Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-07-25
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecord

Tonight paper carried whimsical story about President
accepting dare and walking unannomced into the
sit down again the seat he occupied for
years a Senator.
Loud applause followed the Senators assembled.
present which probably most of them hast
from the corridors and famous cloak rooms witness
the precedent breaking act
With ring of genuine sincerity, the President told the
had been invited to speak that the happest
of his life spent in that Senate seat Again
applause.
And Mr. Truman departed, his leaving again greet.
ed with loud applause.
just this action of the Presidents indicate
to you people who sitting out there?
Does that the President is impulsve and lone
man?
that he really would like to leave the pres
dency reclaim the which he spent happy years?
Does that the President is trying to and win
Congress during these last days of Congress that will go
down in history?
1t of these things
WHAT 1T MEANS
simply that Mr. Truman receiving and acting
the advice of public relations expert that
he is learning how headlines without vetoing
ones National Association of Manufacturers anti
labor bill Most of ALL means that Mr. Truman far more
anxious to continue President of these slightly United
States than he is his in the Senate the gentle
Does this action Mr. Trumans prove that he good
actor original thinker daring maker of precedents and
just good guy hobnob his associates
in the Senator
OF doesn't 1t that the President has found
somebody who has the imagination think stunts and
that he is accepting the role he must himself out
in front.
Obviously the President has very strong desire to re-
his desire entirely without good foun
daon for in recent months since the Republicans
began to make Mr. Truman look good by comparson his stock
There question that cleo
ton that Mr. Truman would win hands down over the
dapper Dewey the cooheaded Taft who
sents the great state of Ohio.
While the subject of Dewey the New York governor
(who gives people the impression of having water in his
instead of bood that gentleman pulled lovely boner
the other day in Montana which certainly didn't do his
public relations too much good.
In IN of MN SvUhn
asked him if there wasn't that the New York
could aid Montana increase its population by sending
settlers the replied that would be glad
to send 10000 communists from New York
Now wasn't that dly of a crack for allegedy smart
politician make? And what does this Nothing
that when politician from New York out in the wide
for the purpose of gathering convention would
do well to initiate the with his organ of speech
BUT TRUMAN
laundering cracker from New If that question
been asked of Truman he would probably
thing like this;
I'm the President want to remain President have
been asked question Before it, I'll call in the
who told to visit to the Senate Chamber and ask
him what to say.
Thereupon politician would call in the bright
who gets paid for knowing how to public support and
ask him what to After due consultation would
probably reply something like this:
II recognize problem and would like help you In
fact will make Congress that they pass
legislation that will aid to people should
be peopled You can count on complete support"
All of which indicates that there deal of differ
between who got the wrong foot when he
entered the presidency, and president who
realizes that there people who him good advice
and help him stay where he is
AS for Mr. Taft and Mr., Dewey it looks like both of
have had the benefit of really lousy both
such bright boys that they think they 60 it alone
If there is moral to the Presidents visit to the Senate
1t isn't that nobody should forget their former much
the necessity for great hiring public relations advisors
who knows what makes the world tick following
vice This ability to take advice is almost great gift being
able to give it. The man who get and follow lucky
and rare man indeed Truman appears to be both.