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the land. A California jury has
this July given the radio and tele-
vision broadcasters something of
jolt and nobody is sure what
may happen.
The jury is the one which, ac-
cording to the Associated Press,
recently found in favor of the
radio program, Bride and
Groom" in a plagiarism suit it
lodged against another radio pro-
gram, Wedding Bells" The jury
not only decided that the pro-
ducerS of Bride and Groom" had
just cause for complaint but went
on to startle every one, including,
the judge, by awarding them
$500, 900 in damages.
The producers Of Wedding
Bells" contend that people have
been getting married for some
time now and that the wedding
ceremony is in the public domain.
just like the music Of Tschai-
kowsy. The Bride and Groom"
contention was that it was the
first program to exploit the we'd
ding on the air waves, point
on which the jury was in fun
agreement.
The decision will be appealed.
of course, and it is likely that this
is another broadcasting problem
which will have to be settled by
the Supreme Court.
Shows Have Been Borrowed
Rother Freely Up to Now
Up to now the pirating of pro-
gram ideas has been INDUCED in
rather freely. Apparently it has
been felt that program could
be borrowed with impunity if
altered by some "gimmick" so
that it was not an exact copy
Of the original.
The award of the pyramiding
jackpot probably originated with
Ralph Edwards Truth or Conse-
uuences," for instance. The jack
pot was borrowed, an entire pro-
gram was built around it, and
stop the Music" was on the
air. "Stop the Music" was an
Instant hit and was followed al
most Immediately by Sing 1t
Again"
Essentially the two are Cor were
before the latter was dropped the
same program. stop the Music"
calls listeners who identify pop
ular tunes to qualify for a try
at the jackpot. "Sing 1t Again"
called listeners who identified
well-known people described in
special lyrics of popular tunes
to qualify for a try at the jack
pot. It was the "gimmick," not
the program idea which made the
difference.
Among the most interested re-
cipients of the news of the Cali
fornia decision. you may be sure.
were Martha Rountree and Larry
Spivack, producers of Meet the
Press" Pre-trial hearings are ex-
pected in September in their suit
against the Mutual Broadcasting
System inspired by a Mutual pro-
gram called Reporters Round
up"
Success of This Suit
Could Couse CONSERVATION
Mutual is expected to defend
itself with the claim that press
conference can't be copyrighted
and that the formal of Its show
is different, in that questions from
listeners are mixed with those of
1.-THE Meet the Press"
people, however, are showing no
disposition to forget the whole
thing, especially since that deci-
sion in favor of Bride and
Groom"
Success of this suit or fail
ure of the Wedding Bells" appeal
could cause a great deal of con-
sternation. The broadcasters al
ready are asking themselves
questions.
Could Space Patrol" perhaps,
sue Space Cadet? Could Bill
'Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd run
Gene Autry and the Lone Ranger
off the television range? Does
Burr TillStrom have a case
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around their necks. Some Of
them think this would be an
albatross. even though they are
satisfied personally that it is a
holding action with a purpose
which it is fulfilling.
With a forthrightness match
ing Gen. Wedemeyer's, Admiral
Sherman. Chief Of Naval Opera
tons. has suggested that we may
be In for more holding opera
tons Of this nature In various
parts Of the world. This Is glum
news for the Democratic candi-
dates.
President Truman recognizes
very well the lily character Of
the Korea issue. His apparent
strategy Is TO let the military
victories speak for themselves
while the new system Of rotation
of the troops helps to assuage
feelings at home. New pressures.
too, will be upon other nations
to get more of their troops into
the line.
But the President himself will
concentrate on the issue of prices
and imitation. He proposes to
show the country that he is the
most vigorous man In America
on this front. He will address
himself to it continuously, by
radio and on tour and from his
White House sounding board.
His political Judgment is that
prices and imitation are much.
much hotter than the MacAr-
thur issue.
