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The Indianapolis Times

A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Editor Business Manager

PAGE 8 Saturday, Jan, 12, 1952

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Givd Light and the Peopie Will Fina Their Own Way

z . Land Wars in Asia URING the Senate hearings on Gen. MacArthur's ouster, the chiefs of staff took issue with the former Far Eastern.commander’s position that he should have been allowed to bomb Communist bases and supply lines on the Manchurian side of the Yalu River. > They held that this might have involved us in a land war on the mainland of Asia. Such a war, they said, could

bleed us white before it could be brought to a successful conclusion, ;

This considered judgment on the part of those in charge of formulating American military policy js recalled because France wants a pledge of the direct assistance of American troops if the Chinese Communists intervene with real force in the war in Indo-China. A Succession of small wars can be just as costly in blood and resources as one big war. . In Indo-China, as in Korea, the Reds are fighting on orounds of their own choosing. The terrain is even less inviting to us, because while our troops have been able to adapt themselves to Korea's rugged hills and mountains, the war in Indo-China is being waged in a tropical jungle. Veterans of the island campaigns in the Pacific will know

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A FRENCH army of 120,000, which includes the crack troops of the French Foreign Legion, has been fighting to put down the native uprising in Indo-China for four years without having made noticeable progress. Obviously a large number of American troops would be required to make any material change in the situation. The United States has no troops to spare. Even if it had them, it ‘would be most unwise to commit them to a minor front such as this, where even a decisive victory would have little bearing on the outcome of the world-wide struggle in which we are engaged. We can afford to supply arms to Asians who are will-. ing to fight to maintain their own independence. But we do not have the manpower to do their fighting for them. And in Indo-China the situation is confused, because the . Communists are supporting a native rebellion against French colonialism. : : The United States is furnishing military supplies to the French for this campaign. But the French are asking too much if they expect us to take over a war which they themselves are at the point of abandoning, while areas of much more concern to us are left unprotected.

Soul Searching Needed

(CONGRESS is now back on the job with fire in its eye about Executive Department scandals. Many members are alarmed at the loose moral code of government officials exposed by recent congressional hearings.

Congress deserves praise for its disclosures which should have a salutary effect—President Truman willing. But we suggest that these same disclosures have made it clear that Congress should do considerable soul searching of its own. We do not refer merely to such glaring cases of improper pressures applied-by Rep. Frank Boykin (D. Ala.), Rep. James Morrison (D. La.) and Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.) in income tax-fix cases, or by Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wis.) in an alien property claim involving his brother-in-law. : What is even more alarming is the fact that many Congressmen are naive enough—or pretend to be—to believe that they can make phone calls to federal officials ahout cases involving private conflicts and do it properly because, as they say, they “don’t ask ‘the officials to do anything wrong.”

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THE EXCHANGE between T. Lamar Caudle, ousted Assistant Attorney General, and Rep. Robert W. Kean (R. N. J.) at the Nov. 28 King subcommittee hearing points this up: : . Rep. Kean: You have mentioned several times the pressire by Congressmen. Can you tell me what sort of pressure the members of Congress put upon you? Mr. Caudle: Well, sir, they would call me up or they would come over to see me. And Lord knows, they had a right to come and I encouraged them to come, and I thought they ought.to come. And they would talk about their constituents, and they would believe they were innocent. Well, I will tell you one thing. Of every Congressman that has been to see me, be he Republican or Democrat, none has ever asked me to do anything other than what he thought I ought to do. (Mr, Caudle is really not quite that naive, as he proves below.) = : Rep. Kean: That was not pressure. . Mr. Caudle: Well, sir, I don't know what in the world it was, if it wasn't pressure, -it was sure something that would make you stand on your toes to see if you were right. In other words, if the Tax Division could find a loop-

"hole, it certainly would do so in any case a Congressman

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" MR. CAUDLE also testified that House and Senate ° members not only would see him just once on a case, but would come back again and again. : Another alarming concept that seems to be generally held in the 82d Congress is that if you interfere on behalf of a “constituent” it somehow sanctifies the whole matter. What ethical difference is there in selling influence for a vote or for. 5 per cent? : Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland told the

press the other day that he was for cleaning up the agencies.

But when the Boykin, Morrison and Bridges cases were mentioned, Sen. McFarland said in annoyed fashion, “I

wouldn't want to comment on someone else's actions.”

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gress’ pursuit of federal corruption. But .. ..“Why beholdest

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POLITICS ..". .

WASHINGTON, Jan, 12—President Truman has thrown cold water ail over the idea of. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in the Presidency. He has said he thinks any Republican Presi’ dent—and_this- could mean Gen. Eisenhower— would be bad for the country. : . He fas made, it plain that although he will' not stand in the General's way,.-he will take no' initiative: .in relieving hin of his . European, military command so he could return.to cam- “

‘paign for the Presidential nomination.

