The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 17, 1954, Page 9

Sen. Mundt Is Cast In Key Role In Present Controversy Between McCarthy, Army Brass By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON Sen. Karl E. Mundt, a balding, jovial, easy-talk- ing South Dakota Republican, sud- denly finds himself ‘cast in a key Tole in the swirling controversy between Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) and Army officials. No newcomer to congressional Probes, Mundt has stepped into the temporary chairmanship of the Senate investigations subcom- mittee while it tries to dig out the facts in the dispute. An Army report has accused Mc- Carthy and Subcommittee Counsel Roy Cohn of applying pressure to get special treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, a former unpaid con- sultant to the group. McCarthy and Cohn have heatedly denied the “There's nothing wrong with this that can’t be fixed with an auto repair loan frem CITY LOAN CO.I” Key West 2-9681 524 Southard St. charges and in turn have accused Army officials of trying ‘“‘black- mail” to avert probes of the Army. The job of presiding over forth- coming hearings in the dispute fell to Mundt as second-ranking Re- publican on the subcommittee aft- er the members agreed that Mc- Carthy should temporarily yield his post as chairman Mundt, now 53 and rather chub- by, is rounding out his first term in the Senate and will be up for re-election later this year. But be- fore being elected to the Senate in 1948, he served for 10 years in the House. An enthusiastic fisherman and a former schoolteacher and editor, he was a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee and sometimes served as its chair- man during its sensational Red hunts of bygone years. An apt phrase maker, he reput- edly coined the term “Pumpkin Papers” for the State Department documents which Whittaker Cham- bers had hidden in a pumpkin on his farm in nearby Maryland. These figured in the House group’s probe of Alger Hiss, former State Department official now in a fed- eral prison after his conviction for perjury. In 1945 Mundt was one of the leaders in the successful fight to make the Un-American Activities Committee a regular standing com- mittee of the House. Up to that time, it had. been a temporary gioup for about 10 years. With Vice President Richard Nixon, then a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee Mundt co-authored a bill to require registration of the Communist par- ty and other subversive organiza- tions. The legislation got through the House. Although this measure was not passed by the Senate, Congress in- corporated some of its main fea- tures in the internal security law enacted in 1950 over the veto of former President Truman. As a House member, Mundt also was a co-sponsor of legislation setting up the Voice of America to broadcast American aims to radio listeners abroad. He had come back from a European trip convinced of the need to counter- act Soviet propaganda. On the Senate investigations sub- committee, he has been a close worker with McCarthy. 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TODAY'S BUSINESS MIRROR By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#—The H-bomb is tested in the Pacific and a little later a young supply clerk pays his check at Jersey Standard Oil Co.’s dining room in Rockefeller Center here and picks out a .pam- phlet from a rack nearby. Before his lunch hour is over he has a general idea of what the H-bomb is about. He won’t learn how to make one, but if he really yearns to play with fire there’s another popular pamphlet on hand, ‘Outdoor Cook- ery.” This information-feeding of em- ployes is now in use in some form or other by about 1,500 corpora- tions. Several million workers take out an estimated four million booklets a month. General Motors has been doing it for 4% years, distributing 56 million copies of over 300 dif- ferent booklets. The highest pickup Standard Oil reports is for ‘“Manbattan News,” put out as a special during New York’s newspaper strike. The all-time low in employes’ reading interest was the printed minutes of the stockholders’ annu- al meeting. With 3,400 employes eligible to use the dining room, the average weekly pickup of pamphlets is 1,672. In six months the company has provided 80,000 copies of 47 different booklets for a cost of $3,380. The company gets them from the U. S. Departments of Agricul- ture and Defense, New York State Health Department, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, National Safety Council, the American Pe- troleum Institute, from speeches by oil company executives (not too popular) and from a number of firms making a business of supply- ing leaflets for corporation racks. One of these dispensers, the Good Reading Rack Service of New York, says the free pamphlet serv- ices grew out of management’s efforts, largely since the war, to educate workers on safety, eco- nomic principles and company problems. “Naturally our booklets on hob- bies, sports, and home and recre- ation are the most popular,” the service reports. ‘But the import- ant thing is they are habit forming. And soon the employes are also reading booklets on taxes or pro- ductivity or how to make out a will.” The bill of fare in the information rack must be changed as regularly as at the cafeteria counter to keep up interest. The average pickup for any one booklet in a plant is estimated at 50 per cent of the | employes with the majority taking them home for the family to read. government spending in World War II was covered by taxes, says the Twentieth Century Fund. | There are about seven million civilian federal, state and local | governmental jobholders in the | United States. Vic Vet says VETERANS WITH Gi MORT- GAGES ON THEIR HOMES CAN MAKE MONTHLY PAY- MENTS TO LENDERS OR PAY OFF THE ENTIRE LOAN AT ANY TIME About 72 per cent of the U. S.; PPG ~~] Wednesday, March 17, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CATCHES SAIL—Mrzs. A. Salus, of Philadelphia, boated this 7-foot, 8-inch sailfish. ing from the Sea Raider II, captained by Lefty Regan. Superstition Is Strong In Russian Minds MOSCOW (#—You might think that after 36 years of Communist tule the Russian people would have gotten rid of superstitions, especially such practices as going to soothsayers and fortune tellers. Perhaps superstition’s survival might still be explained in the backward areas, in zemote vil- lages. But what are you to say when this practice thrives in such a city as Minsk, which has a quarter- million population and is the metropolis and capital of Byelo- Tussia? And what’s more—bow about well-dressed ladies going to visit the fortune tellers, and some of them using the automobiles of their husbands who are in official positions? What kind of example are these ladies setting for the less fortunate, the less-learned folk about town? The newspaper Soviet Byelorus- sia has plenty to say about this in an articie titled “The Terrible Sign.” It deals with the fortune telling racket in Minsk and puts the finger on people who, it says, should know better. These include not only well-dressed ladies but members of Komsomol, the Com- munist Youth League. Soviet Byelorussia reports: “For instance, a Gypsy, Ekat- erine Shorkoze, has been telling fortunes to gullible women for four years. She lives two kilomet- ers from Minsk and supports a large family, including her hus- band who does not work. She is expanding her activities and she has special agents who give her publicity for a small price. She earns quite a lot. “It also happens that automo- biles stop at this woman’s house. Well-dressed women descend. Ap-| parently they come here in their husband’s office cars. They look about and quickly enter the house, where they listen to the ignorant chatter of the fortune teller—not even ashamed of ‘their moral poverty of mind.” d/ VA considers the postmark date on | Barkley Accuses Ike Of Timidity JACKSON, Miss. — Former Vice President Alben Barkley said here if President Eisenhower “had been as timid in Europe as he has been in the White House, we would have lost World War 2 He told a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner that the President has been making great speeches but he “ought to have someone to imple- ment his good words and noble sentiments.” Turning to the farm problem, he said, “When the farmers get a chance they will do to Ike politi- cally what he has been doing to them economically.” Referring to Senators McCarthy (R-Wis) and Jenner (R-Ind), he said that ‘during the 1952 presi- dential campaign, the junior sen- ator from Wisconsin and the junior senator from Indiana said the Democratic party was one of trea- son.” They committed a ‘‘premedit- ed falsehood,” Barkley said. “I make no apology for the 20 years of Democratic rule.” THREE HOTELS IN 2 SN REE AS REASONABLE RATES. 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