| Show ' C ' - - ' 100"06 - 10140111t07PWU0010MePON 0 ' 11104116t11111i4P -- ' THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Thursday July 13 1950 10 - It Editorials - ProntoAbed April U 1871- - limbed imiwy inorstny gala filntra ?Ake by TPA Bait : The struggle in Korea between the Soviet-backaggressors from the north and the United Nationsbacked defenders in the south thus far appears to be a teat of two important war weapons tanks versus airplanes As such it may indicate the direction that will be taken if a new global war breaks out The United States air force even at the outset is proving superior to the red air arm but the North Korean tanks are showing marked advantages over the facilities now possessed by American and allied ground forces Our side in the Korean fighting has also naval superiority although American and British fleets have had little opportunity to come to grips with enemy fortes Their chief exploit as yet has been a sort of waterto-land assistance by bombarding roads and 'military objectives within range of navy guns But if war should come a shooting war of global proportions the two forms of weapons and their relative superiorities are likely to play an important part in deciding the final outcome For this reason many Americans have been encouraged by the presidential approval of a measure to increase our air status force to a The tank which made its initial appearance in the first world war is taking its place as one of the most formidable of weapons in ground fighting There is a chance of course that weapons may be developed to counteract this superiority but thus far in the Korean engagements American artillery bazookas and other forms of defense against tanks have proved inadequate Many observers see notable similarities between the fighting in Korea and the Spanish civil war In that internal conflict both axis the Communists and the Rome-Berli- n used Spain as a testing ground for new weapons and methods of warfare The lessons learned in the Spanish civil war were no doubt of great value to the Germans the Italians and the Russians Weapons and tactics got a practical workout and some of them were discarded The Korean battlefields will provide similar material and lessons being learned by American and British soldiers may be of great help if another world war breaks If the next world war can be avoided and -- a ' Some Original Americans To Becoine Citizens The public lands committee of the na- sored by Representative Revs Beck Bosone of Utah to investigate the progress and possibilities of all Indian tribes now guarded and governed as wards of this republic The purpose of this inquiry is to determine which or whether descendants of the aboriginal occupants and owners of this continent deserve release from restrictions not imposed on subsequent settlers According to this proposal the secretary of the interior would be required to report on or before Jan Z 1952 results and recom mendations of the investigating committee and more deserving inhabitants of the area and most deserving inhabitants of the area now held by the United States government could be relieved of support and supervision In a Wuhington press dispatch Mrs Bosons is quoted as saying "This legislation is long past due I find that most of the Indian tesavett Iee they have outgrown tne outmoded system of federal wardship and more than 'anything else the Indian wants to live like the white man" While the bureau of Indian affairs is supporting the resolution there may be some legislators who will resist any movement leading to the gradual but ultimate liquidation of the commission which has regulated the education and advancement of successive generations of the "red men" of the western hemisphere who were never as ruthless and reactionary as the "reds" of the eastern hemisphere It Is estimated that the number of Indians within the territorial boundaries of this republic exceeds 335000 an increase of the previous census report The largest tribe is the Navahos with a population of 70000 and they are increasing at the rate of 2 per cent per annum Surviving descendants of the race are divided into 96 tribes scattered over all the states Oklahoma has the largest lumber some 65000 followed by Arizona sith 56000 New Mexico with 25000 South Dakota with 23000 North Carolina Montana Minnesota Wisconsin California Utah and Idaho with competent supervision and lenient regulation As the 150000000 owners of this great land that lies between two great oceans and two friendly nations no longer feel any fear of the 335000 Indians of all ages and both sexes there should be no hesitancy in adopting the resolution offered