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'The Reds at Our Back

OVIET IMPERIALISM — masquerading as communism -

~—stole a march on the free world by taking over Poland,

the Balkan states and Czechoslovakia under the.cover of the Red Army. The Reds scored again when they mopped up a large section of Asia while Secretary of State Acheson was “waiting for the dust to settle” in China. The Truman “limited war” policy is allowing them to retain a substantial part of Korea. Now American resources are being taxed to the danger point to keep this menace within its present boundaries in Europe and Asia. By no means are we assured that this holding action—largely negative—will be successful. Meantime, while our government has been absorbed by this problem in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, the Commies have been slipping up behind our back in the Caribbean. Working out of regional headquarters in Cuba, the ‘Moscow stooges have become firmly entrenched in Guatemala—thus giving the Reds a potential beachhead between the U. 8. and the Panama Canal. L ee. : yn. THE U. 8. cannot allow the Caribbean to become a Red Sea. Nor can this country afford to have Russian imperialism -control any country in the Western hemisphere. Starting from that premise, measures should be taken to close the doors of the Americas to that threat,

Mere containment will not serve here. Nor can we afford ta rest our security upon accepted protocol. The techniques adopted by communism demand treatment in kind. We've got to be just as tough as the situation requires to make sure that this thing is stamped out.

It does not follow that this threat of Russian imperialism should be countered by what our critics to the south term “Yankee imperialism.” That should be the last resort. And it should not be necessary.

_ The necessary measures—whatever they have to be— can be taken within the framework of the existing PanAmerican organization. But arrangements should be made to support whatever policy is decided upon by whatever force which may be required. The American governments have agreed by treaty to.stand one-for-all and all-for-one against foreign aggression. They should be called together without delay to nip this threat in the bud. While we wait, the Red termites are at work.

The House Gives Notice

NIVERSAL MILITARY training has only a frail chance, if any, of being enacted by Congress in this election year.

The Hquse, by a vote of 236 to 162, has sent the bill back to committee. .

By this vote, the House has repudiated the overwhelming vote by which it last year approved universal military training “in principle.” It now says it didn’t mean it. ,

By this vote, the House has rejected the ‘considered advice of the country’s foremost leaders: Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Marshall, President Truman, Bernard Baruch, the late James Forrestal, the late Robert P. Patterson and countless others.

By this vote, the House has served notice on the world —Russia included—that the United States does not intend to keep its manpower ready to meet the challenge of aggression,

By this vote, the House is saying it prefers to go on maintaining a huge standing military force, at a cost of many extra billions, for years to come.

By this vote, the House indicates a willingness to risk sending America’s young men, if the nation should be suddenly attacked, into an all-out war with little or no training. By this vote, the House is deciding that thé world situa\ion is not nearly as grave as the facts show it to be. By all measures of public opinion, a huge majority of Americans believe universal military training is an essential pat of the program to prevent aggression—or to meet it if it comes. ; But the House says by its vote that, while this may be 80, the voices of the opposition are louder and it bows to the force of pressure groups.

On few occasions in American history, when danger was -

I wked on its doorstep, has the Congress of the United Si tes listened so attentively to the Sirens of complacency.

Shewing Our Hand

THE RED truce negotiators at Panmunjom should feel indebted to the State Department for the information that tae U, 8S. does not intend to widen ‘the 8:0pS of the Korean War unless they do it first.

This was the purport of a statement by Assistant Secretary of State John M. Allison to a public meeting at Philadelphta. He said:

“It is ap to the Communists. If they want to widen the conflict and engulf the world in a térrible world war, then they must be the ones to do it.” This will enhance the Reds’ bargaining position, be-

cause they will know our attitude while we do not: know theirs.

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN made the initial blunder of this kind. He cracked down on Gen. MacArthur, after the latter had warned Red China that it would be “doomed to imminent military collapse” should the United Nations reverse its policy and decide to expand its operations to the Chinese coast and interior bases. Gen. MacArthur was recalled. The Reds were thus assured that the U. S. had no intention of attacking them in their privileged sanctuary. ; en an army is compelled to fight a war under such Pendicpy it is understandable why some parents are refusing. bo. Sgespt posthumous Medals,

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DEFENSE . Harry Adds to the Confusion

WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—-A great deal of

confusion seems to exist about the 25 “reserve” ilvisions which will amount to half of Gen. Eisenhower's North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces.

