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: Yo Toe i @ +» ROY W. HOWARD’ WALTER LECKRONE ° HENRY W, MANZ MUNICH, Germany, ‘Dec. 26—The raging Br President « Editor "Business Manager purge in Czechoslovakia has roots which extend . lall the way into the dark intrigues surrounding PAGE 12 Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1951 the lonely: and aging Stalin in Moscow, and T - {forecasts a basic change in policy. : { On the surface there was a race between nc OlDed ang publish aid eo Foal Fone Fmed Bublisn, wo groups in the Czech Communist Party, each

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country’s: economic collapse on the other. Its immediate results were two: One was the arrest late last month of Rudolf Slansky, the party's secretary-general-and |its most powerful single figure until then, and |an unknown number of others, possfbly running into thousands,

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Give 149ht and the People Wi Fins Their Own Way | The other is the emergence of President " 1 lt ne hl - Whistling Through ~ "No More Blackmail wf ing 2 2 rR A mar ina ro; Fait ine i Rg “ R OBERT A. VOGELER; the American businessman who Fata SR et 5 * : » * x i 2 y spent two Christmases in a Communist prison, is g A 2x rds

leading a public drive to raise $120,000. This would be § used to pay the ransom levied as “fines” by the Hungarian § Communists against the four U. 8. airmen who unluckily flew over that territocry and were forced down. Even before Mr. Vogeler acted, other well-meaning folks over the country were starting private collections. !

Meantime, high-level brain conferences are being held in the State Department to decide whether the government should pay the tribute or let our airmen suffer the alterna- a tive of three months in a Hungarian prison. Mr. Vogeler's good intentions in heading the fund drive are unquestionable. He knows first-hand the type of treatment our airmen are likely to receive from their ; captors. His natural impulse is to get them out of Hungary

just as soon as possible. > La o = - = » . STILL~—blackmail is blackmail, no matter who pays it. This blackmail should not be paid. The Budapest regime is | not a legitimate government of the Hungarian people. It is a bandit clique, elevated to power by Moscow. It has been emboldened to demand this ransom only because it succeed- | ed in shaking down the United States in the case of Mr. | Vogeler, who was no more guilty of wrongdoing than the! :

four fliers. s Mr. Vogeler has said himself many times that he had rather have been left to languish in jail than to have had his government submit to the humiliation of bargaining with rascals. We have no doubt that the four present vic- 7 tims feel the same; they are fighting men or they wouldn't pas be in the Air Force. | Sewia Whether our government or private citizens pay the Ni. ransom, it'll still be the United States knuckling under. And if we do it now, for a second time, there will be a third, fourth and fifth time—until we stop it. Er Eldon Roark of the staff of the Memphis Press-Scimi- [*3=x tar, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, comes up with an idea which is better than most we have heard from commenta- a tors and Congressmen who have sounded off on this issue. .= Mr. Roark suggests— :

8 : x = = “IF THERE is no other honorable way out, let our men serve the three months. And when they get out—to show the world «t is a matter of principle with us, not a matter of money--let's pay the $120,000 to the four airmen! as an expression of our gratitude for their sacrifice in the | interest of national honor. Further, let's notify Hungary that she will be held strictly accountable for the treatment the men receive while in jail.” r Mr. Roark’s proposal is an honorable one, but Should be entertained only if we accept the contention that more drastic action against the Hungarian Commies would start! Suppose you were to scramble a batch of. a third world war. rotten eggs. If you add another one it will When our republic was young and supposedly weak, make no difference whether it ia good or bad. and a man named Thomas Jefferson was President and It will neither add or detract from the mess you

3 : already have. That is why I cannot agree with a man named James Madison was Secretary of State, We your editorial that the newly appointed big

treated the Barbary pirates the way pirates should be McKinney should resign as chief barker for the ° treated, and made it stick. |Fair -Deal Honkey Tonk.

