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Evening star., 1947-06-29
Co-ordinoted Appropriations

The Byrd-Butler proposal for single.
omnibus appropriation bill has been re-
ported to the Senate by the Rules Com
mittee at most propitious time. The
unanimity with which the committee
recommended the measure for Immediate
passage undoubtedly reflects the general
WEAKNESS of Congress after six months
of struggling with twelve different appro-
priation bills. None of the regular de-
partmental bills has yet gone to the
President and it may be necessary to adopt
continuing resolutions to keep the agencies
going after July 1.
To the budget-weighing, appropriation
bedeviled members of Congress the get-it-
overall at-once appropriation plan will
have plenty of appeal. The idea is a logical
corollary Of the legislative budget plan
adopted under the congressional reorgan-
ization program. One appropriation bill,
combining the needs of all departments,
would provide Congress with clear picture
of the overall appropriation problem. AS
it is now, the House and Senate must
consider each of the dozen bills in sue
cession, with the result that few members
have any accurate understanding of
aggregate expenditures.
According to Senator Byrd, the merger
plan would in no way restrict the freedom
of the departments in presenting their
fund requests to Congress, or in justifying
them in full hearings. The omnibus
measure would be broken down into divi
sions which would be assigned for study
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Third-Party Plan Grows
Independence Movement Seen Semming From Democratic
Split Over Taft.Hartley Legislation
BY Jay G. Hayden

'unsuitahility as the Democratic) party's 1s4s
standard bearer"
Asked whether James Roosevelt, son of the
late President and now chairman of the Cali
fornia Democratic State Central Committee,
would support Wallace, Kenney said: "We hope
ne will be with lis: we think he will
James Roosevelt's Outburst
James Roosevelt recently joined in issuing
an attack against the Truman international
doctrines, publication of which caused Secretary
of the Treasury John w. Snyder and Gael
Sullivan, executive director of the Democratic
National Committee, to withdraw from par
ticipation in Democratic dinner at Los An
geles Wallace all along has been holding up
Southern Democratic leadership as the root of
all evil and charging that President Truman
more and more has surrounded himself with
conservatives, drawn from the South and its
border States.
The Wallace followers now are saying that
it was fear of their man that caused Truman
to veto the labor bill. They usually add that the
President will gain few labor votes on account
of the veto because everybody knew in advance
that it would be only a futile gesture.
Wallace himself has discounted the possibil-
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Faith and Fairies

During its meeting here last week, the
National Story League heard one of its
members advise people to believe in fairies
if they want to tell fairy tales the right
way. This is a challenge to any and all
of us who may be skeptics.
Why is it-even as we talk of them to
our children-that we have no faith in
sprites, leprechauns, elves and the numer-
Gus other wee folk who really live, accord
ing to certain competent authorities, in
such places as strawberry patches and
under mushrooms? The question surely Is
worth at least some consideration in
world that is worrying its head off over
host of things it cannot see but yet feels
sure are there-Such as fear and the atom
The fact is that we cannot rule out the
possibility of fairies just because we have
never happened to run across one. After
all, for example, can we be absolutely
certain that milk turns sour over night as
a result of some chemical process? Is it
not conceivable that an elf does it to
amuse himself or to show off to an elfess?
Before we Scoff at such things, let us
remember that there are Irishmen alive
today who will tell us with straight face
of that time in the Old Country when they
had to turn their coats inside-out before
a magic-wielding little leprechaun would
let them walk through on the highway
Then, too, we have. this testimony from
Sir James Barrie, that unimpeachable
authority: When the first baby laughed
for the first time, the laugh broke into a
million pieces, and they all went skipping
about. That was the beginning of fairies"
These are matters that ought to be
weighed well by all of US before we go
around proclaiming our lack of faith. We
believe in the atom, the germ and any
number of other invisible and untouchable
things that are not nearly SO pleasant as
fairies. Fairies are NICE We do not have
to fear that they will blow us up or radio
activate us, or lay us low otherwise Why
therefore should we discriminate against
them? Why do we deny their existence
when we are so ready to affirm the exist
ence of the neutron or proton?
Let us not be too sure of ourselves about
this Maybe we should take more stock
in the wee folk. If we did, then we might
be able to do more than tell our fairy tales
better. We might be able to gain for our
disenchanted adult world some of the
enchantment enjoyed by children, the
very young ones who in many ways
until they, too, grow up and learn to
disbelieve-seem to see lot of things
with clearer vision than any Of us.
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the Democratic Party of industrial centers OF the
North and West-dominated more and more by
organized labor - and the ultraconservatlve
South, has seemed utterly incongruous, but it
remained for the labor bill to disclose the full
depth of this incompatibility. That vote proved
beyond the slightest doubt that so long as the
South continues to be a main pillar of the
Democratic Party, that party will stand as a
hindrance rather than help to the cause of
organized labor.
And since the South certainly will not quit
the Democratic Party, labor may have no re-
course but to move out of it.
The first attempt of the Wallaceites, of
course, will be to capture the Democratic Ma
tional Convention. That drive is to start in a
meeting at Fresno, Calf, July 19, for the pur-
pose of choosing Wallace for President slate
of 81 delegate candidates to run in the Demo-
cratic presidential primary in California next
spring.
WalIace's Hat in Ring.
Wallace is known to have sanctioned this
early throwing of his hat into the ring, and his
supporters here say he has been assured that
fight will be organized for him in at least four
other Western States-Colorado Washington
Oregon and Idaho.
In an interview in the Los Angeles Times,
Wallace movement, described it as a genuine
revolt" that will demonstrate the political
weakness of President Truman" and prove his
Evening star., 1947-06-29
The Elective Succession Plan

