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Policy Important Enough To Be in the Law
wo MONTHS ago President Truman wrote a blanket order to all departments of the government, directing them to keep a tight hold on information relating to the national security, ~~ The order was sent to all agencies, regardless of relationship to national security. Mr. Truman said the order was intended to increase, rather than lessen. the amount of information released to the public about its own business. But there is no effective central control, discretion virtually is unlimited and already there have been instances of sheer cover up. : Soon after the President put out his order, three Republican Senators introduced a bill to repeal it.” The staff of a Senate committee now has submitted a report on the legal aspects of the repeal proposal. "The committee staff is doubtful of Congress’ power merely to repeal the order. It recommends, instead, that Congress write into the law a specific policy setting out the information to which the public is entitled. 8 oa: s : ”» ” o THE public right to information about its government is unchallengeable. Even Mr. Truman gives ardent lip service to that principle. It is a principle of such basic importance that it ought to be spelled out, “in clear and unmistakable terms,” as the committee staff suggests, by congressional action. It ought to be one of Congress’ first items of business, when it returns next month, to pass a security information law as proposed by the staff of the Senate committee. Until there is such a law, every Tom, Dick and Harry in the government simply will use his own discretion—with, varying motives—in suppressing public information.
Prepared to Serve
‘HE LOT of the man waiting to be called to military service is not a happy one. There's the suspense, for him and his family, until they know when, or if, he'll be called. He's tempted to lose interest in school, if he's’ a student, for school soon
-may be interrupted.
It's hard to find a job, for employers are wary of taking on beginners"who may soon leave for service. There's a temptation, for the man and for those who love him, to live for the moment, to shun responsibility,
to indulge in “one last fling”
The temptation is understandable, but it isn’t smart to give in to it. A few boys have got into trouble for irresponsibility they showed while waiting to enter the armed services. Instead of shirking responsibility’ and discipline, the prospective service man should be cultivating these qualities. He'll need them more than ever when he gets into service. a “In the military life, the- young man will -find opportunity, responsibilty, temptation, some hard work and some fun. Character is even more important in military life than in civil life. The more character a boy has when he enters military service, the better off he will be. Military life seldom makes good boys bad or bad boys good.
Fast Pickup
N’ mid-November, President Truman said 95 per cent, or more, of the government's employees were honest and capable. The new Democratic National Chairman, Frank E. MecKinney, who has been on his job a month, said on Nov. 26 that the percentage of honest, capable employees was 99 and 9710. . Of course, both men were guessing. But that's a big pickup in a short time if both were accurate. There are about 21, million employees in the executive branch. If 5 per cent are not honest and capable, that's 125,000. If only one-tenth of 1 per cent aren't, it's still a good many—2500. , But the point is that even one-tenth of 1 per cent is too much. And the bigger point 1s that whatever the percentage, the wrong-doers reflect on the whole govern-
“ment—offsetting the work of the overwhelming majority.
Still more impdrtant is the fact that the scandals which are being exposed on a widening scale have been exposed by Congress—not by the administration.
Next: East Lynne
A MONG other pastimes, the United Nations is going to debate whether the United States is trying: to stir up unrest in Russia against the Kremlin gang.
Not, mind you, whether Russia is guilty of inciting subversion in this country, because we haven't been so 'mpolite as to make such charges. So, once more Uncle Sam will be on the defensive before the United Nations. Of course we would be saps if we weren't trying to help along any potential revolt against’ the Communist’ overlords of Russia, but our United Nafions delegates will act as if they were norrified at the thought. Ang, naturally, nothing will come of the .debate. . In the United Nations, the show must always go on.
Rustlers :
HREE Washington men have been sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary for stealing three cows from a Maryland farmer, In passing sentence, the judge poirited out that in the “old west” cattle rustling was punishable by hanging. "Wonder what the “old west” would have done with - some other types of /ashington rustlers who have been brazen enough to the cow and the stale, too.
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DEAR os. Loher Tires
Of Truman
By DAN KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, -Dec.* 3
—Republicans would sweep Indidna ard surrotinding Midwestern states, if the election were tomorrow, and the situation isn't likely to be changed in 1952.
