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‘New’ Revenue Bureau

FFECTIVE MONDAY, the Internal Revenue Bureau will undergo a “reorganization” described as an effort to put it on a “functional” basis. The new plan, authorized by Congress several month: ago, is intended to give the bureau a better check on its employees, to streamline its hitherto cumbersome methods and to make things easier for the taxpayers. It won't cost the taxpayers any less money But if it does a better job, they'll be gratified. If the new plan will do all the things Commissioner John B. Dunlap says it will do, it should put a stop to the carelessness which permitted so many officials, including some of the tops, to get away with so much skulduggery. “The reorganization,” as Mr. Dunlap puts it, “provides us with the vehicle for doing a better job.” Modern cars are better vehicles than the old ones, too. But they are not much safer or more efficient. in the hands of reckless drivers. There is no such thing as a foolproof vehicle. It's still up to the drivers This “functional” reform in the tax collector's office is the direct result of congressional Investigations, But the scandals aren't ended. The probers are still at work. And one of them, Sen. John J. Williams (R. Del), reports the administration still is dragging its heels. By order of President Truman, the Internal Revenue Bureau has refused the Senate Finance Committee, which Mr. Williams represents, access to records it needs In its inquiry. All the “functional” streamlining in the world won't do much good if the administration keeps on protecting corruption. es

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War Without Politics IFTEEN YEARS of declared and undeclared war between Nationalist China and Japan-—the longest war gince the turn of the century-—has been formally ended by the ratification of a treaty between the two countries. _ This war dates from the so-called Marco Polo Bridge incident, June 7, 1937, although actually it began six years earlier, when the Japs occupied Mukden and began the absorption of Manchuria. Following the open-fire order at the Marco Polo Bridge, Chiank Kai-shek found himself with two wars on his hands. For he had been fighting the Communists under Mao Tze-tung since 1927. Yet Chiang didn't fold up under either attack. He has seen the war wit® Japan brought to a successful conclusion, and still holds out agains( the Reds from his island retreat on Formosa. Had he not been the victim of one of the most skillful propaganda campaigns of modern times, which succeeded in completely distorting both his character and his works, Chiang probably would be acclaimed one of the great figures of modern history. Indeed, that is Gen. Douglas MacArthur's estimate of the man. In retrospect, it- seems ironical that the United States should have been drawn into war in the Pacific because of our refusal to countenance Japan's adventures in China, and that at the end of that war we should have treated Japan much more generously than we did China, a faithful ally. Now we are in the paradoxical posifion of having to guard an unarmed Japan against an attack from Red China which, with Russian encouragement, has become the new aggressor in Asia. Whether the new Japan will prove to be a dependable ally is anybody's guess. Students of military history say war is an instrument of political policy. That may be applicable to pre-war Japan and to present-day Russia. But in our case we become involved in'wars without having a political policy, beyond the primitive urge of immediate survival. That may explain why our wars to end wars haven't been successful

Migrations

N CHICAGO, the Movers Conference of America reports there is more moving in this country than ever before. Americans, the movers say, now are spending about $250 million a year to migrate from here to there. Favorite green pasture is the West Coast. Biggest mover (wouldn't you know it?) is the federal government, which spends about $60 million a year shifting military and other personnel around the country. . Government .is helping the moving men make more money to pay more taxes so the government can hire more people to move around—a money migration which meets itself coming back. In New York, federal officials are planning another migration. Racketeer Frank Costello is scheduled to move Friday to a federal prison to start an 18-month sentence. But not for racketeering. He's getting his overdue niigration comeuppance for flouting lust year's Senate Crime Committee. In Saskatchewan, two wild life experts reported they had found the hiding place of the rare but celebrated «whooping crane. This discovery, they hope, may lead to

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FOREIGN By R. H. Shadkford ‘Speaking of Captive Candidates pi

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2-Year Service Is Bitter Issue

ILONDON-—-A mutiny of Belgian soldiers against completing two years of military service... Sporadic strikes and a formal call for a general 24-hour strike next Saturday in Belgium

with a demand that military service be cut from 24 to 18 months . . . British Socialist demands that Britain's two-

vear—military service period be cut to one-year,

France's continued refusal to increase military service to two years or to allow conscripts to serve in Indo-China . . .

