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BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON.,— (NEA) —Proponents of the
new universal military training program, which
will become a hot issue soon after Congress recon
venes, believe theéy've got a plan this time the
country will buy.
They think that most of the pople are sold on the
need for UMT. And they believe that the program
just proposed by the National Security Training
Commission reduces to an absolute minimum the
complaints that the traditional opponents of UMT
have always offered.
It calls for six months of training, which, they
believe, isn't long enough to wreck any boys’ civil=
ian career. Training starts when a boy reaches 18.
It’s just about as unnrilitary a program as it can
be made. The boys will not operate under the Ar
ti~les of War. They cannot be sent into combat.
There will be rigorous and moral supervision of
tiem while they are in the training corps. At the
end of training they will have to serve in one of the
civilian reserve components of the services for
seven and one-half years.
Trainees will get S3O per month, a free SIO,OOO life
insurance policy which will continue four months
after they get out, allotments to dependents and
disability benefits equal to those given veterans.
OPPOSITION IS REDUCED
A great deal of the traditional opposition to uni
versal training has come from educators, the labor
unions and the churches. The six months reduces
the antagonism of the educators.
A boy determined to keep on going to school will
not be vitally deterred in his plans by that rela
tively short interruption. A summer vacation and
one semester is all that need be lost.
Relative shortness of the training also spikes the
main objection of the unions which was that it
would interfere with a boy’s job career. 9lso, boys
are guaranteed reemployment rights.
And the emphasis on strict moral guidance in the
program should pacify to some extent the church
opposition.
Top policy on the character of the training pro-
gram will be made by the National Security Train
ing Commission, composed mostly of prominent
civilians. Among a long ‘list of proposed regula
tions is the following:
“No beer should be sold in & UMT training area.
All taverns and bars within a reasonable distance
from UMT camps or stations should be off-limits
to trainees, and a penalty would be attached to the
keeper of such a place, wherever located, if he
knowingly permits a trainee to enter and purchase
an intoxicating drink.”
The question of who can be deferred from train
ing, and who might be drafted for regular military
service and who might be put into the UMT pro
gram, the Comnrission recommends, should be de
cided locally by draft boards.
Deferments for universal training would be the
same as they are for the present draft. A boy will
be allowed to finish high school and to finish an
academic year if he has started college.
DRAFT BOARD PROBLEMS
If the services are drafting men for regular mil
itary duty at the same time men are men are being
selected for training, the local draft boards will
have a very difficult problem on their hands.
They will have to decide what boys will go for
six months and what boys for 21 months of regu
lar duty. It will be a tough decision.
Army will get about half the trainees, the Navy
including teh Marine Corps 28 percent and the Air
Force 22 percent.
Training will be strictly military. The Army
plans to give the first 17 weeks over to basic train
ing. Next six weeks will be training with units and
some leadership instructions. The balance will be
schooling in special Army subjects, *
Training by the Navy would be similar, with sea
duty being the last phase.
The Air Force plans to give eight weeks of basic
training, 16 weeks of specialist training, followed
by duty with regular units of the Air Force.
All three services would give men training in
many subjects which could help get themr jobs
when they get out, including training in communi
cations, vehicle maintenance, personnel work, law
eeforcemnt, and medical work,
When Iran was in danger, there is only one front
—all will fight together for the country’s rights and
independence.—Hosein Fatemi, Iran vice premier.
{ Partisanship and animosity toward the President
| can never justify the divided nation which they are
producing or the aid and comfort to the Kremlin
. which they are providing. — Senator Irving Ives
(R.-New York).
Government ought not to do for people what they
can, should, and always have done for themselves.
¢ —=enztor James H. Duff (R.-Pa.). Q
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Tempters Must Share Guilt
0f Those Who Betray Trust
1t is wholly proper that we should demand the
highest moral standards from our public servants.
When they enter upon government service, they
are assuming a public trust. We who are on the
outisde looking in may be guilty of a smugness we
hardly realize. In our readiness to censure illegal
and immoral doings in government, we may be for
getting a few things.
The federal worker who boldly steals from his
government, or cheats by failing to pay the full
amount of his income tax, is obviously a lone-wolf
transgressor. But what of the man who is guilty of
parceling out influence, of dispensing federal favors
in return for personal favors granted, or of some
how suspending legal penalties that ought to apply?
