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Boston Impudence

NE OF the ingrown traits of the political outfit now swinging and swaying in Washington is its unabashed dislike for applying to itself the rules which govern more ordinary citizens. The Boston branch, headed by John W.-McCormack, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, lately

has offered some scented examples of this - trait. JIB

Richard Starnes’ story, opposite column.):’ Denis W. Delaney, the Boston Internal Revenue Col- - lector, has been convicted of bribe-taking.

Fourteen high-ranking employees of - Delaney’s office .

for four years have been accused of violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits political activity by federal payrollers. But “the Civil Service Commission hasn't got around to deciding the cases. Mr. McCormack, meanwhile, put through an amendment watering down the Hatch Act—taking out the part which made it mandatory that any violator be fired. And he says "the Civil Service Commission was waiting for this softener to pass before acting on the cases. (The softener has been ~ on the books 17 months.) It also is worth noting that the defense lawyer for 13 ‘of 14 accused employees is a pal of Mr. McCormack and an Assistant Attorney General. : So here is the law, civil service and a high-ranking employee of the Justice Department being used to Jlotec? the politically privileged.

Have You Given Blood?

EP! KENNEDY, Times staffer in Korea and Japan, has given us a good idea what a little blood can ‘mean in war. Some of us already knew it: other wars. Mr. Kennedy already knew it. “blood in the last war . . . plenty of it. : There's just one difference. Ed didn't forget what blood means to a man hacked up by shrapnel. He didn't “let that memory slip away from him into the shadows like so many of us do when a thing is over and gone. They still need blood in Korea. Not long ago Ed told us about the story of a soldier who needed blood badly. There wasn't any. Men had to

be called off the front line to give him blood . . . to keep him alive . . . and then they had to go right back and fight.

We were given blood in He was given

NOT ONLY do we expect our soldiers to fight but also - we expect them to give their blood to keep each other alive . . . we expect them to because we haven't done the job we should be doing. Indianapolis has a fine record in blood donations. One of the best in the country. Ed Kennedy is now telling us what that record donation is doing in Korea . . . about the lives it is saving and the boys that are going to smile again, live again because someone in Indianapolis gave blood. But that's not enough. A record is only made to be broken. If you have not given blood for the boys in Korea, ask yourself why. If the answer is not a very convincing one, lift up the phone, call LI-1441 and make a date to save a soldier's “life. If you have already given, Five more if you can.

It's your blood. Give it to keep your boys alive.

Give Them Light

ONIGHT 10,000 Indianapolis women will search the dark streets for lights that may lead a child to health. They will be seeking lights that shine from the porches of those who want to help . . . who want to give to the March , of Dimes. . . who want to fight polio and beat it. | Each year about this time we think of a story of a boy” with golden curls, struck down with polio before he was _ old enough to walk.

They didn't believe he would live, but he did. They do not believe he will walk. He believes he will. It bothers him to watch his baby brother. He knows some day “that kid's going to learn how to walk.” So he's

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going to learn first. Your dimes let him live, him walk. There are other little boys and girls, and there will be more every year, who will need dimes to live and to walk again. to my Turn on your , Pore lights tonight between 6:30 and 7:30 p. m., and watch that light creep into the hearts of all children who need your help so badly. ;

It is your dimes that will let

Exciting News

JTEMS in the day's news calculated to get us stirred up: What is billed as the “world's cocktail shaking championship” is on in London. Entrants from 22 nations. (World already is cockeyed.) Self-lighting sigarets ready for the market. firemen. ) ~ ” Potato prices, which the government lohg subsidized at a high level, are now: subjeet to government control. . (Net result, potato wholesalers will be permitted to charge more.)

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» in Moseow, an official publication calls tor an end ¢5

the “arms race.” (Moscow speaking.) Danish inventors have developed an odorless Retbags . disposal plant. (Washington, please copy.)

in’ their U. travel

In Washington, the State Department ‘said_that maybe thin a week or two Russian diplomats would be, restricted “travel: (Russia years ago put a . siplonkaly in Moss: Nouay. ia

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INT ERNAL REVENUE PROBE

. By Richard Starnes

Why Did Civil Service Commission Delay Tax Case Decision?

