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DEAR BOSS . . By Dan Kidney

GOP Tells It to The Marines

Scott Credits Wife With Primary Win

WASHINGTON, May 16 — Hoosier Re-

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AFTER YOU GET

‘Let's Look at Prices’ "MR. EDITOR: Let us study our lessons a little bit and see

tos and Audit Bureau of Circu ation

Price In Marion County 6 cents a y for dally and 10e aan ndgy, 36c w-

tor Sunday: delivered by carrier dally and Su h week. daily only 25¢, Sunday only 10c. Mail rates in Indiana daily and Sunday, $1000 a year. daily. $5.00 a year. Sunday only, $500; all other states. 8. possession, Cansda and Mexico. daily $1.10 a month. Sunday. 10e & copy.

Telephone RI ley 5551 Give IAght and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

publicans are so set on winning the municipal élections this fall that they are calling out the Marines—wéll—one Marine, anyway. He is a 35-year-old fighting redbead, Lt. Col. John A. (Jack) Scott, who won the GOP pri- . y mary for mayor of South Bend. He topped the field over four other contenders, while still holed-up here in the Navy annex Marine Corps Headquarters.

He readily attribiites much of

THE SCREENS

why there is all this noise about rolling back food prices. The basic facts are that hours and wages today will, in most cases, buy more food than hofirs and wagés wy between the period of 1930 and 1940. | ; fale Peoples” eating habits have changed and what was considered a luxury at that time is now regarded as a necessity ‘and that goes for other things as well. : : The reason for high meat prices is that families ‘who ‘lived on low incomes are now

his success.to “the ltfle wom-

5, “. fe A dia dl 0 sR LL LAE ENA ¥ - : . E y a 80 3 ade ACR “wil Hn “attive Marine demand fruits and vegetables out of :season and

Pr ABIRS 1% horrimb way to die, Corps duty here, Mrs. Scott

o -. You get: rabies from a bite, or even a scratch; from an infarted animal. It could be, and usually is a dog. But sometimes it is a cat, or a squirrel or a rat . .. or almost

any other animal.

If you are bitten, and not treated promptly, you die

. . islowly, horribly, painfully.

_ was back in South Bend with her two small da ters ringing doorbells, talking to women and doing whatever the organization suggested would win. The South Bend organization functioned under the long-skilled hands of former Secretary of State Tom Bath, Col. Scott 1s the first

Col. Scott

f ~ in most cases food that comes in fancy pack-. -

"ages, that is already prepared.

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AND I would like to add here that all the government roll backs and regulations are not going to bring food prices down one cent but are more likely to dry up the supply and actually cause food prices to be higher. However,

to confess that also was helpful. Statistics bear him. out. For his 12,000 total

vote was 21; times as great as his nearest opponent.

Schock Wins Easily.

MAYOR GEORGE A. SCHOCK won easily on the Democratic side. Should old customs be followed, he will win again next fall. For South Bend hasn't had a Republican mayor in 12 years. Col. Scott is not the type to be discouraged. He grew up in South Bend, went to Central High Behoal and was graduated from Notre Dame in

With the war clouds gathering, he enlisted in

any housewife who wants to cook, can lick the high cost of living by cooking ordinary food such as beans, potatoes, jowl bacon, rolled oats and many other things which are cheap and nourishing. The answer is of course that most people elaim they can't eat that kind of food. And the peculiar part is that many people that can afford any kind of food they want actually like ordinary food. It is not the high cost of living today, but the cost of high living that is causing the average family to have a struggle for existence. And don't let anyone kid themselves into thinking a roll back in meat prices is going to

‘The Pasteur treatment, the only one known, is by no means a sure cure. * : Even if it works it is slow, costly, excruciatingly painful. If it doesn’t work . . . or if you happen to be allergic to it, as some folks are, there is agonizing and certain death.