Neither, does it seem that little McHale, the {soft underbelly ballyhooer and Fair Deal pajeronage dispenser in Indiana, has a record that

Ethics by Legislation is as pure as the driven snow. - { Like all good carnival men, the two politiA DEMOCRAT, Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma,

(cal Macs seem to have no more allergy to proposes a bill designed to guard against such things M2KINg & few fast political 1ainted bucks, even

d : [If it means the swan song or the funeral dirge as the tax scandals which have shocked the nation: {for their Fair Deal party in both Indiana =e The bill would (1) Forbid members of Congress to

MR. EDITOR:

the nation, . interfere in tax cases; (2) put the Internal Revenue Bureau Wy et ry unk sols, dae) - under .civil service from top to bottom; (3) require the BAYIHOS to get suddenly excited about when Reconstruction Finance Corp. to publicize promptly in- 2g Re . Sung 01 Is Washington tor aimest * stances of interference by Congressmen in loan cases: and ood (4) cut off retirement benefits of federal employees con- | - victed of breaches of trust.

TAKE FOR instance the two million dollar Marine insurance business that was built up by one of the offsprings of the second Messiah. {The malefactors of great wealth were bad in-

SEN. MONRONEY'S aims concur with some earlier Juns because the great one was teliing his recommendations by Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Ill.) in his, Nevertheless, they needed clearancé papers

report on ethics, and by Sen, Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.) in and a lot of other folderol from the govern-

i i : 3 - iment in order to operate their ships, so when his crime committee report. [they put their names on the dotted line for

They are good aims. Probably they should be written |insurance they were introduced to a new brand into law. It is refreshing, too, to see these Senators realize |°f Jemocrasy 131 the faWnI0S New Dealers.rethe gravity of the situation that some of their fellow Dem. n tir nnd borrowed a couple of ocrats have permitted to develop, and that they concede hundred grand, with the help and connivance that Congressmen themselves have not been without sin|°f his illustrious sire, from the head of a great when it comes to improper influence.

| grocery chain at a time when the grocery mag- : | - But all the laws Congress can pass will not of them- m selves bring honesty in government. : SIDE GLANCE S

That can come only from the top down.

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By Galbraith

Before It's Too Late |

HE PRESIDENT of a state university in the South, according to a current story, told a legislative committee that the reason he was asking for a larger appropriation. was “to build a university that the football team would be proud of.” F } A United States Senator, who is also a trustee of his slate university, says he was warned by some alumni that

if he did not support a certain candidate for football coach it would harm his chances for re-election.

College football has got out of hand in America. On many campuses, it is nothing less than professional sport. Well-heeled alumni hire football players through fake “scholarships.” Coaches are paid salaries above those of distinguished professors. Gambling on the games has become a national industry. Realizing this, 10 college presidents have come up with a recommendation that some of these excesses be eliminated. They suggest that post-season games be prohibited, that athletes be required to keep up with their classes, and that alumni “boosters” extend their “scholarships” only through the college. ! These mild reforms ought to be adopted before it is too late. . . Hel = College football is a great institution. But it won't be great for long if it jg not put in its place. The basketball scandals are a warning of that, ; .

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d our new cook set the table last night—and now she - tells me I'd save steps for myself by eating in the kitchen!"

Klement Gottwald and his less well-known ‘son-in-law, Defense Minister Alexei Cepicka, as the unquestioned rulers of Czech affairs—for.the time being at least. : : Such catastrophic upheavals in satellite lands can only occur when Moscow gives the green

“light. And the switches don’t always operate “ from the same place in the Kremlin.

Previous postwar party purges and “treason

trials” which have swept like medieval black

death through Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria, and early in 1951 in Czechoslovakia as well, have been ‘police affairs.” They have been the work of party extremists, most of them functioning through the various ministries of “internal security”

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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Bad Eggs’

“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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nate was under indictment for violation of the anti-trust laws.

The whole record of both the New Deal and

Fair Deal iz one of war, confusion and corruption. Many honest Democrats received a kiss of political death from the great one because they chose honesty and integrity instead of war and corruption. Fair Deal morality has now become so low that to find an honest one you would almost have to follow Diogenes who carried a lantern to look for an honest man.

