Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS truman threatens to take battle un legislative program to people macarthur sees no n assian attach EDI TOIlS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of 0 western newspaper lin binions ions news new analysts an lyts and not necessarily of this newspaper TRUMAN alt all aboard president truman who obvious ly regards himself as the man mai with a mandate was tossing some som not too subtle threats toward con gressmen inhospitable to his ae leals Is dative proposals keep fooling with me he said in ir effect and ill hit the old stump again and you know what that thai means the Pies president ident meant that if con gress set about soon enact ing into law the pledges he made to the people during the november Novem bei campaign held hed hit the trail agate again and take taka the issue to the people the way franklin D roosevelt used to do MR TRUMAN apparently felt that by so d doing lie he could whip public sentiment up to such a pitch that congress would be forced to go along with his program or else face possible defeat in the 1950 elections not having the vocal equipment of 0 his predecessor who could get desired results with his hia fireside chats mr truman would have to climb aboard a train if he wanted to influence the masses strangely enough congress dian didn seem unduly perturbed at the Pre presidents threat things went along in congressional procedure about as usual with republicans charging that the congress is also a do nothing congress while democratic members were inviting comparison with the do nothing both congress IT WAS READILY evident that mr truman was needled by lack of congressional action on his program reiterating his campaign pledges of last tall fall in which he declared the central issue was the welfare of all the I 1 people mr truman as asserted seated that lobbyists hobbyists pressure groups and controlled edl edi pages columnists and commentators menta tors were offering determined opposition to his legislative program all wo we have on our side he said caid is the people pointing out that he found on his campaign tour that the people of the nation are concerned about their government mr truman termed that concern a fine thing 1 I propose to do all I 1 can to help it along he added then he hurled the threat in tact fact I 1 may even get on the train again and make another tour around the country to tell the people how their government is getting on pl INFLATION has two faces observers purportedly on the inside of things in washington regard approval of the congressional comm committee attee on the economic report mr Tr proposal for controls to ward off inflation OS as lip service only and argue that none of the committee expect the proposal to win congressional favor it was said the favorable committee report was made only to save face for the president as lie he seeks to implement the pledges he made in his election campaign THE COMMITTEE vote which will send the measure to the floor of congress was 7 to 4 tor for approval and that came only after the proposals of cf the president had been toned down critics of the truman plan say it poses the unique theory that the country is in the midst of an inflation and deflation period at the same time a condition admittedly difficult of comprehension they assert too that it would give dangerous controls to the president at a time when they actually are not needed one corame commentator observed that it any members of the committee considering the proposal had had any idea it would be enacted by the cong congress reps it would have been killed completely before it ever got to the floor of the house or senate JAPAN reds answered the russians had an answer to what would happen if they ever moved on japan gen douglas macarthur in a special interview declared that he did not expect any attack upon japan by the russians but if that occurred we meaning t h e united states should certainly defend her THE ENTIRE IDEA of a rus bus DENTURES save life i in sault saull sie i ji marie ontario george hatfield half beld put the barrel of a 22 calibre rifle in mouth and pulled the trier the tha bullet ran around the inside of hta his false teeth came out his mouth dr r J E brimby who treated hatfield Hal field for or a cut tongue tong zie said the man wm was alive because the bullet was 10 years old the false teeth were in its way sian attack on japan held a bizarre aspect with the US as chief oc oci cu pation force how could the soviets launch an attack of thel japanese without in effect making war on the united states but general macarthur ei evidently held the subject serious enough to comment about it in case of another war we do not want japan to fight bac j 1 arthur said japans role is to bel be I 1 the switzerland of the pacific pacific he explained i THEN HE MADE a telling pointe in speculation of a russian attacks attack on japan even if the soviet government had aggressive intentions toward japan russia would be incapable of carrying them out unless shei could secure mastery of the air and either had a far eastern fleet of her own or possessed the means kofl of neutralizing any action by our fleet russia could not obtain air pre 1 dominance dominan cb he went on on okinawa I 1 had constructed at the end of the war 25 airfields with the capacity to dispatch B then our largest bombers