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we have. And I think his words were well taken." They were, indeedand it is clear that the nation mug maintain a constant alert to make sure that defense money is spent only for defense, and not for made-work. Thtf Tax Bill I'Lflf Way A few hours after President' Kennedy appealed for passage of his tax revision program the House adopted it by a party-line vote of 219 to 196, giving the President his, tiggest legislative victory of the year. The issue was nip-and-tnek and Administration forces deserve "credit for getting the legislation throgh. The measure will run into conflicting pressures in the Senate for knocking outcome of the modifications the House made in the original Administration plan and for restricting the bill still further with prospects for a final result somewhat along the lines of the House bill.

In his appeal Mr. Kennedy warned that efforts to scuttle bill would be damaging to the economy. The Republican leaders, especially in the House, have taken a differ ST.L0U1S POST-DISPATCH tmmiti by JOSEPH PULITZER December 12, 1878 Pubfiihti by 7ht PtiJCJser Publuhitig Co. MAm Mill AAuer Strvkc MAm 1 -6565 HE POST DISPATCH PLATFORM I KNOW THAT MY RETIREMENT WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE IN ITS CARDINAL PRINCIPLES, THAT IT WILL ALWAYS FIGHT FOR PROGRESS AND REFORM, NEVER TOLERATE INJUSTICE OR COR' RUPTIOf, ALWAYS FIGHT DEMAGOGUES OF ALL PARTIES, NEVER BELONG TO ANY PARTY, ALWAYS OPPOSE PRIVILEGED CLASSES AND PUBLIC PLUNDERERS, NEVER LACK SYMPATHY WITH THB POOR, ALWAYS REMAIN DEVOTED TO THE PUBLIC WELFARE, NEVER BE SATIS FIED WITH MERELY PRINTING NEWS, ALWAYS BE DRASTICALW INDEPENDENT, NEVER "BE AFRAID TO ATTACK WRONG. WHETHER BY PREDATORY PLUTOCRACY OR PREDATORY POVERTY.

JOSEPH PULITZER No Argument for Wiretapping Another campaign" for wiretapping got under way with testimony by Attorney General Kennedy before the Senate, Judiciary Committee and the report of the Senate Investigations subcommittee, headed by Senator McClellan of Arkansas. The case made by Mr. Kennedy was sadly weak. It lacked concern for the protections of the Bill of Rights, and these should be of primary importance to the nation's highest law officer. Mr.

Kennedy used the argument of a poorly trained policeman or an over-zealous prosecutor. Admitting that his predecessors, if not himself, had obtained information by wiretaps, said "it is an anomalous situation to receive information of a heinous crime and yet not be able to use that information in court." Actually, this simply shows that the federal courts have been respecting the prohibition against interception and disclosure of messages while law enforcement agents have put themselves above the law. And despite the view of the Senate subcommittee, the fact that gamblers make big profits is no argument whatever for giving police authority to tap telephone wires. It may well be true, as the subcommittee stated in a report, that "the telephone is the one instrument which is absolutely necessary to gamblers and racketeers." It is also necessary to a host of legitimate enterprises, including, we daresay, the operation of Senator McClellan's office. Surely there must be other methods of stopping illegal gambling if it is as big a business as the subcommittee says it is.

The report said organized crime takes in illegal Profits perhaps exceeding 50 billion dollars a year from gambling. Presumably this includes the extensive activities at Hot Springs just 65 miles from Senator McClel- lan's home. The figure seems high, but the size, whatever it is, has nothing to do with the principle. Most illegal gambling occurs through the connivance of gamblers with corrupt public officials. Wiretaps are not needed to break that up.

Saturday, March 31, 1962 ent view of taxation from the President. They seem primarily interested in cutting total tax revenues at a time when expenditures, especially for national defend, do not warrant a reduction. The President, on the other hand, favor? tax concessions to stimulate the kind of investment which would quicken the growth rate of the American economy. To offset these revenue losses, he wants taxes withheld on dividends and interest justifiable by itself in view of widespread evasion. Mr.