—C. D. C., Terre Haute.

‘Bad Leadership’

MR. EDITOR:

Although” Webster's definition of the words politician. and statesman are practically the same, by common usage they have come to mean just this: °°

A politician is one who thinks in terms of dollars for himself and a statesman is one who thinks in terms of future generations and the general welfare of all. .

The voters, through blind leadership, have lead their state. There was no clearer evidence than in the mayoralty election when Mayor Phillip Bayt, a statesman, was defeated in favor of Judge Alex Clark. There will never be a better statesman offered to public service than Mr. Bayt. He lived for -the sole purpose of doing all the good he could for our boys and girls... Often he has given of his own means to purchase playground equipment to keep our future generation off the street. Mayor Bayt was defeated by Democratic political leaders, and not by the wishes of the people. , If the Democrat Party continues in the present leadership, we may as well fold up, for the time is coming when we won't be able to select a dog-catcher. iy -—Mrs. Walter Haggerty, R. R. 6, City.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26— For the rest of this year you'll be reading in the papers resounding reviews of 1951 and all its tribulations by most of

the leading journalists in America today. Very impressive.

I know some of these babies. They can't fool me with their

in politics, business, aviation, football, radio and interna‘ional relations. They write ‘hese pieces at this time in Devember because they can't find anything else about which to pound the typewriter. Me, too. With né further ado, here is my own resume of 1951, a year which I believe I'd just as soon forget: Sen. J- William Ark.) brought out the unhappy fact that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the proprietor of a defunct snake farm. The man in California had some snakes, all right, but it took the government so Jong to approve the loan for his new building that all the reptiles froze to death, Then the RFC foreclosed. ” » ”

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the $5 million remodeling job .on the White House made

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VERY IMPRESSIVE It’s Been a

st Basic Changes In Stalinist Policy?

and the far-flung multiform police apparatus which is headed in Moscow by Lavrenty. Beria, the spectacled, professional expert in terror. Ca le

BERIA is a. member of the politburo and a potential successor to Stalin. Yet Slansky was the darling of this police setup, a tough, hard-living radical] who shrank from nothmg. “Party loyalty,” to Moscow of course, was the only yardstick he applied. Slansky was a central figure himself in the overthrow of Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis and Otto Bling, the party secretary in Brno, only a year ago. Siansky lost his own Job in a “streamlining” which took place in September, byt emerged a few days later as the “co-ordinator” of all Czech ministries dealing with the economy.

‘«He' was among the guests who toasted Soviet successes Nov. 7 in the Soviet Embassy in Prague. A newly published edition of his speeches was hailed Nov. 155by the official Communist newspaper as an “important aid in the study of party history.” He was. arrested as a “traitor” Noy. 26. Slansky, it now appears, was preparing a long list of scapegoats, perhaps including Gottwald, to explain the country's economic failure. Slansky and all his friends and appointees instead have taken over this unhappy role.

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“GOTTWALD'S personal friendship with Stalin is credited with part of his success. Another large factor, however, seems to have been the channels which lead through the Boviet Foreign Office and ¥. M. Molotov to Stalin, rather than those via Beria, Karl ‘Kreibich, longtime Gottwald adherent, is Czech ambassador to the Kremlin. No matter who might be Czech foreign minlster, Gotiwald retained his private lines of communication. His daughter is the only deputy Joreign minister who hasn’t been removed or arrested. The process suggests not only that Beria's influence is, temporarily at least, eclipsed, but that the Kremlin is®placing more emphasis on industrial output than on party regularity, 2 ¢ » o i

SEANSKY appointed factory managers according to their party records rather than their engineering ability. That, it appears now, is officially wrong. The missionaries are going to concentrate on carting off the coconuts, and only later on converting the heathen, This new line finds interesting confirmation in Eastern Germany. There, the Communist Party's central committee has publicly reprimanded a district secretary for trying to compel a doctor to join the movement, or lose his job. Experts, the party has ordered, will be judged in future solely on their technical performance.

