and about 2.7 million getting old age assist-

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