St. Albans Daily Messenger from St. Albans, Vermont • 4

Florida Gambling Probed Boves Candidacy 7 1 BY PBEW PEARSON 1 WASHINGTON, Two Democratic senators in two widely sep arated areas appear to have widely divergent views on big campaign. contributions: No. 1 is serious-minded Senator Kefauver of Tennessee wbn today opens up a big probe of Florida gambling, including the third of a million dollars pumped Into the political kitty of Fuller Warren to elect him Governor of Florida. Warren is a Democrat and so is Kefauver, but the senator isnt letting that hamper the investigation. No.

2 is likable, silver-crested Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, chairman of a senate committee supposed to investigate big campaign contributions. When the easy-going Mr. Gillette is asked too many questions about his probe, he puts on his hat and walks away. So far this year more big money has been pumped into senatorial primaries than almost any other year in history, both by Democrats and Republicans. But Guy Gillette Just doesnt seem anxious to embarrass either party.

Down in MiamL Senator Kefauvers beginning to- I day, goes to the root of how the gambling rackets have become I political rackets. I havent talked to Kefauvers Investigators, but I have made a study of Florida gambling and here is the general picture he will find: Gambling in the lush winter sportingland of Florida has been dl-'I Tided among three gangs: A. The Old Capone mob under William H. Johnston of Chicago 7 and Jacksonville controls the dog races of the entire state. i B.

The S. and G. syndicate, a group of local businessmen, control 7 the bookmaking in Miami and Miami Beach. C. The New York Mob, under Mayer Lansky, an associate at Frankie COstello, operates In Broward County, north of Miami Beach.

In order to preserve the millions in profits raked in from these aieas, the gang the sheriffs of their local counties and even the Governor of Florida himself. In fact, when the Chicago gang told the S. and G. Syndicate to move over and let them In on part of the Miami bookmaking, the S. and G.

Syndicate immediately appealed to the man it had helped elect to office, Dade County. Sheriff Jimmy Sullivan. 4 and publicly stated opinion. In 'other words under Bove we the people would have an informed, outspoken leader at the helm of the affairs of state. There have been repeated rumors about behind-the-scenes deals in which Peter Bove allegedly has been involved, but we have never seen a shred of proof to support these assertions.

In the absence of this evidence, we prefer to respect the Peter Bove we have known the honest, hardhitting 'politician who has the general good of the people at heart. During the two Gibson administrations Peter Bove twice- served as the then Governors Secretary of Civil and Military fairs, once when the late Judge Willsie Brisbin was necessarily detained for an interim period in Burlington and again after Willsie Brisbins tragic death in 1948. Yes, Peter Bove has his faults, just as has any average man. But his freedom from any link to the private utility boys is clear beyond question. So, too, is his devotion t.o progressive moves as they have been developed in Montpelier during the last two legislative sessions.

During the 1949 biennium he was the chief pilot of much of the reform legislation advocated by the Governor; and he may rightfully gain satisfaction from the knowledge that his contribution to the cause of sound, liberal legislation is far from small. Each of the three candidates, for the world and that it would take Russia many years to produce it, so why bother about the H-Bomb. It was only when the news was received that Russia had exploded the A-bomb, plus the discovery that Fuchs had probably handed Moscow information on the H-bonjb, that the President gave the order to go ahead with the H-bomb. Thi-was five years later. Laurence calculates that it will take three years to produce the H-Bomb, which means that W'e will not have it until 1953.

The Russians may have been working on it since 1945 and their work may be nearing completion. How can administration leaders explain this gross negligence? What was David Lilienthal and his Atomic Energy Commission doing all this time? Negligence in minor matters can be condoned, but not when it involves the possible destruction of a nation. President Truman has now taken a wise stand reversing his past policy of surrender in the Far East. Let us hope that he will hold to this stand unwaveringly gubernatorial nomination is still to be heard as the primary campaign gets into full swing. But from this position, at this early stage in developments, it would seem that Peter A.

Bove will prove himself to be the logical man to succeed to the Gibson position now temporarily held by Gov. Harold Arthur. Peter A. Bove of Rutiand is reported to be gaining strong headway in his fight to win the Republican nomination for Governor. Peter, like most folks, is a man who has made his mistakes.