(See editorial, “Boston Impudence”) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—For. four Years the Civil Service Commission has delayed a

decision in a case involving 14 top-ranking employees in the office of the Massachusetts Collector of Internal Revenue. They are charged with violating the Hateh Act. House Democratic Leader John D. McCormack, patronage boss of Boston, admits he is partly responsible for the long delay, although he insists he has never interceded with the Civil Service Commission on behalf of”the men. Another clue to the delay may be in the happy choice by 13 of the 14 men of a defense attorney. He is Joseph C. Duggan, close friend of Rep. McCormack and now an assistant to Atty. Gen, J. Howard McGrath. “ » THE DEFENDANTS were aids to ousted Collector Dennis W. Delaney, who Tuesday was sentenced to two years and a $10,500 fine for taking $7500 in bribes and illegally certifying that $180,497 in tax -liens had been satisfied. The investigation started in November, 1947, when House Appropriations Subcommittee agents seized files which appeared to show dis-

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regard for the Hatch Act, which forbids political activities by government employees. A committee investigator reported that the

files, taken from the office of John E. Burns,*

assistant Internal Revenue collector, contained a seven-page chart listing every field employee of the Boston office making $3000 a. year or more. Each name was followed by a code letter. Testimony before the committee revealed this key to the code. “A —Reasonably good donation. x “B— Good prospect for fair donation. “(O—Family responsibilities and .salary suggest modest donation, “D—Heavy family responsibilities with limifed salary. “E—Salary and number of dependents precludes donations.” od THE INVESTIGATORS also found a file relating to a Jefferson Day dinner sponsored by Democratic leaders-——chiefly Rep. McCormack —at Boston's Hotel Statler in May, 1947. Included =were blank forms which said, “I desire to voluntarily contribute $25 to the Democratic National Committee. Payment is contained herein.” @ There aiso was a note that 250 employees

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MR. EDITOR: : Anyone who has been in the service, and most of us have, know that you don't expect generals to cut down on expense. The general learns when he is a corporal to ask for 10 men if he needs two on a detail, and to requisition for five items if he needs three. That's the Army for vou. It's part of the basic training for a general. When the Army runs the railroads, builds a dam or activates a division there is an enormous waste. People are always shocked by the extravagant waste that goes with any Army operation. Would those people who argue Eisenhower's Army training would make him an efficient President go further with the premise and agree that the Army generals would-give efficient management of the railroads? Did they when they were running the railroads?

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VETERANS, no matter how much they adore Eisenhower as a military hero, won't go along with the idea of Eisenhower as the man to cut down extravagant government expending. As a matter of fact all we know-of his plans would indicate he would be the greatest give-away artist in foreign spending we could possibly choose. He doesn’t have to talk. His acts and his record indicate that. Moreover, his sponsors are the blurry-eyed internationalists that continually propagandize for more and more foreign spending. Eisenhower's sponsors are the New YorkMichigan clique, the same clique that succeeded in dominating the last Republican convention and defeating Bob Taft and the Republican antiNew Deal program. They sold the defeatist idea to the convention that you couldn't beat the

SIDE GLANCES

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Presidency’

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

By Galbraith “vis 2 Anti-Beer Folks Pounce on TV Ads at Hearing

LEMIRE ERERRRANATRARENS

Democrats with issues. You had to use clever deception to get in. » Veterans respect the courage and well-mean-ing confidence and ambition of Gen. Eisenhower. They don’t want to see this become a weakness which will induce him to be used by this clique of nefarious political manipulators. It is more important to get this clique out of control of the Republican Party than it is to win an election. What good is it to win an election if you can't have a Republican in the chair and a Republican program on the agenda? —L. L. Patton, Crawfordsville.

‘About Voters’ MR. EDITOR; The Indianapolis Times . . . a grand paper which not only tells the facts about the present administration, but allows everyone to write his

or her opinion. In the Jan. 24 issue, Rabert Ruark tells what kind of people make up the majority of the voters who want and like the kind of administration we now have . which reminds me of the following joke: Two Democrats were talking. One said to the other, “I am getting scared about the next election.” The other answered, “Why should you be scared? The majority of people in_the United States are fools and we have all the fools on our side so why should you be scared?” Also, I want to add, I and many others ‘njoy and approve the letters of C.D.C. of Terre Haute to the Hoosier Forum. I hope the writer of these letters and many other people who realize what a mess this administration has got us into, will be able to arouse these complacent voters to do some thinking before the next election,

—J. 0. B.,, City

SPEAK OUT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—

Never before have I seen so many serious ladies and gents so dead set as were those ‘against beer ads on television. You know what I'm talking about. In’ the middle of the mystery drama, when the heroine is on the brink of being pushed over the cliff, out on the 20-inch screen comes this smug-looking citizen with the Adam’s apple. Slowly he swigs a glass of somebody's ‘suds. While doing this he tells what superb ambrosia is flowing down his gullet. ” ~ ” WELL, SIR, the antibeer * folks informed the Senate Interstate'and Foreign Commerce - Committee that this has got to stop. I am behind them 100 per cent. The trouble is that thése beer ads on the video are well done. Every time I see ome, it wakes me thirsty. The witnesses, and thage were many, took a somewhat different attack; they didn't want beerish their nondrihking parlors. their” children wrong

—under

.-being so advertised now, but’

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propaganda in * faction or... disgust may take

Plirohased dinner tickets, A chart showed seating arrangements, Digging further, memorandum from Mr. Delaney: “In considering promotions .in the field I thought you might like to have the list of employees who purchased dinner tickets for the Hannegan reception.” The late Robert E. Hannegan was chairman of the Democratic National Committee, * .

