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isn’t often that the State Department permits itself to speak with candor and honesty about how hard it is

to get along with Russia. Wishful thinking more eften has |

“been the policy line. _ But recently, while the world waited and wondered whether Russia was going to quit the United Nations after & major setback in the assembly, the Deputy Under Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, frankly admitted the Soviets were doing the United Nations no good. Speaking in San Francisco at a United Nations anniversary celebration, he said: “To the extent that the loyal participation of the Soviet Union is not required, the United Nations, by and large, is getting on with its job.

» » » “TO THE extent that the help and assistance of the Soviet Union is essential, the United Nations is frustrated, faltering and disappointing. It is a serious charge, but it is based on sober fact." ~~ Under the circumstances, he asks, would it be better for us all if the Russians should leave the United Nations? His answer is that “We should deeply regret the withdrawal. What we really want them to do is not to withdraw, but to join.” A lot of fancy words and sweet talk about the United Nations is going to be heard today—fourth birthday of the organization—but we predict no truer, more accurate appraisal will be forthcoming than Dean Rusk’s,

A Fair Judge

EVEN when it came to assessment of punishment, the 11 Communist Party leaders were given the benefit—as they had been throughout their long trial—of Judge Medina’s meticulous fairness. The chief government prosecutor, John F. X. McGohey, had urged 10-year prison sentences and $10,000 fines for all of them. These were the maximum penalties provided by the Smith Act, under which they were convicted of conspiring to teach and advocate overthrow of the government by force, at the time they were indicted. ‘Judge Medina said he agreed with Mr. McGohey “in the strict matter of the law.” But, he added, he must keep in mind the intent of Congress which in August, 1948—one month after the indictments were returned—reduced the Smith Act's maximum prison term to five years,

® = » " » - THE JUDGE also leaned backward when he sentenced Robert G. Thompson, New York State chairman of the Communist Party, to a term two years shorter than those of the 10 other defendants. He gave “most careful attention” to the fact that Thompson was awarded the Distinguished Bervice Cross for heroism as a soldier in the war against

. Itis true that some Communists fought bravely in the ‘American armed forces. But whether that was for love of America or because America was then Russia's ally is another question, The important thing, however, is that Judge ‘Medina’s scrupulously fair conduct of the trial, from begin‘ning to end, makes attempts to picture the guilty Communist

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VANITY

When you are feeling all puffed up, big and Pp y Of some achievement that stands out before the

owd Have you ever looked about you at a tree or a flower And say could I build that, no I have not the

power. . Then you will feel much smaller, your ego will deflate

For our vanity is something we should hate. God who has made us, both the great and the

small Without this Divine Power we would be nothing at all, For He made us all from earthly clay : A machine of perfection, He made us in a day So no matter how great a thing we attempt to do We could never finish it, unless God will see us thru

Frank Gates, Blocher, Ind. |

SOCIAL ADVICE...

Diplomatic Tricks

in a national capital. Reasons for its size are obvious. All foreign

to expand. Diplomats like to enjoy life, too.

sort of international clearing house. ; The very unprecedented size of the town's dipl

order out of the present diplomatic mob-scene.

Personal Calls

arrived foreign minister. Strict form requires

husband's next assignment. What can she do about it, and still be proper? will tell you for $10. That's her fiat fee for an hour’ per month, paid in advance. According

going to make a good thing out of her new venture. is the wife of a former German diplomat and

that could exist. American Citizenship

permanent, peacetime diplomatic community that has ever

programs administered here naturally require special staffs of “expediters” from abroad. Because it is rated the gayest and most comfortable capital in the world embassy staffs have tended

On top of that there is the phenomenon of diplomats attracting diplomats. They probably do as much business among them-

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24--This city now claims the . selves as they do with Uncle Sam. Washington has become a \ |

has created some unique problems in protocol. It even threatens | to block the basic assignment of a diplomat here—being diplo- | matic. And that is where Baroness Catherine von Schoen has | stepped into the picture. She is offering to help bring some polite |

