Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1949 — Page 34

DEARBOSS.. By Don Kidney

Sn Fait Lobbyist”

on ET La Hearing Seen . "PAGE 34 Sunday, Dec, 4, 1940 Floyd J. Mattice Expected

4 To Go Easy on Witne £ — rE . asy © tnesses

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—Dear Boss~Lobbyists who testify ‘before the select committee on

wi i eben Hig gf g activities being set up by the House of \ rates si Representatives need have no fear of not get- . i ng a fair hearing. § J + Floyd J. Mattice, the soft-spoken 67-year-old : : : Telephone RH Indigna trial lawyer who Is

a and the People Will Pind. Ihew Gon Way chief counsel! for the commit.

El vi “ is on loan to the committee ; from the Justice Department, Mors whet'e he has been on the AtLight on Relief torney General's staff since MORE than two months ago The Times published, and placed in the hands of the Marion County Prosecutor, ‘evidence Past slipshod administration of Center Township poor relief, including evidence pointing Slearly to whole- ~ sale fraud. Payments, amounting in the FETs perhaps to many thousands of dollars, were being made on faked relief orders, Marion County was paying for relief food the relief families never got. There was at least grounds for _* reasonable doubt that some of those families existed at all. The facts were as easy to verify as a bad check. The Prosecutor asked the State Board of Accounts to investigate. - Bo far as we know the board is still “investigating.” Not a single step has been taken to bring to justice those who are defrauding poor families and taxpayers alike, or to _ correct the methods that made: the fraud possible, or to friends are lobbyists.” So even if the counsel stop the leak in public funds. na tougher, they probably would have & Today Times Writers Richard Lewis and Donna Mikels " Mr. Mattice will be an impressive crosspresent some more facts about Center Township poor relief. examiner nevertheless, It is not pleasant reading, either for families who need relief ons 4 lie-Jong Haslet Deitiociat % te old or Bob payers Whe pay for it, but we recommend you a deputy prosecutor in Marion County, Corread anyway. 's your money. ration Counse or eo y o ndianapolis a en. he ve FOIE sitvaton looks at bud 10 yoi sa Nuys was U. 8. Attorney under President county what he proposes to do about it.

Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) He had been counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee under. Mr. VanNuys chair-. manship. His work in the Justice DeMr. Mattice partment included 34 months in Japan, where he defended two top-ranking Japanese generals, Both were hanged. Mr. Mattice still doesn't think they should have been, 80 a man who ¢an find it in his heart to

tough on such likeable fellows as aré the lobbyists who swarm over Capitol Hill whenever Congress is in session.

‘My Best Friends’

CHAIRMAN of the committee is Rep. Frahk Buchanan (D. Pa.) and the ranking minority member is Rep, Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) The latter might well say—"some of my best

Wilson,”

Thinks Trials Illegal

HE loves the law and that {s why the Tokyo trials left him heartsick. He believes they were illegal. In fact he told the Indiana Bar Association so when he addressed a meeting in Indianapolis shortly after his return from Japan early

In Reply to Mrs. Roosevelt

LM ELEANOR ROOSEVELT submits that this news- apo 3 3h paper has been unfair in questioning the qualifications “We were pushed by the Russians into set_of Dr. Philip C. Far Eastern policy ting NT hat International military. commission forthe government of the United States. Sr si, asses She says (in her column on this page) that she is orders from aleve: Soh an’, vant i. Po) “happy” to trust Dr. Jessup with making any policy, “know- one where the Nazi war leaders were tried in ing that he will find i advisers and weigh their advice Neuremberg Rive absolutely no - standing in with care.” io © “Most members of the ARerican bench and We have the greafest respect for Mrs. Roosevelt and for ter views on some subjects

bar are shamefaced about the whole business. wer "There were 50 counts in the indictment of : ” UNFORTUNATELY, she is not always . very good . Jigs of people; as the record will show, Having little firsthand knowledge of the Far East herself, Mrs. Roosevelt “might not be disturbed by Dr. Jessup's similar lack of in‘formation about that part of the world. We have no doubt but that Dr. Jessup is an agreeable gentleman to meet, or that he is good to his family and stands well in the scholastic world. But he has none of the IN essential qualifications for this assignment. i ‘Communism is the all-important issue in the Far East. Dr. feamifia Jong and Sriendly asoeiation with Communists . and their sympathizers should of itself rule him out of eon-

convicted on only “one. That" is the chain-of-command thereby, making the top-commander Fesponsiule for all atrocities committed by the troops.

