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Show The Observations Of Mr. Jones The People And The Politicians The Congress of the United States took over the affairs of the District of Columbia in 1874, and ruled the District themselves. The lawful residents of the District Dis-trict have conducted two unofficial unof-ficial plebiscites and in 1946 there were 168,000 votes cast praying Congress to give back the rights of franchise to the American citizens of the District. Congress began immediately to rig up schemes that would permit per-mit Washingtonians to claim self-rule. But, with the un-American provision that Congress would retain the power of veto over acts of this city of a million people. Now comes the Gallup Poll conducted throughout the Nation with a report that 77 per cent of the people of the Nation believe be-lieve the District of Columbia should have the right to vote; 13 per cent said they should not; and 10 per cent had no opinion. This all comes about because Congress, for purely selfish motives, mo-tives, has always continued to withhold the rights of Democratic Democrat-ic government. The Gallup Poll proves that the people of the district of Columbia are being created out of their birthrights. And They Call It "Pork Barrel" There are bills before Congress Con-gress in behalf of the development develop-ment of rivers and harbors and flood control projects. A terrible howl has been raised on Capitol Hill over recommendations that '$708,586,666 be voted for these projects. Of course they do seem like big sums because they are (larger than in the former years J of the present century when we ,were giving more attentian to : steamboats, and the recovery of vast "lost acres." But the so-called so-called "pork, barrel" sums are "small change," as compared with the demands upon the Public Pub-lic Treasury for European recovery, re-covery, plus measures to prevent and prepare for more bloody wars. Many years ago there was a j chance to save the so-called St. I Lawrence Seaways Project which was designed to carry grain and commodities of all kinds from Lake Superior to Europe.- Now the Stale of Now York proposes to build power plants on the St. Lawrence River a proposition separate from the Seaways Project. Congress has been mulling over these propositions for 50 years, and "they -ain't got nowhere no-where yet." A Great Soldier Passes Although he never carried a gun into battle, one of the greatest great-est soldiers of America died in Detroit the other day. He was among those Adolf Hitler failed to consider when he mounted World War II on wheels. He was William S. Knudsen, Danish-born Danish-born production genius, who gave up his post as president of General Motors in 1940 to become be-come the armorer for the Allies. Knudsen's mass production ability was of a caliber that brought him rank as the greatest great-est in that line ever to be as- sociated either with Ford or General Gen-eral Motors. He spent many years with each, his contact with the former dating back to the early days of the century, when he was a supplying firm in Buffalo. It was fell training for his war career. America would have been hard put without him. It was mass production in a hurry that the United States needed then, and Knudsen was the man who knew how to get it in a hurry. He told the story that when he was landing at New York as an immigrant boy of 20, back in 1900, someone shouted "Hurry up, there!" and that he had been hurrying ever since. Bill Knudsen poured so much i of his hurry into' hundreds of wartime production plants that America armed itself on land and sea and in the air more quickly than anyone had dared to hope. And he armed . our Allies, too. It is fortunate for these United State's that nothing happened to that, shipload of immigrants from Denmark back in 1900. |