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Anderson Rapped
/-NNLY A FEW insiders know it,
but President Truman has
turned sour against his former
secretary of agriculture Clinton
Anderson. In fact, the other day
the President hurled his favorite
insult against Anderson, now serv
ing in the senate from New Mexico.
He called him a “big-interest
man."
What prompted this bitter epithet
was Anderson’s fight against flat,
90 per cent farm supports. The
President has long suspected that
Anderson was quietly knifing the
Brannan farm plan, but the clinch
er came when Anderson urged a
"compromise" 75 to 90 per cent,
flexible price-support scale.
Anderson had spread the impres
sion that the President was back
ing his compromise. Puzzled, a
congressional visitor put the ques
tions warily to Truman.
“In the senate,” he said, “Elmer
Thomas (of Oklahoma) quoted you
as being for 90 per cent parity,
while Dick Russell (of Georgia)
said he understood you were against
90 per cent”
“I don’t know how Dick got that
idea,” Truman broke in.
"Senator Anderson seems to
have taken command," added the
congressman. “Personally I don’t
care for Anderson’s philosophy.”
“Well, Clint Anderson is a big-
interest man,” declared'the Presi
dent firmly.
“As between Anderson’s bill and
straight 90 per cent parity.” Tru
man continued, “I naturally favor
90 per cent because we cam
paigned on that basis.”
The President added that, on
all the farm bills that had come
out, he liked congressman
Stephen Pace’s the best, be
cause the Georgia congressman
had included the production
payment feature of the Bran-
nan plan.
Referring again to Anderson, the
Congressional visitor pointed out
that big-interest men who pose as
liberals are much more dangerous
than out-and-out reactionaries.
“There is no question about that,”
agreed the President emphatically.
Note-Secretary of Agriculture
Charlie Brannan has been fretful
over Anderson’s opposition, but
hasn’t raised his voice against his
former boss—because Charlie owes
his job to him.
Lewis Roars
John L. Lewis was at his roaring
best when the coal' operators met
with Federal Mediation Chief Cy
Ching on their first try to settle
the coal strike. While the meeting
got nowhere, it certainly didn’t
lack sound effects.
The northern operators—led by
Harry Moses, president of U.S.
Steel’s H. C. Frick company, and
George Love, of the Pittsburgh
Consolidation Coal company—sug
gested that negotiations be based
on Lewis’s last contract, which ex
pired June 30. The southern mine
owners, led by Joseph Moody,
didn’t want to go this far, contend
ing there should first be reforms in
the welfare fund.
Boiling mad, Lewis thun
dered: "I will not discuss the
old contract. Unless you gentle
men are willing to talk about
increased wages and payments
into the welfare fund, as well as
reduced working hours for the
men who toil underground,
there is no purpose in my re
maining here.”
Turning a baleful glare at Moses,
Love and Moody, he added wroth-
ily that he might have known he
would be wasting his time en
deavoring to deal with “these eco
nomic puppets of the United States
Steel company and the Cleveland
Trust company.”
The operator trio chuckled. They
had been called worse names than
this by the eloquent miners’ boss.
Captive Mines
“Why, you have no authority to
speak for your bosses in U.S. Steel
or the Cleveland Trust company,”
Lewis went on referring to the
Cleveland bank’s interest in Pitts-
burgh Consolidation Coal and U.S.
Steel’s ownership of the H. C.
Frick Co. “So, why do you waste
my time? If it was a question of
matching your authority in the
United Mine Workers, I would send
five of my local union presidents
to deal across the table with you.”
The operators reminded Lewis
that he shouldn’t accuse them of
making no “offer” to settle the
strike, since he had made no spe
cific offer himself.
“I have labor to sell,” Lewis re
plied. "It’s up to the operators to
bid for it.”
Mediator Ching diplomatically re
marked that the coal strike could
never be mediated and settled
until both sides showed a more co
operative attitude. But this pro
voked another wordslide from
Lewis.
“What do you mean by media
tion?” he demanded. “Why don’t
you use some on the operators to
make them stop their highhanded
oppresion of labor?”
"I have no authority to make
either side of this dispute do any
thing,” replied Ching. “All I can
oppression of labor.”
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Nourse Raps Deficit Spending;
Decontrol Fails to Roost Rent;
Military Budget Tops 15 Rillion
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed la these eolamns, they are those of
Westers Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not aeeessarlly of this newspaper.)
