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“The Indianapolis Times

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ROY W, HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President

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Monday, Feb. 11, 1952

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High on the Hawg

THE JAPS are losing their respect for Americans as fighting men, according to Oland D. Russell, ScrippsHoward reporter, now in Tokyo. Mr. Russell used to be a soldier himself. He also knows his Japs, having broad and intimate contacts in the country from a previous residence there. Watching us running the Korean War from our transplanted Pentagon in Tokyo, he says, the Japanese are not favorably impressed. He continues: . “They see thousands of rear-echelon service troops and staff officers in the role of supporting personnel. In addition they've seen, as one Japanese remarked the other day, about three women to every. an, including WACs, Red Cross personnel and civilian workers, plus wives and children coming in by the thousands every month. All this in Japanese eyes adds up to softness in luxury-demanding Americans. It has added nothing to our prestige. “It has been pointed out,” Mr. Russell continued, “that Japan once dispatched and supported a whole expeditionary force to Manchuria, using only seven officers and 30 enlisted men in a one-room office at Nagasaki. That was back in 1904. This expeditionary force won its war—with Russia.

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i i houTHE JAPANESE profess to believe that a few t sands of their tough prewar police could have cleaned up

Korea in a month or so. Now they see the United States

willing to settle there for a stalemate, virtually on the enemy's terms, (See Military Prowess, top of page.) Our government is maintaining 22,000 American women and children in Japan, and these servicemen’s dependents are continuing to arrive at the rate of more than 2000 a month. And this while we are fich*ing a war within easy bombing range of Japan. We have 50,000 military dependents in Germany. If the Russians move against our forces there, these women ‘and children must have first consideration. Ancient Rome conquered the world of its day. Then the great city empire gave way to corruption and its mighty armies went soft from living high on the hog. Thus the whole edifice crumbled and Rome fell easy prey to the

_ barbarians. Moscow may count upon history repeating.

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Whatever Is Necessary

W JITH OBVIOUS nettle, President Truman the other day brushed off a suggestion by Sen. John J. Williams that

Treasury Secretary John W., Snyder must accept responsi-

bility for at least some of the scandals in the Internal Reve. a, Secretary blameless, just as . Truman held the re ! aes he said, as Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan is in the grain scandals which have spread through the Commodity Credit Corp. “The President said these things happen all the time, in banks or in business, and it was just a bunch of foolishness

' in politics to try pinning any responsibility on such top men ' as Mr. Snyder or Mr. Brannan.

And he implied that Sen. Williams’ exposures, which

"+ have forced the administration's hand in many cases, were : founded on politics.

Whatever action is necessary, the President said, he would take. In which case he would be a very busy man. : - » . . ® » BUT IT is Congress which has been busy on this score. A Congress controlled by Democrats, too. Congressional inquiries flushed out the Internal Revenue scandals. And the Reconstruction Finance Corp. scandals. And the grain scandals. Other investigations have involved the Veterans Administration, the Federal Housing Adminis-

. tration, Army buying, the State Department, the Maritime

Commission—and new inquiries are directed at the Justice Department, the Alien Property Office and the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Latest shocker in the tale of maladministration is the

. report of the House committee investigating vocational He tor war trans. THIS progrs , the itt :.charges, was plagued by “graft and waste. ;

The ‘excuse offered by the Veterans Administration. official in charge of the program is typical of the administra- | tion pattern, set by the President, in all of these scandals. “T am not countenancing any of the offenses,” said VA's Sam Colie, “but it is not surprising in view of the size of the program.” : : : So long as that attitude prevails at top Washington levels, the public cannot expect anything like whatever ac- ‘ tion may be necessary. Big programs, in themselves, do not . beget corruption. But they do call for big men to run them.

: Helping the Enemy THE MUTUAL Security Administration has adopted : © the principle that contracts for production of goods * abroad should not be awarded to plants in which the trade ‘unions are dominated by Communists. $ : This is in accord with a Mutual Security Act pro- - vision that “where suitable” the.law is to be administered » to encourage the development and strengthening of “free

. labor union movements.” :

_ Since any country in which vne defense industry is dominated by Communist-led unions would not appear to be a suitable place to manufacture weapons against a prospective Communist attack, it is difficult to see how the Mutual Security Administration could: adopt any other policy. However, the Army, which also does some of the .- ‘buying abroad, is understood to contend that contracts

should be let to the lowest bidder without respect to other

considerations.

