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Ah, Spring It's Wonderful

PRETTY flowers and baseball pools pop into bloom all over the city. Fragrant scents are in the air . . . and some not so fragrant . . . like the odor that seems to be oozing from the Prosecutor’ s office. Frank Fairchild told us yesterddy “most of the old baseball ticket spots are closed.” But a Times reporter took a quick run of the “joints” and found most of them open. And then Mr. Fairchild took a run of the joints and found what our reporter said was true. He made a few arrests, but not many, and none of them very important. » ” - » " » THE REPORTER overheard one operator tell a customer he had the “go sign” to operate . .. “Why else would I use this expensive equipment. I don't want it wrecked.” Why can a Times reporter find what the Prosecutor cannot find? Who gave the operator the ‘‘go sign?” Who gave all the baseball pool ticket operators the “go sign” in the middle of an official war on gambling? It's not likely they would suddenly open up... run the risk of a legal freeze in jail . . . run the risk of having expensive equipment smashed unless . . . like the spring flowers they were pretty sure-the official weather was turning milder. » ” - s ” 8 AS LONG as we're asking questions, why not this one, too: Why is it that a Prosecutor who pledged himself to hunt down, arrest and prosecute local gamblers had landed, prior to last night, only one very small fish? This “small fry,” as other local gamblers call him, operates mostly in the state... beyond the county. This won't scare very many local gamblers. And it won't fool very many citizens, either.

Finish This Job

NETEEN bills now before Congress are designed to carry out those Hoover Commission recommendations for “better government at a better price” which have not vet been adopted. All of these bills were introduced with bi-partisan sponsorship. Taken together, along with a series of reorganization nlans to be submitted by President Truman, they cover about half of the Hoover Commission's program. And they include some of the most important—and most controversial—of that program's proposals. Two years have passed since the Hoover Commission finished its work. It is, perhaps, creditable that Congress 2nd the President in those two years have put into effect something like 50 per cent of the commission's recommendations. : 8 = . 8 8 BUT, now that a huge defense mobilization effort has been added to the government's other activities, the need for greater efficiency and economy throughout the federal establishment is evén more acute than it was in 1949. The country can’t afford to wait two more years for completion of the job started when Democrats and Repub-

licans in Congress joined with the President to create the.

Hoover Commission. As to details in these 19 measures tRere is, of course, room for honest disagreement. But opposition to some of them seems to us to arise from misunderstanding of their constructive purpose or from desire to prevent change and thus protect the vested interests of various groups. z = ” 2 2 = "NO GROUPS true and legitimate interests can be served by perpetuating inefficiency and waste in any part of the government. Veterans, for instance, are not benefited bv attempts to block-a more businesslike organization of the Veterans Administration and its insurance activities. Public health will suffer if co-ordination of federal hospital ‘and medical programs is defeated. None but professional politicians could profit by keeping the postal service in politics. All taxpayers will be penalized if public-works functions continue to-be scattered among agencies operating with no concerted plan and competing with each other for appropriations. On many issues before-the current session of Congress there is bitter partisan division. On this issue—prompt action on the remaining Hoover Commission recommendations—there can be, and there should be, bi-partisan unity.

Radio-Active Curtains

ONLY authorities on atomic energy would know whether Rep. Albert Gore's idea for dividing North and South Forea by a ‘“dehumanized” radiological contaminated belt of land would be practicable if otherwise acceptable. re Would such a radio-active zone stay put, once it were laid, and for how long? And why not seal off the Reds at the Manchurian border, if at all? - If the plan were feasible, its application rhight become general. Surely every nation bordering on Red territory would want such protection. If the iron curtains were to be replaced by permanently contaminated land barriers, we would indeed have two worlds. Do we want that? ” ” THE Tennessee Congressman's novel suggestion at least las the merit of again directing attention to the plight of the men Gen. MacArthur has been forced to leave behind. Mr. Gore admits the enemy losses may be staggering, if the Communists launch a spring offensive. “But,” he asks, “what about ours?” and “when is this to end?” The theory advanced in some quarters that the Communist power is being blunted by the losses they are sustaining becomes a fantastic absurdity when we consider that Red China alone has a population of 450 million.. Even if their losses exceed ours by 10 to one, they can stand it much . better than we ean, and in the end what will have been gained? We hope to Year from Gen. MacArthur on this subject when he appears before Congiess,

