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Show I' ABOUT THINGS Tlie DURANT (Miss.) NEWS (Independent) says: President Truman's veto of the Case Bill was to be expected. ex-pected. A vote-conscious man, candidate for the Democratic Democrat-ic nomination, could have done nothing else. Politics is still tlie major consideration in the President's office which today, to-day, more than ever before, needs real statesmanshipand a real desire to serve the country s interest above selfish political po-litical ambition. Mr. Truman is as ambitious a man as ever sat in the White Ilouse-and he is determined to have a term in his own riq I it regardless of what it might cost the country. The CHARLES CITY (la.) PRESS (Republican) says: A news report from Washington says that the plan of the bureaucrats to maintain wartime payrolls in peacetime has taken the tax spenders and the economy-minded congressmen. con-gressmen. Hundreds of thousands of surplus desk workers are now scheduled to be lopped from the government payroll pay-roll under an employment ceiling set forth in the federal pay act of 1916 which takes effect July 1. This, says the article, is good news for the taxpayers, but observers in Washington Washing-ton say it is no time for the economy group to rest on its oars. The pay bill provides that the number of federal workers at the end of the next fiscal year, June 30, 1947, shall not exceed ex-ceed 1,611,000 as compared with the present total of 2.500,000. The JEFFERSON (Ky.) JEFFERSONIAN Independent) Independ-ent) says: . . .It isn't normal or natural for men to be satisfied, and particularly is this true when power is the consideration. The labor leaders got a taste of power, and wanted moreand got it, got it from politicians. So it was that the breakdown of the nation's economic structure, due to strikes, did not happen over night. It has been creeping upon us for years. The one-sided Wagner labor la-bor act was, and is, an invitation to disturbance that shrewd labor leaders have not failed to take advantage of. Congress probably thought that they wouldn't go so far. But the labor bosses probably said, why give us the power if we are not supposed to use it? And did they use it! The American people as a whole approved of President Presi-dent Truman's crackdown speech and action in the matter of the railroad strike. The general feeling is that it was too long coming. The CUT BANK Mont.) PIONEER PRESS Republican) says : There was strong sentiment and strong support for Truman's Tru-man's firm some think too overheated action in the 11th hour, after weeks of shilly-shallying, in calling off the rail strike. But the public forgave this slow motion until the last moment and gave him cheers. But when he made peace with a bigger tyrant than Whitney of the rail unions John Lewis and just about on John's own terms, that support, and it w pretty much nonpartisan, non-partisan, cooled. Truman was scornful toward WTiitney but cooed over Lewis, as he was photoed handing the big, scowling scowl-ing boss a pen with which to sign the lush contract, giving 5c a ton for a welfare (probably a political) fund. Nearly all other, big union heads are damning Mr. Truman. John L. licks his lips and goes back into silence. The WALTERBORO (S. C.) PRESS & STANDARD (Democratic) says: . . . Some weeks ago trie President acted as if he had found himself, and was no longer afraid of threats, and the consequences of his official acts in the interest of the people. But it seems this was a mistake, and that he is thinking more o f his lab or vote than of the welfare of the people of the country. Americans are a long suffering people. Other countries would he headed for a revolution, but not us. We will accept ac-cept supinely actions like this on the part of our rulers and leaders, and let a few irresponsible people like John L. Lewis Lew-is dictate to them what the policy of our government shall be. As Andy would say: "We are regusted." The ROCHESTER (Mich.) CLARION (Independent) says : Funny, isn't itl Our government, in time of war, can draft a man out of even his own business at the peril of entirely en-tirely ruining same-and make him go into foreign lands to fight for his country at a mere stipend, leaving him, after it is all over, to get along in life as best he can on a mere pittance. pit-tance. Yet, when a more destructive war threatens his country coun-try from within, a man of the calibre and power of John L. Lewis and others of his ilk, representing unions of men drawing draw-ing the highest wage in history and many times over the pay of a soldier, can virtually tell our government, President, Congress and all to go to H ! and make it stick. Well, they are doing that very thing today and getting away with it. |