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Brifish-American Far Eastern Policy

WHILE the Washington spotlight is focused on the Bevin- . Cripps financial mission, the man really carrying the | ball for Britain in the current negotiations may be a behind- |

the-scenes operator, Maberly E. Dening of the British Foreign Office. t : Mr. Dening is chief of Britain's Far Eastern Department. He is in this country to discuss Asiatic problems with his opposite number in our State Department, W. Walton Butterworth. During the recent war, Mr. Dening was chief political adviser to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied commander for Southeast Asia. He is one of Britain's ace career diplomats.

Mr. Butterworth is best known as one of the minor archi- |

tects of our disastrous China policy.

. 8 8 : : LI Ea BRITAIN hopes that a joint British-American policy will result from the Dening-Butterworth conversations. But when the subject is explored it will be seen that the doublebarreled proposition submitted would make us at once a catspaw and a sucker. Proposal No. 1 is a joint agreement. to do business with Communist China. By such an overture, Britain hopes to salvage something from her heavy investments in Shanghai and avert a Red attack on the Crown colony of Hong Kong The second proposition in the projected “joint policy” is a contradiction of the “do business with the Communists” proposal in that it is advanced as an anti-Communist measure. We are asked to underwrite Britain's financial obligations in India, Pakistan and Ceylon, in order to bolster those governments against economic strains whichmight encourage communism. = » . » . BUT IN their eagerness to make d deal with the Chinese Reds, the British appear to have overlooked the possibility

that anything they sell to the Chinese Communists may be |

used to advance communism in the rest of Asia. We would be fools to underwrite Britain's colonial obligations. We would be buying nothing but trouble. These debts. are not collectable and should be charged off. If Britain’s former colonies now need money on their own they should seek it on the money market, on a business basis, not as a political consideration. ci Members of Congress concerned with some of the vagaries of American foreign policy would do well to look into these negotiations before Mr. Butterworth gets us into more trouble.

Human Nature at Work SENATE committee asked heads of federal departments

=~ and agencies for their opinions of the Hoovér Commission’s report on government reorganization. :

........The Citizens’.Committee for the Hoover report has now analyzed the first 40 replies. Here's what the analysis shows:

Six agencies like the report a lot, 15 others like it pretty | well. Five don’t like it, 21 want no part of it and two offered |

no comment. ”» Practically none of the agencies agreed with critfcisms of their own operations. One bureau chief, according to the Citizens’ Committee, stated what seemed to be the general position of most of the other 48: “The existing and long-standing organizational position . . . (of this agency) has been satisfactory, and it is doubtful if it can be improved upon .-. ."” . " . . ~ BUT, IN cases where the Hoover Commission recom-

mended: higher salaries, more assistants or more authority for certain agencies, approval by the agejicy chiefs con"cerned was enthusiastic, a Nobody should be surprised, or much impressed, by the Bureaucrats, like the rest of us, are human. They don't relish criticism. They're inclined to turn a fishy eye on suggestions for changing the way they've grown used to doing things. A prospect of more

power, prestige and pay gives them a thrill; the thought |

of less gives them a chill.

All that, hewever, is" no argument against the Hoover |

report. What it proves is, simply, that a’ job such as the

Hoover Commission did is the only real hope of rooting in- | efficiency, extravagance and waste out of our sprawling |

government,

And the job done by the Hoover Commission will fall |

far short.ef completion unless Congressmen resist tempta-

tion to protect the status quo of their pet agencies by log- |

rolling against recommendations for change.

Richard Strauss

A LIFE of astonishing span and fruitfulness ended yesterday. Richard Strauss died at 85 in Germany. He was a boy of 6 when the Franco-Prussian war was fought in 1870.

on the way of tin-plate helmets and kulturkampf. cynical old man of 50 when the Kaiser put on the act in 1914.

