The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-30
By Dre1C Pearson

but the wildcat strikes especially have ruined Tru- mans hand when it comes to social legislation and is bound to have it's effect on the next election.
 B. Truman has let himself be dominated by the military when it comes to conscription the garnled discharge of veterans and the use of ships TOT bring ing men home. Politically he has played right into the hands of Gov. Dewey who in the campaign of 1944 predicted this would happen.
 Trulnan's whole experience as chairman Of his Investigating Committee showed him how inefficient the Army and Navy could be when it came to ship ping and manpower Yet President, he trusted the very same men whom he did not trust as Senator. As
 result thousands of soldiers and sailors, plus seV- eral million members of their families are bitter And when any President loses big block of political support he undermines his own strength with Con- gresS.
 A. Finally Truman has not been able to gather round him sufficient with governmental know how" Running delicate governmental machine is one of the toughest jobs in the world There aren't many who can do it. In addition to good Cabinet members, it requires skilled assistants in the White House.
 FDR had a weak Cabinet but he had around him in the White House group of expert ener- getic trouble-shooters who knew government inside and out and served flying football squad to go into this department or that on special jobs What Truman needs today is few Tommy Corcorans. h. stead he has surrounded himself with bunch Of genial, well-meaning gentlemen, largely from Mis- Souri Mississippi, who know little aDout govern ment and spend almost as much time swimming III the White House pool they do grappling with the vital problems of postwar America
 This is the most obvious weak-spot for Truman to remedy. The others not easy to repair In fact the political reactions from the labor situation may be beyond repair.
 These are some of the problems Truman faces, plus the general problem that after any war there is a depressing, diSllusionng let-down. As quaif- cations for meeting these problems Truman has sin cerity,. honesty, energy, courage and reasonable amount of intelligence. But he is seriously lacking in experience and governmental know-how. Let's hope he picks up of the latter before the air becomes too full of dead cats After all, for better or for worse, he's President until January 1949 and that's quite long way off
 Former Coast Guard Comdr Joel Fischer was i'll Germany trying to root out hidden Nazi funds. Cross examining criminals, he found them anxious to get American lawyers to act in their de- fense. When asked his views on the best American lawyers, Fischer with straight face, replied You ought to try to get Clarence Darrow Perry Mason" Fischer's victims took careful notes, not re- alizing that Darrow has been dead for more than five years and that Mason is fictional character in Earle Stanley Gardner's mystery stories. Government press officials last week beat down second attempt by War Mobilizer John Snyder to maintain peacetime censorship the statements of their bosses. They rejected all censorship schemes flatly during secret session at the White House, promising to check among themselves to be major policy statements of Cabinet members and other key officials are not too far apart.