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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Political 'Pros' Will Oppose Stassen Former Minnesota Governor Is Playing Lone Wolf Role •th Baukhage The situation favored Stassen when he forced his way into the gubernatorial race in 1938. Min nesota was in a bad way. There was vandalism and corruption, and the Farmer-Labor party, which had held a stiff grip on the state, was disintegrating through its own weakness and graft. Stassen entered the race against the wishes of the Re publican Old Guard, but he eventually forced them to help him to some degree. It was largely his own efforts, how ever, that elected him. In other words, “he butted into the governorship," according to old guard critics. Others say he did it merely as a step to the presidency, and that it was part of his over weening ambition—the same thing they say about Governor Dewey of New York. But the old guard fears Stassen’s type of ambition more than Dewey’s. They fear it because they feel that should Stassen be come president, he might build up a strong personal following and thus get a stranglehold on the Repub lican party. Conventional candidates don’t commit themselves too heavily. His supporters claim that Stassen is a middle-of-the-roader, a little to the left. But it is not too much his liber- By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. (This is the third of a series on the men most talked about as candidates for a Republican presidential nomination). WASHINGTON.—When the bakers were down in Washing- jton sweating out a grain conservation program for their in dustry, my friend from Minnesota, Harry W. Zinsmaster, who jis what the personal column calls a “frequent visitor” in the Capital, gave a little luncheon for his colleagues and some press and radio men. We had finished eating and were gathered around to listen to the bak ers’ troubles when suddenly the door opened and 220 pounds of blond, smil ing, political potentiality burst upon us. Our host shouted a happy “Hello, Harold!’* then turned and an nounced: “Gentlemen, the next President of the United States.” I daresay most Minnesota Repub licans will say “aye” to that. What the rest of the country says is awaited with interest by the candi date. I suppose I have had 50 people ask me about Harold Stassen. “Why hasn’t Stassen a chance?” they query. Most observers seem to agree that if be has a chance, it’s a pretty slim one to date. The reason is al ways the same: The professional politicians don’t want him. Not because he’s a political “unknown.” He could hardly be called that. Sure he took the job of county chairman at the age of 21. He was elected governor of Min nesota three times, could have been senator from that state, had he wanted the job. In his case, it’s not so much that he’s a newcomer as it is the way he came up. That way is characteristic of his whole campaign, and two words describe it: “Lone wolf.” HAROLD STASSEN Does he have a chance? ality to which the politicians object. I doubt if any practical politician expects us to turn back the clock. But in his highly unorthodox cam paigning, Stassen has violated two rules. One, by announcing himself early in the present campaign. Today he is the only official can didate for the presidential nomi nation. Two, he has made and he re peats sharp criticism of the Re publican program. As Roscoe Drummond of the Christian Science Monitor puts it, "If they pick him to ride the ele phant, they’ll have to get a new elephant.” Certainly, Stassen has hinted this was necessary when he said the Republican program must be more constructive, more dy namic. He doesn’t consult with any body else when he announces how to make it so. That’s part of the lone- wolf complex. He comes up from the soil with a dirt-farmer father. He worked his way through college. He has a good military record as deputy chief of staff to Admiral Halsey. He is younger than Dewey (Stassen is 39), and taller than Taft—a sandy- haired, slow-spoken and deliberate six-footer. ★ ★ ★ ★ Yandenberg Won’t Fight Early this year, according to credible authority, a secret poll was taken by Republican senators as to their informal, off-the-record pref erence for a presidential candidate. Sen. Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan won it. In the same month, the senator made a statement in a national magazine in which he said he thought it was easier to run for president than not to run. He ex plained how diffi cult it was to deny that one is a candi date, once the story got started. He mentioned the ques tion of the “draft” and expressed an opinion similar to that of Roy Roberts Vandenberg ol the Kansas City Star in connec tion with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower —namely, that there had never been a real “draft” in his day. Vanden berg said that, of course, no man would refuse the nomination if it were handed to him as an accom plished fact. He conclnded his remarks with this statement: “I am not a candidate. I do not expect or wish to be a candidate. I shall seek no convention delegates or approve of others in this behalf. I think my place of service is filling out my tenure in the sen ate." Few men’s stature has increased as Vandenberg’s has as a result of his participation in international af fairs. I think it is fair to say that Vandenberg not only made non partisan foreign policy possible, but that his efforts in carrying out the non-partisan principle made a uni fied foreign policy itself possible. A part of Vandenberg’s influ ence in the field of foreign af fairs is due to the fact that he has the enthusiasm of a vert. He was once frankly an isolationist. Today he has con verted many others, and I be lieve that no single man has done more than he to break down the provincial attitude, especially in the Middlewest, which before World War II pre vented America from taking leadership in world affairs— leadership which might have postponed, if not entirely pre vented, the war. I do not believe that he is actually eliminated from the nomination, but we can be certain he will not fight for the job. He had the high vote at the Republican convention of 1940 when the Willkie blitz struck. Vandenberg’s support of bi-parti san policy doesn’t mean that he gives a blank check to the adminis tration. He favors the Marshall plan and aisTto Greece and Turkey, but he refused to recognize that aid as the “Truman Doctrine,” insisting it was not a doctrine at all. NOT FOR SISSIES . . . There was plenty of raw action during the girls’ field hockey game between Bryn Mawr and Drexel Institute of Technology. Like when Doris Tarqlnnio (left) of Drexel slugged a hard one in an at tempt to score a goal and the Bryn Mawr goalie stopped it. JVEWS REVIEW Congress Will Convene; No Russia: Chile, Brazil TRUMAN CALLS Congress to Meet Congress, summoned by President Truman, will con vene in special session at noon, November 17, to deal with: 1. “The alarming and continu ing” high prices at home and, 2. The pressing need for rap id-fire emergency need abroad. President Truman’s summoning of congress a month and a half be fore it normally would have re convened marked a definite climax in U. S. domestic events for 1947. Although doubt existed for a long time as to whether a special ses sion would be called to meet the two problems which have been screaming with urgency all year, it was the only really logical step to take. Mr. Truman took it decisively. He conferred with his cabinet, and he conferred with key congressional leaders of both parties. He did not ask their advice on a special ses sion; he informed them simply that he was calling o'#». “It is urgently necessary," he said, “for the congress to take leg islative action designed to put an end to the continued rise in prices . . . and to meet the crisis in Western Europe!” Concerning prices, the President would not ask for consumer con trols, but for authority for alloca tion of certain materials. European reliet scheduled to be given pri ority over the price muddle in con gressional action, was highlighted by the growing desperation in France and Italy. DENIAL: No Force James F. Byrnes, said James F. Byrnes somewhat angrily, was and is a patient man. Moreover, he did not advocate in his recently pub lished memoirs, ‘^Frankly Speak ing,” that force should be used, if necessary, to drive the Russians out of Germany. The former U. S. secretary of state made that rebuttal after wide ly printed reviews of his book had stated that he was urging the build ing of more and bigger atomic bombs and the use of force against the recalcitrant Red army. He reiterated his belief that the U. S„ Great Britain and France should proceed with a general Ger man peace conference, regardless of the Soviet Union’s attitude. If the Russians refused to sign the treaty, then the other nations should appeal to the security coun cil of the U. N. to order the Rus sians out because, Byrnes said, “we will then be facing a situation likely to endanger the peace.” He Ate Nails—and Stuff When surgeons operated on James S. Paybe, inmate of Kansas state prison, to remove a nail from his throat, they discovered that the man was virtually a perambulating junk shop. Three and a half pounds of met al, including two complete safety razors without blades, was the loot the doctors recovered from Payne’s case-hardened stomach. The con vict, serving an arson term, gave no reason for his metallic diet THE BREAKS Chile, Brazil Kiss Russia Good-By Acting almost simultaneously, two South American na tions—Brazil and ChUe—curtly announced severance of dip lomatic relations with Russia