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A SCRIPPS-HOWARD N EWSPAPER

HENRY Ww. MANZ Business Manager

Wednesday, July 2, 1952

oY w. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE President,

Editor

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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Who’ $ the Asorefor?

“HE BITTER denunciations of the Yalu River bombings.

> by some of our Allies in Europe would have it appear that the United States is the actual aggressor in Korea, and the Reds much-abused innocents. The purpose of the United Nations’ intervention seems

- to have been forgotten.

The obsequious reaction of our own government to this storm of criticism is as humiliating as the abuse of Gen. Mark Clark’s decisions is unwarranted. If all the governments which supported intervention

in Korea had joined us in doing their proportionate share

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of the fighting, this affair might have been brought to a successful conclusion while it still could be termed a “police agtion.”

oir Allies apparently feel they can escape its penalties by pretending that the present fiasco is the result of American

mismanagement. They have forgotten that the “limited war” idea was a “made-in-London” product which whs sold to a confused President by fast-talking Englishmen. # » . ~ . x BRITISH CRITICISM of the power plant ‘bombings runs the whole gamut from such terms as a “crime” and a disaster” to such relatively mild characterizations as “a capital blunder” and a “psychological mistake.” All of which overlooks the point that these power plants were used to produce munitions which were killing American soldiers. : Eg British airmen, to their credit, had no such compunctigns when they were bombing Berlin. - The United States has contributed 84 per cent of the gtound troops, 92.7 per cent of the naval forces and 98.76

per gent of the air support involved in this war. This coun- _

tions which now want to have the last word on strategy and tactics. And if this fighting-under-wraps policy leads

toan eventual defeat, we may be sure it will be heralded

as an American defeat by the same backseat drivers who are keeping our hands tied.

ning the war in Korea rather than a United Nations com-

mittee.

Stalin Scores Again

"HE VIRTUAL COLLAPSE of Secretary of State Ache- . son's “pay-and-hope” foreign policy has become apparent during his current visit in Europe. His trip was intended to stiffen Europe's anti-Commu-nist front. It has turned out quite the opposite. On his arrival in London, Mr. Acheson was called— or placed himself-—on the carpet to explain the bombing of

the Korean power plants, and from that point it was all

give and no take. Even the French got into the act by

demanding the right to be heard regarding future opera- .

tions in Korea.

The extent to which the Secretary's condession’s may have tied the hands of the field commanders in Korea remains to be revealed. But his agreement for another meeting with Russia before proceeding with German rearmament pulls the rug from under the very program to which he has devoted the last two years.

No one believes Russia will agree to any plan for German unification which the Western Allies could accept. But Stafin demands a new meeting whenever the West seems on the point of getting together on some defensive arrangment; the~French and British Socialists p ick up the

* ball from thzre and insist upon another parley.

So German rearmament is to be delayed while there is another meeting, or at least talk of another meeting. Which will serve the same purpose. * “The agenda this time will be limited to the question of free elections, it is understood, but that subject alone can consume months of debate. Meanwhile, there must be another exchange of notes before even this meeting can be called. Meanwhile, too, Russian rearmament will continue unimpeded—and it is well ahead of us now. . There is some consolation in the prospect that this may be Secretary Acheson's last mission abroad. By the time.the United States get untied from these new commitments, there will be a new President and another Secretary of State—we hope.

Industry Is You

ROOKINGS INSTITUTION, that unique organization which has done so much to set so many facts straight, has come up with another useful report. This one knocks down a lot of popular Misconceptions about who owns industry. ‘The survey, which took nine months, shows that 6,490,000 persons own stock in U. 8. industrial corporations. This does not count more than three million others who have holdings in private companies or small concerns not listed in the securities market. The most significant fact produced by the Brookings survey is that 76 per cent of all the stockholders have incomes of less than $10,000 a.year after taxes. Industry is not the possession of a few fabulously rich barons. It is the possession of American citizens of all walks. That's what makes it so American. Which is.something to remember when we get into our interminable economic wars and politicians seek to stack. one “side”

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Acheson’s Tr ‘No Sole

WASHINGTON, July 2—Secretary of State Dean Acheson's European’ trip, which ends, today as he takes off from Austria for Brazil, has not been a success. Neither was it a complete failufe. He merely got by. His main purpose was to prevent a worse Allied split and, if possible, to get unity on sev: eral outstanding issues. - The best that can be ‘reported is the Allies were no farther apart when he left than when he arrived.

