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Senator for Americans

AMONG THE members of the U. 8. Senate who must stand for re-election this year is John J. Williams of Delaware. I There is nothing sensational, or pompous, or high-brow about Sen. Williams, either in manner or attitude, He acts shy, speaks quietly, thinks straight, shuns rank partisan. ship and goes about his business modestly. He looks more like a feed merchant (his private business) than a Senator is supposed to look. : But there are few, if any, who act and work more like a Senator ought to act and work. "Sen, Williams has done more than any other member of Congress to explode the scandals in the Truman admin- . istration. He can claim more notches in his musket on this score than any other investigator—the income tax frauds, the monkey business with government warehouses, the Lias case, the Boyle and Gabrielson cases, Finnegan, Nunan, and more. Yet he has been high in hie praise of other investigators and asks no reward for his own diligent efforts except results, y, » ¥ ” yn - MR. WILLIAMS is a Republican, yet he has not spared Republicans in his investigations. He won't cover up for anybody, yet he never has allowed his investigations to become persecutions, The Senator is a dealer in facts. And he is exactin .and exhaustive, both in his search for the facts and in the manner in which he reveals them, once he has a case. : Only one administration spokesman has been foolish ‘enough to dispute him directly. Agriculture Secretary Brannan accused Sen. Williams of “deliberate misstate- ; ments” in his exposure of the Camp Crowder scandals. But the Senator, for all the unsavory ground he has Spvered: has made no misstatements, “deliberate” or other-

In the Senate, Mr. Williams has made his mark as a fair-minded, diligent and effective investigator. But he has been on the job otherwise, rarely missing a roll call,

attending to his full duties with common sense and states. ciation.

Sen. Williams represents Delaware, one of the smallest states, but he is, in every sense, a Senator of the United States.

Choppers “NT years, monumental federal budgets have overThis year’s spending requests, for example, fill a 1316- . page volume, jam-packed with thousands of items | up to a $85.4 billion total. } Such budgets are laced with waste and extravagance. Some members of Congress have tried sincerely to take { out this fat. But it's been a frustrating and near-impossible task, simply because you can't slice away fat without knowi ing where the fat is. Even the House and Senate Appropria- | tions Committees have been unable to do more than make | a cursory examination of the budget requests and the justi- , fication for them.

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LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins Experts Can Disagree, Too—

WASHINGTON, Apr. 15-How experts can disagree in labor-management matters is shown in a criticism by the American Arbitration

warehouse Association of the Wage Stabilization Board's

handling of the steel case.

The association is made up of professional arbiters of labor disputes. These arbiters are hired by employers and labor unions, usually jointly, Most of the Wage Board's public members are arbiters as a sideline to university teaching careers, and are members of the asso-

The association says in the current issue of its journal, “Arbitration News,” that the steel case shows a need for - further study of the useful- : ness of the Wage Board and Sen. Bridges similar groups in settlement « « » INQuiry of labor disputes. The Wage \ f Board has six members representing the public, six representing management and siX representing labor. The association points out that the public members have voted mostly with the labor members. In Congress, too, there's some questioning of the board's usefulness. A demand for an investigation of the Wage Board has been

made by the House Labor Committee, and the rolling gn

ate has received a proposal to make drastic changes in the board setup. The arbitration publication, noting reports that the Wage Board's public members had been forced by the labor group to vote for a larger wage increase than they originally favored, observes: “The psychological effect of bringing the arbitration down off his ‘impartial panel’ into the arena of arguments destroys not only the

What Others Say—

MR. TRUMAN seems to be determined to squander us and tax us into federal bankruptcy:

widea of how the money is to be spent. When it's too late, Hs does everything in the world but try to save

the lawmakers find out that they—and the taxpayers— “have been suckered again.

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¥ NOW THERE'S a movement under way to get control “of the national purse strings back in the hands of Congress, “where it belongs. : : a Sen. McClellan of Arkansas has proposed a combined Senate-House budget committee, with a full-time staff “of budget experts. The committee would check spending re“quests, probe cost estimates, examine actual expenditures— “in short, work the year around to make sure the govern«ment got its money's worth, Sen. McClellan estimates 2 that this committee and staff would save $100 for each dol“lar spent. ; + The Senate has approved the McClellan bill. It now is

& dollar for the taxpayer.—Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) * o> »

THE people have asked Congress for meat and they have gotten amendments.—Erio Johnston, economic stablizer, referring to ban in House-Senate bills on lvestock slaughtering quotas.

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RETIREMENT ought to be based on a man's ability and a man’s desire, not on his age.— Maurice Tobin, Becretary o Labor.

