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Give LAght and the People Wil Find. Their Own Way

Hail the Heroes, but— GROUP of young veterans representing 19 countries

United Nations side mn Korea is touring the

the on e of the war

United States to stress the collective natur

against communism. ; E Many have given a fine account of themselves in battle

and deserve the honors they'll receive in cities across the BH a press agent's dream probably calculated to help Americans forget how hard it's been getting other nations to chip in a fair share of men and materials to fight this war. ” . With high officials making speeches on the need for collective security—a fact accepted readily by most Americans in-1951—it may seem aimost rude to raise the issue. But it's been worrying top military people and even some United Nations officials for a long time. The U. S. contribution is about 250,000 ground troops, 70,000-plus airmen and 50,000 manning our ships. The South Korean effective forces probably number about 150,000—an imposing number considering the battered condition of Korea, but still hampered by inadequate

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THE BRITISH have 4000 men aboard nine naval vessels, 12,000 ground troops and one air squadron. Australia sent a couple of destroyers, some 800 ground troops and a fighter squadron. Canada provided three destroyers, an Air Force squadron, a brigade once rated at 10,000. but gow said to represent actually 5500 men. Colombia sent a frigate and 1000 men; Ethiopia, 1200 men; Greece, seven-transport planes and 800 men; Belgium, three transports and 50 men; Luxembourg, 50 men with the Belgians; The Netherlands, one destroyer and 500 men; New Zealand, a frigate and 1000 men. Turkey sent 5000 real fighting men. India, one ambulance unit and much free advice. The Philippines sept tanks and 1200 men; Thailand, 1000 men; South Africa,

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a fighter squadron; Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Italy

sent hospital units. Nationalist China offered 33,000 troops, but we rejected that because of quirks and twists in our abortive China policy. The U. S., most powerful, should contribute most— sure. But the figures show why—and where—there should be insistence on additional aid. We hope the touring veterans visit other countries in bringing home the need for collective security.

Leave It to the Military

HE JAPAN that Gen. MacArthur conquered ard re-: molded along democratic lines is one step nearer to becoming a sovereign nation. By overwhelming majorities, the Tokyo House: of Representatives has ratified the peace treaty and security pact which were signed in San Francisco only last month. The action was conclusive, since an adverse vote by the Upper House—which is unlikely—would not have the effect .of rejection. : Mich remains to be done in working out the administrative details of the security pact under which American troops retain bases in Japan. Where these bases shall be,: how they fit into Japan's defense program, what legal jurisdiction Japan shall have over American personnel; and so on. All this is complicated: by the fact that we are fighting a war in Korea from bases in Japan, and will continue to

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require much freedom ‘of action even as Japan moves on

toward full independence. : In negotiating this vital security agreement, we hope the State Department will take a back seat and leave it to the military authorities on the spot. They know best what is needed for efficient, unhampered operations against the pervading threat of Communist aggression in the Far East, while the State Department has an incurable addiction to compromise and indecision. We need Japan as a full-time _partner in the war now going on, and we can't depend on that if the Acheson ‘policy of hesitation to offend Russia

prevails.

Late Starter PRESIDENT TRUMAN is hauling out his favorite “give-'enr-hell” oratory in behalf of a “strong anti-inflation program.” ; : He says “scores of special integests” have “ganged up” to profit at the expense of the rest of us. This, he says, is what is behind the “terrible” amendments to the pricecontrol law passed by the recent Congress. “This administration,” he alibis, “will do its best, with the tools Congress has given us, to curb inflation. "But the tools are not good enough to do this job as it should be done.” . ) Mr. Truman doesn’t mention that right after the Korean War broke out Congress did give him a strong control law, a law he didn’t then think necessary. And that it was months before he used the law. In those months inflation, for which every American now is paying through the pose, got a head start. Now that inflation has cost the defense program many billions of dollars, and the consuming public many more billions, the President wants to “win this fight."2That’s like throwing away the key and then complaining because the door isn't locked. ‘

COLD WAR camp life is hurting the Marines’ morale a Senate subcommittee found. They want to stop manpower waste By ordering only one Marine at a time to pick up a cigaret butt. - :

INTERNAL REVENUE Commissioner Dunlap is complaining about lack of confidence in his bureau. After all some of the outstanding tax collectors have been shown to be good confidence men.

