Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1952 — Page 10

Pictures of well-knowns, in odd situations—but trivial

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QIX TIMES SIX are 36—but Sen. Kenneth McKellar couldn't make it add up to seven times six and 42. Tennessee Democrats Thursday hauled the old man out of office. He had been in the Senate since 1916, longer than any other American in history. At 83, he wasn't satisfied with that record of longevity. He tried for a seventh term, against the advice of friend and foe. But young Albert Gore, a House member the last 14 veats, beat him. Tennessee voters wanted new blood-—at last. In Mr. Gore, they chose an able, enterprising, thoughtful new Senator—for in Tennessee the Democratic nomination amounts to election. Old McKellar was picturesque and cantankerous. Fortified by his seniority, he was a tyrant—a ruthless, exacting proponent of McKellar forever. On this basis, he will be missed in Washington.

BY HIS SENIORITY, Sen. McKellar for years was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. In that capacity, he was a spender—especially for projects in Tennessee. In his autobiography in the Congressional Record he boasts of his appropriating aocomplishments—$400 billions laid out for World War II, 72 postoffices for Tennessee, etc. For the first time in 12 years, the Senator went back to Tennessee to campaign. But neither the powerful Crump machine of Memphis, on which he always relied, nor his personal pleas were enough. The Senator said he wanted to “finish my program for Tennessee.” But the voters finished it for him. Thirtygix years in the Senate and six in the House, they said, were enough. It's a new age and a new day. Albert Gore measures up. Kenneth McKellar was obsolete. Tennessee looks ahead.

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The Truth Will Out

EFENSE SECRETARY LOVETT deplores what he calls “extravagant” European reports that North Atlantic Treaty countries will fall far short of the defense goals set for the end of 1952. The Secretary admits he does not expect the goals to be met. But he regards recent foreign reports as ‘“depressive and defeatist.” It does not seem to have occurred to Mr. Lovett that these reports might not seem so depressive if earlier reports on the same subject, made to the American people by President Truman, Secretary of State Acheson and himself, had not been unduly optimistic and even deceptive.

BUT WHILE THESE reports, which emanate from official sources in London, Paris and Brussels, may be depressive, it does not follow that they are defeatist. They might have become that had such facts been longer suppressed. : The disposition to ignore unpleasant facts, and even to deny them as long as that is possible, is one of the characteristics of the Truman administration. It is a habit common to governments which have become tired and rusty from too long in office. But it is particularly alarming to find a man in Mr. Lovett's position succumbing to this mood, because if our defense structure is falling apart, he is one of the men to whom we must look to put it together again. » » [J » ” ” IT WAS APPARENT long before the NATO meeting at Lisbon in February that the 1952 defense goals could not be attained, in view of the attitude of the governments involved. But the realities of the situation were glossed over and it was agreed to withhold the bad news from the public. Now the truth no longer can be suppressed the outlook is not pleasant to contemplate, we must admit. However, it is in no sense hopeless if the determination exists to do the things which need to be done. But those things will not be painless. Of course, if Mr. Lovett was thinking in terms of the election when he called the bad news from Europe “defeatist” he could be right. An administration which consistently has calmed public fears by false optimism should be defeated.

Pictures in the Paper

PICTURES TELL more than words, we've heard. Consider, then, some pictures in the paper: Fat ex-King Farouk, walking shirtless in his exile— probably to denote his newly imposed “poverty.” W. Averell Harriman, shaking hands with President Truman, who didn’t support his presidential candidacy, to show he wasn't “mad” at Harry. Who? Averell? Agriculture Secretary Brannan, conferring at Springfield with presidential candidate Stevenson. The new

“Brannan plan'—to keep Mr. Brannan in the Agriculture .

Department. 1 4 ” » - » . SECRETARY OF STATE ACHESON, decorated with an Hawaiian lei, watching a hula dancer in Honolulu with the same look of-austere condescension he would bestow on

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ones. In the same paper, pictures of lesser-knowns, also in “odd” situations, but tragic ones. Two Alabama youngsters in a melon patch—holding watermelons no bigger than squash—symbolic of the tragic drought which has hit the South. ; Four Gls in Korea, lugging a wounded buddy downhill through impassable mud from the bloody fighting on Old

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SITUATION ‘VERY GRIM’ .

. . By R. H. Shackford

Vital Middle East Being Lost By Default?

