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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Washington Di&est Christmas This Year Finds World Still Without Peace By BAUKHAGE v News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—I’ve been looking over old Christmas cards! Christmas, 1945! Hie message I sent you that Christmas came from amidst the rubble and the ruin of shattered Nuernberg where I experienced the saddest Holy Day season of my memory. It was spent with the ugly symbols of “man’s inhumanity to man'* all about me, the bitter negation of our Saviour's teachings. BAUKHAGE I was in uniform, the uniform of non-combatant correspondent but I felt unhappy in it, though I had dreamed of wear ing what we called "olive drab” in 1918, once again. My “assimilated rank" was unde served. Young men had fought, survived or fallen, finishing a job that I and my genera' tion in high-necked ‘‘blouses’’ and wrapped leggings had only started. On that day, Christmas, 1945, I wrote: “I was as homesick as any yoang soldier in a lonely ont- poat with the threat of battle abent him. I pictured my own hearthside, my wife and the ethers about the happy tree, my own tinseled packages unopened and my empty hands reaching eat for them vainly over the •ceane too wide to span.** Everywhere I looked that cold, damp day I saw, not war, but some- thing more tragically eloquent— stunned, cramped souls in pinched bodies, hurrying amidst the wreck age of a city which had seen the blossoming of art and handicraft in stone and canvas and parchment which had enriched the world for centuries. Now—1945—what is Nuernberg? Seat of the trial of Nazi war crim inals. That was my Christmas, 1945! Christmas, 1946! "The second ope in seven years when one could really talk about •peace on earth’ without shamed and downcast eyes.” That’s what I wrote in this column then and I went on: “While armies struggled who could think of the message to the shepherds from the angel’s chorus promising peace on earth for all men of good will.” There was, indeed, much to be thankful for and much to be hope ful about on Christmas, 1946. Then came—Christmas, 1947! I was far away from fields whit ened with snow. No bright red of the holly berry. Instead, the burn ing hibiscus and beyond it the feath ery tops of the Royal palms. The day started not with the creak of shoes over the frozen snow or a wind which "checked mid-vein, the circling race of life-blood to the sharpening face,” but with the soft lap of water against the prow of our little boat which lulled me to lazy reminiscence. , We slipped along the river and Into the inlet. High above coursed a flock of graceful, never-lighting, anan-of-war “frigate” birds. To see them so far inland, said my nature- wise companion, meant a rough ocean. These tireless creatures, it seems, prefer to hunt in the ocean unless the white caps are breaking too wildly. Out sweeps a fish-hawk. In close pursuit, an eagle, who prefers a pil fered meal to one he must work for. The fish-hawk darts ahead, holding his dinner in his bill. The eagle sweeps down but the kingfisher banks and turns sharply. The big bomber must make a wide circle before it can change its direction. On the straight course he gains but loses again at each turn. This goes on until finally the eagle, disgusted, gives np the chase and the kingfisher fades, fat meal in mouth, to a tiny spot tn the sky. The men-of-war come back, high above us, even at this distance, with their sev en to eight-foot wing spread. There is poetry of motion! They are gone and my eyes drop to the rushes. A tranquil water turkey! We slow down and pull in toward the shore, close to an island swamp, its edges laced thick with man groves, those mysterious plants ^ whose grim brown fingers clutch deep into the water as if they sought some invisible and ghoulish enemy in the depth of the water. Low tide leaves them skeleton bare. The sun and part of the sky is overcast but the rest is robins’ egg blue and the water about it is tinted lilac Trout begin to bite. And the snook! We are very busy for a while. Then the fish begin to elude me so I take up the camera. A stub born crane lures us on but always manages to hide behind the man groves out of focus. One more cast! A fine, fat trout—and it’s time to go in. We push back through the twi light. Into the truck and we botmce back to a gay little tree with the familiar decorations on its branches —branches which never knew the kiss of a snowflake, although the spot where I cut the pine tree the day before, a sandy flat, shone as white in the sunlight as a snowbank in Maine. (A photograph could fool you.) People