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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940 Washington, D. C. UNREST FACES WINDSOR WASHINGTON.—Whether he real izes it or not, the duke of Windsor is going to have a tougher time on his hands as governor of the Ba hamas than merely sitting round the roulette tables of Nassau or enter taining ritzy tourists from the U. S. A. The duke was appointed to the Ba hamas partly to give him something to do someplace near the native land of his wife, but also to keep him as far away as possible from his pro-German friends in England and his Nazi pals in Germany—who were reputed to entertain ideas about restor ing him to the throne Wallv of En 8 land - ”“ uy However, when the ex-king gets to the Azure islands Just off the coast of Florida he will find a major social problem await ing him. For the Bahamas are not self-supporting; even with their rich tourist trade they are an economic liability. The United Kingdom gives them all sorts of concessions to keep the populace contented. Among other things, the British government pays a high preference on Bahainan sugar to sweeten the English cup of tea. It pays through the nose in comparison with the much cheaper Cuban sugar. And should Germany conquer the United Kingdom and cast off the Bahamas, those islands would face economic disaster. The Bahaman population is 90 per cent black, and already the sour eco nomic situation abroad and its reflex in Nassau, have caused rioting. The Negroes are a prolific people, in creasing the economic strain with every increase in the population. One solution might be birth con trol, and the Bahamas would offer an interesting laboratory for this ex periment. A similar experiment has been discussed in the heavily over- populated island of Puerto Rico, but there the Negroes are Catholic while in the Bahamas they are Protestant. At any rate, the duke of Windsor is likely to have his hands full. LEWIS FOR FDR Even though John L. Lewis has three times declared that if the President ran for a third term he would be “ignominiously defeated,” behind the scenes the “fix is in” for a reconciliation between them. In timates have been working on both for several weeks—ever since the G. O. P. platform opened the way for a face-saver for Lewis. When he threw his brickbats at the President before the platform committee in Philadelphia, Lewis expected in return that the Repub licans would avoid advocating amendment of the national labor re lations act in their labor plank. Un der Alf Landon’s urging the plank as originally drafted said nothing about revision. But big industrial contributors de manded no pussyfooting on the is sue. In the end Landon was over- ruled and the plank as adopted de. dared for amendment of the law. • • * KING MAKERS Two unknown newcomers staged the quiet behind-the-scenes drive which put over Henry Wallace. One was “Farmer” Eugene Ca sey, big Maryland dairyman; the other was bespectacled Dr. Luther Haar, business manager of the Phil adelphia Record and manager of Sen. Joe Guffey’s recent successful primary campaign. While other vice presidential hope fuls had elaborate headquarters and electioneering paraphernalia, Casey and Haar avoided these trappings and brought pressure to bear where it would count at the right moment. Each worked different spheres. Haar exerted his persuasive tal ents on key leaders and labor chiefs, with whom he is intimate. Not re vealed were the personal telegrams to Roosevelt from C. I. O.’s Phil Murray, Tom Kennedy and John Owen, which helped clinch the de cision on Wallace. Casey did his stuff among the in ner circle and farm leaders. The pincers drive worked and the nod went to Wallace. He got the news at breakfast ear ly Thursday morning. Grinning boy ishly, he remarked to friends who came to congratulate him: “I found I didn’t have a soft shirt this morn ing so I had to wear this stiff one. And the only cuff links I had were these the President gave me. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was a lucky omen.” Note—Only shadow on Wallace’s happiness was his inabUity to reach Jim Farley. The two have been good friends, and as soon as he got word from Washington, Wallace tele phoned Farley. But repeated efforts brought no response and all mes sages went unanswered. * » • MERRY-GO-ROUND Among those who pressured Far ley to serve again as national chair man were Governor Lehman of New York, Herbert Bayard Swope, edi tor of the old New York World, and leading delegates from Maryland. General HUGH S. JOHNSON Jour: United Feuvi« J WNU Jwrvk* Washington, D. C. ESTIMATE OF WALLACE As was painfully evident at the convention, a lot of people actively dislike Henry Wallace and a lot more dislike the way he was rammed down the throat of the Democratic party by the President. On the first point—not liking Mr. Wallace—you’ve got to know a man to make that choice and Henry isn’t easy to know. He is shy, not very articulate, and has as little political oomph as anybody in the Fourth New Deal. But if, as has been my privilege, you get really close to Mr. Wallace, you will discover a very fine specimen of what John L. Lewis oratorically calls the “genus homo.” He is simple, honest, studious and kindly. There is no side or pretense in his make-up. He has a good mind, if not a brilliant one. He