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For the State Legislature

LTHOUGH it operated with more than ordinary noise and confusion the last session of our General Assembly

actually produced very little legislation that was sound, constructive or useful. On the contrary, Indiana barely escaped having some very foolish laws passed and some very fine laws destroyed by that session . . . sometimes by a margin of only one or two votes. He : ; Poasibly because of that performance.an unusual number of candidates seek nominations this year . . . 63 Republicans and 61 Democrats, altogether, for the 12 house ‘seats ahd the one Senate seat to be filled.

WE are not going to attempt to pick a “slate” for either party to nominate on Tuesday. During recent weeks The Times has published as much factual information as there was available about these candidates, and their own statements, if they made any, of what they propose to do if elected. We recommend that they be given the most careful consideration. On the basis of their records in public and private life, however, there are a number of these candidates whose qualifications seem to us to be superior. While there are, no doubt, others on the ballots who would perform satisfactory service in office, we consider the following candidates outstanding and worthy of support:

REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS (House) (House) J. Perry Meek Sarah Louise Beasley Earl Buchanan Harry T. Latham Jr. George S. Diener Mabel A. Dunn Alembert W. Brayton David F. Probstein Nelle B. Downey James F. Griggs Fern E. Norris James B. Delaney John G. Tinder C. Kate Kirby Kenneth H. Cox Della F. Hoss

Herbert E- Hill : (Senate) - (Senate) Hoyt Moore Sr.

Russell J. Dean

AT times when it has suited their purposes, and Russia's, leaders of the Communist Party in the United States have professed to have no thought of violent revolution in this country. They have professed to be simply advocates of ful, evolutionary political change. But now the Kremlin, for reasons of its own, evidently has decided that a time has come for Communists, here and throughout the world, to take off their masks and act what they are. It has issued new instructions, through its strictly con-

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trolled Moscow. press, to-the Communist-parties-in our own

‘and other countries. The Communist youth paper, “Komsomolska Pravda,” discoursing on the duties of party members, quotes Lenin as instructing Communists to— 1 “Master all forms of struggle—the art of armed uprising and revolutionary use of the most reactionary trade unions and parliaments, a skilled combination of legal and

illegal forms.”

~ » . . . . OTHER LEADING Soviet publications have joined the discussion, in what appears to be a concerted drive to whip up Communist activity in various parts of the world. The trade union paper “Trud,” remarking that “Stalin's words are immutable law,” presents the following quotation from the present dictator of Russia: “A revolutionary is he who without reservations, unconditionally, openly and honestly, without secret military conferences, is ready to defend the USSR because the USSR

is first in the world, a proletarian revolutionary state that

is building socialism. An internationalist is he who without reservations, without hesitation, without conditions, is ready to defend the USSR because the USSR is the basis of the world revolutionary movement and to defend this revolutionary movement is impossible without defending the USSR.” z

~ . ” @ ” . . WITH THOSE words of Stalin “Trud” couples praise for Communist organizations in France, Italy and other countries which have declared that they would never go to war against the Soviet Union. The Moscow press, which ‘prints what the Kremlin’ tells

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it to print, thus answers with finality and authority the

question whether the Communist Party in this country is committed to the violent overthrow of our government. ~ Of course it is, and all professions to the contrary were mere efforts to deceive. Americans who still refuse to recognize this so-called “party” as a treasonabl® conspiracy, obeying Stalin's orders as “immutable law,” should have their heads examined.

In Visible Anger

laundry marks have been devised by a British company. Machines stamp the marks on clothes with a fluorescent paint which can be read only under ultra-violet light. Thus markings won't have to be confined to inaccesible insides of collars and hem-edges. - We hope this thing works. We'd like to stamp across

. all our shirt fronts in letters a foot high: “Don’t starch.”

Well, They Tried

Senate committee, investigating gambling, called in Frank Costello, the New York rackets chief, hoping to illegal bookies operate. Another Senate committee, investigating Communists,

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Capehart Finds: Gaming Tieups Says Bookies Can't Flourish If Local Officials Are Honest WASHINGTON, Apr, 20—Dear Boss: Crime does not pay—income taxes, : But big-shot syndicate gamblers and racketeers probably are supporting some political officials in a style théy never would have becomé accustomed to if they lived on the salary collected from taxpayers. : = The nicest work, if you can get it, be . practicing Jaw-vid-infitiente, if you have enough wealthy Jah Such are some of the deductions Sen, Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) has made after sitting as a member of the Senate subcommittee which has heard testimony from such gambling “ as Frank Costello and Frank Erickson. So far

as the testimony of both of these men went they were far from living up to their first names.

