Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1952 — Page 20

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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way

Mr. Lattimore, Witness ThE SENATE subcommittee investigating internal security matters is doing a great public service by putting the spotlight’s full glare on the astounding career of Owen Lattimore, so-called expert on Far Eastern affairs, This is the man Sen. McCarthy called the principal Soviet agent in this country. Mr. Lattimore has denied the accusation, and anyone who has followed his testimony before the committee will be disposed to accept that denial. The Soviet may be stupid about some things. But they aren’t that stupid. They appear to have used him, to be sure. And his book, “Solution in Asia,” is evidence that he was a victim of Russia's “power of attraction,” as he termed it. But he isn't the type the Kremlin would make chief of anything. It remained for our State Department to do that by making him its principal consultant on Far Eastern affairs. © This single fact is why the current investigation is so important. The State Department never will be straightened éut until we find how it got that way, and those who were tesponsible for it. Mr. Lattimore cannot be considered 4 willing witness on this phase of the inquiry. But his ittempts to evade the issue have not been fuccesstyl and His testimony should be quite useful. . » . » =» : MR. LATTIMORE was selected by President Roosevelt go to China as an American adviser to Chiang Kai-shek n 1941, This was after Japan and Russia had signed a on friendsliip treaty and while the Hitler-Stalin pact

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was in force. These facts notwithstanding, and 11 days hefore the appointment was annouriced, Mr. Lattimore met

and discussed his assignment with Soviet Ambassador Oumansky. ~The witness has tried to make it appear that by the time he met with Oumansky, his assignment had been given a “great deal of publicity.” But evidence was introduced showing that the meeting took place June 18 while the first announcement of Mr. Lattimore's assignment appeared in the press June 29. Cr Me Lattimore also insisted that he discussed only the fact of his assignment and none of its details with the Soviet ambassador. But E. C, Carter, who arranged the ‘meeting, reported to Dr. Philip C. Jessup that he thought it pretty important for Mr. Lattimore to have “a long talk with Oumansky, in view of his job and the evolving world situation,” and added “it was a most illuminating two hours.” Evidence also revealed that while Mr. Lattimore was editor of Pacific Affairs, a magazine published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, Mr, Carter sent a draft of an article by Mr. Lattimore to the Soviet ambassador in advance of its publication. - » » » n ” THE WITNESS dismissed as “very far fetched” any suggestion that the Russians were able to obtain military information through the Institute of Pacific Relations. But the minutes of a meeting held with Russian IPR officials in Moscow in 1936 quoted Mr, Lattimore as asking them “if there was any interest in the USSR about the question of air bases in the Pacific.” + Dr. Jessup's knowledge of the Oumansky incident is revealing, because he is at present representing this country in the United Nations. His confidence in Mr. Lattimore Apparently remains unimpaired, for as late as 1049, when he was appointed to develop a new Far Eastern policy, the erstwhile editor of Pacific Affairs was one of the first to whom he turned for advice. : This insight into the character of the people who have been formulating American foreign policy is a valuable contribution to public information on a subject about which all too little is known. Moreover, committee spokesmen assure us that the story is just beginning to unfold.

Hiring Is Cheaper

SENATE committée has found that it has cost the government as much as $6000 to lay off a single employee. The committee. turned up another case where laying off 164 workers took four and a half months and 1553 separate papers. These workers were under the Civil Service system, of course, and one purpose of Civil Service is to protect gove ernment employees.

