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Red Ink on Their Hands

I= SURPRISE House vote against the tax bill was an act of shameless irresponsibility. If there is any leadership left in Congress that action will be repaired without delay. This Congress has already appropriated around $15 pillion more than anticipated revenue. The rejected tax bill would reduce that deficit by only one-third. It is not a good bill, but as good as could be hammered out in nine months of committee work and debate in both houses. =. Most of the Congressmen who voted against the bill yesterday didn't expect it to ‘be defeated, didn't even want it to be defeated.” They were interested primarily

S—this’ ‘strange AZETESHON of A Spur SEP ESITcany; Ee Democrats and’ howlers-for: balanced-budgets, playing politics with the nation’s credit. Congress no longer has a choice between good or bad tax legislation, or between an unsatisfactory bill or fo bill at all. It's too late. The money has been appropriated. More revenue must be obtained. The boys who voted to spend are going to have to vote to tax, or admit they are not fit to serve in Congress.

The New Peace Bid PRESIDENT TRUMAN is unquestionably right when he says. that building up defenses will make war less “fikely. %. But we cannot shire his hope that his present polev “built as it is on vacillation and expediency——can achieve Teal peace ‘with the Russian aggressor, or even win the ‘war we are already fighting. i Speaking Monday at Winston-Salem, N. President said: ;~~ “Our policy is based on the hope that it will be ! possible to live, without a war, in the same world as the * Soviet Union—if the free nations have adequate defenses: * Ax our defenses improve, the chances of negotiating successfully with the Soviet Union will increase. And as our strength increases, we should be able to negotiate settlements that the Soviet Union will respect and live up to.” He believes that if the Soviet leaders can be convince of the growing strength of the free world, they'll be ready to sit down with us and work out “practical arrangements”

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WHICH is a new high in optimism. If the Russians had even the slightest desire for peace, they could call off their war in Korea. But instead of convincing them otherwise, our policy in Korea has led them to believe that we so fear them and their atom bombs that we dare not risk offending them by exerting enough force to gain a decisive victory there. Moreover, on the question of the atom bomb itself, we have leaned over backward. At a time when we had a monopoly .on the bomb, we offered to share it’ with Russia. It was, as Mr. Truman said, the first time in history that any nation was willing to share a secret so vital. The Truman administration was naive enough then te believe that the Russians would sit down with us and agree to international control of atomic energy. In 260 sessions on the Baruch plan, we got nowhere with them. It is hardly logical that Russia, bent upon a world conquest of which Korea is only the beginning, would agree now ; to any control plan such as Mr. Truman hopefully reproposes. : We think Mr. Truman rook a sounder, more realistic . approach the other day when he said hereafter it would + be necessary for this country to rely on force, rather than ! diplomacy, in dealing with Russia. »

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Ridgway Tells Em 1 S ENEMY resistance faded on two fronts in Korea Gen. : Ridgway has added a powerful persuader to get the Communists down to business in the long-delayed truce talks. The Allied commander announced from Tokyo that the United Nations will insist that the current battleline will be the basic cease-fire line no matter how far north the Present United Nations offensive carries.

The Communists have been holding out for the 38th -

Parallel as a truce line. The Allies have stood firm against this, on the ground that the general area of the Parallel is not defensible and United Nations forces, already from 15 to 35 miles north of the boundary, would have to give up hard-won positions in return for a truce. Now Gen. Ridgway has gone a step further, making clear to the Reds that we'll insist on keeping all we gain in the present offensive—which looks to be going good at the moment. This is.the way to talk to the Communists—let them know that we're playing for keeps in Korea. It might help change their minds on continuing to stall the armistice, and convince them they're not going to get everything on their own terms.

