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Show Good Firing Dont put too much coal on the fire at any one fifing. A good meth- THE WASHINGTON SCENE Political Influence in House Centered in Two Regions By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU Washington od is to fire first on one side and then on the other. Grates should be shaken until the red glow of the em- . bers is reflected in the ash pit. PIANOS . Correspondent. FOR (Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles covering the new congressional committees and their chairmen.) HOME and CHURCH WASHINGTON. Political power in the house of representatives, following the same trend as in the senate, is centered largely in the northeastern and north central states in committee assignments under the reorganization act. Michigan and New Jersey almost usurped chairmanships of the 17 new house committees formed under the act. These We have a few new SPINET PIANOS FOR SALE ALSO Good Selection of Used Reconditioned Pianos v two states garnered nine of the committees, Michigan getting five and New Jersey four. Kansas and New York each secured two com- mittee chairmanships, the others going to California, Illinois, Massachusetts and Minnesota. Joseph Martin, house speaker, also comes from Massachusetts and Charles Halleck, majority leader, is from Indiana. Only one chairmanship went to states west of Kansas, namely Richard J. Welch of California, who is regarded as a political independent as a result of being nominated on both Republican and Democratic tickets for several years. The list of new house committees and their chairmen follows: SEE THEM DURING APRIL CONFERENCE in Salt Lake at SUMMERHAYS MUSIC CO. Banking and Currency , 7 West 1st So. Assumption by JESSE P. WOLCOTT (MICH.) of the chairmanship of the powerful banking and currency committee heralds a violent shift in orientation of that group. Wolcott has been a Consistent opponent OLDEST AND YOUNGEST . . . Rep. Joseph J. Mansfield (Dem., government control of business. veteran of 30 consecutive years service in the He was the author of amendments to Tex.), house of representatives, discusses current legislation w)th Rep. limit the power of OPA in both sessions of the 79th congress. In the baby of the 80th George W. Sarbacher (Rep., Pa.), term. is his first who house veterans on debate the congress, serving long emergency housing program, he led the Republican fight against subsidies and price ceilings on existing ON THE UPGRADE homes. After the November elections, he announced that investigation of the outrageously bad veterans housing situation must be Appropriations the first' order of business for the Farm-to-Mark- et JOHN TABER (N. Y.), new chair- committee. man of the house appropriations Wolcott also is generally credited By AL JEDLICKA committee, with helping to prevent a report by WNU Staff Writer. been one of the the committee on a substantial improvement in the huge look for advoFarmers can most vocal the federal-stat- e cates pf governroad program in 1947, Thomas H. Macsecondary long-rang- e mental economy. told a WNU reporter'at U. S. roads commissioner, public housing bill Donald, While he was the in the face of re- the 28th annual convention of the Associated General Contractors ranking minority peated requests for in Chicago. member of the action by the PresIn framing the federal highway act in 1944, congress reccommittee which ident. Wolcotts ognized the vital & he now heads, he own 1946 housing need for better secconsistently intro-- d bill provided some or ondary, u c e d amendsuproads in government ments to approprifor homes for Beport rural regions. ations bills in an middle and upper farmmost cause attempt to reduce income groups and ers are individual federal expenditures. omitted public housing. pointedly operators who haul of 'AVIATION NOTES Always a foe government press one field, foreign economic polown crops to their Ip agents, Taber recently recommend- icy, Wolcott has generally supported comand market, NO AGE LIMITS ed that all government information the administration. Considered the great paratively inin out the Theyre never too young nor too be cleaned programs in Republican monetary distances authority separate to become old Only one terest of American liberty and free- the house, he was a the farms, from and delegate to the Little Kim old, years dom of the press. Taber, who auto- Bretton Woods conference and cotrade centers, 78 Weed of Denver, who already had matically becomes a . member of author with Brent Spence (Dem., per cent of farm- traveled more than 5,000 miles by on the the joint committee budget, Ky.) of legislation to implement it. ers travel has been found essential. boarded an airliner for Anchorhas fought for a marked reduction Wolcotts district (7th Michigan) In 1944, 34 per cent of all trucks air, Alaska. There she and her age, in federal expenditures. He proposes has been predominantly rural but were used on farms. mother, Mrs. Harold V. Weed, will for one thing to cut one million perthe war industrialization induring Match Funds Must join Lieutenant Weed, who is stasons from the federal payroll, t creased rapidly" in the counties boran for act The tioned with army air forces. . . . conto provided highway of an According analysis dering on the Detroit area and auto- annual federal contribution of 150 Bom more than a half century betroversial roll calls in 1946, Taber mobiles and other iron and steel million dollars for roads fore the Wright brothers flew an airvoted with the majority of his party now are becoming for each of the threesecondary years, manufacturing 95 per cent of the time. He has an postwar plane, Mrs. Susan Holifield, 95, made important. states the an with first air trip on a flight from Pittsher equal up putting excellent attendance record, being Wolcott, born in 1893, practiced sum out of their own or county burgh, Pa., to Los Angeles. It was absent for only one out of 130 roll law in Detroit before entering the funds. dandy, exclaimed one of the call votes in 1946. just army in World War I. After the war oldest women passengers ever carBecause of high construction Taber, who is 66, was born in Au- he settled in his present home town ried by a commercial airline. . . . costs, shortages of material and burn, N. Y., where he still lives. Aft- of Port Huron, where he served as It was a far cry from the boat and in a er graduating from Yale and the reduction and equipment, wagon in which she came to Iowa New York Law school, he practiced police judge and subsequently as the secondary road contractors, 91 years ago when Mrs. Lida Davidcent 50 about fell law from 1904 until he was elected prosecuting attorney of St. Clair