T H U R S D A Y , A U G . 31, 1950
S O U T H E R N O R E G O N N E W S R E V IE W
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A-B om b P lan R eadied
Chase the Bureauciats!
HERE'S BEEN no change in the t N BOTH his radio addresses to the
President’ s ban against A-bomb- * nation and In his message to con
ing in the Korean war. but in order gress, President Truman warned
not to get caught unprepared, air the American people that if there
force chiefs are working out all de was evidence of profiteering or
tails for future use—just in case. hoarding, he would ask congress to
They want to be able to retaliate re-enact war-tim e controls, includ
24 hours after Moscow makes the ing price regulations and rationing.
firs t aggressive move. This means At the same time, we were assured
that lists of main bombing targets there was no danger of a food short
and atomic bases for launching age. no reason for buying more than
B-36's must be all set
. . chief our day-to-day needs, and so pro
reason for the navy's quiet current vide an excuse for raising food
efficiency is the teamwork of Ad prices.
m ira l Forrest Sherman and home-
In other words, the President
spun Secretary Matthews. Matthews
threatened to Impose upon all
I picked Sherman as the livest ad
of us the hardships and incon
m ira l in the navy by reading the
veniences of a price control and
army-navy unification hearings. His
rationing system, not only on
judgment has been fully Justified
those who were guilty of hoard
ing, or the merchants who were
. . . They pull together perfectly
profiteering. The Innorent must
. . . Sen. M argaret Chase Smith of
pay the penalty for the sins of
Maine bowed out of the senate
wire-tapping probe because she ! the guilty. All must again stand
in line to secure ration books,
would have to sit in judgment on
then await their turn to buy
her fellow-senator from Maine.
their allotment of sugar, coffee,
Owen Brewster. Since Brewster
baron, and other food and house
has been making noises about de
hold supplies to which the gov
feating her, Mrs. Smith decided
ernment says they are entitled,
she would be a prejudiced Judge
and at a price the merchant is
and excused herself.
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Since the beginning of time it has been the foot soldier that
has been the backbone of every army. Above American tanks
and infantry are shown moving up to their defense line. These
are the men who fight and die and win wars.
»
A
A
A
A
MEN AT WAR
Time-Honored Foot Soldier Still
Backbone of Every Nation's Army
told he ran rharge.
A South Korean arm v band stood on the dock playing marches as
HOLDBACK ON HOARDERS—
Now, because of the hoardings of
the U.S. troopship pulled along side. A marine, leaning against the It was significant that when Con-! a small m inority who were unw ill
rail, cracked:
gresswoman Helen Gahagan Doug ing to take their chances on being
“ Well, beat me around the ears and call me stupid! The Koreans las of California proposed an able to eat, and by hoarding called
are playing trombones. What you know about that?"
amendment reinstating rent con-' the President's threat, all of us must
But the marine who stood beside him had a serious reply: "They trols in cities where rents increased again, for no one can say how long,
got other Koreans that don't play trombones, jughead. Just see that .drastically, not one Republican suffer the penalties that go with
you don’t get them mixed up."
voted for it. Her amendment was hoarding and profiteering. All of
That is the American soldier—
defeated. (Looks like the real es- us must pay the penalty brought
time that we ain’t just brag-
the strangest individual that ever
' tate lobby is s till strong) . . . Cred upon us by the hoarders and the
gin.’ If we don’t stop the Com
made up an army. By all standards
it Florida's Dwight Rogers with profiteers.
munists here we’ll be trying to
he should be the poorest fighting
We can get back at those profit
the crackdown amendment on
stop them some day on our
machine in the world for all of his
hoarders which would send them to eers who raised prices, and by so
home ground. We don’t want to
training and equipment.. Surpris
jaiL The vote on this crossed party ] doing forced the President's hand,
have to do that. That's why
ingly, he is good. Sometimes he is
lines . . . Not crossing party lines, ■ by trading elsewhere, but there is
we're here."
extremely brave, and as often as
What the private and corporal however, was the proposal for an ! not much opportunity to pay the
not scared about half to death.
says is often reflected b7 his o ffi immediate excess profits tax pro hoarders for what they did to us.
