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0 THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington Di&eslj The U. S. Vice Presidency Called 'Unimportant 7 Job By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Just what are the thoughts of a vice president of the United States between the time of his elec tion and the time he walks in and makes his opening address to the United States senate? "There can be great Judges, great governors, great senators, great representatives and great Presidents. A vice president may move into the presidency and be a great President A great man may be vice president but be can’t be a great vice president because the office in itself is unimportant In my judgment the four most potent offices in the nation are: The President, the speaker of the house, the majority leader of the senate, and the chief justice of the United States." (pkliVuL BAUKHAGE the Republican These were the remarks of former^ Tice President Gamer as quoted by Bascom Timmons in his book, “Gar ner of Texas.” When "Cactus Jack” gave up the speakership of the house to accept the vice presiden tial nomination he called the of fice “a no-man’s land somewhere between the legis lative and the ex ecutive branch.” I don’t know whether Mr. Gar ner was any more reluctant to accept the vice presiden tial nomination than was Alben Barkley. Or than Governor Warren was, in accepting vice presidential aomination, for that matter. War ren, in particular, put up a lot of sales resistance. Dewey during the Bight after his own nomination, con ferred with party leaders and came up with Warren’s name for the vice presidency. Warren at first refused, but ac cepted after Dewey promised to give him cabinet status and admin istrative duties, if elected. As Dewey put it, he wanted Warren to have a “full partnership” in helping to run the government. Party loyalty was Alben Barkley’s reason for accept ing the job. He has been a hard worker in politics for 43 years. As senate Democratic leader for the past 11 years, he has faithfully steered administra tion programs through the up per house. Until the GOP cap tured the senate in 1946, his power and prestige were im mense. He probably will be asked to at tend cabinet meetings as former Tice President Gamer was asked by Roosevelt. Before Gamer ac cepted, he made an agreement covering three things: “In the first place, in order to serve the President and the coun try in that capacity, I did not feel I should make a public statement I also suggested that we agree dur ing my term in the vice presidency and association in the cabinet that I would not make any recommen dation for public office unless I was asked for a recommendation. “The third part of the agreement was that I would not make any recommendation as to national policy unless I was asked.” President Harding had ex tended a similar invitation to Us vice president, Calvin Cool- Idge, who didn’t have to worry about the first part of the Gar ner agrc'. ment. According to the record he was not heard at these meetings, and at many of them he was not even seen. Vice President Dawes respect- fully declined the invitation to at tend cabinet meetings. Curtis attended very seldom. Gamer Didn’t Get Far Out of Touch When Gamer heard Mr. Dewey’s statement regarding his conception of his running mate if he were elect ed, the sage of Uvalde said some thing to the effect that most of the time when he was vice president he was' so worried that the Repub lican senators would put something over on him in case of a tie vote that he never dared to get more than a block away from the Capitol steps. While it is quite true that the vice president is a member of the exec utive branch of the government, his chief function is presiding over the senate and casting a vote like any other member of the upper house in case of a tie. If he were too closely associated with the executive branch of the government he might fail in his really important role, that of rally ing support for administration measures in his own party and do ing what he can to keep the ma jority party as favorably inclined to the White House as possible. Most vice-presidents with a sense of humor have been care ful not to take themselves too seriously. Vice President Mar shall (under Wilson) made a considerable contribution to the climate of Washington by in dulging in wisecracks and offer ing a sharp contrast to Wilson’s less frivolous utterances. Mr. Gamer took a somewhat sim ilar line when he said at the end at his first term: “The Job is de lightful I like it But it is en tirely unimportant” However, that was not entirely a flippant observation. Based on a long and successful political expe rience he felt that although the four potent offices were the presidency, the speakership of the house, the majority leadership of the senate and the chief justiceship, a vice president