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DAILY MEDILATIONS
This then is the message
(‘ which we have heard of him,
‘ and declare unto you, that
God is light, and in him is
no darkness.
M we say that we have fellowship with him,
and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship one with anether, and
the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us
from all sin.—llst John 1:5-6-7.
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The Washington Notebook
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.—(NEA)—It's a wise man who
knows when to quit, This is as true of politicians as
it is of prize fighters. And that, perhaps, is why two
smart Democratic senators — J. William Fulbright
of Arkansas and Estes Kefauver of Tennessee—
want to step out of the ring, to quit their current
fights as champions.
| They have delivered some jarring punches to
' racketeers and chiselers in their investigations of
Reconstruction Finance Corporation and organized
crime, There is a great public clamor for them to
continue indefinitely. But knowing the fickleness of
public interest, Fulbright and Kefauver would like
to step aside. .
They have proved what they started out to prove
—that there was monkey-business in high places.
Let the proper local authorities clean up their own
¢ Situations, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover recom
mends.
Citing 30 racketeers for contempt of Congress in
refusing to answer Kefauver questions isn’t going
to clean up U. S. crime. Convicting a few Fulbright
conmmittee witnesses of perjury or income tax
evasion won't end political influence peddling.
Today’s indifference to the outcome of Senator
Clyde R. Hoey's “Five Percenter” investigation of
two summers ago is evidence and proof of that.
The guilty may lie low for a few weeks or months.
But the odds are that they’ll be in business at the
same old stands as soon as the shouting dies and
public interest turns to some new craze.
SMART OPERATORS WILL BE
OUT OF HIBERNATION
Attendance at the race tracks and gambling spas
this summer will probably be greater than ever.
Bookmaking business will flourish. Patrons of the
numbers racket will be just as numerous. Politic
ians will continue to be politicians. Those may be
cynical conclusions, but they're drawn fronr human
nature and human behavior,
So the bigger question raised is how to make
people stop gambling and grafting? The public mind
is now in the curious position of thinking that it's
wrong to take a bribe, but all right to offer one, il
you can get away with it.
Senator Fulbright's proposal’ for a new and lar
ger investigation of “ethical standards of conduct
in public affairs” offers an approach to this prob
lem. It is not just a reform in government that's
called for—though that would be desirable as a
first step. It's a moral reform of the whole people
that’s needed. For it is an old saying that, “The
people usually get the kind of government they
deserve.”
When it becomes smart instead of just legal to
evade income taxes, buy on the black market,
chisel on state government anti-inflation regula
tions, lobby for special interest legislation, profiteer
on sales of government surpluses, fix parking
tickets, break speed laws and beat every federal,
state and local rap—then there is something basi
cally wrong with the whole system of society.
What's the difference between a White House
aide who accepts a deep-freeze from a fixer who
has something to gain by it and a senator who sends
out personal publicity telegrams at taxpayers ex
pense?
What's the difference between an RFC examiner
who accepts free hotel accommodations and a sen
ator who does the same thing?
What's the difference between a racketeer who
takes advantage of loopholes in the tax laws and
an oil producer or the builder of a defense plant
who asks for accelerated depreciation allowances,
to take advantage of other loopholes in the same
{ laws?
What's the difference between the patron of a
policy game racket who is illegally in this country
and ought to be deported, and the emplover of
“wetback” labor smruggled across the Mexican bor
der in violation of the immigration laws?
What's the difference between, say, dealers in
gray market steel. defense profiteers, labor union
laders who walk out on government defense efforts
in protest over wage ceilings, aand the congres
sional bloc which threatens to make it impossible
for Price Stabilizer DiSalle to put a ceiling price
! on goods.
As Senator Fulbright has said, his investigation
{ may not bave uncovered many outright violations
‘ of the law. What it has uncovered are many cases
of presumably respectable people “hiring knavish
lawyers to circumvent the law and enrich them
i selves at government expense.”
, The three “DPA’s” in the defense set-up have
| now been straightened out. Origina}ly they " were
i Department of Production Administration, Defense
| Petrvieum Adnrinistration and Defense Power Ad
| ministration. The first mentioned DPA has kent its
name. The other two have been changed to PAD—
Petroleum Administration for Defense, and DEDA
. —Defense Electric Power Administrition.
