Show THE GARLAND EKPIESS ARGUMENTS 1616 Washington Eye D Street NW C bright young railroad who hat his cum laude In A executive law from a famed university was sitting with me in Burt’s the other day Burt’s is a sort of for ragreenroom dio folk and others who move and and have speak their being in what is euphemistically as to referred RaWashington’s dio center Inspired (or infuriated) by the presence of so many of the few who say so much to so many my friend launched forth into a tirade on the responsibility of the publicist “You can't play baseball according to football rules" he said shakfist at me “and ing a menacing that is what Washington officials are doing You studied political science years ago I studied it only 20 years ago And you know perfectly well that the present generation la not following the rules laid down by You ought to our founding fathers tell the public about it “Now maybe the principles of our government are wrong I am not defending them fcut I am saying that we are deserting them Rule of the a republican form of govmajority ernment operated by the representatives of the' people is a travesty when is Jammed legislation And I mean through by minorities Sts' as well as lobbyists' This happened when the senate was in the final debate over the OPA and my friend revoltwas claimed congress ing against what he called the high adminisof the methods pressure tration Since the congress was tearing the administration measure to shreds at that moment I pointed out that while it was true that congress Bowles for was sore at Stabilizer what they called propagandizing the example was not a very good one So he proceeded to develop his theme with specific references all too familiar to me and my colleagues of the microphone and typewriter Town With Seethes Lobbyists You too are familiar with the power of the “pressure boys” as my friend Kenneth called Crawford them in his revealing book by that name Crawford estimated there were 6000 active lobbyists in Washington when World War II started There are many more now Speaksaid the town was er Rayburn with them 'seething” We all remember the to a camsum of money contributed paign fund which came out of the members' dues of one great labor union True the head of the union later quarrelled with the president whom he had helped elect because the president refused to take his orders Nevertheless this example Illustrates what “big money” atsucceeds in tempts and sometimes doing We know too that when the enof the country was tire economy locked to a desd center by strikes in two essentia Industries coal and transportation and that when the itself government gave orders Mthose orders were disobeyed then Minority rule was operating inority groups nullified the wishes of of the representatives the people with all his My friend hemence with his allegiance to made no claim that management the demands of the railroad men He the coal miners were unjust merely said that in order to obtain what they considered the justice powerful leaders of the organizations to which they belong were able to play baseball according to football rules — temporarily at least The theory that the creation of the laws of the land has been taken from the hands of the elected repreof the people was put sentatives forth by Crawford in “The Pressure Boys” seven years ago when he said: “It is improbable that a gle Important law enacted in the last 10 years has been written by its congressional or its sponsor Administration nominal author bills are prepared by New Deal in executive departments perts Independently InaugLegislation urated is almost Invariably prepared in the office of a lobbyist a maintains legislative Congress BARBS There are 630 acres of forest land in the United States Plenty of tall Umber to take to when the prices start to rise Earl Browder plans to open a publishing bouse for Russian books in New York City Why don’t we Russian to ret some open 'an American book publishing venture in Moscow? RAGE I drafting service which writes bills for committees but it seldom is called upon by individual legislators for assistance in writing any minor pivate bills” 80 FIRST BLAST tfeo wrecked kips seek Bine skip ekipereperted damaged LaFollette Bill Would Revamp Thomas Mechlin writing on this subject in the current Virginia Quarterly Review touches on the of subject readymade legislation He tells how a lobby “gets its own staff together and knocks out a bill South Dakotan s See Swearing-ITwo recent visitors to Washington Mrs Evelyn Baker and Mrs James Magee of Custer and Belle Fourche S D can tell their friends back home in the Black Hills region that while they were here they took In three events which might set the tone for all such future events The ladies winners of a radio contest to honor women who did their bit during the war years visited Washington during the week when offthree government icials all close friends of Harry Truman were sworn into new jobs of a cabinet offThe swearing-iicer used to be a rather modest afhia family a fair The swearinee few friends and his office staff a few of the press usually gathered in his new office and the whole affair was over in about the time it 'or bride and groom to say do” - Fred Vinson and Lewie Schwellenbach did travel to Capitol Hill for their inaugura lions as ury and labor secretaries respectively But those events occasioned no such hoopla as did the ceremonies which made Monday— Tuesday — Wednesday Washington news one late week in June Mrs Magee and Mrs Bakqr and five thousand other spectators plus the navy band gathered on the White House lawn to watch Mr Vinson take over his new office as chief justice of the United States they saw