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Give Light and the Peopie Wii Fina 1hetr Own Way
Where Does He Find 'Em?
OME singular
limelight by administration, things.
Like E. Merl
characters have been shoved into- the the scandal developments in the Truman A long list of them. Singular for strange
Young, who parlayed an assistant
messenger job with the government into a $9500 natural pastel royal mink coat for his wife, paid for by a slickhaired lawyer whose furrier client had wheedled a loan
from the RFC,
where Young worked.
Like Donald S. Dawson, the presidential assistant, who saw nothing wrong with taking free lodgings at a fancy Miami Beach hotel which had obtained an RFC loan, but “wouldn’t do it again.” Like Denis W. Delaney, the Boston tax collector, who said he had “no idea” why he was suspended—after a congressional committee caught up with him—but later was indicted on bribery charges.
Like James
B. E. Olson, supervisor of a tax unit, who
made maybe $100,000—he wasn't sure—doing “nothing in particular” for outside firms while holding his federal job. Like James P. Finnegan, the St. Louis tax collector, who testified the White House three times asked him not to quit, although he since has been indicted for bribery and other misconduct.
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LIKE James G. Smyth, the San Francisco tax collector who was indignant over the suspension of himself and eight others in his office who, he said, “have devoted their
lives to government service.”
Yet the suspensions were
based on evidence of wholesale incompetence, at ]east. Like Joseph P. Marcelle, the Brooklyn collector, who was fired when it was shown, among other things, that he had failed to report $32,000 of his own taxable income. Like Theron I.amar Caudle, the assistant Attorney General, fired for outside activities incompatible with his
office, who “just couldn't recollect, so he'p me”
when
questioned about favors he gained from people in tax
troubles.
Like so many more of the same order, who couldn't see they had “done anything wrong.” All these things have been turned up by congressional investigations, variously described at one time or another by Mr. Truman as “asinine” or. ‘‘smear.” When Congress finishes its investigations of these
singular characters, matter of historical curiosity,
it might be worth its time, as a "to launch another probe
aimed at the answer to this question:
“Where in the world does Truman find so many of
these guys?”
- Qatis and
Slansky
UDOLF SLANSKY, alias Salzmann, until last Septem-
ber, was a Czechoslovakia.
Now, it appears, Slansky
top thug in the Communist Politburo of
has been purged. The official
Czech explanation is that he was plotting against the “re-
public.”
Getting too big for his britches.
More plausible is the story that he didn't get his job done—the job assigned him by his Moscow masters. He was supposed to communize the farm population—and this
apparently failed.
When a Communist project bogs down,
there must always be a scapegoat. It also. is reported Slansky is getting some of his own
thumbscrew because of the Oatis case, which demonstrated --
to the free world just what kind of gangsters are running
Czechoslovakia.
Slansky, who is probably one of the inventors of the
torture inflicted uppance,
But not because Mr.
on William N. Oatis, is getting his comeOatis was mistreated.
Slansky somehow got in the way— just as Mr. Oatis acci-
dentally did.
ze un
COMMUNISTS do not brook any
or even honesty.
Yet the State Department tontinues to rely negotiation to free Mr. Oatis. though they were decent people. in Washir
embassy
r degree of divergence,
mainly It deals with tyrants as It permits the Czech
gton to add to its staff, while the Com-
munists Sit, and expel aids to our ambassador in
Czechoslovakia.
Czech agents in this country enjoy diplomatic liberties
while Mr.
Oatis,
framed and abused, stays deserted and
alone in a Czech prison.
o 8lansky would give his right arm,
just now, if he only
could fall into the-hands of the State Department.
‘The Year
We Relax’
JOHN FOSTER DULLES made a thoughtful speech Tuesday night in Detroit on the question of whether we can stop Russian imperialism.
"The highly
of the State Department believes we can.
placed Republican adviser and consultant But not by a
policy of localized military containment everywhere along
the 25.000 miles of the Soviet orbit.
That, he suggests,
might be impractical militarily, and certainly economically. Rather, he would rely on “community punishing power,” the ability to hit Russia itself “with incredible destruction” the moment she starts a new aggressive move. That, of course, is what we are broadly trying to achieve
in our preparedness program,
Dulles said Tuesday night had to do with Stalin's policy of turning off the heat, of retreating and even.appeasing occasionally to gain time to assume the offensive later,
Said Mr. Dulles: “We
dare not consider that this
present (rearmament) effort will do the job once and for all, or that we can predetermine the vear of greatest danger.”