_ Amo Seven Hanged

“GEN. MATSUI was ng China commander and Gen. Itagaki was in command in Malaya when the war ended. They were among the 25 indicted and the “seven -that were hanged, in. cluding Tojo. X. “Law is the great. divitier. To hang the enemy because he lost the war is to retrogress. We have been moving backward mighty fast it seems to me. The only judge on the court in ' Tokyo dressed in uniform was the Russian. They don’t have the death penalty there. It's against the law, so they Just kill them Without

sideration, even though Mrs. Roosevelt thinks it should a trial, Wanted fo Hang Emperor “ LLIAM As AN official of long sanding in the Institute of Pa- 8, NILLIAY WESE wis Chis]. Justive. 4 ith that . the international tribunal. There —is—no—death"organization at a time oo he had an active voice in man. PeDAlty thers either, but he wanted to hang

the emperor also. Under ‘he chain-of-command theory he may be right. But that sure is a new theory of law, If it can be called law at all.”

~ upaghs atu. ger, ‘As a result, this institute played an important part in a building up sentiment in the United States for the Chinese quite well. He is confident they were unaware Communists, _of the atrocities committed by their troops: in places far away from where their headquarters were located. They didn't want them toe appeal to our Supreme Court however, “We are soldiers and not afraid to die,” they told him. A man who always has had a reverence for “equal justice under law,” the motto over the Supreme Court building here, Mr. Mattice is unlikely to try any" sharp lawyer tricks to harrass the testifying lobbyists. “It's no police job,” he concluded. “The Justice Department has a lobbying division and the FBI can keep them informed of infractions of the present law. But it probably is time to make some improvements.”

‘We have not a thing in the world against Dr. Jessup . But to send a man of his proven naivete into the pitfalls and intrigues of the Far East tg establish a ~ +policy for our government would be akin to sending a child to explore an African jungle.

: Andienpelis Market in Homes

. EVERYONE who has a home, or who looks forward to having one, has a pretty vital personal interest in prices and supply and demand and new models and funn of sihepehadbdendeloitAreipnidioul be a regular feature of the expanded Sunday Times from now on—that in Indianapolis the war-time housing boom appears to be about over, and that those who know most about the politics back home in the United States.

prices.

tee, is sure to see to that. He

shortly after the death of Send .

forgive such an enemy, certainly will not be too"

the two Jap generals 1 defended. They were

Mr. Mattice came to know his two generals

BRITISH ELECTION +» . By Marquis C Childs

Political Parallels

LONDON, Dec. 3—Even the passing observer can find certain market here believe we are in for a considerable period of . striking parallels between the political scene im - Britain and

On the one side it is pointed up by the current visit of Ameri.

Among My Souvenirs

MY DAY

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Events Will Test Foreign Policy’

(See Editorial on this Page) NEW YORK, Dec. 3—The whole question of China and our policy in China is of such paramount importance at the present time that it is disappointing to find a group of newspapers, which ordinarily has a sense of public responsibility, writing a main editorial on this subject and centering its attention entirely on an attack on one individual, Whether our foreign policy 1s good or bad, whether our handling of nations in the Far East in this complicated period has been wise or unwise, is a question the events of years to come will have to answer, It cannot be answered by an attack on the American spokesman for the U. 8. delegation who has had this particular subJect of China in his charge. I am sure that the gentleman who wrote this editorial wants to be completely fair. Nevertheless, he has put what ought to be an objective discussion on a personal level. So, before one can begin discussing the subject one must get rid of the attack made on the individual.

Review Question

TAKING foragranted that the whole truth and nothing but the truth is what the editorial

writers of this great chain of papers really want,

let us review first of all the question raised on the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relationg. Because some names have been found in<the membership that are distinctly left wing, it is implied that these were close associates of Dr. Philip C. Jessup. Dr. Jessup was chairman. only from 1939 to 1940. Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, was chairman from 1932 to 1935. The late Professor Carl L. Alsberg was chairman from 1935 to 1938.

