Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1952 — Page 18

Pa Tr rs) A . BB Rh Ny - a <

The Indianapolis Times

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ e. .. Banor , Business Manager

PAGE 18 Sunday, June 22, 1952 Ogu re gue 40 2g |

em Blived rise. acrpvs-fiowacd awssaber Kiliance NEA

py 101 aally and 10c i5 su y 35¢ » Mail rates in indians 00 a year

runish ber of Serv.

Price In Marion County.» cents a for Sunday; Tos by carrier da

ak. only 10c al AR sinday na eas » vear. ally $5.00 day exico daily $110 & lus av 100 a cooy

Telephone PL aza 8551 Give TAght and the People Will Fins Thetr Gun’ Wey

White Hat in the Ring

THE ENTRY OF HENRY SCHRICKER into the political campaign brings the Democratic Party definitely back * to life in Indiana. : : * There certainly isn't another single individual whe pr can pull as many votes on a strictly personal basis in either party as he can. Possibly there never has been, in Indiana politics. Republicans, who in some quarters had been anticipating a fairly easy victory in the state this fall, will have to take a fresh look at the situation. No victory over Henry Schricker is ever easy in Indiana. And Republicans have

their own internal problems this year, also. . LJ

» ” » . THIS DEVELOPMENT suggests a course of action for each of the two parties that might not have been necessary without it. For the Democrats, now given a chance to win a substantial share of the state offices at least, it brings new responsibility for putting up a slate of able candidates— men or women who can handle the job if elected to it. They haven't always done so, in times when party fortunes were at a low ebb. Four years ago, for instance, some outstanding incompetents got into office, under very similar circumstances, just because the party's more able ¥ ten didn’t want to run when they felt they had little chance to win. For the Republicans it certainly should suggest that their family feud be called off, and their own hatchets be buried. They have a man of proven ‘vote-pulling ability in Sen. William Jenner, who now is going to be opposed by Gov. Schricker this fall. ii : But even with him, against this kind of competition, they could lose if there is much dragging of heels in their own organization. » ‘The lesson is—or at least ought to-be—clear to both parties. This election is going to be a real scrap in Indiana. Nothing could be more fatal to either party than the assumption now that anything is “in the bag,” for November. ee

The China Rhubarb

GEN. OMAR N. BRADLEY, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has given the Senate Armed Services Committee a gloomy picture of the situation in Formosa. He said the Nationalists could not hold the island against a Red attack without outside help, because. the combat readiness of Chiang Kai-shek's troops was “very low.” Adm. Arthur W. Radford, commander of the U. S. Pacific fleet, who has visited Formosa and inspected Chiang’s troops—nejther of ‘which Gen. Bradley has done —holds a different view. He said he did not think the Communists could make a successful attack on the island, particularly while they are tied up in Korea. “They just don't have enough to be successful,” he declared. z As to Chiang's troops, Adm. Radford on a recent inspection found them “generally in an excellent state of read: ness” although in need of more modern equipment. These conflicting estimates of the Chinese Nationalists are nothing new. Gen. Bradley reflects the State Depart-

ment line. Adm. Radford reports what he has found from first-

Gens. MacArthur and Wedemeyer did before him.

. » " » ” ~ THIS “WAR” of a kind has been going on since 1943, when the question was whether the Chinese Reds were Moscow stooges or honest agrarian reformers. While it has continued, we have seen the loss of China and Manchuria to communism, th¢ invasion of Korea, and the abandonment of our counter-offensive there in favor of the present stalemate. : We are losing ground to the Communists and will continue to lose it as long as our government remains a house-divided-against-itself on Far Eastern policy. Eventually, of course, one of two things will happen. Either we will be pushed the rest of the way out of Asia, or we will decide to support our friends there in the same way Russia is supporting the Red forces in China and Korea. In the latter event, we may be able to check the Communist advance before it over-runs Alaska and Hawaii. The issue is not one of pro or anti-Chiang Kai-shek, the State Department notwithstanding, and as the Reds would have us believe. It is one of pro or anti-Uncle Sam, even though some well-intentioned people may not understand that,

