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The Red Influence LIO 1HE ARIZoNitKEPUB By Reg Manning Arizona Republic Staff Artist JVestbrook Pegler Says I Author Blasts Monday, Sept 24, 1951 Page 6 sfei AT LEAST Published Every Morning by PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS. Inc. crocirc rrtxiAM. nria 120 East Van Buren, Phoenix, Ariz. NEVER AGAIN CAN I SIMON CASADV, PabUsher THEY-DENY THAT COMMUNIS HELPS BRING SOVERElGNTy to Some COUNTRIES David Truman May Need New Ethics Code President Truman needs a new code of ethics If, upon further reflection, what he said at his press conference last Thursday isn't soon reversed.

The President declared, for instance. It was all right for the officials and workers in the Democratic National Committee to introduce people to such lending agencies as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation just so long as they didn't get any fees or payment for establishing such contacts. But doesn't Mr. Truman realize that an introduction from the Democratic National Committee member or its personnel carries with it far more influence than an introduction to a private bank which has an altogether different attitude toward its depositors' money than RFC officials seem to have had? For one thing, it is the. rule under the Truman administration that most all Important appointments have to be cleared through the office of the Democratic national chairman.

So long as appointments to office are made on such a political basis, every appointee is bound to respect the wishes or at least consider with greater weight the introductions or contacts brought about through Democratic National Committee help. Loan Previously Denied It has been disclosed that William M. Boyle received fees as a lawyer just before he became Democratic national chairman and that his law partner continued to receive fees after a loan was obtained from the RFC by a St. Louis printing firm. That same loan had previously been denied by the RFC three times.

The senate testimony shows that suddenly after some telephone conversations between the RFC office In St. Louis and a friend of Mr. Boyle In which reference was made to the committee, the RFC loan was granted. The friend was E. Merl Young, whose wife used to work at the White House and got a "mink coat." Mr.

Young admitted he was a "volunteer worker" on the Democratic National Committee at the time the St. Louis printing company loan was being sought. Yet Mr. Truman washes his hands of the whole business and says that while nobody, not even a volunteer worker, should get fees if he is a part of the Democratic National Committee, nevertheless it Is the duty of the committee personnel to help anybody who comes along and wants an Introduction to government lending agencies. The President overlooks the fact that there are Republicans as well as Democrats paying taxes and that their money also is being loaned by the RFC.

To allow a lending agency entrusted with public funds to be in any way related to a national political committee which engages in this type of political influence is something that ought to be repudiated instead of condoned. Prosperity Won't Help Truman cannot seriously believe that the American people will accept his indifference to unethical conduction the part of members of his political family and that prosperity will erase all opposition to his administration at the polls next time. For the history of politics shows that morality is a deeper cause of concern and can wipe out the prosperity advantage of any incumbent party. To say, for example, that a mayor or governor or Democratic member of congress can be a crook and yet if the people are prosperous he will be re-elected is to reflect on the intelligence of the men and women who today compose the American electorate. Mr.

Truman's attitude toward the wrongdoing that surrounds his administration is one of bold indifference. He calls it all a smear or a misrepresentation. But the facts that are coming out of the congressional committees will be weighed by the voters. The big issue of 1952 may be reminiscent of the slogans of yesteryears when the people were asked to turn the rascals out! and usually did. Views In The News Modern Greeks McNaught SyndicaU, Inc, The People Speak Letters to the editor ihonld ha written on one aide of the paper only.

Kim and street address of the writer, with signature, must be furnished but upon request the letters may be published anonymously. Only letters of unusual Interest will be permitted to exceed 300 words. women's magazines. Ads depicting children with school books under their arms smoking cigarettes of course. Ads showing beautiful women smoking but it never tells the truth in these ads, namely, that it makes them stink.

