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I THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Capitol Hill Hears Earnest Request Senate Chaplain Marshall Offers Challenging Prayer By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNC Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. — Many words spoken beneath the high-arched dome of the capitol become first page news. But seldom quoted are the words which appear beginning with the third paragraph of the first page of the Con gressional Record. However twice recently they were quoted — and widely. They were pre ceded by two first paragraphs which for the past 10 years have va ried only as to Bankhare the J pr ° pcr names * and hour men tioned therein:— "The senate met at 11 o’clock a. m. on the expiration of the re cess.” "The chaplain. Rev. Peter Mar shall, D. D., offered the following prayer:” (Then came “paragraph three,” Including the part of the prayer of fered for that day that appealed to me): "Forbid it. Lord, that we should walk through thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes. Forgive us, our Father, for taking our good things for granted, so that we are in dan ger of losing the fine art of ap preciation. With such dire need in every other part of the world, make us so grateful for the bounties we enjoy that we shall try, by Thy help, to deserve them more. Where we are wrong, make us willing to change, and where we are right, <nake us easy to live with.” I repeated that last paragraph on my broadcast because one of my associates had called it to my atten tion that morning. Since then I have been getting letters from all over the country asking for copies of that prayer. Earlier (though I had not noticed the items) Time magazine had carried a story about Chaplain Marshall, and Newsweek magazine had quoted part of anoth er prayer: "Help us to do our very best this day and be content with to day’s troubles, so that we shall not borrow the troubles of to morrow. Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith. Amen.” I think my choice is a fairer sam ple of Marshalliana. But both se lections reveal one characteristic of the doctor’s utterances, which per haps is a reason for his popularity. He is able to reduce religion to the simplest and most understandable terms—his similes (like those of his Teacher) are taken out of our daily life. Peter Marshall is an interesting person as well as a popular preach er. Immigrant Boy Fulfills Ambition Dr. Marshall’s personal history is reminiscent of early Horatio Alger. He came to this country from a foreign land because he believed America was the land of opportu nity. But his story is unique in this: He came, not with the dream of “making his fortune,” but to fulfill an ambition for neither wealth nor power, but simply to get a theolog ical education. 0 He was bom in Coatsville in Lan arkshire, Scotland. His father died when he was little, and Marshall was raised by his mother and step father, who sent him to public school and later to a technical in stitution. On graduation, he took a position in a tube-manufacturing concern. But he wanted to be a minister, and he decided it would be easier to obtain an education for this call ing in the United States. He came to this country in his early twenties; found work in New Jersey, but soon had an opportunity to go to Alabama where he joined the business depart ment of the Birmingham News. With the help of some friends who be came interested in this pleasant Scottish boy with the intriguing burr and the inspired goal, he was able to enter Columbia Theological sem inary. from which he was graduated in 1931. He held two pastorates in Geor gia, and made the acquaintance of the young lady who is now his wife. In 1937, he was called to the his toric “Church of the Presidents” in Washington, a church which has numbered among its worshippers John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jack- son, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson. Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, Theo dore Roosevelt and Abraham Lin coln, whose pew, left as it was when he used it. is a shrine for tourists. Dr. Marshall was elected chaplain of the senate on January 4 of this year, and it might be well to record a bit of recent history as a back ground to his selection. Dr. Ze Barney Phillips was chap lain of the senate for 15 years—from 1927 to 1942. When he died, many senators had favorite candidates for his job. They “auditioned” them, just like radio announcers— although the ministers didn’t know they were being auditioned, and no senator would admit such a thing. From among the candidates. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, Methodist, emerged victorious, gossips say, be cause he delivt-ed the shortest prayer. Later on Dr. Harris’ prayers became longer, a common phenomenon among senate chap lains according to some of the old timers in congress. What they don’t add is that in the speech-makingest body in the country, the affliction may be contagious. Traditionally, filling of the chap lain’s post is a majority party pre- THREE YEARS AFTER DESTRUCTION ... It has been jnst three years since American and Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy D-Day to begin the invasion of Enrope. Streets like this one in Caen, France, raged with bullets and mortar shells, and it would have been impossible then for a little girl to walk along the sidewalk carrying bread for the family’s dinner. But now the war looks far away. NEWS REVIEW Shipping Crisis Impends; Predict High Feed Prices The Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D., senate chaplain, offered a prayer that probed deep into the con sciousness of the nation’s busy, harassed legislators. rogative, and so when the Repub lican 80th congress convened, after disposing of the question of Senator Bilbo’s qualifications. Senator Wher ry arose to offer a resolution that