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An Unfortunate Message
NE thing sure about President Truman's State of. the Union message, opening the new session of Congress “and the 1948 political season: There's something in it for everybody. Everybody, that is, but the hig: corporations, - which can’t vite. “Much of the long. document is a catalog of New Deal objectives, not attained by Mr, Roosevelt and Mr. Truman .in 14 years of Democratic Congresses, on which Mr. Truman abks action right now by a Replblican Congress. The list includes fair employment practices, more social _security benefits, health insurance, federal school aid, housing, more TVA’s, irrigation, flood control,” water power, i soil conservation, crop insurance, farm-price supports,. encouragement to co-operatives, more rural electrification, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, and a lot of other things, leaving out practically nothing but the Beatitudes and the Ten Commandments. : : Many of these objectives are desirable. But most of “them would commit the government to the spending of more money in large amounts. And with Mr."Truman ap_parently convinced that economy in present federal activity has gone about as far as it can go—-"government expenditures,” he says, “are at their lowest safe levels” —Congress | certainly i is Justified | in Jooking hy hard at ! proposals to increase | “spendirig. : - :
‘THE PRESIDENT coniders prompt adoption of “uni-
rEg ~- about that, and with - his belief that. the minimum wage i should be increased, giving a better break to workers in the ke 1d lowest earning brackets. + The two principal issues before this session of Congress i —aid to European recovery and inflation——are crowded into a few paragraphs toward the end of the message. Most of Mr. Truman's program (or platform?) seems to have been written with the hope of appealing to the votes of people who may be feeling the urge to wander off into the ‘wilderness with Henry Wallace. Apparently Mr. Wallace is crowding Mr. Truman to the left in the same way that | Huey Long shoved FDR. The proposal that captured the headlines, being host - § startling and most obvious in its political appeal, is-Mr. by Truman's plan to give each individual payer of income taxes | ti | a $40 “cost of living” cut, plus a $40 cut for each dépendent. That would be a new high in inflation of the price of votes.
“But the plan doesn't Stop there. - aan Truman, would
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election year may be sound. But the notion that corporations “pay” the money which the government tax: agents |
i Sa versal military training an urgent need. We agree with him +
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In Tune With the Times
BOOK DEPARTMENT
The art of selling books has yet to be learned
‘by my favorite department store which has
mastered the technique of selling everytliing else. Books they sell over there the way they sell hats. “May 1 help you?” asks the saleslady as-I stand there browsing. Does s a gentle prod to keep moving, buy up or get out? - She'is a motherly person in a green dress, One would imagine in the corset department she would
.be an expert, or the final. authority in hose, or
shoes, or in trinket jewelry for Saturday night. “But in books, she is singularly lost and the effort to apply the “do you think that fits?” technique to literature seems to place it on the basement lingerie counter. “May I help you?” She thinks T haven't heard her and her plea is louder, and -more insistent. Can she? The quality of a book resides in the mind of the one who reads it and the desirability thereof is a commentary on his life and needs. 1 would like to browse and look into the books, but that cannot -be where quality is synonymous with pricg, taste with style and color and adequacy have reference to height and weight. Books are custom made to the mind. “May I help. vou?” Perhaps 1 might buy a book and-charge it. Then i.1 don’t like the fit, or the ending, I can exchange it ~1 think not. One has to decide about a book as about an idea or a way of life, she cannot help nie. —RICHARD LePAUVRE. .® @
IN FANCY
.In fancy I see her tonight,
rd In the garden where ‘roses bloom; Tripping softly over, Roses and sweet clover, And there in the golden moonlight I watch her for. awhile __To see her lovely smile; And then T turn and leave the place, Forgetting not that maiden’s face. “In after years I stray back there, After my hair is gray, And. years have rolled away; ~ But Lo! the maiden is not there
In the garden where roses bloom, —H. T. JOHNSTON. > 4° Nothing pleases a bum so much as an oppor-
tunity to call a successful man a bum.
—CLAUDE BRADDICK. > oo
FIRST VISIT TO A CAVE
Stience hides in the ground, Silence greater than sound. In this deep chambered hold Torches reveal the old, The weird formations, time
In darkness and in slime 2.4
Has traced. Here Time's measure Beats ‘more slowly. No pleasure Knows this vastness without light, Here eternal silence dwells in night. Here minds scarce keep in chain * _The trained thoughts of coherent vein As ageless dark and cold . Press closer with their deathless hold. «~MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL.
