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Give IAght and the People Will Find Their Own Way
Can't Control 'Em T USED to be the federal payroll was considered the per sonal political property of the politicians who could control it, as they often did. The payrollers were sent out on election days to round up votes. They were maced for part of their pay for campaign funds. Their political independence was subject to the judgment of their sponsors. But there is evidence of an increasing foot-looseness among government workers. The Hatch Act, which forbids electioneering by federal employees, has helped. Civil Service has been widened. . It is safe for a federal employee to be as independent in his thinking as anyone else. The Cleveland Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, recently - polled a cross-section of the 16,000 government payrollers in that city. The result: 41 per cent for Dwight Eisenhower, 30 per cent for Adlai Stevenson, 29 per cent undecided.
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n LA n n n ROBERT RAMSPECK, chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, says he believes there is a good chance more than half the government's employees would vote against the administration, : : ! “The federal employees,” heé “says, “like any other of American people, cannot be regimented as regards voting.” He cites the 1948 vote;in three counties suburban to Washington, all heavily populated by government employees. All three went decidedly Republican. One of them, Arlington, Va., recently gave a thumping majority to Sen. Harry F. Byrd in the senatorial primary—and Mr. Byrd is a long and persistent advocate of sharp reduction in the number of government employees. Why not? Most federal employees are well-informed, hard-working, faithful Americans. They have the same problems as other taxpayers. It's not their fault the Truman administration has infiltrated policy-making jobs with misfits, rag-tag politicians and nest-featherers. Who better appreciates the need for a change?
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EXCEPT FOR AN occasional shipment of aqua vitae, a
high-octane popskull made of equal parts coffin varnish and potato alcohol, Sweden has always conducted herself as a neighbor of the highest rectitude in her dealings with the United States. We regret, however, that a cloud no larger than a small soprano has cast an unfortunate shadow over this happy relationship. The Swedes are bitter becausé of the high-handed atte tude of Miss Margaret Truman's bodyguard, three Secret Service men who have accompanied her on her grand tour. For further details we turn you over to our compeer on the liberal Expressen: . “Please, Margaret,” the paper begged, “ask daddy back in Washington to recall the big bully who is at your heels. He is destroying what you yeurself are building up.” Aftonbladet also objected to the bodyguard, and rather spitefully at that. It said: ‘Miss Truman is certainly in no <danger—after. all, she is not going to sing here.” o ” o . un = THAT NEWSPAPER quoted a Secret Service man ag telling a photographer: *I'll knock you cold if you take any pictures.” Swedish papers also reported that two of the bodyguard had blocked a theater entrance and that another prevented a reporter and a photographer from entering Stockholm City Hall-=because Miss Truman was inside. That caused Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's biggest daily newspaper, to run~a fever on the editorial page: “The pistol-packing Secret Service man apparently accorded himself the authority to decide what persons would be allowed to enter a Swedish public building. . . . Let us hope the Swedish foreign office informs the people concerned that there are limits for their competence in Sweden." Let us hope so, indeed. In Sweden, obviously, photographers are considered people, and it is incumbent upon Miss Truman's stalwarts to honor local custom, no matter how strange. Sweden has alivays been bound to this country by close cultural and racial ties and it would be a tragedy indeed if in these sorry-times that friendship were impaired by three heads of overzealous and not-too-smart policemen.
This Cruel World
IX MARXIAN circles, embezzlement always has been considered a dirty capitalistic science, and for that reason we are happy to relate the sad and disillusioning experience of one. Seymour Meyer Bakst, of Washington, D. C. Mr. Bakst, now the proprietor of a string of apartment house coin-operated washing machines, used to be a member of the Communist Party. He quit in 1946. His reason for quitting, as related to the Senate's Committee on Internal Security, is poignant—so brace yourself. “I was,” Mr. Bakst testified, “responsible for the finances of a mass meeting held at the National Press Club. When the meeting was over I turned over to one of the leaders some $1100, and when the report was given at a subsequent meeting of the Communist Party, it was reported that $600 was turned over. When I asked what happened to the other $500 they said it was used for other needs and they couldn't discuss it. “Sir, I assumed that the money was misappropriated.” That wasn't all, either. Another time, Mr. Bakst discovered that a leader had swiped a sum of money that had been willed to the Communist Party. And do you know what this wayward comrade did with it? He bought himself a filthy bourgeois automobile.
