Show p r WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS- i Congress Gets Control Proposals Which Would Curb Wages Prices Doctors Offer Public Health Plan EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions opinion are Arc expressed in these columns they are arc those of Wel rn Newspaper Union news analysts and not necessarily 0 of ci this newspaper t CONTROLS Needed or Not The administration at Wasl Washington has bas made Its move for price and andI I wage controls It has asked congress to place ceilings on prices which threaten to go above last Decembers December's level It also has proposed creation of a man six board to regulate wage In in- t creases Already however it was becoming becom- becom ling ing increasingly clear to the people that constantly shifting factors are changing so swiftly that some o of the major points in the administrations administration's administrations administration's become be be- tion's legislative program may come before they are called for consideration FOR INSTANCE the downward I trend in prices would indicate that thata a 8 proposal for price control controls except lin in some few Isolated cases might even appear Consequent ly fly continuing decline in prices would naturally knock out any vali- vali of wage hike demands The sincerity of the administration tion Is this respect might be open to question but not seriously so Practical politicians and people who realize the need for application of f politics in government procedures procedures dures will understand that whether the government actually wants what it asks Is somewhat beside the point The re real l point Is that these meas- meas ures tires were pledged by President Truman ruman In his campaign and it was as early as inauguration day that administration leaders stated publicly they meant to implement campaign pledges in every way Now the administration is going through the motions of seeking to have adopted all the legislation the President promised the voters when be he was a candidate for the office A QUICK RUN-DOWN RUN of the administrations administration's administrations administration's administrations administration's ad ad- ministrations ministration's potential legislative-potential will show that civil rights tax increases increases increases in in- creases outright repeal of the Taft- Taft Hartley Harley law and socialized medicine medicine medi medi- cine all admittedly needing some treatment are in for a rough time tune In congress That being the case it Is difficult dim dim- cult to understand how Mr Truman and his advisers could make price and wage controls stick should there be no apparent need for either PUBLIC HEALTH Physicians Physicians' Plan There would be discussion of motive motive mo mo- tive Uve of course but whether actuated actuated actuated ac ac- ac- ac by the belief that socialized medicine was an undesirable alternative alternative alternative alter alter- native or by a sincere desire to widen their field of service AmerIcas AmerIca's Americas America's Americas America's Amer Amer- ica's physicians had come up with witha a plan OBVIOUSLY the plan was a counter move In ha the developing battle over socialized medicine and andIn andin In hi it one could see some concession to the bureaucratic ambitions which it is claimed motivates the socialized medicine effort I 1 First the doctors through their American Medical associations association's board of trustees urge creation n of a federal department of health with i cabinet status which would be authorized to promote the general welfare by aiding and fostering programs pro pro- i grams in hi the field of health This department also would contribute to Individual family and community Pity ity well Briefly the program would include Include In in- clude dude PROMPT DEVELOPMENT of diagnostic facilities health centers end and nd local public health units health centers and hospital services comprehensive comprehensive com corn health ed education cation Dro grams integration of veter veterans ns' ns medical care and hospitalization with other medical care and hospital hos hos- pital programs greater emphasis cn CD n the program of industrial medicine medicine medi- medi cine and adequate support with funds free from political control of the medical dental and nursing schools and other institutions necessary necessary essary esary for the training of specialized specialized special special- personnel required in hi the provision provision pro pro- vision and distribution of medical care are In Its It scope the doctors' doctors program read like Mr Truman's bold new program for betterment of world living But its very generalities and extent might be the factors to doom doomit it With Immediate medical care the greatest need of too many Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans unable to pay for it It the panacea panacea pana pana- cea would have to be immediate and visual Examined even close up the doctors doctor's plan appeared to offer little toward the solution of the issue of socialized medicine MERCI TRAIN And Kisses Although no finished hand at the game Came Kentucky Kentucky's Gov Earle Clements Clements Clem Clem- eats was not to be outdone in hi the tho amenities incident to arrival of the French Merci train In hi Frankfort BUSSED heartily on the cheek by French representative Andre Picard Governor Clements bussed right back displayed no chagrin An And Ma In hi addition to the buss Picard received a commission as ag a Kentucky colonel I I Absolved 4 x k I N t William W. W Remington who was an official of ot the commerce department was absolved of dIsloyalty disloyalty disloyalty dis dIs- dis- dis loyalty charges following an al- al ledged link Unk to Soviet interests He was given a n. new job with the department de but with salary remaining remaining re re- re- re at annually DEFENSE PACT Gilded Lily There were puzzling things going on in Washington as the proposed north Atlantic security pact came up for tor discussion As any schoolboy knows only congress congress congress con con- gress can declare war Yet Senator Vandenburg of the foreign affairs committee was quoted as saying that if any pact were drawn he expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex such a pact to reserve to congress the complete right of decision decision decision de de- de- de on what to do about an armed attack THAT STATEMENT of Vanden- Vanden bergs berg's amounted to nothing more than a thick coat of gilt on the lily The pact could do no less than reserve reserve reserve re serve such decision because the constitution of the United States is quite clear as to what governmental tal body in the United States has the authority to declare war The constitution does not relegate that power to a senate committee or to the state department The point is made only to high high- light the trend of official thinking in federal circles Despite the constitutional constitutional constitutional con con- provision Senator Van- Van denberg and apparently those who draft the pact are willing to let congress