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Call for Positive Action N© JOB can be accomplished by merely tinkering at it. " Up to now the accomplishments’ toward liberating William N. Oatis from the Communist prison in Czechoslovakia have been nil. ~The only hope for Mr. Oatis’ release lies in positive - action. “Positive action,” said Sen. Herbert R. O'Conor of Maryland, “must be taken and pressed continuously to let the Communist people of Czechoslovakia know that as far as the American people and the free world are concerned the Oatis case will never be ‘finished business’ until he is released from the confinement and from duress.” — : Sen. O'Conor proposes one type of “positive action.” He has introduced a resolution to bar from the congressional press galleries the agents of Tass, the Russian government’s earphone in this country which operates as a phony news service.. __ The resolution follows a similar proposal by Alexander F. Jones, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Mr. Jones has made a personal study of Tass operations. And -he knows, as all Washington knews—the State Department in particular—that Tass is 5 Chimmunist Shoop, not a yews agency.

woofT MAY be . from: the Tass operatives won't pry Mr. Oatis out of his Communist prison. : ; “But it is a form of “positive action” which the Reds can understand. It is reprisal, and reprisal is one thing that sinks through a Communist skull. Until the United States starts using it, Mr. Oatis’ term in the Czech jail will go on and on. Speedy Senate action on Sen. O’Conor’s resolution will hit the mark—unless the congressional press galleries beat .the<Senate to it, ‘and kick out Tass on their own initiative.

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ars Tax on Gambling some misgivings, 9 he Senate Finance Committee *~ has voted to levy a 10 per cent tax on gambling. ©¢ This tax already was in the revenue bill, as it passed tHe’ House. And the controversy it has provoked is all out of Proportion to its estimated value as a money-raiser. “s+ Of course, its main purpose is not to raise money, algh the estimated yield is $300 million to $400 million not a sum to be sneezed at, even in Washington.

s=The bill puts a 10 per cent tap on any kind of profes- \

sional betting—wagering on sports contests, horse races, and. even elections. It would apply to lotteries, including the notorious numbers racket. ° ...There are several arguments against this levy—one of the most popular being the difficulty of enforcement. The Internal Revenue Bureau, which would do the collecting, is said to oppose the tax on this ground. Another favorite argument is that putting a tax on illegal ghins tends to “countenance” the rackets. =

BUT THERE are two plain facts to be faced in appraising the tax on gambling. One is that gambling exists. It is big business, operating on a national scale, ag the Senate crime Investigation has shown. And the professional gamblers are not paying their taxes, as the Senate committee also has shown. : The question is whether they are any more likely to pay a 10 per cent tax, directed especially at them, than the income tax. We thirtk a special tax directed at gambling has this merit—it puts the gamblers directly on the spot to pay, and it puts the Internal Revenue Bureau directly on the spot to collect. : Perhaps, as some Congressmen have argued, this tax is a confession that we can’t lick the gambling racket, which - sponges billions of dollars off the public every year. But that confession already is tacit, So why not make the racket at least pay its just dues to the government?

Fewer Rich, Less Riches WHEN a Socialist defends the private profit system it is news. It happened at Blackpool, England, when Britain's “Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell, faced a sullen, skeptical Congress of Trades Unionists, to answer a demand for a “soak the rich” tax program. He said industry must have profits to finance itself. Take away any more of these profits, he declared, and you might kill the goose that lays the golden eggs for British labor. He squelched with cold statistics the clamor to increase the taxes on the Fieh $0 that taxes could be reduced for the poor. 5: Mr. Gaitskell said thers were not enough rich left in England to make such a plan feasible. He cited figures to show that even if the government reduced industry's dividends by as much as 25 per cent, it would provide only enough money to add 20 cents to the pay checks of those earning $18 a week. Since this demonstrated fact left little room for argument or further wishful thinking, Mr. Gaitskell bluntly told his audience of trades union delegates that if they wanted

higher wages they would have to work harder and produce more.

