Milford chronicle., 1947-11-28
THE REAL BATTLE for control Of the

President he was able to bring Congress to
terms on most any issue that he stood for.
Roosevelt might put the Truman plan across
if he were alive. Truman will be forced to
compromise with Congress on hard terms
that will whittle down the costs of the Mar
shall Plan Now, the above statement is not
reflection on President Truman 1t is simply
a comment to the effect that he is not a boss
and dictator-which is something to COM
mend. So what's going to happen? Most
newspaper reporters and editors don't know.
If you sit down to solve the problem perhaps
your. guess will be as good as theirs. We see
no reason to expect that Congress will agree
with the Presidents proposals to restore any
form of rationing or price and wage controls.
The President has asked for immediate au-
thority to allocate scarce commodities, con-
trol exports, tighten credit and impose other
imitation curbs. He says that such steps are
necessary to keep essential living costs in
check. Those powers will not be restored by
Congress. So far as aid to Europe is con-
cerned the issue reverts straight back to sug-
gestions by former President Hoover "to help
Europe to help itself" That is a big enough
job for even a great Nation like the United
States. Therefore in the long run the Ad-
ministration plan to drop untold billions OF
dollars into the pot for the purpose of "sav-
ing Europe" is most likely to simmer down
to sums about one-half the amounts request
ed by the President and General Marshall
The indications are that the differences be-
tween the Administrative and the Legislative
branches of Government have already widen
ed. Nothing but a compromise is to be ex-
pected. That compromise will be very accept
able to the American taxpayers. The forces
in Congress led by Senator Taft will win out
over the White House. After that, next
Z summer, the issue will go before the voters in
48 States. They are the people" who even
tually decide which political party is right.
@S@&S
IT is A GOOD THING to have the public
schools open to the public. 1t is good for par
ents to have an opportunity to see for them
selves the competence of those who teach
their children and the kind and quality of
work that is being done by other children as
well as their own. 1t is good for them just
to have been inside the school which their
children attend; it helps them to visualize the
setting in which their offspring are growing
in strength and in stature five days week.
An open-school week makes for better under
standing on the part of parents and in con-
sequence, for more effective cooperation
from them, without which the work of the
schools is seriously handicapped
If it is important for parents to know the
Schools it is equally important for schools to
know the parents. 1t is good for school to
submit its work for inspection before deeply
interested group of examiners. 1t is good for
ateacher to be reminded that class does not
consist of so many papers, to be collected and
corrected at intervals; that it is made up of
distinctive personalities, coming from homes
to which the unfolding of each personality is
of absorbing interest In sum, it is stimulat-
ing for any public service, such as a school,
to find itself in direct contact with the public
it serves.
While considerations such as these give
meaning to an appointed week, in which the
schools welcome the public, they apply in gen
eral to every week of the school year. On thC
other hand the schools cannot be on constant
exhibition. Their primary responsibility i
the instruction of students, and their concen
tration on this task is interrupted all too fire
quently. Apparently the solution is fo
boards of education to redouble their effort
to keep the public misunderstanding tn
tax-paying public which failed to visit tn
schools or lacked the immediate personal in
centive = by means of the press, the radi
and every available channel of cOmmunica
tion.
The one big danger on the part of those i
! charge of our public school system in Dels
ware is to use the publicity as propagand
instead of legitimate news release. Once thi
has been, corrected, the newspapers will b
found willing and anxious to print these n
: leases as they are made.
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s CONSIDERABLE CONCERN has bee
t expressed over the fuel oil situation this wiz
s ter. In some sections of the country supple
e are Short due to a combination of factors il
d Guiding transportation difficulties and e.
). tremely high demand. However those WI
t know the situation best feel that the shor
ages will be neither severe nor long-live
Months ago the industry anticipated the diff
culties, and began building up stocks to tt
/ limit of storage capacity.
IS The extent of the demand for oil was OF
y of the surprises of the postwar era 1t w;
almost universally believed that the cessatiC
l. of war demands would result in substanti
lr drop in total consumption. Exactly the opp
site occurred. Civilian demand for oil pr
o. ducts of almost all kinds has made it nece
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