REP, B. CARROLL REECE of Tennessee is going to round up the southern GOP delegates" for Sen. Taft. _ Another Louisiana purchase will show just how. Jeffer-

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—Some former Internal Revenue Bureau officials seem to have had an unusual affinity for certain lines of. outside business activity. The most striking rags-to-riches story which Congress has heard concerns Joseph P. Marcelle, former collector in .Brooklyn. When appointed in 1944 Mr. Marcelle declared a net worth of $2500, plus a house in. his wife's name. But in five years he received more than $150.000—15 times the highest government pay he earned—from a single source, a vending machine company which made him head of its sales department. fA

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RAGS-TO-RICHES . .» By James Daniel ln ee a Tax Collectors Seem To Keep Their Hands In Outs

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WIFE TROUBLE . . . By Frederick C.

Vending machines are subject to a per-unit federal excise tax and racketeers have shown ‘a special fondness for investihg in them. The company paid Mr. Marcelle $10,000 a year salary, plus a $6 commission on each machine sold. In 1948 he, disposed of $5000 worth of sfock he had acquired soon after taking office and received $60,000 for it. On the side Mr. Marcelle collected $42,000 in legal fees mostly on guardianships and other cases which the courts tossed his way. His underpayment of $32,834 in personal income taxes was cited by the Revenue Bureau Jn announcing his “resignation.” —-

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Mrs. O. Wants to Meet Royalty—

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—In my hot little fist I hold an engraved invitation (I never did see so much printing on one small card) requesting the honor of my presence to meet Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, Void if transferred. I am sure the | Princess is a fine girl and I hear tell her husband is a great guy, but I doubt if I'll get around to meeting them. This " particular reception for royalty is being given by newspaper, magazine, radio and photo people. Poor

royalty. ; igre going to’ bé nothing to eat or

drink, either. I have checked the arrangethents with the so- Se ciety editor, who is an expert on such matters, and she says the Princess and the Duke will be seated in chairs on a stage at the end of the biggest ballroom of the Statler Hotel. The other guests will file into this chamber and stare at Princess and husband, ‘who will, of course, stare back. The management is hopeful that the Princess will say a few words about being glad to be here, but this isn't definite. What pains me roast about this high-society affair is that the hosts saw fit to invite newspaper reporters, but not their wives. This is causing domestic difficulties.

Take the Othmans. I'd like to meet the Princess, of course, but I did shake hands with a genuine king once and I even had a drink (too sweet) with his wife. I mean I'd gladly forego seeing Elizabeth and turn my ducat over to my bride, who'd give her best imitation diamond breast pin for the chance. She has even been pondering the advisability of a little forgery. My invitation is addressed to Mr. Othman. Mrs. O. is wondering whether she coudn’t add an “s” to the Mr. put on her prettiest dress, and get by the doorman. If she tries it, I'll let you know what happens, but I fear the Secret Service will give her its celebrated courteous-.heave-ho,

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Later on in the week the ight honorable Sir Oliver Sherwell Franks;:K. C, B, C. B. E., ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Great Britain, and his lady are giving a tea party, without the tea, at the British Embassy. I have not been invited to this; only Congressmen, ambassadors, and Democratic brass hats have gold-crested tickets.

A Real Hardship

THE HOSTESS expects a whopping big crowd, even though Congress adjourned long

since. She will provide tea for the Princess and:

her consort, but the rest of the guests will have to put up with champagne. I wouldnlt exactly call this a hardship, but Lady Franks figures it’s easier for a fellow in a heavy crush to sip bubbles from -a glass than to juggle a cup, saucer, ¥poon and slice “of lemon. She's doubtless correct. : = .

