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Will We Never Learn?

THIS IS the 10th anniversary of “the day that will live in infamy.” Ten years ago today, on a quiet Sunday morning in Hawaii, a predatory nation unleased a terrible attack in our main naval base in the Pacific. : It was terrible in its surprise, in its might, and in its effects. Japan's planes struck wholly without warning. They killed 2326 Americans that day. And brought us into a war that took a million more casualties. Pearl Harbor Day is not a day for any formal observance; only for bitter remembrance. Each year it has served as a fleeting reminder that never again could we afford to be caught napping. Yet, we were. On June 25, 1950, another predatory nation, using a captive government as its tool, unleashed its armed forces in a brutal, unprovoked and equally surprising attack on the Republic of Korea. . ” . » » . AGAIN we were unprepared. But we took up the challenge, along with ‘our United Nations Allies, because it was an unmistakable Russian assault upon the free world. And now America has paid in another 101,000 casualties

for remembering Pearl Harbor “only ay # “iistoricat fact

rather than the lesson it should have been.

Today, too many of our leaders in Washington are play-

ing a perilous game of guessing and wishful thinking. They are guessing that there will never be another Pearl Harbor. They are hoping that with a possible truce, Korea will be only an isolated incident—the #police action” which they have called it. They look eagerly for signs of Russian conciliation in Europe. And so they guess that it is safe to undertake a slow, partial mobilization, in such a way as not to disturb the civilian economy. That is exactly what Japan banked on 10 years ago today. And unless we convince Russia that we have the power and determination to beat her down, and are ready to do it now, we are only setting the stage for still another and more deadly Pearl Harbor sooner than we might guess.

Condoned at the Top

S testimony before the House Investigating Committee heaps new scandals on the tax-collecting and enforcement agencies of the government, one elemental fact becomes more and more outstanding. And that is that the top officers in the Justice and Treasury Departments either were loose and unconcerned administrators or wilfully condoned some of the things that went on. Peyton Ford, top deputy in the Justice Department, admitted he ordered the head of the tax fraud division in his department by-passed in the prosecution of a case because he “presumed” that this official —Theron Lamar Caudle—had “leaked” information about the case to a Congressman friendly to the defendants. That was two years ago. Yet Mr. Caudle remained as head of the tax fraud division until lastmonth. Mr. Ford gave no sign of ever having followed up his suspicion. This same Caudle, it was testified, was warned by his associates in the Justice Department against his “constant public social and business relationship” with Frank’ Nathan, a gambler. Yet Caudle persisted, apparently without even so much as censure from his superiors. ; » - # » » . THIS SAME Nathan testified himself that he made a “rough estimate” of $10,000 for business expenses which he deducted from his taxable income, although he had no records to back up his claim. Yet he apparently never was checked. It has been much the same story since the Internal Revenue Bureau scandal first broke. ~The California Crime Commission a year ago revealed gross irregularities in the San Francisco collector's office. Yet they were brushed off by the then commissioner, George J. Schoeneman, and the head of that office was fired only last week. Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder testified that in August, 1950, he asked the St. Louis collector, now under indictment on bribery charges, to quit. But the collector stayed on until a grand jury built a bonfire under him. These are only samples of innumerable instances in which top officials either tolerated irregularities ranging from the indiscreet to the corrupt—or didn't know about them. Some high officials around Washington have a lot to account for.

A New Hold on Old Morals

“THE news from Washington, and elsewhere, is pretty

depressing these days and it seems to get worse every time they call a new witness to the stand. Almost leads you to believe our morals, in this country have about broken down.’ But they haven't, of course. batketball bribes, and the rest of the sorry scandals don't really touch very many people. Most Americans still quietly follow the same rigid codes they always followed—codes which boil down to just plain old-fashioned honesty. Maybe the trouble is they do it quietly. Too quietly. It’s encouraging, now, to see some of them getting together to make a little noise about it, as a small group did here earlier this week, and a bigger group plans to do tonight at World War Memorial. Businessmen, union leaders, politicians—even a few newspapermen—folks from all walks of life and all sorts of eccupations and creeds, are included. They call their movement Moral Rearmament, good a name as any for what they are trying to do. : ? We hope the hall is packed to capacity, and we know its influence will spread away beyond what any one hall could hold. Pi EE ~ Right now it would be hard to think of anything this country needs more” than a vast revival of ordinary old. fashioned morality. 5) é %¥ 3 . 3