‘No Promissory Notes’ EFENSE SECRETARY LOVETT earns another salute

for injécting some much-needed realism in the preva-.

lent thinking about “fantastic” new weapons. The plain fact is, he told the American Legion convention, until new weapons and new military applications of atomic energy have proved their reliability and are available tor field use, our national safety still depends on improved orthodox weapons: 3 In spite of recent developments in these weapons, "he a there is still “no quick, cheap: way to fight and win ‘a war.’ we Mr. Lovett assured American parents that their sons “fighting in Korea were receiving the best equipment available, but he warned: “We must be certain that we “are not arming our troops with promissory notes." There's more reassurance in words like these than in whole treatises on Magical weapons as #port cuts to victory.

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LEGISLATION—

Tariff Plan Is a Blow At Japan

By EARL RICHERT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 —Congress, which billions in aid to friendly countries, now seems about

ready fo order another curb on what these countries can earn on their own by selling to us. The House has voted to put a tariff of three cents a pound on fresh and frozen tuna fish. And the domestic tuna industry, which claims the tariff won't raise tuna prices to housewives, is hopeful of quick Senate approval. This tariff will be a blow at Japan, which now is assuming the role of an important ally of the U. S. in the Far East. Tuna has been one of Japan's biggest dollar earners. And official U. 8. policy is to give Japan a reasonable opportunity to earn her own way by trade with the free nations so she becomes neither dependent on trade with Red China nor on increased -aid from the 1). 8. “ i ” » »

BUT THE plight of the do-

ARNE RTE Ra TR TR sverwheiming House voice vote for the tariff. The domestic tuna industry

i= in a serious condition be-

cause of the greatly increasing imports from abroad with .which it cannot_compete pricewise. Nearly 200 tuna fishing boats are tied up now at San Diego, Cal, because the boat owners can't get business.

The State Department, which

usually puts up a stiff fight against new trade restrictions, bowed on the tuna tariff proposal because of “the compelling prima facie case of injury” shown by the domestic industry. = ” ~ THE DEPARTMENT pointed out that the tariff was to last only until Mar. 31, 1953, and that a study was to be made in the meantime to enable Congress to formulate a longer range policy for the domestic tuna industry. Rep. Clinton McKinnon (D. Cal.), a supporter of the tuna. tariff, said that housewives were not benefiting now from the cheaper foreign imports because the -canners are pocketing most of the difference between imported and domestic prices for the fish they buy. He said tuna prices now were 16 per cent below 1946 and that technological progress (bigger boats, etc.) would result in tuna prices becoming even cheaper in the years ahead, regardless of the tariff. ” » » “WE MUST have it,” he said, “to save our domestic industry. If we save our domestic industry, it will assure housewives of a stable supply of tuna.” Other countries from which fresh and frozen tuna imports have been increasing are Peru, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico, The fresh and frozen tuna have been coming in duty free. They are canned in the U. 8S. There is a tariff already on tuna canned in brine and in oil. Congress already this year has voted a sharp cut on cheese imports from Western European nations, all of whom have been beneficiaries of large amounts of U. 8. aid. These countries have protested vigorously and the administration has asked Congress to repeal the import curb. The Senate Banking Committee has approved a repeal bill, but no action by either house seems likely before Congress quits this week or next.

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MORE people would amount to something if there were fewer easy ways not to. M » td A SCIENTIST says there are quantities of rubber in the human body. Hence the bouncing baby boys and girls. » = = A VACATION is what usually starts several days before you leave and lasts several days after you get back.

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By Frederick C. Othman

Can Ya Tell Me What Doc Said?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17—I guess Dr. Philip C. Jessup, who is one of the best educated gents there ever was, is stuttering mad today. So sore that he's likely to say, ain't. That is, ain't so.

Doc Jessup took calmly the charges that he He denied 'em in language as stately as it was dignified. Now comes Sen. Owen Brewster (R. Me.) claiming that the Doc is no fit man to be our delegate to the United Nations on account of how he JEN mangles the English language. § If Americans can’t figure out what the Doc's driving at, says the Senator, then how can those foreigners at the United Nations understand his lingo? The Doc knows a lot of big words,

Mr. Jessup

the way the Senator ... big words *. sees it, but he doesn't know how to put 'em together so they'll make good sense.

