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i. "i All 4 TP J I 11 I IP I IjI^B BH Truman Labors Under New Deal 'Inheritance' 4 ????????? Congress Seen Taking Advantage of Presi dent's Rightist Leanings; Lacks Influ ence of FDR to Put Policies Over. By BAUKHAGE Neut Analyst and Commentator. WND Service. 1?1? Eye Street, N.W., Washington, O. C. It wai a cool, criap winter day. A week before the erratic Wash ington weather had aeduced a whole circle of credulous pansies which puahed their startled faces up from the garden on the White House lawn. Poor bemused floral They were soon frozen as solid in their beds as the President's labor legislation in congress. We hurried along Pennsylvania avenue, our coat collars turned up, arguing heatedly as newsmen do when they are released from the in hibitions which seize them the mo ment they sit down and meet the solemn stare of their typewriter keyboards with that threatening noose, the deadline, tightening about the medulla oblangata. "The most astounding thing," said one of us, "is the way Truman, with all his experience in congress, can't get along with it. If he would only buttonhole some of the thinkers in the opposition, say Vandenberg in the senate and men like Wollcott in the house, and appeal to their sense of patriotism, he wouldn't have all this trouble." "It isn't as simple as that," in terrupted another, as we paused to show our photographic passes to the guard at the gate (who has known us all by our first names for a dec ade but who always solemnly stud ies our cards as if they were ali ases). "It isn't as simple as that After all, congress has to be realis tic in an election year. They are facing real issues. And the Presi dent's program isn't realistic." "Whether or not it is realistic," the third member of the group put in, "after aU it isn't his program. He inherited it It's New Deal and the New Deal is Old Hat now. It doesn't represent Harry Truman's Ideas at all but he has to go through with it" All I felt I could add to those safe observations, without agreeing that the New Deal was Old Hat or the latest Downing Street model, wheth er it was realistic or modernistic or neo-mandan, was that it cer tainly is probable that if the Presi dent were able to shatter his in heritance to bits and then remould it to something nearer his heart's desire, he could probably put a lot more pep into his selling talk to con gress. By this time we were adding our coats to the huge pile of garments on the great Aguinaldo mahogany table in the lobby of the executive offices and taking our place in the line outside the conference room. R?ntm*nt Shad? Chief'* F?lingt On this particular day the Presi dent started off with the note on which the whole conference was carried. I don't quite know how to describe it He kept smiling. He didn't lose his temper. But there was Just a shade of resentment in his voice and his words. It all sounded more like the later, some what disillusioned days of his prede cessor, than the merry moments when a Roosevelt interview was al ways a good show as well as a news ful event?I mean the early days be fore the weight at war descended upon FDR's wearying brow. There is a weight on Truman today quite aa heavy, for peace has its mis eries as well as war. Just as it eras freely predicted that "the Unit ed States will never stand for an oc cupying army for any length of time" (which proved to be so pain fully correct), so everyone took for granted that any President in of fice when the war ended would have an impossible Job. But let's get back to the crowded office at the President on the win ter day I am describing. He sat there smiling, exchanging wise cracks with the men in the first row. On the table behind him were the photographs of his family, crowned with a great bunch of Jon quils from the White House green house. He looked cheerful enough. .The usual signal "all in" was sound fed. Ha stood up and began to talk about what ha called a "tempest in a teacup"?the controversy over building an addition to tha White Boa**. Personally I think it is the height at folly to continue the ef fort (begun by Theodore Roosevelt) to try to bouse the office work of the President under the roof of "the President's House," but I mention this controversy simply becsuse It reflects the seamy side of White House-congress relations. Many of the President's friends feel that trying to make a modern office out of a beautiful old American colonial residence is folly, but they also felt that much of the furor raised in congress was due to a desire to em barrass Mr. Truman. Why can't Truman get on with congress? Perhaps because he is a little too much like them. This is merely a hunch but I am not the only one who has toyed with the idea: both congress and the Presi dent (I realise that "congress" is a loose term because the legislators are a collection of many men of many minds) inclines farther to the right than the inherited Roosevelt program is targeted. Congress, the part of it that knows Harry Truman well, undoubtedly feels that his heart leans just about as far in the same direction. Therefore, he just can't get these more leftisb ideas across. Harry Truman has a tre mendous respect for the office of the presidency, a