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Friday, Mar. 30, 1951

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Telephone RI ley 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Merit Plan for Policemen

IGID application of the spirit of the “merit plan” to all police jobs as ordered by Mayor Bayt this week is a long step toward a better police department. Under existing law, as he interprets it (and as we do) men can become policemen only on their own merits, as revealed by a fair and unprejudiced examination. They can be promoted to higher rank only upon the basis of their own proven abilities, and they can keep the ranks they “have thus earned as long as they continue to do their jobs well. They lose them only after fair and impartial hearings, and definite proof of their inability. Actually the statutes, several times amended, are a little vague. It has been possible, in years past, to evade all those requirements without actually, technically violating the law. Depends, considerably, on who interprets it, and how.

WE ‘BELIEVE this law should be very greatly strengthened. A full Civil Service system for policemen and firemen has been proved by long experience in many other cities to be the best method so far devised for handling such jobs. Whatever new statute is enacted, it should cover all possibilities, and admit no varied interpretations. Until we gét such a new law, Mayor Bayt has done all that he can in that direction. His action, we believe, will result in greater security for policemen in every rank, greater opportunities for those who are giving the best performance, and in the long run a better police operation, We hope the next legislature will freeze that into permanent application to all future city administrations.

Ganging Up on MacArthur

WO big Conservative British newspapers, the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, have joined a substantial section of the Ameérican press in protesting unjust criticism of Gen. MacArthur's conduct of the Korean War. The Daily Express, in a leading editorial, said: “It is time the hounding of MacArthur was brought to an end

—it is time that he was given the credit and authority due

to him.” . The Daily Mail, critical of Britain's own government, declared: “The political direction of the Korean War has been and still is deplorable.” Making no excuses for any of the General's alleged “verbal indiscretions,” this London paper said he had been badly supported. “In the face of the conflicting orders he gets from all points of the compass, what is he to do?” the Daily Mail

asked. ”

y o ” THE EXPRESS, charging that Communists are behind ‘the attacks on Gen. MacArthur, observed that they were leading “all sorts of people into their campaign.” Some of these are dupes, it said, but others are propagandists knowingly playing the Kremlin's game. Be that as it may, the anti-MacArthur campaign undeniably is creating dissension in the anti-Communist eamp where unity is all essential. The leaders in this “get MacArthur” movement outside of the Moscow press and radio—have been the left-wing British Socialists, who are exercising an increasing voice in British foreign policy, and Premier Nehru of India, foremost apologist for the Chinese Communists. In this country the attack has been spextheaded by the State Department, which is presumed to be directing

our whole global strategy against communism. o “ » » » »

AGAINST THIS background, is it any wonder that Defense Secretary Marshall should find an alarming relaxation in public and congressional support for a long-term defense effort? The American people are not as thoughtless or shortsighted as some of their current leaders. When they observe the political walk-out on the American troops in Korea, it is asking too much to expect their unqualified and enthusiastic support for a similar and even more ambitious mission in Europe. Gen. MacArthur was speaking for his troops as well as himself when he warned the Chinese Reds that they are tempting fate by continuing their course of aggression. When he was gagged at the State Department's behest, his men were gagged too. But we may be sure their parents and friends here at home will make themselves heard.

Mr. Bumble Said It

ANY income-tax payers have suffered this month. Let them reflect on what happened to Ellis R. Lewis in the U. S. Supreme Court. In 1944 Mr, Lewis claimed and got $22,000 as an employee’s bonus, reported it as income and paid the federal tax on it. Later his employer proved that erroneous figuring had made the bonus twice too big and forced Mr. Lewis to give back half of it. r. Lewis then asked the government to refund the

tax on i $11,000 he hadn't been allowed to keep. The gov-

ernment said no dice. He appealed to the U. S. Court of Claims. It held he should get the refund. But the government carried the case to the Supreme Court. And eight justices there have now ruled that Mr. Lewis can have no refund—that, instead of asking for one, he should have deducted the $11,000 as a loss in his 1946 income-tax return. The eight learned justices held that, since Mr. Lewis got the bonus under a “claim of right,” the law supposes that he owed taxes on the full $22,000 amount, even though he was mistaken as to his claim's validity. Justice Douglas, the lone dissenter, called it “unconscionable” for the government to keep the tax on money which had been shown not to be actual income to Mr. Lewis. “Many inequities inherent in the income tax,” he observed, “are multiplied needlessly by nice distinctions which have no place in the practical application of the law.” Mr. Lewis, with nowhere to carry an appeal from the ‘Supreme Court, apparently ‘will have to take what cold comfort he can from agreeing with Justice Douglas. And ‘with Dickens’ Mr. Bumble: “If the law supposes that, the lawgs a ass—a idiot.” 1 : : ue Ly "it

