A strike would do more damage in the long-run to the union than good, because of the inevitable restrictive legislation to come in its wake.

Everyone in the country agreed that Mr. Lewis was wrong this time, but that did not solve the problem. While existing legislation allowed his jailing for continuing to urge the strike, such action would likely convert him to a martyr in the perception of the miners. And in the meantime, the country would suffer for want of coal. New legislation could do no better.

Thus, in the end, it predicts, the Government might have to bow to Mr. Lewis's demands. His irresponsibility, however, would cast him as a member of the robber barons of the industrial class who had destroyed the good name of business, forcing Federal control. So it would be in this case, as the Congress would exert control over Mr. Lewis.

The piece finds this tactic to be simply a mirror of the Communists attacking Southern justice and should be avoided as serving no purpose.

Hodding Carter had recently written a piece in The Saturday Evening Post, titled "Chip on Our Shoulder Down South". The piece finds Mr. Rivers providing the evidence that the chip did, indeed, still exist.

It hopes that the South Carolina chapter of the WCTU would follow the example and abandon its annual goal of getting a prohibition bill through the Legislature, taking up valuable time and resources for naught.

Two weeks before the November 5 election, Congressman John Rankin of Mississippi and witch-hunter J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, to become chairman of HUAC in the new Congress, agreed that it was time to get rid of all of the liberals in government whom they did not like. It was agreed that Mr. Rankin would continue to be a driving force on HUAC, doing most of the work. Robert Stripling, former chief investigator for former Texas Congressman Martin Dies when he had chaired the committee, was rehired. He was working on a master list for use by the committee to smear Government personnel.

Mr. Pearson makes a prediction that the Congress would be doing more investigation for the purpose of witch-hunting than at any time since Congressman Ham Fish of New York had gone to a trunk in a Baltimore warehouse on the tip that it contained Soviet documents, only to find cabbages.

This time, there would be a pumpkin with microfilm in it, also in Maryland, but on a farm, not in a warehouse. It might also contain a small snake.

In the Republican caucus, it was decided to accept the Reorganization Act in its entirety, despite objection by a few members of the delegation who wanted stricken the part combining the Navy Committee and the Military Affairs Committee into an Armed Services Committee. They believed that it was premature to combine the committees before the military itself was combined, that disharmony would result from the fact that the Naval Committee objected to consolidation. In the end, the caucus, however, agreed to accept the Act unchanged.

Mr. La Guardia told of visiting Josef Stalin the previous summer and that Stalin had favored continuation of relief, was also willing to commit to help maintain it. Previously, Russia had been a recipient of aid, not a contributor.

The State Department wanted the United States to contribute individually to countries which showed loyalty, such as Greece, Italy, and Austria. Countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine, and White Russia would not receive U.S. aid.

UNRRA experts were not predicting starvation, though some Eastern European countries were struggling. But they feared that recovery would be slowed without the aid, slowing a return to normal trade in Europe.

Use of food as a political weapon would be a new departure for the Government. After World War I, food was distributed evenly according to need, regardless of politics. In 1921, Herbert Hoover's relief organization began to feed over 10 million Russians. America meant then salvation and hope to the world. Mr. Childs urges that role not to be abandoned.

But there appeared something false about the inflation, that it was not the hard and fast type at work. Many department stores were running ads of price reductions just as the Christmas season was starting, not indicative of an inflationary trend in fact.

It would be risky to raise rent ceilings with a price recession being predicted by most economists for the spring. Rents were frozen by leases and did not go down as normal consumer prices in a cycle. There was an insistence from landlords that the increases occur forthwith because within two to three months, the downward cycle of prices would prevent the increases from taking place.

It looked as if the upward spiral of inflation was ending and the next problem would be the downward spiral. But the latter would require relief and public works to prevent unemployment so that retailers could continue to sell their lower-priced goods.

Management would be content to let prices fall without control, just as they were content to let prices rise, so that they could reduce wages and costs.

The goal was to prevent either spiral and to keep the price-wage structure reasonably level.

Prosperity had drawbacks and whoever controlled the finances controlled the policy of the institution. The Baptists had brought prosperity to the school where once it was poor and humble. It was now bound to grow whether it moved or not.

Presently, he says, there was no campus or money set aside for buildings to which the school could move.