He was a tired old man in his 60's when the German inflation |

of the 1920's broke him and millions of others. Then, for scratch, Strauss toured this country as a piano accompanist. In his 70's he watched Germany get caught up in another war dance—and lived to see the disastrous finish. He saw it all. And yet, somehow, he belongs back there in “those gay, red-plush German Nineties, :

Musically, he saw just as much happen. Musically, too, he was passed by. Raised in the heyday of Wagner, his own music to a considerable extent, is Wagnerianism car- | _ ried to the last decimal point. It is beautiful and vital. * After the occupation, they tested the old man for Nazi | virus and found him pure. So, if you like good music, you

can raise a glass to Richard Strauss, a great musician who

. outlived his era—and who reminds us that German culture

could produce something better than guns and buzzbombs,

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JUNKETING . .. By Jim G. Lucas

Air Trip Fuss

May Cut Costs

‘Free Plane Rides for Top : Brass Run $750,000 a Year

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—-Plane rides for

bh VIP's ‘(very inportant people) cost the Air’ | Force three-quarters of a million dollars a year,

-. Last year, it was out $855530—85581 flying houss af $130 an hour. If Defense Becretary Louis Johnson and Sen. Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) hadn't started fussing, it would run about that this year. Now, if probably will be less. The rhubarb started when Sen, Thomas told Mr. Johnson his subcommittee on Armed Forces Appropriations wanted to fly around the world. Mr, Johnson #aid it might be a good idea for the Senators to pay $700 for commercial tickets where the Military Afr Transport Service has no schedules. That made Mr. Thomas mad. He demanded a list of free rides given President Truman, Vice President Barkley and other VIP's. Mr, Johnson's office assured the Senator it was glad to fly its friends wherever they wanted to go. All the Secretary meant was that he had no round-the-world service and it might be better to go by commercial and military planes.

Had to Pool Planes

AT FIRST, free rides were for President Truman and top military leaders. They had their own planes. But the word got around. So the Air Force had to pool its VIP planes in a special unit within MATS—Air Transport Squadron 1254—to take caré of everybody. It put a colonel, Clifton A. Hutchinson, in charge. Today, ATS 1254 has 10 planes—including the Independence, Sacred Cow and Dew Drop—&nd 101 men. year, the squadron flew 1,271,805 miles. It averaged 18 missions—six to 26 days in length—a month. In addition, the Air Force has three SAM

(Special Air Mission) groups—one at Washing- 1

ton, another in Louisiana and a third on the West Coast. They fly VIP's other than Congressmen—S8enators, Cabinet members and high officers. ‘Many trips are essential. For instance, Lt.

, Gen. Lauris Norstad, Alr Force planning chief,

frequently tours his bases. The joint chiefs used the Independence to visit Western Europe's deg fense chiefs. nia i : } But the Air Force is certain some trips arent necessary. ‘Veep’ Barkley, for instance, has used ATS 1254 to visit his 37-year-old lady friend. But what's the Air Force to do when the Vice President wants a ride?

Free Rides

THE LIST of free riders ircludes most Cab- |

inet members, hundreds of Congressmen, topranking generals and admirals and quite a few newspapermén. Gen. Omar Bradley and Sen. Chan Gurney (R. 8. D.) went pheasant hunting last winter. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews flew to Honolulu last week to dedicate a cemetery. He took his family, "A colonel flew to Massachusetts recently to pick up Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Air Secretary Stuart Symington, Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford and Atty. Gen. J. Howard McGrath flew to Rhode Island. While there, they attended a wedding. : Treasury Secretary John Snyder has his own Coast Guard plane, A couple of years ago, his plane and all its crew were lost when it crashed into Chesapeake Bay. But he got a new one. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer uses a CAA plane, Frequently, on week-énds, he flies. to his home in Cincinnati, sends the plane back to Washington, and 18 picked up again on Sun« day. It has been computed the government was out $5000 on trips which would have cost Mr,

Sawyer $280 at commercial rates,

150 Congressmen Junketing

TWO congressional committees. are riding VIP planes now—a delegation to the InterParliamentary Union. in Stockholm, headed by Rep. H. D. Cooley (D. N, C.), and a House Ex-

-penditures Subcommittee headed by Rep. Walter

Huber (D. 0.), which is in the Far East. Other congressional committees are overseas in regular MATS planes, including one investigating the Malmedy massacres in Germany. Approximately 150 Congressmen are junketing, Capitol Holl sources say. ' Sen. Thomas says his blast also was aimed The Senator knows of one committee——he isn't calling names yet-—talking about a round-the-world trip to look for a kind of sand supposed to be good for making atom bombs. The Senator privately doubts that committeemen would recognize it {f they came home with their: shoes full. "

LEGAL EAGLES...By Peter Edson

. ® . . Law Business Probe? WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—When congressional committees get through investigating five-percenters and lobbyists, they might

profitably probe the activities of Washington's legal profession. A Department of Commerce Office of Business Economics