-
we relax.”
“The vear of greatest danger,”
he said, “will be the year
That Is the motto that should be engraved on the walls of every one of our defense, production and planning
agencies—especially at a time when we are led to believe that a “truce” is possible | in Korea,
}
But the wisest words Mr.
DEFENSE .
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2b. Officials of the Mutual Security. Agency, successor to the ECA, look for a far greater volume of American military orders to be placed with European manufacturers than public announcements have indicated. They figure it this 1 way: "Gen. Eisenhower's decision to aim for a rapid "build- up of, North Atlantic: ‘Treaty forces to combat readiness by next. summer meafis the memher nations will have to spend a lot more of their own funds, sooner than -they expected, on troop pay and allowances,
» * » o> oe " ! “
THEY can't, or won't, by squeezing their civilian living standards further. They're most likely to skimp on other phases of their military budgets deferrable items like construction, maintenance and, especially, contracts for future arms deliveries. ‘ But the approximately 30 NATO divisions Eisenhower is said to want by next summer he now has about 20, under strength—must be fully equipped if they are to be any deterrent to Russian aggression.
Previous American attempts to subsidize European arms production by such indirect means as contributing machine have
tools
A HINT? . .. By Ludwell Denny
What's Behind Slansky Purge?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—The purge of Rudolph Slansky, until recently the “Czech Stalin,” is taken here as another welcome revelation of the extreme instability of the satellite countries. It is the third purge of top Reds in Czechoslovakia this year, and follows similar axing of stooge dictators in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. The fact that Stalin cannot trust his own hand-picked hatchet-men in those states is believed to be one of the two chief reasons he has not yet launched his Red armies against Western Europe. The other, of course, has been America’s atomic superiority. Slansky . . . a sign of = 1f Siete is war, . op Lastern Europe will Red instability not be the nes defensive barrier and strong offensive base for Russia's drive to the Atlantic Stalin planned. Instead, it will be a swamp of sedition and sabotage behind the Red lines.
Unless Stalin feared this, there wéuld not be so many purges of so many Slanskies in so many satellite countries. If they had been able to provide the kind of security required bv Stalin for his expanding empire and future
aggression, they would be too valuable for him to lose,
But persons well informed about the Red ‘curtain countries—inciuding Allied officials and recent political refugees—do not conclude from
these grave internal weaknesses.that the Stalin
dictatorship is about to fall. Most of them do
not even think there is a good chance of Czechoslovakia, or the others, going ‘‘Titoist” and beconiing anti-Stalin Communist states like
Yugoslavia.
No Masaryks Left
HOWEVER else the Slanskies have failed, they have virtually eliminated the of successful anti-Communist revolt. Killed off or imprisoned potential leaders. There are no Masaryks left. The polite state terror prevents an uprising of unarmed slaves. They could rise with foreign aid in the confusion of a European war, but not now.
possibility They have democratic
Chances of a Titoist revolt from the top are somewhat better. but are not good. That was the goal of the group around Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis. It might have succeeded briefly in nationalistic Slovakia if Slansky last spring had not purged the Titoists in time. One decisive factor, however, makes it almost impossible now for would-be Titos in Czechoslovakia, Poland, garia to become independent dictators. That is the Russian army, which is in those countries or just across the border. Tito survives because there are other countries between him and Russia.
No Tito-Type Case THOUGH BSlansky is chargeé racy, it is not believed here this Tito-type case.
with conspiis a genuine Instead, there is mich evidence from the long record that it is merely the latest development. —and perhaps not the last—in the persona! power. struggie between the twin puppets Stalin set up to watch each other, boss Slansky 4nd President Klement Gott Each has been
party wald. trying for months to eliminate the other as an alleged Titoist, Several-times purger Slansky almost got Gottwald, now purged him. But whatever the truth may -be ahout these involved inter-Red neither Slanskies not Gottwalds can meet Stalin's
demands for more production from the sullen slaves and for more loyalty from the conquered for the Russian conqueror.
