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The Washington Notebook
} BY PETER EDSON
L NEA Washington Correspondent
' WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —Democratic National
Committee Chairman Bill Boyle has his own pri
.~ vate explanation of where the “$8,000” figure came
% from, in connection with the American Lithofold
i* Reconstruction Finance Corporation investigation.
~ Boyle has been charged with having received the
~ SB,OOO for influencing RFC in granting the loan to
- Lithofold. But Boyle himself has sworn that he re
. ceived only $1,250 as legal fees. This he says repre=-
. sented two and a half months’s fees at SSOO a month,
. from February 1, 1949, when he was retained, tec
. April 20, 1949, when he quit. Boyle was made exe
cutive vice chairman of the Democratic National
Committee on February 8, 1949, without pay. On
April 20 he went to work for the National Commit
tee full time at a salary, and gave up his law prac
tice. This practice was turned over to his former
associate, Max Siskind.
Siskind took over the Lithofold account, among
others, at the same fee, SSOO a month, If someone
saw an account card for Boyle and Siskind, from
» February 1, 1949, to May 31, 1950, that yould cover
. & 16 months’ period and would involve a cumula
tive paymrent of SB,OOO to the two attorneys.
St. Louis Post Dispatch Reporter Theodore C.
Link, who broke the Boyle story last July, gave
another version to the Senate Investigating Com
. mittee. Siskind would have received $13,500 from
- May, 1949, to August, 1951, Assuming half of that
went to Boyle, it would be $6,750. This plus Boyle's
admitted $1,250 would make SB,OOO.
. All Lithofold loans were paid back to RFC in
August, 1950. But Siskind is still on the Lithofold
payroll today.
HE'S GOT A SYSTEM
Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts
told a Republican conference here about a letter he
had received, To him he said it expressed the typi
cal “gimme” attitude of mind about the national
government today. This was the letter:
“I understand that there is a government agency
that lends money without charging interest. Will
you please tell me its name? I want to borrow some.
With that money I plan to buy U. S. savings bonds.
With the interest I receive from the savings bonds,
I will pay my income tax.”
WANTED — ONE CANDIDATE
Senator Saltonstall also gave his definition of
what the next Republican candidate should be. And
ever since, people have been trying to fit the defi
nition to Taft, Eisenhower, Warren, Stassen.
“At election time the average voter first asks, ‘ls
he my kind of fella’?” began the senator. “The
question, ‘ls he an administrative genius?’ comes
second. In addition to these requirements . . . our
candidate must . . . demonstrate that he is as
friendly as a puppy but also that he has a back
bone of finest steel and the ability and character
necessary to master the most imrportant job in the
world.” Anybody having all these attributes should
apply to GOP headquarters.
WATCH THAT TONGUE, SENATOR
Senator John McClellan of Arkansas was cred-
ited with one of the most notable recent slips-of
the-tongue during the investigation of Democratic
Chairman Bill Boyle’s connection with the RFC-
Lithofold loan. “It is the job of the committee to
protect the innocent,” said the senator solemnly, “as
well as the guilty.”
JUST A FARMER AT HEART
There is probably less show and front to Repub
lican Senator George D. Aiken of Putney, Vermont,
than any man in Congress. He is still fundamentally
a New England farmer and he lists that as his oc
cupation in the Congressional Directory. Washing
ton society hasn't rubbed off on him at all. Not long
ago the senator was seen showing a group of his
constituents through the Capitol corridors. The vis
itors were all dressed up in their Sunday best. Sen
ator Aiken was wearing an old sweater.
THEME SONG FOR “MR. REPUBLICAN”
At the big eastern states Republican love feast in
Washington there was a string orchestra and a pair
of singers making with the nrusic during the ban
quet hour. One of the numbers played was, “The
Best Thing For You Is Me.”
“And that,” cracked Emil Hurja, “should be
Taft's theme song for 1952.” :
The argument has been made that it costs $50,000
to SIOO,OOO to run for governor. If a man had $50,-
000 to SIOO,OOO he wouldn't be running for gover
nor.—Rep, Clifton L. Caryl (R.-Ohio).
A parent will never have a real, strong, sough
American boy as long as the big crisis is whether
he’ll have orange juice or grapefruit to start the
day.—General Lewis B. Hershey, director, Selective
Service.
I haven’t known this country without a crisis.
The abnormal is our normal, — President Chaim
Weizman, of Israel.
It is plain women—like me—who know about
love. The beautiful are usually too busy being fas
cinating.—Katherine Hepburn, actress.