Dr, Jessup was succeéded by Dr. Ray Lyman’

Wilbur, president of Stanford University, who 0 diy for one year and was succeeded by Presi_G. Sproul of the University of Cali-

Barbs—

A TEXAS man, pinched for stealing a fire extinguisher, said he was going on a date. With a red-hot mamma, no doubt, * % 9 STICKING out the tongue is a popular form of greeting in Tibet. Is that where our little kids got the idea? : * ¢ 9 A BARBER'S first big mistake Is telling jokes so old they have whiskers. * & WHEN the Chinese are having tong wars we should keep our shirts on. * ¢ _. BCHOOL time reminds us that the only teacher who isn't underpaid is experience. * @

® FAST dancing with the modern youth usually .

finishes neck and neckin’.

Magic Carpet.

fornia, who is still the chairman. I wonder if all these men. were close associates of the leftwingers named in the editorial. The 1946 list of the board of trustees for this Institute is not exactly a list of Communists. It includes such people as Dr. Charles F. Gamble, director of Standard Vacuum Oil Co. of New York; Henry F. Grady, president of the American President Lines, and a number of other well-known men. The letter to the New. York Times of Feb. 16, 1948, which is mentioned in the editorial, was a suggested general policy in regard to the production of atom bombs during the preliminary period of discussion of the regulation of atomic energy within the United Nations. . It proposed, among other things, maintaining atomic piles in a stand-by condition for a

period of a year while international negotiations were under way. That was before Bernard M.

Baruch’s report. Since Mr. Baruch’'s plan was promulgated a steady American front has been maintained back of that report, and Dr. Jessup is one of those who has maintained it.

Writer's Point of View * THE fact that an article appeared in a publi-

* cation under Dr. Jessup's general direction does

not, of necessity, mean that he agreed with the article. Many editors’ allow the publication of articles that express the writer's point of view and not their own. There is certainly some confusion ‘also in this editorial about Dr. Jessup’'s affiliation with the National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights and the co-ordinating committee of lift the em n Red Spain

If this refers to a letter signed jointly with,

C. C,, Burlingame, the letter contained a legal argument sustaining the position taken by Henry L. Stimson in a letter to the New York Times of Jan. 23, 1939. This letter was published by the Carnegie Endownient for Intérnational Peace In “international conciliation” No. 348, of March, 1939, page 142. Mr. Stimson's letter on the same subject appears in the same publication, page 117.

Difficult to Agree

WITH this full information it makes it rather difficult to agree with the conclusion arrived at in the editorial, which reads: “Here, at best, we have the picture of a confused liberal, feeling

. his way around in circles and often finding him-

self in questionable company. Certainly it is not the record of a man who should be chosen to formulate anything with such tremendous potentialities as an American policy for the Far East.” My opinion is prabably of little importance, but I have a big stake in the future. I have 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild growing up in this country, and I can only say that I am happy to trust Dr. Jessup with the making of any policy knowing that he will find good advisers and weigh their advice with care,

Hoosier Forum wp do mal waved wih A word thet you vay, but) wil defend v6: the death your right ts say 8."

: ‘Favors Street Decorations’

By Gordon Bakkden, City

Regarding the matter of Yule: street decorations for Indianapolis, I am heartily in

“favor of the idea. The streets’'in the loop area are definitely not of a festive atmosphere in this _

holiday season. The merchants on Washington

St. could take a lead from Chicago and get

together to place wreaths, Christmas stars or miniature reindeer on the upper part of the light poles. Further, large fllumircated stars could be suspended over the street to brignten the, night scene. Why not: follow the trend and give the shoppers a real Christmas pres-

"ent?

‘We Need New Public Building’ By Mary Studebaker, 1832 Central Ave, One of the best ways to tell the country that Indianapolis is now & progressive metropolis is to erect a modern, skyscraper muricipal-county building {(o contain all our city and county offices, Such’ a building could house modern jail quarters, county and municipal court rooms, legal library, police laboratory and conference rooms, Sheriffs cars, emergency vehicles and other automobiles whose owners have business in the building, could drive straight into the building on the street level and then by elevator be taken into underground parking levels while the drivers take passenger elevators to the various floors. On the street floor there should be spacious lobbies, rest rooms and meetings rooms. There should also be an emergency hospital where cases of injured pedestrians or other citizens becoming ill in the downtown district could be treated without delay. ; This is not a civic illusion, impossible ofattaining. It is what we have a right to expect of our town when it grows up and becomes a city. Birmingham has done it and many other

- cities across the country have found it not only

financially possible but highly desifable from an economic standpoint. Why don't we bring

"our civic thinking up-to-date?

