The Albuquerque Tribune from Albuquerque, New Mexico • 14

ryininyionorwvvyvvvvvvYvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvYvvvvvvvvvvvYVvvvvyrvvvvvsrvvvvvvvvvyvvvvvvvyvv' Page Fourteen The Albuquerque Tribune January 30 1953 How to Make a Rabbit Stew GOP Shows i Ineptness In Choices The Albuquerque Tribune A Scripps-Howard Newspaper I CAM BURVOWI Editor Eull loiiad wire Mrvlra of United Praia and Serippa-HowarS Nawapapar Alllanea karri era of Aaaoeiatad Praia laaaad wire latanauoaal N'awa darvica axeluaivo Nawaoapar Entanriaa farviet Paeifte Coaat fearrtea and KEA Picture Service Member Audit Bureau of Circulation The Aaaoclated Praia la exeluaiveljr entitled to the uae for publieatioa of all new- dlapatehea credited to it or not other! aa credited In thla paper and also tha local new! publish a herd a Publlaued eve rv evenlns except Sunday at riftn and Gold Albuqueraue by the Mew Mexico State Tribune Co Mr Dulles' Memo i There are two basic ingredients to a foreign policy The first is to have a policy consistent clear and understandable The second is to make that policy stick In this respect the memorandum sent by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to all officials of the State Department and Foreign Service is fundamental Mr Dulles demanded competence discipline and loyalty to the policies that our President and the Congress may Anything less he said is tolerable at this No policy will work unless it has the unstinted devotion of every last official concerned with its enforcement Policies which are de-emphasized distorted or ignored at the personal whim of individual officials are in their effective results no policies at all The responsibility for policy-making belongs to the President and Congress The enforcement of policies is the administrative function of the rest of the Government Any alternative to this course means confusion and futility Price Te a copy on etreda or newe countara By earner Mo a straight in Albuquerque By mail one I a ha year 11200: 0 month IT 00: 1125 per People nil Find month- Foreign Countrtea 53 per month Thai Own Way" TELEPHONES Editorial Display Adv 3-4515 Circulation Classified Adv a-oooo Bury This Bill The Tribune Public Forum- Says Give Bus Line Back to Coal An Asinine Policy An asinine policy of trying to live far beyond its means finally has caught up with New system of higher education The combined budgets presented to the Legislature by all of the institutions of higher learning would require almost the entire general fund during the next two years Gov Edwin Mechem has recommended sharp reductions in the total amount to be made available for all the schools Dr John Dale Russell director of the State Board of Educational Finance says that the reductions will have an ill effect on all institutions He predicted particularly bad effects on the University of New Mexico The hard facts of the situation are that New Mexico cannot afford to support all the colleges and universities it has It would be sound cqmmon sense to concentrate on major institutions and support them adequately This appears to be a political improbability but stem necessity may yet drive us to it It looks as thought the time for a showdown may be here right now Small Blazes The fundamental Christians object so strongly to the newly revised version of the Bible that in some places the new Book has been burned Methodist Bishop William Martin of Dallas points out however that certain sects objected to every new translation of the Scriptures throughout history including the King James Version itself The bishop Indicates he is not alarmed over the current Bible-bumings however because the objectors in earlier centuries stop at that they burned the trans- la tors too All of us have heard the saying I want I never seem to get what I get I never seer? to This 1 think proves so true in the recent decision of our City Commission to run a city bus up and down Hiighland Ave as a means of settling a dispute over a recent change It's a shame to deprive people the privilege of having it run up land down their street when there is one person who works hard enough to get a petition signed by all residents She should be rewarded by getting the bus back on her street (Coal Ave) we want it As far as improving property value we feel quite the contrary Now that Highland Ave lias become a through street it is fast New Mexico is striving desperately to support higher educational institutions far beyond its means While the Legislature faces the apparently insurmountable problem of finding money to keep the existing schools operating three members of- the House have introduced a bill to provide a branch of Highlands University at Taos The school would be supported by Highlands and the State University For sheer disregard of the financial facts of life this bill wins the prize Reps Salamon Ortega Ruben Romero and Albert Amador Jr ought to get a pencil and piece of paper and sit down and do some figuring on how to stretch revenues to cover present commitments Their colleagues ought to bury this bill so deeply in committee that it never will find its way out Uncle Sugar Abroad That was a devastating report