Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1952 — Page 10

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Tragedy of Indirection ONE of the great handicaps of the presidency is the indirection which is produced by the bigness of government. And the gulfs it creates between the Chief Executive and his subordinates. ; The story told Scripps-Howard reporter Jim G. Lucas by Maj. Gen. Frank E. Lowe is a classic and tragic example. Gen. Lowe believes his messages to President Truman were waylaid by brass-buttoned bureaucrats in the Penta: gon. Wherever the messages were short-circuited, if they were, the resulting misunderstanding may turn out to have been one of the most appalling and costly in history. Gen. Lowe was the personal representative of the President, assigned to report directly on the operations of a war in which the lives of thousands of Americans were involved, and a war on which the safety of the world—to some degree, at least—was hinged. Yet, the General testifies, messages of the greatest urgency, intended personally for the President, were sidetracked. And if Gen. Lowe's conclusions are correct, the tragic cost to the world is compounded. For the General says: “It was the chief’s (Mr. Truman's) decision to intervene in Korea and destroy the enemy. It was their duty to support that decision. They didn't and they wouldn't. Douglas MacArthur did and they got him.” Gen. Lowe adds: a “One by one we are doing the things Douglas MacArthur told us we would have to do. But I'm afraid we've

missed the boat.” We have missed the boat. That much is obvious.

Cheese Means Guns "THE SENATE, in its leisurely fashion, has spent the better part of a week talking about foreign cheese. Singe many millions of Americans never have even seen

any foreign cheese, this may seem odd. The issue is important, however, because the phony

" “cheese amendment” Congress hastily passed last year

put a strict limit on the amount of cheese that can be imported. This has harmed our European Allies, who greatly need dollars to help themselves rearm. One of the few ways they can earn dollars is by selling cheese to us. What may seem a small thing to most Americans is a big thing to them. : The amount of cheese imported amounts to about five per cent of the total U. 8. consumption. Actually, we import less cheese now than we did 20 years ago, and our own cheese makers are producing and selling two and a half times as much as they were then. How anyone could argue that foreign cheese is a threat to the U. 8S. cheese industry is hard to imagine, but that is just what a few Senators are doing. This revival of the discredited trade-barrier philosophy of 40 years ago has no place in Congress today. The Senate should correct its mistake promptly and get on to other important matters.

Shame and Blood DISPATCH from Tokyo by Edward Kennedy, Indianapolis Times staff writer, sets down a story that ought to be read with shame throughout this country. It tells how a private, wounded on patrol, was brought to a forward hospital in Korea with one leg nearly shot off, his other foot shattered and an arm broken. He needed blood badly. But there wasn't any, because the civilian blood line from the home front had failed. So four fighting soldiers from the front lines, who might themselves be struck down at any time by enemy fire, had to be pulled back to the hospital tent to give their blood in hope of saving their comrade. Thirteen others from the wounded man’s front-line regiment also gave their blood.

¥ = o s WHEN THE soldiers had each given a pint, they returned to their foxholes and bunkers. As Kennedy put it: “In the States you get coffee and cookies after you give. a pint of blood. These men got a Chinese Communist attack for breakfast, and they got shot at for lunch.” What this story tells about; our performance on the home front could consume the space of several editorials. But is any comment really necessary?

Missing the Point SO FAR in the hearings before Congress on Universal Military Training, the opponents have argued: everything except the main point.” Some say it would put too much strain on the country’s manpower. But the figures they use are based on the maxi“mum number of men to be trained over a period of six or seven years, plus the number presently under arms, - Some say the present draft. system is working all right. So, they ask, why impose a universal training program—especially when there is “no war?" They propose, as a substitute for military training, a strong reserve force. They raise the old bugaboo about military training being a forerunter to military dictatorship.

EVEN AT its peak, Universal Military "Training is" planned to take no more than 800,000 men for basic training—and for only six months—in any single year. That peak will not be attempted, or anything like it, so long as the present emergency lasts. The present proposal is to try out the program with 60,000 men ‘the first year. Universal Military Training is a substitute—a much less expensive one—for the present standing Army, Navy * and Air Force, when and if the world situation will permit * a letdown in the present military buildup. ‘And any .ne who thinks there now is no war simply hasn't read the day's news. ; The whole purpose of Universal Military Training is to create a strong reserve force. din : ho means, the United States will have a strong n army, instead of a permanent professional army. a civillan is probably the greatest possible deter- -

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By Talburt

NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson Democrats Need a Change?