JUST for instance, she explains, take the wife of a newlymediately make a personal call on all of the other wives of all the other diplomats ‘of equal rank or better than that of her

husband. Yet if she really tries to do that in Washington today, chances are she wouldn't finish the chore in time to pack for her

If you want to keep her advice on tap at all times, the fee is $15 to the social experts, chances are the baroness is

say, if anybody can, she can. First, she's a native of the city, product of an old, socially prominent local family. Second, she

diplomatic life all over the world. In the process she has encountered just about every possible social and protocol problem

HER husband, Baron Wilhelm von Schoen, had his last as-

ripe middle age, she is pleasant and surprisingly : awhile Sarth 1 har alc and manners.’ Sie apeaks in

MEDICAL CARE By Charles Lucey He Chose Fine Time to Walk Out

LEGISLATIVE ‘JOKERS’ . .

WASHINGTON, Oct, 24—Now that Congress has left town the bureaucrats can start the fascinating job of deciding just what Congress did in the last few hectic weeks of the session. It'll be months before the agencies are able to unseramble the complicated appropriations bills and find out just how much they got for this and that function, It'll be two years before ANY one can say for sure just how much the 81st Congress ran the Treasury into the red. They're

budget. Figures given out now about how much the 81st spent are pure guesswork, It's all unbelievably tangled up in such terms as “future contract authorizations,” “appropriations for past commitments,” “author{zation without appropriation” and “fixed contractual obligations.” . Maybe one or two clerks of the subcopamittees of the appropriations committees have a sneaking suspicion about where the money is going. But they frequently get lost in the lastminute trading among Congressmen. And after the bills leave their hands to become law they are through with the mess. The budget officers of the agencies take up from there.

‘Jokers’ in Bills

A BUDGET officer ean start adding up all the figurés on the money his agency got and be overjoyed, until he comes to the last line which says, “less $500 million which the administrator must save out of the above authorized expenditures.” That joker was put in the military appropriations bill this year, for example. That means that after the committee got through agreéing how much specific items should De, it suddenly discovered it had been too generous

Barbs—

‘SINCE so many girls play goif in shorts, let us remind you again, men, that one of the first rules is to keep your eyes on the ball * ¢

THERE are 56 varieties of sausage in Russia. And just think of all the baloney. * * ONE of the hest ways to escape a few of the things that are expected of you is to have & career. * + ¢

YOU can always get the best of any argument by mot taking part in it. ® ¢

A WAVE of prosperity always makes a lot of swells.

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. By Douglas Lasen What's in Laws Congress Passed?

and decided that it would force the head of the agency to cut someplace. Real sport of post-session clambakes is to find out what laws Congress passed. This also takes months, literally. At every stage of a law going through Congress changes can, and usually are, made in the original draft. In the last minute rush of business clauses are added, dropped or changed completely. Whole sections of bills are completely changed by the deletion or insertion of one word. Result is mudfiled or incoherent phraseology which frequently makes it impossible to put an honest interpretation on a law. This process aiso involves finding the “jokers” in bills, slipped in at the last minute to prevent some special interest from being affected by it. Finding the “buried” laws js about the same thing. These are measures which were controversial but were slipped in some noncontroversial act in order to get them made law.

Law-Making Authority

OF course, what this confusion amounts to is giving the various bureaus and departments the law-making authority. A law is no better or worse than the. way it is interpreted or agministered. By not makifig their intentions crystal-clear in the wording of a law the Congressmen in effect are passing their legislative authority on to the Executive Branch. Some legal branches of an agency, when faced with interpreting a badly worded law, will attempt to find the intent of the Congressmen in pagsing the law. This is a frustrating business and lends itself to double-talk. Agency attorneys will go back to the hearings held on a questionable law, study the speeches made on it on the floor and in this way try to figure out just what the Congressman had in mind when they passed it.

What Is ‘Intent’? |

TROUBLE with this is that a lot of “intent” isn’t even put on the record. Compromises will be made on the telephone or in conversation. Some supporters of a measure can change their minds as debate progresses and may end up having an altogether different “intent” than the one they may have previously read into the record. In that casé the government lawyers

pick the intent which suits them best and use it. | . It's all great sport and the redeeming fea- | ture of the whale business is that Congress will | be back in town soon. If they don’t like some of the interpretations an agency has put on one | law or another, they can always amend or |

it. - This Congress is dead. Long live Congress.

