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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give LAght and the People Willi Find Their Own Way

They Must Be Very Jittery in Washington EARL PETERS, quoted as saying, he was fired as Indiana FHA chief Saturday because the Truman administration has the jitters over Congressional investigations, probably hit the nail right on. the head. Certainly a great many “irregularities” far more’ flagrant than the one he admitted have failed to produce any such prompt or drastic.action. All Mr. Peters did, apparently, was to use government credit entrusted to him as a public servant to finance a personal business venture for personal profit. ; The fact that the venture itself was a perfectly legitimate one or that the loan may be, as he says it is, a thoroughly sound one, doesn’t change our opinion that it is no more proper for a government official to use government credit or cash for his own private business than it is for .a bank teller to use the bank’s cash to bet on a horse race— even If his horse does win.

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beh NOW, though, the politico who has got caught has been reasonably sure of a WHItEWSEH, “OF Ver aH are" rogant defense that he has done ‘nothing ilfegal.” This time it was remarkably different.

We merely asked a question about it, to find out whether a report we'd heard of it was true or false.

Immediately Mr. Peters was fired.

That's surprising in itself, because, after all, the transaction in question was five yedrs ago, and has been right there on the FHA records all that time.

Maybe those Congressional investigations are doing some real good, after all. Maybe, in fact, they haven't yet gone far enough. Mr. Peters says he had the approval of his own immediate superior in the FHA hierarchy on this deal. If he did, any guilt that attaches to him attaches in equal measure to that superior, who hasn't been fired, so far as we've heard. How far up does this go? Is Mr. Peters just being made the sacrificial goat to draw attention away from another mess like RFC, or the Income Tax Bureau, or the Justice Department?

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Face Tough Nut

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Both Sen. William Jenner (R. Ind.) and State Chairman Cale Holder are in for a hard time from the Esienhower supporters in the state, Two of the “I like Ike” crew were down here talking things over at Eisenhower headquarters with Sen. James H. § i a Duff (R. Pa.). They returned to § Indiana with plenty of ammunition to attack the GOP organization plan of being all-out for the nomination of Sen. Robert A. Taft

: (R. 0.). 3 Marion County Rep. Charles Brownson yesterday called The visitors: were for a Congressional investigation of the whole FHA opera. Dale Brown, Marion : . County clerk,” and tion to find out. State ‘Rep. George 8. : Seems to us like a very good idea. Diener. On the day Cale Holder

these men arrived to ask how best to get ...joins 'no' chorus

some Eisenhower delegates in Indiana, Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis, who greeted them burt said he isn't taking sides in the presidential scrap, was treated to “the business” from the Taft supporters. Here is the story:

Contacts Bureau THE , MARION County congressman: had promised his GOP county chairman, John E. Innis, that he would get a speaker for him on Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12. So Mr. Brownson contacted the speakers’ bureau at the Republican National Committée and was told by Ed Engle that he was months behind in signing one of the stars. It was sug-

: & What Others Say—

THE spirit may be willing when we shovel fce and snow from the driveway, but let’s not forget that while the flesh may not be weak, its capacity may not be much greater than what we are accustomed to doing daily.—John D. Porterfield, State Health Director of Ohio. o ae

Police and Politics

E FIND it hard to believe that Jack O'Neal was “playing politics” with the Police Department, or doing anything else a good policeman shouldn't have been doing, during the two months he was acting as chief.

There hasn't been a scrap of credible evidence against him produced so far. His whole 38 years spotless record on the police force belies the unsubstantiated charges made gainst him. And it is well known around police headquarters that he wasn't very popular in some quarters just beuse he never would play politics, or take part in the factional political fights which go on there continuously. The accusation on which he was suspended — that there had been “delay” in his investigation of a charge against z peatrolman—seems a little silly when you recall that he was only Chief for two months, altogether. If it's Geley they re interested in, we can cite a few very serious charges against members of the force that haven't been investigated or dealt with by the police chief before him, or the one befor me of them running back three or

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I HOPE I may have the support of those newspapers and individuals who opposed me for sensor last year when admitting I have always been a great state auditor.—Joe Ferguson, candidate for re-election to his fifth term of

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# ow 2 5 auditor of Ohio. ! 1 a oe o- oe WE wouldn't deny there's some “politics” in this case, thoRg] : I LOOKED like Gandhi. My arms were JOULE] sticks, my legs were sticks. North Korean offiWhen a Republican administrztion comes into City Hall cers told me I looked like a painting of one of i rot. : , the apostles.—Gen. William F. Dean, telling of allC immeaqialet INOres ne mer:t law, der + ’ g : ; ! 8 .- eri aw, demotes all the his capturevby, Reds to a Communist newsman. jemocrals and promotes Republicans to all the top jobs ! Cl TY 5 okies Hm euanlAav vie oalit THE AIM of the United Nations command lr NF nap HE goesn t have a firgt-class 1 wi.iee force—and delegation is to prevent resumption of hostili-

ties during the period of armistice . . , but we have to remember that you cannot prevent murder by passing-a law, —Adm. Turner Joy, Chief United Nations delegate to Korean truce talks.