Yes, we have become calloused. No wonder the dope habit has crept up on our young. COOLIDGE MOTHER The Dirty Weed Editor, The Arizona Republic: If we want to stop the marijuana dope traffic via the cigarette, we must first become aware that the tobacco smoking habit leads to it and all other habits. Before me now I have a clipping from the Saturday Evening Post, of a big company's cigarette ad. There is a photograph of a baby, mind you, and below that a drawing of a woman smoking a cigarette.

The caption in big letters above the baby's photograph, "Before you scold me, Mom maybe you'd better light up a so and so cigarette." Another example: We hear from a juvenile office these words, that he sees nothing wrong with a young boy or girl smoking. Another scene: A group of officials in the city judge's office sentencing several boys and girls under 21 for drinking intoxicating beverages, and unconcernedly setting a wonderful ex- New Kinsey Report In the Cosmopolitan magazine for September, Mrs. Margaret Culkin Banning, a fictioneer who has always maintained the standard, optimistic decencies, tees off on the forthcoming Kinsey report to be entitled "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Mrs. Banning is a distaff Clarence Budington Kel-land, if they don't mind, as neither of them should, because the comparision is mutually complimentary.

Dirty situations, and dialog appropriate thereto, have been out of their line and although they have been held in mild derision by the back-fence literati for their avoidance of filth, they have depicted the American scene In a time of turmoil much more truly than the school whose own depravity has led them into the error of judging the genteel Southern hite population by themselves. Ballyhoo Belies Intent Mrs. Banning shrewdly observes that the new Kinsey report has a long ballyhoo which justifies a doubt that it is intended only as a scientific survey of human behavior to add to the sum of our knowledge. Even though Kinsey deplores and refutes some of this propaganda, nevertheless, Mrs. Banning says, "No great novel, no vital war record, no statesman's revelations ever had such advance publicity publicity that emanates not only from those interested in promoting the volume, but also from those who have nothing to do with it but hope to capitalize on the public's avid interest in the Kinsey studies.

Any normal, scientific study would shrink from such fanfare. Perhaps the authors of this report do. But the freakish success of the first Kinsey book created an unprecedented situation. And because the sexual life of the female has always been more mysterious than that of the male, public curiosity is reaching a new high." Independently, I have suspected that, with very few exceptions, women who would submit to the Impudent inquiries which are the basis of the Kinsey discussion and findings and answer them, whether truthfully or not, are tramps whose experience would be worthless except as a confirmation of the notorious wantonness of tramps. If I am right, and Mrs.

Banning seems to me to share my opinion, then the book would seem to be merely a com-. pilation of unreliable statements of a generally Immoral quality, tending to confirm the obvious. Everyone Knows The Type "We all know women who are willing and eager to talk about -themselves in relation to sex," Mrs. Banning writes. "They will not only tell all to the Kinsey investigator, but they are likely to get you in a corner and pour out their experiences.

In my experience, they far outnumber the frank, honest, thoughtful women who, because it might be useful to society, would agree to such an interview and approach it in a cool and precise attempt to add to the data on female sex life. There are such women. I only hope Doctor Kinsey and his staff reached many of them. But how many such, women are there and can they be considered typical? I cannot believe that approximately 10,000 women, many inevitably victims of maladjusted sexual lives, can be representative of those millions whose religion, modesty and reticence would keep them from a heart-to-heart talk with a Kinsey investigator." I wonder how a lady of such sensitive intelligence and spiritual dignity could have brought herself to write an outlandish endorsement of Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiography when it began to roll in 1949. In that case she turned to and hammered an old wash boiler as gracelessly as anyone has hollered up the Kinsey books.