Under Civil Service, it isn’t supposed to be easy to fire :

people. But it isn't supposed to be Enpossible, or highly expensive, either. The Civil Service Commission has érented 80 many regulations there now are 26 different categories of job rights, the Senate committee found. The antiquated “bumping” -system that follows some layoffs can virtually disrupt an entire department, with people changing jobs all the way down the ladder. Congress never intended all this rigamarole. Even the nld-fashioned and supposedly wicked ‘spoils system is more sensible than this mess, in which it is so hard to gét people off the payroll that most administrators probably have: stopped trying. If Congress really wants to bfing about economy and efficiency in government agencies, a good way to begin is to compel Civil Service to cut out its red tape.

the Wrong Senator

Sa KERR of Oklahoma, one of the proTriman “candidates” for President, admits much of the south “will support Senator Russell of Georgia, if the President does not run. But the Oklahoman says the party will not be split “fust because various groups... support different candi-

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PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Mar. 6—A long, tall Ténnessee mountain man is trying to pariay a slow drawl, a friendly hahdshake and a badlybotched Harry Truman campaign into a pretty fair showing in New Hampshire's presidential primary next Tuesday, It was pretty funny, at first, wheh Ben. Estes Kefauver began galoshing along the backroads in quest of ‘whatever fugitive Democratic votes might have escaped a state party organization pledged solidly to President Truman, But Mr, Kefauver has jolted the Trumanites

awake, Former Navy Secretary John L. Sulli-

van, a local boy who made good in Washington, has been rushed back to his home state to get things in hand for the President. The Truman boys thought they could coast in: they're being forced to go to ‘work. The odds remain on the President's side, but all this talk about a mere breeze for him has been throttled down,

| The Indianap ols Times NATIONAL POLITICS ier By Charles Lucey by

Kefauver—The Tennessee Mountain Man--Makes

Until recently, the interest in New Hamp--ghire’s- Mar, 11 bellwether voting was in the Taft-Eisenhower Republican contest, Mr. Kefauver has changed that, Strategically, the Senator is in the fairly -happy position of not being expected to sweep the voting. His candidates for delegates to the Chicago convention, operating without any lush campaign kitty, are virtually unknown and unsung. On President Truman's slate are almost all the Democrats in New Hampshire, That, in fact, is one of the President's headaches. Instead of having eight candidates for the eight delegate jobs to he filled in the state at large, he has 16, Instead of having four candi dates for the four delegates chosen by congressional districts, he has six. That means a splattered Truman vote, No-

A Lot of Sap From Just One Tree

SOUTHLAND

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By Peter Edson

Sen. Russell to Defy Tradition

WASHINGTON, Mar. 6—Women voters are going to have to decide one thing about Georgia Sen. Dick Russell's candidacy for the DemoShould

States? Blue-eyed and balding, 55-year-old Richard Brevard Russell never married. Never had time to, he explains, Always been wedded to his job. There was one bachelor President. He. was James Buchanan, a Pennsylvania Démocrat. He was in the | White House from 1858 to § 1860, just before Lincoln. : President Buchanan's §§ hostess was his sister's daughter, Harriet Lane. Her parents had died when she was a child, She fell naturally into the role of her uncle's First Lady. Sen. Russell's mother is still living at the family home near Winder, Ga. Last month she celebrated her 84th birthday. Sen. Dick, being her first-born, has always been her favorite. In addition to his mother, there is no lack of Russell family to move into the White House with Sen. Dick. He has four sisters and seven brothers—all living, all married, all having children. A Russell reunion on the White House lawn would look like a e¢onvention. In Washington during the last few years Sen. Russell has made his home with one of his married sisters and her husband, Col. and Mrs. kk K. Stacy. But when the Washington social climber: think of all the trouble the Trumans have gone to, rebuilding the inside of the White House and getting it all redecorated, there's a shudder over the possibility of turning it Into = bachelor's den. Still, it's leap year. And as a matter of record. ‘an. Russell missed by only 24 hours the tossing

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of his wool hat into the political ring on leap year day, Feb. 29, The other $64 question raised by the Russell announcement is whether a Southerner—a deep Southerner, that is — can be nominated and elected U. 8. President in this day and age. « The last Southerner who was President was Virginia-born Woodrow Wilson. But most people think of him as a Yankee because he had been president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey. Before Mr. Wilson, the last Southerner to be President was Gen. Zachary Taylor, Mexican War hero. Just a little over 100 years ago he was President for 16 months—from March, 1849, to his death from typhus in July, 1850. President Taylor was Virginia-born like six other chief executiys before him. They were John Tyler, William Henry Harrison, James Monroe, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Andrew Jackson was born in South Carolina, and Andrew Johnson and James Polk in North Carolina.

