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Show Baffle Creekl I Breeze BY K. B. Last Monday brought to a close the first year of the war in Korea. Launched by President Truman as a. punitive action against the .North Korean Communiists, and later supported half-heartedly by the members of the United Nations; Nat-ions; the conflict rapidly developed into a full scale war. After a year of combat, it might .llflW-lmni.rni.nnilliliMlMl)f..rwlnw.lawl be fitting tc take stock oi our accomplishments accomplish-ments since last June 25. 1 From a military standpoint stand-point we are little better off; the outcome if still uncertain and the fundamental funda-mental issues are still unsolved. 2 We have suffered 70,000 casualties; killed, wounded, and missing. 3 The cost of living here at home has increased by about 17 per cent, and the value of the dollar has diminished accordingly. 4 Our State Department is still just as muddle-headed as it was a year ago with no hope, for the present at least, that a definite defin-ite foreign policy will evolve. 5 Leaders in Washington are at each other's throats; as they fiddle with one hand and scratch backs with the other. 6 Government by "chrony" and politics by pressure are more in evidence now than ever before. 7 Favored contractors purchase radiator grills from the producers for $19.50 and sell them to the army for $59.50, without ever touching the things. On the positive side this gigantic gigan-tic expenditure of material and human resources should have taught us a few lessons if we are smart enough to profit by them. 1 The burdens of war are still borne by the youth and the lower income groups of our country. 2 People are now just as unreasonable un-reasonable and selfish as ever before. be-fore. 3 Politicians continue to do anything or promise anything that will save their political hides. 4 The aims and purposes of Communistic Russia h ave not changed in the least, regardless of their present loudly proclaimed bid for peace. The cease-fire proposal pro-posal of Mr. Malik leaves no doubt as to who ordered the shooting. The end of the road is not yet in sight. Whether or not we ever reach the end, depends entirely on how well we profit by the lessons of the past twelve months. Wise men profit by their mistakes, but fools revel in the mire of their transgressions. So long 'til Friday. |