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2 A SURIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER MOY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ : 4 Editor Business Manager

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3 “FHE GERMS of tyranny breed in darkness. fn The growth of human liberty has been inextricably linked with the right of people to know the facts about their governments. Dictators succeed only when they are + ‘mble to choke off the truth and to spoonfeed the people

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¢ 'information. One is to permit newspapers to live only by ~''the sufferance of the rulers in power. La Prensa refused “4b abdicate its duty to expose and criticize the Peron regime ; in Argentina, so it was closed. “ “The second and more subtle method today poses a real “danger to American liberty. Under it, newspapers are still permitted to print all the news they can find—the trick id to shut off legitimate sources until, in time, nothing gets “rimto print that the governing bureaucracy doesn't want « tin print. : a 1g Washington, some government officials are gradually i closing off sources of news that might be unfavorable to 50 1he administration. ¢ + .. The excuse, of course, is national security. But the *./zéal aim is security from criticism and exposure. Fewer and fewer public officials are willing to risk the { igive and take of a press conference. Some cabinet members +4 hibitually refuse to see reporters. ¢ £1 Under J. Howard McGrath, the Justice Department “aris a citadel of silence; it remained for a few earnest and i i Honest members of Congress to expose the misconduct there, “wand the sickening corruption in the Internal Revenue 4 Bureau, : : Ww 2 PR "x

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" A REPORTER who wants to question John R. Steel- ~ mkin, the acting Defense Mobilizer, must go through a prosgedure as formalized and barren as a Chinese drama. a must be written out and submitted to Mr. Steel““han’s press agent. Then they are passed on—maybe. asq0 + Economic Stabilization Administrator Roger L. Putnam ho cheerfully discuss the weather—and nothing else, ~The American Society of Newspaper Editors, meeting ji Washington this week, is rightfully concerned with the frift toward censorship. At last year's meeting, the editors manded that the President justify his order blanketing Jehmilitary agencies under military-type “security” regu-

© The President, a man said to be concerned with his e in history, ought to crack down on officials who are to hide incompetency, misconduct and worse under _ 8 cloak of creeping censorship. ~~ \ Then, no matter what the historians of the future “write about him, at least it could be said that he recognized of information as an indispensible ingredient of human liberty, and that he took steps to preserve it.

nN New Commonwealth “WE THE people of Puerto Rico ., . . do, ordain and establish this construction for the Commonwealth which, in the exercise of our natural rights, we now create within our union with the United States of America.” So reads the proud preamble of the new constitution of Puerto Rico, which the people of that island approved by a four-to-one referendum vote and which goes to the U. S. Congress for ratification. ™N It does not make Puerto Rico a “commonwealth” in

the British sense. Puerto Rico still remains a possession of the United States, subject to the government in Washing. ton, and its people understand that. But it will have all the

self-government that is practical with that status. It will cial system, just as our states do. . =n

» ~ . . BECAUSE the founding fathers did not contemplate the United States ever would have possessions or colonies, our Constitution gives us little guidance for governing them. Incorporated territories, of which Alaska and Hawaii are the only ones left, have achieved the last step toward statehood. Puerto Rico does not have that status and is not regarded generally as a prospective state because of its different cultural and language background. Thus, while the Philippines were strong enough to be made an independent nation, Puerto Rico is not. 5: Being neither fish nor fowl, Puerto Rico has been erred over the years by a hodge-podge of special laws. gress was most generous in providing that U. S. internal revenue collected in Puertd Rico be turned over to the Puerto Rican government. The U, 8. collects no income tax from Puerto Ricans; hence the island government levies a similar one which is an important source of revenue.

" Despite a serious overpopulation problem, Puerto Rico has made progress under its able, United States-educated governor, Luis Munoz Marin. Its unusual tax-incentive system has attracted a number of small industries operated by Americans. As their vote on the constitution shows, the People of Puerto Rico overwhelmingly want to remain Americans, The “independence” movements, composed of a few sincere idealists and the always insincere Communists, have . all but faded away.

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THE NEW constitution, which organizes the laws governing Puerto Rico and gives it more autonomy, is not a permanent solution to the island's status, and nobody claims that it is. Like our forefathers, we do not advocate an

able to stand on its own feet economically, we believe it should be granted independence if its people desire that.

But today independence simply would be a sentence

-of people whose homeland we took from Spain in 1898 without bothering to ask the inhabitants whether they ~ wanted to become a part of the United States. : _ Puerto Rico is our responsibility because of that seizure. : ‘This new constitution marks an entirely proper advance- , ment for its proud and friendly people. ~ We hope Congress Wil ratify it promptly. -

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elect its own governor and legislators and have its own judi-

American empire, and if in the future Puerto Rico becomes °

of starvation and helplessness upon hundreds of thousands. .

