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i Abuse Of Power Is Real Issue Drew Pearson: The Washington Merry-Go-Round Disunity Has Cost Us Defeat. Sf)? Sk (Crosse tribune Comment and Opinion T. BURGESS, Publisher May 7. Washington News Notebook ho had been associated with a Senate committee as a hostage' in an effort to compel that committee to cease investigating alleged infiltration of subversives into the Army establishment If the Army or any Executive unit could with impunity resort to such devices to block investigation by congressional committees, then Congress would be frustrated in its legitimate function of probing steadily into the soundness and effectiveness of government operations. Congress has the duty to see that government is run in accord with the laws, and run welL Investigation is its weapon in fulfillment of that duty.

But the Constitution does not give to Congress the power to administer the government. That is the function of the Executive. There is a vast difference between checking to see that government is run properly, and actually running it A senator cannot, under the guise of mere checking, seek to substitute his decisions for those of the secretary of the Army, of State, or any other department These are the issues at the root of this controversy. It is not a question of whether Schine did or did not perform KP on a certain Sunday. Schine was just the trigger who touched off the dispute.

If it had not been he, then sooner or later someone or something else would have caused the explosion. No matter how painful the digressions, the chaos and the repetitions, these hearings must go through to their full conclusion. Only thus can we hope to approach the truth about whether either men in the Senate or men in the Executive branch have abused or tried to enlarge the power given them by the Constitution. HERES A GOVERNMENT daisy chain to follow. It concerns the old section 606 Federal Housing Administration scandals now being investigated by Congress, the FBI and nearly everybody else.

There was nothing illegal about any of the profits reaped by multiunit housing developers under this law. They merely built their projects for less money than the amount they borrowed to finance the operation on a government guaranteed mortgage. They pocketed the difference as a windfall profit. The government has no chance of getting any of this money back. But the government can collect Income taxes on these profits.

If the government collects only capital gains taxes on these profits, it will get only 26 per cent of the windfall. If the government can collect straight corporation income taxes on the profits, it might get 52 per cent or more of the windfall. If the builders had not made these profits now estimated at $65 million on 1,149 projects the government would not have been able to collect any taxes on them at all. As the Army-McCarthy hearings drag on, one hears a great deal comment to the effect that they are a terrible waste of time and taxpayers money. We ought, it is said, to be concentrating all our attention on the grave Indochina situation, domestic economic problems, the Presidents program and similar serious matters.

There is no question of the gravity and importance of these latter issues. Nor is there any doubt that the Army-McCarthy proceedings are fraught with endless confusion, digression and repetition. But that does not mean they are either unimportant or a total waste. Nor is this just a lot of hullaballoo about what happened to one Army private. There are charges and countercharges in the air which go to the fundamental workings of the American government.

They cannot be ignored. The Army lias not charged simply that Senator McCarthy and his aides sought special treatment for a private named G. David Schine. The Army contends that in pursuit of that goal the senator and his assistants employed the full weight and power of a Senate committee; indeed, threatened reprisals if their demands were not met. That is a grave complaint.

The power of a Senate committee under our constitutional arrangements is very great. If it can be employed to enforce the purely personal wishes of its wielders, if it can be used to disrupt and distort the normal, established procedures of the Army or any other part of the Executive branch, then the balance of forces in the American government is imperiled. The countercharge is no less serious: That the Army used a private Task Isnt Completed On a recent trip to Korea, Charles S. Thomas, assistant secretary of defense for Supply and Logistics found Army engineers were using 23 different models of power shovels, 20 different models of graders and was told about other supply items of which there are more than 400 models not to mention spare parts. While the present administration has made a good start toward cut WASHINGTON Unless the Russians pull some unforeseen boner at Geneva, that coo-ft-rence seems slated to be the worst diplomatic defeat for the United States in 20 years.

What Geneva has done is show up the fact that the U-SJt. no longer holds the world's initiative, the balance of power, the trump cards, in the cold war. In Geneva, other diplomats did not come knocking at Dulles door to find out what the United States wanted. They knocked at Molotovs instead. For the first time, at Geneva, the United States went back to the days of Hoover and Roosevelt when we could not call the tunes at international conferences.

