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Conscience by Law

ps PRESIDENT TRUMAN has asked Congress to pass a law compelling all top government officials to tell how much they make “on the side.” : It is a sweeping proposal. . Mr. Truman's idea is to require all officials getting $10,000 or more from the government, and all federal employees with more than $1000 “outside” income, to put on record the sources of all amounts aside from government : "He proposes to include members of Congress and the Judges of U. 8. courts, as well as officials in the executive’ agencies. ; And the President goes one important step further, He would apply this law to the principal officials and employees of the political parties, even if they are rot government payrollers. . » This is a drastic proposal. But the current news. out of Washington justifies it. n » » n o oy. THE CHIEF targets of Mr. Truman's plan, of course, are the “influence boys,” and. their clients. : What the President proposes to do by law ought to be unnecessary. The use—and abuse—of influence in government affairs should be effectively prevented by the ordinary dictates of individual conscience and common decency. + Since this obviously doesn’t hold—especially in this administration—a law becomes necessary. But not, as Mr. Truman tries to make out, to protect government officials “against false and unfounded charges of improper conduct.” - Honesty is its own best protection. : ’ 8.» ; & = =» THE PRESIDENT, of course, doesn't say so. But the only reason for a law such as he proposes is the stuff congressional committees have been uncovering. ~The Lithofold case, for example—government employees in “strategic™ positions accepting fees, commissions, salaries and gifts from people doing business with their

In the middle of the present congressional investigation | is William M. Boyle, Democratic national chairman and pal of the President, in whom Mr. Truman has expressed full Mr. Boyle, according to testimony, “sold” his law practice to his former partner. ; But how do you “sell” a law practice? The relationship - betwebn ap attorney and his client is a necessarily personal ~ and confidential one, not commonly peddled from hand to ; And it is worth noting that most of the cases Mr. Boyle says he “sold” to his ex-partner involved government

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Er. so Br We MYL ,-ON THE RECORD, as so far written, Congress has every reason to pass promptly the law Mr. Truman proposes. But the very need for such a law is tacit evidence that the * President is unable to infuse his administration with the ‘usually accepted standards of propriety.

“It Looks Hopeless

sensible thing would be for Britain to ‘order her technicians out of the Abadan oil refinery area before

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There is only a corporal’s guard of them left—330, as compared with the 3000 running the industry before Iran nationalized her oil and ousted the British company. They are not producing oil, and Britain's chances of regaining her position are at the vanishing point. The technicians are there on thin legalistic grounds— at least from the Iranians’ point of view. They are staying on only because the world court at the Hague ordered both the Iranian and British government to maintain the status quo in the oil fields until the dispute was settled. ® a =» ae ey : IT WAS useless to expect the Tehran government, under the hysterical Premier Mossadegh, to abide by any such lofty injunction. And it is equally useless for the British to appeal to the United Nations Security Council against Iran's order expelling the technicians, Russia's veto could block any favorable action. - But the imminent British elections complicate—and appeér to dominate—the issue. The Attlee government could lose the elections by giving in to Iran now after promising that Abadan would not be abandoned. : : - » #® - - - THERE is little hope that the inflamed Iranians will heed President Truman's request that they cancel the expulsion order. All our previous efforts to mediate have been fruitless. In a showdown it looks hopeless for Britain ~and world peace. ; In the critical circumstances, the British would do well to forget about the elections and write off Iran.

Soft Assignment

; | LEADERS of the American Federation of Labor have declared 19 members of the Senate to be “short-sighted and antilabor.” ; : It has marked them for defeat in the 1952 elections. Now all the AFL leaders have to do is to convince a majority of the yoters in California, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah,

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DEFENSE o by Jom Dente re Blood Bank ©

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—The armed serv-

“ices need blood so badly that the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are putting on a drive , for donations from their own members. In the last war, the civilian population carried the load. Many: servicemen donated, too. But their contributions were made through the Red Cross or other eivilian agency. This time, with civilian responge lagging, the services are making their own collection. In the past two weeks 23 blood donation centers have been opened at major military inFive more will open in October. Others are planned later if the requirements increase.

Primary Target ;

MILITARY personnel and civilian employees of the military are the primary target of these Defense Department blood centers. But anybody else who wants to come won't be turned away. In all, the military has set itself to donate 150,000 pints a month—90,000 through centers it operates and the rest through traveling Red Cross units which will cover the smaller installations. This to be matched with 150,000 pints a month from civilian collecting agencies. Only one group is exempt—active airplane pilots. the requirements for military donors parallel those for civilians. Donors must be healthy, 18 through 59 years old, and: without a history of certain diseases.

