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As Truce Talks Fade
OW MUCH longer are we going to put up with the Communists’ stalling in the Korean truce talks? By now. it is clear, after nearly four months of ridiculous haggling on their part, while we stood hat in hand, that they want neither a truce nor peace. Naturally, they won't say so, as long as there remains the barest possibility of stretching out the present indecision and uncertainty. . But those tactics are wearing thin, and even the Communists seem to be running short of excuses for frustrating the negotiations. When Gen. Ridgway last week sensibly proposed shifting the meeting place from Kaesong to a neutral hamlet, the Communists had no reply other than propaganda blasts from Peiping calling ", : the proposal “childish.” : ; Monday Gen. Ridgway warned them they had better quit bluffing; and said if they wanted all-out war instead of truce talks, we were prepared to “strike, and strike hard.” :
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hard” in the Truman-Bradley-Ridgway strategy still means respecting the Manchurian boxder, making both victory and peace impossible. That much is conceded by Gen. Van Fleet in his formal statement Sunday. . “There are a number of reasons,” he said, “why we did not pursue the Communist aggressor and finish him off in the early months of summer. Se
full-scale pressure, could have withdrawn to his Manchurian sanctuary, recouped at his leisure and then returned to spill his violence on the Eighth Army.”
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AN ALLIED offensive now, with the same restrictions, would be just as pointless—and the Communists know it. Assuming we reached the banks of the Yalu River, we could only dig in to await the inevitable counterattack from Manchuria.
; If the Reds ignore Gen. Ridgway’s latest warning we might as well recognize the chips are down—that there is no longer any alternative. In that event let all political restrictions be lifted from the threatened offensive. Let the United Nations commander attack with all his resources and all we can rish to him. Let the China coast be blockaded and the Communist ports, rail centers and supply bases wherever they are, be bombed into uselessness. WE The only way we can be sure of winning a peace in Korea is to crush the enemy.
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Unfinished Business
PRESIDENT TRUMAN says he cannot get through this fiscal year without a federal deficit unless Congress gives
{ him more new taxes, which Congress apparent! intend to do. : gress apparently does not
Congress complains of administration spending, and some Congressional leaders keep saying the President could
balance the budget by cracking down on non-essentials and waste. wl :
At this point, the Citizens Committee for the Hoover report sends a pertinent letter .to Congress.
“Only half the plans for reorganization of the government whith were recommended by the Hoover Commission have been adopted. Adopting the remainder, the Citizens Committee says, would save more than $5 billion a year. _ That's just about the difference be#®een the estimated yield from the new tax bill, as passed by the Senate, and the amount Mr. Truman says is necessary to balance the budget.
The last Congress tackled the Hoover program with zest. But nearly every phase of the program before this
recently reindorsed the program. But at this session of ~ Congress he has submitted only one new plan.
THERE is room for minor differences over some aspect: of the Hoover Commission's report. But the over-all plan opens the way not only for substantial economies, but for much greater efficiency in government operations.
service .to the Hoover program and its objectives. 4 A sum-up by Dr. Robert L. Johnson, chairman of the Citizens Committee, hits the bull’s-eye: “Congress can blame the administration and the administration can blame Congress. The Democrats can blame fie Repul/iesms and the Republicans can blame the Democrats. “There will be just enough merit in all these allegations to provide a partial alibi for everyone.”
And one avenue to a balanced budget will left to the weeds. get will have been
Morale by Design
‘THE ARMY is going to try out a new woolen dress uninlm = greenish-gray — to replace the traditional olive It will require a new issue of shirts—poplin, in a “harmonizing” color—and new low shoes of a dark russet shade. . The close-fitting Eisenhower jacket will go, and back will come the hip-length blouse. All insignia, chevrons and service stripes are to be redesigned in a resplendent gold. - “The new uniform will be tried out on two battalions of
Pentagon designers can observe the effect at close range. | Sixteen thousand yards of cloth have been ordered.
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inflation threat.
Congress seems to have been sidetracked. President Truman .
Both Congress and the President have given loud lip _
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CONFERENCE— Governors Mistrust Washington
By CHARLES LUCEY GATLINBURG, Tenn,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3U. 8. military authorities have
worked out an intricate system to get blood to the Xorean front just when it's needed. ° Essence of the system is a periodic estimate by the medical section of Gen. Matthew —Ridgway's . command of how much blood will be needed for t r a nsfusions at hospitals in # Korea and Japan. This estimate is based on the number of casualties anticipated. Naturally, the
of mistrust among state
governors about the way
the government at Washington is being run. It's apparent in private conversations and in- . formal discus- .. sions at sessions of the U, S. " Governors Conference here. , Republican governors have had a field day In denouncing the Truman administration for the
Gen. Ridgway doctors cant” * blood and
get by on their war, crystal ball — they have to know what kind of action the
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ence-peddling and various other shoddy publjc practices. But the mistrust goes much deeper than this. It centers in the issue of concentration of excessive powers in the federal government.
