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Show WESTBROOK PEGLER Why Prosecute Thomas? '"pHE vigor of the department of justice in prosecuting Congressman Congress-man Parnell Thomas, the chairman of the committee on un-American activities, is a dramatic reproach to the same bureau when we consider the attorney general's iron apathy toward the traitorous conspirators exposed by the Thomas committee. At worst, if he be guilty, Thomas filched a few thousand dollars and t x ft 1 : P jk S . r i i . ia inai unuer a logical, it rather daring, extension of the common practice prac-tice of nepotism on Capitol Hill. On the other hand, dozens doz-ens of individuals, planted in secret recesses re-cesses of the government, gov-ernment, werestout-Iv werestout-Iv accused bv stand- few days ago Tom Clark, the attorney at-torney general, and Mrs. Clark, were photographed in happy social doings at the Soviet embassy. Thomas is charged with defrauding defraud-ing the government by kick-backs from real persons who were fictitious ficti-tious employees. He is a rotund hick of a vanishing American ta whose social errors in the examf tion of witnesses were the honKT patriotic blurts of the typical main street insurance man, druggist or service stationist. IT WAS NOT BY HIS DOING THAT CONGRESSIONAL PROCEDURE PRO-CEDURE WAIVED THE TRICKY LEGALISTIC TANGLES OF THE COURTS. This method of getting information informa-tion was there when Thomas became be-came chairman of the committee, established, tested, and vindicated long ago. He just made use of it and the gruesome fact is that for all his ' prejudice against traitors and ! spies, he is no less judicial and fair than many of the fully articled judges of the federal courts now j sitting. ud witnesses of be-PEGLER be-PEGLER traying the United States to the Russian enemy. The department of justice has ignored these cases. Even Russian aliens implicated in the same band of conspirators j have not been molested. And a |