No Difficulty MILITARY sources emphasize that because A man is in uniform he doesn’t lose his right to decide whether he wants to make a blood donation, The first response from the blood centers iii operation indicates there will he no difficulty in meeting each station’s quota. In a sense, the establishment of a separate military blood donor program is a reflection upon the lack of sustained public interest in donating blood for our armed forces in Korea. All voluntary blood donation programs, such

. as the Red Cross was operating for civilian

hospitals before the present emergency, depend on a relatively small number of regular donors to meet their needs. The regulars come in three

© or four times a year.

‘Not Enough Surplus’

THIS hasn't provided the military with the surplus it must have, especially for stockpiling ‘plasma. Hence, the present nation-wide campaign for blood donations. Military leaders are afraid that the present campaign for 300,000 pints of blood a month for military purposes may succeed for a time, then donations will fall off. Having their own collection program to supplement other sources is partial insurance this won't happen. . At the same time the 300,000 pints a month fs not all they would Mke to be able to take. There are limitations on how fast a blood donation program can be built up. Ultimately, the military may be asking for a lot more. And on top of that may come a large program for civilian defense stockpiling. :

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NEW YORK-—A man who tried to hold up a candy shop surrendered to police after the lady clerk bombarded him with frayfuls of sweetmeats. : Sweet ladies there’a moral hers Which really is a dandy: To keep your boy friend ever near, Just capture him with candy.

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By DAN KIDNEY IT MAY sound a little complicated, but President Truman simply wants a law to make public’ figures’ private figures public. LA

DEMOCRATS decided to kill the Senate Crime Committee. They are going to concentrate on poll-bookmakers in 1952. ¢ @ @ SEN. BENTON will use 15,000 words to tell what he thinks of Sen. McCarthy. President Truman could do it with three letters.

* & © ACCEPTING four heroic bronze equestrian statutes from Premier De Gasperi, reminded President. Trumian that he may be able to get Italy into the United Nations with a little horsetrading. * o> &

ONLY the Senate could turn a tax: bill into a government charge-a-plate.

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LAW PRACTICE . . . By Frederick C. Othman Boyle’s Denial of Influence

With RFC Loans

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—We can take it for true that Bill Boyle, the apple-cheeked boss of the Democrats, now practices no law. When he did tangle with Blackstone, he handled “legal law” only. He said so. Under oath. Only remaining question is whether the widely smiling Boyle has any influence with the Reconstruction Finance Corp. He does not think so. Several Republican Senators begged to differ. Their idea was gel) that when the acting \i\ chairman of the Democratic National Committee phoned the RFC in behalf of an appointment for a client of his, the financial boys went all out to fix up his customer with an $80,000 loan.

tee to defend himself agdinst charges that he had put the bee on the RFC for a loan to the American Lithofold Corp., of St. Louis. His navy-blue gabardine suit was creased to perfection when he sat down under the movie and television floodlights. Some of the photographers demanded that he smile; others wanted him to scowl. As a good politician he tried to please all these artists with facial expressions I guess we’ll just have to put down as peculiar.

Paid Democrat

THEN in a loud voice he started to read a ‘seven-page statement about how he sold his law practice for $150,000 when he became a

“fulltime; paid Democrat: He told in ‘language

formal and precise how he quit taking $500 a month retainer fee from the Lithofold Corp.

Only he got tangled up in his o n_phraseology, with numerous stumbles and bobbles in his delivery. He sounded surprisingly like that other Missourian, President Truman, before the latter became a master speechmaker. When the Senators started popping questions, Boyle maintained his aplomb, if not his grammar. Sen, John L. McClellan“ (D. Ark.) wondered just why the Lithofold outfit paid him $500 a month. “I was retained by Lithofold.to handle just géneral legal law,” replied the chairman of the Democrats. He also received from this corporation for his two daughters, as did so many other bigwigs, a fancy camera.

