Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
NUMBER ONE JOB


OF all the battling problems that
confront the new Administration,
none is so critical as Korea. 1t was
this misadventure, beyond a doubt,
that contributed more heavily than
any other single issue to the Els
enhOwer landslide.
Since then, the situation has
grown no better, FAST. About the
only news to punetuate the end
less reports of steady attritiOn, has
! been the belated report of the court
martialling of SO men and one Off
Ger of a Puerto Rican regiment for
wholesale COwardice, hints of SINH
lar action in other outfits; and the
Operation Smack" disaster. Whe-
ther or not General Lawson Col
Inns can satisfy Congress that this
bloody defeat was not show for
propaganda purposes" staged be
! fore audiences of high-ranking Of
ficers, it is tragic evidence of the
need for new thinking, new plan
ming, new tactics.
Few soldiers in history have been
lassigned a more disheartening task
than President Eisenhower has
Fgiven Lieut.. General Maxwell d.
Taylor. To the Reds, the change
in the US Eighth Army command
means a new offensive, according
to the broadcasts of Radio Peip-
ing. And to everyone it must mean
a new course of action, designed,
as General Ike said, on his return
from this stactic front, to induce"
the enemy to seek peace. But it is
not likely we will know what is
happening-until long after it's
happened.
HISTORY REPEATS
There is a familiar ring to the
current agitation in Congress that
our government must insist on do
ing the navigation work in the In
ternatiOnal Rapids section of the
st. Lawrence River, instead of let
ting Canada do it, in order that we
will have a voice" in this essen
tial part of the long cOntrOverted
st. Lawrence waterway.
Thirty years ago the same argu-
ment was being made that we must
pay part of the construction costs
of Canada's new Welland Canal
r which is just west of the Interna-
tional Rapids section and links
Lakes Ontario and Erie. Vessels
passing through the Rapids section
must then go through the Welland
Canal in order to get into the Great
Lakes.
, Newspaper features of January
IL, relating events of 80 years ago
record that Representative Chal.
t mers of Toledo, introduced a bill
, providing that the u. S. and Can.
ada alike share in the costs Of the
new canal. The movement got no
where. Canada built the new can
t al and has owned and operated i
D ever since-just as she had built
, owned and operated the Origina
canal for some 20 years before
, will out having caused any incOn
2 venience to American vessels.
Y There has been a Welland Can
al for 100 years. Traffic over it ha
been prepOnderantly Canadian
5 Tolls were removed in 1903 in or
e der to attract traffic Now it is pro
posed to charge tolls in the Inter
national Rapids section whethe
e the Canadian or the U. S. govern
: ment does the work The who'll
~ thing seems rather mixed up.
Another essential part of tn
proposed waterway would be tn
500 locks connecting Lakes Hurol
and Superior. The U. S. govern
ment owns and operates four o
e the five locks there, the fifth on
p owned by Canada is obsolete. Can
= adian vessels bringing grain dow
Z from Port Arthur and Fort viii
= liam, Ont, to the Canadian end @
Lake Ontario, use the U. S. lock
= freely. No charges Of any kind ar
. made.
e In the matter of the st. Lawrenc
n rowdedow( manufactured solely i
It the U. S., history is plainly repeat
n ing herself-and some Of our sol
/, ons are giving us double-talk.
: NEW RULES
y Days have gotten longer in Wash
h ington, lot longer, with the ma
r who sets the example for the Gov
~ ernment's whole executive depart
6 Lment at his desk at eight a. m. an
q nights have gotten shorter, an
quieter.
= In spite of the recent furry {
II Nvise-cracks about alarms-clock
- there are still plenty in Washing
L ton stores. With his top aides picl
ed largely from the ranks of worl