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Evening star., 1952-09-03
Pledges to Find Out
Story of Tax Graft

How many hundreds Of lail-
lions OF dollars corruption has
cost the millions of hard
working taxpayers of America.
/ do not know. How many dis
honest men escaped their taxes
by bribery, I do not know. How
many decent taxpayers were
pushed into the ignominous po-
sition Of having to pay to get
justice. I do not know. How
many small taxpayers have been
subjected to q shakedown while
the country's most notorious
racketeers were getting on
amazingly well. I do not know.
But. I pledge you one thing:
I Intend to do my part, either as
q citizen or as q public official,
to find out the answers to these
questions. The American people
have q right to know the answers
and the only way they will ever
md out the truth is to get an
administration that will stop
trying to cover up the mess. We
will no longer throw the whole
burden on congressional COM
mittees. The Government will
do its duty. every official cf the
executive branch will do his
duty. as charged by the Consti-
tuition. and the whole power Of
the administration will be
thrown into the job.
There is a whole lot you and
can do about this on election
day. November 4. We can
make sure that the whole at
mosphere Of our Government is
one OF common honesty. With
honesty. We will have compe-
tence. We will set an example
OF industry and integrity which
will again make free govern
ment the shining object of adj
miration and respect through
out the world.
Many would like to make you
think that all will be well if
you continue the present admin
istration in office-of course.
recommending that you change
q face or two.
No change of goods in the
showcase can make the rotten
goods back in the warehouse any
better.
No man, however honest, can
clean up this mess If he is
elected as the nominee of the
administration which created
the mess. No man can set out
to restore honesty in Govern
ment if he owes his election in
any degree to those who have
condoned corruption. He could
have no real freedom to put his
house in order If he was in that
kind Of debt to that kind Of
officials.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

and brutal ambitions and tech
niques Of the Communist ag-
greSSor.
Peace is based first upon the
moral and spiritual devotion
of each one of us to the faith
Of our fathers. It is built upon
our calm and firm devotion to
liberty and justice. It is built
upon our voluntary support of
those steps which are necessary
to thwart aggression and to
give us security.
Anything that diverts our
Government from it's greatest
task is evil and it must be
rooted out wholly. Anything
which undermines faith in our
institutions is a threat to our
liberties. Whatever holds Amer
lea up to Scorn and ridicule
among the nations is danger
Gus to our peace and security.
That Is why we must cut out
the cancer which eats away the
faith of our people in their
Government. That is why we
must achieve a clean and fine
Government for our country.
That is why we must build a
happier day for all Americans,
calmly, confidently and un-
afraid.
And now ladies and gentle
men, I have the opportunity to
thank you very humbly and very
sincerely for a great day in my
life. The warmth and sincerity
of your welcome always will be
dear to me. My one regret is
that Mrs. Eisenhower couldn't
Evening star., 1952-09-03

MIAMI. Fla. Sept. 3.-The
tert OF Gen. DWight D. Eisen-
hoUer's speech, delipered at Bay
Front Park here last night:
Several years have passed
since I last saw your city from
the air. And as our plane today
circled over the airport I was
amazed at the tremendous
growth of the last three years.
Underlying the physical expan-
sion of Miami, know, is a surg
ing spirit of determination and
enterprise.
Miami has been built to it's
present stature in one genera
ton because men and women,
of initiative and foresight and
courage and energy, risked their
savings, used their brains, Ia
bored with pick and shovel that
a great city might stand beside
the sea. The Miami story, in a
multitude of ways, has been re-
peated a thousand times across
America.
Unfortunately, we hear little
these days of what men and
women can accomplish for
themselves. of themselves. Our
ears are deafened by the prop
aganda that man in our COM
plex times must perish unless he
is the slave Of big tyranny or the
ward of big government. We
need some old-fashioned brag-
ging in America about American
achievements by Americans,
working together in free Coop
Grafton. After all, isn't America
worth a good honest brag?
For years, too, we have been
hearing from the Washington
press agents that the present
administration is responsible for
every good thing we have, in all
the spheres Of human interest,
from agriculture to zoology. If
you won't watch out-and tell
your story f1rSt-the Washing
ton propagandists will soon
claim credit for your Miami as
another of the administrators
planned products.
Don't let them take it away.
When the administration pub
licity men steal the credit for
an achievement, they intend to
distract attention from some
new folly or new crime perpe-
trated by their political bosses.
They try to cover up the terri
BILE and terrifying contributions
Of the administration-the mess
in Washington; the shrinkage
in American prestige around the
world: the toll we pay in blood
and dollars for an uneasy secur-
ity. These things Americans
must talk out between now and
November 4th. Thereafter, we
shall correct them.
Some people think it is a
little unorthodox for a presi-
Dental candidate to come to
Florida. My opponents take
you for granted; they consider
you a captive vote: they figure
you will vote the straight ticket
anyway. even though they ig-
more you year after year, in
presidential campaigns. They
will find out they figured you
wrong. I don't believe there Is
any captive vote in the United
States.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

