Iowa City Press-Citizen from Iowa City, Iowa • 6

1 JT lV. JL In YlcrU-- fiaT 1 i r'il 1 1 NcrHonolWhirlicriq IOWA CITY Wednesday, PRESS-CITIZEN January 9, 1951 BaUKtlabed Wl Sire Tun Says Expose of Corruption Hds Boosted Morale of Career-TrMen Older Thai th State at lew ami A NewspaperForfrhe Home William T. uaseDoecic, rr Edwin B. Green. Managing Editor pigeonholed Liechty, Circulation Manager iecniy.

ircuiawm The Kefauver carnage of men in Kenneth E. Greene. Advertlelnf Director" by -their. They kn.w that Justifiable claims sgainst politically Mnnfr Our J. Chappell.

Mechanical 6uperiDtadent a nnnhfr of Siieldel Newscanen. a national aei-lee rvanlaaUoB Dromotlnr, through the papers the beat Interests ol the Tba AjeocUted Preea le entitled 1st Individuals ana were setaed for 'a "songv-They allfed that eertaia interests Ww-' to use thett own vta local newt pnnw4.tt. wn1 nwpir. '-d- -Tli. hminmn JnteraaLKSVSr National aavertWnr RepreenUtll Cmcaco, Detroit, BL Louie.

Loe Ancelea. Wider Compi Ul. ipany, at S19 East Waehlnifton er aot of eonrreaa. tTiDiienea eveninra ecpi ninoqi uy ihtviuwi V7 Bue personnel has been extreme! high hv recent years, according jssss testimony before the House Appro- priaUons subcommltUe o-r I tubeerlptlon Rata Br carrier 80 SaJoliUnf t9.00 a year. Other TJaUy Circulation now EditoriaI: Beds Must Pmimiiniom -have offered a 1 fact any proposal at alL been doing all the conceding AUJes'Ju THvrinmiV This hita been done our firm desire to reach a settlement to prevent the talks from Dogging apwa, For examples we havelibandoned our demand for aerial inspection over North -Korea and nave agreed to limit troop -ehaltedvJtltogether) But if these concessions are yielding on the Communist side, there can be little liope of publication prqrreeelra, indepeodent community ana ute noma, excluelvely to the ue for rtmt11eatlon of T.II tu Vaak Ban XranK, Seattle, and Portland.

-l. mM 1L i Street, Ipwa City, -tiwii cents a week, By mall In Johnaon and aubacrlpUon ratal upon appUcatioa. Ur excess of Concede, Too sienificant concessiolf, -or in conferees have almost to the point ofen- on the Korean in the Interest of Indicating during "an armisticeperiod, rotation (the Reds wanted it not io be matched by simiTar in the truce parleys. As one our forces; a chance to mix broad our -'f mal'' roffen--; Onthisi It will further significant progress U. N.

negotiator stated, we have not come to Panmunjom to arrange for the destruction of TheEeds.are Tact Day About Iowa City; Trained and experiencea men lawvarar accountants. sutisucaj experts have been resigning of-retiring out of sheer disgust over-. Washington's disregard or mm; handling of their reports. As Howard A. Frlddie.

Treas ury agent when ne leswieo, of Therori lamar CaudleTfrtenar- shlp with and ravonusm certain taxpayers behind In their pay meats, the field staff knew 01 tne- higherups' discrimination. They 1 lety: assessments against, friends- of friends ip high p'ace at Washing- ton. In view of the King lnvesUgators' revelations and 5 President Tru- man's proposed reform and renovation of Internal Revenue, this inquiry may mean that- millions- of dollars will flow into Uncle Sara's till. Hencef the honest hard working and loyal men In the. field will not suffer from the discouraging handicap of knowing that their work was being sabotaged by political 7- Barbs BY HAL COCHRAN Record number of people slip- ping on the ice! It's rather latt- the season for the falL L00U at ths bright side yoa seldom see any binboards bor- iering a rough detour; jl Canning season is long- over.

except for the feUows who, Just don't want to do their woiic. Bcience says there are more t. than 800,000,000 stars out yonder in space. Still it's hard to hitch your to one. Art Alabama boy of sis smoke -eigatsrTKat's 'one yoay to keep from seeming effeminate.

