Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1952 — Page 8

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

The First Booby Trap

HE exchange of telegrams between President Truman and Gen. Eisenhower on the subject of White House briefings on the international situation goes to the very heart of the major issue between the. 1952 presidential nominees. : That issue is peace and how to secure it. If the vital aspects of this question were to be removed from the realm of public discussion, to be considered only in the secrecy of the President's study, there would be little point to the present campaign... We would have two captive candidates instead of one. Both candidates would be under the thumb of Secretary of State Dean Acheson—just as Mr. Truman has been.

IN HIS REPLY to the President's invitation to attend a confidential discussion of the international situation at the White House, Gen. Eisenhower declined, saying it was his duty “to remain free” to analyze the Truman policies publicly whenever it appeared to him to be proper and in the country’s interest. That, of course, is exactly what the President does not want, because it is in the field of foreign policy where he is most vulnerable. Moreover, it is in that field of paramount importance where Gen. Eisenhower's qualifications overshadow Gov. Stevenson's limited experience so overwhelmingly. : Little wonder that the Truman-Stevenson campaign committee would like to relegate that phase of the campaign to a backroom.

THE UNWARRANTED secrecy which has attended the Truman-Marshall-Acheson conduct of foreign affairs has brought us to our present dilemma in the international situation. Under that policy, the Wedemeyer report was suppressed until China and Manchuria had been lost. The facts about Korea were withheld until we had a war on our hands there. The North Atlantic Alliance is in danger of falling apart because of false expectations abroad and false confidence here at home. Neither would have developed under a policy of “open covenants openly arrived at.” If the alliances we have made are to have real heart and muscle, they must have the -public confidence and public “ support whichjtan come only through public discussion.

Gen.. “Ike” ‘has taken the first hurdle of his cam-.

paign in stride by- politely declining to walk into this secrecy booby trap. Now he is free to proceed with the job he has to do.

Mama's Basket AMA'S market basket will get lighter this fall—and so will her pocketbook. Prices of dining-room staples are going up. The bad news comes from Agriculture Department statisticians and crop forecasters. They blame it on probable short harvests, attributable in part to the drought. But the political price-controllers of the Truman administration have a ready alibi—that ol’ debbil Congress. The Republicans in Congress, says Roger L. Putman, the Truman economic stabilizer, pushed through amendments which weaken the price laws—pushed ‘em right through a Democratic Congress. Democratic campaign speeches, now beginning, will ring with blame for the Republicans. But mama will know prices have been going up all through the Truman administration. They went up when the ‘administration had a strong price-control law, and wouldn't use it. The food-price index has gone up nearly 100 points since the Truman administration has been in office—and the alibis about in proportion. This mama will know. And she will know alibis buy no groceries.

No Problem : :

HE military are often, and justly, accused of making simple things unbelievably complicated. However, at times they excel in the other direction. ” For instance, an Air Force officer sent to MacDill Field, Fla., after complaints about the noise of jet planes, recommended that the men on the base wear ear plugs, and that civilians not build homes near the runways.

- Service Pays Off

ISITORS to the island of Puerto Rico remark upon the excellent service by waiters and other employees in the hotels and restaurants there. It reminds them, they say, of those golden years in the United States when restaurants and hotels were grateful for the customer's patronage, and treated them like a guest instead of a poor relation. The explanation is a simple one. Puerto Rico's government, as anxious as its hotel owners to attract more tourists, realized that it isn’t enough to offer the traveler a bed and something to eat—he likes good service, too. So it proposed that the government would establish a school to train hotel and restaurant employees, if the inn-keepers would agree to hire graduates of the school.

” ” ” THE ARRANGEMENT has worked out splendidly. The hotel keépers are happy because they have more business than ever before. The waiters are happy because they have good jobs. The visitors are happy because they are getting real service. The whole thing has been accomplished at little cost. : Some of our own cities and resort areas might well follow this example. Sloppy, tip-hungry employees are all too common even in places that regard themselves as quality establishments. Proprietors who are worrying about

future business, now that taxes are causing the customer.

to be more careful in his spending, might consider that better service is really the cheapest way to keep him happy.