When the new order of presidential sue
ceSsion becomes effective-and there can
be little doubt of early enactment of the
Senate-approved legislation-the Nation
will return, in effect, to the democratic"
succession plan advocated in the First
Congress and adopted by the Second. The
chief difference will be that the new plan
places the Speaker of the House ahead of
the President Pro Tempore of the Senate
whereas the order was reversed in the
original Succession Act of 1892 The prin-
ciple of keeping the presidency an elective
office as far as possible was followed in
drawing up both proposals, however
Having successfully cleared it's biggest
hurdle-the Senate-the succession bill
should find relatively easy going in the
House despite considerable Democratic op-
position of the type that developed in the
Senate. The House quickly passed a SIM
liar bill last session, when the Speaker was
a Democrat, but the Senate refused to go
along, chiefly because it did not relish the
idea of putting the President Pro Tempore
of the Senate behind the Speaker in the
succession line The legislation is assured
continued to advocate the elective" plan
despite the changed political complexion of
Congress.
Once passed, the new law will be subject
to the same legal questions which were
raised when the 1892 law was enacted
Then, as now, the question of constitution
ality was raised. This question centers
around the provision of the Constitution
authorizing Congress to enact legislation
declaring what officer" shall succe eed to
the presidency in an emergency depriving
the country of both President and Vice
President. James Madison argued that
neither the Speaker nor the President Pro
Tempore was an officer of the United States
in the sense intended by the Constitution,
but he and others were unsuccessful in
their opposition. While the Supreme
Court never has ruled directly on the issue
as it affects succession to the presidency,
it held in the 1916 Lamar case, involving
imperSonation of member of Congress-
that it was common understanding" that
a member of the House is "a legislative
officer of the United States" One of the
reasons Congress in 1886 repealed the 1892
law and placed the Secretary of State next
in line after the Vice President was to
obviate the raising of the constitutionality
issue. more practical consideration
since virtually eliminated by the twentieth
amendment-was that Speaker or Presi-
dent Pro Tempore was not always available
to act, as, for example between sessions
of Congress. .
The possibility of the constitutionality
question ever reaching the Supreme Court
seems remote indeed. The arguments for
the new plan as against the law that
has prevailed since 1886 are on the whole,
convincing. 1t is in accord with our basic
democratic theory that the presidency
should be an elective Office. It is debatable.
however whether it will insure a higher
caliber successor to that high office That
is something that cannot be determined
until the law is tried out in some future
national crisis.
Evening star., 1947-06-29

to the usual subcommittee on appropria-
tions for the respective activities of Gov
ernment. But once all the committees
had completed their hearings and made
their reports, the whole measure would be
presented on, the floor as an entity. Each
House would be privileged, of course, to
spend as much time as it saw fit on each
department. But every member would
have before him at all times the amount
of the total recommended appropriation
for ready comparison with budget allow
ances. This would make for more orderly
appropriating And there is urgent need
for more orderly appropriating now that
the era of hasty, emergency spending is
fading into the past.
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Overseas Notes

