The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-02

WAnuTNoToN Nov, A-One healthy thing aboat
 democracy h that it puts ls public servants under tees of Congress and the newspapermen of Washing- ton are their toes they can usually ferret out the things that are bed about Congressman, whne the good things shine out on their own like beacon light
 Thus the checking war.contrAct operations of Misslsslpps Senator Blbo the amazing war lobny- Ing of Kentuokys Congressman Mey the cotton spec ulation of senatof Elmer Thomass famiy-all Dem- ocrats-are now well known
 But one of demoCraCys difficulties b that an electorate frequently does not have time to scrutike a new candidate before he Is swept into office.
 Last week, for instance, this column called at- eno to the iess @ tha c0L & rs Frsc rsY so the Federal Government as Congressman, had not thought enough of his Federal Government to pay it taxes during leSo, lo40 and iAi.
 However, this column was reniss. It was not able at that time to dig up oil the facts Here are some more:
 Despite MT. Danner's three-year rebellion against paying his own taxes, he was quite eager to print income tax blanks for other people to pay theirs
 His printing office has just about finished printing 900 worth of Income tax blanks for the Federal Government.
 Mr. Danner also was able to get another nice contract from the Treasury Department despite his hesitation about paying 1t taxes Last year he printed million and half Illustrated war-bond promotion books which the Treasury sent out to school children in order to educate them about their Government its bonds and it's finances. Thus while loath to pay taxes, candidate Danner was not loath to profit from money raised through other peoples taxes.
 And here are some further Interesting facts about the Ohio candidate for Congress which the average voter hasn't time to investigate. When Danner ran in the COP. primaries, he listed Dorothy Keck as contributing S200. That Is e Azable gift-especially since Miss Keck ct that time was unemployed and had even gone to Uncle Sam to get $l7 week un- employment compensation.
 Danner also listed John Lebedoff as giving him S600-another sizabe contribution, especially since his family appeared so hard up that Mrs Lebedoff | at that time was drawing $l9 week unemployment compensation. Furthermore neither Lebedoff nor his wife, though supposedly strong for Danner that they gave him $500 took the trouble to vote for him. Danner also listed $25o from M 0. Pasder, s2So ! from Art Burns, and $2S0 from Fred J. Johnson Again these siSabe contributions Yet these three
 men who allegedy gave $750 between them didn't care | enough about Danner to 90 out and vote for him. Danner also listed $250 gift from Ted Turdyn It seems strange, however that MT. Furdyn should give this much money to a Republican, when the records show he voted the Democratic ticket | These facts naturally raise the question as to whether the above people really contributed the money Danner said they did were they just "cover-ups."
 (NOTE-Personally, this coumnist has nothing against MT. Danner merely reports the above an illustration of how Congressional candidates need to be scruniEed in every dstrict-before Election Day. not aferward If this column had the time to nvest- gate each candidate and state, 1t would gladly do