Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1952 — Page 22

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"We Wouldn't Be Surprised . . .

~ onbeing Democratic National Committeeman for Indiana s getting around pretty widely lately, even into the news-paper-for which he still claims to be “general counsel” in the face of its heated denial. The Marion County Democratic organization already 128 repudiated him 80 overwhelmingly that his backers lidn't even care to-risk a vote in the county convention. There are indications that some other county organizations wre likely to take the same attitude. Indiana Democrats, who don't beliéve u man ought to use a party office for private profit, are Jeginning to ask embarrassing questions about Empire Ordnance, and Capone gang figures and .eftain remarkable affinities for Republicans—and to recall that their party hasn't carried the state in the 15 years since Mr, McHale became its state leader. * So'it shouldn't be really startling news if Mr. McHale unnounces he will step out of his party's controlling national body this spring. To quite a lot of Democrats in Indiana it would be zood news. ; g

Mr. Sabath’s Precedent

NHIS warm-up for thé 1952 presidential election is like the hot stove league season in baseball-—mostly guessing, living at straws and coy innuendo—all designed for dvertising purposes. President Truman is having a fine time not saying vhether he is a candidate for renomination, It's fun for him, but he's keeping the rest of the pack on a leash, except ‘or one ‘bold coon hound. = . Dignitaries have streamed into the White House bent n dragging his answer out of Mr. Truman, and streamed ut again with pronouncements variable enough to stump ny quiz show. Each time, the White House disavows any inowledge of the pronouncement. 5 ’ : . If the President isn't saying all the things being said for him by these headline-hungry delegates, he has missed some splendid opportunities to quiet their fanciful reports. And if he is being accurately quoted, he has been dealing— tnowingly—with a lot of blabbermouths. But it remained for the ancient Congressman from Chicago, Adolph J. Sabath, to break the routine. He quoted Mr, Truman as saying he would run, even though it might shorten his life, “if it would help bring about peace and benefit the nation and the world.” ; Mr. Sabath has the distinction of being the first to picture Mr. Truman as picturing himself as the indispensable man. Th Our Harry has been called everything but that.

in Contempt of Mankind F THE several questions remaining to be resolved in, the Korean armistice negotiations, there is one on which

there can be no compromise, because our national honor is at issue.

That is the question of voluntary repatriation in the exchange of prisoners of war.

Only 11,559 Allied prisoners are held by the Reds. There are 132,000 nominal prisoners of war in the camps of the United Nations command. The United Nations negotiators have agreed to a general exchange of one group for the other—with the single reservation that individuals be allowed a free choice of whether they want to be exchanged.

The Communists demand the repatriation of all prisoners—by force if ‘necessary. : :

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to accept this principle. .

8 on = ° - ” » - THOUSANDS of the prisoners in Allied custody have no sympathy with communism or Red aggression. Technical deserters, they quit the Red armies and came over to our lines under promises of sanctuary made to them in leaflets dropped by Allied planes. To return such persons to Red control wotld be to condemn them to almost certain death—and make the United States and the United Nations accessories to their murder.

Were we to break faith with these people and surrender them to their enemies and ours, we could not expect to have ‘1 dependable ally anywhere in the world.

No one would dare to trust us for fear of being sold out. Ey We would be left to stand alone in our infamy. _ This issue represents one of the basic conflicts between communism and Christianity. It is a clash between the unmoral, all-powerful state and the way of life in which . we believe, which respects the individual's dignity and free-

dom of choice. °. . or ah To yield to thé Reds on this point would be an act of self-destruction. 7

It would be a denial of our principles and would put “us in contempt of mankind. = = 2 a :

. Add Television Era

He was fascinated to discover that as the+tots cavorted + they seemed all to be humming a tune—something that . like a cross between Sousa and Irving Berlin. the junior Gene Autry, “that’s background like they got-on television.” a

HE WORD that Frank McHale may decide not-to go

“would be a breach of fiith for the United Nations

FELLOW we know was walking by a vacant lot the other " day and stopped to watch some kids playing cowboy.

