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'IT MAY BE YOUR MODELING DAYS ARE OVER' JACK ANDERSON EDITORIALS THE DAILY PRESS NEWPORT NEWS-HAMPTON-WARWICK, VA FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1956 Candidates For Office Must Be Above Suspicion THE WASHINGTON 1L: kfl i'fc' to wHk 7 While there is not the slightest reason to believe that Mr. Paschen personally ever took a dime of public money he wasn't entitled to, it is also evident that he is not the kind of bookkeeper who -could keep the state's accounts straight by looking over somebody else's shoulder from a distance. He wasn't very sharp about irregular things that were right under his nose. The laxity of Illinois laws on campaign contributions practically invites such incidents. Illinois is one of the very few states that does not require a candidate for state or local office to account for either the campaign money he receives, or the money he spends to get elected.

We are glad Virginia is not among them. The glaring ab sence of a corrupt practices act in Illinois gives public officials and candidates there the feeling that anything goes. There is ample evidence that Mr. Paschen was not free from that feeling. So the Democrats could not very well have made effective use of the ammunition they have been planning to use against Republican Governor Stratton, that he was lax his duty in permitting the Republican state auditor to steal state funds when their own candidate had shown he was no more vigilant.

Mr. Paschen's resignation may not save the day for them entirely, but it will help. It was inevitable that Herbert Paschen would yield to the pressure put on him by the Democratic organization to withdraw as the party candidate for governor of Illinois. Just as Democratic leaders in that state were all set to exploit fully the Orville Hodge scandal against the Republicans the news came out that Cook County and federal grand juries were looking into an employees', welfare fund in Mr. Paschen's Cook County treasurer's office.

The fund, totalling $29,000, is made up of donations from banks which have county money on deposit. Mr. Paschen has said there is nothing illegal about the fund, which is true, but its very existence does raise a question about the integrity of the man heading the office. The episode may influence the presidential election. Mr.

Paschen is the victim of a fresh and healthy insistence in the State of Illinois on greater care in the accounting of all public funds; This new public attitude is one of the beneficial fruits of the Hodge case. When Paschen became Cook County treasurer, he permitted continuance of a so-called "employees' welfare fund" started by one Republican predecessor and kept in effect by another. It was actually to shake down banks for petty sums some of which -were used for political purposes. Politics was a stated purpose of the fund under the Republicans, not under Mr. Paschen.

Modified TV Political Campaigning Indicated MERRY-GO-ROUND written by bis junior partner.) WASHINGTON. No one who has wandered through the Ivy. covered, red brick Smithsonian Institution, home of our national relics, would suspect that hallowed institution of political favoritism. Vet the Smithsonian has slyly turned its brokerage business over to the Republican national finance chairman, J. Clifford Folger.

whose partner happens also to be the son of Smithsonian executive commit-tee chairman Robert V. Fleming. r-. This amounts to a nice windfall paid to the mg firm for handling Smithsonian investments. Involved is a )uicy $5,000,000 consolidated fund which the Institution invests in stock and bonds.

In the past, Washington's leading brokers shared in the brokerage fees. This policy was abruptly changed, however, after Fleming became executive committee chairman. The Smithsonian's treasurer, Thomas Clark, acknowledged to this column that all investments "except in rare instances are now made through the Folger-Heming firm. Clark explained that Robert V. Fleming gives his time freely to the Smithsonian, hence it was considered a "nice gesture" for the Institution to do its busi-ness through his son, Robert W.

The Foiger-Fleming firm simply handles the i ttansactioni how-ever and has no say-so on how the Smithsonian funds should be invested. This decision is made by the staid Boston investment coun-selors Scudder, Stevens, and Clark. The elder Fleming, a respected Washington banker. Has long donated his services to the Smithsonian Institution. He knew his son's firm handled "occasional" Smithsonian transactions, he said, but had no idea it received all the business.