An Alarm Bell

THESE CAPSULES from the news should be an alarm bell for the men who are trying to build up Western NATO military strength. They defy the best military advice. They even defy Gen. Eisenhower's parting warning “two vears’ military training is required to teach a man to take care of himself,” that is, to turn him into an efficient soldier.

“¢ But unless a firm hand is put on this ‘prob-

lern immediately, the only two European countries with two-year service— Britain and Belgium-— may be forced to cut it rather than remalin as an example to others. The obvious answer fis a simple one: Get France to increase its 18 months to two years and to relax her rule on the use of conscripts in "ndo-China.

Unpopular Step

UNFORTUNATELY that has been the answer for more than two years. But the

French, now pouting about their failure to get more American dollars and with the legislature already on an extraordinarily long vacation, are unlikely to take such politically unpopular steps even to take the wind out of the Belgium crisis. The ugly situation in Belgium stimulated as in Britain by Socialists-—is not likely to make a favorable impression in the United States. Hundreds of Belgian conscripts mutinied July 25 against serving more than 18 months, Sixtyeight mutinied yesterday near Mons. In the United States, meanwhile, Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey was announcing he might have to call up fathers. The American draft period is two years, While Gen. Hershey was dizhing out the vad news to Americans, British Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, Defense Minister in the late Socialist government, was telling a Durham audience: “The time has come to cut national service, Twelve months should be enough. People on the continent don’t want it (two years service). If they won't have it, 1 see no reason why the voung men in Britain should serve any longer than thase on the continent.” :

Campaign to Reduce Service Period

IT 1S SOCIALIST Leader Henri Spaak in Jelgium who is behind the campaign to reduce the service period. He sat on the same platform at Liege last week end while «visiting Socialist Clement Attlee told the “festival of labor” he'd heen “obliged” to raise the service period to two years when he was Britain's Prime Minister. This has been a. bitter issue among supposed Furopean Allies for two years and will be more critical when the European army comes into being. Then all members should have the same period of military service. The Germans already are planning two-year serviec Representatives of six nations will consider the problem in Paris next week. but the meeting is not likely to result in more than “consideration.”

U.S. Gets Blame

AS IN SO MANY other cases when Kuropeans are taced with an unpleasant move to their alliance. work, they've found 4 seavegoat to blame for not making the ‘move. It is Uncle Sam again. He's “fallen down’ on hig promise to deliver military equipment. That is the major French excuse. But Mr. Shinwell, whose country has made the biggest defense effort and who was responsible for Britain's effort until last fall, now says: “Unless. American supplies are forthcoming, not only shall we fail to produce trained divisions which Gen. MatthewyRidgway is entitled to expect, but Western confidence in NATO may be weakened and morale relapse.”

PLEASANT FACE

I think I speak for everyone . . when 1 begin to say . . . that there is someone in each home to brighten up our day for mvery sour puss there's one who never spreads & frown but keeps the folks in stitches... just a laughing clown . . and isn't it far better . to spread some joy and . instead of casting misery . . and and near because each day is blue enough . . . without the added pain . . . of looking at a guy or gal . . whose face is filled with rain . I know it's so and you'll agree | . with what I say to vou. . . that if we wear a pleasant face . . gray skies will turn blue. —By Ben Burroughs.

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STATE DEPARTMENT . . . By Charles Egger

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JUNGLE BULLETIN . . . ByFrederick C. Othman Explorer's Advice: Buy Your

Orchids: Beware

El. YUNQUE, P. R.—For young men with romantic ideas, I have a practical suggestion: Pay the florist whatever ne asks for an orchid to pin on your best girl. His price, no matter how much, is a bargain compared to what it'h cost vou to pluck ome personally. I know about this because I am the stupe who figured my bride would appreciate a really fresh orchid hacked from the jungle by me. She did. too, but if she.ever adds up the cost in dollars, effort, and scratched legs, I'll bet she never wears a corsage again. From the long view, I may possibly be ahead of the game. Anybody can drop into an ordinary jungle, it he has one handy. and pick himself an ordinary orchid. But super orchids grow only in super jungles, such as rain forests. In all the

world there are only three of these: One in In-

dia. one in Africa and one in Puerto Rico.

