Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. move when Martin was credited with bringing about settlement of the coal miners’ pension row—the appointment of Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire as neutral trustee on the pension board with John Lewis and Ezra Van Horn, and the agreement that was reached between Bridges and Lewis. At first the settlement put Martin In a favorable light with the pub lic. Then some of the conservative Republicans who hate Lewis ex pressed their disapproval. There were hints of a "deal” that had been reached between Bridges and Lewis before Bridges was appointed. Dem ocrats charged that Martin was poli ticking. Horn, representing the op erators. appealed to the courts to declare the pension agreement In valid. Martin's stock dropped. And the oldtimers began to say his chances for the presidential nomination were alim. Not so much because of the pension deal itself, but paradoxical ly—and this is one of the accepted paradoxes of politics—because his intervention in the row was taken as a public avowal of his candidacy. Martin ceased to be a dark horse— and as a light horse, he wasn't con sidered nearly as much of a favor ite. The paradox applies to Senator Vandenberg. The Michigan sen ator constantly and consistently has disavowed any desire or in tention of being a candidate for the Republican nomination. If, ac cording to this paradoxical po litical rule, the oldtimers say, he were thrust Into the limelight, his cause would suffer too. At this writing, Vandenberg seems to stand as the No. 1 bet. Stassenites, however, claim that this paradox is all old hat; that times and political thinking have changed. One of the first black marks which the Republican old guard checked against Stassen was the fact that he came right out as a candidate way ahead of time. The traditional thing is to be oh, so coy about it. Washington Di9GSt> Series of Contradictions Marks Political Campaign By BAUKHAGE Netct Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON—^Political currents and cross currents are running high, wide and deep along the Potomac these days. The wave of popularity stirred up by Stassen supporters is not pleas ant for regular Republicans to contemplate. Some of the non-professionals however, particularly those in the Taft comer, are very bitter about it. pot because they think that Stassen will get in, but because of the way he has served to block the Taft efforts—despite the fact that those efforts have been labelled, rightly or wrongly, futile from the beginning. Deweyites don’t admit they are worrying — but! I talked to one of the Taft men recenUy. "What makes me sick, he said, “is the way the people who swpsiw have done their ^ t best to break down - Taft are full of I praise for him i now that they | think he is beaten. They describe his efficiency, his | knowledge, h i frankness, his grasp of the sub jects he discusses. I And they talk about Stassen’s vagueness and in ability to answer Taft’s charges.” “And these,” he wound up, “are the same people who have been shoot ing at Taft ever since he started his presidential campaign.” There is something in what this man says. You would be surprised how many liberals, how many Dem ocrats even, praise Taft privately, would really like to see him elected, but either they can’t quite come out openly in his favor, or they t-.ke for granted he can’t win anyhow. Then there is the great group of Republicans who are going to vote for Dewey, but act as if they were gritting their teeth in the process. “What have you got against Dewey?” I ask them. Some are vague, others say the New York governor is a “strad dler ... an opportunist . . . never comes out for an issue until he sees a Gallup poll on it . . . but I suppose he’ll win . . .” Can he? Since the Stassen hurricane, the oldtimers are talking a little dif ferently about Dewey. Some of them who have predicted right along that Dewey would win now are saying that Stassen has undermined him so thoroughly that now Dewey has no more chance than Taft. And all the time the Vandenberg ■ tide is rising. But here’s an inter esting thing. Way back in Febru ary some very canny observers were saying that Speaker Joe Mar tin of the house of representatives had the best chance of anyone for the Republican presidential nomina tion, in case of the expected Taft- Dewey deadlock. At the time many people were surprised at that opinion. But it wasn’t long before we began to see mention of Martin here and there. Then, finally, insiders accepted him as probably the best bet of the sev eral Republican dark horses. I know I could feel his popularity growing as I travelled around the country. But some observers feel as News week magazine expressed it some time ago:. "Stassen’s forthright quest for votes may end much of the tradi tional coyness of aspirants. In the future, it’s thought that more can didates will frankly announce their intentions well in advance of elec tion.” Well, maybe. There is plenty of old-line resent ment against Stassen, not only be cause he began an open campaign so early, but also because of the efficient, powerful, highly-organized and aggressive machine he has built up. A right wing Republican I spoke to recently seemed especial ly