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TOKYO, Feb. 15—As the war and fruitless talking go endlessly on.in Korea, the Japanese’ people are more and more asking themselves how it's going to affect the immediate future of their .new nation. It's a growingly important

: By Oland D. Russell Japanese People Wonder. How

' figureheads, Washington's persistent .explanatiohs of police action policy have failed to sink<

into the Japanese. It all adds up in the Japa-

. nese minds to ineptitude—a lack of purpose.

phase that they had not'counted, on in thg..

-transition period. ,

All of Washington's "possible arguments for prolonging the Korean stalemate leave most of the Japanese unimpressed. To be sure they fear Russia and Communist aggression, but they are by no means convinced that the war in Morea keeps Russia from invading Japan, Nor do they believe thatthe two divisions we have statitned

on Hokkaido could do much about it if Soviet

alrborne forces—reported ‘in great strength on Sakhalin Island — suddenly .should move: on Japan, 2 ¢ + »

THE JAPANESE rather are inclined to look upon Soviet intervéntion as somewhat of an climax. They viet aid to the Communists in Korea, but they are practical enough to realize that if Russia should attack Japan it would be the signal for

all-out global war in which Korea would be

forgotten, In any case, they see Korea as an adventure

“we should have terminated lorig ago. They-are

mystified by our willingness to hold an inde-

cisive battleline and argue for eight months with

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney An Oscar For Jenner, Eh?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—8hould there be an “Oscar” offered for running broad statements in

- the upcoming campaign, Sen, Willlam E. Jenner

(R. Ind.) would at least be nominated for it. In more than a week of Lincoln Day speechmaking in Indiana, where he has announced for renomination, he has given a preview of what the Hoosiers are in for from the junior Senator. He has gone around the. state saying that Roosevelt and Truman have betrayed everybody; nobody seems to be telling the truth but him and a handful of others like himself; treason is rampant and U. 8. soldiers are being betrayed in Korea as well as in World War II. Sen. Jenner was a nonflying Air Fqrce officer in England in the second World War. : Treason somewhere in the American government is making a mockery of the sacrifice of American boys in Korea, the Senator charged in an Elkhart speech last night. Tonight he will take on the same subject in Hammond and

maintain thére was betrayal by the State De- .

partment in World War .II. :

Raps Acheson

AT THE South Bend Kiwanis Club yesterday noon He blamed Secretary of State Acheson for present unemployment at the Studebaker plant. On Wednesday at Huntington he claimed that President Truman is preventing U. 8. soldiers from winning the war in Korea. The day before at Columbus he told a Lincoln Day rally that “we are approaching the most fateful eleétion since 1860.” 5 = Only the Jenner brand of “truth” will save the great Republic, he said. “The story of the New Deal-Fair Deal conspiracy is so shocking, so outrageous that it surpasses belief,” the junior Senator said. ‘These selfish, evil men have been elected year after year because they knew how to keep the truth from us. , .. : - “If our people ever learn the true story of what the Fair Deal has done tg our country, we

can be certain of victory.” : .

Attacks Korea War

IN ATTACKING the Korean war at Huntington, Sen. Jenner said: “Our money is being taken and our young men sacrificed but not to safeguard America. . +. We have an army of American youth fighting in Korea, but they are prevented from winning by their own government.” 3 Unemployment of automotive workers at South Bend and elsewhere he attributed to the International Materials Conference and blamed Secretary Acheson for engineering it. : “But the administration is not alarmed,” Sen. Jenner said. “They will take care of the unemployed by federalizing unemployment compensation under the ‘Moody-Dingell bills now pending in Congress. These would provide additional federal money to ‘give’ unemployment benefits to workers whom the government has deprived of full-time wages.”

