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Policy Gives
Democratic Hopes
Washington the Republican leaders continue to work for
Mr. Truman. Having made his nomination inevitable, they are
now doing about all that,can be done to give him more than a
fighting chance for election a year from next fall. They are doing
this in two ways:
First, by co-operating in the execution of the President’s
foreign policy, mis nas Deen ai-’
most inescapable, since the poli
cy envisages an actual or potential
foreign enemy and there i£ no polit
1 c a 1 sustenance
in siding with a
foreign enemy.
Little as he may
like it in his
heart and as
sincere as his
misgivings may
be, Senator Taft,
for example,
finds it neces
sary to go along
with his Repub
lican rival, Sena
tor Vandenberg,
in support of the
President. The
country, in its i,«w*u Meiiett.
present mood, is chalking this up to
the credit of the Republican lead
ers. But, even more, it is being per
suaded by this Republican co-oper
ation that the Truman policy must
be right and it is he that gets the
greater credit.
Second, by opposing the President
in much of his domestic policy. The
President may not have made all
the fight that couid have been made
to keep the cost of living under con
trol, but he made nearly all the fight
that was made. And he hasn’t yet
given up. Prices seem certain to be
a big issue in 1948 and it is hard to
see how the Republicans—having
furnished it to him—can take that
issue away from the President.
Result of Lewis’ Battle.
Then there is labor. Less than a
year ago the President appeared to
have thrown away any hope for
labor’s support. His drastic action
in the matter of the threatened rail
way strike caused many party man
agers to cross 1948 off their calen
dars. The Democratic Party, with
out the backing of the labor vote,
tney knew, might as well not have a
candidate.
Into this situation stepped that re
doubtable Republican leader (ouch!)
John L. Lewis. The Democratic
managers are not at all dissatisfied
with the result of the ensuing bat
tles. They have learned that most
other labor leaders entertained a
sneaking sympathy for the Presi
dent during the succession of en
tanglements with Mr. Lewis. That
was a very definite gain for Mr.
Truman.
But the real job in his behalf is be
ing done in Congress, the Republi
can Congress, is enacting permanent
labor legislation. If not in cold
blood, at least with cool deliberation,
it is undertaking to fix the future re
lations between labor and manage
ment in every conceivable detail.
And in practically every such detail
it is acting with what labor considers
anti-labor bias. It is one thing, as
labor sees it, for an angry executive,
faced with a national emergency and
beset by an angry public, to take
sides and hit hard. A fight is a fight
and it is possible to respect a good
fighter. But It is another thing to
tie the hanrisof one of the contend
ers beforeTfiFbattle begihr Mwjpfeffi
is what Congress is seeking to do,
as labor leaders see it.
Take All or Nothing.
The Republican leaders may have
the votes to enact their full set of
restrictions on labor. They obvious
ly think they have or they would
not insist on putting them all In one
package. It is their idea, perhaps,
that the President might pick and
choose a number of labor bills; sign
those he found acceptable and veto
the others. They would deny him
thia opportunity; make him take all
or nothing.
That being the case, most of
Washington Is betting the President
will take nothing. He is expected
to veto any omnibus labor bill that
contains as many revolutionary ap
proaches to the labor problem as
that which now has the right of way
in the House and seems likely to get
the same in the Senate.
That is the situation at the mo
ment. Democratic- leaders are
watching with their fingers crossed,
hoping nothing happens to change
it: hoping the Republicans will com
pel labor to come back home, and
come back prepared to fight in '48,
not to sit on the sidelines as they did
in '46.
Answers to
Questions
A reader can ret the answer to any
Question of fact by writing The Evening
Star Information Bureau, 316 I street
N.E., Washington 2. D C. Pleas* M
close 3 cents for return postage.
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.
Q. Where is the longest straight
stretch of road in the United States?
—J. D.
A. The American Road Builders
Association says that apparently the
longest straight stretch of highway
in the United States is a 32-mile
stretch on U. S. Highway 61, north
of Clarksdale, Miss. It is perfectly
straight and level.
Q. Where is the oldest Indian
i village in America?—J. W. R.