Did Nothing for Firm

EVENTUALLY, after enough give-and-take to make any seat feel hard, Boyle admitted that he did nothing for the firm to earn his $500 per month except for that time when he phoned Chairman Harley Hise of the RFC to ask for an appointment with the Lithofald

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/ WASHINGTON, Sept. 20— / There is an important Ameri1 can angle to the British elec tions which Labor Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee has called for Oct. 25. Ordinarily, "it’s tough enough for American voters to keep their own politics and politicians straightened out, without bothering over British domestic issues. But. this is different. Underlying all other reasons for calling British elections, now are the United Kingdom's unfavorable trade balance, reduction of gold reserves and financial relations with the United States. Involved fn the last {tem are question® of new American ald and payment of the first principal and interest, due Dee. 31, on the $3.75 billion United States loan to Britain. First payment on a Canadian loan of §1.2 billion also comes due at this time. : IT Wi Bm J WAS no a Sona Sarin

©. Mr. Boyle was scrubbed until he glisteried When he showed up before a Senate subcommiit-

Questioned

Boyle lit a cigarette and pointed out that he never asked the RFC to make the loan. He sald he never tried to influence anybody in the government. He said he'd be digappointed in a federal official who could be influenced by Bill Boyle. e?

‘This almost caused Sen. Robert Nixon (R. Cal.) to groan. He said couldn't Boyle realize that when the man at'the RFC got a call from the Democratic chairman, he'd knock himself out trying to deliver? : Nope, Boyle could not see it. . “How can you sit there and say this,” the Senator cried. “How can you tell us you have no influence down at the RFC? dicate otherwise: Lithofold got the loan.” That wasn’t the way he heard it, said the imperturbable Boyle. This went on most of the day. If I were the referee I'd have'to give Boyle the decision on points. Including the lawful legal ones. ; . president. Apparently that was enough. Three days later Lithofold got its loan.

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| oars cast By Andrew Tully he Up to Czechs

i WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—President Truman. 18 not impressed with .Czech Ambassador Viadi~ mir Prochazka’s hint that a deal may be possis ble that would spring Reporter Willlam Oatis

from his Czechoslovakian jail, a White House source said. Mr, Truman's attitude, an aid said is the same as it was on Aug. 28, when he told Ambassador Prochazka at the White House that the best way to improve relations between the U. 8.-and Czechoslovakia would be to send Mr, Oatis home. i an The President, it was emphasized, does not feel it is a time for cheering nor for tossing hats in the air just because the Czechs have adopted a more conciliatory tone.

reasonable line. But he takes the stand that the Czechs know what our grievance is—the jailing of Mr. Oatis on a phony spying charge —and that if they want to discuss it they know where to find the proper State Department people to listen to them.

Same Stand

IN SHORT, the aid said, Hr. Truman feels that the next move is up to the Czechs. There was no sign the aid said, that the President was inclined to relax U. 8. economic pressure on the Czechs, as Mr, Prochazka had suggested as the first step in the negotiations; instead the President's attitude seemed to be: Let the Czechs free Bill Oatis and then we'll see what can be done about their complaints. ; Mr. Truman also was said to have reacted characteristically to Mr. Prochazka’s claim that the President was misinformed when he charged than Jan Masaryk, former Czech foreign mine ister, had been murdered. The Czech ambassa« dor had reiterated at his Tuesday press cone ference the official Czech Communist line that Mr. Masaryk committed suicide. .

Their Story : MR TRUMAN'S attitude, the aid said, is that that’s their story. He feels confident that his knowledge of the crime comes from aus thoritative sources.

\ Mpr. Truman first made the charge, of course,

at his White House meeting with Mr. Prochazka, when he told the Czech envoy that relations between the U, 8. and Czechoslovakia had deteriorated ever since the Masaryk murder. By implication, the President was accusing the Czech Communists of the crime—pretty tough talk for the head of a state. Now that the Czechs have made the first move, the next development in the Oatis case could come quickly. It could take two forms, both designed to set the stage for official negotiations. :

Dropped Hints FIRST, the Czech ambassador, having dropped his hints in the press, may seek a meeting with Secretary of State Dean Acheson to expand and clarify them. Presumably, Mr, Acheson would readily accede to such a ‘meet ing, but chances are Mr. Prochazka would be warned against wasting the secretary's time with chit-chat. . .- Secondly, someone in the State Department here or Ambassador Elis O. Briggs in Prague could inquire of the Czechs what was meant by Mr. Prochazka's hints and if the Czech government was sincerely interested in discussing Mr. Oatis’ release. Talks then could go on from there. But whatever the developments, one thing seemed sure from President Truman's attitude —after some bitter lessons in Communist du« plicity, the U. 8. would be playing it close to the vest. :

