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Give IAght and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way

You, Too, Adlai HEN Sen. Nixon's expense fund was revealed, we said: “It is not sound policy for any public official to accept a subsidy’ from any source other than the income he is provided by law.” Later we said that Mr. Nixon must place his case— ‘the whole case-—before the court of public opinion, and await the verdict. We feel the same about Gov. Stevenson's political funds. It now turns out there were two of them. Sen. Nixon has released a list of all the contributors to his fund, by name and amounts paid. He has released

a certified public accountant’s report on how and for what

purposes and to whom the money was paid. : He has gone farther, and has spoken to a nation-wide television and radio audience telling about his intimate family finances. Gov. Stevenson now says he will not tell the people about his funds. We didn’t question Sen. Nixon's motives, and we don’t question Gov. Stevenson's. But we think they are practically in the same boat. In some ways _Gov. Stevenson's funds are leas defensible. . They are on a& par in that the Governor used some of the money to buy candy for school children, a political expenditure that is much the same as the Senator using expense money to send out Christmas cards. money to make political trips back to California, and Gov. Stevenson used his fund for travel expenses to address the Herald-Tribune Forum in New York. nq But on the record, thus far, none of the Nixon expense money went into the Senator's pocket, nor into the pockets of anyone else except in pay for travel, postage, stationery, secretarial help, etc., for political work. Yet, by the Governor's own admission, the first Stevenson fund was primarily for the purpose of supplementing the income of Illinois state officials. They were Christmas bonuses, as the Governor described them, to try in part to compensate state officials who had given up betterpaid outside jobs. oF The other fund, according to new charges by a former Stevenson aid, was mainly political, as was Sen. Nixon's. Gov. Stevenson refuses to tell what public official received the money. He has not told who contributed the money. He has not told even how large the first fund is. Ho didn even mention the second, and even more personal, We know all those things about the Nixon fund, who paid how much, who got how much, for what purpose, and the totals down to the last cent—received, $18,235; paid out, $18,168.87; balance on hand, $66.13. We do not think the American people will, or should, opt. the Governor's refusal to lay all his cards, and es, and figures, on the table. Ls

How Many Votes? FL LEADERS have been up to their necks in Demoeratic politics for several years now. Their delegates had veto power at the Democrats’ Chicago convention and were in fact instrumental in choosing the Stevenson-Spark-man ticket. In both the 1948 and 1950 elections, the AFL publicized widely its “black list” of senators and congressmen who voted for the Taft-Hartley Act and urged their defeat. Few of them were defeated. In Ohio in 1950, the AFL chiefs and their fellow union leaders made a thunderous effort to “purge” Sen. Robert A. Taft — and failed so miserably that the Senator carried all but four of the 88 counties, among them many “labor strongholds.” Labor union members, like other free Americans, vote as they please. Gov. Stevenson, by calling for repeal of the

. Taft-Hartley Act, obviously convinced the labor bosses

that he is the man of the hour, but whether he persuaded any voters is yet to be shown.

The Widening ‘Cracks’

IN THE UPROAR over expense accounts for senators and governors, some other doings in Washington are not getting their fair share of public attention. One of them is the report of the Senate Agriculture Committee on its investigation of the grain-storage program, under the motherly wing of Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, When the leaks in this program first were being exposed last spring, Mr. Brannan remarked: “It's awful hard to spell out a case of scandal in the Agriculture Department.” : te Senate Committee has just shown it wasn't hard at all.

~ They are on a par in that Sen. Nixon used some of the .

BATTLE OF EUROPE . . . By Ludwell Denny

Double Defeat Won't End Stalin’s Cold War

WASHINGTON—Stalin has just suffered a double .defeat in the European cold war, but the battle is not over.

