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RESIDENT TRUMAN recently picked .Sen. Taft as the man most likely for him to beat. Sen. Taft obliged by announcing his candidacy. And saying Mr. Truman was the man most likely for him to _ beat. ” 2 Stalemate, huh?

Rampant Gl-Gougers

AMERICANS are a tolerant people—too tolerant, at times. They-stand for an assorted array of chiselers, cheaters, bonepickers and other vultures. But if they put up with the parasites who are preying

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TOKYO, Oct. 20—-The Americans who will be responsible for Japan's immediate security are not anxious for the U. S. Senate to ratify

the peace treaty and end the occupation over-

night. : > Publicly, they are saying nothing." From Gen.

Matthew Ridgway on down, they say they are °

soldiers whose ‘job it is to carry out orders. not make policy. Perhaps they remember Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Nevertheless, it was learned that the Army here takes this position: ONE—We shouldn't ratify the treaty and end the occupation until details’ of the security

they know the facts. - So let's hope the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, headed by Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, will tell them. The Johngon committee is just beginning an investigation of the rackets which have been sinking their teeth into the areas surrounding the principal military and naval bases’ in the country. harvest. - ed

an Air Force base with 30,000 men in training. The com“mittee wants to know about the reports of its investigators that Keesler Field men, out on week-end passes and the like, are dropping a half-million dollars a month into the slot machines operated by Mississippi “Gold Coast” rackets. ”

. . 8 8 #4 8% WHAT'S going on in the Biloxi area is common to many

other military and naval areas. The New York WorldTelegram and Sun, a Scripps-Howard Newspaper, has been exposing some of these conditions. There not only are the rent-gougers, already exposed by the Johnson committee, There are dope peddlers, prostitutes and gambling rings, all ready to pounce on a GI's $90-a-month pay.’ Men in rigorous military training are entitled to a little robust recreation on a brief time off. But they are not entitled, in the patriotic land of America, to get trimmed by gaudy chiselers. Some communities near military and naval areas are doing a geod job of knocking off these rackets—because the local residents know the score. If the Johnson com- " mittee can tell the story of less alert areas, the local residents ought to do likewise. If not, let the Army and the Air Force and the Navy

crack down—but good.

And Not in Hysteria

A SENATE subcommittee has voted three to two against the confirmation of Philip Jessup to represent this country before the United Nations. : Despite the committee's vote, after long hearings, it is. still possible for Mr. Jessup to be put in the job. Sen. Tom Connally of Texas, by apparently blocking a full Senate vote on the controversial Mr. Jessup before adjournment, has opened the way for a recess appointment by President Truman. . : Incidentally, we have an idea that Sen. Connally’s action —or inaction—in this matter will not escape the attention of the voters jn Texas where he is up for re-election next Yer. rr SR But we are much more concerned with-what President Truman intends to do. We don't think he should name Mr. Jessup in the face of the widespread public distrust of our Far Eastern policy with which he is so closely identified.

5 # # n 2 2 THAT IS the issue—regardless of any questions of Mr. Jessup's loyalty or personal integrity. Sen. Smith, New Jersey Republican and supporter of the bipartisan foreign policy, and Sen. Gillette, Iowa Democrat, took much the same view when they cast their votes against Mr. Jessup in subcommittee. They said it was a question of confidence of the American people. They agreed Mr. Jessup did not have that. As Sen. Smith observed, he is ‘‘the symbol of a group attitude toward Asia which seems to have been proved completely unsound . . . his confirmation, I fear, would divide the country at a time when, above all else, we need unity.” This is the calm, reasoned view—miles removed from the hysterical approach of “McCarthyism.” Let President Truman disabuse himself of any idea that it would be a “victory for McCarthyism” if the Jessup appointment were withdrawn. Far weightier questions are at stake here.

MacArthur's Reply

REFLYING to President Truman — wuv wad Cudiged him with making false statements—Gen. MacArthur Thursday night stated the very essence of present concern over our’ Far Eastern policy. : President Truman, he said, ‘would relieve many millions of patriotic minds deeply concerned with our national security if, instead of indulging in innuendo and trying to alibi the past, he would announce the firm determination that under no conditions, even though fostered by the United Nations, would the Unitéd States permit Formosa to fall into Red hands, or Communist China to be seated in the United Nations. : “This ‘simple and understandable ‘assurance he has never given.” And we join with Gen. MacArthur in predicting: “He never will.” YOU COULD have heard.a brick drop when Labor Secretary Tobin told the hod carriers’ convention that Presi. dent Truman has led the U. S. too “the highest moral standards ever shown by any nation.”

HALLOWEEN seems a poor time for the Democrats to select a successor to National Chairman Boyle. Bobbing for those big apples is what put the party over the barrel.