His secondary objective was ceremonial. He ?

flew over the Iron Curtain twice to visit the political islands of West Berlin and Vienna. The Allies repeatedly have assured Germans ‘and Austrians in those exposed outposts that Westérn military forces will remain there as long as there is a Soviet threat, and an attack on those areas will be treated by the Allies as an atta on themselves. Secretary Acheson appeared a® a personal “symbol” of that pledge. In that he was successful.

Not His Fault

THAT "HE did not accomplish more on the larger issues was not altogether his fault. Offsetting his usual popularity in the European chancellories are unfavorable factors over which he has no control.- These include: : There will be a different Secretary of State within six months. In the midst of a hotly.coniested election campaign, the Truman administration does not feel itself free to make new foreign commitments—except in an extreme emergency. Congressional cuts in foreign aid reduce the influence and bargaining power of any American spokesman abroad. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, French ‘Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer are even less free than the Truman administration to make new agreements. Public opinion polls and local election tests show the British cabinet now has only minority support, and the strength of the Labor Party opposition is growing.

Lost Control

THE FRENCH parliament is withholding support from Mr. Schuman’s German and Tunisian policies. Mr. Adenauer has Jost control of his own coalition government in Bonn. In these circumstances Secretary Acheson could not go very far with his new ‘‘get tough with Russia” tactics. It was not a question of convincing Messrs. Eden, Schuman and Adenauer in theory, but of proving to them such a course was expedient for them politically at home-—which was impossible. Therefore Mr. Acheson could not ‘get a firmer Korean stand from Messrs. Eden andSchuman. He could not induce.them to refuse another futile German conference with Russia —they insisted on one, and so did Mr. Adenauer. He could not sell a more effective Tunisian policy to Mr. Schuman, whose half-way measures are too advanced for the Paris chamber. And he could not wring a united Mediterranean command under an American admiral from a British government, which: is already criticized by its electorate for being an alleged

__ Yankee stooge.

Short of a new major Russian aggression, this pattern of Allied indecision is likely to continue “until after the American election and until the chief European governments get stronger parliamentary support.

What Qthers Say—

WE WILL not go backward, and I will take any measure to maintain order in this country. — French Interior Minister Charles Brune. cde dy

SHE (Mrs. Matthew Ridgway) will show the ’

French what a real American woman looks like. —Paris fashion expert Pierre Balmain. LA IT WAS a mistake to assume, or even hope, that the enemy was capable of acting in good faith.—Former chief truce negotiator Vice, -Adm. C. Turner Joy. od ob GRANDFATHER used to say the greatest singing lessons a girl can get is to listen to those who sing from the heart.—Singer Rosémary

"Clooney.

Wh» Bb IT WAS like being in a beehive.—Eseaped convict Davis’ Henderson whe invaded a Girl Scouts’ cottage. * P *

A PRESIDENT seldom gets a medal himself, . usually he gets brickbats. President Harry

Truman after getting medal as an honorary Ozark hillbilly. x : 2 4 WE AMERICANS: die for our ideals but ‘we can't talk about them.—Mrs. Perle Mesta, U, S. ambassador to Luxembourg. oo» oo» on THE people of America want something ‘done (about offensive TV and radio shows), they're demanding a cleap-up.—Rep. E. C. Gathings (D. Ark.). 0 AE & j I'M AFRAID unlawful Shiance will always be with us.—TV actress Rosemary LaPlanche, Miss America in 1941. :

DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel Kidney

Rep. Brownson Helps Keep Books Straight

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SARGE SEARCHES BYWAYS... By Frederick C. Othman

Rides Herd on Truant Senators In German Peace Treaty Debate

WASHINGTON, July 2—Maybe yowd like

‘a picture of some gentlemen in a hufry . . .

the U. 8. Senate in a headlong rush toward adjournment. The statesmen met two hours early, at 10 a. m, to get a head start on the ratification of the peace treaty with Germany. .The Veep was on the job. So was the chaplain, but there

were only seven Senators out of 96 to bow their heads in prayer. The rest were busy somewhere else; I guess, maybe. This did not please Sen, Tawm Connally (D. Tex.), who had some appropriate remarks

‘in favor of ending our war with ihe Germans.