A lot of people who retire soon -wake up to wish that they were still working. from higher. authority possibly Moscow. Meanwhile they fill the void with insulting 'epithetff Mr. Felkher'sJiip -r Soviet" Foreign Minister Vishinsky's suggestion that 'the U.

Security Council try to help bring the talks to success-. ul conclusion may provide one. key to the Com-- munists may have decided they have gained all the ad-. vantage they can at Panmunjom. They mayfeel that future advances depend upqn transferring the negotiations to the Hal Boyle's Notebook POLITICAL YEAR lKEW Bought your earmuf fs yctl Weu, you a better buy em now, before the mad rush starts.

No ears are likely to bear up under the pbllticarain' between now and November f4thout the -protectioa man really needaSrahattdytUe truMe Among the word-picture of the trials, tribulations, and hardships of pioneer times in Iowa, was one' painted by Hon. Henry Felkner, and perpetuated by the late Prof, C. R. Aur- By KAY TUCKER Soma local nforeement offlcara, Including pollca chief county and itat gniudian of the Jaw, should ba ahaklnf in their boots today aJ result of Treasury' Intelligence checkups and follow-upa of disclosures befora" the Kefauvei-King Both inquiries revealed a aha-dowy tleup between some under world figure said certain police protectors," They Indicated that, certain key of some and state enforcement staffs were taking money to tolerate many kidda of law viola Uons. An unofficial survey ahow that hundreds of police offlcerriiavs been indicted; suspended or alio- ea 10 "resign -wiuun uie last year.

20 Today January 9, ItSt "Remarkable opportunity'? is the description of the splendid offer the Press-Citizen and numerous Iowa City merchanta of promin ence are offering to the fair lassies of Iowa City, to see the world All girls, slngler and over 18, are eligible for participation in a contest which is to determine who shall be "Mlsslowa of first place wlll. be- sent around part of the world, absolutely without expense, for a tour of two weeks', Second and third placewinners wilt- be-rewarded MtCJripi i tOIewrleahs, Chi? cago, Havana, Oiba, Panama, Canal Zone, Nicaragua, and other cities and contiguous points and placea George WV Stewart of the I university faculty. and Zella White Stewart have left for New jYork, as the first step hi their fplanned circumnavieation of the globe" They wul aaii tomorrow on the Cunard Line's Franconia. -Dr. and Mrs.

Stewart plan to return fromeirwortd-giixlling voyage and tours, by June 1. high in a stirring basketball battle, 28 to 20, but the losers jecond team beats the reserve Sharonites, much wrsiJbyascore26-5ieIu-' versity Junior "high five wins a closercontestarrornTeveiimaa Junior high lads, 16-12. The high pointers are Wellman's Bablation (7) and V. high's Thomas (6). In the Port Arthur (Can.) News Chronicle la a thrilling jtory.vef killing of a moose, by Dr.

Le Ror Edward Jensen, of Audv- bon (S.UX, medicine, 1921.) The doctor avoided a tragedy, too, when he rescued the guide who was perched on the "supposedly dead animal (for a photograph) ri The moose suddenly aroused itself, and' was about to kill the guide, the doctor's gun-blast stopped the rampant, rushing creature forever. Extensive plans for 1932 are makingr in-Hhe University club circles. Mrs. Robert B. Wylie, chairmanr and.

Weber, assistant, announced the fouowing echedule-for the-current -month: January 8, meeting, with Mrs. J. Ned Smith, chairman; January 14, "As You Like It" party; Mrs. Gilbert Houser, chairman; 17, Sunday bridge; 28, Kensington, Mrs. John chairman; and 30, bridge, Mrs.

E. H. Weber, chairman. Conducting a school of Instruc tion for assessors, tomorrow, Coun ty Auditor Ed. Sulek -wfll show the city assessor- and county aiees- aora how to perform their duties legally and well, as a feature of their meeting tomorrow in the court house.

