Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1940 — Page 7

THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1940

WHITTIER SCHOOL T0 HAVE BIRTHDAY

Former pupils and patrons of Whittier School 33 will return to the school Monday to celebrate its 50th anniversary. They will see exhibits, set on miniature. stages, showing the /8chool as it was built in 1890 and as It grew following two additions. The school, at 1119 N. Sterling St., will. be open all day Monday to visitors. No special invitations have been sent out, Mrs. Georgia Lacey, principal, said.

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Campaign Costs Run High Despite Hatch Act Limitations

By BRUCE CATTON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 —Despite the limitations ‘imposed by the Hatch Act, the Presidential campaign of 1940 may go down in the records as one of the most expensive ever waged in America.

The Hatch Act provides that no party may spend more than $3,000,000 on a Presidential campaign. It also limits the sum any individual may contribute to a campaign fund to $5000, and prohibits the solicitation of Federal or Federally-

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paid state employes for campaign contributions. : But the Act contains a set of loopholes big enough to drive a platoon of tanks through, and evidence is mounting that full advantage was taken of all of them. Net result apparently has been that as far as holding down campaign expenditures is concerned, the Hatch Act might almost as well not -have been written. First of all, there is the $3,000,000, over-all limit. What the Aet says is that no “political organization” may spend more than that sum. It apparently does not cover the sums

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that separate organizations could spend. Senator Hatch recently pointed out that in passing on this point a court should take into account the debate on the floor of the Senate, in which it appeared to be the wish of the Senate that the $3,000,000 limit should apply to the total spent for any one candidate. However, most of the Willkie committee officials who testified recently before the Senate Campaign Fund Investigating Committee reported that their lawyers had advised them that each separate

committee could spend up to $3,000,000. These committees were legion, on the Republican side—the Associated Willkie Clubs, the Willkie Magazine Club, the Anti-Third Term Committee, the American Writers’ Committee, the People’s Committee to Defend Life Insurance Savings, the Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government—and half a dozen more. All but two asserted they were completely independent of the National Republican Committee. Senator Gillette, head of the Senate Committee, points to the second

loophole in the limit on individual contributions. A man may not give more than $5000 to a national campaign fund. But he apparently could give a similar sum to each of the 48 state funds, if he chose, and in addition could make further $5000 contributions to assorted county committees to the limit of his capacity to pay. Nor has the ban on leaving contributions on officeholders been entirely effective. A Government of-

ficial in Washington, for example, could not circularize the workers in his department asking for contributions, but the Democratic National

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that some or all of the dodges cited here are in fact violations of the Hatch Act. But competent lawyers seem to believe the courts won’t do anything of the kind—and, as Senator Gillette remarks, “an act of that importance ought not to be

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