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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1958)
Special Technique Slated on Program A specialized technique de veloped by the American Medical association's bureau of health education will be used on the Jackson County Tuberculosis and Health as sociation television program over KBES-TV at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Dr. Thomas H. Emmens and Dr. John T. Weisel, ophthal mologists, will appear on the program. Special film foot age will illustrate the doctors remarks. Common eye defects, such as myopia, color deficiency, and crossed eyes will be ex plained, as well as th,e func tion and selection of eye glasses, and special dangers to the eve after 40, such as glaucoma and cataract. o Committee Wants Goldfine Records Washington (UPI) Mem bers of the House subcommit tee investigating federal reg ulatory agencies have called for an immediate move to ob tain tax returns of Boston mil lionaire Bernard Goldfine. They want to determine whether Goldfine wrote off his gifts to Presidential As sistant Sherman Adams as business expenses. Adams said they were personal gifts. I , iea ' ' hand-tailored'- tiM. coats... M Compare at 125.00 ITS HOURS: around the clock, ITS WHERE ABOUTS: over every-costume asif it were especiafly planned for it, everywhere, in the colors that effectively underscore the deep rich beauty of pure cashmere . . natural, seal black, red,, charcoal grey, teal, vicuna or grey in arrow-narrow sil houettes or coats that float free and flary the luxury coat you've always wanted at a budget price only now-during this pre-season event. Adams' Acceptance Worse Than Other BY A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington President Ei senhower and Sherman Adams have both conceded that the pesident's assistant acted im prudently in the - Goldfine case per forming fa vors from his high office for a friend who gave him ex pensive gifts but they both argue by a. Bobt smitk implication that this is no worse than many of the things that occur in Washington today. It's just part of the prevailing system. Adams, during his testi mony before the House com mittee, noted that he gets many requests from members of Congress as well as from private interests to take some sort of action. He added: "I say this in no spirit of criti cism at all because it is in the nature of the system in which we are engaged together that this is so." Eisenhower, in defending Adams at his news conference the next day, said accepting a gift is not the same as taking a bribe. He went on to say: "Almost without exception 1 ! w 1 I m I everybody seeking public of fice accepts political contri butions. These are gifts to further his political career. Yet we do not make a gener ality that these ' gifts are in tended to color the later offi cial ,votes, recommendations and actions of the recipients. In the general case this whole activity is understood, ac cepted and approved." . 1 Dependent Upon Gifts The president is correct that most people accept the pre vailing system by which pub lic office holders have become utterly dependent upon ex tensive gifts in the form of campaign contributions t o conduct election campaigns. But some are now beginning to question whether one should expect any group of government officials, of either party, to remain "clean as a hound's tooth" under the pressure of this system. The theory behind the ex poses of congressional com mittees and newspapers into corruption in government is that corrupted officials must be found and rooted out after being exposed to public at tention. The theory is perhaps unconsciously held that the source of the trouble is that the corrupt official was weak, immoral or downright dishon-1 of Gifts Capitol Happenings est, and the solution is simply to replace him with a good man. The lesson of the Adams- case should be that a man who is neither weak, immoral or dishonest can da . things which in the past one might have thought possible only for a corrupt politician Adams has been doing these things because it has been part of the system. And things -like this will continue to happen as long as this system prevails Constant Pressure The system functions along two lines: 1. Non-elected government officials, whether appointed by the president and his cab inet or civil service employees who come up through the ranks, are under constant pressure from private inter ests who are seeking types of action that would be favorable to their interest. These offi cials do not owe their jobs to these interests as a rule- (al though in some instances a private interest may influence the appointment), so the pub lic relations firms, lobbyists and executives of these inter ests seek ways to endear them to the government officials whom they wish to influence. Luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties are a commonplace lay-a-way O or buy on one of our easy-pay budget plans . . Seen Flo means of spreading good will Personal gifts, all-expense- paid trips, free hotel accomo dations are less common but not out of the ordinary. Adams falls into this broad grouping, but his is not an isolated in stance. A government attorney un der civil service who works for a federal agency and falls into this category tells me that his office must deal con stantly with representatives of a particular industry which benefits from government con tracts. - During negotiations, the industry boys invite the officials of his agency to par ties, dinners. He