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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NKWHERRY. S. C. Washington Digests President Talks—Everyone Wants to Get in on the Act By BAUKHAGE News -Analyst and Comrii nlator WASHINGTON.—The colonel was talking to the general. It was obvious that the general was as bored as his secretary looked, her interrupted dictation on her crossed knee, which she uncrossed as the general’s eye wandered. The colonel was the army's No. 1 specialist on the super-gadget which was about to revolutionize warfare, as the colonel could (and would, if he got a chance) tell you. The colonel knew the history of the « gadget’s develop ment from its I crude semi - gis- ; mo stage when, primitive as it was, it caused the entire re-or ganization of the tactics of the [ knights under Otto the great, first King of the Germans. He could trace its I evolution d o w r through the days of delicate inter play when it broke up the Empire of Charlemagne, and on down to the fall of Stalingrad. The colonel had brought the gen eral about up to the third Punic war and the secretary was wig gling. The general himself had begun to fumble with form 2A- 3064-B29. The colonel realized that he was rapidly losing his audience. So he raised his voice so that file clerks in the next office stopped filing (their fingernails) and looked up. “By the way. General,” he remarked confidentially, “Did yen know that I’m writing the President’s next speech? The one he delivers to the Inter-PIane- tary association?” The general’s secretary perked up . . . the general raised an eye brow . . . the colonel smiled ... At about the same hour, over in the Metropolitan club, a very dapper young man from the divi sion of the Far, Near and Middle East and expert in economic-ethic- pathology, was sipping a thin scotch-and-soda which his chief had just ordered. His chief was bored. "By the way. Chief,” he srfid in a whisper so loud that even the waiters stopped looking respectful and listened: “I’m writing the President's next speech at the Inter planetary association’s confer ence." v In four other places, four other young experts were telling their bosses the same thing. All were perfectly honest, all were believed, and in 20 minutes or so, stenog raphers, clerks, messengers, wait ers and cab drivers were pointing out "the guy who writes the Presi dent’s speeches.” All this has been going on, I ■oppose, in world capitals since before somebody else thought he had codified the code of Ham murabi. What really happens is this: The President calls in one of his more literary secretaries—all of them are literate, but not all liter ary (some—those whose duties are conversing with politicians, don’t have to be too literate). The Presi dent says to the literary one: “Bill, in this speech I have to write for the Inter-Planetary con ference, I’m going to mention the super-gadget, and I want to touch on the current economic and social situation in Beluria, also there are some erosion statistics I need, and some data on the problems which arose as a result of the Whiskey Rebellion.” “Okeh, Chief," says the liter ary secretary, and on his way back to his office, he begins classifying, according to depart ments, the people he thinks may have the facts or the people who will know who knows somebody who has the facts. He either phones or dictates a brief memo to these people, requesting not more than one page from each on the subjects Indicated. Highly-pleased young and old men, on receipt of the memo or phone call, begin leafing through their research libraries and dic tating to their secretaries. In two days, a number of large packages are delivered to the White House via special messengers. The liter ary secretary curses and sets to work boiling down a 24-page thesis on the progression of tau-mute from the Sanskrit et elia to a sen tence and a half which he has his stenographer type into the rough draft of the speech which the President has dictated and sent to him for the purpose. Franklin Roosevelt became an gered because columnists persisted in “revealing” which confidential adviser wrote the last speech he delivered, whatever it was, that he once showed us the actual draft of a speech he had dictated and writ ten, and re-written as was his custom. In fact, the last-minute revising of Roosevelt’s interlined manuscripts often went on while newshounds growled in the outer office and mimeographers stood by to handle the finally-okayed sheets In “takes.” President Truman got a little peeved recently over the same line of columnar chatter and be gan to “let it be known” that he could write himself. Of course, all presidents get advice, counsel, assistance and inspiration from many men of many minds. Of course, there are humanitarians and grammarians, stylists and Carlyle-ists, lexicographers and geographers, economists and agronomists, Russians, Prussians and Persians upon whom he can call if the need arises. And somehow or other, each and all, if they but contribute one,jot or tittle to the sacred paper, think they wrote the whole—or at least the stenographer who had to take down all the stuff hopefully offered for possible presidential use thinks so, and tells her friends about it— confidentially. The problem of presidential speeches is much to the fore these days for this reason: President Truman and his advisers, despite the rebel yells, the