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6 KOKOMO (Ind.) TRIBUNE Monday, Dec. 10, 1951 It Just Doesn't Make Sense, Does It? i Waste in the Air Force The people who are having to pay the taxes in this that covers everyone who draws a pay check or clips a be appalled at the report that millions of their tax dollars are being wasted by the nation's armed services. Sen. Lyndon Johnson's subcommittee preparedness, which charged recently that the U. S.

armament production was lagging, has now come up with a declaration that there is a lot of waste in the nation's Air Force. Citing many minor examples of waste, the committee asserted that to tolerate them is to sanction inevitable large-scale waste. One example given was that personnel costs for a 20-week electronic course at Lowry (Denver) Air Force Base averaged $6,000 a student last August. The committee reported on investigations it made at six air force bases, including It said it found overstocking of food at some bases, substitution of "elaborate and costly" dining hall furniture for serviceable equipment, requests for a golf course and other "lavish recreational facilities at Mather Base near Sacramento; use of many able-bodied men in "chair corps" assignments which limited-service personnel or WAFs (enlisted women) could fill; improper assignment of expensively trained pilots, etc. Construction of "hotel type'' dormitories at the bases was "most unusual," the committee said, at a time when economies are in order.

At the March Base near Riverside, a bomb group had received only two of 30 aircraft authorized when the committee checked it. At an aircraft plant adjacent to Carswell Base, near Fort Worth, 31 B-36 bombers were idle because of lack of instruments and other parts. "It is a inescapable that one of our major shortages is a sense of prudence, a zeal for frugality and an enthusiasm for economy on the part of the armed services," the report commented. That's strong language, and its interesting to note that the committee chairman, Sen. Johnson, is a Democrat.

The waste which his committee is uncovering is all a part of the general climate of extravagance and the "tax and tax, spend and spend" philosophy of the New Deal which has grown and grown through the years. The tone and the pattern of reckless spending 'was set by the socialistic New Dealers whose progressive accomplishments were coupled with a contempt for what their programs cost. There were some good things done by the New Deal, but they were offset by the evil that accompanied them. As for the Air Force extravagance, everyone wants our service men to have comfortable quarters and adequate recreation. But surely this can be provided without a spending splurge on expensive equipment.

Even the men who wear the country's uniforms would not want to see waste and extravagance so cripple the nation's economy that internal collapse would do more damage than an armed enemy from outside. Maybe failure of the armed forces to get together on purchasing of supplies and equipment is partly to blame. Congressman Charles Brownson of Indianapolis thinks so. Instead of the Army and Navy buying supplies together, as called for by the unification policy, they do it separately and therefore expensively, he says. With the Air Force setting up its own quartermaster branch, there will be three separate supply pipelines and 50 per cent more waste, Brownson declares.

Co-ordination and better management seems to be needed badly. CANlHS Blame Should Be Shared In suspending sentence on three former Bradley University basketball stars, Judge Saul Streit of New York blamed the college president for the "moral debasement" of the players. "The defendants," he said, "were corrupted and demoralized by a system which set athletic success above education." He rapped Bradley's president for taking three youths of "intrinsic value" and giving them a high-pressure, four-year college sports buildup that "left them with visible moral blemishes." The judge lashed what he called a coddling policy toward the net stars. He said they took snap badminton, touch football, volley ball, elements of tumbling and co-ed dancing." The college head, Judge Streit went on, "acquiesed" in the players' "subsidization" and went on with the team, indicating he was more interested in big gate receipts than in education. Another target of the judge's fire was the Bradley Booster Club of Peoria, 111., which was accused of subsidizing the players.

The club president retorted that the boosters gave the athletes only "pin money," and the main support advanced to the players consisted of schol- arships, board and room. Generally speaking, the "win at any cost" psychology that has prevailed in many schools and colleges of America has been overdone, and some de-emphasis is due. But college officials and the overemphasis are not wholly to blame for players accepting bribes to "throw" games or "shave" points. The players have a responsibility, too. Every individual has a responsibility to live honestly.