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CAREFUL: DAD—_YOU. BOUGH
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Rp . ~~ Junior got a fot of toys, They're scattefed all around, His tool box was his greatest joy - It was sométhing he could pound.
As Dad was walking in the hall, He let out an awful wail He stubbed his toe, as you might know
get from them is a delusion. “They don’t. They only col-
4 When there's a buyers’ market, most of the so-called | corporation taxes are withheld from the pockets of stock- | | holders. But when there's a sellers’ market—and we're now | in the midst of the biggest one in history—practically all | ~ of the “corporate tax” is collected from consumers. i 3 ~The tax rate on corporation- incomes; “now- -38-per cent; + is hidden in the sales price of everything produced, processed, transported or distributed by corporations. The rate | .would have to be inereased to 50 per cent or more to get |
—-$8.900,000,000- additional revenue. That's
“<7 through higher prices, paid Rr fhody. “af We would call tha a_cruel deception, except that we don’t believe Ve Whny people will be deceived. Most taxpayers know gf, that they gain nothing when money is put . into ny pocket and taken out of the other. . general; this is a message of which Mr. Truman has Tiffle | reason to be proud. One of its most unfortunate aspects is the strong temptation, if not justification, it offers. - 2 Republicans to retaliate by making this session’ of Congress u a political Donnybrook Fair.~. =
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At. Last—An Issue ELL, this country finally has got its teeth into a real i issue. From coast to coast, leaders of opinion are disi _. cussing the burning question: Should President Truman 3h. build a balcony on the White House?
indicates the intense feeling that has been aroused. A “back porch,” shudders the New York Times, “might only desecrate the noble old mansion: We think it is a wise plan to smove slowly in matters of such historic significance and to : take second thought.” 7 AE The New York Herald Tribune reminds Mr. Truman that he is, after all, “only a tenant of the White House, in the last year of a term which’ may quite possibly.not be renewed. One may still hope,” it adds, “that he will I drop the plan,” although, if he insists on going through with it, “there is nothing to forbid his doing so. Nothing, that is, “+ excépt considerations of taste and propriety.” “The balcony,” observes the Washington Evening Star, “may be all right, But the speed with which the contract has been let and the secrecy which seems to have sur-
" fidence.” " © Mr. Truman appears to want only a small porch ad- | joining his, upstairs living quarters, on which he and his |
warm evenings to get a breath of fresh air without being | goggled at by sightseers.
ng in importance.
seems to
lect that money and pass it on to the government. +
least one-third, and practically. all of it Lae collected. om
A brief survey of metropolitan -newspaper comment
rounded details of preparation are not conducive to con--
family—and his successors and their families—can sit of | |
L . Knowing what Washington surmers are like, we e don't | Who. . consider that an unreasonable desire. And architect's draw‘ings of the proposed balcony do not indicate that it would "be any terrific evesore. But far be it from us to suggest ' limiting debate on a subject which practically everybody e consider world-shaki
s can give adequate atten: grithout too long delaying easy way inflation, i de.
Where Junior drove & mail:
Says Dad, “Next year I think I'll get ~ A pretty, purry kitten * Or better still, I think I will * Just buy a pair of mittens.” ~LAURA THELMA COMSTOCK. ee
“FOSTER'S FOLLIES (LOS ANGELES—Depression-in “gamed | for. shortage of dentists now.” \ It's one medico’s IMpregsion
. ‘That ou. 3eRMNts are too tew, 'caiee had a bad depression |
a boost, of fo Back in nineteen thirty-two, =
With a dentist date tomorrow
We would not be filled with sorrow Were those. old days with us sell!
BROTHERS UNDER SKIN . .. By E. T. Leach : Business and Labor || Climbing Same Spiral -
A GOOD MANY corporation executives and. union bosses would | be very surprised if they became better acquainted. . They would-find that they have alot in common; that they are { brothers under the skin==just working opposite sides of -the street. . They have been firing hot shots at each other—each side angrily | denouncing the other for doing the same things it does. They have | peen passing through a period of unprecedented prosperity—due to : shortages of goods and of workers—and it has made the leaders. on both sides look good. The corporation bosses have been able to make high profits for their stockholders; the union bosses to get high
| wages for their members.