President Truman didn't help dispel the confusion in his mutual security aid message to Congress Thursday. The President said simply that Ike would have 50 divisions by the end of 1852, but only 25 would be on active duty. A “reserve” division is one thing on this side of the Atlantic and quite another over there. Top men in the Pentagon point out that the NATO reserve isn't merely a paper organization—as it would be in this country. Gen Eisenhower's reserve divisions are a great deal more substantial than that, they say. In this country, a reserve division usually consists of a commanding general, a staff and a number of units, scattered over a wide area. Its mobilization is a long process. Its equipment is not always | adequate. By contrast, Ike's 25 reserve divisions will have 50 per cent of their troops on active duty at all times. They will have 85 per cent of their equipment. The other 50 per cent of the troops will train with the division 28 days a year, Each man will have his mobilization assignment—will know where to report, what to do and who is to be his commanding officer. The 25 NATO divisions on actiVe duty— which include six U. 8. divisions now assigned to Gen. Eisenhower—will be maintained 85 per cent “combat effective.” Combat effectiveness includes manpower strength, equipment. and degree of training.

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MR. EDITOR: : I have been watching with much interest,

the controversy between City Council and the Indianapolis Housing Authority, I hope that the Councilmen will prove to be the statesmen that the State Legislators were last year, when they stopped the intrusion of the .fedéral government into our welfare program, thereby keeping the foot of socialism from pushing still farther into the door of our American way of life.

. Even if the city is sued by the Housing Authority and is forced to pay the full amount of $275,000 it would be money well spent. Who wants to sell our birthright for a mess of pottage? Freedom at any price is cheap indeed.

Indiana set an example for the nation when she routed the federal government out of the state welfare department. Now our city officials have the opportunity to keep it out of the housing segment of our economy. Will they have the courage to do so?

If only the people would wake up. The road

. tn socialism is paved with ignorance and un-

By Galbraith

SIDE GLANCES

Year! —

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Housing’

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

. By Jim G. Lucas

Reserve divisions scattered throughout Eu-

rope will be maintained on a “D plus 15” and ,

a “D plus 30” status. That means that 12 to 15 of them are expected to be ready for battle within 15 days after the shooting starts. The others are expected to be ready within a month. While it's unwise to dismiss Gen, Eisenhower's 25 reserve divisions as paper organizations, it’s equally unwise to count too heavily on them. For no matter how hopefully it's planned to throw them in the line 15 or 30 days after trouble starts, the fact exists they won't be there at the beginning. They'll be at home— in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Norway and Denmark. The 25 divisions on active duty will have to absorb the first shock of battle. To sum it up: Ike's reserves—with 50 per cent of their personnel on duty at all times and with 85 per cent of their equipment—will be in a better state of readiness than one of our National Guard divisions. But they'll be a long ways from final readiness.

‘Formidable Force’

MR. TRUMAN'S message to Congress referred to NATO strength by the end of this calendar year as a “formidable force.” In addition to Gen. Eisenhower's 50 divisions, he said, we’ll have 4000 military airplanes, and a “sound basis for a further buildup in 1953 and 1954.” There are a number of things that éstimate does not include. It does not, for instance, include Germany's 10 divisions due in 1953. Nor does it include the United States strategic air

command now based in England. SAC represents our long-range striking force, including the 10-engine B-36. Apparently, we're gambling that Russia fsn't ready for trouble—and won’t be until 1954. The Pentagon—who a few months ago was warning 1953 was the year of decision—now insists that 1954 will be the crucial year.

concern, Abolish the Indianapolis Housing Authority, now, before it really does get out of control. —An American, City

‘Obscene Literature’

MR. EDITOR: The recent protest against obscene literature has given me new hope. The ordinary citizen does not realize how bad" this. situation is.

