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‘All Chiefs—No Indians’

UR “police action”

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in Korea started June 25, 1950.

More than a year ago, the Chinese Reds butted in to ‘make a real war of it. : .

‘Even before Korea, we were stipBosed to be doing some-

thing about building up our military forces.

airpower.

Especially

Yet right now we are outnumbered in the air over

Korea.

Our forces there are desperately in need of air

strength. But, in the words of Air Force Chief Gen. Vandenberg, there will be no more than a trickle “for some

time.”

_ The Senate Preparedness Subcommittee has just filed a renort showin~ nearly as many generals and admirals in Washington as thare were in World War IT when the mili-

tary forces were three and a half times as big.

Same with

civilian employees of the Defense Department. Generals and admirals—361, just in Washington, Civilian employees—91,081, just in Washington.

For this “high concentration of ‘upper brass’,

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the com-

mittee says, “there can be no justification.”

AT THIS rate, comments Chairman Lyndon Johnson, we easily could end up with Armed Forces composed of “all chiefs and no Indians.” Moreover, the committee said, a “startling” number of colonels and captains are serving as mere messenger boys for all this braid and stars.

The Senate committee issued a call for Defense Secre-

tary Lov2tt to explain this abundance of top brass.

But

he was in Paris conferring with Gen. Eisenhower who was in Washington last week conferring with Secretary Lovett. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in Europe for the third time since early June, meanwhile having been to Japan, Korea, Turkey, Canada

and miscellaneous points in the United States.

Army Chief

J. Lawton Collins is just back from a month-long trip around the world. Naval Chief William M. Fechteler is just home from a tour through Europe. Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg is on his way back from the Far East after his

second visit there this year.

times. ”

He's been in Europe three

CHIEF MOBILIZER WILSON made six speaking trips,

one outside the country, in October.

Air Force Secretary

Thomas K. Finletter has been abroad three times this year. With stabilization falling apart at the seams, Economic Stabilizer Johnston kept five speech-making dates across the country in September and then went to Europe for three

weeks.

Wednesday there was only one cabinet officer in Washington and he left town Thursday.

Much of this travel, of course, is necessary.

But some-

body ought to stay home and do the work.

Muscling up America to defend herself is a tremendous job. It takes the highest order of skill, patience, co-ordina-tion and, above all, leadership. It takes a minimum of highlevel travel and speech-making. A perilous lag in the defense buildup is apparent and

admitted.

It has created a crucial situation in Korea. It

will be much more crucial if'a bigger emergency develops. The reasons may be manifold. But so many chiefs named Flying Cloud suggest some of the reasons.

Hang on to Your Hats

BENJAMIN FAIRLESS, president of the United States Steel Corp., made a speech in Cincinnati Thursday

night.

The speech obviously was prepared before the CIO

Steelworkers Union meeting in Atlantic City,

announced

its program. But Mr. Fairless must have had more than a broad hint of what was coming. He said any wage boosts for steelworkers inevitably would raise the price of steel, and hence the over-all cost of living. Obviously. So the steelworkers came up with a list of 22 demands, including, apparently, a big wage increase. It already has been bluntly indicated that the union is ready to strike, if necessary, to enforce its demands. A

strike, as Mr. Fairless said,

is “unthinkable” while Ameri-_

cans are losing their lives in Korea. It is pretty safe to predict that the alternative will be government permission to raise steel wages, and steel prices, thus punching another big gap in the so-called stabilizatiop

program.

Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston picked a good day

to resign.

MacArthur in Seattle

GEN MacARTHUR made a speech the other day at Seattle’'s celebration .of the city's hundredth anniversary. Officials of both CIO and AFL unions objected, saying it was a “serious blunder” to invite him for such an occasion to “attack” President Truman's policies. But officials of the celebration revealed that their first choice had been President Truman. When it was found he couldn't come, they invited the next best-known American! Did these union leaders have any idea Mr. Truman ‘would have missed the opportunity to make a political speech? :

Uncrossable. Line

HREE coal mines in Pennsylvania were shut down when the wives of the miners threw up a picket line. They were protesting the prices of company- -owned houses offered for sale to the miners. Not a single miner crossed the picket line. It's a poor husband who doesn’t know his place.