MIAMI. Fla. Sept. 3.-The
tert OF Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hower'S speech, deliuered at Bay
Front Park here last night:
Evening star., 1952-09-03
peech at Miami Pressing Attack on Administration Scondos

and for all Americans. I am
here because you have hope and
faith in your country.
On the basis Of my years.
experience in dealing with many
nationalities and their leaders
throughout the world, I know
we can develop programs de-
signed to lead our country to a
secure peace.
We can have prosperity in
America without war.
This country can build a solid
economy where imitation and an
ever rising cost of living do not
rob our people of their savings,
their life insurance, their social
security and their pensions.
We can create a new at
mosphere of friendliness and
understanding between manage
ment and labor by getting a
Government which plays fair
and square with all Americans.
We can assure agriculture its
fair share of the nationa! income
without regimenting our farm
erS.
We can restore the American
peoples faith in the honesty Of
their Government by cleaning
out corruption and keeping it
out.
Before this campaign is over
I shall discuss programs on each
OF these and the other major
issues in full details. Tonight
I would like to dwell upon a
condition which is eating away
at the vitalS of our country. It
is the tragic need for common
woodshed honesty in the Gov-
ernment of the United States.
A few years ago, an American
housewife wrote me in plaintive
terms about something that was
much on her mind and, am
sure, is on the minds of millions
OF Americans. I quote her words:
Il shall certainly vote for YOU
If you promise that more Of our
tax money gets to Washington"
She obviously knows that as of
now too much of our tax money
sticks to too many pockets.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Two Men Lose $50
In Yoke Robberies

Two men told police they were
victims of yoke robberies as they
walked on streets near the down.
town area early today.
Freddie Middleton, Of 1915
Eighth street NV, said four or
five colored men grabbed him and
robbed him of $27 as he walked
in front of his home. Thomas E.
Buell., of 1909 E street NE. said
he was grabbed and robbed of
SAB and Merchant Marine papers
at Tenth and Eye streets NV.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Will Use Scoop Shovel,
Not Whitewosh Brush

I would rather not be elected
President than to be elected by
the help Of those who have lost
their sense of public morals.
AS the nominee of one of our
great political parties for the
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Red Berlin Guards End
Showdown of Traffic
BY the Associoted Press

BERLIN, Sept. 3.-Soviet zone
border guards stepped up their
handling of truck traffic between
Berlin and the West today to
normal speed after a brief slow
down yesterday.
The customs officials were push
ing trucks through the border
checkpoint at Helmstedt on an
average Of eight to nine an hour,
Western traffic authorities said.
The one-day showdown to an
average Of two hourly had piled
up long line of waiting trucks.
The increased tempo started to
bite into the line this morning.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

nue. and an assistant commits
sioner have resigned for ill
health" A chief counsel of the
Bureau Of Internal Revenue of
the United States has resigned
under the exposures of congress
Sional committees.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
u. S. Attorney Loses Job
For EXPOSING Graft

