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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Washington Dipestj The Election Has Changed Both Democrats and GOP By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—There are two experiences which no one should miss if he can help it. Coming into Paris, the “city of light,” and Washington, “the city of magnificent distances,” at twilight by airplane. Lately I dropped down from the clouds u^on Washington, with the lingering embrace of southern sunlight about me. The tiny sparkling lights below winked their welcome. But this esthetic experience ended bruskly when I left the airport. The winking lights stared, and by the time 1 reached the National Press club, eyes winked but they belonged to my colleagues who patrol the beat from the White House to the Capitol. Baukhage Fresh from the innocent delights of the vacationing fisherman, I bragged about my tan. and then carelessly in quired: "What is going to happen in congress next month?” One of the col leagues answered: "Harry Truman is lucky. He owes one debt he never will have to pay —to Henry Wal lace. When Wal lace bowed him self out he stepped on the red ruffles of Miss Democrat’s petticoat, and pulled it along with him.” And it was generally admit ted that much of the stigma connected with the charge of “coddling Communists” was removed when Wallace left, lake the Pied Piper (not of Hamelin, but once of Iowa) he piped away a lot of the "luna tic fringe” which is the eternal headache of ail political par ties. The rodents in this case (both red and pink) followed the piper’s dulcet promises. But the piper was unable to take his revenge. Un like the flutist in the poem who lured Hamelin’s children away when their parents wouldn’t pay the rat-exterminator, Henry’s pip ing titillated few Democratic ears. The voters didn’t follow. There were other unwept losses among Harry Truman’s alleged supporters. He won the election without the solid south. The other end of the Democratic spectrum colored by the views of those who preferred mint juleps under the fragrant magnolias, to straight Yankee or middlewestem spirits withdrew discreetly and complete ly to their jasmine-curtained veran das. This doesn’t mean they won’t be heard from later, but they aren’t the worry they once were. While no one would bracket the conservatives with the “lunatic fringe,” the Dixiecrats did cause many embarrassments to the Dem ocrats. Now they are at least sep arately ticketed. The Republicans likewise de rived certain healing qualities from the cold douche they took on November 2, not unlike Mr. Truman’s. A number of their die-hards died in the struggle with the electorate. Minority-Leader-to-Be Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, is no wild-eyed radical. So what he says on the subject of change (which is what the radical always wants) is significant. Joe warned his friends back in Attleboro, Mass., a district which probably will elect him as long as he chooses to run, that the Repub licans in the recent campaign of fered the pec pie "too many Brah mins, too many plutocrats.” These Republican candidates, said Joe, likewise offered too little person ality, did not appeal to the people, and formed a narrow circle which prevented what he called “expan sion and the opening of ranks.” (Of whom could he have been thinking?) “We digressed too far from the people,” the former speaker said, and the "GOP must reorganize in the cities and towns, getting in new blood at every level.” Joe was speaking then out of his deep political wisdom. Social Legislation Is Here to Stay Rep. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Republican nation al committee in the recent cam paign, gave another significant post election warning to his party. Re publicans must recognize, he said, that legislation embodying social gains is here to stay. So it would appear that these men, and many of the other Re publicans who now represent the GOP in congress, are as happy to be relieved, not of a lunatic fringe like the Demo crats, but of an albatross around their necks. The Republicans who are trying to re-form their ranks and re-build for 1950 are by no means pessi mistic. To quote Joe Martin again, he predicted that the GOP would snap back quicker than they went out. They know now, if some of them didn’t before, they must keep In step with the times. One of the great problems the Republican na tional committee faced in the cam paign was reconciling the pro gressive ideas set forth in Mr. Dewey’s speeches with the some what pleistocene attitude (as one observer described