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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington Di9est, Washington Social Hours: Cold Turkey, Hot Gossip By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Washington cocktail parties and other social gatherings have been widely publicized as makers and breakers of reputations, national candidacies and interna tional policies. Not an of these affairs may forge or fracture the destiny of nations, but many often bring together as great a variety of human ingredients as are to be found at any one place at any one time, anywhere. For example I have just retumed<S - from lunch. I probably should say "luncheon” con sidering what it must have cost my red-headed college mate host whose excuse for giving it was the fact that he was celebrating his 55th birthday but whose real rea sons lay beyond distant frontiers. The bearded Ital ian scientist on his left reminded him that the occasion was unique be cause it was hard ly likely he would celebrate a simi lar occasion 55 years hence. A little macabre, I thought, but no one seemed to take it that way —least of all the fellow-citizen of Dante who was enjoying himself immensely over his cold smoked turkey sfnd doubtless became lyric over the lira and other important transalpine institutions before we were through. On the bearded one’s left was a representative of the state depart ment who gave me a disappointing ly eye-witness and unsensational ac count of the recent parliament ses sion of one of our South American neighbors—a session which I had judged from previous dispatches, would be punctuated by revolver shots. BAUKHAGE We had heard rumors of mys terious shootings there which were supposed to have made up in political significance what they lacked in marksmanship. Also there had been hints of cabinet changes due not only to mistakes in policy, but to hasty burials. I asked my fellow guest about it. "Oh, no,” he said, “there were no cabinet changes.” "But what about these terrible rumors of graft and corruption?” “Well, the President in his ad dress did make particular reference to the evils of political corruption and to the impottance of selfless loyalty on the part of the servants of the state.” “But was that all?” I persisted. "No names, addresses, or telephone numbers?” “That was all,” he insisted, “It was a very quiet session. Further more there was none of the proto col we observe at a joint session of the two houses of the American con gress. This parliament was called to order, the President came in, spoke his piece, and went out.” At this point, my host broke in. He insisted that I repeat the story of the opening of this sum mer’s special “turnip” session of congress which nobody outside of a few million radio listeners svho happened to be tuned in had heard before. Legislative Faux Pas, De Luxe Style This July 26 when a very angry house of representatives was called to order, it was known that the regu lar chaplain could not appear. So, when a stranger took the rostrum, the less-somnolent members rose, bowed their beads, as is the custom, to listen to the prayer. The first words they heard resounding through the chamber were: “Where as the public interest requires that the congress of the United States should be convened at 12 o’clock noon on Monday, the twenty-sixth of July, 1948, to receive such communi cation as may be made by the Ex ecutive: Now, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States . . and so on. . . . Gradually the members real ized that the man addressing them was not the substitute for the absent chaplain of the house, but the substitute for the equal- ly-absent reading clerk whose duty it is to read bills and offi cial communications. It was most embarrassing. The voice they were hearing was not the voice of a man repeating the word of God; it was the voice of the sub stitute clerk repeating the procla mation of the man at whom they were maddest. The members didn’t like to make public admission of their error by sitting down, and so they had to stand through the pain ful IK-word pronouncement which had tom ‘hem from the bosom of family and constituency, and brought them back to heat-ridden Washing ton. Next to the state department offi cial who had unwittingly provided the excuse for my anecdote was the consul-general of the Philippine re public who happens to be the son at ano.