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Capital News Capsules

Those inhospitable Swedes?-The Swedes claim they were merely carrying out Senator Thomas's own request when they failed to roll out the royal carpet for him. The junketing Senators sent word from Oslo that when they got to Stock holm they wanted to rest, didn't want to be burdened with heavy program. Senator Thomas of Okla homa wired this ahead to the Am erican Embassy in Stockholm, which in turn, advised the Swedes to lay off.
 Phil and Harry-CIO President Phil Murray, who won a first-class contract for the steelworkers, with out keeping them off the job over four months-as did John L. Lewis got a big pat-on-the-back from President Truman last, week.
 You conducted yourself like a statesman, Phil,' said Truman, and the nation in indebted to you. Also, you didn't depend upon the gov ernment to carry the ball for you, like some labor leadefs I could mention. You won the steel strike yourself, fairly and squarely."
 Inefficient spying-U. s. military leaders aren't happy about the cen tral intelligence agency. They com- plain that CHA agents have been picking up trivial gossip and even Soviet in form a ti o n deliberately planted by the Kremlin. This is passed on without proper evalu- ation. Nothing is done, the brass hats grumble, because CHA hides its inefficiency behind an iron cur tain of secrecy Maybe the CHA should take a few tips from J. Ed gar Hoover.
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THESE DAY s
 B Y GEORGE E.. SOKOLSKY
MERCILESs INTRUSION

The sway of a public swain and his lass is paved with many ob- stacles: photographers. reporters, newsreels, radio and television. Ro- nance is theatrical and synthetic in a public square, with the lovers posing for a picture, perhaps to be taken over and over again. Give her another kiss" shouts the pho- tographers!
 There are some who like all this attention to their privacies, and then again there are others to whom it is vilely abhorent. Ap- parently Sloan Simpson, whom Mayor William O'Dwyer is account ing, dislikes the sort of publicity
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some S4O.O00 held in escrow by the Federal Housing Administration
 Later, when Brunetti started a huge apartment project in May wood, N. J., the Congressman wrote him a letter and was rewarded with the insurance on Brunettrs business.
 The Congressman also used a neat scheme for printing stationery for his insurance firm. It was done by the Government Printing Of flee, paid for out of his Congress sional stationery allowance. Christ mas cards for the firm of Thomas and Godfrey also were printed and paid for by Uncle Sam in the same way.
 Thus did the gentleman who posed as a great American Chair man of the American Activities Committee squeeze the dollars not only out of his office staff on sal ary kickbacks but out of the gov ernment at every turn.
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Army Gets Skentical

A few days later, Colonel Miller asked Kimmell to drop in to see him and seemed surprised that he was only IS years old, had no ex- perience as an investigator, in fact was merely student at New York University before entering the Army.
 .Skeptical. Colonel Miller tele- phoned Congressman Thomas's of flee, reported that Kimmel said he never met Thomas, had never work cd for the un-American activities Committee.
 To patch up these crossed wires, the Congressman immediately sent Ray Rockefeller, an investigator for the un-American Activities Commit tee. to see Colonel Miller. However Colonel Miller remained skeptlcal. He kept private Kimmel in Inter nal Security only Is days, but did not transfer him overseas. Instead, he was assigned to the Broadway Central hotel in New York-a tenn porary Army barracks-and later to Camp Blanding, Fla.
 Private Kimmel did not go over seas. His buddies did, many never to come back.
 Waiting a very scant time after performing this priceless favor, Congressman Thomas attempted to cash in on it. The Congressman also operates an insurance agency on the Thomas and Godfrey" -.so, on Sept. 30, 1943, he wrote letter to private Kimmel's father, introducing his insurance partner.
 This will introduce my partner, Spencer K. Godfrey" Thomas wrote to the father of the boy who had been saved from overseas duty. ". know that Godfrey can be helpful to you; at least, I would appreciate any courtesies which you may care to extend him."
 The letter got no results Godfrey sent it back to Thomas with a mo- tation scribhled across the bottom: This man refused to talk-said he doesn't know you"
 Later, however, Kimmel overcame his discretion. And when the Con- gressman who had kept his son out of combat duty came up for reel eotion, Kimmel contributed total of S350
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by the Federal Grand Jury at Anchorage on Oct. 14 At preliminary appearance Vukovich pleaded nno- cent
 Now just look at further evidence of the crime wave at the metropolis of Cook Inlet
 Trials thus far set to follow Vukovichs Albert verskin, attempted rape of infant; Harvey L. Carignan, first degree murder; Herbert Nicholson assault with intent to kill his brother.
 One of our sister cities deluged by rain the other n which the results of crime figures.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA Sy LEE