Issues Statement MEANWHILE the Senator's office here issued a statement praising Italy for. breaking

"its treaty with Russia, which closed:

“It will not be long now, I hope, until we have'an administration in power in this country with courage to counter insfantly any insolence or guile from the Soviet Union or her captive satellites.” = v Robert Bendiner, writing in the current issue

of Commentary under the title, “How Bad Is"

Congress? — A Balance Sheet for 1952” has Hus to say about Sen, Jenner's debates from the oor: “The spell cast by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy

over the 81st and 82d Congresses; the .fear of -

the effect of his recklessness on their constituents, which for a time all but paralyzed the de-

‘cent ‘instincts of his colleagues; the extraor-

dinary low level of operations by Senators like Jenner .of Indiana, Butler of Maryland and others, all sustain the belief that, ideology aside, Congress has indeed slipped into dangerously disreputable ways. *

“That belief was not weakened when both’

McCarthy and Jenner were allowed.to go unrebuked for violent assaults on Gen. Marshall's loyalty, assaults .that would almost certainly have landed them before the bench had they not been protected by congressional immunity.”

SIDE GLANCES

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’ “0h, - CERTAINLY, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government has done nothing to clarify our dillydallying at Panmunjom and Japanese hewspapers editorially avold the subject. The result is confusion--and a lot of questioning. "Is it true, for instance, that United Nations troops are going to have to man a defense liné in Korea. even if an armistice is signed? If so— and Secretary of State Dean Acheson was reported as saying last fall that would have to be done-—then does it mean Japan will have to be garrisoned indefinitely by America as a staging

area as well as for defense forces, or continue to

be the’ seat of United Nations command? Above all, many Japanese cannot help being confused by our own propaganda switch. For

are well aware of 80- . nearly six years we hammered into them that.to

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that it wasn’t the way of demecracies, that

armies bred wars and wars killed nations.

Accordingly, the Japanese adopted a constitution: which says that “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. In “order to accomplish this aim, land, sea and air forces as well as other war potential will never be maintained. The right of belligeréency of the state will not be recognized.” . o_O

NOW WE'VE done a complete turnabout. We are telling them they must have an army and navy, that they deserve rearming and it is the

inherent right of self-respecting independent

_nations to be able to defend themselves, More-

over, we are building an army and navy for them, = This, of course, is to our mutual advantage; some of the Japanese people realize it, but most do not. ' Tn “ So ‘they ask, “What do you mean to do

—with—this-army you are restoring tous?” and,

Myself"

MIDDLE MAN . . . By Andrew Tully Has Prochazka Been Purged?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Diplomatic quarters here are beginning to wonder whether Czech Ambassador Vladintir Prochazka — the middle man in the infamous Bill Oatis imprison= ment case—has been purged by his superiors. His situation certainly has some of the earmarks of the typical fall from . . grace of the Communist bu- ; reaucrat. © Mr. Prochazka @ -arrived here last August as Czechoslovakia’s new ambassador. A little less than two months later-—after some rough verbal handling at the hands of both President Truman “and Secretary of State Defin Acheson—Mr. Prochazka departed to represent his country at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in Paris. Embassy attaches said at the time Mr, Prochazka would return to Washington “in several weeks.” Instead, he went on to Prague for what the embassy describes as a ‘vacation” —despite the fact he'd barely got acquainted with his nev job. Now-—five months later—the embassy says it doesn’t know when

. Mr. Prochazka

_ es. vacation

That fits the purge pattern. And in Mr. Prochazka’s case, his bosses might. well feel they were justified in sacking him, for he and his country looked pretty bad during his brief ay in Washington. . , * Mr. Prochazka, got it in the neck almost from the moment he arrived here. When he reported to the White House to present his credentials, he had barely finished his prepared speech about hoping U: 8.-Czech relations would improve when President Truman let him have

By Galbraith SPEAKS OUT . . .

#4 , Television to Hit All Obsc

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—

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For better or worse, 40 per cent of our nation has no television. Never has seen Milton Berle in a wig. Never watched a brunet lady wrestler throw a blonde to the floor and kick her in ‘the face. Never observed an announcer enjoying a bottle of beer, a cigaret or ‘a razor blade. = This is a horrid situation. Our government is doing. something about it. The unfortunate 40 per cent is about to see light on” the face of a video tube. Even as you read this, the Federal Communications Commission is shuffling the papers for the opening of 2000 more television stations on.83 new ultra-

cross the land. 8 oN ie THE ORDER should’ go out . about the middle of next mofith., Then will come hearings and the first of the new AV stations probably will hit _ the air this fall, Eventually, ~ . no hamlet will be without Red ' Skelton, the singing ladies in - the low-cut gowns, the ancient - ~movies, Frank Sinatra, newsii reels and capsule drama. This

high - frequency wave léngths.