LONDON-—~While the Western world has argued whether the Communist danger 1s greater in Europe or the Far East, it may have been losing the vital Middle East by default. Iran certainly is on the edge of the precipice. Egypt isn't far away. Belatedly, the. West is trying to patch up some kind of united effort to cope with Egypt. It's probably too late to do anything about Iran except pray. But Communists everywhere are notoriously scornful of prayer. What's worse, the two men the Western world counted upon to eave the Middle East from communism now are completely discredfted. Playboy King Farouk has been unceremoniously kicked out of Egypt. The timid 8hah of Iran has been humiliated and reduced to a puppet, The West has no idea what the next day will bring—it's fearing the worst and praying for the best. 4 oH oH

BUT OFFICIALS here aren't hiding the danger to the kingpins of the Middle East— Egypt and Iran. British emotions are normally well hidden, even when the going 1s tough. The old “muddle through” philosophy still prevails. But today there's no sign of optimism in diplomatic quarters here. The current emotion in regard to Iran is alarm. When a foreign office spokesman describes the situation as ‘very grim,” you can bet your last dime he's trying to say it's almost hopeless, Iran is the greatest danger point. It is also the place where the West is most helpless to do anything. When W. Averell Harriman was.in Iran a year ago, he was at first convinced the British could make a deal with Iran's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. He got the British to send Richard Stokes, Lord Privy and Minister of Materials, to Iran to try. But the effort failed, By the time Mr. Harriman and Mr. Stokes left, Mr. Harriman had succumbed to the British view that the only solution was to wait for something to turn up-—probably an economic and financial crisis in Iran would force Mossadegh to be more reasonable.

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THAT POLICY has run its course. Something has certainly turned up. What the watch-

RATIONED . ..By Jim G. Lucas

‘Is This Shot Necessary?’

WASHINGTON—Some types of ammunition may be rationed to GIs in Korea again, even

«though the Pentagon is giving them first pri-

ority on what is available. ; Acting Army Secretary Karl Bendetsen has ordered strict “austerity” rationing of ammunition in training camps because the recent steel strike caused a 37 per cent decrease in heavy ammunition production. Although the strike did not affect small arms production, Mr, Bendetsen sald it cut deep into the output of bazooka, mortar and artillery shells, . Mr. Bendetsen’s order was to protect soldiers In combat by funneling most of the nation’s now-resumed ammunition production to them. However, some Army officers seriously doubt that this action will be effective without some rationing in Korea. They say it still may be

necessary for our men in Korea to ask them-

selves: “Is this shot necessary?” One high-ranking officer pointed out that Army Chief of Staff, Gen. J. Lawton Collins last May told Congress that certain types of ammunition were ‘being rationed in Korea ‘because production does not equal normal battle expenditures.” At that time production was normal.

Steel Strike Causes Shortage

MOREOVER, the types Gen. Collins said were being rationed last spring are those types which suffered heaviest production losses during the strike. An Army spokesman said Mr. Bendetsen’s order does not apply to Korea ‘but does not change anything that has been sald (about Korea) in the past.” "On May 5, Gen. Collins told a Senate committee ammunition had been rationed in Korea. On May 6, the Eighth Army issued a communique saying “ammunition is plentiful.” It conceded, however, that some types of cartridges and hand grenades had been rationed ‘as a normal military precaution to save money and maintain a reserve.” When Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, en route from the Far East to Europe, reached Washington, he said he knew of no ammunition rationing in Korea. The Army then issued a lengthy statement Intended to show that there was actually no conflict in what Gens. Ridgway and Collins had said. If there is rationing in Korea, it will be a theater decision, the Pentagon says. It will be made either by Gen. James Van Fleet, Eighth Army commander, or by Gen. Mark Clark, Far East commander. Mr. Bendetsen's order does not -apply te them. But if—after the Army has diverted all it can to the Far East—Gens. Van Fleet and Clark decide it isn't enough, they can order conservation measures as a ‘normal military procedure.” Except for the battle for Old Bany, it was pointed out, fighting is sporadic in orea.

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munists are bound to gain ground and the country will slip, along with its vast oil reserves, behind the Iron Curtain. . Also, If the West decides to intervene to prevent chaos, it's a sure bet the Russians, poised along the northern border, will take over at least the northern half of the country. There

IT COSTS $6000 A YEAR. . . By Frederick C. Othman. Monkeys Are as Funny as People

ISLE DE SANTIAGO, P.R.,, I knew this would happen some day: Me inside the cage; the monkeys outside, great hordes of U. 8S. government monkeys; observing with interest and amusement my peculiar antics.

Nobody lives on this island about 20 minutes by putt-putt off the eastern shores of Puerto Rico, except 500 red-faced and impudent Macao monkeys. That is an approximate figure, of course, because a monkey leaping through a jungle of cocoanut trees is a very difficult thing to count. Every day Prof. Rafael Rodriguez of the School of Tropical Medicine, or one of his assistants, puts out from the port of Humacao with a boatload of food, consisting of bananas, both red and yellow, pineapples, guavas, yams,