O. point the fork when cutting and oodi n mouth?
 downward while cutting the food should point as he mouth.
 O. a standing cocktail bar drink, it necessary he tip the bar man?
 A
 O. right bridegroom to hand the clergyman his  comes from bridegroom
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Kimmel, serial No. 3280l902. son Of the above Herman Kimmel, faced shipment overseas to combat duty. So Congressman Thomas telephoned the second service command in New York and informed them that young Kimmel was an undercover agent for the un-American Com mittee, therefore had to be kept close to the New York area. Ac- cordingly Col. c. E. Miller, Direc- tor of Personnel for the second ser vice command, transferred Kimmel from Camp Upton, N. Y, and as signed him as an investigator Of the Internal Security Division in New York
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LOOK and LEARN %sy c. GORDON

1. does the person walk in one day? many colors has the rainbow and what they? the the oath of office administ his father?
 must piece of furniture be before be cased as antique?
 ANSWERS:
 l. miles, red yellow, blue indigo, and violet 3. Calvin Coolidge. 4. A years old 5. feathers oily
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Here Are Questions
Detroit Free PreSs)

Detroit Free Press)
 Are we expected to go on forever protecting souno and third rate powers from vre peoples who rise up to take their places on the world stage? Are we to continue to finance Great Britain and France and ght their battles for them when they insist upon our haping our policies to serve their greed?
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Thomas's Insurance Racket

The above incident was not the cnly time the Congressman from New Jersey used his insurance firm to cash in on favors. For instance, Thomas helped Joseph J. Brunetti, a New Jersey contractor, recover
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for which a Hollywood star would
 pay. I know fine woman who all
 most hated her husband because
 Ia columnist published the forth coming birth of her first child eight months prior to the birth. She was ashamed and chagrined at the indelicacy of her mother learn ing of such an intimacy from the public press. It was, after all, her choice to determine whether her private life was to be lived in her home, among her family, or in a public strip-tease. All my sympath- ies are with Bill O'Dwyer and his lady-and I hope she marries him in spite of the photographers.
 Of course, there are all sorts of tastes, Vice-President Alben Barkley seems not to mind court ing in public, or if he does mind he takes 1t as one of the inevitable curses of greatness, along with making speeches and eating poorly prepared dinners at public ban quets. So he smiled his way through the ugliness of an exhibitionistic marriage and thanked the Lord that no one invaded his nuptial
 bedroom. That will probably come
 in its course, for in the competi-
 tion for something new to expose,
 there can be no limits to indecency
 Mayor O'Dwyer's phrase, "merci- less intrusion," is well-chosen and describes beyond error the unfort
 unate habit of glorifying the obnox-
 ious. I have yet to understand why
 there was such hubub about h.
 grid Bergman's publized episodes
 in Italy or Rita Hayworth's public
 romance with then married man
 Nothing offends this age, not even
 bad taste, to say nothing of Islamic morals. On the other hand, the an-
 nouncement of the premature birth
 of her child, perhaps even pre-
 maturely announced, with all the
 malevolent females sitting about
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counting on their fingers, is just cheap.
 It is often true that when morals decay, manners continue to persist, but when both morals and manners disappear, little is left of decency of thought or feeling or conduct. Man becomes beast. Maybe in a materialistic philosophy, nothing better is to be expected. Perhaps it can be said that our age is dis tinguished and unique for its infer iority. The glorification of the vul- gar, the elimination of privacy, the rejection of moral law and fine manners, is not something to jest about; it is rather something to worry about, for it obtrudes itself in every phase of life.
 A politician is one who under stands his time and adjusts to it. His greatest genius is sensitivity to his age. He used, in this country, to wear a frock coat, white waist coat, silk hat and a serious mien. The people expected a man in pub lie life to be serious-minded, to live respectfully, to set an exampl of probity honor, dignity. Of course. there were hypocrites, but the gen. eral tone was not deceptive The ideal was nobility of public con- duct.
 Today, our political men act cheap and curiously enough they think as they act. They are required to appear in public with a smile like Joe E. Browns. That is supposed to be Democracy. A candidate for public office apparently gets a makeup man to fix a pose which remains static during the cam paign. I intend to vote for the first man whose photograph looks as though he occasionally thought seriously about a s40,00O,0O 1000 budget; I am weary of the laugh ing hyenas who feel that to prove that they are of the Democracy, they must have this rigidly fixed, unchanging grin on their faces.
 And who invented that word, Weep, for the President? What an ugly word! It rhymes with peep and cheap. It sounds like a Weber and Fields pronunciation of weep. Maybe, that is what it is meant to be.
 Copyright, 1949, King Features Syndicate, Incl.
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Mehen sailed for Seattle, his to attend meeting the Hills Francisco
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N. commanding search of the missing ha had found of the Martin Middleton of the Seabird Pacific fkhseries Off Cape St Elias had pilot house, killed instantly when crushed against knocked The Unalga had picked Capt Wingham Island
 
