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Longer ‘Limits’ on Crime EP. ANDREW JACOBS' proposal to extend the time limit in which an office holder could be prosecuted for a crime committed while in office, makes good sound sense. There's a lot of attention on the subject right now because of the Alger Hiss case. Hiss couldn't be punished for selling out the United States to a foreign power because he did it 10 or 12 years ago and the statutory limit under which prosecution could be started had expired before any ' government agency could be induced to start it. If he had _ told the truth when the facts came out and freely admitted his guilt the law could not have touched him. It was only because he lied, under oath, about it, that a perjury conviction could be obtained.

» ” - BUT this is by no means an isolated instance. It has .. happened plenty of times in the past—and right here in

wrong-doing until the time limit on prosecution has expired and then sit back in complete safety with his guilt. Mr. Jacobs would amend this law to make the time limit begin when the man left public office. The statute exists at all only to forestall unfair prosecution of an individual after ar unreasonably long time. It seems to us that under the amendment proposed by Mr. Jacobs there would still be ample protection of individual rights . . . and less chance of a future Hiss to laugh at justice simply because he managed to conceal his guilt for a specified length of time.

Watered-Down Testimony HE SECOND-HAND version of what the Joint Chiefs of Staff think about the strategic value of Formosa,

made public by Chairman Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is not a satisfactory substitute for the real thing. - . But the little that Sen. Connally has seen fit to release about their testimony makes it apparent that Defense Secretary Johnson and Gen. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, do not agree with Secretary of State Acheson that Formosa has no strategic importance. : On this point, Sen. Connally said that “while Formosa is of strategic value in the hands of the enemy, in the view of the Joint Chiefs of Staff its significance would not warrant the use of our armed forces to occupy it.”

” LJ ® n . » THAT is not the issue. The question was whether the United States should ex- * tend assistance, such as military supplies, to the Chinese . Nationalists so that they could defend the island against a Communist attack. This question was not discussed, the Senator said. He added: “I don’t want to discuss that.” Other Senators who attended the meetings insisted that the matter of assisting the Chinese Nationalists was discussed. They said the defense establishment had assumed such assistance would be continued, up to the moment President Truman made his statement writing off Formosa. This statement, based on military as well as political ‘considerations, is understood to have been made without consulting the National Security Council. : All of which illustrates the reckless way public policy is formulated when so much of it is done behind closed doors.

RESIDENT PHILIP MURRAY of the CIO has promised the Communications Workers of America, a CIO union, “every possible assistance and support” in its dispute with the Bell Telephone System. The union's president, Joseph Beirne, asked for such a promise, saying he could see no way of avoiding a nationwide telephone strike next month. As to one form of support and assistance desired, Mr. Beirne's letter to Mr. Murray, was unique and specific. Mr. Beirne asked that, if the strike occurs, six million members of CIO unions throughout the country make “all the telephone calls they can.” . This, Mr. Beirne explained, should be done with intent to overload and break down automatic telephone equipment in as many exchanges as possible.

” » ” ” - MR. BEIRNE'S request was a foolish mistake. Mr, Murray's implied promise that it will be granted is ani other foolish mistake. Deliberate, nation-wide sabotage of telephone service would be an intolerable threat.to public health and safety. Nothing could more swiftly and surely alienate public sympathy from the telephone workers’ union and the CIO. Nothing could more certainly result in irresistible public demand for government intervention to break a strike. Nothing could more firmly convince public opinion that frresponsible union leadership must be curbed by law. Mr. Beirne would do well to withdraw that fequest. Mr Murray would do well to announce promptly that he wants no CIO member to comply with that request.

Close Hit REP. VITO MARCANTONIO of New York is a Congressman. whom we do not admire and with whom we seldom have found occasion to agree. 4 However, Mr. Marcantonio did come pretty close to . hitting the nail squarely on the head when, after Speaker A Rayburn side-tracked an effort to bring the Truman administration’s fair employment practices bill before the House, he said this: “It is obvious to everyone, due.to the evenfs of today, that everybody wants civil rights as an issue but not as a

law, and that goes for Harry Truman, the Democratic Party . and the Republican Party.” }

. Cotton Consistency ' MORE than-1000 delegates to a National Cotton Council meeting at Memphis have ‘voted resolutions condemn-