deep feeling of duty to carry out the program which death placed in his hands?a duty and a function he never sought. He can not toss this heritage into the dis card. And be probably reasons that if he feels that responsibility, the members of the party should do like wise. But it must be remembered that it was the powerful influence at a personality which could win an election four times, a task no American had dared to attempt even for the third, which kept con gress obedient and even then, to ward the end, only falteringly. Truman RtcaaU Hit Trum Salt On this particular day of which I am speaking, I think we heard Tru man revealing his true self. He be lieves that the White House should be enlarged. He resented the op position which he suspected was at least in part personal and political rather than the product of sincere conviction. I thought I heard that in his voice. But I also think I heard in his words, a similar expression of his own philosophy, when he said that be thought the present industrial strife was a struggle for power be tween labor and management. In other words that basically it was not the demands of the men who work for more pay nor was it an objection on the part of industry to pay higher wages, as much as it was a pitch battla between labor leaders and the top men in manage ment to see which could beat the other down. To one who brags about being middle-class, without even a drop of blood of an Irish king in his veins, it sounded like good, sound (call it stuffy if you want) middle-class re sentment. Then the President add ed that he thought that both labor and management had too much power and it was time for the gov ernment to step in and assert the power of the people which govern ment is supposed to represent But when wa asked the President if and bow the government was go ing to assert itself to exert the "pow er of the people" to settle the mess, all he said was that be had done all that he possibly could do. He could have called out the army and the navy, the national guard, the FBI and the United Marching and Social Clubs, and tak en over the steel industry the next day. But a step like that, which was no more than the wave at a tapering cigarette holder yesterday, was one which no cautious middle class, middle-western, middle-of-the road American would like to take except under duress. (I say that as one such.) And so congress, part at it respond ing to the pressure of management and part of it under the pressure at labor, fiddles and filibusters while industry contentedly lives off its fat, labor on union funds or relief and the "people" with all their alleged "power" wonder bow long, oh Lord, how long! | BARBS , , . by Baukhaf "Woodman, apart that treat . . . In youth It abattarad me." Reroero bar the poem. Nov If a USE that tree, (areata produce Jobe aa vail aa timber. e e e Are you a hypochondriac? Per hapa the government can help you. The Maritime oommtaetnn will aeD you ? tee llta-oaelnt euit tor 911. One piece, tram hoot to hood. ft I Farm prices srs going up. the Alexander Hamilton institute thinks. They dM after the last war and similar trends are evident. ? ? ? What's a slogan worth? The Na tional Safety Council's "safety first" phis a kit of hard plugging has cut down death from accidents at a rate ait 05.8 per 100,000 to 101S to Tl.T to IMA LUS8 OF BAITOS ANU FEET DUES HOT SlUr BEKU . . . ITC. James Wilson, Starke, Fla., demonstrates that loss ot hands and feet is no bar to driving an automobile. Be is shown (right) at New York City as he was greeted by eity council president, Vincent Impelliteri (left), and Bess Myer son, "Miss America of IMS." "WINNIE" AT HIS FAVORITE PASTIME . . . Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, vacationing In Florida, spends some of his leisure moments at his easel. In addition to being a statesman and author, Churchill is a recognised artist. He Is shown completing an oil painting of an ocean and cabana scene at a surf club near Miami. T FROM PRISON CAMP TO HOME WITH HIS VALENTINE ... To U. J. Welling Pldeock, Trenton, N. J., Valentine's Day this year will be far dif ferent than what it waa a year ago. Holder of the air medal with cluster and the Purple Heart with cluster. Lieutenant Pldeock was shot down over the Brenner pass during a bombing mission and spent Valentine's Day last year la a German prison. This year, like millions of other return ing heroes, he will be welcomed heme by the familiar sight of a senti mental valentine from the girl who waited. V em^? PRECIOUS PACKAGE CONSIGNED TO E. 8. A. ... At Tldwerih itc?r Mm camp, where GX brides aad their babies are *aith| te beard ship far a trip to the Catted States to Jeia their basbaads aad fathers, Pamela Enae tods paed-by to her sta miath sU eeasia, Maareea Basel Law reaee, whe la patap to her father. Brace Wesley Lawreaee, Paad da Lac, Wis. OMdndi of brides aad babies are aWatttop traaspertettaa. BOW TO SAVE MONET . . . Larry i, Marsh, Brighton, Mats., while only five years old, has learned how to j earn money by saying It. With a I bill in bis hand, that "mom" gave to have his tooth palled, Larry per forms operation on dentist's door. MJMh ww lO UEilUniTO UV1U?. . . . W U1U1 L. Lewis, president of the United Mine