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THE NEWBERRY SUN. VEWRERRY. S. C. ■WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS President Truman Astounds Nation By Winning Election Over Dewey; Senate, House Go Democratic, Too •By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer- lESEE®.? NOTE: Y, h *“ •pinion* expressed Ib these eolamae, they are those et Western Newspaper Union s news analjsts and cot necessarily of this newspaper.) ELECTION: Ghost Walked The night of November 2-3 was supposed to have been a wake for the defunct Democratic party but the corpse wouldn’t lie still. It not only sat up but went around slap ping the premature mourners on the back. IN THE FACE of the supposedly cut-and-dried nature of the cam paign between President Truman and Governor Dewey the results of the election were fantastic. Every body had been wrong—from the sec- ond-guessers on every street cor ner to the "infallible” pollsters of public opinion. It was Truman all the way— from the first early returns which indicated the bend until the great, pivotal states of Ohio, Illinois and California swung over into the Dem ocrats’ camp, crushed Dewey and forced him to concede. MR. TRUMAN’S two million-plus plurality which gave him 304 elec toral votes (to Dewey’s 189) was nothing less than a popular direc- bve to serve. Thus, for the first time since he entered the White House, President Truman was able to feel that he had full, untrammeled control of the administration. MORE THAN that, the President was enormously elated about the fact that the Democrats had gained control of both houses of congress. How justifiable that elabon will turn out to be, however, is a question for time to answer. "We have a congress now, and I’m sure we’ll make some progress in the next four years,” he said. Yet, full cooperation between a U. S. president and his congress, even when they are aligned politi cally, is, if not quite a rarity, at least unusual. Personalities Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York must have been the most tor mented man in the nation for a few days after November 2. AT 46, an age when most men in politics are only beginning their climb to the top, he had sat for a few weeks on an imaginary pin nacle — created by himself, with yeoman help from the pollsters— only to feel it dissolve under him when the votes were counted. Dewey was through, a man to be pitied. Never again would he find the ambition or the chance to be president of the United States. BUT FOR President Truman these were days of such happiness and triumph as few men savor in a lifetime. He had pummeled his way through the allotted number of rounds in the campaign almost sin gle-handedly. He had fought Dewey and the Republicans. He had fought the apathy of his own party. He had fought for and won over to his side a majority of the United States voters. Harry S. Truman was the man of the year. Vhat now? Program Now that it is going to be Presi dent Truman again for the next four years, what can the nation ex pect of him to do along legislative lines? His program will probably be elucidated in two phases, his annual message to be delivered to the Jan uary 3 opening of congress and his Inaugural address on January 20. In the meantime, if his campaign speeches are taken as being rea sonably reliable, Mr. Truman has committed himself to a program involving these principal issues: • PRICES: “I’m still in favor of ac tion to hold down the cost of liv ing.” He wants price control laws, the President indicated. LABOR: “The Taft-Hartley law is the opening gun in the Republican onslaught against the rights of the working man. It should be re pealed.” He also is expected to ask for the raising of the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour. COMMUNISTS: “We are on guard against them.” CIVIL RIGHTS: “We cannot be sat isfied until all our people have equal opportunity for jobs, homes, edu cation, health and for political ex pression.” AGRICULTURE: “Full markets for farm products ... a floor under farm income . . . increased farm income through cooperatives, mar ket development and research." SOCIAL SECURITY: “A compre hensive insurance system to protect THE VANQUISHED Called the wrong time all our people.” Probably he will recommend expansion of the law to cover self - employed domestics, farm workers and others not now included. ATOMIC ENERGY: “Civilian con- trol under government management should be retained.” HOUSING: "The Taft - Ellender- Wagner bill passed the senate and should have passed the house.” TAXES: “The tax reduction (passed over his veto) is inequitable as well as untimely. Some readjustment is required to afford relief to families who are suffering. But total re ceipts should not be reduced.” ' CONGRESS: Demo Gains Although they had needed a net gain of only four senate and 31 house seats for control of the 81st congress, the Democratic party did much better than that By the time Dewey conceded the