Young Fleming, also contacted by this column, explained that his firm might handle two or three deals a month, or one deal in two or three months, for the Smithsonian. He also contended that long before he joined the Folger firm it was collecting brokerage commissions from the Institution. This is true with one important difference: previously the firm got a small percentage, now it gets the whole rkS' HARRIMAN CONFETTI The Democrats would rather forget about it, but they may be forced to investigate Governor Harriman's fabulous spending at the Chicago convention. It's no secret that he scattered money around like green confetti. This hot political potato may be tossed to Tennessee's bright young Senator Albert Gore, who, as Senate elections chairman, is supposed to help keep politics clean.

He will start investigating election irregularities next month. Dozens of Democratic delegates complained to Adlai Steven-ion's headquarters in Chicago that they had been offered expense money and other favors by the Harriman forces. The charges were turned over to Arthur Grafton, Louisville law partner of Wilson Wyatt, to investigate. For the sake of Democratic amity, however, the Stevenson camp decided to do nothing about the charges. Governor Harriman spent an estimated $2,000,000 on his abortiv presidential campaign.

He kept over 700 people on his campaign payroll, compared to Stevenson's 210 paid workers. Harriman headquarters supplied delegates with free whisky, football tickets, and other favors. Harriman sought an Influential delegate to run his campaign in each state delegation. Those who consented usually were offered "expense money" and the privilege of keeping their own books. The approach was made sometimes by Tammany Hall boss Carmine DeSapio, sometimes by lesser lights such as Senator McCarthy's chum, Roy Cohn.

For example, Iowa delegate Jake Moore acknowledged to this column that he received $1,110 from Harriman headquarters to pay for travel and entertainment. Most of it went to pay out-of-pocket expenses, he said, for a trip to Minneapolis to coun Minnesota delegates. HYSTERICS OVFR 'BRIBE' Nevada delegate Bea Thor went into hsterics on the convention floor after she was pressured to vote for Harriman and several $100 bills were waved under her nose by another delegate. She turned down the offer. Another Nevada delegate, Mary Wells, gave up a modest room at the Y.

M. C. A. hotel for fancier quarters in the Conrad Hilton. She admitted to this column that Harriman headquarters arranged her Hilton accommodations, but claimed she paid for the room out of her own pocket.

Wisconsin delegate Edmund Dawicki also moved into a Conrad Hilton room that bad been reserved by the Harriman camp. His wife insisted to this column, however, that Harriman put up no money. Several delegates from Idaho, Nevada, Montana, and Colorado told Stevenson headquarters that they had been offered travel money by Harriman workers. This column has the list of names in case Senator Gore is interested. It will be interesting to see whether Senator Gore will now investigate his fellow Democrats, including some who voted for him for vice-president.

HAWAIIAN HODGEPODGE NOTES SCRIBBLED on a Hawaiian holiday Congressional bigots, blocking Hawaiian statehood, could learn a lesson in democracy from the Hawaiian people. A racial mixture, they live and work together in Utopian harmony. Posted signs at Hawaiian parks, instead ol warning the public to keep off the grass, invite: "HAVE FUN!" In Honolulu, the police answer the phone: "Police Department. May we help you?" AP's dashing war correspondent, Jim Becker, now heads the Honolulu bureau. He scored a scoop on the first shelling of Seoul when the Americans marched back to the 38th Parallel.

His secret: He personally arranged with a gun crew to open fire. Becker also got hold of the love letters that persuaded turncoat Claude Batchelor to desert the Reds at Panmunjom. How? Enterprising Becker wrote the letters himself for Batchelor Japanese mistress. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin's veteran editor Riley Alien, affectionately called "Mr. Hawaii," is the Islands' No.