 party composed of MT and Philip Jole left the Jazz for short
 
 Weather. High. 42: low 31: rain
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Boarding personally weknown establishment start renovated and each was to cold and steam heat
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third of affairs honoring Mrs Emil Gastonguay here given by Mrs L. Faulkner c. C. Whippe Tne in the Faulkner home
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20 YEARS AGO fMr {rG% EMPIRE
NOVEMBER 30. 1929

Richard E. safely to his base in after making the first flight the South pilot Bachen Bahen commander of the Squadron, USAF, a Richardson
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had born to Mir and Mrs R. L. Stewa1 Hospital The father the office of B. D. stewar Federal Mining Engineer.
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Brownie Troop No. 12 met at the Elks Hall Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 29. President Anne Grisham called the meeting to order with the pledge of allegiance to the flag and the Brownie pledge.
 We finished our Christmas pre- sents for our mothers. We are going to bring pictures for our scrap Look. When they are finished we are going to send them to the hos pital.
 JUDY RIM, Reporter.
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Brownie Troop News

Brownie Troop No. met in the Dugout Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 29 We have two new Brownies, Veronica Constantine and Patricia Ihle. We had lots of fun working on our plates, using nail polish. They look very pretty to hang in our rooms.
 SHIRLEY SNARING and
 ROSEMARY SUNDBORG.
 Reporters.
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Douglas their home at the former residence of Elmer Smitf renovoted improved
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The Washington 
By DREW PEARSON

Continued frcm Page One)
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MIRROR CAFE Now open Il am. to 3 am. 63-5t
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-29
by Bernie Asbel

fine peoples paper that it is.
Many readers of The Standard
have said they felt the need of
more national and international
news together with their infor-
nation on local campaigns. The
Guardian, with special Illinois
coverage added to its regular
material, will answer that need.
But the day must come soon
when Illinois progressives can
weld themselves strongly enough
together to support a vigorous
journal of their own with finan-
cial stability and broad, COM
plete news coverage. There is
no comparable weapon.
That day will come when pro-
gressives root themselves in the
city and state with strong po-
litical stability and broad COM
munity ties-with friends, neigh
bors and brothers in the shops.
That is the most wholesome
guarantee for forward looking
politics-and for forward look
ing journalism.
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lone wolf Dewey support in the
Illinois delegation at the Repub-
lican convention.
Dewey's loss looked like Dirk
sens loss. But now Dirksen is
about to be offered a good job
anyhow in Paul HOffman's ECA
setup. This time by Paul Hoff-
man.
%OOK County job holders
~ missed out on trip to
Washington for the Truman in
augural. Election fight for county
officers too hot to leave behind.
nROGRESSIVE-American La
Dor Congressman Vito Mar
cantinO was guest at a private
party in New York commence
rating one year since Henry
Wallace announced his presi-
dental candidacy.
Called upon for a few re-
marks, Marc referred to four
years from now when he fore
saw Henry Wallace sworn in
as President of the United
States-and yours truly as the
speaker of the House of Repre-
sentativeS."
You'll see on page one of this
issue that you will be getting
the National Guardian at your
home every week. 1t will take
the place of The Standard and
its misunderstanding this one.
Those who have been reading
the Guardian know it for the
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THE ILLINOIS STANDARD. JANUARY ~. 1870
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By Peter WilIioms