Government deficit spending, the Brannan Farm Plan. - 4 compulsory government health insurance, the FEPC, and + other legislative proposals by President Truman “which invade the rights of individuals and the states.” Be National Cotton Council delegates also voted in

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Foolish Mistakes ~~~

EUROPE... By Ludwell Denny

Briish Need

More Incentive Trade Restraints, Labor Curbs Slow Production

WASHINGTON, Jan, 28--The most constructive proposal in the British Conservative Party's campaign platform is to restore some incentives to capital and labor, ; wy Eth If carried out fully this could do more to revive Britain even than the Tory promise to halt the spread of nationalization of industry, For if Labor government's unwise steel nation-

df per cent of the national economy will be run directly by the

state, while the’ lack of Incentive slows down

the entire economy.

Little Competition STATE monopolles are more spectacular, private capital and labor monopolies are older and more widespread. When state controls are imposed on top of those private monopolies, as they have been for many years, there is little room left for genuine competition. To stop the spread of nationalization and to de-nationalize some of the lesser industries, as the Tories propose, would not widen free enterprise if one form of monopoly were changed for another form. The Torles do not offer any sweeping reform on this front, but they do propose to start. On the side of labor there are numberless uninn restrictions hurting production,

Employers’ Federation

ON the side of capital, restraint of trade and elimination of competition exists through interlocking employers’ federations, market allocations and price-fixing agreements, This protection is multiplied for the foreign sterling area, where the British manufacturer has a sheltered guaranteed market. The result is loss of efficiency and initiative on the part of capital which goes with lack of incentive, The manufacturer with a sheltered home and steriing area market is not apt to have either the urge or the ability to compete in the dollar market—and without a dollar market Britain is lost, One part of the Tory platform would Increase this evil—the pledge to extend imperial trade preferences.

Controlled Prices

BUT the Torles at least promise that controlled prices would be based on costs of the most efficient companies rather than on the inefficient, and that allocation of raw materials would be on a similar basis, The tax incentive fs the most important offered by the Tories, especially as applied to labor—“extra work effort and skill on piece rates and through overtime, instead of being penalized, shall gain their just reward.” Now a worker often loses by protiucing more. This is the crowning absurdity in the present system, But the Tories are too timid to go far. Like the Labor Party they guarantee to all a job, social security from cradle to grave and all necessities, so the incentive to work harder and to save more is not great, Even tax rellef incentives would be very limited under expenses of the larger welfare state with which Tories are trying to outbid Laborites in promises.

ANY MOTHER'S BOY He blusters with ego, .. He's chock-full of pride. But I know, his mother Sees, a far different side. Oh, the small size of him His inimitable air . . . She knows the boy of him His triumphs “will share,

Misjudge not the talk of him . , . Of course . , . He is proud. To tell of each conquest Should be allowed. Beneath his small boasting That his mother sees through— 8he knows the boy of him-— Knows, he's true blue.

He's a child, not a man Don't expect him to be, “Just a dear [ittle fellow. You plain can see. But in each passing phase of him As a true mother should . . . 8he sees the small boy of him— And knows, he is good. '

=Mary R. White, 854 N. Sherman Dr.

PERJURY TESTIMONY . .. By Victor Lasky

done.

ECONOMY PROTESTS . . . By Jim G. Lucas Diplomats Irked at Cost Cuts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Defense Secretary Louis Johnson's economies are about as popular as a bad case of measles in some U. 8, émbassies throughout the world. It’s not enough that he's called home 276 Army, Navy and Air Force attaches. Now, he's taking away the ambassadors’ airplanes. So far, Mr. Johnson has recalled 22 transports assigned to our air-minded diplomats. Three more are to come home as soon as they wind up their schedules. Some have been restored to military duty. Others have been mothballed. How many military planes enjoy diplomatic status is a State-Defense Department secret. They probably would make up a couple of goodsized bomb groups. And the diplomats want even more planes, A number undoubtedly perform valuable military service. But others have been used strictly as social appurtenances. Some of our ambassadors have showered Mr, Johnson and Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, his unity co-ordinator, with cables and letters of protests. Some have even wept on White House shoulders.

