Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1951 — Page 8

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Is Grady the Goat? : "1 ‘HE: WHITE HOUSE announces that Henry F. Grady ~~" has asked permission to resign as Ambassador to Iran und that President Truman will grant the request “at the ; appropriate time.” 3

A Baltimore Sun correspondent in Tehran reported

the other day that Mr. Grady was being forced out by

British pressure on our State Department. Mr. Grady said

anly that he had no intention of resigning. But it is known that British governmental and oil company officials had objected to the Ambassador's activities as a mediator, believing that he had lessened their ba. gaining power by publicly urging them to make concessions to Iran. Mr. Grady's activities appear to have been wholly ¢~ns.stent with Mr. Truman's and the State Department's policy toward the Iranian oil controversy. Is he now being made the goat, to appease the British Foreign Office, because the policy has backfired? W. Averell Harriman's special mission to Iran would seem to have little point unless he is authorized to do and say more than Mr. Grady was permitted to do and say. If the United States had held aloof from the Iranian controversy until both sides were prepared to accept friendly arbitration, we might now be in a position to accomplish something. The present danger is that we'll wind up by making both sides mad at us and destroy our own usefulness. HEA

Only One Cure

J, UGENE MEYER, Washington newspaper publisher, has advised Congress that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and other government lending agencies should be directed by bipartisan boards rather than single administrators. Speaking from experience—he was the RFC's first chairman, appointed by President Hoover—Mr. Meyer told the Senate committee investigating ethics in government: ix “When legislation fills the pipelines from the Treasury to the voter, we should be aware that it is laying the foundation for a situation where it will be difficult to avoid the corrupting influence of political pressures.” Se Mr. Meygr, whose own direction of the RFC was laudably nonpolitical, made it clear that he was casting no reflection on Stuart Symington, the agency's present administrator. And the sincerity of Mr. Meyer's present advice

to Congress is unquestionable. * » ”. ” » 5 ”

ere. BUT THE. RFC gat. into its sordid. ‘favoritism and. in: fluence’ mess, which was exposed by the Fulbright committee, under a bipartisan board on which Republican appointees seem to have been no less susceptible than Democrats to “the corrupting influence of political pressures.” And it is a single administrator, Mr. Symington, who is now cleaning up that mess, public opinion having forced I'resident Truman to assign the task to an able, vigorous and honest man. We believe that the RFC should be abolished, having served its original purpose. We have great confidence in Mr. Symington. But we have no confidence that any government lending agency will be permanently safe from political pressures, whether under a single administrator or a bipartisan board, unless the appointing power in the White House is determined to select men of high ability and integrity before—not after—unsavory messes develop and are exposed.

Judges on the Stand

A SENATE COMMITTEE is investigating ethics, or the lack, in. the conduct of government agencies. And some members of Congress are talking of enacting a code of morals to be applied to officials of the Executive Departments. A bill just put before Congress deals with ethics on another high level—the ethics of Supreme Court justices. Introducéd by Rep. Kenneth Keating (R. N. Y.) and approved unanimously by eight members of a House Judiciary Subcommittee, it would prohibit justices of "the Supreme Court from testifying as character witnesses in any court. This bill is a direct result of testimony as character witnesses by Justices Felix Frankfurter and Stanley Reed in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, who despite their favorable words in his behalf was convicted of lying under oath when he denied giving government secrets to a Communist agent. ” » 5 THE TWO justices not only proved themselves poor judges of character. As Mr. Keating points out, they disqualified themselves from taking part in consideration of the subsequent appeal by Hiss. And they placed other-Su-preme Court members “in the awkward position of being forced to pass on the guilt or innocence of a person whose character their colleagues had indorsed under oath.” It is unfortunate that Congress should feel it necessary to legislate a common-sense standard of ethical conduct for members of the nation's highest court. But Justices Reed and Frankfurter are responsible for that necessity. The Keating Bill should become law.