Democratic Governors James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and Frank Lausche of Ohio have led in raising a cry at the dangers of the trend toward vast power in Washington.
Gov. Lausche, chairman of the 43d annual governors conference, warned the governors not alone of the drift of AOA THAT DIDIER BNL ce. SR from the local community to the state government as well. And Gov. Byrnes, speaking against a background of many years of official life in Washington as U. 8. Senator.a Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of State, told his fellow governors: ;
“You can get drunk on alco- . hol and have a headache and get over it. But when you get drunk on power you never get over it.” * His warning followed a colloquy with Charles E. Wilson, defense production administrator, in which Mr. Byrnes cited the vast powers being given Washington officials in life-and-death control over vital materials and in which he expressed hope that the powers will be relinquished the very minute they are not needed. ” ” n GOV. ALFRED E. DRISCOLL of New Jersey protested strongly at the same time against a Washington confusion which, he charged, has seen some government agencies urging the states to undertake major capital improvement programs and other federal agencies coming along later to forbid the use of materials in these same projects. And Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah made it plain he didn’t think so much of another western governor, Earl Warren of California, for lining up strongly on the side of federal grants to states. a Gov. Byrnes, inveighing against too great concentration of power in Washington, insisted the present administration had failed to use its powers properly in meeting the
AMAERENGRNANANRNENNS
MR. EDITOR:
Republican Gov. Val Peterson of Nebraska charged that “Kansas City gangsterism has been transferred to Washington.” = And Democratic Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, who sought (first to say that “honors seemed about even” in the “Washington scandals,” finally admitted -that-he- “sup posed” the balance sheet had gone most heavily against the Democrats. ” ” y
BUT Democrats plainly will try to play off against disclosures of RFC influence-ped-dling the fact that Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson acknowledged talking to RFC officials about possible extension of an $18.5 million loan his company had obtained from the federal lending agency. Gov. Gordon Browning: of Tennessee, for example, agreed that morality in government would be an issue in the next o campaign but-—sounding a note similar to that of Gov. Stevenson—said he thought it would “cut both ways.”
SIDE GLANCES
laws socialistic. Our General Assembly was
funds from Indiana.
eral government. It all boils down to one plain
By Galbraith
Recently there appeared in the Forum so many letters supporting the Republican policy of depriving the needy. All of these letters evade the facts and present the issues in a false or twisted manner. They and the Republican politicians label every law socialistic which contributes to the public welfare, Their aim seems to be to undo all the good done for the common man by the Democrats since Roosevelt. They make a great distinction between the welfars laws for the common people and laws which “contribute to the politicians and the wealthy. They are ever ready to grant raises
in salary and tax exemptions for the politicians" and ‘the wealthy and they never label these
Governor for the purpose of making available funds to prevent great suffering. The law passed by the session of our General - Assembly is strictly in opposition to the federal law and virtually mandated Mr. Ewing to withhold federal
One man recently said in the Forum that Mri Ewing by his action had broken the contract with the state. He would have been much more truthful if he had said that the General Assembly had broken the contract with the fed-
is, that the Republicans are trying to hoodwink the people and again place the Republicans in power, so that they can again reduce the masses to a state of weakness where they can again
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It Takes A Lot Of Red
military planners. themselves
expect. For every casualty to
be hospitalized, so many pints of blood are ordéred. This factor has never been announced, but a promotional poster. sponsored by the Pentagon suggests it may be as high as nine pints per casualty.
~The periodic estimate—of—
blood use is transmitted to the Pentagon here in Washington and becomes the national blood quota for Korea. The Pentagon breaks it down according to so many pints from the Red Cross, so many from co-oper-ative blood barks and so many from blood centers operated by the military itself.
The quotas are never announced. Any enemy studying them would perhaps be able to deduce certain vital Information about our military situation in Korea. After a month it is permitted to- say how
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mich blood was shipped to Gen. Ridgway’'s command in
a previous period.
: ~ » LJ THE national blood quotas are redivided by the agencies receiving .them inté so many
pints of blood from each participating blood station.
ibility, only O type, or universal, blood is accepted for use overseas as whole blood. The reason is that O blood lacks certain substances that are in A, B and AB blood, which set up reactions unless blood types of donor and recipient are matched. Generally speaking, persons with A, B or AB blood
(AB blood has both the A and .
B elements) can receive O blood : Within each blood group, there is apt to be an RH factor. Most people have the RH
factor—they’'re RH positives.
