Truman Welfare Program
To Be Target Of Republican
Declaration Of Principles
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-W-An attack on President Truman'i
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of any Republican policy statement aimed at the 1950 campaign.
Serious doubts exist here that the minority party can agree (1) on
whether it ought to write a new platform for the congressional
campaign and (2) what any such declaration should contain.
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While he said he himself is
assailed by these doubts. Sena
tor Smith (RNJ) told a reporter
he thinks the one thing most Re
publicans can agree upon is op
position to those Truman pro
posals which the GOP claims
would amass more government
authority in Washington and pro
vide "hand-outs" for the people
at excessive cost.
"I think most of us are oppos
ed to what is called the welfare
state, where the people lose the
initiative and the government
takes over the direction of ev
eryone's life," the New Jersey
senator said.
Smith, a former member of the
GOP National committee, said he
thinks national chairman Guy G.
Gabrielson has handed Republi
cans one of their toughest prob
lems in asking them to decide
whether there should be a policy
statement and, if so, what it
should contain.
Gabrielson wrote Republican
governors, state and county
chairmen and national commit
teemen yesterday asking for
grass roots expression of views
that could be laid before a com
mittee he will name to study the
platform question.
Smith said he could see a lot
of practical difficulties ahead in
attempting to compromise the
viewpoints of Republicans who
are split widely over many do
mestic and foreign issues.
Taft Takes Stand
Senator Taft (R-Ohio), who
heads the party's policy commit
tee in the Senate, is one of thosa
v. ho remains to be convinced that
it would be wise for the GOP to
attempt to draft a set of princi
ples now.
However, he left little doubt in
a report to Ohio voters yesterday
that he intends to make what he
called the Truman administra
tion's "hand-out state" an issue
in his campaign for reelection to
the Senate next year.
Coming out against future for
eign arms spending, Taft called
for a sloping off in Marshall plan
outlays so that an effort could be
made to balance the budget in
1951 without additional taxes.
Asserting that continued red
ink spending would bring a depression-breeding
inflation, Taft
declared:
"The problem before us em
phasizes the Idiocy of adopting
the so-called New Deal program.
Socialized medicine would cost
more than $6,000,000,000 and oth
er features of the hand-out state
would add more billions."
Taft probably would get agree
ment from most of the Republi
cans to including in any policy
statement a clause opposing re
peal of the Taft-Hartley labor
act.
But as an example of the split
among Republicans, his call for
abandonment of the program by
which this country had undertak
en to help Western Europe re
arm runs into strong opposition
from another party leader, Sen
ator Vandenberg (R-Mich).
Outlawing Of All Weapons To Keep
Peace Better Than Regulated War
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
The American archbishop of York (England), Dr. Cyril F. Gar
bett, advocates that America and Britain take the lead in calling
on the nations of the world to pledge immediate and collective
vengeance against any country using the atomic bomb.
Well, if at first you don't suc
ceed, try, try again. That atomic
idea is one with which the har
rassed United Nations has been
struggling ineffectually for a
long time. Whether the United
States and Britain would have
any better luck is open to large
question, but it probably would
not do any harm for them to
try fresh tactics.
Even more challenging is Dr.
Garbett's idea that the western
Democracies should agree they
never will use the atomic bomb
against an enemy unless it has
been used against them first.
This sort of seems to put the
peace-minded Democracies on a
nasty spot like the crack-of-dawn
duelist who holds his fire
until after his opponent has tak
en a pot shot at him. It is heroic
but it's carrying sportsmanship
rather far.
Anyway, it strikes me that
the place to start is with the
outlawing of war altogether,
which is the objective of the
United Nations.
Outlaw All Weapons
I could be terribly wrong, but
having seen a lot of war at first
hand I find it difficult to ar
gue that it's more humanitarian
to destroy a city by bombing it
for a month with high explosives
than it is to wipe it out with
one atomic bomb.
That's not an argument for
the fearsome atomic bomb. Out
law it by all means. But at the
same time outlaw all other weap
ons. Outlaw war altogether.
Have you seen any of Euro
pean cities which were destroyed
by bombing during the last war?
Well, I've toured through a lot
of them which were virtually re
duced to rubble. Untold numbers
of people were killed or injured
in these bombardments. Thou
sands fled into the countryside
without food or adequate cloth
ing. All that was done with high
explosive, either by bombing or
gunfire. No atomic bombs were
used. Instead of quick destruc
tion and death, there was the
agony of day and night bomb
ing over a long period.