Which indicates a Better understanding of the funda-

-mentals of economy than the British Socialist had six years ago, when they took office holding to the theory that all of Britain's problems could be solved by the nationalization of industry

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. By Andrew Tolly

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How Long will Tass Anents Enjoy Complete Freedom In U.S?

NCRERPORTING TO THE EDITOR’ *F SAE ATTY a

Government Probe Of Agency Asked -

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7--

The Justice and State Departments yesterday were asked to check on “serious charges”

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not a bona fide news service and therefore should Be expelled from the congressional press galleries.

' The charges were made by the Washington Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in a letter to the standing” committee of correspondents in the press galleries of Congress. - After a four-hour meeting Wednesday night, the standing committee of correspondents issued a statement saying that until it heard from the JuStice and State Departments it would consider no further membership applications from Tass. . The standing committee's action climaxed a series of new moves in the campaign to free Associated Press Reporter William N. Oatis from his Czechoslovakian prison—moves which saw, demands in both the Sen-

ate and in the newspaper pro- 3

fession for reprisals against Iron Curtain correspondents. = n ” IN ITS letter to the standing committee, the ASNE Washington committee made two points in support of its proposal that press gallery privileges be denied Tass: ONE: . The so-called Tass news agency is not a bona fide news service, but is primarily a propaganda and intelligence agency of the Soviet government.

TWO: The employees of

' "Tass are agents of a foreign

governmerit, not’ newspaper correspondents, and therefore are not entitled to press gallery privileges under rules governing the congressional press galleries. The ASNE decision to ask this action, . the committee said, “has been prompted by a long history of mistreatment of American correspondents in Russia and other Communist countries. The most recent indignity was the satellite Czechoslovakian government's jailing of Associated Press corre-

spondent William N. Oatis,

ENGLAND—

U. S. Smiles On Change In Labor

By LUDWELL. DENNY WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 —The London government has been strengthened for its important Washington and Ottawa negotiations by its initial victory over the leftists at the British Trades Union Congress meeting. Foreign . Minister Herbert Morrison and Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell arrive in this country with this tangible evidence, that they, rather than the antiAmerican and anti-rearma-ment followers of Bevan, repthe British Labor majority. Since the Conservative Party also supports the North

- Atlantic Pact, the two Labor

Government ministers will speak with authority on such subjects here.

This is all the more important because the newly formed French coalition cabinet is a minority government. It is already in serious difficulties over the church-school and inflation issues, and may fall before the autumn series of Washington - Ottawa - Rome conferences is completed.

The British government is expected to win other showdowns with the Bevanites at the TUC convention this week, and to follow through with similag victories at the Labor Party annual conference next month, That of course does not assure the Labor, Government long life. There is a 50-50 chance of a British election in the late antumn. The Conservative Party is a favorite in the current public opinion polls. But a change of government in London would not endanger

the present British defense °

policy, unless the leftist Bevan captured the Labor Party or the Trades Union Congress or both. If Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and his associates Morrison and Gaitskell, continued to speak for Labor in its: role of opposition party under a Conservative government there would bg no paralysis of rearmament. Hence the significance of Mr. Bevan’s defeat in the first votes at the TUC meeting Wednesday. Mr. Gaitskell’'s surprisingly frank policy speech to the TUC will assure him a more sympathetic welcome at the Washington meetings and at the NATO economic conference in Ottawa opening Sept. 15. He committed his government to close Allied co-operation and to pushing preparedness. He disavowed quack Social ist panaceas, admitted that further soak-the-rich taxation

« and limitation of profits would

not help but hinder, and attacked restrictive practices of both capital and labor. He warned that present living standards could not be maintained -— much less raised — without r production.