Can Be Stopped

WHAT they did say about their shady business confirmed Sén, Capehart in his belief that “90 per cent of the horse books and other gambling can be stopped in any city and state where local officials are determined to do s0.”

He also believes that it cannot be profitably

conducted in places where all law enforcement officials are 100 per cent honest. To illustrate his point, Sen, Capehart cited the stéty told the subcommitteemen by George Fingold, who functioned for five years breaking up the Boston rackets as an assistant attorney general under Democratic Gov. Tobin and Republican Govs. Saltonstall and Bradford of Massachusetts, Former Gov. Tobin is now Secretary of Labor in the Trumfin Cabinet and Leverett Saltonstall is in the U. 8. Senate. All three of these governors backed Mr. Fingold in his conviction of Dr. Jasper Saganske, who established racket headquarters in a city-owned building on City Hall Square. - Other businesses in this Bos-

ton Square were the Court House, police head-

quarters and a bank where nonpracticing dentist “Doc” Saganske managed to deposit $1,420,000, Mr. Fingold told the wide-eyed committeemen.

Gambling Parlors

HE GAVE them a play-by-play account of how horse parlors functioned freely in the Boston suburb of Revere, which he compared with the Chicago gangland suburb of Cicero, Ill, He named Phillip Elwell as the man who ran the racing information service, gave his room number at Bradford Hotel in Boston and sald he told investigators that he got the race dope from Continental Press Service, Chicago. Elwell, according to Mr, Fingold, had 358 customers taking the service at charges ranging from $40 to $108 per week. “Do you believe that the local law enforcement officials can stamp out gambling?” Sen. Capehart asked him. Mr. Fingold replied that he came to testify for some federal help, but then added: “No large-scale gambling can operate in any town without getting the green light from officials. We rounded up a gang with a bookkeeping arrangement which plainly marked down " such items as ‘Cops, $90,’ and the payoff added up to $750 per month.”

Views on Bookies ON TUESDAY, the subcommittee will hear Western Union and Bell Telephone officials on their views of whether or not bookies should be barred from doing business with them.

“The subcommittee is holding these hearings

on the Johnson bill, an administration measure, which would let: the Federal Communications Commission decide which avenues of licensed information should be cut off to prevent gambling. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy testified that the way to stop gambling was to bar publishing all betting odds from the tracks and the parimutuel payoffs in any form. Sen, Capehart said he thought that while cutting off information might curb the gamblers for a while, they soon would be back in business, even if they had to employ carrier pigeons. “The way to stop it on a- big scale is to divorce it from politics and politicians,” he maintains,

Larger Committee

_THE senior Senator from Indiana favors en...

larging the. proposed special Senate crime investigating committee to 12 members, with each to be appointed by the chairman of both the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee and the Judiciary Committee. The present subcommittee is composed of five members from the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.) introduced a resolution for the general crime investigation. He wants a five-member committee appointed ‘by Vice President Barkley. Because there has been quite a parade of mayors testifying before his subcommittee, most of them Democrats, Sen, Capehart thinks it would be a better way to bar politics from the probe if they accept his proposal. Of course, it may be that the long-ruling-Democrats don’t want any more investigating done. This is a campaign year.

SOCIAL SECURITY . . . By Peter Edson

Disability Benefits

WASHINGTON, Apr. 29—Cash benefits for permanent and ng period of six months—would be provided as a new, third form of social security if the Senate approves House-passed amendments to the law which now covers old age and survivors’ insurance, and public assistance to the

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NATIONAL SECURITY . . . By Marquis Childs Loopholes in Anti-Spy Laws?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20—From all the talk about the dangers of Communist infiltration, the bystander might get the idea that Congress was doing something about it. But the record shows that almost nothing has been done to close loopholes in the laws on espionage and foreign agents. ey Politics has taken over here, as with the formulation of a constructive foreign policy. The net result is political gas, some of it hot and some of it stale. : For more than two years the Department of Justice has been urging a series of changes in the Voorhis Act, the Smith Act, the Alien Registration Act and the immigration laws. More than a year ago the department recom-

mended amendments tothe espionage laws so

that persons trained in-espionage and sabotage could be brought within the Foreign Agents Registration Act. : ¢