Everyone has a conscience and should pay some attention to it. Environment and easy living may help to corrupt him, but after all he must answer to some extent himself. The lives of young men should not be ruined because of one mistake, it is true, and compassion ought to be a rule in such an instance. However, the man who takes a bribe is not entirely blameless. Judge Streit's excoriation of a system that has gotten out of hand may help to correct the conditions he so bitterly criticized.

But no impression should be built up among athletes that if they take bribes for throwing games they will be pitied as victims of someone else's deviltry. And the rats who dangle the bribery bait before athletes share no little part of the responsibility. -O- Another Yalta Skeleton How many more skeletons of Yalta are going to rise to plague the American people? Yalta was where an American President and his advisers gave away incredible concessions to Russia. Now Russia is turning those concessions against us, forcing us to spend tremendously greater substance and blood than we would have had to spend. The newest backfire from that Yalta agreement is a move by the Kremlin to get White Russia seated on the Aght- member Union Nations Security Council.

White Russia is not a nation in itself, but a part of the Soviet Union. But at Yalta we agreed to give the Soviet Union three U. N. memberships, one of which is held by White Russia. If the White Russian delegation should be seated on the Security Council, the Kremlin would have two vetoes there, where it now has one.

Any time the Russian delegates wanted to walk out, they could do so without apprehension, because White Russia would be on hand to veto anything that Stalin didn't like. The United States is backing Greece for the council seat, and strangely enough, Britain and France are backing White Russia. Their reason, say the French and British, is to "lessen tension," which sounds like the old appeasement tune. Yugoslavia, which is getting powerful American military and economic aid, is another country supporting White Russia for the seat. All of which makes less and less sense in a world that is very largely nonsensical.

THAT THE OP THIS Joseph Alsop: Famous 'Me, Too' Theory of Dewey Shown by Results To Be a 'Phony 1 S. Truman is Robert A. Taft's ace-in-the- hole." The coiner of this somewhat embittered aphorism was a leading supporter of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Republican nomination.

He meant that as the President grows weaker in the country, Sen. Taft's chances of gaining the Republican nomination improve proportionally. The reason is simple. As the President weakens, the orthodox Republicans are correspondingly emboldened to ignore the strong hints, in the polls and elsewhere, that Sen. Taft is not their party's most popular candidate.

They look at the rather special result of the Ohio election last year. They listen to the oft-repeated story that President Truman only won in 1948 because of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's "me-too" campaign. And they drift happily toward the Taft camp.

This reporter has wholly retired from the business of predicting elections; and no one in his senses, at this early date, would even try to guess at the outcome of a Taft- Truman or a Taft-Vinson race. It is worth pointing out, however, that the famous "me-too" theory is just about as phony as any political theory can be. And the ac- The Doctor Says: Excess Fluid In Body Cause Of Balance Loss ing to a pair of new gym shoes, and was traced through the old footwear. Burglaries of gasoline filling stations arid other business establishments have been cleared up with the apprehension of a number of teen-age boys, and the police are to be commended for solving the cases so quickly after the breakins occurred. Youngsters involved in such escapades could use a little more supervision and advice.

It is strange that they are permitted to be out at the hours when some of them have been breaking into stores. Maybe businessmen, through their civic clubs and lodges, could expand whatever programs they have had in the past to act as foster "fathers" for youngsters who may be more or less neglected. A good deal of this sort of service used to be performed in Kokomo, and perhaps is still being done. The police themselves have helped get at the problem by interesting juvenile delinquents in a Boy Scout They have even provided uniforms for boys unable to pay for them. Another agency still a factor in tackling the problem is the Juvenile Aid Council.

Businessmen serving on this council give valuable advice and encouragement to boys and girls who get into trouble, and the percentage of repeaters who appear before the council is said to be relatively small. Peter Edson: ODM Spokesmen Defend Gamble Taken by Nation (Peter Edson is on vacation and the following column is by his NEA colleague, Douglas Larsen). U. S. took a good gamble when it embarked on its guns and butter policy at the start of the Korean War, according to spokesmen from Charles E.

Wilson's Office of Defense Mobili- zation. And every day that America stays out of an all-out war, the odds on winning the gamble get better, they claim. One of the causes of the current criticism of lagging war production, a Wilson aide explains, is the fact that the critics don't fully understand just what the nature of that gamble is and what are the goals of the current mobilization. And that goes for the Sen. Lyndon Johnson Committee report, they "say.

