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Constantine Brown: ***, ^ Deeds Count More Than Words Europe Still Looks Askance at Expensive Torrent of Words Coming From Official U. S. Propaganda Sources It fc deeds and not words that count in relationships between Individuals as well as nations. Efforts to show friendship by words are of little value; they are considered by intelligent people as propaganda and are . looked on with suspicion. For this reason the request that Congress appropriate about' $170 million this year for the Voice of America and the United States Information Service is being received coldly by a large number of legislators. The U. S. S. R. and her satel lites alone are making efforts to demonstrate the blessings of their institutions and political philosophy to the world by pour ing out millions of words daily. These governments can offer nothing more than words. It is true that the Kremlin has cap tured some 600 million since V-J day. But these unfortu nates were drawn behind the Iron Curtain not because they believed Moscow’s words but be cause force and conspiratorial methods were used against them. In the five years since our Government -'went into the propaganda business on a large scale it has reaped no tangible results. Most of the Western Europeans still do not know us and a marked anti-American feeling frequently is noticeable in France and Great Britain. Our propaganda efforts in the West have fallen flat because people do not trust words com ing from foreigners and believe their own people who frequently minimize our actions and sac rifices for their own political ends. Yet it would seem to the average American that the ac tual deeds we have done for the well-being and security not only of our Allies but all other na tions should not require words to convince them that we are their friends. Neither Britain nor France is making any effort to gain the friendship of the/American peo ple. That friendship exists in our hearts. The death of King George VI and the accession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth II have received about as much coverage by the American press and radio as the death of presi dent Roosevelt. This was not a “synthetic” job of the British propaganda. It had nothing to do with it. The American peo ple were not interested in these developments because royalty was involved. This has long since ceased to be spectacular. The interest of ail Americans, from taxi drivers to top busi ness executives and politicians, in the change in personalities on the British throhe was prompted by a genuine friendly interest in Britain itself. The British need not spend millions to convince us of their loyalty to the same aims we ourselves have. Their speaker^ who ad dress various organizations in this country are not paid by the British government. They re ceive remunerative fees from the American organizations that book them for speeches. And the same thing applies to the French and other Europeans who can express thelnselves in telligibly in English. Since 1940 this country has been more than liberal toward the nations which have shared our anxiety to keep freedom un impaired against its enemies. These deeds of the American people are not entirely unselfish. The allies’ fight against tyranny was also ours. It happened that we were more fortunate in pos sessing resources they no longer had. If these facts were to be stressed to our European friends in a manner they could easily understand, the present recrimi nations, doubts and suspicions I would not exist. Unfortunately, in spite of the many millions which we have spent since 1946 on official Government propa ganda, little progress has been made toward that goal. Politics being what it is in democratic countries, it is not "Surprising to see so many members of Parliament in Eng land expressing themselves so strongly against the United States. Their virulent words can be written off as “polities.” But it is serious when Americans who visit England find these views shared by the man in the street who generally has little idea of America’s contribution to his present precarious wel fare. The English John Q. Citi zen does not know what this country has done for him—ex cept that he is being told that we want to drag him into a third world war—because the previous government found it inappropriate to stress America’s help and our own people give him dissertations and not the lacts of life. A similar situation, only more serious than in Britain, exists in France and most of the other Western European countries. The “intellectual” approach or the emphasis on our remarkable productivity and our lavish way of life does not impress favor ably the French or the Italian man in the street. The approach of his own Communist or pinko liberal propagandists is far more effective than broadcasts from organizations known to be offi cial American propaganda out fits. We have done so many deeds to show our interest and friendship toward our Allies that the present misunderstand ing should not exist. Some new method of approach may have to be devised by our Govern ment to bring them to the at tention of our friends across the Atlantic. Lowell Mellett: Turning a Boom let Into a Boom That May Be Consequence of Truman's Strange Maneuvering Concerning Senator Kefauver's Presidential Candidacy I don’t meet anybody expe rienced in politics who thinks Estes Kefauver has a dog’s chance — even a ’coondog's