To get to the nubbin of this indictment we've

got to consider the word, consider. You may

remember when Dr. Jessup testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he was no friend of Communist China. That sounded simple enough.

‘Then, said the Doc, he and his associates in the State Department never considered recognizing Red China as a member of the family of nations. Everybody, including Senators, commentators, and Harold E. Stassen (who is a university president, himself) thought he meant what he said. Turned out he didn't.

He said he meant the State Department thought about the advantages, if any, of recog-

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nizing the slant-eved Reds, but never acrually intended to do it. That, he said, is what he meant by the word. consider. So Stassen and an assortment of Senators still were wrangling about this word and a good many others when I dropped into the Senate caucus room. Stassen said he still didn't know™ for sure what the Doc meant. Chairman John Sparkman (D. Ala.) said he believed the embattled Jessup said, considered, when he meant, intended. “And that's’ just what I'm talking about.” snapped the gentleman from ‘Maine. ‘Foreigners can't understand the English language as well as we do. And we can’t understand Jessup's use of our language. I don't believe he's the kind of man we want in the United Nations.” That's why I think Jessup must be sore: after all, he's spent more time in school than almost anybody else. He's got degrees from universities all over, including one in Oslo, Norway. I was feeling a little sorry for the Doc and his troubles with the language, when Stassen brought up a speech he made at Claremont College in California. He brought along some copies of it.

A little Confusing STASSEN said this speech showed that Jessup tried to talk our government out of lending cash money to Greece and Turkey. Chairman Sparkman said it didn't mean this at all; it meant that the Doc wanted us to hand over the dough by way of the United Nations. So I read this speech, myself. I never have seen so many big words in such long sentences; not even in. the handout: of the late, lamented OPA did I see 'em. I must confess I don't know what the Doc was talking about.

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MR. EDITOR: I would like to take this means of answering an article written by C.D.C. of Terre Haute as his writings were directed at me personally. My advocation is for a containment of fighting in a localized area such as Korea until plans for a just peace can be worked out. I am not for an all-out war in China as advocated by MacArthur and the Republican Party. Heartbreak Ridge would be a “pin point” in comparison to what you would subject our boys in an all-out war. You sound like a radical isolationist and the practice of isolationalism during the Republican regime from 1922 to 1932 led directly to our world difficulties in 1940 and 1941. Besides world difficulties it also led us to soup houses and bread lines in 1932. You make it sound as if only Republicans were fighting in Korea and no Democratic boys. The Democratic Party is again protecting you {

By Galbraith

RECRUITING .

You Can't Trap 'Em With Songs, Fellas 4

WASHINGTON,

and this fine way of life. We are fighting communism., We stopped aggression in 1950.

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WE DON'T have just a bunch of McCarthys who make loud accusations against communism and then fall in line with Stalin's propaganda. Food and clothing have been collected and sent by me to.Korea, also have donated blood to save a life and no designation was made to what political group it should go. I am wholeheartedly for the principles of the Democratic Party and for the United Nations. We are trying to contain the fighting and work out a just peace rather than set the whole world on fire and destroy civilization. I have no other way of answering accusations made at me hy C.D. C. as he does not want his name and address to appear with his article. —Evelyn Walton, 2049 N. Meridian St,

. By Robert Carter

Oct. 17 — what we can do about the Bill

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oh amoyy me as mich 8 as your overdrawn account!"