But his errors, again like many of the mistakes any average man will make, are far outweighed by his attributes. No paper in Vermont has attacked Peter Bove as has this paper. His handling of private club regulations made Peter Bove, the Vermont Liquor Board chief, widely unpopular in this area. His methods, in that one instance, were steeped in impetuosity, steeled with the hot determination of a bull on a rampage, and grievous in their effects upon the prestige of the Gibson Administration, For all of that, there is no denying the fact that Peter Bove has done an excellent over-all job as head of the liquor board. He has brought a new business sense to te biggest business in the state; he has forged modern methods to replace old-fashioned practices which should have been eliminated by his predecessors.

Best of all, his feud with the clubs has taught him a valuable lesson in tact and the powers of persuasion. is little, that is new in this evaluation of the Bove regime. We have said most of the same things in this column before. While we have deplored his at times highhanded and inconsiderate methods, the final results have far outweighed some of the Bove tactics. For almost nine years we have admired Peter Bove for his sincerity of purpose, his devotion to the liberal movement in Vermont, and his earnest efforts for good government.

Residents of this area will be impressed by one recent sample of the steadfast Bove adherence to what he believes to be the right. On Thursday, in a speech at Newport, lie made a strong frontal attack on Gov. Harold Arthur for the Chief Executives failure to provide the decisive leadership which any competent governor would display to bring about the construction of the health laboratory in Burlington. In thus throwing his support behind the laboratory project authorized by the last Legislature, Peter Bove ran counter to strong anti-BUrlington sentiment in his home city of Rutland. But and this is characteristic of Bove he said what he thought was right, and he is content to let public sentiment judge him for his honest opinion on an important public issue.

Surely the almost total absence of such an attitude in the Governors office today, while Governor Arthur steadfastly st'cks to the policy of saying nothing about anything, is reason to believe that Bove as Governor would restore to the State House tin technique of executive examination, decision ON THE RECORD TKe Chess Game By DOROTHY THOMPSON Whereupon, the Chicago gang also fell back on the man it had helped elect to office, Gov. Fuller Warren. Dog-racer William developed, had contributed the amazing amount of $154,000 to Warrens primary campaign, despite the fact that it was against the law at that time to contribute more than $5,000 per person. After Warren was elected to office, of course, he got the law changed. Another $154,000 was given and loaned to Warren by Louis I Wolfson of Jacksonville, also in violation of the $5,000 limit.

I Governor Warren has now found himself betwixt and between in I the war of gamblers, and the Kefauver Crime Committee wants to find out what the gamblers get in return for their stupendous cam- 1 paign gifts. (j Meanwhile, in another part of the U. other sizable campaign gifts have been revealed in the good old Republican State of Pennsyl- vanla. This time gamblers were not the contributors, but big manufacturers. Joe Grundy, the famed GOP.

high-tariff advocate, contributed $94,000 to the Jay Cooke-John Kunkel campaign in Pennsylvania to defeat Governor Jim Duff, also Republican. Mason Owlett put up loaned another $45,000, while his wife gave $3,000. W. T. Wright also loaned $156,135 to the Kunkel-Cooke Committee.

But in Washington, Senator Gillette did not seem much interested in these big contributions. He sent Fielding Wright, son of the Mississippi Dixiecrat Governor, to Pennsylvania to probe the big dough shelled out by the manufacturers, but it was learned that Wright chiefly paid a social call on the Pennsylvania eecretary of state. a. cannot defend with Its own forces every spot on the globe. Yet here is hardly a spot where he Soviets cannot attack with partisans, and without directly involving themselves.

While they arm their friends, we disarm ours, thus taking upon our own bodies responsibility for their defense. If the Russians were poker players, we mifct outwit them. But they are chess players. And chess is a long game, in which not lucky draws, but cool and brainy calculations, determines the outcome. Itself, not against Russia, as such, but against the standard pattern of Russian aggression: Civil War.

Up to the time this column is written. Western Germans have had to watch battalions of that civil war forming in the East while the Western allies continued to prohibit a corresponding police force for the West, and Western Germans are barred from the Common Defense of the Atlantic Treaty. The United States obviously Abundant Living S' VC' Asked what young Wright had done in Pennsylvania, Gillette said i he didnt know. Arent you the chairman? the senator was asked. "Of course, but I dont keep track of every detail," said Gillette, 1 and reached for his hat.

