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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH Democratic Leaders Fear Surplus Property Scandals By BAUKIIAGE New Analyst and WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C There Is an old political axiom attributed to various national figures of the past which runs something like Ik!.. XTtiA D T tyue about charges of the opposition party; either admit them frankly and fully, or deny them with every tissue of your oratory. Mistakes of the "ins" are the Baukhage chief grist-of-the- mill for the "outs" in an election year. There is a small but very earnest body of Democrats in Washington today which believes that unless certain mistakes of the administration administra-tion are freely and frankly admitted admit-ted and given a thorough airing, they will come back to haunt the Democrats Demo-crats even unto the third and fourth generation. These mistakes, they say, are the ones which have been made by the War Assets administration. There is a segment of the administration, admin-istration, on the other hand, including includ-ing some of the White House chief counsellors, who don't approve of this theory. They think that the best thing to do is to get rid of the surplus property as quickly as possible pos-sible and forget all about the whole mess. But the whole mess is not going to be forgotten. In fact, it is quite safe to predict some riotous headlines head-lines shortly after election, which will make the rather limited revelations revela-tions of the Mead committee on war contracts look like very pale and limpid prose, t The headlines are likely to concern con-cern that matter which already has emitted some rather noxious odors but which when exhumed, will cause a still stronger stench in the public nostrils. This is the disposal of sur- i v ft Senator Murray plus steel equipment and facilities connected with the Geneva plant in Utah. a layout that cost the government gov-ernment some 200 million dollars. It was sold to the United States Steel corporation for $47,500,000 in May of this year, over the bid of the Colorado Fuel and Iron corporation, corpora-tion, the dominant figure in manufacturing manu-facturing and distribution of steel products west of the Rockies. Congressman Con-gressman Chenoweth of Colorado questioned this WAA disposal. The Small Business committee, under the chairmanship of Senator Murray, has made a long and careful care-ful study of the distribution of some 500 plants and facilities to date. It intends to have a report on this subject sub-ject early in November. The committee com-mittee likewise intends to air the assembled material and other testimony testi-mony in hearings thereafter with emphasis on certain industries; steel, for instance, because 'of its many ramifications, the chemical industry for similar reasons, and the makers of farm tools and other implements because of the crying need for such commodities and the many veteran users interested. Members of the Small Business committee believe that the pattern of the distribution so far has been haphazard and not in accordance with that provision of the law which plainly states that war material may not be sold to buyers in a manner man-ner that will encourage monopoly, but that instead will stimulate free competition. Members believe that the faults of the past must be studied stud-ied carefully in order, negatively, to prevent further encouragement of BARBS . . The water-wagon is one of the few conveyances which is easier to get off of than on to. I have no more use for these modernistic mod-ernistic chairs than a toad for a toadstool. According to the new law lobbyists lobby-ists have to register with congress. Can thcr register with the voter? ( V if, r if i I -4 l mil ! nrfl ttoinM TMlttiJ - i i "VP- v nT - W .i Commentator. monopoly and, positively, to establish estab-lish a pattern which will stand as a standard of operations for the future. fu-ture. Disposal of Aluminum Plants Sets Pattern They point out the distribution of facilities for the manufacture of the light metals, especially aluminum. alumi-num. It was feared that the Aluminum Alumi-num Company of America might benefit to the exclusion of competition competi-tion or potential competition. But as a result of the co-operation of Stuart Symington, when he was Surplus Sur-plus Property administrator, there are now three lusty competitors in the field, all apparently having benefited from a fair distribution of the war enterprises made available avail-able to them on equal terms. However, other Pharaohs came to Egypt. Haste and other incentives incen-tives are said to have destroyed the pattern. Present WAA officials deny this, but the Small Business com-1 mitteemen expect to prove their charges in open court. The first step which the Small Business boys would like to see taken tak-en is the appointment of an administrator admin-istrator on whom they agree. They feel the official should be a civilian rather than an army man. The Incumbent, In-cumbent, at this writing, Maj. Gen. Robert LIttlejohn,, is said to have expressed the desire to be relieved of WAA responsibilities, but no successor suc-cessor has been indicated. The next step desired, after the