‘we are spending to discourage Com‘munist aggres: to strengthen the Communist [fifth column behind the lines. Any-American who does 'miot understand this does not have sense enough to Hold

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MILITARY PROWESS . .

TOKYO, Feb. 11-Indecisive fighting" and prolonged truce negotiations in Korea undoubtedly are having-a bad effect on the Japanese The war is providing a beneficial and timely shot in the arm to Japan's economy and there ire plenty of people here, including those in

goverment. circles, who would be glad fo see -

the fighting go on indefinitely, «much more to it than that, (SEE EDITORIAL, HIGH ON THE HAWG) For one thing, it has greatly lowered Japan's estimate of our military prowess. Despite the help Russia, and Red China have given to. the North ‘Korean Communists, the . Japanese are still inclined to think in terms of Koreans—and their opinion of Koreans is changeless, They'll always believe that a few thousand

But there is

By Oland D: ‘Russell is

tough prewar Japanese police could have clegned up Korea within a month or go. And among themselves they are iikely to recall that 20 years ago Japanese troops with able planning and decisive strokes took Manchuria away from the Chinese in a matter of days. Yet they've séen American divisions pushed back twice by

: inferfor—in Japanese eyes—Karean forces.

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— Japan’s Estimation Of U. S. Strength S

MOREOVER, they've seen how Americans .

run a war from this. teeming transplanted Pentagon wltich dominates and has all but

-swallowed Tokyyo. They see thousands of rear

echelon service troops and staff-officers in the role of supporting personnel. In addition they've seen, as one Japanese remarked the other day; about three women t6 every man, including WAC's, Red Cross personnel and civilian work-

"And You Think You've Got Troubles’

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

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Scandals Just Penny Ante: Tobin

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—An apologia from the Truman administration scandals was put into the Congressional Record by House Majority Leader John W. McCormack (D. Mass.). It appeared in the current issue of the International Teamsters Magazine and was written by the union president, Daniel J. Tobin, Indianapolis. Mr. Tobin, who headed the labor division of the Democratic campaigns during the regimes of the late President Roosevelt, lately has been warning that the Republicans have won the Midwest and that Sen. Rébert A. Taft could carry the midlands for the Presidency, . In this issue, however, he i is back on the Democratic i side, calling current scandals Me petty as compared with the *°°* Ohjo gang under the Harding administration, That is the reason Mr. McCormack gave Mr. Tobin's views the publicity, °

‘Drop in Bucket’

UNDER THE title “Scandals Exaggerated,” Mr. Tobin told the teamsters not to pay too much attention fo the graft exposes as they are “only a drop in the bucket to what went on in administrations past.” “Within the last few weeks,” Mr. Tobin wrote, “you have been reading a great deal about some of the men who are connected with the government, especially in the income tax division, who have gone wrong here and. there financially. : “The percentage is very small, but that is not a sufficient excuse. The temptation is great; especially to men in our modern life with their wives and families continually demanding more and more.” E . ~~ Out’ of thousands of government employees, “there isn’t one-fiftieth of 1 per cent who go wrong,” Mr, Tobin contended. This is a high average of probity compared with other businesses and professions and ‘even Some labor unions, he maintained.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbrait

Citing the graft exposed as having gone on under the Harding administration, Mr. Tobin charged: “The so-called Kansas or Missouri crowd, which the newspapers, now charge to President Truman and his associates, were just penny ante, insignificant nickel pinchery compared with the Harding mob.” The teamsters presidént emphasized that he was not condoning graft and added, “we have had penny ante thefts and some big thefts in every department of life.” “Honesty is not something you can buy in the shop or store or from a doctor of medicine. Honesty is an ingrained quality of birth and life, mostly coming from the people responsible for your human existence. “Some men will cheat, even though they know they are bringing disgrace on themselves, their families and those who entrusted them

. with the responsibility of the position-they hold.