by Representative Bosone Along with other races and nationalities colors creeds and conditions born on American toil and vested with American citizenship these natives whose lineage was established long before the voyage of Columbus deserve consideration s - '' r 4 ': r' :4 '4k 1":51 t4- ' - ' ' 'irk A 4 W ( 4 f '' tr 0- 3- Mt Lab City Malt By Orr 1 This gem about our dropping potato bugs on east Germany reveals the red propagandist In all his refreshing ignorance If anything of course we would drop potatoes V By Thorium L Stokes WASHDIGTON July —We are planning a greatly expanded "Voice of America" to tell our story to the world This is much needed today particularly because of the Korean crisis to meet with truth some still think it possible the data gathered in Korea may never be used Most of us hope along with former President Herbert Hoover that if a global conflict can be averted in the immediate future the United Nations rnay be developed into a real implement of and become strong enough to maintain order throughout the world But if a war between the United States and Russia is inevitable and unavoidable the experience gained in the Korean fighting will be of tremendous value to our military men If the course of events in Korea to date are a criterion of future warfare it might be concluded that Russian ground forces will have early superiority—a thought that will bring slight comfort to the peoples of western Euand strength rope However the know-hoof American air forces revealed on Korean battlefields could provide the crucial element needed in a war of the future In spite of all claims to the contrary the blow that took Germany out of the last war was dealt front the skies Saturation bombing of cities factories highways and railroads turned the tables in the European theater of operations This does not for one moment discount the magnificent military feat performed on the beaches of Normandy by the splendid cooperation of British and American naval units ground troops and aircraft The same was true in the war with Japan The widespread g operations carried out by the army navy and marines was culminated by the atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the air arm Despite the feelings of dismay and disappointment caused in this country by the outbreak of hostilities in Korea and the dread with which Americana regard chancel' for it to drift into a world conflict the struggle may prove of value to our national defense program It is as countless commentators point out a vast drain on this nation's money and resources It provides the Russians with a means of bleeding their potential foes while they continue to build up a formidable war machine But it may also provide something America would never obtain otherwise—a chance to test out our weapons and methods of warfare before an outbreak of a global world It is important that our story go to every corner of the globe not only for us but because we have amumed the leadership of the free nations Their amociation with usAind our aids gives us a responsibility to them Their cause Ito our cause just as our cause is theirs' Arsonists Are to Be Classed the Grass To be classed with cowards vermin snakes and sex criminals are vandals who rob and destroy to wreak vengeance on fancied enemies or to get even with an unsuspecting rival The miscreants who burglarized the Tavey home on Oth East it In Salt Lake City the other night made sure the family was absent entered the home feloniously piled bedding and clothing In the middle of the dining room lit fires there and in two bedrooms and sneaked to their hiding plate may not be apprehended until they have made the rounds of their selected victim& That the fire was checked before the home and content were entirely consumed was due to the prompt action of a neighbor woman who happened to notice the smoke and hurriedly summoned the fire department Not only were the contents of all chests and drawer emptied but pillows and were slashed and rugs were soiled and mat--tress- es ripped Such miscreants deserve to be treated as hopelessly insane as no rational being would be guilty of such sneaking and savage be- havior Russ Propagandists Reach New High in Drivel It is somewhat of a relief from the "warm war in Korea to return to the cold war with its sometimes "corny" propaganda and ridiculous claims that emanate from Moscow The potato bug Incident it might be called arose out of charges on the part of Soviet farm 'experts" that the United States is sabotaging Russian agriculture by dtropping insects behind the iron curtain to destroy u The American State department immediately branded the story as a