Each township has an assessor, as does each town. Iowa City's is W. J. White. The outly ing towns are thus represented: Lone Tree, E.

J. Takish; Solon, J. Kolda; Oxford, WLJLSlmpkins; Charles Draker; Coral vllle, J. R. McGlnnis; Tiffin, Mr.

Spring-mire, and North Liberty, A. A. Al bright. Ago- ner; whose widow is Mrs. Nellie S.

Aurner; who has given thtq larger- political arena. blue has been heavy. 7 1 Fortunately, the great majority 01 tne rank and file are honest and effective enforcers of the law. But In certain large cities and -counties, where ths temptations are strong and varied, and where cat-lobe political machines control the police racketeering is permitted and protected. In checkin'g pn the cops, Treasury's agents will resort to the same technique which, enabled the late Elmer K.

Irey, then head -of that orranlxation, to land AJ Capons in a federal prison. 'Although the Chicago gangster had broken almost every federal law on the books, neither local nor federal police were able to pin any thmgfTon him, to the chagrin of President 'Herbert' Hoover. Hsad-Ing the Job of putting Capone out of business to Mr. Irey, Mr. Hoover said: "I want to find out whether this gangster is more powerful than the United States govern- mant.

who smashed the German apy ring in 1817, to Chicago, He obtained evidence for-an indictment by a simple but effective technique, which win be the current method for nabbing dishonest and bribe-taking enforcement'-officers like ths "million dollar cop" in Chicago and Mexican Ambassador William O'-Dwyer's crony Moran. Mr. Wilson's dangerous and paintaakmg research around Chi cago and Cicero revealed that Ca pon was living on a scale which his; Income tax reports to Internal Revenue did not support or jus So, the gang boss went to At lanta for Income tax violations, not for breaking so many other laws. Too many enforcement officers, like Capone, are known to' be liv ing on a scale which their rela tively -small salaries do not war They own fine, homes and in come-producing property, sport expensive cars, have hidden bank accounts and spread themselves In other-ways. It la obvious to the X-menthat they did not become so affluent on their official pay.

So, by ths simple device of balancmr their penses and investments, the evil doers will be spotted. The most wholesome and bene ficial effect of the King subcom- mittee's-expose of "corruption and maladministration within the In ternal Revenue bureau has been the improvement of morale among career Intelligence agents at Washington and in the field. It has given them "shot tn tha armr These income tax experts knew fwhat was gomg-onhehincrth scenes in th higher echelons of Treasury and Justice. After months and sometimes yun of diligent and difficult work, they saw their field complaints fixed or Crommon It doesn't matter how much you don't know how to getT-alongrwlUi-othersrtthout making these mistakes Telling your friends unpleasant facts ff or their own Never being impressed fey anyone elseV story. The way you show you arent, Is by such remarks as: "If yon- tWnk-that's something, wait till you hear what happened to me!" Or, still think my story about such-and-such is the best I ever heard." Always having to have the last word in an argument Always seeing the flaws in what the other person has, -and delighting in pointing them out Building yourself up fey tearing other people down.

Always giving advice but never asking for It --Always wanting to do "the talk RUTH In 7- university -ervrcej-m-barmony-with-heF-husband'ssmee1 -lf this top-Western officials make it evident" they are dwmed to dUaprwmtment We 1 rt have no intention of giving Jthe political nsh3McPPifferm their first "connection the Old Gold faculty. This department legislature, in the third, fourth, and fifth, general assemblies) and eu fan, r. ir.hr, v. 1 negotiation in Korea. Nor do we intend lo throw them into -Jthe Security Council where Russia can veto any -solution not satisfactory to her.

