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Know Your Congressman To Make Democracy Work By BAUKHAGE New* Annlytt and Commentator iWNC Service. 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. The time ot the singing of candi dates has come, and the voice of the mock ? turtle is heard in the land. The representa tives of the peo ple are about to assure you that you have been well - represent ed, and that they would like to con tinue to do the representing. And who are you to say no, if you don't know exactly how well your represent atives in the house of representa tives or in the senate have carried out your interests? Issues are being Joined, there are sharp cleavages of thought these days. And if you don't take the trouble to vote for the men in con gress who are voting the way you want them to, you have no right to lambast congress. True, it does take some trouble to learn to read your congressman's record cor rectly. A simple statement by a candidate that he voted for the X bill (the one you wanted passed) doesn't mean too much. A number of energetic organiza tions are out to tell you how to read the lawmaker's records. One organization is the National Citi zen's Political Action committee, which reminds voters: "A favorite device of congress men is to vote lor a series of man gling amendments, or to procrasti nate with investigations or recom mittal. Then, having partially or completely wrecked the usefulness of a bill, they may vote for the final version. Don't take these votes at face value." In ether words, don't be satisfied with the record of the final vote. See how your congressman voted on the amendments. The NC-PAC literature concludes with a warning that any voter, what ever side he is on, may well take to heart: "When your congressmen start promising in their forthcoming campaigns, check 'their past voting records very carefully. Don't take It for ffrantiw) that I# *Ksa? a measure, they were for it, and fought for it Perhaps they helped cripple it first." Ditguite Enmity To Legulation That is true, and with a little in vestigation, you will learn that a lot of congressmen, whose real views and activities you really wouldn't subscribe to at all, may have been voting in favor of some of the bills you would like to see passed. Later, when he is solicit ing your support, he will point with pride to these measures, omitting to mention the fact that he helped to emasculate them carefully be fore hand. You will also find sometimes that although he has loudly shouted down a bill (which you didn't like, and, secretly, he did), he did not actually work against it. Perhaps, finally, he even voted for it if there was no roll call. Another way in which a congress man can fool his constituents is to offer an amendment which appeals to his particular locality, but which he knows can't possibly go through. That appeases the constit uents and, at the same time, doesn't hurt the congressman with the particular Interests with whom he may be friendly. They know, as well as he does, that the whole thing is Just an empty gesture. Kill Bill With Recommittal The vote to "recommit" is a fa vorite trick, and usually reveals the true sentiments of a senator or con gressman. Not much attention is paid to these votes. When a bill is "recommitted," it ia sent back to committee, supposedly for recon sideration. Actually, recommittal usually means the measure is pi geonholed forever. 1 On the other hand, when a power ful committee pigeonholes a bill you ' would like to see passed, and your ' congressman is willing to sign a ' petition to try to get it out, you can 1 be pretty certain he is sincerely ) ' working to get it through. Of course, what goes on secretly 1 in committees is moat important, and can usually be found out, for ' the newspaper and radio corre- 1 spondents make every effort to report the inside facte. Thie Is not difficult for the reporters, since committee members whose efforts were defeated are usually willing to divulge the machinations of the majority ? if there were any ma chinations. Admittedly getting all this infor mation takes time and trouble on your part. But that is the price you have to pay for the kind of govern ment you want. The government makes you take time to figure out your income tax and to do a lot of other little chores, but it doesn't force you to inform yourself on how your government is being run. How ever, the information is all there, if you care to take the trouble to get it. Reports of public hearings, as well as the record of what happens on house and senate floors, are avail able for the asking. That