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Give Light and the People Will Fina Thetr Own Way

Let's Not Change he Subi ect. WE SEE BY the papers that the ule States Department of Justice is going to get real tough with Lawrence Bardin about income taxes and black market profits on beer. That's just fine, and if he's guilty of dodging his income taxes we trust. he gets properly punished. ‘We hope, though, that the hue and cry after this Bardin isn't going to keep our Department of Justice so busy it forgets all about the bigger question of the Indianapolis Brewing Co., itself, which Bardin used to run and which the Department now says it “has no plans” to investigate. To us the way this brewery managed to “settle” an $812,000 tax bill for $4500 cash and then get a $35,000 “refund” is lots more interesting. Maybe that's because so many interesting names of big-time political figures keep turning up in connection with it. Federal curiosity about all that has been well under control, so far. . Both the Bardin case and the Indianapolis Brewing Co. case have been around there for five whole years now, and it seems as if nobody ever. noticed either one till Senator Williams exposed that tax settlement the other day. Now, with commendable vigor, the Justice Department puts the Indianapolis U. S. district attorney on the trail of one small figure who appears never to have held either government or political party office, although he did seem to know a lot of people. Who knows? Maybe that will make stir enough to cover the aroma of the brewery’ s half-a-cent-on-the-dollar “settlement.”

Our ‘Listening Posts’

VETERAN DIPLOMAT John Carter Vincent. has been cleared by the ‘State Department's loyalty and security board of all charges “involving his loyalty to the United States and his security as a government employee.” He will return to his post as U. S. Minister at Tangier bearing a letter from his superiors reaffirming their full confidence in him and expressing the department’ s appreciation for his 27 years of ‘conscientious service.’ This all may be very gratifying to Mr. Vincent. - The public's reaction to this general policy of the State Department, however, is likely to be more reserved. fly hearsay and unsupported evidence was introduced on the matter of Mr. Vincent's loyalty, so far as we know. Such being the case it was simple justice to acquit him of disloyalty. at a vital listening post such as Tangier is quite another matter—if these listening posts are half as important as the public has been led to believe.

MR. VINCENT was a sponsor of the Communist coalition idea for China, and testified that he had regarded it as the “most feasible” solution there. He served for a year as a trustee of the Institute of Pacific Relations. But only quite recently did he decide that some of his associates on that board may have had “a pro-Communist “slant.” He acknowledged on the witness stand that certain paragraphs read to him from Owen Lattimore’s book of 1940 were such that he would not have recommended Mr. Lattimore to the State Department in 1945 had he known about them. Yet in that same year he advocated cutting off Chiang Kai-shek's credit unless he made peace with the Communists and devoted less of China's money to military expenditures. :

Such fuzzy thinking could be excused in some cases.

But here we are dealing with a veteran career diplomat, assigned to positions which should demand our best-qual-ified political observers. On the basis of his record before the McCarran committee, if Mr. Vincent is one “of the de-

partment's “best,” the department should search’ for new.

talent.

‘Fair Trade’ Isn't Fair

NE OF the oldest forms of fakery is trying to sell a bad idea by giving it a pretty name. Such a campaign is going on now in Congress in behalf of ‘fair trade” laws, which in fact are anything but fair. A “fair trade” law. means that a manufacturer can force retailers to sell a product at a certain price, or higher. Under such a law, a retailer who gives you a bargain: by cutting the price and taking a smaller profit can be prosecuted and denied the right to sell that manufacturer's goods thereafter. That isn’t fair trade. That's price fixing. It's the old cartel idea, which we criticize harshly in Europe. It makes the word competition meaningless, because there is no compétition when every dealer sells the same goods for the same price. Until the Supreme Court outlawed most of them last year, nearly all the states had “fair trade” laws of one kind or another. Now some Congressmen want them permitted by federal law. Hearings on the proposal are being held by two House committees. . Some Congressmen who so.often praise “The American way of life” in their speeches need to be reminded that free competition is an essential of our system, and a very important one.

‘Slots in the Air THE Dominican Republic ‘announces a new attraction for

American tourists. It will run special flights each week

from Miami with planes equipped with slot machines.

