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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04

offenses are considered. But here's
the payoff, and it will really kill
you if you don't know the opera
lions of the brass hat system: the
only private involved, whose helm
GUS offense consisted in obeying a
majors order to transport the
| blackmarket goods and money, was
given three years at hard labor and
a dishonorable discharge from the
Army! OF course, the private could
have refused to obey the order Civ
en- by his superior officer-but only
at the risk of being courtmartialed
for another offense under the Ar
ticles of War.
Maybe we're wrong, but under
the theory that an enlisted man is
only a soldier but an officer is a
gentleman df only by Act of Con-
gress), it seems to us that if an
enlisted man and an officer COM
| hihO viz OohiO VyPO Va OiiSiioS' 'iiN
sentences given to each should al
least be comparable in degree. Wed
go even further, and say that in oul
opinion, the officer should receive
an even greater sentence, on the
ground that as a gentleman, he
should be more fully aware of the
difference between ri g h ant
wrong Yet, as any ex-soldiel
knows. the officers sitting on &
courtmartial board will handle {
brother officer with kid gloves, bu
will throw the book at an enlisted
man. In trials in which no enlist
fed man can sit at a member of tn,
Jury, the officer caste will for
ever protect its own.
This inequality of justice ant
discipline is blot upon the Anne
rican ideal of fair play. We ar
proud of our Army and its deed O
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04
Truman Calls on All Americans
To Back Community Chest

A call to all Americans to sup
port Community Chest campaigns
throughout the nation this year ito
prove ourselves that an American
ideal can be made to work. has
been made by President Truman
in letter to Henry Ford II, chair
man of the Community Chests of
America. The Presidents letter
was released locally this week by
L. A. Williams. Seattle-King Coun-
ty campaign chairman.
Noting that America today is a
stage upon which drama of hui
man destiny is being appraised by
the critical eyes of all the world,
Truman declared:
What Americans think, what
Americans say, what Americans do
is causing people in other lands to
decide whether they want our way
of living or another At the core
of our democratic tradition is the
American ideal of working, living
giving together so all may bene-
fit"
Calling the Red Feather cam
paigns as American as E Pluribus
Unum," the President urged ali
Americans to give enough for all
of the Red Feather services
enough to make us proud to be
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04
Special 7-Day All-Expense Tour
Of Japan's Beauty Spots Offered

Provided weekly by the Japan
Travel Bureau with the approval Of
the Allied military authorities, tour
lists may now visit postwar Japan
on a special seven-day all-expense
tour, according to Yoshito Harada
of the c. T. Takahashi g. Co., au-
thorized travel agent for the
Northwest Orient Airlines.
Seven days in Japan will cost a
tourist $17500 which includes no.
tel accommodations rail and mo-
tor transportation, meals, baggage
handling guide services and ad-
missions while in Japan.
The tour is open to anyone with
valid U. S. passport and a spe-
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04
THE BRASS HAT SYSTEM

Your correspondent being an
alumni member in good standing
of the Army of the United States,
has the usual feeling of respect
and affection for the Army which
one should properly have for ones
Alma Mater. Once in a while,
however. we read or hear of some
thing which reminds us of situa-
ton about which we couldn't do
much while we we're in service, but
which still succeeds in bringing
our emotions to the familiar boil
ing point. And now, at least, we
can blow off our feeling in print
with the hope that If enough other
people do the same, especially those
with more influence than yours tru-
ly, some good might be accomplish
ed for the future.
The situation to which we re-
fer, is what which is familiarly
known as the brass hat system"
and the particular manifestation
which arouses our ire is the in.
equality of the application of JUS
tice to officers and enlisted men
Drew Pearson, one of the nation:
, top political columnists, recent,
focused attention on a news stor,
which will serve as prime exam
pie of this inequality of justice.
Last year in Japan, certain higl
officers of the oath Infantry Divi
sion were caught in a scanda
which received little publicity, sell
ing Army supplies in the blacI
market. The star witness for tn
prosecution was 1t. Charles Vettel
a young ETC war veteran. Befor
he could testify, he was found dea
under mysterious circumstances.
At the subsequent courtmartia
the strange death of 1t. Vetter wa
mot even mentioned. -Four officer
a Northumberland, two major
and a CWO, were given fines rang
ing from $500 to $200-mere SLAP
on the wrist when the nature of tn
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04

