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WASHINGTON — A former State Department lawyer has been forbiddén to appear as an attorney before the departmént's International Claims Commission on the ground that his

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Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1952

lke Can Win

INCE the two party conventions, there has been a lot of more or less harmless sparring around over local and sectional issues. But there has been more fog than. light on the real questions of vital concern to the vast ma-

jority of the American people.

Now with the traditional period at hand when presidential campaigns move into high gear, Gen. Eisenhower should ignore the opposition party's red herrings and take

the offensive.

i First among ‘the issues crying for attention is high

prices.

isn’t reversed. » » - ul

THIS ISSUE is made to order for Ike, for his opponent belongs to the Roosevelt-Truman school, and has given

Illinois the biggest budget -in its history. Corruption in government—

Naturally, Gov. Stevenson would rather have Ike talk about Sen. McCarthy than Jake (Greasy Thumb) Guzik, the Capone gangster who settled an $890,000 tax claim for

11 cents on the dollar,

How many citizens of the United States have been able to settle the tax claims against them at that ratio? Only a few of the big boys—including gangsters and members of the Kansas City and St. Louis political machines, who knew

the right people. Preparedness—

In the 26 months since the Korean War began, Congress has voted billions of dollars to build a bigger Air

Force.

But today we have fewer combat planes than we had when the war began. That statement has been documented by a Senate committee, a majority of whose members are

Democrats.

The committee found bad planning, neglected warnings, abuses and waste and “a general refusal on the part of our governmental agencies to pull together or work together in a dedicated way to strengthen our air arsenal.” . » - - 5 WHEN government ceases to function, it must be changed. The election of Gen. Eisenhower offers the only hope for that. We could not expect much of a change from Gov. Stevenson, -himself a graduate of our discredited

State Depattment.

“You've never had it so good,” the Democrats say. But we are living in a fool's paradise. A dollar never bought so little, as it does today. In pursuing the Truman doctrine of spending our way into prosperity, we find ourselves spending ourselves into debt and mounting taxes. We'll spend ourselves right into another depression if the trend

Finally, there is the Russian problem. On that issue, Gov. Stevenson stands where President Roosevelt did at Yalta, and where President Truman did at Potsdam.

erty by the Tito regime. ; He also had a file of all the correspondence in these cases. In December, 1950, he resigned from the department, set up a law office here. He then got

195 clients seeking compensation from a $17 mil-

lion fund established by the Yugoslavs for disbursement by the State Department to satisfy claims of Americans. :

Facts in thie Herman case became public

when he filed suit in Federal Court here to set aside the claims commission decision that he is ineligible to handle cases before the commission. - : No violation of law is charged.

No General Law Applies

THE U, 8. criminal code bars government officials, for two years after leaving federal service, from representing, ¢laims against the government which they handled during their federal careers. But Mr. Herman and his attorneys make the point—which the State Department concedes--that the money Mr. Herman is trying to get for his clients belongs to Yugoslavia and is only in the custody of the U, 8, government, _. There is also a specific claims commission ruling which bars any of its employees from handling a claim he had knowledge of until he has been out of government service for two years. come But Mr. Herman was never on the commission payroll, although he helped negotiate the Yugoslav Treaty establishing the $17 million fund, helped draft a law creating the claims commission and remained in the State Department, working alongside the commission, for eight months after it was established. Since the general law and the specific commission rule failed to apply to Mr. Herman the claims commission fell back on ‘another provision in its rules. : This provision allows exclusion of lawyers who violate professional ethics. Mr. Herman is charged with “soliciting” clients and “breeding litigation” in disregard to the Amercan Bar Association canon of ethics. Among specific acts charged against him are that, after leaving federal service, he ‘sent out an announcement to 1000 addressees Iisting himself as the department's “former assistant legal adviser for international claims’—a nonexistent title, though descriptive of Mr. Herman’s work. Also that he wrote letters offering his services on a 10 per cent fee basid (the maximum allowed by law) to potential clients “with whom he had no previous personal relations.”

Declines to Testify

IN THE hearings conducted by the claims commission, Mr. Herman declined to testify or cross-examine witnesses. In his court action, he accuses the commission of “bias.” He charges that two of the commissioners, Chairman Josiah Marvel Jr. and Raymond 8. McKeough, held injudicial private conferences with the commission's General Counsel, Peter G. Connolly, Finally, he says the whole proceedings against him failed to give him the legal protection to which he was entitled. The State Department says the proceedings substantially complied with the law but withheld naming the date after which Mr. Herman can’t=practice before the commission until Mr.