He has been a party to a deal. And a deal takes
at least two to bring it off. There is seldom a grant
ing of influence or favor unless someone is seeking.
In all such cases, therefore, does not a large
share of blame for the wrongdoing fall upon the
outsider who has successfully brought pressure on
government officials? His responsibility may be
less than equal, since he does not bear a public
trust, but he is nevertheless seriously at fault.
In some ways he may be more culpable, for he
is the tempter in all too many instances, the one
who begins the effort to corrupt. This does not ex
cuse the weakness of the government official who
yields; in the end there would be no corruption if
this resolve and sense of moral duty were firm.
But it does make the tempter something short of an
ideal citizen.
The shameful tax scandals and the countless
other evidences of government corruption that
have been brought to light in the past year are thus
two-sided coins, On their face, they depict the evil
of men who have either deliberately or ignorantly
misused public office. On their reverse side they
show the corrupting instincts of men in the busi
ness community and other spheres who shrewdly
calculate the frailty of government workers on
limited pay and similar restrictions and play upon
those soft spots.
There can be no apology for the easily tempted.
But neither can there be forgiveness for those who
try to take advantage of these weaknesses to the
grave detriment of public morals and the ideals of
democratic government. Let the blame fall upon all
those who should shoulder it.
.
Tribute To Paul Brown
The Washington (Ga.) News-Reporter, in a re
cent issue, carried the following tribute to Con
gressman Paul Brown, which, not only this news
paper, but we daresay thousands of others in the
Tenth District heartily endorse:
“Congressman Paul Brown, representative in
Congress from the Tenth District of Georgia, was
in Washington Tuesday of this week mreeting old
friends and making new ones. Mr. Brown Iloves
people and he always goes around his congres
sional district whenever there is a recess in Con
gress. He doesn’t make these trips because he heeds
to but bcause he wishes to see his friends and re
new old friendships. He has represented this dis
trict for around 16 years now and has had oppo
sition only two times if our memory serves us cor
rectly. We believe he can slay in Congress as long
as he wishes and we don't believe there is the
slightest danger of his ever having opposition
again, for the people of the Tenth Congressional
District are satisfied with their representative.
“We don’t believe there has ever been a district
in any state that has had more loyal or energetic
representation in Congress than that given by Con
gressman Brown to our district. To our knowledge,
there has never been a time when he would not
answer the call of his constituents for some work
for the district or in behalf of some individual, re
gardless of how busy he was. Just before World
War 11, we had occasion to make many trips to
Washington, D. C., in the interest of building up the
National Guard of the State of Georgia, and there
never was a time when we were unable to get the
help of Congressman Brown even when the project
did not affect his own district and when the rep
resentatives of the district concerned either did not,
or could not, get the results desired. All that mat
tered to Mr. Brown was whether it would be of
value to his district or to the State of Georgia. There
are many monuments in the district in the form of
public works that will forever commemorate his
efforts, the greatest of which is the Clark Hill Dam,
for it was through his tireless efforts that this great
project will become a reality within the next few
months.”
Tears Are New TV Voque
One of our politicians broke down and cried dur
ing a speech the other day. That’s what television
will do. Those new films of Iran’s Premier Mos
sadegh in tearful action on his home grounds have
been getting around.
We had rather hoped that the vogue wouldn't
catch on. We were especially encouraged when
Mossadegh, with fine restraint, managed to curb
the flow fronr his lachrymal glands all during his
American stay,
But politicians like to experiment with new tech
niques. And, no question about it, Mossadegh has
got one.
Of course, it really hasn't been tested at the polls
yet. Iran has an election coming up before long, and
then we'll see how Mossadegh’s salty precipitation
pays off. It might be wise for our own fellows to
hold off until then. And they'd better give some
thought, too, to what these erying spells can do to
their TV make-up.
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HONORING THE 4-H CLUBS—This green, three-cent stamp,
honoring the 4-H Club movement, will go on sale at Springfield,
0., on Jan. 15, Springfield claims to be the birthplace of the youth
farm movement. The design features a group of farm buildings,
at left, and a teen-age boy and girl facing the club symbol of a
four-leaf clover. It bears the four H’s, which stand for Head,
Heart, Hands and Health,
Congerssional Investigations
Termed “"One-Way Streefs”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 —
(AP)—So far the Congressional in
vestigation of rax scandals has
been a one-way street, even though
it performed a public service with
its disclosures.