1 1 As a matter of fact, the senator was reminded, all Fielding 1 Wright did in Pennsylvania was to pick up the information that was available in the Secretary of State's office. You could have gotten just as much by writing a letter. No, he got more information than that, Insisted Gillette. I Isn't it true that Wright really spends most of his time in the office of Senator Stennis of Mississippi rather than being out la the field investigating campaign expenditures? This time the Senator not only got his hat, but ducked through the door and began walking rapidly down the corridor of the Senate Office Building. The Senator, explained his assistant, has to meet some Boy Scouts." That, perhaps, explains the type of handshaking likable Guy Gillette prefers at at time when as much as $1,500,000 has been spent In one primary to elect a man to a job paying only $12,500.

By X. STANLEY JONES Other Peoples Opinion 1 't WASHINGTON COLUMN 50 Senate Race Shunned BY PETER EDSON 4 The first reaction of the Paris Communist newspaper to the Korean events was apparently the editors own interpretation, because it occurred while the Kremlin was silent. Nevertheless, it may have significance. Hurhanite predicted a repetition of the Spanish civil war on Korean territory, a long internal conflict which would all the frreat po-eventually draw Intervention by wers. Despite the re' marks of Gromyko which would seem to indicate that the Kremlin will not extend the conflict, Soviet policy is in-scrutable.

But it is unlikely that the Soviets intend to use Korea to pet off a world war at this time. Korea, from their viewpoint, is an excellent place to dissipate the (energies of the West, while reserving the energies of the sSoviets. It is hardly possible to conceive terrain more difficult to defend (against a carefully planned, well-armed offensive with all the advantages deriving from surprise attack. Previous to the aggression. the Soviets well knew, Korea (was almost the only spot in Asia (over hich the American State and Defense Departments, otherwise at loggerheads, were in agreement.

I The State Department, animat-led by traditional American anti-(hnperialism (and apparently bit-(ten by the historically absurd notion that imperialism is a purely 'Western vice) has maintained (that Asians must work out their political fate, receiving from ithe West only economic aid, while ieven'to insure that this was pro-Iperly administered was interpret-ied a imperialist interference mot by the Russians but by our own State Department vide the fate of General Wedemeyers proposals. The Defense Department, unconcerned about psychological and ideological questions, and having learned many lessons from the last war, has concentrated on protected the security of this country, as a Pacific power. Out of this duality the Russians have drawn rich propaganda material and great tactical victories, through their withdrawals (leaving well-organized partisan armies In their place) follow-leaving only vacuums behind ed by American withdrawals, them. But on one place State and Defense were in agreement. In 1949 the Defense Department persuaded the President that in case of general war Korea was Indefensible.

And it is precisely there that we have been called out to fight. I John 4:4 Rom. 6:2, 1123 THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND MORAL TENSION If the Kingdom of God is within us, then where is the necessity for the tensions that should be set up between the Kingdom and ourselves, leading to crisis and repentance and the new birth? Doesnt this Kingdom-within-you emphasis flatten out those tensions, and do away with the crisis? On the contrary, this Kingdcun-within-you emphasis heightens those tensions and leads more definitely to crisis, for now we see that we are in revolt against God and ourselves. I find I obtain twice the response for repentance and conversion from this appeal that I do under the appeal that man is naturally sinful, and cannot do a thing qout it unless God sovereignly rescue him. The emphasis that man is naturally sinful not only flattens out tensions it flattens out the self.

For if man is naturally sinful wThy fight against nature? It will be a losing battle anyway. That hope, and, consequently, the will. Often In India I have seen a man excuse his sin by saying, I am a man. Well, if he is a man, that is one of the most potent reasons for his not sinning: for when a roan sins he leels le than a man, out of harmony with himelf, with Gcd, with his fellow man even Nature drapes herself in mourning. But when a man does right, does he feel less than a man? He feels his personality heightened, he is at home in the universe; he is universalized; he walks the earth a conqueror.

Therefore is native to us, and sin is unnatural, an aberration, a deflection, a defeat, a degradation. It is the accustomed, but not the natural. It Is no more natural than a cancer Is natural, than sand In the eye is natural. The view that man is naturally sinful led to these lines: When at Swanick had quit It, A young man said, Now I have hit it. Since I cannot do right, -t I must find out tonight What sin to commit, and commit it! God, I do set up a tension between myself and my sin.