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PEACEMAKER IN THE ORIENT . .. By Clyde Farnsworth

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McicArthur Removal Viewed With Alarm By Japanese People

TOKYO, Apr. 18—A big question here now is whether the reforms instituted by Gen. Doug. las MacArthur are to he capped with a real peace treaty in the highest interests of Japan and the United States, ; John Foster Dulles, now the peacemaker-in-chief to Japan, already is here to pregerve the continuity of treaty negotiations which he and Gen. MacArthur initiated. In plain talk, he’s here to keep the Japanese persuaded to stick to the principles already agreed to, to convince Japanese leaders that Gen. MacArthur's dismissal doesn’t change things and to ease their concern over Great Britain's proposal to make Red China a party to the peace pact. * oo

THE BRITISH proposal greatly disturbed anti-Communist Japan. Said the Nippon Times: “It may have been a matter of mere coincidence but the fact that the British government has put forth new proposals to the United States

MOONSHINE . . . By Earl Richert Mountain Dew Production Up

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18—Moonshining has,

been increasing steadily since the end of World War II.. Federal seizures of stills last year were 51 percent greater than in the first post-war year of 1946—10,030 stills being seized in 1950 and 6641 in 1946, The. legal liquor industry claims that the growth in moonshining is due to high federal taxes on liquor and that the proposed $3 per proof gallon additional tax will cause moonshine production to skyrocket. The liquor industry is fighting hard against the proposal to boost federal taxes from $9 to $12 a proof gallon. It has retained as tax counsel Walter Lynch, former New York Democratic Congressman who gave up his seat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee to run for governor in New York last fall. The Treasury Department's alcohol tax unit, which is backing the proposed tax increase, Is not alarmed about the evidence of increased moonshining. Deputy Commissioner Carroll E. Mealey has told the House Ways and Means Committee that the alcohol tax unit could handle the enforcement problem with an adequate force, He is asking Congress for 100 additional men to add the present force of 875 agents. The way Mr. Mealey looks at it, the moonshine situation is not alarming at all. He points out that all available evidence shows that production of illegal corn whisky and alcohol is still below pre-World War II levels. In 1935, he said, the alcohol tax unit seized 21.3 million gallons of mash at illicit distilleries as against 4.8 million gallons during fiscal 1950. Despite the increase in recent years, still seizures are below the 1940 rate.

Practically Stopped

“EACH time the liquor tax was increased in past years,” Mr. Mealey said, “it was argued that the increase would create a serious law enforcement problem. “What happened? Actually, although the tax now is 41; times the rate in 1938, there is substantially less violation in all sections of the country than in 1938.” The answer of the liquor industry on the pre-World War II moonshine production figures is that it took some time after the repeal of prohibition to eut down on moonshining. During the war with sugar rationing and copper shortages, moonshining practically stopped. But the end of sugar rationing signaled the start of what has been a continual upswing in moonshining. The Licensed Beverage Industries. Inc., made “a nation-wide survey which showed that the 18,884 illegal stills seized by federal, state and

- local authorities in 1949 had a greater produc-

tion capacity than the legal industry.

Production Question

THE alcohol tax unit is now analyzing these figures to determine how much duplication there is in the .counting of still seizures by various government agencies. Government officials say also it is impossible to tell just how much actual moonshine production there has been. Mr. Mealey saves that 93 per cent of all moonshining, as indicated by still seizures, is confined to 11 Southern states. It thus follows, he said, that the non tax-paid liquor traffic constitutes no substantial threat to the government liquor tax revenue except in this area.

