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Southern Oregon News Review. Thursday, December 5, 1946 New Era M akes Advent at Capitol GOP Sweep Frees Truman 01 Burdensome Program c? By BAVKHAC.E Yetes Analyst and Commentator. W N U Service, 1616 E y e Street. N .W .. W ashington, I). C. W ASHINGTON. — There is a feel of C hristinas in the W ashington a ir w hich is prom pted by m ore than the evanescence of the joyous s p irit o f Noel — ju s t tr y to get onto a C onnecticut ave- | nue ca r headed ¡5 fo r the F street fe shopping district. £ The W hite House ™ presents its usual decor o f pine and ribboned wreath. And, at this w r it ing, the ch ie f ten ant is, I believe, d re a m in g of a M isso u ri C h ris t mas among his friends. Baukhage W h e th e r he spends the ho lid a y beneath his own ro o ftre e o r the one w hich U ncle Sam so generously provides, it can be said th a t it w ill be a fa r m e rrie r occasion than a ye a r ago. He w ill be among his frie n d s as w e ll as his fa m ily , and as one of his o ffic ia l c irc le put it. w ith his •‘professed" enemies (the opposite p a rty ) in pow er his "unprofessed” enemies (o ffi c ia lly his frie n d s) h a vin g no fu rth e r o p p o rtu n ity to toss b ric k b a ts or bandy threats about his head. I re c a ll another crisp, cool w in te r day last F e b ru a ry a y e a r ago, when we wended our w ay to the P resi d ent’ s w eekly press and ra d io con ference, Bemused pansies ( I re corded in this space) showed fro s t b itte n faces in the garden o f the W hite House grounds. We were discussing the d iffic u ltie s and differences w hich President T ru m a n a lre a d y was encountering at the hands of his own p a rty in congress. ‘ Congress has to be re a lis tic in an election y e a r,” I quoted some one as saying, "T h e y are fa cin g re a l issues. And the P resident's pro g ram isn’ t re a lis tic .” •’W hether o r not i t is re a lis tic ," another m em ber of the group re plied, “ i t isn’t his program . He in h e rite d it. I t ’ s New Deal and New D eal is Old H a t now. I t doesn't re p resent H a rry T ru m a n 's ideas a t all, b u t he has to go through w ith it . ” As we look back, i t is p la in enough th a t w hether it was New Deal o r w hat i t was, the p ro g ra m of the P resident was one th a t the people rejected on election day, the m o ra l obligations of the past, the e f fe ct of the pressure groups, the ukase of the p a rty of bigw igs were swept away and H a rry T rum an, who d id n ’t w ant the job th a t was th ru s t upon h im when death com manded, was made a free man. The P resident's satisfaction springs not fro m any s p irit of “ I to ld you so" hurled at his alleged supporters, not fro m any lack of lo y a lty to a cause w e ll lost. It was s im p ly the w e a ry but happy flood o f re lie f of a m an who. having a tte m p t ed w hat he knew was an im possible task, saw th a t task ended, and frie n d and foe forced fa irly into the open. I ! ' I W a r T erm in a ted H on eym oon W ith C ongress M y m ind goes back to another scene sh o rtly before the death of P resident Roosevelt. I sat in the o f B A R T E R M A R T E S T A B L IS H E D . . . To discourage the black m a rk e t fice of the vice president ta lk in g of and to provide A llied personnel as w ell as G erm ans w ith a leg itim a te days when the caissons went ro llin g means of exchanging goods, a b a rte r m arket has been set up by A m e r along and both of us — m any m iles ican m ilita ry governm ent in F ra n k fu rt, l'hc m a rk e t has proved very a part — rode beside them. We popular. ta lke d also of the then fo rth co m in g San Francisco conference of the U nited Nations and M r. T ru m a n 's them e was w hat he fe lt to be his function. P a ra d o x ic a lly enough—as it turned out la te r—it was helping ’ establish liaison between congress ! and the W hite House, com plem ent ing the h ig h ly successful e ffo rt of [ S ecretary of State H u ll w hich re- I suited in the fo rg in g of a b i-p a rti- ! san foreign policy. And in so short a tim e , a fte r M r. T ru m a n became L A B O R : and hour concessions fro m the gov President, th a t liaison between /V e il? ernm ent. C apitol