The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 11, 1947, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~ er — ee SF 2 RTT CPR af raat eee EVEN WITH MOVIE LOVERS, - Sy ae nm im set | “NOW, HOLD IT.” interrupts anotler em- “With this tape we meastre the ‘ployee. proper distance for you from the cémera.” “THIS WAY, BUB.” That F, Py 2 Cary ay) Dear Frie Week b wiek! we ,are seeing what it mkns to have the Re- pu alican P ty in'éontrol. of our Ravigress. last Congress pass-’; éd the Redganization Bill. We} lars. streamlined |the Congress, to a few andgave each Standing | Committee if the Senate for as- sistance, fouj experts. In tion, we gaye each Standing Committee ug to six clerks. We thought that would put an end to expensive ‘special committees with numerots highly paid em- ployes and mbpch extra expense. | But the first ‘thing the Repub- licans did in the Senate when the new session convened was to set up two special committees | again, each of which, of course, is ta have employes of. course, money. Then along comes Truman’s nomination President of President, including David ienthal, former Chairman of the TVA, as chairman, won almost unanimous and hearty support from the country. McKeller of Tennessee has the opposition to Lilienthal, led Lilienthal because ‘it is alleged Lilienthal would not let the Sen- ator have the patronage on the TVA as he had it in the other | the | had | political jobs in Tennessee), McKeller fight would have no more significance than Senator’s former attacks Lilienthal, had not Republican Senate leaders joined the McKel- lar fight which has now nated in a bitter attack by Sen- ator: Taft, the recognized Repub- lican leader of the Senate. The real basis of the attack on Lilien- the thal is that he has believed in: the development of public pow- er as well as private power for the people of this country; that he is not the tool of the special interests and that just as he has! tried to use the great water pow- | er of the Tennessee Valley for the benefit of the people and not to enrich private monopoly, he will t(ry to develop Atomic En- ergy for the benefit of the peo-| ple of the world and not turn, it over to a few world cartels to make a few men rich. tne ‘ x o“\wes Republicans re — = — Godfrey sure has a mighty smooth-‘ine. Gig seems to be thinking...No gaffers interfering now! thete oN RY TRULY. ‘YOURS | \nedrly a sixth, by six billion dol- cut: frightened by the roar of protest down Congbgssional Committees | from the country and from the addi- numerous expensive | and each of which will, ! spend a lot of vy Atomic Energy Control Commi< | sipn. The five men named by the | Lit ; While Senator } (he } has long been at outs with Mr. | upon | culmi- | ‘A CLINCH: IS: NO CINCH “HMMM?” an frey, with suggestions. How would you like ae e an outsider kihitzing your love- ——. Enter the director, Peter God-‘ vs, MORE INTERRUPTIONS as the set make- © a. up man decides Gig’s sideburns need comb- ing. Oh well, there's a: i to everythings, termined to cut the President’s Budget. The House, dominated by the Republicans, cut the budget Senate Republicans, getting | heads of the armed servecies here | and abroad that such a cut would | imperil the national ‘security and | {our position in the world today, have tried to compromise on four jand a half billions cut. President Truman had already {cut the budget of the army and inavy to the very bone. In fact, | ithe service heads gravely feared ‘that the President, himself, had | gone below the margin of safety | 'for the country. But they loyally ! stood behind the President, | knowing the fight he was going ito have to face in Congress to get even what he asked. Wheth- LOVE CONQUERS ALL (for a few seconds, anyway). May- be it was worth waiting for! i promise, And there are hundreds r the final cut of four and a halt! of other things, such as adequate ae six billions, it is going | 'esearch in cancer and heart dis- to mean that General ocdanee ease and funds for hospital con- in Japan, and General Clay in} Struction and for veterans’ hous- Germany are not going to be able| 19g and increased aid to veterans to do the full job they have to! im schools and on _ job-training | do. It will mean a cut in research , Programs and countless others funds for both the army and the which I have not space to de- navy and might keep this coun- | S¢ribe. try from maintaining the lead it} _S® you may see why so many }now has in war weapons. It will | times I have fought in the Con- ; mean a cut in the aid agriculture , ress, on the radio and out in the now receives from the govern-| Country talking to the people for /ment. It will cut out or prevent, @ liberal democratic administra- needed agricultural research of, tion in Washington. I knew the which we have never hadj Kind of government the people enough. It will mean rural hous-| 0f the nation put in power ‘in ing. rural roads and rural health! Washington would determine will suffer. It will mean that; how things were for us in Flor- hosts of children in the United | ida. You see the peace and pros- States, now getting in the schools perity of our Florida is determin- 'a decent lunch each day from the |@4 not in Florida but in the Federal-State School Lunch Pro-| Councils of the nation and the is the reason that gram will not get that lunch. It, World. That ; ° representatives, like ) will mean that Rivers and Har- } we: desing ‘ , bors projects. so badlv needed : your soldiers and sailors, though jin Florida and other varts of the; V© fight for our homes often 1 have to fight home. will get under wav. We ot Sa ae have authorized proiects all over} Florida, from Pensacola all around our western coastline to Kev West and un to Jacksonville on the east coast: on the topple i countrv. Yours very truly, CLAUDE PEPPER: (LA dtZedt £4 ft) chicala River in West Florida. on the St. .TInhns. on the Kissimmee. | the Hillsborough. and other wa- terways of Florida, for which in THE ARTMAN PRESS PRINTING ;manv eases approvriations have | alreadv been made. nen which The Citizen Building not a lick of work will be hit if, PHONE 51 these cuts go into effect. Key West, Florida } These are ist ai few thineos | that we shall have to pav to helo he