Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1951 — Page 14

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The Indianapolis Times

HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1951

{ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE - President

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A Great American - Hy D® HENRY GARLAND BENNETT, the distinguished American educator, who was Killed in a plane crash in Iran Saturday while on an official mission for the United States government, was an oddity in present day Washington officialdom. He was one of those old-fashioned Americans who didn’t believe in wasting public money. - After he was appointed administrator for President Truman's Point Four program, he consistently urged Congress to give him less money than it was prepared to appropriate. 2 " ; When he refused to allow the Point Four program to become a gravy train, the bureaucrats tried to take it away from him so that it could be blown up into a bigger and a

Permanent “Marshall Plan” which would keep them on the *

payroll. But Congress decided in favor of Dr. Bennett.«

o un o ’ : DR. BENNETT had been president of Oklahoma A. and M. College since 1928. Under his leadership, the latter school became one of the great educational institutions of the Southwest. : . Dr. Bennett was in full accord with the idea of sharing American know-how with the backward peoples of “the world. But he wanted to do it in a practical way. He did not believe in wasting money trying to help people who would not help themselves. He preferred to deal on a cooperative basis, through partnership arrangements, under which the United States supplied the technical skill, and the recipient countries the money to finance the joint undertakings. That idea, of course, was abhorrent to those who wanted to give tractors to the Hottentots. When Congress was asked to appropriate money to buy $4500 combines for peasants in Iran, Dr. Bennett was asked to comment, because he was familiar with Iran.

“THEY WOULDN'T know what to do with a combine,” he said. But, he added, “it would he helpful to buy them some iron points to put on their wooden plows. They would cost about 75 cents apiece.” Congress recently voted Dr. Bennett $200 million more than he had requested, by transferring to his control some projects which had been initiated by the Economic Co-opera-tion Administration. After looking over the projects, Dr. Bennett told a friend he thought he would just save the money and turn it back to the taxpayers. He was a great man, deeply devoted to the high principles and humble virtues which made his country great. He will be mourned by thousands whom he befrierided during a long and useful lifetime. ©

Fuzzy-Minded ‘Experts’ : JOHN STEWART SERVICE, who was fired by the State Department after ‘the Civil Service Loyalty Review Board held a “reasonable doubt” as to his loyalty, has filed an appeal, contending the board exceeded its authority in passing on his case. However the appeal may be.decided, this case points up the need for more intelligent and expeditious procedure in dealing with matters of this kind. Mr. Service's case has been kicking around at various ‘governmental levels tor more than six years, when it should have been disposed of finally in that many minutes, once the facts were established. .

HE WAS employed as a political expert. He was born in China and presumably was accepted as an authority on Far Eastern problems on that account. No consideration seems to have been given to the point that the young man appeared to have less than an adequate understanding of his own country's traditions, interests and institutions. : There is no denial that Mr. Service gave confidential information to a man whom he knew to be a left-winger, and who by his- own admission he suspected of being a Communist. He continued this questionable association ‘despite these suspicions, and in circumstances which were themselves suspicious. : An official of his long experience who had no better judgment than that certainly could not be regarded as qualified to advise the United States government on questions of high policy. go »

YET EVEN after the original revelations in the Amerasia case, this man was sent to Japan as a.political adviser to Gen. Douglas MaeArthur! 2 The State Department is full of fuzzy-minded “experts” of this kind, many of whom are employed in positions of trust and confidence. Many of the blunders in our disastrous China policy can be traced to the intrigues of the leftist cult with which many of these self-acclaimed political experts are associated. : Apparently there will be no real relief from this situation until we have a Secretary of State willing and able to do a thorough house-cleaning job, and who then will surround himself with persons of demonstrated patriotism and intelligence.

Now Blackmail Is Official

HE FOUR American fliers who were forced down in “" Hungary have been tried by a Communist military eourt and fined $30,000 each. No prison sentences were imposed.