He is inclined to manufacture a cers who march and fight with posed by alert Congressman Walter It is small satisfaction to those of
language of his own, punctuated him. This is what one had to say j Huber of Akron, O., Democrat. that vast m ajority who did not
with profanity, and direct it at every about the Korean fighting:
Pushed by Democratic Congress practice hoarding to know that those
conceivable object. He hates au
" I don’t know where to start on man Dan Flood of Wilkes Barre. who did. and by so doing again
thority and regimentation, but he this. These last three weeks have Pa., and Mrs. Douglas, the amend brought rationing upon us. must suf
obeys orders.
been pretty rough. We’ re getting ment at first was adopted, then fer the same penalties as the rest
help here now. That’s something thrown out of the control bill. Most of us. when their hoarded supplies
Backbone of an Army
are exhausted.
we sure didn’t have when we start- ; Republicans were opposed.
At home, parents and sisters and ed. What makes it so d ifficu lt here i
It was nearly four years after
sweethearts and wives are in is that you can’t tell the damn ( TEXAS POLITICS—Young Maury
the fighting in World War II was
clined to wrap him in a cloak of North Koreans from the South Kor- i M averick (his father was the able
over before we were relieved of
righteousness that is an illusion. eans. That caused a lot of slaugh congressman from Texas and ex
that obnoxious rationing nuis
On the battle front he is tough.
ter . . .
ance. The President made a per
mayor of San Antonio) is now run
Since the time of ancient Egypt
“ We had a narrow escape here ning for the Texas legislature in a
sistent effort to continue it, aid
when that nation spread across about two or three days ago. Lost J race which sets a record for gall.
ed and abetted by the bureau
the eastern shores i f the M editer a lot of good men. Hope we never j M averick Jr., is opposed by Frates
cracy that manned" OPA. If he
ranean and conquered all of the get into a scrape like that again. I S. Seeligson, aged 24, scion of one
is still In office when this emer
known world, it has been the foot Present tim e we’re trying to re of the wealthiest oil families in
gency is over, it is safe to ex
soldier that has been the backbone group.
Texas. The other day, Seeligson j pect that an even stronger ef
of every army. And even today,
fort will be made to keep ration
Sr., came to M averick Sr., and
with atomic bombs and planes and Reasons Become Clearer
urged that young M averick with- j ing in effect as a part of the
great fleets, it is still the time-hon
“ There’ s no question» how this draw from the race. “ My boy is ' planned economy that is being
ored foot soldier who fights and w ill come out. We'll come out on
wealthy and therefore w ill be an i fostered.
dies and wins wars.
top. I t ’s going to take a lot more honest legislator,” said the elder
Relying on the assurances of our
During World War I American —a lot more than we have over !
Seeligson. "F urtherm ore your boy a ir experts that should Russia start
soldiers stood in the trenches that here. This a ffa ir is more than a
w ill be drafted and m y boy won't” a World War III, we would defeat
stretched across France and won police action. I t ’ s something— j
. . . . Young Maverick refused to Russia almost over night, bv atomic
the conflict. When it was over the gigantic. I know it is. Been through
budge. He has already served four bombs carried by a ir and dropped
experts said the use of the foot i the Pacific and part of the Euro-
years in the marines in the South on the Krem lin, we are living in a
soldier was a thing of the past. ' pean campaign, but I never ran
Pacific and w ill serve again if fool’s paradise. Russia is a mighty
But it took m illions to win World into anything like this before.”
needed . . . . Meanwhile the Seelig nation with a tremendous war po
War n .
There is the funny side of every son fa m ily is spending an estimated tential, fa r greater than is repres
Today it is the foot-sore GI,
situation and some of the instances $25,000 to elect its scion, though a ented by little North Korea. And we
dirty and unshaved and weary,
shed ligh t upon the Korean war lot of veterans are chipping in vol were not able to stop that small
with the pain and reality of
and the men fighting it.
u nta rily to help young Maverick. arm y over many days and nights.
death reflected in sunken eyes,
A jitte ry engineer command post
We can hope our a ir experts
ASIATIC U.N. PRESIDENT—
who is shuffling across the rice-
behind U.S. lines fought a five-hour
know, but it would be well that we
General
M
acA
rthur
has
sent
Phil
paddies of Korea. Again they
battle one night but the cold light
ippine general Carlos Romulo, now be prepared to fight a long war on
must win a war no matter how
of dawn revealed that the only
president of the United Nations as land, sea and air. We should spend
much help they get from jet
casualties were several dogs of
sembly, a cable addressed “ Dear our money for national defense,
fighters and great bombers.
unknown nationality.