Inside Labor Secret Strategy For '52 Planned By VICTOR RIESEL With two waiters and a tuxedoed maitre d', fully conscious of their new-found duties, guarding the paneled portals of the Hotel St. Francis Borgia Room in San Francisco, the nation's 25 most influential labor leaders met inside and, in secrecy, hammered out their 1952 strategy aimed at electing a president of the U.S. who will work closely with the AFL. At this session, from which not only the press, but even the AFL's own technicians were excluded, it was decided to launch immediately a drive for a $9 million campaign fund in addition to the hundreds of thousands of dollars which will come out of the AFL's regular dues to support its political league. It was agreed that the AFL's national leaders had lost contact with their members and that this could be remedied only by the creation of.

a "system of precinct and shop political stewards to keep in closer contact with (the members) on political and economic issues." There's also to be a cross country network of "plant and neighborhood committees' drawn from the AFL's 9,000,000 members. Warned To Streamline In addition, the veteran Matt WolL moving swiftly with the times, warned the group to streamline its propaganda techniques. In his confidential report as head of the AFL's political publicity unit, he said: "We cannot ignore the importance of television. If we started early in January 1952, It would be possible to produce several master films at fairly reduced costs. These would be used for particular senatorial and congressional campaigns by dubbins in the candidate for part of the program and using his voice throughout.

This would require, however, careful planning, adequate 'financing and consultation with the men who are up for re-election." It was Mr. Woll, second vice-president and long considered one of American labor's most astute political leaders, who warned his colleagues that in 1952 labor's election campaign friends can expect the opposition to emphasize "mink coats, public immorality, Communists, perverts and socialist Tabor bosses' as the word of mouth messages" against them. To offset that, Mr. Woll needled his conferees with this: "Through plant committees and neighborhood committees organized in a competent manner, we can lick this competition easily. It doesn't take money; lt takes people.

We have the people. The only question Is whether our union officials at every level will give the leadership and time necessary. The doctors did in 1950 (against us). Will we in 1952?" And recognizing, in advance, the strategy of the Republican tacticians, one of AFL's most influential leaders, George Harrison of the railway clerks, Indicated in his report as over-all political director that the labor slogan will be in '52: "Let us center voter attention on the price of beef steak in 1952. Not on who did what In China years ago." Although there was no mention of still another -development in this strategy committee, it was known that there is now considerable opposition to working publicly with the CIO on political fronts.

If one reads between the lines of Mr. Woll's public relations report, it will be discovered that AFL unions have been. In effect, told to work quietly and to avoid the CIO's more aggressive publicity technique of labeling candidates. Unity Of Action Vital "United action by all unions In suDDort of th ample of temperance by puffing away at big cigars and dangling cigarettes. Another incident: A priest taking a last puff from his cigarette and tossing it out of the door before he walks up to the platform of the high school auditorium to give the baccalaureate sermon (smoking in this school building forbidden).

To give the students credit, they were duly outraged. Teachers and preachers smoking. Mothers smoking before their ehildren and holding babies In their arms. Fathers smoking up milk and grocery money. Children smoking on their way to grammar school.

Doctor? coming to make their house visits, reek- ing of stale tobacco. Surgeons but I dread to speak of their addiction. Turn the pages of our popular Ignore Euclid Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. Job 5 :17. Home Rule Under Attack The Phoenix City Charter, voted by the people in 1913 and amended at subsequent elections, derives its authority direct from the Arizona State Constitution.

It is sovereign law within the city, provided that it does not conflict with the constitution. Wherever it conflicts with the statutes enacted by the legislature, the provisions of the charter prevail, as the statutes themselves provide. Therefore, the chapter of the charter that sets up a nonpartisan system of elections is the law, unless and until the people themselves amend the charter. This, In substance, is the position of the city government in the case where a small group of citizens seeks to compel the city clerk to place the so-called "Democratic Party of Phoenix" on the ballot for the election of Nov. 13.

If a judge of the Maricopa Superior Court issues a mandamus, as a routine procedure, on petition of attorneys for the "rump" Democratic group, the city attorney is expected to come forward with citations of law to show cause why the writ should be dissolved. If either party Is dissatisfied with the court's verdict, it Is probable that the matter could be taken quickly before the Arizona Supreme Court. The city charter is fundamental to home rule, as permitted by the constitution, and it seems likely that the suit is being brought by the forces headed by J. W. Strode and Ray Busey.for purposes of publicity and causing confusion.

