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t~ BV/ilTi iTSiw riiTV ITPTtJwi R Democratic Leaders Fear Surplus Property Scandals > By BAUKHAGE '* News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. , WASHINGTON, D. C.-There is an old political axiom attributed to Baukhage vanuus uauuuai figures of the past which runs something like this. Never ar gue about charges of the opposition party; either admit them frankly and fully, or deny them with every tissue of your oratory. Mistakes of the "ins" are the chief grist-of-the mill for the "outs" in an election year. There is a small but very earnest body ol Democrats in Washington today which believes that unless certain mistakes of the administra tion are freely and frankly admit ted and given a thorough airing, they will come back to haunt the Demo crats even unto the third and fourth generation. These mistakes, they say, are the ones which have been made by the War Assets administration. There is a segment of the admin istration, on the other hand, includ ing some of the White House chief counsellors, who don't approve of this theory. They think that the best thing to do is to get rid of the surplus property as quickly as pos sible and forget all about the whole mess. But the whole mess is not going to be forgotten. In fact, it is quite safe to predict some riotous head lines shortly after election, which will make the rather limited revela tions of the Mead committee on war contracts look like very pale and limpid prose. The headlines are likely to con cern that matter which already has emitted some rather noxious odors but which when exhumed, will cause a still stronger stench in the public nostrils. This is the disposal of sur __ A _ Senator Murray plus steel equipment and facilities connected with the Geneva plant in Utah?a layout that cost the gov ernment some 200 million dollars. It was sold to the United States Steel corporation for $47,500,000 in May of this year, over the bid of ithe Colorado Fuel and Iron corpora tion, the dominant figure in manu facturing and distribution of steel products west of the Rockies. Con gressman Chenoweth of Colorado questioned this WAA disposal. The Small Business committee, under the chairmanship of Senator Murray, has made a long and care ful study of the distribution of some 500 plants and facilities to date. It intends to have a report on this sub ject early in November. The com mittee likewise intends to air the assembled material and other testi mony in hearings thereafter with emphasis on certain industries; steel, for Instance, because of its many ramifications, the chemical Industry for similar reasons, and the makers of farm tools and other Implements because of the crying need for such commodities and the many veteran users interested. Members of the Small Business committee believe that the pattern of the distribution so far has been haphazard and not in accordance with that provision of the law which plainly states that war material may not be sold to buyers in a man ner that will encourage monopoly, but that instead will stimulate free competition. Members believe hat the faults of the past must be stud ied carefully in order, negatively, .to prevent further encouragement of monopoly and, positively, to estab lish a pattern which will stand aa a standard of operations for the fu ture. Diapoaal of Aluminum Planta Seta Pattern They point out the distribution of facilities for the manufacture of the light metals, especially alumi num. It was feared that the Alumi num Company of America might benefit to the exclusion of competi tion or potential competition. But as a result of the co-operation of Stuart Symington, when he was Sur plus Property administrator, there are now three lusty competitors in the field, all apparently having benefited from a fair distribution of the war enterprises made avail able to them on equal terms. However, other Pharaohs came to Egypt. Haste and other incen tives are said to have destroyed the pattern. Present WAA officials deny this, but the Small Business com mitteemen expect to prove their charges in open court. The first step which the Small Business boys would like to see tak en is the appointment of an admin istrator on whom they agree. They feel the official should be a civilian rather than an army man. The in cumbent, at this writing, Maj. Gen. Robert Littlejohn, is said to have expressed the desire to be relieved of WAA responsibilities, but no suc cessor has been indicated. The next step desired, after the hearings, is a thorough reorganiza tion of methods and, if necessary, an overhauling of the whole set-up of the agency. This, proponents of the idea claim, will not only be in the good of the veteran, the business man and the national economy but in the good of the party, as well. ? ? ? . - - ?? omarr roimcos Outsmart Themselves When Senator La Follette raised a memorial to his senatorial career in the form of one of the most pro gressive pieces of legislation affect ing the internal affairs of the con gress, the reorganization act, some thing occurred which the liberal wing of the Democratic party didn't realize was being done, and which has caused them no little concern ever