Dr. Marshall be elected chaplain of the senate. But Wherry’s proposal touched off an argument occupying nine close-typed columns in the Con gressional Record. (No chap lain would dare deliver a ser mon THAT long.) Democratic Sen. Alben Barkley maintained that Dr. Harris had done a fine job and should be retained. He added that politics should not be permitted to touch the office of sen ate chaplain. He opined that Re publicans were "offering a very poor example for the time when the Democrats resume control of the body two years from now.” (1948— !?!) Republican Senator Bridges was shocked at the implication that poli tics might be involved. Why, he protested, he didn’t even know Dr. Marshall’s politics. . ^ But the Republicans had their majority. Dr. Marshall got the job, and as far as I can learn, nobody has regretted the choice. There are some Washingtonians who have read and listened to this Scottish boy whom America has awarded for achievement in a call ing in which there are often few earthly awards, who feel that his presence in the Lincoln church is quite as “appropriate” as his ap pointment as chaplain of the senate. They feel that if the ghost of the Great Emancipator ever slips into his old pew of a Sunday, he smiles in approval of the simple, earthy truisms, not too unlike his own, which come down from one pulpit in that friendly Scottish burr, with the same terse impact with which they echo from the rostrum of the senate. Fears of a minor crisis in railway shipping in mid-July have been ex pressed by federal transportation experts in view of an apparent slowdown in frieght car construc tion. Contributing factors are mount ing industrial production coupled with increasingly heavy wheat ex port movements, and officials pre dict that the “minor crisis” could swiftly develop into a major trans portation block unless steps are taken to ease the traffic slowdown or prevent it from occurring. With fate of the now financially embarrassed Office of Defense Transportation still undecided, the Interstate Commerce commission has been requested to assume full responsibility for continuing orders requiring full loading of boxcars in the event that congress does not ex tend the life of ODT beyond its June 30 expiration date. Meantime, ODT has sent investi gators to freight car building com panies to probe reports that allo cated steel tonnages have not gone entirely into the 10,000-a-month car construction program. Reports for the first half of May indicated that only 1,751 freight cars were built, 81 short of the num ber constructed during the corre sponding period in ApriL Explanation offered by the car builders is that inadequate steel supplies and strikes within the in dustry have been responsible for the grave decline in freight car con struction. That view, however, is discounted by federal officials who point out that the government forced the steel industry to provide the necessary 290,000 tons of steel for the 10,000-a-month goal. FEED PRICES: To Stay Up Prospects for the 1947 feed crops will be an important influence on feed prices, according to a depart ment of agriculture report. The very strong foreign demand for grain is expected to continue to support prices through 1947 and into 1948; although if production of feed is as large as in recent years, feed prices probably will decline, at least seasonally, in the last half of 1947. Com prices this summer, the re port predicted, will average higher than the June, 1946, ceilings, but lower than in the summer of 1946 after price controls lapsed. The department’s survey went on to reveal that reports in early May indicated that approximately 832 million bushels of 1946 com would be marketed this season. That fig ure would be 50 per cent greater than the 1938-42 average and 14 per cent above the previous record sales from the 1944 crop. Farm sales of other feed grains from 1946 crops also ran generally larger. SWINGBACK: Braden Quits Spruille Braden, longtime advo cate of and principal force behind this country’s hard-handed attitude toward Fascist-inclined Argentina, has resigned as assistant secretary of state in charge of Latin-Ameri- can affairs. To succeed him in that post. President Truman was expected to nominate Nor man Armour of New Jersey, top. flight career diplo mat. Armour pre viously served as American envoy in the Argentine and is well known and liked there. Latin- American reaction to his appointment was expected to bo highly favorable. Acceptance of Braden’s resigna tion by President Truman was gener ally regarded as a strong implicsu tion that the United States is ready to swing back to a policy of appease- ment in Latin America. It was anticipated that the changed attitude would take the form of “just a little appease- ment” of Latin- American Fascist dictators, particu larly Juan D. Pe- ron, president of Argentina. Braden, long a foe of Peron and his methods, told Mr. Truman in a letter that personal responsibilities compelled him to return to private business. Departure of Braden from the state department followed closely on the heels of his being overruled by the administration on two basic issues in inter-American relations: Supplying of arms to Latin-Ameri- can nations and formation of a mili tary alliance with other republics in the western hemisphere. Armour Braden SLIM CHANCE Survey Indicates N o Depression WASHINGTON. — Chances of a depression in the near future ap pear slim, in the opinion of a com mittee of congressmen studying the nation’s economy. In its report, the joint senate- house economic committee dis closed that most of the 583 persons who answered a survey expect a “mild recession" this fall. The com mittee concluded, however, that "answers to the economic questions do not give any real support to the theory that we are nearing a de pression.” The survey showed “general agreement” that' prices of most types of goods will fall and wage rates will rise between now