By Gene Feingold
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Hoosier Forum—‘Welfare Fight’
“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
Wuenanastesseensaned
dictate starvation wages and a condition little
called by the
that would
fact, and that
better than slavery. I do not expect to see this in print, for the reason, that The Times has recently changed its policy of being a conservative and nonpartisan paper to one favoring the Republicans by publishing letters that are Republican in whole or in part and refusing to publish letters which support the Democratic policies.
Theo. B. Marshall, City.
‘Old Agin Party’ MR. EDITOR: So-1-thought this was the United States of America all this long time. Now I find Indiana
iz seceding from the Union, all because a bunch of Republicans want to know who is getting welfare funds, even though it will mean a sub- - sequent loss of federal funds and that you and IT will have to pay higher taxes as a result. Personally and I'm sure there are many who will agree with me, the Republican Party should change its name to the “Agin Party.” are always against everything that helps the bulk of the people. especially as I recall its history down through the years, always “agin” every bit of legislation help the most people, always for that which would benefit the wealthy minority. Now there are those who claim they have ". Jearned that this is the wrong way to be, that this lost them elections in the past, but learn from it, no indeed, it’s the same old “Agin Party” it's been for years, and I have no doubt but that it will continue to be.
—Allen Boicourt, 2012 N. Meridian St.
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Persons who don't are RH Ideally, a person who is RH negative should not get RH positive blood.. But in front-line medicine thers isn’t #ime to make such careful’: matching. However, when wounded are brought back to" hospitals in Japan, this test ts made.
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» n ” 0 BLOOD—marked as 10 whether it's positive or negative—is transported in a twofoot ‘tube insulated metal trunk especially designed for the purpose. Around the inside walls are_metal racks for 24 pint bottles, the original bottles into which the blood was received from the donors. In the center is space for a: metal canister with a screw top. The canister is filled with crushed ice, which is replaced & at every stop along route by pouring off the water and adding more ice. If dry ice were used this re-icing would be unnecessary, but dry ice would freeze the blood, causing damage to it. Shipments of whole blood for Korea are received by air at Travis Air Force Base, Cal, from all parts of the country. They're tested again to be sure they're O type, then re-iced
days blood is donated here in the states, before it's in the.re-
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H and put on military air transport ‘service planes bound for Honolulu, Wake Island, Tokye
.and the front. ments have top priority.
Blood ship-
Generally it's five - or" ‘six from the time whole.
frigerator of a hospital in Korea. Total safe life of whole
BLOOD donations intended to be made into plasma, of which the military has a great need because of the depletion of its plasma reserves by the war in Korea, is handled in the same way, except that it is drawn into bottles containing less preservative, Blood for plasma making should reach one of the eight big blood fractionization laboratories in the country in -24 hours. From these“the kits of dried blood plasma and sterile water go to military supply warehouses in this country; to be ordered out as needed. Donors for whole blood and plasma are equally needed, There's no substitute for volunteer donors, says Brig. Gen, A. C. Schwictenberg. “Wa have no other resource than the patriotism of our people.”
DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
Hoosier Raps Politics
In Inflation
Debate
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—A former Democratic Con-
ator from Indiana had he not bucked President Roosevelt's - early New Deal, returned to this city to debate a Truman
Fair Dealer. . The former Hoosier Congressman was Samuel B. Pettengill. Hi s opponent in the debate was Leon H. Keyserling, $98 chairman of §¢ the White House Council of Economic Advisors. Theodore Granik arranged t he meeting Tor his American Forum of the Afr. AftéFit was all over, Mr. Pettengill declared that his principal astonishment was the fact that he and Mr. Keyserling were not too far apart in their view of the menace of inflation. ~ To the listener, it seemed that the principal difference was that Mr. Pettengill argued that inflation constitutes what the Supreme Court has called in subversive cases “‘a clear and present danger,” While his administration opponent felt that inflation, so far, has been necessary, although it must be bet‘ter controlled in the future. The debate grew out of a statement of Mr. Pettengill's views appearing in the October “Readers Digest’ under the title “Inflation Concerns Everyone.” Mr. Keyserling readily agreed to that. n ” = SOME of the. points made by Mr. Pettengill in his writing, were stressed in the debate. * “Only the people- can stop inflation,” he maintained. “Politicians are the captives of voting pressure groups which they think they must continue to appease. “The political leaders have not the courage to act effectively without wide popular support.” - .