H ill and 1600 Pennsylvania Under the UMW governm ent con Once again it was John L. against avenue snapped in tw ain, never to tra ct. the m iners received $75.29 the gove rn m en t! be reunited. T his tim e , W ashington appeared weekly fo r a 54-hour week, in con Three months a fte r the President determ ined to force a showdown trast to $23 88 w eekly fo r a sh o rte r took office I recorded: "T h e p o liti w ith the b u rly U nited M ine W ork week in 1939. L e w is ’ latest demands cal a rm is tic e in W ashington w ill ers ch ie fta in , but it had its jo b cut were said to ca ll fo r a 40-hour week end s h o rtly a fte r the P resident's out fo r it as 400.000 U M W m em bers w ith earnings a p p ro xim a tin g those (T ru m a n 's ) re tu rn fro m B e rlin — stood ste a d fa stly by th e ir leader fo r 54 hours. by th a t tim e dom estic discontent and both the A F L and CIO threw A rriv a l of the la te st soft coal w ill be c ry s ta lliz in g , the honeymoon in th e ir support. crisis saw the governm ent prepared w ill be on the wane. . . As in previous U M W w alkouts. fo r emergency d is trib u tio n o f b itu And I then had the te m e rity to L ew is held a hand fu ll of aces. Pun minous stocks. O nly householders, p re d ict that i f . . . “ the Japanese ish h im as it m ig h t try , there were hospitals, u tilitie s and other essen w a r should end . . . w ith in the the 400.000 s k ille d and irre p la ca b le tia l public services w ere to receive year . . . P resident T ru m a n w ill m in e rs who refused to go down in to deliveries. R ailroads were sched be stripped of the p ro te ctin g a rm o r the p its before c la rific a tio n o f the uled to haul only food, clothing, of the C om m ander-in-C hief. Then status o f th e ir c o n tra c t; there m edicine, fuel and o ther necessi the slings and arrow s w hich even were a p p ro x im a te ly 12,000,000 m e m ties and to reduce locom otive pas Roosevelt's enemies were w ont to bers o f organized la b o r who looked senger service by a p p ro xim a te ly 25 deflect to congress and other gov w ith d is fa v o r upon governm ent per cent. ernm ent agencies w ill be aim ed use o f the in ju n c tio n to bre a k a H um m ing again a fte r the c rip squarely at the m an in the W hite s trik e , and the courts were s till to pling strikes of last w in te r, indus House.” decide the le g a lity o f te rm in a tin g tr y faced another slow-down to con T h a t prophesy re q u ire d no g ift the U M W -governm ent pact. serve fuel supplies and spread them of the occult. M r. T ru m a n knew it B ut, encouraged by the c o u n try ’ s over the period of the w alkout. then—o r I w o u ld n 't have. o v e rw h e lm in g sw ing to the rig h t in F ro m now on the P resident is his the recent elections and the possi own man. The le gislation he o f b ility th a t the courts m ig h t decide L ike the A F L . the CIO watched fers, w hatever its fate m ay be, w ill in his fa v o r in in te rp re tin g the legal the coal s trik e w ith interest, not be moulded to suit his own h e a rt’ s only because of the in ju n ctio n p ro desire. He has fought the fight to ceedings ge n e ra lly condemned by Coal Mining Red Style the best o f his a b ility , assailed fro m la b o r but also because L e w is’ ac From Russia, where the Com the rig h t and the le ft and the re a r q u isitio n o f new wage concessions munist commissariat has its tiun as w ell as the front. Now he w ill prom ised to blaze the way fo r boosts method of settling labor problems, w rite his own tic k e t, be it good or a ll along the line. comes word of the working of a bad. F ew Presidents have had such gigantic new coal held in northern M eeting In A tla n tic C ity, where an o p p o rtu n ity or faced a m ore Siberia by slat e laborers from Lith John L. form ed the CIO 11 years severe test. uania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and ago, CIO Pres. P h ilip M u rra y Crimea. Consisting mostly of po sounded the b a ttle c ry fo r another litical dissidents, the laborers are round o f wage increases by la m e n t housed in wooden barracks and in g the rise in prices w hich offset subsist on porridge and 600 grams previous boosts and assailing