Show 11 a a lp 11 0 I 1 political ial trend points 7 IV 11 S Z 11 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 return to conservatism I 1 I 1 I 1 i wallace jones fight indicates movement I 1 I 1 in congress regular democrats I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 vie with leftists in party i I 1 ivall by news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D 0 As AB we contemplate the second month of the political calendar one ona thing Is clear and that Is the tha strong conservative trend in the congress as aa a whole and within the st structure of tho the two malor parties as well many straws show clearly the way the gie preva prevailing fling winds have been blowing ono was the jones wallace wailace co controversy which soon became a senate versus wallace roosevelt controversy another was the turn taken in the battle over the national se service bill which developed into a fight against the fair employment practices policy and the closed shop chop behind both these moves there was it a play of forces which marks the beginning of a struggle which will make the biggest postwar I 1 story on the domestic front the opposition to wallace had many and com complicated ramifications but it revealed the conservative trend both in congress as a whole and within the democratic party within the party it was a struggle between the regulars and the CIO political action committee abher ants something which Is being reflected in the conduct of the party organization too when democratic national chairman hannegan was questioned as to whether he wis was going to work with the CIO PAC he answered that he would woud welcome their assistance but in the same breath added and other independent organizations the inference drawn by the reporters was that tife two groups would pursue their separate ways it to Is reported that wallace was offered a deal by which his confirmation as secretary of commerce would be assured and perhaps powers left under the department of commerce it if he would agree to put a sate safe man in to administer the government lending this would have meant breaking with his bis CIO PAC following and wallace naturally refused that illustrates what rivalry there exists between liberal and conservative tive elements with within inthe the Demo democratic critic party it Is also whispered that a campaign has begun by which the democrats hope to pare down the influence of the the scheme is to build a strong coalition between betwee ri the southern democrats and the northern big city bosses compare wallace to bryan tb the democratic regulars claim they have no fear of wallace as a successful contender for or the presidential nomination in 1948 although they admit that he be is the one man in public life now that willkie Is gone whose leadership would be most likely to unite both liberal and radical support but they claim blaim he is another william jennings bryan much more mord intellectual budwith but with the ame same fate tn store for or him himl often 8 a bridesmaid never a bride the wallac e supporters talk quite differently they say any man who could rally votes last summers summer at chicago could get enough of the necessary additional addition dl by 1848 1948 and that every time bad big bust ness assaults him as it did through 9 li the friends of jesse jones his stock alt with the common man ind and little business whom and which he con champions will go higher in other the ithe louder bouder the wall street volt pack howls the more tho the CIO pack grins this reasoning Is As based on those two somewhat paradoxical observations 11 we love him aln for the enemies he makes and bevery every knock a boost boos tt that is the leftist reasoning and whether or not the regulars think it Is sound they have to take it into consideration in any case the op position to wallace on both sides of both houses hoses of congress shows the conservative color ot the legislative body I 1 As to the party organizations they have indicated that they intend to put their faith in works on the tha some same day january 23 both republican and democratic national chairmen announced that their respective spec tive political machines would start running on full time basis As I 1 said mr il annegan revealed his attitude toward the left fejt wingers of his party by implying that hillman murray et al would woul d paddle their own manoes canoes i GOP slays I 1 to right there was a significant development at ai the republican committee meeting too the single challenge homr to mr brownell dealt with the question of thunder from the left and it apparently tell fell on entirely dent deaf ears the ono one unfriendly volca voice at the meeting came from a supporter ot of harold stassen ot of minnesota the prospective liberal candidate for the republican presidential nomination the arose to charge that mr brownell had alienated the labor vote because ot of his connection with a law firm which handled the business of large corporations nobody in the committee denied the soft impeachment publicly it Is whispered that the republicans are not worrying about an appeal to labor for they hive have a theory that the they can attract the vote ot of the returned soldier because they say he will lean to the right tills is the way one ot of I 1 tho the regulars 1 expressed it to me I 1 there Is something about a uniform he said that makes a roan man patriotic and conservative he Is anxious to settle down and raise a family ile he wants wanta to have property of his own hes tired of being housed and fed and clothed on government issue also he Is through taking chancis chances over there he thought of america as aej home and home means something solid sano sane and safe the republican party is the natural place for him the bigwig concluded iam I 1 am not saying that the reasoning of either party Is correct but I 1 am reporting what appears to be the general atmosphere both on an capitol hill and elsewhere where the politicians cl ans gather to mull over affairs As to the temper of congress as a whole as illustrated in both the wallace and the national service controversies we can see that the former southern democrat republic be bubli can coalition is working as smoothly as ever and keen ob observers servers predict thit that its hand liand will be shown chown whenever similar questions gre are at issue in the future jut just where President the stands is not yet discernible but there again there Is a strong feeling on capitol hill that when he replaced dr new deal with dr win the war as behim he himself self put it he had no intention of placing the country under the care of the former medico when peace returned this 9 Is the way one old timer who has supported the administration on most issues for them the last 12 years put it to me i the tha president says he is stall steering a little left of center he may think so but I 1 can tell you that whether he knows wor it or not the old ship of state is going to nose to starboard this session and that would seem to be what is happening if we judge from we the first leg of the voyage in any caseb there Js is going to bo be a light fight to keep a conservative serva tive hand band on the old ships tiller SHANGRI SHANGRILA LA IN PACIFIC the army air force has discovered a new nail nation on a tiny little corn conr munley high up in the mountains of new guinea no white man is known to have visited it before and not even neighboring natives had been there acre surrounded on two sides by mountains rising toche to the height of 15 or 10 thousand thou sand act feet the third side ilde by an lm impassable passable swamp the valley Is cut off on the fourth side by a jungle like forest several miles wide the river runs through the valley which wl achis is about 5 by 20 miles and then then disappears apparently into the earth the lost tribe living in the valley has developed an extensive irrigation system army observers report at were e frightened by planes mow inow they wave at oura our airmen irmon who come quite low and are able to report that the native clothing consists entirely of strings of beads worn around the neck because the land is so extensively cultivated there is no large stretch telf culpable cul table e for a 8 Is landing nd in g and a nd t the he al air r force has enough to do these days to prevent it from landing troops by parachutes but ethnologists and other scientists will make a beeline be e for or new guinea as soon as the war kar Is over 0 1 |