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was more or less a fruitless one, for I found that Sig Spencer had gone to the American Legion convention, . But when I came out to the

wide main street of that Boone County town again, I was pleasantly surprised to run into Charley and Eileen Cox, friends of several years who moved into that community two or three winters ago. They reported that they were moving to another house-just west of Dover on Highway 22, and that the children, Suzy and Stevie, were all hepped up about their new home. Stevie is a blond whose eyes don’t conceal the mischief that he can get into. He is now in school, but when he was 4, he went calling with his father to see a neighbor whose reputation as a pillar of the church.was widespread in the community because he often led in prayer and filled in at the pulpit when preachers were not available at the little country church. . It being milking time when the visit occurred, Stevie at once showed great iriterest in the cows.

“Flea Bitfen “WHAT do you call your cows, Mr. Brown?” “Well, Stevie, this one is Belle. The Holstein --48-Dot; the oné heyond her is. Bossy. the Guernsey is Nellie, and the one on her other side is Mary.” And so on down the line of stanchions till each was introduced properly.

Stevie?” “Flea-bitten old son-of-a-gun, mostly.” It was good to see the Coxes and to wish them well in their new place.

IGA Store, I wandered on to an implement: where all the makings of a good tale was beginning to form." If you stroll into a hardware store, or a dealership of any other kind, and you find two or more benches for thé convenfence of the trade, and find those benches pretty well occupied, you can depend on it that a story ‘of some kind will unfold pretty soon. Pat Dikes was there and the discussion led around to labor-saving devices. “I was over in Darlington last spring,” said

SIDE GLANCES

PEDDLER'S PASSAGE . . . d Personalities Around Thorntown

THE FIRST call in Thorntown last week

“And what does your daddy call his cows,

After a brief call at Hankins Locker and

-. Pat, ‘and there was a fellow there who had

By John Loveland

been sawing a lot. of wood in the neighborhood. 1 guess he set himself up as quite a lumberman, and didn’t do anything to hide how well he thought of himgelf. “He ‘started to tell about how he had been sawing wood one day with a crosscut saw, and while he was telling about it there was an old man sitting there taking it all in just as if he believéd every word he heard.

Labor Saving APHE lumberman told about how he had been sawing “wood one morning and got to thinking how it would be easier if he had something pulling back at him on the other end of

. the saw, so he just got a good stake and drove

ft into the ground on the other side of the log and hooked an old inner tube to the stake and the other handle of the saw. “He saw how the old man who was listening to him was getting interested, so he went on to tell how that made it so much easier that when

“he went home to lunch he just got another stake

and another-old inner tube and-hooked them to the other-end of the saw. Once. he got the saw

started all he had to do was sit on a stump and

watch his labor-saver go to work. - v . “The old man who was listening was appar-

ently greatly amazed, and asked the big lumber-

man: - * ‘Did it work out real good?’ “It sure did’ “ ‘Well, how did you ever get the confounded thing to stop?”

Lot of Ribbing IF THE place in Darlington where all this took place was the Campbell Hardware Store, and the old man in question was my friend, Bert, I know very wel] that a lot of ribbing went on from there, because Bert is a master of the

devious art of letting another spin his web and

then letting him hang in it.

Bert is now in northern Michigan enjoying

relief from his hay fever. He goes there every

year and I sometimes suspect that he spends | his time up there planning ways and means of |

knocking the props from under the tall tales which grow where Martin and Bill Campbell hold. sway. ’ ’

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‘Evils of . Direct’ Primary’ : By Edward F. Maddex 5

The resentment of the people of Sullivan County who elected a man to be a judge ands who, it seems, were warned of this man's ‘ Communist leanings, should be a profitable” lesson in ‘bitter political experience for all the! citizens of the U. 8. : i Here is one of the evils of the direct primary elections which should be remedied at once. A} Socialist or Communist can run for public office: on either the Democrat or Republican ticket just: by the simple device of posing as a Democrat. or Republican. And it has and will continue to. be done as long as the Reds can deceive both: old parties. : " Why do the Democrats and Republicans pers mit Socialists or Communists to run as candi-. dates for public office on Democrat or Repube} lican ballots? The time has come for.the Demo. * crat and Republican Parties to bar Socialists and Communists from their party ballots or henceforth shoulder the responsibility for deceiving the American people into voting for. Reds. - Every candidate for office on the Democrat « and Republican tickets, from President to the lowest office, should be thoroughly investigated for his past political record and affiliations, and

