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our institutions and seek ways of
making them function more effec-
lively.
3. We should consider the question
of "rethinking" of the actual roles
of Congress and the administration.
We should recognize that the ques-
tions of the present day are for the
most part technical.
4. With regard to congressional
committee hearings, it is assumed
that if interested parties on both
sides are heard, out of such debate
the public interest will emerge. The
weakness lies in the fact that it tends
to give exaggerated importance to
clauses affecting special interests
and to the relative absence of any
provision whereby the effect of a
measure on the Nation as a whole
can be brought out clearly.
S. It is difficult for members of
Congress to get views from Govern
ment agencies that differ from the
views of the President. There are
certain vested interests within the
administration itself. The Goth GEN.
tury meaning of checks and bal
ances is that Government must not
be arbitrary-it must give reasons.
No Room for Crusaders.
With this approach in mind, DR..
Griffith has announced that no pro-
fessional crusaders need apply for
jobs. On the other hand, he does
not want persons he refers to as de
hydrated." He wants real people"
To insure objectivity he plans to
have any report prepared by per-
son with known views gone over and
checked by another with opposite
opinions. This was done to some ex-
tent in the services recent l41-page
documented study, Communism in
Action" prepared at the request of
Representative Everett M. Dirksen,
Republican, of Illinois.
Asked if there would not be a
tendency to slant such a report
along the line of the political beliefs
of the man who asked for it, DR..
Griffith replied that exactly the
same report would have been pre-
pared for Vito Marcantonio, the
left-wing American-Labor Party
Representative from New York.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers noted recently with con-
Germ that experts could be appointed
to the service who would select and
present data intended to promote
racial or extreme left-wing economic
or social policies" but expressed the
opinion that business will profit "to
the extent that clear, sound and un-
prejudiced opinions and analyses are
provided"
Some concern has been expressed
over the possibility the service may
become embroiled in harmful con-
troversies through having its name
used on such studies as that pre-
pared for Mr.. Dirksen. To avoid
this. 1t has been suggested that the
service be required to remain
anonymous.
Other comprehensive studies in
preparation include a report on
fascism; a report on the effect of
the atomic bomb on naval strategy;
a report on the Wagner-Ellender-
Taft housing bill and study on the
unionization of foremen.
Covers Wide Field.
The 100 professional employees and
so clerks of the service will continue
such activities as translating docu-
ments, seeking correct quotations to
fit a situation, finding appropriate
commemorative poems, compiling
voting records and refusing to an
swer questions for use in puzzle
contests.
Routine compilations. include
listing loans and repayments Of
Federal agencies, tabulating Army
and Navy appropriations from 1880
to 1899 and listing bills passed by
Congress for the relief of suffering
in other countries.
It not infrequently happens that
facts gathered for the use of a
member Of Congress in speech are
challenged on the floor. The speaker
will make hurried call from the
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