Loss of Face

THEY saw it's a question of prestige. It means loss of face with the governments to which they are accredited. Last week, for instance, they flew Foreign Minister X to his summer home in the mountains and today they haven't a plane to their name. Moreover, they say, Foreign Minister X is a highly “sensitive man. Why, it is demanded, does the ambassador to country A lose his planes while the ambassador to country B keeps his? Does Washington favor A over B? And 80 on. Defense Department spokesmen say there's no political significance in anything they've It's strietly economy. The Air Force has been unhappy for a long time about the number of planes assigned to embassies and legations. But it's been reluctant to force the issue. So the Air Force has done its cutting among military ‘units. Now it's reached the point it can't mothball any more combat planes without

SIDE GI.ANCES

reducing its M-Day effectiveness. The same is true for the Navy. So far Mr. Johnson and President Truman have stood firm. Not only have they called home planes—they've brought home their crews and reassigned them to combat units, There's nothing in the book which says an ambassador is entitled to his own plane. We've got around that by assigning them to military attaches. The idea, moreover, seems to be strictly American,

Impartial Cuts

SIR OLIVER FRANKS, British ambassador:

to Washington, has no plane. Neither does French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. Spokesmen at both embassies seemed amused when asked if they had planes. The cuts have been applied impartially— wherever they could be made without upsetting operations. : The Americ*n embassy in London, for instance, lost two C-45's. Ambassador Stanton Griffis in Buenos Aires relinquished an Air Force and a Navy plane, Legations in smaller countries in the \e area lost all their military attaches and nes. A centrally located pool now serves several posts. Mr. Johnson has abolished the job of Air Force, Navy and Army attache. Now, the Defense Department is represented by a single military mission.

Payrolls Down k

IN Copenhagen, for instance, it's all Navy. In Argentina, an Air Force general heads three Air Force officers and one each from the Army and Navy. A reduction of 276 attaches has made possible a comparable reduction in civilian payrolls. Quite a few of our diplomats still are in a terrible huff. Co EE NE There is one exception. Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, our new ambassador to Denmark, lost her planes, two Air Force and two Army attaches. That left her a couple of Navy men. But she

failure of people interested in free enterprise to give universities and colleges the resources essential to survival as exponents of independent

‘were legalized, that would cure all of its evils. He says antigambling laws have driven the opera- Whitley tors underground In “control of criminal ele- - mente 1 Would be. Just as-Teasengbie ¥f we ~ Release used the same argument to say “Let's legalize ’ Vetoes murder” 1n thal way the ertiinal would not Vv out in daylight and shoot you and not be driven The same reasoning would say that we convicted in should legalize stealing and other forms of, four Ft. Way evil. We wonder how long L. R. T, would want free today fr to stay in this city if such laws were enacted. prison. No, legalizing crime does not make it any Christen w less criminal. The man killed in legalized mur after der would be just as dead as the one killed un« Indiana Stat lawfully and so it is with all forms of sin. The Lowell L. Pe ‘way to stop a run-a-way horse is-to put an him last Apr obstacle across his path that he cannot cross, Court after s This is the only way to stop gambling. - . .. of Mr As to what he sald abeut prohibition. There wife of a solc were not one-tenth as many evils connected The Indian with it as with legalized whisky. Oklahoma has Jan. 4 order voted it out five straight times. Prohibition Is Christen, ruli a grand thing when enforced. victed on We would also like to ask where the low- Judge Pefley ered taxes are that the liquor crowd said we chargé on m have under legalized whisky. The state James Biddle of usetts has statistics to prove that the state 3 takes $6 “ he Saspdyers money to take care evidence to st e drunks ace of eve 1 receiv the evil stuff, ii “ on Return Indiana can't be far different. When we Christen a make a plea to legalize any kind of sin, every at which the . righteous principle is blackmailed. The wages of the books. Hi sin is death. Get right with God and vou won't said he was g have any desires to gamble or drink legally or immediately illegally, : He was o volved in the . angle in Inc What Do We Need in 1950? were charged ings of Mrs. ‘Law and Order’ | mime ine. By Rufus C. Kuykendall, attorney ath lee ws Indianapolis, in its transition from a “coun- solve the crix try town” to a busy metropolis, is in dire need of Kokomo of more respect for law and order on the part lice station Ir of its citizens. This cornerstone of the Ameri- the Howard, can theory of representative slayings. On | government is indeed in a sad was sentence state in our fair city, tric chair. F Our city suffers greatly in men ‘were im -comparison with any city of ings Lobau comparable size in Canada. stays of e In our courts witnesses of- awaits death ten appear late for hearings Christen a and frequently do not appear at Memphis, Te all. On many occasions it is were i necessary for court attaches to Howard's des direct spectators to remove wr dropped aga! their hats and judges must > was the ' st frequently rap their gavels for Mr. Kuykendall against Chri order because of people who laugh and talk Later, Fra while the courts are in session. Wayne "celer Aside from this general attitude of disrespect, - fessed the the press deserves some criticism. In reporting Conine slay actions of public officials the press often ei- tenced to d their prints half-truths or colors the facts to case, He no the point where the reading public is led to be- When : th lieve that all public officials are crooks and in ordered a ne league with the underworld. it said it wa: Our city is the loser in this situation, because Mrs. Howarc the result is that high-type and public-spirited “But so n men and women shrink from public service be- the ruling s cause of an understandable fear of public cone hours elapse demnation and vicious malignment of character Christen wa and reputation. Howard and Indianapolis can f{ll-afford the loss of the found dead. services and the use of its best minds because — of a situation that can so be corrected. J obl ess cr What are your ideas on ways to improve In- o dianapolls during 1950? Send your sugges- Decline ons to: oc 1950 Editor,” The Times, 214 W. Maryland Ital Job ana drop week from the State E What Others Say Division sa4 MORE than half of our young people who nounced yest could benefit from a college education are now work have unable to attend. This . . . is a matter of most section: national concern.—President Truman. unemployed rr ee eg -T370-last we THE trend to federal subsidy is due to th Claiuis the y 1s due to the Flood con!

