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iHE MARCH OF DIMES is now under
way.
Public response to the annual fund-rais
ing drive of the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis in previous years has en
abled this humanitarian organization to do
a magnificent job in meeting the increasingly
widespread polio challenge.
The need for an enormously successful
March of Dimes this year must be fully un
derstood. Not only was 1950 the second
By JOHN RANDOLPH
AP Korean Correspondent
^ NEW and appalling tragedy is
have no knowledge of, or interest in, a well defined area so that they will queer little rubber sandals, must be
building up in Korea—the terrible
fate of at least 2,000,000 refugees
who now are beginning to die along
the road in their blind flight south-
worst polio year on record, but its timing,
immediately following the worst year, in
1949, has created urgent financial problems.
A recapitulation of some facts concerning the ward.
cost of infantile paralysis brings this home Unless some kind of help on the
vividly. widest scale is speeded to these peo-
j-w pie, the United States and the United
By ast fall, epidemic aid funds of the be confronted with one
National Foundation were gone, despite a of the greatest human disasters of
most successful March of Dimes the pre- modern times.
communism.
Fear Chinese
Many are fleeing because of an
age-old fear that the Chinese invad
er will kill them. Others flee because
U. N. troops have burned their vil
lages in military operations.
Many are probably running just
because everybody else is running.
Nobody really knows how many
refugees there are, but best esti
mates place the total between two
and three millions. There may be
not be killed accidentally when the very nearly frostbitten.
shooting starts.
Some, in fact, already have been
hit. A few days ago an American
battery, firing registration shots,
killed about four and wounded per
haps seven.
I saw one old woman who had
been hit by a shell fragment. Her
left foot was nearly torn off. Amer
ican medics went beyond the front
lines to bring her back on a litter,
then sent her to an aid .station by
jeep ambulance.
Her family, a daughter, son-in-law
and two younger children, ran after
vious January. Every available dollar had Already this flight of the refugees
been nresspd into sorvice to nrovidp for sid ^ made-to-order atrocity story for more.
S the Communist propaganda mill and “They never should have left, the j and d for rides . But
or me smcKen. r\ot omy ror lyous cases, its cymcal theme of “heartless west- they shouldnt,’ said Lance Cpl. John the v i c ti m ' -
but also for patients from 1949 and other ern imperialism.” ^ v , ~ ™ me vicim
was to be evacuated to
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Whenever' tve hear an old man lam
basting the youth of today ive won
der what kind of child he ivas.
Rule by Lion
Better than by Rat
IHE KOREAN record we have been play
ing may be as tiresome as the “Tennessee
Waltz” by now. However the song 1 * is num
ber one on the hit parade, and the “police
action” deal in Korea is number one on the
Congressional agenda. We like to think
that our “plugs” have done some good.
Both Democrats and Republicans are stack
ing up ammunition for the resumption of the
verbal battle next week.
Some of the caustic comments are
tabulated as follows:
Rep. Sikes (D-Fla.)—“Gen. Doug
las MacArthur’s divisions ought to be
re-enforced, or we should get our men
out of Korea.”
Rep. Poulson (R-Calif.)—“Amer
ican troops have been turned over to
a debating society in putting them un
der the U. N. banner.” “If an atom
bomb is dropped on us, I assume the
U. N. will have to debate two months
whether we should retaliate.”
North Dakota Senate—On January
12, 1951, this body passed a resolution
by a 36-5 vote calling for withdrawal of
American troops from Korea.
These are just a cross section of opinions
designed to aleviate the unfavorable circum
stances under which our men are forced to
fight. Efforts are also being made to tap
additional sources of manpower. It is ob
vious that we cannot hope to win a “rifleman
vs. rifleman” battle in view of the Chinese
superiority in this respect.
We will observe this controversy with
interest, and we believe that some good will
come of it. Each form of government has
its strong and weak points. Voltaire said
that he would rather be ruled by one lion
than a hundred rats. No inferences are in
tended, but we believe that his penetrating
mind may have grasped a fundamental
weakness in a democratic forni of govern
ment. We would do well, in the present
circumstances, to emulate the lion in ou/ ? or-
eign policies.
years who still required care and treatment.
The patient-care bill alone for the three-
year period 1948-50 took more than $58,000,-
000 in March of Dimes funds—exclusive of
the millions that went to underwrite re
search, and education for professional per
sonnel.
Right now, in hospitals, homes and clin
ics throughout the country, there are thous
ands of boys and girls—and adults too—
who look to the 1951 March of Dimes for
continued assistance.