might at any time suc ceed to the presidency and, there fore, should be as carefully select ed as the President Many less experienced people in public life and out of it have urged that the number two man on the party ticket should be expected to carry out a real assistant presi dent’s job. Heaven knows that the President needs assistance and I'.e fact is generally accepted that a leader who cannot delegate re sponsibility should not himself be entrusted with it In recent years when it was realized that the man in the White House had a literally killing job, efforts have been made to provide assistance. The project was seri ously undertaken, and perhaps if the theory set forth in the Brown- low report of 1937 had been carried out as intended, the effort might have been successful. Originally it was intended that the presidential advisers shoal., be a group of highly paid experts, with no political affilia tions or passionate devotion to any cause or crusade. The only passion they were supposed to possess was one for anonymity. But congress cut out the appro priation for their salaries and the result was the selection of brilliant and devoted young enthusiasts who, whatever they may have done for the New Deal, never seemed to achieve the authority which would have made it possible for them to take over tk; responsibility for presidential decisions—even in their own respective fields. Few could' have been described as experts. Political Following Might Cause Clash A real assistant president would have to develop a certain follow ing. That following could not help but take on the color of a political entity and, therefore, by its very nature, run head-on against the presidential authority itself. Warren was generally considered a wise choice as a candidate and a strong ore. A leader in his own right. Many Democrats, thinking with the natural wishfulness to be expected, predicted that if he v/ere elected vice president, the tail might wag the dog—or, at least, might be inclined to register ap proval at its end of the avenue while the head was growling at the other end of the avenue—or vice versa. Garner broke with Roosevelt, not merely because he disap proved of the third term, but because he was fundamentally opposed to many of the Presi dent’s policies, if not to his ba sic political pholosophy. In the chamber of the upper house. Garner breathed a far more conservative air than that which circulated through the study and executive offices at 1600 Pennsyl vania avenue. And it was more ’congenial to him. But—when a vice president’s po litical theories don’t coincide with those of his boss in the White House, administrative bills are not likely to become laws. However, no such differences of opinion are likely to harass the Truman-Barkley team. The two men see pretty much eye-to-eye politically at least. And their re spective jobs will be made easier by the fact that they have such tremendous Democratic backing in house and senate for the policies, both domestic and foreign, that they wish to promote. And although it may be hard for Barkley to accustom himself to the relative tranquility of the vice pres idential job, he doesn’t have to worry about being lost in the shuffle. Not many former vice presi dents are remembered for statesmanship — Calhoun is re called mainly because he quit the job after quarreling with President Jackson, and Thom as R. Marshall for his clever crack that “what this country needs is a good five-cent ci gar,” Charles G. Dawes for his pipe, and so on. But Barkley has already made bis mark. He deserves a pleasant four-year sojourn presiding over the upper house which he has served so long and well. At the Helena Subenstein beauty salon, Polaroid glass installed in a specially lighted affair gives the expert a clear view of the subject's skin. Machine-Made Maids Consider what the poor girls go through these days in order to be beautiful. It’s amgzing! The inside of a modern beauty salon is as full of weird machines and gadgets as a scientific laboratory en gaged in advanced atomic research. The male of the species thinks the gad gets used in the beautifying process are like so many instruments out of a medie val torture chamber; but not milady. She's not terrified one bit. She wants only to have the machines mold or bake her to health and beauty regardless of the so- called "torture” to which she submits. Although many girls develop naturally into the beautiful creatures that have mere men standing on their ears, others make the grade scientifically. It may look a bit terrifying, men, but it really isn't Thousands of women expose themselves to the mag netic waves of this gqdget to tone up and revitalize the nervous and glandular system. The Black Ray machine is turned on for treating skin infections, imperfections and eruptions. This ‘‘patient" doesn't look as though she required its sevice, but it