European Allies Should Know
U. S. Is Never An Aggressor
The British and the French—especially the for
mer—llike to think of themselves as the most ma
ture people politically on the face of the globe.
Consequently they tend ot resent and distrust Am
ericans as upstarts given to wild impulse in world
politics. %
The rearmament of the West is official policy in
both Britain and France, and it is supported either
eagerly or grudgingly by large elements in those
nations., But there are also many who actively op
pose it, and even among those who favor it there
are grave misgivings over the relation between re
armament and peace.
This opposition and this fear center upon the
United States, since our own rearmament is over
whelnringly the most important in the Western
picture. The attitude is: “How can we be sure that
America will not use this vast military potential to
precipitate a war against Russia which none of us
want?”
Now the mere fact that the British and French
ask this question is evidence that they exaggerate
in their claims to maturity. For mautrity implies
knowledge and understanding of others in the fam
ily of nations. And what they are exhibiting here is
rank, inexcusable ignorance.
One might argue that the rantings of some Am
ericans for “preventive war,” for a policy of “let's
drop the A-bomb on their cities and get it over
with,” are enough to justify European fears. But
that’s a shallow view.
This country has always had its free-wheeling
orators, its shouters and declaimers. Anyone who
knows anything about the United States under
stands that—and takes it all with a huge helping of
salt,
The really vital thing to know abcut America is
that it has never yet undertaken a war of aggres
sion. Indeed, it has never started a war on its own.
Its entire tradition, its way of life, its moral con
cept, all these mitigate strongly against that ever
happening. Nothing is more fundamental to an un
derstanding of this nation.
There is utterly no disposition among the top
policy makers of the United'States to use our
growing armed might to strike offensively at Rus
sia. The whole rearmament program is geared to a
strategy of defense—and the arms and men now
called for under that plan are adequate to any
other kind of warfare,
Thus the ignorance of the British and French is
compounded. For if they truly grasped the meaning
of the rearntament program of which they are a
part, they would see instantly that it could not sup
port the sort of impulsive strike they fear.
It is not amiss to suggest — at this critical pass
in the world’s affairs—that our brethren across the
Atlantic spend a little less time in shouting their
ill-founded fears of what we might do, and a little
more in learning what we have done in the past and
are really likely to do on another day.
The Business Of Schools
Adequate school facilities are as important to the
defense of America as are guns, according to an
editorial in the current issue of Business Week.
Business men throughout the country are being
told by the business management weekly that it is
their responsibility to take an active part in the
affairs of their local schools.
The Business Week editorial says, “In Germany
it was ‘guns or buttér.’ Guns won, and Germany
lost. In America, as the cold war takes more of our
cash and time, it may become ‘guns or schools.” If
we choose either we lose. Somehow we've got to
have both.” Continuing, the magazine said:
“Guns have been getting both money and atten
tion, but education has been going short. The
schools are bursting at their seams. Thirty-three
million Americans picked up their books last
month. Over 24 million of them trooped off to ele
mentary schools, 6% million to high school, 2%
million to colleges, universities, and professional
schools.
“But some of them lack seat sto sit in. Some of
them haven’t enough teachers. Some haven't as
good teachers as they need. In the last 50 years the
school population has doubled. We have built up a
wonderful investment in buildings and equipnient,
in teaching staffs, in the ideal that every child shall
have a chance at all the learning he or she can
profit by, We have come to take all this for
granted,
“There lies the danger. Businessmen know that
taking anything for granted means neglect. In these
last years our fine free education system has been
suffering from under-maintenance.
“What can.the businessman do about it? First,
take a new look at the matter. Frank Abrams,
chairman of the board of Standard Oil (New Jer
sey), says our country depends for its very life on
people that are educated, productive, tolerant. And
only that kind of people can make our business
system dynamic and flexible.
“So the board of directors of Standard OQil en
courages its people to take an actjve interest in the
public schools where they live. It wants more of
thenr to serve on school boards, participate in the '
Parent Teachers Association, take part in citizens'l
committees to bring schools up to date, and im-~ |
prove the quality and pay of teachers. It will even
grant company time for this.
“The Standard Oil pattern is worth thinking
about. It costs time, energy, interest, and money.
So does everything else that is worth doing. Unless
businessmen ,back up our schools, we can have
neither a strong nation nor a strong economy.”
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATPENS, GEORGIA
Lonely Manhatfaners Usually
End Up Talking To Themselves
By HAL BOYLE
. NEW YORK —(AP)— People
who live all alone on an island
usually end up by talking to
themselves,
~ This is particularly true of Man
hattan Island, one of the most
crowded and lonely islands in the
world. More people talk to them
selves here than anywhere,
The human trait of self-address
is a fascinating thing. It has al
ways interested me. Everytime I
see people talking to themselves,
I mutter under my breath, “Why is
he talking to himself?” And then
my brain asks me, “Why are you?
