Show new political groups seek TO shape carlies Par lies policies by i i flold commentator j service 1610 eye street NW y washington D C AJ the donkey and the elephant are getting jealous and the washington chapter of the society for the prevention ol 01 cruelty to po animals Is getting n little worried lest borne other new and strange fau na ore going to sneak under the tent to steal the old regulars fod der and U aint hay three very nc five creatures 1 are being heard from in tones so stentorian that alio bray and the familiar i dounda in campaign years are almost drowned out the latcia performer in the ring is the nor republican open forums the newcomer belongs to the republican stable as its narno implies but some of the old timers ore afraid the colt Is getting ready to kick over the party traces although the other two more familiar creatures the CIO PAC and the NC national PAC are more at home in the democratic pasture they frequently get thear beada through the rails to bronso on the republican alde all three are full of ginger and not too bridle wise stassen heads r open forum chairman of the republican oiw forums advisory committee Is liar old stassen and is considered pretty much his baby wayne morse walter judd gov raymond t baldwin of connecticut and other republicans not unfriendly to the liberal domestic and expansive international ter national views of stassen make up the committee f r at headquarters you arc i told it Is strictly all republican not jt a one dark horsa jonm however a broadminded broad minded tolerance preval lr f which permits democrats to i part in forums if they want to te the forums are compared to town meetings and arc supposed to pro vide members of the party with the opportunity to form party policy at that point comes the rub old timers dont want mr i outfit which its directory insist it f making policy they feel T they hav had enough experience in i ouch matters themselves i anyhow ROP Is a going concern I 1 As of mid may there were already j forums in operation in 44 states CIO works to get out favorable vote v the clo PAC we know of old that outfit Is run by sidney hallman Hlll man and because the CIO fathered it mark says that the CIO is no longer merely a labor f alon but has acquired the status of a political party this column dey ascribed scribed CIO paca dynamic activities literature and methods at the time ot the last campaign II 11 their ostensible object Is to get out the vote the real object is to j get out the vote they want A inloe platform for both domestic t and foreign policy la stated in dah tall i the tax points of foreign policy include such controversial subjects as the quarantine of spain and ar gentina and self government for co londal nations there atre 13 points la domestic ranging from n minimum wage to OPA and including price guarantors guaran tors to banners fan ners progressive taxation for large incomes reduction on small incomes are out for support or appo botlon r brother is what might be described simply as simon pure new deal chairman of the policy committee is dr frank kingdon with sydney hill man as an honorary and members including mrs eleanor roosa j velt henry jr henry wallace hugo black and so on the lead article in their organ the national citizen whose 5 memorial edition made no single mention of the name truman con this paragraph stirred by the rising tide of re actton and the steady drift away from the policies 0 franklin D more than 2100 of the late presidents most ardent sup porters and closest friends gathered to hear speaker after speaker sound the call to political action as the best method to fulfill the roosevelt domestic and international program NC PAC has a political guide which demands the election of progressive candidates for congress and lists issues tor action which include antl labor bills argentina british loan conscription atomic power and so on they likewise are sponsoring a school of political action techniques here in washington beginning june 20 which purports to unveil the intricacies of professional political campaigning to the average voter the school will be open to anyone attendance will be limited to students says it Is believed that the majority of the student body will play an active role in the november con elections needless to say in school or out they offer little comfort for the southern democrats of course there are various other organizations old and new in the field the young republicans for example who endorsed the at 8 recent national convention mr ickes independent citizens committee of the arts sciences and professions to which james roosevelt presumably brings a hereditary parental blessing and others and I 1 fall to mention tho division of the democratic national committee which teaches wives of such fundamentals as platform poise the right word at the right time how to overcome fear ot public speaking and so on wives of cabinet officers wives of senators wives of representatives wives of members of the little cabinet and wives of topflight top flight agency heads are exhorted use your feminine charm in tho democratic campaign it helped you get your husband it it will also help get votes but these are only mothers help rs the PAC twins and the are the ones that make the donkey and the elephant nervous when they look over their left flanks congress needs salary boost wages are at the top of the in nation list but that mean more pay for congressmen one of the best arguments for a boost in the congressional payroll comes from a congressmen whom I 1 wont name but choso whoso bitterest rivals mention as one it the smartest members of cither chamber he says the vote against a pay raise comes from the men who know that they get elected it congressional salaries were high enough to attract a better class of candidates to oppose them philip broughton ex perman and political scientist who has spent a decade in washington says in his for a stronger congress that every independent student of cougras reorganization has recommended om a raise to or a year certainly it would seem aliat tho fame pub ilo which can afford a week for alio writers of grade B movie scenarios can afford a similar sum for hose who get policies that control our national life A congressman now gets a year anybody who lives in washington droughton points out knows ahat that enough A congressman has to maintain two homes campaigns cost money de ho has to contribute to the do good organizations that claim 0 root in his constituency and secretarial ret arial expenses and meager railroad do not balance his family budget there ore 0 course many other changes required in congressional organization before this body can be brought up to date but one of the bosl important objectives is to attract men of sufficient ability that maans offering such men a salary somewhere near what their services could command elsewhere otherwise you get an under ity product or you have to depend on men of wealth the thing that pains me most as I 1 travel up and down the land Is to hear the very people who acre nm that no congressman Is worth even a year object to paying enough to hire a man with ability |