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-Cozy, One-Way Deal

ILLIAM N. OATIS, an American newspaperman, is in prison in Czechoslovakia—a victim of Communist arrogance and barbarism. He is in prison because the Communists fear a free press and because no tyranny can risk an informed public. Behind the Iron Curtain there now are only four other American reporters—all virtually prisoners, their dispatches censored, their movements controlled, their presence suspect. These facts are high-pointed in an article by Alexander F. Jones, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which is reprinted on this page today. On these facts, Mr. Jones comes to a manifest and necessary conclusion: “There will be no real progress in the business of freeing William Oatis of the Associated Press from his prison cell in Czechoslovakia until there is a realistic approach to the subject of American-Russian press

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IN WASHINGTON, the Communists maintain a socalled news bureau, Tass, headed by one Mikhail Fedorov. Tass is not a news service at all, as Mr. Jones points out, but a government agency which sends much of its information to Moscow in diplomatic pouches.

Yet Fedorov and his confederates are permitted free run of the White House, congressional press galleries and ‘government departments on an equsl basis with American newspapermen. They are subjected to no censorship, no

harassment, no restrictions whatever.

They are important cogs in a spying, despotic, gang bent on the destruction of the United States. And, as Mr. Jones says, “Fedorov works at it every day.” Mr. Jones wants to send Fedorov and his confederates packing home. He wants to end this “cozy, one-way press deal” the Kremlin is enjoying. He wants to inject some realism and courage into a grim and tragic situation. Because until that happens, this country will continue to be humiliated, insulted and browbeaten by the Communist mob. Until that happens, decent American citizens will continue to be intimidated, mistreated and even jailed. Until that happens, the vast American effort to reconstruct and secure the free world will be stigmatized and weakened.

n n 5 ” EJ » Editor Jones writes: “So long as Bill Oatis is in jail and American reporters in Russian territory live like underground fugitives, the sight of Tass representatives walking into the White House will continue to be a red flag to me.” And so it should be with every American.

Taxing the Co-ops

IN WRITING the new tax bill, ‘the Senate Finance Committee has adopted some new policies. One radical departure is the decision to levy the corporate income tax on enterprises now exempt—such as building and loan associations, mutual savings banks and the so-called co-operatives. The co-ops are big business. hundred years old in this country. In the last 30 years, however, co-ops have played an increasingly important role in American commerce, especially in agricultural areas. They gained their greatest impetus in the days of low farm prices, when the farmer was at a disadvantage in being obliged to buy at retail prices

The idea is more than a

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TO OVERCOME this handicap, farmer groups organized, and the government encouraged, co-operative associa-

.tions to buy carload lots of fertilizer and feed.

The co-ops branched out rapidly. They do billions of dollars worth of business every year. They are in many types of business. They compete with taxpaying private business. When the co- operative movement first began to gather steam, the government granted the co-ops tax exemptions because their primary purpose was to aid distressed farmers. But now they are just as much “big business” as private emterprise. It no longer is reasonable or fair to exempt them. ; : a =n ” * 8 » EVEN under the Senate Finance Committee's plan, a large proportion (50 per cent, it is estimated) still would pay no taxes. Only the larger co-ops would be affected, and even they would not have to pay on all their income. The committee apparently has been’ cautious to disrupt the original purposes of co-ops. They are, doubtless, a good thing for the people they serve. But they ought to pay a fair share of the increasingly burdensome tax load.

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It'll Be Their Show

THE RUSSIANS and their captive delegations of Czechs and Poles at the United Nations refuse to take part in air-raid drills, They say it's silly and just a ow of American “warmongering” to make people think they're in danger.

United Nations officials are perplexed what to do about

it. They shouldn’t be—we can’t think of more eligible people to be caught outside a shelter if Red bombers ever start lay-

ing their eggs over New York.

Strategic Material "THE GOVERNMENT has 11,000 stockpiled deslis-—pre-

sumably with swivel Phalrs—stored in the Washington" an emergency. 4 Arey bard about it, it pt ina requisition

Fedorov, “in fact, is in the United States on a diplomatic passport.

