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‘Above Investigation?

HE U. 8. Senate's continue indefinitely its good work of investigating influence and favoritism in the lending operations of the ‘Reconstruction Finance Corp. There is hopeful prospect that the Kefauver Committee tdlso will go’ forward’ with its investigation of organized crime, although Sen. Kefatver feels that he cannot serve : sactively’ as its chairman after Saturday. Both committees have plenty of unexplored territory But there is one question into which Sen. Fulbright seems fo feel his group cannot well go. This is the ‘question whether—and, if 80, to what extent—membpers of . Congress have exerted improper influence on RFE lending policies. : j It has been a qtiestion of great and d legitimate public interest ever since President Truman announced a month ago that he had obtained copies of more than 700 letters written to the RFC by Senators and Representatives.

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Fulbright Committee has decided to

** MR. TRUMAN, to be sure, let it be known later that he had found no evidence of illegality in the letters. Sen. Fulbright quite justly commented, “it is setting a low evel if our only goal for official conduct is that it be legal © instead of illegal.” ; However, the Fulbright Committee has decided not to .obtain copies of those congressional letters and spread them son the public record where, in our opinion, they belong. + Instead, Sen. Fulbright has suggested a commission of emi‘nent citizens might well be named to investigate ethical »standards in Congress and throughout the government. “That idea seems outrageous to ‘Sen. McFarland of Ari‘zona, Democratic leader of the Senate, who told his branch sof Congress the other day: “Any suggestion that the Senate should be investigated, or any inference that the Congress needs to be investigated, sis unfortunate and is to be regretted. I say this because the speople are looking to us, to their legislative representatives, + for leadership . . . 80 long as I am a member of the Senate, :I shall oppose any suggestion that the morals or the ethics tof the Senate should be investigated, because I believe them sto be higher than in any group or body I have ever known.”

But, as

IN THE last few years two members of Congress have been sent to prison for frauds against the government. The ‘American people doubtless would like to believe that they iwere rare exceptions to a general rule of probity among the ination’s legislators. But if Sen. McFarland’'s view prevails—if Congress, twhich rightly and often most usefully investigates the imorals and ethics of private citizens and of public servants din other branches of government, is itself held immune to iinvestigation—how can the people be sure that their legisdative representatives are fit to lead them?

‘Vote This One Down

ONGRESS should reply with a loud, emphatic “no” to any proposal which would continue the Economie ! Co-operation Administration—the Marshall Plan organiza'tion—as a permanent institution. It has been reported that President Truman may be : persuaded to make such a recommendation. When the European aid program was initiated as an ‘emergency measure, Congress and the American people

DEAR BOSS... By Dan Kidney - Small Business Not TV Grist

Subcommittee Witnesses Reassured by Halleck

WASHINGTON, Mar. 26-—Whether TV is hurting or helping good government is a matter of great debate here with the Kefauver committee hitting the jackpot on the Hooper ratings. An interesting sidelight on the matter was brought to the attention of Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Rensselaer) who will be a big wheel at the House Little Business subcommittee hearings now on tour. Mr. Halleck expects to be at the hearings scheduled for Indianapolis Apr. 4 and Lafayette the next day. The latter city is in the Second District, which he represents. He received a report from James Murphy, executive secretary of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, that some businessmen are expressing reluctance to appear before the committee for fear of being “grilled.” Mr. Halleck assured him that these subcommittee meetings will" be ‘strictly informal and not a TV show, “This is an investigation for, and in behalf of, people interested in small business and its problems, whether they be employers, employees or persons with an indirect Interest in small business. The committeé hopes to bring the Conigress to the people and give the people right at me-—not in” faraway Washington—-a full opportunity to tell of any ‘problems or difficulties

which may confront them, presently or in the -

future. And to make such’ suggestions as they

. see fit for consideration and action, either hy : the Congress or by agencies of the. government

with whom théy must deéal.” Isolationist Pens Dry?

