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2g The Gazette and Daily, York, EDITOR. A Tj Friday Morning, Hy I7. 1959 The Gazette and Daily Drew Pearson Reports: Food For Thought Government And Monopoly Yesterday We Attempted to point 31-35 E. King Yoik, by rORK GAZETTE CO. CHARLES M.

GITT, President; J. W. GITT, Editor and Treasurer; M. B. REBERT.

Secretary; JAMES HIGGINS, Assistant Editor; EDWARD K. SCHAEBERLE, Manning Editor. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this news paper as well as all AP news dispatches. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By CanHer Per Week 25c Yearly, in advance ju.uu By Mail York County, yearly In advance -59 Outside of York County, yearly in advance $12.00 Several complaints have come in from ont. tle unfairness of a man being re-enlisted men working for- Gen.

Charles quired to pay $62.80 because he neglect-Hart, the Army's Air Defense Commander, ed to pay off four tickets for parking who has six aides assigned to him. His GI mAf -ij driver also chauffeur his wife around meter violations. What we failed to bring Colorado Springs. For his daughter's re- out yesterday was the even worse point cent wedding, General Hart ordered a involved in the case in question, the fact soldiers' chorus to sing on the program, fi 1 T. assigned a WAC as baby-sitter so another tnat went to jail.

It seems daughter could attend the wedding, and patently unfair to us for one man to go used Army transportation to run errands. to jail because he fails to pay for parking The general, when queried, claimed that meter violation tickets while other per- the choral group, which he admitted had ns cork illegally all nvpr rih rl sung free of charge for his daughter's wed- Ku megalIy f11 over city day ding, was also available for any enlisted in and day out without getting a ticket man's wedding. Hart claimed he had paid at all. Friday, July 17, 1959 Moreover, The Case The Other day brings up another matter. As we understand it, the man was picked up on warrants issued for his arrest by an alderman who went off on a vacation before they were served.

The man was taken directly to the York county jail where he was committed on what is called a temporary commitment paper. This Paper Is Nothing more or less than a form kept at the jail for officers to sign who bring people to the jail. It means that arresting officers can and do take persons directly to jail without first taking them before an alderman or magistrate. The paper supposedly was designed to give pertinent information to jail authorities so that they know whom they have confined. But it appar the WAC out of his own pocket for babysitting and insisted his wife was entitled to government transportation for "semiofficial" activities.

Adm. Jerauld Wright, the Navy's commander in the Atlantic, used Marines as hat-check boys and car-lot attendants at cocktail parties on May 26, May 30, June 24, and June 30, 1959. The admiral, when queried, admitted through his spokesman that over half a dozen Marines were used to check hats and park cars as an official assignment. They were given time off, he said, for their extra duty. The spokesman pointed out that each party was an offical reception which Admiral Wright is required to throw for visiting NATO dignitaries.

GIs in New York City complain that their commanding officer, Col. Carl Welch-ner, "utilized the services of one of three airmen in the office as driver and a staff car almost every day for four months to comb the boroughs of New York for suitable housing. The colonel located suitable housing near Lynbrook, N.Y., about 22 miles from the office location. Washington If you dig into the files of the Pentagon you will find that one of the companies generously rewarded with defense contracts is. the American Telephone Telegraph Company.

It ranks sixth on the list of corporations benefiting from the Pentagon contracts with a total of $792,000,000 last year. If you also dig into the files of various government bureaus you will find that a total of 35 officials of the giant telephone company have served inside the Eisenhower administration in various jobs since 1953. If you dig into the files of the Justice department, as the House Judiciary committee has done, you will find that the big telephone combine has a complete monopoly on supplying the links between radio and TV stations of the nation. This is one of the reasons why radio and TV network broadcasting is so expensive. The telephone company can charge TV and radio stations what it pleases and although technically the FCC can regulate this, it has made no effort to do so.

For some years Docket No. 8963 of the Federal Communications commission has called for an investigation of the rates charged by American Tel and Tel for. TV transmission. But for about five years this Docket No. 8963 has gathered dust.

There has been no investigation. During part of that time, the chairman of the FCC was George McConnaughey, who once drew one-third of his legal fees from the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Even since the retirement of chairman McConnaughey, however, Docket No. 8963 continues to gather dust. Meanwhile the telephone company even charges TV stations an "expediting fee" for hooking up a transmission line. This fee can range from $3,500 to $17,000 merely for installing transmission service at a reasonably early date.

