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Let's still Be Wary Beat C0 THE THING to keep in mind about the Communists’ : counter offer for truce talks in Korea is that they themselves haven't relaxed in their preparations or cut short their build-up for a possible new offensive. Nine days have gone by since Russia's Malik dropped the hint that it might be possible to arrange a cease-fire along the 38th Parallel. Time enough for the Communists to show some signs that they were willing to break off hostilities. But there have been no such signs. In the past week Allied air patrols have spotted huge movements of supply trucks behind the Red lines. In that period the U. 8. Fifth Air Force destroyed. or-damaged an estimated 4000 motor vehicles, four locomotives and 103 railroad cars loaded with supplies on the way to the front. Pilots reported increased sightings of animal pack trains, and enemy troops were concentrating strongly in four main ‘areas along the front. 5 Now the Peiping radio, in answer to. Gen. Ridgway's offer to talk about a truce, curiously. suggests that such a meeting be held 10 to 15 days hence. Maybe the Communists mean business. Maybe they think they can gain “face” by appearing to be in no hurry, but every one of their actions and proposals will bear the closest sort of scrutiny. At the present stage of explorations between Gen. Ridgway and Peiping, there can be no certainty anything will come of the Red- -proposed parley at Kaesong—despite optimism in some United Nations quarters. At worst, it could be a stall for time. At best, a cease-fire imposed by Russia on her puppets for reasons best known to the Kremlin.

In either case, it will not end the conflict between the free. world and Russian imperialism.

What? He Admits a Mistake?

UR opinion of Circuit Judge Lloyd up, these last few days. For a public official, great or small, to admit he’s made

- @ mistake about anything is practically a milestone around here.

Claycombe has gone

Judge Claycombe last Friday signed an order permit.” ting the Indiana Bell Telephone Company to raise its rates for a temporary period, until the whole complicated rate case that has been so beautifully bungled by the state's public. service commission can -be properly reviewed and decided by the courts.

if it is not finally approved...

farger than he intended, and larger than he believed the order allowed when he signed it. Looking at the figures, Judge Claycombe just candidly admitted he had added them up wrong, with the help of some interested telephone company 3itorneys, and let the phone company impound more money than he ‘meant to allow. ; ; He was,

he said, just doing his best to be fair about the matter,

ang he had made an honest error.

» » » ERR OR RS, " honest and otherwise, are by no means un-

common in public office in thése parts. This, though, is the first time we ¢an remember the man who made one admitting he did. We rather admire that. We don't expect our public officers to be omniscient or.infallible. We know that, being human like the rest of us, they're going to make a mistake once in a while. We doubt if they gain much by trying to hide it or deny it when it does happen. We feel a good bit more confidence in the man who honestly confesses an error, if he's made one, as Judge Claycombe did.

At the Crossroads

HERE isn't much the United States can say in reply to Premier Mossadegh's appeal to "help the national aspirations of Iran” in its current oi! dispute with Britain, except to adv ise the Iranians to take another long look before they leap.

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And we've done that before without any apparent impression in Tehran. Neither Britain nor Iran has shown a’ sense of realism

at any time during shis controversy. One much at fault as the other for the existing deadlock, threatens to close ‘down the largest. oil operation in the: Middle East Such a calamity might yet be averted by on both sides. If Britain would accept the fact of nationalization, and if Iran would offer the Anglo-lranian Oil Co. a fair operating contract to carry on the business, an arrangement might be worked out to their mutual advantage. The. oil company can no longer expect to resume its former position in-Iran, and Ian cannot operate the industry without technical assistance, which the company can best supply. But unless the parties to this angry feud can see the situation ‘in this light, there isn't anything more the United States can do to bring them together.

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WHICH IS not to say that the crisis in Iran is a matter of no grave concern to the United States and the free Much more than Iran's oil production is at stake. The conquest of Iran has been a Russian aspiration for centuries, and is known to be one of Stalin's goals.