TALK THAT Marshall Field
readying a new morning Chica-
60 Sun. The new operation
would be a full-siZe eight
column rag like the original
Sun. Meanwhile, the Sun-Times
tabloid would continue on its
around-the-clock spin. If any
reader detects a method short of
madness in this blueprint, please
report it to this column prompt
ly.
This is the last column or
Pete turns out for you and he is
sad. This cOlumnist's only grippe
about the switch to the National
Guardian (see page cne) is that
if he wants to catch your eye
hereafter he'll have to take out
a want ad.
So before Mrs. Williams's son
Peter becomes the latest victim
Of the layoff wave, he wants to
show you sampling of a
dictionary he is compiling for
Chicagoans. Here is why you
should watch for it on your
newsstand:
STREETCAR NAMED CTA:
A scientific principle which
states that though the distance
between two points may be the
longest imaginable, SO is the
fare, so you break even in the
end. Leaves something to be de-
sired.
ALDERMAN: Man who owns
a real estate office, garbage
cans, a legal piece of Chicago
and rotating chair in City Hall.
Not to be confused with ward
committeeman who owns an
alderman.
SIDEWALK: A public enter
prise kept in good repair, where
possible, to receive citizens leap
ing from windows of homes on
fire. The latter are often in poor
repair, because they are private
enterprise and therefore outside
the field of public interests.
SALES TAX: Small daily con-
tributiOns restricted to those
who pure base manufactured
items, such as food. Purpose is
to relieve corporations from
need-of paying taxes, lest they
move elsewhere, thus leaving
the entire state unemployed and
we would have to pay = sales
tax to raise money for relief
checks.
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measure

than a dozen key lawmakers,
one by one, huddled with Carr
il earnest conversation.
One alderman slapped Cars
back when their confab was
over, and whispered in joviaI
humor: What are you trying to
do? Buy us Off"
Joke.
r HE bipartisan game pays off
! in more ways than one, for
those who like to play it.
Former Rep. Everett Dirksen,
of Pekin, Ill. was all set, come
election, for good job in Paul
Hoffman's ECA setup in Europe.
1t was to be repayment by Tom
Dewey for the cOngressman's
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At the last
C i t y council
meeting, E. G.
Carr, p h o n e
company spe-
C i a | contract
manager, S a t
in a reserved
seat just be-
hind the alder
m e n. M or e
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kindled by his statement in Kansas City on Dec.
~ when he expressed confidence that all out
standing differences with Russia could be resolved
and the cold war ended during his term of office.
Today, Pres. Truman shattered that hope.
Nothing has occurred since Dec. n to require a
change in the position the President then took,
except statements from Russian spokesman reit-
Grating their desire to find the basis for mutual
understanding. Today the President gave his
answer. 1t comes closer to a declaration of war
than the inaugural address any peace-t time Presi-
dent in our history. His statement that capitalism
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Political Pot S..
specializing on

