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Show The Observations Of Mr. Jones WASHINGTON, D. C. An official committee known as the United States Atomic Energy. Commission is beginning an in-' vestigation into various fields of industrial health and safety with the hopes of gaining specific control con-trol of radio, logical hazards and atomic energy, and using their knowledge on behalf of health and public safety. However, the atomic bomb keeps Russia shivering in its boots, and that's enough to expect. ex-pect. There isn't any chance of using us-ing the atomic bomb for any purpose, unless Russia forces us to employ it in preserving the .peace of the world. The United States never attacks at-tacks but it always wins its wars. . Do not fail "to remember that the recent Congress passed laws to lower rates of taxation and the President Truman vetoed that .legislation. The political talk at the time was to the effect ef-fect that the President would recommend tax reduction before the political pot begins to boil in the Presidential election of 1948. That's a safe bet! The American taxpayers have had tough scratching, trying to keep up with the government. Our national debt is 260 billion dollars, the top of all borrowing in any country. An able authority in Washington Washing-ton says that prices of the United States are high because the world demand is high. And, labor rates have grown because thecost of living has risen, We are buying our own food products and foreign countries are also buying American foods because they haven't anywhere else to go. We give 'em the money! mon-ey! Unless we find some way of getting back on our foot and operating in a more sensible way than we have been doing for several years, this United States of ours will be caught in a very bad depression. You know what that means! Way back in the old days the United States Government boycotted boy-cotted margarine and did every- thing possible, and unreasonable, to prevent its sale. A few days ago the District of Columbia purchasing pur-chasing officer gave out a statement state-ment saying that uncolored margarine mar-garine costs the. District 27 cents a pound wholesale as against 74 ; cents a pound wholesale and that ' it is as good food as butter. 1 Therefore, the Government of the United States has refused to buy butter for its own public institutions, and it has virtually eliminated butter from tables for which the District is responsible. respon-sible. The District purchasing officer of-ficer okays margarine. It took a long while for the United States to cut out that foolish discrimination. dis-crimination. There were no evil intentions hidden behind the new labor relations re-lations act when it was passed by Congress. That kind of talk t.hsn davs is nonsense. The Taft- Hartley Labor Relations Act was : passed twice over the President's! veto. Democrats helped Republi-, cans plow the Chief under. The press of the country has been filled, with news items relating re-lating to the operation of the new labor relations act, and the concensus of opinion was expressed ex-pressed by Senator Ball of Minnesota Min-nesota a. few days ago when he observed that "so far the labor law revision act," passed at the recent session of Congress, "is working very well and is being quite generally observed." All this talk about some labor union leaders rounding up their members to defeat Senators and Representatives who voted for the act, when and if they run for election, is "baloney." The International Chemical Workers Union, AFL, has had the good sense to declare itself in favor of "compliance to the Taft-Hartley Act," except where, and if, it abridges the right of contract, freedom of the press, or freedom of speech." Which means that this group of union workers are going to judge the new labor law on its merits and abstain from condemning its provisions pro-visions until they are able to judge the legislation on its merits. mer-its. The price of new houses throughout the United States is a shame and disgrace. Houses right in our National Capitol that were built just prior to the war are being sold today for three and four times as much as original cost. And at the same time rents are being boosted and so are taxes. These public evils were not "controlled" by your Government at any time during the war unless the ac-t;on ac-t;on of the Government in letting let-ting housing affairs get out of control was a child of OPA parentage. |