Carlos” which states: “ We all rather than for too much welfare
"Never saw so much fire for so
watched with so much pride and j and for those national projects we
GI Tells His View
little ,” said one sleepish Major.
But th i story of the war in Korea " I f we had hit a North Korean with enthusiasm your great efforts of can get along without while war
and just what today's GI is like every shot fired the war would be the past two years in the fields of threatens. Such projects include
diplomacy and statesmanship. But those grandiose plans for irrigation,
can often be told in the words of over.”
now the guns have begun to speak. for flood control, for inland naviga
the Smiths and Jones and Eben-
The post had been raided the
steiners and McClellans who are night before. That night the men While I know it cannot be, I would tion and for power development.
A ll such things can await the de
feel a sense of comfort to have you
getting shot at and trying to k ill as fired at every moving bush.
"I
cision
with Russia, and in the mean
at
m
y
rig
ht
hand
again.”
.
.
.
This
many Communists as possible.
suppose it's funny when you look
1 Like the answer a marine re back on it, but it wasn’t funny last should further clinch the idea of tim e we should disband that arm y
ceived when he observed the te r night,” one soldier said the next having Gen. Romulo go to Korea as of bureaucrats. It in no way helps
part of the U.N. command in order in the defense of the nation.
rain looked rugged from where day.
he stood on a transport’s deck:
These are the Smiths and Jones to make Asiatics realize ours is
There is all too much partisan po
"Yeah, and you are gonna get a and Ebensteiners and McClellans not a white man’ s im perialistic in
litic
a l wrangling in Washington. In
vasion.
Unfortunately
this
Moscow
nice close look at that rugged ter fighting in Korea, the men and boys
rain pretty soon and you had bet who w ill be the seasoned troops line is believed in much of the congress each party gives firs t con
sideration to the securing of party
ter damn well gather up some of the U.S. arm y of tomorrow. orient.
advantage, rather than considera
bunches of it, for these Joes of ours Their own words give a picture of
UNDER THE DOME—Mystery? tion for the interests of the nation,
have been backing up long enough," themselves and the Korean war.
. . . . Who put the pressure on Con while the free world burns. While
his buddy replied.
In their words are many
gressman Celler of New York to congress continues to fiddle, the
Some of them are not men yet.
truths: the fear and courage
induce him to call oft his long-pro Commies may overpower us—and
Like the youngsters who solemnly
and sadness and confusion of
posed
investigation of Pan Am er wipe out all of our institutions, in
assured a war correspondent, “ Yes,
men fighting for their lives.
ican World Airways? . . . Out in cluding congress which w ill be re
sir, I have to shave twice a week.”
And there Is a spark of ideal
Illinois, so many Republicans are placed by a totalitarian politboro,
He was the youth that watched
ism that can be found only In
fed
up with the Chicago Tribune’s and government by congress be
10 of his buddies stripped of their
a democracy and among free
harpooning of the war effort, that gone forever. Thas is not an im
clothing and made to run over
people.
they are form ing Republican clubs possibility.
sharp stones until they dropped and
It was much the same in the last to re-elect Sen. Scott Lucas, Demo
were slaughtered.
war. Then, perhaps, the reasons
The small business interest of the
How did he feel about it? “ I for the k illin g were more clearly crat . . . I f Washington really want nation have emphatically rejected
ed
to
show
an
all-out
war
effort
It
don't know,” he said, “ but I was drawn than at the present time,
would curtail the fancy, plush President Truman’s program for
very sad and I vomited.”
but the reasons are becoming clear planes reserved for cabinet officers, their benefit. Each of the five points
Then there is the cocky, confi er each day. The men on the battle the top brass and other Vip’s. Most of the program were rejected by
dent Jones and Smiths and John front seem to realize it quicker people have forgotten that in War from 72 tq 97 percent of those
sons. He is the kind who says, "We than those at home and it is from j II, H arry Hopkins, Averell H a rri queried. They do not want gov
think we can kick the hell out of them the Jones and Smiths and { man and other dignitaries hopped ernment loans or handouts, or gov
Ebensteiners and McClellans on | the Atlantic in bucket seats or in the ernment advice as to how to run
the Communists.”
the home front draw their courage. 1 bomb bay of bombers. FD himself their business. What they do want
And there is the more se
It has always been so; it w ill con had no special plane until near the is relief from collecting government
rious one, who see a little be
tinue to be.
yond the present "This is one
taxes from their employees.
w ar’s end.