Herman had a chance to test the ruling in court.

ROVING ICEBOX . .. By Frederick C. Othman

Funnyman W. C. Fields Far Ahead In Invention for Male Comfort

WASHINGTON — Practically everybody has an electric icebox. That's not exactly news, but it does explain why one of America's leading refrigerator manufacturers has in production the portable refrigerator. The idea is that every home should have two iceboxes; one in the kitchen for the left-over hash, the other in the living room for when a fellow wants a glass of lemonade in a hurry. This living-room model comes in mahogany finish at $149.50 and in blond or white for. $10 extra. I trust the manufacturers of this new-day necessity earn a fortune from it, but I hasten to point out that somebody else had the idea first: The late, great W. C. Fields, who was regarded by many (including me) as the funniest man who ever lived. He also was a housekeeper, with some thoughts on comfort the womenfolk of this land would be wise to consider. There’d be fewer bachelors.

Fieldsian Snarl

' IN THE long ago, when I was a Hollywood correspondent writing pieces about actors, it was my pleasure to call at frequent intervals at the

vast, Spanish-type mansion the mighty Fields

called home. On the front door was a box with a loudspeaker in it; ring the bell and this box would snarl, via microphone from wherever mine host was taking his ease, “Who's there?” Then

husbands in his house looked for ash trays. They never found ‘em. He didn’t have any. All

men with backbone, he continued, should realize.

the floor was the proper place for ashes.

Wives, Please Note

SO I relaxed and flipped 'em on the rug; a real satisfaction (wives, please note). Fields said maybe I'd like a small noggin of lemonade. He put two fingers in mouth and produced a shrieking whistle. ! In came a blonde lovely, wheeling on four rubber tires like those on a baby buggy a‘large electric refrigerator, painted black and decorated with gold curlicues. The power cord snaked out behind it. The blonde, identified as the great man’s secretary, opened the door, revealing row after row of frosty glasses, holding his lemonade. This largely seemed to be composed of gin and vermouth, but he insisted it also contained a twist of lemon peel. 3 This refrigerator, the present-day manufacturers will be interested to know, Fields designed and built, himself, Wherever he went, it followed him. For 10 years I've been wanting such a perambulating icebox. Now it’s going on sale and I trust for sentiment’s sake each chest bears on a golden medallion the portrait of its inventor.

is the one finally at fault.” In the first place, I think that Sen. Brewster should consider that the political parties of this nation have not offered any intelligent leadership and what we have had has been handpicked by the politicians and not the people, who should be free to nominate and elect those in office. As long as the people of this natioh are given the lesser of two evils to vote for we shall have a decline in voting. \ After having seen the conventions which were held in Chicago, it takes a lot of courage to blame the average citizen. We have one party that spends and gives things to every one that wants it, and we have another party who wants power and doesn’t want to give anything to anyone except themselves. How do you expect any people of any nation to vote for this type of leadership? 1To get the voters to vote yodl have to offer something to vote for and this has not been done by either or any political party ih the past 30

years. —N. 8, City

‘What Is Best’

MR. EDITOR: ; I listened to the Republican and Democratic conventions over my radio. It was very amus-, ing. Plenty of confusion, which left me feeling: ashamed of the majority of us who have ‘so,

little interest in how our government affairs are:

run in this great land of ours. Let us turn back the pages of time. In the beginning God created the earth and then: created man as caretakers. Are we doing a very good job of.it? Is this great country improved by you and me living in it or are We just a group of squatters, only looking after our selfish interests? \ We sit back and shun politics saying it is a dirty, crooked game. Did not you and I let it be made that kind of game? Our politicians tell us we are not capable of selecting the leader for our country, so we let them do the job for us. How about changing that rule in the conve.tion which states: “Whereas it makes no difference whom the people in the United States select as their candidate it does not count with us.” You and I are the ones that decide which of the two men is to be our leader for the next four years. Please do not throw away this privilege we have. Let's investigate these two men, then go and vote for the one with this thought in mind: That what is best for all ef us is the best forsme.

