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Saturday, Apr. 7, 1951

‘Worse Than Murder’

OR the first time in this nation’s history a civil court has sentenced native-born citizens to death for the crime of espionage. But if ever two Americans deserved that extreme penalty, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg deserve it. Their crime, as Federal Judge Kaufman said, was ‘worse than murder.” Convicted of transmitting atomic-bomb secrets to Soviet Russia in wartime, they betrayed and endangered their own country. \ There is nothing far-fetched in the judge's statement that this husband and wife well may have enabled Rus:‘a to produce A-bombs much sooner than otherwise would have been possible—well may have hastened a chain of events which could end in the slaughter of millions of innocent people in America and throughout the world. There should be no maudlin sympathy for the Rosenbergs. The path of appeal to higher courts is open t them. There would be no such path in‘the Russia they served as spies. But if their conviction is sustained, they should die for what they did and as deterrent examples to other deluded or malevolent persons tempted to treason. And Congress should give full and early consideration to Judge Kaufman's suggestion that, in peacetime as well as in wartime, death should be a permitted penalty for espionage.

It Can Be Done

AREST thing in Washington is a government agency ready and willing to knock off when its job is done. Even more improbable is an agency that actually turns back money to the U. S. Treasury—in this case $215 million. It's the Philippines War Damage Commission. Plaques, they say, have been put up all over the Philippines to mark its good work. Biggest plaque of all ought to be embedded -4n granite in Washington to hail its unique achievements. The commission was set up by Congress in 1946 and given five years and $400 million to pay off claims for property loss and damage in the Philippines during the war. It was a natural for the tropical equivalent of mink-coat operators, but right from the start the commission showed it wasn't in the handout business with the American taxpayers’ money. : = = - s =» =” ALTOGETHER, the commission reviewed a million and a quarter claims for a total of $1.22 billion, but it disallowed an average of 55.7 per cent of the amounts asked, and threw out entirely 91,000 claims. Its operating costs, on the basis of claims paid out, ran about 1 per cent less than the average American insurance firm, and a half per cent less than Congress expected. It even saved $250,000 shipping and storage costs by deciding to tear up its accumulated pile of useless paper work—instead of sending it back to the United States to be carefully preserved for 10 years. Commission employees—1100 at the peak—worked under terrible conditions, often exposed to tuberculosis, malaria and jungle terrors. They were shot at by Huks and bandits. Yet they kept to their task. They broke up a check-kiting ring, a mail-looting gang and were constantly alert for any signs of fraud or gouging. The operation should not go unrecognized at a time when the whole country is beseeching the government to economize, and crack down on corruption. And if Frank A. Waring, chairman of the expiring commission, is looking for a new post now, hé should not have to look far, or wait long for further opportunities to make himself useful.

Awful Threat

STRANGE news comes from London. Scotland Yard is reported to know who stole the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey last Christmas, but to be wary of making arrests. The stone itself is said to be hidden somewhere in ‘Scotland, whence King Edward I of England took it some 655 years ago. Scottish Nationalists insist that it should remain there. However, it isn’t sympathy with them that deters rhe ordinarily dauntless detectives of Scotland Yard, which took its name, not from the country but from a _ London sireet. It is, according to the story, a threat of terrible vengeance if the abductors of the stone are nabbed. ¢ The threat? That 3000 Glasgow University students will march on London, wearing kilts and playing bagpipes. The Stone of Scone is precious in English eyes, and so is Scotland Yard's reputation for always getting its man, or men. But think of the horrible punishment 3000 bagpipes could inflict on English ears. >

He Should of Stood

"TRYGVE LIE is in a pudgydudgeon because he was seated well below the salt at the dinner honoring President Auriol in New York. r= He has been stamping his foot ever since because he was placed in the bleachers while Ralph Bunche, who merely works for Mr. Lie, sat near the President of France. In the United Nations cocktail circuit, this is regarded as one of the fauxest pases ever committed Lie-wards. But we trust the dither will not become widespread. A calm way of looking at it is this: Mr. Lie is Secretary General of the United Nations, whose main job is to keep world peace. If, by any chance, the seating was based ~n actual achievement, Mr. Lie is lucky that he got in at all.

