Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13
Hopes Arise
AS Congress
Tackles Job
But Proof Of The Pudding
Is Still Far Away :
By GEO. ROTHwELL BROWN

w proof OF a Congress is as
certained not in January but in
the dog days, when the executive
branch warns to its task OF get
ting a program through and the
heat is turned on.
More 10 arouse confidence is
evident in the new seventy
eighth Congress than in any OF
its predecessors since 1888.
This rests on two considera-
tions: First. the enlarged Repub-
lican strength. and secondly, the
impatience of the people with
the way things have been going
in Washington.
Members returning from their
homes after a brief holiday are
well-nigh unanimous in heir
opinion that, if the elections
were held today, the Republic
ans would cary the House by
perhaps majority of 50 and
take another slice Of senatorial
seats away from the Democrats.
TEIE new session begins with
Il many expressions of high
principles and lofty purposes,
but so have other sessions OF the
Congress within the last 10
years.
The grand program of strict
economy in non-eSsentlal spend
ing-hy which is now meant the
war-Aas a familiar ring.
A long succession OF Demo-
cratic speakers and chairman Of
the appropriations committee
Rainey and Byrnes and Bank
head and Jim Buchanan and Ed
ward Taylor - how often have
we quoted them in solemn words
as they pledged retrenchment.
4 GREAT deal may we'll d. +
"A pend on the new blood tha
has come into this Congress.
fresh from the people whom
they represent. few more than
a hundred of them.
They are, OF course. an un-
known quantity Among them
are farmers. a doctor or two,
1.-The usual preponderance Of law
yers. newspaper editors. mostly
Small-town folk, from the grass
roots.
Some village Hampden with
dauntless breast may even rise
10 the occasion.
The men who make great
regulations in Congress have TO
start as beginners.
Before this Congress ends We
may witness the emergencc Of
another Henry Clay another
Blaine or Sam Randall. Maybe
but / doubt il.
Quite a siftlng-out process will
be required before we can begin
10 separate the worth while
from the average or mediocre.
MEANWHILE, fair words but
4'l ter no parSnlpS, and this
writer has been fooled so often
by the rosy pledges OF politicians
at the beginning OF new Con-
greSS that as far as he is con-
cerned he proposes 20 take
nothing for granted.
Congress cannot save the tax
payers money IN any easy way.
II must bear the pain and hurt
OF economy, for ii does hurt 10
save.
Bureaucracy cannot be
checked and curtailed and put
in it's place by mere phrases.
This class must be put under
restraint. and taught the lesson
It's arrogant fellows have never
learned that Congress was rot
created by the Constitution NJ
some half-baked whipperSnappy
might snap his contemplating
fingers AZ H.
A ghaStly lot Of that sort OF
contempt OF Congress" has
been evident in the last decade.
We are told IL is going 10 be
ended We sit back and await
the demonstration
INDEPENDENCE Of the ex--
L ecutive can be accomplished,
not by handouts and speeches,
but by votes in committees and
in the House and Senate.
These will hurt. too. for the
President is powerful and is
not lightly TO be thwarted.
This Congress has the right
10 feel that il is sustained by
the hopes and aspirations of the
American people for better laws
and fewer Of them for
dignity. and courage, and forti-
tude in the face of all kinds OF
pressure.
A great job needs 10 be done
If this Congress really has tie
heart and the will TO do il.
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