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—Some prominent

Washington Democrats—former New Deal of-

ficials now in private life—are saying privately to each other that the Truman administration ought to be relieved of power and retired in the coming election. They say this even though ft might mean having to take four years of Taft. Reasons given are that, the Democrats now in office are punch drunk and tired. They've been in office too long. A new broom and a thorough house-cleaning are in order. In time the changes would work to the advantage of the Democratic party as a whole. Four years out of power would allow a number of the old fossils in the party to retire quietly from public life. Newer, fresher and younger men would step up to take their places. They think an invigorated party would emerge to sweep back into power in 1956, and carry on the traditional program of the party of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. .

Investigated

DR. E. U. CONDON, former Director of the National Bureau of Standards, is writing a book, “1 Was Investigated.” It will ridicule many of the procedures used by loyalty investigators in probing Dr. Condon's past. But it could backfire because some people can't take a joke when they're thé butt.of it.

Mr. Churchill's Gesture

THERE {is nothing the matter with Prime Minister Winston Churchill's eyesight. He showed this as he entered the Mayflower Hotel banquet room to speak off-the-record tg more than a thousand press and radio corresp ndents in a luncheon meeting. Everyone stood up and applauded as Winnie came into the room. When he passed Vera Clay, Newsweek correspondent, the prime minister stopped and smiled. She was dressed in a gray suit, with a bright red Scotch plaid tam and matching scarf. With her blonde hair falling over her shoulders she made a striking and pretty picture that would make any prime minister look twice. .. But it obviously fussed Vera and she blushed. She was even more fussed when the gallant Winnie stooped, picked up her napkin which had fallen to the floor as she had risen from her chair, and handed it back ‘to her with a big smile. . The crowd cheered and Vera turned as red as her. tam. i Later, her colleagues kidded her a little bit and asked her for her life story, to be titled, “I Dropped My Hanky at Winnie's Feet.” But she swears_she didn't do it on purpose, -and that it was an accident.

Who Represented Whom?

E. N. ROUSSEAU, Wa#dhington representative of Olin Industries, has called attention to

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an error in an item appearing recently in this column. It said that Washington lawyer Thomas *G. Corcoran represented Olin in its application for government approval to build an aluminum plant. Mr. Rousseau denies that Mr. Corcoran ever represented Olin. Secretary of Interior Oscar W. Chapman says, however, that both Mr, Corcoran and his law partner, James H. Rowe Jr., visited his office and told him that they represented Olin in seeking approval for an allocation of government power to be used in the manufacture of aluminum. Mr. Rowe explains for himself and Mr. Corporan ‘that they were representing a Montana group primarily. At one stage in the negotiations, they tried to get Olin, Apex Smelting of Chicago and a New York group together in applying for the power. But they could not meet the economic requirements, so the deal was dropped.

Statehood Nearer

HIGH priority given the Hawaii and Alaska statehood bills in the new Congress is due to a commitment made by Senate Majority Leader Ernest W. McFarland of Arizona, plus pressure The Veep was in Hawaii during his Pacific tour last fall. He found the Hawaiians very disgusted that they hadn't gained statehood last year. . ; Hawaii has already adopted its “state” constitution. There has been some talk in the islands of going ahead and electing their two Senators and one Representative, this November, even though Congress hadn’t as yet voted them statehood. Four other states—Michigan, Tennessee, Oregon, and California took matters into their own hands in this way when Congress was dillydallying over admitting them to the Union. Statehood bills are not expected to have much trouble in the Sénate. Republican Sen. Hugh Butler of Nebraska, who had opposed admitting Hawaii on the grounds that Communists had control of the island labor unions, has reportedly been satisfied that the situation has improved. Both statehood bills passed the House last year. Alaska doesn't have a state constitution yet, and whether it cou!d adopt one in time to take part in November elections .is doubtful, even after Congress approves statehood.

A Brief Briefing _ '

MOST overworked word in government gobbledygook is “briefing.” It was coined ori- - ginally by the Air Force to mean giving pilots full information on their flight missions during the war.

The term is now used to cover any meeting at which any official tells another anything he thinks should be known, including the latest cocktail party story. The Military Air Transport base at Westover Field, Mass., has .now come up with a variation. Passengers returning from Europe are now ushered into a “Debriefing Room” where they get ‘‘de-briefed.”

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26— I've got to hand it to our gallant statesmen; they're not going to allow the ladies of this land to pay for part mud when they think they are buying pure potatoes. The evidence indicates that in the Jong, long ago a woman buying a peck of potatoes at the grocery actually paid for a pound or so of field dirt that clung -to her spuds. So along came a city slicker.

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fore he sold 'em. Removal of the mud revealed a good many tubers with scars, .and sprouts that previously had been hidden. These sec-

extra 50 cents per hundred

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his competitors started washing -their potatoes, too. They also got an extra half-dollar per sack. Fair enough. .Everybody was happy. . 2 So along came Mike DiSalle’s

Office of Price Stabilization

* with ceiling prices for pota These are about to go ‘in

- and other. important produc-

. it was against the laws of Indiana.

