Evening star., 1949-09-26
Proposes Letter for President
To Write on Taft-Hartley Law
To the Editor

10 the Editor OF The Star:
Here is a letter framed for President
Truman to write to Senator Bob Taft.
Whether he actually sends it will be up to
Harry. He ought to, in the interest of
candor.
Dear Senator Taft CDear,' my eve!
G-r-r-r-rD: I am at last almost ready to
kick in say Uncle pull leather, bite the peg,
throw In the sponge and/or anything else
commonly used to indicate having lost a
hight That law you and Hartley brewed in
your witches cauldron Is too many for me.
I've gone at 1t frontwards and backwards,
sidewise. from the bottom and the top and
it's cold pizen from every angle. You put
some secret ingredient into it that makes it
invulnerable, and it is intolerable to me.
If anything intrinsically wrong were in it,
maybe I or some of my hatchet men could
solve your curves. AS it is, just see that
law wind up, take Feller paroxysmal atti-
tude and throw-then hear the old apple
smack in the catcher's mitt. Never yet have
I seen 1t while it was passing the plate, and
never yet have even 'ticked it,
Yet just don't seem able to keep from
swinging at every throw. That law is a
BOBBY trap I can't resist stumbling into. I
have butted my head against it until I'm
soon going to wear heavily padded skull
cap. And every time I lay finger on it,
I have to grab for the iodine bottle. The
tough part of it is that the fool thing is
right. intrinsically. and appeals to as many
OF its supposed enemies as to its friends.
1t is the first labor law that ever was in
tended to salve anybody but labor unions.
The fight against alleged labor iniustices
before that was nothing but shadow box
ing. Yet labor has been advantaged as much
by 1t as have the employers. The only thing
l and my buddies are sore at, is that we
didn't get it up ourselves. It is quite too
good for the Republicans to have credit
for it.
I should welcome conference with YOU,
to make some arrangements to change the
name to the Truman-Vaughan law, so
could support it and run for the presidency
next time with that as my ISSUE I could
make you very attractive offer, Bob, since
am now prosperous financially for the first
time in my life-re-e-e-eally in the chips.
Even If Tom had lived, wouldn't have
been any better Sugared than I now am
II as we'll. I might throw in some things
besides the money-Johnny Maragon's drag
with the French perfumery people, for
instance. I assure you I'd not be niggardly
THAT old law of yours-I see red every
time I think of it and feel my bruises and
abrasions and count my fractures. It had
more on the ball, more genuine ackempucky
"a word that originated in your Southern
Ohio than any other enactment Congress
ever accomplished. At any rate, if you have
up your sleeve any blueprints for laws that
are lethal to Democrats (Fair Dealers, I
mean. hold 'em! I'd like to live a little
while in the remodeled White House before
resuming independence and Independence
Yours in desperation, H. S. T."
Now. Harry doesn't have to employ exactly
this same language. He has Charley Ross
tthe one not yet lost) there, and Charley is
good at editing. Far better than I, who was
never even threatened with a Rhodes
scholarship such as he had.
Think it over, Harry!
STRICKLAND GILLIAN.