A. Acoma in New Mexico is be
! lieved by some to be the oldest con
! tinuously inhabited village in Amer
ica. Others give this distinction to
Zuni in the same State and Oraibi
in Arizona. Acoma is mentioned as
early as 1539 by Pray Marcos de
Niza under the name Acus.
Q. What plants are attacked by
I Japanese beetles?—E. 03.
A. The adult beetles are known
j to feed on about 200 species of
plants. They prefer apple, peach,
sweet cherry, plum, quince, grape,
1 blackberry, clover and corn. The
: foliage of shade trees and shrubs
also is attacked.
Q. What is the diameter of the
ffPAat ciar llofnlrraneflO_Ilf P rt
A. This supergiant star has an
extreme diameter of 460 million
miles. It could easily hold within
it the sun and the orbits of Mercury,
Venus, Earth and Mars with several
million miles to spare. Betelgeuse
is a pulsating star whose diameter
decreases and increases.
Q. Why did Gandhi begin his
campaign of token civil disobedi
ence?—J. D. S.
A. In the autumn of 1940, Gandhi,
seeking a method of campaigning
for India’s independence without
embarrassing the British war effort,
hit upon the method of “token civil
disobedience” since under the De
fense of India Act “preaching
pacifism” was forbidden.
Q. What is the pay of a cadet at
West Point?—F. B.
A. The pay of a cadet at West
Point is $780 a year plus rations.
This, with the initial deposit of $300
to cover uniforms, is considered
enough to meet actual needs. A
cadet does not pay any tuition.
^Q. How many patents were seized
by the United States Government
from enemy countries during the
war and how many have been
licensed?—L. R. C.
A. Approximately 47,000 United
States patents have been vested
from enemy aliens. On February
28, 1947, there had been 11,766
patents licensed to 224 licensees.
Q. How far must a bee travel in
order to gather a pound of honey?—
V. E. O.
A. It has been estimated that a
single bee travels about 43,770 miles
to gather 1 pound of honey.
Q. How did the Enoch Arden Law
receive this name?—M. M.
A. It is derived from a poem of
the same name by Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, published in 1864. The
hero, a sailor, returns from an en
forced absence of years to find that
his wife, thinking him dead, has
married his friend. For her sakej
he does not reveal himself, and dies j
broken-hearted.
McLemore—
Recoils First Ride
In o Model T
By Henry McLemore
The death of Henry Ford must
nave recalled-to millions of Amer
cans the heartaches and the happi
ness, the adventures, and the
calamities, of
the days when
the Model T was
In full flower.
The first long
automobile trip
I ever made was
in a Model T,
with my Uncle
Sheck at the
wheel. We left
Atlanta cm a
Monday and six
days later
bounced into
Jacksonville
with me, al
though only 10 Henry McLemore.
years of age, looking old enough
to be my own father, and Uncle
Sheck so exhausted that he was two
years recovering.
That Model T was Uncle Sheck's
first car, and when we left Atlanta
he had only soloed in it a couple of
times. To Insure that he would
handle the big machine correctly,
he had installed a sort of home
made music rack in front of the
steering wheel, and on this, held
by a rubber band, was the book of
instructions that came with the
car.
Pause With Every Rattle.
Whenever a doubt assailed him,
he would stop and read a page or
two. And doubt gripped him every
time there was a new rattle, which
meant that we seldom ever went
more than three or four miles with
out a halt. He would never proceed
without locating the rattle and
satisfying himself that it did not
Involve the wheels or the steering
wheel. He had a deadly fear that
a wheel would come off, or that the
steering wheel would snap off in
his hands. Actually, this would not
have been very serious because we
were in ruts so deep that the car
couldn’t possibly have gotten out
of them, and could easily have gone
on to Jacksonville without any one
steering it.
But it was the water in the radia
tor that made me 11 before my time.
Uncle Sheck believed—and I shared
his belief—that to keep the motor
cool the water in the radiator should
be cool. Every half hour or so he
would come to a stop and dispatch
me under the car to open the radia
tor pet-cock and test the water.:
Naturally, it was always hot.
"Drain it, Henry,” he would say.!
“We don’t want it to boil and ruin
thq motor."
