The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-23

lush office landscape is painting big as life and twice as natural as he used to look 30 years ago - ot Hiram Warren Johnson.
 That portrait is significant. The term of U. s. Senator Hiram John son, now 79 years old, expires in January, 1947, and there is mad scramble on for the senatorial seat he has held 10 these last 29 years. Governor Warren rose in politics through the Johnson machine, and is almost reverent in his praise for the record Hi Johnson made from 1910 to 1916 as one of the most pro- gressive reform governors any state ever had.
 Today Governor Earl Warren faces problems that would probably baffle Hi Johnson at his prime Ac- curately speaking they are not so much the problems of reform as they are the problems of postwar reconversion amounting almost to revolution. And Earl Warren, whose present term in office will likewise expire in January 1947 would ob- viously like to be remembered as a great governor in this difficult period.
 WANTS PARTIAL
 RECONVERSION
 California will have to continue in the war effort until Japan falls possibly two years or more. In spite of this continued all-out war pro- duction Governor Warren believes California industry should be per- mitted to make partial reconversiOn beginning right now so that the in dustrial East does not gain an un- fair advantage.
 The Governor points to the case of Detroit. Detroit made autos be- fore the war and will return to this manufacture after the war. No great problem there says Governor War ren. In comparison to finding what California's war industries can pro- duce in peace times.
 The answer to that one the Gov ernor says honestly he does not know, Can the West produce steel as cheap as it can be produced in the East? If it can, then there may be big future for West Coast manufacture of civilian goods which can be sold to old and new custom CTS.
 The state now has an 8500,O00 population as against 6000.000 before the war. About one-third of the war veterans discharged in California were born in other states but want to settle here if they can find jobs.
 Governor WaTens Democratic opposition in the State Legislature has introduced a full employment bill modelled on the Murray Bill in- troduced in the U. s. Senate.
 Cagily, the Governor has not committed himself on this highly revolutionary piece of state legisla- tlon. But he points out that all de- bate so far has been on minor de- tail. Entirely neglected has been the key question of, How can any state guarantee full employment to it's citizens under any and all periods of reconVersion?"
 COTTON. MAGNESIUM.
 PLASTICS
 A West Coast textile industry based on California's new produc- tion of long staple. cotton is a hope ful but uncertain possibility for future employment. California's big new magnesium industry, as repre- sented by Kaiser's Permanent metals development, offers more hope but uncertainty, as does the plastics industry.
 Governor Warren faces squarely what too many of the ballyhoo boys have been inclined to gloss over- that California is primarily an arid state which won't have enough wa ter to go around, or to irrigate ad- dltional acreage unless it saves every drop that falls from the skies.
 California should have a single water "authority' of its own, says the Governor fatly.