Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1952 — Page 8

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The Koje Island Mess

IT SHOULD do no harm, and perhaps some good, to have the inspection of the Koje Island prison compounds by the military representatives of five neutral nations, as President Truman has proposed. But we will not win the war of words with the Reds by such slow action and purely defensive measures. They can cook up lies faster than we can answer them, and they'll continue to get their story across first until we assume the offensive and force them to do some explaining. The stupidity of our own censorship policy made it possible for the Reds to distort the Koje situation. For that our military leaders have only themselves to blame. » ” » » . . NEWSMEN tried as long as nine months ago to get through the censors stories of the explosive situation among the prisoners. But all such stories were suppressed on the grounds that they would give “aid and comfort to the enemy.” . Had the facts been known about the loose administration of the Koje camps, public opinion probably would have forced changes of policy long before conditions got out of hand. But the Army hid behind its censors until the mess blew up in its face. The Reds would have been forced to the defensive on the propaganda front months ago if the world had been informed that they were murdering their own people who did not. want to return to Communist control. We couldn't have wanted a better weapon to use against them.

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“ait; he. Communists Tong: since had" cApurH the ~head: lines by their favorite device of out-shouting us. American news and communications facilities are vastly superior to ‘those possessed by the Reds. But even such backward people can beat us to the punch when misguided censorship nullifies our advantages.

Stalemate in Steel

Y LOPSIDED votes in each case, the Senate has served notice on President Truman that it has no intention of granting him power to sejze the steel industry. The Senate defeated four attempts to pass a seizure law and then, by an equally decisive vote, adopted a resolution requesting the President to enforce the Taft-Hartley law. In the House, the banking committee, normally a proadministration group, rejected the seizure plan. So Mr. Truman can expect no seizure law from Congress —not in the immediate future, at any rate. He passed the political ball to Congress and Congress passed it right back. r ~ » » » » ) ONE OF the President's avowed objections to use of the Taft-Hartley law is that it would take the fact-finding , board proposed by this law “a week or 10 days” to make its report. And nothing could be done about ending th strike until that report was made. 7 But it now has been 11 days since the strike began. With one exception, all the fact-finding boards appointed under this law in previous cases reported in fewer than 10 days. Meanwhile, White House concentration on reopening a few plants to produce “critical” materials for Korea is expected to yield no more than a trickle of steel—and none of that for several days. The spectacle of President and Congress glaring at each other in stalemate won't produce steel. Shifting the subject back and forth won't end the strike. Some courageous and decisive leadership might. Is that too much to ask?

Potato Lesson

HEN the recent potato shortage ended, spuds came back on the market ‘at generally higher prices—price ceilings having been abolished. But housewives promptly refused to buy them, even though they had been ‘going without for some time.

This consumer resistance will force prices down to more nearly reasonable levels.

And that should be a lesson both to Congress and the potato growers,

American agriculture with price supports. Potato gFowers were too anxious to accept this handout even when it was available, and foo quick to cut acreage when it was with. drawn. For a hundred years before we had potato price supports, the potato market did pretty well by itself. If the government will stay out of the potato business, perhaps prices will find their own way—to the benefit of both grows ers and consumers.

Nurses Needed

THE COUNTRY is short 60,000 nurses, despite its growing population and the needs of the Armed Forces. It seems impossible to persuade enough young women to enter nursing training, when better paying jobs are so easy to get. Yet many recruits are needed each year be--cause so many nurses leave the profession for marriage or other reasons, . Since it takes three years to train a registered nurse, in case of a major war we would face a mueh more serious nurse shortage than we have now, . Rep. Frances Bolton (R. 0.) whose bill established the Cadet Nurse Corps in World War II, has introduced a new bill to provide federal scholarships for nurse trainees. This is an urgent problem which Cao

BUT THOSE in charge of military policy didn’t have _ sense wriough to’ know tt: When-the facts fimally ‘did leak

"LONG FIGHT AHEAD . . . By Charles Egger

Cut Of $8

WASHINGTON, June 14—Congress is practicing more of its economy preaching this session than it has in many years. There's still a long fight ahead to make the preliminary budget cuts stick. Right now, though, a total reduction of nearly $8 billion is in sight. That's about 10 per cent of the Presjdent’s major spending requests, “That’s much better than in any other year,” said Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D. Ill), a leading economy advocate,

Here's how the budget-choppers have slashed

at President Truman's spending requests: Four appropriations bills—those for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, Independent Offices, the Agriculture Department and the Labor Department and Federal Security Agency—have been passed by both Houses. Now, joint conference committees are adjusting differences between House and Senate versions. At this point, however, they are $1.2 billion below Mr. Truman's requests. Five other big spending bills have been passed by the House but are still in Senate committee. These bills provide money for the

