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Politics for Profit? -
E RECOMMEND to Frank McHale, Democratic National Committeeman for Indiana, a thoughtful reading of the report of the Senate committee that has just been investiguiing charges of political tampering with RFC. The committee says it “does not believe it is in the interests of good government for paid or unpaid officials of either National Committee to handle matters before government agencies in those cases in Which they are getting a salary or a fee.” The record shows that Mr. McHale, while a powerful National Committee member, did appear before a government agency that existed by political appointment, did win for
his client an award of $935,000 for munitions it had never -
produced, and is now claiming a $93,500 fee for his services in doing so. It even shows that the client he represemted was a corporation of which he was one of the owners and in which he had long been a director, and which existed for the sole purpose of selling materials to the government.
The Senate committee seems to feel that such an enterprise that might be entirely legitimate for a lawyer or a businessman is quite improper for a member of a political party's National Committee. We do, too. In our opinion Mr. McHale has disqualified * himself for further membership’ on the Democratic Na-
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Community Surveys, Inc.
R MANY years Indianapolis has been growing like a green shoot in spring rains. Business, industry and population have expanded, wiil continue to expand. Already population growth has outstripped municipal facilities. . Growth problems of health, recreation, education, and welfare, have presented ever-greater demands. Community Chest, Red Cross, Polio Fund and many others have grown to meet them. Naturally, the question arises, how best to spend this money. For several years the Health and Welfare Council; af-
filiated with the Community Chest, has had a research .
department for just this problem. - Funds for its operation have been limited. Little research could be carried on. 2 - o - ” - ” ABOUT A YEAR ago the Community Chest named a special committee to consider establishing an independent, full-time research organizaticn to take over. this survey of community needs. :
Yesterday plans for sefting up such an agency on a three-year demonstration basis were announced. - It is called Community Surveys, Inc. and will become a permanent agency if it works. We hope it does. . Its job is to make continuing studies in various areas and fields which pose special community problems, largely upon request of other fund groups. Its board of directors will decide if projects proposed should be undertaken. . It seems to us this is a sound plan, one that Indianapolis can rely on for accurate, up-to-date information and one that will insure the wisest and fairest expenditure of community funds. :
Light, and More Light -
THE BEST argument against the policy followed by federal offitials of hushing up scandals in their bureaus as being none of the public's business is thé story that is now being pried out of the Agriculture Department. Secretary Charles Braunan would have saved himself embarrassment if he had told about the misdeeds in his department last year when he was beginning to find out about them. “For example, last August he fired his assistant production and marketing administrator, Jack Cowart, after hearing from another government bureau that Mr. Cowart, through his secretary, had received an amount equal to 10 per. cent of a freight rebate paid to a Texas acquaintance of Mr. Cowart. When Mr. Cowart was fired, reporters asked Mr. Brannan why. He replied this was a personnel matter which they were not entitled to know about. (See J ames Daniel on this page.) Now the House Whitten Subcommittee has dragged some of the details out of Mr. Brannan, and some of the -evidence is before a federal grand jury. ~ There is only one policy for an honest and prudent government official —complete, fearless publicity about every imputation or possibility of wrongdoing. It is the public’s only sifeguard and the officeholder’s only pro‘ection—as even Mr. Brannan must realize now.
Eyewash Isn't So Bad
PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S name, as a candidate for re-- ~~
‘nomination, has been entered in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire. It was entered without Mr. Truman's knowledge or consent. : Last week the President said he would ask thatohis _ name be withdrawn.’ He said primaries in presidential years
turned out to be so much eyewash by the time the party °
conventions got around to nominating a candidate. ‘ Now Mr. Truman has changed his mind. He has de- # cided to stay in the New Hampshire primary. Frobaliy got Yamething Bays,
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RESPONSE— “ ‘New Hope For Peace In Egypt?