hearings, is a thorough reorganization reorganiza-tion of methods and, if necessary, an overhauling of the whole set-up of the agency. This, proponents of the idea claim, will not only be in the good of the veteran, the business man and the national economy but in the good of the party, as welL Smart Politicos Outsmart Themselves When Senator La Follette raised a memorial to his senatorial career in the form of one of the most progressive pro-gressive pieces of legislation affecting affect-ing the internal affairs of the congress, con-gress, the reorganization act, something some-thing occurred which the liberal wing of the Democratic party didn't realize, was being done, and which has caused them no little concern ever since its practical application dawned upon them. What happened was not Senator La Follette' s fault, but the result of that ancient evil, seniority, which the original reorganization measure would have eliminated. Congress couldn't accept that radical departure depar-ture and seniority still operates. Under Un-der this procedure a senator automatically auto-matically becomes chairman of any committee to which he is appointed if he has been a member of the senate longer than any other member mem-ber of the majority party on the committee. This system has long been recognized as an evil. i Just having been around longer than anybody else is frequently less than a recommendation. Unfortunately Unfortu-nately there are too many cases where a stuffed shirt and an empty head, although they can win votes from a constituency, provide a contribution con-tribution which contributes less than nothing to the highly important impor-tant function of running a committee. commit-tee. And chairmen have become even more important now that there are fewer of them. Administration Democrats might have acted otherwise had they realized real-ized what they were doing. Because Be-cause of the seniority rule, only two northern Democrats will retain their chairmanships when the new and modernized congress organizes next January. They are Walsh of Massachusetts and Wagner of New York (provided, of course, they are re-elected and the Democrats hold their place as majority party). The rest of the chairmanships go to the South and since some southern south-ern senators persist in voting against the more liberal measures of the administration and joining with the Republicans on others just to show their independence, it leaves the liberal Democrats in a somewhat precarious position. There is another factor which doesn't sit too well with a number of northern Democrats, either. Under the new set-up, the chairman of a committee will be more influential than ever for he now is provided with a large and efficient staff. The work of his committee will be more Important than formerly because committee work won't be spread as thin as it was. Since the circle of chairmen is more exclusive and since , a member's mem-ber's perquisites and contacts will be greatly increased, a chairmanship chairman-ship is a juicier plum than ever. . by Baukhage Bars keep crooks in jail and husbands hus-bands from getting home In time for dinner. e e Tolerance, says the rector of Hei- delberg. is respect for the other man's conscience e e All the political applesauce in the ' world won't give us any more ap- I pie butter or apples or butter. I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Russ Back Polish Border Claims; Housing Shortage Vexes Britain; More Strikes Hit Auto Makers .Released by Western (EDITOR'S NOTE I When opinions ars expressed la these eelumns, they are thoss ef Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily this newspaper.) POLISH BORDER: iAnsiver Byrnes If the soviet-sponsored Polisn government gov-ernment felt it could rely upon Russia Rus-sia to uphold its claims to the new eastern boundary carved from German Ger-man territory, it felt aright An- swering Secretary of State Byrnes declaration in his Stuttgart address that the U. S. did not consider Poland's Po-land's occupation of German territory terri-tory up to the Oder and Nisse rivers as final, Molotov pointed out that for all practical purposes the frontier fron-tier had been fixed with allied approval. ap-proval. Molotov asserted that the U. S. and Britain had first signified their approval of the readjustment of the Polish border by assigning the rich industrial district of Silesia to the Polish government and committing themselves to the evacuation of Germans Ger-mans from it. Later, Molotov said, the allied control con-trol council in Berlin agreed to the removal of 2,000,000 Germans from northern sector of the territory assigned as-signed to the Poles at Potsdam to make way for Polish resettlement CAPITOL HILL: Wallace Tempest Long the stormy petrel of the Democratic party, Henry Agar Wallace Wal-lace created anoth er major furor with his blast at administration admin-istration foreign policy pol-icy at a mass meet-ing meet-ing in Madison Square Garden sponsored by the National Citizens Political Action committee and the Independent Citizens Citi-zens Committee of Arts, Sciences and Henry Wallace Professions. ' Coming shortly after Secretary of State Byrnes' address at Stuttgart, Germany, calling for the democratic