~everyone who has had any political connection;

with either the Socialists or Communists should * be firmly rejected. Both old parties are heavily infested with the disciples of Karl Marx and the agents of Joe Stalin, The lesson of Sullivan. County is proof that a little foresight is far bétter than a whole lot of resentful hindsight. and emphasizes the urgent need for a careful checking by both the Democrat and Republican: Parties. : = It is a national scandal and a ‘menace to our. national security to certify Socialists or Come munists as candidates for the Democrats or Republicans. wo * ¢ 9

‘Plenty of Storm Warnings’ By John, E. Bennett, 4817 Norwaldo Ave.

Judging from an article about hurricanes in} The Times recently, I am wondering just how» much credence is placed in articles submitted« for publication. . While it's quite true that the. hurricanes experienced in Miami are anything but pleasant, and it is equally true that extensive preparations are made at least 24 in advance of one of them, yet the fact alone : indicates that the public has sufficient warning of the forces of nature to prepare for them dcwn there, compared to no warning at all here in our own state as to the approach of a tore nado, sudden severe windstorm, extremely hot, humid summers, extremely cold and unbearable winters. x Understand this—I am a Hoosier, born in Terre Haute and raised in Brazil, Ind., but I~ have also lived seven years in Miami, so I speak with authority because during those seven years © there were considerably more than three hure ricanes. I owned my home down there and at very little expense had it equipped with combination storm shutters and awnings. 4 These were oper- * ated from the inside and the house could be completely boarded up within 15 minutes, even ' by a woman or child. Remember, too, the average temperature the year round in Miami is 78 degrees. During my seven years it was never hotter than 92 and never any colder than 45. Of course, 45 degrees down there feels abouts as bad as zero would up here because the peoples are acclimated to warmer weather, and the® homes are not provided with any type of heat as it is not necessary. } ®

What Others Say

I STILL can't get over the food here. Both the quantity and the variety shock me. When

.-~.1.go. into a restaurant I spend half an hour just.

studying the menu.—Pam Trabberer, English reporter now iif this country, . * 4 o FREEDOM to indulge in constructive eriticism of the occupying powers is part and parcel of the democratic process and the Germans cannot be denied this privilege if they are to establish a truly democratic system.—Secretary of State Dean Acheson. ‘ * oo IT IS only by assuming that students are irrespofisible adolescents at the mercy of all idkas that one can. argue for the political screening of college faculties.—Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence College. ’ > ¢ o . THE Democratic Party is a national party, and not a sectional party any more. The tail no longer wags the dog. —President Truman,

GERMAN GOVERNMENT ...By Ludwell Denny

First Since Hitl BONN, Sept. 9—The candidate of the big industrialists and the Catholic bishops will head the first German government since

Hitler.

He was a famous symphonist in his 30's | when Bismarck died in 1898 after starting modern Germany | And a |

survey has just disclosed that Washington lawyers are the highest paid in the country. They averaged $14,000 a year in 1947, when the average lawyer's income for the entire country was only $7500. California lawyers averaged $10,000, New York state lawyers $9000. Washington lawyers are in a beautiful position to collect high fees. Under the guise of giving legal advice to their clients in the highest ethical traditions, they can do all the “fixing” that fivepercenters and lobbyists do, and get away with it. The myth has been bullt up that anything a lawyer does for his client is on the same high plane as whagsa doctor dpes for his patient. A lot of bon ton legal abortions get performed that way for fancy fees.

Main Business in Capital a THE LAW is of course Washington's principal industry. .Five out of nine Cabinet members are lawyers by profession-—Acheson, Johnson, McGrath, Brannan and Tobin. About two-thirds of the members of Congress are lawyers. They make the laws. Then

low-paid government lawyers try to figure out ways to enforce |

the laws while high-paid private lawyers figure out ways to obey or evade them or to get clients out of trouble if they have broken any The government is probably the best post-graduate law school in the country. Young lawyers take government jobs to learn some specialized practice—transportation, communications, aviation, labor, antitrust, criminal, or whatever they're interested in. Most of them aim to make a reputation, then open offices of their own--in Washington—to handle legal business before the government. Washington today has at least 5000 lawyers. There are over 3000 listed in the classified section of the telephone book. District of Columbia Bar Association has 2300 members. ‘Every lawyer

_. practicing before a court in Washington must be. a member of

the bar, But a lot of them who do no court work don't join. Another reason is that it costs $125 “initiation fee!’ to join this “law yers' union.”