At the outbreak of Korea, it is claimed, the Army, Navy and Air Force were on the brink of perfecting a whole new group of weapons on which they had been working since before the end of World War II. The Army was coming up with new tanks. The Air Force had new bombers and fighters just about ready for mass production. And the Navy had guided missiles and a lot of new electronics gear in the final stages of development. When Korea broke out and the need for tooling up industry for wtlr production became necessary the vital question facing the mobil- izers was: "Should we tool up for mass production of the World War II weapons which are tried and proved and easier to produce? Or should we take just a little more time and perfect the new, superior weapons, and then tool'up for them?" Perfect New Weapons Sizing up the whole situation with the best information at hand, including the possibility of an all- out war coming immediately and the state of development of Russian arms, the decision was made to take a little longer to perfect the newer weapons and then concentrate on their production.

They gambled on being able to settle the Korean affair without causing an all-out war. And they knew that Russia had made great strides in perfecting new tanks, jet planes and other weappns, and that if all-out war would come sometime David Lawrence: U. S. Public Is Not Aroused Over Disloyally Cases in Government American people are rightly indignant over the discovery wrongdoing in the government in connection with the tax scandals, but the wonder is that there is so little indignation expressed over the disloyalty cases also proved to exist inside the government. The fact that the U.

S. Loyalty Review Board found 343 Americans "ineligible" fb work for their own government because they were either disloyal or because there were "reasonable doubts" as to their loyalty raises a question as to why any Americans at all are today in that questionable status. What is most amazing in contrast is the tendency of some "left wingers" to condone the existence of 343 persons found ineligible by the U. S. Loyalty Review Board.

The usual argument made is that this is after all- such a small percent out of many government em- if it takes tens of thousands of disloyal persons to do the damage one did when he stole the American atomic secret and gave it to Russia. Alger Hiss has been convicted of lying about his connection with the Communist conspiracies and he occupied a most important position in councils of his own government, being in attendance at Yalta and playing a vital part in making the policies of the Department of State. It doesn't take many Alger Hisses to pass out secret papers to the Communists. It is often argued that the disloyal are few in number and that to call attention to those declared ineligible by the U. S.

Loyalty Review Board or to the anonymous statistics of those who quit under fire is to smear the innocent by inference. Strange Situation It was former Sen. Hiram W. Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, chairman of the U. S.

Loyalty Review Board, who was the first to call attention to the strange situation whereby so many persons in the government service quit when under investigation. He made his statements in a copyrighted interview in S. News World Report" Nov. 23 last, and the article weapons for when the big showdown might come later. That decision was part of the over-all plan, also based on the assumption that all-out war could be avoided for the present, to try to keep civilian production going "as normally as possible while broad- was cleared for publication by the U.

S. Civil Service Commission. He said: "Now. of the 16,000 cases in which the FBI conducted full field investigations, almost were held by the lower boards to be worthy of further scrutiny. That is to say, the loyalty board concerned decided to send the individual an interrogatory or a letter of charges, charging him with having belonged to this or that organization on the attorney general's list, with having associated with the Communists, with having solicited subscriptions to 'The Daily etc.

"The individual involved is given at least 10 days and usually two weeks to answer such questions. The answers must be under oath and the affidavit must be sent in to the board. "Incidentally 1,800 of these 16,000 iifldividuals whsoe cases went to loyalty boards decided before they got through answering the questionnaire or before going through a hearing, or at some point prior to a decision, that they would rather work they didn't care for any more inquiry into their so they just dropped out of the federal service." Mr. Bingham did not mention at that time an additional 1.754 who resigned from the government service before the FBI field investigations were completed. His emphasis was on the exact resigned while their cases were under "adjudication" by the loyalty boards but after FBI field investigation.