SIDE GLANCES

Oulics 12 tne reasoj There have always been some good men in the department, afd there are some good men there now — both Fepuolicans and Democrats. But it is 'well known, and has Just age been demonstrated, that being a capable and nonest and efficient officer is not the way to rise in the

Jeperument. nor any assurance of holding rank that may ave Deer earned :

Thzt's determined by which political party happened 0 win Lue as election. ahd has been firmly fixed by a long succession of Meyore who have looked upon the police force as thelr person), political machine. » We had hoped for & somewhat higher conception of public service from Alex Clark when he took office.

~ Onoe sgeir we nave been disappointed.

History Repeats

N HIB oblique remarks 2 his Thursday press conference President Truman seemed 10 be making an eflort to scare Gen. Eisenhower out of running for President ; He cited Gen, Winfield Scott, the -W big candidate of 1852, as an example of & nations! hero who' made # flop .of his political adventure, : : ; _. He told the newsmen it would do them good to resd both the biographies of Gen. Seott nd Franklin Pierce, who defeated the general for President. ree : The biography y Mr. Tr g dent Pierce: = Si . ~~ "He was an inexperienced man suddenly called to assume a tremendous responsibility who honestly. tried to do - w_'

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By Galbraith.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

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gested that the best’ man available now would be Rep. Hugh D. Scott Jr. Philadelphia, former national chairman. > : Having spoken in Mr. Scott's silk-stocking Walnut Grove district on the Pennsylvania Congressman’s invitation, Mr. Bovnson supposed that this would be an ideal setup for reciprocity. Since all Republicans’ are still for Lincoln, he neglected to consider that Mr. Scott also is in the forefront of those seeking the nomination this year of Gen. Eisenhower.

Telephone Innis

HE WAS promptly reminded of that fact, however, by another “young Turk” Republican visitor from Indianapolis, James Gregory. So they phoned “Jack” Innis who asked that the answer be held up for further consultations. This turned out to be several phone calls from Indianapolis, the final one being from Mr. Holder in which he joined the chorus in saying no.” . A Taft man had been signed for the talk it turned out. He is Sen. Henry C.*Dworshak (R. Idaho), whose conservatism is as rockribbed as Mr. McKinley's. This incident’ of “thought control” added some insight into what caused Sen. Jenner to announce for another term here, rather than seek the governorship which has been his lifelong ambition. , yi

Called Internationalist

ONE REPORT is that he didn't want to take on the Eisenhower supporters in a knock-down-and-drag-out fight, For he has termed the General an “internationalist” and said that Gen. Eisenhower stands for everything in the bipartisan foreign policy to which he, Sen. Jenner, is opposed. Another story is that old-time, Marion County politico, James Bradford, would like to see Mr. Holder the gubernatorial candidate. The ticket of Taft-Jenner and Mr. Holder would be the ideal conservative combination to beat the Democrats in. what appears to be a Republican year in Indiana, it is contended. Eisenhower backers, particularly Elmer “Doc” Sherwood, Indianapolis, are talking up former National American Legion Commander George Craig, now an Indianapolis attorney for the governorship.

Others Mentioned

THE Secretary of State, Speaker of the House and Majority Leader of the Senate are others whose names are being kicked around here. When the governorship was mentioned to Rep. Ralph Harvey, New Castle, he promptly turned it «down. So far there is no talk of trying to unseat Sen. Jenner in the state convention, but the Eisenhower men, will be fighting the Taft forces" for other places on the ticket. Just how strong the Taft supporters are within the organization at the present time is shown by the report that his state campaign manager, Lisle Wallace, has gone to the San Francisco meeting of the Republican National Committee with the proxies of both the national committeeman and national committeewoman in his pocket.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14--It didn’t take Congress long to get going on the important stuff, like the low price of eggs and the nimrods with eagles on their shoulders telling this nations’ game wardens to go jump, tis The statesman also considered whether it's ‘wise to spend $1 billion in 40 minutes. That's at the rate of $25 million per minute and let's look into ‘these matters in one-two-three order: Sen. W#llilam Langer (R. read a letter from Mrs. Nellie Puffer Schultz, a constituent and hen proprietor of Guelph,

chickens produce eight dozen eggs per day and she can get only . 27 cents per dozen, for them, she might as well go out of business.