Ferns 30 Feet High

EL YUNQWE is in the center of the latter and I am in the middle of El Yunque, surrounded by mahogany trees, ferns 30 feet tall, midget bananag, vanilla bushes, occasional shrubs full of wild coffee beans, coleus, oleander, teak wood, flowers in a thousand shades of red and tara plants with leaves three feet wide.

I chopped my way in here with a dull machete and between storms (180 inches of rain falls here a year). I kept my eyes open for orchids. Snakes in the undergrowth I did not fear. because there aren't any. In the long ago when Ponce de Leon landed in Puerto Rico there were more snakes even thun Endians. The latter he shot; the former were harder to catch and Ponce imported from India some mongooses (or maybe it's mongeese). These are small beasts, in any event. which hate snakes. They cleared the island in short order of all its reptiles. but their appetites remained as good as ever. They continued to beget more mMongooses over the centuries and thev then went to work on the insular birds. Today there are no birds in Puerto Rico except an occasional gull blown in from sea. If he has any sense he flies elsewhere before the

SIDE GLANCES

To Take Overseas Job

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WASHINGTON=A Department official so well liked by Congress that it

passed a special law to keep him around an extra year soon will take up an overseas assignment. He is Herve L'Heureux, Chief of the Department's Visa Division for the past five vears and known to thousands in this country as the founder of a Praxeéer for - Peace 1roveHe” is scheduled to leavg about Oct. 1 to become Supervising Consul General in Germany Mr. L'Heureux's job has been to pass on the admittance of foreigners to the United States. t's a ticklish task which could bring down the wrath of Congress should the “wrong one’ be let into the fountry.

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r. protective measures which will enable “the. whoopers to ‘ 5 _u : te BUT MR. LHEUREUX did multiply. : his work =o well that Congress So, perhaps one day again the cranes will darken ‘the reneged when the Foreign skies on their flights from the Arctic to Texas. And provide Servite Act of 1946 eaughY up bend . . . A ra a . . ay Ww m a vear ago. a aw a long and relieving whoop from the restless shiftings of pans foreign service officers a mankind seemingly hell bent on exterminating itself = from staying -in this country while making heroic efforts to save a nearly extinct bird. °F mol than: four years con. . secutively. i. So both Houses of-Congress Keep Arm Inside unanimously voted to keep him bE in Washington another year. WITH EXTREME heat in effect for an unusually long Even such a harsh critic of ~~ period over much of the country, the temptation to do ihe State Dé pastment yg hin ible t 1 a Chairman Pat McCarran (D. anything possible to cool off a bit has been great. One most Nev.) of the Senate Judiciary unfortunate result, however, has been the mangling of arms Committee peaisen Mr. Re. i : reux as ‘one of the outstandstuck outside cars. There have been several cases of severe ing. courageous individuals in injury, in some cases requiring amputation, in this immedi- Sovernment service.” . s = ate area, and reports from other sections show the ‘experi- THE 52-YEAR-OLD govern: ence has been general. ment ‘official started the Pray: : prs-for-Peace . No one can tell when a truck will sideslip and swipe an- Sor Pe Bm other vehicle, but if -a human arm fs in between if will be Fach day at 12 noon this smashed or snipped off in brie-fraction of a split second. It DUHY, Nuare BE ar ne is ‘infinitely better to be uncomfortably warm for a short prays to God for world peace. time than to be maimed for the rest of your life. Keep your His simple Act of faith was : inside the car ? taken up by others after an 4 arm Ld he : address he made in October, EE Fo edn gp ——— ce si——— . . ‘ v 1 go A : i

1948, at the William H.-Jutras American Legion Post in Man= chester, N. H. “Suppose,” said Mr, L'Heurex. “that we all stopped at noon, regardless of what we are doing and regardiess of what our faith may be and raised our hearts and minds to pray for one minute for peace. if we belfeve in God, then surely we must believe in peace.” The Legion Post enthusiastically got behind Mr. L'Heureux’s idea Today, he 5081 organizations have indorsed It. Now he's looking for someone to keep the movement going while he's away. He has refused all offers of money although he says one Detroit businessman wanted to give him $15,000 to -put the movement bn a business-like basis,

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IT WAS FITTING that he began the project at the William H. Jutras American Legion Post. Mr. Jutras was thg L'Heureux (amily and a lieutenant in the 26th National! Guard Division when young L'Heureux, just turned 18, .enlisted in World War 1.