» * =» » . * INDIANAPOLIS is the most dangerous place in the United States for rabies. - There are more rabies cases here than in any other

city. Nearly a third of all the cases in Indiana . . . which is what makes Indiana's record one of the worst in this

the Marine Corps Reserve as a PFC in 1936. After his graduation, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and ordered to active duty in

help stop inflation. Any money saved would be merely taken from some farmer or cattle feeder and spent for something else which would prob-

February 1941. 3 Joining the 3d Marines, when they were activated at Camp Lejeune in 1942, Col. Scott spent 33 months in the Pacific fighting, winning medals and his present silver oak leaves. He got a silver star for gallantry on Bougainville and a bronze star medal in the battle for Guam. Wounded on that island by Japanese artillery, he also was injured in air and sea crashes. He won a purple heart and shared in the presidential unit citation and Navy unit citation, ; :

Ordered to Active Duty

ably be less important than meat and wauld create a still worse inflational spiral. . —C. D. C., Terre Haute

country. . 1:And it is steadily growing worse, day after day. “More than a dozen human beings have been infected this year, and have had to undergo the dangerous, costly, painful treatments. Last year four Hoosiers died of rabies oan the most shameful record in America. . ee ss = » . = = . SHAMEFUL, because it is easily controlled, and can easily prevented. : Adequate laws already exist to permit such control.’ They are not being adequately used.

‘Stalin's Way’

MR. EDITOR: Communism and socialism are diseases that are easy to take but hard to get rid of. They are one-way streets, and when you get to the end you are dead. : This was lately proved in China, when the Commies went in and told the farmers they. would receive free land from the landlords.

‘RAW’ . . . By Frederick C. Othman

It’s Just One Little OI Word,

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More than 300 persons have been arrested for violations hose laws so far this year. Most of them have been found guilty of violations which

ehidanger the lives of their neighbors.

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Only a tiny handful have been fined, or in any other

way punished. The move today of the Chamber of Commerce and the

Medical Society to get a co-ordinated program for dealing

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this menace is the first really promising step that has

. ; IT SHOULD have the complete and instant co-opera-

tency in this community. v "Rabies can be stamped out completely here in a matter of weeks—if we work together to do it. Other cities have

done it. So can we. And the time to start is now—before one more child

: has to pay the price of our failure.

Help for the FBI

HE Federal Bureau of Investigation, charged with the

duty of catching spies and saboteurs, urgently needs

help from Congress. P

"It needs authority to tap wires for the purpose. of getting evidence against such public enemies.

Present law forbids FBI agents and all other persons

to tap wires and divulge information thus obtained. : Despite that law, the FBI does tap wires, first getting permission from the Attorney General, who gives it under an executive order issued by President Roosevelt in 1940. ! But information reaching the FBI by this method can’t be divulged by its use as court evidence. © Last year a federal court of appeals in New York set / aside Judith Coplon’s conviction for stealing government secrets and giving them to a Russian spy. Although Miss Coplon’s guilt was clear, the court said, she had been deprived of Constitutional rights because, for one reason, the government failed to disprove her contention that

RETURNING TO the United States in November 1944, he commanded the osrganized reservq unit in South Bend until ordered bak to active duty last August. After three months at Camp Pendleton, Col. Scott became a planning officer at the Marines Headquarters here. His year of duty will be up in August and he intends to put on civies and become an active politician in the South Bend mayor's race. Meanwhile he cannot say too much about it, as politicking violates the service rules. He agrees with stories from Indianapolis and other Indiana cities that the national administration’s foreign policy, with particular emphasis on Korea and Gen. Douglas MacArthur's firing, are likely to hold the spotlight, even in city races.

i rhia-view was stressed here by GOP State

Chairman Cale Holder, who got the Senators and Congressmen to pledge ‘complete assistance in putting the mayors and councilmen into office next fall.

Headed School Group

THERE ALSO will be the city housekeeping to consider. Col. Scott has had considerable background in this fleld. He was hesd of the attendance department of the South Bend school city and later public relations manager, before joining the staff of the South Bend Tribune as personnel manager. “South Bend needs such Things as a city auditorium, so that it can have as good facilities as are now available at Muncie and Kokomo,” Col. Scott said. “1 pointed this out in my primary literature and offer a plan to save the taxpayers money by using the holding company setup. “South Bend also needs parkways and improved garbage and trash collection. Maybe these things do not sound as important as talking about war, but to the householders’ day-to-day living they are so. : “Gambling and who gets paid protection money might - also become important in the South Bend campaign.” Mrs. Scott, who is so interested in launching the Colonel in his political career, is a native of Mentone, Ind. Their daughter Sally is now 3a and Susan 2. They live here in Alexandria, Va., and all frankly admit they will like South Bend better—particularly if their dad becomes the mayor.