it), of some of the ex-candidates for house and senate. Witness the embarrassing situa tion in West Virginia, not to men tion Illinois. The New York gover nor simply couldn’t stomach cross ing the borders of West Virginia to embrace its recalcitrant senator. Chicago on the other hand is a railway center and it was neces sary for Governor Dewey to change trains there and "in Rome do as Romans do.” He did, and endorsed the Republican senatorial candidate from Illinois. But the citizens of Illinois did not. Had Mr. Dewey been elected, and had the Republican senator from Illinois been re-elected, the White House would have.faced difficulties, among them the embarrassing par adox: Sen. C. Wayland Brooks opposed the Marshall plan which Dewey strongly endorsed. Taking that as a guide, it seems possible that Brooks could have been count ed upon to vote against a Dewey- Dulles foreign policy as he did against Mr. Truman’s. Liberal Thought Growing in U. S. The election, I believe, caused thoughtful people to emerge with one idea which the entire nation, regardless of its politics, will have to get used to. The thought is not original with me, but it is one that was mentioned by the only person who did predict the election re sult (except the man I lost a bet to). Agriculture Economist Bean said something like tins: The wave of liberal thought which appeared to have reached its zenith under Roose velt is still on the upswing. Apparently the natural post war reaction stopped it, but didn’t start it going in the op posite direction. Now some of you may not like that thought, but it were well to accustom oneself to the idea. Nor need you expect the pendulum ever to swing as far back as you might wish. Personally, I enjoy riding behind a spanking team in a buggy “with the fringe on top,” and I wonder if we -wouldn’t all be better off if the internal combus tion engine had never been invent ed. But I am willing to admit, things being what they are, that we have traffic lights and other an noying regulations. At any rate, when President Tru man takes the rostrum to deliver his message in January, he will look out on a congress which, his friends claim, he fashioned in large part with his own hand. Or I might say with his own sharp tongue from a back platform. Harry Truman went out and fought tooth and nail, no bolds barred, for the kind of con gress he wanted. The people, whether or not that was their only intention, gave it to him. And now as one somewhat cyni cal observer remarked to me: “Harry’s got what he wanted, God help him.” He has to deliver now. The Wednesday Democrats” have tufhed out to be Saturday’s children when it comes to getting jobs in Washington. • • • An elephant can do a lot of things with his trunk but he has to carry it with him when he travels. I can check mine. • • • The ocean is growing saltier, ac cording to the National Geographic. Probably getting jealous of the Great Salt lake. • • • Television is climbing out of its cradle, says Electrical Advertising. Let’s hope it won’t crawl back to meet the occupants of cradles half way. • • • Export of butter from the Argen tine is increasing. Perhaps because it won’t melt in President Peron’s mouth when he tells what he’ll do to people who want to prevent his re-election. • • • It’s an ill wind (I’d say serious ly ill) that blows nobody’s good cigarette lighter out. • * * It’s hard to find anything you like to eat when you’re on a diet But suppose you were an ant-eater? » • * Home sewing is a bigger business than ever—but what's being sewed is nobody’s business. DANCES AGAIN . . . Patricia "Satira” Schmidt has resumed her dancing career at a night club in Kentucky after spending 18 months in a Havana prison for the shooting of John Lester Mee. The headdress is for an oriental number. NEW COMET . . . Here’s a photograph of that new comet which ap peared a few weeks ago and was described by astronomers as “the most beautiful of this generation.” This picture was made at Mt. Palomar, Calif. An exposure time of five minutes was used which accounts for the white marks throughout the picture. They’re stars, The comet was visible in most parts of the United States. PASSING ACE . . . Stan Heath of Nevada, the nation’s leading forward passer, is finishing his last season of collegiate football. He’ll be in the market for a pro football contract at the end of the year. GOOD MEDICINE . . . Waltber Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers union, grins happily from his hospital bed as he scans messages which poured in as a result of the Truman victory. CRACK SHOTS . . . G. Wayne Moore (kneeling) of Washington, Pa., was the 1946-47 national rifle champion. But this year 20-year-old Arthur Cook (prone) of Washington, D. C., proved too much for him. Moore is shown congratulating his youthful successor at a rifle range near Quantico, Va., where the finals were held. The competition was sponsored by the National Rifle association. INDICTED . . . Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, who has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government, as he appeared with his wife on election day. NARROW ESCAPE . . . This has been a bad fall for brush and forest fires. Scant minutes ahead of the roaring flames, 2,000 residents of Silverado Canyon and Modjeska Canyon, Calif., fled to safety as a 50-mile wind whipped the Orange county forest fire into fury as shown here. Three hundred marines from a base at El Toro we^e called to help fight the fire. TRAGEDY . Typical of Italy’s needy children is this 15-month- old Italian baby sitting on a box outside the family cave-home near Rome. She has not yet learned to walk because of mal nutrition. HE’S A WRESTLER, TOO . . . Gorgeous George has wrestling fans in an uproar with his unusual publicity stunts. He’s shown here with his hair up in curlers following a marcel wave he received in a New York beauty parlor. Geoffries, his valet, is sprinkling perfume in the air. At matches, Geoffries must spray both ring and Gorgeous George’s opponent with perfume before “the ms it ah’’ will enter. Letters for Special Delivery Honorable ^Harry Truman Washington, D. C. The glow of having your mitt raised as the surprise winner in a knockdown and dragout fight is probably beginning to fade now, but I’ll bet few Americans have ever felt better. You surprised a lot of folks. You now stand out in the picture as a sort of wonderman when only a short time ago so many people were wondering if you would quite do. You must have set a new record for up-your-sleeve laughter in the last couple of days. What have you got that John L. Sullivan, Man o’ War and Dempsey didn’t have? » The gag, "Who told that piano player he was a President,” «is dead. You came through like Sou sa’s band. And march music lin gers on. How your mom would have loved it! * ' To even your severest critics you were a good egg and a top notch American citizen. You were a pretty perfect compos ite of the fellows most of us like to have on our list of friends and buddies. You come close to being the typical Amer ican, the genuine, clean living, dependable guy we all warm up to at the Kiwanis club lun cheons, the Elks outing, the church social, the businessmen’s lunch, the old home week cele bration and the class reunion. Disliking you was a tough trick anywhere anytime. • To those poll takers it seemed Just a case of miscasting, but they forget that a lot of very* big per formers have suffered from that erroneous impression without los ing public regard and affection. You were in there pitching in one of the toughest spots in world his tory. * There were plenty of Presidents of the United States who wouldn’t have come so close to the plate as you in similar conditions. You had the added disadvantage of follow ing in the footsteps of a great act or, a spellbinding orator who had been on the job so long be had come to be regarded as part of the act. You were in the same tough spot as the performer who gets on the bill immediately after the performing lions. • But you never claimed to have all the answers, you at no time posed as the world’s mas ter magician and there was never a suggestion of the dicta tor about you. You were in the American tradition of the hum ble public servant. You gave us a respite from ballyhoo and medicine show routine. You had respect for the other fellow’s opinions, as a rufe. And on the whole you kept your patience and seemed always to be in there trying heart and soul. • I have a hunch you will now go on to be one of the most popular Presidents in the history of Amer- | ica, that you will be flabbergasted ; by the warmth of the country’s feel ing for you for years to come and that what you have been through is going to make you a better and happief President of the glorious U. S. A. Lots of luck, ELMER. • * • Election Agony NOTICE: Will the persons who witnessed collision in which well- known com specialist was caught between a truck, a locomotive, a jet plane and an atom bomb while trying to cross street in a droshky and carrying a bucket of borscht, please get in touch with under signed who doesn’t mind the band ages, but would like clue to recov ery of his pants.