since its practical application dawned upon them. What happened was not Senator La Follette's fault, but the result of that ancient evil, seniority, which the original reorganization measure would have eliminated. Congress couldn't accept that radical depar ture and seniority still operates. Un der this procedure a senator auto matically becomes chairman of any committee to which he is appointed if he has been a member of the senate longer than any other mem ber of the majority party on the committee. This system has long been recognized as an evil. Just having been around longer than anybody else is frequently less than a recommendation. Unfortu nately there are too many cases where a stuffed shirt and an empty head, although they can win votes from a constituency, provide a con tribution which contributes less than nothing to the highly impor tant function of running a commit tee. And chairmen have become even more important now that there are fewer of them. Administration Democrats might have acted otherwise had they real ized what they were doing. Be cause of the seniority rule, only two northern Democrats will retain their chairmanships when the new and modernized congress organizes next January. They are Walsh of Massachusetts and Wagner of New York (provided, of course, they are re-elected and the Democrats bold their place as majority party). The rest of the chairmanships go to the South and since some south ern senators persist in voting against the more liberal measures of the administration and joining with the Republicans on others just to show their independence, it leaves the liberal Democrats in a somewhat precarious position. There is another factor which doesn't sit too well with a number of northern Democrats, either. Under the new set-up, the chairman of a committee will be mors influential than ever for he now is provided with a large and efficient staff. The work of his committee will be more important than formerly because committee work won't be spread as thin as it was. Since the circle of chairmen is more exclusive and since a mem ber's perquisites and contacts will be greatly increased, a chairman ship is a juicier plum than ever. BARBS . . . by Baukhage The water-wagon is one of the few conveyances which is easier to b iget off of than on to. f I ' * * ' I have no more use for these mod ernistic chairs than a toad for a d toadstool. n ? ? ? ' According to tha new law lobby ists have to register with congress, i Can they legistac with the voter? j Bars keep crooks In jail and hue anda from letting home in time or dinner. ? ? ? Tolerance, says the rector of Hei lelberg, is respect for the other nan's conscience. ? ? ? All the political applesauce in the rorU won't give us any more ap ile butter?or apple*?or butter. ?iinii \mi mmmammmmtmm.t? imw im, THEY WANT LIGHT . . . When Pittsburgh prepared for a "blackout" due to power strike, the young citizens joined in the protests of their elders. Left to right: Larry O'Connor, 2; Judy Tolusciak, 3, and Marilyn Jordan, 2. The strike lasted only 45 minutes, when it was brought to an end by an injunction. These youngsters don't seem to be worried about it, despite the wording of their signs. They had enough of "blackouts" during the earlier days of the war. HEAD NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC SLATE ... The three men selected at the New York state Democratic convention in Albany to head the state slate are shown from left to right: Erastns Corning II, Albany mayor, who will ran for the post of lieatenant governor; Ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, senatorial candidate, and James M. Mead, present United States senator, the gubernatorial candidate. They have records of never having been defeated for any office. MISS AMERICA 1946 AND HER COURT . . . Honey-haired, bine-eyed, Marilyn Buferd, 21, of Los Angeles, Miss California, who won the title of Miss America, IMS, at Atlantic (Sty contest, is shown in center, with the four runner-ups: Amelia Carol Ohmart, Miss Utah; Rebecca Jane MeCail, Miss Arkansas, flrst runner-up; Miss America, 1946; Janey Miller, Miss Atlanta; and Miss Louisiana, third runner-up. Miss Buferd also won the bathing suit division award. MOTHER PRODUCES FOUR WINNERS . . . The all-Ameriean rec ord of "(el of tire," are the four daughters of Echo Hetbon Mercedes, Baker farm, Exeter, N. B., shown above. These foor, all classified ExceUeat, have produced a total of over 4M.0M pounds of milk. This is not only a record far the Holstein-Friesian breed, hot believed to bo a record for all breeds at dairy cattle. One of the cows recently died, hot the other three still are producing. QUEEN OF THE COURT . . . Pauline Beta, Los Angeles, by de feating Doris Hart, Miami, Fla., won the women's national tennis championships at Forest Hills, N. Y. The score was 11-9, 6-3. KING OF THE COURT . . . Jack Kramer, Montebello, Calif., who defeated Tom Brown, San Fran cisco, to gain the national men's singles tennis championship at Forest Hills, N. Y. YODNG DEAD-EYE ... Ell White Jr., 10, Atlanta, Ga., he> his trigger weighed by Captain Castner at Camp Ferry, O., pre paratory to going on the small bore firing line. Young White com