The piece remarks that the union regarded higher wages and bonuses as being unfair labor practices unless the union obtained them.

It suggests that the epitaph for the Wagner Labor Act should be: "Done to death by those it sought to aid."

Chevrolet was organizing the event, such that the participating cars were now streamlined jobs, not the old packing crates nailed to a 2 x 10. The News and radio station WAYS co-sponsored the Derby. It had rigorous regulations and each boy who participated had to build his own car.

Tommy Smith had won the race in his "Faul & Crymes" car, and would thus advance to the nationals at Akron, Ohio.

Keep your fingers crossed.

But, it continues, had it been writing on the topic, it would have pointed out that the third disaster, at the Baker Hotel in Dallas, had occurred in a state which forbade open consumption of liquor and sale except in liquor stores, suggesting another cause than alcohol consumption unless there was a speakeasy on the premises. (The news report indicated a boiler explosion as the ignition source.)

The piece further suggests that the most likely culprits in the fires were either smoking in bed or kitchens with open flames. So, it advises regulations requiring asbestos sheets and outlawing the sale of food in hotels.

It brought to mind Aesop's fable of the Belly against which the Members struck because Belly was lazy. The Members refused to lift an arm or leg in his service. But eventually, they began to starve.

The civilians had already determined that the heaviest damage was inflicted on Japan by the U.S. submarines, shutting off almost all supplies to the main islands from the outlying areas toward the end of the war. Japan, by the end, lacked, in consequence, enough gasoline to fly its planes or oil for the ships to put to sea.

Second in inflicting damage were the Army long-range land-based planes, the B-29's, and third were the carrier-based Navy planes.

More damage could have been inflicted had there not been jealousy between General MacArthur and General Arnold. General Arnold had placed the 20th Air Force in China, requiring that its fuel be shipped from India over the Hump in the Himalayas, causing the flights to be ineffective relative to the 14th Air Force under General Claire Chennault, which bombed Japanese shipping off the China coast.

The civilians concluded that if the 20th Air Force similarly had concentrated on bombing shipping rather than siphoning gasoline from the submarines, the war could have been won more quickly—implying that the atomic bomb would never have been used, a bold assumption given that the Japanese had vowed to fight to the last man standing on the main islands, before the dropping of the two bombs.

The B-29's had not caused much damage until they were flying from the Marianas, Saipan and Tinian. Of course, the B-29's had only flown a small number of missions in the two months they had been flying in June through August, 1944, before the Marianas were captured during the summer and flights began taking place in earnest from them in the fall of 1944, with the largest missions beginning in the winter.

Mr. Pearson next imparts further information on why Justice Robert Jackson had written the caustic letter to the Senate and House judiciary committees regarding Justice Hugo Black. As already told by Harold Ickes, Mr. Jackson had first been promised the Chief Justice position in 1941 when Charles Evans Hughes retired. But because of the senior position on the Court occupied by Justice Stone—and, no doubt, the fact that the retiring Chief was a Republican as was Justice Stone, appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1925—FDR was counseled to appoint Justice Stone.

But at the time he appointed Mr. Jackson to fill Justice Stone's seat, the President promised that at the next vacancy of the Chief, Justice Jackson would be elevated. When that failed to happen, he became embittered and blamed Justice Black, Acting Chief after the death of Chief Justice Stone. And, indeed, Justice Black had advised the President against appointing Justice Jackson.

He next tells of Judge Roy Hofheinz in Texas granting free radio broadcast time to all candidates for up to ten hours on his station, KTHT.

Congressman Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, future Senator and vice-presidential candidate running with Adlai Stevenson in 1956, defeating Senator John F. Kennedy for the nomination, was starting a probe into American business monopolies to show how the war had concentrated business in the hands of a few large companies.

Before departing for Paris, Secretary of State Byrnes had written to Mr. Childs, taking polite issue with his statement in a previous column in which he had asserted that Mr. Byrnes should have earlier pressed the proposal for a 25-year four-power treaty to maintain the peace in Europe. He quotes from that letter, in which Mr. Byrnes stated that he did make the proposal at the earliest possible time after becoming Secretary the previous July, that having been at the first foreign ministers conference in London the previous September, following Potsdam in the latter half of July. Josef Stalin had agreed to the proposal on Christmas Eve, 1945. Thus, the previous Paris meeting in April was intended merely as a platform for disclosing what had already been previously proposed and to which assent had been provided. Then Foreign Commissar Molotov rejected the treaty in April.

That which apparently caused the change of mind in the interim was the "iron curtain" speech by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Mo., on March 5. The Kremlin had perceived the speech as aggressive and that President Truman had at least tacitly provided his preliminary approval—though he later denied having any advance knowledge of the content of the speech. Premier Stalin had been upset by the speech and even more so by the fact that no one in the Attlee Government in Britain had repudiated it.

"Perhaps the case is hopeless, as we are told so often by those who denounce 'appeasers.' The headlines—on atomic energy, on Trieste and so on—seem to confirm this. But we should not reconcile ourselves to this final disaster until the heads of state have met once again to try to clear the air of doubt and suspicion. It is time for Stalin, Truman and Attlee to sit down around the conference table to see whether any area of agreement exists."

The writer supports the Bishop's remarks and urges that liberals tell the Rightists the same thing which President Roosevelt had told them, that they were economic royalists who did not believe in democracy.