WE ARE NOT talking of trial marriage. We want to create indissoluble economic bonds. ~French Premier Rene Pleven speaking for the Schuman Plan. *. ¢ 0 LET the chips fall where they may. , ..1I

am an inveterate and implacable opponent of

-in the House where strong opposition has arisen from some ° the spoils system.—Newbold Morris, assigned to

~ members of the appropriations committee, who consider the “proposal a threat to their power. , Such unreasoning opposition should be squelched, and _ the bill passed. % . As Sen. Monroney of Oklahoma has pointed out, “the McClellan bill offers an opportunity to effect genuine * economy instead of the jawbone type.

It's high time, too. “Long Campaigns

AN AMERICAN correspondent for an English newspaper y wrote recently that the reason he had been sending so

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« months before the election — was that the campaign really is under way. : : ® So it is. Thousands of people are spending all their 5 time, and a lot of money, in behalf of the various candi- * dates for President. This probably does seem odd to foreigners. It should - seem odd to us, if we took a good look at ourselves. . There is no reason why presidential nominating con- . vehtions should be held months before the election, except _ that it was done that way when grandfather was a boy. . No one except a politician would want to have a convenin the midsummer heat, anyway. © - _ Today, anything a candidate has to say can be heard ~ or read by anyone in the United States within a' matter of + hours. Millions can hear it instantly on television or radio, -

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judicial nature of his role but also renders a calm judgment of the issue all but nil.” Various substitutes have been suggested for replacement of the three-sided setup, still giving labor and management a full chance to be heard. One is to restrict voting rights on such boards to the public members, with the labor and management spokesmen serving only as advocates for the interests they represent. Under the Wage Board plan, the labor and management groups have equal voting power with the public group.

Broader Issue

THE Senate Labor Committee starts today to explore an even broader issue brought up by the steel case. It is the question of the President's power to seize industries when strikes menacing the national welfare are threatened. The committee's subject is a bill reintroduced by Sen. Wayne Morse (R. Ore.) to provide by law a detailed method for presidential seizure of industries in emergency. labor disputes unless Congress as a whole votes against that action. . President Truman, in seizing the steel indusfry a week ago, cited no specific law as his authority, but only his “inherent powers.” Five of the biggest steel companies have challenged these powers in federal court with arguments that may continue for many months and eventually reach the Supreme Court. The Senate Labor Committee's inquiry will be dominated by Senators whose views often coincide with those of labor leaders. Another Senate inquiry into seizure powers, proposed by Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N.H.) and backed by Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) also may begin soon.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

GEN. EISENHOWER will stick to Army regulations for five-star men and make only a few “nonpolitical” Repub-

lican speeches before the GOP convention, * 9 0 POLITICAL science prim-

er—the term, “free delegations,” as applied to national conventions, has no reference to their price. . Se & HEADLINE — Women at United Nations are still voiceless minority. Wonder where they get them? : ro Gen. Eisenhow cHAIRMAN Frank x. O°" Eisenhower McKINNEY would deny that "°° 9 some elements of the Democratic Party would like to groom a dark horse named Robin Hood. YOUTHS who don't like politics may start turning down appointments to West Point.

SOME Congressmen are taking polls to try to keep their constituents from taking THEM.

BIGGEST news about the seizure of four

U. 8. shrimp boats was that the Mexican navy is that powerful.

WASHINGTON, Apr. 15 Our nation rapidly is running out of Senators who look like

cartoonists in an awful spot. Turns the standard Senators in the movies, made up at great effort and expense, into obvious phonies. The, genuine articles almost without exception today resemble successful, middle-aged dentists, I've nothing against dentists, you understand, but Senators are something special. What they need are Impressive bay windows, droopy suits of white linen, jowls, flowered vests, and hats with brims to sweep up dust storms when flourished low to lady constituents, Of these we seem to be fresh out. : - Bringing up these melancholy reflections was Tawm Connally’s decision not to run aghin. Now there's a Senator who looks the part. And acts it, too. Nobody can snarl like Tawm in the Senate, nor be so all-out gracious, according as’ 40 his mood. Over the week end, you remember, he told the folks in Texas he was all caught up with campaigning.