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DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. T—The United States and most other nations concerned are expected to recognize Syria's most recent revolution soon, barring unexpected developments. It has been a week since the bloodless but forceful coup was engineered by normally reticent Lt. Col. Adib Shishikly. ’ Syria's army dictatorship, which.promises a return to constitutional government, seems ‘to qualify under two Important criteria for recognizable regimes: ONE: The country really is being run by the new authority. TWO: The regime has popular support— or, at any rate, has aroused no active opposition. bb MINISTERIAL functions are being performed by permanent undersecretaries, who are civil service officials and were not disturbed

g BLOODLESS COUP . . . By Clyde Famsworth

They are working under Col. Fawzi Silo, upon whom Shishikly, in the name of the Superior War Council, has conferred both executive and legislative powers: Col. Silo is acting chief of state, prseident of ministers (premier) and de~ fense minister: > » 2 COL; ‘SHISHIKLY, who prefers back-seat driving, still is only army chief of staff at a salary equal to about $200 a month. But he is the most important man in Syria. There have been no disorders since the coup itself —and that was smoothly turned. It was, of course, unconstitutional. However, the army under Syria's constitution is considered the guardian of the fatherland, and Col. Shishikly would argue that the army seized power to avert a threat to state security, Damascus is going quietly about its business of being the oldest continuously inhabited city

by Col. Shishikly’s liquidation of the cabinet. | in the world. Its.300,000 people, about a tenth

DEFENSE . . . By Ludwell Denny

Europe Needs Coal, Not Gold

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Coal is the key to European defense—not gold, or atomic energy or troops. lack of coal causes the lag in rearmament. It is the main reason for the “dollar gap,” and trade deficits. It threatens many countries with bankruptcy. A 5 per cent increase in coal production would help Western Europe to stand on its own feet. With a 10 per cent rise in coal output Britain could conquer her economic crisis. These seem extreme statements. But they are accepted as axiomatic by European industrial experts and economists. Britain and Western Europe now must import coal from the United States and Poland. That throws our Allies’ economies out of gear and unbalances their budget. The cost of these imports to them is from 50 to 100 per cent higher than that of their own product. About half of all their American dollar ald goes directly or indirectly for coal. But even if they were rich and high prices of no consequence, or even if the American taxpayer could subsidize them without regard to cost, still there would be a coal crisis. For American and Polish sources are inadequate. The shipping shortage limits imports from the United States. Polish supplies are as unreliable as they are expensive, partly because of transport: conditions.

Two More Reasons »

BUT THERE are two more important reasons. One is-that there is alse a coal shortage behind the Iron Curtain, and Stalin ‘often diverts potential-exports to feed his own armament industries. The other is that Stalin can and often does deliberately cripple Allied rearmament by holding up Polish shipments to the West. All of these facts about coal have been known to the Allied governments for a long time. So the question naturally arises: Why don’t they do something about it? After all, in such- an extreme emergency it should not be impossible to increase West European output 5 per cent and British 10 per cent, -

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With all the Marshall Plan aid and European effort, why has industrial production as a whole risen 40 per cent above prewar but coal output hardly exceeded prewar? The answer is the usual three M’'s—men, machinery and money. Most of the mines are old and hard to work. The seams are deep, the machinery antiquated, the miners aged and inadequate. Britain could use 200,000 more miners and could get them from Italy's unemployed, but the British local unions object. Germany, the other large European producer, has a miners’ shortage and huge unemployment, but an acute housing shortage and lack of capital prevents: the obvious solution,

Low Productivity IN GENERAL individual productivity is low and voluntary absenteeism high. The needed new mining machinery does not exist. And there is colossal waste of industrial and domestic fuel, which cannot be corrected with out basic change of equipment and habits— Which would require much .money and more e. Meanwhile, the rearmament program makes larger demands on a sick industry which can-

not even meet normal needs, and which neither nationalization nor private enterprise has been

able to cure. THE SKY

AS I beheld the soft blue sky . . . that blanketed the earth . . . I thought of all its wonder and . .. I thought of all its worth . . . each fleecy cloud that roamed the blue . . . enhanced the grandeur of . ., the most magnificent creation . . . made by God above . . . oh boundless space that knows no end . . . You cover near and far . . . you are the home of sun and moon . , . the pasture of each star . . . and unto you I fix myceyes . . . I feast on all your wonder . . . within your spell are magic things , . . the snow and rain and thunder, ~—By Ben Burroughs.

ee i WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Of all the peculiar characters parading through the Congressional income tax inquiry, Larry Knohl, the ex-auctioneer, is the one to make a fellow gulp. From stripes to riches is his biography in brief. The fabulous Larry of the graying temples, the bulging middle and the booming voice, rose from prison cell to the presidency of so many corporations he simply can’t keep track of them all. He runs a restaurant, a used-car lot, a Sunday newspaper on Long- Island, an oil company in Kansas, an investment firm in Washington, and

a few other enterprises he can't quite recall now. # When he's in New York he stays at the Waldorf-Astoria. In Washington he maintains a suite at the Mayflower Hotel; he doesn’t know whether it is the presidential suite. This