1 booster. Mutual Network's stormy news commentator Arthur Gaeth, who disappeared from the national scene six years ago, is now sales boss for a Honolulu milk distributor. Livewire Stew Fern, who publishes the Waikiki Beach Press, is a one-man chamber of commerce Another walking guidebook: Northwest Airlines' vivacious stewardess Alice Rath, veteran of more trans-Pacific flights than it's polite to tell. Hawaiian hospitality is typified by Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Ritt-meister who run the picturesque Halekulani Hotel. "Grandpa" Lycurgis, now his nineties, still personally greets guests at the Tavern House on the edge of Hawaii's biggest volcano. TABUS OF THE HATCH ACT By RICHARD SPONG DAVID LAWRENCE Current Drive But Close Of Presidential Campaign Politicians may get a rude jolt from the findings of Sindlinger and Company's survey showing that during the two major parties national conventions "the size of the television audience fell to a new low," as Jack Gould reports in the New York Times. Some networks dispute but only in part the figures. And this survey may give the campaign planners pause in arranging their television programs to lure voters for President Eisenhower or for Adlai Stevenson.

What seems to have been wrong was that the television coverage not only was occupied by the whole sessions of the convention, but all the networks carried it and viewers wanted some entertainment. This complaint was particularly loud where only chain programs were available. The Republican convention saw much less "patrons-age" than that of the Democrats, and the Sindlinger outfit attributes that rightly, we suspect not to partisanship but to people having had enough after watching the Chicago proceedings. Does this mean, then, that television-is not a serviceable campaign medium? We don't believe it. Mr.

Gould points out that for the remainder of the campaign the Republicans are planning to interfere as little as possible with regular broadcasts. And of course when the President or Mr. Stevenson Jamestown Mosquitoes How many mosquitoes there are on the Peninsula can make an enormous difference next year in the "good name of Virginia" visitors to the Jamestown anniversary program take home with them. It will be peculiarly important because everyone concerned expects a record tourist volume in 1957. For this reason we are of the opinion that the Jamestown program commissions should give special attention to co-ordinating the lower Peninsula's" mosquito control efforts and programs.

It is entirely too much to hope that a wholly mosquito-free season can be assured. However, we are confident that co-ordinated effort will be of very material benefit Some preliminary planning toward such joint operations next year has, we believe, been done. Mosquito control operations in the area have been greatly expanded during the past few years, and quite a reduction in these pests' prevalence has resulted. Swamp drainage, ditching, or both in Warwick, Hampton, York County, and James City County has been combined with spraying of breeding waters and other control measures undertaken by Fort Eustis and Langley Field army and air force personnel But this whole area, from Williamsburg and Jamestown down to Hampton Roads, should be host to many thousands of visitors next year. The Jamestown commissions, we are informed, have made quite creditable progress in co-ordinating other activities and arrangements for these people's reception.

We believe it also is their responsibility to do what they can to obtain the most effective general mosquito control program possible next year. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 More than 43 out of the 45 months of the campaign to elect a president in November, 1956 have been completed and, judging by scientific surveys in past campaigns, a preponderant number of citizens have already made up their minds how they are going to vote. Despite the hullaballoo of the Autumn months just before a presidential election, the impression made upon the voters are based primarily upon what they have learned from the everyday news in the previous three years or more. OF INVESTIGATIONS Thus, the campaign of 1956 for and against the re-election of President Eisenhower really began on Jan.

20, 1953, when he was inaugurated. The Democrats have revealed their strategy again and again. Though some partisan moves have been concealed by an outwardly professed concern for the public interest, there has been a noticeable awareness of the political factor in nearly every public question debated in the Jast three and a half years. While the Democrats, for instance, railed against what deemed the improper use of congressional investigations in the 1953 and 1954, they promptly turned around and used the same tactics when they got control of the committee chairmanships in 1955. All through the 1956 session of Congress, too, the Democrats tried to make political capital by criticizing almost every action taken by the Eisenhower administration.