election, the Democratic party was assured of at least 18 senators against five for the Republicans and 188 representatives against 86 for the Republicans. Forty-nine votes are necessary for senate control. The Democrats now have 54. Democrats have clinched at least 263 house seats. Only 218 are necessary for control. Republican senators seeking re- election were defeated by Demo crats in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. In other con tests where Democrats were seek ing re-election they won. Colorado’s Democratic Senator Johnson was a winner in his re- election campaign. In Oklahoma, where a Republican seat was at issue, former Gov. Robert Keer, Democrat, won. Republican Senator Revercombe was defeated in West Virginia by Democratic Governor Neely. Hubert Humphrey, Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, won his bid for Re publican Sen. Joseph H. Ball’s job. In Illinois, Democratic Senate Can didate Paul Douglas defeated Re publican Sen. C. Wayland Brooks by more than 100,000 votes. GUARD: Expansion Soon after the 81st pongress con venes on January 3 it will be re quested to boost the authorized strength of the national guard by 100,000 men and put all its units on a ready-for-war basis. And the way things look now, it appears that congress will agree to that request. Guard officials said they would ask that the authorized strength be increased frqm the present 341,000 to 441,000. This, of course, would require special appropriations for armories and equipment. These officials in Washington said they also will ask that all 27 divi sions of the national guard be in cluded in the army’s stepped-up defense program. The army so far has selected only six of the 27 divisions for its “mobilization day” force, the out fit that would be ready to strike back first if this nation were to be attacked. Army spokesmen, however, claim their present funds and equipment cannot support more than six guard units on a war-ready basis. THAT'S ALL, BROTHER Won't Seek Presidency Again: De\yey Two hours after he had conceded the election to President Truman, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey had made his decision: He would not consid er running for the presidency a third time. At a post-election press confer ence the first question fired at Dewey was, “What happened?” "I was just as surprised as you are and I gather that that is shared by everyone in this room,” said he. Dewey maintained that there had been no error in strategy in the conduct of his campaign. He added that he had talked the situation over with his running mate. Gov. Earl Warren, and that they had agreed they had waged a "clean and constructive campaign.” “We have no regret in the world,” the defeated candidate said. JOY ABROAD: About Harry Astonishment at the re-election of President Truman was not confined within the boundaries of the United I States, and United Nations delegates , in Paris received the news with a mixture of incredulity and happi ness. • MAJORITY opinion among the delegates seemed to be that it was a good thing. First, the western European lead-' ers said, the continuity of the American government will hasten Atlantic pact negotiations. If Gov ernor Dewey had been elected an inevitable delay would have result ed, pending the switch in admin istrations. Second, most' of the delegates of Russia and the eastern bloc of Eu rope, although chagrined at the miserable showing of Henry Wal lace, asserted they preferred Mr. Truman to Dewey because they will be dealing with a man and admin istration with which they are ac quainted. THERE IS some doubt, however, as to whether that is the real Soviet attitude. The Russians and their satellites had been banking on a Republican victory because thej( were sure that if a GOP administra tion took over in the U. S. the last great depression that would destroy western capitalism would inevitably come. They do expect, however, that Mr. Truman, now having the support of congress, will make a fresh ap proach toward improving U. S.- Soviet relations, probably renewing an effort to untangle the Berlin puz zle. Concensus of all the delegates is that the success of President Tru man demonstrates the ffiiexpected strength of the liberal element in America combined with a powerful anti-Communist attitude. GRAZING: Western Problem One of the greatest sins of the western United States has been the pasturing of too many cattle and sheep on the range—over-grazing, in other words. Despite the apparent remoteness of the subject, it vitally concerns every housewife and every consum er who likes to eat meat, for much of the beef and lamb in the butcher shop originates in the 11 western states. IT IS still the subject of hot de bate among western stockmen and the U. S. forest service, however, whether the vast, public-owned lands are grazed too much or too little. Yet, the evidence seems clear that when livestock or big game eat black grama grass, for exam ple, too close