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‘Transit System Inefficient’ By H. W. Daacke, City,

A casual analysis‘of the Indianapolis Rail ways shows the inefficiency and the utter lack of managerial ability in the transit system. The 13 enumerated proposals of the PSC engineer urging retrenchment instead of expansion of service, are so contrary to all methods accepted by successful corporations, large and small, that their adoption would inevitably end in the red or possible bankruptcy. Rerouting? Yes, but on the lines of expansion that would increase patronage so sorely needed by the transit system. Rerouting that couid snd would have increased patronage with less equipment mileage. The most important factor, as of today's transit system's dilemma, is the lack of adequate cross-town service on both north and south sides of the city: Another - important factor adopted by all successful transit systems is that of goodwill co-operation with the patron instead of the arrogant policy of the present transit system. Municipal ownership has been the solution in many of the cities in the past, but would not suffice, as of today, in Indianapolis, ,, Jt will take action on The part of the elec torate of the state in the next meeting of the state legislature to make municipal ownership at all possible.

What Others Say—

NOBODY can beat us on the high seas. We intend to keep the best Navy in the world. — Sen. Millard E. Tydings, D:, Maryland, Senate Armed Services Committee. Ce ¢ @ - . I GET impatient with this talk sbout our “favorable balance of trade.” ‘I don’t see anything favorable about the condition , ., and I n't see any balance in it.—Secretary of State Dean Acheson. ® ¢ 9

PRICE supports must help to keep abundant

production profitable to farmers and fully use. _

ful to consumers. — Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan. * ¢ o THE Communists care nothing about trade unions, If their leaders tell them to tell the trade union movement to go to hell, they will do it. ~CI0 President Philip Murray. ¢ * ¢

I FEEL that I can now quit eating crow and try a little pheasant for a change.—Dr. George Gallup, who came close on the recent elections. . ®. ¢ oo WE'RE trying to bring conservation out of the realm of the expert and make it a problem

_ for the whole community.—Dr. Kenneth Hunt

of Antioch College. * ¢ 9 WEAKNESS breeds war — strength commands respect and discourages war.—Defense Secretary Louis Johnson.

PEASANT REVOLTS . .. By Ludwell Denny

doing.

Warnings in ile

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—Italy is in for serious trouble unless the government pushes promised land reform faster than it is now

The current epidemic of local peasant revolts is a warning of

stability in home i The sh of War years, when buiiding was stopped but the popula was growing rapidly, is almost if not entirely, ended, Building costs have levelled off, but show no tendency to come down farther while wages and materials remain where they are, and there is no indication of a substantial drop in those soon: »- Pricés have come down most, of course, on older homes . as the supply of newer ones has grown, and while they are still well above the levels of, say, 1041, there doesn't seem to be much prospect they will fall farther. In short, Mr. Stillerman finds, we are about back into the era where a home is a sound investment rather than a war-boom speculation, which is good news to those of us who wint homes just to live in, and not to gamble on a price rise. "There is every reason for confidence that Indianapolis * will continue to grow steadily. for a good many years to “{ come, with a sound industrial prosperity as a secure base— ad a home as one of the soundest of all investments.

trade unions. Such a politically conscious

E. Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers and chief of the CIO delegation now in London, talks the same language as the leaders of Britain's Labor Party, While members of the AFL delegation, headed by William Green, are far more conservative in their outlook, nevertheleas the. trend tn the older and more traditionally minded organization is toward the goal of direct and active participation by labor in politics. . =

of the political fence, in the Conservative Party, that the

parallel is most evident. Ever since the defeat of 1945, which surprised and dismayed them Tito’ ‘ R It in somewhat the same degree as the Republicans were sur0, $ evo prised . and overwhelmed by YUGOSLAVIA’ break with the Soviet Union has been _

tr “servatives have been’ divided ere — iL me heavi

viest blow struck against the Kremlin, in the and dispirited. . y

"opinion of Cavendish Cannon, who is retiring as American Ambassador to that country.” ‘Evidence that this is true is i in the purges in other Soviet satellite states. _ ‘Mr. Cannon makes the point at, for all that, Tito re‘an ardent Communist. However, Tito is not attempt- dollars provided by big indus-