follows a rale 'which he personally adopted of not accepting such invita tions. One of his co-workers is noticeably more agreeable to the industry's desired terms after lunch than before, al though he would doubtless be offended at any suggestion that the free luncheon affected his judgment about the mat ter. The superior of this worker has been accepting free hotel accomodations in New York offered by an industry offi cial who was out of town but maintained like Adams' friend Bernard Goldfine, a regular suite. Ike Ducks Question When Eisenhower was ask ed , at his news conference whether he would back up lesser officials who might be found doing what Adams had done, he ducked the question. He said only that he would ex pect all government officials to conduct themselves impec cably at all times. He seemed to see nothing wrong with the system which confronts offi cials with temptations, which can easily be rationalized at the time as long as "everyone's doing it." 2. Elected officials in this day of expensive publicity election campaigns must rely upon substantial financial con tributions from- private sources to underwrite their ef forts to be elected. Once elected they can't entirely forget their benefactors, be cause mere is always the next campaign to worry, about whether it is two, four or six years away. There are today only ar chaic corrupt practices laws designed to compel public dis. closure of the sources of these contributions, but the ways of avoiding full disclosure are legion. Whether hidden or fully disclosed, the contribu tion tends to impose a pres sure upon the office holder to treat his benefactors with ex tra consideration, extra time of his office staff, extra effort in getting what that interest may want done in Washing ton or the state capital or the local courthouse. Don't Affect Vole Moreover, members of Con gress are frequently given other types of gifts, free trips to Florida, free cruises on ocean liners as well as person al articles. Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) says he rejects any thing worth over $2.50, but most politicians have no stip ulated limit and stoutly main tain publicly that gifts and campaign funds don't affect the way they vote on legis lation. . The defender of the system must contend that gifts and campaign funds don't influ ence official descisions. But there is a mountain of evi dence that favoritism in gov ernment has been going on here under both parties. It's time for a change a change in the system. A rigid code of ethics for all government officials and peo ple doing business with the government should be adopted to outlaw gifts and other types of free loading. Private cam paign contributions should be outlawed. Instead, election costs should be federally fi nanced so that the nation's lawmakers the great major ity who want to be honest and just in fulfilling the high re sponsibilities of their office can be beholden to no one. Unless there is this drastic change in the system, politics will more and more be re garded by the public as a questionable profession a t best and not the high and respected calling it ought to be. Fewer men of integrity and ability will be willing to subject themselves to the trials of economic pressure groups, and public office will be largely left to those who find the gift system appeal ing and personally beneficial. The leading nation of " the world fight for democracy cannot afford this internal po litical corruption of the intent of America's founding fathers. STAMP DEALER DIES New York (UPI)' Sid ney F. Barrett, 65,who was treasurer and a former presi dent of the American Stamp Dealers association, died here Wednesday. State GOP Leaders Disagree On Method To Win Labor Votes By RAYMOND LAHR United Press International Washington (UPI) State Republican leaders found themselves in disagreement to day about what approach they should take in an effort to win labor votes in the 1958 cam paign. Some cautioned against ac tion which might put an "anti labor" label on the party and others warned against com promises to. woo labor leaders who could be expected to sup port Democratic candidates anyway. ti . These points of view and others were heard from GOP state chairmen attending a three-day "campaign school" which closes today. The labor issue appeared to be getting fresh study from Republicans, partly as a re sult of the California primary earlier this month. Senate Re publican leader William F. 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Bell also said in an inter view that he hoped Knowland could get away from the Sen ate more often "and do a bet ter job of explaining his posi tion to the rank and file union members" "His program is not anti labor and is merely protect ing the rank and file from some unscrupulous labor lead ers who, in a few cases, have looted 'and robbed the funds of members," he said. v , At one of Thursday's closed FRESH & LOVELY CLEAR COLOR Contraband Apricot Brandy Youngtime Pink Garden Party Orangeade . 60fa each $112 reg fee when you buy NEW Tf-flntf- SPEED BATH UjUUU' s99 $1.50 LUSTRE CREME LOTION $119 SHAMPOO I NOW ODO-no-uo CREAM DEODORANT REG. $1.00 CAC 'mis TAX LIMITED TtME ONLY 98c HUSH Made to Measure LOTION DEODORANT By Toni 2 98c KLEENEX Boxes of 400's White Pint A t QQc Yellow- for Add Federal Excise Tax I OOOflOflO mm PRESCRIPTION V SPECIALISTS A sessions, the state leaders dis cussed whether it was wise to identify the GOP with the "right to work" issue. 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