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Fiddling With Horror

RESIDENT TRUMAN sdys the report of Chinese Communist atrocities “against captured United Nations troops, if true; is the most uncivilized thing that has happened in the last century. : Mr. Truman hardly could overstate the case. The brutal. cold-blooded murder of prisoners of war and helpless civilians whatever their number, is on a par with the savage Hitler and Russian massacres of World War IL. It is a dreadful, shocking story. And the way the military is handling it doesn't pretty it up any. Picayune quibbling over whether or not the story had gone through the proper channels and whether or not the statistics are exactly correct do not put the military in a good light. The officer. who released the story, Col. James M Hanley, is Judge Advocate General of the U. S. 8th Army And so in a position to know the facts, if anyone does. He has the reputation of being a responsible officer. Quite obviously, he didn't dream up this story, and he is not likely to have released it purely on his own authority.

= 4 s n = Ld OF COURSE the figures are not exact. That would be impossible. And it is beside the point. Col. Hanley had the evidence to prove that the Chinese aa taking a leaf from the brutality of their Russian masters, did engage inl the mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians, Gen. Ridgway, the Supreme Commander in the Far East, was reported peeved over the way the story got out. {The General was off duck shooting at the time.) The pertinent point is not that the story was released when it was. But that it was not released sooner. » = = AT GEN. RIDGW AY'S headquarters, it was said publication of the Hanley report was “not opportune.” If the military command means to “time” such information as this for some strategic or propaganda purpose, it is strictly out of bounds. : Fiddling around with irrelevancies is belittling the awfulness of these crimes. Letting the Communists play cat and mouse with us in “truce” talks, in the face of such inhuman conduct, is debasing. The one way to avenge, and stop, this barbarism is by a smashing and prompt military victory in Korea.

We Don’t Want Any

WE HAVE just declined a very handsome offer of a regular “column” for publication on the care and training of children. And “free,” too. This one is about to be syndicated by the Children’s Bureau, which is a part of the Federal Security Agency, "the principal governmental adventure in socialism over which Mr. Oscar Ewing, well known to Hoosiers, presides. It is supposed to be written, or at least it is to bear the signature of Dr. Martha M. Elliot, chief of the bureau, although we don't really know who does write it. There are a good many columns of this kind written by competent authorities on the subject, who earn their livings that way, and marketed by regular syndicates which are private businesses subject to normal federal and other taxes. The Children’s Bureau now proposes to go into competition with them for the same markets they now serve, with a “free” offer of a rival product. = = = = a ~ THE THING is “free” of course only in the sense that Mr. Ewing's bureaucrats use the word. Last year the Children's Bureau cost us $1,481,600, a sum roughly equal to all the federal taxes paid by 1600 average Hoosier families, This was in addition to the “grants” for the aid of needy children given to states of which Mr. Ewing approves which run to some $30 million a year more. This $1,481,600 was just the cost of running the bureau, of which $1,195,504 was to pay its employees in Washington. The bureau considers the amount too small, though, and asked for $188,601 more for next year to pay more emplovees for whatever they do, including the writing of “columns” for the newspapers, no doubt. The “columns” are loaded with none-too-subtle propaganda for the Children's Bureau as such, and for its pet policies, including a plug or two for keeping public business secret and an unswerving conviction that governmental agencies ought to supervise and dire¢t every phase of child up-bringing. THIS MAY be a small matter, among the billions they toss out of Washington windows these days, although we feel it isn't a small matter to any one of the 1600 or so families who turn in one-fourth of everything they earn

to maintain just this one little sub-bureau in enterprises

of this sort. They are the families that will pay for this “column” to tell them what to think, and they'll pay whether or not they the column. We have an old:fashioned notion that their children, at least, might get more benefits out of having that money in the family budget, for such things as food and clothes and education and recreation_and so on than they are likely to get out of the operation of the Children's Bureau. It may well be that this bureau performs some useful functions with the millions it spends, but whatever they are, most definitely this is not one of them. rr er : .

ever see

We are declining, without thanks, the bureau's offer We don’t want any.