SIDE GLANCES
who has
plots and ecounter-plots
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T. M 5 pa. ab. VOPR 1991 ov MEA BEIICE. We.
“Every time we go to a Parent-Teacher meetin , tell everybody you never finished the eight hh
get the extra money
HOW TO TALK . .
the Senate caucus
Hungary, Romania or Bul-~
By Galbraith
do you u hove to grade /
. By James Daniel a : Re
- MSA ‘Predicts. Greater Volume Of U. S, Military Orders In Europe
failed. Thus, the situation is now set for the American taxpayer to pick up nearly the entire arms check. This will be done in two ways: Stepped-up shipments of finished war goods from the United States, which Eisenhower seems to have been promised, even though it means diverting arms from American forces at home, Placement by.this goverpment of more military orders in Europe, : Having the European. countries use limited defense funds for more economy in. one way-—KEuropean
their troops "is an troop pay is
low, whereas their arms production costs ane on
a level with ours,
And as an immediate solution, shipping more
At Least He Remembers the Name WONDER IF HES IN THE SAME 3 JAIL: I'M SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING
WILLIAM OATIS RELEASED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 After long years in Hollywood, I came to the considered opinion that Sam Goldwyn mangled the King's English on purpose, He got attention, where other, more careful grammarians didn’t Well do I remember the peeved over a news story I'd written; he got me on the phone and he sputtered: “The trouble with you, Othman, is you stick your head in an ostrich.” So there I was in
time he
became
room, thinking about the magnificent 8am and his assaults upon the language. This line of hough was natural enough because the fellow doing the testifving before the Senators was Jumping Joe Ferguson of Columbus, O., the leading master east of Hollywood of the malapropism. : Jumping Joe, vou remember, is the gay little fellow with the mouth exactly the right size for inserting his owm foot. That may be one reason why Robert A. Taft trounced him so handily in the Ohio Senatorial election last vear. Jumping Joe doesn’t think so. He's in Washington to complain that Taft's supporters much wooing the voters, Little Joe adjusted the kn fe-edge crease in his pale-gray pants, took his stance in front of the senatorial microphones, and charged. thas all the newspapers in Ohio were on Taft 8 side What they said he continued, was a caution. WHY, it he'd been a suing man, he could have made a fortune on libel suits. Jumping Joe added that he was who could dish it out and al “Of course.” said he, glancing at perhaps 100 reporters scribbling notes af the press tables “I'm not casting any aspirations at the reporters around here.” :
spent too
about him,
the kind of fellow
20 take it.
LABOR .
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 Railway labor relations, already in bad shape, snarled further today, after refusal of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to present its arguments in a dispute before a presidentially appointed emergency board, National
were
(Railway) Medi ation Board records show no previous instance of a union walking out of a hearing in the 20 years the Railway Labor Act has been operating. Union spokesmen said today they will not return to the proceedings, but will be available if board members want informal conferences.
” » ~ THE DISPUTE is part of a controversy, more than two vears old, between the railroads and the four “operating” unions ~-those” representing the firf. men, engineers, conductors and trainmen. The trainmen have settled. The engineers and conductors still are trying for better terms than were recom-
mended by a presidential board and agreed to by rail manage- . ment. Only the firemen's union, headed by D. B. Robertson, is involved in the current pro-
tors’ "Hughes in a letter to President
arms from this country can help. Eisenhower achieve the battle readiness he wants next year. But the goal is to have Europe ultimately making and replenishing her own weapons and thus ceasing to lean on the U. 8, So the-Mutual Security Agency, which holds the purse strings on European military aid, looks to the Defense Department to increase the volume of orders it placés with European manuTop Defense Department ‘officials “off-shore procurement” ‘When the bld ECA was ‘dragging - its feet and contending that direct U. tary ordering in Europe discouraged the Allies’
facturers, were advocating such months ago,
own rearmament programs. Currently,
. By Frederick C. Othman Goldwyn Can't Do Any More To King’s English Than Ferguson vi:
The kindly Sen. Guy M.
suppressed a smile and quietly ordering word,
to the stenographer, in the official record that make it read. aspersions,
Jumping Joe plowed on through the gram- ( mar books, wrecking every hi as he explained his loss of the election
“The reason I got beat
said, Now with indicating Sen.
the working peoplé has got their bellies full ) mer n just now and they don't go out to vote and protect In the . ever their rights. In Ohio the people stayed home" vention [al8 to He paused, thought that over a. moment der nou and added: “Maybe if they'd went out to vote he accept the y
they might have beat me we
‘Independent Official’
and likeable li
when he
ttie guy, w ho tried to Mrs.
wrestle from Taft.
his charm.