Give Us Time WESTINGHOUSE announces it will

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- dryer and an automatic washing machine to any woman

# who gives birth to twins on Sept. 23, 1052.

That's nice of them, but it's infernally short notice,

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TRAINING . . . By Ludwell Denny

Strains NATO Defense System

WASHINGTON—France, In wrecking the two-year conscription plan for Alled armies, has strained the entire North Atlantic defense system, Belginm's-quiek cutback of -her service term from 24 to 21 months is only the first and most obvious of a series of destructive chain reactions. . Britain, the only other European power with the two-year tenure, is now under increased pressure to reduce the term. Italy, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have no incentive left to lift their practice to the desired standard.

Reaction of Congress

THE REACTION of the American Congress will be bitterly critical. This will reinforce the determination of a growing group in Congress to provide less foreign ald, rather than the increase demanded by France. For the two-year conscription term has become here an easily understood symbol of the self-help test, which Congress is more and more disposed. to apply to mutual ald appropriations. For a long time members of Congress have been asking: Why should the United States require two years selective service in order to send American youths to Germany, when France is unwilling to match the number of American divisions there or to increase her 18 months of conscription for that purpose? The answer has been that France would come up to the standard as promised, if given time. Now that hope is wiped out. And just at the moment French officials are saying the United States should send more Yivizsions to Kurope,

Far-Reaching Effects

80 THE far-reaching effects of France's latest failure in Allled co-operation will be political as well as economic and military.

On the military side the effect will he felt in 1953-54 more than this year. The French offer the excuse that they still will be able to supply their 12-division quota fo Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Supreme Allled Commander in Europe, this year. Maybe. But they will be short on their reserve quota. And next year they will be unable to meet either their increased reserve pledge or their 15 regular divi sion quota.

Belgium's cutback will reduce her troop numbers by a minimium of 10 per cent. But these quantitative losses, however unfortunate, are of small consequence compared with the qualitative loss, The Allies already are so overwhelmingly outnumbered by Russian and satellite troops—and with no chance of correcting that balance—that the quality of the few Allied divisions is all-important.

Spells Out Issue

THIS EXPLAINS why Gen. Ridgway, on the eve of the unsuccessful Paris meeting on twoyear conscription, called his first press conference since taking command and spelled out the issue. He explained, what all military men know, that modern weapons have beeome so complicated that a minimum of 18 to 24 months training is essential. This means that the French and other 18month conscripts are released from service before they know their weapons or have a chance to serve as trained troops. Therefore the divisions are inferior through no fault of their own. On the economic side, France cannot “afford” more low-paid longer term divisions because she insists on subsidizing home production of heavy weapons which can be produced more cheaply and quickly in the United States and Britain.

‘THUNDERSTORM

When the skies grow dark and dreary . .. and sunlight disappears ... and the thunder starts to rumble . .. stirring up your doubts and fears . .. and the rains fall from the heavens ... like a raging tidal wave .., do not hide in some dark corner ... or perhaps In some deep cave .. . but instead drink in the fullness . . . of this wondrous work of God. . . that is sent to aid all people . . . and enrich the earthen sod . . . lift your eyes toward the heavens . . . that are yours as well as mine . . .and before you scarcely know it . . . once again the sun will shine. ? —Ben Burroughs.