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experiences is learning that idols have feet of clay and the morals of a package thief. Mr. Bakst, accept our sympathy. that the customers who use your washing machines are “more honest than your erstwhile companions. Otherwise, Mr. B,, your new-found capitalism is going to evaporate and leave you with a handful of buttons and slugs and a ‘whopping electric bllL, : i
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WAVERLY, O.—A tense, atomic-style poker game was under way today in this seat of Pike County, bewildered home of the $1 billion atomic plant site. Nobody quite knew the rules, but all parties were sitting tight, playing 'em close to their vests. One thing was certain: Jackpots would be stupendous, Strangers with big money in their pockets were ranging heautiful Scioto Valley, giving the gimlet eye to businesses which might he bought out, to best locations for new developments. “I'm as bewildered as anyone else,” said Banker George 8S. Scott, 46, at the door of his First National Bank in Waverly.
Marking Time “EVERYBODY is just kind of marking time. Real estate is the touchy thing. Nobody knows what it should be worth or will be worth.” Mr. Scott shook his head. “As a banker, I guess I'm a conservative. I think our real estate values always have been too high, Now it's going to pyramid.” The great plant will sprawl for five miles along U. 8, 23. No one is quite certain of the boundaries yet, adding to the natives’ insecurity. It will run back two miles from the road and s0 seemed sure to wipe out the tiny community of Sargents, in the heart of the site. Sargents Concrete Products Co, is the main business in the town, and may be safe, being on the railroad side of the road. But acrogs from it is a garage and restaurant run by young C. B. Griffith and his wife, Dorothy. “We've had some big offers for our place,” said pretty Mrs. Griffith. “We were offered £30,000 yesterday. The ones who offered were willing to take a chance that our place wouldn't
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have to be torn down to make way for the plant.” She figured she and her-husband had only about $20,000 in their business. But they're not selling. “I expect to hear any day whether we'll have to move out or not,” she said. ‘“We don't want to move, but we're still mighty proud that the new plant is going to be here in Pike County. “Most people feel the same way. They're crazy if they don't. There's no work here now for the young fellows.. They have to go away.” Mrs. Anne (race, 32-year-old owner of Pike“ton’s only hotel, Hotel Valley, was found preparing to drive to Portsmouth to buy all new furniture for her 26-room “gold mine. “The value of my property doubled itself within three hours after the official announcement about the atomic plant,” said Mrs. Crace. “1 was offered $30,000 for the hotel. It's not “worth £15,000.”
School Problem
PUFFING a long, narrow cigar, J. E. Way, county superintendgnt of schools, just shook his head at the Pik®& County Courthouse when he contemplated what might happen to his school system when 30,000 to 40,000 workers swarmed into Scioto Valley. “We just can’t anticipate what it will mean vet,” he said. “Our enrollment now is 4000. We could perhaps take care of 400 to 500 more —that’s all.” “They say it's going to expand this town and Waverly right together,” said Jackie Detillion, 16, Piketon. ‘They say it's going to bring theaters and schools. They say there might be a new hospital, They say ...” “The gals are pretty excited, too,” said his sidekick, Wetzel Adams, 16, also of Piketon. “Lot more men for 'em I reckon.”
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No Kefauver Sour Grapes, But...