Thus the Reds have discovered a new method of ex-*’

tracting dollars from the American taxpayer. . The State Department secured the release of Robert A. Vogeler, a businessman imprisoned in Hungary, also on ridiculous, trumped-up charges, by agreeing to a payoff. Apparently the Reds have decided to make blackmail a fixed policy in dealing with Americans. : When we've paid off and these men are out of Hungary, will the State Department continue to do business with this foul-smelling regime, or will it withdraw Ameri- , can recognition as itgghould have done months ago?

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NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By

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Peter Edson

Santa Claus Shuns Capital—

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25—8Santa Claus was

definitely told to stay away from the door and -

chimney of all Federal Housing Administration employees, in a circular letter sent out by FHA Commissioner Franklin D. Richards. In what was regarded as an extremely wet and cold blanket thrown over Christmas cheer, Commissioner Richards wrote: “I want to ask you to take affirmative steps to make certain insofar as possible that members of the public, doing business with FHA, refrain from sending (you) gifts. “Gifts should not be sent even though you may know that they are prompted solely by the Christmas spirit of good will. The acceptance of such gifts can: prove embarrassing to both the retipient and the giver.” Commissioner Richards then-cited FHA Employees’ Handbook regulations. which provide that, “No employee shall accept or agree to accept any favor, gratuitous service, gift, loan or any item of value in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, from an person or organization which has done, is doing or proposes to do business with this administration. “Situations will undoubtedly arise where it may be embarrassing to refuse or to return the gift, but still there is no justification for keep-

ing i." ‘Gift’ Is a Nasty Word

REVERSED Christmas spirit of this kind is very much in style 'in Washington this year. Members of the Washingtoh press and, radio corps have never been ayerse to accepting 'bottled goods such as carrot juice and perfume, from admirers who may have liked one of their stories during the year. But there's one yarn going around the National Press Club about a correspondent whose conscience got to bothering him after all the revelations of mink coat and deep freeze gifts to government officials. “Look!” he said to a wet-goods lobbyist, who was passing out his usual Christmas container of cheer. “I can’t accept this gift. But ‘can you get me a case wholesale?”

Lawyer for a Lawyer TELFORD TAYLOR, head of the new Small Defense Plants Administration, was a brigadier general and chief prosecutor of the Nazi war criminals at the famous Nuremberg trials. At his first press conference the new SDPA administrator introduced his staff. He came to James M. McHaney of Little Rock, Ark. who was Gen. Taylor's deputy during the Nuremberg trials. Administrator Taylor brought McHaney to Washington from Little Rock and made him general counsel of SDPA. “I have now ceased to be a lawyer,” explained Taylor in his new role as a bureaucrat, “and so I've had to hire one.”

Biddle Back in Grace

FORMER Attorney General Francis Biddle, who was the first cabinet officer to be fired after President Truman took over, is apparently back in the good graces of the administration. For a long time, Mr. Biddle has-been telling the White House it had better move in and clean up its Department of Justice. X If that advice had been taken, the Justice Department scandals might not ‘be spattered all over the White House door today.

SIDE GLANCES

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Reporters in Washington dow recall that the Department of Justice started to go sour as a news source shortly after Tom Clark, ‘now a Supreme Court Justice, was appointed attorney general. In Biddle's day during the Roosevelt administration, reporters could see any Department of Justice official at almost any time. In fact, the problem then was to fight off Department of Justice officials who kept trying to plant stories favorable to government law suit prosecutions. Attorney General Clark changed this immediately by imposing tight censorship. No Department of Justice official was supposed to see members of the news corps without permission of the Department’s public relations officer. Some of the older and more experienced correspondents kept up their contacts but were always admonished: “For God's sake don't let the public relations office know I've been talking to you.”

