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Busy Washington Knows No Rest Even in Summer By BAUKHAGE I Sent Analyst mnd Commentator. WNC Service, ISIS Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON ?As soon as La bor Day it passed the business nmrlr) cottlps I down with a sigh of relief. The summer slump is supposed to be over. Most peo ple, I suppose, consider that Washington in the summer is even more dor mant and desert ed than the ordi nary city. If you believe the ac companying car toon by Herblock which the Wash ington Post permits me to repro duce. you will be sure we sleep. But don't let Herb spoof you. True, it did seem that way for awhile but actually this summer it was pretty much "business as usual" in the Capitol, the house end senate office buildings, the of fices of the White House and the state department and other execu tive branches of the government, to say nothing of Washington's marts of trade, limited in comparison to other cities though they may be. Government isn't all congress, and the President and Washington aren't all government. A year or two ago. William Kip linger, gathering material for his book, "Washington Is Like That," stood in front of the Wiilard hotel at Pennsylvania ave. and 14th street and asked 20 people going by who they were and what they did. Of the 20, only Ave worked for the govern ment and none had jobs which were interrupted (except by vacations) in the summer any more than in any other season. I have no idea how many mem bers of congress or members of their staffs go down to the Capitol to work every day in the summer months but many offices on the "hill" are open The regular departments are as busy as they ever are. The very week that the cartoon came out showing "Congress gone home," a sign on the White House door, "Back Labor Day," and another on the state department, "Gone to Par is," the state department was mak ing public two of the most impor tant communications it has dis patched in many a day. One was the ultimatum to Yugoslavia pro testing the shooting down of our planes and the other was the re fusal to accede to Russia's demand for joint control of the Dardanelles. At the same time, the investiga tion of the war surplus sales was going on; the other investigation into war contracts had just closed and the department of justice was taking up the work where the Mead committee had laid it down, and the decontrol board of the OPA was holding hearings in preparation for its first and highly important de cision which put controls back on meats and other products, i ?? . These were only a few of the ac tivities?not to mention the bubbling campaign kettles assiduously at tended by political chiefs behind closed kitchen doors. No, Washington doesn't hibernate in the summer. Herblock's concep tion of General Jackson, chin on chest, hunched up against his horse, like a lazy pup, is pure poetic li cense. Herblock probably chose that par ticular figure for contrast because it is one of the most belligerent statues in Washington. Jackson sits there in Lafayette park, across from the White House, (as he does in New Orleans) waving his saber, his rear ing charger with its front feet paw ing the atmosphere. And I imagine that if "Old Hickory" were here in this hectic period, his old flesh, blood, powder and brimstone self, he would have charged right up to the state department steps when he heard of American planes being shot down in Europe. The United States has gone a long way toward world leadership since the year 1781 when a little, 14-year old boy named Andy Jackson, along with his brother "continentals" was fighting the armies of the greatest nation of the day?Great Britain. Andy's two brothers were killed and he was captured but he lived to turn the tables when be led his "long-rifle" heroes to victory in the battle ot New Orleans, 31 years later. "Old Hickory" must be a little confused as he gazes across to the White House, beyond it to the Po tomac and the Pentagon and be yond that and the Atlantic to Eu rope today. As I pass Lafayette park in the twilight these days I seem to hear him rattling his sword and saying: "When these United States were in their swaddling clothes we re fused to let the greatest nation of the earth interfere with our sailors on the high seas. Who is this im pertinent upstart who shoots our soldiers out of the air?" Let us hope, even if Andy sleeps, that his spirit doesn't. ? ? ? Profiti or Waga? Which Com! Firtt T Recently I received a postcard saying: "Thought OPA was sup posed to reduce prices, not increase them." It was signed "Dumbbell." Well, a lot of us dumbbells thought that was what it was for. But when congress tore OPA to bits and then reshaped It nearer to its heart's desire, it laid down specific orders for raising prices. The law was written on the logical theory that you can't expect a farmer to raise, or a manufacturer to make, things that cost so much in the rais ing or the making that there is no profit in the game. Who is to blame for high prices? The manufacturers who made so much out of government contracts, or the workers who got higher wages for making the things the government needed? If you know which came first, the hen or the egg. you know the answers. ? ? ? A new rival of DDT has been dis covered which not only kills pests but keeps them away for a week or 10 days. Of course, I wouldn't com mit murder but I know a lot of pests whose absence for 10 days would be a Godsend. I BARBS . . . by Baukhage I see by The Publisher*' Auxiliary that a boy in Houston was so sore ?when he got only a "C" on his theme about his life as a German war prisoner that he threw the man uscript in the wastebasket. His sis ter salvaged it and sold it for $25 to a magazine. Stone walls do not a prison make, but barbed wire can make ti bucks for the prisoner. A monkey in ? pet shop tore up all the letters containing bill! which the mail carrier (lipped through the (lot. He (pared the check. "They're cute, aren't they?" (aid the (bop owner. Cute is the word. ? ? ? A