All Bets Off

MILLARD TYDINGS, one-time Democratic Senator of Maryland, wants to take on Sen. Joe MeCarthy of Wisconsin in a betting match. (So far it's all on paper.) Mr. Tydings offered to bet $5000 the Wisconsin man couldn't prove his charges of Communists in the State Department. Then he raised the bet to $10,000 But these fellows surely can't be betting. All the gamblers have quit, folded up. Driven out of business by Gu new federal tax on gamblers. Yep. No more betting. ep.

He Ain't Seen

ARABIAN NIGHT

PERSONALLY { THINK RAE WAS CHASED BY

FIVE STAR

By Frederick C. Othman

They Always Ask for U. S. Dollars

WASHINGTON. Nov. 18 about an Arabian night at 1 o clock of a rainy afternoon. If Premier Mohammed Mossadegh only had worn a yellow turban and purple pantaloons, the illusion would have been complete, Unfortunately, he wore a biue suit with pants that bagged at the knees. He's the boss of Iran. you Know, who's in a big rhubarb about selling his oil to the British. So only one corner of the mighty refinery at Abadan now is running. while the Iranians grow hungrier and the British try to buy oil someplace else. We've tried to get 'em to Kiss and make up. but thev continue to snarl at each other, even as the oil remains at the hottom of a hole

1 want to tell you

10.000 feet deep, no good to anybody. Mossy says there's only one solution: A nice. big loan from the U. 8. A. He chose the weekly luncheon

Press Club to make this ansuch scurrying around you

of the National nouncement and never. did see. Our genial manager, Jim Montford. didn't want Mossy to faint on our hands, as he has so frequently when speaking before the Iranian parliament. so he phoned the embassy to find out what to feed the premier. “No pork.” the man said. “A nice steak?’ =suzgested Montfort. “Better something soft,” replied the Iranian expert So Mossadegh and Co. arrived at our diggings in a fleet of black Cadillac limousines. behind a platoon of motorcycle police and a

couple of truckloads of television and movie equipment. To the 13th floor of the National

Press Building the Premier whisked and there we fed him a large plate of chicken a la ‘king and a slab of pumpkin pie.

He ate most.of the chicken. but the pie he ignored. You can't exactly blame him for that When a fellow never has seen a pumpkin pie, a piece of it in front of him doesn’t look particularly appetizing. Then our president inlroduced him and up stood Mossy to make his speech. A small, old man he turned out to be with parchmenty skin, a fringe of white hair around his bald spot. and a pair of eyeglasses with blond-colored rims. He hauled out his manuscript and the 300-odd correspondents settled back to get an earful from the horse's mouth on one of the world's most pressing problems. The Premier spoke in Persian. He spoke at length. His speech ran nine-legal-size pages of Persian squiggles. His oratory sounded fine. It came out a kind of musical hum, with occasional grunts to resemble drumbeats. Every few minutes a loud boom. as of an Iranian oil well blowing in, rattled the loudspeakers. This turned out to be Mossy whacking the ‘microphone witn his paper as he turned the pages. Nine times ne whacked it.

‘A Bunch of Bums’

THIS LASTED 40 minutes, while mast of his audience held whispered conversations. Then the Premier zat down and a professor from the University of Iran translated his English. The professor had a but he could be understood It developed that Mossadegh said the British oil people were a bunch of bums. whol been guilty of bribery, and no telling what other crimes. He said the Iranians were going to operate the oil plant themselves; that many of them were in college now learning how In the meantime his country is in a mess. What he wants from us is a substantial loan to tide over; later when he’s in the oil business again. he said he'd pay us back. Then he climbed back into his limousine. In a few days he'll be heading home and as a taxpayer I still feel like I'm in the middle of a dark and murky Arabian evening

words into thick accent,

connivance

UNITED NATIONS Le by Ludwell Denny

U. S..Draws ‘Hot ‘Cloakroom’ Fire

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 At the United Nations General Assembly meeting in Paris they are ganging up on the "United States. . Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his delegation are criticized, especially in" cloakroom’

- sessions, for getting too tough with Russia. They

say our representatives are increaging the danger of war by calling a spade a spade. ‘They think the soft-spoken, let's-be-reasonable approach of the new British Foreign Secretary, © Anthony Eden, is much safer. If this criticism of American policy and method came only from Soviet satellites, or from socalled neutrals like India, it would not amount to much. Whatever the purpose of India, she rarely

stands with the democracies in any United Nations test and usually manages to help Russia. . Thus the Indian delegate Wednesday

tried to revive Stalin's project for making the Red China aggressor a United Nations member with a Security Council veto seat, after the Assembly had voted overwhelmingly not to, consider that question at this session.