clumsy attempt to provide an advance excuse for crop failures expected this year' It may well be just that sort of maneuver Russian bureaucrats frequently find their jobs perilous when things go wrong and a failure to make a quota In a factory or on a farm project may mean a trip to Siberia for the luckleu offIcial In charge As a piece of propaganda It is not up to the standard of and misleading Interpretation of news employed by the top Soviet 'publicists It should be clear to the Russian people providing they were given that juicy bit on the bugs that if the United States can drop such insects without the knowledge of their government it would be a simple matter to poison the entire country half-truth- s by air Needless bigger fish to say the United States has to fry right now There are a number of American airmen engaged in dropping something more important than potato It might be of interest to the bugs in Korea lowly potato bug to learn that be has been designated by Russian propagandists as "the ambassador of WallStreet!" d ti 4 ' r-air-r- 00 ties ' - Story HAS Effects There is one single and simple story revolvini about a personality--a- nd a most important Personality—which ias it has developed and been told over a period of weeks should be hay-bi- g its effect wherever the radio can penetrate including behind the iron curtain That is the story of Trygve Lie U N secretary general It is a very human and understandable story Trytrve Lie when he started a few weeks ago d hie crusade for peace acting in his official capacity represented the aspirations for peace of the people of the world—or certainly most of them single-hande- Represented Conciliation Hopes He represented their hope somehow In some way it might be possible to bring the 'United States of America Russia and the other big powers about the table for direct negotiations to settle our differences and end the "cold war" He was bold and direct He visited top officials here in England and France and flew to Moscow to talk with Josef Stalin It was the commonsense straightforward sort of approach that is understandable to ordinary folk for it is the way they like to settle disagreements In their own lives with their neighbon and therefore was refreshing and inspiring ILttle-Use- d Approach It is the approach not followed often of late by diplomats and found impossible apparently because of heightening tensions So Trygve Lie took it upon himself as representative of the that IT N He was attacked in some quarters in this country for and accused "appeasement" even by some of playing the Soviet game He took it for he felt very deeply his responto sibility as secretary-genersnake the effort The U N's future was involved as well as the peace of the world Communist Attack Strikes There came the North Korean Communist attack an act of open aggression He recognized that as so attack on the U N He moved again just iui boldly when notified by our State department to set the U N machinery into motion as provided by Its charter Now Rtissia has opened up on him in a villifying diatribe through its literary magazine using the old familiar abuse While it le not possible to say for there is no way of knowing yet it might be surmised that this absurd attack by the is not likely to have the effect planned for the reason that many people of the world also know of his sincere effort to make peace which they followed because it was close to their own hearts Mission Became Knowe Wherever the radio could reach his simple and dramatic al that Much is lit stake and congress can be expected to see that and expand our "Voice of America" so it can do its share better in telling that story along with our own story Copyright 1950 United Feature Syndicate 7 )) ( z it)te t : LI- IL - -- s : — ''''' -- 'IA osP 4 p -' 11 ' I ''4 '0' - ' --' 4 I Odrk‘1 N - P :r- ):e - ' --- ) :: : : ab a I 1 1 - :- o: : I - -- - amunin - — — - - 'Att -- - A r--- : - - - 5 -- : do 0 P 0): - kt - 4171- tlikrgic 116- - -b KOREA' - 1 '' '''' -- - --- — --- - - -- - "':' c1: -- - - -- - ----A"- - -- '-- Korea Fiasco Takes U S 13ilek'to'19417 "'------ - e: rt:: --f-- ''''' ' -- -- '-- - -"--- -- - '::- - ' -- " 0- - - ' '- ' - ' - --'-- -- -- -- --- -- --------- --- --- --- - - -- --s--- - 1 -- Z - 0ff1W - - —— -"-- ' - — -- -- ' OM ' lim Odra tamot 4C:::: P - atom Cr By' David Liwresee'– WASHLNGTON July 12—A "second Pearl harbor" Ind a "second Batatui" are phrases one hears often in Washington nowadays to describe growing fears about the debacle In Korea Unquestionably the commitments made by the president when be ordered American troops into Korea two weeks ago was larger than could be Immediately