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who was guilty of nothing ex-

cept trying to do a good job as a reporter. The remaining few - American correspondents now permitted to reside in Russia

“are denied freedom of travel,

are subject - to. police, Jsurveil-

" lance, and their dispatches are

censored, ” = = “THE principle of reciprocity is basic in international rela-

# tions, and the standing com-

mittee has an opportunity to make a start toward reciprocal treatment.” - The letter was signed by Walker Stone, editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance; John Henry of the: Washington Evening Star, and columnist David Lawrence. In its statement, the stand-

ing committee of cerrespondents declared that, “mindful of its responsibilities tq the highest concept of a free press, this committee intends to re‘view carefully and deliberately ‘all aspects and ‘implications of the issue.” It added that it was requesting replies from the Justice and State Departments, as to the basis of the ASNE charges, “at the earliest possible date.” 2 - » IN CONGRESS, meanwhile, Sen. Herbert R. O’Conor (D. Md.) had a resolution in the works asking that the Senate take identical action against Communist newspapermen. In addition to depriving Tass and other Iron Curtain

“reporters” of Capitol press

-gallery privileges, Sen. O'Con-*

or's resolution also would prohibit them from traveling in

"the United States except by .. special permission.

+", This prohibition is contained in the clause which states that Tass representatives and all other correspondents from Communist countries “be subjected to the same restrictions, as to numbers, limitation of travel, etc., as are placed upon United States newsmen behind the Iron Curtain.” Since United States correspondents in Russia, for instance, are not permitted to travel outside Moscow, that would mean Iron Curtain correspondents stationed in

Such a realistic approach is here. :

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Hoosier Forum—-‘Youth Is OK’

. "lI do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

MR. EDITOR: Perhaps I have no reason to sound off on this gubject since I'm prejudiced, but I want to get in my two cents worth. Recently one of our Hoosiers over here received a Times from home and in it was the story of how the Army was being forced to double its MP force in Naptown due to local girls not leaving the soldiers alone after dark. That would be humorous if it weren't so disgusting. No one will ever convince me that any Indianapolis girl has to trap a male in order to get attention to herself. Least of all, a “dog face.” aS SS I AM extremely proud of our Hoosier girls and for good reason. Why, most of them can be prettier by accident than girls from another state can on purpose. Oh, granted, we have our-misfits, but who doesn’t? Books, movies, articles and stories are constantly being thrown in the face of the public as to whom is to blame. As far as I am concerned, it is the parents’ fault most of the time. x Look at the picture. In Illinois and Indiana, teen-agers caught in sex orgies and what do the parents say about it? Not much, because they had not; taken the time to see the changes going on in their kids. There's nothing wrong with these kids. I know, because I've seen too many of them fight over here. They are regular demons in a fire fight and they're a sharp bunch of boys whenever in a rest area. Always clean, etc. bb SO WHAT'S the answer? Take some interest in them. Let them know you are interested In them and do care about them. All they want is a little understanding. Might as well do it right now because they'll be the. ones running the country tomorrow. . In closing, let me say three oor for the American youth, and if the soldiers can’t fight off our girls, let them stay out of Naptown. —Cpl. Don Guard, Korea.

‘Dog Troubles’ MR.'EDITOR: Can the dog. pound wagon stop and come into a person’s yard and take a dog? We pay tax on our dog, we keep him in the yard although we have no fence. He is trained to stay in. We have a collar and tags on him. But the

SIDE GLANCES

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dog wagon was out in our neighborhood Tuesday, Aug. 28, and the man said they could come into the yard and take a dog unless it was on a leash. Isn't your yard your own private property like your home? Can they do that? If so, why buy dog tags? —Rocky Ripple Resident EDITOR'S NOTE: If the dog catcher saw your dog leave your property by itself and then later go back onto your property again he can enter your yard and take your dog under the quarantine laws of the county. But, if he has no proof that your dog left your property alone he cannot enter your yard and take the dog.

‘Somebody’s Nuts’ MR. EDITOR: What kind of people do we have in this city anyway? First they want adequate police protection, then, when an officer does what he thinks is right, fires a warning shot which is not heeded, and then fires at the fellow who won't stop, he's wrong. Nuts. How does the policeman know who s running from him? Maybe he should sit down and say “pretty please, I'll give you some sugar if. you'll just stop.” " And for the man who wrote “you are not guilty until proved,” I'd like to see you in pussuit of a man in the early morning hours who had heen driving recklessly, who jumped out and ran. I suppose you would shrug. your shoulders and let him go. Then we'd have all kinds of crimes, and we have enough now without getting soft. Would you like to take a chance at getting shot for 250 a month? ~—Jas. T. Dawson, Woodland Dr.