The same thing, on a smaller
scale, was true in World War 1.
Most of the devastation then was
by gun fire, but there was no
more left of the bombarded
cities than there was in the last
war. And there were the same
long lines of hopeless refugees
streaming across the strife-torn
countryside. Many dropped along
the roads from fatigue and stark
hunger.
Which Do You Prefer?
So which will you have an
atomic bomb, an ordinary high
explosive bomb, or a high ex
plosive shell from a big gun?
Or maybe you would prefer gas.
I never have been killed by any
of these methods and so can't
speak from experience, but my
observation is that one is about
as bad as another.
The purpose of war is to knock
out your enemy in the quickest
way possible under the current
international laws governing con
flict with arms. The quicker you
knock him out, the less the blood
shed and suffering on both sides.
The use of atomic bombs on
Japan undoubtedly shortened the
war and saved the lives of thou
sands of American fighting men
thousands of Japanese, for that
matter.
It strikes me that it's rather
putting the cart before the horse
to argue about what sort of weap
ons shall be used once war is
started. What we want is a real
ly united peace organization
which can keep war from get
ting under way.
Let's have peace not regu
lated war.
Established 1873
ROSECURG, OREGON THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 14
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Atom Bomb May
Be Applied To
Infantry Tactics
WASHINGTON UP) Gen. J.
I,awton Collins, Army chief of
staff, says that "serious study is
being given to applying tne atom
ic bomb to infantry tactics."
His comment, given in answer
to a news conference question,
renresented a deDarture from
earlier military thinking.
in the first years atter tne
war, military men felt that the
mass destruction characteristic of
the weapno meant it would be
useful only for strategic attack
on cities. It would be too power-
lui lor use against troops in tne
field.
Collins, replying to other ques
tions at the conference, also said:
1. The Army is buying out of
current funds new models of 28-
ton light tanks, building a sam
ple of a medium 35-ton tank, and
Is studying plans but has no
protoype model yet for a heavy
tank of more than 50 tons. It
also Is purchasing many new
highreaching anti-aircraft guns,
the "sKysweep."
2.i The Joint chiefs of staff
have agreed on a plan for de
fense of Alaska which will be
carried out as soon as housing
for troops can be completed.
It is "not a grandiose plan, just
a modest plan."
Meanwhile there is an interim
plan to "tak? care of the situ
ation if anything happens" be
fore housing is completed and
more troops are moved in.
3. Collins knows of no plan
to rearm Japan or build ud a
Japanese Army.
4. lhe individual commanders
Many Countries Helping
Greece Back On Feet
ATHENS (AT Greek relief
Isn't strictly an American show.
Seven other countries Canada,
Switzerland, Britain, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway and Argentina
have been doing a quiet but
vital job of helping this strife
torn country get back on its feet.
Maternity clinics from Britain,
X-Ray mobile units from Canada,
shoes and blankets from Switz
erland, sanatoriums from Swe
den, and millions of dollars worth
of food are playing a big role in
helping solve one of Europe's
toughest rehabilitation proems.
Corps of trained health spe
cialists from Denmark, Sweden
and Norway, In a joint Scandi
navian aid scheme, are carry
ing out a gigantic program of
examination and immunization.
This program will include every
Greek child, 600,000 of which al
ready have been examined for
childhood sicknesses and tuberculosis.
WHAT'S IN A NAME7 DEATH
KHARTOUM, Sudan WP
Two Sudanese who had the same
last name Khamis were Intro
duced. They cheerfully discussed
the coincidence. Then one dis
covered that the other spelled
his name differently in Arabic.
A quarrel over the correct
spelling started.
Khamis killed Khamis.
of each of the six armies In the
United States now have authori
ty to take immediate action in
their own areas If an attack
should occur, without waiting to
ask permission from the Penta
gon. .
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NEW RECRUITS Above, demonstrating a half - right - face, is
a portion of the many new recruits who have been signing up
with the Roseburg National Guard. Local national guard heads
say there is room for more men in the local unit. Company D,
186th infantry, drills regularly at the Roseburg armory..-Mem.
bers of the unit are paid by the government for each drill.
' (Staff picture) .
TIMBER IMPORTS CUT
GENEVA, Switzerland -OB
Britain cut her timber imports
from the United States by al
most 90 percent during the first
half of this year, the United Na
tions economic commission for
Europe reported.
At the same time, British im
ports from Canada were reduced
by one half, but Canada remained
Britain's largest single supplier
of timber".
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