Record's In
U.S. SPENDING:
Deficit System Hit
It seemed an obvious conclusion
that the President’s council of eco
nomic advisers was having little
effect in influencing government of
ficials to insist upon a real effort
by the administration to put its
financial house in order.
ANY such conclusion would have
Ijeen bolstered by the fact that Dr.
Edward G. Nourse, chairman of
the council, was quitting that body.
In an address before the national
retail farm equipment association.
Dr. Nourse hit hard at federal def
icit spending and charged that the
government is “slipping back into
deficits as a way of life.”
Instead of deficit financing, he
said, the government should be
“putting its fiscal house in order
and husbanding reserves to support
the economy if less prosperous
times overtake us.”
According to reports, Dr. Nourse
had informed President Truman
that he was going to leave the gov
ernment, although there was no
word as to whether the President
had accepted or would accept the
resignation.
WELL-PLACED official circles
were said to believe that Nourse’s
decision to leave the advisers’ coun
cil was because of his belief that he
had failed in what he regarded as
a fight to keep the council on a
strict professional plane of fact
finding and advice-giving, divorced
from political issues.
In his address, Nourse was crit
ical of elements among labor, agri
culture and management, chiding
farmers for “demanding stimula
tive prices,” labor for demanding
shorter hours in the face of the
need for increased production.
RENTS:
Keep Level
A rather surprising thing had
happened. A survey showed that
lifting of rent control in more than
300 areas had not resulted in whole
sale rent increases. Lifting of con
trols, put into effect in wartime,
began last April 1.
TAKEN as a whole, however,
rents in key decontrolled areas did
go up a little, but the hike was not
as severe as most observers had
predicted.
The survey disclosed that land
lord reaction to decontrol was
spotty. One major factor in the
over-all rent picture was said to be
the number of vacancies available
—a factor which might, after all,
have considerable restraining ef
fect on any appreciable over-all
rent increase. Some landlords
raised rents, but had to cut them
again when tenants moved out.
Also some landlords were still
bound by leases issued in the period
before decontrol.
According to the survey, in
creases were scattered, rather than
general, in most places.
THUS THE PICTURE of the rent
situation generally is clouded by
the factors enumerated, factors
which may of themselves have
enough restraint value to hold
down rent hike, as well as a dis
inclination of landlords to raise
rentals to levels most Americans
expected.
Continuing strikes, loss of income,
more accessibility of housing sites
may all combine to keep any gen
eral and extensive rent increases
from being made in the near fu
ture.
MILITARY:
15.5 Billions
If war comes, America intends to
be ready. Demonstrating that fact,
congress finally got together on a
record peace-time military appro
priations bill totalling approximate
ly 15.5 billion dollars, including
funds to build the air force up to
59 groups.
BREAKING a month-long dead
lock and spurred, no doubt, by re
ports that Russia has the atomic
bomb, house and senate hurried
through the details of the final
measure which went to President
Truman for approvaL
In this action, the senate finally
bowed to house insistence on giving
the air force some 10 groups and
740 million dollars more than Pres
ident Truman had requested for it.
CONCERN over the possibility of
enemy atomic attack was indicated
when congress also appropriated
50 million dollars to start construc
tion of a vast radar screen de
signed to warn the United States of
any enemy air attack.
President Harry S. Truman,
with congress finally in ad
journment, would have to go
to the people with the record
of that congress in the fight
for Democratic seats in the
1950 elections. Little of his
program was enacted, but
there was little doubt he would
defend the congress to the end.
BIG DAY:
Break for Kids
Underprivileged children in more
than 3,000 U.S. and Canadian com
munities will receive assistance
from a far-reaching program of
youth welfare announced by Ki-
wanis International and The Na
tional Kids’ Day Foundatiop, Inc.
J. Hugh Jackson, Stanford, Calif.,
president of Kiwanis International,
in announcing the cooperative ef
fort, said “the problems of under
privileged children are the prob
lems of the entire nation but their
solution depends upon local action.
There are more than 3,000 Kiwanis
clubs which are geared for partici
pation in the program.”
FOCAL POINT of the campaign
will be the observance of an an
nual “National Kids Day,” the first
to be held on Saturday, November
19, when each community will be
asked to enlist the support of its
citizens in meeting the problems
of local youth.
