The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-07-19
Observations
Political Disputes
in Capital Spread
Throughout Nation
BY Charles p, Stewart

WASHINGTON-Nth Cong css
in recess al last Washington IS the
dullest town on the Potomac
It's not that political activity IS
lacking Political strife. however is
spread all over The national land.
scape, from ocean 10 o.oau and
from Canada TO Mexico. instead OF
being concentrated within the
smal!ish limits Of the District OF
Columbia This scattering makes a
multiplicity or small skirmishos
rather than one big battle The
ski-mishing is vicious but il is de-
ficient in wholesale spectacu!arit'.
Our World War participation is
not an issue All hands are agreed
that this is a job az which Ne must
20 the limit EX-isOlat!Onists are
as enthusiastic as anybody else
True there are two schools OF
thought on the war proposition bur
not We ought 10 fight the AXIS for
all We are worth. now that We are
in the rumpus The difference Of
opinion relates 10 tho question Of
the competency with which Nc are
doing il.
Just now Vice Presiden, Henry
A Wallace leads the group that
says we are bunglInE with Sec.e-
tsry of Commerce Jesse Jones as
chief hungler. Naturally, Jesse
heads the opposite faction.
The two make rival charges that
the other che is. not 70 express II
immoderately a liar
But that j. matter OF detail
Jesse is as pro.War as Henry Is.
The question Of technique is what
they are quarreing over. II Is a
nasty scrap, but Jesse is no more
anti-war than Henry i
Wallace and Jones are not pro ~
and anti" war. respecpeCtirely.
Wallace ard Jones. instead, are
pro and anti New Dealer
Henry is pro" Jesse is an
anti on the New Deal question.
Henry contends that New Deal.
erlsm is what We need today, al
rays have and always will fo-ev-
er. He reckons that the present is
a dandy opportunity to get II estao'
lished as a permanency.
Jones recognizes II i possibly
necessary IN the current emergen y
but wants it guaranteed that y Will
rot slop over into future peace
time
In short. It Is a postwar problm.
That is Why Congress was IN
such a hurry TO recess enabling the
legislators TO get home and ascer'
tain what their various constituent.
cies think about IT,
Some of them have their. minds
made UP already but lot OF local.
ties are uncertain. They have been
perishing TO talk il all over with
their neighbors. It is the New Deal
that worries them not the unan!m.
lty o. anti.Axis sentiment
" That the New Deal has lost
ground popularity is generally &C
quiesced in on Capitol Hill but how
lasting will that sentiment be- And
how widespread is it
Meanwhile wranglinE goes on
among bureaucratic heads in Wash
ington.
They cuss back and forth as be-
tween Henry Wallace and Jesse
Jones but they do not decide any.
thing. The congressman are the
boys who have 70 be elected and
pretty soon too.
II is really funny.
Two fights are on
A war fight internationally and
an internal fight (economic).
No. ! is 100 per cent one way.
No. is to be guessed on.
This congressional race may he
enlightening
I'd guess 100 per cent on the 100
per cent question. ! would not de-
duct even the Americanized-Jap
vote know as good Jap-Ameri.
cans as anybody does The ltalo-
Americans. whom | know, are as
anti-Axis as could be asked OF them.
Good German-Americans date back
way beyond Carl Schurz' day
But there is a pro and anti-New
Deal controversy.
Yet, it is an inter-American pro-
and antiNew Deal wrangle among
Americans-betVeen folk like Vice
President Wallace and Commerce
Secretary Jones.
That is what is raging out in the
sticks-congressionally.