Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1952 — Page 10

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It's Eisenhower's Hour

N THIS time of national peril, the opening of Gen. Eisenhower’s personal campaign for the presidency is awaited with anticipation and concern by those who seek inspiration and guidance not to be found in mere pro or anti-Truman-

ism,

Russia's buildup of long-range air power and its growing atomic stockpile are “the most ominous threat” ever faced by America, according to Gen. Nathan F. Twining,

acting head of the Air Force.

Yet this threat has been mounting since 1945 with no

attendant buildup on our part to meet it.

Billions have been appropriated to match this challenge, but the money has been in the hands of men who haven't known what to do with it. Thus we have forfeited world leadership to a backward, second-rate power because our own vast resources in know-how and wealth have ‘been nullified by the mediocrities in control of the

DEFENSE . + + By Ludwell Bey Arms Lag Seen As Grave Risk

WASHINGTON, June 2—There is no hope of getting the preparedness speedup demanded by Bernard M. Baruch and others until after the presidential election, if then.

The risky showdown is not due to an over-

* ‘supply of weapons. Officials admit we are being

outproduced by Russia, even in planes. Nor is it due to any genuine economy urge. The delay in" production during an inflationary period already has cost the taxpayers a stupendous sum. ‘Mr. Baruch estimates it at $22 billion by the end of the next fiscal year.

Our falling behind in the arms race, and wasting billions in the process, has been caused by a combination of pressures. They range all the way from the political and economic to the diplomatic and military, Though President Truman is chiefly respon“sible, the Pentagon also is to blame. Congress is Involved. Labor strikes have contributed. 80 has the business-as-usual attitude of industrialists and merchants. And behind it all has been. public demand for non-essentials, which compete with the preparednéss program for raw materials, machines, plants, credits and labor,

Spirit Lacking THE PUBLIC will to push armament production has been and is lacking. This, in turn, is due to the Administration’s hot-and-cold attitude. One day it cries “emergency” and the next there is nothing much to worry about. So the people are confused—even to the point of

wondering whether the administration invents these illusive crises for political purposes.

There would be fewer strikes in strategic industries, less ‘business-as-usual lobbying and

Hoosier Forum E ote i ord vu

right to say it." CORARIRAITIT RANI RARER RETRORI NENT INAIRRERER INSTI ORO) Cites Reuther's Record MR. EDITOR: “In reply to the statements@f “An Average American,” I will prove by the Constitution of UAW that this fellow should have’ signed his “Westbrook Pegler Jr.” I am not a know-it-all like you appear to be by your statements. What happens in unions of which 1 have no knowledge first hand 1 cannot

" say, but I am stating what is_ the constitutional

procedure of the UAW, because I am a member o Local No. 23, employed at the Chevrolet Body Plant, and proud of my membership. Walter nor his brothers are “Red,” but rather their records are notable for fighting anyone who subscribes to any subversive belief, If you would read the press you would know that Walter Reuther has placed an adminis. trator over Ford Local Na. 600 in Detroit until such time as the membership can hold their election and replace certain officers who subscribed to communistic doctrines. The cunstitution of the UAW, written #nd adopted by duly elected delegates from and by the membership, provides that “no person proven to be Communist, Nazi or of any other subversive idology can hold elected office in any local union or international union.” This constitution is free and available to every union member at your local union meeting Place. .

IF YOU WANT to consider suffering, Walter Reuther and Richard Frankenstein were black. jacked and beaten (newspaper photographers got the pictures) by Bennet and his Ford police for the crime of passing out a union handbill at the gates of the Ford plant; were in the hospital several days. Walter Reuther has a