Unfortunately, however, many small and middle-sized nations which have not been acting as Stalin stooges, either directly or indirectly. join in the whispered criticism of the United States’ gression and subversion. Their reaction is. understandable, even though it is not justified. It is compounded of fear, of ignoring the record and of wishful thinking. Certainly there is plenty of basis for fear ‘of war. Any nation, and especially those not vet recovered from the terrible destruction of World War IT. which did not shudder at the thought of repetition, would be insane, That attitude is not

limited to small countries, conscious of their weakness. It is shared fully by the United States.

But what to do about it? Obviously, vou try tn settle disputes peacefully. You substitute treaties and United Nations charters and collective security svstems for lawless, tyrannical might. You refrain from threats and provoca-

DEAR BOSS

firm methods in challenging Soviet ag- °

-With-Reds Policy

tive armaments. You say to a potential enemy with whom co-operation has proved impossible, at least let us agree to disagree without fighting —to live and let live. That is precisely the policy followed by. the United States after the armistice, We virtually disarmed. We led in setting up the United Nations, which binds all members to act as peaceful parts of an international family and to stand together against. war- makers and’ AgRIressors.

No Longer Tempted THE RECORD proves that has -not been enough. That has not prevented, but encouraged, Soviet conquest. While others disarmed, Russia rearmed, While others respected treaties, Russia violated them. There have been scores of conferences with Russia, hundreds of official pleas for fier to live-and-let-live. All have falled to stop her. The only possibility left of preventing World War ITI is to become stronger than Russia and to warn her of the consequences of aggression That is what the United States, belatedly, is trving to do. Free nations have no choice. Those who ignore this hard fact of experience are inviting destruction. They should be everlastingly thankful that America is no longer tempted to

appease.

Views on the News

RADIO SIGNALS from Cedar Rapids, Towa, bounced off the moon into Washington, D. C. That should help the government get on the beam. WHEN THOSE big fish took after Presi. dent Truman at Key West Secret Service men got him out of the surf before he could say “red herring.” “BOSS” FRANK HAGUE, who made more han $2 million being mayor of Jersey City, should write a book entitled “How to Be a Dem-~ ocratic Alger Boy.” HAVING fanned out here, Iranian Premier Mossadegh is off for Egypt where he may sign with the Arab League GOV. EARL WARREN is hack in the GOP presidential race as a horse of the same color as last time :

By Dan Kidney

Halleck, DiSalle Set for Battle

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Two of the toughest little men in national politics may be squaring off for a fight here. They are Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer. assistant minority leader of the House and Director Michael V. DiSalle of the Office of ’ Price Btabilization. The row is about what the Halleck amendment means in the new Defense Production Act. Mr. Halleck contends that it means that Indiana merchants should have special OPS price ceilings which allow for the five-eights of one per cent gross income or receipts tax levied by the state, Mr. DiSalle insists that the Halleck amendment requires that this levy be made over and above OPS price ceilings just as are sales taxes in the neighboring states of Ohio and Illinois. The OPS director is the former Democratic mayor of Toledo. A bouncy fellow and plenty hold, he is no more overawed by a Congressman than is the average constitutent back home. When Democratic Gov. Henry F. Schricker arranged a conference here this week to have Mr. DiSalle talk the matter of the Halleck amendment over with state finance officials and representatives of the retailers of meat and groceries, the tough little Toledoan said in effect, ‘come on, but it will not do any good.” After spending all morning in conference with the Hoosiers. Mr. DiSalle emerged with his mind unchanged and more adamant than ever about what the Halleck amendment means.

Mr. DiSalle . . . tough guy.