It will be noted that the U. S. Loyalty Review Board takes up only "loyalty" cases and has no jurisdiction whatsoever over what are known' as "bad security risks." For some strange reason, no figures have ever been released as to the total number of government employes who have been let out or allowed to resign because they were found to be "security risks." No Over-All Bond For some strange, reason, too, there is as yet no over-all review board to check on the cases of government employes found by departmental boards to be "security risks," or exonerated from such charges. The President is giving consideration to the whole problem of "security" as distinguished from "loyalty" and it is expected that some proposal will soon be forthcoming to handle that phase too. Meanwhile, the problem of how to A reader aks for an article on th organs of balance in the middle ear and what causes them to get "out of kilter" arfcl cause periods of dizziness.

The question refers, I to a condition known as Meniere's syndrcmc, which has been discussed in this space several times before. Before talking 1 about this common and distressing condition, a word might be said about what controls talance ir the human body. There are three: the eyes which can observe such things as stairs and the position of the feet on them, the sense of position in the legs themselves called the proprioceptive system, and a system of canals in the internal part of the ear. The condition to which the question refers is a distrubance in the inner portion of the ear and not in the eyes or the proprioceptive system. The symptoms of Meniere's disease are irregular attacks of dizziness, occasional ringing in the ears and deafness.

Its cause is believed to te a drupry in the deep portion of the ear called the inner ear, or labyrinth This dropsical of does not often develop in young people, but beyond, the age of 45 becomes increasingly common. Some patients who drink a lot of fluids find that an attack comes on a few hours because of the increased accumulation of fluid in the labyrinth. This has given a clue leading to the use of some forms of treatment aimed at cutting down the intake of fluids or removing excess fluids from the body. NO COMPLETE KELIEF Several medical treatments, such as the use of histamine or atropin, nave mat with some favor and surgery also has been tried with varying degrees of success. For many people with Meniere's disease, treatment brings some but not complete relief.

The term "Meniere's syndrome" (not disc-ase) is loosely for several different diseases of the inner ear. the symptoms of which are alike in that there are attacks of dizziness or vertigo (there is a slight technical difference), ringing in the ears and increasing difficulty in hearing. More recently it' was realized that var ous' disease conditions could bring about the same symptoms and that it was important to find out exactly wnat was at fault in order to select the correct treatment. Infection, fractures, tumors and injuries may all cause similar tual results in 1943 tell the story as clearly as any political story can be told. What Really Happened What really happened in 1948 can be simply summarized.

In most key states President Truman ran pretty far behind, and Gov. Dewey ran rather far ahead, of their respective tickets. The spread was unusually wide in states where the local Republicans had waged campaigns of the orthodox, "Chicago sort. And the only Republican of any significance who ran well ahead of was far more of a me-too Republican than Dewey himself. In Illinois, for example, President Truman squeaked through by a majority of only 3,000.

But Gov. Adlai Stevenson beat Robert E. McCormick's Gubernatorial candidate, Dwight Green, by a gigantic majority of nearly 575,000, while Sen. Paul Douglas trounced Curly Brooks by nearly 500,000 Both Gov. Stevenson and Sen.

Douglas were to the left of President Truman if anything. No one, by the wildest stretch of the imagination, could say that Green and Douglas even slightly stained wiht me-too tendencies. In Illinois, in fact, you could say that Dewey was dragged down by the extreme weakness of a violently anti-me-roo local ticket, which polled around half a million votes less than Dewey did. In Ohio, again, President Truman squeaked through by the tiny majority of 17,000, while a Republican Gubernatorial candidate of the Taft stripe was beaten by Frank Lausche by more than 320,000. There is no need to multiply these figures, which are broadly representative of the general tendency throughout the country in 1948.

But the exception is still worth noting. In Kentucky, Truman beat by 125,000, but the extreme me-too Republican, Slrcrman Cooper, came within only 25,000 votes of snatching the Senatorship from Virgil Chapman. Facts Bely the Theory In plain language, the hard facts bely the whole me-too theory. There are other hard facts that Republicans will also do well to bear in mind. In New York in 1948, for example.

Dewey beat Truman by only 161,000 votes, while Henry A. Wallace polled well over 500,000, most of which would have gone to Truman with no Progressive candidate in the race. And in Pennsylvania, Dewey carried the state by only 250,000, with 55,000 going to the Progressives. This secondary group of facts suggests a further conclusion. The Republicans in 1948 not only lost a number of big.

crucial states where they had strongly anti-me-too local candidates. They also came perilously close to losing other large and important states, even though their local tickets were comparatively strong. And precisely these states are still doubtful. If Sen. Taft is nominated, his situation sure to be far from easy in New York, where Gov.

