THE CONGRESS: Ye Gods

Pondering next April Fool's Day, when 120,000 U. S. Census takers will check up on 132,000,000 U. S. inhabitants, Columnist Mark Sullivan decided that the Government's curiosity about divorce, income, toilet facilities was an invasion of man's "responsibility to God alone." Mr. Sullivan was echoing the squeals of protest raised last week in a place with good acoustics: Congress.

New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey had introduced a resolution against such inquisition. Cried he, borrowing an expletive from Willie Baxter:* "Ye gods! Stalin and Hitler may play the game that way, but not in free America. Shame on...

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