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it. Relations would be better, Mr. Truman told him, if the Czechs let American Reporter Oatis out of jail. Furthermore, said Mr, Truman, relations between the two countries had been bad ever since the Czech Communists murdered Jan Masaryk, former foreign minister. Next afternoon; Mr. Prochazka heard from Secretary Acheson. Mr. Acheson let the ambassador sit down without shaking hands and then- told him he expected the Czech govern-

ment to take “prompt steps” to free Bill Oatis.

The slender, button-eyed Mr. Prochazka

: hustled back to the embassy in great embar-

By Frederick C. Othman

J will be a happy Pd be It "also ay problems. : TV. manufacturers, engineers, V) :

rassment, his feelings obviously badly hurt. A few weeks later, the Czech government got hurt in a much more serious manner.

Trade Standstill

FIRST, the U. 8. government brought trade between the two countries to a virtual standstill by initiating a “slowdown” on the issuance of necessary. export and import documents. Then, in co-operation with Great Britain and France, it curbed Czechoslovakia’s contact with the Western world by banning flights by the state-subsidized Czech air line over Allied-occu-pied territory in Germany and Austria. This latter move forced the Czechs fo discontinue seven round-trip flights. a week between Prague and Paris, Prague and Amsterdam and Prague and Brussels. : All this trouble; of course, hardly could be blamed on Dr. Prochazka., After all, he was just the middleman, But since it was during his stay here that Czechoslovakia took such an an economic beating from the U. 8. it would pe Communist logic to make him the scapegoat. Anyway, there are the facts—an ambassador taking a “vacation” after only two months on the job. :

worrying about them. So I razors,

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Korea Will Affect Their Future i

“How much of a burden is It going to be at a time when we have other more pressing business at hand, such as starting foreign trade?” . A general uneasiness is growing in Japan and .it’s increased by our continued clumsiness in Korea. The Japanese have seen us make con‘cession after concession to the Reds, apparently on instructions from washington. They note that we still are where we were when the truce talks began. Thus, American prestige has dwindled at # time when it should be exerting the most influence on Hus burgeoning nation. ec 8 Ld - IS MAY account for the newspaper Mainie He aly speaking out this week in the bluntest manner yet on the subject of the ade ministrative agreement we are negotiating with Japan. Mainichi said American forces must not be garrisoned here in such manner as to impair the Japanese national feeling of independence. Specifically, the. newspaper said these forces

t of the six leading cities, that yiish Be Ret OF atomic base and

acilities to be offered to arrisons will be limited to e perA wm so that the economy aghvl ties of Japan will not be seriously affec el. Our vacillation in Korea may be losing us much bargaining power as ‘we dtrive ls mea Japan into the key qutpost of our Pag °

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Hoosier Forum

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

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‘Come On Now, Harry’

R. EDITOR: ¥ I was quite surprised to read in The Hoosier

7 's letter. sorum of Feb. 7, Harry J. Gasper’s ¥ * How long have you been a Democrat, Harry? Just as things were going your way you are OK, but when things don’t go your way every-

is wrong, including yourself. OR ory. I ~ been a precinct committeeman

for for the past 10 years and I was not trying > bolitical job. I have worked for the Democratic Party because of the good labor laws they have given us. 1 Sr as far back as 1912 when Woodrow Wilson was elected, do you remember that,

or does your memory only take you back ton

few years past when you had the political lums? - : Do wren itteemen 1 WAS one of the precinct committee who voted for Dave Lewis for County chairman. We need more men like Dave Lewis and Andy Jacobs in office. No one, told me how to vote for County chairman, I have a mind of my own. You can’t just sit in a swivel chair and

smoke your cigars and proceed to tell the com- ’

cts. mitteemen how to vote and run their precincts, We want men like Dave and Andy, men who

speak to you whenever they see you, not, just

at election time. We don't need McHale or Pulliam to tell us how to vote. The Democratic Party is just too big for two or three men to try and run, especially a man like Pulliam. Harry, be a. sport and put your shoulder to the wheel and let’s have a Democratic victory this fall, or you might be back where you were in 1932. If you are still sore, I will send you a bottle of Sloan's Liniment to rub your back with. Come on now, Harry, and take the bitter with the sweet.

