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The Aueckrted Pres* b entitled axdmhraly to the me for repuMbetion of ell the local new* printed In thb new»papef, a* well e* ~ell A. P. new* dlcpntcbm. A—A SATURDAY, jane IS, 1PM Arlington Solves a Problem The Arlington County School Board has reached what looks like a generally satis factory solution of its dilemma over re ligious education in the schools. It has abandoned its criticized “released time” system of giving religious Instruction'to Voluntary enrollees, in favor'of a “dis missed time” arrangement. It is hard to see how the modified system can be logically interpreted as violating constitu tional requirements as outlined in the Su preme Court opinion in the McCollum case. The Supreme Court majority in that Important case held that the system of released-tlme religious instruction in the Champaign, Illinois, schools violated the First Amendment’s prohibition against an establishment of religion by the state. That decision, it was pointed out, was directed only at the particular program then in effect in Champaign. But Arlington, like many other places having courses in re ligious Instruction in the schools, has been uncertain as to the scope of the court’s ruling and its possible application to the bounty’s system. Critics of the plan, in eluding persons who favor religious in struction of youth but feared that the county’s program might be held Invalid, have besieged the School Board with their arguments and suggestions. The new plan meets with the approval ef the Arlington Council of Religious Edu cation, which sponsors the county courses, and, at the same time, goes a long way toward meeting objections of those who felt that releasing children to study re ligion during regular school hours was an Illegal joining of church and state. The Supreme Court made a point of the fact that children “compelled by law” to attend the Champaign schools for secular educa tion “are released hi part from their legal duty upon the condition that they attend the religious classes.” Under the Arling ton program, no such compulsion will be Involved. The schools will end their reg ular classes at 2 pm. instead of 9:30 pm. on the instruction days and all students Will be dismissed. Those who then elect to attend the religious classes may do so. Arlington’s experiment will be watched with interest by other counties and cities which have been worried over the impli cations of the court decision last October. Offhand, it appears to be a reasonable solution of a very controversial problem. Czech Church Crisis The placing of Archbishop Josef Beran under virtual house arrest indicates the Imminence of a showdown in the mount ing crisis between the Roman Catholic Church and the Communist-dominated government of Czechoslovakia. This police action, practically isolating the archbishop from outside contacts, comes on the heels of a series of official anti-church moves Which the archbishop has vigorously de nounced. The Vatican takes a “very grave" View of the situation. Since It stands squarely behind its ecclesiastical repre sentative, a basic conflict between church and state In Czechoslovakia would seem to be joined. This conflict is not a local one. It forms part of a pattern evident In all the coun tries under the control of Soviet Russia, where Communist regimes have been set up with Soviet backing. The ultimate objective , Is the destruction of all organized religion. But In this destructive campaign there are various strategic stages, depending on the strength of existing religious organiza tions and their hold upon their adherents. And one of the major moves in this strategy Is to gain effective control over the organi sation without abolishing a church as such. That technique has been successfully em ployed In the Soviet Union, where the Orthodox and other churches continue to exist In form, though entirely “co ordinated" with the Communist state, run by subservient ecclesiastics, and exposed to atheistical propaganda by the Com munist Party. Hie calculation Is that, with the rising generations thoroughly indoc trinated In atheism, the churches them selves will wither away through the passing of older believers. This strategy la the “satellite” countries has been most successful with the Orthodox and Protestant churches, which are organ ized on a national basis. It has, however, met a redoubtable opponent In the Roman Catholic Church, which is international in Its make-up and is integrated In the Vati can, the center of power and authority be yond communism's reach. In a country like Poland, where Roman Catholicism enlists the deep loyalty of almost the entire popu lation, communism proceeds with circum spection, and a decisive attack on the church has not yet been launched. In countries where the church’s hold is less universal, more Immediately aggressive tactics are employed. What the Communist regime in Checho slovakia now alms at is the splitting of Catholic loyalties by what Archbishop Beran stigmatizes as an attempt to “found a new Catholic church without its current bishops and principal head In Rome." The vehicle Is the so-called “Catholic Action,” an organisation made up of ostensibly regular communicants but