resentful, grumbling about the "big money” backing Minnesota’s ex-govemor, and the New York banking interests "that wanted in.” Senator Taft was reported co furious over Stassen’s invasion of Ohio that it was thought that he might forget his rivalry with Dewey and throw his support to the New Yorker earlier in the convention if the deadlock was certain. All this talk AGAINST candidates is interesting psychologically. You always hear far more rea sons for voting AGAINST a candi date than you hear for voting FOR one. It’s a very good thing that no candidate is ever quite so bad as his opponents claim he is. Other wise the government would fall apart regularly every four years. • • * ‘ Monroe Doctrine Is Reactivated On Charles street in the sleepy little town of Fredericksburg, Va., in the first floor office of a stdry- and-a-half brick house, you can see, if you obey the parking signs and stop there, a beautiful brass-bound mahogany desk, artistic handiwork of the French cabinet makers of the early 18th century. It is an historic piece of furni ture for on its surface 125 years ago, there was signed a document which, reactivated today, becomes at once the challenge and the hope of free men throughout the world. That desk, carefully carried across the seas as a precious heirloom, found its way into the great, empty rooms of the White House, newly- rebuilt after the destructive fire set by an enemy torch in the War of 1812. Turn back the pages to December of the year 1823. At this desk sits a man in a stiffly-starched stock. His broad forehead is wrinkled with thought. His wide eyes look down at the document he is about to sign. It is his message to the 18th con gress of the United States, but it embodies the spirit and is couched in the phrases which his predeces sors have used before him expres sing the intent and the obligations of the young republic of which he. James Monroe, is the President. Two years before, the Czar of all the Russians had uttered a ukase that no foreigner must approach within 100 miles of the American coastline north of the 51st parallel. Russia then had a firm foothold on the northwestern coastland of the western hemisphere. The iron cur tain had descended. Plus ca change, plus ca reste lax meme chose! "We could not view any interpo sition for the purpose of oppres sing them (the free countries of the Americas) by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriend ly disposition toward the United States.” One hundred and twenty-five years pass. Today, the United States, in a world that has shrunk until Moscow is nearer to Washington than Bos ton was in Monroe’s time, rededi cates its resources to "help free peoples to maintain their free insti tutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totali tarian regimes.” The words are President Tru man’s, but the spirit is the same as that breathed in the Monroe doctrine. America carries on. • • • Polysyllabically, John L. Lewis and Gen. Douglas MacArthur have | something in common. Perhaps Lewis should run as MacArthur’s vice president. Think of all the sonorous f i v e-syllable-word state ments they could get but. In President Lincoln’s time, most of the speeches were made in the open air without benefit of public address system or microphone. Now all you really need is a few friends who can make themselves heard in • smoke-filled room. ONCE UPON A TIME... Jonas Cer- nius was once the premier of Lithuania and chief- of staff of the Lithuanian army. Today he is a factory hand in New ark. N.J., working for $30 a week. He plans to teach in a Midwestern college this fall, but high cost of living got to hla in the meantime. ir" /•' vi# if ACTIVE. ..One of America's busiest mothers is Mrs. Hazel Barr of Queens Village, N. Y., shown here with husband and daughter, Betty. She does housework for her family, holds a secretarial job and at the same time does so well in her aquatic pursuits that she is possibility for the U.S. Olympic swimming team. OPP TO CHINA*. .Roger D. Lap- ham, former mayor of San Francisco, has been named chief of the special mission to China for the economic co operation administration, which is the agency set up to administer Marshall plan aid to distressed countries. MATRIMONY... Sooner or later everyone is bound to see a picture of the much-wedded Lana Turner and the much- wedded Henry J. Topping, now wedded to each other. This one was snapped as they left New York for an extended honeymoon in Europe. HEADS WILL ROLL...This was one Wallace rally that got rained out. Members of the ‘Youths for Wallace' and the ‘Students for Wallace’ organizations put up big reasonable facsimiles of the heads of their heroes, Wallace and Sen. Glen Taylor, on a back drop at the Sylvan theater, near the base of the Washington monument in Washington. Heads of the two third party leaders were rolling all over the place, but to no avail. The weather man failed to cooperate--h# s probably a Democrat. LATE BIRD...In June. 1939, William S. Wellman of Cleve land waved good by to his homing pigeon, A.U. 567, which had taken off in a pigeon race. And good by it was, for the bird dldn't show up again until a few weeks ago—nine years after the race. MARGARET AND CUBS...Miss Margaret Truman, daughter of ths President’and