The Department was run on a hand-out basis; .

and many correspondents quit covering the Department, or else covered it by sending messenger boys down to pick up the releases and mimeographed copies of the Attorney General's speeches and puff sheets. . No assistant attorney general was allowed to make any statements at all without clear“ance, and there were no press conferences.’ With this closed door public relations policy in effect, there were any mutterings, -proved right, that if the Truman administration was rocked by scandal, it-would be through the Department of Justice. :

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It's Very Expensive to Tangle - With a U.S. Anti-Trust Campaign |

YOU HAVE to be a strong outfit these days to fight an antitrust suit. If the Department of Justice comes after you, it may be cheaper to sign a waiver and pay. The expense of resistance is going up. ’ Like most everything else, a case like this costs double what it used to, maybe more. It isn’t only the lawyers’ fees. There are the fares, the long-distance phone calls, the hotel bills, the researchers, the witnesses, the stenographers and the printers. C The Glidden Co. and du Pont last week were acquitted in Pittsburgh of conspiracy to fix prices of paint, in a case that involved 17 paint manufacturers. They might have settled at the start, as 15 of the defendants did, pleaded no contest and_paid fines of $1000 to $5000. But the two, feeling they had not violated the law, elected to stand trial. The successful defense cost Glidden .$100,000 ow so, according to its president, Dwight P. Joyce. Du Pont’s expenses may be assumed to have been as much,

Blistering Statement : FOLLOWING its favorable verdict, Glidden gave out a blistering statement. The circumstances of the two companies being acquitted raised “a Serious question,” it said, ‘whether many consent decrees may nat have been signed by industry in fear of just such expense. Their reluctance to take the alternative course ‘‘is Indicative of the state of submission t6 which much of industry has been reduced by bureaucratic government.” : There have been hundreds of such consents. No doubt some of them have heen in cases where the defendants were guilty. In others,

the companies have heen allowed simply to #

promise not to engage in certain practices. In still others, they have pleaded no contest, let

. By John Ww. Love

the cases go by default, and paid fines.

Some observers of such litigation- over the

years, believe business organizations, particu-

larly those of small business, ought to consider .,

asking Congress for legislation that would per-

mit defendants to recover their expenses if they are found not guilty. ; | The Investment Bankers Assn. was recently released from the list of defendants in the government's effort, now four years old, to prove conspiracy in the marketing of securities. Seventeen large investment houses have to go on. iThe trial has rum a year, and may contine for another four years. ..°

Alarming Feature THE investment dealéls’ organization fs a strong one and could pay the costs of such an

‘effort, but many a trade association would

be up against it. ; The really alarming feature of the antitrust campaign is that no clear definition ot lawful business practices is yet emerging. If business concerns had only the Sherman AntiTrust Act to deal with, their task would be far simpler. But this has-been complicated by the Robinson-Patman Act, which is contradictory in some respects. y Under the latter, a company may be found to be in violation if it cuts prices and thereby “impairs” competition. Price uniformity may bring indictment under one law, price cuttihg under the other. This may be oversimplifying the dilemma, but it exists, it” is enormously involved, and it has divided opinion within the government itself. There appears to be no way of ending the confusion. The Department of Justice can go on multiplying its indictments, pursuing its cases and building up the expenses

° "of industry. . Lawyers have plenty of work

ahead.

MUSIC . . . By Bruce Biossat w Our Cultural ‘Desert’ Blooms—

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 — It has been a pretty popular. custom in some circles to run. down the United States as a barren place culturally. Somebody always hauls out figures showing we spend more money on tobacco or cosmetics than on education. ? And there's a lot of grim head-shaking when. talk turns to American interest in books, music and art. . : In the past this sweeping indictment may have been substantially true in most particulars, But life has changed a great deal in the last 10 years or so, and the head-shakers may not be keeping abreast of the changes. The Wall Street Journal, which dips into some surprising fields from time to time, has just taken a look at America’s current interest in music. . The newspaper discovered that we Americans are fast becoming the world’s most numerous and possibly most ardent devotees of serious musical art. Measured in the hard terms of the dollar, this interest comes to around $45 million at concert and theater box offices.

