Show War Problem Solons Argue Over What Is a Facility By J Frederick C. C Othman V WASHINGTON President Truman wants the legal power to take over whatever facilities he needs to fight the Korean war That's fair enough but what is a facility A barn full of cows 1 A field of radishes Or maybe a team of horses This question our statesmen argued at length without benefit benefit benefit bene bene- fit of a dictionary in the senates senate's senates senate's senates senate's sen sen- ates ate's caucus room where the crystal chandeliers those many years have shown on the faces of ot history's makers and on the midget that climbed on J. J P. P Morgans Morgan's lap There wasn't anything amusing amusing amusing amus amus- ing about the discussion of fa fac facilities facilities fa- fa c though I do wish the gentlemen had had a copy of ot Webster handy This book boek says simply that a facility is a thing which promotes the ease of any action action- If our attorney general could have quoted that he might have ha saved a fight upcoming Sits in Hot Seat J. J Howard Heward McGrath the pink- pink faced boss bess man of all things legal in the government sat down in the senate banking and currency committees committee's hot seat of red leather The televisions television's flood lamps hardly had caused the turquoise on his finger ring to glow before the senators were demanding to know knew what the president meant by wanting wanting wanting want want- ing to seize facilities What about this word 1 demanded demanded demanded de de- de- de Chairman Burnet R. R Maybank D. D S. S C. C in accents so 50 southern it was difficult to understand him And what about the presidents president's power to seize them 1 Some Seme people think I that it would give him the right i ito to seize a mans man's farm if he felt like it Cant Can't you think of a better better bet bet- ter wor word 1 McGrath thought He put his chin in his fist and thought hard but he couldn't improve on facilities He said they meant factories to make guns juns Uns and such as ar that Not farms Its It's A Good Word ord Facility is a good word werd he added I doubt if you could find a better one Of course eurse course he said if a farm fann full of dairy cows were located next door deer to an army camp and the soldiers badly needed milk then he supposed the president president president pres- pres I ident ident could call caB it a facility and seize it He doubted this was likely Sen A. A Willis Villis Robertson D. D Va suggested that talk about facilities was using time too toe valuable to waste He Hc urged speed on getting the bill known as the defense production act of 1950 to a vote He said hed he'd be pleased to hear the chairman announce that the committee would st stay y on the job fob Saturday The chairman pleased him And I went looking leaking for a dic dic- Copyright 1950 By United Feature Feature Feature Fea Fea- ture Syndicate |