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"A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER

ROT WW. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W, MANZ

‘* Business Manager

Thursday, Dec. 13, 1951

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McGrath Learns—Slowly

SAYS J. HOWARD McGRATH, Attorney General of the United States; “I believe the time has come when a man working for the government can have no other interests.” “Anything that tends improperly to influence a public

official should be condemned and prohibited.” Mr. McGrath says these things—now after a congres-

sional investigation has of top men did have outside interests and did involve himself

in things tending to influence him improperly. ‘Mr. McGrath testified these things were not “called attention,” so he couldn’t do anything about them. And he said the Justice Department has 31,500 employees,

shown that one of Mr. McGrath's

including 1800 lawyers, and he couldn't personally keep

track of all of them. ; But. obviously, he didn’t even keep track of the heads of the six divisions—the top men responsible for the work

of the department.

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IT WAS Mr. McGrath who gave permission to one of these top men, T. Lamar Caudle, head of the tax fraud division, to take a $5000 commission on an airplane sale involving people in tax trouble. It was Mr. McGrath who also gave Caudle permission to go to Europe, expenses paid, on a private law case. And who knew Caudle had “leaked” information about a tax evasion case. - If he didn’t understand the détails of all this “indiscretion,” which he now disapproves, it was because he didn’t

try to find out. His alibi is that he believed in Caudle because Caudle had “a great heart and a great love for people.” - What kind of people doesn’t seem to have mattered. None of this answers Mr. McGrath's own refusal, for weeks, to give up files in the Justice Department which were important to the House investigation. Or does it? It is reported President Truman thinks Mr. McGrath has been “dreadfully mismanaging” the Justice Department. Not managing it at all would be 2 better way to put it.

The Right Idea

WERE proud of Jimmie Angelopolous. Proud of him because he’s got the right idea , .. an idea more of us should adopt. Jimmie's a Times sports writer, has been since 1948, . and a good one, too. He's going to be given an award Sunday afternoon in the Senate Ave. YMCA, but it's not for being a good sports writer or, on second thought, maybe it is. & For, officially, this is for being a good citizen—which is pretty close to.the same thing. The Emblem Club is going to present an award to Jimmie for making “the most significant contribution to more harmonious relationships between the races.” Boiled down, that means he knows the color of a man’s skin has nothing to do with his value to a community; that he really understands the word “Sportsmanship.” : That's the right idea. Jimmie's got it, and we like it. We're proud of Jimmie Angelopolous, sports writer for The Times.

We Need Action

THE Western Powers and the Soviet Union have concluded their secret disarmament talks in Paris with the understanding that a new United Nations Commission will be created to continue the study of this problem. : This study will embrace both atomic and conventional weapons—a belated recognition that they constitute a single

problem.

“No agreement has been reached on any of the basic

issues of international control, which have been in controversy since 1946 when the United States first submitted its plan for control of atomic energy. So all that is in prospect is a further study of these points of disagreement. Since no agreement on these subjects was anticipated, the continuing stalemate should occasion no particular concern. But now that the hope of disarmament is being buried in a committee, there is all the more reason the United States should proceed with its own rearmament with no more delay. Russia is better prepared for war than we are, and as long as that situation prevails we will live under the threat of war. We will be in danger of attack until we have enough modern aircraft, tanks, trained men, and the other essentials to discourage an attack. Very little progress has been made in that direction. w » » " » » DEFENSE SECRETARY, LOVETT has appointed William D. Pawley, industrialist and aircraft plant specialist, as his “personal troubleshooter.” He has directed Mr. - Pawley to give his immediate attention to the machine tool bottleneck plaguing arms production. That is encouraging, for Mr. Pawley has a reputation for cutting through red tape and getting things done. But the machine tool bottleneck is not the only reason for the lag in arms production. General lethargy appears to be the biggest fault. A house-cleaning: which would remove some of the deadwood from high places in the Pentagon should be helpful, too. k There was reason to hope that things would begin to move when Secretary Lovett succeeded Gen. Marshall in the . defense establishment. But the disappointing record to date indicates that the change at the top was not enough. When anyone from the Defense Department speaks, we have come to expect bad news. But no one in the department appears to realize that the department itself is largely responsible for the woeful lack of the things needed for our defense. :

It should begin to show results. Official heads should fall if it doesn’t. ° : nak There have been too many, excuses, We need action.