Edgar Allan Poe once said: “Childhood
knows the human heart.” Let that heart now
It will make no difference to the
Communists that the Chinese Reds
are driving these pitiful people be
fore them to harass and embarrass
the American and allied forces.
Problem Growing
The worst of it is that the refu
gee problem is growing swiftly and
steadily in relation to any plan big
enough to meet it. Three weeks ago
the large but not extraordinary num
ber of fugitives was a matter for
sympathy but not for undue worry.
Today their plight verges on catas
trophe.
Riches, of No. 4 London Road, Chap- p usan) and h er f am iiy was told to
. . . , , „ Ever since the allied defeats in
know the need for happy childhoods for our North Korea late in Novem ber, both vllIa A g e
young people—all of them within reach of North and South Korean civilians
our generosity. Let your heart move your have been shifting southward to es-
el St. Mary, near Ipswich, Suffolk.
He is one of the British guards at a
refugee check point.
“I saw the refugees in the battle
of France and at Dunkerque, and
it was candy to this. This is the
most horrible sight I’ve ever seen.
All these women and kiddies, too.
The men who made this war ought
to come right here and see it with
their own eyes. It’s a bloody
shame, it is.”
It was Corporal Riches’ unpleas
ant duty to stand at a road and rail
crossing and force the constant
stream of refugees to stay on the
tracks and not bolt for the road and
meet her there—if they get there.
Frontline fire is nothing compar
ed with the toll the journey and
the elements are taking.
“I saw one woman give birth to
a baby by the side of the road,” said
Capt. Robert D. Glaser, of 17482
Clifton Blvd., Lakewood, Ohio, a
company commander in a famous in
fantry regiment. “She just threw the
baby in the ditch. What could we do ?
This is the front. Her own people
didn’t care. Several hundred were
passing by while it happened.”
Throw Children in River
cape the wrath and oppression of the
returning Communists.
At Hungnam, where the allies
evacuated northeastern Korea forces
two weeks ago, more than 100,000
North Korean civilians crowded des
perately aboard ships which carried
them with comparative ease to South
Korea. But the real flight of the pop
ulace in South Korea began last
week.
Their numbers were swelled by a
„ , . , . million or more of the population of
a hot skillet, because they are subject to g eou i ; which was almost a ghost
hand—Join the March of Dimes!
If you think you have a very inti
mate friend, don’t get into a busi
ness deal ivith him.
‘Fleas on a Skillet’
lHAT most reservists are like “fleas on
call on short notice, as Omar B. Ketchum, town when the last allied troops left ments.
A few yards from him, lying be
hind a Korean shack, was the body
of an old man who had just died of
starvation and exposure. Down the
road the guards had let a family
leave the track to carry an old grand
mother into a hut. She could no long
er walk. It was obvious her end was
near.
Must Keep Roads Clear
The Army’s insistence upon mak
ing refugees keep to the tracks is
stern but not wanton. The Army is
fighting for its life, and it must keep
the roads clear for military move-
Some of the children are lost,
and they wail with a desolation
that lingers in the ears. Hysterical
mothers rush to them, see that
they are not theirs, wring their
hands and sob aloud.
Broken Humanity
This is not a single incident at a
railroad crossing. It is not in a single
district or a single province. It is
thousands upon hundreds of thou
sands of human beings; it is an end
less stream of broken humanity
stretching from the Chinese lines to
Pusan—nearly 200 miles.
When you awake in the morning
they are on the march. They march
all day. When you go to bed they
are still marching. And while you
sleep, they do not sleep.
The weather has heaped on extra
cruelties. When most of them started
it was clear and cold, with the tem
perature below zero. A few days ago
it started to thaw, and thaw brought
several inches of mud. Then a wet,
melting snow fell, soaking the refu
gees’ cotton clothing. Then it froze
again—the worst thing possible.
Army people think that soon the
refugees will start dying like flies
from cold and exhaustion. The old
people and the children will go first.
Even Oriental endurance has its lim
its.
No Help for Them
So far there seems to be no place
to care for them in the capacity that
director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, it.
saltily contends, is probably not far from the For some of these people the rea-
truth. Testifying before a House armed son for flight unquestionably was
services sub-committee, Mr. Ketchum made hatred of the communism they had
, ^ ^ . . seen, but it would be easy to exag-
several telling points in support of a plea g era ^ e this. A majority of these re-
Furthermore, the Chinese and
North Koreans have been flooding
the refugee columns with spies and
saboteurs, and the Army must take
some steps to control them.