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Mr. L'Heureux's mot her thought he could get in Jutras' company and hoped

that Jutras would look after her son. But young L'Heureux didn't get in the company.

Many months later, after go-

ing into action in France, L'Heureux volunteered to go with a rescue party to bring back ‘4a man who lay wounded in a field under heavy machine gun fire. He and two others dragged the wounded man back to the Allied lines but he died. the next day. It was Lts Jatras, y ~ ~

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mongooses get a line on him. These animals are hungrier than ever and also smarter. Now they're raiding chicken roosts, boring their way into even the tightest henhouse with their own personal augers.

Snakes Preferred?

THIS is not funny. If the mongoose menace is not stopped. there's soon going to be no eggs to go with the ham; the government now is fighting *mongooses with snares, traps and poison bait.

the original inhabitants, namely snakes, would have been easier to live with. But I seem to be getting off the subject. which is orchids. In this incredible forest are millions of orchid plants in thousands of varieties. In the crotch of every tree are crowds of orchids. On some trees, the balsas in particular. the orchids dot the trunks top to bottom until they look like green whiskers. You see what I'm leading up to; I picked the ideal place to find an orchid. Only one thing did I overlook. This is the wrong season. The orchids won’t be in bloom for another couple of months. This was shocking news, but I persevered, with Mrs. 0. on my heels. on the theory that maybe somewhere in the jungle was an orchid sport, which did not believe in the rules. This surmise proved correct.

One Brown Orchid

HARD BY a waterfall on the limb of a misplaced breadfruit tree, I found my Hilda an orchid. It was about an inch long and mostly brown in color. Quickly I swiped it. because it's against the rules to pick flowers in this national forest, and presented it to Mrs. O. She said she'd never had an orchid like this before and I guess you can take that any way vou please. She also said, when do we eat” We rot out of there and up to a little guest house on the top of El Yunque. which iz Puerto Rico's second highest mountain, and there we plowed into a chicken the mongooses overlooked. Hilda kept looking at her orchid, which I took.as a

good sign. Only she also continued to laugh, and how, fellow,husbands, would you interpret that?

By Galbraith

The situation has reached such a , pass that some Puerto Ricquenos figure that

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Republican Ticket

MR. EDITOR: 1 was not surprised at the selection of Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson as Democratic nominee for President of the-United-States. I am disturbed about the fact that this ticket is not in accord with the, will of the Democratic voters. Sen. Kefauver, by his many primary victories, had a moral claim on the presidential nomination. : I am disturbed over the growth of crime #n the U. S. A. and over the protection it receives from law enforcement and from tax collection officials, especially among Democratic leaders. Sen. Kefauver and his Crime--Investigation Committee did a great service. The FBI is doing a great service. I am disturbed over Communist infiltration in the U. S. government and in our U. 8. organizations. Congressional committees and the FBI are doing fine work, yet Communists are now largely underground. We should be careful not to make false accusations. Sb

I AM DISTURBED about Democratic pride in war-stimulated prosperity while our men are dving in the fields of battle. Note, I didn’t say the wars were not justified. I am disturbed about our national debt of $200 billions which some conservative Republican President will have to lead our nation in liquidating. I am disturbed over the corruption of and in public office under President Truman. We have a little Tammany Hall running our federal government. I am disturbed over the huge increase of our federal bureaucracy offending all reasonable standards of honesty, efficiency and economy.- The Hoover Committee pointed the way for reorganization. 1 am disturbed about the trend toward socialism under the banner of liberalism. I am disturbed about the huge tax burden generally admitted to be dangerously high. [I am disturbed over the inefficiency in the handling of our foreign relations. especially our leadership of the free world against the Iron Curtain countries resulting in the loss to the free world of much: of Europe and of Asia.

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I AM ENCOURAGED by the manner in which the Republican convention met the fair play issue and listened to the will of the peo-

ple in naming Gen. Eisenhower for President. .