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Constantine Brown:
Gen. Wedeneyer Is an IdeoIist
Firmly Believes That All Free Nations of the World
VIII Join together in Common FIGHT for Defense

1t. Gen. Albert C. Wede-
meyers frank and nonpartisan
approach to all the questions
put to him, as well as his fear
less expression of his own mill
tary views, caused the majority
of Senators on the Macarthur
investigating committee to COM
ment that his was "tle most
refreshing testimony we have
heard so far"
Many members of the COM
mittee did not agree with the
views Of the 9Th Army COM
mander. But he never hedged
in his answers to pertinent
questions and his memory was
never conveniently at fault.
His views on what we should
do in Korea are likely to spark
a lively controversy in and out
Of Congress. He agreed with
Gen. MacArthur's contention
that there is no substitute for
victory. He did not use the
same words, but observed that
since the United Nations seems
hesitant to use every military
means at its disposal to fight
the war in Korea to a final de-
cision-and he favored the full
strategic use of the air force
together with a naval blockade
of China-we should withdraw
our ground forces from the en-
battled area.
This was interpreted by many
to mean that we had better give
up Korea and call it quits. This,
however. does not appear to be
what was in Gen. Wedemeyer's
mind. Earlier he stated his be-
lief that we should never have
interviewed with ground forces
in Korea.
Gen. Wedemeyer was con-
WINGED that by using air and
naval forces we might better
have achieved the detectives Of
the United Nations of repelling
and Furnishing aggression. It
was on this theory that he
predicated his suggestion Of
withdrawing our ground forces.
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After the removal of these from
Korea air and naval forces Of
the U. N. could continue pound.
ing the enemy, making the Reds
stay in Korea as uncomfortable
and costly as possible.
Gen. Wedemeyer does not see
defeat in such action. The de-
feat would occur If we negotiated
a truce and a settlement more
or less on the terms Of the Com
munists.. even if such an ar
rangement contained some face
saving devices for the U. N.
The question Of evacuating
Korea arose strongly In the
minds of the Joint Chiefs of
staff last winter, when the stu
alton looked bad for US. At
that time it was pointed out
rightly that a military with
drawal from a difficult strategic
position is no more defeat for
a retiring army than Dunkirk
was a defeat for the British in
World War II.
So long as one of the warning
parties does not accept the
others terms there is no harm
in withdrawing to positions
from which new operations can
be started. Gen. Wedemeyer's
advocacy of withdrawing our
forces, and presumably the
South Korean troops, to Japan.
perhaps, does not mean that we
would not continue the cam
paign against the Communists
in Korea.
The former deputy chief OF
staff for war planning definitely
does not share the views of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff that we
can force the Communists into
submission simply by inf1icting
heavy casualties on them. He
shares the view prevalent among
most military men that the pres
ent conflict is not necessarily
with China alone, but with Rus
STA as well. And he pointed
out that while the Russians are
using their third team in this
campaign, which many consider
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Lowell Mellett
Economy Can Be Expensive
Some of the Budget Soshine by Congress Designed
To Serve Private Interests at Taxpayers Expense

agencies thus crippled left to
adjust their work the best they
can.
That applies to some Of the
appropriations. In some Of the
others there are evidences Of
very expert treatment and rare
determinations. In these the
pretense Of economy is used
to wreck essential Government
operations in order to serve pri-
yate interests. The result is q
clear loss, sometimes a very
great loss, to the taxpayer.
This has happened in the case
Of the Interior Department ap-
preparation as emasculated by
the House. The Senate has not
yet acted.
Through various tricky
amendments the Governments
hands have been tied IN the
matter of distributing the elec-
trio power developed by great
Government projects in the
Northwest and elsewhere. The
private power companies who
for years fought against these
projects are about to be handed
a Large share of the profits from
them. In the name of economy,
Congress would Withhold the rela-
lively small amount of money
needed to build transmission
lines and would allow the private
companies to take over distri-
button, virtually on their own
terms. In the face of the great
savings achieved for the people
by IVA, Bonneville and other
projects in the Second World
War. through cheap power, this
Is about to be done. To save
dimes. Congress would throw
away dollars.
