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UMT and a ‘Truce’ F AND when the Communists agree to a truce in Korea, it still will be necessary to keep American troops there “for some time to come,’ according to Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins. That means it will be necessary for the men now there to stay, or for replacements to take over. Presumably, if it is not “practical,” as Gen. Collins puts it, to withdraw, it wouldn't be “practical” to use entirely inexperienced troops for replacements. Many of the men now in Korea are veterans of World Var II. Many have had unreasonably long tours of duty. bad now has the Army found it possible to work out a rotation system to relieve these men—and that will work only “if” replacements are on hand. This would have been a much simpler matter if this country had adopted universal military training immediately after. World War II. As it is, a relatively few men have been compelled to carry the heavy weight. ~ » ” » = . THAT'S a major advantage of universal military training, which will be a ranking order ‘of business when Congress gets back on the job in January. The National Security Training Commission, assigned in June to draft a blueprint for UMT, has filed its report, which requires approval by Congress. 8 This report proposes a system in which every young man—with only rare exceptions—will be given military training. The discrimination which our unpreparedness

forced on so many of the men in Korea will be avoided.

That's the American way of doing business—equal treatment, equal sacrifice, equal service.

South Korean Training

S THE air war steps up in Korea, it is encouraging to note that the South Korean Air Force is beginning to give a good account of itself. Dispatches and communiques for two successive days now have mentioned the operations of South Korean fliers. Heretofore they have been relatively inactive as they underwent belated training with U. S. supervision. Monday an undisclosed number flew with a Marine air wing in attacks on main supply routes of the Reds on the eastern front. Russia has been furnishing the planes and training North Koreans to fly them since the beginning of the war. Why haven't we done as much? Surely the South Koreans must be as capable and competent as their countrymen across the Parallel. And even now, after the recent Red build-up, we still have’ enough planes to control the Korean skies. As in so many other aspects of the war in Korea, we may have slipped up on that. The same may be true of South Korean ground forces. Gen. Collins, our Army chief of staff now in Korea, said Monday, “Very frankly, the ROK army was not very satisfactory when I saw it the last time (some months ago). This time I found it greatly improved and the ROK soldiers gallant fighters.” If we permitted the ROK forces to deteriorate to the point where they were “not very satisfactory” and could not assume their share of the burden of fighting, it has been a costly mistake—paid for in American casualties.

More Like It fe

8 FAR as the Reconstruction Finance Corp. is concerned, it looks as though the “good old days” are gone. The charges against the old RFC, which President Truman first called “asinine,” have resulted in a fundamental change.

No more loans to fancy hotels. No more favors and influence. No more stories of fabulous mink coats.

W. Stuart Symington, who took over direction of the REC after the scandals got too hot even for Mr. Truman, is still in the lending business. Most of the loans are being made to assist the defense effort. Even the loans to small business in the main”have gone to companies seeking to convert to defense operations. In addition, the RFC lent money to victims of the Missouri-Kansas floods of last surhmer.

If the government is going to stay in the banking business, its lending should be restricted to a narrow sphere—so limited that it would cover only cases where private banking could not adequately meet the problem.

Loans to help the defense program and loans to tide over

the victims of catastrophe appear to be within that sphere. Mr. Symington is following that commendable pattern.

Come on 'a Our House

THE PERSONABLE young girl who is almost certain some day to be Queen Elizabeth IT of England arrives today for a brief, formal visit to the United States. We wish the Princess and her consort were staying longer than their scheduled two days in Washington and could see more of our country. But Americans have been follgwing with considerable interest their travels in Canada and can hardly repress the feeling that we've been something of a joint host during the past three weeks. From all accounts these two vigitors, very much under the spotlight, have canducted.themselves with considerable aplomb, While they are in Washington they will get the full treatment but not even the State Department is inclined ii be sticky about it. "The royal couple is dropping in on us as envoys of ; good will and there's reason to believe they'll be taking back to England quite a bit of ‘the same, That's a com“modity the world could ube a lot of these days—so, welcome and ii to our a? gracias and Bardens Julien :

INTERNATIONAL TROUBLES .

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—The United States {s getting deeper intd the business of trying to mediate international disputes without counting the cost. In most cases the result displeases both disputants. In some the United States is led into obligations which it does not desire and

* for which it is not prepared.

The theory is that Washington can play the role of disinterested party and ‘thonest broker.” Actually, however, in most major international disputes some American interest is involved. “ob THAT PUTS us in the difficult, if not outright’ dishonest, position of appearing neutral when we are not. Are we to sacrifice American interests to preserve our integrity as mediators, or use our broker. function to protect our own interests? At the moment Washington is attempting or preparing for informal mediation in all three

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Will Fair Deal Fakery End?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—Putting Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis banker, ‘in as Democratic National Chairman should end the Fair® Deal fakery with which President Truman has been fooling people for nearly four years.