In Thy name I revolt against it, repudiate it, break with it forever. I accept my native land Thyself Thy Kingdom. Here I am at home, free and at my best. I thank Thee. Amen.

Pres of New York and Nashville. Co-published by Abingdon Cokesbury (From the boo -Abundant Living," Dyrfght. Released by NEA Service.) From Other Papers BOLDING FRIENDSHIP Vermont this year is again the scene of a number of movements and experiments in building international and inter-racial friendship and under-stnding. It is not surprising that a state whose people have so long a record of liberalism and tolerance should welcome this kind of thing buc it is encouraging to note that the trend is continuing and that we are fully sharing in the growth of worldwide efforts toward beter understanding. Entertaining individual members of other races, faiths and nations, holding conferences and nations, holding conferences and camp where those of many different backgrounds may meet, discuss problems and learn to live together as friends may not in themse.ves seem to amount to much.

A dozen or a few hundred, against the worlds two billions, cannot assure understanding or be expected to erase intolerance in a twinkling. But like the leaven In a batch of dough, the mutual respect and discoveries of common aims and hopes developed by individuals and groups, multiplied by time and the many other similar experiments going on throughout the Western world, can do mych to ease the tensions and soften the disputes between peoples and races. Young Vermonters are visiting foreign lands, not Just as tourists but as guests of families: a number of European youths are here to study our way of life as well as our economic and production system: the Vermont Plan originated by the late Rev. A. Ritchie low and the Fresh Air program bring rewarding contacts between race, city and country: and seminars like that at the Woodstock Country school, study camps like the Shawnee Institutes to be held at Elfin lake in Wallingford, help to bring closer the day when folks everywhere will feel that they live in a world of neighbors, not of foreigners.

(From the Rutland Herald) TAXES LOCK UP RISK CAPITAL The editor of the Bennington Banner, finds that thousands of ambitious men are deterred from going into business, because of the staggering tax burden. The wave of protest against taxation has been growing by leaps and bounds during the past few years, and is now about mountain high. If the legislators, in Washington end Montpelier, do not stop this tax increase, the people will rise in their might and throw them all out of office. It is risk capital that has built this country great. The profit element is the one thing that has brought money out of hiding.

Just look at the billions and billions of dol lars that have been risked in industry and business. Billions of it has een lorft to the owners, but the money has not been destroyed. It merely passed from one person to notner. There is little incentive today for capital to branch out in new industries or expansions, almost entirely from the fact that government and state take so large a pait the profits in taxes. As many business executives have said: Whats the use?" Look at the billions of collars that were lost by the pioneer manufacturers of automobiles and the risk capital largely developed the automobile to what it is today.

The key situation in this country to avoid a depression is taxation. If these taxes are increased any more, there will su-ely comp about a depies-sion that mav reach panic conditions. A reduction in taxes would be a strong incentive to bring out this -isk capital in working operations. which would result in strengthening the industrial, business, and agricultural conditions of the country. Lowering taxes cannot be mere idle words with no effect.

It must be a reality. (From the tive and administrative procedure will be, by the weeks end, more than just theory to the participants. people is the business of all of us. Suburban List.) COLUMBUS, Ohio It is a curious political fact that in this off- year election the Democrats are not putting forward their best pos- sible candidates in the three key mldwestern states of Ohio, Indl- ana and Illinois. The three best men in these states are their governors Frank J.

1 Lausche of Ohio, Henry F. Schricker of Indiana, and Adlal E. Stev- enson of Illinois. Their senatorial candidates In these states are Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson in Ohio, Sen.

Scott Lucas in Illinois, an'd ex-Asst. Atty. Gen. Alex Campbell in Indiana. The three Republicans these Democrats will have to beat are the Incumbent benators Robert A.

Taft of Ohio and Homer Capehart of Indiana, former Rep. Everett Dirksen in Illinois. All three are formidable oppositon for entirely different reasons; because of varying personalities, backgrounds and political situations. Lausche, Schricker and Stevenson have luilt up 'amazing records. They may not yet be presidential material.