PRO AND CON ... By Frank Flaherty ~~ Canada Airs Freedom of Speech

OTTAWA, Canada, Dec. 26—-Freedom of

speech has been put on its good hehavior over

Canadian air waves, . That's about the only result of parliamentary #ebaté over this principle occasioned by a subsidy appeal by the Canadian Broadcasting Cdip. "Deeply ‘in the red, this nationally owned radio system came hat in a hand before the House of Commons. Instead it heard its stewardship of the right to free speech weighed pro and con.

A Good Workover

WHAT FREEDOM of speech means, or

whether it's a good thing, somehow got sidetracked but it got a good workover in itself because CBC’s quest for funds came up just as the nation’s churches sent up a roar of profest over a series of talks which allegedly tended to cast doubt on basic Christian doctrines. Four noted speakers were involved: Dr. Brock Chisholm, Canadian psychiatrist and head of the United Nations World Health Organization; Bertrand Russell, British philosopher; Dr. Carl Binder of Cornell University, and Anna Freud, daughter of the founder of psychoanalysis,

Commons critics argued CBC because of what they said, should not be used to “undermine” religious faith or alter morality concepts.

‘Not at All Involved’

DEFENDERS retorted in favor of free speech and the speakers in question. Still another side contended free speech never was involved, since the radio orators had been selected, thus being “specially privileged.” How could there be rree speech, they cried, unless everybody was free to speak, which was impossible? A. Davidson Dunton, CBC general manager, defended the broadcasts before a House committee, but not on the basis of individual right

to propound views. He held many Canadians were interested in what these speakers had to say and were entitled to hear them.

In both committee and the House itself, this -

clash of viewpoint cut across party lines. But while there was no vote or decision, eritics could claim at least a. partial victory. * They ‘pointed to an admission by Revenue Minister, J. J. McCann who speaks for CBC in Parliament. i “In this particular instance,” said McCann, “probably something got over the air which it would have been better not to have permitted.” While by law an independent body, CBC must gain cabinet approval for its major expenditures. Mr. McCann is not supposed to give it orders but he dropped a strong hint that radio people behave different in future,

‘Opportunity for Reply’ “lI BELIEVE in connection with these controversial broadcasts,” said McGann, “there should be opportunity for reply. } “Broadcasters or commentators ought to have sufficiently good judgment to say nothing that would be either insulting or offensive to the Christian beliefs and sensibilities. “Censorship to that extent might very well " be employed.” Actually, no specifically offensive or abusive remarks were ascribed to any of the four radio lectures. Mr. Chisholm, for example, talked of the world population problem in terms which strongly suggested that Asian peoples should be taught birth control. Mr. Russell argued mankind should be freed from traditional taboos and fear concepts. But they touched off a discussion which radio people certainly don't want to see aired again in parliament, And many parliamentarians who spoke for shocked churchgoers have taken Mr. McCann's admission as assurance that protagonists of anti-Christian philosophy or un-Christian morality will be kept off the air in the future,

BILLIONS . . . By James H. Haswell

When Do We Stop Spending ?—

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Marshall Plan expenditures have been scheduled to come to an end in 1952. But as 1952 approaches, arms aid is increasingly replacing it. One result is that Congressmen more and more frequently encounter the question: “Is there no end in sight to this business of giving away billions?” One startling answer is to look at what

economists call the international balance of trade.

Year after year Americans’ export more goods than they import. This difference has to be paid for somehow. On the international

trade balance sheet “foreign aid” appears as an °

item which helps make up the difference be-

tween our exports of goods and our imports of goods.”

40 Years of Giving THESE international trade balances show that America has been giving away money for nearly 40 years to help make up our foreign

trade balance. The process began in a big way with World War I

Since 1914 American exports have totalled $300.7 hillions and American imports of goods have amounted to no more than $191 billions. The largest item making up this difference of $109 billions has been American money spent, loaned and given awdy abroad. Vergil D. Reed, a New York economist, asserts that $78 billions of taxpayers’ money has been devoted to this purpose from 1914 through +1950. The World War I loans, the Young and Dawes plan loans, the South American loans, the lend-lease shipments, and postwar foreign aid all have helped make it possible for this country to export more goods than it imported, The rest of the $109 billions, Mr. Reed says, has come from money sent abroad privately by Americans as gifts and remittances ($11.7 bil. -lion); American money invested abroad ($12.2 billion); American purchases of foreign gold and of American property held by foreigners

($11.9 billion "and from the Internatiohal

Monetary. Fund and International Bank ($1.2

billion).