—Ray Elder, 1319 S. Lynnhurst Dr, City,

Draft Deferments MR. EDITOR: Sim? We read in the paper where fathers face the draft soon. Director Hershey claims there is nothing so sacred about fatherhood. Well, what is so sacred about a college education that he should seek deferments for so many young men each year? Men are attending colleges now who- would never dream of attending if they were not trying to escape the draft for a while. ’ N i Deferments have been lenient because draft calls have been light. You mothers of -little children had better write to Hershey before it is too late. You are the ones who will be left trying to make it alone while ¥o single men are being deferred eachyyear, of them fooling away their time ih school escape the draft.

-F. F., City.

. : % . u'd id Gov. Stevenson thinks he can do business with Stalin : The Yugoslav fund was part of $42 million Jord ET Exel via be - Ee Wh 4 Oth 5 just as Presidents Roosevelt and Truman did. “I will never i Joid seit to She vs Jor safekeeping in World tell you to quit brothering him. Otherwise, he'd a ers y= Chaarined ; fear to negotiate in good faith with the Soviet Union,” he Spsavia Wa: 3 menarchy, toue a button and the door would swing open. GEN. (DWIGHT) EISENHOWER intend gr ’ All without the great man ever moving from : ntends to MR. EDITOR: <

said at Grand Rapids. In May, before he became a candidate, he said much more than that at San Francisco. We must find bases for bargaining, he said. We must be pre-

pared to make concessions, he.gaid.

Gen. Eisenhower should force Gov. Stevenson to explain what concessions he has in mind. Would he concede more territory to Stalin, more people to be enslaved? And there are many, many, other issues likewise ready-

made for “No-Deal” Ike.

If he presses his advantages, Ike can win.

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PREACH AND PRACTICE

NO DOUBT you've all met people who . . . give out with much désire . . . on how to do Just this or that . . . or what is bad or nice + + « they freely give of all they know . . . oh gosh how they can squawk . . . it seems to me as if they just . . . delight in their own talk . . . they give us codes by which to live « «. and some are more than true . . . in fact they even talk of things . . . that none of us can do . . . but when it comes to taking « + « the advice they try to teach . . . you'll find they hardly ever try . . . to practice’ what. they preach. —By Ben Burroughs.

his seat. His beamed living room was furnished with a mammoth Oriental rug, a regulation billiard table with chromium legs, and a row of high chairs with foot rests, such as still may be found in old-fashioned pool halls, These chairs, said Fields, were the only really comfortable ones ever designed. His pool ‘table was not so much for playing purposes, but to make the chairs fit into the decor. So there we were sitting up high one afternoon, smoking his

cigars. The ash on mine grew longer and longer. *

: He noticed me looking around nervously. ‘Son,” sald he, “I can see you are a married man.”

How, I wondered, did he know? He said all

unite all elements of the Republican Party. There are going to be no grudges.—GOP vicepresidential nominee Richard Nixon. PA HE (Gen. Douglas MacArthur) should have the decency to resign his Army rank. He is of no value whatever to the Army.—Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. N. Y.). hu I AM undertaking an assignment I did not ask for. I hope I can do it well.—Democratic presidential nominee Adial Stevenson. L Sb I WAS fed up with this utter hypocrisy. We walked out.—United. Nations chief truce négotiator Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison.

It would be fair to answer a Sunday Times editor in his own lingo by saying that he gave ADA a real boost in his recent vehement attack. The argument is equally logical coming or oing. i 8 As a teacher, I am chagrined to find that the school did not convince all our small bays of the utter futility of making faces and calling names. I have long been a subscriber of The Times because I thought it maintained a high standard of fairness and of dignity. Indeed you must continue to point out the errors and evils of our times, but please continue to do so with a mature technique of fact, and reason, free from bias and, malice.

~Lula B. Hoss, 4040 N. Illinois St., City,

nited pps-How ice and Audi Boress of Cireulation % eral service was “unethical”. . I should like to take issue with an article Price In Marion County p cents a copy for daily and 0c The lawyer is Samuel Herman, 44. I read fi hich 8 B ster stated: “The J guia and Joc ead in whic en. Brew. lg IS OR 18 "ud rates In indiana From 1947 to 1950, he worked in the State teady decline in the percentage of American Offering & Suny $5.00; ot Hd HR possessions. Cabads 808 Department legal adviser’s office in the field of sheacy disturbs all students of the his- ‘ tories 8 h Uexico daily $1.70 s month Sunday 108 8 copy © claims against Central European governments, participation disturbs all stu b than 150 c Telephone PL aza 5551 As part of his job, he had possession of a con- torical evolution of democracies into dictator. Riche of 4 En : fidential list drawn up in May, 1950, of all ships. Political parties and organizations must Saturdavs. Give LAght and the People Will Fins Ther Own Wey = Americans seeking reimbursement from the share responsibility for failing to command the i Yugoslav government for seizure of their prop- confidence of the voters. But the average citizen Registrati 0 0