T0F exposing ST0Tf
Next. let's look at the Bu-
reau Of Internal Revenue at
San Francisco. In the early
months of 1850, the California
Crime Commission produced
evidence of corruption in the
collection Of Federal revenue in
that State. Nothing was done
from Washington. Nothing was
done anywhere for more than q
year. Then an assistant United
States attorney in California,
acting entirely on his own, took
evidence to a grand jury. Be-
fore he could get anywhere, his
investigation was hushed up,
he was ordered off the case and
recommended for dismissal by
his boss. Only the Intervention
of Senator Williams prevented
his dismissal. Even so he was
finally frozen out of his job.
In November, 1851, a year
and a half after the initial ex-
posure, the collector and others
in his Office were dismissed.
Now, those three Offices
Boston, st. Louis and San Fran
cisco - have been collecting
yearly $5.5 billion of tax money
that they report and send to
Washington. The unanswered
$64 billion question is: How
much have these men and
others like them over the Ma
ton failed to send to Wash
ington?
I ask you this as Americans:
If charges of corruption were
ever made against any one serv-
ing by your appointment, would
you allow those charges to be
stif1ed or buried?
Would you allow the men who
made the exposures to be perse-
cuted? Or would you reward
them?
Would you wait Is months
until somebody else forced the
corruption into the open?
You wouldn't wait 18 minutes.
Neither would I.
These are only a few samples
of a corroding, Nationwide
scandal. I cannot tell you the
whole extent Of this corruption
because there has been too much
hiding and too little exposing by
the responsible officials Of Gov
ernment. All we know is what
has been brought out into the
light of day. mostly by the work
of a single Senator and q COM
mittee of the House. But that's
bad enough. The present Com
missioner of Internal Revenue
has told us that in little more
than IL months of this year and
last, 1T persons in the Bureau
of Internal Revenue were fired
for dishonesty and other i'm
proper activities.
At the high levels of Govern
ment in Washington, one Assist
ant Attorney General of the
United States in charge of tax
frauds has been dismissed. A
Commissioner of Internal Reve-
Evening star., 1952-09-03

come along. AS I've told some
OF my advisers, even though they
have looked Skeptical, she and I
do have a lot Of friends in the
South.
Evening star., 1952-10-04

The engineer on General Eisenhower's cam
paign special might be suspected Of sabotage
were it NOT for the fact that being on time means
more to a railroad man than the fate of
political candidate. u
But Engineer q. L. Stephens was not trying
to pull the rug from under the general while
the Republican presidential candidate was warm
ing up to an audience of some 10000 persons
at Saginaw, Michigan, the other day.
It mattered not to MFR. Stephens that Saginaw
was supposed to be 15-rninute stopover. Nor
was it at all important that the man on the
rear platform was just getting down to cases
What counted when the engineer compared his
watch with the schedule was that they were
running behind.
Engineer Stephens gave the diesel the gun
and they were rolling-just as the general was
saying: Ladies and gentlemen -" There have
been other cases Of this sort on the Eisenhower
special, which made 1t the more exasperating
But the generals humor was equal to the occa-'
sion. "Whoops" he shouted as they picked up
speed, they're taking me away!"
It was something like the end to the. Red
SHELTON television show, where the star per-
former Is grabbed by the heels from behind
and yanked under the backdrop as his time
runs out. n
Evening star., 1952-10-04
First Regular Newspaper

It is appropriate that one of the planned
incidents Of National Newspaper Week should
be q celebration of the founding Of the Boston
Newsletter, the first regularly published
news journal in what since 1888 has been the
United States Of America. The sponsor Of 1t was
John Campbell "a canny, cautious scotchman.' =
who also was q bookseller and Q postmaster
Aided by his brother Duncan he had made 1t a
practice to send hand-written news reports from
Boston to the governors Of certain colonies west
and south. Those manuscripts sometimes were
displayed in public places for the generality" to
read. That led to an increased demand for
copies Of them, and Campbell ultimately entered
into an agreement with Bartholomew Green of
Newberry street to act rs his printer.
The first issue Of the Newsletter appeared
on April "A, 1704. In formal, 1t was single
"half-sheet," Z by 11h inches in size. Both sides
were filled with type as closely set Is possible.
Much Of the text was quoted from the london
Evening star., 1952-10-04

