Springville Herald | 1952-01-17 | Page 4 | More Action Please

EDITORIAL MORE ACTION PLEASE Several weeks ago President Truman rushed home from his Florida vacation to start the long-overdue long-overdue housecleaning to rid his Administration of crooks, inf lunce peddlers, and other fast dollar artists. "Wrongdoers have no house with me, no matter who they are or how big they are," he told his news conference on December 13, 1951. He indicated he would launch an extraordinary inquiry into the scandals, scan-dals, headed by a person of integrity. Mr. Truman gave out with a lot more talk which boiled down to these strange statements: (1) That all of the scandalous disclosures resulting from Congressional Con-gressional investigations were matters that had been ferreted out and taken care of long ago; (2) that Congress just came in later and captured the headlines; head-lines; (3) that nobody believes more in clean government gov-ernment than he does. Here it is January, and President Truman's promised cleanup still hasn't materialized. He has announced his intention to abolish the offices of the 64 Collectors of Internal Revenue throughout the country and to reorganize the tax-collecting agency on a merit basis. But the people, who know that the Internal Revenue mess is only one of many, are demanding de-manding more vigorous action. They fear that the President's intentions are only too little and too late.