Evening star., 1951-03-27

An American spokesman said
the Chinese regiment mauled by
the Americans Tuesday was part
lof the 77th Division. He said the
RFC
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rRFC investigation, he recalled. the
subcommittee was confronted not
only by legal and legislative ques-
tions but by "a difference in ethi-
cal standards"
| Knavish Lawyers Employed.
What OF the men outside Gov
lernment who suborn those inside
lt?' he asked. They are careful
to see that they do not do any,
thing that can be construed as
illegal. They operate through
laWyers-men who are known as
clever lawyers, a cleverness like
the instinct of the rat that knows
how to get the bait without getting
caught. Many businessmen, os-
tenSibly reputable businessmen,
employ these knavish lawyers to
circumyent the law and enrich
themselves at Government ex-
pense. Too often the law cannot
touch them.
Who is more at fault, the
bribed or the bribers? The bribed
have been false to their oaths and
betrayers of their trust. But they
are often relatively simple men
men OF small fortune or no for
tune at all-and they weaken be-
fore the temptations held out to
them by the unscrupulous.
Who are the bribers? They
are often men who walk the earth
lordly and secure. members of good
families, respected figures in their
communities, graduates of univer-
Isities. They are. in short, the
privileged minority, and I submit
that it is not unreasonable to
ask of them that high standard
Iof conduct which their training
ought to have engendered.
Cites Basketball Bribery.
rs it too much to ask of them
that they do not use a Govern
ment lending agency as dump
ing ground for their own mistakes
in judgment? Is it too much to
ask of them, the favored few of
our country, that they behave
with simple honesty. with that
honesty which looks not to the
letter of the law but to it's spirit?"
He saw the RFC inquiry devel-
opments as a reflection" of still
deeper and more disturbing prob
lens in other activities of the
American people. He particularly
cited the recent basketball bribery
scandals.
| Creation Of an independent
commission is essential to help
the public and Congress to under
stand and remedy the conditions
and false doctrines that have been
exposed, he declared.
Such commission, as I con-
ceive it," he explained, would
be a catalytic agent, stimulated
by public indignation, to draw
forth the meaning from the mass
of data revealed by the several
current Investigations. The com
mission would evaluate the condi-
tionS which have been exposed
and would re-state again or for
mulate anew principles which. it
is to be hoped, would strengthen
the faith of all decent men in
our democratic society.
I Too many people in our Nation
do not believe anything with con-
viction. They question the pre-
cepts of God or of man indis-
criminately. The values of life
which were clear to the Pilgrims
and the founding fathers have
become dim and fuzzy in outline
Poison Democracy.
False propaganda and the big
lie Of demogagues have created
doubt in the minds of men. Pro-
fessional political hucksters, i'm
ported from afar, without local
responsibility or restraint, corrupt
our free elections and poison de.
mocracy at its source.
i THE principal objective of the
study I suggest is the restoration
of the faith of our people in the
validity of the traditional precepts
of our democratic society. 1t is
not job for politicians. It is moi
} a job for the inexperienced. 1t il
! a Job for the wisest of our citizens
under a mandate from the
; Nation"
\ Among those suggested by Sen
ator Fuiarieht as possible mem
/ berS of such a commission. which
/ would be appointed by Congress
were former Supreme Court JUS
tice Owen j. Roberts, former Sen
lator Robert La Toilette of Wis.
consin, Judge Learned Hand Of
: New York. Walter Reuther, heao
1of the United Automobile Work.
. Iers; Paul Hoffman Of the Foro
Foundation, DR.. Reinhold Medium
'Of unik Theological Seminary