NEW DELHI.-The Ambassador OF the In
dian Union to Russia says the special repre-
sentative of the statesman in Nainital, will be
Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, sister of Jawahar-
lal Nehru. She is expected to leave early in
July.
ROME.-Some observers think Italy will use
the Marshall plan to reopen the question of
her African colonies, taken from her by the
peace treaty. Foreign office spokesmen say
Italy will take concrete proposals" to the
council table, when and If she is invited. There
are indications that these will include the
suggestion that Italys economy will be sounder
and thus more useful to European reconstruc-
ton, if she has colonial outlets.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Fifty Years Ago

The Star for June o. 1897, set forth edi-
torialIy the view that: Just now, when there Is
so much distress in the world
Burdens Of and so many people are COM
Wealth planning of poverty. it is well
to remember that wealth I'M
poses heavy burdens upon its owners. Very rich
people do not tread primrose path by any
means They are often deeply worried by anx-
ieties of investments. They become in many
instances slaves to the necessity of keeping up
with the procession. The small farmer with so
acres of corn at stake does not watch the SKY
with deeper solicitude as to timely rainfall
than the millionaire watches the market re-
ports bearing upon his stocks or bonds, or con-
signmentS of grain or cotton. There Is plenty
of worry for the rich man while he lives, and
part of it is the prospect of a wrangle over his
estate after he is dead" .'
A lengthy account Of the entertainment pro-
vided by the Wallace Shows on the circus lot
at North Capitol and L
Wallace Circus streets was published by The
In Town Star on June a. 1897
Three trains of equipment
and 1900 performers and "workmen' were
mentioned as having arrived" The perform
snce," it was declared, was wonder to the
vast assembly gathered in the tent, constructed
Evening star., 1947-06-29

to seat 10000 people The grand entree was a
beWildering sight 1t was a triumphal pageant,
representing the festival of Olympus. There
were elephants, carnels, horses chariots and a
troop of armored Anazons, all brilliantly be-
decked." Among the featured artists were Miss
Blanche Reed and Miss Sallie Hughes with the
educated horses, Sultan and Glencoe; Nine.
Nelson and the little Nelson sisters, the Martell
and Werntz families, the Flying Jordans, Oscar
Lowande and family, Joe Leicher, the Petits
and Trilby, the singing donkey.
The Star for June g. 1897, told It's readers:
"It is worth trip to Chevy Chase to witness
the perfection Of the water
chevy Chase bicycle that is on exhibition
pax,d;s. there" Not just one hydro
cycle "but enough to supply
a whole company of excursionists" were avail
able and they are safe in the highest sense
of the word. These hydrocycles form one of
the chief attractions at Chevy Chase, and
those who have ridden on them are loud III
their praise of the new water craft. Besides
these hydrocycles, music is provided each eve
ming for those who desire to dance, while there
are other attractions, such as shooting galleries,
bowling alleys merry -go-rounds and like
amusement" other words everything this
side of heaven" to make people forget the
heat Of the city In summer.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
A citation Notes

Airlnes lost about $18OO0OO0 in the first
quarter of 1947, despite the increase in passen-
ger. freight and express business In all of
1916 they lost only $7,000000 8. . A new execu-
tive order forbids Army and Navy transport
services to compete with the airlines by carrying
civilian passengers, except when they are on
Government business. :. Airlines are trying
to get the Army and Navy transport services
to reduce their use of the Washington
National Airport because of overcrowding
They are also asking the services to permit
them to use their nearby fields (Andrews and
Patuxent) when commercial traffic is heavy
in thick weather
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Blue Plate Special