This pronouncement came today from Daniel J. Tobin, Indianapolis, long-time president
of the Teamsters Union. It ap- -
peared in the union's publica~ tion, the International Teamster, published here.
Each month, Mr. Tobin expresses his views in the publi~ cation under the title “Timely Remarks by Daniel J. Tobin.”
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“IF A NATIONAL election were held now,” Mr. Tobin writes, “in the opinion of a great many of us out here in the Middlewest, the Republicans would have carried the Middlewest states easily, including Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Missouri.
* “Roosevelt carried all those states in 1932-36."
When F. D. R. ran, Mr.
Tobin headed the labor divi-
tfon—of —Democratic national headquarters. It appears unlikely that he will do so again, even if another fellow-towns-man, Frank E. McKinney, is ‘ the new Democratic national ¢hairman, ; For -Mr. Tobin reports that ‘workers, organized and unqrganized, have lost confidence in the Truman Administration.
ww -"n » “THERE can be changes in
the whole atmosphere of world affairs by the time the elec-
- tion comes around in 1952 and
the Democrati¢’' Party may be able to create a better feeling toward the administration and Congress,” Mr. Tobin continues.
“Now it is quite doubtful if the machinery of government can bring back any such thing as the confidence of the working masses of the people, organized and unorganized, ih the whole setup of Washington. The answer here, as in other places, i§ that while the masses of the workers will not
‘ vote for the enemies of labor,
many within the Republican Party, the masses of the workers have lost confidence in the present Washington machinery. “They ask themselves: Where are we going? What's become of the promises made to us by the party in power? Have they
forsaken the working people of |
the nation? : ” ” 2
“THOSE questions are difficult to answer. As I have repeatedly said before, for some unaccountable reason the toilers. have lost confidence. It could be that the masses of the workers are wrong. It could also be that they are right, and they seemingly demonstrated their feelings by ‘not voting’. “I feel safe in saying that large numbers of voters, both organized apd unorganized,
hive a feeling of something
like distrust.
“The next question is: Why do they feel this way? The answer they give you is: ‘We're going no place very fast. The cost of living is mounting and increasing. Those who have the power to hold down the cost of living have seemingly been helpless.”
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MR. TOBIN maintains that
the solution lies in better co- .
operation between employers ind workers. Under his editorial entitled “Employers Must Awaken” he concludes:
“My last suggestion to employers is: Wake up to your surrounding as of today. Tomorrow may be too late, Your heads will be the first ones on the block when the time comes. It happened that way in Russia. It happened that way in Germany. It happened that way in Austria. It can happen here.
“Keep it from happening here by helping labor to fight Communism; don't spend all
your time and energy fighting labor.”
SIDE GLANCES
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MEAT PROBLEM .
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By Frederick C. Othman
Tenderloin Celebration for Two?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—You been noticing what's happening to the cost of meat? Pleasing to practically everybody except cows. Fact is, any day now I think my bride's going to break down and allow me to sink my teeth once again into a beefsteak. Just as soon as she can buy a good one for less than. $1 per pound—a price she still considers outrageous— she plans to hold a celebration, featuring tenderloin for two.
Suddenly this nation’s meat department nes confounded the butchers, the OPS experts and all the others who predicted for assorted reasons that we were about to become a race of involuntary vegetarians, Now we're on the verge of a meat surplus.
This happy circumstance reminds me of a chat I had in Buenos Aires a few months back, over a magnificent beefsteak, with a philosophical native. “We Argentianians,” he said, “work hard 18 hours a day trying to ruin our country. The other six hours we sleep.and then the grass grows and the cows produce calves and repair all the Qathage, »
Grow Heavy, Fort
OUR SITUATION here isn’t exactly parallel, but that’s one beauty about a cow. While the government's price controllers denounce cattlemen as profiteers and the packing plant executives charge the bureaucrats with trying to starve us.all, she continues placidly to munch hay. Mere man hasn't too much to do with it. His cattle grow heavy and fat and he's got to sell 'em, no matter what. So now our stockyards are jammed. The first two weeks of November the packing plants turned 10 per cent more
‘steers into steaks than they did during the same
period last year, when there was no meat shortage. The American Meat ‘Institute is about to launch the greatest advertising campaign in its history in the interest of getting more people to eat more pork chops. Seldom in our national life has there been so much pork coming to market.