DETROIT-B OUND -. Mrs.
Monica Tsuyulki, the former Kazulo
Itoi, of Seattle has left for De-
troit, Mich, after visiting her
friends here for the last few weeks
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04
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valor and heroism, but justice de-
manos that an unequal situation
such as this. should and must be
remedied with the least possible de-
lay while we are still at peace with
the world and have the time and
opportunity.
fyC MEETING
We're reminding all you loyal
NVC members that there will be a
membership meeting this coming
Friday evening. August 6, at the
usual time and place. huff said.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04

Americans.
Ford. president of the Ford Mo-
tor Co. recently assumed the lea
dership of more than million vol
unteer workers in Community Chest
throughout the nation, with to-
tai estimated goal of $4,000, 900.
In Seattle and King County, some
$4,000 volunteers are being solicit
ed under the leadership of Williams
as chairman of the campaign for
1949.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04

Help protect the peace. enlist
today in the United States Army.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04

suggestions as clocks, china, cry
stall, electrical appliances mot all
jewelry, you see), silverware,
wood, desk equipment, linen and
lace, and leather goods. From the
tenth anniversary on, the appfo-
pirate gifts include jewelry, gems,
even furs. It's still gold for the
fiftieth wedding anniversary and
diamonds shine on the 10th as
we'll as the Goth jubilee.
The new official list Is outlined
in q little booklet you can get at
any jewelry store. Say Happy
anniversary" - but say It right
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04

cial Japan tour voucher, available
through any Northwest Airlines Of
flee or one of its authorized travel
agents.
The seven-day tour will include
such Japanese historic and beauty
spots as Nikko, Atami, Hakone
Kyoto, Nara, Kamakura, Tokyo, as
well as many other interesting
sports enroute.
Harada is at ZIG Bird Ave. So.
Seattle 4. The telephone num-
Der is Sc. 2438.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04

issued q new official anniversary
list as a boon to the countrys
100000 married couples. MAX
ing dreams come true sooner Is
the way they put it. for their
research showed that during the
early married years gifts that
will help furnish the house are
most appropriate. W hen the
couple is established. the chill.
dren growing up so mother and
father can go out more frequent
", the anniversary gifts take on
q more personal nature.
A sample? Well, the first few
anniversaries include such useful
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-08-04

Choosing a career is the most
important choice a man has to
make. An Army or Air Force Job
may be your answer. Check today
with your nearest Army and Air
Force recruiter.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-02-07

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grobes Slid 10 frob uno iibermiitig,
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5elbaume i6lagen fonnte mie elm SUIT
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penn idr ni6t Die pornebme Beriomms
lung bon 8utern bo unten iamt Der
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rig uno eibt mir 6u oenfen, tuenn id
bih 10 reoen bore, 2iebltng. am en-
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9un5 uno gar gemeiniames @rfoiien
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mo5 oes innern grlebens un0 sSeitz
baltens merit erId]ien.
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(Jortiesune folst)
Evening star., 1948-01-15

tim OF fear and panic, OF that there was
an inquisition, or that the confession was
wrung from him. On the contrary, the
evidence which the court refused to
consider-the controverted evidence-was
considered by the trial Judge and the jury,
and both came to the conclusion that none
of these things was true. Small wonder
that Justice Frankfurter, in agreeing with
the result of the majority decision, felt
obliged to resort to what he called a
psychological judgment" whatever that
may be.
Justice Burton stated the matter well
when he said in his dissent that "to rely
upon conjecture, either in favor of or
against the accused, is not justice" And
when one considers the fact that the
offense here was no boyish prank, but a
murder, it is difficult to believe that the
courts overly sentimental decision can
possibly serve the ends of justice.
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Hollow Criticism