Ken- nedy also would plug loopholes, a matter of fairness quite aside from the money to be brought into the Treasury. His recommendation for the taxation of foreign earnings of American corporations is more complicated. There should' be a free flow of capital as well as of trade. Yet there can be no countenancing of devices specificallde-signed only to avoid normal taxation. The House Ways and Means Committee spent 11 months rewriting the President's proposals and the President has accepted its modifications on the ground that they preserve his basic purposes.

Republicans unwilling to close loopholes are condemning the investment credits as the "worst of all loopholes." They are calling the withholding provision an "administrative monstrosity" although taxes on wages have been withheld so efficiently that states, Missouri among them, have adopted the device. It is incongruous that those claiming to represent sound business should be against concessions intended to promote business. It is equally strange that advocates of "good should oppose withholding of taxes on dividends and interest. And how can they be against the closing of loopholes when they have so often borrowed the argument of Representative Mills, the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, that simply by closing them federal revenues could be increased sufficiently to meet all needs. Mr.

Kennedy's recommendations are subject to refinement, but their fundamentals can be ignored only at cost to the nation. "I THINK HE SHOULD HAVE A CHOICE OF DOCTORS." The Sputnik and the Goose Some Part of Our Expanding Intelligence Might Be Devoted to Feathers, A'ot allout Letters from the People To Answer a Professor As a physician jn private prac- tice, I would agree, with Prof. Egon Schwarz that there is nothing terrifying about socialized medicine. The prospect of salaried employment would not be unpleasant to many in the profession, after years of grubbing in the market place of medical practice. It offers a number of possible advantages: The work-week could be reduced from 60 hours to a more reasonable 40 hours, with most weekends and evenings free to spend with the family.

Night calif could be efficiently handled by a rotating roster of physicians on emergercy call, or through hospital emergency rooms, as is the case In the Scandinavian countries today. Hospital patients would be under the care of a full-time medical staff, as is the case In England, relieving the family physician of this onerous task. No longer would it be necessary to render special amenities to the patient and to his family. The sal-I aried physician could consider their I problems with a certain detachment, dealing with them fairly but firmly. Of course, there would be the fringe benefits; paid vacations, health insurance, paid sick leave, and the like, now provided by the individual physician himself.

The public might find it difficult to abandon certain bourgeois con-j cepts of service and of free choice of a personal physician, but should readily do so when they have had a chance to observe the advantages of the new system, i Last year the country spent in excess of 16 billion dollars on pri-! vate medical care. The taxpayer might shudder about assuming this as a tax burden, especially through the mechanism of the Social Security tax, which hits the little guy the hardest. It is reassuring, however, to learn that this tax is really not a tax at all, but an insurance premium. H. D.

Howard, M.D. Springfield, 111. May I suggest that Prof. Egon Schwarz do some research upon the results of socialized medicine before expounding upon its virtues. Beginning on page 86 of the March 26 Issue of "U.S.

News and World Report" he will find an article about what has happened in England during the 14 years of socialized medicine. It should make him think again as to whether or not the restilts are for the benefits of hifmanlty. Let us not destroy our high standards of service to humanity exemplified by our medical profession in order to further the reactionary socialist program which has been tried and found wanting. Mrs. Frank V.

Davis Greenville, 111. 'Whitewash' He Says Your attempt to whitewash John Paton Davies was a bit ridiculous. What's so terribly impressive about Will Da via, Editor, in The Shelbina Democrat Much has been said about this shrinking world as missiles fly 5000 miles with hardly a bobble of a gyroscope; an astronaut hurtles 80,000 miles and sees four sunrises as part of a rrjprning's work. Their numbers shall Increase as electronics beget better methods of timing a moon flight's landing by seconds and the descendants of Expldrer stretch to infinity Outdoing Moscow in Secrecy It is most embarrassing thatthe United States, after originating the idea and introducing the resolution that resulted in a United Nations public registry of space launchings should boggle and hedge over submitting a report on Col. Glenn's orbital flight.

