Show washington snapshots by james preston A three ahree letter word WAR dominates tilt the niall pouring in at tile capitol and this bils Is ane sub arct on oil which there is no division of opinion alie ill american people dont want it 11 in nally many cases it Is perhaps the first letter some soine persons have ever vii to it a lic or a senator and its the kind of mail to which alch congress listens some Is on scratch papi r probably pio bably taken frn a school tal tablet flet hut but that luila a no difference congressmen know ll it require expensive gilt elg rd ed bond to make expressions of this mud kind stronger tho the secretary of one senator estimates that of every four letters rec leeches leeched elved three aro are pleas against war this esthe la the sentiment being con eyed to washington and this same anie sentiment Is being expressed by prominent lent people us its well the size alo of the he pocketbook makes no difference in it the love loc for peace and hate of war among these those from businessmen are stronger than any ally ono one prominent 1 aman tile the president of the woolda largest group giona of said recently cent ay 1 I want to make inake it perfectly plain that american industry has no stomach for war the clossal expenditures on lon armament it Is true would give added employment and temporary stimulus to our prosperity but at such buell a cost cont in human lives suf and dislocation of our future economy as to be a tragic bargain ha i gain indeed we have learned by bitter experience that peace NOT walt hath her victories for industry best opinion in washington Is that as ong as the sentiment against war continues to pour in from the people Ain america erlea wont 1111 become ine involved even it if war lonus cengr congressmen es sillen ilko their constituents stitt lents ane sons cons they dont want war either cither and just as long ns as congress knows their coni constituents tit are back of them they wont vote ute for war and washington Washing tofi Is having additional troubles as a result of the turmoil turi noll in fact it la Is downright I 1 OW aright embar embarrassing assing for some officials cals center of the new worry Is tile the floor of the now new multimillion multi million dollar post office llull ung tig the mosaic la Is a large map inai of the world when the hoor floor was laid about ayears years ago austria albania and czechoslovakia appear in III bright colored stones officials cals dont know whether it Is host best to tear up their 07 liali nent or lot let time and alia shuffling feet wear out the boundary lines or watt wait and make these other alternations that the world fears will come decision of the house labor committee c to hold hearings on tile the labor act amendments simultaneously bously with the senate labor committee lind had observers puzzled for a while last week but then the strategy behind the decision began to show itself and the story ts is simply ply this there lind had been no request for ht hearings in the house because hearings wore were already underway in ill tile senate until a move was started for a congressional investigation ti of tile the national abor rein board which administers tile lie labor act immediately tile the CIO the NLRB mid and administration spokesmen began sera scratching tcheng their heads for a WRY way to head off such buell an all investigation gati Oll finally filially when it looked as though tile the planned investigation tillight become ibe coine a reality somebody lilt hit upon the idea of starting hearings on amendment proposals the strategists reasoned that the house would not be likely to undertake hearings on oil both the it amendment inen dment and investigation proposals and it worked for the time being at least |