—James R. Stevens, precinct committeeman .

First Ward, Second Precinct

‘Another Fare Hike' i

MR. EDITOR: I know this letter may not accomplish much,

but, at least it will make me feel better. This is about the proposed fare increase of the transit company. 1 would like to know just what that company does with all the money it takes in? : The last hike in fares. was supposed to go for increased costs and more- wages for the employees. - Why must they always use this same excuse? Does Mr. Dale realize that for every increase in fare he loses half of the riders he has now. I don’t think the company deserves another hike in fares and I hope that if this is published the PSC will reject their proposal. If you read this, the least I can do:is thank ‘you for your time.

If all the transit company is going to do

“is hike the fare, I would rather see the city

take it over. At least they could disguise the

fare increases in taxes. —Robert Heckman, 528 N. Luett Ave.

Views ‘on the News

PRESIDENT TRUMAN hints that he might run again to “speed the peace.” Maybe he pee: meant “save the pieces.”

QUESTION for the latest great debate—resolved, that politicians ‘are in such short supply that Harry Truman is an “indispensable man.”

FAILURE to overcome his-convictions-may-cost-Sen, tion again.

: IN TODAY'S traffic, only Mr. Truman... a sucker tries to follow his

indispensable? forefathers’ footsteps.

HOME TV PLUS OPS prices are putting the restaurants in the alphabet soup.

~ REDS HAVE launched their customary bad

neighbor policy in Guatemala. . Py . -D. K.

by VHF television also will get

Taft the Republican nomina-:

spent the morning getting a fill-in on these complicated doings from Dr. C. B. Jolliffe, vice president and technical director of the Radio Corporation of America. Dr. Jolliffe is a TV fan himself; he likes best the dramas. He, also is the one man mostly responsible for figuring out - how to make those tricky ultra wave lengths work and I think you safely can take what he has to say as gospel. The pictures via the new wave bands will be as sharp and as clear as ever. Electric

and neon lights will not turn them into squiggles. Cities such as, Denver, Colo. where TV today does not exist, will" get receives from all manufacturers capable of using both old and new-style wave lengths. ; Some of these, depending o

location, will.need two antennas on the roof, one for ultrahigh frequencies and the other for very high, such. as used now, The UHF antenna will be a small device of aluminum tubing in the shape of a bow tle, about two feet long. Many other cities now served

JUST AWAY ON A HILL that slopes so gently . . . ‘neath a polished marble cross . . , rests a dear de. parted someone . . . in a grave covered with

moss . . . in the dust from where he started

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someone whom we think of . ... when the evening lights are low . . . in & place we scarcely

visit . . . where the birds sing all the day ...

dwells a someone whom we cherish . . . more than mere words can convey . , ..blanketed with snow and raindrops . . . shrouded, in a gloomy dell . . . waiting for the prayers of dear ones

+++. and the friends we knew so well . . . living

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.'UHF. This will mean that the

present set owner probably will need a bow tie on his

chimney, plus a station adapter.

which will bolt onto the back of his set. An adapter capable of tuning in one UHF station

- will cost about $10; one that

will handle two new-style stations will cost about $25. = o - MOST LATE - MODEL sets in use have been designed with

'UHF in mind. Ali they'll need

to get the new pictures is a

special tuning strip which can’

be installed inside the set in a matter of minutes. These devices, plus “UHR broadcasting stations, now'are in production. Dr. firm will start delivering these new transmitters in October,

They are complete units that can be installed and In busi~

ness quickly, = : . Dr, Jolliffe, meantime, is luckier than the rest of us. His laboratories are working hard on color broadcasting and he’s got a set at home. Says

a. blonde who's really blonde, .

with red lips, is a good deal prettier than the same lady in various shades of gray. Ar-

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