S outhern Oregon News Review. Thursday. March 20, 1047
Republican Party Control Shifting
T ail Sw ings
o to Right
n
As G O P S enate L eader
By B A l’KHAGE
.two/vit <«</ Cowmew/^/or.
M M ' Service. 1616 Eye Street. N. M
ride herd on the party vote, deliv
Washington. D. C.
ering it when and where he wished.
WASHINGTON. -R e c e n tly the
But, did you ever try to ride a
keen ears of the m aster politicians horse or drive a cow with a large
on Capitol Hill
sized bumble-bee leaping from fore
have been tuned
lock to buttock or from edd to rump?
to some strange
Not so easy, and no bumble-bee ever
squeaks and r a t
buzzed or stung like the apis presi-
tles developing in
dentia.
th e
otherwise
E arly in January 1 rem inded you
smoothly running
of the trouble the presidential bee
Republican sen
was expected to cause when I quot
ate machinery. It
ed Republican National Com m ittee
is confidently pre
m an Clarence Budington K elland's
dicted
on
the
rem ark:
D em ocratic side
"I don't think you are going to
\O I( ES OF PROTEST? . . . P erhaps the Idea of living In the I'n l t e d
of the aisle that
see the m a tte r (Republican candi
States
doesn t appeal to these English war babies, who put up quite
•■Chauffeur” Taft
dacy) jell at all until Ohio decides
a howl ou arriv al in New York aboard a transport ship.
who had pretty
whether it's going to be Taft or
easy going in the
B ricker." And it hasn't jelled. Al
d riv er's seat up
though it was predicted Bricker
Raukhage
until the latter
would bow out. he has refused to
p art of February will have to jum p bow. Quite the contrary, it is Taft
out and tinker under the hood more who is bowing—not out. but to the
than once.
dem ands of the right wing of the
From now on, observers say, party. (T aft's friends insist Brick
there are going to be a lot more or e r will exit at the right mom ent.)
ders from the back seat.
But T aft's first obeisance was
When the gentlem an from Ohio m ade toward the end of the Lilien-
took over after the November elec thal hearings. He announced his op
tions even the old-timers sat up and position to the confirmation of the
took notice of the way he assumed TVA head and did it with such ab J U D I C I A R Y :
pledging the two countries to go to
charge. He just shuffled the deck sence of the famous Taft logic that
each other's assistance in the event
and dealt himself the cards he w ant eyebrows went up all over the Curb Lewis
T h e S u p r e m e c o u r t d e c is io n of an attack by G erm any or any
ed: chairm an of the policy com m it place.
The reason for departing
tee: chairm an of the labor com m it from the common sense path that against John L. Lewis and the U nit other country. At the sam e time,
ed Mine W orkers the two allies agreed to integrate
tee which was going to direct labor his superior intellect usually dictates I
legislation on what had been almost soon becam e ev ident Simultaneous,
has been regarded their economies to build an indus
the No. 1 issue of the day: chairm an iy his control of the party in the
as one of the m o trial base for war and promote the
of the com m ittee which handles the senate began to slip.
m entous verdicts in exchange of goods.
new economic re p o rt Under the
F rance's declaration that she
A m erican history,
That was seen in the vote on the
reorganization act. this report must
definitely establish would offer the sam e term s to other
budget. In that case Taft took what
ing the power and m ajor powers led to speculation
most people considered the sensible,
dignity of the courts whether the treaty would implem ent
middle-of-the-road course. The four
the U. S. proposal for a defensive
in civil affairs.
and a half billion cut rath er than
By a 7 to 2 ruling, alliance of the Big Four against
the six billion urged by the house.
the court cracked the threat of future G erm an resu r
What happened to force T aft's
down on Lewis’ and gence. Thus far, Russia has shied
anti-Lilienthal statem ent? Well, a
the UMW's open away from the U. S. proposition, but
certain conservative com m entator
Chief Justice flaunting of Circuit has been dickering with Britain for
talked with T aft—criticized w hat he
Vinson
J u d g e G o ld s b o r - a mutual aid pact.
implied was a dangerous lack of
Holland and Belgium were expect
ough's order calling
conservatism for a prospective for a suspension of the recent soft ed to act favorably upon the French
standard-bearer of GOP. Then, a coal strike to provide additional tim e invitation to consum m ate a sim ilar
well-known columnist cam e forth for working on an agreem ent. In defensive and economic pact. On the
with the story- that some of the pow his m ajority opinion. Chief Justice other hand, Poland and Czechoslo
erful backers of the Republican p a r Vinson w rote:
vakia were expected to look to Mos
ty enlisted the support of a num ber
cow
for instructions on negotiating
“ The interests of orderly gov
of Republican law m akers in the
such a treaty.