Jwhiteisjpor-M On the other theTtelsTfm mav be simoler. Hav- 4ing seen what striking concessions we have already offered in an effort to keep the talks moving. toward settlement; they may be convinced that continued stalling and stub-r? bornness will push Washington to yield new ground. UersTconstructed and operated on Rapid Creek. This is the ancient Btream that long bore the misnomer, BRabbJt Creek, because one or another old Bettier, mayhap, mis-heard the ac and coupled hia faUure to understand properly with a be Butrwe-declared on announcing bur most recent conces- itsions'" that "these constituted follfefhecause edible JenU proposition should stand.

We have yielded enough is the Communists' turn to concede. If they do not, it then become apparent that, whatever their objectives earlier in the talks, they no longer want a real truce. WThe ma jor point n-wW aistencft on the right "to build up' military airfields in North Korea during an armistice, This is utterly incompatible with peaceful-aims and can not be defended legitimately certainly-not the flimsy-pretext that to denythem this amounts in North Korea's internal affairB." 7 MILLETT west and souths but though it is 'gone. It to not forgotten" cendants of old-timers, and historians who haW handed down its moderns name, Muscatine. How 1.

inrt u.f fmm Dinntn. sweet to pioneers, even as Juliet would have been, named Hepsibah, or christened Alonzo. Therefore, the law-maker borrowed Mr, Gilbert's horse and drove to the Mississippi port. picnic- in those territorial days of lroadlfigsand bridgel ing, and, the horse found it no easy nor one to be performed rapidly, inasmuch as upon its back rested. a man who was no child in weight, and a sack containing: I70 pounds or so of bacon.

The trip therefore occupied many, more hours than a kindred Journey say. by auto could reasonably con sume in 1952. As a' result, Mr. Gilbert, who had needed the animal in the leg islators absence, Was coldly im patient- when arriv ed. Unwilling to be.

under obliga tions again, even to a friend (who was none-too- friendly at the mo ment) the Iowa Citian decided to walk spelled a trip of eight miles, which must have bow- ed. eveiithe Felknerian back, since lugging 70 lbs. that far was no And if Mr, Felk ner could read that line today, he would brand it, doubtless, as a terrific However, he ultimately made his way over trackless miles of bad trails waded through sloughs, flooded by recent and ulti mately landed, unharmed at the Myers-Felkner cabin. He was, naturally, tired and wayworn, but uninjured, and he lived-many a year to tell the tale to his host -of friends rr who handed it down through several generations. -1 J.

E. R. Mistakes We Make Deeding With- Otheis "In. the past the Reds haveirom time to time conceded ust they really wanted anlarmi4Eltheithatrtheyhorecvery-! enough to keep alive the belief 7tice7 -This" couldfiave-beeB -a ruser designed "to ing "instead of. being, willing Jto- listen quieUy and attentively to Some bartenders already are de- manaing sabuaticaneaves, ae- wUl make life unbearable for the next nine months.

Others are Simply laying in a new supply ol baseball bats. "The average customer--is one -Veteran. worried about his rising yiaxea or hia falling hair, ana he comes ere only to com- Boyle; plains about---his wife or bossor maybe ta pralse his dear olcKmother. "But in election year what hap-peiVThe jnpuse -becomes-a-Jionr andTafter- two --drinks-atarts -to larinr nhnur. haw tn mvp thp country, x-ut two nuee iie.

10 eachotherwho they start throwing rdnnks and trying- to gnaw eacn other to death. body- else to death, talRlngrabout something they-don -Here vare a- ew-tiuick tips- on-how you yourself "can live "without a black-eyr-until balloting timer---1. If you must wear campaign two, one" saying "Bryan or Bust" and the other -to- McKinley will show foi are non-partisan and ln-, dependent. If you feel you simply have to -discus sthe pohticalsluationat bar, put a couple of ice cubes in your mouth first. Tou will know what you're saying, but nobody else wiU, so they can't object S.