on missions a day the whole of east ern asia from singapore to vladivostok would lie within range of those machines HE DID NOT point out that with development of the bombing arm of the air force since the war even farther distances for bombing purposes could be covered by present day missile carriers of the function of japan in the american strategy of defense maci mac i arthur said we never intended to use japan as an ally all we want her to do is remain neutral UNIVERSE no limits since the first man alft lifted ed his head and gazed in puzzled awe a at t a star staf studded sky mankind has been trying to discover the secrets of the universe to that end the huge inch palomar mountain telescope wasi was built and put into operation but the telescopes first contribution to the mans knowledge of the universe served only to deepen tho the mystery astronomers using it found that there is no outer edge to the universe of stars and the look they took wash was twice as far ss as man has ever looked before the astronomers got some pictures of nebulae a billion light years distant and spaced about a million light years apart each one is a world of stars like the milky way the star worlds are about uniformly spread up to the previous limits of sight about a half billion light years THE NEXT STUDY will be to find whether there Is any thinning of the celestial families as sight iu Is extended outward one stunning fact act the discovery brought home was that there is more than one star for or every human being who ever lived nearly every star family or nebulae contains more than a hundred million millian J individual stars now it is science con concurring currin 9 in the psalm the heavens declare the glory of god and the firmament his handiwork FEWER JOBS for or white collars there are many fewer white collar I 1 a r job openings than a year ago in most U S cities but high grade personnel Is still in demand the vo volume ume of job seekers particularly men Is up all the way from ten per cent to as much as per cent but b ua a heavy majority of the applicants are below standard material and t there 11 ere Is little market for them this Is the tenor of reports from private employment agencies in 42 principal cities from coast to coast surveyed by the family economics bureau of northwestern notional national life insurance company THE WEEDING OUT process Is now on in full swing agency executives report as employers prune down working forces to eliminate the lazy the inefficient the chronic absentees and the chronically tardy who dont realize that the wartime gravy train has rumbled to a stop and the era of competition is back the biggest drop has occurred in jobs for untrained and junior office help particularly mali male the survey finds but there is still a nationwide demand for salesmen and sales promotion personnel and in most cities for accountants and nd other technically trained men MOST AGENCIES report that salaries are the same or slightly better than last year tor for ex experienced perien ced or trained personnel but that thai employment requirements are stiffer employers interview more candidates per job and check their qualifications much more thoroughly the great majority of employers dealt with are uncertain as to the future agencies report but op optimists slightly outnumber pessimists most employers feel that prewar pre war competition is here again and with it the immediate necessity of trimming costs and sharpening efti chency at every possible corner the prevailing attitude is that good business can be had by means of increased efforts it if pending legislation does not turn out too unfavorably many concerns are reported as marking time on their future programs until they can see how the new tax program and labor law s shape hape up WAR TALK little ease up there was little ease up in the talk of possible war war rumors were still flying the latest reporting that the tha russians had strengthened their garrisons along the soviet norwegian border A well informed finnish source was credited with the report the informant said the russian troops had come from the mur mansk area wile while not estimating the number involved he said the troop movements had been bl een observed vea and apparently were in connection with the stand taken by norway on the north atlantic defense treaty THE INFORMANT said there were no indications of similar troop movements along the finnish border norway and and russia now have a short common frontier fronti br tn in the tar far north the frontier was established when the petsamo region of finland was ceded to the soviet union under terms of the russo finnish peace treaty the soviet union recently proposed to norway that both n nations at lo 10 n s sign a aggression non pact norway has made it clear she will not enter into such a treaty instead norway appeared disposed to cast its fortunes with countries in the proposed north atlantic treaty the united states canada britain france the netherlands luxembourg and belgium S SLOWDOWN banned by court the supreme court has upheld a wisconsin ban on the slowdown as a union tactic in a dispute with man argement by a 54 5 4 vote it sustained a state stat e law which prohibits any concerted efforts by workers to interfere with production except by going on strike the specific action involved was wall a series of unannounced work stoll pages i |