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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C.
Washington Dipestj
The Election Has Changed
Both Democrats and GOP
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WASHINGTON.—There are two experiences which no
one should miss if he can help it. Coming into Paris, the “city
of light,” and Washington, “the city of magnificent distances,”
at twilight by airplane.
Lately I dropped down from the clouds u^on Washington, with the
lingering embrace of southern sunlight about me. The tiny sparkling
lights below winked their welcome. But this esthetic experience ended
bruskly when I left the airport. The winking lights stared, and by the
time 1 reached the National Press club, eyes winked but they belonged
to my colleagues who patrol the beat from the White House to the
Capitol.
Baukhage
Fresh from the innocent delights
of the vacationing fisherman, I
bragged about my
tan. and then
carelessly in
quired: "What is
going to happen
in congress next
month?”
One of the col
leagues answered:
"Harry Truman
is lucky. He owes
one debt he never
will have to pay
—to Henry Wal
lace. When Wal
lace bowed him
self out he stepped
on the red ruffles
of Miss Democrat’s petticoat, and
pulled it along with him.”
And it was generally admit
ted that much of the stigma
connected with the charge of
“coddling Communists” was
removed when Wallace left,
lake the Pied Piper (not of
Hamelin, but once of Iowa) he
piped away a lot of the "luna
tic fringe” which is the eternal
headache of ail political par
ties.
The rodents in this case (both
red and pink) followed the piper’s
dulcet promises. But the piper was
unable to take his revenge. Un
like the flutist in the poem who
lured Hamelin’s children away
when their parents wouldn’t pay
the rat-exterminator, Henry’s pip
ing titillated few Democratic ears.
The voters didn’t follow.
There were other unwept losses
among Harry Truman’s alleged
supporters. He won the election
without the solid south. The other
end of the Democratic spectrum
colored by the views of those who
preferred mint juleps under the
fragrant magnolias, to straight
Yankee or middlewestem spirits
withdrew discreetly and complete
ly to their jasmine-curtained veran
das. This doesn’t mean they won’t
be heard from later, but they
aren’t the worry they once were.
While no one would bracket the
conservatives with the “lunatic
fringe,” the Dixiecrats did cause
many embarrassments to the Dem
ocrats. Now they are at least sep
arately ticketed.
The Republicans likewise de
rived certain healing qualities
from the cold douche they took
on November 2, not unlike Mr.
Truman’s. A number of their
die-hards died in the struggle
with the electorate.
Minority-Leader-to-Be Joseph
Martin of Massachusetts, is no
wild-eyed radical. So what he says
on the subject of change (which is
what the radical always wants) is
significant.
Joe warned his friends back in
Attleboro, Mass., a district which
probably will elect him as long as
he chooses to run, that the Repub
licans in the recent campaign of
fered the pec pie "too many Brah
mins, too many plutocrats.” These
Republican candidates, said Joe,
likewise offered too little person
ality, did not appeal to the people,
and formed a narrow circle which
prevented what he called “expan
sion and the opening of ranks.”
(Of whom could he have been
thinking?)
“We digressed too far from the
people,” the former speaker said,
and the "GOP must reorganize in
the cities and towns, getting in
new blood at every level.” Joe
was speaking then out of his deep
political wisdom.
Social Legislation
Is Here to Stay
Rep. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the Republican nation
al committee in the recent cam
paign, gave another significant post
election warning to his party. Re
publicans must recognize, he said,
that legislation embodying social
gains is here to stay.
So it would appear that these
men, and many of the other Re
publicans who now represent
the GOP in congress, are as
happy to be relieved, not of
a lunatic fringe like the Demo
crats, but of an albatross
around their necks.
The Republicans who are trying
to re-form their ranks and re-build
for 1950 are by no means pessi
mistic. To quote Joe Martin again,
he predicted that the GOP would
snap back quicker than they went
out. They know now, if some of
them didn’t before, they must keep
In step with the times. One of the
great problems the Republican na
tional committee faced in the cam
paign was reconciling the pro
gressive ideas set forth in Mr.
Dewey’s speeches with the some
what pleistocene attitude (as one
observer described it), of some of
the ex-candidates for house and
senate.
Witness the embarrassing situa
tion in West Virginia, not to men
tion Illinois. The New York gover
nor simply couldn’t stomach cross
ing the borders of West Virginia to
embrace its recalcitrant senator.
Chicago on the other hand is a
railway center and it was neces
sary for Governor Dewey to change
trains there and "in Rome do as
Romans do.” He did, and endorsed
the Republican senatorial candidate
from Illinois. But the citizens of
Illinois did not.