ernm ent dem and respect and
anti-Lilienthal movement. They be
com pliance be given to orders
gan to w hisper that perhaps B ricker
C O NG RESS:
issued by courts. . . . In our
would represent sounder, safer, san
complex society there is a great
er views for the presidency. Taft
Doom DPA
variety of lim ited loyalties, but
heard the w hisper and cam e out em
Long the whipping boy for public
phatically, if not too convincingly,
the overriding loyalty of all is
and politican alike, OPA was head
against LilienthaL
to our country and to the institu
ed for the discard by June 30 be
About that tim e the Roper poll re- I tions under which a particular
cause of congressional lim itation of
interest m ay be pursued. . . .”
vealed the percentage of preference
its funds. The office of tem porary
for various Republican potential can
JOHN W. BRICKER
To em phasize the gravity of the controls, established last Decem ber
didates, against Trum an. .And lo, offense, the court sustained Lewis’ as the supervisory agency over re
Dark Horse in Leash
all the rest, Dewey, Vandenberg, fine of $10.000 and placed the UMW maining w artim e regulatory bu
be subm itted annually to congress Stassen. Bricker, led Taft.
reaus, also was scheduled to go.
fine at $700.000.
by the P resident’s economic council.
T hat doesn’t m ean that Taft will
With abolition of OPA. it was re
With reasonable support from p ar be last in the hearts of the delegates E U R O P E :
ported that rent control would be
ty stalw arts and with these power to the Republican national conven
transferred to the departm ent of
ful chairm anships in his hands it tion in 1948, but w iseacres are saying Hem in Reich
com m erce and sugar control to the
looked as though the senior senator it does m ean that Taft no longer will
Even before determ ination of the departm ent of agriculture. Because
from the Buckeye state easily could call the turn on legislation.
future design of G erm any, the m a of the scarcity of housing and sugar
jo r powers are proceeding to build a in the face of trem endous dem and,
ring of steel around the reich to legislators continued to favor their
guard against a revived G erm an regulation to prevent hardship and
state waging a third w ar of aggres skyrocketing prices.
sion.
While the Republican minority
The British and F rench forged the continued to ride herd in the house
If there is much more evidence of our kind of dem ocracy by NOT
first link with a 50-year alliance. and threatened to put OPA out of
the cracking of the so-called “ iron broadcasting to u s."
business before June 30 by refusing
curtain,” the im pression m ay get
a deficiency appropriation and chop,
If that wasn’t actually said. It
about soon that it is a p retty porous
ping nine million, dollars from pre
ought to have been. It is too good
protection of the secrets of the So to be untrue.
vious appropriations, the senate pro
viets.
vided funds for closing out the agen-
The British did not cooperate.
Recently I was walking the corri
|
cy
within the next three months. As
N either did 11 other countries, in
dors of the state departm ent with
i a result of these differences, the bill
cluding Ecuador, which, along with
one of its officials. ‘‘How long,” I
i was sent to a senate-house confer-
the United States, are all now beam
asked him, "do you expect the
j ence for settlem ent of term s.
ing their program s on Russia. I
K rem lin to perm it you people and
the British, with your A merican and don’t know about the others, but the
M EAT:
British propaganda m agazines and British seem to have quite a follow
Consumer Pressure
pam phlets and your broadcasts, to ing and since the Russian people are
poison Ivan and his Tovarishes, with more interested in America than in
During the extensive debates over
any other country, I see no reason
this w estern poison?”
decontrolling m eat, argum ents flew
why the state d epartm ent’s effort
thick and fast w hether strict gov-
“Oh,” he replied, “they won't stop shouldn't be quite as successful.
ernmen* control or the law of supply
u s.”
What are the chances? In the first
and dem and consti‘"(ed the best
■
. “ Why not?” I inquired. “They place, radio listening has been de
method of keeping retail prices with
can’t," was his answer.
veloped in Russia. People are en
in bounds.
B ritish Broadcasting company has couraged to have sets and they are
Little was heard of consum er
been beam ing broadcasts on Russia short-wave sets because short-wave
NO PLACE LIKE HOME! . . .
sense, but consum er sense it is that
to Russia in the Russian language is the communication method used
When the Eskim o fam ily of Toby
has been keeping m eat prices with
for a y ear or more. BBC reports by the Russian government. T hat’« Anungazuk was brought to New
in reasonable levels in recent weeks,
th at the program s have been well- because of the great distance.
York for a sportsm en’s show, the
packers report. Much as people like
How m any have sets?
received and that the effort is worth
father fashioned a m akeshift igloo
pork, they have been passing it up
When Averill H arrim an was there
while. The state departm ent began
for son, Okoyohok, in a snowdrift.
for cheaper cuts of beef, and m any
its broadcasts last month. Some of he m ade an estim ate of 75,000 sets.