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with regard to the Japanese peace treaty immediately following the removal of Gen. MacArthur is viewed with no little concern by the people here.” Britain may have made her proposal in order to create a bargaining position on the economic restraints she supposedly would like to impose on Japan by treaty. Or she may have sincerely wished to curry Red China's favor, Whatever was her purpose, the effect on anti-Communist Japanese was the same. They have seized upon reassurances from President Truman, Mr. Dulles and Generals MacArthur and Matthew Ridgway, Gen. MacArthur's successor, to calm their fears that the treaty to come may wander from the line laid down by Mr. Dulles in Ha Los Angeles speech. * IN THAT speech Mr. Dulles said the settlement would be a ‘peace of reconciliation,” to make Japan “a sovereign and sustaining member of the free world.” Japanese as well as foreign observers are still trying to sort out and read the implications

- of «Gen. MacArthur's dismissal. One interpreta-

tion taking hold is that President Truman's repudiation of the General means “Europe first

+ in our world defense against communism.

SUCH A conclusion offers a common footing for the two extremes of.Japanese political thought—big business, which is already soft toward economic collaboration with China, and the extreme left, which would deliver Japan to the Kremlin at the first opportunity. One high source said he felt many Japanese were jolted by the fact that a democratic government would crack down on an exponent of democracy as President Truman did on Gen. MacArthur. “They think if that's democracy they want none of it,” he said.’ “The effects of Mr. Tru-

man’s action run deep and will take time to

come to the surface.” The Japanese, like most Oriental people, are extremely sensitive on matters of “face.” President Truman's discipline was of a sort seldom dished out by the Asians. As a rule no re-

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By Frederick C. Othman

Spring Is Here—Grass and All

McLEAN, Va., Apr. 18—Spring is busting out all over in Fairfax County. Tommy, the horse, is shedding his winter coat. The apple trees are in bud. Hilda, my bride, has a gleam in her eye and parsnip seeds in her hot little fist. The. grass, which mostly seems to be wild growing four inches a day. The creek is running bank high. The potatoes are in and the turnips, too, and if it ever stops raining we'll plant our corn. All over the place are violets. An assortment of bushes are blooming yellow and pink and white. In the midst of all this vernal grandeur, this beauty, this lacygreen magnificence, I too, am involved in the rituals of spring. I'm trying to get my gasoline lawn mower running again. A power lawn mower, I guess, is the most cantankerous piece of machinery ever invented. And also the most ‘spiteful. - The fact that so small an item can have so many things wrong with it is a tribute to the genius of mankind. You city folks have seen pictures of my little blue mower sailing across the lawns of the magazine ads with a dainty lady steering it by one pink finger. Don’t you believe it. When I gave my first heave of the 1951 season on the rope that winds up the motor, it went boom. Nearly singed off my eyebrows. When the smoke cleared away, there was gasoline trickling out of the carburetor. I yanked the rope again and leaped. A good thing, too, because there was another explosion. This indicated, according to the instruction book, that the motor was out of time. I took

off the winder-upper, removed the magneto, got deep into the delicate innards of this beast and by careful measurement of the piston clearance (this is hard on the finger inside the spark plug hole) and the sparker, I retimed it. Still it wouldn't ‘work. I took the carburetor apart and found a small piece of grass in the needle valve. Fresh oil I put in the crankcase and the breather. A spring was busted in the accelerator; I fixed that temporarily with a rubber band. Eureka! Another yank and that motor purred, put-put-outty-put. The engine of my lawn mower connects to the reel of blades by a belt such as runs the fan of an automobile. I stepped on the automatic clutch, a widely advertised feature, and nothing happened. The belt had stretched. I spent an hour getting a new one and installing it. Only way to do this is with two large screwdrivers, main force, and awkwardness.

Didn’t Cut Grass

NOW THE blades whirled, but still no grass was cut. The reel was out of adjustment, because somebody last time around in the fall must have tried to mow a rock. Adjusting the blades of a lawn mower is tougher than drilling a tooth. This is because the adjusting screws all work backwards and when you think you're tightening it, you're loosening it. Or viceversa. Bit I finally got that done, too, and everything was fine except that I was too tired to do any mowing. Anyway, it was getting dark. My bride said to take my clothes off on the back porch; she wanted no grease on the furniture inside. I now am waiting further word from the federal scientists who claimed more than a vear ago that supersonic sound waves could mow grass. If they don't come through I'm going to pave my back yard in concrete, Spring or no spring.

sponsible person is ever so completely hue miliated. # Mr. Dulles, aware of the worry here over

the MacArthur dismissal, made a great point’

of preparing a statement on his dramatic radio

conference with Gen. MacArthur while their

Pines were over the Pacific. Tn

IT COULD not have been better composed to salve Japanese concern over their, own situa. tion and console them in their sorrow for the General. The statement said in part: “I (Dulles) explained to Gen. MacArthur the bipartisan backing of the present mission; our adherence to the policies upon which he and we have previously agreed and my personal sense of need for his continuing counsel and support. “In answer, Gen. ‘MacArthur urged me to continue to work to complete a fair and just treaty at the earliest, no matter what obstacles arose. He assured me that I could count come pletely upon any help and assistance that he could render.”

