Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 9

IHE LANSING STATE JOURNAI Dee. 3, 1947 MICHIGAN'S GREAT CAPITAL DAILY AREN'T PALSY-WALSY Let Sears help you with the family present Michigan's Senators Here are the Not Intimate Friends 7 it iA J. JR. a and the (Sifts for the Mome! avowed internationalist back in the days when the senior senator was By ESTHER V. TUFTY WASHINGTON, Dec.

3 Just be the strongest isolationist voice in the senate. This is true. Homer Ferguson was once chairman of the Detroit chapter of the Foreign Pot cause two senators come from the state doesn't mean they are palsy-walsy. Even If they have been sent to congress by the same political party -it frequently doesn't mean a icy association. It would have been natural for him to want a place on the important senate foreign rela tions committee, but it was his hard luck that a Michigan senator was cordial relationship exists.

Even the "solid south" is no exception. For years "the man" Bilbo didn't get even a courteous "good morning" out of the other senator already seated. Not Inconspicuous Then, too, while Vandenberg has from Mississippi. Pat Harrison, who handed down bis contempt to his become perhaps the most predorri' successor James Eastland. inant personality in the senate, he knows that Homer Ferguson can not be kissed off just as "the other senator from Michigan." In fact, The Harrison-Bilbo feud is When Harrison was up for majority leader against Alben BarK-lev.

one vote defeated him that of Ferguson with thanks to his head. his "junior senator" from his home 1 i e-making committee activities stop-lighting such events as the Hughes and Meyers probes, is one of the best known men in "the most state. In Texas, the august senior sen. exclusive club in America." li' The former Republican Senator ator Tarn Connally, ranking Democrat member of the senate foreign relations committee, gets red in the face when "Pappy" OTJaniel's name is mentioned. These two are poles James Couzens wasn't chummy with Vandenberg either, in those days when he was a junior' senator.

This millionaire senator was far too Rooseveltian in his voting record to see eye to eye with the Vandenberg apart, although both are Democrats. Connally is the top spokes man on Internationalism for the Democrats and CDaniel "passes the or early New Deal days. Actually, the relationship between biscuits" to what's left of the isoia. tioniats. In New Jersey Republican Vandenberg and Demo, crat Prentiss M.

Brown was so cor dial that only the natural partisan. ship of politicians prevented a deep. In New Jeresy, the senior Senator Albert Hawkes is the Old Guard personified and talks as if he were still the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. His er friendship. It wasn just sena torial courtesy that kept Vandenberg iunior Senator H.

Alexander Smith, from not campaigning against the senator from St. Ignace. They liked each other and they got along well Decorative Portable Fireplace Mantel whose voting record disagrees regularly with Hawkes, is one of the most outspoken international and liberal even if they didn't vote alike. But even the worst enemies of the minded of the newer senators. Hawkes is a svmbol of what the Re- two senators, Vandenberg and Ferguson, will have to admit that the senators from Michigan are so active that the state of Michigan isn't publican party used to be.

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Bed, chest and lovely vanity. There are ample drawers for convenient storage space. Come in and look this Christmas value over soon. China is an integral part of the "two ocean" foreign policy which is neces sary if true security for the United States is to be established. This is heartening to Republican internationalists weary of accepting C.

Wayland Brooks. In Michigan, the two senators, although both Republicans, are friendly without being cozy. Maybe the senior senator, Arthur H. Van-denberg, isn't the cozy type. But whatever the personal or legislative reasons, the senior senator isn't apt to sneak off to have a confidential talk with the junior senator, Homer No Intimacy Although it's "Van" and "Homer," no intimacy exists.

This became ap-narent even to the public when Fer a fait accompli" on foreign policy (coming from the president) and having no choice but to go along since world events subscribe to the objective. Representative Paul Shafer of Battle Creek who chairs the important house armed services sub guson, unlike the great majority of his colleagues, willing to let Vanden-berg be their spokesman on foreign affairs, popped up with suggestions touching our international policy committee on synthetic rubber faces a busy week of hearings aimed to answer the overwhelming question: What should Uncle Sam do which runs counter to, or would amend the almost unanimous opinion of the foreign relations committee, headed by the senior senator, Vandenberg, who can count on automatic support of a great segment of the senate, is never certain whether Ferguson will go along or not. (Ac with the war-built synthetic rubber business which can produce 1,100,000 tons a year, if necessary? Should the 35 government plants be sold to private industry? How much should they produce for natural domestic consumption and for security? Strong Steel Chair Enamel Finish 269 Choice ot Colors Durable all steel folding chair: Attractive brown enamel finish and brown artificial leather seat Practical for general use. tually, the junior senator usually does go along, but one gets the im pression it because the vote is top-heavy towards Vandenberg and it would be conspicuously unwise to Two Stores End Long Litigation differ.) It was Ferguson who spearheaded the movement, backed up by nine MUSKEGON, Dec. (IF) Litiga.

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