Evening star., 1954-04-30
Bright and Dim Views Of the Main Event
no the Edition Of The Stor:

To the Editor Of The Stor:
1t is disgraceful that in these critical
days the time of congressional commit
tees and Army officials. as well as the
taxpayers money, should be wasted in
the televised spectacle of row between
a Senator and his staff and certain
Army civilians
The performance is doubtless bo-
nanza for the press, the radio and tele-
vision interests. They certainly are
making Roman holiday out Of it.
Aside from these interests, however, it
is difficult to see how any except the
Communists and the Americans for
Disruptive Action" can profit by it.
To the serious minded citizen who is
concerned over grave problems at home
and even graver ones abroad-and who
ircidentally must foot the bills for this
extravaganza-it is tragic to think that
the very agencies of the Government
which should be engaged in safeguard
ing this country are staging Kilkenny
cat fight while World War III may be
in the making.
E. Mclean Johnson,
Brownfield, Me.
1t is easy to understand the feeling
OF the public that the Army-McCa
hearing may be misusing lot of valu-
able time. But look at it this way:
If man has, for years, made count
less serious charges against the char
acter of your Government and many
of its respected leaders, isn't it worth
as much time as it takes to discover
his true character? If his charges
should be the charges of an habitual
liar, isn't it better to take week-or
even month-in finding it out, instead
OF listening to him with credulity for
another four years?
would like to suggest that the prin-
clpals in the current McCarthy-C -Cohn-
Stevens, etc., squabble go out in the
alley and slug it out. The way things
are progressing, Schine will probably
be eligible for retirement before the
committee ever arrives at decision.
Joe Carrigan.
Milwaukee. Wis.
The Star quotes Reporter w. N. Con-
nor Of the London Daily Mirror as
saying the Mccarthy hearings were
dirty, degrading, ETC., and that this
country was making spectacle of
itself in countenancing them.
If Mr.. Connor finds our ways so irri-
tating, why doesn't he go home to that
dear old land of his which has been
mooching off us for 10 these many years
now?
Part, if not all, of the dollars in Mr..
Connor's pocket come directly or in
directly from handouts that American
taxpayers have had to pay in an effort
to prop up once-proud England. which
has now become a weak and pleading
mendicant, too lazy to work, too dull to
root out the spies in its own midst, and
too Grass to decline charity.
If we cut them off, the squeal of the
proverbial stuck pig would be nothing
compared to the walls they would emit.
J. Frederick Cantwell.
1t seems to me that your anti-Mc-
Carthy bias should draw a line at the
oceans edge. Or is lone world" so
near realization that our Senate must
be subjected to the insults of a re-
porter for the London Daily Mirror?
Those of us familiar with the quail
ity and prejudices of the London Daily
Mirror are neither influenced nor i'm
pressed by the comments of this re-
porter. Too bad he failed to inform
his paper of the interest and drama
to Americans of these hearings. I may
say, however, that disgust" with the
peculiarities and actions of the other
is not confined to one member of the
grand alliance, which is now operat-
ing to deprive the United States Of
full freedom of decision in Asia.
Reprehensible as it may appear to
our closest ally, Americans will con-
tinue to be more interested in the ac-
tivitieS Of their Congress, good. bad or
Indifferent, than in the peregrinations
of the royal saleswoman for British
commercial interests and the keyhole
gossip about court circles that titillate
the readers of the London Daily Mirror
Rosalie Moynahan.
notice Mac is back at his old tricks
"a group picture OF Mr.. Secretary
turned into twosome. All done with
mirrors, I guess.
Joyce d. Levy.
It is a joke to suddenly consider get
ting David Schine an Army commission,
with the help of person of influence,
a serious" thing, when this has been
going on for years.
Schine is an American citizen, pos
sessing the requirements of commits
stoned officer, and has just as much
right to a commission as any other
citizen of the United States. It some
times happens that commissions cannot
be gotten without assistance, no matter
how justified. One of the extremely
wasteful manpower practices the serv-
ices have been shortsightedly indulging
in for long time. is putting profess
sionally trained men (even men trained
at the expense of our country to work
scrubbing garbage pals. peeling pota-
toes, ETC., which thousands of unskilled
men could do, while there is serious
shortage of skilled professional workers.
Schine has professional education and
training that the Army should utilize
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