Sen Olin Johnston of South Carolina filed with Congress yesterday The senator in November and December made a seven-week on-the-spot inspection of government activities in Africa and Europe His finding is almost incredible Sen Johnston said literally billions of dollars are being wasted that the overseas outfits are overstaffed by at least 100000 and that all this is doing American prestige and the American program great harm The truth of it is as Sen Johnston reported that nobody really knows just what is going on He said he even get official sources to agree on the cost estimates of specific projects He said employes were being shuttled from post to post and not doing any wofk at any of them All this bears out the reports from our own overseas staff recently published by the Scripps-Howard newspapers Sen Johnston was not unaware of useful work being done by Uncle Sugar's widespread overseas enterprises He reported on hard-working thoughtful employes operating under difficult conditions and commented on the of many undertakings But the foundation of our foreign he said is being undermined by the reckless waste of money the plush living of thousands of government employes and the wide range of useless projects The senator submitted 10 specific recommendations But they all add up to the same thing: Use a little common sense 'American dollars properly invested in foreign aid can be made to pay dividends But dollars dissipated for the mere sake of getting rid of them are dollars spent against our own cause Fortunately for the country and for its foreign policies the Eisenhower administration is aware of this profligacy and shows signs of moving to meet it with drastic measures Let's Eat Inedible Wheat Now By FREDERICK OTHMAN WASHINGTON Jan Our subject today is inedible wheat which is more edible under certain circumstances than the edible kind Let us not be squeamish about it Americans have ibeen eating millions of bushels of wheat imported from Canada 1 ipecifically for Othman hogs The question is the loser? The people? Or the Pigs? If ever there was a confusing governmental snafu which ap- parently has cost us taxpayers at least $100000000 this is it I trust it does not also turn our stomach but back in 1950 some mighty smart fellows made an important discovery about a loophole in the tariff law This provided that if a carload of imported wheat contained more than 30 per cent of damaged kernels it was unfit for human consumption And hence it was taxable at only eight cents a bushel instead of 21 So they began bringing down this damaged wheat by the millions of bushels The Pigs Got Some A little of it went to the pigs but' the figures of the General Accounting Office indicated that a great deal of it got ground into flour (You may have had a dollop of it in your pancakes this morning) A good deal more got mixed with grade-A American wheat and shipped abroad under the international wheat agreement This meant that we taxpayers were shelling out a multimillion dollar subsidy on grain intended for our own livestock The members of the Senate Agriculture committee mostly incensed agreed that our losses in tariffs subsidy payments and displacement of our our wheat by the pig food had cost us at least $100000000 And what had it done to our own stomachs inedible wheat has been proved to be testified Frank Weitzel assistant to the comptroller general may be eating it in our breakfast food for all I He said the Food and Drug Administration had examined the unfit wheat and found that some of its kernels indeed were shriveled from frost But it still was good to eat some circumstances such as use for malting this inedible wheat is more edible than edible he added We Banged Our Heads This is where a number of senators and I began to bang our heads against the marble wainscoting The senators led by Chairman George Aiken (R Vt) were bound to call in all the alleged villains Sen Clinton Anderson (D NM) said they ought to be in jail This seemed like a good idea except that Weitzel sure broken any law imported inedible wheat openly and paid the proper tariff What happened to it afterwards apparently was none of the business under the pres-ent Weitzel indicated his belief that the gentlemen might consider writing a new law My own idea is that the tariff commission would be wise to 'figure out a new definition of inedible grain If wheat is unfit for human consumption by law but not in fact somebody somewhere in our government is an awful dope and no amount- of gobbledegook is going to make me think other-wise This is only the beginning hear more a great deal more soon about the wheat inedible by the book but good to eat once it reaches the mouth Give me another bowl of that good nourishing inedible mush mother Reminiscences Ten Yean Ago in The Tribune The British bombed Berlin today right on the minute when Marshal Hermann Goering who once promised the Germans that their cities were safe from air attack was about to start a speech The British Eighth Army battled the retreating Afrika Korps inside Tunisia 150 miles or less from the American forces to the west President Roosevelt is 61 years old today Pfc Clem Cherne of Albuquerque