| OCR Text |
Show r WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Threatens fo Take Battle On Legislative Program to People;; F1acflrthur Sees Flo Russian Attack j (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those ot Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Wins Film Award :f WE R JOBS: :or White Collars There are many fewer "white col-ar" col-ar" job openings than a year ago n most U. S. cities, but high grade oersonnel is still in demand. The volume of job-seekers, particularly men, is up all the way from ten per cent to as much as 300 per cent, but a heavy majority of the applicants are below-standard material and there is little market for them. This is the tenor of reports from 106 private employment agencies in 42 principal cities from coast to coast, surveyed by the family economics eco-nomics bureau of Northwestern National Na-tional Life Insurance company. THE "WEEDING OUT" process is now on in full swing, agency executives ex-ecutives report, as employers prune down working forces to eliminate the lazy, the inefficient, the chronic absentees and the chronically tardy, "who don't 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 male, the survey finds. But there is still a nationwide nation-wide demand for salesmen and sales promotion personnel, and, in most cities, for accountants and other technically trained men. MOST AGENCIES report that salaries sal-aries are the same or slightly better than last year for experienced or trained personnel, but that employment employ-ment requirements are stiffer, employers em-ployers interview more candidates per job, and check their qualifications qualifica-tions much more thoroughly. The great majority of employers dealt with are uncertain as to the future, agencies report, but optimists opti-mists slightly outnumber pessimists. Most employers feel that pre-war competition is here again, and with it the immediate necessity of trimming trim-ming costs and sharpening efficiency effi-ciency at every possible corner. The prevailing attitude is that good business busi-ness can be had by means of increased in-creased efforts, if pending legislation legisla-tion does not turn out too unfavorably; unfavora-bly; many concerns are reported as marking time on their future programs pro-grams until they can see how the new tax program and labor law shape up. Answers Critics l'L,, '.... .,t ' i J 1 . f i t ' ' p i , I TRUMAN: All Aboard! President Truman, who obviously obvious-ly regards himself as the "man with a mandate," was tossing some not too subtle threats toward congressmen con-gressmen inhospitable to his legislative legis-lative proposals. Keep fooling with me, he said. In effect, and I'll hit the old stump again and you know what that means. The President meant that if congress con-gress didn't set about soon enacting enact-ing into law the pledges he made to the people during the November campaign, he'd hit the trail again and take the issue to the people the way Franklin D. Roosevelt used to do. MR. TRUMAN apparently felt that by so doing he could whip public pub-lic 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 his predecessor, who could get desired results with his "fireside chats," Mr. Truman would have to climb aboard a train if he wanted to influence the masses. Strangely enough, congress didn't seem unduly perturbed at the President's threat. Things went along in congressional procedure about as usual, with Republicans charging that the 81st congress is also a "do nothing" congress, while Democratic members were inviting comparison with the "do nothing" 80th congress. - IT WAS READILY evident that Mr. Truman was needled by lack of congressional action on his program. pro-gram. Reiterating his campaign pledges of last fall, in which he declared de-clared the central issue was the "welfare of all the people," Mr. Truman asserted that lobbyists, pressure groups, and controlled editorial edi-torial pages, columnists and commentators com-mentators were offering determined deter-mined opposition to his legislative program. "All we have on our side," he said, "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." "I propose to do all I can to help it along," he added. Then he hurled the threat: "In fact, I may even get on the train again and make another an-other tour around the country to tell the people how their government govern-ment is getting on." INFLATION: Has Two Faces Observers purportedly on the "inside" "in-side" of things in Washington regard re-gard approval of the congressional committee on the economic report Mr. Truman's proposal for controls con-trols to ward off inflation as lip service only and argue that none of the committee expect the proposal pro-posal to win congressional favor. It was said the favorable committee com-mittee report was made only to "save face" for the President as 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 for approval, and that came only after the proposals pro-posals of 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 in-flation 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 ac-tually are not needed. One commentator observed that if any members of the committee considering the proposal had had any idea it would be enacted by the congress, 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 the United States, "should