Powder Puff Stuff

HE UNITED STATES has proposed that the United Nations Security Council ask the: Red Cross, with the help of international scientists and experts, to investigate Communist charges that we have used germ warfare in Korea—and has “challenged” Russia to co-operate in such an investigation. : Russia rejected a similar, proposal two months ago and may be expected to do so again. The tough-minded Soviets fatten on such powder-puff treatment. « : This proposal is just another manifestation of the peculiar “guilt complex” which afflicts an administration which can’t seem to decide whether to be soft or firm in dealing with the Russians. It is akin to President Truman's request for an impartial investigation of Red-alleged irregularities in the Koje prison compounds. The “big lie” technique can't be scotched by slowmotion, defensive gestures of this kind. Why haven't we taken the offensive against the Soviets by demanding a United Nations investigation of the Russian attack on the unarmed Swedish plane which was shot down ~, over the Baltic? Why haven't we placed the full case of Soviet tion in Korea before the Security Council? best ammunition against the Soviets is their own gs conduct. But we never use it. of innocence our government is assum-

%

By Reds fo

hand investigation, just as Adms. Cooke and Badger and

oi v N Aor He? TE a i ah fee PE Bi a Cdn Sa A Ny IEA BE IN PR i TAN Wy Pag

Looking for Loopholes

COMMUNISTS . . . By Richard Starnes

Charge Pacific Institute Used

! : C &, HU Ps ANCE p T a ramegt. . TR r Chir a . -opaganda’ uaa

WASHINGTON, June 21— The Institute of Pagific Relations was a vitaj weapon in the arsenal used by the Communists to take China, the fort. nightly publication, The Freeman, charged today. * James Burnham, a New York University philosophy professor, in an article based on hearings of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, wrote: “In order to conquer China, effective ‘interference’ by the Western powers, and in particular by the United States, had to be prevented. In the IPR, Moscow found the principal instrument it could manipulate to realize this inescapable condition. Through the IPR, Moscow saw it could sufficiently to its purpose in Asia, blind the eyes, becloud the mind. and weaken the will of the West.” » » ” MR. BURNHAM traced the origins of the IPR to “a kind of publicity and promotion scheme” hatched in the early 1920's by a group of Hawaiian businessmen. “I am inclined to think,” he wrote, “major Soviet infiltration and influence (in the IPR) date from about 1931." To convince the West it should adopt a soft policy toward the Chinese Communists, “entailed a massive psycho-, logical, or propaganda, campaign. Public opinion in the United States and Europe had to be molded in the shape of ideas and attitudes which would hide the truth about Communist strategy, maintain ignorance of how it could be countered, and weaken the will to resist it . . . the Communists in the IPR sought . . . to place themselves, and their friends or dupes, at posts of leverage in governmental and private institutions.”

¥.8 8

MR. BURNHAM cited a number of the “perennial themes of the baoks, articles, reviews, lectures and conversations of the IPR activists," among: them “the Chinese Communists are not ‘really’ Communists , , . but liberals,

HOOSIER SKETCHBOOK

populists, agrarian reformers, ‘native radicals,’ patriots, and « 80 on.” ¢ Another tyne played over and over again by the propaganda machine, Mr. Burnham wrote, was “Chiang and his associates are graftérs, reactionaries, agents of foreign powers, oppressors, hated by all the people. 8 G8 ; “FINALLY, said the article, “the Reds endlessly repeated this theme: The Communists are the wave of the future; they are inevitably going to win, and Chiang is headed for

partment:

*

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidn

24,000 Hoosier Youths Are Listed

As ‘Unfit’ for Military Service

WASHINGTON, June 21—There are 339,014

' Hoosier youths registered for the draft; 330,252

have been .classified; 24.482 or 7.4 per cent are 4-F and thus disqualified for service in the armed forces. ' The 4-F percentagé for the United States and territories is 11.6 and for the continental United States 11.2 » Between July 1950 and June 1951, 33,643 Indiana draftees were given preinduction exam{nations by the armed forces and 8780 or 26.1 per cent rejected for all reasons. The national percentage of rejection was 35.2. ‘ In Indiana, 5236 or 15.53 per cent were rejected for physical reasons only, 2344 or 7 per cent for failing the mental tests, 123 or .4 per cent for mental test failures in combination with other reasons, and 1077 or 3.2 per cent for other reasons. These rejections include {illiteracy and moral turpitude.