The fur-elad, 18-months-old Oko butchers have been following the
its officials believe that it is worth A later estim ate put the figure as
yohok objected vociferously to
line of least resistance in serving
the millions it will cost to continue 75,000 to a million.
the housing project.
custom ers.
them . The first program had few
listeners: it was criticized. It is
being tailored according to listener
com m ent. There is no way for the
R ussians to know about the pro
gram s, since notice of them, except
by announcem ent over BBC, ap
pears in no Russian paper.
How is it the Russians perm it it
U'ASHIVr.TOK’
J . a m eans of . » . ................................
WASHINGTON.—As
at all? And even if they don't put securing action on resolutions ap New York clothes designer worried by the big shots. If I could thresh
out troubles with the 700 w orkers at
obstacles in the way, will the Rus proved during their four-day m eet about the whole national economy.
Resolutions covering labor legis our plant, we could always figure
sians listen? Are there enough r a ing here, delegates to the national
taxes,
monopolies,
tax- out a solution satisfactory to the
dio sets with short-wave receivers to conference of A m erican Small Busi lation,
exem pt cooperatives, governm ent men and to us.”
m ake up a worth while potential au
ness organizations tram ped capitol competition with private business,
In backing up his dem and for an
dience?
corridors to present their views di governm ent economy and federal
im m ediate 15 per cent increase in
These are the questions I asked. rectly to their hom e-state congress
I subsidies were approved by the rents and an end to all controls by
I'll try to give some of the answers. men.
delegates, representing 260 different Jan u ary 1, 1948, George W. Profltt
As to the Russian attitude, it
The 80-odd delegates, some of lines of industry and m ore than
seem s negative. When the British whom represented “ju st them 600,000 separate sm all business con of Baltim ore, executive secretary of
first talked about broadcasting to selves” while others acted as cerns, before their m arch up Capi N ational A partm ent Owners associ
ation, broached the theory that
R ussia, a Russian official is reported spokesm en for associations with tol Hill.
housing is like any other commodity
to have said: “We have tried to co thousands of m em bers, spoke of
Indicative of the sm all business in th a t “ when it’s cheap, people
operate with you. You have your diverse difficulties.
m an ’s stand on the labor question, buy m ore than they really need.”
kind of dem ocracy. You believe in
An Illinois food m achinery m anu A. L. Hertel, personnel director of
freedom of speech. So we have co factu rer complained of labor trou the Food M achinery corporation a t “If nylons,” he continued, “ were
operated with you by sending you bles. An Oregon lum berm an hoped Hoopeston, 111., said: “ Put the unions selling for 50 cents a pair, every
woman in the country would have a
bro ad casts in English from Russia. for a b etter break from the govern
on an equal basis with m anage doze* pairs. It’s the sam e with
We have our kind of dem ocracy. We m ent on tim berland leases. “Big
ment, I don’t w ant to see the unions housing. I know a woman in Balti
do not believe in freedom of speech. com pany monopolies" drew the ire
sm ashed, but I’d like to see them m ore living all by herself in an
So we hope you will cooperate with of a St. Louis tire dealer, and a
under local control, not dictated to apartm ent with four bedroom s.”
j
A’i ’ lI'S R E V IE W
Lewis Conviction Upheld;
Pact Aimed at Germany
When p alais and v arnishes fail
to d ry you cun re st assu red the
i trouble is the result of d irty or
oily su rface or a su rface th at has
been w ashed with soap and w ater,
sortie of the soap having rem ained
j on the porous su rface of wood.
Glue pieces of felt under ch u lr
legs to prev en t scratch in g painted
floors. It’s a good way to cut down
on noise too.
•
Always rely on this great mb for
('ru m b le a dry new spaper, wet,
and ru b your windows and m irro rs
with this in stead of u cloth.
CHEST
C O LD S
•
Soak clothes in rool or lu k ew arm
w ater ru th e r than cold. Cold w a
•
te r cau ses the fabric m esh to close
Keep a m irro r hanging in the und hold the dirt.
kitchen. G lance into it before you
go to an sw er the door-bell,
•
1‘ap erh an g era alw ays do the ceil
ing before the w alls. Ceiling p ap er
should not run acro ss the windows
save in ca ses w here this can not
possibly be avoided.
to r«N«v« cough« — aching muscles
RUB ON
MUSTEROIE
• —-
When rem oving a pane of glass,
o r if fitting a new one, it often be
com es n ecessary to give the glass Are you su fferin g from T. B.
u few light tap s to loosen it or to Internal or External? Then you need
push it into place. If n ru b b er M ELC O SI Thia almple-to-take rem edy
w ill tftve you new health, or your money
cru tc h tip is placed ov er the handle refunded.
W rite
of the putty knife th ere will be little
MELCOS
d an g er of breaking the pane.
llnx <73
London, Ontario, Canada«
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