Moreover, the republic réports that gambling in its four casinds has increased 400 per cent since the Kefauver

Crime Committee investigation. s We have all kinds of people in the United States. Some them undoubtedly would like to spend their vacations 3 play slot machines. on thelr way

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NJUNIS, Feb, 21—French colonial authorities unisian Nationalists have maneuvered into an apparent impasse over self-government, :

There's a~Null now in the violence that has marked this d But it's mherely helping the two sides- the Tunisian Communists—¢t round. On the diplomatic Idgel, the quarrel has beadictory notes that leave little opening. The Tu the case before the United Council, .

attempt of a colonial protectorate—Tunisia loosen the bonds of its protector, who als happens to be a valuable ally of the United States. Much more is at stake than the fortunes of 140,000 or 150,000 Frenchmen who live among some 3 million Moslems in the 48,000 square miles of North Africa called Tunisia, The biggest thing involved is mutual respect and friendship—whatever that amounts to— between Islam and the Christian world.

7 By Clyde Fambwath Y Vmpasse In Tonidia Allows The Rods To Build- For Next Round

Any solution short of bloodily suppressing this Tunistan outcropping of Islamic nationalism will have a give-and-take affair-—mostly French ‘‘give” and Tunisian “take.” Tunisia’s most powerful ' political party and main source of Nationalist sentiment is ‘Neodestour. Neodestour now has brought the Tunis-for-the-Tunisians movement to its highest peak since the French took over in 1881. Naturally enough, Tunisia's few Communists have tried to hitch a ride. :

THE Commie line is: “We're with you, Boys, but let's not stop at self-government-—let's be completely independent.” The Reds now swing little weight in the Nanalist movement. Neodestour probably would mark time for years perhaps if it gained its present demands. These call for an all-Tunisian cabinet, an elected all-Tunisian legislature and a halt in hiring French civil servants in Tunisia. The French arg convinted that Tunisian nationalism wouldn't stop there for good. They are doubtless right,

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How Important Will Electronic Calculating Machine

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-— Most important “new weapon” of the next war may turn out to be the electronic calculating machine. It's known for short as a “computer.” Other names are electrical brain, robot brain and the now out-moded and inaccurate ‘mechanical man.” Computers come into the picture in figuring out gun fire control and bombing data. These data are then fed electrically into other devices

which drop the bomb or automatically aim and fire the gun, rocket or. guided missile at the target. : All these operations have to be done in hundredths and even thousandths of a second, much faster and more accurately than the human brain can figure out thé’ answers and react to do anything about them. Computers cost a quarter of a million dollars

apiece — and up. They weigh a ton or more. S

They contain from 1500 to 2000 radio vacuiim tubes. From a scientific point of view, whichever side is able to mass produce these things should have a big advantage in the neXt war. The computer is a supplement to radar, the scientific weapon that played so decisive a role in World War II. By means of radar, air, ground and sea targets which were completely hidden by darkness or cloud /could be detected and hit. . "German V-I rockets were knocked out of the sky by radar fire control. But radar was not good enough to catch the faster V-II. And today

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computers are made necessary by the increased speed of jet aircraft, rockets and guided missiles.

The mathematics of the problem is that as the speed of aircraft is doubled, radar fire control must be made 16 times faster and more accurate, if the same degree of warning is desired in aiming and firing projectiles to hit targets.

World War II planes had speeds of up to 300 miles an hour. Today's jet planes will do 600. Two 600-mjle-an-hour jets dpproaching each other have relative speeds of 1200 miles an hour. Guided missiles have speeds of 1500 miles an hour, and up, Such targets are gone before the human brain ean even realize they're coming. Electronics must therefore take over. - The job of, the computer is to measure such factors as range, elevation, direction and speed of relative movement, atmospheric conditions

such as wind and air density, and the trajectory

of the projectile aimed at the target from a fixed or moving firing position. All these data must be fed into the fire control apparatus on a constantly changing basis. The computor automatically aims fhe gun so that its projectile will have the right amount of lead to arrive at where the target will be, when it gets there. The fact that- these computers have been built into U. 8. jet aircraft and bombers accounts for much of their superiority over Russian planes in air-to-air battles in Korea. It is generally believed that the Russians do not as yet have air-borne computers.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 21-— I'm beginning to lose interest in fiction’s Tugboat Annie; the . lady I want to meet now is the real-life oil-boat Olga. If it hadn't been for her, Joe Casey, the one-time Congressman from Clinton, Mass, and his bigwig associates never would have had the chance to peddle

wily Chinese. Casey and Co., didn’ t exactly own. these multimillion-dollar ships, you understand, They put up $1000 cash to form a corporation, which got an

