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eam Te ane ae STE trad are rate ng eer biter 8 rs seme SRS On ane ay OEE EE ae ie Serge nage gy ! * ‘7 Lasky ‘and esti Btehce of Rep, hee A prevented the Tiedt ’ Hiss invest ies od. from collapsing under the pres at higher-ups who were try. ‘Ing to save @ thaltor's hide, . ok Pepper, bet ratches Editor “gAnd Distoo bers a Tartar ANDOM " NOTES: Martin Andersen, - editor and publisher of the Orlando | I q + Fim) Morning Sentinel, replied to an at- : & tack by Sen, Claude Pepper in this vein ete “You, can hever tell when or wheré . slghtning is going to strike next. In thig ! ; Great and plorious America which Chris - Baton’ d Claude Pepper discovered _ in 1492, you go to bed a poor, unknown | TMeditor and. wake up famous. We frankly Estate we are not entitled to the glory ‘*, heaped upon ils because we must confess eM we are nat running for the U.S. Senate. “3 We have it on the highest authority that 3 ip Rep. George Smathers, the ex-Marine, is , ‘the candidate—and is proving well able to a take care of himself. spe “Maybe that’s why Claude Pepper is aia ttkin® on a pore little ole paper editor.” a Congratulations are due Wayne Coy, wn chairman of the Federal C&mmunica- ‘* tions Commission, for demanding that “ ae radio and television clean up their ee shows and get rid of dirty jokes... os The publi¢ is not taking to the lvery : Y utable humor of some “comedians” who ayell “censorship” whenever a network tries to remove objectionable material Strom their serlpts, > iy Sen, Hubert itumphrey of Minnésote, {hational chairman of Americans for Dem- vt cratic Action, fs accusing the Byrd Com- “mittee on Nonessentlal, Federal Expen- ‘ditures of spending ‘i ‘tore than $100,000 pn its activities,..«4. This is “wanton fWaste and extravagance, " says Hum. | rey. ane The Byrd commitie has is w federal expenditures can be Cut, by aoverat billions but the Sen. Hum- T seem to be Interest” In phys sums lke; that. » ns a a Sen Plan, wrote Paul’ Hoffman, ECA ‘admin- istratar, of the need “to put, our éountry first in our consideration.” Careful, Sen- ator. Drop i in Theome Toxes Will Increasp Deficit. HE MARCH 15 income-tax returns |: indicate a Yrop in revenue. and the * povernment deficit for the year ending June 30 may exceed $6, billion... . Fi- nances of the government are fn a bad way and promise to get worse... | Soooh; even though price suppofts for the peanut growers cost the tax- - payers $38 million last year and Former Secretary. of Agriculture Clinton Ander- - son is authority for the statement that the country now has a 50 per cent over- production of peanuts, Congress, with the approval of President Truman, hae increased peanut planting by ancther 100,000 acres with prices guaranteed by " the government, a * The same act provides that cotton planters, with assurance of price supports, can sow another 1,200,000 acres, although . Arthur Vandenberg, Wnaples for gi congressional survey’ of fu} robe's requirements beyond ‘the Marshall | . . we are sé enlightened now that |' {t's considered unfastflonable to talk in |! _ terms of self-interest. the crop is already too plentiful. ... | Real patriots, those congressmen, ae. OF ‘EN, Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu- |. setts would “modernize the GOP” . He gives thé specificatforis in the cutrent {issue of the Atlantic Monthly... . He | concludes his article by saying that ‘The Republicans should not depend upon ad- j ' | ministration shortcomings for success. We must press our own program—bold, | different, practical, and constructive.” That, my dear Senator, we will have! fo see. . ee JOHN 8, EaeAT 7