In the Day's News
Bv FRANK JENKINS
Here is a question that is be
ing widely discussed in America
today:
Did President Truman have
clear authority, under the law
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and the constitution, to seize
the steel plants which are pri
vate property?
THAT I don't know. It is a
question that will have to be
answered by the courts.
But
Law or no law
Constitution or no constitu
tion HE SEIZED THEM.
JET'S look at a parallel case:
This bold bruiser Batista had
no clear authority under the law
or the constitution to seize the
presidency of CUBA.
But he seized it. '
Law or no law, constitution
or no constitution, HE'S IT!
OUR government now holds the
railroads ' and it holds the
steel industry. Already we've
taken a long step toward social
ism. Suppose we submitted to a
referendum vote this question:
"Shall We or Shall We not Have
Socialism in the United States?"
The vote, in such case, would
be about 10 to one AGAINST.
But, taking it a step at a time,
we can GET USED TO THE
IDEA OF SOCIALISM. We don't
want it, but if it is fed to us per
sistently in small doses we can
come in time to tolerate it.
Alexander Pope, in his Essay
on Man, tells us truly:
"Vice is a monster of so fright
ful mien
"As to be hated needs but to
be seen; I
"Yet, seen too fot, familiar
with her face,
"We first endure, then pity,
then EMBRACE."
It can be that way with social
ism. LET'S look at the subject of
steel profits. Our President
says they're scandalously big.
Steel spokesmen admit profits
of about 19 billion dollars but,
they say, of the 19 billions about
12 billions GO TO THE GOV
ERNMENT IN TAXES.
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, HOLLYWOOD (U.R) White
Collar Girls, U.S.A., an organiza
tion started by secretaries in
Hollywood radio, television and
advertising offices, protest the
high taxes are keeping them ouf
of the Easter parade.
The secretaries sent a huge
Easter card to Rep. Robert L.
Doughton, chairman of the House
Ways and Mean' committee, say
ing that they won't be able to
walk in filmland's Easter parade
this year because they can't af
ford new spring clothes.
Song Included
The girls included a song, set
to the music of "The Easter Pa
rade," that went like this:
There should be a sonnet
About the faded bonnet
With last year's bow upon it
Of the poor working girl.
Her suit she got in forty
If the government squeezes the
profits out of the steel industry,
it will lose the 12 billions in tax
money it now collects from pri
vate steel makers.
That raises this question:
If the government loses the
12 billions it now gets from steel,
where will it bo to opt th
money? You know where it will
go. it wil,l, UU TO THE REST
OF US.
We'll have to pay more taxes
to make up the loss.
TF YOU have doubts on that
1 point, take a look at Oregon,
where the government owns
about half of our total land area.
If we could TAX ALL THAT
PROPERTY we'd be sitting
pretty.
NOTHER question:
Who owns the steel Industry-
perhaps we'd better say who did
own the steel industry before
tne government seized it?
In the case of steel, I do not
have the figures before me. So
let's take the telephone which
also is struck and which might
be seized. The American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company
now has more than a MILLION
stockholders, which is far more
than the total number of its em
ployees.
I imagine the same situation
exists In the case of steel.
ipHAT is to say:
In seizing the steel industry
In order to make good the de
mands of the steel workers for
more pay, President Truman fa
vored one class of citizens
against another class of citi
zens and he did It by EDICT
and not by law.
Why?
I presume it was because he
thought the crowd he favored
has more voting power than the
crowd he hurt. That is the PO
LITICAL way of settling such
things. Personally, I think he
figured it out wrong and hurt
more people than he helped.
Anyway, that's a bad theory on
which to run a country like this.
QO FAR, this piece has been
highly critical of President
Truman. But the fault isn't all
his. Congress shares thetjlame
for the trouble started with the
stabilization law that was ' en
acted by Congress.
It was a JOKE. Everybody
knew It was a joke. It was fuller
of holes than a good Swiss
cheese. It was enacted Just ahead
of an election campaign and the
underlying reason for its enact
ment was to enable everybody
to go home and tell the voters
that "we passed a stabilization
law and now everybody Is pro
tected against inflation."
What happened was exactly
what always happens when half
baked laws are thrown together
for purely political purposes.
Prices went up and wages went
up and nobody did anything
about it. There wasn't much any
body could do about it under the
law that had been passed.
Things went from bad to
worse, and eventually the situa
tion reached a crisis in the steel
strike.
fJHE point? This Is It:
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Around Hollywood
Hollywood (U.R) Filmland's
famous scandal-makers would
stay out of trouble, a top private
detective .said
Satur day, if
the entertain
ment world
would hire
him to police
S them.
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York cop, pro
poses that the
Aline Mosby movie, televis
ion and radUv industries have
him keep an eye on their gay em
ployees after working hours.
When he'd . catch an actor In
volved in liquor, wild parties or
dope, he'd tattle to the star's
studio. Then it would be up to
the studio bosses to tell the thes
pian to behave or get fired.
"Hollywood needs to do this
because of its public ' relations
with the movie-going public,"
says Barney, who wears horn
rimmed glasses and talks right
out of a Sam Spade tale.
Few Get Into Trouble
"A lot of people in small
towns won't go to movies be
cause they think there's nothing
but vulgarity out here. Actually
only five per cent of the town
gets into trouble, and that should
be cleaned up.
"The studios could set up
some sort of a detective bureau
Her shoes no more are sporty
Her dresses all are shorties
That's the poor working girl.
She has rent to pay food to
buy
Her taxes are so darn high
When she gets her check, it's
such a wreck
She can't make ends meet
It's a feat she can't beat.
So let's enlist the nation j
To get some legislation
To elevate the station
Of the poor working girl.
Group officials said the object
of the protest was to gain favor
abte action on a proposed bill to
raise the personal income tax ex
emption from $600 to $1,000.
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that ran nose out these scandals
and. nip them in the bud before
they get any publicity."
The privnfe eye thinks that
many a movie incident, "such as
the Robert Mitchum, Barbara
Payton or Ann Sterling cases,!'
could have been prevented if he
could have tipped off their
bosses.
Could Do Other Things
"The detective bureau could
do other things, too. Stars and
executives pay a fortune every
year to shakedown and black
mail artists. Those could be
cleared up, and dope rings
watched.
, "And every time a girl gets
tn trouble she says she's a star
let.. We could check, and if she
wasn't in pictures, ask the pa
pers not to use the movie con
nection." Barney already knows the
night life of the gods of the show
business. Back in the '30 s he
patrolled the Broadway beat.
Then he switched to play private
eye in murder and divorce
cases in Hollywood. For a while
he operated a fashionable res
taurant on the Sunset strip
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"One well-known producer
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