It is hard to make much sense out OF
statements criticizing Secretary Marshall
for aHallegedly "inflexible" and military
minded" attitude toward the projected
European Recovery Program.
The criticism-based on the Secretarys
recent testimony before the Senate For
eign Relations Cormittee-has taken the
line that he has served kind of "ulti-
matum" on Congress, demanding that the
ERP be adopted exactly as he has recon-
mended or that nothing whatever be done.
This all-or- none Interpretation, how
ever, is quite as loose and unjustifled as
the critics discovery of "infexibility" and
military -mindedness" in Secretary Mar
shall's advocacy of the ERP,, 1t is an inter-
probation that goes out of its way to read
an extreme meaning into words never
designed to impart that meaning.
What did Secretary Marshall really say?
After explaining that our aid to Europe
must be- adequate, prompt and effectively
applied, he said this: "An inadequate pro-
gram would involve wastage OF our
resources with an ineffective result. Either
undertake to meet the requirements OF the
problem or don't undertake it at ALL"
Read by themselves, of course, without
reference to anything else said by Secre-
tary Marshall, these two sentences can be
twisted enough by pettifoggers to be made
to sound like a personal "ultimatum" to
Congress. But read in relation to the
whole text of his fortnight and eloquent
testimony to the Senate committee, they
simply do not warrant-not even remotely
the suggestion that he has taken an
"inflexible," military minded" all : or 80
none position, insisting that things be done
Just as he wants.
Actually the warning against made
uuacy, against being too little or too late
with our aid, adds up to plain common
sense. More than that, since it is his own
honest, earnest and exceptionally we'll
Informed opinion Secretary Marshall has
not only the right, but also the duty, to
state it as emphatically as possible to
Congress. s4 ..sz
The critics who have been arguing
otherwise, as if intent on trying to make;
an issue of it, have been seeing things that
do not really exist. They ought to try their
hand at something less hollow.
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Wave of InfIotion'

In his economic report to the Congress,
which is largely repetition of material in
his state-o -the-U Union and budget mes
sages, President Truman says that our
first objective for 1948 must be to halt
the inflationary trend"
Most people will agree with this, for the
number of those who think that imitation
is a good thing is small. A relatively few
clever riders of the wave OF imitation"
may be enriching themselves, but for the
vast majority imitation spells only rising
prices and mounting distress.
President Truman appears fully alive to
the danger. UNLESS we as Nation" he
said, "show an ability to impose restraints
on ourselves and to utilize the machinery
of our representative Government to
devise well-considered regulatory meas
ures, we stand in great danger that run
away prices, extended credit and
unbalanced developments will lead to an
economic recession"
The "well-considered regulatory meas
ures" which the President has in mind are
the seven points of his ten-point program
which the special session of Congress
refused to approve. These powers, If
granted, would enable the President,
together with other things, to invoke
rationing and price controls when and If
needed. 81 4
It would be rash person who would
say that the need for these controls will
not arise. If prices continue to go up, and
If wages continue to pursue prices, an
economic crash will become inevitable,
and, meanwhile, those who cannot keep
up in the price-wage race will be unmerci-
fully squeezed. No rational person wants
this to happen, yet common sense strongly
suggests that, in the absence of controls,
it is going to happen And if controls are
going to be needed, they ought to be care
fully prepared in advance rather than
improvised when disaster is upon us.
1t is against this background however,
that the Presidents tax-reduction plan
appears in its worst light. With the
demand for goods already exceeding the
supply Of goods, Mr.. Truman would pump
another $3,2Oo,000,0Oo into the market.
This Is strictly inhationary, and in the
light of the Presidents obvious apprecia-.
tion of the danger of imitation 1t can be
explained only on political grounds. It
can be argued in Mr.. Truman's behalf that
Republican pressure for an even larger tax
reduction has driven him to this position
as a matter Of political self-defense But
even If this argument be accepted, the
necessary result is to impair rather than
enhance the appeal of his arguments for
drastic powers to cope with an inflationary
trend which his tax proposal would
accelerate
Evening star., 1948-01-15
clude that Of the present Civil Aeronautics

clude that Of the present Civil Aeronautics
Administrator.
Whether this would be the best solution
of the congestion now existing is one that
will be debated when Congress takes up
the recommendations of the commission.
Certain it is, however, that the problem
will become increasingly aggravated while
vacancies remain on the present board.
Filling these vacancies is of primary i'm
portance Reforms can come later. It is
essential to the welfare of the burgeoning
civil aviation industry that the Govern
ment's regulatory machinery be able to
keep abreast of developments in this
enormously important transportation field
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Judicial Crystal Guzers

