The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Pres. Trumdn In Fighting
Mood As He Begins His
Sixth Year In White House

Washington (LPA)-The nation
is more prosperous than ever be-
Gore, and its foreign relations have
improved from the low point in
1916 before the initiation of the
Marshall Plan, President Truman
told reporters on the first day of
his sixth year in the White House.
Ruddy and trim after his Key
West visit, the President at his
press-radio conference gave Wig
orous defense of the Brannan farm
plan, of his views on civil rights,
his scorn for Sen. Mccarthy and
DR.. Gallup, and his anticipation of
the May speaking trip which will
take him to the dedication of Grand
Coulee dam in the northwest and
to Chicago for Democratic party
conference. He expressed glee at
the chagrin of reporters assigned
to the tour at the prospect of in
Vulnerable whistle-stop talks, and
refused to be pinned down on the
exact number of talks he'll make
on the cross-country train trip.
One reporter asked if it's true
that the first five years are the
hardest. President Truman took of
flee the evening of April IL, 1915,
after the sudden death of President
Roosevelt at Warm Springs.
They have been rather difficult,
the President replied, but the coun-
try is still on its feet and in spite
of unemployment we have more
people at work than ever before in
any country in the history of the
world. We have, he went on, the
most prosperous business set-up
the country has ever seen, farmers
are in a better position than ever
before except for the high point of
1928, and wage earners are earn
ing high wages. Truman asserted
that those first five years after the
greatest war in history have been
easier on the country than any five
years after any other war.
Some people, he added, claim this
record would have been made even
if there had been a moron in the
White House, or at least that's
what he deduces from their gener-
al attitude.
On the contrary, he went on, the
President can take credit for the
situation and that's what he pro-
poses to do. He then told of his
tentative speaking plans on the
May trip.
On specific subjects, Truman as
serted that:
THE Administration had been
working for some time on the prin-
ciple enunciated by Attorney Gen
eral j. Howard McGrath before the
US Supreme Court--that accom-
modations which segregate the
races can't be equal.
2--In reply to a question about
an assertion by Sen. Robert Taft
Or, Ohio) that Truman had libeled
Sen. Mccarthy, "Do you think
that's possible?"
3-He approved of the Senate
leadership's decision to put ECA
funds ahead of the Fair Employ
ment Practice bill because the Mar
shall plan money might otherwise
be lost in the shuttle of Congress
ional procedures. Every effort will
be made to pass the FEPC bill, but
he feels there's no use starting a
fiibuster that will block an inter-
national activity of vital import
ance to the whole world.
4-The Brannan plan is non
political plan which will benefit
Republican as well as Democratic
farmers, he said in reply to a ques-
tion. He intends to discuss it on
his trip, and he lectured a reporter
for Maine newspapers about the
danger of deploring potato sur
pluses without writing about the
solution proposed by the Admins
tration.