Two-Faced Cash

ITs A CURIOUS case—that of the Kansas banker who opened a package of new paper money, fresh from the government's presses, and found that six of the notes were $5 bills on one side and $10 bills on the other. Red-faced officials at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in Washington, where currency is manufactured, say they don’t know how it happened. However, they add, Jor bare been taken to make sure that it doesn't happen in, which, in a way, seems too bad. ; It would be such a pleasant method of dealing with

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NAP Roast Wilson Defense Chief Accused . Of Being a Sucker for Labor WASHINGTON, July 14—Out of the white heat of the controls renewal fight are coming the first shafts of criticism at Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson from big businessmen

and Republican lawmakers. Only a few months ago Mr. Wilson, the former $275,000-a-year president of General Electric and a Republican, was the target of organized labor when labor walked out of the mobili

‘zation program,

But now Mr. Wilson finds himself aligned with labor leaders as he fights for a strong controls bill. S And many of his old friends are saying: “What in hell is wrong with Charlie?” | Particularly disappointing to this group, according to his mail and the remarks of Republican lawmakers, was his radio-television speech Mdnday night when he said he could not work effectively “with the handcuffs the pressure groups are forging for me (in Congress) now.” : A

‘Taken In?’ ' : | LETTERS, many from friends in big business, have reached him saying: “I can’t under stand you, Have you been taken in?" And, “This surely is not the way you really feel, is it?” The National Association of Manufacturers has attempted to explain Mr. Wilson's “strange behavior” by saying in its current weekly magazine: “Mr. Wilson and Mr. (Eric) Johnston (Economic Stabilizer) are in a sense the prisoners of their suberdinates—the bright slide ‘rule and figure boys who get up the charts, interpret the statistics, ‘write the speeches and feed them the data on which their thinking is based.” This idea that Mr. Wilson is a prisoner of New Dealish subordinates has been expressed on the floor of the House. “Mr. Wilson has gone off the beam because of the men around him who, if they worked for General Electric, would be fired summarily,” said Rep. Richard Simpson (R. Pa.).

Disappointed in Wilson

REP. JESSE WOLCOTT (R. Mich.) said he felt compelled to say publicly that he was disappointed in Mr. Wilson when he implied in his radio speech that Russia was seeking to end the fighting in Korea in order to get the controls bill defeated here in Congress. “That's just plain silly,” shouted Rep. Wolcott, probably the most influential Republican in the House on economic matters. Rep. Wolcott said Mr. Wilson was one of the most estimable gentlemen he had ever known and that he was happy Mr. Wilson was running the mobilization effort. : “But,” said the Mich.gan Congressman, “if Wilson continues to make ‘hese statements he’s going to lose the confidem@ Congress had in him.” The Republicans applauded.

Says He Hates Controls n THE House discussion of Mr. Wilson came

during-debate of an amendment-to kill proposed —

powers to enable the President to buy, condemn or construct plants deemed necessary for the defense effort. Democrats answered that the section of the bill involved was exactly as requested by Mr. Wilson. The Republicans contended that whole industries could be nationalized under it and that it was too much power to grant, even with Mr. Wilson running the program. They won easily, with former Majority Leader Rep. following anyone blindly, including Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson has said repeatedly that he hates: controls as much as anyone, But in the emergency situation the country is in today, he wholeheartedly favors the strong controls bill which Congress is now ripping apart.

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Before ‘me stands a picture that .. . is truly most alive . . . for it is engraved in my heart .. . from eight o'clock till five... it is a picture of the girl . . . who's everything to me . . . because her eyes hold paradise . .. that I alone can see . . . she's always smiling when I'm blue . . . and hours drag along ... and I can hear her lips speak softly . . © when all things go wrong . . . she nods at me and tells me to . remember that she cares ... and I am sent . she looks with starry stares . most wonderful of pictures and . . . a comfort to my heart . . . stay with me forever . may we never drift apart.

By Ben Burroughs.