But It Sure Does

WASHINGTON, May 16—I doubt if President Truman intends to build a factory for production of toothpicks. Nor do I believe he has in mind erection of a brewery to make federal beer for soldiers in far places. The trouble is that Mr, Truman wants to eliminate the one little word, raw, from the Defense Production Act. Leave that out of the law, according to his Senatorial critics,

—and he could put the

government into any kind of business he pleased, including haberdashery. So “raw” would seem to be the word of the month hereabouts and I guess we'd better look into it: The present law for fighting the undeclared war expires in six more weeks. It includes one section giving the President the power to take over and/or produce any raw materials ‘he needs to. put fear in the hearts of the Communists. Mr. Truman wants to forget the raw part and make the law read: Materials. “Why, that would give him the power to acquire any kind of plant he wants and build anything he wants, including toothpicks,” exclaimed Sen. Homer Capehart (R. Ind.). “That's right,” agreed Chairman John 8S. Small of the Munitions Board, a smallish man behind light-colored eyeglasses. The phonograph-manufacturer-turned-Sena-tor was aghast. He said that meant there was no business in America safe from Mr. Truman. Every man, woman and child, he added, would be frightened every time the postman rang; he'd be bringing documents entitling the government to confiscate private property. Mr. Small said he did not think the President was interested in .the manufacture of toothpicks, but he might want to go into: the ball-bearing or. the bomb-sight business in a

DICTATORS . . . By Ludwell Denny

Mean a Lot

hurry. In that case the law would be helpful. “Let's consider beer,” said Sen. Everett Dirksen (R. Ill). “Inasmuch as beer is supplied to soldiers overseas and should you people decide there isn’t an adequate supply of beer for export, why you could establish a brewery.” True, agreed Mr. Small again. But he said Mr. Truman doesn’t intend to turn Uncle Samuel into a brewer. Nor does he plan to interfere with any private business if he can help it. Most of the gentlemen on the Senate Banking Committee were not convinced. They turned then to Mr. Small's job as operator of the stock

~pile of strategic materials, He has billions in

rubber, tin, cobalt and no telling what else piled in hidden warehouses. He's buying more every day and somehow the priceg keep on going up.

Wheat for Metal

SEN. CAPEHART had an idea on that. Take India, which wants $300 million worth of our wheat to avert mass starvation. Fair enough. But we could use $300 million worth of India’s manganese to make the steel that could avert a war. Why not, demanded the Senator, trade our wheat for her metal?

Mr. Small said the State Department would have to answer that one. He added, under Senatorial prodding, that in return from the billions we have sent Europe in aid, we have received from them something under $17 million worth of materials, raw and otherwise. “That's my pet peeve,” the Senator said. “We give everything away and we get nothing ‘n return.” _ Mr. Small said that was one for the diplomats to explain, too. They'll get their chance soon. I don't envy ‘em.

What Others Say

WE are facing a crisis today because of our failure to admit Negroes to partnership in our public life. By doing so now, the South can tap

new resources of ability and statesmanship.—

Southern Regional Council President Paul D. Williams.

They got the land, but worked it for the government and got little for themselves. Their sons are being dumped into the meat grinder in Korea. Quite a.reward. A lot of lovers of the Kremlin, even in this country, think they will get some reward for doing their dirty little jobs for Joe. But they are so dumb they forget that thousands of Russians, even in high office, were piled up with common “boobs.” There are those in our country who think they will ride high in the new order of the police state. How conceited they are. There are dictators who, as bloody as Stalin, know they could go along with him in helping him conquer.the world. They have been at this kind of work long énough to know they" would be of no use to Stalin after turning over their people. : S86 the little stooges who are working to destroy this country should try to think a bit. —Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois St.

‘Why the Taxes?’ MR. EDITOR: I'd just like to have someone answer this one for me. Why is it with all the high corporation profits that we have, the little man is still darned near taxed to death? Why not load more on the corporations and less on the little guy . . . huh? —Overtaxed, City.