A CALL FOR. COURAGE

= J By Alexander F. Jones=-Editor; Syracuse. Herald Journal

Bill Oatis will Rewein A Prisoner Unless We Face Hard Facts -

HERE will be no real progress in 1 the business of free ~ ing William Oatis of the Associated Press from his prison “cell in Czechuslovakia until tHere is a realistic approach to the of American-Russian press relations. Tass agency enjoys the full privileges of the free press in the United States. American reporters in Soviet

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"countries are subjected to every indignity—even jail—

in the attempt to do an honest reporting job. There is no need to stress this point. Everyone is familiar with the situation. It is my contention that the American government,

American press associations and American newspaper

publishers and editors are as much bound by totalitarian dictation as any Soviet satellite. This is not a statement made to attract attention. It is cold fact and if any free newspaperman can get any comfort out of perusal of the facts that follow, or take any pride in our record, it will be, in my opinion, by a method of mental acrobatics that ignores the situation as it is. In the first place, Tass is not a news service. It is

a Russian government supported and controlled propa-

ganda bureau. Its Russian employees—Mikhail Fedorov, in Washington, for example—are Soviet government employees who come into this country on a diplomatic passport. Tass serves no free customers.

= a » = » = THEY represent a government whose political philosophy teaches and advocates the overthrow of the United States /government by force and violence. Yet these representatives are accorded every privilege of the free press in Washington on the basis that they represent the free press. The Standing Committee of Correspondents of the Congressional galleries, and the majority of the members, refused admission of “Voice of America” representatives to the galleries because they represent the U. S. government and not daily’newspapers. The Associated and the United, Press refuse to serve “Voice of America’ because it is controlled by the State Department. And yet Tass—a Russian government agency—is admitted to the galleries and accorded every press privilege in Washington, including off the record conferences. ; Fedorov makes little pretense of being a newspaperman. He is a diplomatic representative of the Russian

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uncensored copy goes to the Kremlin by cable, his more confidential dispatches by embassy pouch.

= ” » WHILE Fedorov, and other members of his bureau walk into the White House arrogantly, the surviving quartet of American newspapermen’ in Moscow are the next thing to journalistic prisoners—censored, controlled, suspect. I am well aware that the attitude of the American government in this situation is due to a long suffering desire to keep the door open, even a tiny crack in Moscow. I am also aware that the State Department is influenced by the pressure of the Associated and United Press Associations, who are afraid they will lose

their Moscow. bureaus if any move is made on Tass...

Granting that.these bureaus have value—more from a prestige angle than from a news standpoint—I still ask if that consideration is worth the submission to jailing of American reporters, expulsion of others, and treating our press people with the utmost contempt. What can we do? ONE: The Rules committee, which governs the congressional galleries, can notify the executive committee, or board of correspondents that no government

.or enjoy its privileges.

spiracy.

This would affect only Tass, This action would automatically shut Communists from

official sanction to spy on this country.

TWO: As Tass representatives are of diplomatic rank, the U. S. government can declare any one of them of Russian nationality persona nén grata—and send them home and keep on doing it until the Kremlin realizes its cozy, one-way press deal is over. THREE: The U. S. government can notify Moscow that American newspapermen, while not government representatives, are American citizens, admitted on their visas, and any indignity to them, in pursuit of their duties, will be considered an unfriendly act. FOUR: American newspapers, which are really playing footsie with Communist control of this international press situation can get off their dead posteriors and

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I CANNOT forget Gen. Ridgway's ultimatum to the Reds at Kaesong—United Nations press or no confer. erice. Here the ultimatum should be “equal treatment.” I recall that on the night of Pearl Harbor, the FBI raided an apartment in Washington of an alleged Japanese newspaperman and from his papers learned he was a rear-admiral in his country’s navy. Fedorov, in my opinion, is another case. He calls himself an aeronautical engineer. He cannot be anything but a Soviet spy. There are those who will contend that any step taken against Tass would involve the first amendment of the Constitution. The Constitution is not involved. Tass is a powerful weapon in the Communist conIts motive is destruction of the United States government and Communist world domination. Fedorov works at it every day. Within a matter of days, American newspapermen will learn of new security regulations which will affect us all to a degree. They will not affect Tass and the operations of