is incapa ble of the clever little schemes that have so characterized and discredit ed many acts of the Fourth New Deal. I disagree with almost every an gle of his philosophy and program and I doubt if he has the qualities of leadership appropriate to a great crisis, but I would trust his sincerity of purpose as far as that of any man I know in government. The spectacle of a President so openly forcing his own choice for vice president on his party, espe cially in such dangerous times as these, is highly distasteful, but the effect if not the particular methods here used, seems to have become HENRY A. WALLACE . . . “No Superman but Honest.” a custom. Mr. Gamer was Mr. Roosevelt’s choice in 1932 and 1936. It is true that the first time it was by reason of a trade, without which Mr. Roosevelt himself could not pos sibly have been nominated, but it is also true that Mr. Roosevelt’s delegates, at his bidding, made good that bargain. It is no secret that Mr. Willkie was consulted about his choice for a running mate, that he selected Char lie McNary, and that the senator didn’t want the job and could not have been nominated without Mr. Willkie’s backing. Thus, however hateful the method used to put Mr. Wallace across, it can hardly be used to attack this nomination, un less pots are to be permitted to call kettles black. After all, there was an element of courage and an avoidance of the usual skullduggery in nominating Mr. Wallace. He is Doctor Newi Newee New of all the New Dealers. Not all Democrats are New Deal ers by a long shot. That rift was not never more apparent than at Chicago. Great rips and wounds in party solidarity were made. An obvious strategy for the heal ing of these fissures would have been to nominate at least one Demo crat on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Roosevelt certainly is not one. Mr. Wallace is even farther away. His nomination puts the whole New Deal theory of spending ourselves rich right in the spotlight as the un fuzzed issue in this fight. Adding it all up, while I can’t ap plaud either the candidacy or the method that made it, I can respect or at least understand both. Even if the fatefully unexpected should happen, and Mr. Wallace should one day become President of the United States, we can be as sured of a Chief Executive who would be honest, straightforward and wholly unaddicted to political cleverness and devious two-way thought and action. That would be something new and refreshing. Con sidering everything, I am not sure that it is not the number one re quirement in the choice of a Presi dent. There simply are no super men. • • • POWER Maybe it is possible to ride a lie ; to victory. Hitler says it is and | seems to have proved it for the j moment. If political position, patronage and favor could pervert all the dele gates to a great conventior. per haps it could pervert a majority of the voters of a great people. If gluttons for power bludgeon the democratic part of a democratic people into a Hitler plebiscite, what would they do with the so-called war powers of the President. Democratic Nominees Plan Campaign Strategy Unlike Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees Wendell L. Willkie and Sen. Charles L. Mc Nary who had never met before their selection as tho party’s 1940 standard bearers, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace, the Democratic candidates, have been closely associated in the past seven and a half years. President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace are shown above conferring on strategy for the coming campaign in whieh the President will seek a third term. When Hitler Returned in Triumph to Berlin IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS: UNCLE SAM AND JOHN Q. CITIZEN John Q.—Sam, you look different all of a sudden. Uncle Sam—I feel different. In fact, I haven’t felt better in years. John Q.—You mean to say you feel the best in years, with this war crisis and everything! Uncle Sam—That’s just it. I’ve suddenly shed the hypocrisy, torn off the blinders and gotten rid of the Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. I’m even beginning to look at facts and not wince. It’s wonderful! • * • John Q.—But don’t you think there are tough days ahead of you? Uncle Sam—Sure. But I'm never at my best except in tough days. I don’t want to seem boastful, but in all these years of coddling, com parative ease and comfort I haven’t felt right. There were times when I hated to see myself in a mirror. John Q.—It’s strange, but I feel the same way. I’ve been squawk ing and making demands all over the lot; I’ve been getting sore be cause I had to keep the old car three seasons; I’ve been yelling murder because there were worms on the third green at the country club, and I’ve been working up a terrific peeve because of the lack of free gasoline. And now, sudden ly, they all seem unimportant and trivial. Uncle Sam—It’s a swell break for us both. John Q.