.. REP, CECIL HARDEN, Republican national

committeewoman from Covington, reported in her weekly letter to Sixth District constituents that the tenor of mail arriving at her office has shifted greatly in the last month or so. 8he summed up the changes as follows: ONE: The demands that the United

Korea—heavy during January and the early part of February —are now few and far beween. TWO. Heavy opposition to the 18-year-old draft, which kept congressional staffs busy throughout February and early March has lessened to a trickle. Some support for drafting 18-year-olds is now showing up. Particularly from reservists and their families. Opposition to military training also has softened. THREE: Secretary of State Dean Acheson fs rarely mentioned—a considerable change

Harden tenor shifts,

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from the early part of the session when voters.

flooded Congress with demands for Mr. Acheson's impeachment, “But one subject remain, at peak level among Sixth Dist¥ct voters Who write their congresswoman,” Mrs. Harden said. “That is taxes and spending, Voters demand no new taxes until federal spending is cut to the bone.”

Rep. Denton Reports REP. WINFIELD K. DENTON (D. Evansville), had this to say about his first months of service with the House Appropriations committee: « “The Labor and Federal Security subcommittee, of which I am a member, has finished the hearings on budget appropriations and has already marked up a bill making various changes. The changes made cannot be announced, however, until they are approved by the full committee, which will not be until after the present recess. “I am very pleased with the results and the fact that both Democrats and Republicans worked in perfect harmony in fixing amounts allocated. “Early this year I stated that this committee would be glad to hear suggestions from anyone who knew how to cut the budget. But during the entire five weeks of hearings, no one witness suggested that any cuts be made. Most of the witnesses complained about reductions made by budget directors.”

What Others Say—

THERE {is no amount of discipline in the world that will make me vote for the Brannan (farm) plan or socialized medicine. --Sen, Burnet Maybank, (D., S. C. $e on party regularity. ee & %

STOP spending; little lending; no giving. -=Rep. Robert F. Rich (R., Pa.), offering a six-werd slogan for the “Lame Duck” Congress.

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Mrs. O. Lays Down the Law—

A Prize Chicken in Every

McCLEAN; Va., Mar. 26—I guess you might call this an interim report on the chicken business. I am not cackling about it. I'm too full of drumsticks. Armed with the best advice available from Secretary Charlie Brannan’'s Agriculture Department, you may remember, my bride chose the coldest day of last winter to go into the poultry industry. In a speciallyinsulated building she installed a five-story apartment house for baby chicks. Each floor was heated by electricity and controlled by its own private thermostat so these birds would suffer no chills. Seven hundred ; and fifty of these small fowls began to eat the finest possible stuff for baby birds; this came in 100-pound sacks and cost like sin. When they weren't eating, these chickens were drinking lukewarm water, with pills in it. This medicine wasn’t cheap, either. Getting in to see these chickens for a mere human was almost as tough as arriving in Argentina; every visitor had to undergo a physical inspection. Anybody who had a sign of a cold got the old heave ho. Mrs. O. was taking no chances on her chickens getting the sniffles. So they prospered. The bigger they grew the more they ate. It wasn't long befare they were too large to fit the brooder de luxe. My bride had anticipated this. She had another, bigger house waiting. This had windows of special plastic to let in the sun’s ultra-violet rays. It had sun lamps at night to bathe the backs of these lucky birds in infrared warmth, Here they drank from automatic waterers and here they ate from feeders that never went empty. You think they had to walk on a cold, hard floor? Our pampered poultry did its strolling on a bed of chopped-up sugarcane, soft like a mattress, and imported for the purpose from Cuba. The rules against callers with fevers still held. They were, in fact, intensified. Any cit-

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izen who passed ry 0.'s quarantine now was admitted only after he changed his shoes at the door. This wa8 to keep germs from being tracked inside. My bride kept a sterile pair of slippers for callers. Under these circumstances her chickens turned into the finest, fattest birds in Fairfax County. Nobody ever saw such healthy chickens before. So now they weigh between three and four pounds each; they have reached the broiler stage; they are ready for market. So you know, if you've ever been a farmer, what happened. The price of chickens has been slipping. Mrs. O.s birds at the moment are worth 30 cents a pound, wholesale. This, says she, is an outrage. It's what makes a farmer turn to price supports and parity plans.

