Tulsa Daily World MARCH 14. 1959 HOW THE WELFARE STATE LOOKS Must We Concede On Missiles? By ROSCOE DRUMMOND NEARLY EVERY DAY YIPEE! there is news which shows that the Eisenhower administration ALL THAT YOU is persuading neither the coun- CAN GRAB try nor the Congress including IS YOURS! some leading Republicans that it is wise to cut down the size of the Army and Marines and without even trying to concede missile superiority to the So- viets This week the Senate Demo cratic leaders were unanimous in appealing to the President not to reduce the nation mill- tary manpower in of the Berlin crisis And bite Mr. Eisenhower's repeated assur ances that our present and prospective military engin completely satisfactory the Gallup poll reveals that more Americans feel that ing out to the Ru balance of milita than believe we are ahea One of two things will happen soon Either Mr Eisenbower will convince the pub and Con gress that it is safe to carry through his planned cuts he Army and Marine and that the nation will be more secure by money on missiles even if this a 3.100 or greater Soviet lead in ICBM during the next three or four years, than by spending it Or, Congress will vote to over-rule the President. as now seems likely, and authorize a larger defente budget. Our Lawyers Make the Supreme Court Behave? THE COUNTRY OUGHT TO weigh this decision with the un- DITH KERMIT ican Activities Committee "the likelysthat he will oppose any derstanding that there is com- ROOSEVELT foremost bulwark of the Com- action by the ABA to promote plete honesty of opinion and munist party The Lawyers effective laws against subver- purpose on both sides The Guild has worked son honest people come oman writes force repeal of the statutes pro- reco of Affiliation with Com- ferent conclusions that they scientific and tecting us against Communist give greater weight to different indical even in his mature subversion, factors in the equation subjects. It is strange that while law- years the new Bar Association For example, the Joint Chiefs THE AMERICAN PEO- president-r was a director yers of Mr. Jenner's sort are of Staff have given their writ- of the American-Russian Insti- get the legislation iorever crying "civil liberties" ten endorsement to the propo- tute when he was 37 The to protect them from everytime someone wants to sition that our present deterrent American-Russian Institute was the Soviet government? catch a Red, they appear to lack power is sufficient for the na- twice cited as "Communist" by recent meeting in Chi- a scrupulous respect for our tion's security Isn't that con- Attorney General Tom Clark. looked as though they judicial traditions when it serves clusive? Not necessarily There Mr. Seymour's fellow directors werful ally in the their purpose. are reasons why it IS not con- at that time included Mrs. Bar Association, but Three years ago it was this clusive. Kathleen (Mrs. Joseph F.) rejoicing may be prema- same Mr. Jenner who gave a The fact is that each has now Barnes, identified in sworn tes- letter to the Senate Internal Se- written to the Senate Armed timony as a Soviet agent, and ABA committee report, curity Subcommittee in support Services Committee setting out Mr. Edward C. Carter, who exented to Bar Association of a project directed by Edward was tied with the Amerasia So- further steps which they believe H. Levi, Dean of the Chicago each service needs to take to elegates. rapped 24 of the Su- viet spy scandal. Law School, to make recordings meet their military responsibile oreme Court decisions coddling Communists and recommended in jury rooms unbeknownst to WHEN ASKED TO COM- ities. Congress correct their ef- the jurors. These shenanigans ment on his record, Mr. Sey- There are two holes in the by appropriate legislation. were so shocking to the majority mour always insists that he has argument that our present mil- et although the publication of of fair-minded lawyers that "always been a Republican with itary power is sufficient One is report has been hailed as Congress passed a law barring fairly conservative views." that while our present military overlooked has been jury tapping. The future will tell whether strength may be sufficient to lawyers in the American Bar deter war, it may well not be danger posed by a hard LEFTIST LAWYERS IN THE Association will defer to the sufficient to deter diplomatie of leftist lawyers who are and that Reds must continue ABA continue to be successful "fairly conservative views" of blackmail-since ICBMs are hide under the cloak of "civil in suppressing any information the Albert Jenners and Whitney are politically powerful as well liberties." which does not promote their North Seymours or the type of as militarily powerful, as Khru- views. For instance, thus far conservatism which means con- shchev is so vividly demonstrat- they have succeeded in blocking serving our liberties now threat- ing. The second hole in the ar- THESE MEN ARE DOING publication in the ABA journal ened by a Supreme Court that gument is that the Adminis- their best in the press releases and on television to nullify the of a report by state supreme allows Commies to get off scot- tration's defense critics are not court justices that warned our free. primarily talking about present effect of the Bar Association Report on Congress and on the security was threatened by the military security; they are talk- A MOUTHFUL public They are trying to get Supreme Court decisions. One ing about future military secur- The pshehostethokyrtograph- wouldn't have to be an editor ity because what we fail to do meit local bar associations to manometer, a device to meas- DIS resolutions condemping of that legal magazine to know today in missile production will ure respiration is report They are quick to that this report critical of the show up in missile weakness to- being used in studies of the ef- highest court in our land was morrow. out that in truth the Bar fect of various sounds on dental Association delegates never did certainly as newsworthy to law- actualiy approve the report yers as it was to the American patients, the midwinter meeting DEFENSE SECRETARY MO- of the Chicago Dental Society Elroy has told Congress that the by the ABA's Special people at large. told. We think dentists also Committee on Communist Tac- Last year, of course, the re- administration does not intend could use it in a promotion port of the Special Committee to match the Soviets missile for ties, Strategy and Objectives. scheme. The dentist could in- on Communist Tactics, Strategy missile. This poses the central The delegates only approved stall the usual equipment in the and Objectives was mysterious- question: Is it psychologically recommendations submitted ly side-tracked The 1957 report patient's mouth and then point wise, is it militarily prudest is the report. also warned that Supreme Court to the psychostethokyrtograph- it financially necessary that the Mr. Albert E Jenner of Chi- manometer and ask, "What is decisions affecting Communists United States accept missile in cago a former president of the If the patient replies clear- were endangering our internal feriority as a national policy for Illinois Bar Association, led the security It seems likely that ly, "A psychostethokyrtograph- the next several years fight against approval of the re- New York City Attorney Whit- manometer." the dentist will Here, again, there are honest por which is a comprehensive ney North Seymour, a member slap him on the back and fill all differences of opinion. The So- and authoritative exposure of of the ABA's Board of Gover- of his teeth without charge.- viets riskfully cut down heavy- how communism is "sapping the nors (chosen ABA president- Chicago Tribune bomber production in order to trencth , our nation elect at the Chicago meeting!) PUNISHMENT ENOUGH speed long-range missile pro- Attorneys opposing Mr. Jen- was among the lawyers re- A motorcycle cop stopped a duction. The Administr influence e that the Chi- sponsible for quashing the re- car on a Western highway and proposes to riskfully hold down at orney was a former port. pulled out his book of traffic liquid-fuel missile production o: ne Lawyers Guild If Mr Sevmour's record over now in order to speed hard-fuel tickets Love the years is any indication, it is you at 53 miles an missile production later