| Show Y NEWS ANALYSIS president truman astounds n lation nation by winning election over bewey dewey senate house go U democratic Bemo emo cratic T too 00 by bill staff western EDITOR s NOTE when opinions pinion are re ex expressed in athass the columns coln nini they are those ft of newspaper union a news analis analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper ELECTION ghost walked the night of november 23 2 3 was supposed to have been a wake the defunct democratic party but the corpse wouldn t be he still it not only sat up but went around slap ping the premature mourners on the back IN THE FACE of the supposedly cut and dried nature of the cam laign between president truman and governor dewey the results of the election were fantastic every body had been wrong from the sec ond guessers on every street cor ner to the infallible pollsters of c opinion it was truman all the way from the first early returns which indicated the trend until the great pivotal states of ohio illinois and california califor rua swung over into the dena dem camp crushed dewey and forced him to concede MR TRUMAN S two million plus plurality which gave him elec toral votes iotes to dewey s was nothing less than a popular diorec tive to serve thus tor for the first time since he entered the white house president truman was able to feel that he had full untrammeled control of the administration MORE THAN that the president was enormously elated about the tact fact that the democrats had gained control of both houses of congress how justifiable that elation will turn out to be however Is a question for time to answer we have a congress now and I 1 m sure we 11 make some progress in the next four years be he said yet full cooperation between a U S president and his congress even when they are aligned cally Is if not quite a rarity at least unusual personalities gov thomas E dewey of new york must have been the most tor merited man in the nation for a few days after november 2 AT 46 an age when most men in politics are only beginning their climb to the top he had sat for a few weeks on an imaginary pin nacle created by himself with yeoman help from the pollsters only to feel it dissolve under him when the votes were counted dewey was through a man to be pitied never again would he find the ambition or the chance to be president of the united states BUT FOR president truman these were days of such happiness and triumph as few men savor in a lifetime he had pummeled his way through the allotted number of rounds in the campaign almost sin sm gle handedly he had fought dewey and the republicans he had fought the apathy of his own party he had fought for and won over to his s de a majority ot of the united states voters harry S truman was the man of the year WHAT NOW program now that it is going to be dent truman again tor for the next tour four years what can the nation ex hect of him to do along legislative lines his program will probably be elucidated in two phases his annual message to be delivered to the jan uary 3 opening of congress and his inaugural address on january 20 in the meantime if it his campaign speeches are taken as being rea reliable mr truman has committed himself to a program involving these principal issues PRICES I 1 m still in favor of ac tion to hold down the cost of liv ing he wants price control laws the president indicated LABOR the taft hartley law is the opening gun in the can onslaught against the rights of the working man it should be re pealed he also is expected to ask for the raising of the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour communists we are on guard against them CIVIL RIGHTS we cannot be sat isfried until all our people have equal opportunity for jobs homes edu caton cat on health and tor for political ex agriculture full markets tor for farm arm products a floor under farm income increased farm income through cooperatives mar ket development and research SOCIAL SECURITY A compre insurance system to protect 4 V 4 x A 41 r 24 ai I 1 THE vanquished called the wrong tune all our people probably he will recommend expansion ot of the law to cover self employed domestics farm workers and others not now included ATOMIC ENERGY civilian con arol under government management should be retained HOUSING the taft ellender wagner bill passed the senate and should have passed the house TAXES the tax reduction passed over his veto Is inequitable as well as untimely some readjustment Is required to afford relief to families who are suffering but total re should not be reduced CONGRESS demo gains although they had needed a gain of only four senate and 31 house seats for control of the congress the democratic party much better than that by the time dewey conceded the election the democratic party was assured of at least 18 senators against five for the republicans and representatives against 88 86 for the republicans forty nine rune votes are necessary for senate control the democrats now have 54 democrats have clinched at least house seats only are necessary tor for control republican senators seeking re election were defeated by democrats in west virginia kentucky oklahoma wyoming minnesota iowa and illinois in other con tests where democrats were seek mg ing re election reelection they won colorado s