Show Round Merry 1 I I Johnson Studies Abolishing o is in l i Point Point 0 1 B By r Drew Pearson r V WASHINGTON The WASHINGTON The army and navy going to have ha some real surprises yr W Louis Johnson takes over as s secretary national defense He really m means busin when it comes to scaling off the century century- E crust of navy army-navy rivalry and making I three services act as if they were vere ser under the same flag No definite decision has been made yet but one thing in the back of Johns Johno mind is to ask congress to abolish Anna and West Vest Point as traditional train schools for the army and navy j Johnson has already been talking matter over with some of his intimate and here lucre are some of the points point have placed before him 1 Real rivalry between the army anny a navy comes from the Annapolis Wt W Pointers at the top It doesn't come ir fr the younger officers below and isn't carried on by the reserve of offie tIc who haven't been exposed to four our y yea of intensive West Annapolis Point 2 Other professional proCessional men such doctors and lawyers take four years v vany any accredited college then specialize j a professional school r 3 Therefore its it's proposed to uie ule A Anapolis and West Vest Point as normal trains train schools for all officers mixing up the 1 tI ture turc commander of the army n navy ny y yair a air force Not until they have rub rubt shoulders and got acquainted for two three years at West Vest Point or Anna would they decide their ultimate branch the service ser After this preliminary n n specialized training they would special at a separate school to become either force or navy or army officers Johnson advisers point out that the fl o tie school-tie tradition is strong among f Annapolis and West Vest Point grads Cl Cla mates stick together and nd their stick with them years afterward But Butt I army navy air force officers have 1 ti trained together In the same class tl will work together much more coo even though they later join ri branches of the service 1 Note Note Note-A A committee of noted under some distinguished scholastic figi figu such as President James Conant of ot H HEyard Hij HE vard yard would study the matter first I It recommend the best solution to the s se sec sectary tary of national defense t Civil Rights High Again Again High light of ot Pi Pre ident Truman's private meeting with c cOt col gressional leaders immediately follow his return from Key West Vest was a a. decisto to make another try for enactment of 1 till civil rights program l H Senate majority leader Scott Lucu Lucca Lucaj r. r tends to press for a a. a aroll roll call vote not o oon 0 1 on and nd poll tax repeal but bur the hotly controversial fair iI practices program j However the senate decks deck win will will r I cleared first of other major bills new labor law social security public housing and minimum wage le Je lation all lotion all road-blocked road by the recent ta a athon thon i Of course I still think that's thal's 11 way it should have been handled in first place remarked Lucas who I never enthusiastic about the Wl Wh Wh House strategy of an early showdown civil rights 1 I Truman tanned and healthy grin happily and said that he also had no a of abandoning civil rights leg legill tion j Lucas observed that Republican l who joined with southern In the recent filibuster already are be bening bej ning fling to feel the backlash of public op from their states t 4 Mail Bag Senator Bag Senator Clyde Hoey of N Carolina Carolina apologies apologies for getting the Mrs firs Ernest Howard Hovard with whom you v photographed the other day and gl glad know that the lady in the photograph not the Mrs Ernest Howard wife of ot R F C official whom your commute committe investigating Copyright 1949 1919 Bell Syndicate f |