Ihe Kiwanis president empha
sized that National Kids’ Day will
not be celebrated as a holiday or
used as a gift-giving occasion. “It
is our intention to use the observ
ance of this day as a means of
rallying the forces of each com-
nv.mity toward solving local juve
nile problems,” he continued. “By
this means, we hope to raise ad
ditional funds to carry on a year-
round program of youth activity
in cities and towns in the U.S. and
Canada. Money raised in each com
munity will be spent in the same
community for the benefit of chil
dren.”
CHARLES PETTI JOHN, execu
tive secretary of The National Kids’
Day Foundation, Hollywood, Calif.,
said his organization ,was formed
last year to call national attention to
the right of underprivileged youth
to enjoy some of the benefits nor
mally accruing to boys and girls in
more fortunate circumstances. The
Foundation also seeks to attract at
tention to the accomplishments of
youth and to stimulate additional
interest in the problems of youth.
DEFENSE:
A Speedup
The United States was mo vim
swiftly to meet the threat of Soviet
possession of the atomic bomb.
President Truman and the atomic
energy commission had ordered a
30 million dollar expansion of atom
bomb facilities at Oak Ridge,
Term., and Hanford, Wash.
THUS THE RACE to see whether
the U.S. or Soviet Russia could pro
duce the most bombs seemed to be
on, and with it went any immediate
hope, at least, for any international
control of atomic energy. The ex
tent of the U.S. effort in the race
was seen when authoritative quar
ters announced that the new atomic-
plant-construction program ulti
mately would cost 300 million dol
lars.
Chairman McMahon (D., Conn.)
of the congressional atomic energy
committee, called the project a
“major expansion effort." Me-
Mahon would not say that the ac
tion stemmed from Russian prog
ress with atomic fission, but there
was a certain evidence of haste in
asmuch as White House clearance
for the project came just six days
after President Truman announced
the atomic explosion in Russia.
INDUSTRY:
British Threat
How will the British devaluation
of the pound and the resultant de
crease in factory wage rates affect
U.S. industry?
Potentially, the threat of very
real and devastating competition
from that source is seen by James
F. Lincoln, nationally-known U.S.
industrialist and president of the
Lincoln Electric company, Cleve
land.
“IF WE were to send 10,000 Amer
ican production experts to England
and the European continent for one
year, those countries could shut
down every industrial plant in the
United States,” said Lincoln in an
interview in Cleveland. He had just
returned from a two-week tour of
industrial concerns in England, Hol
land, Belgium and France.
His judgment, he said, was based
on the fact of the factory wage rate
decreases in England, following de
valuation, and a similar effect on
nations affected to an average of
pressures thus established. Lin
coln declared that the devaluation
action had cut wage rates in the
nations effected to an average of
only one-seventh of the wage level
in this country.
If these nations can continue to
throw goods produced at those wage
levels into this country, Lincoln ob
served, there is a strong threat to
American industry as a result.
UP TO NOW, he pointed out, that
hasn’t been done because European
manufacturers are still enjoying a
seller’s market, and European pro
duction methods have not yet
reached a stage of development
which will allow them to compete
with American-made products.
“The menace to United States in
dustry will come,” Lincoln said,
"when the home markets of these
countries are satiated and when
U.S. production methods are more
widely applied abroad.”
RED A-BOMB:
Not Bluffing
Russia has had the atomic bomb
as a “real weapon” since 1947.
That was the statement of Rus
sia’s Andrei Vishinsky as he put
the blast on a campaign in the
United Nations to put Yugoslavia
on the security council.
SO, whether or not the Russians
really have the bomb developed to
the actual threatening stage, the
Soviets were playing right along
with President Truman’s announce
ment that the bomb was really
theirs. Possessors of the bomb or
not, the Russians were now in an
as advantageously strategic purpose
diplomatically as if they had it.
Vishinsky went on to predict
“painful consequences” for the
United Nations if Yugoslavia, with
U.S. suppi—t, wins a security coun
cil seat over Czechoslovakia.
AT a news conference the Soviet
representative reminded reporters
of a Tass communique last Sep
tember which disclosed that Rus
sia has had an atomic weapon.
And that was the farthest Vish
insky had gone in the current U.N.
session concerning Russia’s posses
ion of the bomb. On September 23
be had declared that the U.S. had
no monopoly on the bomb, but had
not amplified that statement.