The old dictum that the law Is what the
Judges say it is was never better Illus
trated than in the Supreme Court decision
setting aside the murder conviction OF
John H. Haley Canton, Ohio, youth.
This was another five-to-four decision
Justice Douglas wrote the majority opln-
ion, speaking for himself and Justices
Black, Murphy and Rutledge. Justice
Frankfurter, who found himself In con-
siderable doubt, wrote separate con-
curing opinion. The dissent was written
by Justice Burton, with the concurrence OF
Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Reed
and Jackson.
Haley was an accomplice in the murder
of a Canton grocer, who was shot during
holdup The evidence against him
included a confession, and the question
before the Supreme Court was whether
the confession should have been excluded
from Haley's trial on the ground that it
was involuntary.
AS is usually the case in such matters,
there was conflict of evidence as to
whether the confession was voluntary or
not. This issue was submitted to the jury
by the trial court, however, and the jury
concluded that the confession was made
voluntarily and not under coercion On
the basis of this and other evidence,
Haley was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment
This conviction now has been set aside
by the ive-member majority of the
Supreme Court. And it has been set aside,
not by finding that Haley's version of the
court refused to consider that evidence at
ALL but by crystal-ball appraisal of what
the majority was pleased to call the undis-
puted evidence. The result, actually is to
raise sheer judicial conjecture to the level
of creditable evidence.
Running through the opinion by Justice
Douglas, one finds such references as these
to Haley who was fifteen years old at the
time of the murder: This is the period of
great instability which the crisis of ado
lescence produces. fifteen-year-o lad,
questioned through the dead of night (at
most, Haley was questioned for five hours
by relays of police, is ready victim for
the inquisition. = - He needs counsel and
support if he is not to become the victim
first of fear, then of panic. . s." When the
police are so mindful of these basic stand
ards of conduct in their public dealings,
their secret treatment of fifteen-year-old
boy behind closed doors in the dead OF
night becomes darkly suspicious. The
Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the
police from using the private, secret
custody of either man or child as device
for wringing confessions from them"
This sounds more like the language OF
a defense attorneys appeal to a jury than
that of Judge. 1t is surprising to find it
in a Supreme Court opinion, especially
since nothing but conjecture supports the
courts conclusion that Haley was the VIC
Evening star., 1948-01-15
The Desert

The orey old man Is dreaming Of the shade;
Slouchtno his hat abope his bledry eyes.
He matches uhtrltng sandstorn1s as they
rise,
Bzurring the mountain peaks beyond ths
jade
Foothills. But neper shall he feel the sroto,
Nor lie In cooling n,eadotos lush NTH grass,
Nor neuer shall he doze, as summers pass,
Where lake-refected pine trees gently olo'D.
He ,Dalks on flint, through glartng sun.
those grim
And Hmping hours spent Nth thought
alone;
He ,oatts through centuries in dlknh,
While coyotes scream upon the loDa rim ;
He dreams, a statue carved from molten
stone,
As ,oearv moccasined ages patter by.
CULLEN JONES. :.
Evening star., 1948-01-15
By THE HAsKIN sERVIC

Sy ThE HASA1N 6EhFANC.
@ What are the qualifications for mem.
bership in the Supreme Court OF the United
States?-D. E.
A. There are no specific qualifications. When
q vacancy occurs, suggestions are made TO
the President by the Department OF Justice
and by leading Government officials, Up to
this time. all the Justices have been lawyers
but there Is no such legal requirement.
@. Did Mark Twain ever say that he ex-
pected to die when Halley's comet reappeared7
j. OC.
A. Clara Clemens writes that her father once
remarked: II came In with Halley's comet IN
1885, 1t Is coming again next year. and ex-
pect to 90 out with 1t. 1t will be the great
disappointment Of my life II don't go out
with it. The Almighty has said. no doubt: Now
here are these unaccountable freaks: they
come In together, they must 60 out together
Oh! / am looking forward to that" Mark
Twain died in 1910, the year Of the comets
return.
@. What Is the hymn tune used for the
alma mater song Of Cornell University
A. G. A.
A. The alma mater hymn Of Cornell Is sung
to the tune of Annie Lisle." The composer
is said to have been H. S. Thompson. Ths
tune is strictly American and completely
typical Of the super per-sentimental songs OF the
1850'S 9