I’d drain it, and then he would
give me a big bucket he had brought
along for the purpose and send me
off in search of water. Sometimes
Uncle Sheck would decide the water
needed changing when we were in
front of or near a farmhouse, but
more times than not we stopped in a
barren wilderness, and it was my
duty to walk until I found a farm
house with a well. Then I would
fill the radiator and we would pro
ceed at our dizzying pace.
Nerve Center of Car.
Uncle Sheck worried a great deal
about the battery that ran the lights,
too. Why, I don’t know, because
we never intended to drive at night.
But while I went for water for the
radiator he would lift the floorboard,
remove the battery, and I would al
ways find him polishing it when I
came back.
“This is the nerve center of the
car. son,” he would explain to me
wisely. “Anything happen to it, and
there is no telling what would hap
pen to the car.” He would continue
scrubbing it until it shone like a
precious stone and then lower it j
back into place for a new splashing
jf mud and coating of dust.
I wLsh I had space to tell you of
another Model T trip, taken when I
was 12 in the company of the
Rev. Martin. He kept a loaded
shotgun across his knees while driv
ing, and always kept the side cur
tains up in case of a quick thunder
shower. I’ll never forget the late
iftemoon when a wild turkey walked
icross the country road and the Rev. j
Martin, abandoning the steering i
wheel of the car to the Lord, fired
through the isinglass curtains and
jagged the turkey.
[Distributed by McNsuyht Syndicate, Inc.) I
Doris Fleeson
House G. O. P. Strategy
Leaders Planning Bare Bones Schedule
With Eye on Mid-July Adjournment
A one-mind Republican House is polishing off a bare bones
schedule of spending and tax cuts, a drastic labor bill and foreign
policy appropriations, with its eyes fixed on mid-July adjournment.
The soothing grapevine promise has gone around that nothing
controversial, like FEPC, nor touchy new programs like housing,
will be allowed to interfere with this schedule. The tight House
awvnnioo t i/\n nainmHe nilaVi n nvamiea a-,..—. ■ .- ...... —
VI yviuuw OUVU A J/iUUUOt
to be kept in the absence of any
real rebellion within the majority.
House strategists who are bent on
keeping it simple
are convinced
that in tax
they have
popular issue to
overmatch the
President’s Re
publican - hi gh -
prices. Besides,
they have ar
ranged, added
and subtracted
Treasury state
ments to
own complete
satisfaction.
They believe
the Govern- D®ri» n«eton.
ment’s revenues will exceed esti
mates by several billions so they can
cut taxes, pay something on the
debt and avoid Army and Navy
slashes. Agreeing that prices are
too high, they say they believe
prices will tumble soon in a depres
sion which will be blamed upon Mr.
Truman. One realist who admits
that these days any prediction is a
gamble said he formerly thought
the Republicans were going to get
that depression, but now he believes
it can’t wait
Asked what the House would do
while the Senate argued, one power
ful committee chairman said ami
ably there would be a certain
amount of "messing around” with
minor matters to be got. through
with. He also predicted a time
taking spate of amendment to the
Greek-Turkish loan. These may ex
press the doubts which the Senate
is smothering and hedge the com
mitments involved in the new policy.
If so, the House debate might be
extremely important
The Republicans are not too
happy about the prospect. They are
inclined to feel that the Democrats
are doing very well Indeed as minor
lty attackers. The tax debate, for
example, which ftand the Demo
crats bade In the old rite of pro
tector of the common man was a
little too warm for Amfort.
No Real Family Trouble.
House Republicans are not, how
ever, having any real family trouble,
in striking contrast to the other end
of the Capitol. Their roll calls find
their top level in cofnplete agree
ment about what should he done
and they have been successful in
smoothing out arguments about how
to do it.
This unanimity has precluded any
cruel test of Speaker Martin and
Majority Leader Halleck and their
reputations and digestions flourish
accordingly.
As the complacent House looks
over at the divided Senate, its vet
erans are shaking their heads. They
are certain no political good can
come to the ambitious men who are
building reputations in the upper
house. One sage who has done some
famously accurate forecasting baa
made an even-money bet with a
colleague that he can’t name
the next Republican nominee for
President.
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