The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-21
by Dre1e, Pearson

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 For some years there has been piOus talk in the White House about the importance of telling the truth. For every honest statesman and every good newspaperman, this is virtue devoutly to be wished
 Consider however the recent record of certain gentlemen in the White House. At 5:46 PM. on Tuesday, Sept. IT, Presidential Secretary Charles Ross informed newsmen that: President Truman had approved publication of the Wallace letter on Russia after White House attaches held huddle on pro- cedure
 Simultaneously Bruce Cation, press officer of the Commerce Department, informed newsmen that Secretary Wallace had received phone call from Ross saying that President Truman wanted Wallaces Russian letter made public Ross stated that various newspapers, especially the Baltimore Sum- had been pressuring the White House to get the text there fore Wallace was instructed to release it.
 Wallace did
 At 5:5s "kill" came over the news ticker It stated that the 5:46 P. M. item about White House approval of publication of the Wallace letter was to be suppressed In other words, Messrs. Truman and Ross had changed their minds.
 Later came formal White House announcement that President Truman did not approve publication of the Wallace letter. It explained that Wallace had released it on his own.
 Someone was not telling the truth.
 What happened was that in their zeal to help certain newspaper friends by giving them the text of the Wallace letter, the gentlemen in the White House forgot all about the much more important question of foreign relations Somebody suddenly re- alized that TrumanS authorization to publish the Wallace letter might be interpreted in Russia and elsewhere as meaning he agreed with its contents. Hence they resorted the old and threadbare dodge of untruth.
 NOTE-This columnist whom President Roose welt made president of the Chronic Liars Club, will be glad to admit new recruits provided they pass proper qualifications for membership
 Cattle dealers are not the only who strike against meat prices. GI students at the Un versity of Minnesota have launched complete boy colt of meat until prices come down are living on soup and vegetables Housewives should be glad that sugar is to remain raoned. II ratoning ended, soft drink candy and pastry manufacturers would drive up the price and further shorten grocerS sup plies PepsiCola is only waiting for the end Of ration ing to open a cutthroat campaign to keep and ex- tend the market they've won from Coca-Coa during the war. OPA will crack down on meat whole salers in New York, Cleveland and Chicago who have been forcing butchers to accept meat on invoices dated back to the period before price recontro By predatng invoices wholesalers force retailers to pay above ceiling prices, thus forcing them to charge Suners above ceiling. Poultry prices are hitting average of eight cents pound above the old ceiling price, though there is shortage of poultry As result the recontrol board may pressure Secretary of Agriculture Anderson to recommend control of poultry. The Justice Department is also interested in the stranglehold several large meat packers have the poultry industry.