The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-03
By DresO Pearson

strike could be handled very simply by ordering the Navy to take over the ships.
 'The best thing to do," O1Gahoney argued "is to pull back this drastic bill you asked for Saturday as an emergency measure The emergency is past and it's bound to hurt you and hurt labor. If new labor legislation is needed, why don't we wait for the completion of the very exhaustive investigation of national labor-managenent relations that Congress has voted2
 The two Senators were cheered with the recep- ton they received from their old friend the former Senator from Missouri They knew the strong inf1u- ence exerted by reactonary White House advisers, but they figured that they had Truman just about won over. ,.tr- 9xE
 But as they opened the door to leave the Pres dents office their optimism evaporated. For wait ing to see Truman they left were reactionary John Snyder and George Allen, director of Republic Steel and dozen other big corporations.
 OAGahoney's and Wheelers sudden fears were justified. Truman did not withdraw his labor legis- lation; instead suffered defeat in the Senate.
 NOTE-The late Carter Glass of Virginia had great love for labor But in death he did favor for labor which he never would have done in life. For when the Senate adjourned one day in respect to Glass, 1t gave just enough time for enough Sem ators to think twice about the work-or-draft clause and later to defeat it. ~
 "The U s. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md, is the happy health resort of oldsters in Congress and the Cabinet. They flock in and out if 1t were their second home Senator McKellar of Tennessee was taken there recently; Cordel Hull lived there nearly { year; Senator Reed of Kansas when going in for a check-up complained bitterly because war-weary staff did not have someone available to carry his suitcase.
 Scarcely a week goes by that Congressman, Senator or Cabinet officer does not make use of the Naval Hospital. While no one begrudges them this expert medical attention, families of veterans beginning to wonder why the orphans of men killed in the war should be barred from Naval hospitals.
 Not only in Washington, but throughout the country, the orphans of Navy veterans can't get at tention at Naval hospitals For instance Mrs. Vir- ginia Dillow of National City, Calf, whose husband was lost on the Submarine S44 Dec f. 104S, tried to get one of her two small children into the San Diego Naval Hospital but was refused She received $l0O payment from the Government in January but not cent since Her doctor, J. Gerald Hocklin has been trying to help her. but not the hospital of the Navy for which her husband gave his life.
 "NOTE-At Ft. Washington, Md. just twenty min- utes from the Capitol is haf-empty veterans hos- pital which costs the taxpayer $2ll day per vet- eran for upkeep Perhaps unification of Army, Navy and veterans hospitals could rectify some of these inequalities.
 The exit of young men continues. Josiah Du- Bois one of Secretary Vinsons crack assistants has resigned to practice law here and in Camden, N. J. Secretary of the Interior Cap Krug ended sx-hour fishing trip in the Virgin Islands with painful sunburn, then proceeded to sweat out twelve days of hotter negotiations with John L. Lewis.