chance—to win the Democratic nomination for President. It Just isn’t in the cards, say the experts, one and all. This be ing the case, it has become very hard to understand the panicky behavior of his principal oppo nents, the Truman organization men and Mr. Truman himself. It is generally agreed that Mr. Truman will be renominated if he wishes to be. It is gen erally agreed further that he will nave a decisive voice in the selection of the nominee if he decides it shall be some body else. The party in its wis dom will not name a standard bearer repugnant to the retir ing President, one he cannot support wholeheartedly with his voice and his advice during the campaign. So it is clear that Senator Kefauver’s candidacy is no threat to the President’s own, if he Is a candidate. It should be clear also that Senator Kefau ver’s enterprise need not inter fere greatly with the President’s desire for a nominee he con siders more suitable, if it isn’t to be himself. It need not, that Is, unless the President and his friends by their own awk ward maneuvering build the Kefauver boomlet into a real boom, with wide popular sup port. Some days it seems they are determined to do just that. The back-and-forthing con cerning the New Hampshire primary, with the President in one day, out the next and then back in again, has been an al most incredible performance. If the President wins against Kefauver, the political signifi cance will be virtually nothing. If however, he fails to beat Kefauver the political signifi cance, from Truman’s stand point, will be awful. Indeed, the consequences will be serious un less he not only beats Kefauver but beats him badly. As this is recognized we will see the administration forces, including the National Commit tee, nominally neutral in intra party fights, putting tremendous effort into that little New England State. New Hampshire Democrats may begin to see the contest as one between the man and the machine. How they will react is anybody’s guess. Sena tor George Aiken from neigh boring Vermont guesses they will react against the machine. If that proves to be true it will be a sad day for the President. His ability to control the com ing convention will no longer be certain. The President, of course, has been in a difficult spot. His sense of duty, which is very real, and his political convictions, which are very strong, have given him a hard problem, the same one Roosevelt faced twice. He was doing all right with the prob lem, handling it with a finesse equal to that of the Old Master, until Kefauver upset the pro gram by refusing to stand back and wait with the other boys. The President started making mistakes. Fairly openly he undertook to penalize Kefauver for his brashness, which he had no right to do and which in any case was not good politics. The President had every rea son to believe that he could re capture in the convention all or nearly all of the votes that Ke fauver might collect in the pri maries. That is, he could unless he made the Kefauver delegates mad. If he didn’t want them for himself he could have turned them over to some one of his choosing—assuming it was a good choice, say an Adlai Stevenson, and not a bad choice, say a Robert Kerr. Now that he is making the Kefauver forces stubbornly angry, it may be a different stoiy. Mr. Average Citizen Finds D. C. Beyond His Understanding By Hoi Boyle Alloci<ited Prill Staff Writer WUbur Peeble. America’s most average citizen, today suddenly called off his one-man investiga tion of the Federal Government. He tells why in this final letter to his wife Trellis Mae: Dearest Honey, Well, I give up! I came here as a patriotic duty, trying to find out what really is going on in the National Capital. But it is simply too much for one mind, no matter how gifted. You haye to be a paper clip to really get the feel of Washington. My arches are flat from walking on marble floors all day, and I’m suffering from martini-arthritis. Also. I’m broke. I told the hotel clerk I would probably have „o go out on the highway and hitch a ride home. “A lot of our visitors leave that way,’’ he said, cheerfully. “Come back after the November election They always button up here a little before election.” Almost Run Down. Now, that was a typical remark. They figure nobody comes to Washington except to look for a ' job. and nobody leaves unless he is disappointed. You almost became a widow yesterday. I was passing a Gov ernment office building just be fore dusk. The doors opened and a mob of people rushed out and ran over me. I jumped up and yelled to a fellow: “There must’ve been an explo sion in there. Come on. Let’s go in and help bring out the wounded.” “There’s nothing wrong,” he said. "It’s just Quitting time.” I fell in step with him, and he said: "You know, a lot of folks have got the wrong idea about us Gov ernment employes. They think we’re 'all loafers. But we work as hard as anybody. I wish some of them that criticize us just had my job.” Then he paused in alarm, and said: “What am I saying? I don’t mean that.” I decided I ought to pay mj respects to President Truman before getting out of town. » But, I didn’t get to see the Pres f ident. One of his hired hands apologized, and said: “He’; busy right now reading a book some body sent him called 'How to Live on a Small Income in Florida.”’ But I’ll tell you. Trellis Mae, the President is the only relaxed man in town. He’s having more fun than a circus, because he’s the only man here who knows for sure what he’s going to do—and hasn’t satd what it is. The Democrats all say, “Of course, he’s going to run.” And the Republicans all say, “I just wish he’d run again—or do I? Nobody can rear back and pass a second miracle—or can he?” So I’m coming home, before they start investigating my inves tigation. It is all too much for Your loving husband, WILBUR. 'Local Leave' Goes Far SAIGON, Indo-China (A*). — There’s nothing like taking a long “local leave.” Miss Betsy Arm inger, employe of the American Mutual Security Administration here, decided to do something dif ferent during her 30 days. She boarded « round-the-world plane. She’ll stop at her home in Los Angeles before returning to her Saigon job. One Moment With God By EDWARD L. R. ELSON Putor, National Presbyterian Church. INEVITABLE CRITICISM. “The occupant of the presidency is little better than a murderer. He is treacherous in private friendships, a hypocrite in public life, ap imposter'-who has either abandoned all good principles or else never had any.” These words were spoken about our first President, whom we now venerate. No one escapes criticism. The more conspicuous the man, the more exposed he is to criti cism. The way one bears it is all important. John lS:2t-3S. Prayer: O God, I thank Thee for all great and good men who * bear criticism nobly. Amen. | Japanese Thought Police Taken Off Purge List •y th« Auociatcd Preu TOKYO, Feb. 8.—The Japanese government today announced that 128 former admirals and generals had been removed from the purge list, including 17 high officers of the once-dreaded thought police. Occupation authorities previ ously had turned down a Japanese government request to take off the purge liet a large number of Kempei Tei (thought police) offi cers. One civilian, prewar Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, also was removed from the purge list. Others included Gen. Shigeru Hasunuma, wartime military aide to Emperor Hirohito, and Gen. Kazushige Ugaki, former governor general of Korea. All were banned from public life by occupation authorities, who now are reducing the purge lists. Platinum Wrjst Watch Is Reported Missing A platinum jwr 1st watch witl) 30 full-cut diamonds has been re ported missing by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pomponio, 880 North Jack sonville street, Arlington, police reported today. Detective Capt. C. Burns Press ley said Mr. Pomponio, a builder, reported that the house had not been broken into to his knowl edge. A check of trash trucks was requested by Mr. Pomponio, who said his wife had been house cleaning. LOUIE —By Harry Hanan C0MPLA»N1Q_ n R "3 complaints I t t Fletcher Knebel: Potomac Fever President Truman congratulates the Boy Scouts on their 42d anniversary. The remarks were delivered in person—he just doesn’t trust himself anjr more near pencil and paper. * * * * The Internal Re^gnue Bureau says you don't have to file your income tax return this year until March 17. This gives you two extra days to realize that there’s a big difference between success and failure—and all of it belongs to the Government. * * * * Chairman Sabath urges his House Rules Committee to approve an Investigation of corruption in the Nation’s sports. Democrats are true scientists of government. They want to show they banned corruption from Washington—until it passed a fair test in the field. * • * * Winnie Ruth Judd is back in the Arizona pokey after her fifth escape. Mrs. Judd respects the institution’s rules, especially the one about making visits as brief as possible. , * * * * The I. C. C. raises train fares for commuters to Eastern cities. A commuter is a fellow who dashes to make the 8:05 so he’ll have plenty of time at the office to call his wife and tell her he forgot to fix the pump. * * * * Assistant Air Secretary Gilpatric says high costs have forced the Air Force to delay peak bomber production. War is getting so expensive that nobody can afford to fight one until he’s bankrupt. Commissioners Asked To Help Standardize Primary Voting Here The District Coihmissioners yes terday were asked to meet with local Republican and Democratic Party officials to decide on stand ardizing general primary voting rules here And establishing a sin gle polling day for both parties, Commissioner P. Joseph Dono hue, a Democrat, has promised to recommend that the Commission ers take such action next Tuesday, according to Robert E. McLaugh lin, spokesman for the District’s Eteenhower-for-President Club. Mr. McLaughlin yesterday de livered a written request to Com missioner John Russell Young, and later discussed the subject with Mr. Donohue. The District League of Women Voters also has filed a similar request with Mr. Young. Voters Apathetic. The Republican spokesman said that in past primaries here there has been apathy toward voting for the six delegates and six alternates which the District sends to each party convention. In the 1948 primaries, for ex ample, only 400 Republicans and less than 500 Democrats registered and voted here, he said. The figure should run to thousands, he added. Mr. McLaughlin blamed this circumstance on the public con fusion over voting rules, dates and places. Proposal Outlined. He said It would be In the In terest of both parties to have the Commissioners set aside polling places, like firehouses; help both parties get together bn uniform registration rules and the number of voting precincts, and announce a