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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1950
In Straight, Peace Is Found
General Walton H. Walker has pro
nounced the Korean war “over” since the
enemy has “no real offensive power left”.
President Truman has sent his congratula
tions to Gen. MacArthur, but the question
of whether or not U.N. forces will go above
the 38th parallel remains unanswered. It is
also a good point of speculation as to wheth
er or not the North Koreans will re-group
north of the 38th parallel in order to use
continued resistance as a bargaining point in
negotiating a more favorable peace.
In spite of the favorable news from Ko
rea, there is no indication that the adminis
tration plans to curtail the planned defense
programs. The Marine reservists will re
main in uniform, the Army will continue with
its plan fon a force of 3,000,000 men, and the
Air Force will continue the recall of its re
servists. Pres. Truman expects opposition
to continue spending at the current rate, but
he expects it to come from those who have
previously opposed defense spending.
The future may hold either war or peace,
but for the time being American stock is on
the way up. The will to resist Communism
will reappear all over the world, and appease
ment will be replaced by military strength
under the flag of the United Nations.
Any meeting with Russian leaders will
have the freedom of every nation as an ob
jective rather than a division of the world
into two spheres of influence. Russia has
“lost face” in Asia, and the U.N. has won
respect and prestige all over the world.
Idealism--The Realism of the Future? . . .
Dr. Frank C. Daubach of Benton, Pa.,
missionary-educator who has taught millions
how 1 to read and write, spoke in Dallas, Fri
day on his plan to save the world from Com
munism. Education, not military might, is
the final answer to Communism, he said.
Dr. Daubach’s plan would require an ar
my of 50,000 persons and about two billion
dollars. This army would be composed of
specialists to teach agriculture, health, hy
giene, journalism and other subjects in the
lands where knowledge is lacking — those
countries where the people are turning to
Communism for a way up from their plight.
Admittedly, Dr. Daubach’s plan is ideal
istic. But look at the record of realism for
this first half century—two world wars, and
a third one on the way. And after the third
world war is over, if anyone is left, will we
be any closer to true peace than ever before
or will it be just another truce to rearm for
a fourth world war? By military strength
we may be able to defeat Communism. But
we also defeated Fascism, only to see anoth
er power-mad ideology attempt to take the
world. The real enemy of a peaceful world is
ignorance.
The Greatest Idealist tried to set the
world on the right track nearly two thous
and years ago. Businessmen, military lead
ers, and “realists” ignored Him then, and
in all likelihood will continue to ignore Him.
In 1945, Howard Vincent O’Brien in his
column, “All Things Considered,” said, “Man
has a peculiar aptitude for sticking in the
groove of error. His whole history is a rec
ord of overlooking the self-evident.
“Here we are, faced with such things as
atomic power and how to provide jobs for
everybody. It seems fairly clear that we have
to do something different. The old system
won’t do.
“We used to get along fairly well by
maintaining artificial scarcities, even though
it kept a few richer than they needed to be
and a lot of people poorer than they needed
to be. But it had a way of breaking down
every few years.
“It would be plain, even to a monkey,
that this system should be scrapped. But
we aren’t so smart as monkeys. The chances
are we’ll go right on trying to make the old
system work.”
South Korean Tells
Of Seoul Retreat
By DEWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
We have as. guest columnist to
day one of South Korea’s most dis-
Commies Taking Advantage
Of Federal Court System
By JAMES MARLOW convicted in a New York district court could give that final deci
Washington _(£>>— Last week drcuh^ourt 3 ^Appeals. He asks Previous Decisions
Supreme Court Justice Jackson his conviction in the district rp wo 0 f the three judges—on
freed on bail 10 of the 11 Com- cour t be thrown out. Aug. 28—decided the Communists
munist leaders who were convicted B u t if the second circuit turns s h 0 uld not be free and ordered
of conspiracy to teach overthrow him down, then— them back into custody. So the
of the government. 9 He can a pp e al to the U. S. Communists took the next step.
(The eleventh was in jail, serv- g eme Courtj w hich has nine They wen t over the heads of
ing a sentence for contempt of justices. A decision by the supreme the secon d circuit judges and ap-
Congress, and couldnt be freed.) court) for or against anything done pea i e( i to Jackson, presiding over
But you may have wondered j n the lower courts, is final. t hat circuit, to reverse the circuit
why Jackson, acting by himself, Although there are nine supreme CO urt and let them out on bail. He
had the power to do this and why court j us ti C es only six at one time did that this week,
all nine supreme court justices are needed to ’ make a decision on But me anwhile the Communists
a v0 ^ ce it. It s be- cages appealed to it. But the are a pp ea iing to the full supreme
cause the U. S. court system is set SU p reme court has a lot of work. court i 0 throw out their convic-
up that way. And it wag decid ed long ago t ion in the district court, the con-
Here’s a rough explanation, that gorne of the pro blems dumped v i c tion upheld by the second cir-
starting at the bottom: j{. g j a p don ’t need the attention cu jt court.
