The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-06

fact that almost every American soldier will come back, trained to fight, but only too anxious to get back to wOrk-R he can get work.
 We also cannot escape the fact that one result of Chis war has been the tremendous enhancement of the prestige of Soveit Russia. Prestige always accrues to 8 na- tion winning great military vic- tories. In addition I remember an observation by CongressWoman Clare Luce last year that Russia had now usurped the place oc- cupied by this country when for about one hundred years after l776 we were looked up to in Europe as the young, vigorous. revolutionary country which Set the political pace for the rest Of the world.
 U. s. LABOR AND RUSSIA
 How much American soldiers coming home from Europe will be influenced by the inspiration of Russia, I don't know. If they have jobs, the influence should be negligible. But the risk IS there. The risk also exists here at home.
 Labor, which carried the main load in re-electitng Franklin D. Roosevelt, was not happy over the appointment of the new mill lionaire anti-labor team in the State Department. However, labor figured that the Cabinet would be balanced by appointment of It's own friend and chief champion, Henry Wallace.
 Now, however, they sec Wal lace bearing the brunt of the bitterest political attack since the days of Williams Jennings Bryan. They sec him getting, at the most, merely control over the census, the Patent Office, the Weather Bureau, the Bureau of Standards, the Coast and Ge- Odetic Survey and other rOu- tine functions of the Commerce Department, with absolutely no power to help provide jobs or jn- fluence the economic future of natiOn.
 All of which iS liable to leave 8 sour taste in the mouths Of several million people.
 Even assuming that Henry Wal lace knew as little about admin. istrative government as some of his refrigerator -frequenting pre- decessors in the vice presidency; even assuming he had never run the largest agency of the Govern- ment, the Department of Agri- culture for eight years with ar Al record; even forgetting that as Secretary of Agriculture he loaned more money to Jesse Jones, to more people and with high CT percentage of collections; even so, the bitter fight against Wal lace is likely to leave sour taste in the mouths of many people. CHAMPION OF COMMON MAN
 For Henry Wallace to millions of people has become symbol. He has become symbol representing the things which Roosevelt once fought for when his administra- tion was young and vigorous. He has become Q symbol of co., 100000 jobs, g champion of the cOmman man.
 And 1t doesn't make for good public reaction when he Is op- posed and sabotaged by the millionaire apple grower of Vlr- ginIa, the millionaire publishe from Ohio, and representatives of the Duke power interests in North Carolina. should think that if the Byrds and the Baileys, the Tafts ana the McKellars were smart they would take the initia- tive of letting a man like Henry Wallace bear the brunt of the ter- rife postwar headaches. Then the political repercussions in case of failure would not be so vio- lent.
 But if the men who have learned to shoot straight come back to . land where history re-
 peats, and the same thing hap-