Compiled for Hearings :

STATISTICS for each state and territory were compiled under the direction of Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, whose hometown is Angola, Ind. _ The World War II draft director submitted thém in testifying before the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Comniittee. Hearings were being held on a measure introduced by Rep. E. H, Hedrick (D. W. Va.), a doctor who wants to establish a civilian physical fitness training program. Because physical disqualifications are accounting for ap increased number of draft rejections, Gen. Hershey said he thinks something should be done. “Although I am not a specialist in the health

field, I sometimes get the impression the word ‘health’—what it means—depends on who is using it or what it is being used for. As an example, we have the impression around selective service that back in colonial times, in the War Between the States—and even during the First World War—the men acceptable for military service were rather high in proportion to the total male population and also very high in comparison with the present-day acceptance rate.

‘Looked Dark’

“SINCE THEN, either the health of the country declined, or the definition of health standards has been revised upward. Anyway, when we came to World War II things at times looked a little dark in regard to the health of the young men of the country. “At the beginning of the war 50 per cent of those examined were rejected. Later on, hows ever, when we needed more men and needed them faster, the physical and mental standards were revised downward, and the over-all rejections were about 33 per cent.” :

Positive Action

CITING A 45 per cent rejection rate since World War II, Gen. Hershey concluded— “The results of these mass examinations, in which anywhere between 30 and 50 per cent of the young male population of the country have been found physically, mentally, or morally unfit for military service, have profoundly affected the nation and awakened a new awareness of the necessity for some very realistic thinking and some very positive action.”

his testimony before it, . + . was everywhere,” wrote Mr. -Burnham—“advising "Chi- . ang Kai-shek, escorting Henry. Wallace ...dropping in at the White House, and with the aid of IPR stalwarts . . . directing Asiatic affairs for the Office of the Co-ordinator of Infor-

mation, later Office of War Information. . . . “Smiling on the lot . . the IPR wing of the State DeJohn Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, John P. Davies Jr, John K. Emmerson, Raymond T. Ludden,

WASHINGTON, June 21—I was thumbing through the congressional calendar, a volume of 185 pages, wondering when the sorely tried gentlemen ever would get through with their work. On page 116 was House Bill No. 8177, proa viding for sundry administracesarean ie. matters. affecting the fed-

Sundry matters. What could they be? I didn’t exactly lose sleep over this, you understand, but neither could I forget it. Now and with some relief, I can report that sundry matters include spyglasses.

® ” LJ]

MAYBE YOU remember (I'd long since forgotten), at the beginning of the last war the U. 8. Navy found itself short of binéculars. It obviously couldn’t buy more in Germany. It appealed publicly to patriotic race-track habitues and others to lend their binoculars for the duration.

Binoculars, opera glasses,

. was

the ashcan.” Julian R. Friedman, Lau > . ’ rence telescopes, and s lasses Fo ommuniat ramgiulation Duggin, Lawrence Salisbury, Ti IE i 0. Las Must be acknow- philip C. Jessup.” ters from all over. Some of ledged a political master- . ” . i . piece,” the article continued. them were museum pieces;

“, .. if the Communists did not conquer China by means of the IPR, it is doubtful they would have conquered without the IPR. The IPR immobilized the sole force that could have blocked the process . , .” » ” . OWEN LATTIMORE, whom

the internal security subcommittee charged with lying in

Mr.

issue.

dation

vealed.

sstsEaNsssEsnRsRRTIRENy

ANOTHER “State 'Department friend of the IPR” was Alger Hiss, the article charged. Burnham disposed of the notion the IPR is a dead “The IPR sore is still running,” he wrote. For the period ending Dec. 31, 1952, the Rockefeller Foungranted Council of IPR $50,000, he re-

EAE RNR ENA ENR RRB ARRAN OTNRI TERN Ra RNR a NNR sRRauI ens aes RaRedssalassnnsanatnIntenesescs)

HOOSIER FORUM—Strike Vote’

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

some were toys, but most were exactly what the doctor ordered. They helped in their way to win the war, and the Navy was grateful. But, you know sailors. Always dropping stuff overboard, including pre-cision-made binoculars. When the war ended, the Navy had hundreds of binoculars ‘to return if it only had the binoculars. Some of the

the Pacific

sesassarvisesenNasees’