is a part of your congressman's job ? report ing to you. As Lowell Mellett says in his "Handbook of Politics": "The true test of a member of congress is not the good bills for which he voted, but the good bills he voted against ? plus the num ber of bad bills he voted for." Nobody can ever take democracy away from you ? you have to give it away, by default. And such "de faulting" is no rare occurrence. With in the last few months, I know of four organizations which discovered there was a Communist in their midst. Furthermore, that Com munist, using his own energy, and taking advantage of the indifference of the other members, had gained a key position in the group. As soon as the rest woke up and realized the real purpose of measures taken under what amounted to this man's minority rule they threw him out. You know, "eternal vigilance. . . Knowledge is power. Know your congressman, don't knock him. ? ? ? I km Lmavmt Smcretm Untold The final report of General Eisen hower to the combined chiefs of staff, which has at last been re leased, is a splendid example at terse and comprehensive exposi tion. Into less than 123 pages is compressed the epic of the great est military operation in history, ex tending from D-Day to V-E Day. It is unfortunate, for the sake of mystery lovers, that the document does not ao Hotoii one phase of the invasion which has rightly been called the "greatest deception in history" ? the clever ruses which caused the enemy to make his fatal miscalculations. The Germans knew that the Al lied landing must be made some where within a relatively lim ited length of shore-line, but despite this, they were completely deceived as to where that landing was to be. The result was that the Allies were able to get a toehold which they might never have been able to se cure, had the Germans guessed the prospective location of the real beachheads. Obviously, the natural place for a landing would bq, in reasonable proximity to Calais, where the Eng lish channel is narrowest. Actually, the nearest beachhead was estab lished more than a hundred miles farther to the west, but the whole German 15th army remained immo bilized in that locality until It was too late. But even after the landings were made, the Germans were not sure they were the main objectives. This was because of a flve-prong plan of deception, all the prongs pointing to simulated diversionary attache by land, sea and air, away from the actual invasion area. One simulated attack was at Cap d'Antifer, northwest of La Havre, far to the east of the invasion area. There, planes, ships and balloons moved in, gradually producing echoes on the German radar warn ing instruments similar to the ap proach of a convoy. Another fake landing was staged In the direction of Boulogne, still hrthn- ?--? ?-?-?? - ? ? ?... .??%, mwi *? srupv ana io> companytng planes. The steady patrolling of the skies was taken by the Germans to be the air eov it of an oncoming armada. Far to the west, halfway down the Cherbourg peninsula, and at vari ous other points, dummy airborne Invasion* were carried out. The Germans finally decided that the real thing eras approaching Boulogne, and opened up with all they had. Meantime, the actual In vasion forces mossed the channel without any interference by air or Ma. It was a grand fake. ? ? ? A Cose far The Forashen 'ff As a mid westerner bora, I have battled many years tor the letter "R." Therefore I was overjoyed to find further distinction for the "Rs" as against the "R-oota." It was in that strangely intriguing "Book About a Thousand Things" by George Stimp ?oo (whose "Book About the Bible" I have man Booed bsfiore hi thaae ?eak oixMoamM added** speed?* BARBS ... by Baukhage I After all that batting around hi congressional committees, OPA, as expected, came out battered rather than bettered. ? ? ? The Supreme court controversy boils down to whatsis really only a CONGRESSMEN OFF TO PHILIPPINES . . . Seven senators and representatives left Washington airport for a round-the-world tour daring which they expect to participate in the celebration at Manila marking Phil ippine independence. Left to right: Gen. H. L. George; Rep. Karl LeCompte (R., Ia.); Rep. J. W. Robinson, (D., Utah); Vernon Moore, secretary, Filipino rehabilitation commission; Sen. Hugh Butler, <R? Nebr.)