This embarrassment is heightened by the fact that Soviet Russia, almost inVariably the first to quibble over any kind of last Monday reported its 16 satellite launchings, jpqjuding those of Gagarin and TitovJ the first two men to orbit the While the United States has reported on 72 launchings, the National Aeronautics and Space- Administration has delayed the Glenn report and apparently is not going to make it. The only attempt at explanation is a Philadelphia -lawyer type interpretation of the regulation on reporting launchings: only objects which went into orbit and remained there should be reported. This view would exclude the Titov and Gagarin shots. Under the it would seem difficult for the United States members of the UN space committee to go on with the Soviet members in the deliberations that have just begun. Somebody should remember that the UN resolution, which was unanimously adopted only last intended to further peace and not suspicion.

in the manner of Old Testament families. But, unchanged will be the position life than its meager contribution toward food for the happily diet-conscious hunter. Also, as these natural reservoirs are drained, water needed for other wildlife and humans falls from skies growing empty of waterfowl onto land where other wildlife needs water. It speeds to its eventual destination in the sea and carries Irreplaceable top-soil with it. When drainage justifies its benefits to manit should done.

When it fails to offset these advantages with benefits to a technological world whose far-reaching skies are becoming cluttered with satellites and the Mowly-heavy overcast in winter is silent without the lonely stridency of geese-then some portion of our expanding intelligence should be devoted to feathers, not fallout. We don't hunt geese or ducks, but how often have we thrilled to the echoing call of the first flight or, watched their squadrons drive into, and then slide away, from the hunters' barrage and silently hoped nothing would shatter their flights' symmetrical majesty. Although we've never seen a Sputnik, we doubt if one would affect us the same way, The Mirror of Where Change Might Help One of the portions of the County Charter that deserves study by the citizens committee headed by Prof. Paul Steinbicker of St. Louis University is the planning section.

We are concerned particularly with the rule it establishes for the Planning Commission. Is it wise to require that six of the Commission's eight members be residents of the unincorporated area? That strikes us as unnecessarily restrictive on the appointing authority. Only one countian in four lives in the unincorporated area. More importantly, the Commission plans for all the county, even though its zoning regulations are effective now only outside the cities. Two other rn-bers of the Commission now must be i ir-men of planning bodies in their home municipalities, and that may be all to the good.

But some adjustment in the makeup of the re-J malndef of the Commission is indicated. -MV Teachers Are Sitting Ducks American ambivalence toward education the pride we take in school buildings and our feeling that "those who are good in their field have jobs while the others teach" is exemplified by the pressures exerted on teachers byhe Red-fearing rightists. True, James E. Russell, secretary of the educational policies committee" of the National Education here the other day about pressures from the left as well as the right. Yet that may have been academic caution.

There are not many extreme leftists around these days. Those inclined to "push around" teachers would do well to question their own authorityand not merely their legal authority. When the chairlady of the for instance, demands that, a book be taken off the school library shelves, what convinces, her that she is an authority on literature? More often than not, the book in question has been widely read and acclaimed. What makes such censorious individuals believe that school people put tripe on their shelves? Many of the objections are against books allegedly tinctured by Communism or indecency. The amateur censors, however, often know precious little about Communism, be it of the Russian or any other variety.

Surely the average teacher is better informed than the average book-banner or ideological "expert." This must be" expected of those entrusted with the education of the young. So the judging elders would do better to ask teachers about books or ideologies, instead of telling them. But teachers are, we suppose, sitting ducks. They are the servants of the public, so some of the public feel free to act as their masters. The antidote is a firm spine and a tart rejoinder to the busybodies.

But that may be too easy to recommend when bread and butter are at stake. So it is up to the community to mind its. manners and to show a little more respect for teachers. Conrad in The Denver Post. 'Let's All Bunch Up Like a Rocket and Start World War III!" Last week was National Wildlife Week and the theme Involves preservation of these marshlands which nourish, cherish and prompt an inevitable flight after a long countdown.

Drouth is a natural enemy In these pothole regions but man (fas found another way to defy even nature through drainage of many miles of nesting places, which economically are more valuable for the preservation of bird Public Opinion of a Shelby hunter late next fall when he settles in a blind in Chariton county and waits for the regal Canada and purposeful mallard. They fly an unorbital flight from launching pads which have not changed their locations for centuries. As a Titan, Atlas or Mercury capsule incubate in the feverish minds of men, the geese and ducks launch their broods and flights from the wetlaritis of the northern part of the United States and in Canada. Checkmate From The Washington Post rally, he was the youngest player In the match. In taking first place In this contest, Bobby now is in a position to challenge the world champion, Mikhail Botvinnik of the Soviet Union.