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MR. EDITOR:

Recently I settled in Indiana. Much do I love most of her people, And yet, foolishness do I find in high places about public welfare. The Indiana Republican Representatives want it their way and the United States government wants its way. : A handful of hard-headed men are costing, and trying to cost, everybody a great deal of money, and a stop will be put to it. Without having the courage to publicly pun‘Ish their reasons for wanting to go aginst the

rest of the United States, the Indiana Republicans have gone on record as wanting to oppose federal policy by publicly publishing the names of welfare funds recipients. It is purely a matter of some folks wanting some things made public, and some things not. One wonders how these same gentlemen would react to the proposal that a public paper be published naming their names, and listing all the sources of their income? . Federal money has been taxed from the earnings of every money-making citizen in the State of Indiana, to be pooled in Washington with monies from the other 47 states and granted as federal aid to the needs of each state, Now, because of the stubbornness and petti-

. ness of a handful of men, the citizens of the

state of Indiana are in danger of not getting back $20 million of their own money to do a job which needs doing. In addition, a special session of the Legislature had to be cailled because of this stubbornness, which will itself cost the taxpayers considerable needless expenditure from state governmental funds. The monstrousness of the cost to the publie of such foolishness is matched only by the monstrousness of the assumptions on which this

TRADE BALANCE . . . By Peter Edson

i U.S. Aid Angle Seen in British Elections

atives win, it will be their ball If the Labor

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HOOSIER FORUM—Double Tax.

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

policy of the United States governnrent,-and the

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handful of men have acted: namely, (hat they, and not all the citizens of Indiana, and all the citizens of the United States and its elected governing officials, know what is best, _. The only argument which this handful of influential, newspaper-publishing, Indiana Republicans have put forth as a basis for their opposition to United States policy is one that comes bubbling up out of the dismal past like the right to burn witches. It seems to me that, today as a century ago, the greatest “State's Right” that the state of

United ‘States of America. —Young Tom Paine.

‘Uninformed as Usual’ MR. EDITOR:

C. D. C. of Terre Haute who seems to have his views published quite frequently—possibly because his reactionary attitudes coincide with yours—{felt called upon the other day to attempt to correct a letter writer who mentioned that “Big Mac” (Gen. MacArthur) left the troops to the mercy of invading Japanese in the Philip= pines and fled to safety. C. D. C. stated “Big Mac” was only carrying out his commander-in+ chief’s orders at the time. It seems odd that “Big Mac” felt no compunction disobeying his present. commander-in-chief perhaps because “Big Mac” was hot in personal danger this time, C. D. C, also stated he never heard of the remark attributed to his idol, Herbert Hoover.

‘ to the effect that all a working man néeds 1s

‘one dollar a day and a lantern.” Apparently C. D. C. is uninformed in this case as usual be cause that particular statement is prominent among Hoover's writings while he was President,

—Frank South, 532 Division St.

(Canadian). But there is a

He thinks , It's fine that Mr, Prochazka is taking a more

done in any crying tone, It was the usual calm, British porjiayal of the facts of financial e. Britain’s exports are up, and prices are 14 per cent above last year's. Britain has to pay 35 per cent more for her imports, however, Britain's economy is 24 per cent dependent on imports, as compared with only 4 per cent for the United States. Because of these in- - creases in prices paid, Britain's dollar surplus of last year is being converted into a dollar deficit this year. 5 » = : BRITAIN is spending roughly $4.7 billion on defense this for the next twp meet the cost of

to run with, Party wips and improves its present slim majority in Parliament, that will presumably be the signal and the mandate. It will then have to pick up the ball and buck the line with further cutbacks on the British economy. Or something. ” » #

IN TALKS between Amerfcan and British officials, there were implications that the British might like additional U., 8. aid.

~ came right out and said they

would, or how much. They did ask for an allocation of 800,000 tons of U. 8. steel-—not the

subject of Britain

provision in both loans that ine terest can be waived if the British regard their reserves as inadequate or if the Intere national Monetary Fund determines that Britain cannot earn enough from her exports to finance imports of the same volume as in 1936-38, After the elections, there will be tremendous pressure in Britain to ask for a waiver on Be arent, If the Labor rty wins by a slim margin, it won't be able to resist this pressure. L 5 Ld - a 2 IF THE waiver is asked for, there will be criticism of Brit«

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