democratic senator johnson was a winner in his re election campaign in oklahoma where a republican seat was at issue former gov robert keer democrat won republican senator bevercombe Rever combe was defeated in west virginia by democratic governor neely hubert humphrey democratic mayor of minneapolis won his bid tor for re publican sen joseph H ball a job in illinois democratic senate can didace paul douglas defeated re publican sen C wayland brooks by more than votes GUARD expansion soon after the congress con venes on january 3 it will be re quested to boost the authorized strength of the national guard by men and put all its units on a ready tor for war basis and the way th look now it appears that congress will agree to that request guard officials said they would ask that the authorized strength be increased from the present to this of course would require special appropriations tor for armories and equipment these officials in washington said they also will ask that all 27 divi of the nat onal guard be in eluded in the army s stepped up defense program the army so far has selected only six of the 27 d vis ons for its mobilization day force the out fit that would be ready to strike back first if this nation were to be attacked army spokesmen however cla m their present funds and ament cannot support more than six guard units on a war ready basis JOY ABROAD about harry astonishment at the re election reelection ot of president truman was not confined within the boundaries of the united states and ace united n alte d N nations a tio n s d delegates el eg a te s in pans paris re received e d th the e n news e w s w with it h a mixture of incredulity and happi ness MAJORITY opinion among the delegates seemed to be that it was a good thing first the european lead ers said the continuity of the american government will hasten atlantic pact negotiations if gov erbor dewey had been elected an inevitable delay would have r result ed pending the switch in admin rations second most of the delegates of russia and the eastern bloc of eu rope although chagrined at the miserable showing of henry wal lace asserted they preferred mr truman to dewey because they will be dealing with a man and admin with which they are ac quainter quain ted THERE IS some doubt however as to whether that is the real soviet attitude the russians and their satellites had been banking on a republican victory because they were sure that if a GOP adminis tra tion took over in the U S the last great depression that would destroy western capitalism would inevitably come they do expect however that mr truman now having the support of congress will make a fresh ap toward improving U S soviet relations probably renewing an effort to untangle the berlin ale Con census of all the delegates Is that the success of president tru man demonstrates the unexpected strength of the liberal element in america combined with a powerful anti communist attitude GRAZING western problem one of the greatest sins of the western united states has been the pasturing of too many cattle and sheep on the range over grazing in other words despite the apparent remoteness of the subject it vitally concerns every housewife and every colsum er who likes to eat meat for much of the beet beef and lamb in the butcher shop originates in the 11 western states IT IS still the subject of hot de bate among western stockmen and the U S forest service however whether the vast public owned lands are grazed too much or too little yet the evidence seems clear that when livestock or big game eat black grama grass for exam pie too close to the ground it even dually dies meat producing grasses are daiv en out and replaced by worthless or inferior plants such as snake weed cactus yuccas creosote bush and the mesquites THIS condition is becoming more common throughout the west and southwest in southwest texas tor for instance more than a million of acres of good grasslands have been depleted drouth and over grazing has killed the choice grama and buffalo grasses and their place has been taken by cedar and brush and by an assortment of low value weeds As a result of this abuse meat production has been slowed definitely nevertheless there is definite proof that such a situation need not exist ON THE jornada experimental range a acre cattle ranch owned and controlled by the U S forest service just north of las cruces N M the cows are plump and the calves tat fat despite the third year of the worst drouth in 50 years and on similar land outside the ranch overgrazing over grazing has all but de strayed the grama grass worth less snakeweed has taken control of the land blithe spirit 1 41 with a let joy be unconfined look on his face and obviously not in a vetoing frame of mind an drei drej soviet UN U N dele gate attends a special perform ance of the opera given for united nations delegates in paris with him is madame MOLECULES inside story A new kind of light consisting of rad 0 waves less than a quarter of an inch long is being used to study the inside of molecules the basic chemical units of all matter these radiation waves several thousand times longer than those of visible light and several fold longer than infrared infra red heat light waves are absorbed and reflected by the atoms making up the mole cules |