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crippled arm as a result of a shotgun blast

through his kitchen‘window. His brother, Victor,

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government: less public insistence on luxuries and semi- lost an eye, and part of a jaw as a result of a' man campaig % The all- -important need: is to have a DAR in the White luxuries which restrict defense production if the ol shotgun blast through his living room window. Asked yest H ith a fi hand q i f di ti ho _, people knew how perilous this half- preparedness 9) With a jackpot reward of $100,000 the police cn will resume h ouse with a. tirm hang and a clear sense of direction w really is. have not as yet solved thé” shootings. Many Congress, the can command respect and confidence. But, this is a campaign year; and politicians . people wonder why. nomics profes: The, nes campaign thus far has. not.produged —Whether in the White House ofin Congress— . “"* During the--strike of 1945-48 in Gf eral busy now to the lead ship h th t £ th 1d situation think promises and gifts will snare more votes Motors, ES 123 days, Wares en- but added: e leadership which the gravity of the world situa than austerity and sacrifice. «© dorsed his checks each payday and:gave it all “Next year demands. This void, which is obvious in ‘both parties, ex- So the Administration last January invented to the strike fund. International representatives again. we'll . - the stretch-out. The defense program, which were told -and did give a part o eir pay. en. plains the intense “interest with which the public awaits PR PR progr: Tigi ; : I ation. (held When tevin Gen. Eisenhower's forthcoming speech at Abilene. bottlenecks, was to be strung along two ad- Bly months) by ihe elacted delegates. The put. over a |

lowance last las charged t vitiated much by opening permit favore -,in whole or added, “the oi largely freed £0

© time and place and how often is fixed also by - _these elected delegates. That constitution provides that no pgrson can hold an elected or appointive position in the UAW unless he has . been employed in a plant for a period of one year; must have been a member of his local’ union for one year: in good standing. That constitution provides that. every member must Filbe Buti 3 RRL ‘vote, the time and. “place of meeting | 4nd su vote Fequirss a two-thirds majority. 3

‘Most of the issues which are featured in campaign literature can be dismissed as so much twaddle in the light “ of the over-riding danger confronting us as a people. The customary sops to mindrity blocs and pressure groups will not answer.the dynamic challenge of Russian imperialism. We are very close to another frightful ‘war, because

ditional years beyond the 1952-53 target.

Pentagon Accepted - rs Achune —

PENTAGON generals and ddmitais accepted THE FAR-EAST .

. this; obligingly moving the. peril point to fit. Political and businésg ' pressures were not entirely responsible, Some X CANTON TREC, oMould epped “hational CORBY and In ehIE “marate. i the

. By Oland . Russell

7 4 rt Yor vphubhes preparediess program. Time has"

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~been wasted: which-catinot be recailed; and ways gnd means

must be found to compensate for it.

Our problem is to find a leader who can organize our might to insure our security without impairing our solvency —and who can dq it with the least possible delay.. If Gen. Eisenhower can convince the people he is that man, it isn’t important whether he does it by a speaking campaign or by meeting groups of delegates in advance of the convention. His plan to meet with the delegates, however, is a good one, because the time is short and there is much that he should hear, as well as much that he

say.

No Handout State

HE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has approved the - new Constitution for Puerto Rico, but only after changing portions of it which had met with much opposition in

Congress.

A Senate committee, meanwhile, has recommended the

same action. "The changes should have been made.

The Puerto Ricans proposed to declare in their consti"tution that every person has a right to a job, an adequate standard of living, and social protection in the event of unemployment, sickness, old age or disability. Many members of Congress felt that this language envisioned a real “handout state” under the American flag, and knowing that Puerto Rico would never be able to provide all that seemed to be promised, they felt that if Congress approved that language it would imply that the United States government would do the providing.” Of course, such claims would not have been enforceable against the United States government in any event, but it would have been unfair to imply such possibilities to the

Puerto Ricans that it would.

~rearmament load peaked -in- 1952-53. « A more important reason, however, was - the occupational disease of chiefs of staff in “‘peacetime” fear of committing themselves ‘to new weapons now, because still newer ones tomorrow may ‘make those obsolete five or 10 years hence. So the generals and admirals, perfecting their

“blueprints instead of starting production, had °

slowed down the program: before the Truman stretch-out, which they accepted. : . Then the House, seeing the large unexpended military balances, said the new appropriations should be cut because they could not be spent during the coming yea. anyway.