Avoid dry martinis altogether. It-Is -this -concoction thatf awsed Jekyll to turn into and it may turn you from a Republican into a Democrat, or vice versa. 4.. No matter how swell a guy you thinkjiarry Tranan ia; nan't teach your children to go around chanting, "Taft on a Raft." or'Ike Can Give You "Anything'' but UjveBabyi I)o you ant--your kids- to-come home-with "black 5. Other renvarks.

to avoid Ja public yourself doesnCHarry-take isieepwhue come of 'the Communista to dem-Itjpnfitratejthe. fact. ue oterpersoru Putting the other person in his" place and enjoying hia discom- -flture. T- -r Expecting the worst instead of the best from other people. -1 -Never-being willing to-admifc-V nustake.

selstetter World Toddy Congress By JAMES ARLOW WASHING Mayl Always being too busy for the 1 small kindnesses hat smooth the, way for others. s. Haying feelings that are' easily hurt Never wanting. Jtoume. e- sponsibility- Never wanting to accept anothr" er's help.

ETCT76fieTrj-sawa Never wanting to share credit" Always beings eager blame someone else for your own SIDEzGLANGES now seems agreed that this will be a completely dismal session of congress," insofar as it concerns VpftaWngTulTwm a-rM rer and DoIiticaUv, Especially polfticallyrauT-rrwext all- "occupants for" all i 35 house seats" euid one-third of -the 96 senate -r The Pressifizeh'i abounded north of Iowa City, in the 'vicimty of the creek. There fore may have seemed to him much more applicable than which adjective scarce- ly described the stream, 'save when freshets-Vgot At; any rate, Mr. Felkner said Mr. Myers discovered one day that their larder-was approaching the state of -the-famous cupboard of the equally famous owner there-OKI they sought more slabs" of bacon or otherflesh from the-Jobnson county farms, at John Gilbert's "trading house. It chanced lhatJMrGllberfc was out! of the tenants jof both Btable and penr-Awherefore it- beeanie-neeee-sary to-trayel to Bloomlngton for the necessary pork or beef.

Bloomington "has Vanished from bur maps and atlases, save' as tor Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Mmnesota'out this way," "and several other the- accordion. Then-he could squeeze his way out?" W-Biv Eisenhower's an old soldieri Why doesn't he Just fade; C. "Well, I was passing General Grant's tomb the other day, and you know what I heard? A ghostly voice crying, 'don't don't "So, Stassen plans to have two women in his cabinet? That'll be a real kitchen cabinet. Ha, ha, ha!" (A remark like this can coat yoayour-happy-home. s-5 6.

But the best tip of all is this: jrour own presidential choice in a little black diary, and lock irawayr Then' shut "up. Open your "diary 'the day after see hoy wrong you Right orjwrong, ypull stay Tout or trouble. aU pack up and go home But then, if there had been good faith the part of the Communists, we would not be here in the first place. Aim. Turner Joy, chief VJf.

deU egate to Korean truce talks. Reactionaries (asvIran), I fear, are their' own Worst enemies. For there comes a point at which the foreign goose will not lay any more golden eggs, while their own goose will not lay, any eggs at all. To put it bluntly, the goose will be cooked. -8ir Gladwyn Jebb, chief British delegate to V.

N. I feel certain that, the tensions that frustrate affer-ts fer a peaceful world would be, to a large degree, dissipated if there were the same press freedom all over the worlds that vpe enjoy here in America. Cen. George CrUarshall. Government ought not to do for people, What they can, should, and always have done for themselves.

James U. Du IJTTLE UNIVERSITY ZlZ. eatl This is arsltuailorTTiardly privilege, -and it- is better to let -r hM make, the first move. 1 SoTKey Sdy Not on TV namonff the members of cAifreia tne week to make a stump speech for the benefit of the people at home. The congressional crush in front of the mmen wonM grander JtJan bargain day in-Gim- to the relief cf the Demo-cratst have made, a spectacle 9f; more than ence through the years with their Intra-party differences, the Republicans thiar year vUr probably take over tneir franchise and even give them pomterniiaracJttoi-wlrlle wearing gloves.

