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Give Light and the Peoples Will Find Their Own Way

But What About Korea?

ARTS OF Secretary of State Acheson's speech at Kansas City and Adlai E. Stevenson's speech at San Francisco read so much alike that they might have been written by the same person—or lifted from the same brief. Both speak of the “military shield” behind which we are building economic strength against communism. To Mr. Stevenson, the end we seek is the “widening and deepening of freedom and of respect for the dignity and worth of man.” To Mr. Acheson, ours is “the cause of freedom for the spirit of man” and the belief that that cause “is as much a part of the universe as man himself.” But neither speaker, in defending the administration's foreign policy, has answered the question of what we are going to do about Korea. » » . ” * hr ACCORDING TO Mr. Acheson, “The staunch defense of Korea was absolutely essential both to our whole position and to all our efforts to prevent a catastrophic total war from sweeping the earth.” That could be. But.meanwhile, we find ourselves fighting a reasonably big war, almost alone. Mr: Acheson does not say what.we can do about that. wig , The most Mr. Stevenson has said is that he is proud this country has had “the fortitude” to refuse to risk extension of the Korean War, ‘‘despite extreme Communist provocation and reckless Republican criticism.” But this does not answer the question uppermost in the minds of most Americans, and particularly of parents - with sons in Korea, or likely to be sent there. That question is what can be done now to bring this war to a successful con¢lusion, and end thé bloodshed? The American people have a right to expect both presidential candidates to address themselves to this subject. It is well enough to say that, by allowing the enemy a sanctuary in Manchuria from which to attack our forces, ke have avoided “an extension of the war.” But what

of South Korea by North Korean Reds has been extended until it has become a war between the United States and Red China. J » » » . u SOME PEOPLE may think it was “fortitude” to ignore this hard fact. But more will view it as political cowardice. The only real fortitude in evidence is that being shown by the brave men fighting the war under political handicaps. But since we are in this war, and since its end is not in sight, we submit this question to both candidates, and to Mr. Acheson as well: Why not invite the Chinese Nation-

Chinese? Chiang Kai-shek was the first to offer troops, and his offer was spurned. It should be reconsidered now, in the light of our mounting casualties. Then the rest of the 4 world may begin to believe that we are at least as smart as the Russians, who haven't lost a man in this war. We can arm our Asian friends, just as Russia has been arming the Red invaders. But we are inviting inevitable destruction by making other peoples’ wars our exclusive responsibility. i With the active assistance of Nationalist China as a beginner, let's build the “military shield” Gov. Stevenson and Mr. Acheson suggest. But let's build it in Asia with Asians, by an alliance of Korea, Formosa, Japan, the Philippines and the other independent governments in that area.

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TEXAS Democrats have done about everything possible to make it easy for Texans to vote for the Republican national ticket in November. They have put the names of Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Nixon on the ballot under a “Texas Democratic party” label—to soften Texas reluctance to cross party. lines. And their state convention has urged “every Democrat in Texas" to get out and work for the GOP candidates. Feeling as they do about the Truman administration and the Truman candidate, Gov. -Stevenson, their mass bolt is both understandable and acceptable. If they dis. believe in the policies of their own party's candidates, they have a right and at least a moral obligation to go elsewhere. In this light, their action is more exemplary than the recent decision of Texas Republicans. To juice up support for the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket, the Texas GOP took over the whole list of 15 Democratic nominees for state offices. : ] These developments are all very well for the anti. administration Democrats in Texas and for Gen. Eisenhower’s November prospects in that state. But they cone tribute nothing toward building up the much-needed 25 party system in the South. Unlike States’ Righters in Alabama, who four years ago kept President Truman's name off the ballot, the Texas

Democrats played fair and saw to it that the Stevenson. Sparkman ticket will appear on Texas ballots under the ~~ rightful label of “Democratic Party.” -- : : 4 ‘Texas voters will have a free choice among the national candidates, but so far as their state offices are ~, concerned, they might as well stay home.

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Justice Department Sets Out On Real Cleanup

WASHINGTON —Department of Justice is again news. Not because of its scandals, but Jbecause-of the legitimate news it has coming up on the prosecution of government cases that have long been dormant. Time was, during the 1930s and the war years, when ‘Washington- reporters had to keep a sharp eye on Department of Justice and cover it regularly. Then, with the advent of Tom Clark as Attorney General in 1945, the lid of censorship was clamped on, The only news that ever came out of the place was what was handed out in press releases. Assistant attorneys general and division chiefs were forbidden to talk to the press and even to Congress. The Attorney General became the only authorized spokesman for what was supposed to be the government's chief law enforcement agency. It was in this period when reporters couldn't find out what was ‘going on inside the department that all the mess now being uncovered was cooked up. Po > 0% PUBLIC HEARINGS later this month by the House Judiciary investigating subcommittee under Rep. Frank Chelf of Kentucky are expected to throw much new light on what happened in Department of Justice during the blackout years of 1946-51, But the real news that is again making the department a regular port of call for reporters