MY LOVE

WITHOUT love you are without joy . . . a ship without a sail , . . and without love you may succeed . .. but actually fail . . . without the warm embrace and kiss.. . . of someone who loves you . . . life's a cold and empty space .'. . where dreams never come true . . . but with love you can be a king... . even in tattered clothes . . . and you can- know the bliss of life . . . the beauty of a rose . . . and so to gain real happiness . . . a true love must be found . . . for it is love, and love alone . .. that makes the world go ’round. + -=By Ben Burroughs.

DEAR BOSS .

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7— Justice William O. Douglas, falling off a Tibetan yak and yelling for the U, 8. A. to rec-

ognize Red China right now, has caused no end of head-

wagging here in “What has happened to the U. 8S. Supreme Court.”

Critical comments have not, however, been confined to the Buffalo Bill hat Jricks that Justice Douglas performs when off the bench. Some poisoned arrows of criticism recently have been shot in the general - direction of the court and several aimed directly at Indiana's own Justice Sherman Minton.

MOST recen: attack . was written by Eugene Gressman, former law clerk for the late

author of an outstanding textbook on procedure and now a practicing attorney here. The Gressman critique appears in the Sept. 3 issue of

! four pages, under the title “The Tragedy The Supreme

the idea

Justice Frank Murphy, co-

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Washington could not leave

this city, and those stationed

in New York could not travel outside that city. oe THERE en other significant developments as the campaign to free the imprisoned American reporter gained new impetus. Chief" of these was a letter from President Truman to Rep. John 'V, Beamer, Indiana Republican, in reply to Mr. B#amer’'s appeal to the Chief Executive to act in the Oatis Case “before it is too late.” Mr, Truman told the Indiana Congressman that “we are doing what we can to stop Czech trade and communications with the West.” In that

Hope to Ban Group From House, Senate

phrase, the President seemed to indicate the administration finally had committed itself to imposing an embargo on trade between Czechoslovakia and the United States and on banning Czech commercial air plane flights into occupied territory in.Germany. The President, it was noted did not say merely that the administration was considering these moves—as has been said previously—but that it ‘haa started taking action to ‘put them into effect. Across town, the State Department was in step with a new statement which accused a Czech “kangaroo court” of having used “trickery” to conviet: Mr. Oatis.

” ” ”

THE Czech prosecution, said -

the State Department, built up a phony story about a “secret telephone line” in Mr. Oatis’ Prague office as evidence of attempts to prevent wire tapping by Czech police. . The telephone in question, the department said, was listed in the Prague telephone directory under the name of Jan Knetl, who shared an office with the Associated , Press, “The Communists made it appear criminal for the Associated Press to use this telephone, although this name (Jan Knetl) was written in large letters on the door to the office » the ‘department statement said. In the House, meanwhile two Congressmen said they would offer resolutions de‘signed to put added pressure on the Czechs. Rep. Usher L. Burdick (R. N. D.), said he would ask the House to approve a resolution calling for United States withdrawal from the general agreement on trade and tariffs— known as’ GATT—in order to leave the way clear for the breaking of trade relations with Czechoslovakia. A resolution similar to Sen. O'Conor’s was promised inthe House by Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. N. Y.), who said he would introduce a resolution to ban Tass and other Iron Curtain newsmen from the House press gallery when the House reconvened Sept. 12.

PARTY LINE . . . By Frederick Woltman

Is Little, Brown & Co. In Business for Reds?