*.er college classmate at mine. He. like the rest of his fam ily, had outlived the Japanese oc cupation, and with his sister, had participated in the effective Philip pine underground, memories of which made this day’s current trag edy of the Philippines—the eruption of Hibokhibok volcano on Camiquin island—a decidedly minor concern. On my left was a prominent Wash ington lawyer. During a lull in the discussion of international, if not cosmic affairs, he suddenly asked: "What was your mother’s maiden name?” “Alice Blood,” I replied. “Yes,” he nodded in satisfac tion, “My annt, Clara Brown, often told me about your moth er. They were classmates (Ing ham university ’78), and she was a bridesmaid at your mother’s wedding in La Salle, Illinois.” Skipping your correspondent around the table, we arrive at a famous scientist. We exchanged reminiscences too, for he also was a graduate of the same college. As we talked, I remembered an anec dote about him I had heard from a mutual college friend. A Chech by Any Other Name . . . Not many years after his gradua tion, this scientist and his young wife arrived in the city where our mutual friend was in business, and called on him. The businessman recognized the scientist’s face im mediately but for the life of him, couldn’t remember the man’s name. During their lunch, the scientist remarked that he was going on an extended trip into Canada and had unfortunately run out of money. He wondered could he get a check cashed at the businessman’s bank. The businessman gladly acquiesced, thinking that when he saw the sig nature on the check, he would rec ognize the scientist’s name. Togeth er they went to the bank, the scien tist wrote the check, and the two men went to the cashier’s window. But as the scientist handed in the check, all the businessman could read was the name of a bank in a very distant city and the amount- five hundred dollars. He had already said to the cash ier, “I want you to meet my friend ...” but could get no further. Ter ribly embarrassed, he turned to the scientist and''said: “I’m sorry, but I can’t recall your name.” Of course the cashier over heard this remark and with the natural caution of the banker, said to the businessman:'“This win be fine, Mr. X, but will you please endorse this?” Mr. X turned it over, noted the name but did not recognize it, trem bled to think of what would hap pen to his bank account if it bounced (and he was sure it would), and signed. Farewells were spoken, the scientist de- - parted. Day after day the busi nessman awaited the call from the bank. In fact, he told me he had picked out a space on the wall where he intended to frame the paper so that he could call attention to it casu ally should some other vaguely identified caller request a similar favor. Nothing happened. A month or so later, another col lege friend came to town. The busi nessman related the story, describ ing the scientist and his occupation. Unaccountably his listener burst into laughter. “Didn’t you know," he said be tween gasps, “That man’s tech nical as well as scientific infor mation which he acquired at school along with his Ars Mag- ister made him a cool million the year after he was gradu ated?” At the luncheon there was also a Chinese oil expert who merely lis tened and an ERP representative who left early. And now back to my red-headed host. He related the adventure of one of the guests who had been un able to appear. It seems this gen tleman had formed a corporation called "World Development, Inc.” or something very similar. When my host heard his glowing . pros pectus, he said, "Aren’t you cover ing a lot of ground.” “Oh, no,” said the promoter who since had acquired considerable in fluence in international affairs, “this is just a subsidiary of the In ter-Planetary corporation.” Then I had to go, so I never knew what master-plan for the rebuilding and exploiting of the nation, the world or the sidereal spaces were discussed or consummated. But I have no doubt you can go a long way in Washington—startir g with cold turkey. CAMPAIGNER . . . Children and corn are main items on the agenda of every American politi cal candidate, even including President Truman. Here, at Grinnell, Iowa, where Mr. Tru man made a major campaign speech, he is presented with a sturdy ear of corn by Katherine Melbnrn, 5. ORIGINAL WAF . . . Mary Irene Webster of Pittsburgh, Pa., first WAF (women’s air force) recruit to pass examination in the new organization, totes her newly is sued clothing to her barracks at Bowling field air base, Washing ton, D. C. TONSILS . . . John Taber Fitz gerald of Los Angeles made his debut as a singer at Town Hall in New York last month at the age of 84. The aging baritone took to song during the depression. KEELHAULED . . . This British model is having her hair done up from starboard to port, with the combers breaking over a frigate on top. Her coiffure was fea tured in a commemoration of the granting of tfse Oxford charter to barbers in 1348. PEACE FOR BERNADOTTE . . The concensus on Count Folke Berna- dotte among the people of the world will be that It is nobler by far for a man to die in quest of peace than io lay down his life in war. The Swedish U. N. mediator in the Palestine dispute was shot to death by assassins in Jerusalem while he was working toward a solution of the strife between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. EDUCATION IS A FAMILY AFFAIR ... On the theory that knowledge is power, the Aloys Daack family of