Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1952 — Page 22

& nN a 3 ¢ . . . ©"

The Indianapolis Times

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE ~ HENRY W. MANZ © President Editor Business Manager

"PAGE 22 Thursday, Feb. 7, 1052

204 published damp by Indianapolis T Publish. . 214 W. Marya , Postal ne 9. ember of ted Press, Biripos Han Newspaper Alliance. NEA Servsnd Audit Bureau of Circulation

tr by oarrier daily and Sunday, 35¢ a

or Sul a 3 sunday only, 100. Mail rates in Indiana

mm Marion uaty 5 cents a poy for dally ard 10c olive: y y

i del , 3b¢ a $10.00 » . dally, $5.00 a year. Sunday i rine sain 8, 8) pasos, Chiads 54 Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light end the People Wilk Find Their Own Woy

The Second Elizabeth QUEEN ELIZABETH'S succession to the British throne will be hailed as a happy omen by many traditionloving Britons, because of the contributions to Britain's historic past by earlier women rulers. Brifish kings have been good, bad and indifferent. But none would be accounted great by the standards set by the first Elizabeth and Queen Victoria. ' The reign of the first Elizabeth saw England win dominion over the seas through the daring of such captains as Drake and Raleigh. Had the island kingdom not defeated the Spanish Armada in Elizabeth's day, we in this country might have been a Spanish or French rather than an Eng-lish-speaking people. Under Queen Victoria, in more modern times, Britain became a vast empire, on which it was said “the sun never set.” This empire began to fall under the impact of World War II. The disintegration is continuing, and Britain itself is in dire straits as the second Elizabeth assumes the crown.

of ~ ” ” » r © BY INTERESTING coincidence, the two Elizabeths reached the throne at the same age, 25. Victoria began her 3-year reign at the age of 18. She became the grandmother of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and the great-grandmother of Czar Nicholas of Russia, as well as the mother of King ‘Edward the Seventh of Britain. Of thqse three royal empires, the remnants of only one survive as Victoria's greatgreat granddaughter awaits her official coronation. The importance of the position to which the recent visitor to this country has succeeded is not to be underestimated. The power of the throne has declined during the long period between the two Elizabeths, but the prestige of the crown has not diminished accordingly. Indeed, the crown appears to have become the principal tie holding the British Commonwealth together, now that the dollar has _supplanted the pound as the standard of value on the ‘world market. . The charming young queen will bring glamour, if not —~ glory, to the throne and may prove to be the inspiration the British Commonwealth needs to carry it through the trying times ahead.

Peace (?) Without Victory HE LIMITED war in Korea seems likely to be succeeded by a limited, uneasy truce — when the Reds become convinced they have squeezed everything they can hope to get out of the deal. 3 Under politieal pressure to get an agreement on almost -any terms, the United Nations representatives lost the initiative in the cease-fire negotiations months ago. True oriental bargainers, the Communists were quick to see that all they “had fo do to win a point was to stand pat. : Of course, most of the United Nations bargaining power had been thrown awa before the truce talks began. The Reds really have been in the driver's seat ever since the Allies retreated to their limited war position, which meant abandoning any intention of fighting for a military decision.

» . » A SIMPLE cease-fire agreement, and ah equitable exchange of prisoners are all the United Nations forces stand to get out of the pending deal — and a satisfactory arrangement on the prisoner exchange is by no means certain. Nothing in the prospective agreement will offer assurance against renewal of hostilities at any time. Korea will remain divided into two hostile camps, much as it was before the war. Any military withdrawal from the ‘present line will create a vacuum into which the Reds may be expected to pour. 3 In defense of this uncertain peace without victory it will be argued that armed aggression was halted and punished by the United Nations. But the United Nations stock dropped from a new high to an all-time low when it recognized a distinction between large and small aggressors after Red China intervened.

