.. Another Bt'e Canal Campaign . Representative Celler at New York will see President Truman about budd- ing the North Florida barge canal. This announcement is made tram Palm Beach. home at John 1!. Perry. publish- er of 28 newspapers in Florida and per- ennial promoter of the barge canal. (Drew Pearson used to issue pronounce~ ments in tavor of the canal trom Palm Beach also.) Simultaneous Perry newspa- per stories and tront- age editorials ae- company the start another typical Parry campaign to "complete the miss- ing link" in the intercoastal waterway system. Recalling the campaign that won au- thorisation for the canal during World War ii. the emphasis is placed on the value 0! the canal (or World War Ill. There is conicting proiesaional opinion about this argument. so there has in be a simulated public opiniona supposed selling of grass roots wisdom demand. ing the expenditure of hundreds of mil- lions oi dollars for a proyeot of dubious patriotism in peace or war. The Perry chain tool: out lull newspaper advertise- ments in Washington during World War II urging Congress to build the es. ml. which quite naturally would pass near Ocala. home of the Ocala Star Ban- ner. and Jacksonville. home or the Jack- sonville Journal. Another campaign of this type plainly is in the omng. However. Representative Celler need not trouble himselt to see President Tru- man. He can refer to the Presidents state 0! the union message {or a yard- stick on all deferred rivers and harbors praiect such as the North Florida barge canal. The President said: In the months ahead: the government must give priority to activities that are urgent -iilte military procurement and atomic energy and power development. It must practice rigid economy in its nondeienae activities. Many of the things we would normally do must be curtailed or pesto poned. in any case. if Congress did not regard the construction of the North Florida canalwhich would duplicate the South Florida canalof sufficiently high priority for construction in World War Ii. President Truman will have a ready answer trom Congress attitude for Representative Celler. That is a mat- ter of record. Attention, Congress Ectoplasm being the uaeiul commodi- ty it is both to British history and the tourist trade. the house or commons read twice. in December. a bill to protect "genuine" medium: by repealing the Witchcraft Act of l735. How constructive it the Izod Congress would please note and then do some. thing to protect "happy" mediums -es- pecially in polltlcoaausual'. discussions at foreign policy and abuse of the prie liege oi senatorial immunity!