Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, June 27, 1946, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextMUmglbh wed-bound f drew pearson SENATE MONSTROSITY WASHINGTON. Seldom has a senate committee been so loath to put its name to a piece of legisla tion as the senate banking and cur rency committee which finished sabotaging the price control bill recently. About all that was left of the bill was its name. When it came to signing it, New York’s Senator Wagner, chairman of the banking and currency com mittee, flatly refused. He pointed out, in a closed-door session, that he had opposed the emasculating amendments and woi/d submit his own minority report. Senator Taft, who did more than almost anyone to tear the bill to pieces, also hesitated. He said he had his own bill which he wanted to introduce. Finally someone proposed that the senators’ names be signed ia a cir cle, so the public could not tell who signed first. “It reminds me,” said Ken tucky’s Alben Barkley, “of the young man who shot his mother and father, then appealed to the court for leniency on the grounds that he was an or phan.” NOTE—Finally, Senator Barkley agreed to report the gutted OPA bill to the senate, but accompanied by a stinging criticism of the way the OPA had been virtually de stroyed. ♦ * • PATIENT LAUNDRY LEW Secretary of Labor “Laundry Lew’’ Schwellenbach is a patient man. He learned the virtue of pa tience as a Spokane laundryman when he had to handle customers’ complaints about frayed collars and lost shirts. Patient as he is, Lew has had a tough time with his boss in the White House during the mari time strike negotiations. Shortly after the talks began, Schwellenbach called on the unions, the shipping people, and government officials to say nothing which would arouse feelings and imperil the negotia tions. The very next morning, however, Lew’s boss in the White House did exactly the op posite by announcing plans to use the navy to break the strike.* This, of course, put the ship owners in a favored position. They were no longer under any compulsion to settle before the strike deadline. When patient Laundry Lew heard this, even he hit the ceiling. Then the navy announced, with White House backing, that it was calling on its reserves and volun teers to break the strike. Again this played into the ship owners’ hands; again the secretary of labor was upset. Finally, he sent Assistant Sec. of Labor John Gibson to the White House with a personal appeal to the President to refrain from prejudic ing the negotiations. Truman agreed, Issued a statement saying the gov ernment hoped for settlement, did not want to be put in the position of breaking the strike. • • * CABINET CONFIRMATIONS American history shows that Presidents of the United States have had more difficulty with senate con firmation of the secretary of the treasury than any other cabinet post. In all, 10 different votes have been cast by the senate defeat ing confirmation of cabinet mem bers. The first of these was Andrew Jackson’s fight to appoint Roger B. Taney as secretary of the treasury. Jackson was defeated. Second senate battle was Presi dent Tyler's attempt to appoint Caleb Cushing as secretary of the treasury. Tyler forced three differ ent votes in the senate to confirm Cushing, but lost each time by large majorities. Tyler also had trouble appointing David Henshaw as sec retary of the navy, and James M. Porter as secretary of war. The next senate fight over cabi net confirmation occurred in the ad ministration of Andrew Johnson, when he attempted to appoint Henry Stanbery, as attornev gen eral, but was defeated. Calvin Coolidge also lost a fight to appoint Charles B. Warren ns at torney general. The first vote on Warren was the famous occasion when Vice Pres. Charley Dawes failed to be present. His excuse was that he was napping and his alarm clock failed to go off. However, Coolidge, who never got along with Dawes, always suspected that his vice president wanted to avoid being put on the spot by a tie vote, which he, as pre siding officer, would have had to break. • • * CAPITAL CHAFF Six-foot, eight-inch high governor elect Jim Folsom of Alabama is go ing to be a political force to be reckoned with. He has six months to plan his strategy before taking office, and one move he will make is to spend one month in Atlanta as a guest of Georgia’s hard hit ting Gov. Ellis Arnall. Folsom will study Arnall’s liberal adminis tration from A to Z in order to profit from his experience. . . . Folsom was a leading Henry Wallace dele gate at the 1944 convention. CHIEF YELLOW THUNDER AND PIPE O’ PEACE . . . Chief Yel low Thunder of the Winncbagos, Wisconsin Dells, Wis., as he appears as the star of the Stand Rock Indian ceremonials, held nightly through the summer. 