to the ground it even tually dies. Meat-producing grasses are driv en out and replaced by worthless or inferior plants such as snake weed, bitterweed, cactus, yuccas, creosotebush and the mesquites. THIS condition is becoming more common throughout the West and Southwest. In southwest Texas, for instance, more than a million of acres of good grasslands have been depleted. Drouth and over-grazing has killed the choice grama and buffalo grasses and their place has been taken by mesquite, cedar and catclaw brush and by an assortment of low-value weeds. As a result of this abuse, meat production has been slowed definitely. Nevertheless, there is definite proof that such a situation need not exist. ON THE Jornada experimental range, a 192,000-acre cattle ranch owned and controlled by the U. S. forest service just north of Las Cruces, N. M., the cows are plump and the calves fat despite the third year of the worst drouth in 50 years. And on similar land outside the ranch over-grazing has all but de stroyed the grama grass. Worth less snakeweed has taken control of the land. Blithe Spirit With a let - joy - be - unconfined look on his face and obviously not In a vetoing frame of mind, An drei Vlshinsky, Soviet U.N. dele gate, attends a special perform ance of the opera given for Unit ed Nations delegates in Paris. With him is Madame Vishinsky. MOLECULES: Inside Story A new kind of light, consisting ox radio waves less than a quarter of an inch long, is being used to study the inside of molecules, the basic chemical units of all matter. These radiation waves, several thousand times longer than those of visible light and several-fold longer than infra-red “heat light” waves, are absorbed and reflected by the atoms making up the mole, cules. Electricity Assures Water for Livestock Economical Installation For Winter Suggested Electricity, which has eased the farmer’s chores, has come to the aid of farm animals, too. Through the medium of electric ity, Dobbin and Bossy no longer need fear that their drinking water supply will be shut off during the cold winter months. Tests by agricultural engineers have demonstrated that electricity is economical to provide warm wa ter for livestock during the winter. Watering devices were operated at a cost as low as 70 kilowatt hours per month, representing an outlay of $1.40 at two cents per kilowatt. Some farmers are finding that their installations are expensive to operate, principally because of lack This horse can laugh at Old Man Winter as a result of this floating water heater, an electrical de-icer which assures farm animals a drink despite the cold. of insulation or because too much water is heated. The following suggestion will help to make an ideal installation: I Use as small a tank as possible, • definitely not more than 150 gallons. 2 Install a float so the size of the • tank can be reduced. Commer cial units now on the market use only a drinking cup. 3 Use at least three or four inches * of commercial insulation and cover all sides, leaving room for only one or two animals to drink. 4 Install a baffle board to prevent • air movement over the water under the insulated top. Use of electricity makes it safe to install the tank inside the barn or in a shed, which will encourage livestock to drink more water and thus increase milk and meat pro duction. Farmer Falls Hardest ■Life on the farm is far more haz ardous for the farmer and his sons than it is for his wife and his daugh ters. In fact, a survey covering 15,000 farms the country over, made by the department of agriculture, re veals that about four times as many accidents happened to men and boys between the ages of 14 and 65 as were suffered by farm women and girls. Of the youngsters under 14 injured, nearly 65 per cent were boys. More farm people were injured by falls than any other type of ac cident, with the majority of mishaps involving falling on steps and stairs and from vehicles. Men and boys were victims of twice as many in juries from falls as were women and girls. Of the total number of farm ac cidents, 56 per cent were connected with farm work and 8 per cent with housework. The age period from 25 to 45 was disclosed as the most dangerous. Horses Need Attention During Stabled Period Disease and injury that some times prove crippling can be pre vented by giving special attention to horses’ feet during the stabled period. Brittle hoofs, spongy hoofs, thrush and foot canker are the four diseases commonly caused by bad stable conditions. Clean, dry floors are recommend ed as a precaution. The feet of stabled animals also should be trimmed at least once a month. rAy milland Out of them has come an idea for a musical, which he ought to write but probably won’t. He'd rather head for a driving range with Mrs. Milland and their eight-year-old 'son. Each takes a bucket of golf balls and starts driving—with young Milland doing better than either of his parents. ' Ilka Chase's talent for comedy has never been