hitch-hiking make in an air plane caused a forced landing. I never knew snakes bad thumbs. MOLOTOV WALKS OUT . . . Piqued because the Bustian delegation was assigned to second row seats on the reviewing stand at Paris Hotel de Ville during the celebration that marked the second anniversary of the liberation of Paris, Commissar Molotov, leader of the Soviet peace delegation (foreground) walks out on the ceremonies. He is followed by M. Manuilsky, Ukranian delegate. FREED BY YUGOSLAVS ... Member* of the erew and passengers aboard the United States transport plane that was forced down August 9 over Yugoslavia, by Yugoslav fighter planes, after their release by Yugoslav authorities, when the United States government had made an issne of the incident. Ten days later five American flyers were shot down over Yugoslavia, and perished. Marshal Tito assured Ambassador Rich ard Patterson that "there would be no repetition of this event." FIRST V. S. PRESIDENT ON BERMUDA SOIL . .. Landing from his yacht, Williamsburg, at the Royal Bermuda Taeht club, in Hamilton, Bermuda, President Harry S. Truman becomes the first United States president to land on this British possession while in office. Mr. Tru man was accompanied here by Sir Ralph Leatham, admiral and gover nor of Bermuda, who went out in his launch to greet the President. LEAGUE HEADS MEET FOB SERIES TALK . . . RpprwnUtiTfi of both the American and National lci|iei act with A. B. ("Happy"! Chandler to diacnss plan for the forthcoming world's series. Left to right. Win Harridge, president of the American league. John Collin, business Banger of the Brooklyn Dodgers; A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, baseball eoaaissiaaer; Eddie CoMu. of the Boston Bed Sex, and Fsrd Prick, president of the National league. A TALL ONE . . . Enacting mod ern Jack and Beanstalk version, John Be hike, five, of Chicago, measures sunflower growing at 30 E. Division street and finds the phenomena] plant has attained a height of 10 feet 4 inches. IN NEW ROLE . . . TV one-man army, MaJ. Arthur Wennuth of Bitaia fame. Alls up a rasotine tank of ear at a filLinc aUtion which he bought in the Black Hills town Of H1H City, 8. D. Everybody wishes him (ood lock. ORtW PCARSON NIMITZ WILL RESIGN WASHINGTON. ? Adm. Chester Nitnitz, hero of the Pacific and one of the most efficient leaders of the navy, ha/ indicated to friends that he will retire as chief of naval operations after about one year of his four-year appointment. Backstage reason is that Nimitz finds his job chiefly requires lobby ing naval appropriations through congress, and he would much rath er be at sea than playing politics. Furthermore. Washington society is running him ragged. Mrs. Nimitx doesn't feel the same way at all about Wash ington society?which perhaps is one reason why the admiral wants to get out of the eapitaL He hates dinners, loathes cock tail parties and feels iil-at-ease at receptions. But Mrs. Nim itx loves them and insists on dragging her husband along when she makes the rounds. Rigors of war in the Pacific now have begun to look like heaven in contrast with social Washington and when the right time comes next year, the admiral plans quietly to pull out. Note?Grandson of a Texas hotel keeper, Admiral Nimitz hopes to re tire to Texas or the California coast. ? * ? PRESIDENTIAL SEASICKNESS Those who suffer from stomach maladjustments when they travel by sea or air will be glad to know that President Truman not only sympa uuzes wiui uiem uui aiau ?" found a fairly good remedy for sea sickness. The cure is not 100 per cent effective, however, and that is one reason the President's yacht turned south. Mr. Truman had a bottle of sea sickness pills with him on his recent cruise?a remedy concocted by the Canadian army for use by its troops when they crossed the Atlantic or went ashore in tank landing barges. It is supposed to be the best thing so far developed to cure seasick ness. The President always carries a bottle with him when afloat and eats the pellets almost as if they were candy. On his first important sea trip aboard the t uiser Augusta to Potsdam one year ago, be took this medicine along and apparently avoided seasickness. However, Mr. Truman, born and raised on the Midwest prairies, doesn't get the same kick out of the sea as did F.D.R. * ? ? HUSHED-CP INCIDENT Tenseness of the Russo-American situation in southeast Europe is il lustrated by an incident in Austria so far hushed up by the censors. For some time, the Soviet gov ernment has been pressing Gen. Mark Clark to permit cross-exam ination of Yugoslav, Baltic and oth er displaced persons in Austria. Many of them rebelled against go ing back to their homelands for ' fear of Soviet reprisals, but some were willing to go. Finally General Clark agreed that the Soviet could send in 12 men to ask them ques tions. While the Soviet team was at work with the displaced persons, General Clark was getting secret information from one of the D.P.s as to what was going on. Eventual ly this informant reported to Clark that he was under Soviet scrutiny. So Clark secretly placed an American machine gun in a room above the informant's and another machine gun on the roof of the building opposite. A night or two later a squad of Russians drove up to the inform ant's home, knocked down his door and carried him out in the street. Immediately the U. S. troops turned on their searchlights and arrested the Russians. Here was the pay-off. Our allies, the Russians, were dressed in the uniforms of American military po lice. ? ? ? TRIGGER-HAPPY TITO The question of using "horse-and buggy" tactics to calm Dictator Tito of Yugoslavia, especially the navy's dispatch of cruisers to Tries te, has been criticized privately in side the U. S. armed forces. U. S. warships at the head of the Adriatic, according to army men, could be caught in a trap and might be sunk with one bomb. Further more, the cost of operating one cruiser in contrast to an airplane is tremendous. Therefore, U. 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