I have the figures, but they're just big num-
bers which don’t mean much to folk interested in some ham, for a change, with their eggs. Just look at the price of a pork loin in the butcher's and get a pleasant shock.
FROM THE FIRST
SINCE the day you said you cared , .. I’ve known a happy way ... and life for me has been a dream . .. a new dream every day . .. since that first magic night of love . . . sweet night of ecstacy . .. I felt as if the whole wide world . , . belonged to only me . .. and from the moment that we kissed glow . .. a kind of boundless thrill of bliss . . . that makes me love you so... yes from the first I really knew .., that I had found my love ... and I will hold you to my heart . , . till stars don’t shine above . . , oh darling dear, how great it is . . . this love for you I feel... . and from the very first I've known . . . that it was true and real. —By Ben Burroughs.
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With these enormous supplies of hogs rolling to market, the demand for beef has eased off a little. The specialists in such matters simultaneously are: prediciting that in January, when the Agricultare department takes its next census of the cow population, there will be 6 million head more than there were last year.
Below U. S. Ceiling
ALREADY MEAT prices in most cities are well below the government's ceiling, The steak that cost $1.35 a pound a couple of weeks ago, Now is $1.15. Apparently it is headed still lower, though I'm sure to get an argument from the meat men for saying so. So now we've got the livestock shows across the country with their blue-ribbon cattle going on the auction block. Ne proud young farmers are getting §15 per pound for their prize-winning beef this year. Their prices the OPS has controlled effectively. The regulations require that meat from these show animals must be sold for regular prices. So the youngsters who get their pictures in the papers saying tearful farewells to their pets are getting little more than market prices. : Each day these seem to go down a little more. I'm even beginning to believe that the time will come when the hamburger at our house contains more meat that it does onion, carrot,*and I believe, oatmeal.
. ® : Views of News . PRESIDENT TRUMAN has summoned Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, head of the Central Intelligence Agency, to Key West, to see if he knows what is going on. * + WHITE HOUSE Press Secretary Joseph Short could clear up some of the “confusion” if he would just stop explaining the explanations. Pe © &
AFTER 10 days of secret Big Four talks, we”
may find out what it was that Vishinsky laughed all night about. ee > ROGER LOWELL PUTNAM was sworn in as the new pilot of the U. 8. inflation balloon with a promise from the President that hs can swear out in six months. > & &
NO WONDER it is so difficult to. get a doctor. According to the TV programs they must all be busy testing cigarets. -—D. K.
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
. DALLAS, Tex.—A local man, arrested for refusing to report to his draft board, said, “Too many people are getting killed in.the Army.”
I've just received by first-class mail, “Your lovely formal greeting, “But better judgment must prevail— “And I can’t keep that meeting.”
“A soldier boy I.cannot be, “An airman, or a ranger. “The way I hear it there must be “Just too doggoned much danger.”
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DANGER... By William P. Soe.
If Stalin Says Go Can
Reds Sweep Europe?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—After six months in Exrope I have returned home convinced that, if Stalin were to give the signal any time soon, thé Red Army's 215 divisions could sweep over Western Europe like a tide,
. defended as .it is by less than
one-tenth that strength. The only thing now holding Russia back is her fear of our atomic bomb, our industrial know-how and our over-all war potential—not what she
might have to go up against
in Western Europe. Our friends across the Atlantic, including the British, are now tragically unprepared psychologically for any really serious defense effort. In fact, the political and economic situations in Britain, France and Italy, to mention only these, virtually preclude such effort at this time. 2 ” # WE SHOULD, of course, extend all possible aid to our
+ Allies—espécially economic aid:
to boost morale and stave off runaway inflation—but with accent on what {is possible without risking our own solvency. Stalin's chief hope is to destroy us economically, convinced that if he can do so the rest of the free world will.drop into his lap like over-ripe fruit,
....The existing, world chaos. is not going to end, ever, if Rus-
sia can prevent it. She inténds to confront us with one Korea after another, or some similar crisis, ‘all around the globe, hoping by that means to exhaust our resources in men, money and material with little or no loss to herself, It is at least a good 50-50 bet that she will not commit the Red Army against us unless and until we are thus softened up.