because, as they both implied, they couldn’t stand it any longer^ Brazil, which beat Chile to the gun by a few hours in breaking relations, had the less valid reason for its action, on the surface, at least. Stated reason for the move was given as the “extremely out rageous and even calumnious arti cles in the Russian press attack ing Pres. Enrico Caspar Dutra and the Brazilian army. Russia’s Literary Gazette had called Dutra an incompetent sol dier and a Fascist. It was the same magazine that had compared Presi dent Truman with Hitler, to which the U. S. strongly objected but took no further action. Chile, however, had a more deep- seated grievance. Communist infil tration in the nation’s southern coal zone, leading to recent labor difficulties there, undoubtedly spurred the decision to sever rela tions. Chilean Pres. Gabriel Gonzalez Videla previously had accused the Communists of planning to cripple Chile’s production of copper, ni trates and other strategic materials and hamper defense of the western hemisphere and the United States. He also had announced his inten tion to “end once and for all” what he called Communist dictatorship over Chile’s mine workers. And in a burst of thoroughness, Chile also ended diplomatic rela tionships with Czechoslovakia. If no other end is accomplished, the action by Brazil and Chile at least may answer the question of whether Communist penetration into a nation actually can be halted by breaking diplomatic relations with Russia. FARM DISASTER LOOMS Rain Is Needed To Save Wheat Serious cuts in meat production and wheat selling for $5 a bushel may be in prospect if rains do not relieve the serious drouth plaguing the country’s vast wheat fields from Texas to the Canadian border, a survey discloses. A dry summer and below normal rains this autumn have delayed wheat seeding, kept planted wheat from germinating properly and forced farmers to “dust in” their grain in a manner reminiscent of the dust bowl days of the 1930s, crop experts report. In addition to the damage to the plantings of winter wheat, farmers have not been able to use their wheat grounds for grazing, and mil lions of animals usually fattened on wheat during the fall either will move to market at lighter weights or without the fattening benefits of the wheat fields. The Texas Panhandle, whose thousands of acres normally provide both grain and cattle pasture, has little topsoil moisture and only a scant supply of subsoil moisture. Texas catUemen estimated that the state would have only 20 to 25 per cent of the normal pasturage this winter. Crop experts in Oklahoma, Kan sas and Nebraska have reported a serious danger of heavy winter kill this year. The wheat needs a moist, well packed toil to survive. The dust in which the grain now is being planted is little protection from the freezing and thawing weather which will heave the young seedlings from the ground. Moreover, grain dealers and cat tlemen have predicted that wheat would soar to $5 a bushel unless the drouth is relieved immediately. The price of wheat now is above $3, and a serious shortage next year, plus the heavy demand, will send it even higher, they said. This year, livestock men say, there will be practically no pastur ing, and many farmers are reported to be liquidating their herds rather than attempt to carry them without pasture on high-priced feeds. Erosion Prevented By Sound Practice Growing Crops Help In Saving the Soil By W. J. DRYDEN The late spring floods and heavy rains made many farmers real ize that losses from water erosion can be serious. Michigan State col- NEW BALEFACE HUNTING GROUNDS ... In the exotic tropical setting of Key Biscayne, once an Indian hunting and fishing ground, pleasure-bent palefaces now find easy hunting in their quest for rest, relaxation and recreation. lege specialists list four rules to re duce water erosion on farm land. 1. Never leave the ground bare longer than necessary. Vegetation is important over the winter. 2. As the slope of the land in creases, use more crops of grass and small grains and fewer cultivat ed crops. 3. -Jf medium sloping land is cul tivated, practice strip cropping, cross slope seeding and tilling, and use sod waterways and terraces. 