date for both primaries. Mr. McLaughlin emphasized that the District’s six convention votes could be “most important” in a close race. This is because the District stands of the bottom of both cohvention roll calls. Also, as far as the Republican Party is concerned, one State has fewer delegates and another the same number as the District. Military Waste (Continued From First Page.) into standard buying practices for a wide range of military items. Paul Monahan, committee in vestigator, said the military serv ices maintain separate catalogues —some 5 feet long—containing thousands of Individual items. One lists 1,200 different kinds of nails. He said combining these into a central catalogue would mean a substantial saving. Mr. Monahan said also he has discovered “numerous” instances where the services have paid dif ferent prices for identical articles. These range from a few cents to $8 a pair for winter boots and “probably much more in electron ics equipment.” The Army last night issued a defense against charges it was paying different prices for identi cal items. It said reports were "misleading” and based on “mis conceptions.” Military purchasing officers will NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING CONTRIBUTORS UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER WASHINGTON, INC. Notice it hereby given that the regular annual meeting of the contributor* of the United Jewish Appedl of Greater Washington, Inc., will bo hold in the Flamingo Room of the Hotel Ambassador, 14th and K Streets, Northwest, Washington, D. C., on Tuesday, February 19, 1952, at eight-thirty o'clock p.m., for the following purposes, to wit: (1) to elect a Board of Trustees of said United Jewish Appeal of Greater Washington, Inc., to serve for and during the ensuing year; (2) to review and past upon such reports at may be presented; (3) to consider and act upon any other business that may bo brought before said meeting. Dgtri: LOUIS E. SPIE6LER WashingnTon, 0. C Secretory, United Jewish Appeal February 9, 1*2 of Greater Washington, Inc rp ' - I1 be questioned on these and other iJbints in hearings in a room dec orated with mounted examples of exhibits illustrating price and identification differences. Procurement Chief Explains. The Army statement was issued at a Pentagon news conference at which Maj. Gen. J. K. Christmas, chief of the Army’s procurement section, explained various alleged discrepancies. One example, aired by a con gressional committee, said that the Army Engineers paid 11 cents for 25-watt light bulbs, the Army Medical Corps 13 cents and the Signal Corps 37 cents. The Army said the 37-cent bulbs amounted to only $41.07 of a $341,944 contract for aircraft artillery spotting The bulbs had to be specially packed and handled for the highly technical operation, it was stated. Another example was the alle gation that the Army bought olive drab blankets for $8.56 each while its medical department paid $21.75 and the General Services Admin istration had bought still other blankets for $4.65. The Army said flatly this ex ample provided no basis for com parison because the medical blankets had to be 100 per cent wool, larger and capable of with standing sterilization. Gen. Christmas and his aides had more difficulty in explaining price difference in combat boots for the Army and Marine Corps. The Marines paid $16.80 per pair last year and the Army $24.65. The Army said that it bought some of its boot from the same firm that had supplied the Ma rines but that the Army’s version had included improvements. Neither the general nor his as sistants were immediately able to explain the improvements. I Federal Ownership Of Steel Would Please Some, Moreell Says By the Associated tmt NEW YORK, Feb. A top steel company executive said to day some persons “would wel come” the failure of his industry so that “Government would have to step in and take over.” > Ben Moreell, chairman of the board of the Jones <te Laughlin Steel Corp., told a Wage Stabiliza tion Board panel that CIO wage demands would more than wipe out all his firm’s income before taxes “even when operating at capacity." He was the first witness as the steel industry started its sixth day of testimony before the panel seeking to avert a threatened February 24 strike by 650,000 members of the CIO United Steelwsrkers.' The unioh is de manding an 18!2-cent-an-hour wage increase and other benefits. Industry’s Size Cited. Mr. Moreell said in a prepared statement that many persons be lieve the great size of the steel industry "alone gives it strength.” He said that “nothing can be farther from the truth,” and con tinued: < “Failure to earn enough to maintain financial strength would result in such weakness that the industry could no longer do the constructive and expanding job which is expected of it and which is essential for the economy of the country. “There may be some who would welcome such failure, and its in evitable consequence—that Gov ernment would have to step in and take over the industry.” He did not identify~those he said would like to see the steel industry fail. Referring to his own firm, Mr. Moreell said its earnings in recent years were good compared with the past, "but inadequate when compared to earnings of other in dustries. Estimates Cost. Union demands. Mr. Moreell said, are “fantastically large.” He said the total cost to his company of granting all the union demands “would soon amount to at least $1.08 per