Had Mr. Dewey been elected, and
had the Republican senator from
Illinois been re-elected, the White
House would have.faced difficulties,
among them the embarrassing par
adox: Sen. C. Wayland Brooks
opposed the Marshall plan which
Dewey strongly endorsed. Taking
that as a guide, it seems possible
that Brooks could have been count
ed upon to vote against a Dewey-
Dulles foreign policy as he did
against Mr. Truman’s.
Liberal Thought
Growing in U. S.
The election, I believe, caused
thoughtful people to emerge with
one idea which the entire nation,
regardless of its politics, will have
to get used to. The thought is not
original with me, but it is one that
was mentioned by the only person
who did predict the election re
sult (except the man I lost a bet
to). Agriculture Economist Bean
said something like tins:
The wave of liberal thought
which appeared to have
reached its zenith under Roose
velt is still on the upswing.
Apparently the natural post
war reaction stopped it, but
didn’t start it going in the op
posite direction.
Now some of you may not like
that thought, but it were well to
accustom oneself to the idea. Nor
need you expect the pendulum
ever to swing as far back as you
might wish. Personally, I enjoy
riding behind a spanking team in
a buggy “with the fringe on top,”
and I wonder if we -wouldn’t all
be better off if the internal combus
tion engine had never been invent
ed. But I am willing to admit,
things being what they are, that we
have traffic lights and other an
noying regulations.
At any rate, when President Tru
man takes the rostrum to deliver
his message in January, he will
look out on a congress which, his
friends claim, he fashioned in
large part with his own hand. Or
I might say with his own sharp
tongue from a back platform.
Harry Truman went out and
fought tooth and nail, no bolds
barred, for the kind of con
gress he wanted. The people,
whether or not that was their
only intention, gave it to him.
And now as one somewhat cyni
cal observer remarked to me:
“Harry’s got what he wanted,
God help him.”
He has to deliver now.
The Wednesday Democrats”
have tufhed out to be Saturday’s
children when it comes to getting
jobs in Washington.
• • •
An elephant can do a lot of things
with his trunk but he has to carry
it with him when he travels. I can
check mine.
• • •
The ocean is growing saltier, ac
cording to the National Geographic.
Probably getting jealous of the
Great Salt lake.
• • •
Television is climbing out of its
cradle, says Electrical Advertising.
Let’s hope it won’t crawl back to
meet the occupants of cradles half
way.
• • •
Export of butter from the Argen
tine is increasing. Perhaps because
it won’t melt in President Peron’s
mouth when he tells what he’ll do
to people who want to prevent his
re-election.
• • •
It’s an ill wind (I’d say serious
ly ill) that blows nobody’s good
cigarette lighter out.
• * *
It’s hard to find anything you like
to eat when you’re on a diet But
suppose you were an ant-eater?
» • *
Home sewing is a bigger business
than ever—but what's being sewed
is nobody’s business.
DANCES AGAIN . . . Patricia
"Satira” Schmidt has resumed
her dancing career at a night
club in Kentucky after spending
18 months in a Havana prison
for the shooting of John Lester
Mee. The headdress is for an
oriental number.
NEW COMET . . . Here’s a photograph of that new comet which ap
peared a few weeks ago and was described by astronomers as “the
most beautiful of this generation.” This picture was made at Mt.
Palomar, Calif. An exposure time of five minutes was used which
accounts for the white marks throughout the picture. They’re stars,
The comet was visible in most parts of the United States.
PASSING ACE . . . Stan Heath
of Nevada, the nation’s leading
forward passer, is finishing his
last season of collegiate football.
He’ll be in the market for a pro
football contract at the end of
the year.
GOOD MEDICINE . . . Waltber
Reuther, president of the United
Automobile Workers union, grins
happily from his hospital bed as
he scans messages which poured
in as a result of the Truman
victory.
CRACK SHOTS . . . G. Wayne Moore (kneeling) of Washington, Pa.,
was the 1946-47 national rifle champion. But this year 20-year-old
Arthur Cook (prone) of Washington, D. C., proved too much for him.
Moore is shown congratulating his youthful successor at a rifle range
near Quantico, Va., where the finals were held. The competition was
sponsored by the National Rifle association.
INDICTED . . . Rep. J. Parnell
Thomas, who has been indicted
by a federal grand jury on
charges of conspiracy to defraud
the government, as he appeared
with his wife on election day.