NP ER EE ERNE N LORRI ONIN Pv ara eer asus Ras RataRe Nees rserretoriansasuatonsstsesssessenstsee

MR. EDITOR: I am a steelworker’'s wife and when I heard

the meeting with the steel men and the union leaders had collapsed I was mad. Why haven't the steelworkers got enough gumption to flood Phil Murray with letters and telegrams to let him know they should have the right to at least accept or reject the steel companies’ offers? The men who are on strike would rise up in arms if anyone dared to tell"them how to live their lives, but they will let one man decide whether or not they have a right to earn a living, * > ARE THERE ho steelworkers who believe in a free and democratic country? A union closed shop is not democratic,

I believe in unions, but they should be the voice of the working men. Before unions the

men took their orders entirely from their employers and now they take their orders from Phil Murray.

You wives whose husbands are on strike, how do you feel about it? Phil Murray is not paying our rent or buying our food or shoes for our

children. Together we could do something. ‘«Mrs. R. D., Gary. Chides Chester MR. EDITOR:

I see in The Times that Chester Bowles has returned from his mission to India. It seems that after six months he has finally persuaded Prime Minister Nehreu to accept one billion dollars in American aid. This is truly a great victory for American diplomacy and Chester should be awarded the presidential citation. —S. W. Richardson, 604 E. 13th St, City.

By O’Donnell

D7

os

AOE -bily ~NEW STOCUIRTS, = op sa weg SEL

fellows with hoss races to watch were getting impatient for their glasses. This was embarrassing to the admirals.

WITH BRASS HATS in

hand they went. to Capitol Hill where they pleaded with the lawmakers for an appropria-

Ban

‘They got’ spoofed a little, but

Then they went out buying new binoculars, which had to be as good, or better, than the” ones that disappeared. Fair enough. All the people who'd lent their Uncle Samuel spyglasses eventually got them

back. All, that is, except 30.

absent-minded ones, For seven years now the Navy has been trying to trace down these disappearing pa- - triots so ‘it can hand them back their binoculars with thanks. If you've had any experience with the military, you know how much paper work this has entailed, in quadruplicate. The file on the missing binocular owners grows even larger. You'd think the Navy eould forget ’em. It wanted to, long ago, but the law said their spyglasses had to be returned

RED TAPE . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Navy Hunts for Spyglass Donors So It Can Close Bulging Files

and sailors abide by all laws, So the Secretary of Defense appealed to Congress to write a new law concerning’ binoculars. : 4s IT NOW HAS been writ, Section 2 of Bill 8177, the sun«

dry ‘matters thing ‘mentioned

lar owners have got to put-in-

they “al¥e" got fhe money, ~~~ ~All Appearyn eu by. Ded. 31.1952, 5

Thereafter the Secretary of the Navy can dispose of them as he sees fit, and if he'd care to present one to me, I'd be delighted. However, it is not that easy; not yet. J The Armed Services Committee of the House has approved this binocular bill, all right, but the House itself has not yet voted on it. When, as, and if if does, the Senate commit-

‘tee’ has got to consider the

missing spyglass proprietors. Then the Senate, itself, mus vote. If all that happens as per hopes of the Navy, Secretary Dan Kimball ‘can do with 30 binoculars what he wants, including dropping them into the ocean blue. I wouldn't be surprised if he has this in mind. Wouldn't blame him, either,

-

SPY TRIAL . . . By Andrew Tully Judy May Never Serve Day in Jail

WASHINGTON, June 21— Twice convicted in one of the nation’s most sensational spy cases, Judith Coplon may never serve a day in prison. High officials in the Justice Department are dragging their feet about putting Judy on trial again.

Last February, it was announced that the petite, blackhaired woman would go to trial in the spring. Then, after Attorney General J. Howard McGrath was fired, it was announced the “trial would be delayed until the case could be referred to Mr. McGrath's successor, James P, McGranery.

Now the word—from a high source in the department—is that it is “unlikely” the government will “go to the trouble” of trying Judy again.