FAMILY BUDGETS . . . By Richard Starnes

We Asked for It

7 NAY SHOULDN'T

WE INVADE 7

BATTLE FOR COPPER . . . By Peter Edson Nations Co-operate To Refuse Trade Bait Of Reds

WASHINGTON—Buyers for Soviet Russia are now offering as much as $1000 a ton for 99.6 per cent pure copper. The U, S. price is around $480 a ton and the world market price is around $730. It isn't that Russia lacks copper ore. But

“she lacks refineries that reduce that ore to

practically resistance-free copper for electrical circuits of nigh quality. 2 For precision boring, grinding -and machine

tools used in ‘the manufacture of -arms, the

Soviet is willing to pay profits of 200 and 300 per cent. # This is the tempting bait held out by Russia and all the Communist bloc countries to the traders of the world who are always eager to make a fast million bucks, regardless of the moral principles involved or the consequences. To prevent this trade in strategic materials with countries behind the Iron Curtain, the U. 8S. government has taken the lead among 61 non-Communist nations of the world in a new kind of economic cold warfare. The full story of this battle has never been told, though it has been going on more or less secretly for some four years. The first official peep at its operations will be given soon when Mutual Security Administrator W. Averell Harriman makes public his report on the first six months of operations under the coincidentally but appropriately named Battle act. This law, taking its name from its principal author, Rep. Laurie C. Battle of Alabama,

SIDE GLANCES

Voters May Get Tough

On Higher

WASHINGTON — The enigma of the 85-cent pork chops is a politically explosive murder case in which the corpse 1s the budget of every family ”

Costs Issue

about it. Higher prices lead to higher wages, which in turn ) lead to still higher prices. Then 1 we would be started on the <® deadly spiral to inflation.”

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was passed last October and went into effect last Jan. 24. In brief, it provides for the determination of what military and atomic energy materials should be embargoed by the free world to the Soviet bloc. It requires that U. 8S. aid be ended for any country that knowingly permits the export of such materials to the Soviet bloc.

For shipping nonmilitary but strategic materials like . petroleum and transportation equipment to. the Soviet bloc, the Battle act permits the President to continue U. 8. aid to the shipping country only on condition that

- ending such aid would hurt U. 8. security.

The Battle act further requires the Mutual Security Administration—MSA—to make a continuing study of the export controls of all countries receiving U, 8. aid and the negotiation of agreements with these countries for embargoing the shipment of strategic materials to the the Soviet bloc countries.

Expert Diplomacy

THIS requires a lot of expert diplomacy. For the United States is the only country which has anything like a Battle act on its books. And it has been difficult to persuade other governments that it is to their interest and advantage to break off trade with Eastern European countries with which they have always traded and to which they must look for vital supplies

_ of lumber, coal, coarse grains and other neces-

“sities of life.

In spite of obstacles such as these, practically complete co-operation has been received from

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Congratulations . TOR: ME, give credit where it is really due, Let me tell you about my little Times carrier, David Gill. He always has a pleasant look. He's very prompt and in nice weather he puts the paper in a chair on my porch. In bad weather he puts it inside my screen. When he comes to collect he is very polite and says, “thank you.” I can always tell when he's off and someone else carries the paper for , So many AAI) never notice these things, but I do. Some day he'll make a good business man and citizen. I like to praise those who deserve it. If more people would talk to and treat the boys nice and encourage them, we would have better boys.

—F. 8. Hubbard, 661 E. 71st St., City.

Still a Free Country MR. EDITOR: I am surprised at the letter D. G. H. put in The Times on Aug. 13. He must think people don’t remember the times back in 1920 to 1932, I would call them drivel times. We are still a free country and we have not been under any domination the last 20 years. We have been enjoying good times and the best years we ever have lived. We can still enjoy the next four years with peace and plenty and still be free. The Republicans say the” Democrats have wars for good times and prosperity. How about the wars under Republicans? Not one word said about them. 1 still say the Republicans would repeal all the laws that would help the laboring people. I will agree the Republicans would cut the taxes and spending, for the people will not have any money to spend or pay taxes with as there wouldn’t be any work, so no work, no money. Now is the time to think about America and her progress for the next four years, and there is only one way to have that progress and that is by electing a Democratic President. Let's go forward and not backward, for that Is the way our forefathers thought, too, and what made this America so great. With God's help we can make America greater with peace

and plentiful days in the future. ~—A Good Democrat,

other non-Communist countries in stopping trade in strategic materials to the Soviet bloc. For instance, through the so-called “additional measures” action of the United Nations, 35 countries have agreed to ship nothing at all to Communist countries. They include most of the Latin-American countries which have al.