subservient to the Communist government. The leaders of this organization have been warned by the archbishop that they risk the pena^r of excommunication for their “oppressive, sinful and schismatic” maneuvers. But the government appears to be backing “Catholic Action” In its claims to take over the conduct of church afTairs. And clergy loyal to the archbishop are being arrested in large numbers. An open breach may take place tomor row, when the archbishop Is scheduled to lead the annual Corpus Christi procession from his palace to the nearby St. Vitus Cathedral. Police interference with this ceremony would be an unmistakable sign that the battle had been openly joined. But, even though that particular challenge may be averted, it k hard to see how an eventual showdown can be avoided, in view of the government’s present antichurch policy. 'Absolutely Essential' As titular head of the Republican Party, Governor Dewey has spoken out in timely and forceful fashion against any weaken ing of the Marshall Plan. Basing his state ment on a just-completed tour of Britain and Western Europe, he has described the plan as “absolutely essential,*’ and he has left no room for doubt that he is one with Paul G. Hoffmann, chief of the Economic CO-operation Administration, in believing that Indiscriminate slashes in ECA funds could lead to the gravest consequences not only for our friends abroad but for our selves as well. In taking this position, Mr. Dewey has placed his major emphasis on a point that sqems to have been forgotten by those members of the Senate who have been advocating sharp reductions in addition to the ones already made in the House approved ECA legislation. The point is simply this: That the fundamental objective of the European Recovery Pro gram is to restore the Marshall Plan countries to economic health and political stability in order to hold back and even tually reverse the Red tide and thus end the danger of further direct and indirect aggression aimed at giving the Kremlin control of the entire continent. Thanks in large measure to what the ERP has already accomplished, that threat has been checked within the past year. As Mr. Dewey has warned, however, it is still very much a thing to be reckoned with. That is why ECA operations must be pushed forward as vigorously as possible. The enterprise—along with the Atlantic Pact and related armaments aid—is in dispensable to the security of the free Western world. To cut down on it now, to let ill-conceived and ill-timed economizing measures cause it to lose momentum, would be merely to invite a recurrence of the economic and political Instability that the Kremlin obviously wants. Such a course, as Mr. Dewey and others have declared, would go far toward un doing the fine progress that has been made under the Marshall Plan, and it would make imminent again the menace of one at-a-time Soviet aggression against our friends abroad. That menace bears di rectly on our own long-term safety. If we did nothing about it, or did too little too late, the way would be open for Russia’s step-by-step dominance of the whole continent—a development whose ultimate effect would be to leave the United States alone and Isolated in a predominantly Communist world, where our liberty would be hard put to survive. Some of our meat-ax economizers appear to be disposed to pooh-pooh that danger as something too vague or remote to war rant worry. But if they thus betray in themselves an inability to comprehend the meaning of the historical forces now at work in our world, if they are incapable of seeing that our own American freedom and security are tightly tied in with the freedom and security of Western Europe, they at least understand the dollars-and centa interests involved. At any rate, now that Mr. Hoffman has shown the Senate Appropriations Committee how any deep cut in ECA funds would adversely affect many of our domestic and Industrial pro ducers, they seem inclined to back away from their more drastic proposals. Actually, of course, the economizers should put away the meat ax not merely because of narrow economic considerations here at home, but because of the broader, and basically more significant, considera tion that the future liberty and safety of this Nation and the free West as a whole call for an unflagging effort, right now, to make the ERP as successful as possible. That effort, together with such other measures as ratification and implementa tion of the Atlantic Pact, adds up to what Mr. Dewey has rightly described as one of the most important jobs in the world. As such, if it is to be done well, it must be done wholeheartedly, and with a sense of urgency ruling out half measures and vacillation. The 8enate Appropriations Committee ought therefore to lose no time in going along with the legislation already adopted by the House. According to Mr. Hoffman, the House bill constitutes the rock-bottom minimum needed to make the ERP func tion effectively during fiscal 1950. The slashes advocated by some Senators could result only in weakening the program in a way that could be dangerous. That kind of economy would be foolish; it would represent bad vision and worse statesman ship; we cannot afford to hobble ourselves with