is reported a prisoner of war in the Philippines Rep Clinton Anderson has been named to membership on the appropriations sub-committee which handles funds for the Labor Department and Federal Security Agency Gov John Dempsey said it was his desire to as much of New Mexico's lands as on the tax rolls and not havs them taken off so often Report Card of Crime By DOROTHY HUGHES Springs Calif framed with a murder vross country escape by way of a hearty rich woman the growing change in his character and his disentanglement from the plot- surrounding him are crowned by the dry humor of the payoff This is far and above the best work Edgley has done an honest piece cut from whole cloth By THOMAS STOKES WASHINGTON Jan The conflict-of-interest issue over lour top Eisenhower defense department appointees is on the way to final solution with the decision of each to dispose of stocks in -companies which 2 do business with the government I But the last I will not have I been heard of1 this issue with confirmation the three who were involved with Charles Wilson now in office as defense secretary and who followed his example by agreeing to sell their stocks The first reason that the issue will survive is that Democrats see in it a political issue which they intend to keep alive It developed far beyond what they had anticipated because it caught Republicans by surprise and a way out was delayed by reluctance of the principals to divest themselves of their stock holdings The consequent day-after-day airing of the case for two whole weeks in dramatized for the man in the street how such managers of our business economy fare and how their identity with the Republican administration lends itself to political exploitation Such exploitation may fall in the category of demagoguery but that still is used in our politics and beyond that a basic issue is like-' wise at stake in who and what interests manage our government The second reason the issue will survive is that some attempt is bound to be -made-to get around the road-block which stands in the way of very successful businessmen holding government office without some sacrifice a dilemma which was the chief argument advanced by Robert Stevens big textile manufacturer nominated for secretary of the army In his reappearance before the committee following his nomination by President Eisenhower he still was reluctant at first to agree to sell his stock in the family textile enterprise and presented legal opinions as to how he could properly disqualify himself in matters affecting his own corporation Agrees to Sell Finally when he saw the committee's attitude he said he would sell if the committee decided it could not otherwise recommend his confirmation But he was still insistent that the committee give very careful consideration to the alternative he had offered in the light of the fundamental problem involved which will continue to exist and continue to be a handicap for businessmen with large interests Harold Talbott nominated for secretary of the Air Force saved himself any further difficulty when he announced as he appeared before the committee after Mr Stevens that he would sell his stock in enterprises where there would be a conflict There is a real problem as Mr Stevens argued Some people will give it thought and some certainly will propose solutions But it is forecast here that the law which has been on the books almost a century and was re-enacted as recently as 1948 by a Republican congress the 80th will remain on the books The problem will have to be met case by case as they arise hereafter as they certainly will You legislate morals of course but there is a principle at stake which our people from experience some of it sad and some of it recent want to see embodied in law The central issue that of peeping any sort of influence favoritism or special privilege out of government contracts is more in the minds of the people now than ever because of the staggering size of- the defense program the billions that go to a few individual powerful corporations and the fear not unfounded that little business may not get its share Party Vulnerable The issue of favoritism and influence was in fact emphasized over and over by Republicans themselves in their successful campaign to win control of the government and the party therefore is especially vulnerable and on trial It pledged a Republicans now realize how ineptly the case of the four big businessmen was handled from toe purely political standpoint Somebody- slipped up at the very outset by not recognizing the existence of toe law and not foreseeing what a public issue would bloom once the story got into the open Some Republicans realize something else now which wag toe failure to appreciate the unpact on the public mind of four big managers of industry being appointed to run one department of government and two of them from one of the biggest corporations Mr Wilson and the deputy defense secretary-desig-nate Roger Kyes both of General Motors which itself has toe biggest single volume' of defense contracts The fifth appointee Robert Anderson of Texas designated as secretary of Navy escaped much attention because he had no stock