Hospital Faciliiesln
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Athens Among Best 1
With the completion of the new wing at Athens!
General Hospital this community is equipped now
with as good, or better, hospital facilities as any
city its size in the country. |
The General Hospital expansion makes that
county-owned hospital one of the largest in Geor
gia, outside of Atlanta. St. Mary’s is also one of the
largest in Georgia and their combined facilities
gives this community two progressively operated
and well-equipped hospitals. :
We congratulate the officials of the Athens Gen
eral Hospital for having promoted the construction
of the new wing. And we commend the people of
Clarke county for having authorized the issuance
of bonds which were matched with federal and
state funds to pay for the expansion.
The new wing at the General Hospital is modern
in every respect: lighting, construction, equipment
and devices for the convenience of patients. The
entire hospital has recently undergone complete
renovation,
This community can take pride in having in its
midst two large and splendidly equipped hospitals
which are making notable contributions to the pro
tection of the health of local citizens as well as
those who come here fromr adjoining counties for
treatment.
Need A "Code Of Conduct’ For
Congressional Hearings
A lot of argument is being stirred up about
whether it is a good thing to televise such affairs
as the Kefauver Committee’s celebrated New York
hearings. i
A pretty fair answer would be: Yes, if proper
safeguards can be erected to protect the rights of
witnesses and prevent the debasing of the proceed
ings. This would seem to be also the idea of Sena
tor Kefauver, who has just declared that Congress
should draft a “code of conduct” to govern its
hearings.
By now everyone knows the video version of the
crime hearings hit the viewing public with the im=
pact of a pile-driver. Probably at no time in his
tory have so many people become so thoroughly
aroused over the sordid side of U. S. life as were
the millions whose eyes popped at the committee
room doings of Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Frank
Erickson and company.
It ‘the steam pressure generated by those hear
ings had been sustained long enough to direct sev
eral jets toward the polling booths, every politician
with the slightest smirch on his record might well
have been blasted sky-high.
This high pitch could not be maintained, of
course. But even as it is, many a politician may rue
the day TV was invented. For what the people see
they apparently remember longer than what they
hear.
Who can doubt this is a tremendously healthful
thing for a democratic citizenry? The popular re
sponse to the crime hearings was so great it seems
possible the force of public opinion might almost
gain a new dimension if televising of such events
were to continue. To those who believe public
opinion if the wellspring of democracy, this out
come could only be viewed as desirable.
Yet there is another side to the issue—an imr
portant side. To begin with, the very decision to
televise one event and not another inevitably
amounts to an editing of what the people shall
know, or at least know by immediate visual ex
perience. Unless extreme care is taken to present a
balanced picture of government, the public will not
in the long run be well served by TV broadcasts of
major events, Who should exercise the vital power
of deciding what the public shall see?
Complete stress on the obviously dramatic,inves
tigations into wréng-doing or other official failures
can only give the citizen a distorted image of his
nation’s public affairs,
Moreover, if congressional inquiries are to be
televised frequently, then long overdue reforms in
committee practice ought to be instituted forthwith.
The investigative power of Congress is a cardinal
feature of its law-making process: it cannot be
hedged about with seriously hampering restrictions.
Without full information, wise laws cannot be
made.
But Congress has almost always allowed itself
considerably more latitude than necessary to this
purpose. Its committees’ rules are extremely flex
ible, leaving broad room for discretion——and abuse.
Only roughly do they resemble the careful proce
dure of the courtrogm.
Since ('ommunisn&as stirred so much fear in the
nation, reckless charges have become commonplace.,
The character and reputation and livelihood of
many innocent persons are often hurt by irrespon
sible lawmakers disdainful of indiviinal rights.
Good investigaions are not assured by the rules;
they are dependent upon the investigators having
high motives.
Lastly, the mere technical problem of televising
public proceedings raises a grave point, TV equip=-
ment involves huge, glaring lights and other facili
ties which on occasion produce not only discomfort
but actual annoyance among participants in an in
quiry. If televising is to become common, ways
must be found to assure that the transmission of
cvents dees not interfere with the achievement of
the sound purpose for which the event was stased
in the first place. The recordine of historv carnot
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