better displayed than in that same “Tatlock’s Mil lions.” but she. too. preferred to talk about something else. Her lec ture tours, a projected trip to Paris, the mink skins she was taking to a milliner tof a hat—all were more important than a Hollywood stint which was just one more job so far as she was concerned. i&CSCREI Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD R AY MILLAND, in New York for some radio ap pearances, had an engage ment with flu instead. Our luncheon engagement found him still wobbly. Though ready to laugh about the bit part he plays in “Tatlpck's Millions,” and dis cuss “Sealed Verdict,” his latest for Paramount, he was more in a mood to talk about his experiences in the south Pacific during the war. Howard da Silva, of RKO’s “They Live by Night,” can’t help tinkering with mechanical objects. He has bought a service station and anto repair -shop in the heart of Hollywood, and so far has three profitable inven tions to his credit. Since "Perry Mason” is the only daytime mystery, it requires spe cial treatment so that suspense will carry over from day to day. five days a week. As one plot winds up, as “The Case of the Sinister Sis ter” is doing now, the new one is worked in with it. Peter Capell and Fran Lafferty are both key figures in these two—heard OA CBS. * ' Radio executives complain about giveaway shows, but nothing was done about them until “Everybody Wins” was dropped by its cigarette company sponsor for a weekly se ries based on original scripts of a crime-mystery nature. Big-name Hollywood and Broadway plays will be starred. * “America’s New Air Power,” the latest March of Time, shows actual shots of carrier-based jets in ac tion, and of the strange “Parasite,” a hitch-hiking jet fighter which is launched from a larger plane. The climax shows the highly specialized training of the men who pilot the jets. Here is the answer to the question of what is being done about air power and defense. “Joan of Are” is full of tengue-twisting Gallic names and phrases. To make sure au diences understand them, In grid Bergman and others fol lowed a handbook giving the American pronunciation, pre pared by a former Columbia university professor. Bill Williams and Barbara Hjle plan taking their first vacation to gether in two years on completion* of RKO’s “The Clay Pigeon,” in which they co-star. Traveling by freighter, they will take three months to visit coastal cities, with Rio de Janiero as the terminus of the trip. This is their first visit be low the equator, and they’re making it without frills. Robert Cummings is looking for an actor who looks like Cummings, to star in the story of hip life, one of his independent pictures. Arriv ing from London he used a British accent, was known as Blade Stan hope Conway. He became a Texan, when British actors were no longer in demand, with the name of Brice Hutchins. Now he wants to film his own story, but will not appear in it. * * ODDS AND ENDS—Jane Wyman bos received a statuette and a citation from Suffolk university, Boston, and a gold loving cup from Boston col lege, for her work in "Johnny Be linda". . . . Dorothy Lovett of "The Guiding Light” says she’ll never for get her first spanking; it was admin istered with a copy of "Pilgrim’s Progress.” . . . Every day, after work at Columbia, Glenn Ford has been driving out to Burbank where be took lessons in handling a five-pas senger Cessna. . . . Dennis Morgan taught Errol Flynn to sing the love song he sings to Alexis Smith in "Montana.” THE FIGHTING PRESIDENT U. S. Elects Truman. Democratic Congress “Now maybe you would like to know why I have made this fight for the people. I will try to tell you. It is a matter of the things I believe in.” President Harry S. Truman spoke those words to the nation’s voters on the night before election. And he believed hard enough to get him self re-elected to another term in the White House. Perhaps he made a wish on a star, too; but in the end it was his own dogged, courageous fight that won him what amounted to a man date to serve. His 371 speeches and 31,500 miles of campaign travel, his will to win, his unflagging con viction that he would win and finally the justification by the people of his confidence made Mr. Truman’s re-election a truly amasing political phenomenon. He is President today despite the political experts, despite the public opinion polls, despite th^ lethargy and lack of support within his own Democratic party and despite all the logic that was advanced to show that a Republican administration was needed for the good of the na tion. Upset the Dope. What happened? How did Harry Truman manage to upset the dope? Following the initial shock of sheer nation-wide disbelief that he could have made it. it became apparent that there was not one but a com bination of several factors operating unobtrusively in the President’s favor. The surprisingly heavy vote was a vital point. It has been axiomatic for a long time in the U. S. that as the number of voters increases so do the chances of the Democratic party.