Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-08-03
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Aiken Attacks Byrd
GEN. George Aiken was once gov
~ ernor of the rock-ribbed Repub-
ican state Of Vermont, one of only
two states voting for ALI Landon in
1886. Aiken is frugal gentleman as
are most Vermonters, but he
writhed as he sat listening to Sen
ator Byrd of Virginia lead drive
to cut appropriations for school
lunches, juvenile delinquency, The
Women's Bureau and The Children's
Bureau.
Finally Aiken could stand it no
more.
can $4,000, 900 ship is being
built at Newport News, Virginia."
he told Senator Byrd, who used to
be governor of Virginia. ut will be
turned over to one of the shipping
lines for $28,OOO,OOO or a gift by
Uncle Sam of S50,000,0O0. That gift
is so per cent more money than we
plan to appropriate for maternal
and child welfare work in this coun-
try under the budget cuts.
docs a five-year-old child have
any cash value?" continued the
usually mild-mannered Vermont
senator. "What is it worth to re-
store crippled person to a place
where he is self supporting? What
is the cash value OF a healthy
mother, as compared to a sick one?
Are we to determine this in terms
of dollars and cents, and decide the
fewer the cents the better off the
country will be?"
'To hear the talk this afternoon"
Aiken added bitterly, lone might
assume that we ought to drown all
our children and mothers and get
them out of the way. Then they
wouldn't cost us anything"
A Reason for Peace
Unquestionably one reason for
Moscow's peace feelers is the eff
fectiveness of a little-known us.
weapon in Korea. For some reason,
never explained at the Macarthur
hearings, General Macarthur failed
to use this weapon in the early
stages of the Korean war More re-
Gently, however, it has caused ter
rifle Chinese casualties.
The weapon is the radar-cOn-
trolIed promixity fuse, now no
longer secret. This amazing de-
vice explodes artillery shells
just as they hit the target,
giving them devastating eff
feet. Previously shells exploded
as they buried themselves in
the ground. which detracted
from their effect.
The proximity fuse was used dur
ing the end of World War II, but it
has been a major mystery why
Macarthur failed to use it in the
early stages of the Korean war. If
he had done so. the back of the
Communist offensive might have
been broken early with countless
saving of American lives.
To solve the mystery of Mac
Arthur's failure to use the proximity
fuse, the Pentagon finally sent ord
nance expert Col. c. H. Roberts to
Korea. He came back with the
explanation that Macarthur had
failed to train artillery crews in
the use of the fuse.
Under Gen. Ridgway, however,
the proximity fuse has become the
key to American firepower, and the
chief reason the Chinese have suf-
fered such devastating casualties.
Undoubtedly also it is one reason
why Malik has thrown out over
lures for peace.
e.-Illustrative of the Army's
present policy of admitting and cor
recting mistakes, Maj. Gen. Floyd
Parks press branch in Washington
was willing to make public the
facts regarding the proximity fuse
error. However, the Far Eastern
Command overruled Parks.
Peace 0vertures
1t is no longer a secret that US.
delegates to the United Nations
have been working with other U.N.
L.