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IRKED . . . By Charles Lucey Senators Rap European Aid

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Return of the advance guard of a small army of Congressmen swarming over Europe makes it plain any European aid program will have a tough time in the next session. Basically, the Congressmen hope the West:

ern European army idea will work but they're irked about some things the Europeans are doing-—or not doing.’ And they'll debate with the sure touch ° of men able to begin | sentences with something like, “why, Gen. Eisenhower told me" There's .strong feeling against Britain for refusing to tie up more closely -—politically, economically and militarily —with its North Atlantic Treaty Allies. They don't like the idea of the U. S. supplying coal to Britain—a- country which has its own vast coal deposits. There is resentment at various Atlantic Pact members for reluctance to yield at least some sovereignty over their troops for overall defense. There's a belief it's absurd for the U. 8. to be furnishing some countries materiel they should provide themselves—small arms ammunition, for example. It was significant that Sen. Theodore F.

Sen. Russell . . . stumbling blocks

- Green (D. R. 1), usually an undeviating ad--

ministration supporter, leveled at Britain for dragging its feet in the Council of Europe effort to get greater political unity in Western Europe. He foresaw a possibility that persistence in this attitude might jeopardize U. 8. aid to Britain.

‘Isolationist Instinct’

AND Sen. Richard B. Russell (D. Ga.), Armed Services Committee chairman and consistent supporter of overseas military and economic programs, said that sometimes, when returning from Europe, “I have to choke my isolationist instinct on things I see over there.” Sen. Russell said he believed all our aid should have been more strongly conditipned on political, military and economic co-operation among our Western European Allies. He said we should use “every .influence” to try to eliminate Atlantic Pact stumbling. blocks. Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper (R. Iowa), returned from overseas a few days ago to ‘say he believed there should be a cut in European aid

next year, Sen. Green's views were supported in good part at least by 14 members of a Senate-House group he headed at a meeting of the con-

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

sultative assembly of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg. This group included numerous stout advocates of full European aid, yet it expressed “deep regret that more realistic progress has not been made toward European union-—eco-nomic and political.” Not long ago Gen. Eisenhower said in London that political union, as a basis for military and economic co-operation in Europe, was most important. Sen. Green observed that the 1951 Mutual Security Act says that aid funds should promote ‘economic and political federation” of Europe. He addea:

‘No Further Aid’

“IF ANY European country receiving aid is unwilling to take steps to promote economicpolitical federation, the U. 8. canndt be expected to continue to give it further aid. It may well be argued the executive cannot continue such aid under this legislative statement of purpose.”

That meant Britain, particularly. Mr. Green said ghe Scandinavian countries had been reluctant to go along, also. Sen. Russell said Britain had been especially reluctant to commit fighter air forces to the continent, though it helped equip French groups. He said there has been altogether too much bickering over whether there is to be a unified European army, or merely an Allied army under single command. He said it was important that the bickering stop and a decision be made, so that Gen. Eisenhower could get on with forming whatever type of army is decided on. The Senator doesn’t believe a European war immipent, but thinks the big test will come when a decision is reached on rearming Germany. ”

Views on News By DAN KIDNEY

- THE Caudle-McGrath testimony before the King committee turned more than “the eyes of Texas” upon Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark.

FRED SEATON, newly appointed Republican Senator from Nebraska, said he is a ‘liberal conservative.” But he will not be permitted to vote twice. -

CONGRESSMEN passing § through Panama met the new President. He was chosen by a four-hour revolution on May 10.

SOVIET “hate propaganda” is now directed at all Americans. Very nice to be in the capitalist class.

Justice Clark .. . looked at

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT reports from Paris that she does too believe in immortality—just hasn't made up her mind what kind she would prefer.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 — The time has come, fellow taxpayers, to consider the case of Bert K. Naster, the sensitive ex-convict who is allergic to high-frequency sound waves. The congressional tax in- _ vestigators subjected him to a merciless % ro s s-examination. They asked him where he lived (Hollywood, Fla.) and what was his business (electrical engineer). They wondered how he happened to meet Frank Nathan, the Pittsburgh gambler, fixer, pal of capital bigwigs, and allegéd shakedown artist. These brutal questions upset Naster, u = »

JULES YABLOK, his New York attorney, asked for a 10minute recess so Naster could compose himself. Mr. Yablok spent the time patting his . client on. the shoulder and talking soothingly. Naster, who was accused by

: / hh aS i & PAT. ”. * , Chicago awit Abram "When | invifad thu, Lisld thet | was sure they guide’ leave ine to $500,000 that pretty nestling in the snow—but here they are!" from him on penalty of turn-

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“How Much Will Federal Tax

Scandals Cost U.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—The federal tax seandals are costing the United States a ‘lot abroad, and the end is not in sight.” More than Red propaganda is involved. \ Communist propagandists, .of course, are

having an orgy with them. They are used to vprove” the party line that the Washington government 18 a tool of corrupt capitalism.

