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Show ttf4iD Truman Goes Slow TALKING to a close friend last week, President Truman confided con-fided that he did not Intend to make any cabinet changes before Jan. 20, at which time several cabinet members would go. However, Mr. Truman, who knows what it is to be broke, said he didn't want any cabinet member mem-ber to appear to be fired, for fear It might hurt his future earning power. "And I'm not going to throw them out while the newspapers are sniping snip-ing at me," he added. "When the newspapers stop picking my cabinet cab-inet for me, I'll pick my own." News Omission U. S. newspapers outside New York and Washington sometimes get mentally kicked around by their readers through no fault of their own. They are at the mercy of the press associations which frequently fre-quently take their lead from the )ig Washington-New York dailies. Here is a case in point Front-page news in the big metropolitan dailies recently waa the report of Ex-Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho urging that several billion dollars be dumped into China. Clark had been sent to China by Republican Repub-lican members of the senate appropriations ap-propriations committee and almost al-most every newspaper frontpaged front-paged his demand for Chinese aid. However, not one paper carried the very important fact that Ex-Senator Ex-Senator Clark was a former partner part-ner in a law firm which was paid $100,000 by T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Kai-shek, for the express purpose of getting aid for China. Qualified Public Servant Mayor John F. Davis of Reading, Pa., tells this story on himself. "Shortly after I was elected, I began to learn about the qualifications qualifica-tions for government office. A friend dropped in and suggested that I give a Job to George Schultze down in the 6th ward. " 'What can he do?' I asked. " 'Nothing. replied my friend. "Then let's hire him right away,' I said. 'We won't have o break him in." Doctor Shortage Unassuming Oscar Ewing, the federal security administrator, has been doing some quiet digging on the all-important problem of getting get-ting more U. S. doctors, dentists and nurses. "Even today, three years after the end of the war." says Ewing. there are large sections of the country woefully lacking in doc- tors." u , Meanwhile, medical schools are overcrowded and medical faculties are so understaffed that, if new medical schools were started, it would be difficult to find enough professors to staff them. Ewing is working on a plan for federal loans to medical students as one way to ease the doctor shortage. Local nanus would grant tuition-loans to qualified students, with the government guaranteeing the loans 109 per cent. He is also hoping that the bill introduced by Senator Thomas of Utah will pass the next congress giving government subsidies to medical schools based on the number num-ber of students they turn out. Truman's Jaw Comments W. F. Bond. Mississippi's Missis-sippi's commissioner of public welfare- "Samson slew 1,000 Philistines Philis-tines with the jawbone of an ass a record which stood for over 6,000 vears and was not broken until November, when Harry Truman with his own jawbone slew over 21 000,000 Republicans." Labor Diplomat President Truman's advisers are seriously considering the appointment appoint-ment of a labor leader as assistant secretary of state. Hitherto, high state department jobs have usually gone to Wall , streeters. as for Instance the present pres-ent Undersecretary of State Rob- j ert Lovett. a big investment bank er and Assistant Secretary Charlei j Saltzman. former vice president o the New York Stock exchange. However, most European governments are now dominated dominat-ed by labor. In fact, the moderate mod-erate labor leaders of Western Europe are considered the best bulwark against Russia, and It is vital that U. S. diplomats understand .neir point of view. That's why a laboi leader may be among the new state depart ment executives, also why Irving Brown, the international labor of fice representative in Europe, may be appointed U. S. ambassador to , western European country. Brown's quiet work among European Euro-pean laboi leaders has done more to combat Sovietism than a who.e crew of the old fashioned U. S. diplomats dip-lomats combined. |