workers, pictured as announce ment was made that his union had re-afflliated with the AFL. Lewis has taken his place on the AFL execu tive committee. MASTER-MIND OF THE AIR WAVES . . . Maj. Edwin H. Arm strong, 55, former Columbia univer sity professor of electrical engineer ing, and inventor of frequency mod ulation, as well as other basic radio patents, who is credited with ra dar's trip to the moon. Since 1930 he has won many awards for out standing radio and radar develop ment. Armstrong also served in World War I. UNO SECRETARY-GENERAL . . J By a big majority. Dr. Trygve Hal yoan Lie, 4S, Norwegian foreign minister, was chosen by delegates to be United Nations secretary-gen eral. His salary win be KM, 000 a year. DISARM OR FACE RUIN . . . Wu the theme of a two hem rpeeek with which Bern. Millard E. Tydlmt? (D? MA.) iaterrapted, hwt AM wot I to p. FEPC^mbwhtor. JU AemowAoA that i FARMERS AND LABORERS WASHINGTON. - It gives no Joy to issue storm warnings. But the E price-wage turmoil of today may _ have equal or even greater reper cussions next spring when farmers lose their food subsidies. What most people don't realise is that the public is Squarely in be tween two powerful, well-organized pressure groups, both with very con flicting interests, both sometimes taking a public-be-damned attitude. One is organized labor. The other is the farm organizations, which, while they can't strike, can and will exert effective pressure when subsi dies are removed. Both groups work against each other in the following manner: When labor raises wages in the cities, this sucks labor away from the farms. Whereupon the farmer has to raise farm wages in order to com pete with the cities. This in turn in creases his cost of production, forc ing him to increase prices or go out of business. At present, the farmer can't in crease prices because of OPA. So the government, recognizing the injustice of his higher operating costs, gives him a subsidy. When this subsidy is removed, he will have to increase- prices ? unless operating costs are reduced. And the current strike wave is constant ly forcing up the cost of labor. All this operates in a vicious circle. For, the minute food prices go op, labor will come in for more wage increase, based upon the cost of living. ? Organized labor, of course, can better take care of Itself. But un- - organized and unprotected are a great body of white-collar workers, / unskilled labor, plus the middle- | class business men who get squeezed in between. This is the group which is getting sorer and sorer at labor. There was a time when they were sympathetic, but not now. This is the red flag of public opinion which ( organized labor needs to watch. 0. 8. BLARES TO EUROPE Biggest foreign purchase of horses since Mussolini drained the south- j west for his Ethiopian transport divisions is now taking place in the middle west. UNRRA is buying 16, 000 American mares for disposal in Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia ? countries from which the Nazis drove away most of the horse population. The mares are being purchased under the supervision of the depart ment of agriculture which has passed the job on to the Sparks Norris horse and mule company in St. Louis, Owen Brothers in Mem phis, and Dean Bowns and W. L. Elder in Des Moines. Average price paid by UNRRA to the dealer is $77 and $97.50 per head. This has aroused criticism in the farm belt, because dealers are pay ing only $50 to $00 per horse, thus netting a profit of about $25 each. However, agriculture department officials defend prices on the ground that dealers take a risk on sick horses, accidents during shipment, etc. The army paid an average of $1S5 per head for horses during the war, but was more particular, rejecting horses for scars and blemishes. Mares now being purchased must be three to eight years old, broken for both work and riding. They are being shipped overseas from Balti more, New Orleans, Jersey City, and Portland, Me. NOTE. ? Tip-off to the faet ? that Mussolini was plannniag to conquer Ethiopia came two years before his war started when, in 1935-14, the Italians suddenly bought $342,798 worth of mules from Missouri, Arkan sas and Texas. ADMIRAL NIMITZ'S POINTS Adm. Chester Nimitz, new chief of naval operations, was sitting in the navy building barber shop near a captain in the naval reserve. The four-striper, exchanging pleas- i an tries with the former U. S. com mander in the Pacific, twice remind ed his superior that he had sufficient points to get out of service, and seemed just as anxious to be sepa- ' rated as the average seaman first i class. Smiling mischievously, Nimltx replied, "I never thought I'd ; get enough points to get out of - the Pacific." MERRY-GO-ROUND Those two one-time enemies, AFL's William Green and United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, were seen, heads together, lunching at the Mayflower hotel here recently. "This may be an historic confer ence," Green remarked to a pass ing friend. Says Congressman Smith of Wis consin regarding a department of peace: "I would be in favor of spending as much for this type of program as ws are spending tor the military establishments today. 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