Flying Post and the London Gazette Among the
original American items was note to the effect
that the Dreadnaught, man of war, was arrived
in Maryland" Campbell was a real reporter
He knew news when he saw or heard it, and he
understood how to purvey it attractively. His
stories Of the arrest of counterfeiters and the
hanging of pirates still are interesting reading
For 18 years he continued to produce the News
Letter once week. Thereafter it was edited and
published by Green from 1922 to 1888, then by
Green's son-in-law, John Draper until 1862, and
by Draper's son, Richard, until 1774. The paper
suspended on February %, 1776, John Howe being
the final owner
AS viewed in 1852, the Newsletter was an
amateur affair. But 1t set journalistic pattern
which still prevails In the words Of Campbell,
it was undertaken to be published for Publick
Good, to give true Account Of all Foreign and
Domestick Occurrences. and to prevent great
many false reports of the same"
Evening star., 1952-10-04
Good Radiance

The rules committee of the Board of Edu-
cation has tossed into the waste basket-where
1t belongs-the absurd proposal for creation of
a sort Of private-eye committee to keep the
superintendent Of schools under surveillance
The idea was advanced in all seriousness by two
former members of the board some months ago.
The plan obviously would have had the effect
of harassing DR.. Corning in his already difficult
duties. He needs cooperation from the board,
rather than harasSment
The "Snooper committee" plan was recon-
mended by divided vote of the old rules COM
mittee, after several members of the board had
been feuding with Dr. Corning over textbooks
and sundry other matters. The scheme would
have converted the entire membership Of the
board into standing committee charged with
keeping the superintendent's Office under close
scrutiny. This was opposed by, some members
and by outside critics as thinly disguised plan
for getting something on the superintendent.
The proposal never was put into effect Mean
WHILE the membership Of the board changed and
opposition to the plan widened. The new rules
committee unanimously rejected the scheme and
will advise the full board to kill it at the next
meeting. It should be buried for good
Evening star., 1952-10-04
BY Charles E. Trocewen

that is, II grown in semi shade, and
kept in water for time before wearing.
This delicate fiower. especially in the
perennial fayorite, the Heavenly Blue.
should be worn on the coat with few
leaves attached.
One Of the finest floral shows Of the
summer was hundred-foot white fence
covered with these beauties.
Too much shade makes the growing
Of morning glories and their cousins,
the moon vines, difficult.
Too few home gardeners grow these
nowadays.
And what has become Of the sweet
peas?
When we were . child, every home
had sweet peas, without any difficulty.
The last good ones seen by the writer
were over In Georgetown. In two yards
where no especial care was taken to
grow them, but where the soil and water
conditions were just right. evidently.
They are an extremely dificult flower
to grow, and one seldom sees them. but
surely few small blossoms make such an
appeal to 90 many flower lovers.
All sorts Of vines deserve more use
than they usually get. The variety is
large, and the sorts and types may be
adapted to almost any situation. From
lusty rose vines on the fence TO gigantic
climbers. such as the trumpet vine.
through the range Of morning sglories
and clematis. the vines are capable Of
home garden effects not secured from
any other plant material.
Evening star., 1952-10-04
One Not for All

In reference to David Lawrence's col.
umn Of September 10. in which he states
that Gov. Stevensons refusal to give
blanket support to all Democratic candi-
dates constitutes "a one-man rule of
the Democratic Party" would like to
make these observations:
In so far as he has right to his own
opinions, the Democratic presidential
nominee is no different from any other
individual, and as candidate he has the
duty Of expressing these opinions hon.
estly and clearly. Now, If he disagrees
with views Of other party nominees, must
he swallow his own Judgment and code
of ethics for the end Of party solidarity?
Is the individual subordinated to the
party or the party to the individual?
The privacy Of the individual is one Of
our most fundamental principles, consti-
tuting the major difference between our
system and the totalitarian state. Rather
than calling Gov. Stevenson 0 self styled
dictator of the Democratic Party Gas MIR.
Lawrence does) for logically following
out the fact his opinions differ In some
cases from those of other Democratic
candidates, think that Mr.. Lawrence is
implying that the party should be Of q
totalitarian nature in that the individ-
uals composing 1t should subordinate
their ideas and principles to the all
powerful party. And If each candidate
is to Internationally support every other
candidate, then how is there to be any
reform and positive regeneration within
the party? obviously cannot condone
Evening star., 1952-10-04
This and That :.

