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Repetition Of
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At Previous Session Status
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. W The opening of the 1950 Congress
was about as unusual as listening to an old phonograph record.
President Truman handed Congress the program he wants
passed. But this was just the unfinished part of the program
tie. oiierea last year.
Right away the Democratic
leaders said this was a very
wonderful program, Indeed,
which is what they have been
saying all along.
And right away the Republi
cans condemned the program.
"It's Socialistic," they said,
which is what they have been
saying all along.
This brings us to where we
were when Congress quit for a
few months last fall. Nothing's
changed.
As for the program, Congress
probably will pass some of it,
leave most unpassed, which is
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what It did with the same pro
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In the elections of 1950 and
1952 the voters ought to be able
to maKe a pretty clear-cut choice
between Democrats and Repub
licans to run the country.
They can by their votes show
wnetner tney want tne Truman
program or some program the
Kepuoileans oiler by election
time. They don't have any pro
gram of their own now. They're
trying to ngure out one.
The only way the voters can
snow a real preference s by giv
ing one side or the other over
whelming control of Congress,
! which will mean enough votes for
I the winning side to ram its pro-
' gram tnrougn.
The Democrats now have a
I slim majority in Congress. But
the Trumaninte Democrats be
come a minority any iime the
soutnern Democrats want to
break away and vote with the
Republicans.
So long as this upsy-downsy sit
uation continues in Congress,
with neither side in strong con
trol, any program, Democrat or
Republican, will have slow go
ing, and we'll get more talk than
action.
In a two-party country like this,
a fairly well divided Congress is
a check against either side going
too far too fast. That's the argu
ment against too much control
by any one party.
The other side of the agrument
Is this: if at any time the voteis
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give any one party ble majority
in congress, u s Because at war
time the voters like that party's
program and want It carried out
Election Color Seen
If you read Mr. Truman's
day you could almost see mm
laying the groundwork for the
Congressional elections late this
year.
There were a number of things
in that message like civil rights
and a national health insurance
system which nobody I ve found
in Washington expects to see
passed this year.
Nevertheless, they're part of
the Truman program, they've
been part of it, and he put them
in his message. His plea for civil
rights laws he finished in a sen
tence. All he had to say on health
Insurance he said in a para
graph. There was no need to sav
more, since they're dead ducks
this year, but they'll serve as
campaign material wnen elec
tions come around, because the
Trumanites can point to them and
say:
'We wanted to put these things
through in 1949. We wanted to
put them through again this year.
,But we don't have enough votes
in congress. (Jive us the major
ity we need."
Ana tne answer oi tne voters
ought to tell the Democrats and
KepuDiicans pretty cieany wnat
the people want, or don't want.
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At Least Six Of
Truman Requests
Face Quick Death
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 ff
Congress met the conciliatory
tone of President Truman's state
of the union message with a vir
tual promise today of quick death
for at least half a dozen of his
proposals.
In a surprising surge toward
budget balancing, the election
minded lawmakers iighted on
Mr. Truman's request for a
"moderate" tax increase and ap
parently shoved it to :he head of
the list marked for rejection in
tms session.
Out of a cascade of reaction
to the President's message Wed
nesday came clear indications
that important members of both
parties will okay continued red
ink spending only if drastic econ
omy moves lau and then reluct
antly. Similarly, Congress members
In a position to act said in about
as many words that the Presi
dent's appeals for continuation
of the military draft, Taft-Hartley
repeal, the Brannan farm
plan, medical insurance and the
St. Lawrence Seaway will go on
the shelf for this session.
There was an apparently clear
road- for (1) expansion of social
security coverage and benefits
and U) continuation on a reduc
ed scale of economic and mili
tary aid to non-communist coun
tries abroad.
There the list of certainties
ended.
These Proposals Doomed
Lawmakers lumped In the
doubtful category the presiden
tial proposals for middle-income
housing aid, continuation of rent
control, expansion of displaced
persons admissions, aid to educa
tion and the "point four" pro
gram oi economic help lor tne
world's backward areas.
They gave even less chance of
passage to an international trade
organization resolution and the
president s civil rights program.
In his mildly-phrased message,
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the president didn't expand his
"fair deal" but asked for action
only on things he has talked
about before.
