The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-09-22

As +1,i- .ossio,, Of Co,o..os. o,,+o,.s
its cirhth month. the failure of the
Truman Administration Cbut for one
tbing) approaches the colossal. If
any President in the wear immodi-
atclv following his election and with
his own party in full control Of Con
cress ever had SO unsuccessful a
leadership his name cannot now be
recalled.
No prosido,,+ oro,, ,,,,do CO MANY,
,,,..,.,;.a. r,,1f;ual e,,r MA
Tort TT,,4lov hc+ hoe not hoon 70.
no,lod and his civil-,iobts nroo,,on,
i,,s not hoon ,I,rorob IIis tav mo
,,oeols Lotb tboeo bo made If tbo
booinnino and +boso he mado I.to,.
whom no reversed his nosition. have
boor disroo,,dod His ovt,ouolv
,adical farm, nroora,, has damned
and bis eocialization If ,nodicina nlon
hooood down lono. aoo # was Sena-
for Taft,s bopsing lin and not Mr.
Truroar,s tbat went tbrorob
CONGRESS- has annronriatad great
sums-for evamnle. s130OOO 600 ex-
ira for veterans-which he onnosod
and if has refused 70 make even
greater annronriations which he has
demanded His fall, about retrencb-
ment has become n Joke when
WEIGHED AGAINST the enormous nlans
for snendino which he advocates and
tbo great subsidies which he is
danqlino before 50 many snecial
groups. Probably a considerable ex-
tension of social sec,,l.itv which the
President is mgino will he enacted
but both parties are for that This
record Of failure is really unioue-
particularly when to it is added his
inability to gain confirmation from
the, Democratic Senate of his close
personal friend, eX-Gov. Mon Wall
gren of Washington, who is still
here, apparently waiting for a recess
appointment Of some kind.
Ono would thinl, tba+ in sucb =
Situation ne +bis Nv Truman would
bo DISCOURAGED Certainly most mon
,ro,1d ba. Inf If he is tbora aro M
visible sions On tba contrary +houob
tba legislative lam is the worst ever
soa, in Cono7ass he annaars con
vincad that nnblic sentiment Is
STRONGLY in favor Of fine direction in
which Ills nroo.ran world take the
count,v and that If he I,oens Con-
GROSS il, session loro. a,ouob most of
This progqam viii 90 through. If not.
he will mt the blame ON CONGRESS- in
1850 rs he did in 1g4e md tho nnonle
will elect men who win follow him.
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than before. The White House elmer
circle" no longer makes any pretense
of adherence to conservative or
orthodox finance. The multiplication
table is relegated even farther to the
rear. The Truman economic advisers
are nclining more to the extreme
liberal view that the size Of the ma
tional debt does not matter as 1--WE
owe it to ourselves" There are no
plans for reducing the debt in the
budgeting preparations for 1852.
The views of Prof. Seymour Harris,
of Harvard, who thinks it is anti
social to save, are again being quoted
and the benign effects of vast debt
as set forth bv Mr.. Robert X. Pep
per. of the Fort Myers News-Press,
in his article entitled "What Is Good
About the Debt?" are being cited.
Recently this document was put in
the Congressional Record by strong
Administration senator.
n, n. ,.
dence that the Truman Fair Deal
goes way beyond the Roosevelt New
Deal in its efforts toward the "Wel-
fare State" is in the bill creating the
Columbia Valley Administration
ord +bis NOV bo +bo ono no+obla