Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10
NEW YEARS REVIEWS of 1916 and
prophecies for 1947 were mCsses and guess

prophecies for 1947 were mcsses and guess
eS.
World problems are complicated all the
way from Russia to the South Pole, with
everything else, in all directions. Most
writer's declared that the past twelve months
were full of foolish failures.
To quote "COnstantinople is a very hard
word and you can't spell IT, But that has
nothing to do with the case.
Washington has improved it's regard for
President Harry Truman since the NOvem-
Der election started in to coordinate rela-
tions between the White House and Con-
gress. 1t seems uppermost i'll his mind to
recognize the responsibility of Congress to
join in practical ways to promote the inter-
ests of the People.
The showdown fight between the Presi-
dent and John L. Lewis indicates that mea-
sures like the Case Bill and Wagner Act
will furnish patterns for settling industrial
disputes, and will be passed by Congress and
signed by the President. In general terms
the President indicates willingness to meet
the Republican-controlled Congress more
than half way.
Summed up, the new partnership be-
tween the Executive and Legislative branch
eS of the Government promise to produce
real results in the public interest And that
is encouraging.
Suppose you make your own guessing.
Write it out on piece of paper and look it
over in December 1947-just to find out
whether you are prophet or just another
dreamer.
THE RECENT MOVEMENTS for
more and better homes" were intended to
: meet critical conditions. Huge crops of new
babies presented problems that could not be
ignored. Uncle Sam and Sister Sue got into
the game of home building ahead of the real
estate sharks.
Finally President Truman and Congress
began guessing that it might be better to
have more houses to rent, and so they inter-
rupted the big racketeers who busted with
the home-building game-they were getting
rich too quick
1t is evident that within the near future
veterans and civilians will be able to rent
living quarters-and save their shirts with
out going into debt for the rest of their
lives.
THE SO-CALLED BRIGHT young men
who like to pose as labor leaders" but
more often OF late have appeared as profess
siOnal promoters of periodic management
labor fstlcuffS are starting off again on a
new build-up. They are following pattern
that bids fair to become almost as much of a
his Battle of the Century" days.
Initial phase of this build-up as engineer
cd immediately after the wars end is get
ting some economist to release a report or
study saying that wages can go up without
any price increases. The auto workers used
that one in 1915 against General Motors pir-
ming their arguments on the later discredited
and diSavOWed Department of Commerce re-
port that Henry Wallace did not deny until
two days after the long GM strike had ended
1t doesn't seem to do much good to point
out to the union leaders that their guessing
was 100 per cent off year ago on what
would happen in the auto industry if wage
rates went up. The age-lOng race between
the man and his shadow came out as it al
ways dOeS-a tie-and, of even more i'm
portance, with a lot of the spectators who
didn't get income increases tightening their
belts to pay the wagers.
THERE is ALWAYS SOME sort of a
scheme Matching against so-called "trust-
busting activities. In recent weeks a mon
OpOly subcommittee of Congress has been
investigating small business, evidently try
ing to establish the fact that big business
was running over all the small fellows.
The investigation seemed to have drifted
good ways from it's original moorings and
now the Congress is going to consider all
angles OF the vicious trusts to - include
unions of insurance companies, questions of
mergers of big interests, and a review of
the war years to recover alleged huge profits
piled up by mOnOpoies
The Federal Trade Commission and other
branches of the Government will be given
broader authority to tackle ghosts, if they
can save little or big business.
Congress has already rung the fire bell
and announced that there will be more and
better hearings in the new Congress on the
question of ''thwarting the march of monop-
olles." AS long as the Nation lasts the big
nsn OF the country are sure to be charged
with trying to eat the 1ittJo f;cb