SEN. TAFT is going to find out for himself whether . the early bird gets the worm or the early worm gets the

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pact are agreed to. In other words, don’t ratify the treaty this year. But... . TWO. Ratification should not be delayed past ‘next May. Both nations have understood for some time that. that's the schedule. ~ ; Too many issues /are still undecided. Although the best of friends and allies, the United States and Japan dre jockeying for advantage in discussions now under way. Each wants to make the best possible deal for itself. It's simply a matter of horse trading, with both sides acting in good faith. As matters stand now Japan and the United

States have signed a treaty of mutual defense. .

That's all we have. Working papers—countless

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Jojo Could Settle This Fight

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—Jojo, the clown at

the Frolics Cabaret outside of Boston, opened

his mouth, but never a sound came out. Since he did not sing, or talk, or even squeak, his

~-emplaver figured he could nat possibly be en- .

tertaining the customers. Legally, that is.

So Frank Mulcahy, the proprietor of the Frolics at Salisbury Beach, Mass, paid no 20 per cent cabaret tax. After all, he argued, you've got to provide entertainment to have a night club. All he had was Jojo. "Out rushed a platoon of revenue agents to inspect Jojo work. - He may have been silent, but the people laughed and’ laughed. There-

- fore, reasoned the revenooers, Jojo was enter-

tainment. They socked Mulcahy $15,000 in back cabaret taxes.’ He took up his problem with the distinguished attorney and politician, James A. Donovan of Lawrence, Mass. Donovan took a look at Jojo, who didn’t entertain him. Then he went to his great and good friend, Dennis W. Delaney, the collector of internal revenue at Boston. He told Delaney that Jojo wasn't entertainment. Delaney listened carefully. After all, he'd been paid $3000 a few months before for taking Donovan down to Washington to introduce him to big shots in connection with some other legal matters. Delaney just seemed to have friends all over. Next thing Counselor Donovan knew, he had a letter from Delaney saying he'd talked the powers-that-be in Washington from taxing Jojo on any past entertainment, but they insisted if Jojo kept on making the customers laugh, he'd be taxed in the future. That saved $15,000 for sMulcahy, who then fired Jojo. A few more weeks passed and there was collector Delaney on the phone, telling Attorney

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Donovan that he was tired, weary, and needful of a nice cottage on the beach. Donovan suggested that he get in touch with Mulcahy down at the Frolics. He did. Next thing you know, Delaney was living rent free in a house hy the sea: Mulcahy had paid his rent of $1500 for the season. All this came into the open when President Truman fired Delaney on charges of assorted shenanigans with the people's money. Then it developed that Delaney had paid no income taxes, himself, on the money that Donovan had paid him, nor on the free rent he received after saving Jojo's boss a cool $15.000. . The white-haired attorney Donovan told the whole sorry tale under oath to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee, which is investigating light-fingered revenue collectors in offices stretching across the nation. He went into detail about Jojo.

Like a Band Leader

ALL JOJO did. he said. was sit there and open his’ mouth while a juke box behind him played "drum musie. : : _ “I. would compare Jojo to a band leader with his baton,” testified this New England legal » light. “And band music is nontaxable. Yet these people claimed Jojo was an entertainer and they sent tax bills.” i “If he’d opened his mouth he'd have been taxable?” inquired Committee Counsel Adrian De Wind, who used to be a tax collector, himself. “He did open his mouth, but he didn't say anything,” replied Donovan.

“And if he'd said anything, he'd have been

subject to tax?” ‘insisted De Wind. Donovan said he supposed so. He also said he was saddened by the scrape in which collector Delaney finds himselfg “Hae has scores, yes, hundreds of friends in Boston, Washington, and elsewhere,” said Donovan. “He was greatly admired. That is why Boston is withholding judgment until he is tried in court.” Fair enough, but maybe Congress ought to call in poor, old Jojo. He could tell the gentlemen for sure whether he can, or cannot, amuse the people. .

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20— The United States and Russia are still keeping open channels of negotiation, despite Moscow's latest rebuff of American overtures and despite President Truman's repeated 'statement that a Russian agreement is not worth the paper it is written on. Anh American ambassadce will be sent to Moscow—if Adm, Alan C. Kirk does not return, someone else will go. And Stalin is putting out feelers for another Big Four Conference. So the upshot of all the flurry of the past 36 hours, over Moscow's publication of the secret exchange between Ambassador Kirk and Foreign Minister Vishinsky, is that nothing has changed—either regarding a Korean truce in particular or the celd war i

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THE SUDDEN revelation that Ambassador Kirk tried to start confidential negotiations with Russia, regarding the danger of allowing the Korean War to continue, is interpreted in some anti-admin-istration quarters as a sign of appeasement. The opposite interpretation is placed by oth- ' ers on the President's repetition Thursday of his ‘not