Time after time in those days, we inspired important diplomatic gatherings, only to have them end in failure. This was not because eith-l er a Democratic or a Republican administration was in power, or because we didnt try hard. It was because Nazi-Fascist leadership was too strong and because we were too divided at home. So we coasted downhill into A PEARSON war. Today strong Communist leadership has replaced Nazi-Fascist leadership at a time when the United States has become woefully divided at home.

A nation divided against itself cannot lead, and our European Allies know it. Thats why we have lost world initiative. Herbert Hoover lost leadership abroad because of the isolationist split in his own Republican Party. Roosevelt couldnt gain leadership until after Pearl Harbor because of increasing isolation, especially from some of the same crowd that has come back with such vigor to support McCarthy. Today the Kremlin obviously reads the newspapers.

So do our Allies. They know that, regardless of what Mr. Dulles may say at Geneva or Paris or London, he cant carry out what he says without certain Republican senators: without the American people now confused by McCarthy; and without the morale-shot American Army. In other words, John Foster Dulles went to Geneva with almost no trump cards in his hands. And when he got there he proceeded to throw away the one card that Molotov thought was a trump.

ALL THIS WAS why Dulles left Geneva amid reports that he would resign. While the reports were denied, it is no secret that the harassed and beleaguered secretary of state has felt terribly depressed. Once, when heckled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by the leader of his own party, Knowland of California, Dulles seemed almost on the verge of tears. "I cant seem to please you gentlemen, he said. "It looks as if theres just no way we can conduct foreign affairs to your liking.

And, as he departed for Geneva, Dulles told advisers that the Republican Partys Senate leader, Mr. Knowland, seemed to be the biggest obstacle to Dulles policies. The Senate leader should lead in supporting Republican policies, not try to block it, he complained. BECAUSE OF THESE worries, plus the fact that he was extremely tired, Dulles pulled a surprising boner at Geneva. He held a background press meeting in his Gene a Hotel room the night before the conference opened at which he flatly reversed Vice President Nixon and his own statements about U.S.

intervention in Indochina. Categorically he stated that we had no intention of doing anything in Indochina. Three weeks before, Nixon had told newspaper editors wa might even send troops. But Dulles said we would do no such thing at Though Dufies was not quoted directly, this made headlines around the world. But more important, Molotov knew within 30 minutes who the author erf the nonintervention statement was.

Immediately, Molotov called Communist satellite diplomats together, told them to adopt a hard-fast policy of unconditional surrender in Indochina. Previously, U.S. and Indian observers had picked up what seemed to be reliable reports that Molotov had planned a conciliatory policy. He had been afraid the United States really meant business and might enter Indochina. Now he wasnt afraid.

So Communist policy went into reverse overnight. DULLES OF COURSE committed a tragic error when he held that press conference-even though he told the truth. He could have avoided meeting the press. Or he could have said nothing. He should have kept Molotov guessing.

But the basic fault was not actually Dulles. Momentarily unwise and indiscreet, the real fault goes back to the fact that Dulles was hamstrung by elements of his own political party; also by his own Allies; and by administration failure to do anything about Indochina until it was almost too late. Eisenhower Inherited a difficult situation in Indochina not of his making, but which did not become serious until a truce was signed in Korea. Then, as Moscow shifted Russian arms southward, Indochfha became explosive. Meanwhile, the administration procrastinated.

And it was not until two months ago that the National Security Council belatedly realized that something must be done about Indochina or else all southeast Asia would go Communist. This was a warning given by various newsmen for more than a year. And having made this discovery. Vice President Nixon, Secretary Dulles and the President proceeded to "educate the American people and our Allies regarding the use of American and Allied troops In the jungles of Indochina. The only trouble was that neither the American public nor our Allies can be educated that rapidly especially a few months-after great political capital was made over peace in Korea.

When people are repeatedly told that we will have a much-desired peace in Korea and that we are now enjoying peace in Korea, then they come to like the idea of peace. And they dont shift gears and exult over war in another distant part of Asia with any enthusiasm at least not quickly. This was the essential problem Sacretary Dulles bucked at Geneva. It was why he came home a sadly disappointed man. It is also why the downhill drift toward another world war is sure to set in unless we do something drastic to stop it.