hour.” This estimate was one of tbs highest made by industry officials at the hearing. Such an increase, he added, would cost Jones Sc Laughlin $95 million based on peak 1951 opera tions. “Our earnings before taxes for the year (1951) were $85 mil lion,” he added. “The Government,” he con tinued, “would lose, heavily since our estimated bill for Federal in come and excess profits taxes for 1951 is over $50 million.” He said his firm would need price increases if any part of the union wage demands are granted. The Jones Sc Laughlin firm also issued a statement today reject ing all the union demands. Dr. Heath Reports Monday Dr. Frederick C. Heath, who re signed as health officer for Fair fax County, Va., to accept the post of Assistant Director of Public Health for the District, will report for duty Monday morning, Direc tor of Public Health Daniel L. Seckinger announced today. Capehart Seeks Early Action IIn Senate on Abolishing RFC ly the Awociatod Pratt / Senator Capeharf, Republican, of Indiana said today he will ask the Senate to set aside other busi ness and immediately take up a bill to abolish the much-investi gated Reconstruction Finance Corp. The Senate Banking Committee already has agreed to seek an early showdown on this measure and a second by Senator Ful bright, Democrat, of Arkansas to make certain reforms in the agency. Senator Capehart told a re porter he believes President Tru man’s new feud with the Senate over the RFC is boomeranging. He said Mr. Truman’s actions are “making many votes for the proposition of putting this unnec essary and costly lending agency out of business.” • Mr. Truman and the Senate Banking Committee are at ldgger heads over the President’s attempt to install Harry A. McDonald as the RFC’e chief without waiting for a House Commerce subcom mittee to wind up an investiga tion of the Security and Exchange Commission which Mr. McDonald now heads. The SEC is under scrutiny of the House subcommittee following charges, of fraud in its operations. None of the accusations was aimed specifically at Mr. McDonald, the SEC’s chairman, who says he has done nothing wrong. The Banking Committee has re fused to approve Mr. McDonald for the post before the House baa finished its investigation. One basis for the demand to abolish the RFC was a banking subcommittee accusation last spring that the agency yielded to improper pressures of an influence ring which, it said, had contacts in the White House Itself. “The Banking Committee has proved beyond all question that ' the RFC has been used for the benefit of political favorites at the taxpayers’ expense,” Senator Capehart said. “And It is now clear that no law can be devised ■ which will keep it free of influence. We should get rid of it.” Senate Democratic Leader Mc Farland told a reporter “we are not going to displace the statehood bills to make room for this mat ter.” But Senator Capehart said he expects enough votes are avail able to override that decision. “President Truman is talking now of taking over the RFC and running it himself.” Senator Cape hart said. “I believe the Senate will not like such a move. I don’t, for one. I think it has strengthened the movement for abolishing the RFC entirely, and getting rid of this problem.” Senator Capehart said he would make his request for quick Sen ate action at the earliest possible time—February 18. The Senate plans to transact no business be tweennowandttmt_date._ Revenue (Continued Prom First Page.) headed by Representative King, Democrat, of California. Representative Keogh, Demo crat, of New York, subjected Mr. Doolan to a rigorous cross-exami nation. Republican Representa tive Byrnes of Wisconsin, on the other hand, strongly supported the witness in an examination he conducted. Unsatisfactory in 1936. Mr. McKenney said he found the San Francisco office unsatis factory in his first visit here in 1936. At the time he said John V. Lewis, then the collector, asked him if he knew what they did with supervisors they did not like. Mr. McKinney said he replied he did not know and quoted Mr. Lewis as replying: “We throw them out the win dow.” He said that Smyth, recently indicted after being fired as col lector, once told him he knew "everything” Mr. McKenney re-' ported to Washington. “What interpretation did you place on Smyth’s statement?” asked Representative Curtis, Re publican, of Nebraska. “I presume that he was trying to intimidate me or else he was very close to the' commis sioner’s office,” Mr. McKenney replied. Mr. McKenney testified that he tinned in a critical report on the local office in 1936 and was re buked by Oeorge J. Schoeneman, who later became commissioner. At the time Mr. Schoeneman was a deputy commissioner. The hearings will resume Mon day with Mr. Doolan returning for further testimony. 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Judge Kirkland said there was no substance to Ambrose’s contentions. The judge also de clared that he never announces in advance the sentence he in tends to impose and that Ambrose could have received assurance from any member of the District bar that there would be no suspended sentence in a $50,000 theft case. Ambrose is serving the prison, term at Petersburg, Va. L_j home widim DEMONSTRATION I puAur _ _ Today III# A.M. fa I Ml. I ■ AW* BA mm A $« It Today or Sunday! LACT 9 n f8BCT fl^^B mA You're under no obligation when TIL9 KB^ "If If PP S^^‘^.h°me “ i mi■niiniM—■rTaiiin...—~"• f 1 ,» Motorola 17 "TV *4 ’ f