State Center, Iowa, shifted into high gear and went off to college together. Mother, Dad and 17-year-oid Jim Daack enrolled in a body at Carthage college, Carthage, ID., for a family 1 and s< ed by < a navy veteran, is a junior. Moved by an ambition to become a doctor, Aloys is taking a pre-medical course. Here, the trio is waiting for their German class to begin. \ " ■ : * . * PARASITE IN FLIGHT Most radical at all new jet aircraft is the air force’s McDonnell XF-85 parasite fighter which is carried in bomb bays of long-range bombers and launched from a trapeze attachment on the underside of the mother ship. The tiny plane, with a wing span of 21 feet and length of, 15 feet, is shown as it was carried aloft by a B-29 during a recent test Sight at Muro<\ air base, Calif. m 1 SLUGGER . . . Favored BnaUst in the women’s national ama teur golf championship at Pebble Beach, Calif., was Helen Sigel of Philadelphia. She was in semi finals of the event three times la the past five tournaments. CHICKEN IN THE ROUGH This picture will stand as documentary evidence that Miss America of 1948—also known as Be be Shopp of Hopkins, Minn.—is a wholesome, home-loving, chicken-loving type of girl. No professional glamor girl, she enjoys rural life. Feeding the chickens and gathering eggs are part of her daily routine—which war interrupted, of course, when she went to Atlantic City. Doubt About Dulles I T ISN’T being advertised, but Gov ernor Dewey has received some firm but friendly advice from high- up Republicans to think twice be fore he appoints John Foster Dulles as his secretary of state. The opposition to Dulles is partly on the ground that he is one of Wall Street’s most prominent lawyers, partly because of the disastrous role Dulles played in selling the Ameri can public on tMe now defaulted German bonds prior to 1938 when leading American economists were warning that they would be worth less paper. One high-up Republican who re cently cautioned Dewey about Dulles was Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N. H.), chairman of the powerful senate appropriations committee. Bridges raised a new objection, namely Dulles* recommendation of Alger Hiss, alleged Communist, to be chairman of the Carnegie Peace Foundation. The directors of the foundation, Bridges recalled, were lukewarm about Hiss but were pressured into the appointment by Dulles. “Yes, he did make a mistake on that one,” admitted Dewey. "And be’s made too many mis takes,” urged Senator Bridges. “He made a terrible mistake regarding the Nazis. We just can’t afford to have a man as secretary of state who makes mistakes. The problem of peace is too delicate.” Bridges also reminded Dewey that Dulles might have difficulty in be ing confirmed by the senate. “We hope to give you a real ma jority in the senate in November,” the New Hampshire senator ex plained. “But we may be darn lucky to keep what we’ve got. If so, and if only two or three Re publicans oppose Dulles, then the Democrats will jump in en masse to fight his confirmation. They’ll love it.” Dewey countered that Foreign Minister Molotov liked Dulles, and that ironing out our Russian prob> lems was all important.” “He’s the only man in Ameri ca who can get along with Molo tov,” Dewey told Bridges. “And, I suppose,” quipped Bridges, “that Molotov is a good Republican and wants us to win in November.” In Praise of Bradley If war should come to beleaguered Berlin, the men at the top of the U. S. army today are among the most competent, human, and civili an-minded that this newsman has seen around the war department in many a year. This appraisal, by the way, comes from a long-time and vigorous critic of the brass hats. Responsible for this new deal around the Pentagon building are General Eisenhower and his successor, modest Omar Brad ley. It is important for the American public to know that when the dare devil boys of the air forces and the drop-the-bomb-now men of the navy gather at joint chiefs of staff meet ings, there is always present one calm conscience who newer forgets the 300,000 G.I.s buried under white crosses from Guadalcanal to Sicily. Take off his uniform and Omar Bradley looks like a college profes sor. He is quiet, gracious, gener ous, good natured and basically a very plain person. Everybody who ever worked with Bradley remarks on his simplicity. His mess ser geant in France had orders never to use Bradley’s name to wangle food for headquarters. Once Jhring the historic landing at Normandy, Bradley, then a three-star general, took off his fleece-lined jacket and banded it to a shivering corporal. “Here, son,” he said. “It will be easier for me to get another than it will be for you.” * • • Spunky Mr. Truman Spunky Harry Truman isn’t being discouraged by the Roper poll which concedes him no chance to win. Talking to the District of Columbia Truman-Barkley committee the oth er day, he declared: "We won’t lose this campaign for lack of hard