This is a form of peaceful competition that merits approval; Bobby deserves to be a competitor with more honor in his native land. lenging the virtual monopoly held by the Russians on international chess champions. At 15, Bobby became the youngest grand master in the history of the game and earned the right to advance into major world tournaments. The other day, Bobby won the world interzonal tournament in Stockholm; natu- In Russia, chess is front page news and master players are regarded with the awe reserved in this country for baseball idols. One of the things that Ivan knows and Johnny doesn't is how to move a knight on a chessboard.

Lately, Ivan has doubtless been hearing about Bobby Fischer, the 19-year-old prodigy from Brooklyn who is chal "correctly" predicting a civil war Between Book Ends Behind the Scenes oj Government Behind the Defense Dollar Just how the multi-billion dollar defense program generates powerful political and economic, forces, as -well as military might, was brought home vividly a few days ago. Marquis W. Childs, Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch, told in a Sunday article how the controversy over big bomber production displayed the growing strength of the military-industrial complex. His article was nicely supplemented that night by the National Broadcasting Company's hour-long documentary television program, "Arms and the State." Mr. Childs began his article with a strong emphasis on President Eisenhower's farewell address in which Mr.

Eisenhower warned against the military-industrial complex. The television program with the same farewell address and its paramount sentence: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." That there is much influence to guard against is shown by the RS-70 bomber fight, by the dependence of many companies on their defense contracts, and by the city officials, bankers and workers who told the TV audience exactly what arms contracts meant to them and their communities. When Republic Aviation is cut back on fighter production and McDonnell wins a lucrative fighter contract, nothing can assuage those who lose their jobs on Long Island. It would be foolish to award defense contracts on the basis ofneed fbr jobs and Sec-' retary of Defense McNamara, speaking briefly on the program, made this clear. Mr.

McNamara left no doubts that he was against any political surrender to the demand for jobs and industry President Kennedy, when asked at a press conference last Jan. 15 how he felt about the military-industrial complex after his first year, replied: think that President Eisenhower commented on a matter which deserves continuing attention -by the President and also by the Secretary of Defense. IV 'gets to be a great vested interest in expenditures becanse of the employment that's involved ana $11 the je.st, and that's one0of the struggles which he had and which I in a country where two opposing camps are both In arms? And who could not correctly predict that the Russians would help the Communists? The crowning glory of Mr. Davies's wisdom is that he "wisely" advised the United States to avoid unalterable commitment to Chiang and to be ready for a possible realignment. Now, do you honestly believe that it was wise to allow the Communists to take over China? I don't understand that at all.

History may indeed vindicate Mr. Davies. It may show him success- I ful in his efforts. But it is doubtful that his activities can ever be I ehown to have jnefited the country he was supposed to be serving. Belleville Giles Wagner i I The Overseas Weekly As a veteran of the European command, I cannot allow your glowing editorial description of the Overseas Weekly to, pass unchallenged.

That the Overseas Weekly engages in sensationalism and that it is in fact a malicious, cheap scandal sheet Is common knowledge to all self-reapecting persons who have come in contact with it. The fact the Overseas Weekly has temporarily cleaned Itself up while its distribution facility was in serious danger should come as no surprise to learned newsmen. During a previous temporary ban from mili ful efforts to keep his identity unknown, the sleuthing Job tha brought him into the open, and Mr. Eisenhower's insistence that Wenzell was a mere "technical adviser." Ironically, the President later had his lawyers refuse to pay the Dixon-Yates out-of-pocket costs of $1,870,000 on the grounds of conflict of interest involving Wenzell. The administration used the same ground in its successful defense of a court of claims suit for $3,500,000.