certainly defend de-fend her." THE ENTIRE IDEA of a Rus- DENTURES: Save Life In Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, George Hatfield put the barrel of a .22 calibre rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger. The bullet ran around the inside of his false teeth, came out his mouth. Dr. J. E. Grimby, who treated Hatfield for a cut tongue, said the man was alive because: The bullet was 10 years old. The false teeth were in its way. Virginia Wave, Cathedral films' star, receives the annual award as the best actress of religious re-ligious films from the American association of religions film distributors dis-tributors for her work in the film, "Simon Peter, Fisherman," in which she portrayed Concordia. sian attack on Japan held a bizarre aspect. With the U.S. as chief occupation oc-cupation force, how could the Soviets launch an attack of the Japanese without, in effect, making war on the United States? But, General MacArthur evidently evident-ly held the subject serious enough to comment about it. "In case of another war, we do not want Japan to fight," Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur said. "Japan's role is to be the Switzerland of the Pacific," he explained. THEN HE MADE a telling point in speculation of a Russian attack on Japan: "Even if the Soviet government had aggressive intentions toward Japan, Russia would be incapable of carrying them out unless she could secure mastery of the air and either had a far Eastern fleet of her own or possessed the means of neutralizing any action by our fleet. "Russia could not obtain air predominance," pre-dominance," he went on. "On Okinawa I had constructed at the end of the .war 25 airfields with the capacity to dispatch B-29's, then our largest bombers, oh 3,500 missions a day. The whole of eastern east-ern Asia from Singapore to Vladivostok Vladi-vostok 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 pur-poses could be covered by present-day present-day missile carriers. Of the function of Japan in the American strategy of defense, Mac-Arthur Mac-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 lifted his head and gazed in puzzled awe at a star-studded sky, mankind has been trying to discover the secrets of the universe. To that end, the huge, 200-inch Palomar mountain telescope was built and put into operation. But the telescope's first contribution contribu-tion to the sum of man's knowledge of the universe served only to deepen deep-en the mystery. Astronomers using it found that there is no outer edge to the universe uni-verse of stars, and the look they took was twice as far as man has ever looked before. The astronomers got some pictures pic-tures of nebulae a billion light-years 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 previ-ous limits of sight, about a half-billion half-billion light years. THE NEXT STUDY will be to find whether there is any thinning of the celestial families as sight is extended outward. One stunning fact the discovery brought home was that there is more than one star for every human hu-man being who ever lived. Nearly every star family, or nebulae, contains con-tains more than a hundred million individual stars. Now it is science concurring in the psalm: "The heavens declare the glory of God. and the firmament firma-ment showeth His handiwork Phone Aid Advances A house subcommittee has approved ap-proved a bill to let the government make loans for a vast expansion of telephone service to farm areas. The unanimous action came after the committee had adopted amendments amend-ments aimed at protecting existing telephone companies and encouraging encourag-ing the development of rural telephones tele-phones by private industry. The bill authorizes REA to make 35-year loans at 2 per cent interest. Former Gov. Mon C. Wallgren, Washington, nominated by President Pres-ident Truman to bead the national na-tional security resources board, denies critics' charges at committee com-mittee hearing. He was accused of being "soft toward communism." commun-ism." He branded the charges "ridiculous and silly." 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 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 Murmansk Mur-mansk area. While not estimating the number involved, he said the troop movements had been observed 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. bor-der. Norway and Russia now have a short common frontier in the far north. The frontier was established when the Petsamo region of Finland Fin-land was ceded to the Soviet union under terms of the Russo-Finnish peace treaty. The Soviet union recently proposed pro-posed to Norway that both nations sign a non-aggression pact. Norway has made it clear she will not enter en-ter into such a treaty Instead, Norway Nor-way appeared disposed to cast its fortunes with countries in the proposed pro-posed north Atlantic treaty The United States. Canada. Britain, France, the Netherlands. Luxembourg Luxem-bourg and Belgium. SLOWDOWN: Banned By Court The supreme court has upheld a Wisconsin ban on the slowdown as a union tactic in a dispute with management. man-agement. By a 5-4 vote, it sustained a state law which prohibits any concerted efforts by workers to interfere with production ej-cept by going on strike The specific action involved was a series of unannounced work ston-pages |