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COLLE( TOR DELANEY denied he had seen the memo. If he had, he said, “I would destroy it the very minute I received it because I think communications. of this kind have no bearing in our office.’ A tabulation by

investigators found this

committee investigators, however, showed that of 57 persons named in the memorandum, 32 subsequently were promoted. : : Another item sifted out by the committee was a copy of a letter from Delaney to Matthew Connelly, one of President Truman’s secretaries. The note concerned Frank Kraemer, Collector of Internal Revenue for Connecticut, who was investigation for possible Hatch Act viol: itions. “Dear Matt (wrote Delaney): “You recall that I talked to you regarding Frank Kraemer, and his difficulty. “It "does appear a shame that one of our

boys is being penalized for doing what comes’

naturally.’ Delaney later swore to the committee that Mr. Connelly had never replied to the note, Kraemer was subsequently convicted of illegally collecting Democratic campaign funds from fellow employees. He was fired and fined $1000. 0 oo “oe BUT NO such speed was shown in disposing of the Boston cases. Testimony before the committee revealed that the Civil Service Commission was called in on the Boston cases in November, 1947. After an .investigation, Civil Service examiners filed charges against 18 .employees. Four have since left the government. The other 14 still have their jobs. They include John E. Burns, assistant collector; Jeremiah W. Taylor, chief office deputy, and Arthur Rabinovitz, deputy collector. Chairman Robert Ramspeck of the Civil Service Commission claims-there has been no unreasonable delay in the cases. He says the examiners’ reports and recommendations are before the three commissioners now and he expects to have the cases out of the way ‘before

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Burns to Collector”

much longer.* He declines to make public the examiners’ recomniendations. Other sources, however, report that the examiners urged that three men be dismissed and that some others be suspended for periods ranging upward from 90 days. > Sb

REP. tion for part of the-delay. He said the Civil Service Commission was waiting for an amendment to the Hatch Act to become law so persons found guilty of violations would not necessarily be fired. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. McCormack, became law on Aug. 25, 1950. It permits the commission to impose penalties

less than dismissal but in-no case less than 90 days suspension without pay. Prior. to that, firing was mandatory. The pending change in the law, however, did not prevent the Civil Service Commission from disposing of 182 other Hatch Act cases in 1948; 141 in 1949; 120 in 1950. Rep. McCormack concedes that. the Boston case had a lot to do with his decision to sponsor the change in the law. But he pointed out that the amendment won unanimous approval in the House and was approved in the Senate with only minor changes. Whether the tailor-made amendment actually had anything to do with delaying the case is doubted by Civil Service spokesmen, who point to the other cases disposed of.

. By Jim G. Lucas

Can the U. S. Back Tough Talk?

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—The United States wound find it tough to back up some of its-brave talk if Russia decides to call for a showdown. Both sides have served virtual ultimatums in the last 48 hours. The United States, Great Britain and France formally warned the Reds that we would tolerate no more aggression in the Far Fast: Jacob Malik shot back that this proved Washington was planning more trouble in the Orient. In Moscow, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko called American, British, French and Turkish diplomats to his office and handed them a note charging the proposed Middle

Jacob Malik

East defense command was an ati «vs more. S, tempt at “encircle- re S trouble

ment” of Russia and her allies. The language in both cases was.about as tough as nations use without throwing down the gauntlet. In the Pentagon, however, there apparently is no inclination to speed the defense program. Instead—based on a mysterious report from

-somewhere in ‘the government that the inter-

national picture is a great deal brighter—the whole national security program is being “flat-

.tened out.” Goals once set for 1952 have been

postponed until 1955,

Here's the Picture

IF THE cold war turned hot overnight, here's what ‘we'd have ARMY: 1530,000 men under arms, organ-

ized into 19 combat divisions. A 20th, the 44th (Illinois) National Guard Division, goes on active duty Feb. 15. We ‘have eight divisions in the Far East—six fighting in Korea and two in. Japan, There are five U.S. divisions in Europe and six in the United States. The six at home are our reserve. They include the First Armored. at Ft. Hood, Tex.; the 11th Airborne at Ft. Campbell, Ky.; the 82d Airborne at Ft. Bragg, N.C.; the 47th (Minnesota- North Dakota) National Guard at Camp Rucker,” Ala.; the 31st (Alabama-Mississippi) National Guard at Ft. Jackson, 8.C.; and the 37th (Ohio) National Guard at Camp Polk, La. AIR FORCE: 890,000 men organized into 90 wings (still 53 short of our 143-wing goal set for the end of this year.) This includes 75 combat and 15 troop carrier wings. We have approximately 20,000 planes, of which 14,000 are in service. The remaining 6000 are in storage or being repaired. The Air Force reports that “72 per «cent of our planes are World War II types, over six years old and scheduled to be declared obsolete in June.”