NEW YORK, Sept. 7—The mystery of Little, Brown & Co., which for some years now has baffled the publishing industry as well as literary and informed antiCommunist circles, is solved in part by the forthcoming

issue of Counterattack, weekly newsletter of Facts to Combat Communism. It's the story of a publishing firm, one of America’s oldest and most conservative, that suddenly started to plug authors sympathetic to communism and manuscripts right up the Communist line. Strongly anti-Nazi during World War II, the firm published Douglas Miller's “You Can't Do Business With Hitler.” “But now,” says Counterattack, “Little Brown evidently believes you can do business with Stalin . .. or at least with his U. 8S. agents and their fellow travelers and front supporters.” ”

yy THE newsletter, then pro-ceeds.-to discuss 31 Little, Brown authors of recent years, all of them tied up with the Communist movements or Commie fronts. Eleven of them are admitted Communist Party members or

' have been identified as such.

They include Richard O. Boyer; Howard Fast (“The greatest living American novelist,” according to the Soviet press); Albert E. Kahn, Daily Worker writer; Albert Maltz, one of the Hollywood Ten; Anna Seghers, the German Communist; Sean O'Casey and Abraham Polonsky; Anna Louise Strong, admirer of Soviet Russia; Prof. Dirk J. Strulk of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ella Winter, wife of screen writer Donald Ogden Stewart. Other Little, Brown authors

. By Dan Kidney

- Instead, the court majority opinions are ‘slowly reading into the Consiitution anti-liberation attitudes that threaten the very foundation of free society,” the author says. s u o A PRINCIPAL cause is accepting the Justice Felix Frankfurter doctrine that the Congress must be upheld, despite the effect on the individval or the guarantees of the bill of rights Mr. Gressman

“maintains, He also attributes

“New Republic.” It takes up

much of what he considers the court's loss of interest in protecting civil rights to the Truman appointees.

_ “Where once Frank Murphy

and Wiley Rutledge invoked the wrath of constitntional condemnation on governmental efforts fo punish the exercise of guaranteed freedoms,” Mr. Gressman writes, “Tom Clark and Sherman Minton now sit in acquiescent silence...” Even rougher treatment for President Truman's appotatments to the Supreme Court

meted out by Yale Law

are George Seldes, editor of the now-defunet Commie-line newsletter, “In Fact,” Andrew Roth, associate of Philip Jaffe in the Amerasia case; Owen Lattimore; Lillian Hellman, perennial CP-fronter; Carey McWilliams; Stefan Heym; Michael Sayers; Allan Chase and Israel Epstein, Daily Worker writer and party's Jefferson School.

= = s IN OFFERING a clue to the mystery of Litle, Brown, Counterattack discloses that its advertising and promotion manager is Edwin Seaver, who joined the firm in 1948. Once book reviewer for the Daily

Worker and managing editor’

of Soviet Russia Today, he has a Communist record that goes back 20 years. More important is the pub lishing house's editor-in-chief director and vice president, Angus Cameron. Never an avowed CP member, Mr. Cameron has supported a number of party causes in recent years. He was treasurer of the Wal. lace-for-President committee; backer of the CP's Civil Rights Congress which supplied the bail for the fugitive Reds. Among many other front activities, he spoke in behalf of his Communist author, Howard Fast, at a rally staged by party magazine, Masses and Mainstream,

Barbs

THE game of getting all the meat you want is a gamble— and the steaks are too darn high!

Supreme Court a -Tragedy'?—

Fred M. Vinson has led the court to decline consideration of important issues of the times, reduced the .work-load and permitted sloppy opinions until the court “has branded itself as incompetent, indolent, irresponsible.” The chief justice and Associate Justices Harold H. Burton, Tom C. Clark and Minton are the Truman appointed members. When the latter two suc: ceeded the late Justices Murphy and. Rutledge “the caliber of the court fell more precipi-

tously than at any single point - -

in its history,” Prof. Rodell wrote. a 2s CITING THE background of all four of the Trumanites, he had this to say about the former Democratic Sen ator from Indiana—

“Minton, like Burton, was

once a col of Truman's

in the Senate; later, like Vin-

son, he was an inconspicuous federal judge. His work on the ‘Supreme Court, as it was for ie doe Tet: ‘has been sloppy,

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