The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19

orize local spending of local tax
money to establish the authority
and build homes. 1t doesn't men
tion the fact that there is federal
underwriting, and that the funds
are provided by bond issues, quick
Ily snapped up by insurance com
panies and other big investors
with the tenants rents paying back
large share of the local and fed
eral funds with interest over per
iod of years.
Here's how the real estate lobby
operates. There are about llOO
local real estate boards, with A.
SEQ active members. These active
members are being asked to "vol-
unfairly" put up $5 each for the
seven year-old Realtors Washing
ton Committee for lobbying activi-
ties.
The real estate men have we'll
cultivated friends. Increasingly the
boards are encouraging local build
ers, bankers, and other business
men to become associate mem
bers." They've also extended the
hand of fellowship Cat their No
vember convention) to the Ameri-
can Medical Association, whose
fight against Socialism" they con-
slider parallels their own.
They've tried a couple of "front'
organizations, but not too success
fully. There was one abortive at
tempt to set up a Property Own
ers" league, with headquarters in
the Washington building housing
the National Association of Home
Builders. This fall, retiring NAREB
President Ted Maenner Ca political
crony of Senate COP Leader Ken
meth Wherry of Nebraska) tried to
arouse enthusiasm for something
called "Small Business Action" I"
This had close ties with the Com
mittee for Constitutional Govern
ment, and evidently was too unsav-
ory for some of Maenner's associ-
ateS.
In Congress, the real estate men
depend mainly on couple of Con-
gressmen who, while ardent, are
considered a little on the unstable
side by even their Republican con-
ferees. White-haired Ralph Gwinn
OR, N.Y. is their current favorite
in the House. He called on the
local board presidents, at special
luncheon in his honor, to run an
ther Boston Tea Party when the
crushing burden of the federal gov
ernment shall be thrown off, the
constitutional functions of govern
ment redefined and reasserted, the
power of government limited, and
the army of non-productive bur-
eaucrats riding our backs thrown
off"
"This group of people," Gwinn
said of the real estate owners and
managers, "who have asked moth
ing of the government but freedom
from it's excessive burdens should
be one of the groups to carry on
an organized rebellion at the bal
lot box"
In the Senate, the NAREB men
can look to Sen. Harry Cain Or,
Wash.), who has worked hand-in-
glove with the real estate interests.
Cain first distinguished himself by
trying, as a member of the Senate
Committee, to write into
the federal rent control law spec
ial provision which could only ap-
ply to the Puget Sound area in his
state. His loyalty to the real estat-
ers continues, and just this week
he wrote to New York's Gov.
Dewey promising to see that con-
trolls are lifted, as the NAREB
wants, by June of this year.
Locally and nationally, NAREB
is a tough, narrow-minded outfit
that isn't going to spend much time
soft-soaping the electorate. They're
out for their own interests, and
they're not shy about admitting it.