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DEFENSE .

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. By Ludwell Berry

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Allies To Start New Series. Of Negotiations With Germans

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17--Another series of Allied-German negotiations have failed in Bonn, but a new attempt will be made next week.

Konrad Adenauer, the .West German Chan-

cellor, will ‘go to Paris on Nov. 22 to meet with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister - Robert Schuman. "Unless they agree, there will be nothing definite to put before the full Council of Foreign Ministers of the Atlantic Treaty Notions meeting in Rome

' on Nov. 24.

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THE AMERICAN, British aad French ‘high commissioners in their nine sessions with Adenauer.during the past month were acting under specific instructions given them by ‘the Big Three Foreign Ministers here in September. Those ifistructions were supposed to represent the maximum concessions the Allies are willing

LESS GAB... By James Daniel

Politics Hurts Lecture Market

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — The election is still ‘a year away but already it's disrupting the market for lectures by U. S. Senators. Lecture-goers will still pay to hear what goes on in Washington. But they want to hear it from somebody who isn't soliciting their votes, So, Senators who want to continue supple‘menting their income with lecture fees must have something else to talk about besid-s which party is to run the country after 1952. To meet this situation booking agents are looking for new talent and weeding out their old lists of speakers. They report that Vice President Alben Barkley. a professional lecturer since Chautauqua days, is still in demand because his paid lectures are “completely different” from his political speeches. He hews to inspirational subjects and Kentucky humor. He still gets $1500 an appearance, the top price.

Cut Himself Out

BUT .Sen. Robert: Taft (R. 0.) cut himself out of that bracket by announcing his presidential candidacy. A booking bureau tried to salvage the old Taft platform appeal by pairing him off in a foreign policy debate with Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Ill.) but Sen. Taft wouldn't participate and his place has been taken by Sen. Charles W. Tobey (R. N H.). Sen. Tobey—and also Sens; Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.) and J. William F fbrignt (D. Ark.) —continue in demand as lecturers because of their connection with the investigations into corruption and crime. Along with foreign policy and high taxation, ethics in government is a popular lecture topic. Another thing that helps keep Sen. Fulbright, and also Sen. Douglas, in demand as lecturers is the fact that both have university backgrounds. Sen. Fulbright as president of tha University of Arkansas and Sen. Douglas, a former economics professor at the Uni of Chicago.

Lecturing Season THIS is important, the booking agen.s say, because the university discussion groups make up a good part of the lecture market. Except for conventions, the “season” in the lecturing business is from October to May. Among convention . lecturers, Sen. Harry Byrd (D. Va.) is a hardy favorite. Business groups, particularly the more conservative ones, like to hear him talk about waste in Washington. But some groups such as auto dealers and credit men have taken an interest in hearing Sen. John Sparkman (D. Ala.}. Sen. Sparkman is chairman of the Senate Smal Business Committee. Some members of the House of Representatives also are continuing in demand as lecturers, but not many. The most durable is Rep. Walter Judd (R.- Minn.). Booking agents refer to him as a triple-letter man—10. years a Congressman, 10 years a doctor, 10 years a missionary.

By-Line Writers SOME Washington speakers — Sen. Wayne Morse (R. Ore.), for example — handle their own booking. But most have found it convenfent to leave the details to National Lecture Management, a bureau set up here in 1947 by John Metcalfe, a former Washington newsman. Fees are up about 10 per cent from a year ago. Lesser attractions who used to. command $500 now have to have $600 or $730 to offset increased travel costs. Quoted fees are less an agent's commission of 30 per cent, but the host organization picks up the hotel bill. To replace politicians who are no longer saleable as lecturers, Mr. Metcalfe is signing up by-line W ashington writers.