+ # By CLYDE FARNSWORTH
CAIRO, Feb. 6—There was reviving hope that Britain might be coming
around to terms with
Egypt in a way calculated Lo appeal to the whole Arab League. This hope was nourished principally by unconfirmed reports that Britain at last had responded to the mediation efforts of Iraq and Saudi Arabla with a set of compromise proposals which Iraq was laying before the Egyptian government. Ihe Iraqi minister tq Cairo called on Egypt's Premier Aly Maher Pasha Monday and the Premier thanked the envoy for the mediation efforts -of Iragt Premier Nuri Hs Baid. That much seemed certain. The rest was informed speculation: That Britain had offered to evacuate the Suez Canal Zone at some future date which would have to be negotiated. That Britain was willing to turn over the Canal Zone military base to Egypt but would seek permission to return in the event of emergency. That Britain was willing to make a stop-gap arangement on the base by furnishing British technicians and other assistance ‘to Egyptian armed
- forces.
” Ed ” THAT Britain was seeking: in behalf of herself, the United States, France and Turkey, Arab League participation in a new security arrangement That she was offering agreement to a plebiscite in the Sudan, but possibly not until after the Sudan had achieved self-government. That Britain might send an extraordinary envoy to Cairo— perhaps Foreign Minister Anthony Eden himself—to negotiate a settlement with Egypt and agreement among the Arab states. There's got to be something done along these lines or Russia will dominate the Middle East without lifting a hand. Either Egyptian nationalism or the British policy in the Suez Canal Zone has got to give, or
we must again, as in Iran, dis-
count Middle East security, 2a 2 a » OFFICIALLY, there's not much gign of “give” .on either side. Publicly, the United States has bound herself to support the British stand on the validity of the 1936 British-Egyp-tian treaty which Egypt broke last October. Since the change of Egyptiah governments, however, the United States may have been trying to thaw the British into compromise. Arab states sympathize with Egybt and probably would cling to empty and impossible neutrality rather than join in Western security arrangements based on Egypt's subjection. Turkey has good reason to fear the softness of the Arab states. She may find herself an isolated anti-Communist outpost, outflanked in Iran and exposed at the. _rear. = EGYPT stil details Brit{sh withdrawal before she will even talk about. the Middle East defense command proposed by Britain, the United Statés, France and Turkey. Egypt is not adverse to regional security arrangements but insists on the right of free choice. That's the position taken by both the late Wafdist government and the recent regime headed .by Aly Maher Pasha. Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha and his cabinet were dismissed by King Farouk as a result of repent riots in Cairo.
n - - BRITAIN has insisted, until recently at least, that she won't budge—even to :recognize Egypt's ending of the 1936 treaty, let alone evacuate her Canal Zone base — unless Egypt first agrees to a fourpower substitute for Britain's solitary role” of defending the Canal Zone base. The West's four-power offer, of course, entailed Egyptian
participation. Egypt rebuffed that invitation last October in the midst’ of the treaty abrogation.
SIDE‘GLANCES
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MR. EDITOR:
Last Friday was one of the days to turn on our porch lights. A crusade to defeat polio was last Friday, eight, human beings were strewn along the highway near
on the march. Also,
Oaklandon.
The crusade against polio is a commendable one. Why not a crusade against a disease that has become a perpetual epidemic : mobile. It is more devastating and more far-
reaching than a polio epidemic.
Whether the 18-year-olds are strewn along the highways of Indiana, or on the battlefields of Korea, makes little difference. They are dead. Every precaution is taken to protect junior from polio, yet the keys to an automobile will be handed to him with parental blessings. An automobile in the hands of a child in the teen-
years is a lethal toy. > > 9
IAM the mother of a high school junior and
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HOOSIER FORUM— Traffic’
“| do not agree with a word that you say, but |" will defend to the death your right to say it."
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‘Too Old to Work?’
as a waitress.
four years.
. . the autohigh school.
Korea. -
that does it.
MR. EDITOR: At the age of 43, I'm too old to work in any of the factories ... even too old to get a job I had a son in the last war . .. At that time I was working in a ‘defense plant sending my youngest son through Now he is in the front lines in
What I'd like to know is, fighting these wars if it wasn’t for some of these 40- to 46-year-old mothers. over in Korea didn’t just drop off bushes. all have had mothers. Nobody thinks I'm old enough to have a afl in Korea, but after seeing my birth certifieate, I'm just too old to work. SThank
overseas
who would be
These boys
God this is the last son'I'll send to wap’because, you know something—TI' m too Youd fy have any
more sons.