And, in perhaps the most telling comment of all, he showed plainly at his press eonference Thursday that he thinks the General would fare badly as a politician. v9 ¢

MR. TRUMAN referred a questioner to the ddreers of Gen. Winfield Scott and President’ Franklin K. Pierce to describe his thinking on the wisdom of a professional soldier in the Presidency. Spécifically, he cited the account of their cdreers in the American Dictionary of

Biography. . Various inferences were taken from the President's reference, but the chief point

seemed to be that Gen. Scott, a professional soldier and a considerable military figure .all his life, fared miserably as a politician, He was beaten for the Presidency in 1852 by

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Frahklin Pierce, a man of no major distinction ‘as a national figure, and one who had an un-

happy and largely unsuccessful gareer in the White House. ; Pay General Scott had known every President’ from Jefferson to Lincoln, and although national .renown had come to him as a soldier, he sought the supreme preferment he saw represented by the Presidency. “Old Fuss and Feathers” he was called because of his punctiliousness—yet he was a considerable U. 8. hero, «OS of y THE GENERAL first was interested in the Presidency as early as 1839, He believed his supporters were sincere but—and Mr. -Truman may have been pointing a warning to Gen, Eisenhower—®hgy were merely using him as a means of beating Henry Clay. Later he proclaimed his support of Clay-—-but there is reason to believe he was deeply disappointed in not being nominated himself jn’ 1844. In the 1852 campaign, issues didn't get much attention. It was a campaign of personalities and—here again Mr. Truman could have been warning Gen. Eisenhower—-Gen. Scott as Mr. Pierce's Whig opponent was subject to scurrilous -attacks. He was overwhelmingly defeated.

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Gen. Scott had Presidential hopes even up to 1860. But he never made it, and the biographer to whom. Mr. Truman referred ob-. served that ‘‘the only one of his hazardous undertakings he failed to carry out beyond the most sanguine expectations “was that of his

, own ambition to reach the Presidency.”

SH. ¢ ALTOGETHER, Mr. Truman seemed to be saying, a soidier can be a great soldier and a national hero—but be a tragic flop when he gets in over his depth in professional politics, " Mr. Pierce himself had been a general in the Mexican War, though never a professional soldier. If the President meant to draw any further parallel of a general in the - White House, again it was one of substantial failures. The biography citéd observed that as & national political leader Pierce was an accident, and it commented: “He was an inexperienced man suddenly called to assume a tremendous responsibility, who honestly tried to do his best without ade-

, quate training or temperamental fitness.”

Mr. Truman plainly was telling Gen. Eisenhower he thought he'd be smarter to keep his battle jacket on. Yet in Gen, Eisenhower's book of World War II, “Crusade in Europe,” he quoted Mr. Truman as saying: “General, there is nothing that you may want that I won't try to help you get. That definitely includes the Presidency in 1948." There has been extensive press conference give-and-take on whether this also would apply to 1952, and to Gen. Ike on the Republican rather than on the Democratic ticket. But yesterday Mr. Truman wasn't doing anything to help.the General take over the spot held now by the former Missouri artillery captain, He said he will

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be on the stump for the Democratic nominee this fall—no matter who he is. . _ Mr. Truman sajd he was as fond of Gen,’ Eisenhower as he could be—that the General is one of World War II's great men. He said he showed this by giving him his present European assignment. But he seemed to wonder at

whether the Genera} would want to take all the eggs and mud that would be tossed at him if he jumps into politics. - The ‘Eisenhower people have been hoping that somehow the General would get home for at least a little campaigning this spring. Mr, Truman didn’t make. it any easier for them.

STATE OF UNION . . . By Peter Edson Truman Promises Everything—

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Up to now, the United States may have thought it had a choice between Guns OR Butter, Today, following delivery of President Truman's State of the Union message to Congress, his program is revealed as Guns AND Butter AND Welfare. It is impossible to look at the President's message as

tion-year political document. And if promising everybody everything is good politics — well, President Truman has promised everybody everything. As an indicator on whether President Truman intends to run for re-election, the message can and probably will be interpreted both ways. If the President does intend to run, this is his platform. If the President doesn’t intend to run, this is a first draft of his political last will and testament, in which he wants to leave everybody everything he ever asked for. . As a political document, the President's message puts the issues right up to the Republicans. The GOP can't possibly promise the pee-pul as much as President Truman would like to give them. Nobody could. - The choice of the Republicans, therefore, is to offer what has come to be known as “me-too-.ism,” which is decidedly unpopular among the old guard, or to offer-a program of strict austerity, cutting out all the welfare state stuff. How Gen. Eisenhower would accept the latter program nobody knows. It might be hard for men like Gov, Warren of California and ex-Gov. Stassen of Minnesota to accept. Sen. Taft might take to it with all the ease of a duck on a pond.