AIRLINES . . . By James Daniel Lawmaker Smell In Subsidy Story

WASHINGTON, July 14 John

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(D. Mass.) called the recent flurry of praise for the Civil Aeronautics Board for having solved the problem of airmail subsidies “more than a little premature.’ now dispenses airline mail pay and airline

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LAWMAKERS . . . By Frederick C. Othman Congressmen Get More Done Than 631 Four-Legged Beavers

WASHINGTON, July 14—Let us quit snarling at our Congressmen for being lazy. To date they have introduced 6446 bills, including some lulus, which have used up a medium-sized forest of pulpwood in the printing. Six hundred and

thirty-one four-legged beavers couldn't possibly have chopped +» down so many trees © in so short a time. Most of these =bills, of course, never have become law, but I claim that's because the statesmen have been so busy writing bills they haven't had - enough time to argue about ‘em. Of all these bills, -..I guess, my favorite is H. R. 1613, which ‘is described officially: “Vodka, transferred in bond by pipe line.” The Congressmen actually passed this one (it's now public’'law No. 72) and somehow it brings up visions of distillers in tall fur hats, rushing vodka to the peasants across our land in big inch pipe lines, like gasoline. You'd think we'd developed a whopping taste for the tipple of the Soviets. Turns out to be not quite so exciting a story. All these years our vodka makers have had to pay a tax if they tried to run their white mule in a pipe from the distillery down to the warehouse in the next block. This law relieves them of this inequity. Similar bills take care of the same kind of pipe lines for whisky and beer. The House, being a good deal bigger than the Senate, has introduced the most bills. Tney're coming in so fast that the clerks can't keep up with them. They now record 4740 bills from the Representatives. But I have before me bill No. 4745 which I believe is the absolute latest. It would sock a $10,000 fine on any pub-

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lic official who made public the name of anybody on the federal relief rolls. The Senate's bills now number something under 2000. Some of the other new bills, I think, also are interesting and, to somebody, maybe even important. Rep. Wilson D. Gillette, the Republican from Towanda, Pa., wants a law providing for three-cent stamps bearing the picture of the first steam locomotive used in the Western Hemisphere. : : This was ‘the Stourbridge Lion, which chugged dowri €he rails in Pennsylvania on Aug, 8, 1829. . It develops further that Caddo Parish, La., donated to Uncle Samuel in 1930 38 acres of good land for research in development of pecan trees. Uncle never got around to making much use of it. Caddo Parish wants this acreage back. Rep. Overton Brooks, Democrat of Shreveport, has written a bill ordering the government to hand back that pecan grove.

“Important to Motorists

ONE BILL, which somehow escaped me in its zigzag passage into law, would seem to be important to us motorists. It says that a fellow who buys gasoline for his sedan can deduct the state tax on same from his federal income tax. This could result in a good deal of bookkeeping, but 50 cents (more or less) deducted on every 10 gallons ought to run into a pretty penny at the end of the year. Some state taxes on gasoline have been deductible all along, but those that were levied on the wholesalers and passed along to us autoists weren't. The bill takes care of these latter and, of all the thousands of laws in the making, it seems to be the only one that gives us taxpayers a break: I'm grateful. One other bill pleases me, too. It hasn't become law yet, but it's in conference now and any day now anybody who palms off a rabbit skin as a genuine mink is likely to go to jail. The bill says he's got to put a sign on his coat saying: Rabbit.

