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Editorials Supporter of Waukesha Progress for Nearly Century Eighth Week of the 81st 'Truman' Congress The new 81st congress is beginning its eighth week but there is nothing to indicate that President Truman's legislative program is faring any better than it did during the "terrible" 80th congress. It is still stuck in the political bogs. Except for reciprocal trade legislation which has passed the house, none of the major items of his program is yet on the way to enactment. On such major issues as repeal of the Taft-Hartley act, new taxes and higher minimum wages, Mr. Truman apparently will have to accept compromises which he will not like.

The November honeymoon is over and those who thought a few weeks ago that they could rush legislation through committees and onto the floor for a vote were mistaken. The time for getting down to work and ending name-calling has arrived. As an example, merely calling the Taft-Hartley law a "slave labor law" without telling why a man thinks it may be so, what provisions he specifically objects to and why, do not contribute to public thinking and are doomed to failure. The chance that congress will vote the president standby power to control wages and prices is getting slimmer every day. The administration's farm price support program is still under study and has not been presented to congress.

His program for medical insurance has accumulated opposition as its various phases have been explained. There is a growing realization as the nation's economy gets back to something approaching normal, that brakes must be put on the administration's wild spending. The American people arc not in the mood to tolerate an enormous and ever increasing tax burden upon them, A sigr. of the times is the introduction of a bill by Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin to cut back most of the wartime excise tax rates new in effect to peacetime levels. This bill is similar but not identical to another introduced in the lower house by Congressman Joseph Martin of Massachusetts.

Basically, these measures would make good the promise of the federal government to the people that when peace came the heavy wartime burden of these excise taxes would be reduced. Too often the American government has broken its promise and has kept various powers and tax levies long after it promised to repeal them. So long as we continue to furnish wartime levels of revenue to the federal government, the administration's spenders will be encouraged to tax and tax. spend and spend. Brickbats are beginning to fly around the head of Sen.

Scott Lucas, ILL, the senate majority leader. organizations which helped the Democrats win their great election victory last November are beginning to complain about the caliber of senate leadership. Mr. Truman himself is getting a few knocks from the left wing, too. The magazine New Republic in its current issue says Mr.

Truman will be evading his responsibilities for moral leadership if he fails to prod congress into action toward realizing Democratic objectives. The CIO claims much credit for restoring Democrats to control of the house and senate last November. But the CIO is becoming angry and impatient. In a communication from CIO headquarters last week there were these hard words: "Administration bungling of the worst order playecftight into the hands of the Taft- Hartley Republicans. A good many Democrats in the senate will have to be reminded vigorously and often that the party campaigned on a clear cut pledge to repeal the Taft-Hartley act and to enact the Wagner act--and that the party won its victory on that basis." There probably is no one in Washington today who believes the new labor legislation will work out that simply or that way.

On the contrary, the senate is likely to write and pass a bill for which Sen. Robert A. Taft will cheerfully vote. Whether the house will be able to make the final bill more pleasing to Mr. Truman and his labor followers remains to be seen.

The New Deal organization called Americans for Democratic Action is on the warpath, too. Its current publication assails the "'defeatist attitude" of the senate Democratic leadership on the question of preventing filibusters. In the same issue this New Dea' group complains that hearings have not even been scheduled by any congressional committee to consider Mr. Truman's medical insurance plan. Much of the administration's current difficulty in congress is caused by Mr.

Truman's fair employment practices program. The filibuster issue is hot today only because all agree that the program has no chance in the senate unless rules are changed to prevent angry southerners from talking it to death. What happens to the rules and ultimately to fair employment will greatly influence what the congress does on many other controversial subjects at this session. If the rules are changed and a substantial part of those proposals is enacted, the division within the Democratic party will be greatly increased. It is on that division between southern and northern Democrats that the Republicans must depend to defeat or re-shape Mr.

Truman's legislative program. Republicans are committed to fair employment, too. But they still could make a deal with the southerners on that issue in exchange for southern votes for a new labor law which would resemble the Taft-Hartley act a good deal more than the Wagner act. OUR PLATFORM FOR WAUKESHA 1. At least one commercial airline.