Army-Air Force recruiters are going to keep their elaborate advertising program despite congreasional disapproval. A spokesman at the Pentagon said the recsuiting service had enough money left from last year to continue highpriced radio and TV shows for some time. But the days of militarysponsored TV roller derbies, big name sportscasts and leading orchestras are numbered. Congress ripped $3.1 million requested for recruiting advertising out of the military spending bill. » ~ » THIS was expected to serve as a warning to the Pentagon that Congress isn’t in the mood for that kind of spending. It didn’t, Recruiting planners shrugged their shoulders and started figuring how much they had left to keep the shows on the air. . “We figure we can pay for six weeks of Frankie Laine's band, instead of original plans

for 37 weeks,” said an Army . Wspokesman. “We're not sure

cruiters argued, would

Stern sportcast, though.” The complete Laine series would have cost $437,000, For 26 weekly broadcasts of the Bill Stern program, the recruiters were ready to spend $254,000, ~ ~ » DESPITE the loss of $3.1 million by congressional action, the recruiters say last vear's left-over funds will pay for seven football broadcasts of “Game of the Week,” which costs $81,000. “The Big Inning,” the baseball broadcast consisting of 48 five-minute programs, ended this week. It cost taxpayers $50,000. The recruiters had big plans for the $3.1 million they didn’t

t. i Be hey had figured $1,130,000 for magazine advertising, $237,000 for Sunday supplements, $500,000 for newspapers, $500,000 for radio, $45,000 for TV, $75,000 for sales aids,

. $10,000 for research, $175,000

for production costs, $150,000 for publicity, and $278,000 for reserve—'‘unanticipated costs,” a ‘spokesmain explained. : a

ALL iis spending, the

MID-EAST ... By Ludwell Denny Egypt's Fight Isn't |. Only: With England

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17—Egypt's quick rejection of the proposed five-power defense of Suez explodesthe myth that her quarrel is with Britain alone. She is anti-American and antiforeign as well,

Her refusal to recognize Allied defense rights follows fast on her defiance of the United Nations in the case of her il-

legal interference with free shipping through the Suez Canal.

“Nationalism” {x the usual explanation given for her strange attitude. Certainly this is part of it. But it is more complicated than that. Nationalism, in the sense of reacting against foreign control and of asserting sovereign equality, is easy to understand and admire. Britain had bowed to legitimate Nationalist demands by earlier military withdrawal from the rest of Egypt, and offers of joint control of Suez. Old hatreds prevented such a settlement. But those alone can’t explain hostility to Allied-Egyptian defense of an international waterway and of

"a general Middle Eastern base.

” » ” . ~ DOMESTIC politics is part wf the reason. The ruling

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An antifortign jag was required also to take the people's mind off terrible conditions of hunger and disease in which they live, and to distract atteption from the inéfficiency and corruption of government. That governmental inefficiency and dishonesty was part of the cause of the Egyptian debacle in the Palestine war. This, in turn, has created an acute inferiority complex which can’t be satisfied merely by kicking out the British, but which must defy the world. Although these factors are difficult for the Allies to handle, they may not bé permanent barriers to a settlement.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

McCormick Dines Hoosier Leaders

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17—Four of the five freshmen Republican Congressmen from Indiana were guests of Col. Robert R. McCormick at a chicken dinner at the

Willard Hotel here. All GOP freshmen had béen invited and 38 of the 58 attended. Missing from Indiana was Rep. A. Adair. Ft. Wayne, who was out of the city. Those present came away with the distinct im - pression that the purpose of the dinner was to line up Col. Robert R. support f o r McCormick . . , Sen. Robertmeets a chal A. Taft for lenge. the 1952 Republican presidential nomination. Next day Sen. Taft made his campaign official at a press confere on Capitol Hill, Although the dinner was the

.talk of the Hill next day, no T

mention of it appeared in the Washington-Herald of which Col. McCormick is editor, as. well as his more noted Chicago Tribune,

WALTER TROHAN, head of the Tribune's Washington staff, presided as the toastmaster and made a smash hit with his pixielike performance. He introduced famed Marine Brig. Gen. James P. 8. Devereux, now a GOP Congressman from Maryland, as “Col. Devereux.” House colleagues shouted corrections —— “General, General Devereux.” A wry smile came over Mr. Trohan's face. “I say it's Col. Devereux,” he declared. “Nobody at this party is going to outrank my boss.” At the outset Mr. Trohan said that if there were any spies for Drew Pearson present he wanted them to come forward and he would give them a text of his remarks.

many young men of draft age to volunteer instead of waiting until they were drafted. They said a volunteer was a better bargain and made a better soldier than a draftee. Sen. George D. Alken (R. Vt.) and Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D. IIL) said this was silly.