fulfilled but nobody is blaming him for that commitment He had no real choice What everybody is talking about 'however is the failure of the administration to appraise the entire far eastern situation several months ago In terms of potential trouble and to allocate American military forces in such a way that they could be made immediately available to any danger area who to I Bela Lad A b ---14 -- t' i tri Nuri spee 21111 rott sstd biles vent inc NOVI En d lump fain Give tv4rul sloth there ----4P -- -- -i- --:r -- - - -- :--- 01: e-- 6() it ' t f 1 -- 77111Millrc--- $ ---- - -- - ---- 1 N 1 41 - N 4 4 -- "0 0 I k fir i t -- -- --- de- r - ------- - ---------- - -- I V-i::- 1- F 7 : - - -- - - 00v - N- -- -- - -- - - 1-- 4 f AuSTRI ' :- -- -- e:c5:-- : rY 0(151"' --- : - -:- z- vAy- 7- 16411AA4Y - kt! ' - 1! i - Itio“'r?: o A:)- 140 i at ( 26 t :i:i - -- ” N 0 -- s :: 14 - i:4: : h - - 42 Sad Commentary It is a sad commentary on the whole situation to find the chairman of the senate armed services committee Sen Millard Md) telling reTydings porters after his conference with Gen Omar Bradley that "naturally the logistical problems are extremely difficult due to distance the limited port facilities and relatively poor landing field facilities for avia- MT - 1 I tion" WAR EMIICIIES LANGUAGE Seou4 Suwon Yak—Pere We Go Again By Robert C Rusrk NEW YORK Headline said the man shot down a Yak and this would lead me to believe he has knocked off a Tibetan beast of burden which gives hair for cloth and milk for rancid butter Headline says things about Seoul and Suwon and here we go again learning a new language That seems' to be one of the nicer things about war—it enriches the language so A Yak in this war will be an airplane We will get just as chummy with Seoul and Suwon as we got with Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Kwajalein and Bildt Bright and sparkling sets of phrases end expressions swell our daily speech born from the rugged intemperance of a new flock of heroes 'Jug Is Jugeslovian I am so old I can remember when a jug was a receptacle not a national of Jugoslavia Jet was a black shiny bead old ladies wore on their dresses not a method of driving aircraft sack was a repository for inanimate objects not a couch for a military man—or if "sad" is placed ahead of it a description of a fellow who is largely out of step with his time As a result of the last thing we take a dim (also misty poor and minity) view of things we dislike We are browned off to such point that the subject is strictly for the birds Chicken enters frequently into our lives and rarely in a complimentary fashion John L Lewis became a cusstvord for civilian shortage and spam a swearword instead of an excellent cold meat VIP and SNAFU We learned all about initials In the last one V I P is a part of the language today Means very So is important personage SNAF U—situation normal all fouled up From SNAFU was bred the little brothers — TUBA R or "fouled up beyond all recognition" and SAPFU —"surpassing all previous foul-ups" The "wheel" in the steadily and word "operator" reached a fine maturity last one and is used today to denote people who do big things in a large way Beat up to connote that the subject man or article had had it came into everyday parlance To have had it means that you ain't got it and ain't gonna get it So you've had it mate ' Or Mac Or Joe— Our drinking I recall was tremendously fattened Young men who had been reared on raw corn and lavatory gin suddenly referred to such things as eau de vie marsala "agi" of Marianas guardients jungle and torpedo juice tuba reit all sorts of loosely lumped "vino" and weird local whiakies Rua-star- ts mission was known His decision on the Korean aggression can be measured In the light of 1 ' s 7 ‘ 'W" day-by-da- y 'needed to Intensify its effect Likewise theutinited Nations has Its own radio voice which tells the daily story of U N activi- 7 i iaI 001t A i But there Is something else at stake In this present crisis That is the United Nations Nothing can help so much to uphold its hands and show its usefulness and in the long run to preserve it as the story of the way it is accepting its responsibility and proceeding with vigor to rally 43 nations of the world in a common enterprise to stop aggression in Korea That story since we are part of it goes out over the "Voice of America" and expansion of our facilities and coverage is -- 4' 4ik ‘ aa 4: -e Another Element island-hoppin- conflict " AL the stepped up fabrications about us and our motives coming out of Moscow They ars getting more and more ridiculous based apparently on the theory that the big lie told often