MY LEAPING LENA

SHE chugged and puffed like a train . . . then rattled when she started . . . but somehow through some miracle . . . she always soon departed . . . sometimes she coughed and sputtered like . . . she had acute bronchitis . . . and shimmied with convulsions like . . . a thing that had St. Vitus . . . and she was rather obstinate . . . and like a snail went slow . . . when my time was really short . . . and I just had to go... now through her darned infernal ways . . . that give me tardy service . . . I have grown upset at times . . . she really has me nervous . . . but with her many faults and quirks . . . with her I must be fair . . . and say she hasn't failed me yet . . . to get me here or there. —~—By Ben Burroughs.

illegal wiretap evidence was used against her. : " = x = =

” HOWEVER, the court suggested, Congress might well prevent other guilty persons from thus escaping justice by legalizing limited official wire-tapping. Attorney General McGrath repeatedly has urged Congress to do that. Several bills have been introduced. But the Attorney General's pleas have been ignored and none of the bills has got even as far as committee hearings. "Best of those measures, we believe, is the one proposed by Rep. K. B. Keating of New York. It would authorize the FBI to obtain and use wiretap evidence, but only with written approval from a federal court and only in cases of : suspected treason, spying, sabotage and other crimes against national security. . Many Americans regret the necessity for such legislation, even though it provides careful safeguards for the rights of innocent persons, as the Keating” Bill does. But such legislation is necessary, and Congress should enact it without further long delay.

The Goat EMEMBER the great investigation of Washington “five * percenters” and “influence peddlers” back in the summer of 19497

in ah Rasinponcmdints

John Maragon is headed for prison. The U, S. Supreme Court has turned down his appeal from a perjury conviction: Those were the days when another old Missourian— Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, the President's military aide— got a bunch of free deep freezers from one of Maragon's business associates and presented them to various govern- . ment dignitaries. Maragon was a “lovable little fellow” to the General then. ‘But after the lovable little fellow got caught in the investigation of influence peddlers, Gen. Vaughan said he ought to be fumigated—as he presumably will be when he begins his sentence of eight to 24 months for lying under oath to a Senate committee. Maybe it will console John Maragon in prison to reflect that Gen. Vaughan still serves the President as military aide, that nobody else has been convicted as a result of’ that reat investigation, and that some erstwhile Washington J Bereentors” are now réported to be asking for 10 per

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No Revolt Expected In S

MADRID, May 16—You may wonder how a dictator in as much, trouble and as unpopular as Franco manages to hang on. The. people Everybody criticizes the regime and its corruption.

are hungry.

* But you never

hear a word spoken against Franco — though he ls the government. There is really not much mystery about it. This is a police state. The dictator has the guns, and the people haven't. Besides, they are used to despotism. They never have had good government. Most of them don't know what political democracy is. While they don't like Franco, they are not sure his successor would be any better. And

Franco . . . the power

"Well, justice f inally is about to prevail, to some extent, they prefer Franco to risking To

another civil war of extermination. So no political revolt is in sight. Short of starvation, that is. Though the Spaniards will not rise against the police state for ideals or ideology, or for freedom they will fight for bread. g That is the dictator's danger. He can't make his totalitarian economic machine produce enough, for it is as crazy as it is cruel. Bo bread gets scarcer and scarcer. And the people get more and more

desperate. ~ ” ~

YET he has an easy out. Relief is at hand. Not because of him but despite him, the “decadent democracy” of the United States against which he has plotted in the past has offered to ¥id Spain. Still the Caudillo does not

_« grab that life-belt, which

would save him along with Spain. This, certainly, is the strangest of all things in this very strange country. The reason for Franco's reluctance is that there are strings to that life-beit made in the U. 8. A. Not political strings, to which his objection would be understandable. The only strings to American economic aid for Spain are the same as those to Marshall Plan countries. He would have to permit American supervision of American funds, free his despotic economy to the extent of producing recovery results and match American money with Spanish self-help. Otherwise he isn't likely to get more loans. . = ” PART of Franco's reluctance to such terms is doubtless the

same that made Stalin reject American aid for his satellites —a dictator without absolute economic control is something less than a dictator regardless of his political power,

to be an inability to admit that

Spain is sinking. Despite the ugly hunger facts, he simply cannot believe he has falléd on will fail, or that any other economic methods could produce better than his own. Franco is unique among modern European dictators in being virtually independent of either party or associates. His Falangist Party is a fake. And he is beholden to no henchmen. He is the One Man State. On the record of that achievement, it is not quite madness for him to believe in his ability to survive. Apart from that little matter of leaving the people enough to eat, he has fixed everything. Here is his setup: : ! ONE—He has 400,000 troops and 100,000 police ready to shoot down unarmed rebels, and another army of informers to detect the least hostile move.