make any decision on going going going go go- ing to war There were other puzzling factors connected with the pact Both Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Vandenburg and Senator Connally Connally Con- Con nally declared that signing the pact would not commit this nation to war var in the event another pact signatory were attacked IF THAT were the situation the critical queried what would be the use of the pact The senators had an answer for that one one one-an an answer reminiscent of American thinking before Pearl Harbor They pointed out that as Vandenburg put it in in my opinion the mere formal recognition of this community of interest in the event of an armed attack on the Atlantic community without community without another word wordin in the treaty would treaty would be an infinite assurance against World War III What the senator was was intimating In effect was that with the United States a signatory to the pact any nation would be afraid to jump either on the U. U S. S or another mem mem- ber THE SENATORS SENATOR'S MEMORY seemed to be waning Japan wasn't afraid to attack Pearl Harbor That was World War II Germany wasn't afraid to sink the Lusi- Lusi tania tama That was World War I I. I The fear bulwark hadn't done 50 o well wellon on two occasions Did Senator Vandenburg have some special information or Intuition intuition Intuition In in- tuition that it would work better to prevent World War III LONGEVITY The Hard Way So you'd like to live to be Theres There's a way way but but it will appeal only to the rugged A Westerfield N. N J. J woman has passed the century mark with vitality vitality vitality vi vi- still good interest in things about her still unimpaired OF HER birthday party she said It was a most wonderful party I felt just like I was walking on air The house looked like a greenery All Mi those flowers and even an id It was wonderfuL About reaching well the lady who did it Mrs Katherine G. G Lyon said she was hi In favor ol of of I exercise and fresn tresh air Its all aU a matter of your food properly and getting plenty of fresh air Anyone who is ig years old and cant can't walk a aleast at least two miles ought to go to a doctor and find out what's the tho matter matter mat mat- ter ten with them Im I'm always ready to go Mrs Lyon did not stipulate that walking two miles mUes a n day doy was wag the I I entire answer j TRENDS Dictatorial The gentleman who was talking knew whereof he spoke When he began to express l himself on dictatorships dictatorships dicta dIcta- ps the public might respectfully respectfully re re- ne- ne for he had but lately concluded concluded concluded con con- an assignment to put down one of the most vicious dictatorships the world had ever seen But he wasn't talking of foreign dictatorships Instead he was warnIng warning warn- warn ing ng the Columbia college forum on democracy that dictatorship was an actual possibility right here in the United States THE SPEAKER was Gen Dwight D. D Duke Ike uke Eisenhower ver who was supreme su- su preme commander of allied forces in n the war against the dictatorships World War II ir Discussing the supposition that this his nation was in danger of falling into nto the hands of a dictatorship without without without with with- out a shot being fired Eisenhower said he ne was not talking about the usual type of seizure of power by force orce He was talking he said about a gradual dictatorship of bureaucracy which could result from the constant constant constant con stant drift toward centralized gov gov- There is a kind of dictatorship he ic said that can come about I through a creeping paralysis of thought hought and readiness to accept paternalistic paternalistic pa- pa measures from the government government government gov gov- along with a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore therefore there- there fore ore of our control over our own lives ives and our right to exercise our vote IF WE ALLOW this drift toward centralized bureaucratic government government government govern govern- ment to continue finally it will be expressed in the actual field of operation Therell be a swarming of bureaucrats bureaucrats bureaucrats bur bur- over the land ownership of property will gradually drift into that hat central government and finally finally finaly final- final ly y you have to have dictatorship as ashe the he only means of operating such a huge organization When a man of General Ikes Ike's stature stature stature stat stat- ure Is publicly concerned over the probability of a dictatorship in the U. U J. J S. S benign or otherwise it seems it t were time the public too should begin egin to look into the situation MYSTERY Biggest Run RunAs RunAs RunAs As one southern reporter described de do scribed it it was the biggest run inthe in inthe the he South's history One moment everything was all aU right The next disaster had struck It happened in Jacksonville Fla and there was no warning of its coming Women and girls arose in inthe inthe inthe the morning donned attractive sheer nylon stockings and started about their business Then the nylons simply started coming apart Working girls went legged bare-legged to lunch carrying their stockings stockings stockings-or or what was left of them in in their purses A horrible possibility failed to materialize the materialize the girls were spared disintegration of their nylon underwear underwear underwear under under- wear but there were many anxious moments as they watched the nylon stockings disintegrate on their legs The health department advanced a theory that incompletely-burned incompletely particles of soot carried a gas which caused the stockings to come apart At Wilmington Del a technical engineer for a nylon manufacturer said its it's happened before in WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington Chicago Nashville and Min Mm- neapolis He explained that the trouble was bearing acid-bearing soot These tiny particles particles par par- tides he said even from ordinary coal fires contain sulphur dioxide sulphur trioxide and other acids When they land on a coat or hat the concentrate may destroy a thread but you dont don't notice it But when they land on a stocking thread zip thread zip I And theres there's a story to make the nations nation's headlines Accused 1 ii 1 c i 1 4 l 4 7 t f A AAgnes Agnes Smedley year old Ok Ok- OkI I lahoma-born lahoma author has bas been named by Gen GeD Douglas MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur as a Soviet agent In his recent report on a Russian spy ring She denied the accusation MET METALS ALS Stronger For those who use metals there was good news Dr J. J H. H Holloman General Electric research laboratory laboratory laboratory labora labora- tory scientist reported that metals eventually can be made from five to 10 times stronger Metals are made up of tiny grains A break always begins at ata a high temperature with microscopic microscopic microscopic micro micro- cracks along the boundaries It is prevention of these cracks that will strengthen the metaL |