NARROW ESCAPE . . . This has been a bad fall for brush and forest
fires. Scant minutes ahead of the roaring flames, 2,000 residents of
Silverado Canyon and Modjeska Canyon, Calif., fled to safety as a
50-mile wind whipped the Orange county forest fire into fury as shown
here. Three hundred marines from a base at El Toro we^e called to
help fight the fire.
TRAGEDY . Typical of Italy’s
needy children is this 15-month-
old Italian baby sitting on a box
outside the family cave-home
near Rome. She has not yet
learned to walk because of mal
nutrition.
HE’S A WRESTLER, TOO . . . Gorgeous George has wrestling fans
in an uproar with his unusual publicity stunts. He’s shown here with
his hair up in curlers following a marcel wave he received in a New
York beauty parlor. Geoffries, his valet, is sprinkling perfume in the
air. At matches, Geoffries must spray both ring and Gorgeous George’s
opponent with perfume before “the ms it ah’’ will enter.
Letters for Special Delivery
Honorable ^Harry Truman
Washington, D. C.
The glow of having your mitt
raised as the surprise winner in a
knockdown and dragout fight is
probably beginning to fade now,
but I’ll bet few Americans have
ever felt better. You surprised a
lot of folks. You now stand out in
the picture as a sort of wonderman
when only a short time ago so
many people were wondering if
you would quite do. You must have
set a new record for up-your-sleeve
laughter in the last couple of days.
What have you got that John L.
Sullivan, Man o’ War and Dempsey
didn’t have?
»
The gag, "Who told that piano
player he was a President,” «is
dead. You came through like Sou
sa’s band. And march music lin
gers on. How your mom would have
loved it!
*
' To even your severest critics
you were a good egg and a top
notch American citizen. You
were a pretty perfect compos
ite of the fellows most of us
like to have on our list of
friends and buddies. You come
close to being the typical Amer
ican, the genuine, clean living,
dependable guy we all warm up
to at the Kiwanis club lun
cheons, the Elks outing, the
church social, the businessmen’s
lunch, the old home week cele
bration and the class reunion.
Disliking you was a tough trick
anywhere anytime.
•
To those poll takers it seemed
Just a case of miscasting, but they
forget that a lot of very* big per
formers have suffered from that
erroneous impression without los
ing public regard and affection.
You were in there pitching in one
of the toughest spots in world his
tory.
*
There were plenty of Presidents
of the United States who wouldn’t
have come so close to the plate as
you in similar conditions. You had
the added disadvantage of follow
ing in the footsteps of a great act
or, a spellbinding orator who had
been on the job so long be had
come to be regarded as part of
the act. You were in the same
tough spot as the performer who
gets on the bill immediately after
the performing lions.
•
But you never claimed to
have all the answers, you at no
time posed as the world’s mas
ter magician and there was
never a suggestion of the dicta
tor about you. You were in the
American tradition of the hum
ble public servant. You gave us
a respite from ballyhoo and
medicine show routine. You had
respect for the other fellow’s
opinions, as a rufe. And on the
whole you kept your patience
and seemed always to be in
there trying heart and soul.
•
I have a hunch you will now go
on to be one of the most popular
Presidents in the history of Amer-
| ica, that you will be flabbergasted
; by the warmth of the country’s feel
ing for you for years to come and
that what you have been through
is going to make you a better and
happief President of the glorious
U. S. A.
Lots of luck,
ELMER.
• * •
Election Agony
NOTICE: Will the persons who
witnessed collision in which well-
known com specialist was caught
between a truck, a locomotive, a
jet plane and an atom bomb while
trying to cross street in a droshky
and carrying a bucket of borscht,
please get in touch with under
signed who doesn’t mind the band
ages, but would like clue to recov
ery of his pants.—H. Wallace.
•
FOR SALE: First offer gets it; my en
tire set of mirrors, crystal balls, maps,
astrologers? charts, etc. Owner has no
further use for same.—Drew Pearson.
WANTED: Deep hole under an
old wall remote from people who
give wrong answers. One well
stocked with canned crow meat
preferred.—Messrs. Roper, Cross-
ley and Gallup.
«
AT LIBERTY: For radio, carnival,
fairs, midway and medicine shows;
have hot sax somewhat out of kilter;
been playing all over U. S. with Wal
lace Sideshow and Congress of Curi
ous People; willing to go any place but
teem to go no place; ready to work ex
cept for lack of wardrobe lost in hurri
cane.—-Glenn Taylor.
