Evening star., 1945-09-20

easy times and Lowell Meiiett.
hard times, to proud old ag
that finds her still going strong.
No better advice could be givel
any son-or any President. o
course, every mother wants her sol
to be good. But Mrs. Martha Tru
man understands that it is neces
sary that her son must also b.
game. Further, she knows tina
her son is game; she wouldn't have
made that shrewd remark for other!
to hear, had she thought other
wise.
So the Missouri boy comes bach
to Washington to take up the task!
and the problems that await him
the never-ending test of his game
ness. Of the needed wisdom he has
and can have, only so much, but o1
RameneSs he must have an unlimit-
ed quantity. Few of the problems
he is required to face are easy: for
most of them there are no simple
solutions. And none of them can
be ducked. Take a look at what
IT. means 10 DC TIeSluellI.
First call on his courage at the
moment is rapidly developing
national struggle between labor and
management to determine where
each shall come out in the process
Of reconverting industry from war
production to peace production. So
great are the consequences of the
impending contest that this prob
lem alone might well absorb the
strength and capacity of the Presi-
dent to the exclusion of all else.
In addition to the rights of the
contending forces there is the well
fare of all the people.
While tackling this one. the
President has before him at the
same time the matter of reorgan-
izing, for peacetime operation, those
Government agencies set up to deal
with labor issues, some of them de-
vised solely for the war period. This
is a complicated and difficult task
that could be handled better in
time of industrial harmony, but it
cannot wait.
Closely related, but already
dumped in the lap of Congress
adding to the ceaseless problem of
relations with the law-making
branch of the Governments the
question of making full employment
a fixed principle of national policy.
That and the question of Federal
assistance for workers out of en-
ployment.
There are the manifold problems,
Jumped together under the term de-
mobilization, involved in returning
some millions of soldiers to civilian
life. This concerns the troops them
selves and their families and gives
loud concern to members of Con-
gress, who will not permit the Presi-
dent to forget it for minute-if he
should be disposed to do SO. In
volved, incidentally. is the whole
problem of continuing national de-
tense.
With this goes the inevitable re-
organization of the War Depart
ment, now that the war is over.
This is chiefly problem of person.
mel, of finding the right men, but it
is not one that permits of making
mistakes.
Then there is the task of convinc-
ing Congress that thorough-going
reorganization Of the whole execu-
tive branch is called for and obtain
ing the cooperation of Congress IN
this undertakings task at which
more than one of his eminent prede-
cessors failed.
Problems pour in from across the
seas. Food from America is needed.
And financial aid Final peace
terms must be fixed, including
agreement on new boundaries. ALL
important questions swirl around
the occupation of Japan and Korea,
questions involving our Allies as well
as our enemy.
Always there is the tax problem.