rebirth and economic unification of the Reich in the face of continuing Russian opposition to an early settlement set-tlement of the issues, Wallace's speech tended to compromise the position of the U. S. delegation at the Paris peace conference in counteracting coun-teracting Soviet diplomacy. Despite his embarrassment of U. S. foreign policy and cleavage of administration strength in facing the aggressive Russians, Wallace signified his intentions of continuing his campaign for a revision of the so-called "tough" approach to the Soviets. Only through recognition of vital Russian interests in eastern Europe can we hope to maintain peace and avert another tragic war,' Wallace averred. Meanwhile, Wallace's speech put President Truman on the hot seat at home. Though he qualified earlier earli-er approval of the talk to mean that he merely intended to O. K. the right of a cabinet member to express ex-press his opinions and insisted that American foreign policy would remain re-main unaltered, his position threatened threat-ened to alienate the leftist elements pleased by the speech. Further political repercussions loomed in the possibility that Republican Re-publican support of administration foreign policy, as represented by Senator Vandenberg's presence in Paris as one of Byrnes' advisers, might terminate with differences within the Democratic party itself. In that case, the GOP could project the issue of foreign policy intd the impending campaign. MfiAT: No Let-Up With livestock continuing to dribble drib-ble into markets, supplies short and 80,000 workers idle, the meat industry indus-try remained in the doldrums, with no signs of immediate relief. Meanwhile, Mean-while, both the ingenuity and patience pa-tience of the housewife were taxed with the growing tightness in poultry, poul-try, luncheon meat, canned meat and fish stocks as she sought substitute proteins. 'Not only were slaughter receipts far under the normal runs of 175,000 animals a day for this time of the year in the 20 leading markets but the cattle that were being shipped in were of poor, light-weight quality. Against the top of $20.25 per hundredweight hun-dredweight paid for th hest grades in legitimate channels, black marketeers mar-keteers were said to be bidding $35 to $40. The 80.000 workers idle were divided di-vided almost evenly between the AFL Amalgamated Meat and Butcher Butch-er Workmen, mostly representing employees in the distribution end. and the CIO United Packinghouse Workers, chiefly bargaining agent for slaughtering help. A- f J, 1 'J ,"" I k... v1" l 14 J - I . V. . : $ v i -t-wttWsW it ,1 tWieflVeV rfiaumiij Newspaper Union. ' '4 as Sympathizer tosss package to squatter while police look away in London. GREAT BRITAIN: Housing Headache As in the U. S., inadequate housing hous-ing remains one of the chief problems of the British government, govern-ment, with the situation over there complicated by the communist-led squatter movement. Playing their cards neatly, the Reds inspired homeless Britishers into occupying luxury apartments without the owners' permission, thus putting a labor government in the embarrassing position of either tolerating the illegal possession or forcing the occupants out into the streets to protect the rights of the wealthy owners. After moving slowly on the issue, the government cracked down against the communist leaders, asserting as-serting the necessity of preserving law and order. At the same time, however, the government could be expected to heed the red-inspired squatter program for providing large-scale factory production of building materials, adopting vigorous vigor-ous measures against the black market and concentrating labor on urgent housing. LABOR: j More Strikes Lagging automobile production took another setback with the strike of some 10,000 ClO-United Automobile Automo-bile Workers, idling a total of 50,000 in Detroit Mich. The walkout of 1,800 UAW men at the Briggs body company over discharge of a union steward resulted result-ed in the stoppage of production in Packard, De Soto and Dodge plants, throwing over 8,000 employees out of work. In all, 15,000 were affected affect-ed at Briggs. Another 11,000 workers at the main Dodge auto and truck plants were idle because of a strike of 8,500 other employees over alleged attempts of the company to speed up production and "nagging." A walkout of 70 men at the Reo truck plant in Lansing, Mich., over an "unfair and unreasonable" foreman kept 2,300 off their jobs. U. S.: Growing Older Older people will make up a larger percentage of the American population by 2,000 A. D., according accord-ing to a forecast of the census bureau released by Director J. C. Capt Declaring that the population will rise to approximately 165 million by 1990 and then slip into a slow decline, the bureau said that by 2,000 A. D. the medium age based on an average of all ages would be 37.4 years compared with 29.9 at present Whereas children under 15 years now compose about 25 per cent of the population, this proportion will drop to 19 per cent in 2,000 A. D. and persons 65 years or older will make up 13 per cent of the population popu-lation compared to 7 per cent at present RED SOX: The Cleveland team was pulled over to the right as towering Ted Williams stepped to the plate. Crossing up the Indians, the famed Boston slugger slapped a fly ball into left raced around the bases while the fielder chased the hit and then slid over the plate to score. Fittingly enough, Williams' run cinched the American league pennant pen-nant for the Red Sox. That night I merry Boston players hoisted Man ager Joe Cronin to their shoulders to celebrate. (See picture at left) S' . .aw.'