2. Enough modern housing to fill our neens, 3. An adequate civic center building. 4. A unit of the National Guard.

5. A program to improve and correlate the social and recreational activities of our youths. Soviet Government Does Not Qualify as Communistic Dr. Kenneth Colegrove, author and pro- of political science at Northwestern university, has contributed to clarifying the government in the Soviet Union by explaining it is not communistic. He contends, and with a considerable degree of cause, that it is a dictatorship in which the laborers and peasants have little share.

Classical communism--the equal sharing of property by all persons--certainly is not evident in the Soviet Union. The Soviet economy is not even Marxian Socialism because the working class must obey the bureaucrats who, in turn, are controlled by the Politburo. The strategy and tactics of the Moscow Politburo, according to Colegrove, currently has five major aims: Use of the United Nations to spread Soviet propaganda. A linking together of Communist parties in all countries by means of the Conr.nform, a tool of the Politburo. Defeat of the Marshall plan.

Weakening of democratic regimes by Communist-inspired i and disorders. Destruction of democratic government by Communist plots. There is no reason to believe that the Soviet will be successful in any of these aims if those opposing them are sincere in their opposition. Most of the world has nothing to gain from the Russian brand of Communism. This was ably explained by a Swiss economic journal which recently published a study of how much working time the average man in various nations has to put in to earn enough to buy certain basic commodities.

Russia was at one end of the scale and the United States at the other. It, was found that the Soviet worker has to labor over an hour to purchase 2 1 pounds of bread while the average worker in this country could earn enough in 15 minutes. That same Soviet worker required 580 hours for a suit of clothes while in this country 28 hours was sufficient. Many causes contribute to this amazing difference, such as greater skill, advanced technology and an economic system which rewards initative and enterprise. There is still another cause which is the most important, because if the Russian citizen ever acquired all the earning power, the skill and the know-how of the American worker, he would still be far from enjoying equality.

Those who believe a controlled economy would benefit the masses should look at Russia, where regimentation is complete. The result has been one of the lowest living standards on earth and one of the most brutal social systems ever devised. New CARE Packages Are Real Contribution to People New CARE packages have been made available for shipment overseas, containing vegetable seeds for spring planting. This shows imagination and initiative in helping the world increase its food supply to necessary levels. Some time ago the U.N, food and agriculture organization made an estimate of the increased supplies of food needed to give people of the world a satisfactory diet, declaring that fruit and vegetable production ought to be enlarged by 163 per cent.

Domestic gardeners can help in this achievement and the assistance which is now being provided by CARE should result in a very desirable increase in the supply of vegetables for the European where their nutritive content is particularly important. The CARE vegetable seed package contains 28 varieties of tested vegetable seed, enough to grow a garden 50 by 150 feet. Delivery guaranteed in Austria, i France, Italy, Greece, Poland and in the free zones of Germany and all of Berlin. Here is a self-help program that is bound to succeed and to add to the basic recovery of Europe's needy people. Letter to the Editor: Wants Park, Not Dump To the Freeman: I don't think the "injections" the man wrote about in regard to the Krusell site for a city dump will ever materialize.

He states we can't eat the stuff. Well, gentlemen, we don't even like the smell of it. I do not think the broad-minded people of this city lack foresight. I think Mr. Heyer's solution ia very practical.

Mr. Krusell's site will make a nice park and that is what it intended' for when the beautiful horseshoe of houses were built on the brink of the pit. Maybe the writer would like to know it costs money to own property in this horseshoe and don't want its beauty marred by having garbage and rubbish disposed of at our back doors. He spoke of horse and buggy days. If he wants to haul bit ashes with his horse and buggy let him.

go ahead. We'll haul ours with cars and without extra taxes. Our capable city officials have selected a spot, covering many more acres, that will not interfere with ihe public in general. So, mister, you can get ready to hook up your horse and buggy and start carting tho ashes. And we on the brink of the Krusell site will enjoy our back yards and beautiful gardens we hp.ve enjoyed for the past four years.

Another South-Sider. Unknown to even many Tcxans is the fact that the majority of the state's first settlers reached their home by water. They embarked at New Orleans, or Mobile, sailed to Baragorda bay, the mouth of the Brazos or Galveston bay. When an ancient Egyptian woman laid down tc rest, her pillow was a wooden stand cuned to fit her head. It was designed to keep her elaborate headdress from becoming disarranged.