Seeming Tie SOME cynic might point out that we spend almost exactly the same amount for popcorn in movie theaters. But though this leaves popcorn and Prokofiev in a seeming tie, the parallel is a little unfair. It's more instructive to point out that music’s “take” exceeds the $40 niillion the public

~ Spent to see professional baseball this year.

MORE than 1000 high school students <'sur- -

reptiously” took. the recent test given by Selective Service to determine which college ‘students were eligible for the deferment from the draft. : : The 1000 who sneaked in on the test weren't required to take it, but did so to see how they would stand. ; Seventeen per cent of them passed with a score of 70 or better, ‘Even 80, this 170 who passed won't be exempted from the draft and will have to serve right along with the 830 who didn't pass.

What Others Say—

PARTISANSHIP and animosity toward the President can never justify the divided nation which they are producing or the aid and comfort to the Kremlin which they are providing.—Sen. Irxing Ives (R. N, Y.). : / <> “ WE DON'T have to match our enemies man for man. We aren’t going to dance with them.— Robert A. Lovett, secretary of defense. LE FORD went-down-in history as the man who took the horse off America’s streets. , . , This Congress. will be noted for having restored the horse to the American table.—~Walter Reuther, president UAW,

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> bo» THANK God, Margaret (Truman) had the good taste to call Ireland the most beautiful country in the world.—John Nangle;, Democratic Party official.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25—My plight today reminds me of the cartoon of many years ago, showing the city editor in his office on Christmas morning, . telling a reporter to hurry out and get a good, heart-warming story about the yuletide for the first edition,

“And on your way back,” the editor added, “pick me up a hot dog, with mustard.”

I mean almost all my working life in the newspaper business, I've had to hop downtown on Christmas morning and pound out pieces about fires, wrecks, and even occasional murders. This year I'm staying home today; this item I am writing a couple or days in advance and agajnst my better judgment. : a THE ‘EDITOR sald, write it. I said yes, but who's going to spend his time on Christmas reading a piece by Othman? Nobody, the editor said. Nobody in- his right mind. Then, I demanded, why write the story? * He said, don’t be- logical. Just sit down at my type-

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MR. EDITOR:

The Indianapolis Star, and those advocates of a military dictator for our next President, take it for granted war with Pussia is inevitable and that choosing a man to iead us in war is more important than choosing a man to lead us back on the road to democratic government (by Republicans). Those of us who have contended there will be no war with Russia and that the war scare that has goaded tle public into going along with a bankrupting cold war spending program, has been playing right into Stalin's hands, may now be approaching verification of our predictions. The sudden turn of events in Korea may well mark the beginning of round two in our struggle against Communist Russia. It may be turning out just as we predicted. Now that Stalin has bent our economy as far-as he sees fit on a hysterical war program, He may have decided it good strategy to give our economy a sudden

twist in the reverse direction by making sincere-

gestures of peace that we cannot deny.

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WHAT would happen in this nation if we would have to suddenly snap back from a war economy to a peace economy. Few of us Americans seem to have considered that. But you may be sure Stalin has considered it. Stalin's formula for round two may well be: If you've bent them as far as possible in one direction and they don't break, then why not try a sudden twist back.in the reverse direction. How long would our erst-while allies in the United Nations stand with wus, once Russia

started throwing out the olive branches? How

long would the Arerican public stand for con-

WELL, SIR, we were married in 1932, one week after I had my salary which wasn’t much to begin with, cut 10 per cent, We celebrated Christmas that year on tick. bought her first gas stove as | her first Christmas gift. Three |'| dollars down and three dollars j & month for more years than I care to remember. She has put up with me ever since, through some thick and a good deal of thin. The big beauty about Mrs. O. is that she's full of ideas. She thinks nothing of buying dynamite. to level a rocky. field on our farm, of trying to paint a tree vacuum cleaner, of importing a horse from Peru. All these things make stories for the paper; such ideas to me are precious, like emeralds. 86 this fall, when I got. to worrying about the statesmen doing nothing much worthy of being recorded in print, she said she bet you. customers would be interested in reading about life in a castle in Spain,

Christmas

Christmas. For one thing, I don’t hurt, anywhere. Not even a hangnail, or a bunion. And as I grow older, with the attendant. ache8 of middle age usually with me, this is something - special to be grateful for. tive My bride's still with me and I. appreciate that, too. And here's where we get to the nubbin, if any, of this dispatch. Many a reader over the years has asked me about her, and when did we get married, and how come I still refer to her as a bride?