LABOR. . By Fred W. Perkins =~... |’ Coal Companies Federal Safety A

WASHINGTON, Jan, 26—Two big groups of coal companies are lining up on opposite sides in the current battle to make federal authority supreme over the states in enforcing mine safety. J ‘ Operator associations in Ohio, western ‘and centfal Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia have accepted the idea of new federal” powers. They represent about 35 per cent of the total soft coal production. Adamant against taking the final authority from the states stands a group of about equal strength. It includes operator associations in southern West Virginia

ing districts to the'south. This group expects to be supported by state mining officials from Pennsylvania, West Virginia and other ‘states. The pro-federal group, although now willing after many years of opposition to make mine safety a federal responsibility, still does not see eye-to-eye with the United Mine Workers Union, the U. S. Bureau of Mines, President Truman, Sen. Matthew M, Neely (D. W. Va.) and others. It wants federal authority spelled out in detail in whatever law is passed. John L. Lewis, UMW president, wants a more flexible law. Ed D. Schoor of Columbus, lawyer for the Ohio and associated group, is to make its proposals Monday before a Senate labor subcommittee. The group heard testimony . Thursday

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» uvthority— from John J. Forbes, director of the of Mines, and other Interior Department official. They supported a bill by Sen. Neely which is favored by the mine union. A statement presented for Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman recommended amend. ments to tighten, the Neely bill by" increasing ‘penalties for operators who violate the federal safety code, and by providing that when dan. gerous mines are closed, they may be reopened only when the Interior Department decides

they are safe. Fe . »

‘Make the Law Clear’

ANOTHER witness was Harry Treadwell, vice president of the Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal Co., owner of the mine at West Frankfort, Ill, which exploded Dec. 21 and killed 119 men. \ Mr. Treadwell was not asked to reply to charges . jn federal reports that his company had disregarded repeated warnings of dangerous “gassy” conditions, but he said ‘‘careful consideration” had always been given to federal inspectors’ recommendations. Referring to frequent technical disagreements between federal and state men, he told the committee, “make the law clear, understandable and explicit, and it will be followed . . . we want something that will stop accidents so we can stay in business.” . ; : As to the future of the wrecked mine, which employed nearly 1000 men, Mr. Treadwell said the company expects to install federally approved ventilation iri new areas to be developed, and that the mining area in which the explosion occurred will be abandoned. ‘

COMPROMISE? . . . By Bruce Biossat

Volunteers Violate UMT Idea—

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—No political realist imagined that UMT was going to have an easy time in Congress in a year when the lawmakers must face mothers, fathers and service-eligible youngsters of voting age at the polls. It has been hoped, nevertheless, that enough legislators would hear the call of statesmanship to insure the prompt enactment of this vital defense measure, First reactions in the new session do not encourage this hope. Already there is talk of a limp compromise: The proposal that for the first year of a UMT program the projected 60,000 trainees be drawn from volunteers. The very éssence of any sound military training program is that the burden of service shall fall fairly upon all young men. . Deferment for good reason may play some part in the plan, but exemption—-complete freedom from service—has no proper place.

Total Violation

TO INAUGURATE a UMT plan with a call for vounteers is therefore a total violation of the spirit and purpose of the program. It puts a premium upon the man who does not choose to offer his services, bestowing special favor on him at the expense of his volunteering comrade. If, in spite of all, Congress should initiate the program on a volunteer basis, it will amount to the lawmakers saying: “We do not have the nerye to put this plan into effect on a compulsory footing, as it should

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Playmate’

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

EERE EERE ERROR ORR ERROR REAR ARR ERR eRe

MR. EDITOR: It is good te know that Donna Mikels and the editorial staff of The Indianapolis Times have a new playmate in Alex Clark, the new Mayor. It was getting monotonous to have The Times pick on poor Sheriff Smith all the time and to keep calling “The Star a liar. A change is good. By the way, Mr. Editor, I am under the impression that the laws of Indiana are made by the State Legislature and they are elected by the people, are they not? And the Police Department is supposed to enforce the laws, are they not, Mr. Editor? All this being true, why did the outgoing Mayor and the Police Chief permit bingo and gambling to continue when Did they

not know about this gambling? Or did they?

