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Show TmAlipdhingtoa II, the same theory is now to be applied, and woe to the company or corporation which fails to live up to those fair standards pending pend-ing the imposition of mandatory controls. Some here say that the President Presi-dent should have been more dramatic. dra-matic. That the country needed something which would hit closer to the people in order to impress upon them the urgency of the situation sit-uation which faces the country. Others point out that if the defeat de-feat and slaughter of American troops in Korea, the known intention inten-tion of the Russian Soviet to overrun over-run the world with Communist imperialism im-perialism has not already been brought home to the American people there is nothing which can now be said to stir them to defend de-fend the freedoms which as the President said, "are as important to us as the air we breathe." If this lame-duck session of the congress did nothing else, it's session ses-sion would have been worth-while in the passage of a measure which closes another loop-hole in the antitrust anti-trust laws. For several years, attempt at-tempt has been made to pass this bill which will prevent any corporation corpo-ration from merging or mopping up the material assets of another company if it is a move toward monopoly. The report of President Harry Truman to the people of the nation na-tion in his recent radio and television tele-vision broadcast was not alarmist; it was not dramatic. It was a down-to-earth, factual recital of the danger dan-ger which besets this nation and the steps the government is taking and proposes to take to meet the aggression of Communism and the twin danger of inflation. No citizen can stand up and cheer over anything the President Presi-dent said in his matter-of-fact address ad-dress but every citizen can breathe a prayer, as Sen. Charles W. To-bey, To-bey, Republican, of New Hampshire Hamp-shire did when he said: "God help the American people if we do not all stick together and support the President of the United States in this critical emergency." In Washington, however, on the same day the President made his appeal to the American people, some members of congress continued con-tinued to sow the seeds of confusion con-fusion and disunity. A Republican resolution called for the "ouster of Dean Acheson as secretary of state only a few hours prior to the time the President announced Acheson was flying to London to engage in serious discussions with member nations of the North Atlantic Pact. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin continued his smear and hate campaign in the senate and engaged en-gaged in a public brawl at a private party with Drew Pearson, newspaper columnist. The Wisconsin Wiscon-sin senator may have tripped himself him-self because he gave out copies of a speech which contained statements state-ments which he did not deliver on the floor of the senate; hence, he is not immune to libel suits on that part of the speech he did not say on the floor. There is some comment in Washington that Governor Tom Dewey of New York stole the thunder of the President by making mak-ing a radio address the night before be-fore in which he went much farther far-ther than did the President. However, How-ever, the cooler, wiser heads here assert that the President's address ad-dress was much more comprehensive, comprehen-sive, was intended to inform the American people just where we stand in the matter of preparing the nation for any eventuality which the masters of the Kremlin Krem-lin in Moscow may decree, and that the President has information which Dewey could not have. Out of the promises of selective controls over civilian production and consumption, an increase of more than a million men in the army and in increased navy and air force, out of demands for increased in-creased production in all fields of manufacture and industry and of eventual price and wage controls, the President came up with a 1951 edition the old NRA in a fair standards stand-ards program. All who are here on the ground in Washington know that the control agencies which have been set up and over which the President has named Charles Wilson of General Electric as boss, do not have the manpower to enforce controls now. But remembering the effectiveness effective-ness of NRA back before and during dur-ing the early days of World War |