They kept up an almost continuous attack on foreign policy. They exaggerated every incident surrounding the voluntary resignation of a few officials as implying a taint of alleged corruption. There was also a deliberate effort to minimize the importance of the Communist infiltration in the democratic regime as exposed by congressional committees. These tactics were designed to render less effective the Republican weapons of the 1952 campaign, when communism and corruption in goyernment were dramatized as issues. The Democrats have since sought to show that "security risk' procedures were unnecessary and that there had been a loss of individual liberties.

The stratagem worked well in -Left Wing" circles. It is not clear yet, however, how much progress was made elsewhere by the Democrats in sidetracking the communism and corruption issues. Voters are prone to forget some of the important controversies which four years before caused them to vote against a party in power. But there's one thing it takes a long while for people to forget and that's corruption. The scandals of the Truman administration are still remembered by the American people.

It will be more important than ever for Adlai Stevenson to disassociate himself from the Truman regime, though among his advisers and conspicuous supporters are many of the former officials of the last administration. The day-by-day effect of the Alger Hiss hearings and trials has by no means been removed, nor has the conviction of Joseph Nunan, collector of internal revenue under the democratic administration, for personal income-tax evasion been forgotten. These are facts that sink in long before a political campaign is finally decided. Also, Harry Truman has never explained why, after Harry Dexter White was accused by the F. B.

the President wrote White two firvent letters of commendation. Perhaps the most important influence on the voter, however, is the weekly pay envelope. It makes an impression every week long makes a major speech, a great many will listen. What it does mean, evidently, is that the chains won't be allowed to monopolize the field in the next convention. It may also mean considerably more moderation in campaign broadcasting between now and Nov.

6. Apparently the convention broadcasts have served to teach both parties that they can interest the voters, but that if they attempt to keep them too long at a time the voters will get tired. And maybe miss the whole point of the broadcast. Good Ship Prospects Those latest tanker contracts just announced by the Newport News shipyard look like pretty steady employment for two or three years. The world-wide increasing use of petroleum looks like it had put the tank-ship at the head of shipbuilding production in much of the world.

With the first keel of the three ton oil ships to be laid in about a year, and the final delivery scheduled in the spring of 1959 nearly three years hence a good many men will be kept busy on these three alone. Ship construction, too, appears very much on the upgrade in general. Considerable naval building is both under way and scheduled in American yards, including the aircraft carrier Ranger to be launched here in less than a month. And this yard has a number of oil and cargo and passenger vessels contracted or under construction already. With big ships more in the world spotlight, now would be the time for an American designer to come up with a self-unloading combination ore carrier and tanker for U.

S. production. So far, Japanese yards have held a virtual monopoly on this type of supership that is finding immense favor with shippers as an ideal double-duty vessel. There again, Newport News with its big graving docks should be in an enviable position to attract the work. Everything considered the Peninsula's industrial prospect looks brighter now than for many a year.

The increased rail and maritime traffic, the American Oil and Virginia Electric plants in York County, the Dow Chemical plant soon to be built in the lowest edge of James City County, besides numerous smaller indigenous industries are beginning to-make a real metropolis of the area. 'Democrat' Party? Many of those who heard Governor Langlie deliver his keynote speech at the Republican national convention last week thought it was an accident when he used the term "Democrat" party. Among them was the usually alert editor of the Lynchburg News. After discounting reports that the spreading habit of speaking of the Democratic party as the "Democrat" party was a deliberate slur upon the party, he expressed surprise that Governor Langlie was guilty of the same solecism. Among others, the editor of the News thought this "sloppy habit of speaking" was due to "a tendency toward slurring words which is not infrequent with careless or rapid speakers." Well, we don't know whether Governor Langlie intended any slur on the Democratic Party; but he was certainly not guilty of solecism.

When he said "Democrat" party he meant Democrat party. L. Richard Gurlay, public relations director for the Republican national committee, says it has become "official policy" to drop the "ic" from Democratic Party and henceforth refer to the opposition as the "Democrat" party. The policy went into effect last week, he says, when all speeches were edited to make "Democratic read "Democrat" Mr. Gurlay says there are too many "diverse viewpoints" among the Democrats to warrant the name "Democratic." The Republicans thus adopted a usage which gained nationwide attention in 1954 through its constant use by Senator McCarthy during the army-McCarthy hearings.