_ They are paraded as “evidence” that we are

ruled by criminals and racketeers, Our law is pictured as a system to exploit the poor for the benefit of the rich. Our democracy is pilloried as a sham. Actually, however, this’ poison is not as deadly as might. be supposed. The European public over the post-war years has built up a surprising degree of immunity to the extreme forms of Red propaganda. Europeans have been dosed with it so long and so continuously, they have learned almost instinctively to throw off much of it.

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jcan loss of face—though that is destructive of American leadership, which depends on the confidence of others in us. In this case the damage is more direct. For dn effective and just tax system is the

"key to European economic strength in peace or

war, One big reason the American taxpayer has to subsidize European nations to the tune of so many billions of dollars is precisely because European wealth in general is not properly taxed. Too often the low and medium bracket American taxpayer is carrying the load of an upper bracket European who is getting off

easily. There are exceptions, of which the overtaxed Britons are a rare example.

large fully fevied and collected is that withheld from

wage-earners. do not pay their fair share.

Point of Honor

But by and the only European income tax which is

The farmers, middlemen and rich

IN COUNTRIES such as France and Italy

income tax evasion and corruption is widespread. So much so, indeed, that those govern-

ments must get the bulk of their income from,

interest is at stake, as in his fear of war or his low living standards, he suspects whatever the Reds do or say. This is because the Reds have lied to him so many times when he knew they were. ; Where the revelation of American tax scandals really hurts us is among the majority who are anti-Communist. The effect is to retard essential European tax reforms. It will be harder now to held up the American system as a model for them to follow. And yet, unless they do reform, there is not much hope of those nations becoming selfsupporting. It is not only, or chiefly, a matter of Amer-

"indirect taxes to survive, Over generations it

has become almost a point of honor to evade income taxes—somewhat like wets in the United States evaded the prohibition law. The problem is to convince otherwise lawabiding citizens that it is patriotic to pay just taxes. And America was being held up as an example where the average citizen does make an honest return and where the average tax collctor is honest. 3 This was hard for the typical Frenchman or Italian to believe. Now it will be harder than ever. As a result Americans will go on paying, in the form of economic and military foreign

_ aid, for European tax evaders.

LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins ~~ Railroad Picture Is Confusing

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—All but one of the 25 railway unions are in disputes with railway managements. Never before has the rail labor picture been so confusing. Even experts on rail labor relations have to think carefully before saying what issues involve which union. Nearly all-the rail unions are pressing under the Railway Labor Act for some kind of betterment. The railroads have been under token government operation since Aug. 25, 1950. Union. spokesmen name two underlying reasons for the disputes. Actording to George Leighty, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Association, the railroads have taken advantage of government operation to delay settlements with the unions. And according to D. B. Robertson, Firemen’s Union president, there has been an increase in “able railroad lawyers, concerned more with legal questions than with human relations.”

‘Conflicting Reason

RAILWAY management spokesmen cite a conflicting reason—that the rail unions have shown a growing disposition to refuse to accept mediation awards under the Railway Labor Act and to carry their appeals over the board to the President, who under the railroad law occupies the position of a final arbiter. Thus the White House, as represented by Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman, becomes involved in virtually every important rail labor. dispute. Labor spokesmen have charged that the National Mediation Board never makes a move without consulting Mr, Steelman.

The rail situation today is this: Seventeen ‘“‘nonoperating” unions are asking a presidential board to compel 400 railroads to bargain with them on installation of a “unjon shop,” under which all employees would have to become union members, ° Demands (more than two years old) of the Firemen’s Union for a 40-hour week with increased pay are being considered by another presidential board. This is a one-sided hearing —all the evidence is being presented by the railroads. The union withdrew at the start because it claimed the three board members prejudiced themselves by earlier rulings on. similar issues. *

Third Emergency Board THE ENGINEERS’ UNION is meeting with the Mediation Board, as are the carriers, on demands similar to those of the firemen, and equally as old. The engineers have asked the White House to appoint .a third emergency board. The Conductors’ Union, with the same kind of a dispute, has just appealed to Army Secretary Frank Pace for arbitration by the government of the union's old demands, despite an: official declaration, when the railroads were seized, that the government would leave settle ment to the railroads and their employees. The only big union not in management controversy at present is that of the trainmen. Until last May it was lined up with the engineers, firemen and conductors, but it finally accepted White House terms Dec. 21.