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outflanked, the Soviets would dominate the Persian Gulf and face an open road into Africa. That is in early prospect, if a loss of oil revenues brings the collapse of the present Iranian government. The Communist Tudeh Party in Iran would be most likely to come to power under such tances, Sheer stupidity has permitted this. situation to get 50 badly out of hand. ~ * Now it is very late to do anything about it. But if the Iranians are beginning to realize that they ve bitten off more than they can chew, perhaps they will me he i wi G0

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VINDICTIVE HAZING . Sendtors

WASHINGTON, Taty 2-—Though the atmos-

phere in the 1. PY Senate now séems normal, there's still “blood on the moon" over the most

dramatic event of its kind ever seen by Senate

oldtimers. : It was after 3 a. m. Friday and the final roll call vote was being taken on passage of the Senate controlls bill. The Senate had been in continuous session 15 hours and tempers were so frayed that the Senators were not even bothering to cal one another “distinguished” and “able.”

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TWO MEMBERS of the small band of administration Senators who had been going down to defeat in battle after battlesall day and night, Herbert Lehman of New York and William Benton of Connecticut,” decided they could not in ig conscience vote either for or against the 80, when their names were called, they answered “present.” This brought a number of Republicans to their feet, shouting.

Jacobs Heckles A Mr. Halleck

WASHSNGTON, July 2--Former Democratic Rep. Andrew Jacobs of Indianapolis spent last week here watching “the old cat die” at the end of the federal government's fiscal year. He was highly amused at the charges and counitel-chiarges regarding what put this 82d 3 Congress so far behind with its work: As a member of what was called the Worst” Congress, in retaliation .for President Truman labeling the GOP: 80th “the worst,” Mr, agreed that this one is farthest behind any. : “To hear Charley Halleck screaming about it, however, is quite some spectacle for anyone familiar with the facts,” Mr, Jacobs observed.

Mr. Jacobs . . He Laughs ° “One thing i€ certain, he speaks with au-

thority. He's in the coalition running the show, just as he was in the 81st Congress in which I served.’ 3 . Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Repub- . ican, 1s dean of the Indiana Congressional delegation, now serving his ninth consecutive term from the Second District. He “screamed” in a floor speech last week because the “closed rule” continuing appropriations until the regular bills are passed didn’t permit a 10 per cent cut amendment,

‘That's Really a Laugh’

MR. 'HALLEK called it “gag-rule” by the Democratic majority, ! “That really -is a laugh,” Mr. Jacobs com-

mented, “Charley did all he could when I was in Congress to keép the powér of the House Rules Committee to bottle up bills, but we fixed it so they could be brought to the floor by commit-

‘tee chairmen if the Rules Committee failed to

act in 21 days. “At the beginning of this Congress he helped put the Old ditatosigl PORES back in the Rules Cotimrrtee ile ‘hine “Republican Congressmen from Indiana were for it too, ~All 6f them were elected on a civil rights platform, maybe they thought they could get anti-lynching. anti-poll -tax and FEPC passed better with the co-operation of Dixiecrat Rep. Gene Cox of Georgia That-was-—who-Mr—Hal-leck worked with to provide the necessary coalition votes. «

Can It Be Economy? . "ANOTHER THING 1 heard Mr. Halleck squawking about was thrift. While 1 was in Congress he voted for a military pay raise bill which cost $400 million. Of course it gave two per cent to privates and 39 per cent to generals, go 1 guess that made it okay with him. “He voted for the Rankin pension bill for 80-day veterans; adding $2 billion a year over the next 50 years. And most Republicans voted to rescind the $77 million economy clits of the postmaster general. So how thrifty can you get?” . Mr. Jacobd recailed how, when this Congress started, Mr. Halleck had commented (as he did about the Rist) that while he was majority leader of the 80th he would only be the ‘leader of the majority” in the 32d “There is so much truth in that, think he would step right up and, accept the blame * for sanding the gears and throwing monkey-wrenches to slow-down the machinery,” Mr. Jacobs declared

U. S. House of Sherlocks

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THE SENATE, he conténded, has been “too busy playing Sherlock Holmes" to get down to their regular business It took’ a long time to sift MacArthur's ashes and keep the most popular TV show on the road,” Mr. Jacobs said . “Also to find out that the new Senator-from Maryland was elected by the help of highpowered skullduggery and then recommended that nothing be done about it

Of course I guess there will be some time faved by not’ investigating the multi-millions spent to elect Sen. Taft ir Ohfo. The amount would take too much {ime to count, no dgubt.”