Many members Of Congress
are disposed to duck the issue
Of real economy on another
front. Apart from the question
OF what imitation is doing TO
the individual citizen as a con.
sumner there is the terrific beat.
ing 1t Is giving him as a tax
payer. The total cost of our
war production has been stepped
up several billion dollars already
by imitation costs and we haven't
really got rolling yet.
But a large contingent of the
Congressman. including some of
the loudest econmizers, are still
unwilling to admit that it is time
to provide effective price con-
trolls.
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Doris FIeeson:
Hearing P|eoses Neither Party
Macarthur Inquiry Fails to Produce Issue for G. O. P
But Koreo Stuoton Is No Asset to Democrats

AS the Macarthur inquiry moves
into the home stretch, the poll
ticians on both sides are taking
new soundings. Neither party is
too happy.
Democrats believe they have
come out best by far in the testi-
mony but so long as the admin
stration cannot furnish a firm an
swer to what is going to happen
in Korea, they know they are on
treacherous ground. Republicans
concede the benefits to Mr.. Tru-
man of the solid front displayed
by all his military advisers and
they are not happy over the
fortnight demands of Gen. Wede-
meyer, who is viewed as their
witness, for war with Russia.
Such senior statesmen as Sem
ator Millikin of Colorado, who
warned his fellow Republicans
to go slow on the Macarthur
issue, therefore seem justified.
But it still leaves the G. o. P.
without the alluring campaign
issue for which 1t has been long
starved.
The Truman administration
is stuck with the peculiar ma
ture of the Korean affair. From
Gen. Marshall on down, the
military say they are winning
the war. But the diplomats are
unable to promise that, even so,
they can win the peace. They
practically shudder at the men
ton Of a cease-f1re, truce, or
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anything of like nature that
would lead the public to believe
either that they were contem-
plating appeasement or had o
settlement in view they can
not in the end produce.
The State Department does
not appear to believe that the
Red Chinese will be allowed by
the Russians to make peace. no
matter what the United Ma
tons military forces accom-
plish. It is widely expected,
however. that some kind of
peace bid to them will be made
fairly soon through the United
Nations.
Secretary Acheson's testi-
mony in the Macarthur hear.
ings indicated what that peace
offer might contain: A pause
at the 38th Parallel, a return
to the old division between North
and South Korea with super
vised disarmament. The Sec
rotary made a tenacious defense
Of a return to the status quo as
representing achievement of
what the United Nations set out
to do.
He is described as not very
optimistic about even these mini
mum terms.
This amounts to notice to
the Democrats that they are
moving toward a presidential
election with an inconclusive
holding operation in Korea hung
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Dovid Lawrence:

President Truman made an
inept and unfortunate COMPARE
son between the battle casual
ties in Korea and traffic acci-
dents on the highways Of this
country.
MIR. Truman seems to be sem
sitiye about the criticism being
made in Congress about the
large number of casualties in
Korea, and he impulsively de-
rided his critics by saying that
they might also be blaming his
administration for the traffic
accidents.
II he had endeavored to say
that he was as free from per-
sonal blame for the Korean
casualties as the members of
Congress are for highway acct
dents, there might have been
more of a point to his remarks,
though large segment of the
people does hold a President re-
sponsible for any wars that hap
pen during his administration.
Mr.. Truman. however, gave
the impression that somehow
there is a similarity between
traffic accidents and battle
casualties. Most observers
will dispute such an interpre-
tation. Nobody goes to Korea
of his own volition and gets
shot at. People go out on the
highways voluntarily, and they
do not Intentionally hurt any
body or expose themselves to
accidents. Certainly out of the
total persons who travel in
motorcars annually, the per-
centage of those killed or in
jured is infinitesimal. AS for
casualties in Korea. the figure
is l40.000-not 10000, as the
President stated. Assuming
That there have been upwards
OF 100000 Americans in Korea.
the percentage of those on the
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would have an inevitable result
exactly what has occurred.
