Milford chronicle., 1949-11-11
CONGRESS- STUMBLES AROUND

does not seem to be popular The retention OF
the 80 per cent level of parity next year VIII
not give the city dWellerS any chance OF Duy- |
ing cheaper produce. The levels in the slid
ing scales of price support will be set within
the discretion of the Secretary Of Agricul-
ture He has the power to boost the price OF
government support for farm crops. Inc
level support of tobacco is mandatory at ~
per cent of parity if marketing quotas are
kept in effect. Wool, tung, nuts, honey, lrlsh
potatoes, milk, butter fat and the products
of milk and butter will have advantages be-
cause the prices will be boosted by Uncle
Sam. The records show that the Congress
has never been able to agree upon per
manent" solution to the farm problem. Sum-
med up logical plan for farm support has
never been worked out. In many sessions OF
Congress the government has just tired all
kinds of schemeS-and unfortunately most
of them haven't been very good. NeVertne-
less. everyone seems to be willing to consent
to any proposition that will be helpful to the
nations farmers-because they are the back
bone of the American way OF life. Up-to-daCe
the 81st Congress has only scratched the sur
face of President Truman'S program. Inc
top spot in that program was Mr.. truman S
demand for new labor legislation and the re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley Act. That sound
the changes made in it by Senator Taft have
improved his own legislation. When the 8lst
Congress recOnvenes it will be faced with the
responsibility of making good or bad record.
The chances are that it will be bad because
the Democrats have the responsibility OF do
ING something for the country if it's expects
to win the next election. They are not de-
livering the goods. The majority of Congress
has played politics all the time-hopng
against hope to stay on top if it succeeds IN
satisfying the labor bosses and the farmers.
Those two groups won the last Presidential
election The hopes of the present Admins
tratiOn depends on whether those groups Will
continue to vote the Truman ticket. Senator
Taft is the undisputed Republican leader in
the Upper House of Congress and the Sen
atOr doesn't mince words. He asserts that
Mr.. Truman has adopted the program of the
CIO and he pounded the table hard in telling
the voters of Ohio that the trend in the next
Presidential election will be in the direction
of labor Socialist Democratic partnership
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RESEARCH FOR ALL THE NATION
To give newspaper writers an idea OF
how engineering behind engineering Oper-
ates, General Motors Research Laboratories
recently opened it's doors to press represen
tatiVeS, most of them veteran technical re-
porters. They saw a compact layout of lab
OratOries and equipment, manned by a per
sOnnel of more than 600, devoted exclusively
to lOng-range research. This research, in any
large enterprise, is technical insurance pol
icy. 1t improves current processes and pro
ducts and plans new ones; it develops nev
technOlOgies, techniques and materials, ant
it digs up new facts about science that can b
applied to the entire field of engineering. TIL
GIN Research Laboratories Division has n
product responsibility. No production yard
stick applies to it. Some of it's project
stretch over an entire decade. Some hav
been progressing since the 1920'S when tn
division was founded. Always the scare
goes on for scientific facts, regardless of Whe
ther these facts will be utilized by GIN alone
The newspaper reporters know such re
search policies yield dividends, to be sure
But they also were impressed by some fact
that often escape the public when the discus
sion warns up about large-Scale induStr!
Processes and techniques developed in a n
search laboratory, regardless of what trad
name sponsors it, frequently are presented
industry at large. They are adapted by Oth6
industrial outfits, large and small, wherevt
they can be used for improvement. Son
laboratory developments have founded con
pletely new industries and businesses, a
: types and sizes. These meant new prOduc
2 and, above all, new job opportunities ar
a jobs. Time and again, in war and peac
! Government researchers have turned to i
: dustrial laboratories for answers to the
$ problems. Also, industry's long-range fac
? finders often team with college and Universi
: research departments in virtually {
e branches of science. More often than nc
S this engineering behind engineering ISL
f heralded in newspaper headlines Rather,
= is recorded in technical journals, becau
= much about research is undramatic or u
e appealing to the world outside the labOratOr
= The work of GINS Research Laboratories,
), no means unique in large-scale induustr
s amounts to more than output of new moo
i or new product. 1t contributes to a vast pc
l. of technical and scientific knowledge tn
l. anyone can tap. Most of this knowledge I
d day comes willingly. from private enterpri!
S Much of it is public property without pri
al tag, simply because research men in indust
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