Only what's the use of making a speech to the U. 8. Senate when practically all of it is absent? Came a roll call. The clerk read off the names at a laggard's pace to give the Senators a chande to rush in. He did and slower. still. Still no Senators much on the job. Sen. Tawm sat there with golden shirt stud glaring; himself, he looked benign. The majority leader, Sen. Ernest W. MeFarland (D. Ariz), moved that the Veep order the sérgeant-at-arms to round up the truants. The little band on the floor agreed this was a good idea. So be it. The poor, old. sarge stomped out of there, looking in the byways for Senators, Came then a long .and thumb-twiddling wait while a few more Senators strolled in. Sen. George D. Aiken (R. Vt.) in a scarlet bow

THANK GOD _

The blessings that endow us all ., , as the stars . . . that move around this world of ours . . . from Jupiter to Mars . . . and whether we be rich or poor . . . unhealthy or 0. K. ... all of us have many things . . . to thank God for today . .. it may be only sunlight seeps in our lonély room... but just a bit of sunshine . , . always drives away the gloom . . . and even if we could not see , . . our hearts can know ‘much cheer . . . by listening to sweet music . . . that will soothe each doubt and fear... we must thank God for what we are . .. and for the things we own . .. thank Him for all our loved ones . . . and thank God we're not alone . . , for who are we'to Asko! God . . . the reason for our fate . . . when Himself gave up His life .,. . without malice or hate. —By Ben Burroughs

‘SIDE GLANCES

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WASHINGTON, July 2 — DEAR BOSS—'Deobligate” is the latest gimmick devised to switch defense funds so they can be spent for something other than the purpose designated by Congress, Freshman Republican Rep. Charles B. Brownson; Indianapolis, gave his colleagues in the ‘House a report on “deobligate.” He took the description of ‘it right fram Pentagon tstimony, he declared. The upshot was the House voted to- stop this ‘deobligat-

ing” and thus keep the books

straight on‘ several hundred millions of previously obligated defense funds. The $408 million which Mr, Brownsgon wanted saved through wiping out the “deobligated” funds was described by him as being “a lot of money.” “As a matter of fact,” Mr, Brownson said, “It represents the total income taxes collected from 700,000 heads of Ameri: can families of four who earn

$5000 a year.

“THAT som of money in one tall pile of crisp, new bills would tower 136 feet in the air.” Praising the appropriations subcommittee for cutting out $200 million, Mr. Brownson urged the additional $208 million cut be made from the House floor. He cited Defense

- Department testimony concern-

ing shifting of. $208 million

and then played this ace

“Did you notice that new term, ‘deoblit is what will hap Ee to the $208 million. It will ‘deobligated. and the money

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will be spent on projects which

have not necessarily secured the approval of this or any other Congress. What luxuries and gadgets and foreign boondoggles will this uncontrolled appropriation buy ,when' the Defense Department finished: its process of deobligation. ” ” o “THIS-SUM of money repre sents the total income taxes

collected from 360,000 heads of .

American families of four who are earning $5000 a year. I am sure they expect the Congress which they elected, to. guarantee them a dollar of defense for every dollar spent. I any sure they want the United States and her Allies to be strohg, but I am equally sure they do not want their tax dollars wasted.” Mr. Brownson censured the Defense Department for concealing deobligated funds amounting to $408 million “in order to secure larger authorizations and larger appropriations.” After the House, cuts were made, the bill was passed and sent .to conference with the Senate. With the appropriations bills finally approved, Congress will be set to adjourn (they hope. for keeps) on Saturday. The Hooster Republican Congressmen, who are planning to’ be in Chicago for the GOP convention next week, may take

off sooner so they can stop-.- * gandist for the House

over In Inglana en route, ” .

TODAY THEY ALL at:

tended a sort of seminar for district

the first and eighth nominees — Elliot tihae

1 'had been © the nine

(D. Del).

tie rushed in, answered to ‘his name, and rushed out again. So did Sen. J. Allen Frear So did many another lawgiver. They .all seemed to have urgent business elsewhere. . Sen. Tawm began to look less happy. * The situation nearly an hour later looked like a headlong standstill to nowhere. But I guess the sarge was persuasive. In came a few more Senators and at long last we got a quorum. I know we did, because the Veep said so. He counted 48 Senators BEaWermE to their names. My own count showed 16 Zentionen in their seats when Sen. Connally began his speech: “I am glad to report that the treaty with the federal “republic of Germany ..."

I could tell you what else he said, but if so -

few Senators (only 11 heard him out) were interested, why Should you be? Let's just say that nearly all hands agreed the treaty was a good thing. Why they insisted oh urging each other to vote for it is something I can’t answer.