Adds Four Years

IF THOSE cuts actually are made many of the planes and tanks we were supposed to get in 1953 will not be ready-—according to the Pentagon—until 1957." - ‘Meanwhile, we are outnumbered in jets by the Chinese Air Force in the- Korean ““Police Action.” -Qur troops in Germany have no adequate air cover, and we lack the force to stop Red atomic bombers if they started for the U. 8. tomorrow. Still “Backward Russia” continues to outproduce in weapons the biggest, the richest and the most efficient industrial nation on earth which is no longer the strongest military power.

What Others Say—

THEIR (public officials) attitude seems to be that the rights of the people are to vote—

Williams, official of the American Newspapef Publishers Association. ¢ ¢& @ THE voter doesn’t realize he pays for these elections afterward in the amount of privileges given out in government.—Sen. Paul Douglas (D. NL), > THE Red Cross is made up of the people themselves. When it acts, it is the people acting in behalf of those in need.—E. Roland Harri-

As U.S. pe edt in “Asia =

“TOKYO, June 2—However serious the situ-

ation appears in Europe, we are facing up to equally critical and contagious trouble out here as an outgrowth of the fantastic Koje Island muddle. “The worst thing that could happen would be the all-oyt Communist retaliation offénsive now being threatened both by North Korean Chief Nam Il at Panmunjom, and by the Chinese Reds’ Peiping radio. But the more immediate danger, is the effect

of the POW fiasco on American and United . Nations prestige in the rest of the -Far East,

As the Japanese see it—not to mention the hinese on Formosa, the Filipinos and others— on Koje Island, we have let. the Communists open what almost amounts to a second front against us, ~ With a virtual war on in two localities, we are in the humiliating position of trying to con-

. duct truce talks not only at Panmunjom, but

also on distant Koje where, of all places, we should be in complete control—but aren't.

Have Initiative AND IN both places, the Communists as usual appear to have the initiative. On Koje Island even now, Brig. Gen. Haydon Boatner daily receives spokesmén for the Reds in an effort to talk them into calling off their .own fapsule war.

At the same time, as veils of secrecy are

7 45 if they vote right—and to pay taxes.—Cranston ° lifted, théke’#re startling disclosures that 457

prisoners have escaped fram Koje since January, though 391 were recaptured; that 122 have been killed in clashes with guards, and 115 have been executed by their fellow prisoners for disobedience to the. Reds. We also learn that the POWs have been drilling for combat and have been making weapons, including Molotov Cocktails from gasoline furnished by our own naive Army.

Little wonder that Canada wants no part-

of Koje and that Britain's Clement Attlee said it never would have happened if Britain were

. Editorially, the Japanese press for the first time is taking a critical view of our handling of prisoners. One paper noted the “all too lenient attitude of the U. 8. authorities toward Communist prisoners.”

Like Red Trade

AS THE whote ugly, dreary story of Koje— has unfolded, it has been noticed here that: ONE—Despite government disavowals, the Japanese are rapidly’ building up interest in potential trade with Red China, so much so that U. 8S. Ambassador Robert Murphy felt it necessary to warn today that Japan should con-

sult with “other countries” before relaxing its -

barriers to Red China trade. TWO—The Japanese Government is perceptibly more hesitant about telling the Russian Trade Mission here to get ‘out, even though a Japanese spokesman admits the mission is here illegally and may even be directing Japan's Communist Party. THREE—Japan is making no move to press for early Diet ratification of the treaty with Nationalist China. Neither is Japan doing any-

- thing about patching her relations with South

Korea, ‘despite U. 8S. pressure. Talks between Japan and Southeast Asian nations on diplomatic and other relations have shown little progress. Over in Korea, too—apart from the war—we seem to have increased headaches. The government’ of our man, Syngman Rhee, has run into a first-rate crisis as a result of. his declaring martial law in his long-smouldering feud with the General Assembly. And recently, just north of Pusan, Communist guerrillas, evidently emboldened by the turn of events, attacked an American rear-eche-lon installation, killing five U. 8. soldiers. In ‘Tokyo, police fear a new Red outbreak today, the anniversary of the May 30, 1950, incident, when Communist-inspired mobs clashed with occupation forces, __In the thickening gloom, the only happy people in this area are the potential munitions