Four members of the present city council are Democrats and three are Republicans, although these facts do not appear on the ballot. The politicians opposed to the present administration have sought to make it appear that the Republicans are in control of the city hall and are pretending that they want Democrats in office in order to hamper the Republican organization. It is much more probable that a small group of former city officeholders and those who formerly had fat dty contracts are seeking this means to get back into power. If we know the people of Phoenix, the move is likely to fail. Burning Trash Bad Habit A letter from Finley Peter Dunne in an adjacent column calls attention to an offensive, annoying, and sometimes Illegal practice which both city and county authorities are seeking to stamp out in the vicinity of Phoenix.

This is the habit of burning trash, especially wet or ill-smelling refuse. Except on special occasions, and then by permission of the fire department, there is really little excuse for burning rubbish. In the county, the health department regulation governing the burning of trash states that this must be done between 2 and 4 pjn. Private contractors will pick up trash outside the city for a dollar or two a month, but some householders prefer to burn it. Perhaps the hours for burning are responsible, for night after night, the suburban air is thick with smoke from incinerators and bonfires.

When there is no wind, this does not blow away for hours. Perhaps the county authorities should change the time. Within the city, trash may be burned only between sunup and 10 a.m. The burning of leaves, grass, brush, rubbish or other combustible material is forbidden by ordinance. This must be deposited in the alleys for the city to pick up.

The practice of consuming papers and other rubbish in burners in the alleys likewise is forbidden, and the city has been discouraging the practice. Every now and then the fire department leaves notices at every house in various districts, instructing householders to stop lighting trash fires. Special large quantities of building rubbish or the like may be burned if a permit is obtained from the fire department. Smoke in the coolers is not only annoying but can have serious consequences for those with respiratory ailments. People who burn papers in their incinerators at any time, despite the law, should take care that no grass or moist material is included thus causing the fire to smolder for hours.

In view of the fact that trash is collected both inside and outside the city, there seems to be no good reason for poisoning the atmosphere with smoke. The Tourist Dollar The Mesa plan of endorsing checks tendered by winter visitors with the legend, "These Are Tourist Dollars," is a good one. If these checks could be circulated from hand to hand until their reverse Is covered with endorsements, it would show how tourist money gets around. The Phoenix Chamber of Commerce has, we think, a better scheme. For some months this group has been turning over the Idea of having all hotels, motels, and inns pay off their help and local bills for one week with silver dollars enclosed in cellophane envelopes.

The latter would bear the inscription, "This Is a Tourist Dollar," and perhaps the additional line, "Keep It Circulating." The Idea would be to impress each person who receives one of these dollars with the Importance of the tourist industry and how far the tourist dollar goes. Employes of the local establishments would be asked to use these silver dollars to pay their local bills and to meet all their expenses for a full week. Thus they would find their way into the hands of the doctor and dentist, insurance collector, cobbler, barber, beauty shop proprietor, grocer, painter, carpenter, clothing and shoe dealer, druggist, dry goods store, filling station, tire dealer, seed store proprietor, gas and electric company, telephone company, and a score of other business and professional people. These people In turn would hand them over to their employes, suppliers, and others with whom they do business here in Phoenix. Carried to its ultimate conclusion, there is hardly a person who would not find himself touched by this dollar-circulating system.

For when it comes down to a matter of cold analysis, probably everyone in the Phoenix community depends in some degree on the tourist business. It would be a good Idea to impress this fact on some of our people through this silver-dollar scheme. Do You Remember? Polluted Air Editor, The Arizona Republic: At this time of year, one of the most agreeable aspects of life in Phoenix Is to be able to sit In one's back yard in the cool of the evening, inhaling the clear, fresh atmosphere. These pleasures, however, are now rather frequently denied to those who live in the suburban areas which are not actually within the boundaries of the city Itself, because (especially on Saturdays and Sundays) certain residents of the city's fringes make a practice of burning damp grass cuttings, hedge clippings and even, one suspects, garbage. In the still air of late afternoon and dusk, reeking smoke from these fires settles like a blanket over entire neighborhoods, poisoning air-conditioning systems and offending the nostrils both indoors and out.