I know that he has no need to drive an auto-
mobile at any, time. He does not drive an automobile. The bus is quite adequate for his needs. The Times has been successful in correcting many evil conditions. You could accomplish no greater benefit for mankind than to build a crusade to correct the evils of the automobile. A governor on every car should be a law and one that is enforced, restricting the speed to 50 miles .an hour. Those afflicted with speed mania, should be given time out on the track at the Speedway where they could get all of the This procedure would prevent these speed drivers from becoming “frustrated” when they are traveling highways that will not take a speed exceeding 50
speed out of their systems.
miles. and hour.
«Mrs. James A. Twyman, 2946 N. Talbot.
Views on the
SEN. KEFAUVER should be tradifg that coonskin cap for a leather apron if he really is
serious about shoeing a mule.
“QUICKIE” divorces will be’ “valid everywhere if a bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee is passed. Chairman McCarran {& always out to protect Nevada industry. .
PASSING judgment on a “The. Miracle”
movie called
MY BOY
old to work young. Well,
chair. then wait till
moth
x will tell you. factories.
News
LE can't get a job
doesn’t know , job. Doesn't know I had to break up a home because I couldn't get a job. H
doesn’t know I'm too thought I was pretty
. Ha there is nly one thing left to “do.
Wait for the government to send me a rocking I'll take” up knitting and get me a cat, get a little older to die. Ex-servi€emen- are given preference in these plants. $6 are their wives. of my son is an ex-serviceman, but why can’t 8s be given the same consideration, especially if they are alone and don't want charity op’to be a burden to anyone. I'm not the only mother. others. Call the state employment bureau. They
Fine, because one
I've talked to
Women past 40 are too old for —Bitter and Sick of War, City. *
‘About Generals’ MR. EDITOR:
I am an independent voter, ‘for the reason
parties . . .
that I have never asked or received a personal favor from either of the two major political not even a mink coat, wears something called mouton. Being neutral, cerned, I can offer a tip to those who Intend to use the old chestnut that generals are a bad risk as Presidents, which I believe is based on
My wife
as far as parties are con-
They.
assistant administrator of
duction and
De Gasperi
should be easy for the Supreme Court after reviewing all the miraculous laws passed by Congress’
THAT $1 chicken , supper staged by the Republicans in Washington, ‘could cause Democrats to demand an investigation of hen-roosts.
the aftermath of Gen: Grant's administration.”
Having lived through the administrations of two Senators, Harding and Truman, it is going to be most difficult to convince me that another Senator is a good bet. Gen. Grant I only read ‘about. The. Senators, as the saying goes, “I was there.” I would like to thank Sen. Jenner, thfough your Forum; for telling me that Efgenhower is
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By Galbraith
ITALIAN Premier De Gas~ peri’'s latest vate of confidence sounded as if it came from a man with laryngitis.—D. K. -
an internationalist.
MUDDLE .
It appears to me that internationalism is our chief problem. =Guy Durkee, 1020 N. Emerson Ave.
Ry: Talburt DEAR.BOSS ‘es By Dan Kidney
‘Denton Treads on Toes Of Hoosier Delegation
+ « WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — When Democratic Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville, cited the “danger” that lies -in electing a Republican Congress to support a Republican President, he was treading on the toes of
the dean of the Indiana delegation, For Mr. Denn based his charge on the fact
committee chairmen. He didn't men - tion that the Hoosier dean, Rep. Charles! A. Halleck; R ensselaer Republican, might become Speaker —or, , ., opposition in any case, Majority Leader as he was in the GOP 80th Congress.
The present ranking members of the House committees on the minority side were nearly all committee chairmen in the th. And while President Truman won re-election by stumping the country calling the 80th the ‘‘do-nothing” Congress, Mr. Halleck is sure that it was his best during his nine terms here.