| Rep. Fred Crawford, (R., Mich.); I. Weldon Jones, President Truman's representative; Sen. Allen Ellen der, <D., La.); Rep. George Miller, (D? Calif.); Sea. Owen Brewster (R., Maine); and Brig. Gen. Carlos Romulo, resident commissioner of the Philippines. ?bMV?t. .."i.,.'iaw i mill ? ??i^? Thl* air riew (howi ton* of water beta* pumped into the ail-fed Are that bUxed la foor slips of the St. Gdorce ferry terminal on Staten Ulaad. A number of persons were trapped in the bufidinys. Nine alarm* qaiekly sounded, tommoaiaf every piece at apparatus available and three flreboats. INDIANS SELL OCT . . . The Ctonbid Indians kutWI team was aoU after almai a waak s< mstialtes and offers. Ausftases af aa offer by Bill Vaeck af Chicago u4 Ua aaaaetetea was asade by Ah* Bradley, ex-proaideat af tha ladiaas, tar bis faraser ateekhaUters. Photo shews, left to right, Jieipb Hoatetter, atteraey far Bradley aad aaw secretary for tha aaw eaatbiae; Barry QraMaar, aow eiee presides* aad treaaarar, aad Bill Veeek, sew pruldiat af tha'etab. OWNER OF CROWN JEWELS ... A photo at the Conntess Von Hesse, princess of Prussia, as she looked in the days when Hitler and Goering were entertained at her Kreaberg castle. It was from this castle that the Hesse-Darm ?utai jewels were sioien. ran REOOKO ...Hi faataat ikMil idhwr k Uw kisUry w tka urim hum ?u nnB|?ikil wkcm a T-M m plu* earrrtai auH Ml hkMMtrir, N. T., aa4 inM ta Waafctajl*", D. (X, Ik JDap*. MkartHktr^ fM^^CIutoM.JMIaiKjk ka>4 ^iyk^rfMMii^^ij<MlAakaa>-.-|Maai in- . ? ? .-X? . ? News/; Behikm the/? By PaulMalloh, Released by Western Newspaper Union. SHIFT OF VINSON TO COURT WEAKENS TREASURE POUCT WASHINGTON. ? Senate reluc tance about the Vinson-Snyder shift at the top of government is some what difficult to explain, but it has symptoms of soundness behind it. Mr. Truman had been searching for the best available legal mind in the judiciary to straighten out the complete tangle in the Supreme court. He embarked upon this course in resistance to pressure at the death of Republican Chief Jus tice Stone that he elevate one of the sitting justices, all of whom are involved in factions in the strife which has confused court decisions. He had plenty of time as the court is finishing now until fall. Then sud denly, within 24 hours apparently, he decided to name one of the best men from his own cabinet, Mr. Vin son, and push his old friend from Missouri, Mr. Snyder, into the treas ury post thus left vacant. Why he stopped searching for judicial talent has not been made clear. He could have af forded to appoint a nonpartisan or even a Republican as chief justice. The court was already 7 to I Democratic, Justice Bur ton being the lone Republican left. The best politics, indeed, might have called for a Republican to re place a Republican, as an appear ance of one party unanimity makes the court look somewhat like a Rus sian election in this respect. It weakens the judicial front of the court, by increasing its political one sidedness, and thus delays the pur pose of unity or stability of law which Mr. Truman apparently is striving for. FINANCIAL POUCT PERILED But he weakened himself more, by this effort to furnish the court leadership for reformation. An at tack upon his treasury department is being conducted by former Treas- i ury Secretary Morgenthau. Quite ' evidently the associates of Mr. Mor- 1 genthau are attempting to break Truman policy in the department, which is of utmost importance in the J presence of inflationary threats. .Mr. Snyder has not previously J sought to distinguish himself by ? standing up against attack. As the . first Truman appointee from Mis souri, Snyder U_a ldyaL sincere ?nH earnest friend, but in the reconver- , sion his economic Jfe^dership has ' not been especiallypoleer. What is . needed in treasury is someone of experience with the "know-how" of politics, economics and finance, to stand against inflation. Now Mr. Tinman no donbt figured be would send his best available experienced man (next to State Secretary Byrnes) upstairs to try to straighten out the court, and run the treasury himself through an old friend? but what be may have done is to open up the financial policies which were being rather care fully established, to new pres sures and possibilities of change. What to do about it? Don't ask ne. The above is only a report >f the factors, difficult to explain precisely, which have animated the tenate'a reluctance to confirm the lasty step. Chairman McCarran of he senate judiciary committee im nediately announced consideration >f appointments would follow the isual course and be held over a week in order to give interested wit lesses due notice and opportunity o be heard. Certainly the senate vill hardly choose to let the appoint nents slip through without any tnalysis of the deeper and greater nlicy possibilities behind the :hange. 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