Legislation to increase the legal minimum
wage is likely to be the congressional Republi-
cans blue plate special for July.
With Army-Navy unification and presidential
succession measures definitely on the COP
must list, party leaders have been delaying
decision on other matters to be taken up
before scheduled July 26 adjournment
The minimum wage proposal is attractive
because it appeals to organized labor, offended
by passage of the Taft-Hartley labor bill
Besides, one COP Senator said, minimum
wage increase won't cost the Government
anything"
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philosophic tolerance was a charitable
ness of Judgment which unfortunately
seems to be missing quantity today.
Dr. Shaw, 1t is obvious, outlived the era
to which he belonged. The Review, as he
conducted it, was outmoded by changes in
popular taste. 1t perished at last with the
Digest to which it was Joined. But its
editor was not to blame for its demise. The
"age of confusion" had no place for
magazine so conservative in style and
relatively so lacking in entertainment
value.
Evening star., 1947-06-29

Su&M a move
ment all but
inevitable.
This is so be-
C a u S e m or e
than half the
Democrats in
the House and
20 out of A in
the S e n a t e,
voted to over
ride and with
out them the
bill could not
have been en-
acted into law.
For a long
time the COM
bination within
Evening star., 1947-06-29

ity OF electlng
a third party
p r e S i d ential
candidate n
1948, but he
has said that
entry of such
a ticket might
lead to elec-
ton of a "use-
full number of
liberal C on =
gressnen."
But first and
foremost, t h e
purpose of the
Wallaceites will
be to draw an
issue as against
Evening star., 1947-06-29

the Southern Democrats. Certainly they will
foster resolution condemning the Taft-Hart
ley bill and the Democrats who voted for it.
And on that issue the Southern delegates
scarcely can fail to stand up and fight.
And if Wallace finally does accept third
party nomination it probably will be with the
avowed purpose of shaking Northern and West
ern liberalism free from it's Southern Demo-
cratic incumbrance
fForfh American Newspaper Alliance
Evening star., 1947-06-29

Instead of heading off third party nomina-
tion of Henry Wallace for President next year,
President Trumans veto Of the Taft-Hartley
bill, and Its subsequent overriding, have made
Evening star., 1947-06-29
SI0w Going

Hov Going
Lend-lease settlement discussions with the
Russians have been going on for two months,
and progress has been about twice as slow as
expected Government officials blame the de-
lay on the Soviets failure to produce an in
ventory listing what they have left of the
$11 ,296 900 900 worth OF lend-lease goods sup
piled them.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Some ShadozVs of Coming Events
Are Noted Here and abroad

point out that under similar circumstances
Russia attacked United States aid to Greece
and Turkey in the Security Council.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-02-21

Top billing of this seventh legislative week the>
House for its surgical performance Wednesday afternoon
than dozen proposed revenue-raisng De-
spite anticipated deficit of of Sc million, the
soons the lower house showed they mood for
creang taxes and overwhelming the "do
To Montana people a WHOLE the important
ure the dead file HB which
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-02-21
Teacher Tenure

SB 81 by Moss, Flathead, was given
final approval by the senate Thurs
day. 1t is to be hoped the house will
concur in approving this much needed
legislation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-02-21

Organized labor may do well to
make a pretty thorough study of SB
1876 by Olmstead, Ross, Hageman and
Fischer. Under terms of this measure
dealing with the production and dis
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-02-21
Dillon Normal Saved

Another bill to bit the dust in the
House during the week was lib sos
by Pappin, Bell and Roll of Cascade
and Toole of Toole. Under terms of
this bill the state normal at Dillon
would have been discontinued. During
recent years Dillon has had few stu
dents dropping down one year to less
than three dozen. While it is easy to
appreciate the feelings of the people
of Beaverhead county on this issue, it
does seem difficult to understand the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-02-21
Pre-martiaI Exams

SB100 by Bridenstine, Prairie, the
lone lady member of either house,
would make physical examinations for
social diseases a necessary part to
securing a marriage license. Although
q prospective benedict and his spouse
to-be would be required to have GER
of such examinations to Sc
The frontiersman., 1947-04-26

City cl 7rk R. J. McNoaly, who re turned fr on Anchor age late this week, brought back tho welc one n ews that CAA offici als have assured him 9 plan will be worked out by which S4ldovia can count on Fed er al
The frontiersman., 1947-04-26
AIpp0R7 Is CERTAIN, CQA SAYS

funds for it's planned air DOT t.
 MT. McN aaly talked wit G. J. Paul ie, the eng inaer who re- c cently vi sit ted Soldo- via to discuss air. DOT t plans with city heads
The frontiersman., 1947-04-26