Keynote for the School Year

HERE has never been any lack of amateur critics of schools and teachers since the taxpayers of ancient Athens hushed Socrates with a cup of poison, and we've noted no special shortage of them in modern Indianapolis,

STRATEGIC AREA .. . By Ludwell Denny

No ‘Blank Check’ Deal

TRADE UNIONS . . . By R. H. Shackford SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith Purge of Red Members —

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either.

On the whole, though, it has seemed to us that the Indianapolis public school system is conscientiously and effectively carrying out a fine, sound program of elemehtary education that has the confidence and the indorsement of

most of the people in town.

That program was very clearly outlined by Supt. H. L. Shibler yesterday in his address to the 2550 teachers who today take up again the job of a new school year, and we wish a good many thousands of parents might have

heard it, too.:

. the community want them to be and do.

TO A GREAT DEGREE our schools community itself.

We hear very little here of the hubbub that has arisen in some communities over the “teaching” of such things as socialism or communism in the schools. Yet Indianapolis school children learn about such things, as they certainly The difference is that they are given information, not indoctrination, that they learn in “an atmosphere free from’ bias and prejudice” and that they . start with a background of moral and spiritual values that

should, in school.

is not readily shaken.

Dr. Shibler's “keynote” address, indeed, contained a

Far from ignoring critics, Dr. Shibler rather invites them to have their say. The schools, he reminded the teachers, belong to the people, the people have every right to know and understand exactly what the schools are

doing—and they can only be, and do, what the people of

do refiget the

May Come Too Late

MARGATE, England—Communist influence in Britain's labor unions is the biggest issue in this annual conference of the Trades Union Congress. It isn’t on the agenda as

such. But it's there in a big:

way behind the two biggest agenda items — wages and rearmament, rr

British trade unions have never yet faced up to the Communist issue. There has never been a purge Qf leadership. Responsible non - Communist leaders now are becoming alarmed at Communist influence. But there's no evidence that they are prepared to force a showdown, Leadership of the Congress —the central organ of British trade unionism, with which most unions are affiliated— is extraordinarily conservative, But Communist influence is serious in all affiliated unions, even up to top leadership in such as the electrical trades and foundry workers unions. - n ~

MOST of Britain's union members are hardheaded, hard - working non - Communists.- But, as in America, they're apathetic about union machinery. They pay their dues and let others run the show-—leaving the fleld wide

tling Bessie—a member of Parliament from Liverpool, a far Left-winger in the Socialist Party but anti-Bevanite, and a Communist herself until 1924, but now the Reds’ implacable foe. Mrs. Braddock charged that the Labor Party is seriously in- . filtrated by Communists, that there is a Red plot to weaken Britain through the workers and—most startling—that at the Sept. 29 Socialist Party conference at Morecambe, there'll be “at least 200 hidden” Communist delegates.

She pointed to the overwhelming number of pro-Com-munist resolutions submitted for the conference from local organizations. She appealed for vigilance in the lower - echelons to rid the party of Communist influence. On the heels of Mrs. Braddock, the London Daily Mirror “exposed” the success of Communists in linking wages and rearmament and in getting unsuspecting workers to follow the Moscow line, designed to defeat Britain “wi’hout a gun fired.” ” ~ LJ THE MIRROR fis a left-Wing Socialist tabloid daily with circulation of 4.4 million, most« ly workers, It often sides with

AM U. 8. Put. ON, Cor: 198% by NEA Boric To.

"That proves it! People are crazy when they say two can live as cheaply as onel"

ship is able to steer.the unions

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really want to abandon it com-

In Iranian Oil Dispute

WASHINGTON—The United States will continue to keep the door open for a peaceful settlement of the Iranian oil dispute, but there is no plan to accept dictator Mossadegh's no-compromise terms. - American policy has not been changed by his abrupt rejection of the TrumanChurchill joint proposal without considering it. - Indeed there has been no basic alteration in Washington's attitude

since the Tehran government

nationalized the properties of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. nearly a year and a half ago. : Today, as then, Washington recognizes Iran’s right to nationalize foreign property but denies its right-to do so without compensation and due process. Meanwhile the London gov-

ernment, the majority stock- -

holder in AIOC, has greatly modified its position under American influence. But Mossadegh refuses to retreat an inch from hig illegal position. That does not endear him to officials here. » ” ” THEY CONSIDER the Tru-man-Churchill proposal of last week a hig sacrifice for Britain and extremely favorable to Iran. In that proposal, Britain

aspects of Mossadegh's rejection is that this compromise was patterned te fit: his own hints. This is not the first time; however, that he has double-

crossed American and British .

