Its most irresponsible act was to attempt to raise members' expense allowance for the session, which was Constitutionally limited and which had failed to win voter approval the previous fall. The editorial supports the higher pay, but only through the proper legal channels. Should the Legislature pass it, the public indignation would properly add to the fear manifested by the Legislature.

In the previous fall election only 35 million of 91 million eligible voters went to the polls, comparing unfavorably to other democracies such as France, where over half the population voted in the previous election, or Britain, where, in the July, 1945 election, over 50 percent more voted than in the U.S. Parenthetically, it should be noted that those were the first elections in Britain in ten years and in France since before the Nazi invasion of spring, 1940. In Canada, the proportion of voters was twice as high as in the U.S.

The proportion of voters was smaller than 50 or 100 years earlier. It had decreased in nearly indirect proportion to the increase in literacy. Dr. Gallup had wondered whether the democratic system in the country was outmoded.

He had attributed the apathy to the low plane on which campaigns were conducted. But the piece thinks just the opposite to have been the case. In the recent Congressional election in the Mecklenburg district, both winner Hamilton Jones and Republican challenger P. C. Burkholder had fought polite campaigns, but the turnout nevertheless had been light.

The fault, it ventures, lay with the people, not the system. Preservation of the system at least insured that the people would have the opportunity to vote for more competent representatives when they tired of incompetent ones.

It concludes that the average South Carolinian had come to be more refined than in earlier days. But as to cock-fighting, it had no comment.

Mr. Knutson insisted on voting on the bill before it was finally drafted.

A secret black book on Greece had been handed out by Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson to members of the House Foreign Relations Committee, showing that Communists in Russian-controlled Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria were aiding the guerilla forces in the northern part of Greece seeking to overthrow the Government of King George. It also revealed that while most of the Greek citizens were opposed to the Communists, a great many also opposed King George, even though 84 percent had voted for restoration of the monarchy in the election of 1946. Many had apparently so voted because the monarchy stood as the best hope against Communism.

The book also paid high compliment to the present Greek Government as being staunchly pro-American.

The same was true of Turkey, according to the book. Turkey, where costs of living were decreasing, was better off financially than Greece.

Some members of the Committee believed therefore that the proposed aid ought be limited to Greece.

He next tells of representative Karl Mundt of South Dakota ferreting out the secret agreements made at Potsdam in July, 1945, Yalta in February, 1945, and Tehran in December, 1943, between Russia, the U.S., and Britain. Mr. Mundt insisted that Mr. Acheson make them public as it was impossible to chart the course into the future without the terms of the agreements being known.

The Texas Legislature had voted to refuse an address by a representative of the American Veterans Committee because he was "too liberal". The school board of Glendale, California, had banned a textbook which they felt was "friendly to Russia", though admittedly not subversive. Representative Edward Cox of Georgia wanted the House to withhold public funds from the salary of David Lilienthal. Each of these actions and others like them served no articulable purpose.

She was in the U.S. when the Germans invaded her native Norway in spring, 1940. She returned to her husband and family a year later when the U.S. was still technically neutral in the war. She remained in Norway for the duration. She received her visa to come to the U.S. a few months earlier.

Her patriotism to Norway had been attested by the chief justice of the Norwegian Supreme Court, albeit amended by the Norwegian Embassy in the U.S. to include only the time she was in Norway and not prior to that point. Norwegians believed that she could have rendered great service to Norway by remaining out of the country for the duration. There was nothing to indicate that she had aided either the Norwegian resistance or the Nazi invaders, save, in the latter case, by her presence and implied support of her husband's activities.

Irving Kolodin of The New York Sun had written that she placed her domestic interests over patriotism and now sought public approval once again. She had a recital set for Carnegie Hall on April 20—Hitler's birthday—and, he remarked, there were likely enough music lovers to turn out for the concert. While her hiring of Carnegie Hall for her recital was one thing, he found it unacceptable that the Metropolitan Opera, which functioned on public subscriptions by the season and received tax-exempt status, would present her.

Mr. Bryan suggests that one could take the view of Mr. Kolodin or the attitude, "Judge not that ye be not judged." He asks the readers what they thought.

But what about whether he had five too many? Because, after all, Senator, to have had five too many twice over, means, inevitably, twenty-five too many.