More Aid to FBI

THE Justice Department also urged changes in the law which would give greater assistance to the FBI and military intelligence in obtaining admissible evidence against security violators. Other changes would give the military additional assistance in the protection of military facilities from sabotage and accidental dangers. None of these steps has been taken. The House six weeks ago passed with only two dissenting votes a bill covering certain internal security measures as recommended by a committee made up of representatives of military and naval intelligence and the FBI. The "Senate, where the talk about commu-

» nism has been loudest and angriest, shows no

signs of getting around to these measures. A bill providing a Fair Employment Practices Commission is to come up shortly. That will precipitate an immediate Southern filibuster. Senate leaders think now that this filibuster will last only about a week when a move to stop the debate by applying cloture is defeated. But there is no guarantee the filibuster. will end then. So the prospects for action on such rudimentary steps against espionage do not seem to be good. The politics of security may focus on the highly controversial Mundt-Nixon Bill. How many of Sen. Mundt's Republican colleagues —will support him is a question. The bill gives to a “subversive activities board” arbitrary power ‘of a far-reaching na-

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ture. The board, to be appointed by the President, would ‘determine what were “subversive” organizations in the categories of “Communist political organization” or “Communist front.” The definitions in the bill are so sweeping that the board would have wide discretion in determining which ‘organizations were to be put on the list and the members stigmatized in such a way as to endanger their status and livelihood. .

Political Views IT IS not hard to see where this would lead.

- The members of a board appointed by the

President would reflect his political views. The kind of organizations declared “subversive”

-would change with changes “in “the political —

climate. In a time of reaction, with timidity and fear rampant, the tendency would be to shut down on any organization that did not conform with the narrowest interpretation of “loyalty.” This could work both ways. In the event of a swing to the left, a President might seek to

, discipline organizations and individuals on ‘the

right and force them into conformity. " The Department of Justice has repeatedly opposed such a measure in the various forms in which it has come before Congress. At one point a Senate committee called on three distinguished attorneys with a broad background in constitutional law—Seth Richardson, John W. Davis and Charles Evans Hughes Jr.—for their views. They all reported adversely.

Laws Inadequate

THE Mundt-Nixon Bill clearly would invest government with a power that goes beyond the’ Ameriean tradition. If there were an imminent and present danger, Congress might be justified in abandoning fundamental guarantees incorporated in the Constitution. : Such a step is certainly not justified until every effort has been made to close loopholes in present laws, : - - For example, present laws dealing with aliens suspected of being subversive are inadequate. There are now more than 3000 undesirable aliens who cannot be deported to their countries of origin because the governments of those countries will not re-admit them. Let's try a few repairs and improvéments before we turn our backs on a system that has worked so long and so well, :

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‘Courtesy Pays Off’ By Marian M. Rice Spring is here again and we find our stores full of well-selected merchandise. The buyers have been to market and bought wisely for the customer. The buyer gives his salespeople knowledge which will be yours when you come to make your purchase. The salesperson knows this knowledge of merchandise belongs to you. You are paying for it and he gets paid for passing it on. I You and I know there are cases where sales-

. people stand around like statues. But I am

speaking of real salespeople, not order-takers. honestly put forth an effort to help a customer. I heard of a meeting where salespeople were discussed. The question was: Whose fault is it, the salesperson’s or the customer's? It takes two to make a bargain. If we have discourteous salespeople we also have the same kind of customers. So with spring here again and so much to do, let's get together and make courtesy work.

It makes for better living all the year round.

‘Manager Plan Needed’

By John Zahnd, 2315 E. Troy Ave. Is it not about time that we had this county . under a manager plan and get workers that are qualified to keep records and do business for the taxpayers? ’ Every township, city and county office should be abolished and the county as a unit should be under a manager elected by the people, thus saving us millions of dollars. Then perhaps we could have a decent Courthouse and many other improvements badly needed. We are living in the dark ages instead of common sense.

‘Might Help Clean Up Mess’

By Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois St.

I see that the Rev. John Douglas is running

--in the GOP primary for the office of Congress- * man. Some of his parishioners did not think polities was -proper—for-a preacher for some

reason. But they should be glad to have a minister who has energy enough to run for office

. as hé might help to ‘clean up some of the mess

we find our country in.