ambitious concert singer, is shown rehearsing with a group of Cub scouts in preparation for the gigantic Scout-O-Rama which was held in New York* a Madison Square Garden. Margaret’s singing of ‘God Bless America,’ to which the Cubs also added their piping voices, was one of 14 events in the first Scout-O-Rama to be held in New York since 1940. QUITS CABINET TO RUN FOR SENATE... Clinton P. Anderson, .who has become almost a household word among U.S. farm families as the secretary of agriculture, has resigned that cabinet post to run for the U.S. senate in New Mexico. President Truman formally accepted his resignation and Anderson started to pack his things to leave the office for good. During his tenure as secretary of agriculture fanners of the nation experienced their greatest period of prosperity in history. AFTER ELECTION VICTOIY...Despite warfare and Communists, they still were able to hold an election in China. Chiang Kai-shek was elected the first president of the new Chinese republic under the new constitution, and Gen. Li Tsung-Jen was elected vice-president. In the photo, the 58-year-old Gen. Li Tsung-Jen and nis wife are shown bowing to President and Mme. Chiang Kai- shek after visiting at their home and receiving congratulations. Senator Taft’s Strategy S EN. ROBERT TAFT, worried about his poor showing in the presidential polls, has been consult ing with professional opinion re searchers. Their advice has been that he become known as a "lib eral.” One of Taft’s advisers is Dr. Claude E. Robinson of Princeton. N. J., president of Opinion Research corporation, who has collected opin ions on Taft from all over the coun try. “You are so busy with the prac tical side of government,” he told the senator, "that you have lost sight of the fact that people think in terms of goals. You should start letting people know that you are on the side of the Lord.” He suggested that Taft reveal himself in his “true role” as a liberal and stress his stand for the public good; that he start by ex amining the question of what is a liberal and defining it as one who believes in liberty and higher liv ing standards. The strategy then is to show that Taft possesses the practical sense to achieve these goals. Dr. Robinson warned that the pub lic still is fearful that the Repub lican party represents "reaction and the vested interests.” He quoted a typical opinion from his surveys — that "no poor man should be a Re publican.” The best way to combat this, he recommended, is to set up goals arid catch the eye of the com mon man. Taft could bid for leader ship of the true “revolutionary” movement — the revolution which started July 4, 1776, advised Dr. Robinson. It was shortly after consulting with Dr. Robinson that Taft came out with his political "new look,” starting off with a speech, "What Is a Liberal?” • • • CIO Will Draft Eisenhower TWO POLITICAL PHENOMENA are taking place simultaneously in the nation. President Truman is moving heaven and earth to secure his own renomination, but with his Gallup poll rating continuing to drop. Meanwhile, General Eisen hower continues to discourage his nomination, but with his popularity continuing to increase. A lot of Interesting backstage figures are behind Eisenhower, one of them being CIO President Philip Murray. Murray has sent out wofd to every CIO steelwork ers local suggesting resolutions for a “draft Eisenhower” movement. The steelworkers convention will go on record unanimously asking Eisenhower to run, and a similar movement already is under way in most other CIO unions. Murray also held an important secret conference in Pittsburgh with Illinois Democratic Boss Jack Ar- vey. Arvey has been drafted by Illinois Democrats to run their po litical fortunes until after the presi dential elections, and he agreed with Murray that the Democratic party’s hope lay in nominating Eisenhower. Although not talking much, Aivey has been a very busy beaver. He was principally responsible for the violent anti-Truman demonstration at the California Jefferson Day din ner when Mr. Truman was booed so vigorously that Chairman J. How ard McGrath almost quit talking. Also active in the draft-Eisenhow- er drive is former Roosevelt labor adviser, Anna Rosenberg. Mrs. Rosenberg is a close friend of Eisen hower, also of Phil Murray, George Allen, Mrs. Roosevelt, the Rockfel- lers, as well as many of the ex-New Dealers. Eisenhower’s supporters are ignor ing all of the general’s protests about his candidacy. They’re con vinced that if a genuine draft move ment develops, he will accept the nomination. • • • Sullivan’s Resignation RESIGNATION OF GAEL SUL LIVAN from the Democratic na tional committee was inevitable. Only a few insiders knew it, but Mr. Truman hated him, barred him from the White House. Sullivan always was getting in the President’s hair, fighting on Palestine, for labor, against car tels. His departure means he thinks the fighf on these things is hopeless. Sullivan worked day and night for the administration, led the life of a monk socially, studied like a school boy to make government wheels turn more smoothly. He was an FDR favorite, being forced on Mr. Truman by Bob Hannegan. It has never been a secret that Sullivan was a Justice Douglas man. When named assistant postmaster general, he even insisted that Justice Doug las swear him in. When the Ed Pauley grain-specu lation investigation started, Mr. Truman called Sullivan to the White Housg, asked him if he was in the market. "Mr. President,” replied Sulli van, "you flatter me. I’ve never had a dime besides my salary since I’ve been in politics.” 