COAL...By Fred W. Perkins Lewis Switches Plan of Battle

WASHINGTON — Wage bargaining in the soft coal industry is much different from the last time—February, 1951—when John L. Lewis came up with a pay raise of $1.60 a day for members of the United Mine Workers. On that occasion, negotiations were exclusively between Mr. Lewis and Harry M. Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. That body includes practically all the “captive” coal operations of steel companies, and much commercial production in Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, Ohio and other parts of the Midwest. It represents abcut a third of total bituminous production. In early 1950, the Moses group reached an agreement with Mr, Lewis. The union leader placed the same terms before the other groups of coal operators with a plain invitation to “take it or leave it.” They took it — with some reluctance.

Free to Strike Soon

THIS YEAR, with contracts expiring—and the unions free to strike—in the North Sept. 22 and in the South Oct. 1—Mr, Lewis is bargaining with both the Moses group and the Southern Coal Producers Association, which represents another third of national production and is headed by Joseph KE. Moody. The Southern association was the largest of the groups that in 1951 accepted the contract written by the northern operators. Coal operators admit they don’t know the reason for the changed Lewis tactics, but

One is that the Moses group is putting up more resistance than it did in 1951. :

out to get the best offer he can from each of the big organizations, take the best one and strike the rest of the industry until it accepts the new terms. Playing one group against the other has been part of the Lewis bag of tricks in past years. -

Huge Stocks on Hand

THE MINERS’ union is up against difficulties it hasn't faced in many years. There is a huge amount of coal above ground; a strike of a month or more would not immediately hurt the operators, the public or industries. Also, commercial mines in both North and South are not running full time at present, because of overproduction and a slack demand. That, however, does not apply so much to the captive mines. The steel companies are said to be less willing than the commercial operators to stand a long strike. Steel production is booming and the mills are biting into their coal piles. One of Mr. Lewis’ main objectives this year fs some scheme of “sharing the work” among miners. He is said to have proposed a three-day week in most regions. Southern operators seem agreeable but the steel companies don’t want their fuel flow limited in this manner. That may be why Mr. Lewis so far has failed to reach an agreement with the Moses group.

What Others Say—

IT 18 irresponsible to talk about cutting taxes until we have a plan for cutting expenditures that makes sense.—Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Ford Foundation. oe o- o~ % LET Stevenson have the nomination. Eisenhower will be the next® President —Robert C. Kefauver, father of Tennessee Sen. Estes Kefauver. oo 9 oo THE correct pronunciation is “Ad-lay,” although, to put it mildly, I have been called many things.—Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, - SDS IT WOULDN'T be any harder for a man to be married to a lady politician than to an actress.—Movie Actress Jane Russell, oe oe o I'M A country bumpkin and proud of it.— Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama.

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will be in the actions about to be taken by the new Attorney General, the former judge and former Congressman, James Patrick McGrahery of Pennsylvania. , When Mr. McGranery was first named to the job last April, there were various Republicans like Sen. Ferguson of Michigan and Rep. Velde of Illinois who charged he would do another whitewash job. But it hasn't worked out that way at all. * > THE OLD practice in the Department of Justice during the last half-dozen years seemed to be to bring few cases to trial that were not sure to win decisions for the government. Too many cases seemed to be settled out of court. The new practice appears to be pretty much the opposite. Everything is going to be brought to trial. A new solicitor-general, replacing Philip B. Perlman, will be named before the new Supreme Court term begins in October. Among the more important matters before the court will be a new report on the tideland litigation from Special Master Will Davis, and the school segregation cases. - There will be new grand jury investigations in the District of Columbia, probably leading to Indictments of some of the former top officials

in Bureau of Internal Revenue. Various income tax fraud cases will also be brought to trial. One of Attorney General McGranery's first acts after taking over his new job was to ask

{ all Department of Justice divisions and all U, 8.

district attorneys for lists of cases pending in their files. These lists have been carefully gone

over. Many cases that have been held up for no

good reason will be set for trial, . & 0B ANOTHER aspect of this review was to get the list of names of attorneys appearing for clients in government cases, It shows the names of many Congressmen, former Congressmen and former government attorneys who may be using their official positions and official information they figuratively threw out their government office windows, then went on the sidewalks and picked up for private gain. All these connections are to be exposed in an effort to end racketeering in government. This brings up one of Attorney General McGranery’'s pet projects, which is to revise and strengthen the so-called “conflict-of-interest law.” This law goes back to 1885. It was intended to prevent government employees from taking part in actions against the government, where they would serve two interests. AT THE TIME of passage, this law was interpreted as meaning that no Congressman-

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HOOSIER FORUM—Stick to the

MR. EDITOR: Our political campaign up to the present time must be a problem to newsmen in their effort to make a barrel of soup out of one bean. We see such reports as “Mr. Stevenson has holes in

the soles of his shoes.” “Mr. Eisenhower has

his bald head sunburned.” How these reports apply to the issues of the campaign is beyond the average man’s imagination. It sounds like London court news, where “The Queen rode in the park today,” “His Majesty, the Prince, refused his muffins at breakfast.”