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‘Dictatorship or Democracy?’ MR. EDITOR: he I think that anyone knows that food prices are high. ¥ suppose there are people in the U. 8. who are actually hungry and there probably always will be some. It is not caused, however, by high food prices. In fact, it is highly probable that there is less hunger today than at any time in our history and considerably less than when prices were extremely low. The bureaucrats in. Washington seem to be of the opinion that food prices should be rolled back so that people who . can’t afford the expensive cuts of meat should have-éthem., Actually, there are other foods just ag nourishing as choice beefsteak and center cut porkchops, at a fraction of the cost. If we are going to roll back prices of food so people can have things to eat they can't afford, we might go along on everything else, We might roll back the price of $25,000 houses so everyone can live in one. We might roll back the prices of high-priced automobiles so everyone can drive a fancy car. . It won't work, or never has worked except under a complete dictatorship. If we are going to have a dictatorship we might just as well surrender to Stalin as to have one of our own, ; «=C. D. C., Terre Haute,

‘We Want Street Lights’

MR. EDITOR: . I would like some information about street lights. . We would like to have at least two lights on our street. Wallace St. north of 21st is a dead end street, ending at the railroad which you can't see at night until you get right to it. I think there ought to be a light there. Also about half way between 21st and the tracks there ought to be another one. This is about the darkest street out this. way owing to the fact the street is in such bad shape itself it makes it very hazardous for both driving and walking. (No side walks.) I would appreciate any information you could give me about this situation. M. W. Pennicke Sr., 2147 N. Wallace St.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Go to the Department of Engineering in person, City Hall, Room 207, request a petition for lights in that area, fill it out and wait,

‘Just Like Christmas’ MR. EDITOR:

How much I enjoyed reading and seeing the pictures Sunday of what happens to our airmail from the time we deposit it in the mail box until the postman hands it out to the boys in Korea. I hope the boy in the front (right) in the oicture got mail for his facial expression gave away his nervous tension. I write two or three letters a week to my son over there so his name will be called. I told him it must be like being at a Christmas tree where presents are being called off If your name isn't called, you feel bad and emsbarrassed. —Jeanne Geymour, City

~ Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY IF THE Koreans really are the “Irish of the Orient,” they are not going to like “partition.”

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A “durablp peace” will havesto be one that can stand being boiled in oil. J Se > 0 CULTIVATING that “left” field, netted the American Commies a lot of lettuce for bailing. o> dS & “HARD HITTING” is a phrase used by columnists. to describe Congressmen who are not afraid to speak out on a subject just because they are uninformed. dS & & THE WAY she dislikes having reporters pry into her public life, you might think Virginia Hill was a government official. ood NEHRU has a simple new plan to prevent famine in India—no families. SS SD THERE are just two ways President Truman can get in bad with a judgeship appointment: 1. Not naming a Republican. 2. Naming one.

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MIDDLE EAST... By John W. Love

U.S. Big Stake in Iran

AMERICAN interest in the commotion in Iran is by no means concerned only with the oil in that country and its international politics. American companies participate in even larger production in the countries to the west of Iran—Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrein.

Interests Have

subsidies in one allotment chairman, Donald W. Nythis

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without

differentiation. Its posing to pay airlines on the basis. of their costs-—as President Truman also recommend-

~~ 1 ~ tad Ed. C. Johnson (D. Colo.) ed—the CAB makes the test that the four largest domestic of what is earned mail pay for airlines “had agreed to accept” the big four what they are smaller mail payments and that willing to ‘accept This is it was working on. similar "ad strange rate-making ministrative separations” of “Tt is true that the 45 cents subsidies for other inside-U. 8 which the big four carriers and international lines American, Eastern, TWA and The CAB letter was made United) would receive is less public while Sen. Johnson, as than the 63 cents they have chairman of the Commerce been getting, But it" is nearly Committee, was hearing airline twice their average return of appeals for a more lenient sub 23 cents per ton per mile for sidy separation bill than the freight and express. Considerone passed last year by the ing they have to have sales-

House. The letter inspired such headlines as, “Air Xail Pay Is Separated From Subsidy” and “Hidden Subsidies to Airlines Ended.” ; “Neither conclusion is justi fled,” Mr. Kennedy said, “and I am unable to understand how the impression—got out uniess it was someboliy's purpose to give the impression that the subsidy question at last had been solved in order to hinder gétting a genuine separation bill from the Senate.