. trialists. And that will sound £7 Impose He Aa upon the. rest of the world. That a A a i 3nd seeks AY Cr

an election early next year with a great outward show of confidence. The Labor Party is already charging that the Conservatives have a war chest for propaganda of millions of

ever, the confidence is not quite 80 great. There is even the

hh LAE ha ¥ 5 Ns i gu

—- trade -tunion—leader as Walter -

BUT it is on the other side’

their defeat in 1948, the Con-. House of

They are preparing to face

Beneath the surface, how-

suspicion - that the Conserva~

can trade union leaders here to form a world federation of free

tives, or important elements among them, do not really want to win, *. ss =» \ TO WIN would be to assume responsibility with all its risks In this era of Britain's prolonged crisis, The visitor might easily come away with the impression that a Labor victory in February or March I§°& foregone conclusion. In view of what happened in the United States on Nov. 2, 1948, caution is in order. Here, then, are two views of what is likely to happen at

‘the forthcoming election.

Majority view: The word should be overwhelming rather than majority. Extept for

conscious expression. of party

confidence. by party leaders, there is little dissent to the belief that the Labor Party will win by a reduced majority but with sufficient seats in the

government. The Labor Party, so the Argument runs; has passed out so many henefits to so many people that inevitably the bene-

< ficlaries must add up to a ma-

Joriiy: wa

THE other face of the argument is that the Conservative Party has no positive program

"to offer. Their policies. might

mean. unemployment or they

are merely shying that they’

can pass out the benefits more efficiently.

Minority view: This is ex-

to-form a

pressed by several highly _in-

formed editors who, far from’

wanting a Conservative victory, believe it might be a calamity. They base their belief in part on a secret poll recently taken, showing that whereas Labor won nearly 48 per cent of the vote In 1045 and the Conservatives 40 per cent, with the balance going to the Liberals and scattering independent parties, that ratio now has been “reversed.

almost exactly

By the polly the Conserva-

“tives are shown to have 49

pef cent, Labor 30 and the independents 12. The margin is so great, it is argued, that even the crude measurement of a poll cannot this time be wrong. For those holding the minofity view, the polls confirm a growing intuition that a considerable. segment of the Rritish public ‘has revolted

and

worse to come,

The recent general strike was a Communist maneuver to win leadership. As-a work stoppage it-was a Sop. Ta-most areas not

more than 10 per cent of indus-

try was halted. Even in .the -

Red cities-of Bologna, Milan and Turin, the strike was only partially successful on the economic front.

statements in Rome that the strike was a “failure” are too pollyannish. Whethe? most of Italy's industry and transport was tied up for a day, as the Communists ¢laim, or only a small portio ment maintains, is relatively unimportant,

_. The real question is whether . this weak demonstration has

convinced many rebellious landless peasants that the Reds are their best friends. Only the future can answer, But to the extent: poorer peasants are looking to thé Communists for leadership, these otherwise futile sympathy

. strikes are Mela # thelr

STALIN “at least seéms satisfied that thése “unsuccessful strikes” are useful. Otherwise he would not have repeated

this one only a mohth after a

similar “failure.” In both cases the Reds nominally were. protesting the “martyrdom” of peasants killed in violent demonstrations connected with seizure of untilled land on large estates. Comparisons of these Italian strikes with the recent French strike are confusing. There is a limited similarity in the Communist status in both countries.

as the govern-

That is, vigorous though not unified free labor federations have recaptured a minority of unions from Red control, Com-

. » . munist growth in the factories , NEVERTHELESS, official -

has been checked temporarily, and Itallans and Frenchmen are more suspicious of political strikes than formerly. - » ~ - BUT there is this fundamental difference; In France the revolutionary potential is in fhe factories, and prosperous peasants are the chief antlRed force, In Italy a few northern industrial centers are comparable to France. But in most of Italy the land issue is dominant. Hungry. omeliss peasants in the midst of rich estates create the kind of desperate revolutionary spirit on which the Russian Bolsheviks rode to

anger, They licked the Communists in the last election largely with land reform the big landowners block re-

hall Plan ald flows

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