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Jenner Prizes

Hoover Letter

Hoosier Lawmaker Greatly Admires the Former President

WABHINGTON, Mar. 30—8en. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) gets a considerable amount of fan mail, hoth from Indiana and elsewhere, whenever he makes one of his anti-bipartisan foreign policy speeches from the Senate floor. Some of the letters which he cherishes most have come from former President Herbert Hoover. This correspondence began when Sen. Jenner sent Mr. Hoover a congratulatory lets ter, after the former President made his radio appeal for a new U, 8. defense policy last Dec. 20. Addressing Mr. Hoover at the Waldorf Astoria towers in New York City, Sen. Jenner saluted him as “Dear Chief” and then wrote: “Your speech Wednesday night is added proof men of good will are men of courage. 1 know of nothing that has happened that has helped 'so much to bring the American people to their senses as your magnificent warning. As you know, the response has been tremendous. “If there is any way in which I can be of service in helping spread the gospel of Americanism, please count me in.” Knowing that Sen. Jenner, First World War

Mr. Hooyer

. . a warning note

- II veteran to reach the Senate, did the pioneer-

Ing for a GOP foreign policy, which would oppose instead of indorse that of President Truman and Secretary of State Acheson, Mr. Hoover promptly replied: “My dear Senator Jenner: Your letter is most heartening and encouraging. I deeply appreciate it. We have .certainly stirred up the animals. It is not for me to give directions to you, for you have long since been on this road.” In his latest ‘Senate speech, Sen. Jenner insisted that there can be no ‘great debate” unless Republicans offer alternatives to admin{stration and not merely try to water them down. “Former President Hoover spoke out in warning and prevented the administration from quickly putting through its clever plans for an American Army in Europe,” Sen. Jenner told his colleagues. ‘But the Republican Party has not followed through. Why? We have again fallen into the Fair Deal's propaganda booby trap.”

Tyranny of Time THE HOUR and one-half Jenner speech was delivered as part of the troops-for-Europe (Wherry resolution) debate on Mar, 19. He sent Mr. Hoover a copy and received this interesting reply dated Mar. 22. “I am certainly glad you made that attack. I begrudge the opportunity of a Senator to speak his whole mind. For 25 years I have lived under the tyranny of 24-minutes radio time— 2800 words. You therefore have about four speeches in one, and can protect yourself, from

the dangers of incomplete statement. “And you demonstrate that this is the more necessary for the follies of the times are not only incretlible byt they move through our people like processions of narcotic dreams. I inclose a quotation which has a modern ring. “We will probably be defeated but we can at least hope that posterity will realize that we did our best in their protection.”

Chinese Sages

THE QUOTATIONS enclosed by former President Hoover were taken from William Ashley Anderson's “War Gods of the Orient” and are attributed to Chinese sages Suntzu and

Wutzu, who lived about 2500 years ago. The first quotation reads: “The cost of supplying the army in distant fields is the chief drain on the resources of the state. If the war be distant, the citizens are impoverished . . . state funds are exhausted, and frequent levies must be made, the strength of the army is dissipated, money is spent, the citizen's home swept bare, in all seven-tenths

.. of his income is forfeited.”

The second quotation from these ancient sages sald: ¢ “There never has been a country that benefited from a prolonged war.”

DAWSON CASE . . . By James Daniel Will Congress Use Daniels as Precedent?

WASHINGTON, Mar, 30—The case of another presidential assistant who didn’t want to testify before a congressional committee, and later changed his position, was recalled in connection with the reluctance of Donald Dawson to appear before the

Fulbright Committee.