John Snyder’s big moment made bigger when President Truman strolled from the White House to the treasury portico to watch his St Louis crony take the oath as head of the treasury department and they observed tall John Steelman's swearing-ias reconversion director a ceremony which took placd in the rose gardens of the White House observed these impresHaving sive occasions the Black Hills visitors could appreciate the remark of Undersecretary of Navy John Sullivan (Sullivan got his swearing-idone quietly and traditionally on June 18 ) As John SteeSullivan congratulated lman after the rose garden ceremony he asked “Well are you the last of the June brides?” The publicity man for the six stunning Goldwyn girls touring the country to boost the movie ’The from Brooklyn” expected the President’s daughter to have them to tea Miss Truman was out of town I made the patriotic suggestion they go to Annapolis instead If there had been time to arrange it I would probably have a navy cross by now Innocent Bystander: Clnemaglclans: Fred Mae- lights the fuse for n christened "Smoky” The outdoor de luxer has Mother Nature as Fred's leading lady "The Searching Wind” went from to kleig lights and refootlights mains a provocative humdinger It of current digs beneath the 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mondon’t like it either Household Hints 25c ey and tin) saving William S Hart’s passing received HAROLD C BROWN - Salllvaa Indians appropriate adieulogies one editorl- MISCELLANEOUS al concluding: 'There will never be another Bill Hart The background WE BUT AND SELL Furniture riles Typewriters Addis faded and the type is dated but Office Safes Cash Registers ing Machines SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE the memory is still green and Utah IS Want Broadway Sail Laka City fresh” By USS WALTER A SHEAD WNU CerreepeSiL about nine months APPALACHIAN CROSSROADS — OPERATIONS Second or Baker test of the atomic bomb In Bikini lagoon now tentatively set for July 25 will be like dynamiting fish in a pond of Lacking will be the glamour the army air force and precision bombing as the whole thing will be a navy show The bomb will be some 75 feet beneath submerged the surface in about 30 fathoms of water 180 feet and detonated In the midst of the target fleet which is being regrouped to meet new conditions of the test This second test also will lack the drama of the bomb burst and the atomic cloud which Is characteristic of atomic bombs exploded in air What Is likely to happen is that the intense heat will generate steam in the water and the terrific force will expend a part of its energy In a waterspout with a cloud of steam and vapor shooting into the Sir Intent of this test is to measure force of atomic energy upon the hull structure of naval ships spaced at various distances from the center of the explosion Subs to Submerge There will not be the visible damage which was inflicted wholly upon the topsides or superstructures as In Since there is to be the first blast no ship placed directly above the point of blast the prediction Is being made freely that no capital ships will be sunk although lighter craft may be capsized Another feature of the second blast Is the placing of submerged submarines in the target fleet and It will be Interesting to note the elTect of the bomb force upon the steel hulls of these vessels beneath the water ABOARD Naval scientists predict that ferce of the underwater blast will create waves of sufficient height possibly 10 or more feet which will sweep ever Bikini Island although this was also forecast In the first blast and did not materialise Meantime endless arguments proceed as to the degree of damage to the ships the location of the bomb burst whether the drop from the plane was a “near miss” probable loss of Jife had the ships been manned with full complement and comparative efficiency of this first Bikini bomb as compared to the bombs at Alamogordo Hiroshima and Nagasaki Precisian Bombing When it Is considered that this bomb was dropped from a height of something like six miles and hit circle this rewithin a porter would consider that pretty good precision bombing Adm T A Solberg of the bureau of ships however declared that Insofar as be could judge every chip damaged by the bomb with the exception of the could be put into Independence within two or fighting shape three months For the Independence battered and ripped apart by explosions of her own torpedoes her ammunition and aviation gasoline and burning for almost two days it would take to put her In shape Also all ships damaged with the single exception of the Independence towed away and anchored far out In the lagoon likely could have pulled away under their own steam had they been manned with crews Study Effects In the meantime Bikini lagoon has been turned into a vast laboraof science chief Interest betory ing the effect of the bomb and its subsequent radiological rays upon the live animals placed aboard the ships at various locations likely to be occupied by the men aboard Amazingly only about 10 per cent of the animals were killed by the force of the blast Some are burned and sick and others may become from effects As of radioactivity a matter of fact a few already have been destroyed by medical doctors who are studying this phase of atomic energy In an effort to determine how this radioactivity can be used In medicine in treatment of disease Persons or animals which receive these powerful rays into their systems are variously affected and the boarding teams upon these ships are preceded by a tralnd man carrying a “Geiger counter” a small apparatus which registers radioactivity by a ticking noise Estimate Losses