enough will have its eflect In time In some parts of the pezice With Snakes in tional house of representatives has recommended passage of a pending measure spon- 04v ifibuno Pub Hailing Co Where Next? - ed t!':' Greater eVoice Planned to Tell July 13 1950' :Ussons Gan led onKorcanBattlefields:------- May Be valuable If War Breaks Out 4 :' -- S 0 JUST TRY AND STOP ME By Bennett Cert T Rhodes emphasizing the value of conciseness In his book How to Build a Better Vocabulary tells of the lady who visited a doctor bared her arm and announced 'Turn The doctor suggested "Poultice The next day she wits back to report "I'm better The doctor said "Continue treatment On the third visit she said 'Pm cured How much?" The doctor said "Nothing" Then waxing really loquacious be smiled and told her "You're the most itensible paW tient I ever mei strument and wound up as a weapon Likewise "burp" This was a rude manifestation of indigestion and achieved permanent fame as a German gun Sticks la Lexicon "Dear John" still sticks in the lexicon It is a broad label for an unpleasitntnesa arising from an original use by disenchanted wives with husbands oversee& "Dear John:" the ktttra ran hope this finds you mit and well and it just breaks my heart to tell you that I am filing for divorce in order to marry the cutest second lieutenant in the " SOS didn't 808 here mean come save our ship Meant nervice of supply I do not know where the word "beast" to denote a lovely young lady came from But the services used it and it has stuck "That's for sure" with profane variations has also remained to such as the Australian Gray' No 9 Pink Moroccan champagne suddenly became commonplace to North Carolina boys with a clear record of red-ey- e Funny words crept in and have remained Jeep used to be a comic-stri- p character Jeep in all the countries in the world today mean' an irascible condrive veyance with and a tendency to buck like a horse "Bazooka" atarted out as a comic name for a musical in four-whe- el Employment Manager By James J Metcalfe He interviews the applicants To study and decide Which ones appear most competent And truly qualified He listens to their answers and He looks them up and down And tries to analyze their In every smile and thoughts frown He may be very capable Or he may Just preAnd choose a girl for tend A man who Is a beauty or friend Or be may want to show the great Importance And waste their that be feels time with needles talk Or make them cool their heels But if he knows his business He struggles to excel and He helps the jobless and the boss And does his duty well crowd into peacetime confab "Bugged" for any rough operation is still with tut I would greatly appreciate it If the dogfaces (unwilling heroes) of this operation stick to the language I learned in the last mesa as much as pouible because these Oriental and Russian names are going to be rugged enough without cannibalizing a flock of new American phrases to add to the beat-u- p old carcass of our speech And that's for very damn' sure SENATOR FROM SANDPIT By Ham Park 'rhos words might have been uttered about America's position in the far east when the Japanese attacked both the philippines and Hawaii in 1941 but one must rub one's eyes and pinch oneself to make sure this r ft Is 1950 With all the navy's carriers—which do not need landing fields for their planes—and the vast number of aupply ships to operate the "fleet trains" that licked distances and "logistics" in the Pacific only five years ago it mem as- if someone has blundered badly despite the $15- 00000000 a year spent for do sir-cra- 4 ' ' ' - knee purposes Exercise Vote Privilege What can the average citizen do about it? He can tarn out of office at the polls the congressmen and senators who fell down on the job by failing to exercise vigilance—but them same congressmen and senators will point to the law which they pasaed in IRS and claim an alibi The "unification law" of that year created a "national security council" The council is com- ' posed of Pres Harry 11 Truman secy of State Dean Acheson Secy of Defense Louis Johnson the secretariet of the army the navy and the air forte and Chairman Symington of the resources board The national security council has this responsibility specifically Mitten in the law: "1 To Loess and appraise the objectives commitments and risks of the United States In relation to our actual and potential military power in the Interest of national security for the purpose of making recommendations to the president in connection therewith and - ? I - Consider Policies It is a wise father that knows his own child—Shakespeare Dumfounded Dads Most of us who have