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Kennedy’s Administration Problems
Are Outlined in Comparison to FDRs
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst I
The incoming Kennedy Ad
ministration has a far better idea
of what its problems are going
to be and what can be done about
them than did the Democrats who
returned to power in 1932.
Franklin D. Roosevelt knew
about the depression and took
some early steps, but the major
book of economic knowledge, |
what causes recessions and what I
to do about them, has been writ- j
ten since then. It incorporates
many things which had to be j
learned at that time through ex- ,
periment. The book is still in
complete, but of vastly greater >
aid now.
Experimenting
Insofar as the world is con
cerned, might little was known in
the United States. While Roose
velt was experimenting here,
Hitler and Mussolini were ex
perimenting in Europe.
The forward was being writ
ten for the book of unriddled
totalitarian aggression, against the
background of world depression
of which the United States recog
nized hardly more than her own
part. President Hoover’s Secre
tary of State, Henry Stimson, had
seen the stage hands of war
working behind the scenes, but
others hadn’t.
Britain and France, which
usually acted as the feleers for
American foreign policy, had their
perceptions dulled by trouble at
home, too.
(Roosevelt and Secretary of
State Cordell Hull were not wor
ried about war in those days.
Know of Dangers
Now John F. Kennedy and Dean
Rusk know about the dangers of
the world — a world involved in
a new kind of economic war and
threatened by a new kind of mili
tary war.
Whatever economic problems
may develop at home cannot be
handled solely on their face. The
economic and financial integrity
of the United States is too much
involved in the new kind of war.
In this war, every weakness
which develops at home will he
advertised by the enemy as a
weakness of method and of ideol
ogy.
For instance, India and China
are competing for ascendency of
their systems in Asia. Develop
ments in the United States will
be used as measures for the In
dian idea of preserving free en
terprise along side the socialist
development of industry, agri
culture and business by govern
ment.
In the ’40s a few of the things
done by the United States, such
as restricting the ownership and
sale of gold and the begging of
the most-favored-nation trade
program, affected the world. In
the ’60s, every social and eco
nomic development broadcasts its
reverbrations.
Alaska Lumbermen’s Assn.
Formed in Wrangell
WRANGELL UP — A new or
ganization called the Alaska Lum
bermen’s Assn, was formed Sat
urday and Milton Daly of the
Ketichkan Spruce Co., Ketchikan,
was elected as the group’s first
president.
Named to serve with Daly as
secretary-treasurer of the new
organization, which represents
firms having an annual payroll
of some $2Vfe million, was C. R.
Neil of the Wrangell Lumber Co.,
Wrangell.
Other companies represented in
the organization include the Pa
cific Northern Lumber Co. of
Wrangell, the Schnabel Lumber
Co. of Haines, the Mitkof Lum
ber Co. of Petersburg and the
E. L. Walker Lumber Co. of Ket
chikan.
The group said all sawmill op
erators in Alaska would be in
vited to join the organization. The
next annual meeting was sched
uled for Ketchikan in December,
on dates yet to be selected.
Truman Escorts
Kennedy Through
The White House
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy got a personnally-con
ducted tour of the White House
Saturday by a fellow who lived
there for several years — Harry
S. Truman.
The former President dropped
in unannounced at the Executive
Mansion shortly after Kennedy j
began his first day of Presidential
duties.
Truman walked to the Pennsyl
vania Avenue mansion from his
downtown hotel. Kennedy bounced
out to the driveway to greet him.
The youthful Chief Executive was
hatless and coatless despite sub
freezing temperatures. *
Then Truman, beaming like an
old teacher jubilant at the suc
cess of a pupil, started to show
Kennedy around the White House.
A visit Friday and the one Sat
urday were the first time Truman
had been in the building since he
left office Jan. 20. 1953. He wasn’t
invited there by President Eisen
hower.
| "It's Changed"
“It’s changed all the way
around,” Truman told reporters.
“I could hardly find my way out
of there.”
Formerly, Truman said, “I used
to be able to go straight into the
Presidential Office. But you have
to go in a circle now.”
Nevertheless, the Missourian
seemed to have no trouble escort
ing the Massachusetts newcomer
about the first and second floors
of the White House. Truman said
they went into all the rooms dur
ing his half-hour stay.
One of the noteworthy features
on the second floor is a balcony
Truman had installed during his
tenure despite some protests. Tru
man said Thomas Jefferson had
originally planned to have a bal
cony there so he himself had it
put In despite “a wail those old
women put up.”