. . .-.sx,: fcvxffi 'ftwfesfc, :....;.::: jfeiaaisMMiMri.-'-.'-aCTiiffintBlt rnvi rri ri Religious World UNITY: Scotching a plan for unity of the American Episcopal and Presbyterian churches worked out by a joint commission during nine years of negotiations, delegates dele-gates to the Episcopal convention in Philadelphia, Pa., adopted a substitute sub-stitute resolution calling for a juncture junc-ture based upon mutual recognition of the authority of the holy scriptures, scrip-tures, apostles and nicene creeds, a locally adapted Episcopate and the sacraments of communion and baptism. . . . Known as the Lambeth Lam-beth quadrilateral, the principles prin-ciples were first projected as a basis of unity with other faiths by Bishop William E. McLaren of Chicago. Chi-cago. e PHILOSOPHY: Divergent views of Christ's Sermon on the Mount as a practical code of conduct were expressed at the seventh annual conference on science, philosophy and religion at the University of Chicago. . . , Prof. Malcolm Sharp of the U. of C. law school declared de-clared that the admonitions to give generously would not be conducive to good government; to give to whom asks would not promote industry, in-dustry, and to turn the other cheek would not be sensible. . , . Replying, Reply-ing, Rev. Gerald S. Walsh, S. J., admitted that taken on its face, the Sermon on the Mount was valueless but practical application was to be derived from the example Christ himself set in life. see LEADER: In a 400-year-old ceremony cere-mony in Rome, Rev. John Baptist Janssens, 57-year-old Belgian, was named the 27th general of the Jesuit order. . . . Election of a new head following the death of Rev. Vladimir Vladi-mir Ledochowski in 1942 awaited the end of the war to permit the assemblage of delegates from the society's 43 provinces all over the world. , . . Widely known as teachers, teach-ers, the Jesuits have been conspic uous in the U. S. in astronomy, geophysics geo-physics and seismographic studies. PALESTINE: Discuss Problem Arab rejection of the Morrison plan for partitioning of Palestine into separate states opened the way for counter-proposals for a solution to the ticklish problem posed by Jewish demands for a national homeland in the Holy Land. 1 Anticipating such counter-proposals, Foreign Secretary Bevin of Great Britain laid down three fun- King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan (at left) and Emir Feisal of Saudi Arabia at London conference on Palestine. damentals that would have to be included in-cluded in any Arab suggestions. 1. Provision must be made for adequate Jewish representation In a Palestinian government. 2. Palestine must accept Jewish Jew-ish immigrants. 3. The position of the Holy Land in international politics must be considered. While the Arab and British statesmen states-men dickered over the Palestinian problem in London, Mufti Haj Amin El Husseini's powerful Arab party notified the British government in -Jerusalem that it was organizing an army to combat Jewish terrorism. With Jewish resistance forces comprising com-prising 100,000 well armed shock troops, the development of a formidable for-midable Arab army would threaten threat-en to throw the country irto a bloody civil conflict OPA: Make Adjustments OPA continued to take price action ac-tion along the economic front to offset off-set the results of lagging production and wage boosts. Under a revised "hardship formula," formu-la," the Ford Motor company was granted a 6 per cent increase on retail ceilings at the factory to compensate com-pensate for an over-all loss position in the face of limping production. As a result of the increase, the new Ford de luxe will sell for $1,131 f.o.b. compared with $885 in 1942. The Ford super de luxe will retail for $1,202 at the factory as against $930. Prices for Mercury and Lin-colns Lin-colns also showed an advance of 30 per cent over the 1942 figure. To offset a 5 per cent wage increase in-crease in textile mills turning out the bulk of cotton material, OPA authorized a 1 per cent boost on half of the output of cotton clothing and about 2Vt per cent on bed linen, towels and napkins. AAF: Twenty-two international and five U. S. national aviation records already have been established by the army air forces during 1946. it was disclosed in a summary of the current AAF program to increase present records. Using standard AAF equipment, the air forces has been concentrating concentrat-ing since December, 1945, on shattering shat-tering speed, altitude and endur-anc endur-anc records, with much of the equipment the product of wartime research. i V 1 K A 1 - - t mil L 1 1 Ll u tJTVi La 1 r a...v-...n-. i (Votes of a Newspaper Man: The Justice Dep't members (who are planning to ashcan the sedition case) are -as spineless as spaghetti. The