This is part of the story of the biggest untouchable in Washington the telephone combine. One difficulty is that government regulation is too cumbersome and the telephone monopoly too far-flung. That's why some monopoly experts in the Justice Department maintain that the only way to regulate is by competition, forcing it to lease its patents to other companies. In the interim No. 1 "untouchable" has assets of nearly sixteen billion dollars and is 10 times as big as the next biggest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric.

GI's As Servants Here are some more cases where enlisted men have been used as servants by high-ranking officers. In each case this column has phoned the officer to get his side of the story. ently serves the dual purpose of permit- i rr: i i More often than not, one of the airmen im6 aa omter to rake a man is required to drive the colonel home in directly to jail rather than first formally the afternoon then park the staff car at piace charges against him before a mag- his home until the following morning. istrate 00 "On one occasion the colonel and his family used the auto to take a Sunday In OUR AMERICAN SYSTEM of law drive. In the vicinity of West Point, N.Y., nnh.

the engine failed due to a thrown connect- basica11 a man is not supposed to be ing rod. It was towed commercially to a arrested except when there is a charge garage where the required repairs were against him, and when he is arrested he mauc id lci uic wcviv at guvciiuiiciiu expense. Colonel Welchner admitted using the car for a "swing or two" around New York, house-hunting, but protests he had not used it regularly for four months. He admitted the engine failure near West Point, but claimed it happened on an official trip. He was heading for Stewart Air Force Base on a Friday for a conference, he claimed.

However, he acknowledged that his family accompanied him ori the official trip. (Copyright, 1959, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) News Of The Past TWO BOARDS The board of governors of the West Side Tennis Club of New York, the leading tennis club of the United States, has shown great common sense and dignity in rejecting the policy of its former president regarding club membership. It is interesting to compare developments there with a very comparable situation at the Children's Home of York county. The tennis episode began when the New York Post broke the story that Dr. Ralph Bunche, an outstanding American and also a Negro, had been told his son could not join the West Side club.

The president of the club, a Mr. William Burgland, advised Dr. Bunche that the club did not admit Negroes or Jews to membership. The Post report was picked up generally by other newspapers and wire services and became international news. The reaction in the main was one of indignation and protest.

Various New York officials and organizations promptly took stands against the policy proclaimed by the club president; newspapers wrote scathing editorials; suggestions were made that the United States Lawn Tennis Association remove the Davis Cup matches from the West Side club; and the question was raised as to whether a club which was open to the paying public when the national tennis championships were staged the women's title having been won at the West Side club a year ago, by the way, by a Negro, Althea Gibson could set up the membership bars described by Mr. Burgland. Now sometimes, when protests of this sort fly thick and fast, the defenders of the status quo that is to say, of bigotry and discrimination get on their high horse and look down disdainfully on their critics. One might have expected that the board of governors of the West Side club would Jbave taken this attitude. Certainly their positions of wealth and privilege, their association with one of the most fashionable tennis clubs in the world, put them in a class which all too often exhibits a dismay, not to say dislike, for democratic practices.

But not at all, in this case. The board of governors, it seems, did not permit their respectability to interfere with doing what was right. They showed class of quite a different sort, by taking the criticisms of the announced club policy to heart and by expressing their gratitude towards those who had protested. They said that Dr. Bunche, his son, Jews and Negroes were perfectly free to apply for membership in the West Side club and to be admitted.

Moreover, the resignation of Mr. Burgland was offered and accepted. Let us now consider the Children's Home of York county, which by charter bars Negroes from admission. In recent months protests have been made, by a member of the county's Children's Services Advisory Committee, by the York branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, and editorially by The Gazette and Daily. The commonwealth's attorney general has just ruled that it is unconstitutional for the state to grant funds directly to the Children's Home because the home discriminates.

The Children's Home, like the West Side Tennis club of New York, has a governing board. Enough said. Colonial Hotel company was incorporated and organized under the laws Pennsylvania, with capitalization ut Fifty Years Ago quarters of the West Side Democratic society. The Interfaith Council of the League of Decency conducted a house-to-house canvass to ask. every famuy in JNew York city to pledge themselves not to attend questionable movies.

