No matter how often he puts his foot in his mouth, President Truman has a saving humility and lack of pretense. Last week he demonstrated those plain virtues again. As he scraped for dollars and food to aid Europe, he recalled another time when he was hard-pressed: his 1919 venture as partner in a Kansas City haberdashery. He told the Commerce Department's advisory committee on small business: "I know some of the troubles of small business. I was in one myself. ... It took me 20 years to get out from under that experience, and I would hate to see the...
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