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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Controversy stirs Up Bureaucrats
The Senatorial inquiry about Senator McCarthy and the
Army is about as trivial as anything I’ve heard of. Senator
McCarthy has stirred up a lot of bureaucrats; and he is
rough, almost too rough. But should we coddle Communists
in the Government?
If Senator McCarthy requested special consideration for
a soldier that is what most Congressmen do; and they do
that at the very earnest and persistent request of the peo
ple "back home. In the case of the soldier, he may be highly
educated and very helpful to Senator McCarthy’s Committee.
If that is true, Mr. McCarthy’s interest is quite understand
able. At any rate, it seems foolish for a Senate Committee
to spend so much time on a small matter while questions
of real importance are disregarded.
Hectic Days Of Politics Long Gone
Our State Democratic campaign does not draw' crowds,
nor attract any attention otherwise. It is difficult to under
stand the reason.
We are taking our politics very casually. Gone are the
hectic days of B. R. Tillman, Cole L. Blease, Cotton-Ed
Smith; today we are unmoved, going quietly about our af
fairs.
The feverish warmth of partisanship is felt no more; no
body is ready to fight for or against a candidate.
There may come a day of intense feeling; a day of sharp
ly-drawn differences. This Segregation issue is full of po
litical dynamite; and the tranquillity of today may quickly
become the wildest political hysteria we have known.
Nobody Knows The Law
It is a pity that the politicians have used the Constitu
tion of the United States as a means to acquire power and
exercise control. They have stretched and strained the
Constitution until it is warped and torn and cracked at the
seams.
I’ve been saying it—and I repeat it with unction—that
our American representative government got off on the
wrong foot by permitting a tyranny of the courts, while try
ing to curb the despotism of the executive. In some degree,
that follows from a failure to foressee the powers of an un
bridled judiciary. In Great Britain the so-called Constitu
tion is a mass of custom developing from practices, charters
and grants throughout eight hundred years. The parlia
ment—principally the House of Commons—can do as it
pleases, not being legally bound or restricted by a written
constitution. We are somewhat like the British, except that
our Supreme Court may apply, misapply or cite, the consti
tution as it pleases. When it accepts, or assumes jurisdic
tion, we can only grovel and growl. The Court looks over
the field and applies the Constitution to cases and instances
not contemplated originally, either in word or spirit.
Behold the weakness of a system of government under
which no one can know the law! Even after the court
speaks, the whole trend may be changed by the same court.
As is generally known, we have laws from many sources:
we have Statutes, or laws enacted by the State legislatures
or Congress; then we have judicial decisions, frequently
based on decisions in other States, both sides citing judicial
decisions of other State courts to sustain their contention.
Sometimes we base our claim on the English law, when coun
sel has the energy and imagination to look that far.
Here we have great batteries of learned lawyers, all throw
ing legal lore at the court f and when the first court decides
the point, the game has just begun—if the client has the
wherewithal. If the client can provide the sinews of war,
his cause may slowly move through all the courts; and
even then someone may halt him with a few injunctions.
Read the Constitution of the United States; read all the
decisions before, during and for fifty years after the Civil
War. Did the court ever consider Federal intervention with
schools, operated by the States? Can you reconcile Fed
eral assumption or regulation with Constitutional law or
coifstitutional theory? Well, then, a bit of politics has seep
ed in, beyond a doubt. Our constitutional rights are largely
influenced or determined by our political perspicacity or
political pressure.
How does the great court calmly ignore Article 10 of the
Constitution ?
Says Article 10, the Tenth Amendment: “The powers
not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people. ,,
The Tenth Amendment was adopted in order to clarify
the Constitution; in order to assure and guarantee the rights
of the States against encroachments by Congress, though
Congress has since run wild, under the leading of the Execu
tive. Today it is the judiciary that holds sovereign sway
'BITTER HURRY, BUD!'
over the Nation.
This is a nation of laws and a people under law, but no
body knows the law!
I refer to a Washington report:
“The fate of Taft-Hartley Law revision at this session of
Congress probably hinges on whether the Senate gets to
vote on—and whether it passes—an amendment that would
give the states much greater power to regulate labor dis
putes.
President Eisenhower will suffer a setback because he’s
given Congress a set of recommendations that, while con
taining features sought by both unions and business, on the
whole favor the unions. He has asked Congress to pass
a states rights provision that would give the states much
less power than the proposals sponsored by Senator Gold-
water.
Mr. Goldwater will offer his amendment and try to make
it the pending business right after Chairman Smith of the
Labor Committee Unishes his explanation of the committee’s
bill.
The bill contains some 12 points, closely following the
President’s recommendations. Among other things, it would
permit states to enforce “emergency strike laws.”
At the moment I am not interested in what Senator Gold-
water may have in the back of his mind. I do not hesitate
to say that the right of a State to police itself is inherent in
the State and does not need any Act of Congress.