Please, someone in authority, read some of the pocket book editions sold openly in the drug stores. It makes me sad to see bur reading public degenerate to such a filthy level. When I speak against them to many individuals I get only laughs. They give us something to mourn about. > We call ourselves a Godly nation. It is the popular things these days to publish novels full of sex experiments instead of love. We, as a nation, can never be stronger than our tastes, thoughts, habits and relations with nne another. Rotten books will tear down ideals.

—Josephine Buck, Westfield.

Ah, Spring .

McCLEAN, Va, Mar, S= Spring is about to bust out all over ‘ Fairfax County. The forsythia bushes are ‘taking on a touch of yellow; Tommy, the horse with the instincts of a lap dog, is shedding his winter

overcoat on anybody who comes close; and Mrs. O. is blossoming out with projects. These involve me. I cannot say that I am enthused. I have sought to intercept the

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Dad's poter games we. really see life in the rawl”

seed catalogs at the post of‘ice and lose them on the way home, but every truck that arrives at our house bears stuff to be planted, like fence posts and small hemlock trees. The fields out front are coming up with wild onion and there's my mowing machine staring me in the face; I've got to sharpen the blades on the gickle bar and put a new oil filter in the tractor. When I finish that, I intend to shoot the idiot who built the filter in the one spot on the engine mortal man barely can reach.

I HAVE been sloshing water

in thew portable sprayer and

getting poisonous green sediment from last season under my fingernails in a vain at-

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"NA TIONAL POLITICS .

The Day in the Li Who Wants to Be President

BERLIN, N. H., ‘Mae R—A day in the life of a man who wants to be President: : The snow buried $he window sills, reached up-to-the eaves of hofises, made highway snow fences look silly. Mackinawsz and parkas grew heavier. The mist hung low ‘over the north country. &* Through it all Sen. Robert A. Taft, often hefore, hustled Yotes unblushingly .and tirelessly. : He siruck into places so remote that busses accompanying him had to be emptied before they could cross old covered bridges. He dished out a long string of speeches with fire and chal-

lenge. He shook hands with lumberjacks, ancient mountain men, pbliticians and junior leaguers.

‘God Bless You, Senator’

WATCH him in Laconia. listen to the hurried words of Americans who shake his hand on a street corner— “God bless you, Senator. I hope you make it.” “I saw your dad when he was President and 1 was eight years old; I hope to see you President.” “Do you remember Emory Wolfe of Cambridge, O., Mr. Taft? My daughter was a friend of his—they sent us a picture of you...”

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“Let's get a Yale man back in the White

House, Bob.” “I sincerely hope I'm shaking hands with the next President.” “When you really get going, Senator, lay it on 'em.” “Good luck, Senator, hope you'll cut our taxes when you get in.” “Mister American, I say, not just Mr. Republican.” > From the Senator, it's “Glad to meet you” r “How do you do?” or a quick answer to a question. Someone asks what he thinks of the point four program. He quickly replies: “OK, if it is done sensibly.” He gives smiling thanks to a French-Canadian housewife who tells him in broken English, “You look tn me Jike sensible man, I hope you win.”

‘Vote for Me’

“HOW you doing, Senator?” asks a pretty He fires back: “Fine, if you get out and vote for me.” He posed for pictures, dutifully holding a wondering 2-year-old .in. a green srnowsuit, “Yeah,” groused the photographer. wouldn't toss the kid up in the air.” Once, the Taft mobile loud speaker broke down. A passing Eisenhower sound truck, hollering up a crowd for an Eisenhowér meeting, came to the rescue. Mr, Taft accepted gratefully. Evidence of a good friendly contest, he said, and a sign-the GOP would unite to elect a President after the nomination in July. At one point, the candidate’s activities included meeting two Indians in feathers and full regalia. They gave him a mounted arrowhead. He seemed to wonder what he ever would do with it. One town is scarcely more than a curve in the road, but 150 people were out to welcome Mr. Taft beside Ralph Godwin’s general store— “Groceries, Hardware, Notions and Tonics,” said the sign. Strung on newly cut birch poles stuck in the snow was another sign, “Moultonville Greets Bob Taft.” It would have been a Taft day all the. way, if the Senator’s candor hadn't gotten him in a little trouble.