CAMPAIGN ... By Charles Lucey

Dewey Pushing Hard for lke

NEW YORK, June 14—Thomas E. Dewey has moved front-and-center in a display of political might which, by his own estimate, will give Dwight Eisenhower 95 of New York's 96-man delegation on the first ballot at the GOP national convention next month. Mr. Dewey still will be governor of the nation’s largest state for two and one-half years and his lieutenants make no bones about the fact that the power of the governorship will be used to give the General every vote that can be nailed down. Delegations from other states have been popping into New York to meet Gen. Eisenhower this week with one-third or one-half the members missing. But only one was unaccounted for yesterday when Tom Dewey called the roll on the convention's biggest package deal of all. Eighty-six of 96 delegates were there. Nine of the missing ten sent regrets for business reasons. Four of these pledged themselves unconditionally to the General. Only one delegate, a bold Staten Island citizen named

Edward J. McCormick, failed to show or report.

Some May Drift Away New York delegates could drift away from Gen,

apihers {8 some. Tath, sav “delegates. Taft LL * as 20 votes, but it will take some doing'and the Dewey leadership is playing as hard for Ike as it ever did for Mr. Dewey himself. Herbert Brownell Jr. former National Re‘publican chairman, is chief-of-staff in the exhaustively careful, state-by-state job of trying to spring delegates for the General, and he's acknowledged to be one of the ablest political strategists in the business. " In the front of Eisenhower leadership are National Committeeman J. Russeil Sprague and GOP State Chairman William Pfeifer. Thomas Stephens, a fine political craftsman of the Dewey school, is with Gen. Eisenhower as he greets delegates from the various states. Right down to the workaday small details of running a campaign, old Dewey men are giving their all.

No Boycott : THERE HASN'T been any state-by-state boycott by Taft men of Gen. Eisenhower's meetIngs with delegates, but many have stayed away. This week, though, 20 of Maryland's 24 delegates showed up under the leadership of Gov. Theodore McKeldin and pro-Taft Sen. John Butler. Mr. McKeldin, who makes all the motions of being pro-Eisenhower without saying so flatly, said the General's men claim 18 delegates and the Taft leadecs 13. Mr. Butler "said he felt erie Marvland delegation is “Taft in character.” He wouldn't Ruess whether the visit had caused anv switches, and neither would Gov. McKeldin. Ike's views on a number of important issues have been: amplified in his latest meetings. He held out hope that the burden of overseas spendIng can be lifted in two or three years. "He said he did not believe the “cold-blooded gentlemen in the Kremlin” would wage war unless they felt sire either of quick victory or of the adequacy of their war supplies to last through a long war, The General said that talk of cutting $8 bil Hon from the federal budget didn't go far enough—that it must be cut by $40 billion if we are not to choke our economy to death. There have been indications that of all the Issues the General is called on to discuss with state delegations, fair employment practices laws may be the most troublesome. : The General has made it clear that he opposes a compulsory FEPC and believes the states should play the domihant roll in 'eliminating discrimination, He has said if any group is denied rights or privileges because of race

GREAT BRITAIN . . By Ludwell Denny. - > Churchill Is Sincere; England’s Near Broke

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Defense Department, the State, Justice and Commerce Departments, Interior Department, He ys civil functions and for Congress elf, The House whacked these bills down to $5.2 billion less than President Truman asked for. By far the deepest cut—$4.7 billion—was in defense spending. A bill setting up a $6.4 billion foreign aid program has been cleared by Congress. The

Something New Has Been Added

program would cost nearly $1.5 billion less than the one proposed by the President. Money to pay for foreign aid still must be appropriated. But chances are the amount will be less, rather than more, than the authorization bill contemplates, : All of these cuts, in their various stages, add up to $7.9 billion. F The big problem now is to make them stick. In the past the House often has ordered deepYe-

BIG FOUR QUESTION . . . By Peter Lisagor

French Bid for Russian Talks

WASHINGTON, Junie 14—The French again want to make a stab at talking with the Russians on German unity—and American officials are both surprised and puzzled by it. The belief here has been that Paris saw eye to eye with the United States view that such talks involved risky pitfalls under present circumstances. Moreover, about a month ago, when the United States suggested a Big Four meeting in Berlin of the high commissioners for Germany, the French balked at the idea. The aim of the meeting. of course, would have been to expose the real Soviet motive in proposing a Big Four meeting, which is strongly

believed to be to prevent ratification of the

agreements bringing West Germany unto the European defense setup.