4 » x THE PUNISHMENT meted out to the enemy has been considerable. But it has largely consisted of killing men conscripted to fight for Stalin and Mao Tze-tung against their will. And human life is cheaper than equipment in Asia. No Russians have been killed, so far as we know. ‘American casualties total 105,000, of whom 18,177 are dead and 10,862 are missing. ; We probably are too close to this tragic event to appraise accurately its place in history. Indeed, that verdict may rest on related events yet to unfold. But if the disillusionments we have experienced prevent their repetion in more crucial tests in the days ahead, our sacrifices will not have been wasted. Unhappily, the way our rearmament effort is bogging down offers little to support that expectation. :

How States Are Born THERE IS no better way for America tc prove to the 7 world that it stands for freedom than by granting statehbod to Alaska and Hawaii, as Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney of yyoming pointed out in opening the Alaska statehood ‘debate. . : Most of the Senators who heard him come from states which were territories at one time. Twenty of those states ad less population when they were admitted to the union Alaska has now, and none had anything like the vital . military importance of our great northern territory. As the debate proceeds it becomes clearer that oppoof statehood have nothing more than the tired old sguments that have been trotted out by the standpatters Ince the Louisiana Purchase. * 2 . =» ~ yy = - IF OUR ancestors had been so fearful of expanding this nation never would have pushed west of the if indeed it would have survived at all. :

. ner

ude clear in the Senute that Alaska has all the is for statehood. The same will be shown for n that bill is called up. a

the Alaska bill now, before the

ate, because

question is not complicated. .It already -

Lineoln Day

New Hampshire

CONCORD,: N. H.,, Feb. 7—The big Demoerats up here say Sen. Estes Kefauver won't have anything left but his coonskin cap when they're finished with him in New Hampshire's présidential primary Mar. 11. s .. The top pardy organization is solidly for President Truman, But Mr. Kefauver's men seem undismayed. They think there may be a chance for a. political sleeper here. And if they could pick off some delegatap it would be credible evidence that (1) the - Washington scandals have cut deeply, and (2) the Tennessee crime buster has real vote appeal. do Pb _ 80 FAR most of the fun in the warm-up for the nation’s first primary has been kicked up by the Taft-Eisenhower contest on the Republican side. But Mr, Kefauver is coming into the state soon. He has a partial slate of delegates filed and there'll be the first real Democratic presidential primary tussle here in: many years.

CHUMMY . . . By Frank Clarvoe ‘Congressman’s A Bit Curiou

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. T7—A curiousminded Republican Congressman from: Nebraska, Carl T. Curtis of the King committee, is trying to smoke out reasons for corruption in the San Francisco office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Too many people were buddy-

buddy with too many other people, he suspects. » “Curiosity overcame Mr.

Frank, chief special agent of the bureau's intelligence division at Seattle, testified Tuesday before the House Investigating Committee about accusations against Ignatius Beresford and Martin J. Tierney. They are bureau officials who have been discharged. - Three other bureau officials—James G. Smyth, collector, and Paul V. Doyle and John “Boland—were ‘indicted. All five are accused of having backdated income tax returns. for favorites. “Why were no criminal charges brought against Beresford and Tierney for improper and irregular handling of tax returns?” Mr. ‘Curtis demanded. Mr. Frank explained that his agents had investigated the charges. He said the charges were based upon a sworn confession by embezzler Edwin Furtado, subordinate of beth Beresford and Tierney, but not otherwise corroborated. Furtado, sent to prison; will be brought here for a Grand Jury appearance, and may testify before thé King. committee.

Sen. Tobey

vs. a letter

Tax Bureau Hierarchy .

TAKING Tierney as an example, Mr. Curtis asked how he got his job. Mr. Frank replied that Tierney and -others had been appointed, but later had qualified under Civil Service. _ Mr. Curtis indicated that he would want to ask other witnesses how a hierarchy had been built up in the tax bureau. Most members of

the inside group have been indicted or dismissed. ’

Mr. Frank told about finding evidence that over a period of 24 months, suspended Deputy Collector John Malone accepted back-dated returns of excise taxes from a drug firm. Malone is a brother of William. Malone, long-time Democratic official and patronage dispenser in San Francisco. Mr. Frank revealed investigation [of Malone is still going on. Mr. Frank pawed frequently through a briefcase containing neat files as he answered questions about his investigations here. He testified that one of his starting points was a series of charges contained in a letter to Sen. Charles Tobey (R. N.: H.), meniber of the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee. *

Witness Doolan =

MR. FRANK said that most of the charges,”

prepared by Thomas Doolan, a deputy in the San Francisco office, were not substantiated. Mr. Doolan will be called as a witness. ° Rep. Eugene Keogh (D. N. Y.) sought to limit the committee's questioning to matters not related to offici¥ls who have been indicted.