Hoosier Forum—‘You Can Have the Republicans’

MR. EDITOR: So the election is over and people think it is a trend toward the Republican Partv. You can I don't want it, as my memory is not that short. I don't like to see men selling apples, my neighbors loging their homes, banks closing, men jumping thev went broke, scads of men in line waiting for a single day's work. lights in the building having to be turned off because the company couldn't afford them. Today we can burn them. and how. Mavbe your stomachs have been full too long. That could be it. Taxes are high. So are wars. No political party should be blamed for wars. The Bible savs “there will be war and rumors of war and it doesn't say Democrat wars, either, so grow up. = A single bomber plane costs £300 000 and we have to have them to survive, so taxes are the answer, and high taxes, it will be no mat

SIDE GLANCES

have it,

out windows because

"This exam knocks me dead! The hi more intelligent trouble | get in!"

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By Galbraith

: education goes, the

ter which. party is in pewer. Don't kid you on this score. They'll try, If vou look at it as I do, it's a privilege to pay taxes in this wonderful country of ours, and I'd rather be here where I'm able tn pay them than in any other country I know of. Taxes are high, but again we do have the money to pay them with, and I certainly didn't

let them but be smart.

have it back in the good old days. Another thing we have today is our nice homes, cars television sets, quite a ehange from the old days it 1 like it that. way. Don't vou? Busi-

ness has never in its history made more profits than in these days despite the high taxes, and vet they holler, ton, about all the taxes. It sure iz hard te satisfy some people. I'll bet the hoys in Korea aren't yelling their heads

off about taxes. Poor kids, what ingrates they left behind. It's not a bit funny, just very pathetic. I don't give a darn about isolated cases

of mink coats as long as I'm eatihg three meals a day, and have a roof over my head —Inez Strickland, Morningride Drive,

LABOR .

WASHINGTON, Nov, Management and union spokesmen of the “Big Four’ rubber companies -— Firestone, Goodrich, Goodyear and U. 8, Rubber are urging government approval for negotiated pay raises that seem to violate wage-control policies, ~The case is before the Wage Btabilization Board which in most similar cases has given the desired green light. The C10 has indicated there will be many more while w: “ sta bilization lasts: » ”

IN SOME cases pay in‘creases have been approved unanimously by the 18-member board, a. three-sided agency with six representatives each of the public, labor and mant. In most cases, however, public members have sided with labor members against management members, who on occasion have asserted that wage controls. are being wrecked.

reversed by Economie BStabilizer Eric Johnston, boss of both wage and price controle, The } rubber case directly affects about ajrmens in the 44 plants of

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‘Thanks Again’

MR. EDITOR. On behalf of my entire family and myself I wish to have you convey our utmost thanks to everyone, who, in our hour of need, have been so good. We have received so many useful and essential things and we are so grateful, because we will be able to get ourselves adjusted again in a short while. Please thank evervone for us. 3s it is-impossible for us to thank them all personally. —Mr. and Mrs. Paul Scalf, Sharon Scalf, Paul E. Scalf, Ronald Sealf. Karen Secalf, Michael Scalf, and we must not forget our tiny Dempse:

‘With Our Cash’

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MR. EDETOR: ‘ Churchill is going to restore the British Empire if it takes every dnllar we've got —F. M.. City.

. By Fred W. Perkins

Rubber Industry Asks U. S. for

prohahly

the four companies These crease

“LIMITED warfare’ doesn't seem to apply to the casualty lists, DD. K. He explained to waiting reporters that

he had opposed the amendment when Mr. Haljeck first proposed it at the request of the Indiana Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Association. But since the amendment was put into the act anyway, he has no alternative but to aliow the collection of tax from consumers, unless of course the retailers want to absorb it on their own, he said. Ear! Hopping of the retailers association who lobbied the Halleck amendment into the law, wasn't ready to sav it should be stricken out. What he wants is for the tax to be allowed for in the OPS price ceilings in Indiafa without mentioning 12 presence, Waiter Greeenough. Indiana of the Indiana Chain Store Council, =aid that his organization had.nothing to do with getting the Halleck amendment passed. but he is convinced that the tax cannot be follected if it 15 laid on the line as Mr. DiSalle wants

polis

Historic Custom

SMILING BLANDLY, the OPS director

declared he didn't care who paid it—merchants or customers but that it must be allowed over--not under OPS cefling prices, ff

the intent of the Halleck amendment is to be carried out. He referred to the the House where Mr. Halleck explained the case for his

debates in

amendment, based on the fact that Indiana's tax law differs from ‘either a net income or sales tax

