Show Round Merry-Go-Round GOP Lawmaker II Y Raps Generals 11 f For Rank Clamor f t By Drow Drew Pearson n nV r V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON G GOP 0 P Con Congress Congressman r- r Dewey Short of Missouri gave a s ala il t t studded delegation of Pentagon e the bawling ou out t of their lives I at a 1 sect r session of the house armed eti services Ces f the other Com day The issue under tinder 15 de f. f bate was not the group 70 air force hut but but butan increase of both an ground and air fn for force officers Before the tongued razor-tongued Missouri i finished his lecture the generals seem only too happy to settle for a co compromise H increase of ot army amlY officers and WH in the air force instead of new off i cers as requested The trouble with you ou fellows is isyou that you are always clamoring for more marc rank more stars and more pay Short bluntly y asserted Your only interest in inis pe et e eIm and is pay rank Im a strong supporter of ot 70 air grou but what we need now is more planes planet rn more weapons and more enlisted men men and and fewer colonels and generals This senseless mering for extra rank Is becoming m more e than the taxpayers can bear If it was needed for security yes seCUritY y rd Id be for it but Im I'm not going to ai approve any further robbing of the taxpayers when the current officer strength Is sufficient to meet the present day which emergency which the state department tells us isn't too e ee rious 1 J. J J Chairman Carl Vinson of ot GeorgiA 4 heartily agreed You cant can't t justify the increase in in- crease in view of present conditions conditions' i he h he said Its too big The taxpayers are arc are carrying car car- t g all they can bear short of an actual t war emergency and that is not in prospect prospects at the present time If we gave you fd v lows all ail you want we might wreck o ou our urr J J economy t ff Missouri Joseph a nen Joseph R R. i GU more a Philadelphia dairyman has Lod lodged g a ar stiff protest with President Truman about a the way the Missouri state highway de de- department department treats non h f Gilmore reported to Truman that 1 V Missouri highway patrolman stopped on one of his trucks at Gray Summit Mo andi poured 1800 pounds of its milk cargo out outon on the ground because the truck was overweight over weight due to ice accumulation on the the J undercarriage The truck was making ai an an emergency trip to Tulsa Okla to help help relieve a milk shortage there The Philadelphia dairyman reported that the Missouri state highway depart department meat ment wouldn't even let the truck proceed a few miles to a milk station where station where the overweight milk mille could have been unloaded and sent to a hospital or charitable Instead they y ordered the milk dumped on the ground on the spot G GOP O 1 Changes o on n Tariffs A Tariffs A closed closed- door caucus of house Republicans this week week revealed the significant fact that the high high- tariff of the Republican party are losing out Many G GOP O 0 P congressmen expressed support for the reciprocity treaties previously mangled by the congress Here are the high lights of ot the thi secret GO GOP P session Representatives Robert lean Kean ean of New News Jersey and Hal Holmes of Washington ex exY why they joined Democrats in vat vot ing for the reciprocal trade measure ot I. h is the ways and means committee The reciprocal re re- program is a vital part of our International In- In V la-V trade relations said Holmes Holme Holmes Holmes' It who comes growing apple from the great apple grow apple section of Washington j Both Holmes and Kean Rean argued for or air any amendment to give the tho U. U S S. S tariff com commission con j mission authority to make recommendations recommendations lions to the president on tariff reductions r which caused elder statesman Jim Wads Wads 1 worth of New Kew York to inquire By the way just what does the tariff commission do any more Maybe we ought to put it to work to justify jusUf its e. e existence J Reported Representative Robert J. J Corbett Cot Cot- Cor 1 bett of Pennsylvania For years my Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh district was a stronghold for the high tariff but now the majority o of my people arc are for this reciprocal program and i 1 against high tars tariffs That Includes I might add not only labor but many industrial leaders They want to see the program ex ex- exE E tend tended cd live to regret it countered Corbetts Corbett's fellow stater Dick Simpson dean dun t of the Pennsylvania G GOP 0 P hou house e tion In general however the debate showed k that the G GOP 0 P had learned a lesson from of of I November when it came to the subject tariffs Copyright 1949 1919 Bell Syndicate i i J |