-This alone-should add. to -our entertainment, if not to. our en lightenment, since everybody, in congress is a politician and what ever a politician says in the field of politics can be sliced in half without losing an ounce of sense, In-both houses there wilf be de- hower and Sen. Robert A. Taft and others making wooing rlances at1 the presidency; and since devotion.

means ardor-and ardor means heat there ought to be. a warm time among the Republicans in all camps, neither- very anxious to make hay for the Other while still hoping the party canvwin because everyone wants to keep his Job. The Democrats are already cow-fused among themselves about the Intentions of President Truman, some thinking henirun, some thinking he won't, some hoping he some hoping otherwise. If he says he won'tjtherr'Xdrthe general noise win be added the creaking of necks aa Democrats look-over their shoulders to see. who rets tapped, each of the more prominent among them probably secretly yeariung for the tap.

to hit him even if, the end, it knocks him Problem Day- A man Is S3 years of age and his son is 14 -years of age. Hew old win the man be when bit ton la of his age? ANSWER 1 8 Jta. Snhtratit from 36sub tract from divide 31 by Bolter English'- t. What is wrong with this sen- tence? "He hasnt worked any tor the last three weeks." conducive political Impartiality- cm the part C' thoSememberS of congress who rtwant to keep their Jobs, meaning practically everybody there. Oldtimers around here have the action, which Is hardly- odd, that almost everybody who ever gets a eat in congress would like to feel life Ms pirmansnt property end alwava in an election vear'develoD that bifocal look which; enables him to keep -one eye on his work and one on the voters.

Experts political science have vondered the Question "Should con rreas have its dally sessions tele vised?" in the belief that if the folks back home could ever see their congressmen to action they might wmd up with a beUer con- fTeas, or at lean more were aone. It maybe only a coincidence that Look and Learn Wh'at are neap tides? X. What was the former name of the present country of iraef 3, From what Is most paper made? a. What is malfeasance -g. In what country are there ths most red-haired people 1.

Low tides occurring, in ths beginning of the second and fourth quarters of the moon. Arabia. 3. Wood pulp. .4.

Jin illegal deed. 8. Scotland, I Modsm Etiquet Q. If a man -is entertaining a group of friends in a restaurant or hotel dtahig roomln what or? der do they go to the table? A. If the headwaiter leads the way to the table, the host goes first to seat his guest-.

The women foUow next and the men of the party last Q. When a man meets' a woman on the street with whom he Is weU acquainted, should he offer his hand? Al This is strictly the woman's 1 I looked like Chandl. My arms were sticks, my legs were sticks. North Korean officers told me I looked like, a painting of one of the apostles. gen.

Wiaum Kman; MRnljtki story of hit capture by Reda to a Communist newtman. When we go up now we spend 59 out of every 60 seconds looking over our shoulders. -Vet Ace Coil. Francis Gabretki fAe Korean air var, We are not talking of trial We want to create economic bonds. French Premier Rene Pleven epeatdng for the Schuman Plan.

It would seem that whatever usefulness wage and price controls may have served in the past is earing an end, and the law of supply and demand is Just about ready to assert itself. 7V WMre, proridenr 0 the Republic Steel Corp. If we could depend on the good faith of the Communists we' could congress has never enown even arnafl enthusiasm for this idea at an, past, present or future. But it hit have turned out to be a 3. What la the correct pronuncl-atlon of -preface" 1.

Which of these words Is misspelled? Itinerary. ertSclble, idiosyncracy, 4. What does the word "actuate" mean? l. ,8 What is a word, beginning with os that means "to exile banish, exclude" AXSWERS Omit any, and say, "for the past three weeks." Pronounce pref-ae, as in let (not as in me), a as in ace unstressed. S.

Idiosyncrasy. 4. To put mto ac-tion; move to acUon. "He was -actuated by a desire to succeed." e. Oetracixe.

t. v. a on at tfnm, to. blessing' for all of ua, in this election year at any rate, that conT jrress won't be within mugging -stance of TV. If TVs glittering' eye-looked Vvn from the gaileriea, putting irneech In focus.

It Isn't hard i rraiie.what would fcappen, the one "That guy with his big defense contract!" I'm -who needs defense!".