WASHINGTON-—-Sen. Estes Kefauver's suit of dark gray silk was droopy for sure. No press in the pants. Saggy
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pockets. It was a muggy day and the Senator, himself, looked a little done in. He said, wiping the fog off his celebrated eveglasses they got cloudy when he hit the air-conditioning of the Democratic Nationa? Committee headquarters that if he'd known he was to have his picture taken, he'd have spruced up. The deal was for the gentleman from Tennessee to announce for®the movies that Chicago bygones were bygones and he Intended to give his fullest support to the candidacy of Adlai Stevenson. He did, too. Then Steve Mitchell, the voung-looking Chicago lawyer who is the mew Democratic chairman, shook him by the hand and said the Democrats intended to use Kstes' persuagive . powers to the fullest, Fair enough. Only there were some sweaty reporters present. They'd had to hurry on foot' from President Truman's press confers ence to catch this newsy event. Thev had some questions that made Mitchell, Kefauver and associates gulp. n on ~ “A FEW minutes ago,” bes gan one of these, “Mr. Truman said he was the Key to -the Democratic campaign and that Mr. Stevenson would have to campaign on the record of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Now I somehow had the iipression that Mr. Truman was not the key.”
He gazed eXpectantly at Chairman Mitchell, who turned His eves to a portrait of President Truman smiling benignly from behind his desk. Then
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the other wall two. full-color pictures of Gov. Stevenson— one laughing, the other stern. Finally, he answered: “I don't think it is proper for me to pass judgment on what the Ptesident. of the United States says.” : Not a bad answer, when you come to think of it. TI doubt if I could have thought of a better one, - a ” ~
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paign of the man who edged him out at the Chicago convention. What, asked the reporters, about that convention. Did Sen. Kefauver feel he had a raw deal in the stockyards? Yes, he did, said he. At least he wasn't pleased at what happened to him, but still and all he felt that the Democratic Party came first. “What weren't you pleased with?” inquired one of my cohorts. Sen, Kefauver almost smiled, but not quite. That was an easy one. He was displeased because he didn't get the nomination, himself. “I felt that I was the popular choice, but the expression of the people did not find a voice in the convention, because of the way conventions are handled,” he added. “I
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RFC Studies Policy on Loan To Firm With ‘Tainted’ Past
WASHINGTON — The Reconstruction Finance Corp. (RFC)._is trying to decide whether a business firm applying for a government loan should be turned down solely on the ground of questionable tactics used in obtaining an earlier loan for the same company. The company—National Union Radio of Orange, N. J. president, Kenneth Meinken—in 1948 borowed $1.4 million from RFC, paying back the last of thé& loan two years later. Earlier this year, the company applied for a new loan more than three times as large. The application is in perfect order, RFC officials say. The company’s credit is satisfactory, and the Defense Production Administration has certified that certain electronic parts it would manufacture are essential to defense. If the company were coming in fresh, it would be certain of getting a government loan, RFC officials say.
Questionable Tactics BUT THE agency's files contain certain in-
formation about National Union Radio Co., dat-
ing back to the old RFC scandals. In its first loan application the company hired the law firm of Goodwin, Rosenbaum, Meacham & Bailen without obtaining the RFC approval required for legal fees charged in connection with loan applications. Goodwin, Rosenbaum was the law firm given top billing in the Senate Figbright Committee investigation of “influence’™ at the RFC. Joseph H. Rosenbaum is under perjury indictment, an outgrowth of the Senate investigation, And in addition, the RFC files contain a charge by W. Stuart Symington, former RFC clean-up chief, that the National Union Radio Co. in 1949 gave television sets to two RFC *
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officials who had recommended the company's loan. The Symington memorandum says one of the RFC officials approached Robert Dudley, then a member of the Rosenbaum firm, about getting sets ‘“‘wholesale” for himself and another RFC friend. “Dudley reportedly discussed the matter with the National Union Radio Co. and advised , , , that he had obtained two television sets , , , as gifts from the National Union Radio Co.” Mr. Symington said the sets were picked up at Dudley's home,
Indicted for Perjury ’
SUBSEQUENTLY, Dudley: was indicted for perjury in denying to a grand jury that he knew about the incident, The grand jury found reason to believe he not only knew, but “caused” the sets to be given. One of the RFC men was fired; the other, who played a lesser role, was suspended and reinstated, Dudléy’'s “petition to have the perjury charge dismissed is pending in Federal Court here, Mr. Meinken, head of the company, has sworn he personally was unaware the sets were being given. And this time, he applied directly to the RFC, rather than through a Washington law firm. i RFC officials don’t relish the task of deciding the case. Up to now, they've been spared turning down a would-be borrower solely because of something in his record. RFC officials say they're not convinced the defense effort will suffer if the company is turned down. They believe some other company could make the electronic parts.