And the traffic has borne an awful lot.
Now, at the start of a new year, all financial publications and most union papers speculate whether it can last. They sense danger They wonder whether we are headed for a_bust—and, if so, when. The financial heavy thinkers see the labor leaders as promoting a break bv repeated demands for big wage increases. leaders tear that high prices and corporation profits will bring trouble.
Each side is conscious of the other's evils,
Fact is, they've béen playing pretty much the same game. for: substantially the same reasons. And there's no ‘indication yet that either side is ready to call quits—the one recent hopeful sign being ! General Electric's voluntary cut of numerous prices. As 1048 begins, & drive for a third round of wage increases 1s in the offing. Union leaders say it is forced by high prices and can be paid out of’ high profits. Business big shots say the high prices were caused by high wages, and that investors also are entitled to Increased
earnings to meet rising costs.
Chances of Tapering Off Remote, Indeed |
EACH SIDE sees clearly that the other should taper off,
But the chances. for tapering seém.remote.
upping of prices.
The corporation executives and union leaders are, in a real sense,
rather helpless victims of this situation,
show ‘results to hold their jobs.
+80, too, the union bosses depend on gaining ever-bigger returns
for their members.
know the situation isn't sound and that,
of national size.
owners and members,
want to-help, or is this .
There, indeed;
BOUGHT ET 2 = hg of Mr. Wal-
Two BISEUSPIAs ie “fast, drm
It largely has beeh a case of exacting all the traffic would bear.
Money 1s plentiful—goods and workers scarce. set for the easy granting of a third round of pay hikes and another
The great mass-production industries are run r= men who must
There are wise and far-sighted men on both sides of the street if continued, jead to’ tiouble; ‘But individually they see ‘no way to stop it. The | pattern is set bya few great corporations and a few reat unions—all Ah
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"NATIONAL AFFAIRS , ue By Marquis Childs
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Wallace Aware of 3d Party Perils
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—The force of the blow
" that Henry Wallace has dealt to President Truman's
chances for re-election will become, increasingly evident as time goes by. It may well be.a mortal blow.
That is why the old guard of the Republican Party is sq overjoved. They are getting the feeling that they can sit tight and win wi t making any concessions to the independent voter. They feel that the prize will at long last fall to them no matter who the candidate or what the platform. This is the profound disservice that Mr. Wallace has done to his country at a moment when the whole - world is watching ‘to see what America's course will be. He has done his best to’ make sure that there will be no real contest in the fall. It_is_not that he. a well in -ad--WANS, ite 1048.
Bog determination to go di with the gesture even though, like Samson, he might pull down the
pillars of the very structure heprofessed to defend. ion ic0
Several months ago a prominent New Deal Democrat was approached by Mr, Wallace and his followers with an interesting offer. They wanted this man, who has real grass-rgots connections ahd influence, to become Mr. Wallace's political manager. What is more, they offered him a salary so large that at first he did not believe he had heard cor rectly.
Wallace Spirhied Party Advice
IN THE DISCUSSION. it. heoarit cl Clear. that Mr. Wallace intended “through with the third-party bid. The ‘offgs* was refused by the New Dealer, -who
phrased His refusal more or less as follows?