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BUG TROUBLE . .

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By Galbraith

. By Earl. Richert ~

And the Republicans, almost as a body and

with the aid of four Democratic Senators, then

went through the process of making these two United States Senators stand up and vote—as they had a right to under Senate Rule 12. But it was more than upholding a principle. It was a vindictive sort of hazing of two proFair Deal Senators who aren’t popular with the conservative bloc that now controls the Senate. You had to be there to feel it. The printed words of the Congressional Record don't ture. These two Senators were to be ‘given their come-uppance. Sen. Bourke Hickenlgoper {R. Jowa)—as he had a right to do under Sénate Rule 12—chal-

lenged Sen. Lehman to explain his reasons for

> refusing to vote. *L o> 9 THE New York Senator said that he did not feel he could vote against the bill because that would be voting to end all controls. But he also did not feel that he could vote for the measure because it was so weakened by amendments adopted by the majority bloc that it would set off more inflation.

"I Love the Wide Open Spaces

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McLEAN, Va. July 2-—A number of cor-

“réspondents have been wondering why they ve

read no pieces of mine lately about a city man's life in the country. I've been too busy fighting bugs. Even my typewriter's clogged with Japanese beetles. As bugs-go, these Orientals are beauties, all shiny green and blue and iridescent. They first § started boring holes § in my bride's petunia blossoms. They mowed all the leaves off a couple of rose §% bushes and by the Tg time T caught up with ‘em, they were. turning my apple trees

lace. Since then 1 have wi ? ’ “been fighting a losing battle, via "water- soluble DDT. dissolved as per directions, in a patent wheelbarrow pump that ‘vaguely resembles the machine Benjamin Franklin invented to fight fires in Philadelphia a long time ago. His apparatus was no great success. Neither is mine. I've got to use one hand to man the pump handle. another to hang onto the 14-foot brass pipe with the nozzle, and onéto steer the blamed thing. This is difficult because I have only two

hands. A number of times én account of tricky winds, 1 have drowned myself in DDT spray, while those bugs sat there laughing at me. You

can hear 'em go, buzz-haw-haw-buzz. When oc-

casionally they get a whiff of my medicine, it seems to stimulate ‘em. : Other bugs harvested my potato plants, while a third variety, long and green, now ’is

doing its stuff on the temato vines. Tinyve.orange colored ones are playing hob with the boxwood Mrs. O. values so highly.

~ Symington ymingto JASHINGTON, July 2—The RFC spent $560,300 for outside advice and assistance the 12 months ended although in the same

120 lawyers

legal during Apr. 30, time it had about on its own staff drawing $824, 000 in salaries Figures showing the degree ta which. the big lending agency provides fees and employment -for private attorneys were disclosed here by RFC Administrator W, Stuart’ Sym= ington as a part of his policy of conducting RFC's business “in a goldfish bowW’ In making them public, Mr, Symington voiced no criticism of his predecessors’ dependence on private attorneys. He said as a rule it is desirable for RFC legal work to be done by full-time RFC lawyers,- but he said some field offices have as few as two lawyers and sometimes they can't handle a sudden increase in the volume of legal work.

TMERE has been criticism that the RFC was a "gravy '« train” for some private attor-

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‘GOLDFISH BOWL’

But his explanation ‘did not satisfy the Republicans. They demanded a roll call vote on the question, provided by Serfate Rule 12: “Shall the Senator for the reason assigned by him be excused from voting.” > +S : AND THE Senate at 3.30 a.m, by a roll call vote of 39 to 35, decided Sen. Lehman should not be excused. (Four Southern Democrats, #arry Byrd and Willis Robertson of Virginia, John McClelland of Arkansas and James

- Eastland of Mississippi voted with the Repub-

licans, Sen. Lehman asked the penalty for not voting. Sen. Keneth McKellar (D. Tenn.), who was presiding said there was none but that Sen. Lehman would be violating a Senate: rule, Sen. Lehman gave in and voted a weak “yes.”