Fixed Tradition

BUT EVER since the War Between the States it has been a fixed tradition of political folklore that no Southerner could be elected President. - Last summer Sen. Russell himself took a dim view of the prospect. _ Today he says,’“My people hold a different view. They don’t think geographical residence is any handicap.” The Senator admits that his own mind has been changed on this subject. Sen. Russell makes no bones about where he stands on the controversial North-South issue number one. The Georgian calls President Truman's civil rights program a “civil wrongs” program and “he's ag’in it.” That in itself may be enough to ruin his chances for Northern support at Chicago, though -most Democrats would agree that on every other score, Sen. Russell has all the ability, experience, intelligence and integrity to make a first class President. Even if he is a bachelor,

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WASHINGTON, Mar, 6—Tonight I intend to speak sharply to my bride. She's just as pretty as Mrs. Olga <Konow, the only lady ship magnate in the world, She’s just as smart. Difference is that the lovely Olga with the prematurely gray

and-cream complexion, fashionable clothes and the European accetit, brought home

luncheons with some distin- .. Buished gentlemen.

THIS is ice rk for a wife,

mine takes note, Easy, too, according to Olga. There should, she said, be more lddies in the shipping business. Olga was such an eyeful when she dropped in from New York to teil her tale to the Senate Investigating Committee that the gallant Chairman Clyde R. Hoey (D. N.C.) had a suggestion. “One of our members wonders if you'd include in your testimony your i! phone number,” he said, ‘\} The most beautiful \ : " ping operator. was delighted. ‘She smiled and nodded her -head until the pearls attached top her ears with silver chains

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body knows whether it will hurt the President and give Mr, Kefauver a few delegates. "The Truman people say no—that their low-est-winning candidates should top Mr. Kefauver's best candidates. The President’s crack about “eyewash” presidential primaries didn’t help him here. The early indecision on whether he was In the New Hampshire primary made for a jerky start, Whatever the weight of the state’s Democrat organization, headed by National Committeeman Emmett J. Kelly, it's solidly behind the President. In the 1948 New Hampshire primary, only 17,000 votes were cast. For years, though, federal patronage here has funneled through Mr, Kelly, The 3000 federal job holders presumably know what they're

supposed to do. : & 2%

TUESDAY NIGHT Mr, Kefauver spoke at Newmarket, Dover and Portsmouth, And who was speaking for Mr. Truman at the University of New Hampshire, a few miles away? Former Sen. Scott W. Lucas of Illinois. Mr. Kefauver's 1950 Senate Crime Commit-

' tee disclosures in Chicago helped relieve Mr.

Lugas of his place in the Senate, where he was Mr. Truman's majority leader. The Kefauver campaign is mostly Mr, Kefauver himself. A sound truck precedes him into town, trying to shout up a crowd. It plays

little music—the “Tennessee W~'!»" and some pn dance tunes. The Senatc bles along a little later to say a few words a... jump some hands. “I am in New Hampetiliy, going” Som Place to place, taking my cause peop! aly Tuesday night. “The boys in the smoke~ “filled rooms never have taken very well to me.” He talks of the need to secure peace, drive Communists from government, be strong mili“tarily and, wherever possible, to cut government costs. When his folksy little talk is finished, he answers questions. Mag

THE Senator's wife, Nancy, is arity helpful. She moves around, greeting people and saying a few words which could bring in some friendly votes next week, Basic Ketauver strategy is to concentrate in small’ towns, recognizing the regular Jasty oe ore ganization is hard to buck in the cities. on Saturday. Mr. Kefauver will do a ren in the French-Canadian millworker sections of Manchester. The Senator is making votes, that's sure. Nobody knows how many. But it's worth remembering this New Hampshire vote is the first shot Americans anywhers have had at a Presi dent whose administration has been splotched frequently with corruption these last couple of