Tobey (R. N.H.) as a historic _~document, May even be a . chicken féather in the wind. Sen. Tobey sald Mrs. Schultz was the first housewife in many a year to kick about the

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RED CHINA . . . By Charles Lucey re

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Extortion Racket

WAZHINGPON, Jan. 13—Treasury Department spokesmen indicated belief today that the extortion racket which: drew millions of

, dollars in ransom payments from U. 8. Chinese + to Communist China has been largely smashed.

Their optimism was based on a check of Chinese communities in vartous/U. 8. cities,

.But the Treasury, fighting the -extortion for

two months, emphasized that the checkup was not yet complete, z Whether arrests may come in connection with disclosure of certain channels through which the. remittances moved to Red China is undetermined. . ‘

U. S. Chinese Commended

TREASURY officials commended U. 8. Chinese for remarkable co-operation with the government once the full significance of the extortion’ operation became clear. In late October, it was disclosed that Chinese in‘°many cities were being asked, often under threat of bodily harm to relatives in China; to remit sizable sums of money to these relatives. In one way or another; of course, the funds would wind up in possession of the Chinese Communist government. In some cases the demands ran into thousands of dollars.

BUILDING . . . By Robert Crater Ohio Turnpike Commission

Smashed

It was a tricky assignment for Treasury be. cause it was difficult to crack down on people whose only intent, in the vast majority of cases, was to save some member of their families from mistreatment or torture. : :

Peak in November - | + BUT, working through Chinese leaders in many cities, Treasury officials pointed out that it was unlikely the money would reach the rela. tives or do them much good in any case. It was pointed out also that the remittances provided dollar exchange for the Communists which could be useful in helping them fight the: United Nations in Korea. . Treasury announced in December that those continuing to send such funds might be liable to the penalties of the Trading With the Enemy Act—a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. In some cases the funds were being chan. neled to Hong Kong or beyond through’ banks, In other cases, the money went. through socalled Chinese grocery companies which actually carry on business in many lines. The racket apparently reached its peak ih mid-November. It was estimated tha#hin one month, $1 million was sent from the Chinese community in New York City.

Runs Info a Steel Wall—

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—The Ohio Turnpike Commission is in the market for 225,000 tons of highway steel and is angered by what it has run into. Officials are having trouble getting the federal government to let them buy the steel. Meanwhile they have offers - of steel from four foreign countries—Germany, Belgium,

“It seems we can buy steel everywhere except in our own country,” declared Gov. Frank J. Lausche. Ohio wants the steel to build a high speed toll highway across the state. The Turnpike Commission is hesitant about buying European steel because it costs far more than American steel. A ton of European structural steel costs about $190 a ton delivered to Ohio. Pittsburgh mills can furnish it-for $37 a ton, plus delivery charges. 8 Manly Fleischmann, head of the National Production Administration, said he was certain American steel sent to Europe under foreign

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MR. EDITOR: I think the Indianapolis streetcar service must be the poorest and the most expensive in the U. 8. : : : The employees of firms at St. Clair St. and Capitol Ave, stand on the corner 10 or 15 minutes waiting for a car. When the car arrives

- it does not stop or if it does due to signal indi-

cations the motorman does not open the door. Yet the car is only half filled. Then there is another wait of 15 or 20 minutes. You get on and ride to where you want to catch the car for your last lap of your trip home. When your car comes you get in. and ride half a square and there is an inspector. So SoD EVERYBODY is ordered to get off and catch the car ahead, which is about half a square away. Sick or well, old or infirm, you must take the car ahead. If you wait for another car you pay another fare as your transfer has been taken up. This procedure probably saves paying a little overtime to the motorman at the inconvenience of the public. Every time the company buys new equipment they raise the fare and the public pays for it. The company uses our streets, pays very little toward the upkeep. But when mismanagement and poor service cause profits to drop, the public must kick in and make up the difference. If the public must buy the equipment and pay for the losses, why can’t the public .own the outfit outright? I'll bet the company doesn’t pay taxes on more than one-half of the valuation they claim when asking for a hike in fares. —Mrs. Lula. Bowman, City

‘Government’ MR. EDITOR: . If Pat Hogan of Columbus, Ind. and C. D. C. of Terre Haute, would get together and strengthen their philosophy of what «is good for the masses -is amply described as socialism, and is destructive to capitalism, and what is good for the capitalists is also good for the masses, and serves as a blanket against communism, they would strengthen their Republicanism, that is if they could get enough of the masses to believe in their teaching. The weakness of their tirade is in the light of everyday facts, which are here for all to see, and which cannot’ be successfully condemned. Every intelligent person knows the vast difference in the environment of the -working class since the time when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States up to

