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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, September 14, 1950 t
U.S. FIGHTS ON IN KOREA:.
WHY WAS IT UNPREPARED?
Washington, Sept. 12—The United f Communists elect to 1 keep the war
Slates now has fought jnore than 10 confined to Korea there is little pros-
weeks of the kind of war for which
it was unprepared.
They have been weeks of defeats,
retreats, and finally flaming conflict
along a changing line—150 miles
back of where the shooting started
Some of the most ferocious and
biggest attacks by the North Korean
Communist enemy have come with
in recent days.
What happened?
pect of major use of these weapons.
Where Does Fault Lie?
It is not that American ground
forces have not fought hard and
well, with what they have. The cas
ualty list alone prove that. The
names of more than 6,000 United
States fighting men are on it so far.
The field commanders—the generals
and the shavetail lieutenants—have
shaped their tactics to the needs of
North Korea may have been an ob- eac h hour and have staved off de
scure little country, geographically f ea j an enem y superior in num
and politically, but take it from Gen. tj ers an( j we apons.
Joseph T. McNarney of the Defense
Department:
‘The North Korean forces are not
undisciplined bandits, but well-
trained, well-led troops
with up-to-the-minute weapons
from the Soviet arsenal.”
Soviet Picks Time, Place
Has the fault then been in the
Pentagon where something called
“strategic concepts” are made by the
civilian and uniformed heads of the
equipped rnili t a ry?
Or does it go beyond that? To
faulty intelligence about what Rus
sia and its satellites were doing? To
The troops and the weapons they foreign policy? To haste in putting
bad when they jumped off on the the new little Republic of South Ko-
boldest Communistic aggression to rea on its own and withdrawing the
date were the kind the United States American military force? To a Con
ti, d not have. The United States had gress and administration responsive
plans and weapons for war—but not to popular demand for unrestrained
the kind of war the Communists peacetime life and overeconomy in
chose. The strategy makers of the national defense expenditure? To
Soviet world picked the kind of war the American people fhemselves?
and the place. Gadget-Inclined Public
W c were strong in the air and j n caustic debate the so-far
cn the sea and weakest on the | unsuccessful war has stirred up in
ground. And so they i chose the | Congress and in political camps,
ground. They have not even Doth-: p ract j ca jjy everyone has been blam-
cred to throw in air or naval sup- ^—except the people. It is not pop-
P 0 !*- TT A . ular to blame the people.
The United States at no time has Economy alone does not account
been able to bring fully to bear its f or traditional attitude of the people
two great weapons, air and sea pow-, towar( j national defense. They are
er. Nor has it chosen to apply atom-! willing to spend money witness any
ic war.are. More than that, if the 0 f ^ annua i national budgets. But
' ~ ~ ~ being Americans, they do not like
wars. And being a race of gadget-
eers, they long have hoped that ma
chines instead of men could be made
to fight -them.
This, to a degree, accounts for the
ready investment of defense‘money
in air and sea power, the much more
reluctant outlay of funds for the
grim, dirty and decisive element of
ground power—the army.
But no one, not even the most ar
dent exponent of the army, believes
that a war with Russia and its sat
ellite nations could be won with
ground forces alone.
The United States does not now
have, never can have, enough to
match the abundant military man
power reservoirs of Russia and Com
munist Asia. Nor could all the Unit
ed Nations muster such a force.
It is in technological warfare that
the deficiency must be corrected. The
'difficulty is not that too much em
phasis has been placed on machines
• for war—on the air force and navy,
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Vacation Gives
Mom Needed Rest
From the owner of the Bar-M
Ranch in Gibbon, Ore., comes a let
ter that ought to interest a lot of
mothers and maybe even a few fath
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“My wife and I fllow your col
umn with great interest, and thought
you might like to learn of a couple
of lucky women who just came to
our attention,” the letter states.
“These two women have thought
ful husbands and brave ones, too.
Their husbands brought an assort
ment of small fry, ages five to 11
years to our ranch for a vacation,
while the mothers had a quiet time
at home without the children under
foot.
“This holiday did not take the
place of a vacation for the mothers,
but was in the nature of a special
outing for the children, with the
papas seeing that hands and faces
were washed at appropriate inter
vals, that none of their charges
stayed in the swimming pool long
enough to get sunburned, that they
ate all the vegetables on their plates
before they got their dessert and
that they obeyed all the rules that
make horseback riding safe for lit
tle folks.
“In other words they assumed
complete responsibility for all the
demanding and sometimes irk-some
details involved in child care. And
they did it with great distinction.
‘The kids were scrubbed and
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table. They made their own beds.
They all learned to swim and even
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“In addition to the fun they had
the fathers felt the holiday had two
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a new appreciation of their wives.
And they felt it was good for the
children to have a carefree holiday
away from what they characterized
as “an over-solicitous concern on
the part of the mothers.”
“That’s the story, Miss Millett. I
hope it will be useful to you.”
And I hope it will be useful to
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| ience that would be for any ^hild—
1 to have a vacation with Dad. What
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