(Copyright, 1854, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) John Wyngaard: The Capitol Dome Notes By A State Political Reporter The David Lawrence Dispatch Allied Teamwork Is Slowly Emerging R. BASGSBERG, Editor THE U.S. DAIRY products price-support program completed a cycle of silliness the other day. That was when Department of Agriculture announced still another program to offset the bad effects of all the other programs now in effect. As everyone knows, the government now supports dairy prices by purchasing surplus cheese, butter or butterfat and dry milk solids.

These are the only forms in which perishable milk and cream can be safely stored for considerable periods of time without spoilage. Having broken down the whole milk into these surplus by-products, with which nobody has known what to do, the government now proposes to facilitate exporting some of them for putting back together in the form of substitute whole milk. MAY 16 WILL MARK an important milestone in the development of educational television In the U.S. On that date there will be six educational TV stations on the air Houston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, East Lansing, San Francisco and Madison. his choice of Robert Hansen of Milwaukee to the municipal court there.

Hansen has been outstanding as a civic leader, but he has had no slightest connection with the governors political party, according to GOP grumblings in the metropolis, and there were a number of Republican lawyers interested in the a year job. THE EXPERIENCE OF Gerald Flynn, the Racine lawyer, in the Legislature of Wisconsin has been all too typical. A Democrat, Flynn was a legislator of exceptional ability and aptitude. But after a single term, he concluded that the sacrifice was too great for a lawyer in mid-career with the responsibility of supporting a young family. HARRY SCHUYLER, long the head of the Door County' Board, will probably be the next president of the Wisconsin County Boards Association.

Vernon Gaspar, present Association leader, has quit as chairman of the Waukesha County Board of Supervisors. BY DOING HIS JOB quietly and by missing no opportunity to get acquainted with his constituents during the last five years. State Treasurer Warren Smith has effectively developed his political stature, even among those party moguls who wondered who he was when he turned up a victor in the famous "name primary of 1948. A useful alley has been his wife, Dena Smith, who was an active Republican worker for many years before her husband won his surprise nomination. A MEMBER OF THE State Conservation Commission who is making his influence felt in a gentle and inconspicuous way is A.W.

Schorger, the distinguished amateur naturalist and retired businessman who is now rounding out his first year of service on that spectacularly difficult board. THE DEPARTMENT of Public Welfare expects soon to have an analysis of the results of the new and more strict law on the subject of relatives responsibility in relief cases. The 1953 Legislature wrote a new act under which the county relief offices work. A report on results is now in preparation. Few girls are foolish enough to yell to get out when they are locked in an embrace.

A pound of phosphorus will tip a million matches, none of which little kids should play with. pi 1954 MADISON, Wis. Notes from the state-house beat: One of the ironies of contemporary state politics is the fact that the man who will be required in his official capacity to audit the accuracy and the validity of the McCarthy recall election petitions, if they are ever presented, is one of Sen. McCarthys foremost oppo-nonents, a man who hastened to sign one of the petitions, and who wants to run for senator against him if the recall election is held. One of the few remaining functions of Secretary of State Fred R.

Zimmerman is to administer the WYNGAARD state election laws. Zimmerman has not cared to seek a higher office in these recent years, because of the risk involved. But he could run for senator in a special election without risking his present place. Failing, he could run again for secretary of state in the fall. ONE OF THE LEGISLATURES youngest men will probably contest with one of the legislatures senior and most influential members for a state senate seat this year.

Assemblyman Rodney Satter of Prairie du Chien, who lost his Crawford County District under the reapportionment act, wants to compete with Sen. Jess Miller of Richland Center for the GOP nomination for state senator in the southwestern section of the state. His announcement is expected soon. Miller is one of the deans of Republican politics in the state and in the legislature. Satter could have chosen to run against Assemblyman Milford Kintz, in the new joint Crawford-Richland County District, but has evidently concluded that either contest will be a gamble and that he prefers to gamble for the greater prize.