TWO—There are no opposition leaders left here. Monarchist, Republican, Socialist, Anarchist, Communist, = and rival Military Dictator, all have been disposed of. He has killed, imprisoned, exiled, or otherwise removed them. Though~he denies it, there are still approximately 20,000 politfcal prisoners here, plus at least 275,000 parolees.

THREE—The possibility of a “palace revolt” has been almost

pain—Franco Holds

eliminated by reducing the authority of cabinet officers, by shifting generals and members

.of his official household, and

changing his priestly confessor frequently. He trusts nobody. When he had a secret meeting with the . pretender to the throne, Don Juan, his Foreign Minister first learned of it from the foreign press.

FOUR—He has destroyed every organized medium of the public will—including free elec-

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COPR, 1951 BY NEA SERVICE, WNC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

4 : : ‘ “Let your mother help you get ready for the exams, Tommy— she sat behind me in the seventh grade!"

All The Big Guns

tion, free assembly, free societies, free employer associations, free trade unions, free press. It is illegal to strike or to criticize Franco.

FIVE—Perhaps most important of all, he has managed to use for his personal dictatorship the three traditional sources of power in Spain: The army, the Church, the owners. : . = = OF THESE three sources. of power the weakest is wealth— owners of the vast landed estates, the rich mineral deposits, the factories, the banks. They object to his totalitarian economy, because of state controls and the encroachment of nationalized enterprises. They don’t like Franco, because he uses them instead of the other way around. Bit they stick with him for the same reason they helped to put him in power 12 years ago. He stands between them and the landless peasants and free trade unions, which they fear. The fact that there are very

few Reds in Spain, .that this. Catholic people hate commu-

nism and can be driven to mass violence only by most extreme provocation, is not enough for the owners. Most of them would prefer a constitutional monarchy under Don Juan, in which they would remain relatively free from income tax as they are now, but where they might control the state instead of being controlled by it. But their preference does not go to the point of risking another civil war or a “weak” successor to Franco.

The strongest power used by"

Franco is the Catholic Church. The Spanish Church, besides being part of an international religious institution, also has been traditionally a national- * |stic organization deep in pol-

itics, business and other sec-:

ular affairs. It permeates ah phi of Spanish life, not onl

cies, but also through powerful secret societies ‘such as “Opus Dei.” o ’ : ' THE population is solidly Catholic. © Though many are anti-clerical, few are antiChurch and almost none Protestant. El Saudillo based his Falangist dictatorship on the Church, officially designating it .a “Catholic State.” He restored and extended special rights and privileges which the Church had lost during the Republic and the Civil War. Secularly, it is his debtor and servant. He controls the appointment of bishops. The Church has to be his servant in nonspiritual matters to retain its state status and special privileges. A minority think that is too high a price to pay. Some object on reli gious grounds, others for the practical reason that a Church tied so tightly to Franco may go down if he falls. » ” ” ALTHOUGH the Vatican is

fot An open opponent, it has

not made a concordat with th's “Catholic State.” Partly this is a continuation of the old con: flict between Rome and the na. tionalistic, isolationist Spani-h Church—particularly over the asserted power of Madrid kings and dictators to control appointment of bitchops and others. Moreover, the Vatican has a different attitude towarc press freedom and public rights. It is embarrassed and unjustly injured, as are Cath olic churches in the democra; cies, by the totalitarian state

status of the Spanish Church

Which Jomves the Army as the only power which might upset the Generalissimo. He tries to guard against that by elimi. . nating ambitious generals, any by keeping the troops muck better fed and housed than the public. As long as he can kee} the Army content, without o1 .

“with American aid, he appears '

safe for awhile. =~ “

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