It seems that Gen. Eisenhower is for firing

every Democrat on the payroll. That would mean a million or more breadwinners, and they may take that speech literally, and raise a campaign fund to see to it that he doesn’t get a chance. However, if he could extend that threat to embody the Supreme Court members, some old line Democrats could not resist the temptation to jump into the enemy's camp. But he can't do that, so there. We all want peace. But a workable plan must be first formulated to provide employment for returning soldiers and those employed in war plants or we will have another WPA, and signs of “Slow Men Working" on every corner, and hear the final taps blown for the remains of the Republican Party. We know there is a mess in Washington. Let us limit our firing to every Anglomaniac with a Back Bay accent. We must not take it for granted that over a million government employees are crooks and dishonest. We can’t help but remember that Republicans at different times had the same experience. We had Grant's Credit Mobilier, Harding’s teapot dome, MecKinley's embalmed beef, Hoover's prosperity

TOKYO—Russia wants to make sure that Red China, formidable new military power in the Far East, isn’t cooking up any pipe dreams for taking over Japan. Stalin regards Japan as too great a

prize to farm out to his junior partner in aggression. So the Kremlin has called Chou En-lai to Moscow to remind him, among other things, that Russia is still boss and that, although China would share in tHe benefits if Japan fell to communism, Peiping better not get too ambitious just because Japan is a neighbor. That's the wholly new and quite plausible speculation applied to current Moscow talks by a foremost Japanese expert on communism. Former Lt. Gen. Akio Doi expressed those views in an exclusive interview today, Like .. many other ex-generals and . admirals, he’s sure a Russo- . American war is coming and he's keenly interested in how ° Japan would fare, not to mention what part he might play personally. Thin, wiry, dy- . hamic, 56-year-old Doi is not exactly volunteering but he ft the impression he'd be

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around the corner, two cars in every garage, two chickens in every pot. Tell us, oh, tell us, Mr. Candidate, how can we avoid steel strikes, coal strikes, railroad strikes, and all other strikes that affect the whole: public by other means than giving each one an additional red apple to keép them quiet and allow the public to pay for the apples?

—By Bert Wilhelm, 2106 S. Emerson Ave.

Congratulations MR. EDITOR:

Sen. Jenner. is to be.-commended for having the courage to express what so many of us feel about the present state of the country. And The Times is to be congratulated for reporting his views fairly, The nation needs to listen to men of such high courage and forthrightness. I trust the nation will listen to these messages as are the people of Indiana. -—A Reader, Richmond

'GUARDIAN ANGEL’

Once there was a little angel . . . who had love for little folks . .. and she always liked to guide them . . . through each pitfall and each hoax . .. she was told by God in heaven . . . that the children on this earth . . . needed someone close beside them ... from the moment of their birth . . . someone who would warn of evil... and the dangers of this life . . . someone whom they all could pray to . .. in the hour of great strife . . . so it came to be this angel . . . gained great fame both far and wide . . . and whenever children need her... she is always at their side.

—By Ben Burroughs.

GEN. DOI twice served as Japan's military attache to

lawyer would ever be barred from practicing an a federal court. This is true, so long as there is no conflict of interest. = A bill to strengthen this law will be drawn up and presented to the new Congress in a further effort to clean up the administration of justice in government a :

"ALONG A similar line, U. 8. district _attor.

neys have been asked to report on all their out. side-government, private law practice. There ig some thought of trying to get them more pay, so’ they won't have to serve two masters. While all this is going on, Department of

" Justice practices and procedures are being re-

organized to make the place as unlike what it ‘used to be as is possible. ’

SUPPLY TROUBLE .. » By Jim Lucas War Hampers Stockpiling

JWASHINGTON—The Korean War has hame pered the nation’s efforts to stockpile strategic raw materials for a global war. Uncle Sam started stockpiling almost as soon as World War II ended. He went into that war desperately short of many things. Because we

hadn't stockpiled it in advance, for instance, we were forced to send 66 ships after South American manganese in 1942, Sixty-two didn’t

~ get through the German submarine blockades

—-1952—-amounted to "$51 million. . Withdrawals

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Moreover, we came out of World War II a “have not” nation in some fields where we once had a plentiful supply. The idea of a national stockpile is to reduce —eliminate, if possible—a dangerous wartime dependence upon foreign sources of supply. The stockpile is to provide for our industrial and essential civilian—as well as military—wartime needs. Hence, the materials stockpiled are those which come wholly, or in large part, from overseas. oS : ®