By Galbraith

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“It's kind of late for us to elope—we couldn't make it back home for dinner!"

upon mits issued in Marion Co., the total number of rental units constructed for the year 1949 is, or will be, 1322. This means accommodations for 1322 families, or, counting four to a family, housing for 5288 people. As the increase In Marion Co. is 6500 per year, and as over 3000 dwellings are sold annually for residential parposes, besides the creation of numerous apartments in old buildings by remodeling and conversion, itis evident that the rental units created by private building in 1949 would much more .than care for the increase in temant population. It is time that we had some facts upon this housing situation instead of the wild and erroneous hallucinations inspired by warped and fanatical imaginations.

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‘Time to Use Courts?’ By A. J. Schuelder, 504 W. Dr. Woodruff Place. I just wonder when President Truman looks into his mirror, doés he like the looks of the weakest President this nation has known, the slave to a handful of labor racketeers who are

blackmailing him into nationalizing our industry

to please their conscienceless whith? ~~ Just because he is too stubborn to admit that the Taft-Hartley Act holds some good, for just such as situation as now exists, he prefers to take over industry under his so-called “wartime powers” in peacetime, deliver to the labor racketeers the last pound of flesh, and make it impossible for industry to accept their business back from the government aftér the damage bas been done. Of course, the welfare of 3 to 5 million is.of more importance to Mr. Truman than the welfare of the 150 million whom he swore to serve and protect. However, what is a mere oath of office nowadays? What if the whole transaction is unconstitutional? No one except the politicians and labor racketeers, who are accustomed to spending other people's money with reckless abandon and without consent, have the kind of money Recessary to challenge such uiconstitutional acts before the Supreme Court. I just wonder if the President is the only one who can use the courts under the Taft-Hartley Act for the general welfare? Could not the coal operators or the steel industry enjoin the President from exercising his mythical wartime

| powers to nationalize industry?

What Others Say—

IDEAS that the next war will end in 24 hours are a lot of damn bunk.—Lt.-Gen. Harold L. George (Ret.), wartime commander, Air Trans. port Command. 40

WOMEN and fine horses are much alike. It is strictly a matter of conformation.—Elizabeth Arden, beauty mer ois.

I DID pretty well. I might come back here some time and run for sheriff.—Presidential military aide Harry Vaughan, drawing leud cheers in Pittsburgh. .

NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Army Sets Example?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—The Army has offered its record to-show the Navy and Air Force how to behave as members of "a national security team. x In effect, Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army chief of staff, says no service can expect to have an easy time of it. He says it has been—and will be—tough on everybody. The Army, he says, has taken its share of tough decisions without complaining. What's more, he says, it still believes in unification. : Unification, he pointed out, originated with the Army. Army men took the lead “even though we realized that we would have much less to say about our own affairs.” They were willing to “because we felt that only dy integrating direction of the Armed Forces could an efficient team of land, sea and air provide maximum security at minimum cost.” :

Split in Half AS SOON as unification became law, he said, the Army was split in half. It gave up its Air Corps, which became the Air Force. That involved surrender of tactical planes, loss of trans ports needed to move its airborne divisions. “We did this,” Gen, Collins said, “with our eyes open. We did it on the theory that we were part of a team for national

ve up part of their power, he said,

The decision to surrender command of tactical airplanes, he said, “was not arrived at without doubts and misgivings.” But it was done. ; “Had the Army insisted on vetaining its own tactical aw arm solely for close support missions, an inevitable duplicate . « + would have followed,” he said. “The Army, ‘herefers,

He said the Navy and Marines were unfair when they try to create the impression they have taken all the hard knocks. “We also have had to operate on limited funds for anti. aircraft, and for research and development in the guided missiles field, as well as in the procurement of new and modern equipment.” he said. :

Lack of Money : “ONLY recently, en route home from Japan, I stopped at

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