lived on farms are familiar with the old story of the hen that hatched out a flock of ducklings Much has been written about her amazement and consternation when her strange family sailed out on the duck pond leaving her stranded on the bank But nothing as far as I know has been written about the feelings of the old man the rooster who if he didn't actually witness the amazing exploit was told about It later And the chances are he explained the unusual behavior of his alleged offspring by saying that he had long suspected that there was something peculiar about his wiles family — When our son wu small I worried about his seeming inability to grasp even the rudiments of simple arithmetic He was completely uninterested in addition division and multipli- cation but thanks to the patience of his teachers he managed to get by When be got to higher mathematics he turned the tables on me Algebra had me stopped cold I was told that A times A equalled A square but to this day I don't know why and care less With greater patience than I bad ever shown my son tried to initiate me into the mysteries of geometry trigonometry and calculus No soap When he became a navy flier proficient in celestial navigation I felt much the same as that old rooster must have felt In my favor I can say I offered no alibi Recently I reed an excellent' critique on music by the young eon of a friend of mint My friend an exceptionally success-tut businessman rm willing to bet doesn't know a grace note from a flyspeck and yet hi son —well I am pretty sure that he feels like I did and still do —dumfounded Muses' Vita Row long baby is it please Since you read Euripides? How long since you opened Keats? Come be honest with me sweets Byron Browning Tennyson Homer Goethe Sappho Donne: Bards with laurels on their brow-- - Who the dickens reads them now? yet you want to be a poet Kid you're nuts and you don't know it! When ao ill the Iltans fare Just what chance have we my dear? Read a poet? Loud derision! Millet you beard of television? Take up cost accounting cousin Poets are a dime a dozen —Big Butch from Bountiful Notes on the Cuff Departzneint It appears that the technique of the last war will have to be reviewed But in their revival apirit 0 Lord don't let them go back too fart Don't let them revive the speakers of World War L Please Lord! Art Kelly vice president in charge of sales for Western Air Lines was th town on an Inspection tour While here be visited his dad who Is a vice president in charge of practically everything including even other vice presidents of a bank I received a nick letter from (Mrs Bebe) Betty whom I mentioned Young seeing while In Los Angelel recently In the Item I got the name of her sister wrong I put it Mrs Hebe Goddard instead of Mrs Frank Goddard of Ogden I'm sorry I guess I must have been thinking of the Bebe Goddard I knew when I was a small boy He was a great baritone whom I admired greatly My memory is rapidly getting to be the thing I forget with I "2 To consider policies on matters of common interest to the departments and agencies of the government concerned with the national security and to make recommendations to the president in connection therewith" The national security council is composed of men obviously busy with direct responsibilities of their own Only last December the committee for economic development comprising eminent businessmen of a progressive school of thought issued a report recommending that there be added to the Sc tonal security council three e civilians without any other responsibilities in the govrnment The report said: "So far the national security council has not fully lived up to its high potential though it has made important progress It does not appear that It has yet formulated a comprehensive set of current and long-ransecurity policies covering both foreign end domestic aspects of the problem - full-tim- ge ' Handicap President 1 "As a result the president is seriously handicapped in car rying out his responsibility to recommend a balanced and cornprehenaive security program to the congress and the people" The president cannot do it He must have around him able men He has had busy men around him and some of them far from able Each is charged with many more tasks than the broad problems of American se curity National security can not be treated as a side issue— yet evidently it hu been That's why the naval aircraft task forces which could have been patrolling far eastern waters on June 25 'ready to supply tactical aviation along with the U S marines were nowhere near the Korean battlefront but S000 miles away New York Herald Copyright Tribune ' f 1 I 1 ' Inc t ' I Ann |