The Allied note delivered to Moscow Tuesday

night rejects his trick proposal for a Big Four conference on German unification and a peace treaty, and insists on discussing free elections first. His Fast German satellite delegation, which went to West Germany hoping to start unity negotiations on Soviet terms, has been coldly received and sent home ahead of schedule. There never has been the slightest chance of American agreement to Soviet terms. Therefore no Big Four conference could succeed unless Stalin had given up his major goal of controlling all Germany. And there is no sign of that whatever. Such being the case, the exchange of notes of the past six months has been for an entirely different purpose than the nominal objective of a peace conference. Stalin's aim has been to eliminate the twin barriers to Soviet control of Germany-—united Allled-German defénse—and West German distrust of Russia. The Allied purpose has been to strengthen those barriers.

REVIVED . . . By Chester Potter

‘D. C. Scandals’ In New Dress

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25— “Washington Scandals and Scoundrels,” a standing room only hit when presented by the King Committee, is new being revived here by the Che!'f Committee. There are variations in the plot, but some of the characters are the same, and some of the same are characters. The plot is vastly more complicated than appears to the casual observer. There are byplays which seem to mean one thing but which, as the show progresses, may mean much more.

" One thing that has come out quite plainly is

that some of the cast don't like our colleagues, all of whom have worked for or are working for the federal government. :

Caudle a ‘Recent Star’

THE CHELF COMMITTEE has as its recent ar Theron Lamar Caudle, the former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department tax division. Mr. Caudle was fired by President Truman last November. That was when the King Committee, investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau, cast Mr. Caudle in the role of a ‘villian of the piece.” Mr. Caudle looked very bad. He is deeply grateful that he has been given another chance to show, as he always insisted, that he hadn't done anything wrong but was “used” by associates and so-called friends. But he has been very careful not to put the finger on anyone directly. He is letting the inferences be drawn, but he has not yet come out and said so-and-so ever told me to do this or not do that. With possibly one exception: He has said that when Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark was Attorney General, he was ordered by Mr. Clark to drop prosecution of an Office of Price Administration (OPA) case after Clyde Hoey, then Senator-elect from North Carolina, had gone to Mr. Clark in behalf of the man the OPA was after. Mr, Hoey was attorney for the man under investigation.

Hit at Skulduggery

IT SEEMS apparent the committee believes there was skulduggery in the Justice Department while Justice Clark was the Attorney General. : Mr. Caudle said things which indicated that Mr. Clark, as Attorney General, by-passed Mr. Caudle when Mr. Caudle headed the criminal division and took cases out of his control, the said cases later fizzling. He has testified that Peyton Ford, Deputy Attorney General under Mr. Clark, detoured him away from a tax fraud case, going so far as to have Mr. Caudle’s own subordinate report directly to Mr. Ford. He has testified that Rep. Pat Sutton (D. Tenn.) told him that, in 1949, Mr. Ford, former Democratic Chairman William M. Boyle Jr. and others decided at a meeting that Mr. Caudle had to be put on the skids. Knowledge of that didn’t make Mr. Caudle very happy. He testified that he wanted to resign but was persuaded not to by other friends in the administration. He stayed — to be fired by Mr. Truman for “incompatible outside activities.”

Says Probe Sidetracked

MR. CAUDLE went into great detail as he told how the Kansas City vote fraud investigation was sidetracked while he headed the criminal division and Justice Clark was the Attorney General, He said that one night he went to Mr. Clark's home with all the case records. The heat went off in the Clark home, he said. So, he and the Attorney General wrapped blankets around their shoulders, sat on the floor like a couple of Indians and waded through the files until a. m. > Yet Mr. Clark refused — “though I begged him many times” — to let Mr. Caudle testify before an investigating committee, headed by Sen. Homer Ferguson (D. Mich.). After that, he said the files were taken out of his office by Mr. Ford and he never saw them again. ; en Another case which he was never permitted to handle, he testified, was the Amerasia stolen documents scandal, which fizzled out because of what many people called poor prosecution. Mr. Caudle said he also was by-passed by Mr. Ford in a tax fraud case, and that he was not fully informed on what went on in the St. Louis grand jury investigation which eventually resulted in the conviction of Revenue Collector James P, Finnegan, a Truman crony.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

So the Soviet notes, though addressed to the three Allied governments, have been directed in fact to neutralist opinion in the Allied countries and Germany. Likewise the Allied replies, while addressed to Moscow, have been aimed at the wavering opinion in Europe—especially in Germany and France. The immediate stake in this battle of Allied education versus Soviet propaganda is West German rearmament as part of, the projected European army under the Atlantic Paét commander. To prevent this Stalin either must

split the Allies or keep West Germany from joining them.

