The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
feet until recently" the News and OBJ

feet until recently" the News and OBJ
server continues:
"The ninth and tenth proposals are more
drastic and will provoke more controver-
sv. The President asks that as "prepared-
ness measure" to be used only as needed
that he be authorized: (a) to impose con-
sumer rationing on scarce products which
basically affect the cost of living, and (b)
place ceiling prices on similar products.
"Both of these measures were in effect
during the war and both worked well. Both
have been continued since the war in Cana
da and in many other countries. The Presi-
dent expresses the hope, which will be uni
versally shared that it will not be necessary
for the United States to return to either ra-
tioning or price ceilings. However, the Presi-
dent argues with unanswerable reasoning
that the mere possession of such power will
go long ways toward obviating the neces-
sity for its USE" ..@
Saws the Durham Herald:
"President Trumans message to the
should prove heartening to the distressed
peoples of all the world His intelligent link
ing of domestic initiation in America with
the jeopardy of world relief brought home to
the American people keen realization of
the inter-locking obligations every individ-
ual American needs to recognize and as
sumo"
The Fayetteville Observer takes oc-
casion to point out things we don't need -
things that are implicit in Mr.. Truman s
taken," says the Observer, president Tru-
man has bitten himself off a hard-to-c chew
hunk of proposed legislation in his call for
restoration of wage and ceiling controls ;"
And adds:
1T is true that we need to send food
reign policy, and it is true that we need to
check initiation here at home
But control is an opiate not remedy.
''We don't need to hire another crew
jobs for themselves and their lame Drained
friends and relatives.
"We don't need another twirl at the
morale sapping spectacle of black markets.
eve don't need to have any ceiling put
over our salaries.
"We don't need to take another step
toward governmental socialism by confess
ing we don't have sense enough to run our
own economic destiny and hiring bunch
of long-haired theorists to run it for us
from Washington"
Concerning President Truman's pres
ence on the rostrum, the Asheville Citizen
declares he was never better in text or de-
livery. The Presidents message itself is
brilliantly conceived, with an economy of
phrase and cogency of argument He spoke
firmly and with great confidence His lead
ership we think has come to full ma
turity''
Says the Goldsboro News-Argus: "Presi-
dent Truman roughed cut good pattern in
his address to Congress and to the World -
Noting a change in the complexion of White
House administration, the News-Argus con-
tinues:
"The address showed that Mr.. Truman
and his advisors have learned a lot about
the facts of economic life and of internation-
al life since August 1945 and some of their
talks and actions in the intervening period.
They still fail to realize, however, or do not
wish to acknowledge in public that con-
troll on one item soon forces controls on al
most every other item which may be sub
stituted for it. -:
THAT is only one of the many details
which will make it much harder for mem
bers OF Congress to write their law than it
was for Mr.. Truman and his advisors to
compose his good speech"