REPORTS ARE FREQUENT and consistent that organized labors captains are making a stronger effort than ever before in the state to prepare a campaign for pro-labor congressional candidates this year, even to the extent of seeking out likely men and women and offering them support, financial and otherwise, at this early stage of the campaign year. The labor emissaries want their friends to run on the Democratic ticket. GOV. KOHLER HAS usually appointed Republicans to the judicial vacancies presented to him during his term as head of the state, but he has made several conspicuous exceptions to the rule. One exception lately was James Marlow: The World Today Stevens Keeps Temper In Hot Hearings ting down on useless expenditures, this would suggest that the job hasnt been completed by any means.

Standardization obviously is suggested for the armed services and theres good reason to believe it would help in other areas of government. Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall- bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish. Leviticus 4:23. ton the stormiest criticism of his career, and there were references to "defeat and "failure, all of which is utterly at variance with the facts of what actually happened. This conference hasnt really gotten started.

There have been the usual propaganda statements and some Informal discussions of ideas and proposals. Any impression that the United States doesnt want to stop the bloodletting in Indochina is false. Any impression that the United States wants to intervene militarily is also false. Any impression that America wanted to go into Indochina with the British alone is also wrong. There was from the start a basic plan to line up the Allies on a policy that would confront the Communists with an alternative if they didnt make peace in Indochina.

That policy was conceived as a means of getting strength at the negotiating table. Great Britain approved the policy and then backed out just on the eve of the Geneva Conference, but since then there has been a reconsideration and some of the original plans have been given sympathetic support once more. ONE THING NEEDS TO be made clear: the United States was given a pledge at Berlin that France would not consent to any plan that meant surrender to the Communists in Indochina. America wants a peaceful settlement there but not by a phony "partition" plan or by the "coalition government trick that wrecked Foland and Czechoslovakia. So far as Korea is concerned, there also have been some misleading impressions given.

The Red Chinese leader called for a "general election in Korea without supervision by the U.N. Some of the Allies looked with favor on the idea in principle. But there ls a lot more to the problem. Thus, how can there be any free election in North Korea if Communist troops are there? How can there be any campaigning throughout the northern part of the country before the voting takes place if coercion prevails? And what happens to the government at Seoul which has been formally recognized by the United Nations and ls operating under a constitution adopted by the people in a free election supervised by the U.N.? Is a constitutional government wlied out Just because the aggressors want that done? South Korea will have its regular election for its national assembly on May 20. Must it have another election later on, and does anybody think the central government at Seoul can maintain the morale of its Army the most powerful in Asia outside of the Communist orbit if the constituted government is to be decapitated by order of the Communist delegations at Geneva? These are hot easy questions to determine and require a lot of delicate handling if the unification of Korea is to be accomplished.

Certainly the one million Chinese Communists troops now occupying North Korea will have to be withdrawn before any free election can be held there. Nobody should envy the American negotiators in Geneva, (Reproduction Rights Rntnrtd) GENEVA Teamwork between our Allies always difficult to achieve but absolutely essential if we are to checkmate Communist' tactics is slowly emerging here despite earlier discouragements, Nobody who has not been on the ground at one of these very complex affairs can possibly imagine the plight of the delegation representing the United States of America at the Geneva conference. This correspondent has just read a summary of headlines and dispatches in several American newspapers for the last few LAWRENCE days, as cabled to officials here, and could not but wonder how it feels to be an American delegate with a carping, faultfinding set of interpretations in many of the articles being printed back home which, when reproduced in Europe, tend to discredit the American dclegaUon and weaken its hand here. The facts are simple to state. The American delegation had a broad plan.

It was torpedoed in London by the British cabinet before it was launched. Out of deference to our Allies and with characteristic poise, Secretary Dulles kept silent. Someone with a more sensitive nature would have blown his top at the outright reversal by the British cabinet on a pledge that had been given. But the British have their troubles, too, and their reasons for moving cautiously. When, however, they saw the criticism of their tactics mounting in official Washington, they took steps to repair the breach.

The trend now is toward unity, but it is a difficult course to maintain because the British have interests far different from ours and they are apparently not as ready to accept the responsibilities of collective action in Asia as many Americans had been led to believe. Unfortunately, also, internal politics in every country, including our own, plays a damaging role and makes negotiating a precarious task. If it isnt a threatened overthrow of the cabinet in France, its a general election in Australia and, of course, a constant effort by the British Labor I urty to unseat the Churchlll-Edca government. NONE OF THIS, HOWEVER, handicaps the Communist bide. Indeed, the Communists get an abundance of news spare not only in Europe but in America.