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details’ involving who does what and pays for it—are being worked out. 7 : The Japanese naturally prefer to have us do it all, They express flattering confidence in our® ability to defend them. Premier Shigeru Yoshida’'s operfing remarks to the Diet last week, loosely translated, were: “They have guaranteed our security.” Nothing .about what Japan guaranteed the U. 8. From the Japanese viewpoint that would be just dandy. Protected by our Armed Forces, she would be as safe as, she could hope to be in this troubled world. She could reduce taxes, develop new-markets, improve living standards and rehabilitate her cities and industries. She wouldn't have to bother about national security. The United States—a strong, well-armed, highly industrialized big brother—would do that. The United States keeps its word. Moreover, Uncle Sam has a personal stake in the defense of Japan. He's too deeply involved to back out now if he wanted to. LI

NATURALLY, Premier Yoshida merely was making an opening bid. His Diet speech was his asking price. It was followed immediately by/ a leaked story that occupation headquarters had agreed to a tax reduction of several billion yen. ‘He probably wanted to test our reaction. We reacted. Now wait a minute, said Uncle Let's see what we signed, My copyv— correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Yoshida—says we will defend each other. It says mutual defense. That means botn of us. I figure that means vou. will appropriate yen for: defense purposes. It means you will rearm for self-defense as

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our . forces—they're yours, too—as ong “as you can, even II it hurts “even If you must sacrifice other things. : : Be fair, Japan came back. I'm poor. You are rich. You can raise taxes and your people will still eat. If I don't cut them some of my people may starve. You can do it all without a strain. I can’t do anything withdut suffering. Be.a good fellow. : 3 >

Who is being defended, anyhow? Uncle Sam

;argued. It's your country. If this thing is to be "mutual let's sit down and work it out together.

So we are. Some of the details being

Ml + . A Quiet Political LONDON, Oct. 20—Although there are just $ix more days before Britain's crucial election, a visitor might spend a week here without knowing a campaign was in progress if he didn't read the newspapers.And even in the newspapers, the headlines have been taken over by the turbulent situation in the Middle East. Campaign expenditures are so severely restricted and the law so strictly enforced that there is no money to spare for big posters or for throw-away literature. Not more than one automobile in 100 carries a campaign sticker. Candidates cannot buy radio time because radio is a government monopoly and time on the air is rationed among the parties.

Orderly Meetings

MOST of the campaigning is carried on through neighborhood meetings and by doorbell pushing. Most of these meetings are orderly. Some of the street corner meetings get a hit noisy but most of the heckling is done by persons who are skilled in the art and who ohserve certain ‘unwritten rules. Applause generally is limited to the introduction of the speaker and his conclusion. Approval during a speech is expressed by a low-toned ‘hear, hear.” which has a soft, purring effect when spoken in unison. Developments in Iran and Egypt have forced the international issues into the campaign but it-is—difficult-to-assess-the-effect-this—has-had— on the contest. When British oil men were forced out of Abadan, the Conservatives accused the Socialists of indecision and appease-

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MR. EDITOR: After reading the hog-wash by Young Tom Paine, one could almost believe the action of the State Legislators is something new in the police state. Actually, both the New Deal and the Fair Deal have been almost the same as Mussolini's police state. It was the tactics of a police state that put a tailor in jail under the unconstitutional . NRA for undercharging “for

pressing a pair of pants and by the same token

it is a crime today for anvone to sell things higher than a price set by some bureaucrat. It was police state tactics when F.D.R. closed up “the dirty little sheets” that didn't agree with his foreign policy and it is. police tactics today when Harry Truman places a censorship over government offices, It was police tactics when F.D.R. weakened the defenses of Pearl Harbor and sent our destroyers to protect British convoys, just as it was for Harry to take us in an undeclared war in Korea. ey The whole setup we have today instead of being liberal is as old as time. If vou want .to know what has happened to all other nations that have tried it, all you have to do is to study past history, The last ones’ were Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. Now the once mighty England is tottering because she is following the same socialist scheme and we are well on our way to the same disastrous road. —C. D. C.,, Terre Haute.

RUSSIA . ... By Ludwell Denny Red Negotiation Channe

worth the paper {t's written on” crack, which. is taken to mean the United States is through negotiating with the Russians. Both interpretations are wrong. Ambassador Kirk's purpose was not to suggest appeasement, but to feel the Soviet pulse and to point°a warning. The meaning of the Truman statement is not that the United States never will make an agreement with Russia, but that we never will trust Stalin to keep a bargain until Allied military strength is sufficient to enforce it. , Meanwhile, t he American government has no intention of letting Stalin propaganda put it in the position of rejecting peace talks and insisting on inevitable war with Russia.