- DEAR BOSS . .. By Dan Kidney

Taft HQ Sings College Blues

WASHINGTON, Apr. 16--Taft headquarters

here is starting to sing the blues over the big, publicity Heals that the Eisenhower forces are’

pulling off on college campuses. As a sample of what is happening; they released a letter from the Taft campaign manager for - the mock convention scheduled for Purdue Univer. sity, May 6-8. It is addressed to Chairman David 8. Ingalls, chairman of the Taft for President organization, and signed “"WilHam R. Maddox, campaign chairman of the Purduvian Party for Taft." Explaining that he wants a mass of material for preconvention rallies on the Purdue campus, Mr. Maddox wrote: he. D i . “Recently the Eisenhower ‘os 9 group on campus has made considerable gains among the delegates which endanger Sen. Taft's position sand possibility of winning the nomination, “These successes by the Eisenhower group have been due largely to assistance from the Eisenhower national committee. The national committee has given the campus group unlimited numbers of campaign buttons, especially the 3% inch picture buttons and posters, : “They have also given $500 for floats and other campaign expenses, We need your assistance to offset these gains.” Eisenhower headquarters at the Shoreham Hotel here sald they knew nothing of the matter and advised calling the New York national headquarters for Ike.

Not So, He Says

IN NEW YORK they said all such things were on a “local level” and the Purdue students who like Ike must have got all their equipment, including the $500, through Chairman George Diener at the Claypool Hotel, Eisenhower headquarters in Indianapolis.

Mr, Diener said his office issued nothing remotely resembling the amount of campaign material referred to in the letter. He sald the students were given about 50, 7-inch buttons, a few folders and two blown up photographs of Ike, but absolutely no cash.

“We haven't got too much money to begin with, and even if we did we wouldn't toss it into student campaigns, We don’t believe in that sort of thing,” sald Mr. Diener. “If Taft headquarters is s the blues over a few buttons and folders, I hate to think ‘what they will be doing a little later.” Those 3; inch buttons cost Taft supporters 15% cents each, Mr, Maddox requested 700-800 of them. He also wanted 75-100 18x28 inch posters (40 cents each) and 200-250 11x14 posters (20 cents each). Lisle Wallace, chairman of the Indiana Taft committee, will supply plenty of literature and small buttons, the letter to Mr. Ingalls said.

Wants Taft to Win

“I WOULD like very much to have Sen. Taft win the nomination for President at our mock convention since the convention will receive much publicity,” Mr. Maddox closed. “Several local radio stations will cover the convention, and representatives of Life and Look magazines will be on campus during the time of the convention. There is also a possibility of a national radio hook-up for the keynote speech.” The Taft headquarters only was able to supply about one-tenth of this demand from Purdue, because of the costiiness of the project, they reported. “We just don't have that kind of money to spend,” a spokesman said. Another mock convention to be held on the campus at Washington and Lee has been supplied with Eisenhower banners and large photo-prints of the supreme commander much to the chagrin of Taft HQ where the thrift Sen. Taft has been preaching is, in a measure, being practiced.

‘Doubtful Value’

A QUEER turn at this convention is that one of the Taft delegates is a student from Ohio whose father was a Democrat, broke away from the party and now is the only “independent” in Congress—Rep. Frazier Reams, Toledo. The son is Frazier Reams Jr. : A mock convention at the University of Cincinnati was called off after a campus leader, William Smart, claimed a “politician” tried to get him to “fix it for Taft.” Cincinnati is the Senator's home town. Mr. Smart sald he was sure Sen. Taft knew nothing about it. Dr. Raymond Walters, president of the university, said he called off the mock convention there because “it appeared of doubtful value and is too close to spring examinations.” So the campus scraps go on, with Eisenhower apparently winning the battle of the banners.

What Others Say—

WE'VE got a lot of little grass fires going

all over the country, and there willbe more of them by convention time. We aren't fighting anybody. We are just waiting.—William Henson, of the “Demand MacArthur” movement. ¢ & » BEFORE taking any solution in regard to the European army why do we not launch an appeal to Russia to see if the Soviets are in accord, as they have said, to undertake arbitration, security and disarmament?--Edouard Daladier, former French premier.

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POLITICS . . . By Charles Lucey Can Sen. Russell Stop Kefauver?