14,000 Indians have returned from armed forces to take part and witness ceremonies. B mm . NEW CHIEF JUSTICE AND TREASURY HEAD . . . Fred M. Vinson was named chief justice of the U. S. Supreme court by President Truman, and Reconversion Director John W. Snyder was selected to succeed Vinson as head of the treasury department. Left to right: Fred M. Vinson, President Truman and John VV. Snyder. The new secretary of treasury was a former St. Louis banker. Vinson served in congress and on federal bench. SPARKLING WATERS—VACATION TIME . . . Vacation time has arrived in New Jersey along the coast and inland. Sparkling lakes mark the inland and mountain areas where sails are being set with all manner of craft. Insert shows that the children love the surf just as grownups do. team who played Britain at WimMedon on June 14 and 15, are pic tured before the big event. Left to right are Miss Louise Brough; Doris Hart; Mrs. Patricia Todd, the only married woman on the team; Pauline Betz, and Margaret Osborne. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY. GEORGIA I ■jj QUEEN SIZE ORANGES . . . Selma Rocker, Orange festival queen, Bartow, Fla., finds that the oranges are bigger and better than ever before. These vitamin packed fruit look as big as grapefruit. DISCOVERS NEW PENICILLIUM . . . Wayne Simmonds, 29, gradu ate assistant at the University of Wichita, who has discovered a new strain of penicillium from fungi peculiar to Wichita, Kan., area. • ji CZECH AMBASSADOR . . . Czech oslovakian Ambassador Juraj Slavik who upon presenting his credentials to President Truman expressed his government’s ap- J preciation for the aid given by the United States. MR. AMERICA . . . Bobby Town send, 9, as he envies “gorgeous” Alan Stephan, 22, Chicago, who won National A. A. U. Mr. Amer ican contest at Detroit. Exercise, diet and sleep did the trick, Stephan says. ||| HONOR ATOM SCIENTIST . . . Dr. Lise Meitner, German-born nuclear physicist as she received honorary degree at the University of Rochester. Early work by Dr. Meitner was on atom bomb. French Dampen Nazi Hopes For Rebirth as Red Check By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. j The ghost of Adolph Hitler, report ed to have been executing a little clog dance of joy gr mois le deluge,” hit a Baukhage setback for the second time when the sturdy, middle-of-the-road Frenchman got behind the middle of-the-road Republican Catholic party, and defeated the Commu nists, just as an earlier vote killed the constitution which the Reds wanted. Because Hitler knew his greatest hope for a Nazi rebirth was a Com munistic Germany, his spirit prob ably rejoiced when the iron curtain went down on Germany’s eastern frontiers, and one of Russia’s bor der countries after another were bulldozed into one-party, leftist front rule. With France turned Communist, Germany would be an island in a red sea, and would soon have to take on protective coloring, it was assumed. The next step, according to Hitler’s hope, was the reaction to Naziism. Now, for the first time since V-E Day, France seems to have shaken off her carmine shackles. Before the recent election, some quarters were predicting that if the French middle class and peasants could not get rid of the left-wing domination with ballots, they would try it with bullets. The left-wingers themselves were warning of a reactionary revo lution, and as late as the spring of this year dire warnings were be ing sounded. MRP Seeks Unity Against Class War Donald B. Robinson, former civil affairs officer in France, wrote in the April Mercury magazine that: “In no nation of northwestern Eu rope are there such distrust and loathing between classes and groups as in France today. The bitter dis sention which has driven General de Gaulle into retirement, and con stantly threatens the precarious equilibrium maintained by the left coalition, is rooted in implacable hate between the moderates, cen trists and rightists on the one hand and the Communists on the other. ...” This situation complicated the Al lies’ problems in regard to Ger many. However, with France now staggering to her feet, there is a chance for more harmony among the western Allies, and it is possible that Germany, with proper controls and minus a huge slice of the rich mineral land of the Saar in French hands, may have her three zones sufficiently united to begin to sup port herself; to start to pay some of her bills with the consumer goods that her neighbor nations want from her, and can’t get anywhere else. The results of the French elec tions are particularly gratifying from the standpoint of the western Allies because they appear to have established a degree of harmony among the more conservative French elements without revealing a reactionary trend. The triumphant Popular Repub lican movement (MRP) had a plat form which, according to French authorities, went beyond the politi cal field to take a moral stand. The platform stressed the need for re enforcing unity among the newcom ers (the right wing elements of the Socialist party made up of mem bers of the old resistance), and all those opposing the efforts (by the Communists) to incite