Surprise Move

NOW, with the process of ratification under way, the French have come forward with their suggestion of Big Four talks. It was made as preliminary work began on drafting a reply to the last Soviet note on the subject. It has been confirmed by Paris reports of approval of the idea by the French cabinet. Whether the French have in mind a fulldress foreign ministers conference or a meeting on the high commissioner level is not clear. French sources here indicate they favor a toplevel confab. In its last note to Moscow on May 13, the United States stated that conditions for free elections in Germany must exist as an indispensable” prerequisite for decisions on uniting Germany and concluding a peace treaty. . The Russians have been vague as to whether

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they will permif an Impartial investigation of conditions in Eastern Germany. They have called for an immediate Big Four meeting, arousing suspicions in the West that their purpose may be to booby-trap the German peace contract and delay, if not wreck, the elaborately-laid plans to include West Germany In the European Army.

Washington View

AUTHORITIES here thought that the French recognized the dangers and accepted the Washington view without reservation. French circles here say that Paris considers it essential politically to make one last gesture

toward holding talks before the French parlia- ,

ment takes up ratification of the Bonn pacts, as well as the European defense community treaty, They add that strong currents have been created in French public opinioh by the projected rearmament of Germany and the disappearance of the French army into a European defense force. As for the possibility of Big Four talks delaying ratification, the French say it will be several months before the French parliament acts anyhow. Nonetheless, American authorities approach the idea of Big Four talks with apprehension over the Soviet capacity to whip up neutralist sentiment in both France and Germany and thus to thwart western plans. But they may have to go through the motions, particularly in the light of reports from London that the British incline toward the

French view that another crack at a Big Four:

meeting might be advisable.

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U. S. Budget In Sight

ductions, but the Senate has restored most of them. So far this year, the Senate hasn't accepted its traditional role. In the four big spending bills it has passed, the Senate has’ increased House-approved amounts by a relatively small $100 million. The total is still §1.2 billion less than the budget called for. : Sen. Douglas says most of the savings or. dered for the Agriculture Department are “phony,” in that they involve mere bookkeeping transactions. He put $181 million of the $200million reduction voted for the Agriculture Department in this category. “But the record pw far is good,” said Sen, Douglas. “The big test will be on defense spend. in; en ® rhe Defense Départment is trying to get the Senate to restore the $4.7 billion the House slashed from military spending requests. That is ‘nearly 60 per cent of the $7.9 billion over-all reduction the budget choppers want. So, as Sen. Douglas says, the Senate decision on defense spending will be the major factor in Congress’ economy record.

Hdébsier Forum

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

right to say it."

MR. EDITOR: According to statistics an awful lot of the independent voters, as well as the ‘regular Democrats dre going to vote Republican this fall if the Republicans are going to be elected, As an independent voter, I have been watching developments in both camps with interest, Of one thing I am very sure. I shall not be voting for Sen. Taft for anything, nominated or not. He is a pompous, know-it-all, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has never stopped chomping on it long enough to find out what the common folks like me want, need, or think. He is an intellectual with very little heart or imagination. I daresay the only real trouble he has had, beyond getting nominated for President, was the recent illness of his very capable and active wife. Bb o> 2 WHEN President Truman was making his speech on the steel crisis, Sen, Taft was reported to have taken a paper. out of his pocket and read. Now a lot of Truman haters will think this action very clever and very cute. Personally, I think it was a brazen and childish affront to the office of. President of the United

- States; Whather-you-like: Prosident. Truman or

ans Myou things heuphads His vifica a8.

“he fHould, he is still the President &

Sen. Vandenburg doing such a lousy trick. But it is very typical of the Senator.from Ohio. He most definitely is not interested in steel seizure for a lot of those factories are in Ohio and, brother, does ha need and does he want contributions from those boys to his campaign fund. If Uncle 8am has them before the election, he might not get his bankroll from them,

—F.M., City Books for Battle

MR. EDITOR:

On behalf of the men in this command, I wish to express my most sincere appreciation for your help in procuring reading matter for the men in Korea. The overwhelming response from your readers has not only afforded the men in this immediate area a plentiful supply of reading material, but has allowed me to ship a countless number of packages containing books, magazines, etc, farther north to units which still are in dire need of reading material. Many thousands of troops will remain here for some time. Therefore, it is my hope that the flow of reading matter will continue. - Any further contributions your readers wish to make will be most appreciated if they would address all mail, regardless of its contents, to: Battalion Library, 192d Ordnance Base Depot, A.P.O. 595, Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal. Once again please allow me to publicly thank each and everyone who went to much time and expense to bring comfort to those of us here in Korea. To all of you back on that place we longingly call home, we offer a silent but more gincere, ‘thanks, pal, thanks.” —Cpl. Donald L. Jordan, Korea. ,

FATHER

MIX tenderness and faithful love . . . and flavor with a smile . . then season with a strong resolve . . . to do all things worthwhile . . . and from this formula we get . . . a man we call a dad . . . no finer person can be found . . . he's the best that can be had . . ¢ when needed most he’s always there . . . to give us good advice . . . he is the one who sees us through . . . when cruel fate rolls the dice . . . and though he may seem stern at times . . . I know you will agree , . . that what he does and what he says . . . is best for you and me, —By Ben Burroughs.