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‘of all Syrians, are becoming accustomed to political flipflops and the army’s strong hand in politics. This was the fourth big turnover since Mar. 30, 1949, when President Shukri Al Kowatli and the whole Nationalist Party regime were pitched out by another colonel, the late Husni Zaim. The rank of colonel is the highest in Syria's 30,000 to 40,000-man army. * + DAMASCUS residents, with a heavy stake in law and order and interested in national prog-

* ress, recall approvingly the four months of sta-

bility and reforms under Cok Zaim. He is posthumously compared to Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey. They don’t like to remember that Col. Zaim got too big for his whipcord britches and made himself marshal of Syria, complete with $5000 baton. Col. Zaim and his premier was killed on Aug. 14, 1949. They first were thrown into Mezza

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prison by Col. Sami Hinalwi—the colonel of * coup number two. From there, possibly after a drumhead trial, they were:taken for a ride a few hundred yards down a suburban road and shot in the backs of their necks. : ® © COL. HINALWI himself was slain a few months later in Lebanon by a kinsman of one of his victims. He had been bloodlessly overthrown by Col. Shishikly on Dec. 28, 1949—but only after a progressive new constitution had been adopted and elections held in which, because of a Nationalist Party boycott, the Al Shaab (Populist) Party prevailed. It’s best not to think too much about parties in considering Syrian politics. Syrians vote more for personalities than for parties. Trustworthy observers regarded the Hinalwi coup as an attempt to complete reforms which Col. Zaim himself had started but had dragged his feet on, i :

DEAR BOSS . .. By Dan Kidney ~~

Jacobs Boils ‘Fat Man McHale’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-— New National Democratic Chairman Frank E. McKinney should not be made a victim of “guilt by association” by linking him with Frank M. McHale, former Democratic Rep. Andrew Jacobs declared on a visit here. All three are from Indianapolis. Mr. McHale is the Democratic National Committeeman from Indiana. He is currently in controversy with the New York Herald Tribune and the St. Louis Post Dispatch over what he considers their inference of “influence peddling” here. Principal case cited by the newspapers is a Court of Claims suit by Mr. McHale. asking a 10 per cent fee on $935,000 he obtainéd from the government for the much-in-vestigated Empire Ordnance

Mr. McKinney +. . not guilty,

impounded. ; This $93,500 is strictly legal business Mr. McHale pointed out. He offered $5000 for the papers to prove he ever has engaged in anything else. 7 Mr. Jacobs, who likes Mr. McKinney but dislikes Mr. McHale, wants to see the latter get out of his way so he can run for the Senate next year. “Despite the victory of the various Republican mayors,” Mr. Jacobs said, “I still think the Democrats would have a chance in Indiana next year if we would unload our national commit-teeman-in-law, Republican Gene Pulliam, who exercises. power in our party through his House Democrat, Frank McHale.

‘Back to the People’ .

“GOV. HENRY F. SCHRICKER should take the party away from McHale and give it back to the people. That is the first essential step toward a Democratic victory in Indiana next year.” That Mr. McKinney is in no way to blame for the Democratic defeats suffered under the McHale leadership is the viewpoint held by Mr. Jacobs. He contends that Mr. McHale is far

from being the “Big Shot” with the national administration “as advertised.” “I happen to know that it. wasn't McHale who put Mr. McKinney into the national chairmanship,” the former Marion County Congress man declared. J “I was told by a Pennsylvania friend that McHale was supporting former Sen. Francis J. Myers of that state. White House Secretary Matthew J. Connelly got President Truman to name Mr. McKinney. The White House is thoroughly familiar with Mr, McKinney's capabilities, He will not disappoint them as he already has demonstrated during these few weeks on the job. “As usual, of course, Mr, McHale rushed in at the last moment to rescue the victor and try and grab credit for the victory.” Qusting Mr. McHale will not be easy. Those who have tried in the past nave failed. Thus far, he has proven to be the most durable Democrat in the state.

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NO HELP on a McHale ouster move is expected from Mr. McKinney or his new “reform” administration at Democratic National Committee headquarters. It-will be termed a “state rights” matter, even if the state is McKinney's own. Mr. Jacobs maintains, however, that if McHale is removed the Democrats hope of victory will be enhanced because “the issues still are on our side.” “Taft, Jenner and Halleck should be easy to beat if these issues are made clear and Hoosier bipartsanship favoring the Republicans is ended,” he said. oe “Sen. Taft's belated book on foreign policy shows he is just playing yo-yo with the world. His program goes up and down and then spins around. “Sen. William E. Jenner is a modern Don Quixote tilting at the propellers of the air age with a sassafras stick. “Rep. Charles A. Halleck’s greatest achievement has been to turn freshmen Republicans from Indiana into rubber stamps in the image of Gene Cox of Georgia Dixiecrats. “Hoosier Democrats can do better than that. But not with Fat Man McHale sitting on us.”