negotiators. ‘A year ago the Harriman proposal was offered " with the understanding that it would be accepted by him as'&,

basis of negotiations. Later the

World Bank negotiators had a similar experience with him.

tJ ~ ~ THE TRUMAN - CHURCHILL offer sufficiently general in nature to permit a good deal of negotiating on details if and when Mossadegh really wants to talk business. Washington is almost as anxious to save his face as is the dictator himself. For American officials—and. indeed the British also—realize that even the most favorable settlement for Iran would be hard to sell to the Extreme Nationalists, who are now apparently beyond their leader's control. : But Washington cannot compromise on the basic issue of compensation for expropriated foreign property, even if it were disposed to do seo in this case. The reason is that guch a precedent in Iran would invite similar lawlessness not only in neighboring

: . : for Communists t b Bevan but is not necessarily a ; y “keynote” of its own, which seems to us to sum up this oneror. 5°" Bevan mouthpiece. y 2 Mway Drom the Communist . pletely and then asked: groped let challenge ot as Latin A ues nd whole problem. This year's Y Congress con-~ The Mirror defined the two The prospect did ‘not sound “Is the Congress to believe ha a don ane Be on oO jeopardize all international

He said a major purpose of education is “the develop-

ference, however,’ opened in

big issues as wages and war.

too good during President Ar-

those who charge that rearma-

nicians. She offered to lift her

contractual relations.”

Saas is ; : the wake of a public contro- "Everybody wants ‘more yj Kin’ Washington is ware ment of the individual to the limit of his capacity for. versy disclosing. concern in the Wages. Most people are horri- ea did et gr So "the The at ae hw si ide La ed hin of the strategic importance of complete living.” Fane to cove wh he Com MANE cod a Sar a ty Communit drc. He waried Hie anewer was loud ‘yr' ged thre by AIO bedore ran Thi her tan th 3 If our schools do that we can ask for nothing more. funi: issue. < link the two:and say all we °° Cities of rearmament from delegates. ', hy heals. THest Yuveuii, Plus De vaaitg BY OTIAR CE o1 s o

First came a series of

have to,do to achieve Utopia is to be neutral in the cold war,

an immediate American grant

of $10 million, would replenish

ington’s- willingness to make

: articles appéaring in the Daily i extreme concessions D iv 3 l t Herald, official organ of the spend less on guns and have Barbs— T i pin Issue fof six tained in the Truman-Chureh- oA . riven 1o Secialist Jabor Movement, The ore Busters d ~ SOME folks can remember BECAUSE of one-arm.driv- tlations- on production and a Ill offer, But there is no aswr ; Trades Union Congress holds nists ave Hoi at the when a fellow proposed to a ing, many & man's love for . final settlement. + surance that giving MossaA AGGING wife, says an Iowa professor, can cause a . per cen of Jue newspaper's Orn sts are doing. irl on his knees when the a girl is shattered by a con- Conflicting compensation = degh the blank check he de- PRODUCE! man to become an alcoholic. rot Il Whey (He we ect Javues late casi even SHE Sere. + Stele DAES. claims of 1rah and the AOC Tande woula keep. lum from AMERICA'S . That's wonderful—an excuse and an explanation at the - made We ener significant gredy way wage restraint and LOTS OF women who object AT THE bathing beauty Court or Tustiee ai Ret “ = ol in an i or ; : i ; or. was Mrs. continued rearmament — will to the price of meat the shows an awful lot of it cer- tion ; : ; same time. : - Eiigabeth Braddock — Bat. i hand the go i ~ when it suited his destructive i do ; 3 za ed ock Bat- tell to what extent the leader- | butcher.a Tot of beef. tainly toes, : The most discouraging . { p - * : : : 5 he : r % 2 ; ; : * 3 oF . : - i » Sa : i o is pe i i i TR » es Pa - EY SA i, i ms Nn ab. ae ew ve a Pn i si J he 4 le i oe A ME a i 0 i Lor LT o i