Where's John L.? |

HAVE you had a funny feeling that something is missing from the national scene this spring? In spite of all the .. boiling headlines, don’t things seem just a little less © turbulent than usual? The answer, of course, is yes—something is missing. It's the annual John L. Lewis fit of rage. In case you've forgotten, he’s already signed a new coal wage contract this year and there won't be any strike, The Old Lion is

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"REDS IN LAND DOWN UNDER . . . By J. F. Williams

Communism Will Be Basic Issue In Coming Australian Election

. MELBOURNE, Australia, Apr. 7 — When they go to the federal polls on Apr. 28, nearly 4.5 million Austiilian voters will be making history. : For the first time in any democracy there is to be a vote on outlawing communism: That Is the real issue behind the election of 121 members for the House of Representatives and 60 members for the Senate. When the Menzies-Fadden government swept into office in December of 1949, it made communism one of its basic Issues. Recognizing as most Australians do, that Communists are deliberately and systematically retarding the economic life of the country through their power in a few key trade unions, Robert Menzies, now. Prime Minister, and A. W. Fadden, now Treasurer,

LABOR . . . By Fred Perkins Taft-Hartley Act Not Hurt

WASHINGTON, Apr. 7—Predictions that the National Labor Relations Board would soon weaken the Taft-Hartley Act by interpretations unduly favorable to organized labor naven't panned out. In fact, a balancing of the board's rulings in the past few months show that most of the important decisions have been following the law and sometimes have cut in on what were regarded as privileges or prerogatives of labor unions. The board has just held that an employer was within the law when he shut down his plant until he was assured that work could be resumed without recurrent stoppages which would make further operations uneconomical.

Fighting Word

THIS employer action is called a “lockout’— a fighting word to labor unions. But the board, in an opinion written by Chairman Paul M. Herzog, says: “Here the parties were engaged in a contest over economic matters. Neither sought to undermine the other by unfair labor practics. The “union, which chose to use an economic weapon within its control (the strike), cannot rightly complain because the employer saw fit to follow suit.” The controversy was between the Hannibal (Mo.) plant of the International Shoe Co. and a local of the CIO United Rubber Workers. The plant manufactures rubber heels and soles. Its operations; it was shown, are so interrelated that interruption of work in one department affects the others and the entire plant's output.

Produced Violence

IN A strike over economic issues the employer has the right, under the present law as he did under the Wagner Act which preceded it, to hire replacements for strikers and to operate if he can get enough workers. Such attempts have produced much violence in the past between strikers and what they call “scabs.” In the Hannibal case the employer simply stopped operations until he was sure of stable conditions. The board sustained him.

This is a considerable distance from conditions under which some labor unions were able to concentrate pressure through use of “slowdowns,” “sitdowns” and “quickie” strikes. The Wagner Act record shows that an employer could have been condemned for this use of a lockout. Other recent board decisions have broadened the right of an employer to fire a union member for good cause, and have denied the worker's privilege to use the union as a shield. This ruling, however, preserves the principle that a worker may not: be discharged merely for engaging in legitimate union ‘activity or promotion.

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ONE THING better ‘than a Crime Commission would be its noncommission. “od COMMUNISTS should have no trouble going underground. The party treats them like worms and they soon learn to crawl their vay to the top. 4 & WINSTON CHURCHILL'S speech at the University of Pennsylvania is sure to remind people that Harold Stassen still is president there and running hard, if not fast. > 4 PRESIDENT TRUMAN isn’t the only one who has decided what he will do politically in 1952, And he has helped them,

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“elect us and we will deal with the Communists.” The people ‘elected them. They began to legislate against the Communists, They passed a bill through the House of Representatives declaring the Communist Party an illegal or-

EDITOR'S. NOTE: Mr. Williams is managing editor of the Melbourne Herald. ganization, and saying that no proved Communist could hold office in a trade union. There were heavy penalties. for: violations. Non-Aus-tralians (and that takes in many of the bestknown Communist leaders) could be deported from the country. . The anti-Communist 1&8ws contained some unusual provisions for peacetime legislation. Anyone declared by the State (it is “the Crown” in Australia) to be a Communist would be held to be a Communist unless he went into the witness stand and denied the charge under oath. There was some uneasiness among the voters about some of these provisions. But as evidence of Communist activity in coal mining, steel

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making and shipping continued to mount in production lags, many liberal-minded people put

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stress of national emergency. * The anti-Communist laws were passed by the government's overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives. In the Senate, where labor continued to hold a majority, there were delays and indecisions., But finally the bill passed. Then there was an appeal to the high court. The high court said the bill was not valid as a peacetime measure under Australia’s constitution. : The government wanted to seek an amendment to the constitution, but it did not have power in the Senate to pass the enabling legislation. So a way was found to obtain a dissolution of both chambers and so force an election. Actually the dissolution was nominally obtained on other grounds, but everyone knew that the Communist issue was the one that really broke up the Parliament. Now the battle is on and Australia will have the swiftest and possibly the most bitter elec-

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DRESSMAKER . . . By Frederick C. Othman

