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Washingfon's Influence Trade
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Evidently Ended by 570 Inquiry
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON—Not only has the 5 per cent
business folded up completely since the summer’s
congressional probe into it, but the more wide
spread “no-per cent” activity has also ceased.
“No-per centers” is the name which govern
ment officials have given to the people—in and
out of government—who are constantly asking
them for small favors, “Will you send me lo.ur ex
tra copies of that report?” " “Would you mind
expediting Mr, X's visa, he’s a iriend of mine?”
“Would you get my letter in to the chiel as soon
as possibre?”
No cash or gifts ever change hands for doing
these petty favors. That's why there is no
percentage in it for anyone concerned. It's just
sort of & nuisance, But that’s all over now, at
least for the time being, thanks to the exper
iences of General Vaughn, Maragon, Hunt and
the others. Never has the turgid channel of gov
ernment business flowed so peacefully
That effect of the 5 per cent probe was not
expected by the committee. Neither was such
& complete collapse of the more lucrative branches
of government influence peddling anticipated.
Sonve of the senators on thes committee were
actually concerned lest the publicity which the
5 per centers got might boom their trade. They
hought that when businessmen learned how
asy it was to get fat government contracts by
dring the right representatives, those vrepre
entatives weould do a land-ofice business.
SUSINESS FALLING OFF
Instead, Sen. Clyde R. Hoey (D, N C.), chair
man of the committee, reports: “The business of
collecting from businessmen in exchange Ilor
getting them government contracts has been
stopped completely. We are most gratified
with that result of this summer's invesugation.”
Williem P. Rogers, the committee’s general
counsel, has kept close tab on the § per cent
business since the probe recessed. He reports
a severe depression in the ranks of most of the
men in that activity in Washington,
Apparently the businessmen wiw handled their
government contracts in this manner. have all
been scared off,- It's not good advertising for a
firm when one of its officials is called before
& congressional committee. .
Aithough the investigation is only recessed,
there is a good chance that there won't be
any more hearings before the {final report is
handed to Congress. Practically all of the
evidence which the committee staff ggthered
has already been revealed in the cpen hearings.
Most of the members of the committee feel that
by stopping the influence trade in Washington they
have achieved a satisfactory goal It was adnrit
ted at the outset that Jgmes V., Hunt's opera
tion, which launched the whole investigation,
was not illegal. The only person who has a
chance of being punished is John Maragon. The
Justice Department is studying all of the facts
surrounding his statements to the comittee and
his previous contacts with. government officials.
MIGHT IN’IIODU%B A LAW
The committee is still considering the possi
bility of introducing some kind of a law which
would stop, or control, the 5 per cent buisness,
Meanwhile, most of the government agencies
have already set up special offices where busi
ness men can go for all the information they
might need to do business with taht agency.
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson reports
that the one-he opened at the Pentagon is work
ing succesiully. He believes that it has eiiminated
the peed for businessmen to hire help for this puir
pose.
Another check on the activities of 5 per centers is
a change which will soon be made in all govern
ment contract forms. Blanks will be included where
the businessman must list all the names of persons
other than full-time employes who helped in gtting
the contract. And he must include just how much
the person was paid for that service .Failure to do
s 0 accurately will be a crime,
With this device the government hopes ic be
able to keep clos track of just who the 5 per
centers are, if there are gny. And it will® tend to
discourage business from hiring such agents,
1 ieei that our motion pictures have done a great
deal, are as worthwhile as the Marshall Plan in
bringing democracy to the world—Spyros P.
Skouras, president of 20th Century Fox.
When the presidentlal fact-finding board ren
ders its report and reccmmendations after Labor
Day, it will be up to both sides to show us that
coilective bargaining plus public interest on a give
and-take basis is still a stirring and strong symbol
of American democracy at werk.—Assistant Secre
tary of Labor John W, Gibson, en steel indusiry's
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Co-ordinated Program |
By Dec. 1 Secretary of Commerce Sawyer will
report to President Truman on the major issues
that must be resolved before the United States
can fashion the unified transportation program
it so badly needs.
In asking for his report, Mr. Truman noted
that the government spends about $1,500,000,000
a year in regulating the transportation industry
“hrough the Interstate Commerce Commission
and other agencies. The President wrote Sawyer:
“A unified and co-ordinated federal program |
for transportation is clearly essential in order to
assure maximum benefits from the govern
ment’s activities in this field, In the broader
sense, such a program is necessary to assure the
public the most efficient and economical trans=
protation service.” 4
We applaud Mr, Truman’s interest and lament
only that action is long overdue As far back as
1835 the late President Roosevelt said it was
“high timet” to deal with the U. S. transporta
tion system as a unified whole. But nothing was
done. More recently the Hoover Commission on
government reorganization proposed a national
transportation authority,
The problems are legion. But basically the is
sue it: How can we keep rail, motor, air and water
transport in healthy, vigorous competition with|
one another and yet prevent ruinous warfare |
among them? 7
To get a sound answer the government must un
dertake exhaustive economic studies to determine
what role each form of transport can play. In
evitable, their respective spheres will cverlap to
some extent. But a survey may show that in some
areas of the field existing competition is doing
neither the indusiry nor the public any good.