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Sen. Jenner and Impeachment

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18—S8hould history ree peat itself, which it never does, President True man might be saved from impeachment by hig arch-enemy, Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.),

That is the conclusion of some constitutional lawyers here. They base this finding on the fact that Sen. Jenner's demand for impeach. ment of Truman disqualifies him to sit as a juror in the case should the House vote to ime peach the President. .

Sen. Jenner maintains that isn’t so. As a lawyer, he explored such possibilities before he took the Senate floor to ask impeachment he said.

Once Before

ONLY once in history did the House vote to impeach a President. That was President Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the office from the vice presidency after President Line coln’s assassination.

Sitting as the court, as the Constitution re quires, the Senate failed to sustain the House charges by a single vote. In this case, should Sen. Jenner be disqualified, the same thing could happen the constitutional lawyers pointed out. Sen. Jenner takes the view that what he said was couched in general terms and he could still qualify to pass on specific charges should the House vote to impeach.

Here is what the junior Senator from Indi« ana said at the close of his castigation of Presi dent Truman for firing Gen. Douglas Mace. Arthur: “We have asked the President to dismiss Secretary Acheson, who would not turn his back on Communist agents in the State Depart. ment. We have asked the President to dismiss Gen. Marshall, who was the tool of Soviet agents in his betrayal of China and loss of our Allies in Asia.

‘Cut Out Whole Thing’

“IT IS too late now for such minor renfedies. We must cut this whole cancerous conspiracy out of our government at once. Our only choice is to impeach President Truman and find out who is the secret, invisible government which has so cleverly led our country down the road to destruction.” That speech was delivered in the Senate on Apr. 11. Some days later, after the thousands of telegrams and letters backing Gen. MacArthur had been received, Sen. Jenner joined with Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) in a public statement calling. the firing ‘‘treasonable,” but stressing the fact that impeachment proceedings must come from the House. Their joint statement read, on this point, as follows: ‘We realize public indignation has reached a point where the people wish their national lawmakers to take action although they fully realize that when they demand impeachment, as they have; that such proceedings must orig« inate in the House of Representatives.”

Move's Not Strong *

FRESHMAN Rep. John V. Beamer, Wabash Republican, studied the matter and outlined the difficulties involved in answering his Fifth District constituents. In addition tq spelling out the complex proe cedures involved, Mr. Beamer pointed out that there are 200 Republicans and 235 Democrats in the House and 218 votes would be required to impeach and send the case to the Senate. There are 47 Republicans and 49 Democrats in the Senate and 64 votes would be required to sustain the impeachment charges and oust the President from office. Upshot of all this is that, as of now, there is no likelihood that President Truman will be impeached. Only a handful of Senators and Congressmen even entertain the idea.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

NEW YORK—When the Kefauver crime investigation committee moved to Washington it was probably to the immense relief of certain New York witnesses. “I cannot say, 1 do not know, “I really don't remember. “It could have been ten years ago, “Or maybe last September.’ “But one fact I can tell you, sir, “There's not a doubt about it. “This hearing you might well defer— “For I could do without it!”

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Mr. Jenner—Do Something About Truman’

MR. EDITOR: An open letter to Sen. William E. Jenner: As one Republican to another, also as an American, who has no sympathy what-so-ever for communism, I felt it my duty along with others to write you regarding the ‘New Deal” Gen. MacArthur has just received from the hands

. of our “Commander in Chief.”

