Show z OR W py Dandelions for Dinner STUBBY TUBBY vocal Congressman Ches- Ches Chester Chester 0 ter Gross of Pennsylvania joined the symphony of Truman accusers the other day denouncing as doublet dou ble talk t ble-t the Presidents President's attacks on congress for inaction on farm legislation legislation legis legis- lation and the high cost of living To prove his point Gross quoted a letter from a Lakeland Fla housewife housewife housewife house house- wife who had received a department department department depart depart- ment of agriculture cookbook with recipes for plen plentiful inexpensive foods I have been a housekeeper I for 52 years cars she wrote Gross but we just cannot eat grass along with soybeans and all the stuff the cookbook cookbook cookbook cook cook- book says is so grand and nourish nourish- ing Sure the department of agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture Is a crazy bunch I Z agree that she is exactly i right said Gross If U that is all that the New Deal has to offer af after after atter at- at ter 16 years of planning Is it any I Iwonder wonder that there is such a wave of righteous indignation rising all allover allover over o the land What the Pennsylvania Republican I forgot however was that recently r he commented as follows on the agriculture departments department's campaign for greater consumption of plentiful foods This time of year the body craves greens This is the time to buy asparagus no matter what the food experts tell us But up in York we dont don't have to buy asparagus until the price is right We go out in into o the fields and get dandelions mustard mustard mustard mus mus- tard greens and poke These are weeds the experts might say but we know they are good eating I Theres There's nothing better for a person in the spring than a nice mess of dandelions G. G I I. I Loan Frauds FAILURE OF SOl SOME U. U S. S district district district dis dis- dis- dis attorneys to prosecute cases of fraud against veterans finally has brought some abrupt action from the justice department Two cases are involved both in Temple Tex and both affecting so-called so prominent citizens Gordon Duncan of Duncan Homes and R R. M. M Newton secretary of the First Federal Savings and Loan as as- as Veterans' Veterans administration officials officials officials have reported to the justice department that veterans in Temple Temple Temple Tem Tem- testified they were contacted by a man named Wilson M. M Pressley Pressley Pressley Press- Press ley who suggested that he knew how to make some easy money They then were invited to get in touch with Gordon Duncan of the Duncan Home real estate office who In turn offered them to to sign the proper papers for fora a G. G I. I I loan on a home that Duncan Duncan Duncan Dun Dun- can was building Veterans' Veterans administration reported to the justice department that through some legalistic sleight sleight-of- of hand the title of the house was juggled around so that the v veteran teran got a fee and Duncan got the home In most cases veterans didn't even see the homes for which they re requested requested requested re- re quested G. G I I. I loans These loans were financed through R R. M. M Newton who according to the Veterans' Veterans administrations administration's report finagled government guarantees on the basis of false appraisals E. E C. C Berry Veterans Veterans' administration tion appraiser stated that he had completely reviewed the property described in this report inside and nd out But In each case Veterans' Veterans administration officials claim Berry had signed the reports without even seeing the property Believe it or not but Berry had been in Florida when 17 of the 36 30 appraisals were reported to have been made The justice department now has agreed greed with Veterans Veterans' administration about cleaning these fraud cases up Gag Rules in Congress THE BOTH SESSION of congress wont won't go down in history for d de devotion devotion de- de to the common man but it did set a new high for gagging fr free e and fair debate Most people have the idea that congress is is a deliberative body wl which ch carefully debates the laws of the nation before passing them This is largely true in the senate But in the house the Republican leadership has been imposing a series series series ser ser- ies of gag rules A gag rule Is an nn order by the rules committee that a bill cannot be changed or amended on the floor of ot congress It means that a handful of ot men in committee draft tho the bill bUl after which other representatives take the bill as Is They can only vote yes or no Some of the most Important pieces of legislation passed by congress at atthe atthe atthe the session were put through under a gag rule including every major bill reported out by the alII all all- I important ways and means commit commit- tee Czar Knutson chairman of this committee insisted on Imposing a 8 agag agag gag cag rule on his Wall street-inspired street tax reduction bill bUl also on his reciprocal tr trade de extension bill bUl Other Oth Oth- er congressmen not members of his committee had no chance to there bills They had to vote for or against them ns os drafted by Knutson and a small group on the ways WilYS and means weans committee |