Using his weekly letter to constituents in the Eighth District to sound off on the congressional dangers contained in a Republican victory in 1952, Mr. Denton cited the instance of how the late Pres ident William Howard Taft was ‘taken in” by the Républican “reactionaries’’ in: the House and Senate.”The same fate would be repeated by the President’s son, Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.)- were he to be elected President now, Mr. Dentony maintained, “Fhe committee chairmen,” Mr. Denton warned, ‘‘are se-
Mr. Halleck
~ lected on the basis of seniority.
This rule has been inflexible. They wield great powgr. Before any legislation can be considered by either House of Congress, it must first be con-
sidered by a Senate or House |
committee. The committee chairmen can either prevent a committee hearing, or else they can make the hearing so drastic that the result will conform to their views.
. - - “AN EXAMINATION of the roster of those Members of the House who stand in line to become committee men in the event of a Republi« can victory in 1852 may be soméWhat startling. Some of the most powerful committees in the House of Representa. tives would fall into the cone
trol of chairmen who are even
farther to the right politically than the most conservative of any of the Republican presi. dential candidates who have announced, so far.” Ld NS . “WHILE Sen. Taft is came paigning -as a conservative (and he ‘is that),
for comparison with the bee liefs of these ranking Reépublicans,” Mr. Denton coricluded, “Thoughtful peoplé are wone dering what this rer of come
~ mittee chairmen might do to
a Robert A. Taft administration, if voted into office, and whether it might not suffer the sanfe” ignominious fate that his father's did.” And the situation would be even worse under Gen. Eisen hower in the White House, due to his lack of legislative exe perience, Mr. Denton declared,
- - ~ TO ALL of this, Mr. Halleck takes exactly the opposite
view. Since most of those named were 80th Congress chairmen, they are just the
right types to match the times ,
he maintained. “If we are for economy and the: thwarting of further spread of government into business, these are the men to carry out such pledges and Mr, Denton is right about that,” Mr. Halleck said.
AGRICULTURE . . . By James Daniel
Grand Jury Interested
(See editorial; WASHINGTON,
“Light and More Light”) Feb. 6—A federal grand jury in
Newport News, Va., is studying charges against a
farm, price support program. Phe official was identified in
the report as Jack Cowart,
who until last August was a $10,200 a year
the depart-§ ment's pro-g
marketing administration. Then he
Charles Brannan for reasons which Mr. Brannan declined to make public. The Whitten report included a memo from Mr. Brannan's investigators stating that Mr. Cowart—through his segretary —received $1374 from a Texas prefabricator. According to ‘the investigators, the money was “said to have_been in consideration for services rendered by the employee (Cowart) to .the manufacturer in settling the latter's claim gainst the department for a freight rebate. Byron Scott, a Washington attorney who represents Mr. Cowart, sald that the charges against his client are now before a grand jury in Newport News. He said Mr. Cowart contends that the $1374 was in repayment for loans to Charles D. Bridgman of Tyler, Tex. These loans were made; before Mr. Cowart entered government service in 1945 as a $3800 a year “methods analyst” for the Commodity Credit Corp., Mr. Scott sald. . en s 8 WHEN Mr. Cowart heard in 1950 that Mr. Bridgman had
Mr. Brannan co - he's mum
‘Wptained a freight rebate on.
some storage bins shipped under contract to the CCC, Mr.
. By Frederick C. Othman
former high Agriculture Department official named in the Whitten subcommittee report on scandals in the
Cowart thought it an appropriate time to press Mr. Bridgman for another installment on the old debt, Mr. Scott said. “Bridgman made other paynts, both before and since,” r. Scott added. But there are angles to the 1950 installment which interest government investigators. One is that the Texan's claim against the CCC.was settled for $13,743.75. Ten per cent of that, rounded off to the next higher nickel, is $1374.40—the amount paid to Mr. Cowart.