Then, the same treatment was administered to Sen. Benton. The Connecticut Senator at

first refused to vote cven after the roll call ordered him to. Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R. Wis.) jumped t ohis feet and praised Sen. Lehman for acceding to he will of the majority and Benton.

other Senators began to lecture Mr,

8% Frederick Cc Otfrrian.

Haw, Buzz Buzz

And that brings us to poodle, Who spends her days into bushes and strolls evening shaking wood ticks into the rugs. These are dangerous. They carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which used to kill a few neighbors every year:

mma, our rural POKINg her nose into’ the house each

Now there is a new kind of medicine that gets the fever before it gets you and I'm not as scared of ticks as I used to be. Even so, they are not pleasant. There are, of, course, at least two kinds of powders guaranteed to keep ticks off dogs. One is a .heautiful blue; which turns my pup

the same shade, The other dves her a peculiarly magnificent pink, Neither seems to have any effect on the ticks.

So each night I use my wife's best pair of eyebrow tweezers (she had to buy herself is precisely some new ones) to de-tick Emma. THis takes some consideration, time. Then 1 de-tick mysel{. By then it's bed- earned their rights,

time.

Still More Goo

BUT I don't get to bed because T've-got-to rub down the horge with still another kind of goo (this is greasy) to keep the flies off him. This actually works and our equine seems to appreciate it, He hash't bitten me in a long time, I then have to spray the. chicken houses a couple of squirts to keep the bugs at bay and when finally 1 do dt to my own bed, the bugs are there first, I never knew in the city what an assortment of ingenious, rural” bugs there were to squeeze through the window screens. I spray them, too. Sometimes they turn up their toes — sometimes they don't. My monthly. bill for lethal chemicals is something horrendous. The shelves in my garage look ‘like ‘a drugstore. The bugs are amused, I'm not.” Fact is, I do believe I've heen stung.

By James Daniel

Tore Two Fair Dealers To Vote On Controls Measure

The Conecticut Senator then ve In and also voted a weak “ves.” Senate oldtimers say the last: time the Senate ordered a Senator to vote was in 1893 when an Idaho Semator was present on the floor and did not vote. But although the Senate ordered the Idaho Senator, Fred T. Dubois, to vote on four succeeding days, he never did vote. There have been several times in recent years when Senators voted “present.” Former Sen. Millard Tydings (D. Md.) voted “present” on one vote last year. But nothing was done about it. ; > > & SENATE Majority Leader Ernest McFarland (D, Ariz.) told the Republicans they had accomplished “no good.” Sen. Wayne Morse (R, Ore.) one of the four Republicans who supported Sen, Lehman and one of the two who supported “Sen. Benton, said he hoped never to see the Senate conduct itself again as it did on this matter. And Sen. Spessard Holland (D, Fla.) said the position taken by the two Senators was based on courage, not on weakness and fear,

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‘Crime and Youth’

MR. EDITOR:

The spotlight has recently been turned on the “teen-agers” and the whys and wherefores of their conduct. From where I sit, ‘it looks to me like a general breakdown of respect for all authority, not only in the young, but all down the line. . I believe it vegan way back there when we began to picture God as something of an easy mark. A being who just overlooked everything the minute we murmured “we're sorry.” That is not the way the good book puts it. God is merci ful to a “repenting sinner,” not to one who is scared to death of the consequences of his acts or to one who is in physical danger and is afraid,

No doubt, but that God is pictured as one of love, but also, very much of justice.

With a breakdown of respect for spiritual authority, it follows that the remaining will go

"down very rapidly. I don’t pretend to know if

there is an answer. I go pretty much on the theory that civilizations move like a snow ball from the top of the mountain . . . just roll along, gathering more snow, until they reach the bote tom and break apart.