peted in the junior division of the national rifle and pistol cham pionships. PAUL ALSO HAD A LAMB . . . "Sambo" is the black sheep of the Whelton family at East Braintree, Mass. Every morning he accom panies Paul Whelton Jr., 13, to school, then returns home by him self. Risky with present shortage of meat. It looks like Paul is hold ing a bribe in his hand to lure "Sambo" en. \ TAKES TO AIR AGAIN . . . How ard Hughes, motion picture pro ducer and airplane manufacturer, as he left Culrer City, Calif., for New Yorfc, piloting a bomber, a few weeks after winning a coura geous lgbt for life foUowiag the crash of an experimental airplane ha was solo testing. COOLS TOWARD PRESS WASHINGTON.?Newsmen prob ably won't write about it, but Presi dent* Truman's Bermuda trip climaxed a significant change in his relations with the press. The old days of intimate, chummy talks now have vanished! Truman was cool, aloof, even chilly. And for good reason. Some of his supposedly most trusted news friends- let him down. Off-the-record 1 talks which the President thought were going only to half a dozen people leaked out and became the property of millions. Most disillusioning of these was a reunion of the "Hard.Rock Club," a group of a dozen newsmen who cov ered Truman's vice presidential campaign when he was ignored by the rest of the country. Several weeks ago the President invited the boys to an evening on the yacht Williamsburg. They played poker, drank bourbon and generally let their hair down especially the President. He was indiscreet enought to tell all about the Russian situation and what he thought of Chester Bowles ? then OPA administrator. His remarks were not com plimentary. Truman minced no words about either Bowles or the Russians and it was hard to say which he liked least. Al though he favored OPA, he thought the fight to win its ap proval from congress would not have been so hard if Bowles had not issued so much prop aganda and talked so much. Shortly afterward, Time maga- I vino o Kriflf ononnnt nf I LU1C a Ul 1U ObbVUlU VIA this very confidential evening. Blame for the leak fell upon Ed ward Lockett, Time staffer who is a member of the Hard Rock club. Truman was so indignant that for a long time he would not speak to Lockett. Other club members vir tually ostracized him. Later, the Chicago Sun's Tom Reynolds, no member of the club, wrote another account of the Presi dent's off-the-record remarks on that memorable evening. Natural ly, Truman's views got back to the Russians. This made him even more vexed?and worried. So from now on the chief execu tive has decided not to be the naive and trusting gentleman he once was with his supposed close friends of the press. During the Bermuda trip, for instance, he gave press secre tary Charlie Ross instructions that newsmen were to ask no questions which did not pertain directly to the trip. And when one man violated this rule to ask why Rhode Island's Sen. Theodore Green was not in vited aboard the Williamsburg, the President nearly snapped his head off. I ? ? ? LEARN OF SPEECH Final decision for the Jimmy Byrnes speech on Germany was imparted to high officials in Wash ington about 12 days before he made it. The suspicion is that the Russians learned about it at the same time. Byrnes phoned President Tru man about 12 days in advance, told him the Russians were on the ram page, that nothing could be done to satisfy them. He therefore proposed that the United States and Great Britain try to set up a German gov ernment which could be won over to democracy and which could serve as a bulwark against Rus sia. President Truman, who has come to put complete trust in Byrnes' judgment, agreed. Whether or not the Russians tapped the trans-Atlantic phone, or whether they had other ways of knowing what was going en is anyone's gness. Maybe it was 4ne4 enineirlonee Anyway, it was shortly after this that Foreign Minister Molotov made his sudden, mystery flight to Moscow. Simultaneously, inspired stories began to leak out of Poland that Russia would take Silesia away from Poland and give it to Ger many. Obviously this was German bait to counteract the offer Byrnes was going to make to Germany. If Russia goes ahead with this policy of "The Soviet gjveth and the Soviet taketh away," it will cause the toughest showdown so far experienced between Moscow and Washington. The categorical Byrnes-Truman position is that the Soviet can neither "giveth nor tejteth" with out the consent of its allies, that Germany's boundaries are to be de cided only at the final peace treaty ?which Russia so far has refused to call. ? ? ? CAPITAL CHAFF Donald McGregor of Houston, Tex., will step up to replace able Jim McGrenery as assistant to the attorney general when the latter be comes a federal judge in Philadel phia. . . . One hundred and twenty six G.I.s will be ousted from the Hollywood canteen if the Los An geles zoning commission has its way. They say the canteen is a rooming-house. So what I . . . Chief Justice Vinson has spent the sum mer reading last term's Supreme court opinions. ANOTHER f I \ A General Quiz 1 % The Questions 1. What is the normal rate of respiration? 2. 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