| Show Round Merry Two Lobby Foes 1 Should Get i 1 3 Committee Posts j By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON Suggestion WASHINGTON Suggestion to Demo Dema cratie cratic house leaders Two of or the most moat efficient ef et tools of the real estate lobby Jabby in th the they late lamented congress were Congressmen Con Congress i men Charles Fletcher of San Diego Rep and John Riley of or sumter S S. S C. C Dem J Cleverly placed on the banking and CUrrency CUr CUr- cur 1 rency committee by the real estate lobby t these two tipped Upped the balance against th the thel public housing bill bill bill-a a defeat which helped contribute to Mr Truman's Truman s 's reelection n i. These real estate congressmen have nov been defeated by two taro up coming yo young g. g Democrats who campaigned on this same issue public issue public housing They arc are Hugo Sinn Sim 1 of Orangeburg S. S C C. and Clinton McKinnon McKin McKin- non of San Diego The real estate lobby i ls is already pulling strings to keep them off the banking and currency committee How about showing the l lobby how the con congress cone con i gress stands by putting them on Atomic radiation near New York York- Atomic scientists and weather experts have teamed up to prevent another Donora smog tragedy just outside New York City They are working on ways to protect the ten million residents of Long Island and New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City from possible exposure to deadly atomic radiation Its It's not the bomb that worries the scientists but the deadly waste gases that will be discharged into the air beginning this spring when the worlds world's most powerful atomic pile goes into action at Brookhaven Long Island only Island only 50 miles from New York City The scientists have haye noted that under certain wind and atmospheric conditions even the lightest smoke will emerge from a a. chimney and settle to the ground If the radioactive gases from rom the new atomic pile were to blow down instead of ot up and hover close to the earth in a densely populated populated hated area the result might be tragic To avoid any possible danger from thi this direction Dr Lyle Borst noted physicist in charge of the new pile called on the experts expert of the U. 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S weather bureau for assistance Today the two groups groups of scientists- scientists atomic and weather are weather are exploring every angle of or low-level low weather conditions They feel that if they can learn enough about what makes smoke go down instead of up they'll then be able to foresee the approach of dangerous atmospheric conditions A As one scientist put it When U we finish our research all the sm smoke e and fumes that leave the Brookhaven pile will go in one direction dir direction tion up and up and they'll keep on going up Note Weathermen think that the research research research re re- search under way at Brookhaven may go long way in preventing tragedies due to industrial industrial industrial in in- smoke They're thinking of Donora's Donoras Do- Do noras nora's recent smog victims Forrestal vs s Forrestal Senators who are studying Defense Secret Secretary ry Forrestall Forrestal demand for sweeping power over the secretaries secretaries secretaries secre secre- for air army and navy cant can't hel help remembering one one thing which the public may have forgot The James Forrestal Fo who wh now demands such sweeping power is la th tie the very same James Forrestal who with 1 hu his Wall Vall Street partner wrote the national defense de di defense setup which he now complains about abou Senators are also inclined to believe that tha when a man fails at a job important to the th national security he should not get a second sec sec- ond and chance chante to make another failure Actually Forrestal is the victim of hi own o lobbying When hen President Truman as a result o oi 01 his senatorial work on the Ue Truman committee com com- committee proposed unification of the arm armand army and navy Forrestal then secretary of th the navy waged a vigorous poorly concealed campaign against it iL Forrestal's campaign was so successful that he was finally asked what combination of the armed forces would suit him him- so h he brought in his old Wall Vall Street partner r Ferdinand Ferdinand Fer dinand Eberstadt to draft the answer The Th compromise he drafted was called th the Eberstadt plan This loose-knit loose regrouping of the army navy and air forces was what congress congre eventually bought and is in effect today I In it Forrestal and Eberstadt purposely se setup set setup up the loose controls which Forrestal no now complains about Eben Eberstadt Reviews Eberstadt Later Herbert Hoover charged with the job of reorganizing reorganizing reorganizing re re- organizing the executive branch of the government government government gov gov- called Eberstadt back and asked aske him to head the committee reviewing the success of or unification There was considerable considerable consider consider- able protest against this inside the Hoover Hoove commission for It violated a well-founded well American principle that a man should not sit as judge in reviewing revie his own decisions decision That principle was discarded however and Mr Hoover decreed that Eberstadt should sit as judge to decide if his own unification unification uni uni- unification plan was working The result wasas was wai as could be expected Eberstadt found little wrong with the Eberstadt plan Then Forrestal quietly split with his old partner His plea last week for reaching far-reaching power over the secretaries for air navy nary and army shows the extent of the split |