“HER GUILT IS PLAIN, Judge Learned Hand of New York's First Circuit Court of Appeals said of Judy Coplon, Here in Washington, Judge Albert Reeves compared Judy with Benedict Arnold in sentencing her to from 40 months to 10 years.

But in the top echelon of the Justice Department, it is feared the government’s case against Judy is “too weak,” because of technicalities and legal stum-bling-blocks. The catch is the fact that two different appeals courts handed down two separate rulings on the validity of Judy's arrest. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has ruled that Miss Coplon’s arrest in New York with Valentin Gubitchev, a Soviet United Nations employee, was legal and that her sentence was valid.

BUT IT SAID the verdict should be set aside and a new trial held if Miss Coplon could prove that phone conversations with her lawyer were tapped during the trial. - ’ Technically, Miss Coplon has

since FBI agents admitted they tapped her line at the Willard Hotel here in. the. summer of

no warrant when they arrested her and took incriminating pae pers from her purse.

» ~ » GOVERNMENT spokesmen have said before it would be useless to retry Judy in New York. They pointed out that

. the appeals court ruling would

bar the prosecution's damning evidence. This evidence could, however, be used against Judy in a seeond Washington trial, since the appeals court here has “ruled her arrest was legal. Moreover . new evidence has been uncovered against the former Barnard College honor student.

most

” » .

BUT ANOTHER item said to be giving Justice Depart. ment bigwigs pause is the Sue preme Court's refusal to hear the government's appeals from the rulings of the New York and District of Columbia Ape peals Courts. For in so refuse ing, the Supreme Court appare ently found no quarrel with the New York court's ruling that Judy's arrest was illegal. Thus, if Judy were convicted again, her counsel could appeal on that ground.

Barbs

WHAT you see through some glasses all depends on how many times you fill them—and with what. . Fie url

A TRAINER says that fast footwork is most important in the fight ring. The trouble is, it too often leads to not fight. ing. » ~ » PROGRESS IS stopped by folk who use an office to look for sleep they lost the night before. ! - Ld » ” A PSYCHOLOGIST contends thét one mind can effect another at a distance. Like when mother sees dad drop ashes on the front room carpet. ; i . = = A SOUTH American custom requires a man to stand at a distance when addressing his mother-in-law. Sounds like good common sense, - ’

- EVEN at the age of 1 the younger generation has a habit of staying up all night raising IT REALLY would be % novelty if, just for a

or forever forget their glasses. RE

. SUNDAY, Washin

Red Goi - We'

WASHI up in Europ on politics. Europe: propaganda fying Germ: growing con Constru East and W Rush c« Germans wt Planting Erection of border. Our pec West G of unity is | nauer—who lose if any cl talks “is passe way. “These late the Soviet Zo the Soviet Ui ously seeking Germany, but isolate the KE: many with lie West has trick: In all spies, sabote

agitators are real refugees

Medical N

- DEFENSE ployees fami African air b scandal are Pp huge medical overlooked bj gators. They ONE—More of medical su least $3 mill ssi Re eG ede HON. 118 AR GR PACED wt WOOP

sterile banda corpsmen lack scissors. THREE — other inade sicknesses Nh: some 400 sui Constructors, pany combin bases. (Gove! writers group costs for def so they're rea government). FOUR — A stolen were f ray machine cardiogram m FIVE—A 4d claimed to be medical corps York” Unive Turned out h citizen, didn’t graduation ro Defense em failed in effor forces check r medical suppl 7 * private Casab

Other Pro

LIQUOR worried abot mittee hearin week. Comm told, in close " Justice Depar tion on mono] distilleries Ww after liquor i uted to 1948 bad timing which has be Congress to lc King Commu work on alec Internal Reve makes indi Work will go ¢ Chief Counsel {s leaving, ar hearings are | mer or fail Committee's ¢ tion, to tighte on who may | with tax tro than doornal Means Comr King group tc There's mor eye to that st Luther, just 1 Attorney for last year disc organized Re Russell, Kas., and Frank C its resident fellow who Caudle $5000 an airplane; vesgjgator fo and Jacob Fr ers who plead ing taxes O operations; W Frank Natl gambler who baum shaked

: Politics * GOOD OR p Texas speech hower’'s own, of ideas tos finally di

Chicago. must do mo! paign. Yet ti It. looks like