interest -in companies that do business with the defense department The lineup was in fact big business with a vengeance The architects of the new administration slipped up there too That ia from toe political Death at the Dance By John Rhode Dodd Mead $250 John Rhode is about the only one left who writes good old-fashioned English style detective stories At their best these are an over-whelming relief from the empty staccato of Sam puny followers from the coy vacuity of the imitators of Mr and Mrs North and from the sad sacchar- Hughes ines who be permitted to sweep the floors in a genuine Mary Roberts Rinehart story Such a relief is at the a Rhode best of some seasons It opens with the annual Dance festival of an English town and the inexplicable death of a spectator a plain widow lady Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn does a good job of tieing this -in with jewel robbery and obviously calls on Dr Priestly for help only as a courtesy to an old man becoming a speedway that our so called use to test their cars ability to get downtown in ten minutes from the bases Residents on Highland are not pleased with having the privacy of a good quiet neighborhood marred by all we are going to have to contend with noises speeding exhaut smells etc speeding exhaust smells etc sion quit playing meenie miny when there is a decision to make and investigate the feelings of people concerned As a suggestion to the police chief to increase the revenue in his department place some in to sneak up on those who think Highland Ave is a s9lt flat Give it all back to Coal Ave We want it A RESIDENT Why Keep Money To Bait Gunmen? In several recent robberies the sum of money was large enough to induce gun men to kill Why will people keep money in these small stores and no protection? During Christmas a drunk driving on the wrong side of the street cut through my yard hit a group of five mail boxes Several people with phones in their homes saw it but no one called the police Not having a phone I report this Every week end Fourth St NW is used like a race track yet very few of these road races are ever reported We should not be so ready to criticize the police because after all they be everywhere and are not mind-readers report these things and cooperate with the men on the force Stand by them and help them to help us ANNA HOWARD Rt 2 Box 4th NW He Opposes Laws On Sunday Closing No one must be religiously enslaved We common people raised in Freedom's land one thing will have to come to understand -if not go and vote ourselves enslaved: The moment local urge can get us paved to favor local Sunday closing laws in most of our large cities then the straws are drawn for preachers to combine to ask our Congress to perform the awful task remove all Constitutional restraint and then will be too late their sad complaint when what religious power the strongest is will dedicate to all men -what worship is: prescribe just what to worship how and when: let none have a say about it then! ANDERSON Every a Sure Thing By Thomas Dewey Simon and Schuster $250 Thomas Dewey under a new imprint has abandoned his Scat-tergood Baines-type detective in favor of a more conventional private eye Mac is a hard-working unsuperman operative who is handed the job of following a woman and two children from Chicago to Los Angeles He makes the mistake of taking a personal interest in the family therefore instead of dropping the case on arrival he concerns himself with their future This leads to real trouble with the west coast branch of the agency the local police and the strange family behind the Mitchells Mac is a worthy addition to the roster of private eyes and a Sure is a good workman like story with offbeat touches The Runaway Pigeon By Leslie Edgley Crime Club $250 Leslie Edgley has come through with an entertaining story in Runaway Fantastic as is the opening gambit it is well motivated and hence can be and is credible Wilfrid Piper is a stodgy bookkeeper in a large jewelry house in Chicago Married childless a commuter nothing exciting has happened to Piper in forty-one years until a strange blonde kisses him at the railway terminal a kiss which leads to his turning up in Palm The Shroud Off Her Back By Stephen Ransome Crime Club $250 This one is about the Pennsylvania country set For some reason boredom perhaps this particular country house breeds fighting cocks Shephen Ransome who appears as lead as well as by-line tricks it up by professing to reveal events by way of tape recordings It good enough to raise his yarn above the so-so level SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith 'No Smoking By ANDREW TULLY ferippa-Hnwar Staff Writer WASHINGTON Jan 30 President Eisenhower housekeepers are learning that in the White House the little things that make a guy feel foolish As for instance in the case of the ban It was still not clear today whether an order was issued telling women employes not to smoke at their desks But if it was the administration had beaten a hasty retreat to avoid looking silly It all started when a reporter bumped into one of the White House secretaries in the west wing lobby She explained she'd come out to sneak