and January 1, the report pointed out. Businessmen are unduly pessimis tic about other people’s trade pros pects while encouraged about their own, it added. Hearings on the nation’s eco nomic future will be commenced next week by the committee, which is headed by Sen. Robert A, Taft (Rep., Ohio). Taft said the commit tee wants to examine businessmen, economists, labor leaders, farm leaders, industrialists anu contrac tors on “what they believe is hap pening in our American economy, with particular reference to tha current price situation.” Taft said he intends to ask the committee later to study the effect of potentially large foreign loans on the domestic economy. Earlier Taft had declared that he believed President Truman and the Democratic administration had abandoned efforts to bring prices down in favor of “heavy lending” abroad. He contended such lending would keep domestic prices up. Released by Western Newscaner Union. FEAR AMERICAN SCHOOLS LEAD MANY TO COMMUNISM Are our American schools, ele mentary, high and college, incul cating in the minds of present day youth the ideas of Socialism and Communism? The second of these is the offspring of the first. Personally, as a result of numer ous incidents and demonstrations, I am fearful the schools are respon sible for much of that foreign “ism” that is prevalent among the youth of today. Are our American schools thoughtlessly reaching a disregard for law and order, through an at tempt to mold so-called self-expres sion, that results in a lack of dis cipline? I am sure my answer to that query would be affirmative, with a number of illustrative incidents that support my belief. Recently I listened to the conver sation of four young women just graduated from one of the leading universities of the nation. They oc cupied a park bench, a few feet from one on which I was sitting. “Dad tells me I should be care ful about publicly expressing my belief in Communism,” said one of them. “He does not go as far as I do. He thinks he stops at Socialism. I tell him when men like some of the teachers we had believe in Commu nism, there is no reason why I should not, or why I should not say so to all the world.” "When I talk of the values of Communism at home, Father tells me I am still too young to know what I am talking about,” said a second. “But when I tell him what our professor has told me about how it works, and what it has done, for the people of Russia, I have him stumped. I will have him believing in Communism before long.” LACK OF DISCIPLINE The other two expressed similar ideas. I was listening to four young women Communists, all of them graduates of an American univer sity. They had picked up an un- American “ism” in an American school. A portion, at least, of the founda tion on which is built that sort of ism, is today’s lack of discipline, both in the home and in the schools. Bobbie and Mary must be permit ted to develop their own individual ities. They must not be expected to follow rules, other than those made by themselves. They must think and do as they wish. They must not be directed or corrected. To do so would tend to mar their mental development. Bosh! Not to direct or correct youth leads immediately to child delinquency. A bit further along it is Communism, or worse. Anarchy. The end will take us back to the days of the cave man, when each was a law unto himself, and might made right. Instead of inculcating ideas of foreign isms in the minds of youth, or that each should do as he pleases, without a thought for others, both parents and teachers should be promoting the virtues of discipline, of respect for others and for our American form of govern ment. In the not far distant past we produced good citizens by confining the curriculum of the grade schools to the three Rs, and a discipline en forced, at both home and in school, when other methods failed, by the application of the back side of a substantial hair brush, so vigor ously applied as to have a lasting effect. . I was of that not-so-many-years- ago generation. I have accom plished nothing of value to society, but thousands of that same genera tion have done so. As youths they were directed, corrected and disci plined. The generation produced no noticeable number of Communists as the new generation, undirected, uncorrected and undisciplined, seemingly is doing. AN illuminative paragraph from the textbook of the Third Interna tional, with headquarters at Mos cow: “It is especially necessary to carry on illegal work in the army, navy and police. Persistent and sys tematic propaganda must be carried on in the army, where Communist groups should be formed in every military organization. Refusal to carry on such work should be con sidered treason to the revolutionary *«use, incompatible with affiliation to the Third International.” * * * WHEN economists disagree, as they do on most subjects, each of us can write our own prescription as best suits our own opinion. • • • There Is not much that can be done for those people who can see only the mote in the other fellow's eye. • • • More voters of all parties carry lunch boxes than dine at expensive restaurants. • • • ANY public official whose job In cludes the signing or vetoing of leg islation, but who attempts to play politics with the people’s interest by doing neither, is not big enough for the job he holds. ALONG THE ROCKBOUND COAST . . . Mount Desert Island, off Maine’s rocky coast, is the site of Acadia National park. Here angry waves lash the barren rocks of Schoodic Head. NO CORNER ON SCENERY East, Too, Boasts Its Parks— Foar Great Wilderness Areas WNU Features. When national parks are mentioned, one thinks instinctive ly of the Far West—the Rocky mountains, the High Sierras, the southwestern deserts. Everyone has heard of Yellowstone park, with its geysers and boiling springs, Yosemite valley, with its incomparable waterfalls and stupendous cliffs. The smallest schoolboy can describe the