Mr, Stassen . .. hard to accept?

HOOSIER FORUM—'Let's Get Good Government’

MR. EDITOR: Open letter to all candidates and others: The voters would like to have their votes counted as well as-you, Why can you not live up to our election laws by staying away from |

the polls where you are not registered? If you have to buy votes to be elected, you could at least have someone to pass out whatever you use to buy votes with. I have seen candidates go from poll to poll taking the absentee ballots to each. Are the candidates allowed to do this? I would like to see our elections conform with our laws. My precinct has a bad reputation. At the last election, I saw four instances that were illegal. I have written to others in my locality about it. If I see any more, I intend reporting to the prosecutor and let him take action. I think if each of us would do that, we would have better government. If you want good government, good politics and elections you must do your part and I must do mine. , Can you do it? I intend to try. —J. W, Tatlock, Salem.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

WASHINGTON President Truman in presenting the Collier Trophy for outstanding achievement in aviation, praised the helicopter for air rescue operations work. 2

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/ There may be good reason that-he {sso fond Of aircraft so sturdy and stable, Which takes one aloft to the wild blue beyond And lands with true poise, sure and able,

To one with the weight bf his pressure and care, A rotary wing might be-heady; A fellow who's so often up in the air Needs something to keep his course steady.

CARNIVAL

‘By Dick Turner

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

‘lke and the Military’

MR. EDITOR: I'm a little confused. I can’t figure out what this business about Ike being a military man has to do with the Presidency. There's no law against a military man being President of our country. There’s no reason to believe that all military men are out to grab off control of this nation. Naturally the ‘U. S. doesn’t go for militarism except when it is necessary: The same thing can be said about a man in uniform. Ike has long realized that no nation on the face of the earth, especially one the size of the United States, can exist without a group of persons willing to defend her against invasion and willing to defend her citizens and their rights in foreign lands. ER TE UNFORTUNATELY they termed these men, the military, and that phrase in Europe has long been connected with conquest. In the U. 8. that it not true. Can't say-that I remember in my school American History any case of the military, as such, trying to grab control of this country. Can't even say that I remember any military man as President having favored military desires over civilian desires. Then what's the big beef? Why try to talk up this military fear business. Ike's a good man as a general, a hetter man as a civilian and as the President of the United States he would be the best man.

If anybody has a good answer to this mili-

tary business I certainly would appreciate hearing about it in this forum. —Eisenhower Fan, City

CAR BUSINESS .

Old Spare

WASHINGTON, Jan, 12+ Henry J. Kaiser, the motorcar maker, is my boy. He's seeing the light, On his 1952 models, the spare tires are going to be bolted on shamelessly outside in full view of everybody. For the last 18 years, you motorists will. recall, the fifth

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wheel of an automobile has been hidden under the rear deck, as if the manufacturers refused to believe their product

ever got flat wheels. Either

that, or they regarded the spare as something disgraceful and immodest. This resulted in- spare tires taking up room that rightfully beloriged to suitcases. So most of the auto makers merely

made their rear decks longer. The overhang on some cars now is so Jong that they can't possibly make a short turn without knocking over a telephone post. There even ‘has

ciety for the building of fourdoor sedans with shorter. fannies. . didn’t make it up. - 8 #8 @» I ER KAISER 1s advertising his - Unenial touch in automobile

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‘A Smooth Article’

MR. EDITOR:

That Bob Ruark is a smooth article. For my money, as a columnist, he has it all over Drew Pearson, Westbrook Pegler, David Lawrence, etc. You can have the whole kit and kaboodle. I'll take Ruark. Bob Ruark is the closest thing to Heywood Broun that the Fourth Estate has produced. He can write with humor one day, and then leave vou dripping tears the next. He is absolutely fearless. When he has an ax to grind, the nation’s great tremble in their boots and their wives shake in their minks. With all deference to Mr. Inside Indianapolis, Mr. Ruark’s column has probably gained and kept you more subscribers than any other single feature of your excellent publication. Long life to The Indianapolis’ Times and, three loud hurrahs for Bob. Ruark. / —Mrs. H. B., Indianapolis