The Truman formula of talking like Jefferson and acting like Hamilton is now unmasked. For Mr. McKinney is no more new dealish, or fair dealish than any other banker. He is as much a “sound money man” as were the gold standard Democrats in the days of William Jennings Bryan. And at heart Mr. Truman is also.

For with all his tall talk of expanding the New Deal into the Fair Deal, he never has done anything about it. His 1948 campaign promises remain intact. They never were delivered. ’

Social security expansion is the only one on which he got any domestic action. And that was practically unopposed due to the inflated dollars.

The American Federation of I.abor has seen through the fraud and is returning to the Samuel Gompers program of supporting friends of their political program on either ticket, They no longer will be for Democrats who don't deliver,

Sticks With Reriy

THE CIO still is sticking with the party so far as the leadership is concerned. But the rank and file couldn't care less whether a candidate is Democrat or Republican, if they think he is a good man. Then they will vote for him.

So far as any success in carrying out their political program, they are on far more realistic grounds than the leaders who are ready to take anything with a Democratic label. Actually President Truman has turned the entire defense effort over to big business under the direction of Mobilizer Charlés E. Wilson. The trickle of contracts to small, independent concerns has beén so tiny that even such a conservative as Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican and Assistant House Minority Leader, has complained on several occasions and sought remedies for this situation. - The President, however, remains the friend of small business—he says so himself. He cried out loud when he got the price control bill with fipe amendment of Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) attached. He called it the “terrible Capehart amendment” and wanted it repealed at once. His Congress didn't do it. They went home instead.

Goes to AFL Meeting

80 THE President goes to an AFL meeting here equipped with the Capehart amendment as the perfect alibi for his administration letting prices soar. Of course he said nothing about

“his failure to even try and stop them for the

first six months after the price control law was passed. He knows that his domestic program is thwarted at ‘every turn by the GOP-Dixiecrat coalition. But he makes no effort to do anything about it. No Dixiecrat gets his water cut off at the patronage trough. President Truman takes his hat in hand and hurries to Capitol Hill to laugh and joke and dine with the committee chairman who knifed his program. . He acts like the Oscar Wilde saying: “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” Sometimes it is difficult to tell which side the President really is on. That was demonstrated in the Jenner amendment scrap, when FSA Administrator Oscar R. Ewing was talking out of both sides of his mouth. Nevertheless, when the President signed the bill he took a rap at the Jenner amendment. That was part of his Fair Deal talk. Talk that he- seldom translates into action.

What Others Say

THE Congress of the United States has proved itself the line of least resistance to rampant inflation, and the weakest link in our chain of defense against Communist aggression.— William Green, president of AFL. « & WE WENT to war to get Japan out of Manchuria but after the end of the war we put Stalin in Manchuria—the very same place we had ousted the Japs.—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.).

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major disputes which endanger the Middle East to take one region as an example. First’ there was the old conflict between the Arab, states and Israel, To that was added the IranianBritish oil controversy. Anti now the American ambassador in Cairo is preparing to take on the Eyptian-British row at the opportune time,

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OUR GOVERNMENT has not succeeded in

bringing the Jewish and ATab states closer together. It has managed to earn the suspicion, and in some cases the extreme enmity, of the Moslem bloc. At the same time the Israeli government is very critical of Washington for instance, it has resented the American plan to make Egypt a charter member of the pro-_ posed Mid East defense system.

Both Iranians and British think we let them .

down. The Iranians say we promised them

financial aid, which we have withheld to blackmail them into accepting Britain's terms. They é

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are particularly indignant because we blocked their plan to bring in American experts and capital to replace the British they ejected. At the same time the British blame us for raising false nationalist hopes, for preventing the fall of the extreme Mossadegh regime, and for vetoing a British show of force in time to stabilize a situation now beyond control. The significance of these two instances is that in both the United States’ .aim was a fair settlement and peace. Whether its moves have been wise or unwise, they have been well-inten-tioned and unselfish. Still the United States has suffered. ’ da de Wb PART OF the difficulty is that ‘the United States does have an overrriding interest in the sanctity of treaties and the maintenance of contracts, and thus in the long run will stand with Britain against Iranian and Egyptian defiance. This frustrates short term mediation.

AINT GOBLINS THEY'RE THE REAL mccoy!

