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Show life Truman Answers Taft WHEN MEMBERS of the national nation-al labor relations board dropped in to see President Truman the other oth-er day. they found him seated at his desk wriung a letter in longhand. long-hand. Lookins up. he said: "I'll bet you don't know whom I'm writing to." Then, without wait-ing wait-ing for an answer, he added: "Senator "Sen-ator Taft" Continuing. Truman read Tsft's letter, which went somewhst as follows: "As I leave for Europe I want to send you my best wishes or your new administration. "You and I have differed on some things in the past, ant no doubt will diter again in the future. But I want you to know that in such cases where we agree. I hone you will call on me for whatever hell I can give you in the senate of the United States." Looking up from the letter, Truman Tru-man winked at the labor board members and said: "You know I don't think that ff I low wanted Dewey to win, afttr all." e e One-Man Lobby Congressman George Bender 0! Ohio, Republican, is the man who gave his frier.ds Christmas presents of new broom when the 80tr congress con-gress came Into power exactly two years ago. Today Congressman Bender finds himself swept out of office by popular reaction to the Republican Re-publican broom; so this Christmas, Christ-mas, Bender who has a real sense of humor, has been sending send-ing his friends a different kind of Christmas present. It consists con-sists of Dewey campaign neckties, neck-ties, and sweatshirts featuring a picture of the G.O.P. presidential presiden-tial candidate, with the admonition admoni-tion "do it with Dewey." Furthermore, the resourceful Border Bor-der has already found a job. He has appointed himself a one-rran lobby for the American people, snd plans to appear at all congressional committee meetings to read sone interesting literature to the Democrats. Demo-crats. The literature he intends to read will be: the Democratic platform. Mushrooming Maryland During the lart year of the Civil War, Gen. Ju)al Early came within a few hours of capturing the cap't.il of the United States. His troops arrived ar-rived at a point of Wisconsin Avenue Ave-nue where now stands the S-ars Roebuck store, and if Jubal hn'n't stopped for a round of mint julrs at the farm new occupied by E'jgene Casey of Gaithersburg. Md., the capital would have fallen to the Confederacy. Immediately afterward the Miry land area which his troops occupied just outside the city was captured through peaceful politics by the Democratic nerty. and has remained remain-ed Democratic ever since. In the succeeding years, It alfo has become the second largest city of Maryland. Actually a suburb ol Washington. D. C. the mushroom city of Silver Spring ranks secwid only to Baltimore In the size cf Maryland citirs. Silver Spring and sprawlinp densely populated Montgomry county around It for a long time were governed and rather well-by well-by a Democratic boss, E. BrnnR Lee, Then the Republicans hutinrj for power, two years ago persuij-ed persuij-ed local Maryland voters to Install a system of nonpolitical government by council and county manager. This has proved an important experiment. One aspect also has proved amusing. For, although the county supervisor has glv?n the area the best, cheapest tnj most efficient government In years, the Republican comml sinners now want to get rid of the whole srstem. Reason: Their brief taste ol run ning the settnd largest city in Maryland an.l its surrounding arei has whetted the ir appetite for more Successful Experiment This amusing aspect however only helps to emphasize the t'v iency of the experiment taxing place under the nose of the city which governs the rest of the t'ni ted States. It is an cxperi-nr, 1 which already has grown to CI? other cities of the U. S. A and It 15 counties. What's haprrned In Maryliuii's Mongomcry runty is that scr.nn teachers, onre woefully urdorpr-:,! now are better paid in some enve, than those In the District of Cnlurn bla. The motislj sum of $12,500 .ir-'c ipcnt annually for school malmen itnee has bee 1 increased to 128.,VC. The amount t-f new roads liuilt v ery year has been tripled. The joi Ice system h-i- been revamped a-'d modernised. Nurses' salaries lnvr been raised. And the muhhroon area which mrives on the eJ ol the capital nas become oiu of t'i most progressively governed In thi East |