Show lili iiii new political groups seek to ro shape parties policies by leivi analyst and commentator service 1618 1616 eye street NW washington D 0 the donkey and the elephant are arc getting jealous and the washington t 0 n chapter of the society t or the prevention of 0 cruelty to political lit cal animals Is getting a little worried lest some other new end and strange fauna are going to sneak under the tent to steal the old regulars lod odder and it aint hay three very active creatures are being beard from in tones so stentorian that the bray end and the trumpet familiar sounds in campaign years eire are almost 1 drowned out the latest performer perfo performer imer in the ring Is s the BOF republican 0 open pen forums officially the newcomer belongs to the republican stable BS as its name implies but some ol of the old timers are 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 citizens PAC are more at home in the democratic pasture they frequently get their heads through the rails to browse on the republican side all AH three are full of ginger and toot hot too bridle wise stassen heads open forum chairman of the republican open forums advisory committee is harold stassen and Is considered pretty much his baby wayne morse walter judd gov raymond baldwin of connecticut and other republicans not unfriendly to the liberal domestic and expansive international ter views of stassen make up the committee at headquarters you are told it is strictly all republican not a one dark horse team however a broadminded broad minded tolerance prevail which permits democrats to take part to in forums if they want to the forums ere are compared to town meetings and are 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 outfit which its directors insist it making policy they feel they have had enough experience in uch such matters themselves anyhow Is a coing concern As of mid may there were already forums in operation in 44 states CIO works to get out favorable vote ahn CIO PAC we know of old that outfit is run by sidney hillman and because the CIO fathered I 1 it marh madi suuvan says that the CIO is no co breger merely a labor organization but has acquired the status a c of f a political party this column described CIO dynamic activities literature and methods at the time of the last campaign their ostensible object is to get out the vote the real object Is to get out the vote they want A definite platform tor for both domestic and foreign policy Is stated in de tall tail the six points of foreign policy include such controversial sub subjects ejects es as the quarantine of spain and argentina and self government for colonial lonial nations there are 13 points in domestic policy ranging from a minimum wage to OPA find and including price guarantees to farmers progressive taxation for large incomes reduction on small incomes specific bills are singled out for support or opposition brother NC PAC is what might be described simply as simon innon pure new deal chairman a the policy committee Is dr frank lK ingdon with sydney hillman as an honorary and members ran ers inc including mrs eleanor roosevelt henry jr henry wallace hugo black and so on the lead article in weir their organ the national citizen whose memorial edition made no single mention of the name truman contained this paragraph stirred by the rising tide of reaction and the steady drift away from the policies of franklin D roosevelt more than 2100 of the late PresS presidents dents most ardent sup suicides dropped during the war you cant compete with mars six million pianos out of tune tays says an official of the piano manufacturers rs association ten thousand piano tuners will be kept busy tor for years fixing thern them up maybe that will solve tome some of our future troubles t when the next inflation bubble bursts porters portera and closest friends gathered to hear speaker after speaker sound bound the call to political action am ai the best method to fu fulfill the roosevelt domestic and international program NC PAC has m a political guide which demands the election ol of progressive candidates tor for congress and lists issues for action which include anti 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 28 which purports to unveil the intricacies of professional political campaigning to the average voter the ile school will be open to anyone attendance will be jim cited to students NC PAC says it Is believed that the majority of the student body will play an active role in the november congressional gren lonal 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 tor for example who endorsed the at a 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 fail to mention the division of the he democratic Democrat lo national com coin kittee which teaches wives of politicos such fundamentals as platform poise the right word at the right time how to overcome fear of 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 the democratic campaign it helped you get your husband it it will also help get votes but these are only mothers helpers the PAC twins and the are the ones that make the donkey and the elephant nervous when they took look over their left flanks banks 1 congress needs salary boost I 1 wages are at the top of the inflation list but that mean more pay for congressmen one of the best arguments for a boost in the con gressional gress lonal payroll comes from a I 1 congressmen whom I 1 wont name but whose bitterest rivals mention i as one of the smartest members ol of either chamber he says the vote against a pay raise comes from the men who know that they get elected if congressional salaries were high enough to attract a better class ol of candidates to oppose them philip broughton ex perman and political scientist who has spent a decade in washington says saya in his for a stronger congress that every independent student of it congressional reorganization has recommended ommen om ded a raise to or a year certainly if ft would seem that the same public which can afford a week for the writers of grade B movie scenarios can afford a similar sum tor for those who set policies that control our nation a al I 1 life A congressman now gets a year anybody who lives in washington broughton points out knows that that enough A congressman has to maintain two homes campaigns cost money besides he has to contribute to the do good organizations that claim a root in his constituency and secretarial ret arial expenses and meager railroad mileage do not balance his bis family budget there are of course many other changes required in congressional organization before this body can be brought up to date but one of the most important objectives Is to attract men of sufficient ability that means mean s 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 pain a me most as I 1 travel up and down the land Is to hear bear the very people who scream that no congressman is wor a year object to paying enough to hire a man with ability BARBS by baukhage jack sprott spratt eats too much fat fat his wife eats too much lean and so between the two of them the rest ot of the world starves taking over mines and rall railroads end strikes ita It true there are no strikes in hi russia but they have a gestapo and a hand siberia neither of cf which american care tor for |