Hoosier Forum—‘God Bless You’

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

MR. EDITOR: An open letter to all the men in the Armed Forces:

“It is December again, and as customary in °

Indianapolis at this time of the year, we have had the usual soft flurries of snow which indicates to one, even more than the date, that another Christmas is near at hand . . . another Christmas in this, our generation, with our country at war and you away. Whiere, we can but guess. As to how yo are, we can but pray. We can only pray for you where ever you are, flying planes through the acz ack of enemy infested territory, or marching through mud and snow, or driving

huge tanks with mighty treads onward and onward, with the grim determination to forage ahead to prepare for those still coming, a pass-

Views on News

WHAT with two four-day government holidays coming up.and tax officials tumbling down, it looks as if the Truman administration is getting ready to go underground.

SEN. KEFAUVER may toss his coon-skin cap into the Democratic presidential ring and campaign as a straight pathfinder. :

TAFT IS attacking Eisenhower via the northern route. Anchorage, Alaska, is flooded with “Taft for President” matchbooks.

HAROLD STASSEN offering Sen. Taft a deal for both to support an Eisenhower draft is like trading a breeze for a whirlwind.

SEVEN NATIVES of the untamed Mokolkol tribe, which lives at the stone age level, got dragged into “civilization” by the .government in New Guinea, ~-D. K.

A.BUSY MAN . . . By Frederick C. Othman A Rare Biography—From Stripes to Riches

able route even as your pioneer fathers did in their ruthless drive against the West.

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IT WAS in your age, this war was to be fought, your war . . . and so, thus you have been chosen as the champions of your age, you are symbols of all that is clean, good and pure, you are our emblems of honor, our faith in ourselves and our country, our salute to our Flag, we have much to be thankful for in you « + . OUr boys. : 2 Even as Christ was born, so many years ago, you, too, were born to save a nation from the disgrace and dishonor that non-Christian leaders seek to bring upon us. It is to you, also, on Christmas Day we pay our humble homage, for with Jesus as the Saviour and you as his warriors, we will lose nothing. ‘God bless you all. . .. ; —Mrs. Arthur Lantz, 248 Routiers St.

‘A Light Spot’ MR. EDITOR: Thanks for lightening the .general gloom of the daily news with your new feature, “Double Take.” Talburt’s political cartoons are richly satiri-

cal, too. —W. C. Alfreds, 3437 Adams St.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

LONDON — Sherlock Holmes’ old room at 221-B Baker 8t., reconstituted as part of the Festival of Britain, is to be sent to the U. 8. to help Britain’s dollar-earning program. Does it strike you rather funny That they'd search an old-time tome, And to latch onto our money Send us only Sherlock’s home?

Are they light above the collar? Don’t they know it's darned scarce stuff? Chasing our elusive dollar Even Sherlock might find rough.

he paid $30,000 to a pal of T. Lamar Caudle, the assistant ate torney general with the southern accent fired a couple of weeks back by President Truman, ’ The pal paid the assistant

attorney general a $5000 coms

mission for selling the ship to Larry. When the latter learned

of this, he was aghast. He phoned Mr, Caudle and asked him how come he was taking a cut on the deal. . w »

,“BUT HE explained that he ‘had taken this up with‘the attorney general, who approved, and I was satisfied,” sald Mr. Knohl. : Then it turned out that Mr. Knohl actually had spent the money of the Rean Oil Co, of, Russell, Kas., to buy the plane. He was president of this firm, all right, but a good deal of

_ the cash to finance if he got from one Jacob dus, a black marketeer in the toils of the tax collector. :

Two months after part of

‘circuitous route,

jail on charges of tax evasion, He's still there, J Where this leaves us, I'm none too sure. Neither, apparently, is the House Ways and Means Committee. Larry told reluctantly of going behind bars as an embez-

zler for a spell, himself, in the

Thirties while he still was an auctioneer. Then he met Jake, who financed him in an assortment of deals. One thing seemed to lead to another. And there was Larry functioning as vice president of the Starrett Radio and Television Corp. of Chicago, which Jake and his father, Samuel Aarons, had bought. This corporation was in the throes of buying from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. a juke-box factory in Kansas City, Kas,, when the boom fell.

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Aarons took up residence in the penitentiary. . * »

LARRY. SAID he still believed he was vice president of the radio company, that is, if _ there still is a radio company. All happened in a

to Knohl. On his tax returns for the annum, he said, will be found a $25,000 profit he made on a horse race. “You in the gambling business, too?” asked the committee counsel. “No, sir,” replied Larry. “You mean you retain your amateur status?” insisted Attorney Bruno Schachter, “That I do.” roared the busi. est businessman yet to tangle with the tax investigators.

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