“But it is redlly and truly laughable to read the headlines about some unfortunate fellow whose wife got a fur coat as a present from somebody who thought that this individual or his wife might be able to help by saying a kind word for them to some official of the government who had a. little higher position than they had. :

‘Instinct to Help’

“AFTER ALL, isn’t it a human instinct to help some friend?”

It is “blind” to suppose that such gifts, how-

ever, including ‘entertainments and banquets,

are not a form of indirect bribery, Mr. Tobin warned. But he isn't willing to send anyone to the gallows for such petty offenses, Mr, Tobin The Tobin editorial closed: . “80, my dear members and friends, don’ pay much attention to this so-called exposure of wrongdoers, It means very, very little and 1 assure you and I am willing to take oath to it, that the so-called grafting and dishonesty now exposed, which I repeat should not be, is only a drop in the ocean compared to what went on in administrations past.”

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—

"bills in the hopper, including one to replace a missing letter “s,” and I hasten to suggest that this makes a lot of law on top of what we already have. Only pleasing thought about this small mountain of - legislation—you ought to see it piled up in the document .room—is that most of it won't bother ‘us much. All we - do is pay for getting it printed. I can show you what I mean by giving you a small peak at some of the documents on top of the heap, like. that one about the letter *s.” : Last year Congress passed a law giving our mailmen a bdost in wages. This came out of the printing ‘office providing for a raise in the salary of the

leaves other assistant superintendents all over the “nation whistling for their money.

wood (D. Ky.) has written a

law, Senate Bill 1094, adding : » . the letter “s” to the word, Ta superintendent. Should wl LS smom i : ( J ol with 3 nm bi debate. . uuu ee Be i Senator has an- ~ "Certainly I'm wortied about being late—! haven't nearly other. bin ; the 10 per BR enough clothes yet to be fired!" we cent service charge ‘on the pur- . Berne rab, : i . n 3 rl n 2 tn 3 i t Hg asian a

80 Ben. Thomas R. Under- -

HAW... . By Frederick C. Othman

8000 Bills Awaiting Action

Congress now has nearly 8000 -

* Mass.) has up a bill, No. 6494, i moval of vegetable growth,

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ers, plus wives and children coming in by the thousands every month. All this in Japanese eyes adds up to softness in luxury-demanding Americans. It has added nothing to our prestige. It has been pointed out that Japan once dispatched and supported a whole expeditionary force to Manchuria, using only seyen officers and 30 enlisted men in a one-room .office at Nagasaki. That was back in 1904. This expeditionary force won its war—with Russia. ‘ - eS « 80 IT’S hardly surprising that some Japanese are getting.a bit cheeky as independence day nears. Of course, they lost the war. But right now they like to be told ‘that only a combination of circumstances defeated them. A Japanese magazine publisher was speaking the other day about the insatiable desire for articles pointing out that Japan was much stronger at the end than was widely supposed, that no country could have stood up against the whole world, as was the case when Italy and Germany went down to defeat and left Japan standing alone, .

Thue enough, Japanese are traditionally sub-

servient and docile to conquerors but youth is youth in any land. Several million Japanese teen-agers nurtured on. Japan's invincibility have become young men while their country

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mashed By Korean War

was under occupation. For six and 4 half years they've had to sit back and take it from occupation forces who have dictated nearly every phase of their existence.

However benevolent the occupation-— and there has been nothing like it in history—the fact remains many young.Japanese are conscious they've been elbowed and ordered around

*by.an allen race which was greatly in the-mi«

nority but had guns and authority. With the end now in sight, and not unmindful of our fortupes in Korea, they are ready to throw off their inhibitions.

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SOME consideration of this whole problem may be behind the present policy of turning back occupied Japanese buildings, hotels and resorts a few at a time and gradually fading out of the picture in advance of the administrative agreement now being negotiated. In any case it is a wise course, for the more gradual the change can be made the less likely it is to have ‘a pronounced effect on a volatile people who are still impressionable and not firmly

" guided by their government. The Communists

already are trying to make the most of this, We are not helping matters by continuing to assent to the stalemate in Korea.