The tragedy of this one, I think, concerns a lady dancing teacher from Houston, Tex., who came to town to show the wives of local notables how to curtsy to the royal visitors. She said if you didn’t learn you were likely to fall on your face; at the very least you'd get a charley horse from muscular strain in the calf of the leg. a. She mailed out engraved announcements of her curtsying course (every wife of every Congressman got one) and she'd even signed up a few ladies for the works, when the roof fell in. The Embassy announced it had invited so many people that there'd be no room for curtsying. This will obviate collisions for sure, but it was rough on the instructress. Her printing bill was a total loss. She scrammed and last was heard from in New York.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

TOKYO—A medical meeting was told that processed plasma of cows and other animals had heen effectively used in transfusions to humans.

From Nikko to Nagasaki Folks have taken on new blood, And they're chawing their tobaccy Like bovines with treasured cud. There's a brand-new placid feeling Over old Dai Nippon now, And if anyone is squealing— It's some discontented cow. =

LONDON, Oct. 30—Winston “+. Churchill's selection of himself as Minister of Defense in addition to his other responsibilities is taken to mean that he intends to take a personal part in future activities of the Atlantic Defense Alliance.

His interest irf this problem is emphasized by his appointment of his most trusted military adviser, K Gen. (Lord) Ismay as Secretary of State for the British Commonwealth,

General Ismay .was Mr Churchill's wartime chief of staff as well as military secretary in the War Cabinet. With Mr. Churchill in the defense post and Anthony Eden as foreign secretary, the Conservatives will have their two most prominent figures in posts which suffered most from

the Bocialist regime. o 2 8 .. IT IS the consensus, however, that Mr. Chufchnl’ has given the country a strong, well-balanced cabinet, The new government's well-wishers are almost evenly divided on whether it should stand pat on “its present scant working maJority or plan to go back to the ‘wPeople at the end of six months # i ¥ Lg i 2a y ‘ 27

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Lipe Henslee, former collecjor at Nashville, ‘who hi pureau suspended Te for reasons of health, also.was tied to coin machines. Under questioning, bureau chief John B. Dunlap» said there was something in Henslee's record about owning slot machines at a local country club, put Mr. Dunlap said that was endéd when the . Kefauver Committee objected. Printing contracts were the outside business of James P. Finnegan, former collector at St. Louis. Mr. Finnegan drew $45,000 in salary

and commissions from the American Lithofold

Corp., which obtained a $565,000 RFC loan after

Famine former Democratic Chairman Bill

Boyle as counsel.

One business form printed by Lithofold was By Talburt peed to distillers, brewers and vinters (who?

federal tax liability is computed on the basis of how many gallons they report). The New York Alcohol. Tax Supervisor,

James B. E. Olson, became ‘a vice president.

of Lithofold. A salesman testified that the head of the company handed him a list of prospects which he said “our new vice president, Mr. Jimmy Olspn,” had supplied. = “It won't be long,’ ¢he salesman said his boss told him, “before our competitors begin to wonder how you can get around so fast and get so many orders.” Sure enough, the salesman made some good sales to customers on the Olson ist. Once, he said, Olson called him up to chide him for not having been quicker to call on a prospect. Olson wanted to know how soon he would get his commissions. Olson had another interest, a company making truck bodies which were sold to industrial clients, including brewers. He formed the company right after he became supervisor in 1946; when he resigned this year to devote full time

