Show RUSSIA WAR TALK TAut WASHINGTON Its It's no secret been bee considerable taUt talk theres there's that V PenS among the brass hats bats In th the Pentagon Pentagon Penta Penta- gon gao building about war with Rus Rus- sia Some of this comes from men who honestly feel war car nr Is inevitable and favor getting It over with right now now- Others chiefly favor a little war talk because of its help In passing passIng pass pass- ing tag military conscription However there can be no doubt about the views of ot the top military m man lD In the war department department Gen Dwight Eisenhower Two or three weeks ago EIsenhower EIsen Elsen hower bower was attending a Washington dinner party when people began to talk about war with Russia Irked by the conversation he remarked I that he was amazed that so many people should suddenly be seriously considering the idea of ot war with I Russia Then the chief of staff staf proceeded I to give a pointed lecture on the foolishness foolishness foolishness fool fool- of this war talk which carbe can car be briefly summarized as follows People who want war should only think a n few minutes about the sacrifice Russia has made Inthe in inthe inthe the past five years a loss los of life lICe and property so large we cannot conceive of ot it A people who have suffered such a loss will not turn tail before any military force in the world to to- day But nut at the same time they will not go 10 out and look for another another an an- other war And neither will we This country country coun coun- country try is no more anxious to go towar to tc towar war with Russia Our losses arc are great and we want no more Certainly Certainly the American people do not I want to get Involved In a war in ir 1 which there can be no end but the destruction of ot the greater part of the thc I world We have nothing nothing- to gain to start with and would have nothing nothIng nothing noth noth- ing left when it Is over ANTI ANTI- HOUSING ANTI LOBBY Most powerful lobby since the war threw itself itself- into the battle to defeat defeat de de- de- de feat teat the Wyatt housing program for veterans Every congressman received received received re re- re- re wires phone calls letters from builders lumber dealers real estate men Many telegrams were phony as several congressmen discovered cred ered when they tried to answer them Others were signed with the names of people who ho later assured members of congress that they had bad not seen or sent the wires These tactics of ot course coarse have been used before The prize telegram however was one sent to all congressmen from the St. St Paul-Minneapolis Paul area by the Northwestern Flooring and Lumber company of df which V. V H H. Alberts is president After urging that the veterans' veterans housing program be defeated the lumber company had the gall to add Please also exert your efforts to oppose a standing vote on these issues S S SNO NO TRUMAN ROAD Folks Follis back in Jackson county Mo usually are willing to go the limit for any honor to their native son Harry Truman But a recent proposal proposal proposal pro pro- to change the name of Van Horn road an Important traffic artery ar ar- artery ar- ar tery named after an early county pioneer met with a storm of protest pro pro- test Some of ot the rural citizens ba balked ed at stealing one persons person's tombstone to honor another Van Horn road was named after Col R. R T. T Van Horn who settled in iii the county in 1855 v en Kansas City's population n was about He became mayor of Kansas City was active in Miss Missouri uri politics and bought the county's first newspaper later the Kansas City Journal now defunct S S S WALLACE AND ICKES Henry Wallace and Harold Ickes although agreeing on basic political ideals have never been warm friends For 13 long years they served in the same cabinet but part of ot the time they fought like cat and dog over who was to run the forest service and the soil conservation conserva conserva- tion service Ickes' Ickes exit from the Truman cabinet has left Wallace as the last of the original Roosevelt New Dealers and and the only cabInet cabinet cabi cabI- net member with a powerful hold on Independent voters An original Republican as was Ickes Wallace Vallace Is s strong with the Negro voters labor and the Independent liberals As a result Wallaces Wallace's position inside inside in in- side the administration is better than ever Truman and Bob Hannegan both are anxious to retain at nt least one their out all-out New Dealer Wallace Is man S SOUTHERN LABOR DRIVE One n of the c most important labo abol decIsions S since the CI CIO broke brok from the away ay haS just been bee Phil M taken decided Murray to head ot of f the thc CI CIO do has pour one million into the dollars greatest union drive the south organizing has ever seen In few weeks a CIO organizers by the hundreds y will wil Georgia begin moving Into Florida bama Mississippi Alabama Ala Ala- Alabama Tennessee and the Carolinas Carolina latent intent on tabor labor bot both organizing all unorganized Negro and white |