The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
By DrezO PearsoM

gram which the wYllkie people can follow Theyrs particularly anxious to unseat the old guard in Con Aiken of vermont Morse of Oregon and Tobey of New Hampshire
 Despite Warnings by top-fisht economists and historians the Truman administration Is failing to take sufficient steps to prevent disastrous pcst-war imitation. tS provisions for the manufacture of low-cost merchant dise and the rapid weakening of price controls are already starting the nation into hgher-price era.
 Last week. in the face of repeated warnings from OPA John Snyder, chief of the Office of War Recon- version, took the Back to Normalcy advice of his special construction consultant. Hugh Potter, ex- president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. without warning, Snyder announced that WIPE controls construction, contained in WEB Order L-41, would end Oct. 15
 This abolished the WIPE provision that new houses may not cost more than 5000 and means not only that prices for houses now on the market will shoot up. but that builders will use the small supply pensive houses. Already houses in southern Florida formerly priced at $500 last week have shot up to $65O0-even though WIPE Order L-4l does not ex- pire until next month. t
 Tn spite of the fact that the oFA Rent Control Division has done good job as possible under dif- ficult conditions 1t is probable that the number of homes for rent (already 90 per cent smaller than before the war) will become so tight that thousands of returning servicemen will have to postpone their plans to marry and have families because they VIII have no place to live.
 Tn the midst of this shortage there is no author ty to prevent builder any seller of home from taking advantage of the shortage and pushing his price up to double or triple its fair value Nor is there any protection for the thousands of families
 living in government housing projects which are to be sold. Unless they pay more rent or buy new homes, they can be turned out the street the minute the government sells housing project to private oper ator. f+.'f
 Note-The Department of Agriculture is worried because farm prices 58 per cent above lS3730 averages and still going up. esa ,s#
 The entire California delegation in Congress will go to the White House this week to demand that President Truman intercede with the REC on be- half of the western steel industry They feel Jesse Jones' old friends in the REC are prejudiced in favor of eastern steel and want to close down war; time western steel plants. President Truman. may go to New York on Columbus Day to make a major address. . . While the British delegation in Washington is negotiating for loan or gift, Loncon is trying to swing big financial deal with our lpo-
 tca enemies in Argentina Implication is that unless the British get what they want from us they will ment closer relations with fascist Argentina. Army and Navy brass hats have taken another step which won't endear them to civilians They have re- served every room in every hotel in Philadelphia for the weekend of the Army-Navy football game. No civilian can reserve hotel room in Philadelphia during that week-end-without Army-Navy consent.