COVER GIRL

ON MOST all magazines today . . . we find the picture of ... ..a girl who has the kind of face . .. that most all people 'ove . .. her hair is ‘soft as skies of blue . . . her lips are red as wine . . . and she appeals to everyone , .. as being sweet and fine ... we call this miss a cover girl . .. for reasons quite direct ... because her sex appeal sells books ... and has the right effect ... her job may look real easy for .. all she must do is smile » + +» OF Wear a new creation that , . . is sure to be the style. . . but I have vondered muny fires

versity

« « » While gazing at a book . .,, how long she -

labored 'neath the lights took.

. before the picture” —By Ben Burroughs

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ooh ies

“I've just written the checks for three fur coats—and now you're all huddled up over southern resort folders!" :

By Galbraith

to make in terms of German “sovereign equality” in return for West Germany's limited rearmament under Gen, Dwight Eisenhower, oe 0» oe AT PARIS either Adenauer must accept those top terms he rejected in Bonn, or the Big Three Allies must offer more concessions, or another failure will be added ‘to the dong list of similar efforts since last January. There are still three major barriers to agreement. They are:

ONE-Allied reserve powers to intervene in”

a “sovereign” West Germany's internal affairs if necessary for security of Allied troops or for protection of German democracy. TWO-—Allied authority to negotiate with Russia on the final status of the dismembered eastern provinces to be settled in the eventual peace treaty. THREE German rearmament costs. Adenauer wants to restrict Allied interven-

tion authority to the narrowest limits and to specify the rules rigidly. The .Allies insist on leeway and flexibility required to handle any emergency as it arjses—though this admittedly gives: West Germany less. than the “equality” status desired. Potentially the isspye of the.lost provinces js the most serious. This could cause a world war and determine which side Germany was on. The Germans fear an Allled-Russian deal, and the Allies very much fear an ev entualGermanRussian deak- : Dwg “" dD i THE immediate question turns on who pays r West German defense against threatened Rt aggression. At:present Allies furnish the troops and West Germany pays only 6.5 per cent of her national income for occupation costs—under protest. By comparison the United States currently is paying ‘over 14, per cent of its national income for defense, and other

While Vishinsky Laughs

OF THOUSANDS OF ALLIED WAR

PRISONERS

TAXES

By Frederick C. Othman

More (Shudder) About Collectors

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—Sometimes job has me biting my fingernails, I whether I am a menace by mistake. Take a letter I have from a revenue agent in one of our biggest cities. “You finished a recent column with the hope that you were not boring your readers with ‘a succession of stories dealing with the Finnegans and the Delaneys,” he began. “In the investigation of a taxpayer this past Monday, 1 ran into the following situation: “He had sold his tavern and the goods in it for $67,000. When 'I suggested his Inco me tax did so good and was ab ‘ ity he might owe a little income tax, he 1 over to his office, yanked a handful of er clippings from his file and tossed

them at me. In tones that could be heard a block away he Rellowed, ‘I have been saving these from the paper. This guy in Washington

is smart; he knows what he Read them!’ “This taxpayer was referring

is talking abofit.

to.-you. He

had saved all your eolumns about the funny business of Internal Revenue bigwigs. Of course, everything fou said was true.’ You are to be commended for your reporting of the situation. Now will vou be kind enough to write about the average Internal Revenue employee who works in the field division?” I'll do better than that. With a good deal of humility, I am turning the rest of this dispatch over to my tax-collecting correspondent. He knows what he's talking about and it's enough to give a taxpayer the shi 1dders, “Thotiscands of men with families who have been with the bureau for years have a take-

home pay of between $2700 and $2900 a year,”

HOW MUCH?

LONDON, Nov. 17-Pessi-mistic estimates that the United States may have to supply as much as two-thirds to three-fourths of all the modern, heavy and technical equipment for European defense, ‘if. this area is to be fully rearmed in the next three years, are being given serious consideration here. : This is a far heavier share of the burden than has previously been considered necessary for the United States to bear. There are as yet no!’ guesses, however, as to what the United States taxpayers’ share of the cost would be under any such program.

