Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-01-07
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JUG Ddll VI HAAtiliOSCtU - :"
private citizen now, bless his
reactionary soul.
But before he walked out
into the cold, cold world -
where bean soup is more ex-
pensive than it is in the Sen
ate dining room and haircuts
are not free - Ball had to
to make one last crack.
On Dec. 20 he asserted that
the proposal to wipe out the
Taft-Hartley law and replace
it with the Wagner act is
nuts"
Poor Joe. Everybody's
crazy but him.
The Commerce Department
announced on Dec. 20 that
corporation profits after
taxes totaled $21, ,700,000,000
for the third quarter of 1948
- or 20 per cent above a year
ago. Last years $18,100,000,-
900 and the $4,000, 100000
chalked up lin 1916 already
were all-time cord S, but
now look like peanuts.
On the very S "a m e day,
business testifying before the
Congressional Economic Sub
committee said profits were
just an "illusion. l." What they
really needed, they said, were
still more profits to cushion"
them against drop in the
market.
How comfortable can you
get?
Better late than never:-The
Gallup poll discovered on Dec.
10 that people still think the
most important matters facing
the new Congress are these: ID
the cost of living (2) housing
and rent control.
Apparently in an effort to re-
gain some of his lost prestige,
DR.. Gallup began his report with
a rootin'-tootin' bang - like
this:
A." Give the workingman bet
ter chance to reduce prices.
Prices do something. Get.
'em down. These were among
the remarks most frequently
heard by 240 field interviewers
for the Institute during the pc
riod Nov. 25-Dec. 3 :"
Too bad they didn't h e a ri
those remarks before Nov. q
The same people were making
them then
Heavy Hand:-On Dec, II,
Georgia's Governor Herman Tai
madge and his legislative lead
ers came out with plan to dis
franchise 80 per cent of the
states Negroes by establishing
phony educational requirements
for voting.
The plan, it was frankly ad-
by Fred Hand Speaker of
the House, would remove the
menace" of Negro voting, and
would Elk things where we can
handle it,"
He conceded that Negroes
formed 25 per cent of the popu-
Iation in ia of the states 159
counties, not to mention a ma
lOi IVY III bOIilb OlIlGISs
"You might not think 25 per.
cent Is so bad" he told his fell
ow legislators. But look at the
voting returns and see how much
You won by"
Nothing could be more plain
han that. Obviously, we can
expect some humping victories
'or incumbent Georgian legis-
ators in the next election.
Interestingly enough, Hand
got the idea from Alabama's
Boswell amendment. And it was !
n Birmingham, Alabama, only a
lay earlier, that DiXiecrat lead 4,
rs met and announced they !
we're going to set up an institute :
n Washington.
1t will be very fine institute, .
nd II will have a very noble
purpose. 1t will, for example,
establish nationwide informed
'ublic opinion on those questions !
( history, politics and consti- :
law which have to do !,
lith the balance of power be-
ween the states and the federal {
overnment " =
Not only that, but it will be :
dedicated to the preservation y
{ those principles OF constitu- y
onal government which vouch- :
sfe liberty, freedom and OPP /
I
Apparently, however, tn e r
rinciples will be preserved at I
discount ranging from 25 to I
per cent. :
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