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8ERVANT8 OF BROTHERHOOD
Seven
m
illion
veterans
have
—C redit the Greenville, S.C., Lions
improved the opportunity of
' Club with doing a fine job of cam
fered
by the GI bill of rights to
paigning against hoarding—and get-
complete their years of school
! ting results . . . One of the great
ing. There are eight m illion
police chiefs of the U.S.A.—Gen.
The average teen aged GI is going off to war with no illusions
others who did not, and the
W illiam Horton of the U.S. marines,
about liking it— just a grim resolve to get it over with. From a
time was up on July 25, unless
retired—is
quitting
as
head
of
the
shipping out point, comes this report:
congress should extend the date.
! Los Angeles police. Old-fashioned
“Their general attitude seems to be that of one who is about t eivil service rules are the reason.
to get a bitter dose of medicine— 'might as well get it over with
The Korean story w ill be different
(He didn’t work from the bottom
because it's going to happen anyway.' They are definitely sob 1 up.) And the city could only ap when fu lly equipped marines reach
ered. They feel that the vacation is ended and they have a job
point him tem porarily . . . Penny- the battle front. The "d evil dogs”
to do. The general opinion is, 'This had to com e.'"
pinching senators recently lopped w ill give the Russian equipped
off the state department’s propa North Koreans something to remem
ber.
ganda budget.
New GI Has No Illusion About War
BAIL JUMPER AND TWO RENEGADES . . Gerhard Elsler, bail-jumping fugitive from justice In the
United States and propaganda boss for east German Communists, smirks from between a British cor
poral. Keith Waller (left), and a United States private, Robert Natskakula, at a press conference In Ber
lin where the western soldiers told of their desertion to seek asylum In eastern Germany. U. S. authori
ties said the American went AWOL while waiting for shipment Io the U.S. and discharge from the army
as undesirable following three disciplinary court martials this year.
NO PICNIC HERE . , . This action at Union Square in New York City was unscheduled—at least the
headbreaking and scratching portion of the activity. It was entered on the agenda when a “peace In
Korea" meeting turned into a riot which required almost a regiment of cops to quell. Here, a demon
strator hits the ground as a policeman mixes with others in his attempt to disperse the rioters. The sign
in the store window in the background Ironically proclaims: "It's a Picnic."
KOREAN WAR REVIVES ITALIAN VET GROUP . . . The Korean war has resulted in a revival of the
"Assoclazone Nazionale Ardita D’Italia,” association of veterans of two world wars—composed of special
shock troop battalions which also helped Benito Mussolini's march on Rome. The movement uses the
Roman or Fascist salute, as demonstrated by this group of members greeting one of the banners under
an archway in Rome, lettered with one of the mottos used during World War I. The translation of the
banner Is: "The River Piave murmurs, the foreigner will not pass.” To collect money the organiza
tion sells postcards containing Mussolini's slogans and writings.
INFORMATION FOR T O U R IS T S
POLIO OUTBREAK
IN WYTHEVILLE AND W YTHE COUNTY.
"lF YOU DO NOT STOP WITH US THIS TRIP WE IN V IT E
YOU TO V IS IT US ON YOUR NEXT VACATION."
COURTESY OF
uwhivuii
Town council.
rune mumv mmd of summsohs
m m counii hi huh nui.
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VIRGINIA COMMUNITY WARNS TOURISTS . . . Wytheville, Va„ the town which has suffered the
worst polio epidemic in the history of the nation, has set a precedent for unselfishness, by warning
tourists of the outbreak and advising them to bypass the town for the present. Every year the town en
tertains thousands of tourists, realizing a good source of inrome from the tourist trade. This fact makes
the community’s gesture all the more praiseworthy. Health authorities state that next year, Wythe
ville will be one of the safest places from polio in the United States because of the epldemio this sum
mer.
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