THERE ARE 74 items on the critical list, Wa have satisfied our wartime needs for 29. The remaining 45 come from all over the world, During the first six months of this year, the Munitions Board—the nation’s stockpiler— bought $607 million worth of critical raw mae terials overseas. During the same six months, however, it canceled $282 million worth of cone tracts already signed. The majority were cane celed because the materials were diverted to the war effort. Deliveries of metals and minerals to the stockpile continue to be “unsatisfactory,” ace cording to the Munitions Board. “This is mainly due to the continued heavy demand for the military program, the defense supporting program and essential civilian needs,” it reported. : In addition, the Korean War sometimes forces us to go into the strategic reserves we had hoped to save for an all-out war,

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SUCH ESSENTIAL materials as aluminum, cryolite, cobalt, copper, fluorspar, nickel, tungsten and zinc have been diverted from the stockpile to the Korean War economy, Withdrawals during the first six motnhs of

from the stockpile singe the startlof the Korean War have totaled $149 million. We had to dip into our stockpile for copper, for instance, as a result of the Chilean embargo. Withdrawal of cryolite was necessary because of increased demands resulting from the creation of new aluminum faellities. Withdrawals were made, however, only on authorization of the National Production Authority.

Campaign Issues

An Independent Voter MR. EDITOR: :

We would say that Gov. Schricker was on very weak ground in regards to Gen. Marshall, Never in the history of the » 8. was a greater mistake made than when Marshall went to China and forced the Chinese Nationalists to let the Reds into their government, This act lost China to the free world.

Some future historian writing a “Decline and Fall of the North American Republic” could give this as the turning point from which the U. S. went down to defeat and destruction. Had it not been for this act there would have been no Korean War, Over 100,000 dead and wounded American youth is too big a mistake to make. Your correspondent is an independent voter and does not believe this should be a matter for partisan politics. —L. G., City.

‘lke Had Help’ MR. EDITOR:

After many years of being a reader of The Times, I experienced the most distasteful bit of reading in an article on Aug. 20 by Fred Sparks on his interview of Mrs. Eisenhower where he told her the Korean police action did not compare with World War II, which her husband won. Shame on Fred Sparks for his deplorable stupidity. Gen. Eisenhower knows who won that war. So does all the world. The General doesn’t want the public to think he's taking all the credit for winning that war, I feel sure. Why doesn’t someone straighten Sparks out before he goes to press?

~Al M. Hulse, Brownsburg,

STALIN GUARDS ‘PRIZE’ . . . By Oland D. Russell Russ Warns China Leader on Japan ‘Grab’

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Moscow, the last time almost to the outbreak of World War II. He speaks Russian fluently and was on Moscow's list of war criminals. . He escaped trial by accepting a post as adviser with the Chinese Nationalists after the war and staying oft of sight. This is a tribute to Gen. Doi’s standing as a Russian expert, since he was a staff officer with the Japanese expedition ary army which sacked Nanking in 1938. Chiang Kai-shek was willing to forget or overlook the old enmity to make use of his services in fighting communism. Gen. Doi last month published a book, “Japan and the RussoAmerican War.” In addition, he heads the well-endowed *“Institute for“Research of Continental Problems,” which issues a monthly monograph on Japan’s relationship to the struggle between democracy and communism, When will war come? Between 1055 and 1960 is Gen. Dot's educated guess,

s = =» : "WHO WILL win? The socalled United Nations, he says, adding that America will be fighghg under that banner, of cour foresees the United

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dividually and successively with new pro-United Nations regimes.in each Russian satellite, Finally the Russian people, with our subversive help, will set up an anti-Communist regime in Russia and Soviet remnants will flee to the hinterland—possibly Siberia—and try to start capitalizing on hardships and chaos caused by World War IIL Said Gen. Doi, “propaganda to the contrary, Asia will be a secondary war theater. The main show will be in the European theater. Nevertheless, Russia will make a determined effort to get Japan both by external and internal aggression Hokkaido may even fall to Soviet forces but the U. 8. will conti to defend and hold mot Japan. “I am sure the Unitdd/States will never abandon Japan because of its importance as a jet air base and to ward off any invasion of Alaska.

“MOREOVER, JAPAN will be neaded as a base for antisubmarine warfare. Red Uboats will prey on Allied shipping in the Pacific. And above all, just as Stalin does, the U. 8. will Ji

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well as manpower. “Japan's duty is clear. It's ridiculous for us to talk of trying to stay neutral. We must rearm as quickly as possible, then co-operate to the utmost with the United Nations under United States leadership. Only such a show of will, plus the continued presence of strong U. 8. garrison forces, could possibly deter Russia from attacking Japan.”

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