‘Mikhail Pelorov.

x : : 8» WHOM are ve trying to keep security matters from, the American people or the Kremlin? So long as Bill Oatis is in jail and American reporters in Russian territory live like underground fugitives, the

sight of Tass representatives walking into the White

House will continue to be a red flag to me.

government,

here on ' diplomatic passport, and his

Mr. Gromyko's Olive Branch

JAPANESE PEACE TREATY

Hoosier Forumer TooiAGSrs

"lI do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

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MR. EDITOR: Ho hum, rather poring, isn't it, or do you feel as I do... disgusted? I even want to hold my

nose. With all the space taken up in our papers -

about teen-agers doing this; that and the other thing considered. out of order. No end to space on cigaret parties, with the cigarets made from the loco weed, non vir-

. gin clubs, sex orgies and drunken parties, rob-

beries and even murder. One teen-ager just this week boasted that he was the best burglar anywhere, admitting scores of breakins plus murder. Very shocking, isn't it? I don't believe anything just happens, there's a reason for everything. Even the acts of some teen-agers.

And that reason in my humble opinion lies with the parents.

The Bible tells us to bend the twig when

young the way you want the tree. to grow. There are too few trips to the woodshed.

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IT'S ALL very confusing to me, When I was .a lad in school, there Were no regulations that said the teacher dared not lay on rod if I got out of line. The teacher used it on me and when I got home, dad “did the honors all over

again.

I can't remember that we ever had a flock

“of so-called experts telling us all about the in-

ner working of the mind, how to teach our, chil-. ; fren: § and a bunch of young snips and old maids

‘Forge MR. EDITOR: 2 I swear I don’t know why we are fooling

our ways and get back to horse and buggy days of morals. I wonder, just how many families even say grace at their tables today.

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YES, mother and dad, I mean these few words for you. You and you alone are to blame for all this shame being heaped upon the heads of your children. You should hang your heads. You know you can do something about it. True, it’s a little laté. It may be later than you think, but let's give it a try. Dad, how about you and mother gathering the kiddies and attending the church of your choice this coming Sunday. Let us get ourselves right and give those kids, of yours the break they, as American citizens, are entitled to. +I wonder how many others feel this blame belongs to the parents and not the teen-agers. : —A. M, Bowman, 26 S. Capitol.

t the Talk’

around with. the Reds in peace talks. T efe’s nothing to talk about. They don't wa peace unless they get what they have been after all

the time and that's Korea.

Why don't we face up to it and’; ‘go- all out in this war, with concentrated bombing of Chinese shipping. ports and manufacturing centers. There isn't much sense in allowing our boys

agency, U. S. or foreign, can be members of the galleries,

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Hon,

BERLIN .

Action depends on our own courage and determina-

& . By Ludwell Denny

Allies Can Turn Red Truck Tax Into Pretty Kremlin Blushes

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—Stalin’s timing is poor in his latest revival of the cold war battle of Berlin. . His new method of trying to starve West Berlin into submission is a prohibitive tax on trucks carrying food and other essentials from Western Germany to the capital, which is an island in the Soviet zone. Stalin will not succeed in this. The Allies

‘ have promised to get food to the West Ber-

liners. That pledge has to be kept. The issue is not only humanitarian but political and military. The Allies must win on this showdown— as at the time of their airlift three years ago— or get out of Berlin. Only war can drive them out.

Ways to Retaliate OBVIOUSLY Stalin can cause the Allies much inconvenience in this interference with trade. That has been true from the beginning, when the naive Allies in the flush of victory permitted the Russians to enter Berlin first and then failed to exact an Allied corridor through the Soviet occupation zone to the capital. But there are many ways in which the Allies can retaliate to the embarrassment of Stalin. Here are some of them: A prohibitive tax on Soviet satellite barges, carrying raw materials and industrial essen-

tials through West Berlin to East Germany.

A prohibitive tax on. road haulage from Western Germany to the Russian zone and to Czechoslovakia,

AIR BUSINESS .