By Frederick C. Othman

What a Dirty Trick—No More Short Skirts in the Air Force

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—You been noticing the cuties in the Air Force uniforms with the short skirts and the nylons with the fancy clocks, clicking down the sidewalk in their high-heeled suede shoes? I thought so. The trouble is some killjoy in the Air Force (he's probably got ulcersd has been observing this pleasurable addition to the landscape, too, and he's vetoed it. Even as you read this the Air Force lovelies across the land are busy with their basting needles, letting” the hems of their skirts out to official length; namely the mid-calf, They are looking up the regular issue shoes with sensible heels and regretfully they're pulling onto their legs stockings of non-glamorous service weight, The order has gone out, under signature of Col. H. B. Hohman, assistant air adjutant general. Sexy costumes for feminine aerialists are out, In the colonel’'s own words, here are some of the things the big brass has found wrong with the lovelies in blue: “Female personnel wearing skirts of imSkirts should be mid-calf length, Shoes of unauthorized materials, such as suede, and with exaggerated heels being worn by female personnel. Female personnel wearing hose in unauthorized shades with exaggerated seams and/or clocks.” Col. Hohman said it also had been noticed that some Air Force ladies on duty were wearing white shirtwaists with their uniforms; henceforth they'll Kindly: wear blue shirts, as per specifications.

SUEZ FIGHT

CAIRO, Oct, 31—There has been a slow but steady buildup of anti-American sentiment in Egypt since the United States made clear its official support of Britain at the outset of the British-Egyptian crisis: two weeks ago. . The surprising thing about it is that it hasn't been more violent and vituperative. But this may be only the beginning. Though related to a vastly greater issue-— Egypt's attempt to drive the British from the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan by denunciation of treaties—it's so far fallen short of the record for prevarication and malice touched off by the “cola crisis” of last August.

> 2 ” n THAT “crisis,” mostly rhetorical; leftist press which whipped up an outcry against “American imperialism,” represented by franchises held by two Egyptian concerns for the manu- . facture and distribution of Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola, The harsh words that were uttered over soft drinks during those. héated days will stand for a long time as a measure of the ty and responsibility of ro's extremist press. The

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The Air Force management also has taken a long look at its flying men and has come to the conclusion that some of them have zoot-suit tendencies with reet pleats. They've taken the stiffening out of their hats (my guess is that their ears were cold); they've put jumbo-size insignia on their lapels and they've had these brilliantly polished, like their wives’ silverware. Then they've mixed pale blue pants with dark blue coats and sometimes vice versa and these costumes they've had made to order to fit a good deal tighter than the management specified. That is not all. They bought special buttons for their uniforms with high domes, which look like doornobs. The Colonel said his flymen would have to keep the grommets (meaning the wire stiffener) in their caps. He forbade them buying suits made of tropical cloth and he told them they have to quit wearing clear plastic raincoats. Nor can they wear Army-type raincoats. Henceforth they can keep dry only in blue, Air Force style slickers. Same goes for their hats, No more of their plastic cap covers will be permitted. These also have got to be blue.

Polish Is Out

IN VETOING the jumbo-gize “U. 8.” insigne, the Colonel said it could be no longer than seven-sixteenths of an inch. The high polish also is out. This jewelry has got to be in what Col. Hohman called the prescribed oxidized silver finish. “Oxidized silver means the finish is paratively dull,” he added. The big buttons must be replaced at once. While any flyer who paid good money for a suit that fits too well must buy another. “The Air Force uniform {is designed to present a semi-drape effect or tailored to fit relatively the Colonel said. I think I'll go out now and buy myself a necktie with yellow spots,

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Uncle Sam Finds C Cost Of Playing World Mediator Is High

The other difficulty is that the United States is s0 powerful she can make or break either disputant, since both are dependent on America economically or. strategically. The result tends to be not mediation but either an American club or bribe. Since Washington does not want to use ‘physical force, the alternative temptation is to bribe both disputants to get a settlement—to promise Britain more aid, oil and military forces in the Mid Fast, and to promise Iran financial subsidies, o. % & EVEN if Washington does not end up playing Santa Claus, by its attempted “mediation” it unavoidably assumes obligations and respon. sibilities in the eyes of others. The simple fact is that the United States’ stake in the Mid East is too big for it to play the neutral bystander, Obligations are ineVit. able. The question is whether they shall be open and direct and controled, or disguised and divided—and therefore dangerous.