a cigaret because she allowed to smoke at her desk After plying her for details the reporter dutifully sat down and tapped out a piece about the administration's efficiency measure Next morning at Press Secretary Jim Hager-ty regular conference with newsmen he was bombarded with queries Mr Hagerty ordinarily an affable and unflus-5 stayed but got a trifle flus-tered He said yeah there had been some talk about that Well a reporter asked are the girls allowed to smoke at their desks? Mr grin Six- him and rade airy gesture Mine do he replied Yeah but are the girls allowed to smoke in other White House offices? he was asked Jim said frankly he know then tried to explain He said there had been some staff conferences and it had been decided some effort' should be made to down on He added rather mysteriously want them hanging around in corridors and sitting Newsmen Baffled Baffled the newsmen tried to pin down the situation Well Mr Hagerty was asked if the girls refrain from hanging around corridors sitting around could they still smoke? Mr Hagerty still smiling but obviously wishing Sir Walter Raleigh had never left England said he wasn't jure He said he really know if a no-smoking order had been issued he explained solemnly White House Is a working Still the press persisted They wanted to know how the employes were informed of this high-level feeling if no order had been issued Mr Hagerty grinned a sorrowful grin he said desperately told you?" asked a reporter told replied Mr Hagerty Then as somebody cleared his throat for another try Mr -Hagerty threw up his hands He said if tha press would just be patient try to find out about that order before his afternoon press conference Girls Can Smoke And that was that for several hours while everybody went around making clever remarks about how a girl secretary got fired for having smoke on her breath Then at the afternoon conference Mr Hagerty announced that flat had been placed on smoking that the girls cpuld smoke at their desks if they pleased And throughout the White House Eisenhower aides mopped their brows and mused upon how delicate was the mechanism they had fought an election to steer 7 EXPRESS Reforming Civil Service 'The Civil Service idea was adopted to reward individual merit and to- promote efficiency in administration when government was being corrupted by the spoils system Now the need is seen in reforms in the Civil Service system because it has become so well entrenched that it is operating to defeat the public will I Eleanor Roosevelt recently remarked that the system needed revision to allow recognition for efficiency and devotion to duly She added that the present system also makes it possible for power to be built up in a huge organization so that it is almost impossible for a new department head to make important changes This latter point is emphasized by the observation of one of the new Eisenhower-appointees who found that all but two of the important positions in his department were protected by Civil Service is not a matter of replacing Democrats with Republicans but one of getting rid of Socialists who are not in sympathy with the policies of the new he said The bill creating the office of under secretary of state for administration to improve the operations of the State Department appears to be a step in the right direction ill is official is to be delegated broad powers to reorganize the department and to develop sound personnel policies I This new office also will have supervision over the State loyalty and security programs Much more is' involved here than purging the department of Communist influences A fool can be as much of a security risk as a knave and neither has any business in a sensitive position in government Tomorrow Maybe! Harry Truman when he retired from the presidency said he intended to be silent for six months When does that six months start? News In Rhyme By BEN FOSTER ATHENS A farmer on the Island of Crete la said to have lived 115 years He married onee never smoked but had glass of wine with each meal' This Grecian who dwelled on the Island of Crete Sure went for the real quiet life used no tobacco and be-: ing discreet Took unto himself but one wife One glass of the grape he consumed with his meals Thus he lfted on and on without fuss Though from what information -the story reveals Why want to is all Greek to us! So far no legislator has suggested a branch university for Corners but the legislative session is still young Roswell will have television soon It hardly seems any time at all since the first automobile rumbled over North Spring River bridge and scared horses out of their wits the length of Main Street A new electronic brain will solve problems 100000 times as fast as the human brain Let's get these things distributed as widely as possible Things are getting much too complicated for human brains to cope with A bill has been introduced in tha New Mexico House to increase the number of liquor licenses par- mitted from one for' each 151 people to one for each 350 vot cast for governor oaa wi of getting out a heavy vote Thsrs! Sea what you gat1 for pulling youraalf in whan v-th tailor maaauras you for- a 1 I AA.