and a special monkey gruel bearing the label

of the Purina Co. of St. Louis, Mo. This costs us taxpayers $6000 per year; the monkeys eke out their diet with whatever they can swipe from the professor, plus coconuts they pluck personally from their own trees. They never wait for these coconuts to ripen; monkey stomachaches on Santiago Island are not unusual. : Still and all, Prof. Rodriguez takes pride in the fact that this is the healthiest colony of monkeys in the world. This is important because these are the monks that the U. 8. Public Health Service uses in its experimental laboratories. At least, it has up to now. Every time Washington orders a batch of monkeys, it is the professor's job to catch them. He baits a trap with the most succulent of tropical fruits. Then he hides behind a tree with a string in his hand to drop the trap door. The trouble is that monkeys, according to Prof. Rodriguez, are becoming smarter than people. One monk now holds up the door, while his pal strolls inside the cage and makes off with the dainties. Until the professor figures out a new, monkey-proof trap, further consignments of Simians will be delayed. The professor was standing by the dock while telling me about this unfortunate develop-

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TOKYO — Japanese government and business circles .are feeling pretty good today as the result of partial solution of two delicate and difficult questions this week. One is the long-delayed ratification of the treaty with Nationalist China. The other is the relaxation of the ban. on trade with Red China for four major items—textile machinery, woolen goods, papers and dyes. By signing up with the Nationalists—extending full recognition of the Chiang regime

the satisfaction of vigilant and often skeptical Chinese themselves—new independent Japan fulfills the implied promises in the San Francisco peace treaty.

This is a matter which had been watched not only by all Asia but by Americans wondering whether Japan would go along with us or would muddy Far Eastern waters by recognizing Red China as Britain did in the interests of her foreign trade.

At the same time it comes as welcome news to Japan that the five-power conference in Washington has agreed to relax controls over four trade items which the Chinese Reds want, This is only fair, since

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ment. In his hand he held a club sandwich de luxe of chicken, ham, tomatoes, lettuce and mayonnaise on toast, which I'd brought out from San Juan. But you know Latins; they talk

with their hands. Just as Prof. Rodriguez was’

about to take his first bite, he gestured. : One of his charges leaped from behind a bush, grabbed that sandwich, and scrammed. The professor said on monkey island mere human beings get used to feeling foolish. He suggested that we retire to his cage. This is a wire-mesh enclosure behind a tworoom shack where he sometimes spends the night. On the door he has a special lock so complicated he can hardly open it himself. He thought hé was safe from monkeys in bed with him until the other night. While he snored softly, one of his monks got inside, opened the icebox door and made off with a dozen eggs, a jar of olives and half an apple pie. In the cage we found seats and I gave the professor half of my sandwich. Then we both had a banana (which you taxpayers thought you avere buying for monkeys) and he told me something of the economics of monkey business. The health service established the colony 16 years ago with about 200 monkeys imported from India. Each female gives birth to one child per year and, as a consequence, there's always a first-class stock of monkeys on hand, though the atomic experimenters have been ordering more lately than anybody ever expected. The professor says, and I am inclined to agree, that $6000 per year is a small price to pay for an almost unlimited supply of the friskiest monkeys on earth. Try to buy ’em in a pet store and they'd cost maybe $100 each. And not be nearly so full of pep. By now there was a horde of monkeys on the outside, looking in. They were pointing at us, showing our more unusual characteristics to their children, and making what obviously were uncomplimentary remarks. The professor said did I see what he meant about feeling foolish as the stellar attraction in the Simians’ zoo? I had to say that I did.

TRICKLE OF TRADE . . . By Oland D. Russell Eased Restrictions May Aid Japan’s Economy

Japan has been under more rigid restrictions than others of the five powers. !

‘their greatest enemy in Iran.

ward Japan by figuring it wouldn't hurt trickle of trade between Japan

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we'd have another Korea, or at best anothep Germany. Tehran, like Berlin, would be in the middle of the Boviet zone. What about a belated deal with Mossadegh? There are three main political forces in Iran —the. Nationalist front led by Mossadegh, the Tudeh Communist Party directed by Moscow and the Extremists led by 80-year-old Mulla Kashani—religious fanatic, unscrupulous political intriguer and rabble rouser supreme, oo < oe NONE OF THESE are of much comfort to the West. But compared with the Tudehs and Kashani, Mossadegh looks good. However, Mossadegh now seems to be on the skids, and Kashani, with his tendency to go along with the Communists, is on the make, He was responsible for last month's street riots to oust pro-Western Premier Qavam. No wonder there's gloom here. For months, the British looked on Mossadegh as Now he looks like their best hope. But this obstinate, hysterical, eccentric now seems out of reach. It's probably too late to try to patch things up with Premier Mossadegh, even on his terms. It looks more and more as though he 1s no longer his own master.

