■ A task force headed by State Senator Wayne Dumont has reached the conclusion that New Jersey schools could be run more efficiently if the annual public vote on school budgets were eliminated. Which proposition wins the Voters Be Damned Benito Mussolini Award for 1978.
■ Representative Charles C. Diggs Jr. has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 14 counts of mail fraud and approximately lebbenty counts, of bearing false witness. After 24 years in the House he has learned how to conduct his affairs as if he were the United States Government. He has been running large annual deficits and he denies all. Meanwhile his district back home has undergone profound changes; there’s a growing chance that he can’t be re-elected. Whether or not he stands for re-election, the oh-so-amiable Washington Post respectfully advises him to resign his posts as Chairman of the District of Columbia Committee and Chairman of the International Affairs subcommittee on Africa, in order to devote his full attention to his problems with the law. Of course the Post takes a high moral view of these matters, as must every right-minded citizen, insisting that Mr. Diggs be presumed innocent until proven to be a congressman.
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