How could he promise the voters to President Truman's program and still tell
he was opposed to the Brannan
plan, she demanded. Mrs. Senator,” don't ris ghtly know probabil the most
said
another, ed to help him out,
“Isn't it a matter of semantics as to what
these are among’
Gillette (D. Towa) handed a note him to change aspirations. And
ile he encountered
so bad was because the Democrats did not go. eut and vote,” he all due respect to the lady” Margaret Chase Smith (R. Me.) such as Sens. Ta
rse. I don’t know.”
YOU GET the idea, Jumping J
in over his
I do what independent Ohio State Auditor) in the United States.” Mrs —Smith-€ontinued-to press—him on how he could tell some voters one thing and others Sen, Tnomas C. Hennings Jr. iD. Mo.
trial reporting their contract
putting prices
‘or two,
S. mili-
50 high we, in ve paying them their capital costs in
THREE-—Finickiness by .some of our te nical services in insisting on equipment specifis cations that are unnecessary or unrelated bd.
ew for
that delay the conversion “of Europe's “idle plants and labor to defense production:
ONE--Vagueness of much European iridus-
data, and the differences in
laws and ours.
TWO-—A desire by some munitions makers to use American
orders as a gravy train,
effect, would a year
ch-
prospective Eurepean fighting conditions.
FOUR-
the factors
name,
FIVE —A American
as theirs, ¥ Despite tary buyers
MSA officials development,
SessEsaRRsaRRRRERaEnY,
MR. EDITOR: Let me say
simply want to is In by playing for President As evervone with his
favor
ILiess Eisenhower : da
does
his colorless
Taf raft i
Way,
y I 1 Ire for. It looks
where he is
MR. EDITOR
work near here
ellow ren’'s initi
complete nominee, ov, Warrer
planks
head
senatorial seat
Smith was having none of
support
MAYBE W farm subsidy wh tdy We
the Reds agreed to a tri
constitutes a subsidy”” suggested the Senaior
“That's right,”
Myself, I'm fenatorial boat. me here
Kind, of
ceedings. That iz because this union recently called a strike, causing the President to name an emergency board, and thus automatically postponing the strike for 60 days. The strike call was despite the fact that the railroads have been under technical government operation since August, 1950; under such circumstances, it has been customary for the government to obtain anti-strike injunctions from federal courts. Apparently, the union struck to force appointment of an emergency board. It got the board, all right, but when the union officers saw who was on it, they were unhappy. All three members they pointed out, had ruled against rail unions in previous similar cases, ” ou ” HAROLD C. HEISS of Cleveland, the union's general counsel, blamed John R, Steelman, assistant to the President, for naming the same board that in. October was sharply criticized by conducunion President R. O.
Truman, One board member--Andrew Jackson of New York-4s on the “unacceptable” list of the Railway Labo rz Executives
said Jumping Joe. did a long double take and added: ROorry He'd have been as much help to as was Goldwyn in Hollywood,
. By Fred W. Perkins Railway Relations Go From Bad to Worse
IKE MAY increased the
Association. Another, George Cheney of San Diego, Cal, was an arbitration referee in a
trainmen cdse that resulted in a finding unsatisfactory to the firemen. The third member and hoard chairman is Dr, Carroll R. Daugherty of Northwestern University, at Evanston, Ili.