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Addressing one grovp-i nl udin litical ®andidates for delegates to the Chicago Convention—Mr. Taft said he knew ‘Gen. Pwight Eisenhower's side had * ‘all the Sop Republicans in the state” “No, no." voices shouted. Mr, Taft blinked, What he'd said was true—but not exactly the diplomatic thing. He didn’t. back away, but repeated what he had meant. It was friendly enough aid no damage was done. . Sen. Taft hammers hard in New Hampshire. In plain reference to Gén. Zisenhowey, he tells one audience:

No Damage Dorie

“IF I were you I'd pick a nominee who has had "Some experience running a campaign. I would not pick a fellow who never had run for office.” If Mr. Taft missed touching a single issue—Washington corruption, high taxes, socialized medicine, big government, his 1950 victory in Ohio and his ability to win this November, a disastrous Truman foreign policy, the Korean War and a dozen more—nobody could peg it. “He was talking as fast and strongly and shaking that finger just as furiously when he finished late at night as when he began.

Lenten Meditation

Jesus Answers Our Questions About God

DIVINE COMPULSION

Did you not know that | must be in my Father's house? Luke 2:49. Read verses 41.52.

For a period of 29 years in the life of Jesus there is only one recorded incident in all the Gospels, — his visit to the temple in Jerusalem at the age of 12. Yet in this one scene we see as through a window into those unreported years between His infancy and the start of HN ministry, We often speak of them as “hidden years,” yet in @ deeper sense they are as an open book. They were years spent with God, years of closeness to Nature and its myriad secrets. : And when we look at the one recorded question that His parents asked Him in those 29 years, we see how understandingly human and almost contemporary their home life must have been: “Son, why have you treated us so”

How often we parents become impatient with the dreams of our children. Sometimes those dreams are daydreams and not God-centered. But with Jesus there was divine compulsion upon Him. He must be in his Father's house, about his Father's business.

When someone you love seems more interested in God's will than in your will, look carefully before scolding. He may be under divine compulsion.

Let Us Pray: Help us to remember that Jesus was once fost to His parents because He was “found of God.” Grant that we may do God's work first and then find that this is the work which will most help those we love. Amen.

. By R. H. Shackford

Will Bevan Split Socialists?

LONDON, Mar. 8—The ghost of Britain's.

first Socialist Prime Minister, Ramsay Mac-:

Donald, hovered ominously over the Socialist Labor Party. Mr. MacDonald betrayed the Socialist Party in 1931. He split it wide open by joining a peacetime coalition with the Tories. British socialism went into political eclipse lasting until 1945. Today the left-wing Welsh Socialist, Aneurin Bevan, is openly challenging Clement Attlee's Socialist leadership— a daring and dramatic step which threatens a permament split in the party and ruination of any hopes for return to power soon. The circumstances are dif-

Mr. Bevan

o ferent. than in 1931. But the issues are fundamentally the same. Mr. MacDonald re- ++ a threat nounced socialism because his colleagues re-

fused to cut unemployment benefits by 10 per cent to balance the budget during the depression. They said it would be un-Socialistic. Mr. Bevan is not renouncing socialism. But he's renouncing Mr. Attlee’s leadership as unSocialistic because it is siding with the Tories in cutting welfare state expenses to pay for guns. Mr. Bevan’s opposition to the arms program has long been known. With ‘much fanfare, he and a couple of followers quit Mr. Attlee’s government last spring on that issue.

Surprising Strength

IMPORTANT and new is Mr. Bevan's willingness to challenge Mr. Attlee in Parliament—and Mr. Bevan’s surprising strength within the party. Equally important is Bevan's= decision to bring the rearmament. issue into the open. Britons normally stand. together on foreign policy, despite party differences. Gone are the days when wishful thinkers here and abroad could dismiss Mr. Bevan and his followers as the lunatic fringe of the Socialist Party. Likewise, Mr. Attlee no longer can pretend the split is just a gentlemanly difference of opinion.