There are 200 islands in Florida Keys, southwest of Florida, Up and Down Broadway in Read Worth Dough to You Tomorrow Is Washington's birthday. Washington's birthday Is a legal holiday. Parking don't require any money on holidays. Ergo: Don't put mazuma in the meters tomorrow. Yon can park for free.

This is something we've been wanting to put in for a long time ever since the meters went in, 'and that's a fact. But by some quirk of memory, we never thought of It until the legal holiday was here and It was too late to do any good. The no-dough rule holds good every legal holiday and tomorrow is one. We'll keep you posted on the next one when it conies. Competition The totals are beginning to build up in the race for Miss Follies of 1949 and this is a report on how the thing stands so far.

Ramaker is in the lead. She is 16 votes ahead of Pat Breiim, 128 ahead of Ann Frick, 177 ahead of Miriam Scanlon, and 208 ahead of Lynne Cairns. You'll find out exactly what they all have when the contest is over. But until then; keep building the votes-- and the dough for charity-- up and up. One of the "voting booths" is not in the Park theatre, by the way-- it's been put in the Avalon lobby instead.

The contest is going real well, we hear, and the' only thing approaching: a slug in the ballot boxes was a gum wrapper, probably dropped by some neat soul who just wanted to get rid of it. Not on Your Wife A group of friends was giving a-sendoff to a man who wai bring transferred to Puerto Rico. One remarked; "It gets pretty hot down there. The climate may disagree with your wife." The man just looked at him and said: "It wouldn't dare!" (Thank you, Art.) Clippings According to a note in the "Chief," Mukwonago's weekly newspaper, Joyce Fraser, of that village, has just received a Chirstmas card posted December 20, 1947. For your information, the "Chief" of 60 years ago published an item about a "fishing sociable" to be held in Mukwonago.

It was a complicated sort of rat-race in which a partner was arrived at by following' a string. It seems the ladies had a string tied to their wrists and the strings were run from their room to another in which the gentlemen were. Each gent chose a string and followed it to his partner for the evening. From here on, the Chief is on its own: "After supper, dessert will served by the way of a hugging sociable." "Girls under 16, 25 cents for each hug of two minutes; from 16 to 20 years of age, 50 cents; from 20 to 25 years, 75 cents; school- ma'ams, 40 cents; according to age and looks, 15 cents to two dollars; old maids, three cents apiece, or two for a nickel, and not any limit of time." Those wsre rugged days, in which an editor could brave the wrath of all the ladies valued at three cents or two for a nickel in job Matter of fact, we don't believe a word of it, but then you can never tell. Fair Switch Dr, John Nash of Fewaukee, besides being plnwheel of the county Democrats and head of the county March of Dimes, is professor of history at Milwaukee State Teachers college.

In his capacity as teacher, be has assured himself of good public relations as politician and polio campaigner. You see, one of his present history students is the former Freeman society editor, KSta Rosenhebn. And one of his former history students is the present Freeman society editor, Mrs. Audrey Munger. Breaking the Ice Option Nash said, in "Reflections on Ice-Breaking," Candy is Dandy, but -liquor iff quicker.

which is all very well, as far as it goes, but we've just run across a. better means for easing any tension among guests. It seems that a local family had invited five people for dinner. One of them was a close relative, but the others were colleagues of the relative whom our friends had never met. The conversation didn't flounder, but it wasn't quite as easy and free as it could have been until one of the guests went out with the host to watch him feed the trout stocked in a pool behind the house.

In a little while the guest, an elderly man, came back. He seemed to be walking rather gingerly, and with a faint sloshing sound. A sloshing sound is exactly what it was, too, because he had broken through the ice on the pool and one foot bad gone in up to the knee before he lunged for the bank. There was about a quart of nice clear spring-water in his galosh, but no trout. Everything was wonderfully casual after that.

McArple LAFF-A-DAY King Features Artists "It's Her Honor, Your Honor." SAILOR, BEWARE! Under the Capitol Dome Capital Watches Important PSC Squabble BY JOHN WYNGAABD Special to the Freeman MADISON--The visible and Invisible political maneuvers involving the reappointmcnt of Chairman Lynn Ashley of the Wisconsin public service commission constitute the most important current political story at the statehouse. An intense struggle is going on, quietly but nevertheless with dead seriousness, in which the stakes are big because of the immense power of the agency which regulates the utility and transportation rates of the whole Wisconsin population. Gov. Renncbohm is being pressed heavily by those who support the nomination of Ashley, and with equal vigor and persistence by Ashley's enemies who want him removed when his six- year term expires in March. The concensus is that Ashley's re-appointment is highly uncertain.