o » os LONDON is of course headquarters for the North Atlantie Treaty Organization, Here Charles M. Spofford, U. 8. Deputy and Chairman of the NATO council, makes his headquarters, | Here also are William L. Batt, senior United States representative on the NATO Defense Production Board and W. R. Herod, coordinator for defense production in all NATO countries, x Both Mr. Batt and Mr. Herod are UU, 8. industrialists of wide experience—the former head of SKF, the latter head of International General Electric,

he said. “Let anyone who thinks we are satisfied try to eke oul an existence on the same income. “You know the possibilities confronting us in our dafly work of checking the records of

taxpayers. More than 90 per cent of these people are honest. Yet there is a present-day spirit among us to chisel a little. We auditors

are reasonable. We are not going to ask a person to substantiate 100 per cent of the items he claims on his tax But we have pride in our work and we don't like to see downright, dishonest people get away with murder. wr

It is generally conceded that our office {3

returns.

the most e nt in the countrv. The collector has been given numerous citations. He {is our boss. We who know him think he is honest

but we do not love him. We would not Rive our blood for him. We will as hard as we can to keep his bureau on top, but we hope he unbends sometime ih the near future and recommends at least a few of his better men for promotions.” My man went on to say that while ONgress« men and even boss collectors could handle out-

side businesses, the lowly agent can’t earn an

wor k

honest dollar on the side, even in his spare time. He {3s in a desperate spot, ‘ ' Reasonably Honest THINK, as a group we are more than reasonably honest,” he continued. “But the temptation to make money, either “honestly or dishonestly, is ever present. If the Congress, the Civil Service Commission, ves, and the collectors in their stupid ignorance continue tn

sit in their tranquil sanctums and expect us tn

continue at our present lowly pay. the Finnegans and the Delaneys will multiply by the thousands, It is getting lath; very, very late, “I beg you, please, to tell our story, I want

to carry it in my brief case to show the next taxpayer who confronts me with a dozen or so of your recent internal revenue columns.” That does it. “I'm doing a little soul searching, myself. 1 only hope the gent who sold the saloon gets the works.

By Peter Edson

U. S. to Send More Aid to Rearm Europe?

Atlantic Pact countries average 8 per cent. All will rise next year. « While Bonn wants to reduce its present 6.5 per cent, the Big Three insist the minimum should be 10 per cent of {he national income..

yThat would finance only two additional German

armored divisions, instead of. the 10 desired by Gen. Eisenhower. * db & :. THE excuse given for Chancellor Adenauer’s hard bargaining is that his parliament never will ratify a contract on Allied terms covering ° the three main disputes. There is bitter opposition from the large Soclalist Party, from one wing of the Free Democratic Party within the Adenauer coalition cabinet, and from the “Neutralist” leaders of the Protestant .Church, Meanwhile Stalin and his East German satellites continua their moves for -a trick “unification” of divided Germany to prevent an Allled-West German agreement.

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Hoosier Forum

"l do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."—Voltajre.

‘Tax Money Abused’ MR. EDITOR:

Several times I have written to the Governor of. the State of Indiana, requesting that a stop be put to the using of state-owned property for private use. The Governor has promised that immediatg action would be taken to end this abuse of 4ax-supported state property. So far the situation has got worse and not better, Now, begins the propaganda fbr an increase in taxes for the state. In 1949, we pald our state income taxes and we received a little note from the State Income Tax Bureau that we are delinquent. But we are the type that keeps our records in order and we had the check that we paid the taxes with Including the account - number and date of filing of the check with all other facts necessary to prove that just one more of the state departments is in very poor order.

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WHAT we want to know is, what became of the tax money that we paid? We also know a number of other people who received these notices, How can the state ask for .more tax money when they have the situation of petty graft in the use of state-owned property on one hand and records of the state income tax department either badly balled up or the money has been misplaced by some one in the control of this department. I was one of the independent voters who was misled by’ the false primoses of honesty and integrity in public office. Why was I foolish enough to vote for Schricker?

—R. Smith, 1402 N. Alabama St.