2 = » > THE MONEY was not paid
- to Mr. Cowart directly, but to
his secretary, Miss Ilene J. Chapin. She deposited the cashjer's check in her bank, then paid Mr. Cowart $1100 and the balance in smaller cash payments, But Mr. Scott said it will be contended that such a round-about method of paying was not at his client's request. Mr. Bridgman’'s name does not appear in the Whitten report, but Mr. Scott confirmed that Mr. Bridgman was the man involved. Mr. Bridgman is a former president of Capital Prefabricators, Inc. of Tyler, Tex. From 1942 to March, 1047, he was an auditor for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Ten months after he quit the government, the RFC made a $250,000 loan to Capital Prefabricators. The loan was ine creased to. $484,000 in 19489. In 1050 the RFC prefab loans were turned over to the
Housing and Home “Finance -
Agency for liquidation. Investigating last year as to why the company was $290,166 in default, HHFA auditors came across the payment to Cowart through Miss Chapin, The information was fore warded to Secretary Brannan, Dismissal of Mr, Cowart and Miss Chapin followed.
Gl Housing Projects Stir Up a Hornets’ Nest
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—If you're an ex-GI in a new house with a leaky roof, a flooded cellar, a short circuit in the main fuse box and a floor with the characteristics of a roller coaster, it's no fun to think of yourself as part of a minor ‘statistic.
That, at least, is the way Rep. Albert Rains ((D. Ala.) and Co. of the House Ba and Currency Committee ure. They're looking deep int6 the lending activities of the Federal Housing Administra«tion and the Veterans Administration. and they're not en“tirely convinced that the al-
leged skulduggeries in thé sale
of new bu lows is a small matter. So they're heading soon to Florida for a look at a group of federally insured houses, whose roofs blew off in the last hurricane.” .The charge here is that the contractor didn't use enough nails. Then
“drép up to New -another. ry catering
into a peculiarly unpleasant because of improperly “septic tanks. From all
nde men
~ the Congressmen Jroauly wi! will
to-GIs seems to have turned
“NOT ALL these charges have to do with poor construction,” said Rep. Rains, “Some of them refer to plans that don't provide proper living
~-space for the average Ameri-
can family. The building is all right, but the rooms are just too small. The owmers com-
plain that they now are living
in the slums of tomorrow.” 80 the investigators called up Raymond Foley, the good, gray-haired housing and home finance commissioner, and most of his top helpers to defend themselves. Their gener. al reply was that out of $31 billion in guaranteed housing Ioans, there was bound to be
some kicks. In general, they said, they were exceedingly proud of their record. \ Rep. Albert M. Cole (R. Kas.) didn't want to talk in general. He sald what about the Hunting. Tower Apartment and its sewer connections across the Potomac in Alexandria, Va.? . The Hunting Tower, I hasten to add, is one of the largest and de luxtest apartments built here since the war, It is on the shore of the Potomac, with its own private yacht ba-
sin in front; “. &
FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS,
‘the Federal Housing Commis-
sioner, said he did not approve erection of this
HANDBAGS
TODAY just as in days gone by 3 . a hand-
+ bag is the thing . .. that is a real necessity . . . to which the) women cling . . . it is the gay accessory . . . that makes their clothes looks -
neat . .". and I arh sure without it... no dress _ , would be complete . . . and too"it sefves to carry = all ... the little odds snd ends . . . ‘from powder puffs and lipsticks to . . . hairpins and founIle guess Lo thet sore 1h etary olor and, ,
come I a ore te ion San even
apartment
have an here. T'll
house until the city of Alexandria said it could be attached to the municipal sewer lines.
“Which turned out to be an open creek, called Four-Mile Run,” said Rep. Cole. “The sewage enters this creek and flows directly into the Potomac. In all my life I never saw such a mess.” Rep. Willlam B. Widnall wondered about the watery " subdivision on the outskirts of Saddle River, N.J., his home town. How come the contractor kept on putting up more houses when the ones already built had flooding septic tanks?
The Housing Administrator
said that project was a Veterans Administration enterprise. They said despite all their scientific effort, they'd had a good deal of trouble: with sep-
' “tic tanks. -
For one thing, said Assistant Housing Commissioner Curt
' C."Mack, many ‘a householder
added later to his kitchen sink
a garbage chopper-upper.
“This increases the load on the . septic tank by about 50 per cent,” he said, “Fills it full of solids head Jof time and naturally it overflows.” . ‘So it does as though.we
chaire
r his views appear ‘liberal’ when held up”
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