Blocking service of the Red-operated Berlin elevated railway. These would be tit-for-tat nieasures, defensive in nature and aimed at beating Stalin at his own game. If successful, they would force him to call off the game. But that would leave the situation the same as it was before, with Stalin in position to renew the interference again at his pleasure.

Shooting War?

A MORE effective—but more dangerous— Allied measure would be the issuance of temporary Allied military licenses to private West German trucks carrying food and other essentials to West Berlin. In theory such trucks cannot be taxed. If this method worked—without precipitating a shooting war—West Berlin

devices in the future.

So far the Allies have avoided such provocThe Allied

ative retaliation for fear of war.

disposition is still to play for delay, until Gen. .

Eisenhower is in a much stronger defensive position than now. Nevertheless, Allied policy is stiffening all the while, and for that reason Stalin can easily run into unexpected trouble.

In thi¥icase his timing is poor because the big three foreign ministers are meeting here next week to consider the rearming of Western Germany. For once they will be able fo act with speed in a Berlin crisis, which is difficult when they are separated by the Atlantic.

By Kermit McFarland

“Non-Skeds’ Battle Headed

For an Explosive Showdown

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—That long-brewing battle between the “skeds” and the ‘‘non-skeds” in the air travel business seems to be headed for a showdown. Size-wise, it is like a battle between Goliath and Tom Thumb. For the “non-skeds” handle less than 3 per cent of the total air business. They are about 50 relatively small operators who, as a rule, do not maintain regular schedules. But the “skeds,” led by the 16 major airlines, apparently regard the “non-skeds” as a threat, particularly since the bulk of the “non-sked” business is in the low-rate field. ‘The “war” began in earnest last March when the Civil Aeronautics board began cracking down on the “non-skeds.” The board imposed such restrictions on ‘“non-sked” operations that they appealed to Congress.

To the Rescue .

BUT THE Senate Committee on Small Business, headed by Sen. John Sparkman (D. Ala.) came to the rescue. Sen. Sparkman persuaded

"CAB to hold up its orders cutting back “non-

sked” service and appointed a subcommittee, with himself as chairman, to investigate. The investigating committee, after a threemonth study, accused the CAB of trying to put the ‘non-skeds’” out of business. It also charged the board with violating the intent of the Civil Aeronautics Act, designed to encourage aviation. :

Now former Admiral Emory 8S. Land, presi--

dent of the Air Transportation Association which speaks for the big airlines, takes issue with the Senate committee, He claims the committee's report is “biased and prejudiced.”

He accuses the “non-skeds” of a “ciit-throat”

* fare policy and implies they do not comply with

federal regulations when he says ATA members “do comply.” " But the Senate Small Business Committee again has rapped the Civil Aeronautics Board: for passing a ‘death sentence” on the ‘nonskeds.” ignoring the committee's report of July 10 and threatens legislation. “The time has come “It is time to

reexamine the Civil Aeronautics

Sen. Sparkman charges the CAB with

‘tor Congress to examine the Civil Aeronautics Act,” he says.

competence” of the CAB and accuses it of being “insensitive to the will of Congress and tb the needs of the community.” He charges the board with an “unwillingness to recognize any of the economic realities of

“aviation.”

‘Tremendous Asset’

THE SPARKMAN committee regards the “non-skeds” as a “tremendous asset” to the development of aviation and to. the general economy. It also says they immediately could

be pressed into military service when needed. , ...

The latest blast at the Civil Aeronautics Board from the Senate Small Business Committee results from a recent ‘death warrant”

. order to the Modern Air Transportation Co., a

small “non-sked” with headquarters "ins New York. CAB ordered the company to stop flying. Sen. Sparkman said Modern operated ‘three large planes and in 1949 and 1950 flew 20 million passenger miles. He said the company was put out of business on charges of violating ‘an impossibje regulation.”

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

AUSTIN, Tex.—A co-holder of the Southwest

Conference 100-yard dash record of 9.5 seconds was outrun by a man whom he found ransacking his car. : This fellow was quite a fast track-man himself, In fact, he was one of the best, But now he’s afraid he is due for the shelf, His speed didn’t quite meet the test. . Yet why should he worry or get in a fret? There's one consolation, you know. For he got what these days too few of us get A wonderful run for his dough.

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