One in Every Pot EACH ONE of her chickens has eaten to date nearly a dollar's worth of food. My bride has kept accurate records and she claims that even if she did not count her labor, including midnight dashes to regulate the air intake, she'd be losing money at 30 cents a pound. So she is not going to sell her chickens at this price. I wondered what she intended to do with them. Easy, said she. We are going to eat ‘em. This means that we have got to plow through 3000 pounds of chicken, fried, broiled, fricasseed and baked. Every bite, says Mrs. O., with what passes for enthusiasm, will be that much saved at the market. Just don’t invite me out to a chicken dinner, friends, is all. Or my Hilda, either. We've got chicken at home. In every pot.

OUR’ TIME

THE RULE to govern time is fixed . . . and followed to a tee . . . because the minutes and the hours . . . mean so much you see . . . but though the rules are rather fast ... and constant as the sun... how many times it seemed to me . . , like day was never done ... and so it is with everyone . . , their time may stand dead still . . . and then again it may fly fast... so much against their will , . , a minute can seem like a year . .. a lifetime just a day... it all depends on we ourselves . .. for time is ours to weigh.

—By Ben Burroughs

pride of 6Ng

yp do not agree with a word that y will defend to the death your to say it." ‘Bad Road Construction’ MR. EDITOR: In reply to your editorial (Times, Mar. 2) “Green Light for Road Hogs.”

It would take a lot of paper for me to express my opinion on each: paragraph, so I will pass up part of fit. It what you say is true about trucks smashing the roads, how come they didn’t smash the section of Road 31, south of Amity to junction of 31 and 31-A. The same trucks and same loads traveled it that traveled the balance of Toads to get from Indianapolis 1% Touisvile. THE old section of road is still good. It has been open to traffic about 28 years. The new about 7 or 8 years when it was resurfaced. Also the section from here to Greenwood is ready for resurfacing but the north lane from Franklin to Greenwood is still good. It also has the same traffic. I think if you took the same amount of inter. est condemning the highway construction as you do the trucks, we would all get more for our tax dollar. That includes county as well as state. I drive most of the state, and very little

repair has been done in the past 11 years.

Most of the work I see being done. is being

~ done on roadside parks and shoulders.

. Jarnest Gilstrap, City .

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MR. EDITOR: It is becoming clearer every day what a cesspoll of iniquity this great nation has become, And it is just as plain that Mr. Truman is President.in name only, being manipulated like a puppet by the corruptionists behind the throne. I wonder what the George Washing‘tons, and Patrick Henrys and Benjamin Franklins would say if they could look in on today’s sorry mess. We have selected officials crying out in hore rified anguish at the universal indulgence in that harmless pastime pictured so luridly as gambling, while the same officials dig into our tax pockets and steal us blind; pay for fur coats that can't be worn by any government office; pay for luxury vacations for corruptionists, gnd think that is all right . . . just because some specific law has not been violated, Morals and ethics are old fashioned. Everyone, it seems, is busy trying to chisel and cheat his fellowman. Should we not be proud of a situation like that? -=A. J. Schneider, City.

‘Adjust Walk Signal’ MR. EDITOR: Until the pedestrian walk signals on Washington St. and Meridian St, are adjusted to the red and green lights they are nothing more than a waste of taxpayers’ money. Unless the lights are adjusted so they work together with the auto street signals they will be dangerous instead of helpful to the pedestrian. A traffic cop stationed there and also on the Circle at all hours of night and’ day would be better investment for the city, One night a car coming from 8. Meridian St. missed me by a hair when he made a left turn to go west on Washington 8t. The Circle is nothing but a game of hit or miss, Pedestrians never have a chance on the Circle. Why have eight signals on one intersection and none on other equally dangerous places on the Circle? The policeman would be more valuable than all the signals. ~—Alice M. Scheffler, City.