it In these crucial days of the cold war. Lost Brightness In announcing that it la going to make a few gold coins—none of which will be allowed to circulate—the British Royal Mint has explained that it Just wants to kelp its craftsmen In training. But maybe there is another reason for the decision. Maybe nostalgia has something to do with it, too. At any rate, the subject evokes rather fond recollections of the past, wistful little memories, a slightly teary wish that at least a part of yesterday were still here. The British are not the only people who have reason to be nostalgic about this matter. Our own mint and mints ah over the world stopped making the beautiful yellow coins when everybody went off the gold standard in the Trying Turtles. How long ago it seems! How far away! But adults can remember what a pleasure It was, either when they were children or later when they grew up, to receive or bestow these shining things as gifts marking a christening, a graduation, a birthday, or seme sueh other event out of the ordinary. It is a bit difficult, after tty these yean of their absence, to remember the coins precisely. One can recall, however, that here in America ten-dollar gold pieces were quite common. One received them or gave them away in special velvet-lined gift boxes. They were a delight to the eye The world grew dimmer with their pass es. and it will never recapture its lost brightness until it gets back to minting Mtd circulating them again. Smuggled Fireworks a Peril It should not be necessary for District flic and police authorities to warn Wash ingtonians against discharging firecrackers and other explosive fireworks this Fourth of July. Such dangerous pyrotechnics are banned not only In the District but in the near by Virginia and Maryland counties. Yft the noise of ‘ bootlegged” fireworks already has begun to be heafd in the city mod suburbs. And this unfortunate fact justifies the issuance of such warnings as that which Chief Engineer Murphy of the Fire Department has just prepared. Chief Murphy points out that the only fireworks that may be legally sold and set off in Washington are sparklers, torches, box-fires, fountains, dip sticks, non poisonous ‘‘snakes,” colored lights and toy pistols of the friction type. Most nearby areas have similar restrictions. Arlington and Fairfax Counties have ordinances banning explosive fireworks and so do •Alexandria and Falls Church. State law forbids sale or use of dangerous fireworks in Maryland. Yet the forbidden noisemakers continue to find their way into the Metropolitan Area each year—despite the statistics on Fourth of July accidents throughout the country. Chief Murphy says that over a fourteen-year period covered in a recent national study, a total of 1,892 persons, mostly children, were killed, and 42.909 injured by fireworks. And most of the fireworks which took this toll were sold as ‘‘harmless.” This shocking record should alert parents and police to the need for guarding against the smuggling and discharging of out lawed fireworks from now until the danger period is past. And parents should be reminded that even sparklers and colored flremakers can be dangerous if not han dled properly. Even the “legal" fireworks have been known to set flimsy dresses afire or igflict serious injuries on careless celebrants. The world wilflast another three billion years, an astronomer has announced. This was last Wednesday, If you are marking the calendar. Stories of the delivery of triplets and quadruplets fail to say what the attend ing physician asks for this kind of pack age deal. t This and That By Charles E. Tracewell Templeton Jones is one of these isolation ist sort of persons who believes that there is altogether too much taxing and being taxed. He feels that mass apathy should give way to individual action. His own plan is a sort at negative one. He proposes to stop buying things. Some purchases, now and then, will be necessary, of course. One must live, even when taxed and supertaxed. But when it comes to books and music Jones is more or less self-sufficient. His home is loaded down with books he has never read, and records he has played but one or two times each. Plenty of books came about because Jones, since the agp of 8 years, has never been able to resist one. The plentitude of phonograph records occurred because Jones had succumbed to the lure of recorded music. This meant (at least for Jones) that he had always new records. "What does an orchestra leader do?” he asked. "Does he play the same old music *11 the time. He does not. And neither do I.” * • • * The result has been that Jones has hun dreds of good books of all kinds, patiently waiting on his shelves for the touch of the master. He has not only volumes generally cred ited with being the world’s great books, but all sorts and conditions of books, including the works of old-time fiction geniuses. One of these he is now reading is Mrs. Henry Wood. In the old days, around i860, lady writers used their husbands’ names. •Today she would sign her books "Ellen Price Wood,” but then it went on the title page as Mrs. Henry Wood, no less. Jones thinks it has a pretty look. He Ip now going through "East Lynne.” that irementous success of the old