Is That Stop on Your List?

His best chance of dividing the Allies is to

‘turn Hurope's war-wariness, fear of Russian

military victory and distrust of Germany, into public demand for an appeasement “peace” settlement. Such sentiment is already strong in France, and is growing among the Bevan left wing laborites in Britain. His opportunity to turn West Germans against an alliance with NATO is to persuade them that this would destroy their hope of reuniting their dismembered country, and lead to an eventual war of extermination. Hence his wooing of the Germhns with proposals for a peace treaty with a United Germany, having its own “neutral” army. ’

HORRID TALE . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Wives Can Read and Ponder Well The Moral of Mink Coat Story

WASHINGTON—This, I think, is the final, definite story of the old, sweet thing's mink coat. Let every wife read it with care and ponder well its moral.

For a year, on and off, T. Lamar Caudle has been telling under oath about a mink that helped lose him his job as assistant attorney general. Now, having thought over the subject of mink and its aftermath, comes Mr. Caudle to tell another congressional committee in accents syrupy southern the horrid tale in full.

“Mrs. Caudle always wanted a decent coat,” began her embattled husband. “For 24 years she wanted a mink, but God kept giving us children and she just couldn't afford one. *Then she inherited some money and she wanted to buy this coat. I pleaded with her. I told the sweet thing I wished she wouldn't. It wouldn't look right on the wife of a tax official. We argued about it. 3 “Then she went to New York and saw the wife of Jacob Landau (an attorney specializing in income tax matters). They shopped all over town trying to find a bargain in a mink. They must have gone to six different stores.

There Was a Coat

“MRS. LANDAU introduced Mrs. Caudle to Joseph Maher, who took them to another furrier and there was a coat that had already been made up for somebody else. It was cold and it fitted her reasonably well and she phoned me in Washington, all excited.

“I joined her in New York on the week end and she still was all excited. She could get this coat for $2400. I told her that was too much for any kind of coat. So we got the coat and paid down $900 and later Mr. Landau wanted the rest of the money and Mrs. Caudle sent him a check for $1500. I wanted a receipt, but I never did get it. : “Then Mr. Landau phoned and said Mrs,

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Caudle still owed him $900. She busted out crying and said she'd already paid $2400. I told her, just pay the man the money. She sent him another check. That made the coat cost $3300. “She was very indignant. This was the most overpriced coat there ever was. Every time I'd pick up a newspaper or a magazine there'd be mink running all over the cartoons. In Time magazine they called me the mink man. It was mink, mink, mink, everywhere I looked. “And now the poor, old thing never will wear that coat again. She loved that coat like she did her first child. She wouldn’t check it at a restaurant. But she'd hang it over the back of her chair.

All This Yah-Yah

“SHE'D PET IT like you would a baby. And then all this yah-yah came up. And now look.” Mr. Caudle sighed. Only happy thing about that mink episode was his week end with his wife before they bought it. He took her to the horse races at Jamaica where a handicapper he knew recommended a horse that couldn't lose, “I bet $90 on that horse, more than I'd ever bet before in my life,” he said. “Mrs. Caudle bet another $30. Then the management invited us upstairs to view the race from the steward’s box.. The horse stumbled getting away and I just squeezed the ticket in my- hand. Then all of a sudden that horse got out in front and won the race by about six lengths, and this was the finest horse race I ever saw. We won about $900 and thaf was the money we paid down on that everlasting mink.” Mr. Caudle sighed again and, let us hope, for the last time in public. The committee of Rep. Frank L. Chelf (D. Ky.) excused him shortly thereafter and Mr. Caudle headed for North Carolina. I doubt if we hear much more about the mink, or T. Lamar, either. Just as well. I've heard enough; I imagine America’s mink-coveting wives have, too.