Mr. Dawson is President Truman's personnel adviser. His

THE NEIGHBORS . . Funny How Fast

. By Frederick C. Othman

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a Little Town

Can Become a Big Dot on Map

McLEAN, Va., Mar. 30—Next thing you know the sight-seeing busses from Washington will be heading this way to show the people the mansions of my distinguished neighbors. This town is becoming so classy I don’t know how much longer I'll feel comfortable in it. On one side of Fairfax Pike, which is our main drag, lives John Maragon, while he waits for the court of appeals to decide whether to send him to jail for perjury. You remember John, who used to hang around the White House and whose ex-boss sent deep-freezers to some of the capital's leading citizens. Across the street and down about a block from John in a real, genuine mansion with swimming pool, tenant houses and stables for blooded horses lives Joseph H. Rosenbaum, the attorney who paid the bill for the mink coat of White House stenographer Loretta Young, the wife of RFC’s Merle. Well, sir, I expect we’ll be hearing a good deal more from both my celebrated neighbors. The Senate hopes to learn what Mr, Maragon knows about a Britisher in some hocus-pocus deals in U. 8S. Army surplus in Germany.

The Senate also is anxious to discover more about Mr. Rosenbaum’s part in a complicated, but income-tax free oil tanker scheme in which the stockholders made about $2.8 million. These fortunates, including Mr. Rosenbaum, ex-con-gressman Joe Casey of Massachusetts, and others unnamed but said to include some of Washington’s best-known residents, paid only capital gains taxes on this sum. Neighbor Rosenbaum I have not yet met. Last year he bought Ballantrae, the elaborate estate built originally by Percy Crosby, the cartoonist creator of Skippy. This includes a

What Others Say—

THE vigorous rearmament of the United States should be undertaken not in any spirit of defeatism, but with high hopes for freedom and peace. —President James B. Conant, Harvard University.

SIDE GLANCES

stone manor house, a new pool dug by Mr. Rosenbaum, a 16-acre front lawn, and a high iron fence that runs nearly a mile down the road. The new squire’s law business obviously is prospering. In Washington Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) charged that he received his shares in American Overseas Tanker Corp. and the Greenwich Marine Corp., of Panama, for thinking up the deal that resulted in multimilliondollar profits, The handsome Casey, who functioned with Mr. Rosenbaum in numerous loan applications before the RFC, was president of the Tanker Corporations. So I dropped up to the Capitol when he appeared to testify before the Fulbright committee. He wouldn't talk. Said Mr. Fulbright was supposed to be investigating the RFC’s lending policies and not the strictly businesslike operations of ‘his seagoing corporations. So now it looks as though another senatorial committee will look into the tanker deal and I'll be meeting neighbor Rosenbaum soon under the Klieg lights.

Big Village AS Sen, Fulbright described it, Casey and Co. put up $100,000 in cash. Then they borrowed $10 million from an unnamed insurance company, which they paid the Maritime Commission for five tankers. These their American corporation turned over to their Panamanian corporation, which chartered them to the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. The latter firm paid its rental fees of several millions over nearly four years to the insurance company. The two corporations of Casey, Rosenbaum et al received no income, so they paid no income taxes. But eventually they sold the tankers to another unnamed corporation at a profit of $2.8 million, which was a capital gain and subject only to a 25 per cent tax. Sen. John W. Bricker (R. O:). called the scheme a fiction to avoid normal taxes. I wouldn't know, myself. All I do know is that the village of McLean is a much’ bigger dot on the map than I ever realized before.

By Galbraith PAN-AMERICAN ...By Andrew Tully

P Hoosier Forum 7 “| do not agree with a word that you i but | will defend to the death your rig : to say it."—Voltaire.

‘Quartet’ MR. EDITOR:

I would like to express my opinion upon four issues, not all related: ONE; Now that we have come to know Sen, Kefauver through the medium of television; wouldn't he make a remarkable President? I would like to start the ball rolling for this man who impresses me as being the Lincoln type. TWO: We use excess profits as a basis for taxation. Why can't we tax gambling incomes up to 98 per cent. Then, if reported, the income is of no value, and if not reported the individual can be hauled in for tax evasion. THREE: I want to congratulate the city of Indianapolis for having the worst trafie rating in the nation, and the best dog pound. I have noted these objectives for the past two years, and city officials have reached the goal they have worked and striven for. FOUR: Death from rabies is one of the most rare diseases; in fact, no reader can actu« ally name a person who has died from it. Dogs are killed for having germs in their mouth, Well, would any reader consent to have an analysis of his mouth made? I guarantee you will find polio, TB, rabies, smallpox, 'and about a thousand others residing there. Shall we