Which should make madder than ever those disgruntled Democrats who think the Republican leaders mean to slur their party. So far the Democratic national committee has refused to comment officeably on the Republican effort to steal their "ic." But National Chairman Paul Butler was right, in our opinion, when he said in discussing the subject on a television interview, "it's our party and we'll call it what we please." before the actual campaign opens. The Democrats used to say, "aren't you better off than you were four years ago?" And their best slogan was, "you never had it so good!" Then there's the military draft. The monthly calls now are low. The Democrats may cry, "there is no peace!" But, as long as the draft calls are small and American boys aren't fighting in foreign wars, the "peace issue" will help the Republicans.

These elemental points take hold thoughout the period between elections. Campaign speeches with personal attacks on President Eisenhower and intimations that the democratic high command has some inside information from some higher place as to how long the President is going to live are not likely to prove effective. In 1952 President Truman made an attack on General Eisenhower's integrity. It was part of the "give 'em hell" campaign which the Democrats denounce if a McCarthy becomes vehement, but which they cheer with enthusiasm when one of their own number employs character assassination. The voting public resents personal slurs against the nominees of either party, and often such attacks boomerang in favor Of the man assailed.

NEVER-ENDING 'WAR Adlai Stevenson, for example, in his acceptance speech said that if he were elected and anything happened to him, "the people will have a new president they can trust." This was regarded by many who heard it as a slap at the integrity and honesty of Vice-President Nixon. Letters received here indicate it alienated a good many "Independents" who had looked to Stevenson to begin his campaign on a higher plane. While a minority of the voters may change their -minds as a result of printed speeches and broadcasts during a campaign, the impression has grown among practical politicians that elections are really decided by opinions formed long before November. In fact, political campaigns are never over. Party warfare starts out anew the day after a President's inauguration.

(Copyright, 1956. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) is a high labor demand this process will continue. Over a million "farmers," so classified in the statistics, are reducing their commercial farm operations and making their chief incomes from other work while keeping their families on the home farm whose products contribute greatly to their livings. Farmers are the only businessmen not required by law to keep books and their real increment does not show up in the statistics. Much can be done to help farmers who are victims of the technological revolution.

They need to be assisted into other employment. Increased industrial decentralization would keep more of them on part-time farms. But interference with the price structure or even 100 per cent of parity will not stop the dynamic process. There is no crisis in agriculture as a whole. In productivity, prosperity, assets over liabilities, and dynamic progress American agriculture, as a whole, leads the world.

NOBODY allenges this. Daily we are reminded that the Soviet industrial economy is catching up with ours; but not even the Soviets suggest that their collectivized farming is even beginning to catch up with ours, created by free effort, ingenuity, and scientific invention. If there were an agricultural crisis it would certainly be reflected in the price of good farm land. The fact that it not only maintains but steadily increases in value is the farmers' testimony of confidence in their ability to earn an equitable income from it ON THE RECORD Politics Not The Farm Cure By DOROTHY THOMPSON Drill The serious politicking will get under way after Labor Day (Sept. 3), but more than two million citizens will be able to take only a passive part in the battle.

These are the 2,192,329 civilian employees of the federal government in the continental United States figures as of June, latest available at the Civil Service Commission. And don't think that the federal employees in the voteless District of Columbia are the only ones involved. Only 232,701 of the two million-plus government employees, or slightly more than 10 per cent, work in Washington. The others are scattered among the 48 states. THE C.

S. C. has thoughtfully listed the activities the federal employee may legally engage in under the Hatch act. He may: Vote as he chooses. Express opinions on all subjects and candidates (but not to the extent of taking an active part in political management or campaigns).