WAGES:
75c Minimum
More than a million and a half
workers in interstate commerce [
were due for a pay hike as a result
of congressional approval of a bill
raising the minimum wage rate
from 40 to 75 cents an hour. The
estimated annual cost was 800 mil
lion dollars.
While raising the wage floor, the
bill changed the language of the
wage-hour law so as to remove cov
erage from possibly several hun
dred thousand of the persons now
under its provisions. The bill went
to President Truman where early |
approval was predicted.
Champ Cow
The American Guernsey clnb
of Peterboro, N. H., proudly
presents Spar-Hill Clematic,
seven-year-old pnre-bred gold
en Guernsey as choice for
champion cow of the year. Dur
ing the year, the cow gave
23,000 pounds of milk and 1,200
pounds of butterfat, four times
the average yield.
MIDDLE COURSE
India Would Fight if Liberty Threatened
India will steer a middle course, I
clear of entanglements in the cold |
war, but when “man’s liberty or
peace” is endangered, then India
will fight.
That was the declaration of In
dia’s prime minister Jawaharlal
Nehru in a foreign policy speech
in New York a few days after his
arrival in the United States.
He called upon the world to talk
less of war and to think more ol
peace and how to attain it, and ad
monished both east and west that:
“The very process of marshaling
of the world into two hostile camps
precipitates the conflict which it is
sought to avoid.
The Indian statesman’s views
were given in an address marking
eeremonies in which Columbia uni
versity made him an LLP.
THE 'WITCH':
A New Prison
Swearing and muttering, Ilse
Koch, blonde “witch of Buchen-
wald," was transferred from an
American military prison to the
custody of German police who have
charged her with 29 Buchenwald
murders.
With her charged crimes reading
like a list of horrors from medieval
history, the wife of the one-time
Buchenwald concentration camp
commandant was widely accused.
TEN YEARS FOB TOKYO BOSE . . . Mrs. Iva Toguri D’ Aquino was
sentenced in San Francisco to serve 10 years in a federal prison and
to pay a $10,000 fine for her Tokyo Rose broadcasts during the recent
war. She is shown here as court adjourned with Deputy U. S. Marshal
Herb Cole behind her and defense attorney Wayne Collins grasping the
arm of her chair.
EYES OF TEXAS ABE UPON HEB ... Clyde Harris, Amarillo, Texas,
meets his wife, the former Princess Cecilia Victoria Zita Thyra Odel-
heid Von Hohenxoilern, granddaughter of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, on
her arrival in New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Harris, a former
captain of the United States military government in Germany, married
the former princess at the ancestral castle In Hechingen, Germany. The
former captain and his wife are Texas bound.
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LO, THE POOB POSTMAN! ... A giant-sized letter calls for a giant
sized pen, says Beverly Long in Chicago, who also needed a giant
supply of ink when she wrote to President Harry Truman urging that
he endorse national letter writing week. It might take a week to write
a letter if the stationery and the pen used were this size. However,
more letters promote world peace and understanding, Beverly figures.
CURRENTLY HONEYMOONING . . . When this picture was made, the
Earl and Countess of Harewood were in the current of a canal in Venice,
enjoying their wedding trip. The earl is a son of the British Princess
Royal, and his bride, the former Marion Stein, former Austrian concert
pianist. Although his bride is a commoner, the wedding was approved
by the king and royal family and the greater part of the British royalty
attended the wedding ceremonies.
LA FEMME JUDGE . . . Mme.
Charlotte Bequignon Legarde,
only woman member of French
supreme court, arrived in New
York recently.
A DASH OF COLOR . . . B. C. A.
engineer George H. Brown tells
F. C. C. in Washington of the ad
vantages of television color sys
tems. Hearings are being held to
set standards of color system that
will not radically disturb owners
of conventional sets.
BABY BLAC?ETEER . . . Irwin
Slater, New York lawyer, was ar
raigned on a charge of bringing
babies from Florida to New York
and selling them for adoption fees
ranging up to $2,000. Slater was
arrested in his Times Square of
fice as result of Investigation by
Catholic Charities Bureau, Miami.
ATTACKS UNIFICATION . . .
Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan
was one of the signers of docu
ments slipped to newsmen in
Washington which attacked unifi
cation set-up as shattering morale
of the navy and endangering na
tional defense.
BUSSING . . . The state depart
ment has revealed that NoelHavil-
land Field, former state depart
ment official, is missing behind
the “Iron curtain.” He was cited
by Hungary’s government as eol-
laborator of Bajk.
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