The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
Observations
Factions Might
Lead Party in
New Senate
yy HELEN ESsARY

stermine which faction will con
'ol the Republican party in the
enate in the critical years ahead
with President Roosevelt riding
Ugh on his fourth term victory.
The Senate Republican confer
nce-composed of all COP mem
ers of the upper chamber-will
lect new leadership when the 18th
ongress convenes on Jan. 3. That
leans the end of the acting min
rity leadership of mild-mannered
enator Wallace White OF Maine,
no succeeded the late. great min
rity leader, Senator Charles Nc
'ary.
White. whose forcefulness has
cen questioned even by his friends,
ray be succeeded by either Sena-
or Robert A. Taft OF Ohio or Sen
tor Arthur Vandenberg of Michi-
al. Taft. Republican conserya-
", and pre.Pearl Harbor isola-
ionist, wants the job. Nanden-
erg, likewise conservative and
pre-isolationist" is not keen for It,.
But the hackers of either meet
tiff opposition from the growing
internationalist wing of the Re.
ublicsn party, the wing that rear
d with Wendell Willkie, and in the
ase Of Senator Joseph H. Ball o..
Minnesota, supported Mr.. Roose-
'elt in a party bolt over foreign
,olicy. These 'internationalists "
eel hope for their party lies in
world-n.indedness".
This new group would like TO see
senator George d. Aiken OF Yer
mont the minority leader, or his
colleague from the Green Noun
ain State. Senator Warren r. Aus.
in. Both are champions OF the ad
illustrations foreign policy.
The COP New Dealers probab-
y will not win.
PARTICIPANTS in the recent
'bondfre" movement by Miami's
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Cor
)oration employees are requested BY
he Treasury Department to send
the serial numbers OF the bonds
hey gleefully tossed into a blazing
bonfire. The Treasury wants to
scratch the numbers off their
books. a spokesman added:
It's everyone's own business
what he does with his bonds and
it's his affair If he wants to use
them for bonfres or wallpaper, but
we don't encourage this sort of di-
version"
THE DEMONSTRATED WILL
INGNESS Of American industry to
cooperate in program of planned
economy is perhaps the greatest
single encouraging factor for pros
perity in the postwar period. Bust
ness leaders have shown, as never
before, their belief In the princi-
pies of full employment economy,
based on high wages and low
taxes, with a resultant high income
for United States jobholders.
Private organizations, sponsored
by various leading business groups
have been busily mapping out ways
and means of achieving a goal OF
from 55 TO so million workers profit.
ably employed
A plan is under way to promote
foreign trade to the point where
the United States will export 10
billion dollars worth o: goods and
services annually. and import 10
billions.
Government experts hail this
phase of the postwar economic pro
gram as a healthy demonstration
Of American industry's realization
and adoption Of the economic the
DRY that prosperity and a high
standard OF living in this nation
depends upon similar conditions in
other lands.
PROVISION FOR RETURNING
stranded war workers, as well as
unemployment compensation for
government workers are coming up
on the Senate floor again. Immedi
ately after election the war mobili
ration subcommittee staff began
analyzing chancAs for such plans
which failed TO get into the recon
version measure.
Senator Harley NJ Kilgore (D) OF
West Virginia, subcommittee chair
man, concluded that "all along the
line, regardless of party. liberals
we're elected" and announced he
would offer a series OF amendments
to 'liberahze" the George recon
version bill. enacted just before the
prediction recess. Kilgore will
wait, however. until the new Con
gress convenes to seek TO get int
the law the stranded war workers
provision and unemployment com
pensation for government workers