—But it means plenty of trouble, I suppose. Do you fee] in condition for it? Storm troopers with arms linked hold back the crowds as Adolf Hitler, leader of the Reich, returns to Berlin in triumph after the successful military operations of his armies in France. One of his first acts on his return was to promote a number of his generals to the rank of marshal. Goering was made a “Reich’s Mar shal.” Hitler stands upright in his official car and returns the salutes of thousands of his greeters. Sino-Japanese War Goes Savagely Ahead ‘Phonies’ Beware While the war in Europe has diverted attention away from the Sino- Japanese conflicts, scenes like the one above show that hostilities are still in progress. The Japanese soldier is one of a party wiping out the streets of Ichang, one of the most important strategic points in the defending army of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. A bomb explodes in the background. As a means of aiding citizens to detect counterfeit bills and coin, paper match folders such as the young lady above is holding are be ing issued by the U. S. secret serv ice in Washington, D. C. Young Briton Inaugurates Big Push Radio Executive This young citizen of Southgate, England, is doing his bit for king and country, following a call by the mayor of his city for citizens to turn in their old scrap metal and h^lp make the sinews of war for the defense of Britain. The youngster went from door to door with his homemade cart collecting odds and ends. The campaign in Southgate was duplicated in other English towns with citizens turning in scrap metaL Niles Trammell, newly elected president of the National Broadcast ing company, is shown above. A pioneer in network broadcasting, Mr. Trammell has been associated with radio for 12 yearly Uncle Sam—No, darn it! I’ve grown so soft it’s going to be a ter rific battle to get into shape. John Q.—I feel pretty flabby, too. Say, why did you let me get this way? Uncle Sam (indignantly)—How did I let YOU get this way! What I wanna know is how YOU let ME get this way. John Q.—You’re the boss; I just do as I’m told. Uncle Sam—That’s your story, and we’re both stuck with it. You’re the real boss. John Q.*—Who? Me? Uncle Sam.—I only reflect your wishes and opinions. And for years I got the idea all you wanted was plenty of white meat. John Q.—Don’t blame it all on me, Sam. Every time I looked at you you were busy on plans for the more abundant life. Instead of a tough, wiry old guy with his fists clenched and his sleeves rolled up, you were like a fat spendthrift, yell ing that life was just a bowl of cher ries and asking everybody to step up and help himself. Uncle Sam—That was your fault. You got so you thought I was a SLOT MACHINE. And you were al ways looking for the jackpot. John Q.—Why, listen, whdn you you should have been down to brass tacks, developing your muscles and hardening yourself for any contin gency, you were behaving as if all anybody had to worry about in this world was a bigger recreation pro gram. Uncle Sam — There you’ve got yourself mixed up with me again. You were the fel low who demand ed tile bathrooms, an orchid bed in every back yard, three days a week for auto trips and a guaranty against slippery roads, cold nights and sand in your lettuce. John Q.—You babied me so much I got to like it, I admit. Uncle Sam.—All you wanted was the brass ring, caviar with the free lunch, government distnoution of strawberries and cream. John Q.—Why did you cater to me so much? Uncle Sam—I wish I knew. Ev ery time I thought of letting you shift for yourself you’d start wiring me for aid in ev ery crisis, from falling hair to a leak in the radia tor. John Q.—Well, I guess it’s all over now. I guess we’ve got to cut otit the petting party and get on our ovjn. Uncle Sam.—Waddaya mean you “GUESS”! • • • THE NAME’S FAMILIAR, BUT— The head of the French-German armistice enforcement board is a colonel named Stuepnagle. The Ger mans think of everything, don’t they? • • • “Brazil Will Co-operate With Us, Says Hull.”—Headline. Wanna bet? • • • As a baseball club owner Mr. Farley will at least never be in doubt about a third run being strictly okay. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Camphor will remove the white rings left on tables by watet glasses. • • • When rag rugs are washed they should be rinsed thoroughly be cause soap left in them makes them catch dirt more easily. • • • To dice or cut marshmallows easily, dip a dry scissors into pow dered sugar. • • • Small size bath towels which are light in weight but firmly woven are easier for children to handle and are easier to launder. • • • Select pot-holders that are easy to launder and large enough to protect your hands. Hang a gen erous supply of them near the stove—or keep them in a nearby drawer. • * * If one-half cup of butter is re quired in making a cake and you have only one-fourth cup, add three tablespoons of sour cream and you will have a light, fluffy cake. • • • Keep spice boxes away from the stove to prevent the essential oils and flavor from drying out. • • • Iodine stains can be removed from washable fabrics with a di luted ammonia solution. • • • To keep cream fillings from soaking into cake layers, sprinkle a thin layer of confectioner’s sugar over the cake. Then add the filling and sprinkle it with a little more sugar before the next layer is put on the cake. To avoid excess sweetness, use less than the usual amount of sugar in the fill ing. • • • To clear the living-room of stale tobacco smoke: Prepare a jar with a few drops of oil of lavender on a lump of crystal ammonia. Pour on a little boiling water and leave the jar in the room. 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