Mr. Bevan has thrown down the gauntlet, He wants to head the Socialist Party. He thinks he has the true Socialist philosophy—that Mr, Attlee is a renegade, kowtowing to the demands of the capitalistic United States. Mr. Bevan portrays Mr. Attlee as another MacDonald—ready to sacrifice Socialist ideals for a rearmament program which Mr. Bevan claims is based on America's exaggeration of the Soviet menace. For the time being, no change in British policy is threatened. Winston Churchilk has a solid majority in Parliament and can count on substantial support from Attlee Socialists on major foreign issues. The big question i¥: What will Mr. Attlee do about Mr. Bevan’'s- defiant revolt? He can't ignore it. But he can hardly expel Mr. Bevan and the 50-odd Socialist members of Parliament who voted against rearmament.

‘Economic Ruin’

A FEW months ago, Mr. Bevan was believed to have the support of a mere handful in Parliament. Sihce then, 62 Socialists have followed him in open defiance of Mr. Attlee on one test of party loyalty, ‘and 55 on another. So 55 can be considered Mr. Bevan's minimum strength. Many more inside the party have followed Attlee’s instructions, but sympathize with Bevan's thesis—that the U. 8. is leading Britain with other European nations to economic ruin where they'll be easy prey for communism. But as yet they are unwilling to defy the official party authority openly. Mr. Churchill has estimated that Mr. Bevan has the support of 25 per cent of the Socialist Party. The Socialists polled 13,700,000 votes in last fall's election. So roughly speaking, Mr. Bevan probably can count on three to four million voters at the least. The Bevan-Attlee fight will be climaxed next fall-at the annual party convention. Meanwhile, events probably will see the party moving slowly back toward its prewar pacificism and opposition to rearmament. Mr. Bevan and his band are already back there. Mr. Attlee is bound to be pushed farther and farther in that direction in an effort to compromise and avoid wrecking the party.

. By Frederick C. Othman

. Oh, My Poor Aching Back

washer in the pump that builds up the pressure designed to kill bugs on the apple trees. These already are in bud; I've’ got to spray ’em all be-

vetoed.

meat and potatoes has been

Only chore which I escaped was the cabling together of the limbs on some of our big-

molding beneath. The tinner's got to replace the gutters, the carpenter must put in new moldings. I don’t even give myself one guess as to who

fore the buds get any bigger. The slightest mistake will results in ne apples, which isn’t such.a bad idea in itself. No matter how I spray the trees and. myself with horrendous brews, the apples still’ grow specks.

The strawberry patch is full

gest trees and filling in the holes in their trunks with cement. This lookéd like a simple chore to me. But Mrs. O. predicted I'd fracture the oaks as well as myself. She called in a tree surgeon. He arrived with three helpers in safety belt& and pre-

of grass. idea is to mow it and get our strawberries later at the supermarket; bit I am getting an + argument about this. Our vegetable garden needs plowing; my suggestion that we. eat

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THE REVEREND

THERE is a pastor in our town ,,, who is an ideal man . . . no matter what your race or creed . . . he'll help all he cah -. i . his church is not a large affair . . . with paintings on the wall . . . but in it you can find the peace . . . that matters above all . . . hie owns no stately large domain . . . his life is like your own . . . he has a wife and little son . + + to whom he's tightly sewn . . . and he like many other men . . . who teach the word of God . . . is making this a better world . . .

—By Ben Burroughs,

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does the paint job. My driveway is a mess. Mors than a year ago the experts in the cement industry prorhised to fix that in the modern manner with what they call earth cement, impacted with a sheep’s-foot roller. They sent me the literature and gave me an estimate. Then they disappeared.

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THE BOXWOOD, of which we have considerable, has caught a blight. All yesterday afternoon Mrs. O. spent at the Library of Congress, trying to read up on the literature of curing it. The filles listed a nice assortment of books on the subject, but the volumes were gone. My bride says Congressmen must be having. boxwodd troubles, too. Says if I weren't so lazy, I could investigatq. this interesting subject and produce a piece for the papers. You see what I mean about spring, wonderful spring, In the movies in technieolor it 18 ol rb. In person, it meand ouses. ; :

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