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HOOSIER FORUM— ‘Round Two"

3 da not agree with a wofd that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

_ A hatful of figures document the story, The 30 million people who paid to attend musieal events this year are 30 per cent more than five years ago and double the number in 1941. Today there are nearly 200 symphony erchestras in the country, 80 per cent more than in 1940 and 900 per cent more than in 1920. In 1951 some 2100 towns featured serious music programs by recognized concert organizations, compared to around 1000 towns in 1940. So the spread is geographic as well as along the economic scale. i

Fair Answer ! IT USED to be that just the big cities had their own orchestras. Not any more. You'll find one in Phoenix, Ariz., Great Falls, Mont,, the atomic energy center at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Bridgeport, “Conn., and many another medium-sized place. : The people in music ascribe the big growth to many things: Radio, recordings, the movies, more music education in school, and .special eni such as concerts for school chilren. It doesn’t hurt, either, that programs nowadays seem designed more for ordinary folk and less for the experts. « Though here and there a critic hobs up te declare that this is just more evidence of America’s “primitive” enthusiasms, all the signs suggest the interest is genuine enough. > Jot down a few of these figures and keep them around to spring on the next fellow who mutters deprecatingly about America’s “bathtub” culture, They make a pretty fair answer.

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tinued military spending when the whole rest of the world was crying for disarmament? How could we avoid a sudden snap back from war to peace economy? How" could our national economy stand the strain of such a sudden puncturing of our inflation bubble? = Re nation in history has ever gone as far as e have gone toward war and back from the brink. Seen able to pul

—L. L. Patton.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

MAYBE President Truman put a Hoosier Democrat in charge of the national committee to make his Missourians look good. : :

* OS» THE Truman cabinet met for two hours

“and discussed the international situation. When

By Galbraith MERRY CHRISTMAS . . . By Frederick C. Othman She’s Not a Wife—She’s a Bride, That's Mrs. O.

».» WE WENT to Spain and we did take up residence in a castle and I .don’t believe we ever did have such an interesting and exciting vacation,

You see what I mean. Youcan't ¢ caf a woman like that a wife.

the members show up with gas masks, you know they have gotten down to domestic issues. * Sb THE Justice Department is now busy seeing if some outsiders have been bilking the government. J Bb VICE ADMIRAL GARDNER says he was “reassured” by the “calm self-confidence” of Tito. After all, the Yugoslav dictator is our only approved Red confidence man.

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HENRY GRUNEWALD gave the King com-Tifttee<his-age, but stood on his Constitutional rights not to reveal his accent.

® She's been new every day now for 19 years. Of course, she's my bride. What else?

She just phoned. Needs help with the Christmas tree, It's been outside and it is decorated with icicles of genuine ice. She says she thinks I'd better bring home a drip pan. A Merry Christmas to you all and may your icicles always be of the tinsel variety.

THE GREATEST DAY

TODAY is when all hearts are gay .. . the whole world wears a smile . . . green holly wreaths deck every door ,. .. * and tinsel is in style . , . the young ones play with newfound toys . . . as old folks join in song . , . and on this day all things are right . , . for there can be no wrong , .. I feast and frolic with my friends . , . no worries fill my mind . , , on this great day there is ‘good will . . . and love’s not hard te find , . . - mankind js full of hope and cheer . , . for Christ was born today , . . and what I feel within my heart . .-, mere words cannot convey . . , aMerry Christmas to you all ., . may memories be spun , . . . good health and peace to all of you . . » God bless you

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