Known as '‘Sundowners' :

MANY lawyers who don't join the bar association are known as “sundowners.” They work for the government from 9:00 a. m.

to 4:30 p. m. Then at this regular quitting time—about sundown |

in winter—for most government agencies, these legal lights go to their downtown offices. This may be just desk space in somebody else's office. But it's a business address where they can get mail and do a certain amount of consultant work on the side. There. is a lot of legal advice to give out in Washington.

Every one of the specialized quasi-legal regulatory agencies of

government conducts court-like proceedings of its own. ‘Each of these agencies has a specialized bar association of its own. . In the case of Treasury Bar and Patent Office, licensed prac titioners don't have to be lawyers. Members of the Treasury Bar handle tax cases, so certified public accountants may qualify. Patent law is a peculiar field unto itself, so experts in its search an Hille york may handle patent cases whether they know other Ww or =" Ea nT

It is in the handing of these specialized cases, howevse, that

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"We hear from Junior every week, Mr. Wilks—you're not holding back a postcard because it's bad news, are you?"

the Washington legal : fraternity has its principal racket. The idea has been bulit up that out-of-town lawyers don’t know how to practice before these regulatory agencies, and that they must therefore have Washington consultants who know their way around government. This is exactly the same argument the fivepercenters use, in telling out-of-town businessmen they must hire agents who know government. In the last decade, some 20 Bills have .been introduced in Congress to bring under tighter control the practice of lawyers before federal agencies. Rep. Francis Walter of Pennsylvania , has such a bill before the present Congress. It would create a | Committee on Credentials to license lawyers. It would provide a $500 fine and one year's imprisonment for violation of Credentidls Committee rules. And it would ban government or ex-gov-ernment lawyers from representing any cliént on any matter which the lawyer had handled as a public servant within the preceding two years. This is one of the worst abuses of the Wash-

Konrad Adenauer is a conservative political boss. As leader of the largest party in the new. Bonn Bundestag he will pick the figure-head president of West Germany, who, in turn, will name him chancellor. Dr. Adenauer at 73 is cultivated but somewhat cynical. He is skilled at compromise, a master at manipulation. He had to be" to land on top in this struggle for political power.

He is a West European, hostile to the Russians. That, how-

” ever, did not prevent him from flirting with them as long as they

seemed to be winning the cold war, , He is dedicated to a free enterprise economy. But that did not discourage him from accepting a socialization plank in thes Christian Democratic platform to get the Catholic trade: union ;

vote. Now he has gently clipped the once-dominant liberal wing of his party. ’ : ' : a.

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WHEN U. 8. Military Government was still the determining factor in West Germany, he let it get around that he was the American candidate closest to the dollar. But when rising nationalism made that a campaign liability, he turned and joined the attack on Allied occupation. : “Nevertheless, he still considers himself one of the sincerest’ friends of America in Germany—and probably is. 3 Dr. Adenauer thinks nazism'is a thing of the past. 80 he sees nothing wrong in appealing to the old Hitler vote and in . using. ex-Nazis wherever he needs them. # When Hitler came to power in 1933, the lawyer Adenauer had been mayor of Cologne for 15 years. The Nazis dismissed him . as part of the Weimar regime, and twice arrested him. In 1945 the Americans needed a mayor of Cologne quickly and gave him

. back his old job.

But his record there was so bad after a few months the Brit-

ish had to ban him from all political activities, on the ground that he was an-obstructionist.

Most Reliable

HIS political comeback was due to the Ruhr industrialists and the Catholic hierarchy, who picked him as the most reliable of all the old-line politicians trying to build a Christian Democratic party. . . The Democrats think he fs too soft on the ex-Nasis—who. can't forgive ‘him for being an ex-Weimar ma®. Labor thinks he is too close to capital. Some Protestants distrust him as a Catholic tool, while the Bavarians object that he is not good enough a Catholic. } Prussians can’t forget his anti-Prussian record. - Youth is separated from him by two generations. And most people com plain that he does nothing about the terrible housing problem. -The British reciprocate his dislike, The Russians call him a Yankee stooge. And even his American friends begin to wonder whether he is big enough for the chancellor's chair, in Adenauer sometimes questions the Oe toe cynical to

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