ways been raw materials suppliers to Europe,

TOKYO—The Japanese are overlooking no opportunity to twist the British lion’s tail as they continue to stall off any settlement

Most Important Countries _ THE MOST important countries by which the

embargoes must: 8¢appifed, besides the United

States and Canada, are the 12 European memsbers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, plus Western Germany and Japan. The last two have only recently been brought into

this operation. These 16 countries are the principal industrial countries of the world. Their representa< tives operate jointly through a Paris co-ordie nating committee knowns as Co-Com. Through it they exchange intelligence and cooperate in enforcing their embargoes to see that strategic materials do not slip through the Iron Curtain by transshipment through European ports across the 100-mile East-West German, Austrian and Balkan frontier. Actually, most of these countries have been co-operating in this work for the past four years. They began under the Marshall Plan. For the 45 other non-Communist countries which are principally suppliers of raw materials, agreements are made separately by the United States. All these operations are carried out under the direction of Rear Adm. Marcy M, Dupre Jr. :

PLAYING BOTH ENDS . . . By Oland D. Russell Japan Twists British Lion’s Tail Over Theft

ain has tried to throw her weight around despite illegal acts by her people, “British imperialistic history is full of such records,” he says. of the og a =n

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In the country. Whichever party has the bony finger of guilt pointed at it in November is going to have a tough time with the voters. In the classical tradition of whodunits, the sleuth who sets out to fix the blame for runprices is immediately faced with a wealth of clues— gome of them as obviously planted as the dirk in Aunt Minnie's back.

Republicans and Democrats are both in the position of accuser and fugitive. The GOP is to blame, the Democrats ingist, because it was the Republicans in Congress who weakened price and wage controls in the last session. ” 5 on

“THAT, REPLY the Republicans, is a lot of $1.65 a pound baloney. The Democrats themselves refused to impose wage and price controls when they had a perfectly sound law. To support this view, Republicans

cite the following timetable:

Early in September, 1950, Congress passed the Defense Production Act. It contained much_more authority than the President had asked, including the power to control credit, production, wages, prices, even to ration goods. The administration imposed credit restrictions as soon as the bill became law — but President Truman and his advisers continued to maintain that wage and price controls were unnecessary. At that time the Lahor Department’'s cost of living index stood at 174.6—using the period of 1935-39 as the base of 100. The day after he signed the law, President Truman asked for an end to “business as usual” and warned that there would be more money in circulation and fewer things to with it. “This,” he said,

" "inevitably means higher

BUT, DESPITE his own warning, President Truman refused to clamp a lid on prices and wages.

On Jan. 7, 1951, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson indicated that talks were under way exploring the advisability of an immediate 30-day freeze on prices and’ wages. The 30day freeze was the suggestion of Price Administrator Mike DiSalle. It was opposed by the then Economic Stabilization Director Alan Valentine, who insisted that OPS was not properly staffed to enforce such an order.

That was almost four months after Congress had given #he administration

authority to impose controls.

Ten days later, Mr. Wilson announced that immediate, across-the-board pri-y, rent and wage controls must be imposed. “Whatever the cause for delay up to now,” he said, “we must proceed with courage, speed and forthrightness to adopt controls which will insure stability and fairness in our civilian economy.” The immediate eect of the statement was that most everyone who had anything to sell raised prices a little more— preparing for the inevitable ceilings. On Jan. 25, 1951, he Bureau of Labor Statistics released figures showing the cost of living had jumped 1.6 per cent between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15— the greatest increase in any single month in more than three years. Food had gone up 2.8 per cent during the same period. The index then stood at 1784. 2 ~ » THE next day, Jan. 26, President Truman ordered wages and prices frozen. The order came nearly five months after Congress had passed the ‘law granting authority for strict controls. : Since then prices have con-

