After briefly explaining the intent of the Framers that Congressmen would be closer to the people than Senators by the nature of the office, it provides a litany of the various problems which Mr. Jones would be facing in the new Congress, inflationary trends, shortage of housing, the need for reorganization of the Government, and control of atomic energy.

Mr. Jones had avoided controversy during the campaign and so it was not possible to know precisely what stances he would adopt. Only 38,525 had voted of the 160,743 eligible voters in the six counties covered by the district. He had won by default. Only two other Democrats had contested for the seat in the primary. Both were obscure, as was Mr. Burkholder, a truck farmer, his Republican opponent in the general election. Mr. Burkholder polled the smallest Republican vote in the history of the district, indicative of his lackluster campaign.

Mr. Jones had run for the position three previous times and so knew the district well. The fact that Mr. Jones did not engage in any serious debate of issues was not to fault him, for there was no need to do so, with no serious challenge facing him.

It concludes that the residents of the district no longer gave a "tinker's dam" who represented them in Congress. If they did, it asserts, there would have been an active contest with plenty of declared candidates. The people determined the type and quality of their government. The politicians did not create it. And it was the force of the people which went missing in the district election.

The piece wishes Mr. Jones well, albeit without any clear mandate from the voters. Whether he would serve with skill or ineptly, he would, it concludes, provide the residents of the district better representation than they deserved.

It finds the need for overhauling of labor practices and its economics for capitalism to continue to work. Labor's war on profits could boomerang against its own interests. Rising wages meant lower profits or higher prices, and lower profits affected the stock market adversely.

Government should enforce competition and a stable dollar and manage a social security program. The piece favors minimum Government participation in collective bargaining, remedial legislation to correct the worst union abuses and to rectify the imbalance between unions and management, including some form of legislation to apply antitrust law to unions, to prevent restraint of trade and collusion.

He next tells of DNC chairman Robert Hannegan asking Henry Wallace not to attack Senator Vandenberg when he spoke in Minneapolis. Mr. Wallace insisted, however, that he would go ahead as he believed Mr. Vandenberg was cornering Secretary of State Byrnes with regard to the policy on Russia, and that he no longer worked for the White House, thus could say what he wanted. Mr. Hannegan conveyed the President's wishes that he not attack the Senator as it would harm Michigan Democrats in the election. Eventually, Mr. Wallace pulled his punches.

Congressman Wright Patman of Texas, he reports, would soon demand an investigation into the reasons for the firing of Assistant Attorney General O. John Rogge and also press for inclusion in the public record of Mr. Rogge's report on the business dealings of American companies with Nazi Germany and its statements regarding the involvement of Senators and Congressmen with the Nazis.

Ambassador to Chile Claude Bowers opposed sending Admiral William Leahy to Chile on a battleship accompanied by a task force, following the election of leftist President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla. Ambassador Bowers wanted the President to send then Secretary of Commerce Wallace as an emissary because Mr. Wallace could convince the Chileans of the hazards of becoming too leftist in orientation. The President nevertheless sent Admiral Leahy, a personal friend of President Videla, and the move was interpreted in Latin America as part of the new "get-tough" policy by the United States with regard to Communism. President Videla was considered the first Communist-elected President in Latin America.

Yet, beneath this ostensibly rosy picture were signs of deterioration and decay. Prices were near the 1920 peak, which was signal to swift deflation wiping out swollen land values and causing commodity prices to plummet, creating hardship for farmers.

The cycle now in effect raising prices could have been avoided by simply adhering for a little while longer to controls. It could still be avoided with some self-restraint. But with another strike looming in the coal industry led by John L. Lewis, the prospect appeared remote. Mr. Lewis had been a Republican since 1940. The National Association of Manufacturers, advocating removal of controls, was also Republican. Thus, the Republicans would have the responsibility going forward for the results of the removal and any consequent recession or depression.

If it did occur, the chance for a stable world economy would also go out the window with it.

When the miners had struck a year earlier, Mr. Ickes, then Secretary of Interior, advised the President not to take over the mines because, eventually, Mr. Lewis would make further demands, as he was now doing. He advised smashing the power of Mr. Lewis then and there. The surrender in the spring and takeover of the mines by the President after negotiating a liberal contract with UMW, was the result of advice by Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder. The threat of a strike at the beckoning of winter was timed to catch the country in its most vulnerable state.

He suggests that Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug might have cut his Western inspection tour short to return to Washington to meet with Mr. Lewis on November 1 prior to the election. Instead, it was left to John Steelman to carry the ball for the Government until Mr. Krug would return this date. Meanwhile, Mr. Lewis sat on the sidelines and sent in a pinch-hitter.

As the most arrogant and insolent man in the country, says Mr. Ickes, Mr. Lewis had already put Mr. Krug in his place and if he were to be appeased again, the President would have to realize that he would keep coming back for more.