“In: that case,” Mr. Curtis observed, “our

inquiry would be limited to officials who hay

done nothing wrong.” One of the charges against Smyth, in the

letter to Sen. Tobey, was that he had paid -no-

income tax from 1939 to 1943. Mr. Frank said Smyth did pay, but late and with penalties in most cases. On one occasion, Smyth excused his lateness by pleading that he had been too busy collecting money for a Democratic Jackson Day - dinner. -

What Others Say—

MR. VISHINSKY’'S speech , . . indicates that this fanciful fear of “spies” and “espionage” \s growing .behind. the Iron Curtain.—Rep. Michael Mansfield, U. S. delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.

THE new Europe (cannot) be born fullpanoplied from ‘a few men's brains. We shall first have to solve a whole series of difficult oractical problems.—Belgium’s Henri Spaak.

« Cpr CFM Reg UB PaO 90519002 by NEA Survien, te wo him all my

“

Curtis when William E.

' NATIONAL POLITICS . .:x By Charles Lucey * ~~ -

Demo Big Shots Ready

There are two tests involved. First, there's the preferential vote, a straight-out popularity

. poll which could influence but does not control

the second test—the actual choosing of delegates. Democrats elect 12 delegates here,

A . hb oO

THE preference poll could be important nationally as an Indication of a candidate's popular appeal. But the delegate contest is the payoff in providing the first ballot votes at Chicago in July. ’, Both Sen. Kefauver and Mr, Truman are in the preference contest. The President will have a full slate of delegates running, while a partial slate has been filed in Sen. Kefauver's name. National Democratic Chairman Frank MecKinney has said he doesn’t expect the President

‘Here's Mud in Your Eye'

GURGLE Gor GL £

y: > 2.00 ode JA ho, {WAR ¥' 2 4 ZX aI LETT A

> Sonim,

3 &

to come into the state for the primary campaign. Sen. Kefauver, however, is expected to spend a lot of time here trying to line up sup. port in this initial test of his candidacy. . % HE IS to speak Sunday at a Nashua Chamber of Commerce meeting in what was billed as a nonpolitical appearance. The engagement was made before the Senator announced his candidacy. Other appearances strictly political in nature are being booked for him. His friends say he could make some hay if he would spend a week up here. Democratic National Committeeman Emmett J. Kelly says it's all Truman. But Kefauver leaders dissent. They acknowledge it's quite a job to beat the state party

Rivigw,, ml AUR

SCANDALS ie . By James Daniel : How Fast Can You Rise—Huh?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—Jack Cowart of Dal-

las, former high Agriculture Department official

indicted Tuesday on a -<harge of collecting a $1374 fee on a claim against the agency, had a fast rise while in government service. He was first hired in 1945 as a “methods analyst,” at $3800 a year. : Within a year he was working in the employee relations field. He was so successful that in August, 1946, he was promoted to, assistant chief of the employée relations section of the budget and management branch, In the following year he became branch chief, specializing in handling relations with the Dallas office of the department’s production and marketing administration. This is the regional office now disclosed as failing to detect and prevent a $3.8 million shortage in government grain.

$10,000 A Year

COWART’'S beginning pay in his new job was $7102 a year. He ran this up to $8509 in 1949, when he was taken out of the ranks of Civil Service employees and made assistant to the head of the production and marketing administration. When dismissed last fall, he was being paid $10,200 a year. In Newport News, Va., Tuesday, a Federal Grand Jury indicted Cowart on.charges he violated the law against federal employees profiting from any claim against the government, The charge was that Cowart accepted 10 pbr cent of a $13,743 claim for freight rebates paid by the Agriculture, Department te Capital Prefabricators, Inc, of Tyler, Tex: The firm was making storage bins for the Agriculture Department. = The . indictment cited numerous telephone communications and frequent personal inter-

" views between Cowart ands other. Agriculture

Department officials in behalf of the Texas company’s claim. ; Charles D. Bridgman, then “president of Capital, first told government investigators that the money wags for Cowart’s help in settling the claim. Later he agree?! with Cowart that it was in partial satisfaction of an old personal debt. : Still later, Mr. Bridgman is understood to have reverted to the first version, after the

- government had examined how- he treated the

By Galbraith

WASHINGTON, Feb, T—Fair is fair, even when it involves a’ non-existent cutie on television’ not drinking a glass -of whisky that doesn’t exist. Last week, you may remember, I gave the drys a fine, big,

ning hard likker ads on radio . and TV, Some of them have been kind enough to congratulate me for joining their drive against the demon rum. Ladies of the WCTU, I was just trying to tell what was

iol veers ar df Bord hil pn Cm

2 ®

cooking, was all,

» ” » ~~ NOW the wets are besieging Congress with their arguments against what they call this insidious enterprise and I am sure the ladies, who are among the nicest, most fair-minded I know, will agree the opposition deserves equal space in these