Additionally, the Army is not
British soldiers said they had
stopped some women from throwing
small children—mostly infants—into
a river from a frontline bridge. They
had not realized this was happening
until they saw several small bodies
washed up on the river banks.
At one point the British counted will be necessary. The barest provi-
200 refugees passing their check- sions has been made for rice—so
point each minute. bare that many beg from soldiers.
The refugees all carry astonish- Medical care, at least near the front,
ing burdens, but most pitiful of all is non-existent. Soldiers, busy fight-
are the children. ing, are stricken with the acutest
They trudge along in their baggy kind of sympathy, but there is little
pants, from earliest walking age on they can do. The numbers of refu-
,up. Four-year-olds carry two-year- gees surpass the Army’s resources,
olds on their backs. In their peaked
caps they look like little elves plod
ding along, until you see their crack
ed faces, their hands purple from the
cold.
Sometimes tears course down
their blue, runny-nosed faces. Some
sob and whimper while they stumble
and try to keep up with their elders.
OUR NOMINATION FOR "THE THING'
that reservists should have at least 90 days fugees are rice-growing peasants who heartless; it wants the refugees in Their feet, in flimsy tennis shoes or problem,
notice before being put in uniform.
This has all the earmarks of a legitimate
gripe. Reservists are called up regardless
of family and business responsibilities, age
or past experience, according to the veter
ans’ official, while draftees can take cover
under a long list of exemptions. Many cas
es of hardship were cited.
Except in a sudden and immediate emer
gency, it would seem more logical and fair
to determine well in advance when reservists
are to be called, thus giving them an oppor
tunity to put their personal affairs in order
with the least possible dislocation.
—The Houston Post.
Army Civil Affairs units have al
most no resources. The South Korean
government is chaotic and can do
little for its people.
Anyone who has seen those terri
ble columns knows something must
be done, but what can be done ?
The powers which undertook the
defense of Korea face an appalling
Between noiv and election day the
candidates will be courting the fa
vor of special groups and there’s no
telling what will be promised.
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
'’Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Sen. Douglas Asks 6,000,000
Men in Service by December
Washington, Jan. 16—(tP)—Sena- (A) withdrawal of the United warn the Chinese Communists to
tor Douglas (D-Ul) told the Senate States from the United Nations if get out of Korea or have American
yesterday President Truman should Red China is admitted, and (B) warplanes bomb Manchuria,
have the “specific consent” of Con- American defense of Formosa in “We are facing the issue of the
gross before he sends more Ameri- the event of Communist attack. very survival of the U.N.,” Smith
can troops to Europe. Eastland said he offered the res- said in a statement.
Douglas said he will offer a reso- olution because “the new policy of Senator Flanders (R-Vt) declar-
lution approving the Brussels the state department means sur- ed the United States should throw
agreement — presumably involving render to Communist China,” and away the rule book in its fight
large U. S. troop commitments for be told the Senate: against Red aggression and “use
the defense of Western Europe— “I have reluctantly reached the every shot in the locker” against
and will demand a vote if admin- conclusion that the state depart- the Russians,
istration leaders don’t. ment as now constituted cannot Flanders also called for using
“The issue is too important and protect the welfare of the United Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek’s Chinese
the dangers to our survival too States. The under-the-table deal Nationalists against the Chinese
great for the Executive (Mr. Tru- at Lake Success was the last Reds, and said this country should
man) to act without the specific straw.” encourage Western Germans t?
consent of Congress,”, Douglas de- Senator Knowland (R-Calif) dis- “ stir U P trouble in East Germany
dared. closed that he has written assist- w *th all the support we can give
6,000,000 in Arms ant secretary of state Dean Rusk th ™” , ^ ^ •
, protesting that the U. N. proposal Flanders also urged that Presi*
The Illinois senator also pro- would get up a “packed j ur y” to dent Truman go before Congress
posed that the United btates dec jd e the future of Formosa. He with any proposal to send U. S.
should: said Britain, having recognized the troops to Europe.
• Put 6,000,000 men under arms ^ - —- -
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or what had happened to it.
by next Dec. 1, President Tru
man’s current goal is 3,462,205 by
June 30 or earlier.
• Blockade the coast of Red
China.
• Urge the United Nations to
brand Communist China an ag
gressor.
• Hold out as long as possible
in Korea.
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Whether this is the case or not, the Great Debate on foreign poli-
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Chinese Reds, is biased in their fa- “He should do this for the sake
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