MR. EDITOR: The true spirit of America was born during the time of George Washington. The men of his time held to the idea that right made might; and it was their adherence to principle, and their recognition of power in principle, that made them invincible. It gave them strength,

courage and filuminated their consciousness with an understanding never reflected before nor since their time. They, like Moses,, recognized law as the principle that all power resides in good. They organ-

ized and founded a government of law. A govern- *

ment to protect its members against their own weaknesses and themselves. It is the best form of government and system that was “ever devised. They, like Moses, regognized law as the essence of order and they gave recognition to love as the supreme principle. President Lincoln to a great degree exercised his consciousness with love toward all, and because of his loving attitude he at Gettysburg manifested an intelligence which was above any and all scholastic attainments. For love is the supreme governing principle of the entire universe, and all natural power and authority is born of love. LT WHAT really then is the matter with America? We have abundance of material possession to support our every need and the required strength and intelligence to make proper use

‘of them. But with all this we are in a state

of confusion. There is but one answer to it all. We are not advancing in the American way as planned by the fathefs. The men of Washington's time proved to themselves and to posterity the perfect way. For they leaned upon God's promises to man rather than the promises of carnal man. It was because of their unselfishness and recognition of the power in principle that made them far-sighted and caused them to proceed in the true way in accord with principle. They were statesmen of the highest order, and not politicians seeking public office to gratify their selfishness. —Emil C. Stroeh, 156 E. Market St.

‘Kidney and Butter’

MR. EDITOR: Every reader of The Times knows Dan Kidney knows which side his bread is buttered on. He is not going to oppose the ScrippsHoward papers in their ideas to regiment the born and unborn boys into a military machine

* which could only lead to our country being in

a worse decayed and rotten condition than it is today. = The Yinnned bill of Mr. Chas. Brownson is just as tainted and traitorous as the original bill. It means the young men are forced into a military machine. The American Legion and its filthy poison trying to high-pressure Congress is lower than the gutter. Mr. Kidney, Mr. Brownson, George Craig and Mr. Carl Vinson forgot their forefathers came here and started this country to be free, to get away from the military and religious persecution of Europe.

—James J. Cullings, 107 S. Capitol Ave.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY COCKEYED WORLD—The Supreme Court handed down a “radical opinion.” It requires publie school teachers to teach Americanism.

THE British Parliament stood up against Aneurin Bevan’s plan to beat the Reds by lying down.

HAVING the first primary was one way to put a small state like New Hampshire on the map.

BUTTER prices have fallen until a quarter's worth nearly makes a grease spot,

CONGRESS seems to think that Europe should hire its own help.

By Frederick C. Othman

Olga Thrills D. C. Journalists With Her Kisses

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‘The Republicans, Too?"

MR. EDITOR:

We wish to call attention to your article in :

The Times of Mar. 2, headlined, “You Could Beat That Tag Line—For Two Bucks.” It was about a newspaper reporter, who, for an extra

fee of $2 was able to ohtain his license plates quickly. We know the fgharge set out in The Times is true, as one af the women of our group saw these transactions take place. We respect and support The Times in many things, but we wish to call attention to the fact that The Times failed to point out that the people who head the license bureau are Republi cans and are just as responsible for those illegal fees charged by employees as the heads of the government in Washington are for the many things that the newspapers have charged have been done by employees of the federal government. We shudder to think of the hullabaloo that would have been raised by the Indianapolis Star if this practice had gone on under the Democratic administration. We are sick and tired of the newspapers painting one-sided pic. tures for the public. If a tag is to be put on no matter who is responsible, then let's tag them all, shall we? We would like to point out that the tag for issuing licenses this year is Republican. We are glad to have a newspaper who has the courage to expose these things. It will take more than courage to publish this. We believe that we must demand good government from all of our elected officers, and feel that the general public is a great deal to blame for its failure to take active interest in the selection of officials who run for public office, and many do not even take the trouble to register and vote.