poe THE 1 CENT for PAC was voted by the majority of the membership. 1ts purpose is to elect to office those persons best qualified from either party. It is neither designed to follow a

pattern of electing or fostering a party, but of

“supporting indjviduals upon their records and qualifications. If you want to talk politics, look to Washington for the confusion. You have Republicans, Democrats, Dixiecrats, bureaucrats

and polecats, with a few exceptions, spending

their time in figuring out how to get re-elected, instead of uniting forces to solve the problems of the people. The UAW is noted for its democratic procedure, described by many newspapers as a knock-down-drag-out affair. I have been elected to most of the national conventions and I assure You that my name appears plenty of places in the proceedings. This union belongs to the membership and we run it from the grass roots. The delegates promulgate the program and the officers follow our orders or we send them back to the shop and replace them. : BS : THESE ELECTIONS are open and any member who has.been employed in the shops for one year and in good standing in a local union for one year is an eligible candidate for any office and the election is wide open on the floor, not bought or cut and dried like a state or national party convention. - It requires a majority vote to be elected. Unions, lodges, churches, businesses or any group of people contain good and bad. Human nature sometimes lends an ear to idle gossip about the filth, but few lend an ear to hear something good. You cannot condemn the intent or purpose of a church because of the actions of some of its members. The same yardstick applies to a union. If the members would faithfully attend with the purpose of promoting the good things, all of society would benefit. Stay away from your meetings and lie about the constitution and the record, you have to leave your name out of print. Take an active part and learn and help promote the right program and you can sign your name like I do and. be unashamed.

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The people of Puerto Rico should not be offended by the ~—William M. Taylor, Morgantown,

refusal of Congress to accept the constitution in the precise form in which it was approved by the Puerto Ricans. Not even a state has the right to obligate the federal government.

makers of Japan.

By Galbraith

man, President, American Red Cross, controlling the prison camps.

SIDE GLANCES BACKLOG . . . By Frederick C. Othman

RED RIOTS ...By R. H. Shackford

~The Constitution, after these changes, was approved by o $ L k Lik oO arti the House without further argument, and quite properly so. Pigeons (Hom i ng?) O0KS IKe ve riime Mr. Hatch The Senate should likewise approve it without delay. It . Hatch 1s a will meari a great deal to the people of Puerto Rico to have R n F G bbi S P quette, Mich, a constitution, and ey thot ge It : Wo ry Pa ris e or a Ing o ons My. Zaten am

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We're All Set

RESIDENT TRUMAN says there is ‘no such thing” as

corruption in the government.

But the new Attorney General, James P. McGranery,

says he is going to stamp it out,

Philip Perlman, who has been Acting Attorney General pending Mr. McGranery's induction, pictures his new boss as “a fighting leader who is not afraid to meet the purvey-

ors of gossip and slander.”

Mr. McGranery, in his opening speech as Attorney General, put the emphasis on how he'll do the clean-up job with-

out “the terror-harvest of the witchhunt.”

When a reporter asked Mr. McGranery whether he would surrender Justice Department files to the House Investigating Committee which long has been seeking them,

he said:

“Questions like that cause disturbance.” “Then he said he'd give up the files if he—Mr. McGranery —thought the committee ought to have them, That about sums up Mr. McGranery's first day in office.

Now we're all set. But for what?

It Takes Some Study

TV WEEKS ago the NY ac Court listened to arguments, pro and con, in the steel seizure case. Although two decision days have passed, the court is

not yet ready to announce its verdict.

Nine judicial minds, wrestling with the problem, need _more time than one off-the-cuff president politicking with the problem. :

AUSTRIAN Chancellor _Figl; who visited Washington; could teach President Truman a new political trick. --He is the only chief of state who says the government is no

good while pointing to himself.

BRIG. GEN. nT ER as Samed 8 sease-wock over for Red PO

PARIS, June 2—The French government at long last is exposing the Communist peace dove for what it really is—a warlike carrier pigeon. When police caught French Communist leader Jacques Duclos directing Wednesday's riots, they also found two carrier pigeons in his armed and radio-equipped car. Mrs, Duclos managed to strangle the pigeons just before the police could nab them. "It

4s too bad the police didn’t get

the birds alive, so they could follow ‘them to their home lofts. In the midst of the great drama now being unfolded in France, it is an interesting sidelight to speculate whether the pigeons’ destiny would have been the Soviet’ embassy.