But urge they did, Senator after Senator, .

each with a few thousand well-¢chosen words. Slow at Signing ONLY GENTLEMAN who seemed at all

leary of the idea was Sen. Arthur V, Watkins

(R. Utah). He said eight nations were supposed to sign the treaty and none of 'em had got around to it yet. Why should we be the first? Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R. N. J.) said we ought to encourage the Germans by signing now. He talked at length. His audience had dwindled to eight when I strolled into the senatorial restaurant for a tuna fish sandwich and a dish of strawberry ice cream. When I got back an hour or so later, Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D. Iowa), looking snappy in a white suit with black handkerchief and tie, was insisting that his colleagues vote in favor

of the treaty. He said they should make it unanimous. . Four gentlemen, including the official stenographer, were listening to him. Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wis.) leaped up for a similar oration. He had an audience of thrée, but by now it was into the afternoon and Senators, after all, get hungry, too.

By Galbraith

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"do not agree with a word that you say, but 1 will defend to the death ito right to say it." Si,

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MR. EDITOR: * This letter is being sent to you ‘because you are one of the outstanding leaders of this com munity, whe has.demonstrated your interest by participating in programs designed for progress, particularly in the field of Civil Rights. Such program is in the making now and we

: know that you will be willing to lend your

support to the project. : On Friday evening, June 20, 8 p. m, at Crispus Attucks High School, “Toll the Liberty Bell,” presented by the local Chapter of the NAACP. Admission, $0.60. This play is being presented for two important reasons: Ohe fo raise money to help the local chapter carry on its fight for better housing, better jobs, and improving the lot of all minority groups here, The other important reason, equally as important as the first, is to inform citizens of this city on “What the NAACP Really Does.”

The play is actually written about real cases and real problems which the NAACP has solved. It is both interesting and informative. The play, without a doubt, will enlighten a number of people on the militant fight which is being waged and has been carried on for many years to gain first-class citizénship for minorities in America. Progress made in eliminating segregation in education throughout this country did not simply happen—it was made to happen by men and women who have given their time and money unselfishly. . Will you do one very simple thing to make this project gain the success it needs? Before your church congregation or club or whatever groups you can reach, will you please encourage all persons to attend this play?

Please use a few minutes of your time to Thank you very much,

By ‘Mrs. Frank Beckwith, General Chalipman.

For Mr. Ruark

MR." BDITOR: An open letter to Mr. Robert Riark.

I guess you get lots of letters from cranks ind winos. I don’t think you would- bother to notice this one. In spite of your plea of poverty, I know you guys are surrounded by secretaries—beautiful ones. (Editor's note; Natcherly.) However, there is something disturbing my soul. I used to buy a nickel newspaper—just to read you. I read you before I read Li'l Abner. What greater tribute can be made to a person. In fact, you are ‘mah ideel.” I liked the way you blasted the women. You're like me. You love them and at the same ° time you hate them. What I'm trying to get at is this. You are slipping. I yawn when I read your stuff, with the exception of your recent column about how you wrote merely for amusement. That was like the old Robert. : ¢ & &

REMEMBER Mark Twain? The old boy had something on the ball until he became 4 professional. ' The discovery of people being - corrupted by the necessity of earning a living is a long way from being original, but like all the tiresome old truths, it is still true. Specifically, quit boasting about your friendship with Bernard Baruch, and devoting a whole column to lamenting the fact that he has no sense of humor. How many people have? My nose is broken in three places from trying to be gently ironic. Generally, people of my breed who are afraid of their own shadow wind up writing mash notes to people they think won’t set the cops on = em, but this is my first offense. I wouldn't ave the nerve to write this, especially without ‘ink. but I'm all wined up. Even the flophouse looks good to me today. So lay off the lush for a while and regain your sense of humor. Please don’t become another Walter Winchell. ' We have enough of his kind and not enough of your kind. - I talked this letter over with the rest of the bums. They ‘agreed. We guys have an intellectual life, too. Don’t let us down. ~QCarl H. Ferguson, 729 Union St.

Praises Bombing

“MR EDITOR:

We bomb the vital power S8tations in North Korea and give all America something to cheer ‘about and lift morale. Then bankiupt Britain protests our show of strength and our Secretary of State hastens to placate them by offering greater voice in United Nations-Korea decisions, presumably with the idea in mind (by John Bull) of stopping or toning down our very timely and well-directed strike. Who's running America? Congress or Great Britain? Sure, Great Britain is in the United Nations too and has troops in Korea, but by far the greatest number .are America's and most of the money and equipment. : I say the strike on the power plants. was an . excellent strategy, well directed and carried out, and probably scared heck out of the Kremlin. Lets have more ‘of that show of strength. -~H. B. R., City.