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Adm. shinsky discussions if he had

wished to negotiate with Wash-ington-on a Korean truce now. But if he had not wanted to keep alive his own and Winston Churchill's suggestions for a Big Four Conference, there would have been no point in Stalin's ending the Vishinsky statement with these words: “Nonetheless, the Soviet government. . .. agrees to examine

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discussed involve how much Japan will pay for her own defense. They involve the establishe ment of United States military courts, agreement on jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases, leases, tax exemptions and the like. Lieut, Gen. Raymond 8. McLain, U. 8. Army comptroller, recently came to Japan with staff experts to study Japan's ability to contribute. They were confiident that agreement can be reached on schedule. Gen. Ridgway’'s comptroliar, Brig. Gen, L. Q. Williams, has been | Washington. 2 . As long as Japan is occupied we can make certain demands on her. &en. Ridgway’s headquarters approves or rejects budgets. It can withhold approval until Japan puts up enough money for defense. On the other hand, if the occupation is ended now, “we would become supplicants,” one highranking officer pointed out. Japan could—and probably would—say “Okay, you agreed to defend me. Go ahead and defend. Sorry I can't help you.”

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shoulder as much as she can; probably more than she is able. It wants every concession it can get. It wants to retain jurisdiction over all Americans—civillan and military. It wants Japan to donate land and pay for our bases and camps as long as she does not have forces of

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The State Department, on. thé: other hand, thinks the military is being too rough. It wants to end the occupation and shoulder everything. t DIENER, that's the best way to make friends.

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away our shirts. The solution apparently is up to President Truman. He has not given an indication which wax he will go. - : Despite all this, the. Army {is convincedthat delay past next May might be disastrous, The: Japanese fervently look forward to a return to sovereignty. The psychological reaction would be terrific if we reneged. Hopes would be E crushed. Friends would become enemies. And it would be grist for the Communist propaganda

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C ian? ampaign: ment. The Socialists replied that if the Conservatives had been in power they would have plunged the country into war. Both aceusations now have been outmoded by the fact that Britain has become involved in an undeclared, if small-scale, shooting war in Egypt, in which both parties are in agreement that Britain has pursued the.only course open to it.

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come to Wasghir get to speak my had summoned fore the Senatea tee which was tain election irr In some way a gambler, whe habit of winni Derby, was invc I had done a c

reaction to events in the Middle East. At a campaign meeting a Devonshire farmer told a reporter: “As to those Iranians breaking away from the Empire, I never did hold with all them Arabs being in it anyway.” In this same meeting the speaker devoted his whole talk to rearming but the only question asked at his conclusion was, “Will Churchill reduce the price of fertilizers?” In almost any group of Britons one or

more "has served in the British forces in : Egypt. When it was announced that reinforce- i Bradley out of ments were being sent to the garrison at the | he operated a Suez Canal, a man exclaimed, “Why “send re- i for vears. App inforcements to the canal when two fly swatters § mean S1Thom } u efore

up a case agal sinister figure, fuested to ident looked Huey sc and in a flat,

However, in better informed circles the developments in the Middle East overshadow the cost of living fssue as a topic of conversation. ARy major event in that area is certain to have repercussions in Rritish politics.

So-the-outrone of the campaign may hinge nee nl EE as much upon the trend of events in that part obi Fam .of the world as upon anything which transpires "a 8 . on the political hustings in Britain itself. ? THAT TOOK

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‘Blood and Politics’ MR. EDITOR: 2

” In part an answer to Jim G. Lucas (Week of : Fightifig Could Efid Blood Bupply—Tites—Oct, = 9) and a lot of other foolish questions: We. the people, know the boys are being sold down the river the same as we at home are being sold down the river. Burdened by high taxes and high prices and loss of liberty, which the wise guy in Washington has taken, hd%~can we think anything else. Our hearts are not in the job and when one's heart is not in the job he can’t.-do what he feels he ought to do. Just now the wise guy in Washington is coming up with a few things that seem right. But election is coming soon, 80 he wants another 4 years to plow us under for good. And he will do it too, if he can get the Commies to back him again. If we only had the right kind of man in

office you would have all the blood you would Mar. 19, 1948. want in short order. —A Reader, City » Low EDITOR'S NOTE: Harry Truman isn’t get- Be a ting the blood. The boys in Korea are and re- to fight chun]

gardless of who heads this nation’s_government GIs will continue to need all the blood we can give them.

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If he rejects Allled military truce terms, the stronger United Nations forces probably will advance to the North Korean “waist” or beyond,

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sador Kirk and Gen. Ridgway, played by t Stalin may hope to postpone Giants such a hard choice until he can ans. sweeten it with some kind of Big Four Conference deal on Plan Tag arms limitation or Germany. That seems plausible, but it is The bushy-h

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