‘Time Confusion’

MR. EDITOR: So the Indianapolis City Council is- ‘going to, at the behest of the Chamber of Commerce and its satellites, violate a state law again and thereby confuse the time issue again. .. . Evidently the C of C rates the intelligence of the people low; too low to be able to get to their offices and stores of mornings without spreading confusion about time. One Indianapolis newspaper said editorially a year ago that there is “nothing sacred about standard time.” That is quite true. Neither is there anything sacred about any law passed by either the state or federal government. But those laws were passed for the protection of the public against the usurpation of authority by special groups seeking to force their selfish wishes on the public. . , .

—W. H. Edwards, Gosport.

‘Missed the Smell’ MR. EDITOR: After reading your editorial, “The Show Must Go On” in The Times (Mar. 22) refering to the miracle of television, I think you missed one third of the program . .. the smell. —C. L. "Johnson, City.

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‘were assured that it would be terminated not later than ‘June, 1952. That pledge should be kept. The aid program has accomplished its purpose, apart ‘from the element of good faith involved, the United States ‘cannot afford to become a permanent underwriter of the ‘world’s economy.

: The excuse being advanced—that new economic programs have become necessary because of a general switch 'in Western Europe from civilian to military production— ‘is without foundation, *

MOST OF the arms for Europe are being produced iin the United States. Some European munitions plants, ‘particularly in Italy, are crying for orders. If anyone is being hurt in this readjustment it is the American cont sumer and the American taxpayer. But our do-gooders 4 ;abroad are not thinking about them. 1 Of course, our overseas boondogglers would like to ; ‘commit this country to another gigantic foreign spending iprogram so they can continue to live abroad in the manner ‘to which they have become accustomed. The answer should ibe “nothing doing.”

It will be quite enough if we carry out our part in <the present rearmament program, and it is a very considerable part. American resources are not so great that iwe can serve both as the arsenal for the free world and 128 a free lunch counter for the neutrals and for those governments which are unwilling to tax their people at the same rates paid by our people. i

i If occasional exceptions must be made, each case can ibe considered on its own merits without maintaining an expensive organization abroad the primary interest of {Which would be to find ways to spend more of our money.

Trust Busters’ Made Work

HEN the Justice Department’s anti- trust division starts demanding that college officials explain how come they’ re not going to permit television broadcasts of football

games—well that comes under the heading of nothing else ito do. :

' There would seem to be enough price-rigging of esseritial $0048 and services to keep the anti-trust boys busy. If not, tn had better trim that agency’s budget,

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Gone Are Champions Of Liberty in Old D. C.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—Washington now has an official song, selected as a result of a contest.

The winning song begins:

Washington—the land of mem’ries of the great men of the past; Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who for Liberty stood fast. A group of government wags at lunch, started dreaming up

some additional stanzas of their own, however, and came up with: Hail Columbia, District of! Shiny seat of U. 8S. gov. Along our parks Potomac shineszwith sewage, oil and melon rinds. The cost of living here is tops! Your pants will shine until it drops. You shovel taxes in a trough, while five per centers grab them off. Hail our beauteous Pentagon! Hail both Vaughan and Maragon! Oh! Say can you RFC? Deep

freeze and mink coat here

are free!

o ” o CURRENT gag around Washington is: “Things were better when Truman was President.” ” s n THOUGH union labor leaders have tried to make something out of the fact that Defense Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson had no top labor policy official on his staff, it is noteworthy that President Truman doesn’t have a union man on the White House staff, either. Dr. John R. Steelman, the assistant to the President, has handled most- labor matters for the White House. Young David. H. Stowe, an administrative assistant to the President, has also done some work on manpower and labor problems. But when “Doc” Steelman was tiled up on recent railroad wage negotiations, and Mr; Stowe was in England studying civil- defense problems, it was the President's

counsel, Charles G. Murphy, who stepped in to handle the walkout of union officials from the defense organization,