days, whichr as a play, went on year after year. Some people today. Jones realised, would not be caught reading “Bast Lynne.” not that there is anything in it to bring a blush to the most modest cheek (as they liked to say in the old days), but simply because it is old-fashioned. Better to be bored with the new than really enjoy something old— and good! Templeton Jones, in his attempt to thwart the rising tide of taxes, was thrown back on to “East Lynne.” and he found it good, but not so good as "Roland Yorke,” another of the lady's books. The latter had a detec tive in it, as real and up-to-date as any in the latest mystery thriller. J. Jones Butterby was his name. Jones was amased at how few strange mu and words occur in these old stories. Thors is a kettle-drum, of course, which he figured out was the name of the then equivalent of the modem afternoon tea "And there was hectic on the face of the patient.” in other and more modem words, a tinge of red. Photographers were then YlSSt) just com ing in. The impecunious and Impetuous Roland thought he would hire himself out as a photographer's man. 3ueh places were wringing up all over London. They were the rage. But instead fate turned him into Sir Roland, which was a title he liked better, with its £3.000 a year, roughly equiva lent to $15,000. It seemed a lot of money , to him. since at that time it mutt have been worth about $30,000 to $50,000 a year, mod em rate. They bad a great liking for death-bed scenes in the old novels. Dickens was the ho did it best, so all the other authors day had to try their hand at it. got ill with strange maladies, but no how strange, they always had enough cnenur left to talk prettily and not be offensive to the senses at sight, tench and smell. When one died, in those days, espe cially if among the quality, one died nicely, neatly and not with too much dispatch, for jt was necessary to wring the last tear both from thorn around the bed and, at course, the dear beader. Yet those old books were as solidly based on human nature. Templeton Jones thinks, as our latest best sellers. He is glad that the tax coOeetors have sent him winging bade to the old books. They had something, he believes, that most of the modern ones do not ham. a sense at rightnom and in tegrity and decency that is good to taste again tat the gppiostve days at the IB-omened Letters to The Star rhywrUn* Irtrd U Help To Solve Health luanurr froMrn T» ttw Wtltmr ef The Pur American physicians are destroying th« faith of the public in them This Is very obvious m their campaign against national health insurance In the District we are treated to the near-weekly letter of the local voice o? medicine utilis ing quite frequently the free space of your editorial page. Apparently he must inject the public with antihealth insurance senti ment, this periodic booster, until the public relations group gets started Like all medical opponents, the learned man seeks to tear into the health plan without offering a single constructive sug gestion The national organisation has rec ognised this by silencing its spokesman They make a naive prognosis of harm io doctors and patient* They indulge in bit ter denunciation, ascribe various motives to the sponsors, and believe that everybody is out of step but themselves. While they have nothing to prescribe, they don't want us to try the other man’s pill. The local voice point* up the conditions at Blue Plains and Galling er. Has organised medicine •ought to improve these alleged conditions as intensively and vocally as it seeks to bury health insurance and the improvement of health facilities? Why should the inspira tion be any less? Cannot organised medi cine be held accountable for any such alleged conditions ? The local voice also seeks to tie health Insurance m with District suffrage—just to clear the issue. Why is there such a crowd of physicians in the District where they can’t vote instead of in rural areas where they can vote? Through what special powers does orga nized medicine set itself up as the judge of the explorations of a people wishing to pro vide better health care at a price that they can afford? Is it really concerned about the advancement of medicine or the cost of the plan to the Government—you and me? 1 noticed the national organization is using a reproduction of Sir Luke Pilde.s painting of a doctor sitting beside a seriously ill child, with the added motto, "Keep poli tics out of this picture." They had to reach many years back for that picture. Except for a few grand old men of medicine, that picture doesn't exist today. How many per sons have tried to get a doctor to visit a child or an adult at night? Where's the horse and buggy doctor? Hasn't the oath of Hippocrates been changed to an oath against anything encroaching on something they believe to be in their sole Jurisdiction? I sincerely believe that much of the pres ent demand for more health protection has been brought about by the policies and tactics of doctors themselves. Cant they be fair to themselves and the public? By no means do I wish to imply that the health bill is perfect. But I do believe that organized medicine could be of more service if, instead of opposing It. they approached its proposals with