" tinued to rise, until now food

is at an all-time high. Between

1952, the over-all cost of living had risen 11.4 per cent and food had gone up 14 per cent. As in many mysteries, there ifs a missing witness who knows a lot about the enigma of the 85-cent pork chops. He was an insider, and before he was banished to the outer darkness he said a piece about the case. ’ His name is M. E. Thompson and he is a former governor of Georgia. He was brought to Washing-

‘ton and installed as a con-

sultant in -the Office of Price Stabilization. On Apr. 10, 1951, he quit his job and issued an angry blast at Mr. DiSalle and “the Kansas City gang” running the administration. He told reporters he had been on the payroll for 54 days at $53 per day as a consultant. During that time nobody con-

_sulted him about anything. In ¥ fact, nobody gave him any-

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"One more customer like that and I'm going to call up my 'girl and break our engagement!"

“THOUSANDS of loyal Americans are giving unselfishly of their time in the defense work,” he said, “but their ef-

forts are being nullified by the indecision, bungling and interference of scheming politicians who are motivated solely by their desire to stay in power. “The American people are being victimized by a national conspiracy of mediocrity.” Mr. DiSalle, he charged, was a ‘price manipulator rather than a price stabilizer. “If he were interested in keeping ceilings on prices, he would not admit publicly that price advances are inevitable. Such an admission gives every -chisler a chance to buy goods well in advance, thus contributing to inflation, and to hold them until the price rises. . . . “If Mr. DiSalle were sincere About k

for the past two months.” ~

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‘ prices down he would have been talking about

; tics this is not

trifling taxi robbery case in which a Japanese court threw the book at two British sea-

men. They're saying in effect the

principal reason the British

are kicking up such a fuss is that England is jealous of American ‘supremacy’ in Japan. Japanese spokesmen and diplomats are old hands at playing one side against the other when it comes to dealing with the West and they've

shown in this incident that they've lost none. of their knack. From England, Japanese

newsmen are reporting that British prestige is clearly at stake. It’s popularly admitted, writes one correspondent for the Japanese press, that Britain 1s' unhappy about Japan’s friendly attitude toward the United States and the ruffled feelings of the London foreign office apparently reflect British sentiment. ” = ”

HERE IN Tokyo, whole batteries of international legal experts and publicists are throwing up barrages of acid observations, reminding Britain she isn't what she used to be and probably never was, Nowhere is theré any suggestion that British troops, including the two sailors who were victims of Japan's gamecock indignation, have been fighting for what is indirectly Japan's defense. Typical of the blasts trying to put Britain in her. place is that of Dr. Yoshitaka Horiuchi, formerly in the foreign ministry and now a law lec-

* turer in a Tokyo college. Writ-

ing in“Mainichi, he echoes ‘the opinion that Japan unquestionably has jurisdiction over British forces here and, anyway, the robbery was done while the sailors were off duty.

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HE CONTINUES that West ern nations have always and still make the most of any acts, real or. imaginary, or sometimes even of their own illegal acts against weaker nations, which could be tsed as a pretext to negotiate for bets ter terms for their nation. In this he was referring to cure rent negotiations for a treaty which will fix the exact status of foreign troops other than Americans in Japan. Continuing, Horiuchi says it's understandable that the British might desire equality with Americans, but “the Japanese should not be made to pay for British jealousy over American supremacy.” Moreover, he warns the British action in this case has had repercussions in other Asiatic nations — for which Japan is now seemingly very solicitous —and these nations “have always feared British imperialism as much as they hate Communist imperialism.” = » » BRITAIN, he suggests, had better not try her “power politics” on Japan. Further, there's an implied warning that America would do well to stay out of this controversy, since if any settlement were forced upon Japan in such circumstances it “would bring incalculable injury to the democratic cause in Asia and the world and incalculable benefit to the Communist side.” These are resounding words but they are not far afield from what most Japanese are thinking about the incident. What's more significant, they reflect Japanese versatility in playing the middle against both ends,

‘a tendency that may well be projected later into a sphere dangerous

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