Mr. Pettengill
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Mr. Pettengill hopes that his
Readers Digest writing may help arouse such interest and support. Reprints can be had and 40,000 have been ordered by a single Chicago bank, he told this reporter. Mr. Keyserling tried to get him to say that farm price supports should be discontinued. He did. : » = = - “I CANNOT see why parity price supports, arranged to stem a depression, should be carried on when farm prosperity becomes the greatest in history,” he said. In his writing, Mr. Pettengill points to the °$100 million the government spent on potatoes— just to keep them from being eaten by people. Under
CAPITOL ISSUES . . . By Frederick C. Othman Lawmakers Ponder Subs, Geese, Juke Boxes
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—My guess now is that there'll be jce on the Capitol steps before Congress adjourns. The weary gents have too many things to worry about to close shop any sooner. These include the timid geese on . Pea Island, the method of blowing up a submarine legally, what to do about the drinking whisky that was diluted by Kansas
City flood waters, and how to
divvy up the take from the nation’s juke boxes. Important items, every one. The trouble seems to be that when the statesmen begin to see light and' choose a fine
date, such as Monday, to quit,
somebody like that great music lover from Tennessee, Sen. Estes Kefauver, ‘comes up with a scheme to encourage
the authors of juke-box music. 4
As a fellow whe likes to sip
"his beer in peace, I've long
carried on a campaign to keep .canned music out of saloons. If this should result in the starvation of the composers thereof, so much the better, 1
proper
* Now comes Sen, : my cam-
There's no accounting for tastes.” . FN 8 f/f WHAT he's fone, between jousts with gangsters, is write Bill No. 2186, which would make juke-box renditions of
ballads, including hillbilly, “public performances for profit.” This means that every time a platter spins for a nickel, the composer gets his piece of the profits. The Senator thinks that 1 cent per week per machine is about right for the composer of each tune stacked therein. There's going to be some argument about this and it ign't going to be musical. As for the geese of Pea Island, N. C,, they're delaying adjournment, too. Up is a bill, which the Merchant - Marine Committee has considered at length, forcing the federal government to permit a road through its Pea sland bird refuge. The inor Départment reports that
the snow geese, brant, gulls,’
tern and otter of Pea Island ~ don’t like automobiles. If this
road disturbs the birds and the.
' beasts, there'll be trouble, un. »
o = £; § THEN there's the case of the Ulua. It isso
new
‘the Ulua as a target to test the shock-absorbing devices being built for its new atomic submarine. Only trouble is that these tests may sink the Ulua. : Some previous Congress
passed a bill making it illegal for the Navy to sink any of its ships on purpose, without special permission from the
lawgivers. Now they've got to ‘i
argue about the Ulua's fate, And that brings us
tragedy was
the subhead “The Music Goes
Round and Round,” he continued: “Whatever arguments are
given for favqQring sellers with price floors and buyers with price ceilings, it is certain that the practice builds up pressure
_ blocs which produce a chain
reaction on prices as each voting group tries to get an advantage over the others. “For example, take the parity price floor for farm products. It is based on the cost to the farmer of the things he buys that are made in the city.
“As city wages go up, city goods
go up, and then the farm parity price goes up again.
= = = “THIS makes groceries cost more in the city: . “The city worker then demands and -gets more money to equalize his higher cost of living. Thi= makes the farm-
er pay still more for city goods, and he demands another increase in his parity price.” s
In conclusion, Mr. Pettengill lays down a seven-point program for action by the coms mon citizen to.stem the inflationary spiral. He urges “write your Congressman,” do a good job and don't profiteer, postpone your luxury spending, watch your Jocal and state government expenditures, discuss inflation problems with neighbors and in community groups, save some money and be for high taxes to balance the federal budget. Mr. Average American might feel it a bit difficult to do both save money and pay higher taxes —but Mr. Pettengill thinks we can measufe up to it. .
OLD WHALER
THE LURE--of thapdeep Is calling... and I yearn for the rolling sea . . . for a four mast schooner's—quarterdeck ~:~ so much a part of me . ,. I fong for the call of “thers she blows” . , . and the lowering of a dory ... and the feeling of wonder that is mine .". . when the harpoon strikes with glory + «+ for the sea casts a strange and magic spell . . . over those who follow its call ,., and & man of the sea doesn't feel at home . . . lest he's on a schooner or yawl . . . and that is why as I stand on the wharf... and the wind is blowing free . .. I burn and I yearn to go back again , , . for I belong to the sea, ~—By Ben Burroughs.
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many thousands of gallons of likker were turned into a large muddy highball by the raging waters. ° This diluted whisky, of course, was in vats. Then there was an enormous consignment of it in bottles. The floods washed off all of the labels, including the revenue stamps. » ¥ »
80 Ben. Thomas C. Hennings
(D. Mo.) produced a bill ordering ‘the Treasury to refund
taxes paid on whisky ruined by
the big rains. There'll be no cheating about this, either.
Anybody who wants his tax money back on a barrel of whisky which is partly mud must destroy it under auspices of Secretary of Treasury John Snyder. Whether the mud can be re- ~ moved from the whisky withe out loss of flavor, and—or profits is something else. The experts are pondering the idea, ‘but I fear it will not work. So does the Senator. His cohorts will argue about it later.
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