Representing the state at

the meeting were Frank TF Millis

state auditor; Conn J. Sterling, Indiana revenue commissioner. and Fred MecClurg, State Revenue Department general counsel The latter said that the Indiana law is “mute” on how the state tax is to be collected,

but department rulings since 1933 had made the merchants liable, based on their gross receipts. The historic custom has been to even out the matter on over-all business of a concern. Mr. Milliz. a Republican, said he had not been consulted by feilow-Republican Halleck regarding the amendment pAnd that his concern now is to see that the méney iz paid Reached at his home in Rensselaer. Mr. Halleck said that the DiSalle interpretation is exactly the opposite of what he had intended when the amendment was adopted “I think it is just a piece of dirty polities,” he said Those are fighting words for Mike DiSalle, 80 the scene is set here for future rounds. Meanwhile the glamour Mr. Halleck gathered by getting the Jenner welfare amendment passed by the House {sz being tarnished somewhat bv the fuss over the amendment bearing hix own name the Halleck amendment. Such things don’t help when a man may run for the Renate next vear

Wage Hike

is

prefers. short-te contract concerns, dealing individually ‘cents for the four companie with reopening ri ts ip with the industry's dominant taken together not much more the proposed ’ 13-cent hoost union the CIO United Rubber than half of what the C10 and merely “pepresents the amount

Workers between July 30 and Aug. 3 agreed to general wage increases of 13 cents an hour. That would be well within the general and basic wage on

the companies have agreed to The analysis shows that the parties base their request for approval of the exceptional circumstances’

necessary to compensate for the change in the cost of lvIng In order to leave the real value of wages substantially the same” as in October, 1950

full 13 cents

formula, allowing 10 per cent within the meaning of hoard Whatever pay boost the wage incredses above the levels of regulations. One is that when hoard approves will. be retroJanuary, 1950, but for the fact the October. 1950, industry active to last August.

“ remaining

‘Never has the board been’

100,000 wage .

that an industry-wide wage increase of 12 éfnts was granted in October, 1950. Therefore, the amoiint allowable under. a strict applicafion of the 10 per cent yardstick averages only 3.9 cents an hour. Wage Board analysts, after examining union and company arguments, have reported that board policies tied to rises in the official ‘consumers’ price index” of the U. 8. Bureau of Labor Statistics may permit a further rise of 38 cents an hour,

» ” ~ THIS ig based on a 2.2 per cent rise in the index between January, 1951, ' when wages: were “frozen and August, 1951, the latest index avallable when the computation was made, Tt is alsn based on current average hourly earnings in the four companies of $1.72, Even so, the permissible in-

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wide raise was granted, a lower adjustment was arrived at he. cause the latest “index figure" was two months old > ” oir ” THE PARTIES also use an argument similar to those upheld in the meat packing and textile cases specifically, that in the rubber industry no gen-

eral wage ificrease had been

received for more than two years prior to October, 1950. They algo argue that a close relationship has existed for many years between wages in the auto and rubber industries, and that the proposed 13-cent increase ‘corresponds to the total of increases granted in the automobile industry pursuant to escalator clauses and annual improvement factors’ under the contracts of the C10 United Automobile Workers, The rubber union has.no escajator clauses, but says it

YOUR SENTIMENTAL ere A Ye

MY DEAR, I guess I'll ‘always he . . . a sentimenfal guy « with hopes and dreams that take me on . . . a trip up in the sky . .. I'll always feel an aching pain « + » within my beating heart , . . whenever I see misery . . . or of it am a

part . . . I cannot paks a beaten man . . . without a deep reEgret... because I cannot comfort him .

. or hetp-him to get set... 1 feel a thril when stars shine bright . . . or when the moonheams play , . , and when sun is shining through «+. my heart is light and gay « + but most of all I feel a thrill « + + whenever day is through . . . because I share my sentiments , , , with sentimental you, ~By Ben Burroughs.

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