What Others Say

- FOR the short run, in terms of efficiency the Soviet system may seem to have a certain advantage over us. ~But forthe longer run I cannot see how an essentially authoritarian philosophy can compete with a dynamic philoso phy.—Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard University. ¢ © ¢

HE (President Truman) has been patting himself on the back the past five years, but the

_ important thing is what the people will say in

AMALGAMATION (with the CIO) has been the traditional attitude of the AFL.—AFL President William Green. ® & o

THE vital nature of manganese in the production of steel makes it necessary that a large strategic -stockplié be obtained.—~James Boyd, director of Bureau of Mines. eS &

OUR race, our people are suffering today hardship without precedent in history.—Gen~ eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek. } > ® O- chopenitos NO one likes to be spattered with mud.— Prof. Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins University.

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Setting Trap?

“=~ WASHINGTON, Apr, 20—We've had fresh assurances from Secretary of State Acheson that the Western Powers do not intend to be dislodged from Berlin by planned Communist disturbances in the city late in May, =r The chief Red maneuver in the offing is a march of German

Insurance companies oppose this government venture into total disability benefits. Their own experience in this field has shown it to be unprofitable. They oppose it also because they fear it would ultimately be extended to government insurance for short-term disability of under six months, their most profitable field.

~ » ” IN THEIR opposition to government disability benefits some of the insurance companies had a working agreement with the doctors who were campaigning against government health insurance. The American Medical Association persuaded some of -the Insurance companies to mail out literature against health insurance. In return, AMA supported the insurance companies’ opposition to government - protection against permanent disability, although in 1947 AMA had supported disability insurance for chronic illness, One important proposal for modification of these extreme views comes from Marian Folsom of Eastman Kodak. He supports the idea of government insurance for permanent and total disability of workers over 55 years old. .

- * . TODAY, if a workman of 60 becomes totally disabled, he must wait till he is 65 before he can begin drawing

old-age insurance. By mak-

ing permanent disability benefits available at 55 or over, the lane Te ‘controllable as they would cover only a 10-year period, - Principal base for criticism of disability insurance is pri-

marily that there is no actuarial experience. A heavy drain ‘on social security funds for the payment of permanent disability claims might wreck the whole system. Also, there is a fear that if there were much unemployment, there might be considerable faking of f{llness in order to receive benefits. To reduce one source of malingering through disability insure ance, the House did kill a proposal that additional payments could be made for dependents. ; » ® * ANOTHER of the mostdiscussed issues on social security revision concerns what classes of workers to take in. The main group now excluded is farmers and farm workers. The House-passed bill would take in some of them-—non-farm maple-syrup and mushroom processors, and post-har-vest handlers of fruits and vegetables. Senate Finance Committee members apparently feel that all farm workers should be brought in. But there is some political fear that farmers would resent this, and would _not pay the tax,

8 uw SOME spokesmen for the farmers, seeing social security benefits for city workers going up all the time, fear that farmers are getting the shart end of the deal. %

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resolution was to free the employers of these salesmen fro

youth from the Soviet zone into western sectors of Berlin.

Mr. Acheson told newsmen the Western nations could not divulge what steps they would take to counter the Russianinspired demonstrations. But he emphasized that the Allies would be very firm in their resistance to whatever pressures develop. The Secretary did not indicate, however, that the West

_ contemplates any advance ‘dip-

lomatic moves to offset probable Russian plans to turn the occasion into a propaganda field day. If we do nothing on this score, we may miss the boat badly. Mr. Acheson's remarks, indeed, the whole tenor of our response to the proposed youth march, that we are viewing this Soviet tactic as a serious effort to end Western control over Berlin. The »Russians are hardly simple enough to believe a ‘mass of German youths, no matter how sizable the force, will take over a large city area

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Allies’ position would not look

impressive when set beside a bloody slaughter of young Germans.

The youth march has all

the earmarks of a typical Communist trick: It isn't enough for us to be ready to stand off this “threat” to our control of Berlin, It seems to me we must act to deflate the propaganda value of the march before it happens. We should formally notify the Russian government that the proposed demonstration would clearly violate fourpower agreements affecting control of the Western sectors, and that the necessary resistance to such violation could only result in needless bloodshed. That message should urge that the march be called off in the interest of preserving order and saving human life, And

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