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Psychiatry Argued

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 -- Appearance of two mental specialists as defense witnesses at the Alger Hiss prejury trial has set off a storm of debate within legal and psychiatric circles.

Both Drs. Carl A. L. Binger and Henry Alexander Murray testified that Whittaker Chambers was a “pathological liar.” The jury decided that Mr, Chambers was nothing of the sort.

Assistant U, 8, Thomas F. Murphy opposed intro duction of psychiatric testimony on the grounds it was without precedeent in federal jurisprudence and that there was nothing in the record to indicate Mr. Chambers suffered from a mental illness. sw =

BUT Judge Henry Goddard, one of the nation’s most highly regarded jurists, permitted it since the outcome of the trial was largely dependent on Mr. Chamber's credibility. Dr. Binger based his opinion that Mr. Chambers was a “psychopathic personality” on a_ hypothetical question detailing the worst aspects of his life, both true and mythical. Also on a selected group of his writings and translations, and on observing Mr. Chambers on the stand. W Dr. Murray who never saw Mr. Chambers, agreed with Dr. Binger. In charging the jury, Judge Goddard declared that the opinfons were purely advisory and could be rejected. “It is for you to say how much weight, If any, you will give to the (psychiatric) testimony,” he told the jury. It was learned that the jury did not even consider Dr. Binger's and Dr. Murray's testimony. However, Judge Goddard's ruling was termed a “danger ous precedent” by at least two

Attorney

Chambers

» prosecuting

some expert to attack the credibility of a prosecuting witness on the ground that he is a psychopathic personality.”

JUDGE CURTIS BOK, presiding jurist in Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, said, “if the defense in every case could do the same thing, every witness would be subject to such analyses. Psychiatry is still very young. For the present, I think, the credibility of witnesses can be left to the jury.” + The appearance of Drs. Binger and Murray led several prominent psychiatrists to volunteer their services to Mr. Murphy. Mr. Murphy admits that much of the material he used during cross-examination came from them. One psychiatrist, who said he had no direct interest in the H 1g s - Chambers controversy, sald: : ee

. » . “WHETHER a man is a psychopathic personality can

only be determined after weeks of intensive interviewing, and even then we can't be sure: It can't be done from carefully selected passages of freely admitted testimony, poetry and translations.” Not since the Harry K. Thaw trial .in 1908 ‘has psychiatry suffered such enormous damage in public opinion, a leading official of the American Psychiatric Association declared. » - . THAW, on trial for murder, hired a battery of psychiatrists. He was committed to Mattea-