at all to do with the moral tone Of the
person.
It is here as with health-the person
who has it often is inclined to give the
credit strictly to himself. He is healthy
because he lives right. as he says, or
goes to church, or perhaps INDUCES in
some ritualistic formula Of his own de-
vising. (See Freud. Jung, Adler. etco
We knew an elevator operator who
could wear a rose for "a hours without
the slightest whiting thereof. This was
Bill Chaumbert. who ran one Of The
Stars elevators for many years. He
was q fine old fellow, whose sense Of
smell had been almost obliterated. So
he could not smell the flowers brought
to him every morning by his many ad-
mirers. But he could wear them! Hour
after hour, the rose--usually it was q
rose-remained fresh and fragrant.
Often the roses brought to him were
slightly wilted when received, but re-
vived as If by magic in Bills button
hole.
The japanese say that one morning
glory is as good as q hundred morning
glories.
Certainly there is no one flower whose
single blossom Is 50 enhancing to so
many people. 1s
The. round form. few petals, delicate
coloration and atmosphere exhaled by
this simple flower win the hearts Of all.
As q lapel fioweriit has been under
rated. for 1t does very nicely, II the
steps above enumerated are carried out.
Evening star., 1952-10-04
The Austrian StoIemote

Nothing could be less surprising than the
Kremlns latest refusal to join France, Britain
and the United States in writing treaty to
restore Austrian independence. This Is in keep
ing with policy that can be expected to remain
unchanged as long as the Soviet dictatorship
nurtures ambitions to dominate free Europe.
Naturally enough, for propaganda purposes,
the Kremlin still processes to be anxious to agree
with the Western Big Three on an Austrian
settlement. But 1t win not discuss anything like
their proposal for a so-called abridged or short
treaty. It insists, instead, that they continue to
negotiate with 1t on the long, 83-article pact
which has been the subject of futile talks-at
literally hundreds of meetings-for the past six
years.
During all of those years, despite its solemn
pledge in the Moscow Declaration Of 1943 to
re-establish q free Austria, the Soviet Union has
systematically resorted to stalling tactics to block
agreement on treaty-any kind Of treaty-that
would fuldl that pledge. 1t has done this be-
cause such q treaty would require it to stop
looting the Austrian economy and to withdraw
its occupation troops from the country. In addi-
ton, the Russians would be obliged to remove the
forces they maintain in Hungary and Romania
to safeguard their communication lines to Aus
tria. In other words wholly aside from the
opportunity for economic plunder, they would
have to give up the military bridgehead they
now hold as far west as Vienna
Given the fact that the Kremlins policy is
q policy Of dominance-seeking aggression, 1t is
altogether unfealistic to suppose that the Soviet
Union will willingly, quickly, end the stalemate
on Austria or abandon its position there-a posi-
tion that places its armed power deep in Western
Europe. The day that it agrees to do that-if 1t
ever agrees-will be day Of historic brightness
marking profound change for the better in the
outlook for peace.
But that day seems distant in the extreme.
Although France, Britain and the United States
intend to keep on trying for treaty agreement,
and although the Vienna government hopes that
the next meeting of the United Nations General
Assembly will deal with the matter, the Kremlin
be counted on to keep its iron grip on Austria
for as long as it thinks it has chance to take
over the whole of Europe. The free West must
govern its actions accordingly.
Evening star., 1952-10-04

A man who is accustomed to wearing
garden flower in his buttonhole found
that one particular blossom excited the
most attention.
It was q Heavenly Blue morning glory.
A dozen persons asked him about it.
and two thought they would plant it
next year.
The specimen worn was not a very
good one: it had been grown in semi
shade, and had little too much purple
in it.
It was sub-standard in size, too, but
all in all made fine fresh display Oh,
the coat.
Some viewers expressed surprise that
it remained so fresh looking.
The wearer was amazed. too. since
ordinarily all flowers tend to wilt on
him before he. gets downtown.
This particular blossom probably got
its resistance to wilt because it had been
grown in the shade.
It also had been placed in water for
half an hour before wearing. This is
good treatment for the single blossom.
No addition to the water is necessary.
1t is the plumping-up effect Of moisture
that does 1t.
No one has ever explained why flowers
wilt on some persons. not on others.
Attempts have been made to assess the
blame. One says there is some sort Of
aura around certain persons that pre-
serves flowers, and entices songbirds to
fly down into the hand.
Others say this IL nonsense. that 1t Is
aa electrical influence. having nothing