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to it, he estimated its gross annual volume at $1,400,000. . : Selling insurance is another sideline that turns up in testimony. A brother of James P.-Finnegan was a copartner ih%an insurance agency that seemed to have an unerring instinct for geexing out and finding persons in federal tax difficulties. Once it even branched out into Boston under the benevolent eye of the former collector there, Dennis Delaney. ] do Two “Bpston merchants testified they paid the insurance agency $15,000 on a pledge to get, their tax liabilities reduced. One man, said he called Delaney to be sure the men were on the level and Delaney not only said that they were O.K. bit volunteered the information that Finnegan was slated to become the top man in the Revenue Bureau in Washington. Delaney did not mention what was testified later to Congress, that he got $10,000 in coms missions trom the insurance men who also sent $2000 to collector Finnegan. It's part of the Revenue Bureau's job to keep track of persons who make a lot of money at the races and to collect the federal admissions tax. Two New York agents claimed they developed considerable skill at winning themselves. One, Ralph Demayo, said he netted $8100 in the past three years by picking daily doubles at Long Island tracks, but was not able to name all the races and horses he won on. The other agent. Willlam H. Dettmer Jr. testified that he took in $1300 to $1800 a year betting on harness races. He said he waited until just before the parimutuel windows clesed, then bet win and place on the third favorite. “Invariably,” he said, he at least got his money back.

BRITISH ELECTION . . . By Ludwell Denny Don't Think Socialism’s Buried

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—Preparations for the burial of socialism, because the Labor Party lost the British election, are premature. There is an even chance that Labor will return to power in Britain within the next year or two. And it is highly probable that the next government of West Germany will be Socialist. The idea that socialism is washed up is compounded of wishful thinking, of a misunderstanding of what happened in the British and certain other elections, and of underestimating the extent to which socialism has permeated socalled non-Socialist parties and governments. In the case of Britain the Socialist vote has increased. Last week. the Labor Party polled more votés than any party in British history. Its percentage of the total popular vote rose from 486.2 last year to 48.7 last week.

Shifting Vote THE REASON the Labor Party lost Thursday's election was that some of the nonSocialist vote, which put it into office in 1945, this time swung away from it. Decline of the Liberal Party, which before split the nonSocialist vote with the Conservatives, accelerated the swing in the middle class vote. But another shift in this decisive middle class vote could put the Labor Parties back in office in the United Kingdom, in Australia and in New Zealand. All of those Labor governments were handicapped by having been in office during hard times and too long—many voters wanged a change regardless. Presumably they will tirg of Conservative governments also, as they have\before. the British Conservative Party, in order to dgfeat Labor, had to accept most

are now w ‘fare state and nationalized industries operates ~just the same under the non-Socialist coalition . governments,

of the existing Socialist system. Churchill promised not to cut the’ welfare state, and to denationalize only one major industry (steel). That is not surprising, since Churchill fathered the. welfare state in the first place, and many conservatives for vears have favored nationalization of coal and public utilities. Proof of the decline of socialism is supposed

‘ to be most convincing on the continent, espe-

cially in Frafide and Italy. It is true that once powerful Sqcjalist parties in those two countries

k. But the Socialist system of wel.

The reason the so-called Socialist vote is smaller in France and Italy is not that there are fewer Socialists—there are more. But they are divided among several parties. The latter in. clude not only splinter Socialist parties and Catholic labor parties, but also the powerful Communist parties and the growing NeoFascist parties.

Free Enterprise "WHAT has declined in Western Europe, as in Britain, is not socialism but liberalism and the system of free enterprise. Since the Conservative governments are no longer anti-Sécialist in fact but semi-Socialist in practice, and since Labor parties have modified their Marxism, the basic European cleavage today is between Conservative and Labor moderates on one side and left and right extremists on the other side. Britain has left Bevanites but almost no Reds

by huge Communist parties and growing totalitarianism on the right,

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MR. EDITOR: T see where Judge Alex Clark has again come up. with more of his confusing statements. He claims he was not responsible for what seemed to me to be a very timely visit of one of the most vicious character assassins this country has seen in many, many years. I ruppose the Judge was highly elated to have the wholehearted endorsement of “coconut shooting” MecCarthy. Maybe he wasn’t responsible fér the Senator’s visit, but I can't for the life’ of me figure for what other purpose he. could have been brought into our city. “o © & I READ with a great deal of amusement where the Republican mayoralty candidate balked at having his picture taken with the Senator. What did the Judge fear? After all he and the Senator belong to and represent the same party. ; One more question, Alex. Do you know the Senator as well as he apparently knows you? If not, I have an excellent suggestion whereby you can become thoroughly acquainted. One of our nation’s leading magazines has given a very descriptive biography of his senatorial record. This magazine, by the way, does not hide behind a cloak .of congressional immunity to keep from libeling itself.