These studies are so vital to a unified plan that
they should be approached with the most de
tached impartiality the government can muster.
This is an industry whehein the competing mem
bers are inclined te reach for each othei’s throats
at the drop of a harsh word. It won't be easy to sift
fact from fancy in such an atmosphere, |
But no one has more to gain from a sound
survey and a wise allocation of function than
the industry itself, For once an acceptable divi
sion of labor is worked out for the various trans
portation media, they are likely to devote more
energy to their allotted jobs and less to propagan
da broadsides aganist their competitors.
At'least one group in the field appears to re
cognize this. The committee representing the east
ern railroads has hailed the President’s action,
saying that each type of transport in its own
sphere “can pull the load best fitted to it under
the free enterprise system.”
Not the smallest gain from a co-ordinated U. S.
programr would be a re-examination of the tangled
skein of regulations that has been woven through
the years by federal agencies like the ICC.
For example, the ICC has reached the point in
governing the trucking industry where it must
now consider in solemn session whether spinach
that has been washed and wrapped in cellophane
is a “maunfactured product.” If it is, you see, then
the trucks that carry it to market must come un
der ICC’'s wing. :
All in all, much good can come from this trans
portation review if Mr, Truman does not allow the
action he has startea to come to a halt short of a
genuine plan for unity.
s He Awake Yet?
The new session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York got under way without the
verbal storms that have come to be viewed as part
of the act.
The reason was not hard to discover. A news
photographer scanning the troupe of UN dele
gates lit on what should have been thegobvious
answer to veteran observers: Foreign Minister
Vishinsky of Russia was fast asleep.
The pecple hired us to stay here the year round,
if necessary. It is not like the good old days, when
Congress could meet, speed three weeks on the
taritt, pass a few appropriation bills and go home
—Senate Majority Leader Scott W: Lucas,
First, study carefully what the Americans want.
Then make it at prices they are able and willing
1o pay .. . This will take energetic salesmanship
a swell as cheap production . . . It is the challenge
confronting the business statesmanship of Britain.
—Econoemic Co-operation Administrator Paul
Hoffman. . .
Econoniic recovery will lag if the haunting fear
of military aggression is widespread. Such fear
will prevent new investments from being made
and new indusiries from being established.—Pre
sident Truman.
_Anybody who tries to sell goods to the United
States finds that the tariff duty he has got to pay
is almost the smallest of the .obstacles that he has
to overcome.—Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the
Economist of London,
Unless we can find the right answer to the fin
ancial and econcmic problem, we shall not have
laid a sound foundation for the future peace of
the world ~British Foreign Secretray Ernest Be
vin.
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Accidents in U. 8. Fome killed
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Observance Of "NEPH
Week™ Begins Sunday
With Georgia prepared to ob
.serve “National Employ the Phy
sically Handicapped Week,” which
starts Sunday, encouraging news
‘went out to the disabled today in
an announcement of the Division
of Vocational Rehabilitation that
307 men and women of working
' age with physical or mental im
pairments were prepared for and
- made good in jobs during the 1949
ficsal year.
Their cases have been marked
“closed as rehabilitated and em
ployed,” P. S. Barrett, State Di
rector, announced
in the Northeast Ceorgia area
of the State Rehabilitation agency
559 handicapped men and women
were prepared for and placed in
jobs suitable to their skills and
physical condition, it was an
nounced by Nathan B. Nolan,
Counselor, whose offise is in
Hardman Hall on the Campus of
the College of Agriculture.
“The men and women who
completed their rehabilitation last
year are proving by their per
formance that it is ability - not
disability - which counts. They
are proving .to employers that
men and women with physical li
mitations, once they have been
properly prepared for and placed
in suitable employment, are the
equals of and in many instances are
superior to the so-called able bod
ied workers,” Mr. Barrett said. He
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off for everyone concerned, The
disabled men and women who
were rehabilitated last year bene
fited economically by having
their yearly rate of earnings in
creased iirom £655,500.08 bafore
rehabilitation through the Div
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—an increase of 529 percent
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had been derived from either un
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and most of the clients had not
been employed at the time they
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SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—(Ap)
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The device is the work of Dr. B
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Cutting metal so thin Makes
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U. N. HONORED AT LIDICF
LAKE SUCCESS— (AP) —The
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wiped out by the Nazis in 1947
has named its main street “Uniteqd
Nations Avenue.”
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modern lines with the help of vol
untary brigades from other coun
tries. Appreciation <f their aig
prompted the U, N. name for the
main street.
BOUNCES INTO HOSPITAL
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Shke bounced too hard — right
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