Evening star., 1954-06-09

PACcCAAb dIBuk1ACIlJO OVcE WHO Is 10 IN
sure against graft. corruption. etc. in
our Federal Government.
One hundred and seventy-five million
stockholders earnestly await q bold
and imaginative move in this direction.
A fourth branch Of Government could
do much to improve White House and
congressional teamwork and prove to
the world and the Soviets that we have
an active. modernized democracy.
Gar Taylor.
A statement Of policy from the junior
Senator from Wisconsin In answer to
the following questions seems to be in
order.
If government employe should ac-
cept at face value the Senator's pro-
nunciamento Of duty" to him, and If,
thereby. the employe should violate any
provision Of the Espionage Act, enacted
by Congress. is the Senator. or his sub
committee, going to be willing to under
write the employees liability to convic-
ton as felon by:
a. Reimbursing his fine Cup to $10,-
000)?
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penitentiary Cup to ten years.?
c. Insuring that the employe win be
given commensurate employment upon
his dismissal from the Federal service
as convicted security risk?
Oliver Whitwell Wilson.
Americans are peculiar people. We
have the highest standard of living
and at the same time, in some areas,
the highest rates for illiteracy and
juvenile delinquency. We produce ex-
cellent machines and atomic bombs,
but as citizens show mental and phys
ical deterioration. We ride too much
and walk too little. Our schools grad
uate thousands according to estab-
iShed academic procedures, yet few
graduates measure up to Walt Whit
man, an Edison or an EinStein. Holders
of Phi Beta Kappa keys may be as
ignorant, or as personally prejudiced
in the broad sense of learning, as the
most stupid yokel from the wilds of
Mississippi
Our hySteria over Communists and
communism indicates a mass mind
that is not grown up, but childish and
frenzied. The purge of DR.. Open
heimer could occur only in q country
that trusted neither its present leaders
nor the future. We cannot legislate Sc
curity as a people or a Nation by
imprisoning or intimidating those who
hold unpopular views.
Communism seldom is produced by
conniving SubverSiveS, but by the eco
nom1c decay of conservative govern
ments. Dorothy ThompSon's COMPARE
son OF Mccarthy to Hitler is correct.
The danger Is immediate and we ap-
pear unable to see the forest for the
trees. Must we be as ignorant and
Short-sighted as the Germans who
mistakenly hailed Hitler as savior of
the Third Reich and the world?
J. Wilbur Potherby.
would like to express my deep ad-
miration for Senator Joe Mccarthy of
Wisconsin. I think he has wonderful
control. II were him, I don't think I
could tolerate Stevens, Adams, the Sen
ator from Missouri or Joseph lWelch. -.
I believe God is on Senator McCar-
thy's side (even if the newspapers
aren'G. and I wish there were more
good Americans like him and Roy Cohn.
Mr.. Cohn. in my opinion, has made the
ceSt witness so far.
PrO-McCarthy Woman.
The request by Senator Mccarthy to
the more than two million employees of
the executive department to turn in to
his committee or to himself as chair
man thereof, information concerning
graft. fraud, treason, ETC., regardless of
presidential directive, is indeed
sound request. Senator Mccarthy is
not an unauthorized" person to re-
ceive information, as Attorney General
Brownell and other Mccarthy critics
have contended. He is vested with au-
thority by Act of Congress to investi-
gate malfeasanoe in the executive de-
partment. It is within the orbit of his
implied authority to receive secret data
with respect to subversive matters.
Before taking Office, the employees Of
the executive department swear, among
other things, to protect the Constitu-
ton of the United States. To back up
that pledge, they are under the obliga-
ton to communicate to the authorized
congressional committee or its chair
man any information concerning sub
version.
You and I know that Senator Nc
Carthy is not always right. That's hu-
man nature. But he is the Senate's ap-
pointee to head the investigative body.
and he needs the help of every loyal
Federal employe.
Damaso p. COrtes.
Recent events disillusion me and
leave a feeling Of contempt for the Re-
publican majority of the subcommittee
refereeing the Army VS.. Joe bout.