CAMPAIGN EXPENSE . . . By Ahdrew Tully Running for Office Can Be Very Costly

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WASHINGTON, June 14 — .

Prime Minister Winston Churchill's warning of the danger of British bankruptcy is not exaggerated.

Unless he aucceeds: in awakening his own people and the world to this peril, the results could be catastrophic. America's stake {s very big. We depend upon Britlan more than on any other nation or group of nations. Let Britain fall and there can be no effective collective defense for a free Europe. Without American - British partnership, there is no hope in the Far East. The United Nations’ fate rests on that partnership, and so does our own future in an atomic world. » ” ~

IN. RECOGNITION of this interdependence, the U.-S. since the war has written off old debts, extended new loans, provided Marshall Ald and military assistance. ‘“Generous” is hardly the word—we were trying to repay in part our indebtedness for her sacrifices for a free world, and making an investment for our self-interest in her recovery. “Enlightened” is a more accurate description of our cooperation with Britain. 3 It was assumed Britain, by her own industry and skill, and with this temporary aid, would soon be restored to economic health though not to the abundant strength of old, The fact she is now in such a bad

Way raises the question

whether she has done everye thing possible to help herself. Obviously she has not. But, she has done more than any other nation. Quicker than any other, she pushed her production upward to 145 per cent of prewar. In self-disci-pline and self-denial, she ace cepted austerity which Americans cannot conceive, and which French and Germans refuse to match. Her finprecedented effort wag producing recovery results until two things happened. The first was the Labor government's failure — under public pressure for more benefits—to restrain welfare state expenditures and to liberate the regimented economy. Though more food, more housing, more medical care, more schools

_were desperately required in

justice, . nevertheless Britain could not afford them yet. She

spent more than she earned. " -

~ EVEN SO, there was still a chance of coming out until Russian aggression and the Korean War dumped new burdens upon the weary Britons, Allled defense created world shortages of raw materials on which Britain's industries depend, and the higher prices for her

imports made it harder for her

to earn her living by exports. Then zhe more than doubled

. her-defense expenditures— from

5.pet cent of her gross national product ‘in 1850 to almost 13 per cent

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take fewer welfare benefits,

ree their economy from more union and monopoly trade re-

straints, forego wage increases and higher profits until more wealth is produced, and postpone the luxury of partisan industrial strife which they ean-

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+ of the joint defenses load. A

combination of Allied selfishness, American pressure and

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her beyond her

DENVER, June 14—-It costs a bundle of dough to pick up the tab for a presidential candidate. : Specifically, it will cost around $25,000 to keep Dwight Eisenhower and party at the Brown Palace Hotel here from next Sunday until the close of the Republican convention. For, besides ' keeping the General comfortable, the Ike-for-President cashier also will pay the check for 30 other members of the entourage, the rental of some 13 rooms to house campaign headquarters, and for telephone calls. » » tJ HARRY ANHOLT, manager, of the Brown Palace, figures thé Ike forces will be hanging

their hats in his place from -

June 15 to about July 10. Including Ike's personal $50-a-day suite, the 18 rooms will cost $252 per day. This adds up to $5300 for the 25 days. With 30 people eating off the cuff at an average $10 a day, the grub check will come to around $7500. Long distance phone calls will add $5000 and local calls another $500. - » » THIS adds up to $18,300, but ‘you get the $25,000 when you include ‘meals for visitors, the telephones company's service charges for radio and television lines and switchboard installations, and such miscellaneous items as messenger service, car hire and “entertainmen

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joining it will be a reception room and his secretary's office. In addition, there will be among otherz—a general-head-quarters room, an informae tion office, a transportation office, a press room, a press lounge and a press reception room, \ o » » J THE equipment installed would serve a medium-sized business. There is a switchboard to be served by eight operators on a 24-hour basis. There will be 30 trunk lines and 70 individual telephones. Then there are two news service teletype machines, two private teletype machines, five radio lines'and two television lines for transmitting from television-less Denver.

= - - AT MEAL times, staffers

will eat some of the best grub ~

in North America. The Brown Palace's sirloin steaks at $4.50 a slab are the best in town. But the Brown Palace's chefs are equally at home with breast of pheasant and other exotic items, Campaigners will get a good ham - and - eggs breakfast for $1.50, and an adequate lunch for $2.25 to $3.

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