is supposed to be a great help for those who do have blemishes. There’s nothing mysterious about the crystal ball in the background. From it escapes refreshing and thera peutic pine air which helps a lovely young lady (elax. Well equipped establishments like tffis are called physi otherapy salons. This machine, which doesn't take your pulse or blood pressure, gives a local galvanic treatment that helps pick up the slack underneath the chin and makes milady look years younger. It's one of the most important weapons in the "battle of the bulge." .The multiple wave oscillator looked like a machine gun with an enlarged sight before the maze of con centric circles was placed over the subject. Whereas a machine gun is deadly, this machine is said to perk up the nervous and glandular systems. REAL CAMPAIGN HEROES The real standouts for real cour age, strength of purpose and endur ance in the presidential campaign were not Thomas E. Dewey or Har. ry S. Truman. . They were Mrs. Dewey, Mrs. Tru man and Margaret Truman. What the women folks of a presidential candidate had to endure amounted to “heroism beyond the call of duty,” and there should be a medal for it. Nobody got knocked around on the altars of patriotism more than these girls. • There was the great burden of having to smile, to laugh, to seem unruiKed and happy when everybody knows that no wom an gets a kick out of rattling around railroad yards day aft er day and night after night and to what purpose? To hear their OWN husbands talk! • How things went to pot around the house! How the dust accumulated! How the dirt piled - up behind the doors! And the mixup over the laundry! The milk that wasn't stopped! The things that happened to Fido! * Mrs. Truman, Margaret and Mrs. Dewey “seen their duty and they done it.” They seemed pleased, calm and cooperative. No photo showed a frown on their faces, which is more than could be said for their husbands. They conveyed the idea, “How wonderful that fate has cast me in this glorious role!” But what they really were thinking was, “If this cockeyed ordeal goes on one more hour I’U scream,” and, “If the old man drags me onto an other platform I’ll come* out against him myself! ” • Their thoughts if recorded might have run like this: “Another terrible day of it! . . . How long does this sort of thing go on? . . . Suppose a man does get to be President of the United States, what does his wife get? . . . Indigestion! Cir cles under her eyes! A loathing for railroad trains and cracked hotel mirrors! • “Froip log cabin to White House! . . . That’s whpt a man likes to dream of. . . . But the trip the wife has to make! . . . From home com forts and regular meals to switch yard blues, screwball cooking and hurriedly applied mascara! ... I want to confess something. . . . Everytime I heard my old man be gin a speech with 'I am very happy to be here tonight,’ I could have hit him with a chair! . . . That isn’t what he told me after we got back on the train! * “If I don’t see another motor cycle policeman in 10 years it will be wonderful! ... I devel oped a phobia against train schedules, ice-water coolers, porters, conductors, auto cav alcades and the rattle of manu scripts. . . . And that husband r of mine left out the one cam paign promise 1 wanted. ... A pledge to get a law against cold toast, awful coffee and defective Pullman plumbing! * “Thank heaven it’s over. . . . Now I can get into a house-wrap per, disconnect the door bell, yawn when I wish, and call up the neigh bors and ask how all the radio soap operas came out in my absence. • • • Yoo Hoo, Eric! “Moments of suspense as a beau tiful girl stares into his bestial eyes! . . . Moments of excitement as a killer realizes the enormity of his crime! ‘You’re everything that is bad but I never loved a man like this before,’ she says. Don’t miss ‘Kiss the Blood Off My Hands.’ ”— From the announcement of a new movie. m Where do people get the idea that juvenile delinquency is in any way aided hy the movies? * * • Joe Stalin now comes out with a statement that the rest of the world is desperately trying to bring on another global war but that he will oppose it to his last doubletalk. * Joe says that the trouble is that other nations BREAK ' THEIR AGREEMENTS! Take It from there, ,Vishinsky! • • • We liked the reply a sweepstakes Winner says his wife made when he woke up early and told his wife he had just dreamed his horse had finished second. “Aw go back to sleep and dream him in first,” she replied. • • • Can You Remember? * Away back when you could use a nickel? * • • New York is having its annual horse show. Once a year the people in any big city like to go down and see something they coulg buy with out waiting three years.' m • •- “G. O. P. Puts $16,500 Into Races.”