4. Keep the soil in as high a state of fertility as possible. Add lime where necessary, use commercial fertilizers and add humus through natural manures, green manures or crop residues. Soil Building The difference between soil build ing and soil mining is shown in the chart below. Soil building means increasing the soil’s organic matter and plant food supply and maintain ing high crop yields. It means feed ing the soil and letting the soil feed the crops, rather than trying to feed each individual crop. The comparative results shown here were obtained at the Ewing soil experiment field in Illinois. One plot has had no soil treatment since' the field was established in 1910. The other plot has had large amounts of lime, phosphate and potash to get heavy stands of deep-rooted leg umes. Com stalks have been re turned to this plot. The rotation on both plots has been com, oats, clo ver and wheat. Crop yields covering a four-year rotation tell the story. Com pro duction on the fertilized plot was four times greater than on the un treated field; oats nearly four times and wheat about eight times great er. Clover yield on the fertilized plot was 1.9 tons per acre; the un treated plot is too acid to grow legumes. Despite the greater amounts of nitrogen and organic matter used in producing the higher yields, the fer tilized plot still contains 4% tons more organic matter and 460 pounds more nitrogen than the untreated field. Farm Hints That Pay In Better Products The Cornell results are in line with earlier tests of vitamins for calf scours in Michigan and Ohio. Even though the use of vitamins lacks encouragement, there is prom ise in another direction—the sulfa drugs. Sulfaguanidine has been found helpful. Sulfathiazole, one ol the faster acting sulfas, which has been used against dysentery in "hu mans, also has been used success fully in calf scours treatment. In tests, a combination of sulfathiazole with kaolin and pectin was more effective than either sulfathiazole or sulfaguanidine alone. • • • Don’t use binder twine for tying fleeces. Use paper twine instead. When binder twine is used pieces of the fiber break off and get into the wool. These fail to take color when dyed. Who loses? The sheep, man. STEEPED IN HISTORY Old Indian Stomping Ground Becomes New Vacation Gem WNU Features. MIAMI, FLA. — Where centuries ago Tequesta Indians fished and hunted, palefaces today seek sun tans ’midst the luxury of loafing under coconut palm trees on a tropic isle of idyllic contentment. This newest Gulf Streamland vaca tion gem is provided in Dade county’s new 11 million dollar Crandon park, on Key Biscayne, a scant 10-minute drive from downtown Miami via the equally new six million dol lar Rickenbacker' causeway. Both park and four-mile span«>-— — from the Miami mainland to the ocean, via Virginia Key and Key Biscayne, will be formally opened November 9, 10 and 11 with the Tequesta festival. The celebration is named for the Tequesta Indians, who were the first known residents of the area now called Miami The out-of-this-world setting of this naturally exotic public play ground, studded with more than 10,- 000 coconut palm trees, part of a once extensive copra plantation, stretches volumes into the past. Its two-mile expanse of reef-protected ocean bathing beach for centuries heard only the lush swish of palm fronds and surf, or the scream of sea birds. Ponce de Leon, first tourist to discover the extra something south Florida offers in climate and sunshine, is believed to have stopped off at Key Biscayne in 1513, after a brief halt at the mouth of St. John’s river at pres ent Jacksonville. History shows that after exploring that area, he sailed southward along the Florida east coast, tarrying at St. Augustine, then continuing to an island he named Santa Marta. South Florida authorities, after an extensive study of coast surveys along the Dade county coast are in clined to believe the Santa Marta discovered by Ponce de Leon was named Cayo Biscaino, or Key Bis cayne, now site of the new park. Just 400 years ago. Key Biscayne figured prominently when the Span ish explorer, Escalante de Fonten- ada, recorded the presence there of the Tequesta Indian tribe. Fontenada was the lone surviving crew member of a galleon wrecked off Key Biscayne. Captured by the Tequestas, part of the Colusa feder ation, he was held in slavery for many years, but was allowed to roam, at will, within the territory ruled over by the Tequestas. Long a disciple of Ponce de Leon, he transversed the length and width of Key Biscayne, time and again, in an attempt to emulate his prede cessor’s quest for health and ever lasting youth. There’s no known record, com plete with skull and cross bones, of buried treasure on romantic Key Biscayne, although pieces of eight or pirate doubloons may be hidden beneath the golden sands where cover girls and their bronzed escorts today ab sorb their vitamins from the sky. Regardless of the mystery (or lack) of buried treasure, there’s pleasure trove for all lucky tollers on the two million square feet of super bathing beach at Crandon park. Black Caesar, notorious marauder of the Florida Keys, operated in this vicinity. This doughty highwayman of the waves frequently hid his plunder ship behind wooded isles such as Key Biscayne to stalk un wary merchantmen en route to Ha vana, Spain’s Queen City of the An tilles. Perhaps some of Black Caesar’s ill-gained loot now moul- lers near