UNLESS Wa hington recognizes the Soviet pattern for what it is, and cuts its cloth accordingly, Uncle Sam may find himself naked before the final punch. American diplomacy — the Marshall Plan excepted — has failed almost utterly to head off the présent menacing state of affairs. Europe today is more than a little inclined to argue that it is not Europe that is menaced, but the United States. Many Europeans seem to think they are doing us a favor when they agree to help us defend their soil. Some European. intellectuals are preaching “neutrality” in a conflict which, they say, is strictly between the United States and the USSR. This, unwittingly, fits into the Communist Party line—that American imperialists are seeking to use Europeans for cannon-fod-der in a capitalist war for world domination for the benefit of Wall Street.
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FOR THESE and other rea- :
sons—not the least being their
losing struggle to meet the -
daily cost of living—the European masses have tragically unrealistic regarding the Russian peril. Hence they are hostile toward increased taxes, military and similar burdéns. The economic position of our friends, notably England and France, is momentarily too shaky to provide a safe and sure foundation for a dependable European army at this time. Some new form of Marshall Plan—designed to improve the lot o# the masses, lift their standard of living; +head off runaway inflation and increase production through modern
- methods—would - do more to . ‘strengthen our Allies than a
huge appropriation for -arms which we can not now deliver. If Russia strikes soon, the free world's hope of victory will not depend on Europe and a few vulnerable bases close to the Iron Curtain, but upon the United States and its ability to strike back from strategic spots. . 8 o ” EUROPE'S economic machine is largely obsolete. The billions provided by the original Marshall Plan improved it, but not enough. For instance: Officials estimate that Europe's Marshall Plan money this year must be.spent on imported coal. Six years after VE day this is fantastic. Britain became the richest empire in the world because of her superabundance of coal.
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Mr. Simms
EDITOR'S NOTE—The author of this article is the veteran Foreign Editor of the Scripps - Howard Newspapers. He is now in semiretirement,
Mr. Simms writes from a back-
ground of more than 30 years of foreign correspondence.
Yet this winter she will produce only about 80 per cent of her own requirements. She must import coal from America and elsewhere. British miners oppose foreigners working in the mines with them, because they fear it might affect wages. British exports have dropped alarmingly below imports, widening the already dangerout dollar gap. Economists fear this may grow worse as Japan and other competitors re-enter the field.
J ” ” MOST -European countries
- have difficulty with their ex-
ports. This is largely because, despite very low wages, their production methods boost prices right out of the market. One of the most serious problems is inadequate wages. Wages have gone up in Europe, but nothing like the cost of living, Workers are finding it increasingly difficult to feed, clothe and house ther families. Before World War I, you could get an excellent meal in the average boulevard restaurant in Paris for three francs’ wine included. Today the same meal costs approximately 900 francs, or 300 times as much, Wages have lagged far behind
that, especially among the un~
organized. So have the incomes’ of small business men, and those living on pensions and
.annuities.
“rich Americans.”
Mass morale in Europe needs. improvement. People find it hard to see Sayiignt ahead, Young folks, especially, are discourage. : - » THIS Dkee fertile ground for Communist propaganda— that nobody wants war but the They call U. 8. troops in Europe “the American occupation.” Posters abound reading: “Americans! Go Home!” . American taxpayers are carrying a heavy burden as it is, but enlightened self-interest warns that it would be well to do. all we can to improve this situation. Europe's need of the moment, in this writer's opinion,
is not so much a blueprint for
a strong army five years from now, desirable as that would be, but: the sort of intelligent economic assistance that would provide an immediate morale uplift. If that is done effectively, the future army will largely take care of itself.