‘Just Wondering’ MR. EDITOR: i

Wonder what the full story behind this Lissa and Sheriff Dan Smith is? a Just wonder why that gal would threaten to knock Dan off his seat when she’s in another jail but when she’s in Dan’s she comes up with this charge that prisoners are allowed to handle dope. That's a serious charge, sure, but doubt if it’s enough to knock Dan off his seat. Would like to see it done. My impression of Danis that as a sheriff he’s a good comedian. : Could it be, maybe, that Danny boy told her if- she didn’t shut up there would be much trouble. Could be, but I don’t know myself. I'm just wondering. ~—Smiles, City

. . By Frederick C. Othman

' Elimination of the welfare state idea has in fact been an ambition of conservative business leaders and politicians for a long time, Just before Christmas, for instance, when everyone should have kindly feelings for his fellowmen and be interested in aid to the needy, the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce put out a leaflet with a headline:

300 Welfare Plans Take g ~Phipg

Of All Government Tax Dollars.

Figures which the chamber cited were that for some 30 federal, state and local government welfare plans, social insurance cost $4.7 billion, public assistance $2.5 billion, health and medical services $2.2 billion, veterans’ programs $6.2 billion, education $6.5 billion, housing, the Ine dians, school lunches and other welfare proe grams $700 million. This was for 1950, last year on which com=plete data was available. The total is $22.8

billion, which is 34 per cent of all government "

spending for that year. The chamber reported that in September, 1951, over 800,000 were drawing unemployment insurance, six million were drawing old-age benefits, five million were on relief rolls and two and a half million were drawing survivors’ insurance. Total, over 14 million people, or 9 per cent of the population,

Not Complete Abolition

TO DO the Chamber of Commerce credit, it doesn’t advocate complete abolition of all these 300 welfare programs. It admits there should be a federal retirement system to which all workers should contribute for basic needs. But the chamber “demands” that the fede eral government get out of public assistance programs and that unemployment insurance be left to the states. This is apparently the program which ore ganized businessmen would like to sell somes body like Sen. Taft, if they could put it over. It is the exact opposite of what President Truman advocates in his. State of the Union message. He wants to enlarge the welfare System, not contract it. In a way, the President's message is a good bit like running over the bill at a high-priced night club after a big time.

The items are checked off, remembering all.

the fun that has been had with the favors, the floor show, the swell service, the food and the drink. Everything is dandy and the world is wonderful. Then comes the total amount of the bill— and the tax. You'll get that bad news when the

President submits his budget message to Con-gress-—come Jan. 21.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY PRESIDENT TRUMAN thinks Gen. Eisen hower had a perfect record until he admitted being a Republican,

THEME SONG Justice Department

for the “clean~

McGrath: “I'll Be Seeing You in All the Old Familiar Places.”

SEN. DOUGLAS (D. IIL) says “a Washington lawyer” is the ‘center of a web” of RFC influence. Singular, only because it isn’t plural,

POPULATION charts show that Washington, D. C., is now almost as congested

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as parts of India. There are no figures o which area supports the most fakers. e

SOCIOLOGICAL study disclosed that women adjust to old age better than men, But men admit to it more.

Tire's Going Outside Again

Fact is, so many motorists found themselves so much of

hands, including Kaiser, are doing everything possible to

The other part of an autoe mobile that uses lots of copper

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the time with their spares flat, on account of nobody ever thinking of them until too late, that a number of manufacturers have been doing a big business in apparatus to bolt tires on the back of existing cars. These arrangements of nuts, bolts and brackets have been selling, for around “$50 each. They've been advertised as a

_ style touch to give any motor.

car some resemblance to the late, lamented Lincoln Continental, last model of which rolled off the production lines in 1948. z s Now Kaiser's producing outdoor spares at no extra charge and let’s forget the streamlining. I'm even hopeful, now that he’s gone this far, of future sedans equipped with running boards. And even cranks for cold mornings when the battery's asleep. oe 2 7 0 . A CAR today with ap au matic transmission and no _crank.is a pain when the er’'s dead. Push it and nothing ‘much happens, Our masters fngton;. incidentally, are doing something

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eliminate it. Well, sir, these automatic transmissions contain lot of brass, which is mostly copper. The word is that self-shifting automobiles will become scarcer and scarcer. :

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is the radiator. The industry tried aluminum radiators exe perimentally, but they didn’t work out so well. One of the biggest outfits sold a number of automobiles last fall with galvanized iron radiators, These immediately began to rust. This clogged the water

- lines and in several cases the

engines got so hot their bear« Ings melted. The firm had to call in each machine and ree place its radiator with the olde fashioned kind. ” # ”

THE ENGINEERS now are working on stainless steel ra~ diators. This is expendive as all get out, but there is no par.

ticular shortage of the shiny Hetal, and it seems to w ne.

Otherwise the auto industry :

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