.U. 8. Maritime Commission, ‘The corporation then sold to the orientals for $450;000. Fe w 5 8 . AND I guess I'm just dumb. I know Mr. Casey will pardon me when I say the more he testifies under oath about his oceanic operations before the

further I am at sea. At this ugh oals I don’t under-

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option to buy them from the" ; be about $150,000 per ship on

French colonization 6f Tunisia was gained by force and pretext—as was the fashion in another. century. In 1881, French troops crossed into Tunisia from Algeria, saying they were aiming to punish some rambunctious' tribesmen. They went all the way to Tunis, where they compelled Mohammed, Sixth Bey of Tunis, to sign up for pro-

tection. The argument was that the French would

_ protect Tunisia until Bey's army was equal to

the task. The present Bey, 8idi Mohamed El Amin

Pasha, 73, Tunisia's theoretical sovereign, is still unable to manage national security. His 600-man “army” serves mostly as an honor guard at his two palaces. aH FRENCH colonization of Tunisia didn't get intensely under way until after World War IL. Thousands of homesteaders came and the way was eased for their ownership of property.

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PRESET EERE RER RETIREE RRR I RRR MR. EDITOR: Regarding the proposed trolley and bus hikes let's not be foolish and take too lightly the stand of the Transit Co. Other cities may have lower fares and better service. Other cities have seaports and palm trees, too. Some cities are great concentrations of population where the very volume alone makes possible a different type of operation. Other cities have lesser wage scales, too. Maybe you would like to have the trolleys and busses taken off the streets? Then stand on a cold windy corner several miles from home and debate whether to walk or call a taxi. Most of us have seen times when we would have gladly paid double the fare asked, so glad when we have.to have transportation, Remember the interurbans? How nice it would be if on some of the ice-glazing days these were still running. Ride the Chicago transit system and see fares as high as ours and much higher in many cases and also take note of their flithy, unsafe cars that you must descend a flight of dirty stairs or walk up.a shaky flight to board. o> o> <«

LIKE THE doctor, trolleys, are not to be heeded until needed, then, boy are they pals? In our good old American way, we run a business for profit. You have probably ridden over- crowded busses and said, “Boy, are they making money. Look at the fares collected.” Have you ever ridden that same bus late at night or during mid-day when there were not enough passengers to even pay the driver's wages? Maybe you were the only rider. How would you have liked to have them discontinue service ‘during those unprofitable hours? You then would have been a passenger in a taxi. This is not New York, Cleveland, nor any place that we would compare.: This is Indianapolis, with high wages, high costs. Your high wages,.your high costs, but also the bus operators wages. must match yours, and the high costs also apply to the Street Railway Co. Like the fire department and police, the busses and trolleys are sure nice when we need

_them. Let's keep them, I can’t afford taxis.

-—R. H., City

‘Wives Overseas’ MR. EDITOR: In regard to the sending of wives and children overseas, a serious question arises. I note many letters and articles of late about this. I believe I can see merit in both sides of the question. It is my considered opinion that a system of

American scientists do not underestimate

the ability of the Russians to build individual computers. The United States lend-leased some radar fire control to the Russians in World War II. Today these sets are considered outmoded.

But the Russians are able to build them. This is shown by the accuracy of their antiaircraft fire in Korea.

of the commission. She was trying to buy some ships. Turned out that she was proprietor of the American Viking .Corp,, and as such probably the only female operator of oil tankers in the world.

She told Mr, Casey that if he could get some of these

floating oil tanks, she knew where he. coulda get rid of ’ at a nice profit, Mr. Ca couldn’t remember whether she'd used the word, present, But he did get the idea eventually, after talking to her associates, that the profit would .

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. By Frederick C. Othman , These Ship Transaclions Are Really ‘At Sed’

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So Mr. Casey, Julius Holmes, one of our diplomats in London, and E. Stanley Klein, New York financier, $1000. to form the National Tanker Corp. Here's where things really get complicated. The records show that thecommission approved sale of the ships to the corporation on . the morning of January 22, © +1948. Mr, Casey didn’t applyfor them’ until that afternoon, while his corporation didn’t actually come into being until the following day. The whole thing, he said, seemed to be a “technicality.