I, for one, am about ready to change commanders before the ship is entirely sunk. As long as Mr. Truman's mistakes were in dollars and cents, which has become such a habit that we have all got ‘used to it, it was somewhat different. When it comes to the lives of our

boys who are fighting in Korea it is a different”

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I KNOW that it is a rule of the Army that an Army man, no matter who he is, can say only what he is told to say even though we do stand for free speech. But, a man can be

driven to do many things.. I have been around the Army a great part of my life, my father being an Army man and my husband serving in the last war, and®I do know what insubordination means. But for the love of the human race can you tell me who is so intelligent that he can sit behind a desk and tell a man who has lived in the jungles, fought in the jungles and seen men die in the jungles; and who knows just how those people live and fight, just how to win a war? It doesn't make sense to me that a man could do this. Truman instituted this war in Korea, and without the consent of Congress. He has done

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nothing about it since, but blunder. He sold us down the river against China. He wouldn't allow Gen. MacArthur to say anything about his ideas, which should be listened to, on how to win this war. de

IF IT were not for MacArthur's brains and

the way he has figured how to run this war without going against the wishes and ideas of the President, the Koreans and other Reds would be eating off our tables, sleeping ‘in our beds and where would we be? Truman would be taking a vacation where it is warm, but it wouldn't be in Florida. Truman talks about our foreign policy. As far as I can see we have none. Have had none since he has been in the office, unless it is pleasIng the Socialists in England and India. Mr. Jenner, it is your duty to do something about this very serious blunder. I have talked with several of our Indiana Senators and Representatives and they agree with me. I talked with

Sen. Hoyt Moore and Rep. Albert W. Brayton

in particular, —Thelma M. Walker, City.

MR. EDITOR: Once-upon-a-time a -large group of people worshiped an arrogant little man who was a former army corporal. They thought he was ‘the man on the white horse” to lead them out of the wilderness. But alas, how wrong they were. Today that country is reduced to rubble. Today we see a similar pattern being followed by many over the dismissal of an arrogant ‘braid cap” who thinks he can supersede

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icy. A policy that can lead to military dictatorship. Shame to_you who give lip service to freedom but are willing to let this American ‘man on the white horse” lead you by your collective noses to an infamous end. Events proved this “genius” 18 no expert on the Far East. Remember “Home by Christmas, 1950” and ‘The Chinese will not attack.” You make the task of the freedom loving American workers more difficult than it is to abolish the yoke of economic slavery plus the threat of Stalinism. —H. Sprunger, City.

MR. EDITOR:

.. If IT were to fight someone with my hands tied behind my back it would be useless. That's how it is with Gen. MacArthur....I know other young people will agree with me that Truman isn’t trying to bring peace to this country. He's safe in Washington . . . not cold and hungry or wet in Korea. When I sit here and see this country falling apart I just can't explain what I

feel. Fathers, husbands, some going off to “fight . . . for what? : I see my dreams shattered hefore me ... If

we're going to fight, why not send enough men and equipment to fight with? ,,, It's a case of kill or be killed now. —A Veteran's Wife, City.

MR. EDIPOR: What have we here?

Send that man Tru-

man back to the Southland with a plow a a

mule. Once a Demoerat, But Not Now, City

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‘Just a Red Herring’ MR. EDITOR:

«.. » The way I see it, the MacArthur business is a red herring. What does it cover up, where is the big expose of the graft, waste and corruption? I'll tell you where it is. In the office of the Price Stabilizer . . . a huge bureaucracy costing the taxpayers millions. If their money did any good we wouldn't kick. It's time we cut off a little of this excess fat in Washington, The costs now of OPS are already $330 million for this year. Let's get together and write our.gripes to Washington. Just a few won't help. Everyone is needed. ~—Times Subscriber for 30 Years, Martinsville

MR. EDITOR:

Does it strike anyone as peculiar that those most vociferous on Gen. MacArthur's behidlf now are the same ones who were equally voluable a few years ago in declaring that there is no such thing as an indispensable man? Incidentally, the general never met a payroll (except at the taxpayers’ expense), if we want to go a little further in digging up catch phrases. True, he never failed in business, but then he was never in one. Those who try to make an issue of this point %n regard to Mr. Truman should reflect that more than three-fourths of all businesses started, fail, and that ultimate triumph over failure is usually regarded as commendable unless it otherwise suits the purpose of double-talking critics. : Pro-Justice, Anti-Trumanite, City,

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