the desire to help to work out deficiencies. "PATIENT" PATIENT Arab Refugee# Present A Dilemma for New State oT Israel To the Editor ol Th* Star: Of the many decisions confronting the new state of Israel, none la more difficult or more momentous in its significance for the future than that of the Arab refugee problem. Here Israel is faced by the fa miliar dilemma of principle versus practical necessity. The principle at stake is that of mercy and justice. About 800,000 Arabs are refu gees from their old homes in Palestine They have no place to go, no clothing or adequate shelter, no money, and no powerful group of friends. Tfteir ancestors lived in that country for 1.000 to 2,000 years. It was theirs and is still home to them. In the recent disturbances there, they fled to escape that massacre which destroyed some of those villages which did not try to es cape. In many cases the villages them selves were dynamited to prevent return. For over 2,000 years the Jewish religion has emphasised mercy and justice as the basic principles In human relatitons. When ever the Jewish people have gone, they have carried this Idea with them. Very fre quently it has been Jews who have been the leaders of those humanitarian movements .which have attempted to increase Justice and mercy. But now the very state which Jews call their own has to decide whether It shall follow those principles In the face of this situation. Innocent people in vast numbers have been deprived of their homes and livelihoods without compensation. If Israel refuses to deal Justly with these people, driven out by superior force from their ancient homes, then this state will make Its beginning by denying the very principles for which Judaism has stood throughout the centuries. This is one side of the dilemma. The other Is that of practical necessity. At last after 2,000 years the Jews again con trol their ancient homeland. For long years In many parts of the world Jews at Pass over time have said. "Next year in Jerusa lem!” At last this has come to pass. The dream has been realized. Palestine is theirs. Approximately 250.000 Jewish refugees In Europe are waiting to find homes. All the space available is needed to take care of Israel's own people. Practical necessity decrees that those who have fled be not permitted to return and their lands be taken for Jewish use. The new state thus faces an ancient di lemma. Shall it be true to Its principles of mercy and justice, or shall It. like most other nations, follow practical necessity and sac rifice principle? Or are there, perhaps, leaders of Israel so wise that a third so lution will be found which will be both Just and practical? Here is the first real test. As the decisions are made and action taken America, whose policies have done so much to make possible this state, will know what to expect of Israel. CONCERNED. Garrett Park. lid. Teaching of American tan Very Important ** To tb* Editor ti T)m Star Your recent editorial concerning the edu cational commission and its report on “American Education and International Tensions" is commendable. The final para graph can stand re-reading several times— especially since, as you say. that particular recommendation urging the schools to "not overlook the teaching of Americanism either" did net make headlines but is a very important one. Your suggeatkm—' If this should mean a return to the emphasis that once was placed on American history, civics and related sub jects. so much the better’ —could well be put into effect. IRENE L MED. Te Serve Many Fsrpaaaa To taa mimr of Tb* at*r Without any cost te the Government while considering a fair plant for the 8eaqul e^ntjwmiai, why not give consideration to a permanent fair plant to operate MS days each year, exhibiting products at our States and territories and of each foreign Mate arm ing to participate, each State to finance its own buiidtag? A grant of rites should te by the Government to the States for their buildings and exhibits. Such a fair would serve many purposes, through the moat effective fora of vtatel education. All inductor would welcome the opportunity te participate and actually • Laiie-s for pahttrcHo* «tu! Nr l ha atpnatar* eod oddrau ©f f*g m*r. affAoag^ tf u pmuuNi for a vniar kmm-n to Tho Sis- to u< a mm da pixma. rtoaaa be trie? finance the State bulk! trig* for the prh'Oan of displaying their ware* Our Federal Government could ahow many Interesting Item* The vast peimanect Washington fair could be located ideally at East Potomac Part ** tending from the railroad to Ham* Point in its entirety with fringe parking all around the ground* Just off the drive at - commodatton* for 50 000 automobiles at one time are possible providing for big day* al th* fair with an attendance of S90MO people Or, as a second choice locate the Washington Fair on the Vuruua abort near the National Airport Admission fee should be M cent* With earning* from all source* of the fair amounting to more than ISO 00© 00© year ty a "super" covered "Wash Bow! could be built, seating 75 000 people in regulated temperature the year round for political conventions, football, other sports While Washington forever is aotktng to attract visitors, it lacks suitable large build ings and all other