Long-Run Results IN THIS view of the foreign aid problem, the immediate purpose for which American money goes abroad is incidental. The long-run result is to finance the habitual excess of American export over imports. . And the way to put an end to the need for foreign aid is to bring American exports and imports into closer balance. When that happens, America's foreign customers will find themselves paying with their own goods for the American goods they. buy. This balance can be achieved by cutting down U, 8. sales abroad, by spending more American dollars abroad, and by buying more foreign goods. Of the. three, Mr. Reed thinks buying abroad the most likely to bring good results.

What Others Say—

OPPONENTS of civil rights legislation say it's not possible to legislate against segregation, and contend we should let things work “themselves out. We don't have time for things to work themselves out . . . wg need every friend we can get.—Philip Willkie, member Indiana House of Representatives. Ter’ EL IN ORDER to make newspaper headlines he (Republican Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon) gets up on the floor of the Senate and criticizes his own party.—-Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) ¢ ¢ 9

OURS is an age which is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of any man who tries

« to.—Howard Mumford Jones, Harvard U, prof.’

. « . By Frederick C. Othman

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struction costs that they decided to take on a little extra chore. They'd remodel the attic, too. So yeu know what happened. The bill for fixing up the President’s house now is approaching $6 million,

All this year at his press conferences Mr. Truman did not once use the words, red herring. He did pen a note to a local music critic, threatening to kick him. The critic received an offer of $10,000 for this presidential epistle. This proves that you never know when you're doing a fellow a good turn, .

Chlorophyll, the mysterious chemical that makes grass green, came into widespread use as ‘a deodorant for people and for dogs. The OPS removed ceiling prices on canned fried worms, custom built organs, and moose calls, » ” - MINK COATS and deep freezes I need jot mention, But the growers of mink Kicked to the government about the price of horse meat; sald they couldn't produce stoles for ladies at their usual reasonable prices so long as

the the cost of meat for their

livestock stayed so high.

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I'M just a man who like the rest . . . Is strive Ing for success. . . . I'm the place . .. where I'll ind happiness, . . . Pm searching for the secret of , . . this lifetime that I know . .. so I can solve its heartaches and « + + help drive away its woe. . . . I'm looking for the rainbow's end . . . where stands the pot of gold . . . so I can fill my pockets and . . . take “all that I can hold .'., yes, I am like the rest of ou. , . . I'm always working hard . , . to gain the ‘things that go to make ... a cozy home and yard . . . but I realize that if I take ... I'll always have to give ... a little-more to make this world ; 5 , a better pl to live. - ~By Ben Burroughs.

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The Department of Defense issued lengthy specifications for ping pong balls and eclippers for dogs’ toe nails. Sen. Herbert 0’Conor (D. Md.) had the devil's own time stopping some of our patriots from shipping materials of war" to C(8mmunist China. The year on Capital Hill was notable: No fist fights among statesmen,

Inflation sent the price. of senatorial lunches to 95 cents. Sen. Guy Gillette (D. Iowa). who drinks milk only, investigated at length why the price of coffee stayed so high. It's still nearly $1 a pound. 3 ® 8

CALLING A MAN a tax collector became a fighting

phrase. The punsters went to work on T. Lamar Caudle, -

with dozens of fine linguistic inventions such as: A pretty Caudle of fish. And, Caudle up a little closer.

The fact came out that the presidential lighting of the White House Christmas tree with a silver telegraph key is a phony and always has been. And here I am running out of space and just getting a good start. Unless something

"happens here these last few

days in 1951, more year-end reviews upcoming.

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