Truman said he had decided to
drop in at his old headquarters,
and had negotiated an invitation
from Kennedy that he do so, in
order “to pay my respects to the
new President — the way I
should before I go out of town.”
As to whether the White House
looks okay to him now, the pep
pery ex-President replied: “With
a Democrat in it’s always right.”
UNDISTURBED POSTMAN ! ! !
WEST COVINA, Calif. UP) —
Down East Garvey Boulevard
came Postman Ralph Thunder
burk, head down, sorting his mail.
Off the street Postman Thun
derburk, immersed in his work,
oblivious to the world around him.
Presently, he became immersed
in something else.
Postman Thunderburk had
marched into a swimming pool.
The U. S. mail carrier Thunder
burk reached drydock after tak
ing on considerable water, but
his appointed rounds had been
stayed. A substitute carrier fin
ished his route for him.
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Supreme Court Upholds
Cen^orshir} on Movies
Before Public Showing
WASHINGTON m — The
Suprem<' Court today upheld
censorship of motion pictures be
fore their public showing.
Justice Clark delivered the
court’s 5-4 decision.
The tribunal acted on an appeal
by Times Film Corp., distributors
of a movie called “Don Jaun.”
The firm refused to submit the
picture to Chicago’s censors and
the city refused a permit for its
exhibition.
In today’s high court decisions,
Chief Justice Warren and Justice
Douglas wrote dissenting opinions.
Also dissenting were Justipes
Black and Brennan.
The majority was made up of
Clark and Justices Frankfurter,
Harlan,, Whittaker and Stewart.
In argument of the case last j
October, lawyers for Times Film
contended that any prior censor
ship of movies violates the Con
stitutional Rights of Free Speech
and Free Press.
But counsel for Chicago aid
prior censorship is necessary to
protect the public from obscenity
and other objectionable matter.
The answer to that problem, the
Times Film lawyers argued, is
not prior censorship but presecu
tion for public showing of im
proper pictures.
The firm said it had no objec- !
tion to payment of city permit i
fees, and had submitted to Chi- i
cago its required fee. But the city
refused a permit without first
seeing “Don Jaun.”
LEGAL "MOONSHINE"
ALBANY, Ga. {IP) — Georgia
has a booming new industry —
legal moonshine.
Viking Distillery of Albany re
cently added a new beverage to
its line, Georgia Moon, a corn
liquor guaranteed to be less than
30 days old.
Bottled in a replica of a quart
fruit jar — traditional moonshine
container — the 90 proof whisky
is distilled to meet government
specifications.
Quotable notables: “Conceit,”
said Bruce Barton, “is God’s gift
to little men.”
Republicans Opposed
To Membership Increase
In Rules Committee
WASHINGTON UP) — House Re
publicans today voted overwhelm
ingly to oppose a Democratic
backed plan to increase the mem
bership of the House Rules Com
mittee.
At a party conference attend
ed by about 140 of the 174 Repub
licans, a resolution opposing the
plan was adopted by a one-sided
voice vote.
The move to increase the rules
group to 15 members is backed
by Speaker Sam Rayburn, D
Tex. The idea is to break a con
servative coalition’s control of the
committee, now composed of 12
members.
A resolution to increase Rules
Committee membership is ched
uled for a vote in the House
Thursday.
At one time there was talk of
an alternative plan to change the
Rules Committee lineup by purg
ing Rep. William Colmer, D-Miss.
from it.
Any possibility of this kind was
officially dropped Monday.
DIVORCE FILED AGAINST
REP. DON MAGNUSON
SEATTLE UP< — The wife of
Rep. Don Magnuson, (D-Wash.),
filed for divorce Friday, charg
ing cruel treatment and personal
indignities.
Magnuson narrowly won re
election last fall in the 7th Dis
trict.
He and his wife were married
in 1944 and have three children,
aged 7 to 14.
Mrs. Magnuson asked custody
of the children, $125 a month
support money for each, $350 a
month for herself, and the fam
ily’s home in West Seattle.
MONEY FOR SALE ! ! !
HONG KONG UP) — A Hong
Kong auction house today offered
crates of bank notes for sale.
Contents of the crates, which at
tracted many onlookers but no
buyers, included German marks
issued before World War II, Jap
anese military yen and Chinese
Nationalist currency issued before
the Communists conquered the
mainland 12 years ago.
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