But instead of serving as models for Arab farmers, the French farms came.to symbolize the difference between two ways of life. Tunisia changed from a predominantly pastoral to an agricultural country. The population has nearly trebled since 1920. The rich have become richer and the poor are poorer. The French laid thousands of miles of road and railways, and prevented, and still prevent, free imports and exports, On the whole, how= ever, Tunisia’'s dependence on France has been mutually beneficial, : Still, Tunisians compiaih that public developments in Tunisia have primarily benefited French colonists, that there's discrimination in allocations of foreign exchange, that the French commercial community is clannish and. naturally favored, and that in government service the Frenchmen get the best. Above all, the Tunisians lament, not masters in their own house.

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absolute rotation be worked out . , . with a six month tour either in Japan, Korea or Europe, I give you an illustration of what is happening. My son left high school in 1941 at the age of 17 and enlisted. He is a master sergeant now and has never been out of service since he left in 1941, He is married and has found time enough at home since 1941 to sire three fine bcys. My son, after one year in the States after enlistment, spent five years overseas, The oldest child was almost in school when he returned. This was during World War II.

My son. spent 1946 and 1947 on duty at Ft. Knox and then was on duty in Germany during most of 1948 and.1949. He returned for a brief tour at Ft. Riley and left for Japan in October, 1850, and is still there. His third child has arrived and he has never seen that child. Out of 11 years service he has spent almost eight years away. from his. family, broken of course, by short periods. If things are as bad as the authorities say bring all dependents home at once and rotate the men. If things are not bad let all women and children go overseas at once and stay with the fathers and husbands. —Fstell Sutes, Barnes Hotel

‘Correction, Please’

MR. EDITOR: I would like to correct the “Enisted Man’s Wife” who wrote the letter about wives going overseas. : Not only can the officers have their wives and children with them, but also the enlisted men in the first three grades. I suppose her husband has just been called in the Army and she expects the same rights as men who have been in World War II and also called on duty in the Korean War. I think she is just another jealous private's wife. —Officer’s Wife, Franklin.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY USUALLY when public officials are asked toe “come clean,” they have heen mixed up In something dirty. IT WOULD be nice if money was as easy to save -as thinking. A GROUP of doctors has entered the Taft. campaign without even being sent for,

THE IVY LEAGUE decided to revive olde time intercollegiate football and let acholars play.

FABLE—Once upon a time an old U. 8, tanker failed to turn into a gold mine because the owners couldn't find a Panama flag.

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Radar was largely a British invention, although the Germans also had it. But Allled forces found ways to jam the German radar, making it ineffective. Neither the British nor the Germans were able to mass-produce radar, It is considered doubtful if the Russians will be able to mass-produce computers. That is where Ameérican production genius has one big advantage.”

U. 8. electronic engineers are now working on assembly line production of computers, Production figures are of course a closely guarded secret. The big problems are reduction of cost through mass production, and reduction in weight and bulk, The first electronic brains were custom built, cost up to a million dollars apiece, and filled whole rooms.

Today. computers for. specific military jobs

"can be built in big packing case size,

One major trick in making more compact computers is in the development of the “tranitor It replaces the much more bulky vacuum ube. The transitor works on the principle of the old crystal detector of pioneer days, But in its present form it is considered much more ac-

‘curate than the vacuum tube which previously

put the crystal set on the shelf. Transitors can now be built as shall as onetwentieth of an inch in diameter, Since 2000 are needed for a single computer, it's easy to under« stand why compactness is necessary. |

«The Maritime Commissioners knew what was cooking, all right, and their secretary merely wrote up in the minutes of their meeting the allocation of the ships that they still hadn't formally made. And ‘maybe you're beginning to see why I'm goggle-eyed.

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” n 8 WELL, SIR, it turned oute that Olga’s customers were some Chinese, ‘who owned the United Tanker Corp. They con“tracted to buy Mr, Casey's corporation, all’ right, fer $450,000, buf not until six months had passed. Meantime, they put in as assistant treas-

that old: Chung Ching had more power in the corporation than he (Casey) did,. as” its

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over the $450,000, which gave them the right to buy the ships

- from our government.

Franci§ Flannagan, the committee counsel, wondered about the six month's wait, Was it so that Mr. Casey-and friends would have to pay only a small capital-gains tax instead

of a whopping big income tax? Mr. Casey aid hed never

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