You're doing the same thing your
self right now, you dope.”
It is often appealing to watch
the very young and the very old
talking out loud only for their own
ears. They do it for different rea
sons, however. The old folks do it
because they have passed beyond
the focus of the present; chiidren
do it because they haven't yet en
tered that focus.
~ Monologues
What do they say to themselves?
My observation has been that most
oldtimers are quarreling with
themselves in their monologues. I
used to know a nice old lady back
in Missouri who would march
about her small chores saying
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. Though Saturdays found him on ths bench in grim dissatisfaction,
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crossly, “Now you know better
than that. Why did you ®ave to
o and do a silly thing like that?”
fnever could find out what she
thought she had done wrong. But
she sure did give herself hell all
day long.
With children the whole thing is
a game, a feat of the imagination
to create an ideal world more un
derstandable than the dismal
grownup world that surrounds
them. But when they talk to a
doorknob and call it by nickname,
the doorknob is a very real person
to them. Did you ever watch a
small girl walk along and pet a
row of flowers individually? They
no longer are just flowers to her:
They are pretty playmates. And
she isn't just talking to herself.
She hears what the flower-folk
say back to her,
What startles me about New
York, however, is the number of
middie-aged people who talk to
themselves. You see their lips
moving on the subways, on buses,
in the streets. What are they say
ing? Sometimes they are belated
ly rehearsing withering remarks
they should have made to the
taxidriver who almost ran them
down on the way to work. Or
they are talking back to their
wives—safely. Or else they are
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It could happen to You!
talkeing out thelr worries to them
selves, usually moneL’worries.
Talk Out ud
The most bor: type, however,
is found at oookm parties. These
people talk out loud o themselves
because of a seoret eonvietion that
is the only wa{ to be sure of an
intelligent audience. If you re
ply, they don't even hear you.
Your role is to bounce back the
echoes frorn their vocal chords in
to their own smug ears.
The most frightening self-con
versationalists are those who are
mentally disturbed -~ drunken
bums, senile refugees from reali
ty, younger people whose minds
have erupted in chaos.
You see them walking alone in
the crowds here, gibbering and
gesturing to themselves. And no
one bothers them here in the big
city where nobody wants to get
involved in anybody else. Even
the police pay no attention to them
unless they become violent. What
does happen to them.
I remember once seeing a trou
ble-haunted man mumbling to
himself as he pushed through a
throng near Rockefeller center.
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He needed level, firm support the trainer had implored!
Yet kick-off time found Eddie so stiff and muscle-sore,
The only cheer that came from him was closer to & snorel
Suddenly he wheeled, lfted his
arms as if to sweep everyone im
sight into the gutter amd shouted:
“Ciet ready, sheep, met ready.
You won't be here long.”
Everyone who heard him turned
eyes 10 the ground and walked on
faster, feeling perhaps that the
man who talked to himself had
said something true of them all.
AT THE
MOVIES
PALACE—
Wed.-Thurs.-Fri.-Sat.—"A Place
In the Sun,” starring Montgomery
Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley
Winters, News.
RITZ—
Fri.—“ Rodeo King and Senori
ta,” starring Rex Allen, Buddy Eb
sen. “Ghost Chasers,” ltarrlna
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The coach sent in Our Eddie and—hooray, Our Hero scored!
So take a tip from Eddie if firmer rest you seek—
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1951
With Kit Carson—chapter 5
DRIVE-IN— oy
Fri. 10— ‘Between Midni
Dawn,” starring Mark fiy::i
;dmd o?’thg.en. Gale %tor‘rr'
Finest,
Panie, e
sati—“Caufrgrnia Passage giar
ring Forrest Tucker, A f
Jim Davis. Trial of Donajd b
g;xlck on the Vigor, Lit ural
ding Hood.
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GEORGIA—
Thurs.-Fri—“He Ran All the
Way,” starring John Gartielq
Shelley Winters. Floridg Cow.
hands. Down the River, Fox
News.
Sat.—"“He's a Cockeyed Won.
der,” starring Mickey Rooney,
Rainbow Chasers. Fox and Ry,
bit.
STRAND—
One Week—begnning Thursday
—*“People Will Talk,” starring ;5.
ry Grant, Jean Crain.
_Saturday—Owl Show—*“Golden
Horde,” starring David Farry,
Ann Blythe. ?