the southern end of the Island! Another linking of Key Biscayne to the “Florida that was” is the old Cape Florida lighthouse. A land mark in the keys, this lofty hurri cane defier was built in 1826. Un friendly, marauding Indians set fire to the structure in the same cen tury, killed one Negro slave, wound ed the white lighthouse keeper. The tower, for many years erroneously known as "Old Spanish Light,” was abandoned in 1876, but it still stands, a monument to the past — a 20th century beacon to modem counter parts of Ponce de Leon. Yes, Key Biscayne, site of Cran don park, is truly an island packed with pleasure trove — a recreation al treasure chest, laden with rich prizes of nature for Dade county residents and their visitors. / Nation in Bloom As Flower Week Observance Set The entire nation is “in bloom" this week for the third annual ob servance of National Flower Week. Sponsored by the Society of Ameri can Florists, National Flower Week is planned as a tribute to the beauty and happiness brought into every day lives by flowers. Throughout the week unusual facts and infor mation on flowers will be dissemi nated to the public. Because of the abundance of flow ers during the early part of Novem ber, the entire nation will be con verted into a fall flower festival. Florist shops and greenhouses will hold open houses, featuring special displays of flowers and plants. Typical of the marked strides made in floriculture are develop ment of double varieties of many flowers and cross-pollination. Con tinuous research is being accom plished in all phases of floriculture. In the scientific field, hydroponics, a’ system whereby flowers are grown in chemical solutions with out soil, required 75 years of study and experimentation. Keeping the industry attuned with the times, shipments by air, tele graph deliveries and new methods of packaging and preserving flow ers have been developed as means of prolonging the public’s pleasure from flowers. Woman of 101 Like* Long, Fast Car Ride HUTCHINSON, KANS.—Mrs. Jen nie Gilmore, who celebrated her 101st birthday anniversary this fall, likes nothing better than a "tong, fast car ride.” Returning from a 3,500-mile auto jaunt to California, Mrs. Gilmore said: "I had a delightful time. In fact, I enjoyed every minute of it except when we had to slow down at times.” Chester Hedges, 54, her grand son, who drove, said Mrs. Gilmore complained only when he dropped the speed down to 40 or 50 miles an hour on long stretches of desert road. She prefers to travel around 70, he added. Miniature Fleet Contains Famous Ships Scientists Develop New Slow Fertilizer A new, slow-acting nitrogen fer tilizer which feeds crops over a long growing period has been developed by USDA soil scientists. The new product, a series of combinations ol urea and formaldehyde, is called “unaform.” Since both principal components are in short supply, commercial production will be small for a short time. Early reports from field and greenhouse have been very satisfactory. NEW YORK. — A boyhood hobby has enabled August Crabtree to ac cumulate an entire fleet of ships, all miniatures carved to scale and equipped to the most minute detaiL Built by Crabtree over the last 20 years, the collection of 14 ships includes an Egyptian galley of 1500 B. C., a Roman ship that once plied the Mediterranean, a sailing ship of William the Conqueror's time, Col umbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, and the British Britannica of 1840. Crabtree started as a boy in Port land, Ore., making models of fchips that sailed the Columbia river. Liv ing on a small private income, he continued to carve on his collection although friends “thought it was a crazy idea.” During the war Crabtree put aside his hobby to lay the body plan for the first Liberty ship and a landing craft at a Vancouver shipyard. Send for New Book For Everyday Etiquette T HE telephone is no excuse for poor manners or lack of cour tesy. Perhaps the worst telephone bore is the one who snarls “Wrong number ! M and bangs the re ceiver. • a • Another rudeness is asking the person who answers, “Who is this?” If you are the one calling, give your name and ask for the person you want Be considerate when calling friends who may be in bed or at meals and when they call you about your health or to offer con gratulations be sure to thank them. Pay for toll calls when visiting and for local calls when service is limited. Romance via the telephone, business and personal calls are just a few of the items in our booklet No. 45—a guide for proper manners any time, anywhere. Send 25 cents in coin for “The New Book of Everyday Etiquette” to Weekly News paper Service, 243 West 17th Street, New York 11, New York. Print name, address with zone, booklet title and No. 49. 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