He is a man of great integrity and of great accomplishments. I am encouraged by the manner Gen. Eisenhower is accepting the challenge of the above abuses and evils. He is making the campaign a “crusade.” He will give worthy, fruitful leadership of vision and of action. May God grant him the victory. After 20 years we are ripe for change for the good of the. nation, the world. And we will have the enthusiastic campaigning help of Sen. Taft in this “crusade.” Let us all like Ike in November. —.C. H. Hopper, 310 N. Illinois St., City.

Democratic Ticket

MR. EDITOR:

I shall vote a straight Democratic ticket this fall because the Démocrats have promised to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act if elected. I do not like the Taft-Hartley Act for the reason that, although I am past 50 years old, and was born in Shelby County, and have been out of the state of Indiana only a few times in my life, because of the fact that I am recording

secretary in our local union I have had to sign.

an anti-Communist affidavit seven times, six times as a local officer and once as an officer in our district in Indianapolis, and management

representatives do not have to sign at all, so

the act is discriminatory in that respect. Also. the union shop election clause cost the United States ‘ome $4 million to find out that people join unions because they want to and not because they have to. After that Congress cautiously removed that section.

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ANOTHER REASON I do not like TaftHartley is because each year I have to mimeograph some 250 annual finanéial statements and then perhaps only eight or 10 members will take them, and the rest of the copies lay around in my way the rest of the year. Another reason I shall vote straight Democratic this fall and always is that IT can remember the terrible conditions in 1932, and the farm foreclosures and the bonus marchers and the apple peddlers and the men who were lucky enough to have a job being paid in “scrip.” All these things recur to me each election time like a bad dream and I hurry to the polls and vote Democratic so it can’t happen again.

—Leo Allen, Shelbyville.

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BATTLE OF ALIBIS . . . By Ludwell Denny

Allies Play Politics, Rearming Opposed

"Well, you finally got your boyhood wish to see the Pacific!

About the same as Jones Park Lake back home, only bigger!"

rescue, - Mr. L'Heureux awarded the Silver Star. He returned to this country and got a job running an elevator at the Capitol. here while he was studying for .a college degree at George University. He also helped organize the American Legion, and recently set up a Legion Post in the State Department and Foreign Service. Me. L'Heureux is married and has a daughter and two sons. One of the sons now is with the Foreign Service in

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WASHINGTON — Now that the Allies admit falling down on their pledge of 50 European divisions this year, and predict that the 1954 goal of 100 divisions will not be reached until 1956 or much later, the battle of alibis begins. Many Americans blame our Allies for not trying. The French say we are responsible, because we drastically cut down on aid and materials. The British think economic conditions are the chief cause. There is some truth in all of these excuses. But all of them put together do not add up to the whole truth. ” ” = AS FOR THE ({requent charge that our Allies have made little effort to keep

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bon Conterence last February, this is a half-truth. It is an obvious fact that they have not tried hard enough. It is also a fact.that they have tried much harder than Americans—if sacrifice is the test. We have not given up any of our high standard of living and luxuries. They have pulled the belt tighter on a lean stomach, The Frénch charge that our aid cuts to date are the cause of their failure is premature. The $2 billion reduction by Congress in mutual security funds did not become effective

antil July. It will slow down

future European rearmament a great deal. But the European failures of the past vear were largely the cause of the current aid cut—not the result of it. = Ld ” THE BRITISH explahation is nearer the truth. . Economic crises in Western Europe and Britain have made’ it impossible’ to put the pledged amount

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of national wealth, materials and labor into the preparedness programs without wrecking the national economies. Admitting this, however, it is still true—as. Americans say —~that most Allied countries except Britain could have come nearer _the military target without economic collapse. This would have required European tax rates and collections comparable to the British and American. It would have required better control of monopolies, fairer distribution more production and higher productivity—permitting larger conscription and longer terms of military service. Anyway none of these explanations really explains. The big question is why our Allies and the United States have made so little effort in the past year compared with the magnitude and urgency of the task? And compared with Stalin’s force?

n » ” ‘THE ANSWER to that seems clear, Neither the American nor Allied peoples have been given any sense of urgency. For that the governments—all of the governments —are to blame. All of them have failed to convince their publics that only fast and hard rearmament can prevent World War III, or win it if it comes. a All of the governments have played politics with preparednéss—like the Truman administration stretch-outs in this campaign year. All of them have been afraid to tell the

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