Republicans met this Immedi
ately with a scorching statement,
signed by 100 House GOP mem
bers, accusing the president of
committing himself "to the even
tual socialization of America and
the elimination of .he traditional
American competitive system.
Senator Taft of Ohio, who
heads the Senate GOP Policy
committee, said Mr. Truman's
mildness reminded him of By
ron's quotation: "The mildest
manner'd man that ever scuttled
a ship or cut a threat."
Taft said Mr. Truman was In
consistent in lauding free enter
prise and at the same time advo
cating "measures which would
destroy freedom special privi
leges to labor unibn bosses, the
compulsory medical plan, the
Brannan farm controls and in
creased taxes."
South Korea Saved
From Reds By U. S.
SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 5 (JP)
American military and economic
aid has kept South Korea "from
falling again under cruel foreign
rule," President Syngman Rhee
saia toaay;i
"Korea Is the combatant out
post of the non-Communist world
on the East Asiatic continent,"
Rhee said.
"Here, every day, our soldiers
and sailors, our police and our
common citizens are in deadly
combat with Communist soldiers,
Communist armed bands, Com
mumunist terrorists, all directed
and supplied from the homeland
of all the world's Communists.
"The struggle for freedom and
Democracy against Communism
and totalitarianism is not aca
demic in Korea. It is a daily
matter of life and death.
"American postwar aid to Kor
ea has made this life, this liber
ty and the free pursuit of hap
piness possible for our citizens."
ine president s remarws were
made in a statement issued on
the first anniversary of the Eco
nomic Cooperation administra
tion (ECA) program In Korea.
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which kills many of that conti
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Battle To Repeal
Taxes On Oleo
Opens In Senate
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 -WP
Senators fighting a House-passed
bill to repeal federal oleomarga
rine taxes today opened their
drive to ban the yellow product
from interstate commerce.
With Senator Gillette (D-Ibwa)
as their leadott speaker, oppo
nents of the repeal legislation
hoped to rally support for a sub
stitute that would permit yellow
oleomargarine to be sold only
in a state where it is manufac
tured. Gillette and Senator Wiley (R
Wis.) are the chief authors of the
proposal but 23 other senators
are listed as co-sponsors.
Like the House bill, it would
wipe out the present federal taxes
on oleomargarine. These include
a 10-eents-apound tax on yellow
colored margarine, a one-quarter
cent a pound levy on the uncol
ored variety and occupational
taxes on manufacturers, whole
salers and retailers.
The Senate battle got under
way yesterday with Senator Ful
brlght (D-Ark) calling the pro
posed substitute "thoroughly mis
chievous." It "would disrupt the entire
margarine industry and would
sharply raise costs to consum
ers," he said.
Wiley, in turn, said the House
bill represents "an attack by one
segment of the economy on an
other." -
Butter Trade Held Periled
He told a reporter that marga
rine manufacturers "are holding
prices in check until they get a
monopoly." He added that with
"cutrate prices" they could put
butter out of business and then
later raise prices.
Fulbright hit at charges that
"profiteering" in yellow marga
rine might follow repeal. He la
beled this propaganda and said
the margarine industry is highly
competitive.
He told reporters that on the
average margarine has sold over
the years for about half the price
of butter. This competiton, he
said, "is the reason why there
!s strong opposition today" to re
peal of oleomargarine taxes.
Senator Humphrey (D-Mlnn)
predicted in a statement that the
Gillette-Wiley amedment will be
adopted by the Senate.
He said it is endorsed by dairy
farmers, "important segments of
organized labor and many agri
cultural groups aside from dairy
farmers."
Negro Soldier's Wife
Dies Of Bullet Wounds
SEATTLE, Jan. 6 UFh- Mrs.
Marveline Gantt, 26, wife of a
Fort Lawton army sergeant who
police said killed himself after
Shooting her in a family quar
rel, died yesterday of hey wounds.
Mrs. Gantt, an expectant
mother, had come here from
Stockton, Calif,, to visit her hus
band, James, during the Christ
mas holiday. Both were negroes.
Detective Dale Schmelser said
neghbors in a dingy skid road
hotel reported the couple had
been quarreling for some time
when Mrs. Gantt dashed Into th
hallway.
He said the sergeant shot his
wife as she was attempting to
escape, then returned to his
room and killed himself with a
shot In the head.
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Tried by German Doctor
the answer.
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