WASHINGTON, Apr, 16—A string of Democratic presidential primary victories has made Tennessee's Sen. Estes Kefauver the man to

stop. Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia sets

out soon for Florida to try it. It's been a long time league test had national meaning, but the Florida test on May 6 does. 8en. Russell must. carry it off well to uphold # the idea that the solid South is behind him. Mr. Kefauver would rate as a spectacular

vote-getter if he could win this one. A loss would bolster a widely held view that he lacks | strength in the deep 4 South. It would be a blemish, but not necessarily fatal. In several of his more important tests so far, Mr, Kefauver has managed to have himself cast as the underdog. It was smart politics. In both New Hampshire and Nebraska, for example, the “organization” was opposed to him. That turned out to be good for Mr. Kefauver—it actually madé votes for him,

Mr, Kefauver may manage to establish him-

self in the same role this time. Most of the organization is with Sen. Russell—but the differ-

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ence is that Florida is a Democratic state and

the organization counts for something. Both Florida Senators—Spessard Holland and George Smathers—are for the Georgian. All or most Florida Congressmen support him,

Both candidates realize the importance of”

the test and both are clearing their decks for state-wide stumping appeals. Sen. Kefauver sae into the state first, He'll be there next eek for a major address before a textile workers’ union in Miami, He will spend three days there and probably will return for additional last-minute campaigning.

Personal Appeal

SEN, RUSSELL opens his campaign at the University of Florida on Apr. 26. He'll speak that same day in Ocala and Orlando. In the week after that, he'll touch base at Tampa, St, Petersburg, Miami, Jacksonville, Tallahassee,

. Pensacola and many way points,

Mr. Kefauver’s strength is rated greatest in Miami, where he was a page one figure day er day during the Senate Crime Committee on Florida corruption. He's sure to to cash In on this fact. But his personal for votes—and it has been an effective everywhere he has been—will range all the state. 7 The Kefauver crime investigation developed a bitter feud between the Senator and Florida's Gov. Fuller Warren. The Senate committee

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WASHINGTON, Apr. 16— World's champion sitter in smoke-filled rooms, I guess, is Prof, Nathan P. Feinsinger, the wage stabilizer who didn’t do so well with the steelmakers and their hired hands. He sat 30 long, argued so hard, and inhaled so much smoke at one of his day-and-night sessions with the ironmongers that he passed out cold. So the battlers agreed to disagree about wages in the foundries, Wage Stabilizer Charlie Wilson quit in dungeon, and President Truman seized “the whole steel industry. Now Mr. Truman's critics are talking dbout impeaching him, while the Senate Labor Committee has taken over the old Supreme Court chamber for an investigation of what happened. That's where I ran into the professor. He was the first

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roughed up the governor and he hasn't forgotten it. He's challenging Mr. Kefauver to debate him anywhere in Florida, But Mr. Kefauver is likely to figure he’s running against Mr. Russell, not Mr. Warren, and pay no attention. Mr. Russell will be flexing his muscles for national viewing in this one, and his campaign is being planned carefully. The likelihood is that either Sen. Smathers or Sen. Holland will be on the platform with their Georgia neighbor. Local Congressmen will introduce him in many cases. There will be every evidence of support-in-depth for the man expected to carry all or most of the South’s 300 convention votes to Chicago in July.

Need Weeding-Out SEN. RUSSELL’S greatest strength is said to be in northern and central rural and smalltown Florida. Mr. Kefauver's friends acknowledge privately that Mr. Russells strength unquestionably is great there—and they observe that Georgians have spilled over into Florida in thousands. . . The May 6 test is a popular preferential vote only. Convention delegates will be chosen May 27. 8en. Russell has about three times too many candidates running under his banner, and there will have to be a weeding-out if his vote isn’t to be badly split. But his friends say if he wins the May 6 test there’ll be no trouble about this.

TAX PROBE . . . By Chistor Potter 4 A Couple of Things Missing?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 16—-The King tax ine vestigating committee has had its well-publi-cized silent witnesses and its reluctant witnesses —but little has been said about its two missing

witnesses. They are Arthur A. Brevaire of Washington

and Matthew Bride of Brooklyn. Subpenas

have been issued for them. : ! Despite country-wide efforts to find Mr, Brévaire and Mr. Bride, they're still missing,

committee investigators say. Meanwhile, time is running out on the tax

scandal investigators. If the missing witnesses aren't found in the next two months, chances are the committee

will never hear them.

Out of Sight

MR. BRIDE 1S a former Internal Revenue agent in Brooklyn. He closed his expensive Brooklyn home, gave the key to a neighbor and disappeared last February, the committee says, His bank account and a brokerage account found by committee investigators haven't been touched since he left. He gave no forwarding address to the neighbor or the postman, Mr, Bride resigned from the Internal Revenue Bureau in November. He had been questioned by King committee staffmen about the personal financial statement he had submitted. A further study of his financial statement made addi tional questioning necessary. But neither Mr, Bride nor his wife has been located. Mr. Brevaire came into the investigation through the testimony of Frank Nathan, former Pittsburgh gambler, whose name has cropped up again and again in the King committee's hearings. The investigators say Mr. Brevaire disap peared after he told them last December that he’d be glad to talk to them. He made an appointment but never kept it.