; 8 48 . “ IN ANY EVENT, the rather

terrifying riots this week shoulg destroy for all thinking Frenchmen any ideas that the Reds are sincere in their use of artist Pablo Picasso's peace dove as a symbol, and their fake claims of desiring only peace. So far, the government has been unflinching — despite screams of ‘‘foul” and threats from Duclos’ commie pals. The government is ignoring Duclos’ claims to parliamentary im-

, munity (He's a National As-

sembly Deputy and a former Vice Premier). Within 24 hours of his arrest, Duclos was

: charged formally , with acts

* French.

voted Communist in the last election; and the Communists are the largest single party Tepresented in Jarilament.

BUT IT COULD “be that this time, the Reds overplayed their hand. There's an end’ to the patience of even the cynical If- the government chooses a showdown with the Communists, there's great deal of evidence that the average Frenchman would approve. These facts stand out today:

ONE -- Wednesday's riots .

were staged by less than 5000 people, and they weren't workers. They included many persons imported from North Africa, thugs and youngsters especially recruited for strongarm tactics, a TWO -— Duclos,. Kremlin's hatchet man in . France, was the major prize, caught redhanded a few blocks from the main riot, intercepting police - messages and diTecling goon squads of rioters to the weakest spots. h

THREE-—The speed of reaction from Moscow and her satellites was at least circumstantial evidence that the plot is being master-minded from the Kremlin. Moscow newspapers yesterday told about the riots in Paris; normally it takes them a couple of days to get the party line. Communist Hungary's Prime: Minister Rakosi already has sent a, message of “solidarity” to the French Commies. FOUR—-Most significant, perhaps was the receipt early this month by French Communist leaders of a new direc-

Eat St, uy "Forty-five miles an

hour? Why, that's nothing, officer! Do -

you think I'm just learning to drive?’

toward “effective action against war and the bour- . geoise.” This week's riots are believed to be the first application of the directive, -

THE COMMUNIST line is

to try to blame everything on the Americans. “Amis {Americans) Go Home” is a sign scribbled all over France, much to the embarrassment of the

ernment follows the strong policy adopted this week, it

may succéed In convincing - Frenchmen that Duclos’ ex-

WASHINGTON, June 2—-All hopes of our weary legisTators shutting up shop the end of

this month, attending their re-

spective conventions in Chicago, and spending the rest of the year at home, seem to have gone glimmering. The gentlemen talked too much. They're still talkirg, too, and the odds are overwhelming that they'll be back here in the job during the dog days of August. The Senate, as usual, is the most long-winded and hence is the furthest behind. The gentlemen at the moment are arguing about whether to let ‘the OPS die now of malnutrition, or extend it until néxt March when they can take another look. This fs bringing on some magnificent oratory, too, and I have been istentog carefully.

AT THE LAST feension I was on the job promptly at 10 a. m., as per schedule, but only 11 Senators joined me. This wasn't enough. There was a roll call and then another roll call. At 10:35 a. m., the Veep announced that a quorum was

was not such a hot idea. Most-

_1y they didn’t like the idea of ‘ government controls, ° either, but what if the cold war got

meat. The proponents hoped it would get its administrative nose out of some other busi. nesses, too.

Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R, S. D.) said yes, but what could the Senate do about a fellow like the state OPS director who dismayed the members of the Sturgis, 8. D., Rotary Club by telling “them that American free enterprise henceforth was dead? “I am not responsible for the crackpots that work for the government,” replied Sen. Burnet R, Maybank (D. 8. C.),, in charge of the bill. stop that sort of thing. Give me. this man’s name and I'll call in Ellis Arnall (the OPS director) and we’ll see what we - can do.” “His name 8 Mr. Schu. macher,” said Sen. “And he is in charge of the OPS in South Dakota. » ~ » POOR Mr. Scramacher, I fear he’s in for some rough moments, but I'd better hasten to Sen. Dirksen. He paid if

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