NEW FIRMS
 De tails of the ag- re 5m5nt between can nery t5ndarmen, de7p water trap oper ators and beachm5r and the Canned Salmon Indus- try yesterday were rev 3al5d by Buck Douglas, agent of the Al laska I isherman IS Un ion here.
 Thre3 changes af- facting wages have been mad7. All ten der crews will re- ceive an incr easa in mon thly wages of S37. 50, but the Sc crews nay be r 5quir ed to work a l2 hour day. All other mon thly empl oyes are to receive a wage in crease of 327. 50. The over inc and long, shore rate has boen hiked fr on sl. AT to $l. .62 an hour.
 Nr. Douglas said that tend 2r crews now are 7n route nor tn. Some Of th5m are ev- pee ted to arr i've within th5 next few days.
The Valley settler., 1947-12-12

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-17
MINING COURSE
 STARTS MARCH "A

A letter received at the office of the Territorial Commissioner of Mines from Leo H. Saarela, in- structor for the University of Al aska mining extension course in Southeast Alaska, indicates that he plans to< begin a four weeks mining course in Juneau on March "A if transportation can be ar ranged. He is at present con- ducting the short course in min ing at Wrangell where he has an enrolment of 20 persons who are interested in prospecting and min ing A class of 50 completed the course at Ketchikan prior to the organization of the class at Wrangell
 Saarela was for several years until his resignation last spring, employed by the Territorial De- |partment of Mines as assayer and field engineer at Anchorage. Dur ing the past summer he was en- gagged with, two partners in de- veloping placer gold property in the Rampant district of interior Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-17
BOUNDARY
 COM. NOW
 pR0p0SE:D
Want Permanent 0rgani- zafion 10 Watch Over
 Balkan Troubles Spot

LAKE SUCCESS, N Y, March Authoritative sources said today that the United States may propose the establishment of a permanent United Nations boun- diary commission to watch over the trouble spots in the Balkans.
 These sources said U. s. offic ials felt it may be advisable for such a commission to watch the borders of Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria fer some time
 Such a step appeared to be tied in closely with President Tru- mans declaration on America s new foreign policy aimed at halt ing the world march of Commun- ism, especially in the Balkans.
 There was no indication just how far the American delegation to the United Nations had gone toward drawing up a plan for a permanent U. N. boundary com mission, but authoritative sources said it was under consideration.
 An American delegation spokes- man said the Presidents proposals to aid Greece would not conflict in any way with the efforts of the U. N. Security Councils Bal kan inquiry commission now studying frontier conditions in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
 The spokesman said the presence of the Security Councils commis- sion would have a "stabilizing in fluence" in the border regions and would tend to thwart propa- ganda against members of the American missions who would be sent to Greece under the Presi- dents plan.
 Meanwhile, Top. U N. authori- ties considered President Tru- mans appeal to congress for American aid to Greece and Tur- key too hot" for comment. It was met by what one informed source described as "apprehensive' silence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-17
HUNGARY AND ORE A MAY
 RECEIVE AID

WASHINGTON, March 17-lR- War-tor Hungary and occupied Korea loom biggest today on any list of potential candidates for ex- tension of President Trumans de- claration of support for free peoples.
 Officials of several government departments already are at work on proposals to help these two ma tions whose plight-like that of Greece and Turkey--has resulted at feast in part from Soviet Russia s expansive pressure.
 The foreign help which the Unit ed States has extended since VIE Day suggests that global projec tion on the policy MT Truman outlined yesterday to Congress might later include China and Italy as we'll
 This government made plain it's intent to bolster Hungary in an IlOuliCHlB 94o,uVV,Ooo oui pluo piC perty credit last month. and still later by voicing a sharp protest against Russia's direct interfer- ence" in an attempt to upset the freely elected Democratic major ity in the Budapest Parliament.
 Korea, a nation divided by Am erican and Russia occupation zones, has status somewhat like Austria, but the Koreans can qualify as a free people under formal declara- tions of0ne wartime allies.
 Congress is to be asked for addi tional funds for Korea but the amount has not been disclosed.