MILITARY . . . By Jim G. Lucas
Gen. White Is a Dark Horse Possibility for Top Air Job
WASHINGTON — A 51-year-old preacher's gon who speaks eight languages fluently—and a few more well enough to be understood —may be the next Air Force chief of staff. . He is Lt. Gen. Thomas D: White, deputy chief of staff for operations, a job he has held since mid-1951. The first Tommy White boom started last spring as Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg's four-year term neared expiration. But President Truman reappointed Gen. Vandenberg for another 17 months so he could qualify for retirement. Gen. Vandenberg, who is returning to duty after a serious abdominal operation, now is due to quit next June. Gen. White is a dark horse. His friends regard him as a logical compromise selegtion. Originally, Gen. Vandenberg was to be succeeded by Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command. Gen. LeMay was to come to Washington as vice chief of staff, serve his apprenticeship in the Pentagon and then
“step up. But Gen. Vandenberg’s illness blocked’
that, Gen. Nathan Twining, the No. 2 man took over as acting chief of staff. Generals Twining, LeMay, Laurence Kuter, deputy chief for personnel, and Lauris Norstad, now in Europe, are probably the four léading candidates.
Doesn't Seek Job
THERE IS NO sign Gen.” White seeks the job. But his supporters—up and coming young colonels—won’t be silenced. The ‘keep your eye on Tommy White” 1k crops up everywhere— it’s not co-ordinated, but is enthusiastic. It's doubtful that Gen. White could stop it. His weaknesses are, at the same time, his strength. He's not so well known at home as a half dozen other generals. But he’s never been identified with either the tactical or strategic air factions. Foreign airmen trust him because he speaks their language. Europeans —who fear U. 8S. birdmen may start an atomic war in which they would get hurt first and most — make an ex- ! ception in his case. ~ y They .regard him as Gen. White level headed for an American flier. The English particularly like him because Mrs. White is the daughter of a British lieutenant general. Gen. White marired her in Cairo. Moreover, Gen. White is liked in Congress. He served from 1948 until 1950 as director of legislation and liaison for the Secretary of Air, Gen. White speaks Chinese, Italian, Portugese, French, Russian, Greek, Spanish and English fluently. He's studied Japanese, : but doesn't claim he can speak it. He spent his spare time in New Guinea during .the last war studying Micronesian dialects. He picked up others in the Philippines.
Has Fish Named for Him . WHEN THE United States recognized Russia fn 1934, Gen. White was named assistant military attache. An ardent angler, he fished all over Russia, In those days, the Reds im-
IDEAS . . . By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Letters Show Common Sense
SOME OF the sanest comments in the daily newspapers appear in the public forum columns. People express themselves on all sorts of issues. The wide variety of opinion adds spice to our reading. : Sometimes I wonder whether we appreciate the privilege of living in a country where any subscriber can “bawl out” the editor when he feels like it. It's one way of getting your
money's worth and a vast number of men and®
women seem to enjoy it. They write about political, social and religious matters, get their 2 cents worth in on community issues and carry on debates as lively as a circus performance, Now and then, crackpot ideas show up. But in the main, the letters from readers prove that the people possess common sense and wit. Certainly they do not fit the description so often given them by writers and politiclans—which leaves the impression that they are an unthinking mass ready to believe anything the demagogs wish to tell them.