‘These long drawn-out campaigns do “hot arouse the A MS rutentome 2 in as : - hae a ys EM . ; 1 : vin Then he held a meeting oters. They pr i mss #0 Many Of them wOh, yes, the children are fine! Two of them are in bed and I'm _gxplain all to his friends of

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POLITICS oe By Charles Lucey ht : TE 5 : Voters Toss Harry Truman's

‘Eyewash’ Back in His Face

WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—An outpouring of votes in five presidential primaries so far indicates Americans will have more to say about picking a President in 1952 than in many years. The significance attached to both Democratic and Republican presidential primary results has demolished President Truman's statement that these pre-convention election exercises every four years are mere “eyewash.” The President could cite the record to show that candidates who have o¢leaned up in the primaries have washed out early in the nominating convention. He believes that any President wishing renomination can go into his party's convention and bowl over his opponents, regardless of the primary results—ahd this generally has been true. Yet there is argument in favor of the importance of the primaries—Tom Dewey's im. pressive Oregon victory over Harold Stassén in: 1948 put him on the high road to the nomination at Philadelphia a few weeks later.

More This Year

THE figures show more people have been turning out this year. Four years ago, 1,649,655 persons voted in the Illinois presidential primary. With the final count on last week’s Illinois voting stil] incomplete this figure has been topped by 100,000 and probably will total nearly two million. In Nebraska, 317,880 voted two weeks ago as compared with 278,000 in 1948, But four years ago, everything favored a larger vote in that state. It had a lively “all-star” primary in which all potential candidates were entered. All three front-runners—Mr, Dewey, Sen, Robert A. Taft and Mr. Stassen-—campaigned there in 1948. This year, neither of the two front-run- . ners~Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Taft— made an appearance in the state, and still some 135,000 persons who voted took the trouble to write in their names. " New Hampshire, in this year’s first primary, came close to doubling its vote over 1948—136,000 voted this year, 77,000 four year ago. Minnesota had no preferential primary four

% years ago. This year, there was no contest om ! ri the Deocratic side, with Sen. Hubert Hume

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Th wasn't supposed to be a contest on the Reropilonn side, either—yet 107,800 persons turned out to write in Gen. Eisenhower's name and come close to polishing off Mr. Stassen in E

his native state. :

Largest Vote? IN THE 1948 Wisconsin primary, the total GOP vote was 162,000; this year it was 770,000, In the 1948 Wisconsin Democratic primary-—.

there was no contest of importance—only about Bankin BD on re a aus trusty: | aide inate a ma ag pine Tse 241,000 Democratic Seat n to ma votes were recorded. : place. The politicians say that if the fall campagin We don't. | really stifs the country’s interest, the largest trom. the. so presidential vote in history, they can play an po effective role in President ‘picking. Unless the land club for

Septemper-Oc¢tober vote drive becomes a lifeless

affair, the prospect is for a big vote. With"

issues sharply drawn as they are already, the Ikelihood is for anything but a lifeless.

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largest presidential p ' east in the Franklin Roosevelt-Wendell Willkie -

contest in 1940—49,547,000. . The RooseveltsDewey total in 1944 was only 47,608,000 votes,™ In 1948, the Truman-Dewey contest. brought out’

48,836,000 voters,

A Little Crowing

LOOKING back over this year’s primary contests, the Taft leaders did a little crowing today. The tally showed, they said, that the Ohio Senator's vote in the five primaries ex< ceeded that of all his opponents combined. The Taft total was figured as 1,313,535 as against 1,224,280 for his opponents, They reported that in the four states in which there have been both Taft and Eisen. hower votes, the tally is 998,000 for Mr. Taft to 352,000 for the General. The Democratic vote for Sen. Estes Kefauver in the five primary states was 797,000.

RUSSIA . .. By R. H. Shackford What's Stalin Going to Do Next?

LONDON, Apr. 15—8talin, with the help of his Communist fifth columns and wishful-think-ing fellow travelers in Western Europe, is succeeding pretty well in his current conjurer’s act. No one knows what Stalin is up to. But he's keeping the Western world baffled. Stalin manages to keep much Western opinion focused on one of his hands—the one offering a German ‘“‘solution,” proposing East-West trade and suggesting another Big Four meeting. But Stalin's other hand

keeps right on refusing a

tria to four-power occupation and accusing America of en-

gaging in diabolical germ warfare. Like all good conjurers, Stalin keeps his watchers on the edge of their chairs, awaiting the next sensation. Many Western diplomats wouldn't bé surprised if the climax of Stalin's spring “show” were a proposal for another Big Four meeting. He must know it would embarrass the West, far from ready for such a parley.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill indicated the time wasn't ripe when he told the House of Commons this week: 8

“If the circumstances and situation were favorable, I would welcome the occasion.”