NAVY: 739,000 men and 392 major combat ships, including four battieships,. three large carriers, nine Essex class carriers, five small

carriers, 10 escort carriers, 14 cruisers, 232 destovers and 95 submarines, We'll have 100 subs in six months, The Navy has 14 carrier groups

By Frederick C. Othman

ing to do with beer. As written by Sen. Ed Johnson (D. Colo.), it merely would prohibit radio and TV advertising of the hard stuff, like whisky and gin,

These potent brews aren't

economist

sons, Sen. Johnson & Co. figure some greedy . distiller may try it, if Congress turns its back. Most of the citizens, agreeing this ‘was a good idea, also urged - “the Senators to include a verboten on those bubbly beer ads: Let's listen to a couple of them: . There. was a slim, -blond young man, who identified

KEEP OCCUPIED

NO matter what your lot in life . . . a carpenter or nurse + +» or perhaps just an.office boy . .. with letters to disperse

your Joh. a. it plays a certain part. ... in moving life's great Ferris wheel . . , or giving it a start .-. . and When dissatis-

solation.

1 hold, o. Suc despals aud “i but

- himself as Lloyd Helversen, for the Grange. His, he said, is a prohibition household. got a television set and two

ages five and seven, These youngsters eat creepieweepies for breakfast, he said,. even though it scratches the roofs of their mouths; théy demand it because some cowboy * on TV says they should. They also observe the beer ads. “And they both think that I am an old fogey because I . do not serve beer in my home,”

worried mind . . . so we y should all be thankful for... our jobs whatever kind . . . so bear in ‘mind when things go wrong’ + + + with you aor with the nation . . . working hard can really be . . . the greatest con-

—By Ben Burroughs. f¥ou can obtain 100 of Mr.

of five squadrons each (each group with 105 planes) and 34 patrol squadrons of nine planes each, ;

MARINE CORPS: Two and one-third divisions and 215 wings. One division and one wing are in Korea. The most authoritative report on Russia's military situation is a compilation of intelli. gence reports from all 12 Atlantic Pact nations, read to the council of deputies in Rome two months ago. That report said the Soviet Union controls: about four million armed men, ors ganized into 175 divisions, of which 85 are armored or mechanized. The report said Russia has 30,000 tanks and 20,000 planes. She has, 500,000 men in her air force and as many in her navy. The British defense ministry, however, claims the Russians have 5.6 million men in 215 divisions. Seventy are deployed against the West, the British say.

Under Construction

AGAINST our 90 submarines, the Russians have 380 with at least 120 more under construction. Nazi Germany had 50 when she went to war with the United States. Brassey's Armed Forces Year Book, a British publication, reports there are 135 Red submarines in the

" Baltic, 110 in the Far East, 40 in the Black

Sea and 30 in the White Sea.

Russia announced a few years ago she.was

building three battleships. One now is in operation, according to the year book, A second has been launched, and a third is still in stocks: at Leningrad, Brassey's reported. Brassey’s says Russia has 175 divisions, including 2.8 million army men, but within twe months after the outbreak of war could expand to 300 divisions. The year book says a Soviet rifle division of 10,800 men can put 5000 men on the firing line. An American infantry division of 18,800 men can put 7600 men on the line. Yet, thé year book contends the weight of fire from 5000 Rus sians will be 14 per cent greater than that from 7600 Americans.

Views on the News By DAN KIDNEY

THAT $756 a week paid a plumber. is one Atomic Energy Commission secret the Voice of America should broadcast to the. “workers democracies.”

ONE OF" the biggest shortages in the British Imperial Army today is Gunga Din.

ABOUT the best governe ment job is “co-ordinator.” All you have to do is hide in a bureau's top-drawer.

ADMINISTRATION Democrats think that a “political dope” is a guy addicted to Kefauver,

Mr. Kefauver «+ « hmmmm

EAST and West United Nations delegates agree that conditions in Asia are “grave.” But there “is the usual division regarding whose grave.

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said Mr. Helversen. “I speak with feeling on this subject.” Then came Dr. ‘Norman Vincent Peale, the pink-

cheeked and eloquent pastor of the Marple Collegiate Church in New York. He told first about a Savannah, Ga., lady who threatened to throw. her shoe through the TV screen if ‘her husband didn’t turn off the beer cartoons. Yo ri » » * DR. PEALE went on to say that he was proprietor of a TV set and father of a nine-

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