‘Contempt Citation |

HE hasn't been seen since around his usual haunts here, parficularly the Washington Hotel where he occupied Room 424 under the name of the Brevaire Engineering Co. Testimony before the King committee has disclosed that Henry (The Dutchman) Grunewald had rooms at that hotel. Mr. Grunewald, cited for contempt of Congress last week for refusing to talk to the King committee, was an acquaintance of Mr. Nathan and Mr. Brevaire. The King committee wants to question Mr, Brevaire about his relations with Mr. Nathan to see if he knows anything about the alleged shakedown of Abraham Teitelbaum, a C attorney. Mr. Teitelbaum testified that . Nathan and Bert Naster of Miami told him they had contacts who would fix or push his income tax fraud case, but that a fix would cost $500,000. Mr. Nathan and Mr. Naster denied Mr. Teitelbaum’s testimony. contradictory testimony is being studied by U. 8. attorney’s office here for a possible perjury prosecution. . .

Brief but Colorful

MR. NATHAN’S testimony about Mr, Brevaire was brief but colorful. He said he didn’t know Arthur's last name but that “Arthur” had room 424. When he phoned the hotel, he testified, he asked for the Brevaire Engineering Co., and got Arthur. Committee Counsel Adrian W, DeWind asked for details on Mr. Nathan's relationship with “Arthur.” “He had a whole roomful of ideas,” Mr. Nathan testified. He also said that Arthur operated his engineering business in one room and “had a girl a lot of times, like a secretary.” The King committee, which started out with a $200,000 appropriation, will run out of money before the end of June. There is little chance for committee sessions from then on. /

Hoosier Forum—‘Whose War?’

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MR. EDITOR: A reader from Shoals says I have upset the hornet’s nest, and after reading the abuse that has been thrown my way in the Forum, one wonders just how many of these writers have been political drones who have had their front feet in the public hive and have been sweetened up with New Deal and Fair Deal political honey. One writer tells us how Roosevelt took us out of the worst depression in history although he neglects to say the price of the Roosevelt prosperity was the blood of our boys which has been spilled in the four corners of the earth fighting a useless, futile, Democrat war. Another one says he carried The Times in 1926, which probably means he was too young for Wilson’s war and too old for Roosevelt's war. However, he says he has five sons, so if he wants them to become cannon fodder all he has to do is to keep the Fair Dealers in power, because their philosophy of government won't work as a peace time economy. Another one comes from Darlington, “the

town with civic pride” and no doubt the citizens -

there are proud of him. He says he has 16 children and five of them were in Roosevelt's war and one in Truman's war. He thinks I am

NEEDS PEPPERMINTS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Cigaret-Puffing Professor Passed Out Cold

ignorant and possibly I am, but I am not a big enough glutton for punishment to want my own boys or any one else's boys to help fight another useless, futile, Democrat war.

ANOTHER letter comes from a lad in {Uncle Sam's troops who can hardly be blamed for the attitude he takes.

Having never known anything except deprese sion, fear, war, communism, confusion and core ruption in government he thinks it is OK. Have ing never enjoyed freedom, liberty or Peace time prosperity he never misses them. Another one tells us he thinks the decisions of both Roosevelt and Truman were the wisest although Old Joe Stalin was the same old tyrant that Roosevelt made deals with and 'Wuman is now fighting. So how could both be wise? The Holy Bible says, “The love of money is the root of all evil.” Not money, but the love of money. That is why I am willing to upset a hornet’s nest any time, if I can help prevent these boys from being sent to the slaughtering pens to fight another useless, futile, Democrat war even if I won't be able to garner a few more of those unholy bloodstained dollars which any fool can get in war time. -, D. C., Terre Haute,

rooms were the cause of his fainting spell, he can blame himself. Maybe when the going gets tough he should chew peppermints. The investigators under Sen. James E. Murray (D. Mant.) mostly were on the side of the President and the professor. It was obvious they intended to handle Dr. Feinsinger gently. Then they let in the television boys, who set up five giant floodlights with mirror reflectors beamed directly into his eyes. Came next a phalanx of news photographers who bombarded him with electric blue flashes. 3 . The professor suffered,

sweated, and sweltered like a miscreant under a third in a “B” movie. ‘And all the

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sat in pleasant shadow, tried to help him along with sympathetic questioning. Only lawgiver with serious misgivings seemed to be Sen. George D. Aiken (R. Vt.), who wondered if President Truman really did have the power under the Constitution to take the steel business away from its proprietors. “Do you think he had what is called this inherent right?” demanded Sen. Aiken. Prof. Feinsinger took another draw on another cigaret and said he didn't understand

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