ASHLEY DUBIOUS If the former Hudson lawyer gets a new term from the governor, it may mean that Rennebohm was unable to locate a qualified successor. Ashley would face a stormy Freeman Files 10 YEARS AGO Dr. Alfred E. Gregory, pastor of the Congregational church, will open a series of Lenten lectures at the Wauwatosa Methodist church. A Waukesha veterinarian and his Livestock Remedy Mfg.

were fined $1,950 on charges of violating the federal food, and drug act. The defendants were charged with making false claims for certain livestock and poultry preparations, shipped in interstate commerce. The defense indicated that an appeal will be carried to a higher court. 30 YEARS AGO Without a dissenting vote, the city council voted to enter a contract with the Waukesha Hospital Building Corp. to pay the stockholders three per cent interest on a sum not to exceed $250,000 as well as to become responsible for the operation and upkeep of the proposed hospital.

Several fraternity men, quarantined in the Carroll college quarters because of scarlet fever, have hung 1 out a sign "welcome" from a second story window. The 12 confined men find' it hard to keep themselves occupied and viewed the sign as a big joke. Russ-Zone Oil Burns; Carelessness Blamed VIENNA, (UP.) Austrian officials said today that a 24-hour fire In the Russian-occupied Zistersdorf oil field over the weekend had caused an estimated $20,000 damage. The fire started yesterday and was extinguished at 8 a.m. today.

Officials said it was caused by a gas eruption. They blamed it on "sloppy Soviet management of the wells" which ignored safety measures. The field is about 15 miles north of Vienna. The Communist press said several firefighters were injured. At one time at least four wells were afire, government sources said.

Waukesha Daily Freeman An IndeiwndWit Eitibllcbed IMt Published (vary uttwnoon tzetpt Mndir bj the FREEMAN PRINTING COMFAHT PARK PLACT Xntered tt tht WiuiknlM, WU, fMUfflM itcond elua matter under el limb S. tin. Frtruwrjr fit PRIVATE PHOm BXCBANOB-NO. Aik tat OtputBut or Ptrww Dulnd fight for confirmation in the etate senate, too. Private utility spokesmen are generally lined up in support of Ashley's renomination, but a curious and unexplained fact is that the powerful REA movement in the state is evidently keeping a hands off policy in the controversy.

It was expected that the REA cooperatives, which have been bitterly critical of the commission, would submit their own candidate for the nomination and that they would fight Ashley's candidacy with the same'determination which they exhibited against his colleague, W. H. Whitney, when the latter was appointed two years ago for a new term. Much of Ashley's opposition, meanwhile, comes from the Milwaukee metropolitan community, and it evidently reflects resentment about recent community trancporatipn fare increases approved by the commission. It is believed that Rennebohm would attempt to relieve the Milwaukee opposition by the selection of a new Milwaukee commissioner--if he could find a qualified man available for the $6,500 salary the assignment carries.

It has also become evident that the Democratic minority in the legislature, sensing the public interest in the public service commission crisis, will try Its best to dramatize it as a political issue against the Republican administration. Democrats are backing a commission reorganization i 1 1 which would fire all present com. missioners, and install five new ficers who would represent phases of the state's economy. It is known, meanwhile, that some Republican majority leaders of the legislature have aounded out Rennebohm about an admin- a i n-sponsored reorganization bill, but he has not committed himself. He is apparently awaiting the results of a private investigation of the commission's affairs recently made by W.

H. Young, his new research aide. Young was disptach- ed to study the commission's widely publicized internal difficulties, including the evident personal incompatibility between A Whitney and the third member, Samuel Bryan. If Young's report corroborates the impressions of capitol observers generally, he will tell the governor that the replacement of Ashley will not necessarily relieve the personal tensions and conflicts in the commission. A Rennebohm-sponsored reorganization measure, therefore, remains a possible solution to the situation.

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