.the poem composed by Randolph W. Childs of Philadelphia

He wrote: 2 _ “Distillers do not advertise _ _ On.radio or televise; ‘ But nothing ever satisfies The restless and determined

p> oe ee o ~

send-off in their campaign to get Congress fo pass a law ban-

payment. on his income tax return. The fee-acceptance charge is only part of Cowart’s troubles. : In testimony before the House Whitten subcammittee, Secretary Charles Brannan said there were four charges againgt Cowart, He gave the subcommittee information on one other,

Four Charges

THIS IS a charge that Cowart was offered a stock interest in a. Baton Rouge, La. warehouse concern organized to store governmentowned farm products. According to the Brannan account, Cowart declined to accept the stock in his own name. Accordingly, the company issued 163 shares to Cowart's mother-in-law, who gave a promis‘sory note in return. In January, 1951, according to Mr. Brannan, the company bought the stock back for $22,300 and canceled the note.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

U. 8, SERVICE SCHOOLS should establish an undergraduate course on how to become a Korean armistice officer. .

JUST because they got fouled up with their Washington chicken supper is no reason the Republicans “couldn't run the government efficiently — they say. "

U. S. PROGRESS report— More Indians now qualify for unemployment insurance.

EVANGELIST Billy Graham is conducting a campaign in the nation’s capital. Demoer: would be glad to settle “with him for the sinners’ vote.

IF PRESIDENT TRUMAN doesn’t win over Sen.

Mr. Graham « o « SiNNErS

Kefauver in the New Hampshire primary, the . result can be called an eye-washout.

“FINE -OLD downtown buildings” seem to lose out to the parking lots.

ON THE ‘SPOT’ . . . By Frederick C. Othman

WCTU and the Liquor

To stop a thing unknown in fact.” That sizes up the situation. The whisky-makers never have advertised the stuff on the air, but now we've got a,bill -by Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.) to .prohibit thea from

doing just that. This is legislation against something that doesn’t even exist, but even so the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee (of which the Senator is chairman) is holding formal hearings. The

So there

ant, or added.

To Roast Sen. Kefauver

By Talburt

" hicle. Try that some time while headed north

heck out of the way”

always °

Trade Speak Out

likker boys are insulted. On "their faces is a hurt expression. was Clinton M. Hester, attorney for the United

Brewers Foundation, whose clients do sell beer via the ether. He said the bill was un- + constitutional. : “But since you, Sen. Johnson are the author of this legislation I' shall not call it intoler- * 8» n-American” he

“That's all right,” replied the gentleman from Colorado. “My hide is thick.”

organization. But they charge this organization with being merely the tail to the elephant-— with playing ball regularly with the Republican organization, They say that if Sen. Kefauver can spark some enthusiasm in his appearances here, and if the Democratic Party doesn’t pour a lot of money in from outside, they may pull a surprise.

It would rate as a surprise if the Kefauver ‘group could pick off half the delegates, Mostly the Kefauver candidates are unknown in statewide politics. There's no indication they'll have much. money for campaigning-—and effective ~~ campaigning these days is expensive. /

* %

HOW WELL Sen. Kefauver actually is known up here may be a question, Television, to which he owes substantial success, only reaches around Manchester and southern New Hampshire, Five Truman delegates are old hands at the business and have been elected delegates in other years. But Mr. Kefauver’s stalwarts may argue that Mr. Truman, on his own say-so, thinks this whole primary effort for him is eyewash, 3

Hoosier Forum

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

BETTS RANT R EERE ERER RRNA RRNA "

‘The Common Mind’ : .

MR. EDITOR: Oh, how Americans need a good leader. If only people would vote for the man not the party, What difference is there, or rather should there be, between the Democrat and the Republican? They should have the same basiae principles . . . to do all they can for the best interests of our country. 4

A common man leads us now.

oo]

BILL Nurse N.

