| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS deep beep freeze gifts thill chill demos senate cenate kills welfare setup plan taft is target of vote drive I 1 when opinions opinion art are e in these ihne columns taj are those thone of western EDITORS no notel s unions union drw abaly inal ril t and doi bot necessarily cec farlly of DEEP deepfreeze FREEZE capitol chilled to paraphrase an old tune it was wag january in june in washington as tho the story of the gifts of the home freezer units unit unfolded and expanded finally the tha sordid angles of the S per centers operations erat ions lans reached to th the a white house housa WITNESSES before a group probing the extent and results of influence obtainable by the 11 5 per centers testified that of several deep freeze units given away by the tha manufacturers one went to mrs harry truman wife of the president of tho the united states others who apparently received k a similar gift were chief justice vinson of the US supreme court james K X vardaman maj r gen harry 11 II vaughan mr tru mans military aide in fact general vaughan got two so go the witness said in connection with that aeve development lop there was a question which it seemed should have been answered long ago by the tha man most concerned the man was president 4 truman the question was why the president declared that white house influence and prestige are not for sale cannot bo be wheedled by favorite hangers on and cannot be swayed by anything except the best interests of the people odthe of the united states ANY FAIR MINDED citizen will concede that there is no reason to think the acceptance of the gifts mentioned involved any liw law violation even though the tha company which paid the bills bill for therome the home freezers is linked with the ubiquitous john maragon and the inquiry into the activities of 1 5 per centers the mere fact of receiving personal gifts does not constitute legal offense fence of in any sense of the word it seems to be an offense against propriety it itis Is further evidence of a downward trend frond in political morals a not too now development in an these changing times on tho the evidence at hand thus far tho deep freeze affair Is not important it Is merely symptomatic ELECTIONS toft taft Is target the american federation of labor looking to the 1950 1930 congressional elections set plans or raising raiding a million dollar war c chest he st with which to knock candidates obnoxious to the organization t THE MILLION DO DOLLAR figure was the minimum offlie official ill said with a voluntary cofiori contribution of aa 2 a head to be asked ot of the federations members for or V work ork in thi the 1050 1950 campaign it was no secret that chios senator taft lall was the main target ot aitto efforts atso with thi iha second target being senator donnell it mo who was described byams by wll ilam ham green as almore more like ilka taft than anyone in the senate the per capita contribution double that oi of the organization for the 1040 1048 elections will be split evenly with the state federations whose shore share Is to be used in working at the precinct level election activity will have p an important bearing on tho the future of 0 the republican party in the nation for instance if taft should be knocked knocke d off in his race for reelection to the senate it would mean that thai dowey dewey would remain as a top figure in the GOP hierarchy on the other hand if tatt taft should win and dewey dewcy were defeated in el a bid for his third term as aa new yorks governor the party would be all tafts 1 4 SYRIA f new cabinet 1 the fighting the bloodletting blood letting i were over peace of a sort reigned I 1 in syria a after a lightning like ilka army coup that overthrew and executed president zayle the army committee which took things into its own hands was replaced by a 11 new coalition cabinet which W was as r organized by col saml hennaut 1 who headed the ahe revolution IT APPEARED that civilian rule i would predominate inasmuch as I 1 the new cabinet was composed V mostly of civilians the new government represented three cal parties and various ent groups that opposed both zaylon y k and tho the constitutional regime which fell last match march the premier is Ili hasham shim elifas el atas sy cy head of the national nation al bloc and a former president of syria WELFARE no cabinet status the senate was having none of president Tr proposal for creation of i a federal department of welfare with cabinet status A coalition of republicans and southern democrats dealt the project a pulverizing blow by a vote of 60 60 to 82 32 WITH a constitutional majority in either house able to veto any such plan the senate action meant complete and final defeat of the plan to transform the federal security agency which handles the nations education health and social security functions into a depart ment dept of welfare this proposal stemmed from tho the recommendations of the hoover commission cheh spent two years ae seeking eking ways and means to make maka government more efficient and economical no mical republican senator tatt taft denying the republicans were repudiating ting hoover in opposing a plan they believed ran counter to the hoover comm commission lIon recommendations dat ions declared 1 I believe very strongly that mr hoover was misled i this led senator lucas illinois democratic