Yesterday's Allied note, like the eaflier exposes the Stalin trickery in a simple which West Germans should be able stand. It says there can be German a peace treaty just as soon as Stalin free elections for an All-German government, and that the Allies are ready for a conference at once to discuss an impartial commission to create conditions necessary for those free elec

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THE West Germans know that free elections are impossible in the Soviet Zone. They also ‘know that Stalin has refused admittance to the Soviet Zone of the United Nations Investigating Commission proposed for that purpose by their own freely elected West German parliament, That leaves Stalin on the hook. But, while the West Germans now distrust Stalin's phony offer, they still are hesitant over ratification of the Allled-Bonn pact signed by their government.

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Hoosier Forum

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

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Says lke Deceives Women MR. EDITOR: It was apparent that Gen. Ike used the same tactics in his speech here in Indianapolis that Atta Boy Jenner and Capehart have used to deceive the average voter. These boys get theif speechmaking by imitating the old half-gallused hillbilly country preacher down in the limestone counties around Bedford who preach hell-fire and brimstone to the ignorant to make ‘em good, They bow and kneel and work up such a lather saying nothing that one would think they'd blow a tonsil. They add a long list of the most glamorous adjectives, rhythm and euphony— why they could chant their speeches—and when their speech is analyzed, it's nothing. I resent the ignorance of the old time-worn slogan: “A new broom sweeps clean.” They are

" trying to appeal to the ignorant housewives. Do

you ladies know something? The old guard still think the women should stay home—not vote— and use a broom. The old guard is so far behind the worhen voters of this country they can run their legs off and can't keep up. What the old guard wants to use is a vacuum that will take away everything good we have acquired in the past 20 years. Let's be smart, throw the old fashioned broom at them, use our vacuum to

. clean up our homes, vote for Stevenson and

“Don’t let them take it away.” —Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City.

Protests Beating

MR. EDITOR: What a shocking and disgraceful affair the beating up of Pear! Bailey was, as recorded in Sept. 16 papers. Uncivilized people who behave in this manner should be put in cages as other animals are. Why leave them free to impose their barbarous behavior on law-abiding Americans? It's time the federal government moved up East where this occurred. The federal government has been doing & fine job in the South in handling such beasts, but it seems other parts of the country are having these un-American happenings too, and in this highly cultural age, too. I just can’t understand a thing like this happening here in Amerfca. We had better start practicing more brotherly love here at home, hadn't we? How can we ever hope to achieve peace when we have such mean, low down people amongst us?: No wonder there are wars, and wars there will be when Americans behave in such an uncouth

fashion. —Imogene Ray, City.

A Little Bit of Inflation

MR. EDITOR: Now I ‘have heard everything. High public, officials declare that American people like a little bit of inflation. I never would have thought that the intelligence and patience of the public could be challenged in that frivolous way. What does a little bit of an inflation mean? It means that the value of savings is reduced by 5 or 10°per cent yearly.

The prices are going up at the same rate, but

except for certain groups, the wages and pensions rise much less, in many cases not at all: Who profits by these’ losses of large layers. of the public? Whoever uses the bank credits for business and speculation purposes paying back less values than received. This is the true picture of a little bit of inflation. I feel that it is unfair to make believe that the American people like just that.

—A. 8, City.

‘PRAY TELL ME'

Please tell me dearest how I may . . . begin to win your heart . . . pray tell me if I have a chance . . . to aim Dan Cupid's dart . . . don’t leave me drifting all at sea . . . and lost in your caress . . . but tell me if I have a chance « + » to share your happiness . . . do I fit in with secret dreams . . . that haunt you with delight + «.and am I the only one . . . who holds you very tight . . . am I'the answer to your prayers + « . for someone good and true . . . oh tell me darling and yowll give . . . my skies a rosy hue . . . I want to know my sweetheart dear + « « before it is too late . . . so speak the words I long to hear .., the answer to my fate. —By Ben Burroughs.