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‘Too Much Nudity’ MR. EDITOR: > After reading the article in The Times, Oct. 26, “Call Girls Mash Notes on Review,” I mentally added it to the other revolting articles recently read, and not only in The Times but other places, as well. It seems as though ar-

—A Citizen, City.

REARMAMENT ISSUE . . . By Parker LaMoore

Will Churchill Ask People for Mandate?

ticles of this kind and ‘pictures of almost nude women are all that make the papers any more. Don't get me wrong. I'm not a prude or an old maid, nor so ugly no man would look at me, I am married with four children, but I really do think soms-women go a little too far with their mode of undress. Any day I look to pick up the paper and find that complete nudity is the latest fashion. , About the article I'read before, all I can say ig, if a man is such a fool as to pay from $20.to £1000 for one night of illicit love . .. he has no room to complain about it, or anything else that might happen to him. On my list he rates as fool No. 1 of the year, pat This article I will probably never see in the Forum .. . but at- least I have expressed my opinion and that of several others. : —Mrs. Fred Hicks Jr, City

Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

® wo 2 CHURCHILL may be more sympathetic with Attlee now that it is -his turn to lead from weakness.

Hh ¢ H MAYBE we should have a Point Five program for the overdeveloped areas of the world that are making A-bombs. 5 oo & IT IS suggested that a subcommittee be appointed to choose afeeeseor to Democratic National ChairmangBoyle. They could auction off the job. > oS 2 SURVIVORS were surprised to learn in -Colliers Magazine that we are still working on our first millionth traffic fatality. ¢ 4 & ALTHOUGH bubble gum is still a penny, parents suffer from its inflation.

neglect and mediocrity under

to seek a more decisive mandate.

No consideration {8 being given to a coalition government because no unity of purpose is apparent upon which such a coalition could be based. Much may depend on how the Socialist Party ‘resolves its internal differences.

The left-wing Bevanites were returned to Parliament with increased majorities and in most instances wbn re-election in marginal districts, Thus reinforced, they will make a strong bid for party leadership. A spokesman for this group has declared since the election that Bevanism will become the official party policy within 12 months. » » »

“THE BEVANITES are the only people who were honest in facing the rearmament crisis— the fact that you can’t have

rearmament and maintain the - ° Socialist services, the standard

of living and the export drive,” he said. : Obviously rearmament could not be abandoned without some

kind of understanding with

The Bevanites deny

Russia.

being close to the British Communists~position. 3° extent to which the moderafe leadership of the Socialist Party will resist this leftward inclination remains to be determined. Sparks will begin to fly when the new government presents legislation returning the iron and steel industry to private ownership. This may demonstrate that -it is easier to nationalize an industry than to denationalize it. Steven Hardie, head of the government iron and steel corporation, predicts it will take six months to pass the legislation and that then the difficulties will just begin. app —— J n 2 NOT ALL of the steel stock was good stock, he said. Therefore, he asked, “How is the government going to get former ‘shareholders to buy back all of the shares—good and bad?” - - Meanwhile, the government is continuing with nationalization of industry as though nothing had . happened. Although the Tory platform

hinted at denationalization of .

the trucking industry, thé day following the election officials of the government road trans-

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Folkestone trucker whose business had not been taken over to turn over his trucks and contracts to them, When he asked about compensation he was told that would come later, but that if he didn't turn over his trucks at once he would lose any right to compensation. Thus the nationalization acts will continue to operate until they are repealed. - » ” ” ‘ THE FIRST act of the new’ parliament will be election of a new speaker of the House of Commons as the incumbent

did not run for re-election, This will cost the Tories a vote from’ their hard-won majority, be«. cause by long-established cus«' tom the speaker ceases to be. a partisan from the moment: of his election and refrains from all political and personal contacts which might influence’ his neutrality. . i ++ The position is almost as.

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