work. I intend to make more public appearances and wage the most strenuous campaign any president has ever attempted. I’m not only going to make radio appeals to the man in the street—I’m going to rub shoulders with him.” His chief worry, the President confided, was the possibility of a light vote. “We’ll need a heavy vote and I’m going out to get it if I have to punch doorbells," the Presi dent said. “If every Demo cratic precinct committeeman throughout the country operates on that theory, we’ll be all right." That even goes for the District of Columbia, Truman told his D. C. caUers, led by A1 Wheeler, a Wash ington attorney. “Citizens of the District can’t vote, but there’s a big potential absentee vote here that could be mighty im portant,” explained the President THE MET AND THE MOVIES The Metropolitan opera, it is an nounced, has been in conference with Hollywood on the presentation of grand opera on the screen. Okay here, but we want a promise there will be no “Son of Gotterdamme- rung.” * Grand opera could use a wider audience. Things are not in proper balance when millions of people hear Looney Tunes and only thou sands hear “Samson a«d Delilah.” Or when sweater girls, Kashmir travelogues and Disney hlean more to the masses than Bach, Pagliacci, Lily Pons and the big scene in “Tann- hauser." ♦ The movie fans might like opera. They could be in a mood when anything on the screen that offers relief from shrieking limousine brakes, gunfire and , people in shower baths would be mighty welcome. Not to men tion love scenes in hayfields and episodes in the Casbah. * Hollywood could do much for grand opera, by the same token. It would at least scrap the old scenery and see that costumes fitted. • And it would see that the westerns took place on the screen and not in the lobby or bar. • However, we warn the Met that it had better be on its guard lest the Hollywood influence go too far. We would hate to see ‘ the announcements of “Madam Butterfly” or “Carmen” carry the lines “Free Comic Books for the Boys and Girls! Special Ex hibit of Tommyguns in the Lobby! Don’t Miss the Satur day Night Jackpot!” We have grave fears of billings such as these: “ ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ a Warner Brothers’ , Super Special! With Woody Herman’s Orchestra on Stage.” “Goldwyi/ Does It Again With ‘Peleas and Melisande!’ Don’t Miss the Stage Presentation of La Scala Days! Free Dishes!” “ ‘Cavalleria Rusticana!’ A Re public Pictures Production! Watch Your Neighborhood Theater News for Further Details! With the Add ed Feature ’Billy the Kid.’ ” “Starting Today: The ‘IJarber of Seville!’ Starting Thursday ‘The Big Murder at Triple Bar Ranch!* ’’ “All This Week Beethoven! All Next Week George Raft.” But what this department fears most is one of those Hollywood screen preludes with all the credit lines, viz: LA TOSCA An Allied Artists’ Production. Story by Ted Blotz. Taken From a Script by Lydia Schmoose. Based on an Idea by Puccini. Dialogue by Herman Schnaffle. Additional Dialogue by Welsh and Burke Costumes by Schimzai. Make-Up by Dolores Dolores. Musical Arrangement by Joe Zilch * Let’s have a little co-operation be tween the movie and the opera, but don’t go too far, boys! • • • Bells, Bells, Bells Elmer Twitchell, an old-tirne hook and ladderman himself, js upset by the order cutting down the bell alarms in New York fire houses, following a decision that it makes firemen victims of hypertension and cardiac troubles. "On paper it sounds logical,” declared Elmer, “but in practice it is no good. Fire bells keep a fireman tense and sleep less? Bunk. On the contrary an old timer can’t get a wink of sleep when deprived of ’em.” * “Those younger fire laddies may find bells a nuisance, but older smoke eaters were raised on ’em. Their hypertension will go up 50 per cent the first night they are expected to sleep without ’em. Mark my words, with the beNs cut out a week, you will find the fire department close to a nervous collapse.” • • • The Buffalo Philharmonic offers to supply baby sitters to all purchasers of season tickets. This removes the last excuse for not having a big family. VANISHING AMERICANISMS "Let’s be fair about this. . . ." * "If u>e are wrong we’ll gladly say __ it to, a a a * "The boss ain’t a bad guy at heart. . . ." • * * Ed Kobak, head man of Mutual Broadcasting, announces that after January 1 all his programs requir ing that listeners answer a tele phone to win prizes will be aban doned. "I think legally these shows cannot be banned,” he says. "But the important thing is for a man to be right with himself, and not just consider what he can get by with." What! Can there really be a figure in American entertainment who is for getting back to old-fashioned ethics? (CLASS I FI PEP A R T M E N T BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. FOR SALE—niXiA CA#E, Ringgold. Ga. Doing nice business. 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