The book shows signs of painstaking research, but it also bears the marks nt some sloppiness. The late Senator Thomas Hennings Jr. of Missouri is identified as being from Mississippi. Senator John Sherman Cooper, of Kentucky, is called a Tennessean. A more serious objection is Wildav sky's conclusion that the Supreme Court's decision was unduly harsh against the Dixon-Yates combine, since it was merely doing the Administration's bidding in helping work out a contract and supplying an inside man to smooth the negotiations.

The' book could well have contained an exploration of the part played by the private power lobby in indoctrinating a President and an Administration irr the belief that TVA was essentially evil and that extreme measures were justified in curtailing its growth and cutting it back. The chief merit of t(je bojk, ho ever, is not in its conclusions but in its narrative account of a controversial Oiije can wish that a similar mass of factame to light about other government' kpcis ions in cqntroversial fields. Richard Dudman Aaron Wildavsky, an assistant professor of government at Oberlin College; has successfully captured the drama and tolor of the controversy in his detailed narrative account. He presents It as an unusual opportunity to see behind the scenes of bureaucratic government. In somewhat over-simplified terms, the Dixon-Yates plan was a scheme to build a private power plant under government contract at West to supply power to Memphis, Just across the Mississippi river.

The plan meant introducing private power into the Tennessee Valley Authority system, which had been supplying Memphis. This fitted In with the desires of the private utilities, which had long been at war with TVA, and with President Eisenhower, who once cited TVA as an example of 'creeping socialism." A complicating factor was that neither TVA nor the city of Memphjs wanted to accept the Dixon-Yates power. This problem was by making the Atomic Energj? Commi sion the contracting agency-jthrough the fiction of saying that private power would be put into the TVA system at Memphis and taken 6ut by the-AEC at Paducah, for use in an' atomic plant. The tangled arrangements eventually involved not only the Budget Bureau, the TVA and the AEC but also the Federal Power Commission, the Exchange Commission and the President himself. Much of the drama of the story lies In the role of the secret Budget Bureau employe, Adolphe H.

Wenzell, the care DIXON-YATES: A STUDY IN POWER POLITICS, by Auron ildavsky. (Uni-vrrsity Press, 351 J6.75.) The remarkable thing about the Dixon-Yates controversy was that it became a national'political issue at It was a dispute over a complicated' power contract of importance mainly to one region of the country, the Tennessee Valley. But it dogged the Eisenhower Administration from its first months in 1953 until its last days, in January 1961, when the Supreme Court threw it out as unenforceable even to the extent of requiring the Government to pay out-of-pocket costs to the contractor. Unfortunately for its promoters In the Eisenhower Administration and the private power industry, the Dixon-' Yates contract smelled strongly of deception and concealment. Early in the negotiations, an officer of the private power combine that promoted it was quoted in congressional hearings as having said, "The contract is on the rails, and the rails are greased." At the climax, investigators discovered the secret employment of a representative of the power combine as a consultant in the President's Bureau of the Budget In what the Supreme Court eventually found to be a disqualifying conflict of Interest.

A special circumstance was that the, political controversy pulled into the open a mass of papers normally kept confidential bitterly antagonistic letters within the administration. White House jtrategy plans and even handwritten notes in which officials tried to distinguish th! friends from the enemies of the power proposal. Cloud Over Sunny Ads The promise of a more abundant life and a better opportunity in more distant and greener fields becomes more alluring as land grows scarcer. A great deal has been heard lately of cheap land in the South and Southwest for a vacation paradise, a place to live in retirement, a spot for industrial development. And now the Federal Trade Commission says it is investigating because some of the advertising "appears to exaggerate to the point of fraud." Conceding that reclamation has done wonders, the FTC warns, "More often the swamp remains swamp and the desert remains desert, and the sucker pays for a pipe dream." The solicitude of the FTC does not seem amiss when it is remembered that.

Ponce de Leon, Coronado and other conquistadores were somewhat in their searchings fdr paradise nearly 400 years ago, as were some victims oi the Florida land boom in the '20s. But after the rigors of the past winter even swamp and desert land has a strong appeal as long as it is devoid of snow and wfJll' supplied with tary installations (on complaint or a chaplain's committee) its circulation dropped by over one-third. Rather than enhancing the pres tige of the verseas Weekly, you have detracted from your own. Florissant James M. McMullin..