floor door leader to state that he was both shocked and surprised that the good republican from ohio would deal with mr hoover in this manner 11 THOUGHT LAW 0 1 held too brood broad the fallacy of attempting todeal to deal with ideologies through laws has been highlighted by a maryland mariland circuit judge the judge joseph of baltimore ruled that the state cannot punish a person for what that person thinks the opinion was given in a case involving a state law against people who Jo join joynor lnor bior work with subversive organization organizations i it was the first courts test of yio now new law that required loyalty oaths by public employees 1 sua nd candidates for office the supreme court judge said ln in his bis opinion has made it clear that laws may punish acts and conduct which clearly seriously and substantive evils they the laws may not intrude into the tha realm 0 of ideas religious and political beliefs and opinions the law deals with 0 overt ert bets acts not thoughts it may pash punish for or acting but not for thinking the law which judge tossed out did not specifically ban the communist party its preamble said communism Is a dangerous worldwide world wide conspiracy that tits fits the definition of subversive activity anything that alms at the of by bv force forca was deemed subversive justice said the law was too loo general declaring it violated the first fifth and amendments to the constitution and rylands Ma declaration ox of rights he added As stated by justice jackson in a west virginia caso case before the supreme court it if there Is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation it Is 13 that no official high or petty petti can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics nationalism religion or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein BARKLEY much ado although he had declared it wat wah much ado about nothing the nation di dismissing rIssing vice president Bark leys seeming romance with a pretty 37 year old widow so go lightly RECEIVING almost as much publicity as afie rita illta hayworth aly khan love story Bark leys attentions tent ions to mrs carlton S hadley st louis was second only to the 3 per center probe as a topic of national speculation the veep as ao barkley likes to be called seem too als by all the furore ile iia was smilingly posing with the widow for pictures he be had taken her to meet the folks folk in his home town i of paducah ky and he ha had squired squared her to some baseball games and social affairs WOULD HE and the widow get married most folks seemed to think so and if that were current opinion it was touched off by the veep himself newspaper readers would remember that crowning a beauty queen at culpep culpepper per virginia Virgin li barkley had declared that one day he would crown a queen of his own the fact that later at cah he referred to his granddaughter as being the 11 queen to whom he referred few people believed him macarthur problem for truman no matter how the truman ad ministration plays it gen douglas macarthur Is a tremendous public relations problem THE GENERAL has twice de cuned the invitation to appear before senate committees the second refusal being in connection with a bid to come home and tell a probe group what he thinks about the chinese situation the general replied that he thought he could do better staying in japan of 01 course president truman could order the general home but if he did so BO and macarthur ac cepter the order both the white house end and the state department would bo be in a constant case of jitters over what the 69 year old prima donna might say in speeches throughout the country if the president chooses not to order the general home then his critics will have fuel for added clamor that macarthur Is in being isolated and persecuted apparently no ono one seems to know the procedure in the event macarthur refused to come 10 biome it if ordered there seems to be I a prevalent conviction that macarthur can stay stay in japan forever if he so chooses thero there are those who say any tor for the general to make that decision would be a typical macarthur gesture find and that it would fit in superbly with his fine sense of the dramatic STALIN very courteous the delayed report on how U S ambassador alan kirk made out with dussias Rus sias joe stalin in a talk in M moscow boscow held nothing more important than kirks report that the soviet ruler was very courteous and pleasant however anyone who might have expected s anything else was indulging in wishful thinking SOME excitement was stimulated by kirks refusal to comment immediately upon his interview with stalin ile he told reporters report ert following the conference confer enco that hed have something to say later the ambassador a retired edmiral admiral and former envoy to bel glum held tle the first meeting with stalin that any american official has had in nearly a year he described his visit to stalin as a courtesy call SAILORS pockets mad mac tho the navy has relented at last darkening harkening Hark ening to a complaint stem ming from 1797 the seagoing branch of uncle sams forces has promised sailors have pockets in their pants but not until june 1952 but having waited this long sailors could wait two more years and that all promised too was elimination ot of tho the 13 button front on sailors trousers to be replaced with a zipper |
