Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-30
All Hands
Join on Price
Legislation
Wallace, RayDurn Take
Part in Hated Bill
BY PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON, July 3O.-Ihe
fixing for the price control
legislation was an all-hands Job.
Drafting was the work of bril-
liant young lawyer in OpaX,
David GinSberg. and the legal
d equity administrator. John
Hamm. But the list of co-authors
included Vice President Wal
lace. Speaker Rayburn. Leaders
Mccormack and Barley with
Bernard b aruch back in the
shadows.
So touchy were the congress
Sional leaders on the hated sub
iect, Rayburn refused 10 tell
ahead of time who would Spon-
sor the bill in tho House or 10
which committee it woHid be
referred.
Rayburn frankly said he did
not want to subject the chosen
gentleman 10 such tremendous
pressure one moment earlier
than necessary.
WALLACE, who has become
W the vice president in fact
as we'll as title, and the other
White House economic planners
are covering their disappoint-
ment with the tax bill by eXpec-
tationS of getting what they
want later.
What they want is some taxa
ton for economic purposes rather
than revenue. They want 10
employ the taxing power as a
weapon to beat off initiation.
Specifically they have been talk
ing of increasing the social Sc
curity taxes cold age and unem-
ployment, of much higher con-
SumerS taxes (even the discarded
general sales tax has been men
toned, loftier excess profits
taxes.
In general, the talk assumes
the country will be Rady for
some such steps next year, but
many in the group believe ma
tional income is rising so rapidly
as TO require congressional ac-
ton this Fall.
THE fourth term has received
L its first official. though very
much off the record, recognition.
The possibility was brought up
last week at one Of the clandes-
tine meetings of the young New
Dealers in the government
some call them the hot dog
bows, in recognition Of the vast
official paternal prOclivity of
Justice Frankfurter).
The subject was touched but
-ligAt4pr--+Sea4e-ene--a'eRtieeed--it-
as something 10 start thinking
about. as the state of the world
in "A would be worse than that
which required the reelection
of F. d. r. last year. The idea
was advanced that technical OPP
position would probably be
weaker now that the tradition
was broken. That was all.
Mr. Roosevelt probably will
not hear of it until he reads it
here. They do not tell him these
things.
THE British have massed SUBJ
L stantial forces Of native CO.
lonial troops exceptionally well
trained} in Burma justin case
the Japanese suddenly decided
10 move down into Siam. The
Burmese are ready to fall on the
flank OF any further southwark
movement OF the JapS. For that
reason, no one here expects the
JapS to 90 into Siam just yet.
WHY the British failed to de-
w Stroy the rich Rumanian oil
fields when they knew the NaziS
were coming in. continues TO he
aS much debated as Lindbergh
and Wheeler. and as part of the
same general subject.
II is true the British owned
most of the Rumanian wells
which arc now the chief source
of IIitlers supply, but Ruman-
ianS operated them Some Brit
iSh engineers were around. but
not enough 10 do a real sabotage
Job of sealing them with con-
crete, in the presence Of Ruman-
ian and Na2i secret police.
A few wells could have been
dynamlted, but the results would
not have been important Bomb
ing planes of sufficient range
were apparently not available for
an air attack This Is one OF the
ma ior British mistakes OF the