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Show RUSSIA WAR TALK ;,tatptON It's no secret WASHINGTON- cons.derabe talk th3t eVass hats in the Penta- am1f -iHtae aut war wiUl RuS-goii RuS-goii building comeg trom men sia. Some 0 g inevitable W1!? favor getting it over with right naers chiefly favor a little n0W-t!,?k because of its help in pass- wmfflJS conscription. tag military bg nQ douM HT! views of the top military Sb0Utin the w" department-Gen. man in tne Dwieht Eisenhower. Z , three weeks ago, Eisen-TW Eisen-TW . attending a Washington rrty SPeoPle began to falk about war with Russia. Irked bv the conversation, he remarked ST v. was "amazed that so many people Should suddenly be seriously Serins the idea of war with Een'the chief of staff proceeded tove a pointed lecture on the fool-shness fool-shness of this war talk, which can be briefly summarized as follows: .'People who want war should only think a few minutes about the sacrifice Russia has made m the past five years - a loss of life and property so large we cannot conceive of it. A people who have suffered such a loss will not turn tail before any military force in the world today to-day But at the same time they will not go out and look for another an-other war. "And neither will we. This country coun-try is no more anxious to go to war with Russia. Our losses are great, and we want no more. Certainly Cer-tainly the American people do not want to get involved in a war in which there can be no end but the destruction of the greater part of the world. . "We have nothing to gain to start with, and would have nothing noth-ing left when it is over." ANTI-HOUSING LOBBY Most powerful lobby since the war threw itself into the battle to defeat de-feat the Wyatt housing program for veterans. Every congressman received re-ceived wires, phone calls, letters from builders, lumber dealers, real estate men. Many telegrams were phony, as several congressmen discovered discov-ered when they tried to answer them. Others were signed with the names of people who later assured members of congress that they had not seen or sent the wires. These tactics, of course, have becD used before. The prize telegram, however, was one sent to all congressmen from the St. Paul-Minneapolis area by the Northwestern Flooring and Lumber company, of which V. H. Alberts Is president After urging that the veterans' housing program be defeated, the lumber company had the gall to add: "Please also exert your efforts to oppose a standing vote on these issues." 1 NO TRUMAN ROAD Folks back in Jackson county, Mo., j usually are willing to go the limit for any honor to their native son, ' Harry Truman. But a recent pro- j posal to change the name of Van Horn road, an important traffic artery ar-tery named after an early county pioneer, met with a storm of protest. pro-test. Some of the rural citizens balked at stealing one person's tombstone to honor another. Van Horn road was .named after Col. R. T. Van Horn, who settled in the county in 1855 when Kansas City's population was about 455. He became mayor of Kansas City, was active in Missouri politics", and bought the county's first newspaper, later the Kansas City Journal, now defunct WALLACE AND ICKES Henry Wallace and Harold Ickes, although agreeing on basic political ideals, have never boon warm friends. For 13 long years thev served in the same cabinet, but Part of the time they fought like cat and dog over who was to run the forest service and the soil conservation conserva-tion service. Ickcs' exit rrom the Truman cabinet has loft Ya,lace as lhe 'ast of the ordinal Roosevelt ew Dealers, and the onlv caM-nc caM-nc member will, B powerful ho d on Independent voters. An original Republican - , ",lla-c Is strong with independent liberals sitlTTK Walla:s Position i. ever T m'mS,n,,ion is brt,"r an both JiUma" "nd Eob "nnnocn SOUTHKltN LA It OR DRIVE decl'ln! I"6 mSt ""Prt:,nt labor CI ;;'hc CIO broke away Phil M, ,S jUSt lu'', t.lhci, do 2:y' h-Hi f the CIO. ha. ""0 he j:::: r mn,k,n d" d'-ivethe s, : 1 ,,mon orKl--lfi few wools c o S CVr Sr"- ,n himdrod, wm , orP""-". lv 'ho G'gln n ' " ni,,vlK l"to ba'na To.rn Ml!51"'l'N. Ala-"Won' Ala-"Won' r'M mKl ,he C,nr,'. both Negro nd whilo. |