The investigators — members of
a House Ways and Means subcom
mittee — have taken a lot of tro
uble checking on employes of the
executive branch of the govern
ment and on civilians who have
been linked with tax cases.
And the committee has forced
them to appear before it to an
swer questions in public hearings.
But this committee did not do
the: same kind of job when mem
bers of Congress were involved.
Two House Members
At least two house members,
both Democrats, have been men
tioned as either interering in the
tax fraud prosecutions of taking
an unusual interest in them. But
the committee did not force them
the testify.
And the commmitee gave its
own chairman, Rep. King, Calif
ornia Democrat, special-treatment
when there were rumors he had
interbered in a tax case in his own
state.
He demanded his committee in
vestigate. It did.
It held hearings for three days
and then gave King a clean bill
of health. But the hearing was
secret, health. But the hearing was
the public.
So far as is known this com
mittee has closed up shop on the
present phase of its inquiries. It
goes to San Francisco next month
for an investigation out there. It
may resume Washington hearings
some months from now, possibly
in a different field from the one
it's been pursuing the past few
weeks.
Special Treatment
Spical treatment for Congress
men by Congressional Committees
is not unusual. It’s the rule. When
the rule is used in a case like
the tax scandals the public gets
less than a full investigation.
In failing to be just as relent
less with fellow members of Con
gress as they are with outsiders,
Congressmen simply follow a prac
tice known pleasantly as con<
gressional courtesy.
This is another way of saying
members of Congress don’t very
often embarrass other members of
Congress or make trouble for
them.
Yet no one in Congress can pre
tend its members are always be
yond reproach.
We’ve had some recent examples
to the contrary — J. Parnell
Thomas, New Jersey Republican,
and Andrew May, Kentucky De
mocrat — both of whom were
imprisoned for crookedness.
Congress had nothing to do with
disclosing their wrongdoing. That
Christmas Eve
Slayer Dies
In “"Chair”’
REIDSVILLE, Ga., Dec. 17 —
(AP) — Vester Mcßurnett, Floyd
county father of six children, died
silently in the electric chair today
for the Christmas Eve slaying of a
crippled storekeeper.
The 43-year-old tenant farmer
was pronounced dead at the State
Prison at 10:59 a. m. Warden R.
P. Balkcom announced that he
went to his death stoically and
without any statement.
Six earlier death dates had been
set but were cancelled by stays
obtained in a legal fight for Mc-
Burnett’s life. four times the Par
don and Parole Board refussed to
ease the death sentence, the last
time only last Thursday.
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The public has benefited from
this Congressional investigation,
but that does not excuse the com
mittee from making a more
thorough investigation than it did.
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"Hold The Line"”
ATLANTA, Dec. 1T — (AP) —
Gov. Herman Talmadge wants the
1952 Legislature to “hold the line”
against any tax, appropriation or
salary increases.
The Chief Executive, who will
attend the pre-session gathering
of house members here Wednesday
and Thurscay, said today that
“most of the things I am interested
in are pending in the house.”
He listed the three most im
portant as creation of a toll road
authority; reduction of the state
property tax to one-fourth of a
mill; extension of welfare benefits
to permanently disabled persons.
He said other measures would
include amendment of the welfare
act so that the relief rolls may
be made public. Asked if there
were not other pending bills in
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which he was interestea-—such as
the newspaper bills — Talmadge
replied: ° i 10,
“I have enumerated the main
things; there may be some others.”
During his news conference, the
Governor told a telephone caller
that “I don’t want a deluge of
salary increases.”
He told newsmen that he does
not expect to approve appropria
tion increases.
Asked about plans of consitu
tional officers to seek more pay,
he said:
“You heard what I told him(the
telephone caller. If there are any
officials who are not getting as
much as they should be and the
legislaure will screen them very
carefully, I will be inclined to go
along with a few salary increases.
But if I get a deluge of salary and
appropriation increases, I am going
to veto every one of them.”
When the football season ends,
Bob Carey will return to the Mich
igan State basketball team. He
scored 174 points last season.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1951,
The 45th annual invitation frack
meet of the Millrpse A. A. will be
held Saturday, Jan, 286, in' Madison
Square Garden.
Skeletons of sea creatures are
found in the Himalaya mountains,
17,000 feet above sea level,
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