* High prices, high rents, the hous ing shortage—all of which Mr. Tru man emphasized strongly in connec tion with his assaults on the "sec ond worst” 80th congress-raided in turning the people away from a Republican administration. Organized labor concentrated on getting its members out to" vote against members of congress who had supported the Taft-Hartley law, and that circumstance redounded to the President’s benefit. The fact that virtually no one real ized—with the possible exception of Mr. Truman and a few of his loyal subordinates—was that the tide of the campaign had turned in the last two weeks before the election Last Lap Drive. Mr. Truman’s slugging, earthy drive during the last three weeks before November 2, and converse ly, Dewey’s insistence upon main taining the bland, high-level tone to his campaign brought the President a lot,of votes. Finally, the farm states did not come In nearly as strongly Republican as they had been expected to. Mr. Truman had succeeded in planting a fear, in his Midwest campaigning, that the GOP would do away with farm support prices. Thus, at 11:30 a. m. (EST) on November 3, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey conceded the election to President Tniman, shortly after the pivotal states of Ohio. Illinois and California had definitely gone Democratic. What can the nation expect from the next four years of Democratic government under President Tru man? Foreign Policy Stays. U. -S. foreign policy will remain basically unchanged, keeping as its mainspring the European Recovery Program. As a matter of fact, it would have retained its status quo under a Republican administration, too. But in any event it is reasc ■ able to assume that most American voters cast their ballots not so much on the basis of foreign policy as on domestic issues. Whether or not much, if anything, will be done about the Taft-Hartley act is more of a question than it seems. In the first place, although the Democrats have a nominal major- The Splinter Parties Neither Henry Wallace’s Pro gressives nor J. Strom Thur mond’s Dixiecrats turned up with a decisive effect on the election. The total impact on the national electorate of Wallace’s “love everybody, including Russia” philosophy was extremely small. He polled only slightly more than a million votes, made no great inroads in any state. Thurmond and the southern state rights party carried four states, Alabama, Louisiana, Mis sissippi and South Carolina, prov ing that the Democrats can win an election without a completely solid South. He fought and won ity in both houses of congress. It remains to be seen if they will have a dominating workable m^ority with enough strength, for instance, to repeal or amend the law. Also, some Democratic con gressmen are not convinced that the Taft-Hartley law is as black a thing as it has been painted. One of the first demands that President Truman and the Demo cratic 81st congress will get from the people will be to do something about high prices and inflation. Action along this line probably will take the form of price controls— perhaps wage controls as well. Mr. Truman is likely to try again to get congress to pass the 10-point anti inflation legislation he first eluci dated a year ago. Truman Receives 304 Electoral Votes to Win During the dramatic early hours of the election returns, electoral votes seesawed back and forth be tween Governor Dewey and Presi dent Truman, changing as the tide of popular votes from each of the states was tabulated. In the final compilation. President Truman garnered a total of 304 elec toral votes, 38 more than the 266 which were necessary for him to be elected. Governor Dewey collected 189 electoral votes and J. Strom Thur mond drew the Dixiecrats votes of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina which totaled 38. Wallace failed to get a single vote. Tabulated below are the electoral returns by states: STATE DEWEY TRUIV Alabama 0 0 Arizona 0 A Arkansas • 9 California 0 25 Colorado 0 6 Connecticut 8 0 Delaware 3 0 Florida 0 8 Georgia 0 12 Idaho 0 4 Illinois 0 28 Indiana 13 0 lOWEi •«•••••••• 0 10 Kansas 8 0 Kentucky 0 11 Louisiana 0 • Maine s 0 Maryland 8 0 Massachusetts .. 0 16 Michigan 19 • Minnesota 0 11 Mississippi 0 0 Missouri 0 15 Montana •••••••• 0 4 Nebraska * • Nevada 0 3 New Hampshire. 4 0 New Jersey 16 0 New Mexico .... • 4 New York 47 • North Carolina .. t 14 North Dakota .. 4 • Ohio • 25 Oklahoma 6 10 Oregon 6 0 Pennsylvania ... 35 • Rhode Island.... 0 4 South Carolina .. 0 0 South Dakota 4 • Tennessee 0 12 Texas • 23 Utah • 4 Vermont ........ 3 0 Virginia • 11 Washington 0 8 West Virginia... 0 3 Wisconsin 0 12 Wyoming 0 3 L ' 'rr4-/>V'* r - § m & / Wmm ' y|| :.i-~ Dewey has seen happier days but President Truman hasn’t. Ain’t It St The danger of a reclining position is that yon are most likely to decline in it. 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