“You don't change a young man's mind by having him

hear a band or see a roller derby,” said Sen. Aiken. He said a letter from the Army or

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AFTER the WAFD party has cashed in on patrioteering, the inferiority complex hax been appeased by bluster and the jag begins to wear off, some deal might be arranged by which Cairo appeared tn “dictate” conditions to the powers for International de. fense of Suez not substantially different from the present offer. But there are two other factors—apart from explosive social conditions -- which are likely to bedevil. Allied-Egyp-tian relations, regardless of any patched-up arrangement

for the Suez base. S—— One is Calro’s imperialist ambitions in the Sudan. In breaking the treaty for temporary British-Egyptian administration of the Sudan, pending Sudanese self-deter- —-_— mination and independence, . +0 Cairo proposes to annex that 15 country outright and to grant’ §- 130

only the husks of autonomy. 1 the British would sell out the

that betraya), probably a Suez bargain could be - struck with' Cairo fairly -|00nN, » » w

THE other barrier iz that - the Egyptian ruling caste has none of the qualities which makes Turkey. for example, such #&n excelient ally. They have no loyalty to the West, and little or no sense of responsibility for collective security, They are flirting with Stalin. They think they can

ing the Allies and Russia against each other, Assuming they will learn better, even so it will be a long time before Egypt is a trustworthy ally-—regardless of formal commitments.

This was good for a laugh, since one of the purposes of Col. McCormick's trip here was to testify in. Mr. Pearson's libel suit against the Times-Herald. When the Colonel took over the talking from Mr. Trohan it was less consciously funny, some of the Congressmen reported. He told how he knew late in the afternoon’ on election day 1948 that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey had been defeated by President Harry 8. Truman.

THERE WERE smiles from those who remember the Acme. pictures of the President holding the Chicago Tribune with the banner headline:

“Dewey Defeats Truman.” No mention was made of the Colonel's favorite Senator from Illinois, Freshman Republican '

Everett M. Dirksen, Instead the Colgnel concentrated his- — fire on booming Sen. Taft. 1:30 He dismissed Gov, Dewey - 45 with ‘this: -— -00 “You will recall that in 1948 - 18 It was sald that a yellow dog . :30 could beat Truman. Well, we = 45 nominated one and ‘he failed.” —_— Some of the Congressmen ho were shocked. They thought 18 they must be hearing Sen. Mc- 3 Carthy instead of Col. McCor- —s mick. It was what has become 100 known here as “McCarthyism.” 18 The Colonel's contention that 3

foreign affairs will be the big B -— issue in 1952 met with con- 00 siderable challenge. Many of the Congressmen consider a re-

turn to honest government on 45 the home front as paramount. wm About 20 questions were 5 asked before the meeting ad- 1 :30 journed. One of the freshmen, 45 who missed the dinner, declared - :00 he was deeply- sorry as he had 18 a4 question he wanted particu- 1 130 larly to ask Col. McCormick, 48 It was: . — “Is Orphan Annie really 0 00 dead?” 13 :30 45 :00 18 30 :00 Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney +5 (D. Wyo.) appeared embar- :30 rassed recently when he 45

learned how the recruiters planned to spend the $3.1 million, “I'm going to see ‘that that item: comes out of”the bill" he sthundered. He did, too.

HEADLINES

The headlines that appear each day ... In big impressive print , . , give glamour to a story and +o « B sometimes shaded tint ., . , for very often readers can . , . be awed by what they see . . . and actually what they read . . y may never come to be... but then again If suddenly , . . headlines would disappear . , . papers wouldn't : he the same . . . they would be out of gear... for people seem to thrive upon . . . some gossip or a story . . . that is made conspicuous . . . hy advertising

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