Hoosier Forum

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

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Takes Exception ’ MR. EDITOR: I wish to take exception to Henry Butler's column in The Times on Aug. 4, which expresses an extreme dislike for New England drivers. I am a native New Englander, living in Indianapolis not quite a year, and have not yet been able to get accustomed to the reckless, discourteous drivers of your state, nor to the disastrous conditions of your roads, chuck holes and all. Take my word for it, you are absolutely right when you state that drivers’ reactions on high-

.ways are faster in Indiana than in New Eng-

land. As a matter of fact, their reactions are so fast that it was no effort at all for Marion County to lead the nation in accidents for the month of June.

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IT SEEMS THAT most of your drivers are always in a hurry to get somewhere, if only to pass the car in front. One of my pet gripes against Indiana drivers is their wild, uncontrollable urge to get in front of me when I'm driving in a long lane of traffic. In New England, we consider it safe driving to maintain a comfortable distance between you and the car In front. Here, unless you drive bumper to bumper, some joker will roar around you and try to sandwich his car in front. I can say quite a bit about your chuck holes, but I would rather not. However, I will say this: If I were to go into business in Indiana, one that would be assured of immediate success, I would select the automobile repair business. In closing I would like to say that I took particular offense to your derogatory remarks concerning “senile” New England drivers. However, you have nothing to worry about. At the rate Indiana drivers are going, they won't live long enough to become senile. —H. 8. Porfiros, City.

Another Widow

MR. EDITOR: I am sure Mrs. Sullivan will appreciate the financial aid that is being given to her by the city of Indianapolis. I also know another little grief-stricken widow in our city. Nancy Weeks, whose husband was shot by a policeman on the night of July 18. She has been a mighty brave little girl through it all. She is only 17 years old. She and Richard were happy together, even though fate had given them some hard blows. While playing basketball, Richard fell and broke his back. This was in February and he was unable to work for two months. Then six weeks ago a darling little baby girl was born to them. The night little Rosemary came, Nancy lost her father, Now her husband is gone. Nancy hasn't given up and still tries to smile as she goes about trying to care for her precious little one. It doesn’t seem fair to help one so much and do nothing for Nancy. —By A Neighbor, City.

Finds It Difficult

MR. EDITOR:

The last sentence of a contribution to the Hoosier Forum by “A Good Democrat” reads: “People are well off now if they will only sit down and think of the past they will thank God for what they now have.” I think the “Good Democrat” means we should thank the powers that be in Washington, not heaven, for what we “now have.” I find it difficult to thank anyone for the Korean War, inflation, confiscatory taxes, corruption in government, and prolonged, unneces« sary strikes. There must be many laboring men and women hurt by cruel strikes. White collar workers pinched between high prices and taxes, and those with loved ones dying in Korea must also find it difficult to be thankful for what we ‘now have.” —Mary Steward, Zionsville,

Allied blessing on reopening trade in some lines, the next step Japan considers essential

“as the government 6f China to

The contraband list for Japan imposed during the occu-

pation and continued afterward included many items not on the list drawn up by an Allied committee. None can doubt that Japan must trade somewhere if she is ever to get on a self-sustaining basis, but on all sides there has been notable reluctance to open world markets to the industrious and efficient Japanese.

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that Western countries should attempt to throw some sop to-

and her nearest neighbor, however objectionable—even dangerous — that neighbor may he. The Japanese are by no means cooled by this and their traders are glad for the $28 million business they expect to

do with Red China by the

vear's end as the result of relaxation on these four items. It is nowhere near the $30 million a month piled up as a result of the Korean War, but it'll help, and more importantly Japan sees it as a foot in the door. ” Now that’ they've had the

‘THE LAST LAUGH

The peopsa who ridicule others they know

« « «» and laugh at their trouble or plight . . .

are laboring under a misguided heart . . . that doesn't know what's wrong or right . . . they're the type of folks who . . . never seem to think twice . . . about others whose feelings they hurt . . . by the way they may laugh . . . or the way they may smile . . . or by some cutting word they may blurt . . . but the thing they don’t know . . . is that one of these days . . . all the tables are soon bound to turn . . . and the ones that laugh last . . . will by far have surpassed . . . but I gather they must live and learn, ~By Ben Burroughs ”~ ie Lo

is to get some sort of trade representation in Red China. As significantly observed by Ryutaro Takahashi, Minister of International Trade and Industry, Japan cannot really trade with a country with which she does not keep diplomatic relations and into which Japanese Nationals are not permitted to enter, He said it wasn’t the embargo which kept trade down, so much as the fact that Japanese firms couldn't send their men over

“there to take care of business.

Similarly, the financial and trade organ Nihon Keizaf warned against hasty optimism unless there were forthcoming signs that the trade list might be expanded, Where, it asks, would Japan be if a Korean armistice came and this country were still limited to four items with China, bringing in only a fraction of the business netted from the Korean War? Yet on the whole Japan, having lived up to its promise of recognizing Nationalist China, is as pleased as a Boy~Scout who stretches out his hand for a merit badge You can be sure our boy will go on working for other merit badges—f{rom any

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