BIG DOINGS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Congress Hits High Gear on Low Egg Prices

Then came Sen. a Willis Robertson (D. Va.) with: a bill to slap down the Army's - big brass, which goes stalking for bear and lesser game on federal reservations and never bothers to take out a hunting license. Some of these babies with the fruit salad on their chests, said the Senator, take 'com-

mand of a military reservation this bill * of a couple or three thousand trouble. acres and thereafter act like o

czars. ; “ If they want to shoot a quail out of season they bang away

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Hoosier Forum—-‘Bad Service’

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

at it and when the poor game warden tries to protest, they tell him to scram. “They claim they do not have to recognize any state hunting and fishing Jae, al they are supreme, an at they can do as they all that oney. please,” Sen. Robertson added. Boney: an Rev He's got a bill to fix ‘em. Let any colonel or general, either, ignore a state game law under and he's in bad

aid programs isn't being bootlegged back hers for resale. Steel industry spokesmen agree with Mr. Fleischmann, 2 We produced about 105 million tons of steel ingots in 1951 but estimates of where it went are available for only 10 months of the year. ’ Steel ingot production through October, 1851, was 87.5 million tons. This produced hearly 668 million tons of finished steel products. The

difference was salvaged as scrap. ~~ Of the 66 million tons of finished ‘steer

products, industry sources say only 2,177,987 tons were shipped abroad, all under the scrutiny of the government.

‘Chewing Up’ Roads OHIO needs heavy structural and rein. forcing steel. We shipped 140,000 tons of such steel abroad during the first nine months of 1951. Gov. Lausche said the Pennsylvania Turnpike, recently completed to Ohio's doorstep, was spilling heavy traffic into the -YoungstownEast Liverpool area. : “The heavy vehicles are chewing up our roads,”: he said. a Ironically, the Youngstown-East Liverpool

area is one of the world’s largest producers of steel.

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and including the present time, The good that this has accomplished cannot be hidden by casting a blanket called socialism on it.

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THE truth will finally triumph over all the condemnation and falsehood that is spread by unsound and selfish interest, These men who try ‘to place the blame for the present daily ills of our country as well as the rest of the world on Roosevelt and Truman have not the depth of character or thinking to gain converts to their philosophy. : All know that all ills are caused by some wrong or misused act and that the knowledge of no man or set of men is stifficient to elime inate the possible ill effect of their acts. Thig applies especially to acts which are made under knowledge existing at the time of the act, but such act applies to future years. No man or set of men can accurately foretell the future or know the result of his act in the future, especially when these acts embrace whole nations. A man can be condemned for his act, but not for the acts of others. Truman cannot be justly blamed for the acts of every govern« ment employee.

sult of our environment. > > oo : THE changes that have taken place in the past 30 years can be said to come from the necessary expansion of government caused hy war and social changes. The acts of our leade ers have not all proven to be the best. But, in the light of reason they cannot be condemned as other than mistakes caused by lack of knowledge of the future and the character of other leaders.

—Theo. B. Marshall, City.

‘Your Deadly Pens’ MR. EDITOR:

I resent your persecution of the different people you have at the mercy of your deadly pens . . . namely . .. Sheriff Dan Smith, some of his deputies and Mrs, Lissa Hanson. I ask you in all fairness what moral right do you have to crucify any person with your poison print? : Of all the: so-called actions of your victims, they are minor to yours. You are cutting deep and lasting for life. Think it over and if you have any man about you, you'll put your shoul der along with the sheriff and his deputies and help ‘people to right themselves with God and man, —Grace Prall, City.

wages of Army officers, ine cluding the poachers. That really made Rep. Daniel A, Reed (R. N. Y.) sore. What pained him was the haste of the leadership to appropriate

P Reed is spending a billion, he wants a little time to think’ about it. . The ‘trouble is, he said, that the Democrats are about to.

. bring up this mighty appro« THIS IS no trivial thing, the Senator said. Neither is that $1 billion in a bill to raise the

priation in the House under.a" suspension of the rules, wheres, by there'll only be 40 minutes for the .gentlemen to debate it. That gives the Republicans "20 minutes and the Democrats ditto. Rep. Reed couldn't even

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get a good start in 20 minutes, denouncing the scheme. * There might be some justi fication for raising the wages of the foot soldiers slogging through the mud of Korea, the, way he calculates, but the of-+ ficers are paid well enough as, itis. : 4 “This. is no. time to fritter:

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