This habit tends to degrade the neighborhoods in which it is practised, and actually lowers real estate values. If the offenders are not moved by neighborly considerations or by common sense to desist from this practice, then Maricopa County should follow the city's lead and prohibit trash-burning in all heavily-populated areas where trash-removal, service Is available at reasonable cost. F. P. DUNNE JR.

20 Trs. Ago Today, Sept. 24, 1931 Temperature high 90, low 73, partly cloudy. Commemorating the Inauguration 20 years ago of the airmail system. Phoenix yesterday paid tribute to Frank H.

Hitchcock, former postmaster general, "father of the airmail," and Lt. Com. Earle L. Ovington, first officially licensed airmail pilot in the United States. They arrived at Phoenix Sky Harbor at 12:17 p.m.

from Burbank, Calif. A revised acreage estimate, issued yesterday by J. M. Foote, supervisors of the state Inspection service, placed the fall lettuce acreage in the state at acres. Previously the estimate was 17,000 acres.

C. H. McCracken, Camp Verde cattleman, Mrs. McCracken and their son, have returned home after a visit of several days in Phoenix. Phil Eastman has been appointed to the staff of American Airways at Phoenix Sky Harbor as terminal manager, assisting R.

C. McClurg, Arizona division and traffic operations manager. M. J. Wilbank returned to Mc-Nary yesterday after spending two days in Phoenix on business.

Mr. and Mrs. Evans Blewett, Mesa, returned home yesterday from a visit to the coast. 40 Yrs. Ago Today, Sept.

24, 1911 Temperature high 100, low 69, clear. Board of directors of the new Arizona Producers Co. met yesterday and elected L. W. Cog-gins, president; A.

R. Taylor, vice president; J. W. Malin, secretary and J. H.

Fleming, treasurer. Other members of the board are R. Osmundson and W. R. Strong.

About 30 producers signed the stock roll agreeing to buy stock. Dr. H. H. Stone returned yesterday from a visit in Los Angeles.

Edward Rodenbeck, a recent graduate of Phoenix Union High School, has gone to Chicago where he plans to enter college. S. H. Steward, assistant cashier of the Valley Bank, has returned from, a vacation in California. Ringling Brothers Circus, five long trains of it, will arrive in Phoenix tonight from San Bernardino, and will give two performances here tomorrow, afternoon and night.

The street parade will be at 10 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. C. N.

Stewart, Tempe, returned yesterday from Nordhoff, where they have been visiting their son, C. A. Stewart. Tom Anderson, former Mesa resident, who has been mining in Nevada for some time, arrived yesterday to visit his parents and other Mesa relatives. By MARTIN S.

HA YD EX Despite the Greeks, America may "save" Greece. A thousand American military men, diplomats, and ECA officials, working to build Greece's ability to defend the country, and contribute to Europe's mutual defense, are learning that modern-day Greeks have no use for ancient Euclid's axiom that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points. Greeks prefer to do things the roundabout way. Their government is fantastically complicated, and their bureaucracy corrupt. While the rich duck taxes, the poor starve.

With governmental stability the greatest need, the royal family plays politics, and, though Americans fume, they can do little about it. "We can't deny," said ECA Mission Chief Roger Lapham, "that we face unusual problems, and people with an unusual approach to things. A lot of important Greeks are unquestionably working on the theory that as long as we are putting money in, they had better salvage and hold what they've got to safeguard against the day when we may walk out. The story of the scrap was an example." Disappearing Calculating Greek assets, Lapham explained, American officials began to wonder what had happened to the scrap iron from wrecked vehicles, torn-up rail lines, and destroyed bridges left behind by war. They wanted it shipped to Italy for fabrication into machinery and other Greek necessities, in accordance with the Italian treaty proviso entitling Greece to that free service as part of war reparations.