Congress has no right to legislate except in matters of in
terstate commence. The making of any article is a local af
fair, even if it be intended fqr another State. That is purely
incidental. I know that our courts have stretched the pow
ers of the national Government, but that is my very point:
we must challenge these encroachments and vigorously re
assert the full police powers of the States.
The aggrandizement of our National Government should
not be meekly and supinely accepted. Every American has
a vital interest in upholding full State authority in local
matters.
Billions For Research
Chemists have contributed enormously to make this a
happy and prosperous nation. But that statement is not the
whole story: America is .far ahead of even Germany and
yet Germany has long surpassed in chemistry.
In America we have great chemistss, but the businessman
is due much of the credit. He supports an idea: Years and
years may be devoted to research and experimentation at
the heavy expense of the corporation employing the chem
ists. :
“Top managment, busy swinging the cost-cutting ax in
many departments, is hiking its spending on the white-
coated gentlemen in its research laboratories.”
Some firms are banking on their scientists to produce new
sales-boosting products and cost-cutting methods to fight
the current business slowdown. Others, confident the down
turn will be short-lived, are plowing in funds for the longer
pull.
Top researchers for more than 100 companies, represent-^*
ing such diverse industries as oil, soap, rubber and appli
ances, gathered to talk over problems and progress.
A top researcher for a big steel company, for example,
said his 1954 budget us up 10% to 15% from 1953. An oil
company scientist reported his firm’s research department
is getting a 5 % to 6 % increase in funds this year.
A DuPont researcher declared :* “Research tends to snow
ball. Your company grows, and you’re led into new avenues
of research. Our research program grows 10% to 15% a
year while the company grows about 7 %.”
Last year industry spent a record $1.5 billion on research.
As recently as 1947, such spending totaled about $1 billion
and in prewar 1941 fan about $510 million.' Of course, such*
spending doesn’t represent all the research and development
done by industry. It does almost as much work for the
Government, on contract, as it does in its own behalf. Last
year, for example, industry did a total $2.7 billion worth of
research, including Government work.
More competitive conditions is the reason advanced for
higher industry research budgets. There’s a reasson why
industry is upping its research budgets—the increasing com
plexity of research,
Take, for instance, the problem of getting a higher-octane
gasoline. Standard Oil had three scientists and a dozen as
sistants working on the problem when the Burton process
was invented years ago. Last year when Standard of In
diana came out with its ultra-forming process it was the re
sult of several years’ research by 200' people.”
M OST Americans — and many
foreigners—long ago decided
for themselves whether Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) is
a hero or a villain. Probably very
few will find anything in the Mc-
Carthy-Army TV dramatic test to
bring about a complete change of
mind.
As batting practice leads to home
runs—and sometimes strikeouts—
a Senator’s speeches and politick
ing reach their climax each time
he votes. National publicity, good
or bad, received by a Senator as a
member of a committee does not
put him on the spot with his fel
low party members as much as his
voting record.
In party unity, McCarthy’s vot
ing average for seven and a quar
ter years is 85 per cent. In 1953,
the average for Republican Sena
tors was 82 per cent. This yard
stick is one measure of a Sena
tor’s solidarity with his party on
votes when the majority of Re
publicans disagree with the ma
jority of Democrats. It shows
what percentage of the time—if he
votes or announces his stand—a
Senator sides with most of the oth
er members of his party.
McCarthy’s career-long party
voting score is 62 per cent, while
Senate Republicans averaged 70
-er cent in 1953. Party voting
■'easures a Senator’s party alle-
iance on all roll calls, whether
• not Democrats and Republicans
’it. Only actual votes, not an-
unced stands, are counted. Fail-
e to vote lowers the score.
How often has McCarthy gone
>n record, either by voting or an
nouncing his stand? Eighty-six
per cent of the time, compared to
the 1953 average of 90 per cent
for all Senators of both parties.
How often did he actually vote
“yea” or “nay,” excluding an
nounced stands? His voting par
ticipation score is 76 per cent. Sen
ators of both parties averaged 84
per cent in 1953.
From Mr. Eisenhower’s inaugura
tion through the first quarter of
1954, McCarthy voted “with” the
President on 62 per cent of the
“Eisenhower-issue” roll calls—
when he actually voted. This is
relative support, and Republican
Senators averaged 78 per cent in-
backing the President when they
voted in 1953.
When failures to vote are count
ed as “hitless times at bat” Sen.
McCarthy’s score for 1953-54 be
comes 48 per cent. During 1953
the arevarge GOP Senator scored
88 per cent ia such effective sup
port.
Bipartisan support helps judge a
Senator’s record of siding with the
majority when most members of
both parties vote alike. It shows
the percentage of the time—when
he records his position—that he
votes with the majority on such
bipartisan issues. McCarthy’s score
over seven and a quarter years is
78 per cent. In 1953, the average
Republican Senator tallied 83 per
cent.
McCarthy has generally sup
ported foreign aid, though he voted
for reduction of funds several times
since 1950. On the matter of farm
supports, he voted against high
rigid supports in 1948. since then
has generally endorsed them.