Barbs
HARD workers smile the most, days a doctor. You're not down in the dumps when you're up on your toes. » ” ” THERE are times when it's hard to tell whether a golfer I looking for a lost ball or a highball, ° » . . ONE important problem has been solved by the Army and Navy. Lots of women no longer have to worry-about what to wear.
Hoosier Forum—‘The U. S. and Dictatorship’
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MR. EDITOR: Recently a former German Nazi student remarked to me: “Change the names, place and date of all these propaganda appeals for MacArthur and Eisenhower and they might have well been written in pre-Nazi Germany in booming Adolf Hitler. It is the same type of appeal to idealism and hero-worship that blinded our sense of reality . . . and gave us Hitler. “I don't mean to compare MacArthur and Eisenhower with Hitler. I only mean to compare the type of thinking existing in this country with the type of thinking existing in Nazi Germany. I don't believe Americans realize the
“nature of their thinking.
“The fact that these appeals for MacArthur
and Eisenhower completely disregard the fact .
that these men have offered us absolutely no program ‘to resolve our problems, no commitments for the present and no commitments for
the future , . . and offer us instead only a-
fanatic hope in a one-man saviour .. . mark them for what they are; the sheer dreaming off into a balloon of idealism hand-made to lift us above the necessity of facing the terrible ay of our present situation. : . ®* © ¢ “WE reformed Nazis now think of the Naat era as an era when Germans were thinking above the hair-line. We couldn’t reason, because “reason gave us no program to solve our problems. We had no Churchill or Taft to ground
our thinking, to face the facts and problems
that confronted us. We had courage and bravery but we had no program. So we allowed
our thinking to arise above the hair-line and ,
join Hitler in a wild dream of idealism, “My point, is that when 8% Shure offered: the Bum rk, blood and sweat’ he also
~ offered them program dad. challenged. fism
to think about it. Taft is doing much the same
on the American scene today. We had no such
leadership to think in pre-Nazi Germany. The danger in America today is the same danger-that existed in pre-Nazi Germany. Even if Hitler had not desired to be a dictator, the thinking above the hair-line of the German people would have forced him to be a dictator, The same applies in America today. The type of thinking above the hair-line that would elect MacArthur or Eisenhower would continue to force a dictatorship. History does repeat itself. It can happen here. When a people sell out their thinking and reason to a name instead of to a program, dictatorship is certain to follow.” «L. L., Crawfordsville,
‘It Bums Me Up...
MR. EDITOR: © rr I would honestly like to know how many people buy Defense Bonds as a result of the Treasury Deparfment’s radio programs. This afternoon I heard a short program«
' sponsored by the United State Treasury De-
partment. The commercial was so short and ineffectual ‘that I was waiting for a more complete sales talk when the program ended, with-"
bombarded by a clever singer of the popular and novelty type. It was purely very light entertainment. I wonder how many people will rush out tomorrow and buy a bond because of
- ~that program. If any, why? Could it be that ‘they hope to encourage continued entertainment :
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desirability and necegsity of purchasing Defense Bonds. If that is the real purpose of these programs, the Treasury Department could take a lesson from any big commercial program on the national hook-ups.
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THE TYPE of program that is aired should be keyed to the product it is expected to sell, In<other words, the radio advertiser seeks the listener who is a potential customer. The ‘soap operas” find their major audiences among housewives because they sell.articles that housewives buy, foods and household goods. Sports broadcasts are sponsored by products that sports
lov are likely to patronize, Serious programs that/ appeal -to serious people advertise such itenfs as life insurance. Popular music and
shows are featured by companies that make very popular products such as cigarets, In all these big-time programs, there is nothing feeble and ineffectual about the commercial, In fact, it is so impressive, that radio fans connect the product directly to the feature on the radio. 18 the Treasury Department deitmerately rogram, hoping to reach the most people, which surely can be the only reason for presenting such trivial entertainment as a medium, then the same reasoning should rec. ognize that more effort must be made to em-
phasize the sole object of the program, ‘namely
to sell more Defense Bonds. . Yes, we have bought our pond this month, and will continue to do so in the future as we have for more than 10 years. But it burns me
up to loan our small sa ‘to Uncle 8am to 5 ES auamps advertising. ln 3 1. An 4.
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