wails of the defeatists, the triumphant roar ol the elephant and the ominous hoof- beats of the polls as they Gallup downhill, still believe he has a fighting chance to return in Novem ber to the White House, and he intends to fight for It. The President is going on a speaking tour of the West — of course, it isn’t a campaign, that would be undignified and immodest before the convention has asked. He will speak under no “political sponsorship.” But he will speak and he is going to ad lib, as we say in the trade. Even if we hadn't had our ears conditioned for 12 long years by the golden voice that breathed over the firesides, the un- oratorical oratory of Harry Truman when he reads a speech, be it ever so humble, never would be mis taken for the vox humana or the angels’ chorus. But when Harry Truman gets np and talks, he’s very human, very sensible, and not altogether un persuasive. So from now on, he’s going to speak extemporaneously, no matter how much preparation it takes. He showed what he could do with out notes or manuscript (and with out learning by rote) when he addressed the newspaper publish ers and the Gridiron club in April, and again in May when he talked off-the-cuff to the national confer ence on family life in Washington. And since such speeches aren't written, nobody can say he wrote them for him. * • • 'Will to Peace > Finds Expression Next month a “national confer ence for the prevention of World War III” will be held on the cam pus of Grinnell college in Iowa. The purpose is to present a “definite, concrete working plan t« prevent a third world war; methods which can be presented to the two national political conventions at Philadelphia.” The roster of speakers will in clude representatives of many of the organizations now working for a single sovereign, world organiza tion. Meanwhile Winston Churchill is hammering steadily at his pur pose of building a United States of Europe. Although the Attlee gov ernment has not approved the idea, the prime minister himself has spoken words of encourage ment regarding the formation of a real federalization of the west ern union. Attlee even went so far as to say that Britain was willing to sacrifice her sovereignty in part to bring it about, although be qualified the promise by saying the time was not yet ripe for such a step. But Churchill wants to strike now. He received considerable support from the unofficial gath ering in the Hague—a forum, they called it—composed of representa tives of the Marshall plan coun tries, plus exiled leaders. Churchill’s proposals and the Grinnell conference are both prrt of the tremendous “will to peace” that currently is finding expression. Perhaps eventually we will learn that great lesson of history—to yield the sovereignty that causes wars to the kind of sovereignty that allows not only the other free doms to the individual but which, also will give him freedom from the FEAR of war. Just as the federalization of the separate col onies made the citizen of the state of New York free from the fear of war with the state of Pennsylvania —a situation possible because both recognize a higher sovereignty— the United States government VETO STATE... Warren R. Austin. D.8. delegate to the United Nations. Inforned congress that any attest to alter the U.N. charter to block ex- travagent use of the yeto power bz the Russians Is Im possible at this tine. House foreign affairs cosslttee had been considering legislation to rerlse U.N. charter. RECOUPB(SK... Tossy Herbert of Cleveland, Ohio, who lost hlS hands under a railroad engine, was awarded 180,000 in probate court froa the New Tort Central railroad and General Motors. Seventy-thousand dollars will be held In a trust fund, to be «ent only as court wproves. SOMETHING IN COMMON.. .President Truman, Mio does a little piano playing hlsself, is shown shaking hands with-Sigmund Rom berg, the composer, at Con stitution hall In Washington where the President heard Rom berg-lead his orchestra In n benefit concert. PEATHERWEIGHT...Los Angeles press photographers judging Hollywood Park racetrack’s annual beauty contest took a gander at red-haired Jeanne Ayrest and promptly named her Miss Goose Girl of 1948.’ Now she’ll tend geeee at the race track. Silly, Isn’t it? DREARY OUTLOOK...This wistful youngster, born In a displaced persons camp at Salsburg, Austria, peers out from behind a fence surrounding the bar racks which has been his home since he was born. GIVE HIM A HOUSE IN THE TCP OF A TREE...Melkon Arslanlan (Inset) of West Orange, N.J., who likes to watch the race of men go by from bis treetop residence, says: ’It’s home to me and I like It...I’ll fight any eviction to the highest court, if neces sary.' He built the one-room affair 100 feet above the ground 16 years ago as a ‘protest against civilization.’ Owner of the property on which the tree stands now wants to use the glte for an amusement park and he says the tree must «o. Dust Bowl Menace A LBERT GOSS, master of the National Grange, bluntly warn ed President Truman the other day that we are inviting another "dust bowl" disaster unless we begin re developing the grasslands of the West. "I have just returned from a trip to Wyoming and can tell you that the dangers are very real,” report ed Goss. "There has been too much plowing up of the grasslands we de veloped as insurance against future dust storms.” The grange leader, who is the ablest farm spokesman in Wash ington, explained that the high prices and demand for wheat for domestic and foreign aid were chiefly responsible, since farmers didn’t want to maintain pasture lands when they could turn ■ quick profit on grain crops. “Most people take it for granted that we have licked the dust bowl hazards which caused such tragedy in the West some years back," added Goss. "However, dust can blow again, and will blow in my opinion within the next few years unless those grasslands are re stored.” * * • Oil Lobbyists at Work THBIB ARE ALVAYS PIONEERS... To a man with the aoul of a pioneer there la only one thing to do—pioneer. Near Pasco, Wash., War ren Clifford and his -wife, Audrey, view their spacious, albeit empty, fields, as the bureau of reel Mat ion began operating the pumping plant to bring the Cliffords their first irrigation water. They are the first settlers on the Pasco unit which con tains 84 family-size farms and la the first privately owned land in the entire million-acre project to be opened for settlement. NO. 1 INDUSTRY IN THE CAP ITAL has become lobbying. Despite the lobbying act, the hotels, the cocktail lounges, the corridors of congress now swarm with more of these oleaginous back-slappers than during the war. Standing out above the rest is the oil lobby—kingpin of them all. The oil lobby has just scored one great victory—Palestine. Now it’* concentrating on perhaps the rich est of all prizes—tidelands oil. Tidelands oil, the great con tinental shelf extending under the water off the Pacific and Gulf coasts, is estimated by some as more valuable than Arabia and the oil fields of the United. States combined. Around 100 billion bar rels lie buried in these under water oil fields, as against only 20 billion barrels remaining in the dry-land oil fields of the United States. ‘The petroleum resources of the continental shelf are ours to exploit whenever to exploit them becomes worthwhile,” said Standard Oil in a statement to stockholders. And since the supreme court now takes a contrary view that the continental shelf belongs to the federal govern ment, not the states, the oil lobby is focusing all its power on a bill in troduced by Senator Moore of Okla homa, himself an oilman, which would rpverse the supreme court. Having reversed the United Na tions on Palestine, the oil lobby ists quite openly boast that they can put a law through congress reversing the highest tribunal of the land. • * • Ike, the Democrat THE REPUBLICANS WERE RIGHT in calling the turn on Gen eral Eisenhower’s use of army per sonnel after his retirement from the army. However, it’s interest ing that the man who called the turn was Congressman A: L. Miller of Nebraska, spearhead of the MacArthur - for - President m o v e- ment. These boys don’t like Eisen hower. Also it’s significant that other high-ranking generals and admirals have continued to use army-navy personnel after their retirement. For instance. Admiral Ernie King, now retired, used not only a navy office but navy clerical personnel to write a book. And if all the money spent on Gen. John J. Pershing during his retirement were added up it would total over a million. Persb- F EM ALE OF THE 6PECIEL AND ALL THAT... There is no doubt about it. When a voaan takes it Into her head to fight for her hoae and front sidewalk, her opponent la going to have a rough grind. Here, In Altadena. Calif., in a hole excavated by a telephone coapany, stands Mrs. Rose Crock, stem and unyielding. She didn’t want anybody planting telephone poles In front of her bouse. Other Altadena housewives joined the protest and clalaed that the poles would depreciate property values by at leant $1,000 a hoae. H0V SAD CAN TOO GET?...Not knowing all the facts. If adlffl« cult to tell why the girl—Dorothy Jean Hodgson--ls weeping; Maybe It’s a case of too nany canine adalrers. She wanted to be' nice to both of her doggish friends at the dog show In Pitts burgh’ s Hunt amory. But the French bull at left'Insisted .on kissing her,.while his rival, stricken with jealously,--withdrew Into hlnself to sulk. ing, although retired for years, continues to be the second high est paid government official, drawing a salary of around $26,- 000 a year. Only the President of the United States tops him. In addition, Pershing has a colonel as an aide, plus other army per sonnel, and for years has lived at Walter Reed hospital. Eisenhower has a staff of three assigned to him at Columbia—Maj. Robert L. Schulz, an aide; WAC Warrant Officer Margaret Hayes and Mastersergeant Leonard Dry, a chauffeur. He also draws a sal ary of $15,751 a year for life from the army in addition to his salary as president of Columbia univer sity. Note—Pershing, although appoint ed by Woodrow Wilson, is the son- in-law of the Republican chairman of the senate appropriations com mittee, the late Francis E. Warren of Wyoming. The Republicans now consider Eisenhower a Democrat. • • • Capital Chaff HENRY WALLACE is looking around for a new Charlie Michelson to supply him with campaign mate rial. (Some people think that’s a waste of time; Harry Truman’s do ing a better job than Charlie Michel son) . . . Democratic leaders will be amazed when they find out that Oregon Democrats are going to sup port Henry Kaiser against Truman. RAILROADING DELUXE The trend in railroad car design ing has us dizzy. It’s all very well to spring a new de luxe car once