Bo IN ALL fairness, Mr. Editor, why not print both sides of this police issue and not one side only. You are just sore because the Republican Party is now in power, but that is all right because for 20 years we have had to accept mink coats, dishonesty in all public offices from President on down, and the people are sick and tired of it. ? te Yes, and why do you not get on Schricker for permitting the graft in the use of public vehicles, and what about the state income tax collection department ballup of records? I know that you won't print this, hut here it is and let's see you deny it. —R. Smith, 1042 N. Alabama St.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Times has criticized Democratic and Republican ‘Mayors, Governors and Sheriffs when they did wrong, praised them when they did right, will continue to do so regardless of party lines . . . and never has called anyone a “liar.” Reader Smith must have read that word somewhere else.

SPUDS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

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tatoes and dirty ones. The * the idea. He

potato growers are fit to be with -the House Agriculture quizzing Francis

boiled. So are the Congress- Committee;

be. Therefore, we are risking damage to the whole UMT concept by asking for volunteers this first year.” y The wise and brave course is admittedly difficult for a politician to follow. The average Congressman’s mail undoubtedly is running heavily against UMT. But most of those who write are not thinke ing of the welfare and safety of their country, They are simply thinking of themselves.

“Risk Too Great

IT IS A lawmaker's business to reflect the views of his constituents, to represent them. But it is also his business to act for the good of the country in times of stress. : Unless Congress can figure some way to repel the Russians, it must be forced to concede that these are perilous days. Unpreparedness was a luxury we managed to enjoy without . fatal consequence in the two world wars. Hardly a. military man alive believes we dare indulge in it again; the risk of crushing defeat is too great. Those who insist on thinking in terms of former wars or who ®imply wish to give way to selfish emotion are firm against the adoption of UMT. The most charitable thing to be said about them is that they do not understand what kind of world they are living in. UMT is one vital ingredient in America’s considered formula for security in a dangerous world. It is incumbent on those who would eliminate it to demonstrate how they would protect the United States in national emergency.

“YasassensasssessdeseaN

‘Let Us Decide’ MR. EDITOR: The late Mayor Al Feeney made a statement to a large group a month after he was installed into office, that he would strive to make the merit system work in the Indianapolis police force. His wish- was to make the force work so well that his successor would not dare + upset it. It looks like his well laid plans were not completed or failed to come up to his expecta tions. We have the same old political mess in the force. \ “The Times has pretty well kept a reputation of reporting the news and facts without political restrictions, whereas the other two Indianapolis papers are just plain Republican papers and most people doubt any stories that are political. I for one hope we can have one clean paper. Give us both sides of the story and let us decide if we can. —Interested, City

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

PRESIDENT TRUMAN may be just as allergic to coonskin caps as he is to mink coats, > oo NOTHING is more discouraging to a Congressman than a letter from a constituent urging that taxes be increased. * & 9% PRESIDENT TRUMAN isn't going to run again unless he can convince someone to urge im. « > & & wo : REPUBLICANS are united in general disagreement. :

was sitting in While it labored, snapped

one Congressman after an-

He washed his potatoes be-

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ond-grade potatoes he tossed’ out. For his fancy grade,

men from the potato country. Let's listen to Sen, Edward J. Thye (R. Minn.) whose comment was typical: “Why should a man wash his potatoes, if he can sell 'em at the same price unwashed?” he demanded. “You are forcing the producers to go back to an old practice: Dirty potatoes. The housewife will be

. buying ounces of dirt instead

of ounces of potatoes.” ” Ld a

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ator had to say, but you get

C. Jones, the potato man of the OPS. This Jones was a young fellow in a tweed suit

and I must report the poor

guy had a bad ‘time of it. Whatever he sald, ‘hé was wrong. Jones tried to tell the lawgivers that the OPS put in those potato regulations in an awful hurry because the price of spuds was skyrocketing. Even now, he said, the management was working on a price differential for washed potatoes.

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other, time was wasting, the potato business was demoralized, and a lot of costly mud was about to be washed down the kitchen sink, And ane other thing, sald the lawgivers. : ge : How did the OPS expect the poor farmer to make a decent living at the prices posted for his crop? Joges had, I thought, a good answer for that. He sald his ceiling. prices for potatoes today were at 100 per cent of parfty and about twice as high as they sold for a year

washed potatoes he got an

BEFORE he got a monopoly on the scuffle trade, most of

IT'S fun to study faces". . . of- people. that we meet . . . it's interesting to wateh the folks - +s « Who pass us<fn the street ._. . for there are many types and forms . . . that fascinate us all . .. there are the little five by fives . . . mixed with the strong and tall . . . some wear

still was spending millions fo hold up the price. Most of the Congressmen ignored. this, They . insisted their potato.

the face of kindness . . . with gyes that seem . 'Browing comstituents -wers

to glow . . . while others have a calloused look « i « that dpreads gloom where they go... . but that underneath®a_ =~

it must be remembered . . . face . . . may be the direct opposite .

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guess we'll mever know «+ + the real true character of folks . .. that

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