The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-24
Othnan s Summary
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, Nov. 24- -(UP)-The news can't all be bad all the time. Take the threatened telephone strike
 The hello girls cut off service to Chicago. Then the voice without the smile said all the nations phones might go blank, and you know what the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation did?
 It announced the sale at once of 10000 surplus carrier pigeons. The Army used these winged substitutes for dial telephones throughout the war. A pigeon is better than phone, anyhow, because you can't stuff telephone and roast 1t.
 Other strikes had other results. The day after Chester Bowles an- nounced that Chevrolets would be cheaper than before, there were no Chevrolets. The General Motors strike threatened to spread to other auto firms postponing indefinitely your chances of buying a two-door sedan.
 Think--A Buyers Strike!
 There were rumbles of a buyers strike on the par of ladies who claimed there was no sense paying $69.50 for dress that used to cost $19. As a husband, l claim that's good news.
 The capitals gaudy street cars mostly pale green with blue trim nings) clang -clanged to halt for the second time in a prolonged wage dispute. Washingtonians hoofed to work for one day. Then President Truman took over the line and told those motormen to get back on their padded stools. The motormen got.
 While all these strikes and threats of strikes blackened the headlines, the Presidents Labor Management conference (to end strikes) went in- to its third week at the Federal Au- ditorium, where the banks of Ferns got droopier by the day.
 Results-GOOse Egg
 The parliamentary situation be- tween the labor leaders and the business executives became so com plicated that if I had to explain 1t here, I'd go on strike myself. Let's just say that results so far total one goose-egg.
 That brings up eggs. If you kind ly would eat three hereafter for breakfast, Clint Agriculture De- partmenD Anderson would be grate- ful. We've got so many eggs that he's thinking of blowing under 100000 900 hens, or at least fricasee- ing same. That's good news, too, somehow; the first surplus since the war began.
 Word came from Moscow of a cash bonus for babies, which seem to be In short supply in Russia. MT Truman announced that we're grinding out atom bombs on the same old production line.
 This is expensive, but he said the atoms which go into 'em will be good for boiling water in case we don't need bombs. That's a pleasant thought in itSelf.
 Wants Two Pots
 Last midnight ration points went off everything except sugar and the next waiter who doesn't bring me two pats of butter (full-sized pat, mind you) gets my three ration books stuffed down his gullet Con- gress looked into the nylon hosiery situation, which seemed to be get- ting no better The Investigating committee learned from sob- er-faced witness which store to visit and what clerk to see, If they really wanted to buy some nylons for their wives.
 Admiral Bull Halsey retired, pre- sumably to take horseback riding lessons. Gen. Ike Eisenhower spent Thanksgiving Day testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Commit tee; yesterday he went to the hos pital. I'm not quoting him, but there seems to be othe. things hard CT than fighting war.
 So we come finally to Rep. Will liam Gallagher, the one-time street sweeper from Minneapolis, who took long look at his cohorts in Con- gress and wondered aloud whether he wasn't doing more constructive work when he was pushing his broom.