A fleet such as those which composed the target fleet would normally carry approximately 30000 men It is reasonable to assume then that 10 per cent or 3000 approximately men would have been killed by the atomic bomb blast and that more would have been injured by radioWhether much of the damactivity age to ships caused by subsequent fires aboard could have been averted had crews been aboard is a moot Some ships captains dequestion clare that damage would have been much less had the ship equipment been brought into play and this seems reasonable in that most of the loss on the Independence was due to fire and explosion and not the bomb blast There is no attempt however on the part of naval authorities to minimise the terrible power of this atomic bomb No other tingle bomb ever did the damage to a fleet that this one did five ships sunk one comand pletely out of commission approximately 10 others out of action for two months or longer and small to negligible damage done to lfi others' However another atomic bomb likely would not find 73 ships to make up a helpless ghost fleet grouped conveniently like sitting ducks and whether use of the atomic bomb as an offensive weapon of naval warfare upon shjps at sea is militarily sound still is a debated question and one which the naval evaluation board will study during the next few weeks or months It must be remembered that whatever is said about this second bomb test before the actual test is in the realm of conjecture and much of the conjecture made prior to the first test did not materialize Arkansas May Be Second Target Ship by Baukhage TRUCKS AUTOS iprlghtly out" I am constrained to admit that much in all of these assertions is true But I would like to mention three hopeful signs on the horizon minuscule though they may be Two were measures introduced but not acted upon in this session of congress They will be presented again and have a good chance of passing One is the LaFollette measure for revamping congress one provision of which increases the technical assistance available to members The second is a bill introduced by Representative Sabath of Illinois which provides for an of lobbies Most conInvestigation gressmen don't like lobbyists and Sabath’s bill as Mechlin admits of this feeling was a crystallization The third indication was a resolution introduced during the OPA fight by Senator Taylor (D of the publicaIdaho) authorizing tion of a document on how each senator voted on every measure He said that the people are becoming more aware of their political rethat politics ia no sponsibilities longer solely in the hands of politicians and lobbyists Congress is sensitive to the need of a restoration of majority rule but the only real hope lies within the majority itself Unfortunately the giant sleeps Kid DEPARTMENT “The which the front office would like to see made a law eventually It then runs the draft over to a large law firm which has one of its members the conin congress Although gressman cannot personally represent the client the method used in the submitting proposed legislation through the ’body’ of the firm takes If the lobby is care of that it will exploit from then on publicity MI CLASSIFIED Test of Atomic Bomb By BAUKIIAGE Neu’t Analyit end Commentator Service UTAH World Awaits Second Few Legislators Authors Of Bills They Introduce WNU GARLAND TIMES Target ship or vessel nearest cenof the blast for the second atomic bomb test may be the overage battlrship Arkansas it has been indicated reliable sources alby though no definite announcement has been made by Adm W H P commander of operations Blandy crossroads and the Joint task force The earner Saratoga was first slated to be second target ship An interesting sidelight on fate of ter which suffered only the Saratoga negligible damage in the first test is that her commander Capt Donald MacMahon knowing that she was slated for the second target ship made a wager with a friend in before bringing the Washington that he would take ship to Bikini her back to the East coast under It looks now that her own power he has better than a chance of winning his bet T FulQuotation Marksmanship: ler If you’d havs a ben lay you must bear with her cackling Old Russian Wounds heal Adage: but harsh words stay in the heart and mind j 3 Baker: The guests wers all having an uncorking good time Elinion: He’s always Ida Jamea: coming a phrase I hope the Atom test isn’t the of they End J Gart: The British s?em to be more interested In getting the Grand Mufti to Palestine than The Hundred Grand who 3 Cannon: belong there Louis is a credit to his race The E human race of course Cuneo: I would gladly change the orchids I deserve for the scallions I don't G J Nathan: Men go to the theater to forget to women Buy U S Savings Bondi! i sudden change in weather can be quickly relieved by Wakefield's Blackberry Balaam Sold at all drug stores B sure to ask for genuine remember Jimmy Gardiner the told this at Leone’s the other night During the war he was visited by a wealthy neighbor from Texas an aging woman who hhd an yen for the perfect overpowering recomGardiner string of pearls mended Cartier's There she was served by a young clerk who - ap mistook - her unprepossessing for poverty and showed pearance her the strings She demanded better ones until the store's stock was exhausted and She inonly the vault remained sisted on going into it The clerk out their finest pearls and pulled showed them to her It was just what she was looking for She asked how much “The price” said the clerk “is $500000” haughtily “I'll take it” said the woman opening her purse and extracting a dollars In cash! 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