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Show ! I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS President Truman Astounds Nation By Winning Election Over Dewey; Senate, House Go Democratic, Too By 111 Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (KDITOR'S NOTE: When oplnlom ro expressed in these columns. Iher are those of Weitflrn Newspaper Union's news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) .";; :f i . . i ' m , i .... , v . "fSif- : I.-.- vat - JOY ABROAD: About Harry Astonishment at the re-election of President Truman was not confined within the boundaries of the United States, and United Nations delegates in Paris received the news with a mixture of incredulity and happiness. happi-ness. MAJORITY opinion among the delegates seemed to be that it was a good thing. First, the western European leaders lead-ers said, the continuity of the American government will hasten ' Atlantic pact negotiations. If Governor Gov-ernor Dewey had been elected an inevitable delay would have resulted, result-ed, pending the switch in administrations. admin-istrations. Second, most of the delegates of Russia and the eastern bloc of Europe, Eu-rope, although chagrined at the miserable showing of Henry Wallace, Wal-lace, asserted they preferred Mr. Truman to Dewey because they will be dealing with a man and administration admin-istration with which they are acquainted. ac-quainted. THERE IS some doubt, however, as to whether that is the real Soviet attitude. The Russians and their satellites had been banking on a Republican victory because they were sure that if a GOP administration administra-tion took over in the U. S. the last great depression that would destroy j western capitalism would inevitably come. They do expect, however, that Mr. Truman, now having the support of congress, will make a fresh approach ap-proach toward improving U. S.Soviet S.-Soviet relations, probably renewing an effort to untangle the Berlin puzzle. puz-zle. Concensus of all the delegates is that the success of President Truman Tru-man demonstrates the unexpected strength of the liberal element in America combined with a powerful anti-Communist attitude. GRAZING: Western Problem One of the greatest sins of the western United States has been the pasturing of too many cattle and sheep on the range over-grazing, ( in other words. Despite the apparent remoteness of the subject, it vitally concerns every housewife and every consumer consum-er who likes to eat meat, for much of the beef and lamb in the butcher shop originates in the 11 western states. IT IS still the subject of hot debate de-bate among western stockmen and the U. S. forest service, however, whether the vast, public-owned lands are grazed too much or too little. Yet, the evidence seems clear that when livestock or big game eat black grama grass, for example, exam-ple, too close to the ground it eventually even-tually dies. Meat-producing grasses are driven driv-en out and replaced by worthless or inferior plants such as snakeweed, snake-weed, bitterweed, cactus, yuccas, creosotebush and the mesquites. THIS condition is becoming more common throughout the West and Southwest. In southwest Texas, for instance, more than a million of acres of good grasslands have been depleted. Drouth and over-grazing has killed the choice grama and buffalo grasses and their place has been taken by mesquite, cedar and catclaw brush and by an assortment of low-value weeds. As a result of this abuse, meat production has been slowed definitely." Nevertheless, there is definite proof that such a situation need not exist. ON THE Jornada experimental range, a 192,000-acre cattle ranch owned and controlled by the U. S. forest service just north of Las Cruces, N. M., the cows are plump and the calves fat despite the third year of the worst drouth in 50 years. And on similar land outside the ranch over-grazing has all but do stroyed the grama grass. Worthless Worth-less snakeweed has taken control of the land. Blithe Spirit ELECTION: Ghost Walked The night of November 2-3 was supposed to have been a wake for the defunct Democratic party but the corpse wouldn't lie still. It not only sat up but went around slapping slap-ping the premature mourners on the back. IN THE FACE of the supposedly cut-and-dried nature of the campaign cam-paign between President Truman and Governor Dewey the results of the election were fantastic. Everybody Every-body had been wrong from the sec-ond-guessers on every street corner cor-ner to the "infallible" pollsters of public opinion. It was Truman all the way from the first early returns which indicated the trend until the great, pivotal states of Ohio, Illinois and California swung over into the Democrats' Dem-ocrats' camp, crushed Dewey and forced him to concede. MR. TRUMAN'S two million-plus plurality which gave him 304 electoral elec-toral votes (to Dewey's 189) was nothing less than a popular directive direc-tive to serve. Thus, for the first time since he entered the White House, President Truman was able to feel that he had full, untrammeled control of the administration. MORE THAN that, the President was enormously elated about the fact that the Democrats had gained control of both houses of congress. How justifiable that elation will turn out to be, however, is a question for time to answer. "We have a congress now, and I'm sure we'll make some progress in the next four years," he said. Yet, full cooperation between a U. S. president and his congress, even when they are aligned politically, politi-cally, is, if not quite a rarity, at least unusual. Personalities Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York must have been the most tormented tor-mented man in the nation for a few days after November 2. AT 46, an age when most men in