the of bread daily. About )H mines Washington w ithdraw s fro m o ffi the New Deal follow ed Hoover's have been developed in the 5,<X)0 uneven d is trib u tio n of w ealth. c ia l a c tiv ity fo r the holidays w ith e xit. square mile field. Seeking to in d ica te the extent to out getting any real im p a ct of the The D em ocrats had only a short w hich recent p rice rises have advent of the new regim e. There in te rlu d e at the pie-counter between has been the p re lim in a ry h u rly - T a ft and H a rd in g and th e ir re tu rn aspects of the case, P resident T ru crossed out the 18‘/4 cent an hour b u rly of reorganization on C apitol in 1933 came in the m id st of such m an was set to push John L. to the wage raise won by the CIO e a rlie r H ill but the same old faces are a dom estic crisis, w ith the mad lim it in his e ffo rts to w rin g wage this ye a r, M u rra y said th a t steel w o rke rs now are e a rn in g $13.04 less e vident and the same old voices days o f the N R A fo llo w in g on the a week than they d id la st M arch. speak. The active R epublican le a d heels of the bank holiday, th a t our P o in tin g to the a b ility o f in d u stry to ers in both houses of congress have a tte n tio i. was d iv e rte d fro m p o li bear h ig h e r wages, M u rra y said th a t been so m uch in the lim e lig h t fo r tics. B u t w hat the D em ocrats d id to profits in the la st q u a rte r of 1946 the la st ye a r anyhow th a t they the R epublican officeholders "w a s n ’ t would to ta l 15 b illio n d o lla rs com m e re ly appear to be stepping up, good,” as one R epublican put i t pared w ith 10 b illio n s fo r 1944. ra th e r than stepping in. I t a ll seems recently. He added: "W e are going quite routine and casual. to do the same fo r th e m .” There was' ju s t a touch of the Congress begins w ith the Repub excite m e n t o f the beginning of a lic a n P re sid e ntia l p lu m w ith in eas new era when house and senate The p u b lic received its firs t good steering com m ittees had th e ir firs t ie r reach than any w hich have dan I look a t the L u stro m c o rp o ra tio n ’ s gled in m any a year and i t is no heralded po rce la in enameled steel w onder m any hands are reaching home in H insdale, 111., outside C hi h o p e fu lly fo r it. In fa ct, Senator V andenberg e a rly sounded the cago, and the showing m arked an w a rn in g th a t m ore thoughts should other step in the b a ttle of the com be concentrated on the re sp o n sib il pany w ith the T u cke r autom obile ities fo llo w in g the v ic to ry o f '46, and corp o ra tion fo r possession of the less on the p o ssib ilitie s of '48, fo r huge Dodge-Chicago plant. the good of a ll concerned. The b a ttle took a sensational tu rn w ith charges of Preston T ucker, the The battle between the T a ftite s auto m agnate, th a t a p ro m in e n t and the a n ti-T a ftite s began even W ashington a tto rn e y had prom ised before election and the Ohio sena to use his influence in h a vin g the to r h im s e lf is so dete rm in ed th a t ‘ P X ’ T R A IN IN J A P A N . . . The N a tio n al H ousing a u th o rity rem and this tim e he w ill w in the n o m in a a rm y re c e n tly opened a new “ P X ” its o rd e r tu rn in g the Dodge-Chicago tion th a t he leans o ve r backw ard tra in w hich tra v e ls throughout Ja p la n t to L u stro m i f given the T u ck to avoid c ritic is m . He refused to pan to serve G .I.s and th e ir fa m er co rp o ra tio n ’s le g a l business plus go on a broadcast fo r even a three- ilie s and other A llie d personnel a stock interest. N am ed as the a t m in u te statem ent o f R epublican w here other P X fa c ilitie s are un torney, Theodore G ra n ik vig o ro u sly p o lic y and he took o ff fo r C entral a v a ila b le . denied the allegation. A m e ric a sh o rtly th e re a fte r. ALUS’ REVIEW Labor Ranks \ iew Mine Dispute as Wage Guide Crisis CIO Coal Presidential Bee Hums HOUSING: New fCriiikle FORECAST FOR 1947 Senator Taft Politically Cautious m eetings and m ade th e ir firs t o ffi cia l statem ents concerning le g is la tion and p o licy. M ost of the steps had been foreshadowed and the change of venue was not fanfared. The la st 14 years m ake up