There are two very unfavorable ecifcumstances now-—first, the continued delay in rearming Germany and bringing her into Western Europe defense program; second, the forthcoming United States presidential election. Even if all other factors were favorable, ‘British diplomats point out, it would be nonsense to agree to a meeting now when the next United States President is not only to be a different man but perhaps of a different political party, come next January. But the West's major trouble now is lack of complete unanimity in *all countries about

Joe Stalin « ¢ « spring show,

Stalin's diplomatic and economic offensive, There are two general schools of thought: ONE—Russia, truly afraid of Western and German rearmament, is prepared to make big concessions to stop it.’ This view is among Europeans—especially those who don favor German rearmament. : TWO-—Russia is insincere in its German offer and is taking advantage of Western differences, hesitations and economic crises to further befuddle the West's rearmament plans, American officials lean to this side.

Offensive Underway

WHATEVER Stalin's objective, his offen sive is well underway, It is timed to coincide with American political year confusion and the forthcoming angry European debates on Ger. man rearmament. In the past 30 days, there have been these developments: Russia’s initial proposal of angther conference to draft a German peace treaty for a reunified, rearmed independent Germany. Stalin's reply to American newspaper editors that another world war was no closer than two or three years ago and another Big Four meeting might be useful. A statement by the Soviet government newspaper, Izvestia, that Russia is ready to solve all outstanding international issues by “peaceful means.” (This didn’t say whether it meant the 7-year Austrian treaty talks or the ‘monthslong Korean truce talks). "EBay

Another Dramatic Step?

THE unusual Stalin meeting with the retiring Indian ambassador to Moscow, with hints that Stalin might be making overtures through India for another dramatic step, The much ballyhooed East-West international trade conference in Moscow with sensational trade offers being tossed out by the depressed industries like textiles. Sh So the West awalts Stalin’s next stunt, while also awaiting his reply to the West's note stat ing that free, internationally supervised alle German elections must precede any German uni ‘fication. You can get even moriey in some quar-

ters here that Satlin will call the West on that one.

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Your Vote’

"| do not agree with’ a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo say it."

MR. EDITOR: We hear a lot of comment and read a lot in print these days about the laciggof interest in voting by citizéns entitled to vote if they wish to. In my opinion one reason is there isn’t enough incentive for them to vote. As a rule the internationalists pick and force their candidates through the convention so the election is served up right there in the conventions, and it

makes no” difference which way the pendulum

swings. They always win,

The convention laws should be changed so more power would be placed in the hands of the people when selecting their delegates. Then Congress should be urged to enact a law to give the voters an exemption on their income taxes. That would be an incentive for the business man and farmer to vote. It would not apply to some people ‘because they pay no taxes. Then thé good citizens should take an interest in getting out the right votes in their own areas.

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No doubt there are other ways th used if time and effort was hv a them out. Don’t depend on the internationalists and mast of the top professional politicians to do it. They are too well satisfied the way it is now, ~Ernest Bronnenberg, Anderson.

‘Can You Help Me?

MR. EDITOR: I am a patient here at Fitzsimm Arm Hospital. Now y 1950. : In the past few months I have started cols lecting stamps of all kinds, but I find it very hard to obtain any stamps for my collection, I would appreciate it very much if you would publish this note, and ask your readers if some«

ome will please help me with my stamp collece n. :

—Sgt. Stanley Demski, Ward D. 3, Fitzsimmons. Army Hospital, Denver, Colo,

CARTOONISTS HARD HIT . . . By Frederick C. Othman Need More Senators Who Look the Part

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Senators. This is bad. Puts the

chair he sat, at the head of a

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smaller than: a football field. On this, snaking through the Senator's ash trays for the occasion, were the cables of the television and the movie man. All over the place were their mighty floodlights, almost drowning out the prisma-

tic glitter of Tawm’s crystal

chandelier. x 80 he applied a match to a

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a small baseball bat. He pulled his dark-rimmed eyeglasses to

the very tip of his pink nose.

and ‘over their tops he gazed benevolently. This time obvi-

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humor,

When he turned his head, you could see his white -mane cascading over the back of his collar. When he sat buddhalike, he still was impressive, with his hard-boiled and pleated shirt reflecting back the glare.

“I was just thinking that I was in high school when you came into Congress,” suggested one of my more prosperous colleagues, “You've done very well under my leadership,” said Tawm a master of the. retort snappy. Then he went on to say that this was his final year in the ‘handsome chamber with the

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fireplaces of white marble and the map of the world covering one whole wall, . It was hard work being a Senator, terrible hard wérk, he said. And he figured he'd had enough of it since 1929. Before that, even, he’d been a Congy and somehow the ob kep ti tougher and Songhy getting toug!

He could have won the election in Texas, of course, Tawm continued. After all, the opposition an 't running against m, it against President Truman. Now the President

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a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. “After 25 years here,” suge gested a ndent in le, “what would you say is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican?” : Tawm billowed up a column of cigar smoke. He almost choked, And he said: “If you don’t know that Jopuselt, you ain't got any

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