titanic gorge known as Grand canyon. To many people, however, it may be a revela tion to learn that the eastern half ^ of the United States contains four great wilderness parks comparable in interest with the national parks trout fishing in both parks and many miles of foot trails to attract those who like to hike. in the West. In North Carolina and Tennessee is located Great Smoky Mountains National park, 19 miles wide and 54 miles long. Shenandoah National park, with i t s famous Skyline drive, is in Virginia, Acadia National park in Maine and on an island in Lake Superior, not far from the Canadian shore but in cluded in the territory of the State of Michigan, is Isle Royale National park. The eastern parks present a sharp contrast to the parks of the West. In the West the mountains are bald and bold, the outlines se vere and rugged. In the eastern parks the mountains are older, worn down by eons of erosive forces, with contours smoother and gentler, although by no means lack ing in crags and cliffs. In the West the giant peaks pierce heights where trees no longer grow, while in the East the lush forests sweep over the highest summits. In the West one may find icy glaciers and snowfields in July, or at lower alti tudes brave shimmering deserts un der canopies of azure sky, but the East will be carpeted in green while overhead there will be lazy, cumulus clouds. • • * GREAT SMOKY Mountains park, a part of the ancient Appalachian range, straddles the North Caro- lina-Tennessee border, and is the highest mountain mass east of the Black Hills of South Dakota. Within the park boundaries are 16 more peaks more than 6,000 feet high. About half the park, or approxi mately 200,000 acres, is in ita origi nal forested condition, containing the most extensive stand of virgin red spruce and hardwoods in the entire country. From this lush vege tation, which extends from the val leys to the tops of the lofty peaks, there rises a tenuous mist, a deep blue haze, from which the moun tains get their name. There is a transmountain road from park headquarters at Gatlin- burg, Tenn., to Smokemont, N. C., and along this road one will see signs warning, “DO NOT FEED THE BEARS.” In the park are deer, bobcats, and many other wild animals which have long ago dis appeared from many sections of the East. • • • NORTHEASTWARD from the Great Smokies in Virginia lies Shenandoah National park, which includes a long section of the Blue Ridge mountains. To make this area accessible to visitors, a high way has been built along the crest of the mountains for the entire length of the park. This highway is known as Skyline drive and from it one may obtain breath-taking views of the fertile farmlands of Shenan doah valley and the Appalachian ranges to the west and of rolling foothills and the Piedmont plateau to the east. The two parks have much in com mon. In the spring and early sum mer there is a succession of beauti ful flowering plants and shrubs, such as dogwood, flame azalea, mountain laurel and rhododendron. In the fall the foliage is splashed with brilliant colors. There is good • • • ACADIA NATIONAL park covers a large portion of Mount Desert is land off the rocky coast of Maine and is connected with the mainland by a bridge and a causeway. Part of the park lies also on the main land and on nearby Isle au Haut. Here the mountains rise abruptly from the sea, and one may ride or hike through the magnificent north ern woods or bask in the sun while watching the ships far out on the blue Atlantic. Mount Desert island is dotted with quaint fishing and re sort villages and there are sea bath ing, fishing, and boating. • • • ISLE ROYALE National park, long a haunt of moose and caribou known only to fishermen and to the Indians of the Qreat Lakes region, is a real wilderness. There are no motor roads on the island, and one must travel on foot, by horse or boat Actually an archipelago con sisting of one large island and nearly 200 small islands, it is a fisherman’s and boatman’s para dise. The islands are densely wooded and contain many rare va rieties of plants and ferns. To reach the park one takes a boat from Houghton, Mich., a journey of sev eral hours across Lake Superior, or from Grand Marais, Minn. y • • • ROCK HARBOR lodge, on Isle Royale, is open from June 15 to September 15. There are no over night accomodations in Acadia Na tional park, but the Publicity Office, Bar Harbor, Me., will recommend hotels and lodging houses in the many villages on Mount Desert is land. Likewise the Chamber of Commerce at Gatlinburg, Tenn., will furnish a list of hotels and tourist camps in the small towns bordering Great Smoky Mountains National park. Along the Skyline drive in Shenandoah National park from May to November hotels and cottages are operated. In all four of these wilderness parks. National Park service maintains free camp sites, which may be used by all who bring their own equipment. And in all four parks one will find the fa miliar ranger - naturalists waiting and eager to answer all questions. VIRGIN TIMBER . . . About half of Great Smoky Mountains Na tional park is in its original for ested condition. The lush vegeta tion is noted in this view show ing Panorama tunnel on Skyline drive. National Parks Seventh In a Series Indian Lookout Rebuilt as Monument FORT SILL, OKLA.—Intended as another monument to the Old West, a blockhouse used during the last century as a warning station at Fort Sill, which survived the Indian wars but was danftged by an artil lery shell in the last war, is being rebuilt. With its commanding view for 60 miles across the plains of south western Oklahoma, the blockhouse was used to alert Fort Sill to ma rauding Indian bands. TTie fort received a special com mendation by Gen. William T. Sher man of Civil war fame. Sherman once paid a visit to the fort and his party was spotted while it was still 30 miles away. 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