Dewey's organization will hardly put forth a great effort for him. In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, the increasing decay of the Republican organization has just been dramatically disclosed by their loss of the ancient stronghold of Philadelphia. Finally, there is the problem of the South. Southern leaders like Gov. James F.

Byrnes and Sen. Harry F. Byrd are widely quoted to the effect that Gen. Eisenhower would carry four or five Southern states; but they rather regretfulty predict that their people will never vote for Sen. Tsft.

For the traditionally Democratic South, they say. "Mr. Republican" would be rather too much of a good thing. These facts and figures may mean a lot or very little. If there are a few more tax scandals, Harry S.

Truman could make as poor a showing against Sen. Taft as "Jumping Joe" Ferguson made in Ohio last year. In short, the purpose of printing the facts and figures is only to set a much-misrepresented record relatively straight. Non-Stop Train The longest daily non-stop train run is said to be that of the "Flying Scotsman," between King's and Edinburgh, a distance of 397.7 miles. Eric Johnston's suggested cure for inflation, in effect, is for the government to take so much of our incomes in taxes we won't be able to pay high prices.

Cincinnati Enquirer. Good Police Work The Kokomo police department has been doing a good job of solving the latest wave of burglaries in the city. In two days last week the department solved. 10 breakins, all of which had been committed by boys of juvenile age. In one of the cases a 12-year-old boy made the error of leaving his old tennis shoes in a shoe store after chang- If woman's work is never done, why does she buy a three-year-old tot a chocolate cone and say "Now don't get it all over Miami Herald.

Bobby soxers who once swooned over the crooner now are wives and mothers and getting the old effect with a glimpse of the butcher's Daily News. good weapons if there was to be a hope of defeating Communist aggression. They went into it with their eyes wide open on the difficulties. They knew, for instance, that the newest jet fighters had to be built with tapered aluminum slabs, which require huge new, hard-to-get machine tools for their production. They knew that the new turret on the improved tanks would probably cause the manufacturer delays in production due to some knotty engineering difficulties.

-But they still didn't think that all- out war would come immediately. And they wanted to use this time to give the forces the best possible The Kokomo Tribune Published bv ITie Kokomo Tribune Member of Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news nu Wished herein Entered as second class matter Janunrv 21. 1905 at rhe postoffice at Kokomo. Indiana under the act of Congress of rcI L. 8 J.

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Bv mail outside Indiana per vear oavable in advance. $12.00. eventual total mobilization, meant sacrificing some immediate arms deliveries to getting all of industry in a better state of preparedness. To Protect Economy The big gain, if the gamble paid off, the avoidance of complete disruption of the American economy which would have been necessary if total mobilization of industry had been attempted. There were other, complicating factors in the picture at the start of Korea, too, which made the situation different from what it was at the start of World War II, which accounts for the seeming lag in war production at this time, ODM spokesmen point out.

There was no reserve labor pool of unemployed to draw from for extra manpower needs. There were material shortages caused by tremendous civilian production at the start of Korea. On such things as steel, the question suddenly became not one of to whom to give steel, as it was at the start 'of World War II, but from whom to take it away. In any event, the Sen. Johnson report notwithstanding, ODM officials are defending their original decision on the guns and butter program.

They are not as alarmed about bottlenecks in the program as is Sen. Johnson. And further, they claim, many of the bottlenecks he criticizes are just" about to be broken. They think his report may have been just a little premature. ing much concern.

Many persons accused of being Communists have denied publicly in the press and under oath that they were Communists, yet a number of ex-Communists have testified before congressional committees that many of those who denied it were known in the inner councils as Communists. Mr. Bingham was asked whether in the cases that come before his board "it could be determined whether the individuals were directly connected with foreign governments or "sympathizers." His reply was: "They never admit it. Of course, in the usual case they deny everything. One of the things you have to' do at these hearings is to try to see if they are lying or not.

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