—N. Y. Times. Everybody’s playing ’em. Truman Didn’t Dodge /"'kNLY a few White House insiders I knew it at the time, but Presi dent Truman could have avoided the split with the South on the civil- rights issue. However, he decided that the question was too important for any compromise. In a White House conversation, Morris Ernst, a member of the civil-rights committee, urged Tru man not to send the committee’s report to congress, but rather to the governors and mayors of the different states. Ernst pointed out that southern leaders had always contended that this was a state, not a federal, problem; therefore a bit ter fight could be avoided by han dling the report that way. Truman’s reply was brief and to the point. * “I would not be doing my duty as President,” he said. Ernst, who had been a close friend and advisor of Franklin Roosevelt, then asked Truman why he had such a passion for civil rights—even more so than Roose velt. “When I was young," replied the President, “I saw fiery crosses burned on the hills above Independ ence and 3,000 hooded men parad ing. I get worried about a return of that sort of thing. We cannot let it happen again.” Dewey-Go>Round Dewey was so certain of victory he had set up secret offices in Wash ington and recruited a staff to study Truman’s budget and prepare his own budget to be submitted in Jan uary. Certain White House speech- writers were so sure of ^Tru man’s defeat they were ashamed to let anybody know they had a hand in his speeches. Of Tru man’s last speech-tour they said: “We are just rehashing old stuff and dishing it out to keep poor old Truman*,slap- happy.” Note: Most of the whistle-stop speech-writers were youngsters who had tried to ditch Truman at the Philadelphia convention. . . . Re marked a lonely, crestfallen recep tionist at Republican national head quarters the day after elections: “Everything’s gone. What hap pened? . . . Maybe it should have been Stassen.” Stunned by defeat for the second time. Governor Dewey will not get another chance to run for president. G. O. P. leaders are categoric about this. Already tfceir eyes are roving for a new white hope to run agaihst the Democrats in 1952. Watch Earl Warren Two certain contenders are Cali fornia’s Gov. Earl Warren and Pennsylvania university’s new pres ident, Harold Stassen, both with liberal backgrounds. The fusty, starch-collared crowd, who have held such a grip on the Republican party, are almost certain to be swept out like old cobwebs. Modest, friendly Earl War ren, who reflects the California sunshine, is the real man to watch. Like Franklin D. Roose velt beforp'him, who was beat en for the vice-presidency but came back to be president, War ren has not lost his place In the national picture. Instead, he will move up as Dewey slides down. Unlike Thomas “Elusive” Dewey, Warren came out openly on the issues—high prices, housing, vet erans’ benefits. He even criticized the 80th congress, though it hurt his own party. Stassen also is still a power to be reckoned with. He got most of the cheers, though not the vdtes, at the Republican national convention. In recent weeks, however, he has behaved more like a party hack than the independent liberal he pre tends to be. After bitterly denounc ing Dewey in Philadelphia, Stassen miraculously showed up in the start ing lineup for Dewey’s presidential campaign—in fact, was the kickoff speaker for Dewey in Detroit, Sep tember 7. Stassen’s Conversibn The toside story of Stassen’s con version has never been told. It is the story of moneyed Republicans who paid off with a university pres idency. The University of Pennsylvania was searching for a new president to move into the chair of retiring George W. McClelland. Foremost contender was law school Dean Earl Harrison, once a commissioner of immigration and naturalization, who also made a survey of Eu ropean displaced-persons camps for President Truman. However, Harrison had been a Roosevelt man, also had not taken politics into account. For years a powerful Republican clique on the university board of trustees had tried to operate it as a subsidiary of Drexel and company, the Philadelphia branch of J. P. Morgan. The leader of the clique, Robert T. McCracken, saw a chance to heal the Dewey-Stassen breach. To gether with Edward Hopkins, Jr., a partner in Drexel and company, McCracken offered the university presidency to Stassen. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. EARN EXTRA MONEY OR BE OWN BOSS Many earning large incomes; Simplmed Course teaches Appliance and BuilcUnf Repairing. Be first In your town. Write Now for Particulars. Grey, 8046 Kingslmnd Ave., Bron* 67, N.Y.C. FARMS AND RANCHES CANADIAN FARMS—Write a* for FUSE IN FORMATION on farm aettlemcnt opportunities Fertile soil*. Res*onably priced. R. C. Bosworth Csnadlsn Psclfle lUUvrsj. Union Button. 8l Paul. Minn. HELP WANTED—MEN SALESMEN make $25 daily selling new plastic Xmas tree ornaments. Customer* buy on sight. 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