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MR. EDITOR:

. Once again we are planning the celebration of the birthday of our Lord amd Savior, the Prince of Peace. While He was on this earth and preached to the multitudes, He taught peace on earth and good will to men of every race, color and creed. The civilized nations of the world continue unabated and unabashed with these wars that they claim will make the world safe for religion and democracy if they can be forced by economic pressure into a free enterprise economy. But is coercion démocracy? And if this nation goes bankrupt from these wars the referee in bankruptcy will most likely be a Fascist dictator, so let all who believe in prayer, pray that He will put a burden so heavy on man’s heart that he shall have a will to peace

"instead of a will to war.

Clarence Love, Marshall.

‘Speeding Trains’ MR. EDITOR:

Regarding the story of the 2-year-old boy being killed by a speeding train. My heart goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Miller. I live near a railroad track, and I have observed the terrifying speed with which trains travel within the city. But I do not believe the solution to this problem lies entirely within the realm of speed limits for the trains. : It is my firm opinion that a sharp decrease in these horrible accidents could be accomplished by forcing the railroads to fence off their private juggernauts, I strongly urge the citizens of Marion County to write to their Commissioner and demand that such a law be passed and enforced immediately. —J. K. Bailey, 6021 Bonna Ave,

SENSITIVE . . . By Frederick C. Othman Sound Waves Irk Sensitive Ex-Convict

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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Let Us Pray’

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

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‘No Brass Hats’ MR. EDITOR:

A line to say my little part on this next presidential election. I have been reading this and that about so and so for President. As a retread veteran, and speaking for myself, I will say that the President's chair belongs to a civilian, and not to a brass hat in the Armed Forces. In all fairness to both of the Generals, Mac and Ike, they are two wonderful men. They. have done our country a lot of good, but after. all, they are military and from the military" comes your dictatorship in time... . The way I look at it, Sen. Robert Taft can beat Harry Truman in the next presidential election, and by all means, let's not place a brass hat in the President's chair. Let's give that chair to a civilian where it belongs.

—George A. Tipps, Plainfield, Navy First War, Navy Seabees Second War,

WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW

& . OH DEAREST girl, when lights are low , . . and you are by my side . . . I'm in a land of golden dreams . . . where love and joy abide + « » my darling love, you bring to me . . . con-: tentment that’s divine , . . and when your lips caress my face . . . I feel the world is’ mine , . . my time with you is wonderful . . . each hour that we spend . . . is like a trip to paradise . . . and dreams that have no end + +» You are my world . . . for in your hands «+ +» You hold my very heart . . . and that is why when lights are low . . . I never want to part. : —By Ben Burroughs.

then in Mr. Teitelbaum to pay. up his.

ton friends for prosecution as a tax cheater, seemed to relax. ° ” » = HE WAS a slim, pinkcheeked citizen in heavy eyeglasses and a shoulder-padded suit of deep blue-green. He gulped some water and committee counsel Adrian Dewind resumed the questioning over the legislative loudspeaker system. Naster winced. “That sound is going right through my ear,” he said.

“I don't notice anything unusual,” said Mr. Dewind.

“I'm very allergic to high-

frequency sound,” Naster replied. Thereafter Mr. Dewind spoke softly and there emerged this surprising tale: Naster used to be a Chicago electric transformer manufacturer, but he cheated his uncle Samuel on his income taxes and the judge ‘gave him five years, He got out off parole after 18 months behind bars, went to Florida, bought a house and

a yacht, and opened another.

electrical goods plant. He also

met promoter Nathan, who introduced him to T. Lamar

charge of tax prosecutions. So Mr. Caudle told Naster how to get a passport to Europe, even though he was on parole. Naster entertained Caudle on his yacht and some-

times when he got lonesome in Florida, he'd phone the Assis-

tant Attorney General in Washington, just to pass the

time of day. 5 » .

LAST TIME Naster phoned

Mr. Caudel was 11 p. m. one night this spring, asking him please to call mystery man Henry Grunewald about a steelbuying deal in Furope. After all, Mr. Caudle was going to Europe the next day as guest of a wine maker, and Naster needed steel for his factory. Nothing came of this. And how, Mr. Dewind inquired gently, did Naster first hear of millionaire counselor Teitelbaum? Naster squirmed.

He whispered to his mouth-

piece who said:

“He says he's fearful of’

answering that question.”

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taxes like a little man, so as’ not to suffer all the things. that had befallen N . “He: said hell would over first,” Naster testified. Never did he see Mr. Teitel-’ baum again. Nor did he try to. collect one cent from the law-"~

yer who once won a certain’

fame by representing Scar--face Al Capone. Naster swore’ this on his oath, :

And all -I know is that this’ tax query is getting to be like - the middle episodes of an old-+ time movie serial. Mostly loose * ends to be cleared up later, I-. ope: ; .

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