defendants aped nazi tactics and still are echoing nazi propaganda. propa-ganda. ... It provides a galling contrast: Thousands of American soldiers lost their lives fighting naziism. Others lost their eyes, hands and limbs. But some defeatists defeat-ists in our justice dep't refuse to take Hitler's stooges into couri for fear of losing a case! . . . And remember re-member that any American soldier who refused to fight when it seemed like the nazis would be victorious could have been shot. Vignette: Laura LaPlante, the movie star, who is still a looker, tells it herself. ... She drove up to a gas station recently where the attendant did a double-take and said: "Say, did anybody ever tell you that you look like Laura LaPlante?" La-Plante?" ... A bit cagily, Laura replied: "Why, yes. As a matter of fact several people have." ... To which he hastily added: "Oh, don't get me wrong, lady. I don't mean the way she looks NOWI" An American newspaper man and a Russian scribe got chummy chum-my at the peace conference. "I can't understand your Stalin," said the Yank. "It took a world war to get us American reporters report-ers into Russia." "What are ' you complaining about?" chuckled the Russian. ."It took a world war to get us Russian newspaper men out!" Another newsman, recently back from the Balkans, explained the Tito regime's arrogance with this yarn. ... He asked a Yugoslav leader why his tiny nation insisted on alienating a powerful friend such as the U. S. . . . The Yugoaf sneered: "Tiny nation? We and the Russians number more than 200 millionl" New York Novelette: Not too long ago a pretty newcomer chorine phoned a newspaper man she knows.. . . She said she had a weighty problem for him to help solve. She said her chief ambition was to wed a millionaire,' but she didn't know any. . . . Could he introduce in-troduce her to some? . , . Nothing came of it. ... A few weeks ago that girl married a multi-millionaire, who settled nine million dollars dol-lars on his ex-wife for the divorce. The newlys ' are still honeymooning. honeymoon-ing. . . . She is Marianne O'Brien. . . . He is the Camel ciggie heir, R. J. Reynolds. Broadway Torch Song: (By Don Wahn): The mob is back the nights take on a tang. . . . New shows, new gals, new blood Is in the veins. . . . Yet I remember all the songs we sang. . . . When wine was king and glamour held the reins. . . . That was an autumn tinctured tinc-tured with delight . . . When life was lush and all the chips were down. . . . And we would wait like culprits for the night. ... To steal the gold that drifted on the town. . . . But we were ripe for all the pranks of Fate . . . And so we came to terms with discontent . . . And suddenly we found the hour was late. . . The wine was low the gold was strangely spent ... I turned to you as solace for a F00L . . . But you and autumn both turned very cool! Many of the misunderstand-tngs misunderstand-tngs between nations can be traced to lack of knowledge. Some newspaper men In an enlightened en-lightened city such as Paris know very little about the United States. ... Several months ago a gazette In Paris referred to "a village of 200 aonls in the half savage state of Texas." Sounds In the Night: At Leon & Eddie's: "Tommy Manville must be getting old. He took a vacation this summer instead of a honeymoon" honey-moon" ... In the Cub room: "Oh, stop giving yourself 4 stars!" . . . At the Singapore: "He's a typical Broadway success. Doesn't know anybody any more." . . In Village Vanguard: "Her tongue's an express ex-press train, and rumors are its only passengers." ... At the 400: "Ev-ery "Ev-ery time one of those guys at the United Nations conference shakes a threatening fist he's taking your life In his hands." ... At the Copa: "He took me to breakfast last night" ... At the Stork: Be careful! She looks like the plaintiff type." Boston blue-pencilers added another an-other slice of stupidity to their non-censorship non-censorship record. Although "Life with Father" has been running there for more than a year, the Boston censors finally decided to delete a line from the play. ... It recalls the time the same blue-pencilers blue-pencilers issued the following instructions in-structions for a film: "Eliminate scene showing man kicking girL" . . . And then the censor's report added: "This elimination required only on Sunday showing." 6 States Employ Dayii4t Saving Time; 26 Forbid Ii Now that the adoption of Da, light Saving Time is at the dk cretion of individual states municipalities, some confusion ha resulted as those which hav, adopted it are scattered and cot tain only 27 per cent of our p0 lation, says Collier's. Six stat now employ it on a state-wia basis and 26 others forbid its use. from one to scores of communi ties in the remaining 16 1 option states observe it. For example, the only piace k Louisiana that has Daylight Sa ing today is New Orleans and the only major city in Indiana that does not is Evansville. Get O'Suliivan SOLES as well a; Heels next time you have your shoes repaired. YOU CAN WALK FARTHER WITHOUT TIRING.! AT LONG LAST MOTION PICTURES For Select audiences in SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, CLUBS, Etc. 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