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© Green Fireballs Man-Made, Expert Thinks

In a 43-page report, the committee says $10 million

worth of government-owned grain has been stolen because of poor management by Mr. Brannan's department. Mr. Brannan originally estimated, after the comptroller general tipped off Congress that the government's grain was disappearing, that the total loss would run to $5 million. -This, said Mr. Brannan, was nothing much to worry about, since $5 million worth of grain, as the secretary put it, “could -almost slip through the cracks in the floor.”

Note to Jefferson Democrats “Y AM NOT a federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not goto heaven but with a party. I would not go there at all.” : Thomas Jefferson, who wrote this to Francis Hopkin. son in 1789, doubtless today would be equally unwilling: to go to hell with a party—even his own.

Your Vote Counts YOUR VOTE counts, even if you don’t go to the polls; it counts just the opposite of the way you would have The privilege and the duty of voting is more important this year than ever before—and it is true as always that bad officials are elected by good citizens who fail to vote.

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ALBUQUERQUE—The man who knows green fireballs best (without being in on the secret) leans to a theory they are man made. Dr. Lincoln Lapaz of the University of New Mexico, head of the world’s only Institute of Meteoritics (unless the Rus‘sians have one), has taken this tack in his-thinking at the risk of: ONE — Disappointing living voyagers of outer space, or TWO—Throwing a scare into folks with the idea that the Russians may have been drawing a fireball bead on ‘our atomic Southwest, or THREE—Lulling others into a conclusion that U. 8. scientists have been pitching those Kelly green flashers. Dr. Lapaz, a phenomenon " himself of briskness ‘and enthusiasm, doesn't. talk about flying saucers. Not his line. All the saucer reports. that get mixed into meteoritic and fireball matters, he passes on to the proper authorities.

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pro) doesn’t tell all he has learned. For example, he's mum on the velocity and altitude of the green fireballs (or at least the one he personally saw). He feels security bound not to disclose these calculations because of the “classified” auspices under which they were made.

As Dr. Lapaz explains, he is working closely with military intelligence. So far as official interest goes, there's no telling whether it's real or pretended. But it would surprise Dr. Lapaz if government hadn't already taken spectrograph readings of the hurtling yel-lowish-green blobs and come up, secretly, with an appraisal of their substance—if they haven't known it all along. ” - » THE COLOR of the fireballs, as described by non-mili-tary witnesses, suggests a copper—or uranium-—content. ' A woman drove 60 miles to tell Dr. Lapaz a a fireball and fingered - Kelly green scarf to indicate color. Sometimes it is des¢ribed as

“copper green” or “neon green.” These color says Dr. Lapaz, distinguish the post-war n fireballs

Other standout differences: prodigious and relatively constant light turned suddenly on and off; the noiselessness of

passage of such indicated masses through the earth's atmosphere (they should sound like a jet buzz job); a straightline flight, rather than the usual curving meteoric path; the concentration as to time of material traces after impact, if any. ~ ” . IRON is the most ordinary metal found in meteors and meteorites. Copper is the rarest. Ordinary fireballs or ‘“shooting stars” thus burn white, blue white or even blue green, says Dr. Lapaz—bidt never yellowish green. Dr, Lapaz is impatient with people who without seeing one, call green fireballs ordinary meteorites. He has observed 11,000 ordinary meteoric showers and knows the difference. Most of the fireball sightings have been in the southwestern U. 8. area roughly bounded by the Texas-New Mexico line on the east, the Pacific Coast on the West, Las Cruces, N, M,, on the south and Wyoming on the north. .

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THE SIGHTINGS have been between 8 and 10 p.m. with the greatest concentration around 9 o'clock. Most ordinary meteor showers occur after midnight. : I asked Dr. Lapag to tell me what pdint in his thinking he started to consider the green fireballs as possibly man made, It was on reading an article by Col. C.H. Lanza In the Field Artillery Journal, he . said. The article discussed. green fifeballs sighted over the Baltic and Sweden as long ago as 1946. The possible explanation there was that the Russians were testing guided : missiles, using knowledge and ° materials, captured from the Germand.” ; There is evidence that the Germans had been using copperberylium alloys for their

missiles. Copper nitrate in the | flagge of a bunsen burner glows Kelly green,