politics are only beginning their climb to the top, he had sat for a few weeks on an imaginary pinnacle pin-nacle created by himself, with yeoman help from the pollsters only to feel it dissolve under him when the votes were counted. Dewey was through, a man to be pitied. Never again would he find the ambition or the chance to be president of the United States. BUT FOR President Truman these were days of such happiness and triumph as few men savor in a lifetime. He had pummeled his way through the allotted number of rounds in the campaign almost single-handedly. He had fought Dewey and the Republicans. He had fought the apathy of his own party. He had fought for and won over to his side a majority of the United States voters. Harry S. Truman was the man of the year. WHAT NOW? Program Now that it is going'to be President Presi-dent Truman again for the next four years, what can the nation expect ex-pect of him to do along legislative lines? His program will probably be elucidated in two phases, lvs annual message to be delivered to the January Jan-uary 3 opening of congress and his inaugural address on January 20. In the meantime, if his campaign speeches are taken as being reasonably rea-sonably reliable, Mr. Truman has committed himself to a program involving these principal issues: PRICES: "I'm still in favor of action ac-tion to hold down the cost of living." liv-ing." He wants price control laws, the President indicated. LABOR: "The Taft-Hartley law is the opening gun in the Republican onslaught against the rights of the working man. It should be repealed." re-pealed." He also is expected to ask for the raising of the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour. COMMUNISTS: "We ar on guard against them." CIVIL RIGHTS: "We cannot be satisfied sat-isfied until all our people have equal opportunity for jobs, homes, education, edu-cation, health and for political expression." ex-pression." AGRICULTURE: "Full markets for farm products ... a floor under farm income . . . increased farm income through cooperatives, market mar-ket development and research." SOCIAL SECURITY: "A comprehensive compre-hensive insurance system to protect THE VANQUISHED Called the wrong tune all our people." Probably he will recommend expansion of the law to cover self - employed domestics, farm workers and others not now included. ATOMIC ENERGY: "Civilian control con-trol under government management should be retained." HOUSING: "The Taft - Ellender-Wagner Ellender-Wagner bill passed the senate and should have passed the house." TAXES: "The tax reduction (passed over his veto) is inequitable as well as untimely. Some readjustment is required to afford relief to families who are suffering. But total receipts re-ceipts should not be reduced." CONGRESS: Demo Gains Although they had needed a net gain of only four senate and 31 house seats for control of the 81st congress, the Democratic party did much better than that. By the time Dewey conceded the election, the Democratic party was assured of at least 18 senators against five for the Republicans and 188 representatives against 86 for the Republicans. Forty-nine votes are necessary for senate control. The Democrats now have 54. Democrats have clinched at least 263 house seats. Only 218 are necessary for control. Republican senators seeking reelection re-election were defeated by Democrats Demo-crats in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. In other contests con-tests where Democrats were seeking seek-ing re-election they won. Colorado's Democratic Senator Johnson was a winner in his reelection re-election campaign. In Oklahoma, where a Republican seat was at issue, former Gov. Robert Keer, Democrat, won. Republican -Senator Revercombe was defeated in West Virginia by Democratic Governor Neely. Hubert Humphrey, Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, won his bid for Republican Re-publican Sen. Joseph H. Ball's job. In Illinois, Democratic Senate Candidate Can-didate Paul Douglas defeated Republican Re-publican Sen. C. Wayland Brooks by more than 100,000 votes. GUARD: Expansion Soon after the 81st congress convenes con-venes on January 3 it will be requested re-quested to boost the authorized strength of the national guard by 100,000 men and put all its units on a ready-for-war basis. And the way things look now, it appears that congress will agree to that request. Guard officials said they would ask that the authorized strength be increased frqm the present 341,000 to 441.000. This, of course, would require special appropriations for armories and equipment. These officials in Washington said they also will ask that all 27 divisions divi-sions of the national guard be included in-cluded in the army's slepped-up defense program. The army so far has selected only six of the 27 divisions for its "mobilization day" force, the outfit out-fit that would be ready to strike back first if this nation were to be attacked. Army spokesmen, however, claim their present funds and equipment cannot support more than six guard units on a war-ready basis. I XS 1 I 5 si f - " V j With a let - joy - be - unconlined look on his face and obviously not in a vetoLng frame of mind, Andrei An-drei Vishinsky, Soviet U.N. delegate, dele-gate, attends a special performance perform-ance of the opera given for United Unit-ed Nations delegates in Paris. With him is Madame Vishinsky. MOLECULES: Inside. Story A new kind of lirht, consisting of radio waves less than a quarter of an inch lorg, is being used to study the inside of molecules, the basic chemical units of all matter. These radiation waves, several thousand times longer than those of visible light and several-fold longer than infra-red "heat light" waves, are absorbed and reflected by the atoms making up the molecules. |