NAIORTH specializing on is
:" whether Illinois Bell Tele-
phone is rounding up aldermen
to call off the dogs. The city cor
poration counsel has given the
phone company its strongest op-
position so far in hearings on the
rate boost. Illinois Bell is per-
spring even under this linn ed
measure
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this Interesting passage.
Chairman Germano stated that as a result
of our victory, some people may go to the
Democratic Party for patronage, using the name
of CLIO. The CLIO is not patronage seeking
ganization, but vitality interested in see
ing that organized labor is represented in GER
tain key places, can protect the interests
of the workers and seek further gains. 1t was
moved, seconded and carried that the Demo-
cratic Party be informed that if any patronage
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and communism cannot live together world makes
the only eventual alternative.
STEP TOWARD WAR
President Truman makes plain that effort will be made
to arrive at peaceful understanding with Russia for the settle
men of Instead he which will
evocaby split the world into two hostile
for He asks for treaty establishing North Atlantic Military
Alliance aimed at Russia and authority military
This would unbroken tradition of $50
against in peaceme military alliances outside OF the
is important Americans recognize
conflict for which the President asking the country
hundred fifty inhabitants of
the five hundred million Chinese people who about
and the millions in western Europe and Asia who adheent
of some form of Marxist socialism
mentioned in the Presidents address, convincing
that successfully fight ideas with Yet the
Presidents only is to call for more
BEHIND FINE WORDS
The President calls for bold for making the
able the improvement and growth of underdevoped
complete agreement Presidents
that the scientific advance preparing to give half
bomb. So long that help
underdevoped only take the form of thn
yelled imperialism of which great American
backward peoples of the world.
program which President Truman spells
amounts devoted to and
The American people will be called the cost of that
promised during election living
greater insecurity and the loss of basic freedoms
No statement by American leader has clearly
spelled eventual bankruptcy for nation.
Progressive Party insist that there alternative
the of the Of
America insist that the two systems of capitalism and
declare that it, believe American
demonstrate that superiority by giving to the people who
greater abundance freedom and security
NOT LATE YET
who love and attached to the pn
voices opposition to the fatal steps which
Truman has proposed 1t is not yet too late for con-
differences cold To protect
their security and freedom and guard world peace all
demand that this course be taken while time
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On Trumon's inaugural
By Henry Wallace

the earnest hope of the people of America and thu
President dedicate his admnsa
of understanding
a peace world. That hope
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/ < K 4
nTmes and Herald Ameri-
big play to barenders
400 spending Chca
Florida California 90 editors think anv iobess
n1no;s mn1ied i; +he $500 worker has fancy
hence given the story was the either Florida on
idea there's something $40 week obless benefits
about it. Fact is most of the 400
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ILLINOIS trade uniOn
fact Sen Scott Lucas 3D. HID is the Senate
In that post will for Pres Tru
mans program, including Taft Hartley repeal, Congress-
Lucas congressional
record In 1943 he voted
which FDR vetoed In 1916 antabor bill
and in 1947 he voted FOR the Taft-Hartley
x x
President Sodersrom of I'LL duced by H. Allison
nos Federation of Labor Measure would memorabilia
onal Congress
House Of upose u oooefstrom
them record in ro1 oa 80 St4
K <
\kfATCH for squabbes rightwng CLIO
w support for activities CIOPAC
Americans for Democratic
PAC Director in Milwaukee the
other day clay off" ADA activities despite JAW
President Reuther of the
<
AAORIS BALLS of Chicago Board MGWU
WI left this week
Worlds
has met since 1928.
eve want to learn from the ex
perence of clothing workers
experiences with them promoting
present. ne said will England
France, Belgium and the Scandinavian
many Poland Palestine they've stopped wearing
clothes?
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Looking at

By Rod HoImqren

1 a PPARENTLY leadership "meat
~ a'cOokin'
of Illinois Council executive
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STANDARD

is owned and published weekly by
The Illinois Progressive Publishing
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Sun-Times and Herald Ameri-
can gave big play to story some
400 persons spending winter days
in Florida and California are
drawing jobless benefits from
Illinois. Implied in the promi-
hence given the story was the
idea there's something wrong
about it. Fact is, most of the 400
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Entered as second class matter October 5,
1913, at the post office at Chicago, Illinois,
under the Act of March 8. 1879.
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to be awarded Go should
Council Offices"
other sn1 looking patronage, but
I there's around it properly
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are vacation-land workers
bartenders, walters, hotel work
erS and musicians. If the Chica-
go editors think any jobless
worker has a fancy time in
either Florida or California on
$40 week jobless benefits, we
suggest they try it some time.