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WE MIGHT try a return to justice, for a change. Take a modern trial, They are all alike, The offender appears in court, all slicked up and looking, oh, so remorseful. The tearful mother is there protesting that “her child is a good child.” The father either ran away, drinks, or ig too strict. The minister testified that the offender goes to church and Sunday school every. Sunday. A teacher or the neighbors add trat the person on trial was “always so quiet and polite” around the home. The psychologist gets on the stand and explains all the dark workings of the mind znd emotions. By that time, the jury has forgotten the offense and is filled with sentimentality. They Tender the softest possible verdict. The

Judge usually suspends sentence makes none,

or a light one, followed. .by a stern..word.«One can almost hear the offender saying to himself, “Whew, that was a close one. Got to he more careful not to get caught hereafter.” In .a week he is back at the old stand. business 23 usual, until he is caught, and it begins all over

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SUPPOSE we ‘would forget all this explaining the criminal and pay more attention to the crime committed. Suppose we fit the verdict to the tragedy and pain. it has caused the victim and his family. We just might get back some of the respect for the law and order in this country we so sorely need. The reformer will begin with “Oh. you must take care that vou don't destroy this poor offender's chances for a normal and useful life in the community.” For my money, once in court guilty of a crime, his chances are already pretty well shot. Unless he has a great deal of backbone and a real desire to change, he is going to continue to prey on the decent people and it those decent people who should get for a change. .They have now let the offender begin

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‘We Need a Home’

MR. EDITOR:

I would like to know what people with children can do to find a place to live. We have two cHildren and no money for a down payment for a house of our own. Our landlady wants th move back into her own home so we have to find a place to move to. Nobody wants to rent to people with children, and we think too much of them to give them away. Wwe don’t ask for much, just, three or four rooms with a small yard where our children can play and I can have a few flowers, If you can help, or know of anyone who can, please call Mrs, Carl Clark, WI-0861. —Mrs, Carl Clark, City. |

Bares Legal Fees for the RFC

yers. $313,111.

132 to Root, lan,

These legal services for specific cases cost the agency

THE LARGEST fee paid to a private law firm was $59,.-

Bushby and Palmer of New York in connection with ‘a mortgage company reorgan-

Besides the lawyers theme selves, the Washington legal staff had 44 other employees

J stenographers and clerks, Their salaries brought. the ! ; Washington legal pay up to Ballantine,™ Har- $508,591.

If the field offices have the same proportion of stenographers and clerks, the field

ization. ' Legal work in con- ,rrice legal staff salaries might nection with the ILustron loan run $200,000 or $300,000 higher in which the RFC sank $37.5 than the $524,001 reported. million resulted in $62,866 in This would make the total RFC fees for the Cleveland firm of legal staff work cost more Squire, Sanders & Dempshy than $1,250,000 a year : and $23,556 for Shoknessy, atti ! Summers & Denton of the . 2 & same city. WITH outside legal services, 4 Other feed rariged down be- this would make the agency's dow $1000. annual law bill more than $1.There is apparently no 800,000. In March RFC had

Mr, Symington .. : an open book

In addition to - their staff lawyers, many of the RFC

field offices "have contracts with private law firms to rep-

- resent them for specified pe-

riods of time. These contract

services cost the agency’ $247,188 in a year.

dearth of RFC staff lawyers. « In the period Mr. Symington reported on, which was before he came to the agency, there were 83 lawyers in the field drawing $524,001 in salaries. - - ” EXACT figures haven’ prepared for the num

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- RFC lawyers in Washington in the same 12 months, but as of .

thig June the Washington staff consisted of 38 lawyers draw-

Ing. an ‘estimated 3520000 in

Outside “law” firms are aw @ sala

employed to work on

‘specific total shows the over- te . cases, sometimes as trial jaws all cost of RFC statt law work.

2633 employeespdrawing $13,415,000. In- addition to publicizing outside legal fees, Mr. Symington has just made one other change in RFC procedures, The previous discretion given to the field offices to make foans, under $100,000 has been reserved to the Washington office. It was hinted that some

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