• The lowest U. S. courts are 0 f six justices, that some can be ^ su p rel p e court isn’t expected
the federal district courts. Every handled by one justice. ^ hand down its decision on the
state has one or more. But each g^ just as one circuit court of conviction until some time in 1951.
couit needs only one judge. appeals rides herd on several dis - —— ~
Various 1 federal offenses are trice courtS) so one justice of the
tried in these courts first.. If. a g^pccnie court is assigned to ride
man is convicted in a district herd on one or more circuit courts,
court, then For example: Justice Jackson is
• He can appeal to the U. S. called the presiding judge for the
Court of Appeals. There are 11 of second circuit court of appeals,
them for the whole country and Decisions
each must have at least three
judges. There are several things he can
Each court of appeals has a decide for himself, since it s his
number of district courts under its assigned duty. For example:
supervision. This collection of dis- He can stay temporarily the exe-
trict courts, under one appeals cution of a condemned man if the
court, is called a circuit and the latter’s lawyer asks for it on the
appeals court for that circuit is grounds, say, that he has new evi-
gency sessions in Taejon, Taegu, ca ij e d the circuit court of appeals, dence and needs more time ttrpro-
° n ^ ^ Examples of Systems ^uceH and show his client unjustly
aay one or soutn ivorea s most ms- . Now J^ted Nations victory For example: The district courts 0r a man convicte d in district
tinguished citizens—my friend £ assured - ? ut he T re at the U " lted 111 + New + York Vermont and Con- court and refused ba ii_ b y that
mr ir;™ ‘ Nations, where I came without necticut are all under the second and tbp circuit anneals
Mr. Dong Sung Kim
Mr. Kim is a newspaper publish
T"' b "is e fr? K »-
, , . , ^ x . .. court and the circuit appeals
delegation, we were surprised to circuit court of appeals. As a man court . can agk j ackson to free him
hear questions and doubts express-
the 38th parallel line. We had
never imagined that this question
at Lake Success, with his country’s
delegation to the United Nations.
isri*i x 11 • j-i J.L. would fc)6 in doubt/.
While we were talking the other
day I asked him why he didn’t
write me a column on Korean prob
Rearming Must
Not Be Stalled
Warnes Senator
on bail, pending his appeal from
the conviction in the lowest court.
Now take the case of the Com
munist leaders. Last Oct. 14 they
were convicted in a New York dis
trict court. They said they would
appeal their conviction and wanted
to be free on bail till the final
decision.
But the trial judge, Harold R.
Medina, refused them bail, as he
had a right to do. So then the
head
Washington Oct. 2-(AP) Communiste
went over his
Victory HI Korea IBUSt not and a sked the three judges of
do two
Scuttled ‘Peace Ship’ Hopes Unforgotten . .
The strangely assorted passengers of
Henry Ford’s “Peace Ship” which set forth
toward Europe to stop a war and “get the
boys out of the trenches by Christmas” some
35 years ago had little idea that their mission
would cause others to undertake similar ac-
activities.
The misadventures and failure of that ex
pedition became something of a world wide
joke at the time. The entire project was
financed by Ford who hated war and be
lieved that its horrors were needless and fu
tile and that its curse might be lifted by an
appeal to human intelligence.
He was quoted at the time as saying that
he would gladly spend half of his fortune to
shorten the slaughter by a single day. A
large share of the fortune left by him and his
son Edsel will be devoted to a more soundly
conceived and far more hopeful undertaking
with a similar if less immediate objective.
The Ford Foundation, with assets of
nearly one-fourth of a billion dollars, is the
world’s largest endowment of its kind. Hen
ry Ford II and his co-trustees have an
nounced that the foundation will support ac
tivities designed to help the peoples of the
world along the road to peace and freedom,
democratic strength and economic welfare.
Selected after a long and thoughtful
study, the “five areas of action” give the
foundation a very wide field in which to op
erate. But even the huge fund available will
not go far toward accomplishing its purpose
unless it is managed with wisdom and dis
cernment.
It has been reported that Paul G. Hoff
man will become president of the Ford Foun
dation and chief director of its operations.
This justifies confident hope that the fund
will be so managed and receive results that
would have gladdened Henry Ford I.
Hoffman has served the American people
and the cause of peace well as administrator
of the European Recovery Program for the
last two and a half years. It would have
been hard for an unexperienced person to
steer that great and difficult enterprise
through so critical a period with so large a
measure of success.