—Nineteenth Ward Woman Democrat

‘God Is Not There’ MR. EDITOR:

Thank you for your most enlightening article on “Churches Draw a Racial Line.” I am sure that many people were unaware of these facts, Would it be possible to have the names of these 20 churches so that no unwelcome guests will ever make the mistake of “attempting to wor. ship there?” I am sure, however, that their services are very boring since God is not there.

—Edity V. Johnson, 2105 Boulevard Place.

Lenten Meditation Jesus Answers Our

Questions About God

THE DIVINE SIGNATURE

A house divided against a house falleth. Luke 11:17 (A. S. V.). Read verses 14-20.

The people had come to Jesus to ask for a sign from Heaven, for they suspected He had healed people by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of demons. But Jesus answered that good works could hardly be done by demons who are divided among themselves. What is the divine signature? What is the sign from Heaven? It is that human life working with divine will can change the. face of the earth, the face of tragedy inte victory. So today our house will fall unless the divine will and the human will are in harmony. See how personal life goes to pieces when a man's human will runs counter to God's will. Conscience chases him down the years until even conscience may be dulled and he may be farther from God than ever. Just after the death of Sinclair Lewis, his biographer said of him, “He was a restless, lonely man, constantly looking for something he couldn't find, or, if he found it, no longer wanting it.” Here is the house of a soul divided against himself. Or see how a family goes on the rocks when husband and wife have no mutual ideal of whot they want their home to be. Or look at America, so often divided in its “classes, its color lines, its social lines. Is it any wonder that. the world seems+so divided, too?

Let Us Pray: O God, whose mind is ene, give us singleness of purpose in our hearts and homes so that not being

divided we may multiply Thy use of us, for Jesus’ sake. Amen,

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as to make a husband blink. Seems that she was married to a shipping man and it seemed to her that he was having entirely too much fun of an evening while she sat home with

her knitting. So she organized .

a couple of shipping firms of her own: the American Viking Corp. and the Wonok (spell it backward) Corp. Now she be-

gan to combine business with .

pleasure. She met a few Chinese gentlemen of culture, who needed some oil tankers, in 1947. She knew Edward Stettinius, the ex-Secretary of State;; Julius Holmes, the diplomat tn London; Bull Halsey, the retired admiral, and Joe Casey, the

three of these vessels for which they still hadn’t paid because they couldn't raise the money. Olga's job was to get these gentlemen together. She did it in a neat and efficient manner. In Washington she had lunch with Mr, Casey and others, offering them $450,000 profits on the tankers they still hadn't bought from the Maritime Commission. Olga said, and I quote, that Mr, Casey thought she was just talking, on account of her being a mere woman in a man's business. She showed him. .

NEXT THING "Mr. Casey knew, she was hostess at a luncheon at the Whitehall Club

‘in. New York; there Mr. Casey

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WEALTHIEST MAN

A MAN is poor when he's alone . . . without a pal or friend . . . someone to share his troubles and . , . to Jove him till the end . . . his pockets may be lined with gold . . . or he maybe a king « + » but what's the good if he lacks love . . . for

. ‘love is everything i . . now money buys. a lot of

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In a few more days the Sie) was done, Casey & Co. nearly a half-million ot for their trouble, while Olga settled - for $300,000 in in commissions. This turned out later, thanks to some rather involved deals, to be $400,000: Not bad, either. Olga sald she was happy about

WHAT made the Senators unhappy (except when looking at her) was their suspicion that maybe it was {illegal to sell American government tankers to foreigners. This, said Olga, was an interesting question, but insofar as she was cone cerned, academic. “I did not care where the money was coming from,” she said, “just so it came.”

“This has been the thrill of . my life,”

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