ECONOMICS . . . By James Daniel Price Experts Prepare To Drop Controls

29.0 fog U. & Put, ON, o Cope. 1982 by NEA Servies. Ine

"ls that the same poll that put Tem Dewey } in the White House in 19482"

arranged by Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, who held a similar precampaign session

two years ago. Robert Humphreys, Martinsville, top-flight GOP propa-

Congressional Committee, showed the . delegation movies for stumping. Kora, cover such a8 Korea creeping so1am an high taxes. the Clicagn emvention Republican Congress-

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‘dates with State Sale Holder and Sen. Jenner on Monday. ’

2m be

men and the two nominees

expect to meet with Sen. Wil-.

liam E. Jenner, who heads the ticket, to discuss the campaign. Active campaigning is scheduled to startin the state” after Labor Day. a. Explanation of the Eo Chicago meeting was that the

press of adjournment here pre- 2.

vented the Congressmen: from attending a meetihg' of candiChairman

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WASHINGTON, July TR Government price stabilizers are setting up machinery to drop most price controls, The

decision on when and how to decontrol has not yet been made: A special staff is being created to keep an eye on prices after controls come off and decide when to recontrol if undue increases occurred while government stabilizers still have authority to regulate prices. Orie plan is to keep a monthly check on prices in 50 or so stores around the nation. Along with this information, the price stabilizers would use data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Formulas, set in advance, would determine when to recontrol. Congress has extended price controls for 10 months, but has urged the administration to end them earlier. on » v OFFICE OF PRICE STABILIZATION (OPS) officials say this puts them in a spot where they'll be criticized if they continue to control and criticized if they decontrol and prices shoot up. °

A. go-slow gthool favors a ‘two-step decontrol :

program.

First, ceilings would be re-

‘moved on the prices which

manufacturers may charge. After 90 days, if there were no sharp price increases, controls

over retail prices would ‘be re-""

moved.

_Another ‘group of” “policy ° - makers :

ts col recent

“spokesmen for’ retail rig Have ged the OPS fo drop

controls as a service to con-

sumers, They argued that some high-volume lines of goods would ore cheaply if they

could offset low profits on

these with higher profits on

slow-moving lines. Some said rigid percentage mark-ups, now dictated by OPS, make retailers less eager to beat down manufacturers’ asking prices, because if they succeed they correspondingly reduce -their . own revenue. They said they would like to buy more cheaply and split thé difference with customers. " » »

_ THE CONSENSUS at OPS seems to be that small price increases might follow suspension of controls—one official’ guesses an average of three per cent, It’s recognized that in some lines, appliances for example, unrealistically high ceiling prices have become an advertising point for articles nor-

‘mally sold for considerably Jest than ceiling. With decon--

certain prices might derok. The OPS doesn’t keep statistics on what goods are being sold below ceiling. A Mar. 15 BLS report showed 50 per cent of the items of consumer interest were selling below their post-Korea peak—which wasn't necessarily the OPS ceiling. Individual stores ‘have reported

«« up. to 50 per cent of -transac--

tions are bédlow ceiling prices. Still tight: Most metals, industrial chemicals and machine,

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WEDNES New TV Displaye

Westinghouse miles around a two-day sales Warren hotel, i , the 19 new mod line. y The display, V. Wake, sales egizes the Can which the firm many homes i tion of the co it sponsors ove WTTV. Westinghouse Electronic which prevents showing all ti caused by pass thermy machin terference. And for the a new set but i new channels there is a simpl in unit, costin will adapt the s time, according ~ local advertisin; The line in from low-priced which bases ar inch sets and TV combinatior finishes and pri

Two Her Burglary

Two Indiana faced second charges after ty tectives looked find them. The pair, Jan 606 Beecher St. non House, 24, ( St., were charg into the Canteen Co. at 3560 Ma When State Sgt. James R. ( Timme, investig that someone w: place, they four under a truck : in the rafters. They are be Marion County bond each pendi day in the Spe Court.

Water Rate Sought in N

Higher water customers in ar ville were asked - Gas & Water C ; The boosts we 40 per cent for 35 per cent for sumers, In its petitio Service Commi said profits ha per cent becaus The higher rate firm about $26, per year,

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