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; Hooeer Forum! : “I do not agree with a word that you say, i 3 but | will defend io the death your right : i to say it."—Voltaire. j ‘Let's Clean House’ MR. EDITOR: Suppose you start to clean house. There are

some good pieces of wallpaper on some of the rooms. Possibly they are better than the new paper you expect to put on. Do you leave the good places on or do you put on all. new wallpaper. I mention this because there are a lot of Democrat mayors who are running for re-elec-tion at the present time. They of course point with pride to their accomplishments, Nevertheless they should all be voted out of office if there is an honest Republican running against them because this country needs a house cleaning from top to bottom. There has never been a time ip the history of this nation when there was as much graft, confusion and corruption as now exists in our national government, * 4 & THEY have not only tried to cover up but to condone scandals in the RFC, the Internal Revenue Department, communism in government departments and men close to the chief executive, ; It makes no difference how good a mayor any city has, if he-is a Democrat he is part

~ and parcel of this corrupt political machine.

And we can blame old Tom Pendergast for it all. . Old Tom was sent to the penitentiary where he belonged and no doubt there are worse men who belong to the game corrupt organization who are still running loose. Some of these have been pardoned that were sent to the penitentiary and every possible effort has been made to keep others from being brought to justice, It is. time to clean house as we never cleaned it before. We don’t want to leave any patches of wallpaper on any room just because they happen to look clean and bright or we will spoil the whole job and we don't want any Democrat mayors who have helped create this political monstrosity known as the Fair Deal to help perpetuate war, confusion and corruption. —C. D. C., Terre Haute

‘Where's the Waste?’

MR. EDITOR; As” a horrible example of waste the Senate Preparedness Committee cites recreational fa. cilities at two Marine Camps. - First: Camp Pendleton, where “servicemen and their dependents have the free use of 40 horses” and Camp LeJeune where they have 32 bowling alleys and two golf courses. If that is the best the investigators can turn up, we are wasting money on the investigators. What do they expect these kids dg; do for pastime? Even if they survive they will endure hardships far beyond those experienced by reason of any taxes paid bv any of us. I don’t believe many people begrudge them what little recreation they have. I've seen Camp Pendleton. Take it from me it isn't a country club. Those who do are extremely selfish. They are being defended without making any comparable sacrifice. Let's be a bit reasonable . . . at least with fuzzy-faced kids we are asking to fight and die for us. Andrew Jacobs, 1100 Hume Mansur building.

« Thanks Again’

MR. EDITOR: I just want to express my appreciation and thanks for all The Times has done for me. 1 thought you were wonderful to me when Laddie and I won The Times Mutt Dog Contest in ‘July, 1946, and it was another great thrill to me to win The Times Sweetest Girl in the World Contest last April. When I won the Miss Indianapolis contest vou were backing me all the way and even after I lost the title of Miss Indiana you have still been wonderful to me. It is no wonder I love your paper so much when you have been so good to me, Virginia Ann Johnson, Miss Indianapolis, 1951,

Egypt's Defiance Is Relatively Quiet.

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trol of the Egyptian press so that the right, left and middle speaks pretty much one indignant nationalistic piece against: “British aggression.” Criticism of Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha's government has been silenced. As for the American position, there's a spread in the

_press ranging from such dec-

larations ag that the United States is calling all British plays and is becoming enemy number one in Egyptian eyes to restrained questions as to whether Washington has a policy of its own or is content to follow the lead of the British foreign office. " » ~ THE LATTER questioning tack was taken by Al Ahram, one of the Mid East's most substantial dailies, which also asked: / “If Roosevelt were living to-

day, would he have accepted

that his country support the imperialist policy of iron and blood which the British practice in the Mediterrapean?” - Last week's sixth anniversary of the United Nations oc-

casioned elaborate editorialization along similar lines, The French 160quage Joursm,

fion that Roosevelt would not today salute the United Nations flag because he woul recognize the United Nations he helped estahlish.

" ” . THE UNITED STATES has been repeatedly attacked for setting the ‘“‘thorn” of Israel in the flesh of the Arab states. Foreign Minister Salah FEI

PRAYER TO GOD DEAR GOD, I need Your tender care , ,. I need Your love so true .., I beg You to watch over me . . . In everything I do . .., You are the guiding light that shows . . . me whither I must go ... You lift my tired spirit when . . . my heart Is feeling low . .. Oh

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my prayer come true,

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for the anti-American eriti--.cism last Friday when he said the United States regarded the Egyptian question from the angle of preparing for eventual ,war and “therefore it is nof® surpr, sing that she would dis‘regard the peinciple of right and justice.” Anti-American slogans such as “Down With Acheson” marked last Tuesday's demon-

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THERE HAVE BEEN no cases of violent molestations of Americans, There are nearly 1100 in Egypt, mostly businessmen, professors and students. The State Department has about 60 ° Americans a the country,

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