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“the Hoover Commission recommended that airline subsi-dies-should- be separately ap-

propriated by Congress, to give the public a chance to see what «=

it is buying for its money, and that the mail pay should be based on what it costs the airlines to carry mail. “The CAB seems to want only. a separation on its own books and without, as far as I can find out, any disclosure of

men go out and get freight and express business while mail {is handed to them by the post office, a mail rate nearly twice the rate for their other nonpassenger ‘cargo must still contain a lot of subsidy.” = 5 5 EVEN AT its present 63 cents a ton mile, the big four air-mail-pay-with-subsidy rate is the lowest for the industry. Sen. Johnson, who is thinking about arbitrarily legislating earned air-mail pay, has proposed a scale which would give the big four 43 cents 4 ton mile, the 12 other trunk lines 63 cents, the little feeder lines 84 cents and the international lines such @s Pan American and TWA's overseas operation $1.42. is -well below their current rates. The international operators now get $2.82 cents for carrying a ton of mail one mile, while charging 38 cents for an

equivalent amount of freight or. express and 71 cents for a ton

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of passengers. The CAB plans to offer its ideas of what is earned pay for the rest of the domestic lines this September. The ‘international portion will be delayed until July, 1952, too late for assured congressional action until after the presidential elections.

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Rep. Kennedy was one of the backers of the . Heselton bill which passed the House late last year and would have required an immediate separation of airline subsidiet and

earned mail pay for all airlines.

MODERN married couples don’t realize the tight fix they're in until they move into a modern apartment,

REGARDLESS of your walk in life, smooth running always

gets you thepe a lot faster.

The Middle East as a whole produces around 16 per

cent of the world’s oil and is supposed to have about 40 per cent of the world's

reserves. Two of the states in that region, Iraq and Kuwait, havrecently been asking for bigger splits in the income from their oil. They are by no means so demanding as the Iranians have been, who want the whole ball of paraffin, but perhaps they think since everybody is getting more from Americans, they should also. The British have been in Iran the longest, their investment is the greatest, and they gay they have done better by their employees than any of the later comers. natural to expect trouble to break out there first, much as the highest-paid workers in this country have the most strikes, et ” ” ” THE Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. has not paid the leasing country the most royalty, however, Arabian-American, in Saudi Arabia, was the first in the Middle East to raise the rate to 50 per cent of the profits, and perhaps that helped to excite the Persian government. Two years ago Anglo-Iranian proposed better terms to them, but from that time to this the

‘argument has dragged on.

Three months ago the threat of confiscation broke ouf. American oil companies are not greatly worried but natgrally they don't like to see ames spring up anywhere in that part of the world. American oilmen have been gs .

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in the Middle East since 1928, That was when Standard Oil of New Jersey and Socony Vacuum together bought a 24 per cent share in the Iraq Petroleum Co. This was the old Turkish Petroleum Co., which Shell (Dutch and British), Anglo-Iranian and a French company had started, on a concession obtained by C. 8. Gulbenkian from the Turkish government before the first war. The Germans had barged in, but they were thrown out in the war. Their share went to the Americans,

” » o TRAQ Petroleum built the first of the long pipelines, the one from the Kirkuk field to the Mediterranean at Haifa, The pipe was rolled at Lorain and McKeesport in the long depression. In the troubles between Jordan and Israel the flow to Haifa was shut off and the line had to be cut over to the port of Tripoli in Lebanon. Saudi Arabia began to be developed for oil in a big way after 1933. The Arabian-Amer-ican Oil Co, owned by the Texas Co. and Standard of California, has the production there. Most of it is in the area just west of the Persian Guif, The field in Bahrein, a British protectorate just off the coast, is worked by the Bahrein Petroleum Co., likewise owned by Btandard of California and Texas. Kuwait, a sheikdom near the Iranian border, has the Burgan pool, probably the great 4a the world. It is owned ) by Anglo-Iranian and’s subsidiary of Gulf Of of Pitts-

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