the longest period o f lean years th a t any p a rty has suffered. I witnessed the end o f tw o 12-year drouths through w hich the D em ocrats th irs t ed; close of the or.e th a t began w ith W illia m M c K in le y and ended w ith W illia m H ow ard T a ft, when W ilson accompanied the “ new fre e dom ” to the W hite House. A n d the next, another 12-year period, when I Survey Shows Rise in Building N E W YORK. — R epresenting an increase of 35 per cent, 630,000 d w e llin g units w ill be constructed in the 37 states east o f the R ocky m ountains d u rin g 1947, according to an estim ate made by Thomas S. Holden, president of F. W. Dodge co rp o ra tion , fa ct-fin d in g o rgan ization fo r the construction in d u s try . The fig u re represents a gain of 35 per cent in num ber o f units and 38 per cent in d o lla r volum e fro m the a n ticip a te d 1946 totals. The estim ates are based on e lim in a tio n n e xt ye a r o f present p rio ritie s and allocations o f m a te ria ls , Holden said. F o r a ll construction, H olden said, an increase o f 25 per cent is ex cost levels “ lo w e r than black m a r pected, b rin g in g the d o lla r to ta l to ket prices.” Secs L a b o r Shortage. m ore than $9,500,000,000 com pared D e cla rin g th a t "th e m a jo r b o ttle w ith $7,700,000,000 this ye a r in the states surveyed. neck w ill be shortage o f skille d la H olden said i t was probable con b o r,” H olden said th a t w h ile ap s tru c tio n a c tiv ity would continue p re n tice tra in in g has been stepped on an in creasing scale w ith o u t se ri up, " re c ru itm e n t has not kept pace ous setback and added, " i f this w ith needs in a nu m b e r o f Im p o r tu rn s out to be tru e , construction ta n t tra d e s.” m a y be the p rin c ip a l sustaining ac The estim ated increase in re s i t iv ity tending to m oderate the Im d e n tia l b u ild in g , he said, was based pa ct o f p rice recession on the gen on assum ption th a t new construc tio n w ill be co m p le te ly exem pted e ra l business s tru c tu re ." D e co n tro l of m a te ria l prices w ill fro m re n t ceilings, w hich he de- s tim u la te Increased o u tp u t o f m any crlb e d as "th o p rin c ip a l deterrent» scarce Item s, H olden said, w ith ne\y to a p a rtm e n t b u ild in g .” Happy Days for Sluggish Folks M O K E D U P L IC A T IO N W ASHINGTO N — P resident T ru m an is a sincere, hard -p lu g g in g ad vocate o f unified arm ed services, but he should persuade his a rm y to obey the p o licy of its co m m under-lu-chief. A t present the a rm y is b u ild in g a speciol w ing to W a lte r Reed hos p ita l at 12th and D ahlia streets in W ashington w hich w ill e xa ctly d u p li cate the navy's. T h is w ing is to take care o f the P resident o f the U nited States. S im ultaneously, the navy also has a floor o f its Bethesda N a va l hospi ta i reserved fo r the President. I t Is a ll set to take care o f h im at any tim e . However, m e d icu l officers have changed in the W hite House and a navy doctor is n 't in com m and any m ore. The a rm y now runs the show. Roosevelt, alw ays p a rtia l to the navy, appointed A d n i. Ross M c In tire W hite House physician. B u t T ru m an, who served in the a rm y , se lected B rig . Gen. W allace G raham as W hite House physician. And o f course an a rm y doctor does not ‘lik e to p ra ctice in a n a va l hos p ita l. T herefore the a rm y m e d ica l corps, w a nting to avoid the h u m ility of sending the P resident to a naval hospital, authorized a new w ing to the W a lte r Reed A rm y hospital. Thus, at the expense o f thousands o f feet of scarce lu m b e r, tons of stra te g ic m e ta l and several thousand b ricks, the special w in g fo r the P resident is being b u ilt. • • • U.S. VS. U.S.S.R . D E M O C R A C Y S ec re tary of State J im m y Byrnes has been tellin g the fol lowing story about the d iffe r ence between dem ocracy in Rus sia and the United Stales. “ An A m erican so ldier,” he re lates. “ was talking to a Russian soldier in B erlin . The A m erican said that in his country, he could go to W ashington w ithout a per m it, go to the W hite House, w ait his turn, get In to see the P resi dent and tell him th at he doesn't lik e A m erican foreign pulley. 