| Show Views of the Press It is said by one who claims to be fully informed that British India is willing to help Great Britain in the present war war- if Great Britain will agree to free British India at the close of the war We wonder j just jus U s t what measure of freedom British India India India In In- dia would expect to enjoy if Germany or Japan or both of them together should obtain control control con control con con- of the great peninsula In Inless Inless Inless less than a generation Britain has enlarged the liberties of Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land and Canada and South Africa and Australia and New Zealand but who can recall the name name of a single dependent country that was ever freed by Germany or Japan It would be bean bean bean an odd thing to see some country country country coun coun- try j joining ining Hitler and the mikado mikado mikado mika mika- do in the hope of winning whining its freedom Dally Dai Daily y Oklahoman One Henry Hoke publisher of the Reporter of ot Direct Mail Mail Mail-Ad- Ad Advertising Advertising Ad- Ad is disturbed because he says congressmen have lent the use of f their franks to subversive subversive subversive sub sub- groups Tons of postage free matter he declares have gone through our mails in the interests of nazi fascist and communist communist com corn propaganda He demands that this abuse of the frank be stopped Mr Hokes Hoke's charges should be Investigated ted We do not want foreign propaganda flooding our mails under frank fran or otherwise and we do not want the frankIng franking frank frank- ing privilege abused by congressmen congress congress- men even for worthy causes It is time for congress which is not too busy these days despite the present crisis to do something something something some some- thing constructive about the frank The present law governing governing govern govern- ing it is subject to various int in interpretations in t and there is no penalty for violation The la law 1 J J I 1 J should be changed so that the use of the frank is confined to personal correspondence and to documents to a members member's own constituents prepared for mailing mailing malling mail mail- ing in the members member's own of of- flees Even that w would 0 u 1 d b be e a minimum change A better solution solution solution tion of 01 the problem would be to abolish the frank entirely and substitute for it a postage al al- al lowance The idea that quantities of franked matter should be delivered delivered ered in New York under frank of a member from Montana is absurd The idea that a member should furnish envelopes to an organization for the dissemination tion of that organizations organization's views is contrary to the spirit if not the letter of the law l Milwaukee kee ltee Journal Some months ago an official of the New York Times fired his secretary because she was en engaged engaged engaged en- en in communistic enter enter- But the federal labor relations board speedily ordered the offending lady reinstated Yesterday Secretary Perkins of the cabinet ordered the suspension suspension suspension sion of Mrs Helen Miller of the labor department on the charge that Mrs Miller has communistic tic connections What can be said of the consistency of a government government government gov gov- that forces private business to do what the government government govern govern- ment meat itself refuses to do Or what can be said of the patriotism patriotism patri patri- of a government that forces private business to give employment to a sworn enemy of the country And just how can one reconcile the patriotic action of the government in the case of Mrs Miller with its contemptible contemptible contemptible con con- action in th the case of the New York Times secretary Daily Oklahoman man i j |