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cut your head off and send it to the lab? . 7% Actually, mad dogs have heen stricken withy pain caused by appendicitis or some other alls ment, including ground glass, poison and: sponges. You would yell, too. ‘The moral isy don't let a human bite you, and let's chang our objectives. >

—Car Dodging Dog Owner, City. *

EDITOR'S NOTE: Four persons died “of - rabies last year in Indiana, This was the ; highest figure reported in the nation that year, -

‘Go Home, Boy’ MR. EDITOR:

This letter is being written to Mr. O’Garay the “gentleman” from Peoria, Ill, who condemns’ our city, newspapers, public officials, women and even our air (Times, Mar. 23—Hoosler] Forum). In the first place, since he is not a taxe payer of our fair city, he has no reason ta complain about the condition of it. Certainly; our city will suffer no loss- when he leaves it, For 45 days he has been employed in a Hoo< sier’'s job and for the same length of time he has lived in a Hoosier's home. If our city; isn’t good enough for him neither is our money.

I have been riding trolleys for many years and never yet have I become sick at my stomach. as a result of it. I suggest that one of sué¢h x weak constitution rely on shanks mare.

Perhaps in his city. there is a need for publia’ officials to fight murder, rape, burglary and fraud. We seem to have these things pretty well*under control in our city, due to the clean’ minded public officials. -

From his letter, I would say he is pretty. familiar with the gambling spots in quite a. fewystates and our state must have disappointed: him greatly when he discovered his “humanweakness” would have to go hang while he was here.

I close by saying anyone who is dissatisfied with our city, go home and let the Hoosiers. have it back. —MRS. R. Q., City. .-.»

MR. EDITOR: T.

Mr. John A. O'Gara of Peoria, Ill, has gone: too far. I agree with him that Indianapolis is. filthy, traffic is terrible, transit system is bad,» gambling is small and unorganized, our Mayor’ and prosecutor do not compare with the officials; in Peoria. But it is fantastic to state that the wormed Rd Peoria are prettier than our women. This eityhas long been known for its good looking girls,’ and we'll put them up against anything Peoria: has to offer. I expect an apology from a O'Gara on this one point.

-J. D. Osborne, City.

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FACTORY WORKERS :

HERE'S to the folks who toll away ... be “ hind a big machine . . . the ones who make : our household goods . .. and make silk stockings sheen . . . the people who with all their = might . . . with skill and brawn combined . . . * turn out all the things we need . . . of any «. shape or kind . . . their job is not an easy " one . .. and it's hard on the nerves . .. but | great is their accomplishment . . . when we count what it serves . . . and though most ** times we take for granted . . . this or that small thing . . . if we had to do without it + « dull would be life’s ring . . . mechanic or : a helper . . . they all must do “their part . . ¢ 8 for factory workers make the things . 4 4"

that make a happy heart. rE —By Ben Burroughs. -

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3 Uncle Sam Holds: Back

On Caviar, Liquor

WASHINGTON, Mar. genteel grumbling echoifig these days through the chaste marblé: halls of the Pan-American Union where the conference of Ament: can foreign ministers is being held. The grumbling has nothing to do with unilateral Agreements; quid pro quos or the care and breeding of tariffs.

30—There's a certain amount of.

It's all about

name has been mentioned frequently in the Fulbright Committee’s investigation of favoritism and political influence in the Reconstruction Finance Corp. He formerly was personnel director for the RFC and his wife is still chief file clerk there. In his White House job he has handled appointments of some RFC directors.

The Fulbright Committee has invited Mr. Dawson to tell what he knows. But the committee has shied from issuing a subpena, on the ground that this might be a constitutional infringement by Congress upon the executive power. . ” .

FURTHERMORE, it is doubted whether, if Mr. Dawson decided to come, he would be free to testify. He might fall

batk on the explanation that the matters Congress was asking’ about were confidential between himself and Mr. Truman, . However, there's a arecedinl for a congressional committee's getting tough with a person in Mr, Dawson's position. It happened in 1944 to Jonathan Daniels, who was one of President Roosevelt's assistants, standing in relation to Mr. Roosevelt the same legal position of Mr. Dawson with President Truman. Henry A. Slattery, head of the Rural Electrification Ad-

' ministration was being pres-

sured'to quit. He named Mr.