'T h a t’s d em o crac y,' said the O.l. " ‘T h a t's nothing,* the Russian soldier replied. ‘In m y country I can go to Moscow, knock on the door of the K re m lin , w alk in, w ait m y tu rn , see S talin, bang on the desk and say, “ M r . Stalin, I don't lik e T ru m a n 's for eign policy e ith e r!” And noth ing would happen to m e. T h a t’s real dem ocracy.* ” • SUPPRESSED • WHEN CONS I INA LION inakos you ( . . I punk an the dlckvna, b iln g * on atoniach upaet, aour taate, satay diaconilort, taka D r. 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T e ll your druggist to sell you a bottle o f Creomulston w ith th e u n derstanding you m ust like tho way It q u ickly allays the cough o r yo u aro to have your money back. C R E O M U L S IO N for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis m ake A V IA T IO N your c a re e r trarre A r m T e c h w ill »rein you for a eur- r e e t f u l « n r r r r in A v i a t i o n . A e ro « n a u tic a l E n g in e e rin g —-A ir« r e ft an«l Engine Mediant«« < A Ai K ) < onrere. T h o r o u g h , o r a r ti« a l t r a i n in g b y o u tstand ing vacuity. M o d e m E q u ip m e n t . Im m e d ia t e e n r o llm e n t ■ »- im r -l. W f i t r f .- i I r r r b o o fc lg t M V M l th e school. A pproved foe Veterane. AERO IN IU TtlES TECHNICAL WSTIMTE Dept. W Oakland Municipal Airport, Oakland, Cal. A E R O TECH • REPORT W hile P resident T ru m a n and oth er high governm ent o fficia ls con tin u e th e ir enthusiastic support o f the new P h ilip p in e g overnm ent of P resident Roxas, there re m a in locked in the files of the W hite House and A tto rn e y Gen. Tom C la rk tw o copies o f a re p o rt which, i f m ade p ublic, has explosive power n e a rly as g re a t as th a t of the sup pressed Rogge report. The P h ilip p in e re p o rt was w ritte n by a special in ve stig a to r sent to M a n ila la st w in te r to determ ine w hat action should be taken against islanders who had collaborated w ith Ja p occupation a u th o ritie s. Inside fa c t is it pins g u ilt on n e a rly a ll the leaders o f the present P h ilip p in e ad m in is tra tio n . D ocum entary evidence of co lla b o ra tio n ist records of a la rg e p a rt o f the present senate, cabinet and P resident Roxas h im se lf is in cluded. The charges include such c rim in a l acts as a id in g the Japs to wipe out p a trio t g u e rrilla s , co nspiring to seize food fro m fam ished F ilip in o s fo r use by the Jap arm ies, in a ddi tio n to the d e cla ra tio n o f w a r against the U nited States in 1944. A lthough the vast m a jo rity of the F ilip in o s hated and resisted the Japs, co rru p tio n spread through the top la ye rs o f p o litic a l and in d u s tria l leaders. R esult was th a t the ju stice d e p a rtm e n t in ve stig a to rs recom mended th a t the m ost im p o rta n t col la b o ra tio n is t clique be trie d not in the P h ilip p in e s, where it would be d iffic u lt to find a n a tive co h rt com p le te ly free o f bias, but in San F ra n cisco. Reason this recom m endation was never acted upon, o fficia ls say, was la rg e ly Gen. Douglas M a cA rth u r. U N D ER TH E DOME Speaker Sam R ayburn doesn’ t w ant the jo b of m in o rity leader. Southern congressm en are not en th u sia stic o ver co n tin u in g the lead e rsh ip of M assachusetts' John M c C orm ack and they have the votes to p u t h im in o r out. . . . One fixtu re in the ca p ito l regardless of p o litic a l tu rn o v e r w ill be the Rev. James Shera M o ntgom ery, the house chap la in . A ppointed by the Republicans in 1921, he was continued by the D em ocrats. M E R R Y GO R O UN D A ll cabinet m em bers are strength- ening th e ir le gal staffs, know ing they face the m ost exhaustive series of congressional investigations in the la st 20 years. . . . R e tirin g Speaker Sam R a yburn te lls frie n d s th a t he w ill serve in the house only one m ore te rm . Sam has been a con gressional fix tu re fo r 35 years, now w ants to re tire . . . . N ine m em bers o f the new senate are fo rm e r news paper men and publishers; three are fo rm e r teachers. 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