class hatred. At the same time, the MRP dis avowed all connection with the Radical Socialists, who, despite their name, are considered too con servative by many members of the resistance who formerly had joined in a common front with the Com munists. The election results may mean a change in Russian policy, for in spite of themselves, the western Al lies have been forced to take uni fied action if any action at all was to be taken. It is possible that Rus sia was merely stalling, hoping to establish her influence in Eu BARBS • • , by Baukhage Well-dressed cows will soon be wearing zippers, says Business Week. But they won’t be really well-dressed. Udderwise they would wear girdles. • * * Airplanes can now stop in the air, says Aviation News. Probably to put off passengers who haven’t a ticket. rope, including France. Now this strategy has failed in reP "; to France, she may be more 2 operative. Either that . . . or r J* herself to taking an Allied westS bloc and liking it. • * • Special Interests Deluge Washington The lobby barometer of the pres, ent congress has run up a Dre , sure record this session which t probably an all-time high. Never in the history of the capital have there been more pressure g rouM operating, as the listings under " as . sociations” in the classified section of the Washington telephone dire/ tory testify. The “associations” fill 14 columns and very few are not interested in some kind of legislation, pending or prospective, and interested enough to have an office- in the capital or at least a telephone number. There are a lot more with offices under the hats of their representatives which prefer to remain anonymous to the public. Alphabetically speaking, the American Automobile association leads the list, and the Zionists and George Zook conclude it. One newcomer has nudged itself right up to second place— the Am vets, one of the 26 veterans organ izations listed, including the Amen can Legion and the Buck Privates association as examples of the old and the new. Alcoholics Anonymous appear, not so anonymous this time. There is the Association of University Pro fessors, and right next door, the University Women, which makes it congenial. There are bakers, bank ers, members of the bar, and (no relation) bottlers of carbonated beverages. The “antis” are present—four of them: Anti-Cigarette alliance; Anti- Defamation league; Anti-Poll Tax committee; and, of course, the Anti- Saloon league, to balance the Liquor dealers and the Distillers institute further on down the page. Certain happier combinations sug gest themselves. Take the National Caterers and Sandwich Makers as sociation and the Mayonnaise and Salad Dressing manufacturers who together symbolize a fine old Amer ican institution. There is specialization in lobby ing, too. Don’t think the National Association of Ornamental Nonfer rous Metals manufacturers lets the National Association of Ornamental Metal manufacturers tend to their special needs. And when it comes to boxes, you cannot put them all in one pile either. The weatherproof, corru gated variety, the weatherpoof fi ber containers and the plain fiber boxers, each hoe their own row, not to mention (though you had better, if you are a congressman, unless you want to fill one of their prod ucts) the ordinary National Wooden Box association. • • • Press Gets Its Azerbaijans Mixed Up If the citizens of the Persian prov ince of Azerbaijan, in whose desires for independence the Soviets have showed such a tender interest of late, ever read American periodi cals, they may have been consider ably surprised to learn from sev eral recent articles that their country is rich in oil fields. Information to this effect would have startled an oil expert friend of mine who has spent considerable time in that country, if he hadn't known his geography better than the writers of the articles. He knew (what I didn’t until he told me) that there are rich fields of oil in Azer baijan, all right, but that it is a different Azerbaijan many miles away, where Baku is located. But then how many Azerbai janians (or Americans) know there is a Buffalo in Wydming (where buffaloes ought to be) as well as one on the shores of Lake Erie? * • * Sees Democratic Victory in Fall As the senators took a hitch in their togas on the ides of May this election year, the popular prediction for the kalends of November was a retention of Democratic control of the house of representatives, and a loss of only five or six Democrat ic seats in the upper chamber. This at least a hardened sooth sayer could venture to say, provided he didn’t whisper it too loudly. Said soothsayer, I might add, al ways hedged to the extent of add ing: “As of today.” I’m not a Socialist, but if the gov ernment is going to have to take over mines and railroads every year, it seems to me we may as well keep them and save on book keeping. As it is, the taking-over is a farce. * • • You never miss the sunshine until the clouds black it out.