Complete revision of the government's ocean mail-merchant marine policies within the next six months was being affected by the Roosevelt administration. is supposed to oe arraigned Derore magistrate. In other words, if he is picked up, he is supposed to be charged and then given the right to post bail if he can and only taken to jail it he cannot. But Things Don't Seem always to work that way in practice. It is possible and it does happen for persons to be arrested in York county and taken directly to jail and committed there on an arresting officer's say so.

This is where the temporary commitment paper fits in. The paper enables the magistrate to be by-passed. It enables a person to be jailed without first being given the right to appear before a magistrate and to learn the amount of bail which is required and given the chance to raise it. It Is Because Of this temporary commitment paper system that persons can be aroused from their beds in the middle of the night and placed in jail, a practice which we condemn when it happens in other countries. In the case which came up over the weekend, a man was arrested on warrants issued by a magistrate who went on vacation before the warrants were served.

So, as a result, the man could not be taken before the magistrate who had issued the warrants if the officers desired to do so. It Should Be Made Clear that in the case over the weekend, warrants had been issued for the arrest of the man and that apparently meant that charges had been filed before the magistrate. This is a little different case than the case of an officer arresting on sight without a warrant and then taking the man directly to jail and waiting to file charges later. In both cases, of course, the person goes to Harold Laski, economist and professor at the University of London, remarked vhe could not see how the free enterprise Fifteen Years Ago system in America could lead to full employment, since U. S.

businessmen had not changed their philosophy 1929. It was no secret that the British feared another U. S. depression," he said. The Red Army was credited with having wiped out approximately half a million Nazis in less than a month.

In France, the British were reported pushing back the Germans two miles below Caen and American soldiers probing into the streets of Lessay said our forces were shelling St. Lo from a mile away. A fire which started in the service department of the Firestone Auto Supply service store caused considerbale damage to the store. A former employe on the way to attend church services reported the blaze. Officers were W.

A. Reist, president; C. B. Cox, vice-president and J. Frank Reist, secretary-treasurer.

Dr. Bennett, city health director, said he was opposed to inviting the League of Third Class Cities of Pennsylvania delegates to hold their 1910 convention here because of deplorable condition of city streets. "We would be mortified" he said. North York borough councilmen appropriated $400 to build a borough lockup. Plans called for a frame structure with two cells equipped with unpickable locks.

York White Roses defeated Altoona, 4-2, in a game marking the debut of Harry (Rabbit) Gleason as captain-manager. John Kirk, Delta area resident, bought the Samuel Caskey farm consisting of 102 acres near Line bridge for $3,800. Some 30 acres of the farm was planted with good quality white oak timber. City markets were flooded with locally-grown asparagus. Black raspberries were offered at six to eight cents a box and red raspberries 8 to 10 cents a box.

A statue of Benjamin TAnt-f ivp Franklin, believed to have i wen i uvc been carved in Paris by Ago the French sculptor, Suzanna, while the Colonial Sage was seeking aid for General George Washington's forces, was unveiled in the Franklin Insitute, Philadelphia. The statue was a gift to the institute from Atwater Kent, Philadelphia. Dr. Charles S. Miller, Lansdqwne, was named president of Slippery Rock State Teachers Trustees picked a group of three state educators including Dr.

Arthur W. Ferguson, superintendent of York public schools. Judge John H. Wilson, Butler county, said be believed "betting on the numbers was no worse than stock exchange bets in a broker's Attorney M. C.

Rhone, Williamsport, addressed a mass meeting of citizens at the York courthouse following a parade marking the formal launching of the new head jail before being given a chance to raise Democratic "big-wigs" were non-com- Dail and prevent his confinement, mittal on the choice of a running mate for 1 Another Point The Recent case brings up is the length of time these temporary commitment papers can be used to hold a person before formal charges are filed. Ve believe that in the past they have been used to hold persons up to 48 hours or more. It is our opinion that the system should be done away with entirely. It should be required that commitments to the jail can only be made on the filing of formal charges and arraignment before a magistrate no matter what the time. CM.

GITT President Roosevelt. The chief executive was reported in favor of Henry Wallace, but none of the top platform makers would commit themselves. Authoritative sources said that the appointment of Norman Armour as director of the State department's office of American Republics, was a move foreshadowing a "sterner policy toward Argentina," said to be hostile toward her northern neighbors. President Judge Charles L. Brown of the Philadelphia Municipal courts in that group's 30th annual report pointed up "glaring inadequacies" in the state's training for feebleminded and delinquent children..