And a logical mind would, there
fore, have entertained the idea
Of negotiating a peace with
Japan, on terms that would have
prevented any other non-C Chi
nese military power from enter
ing Manchuria.
But, Western leaders, politi-
cal and military, lost sight Of
any objective except victory"
For we were on a crusade against
sin. as exclusively represented by
Germany and Japan, and be-
lieved that once these had UNI
conditionally surrendered a mil
lennium would dawn.
That the elimination Of any
great power invariably creates
new opportunities for the ad-
venturouS and bold is known to
every one with political histori-
cal consciousness, but never. ap-
parently, to wartime leaders who
redouble their zeal when they
lose sight of their aims.
tReieased BY the Bell Syndicate, Ine.)
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Lowell WeIIett::

Many of our Senators and
Representatives are undertaking
now to build regulations as pro-
tectors of the American pocket
book. They are preparing them
selves for the speeches they
expect to make next summer.
Like this:
1.-THE record win show that
I voted for every appropriation
to strengthen our National De-
Tense. It will show also that I
voted to curtail all wastful ex-
penditures for non defense pur-
poses. Many Of these expendi-
lures could be justified in peace
times perhaps but they become
luxuries we cannot afford when
threatened by an enemy abroad
and by imitation at home"
And so on. Sounds like good
sense and probably is II the
emphasis is put on the word
"wasteful" and the term mon
defense" is carefully defined.
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the curtain-raiser for World
War III. we are using our first
and best team.
This unquestionably is true.
The ground forces we now have
in Korea are the best available
in the United States. Although
our total casualties represent
only about 10 per cent Of the
assumed total casualties Of the
enemy. it must be realized that
our ground-force potential is far
smaller than that Of the Com
nunists.
Moreover, the Russians have
not committed a single one Of
their 200 battle-ready divisions,
while we are using the flower
OF the American Army. Thus,
the casualties we have suffered
so far necessarily have created
a big hole in our available fight
ing forces on the ground. Thus,
in fact. the attrition of Ameri-
can forces, considering the avail
ability Of divisions In Russia and
America. is greater than that
Of the enemy.
Gen. Wedemeyer is an idealiSt.
He firmly believes that all the
free nations of the world, faced
with the evident menace of Rus
sia's Imperialism, will join to-
'gether in a common fight for
the defense of the free institu.
tions Of the world. For this rea-
son, he does not have the slight
est doubt that all the members
of the U. N. which represent
the free world will husband
their forces and join this coun-
try in the common fight against
Soviet expanSionism.
It was for this reason that
he emphasized repeatedly that
we must make every effort to
make our actions dovetail with
those Of our partners. Only in
the extreme-and in Gen. Wede-
meyers mind highly improbable
case that our Allies object to
the use Of all means to defeat
the enemy does he suggest that
we "go 1t alone"
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Aires, how bald I am getting,
and how wrong Tallulah (Dah-
ling) Bankhead was in thinking
she was the only one to have
the right to the name of Tai
lulah Ga lovely falls in Georgia
was called that long before any
of the Bankheads of Alabama
were BORN, and what it meant
to me the first time I crossed
the ocean and stood on foreign
soil.
More: What I thought the
first day / did KIP in the Army,
what it meant to have to say
Sir" to officers I knew couldn't
carry even my shoes on q dark
night, my troubles with a fire.
place that smoked. my convic-
ton that Bill Dickey was the
best catcher baseball ever knew.
the griefs of spring houseclean-
ing, and a talk with Nehru in
New Delhi.