SCANDALS . . . By James Daniel U. S. Pushes for an Early Trial

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—The Justice Department says it will push for an early trial of fraud charges in one of the Agriculture Department scandals. , : A group of California rice growers and millers are accused of cheating the government of $731,000 by selling “ineligible” rice to the Agri-

~. culture Department.

Not named in the indictment, but linked to the case in testimony before the House Whitfen committee, are a present and a former official of the Agriculture Department's Production and Marketing Administration. The fraud charges are based -upon evidence uncovered by the FBI in connection with an anti-trust action the Justice Départmént brought against the same defendants and lost last month, The background: In 1949 the Agriculture Department agreed to buy 60 million pounds of rough rice from the California Rice Growers Co-operative. The co-operative met only a part of the order from its own stocks—which the Agriculture Department says are legally entitled to’ price supports, .

_Price-Rigging Charge

THE BULK of the order was filled by several rice .mills—in the co-operative’'s name— with bills of lading so arranged as to make it .appear that all of the rice had come from the co-operative. ? One witness the Justice Department counted on to prove its price-rigging charge against the growers and millers was Fred Entermille, deputy director of the PMA grain branch. But when Mr. Entermille testified, Justice Department lawyers say, he interpreted certain key laws and regulations differently from the way ‘they interpreted them—and from the way they understood Mr. Engermille was going to interpret them. :

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“He certainly didn’t help our case,” said one Justice Department official. “Without talking with each juror individually it would be impossible to say that was what caused us to lose the case. But we did feel sure we were going to win it.” . -

Secret Charges WHILE the trial was going on, high Agriculture Department officials appeared hefore Rep. Jamie L. Whitten's. (D.. Miss.) Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee. ; They were asked about secret charges ate tributed to the aftorney for the price growers and one of the anti-trust defendants. These charges were that Mr, Entermille and Glenn Harris, former PMA official and later a PMA consultant, knew in advance that the rice was ineligible for- price supports. William Duggan, chief of compliance and investigation for PMA, said, “Entermille was in this, I believe, from the start and had many communications with the attorney for the rice growers.” . But Elmer F. Kruse, a top aid to Agricul

- ture Secretary Charles Brannan on price supe -

port operations, said Entermille merely authore

ized the final delivery of the rice in milled form,

rather than in the rough state—the way PMA ordinarily would have bought it.

‘Essential for Success’ HOUSE investigators say this decision was essential for the success of the misrepresentation. They have learned that the mills had an unsalable inventory of low-grade rice on hand at the end of the marketing season. ‘This, according to testimony, is apparently

+ what was ‘delivered to the Agriculture Departs

ment, In reselling it to the Army, the Agriculture Department took a $731,000 loss—the

“difference between the government-guaranteed

price it paid and the market price it charged the Army. The loss was paid by taxpayers.

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Hoosier Forum—-‘U. S. Aid’

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but will defend to the death your Fight to say it.”

EEE OREO REESE ERROR ERNE EINES ON RENEE SIREN NTE SIE R Res PERENENSNAR REE RNR Eta R sata sseeed

MR. EDITOR:

I see John W. Van Ness has thrown his hat in the Republican ring for Governor of Indiana. He will run because he and his bunch in the legislature, he says, achieved a grand, glorious victory for states rights. Yes, they achieved a victory that would have killed old age assistance in Indiana had not the government come to the rescue to save the old folks from want and despair.

In the first place, if Mr. Van Ness and his bunch had any sympathy or concern for the helpless old people in Indiana they wouldn't have got the state in such a mess. Indiana doesn’t need any more of Van Ness or any of his bunch. >

What we do need is a legislature that is willing to pass laws that will provide more and better care for the helpless and to co-operate with the federal government in getting the desired results. Other states are doing that and providing much better for their dependents than Indiana is doing. It is men of the Van Ness type of thinking that keeps Indiana at the bottom of the list of all the states in the care of our unfortunate. :

When any man insists on severing co-opera-tion with the federal government as Van Ness is doing, if Indiana wants to avoid a more serious mess, better keep him out of the Governor’'s chair. —Oscar Houston, Ellettsville

‘Housewives’ Blood’

MR. EDITOR:

We were having a cup of coffe, two women factory workers and myself, a housewife.