They are definitely good vice presidential material, and first-class senatorial material. Even Republicans in the three states admit that their governors have been good administrators. They are honest. They have big popular followings. They have not played machine politics in their appointments, but have obviously tried to get the best man for the job, regardless of this party affiliations.

They are independent. Their principal concern seems to have been a sincere effort to give the taxpayers of their states decent govenrment. And if there is one place where the American form of government seems to bog down in corruption and plain everyday inefficiency, it is at the state level. The reasons why these three good governors have not been tapped for the U. S.

Senate are similar in one respect. All three governors may have their eyes on senatorial races in 1952 or later. The gubernatorial terms of Stevenson and Schricker run until 1953. Lausche must run for a two-year term re-election this year. Otherwise, their situations differ considerably.

Governor Lausche Is frankly an admirer of Senator Taft, and would not want to campaign against him. Governor Lausches frank statement at the governors conference in White Sulphur Springs, W. that he had not made up his mind whether to vote for Taft or Ferguson is an indication of this nopartisan admiralon. But in 1952, Ohios Sen. John W.

Brickers term as senator will expire. And beating Bricker should be duck soud for Lausche. In Illinois, Governor Stevenson has just begun his cleanup and reform program. For him to walk out on this lob at this early stag would be a great political llistake. Also, as long as Democratic Majority Leader Scott Lucas wants to retain his seat, it would creat a major party split to try to take it away from him.

But there is no denying that Senator Lucas has not been an unqualified success as majority leader in the Senate. Smart political strategy for the Democrats mlht have been to pick a new and more popular candidate. After this years race, Illinois will not elect another U. S. senator until 1954, when Democratic Sen.

Paul Douglas present term expires. Senator Douglas has been popular, and can probably have renomination if he wants it. Both Gov. Stevenson and Sen. Douglas, however, may be headed for even bigger things, politically.

Both have been mentioned as vice presidental material, and even as presldental material in case President Truman should not be a candidate in 1952. Gov. Stevenson has been mentioned as a possible secretary of state. The Indiana senatorial picture Is confusion compound. Governor itq nonupnou ieijoieuas oncmouioa aqq peq OAuq pjnoo j-oprjqog mere nod of of th head or a flick of the finger.

But he told his many -ouiaa euBipux aq; oj amen sjq $uasaud oj i)ou sraqaoddn puB spuap; era tic convention. From Our Readers OIlet Evenli Newspaper In Vcrinonf Pnbllabrd lnll? MopiInt throuirh rtdaj at St Albina. VI Entered at the PnamrUee. St. Alhana.

a second claii tail matter under the act of March 3 1878 WII.I.IAM I.OEK Publlabet OB1HI.VS HKAVUII Rdllor-ln-Oblef EOWAKO MFRRY Manairlnir Editor ROHEHT tVNEll.l. Advertising Msuaeer INHUMANE PRESS To the Editor: The press is almost completely under the in-'luence of medical orthodoxy. The Hearst news-apers alone have been most helpful. It Is therefore very difficiV't to get letters criti-lzlng vivisection into the newspapers, altho bousands of such letters are sent to the Press uring a year, very few Indeed are published. en corrections of obvious untruths printed in swspapes are constantly refused publication, he Freedom of the Press becomes Freedom to uppress.

If we are civilized we are humane. If we are imane we must of a truth abhor vivisection. But is it necessary? Too many physicians state No for us to disregard the fact that the Anti-ivisection Society was started within the ranks the medical. Gladys K. Markle Jnderhill, Vt.

For a glbal war the Russians lack adequate industrial power. Therefore a Russian desion for or against war against the U.S.A. is likely to be decided, r.ot In Asia, but in Germany. For a eneral War, Russia must have the Ruhr. Now In Germanv we see an exact repetition of the Korean pattern on both sides.

The big demonstrations recently staged in Fast Germany of "Ami Go Home. accompanied bv Communist demands for of all occupation troops, while lea-tary police force in the Eastern ing a well-orTani-md para-mil-Zone. is coonte-ed. as usual, hv nothing in the West. In South Korea, we are at-temntinpr In West Germanv to c- I tabiKh democratic ideals ard hr- proved living standards preparing our child to defend DAILY MESSENGER and VERMONT SUNDAY NEWS (Franklin County Edition Pr Mall One Year In Vermont Bv Mall One Year Out of State Jl.i.

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