He was expected to proceed today with hearing the railroads’ arguments, What the
board will do after that, with the union in a boycott status, is a puzzle, From union statements {it appears tha no finding by this board will be acceptable, ~ » ” UNION spokesmen stayed in the hearing- just long enough to present general arguments. Mr. Heiss said that the railroads had changed the character of the case by injecting proposed new changes in “rules,” ‘or working conditions. These rules changes, the union lawyer said, would reduce pay. The parties are practically in agreement on immediate wage increases. A demand for a 40-hour week, with the same pay as now received for 48 bit is still in the picture, t the rules shanges appear
sometimes industrial and foreigners shouldn't get bu
all such difficulties,
are roaming Europe books in one hand
call this a new
at the outset of in the opinions I shall set forth
favorable reflect
and the dang re
with
continu
'y for President ir
would try ts
The Eisenhows fraught with danger Republicans play with it, not add to my confidence eithar twice has weakened the Republicas es indecisive y him stay out of the The Republicans and not hite political star of Kise should continue to serve his faving on his military too, as if he would for sometime,
agreement that he
as he has always ple, and in 3. he no the reactis
F
‘trains . , .
The tendency of our m A ilitary buy to prefer a reliable U y he European company
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Company over a which they only know by
selfish insistence by labor - groups that
American miliwith order the other. promising
and money in and
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Hoosier Forum
"l do not agree with a word that vo but | will defend to the deat ag to say it."—Voltaire.
teen BI on ean
‘Ike and the President’ —
h your right
Sassssansanscsnanenenaa’
this letter that I east no un. Fisenhower, I the political trap he
to the Republican Party the idea of nominating him
ion on Gen
point out
in 1952.
must know, ed pow
President
in spite of
Truman national Id easily and now to maneuver minute into/ the candi-
he Democratic Party. In
hh ‘e + + that case the Democrats might and probably would win the election. : : en suppose Eisenhower won the Repuby » 1tio Pre nT y might and might
I liscred iim so that he could not be elect od He could suddenly remove him from his job in time and disqualify him by dishonorable ropaganda to prevent him rom receiy ng eithar nomir pt r 3 eS a "GEN. MACARTHUR should be our next President, but Sen. Ta also {zs a fine fearless
President,
Presidential popularity is so I am surprised that the The barking of Dewey Dewey 1 Party with
inept campaignin picture should come all-out for
h their wag
1 to the nebulous nhower. Eisenhower, anv. country bv 1h that.
be needed
‘Warren for President’
—Mrs, Fyvadne H. Hibben emploved « construction I had the opportunity. while
¢ home during the week-end, to talk with ma: Republicans concerning il speech can nomination f«
Governor Warin his bid for the Repubiiwr President. We were all in should be the
ch proved that a champion fi
he «
he is still,
been, ir the er
when ame out
for many President Truman's Fair Deal doubt bombshell nary, old-gu Republicans
t. Jenner and Rep. Halleck,
dropped a
ional Con3 presi tances could » reason his with those of
3 the Gov. Warren should head an i ticket. He would b 3 " to fF vv ' r > 1 3} i be elected the votes of mill f Republi oe was a ink cans, Democrats and independent
Willd Caren South Bend.
Views on News
iv DAN KIDNEY
should let our senior citizens One s}) Rf yr he Veep and
e lie in Korea,
Jumping Joe, I iy 'm ; NEW Democrat National Chairman Mepublic official Kinney savs the ¥ ub ins never have caught up with the. gy And he the people w never cate to the rats; JUDGING 8ir n Ages to the £100 New—York=—tmmer President Truman and Chairman McKinney are about to launch a drive for a Democratic reform school Then he RO MANY administration officials have “I think. resigned for their health that DPA has inhe missed the creased building materials for ho pitals,
not be running. hut he sure has cadence of his wal
As the princi pal settlement,
obstacle to
Howard Neitzert, roads’ lawyer
the rail- . declared that of nearly 1,300,000 railroad employees, only the three unions representing’ 60,000 firemen, 02,000 engineers and. 21,000 conductors “have rejected the pattern of settlement and are asking for something better than their fellow employees have found acceptable.”
WHAT ARE WE
FROM every walk of life we come . .. we hurry to'and fro +s +» from here to there and back again , . , our pace Is never slow . , , we are as regular as time , , , and we're the greatest part , , . of what It takes to make our city , . . pulsate like a heart , . , we are the ones who turn the wheels , . , that move the iron and we're the ones who make the things . .. that shelter when it rains , , we ring the bells, we punch the clocks . .. we're part of all you do ,.. in case you're wondering what we are . , .we're eltlzens like you.
~By Ben Burroughs. \
REY POE SH,
siness they regard °
hre-tr Fitted
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