—H. Wallace. • FOR SALE: First offer gets it; my en tire set of mirrors, crystal balls, maps, astrologers? charts, etc. Owner has no further use for same.—Drew Pearson. WANTED: Deep hole under an old wall remote from people who give wrong answers. One well stocked with canned crow meat preferred.—Messrs. Roper, Cross- ley and Gallup. « AT LIBERTY: For radio, carnival, fairs, midway and medicine shows; have hot sax somewhat out of kilter; been playing all over U. S. with Wal lace Sideshow and Congress of Curi ous People; willing to go any place but teem to go no place; ready to work ex cept for lack of wardrobe lost in hurri cane.—-Glenn Taylor. EARL: Rush copy of song “California. Here We Go!” Think we were playing the other version. Heigh ho and ajackaday.—T. D. WARNING: Mr. Gallup. Leave $100,000. all your tools and all alibis in hollow tree as per map being mailed. I ain’t fooling. This means business.—Gus Pollfollower, * ALL Poll takers attention! You’r# nuts. Why wasn’t I told.—W. W. Airlift a Grim Problem Now that the election hubbub is quieting down, we have to face the cold and unpleasant fact that the Berlin airlift is in danger of buck ling. Top military strategists are still hanging on to a grim hope that the airlift will hold out until spring, but it will take cold cash and sheer guts—and American lives—to do it. Here is what the airlift is up against: 1. MOST SERIOUS, the air force' is desperately short of cargo planes. More than half of its elephant-bellied C-54s now are flying the Berlin run. Else where the air force has been' forced to cut its normal trans port service. But the worst fear is that all these cargo planes, flying right under Russia’s nose, might be the target for a Pearl Harbor of the air—in case Rus sia decides to strike. As the U. S. navy was paralyzed at Pearl Harbor, so the U. S. air force could be paralyzed at Ber lin. 2. THE AIR FORCE is out of money.. Its budget experts al ready are working on a deficien- ‘ cy appropriation. The air force also has no money to build new cargo places, has committed every available dollar to build bombers and fighters. 3. WINTER IS,sure to harass the airlift more than the Rus sians. In the past Germany’s severe weather has grounded better planes than those now flying the airlift. The air force already has alerted its public- relations officers to prepare for an increase in accidents. 4. THE PROBLEM of mainte nance is still serious, though not critical. One-fourth of the planes assigned to the Berlin airlift are constantly in the pipe line between Germany and the United States for repairs. This policy of rotation has been work ing better than expected, is one of the factors that has encour aged air force chiefs to predict that the / airlift will finally squeak through the winter—de spite everything. • NOTE: In spite of the urgent need {or cargo planes. Senator Owen Brewster of Maine has been doing his best to block the building of a civilian "Merchant Marine of the air.” He has mapped out a legisla tive program for next year that will wipe out the struggling young air freight lines, built up after the war by veterans. The Brewster pro gram appears to have been influ enced by Pan American Airways, but it has less chance of getting past congress now that the Demo crats have moved into control Hoover Discusses Dewey Herbert Hoover was talking to friends in New York just before the election, and got off some pungent paragraphs about the Republican candidate for president. "Dewey,” quoth the ex-president of the United States, "will never appoint MacArthur or Taft or any one who ran against him. He doesn't like opposition. "I can’t forgive Dewey for not helping Revercomb or Reese,” continued Hoover, referring to the Republican candidates for the senate in West Virginia and Tennessee. “He needs their votes in the senate, but he won’t help them because they previ ously opposed him.” Reese, it will be recalled, was Taft’s appointee as chairman of the Republican National committee and, as such, worked against Dewey’s nomination. Revercomb had op posed Dewey’s request to modify the displaced persons bill when it was before the senate. Someone asked Hoover whom he would have liked to see nominated by the Republicans for president. “Personally I was for Taft,” re plied the ex-president, "but, prac tically, for Stassen. He would have been a great vote-getter." Anna Roosevelt’s Newspaper Last summer when Anna Roose velt Boettiger’s Phoenix (Arizona) Times ran into rough going, a group of Republican businessmen got a big vision. They saw a chance to swing the state to Dewey. 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