It May Be All Parisian, but You Can’t Afford to Sit Down

WASHINGTON, Apr. T—Sometimes I think dressmakers are batty. So does Miss Jeannine Holland, the Maid of Cotton at the Memphis, Tenn., jamboree, who was in danger of breaking her pretty neck every time she squeezed herself into a frock designed by Pierre Balmain of Paris N I have used the past tense, because this dress was too tight for Miss Hol- < land to walk in, or even sit down in. As an old Boy Scout I talked her into having a seat, anyhow. She will be tortured by this particular costume no longer. Miss Holland hove into town from France for a whirl with the statesmen in her international advertising campaign in behalf of cotton as better stuff than satin to make beautiful women more so. With her she brought a complete Parisian wardrobe, including the $500 job of Monsieur Balmain. This was the doggonedest dress I ever saw, all yellowish flounces without and machinery within. Never before had I seen so many hooks, stays, hoops, zippers, eyes and other ironmongery inside a feminine frock, or even under the hood of a five-ton truck. “A devilish job to get into,” said Miss Holland, who hails from Houston Tex., “but very good looking.” I said I'd like to watch her put

as champions, They have delivered some jarring punches to racketeers and chiselers in their investigations of Reco n struction Finance Corporation and organized crime. There is a great public clamor for them to continue indefinitely. But knowing the fickleness of ubl rPu X ronfers Sen. Fulbright bright and- tough punches Kefauver would like to step aside. They have proved what they started out to prove — that there was monkey-business in high places. Let the proper local authorities clean up their own situation, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover recommends.

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it on. She was shocked. I suggested she'd be wearing a slip and what was immodest about that? Miss Holland said she would not, either, be wearing a slip; this dress was too tight to contain anything but Miss Holland. And even then she had to hold her breath. She retired - with two helpers and emerged some time later rigged in Balmain’s finest. The top was strapless while the flounces fell straight down to her knees, which had— she estimated—four inches in which to move. From there on to the floor the skirt flared out around a series of steel hoops. . So she toddled (an accurate word) across the floor, came to a chair, looked at it longingly, and continued to stand up. I wondered what happened when she did sit down. The chair behind her was low and soft. “Looks very comfortable,” said the wistful Miss Holland. My idea was that if she eased herself down gently, she'd probably get away with it. Even Balmain wouldn't keep a lady on her feet indefinitely. This struck Miss Holland as a good idea. Slowly, gently, softly, she started to sit down. The room was full of cotton and- fashion experts. They were horrified, but I still claim Miss Holland could have managed it, had .he had a little more room for her knees. But her legs were bound together by Pierre's skirt and, being unable to maneuver, she went the rest of the way down in a hurry. There was a suspicious, ripping sound. The maid sald she was grateful for a chance to sit and if IT wouldn't mind she believed she'd better not see me to the door.

MONKEY BUSINESS . . . By Peter Edson

tion In its history. The government, under Menzies (57, good looking, and brilliant advocate) will try to keep the issue on communism. Labor, whose leader, Joseph Benedict Chifley (686, former locomotive dfiver and self-educated economist) will try to switch electors’ attention to rising living costs, There is plenty of scope for this because of the high prices for wool and great rises in wheat and rgetals have sent Australia into a soaring price spiral. The basic wage (fixed under a psuedo-judicial system) has gone from $11 a week in 1046 to $f9 today. This is small by American measurements, but in Australian dialect it spells high living costs, particularly for white-collar workers. Adherence to a 40-hour week, with punitive rates for overtime work, is one of the prime

‘contributors to Australia's inflated living costs,

but neither party in -this election will speak against it. Yet more pay for more work is the only solution for a country like Australia — as big as the United States, with only 8 million people.

Hoosier Forum.

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your rig to say it."—VYoltaire.

‘Do You Want Gambling?’ JMR. EDITOR:

On the editorial page Sunday, Dan Kidney reporting from Washington, tells us what we have all known all along . .. that J. Edgar Hoover says that the reason we have gambling in Indiana, is because the Hoosiers want it.

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. No truer words have ever been uttered.

While some of your readers were reading Dan Kidney, there was a phony, cards-stacked-in-advance forum on gambling, at which only those on one side of the issue were invited to speak. Moreover, it was not even a forum, for the handful present were only permitted to be talked to... not to participate. Does that reflect the wishes of the Hoosier public, which. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover says tolerates gambling because they want gambling? And if Mr. Hoover is right, that Hoosiers want gambling, what right has any legislature .to thwart that will of the people? > oo 4% OR WHAT right has Rev. Baumgartel of the Church Federation, or State Representative Hasbrook, to urge or propose legislation which would thwart the will of the people, without first consulting all of the people, not just a handful? : Is Rep. Hasbrook man enough to call for a referendum on this subject? If he is so convinced that the people want to be freed from gambling, he should be anxious to have a referendum. A favorable result at the referendum would fortify him to get a bill passed. Everyone wants the crooked politicians divorced from gambling rackets, and all gambling racketeers run out of the state. But this can be easily accomplished through legislation which would legalize gambling for individuals, but make gambling very unprofitable for the racketeers and crooked politicians.