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“1f you go through with this, you will make re-
action more or less inevitable. And in the process you
will destroy yourself, * “1 am going to stay in the Democratic Party and J am going to support Mr. Truman in 1948. 1 * “Rrongly urge you to do the same. In that way you. will ‘be able to influence the policies of the admin- _ istration’ and the nature of the campaign. “hen -if- you still-feet-after the electron that thé "President has let you down, you will have two ’ courses ahead of you. You can Sar a “third party
“aggressively. sure of the=direction in which they want RIOR Cia WORN
Side Glances—By Galbraith
with a clear conscience that you- have paid a debt
1 1 am obliged to commend him,
of loyalty. Or you can work for a liberalization of |
the Deniocratic Party and for your own nomination in 1952." Mr. Wallace did not care for this advice. It went against the decision that had been taking shape in his mind. That Hecision has been constantly seconded
by a little group ¢f Communists and ardent fellow-" travelers who see in Mr. Wallace, 2th his cloudy | a heaven-sent {
idealism and his ready emotionalism, opportunity. Throughout his career this has-been Mr. Wallace's chief weakness. He has-let himsell be guided by some very curiots people. That was true even when he was
Vice President. In his character is a kind of passivity y
that makes. him.willing to follow those who are
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‘Gates’ Action Erica By Tom McGuire, 1126 Eugene St. It 1s edifying and encouraging to find that j bettermens ¢
the things that really count for the life a vast majority of people agree us to objective and differ only as to the ways of ase. plishment. Gov. Gates at this time comes forth with ty, 5 tings he hopes o furde oF Complete bey the end of his present term of office, Being of like mind and having made an exer, sive and somewhat practical study of these ny
In these times the conservation of natural n “sources is imperative and the: rehabilitation of yy’ folks in our mental institutions is a crying | on nomic and human need. Apologizing for, any wounds that my vitriolic pen may have caused in the past I wou offer amends. The Legion and associates have ‘done. mug toward the acquiring of the wonderful oaks, and other trees in the Indiana forest known the Shades. n The building brick Gov. Gates so generously offered could no doubt be used to advantage ip § the furtherance of state institutions: Thé Hoosiers I have known all my life ares warm-hearted and generous people but they like steresults and don’t. ike 10 be left. out on 4 gy
It occurs to me that cabins and a hotel are tw facilities needed to put a public park of any kind on a self-sustaining basis. - To further the plan ang harmonize the scenery. the buildings should be of the pioneer type and rough slabs from saw mill could be used to good advantage for outside effes and increased durability. ‘Many veterans in tn jurisdiction of our state could be used in the con. struction work either to rehabilitate GI's or reliew hospital institutions from a burden that, stricty speaking, is not altogether one they should bey One who lives by his own efforts broadens hi outlook and his self-reliance is increased. Lifting .others to where they pull their own weight along the journey through Me is the best of preventive treatment. 1 would submit to'your approval that a board of trustees be selected and. tickets be sold at a mini. "mum price of §1 éach-for overnight lodging at the Shades. The tickets would ‘be good until used and ° _ would, I believe, fully finance the complete program. A further thought to keep our bit of primeval wilderness as it was when it’ was used by the Indians., Why not incorporate in the plan that it be torever free from political patronage? : > O°
"Today We See the Conflict” By J. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham St, Today we see the conflict caused by a discredited control system of planned economy, a system without a substantial economic reason and very little legal substance, a system in which prices times can be brought down and by the m bring prices up. Such possibilities, of course, are fantastic. It is regrettable but true that controls on rent and. business are inconsistent. Their influence on per. sonal liberty is bevond our power to estimate. Under control some liberty is eventually lost. Unjust results must, under rent control, ‘be endured by ..Jahdlord. and. tenant...
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More Philosopher Than Politician MR. WALLACE is not so much a politician as a
1s not small. That is perhaps why, when he forces himself to become the stump oraior, ashe did-in announcing his candidacy, the result "is "painful
demagoguery.
It was significant that at least some of Mr. Wal-
lace’'s friends wanted to hire a manager with practical political knowledge. There is no one who comes close to that description in his-camp today. - Today Mr. Wallace is the captive of nimble-minded TU iRi-whe know the €xact measure of his usefulness
and philosopher. His contribution to science-
to them. During the past month he has been -de- -
serted by many former camp-followers- who came to a sudden realization of where the road was leading. “They declined to follow their one-time" ‘hero to that dead end. i THis is not intended to minimize Mr. Wallace's influence. I think that influence is considerable. A realist long familiar with the failures and successes of the Demoeratic Party put it this way: “We Democrats cannot win without the lunatic fringe, and Mr. Wallace will take it with him.” statement there is an element of brutal truth. But “its more tham-that: itis the-appeal of a mam who
seems to voice the “hopes and fears of many people ]
who “are troubled and confused.
“The union
So the stage is
making free with its money. sels a new wage‘pattern for steel
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COPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M Ve U. 8. PAT OFF,
| “Sandwiches and pie? Well, if it won't take more than'five minutes—1 don't want to be late for supper!”
When a vast. corporation like U. s. Steel
leaders rejoice that they have got more from the company. Actually, they get it from the public, wages and profits—and John Public. foots the bill for both sides.