Daniels as the man who was putting on the pressure. Ra.

SLATTERY supporters said® he was in'disfavor with some in the White House because he was blocking a plan to use surplus REA funds to set up an insurance program for REA farmers, as bait for fourth term votes. They tied the idea

to Fugene Casey, another White House "assistant, who was President Roosevelt's pipeline to the Agriculture Department, within which the REA fell. Mr. Daniels, now a North Carolina newspaper editor and author of the Truman biography “The Mah of Independence,” was asked by Mr. Roosevelt to try to resolve the REA controversy. Mr. Daniels concluded that Mr. Slattery was not an “efficient administrator” and tried to entice him out by offering him an overseas junket. Mr.

Slattery refused,

” on o A SENATE agriculture gubcommittee got interested and invited Mr. Daniels to testify. He came but wouldn't talk — said the matters were confidences of ' the Prgsident. The subcommittee unanimously voted to cite Mr. Daniels for contempt and said it would demand his files, which Mr, Daniels insisted were Mr. Roosevelt's property. For a week the contest be-

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tween legislative and executive power teetered. Then, Mr. Daniels sent word that the REA feud was “insignificant” to Mr. Roosevelt's other responsibiliteis, that the President had said he had nothing to hide and would himself be glad to talk with the committee.

Mr. Daniels then appeared before the committee, denied ever having heard Mr. Casey say the REA Insurance. plan would be helpful in getting a fourth term, and in further testimony, part of it in a secret heaYing, was able to convince

I've given all of ‘em the gate!"

the committee it didn't need to see the letter files or meet with President Roosevelt.

” ” ” IN HIS appearance, Mr. Danlels insisted that it was still his belief “that a legislative committee could not require... an administrative sassistant to the President to testify to matters which necessarily involve a conversation with the President . . But the committee chairman said Mr. Daniels’ appearance and testimony “proves Congress .has powers to protect its own business.”

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what a tight-fisted host Uncle . = »

Sam turned out to be. According to custom, the host country foots the bill for these conferences, including the cost of food and booze. When the foreign ministers met in Mexico, there was a lavish bar and buffet open 24 hours a day, plus a party a night. In Bogota, Colombia, the delegates practically had to wade through champagne to reach the conference table. ” ” on BUT HERE in Washington, the tourists are complaining that they've been put on austerity rations. Only one really big party was on the schedule here. That was the reception the foreign ministers gave for Secretary of State Dean Acheson at Anderson House the other night. There were 1500 on hand for that one but all they got were canapes, highballs—no champagne—and a

midnight breakfast of scrambled eggs. The cost of this affair— paid out of State Department funds—was roughly $6000. Still coming up are President Truman's dinner for the delegates next Monday, and a luncheon on Capitol Hill Apr. 4 at which Vice President Alben Barkley will be the host. Only about 60 persons will aftend the President's dinner, while the guest list for the Barkley luncheon will

THEN there'll be a couple of lower case affairs. Mrs. Tras man will have the visiting ladies to tea at Rialr House and Mrs. Edward Miller, wife of the Assistant Secretary of State for Latin-American sf fairs, and Mrs. John Sar wife of the Ftate Depart protocol officer, will give 4 some more tea at Prose... House, the department's offis cial partying place The American taxpayers, who's footing the bili for the works, probably won't agrea with his guests that he's treats ing them in niggardly fashe« fon. When the tab comes in, it'll probably total around $90, 000 for the two-we confers ence, ” ” ” ALL this is just the begin« ning, however. Before the cone ference ends Uncle Sam prob< ably will have agreed to loan most Latin-American countries some more dough. How much isn't known yet, but the Ex< port-Import and World Banks loaned them $421 million last: year and it's unlikely this year's loans will be less since, we're trying to encourage our sister republics to produce a lot of strategic materials we need. Then, of course, there's the $80 million in military assistance which probably will be: earmarked from mutual de-! fense assistance pact funds... .- All in all, a good guess would” be that the conference is likaly’ to cost Uncle Sam a round:

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