—A. J. Schneider, City. MR. EDITOR:

If the people are shocked and outraged by the puny disclosures of the Kefauver Committee (which have been common knowledge to many for years), what will their reaction be when and if the full story of the inter-relation of criminal underworld activity, not only with political graft and corruption, but with so-

called respectable and legitimate friends and -

business, is ever brought to light? Some of us have long believed that if the people as a whole had the slightest idea of the vast tie-up between supposedly clean financial and business interests and activities of criminal underworld conspirators, the people would lose no time in making a clean sweep of the mess, and not necessarily in a -gentle and leisurely fashion. After all, the great bulk of the people are decent and honest, and their failure to act before this simply reflects their inability to conceive of the actual situation.

—A. P., City.

‘Thanks Again’

MR. EDITOR:

I want to offer my thanks and praise to your paper for writing such a beautiful tribute for little Amalda Apgar that appeared in The Times Mar. 26. You see, I knew and had met the little darling through her aunt, and she Was Just as adorable as that picture and tribute said. And now that God has taken her for one of His little angels, it is just as the paper said. She has gone where no sickness of any kind can touch her. And thanks again to The Times that never forgets wo reach.out a helping hand to those who need it. —Mrs. Frances Nees, City

DREAM OF HOME

THE arms of gently rolling hills . . réach out to call me home . .. the streams and meadows tell me that . . . I never more should

‘roam . . . the tender breeze sings in my ear ...

a song of joy and love ... and I am further haunted by . .. the cooing of a dove . . . a welcome mat Invites me to . . . a place where roses grow ..., around a cozy cottage that . . , I lived in long ago . . . and I hear voices sweet and low . .. hum peaceful lullabies . . until the wonder of my dream . . makes tears fall from my eyes .. . for though the years have drifted by ... and I have traveled far . . . the place that I was born in has . .. no equal or no par. —By Ben Burroughs

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crime. Convicting a few Fulbright committee witnesses of perjury or income tax evasion won't end political influence peddling. Today's indifference to the outcome of Sen. Clyde R. Hoey's “Five Percenter” investigation of two summers ago is evidence and proof of that.

8 Bn , THE guilty may lie low for a few weeks or months. But the odds are that they'll be in business at the same old stands as soon as the shouting dies and public interest turns to some new craze. Attendance at the race tracks and gambling spas this summer will probably be greater than ever. Bookmaking business will flourish. Patrons:of the numbers racket will be just as numerous. Politicians will ,continue to be politicians. Those may be cynical conclusions, but they are drawn from human nature and human behavior, So the bigger question raised is how to make people stop

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25 Moral Reform Is Up to All the

WASHINGTON, Apr. 7—It's a wise man who knows when to quit. This.is as true of politicians as it is of prize fighters. And that, perhaps, is why two smart Democratic Senators— J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and Estes Kefauver of Tennessee—want to step out of the ring, to quit their current fights

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public mind is now in the curious position of thinking that it's wrong to take a bribe, but all right to offer one, if you can get away with it.

SEN. FULBRIGHT’S proposal for a new and larger investigation of “ethical standards of conduct in public affairs” offers an approach to this problem. It is not just a reform in government that's called for—though that would be desirable as a first step. It's a moral reform of the whole people that's needed. For it is an old saying that, “The people usually get the kind of government they deserve.” When {it becomés smart instead of just illegal to evade income taxes, buy on the black market, chisel on government anti-inflation regulations, lobby for special interest legislation, profiteer on sales of government surpluses, fix parking tickets, break speed laws and beat every federal, state and local rap—then there is something basically wrong with the

whole system of society.

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” o ” WHAT'S the difference between an RFC examiner who accepts free hotel accommodations and a Senator who does the same thing? What's the - difference between a baeketball player who accepts a bribe to throw games and an alumnus who subsidizes an athlete — making him a professional — in amateur sports?

» ” ” WHAT'S the difference between, say, dealers in gray market steel, defense profIteers, labor union leaders who walk out on government defense efforts in protest over wage ceilings, and the congressional bloc which threatens to make it impossible for Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle to put a 45-cent ceiling price on cotton? The big test now is whether the White House and the Congress have the guts to correct the abuses that have been dis-

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