★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING”
W HEN the young son Jerry, of George W. Meyer, 309 San Jose Ave
nue, Los Gatos, California, brought home his first report card for
the first semester, George and his wife realized they had one of those
hard-to-handle, adolescent-age problems on their hands. The report was
a disgrace to the boy as well as a reflection upon his parents. So George
and his wife fell into the common err^r of scolding and punishing in
an effort to stimulate the son into doing better wo^k
at school.
But things went from bad to worse—even the “hand
of fellowship” applied to the **seat of learning” pro
duced no good results. When the second, and equally
disgraceful, report card was in their hands, they be
came desperately concerned, for they knew Jerry
would have to repeat the year’s work if he did not
improve.
Then they decided to change their approach from
the negative to the positive. The fact that they did
'not try it sooner, George says, was an indication of
their own stupidity. They began showing sympathy in the boy’s inter
ests and listening to what he had to say—for a change. Soon they found
themselves in a position to “motivate” Jerry to interested effort in
his own behalf.
Today, because he is finding satisfaction in doing something he
really wants to do, Jerry is one of the top ten in his class. He is hap
pier, and a source of real joy to his mother and father.
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From the Italy New* Herald,
Italy, Texas: There's been a lot of
talk in Italy recently about how
some fishermen have been bring
ing huge catches of the finny tribe
by baiting fishing holes with
sardines. Persumably the oil leak
ing through holes in the cans at
tracts the fish, makes them hungry
and they can’t resist taking a
chance at the baited hooks.
Apparently human beings react
similarly to the lure of easy money
in the huge government spending
programs. A few years ago there
was evidence of fraud and corrup
tion in many of the veteran schools
that sprang up following World War
II It was found in the veteran
housing program, in the grain stor
age plan, in potato production, and
now the lid has blown off the
Federal Housing Administration,
with indications that the govern
ment may have been defrauded of
as much as a half billion dollars
by individuals who could not resist
nibbling at the vast sums within
reach.
Having had some experience dur
ing the war with government red
tape and the multitude of reports
required, it has always been amaz
ing to us how these frauds can be
perpetrated. The government atti
tude has always seemed largely to
be one wherein everyone is con
sidered a crook until proven honest,
what wi^h threats of $10,000 fines
and imprisonment emblazoned on
virtually every form that must be
filled out. The reports required
would appear to give an absolute
check on every item. The finger
printing investigation of people en.
tering government service would
appear to preclude the possibility
of any suspicious character getting
a job.
Despite all these precautions,
however, subversives do get into
government jobs with appaaently
greater ease than in private
business.
Apparently the scent of vast gov
ernment funds is a powerful bait
that makes men forget the barbed
hook.
From the Hunterdon County
Democrat, Flemington, New
Jersey:
Fear of McCarthyisna Is at best
academic—certainly so long as men
shout in fulsome voices that they
are too terrified to shout. Fear of
goon squads employed by organi
zations with vested privileges and
the ability to coerce workers, em
ployers and even public officials is
tangible. It can be as much of an
evil on the country roads of Hunter
don County as on the Hudson River
waterfronts. The question upper
most in the minds of the people of
this law-abiding county is whether
our traditional liberties are going
to be protected by the men we have
elected for that purpose.
RESSIONAL
Q—Are there any Congressional committees that are not controlled
by Republican majorities?
A—Republicans lack a majority on one House committee and two
Senate committees. The House Veterans Affairs Committee has
14 Republican and 14 Democratic members. Republicans and
Democrats are also evenly divided on the Senate Public Works
and District of Columbia Committees, but Sen. Wayne Morse
(I-Ore.) is a member of both groups.
Q—Are there any ordained ministers in Congress?
A Two members of the House have been ordained. Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr. (D-N. Y.) is minister of the Abyssinian Baptist
Church in New York City. He holds a D.D. degree from Shaw
University. Rep. Dewey Short (R-Mo.) was ordained a preacher
of the Methodist Church when he was 19. He officiated in church
.services for a few months.
Q—What is the proposed item veto for federal legislation?
A—An item veto, if enacted, would allow the President to approve
parts of measures, veto others, subject to overriding by two-thirds
of both houses. At least 10 bills to provide for an item veto have
v been introduced in this Congress. At present bills approved by
Congress must be signed or vetoed by the President in toto, or he
can let them become law without his signature. But, if he dis
agrees with any part of a bill, he cannot veto that part and have
the remainder become law. Most Presidents therefore signed some
bills, particularly appropriations measures, even though they dis
agreed with certain of the provisions. ,
(Copyright 1864, Congressional Quarterly)
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1. (Sparkman) (Russell) was Adlai Stevenson’s
running mate.in the 1952 election campaign.
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Colorado River.
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(St. Cyr).
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herring family.
6. Claustrophobia is a fear of (confinement)
(height).
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8. The (emerald) (topaz) Is the birthstone for
June.
9. When you sautee food, you (fry) (broil) it
10. Fine silver is distinguished by its (engraving)
(hallmark).
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each correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, aver
age; 70-80, superior, and 90-100, very superior.
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