The obsolete propaganda statements of Giou En Lai got equal if not better news treatment in some of the large newspaers in America than the remarkable address by Secretary of State Dulles on the same day. This is a battle of publicity to influence public opinion, and it Ls tragic that the American press has in some Instances been giving the impression that the chief of the American delegation was discredited back home. In fact, one headline from an American newspnier that made a deep impression at Geneva said that Secretary Dulles on his return faced in Washing WASHINGTON WV-If you belted him on the jaw, Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens might hit you back. Maybe not until youd belted him a couple of times.

But it would be out of character if he called you names. He has sat patiently day after day while Sen. McCarthy quizzed him, tried to belittle him and questioned his honesty by urging him to be honest. fa ff IN THE SENATE Inquiry into McCarthys fight with Army officials, he has never lost his temper, seldom showed impatience and never barked at Mc- MARLOW Carthy. He didnt publicly take a stand against McCarthy until, he said, the senator insulted a general.

And the report in which he said McCarthy and his aides applied pressure to get special treatment for a draftee wasn't re From Files Of The TEN YEARS AGO Ice delivery men are resigning in droves to take on higher-paying jobs. Ice dealers, union officials and civic leaders held a powwow Friday to shape an appeal to the War Labor Board to take action to divert the crisis. A mere hiccup is looked upon suspiciously in La Crosse these days. A case of 48 bottles of whiskey fell of a delivery truck Tuesday on one of the citys downtown streets. TWENTY YEARS AGO The Eagles meet this evening to elect officers and vote on the erection of a new building.

St. Peters Catholic Church on St. Peters Ridge will serve a chicken dinner and hold Its annual picnic May 13. THIRTY YEARS AGO The County Board Thursday afternoon voted to appropriate $17,000 for an addition to Oak Forest Sanitarium, Dr. W.

E. Bannon left Thursday to attend the Boy Scout convcnUon in St. Louis. ir FORTY YEARS AGO Miss Leila Johnson, English teacher at the high school, has resigned her position to accept one in Barotmo. There was a real homecoming on 4th and Main streets today and every citizen who chanced that way participated.

Doctors leased until months after he said the pressure had been first applied. McCarthy gives another picture of Stevens, of a man working behind the scenes to fores McCarthy to give up his search for Communists in the Army. SO FAR MCCARTHY has had to deal mainly with nice-talking Stevens. But if these hearings, continue, he's going to have to tackle a couple of tough talkers who seem perfectly happy to snarl at him. Army Counselor John G.

Adams and Asst. Secretary of Defense H. Struve Hensel are principals in this case with Stevens on the Army side. McCarthy has questioned the honesty of both of them too. He has had only a brief encounter with Adams and Hensel so far.

McCarthy repeatedly treated Stevens on a first-name basis, calling him "Bob. At the beginning of a brief exchange with Adams, McCarthy tried the same thing on him, call ing him "John. Adams said: "The name to you, senator, is Mr. Adams. La Crosse Tribune George and Will Powell, residents here for 35 years but for the past year living in California, are back In the city to stay.

Youthful Well Wisher From thl Montreal Star. Four year old Henry plays with older who sometimes treat him roughly. His father told him not to let the boys push him around. "If the boys hit you, hit them bock, he advised. A few days later his aunt looked out the window Just in time to see Henry about to hit another boy with an iron shovel.

She cried, "Daddy didnt mean that you should hit other children with shovel. You might hurt that little boy so much hell have to go to the doctor!" "Oh, thats all right, replied Henry, calmly. "lie ought to go to the doctor anyway. Hes got a cold. Crawling Fame From Wmhlngton corraipondenc to the United Pms The Pentagon reports an unusual honor for Sgt.

Jack Reid of San Antonio, Tex. Jack has hod a lizard named after him. He took most of his leave time to prowl through a crater of a volcano at Vera Crux, Mexico, Science is so excited about his find that they are calling the lizard "Abronla Rcldl. A mans pleasant memories of hi college days never concern his studies there, "I Got an Awful Feelin' I Ain't Wanted".