Apparently riot, so long as the public keeps on buying. - But real buying resistance might also bring real depression—with | the public again paying most of the bill. | And real depression would bring increased government controls— hy not only of business but also of labor, The size and diversity of ‘their merbrrsiiph. ad stockhold- : { ings make them seem weakest. of all when it comes to taking
éxports.
of oil. tions:
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makers and coal miners, the union
dustries. For, prices go up—as do
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"under a pitted against the other in legal conflict. Sometimes we wonder why this condition is and hov
long it will prevail. Is this the heritage and the destiny of landlord and tenant? Both are freedomloving Americans and however rong the law may be, they did not make it. - * ¢.%
‘A Note to ‘Dr. Hutchins’. —By Paul J. Sears, 1830 Applegate St. If Dr Hutchins says that UMT is an act of war, boy, what a joké—or is it? I wonder. In 1918 we 1acked a lot (I being ready. France and England, also C2nada, acted as a buffer until we got ready in-this-last war. Prance fell while we were getting ready. Also Pearl Harbor was pretty badly tora up thanks to-our-iack-of readiness. - a ‘Still people who are supposed to be real smart
Tsay that UMT 1s ai act of war, Well, Dr. Hutchins, |
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WORLD. AFFAIRS . + « By William Philip Simms
pi Iron Curtain— | Reds Not Ready, Yet
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Latest available’ “information smuggled out of Russia by escapees {rom several digtérent areas behind the iron curtain, indicates that while the Reds, gfe not ready for war now, - they plan to be by 1950. Oil, steel and food requirsmients especially are being stressed, ac: cording to these sources. > The present -output-of high-grade steel. i Poland, including Silesis, is 160 per cent of pre-war, and all of it is being shipped Into-the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia’s output is described as above 1939 figures, most of which is also absorbed by Russia—at least the better grades ‘useful for armament and machine-tool manufacture. between the two countries calls for only 14 to 18 per cent of Czech
independent of oil as possible and, second, to increase the and storage of oil reserves to the utmost, “‘Informants recently escaped from forced-labor camps in Russ claim to have been employed with huge slave gangs In building storage reservoirs at strategic points far in the interior. The inference is that these growing oil reserves are clisively for planes, tanks, trucks, ships and other war ors | while Russia 1s practicipg:a strict policy of oll conservation, her five-year plan calls for 70 per cent of her’ tractors, wood-burners by 1950-Lparticularly those employed. in the
(New Farm Areas Are Developed
THE SAME PROGRAM ealls for the use of natural gas or | homes and elsewhere in place of gasoline or developments likewise are being pushed to the limit. The we oF I sene, ‘even for lighting being pf Many new oil refineries {+ Simultaneously with - In which case a Jot of corporation executives and labor bosses | gre developing vast new would find themselves limited by rules and regulations which would “Urals. The growing of unpleasant- but remedial action. The stakes are $0 enormous,’ the | be distastefyl—and perhaps even fatal to their particular jobs, For | .- Idaders of these vast businesses and unions so far removed from their | when the public gets angry enough at conditions which become 00. | servers remark, Russia is conducting a that the only’ ay; for. them seems to be: the | uncomfortable, it_has' a way of hitting JI and ik; feqaidiens of | J i 1 struck.
As a cover for these
I'd like to ask just what do you think nations across the briny deep are doing? Please dont shoot anything but beans, brother, Wake up.. UMT is the one and only thing mat stands between the U.S.A; -and war. —As~Abe Lincoln said, “United we stand, divided we fal ~Anat ‘George Washington-—"In- time of -war- prepare. for peace.” Also in time of peace prepare for war i So Doc please take note. . i
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Russia, it is further reported, is particularly-in-need of petroleum and its derivatives. While still an ally of Germany—that is to say I° 1940—Russia’s annual output of ofl was around 31 million tons.. During. the war years Groznf, Baku and certain other fields were either de
stroyed ‘or temporarily abandoned. Today her total production " estimated to be approximately 25 million tons a year.
Seek .o Increase Oil Reserves THIS SITUATION, it appears, is causing Soviet authorities con siderablé anxiety. They know that great war ns Therefore they are working - feverishly in two different First, they are seeking to make the domestic economy as n
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