accommodations lor large gatherings of all purposes Washington s permanent fair could be the financial meant of earning and paying for every type and kind of building needed together with beau tiful grounds. The permanent fair could be made a huge success from every standpoint SHOWMAN Sorry Arlington Farms Building* Continue to House Government Girts To lA* Bditor ol Th* Blot So the Government girls swung enough power to keep the Farms open’ Well tin t that nice? Now. we. the taxpayers can pay for it How much in the red was the Farms at the end of last year? Wasn t It well over the *200,000 mark1 Who paid for thaP Uncle Sam pays the bill. We. the taxpayers, are Uncle Sam. We pay for al! the extras that the girls at the Farms enjoy I work for the Government and pay for a nice room and board on a CAF-2 salary. No. I do not have a dispensary or an In structor for parties and tours Why should they, at Uncle Sam s expense? During the war when Uncle Sam. needed help. I could understand it. Not now. Another thing. In not a landlord, but 1 don't think Uncle Sam should be on# either. MARY BARNHARDT Sees Government Clerk* Paying For Economy Mote by Co agree* Tf th* Bditcr of Th* SUr When Congress passes appropriation bill* end then appends a rider, requiring the President to cut the amounts appropriated from 6 to 10 per cent, they are. to borrow Senator Hlckenloooers phrase, guilty of incredible mismanagement." In such a gesture Congressmen confess el once three things. First, that In making appropriations they are actuated by an insatiable urge to spend every cant of In come. using none of It to reduce the na tional debt. Second, that they were unable to see a possible decline In that income which every reasonable person has long thought probable. And third, that they know so little about where euts should be made, despite tedious and minute hearings, that they must pass the buck to th# Presi dent. Of course, everyone realises that Congees is playing politic* Constituents who may have brought pressure on them to support some special Interest or geographical pork barrel expenditure, can then only transfer their pressure to the President, who. un fortunately for them, la not running for re-election In 1950, as all of the House and one-third of the Senate are. Congress in the 5-and-lO gesture, therefore, is prac tically abdicating In favor of the President iu duty of appropriating money. And where does the President stand on all of this? He still Is acting as though we were In an inflationary instead of a deflationary period. He wants to increase taxes, be U selling bonds; and both opera tions aggravate deflation. He actively Is increasing the national debt. His Idea of meeting a budget deficit seems to be "tax and tax and elect and elect." He is advo cating a welfare state when he has before him the dismal failure of such a venture under the socialists in England. He is advocating more centralization when what is patently needed is return of power to the States. The facts are that the war must be paid for by someone. It now is a question of wboes goose is to be plucked. "Not mine." says the farmer, insisting on price support. "Not mine." say* labor, preparing for s fourth round of wage Increases. "Not mine." says industry, passing all the taxes and wage increases on to the consumer. Well, that leaves only the Government clerks and the whlte-oollar warker*. The 2.000.000 Government clerks with their average salaries of $3,000 get only a seventh of the budget—yet If the 6-and-10 legisla tion Is passed. It will not be the BCA, it will not be the river* and harbors pork bar rel. It will not be the veterans. U will not be the fixed charges of Hie Interest on the Government debt. It cannot well be th* Pom Office, or the national defense establishment civilians—the brunt of the eut will com# on the remaining million Government clerks who receive $3D00 a year on the average. These people who ere performing all the constructive and worthwhile activities of th* Government win be eut unmercifully. And in the utter stagnation that follows. Who will have killed Code Robin? Why the President will be pointing to Congress and Congress will be pointing to the President And both will be right. REALIST. Lisbon Defended AfiM Gibe* Of Author «T Humorous Column To th» Miter of TM War In your tint of June IS. there ts a hu morous column by Henry MeLemors H which he Joyfully asserts, among many otfcor hilarious things, that <1> "Lisbon is just about the moot expensive city in the world, and a man is lucky if be can get by on'50 American dollars a day." <3> "Lisbon, as you doubtlessly know, ig the world s earn ter of espionage " Without detriment to humor in general and Mr. Mctemoce m particular 1 would like to straighten 'him out on thaw two counts, as I believe that a writer, even when writing for convuJsfams of hilarity, should keep a decent perspective of the facts. ijumhi one of the world's meet hospitable and beautiful cities, la not cheap those day*, but Mr. McLemore win find that sac of Lisbon's excellent hotels win give bm better treatment for lees money than • tabUshmeot; and moot other things im pro portion. What is ams, like it. As for the Portuguese nUuK* no Is the ye that neutral city ground for the le realty Inters— _ meter of enpionate" tb IMA. X goet that he read Mt «wn Washington new*. papers. T A. T. •OAJLEB. Th* Politico I Truman Expected to Mov« Swiftly in Reorganization CKninunwl S«vm| *4 1»— WWb ktt It Flttftrt Mr Gamid litfW* president Truman haa bows *m* greater authority than am erf ht» fffdaewvt to recur* am** th# #*eruti»w branch at !