Make a voluntary contribution to a political organization. Display a sticker on his private automobile, but not "while on duty conducting the public business." Wear a political badge or button, but not on duty. Accept appointment to "such positions as justice of the peace or members of boards of education, school committees, and boards of public libraries," etc. if the agency decides holding these local offices "will not conflict or interfere with the discharge of your federal duties." No go if the offices are filled through a "partisan political election." Participate in "a non-partisan local election in which party designation, nomination, and sponsonship are completely absent." Petition "Congress or any member of Congress." Sign petitions, including nominating petitions, but not initiate them or canvass for the signature of others." Attend political rallies and Join political clubs, but not take an active part in either. (He may vote on issues but not speak for or against them).

And what may the federal employee not do? The "general prohibition," says the C. S. is that the federal employee 'may not take an active part in political management or in political campaigns of a partisan character." Specifically, here's what else he may not do: Be a candidate for nomination or election to a national or state office. Solicit others to become candidates. Campaign for or against a political party or Use his automobile to transport voters, except members of the immediate family, to the polls.

Distribute campaign material. March in a political parade. Sell tickets for or otherwise actively promote such activities as political dinners. Write for publication any article or letter soliciting votes for or against any party or candidate. Solicit or receive any assessment or contribution for any political purpose.

Make a political contribution in a federal building or to another federal employee. THE MOST severe penalty for violation of these regulations is removal from federal employment. The minimum penalty is suspension without pay for 90 days. And the C. S.

C. cautions every employee to check with the commission first Washington 25, D. before engaging In any political action. When in doubt, "you should get a ruling on the matter before engaging in the action, since ignorance of provisions of the law will not excuse you from penalties for violation." Thought For Today For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we, be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one -Spirit. Cor.

12:13. chief and most efficient producers. But their size is increasing and their number decreasing year by year, despite the fact that productivity per acre has sensationally Increased. To illustate: Twenty years ago a strawberry grower, following the best methods then known, was fortunate to produce one ton per acre. Today in the San Francisco Bay area where one can find more interesting matters than a convention 20 tons to an acre is competitive and 30 tons not unknown.

An open national market plus refrigeration is ending former monopolies of regional markets. The man-hours needed to produce 20 times the product of 20 years ago are less, not more. But the capital needed is much greater. This process of entrance and exit into farming will continue no matter what policies are pursued in Washington unless we wish a static peasant essence of "parity." Any policy, however, that attempts to halt the dynamic process and keep in business unprofitable commercial units will fail and wreak grave injuries upon the whole national economy. Unprofitable farms are going out of business at the rate of 120,000 units per year.

Much can be done for the farmer whom the technological revolution is putting out of business. He is doing much for himself. He is selling his land to more efficient producers and going into industry. As long as there Both parties, in their conventions, acknowledged that many small farmers are in serious trouble, and each accused the other of failing to solve their problems. They are in trouble.

Except during actual war with an all-absorbing market and abnormal prices for food and fibres the weaker segment of agriculture has been in trouble for a generationunder Democrats and Republicans. No policy devised in Washington has done more than slightly alleviate their trouble and all policies have brought economic evils in their train. THEY ARE IN trouble be-cause the scientific-technological revolution has affected agriculture more suddenly and more radically than any part of the This revolution has been ploughing under farmers' working marginal land or a terrain unsuitable for efficient mechanization, or those without sufficient capital for the great equipment and soil reconstruction practices essential to successful commercial competition. The farmer without these resources is non-competitive and as outlived as a Currier and Ives print. He is a peasant, trying to hold his own in an industry.

Few city people realize that the investment of capital per man employed is larger in agriculture today than in industry, and that a farmer cannot hope to succeed without some $25,000 Investment in equipment alone. The family-sized farm is not, however, passing out. On the contrary such units are still the Established 1896 Published Mornings and Sunday by The Daily Press, Inc. twenty-fifth Street NEWPORl NEWS. VIRGINIA Telephone 7-1231.

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