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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1950
The Editorial Page
Pressure Groups:1
Editor's Note: Today when our economy is composed of conflicting interests represented by lobbyists, pressure groups, and the like, it seems only fair to examine some of the "special interests". Every group has them, and an understanding of their aims and actions might be worth while. The first in a series.
The group is composed of businessmen, educators, and some government officials. The list of the board of trustees of the C.E.D. is impressive. Among the 118 men who serve on the board are: Nelson A. Rockefeller, Beardsley Ruml, Paul G. Hoffman (ERP director), Roy E. Larsen (president of Time, Inc.), H. J. Heinz II, Senator Ralph Flanders, Henry Ford II, and Milton S. Eisenhower.
The C.E.D. was formed in the dark days of 1942 in the office of Jesse Jones, then Secretary of Commerce. Owen Young and Jones formulated the idea along with members of the Business Advisory Council. The Council which was more or less the forerunner of the organization spawned such men as Slettinius, Harriman, and Snyder.
COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
One of the youngest and most powerful of the pressure groups active in the United States today is the C.E.D.-the Committee for Economic Development.
The one immediate objective that motivated the formation of the C.E.D. was the establishment of a group to see that the economy did not collapse when the war ended and war contracts were cancelled. The C.E.D., using a "grassroots" approach, organized every district in the country. It brought home to every businessman the need of being prepared to reconvert and the import of doing so.
This one main aim being largely accomplished, as witness the rapid recovery of American business and the boom now very much in evidence, the C.E.D. turned to other problems.
The major unfinished business before the organization today is the discovery of the formula for stability of employment at high levels. As far as the C.E.D. is concerned this is of extreme importance, not only to businessmen but to the nation as a whole.
To find the solution the C.E.D. is engaging in extensive research projects. Studies of taxation, of risk capital and the fact that it may be diminishing, and of monetary management have been undertaken and largely completed. At this moment Senator Paul Douglas, democrat from Illinois, is also looking into monetary management.
Another study (or better, problem) that confronts C.E.D. is bigness—bigness in business, labor, and government. To date the group seems to think that human relationships, between the employer and employee, may be the key to solving bigness. The C.E.D., in theory at least, seems willing to accept blame as well as administer it.
Thomas B. McCabe, chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, in an address to the C.E.D. recently said that the C.E.D. must retain research, but needs a great new cause that will reach to the grassroots (i.e. one which will appear favorable to the C.E.D.) and McCabe thinks that this cause can be found in the area of industrial and public relations.
The C.E.D. is a non-profit, non-political organization, but the very members make it in effect a pressure group. To date the C.E.D. has kept a fairly clean slate and has high ideals (i.e. retention of a free society). How these ideals might become twisted, no one knows.
Snails' Pace
American women first learned of this when the newspapers carried a story that Hollywood's famous Romeo, Errol Flynn, was embarking on his third matrimonial effort.
It seems that Flynn, who has caused females' hearts to flutter for a decade, married 20-year-old Rumanian princess, Irene Ghica, whom he met only two weeks prior to announcing their engagement.
A new husband catching device has been discovered.
How did Mrs. Flynn (nee Ghica) snare this prize? She didn't employ the long-used and time-worn tricks, such as "accidental meetings," entangling dog leashes, or even the old yacht trick which caught Flynn once before. She did it with a hitherto unknown device.
To catch the man you want, girls, buy some snails and present them to him. He'll grab them—and you with them—and you'll soon be a Mrs.
Miss Ghica carried a package of snails from France to New York City where she presented them to Flynn. The snails were a big hit, as they were Flynn's favorite food, and after praising them he turned to the bearer and soon found, as he put it, that they had "common interests." They soon announced their engagement.
So girls, if you're looking for a husband and are thinking of getting him by any conventional means, think again. The old tricks are out. They sometimes work, but not always. But here is something which has caught even Hollywood's dashing lover. If it will do that, it will bring in anybody.
But what if he doesn't like snails? Try lobster.
Snails.
White House To Get 10 New Limousines
Detroit, Mich., (U.P.)—Ford Motor company is constructing 10 special Lincoln limousines for the White House.
Spokesman at Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division said the order was for nine seven-passenger Cosmopolitan limousines and a seven-passenger convertible.
One limousine and the convertible will have special running boards for secret service men guarding President Truman, the announcement said. The limousines will have 145-inch wheelbases with driver's compartments separated from the passengers by a glass partition. Special fittings include a rear compartment radio for Mr. Truman.
The cars are being built by an outside custom body builder under supervision of Ford engineers who designed the automobiles, the announcement said. Charles G. Ross, presidential press secretary said in Washington that the larger models
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would replace the White House's present five-passenger Lincolns. He said the new cars would be better for ceremonial processions involving the president and foreign dignitaries.
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