» 5 ” CRISIS in the toy railraad —or more properly the model railroad—industry has been temporarily averted When the copper shortage hit, model railroad builders thought they'd have to go out of business. Then suppliers got to experimeénting witn substitutes? and found that rust-resisting steels gave a stronger and perhaps a better track than copper and brass. So the conversion may be permanent, if the. supply of alloy steels holds out. There's still a shortage of white metal for die casting, however, and supply of new locomotives and cars may be much reduced. Hobbyists take all these things pretty seriously. on ” ” FRESHMAN Democratic Sen. John O. Pastore of Rhode Island was making a report to

the Committee on District of Columbia affairs. Before his election as Senator, Pastore

had been governor of his state, °

“After holding hearings on this bill, and after all the discussion about it, I wondered what I came to Washington for,” he said. The bill in questidn was a ' proposal to make it illegal to yank rockfish weighing over 15 pounds out of that portion of the Potoma& River that flows through the District ot Co-

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AIR FORCE “Undersecretary John A. McCone has a story

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SIDE GLANCES

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COPR. 1961 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. 7. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

"My sister Alice sure gets around! Now that her old boy friends are in the service, she's got a job in a factory with 1000 men!”

about how mportant everybody in Washington thinks he is. “They'te like all the ants caught on a log that’s floating down a river,” When asked to explain, Mr. McCone says, “Every one of those ants thinks he's steering that log.” o on n

REP. FRANK (“Everything-Was-Made-for-Love'’) BOYKIN

of Alabama recently gave a

luncheon in honor of Charles

E. Wilson, director of Defefise

Mobilization. The affair was heldy in the Speaker's private Si room in the Capitol and lot of .big-wigs and bald

heads were there, including some out-of-town people. So that Mr. Wilson might get to know them all, Rep. Boykin insisted that everyone get up

and tell who he was. When it

came to the guest of honor's turn, he got up and said, “I'm C.E Wilsoh of ....0of..."” Then his face went blank with

embarrassment. He couldn't remember the full name of his alphabet agency. Speaker Sam Rayburn had to prompt him

- with “Office of Defense Mobi-

lization.” Red-faced but laughing, Mr. Wilson Tepeated it and sat down to cheers.

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QUESTION . . . By Bruce Biossat

Does Long-Held Power Corrupt Government?

WASHINGTON, Mar. 26--When Sen. Fulbright of Arkansas recommended creation of a commission to study the whole moral climate of government, he cannot have hoped too strongly that

the idea would be adopted.

Since any commission worth setting up would be bound to investigate the moral behavior of Congress as well as the Execu-

tive Branch, the lawmakers aren’t likely to authorize it. And it hardly can be imagined that President Truman, whose administration already has suffered materially from the RFC disclosures, would consent to naming a comm is sion which would further em-

barrass his re- gon Fylbright Eile political- "line hope? What we are witnessing in Washington is the natural decay in the moral fiber of men who have been in power too long. old familiar phrase. Learned essays have been

written on the effect long exercise of power has upon the men who hold it. Even with the best intentions, such a government gradually will suecumb to a sort of dry rot. Laxity in observing moral standards is but one consequence. The wielders of power come to feel they and they

‘alone have a pipeline to the

people. Increasingly sure they understand the citizen's needs best, they actually grow away from him. Their long responsibility for government ‘actually breeds irresponsibility. “8 . ” IT WAS to guard ,against this danger that the principle of rotation in office was con.

“Power corrupts” is an

ceived. A change in the cast of

characters from time to time

seems a healthy antidote to the corrosive influences of power, A good deal of the time the rotation principle has worked successfully in American democracy. But there have been

"periods when a variety of cir’

cumstances combined to keep one party in power for an extraordinary span. This is one such time. The headlines this year and last speak eloquently of the re. sults of overlong tenure in of. fice. The time-honored cure for a government thus tarnished is to apply the old rotation prin. ciple. ” . . BUT unfortunately, extended control of the government can have damaging effects on the party out of power, too, The “outs” grow steadily more des-

perate in their efforts to seize

the reins. Having no real voice in policy, their criticisms of the

~*ins” are frequently allowed to

touch extremes of irresponsibility. They may show ‘themselves

80 rusty in the uses of power

that they actually tend to delay their coming back to power, This country obviously is Jipe for a return to ‘responsible moral government directed ty men freshly brought to the

task, newly aware of the high-' est traditions of honorable pub-

lic service. ‘The opportunity is

there. Will the men qualified -

to perform this vital function arise to take it?

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