3* ll.Phillipr BNl wrvm SPECIAL DELIVERY Mr. C. J. Fletcher, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, State of New York Dear Sir: I noticed a recent speech by you to a safety council in which you came out for greater control of pedestrians as necessary to cutting down auto accidents. I see what you mean. The way pedestrians are tearing around at top speed no au tomobile is safe, eh? * It is tough driving an auto these days on account of the streets are so full of reckless walkers, like you say. A car never knows when it is going to get hit. A driver is apt to be piloting his sedan out •f a side street when — socko! — some careless pedestrian rams right into him! • I take it that you think if these people who insist on going around town on foot would be reasonable and keep themselves under control it would be O. K. for them to use the streets, but once a community lets them operate in a pair of shoes they think they own the roads. Only today I was driving my uncle’s 10-ton truck out of an alley (on the red light) when a woman pushing a baby carriage came right at me full speed with no horn or anything and bang goes my right fender. The baby carriage has no brakes and does not dim its lights. What is worse, I find the baby has no road license and the mother is so ignorant she thinks a green light gives her some pro tection. What are you going to do with a pedestrian like that? A few days ago I saw an old lady on her way home from the fruit store with a bag of apples and what does she do? Just because she has the light with her she starts to cross the street. So what happens? She crashes into a taxicab speeding along minding its own business! (She was not even a registered apple bag carrier.) And you take the buses, commissioner: Do pedes trians give them a decent break? No. While a bus driver is care fully feeling his way down a street at 60 per hour, what are pedes trians doing? Dashing out at him from all directions. There ought to be a law. No vehicle is safe on the streets today. * ' By all means press this drive for a law to control pedestrians before more automobilists get hurt. Do not accept any halfway measures. Make every pedestrian take a road test. If he walks fast and does not slow down at crossings keep him off the streets. The situation is serious. You have been lenient with walkers long enough, the big bums! Sincerely, * Elmer. NO TAKERS The world’s a psychopathic case, And all events confuse it; I’d give it to the squiTels but The squirrels would refuse it. The Country Editor Says: Zeke Stookel’s little girl, Eppie, is so high strung arid nervous that there doesn’t seem much to do ex cept put her in a ballet. Mrs. Luke Williper got through a nice long talk with her daughter on the sanctity of marriage just in time for the girl to tune in on a fresh batch of Holly wood weddings. • Hunk Doody’s boy. Scat, who ran the milk truck off the bridge, ruined the motor harrow, sold the tractor, set fire to the cow barns and ran off with Caleb Swamp- root’s wife, has agreed to come home and have it all explained by a psychiatrist. * ; Zeke Bissell’s boy, Agamemnon, is about set for a criminal career. He hasn't missed a movie since his twelfth year and only has a few more weeks to go before finishing his training on the Inner Sanctum, Tom Mix, Mr. District Attorney and Crime Doesn’t Pay programs. • • • The senate appropriations com mittee has voted $50,000 to make the White House safe for the oc cupants. There seems to be an abundance of men willing to live there with the floors crumbling and the ceilings around their necks. • * * Can you remember away back when a strke was a last resort? • • • Harold Stassen, at all towns where he speaks, opens the proceedings by a question and answer period. It is now apparent that all those ap pearances on Information Pleaso during the last few years constituted a training period. If Harold wins, how about a slogan “From qul» program to White House?” • • • As we get it, General Eisen hower finds distasteful the idea of landing via the soft underbelly of Build It From A Pattern SANDBOX OR WADING POOL EASILY CONSTRUCTED — TAKES LITTLE TIME TO BUILD. By: Donald R. Braun Youngsters enjoy playing ouL doors in this se^-faring sandbox. It' can easily be built from stock size lumber. The Full Size Pattern offer ed below not only simplifies' con struction but provides full size pa^ per outlines so that anyone can dec orate it in a professional manner. User merely traces the pattern on the lumber pattern specified, saws and assembles exactly as and where pattern indicates. No special tools or skill are required. By waterproof ing a piece of canvas and fastening it to the inside of the box, it can quickly be turned into a wading pool. Send 25c for Sanbox Pattern No. 20 to Easi-BIld Pattern Company, Department W., PlessantviHe, N. Y. LANE TPCOH STVP Face Broken Out? 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