The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06

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the country descended on wash
1ngton to protest that the chips
would gum up all their devices. So
the plans were changed and now the
tokens will be a little smaller than
dime. This may make them a bit
| small for miniature poker chips. Still
bigger objection is that no game
using the tokens for chips could be
for keeps. The tokens will be Just
too valuable. While the war lasts.
req chips will be good for meat, blue
chips for processed foods, and you'll
have to rob mama's purse before you
gamble that kind Of money.
CAN PRESIDENT RESIGN?
Political gossip on the possibility
] OF President Roosevelt's running for
fourth term just to carry the
party hacks into office on his coat
tails and lead the ticket through to
victory, then resigning to take a
bigger world peace delegation Job
OF some kind, has started an argu-
ment on whether or not president
can resign from office. A president
can die in office, of course, and he
can be impeached. There is no pro-
vision in the Constitution, however,
for a presidents resigning from Of
flee. But there isn't anything that
says he can't resign, either. Con-
Stitutional lawyers say that as long
as the president isn't prohibited
from resigning. he can do it. No
president ever has resigned though
lot of them have no doubt secretly
wished there was some honorable
but easy escape from the highest
but most thankleSs job in the world.
Senate's Truman Committee in
vestigating the war effort will soon
bring out its delayed report on the
Army's $134,000,0OO Canol oil pipe
line and refinery project on the Al
can Highway in northwestern Cam
ada. The Truman Committee has
never issued a divided report or
majority and minority reports, but
the Canol investigation Is one that
has come close to causing a COM
mittee split. A report condemning
the report had been prepared and
was to have been issued right after
Lieut.. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell
testified on his direction of the I'M
dertaking. Somervells testimony al
tered the views of some Of the COM
mittee members, notably Connally,
Hatch and Mead. Senators Truman,
Kilgore and Ferguson still favored
the original report, strongly censur-
ing the War Department for the
whole business and even recommend
ing its discontinuance. The report
that is expected before Congress re-
convenes Jan. 10 will in all prob
ability be a compromise on the two
points of view. Part Of the delay in
its issuance has been due to diff
Guilty in obtaining approval from the
senator's who were out of town for
the Christmas holiday.
NELSON AND RECONVERSION
Frequent reports that Donald M.
Nelson will resign as chairman of
the War Production Board unless he
gets control over reconversion Of
American industry from war produc-
ton to peacetime production of civ
ilian consumer goods have one firm
basis. If Nelson's job is to be just
production and more production,
there's nothing new in it for him to
do. He could turn that work over to
any competent industrialist and
then go home. If, however, Nelson is
given something new to do, such as
supervising cut-backs, cancellations
and reconversion, it is believed he
would tackle that job and stick with
it till it was done.