per program son, 94, stepped aboard an airliner to congress in 1922. The 38th dis- county from 1921 until his election short of its goal in 1946, Macat Des Moines for a flight to CaliDonald said. trict in upstate New York, which he to congress in 193Q. Besides its general jurisdiction has represented since that time, has Indications that costs have reached fornia. Mrs. Davidson had wanted over banking and currency, Wolcotts their peak and will level off, that to fly ever since she saw her first long been overwhelmingly Republi- committee handles legislation on materials can. A third of its population live and equipment will be- plane nearly 40 years ago at a Van on farms and the rest in small cities housing, price control and certain come increasingly available, and Buren, Iowa, county fair, But they and towns. The Farm Bureau fed- types of financial aid to business. that more and more contractors who wouldnt let me. eration and the National Grange are Armed Services left the construction game during well organized. Labor is not poSatisfying this customer probthe war are the beUnder the legislative reorganiza- lief that thereturning justify started a family quarrel. ably road prolitically significant. secondary tion act, a single armed services will pick up substantially this by the hostess service Impressed gram Education and Labor committee reon TWA a MacDonald declared. plane, a passenger year, Wrote: It would be swell if I FRED A. HARTLEY JR. (N. J.), places the former The public roads commissioner could send my wife to your hostchairman of the new committee on house committees analyzed the mounting cost of the ess school so she would always education and labor, generally has on military affairs whole federal-stat- e prohighway be as pleasant as the two ladies followed Republican labor policy but and naval affairs. in his address to the Assocgram iated General Contractors. In the v servicing this flight., sometimes has deserted his party on This is generally , as a other issues. last quarter of 1946, construction regarded The new committee takes over the boost for the costs were 186 per cent above the FLYING FARMERS IN EAST Interest in the use of airplanes on functions of the two old committees armys legislative comparable period in 1940, and 16 per on education and on labor. Hartley program, since cent above the previous three farms no longer is restricted to the Midwest and West. Chapters of Nawas a member of the labor commit- seniority gives the months. of chairmanship tional Flying Farmers association tee. Costs Skyrocket. ' In The 10th New Jersey district, the new commitbreaking down these costs, the recently have been formed in both tee to G. Walter which Hartley represents, includes roads commission found that Pennsylvania and New Jersey. public Andrews (N. Y.), for years the rank- common dry excavation increased of Hudson Lauding the progressiveness of the parts ing Republican on the military af- 110 per cent; concrete substructures, 75 flying farmers who attended the and Essex counties fairs committee. Andrews is report- 101 per cent, and concrete super- organization meeting of the New Jerand seven wards ed as favoring universal military structures, 94 of the city of Newper cent. Bituminous sey group, W. S. Allen, state secreNo. 2 on which the is training, surface treatment showed the small- tary of agriculture, said, There is ark. In his priOn the No. 1 item est increase at 15 program. armys greater use for a plane on the farm per cent. mary campaign, unification of the armed forces MacDonald stressed the marked than in any other business with the for renomination Andrews has taken no public stand. shortage of contractors available for exception of transportation. last summer, HartAnalysis of controversial roll calls construction work by pointing out ley was opposed by 1946 shows that Andrews voted that while there were a total of 5,614 in on PAC the the with the majority of his party four ,road builders in the 1935-4- 6 basis of his fight period, out of five times. However, he gave this number dropped to 3,057 in 1940-4against OPA and the administration more support Now that large-scal- e construcwas accused of bethan did former military affairs tion has been resumed and materials ing a representachairman, Andrew J. May (Dem., and equipment should become intive of the manufacturing and retail lobbies, But he Ky.) on the controversial issue of creasingly obtainable, a large perwhich May was renominated by drafting centage of these former contractors Andrews introduced are expected to get back in the busiwon opposed. in and tively November. margin Hartley, who is 44 years old, is a bill in the last session to require ness this year. the only living person after whom nine months enlisted service of all The expectation of increased an aerie of the Fraternal Order of appointees to West Point. supplies of materials provides a Fifty-sevebase of optimism for the overall Eagles has been named. He was years old, Andrews 1947 highway program, MacDonappointed to the Kearny, N. J., li- has a law degree from Princeton, ald said. , brary commission in 1923 before he where he was once football coach. was old enough to vote and elected He served with the AEF in France MacDonald echoed the fueling of municipal commissioner in 1924 in World War I and was wounded other construction leaders at the when he was 21 years old. The next in action. He is now a business meeting that a sound long-ranUNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN . . . The new Douglas year he was chairman of the Re- man and director of Pratt and Lam- building program should be develpublican county committee, and in bert. His district (42nd New York) oped in the U. S. Quoting from the Cloudster is marked by unconven1928 he was elected to congress. includes part of Buffalo and the city recent economic report drawn up for tional placing of engines and proThe committees general jurisdic- of Tonawanda; it is usually Re- the President, MacDonald decried peller behind the passenger comtion over education and labor bills publican. Principal industries are the tendency to consider public partment, increasing efficiency of includes the school-lunc- h program, iron and steel, chemicals and rail- works primarily as the means to the wings, eliminating propeller which previously has been handled roading. Andrews has been in con- relieve unemployment in times of turbulence and reducing noise to gress since 1931. by the agriculture committee. a negligible level. of Marked Expansion Predicted In Highways has Wagner-Ellen-der-T- aft - farm-to-mark- w et Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. 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