Don’t Re-Build Line
Under the United Nations we
lems at this time of crisis, and the held an election in South Korea on
following is his response to the May 10, 1948. We held another
invitation: election under U. N. observation on
On June 27 I joined the flood May 30, 1950. During all this
of refugees from Seoul, fleeing time, our government and the
from my home without even a U- N. Commission pleaded and
handbag. Every posession I owned worked for the opportunity to hold
was lost except the clothing on my a similar election ^ north of the be permitted to stall Ameri- second circuit court to
back. My family was separated 38th parallel line. Then, on June can efforts to rearm at home things:
ye I t. haVe n0t heard Se " at <> r S P ark - •Ove„„le Medina and l e t the™
Amid all the gloom of that day, incredible to us that any friends of man (D-Ala.) said yeesterday. 0U ;°" p . .. .
my mind was lightened by the be- freedom should ever thing that As a member of the American , row ou , t theu tonvictl °n m
lief that at last the cursed line of artificial and harmful barrier delegation to the United Nations, Medinas court,
the 38th parallel was broken down should ever again be rebuilt. Sparkman told reporters on a visit The three judges on Nov. 3, 1949
and that when the fighting ended Korea has paid a terrific price to Washington that he believes the decided the Communists should be
our nation would be re-unified at f or re-unification and freedom. Korean war will produce the first released on bail and set their total
l as t. Over 60,000 of our own soldiers steps toward formation of an in- bond at $260,000.
My life and my nation were have beep killed or wounded. About ternationai police force. But on Aug. 1, 1050 thes^ same
saved by the prompt support sent three million of our people have But until the U. N. is so organ- three judges upheld the conviction
by the United Nations under Gen- been driven from their homes and jzed and so equipped that it can of the Communists in Medina's
eral Douglas MacArthur, the best ar . e living now in great hardship, s t 0 p aggression wherever it may court. This meant the Communists,
friend the Korean nation ever without shelter or enough food to occur, the Alabama Senator said still free on bail, would appeal to
had. As I drifted resolutely south- ea t- Most of our major cities and the United States must not falter the Supreme Court to throw out
ward before the Communist armies, hundreds of ouft - villages have jn rearming. their conviction,
the 143 members of the national been smashed or burned. Our in- ] lave ^ con ti nue a Government attorneys asked the
assembly that managed to escape dustries are ruined. Our transpor- s t ron! r military preparedness pro- ^ree circuit judges now to revoke
and stick together met in emer- j; ation and communications sys- m at home and abroad unt ji we the bail for the Communists and
terns are destroyed. Surely this know p 0sit j ve ] y that the United order them i ailed untl1 the supreme
price we have had to pay has not ig j d to halt
been paid in vam. new a g gress ion,’’ he said.
Wants Rearmament The same thought was expressed
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There is much talk now of re- by Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.),
r , T who contended “the Communists in-
arming Germany and Japan. The tend to take over the world -,
Republic of Korea should also be o’Mahoney said the United
strongly and fully armed. The states must continue to be alert
world has seen how our people < ( £ or otber
can fight when weapons are t m quarters .»
available to us. It is our hope and 6 H , „ „ .,
A ,,, f • ,*' , j, expectation that we shall now have and . Senator Bridges
A scheduie of social events for the tankg) and artiUery) and naval (R-NH) also voiced the opinion
the fall semester was released to- vegselg and planeg with which we United Nations forces must go on
day by Grady Elms, assistant direc- can equip an army to defend our across the 38th parallel in Korea
tor of student activities. own borders to prevent another North Korean
The initial student social func- We welcome again the United invasion.
-f? 1, be , 81 , n |, ?, c ^ Nations Commission, to observe President Truman brought up
W1 L ,, e . l elections in Northern Korea when last week the question of the pos-
Following the TCU football game conditions suitable for an election sible effect of Korean victory on
in 1 ’ -i, £ st , a r, co ‘V ege ,. ±0 . have been restored. We shall need Congress’ willingness to continue
ball dance will be held. The Aggie- a United Nationg security force to vo t e the funds necessary to
and oicnestra will play for this j n our coun t r y un til our own army buildup military strength here and
a ? T ce ' 0 , , , . , , is adequately expanded, trained, among the anti-Communist coun-
Nov. 3 has been designated as a d equi pp ed t o face the dangers tries abroad.
BAl dT y '^ ngmeerS ^ egimen * ;a ^ tnat surround us. And when we The President is expected to
^'11 n „ n , have a strong army of our own, ask congress as soon as it re-
. ext , a C a ,? ge ^ ootba h dance Korean boys will die for the cause turns after the November elec-
.o tie •*V ^ an ; sas g ame Nov. 0 £ WO rld freedom, just as American tions for funds to increase the mil-
. Elms said that as far as he so ldiers have died on our soil to itary buildup. Mr. Truman said
knevv the Aggieland Orchestra tect our liberty . he expects opposition to this.
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