"Nobody, including the government," said Lapham, "knew what had happened to the scrap. Finally our people began to look in government warehouses and found it Various ministries had tucked it away for use some day, on some not-yet-conceived project, when a Tittle scrap would come in handy. We shook it loose over protests." Again there was the matter of Athens' new race track, a doubly sore point to American officials ever since a U.S. magazine published a story that it was built with U.S. funds.

"We sure didn't pay for it," said a Lapham aide, "although it cost us a lot of grief." The story began right in the middle of the devastating civil war with the Communists, when Greek officials suggested that the track might be a good ECA investment. To flabbergasted American officials the Greeks solemnly unrolled a double sales talk: The track would produce tax revenues, and the imported racing thoroughbreds could be crossed with Greek farm and army animals and improve the The American "no" was repeated when the proposal was revived after the war. Peculiar Tax System Despite American prptests, the Greek government is having little luck getting the wealthy to bring back the badly needed assets they have cached abroad. Specifically, that's true of Greek ship- owners, who run their craft under Panamanian registry, and duck Greek taxation. They've done a "little better, the Americans concede, with reforms to strengthen the tax system that reaches for Greek wealth at home.

As a first step, Greece agreed to the idea of making shopowners keep books. Until the Americans objected, merchant taxation was handled initially by an assessor, who walked in, looked around, and took an "educated guess" at the value of a store's stock. From then on it was matter of "debate" between assessor and taxpayer, perhaps a little "pay-off," and, ultimately, a possible appeal to a tax court that listened to undocumented evidence, and made its binding decision. Second, the Greeks provided that henceforth Greek corporate shares must be registered. Previously corporate ownership in Greece was anonymous, a material handicap when assessors tried to trace dividends for tax purposes.

Finally, there has been a general overhauling of the income-tax system to eliminate a fantastic schedule of varied rates, and a series of loopholes that let "smart" money slip away. All Created Equal Editor, The Arizona Republic: I am amazed at the stand taken by the board of trustees in the schools here in Phoenix on segregation. Surely these men realize that by advocating segregation they are playing into the hands of Communist Russia, making it easy for the Negro to be won for communism. Some of our greatest men have been Negroes. Why deny the colored race the right to have a good education, his constitutional right as an American citizen? A Negro pays taxes.

I dare say there are a good many of them on the batUefield in Korea right now. By segregation In schools, racial prejudice is being bred Into coming generations, children are being taught to hate fellow men, with whom they'll have to walk in adulthood. It's time people woke up to the fact that all men are created equal; and it is only by accident of birth they themselves are not colored. In this "land of the free and home of the brave" do we want to keep the Negro under the heavy foot of oppression, a slave to the Caucasians, or are we going to heed the words of Christ, the Saviour of mankind, in Matthew 7:12, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to -MARTHA COLE few same candidates is obviously desirable," this report said. "However, It is unity of action rather than unity on the letterhead that Is important.

If anything, in 1950 too much emphasis was placed on having all branches of labor publicly listed as sponsoring every pamphlet or billboard under some such title as United Labor Political Committee. "In some instances that only played Into the hands of our enemies, who pointed to our own publicity and said, 'See, the labor bosses have teamed up to purge We should try to avoid letting our enemies make labor, as such, the issue. If our enemies can, they will try to divert voter attention from their own bad records." This was an obvious reference to the CIO's insist-ance upon staying in the forefront of Joe Ferguson's fight on Senator Taft. After four hours, a new political chief, Jim Mc-Devitt of Pennsylvania, was named, and the AFL What 'Moral9 Right? Editor, The Arizona Republic: I feel a burst of derisive laughter imminent within me every time I read that self-righteous statement credited to the Phoenix school board, that they are not morally able to desegregate the Phoenix school system without a vote of the people. Since the question of morals has arisen, whence came their moral right to segregate in the first place? EX-TEACHER P.S.

I am white so what? SOME PARENTS have difficulty in choosing a name for the new baby. Others have rich relatives. "Oh-oh! Here's where I have to go in and live up to my reputation for being precocious!" was deep In the next presidential campaign. A I..