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— i +* ' i i t ► Thursday, November 23, 1950 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Seven As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Nov. 22—While offi cial Washington sought to digest the results of the off-year election which 1 went largely as inticipated, there were several up-sets which will change the outlook for 1952 and in dicates how the American people are thinking along several issues. The unexpected defeat of Sena tor Millard Tydings of Maryland af- is more of an anti-administration trend than was evidenced in pro election polls. As a matter of fact, however, the administration has not had control of the congress except In name, due to the southem-Repub- lican coalition and this next congress will definitely be an anti-administra tion congress. Babson’s Letter By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., Nov. 17.—The ^ ^ easy international situation plus a ter 24 years in the senate and the! continuirig r * se * n cost of n ? ost political defeat of scholarly Elbert Thomas of Utah by Wallace Bennett, former president of the National As sociation of Manufacturers, proviue the two biggest upsets in the election. Tydings’ defeat, more than any oth- 1 er incident, reflects the results of MoCarthyism” in the minds of thei American people and proves con clusively that the people took to heart the fight made by Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin against alleged Com munism in the state department. For it was Tydings who, as chairman of the senate investigating committee hearing the McCarthy charges, found them irresponsible and unfounded, oods and services has quite naturally focused attention cn p:\fi.s. Unfort unately, it has also revived the danger ous and widespread belief that business, big and little, is profiting excessive ly at thp expense of wageworkers. It is perfectly true that there are firms which do profit unduly at the expense of their employes and the general public, just as there are some individuals ever average corporation stockholder is really just another “laboring man.” Those who invest their money in common stocks enable companies to produce more /efficiently and reduce prices. This further enables these companies to pay fair wages while at the same time to make substan tial federal and local tax contribu tions. R«f«r W. Babul and it was McCarthy who stumped! read y t0 ^ cheat and steal But the the state of Maryland on that direct recent record of American business issue resulting in the defeat of the Maryland veteran Senator. These other factors are giving Washington politicians food for thought—the strength of labor, as di rected by the CIO and AFL political committees, proved much weaker than expected, and those marked for defeat by labor, particularly Senator Robert A. Taft, piled up whopping votes in labor centers. Also advocates of the Brannan farm plan took a sound licking, the outstanding sec tions being in Colorado, in Iowa, in Wisconsin and also in Ohio. There were also spotty tests of strength by advocates of the Fair Deal program of President Truman— one in Utah, where Senator Thomas was defeated running on a strict ad herence to the Fair Deal, and in Colorado where Representative John Carroll, Democrat, was soundly lick ed by Republican Senator Eugene Millikan. In industrial Illinois, where again organized labor was expected to turn out a record vote, Senator Scott Lucas was given the run-around in Chicago and in other industrial cit ies of that state. While most predic tions were that Senator would squeeze thnougn, his opponent, the former Congressman Everett Dirk- sen, Republican, ran his 20-month . campaign right down to election day to win by a reduced majority. The defeat of Senator Lucas, the Democrat leader in the senate, and also of Senator Francis Myers of Pennsylvania, the Democratic whip in the Senate, leaves the Demo crats, with their paper control of the upper house, a tough task of re organization. The talk heard is that Senator Joseph O’Mahoney of Wy oming likely will be heard as major ity leader when organization of the new senate takes place early in Jan uary. 'Hie vote piled up by Senator Taft in Ohio is regarded as a personal triumph for “Mr. Republican," while the same thing is true for both Sena tors Brien McMahon and his Demo cratic colleague, William Benton, in Connecticut where the two Demo crats held on to their seats while the governorship went over to the Republican candidate. Defeat of Senator Forrest Donnell of Missouri by his Democratic op ponent, Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., was not unexpected, although the size of the Democratic vote there was larger than had been anticipated. Aside from Missouri, however, the mid-west is safely back in the Re publican column, with Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa return ing Republican victories. While the Democrats maintain nom inal control of both houses of the congress, which some declare is a “moral” victory in an off-year elec tion, there is little question that there Mother, let’s get a new rug at Prather-Simpson’s to put on the floor for Christinas. generally in this regard is an honor able one worthy of defense. Yet, when costs go up, our first impulse is to blame the greedy manufacturer because we believe he is taking ad vantage of us. Labor unions then take up the cry of “excess profits” as they agitate for higher wages. Meanwhile, an ev er growing share of the really sub stantial profits of American business is being drained off by government in the form of federal, state and local tax levies. If even one half of the time, money and energy which gov ernment, management and labor spend in foolishly antagonizing each other were to be spent in a united effort to curb waste and increase production, we would soon have a far higher standard of living than we now enjoy. Stockholders Are ITuman The truth is Uncle Sam has now become so adept at piling tax upon tax—and squandering so much of the money which he takes in—that the There are times when labor unions have some legitimate complaints, but I know that labor unions are bark ing up the wrong tree when they at tack stockholders as a class. They forget that the ownership of stocks is now pretty well spread over all the elements of our population. In fact, I am certain that the percentage of wageworkers who are actually stockholders is very large. It is nj longer rare to find even labor unions inveouug in industrial stocks; they know that now an additional invest ment of close to $10,000 is needed to give a new man a job. Why Blame Manufacturers? When costs go up, there is a wide spread tendency to make manufac turers and storekeepers the scape goats, just as there is a false notion that the latter receive a dispropor tionate share of the retail price. Doubtless our distribution system is wasteful in some respects; but it has gone a long way in the creation ol the mass markets which make pos sible mass production. I do wish that more people knew how this distribution system ticks and how much it costs. For example: Bread and a number of other food products cost much more to market than the part of the total retail price to consumers which the farmer, the miller and the baker receive. Every one should realize that a good slice of the cost of every item consists of taxes, transportation, rent, and sales men’s wages. These expenses are not subject to daily or weekly changes as are raw materials A Suggested Remedy No single group is entirely to blame for high costs and high prices. The chief culprit is government, but wo all share in the blame for govern ment's mistakes. Year by year, larg er and larger sums of money are be ing taken away from distributing or ganizations through taxes. Far too much of this tax money has been and is even now being spent in func tions which increase the cost of liv ing. This can lead to the kind of social ism which has put once powerful England in the sorry plight where she is today. This same poliV y 1 killing our incentive and wid m moralize, our .‘.'' ole orr I t re structure if we do not force our pol itical bureaucrats to abandon it. We became a great nation because we were willing to continually invest more money in productive purposes. American Baritone Gives Concert Here The second attraction of the Lau- -ens County Community Concert as sociation was given here in the high school auditorium Tuesday evening. Carlos Sherman, noted bantone, presented a program that was favor ably received by the large music-lov ing audience. 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