‘The subject “of a current ‘strike condition"

was discussed vehemently, the vein of the conversation being: “Just let us work, even if for Smaller w we _need the money.” : Not being familiar with strikes and wages personally, I went along with this, I did not bring up the ided that a man with family obligations was to be commended for trying to get ahead. Nor did I question their need of a job, though neither has family or outstanding debts.

chase of two-cent postal cards in lots of 50 or more. The statesmen figured when they adopted that surcharge, they'd: discourage big businessmen from buying so many two-pen-ny cards on which to print their advertising. Haw.

The titans of industry merely sent their secretaries tog post offices to "buy cards In lots of 49. The post-office clerks went batty, counting out cards in odd numbers. Sen. Underwood's repealer should return the old status quo. Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D.

Sen.

calling for - the /permanent re-

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LAUGHTER

OH for the music of gay laughter . . . oh for the sounds that loudly ring . . . audible gurgles

Then one of these noble ladies noticed the patch on my arm from a blood donation to the Red Cross the day before. Even this the ladies yelled about, loud and long, accusing me of risking my life and family of six children. This I couldn't take, so I reviewed the facts of donating blood from patriotic duty down to the

fact that the human body manufactures blood constantly.

* SH STILL these women objected. One had never donated, the other had once and been scared out by fainting. You can tell the public the facts but you can’t predict the interpretation. My point is this: What kind of Americans are selfish people like these who both object to progress and abhor patriotic expression? For myself, I intend to continue dping this small thing so long as I am able, even though I may use it as a salve for my conscience at times. It {s one thing mest housewives can do, —Mary Bacon, City

‘Slow Em Down’ MR. EDITOR:

This thing you call “murdér on the highs ways” is getting worse all the time. I, and a horde of other peoplé are wondering when the ones who can are going to really do something about it. . Bpeed seems to be one of the major causes, but what is anyone doing about that? Very little, Anyone who drives here in the city, within the

speed limits, knows a large per éént of drivers °

pass you by as if there were no.speed limits. And on the highways they zip past you at 65 and 75 miles per hour. They are really in a hurry “going places, they think, or could this speeding be related to that important feeling that a lot of people seem to have when they get, behind-a- steering wheel? Whatever-the-cause

"the speeders should be slowed down. Talking

won't do much good. Action might do a lot of good. I, for one, would like to see it tried just for one year. I mean a law enforced to really slow 'em down.

—H. T. Johnston, 325 N. Gladstone.

meaning green slime, from the beaches at Lynn and Nahant Beach, Mass. Rep, Samuel K. ‘McConnell (R. Pa.) has written a law providing free airplane rides for preachers. And . if they can’t fly free, then his bill would give them cut rates. Turns out now that about _ the only folks who ride for nothing on airplanes are those - * who have survived the wrecks, of other flying machines; they, and the doctors and nurses needed to treat their wounds.

Herbert R. (D. Md.) wants a law ordering President Truman to pro. claim Oct. 11, 1952, as Gen. Pulaski Memorial Day. Sen.

Zales N. Ecton (R. Minn.) would give the Indians a say in who's appointed Indian commissioner, . : Sen. Frank Carlson (R. Kas.) hopes his fellows will pass his bill for the designing of a special, artistic postage stamp celebrating the estab- . lishment on May 9, 1827, of Ft. Leavenworth, Kas. tJ ” » REP. EMANUEL CELLER (D. N. Y.) would like to see the tax on certain drinking whisky reduced to $6 per galion, while Rep. Richard Bolling (D. Mo.) would slap a $10,000 fine and a two-year jail sentence on anybody ‘who offered to fix a tax-fraud case. ; ~.Any chiseler who, tried to , bribe a federal offical to get him out of a: tax jam. would = receive the same rough treat ment. And that brings us to House Resolution 5012, which would allow the Navy to

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