‘Leaf Counters’

MR. EDITOR: Although I am reluctant to revive an old feud which may be dying, still I should like to offer some advice to Ed Sovola and the Columbus, 0, leaf-counting contingent on the most eflicient method of counting leaves. In my opinfon, both Ed's and the ‘government approach” were antiquated and imperfect types of counting methods. Too many chances for error. As a contribution to science, I offer the fol-, lowing method: ONE—Pick the leaves off the tree. TWO—Weigh one pound of leaves and count them. THREE—Weigh balance of leaves and multiply total pounds by number of leaves in the pound .counted, Though Ed's book was great fun, and aside from the fun I consider it a wonderful take-off and barometer of tHe unbelievable stupidity of us all , . . the “éause” of the “effects” in -our times. Didn't like Ed depicting himself as a beer hound when he obviously isn't and did wonder who's going to catch the blonde , , , Harpo Marx‘or Ed. —T. G., Times and Sovola Fan, City.

‘Congratulations’ MR. EDITOR: I wish to congratulate The Times for policy of Keeping befora the readers the warning of murder on the highways. If all newspapers will follow suit. it will do a lot of good and bring about laws to really punish those guilty of murder on the highways, p *=—James Brown, 14 E. 23d St.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB members learned one thing from listening to Iranian Premier Mossadegh's forty minute address—he speaks Persian like a native. > * 4 SENATOR TAFT'S new book makes peopie think-—some think he will be nominated and some don't think so. 3 oe oo oo» WITH HOUSING prices boosted to “match food and «clothing, OPS Director DiSalle should be nicknamed “Hiking Mike.” ao a b FACTS OF LIFE--A police shakeup Is what comes after a police shakedown. <> « % PROSPERITY NOTE - reported. to be increasing. : > LS THE SOUTHERN GOVERNORS' conference adjourned—without firing on Ft. Sumter.

Home haireuts are

Estimates that the United ment required for today's If Europeans were forced to States may have to furnish armed forces greatly exceeds pay higher taxes, and spend such a large part of the spe- in cost, tonnage and complex more money for defense, {t cialized equipment like heavy precision the weapons used in might wreck their civilian

tanks, heavy artillery, jet the last war,

economies. The chances of po-

planes and radar will come as a great shock to the American people, if it is presented to

Congress in this form.

But in London it is argued that it is to the United States advantage to supply this equipment for the European Army, as this is the cheapest defense that the United States can buy. To raise and equip U. 8. armed forces of 3.5 million men, the U. 8. is spending roughly $55 billion this year, To furnish the heavy and specialized arms for Western European forces of three million men, the. U. 8. will spend about $5 billion this year. The view in London is that if the U. 8. should spend $10 billion to $12 billion a year on European rearmament, it would still be a good buy.

o ”n ” WHILE Britain, Frante, Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy ean make important contributions toward Kuropean rearmament, a number of reasons are given here to explain why the whole job can't be done here. In the first place, the equip-

European industry was overs run in the last war and largely put out of commission. The post-war development has been concentrated on civilian economy. So Europe has lost 10 years in the development and production of new weapons.

” ” n WITH this handicap, Europe fs now faced with the necessity for the greatest peace-time rearmament effort in history. If Europe had 15 years ‘in which to rearm, it might make inroads on the job of building all the factories needed for all-out arms production. But there fan't that much time. The job must be done in three years, Even If many billions of dollars were poured into the effort, it would be impossible to get all the facilities needed for production in four vears' time, Jurope is further handicapped for its defense éffort hy lack of money. The Western European defense budget is now estimated at under $11 billion. This 48 oniy a fifth of the U. 8. budget. But it 1s about. all Europe can afford. -

entire

litical upsets in countries like France and Italy, if too great an increase fn defense spending is called for, has to be taken into consideration. Any goverhment in Europe can fall any day. The 12 European countries in NATO de not have an integrated economy like that of the United States. They do not have electric power grids that permit transmission of electrical energy. across national boundaries to relleve shortages. And the productivity per man in Europe is only about half that of the United States. ; ~ ” ~ TO RELIEVE the pressures on the Western European countries and at the same time reduce the burden for the

United Btates; there are only limited possibilities, One would bette take a longer time to rearm-—stretch-ing the period from thres to

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