or twice a year but when they come out once or twice an hour it is too much. Having done about everything possible to the outside of our trains, the boys now are working wonders with the inside. One road has just come out with a recreation car which includes (cross my heart!) a game and reading lounge, a children’s in closed playroom, an automat lunch, a sunken buffet lounge and a news, reel theater! * We have come to a point on our railroads where everything is so cozy that a passenger finds life drab and unbearable when he gets off. * This latest recreation ear has everything except a bowling alley, squash court, swimming pool and fishing lodge. The motif is so swanky that when a con ductor enters he seems almost an intruder from the other side of the tracks. Noting the “In case of emergency” cord a passenger is apt to interpret it as an emer gency when a cardtable wabbles, the griddlecakes are underdone or the movies are blurred. * Nobody will deny that for years there has been a crying need for improvement in railroad cars, but the present pace in modernization is dazzling. Changes come out so rapidly that a passenger no longer is surprised if an orchestra pit and sunken garden are added during a station stop. * The result is disquieting. We like comfort and a little swank, but when we board a choo-choo these days we feel as uncertain as when we are going through a night club on which the workmen still are busy. We have a feeling the con ductor may ask us at any moment to step forward while a new rumpus room is installed. . When we take a de luxe train we keep wondering whether we are going to be disturbed by paper hangers, rug layers and Interior decorators between stops. We observed a puzzled lady board a super-duper train re cently and ask, “Can you direct me to the railroad car?” * _ Our trains are becoming Alice- fn-Wonderland studios in pastels, murals, panels and upholstery trends. There are moments when we are not sure whether we are going places by railroad or by Good Housekeeping and Vogue. * — And then there was the case of the two girls who disgustedly exclaimed after walking through four cars, “What! No floor ■how?” • • • John Ringling North says he will not permit general broadcasting of the circus by television. This is a source of relief to countless housewives. Once the elephants come stomping into the living room by video it will be a frightful job sweeping the peanut shucks from the rugs. * And it would be confusing too. At times we couldn’t be too sure which was Gargantua and which was the radio commentator. • • • PRAISE FOR U. N. It’s weak and sick. It’s pale and thin, But it’s a darned good league For the shape It’s in. • • • The Country Editor Says: Jason Wiggs who used to worry over things like saving tinfoil and cigarette pictures now is a leader In the Save Europe campaign. • • Deke Bumble broke his silence in the 1948 political campaign this morning and came out for the first candidate who doesn’t grin much. • Mr. and Mrs. Luke Whipple are recovering slowly after a long spel) of trying to assemble their new prefabricated $10,000 home. We have looked over that new half dollar critically. Our verdict Is that it is not worth a nickel. • * • There are times, when General Marshall must wish he was back in a nice, big war where he could get some place. • • • Warren Wright, who takes most of the derbies with his super racing stable, is a baking soda tycoon. Thus, in a way, is the home linked up with the turf. When we think of Citation we think of mother in the kitchen making bread and cookies ... at the mention of Coaltown our mind centers on thousands of housewives baking a cake or pre paring a potpie. We love horses and it comforts us to dwell on the fact that there is such a strong tie between a horse and a cruller. o-<*•<*• ^ «*• ^ **• ^ ^ ^ **£ ; ASK MS ; ? ANOTHER * J l A General Quiz gw cv. $v. <w <v. the questions 1. What city is known as “The Bride of the Sea” ? 2. Did Pilgrims live in log cabin* when they first came to America ? 3. Why are so many piano* in American homes out of tune? 4. Where has the story “Little Red Riding Hood” been condemned?- 5. Where are the crown jewels of Great Britain kept? THE ANSWERS 1. Venice. 2. No Pilgrim Uved in a log ca bin UU long afterwards. When they first arrived they lived in canvas tents while they built themselve* frame houses of boards. 3. Shortage of piano tuners. The 3,000 piano tuners can’t’ possibly time the 16,000,000 pianos that need 4. In England by the Nursery Schools Association of Britain. They consider it too cruel. 5. In the Tower of London in a special glass and iron cage, with Yeomen of the Guard to watch them all the time. Railroads Use Water Approximately 600 billion gaUons of water are required annually *o quench the thirst of locomotives and to supply other needs of the rail roads of the United States. This would be sufficient to fill a channel 600 feet in width and 9 feet deep reaching from New York City to San Francisco. J SOOTHING DRESSMi MOROLINE^ PETWOLEUM JELLY BLOOD TESTED CHICKS ... N. H. Reds • Barred Rocks • White Rocks • Wyandottes • Rock Red aod Red Rock Chicks as hatched, your choice or assorted. $7.f» pm 100 (No Leghorn) Setlzfartloo Guarsateed—Chlcfct Best C.O.lT~ M /e MANCHESTER, N. H. 9 vmviva telephone oioos TEA for the ©dDQUftlb® 111111 < Governor’s Palace. 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