Can Get a Hearing
ONE MUST be invited to appear on radio or television. But for the price of a 3-cent stamp, any citizen may say what he thinks if he will take the trouble to write to his newspaper. He doesn’t have to be well known or influential, So long as his letter is rational and signed, he gets a public hearing. « Now and then these letters carry valuable suggestions which deserve editorial comment and wide publicity. For example, the following paragraph, lifted from a West Coast paper: “I wish that Congress had men with enough courage to submit an amendment to the Constitution, forbidding any President to take part in a political campaign of any sort. He is being paid by all of us to serve his country, as its chief executive and not as a party politician.”
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posed no restrictions, Later, he served as military attache in Greece and Italy. In 1940, he became military attache in Rio de Janejro and chief of the U. 8. Air Mission to Brazil. Gen. White is an internationally recognized ichthyologist and spent much time exploring jungle streams. Brazillans recently named a fish—which he discovered—after Gen, White. During the war, he served as director of intelligence and later fought in New Guinea and the southern Philippines. As commander of the Tth Air Force, based on Saipan, he helped carry the final air war to Japan. From 1946 until ‘1948 he commanded the Far East Afr Force in Tokyo. After serving with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a member of their Strategic Survey Committee, he became deputy Shief of the Air Staff for operations in July, 1951. ven. and Mrs. White live at Ft. Meyer, Va. He was born in Walker, Minn, Aug. 6, 1901, the son of a Methodist bishop ot
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Depression or War MR. EDITOR:
Joseph N. Mardis, in trying to defend Democrat wars, tells us: “By the time Roosevelt was in office the Japs could not be stopped Shon of war’ as he tried so hard to accomplish.”
That is not the way I heard it. Japan at-
tacked China July 7, 1937, and if Roosevelt had done his duty and enforced the Neutrality Law, all shipments of munitions would have stopped at once. Actually, in 1939 and 1940 we sent about $465 million of goods to Japan and $111 million to China. On Sept. 6, 1941, Prime Minister Konoye in=vited our Ambassador to dinner and in great frankness revealed the plight of his country and begged McGrew to arrange a conference for him with Roosevelt and assured McGrew in advance he would make such far-reaching concessions that Roosevelt could not turn it down. Roose= velt never even answered the offer and on Oct. 16, Konoye’s government fell. : Actually, on Nov. 25, 1941, Roosevelt held a Cabinet meeting and according to the pitiful diary of Stimson, Roosevelt said: “Our job Is to get them to attack us without getting too badly hurt ourselves.” All this after he had promised the mothers of America he wouldn't send their sons to fight a foreign war.
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MARDIS goes on tell us: “If the Repub« licans had not wrecked the League of Nations in 1920 and had allowed this country to become a member, World War II would not have happened.” Just how do you happen to know World War IT wouldn't have happened if we had joined the League of Nations? This foreign entanglement called the United Nations is one of the reasons we are fighting our third largest war in Korea today and the United Nations doesn’t seem to be able to stop aggression. There is every reason to believe the old League of Nations would have been more likely to get us into war than keep us out of it. Why shouldn't they be called Democrat wars when ‘they haven't been able tor make their philosophy of government work as a peacetime economy and had to take us into war to keep the country from going completely on the rocks
as it did under Grover Cleveland's administration?
AND YOU can put this one down, too. If Adlai is elected it will mean either depression or another Democrat war.
—C. D. C., Terre Haute,
Merits Praise MR. EDITOR:
Your recent article about the civility of the Georgia state patrolmen struck home to us as we have a son on that patrol. It is true that every officer's conduct speaks well for the state and for the troopers who are very courteous even in making arrests. My son’s wife writes that the day they received the article I had sent that he had stopped a lady driving on a beginner's license and told her of something she did wrong for which she thanked him. ‘My son had received a few days before, a copy of letter received at headquarters from a man who commended Trooper Douglas on his ablity to catch his car 40 minutes after it was stolen. w
—Mrs. L. R. Douglas, 1142 Park Ave., City.
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