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BOSTON « Los ANGLES .SAN FRANCISCO Editorial Staff --- "Ouch!" ~ ~ , .. - r. .-"T J/L t ,y %.f " ,; f k +--'r+. t _zX?, ,, . ,.. _ ' .*,. . . --<; f , The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON Bud Brimmer . Leon Gordenker Marion Ford . Charlotte Conover. Betty Harvey James Conant . Elizabeth Carpente Pat Gehlert Jeanne Lovett Martha Opsion Sypil Perlmutter Molly Winokur Margery Wolfson Barbara Peterson Rosalie Frank . . . . . . Editorial Director . . . . . . City Editor . . . . . Associate Editor . . . . . Associate Editor . .. .Women's Editor . . . . Columnist Business Staff r . . Local Advertising . . . . . . Circulation Service . . . Contracts Accounts . . . National Advertising . . . . . . Promotion . . . Classified Advertising . . Women's Business Manager WASHINGTON, May 12.- Few Congressional proposals have been shrouded with such secrecy as the debates on the Post-War Planning resolution of precocious young Sena- tor Ballof Minnesota. To insure ultra - secrecy, some meetings of the Senate Foreign Af- fairs sub-committee, considering the Ball Resolution, have been held away from Capitol Hill, far from the pry- ing eyes of newsmen. Some of them have even been held behind locked doors in the State Department. At one meeting on Capitol Hill, all Senators present virtually had to swear they would not divulge any of the discussions which took place. This secrecy, in view of Sena- torial criticism of Roosevelt's "Freedom From the Press" policy at the Hot Springs food conference, has caused some eyebrow raising. Furthermore, the peace after the war is supposed to be something of vital interest to every war mother, every family, in fact every citizen of the U.S.A., and not the particu- lar monopoly of young Senator Ball. One thing which seems to be wor- rying the Senator is the debate over his proposal for a military police force to be maintained by the United Nations to suppress future aggres- sion. This is reported to have aroused some vitriolic views from Senatorial colleagues which the solons are not anxious to have published. Herbert Hoover Points Herbert Hoover was addressing a group of distinguished New Yorkers not long ago on the inefficiencies of the Roosevelt Administration, par- ticularly the rationing program, which he compared with his own Food Administration in World War I. "We now have 90,000 bureaucrats regulating the American people on. food, whereas I had only 3,000 peo- ple to help me feed the world. "The American people," he con- tinued with considerable vigor, "will be glad to ration themselves, but they won't be regulated by bureau- crats. "I call upon you, Dr. Butler," he said, pointing to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, "to substantiate this." The President of Columbia was fast asleep. What We're Fighting for Most historians agree that what the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina was: "It's a long time between drinks." However, the ex-governor of North Carolina, Max Gardner, had something different to say to the present governor of South Carolina, Olin D. Johnston, when they met the other day. The occasion was a meeting of big cotton manufacturers in Green- ville, S.C., men who for the most part are anti-labor and very much opposed to pro-labor Gov. John-' ston of South Carolina. Called upon to speak, ex-gov. Gardner of North Carolina said: "There has been lots of talk about what we are fighting for in this war. But I say to you that here is one of the greatest things we are fighting for-the right of Olin Johnston, born in a cotton mill shack, to be- come governor of South Carolina. "You may not agree with Olin Johnston. You may not think much of him as governor. But you and I would fight and die for the principle under our democratic system which permits him to rise from the ranks of a mill worker to become governor of this state." The big cotton manufacturers, who had opposed Johnston politically, rose and cheered to the last man. Lord Halifax, the British Embassy says, never made this statement. And being a gentleman and a good diplomat, undoubtedly he didn't. However, the remark, now going the rounds of Washington, is repeated here only for one purpose: for the effect it may have on officials who fight themselves more than they fight Hitler. Z 4'-l Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: MARGARET FRANK Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. . ;, ,< _ ~ .F ti- r. FREE ENTERPRISE: Small Businesses Are Not Being Given Chance SMALL BUSINESS must be given a better break by the Administration. This was proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, in the Washington scandal proceedings of "the dinner parties on R Street." John Monroe, the war contract broker who is supposed to have feted New Deal officials in an effort to obtain War Department contracts, clari- fied the position of the small-businessman in this country. Monroe, who with a $30,000 a year income, styles himself as unsuccessful, stated in a Senate Committee hearing that "the small businessman who has no political pull hasn't even a ghost of a chance of getting a war contract." T A TIME when our armed forces are in vital need of arms and equipment the only way to obtain a contract in Washington is to pay and pay plenty, for the privilege of getting to see government officials. It is about time the President acted to see what war contracts are distributed on a fair basis. The Republicans, of all people, should be the first to introduce legislation to protect America from this "bureaucratic" outrage against the backbone of the capitalistic system, the small manufacturer. Where are -the staunch defenders of the free enterprise now? - Ed Podliashuk TRADE PACTS: GOP Continues Stand On Isolationism Issue THE Republicans are again muffing a chance to get rid of their obnoxious "isolationist" label. Down through the darkest years of Amer- ican neglect of its important position in world affairs characterized by the rejections of Ameri- can membership in the League of Nations, the rejection of membership in the World Court, the enactment of the strongly isolationist Smoot- Hawley Tariff by a Republican Congress and many other such defeats on an international scope there stands out only one hopeful sign. That is the Trade Agreements Act. This act has been called "a star in the dark that shines in the eyes of every other nation in the world as a symbol of American inten- tions." Secretary Hull is fully aware of the importance of this Act for American inter- national policy. He has made the ex- tension of the Act a "test case of future American policy," and immediately ten Re- publican members of the House Ways and Means Committee assailed the reciprocal agreements and also Hull's emphasis on the renewal of the Act. THE MINORITY REPORT concerning the matter asked an inquiry with a view to work- ing out a combined tariff and reciprocity policy which "protects our country's vital interest, that is truly flexible and that is geared to deal with foreign trade upon a realistic basis along consti- tutional lines." " The one progressive step towards international r'nnnovatin the nn