■*« : Federal Oevemment—hr the final pam».» I of th* ftcergaamaUCWt Act H* M »W» at to mov* promptly and m lam with man* <rf I th* rerrcnmcndaunoa of th* Hw*e ft* mission It ha* been mi mated by farmer PnwHHnt Hoover and other member* at Um MMbmn h# headed that from threw tw fear bUfimw of ’ dollar* m*< hr laved tn th* coat of *w*w»n* me tit .1 the enure a*t af tevtiumiMi | recommend* uon* should b* mad* eSert.'** ! 8**n if Oft!' on* b*Ukw dollars ran b* meed 8y the changes aturh stay b* mad* tt «tU b* a great move toward economy Further, duplication of *«t may a* *:.m nates: by reorganisation And more important alia, greater effieiencv of OwenuMel a etpeeted to result. The final agreement on th* Reorganwaliost Act.—by both house* of OMtgr*** <*'* th* : ground atw A, although aom* forty pet re; t of th# Hoove? Commission» reorgansmUont program will require additional legislation. M*»l Submit M*m Other recrsarumUon arU have been put through Concrete-by! now of them h^<« been a* sweeping a* Ute one Just named The bill authorise* the Piraulent lc make hit reorganisation plana and submit them to Congress They become effective tf neither houae ahall veto them vriUvin *0 dava after submuason A veto can hr aroomtuiahed only by a canaUluuona! mammy of either the Houae or ftrnau in othei words jig member* of the House or «g member* of the Senate ran actual majority of the total mem bership In the respective house* will be required to turn down * presidential r». organtaatKMi proposal if a mere majority of those voting could veto reurganusaUon 3k Senator*, a majority of a quotum, could exercise a veto—tf only a bare quorum should vote The President who has bewn given a clean Mil " There are no exceptions of any agency from the operation of the law In the last, two reorganisation laws, respectively there were 31 and 11 agencies excepted The klat Congress which ha* been entl* ctaed as a dilly-dally do-nothing Congrewe becauae of it* failure to act upon many major issue* during Us nearly ata month* of session ha# really stepped out with this new law The delay in getting a final agreement on the measure may have the effect u i* true, of delaying president!*! reorganisation plana—since a reorganisation program must be before Congress for al»ty continuous day* of a session before It can become effective. However, if the President sends hi* first pro* gram to the Capitol immediately and Con gres* doe* not adjourn until August It theft ; will be ume With the heavy legislative pro* gram ahead of Congress It may well be la session until August lk or later (mould Con free* adjourn earlier reorganisation pen. grama would be delayed until the next ae salon of Congress McClellan Pleased Senator McClellan Democrat of Arkansas, chairman of the conference between the tww houses on the reorganisation Mil and him* aelf a member of the Hoover Coaamumon—4a definitely pleased with the measure as It now stands As chairman of the Senate Commit* | tee on Expenditure* in the Executive Depart* menu he is already at work cm same of the supplementary legislation which la required to carry out reorganization plana. In the oriftna) Houae bill, a two house vet* was provided But the Houae Mil also eon* talned "single package" provision* by which certain agencies of the government tf re* organized, would have u> be dealt with in separate proposals This virtually amounted to exemption* The Senate Mil. an the other hand, made no exception* warded no "single package" provisions and provided for a veto by either house President Truman, It is understood when j confronted with the two moasuna plunkad for the Senate measure <wtth the addition that a constttuuooal majority would be bob* easary for a veto'. He wanted a two-third* vote of either houae for a veto—but wa* assured that the Senate would never screw to such a proposal. The Federal Government, during the laet three decades, has grown to enormous pro portions. with millions Instead wf thousand# oi employes It has been a ptsesmral growth, and the result has barn a gigantic, sprawling, in large part non -coordinated and overlap ping organisation Here at last la an oppor tunity to make tt more businesslike and #* clent. Questions and Answers By THE BASKIN ASBYICS Q Mutt one co-owner of a United PUlee Saving* Bond have perrnimian from the other to ra*h the hood*—1. N S. A. Either co-owner may aaah a United State* Saving* Bond without the permtattw of the other. Q Who waa the laat Preetdral af aha United State* la wear a 'aorttad ha* ' »— D T. O A. Jeme* Monro* waa the Mel Prandan* of the United Stalaatowonr thBMyi^of Laat Cocked Hat" Jobs Maaaa »»a aaHed “The Laat of the Cocked Mata" kereum la the end of hie life he wore the throe-ear nerod hat of the Bevofutienary Period, al though It wag out af faatnan Maaaa aaread in the Continental Army. 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