. wan, At least one lawyer said « that

if psychiatric opinions were accepted as absolutely ac-

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says it's all right with her. In fact, she said, it education.—President Henry M r} A. humber seemed like a fine idea. Brown University $ Henry « Wriston of recalling wo ) ’ hiring from . ket. By Galbraith COAL STRIKES . . . By Fred W. Perkins Shio M . . ip oV By IC eting Cur ed New York Ar ew York D MORGANTOWN, W. Va. Jan. 28—The | : Sr itannte, Med N, W. Va. . 28—The impressive fact con- , 8 cerning this part of the trouble zone for John I. Lewis policies is oui that a large amount of coal is being produced five days a week. OD That is sbecause Preston County, which is just south of the LEG. Pennsylvania line, is almost complete non-union. It contains only INDIANA two small mines that have been organized by the United Mine c Workers, and they, too, are E MAT] putting out coal. County miners are paid the SUANT TO Cf

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“The doctor tells me that I've simply got to relax and rest up—-

I'm going to see if | can get my old job back at the office!"

his science calls for and announce the result. “The process would be similar to that when an African medicine man performs his

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NAGGING children while they eat brings emotional upset which causes tooth decay, says a dentist. What'll you have, Junior, spinach or a dental. drilling? ; v

INSOMNIA, says a psychologist, may be an imprisoned idea trying to break into your

Philadelphia judges, both noted authorities on evidence. Judge Louis E. Levinthal pointed out that “a litigant who and cdn afford to

He added:

‘would be for the psychiatrist .ln

curate there would be no need” ‘consciousness. Or. pickled herfor judges, juries, or lawyers. ! x

ring at bedtime!

LAZY drivers use the jack instead of the

rites. The only difference would be that our process would be science, whereas the bushman's rites are nothing more than superstition.”

STORE clerks have just about finished exchanging the “exactly - what - I « wanted” Christmas presents.

A MISSING shirt button may mean that a man is single, Three or four missing and he's

_ married, ABOUT all some folks got..

out of the New Year resolutions was a chance to swear. IN . most , cases bosses are smart eno not to step: on

Practically all the rest of northern West Virginia and adjoining Pennsylvania coal districts have been shut down by roving bands of pickets who claim to be enforcing a demand for a full-fledged strike. Their ostensible object is to force restoration of a five-day work week and the making of. a new union contract with the coal operators. ® = = THE pickets—their leaders and financing still a mystery —operate against both the union and non-union mining operators, both “strip” and “deep,” all through northern West Virginia——all except Preston County. Why are the pickets steering clear of Preston County? Judge Charles P.- Wilhem, of Kingwood, issued an: Injunction about a year ago against coal mine picketing.

—This-was done under a state "law forbidding trespass on pri-

vate property. The Injunction was issued at the request of Sheriff J. H. Spencer, who. is depicted in these parts as a

"strict believer in enforcing the

law,

” . ~ THE clincher to the situation is that a number of district officials of the Miners’ Union are under suspended jail sentences for violation of that law, Warnings have been given that the sentences will be enforced if the offenses are repeated. The background reason for the Preston situation is that the county is Republican, unlike most of the West Virginia counties in which the Miners’ Union wields strong - political influence, usually on the Demo-* cratic side. : The miners are generally of the type who live on small farms and raise most of their own food ‘while they make

valley are closed.

wage scale—$14.05 a day basic wages, with considerably more for a good miner. Labor spokesmen say, however, that the Preston County scale runs about $5 a day under the union standard. » LJ ~

ANOTHER distinguishing fact about Preston County is that it contains Arthurdale, the community that was established in New Deal days largely through the interest of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Arthurdale is still there, but the govern-ment-bullt houses attached to small farms have been sold into private ownership of the tenants—with Uncle Sam as usual holding the sack. Contrast Preston County with Scott's Run, which is a highly productive district a few miles from Morgantown. Scott's Run is the “hprrible

example” used by Mrs. Roose=——

velt when she brought about the creation of Arthurdale.

. » =» ) SEVERAL big companies

operate ‘along Scott's . Run. Among them 1s Pittsburgh Consolidation.

All the numerous mines along the yellow stream that runs. through this mountain “It was last Monday morning,” their spokesmen said. “We started to go into the mine, to work three days like John Lewis says, when a whole swarm of pickets showed up. There must have been a thousand of them, “Their cars were strung all along this road for nearly half a mile. Some of the cars had West Virginia license plates, some Pennsylvania. They told

_ us there'd be trouble If we went into the mine—so we didn't,

“My condition,” miner, “is that I'm.

sald one ing but

fe fae 0 £2 Jas

the worker who is a live wire, mn : ALE 4

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their cash by d coal. not able to work. The pickets Coal operators ‘say reston Keep me.from rom being able” :

seines that which forms ti