Still more: Toots Shor. the
view from the Semiramis Hotel
in Cairo, the belief that this
country could use more men like
Rickenbacker. the tortures of
getting a suit tailored, coming
close to getting thrown out of
the press box at EPSON Downs
for putting my nose to a plate
glass window and looking at King
George v, my first burlesque
show, President Truman, the
income tax. Sonja's skating in
the 1882 Olympic games at Lake
Placid, Jesse Owens running the
100 and the 220 at Berlin, the
tortures Of being a redhead and
trying to get a suntan, the Nor
ris Plan Bank, Fuji's beauty,
television, and the satisfaction
Of betting on the Yankees in a
World Series. the sweetness and
kindness OF Denmark's people, a
handshake with r. D. R., the
view Of Hong Kong from the
Peak at night. the view of San
Francisco from any place, Bob
Hope. and the belief that shower
curtain rods should be abol-
ished because women wash and
hang stockings and slips and
girdleS on them.
Now I have to write about
something ! haven't written
about.
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Dorothy Thompson:
Red Reasoning Behind Yo|to
Power Politics, Typical of War Coalitions Overlooked
20 Years of u. S and Russo-Chnese Relations

AS a witness the Secretary Of
State has shown mental grasp,
accurate memory, and powers
Of coherent association which
explode the charges against him.
No one who has so far appeared
before the joint Senate commit
tee has revealed so clear a mind
and so comprehensive knowl-
edge of the critical events. His
opponents have failed to trip
him and much of his polite tes-
timony must have been discom-
forting to them.
Mr.. Acheson cannot be ac-
cused Of influencing the agree
ment at Yalta, though he de-
Tended 1t more ably than it
deserves. But the Senators did
not, I think, ask the right ques-
tons concerning the reasoning
behind Yalta. For 1t is obvious
as that reasoning comes to light,
that it was the war itself, as it
was thought and fought, which
produced the agreement which
gave the Soviet Union such
power in Asia.
MIR. Acheson argued that in
February, 1915, when Yalta &C.
CURED, the atom bomb had not
been tested and the military
anticipated continued immense
losses before Japan could be
occupied and forced to her
knees, unless Russia would en-
gage Japan on the mainland.
The price granted-admittedly
at the expense of China-was
to get Russia to enter the
japanese war early enough,
despite the fact (Which went
unmentioned) that she had a
non-aggression treaty with
Japan.
However, it was recognized
that when she moved into Man.
churia she would be in a po-
sition to do pretty much as she
pleased, since no Western or
Chinese Nationalist armies
would be on the spot. There
fore. it appeared advisable to
fix the limitations of her gains
by advance agreement.
This was power politics
diplomacy typical of war coali-
tions. But it overlooked the
most pertinent factors. one of
them being 20 years of Russo
Chinese and Americana Chinese
relations.
We really went to war with
Japan over Manchuria. Had
we ever been willing to declare
disinterest In a japanese sphere
of influence In Manchuria, we
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Doyid Lawrence:
Won't Comfort Victims Families
Trumons Comparison Between Highway Traffic Accidents
And Korea Casualties Both nept and Unfortunate

cluded in an overwhelming
number.
Mr.. Truman is evidently feel
ing the criticism about his
Korean policy, and it is only
natural that he should, because
he knows from experience in
politics that the individual or
party in power gets blamed for
everything bad that happens
and, incidentally, claims credit
for everything good that hap
pens.
The emphasis in Congress on
battle casualties has been grow
ing. Secretary Marshall de-
plored it. saying it was having
a bad effect on the morale Of
the troops. This is always true
in wartime, but actually the
troops in the field do not have
to hear radio reports or read
newspapers to know how severe
the casualties are at a given
moment. The grapevine" in
side a battle zone carries that
news faster than any overseas
media.
If Mr.. Truman had any idea
that his remarks on the deplor-
able record of traffic accidents
would be made more effective by
a comparison with Korean cas-
ualties, he is very much mis-
taken. The average person can
be persuaded to be more careful
in driving his car for reasons
vital to his own welfare-but as
for what happens in the battle
zone, the chances of getting
hurt there are far greater. The
less said about the casualties in
Korea from the standpoint of
minimizing their Importance.
the better for the administra-
tons prestige.
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