EARL: Rush copy of song
“California. Here We Go!”
Think we were playing the
other version. Heigh ho and
ajackaday.—T. D.
WARNING: Mr. Gallup. Leave
$100,000. all your tools and all
alibis in hollow tree as per map
being mailed. I ain’t fooling. This
means business.—Gus Pollfollower,
*
ALL Poll takers attention! You’r#
nuts. Why wasn’t I told.—W. W.
Airlift a Grim Problem
Now that the election hubbub is
quieting down, we have to face the
cold and unpleasant fact that the
Berlin airlift is in danger of buck
ling. Top military strategists are
still hanging on to a grim hope that
the airlift will hold out until spring,
but it will take cold cash and sheer
guts—and American lives—to do it.
Here is what the airlift is up
against:
1. MOST SERIOUS, the air
force' is desperately short of
cargo planes. More than half of
its elephant-bellied C-54s now
are flying the Berlin run. Else
where the air force has been'
forced to cut its normal trans
port service. But the worst fear
is that all these cargo planes,
flying right under Russia’s nose,
might be the target for a Pearl
Harbor of the air—in case Rus
sia decides to strike. As the
U. S. navy was paralyzed at
Pearl Harbor, so the U. S. air
force could be paralyzed at Ber
lin.
2. THE AIR FORCE is out of
money.. Its budget experts al
ready are working on a deficien-
‘ cy appropriation. The air force
also has no money to build new
cargo places, has committed
every available dollar to build
bombers and fighters.
3. WINTER IS,sure to harass
the airlift more than the Rus
sians. In the past Germany’s
severe weather has grounded
better planes than those now
flying the airlift. The air force
already has alerted its public-
relations officers to prepare for
an increase in accidents.
4. THE PROBLEM of mainte
nance is still serious, though not
critical. One-fourth of the
planes assigned to the Berlin
airlift are constantly in the pipe
line between Germany and the
United States for repairs. This
policy of rotation has been work
ing better than expected, is one
of the factors that has encour
aged air force chiefs to predict
that the / airlift will finally
squeak through the winter—de
spite everything.
• NOTE: In spite of the urgent need
{or cargo planes. Senator Owen
Brewster of Maine has been doing
his best to block the building of a
civilian "Merchant Marine of the
air.” He has mapped out a legisla
tive program for next year that will
wipe out the struggling young air
freight lines, built up after the war
by veterans. The Brewster pro
gram appears to have been influ
enced by Pan American Airways,
but it has less chance of getting
past congress now that the Demo
crats have moved into control
Hoover Discusses Dewey
Herbert Hoover was talking to
friends in New York just before the
election, and got off some pungent
paragraphs about the Republican
candidate for president.
"Dewey,” quoth the ex-president
of the United States, "will never
appoint MacArthur or Taft or any
one who ran against him. He
doesn't like opposition.
"I can’t forgive Dewey for not
helping Revercomb or Reese,”
continued Hoover, referring to
the Republican candidates for
the senate in West Virginia and
Tennessee. “He needs their
votes in the senate, but he won’t
help them because they previ
ously opposed him.”
Reese, it will be recalled, was
Taft’s appointee as chairman of the
Republican National committee and,
as such, worked against Dewey’s
nomination. Revercomb had op
posed Dewey’s request to modify the
displaced persons bill when it was
before the senate.
Someone asked Hoover whom he
would have liked to see nominated
by the Republicans for president.
“Personally I was for Taft,” re
plied the ex-president, "but, prac
tically, for Stassen. He would have
been a great vote-getter."
Anna Roosevelt’s Newspaper
Last summer when Anna Roose
velt Boettiger’s Phoenix (Arizona)
Times ran into rough going, a group
of Republican businessmen got a
big vision. They saw a chance to
swing the state to Dewey. By buy
ing Anna’s paper, they would elimi
nate a Truman organ and make it a
third Republican paper in a three-
paper town.
In a fast deal involving financ
ing by the comparatively un
known California speculator,
Fred Tuerk, and his movie, the
ater and stock-brokerage part
ners, the paper was* picked up
for peanuts.
With a great fanfare, the paper’s
New Deal critic, Columbus Geragi,
was made publisher and the edi
torial policy switched to Dewey.
Result: Arizona headed the parade
for Truman.
Chagrined and burdened with a
paper losing $6,500 a week, the
Tuerk forces are now seeking a
buyer to take over the headache of
being the third Republican paper in
Democratic surroundings.
Only consolation is that the Ari
zona climate drew Dewey after de
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