CANIN NEENNN RENAN,

By Nerip WASHIN other one o letters has

In contra letters, this

We need a told Assists

leader. Leaders understand and lead the com< mon man to the best of their ability. Stalin T. Lamar is doing just that but with the wrong set of Mr. Caudle principles. There are other minds in Russia and carry on in America with the same evil principles. It was w What mind competes with them? A common days befor mind like the people it leads. Mr. Caudle. “4 o Mr. Cauc ’ Department I AM NOT against the common man, but ecutor, was vou must agree®with me. that he makes a poor for. “outsid

leader. You say look at Lincoln. Although his background was common, his mind was not, That's what made him a leader. Is America to fall because of poor leadership and be taken over by Godless people because no superior mind has come forth?

ible” with | ities include coats, a $5( airplane sa rope and w several per

Surely, in all America we have been given a = troubles. -mind such as we seek. Newscast Oh, possessor of this mind come forth. Lead closed the us. We need you sorely. Bring us out of this on an NBC crisis. This I and my people demand. Just AN Sour la words, you say? These words must be obeyed tofiten an — ’ ’ if America is to Stang. pirit of *76 In 52, City, President Joseph Sho ‘Andy and His Pipe’ MR. EDITOR: Chuck

It was with quite a bit of amusement that I read Andy Jacobs’ article in your press through his Washington mouthpiece, Dan Kidney. i is

His Bi

not very often that a party is blessed with a A THOU man like Andy who is available for almost Those w everything .. . Senator, 11th District chairman, odds agair will take on McHale, Pulliam, Taft, Jenner and Andrews vou can throw in the Army and Navy. myelitis Wow, what a man. - . : months ag If Andy will just look back over his shoulder - You'll le . for two years when he was shadow-boxing with g& everyone except the obscure wallpaper salesman eourageou: he was running against, he will know he is not , against th God's gift to the voters of this county, especially : you read after that 30,000 thumping. : TEARS,” Andy's political activity as far back as I can articles = remember has been to smear some member of The Time: his party. I've never known him to do any leg M's a st work. As far as the last county convention is want to concerned if saying I'm for Lewis because I'm * against McHale makes Andy a, big man, God \ictim' help Lewis. Victim Personally, I'm beginning to feel as though NEW Y/ Andy's pipe is not the only thing about him Subway W that smells.—Harry J. Gasper, 903 E. 11th St. seven hoir : 5 body of a ‘Slow Down a Bit’ front of a search was MR. EDITOR: , body was | It is time that our police, fire and emer- the isan gency vehicle dpivers made a re-evaluation of 32an aller

this “right of way" business, No .driver in the world (unless he is-in-sane) «would deliberately drive«in front. of or obstruct any emergency vehicle. ® I dare say that not once in 10,000 times is

the arrest of the citizen justified after such an unfortunate accident. - :

A siren is heard in the distance ... no one fan tell , . . it might be on a parallel street blocks away. It might be behind you, or on’ a side street. The drivers of such emergency vehicles are in many cases so intent on doing their duty, that they forget that confusion might exist inthe minds of citizens as to just what to do. All are supposed to pull to the right and stop upon hearing or seeing an emergency ve«

on Illinois St. at about 5:15 p. m.

The better regulation would be . ., “get the « + +» fast. The reckless handling of these emergency cars . , » injures our city employees and wrecks the vehicles, Siow down a bit , , . fire, police and ambulance vers.

—Lawrence L. Bullington, Marott Hotel,

5 . 3 a

Along came a solemn. man, who identified himself as Edward F. O’Brien, vice presi dent of the Frankfort Distillers Srp. and leader in the whisky ness’ advertising program, For 17 years, Te eT the dis. tillers have refrained from pute ting their ads on the air, You'd

think, he said, that they could be trusted.. y

SEN. JOHNSON said he was just trying to help them. Mr, O’Brien said he was not, either, Pass this bill, said he, and the vegetarians might want to ban all advertising of meat. The - anti-cigaret people could insist

precincts. So let us start with

had to tell who ask that Co pass:

-e

. PERPLEXED

FORGIVE me if I'm bitter but . . . I don’t know what to do . . . for I am sad and lonely and . . . my heart féels very blue . . . for even

ess OT

for Senatorial lovers of verse.

“

awful stew . . . It isn’t that I do not try . ..

to work and do what's right . . . but always I end up with naught .". . and stage a losing

i ; : i i

Senate be?

' likker trade, I want yeu

. sweet, Ems *

that a law be passed against’ tobacco ads, Others would want stopped ads for medicine, cof- _ fee, tea and no telling what all else. Then where would the

What Congress will do about - this important proL.em I have no idea. But, ladies of the WCTU and gentlemen of the

know that I am neutral. On I had a cranberry juice cocke tail with the WOTU; again T°. tried an old-fashioned: made ‘with Mr—O'Brien’s product. For * B a . ER

ty “0 . i FE on]