Await Peace on Earth My thoughts weren’t on the news that Christmas a year ago, but as I look back over what David Wills (who was broadcasting in my place) said, I read this line: "The collapse of the London conference of foreign ministers is a tangible resolt of the mis trust pervading the world,” broadcast Wills, “for the con ference adjourned without hav ing taken those essential and decisive steps along the road of peace for which the people of tlie earth are waiting in an- guish.” The aftermath of that collapse is still with us and the path whi«i the nations have trod since has led us to an “uncertain” peace at best. On Christmas eve a year ago the pope, delivering his annual mes sage from the Vatican, spoke of a Europe “shivering and feverish from economic difficulties and so cial chaos.” He talked about “the lie.” The "deliberate lie,” he said sadly had become an established weapon of international relations. The lie of “garbled word or fact,” part and parcel of the modem tech nique in the art of forming public opinion or controlling it and of mak ing it serve the political ends of those bent on winning at any cost the battle of ideologies. That was a not-too-happy Christ mas for all the world (despite my selfish pleasures and perhaps yours, too) but, if the past year has not greatly changed that picture, it has changed it a little for the better. I has given ns some satisfac tion to know that one idealistic concept has materialized. We have successfully prevented the spread of the powers against which the Christian world has been struggling. The Marshall plan, so far, has been a success. Between last Christmas and this we saw Russia's cold war offensive stopped. Stopped at the Adriatic, stopped along the Seine, stopped in the low countries. Within that time the theory of an economic campaign moved from an idea to a blueprint, to the active and effective European cooperation administration, an effi cient business organization headed by an efficient businessman, Paul Hoffman. That is America’s Christmas gift to humanity. LAST MAN . . . Johnny Moore, • fisherman of Collington, N. C., is the sole living witness of the first airplane flight by the Wright brothers. He will attend a cele bration of the flight in Washing ton, December 17. XOUNGEST •‘HAM” < . . Jane Bieberman, M, of Pala-Cynwyd, Pa., is a licensed amateur radio Operator. Her father's bobby is radio and when she became interested in it he helped her learn the code and other necessities for obtaining a license to operate a station. She is believed to be the world’s youngest licensed "ham.” The oldsters of radio are going to be startled when they hear Jane’s station call— especially when she starts talking. Bight now Janf is using a key, but her father says that when she becomes proficient with it he will add a microphone to her equipment. "MONTY” CONFESS . . . Vis- e count Montgomery, head of the Western Europe Permanent De fense organization, is shown as he left the French National De fense ministry after conferring with Gen. Le Cheres who is at his right. SEEKS AID . . . Madame Chlang Kai-shek as she appeared upon her landing in this country to seek aid from the government in China’s back-to-the-wall fight against encroaching Communist forces in China. TO A HERO SON . . . Former New York state Gov. Herbert H. Leh man and Mrs. Lehman recently cut the tape to open “Pete’s House” section of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City. "Pete’s House” is in memory of the Lehman son Peter, an air force pilot, who was killed in England in March, 1944. New York settlement houses are the social and recreational centers for thousand of the big city’s children. Peter Lehman was popular with young boys and for this reason the settlement house project was chosen as the most suitable memorial to “Pete.” QUEEN . . . “Queen” of the Na tional Farm and Garden show in Chicago was farmer’s daughter Patsy Miller, 17, from Osceola, la. Patsy can cook, sew, milk a cow, drive a tractor and keep a garden. BASKETBALL TWINS . . . Start at the upper left of this picture and continue clockwise. The first names are Bob, Joe, Ross, Dale, Jim and Don. They are all twins named Clark. The team is called the Clark Twins team and hails from Indiana. The outfit takes basketball very seriously and meets some of the finest teams in the country. Two of the world’s architects for peace. President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall, were the chief figures in the launching and implementation of the Marshall plan to aid Europe and curtail Communism. It was America’s Christmas gift to the world in 1948. FEET FIRST . . . Mayor de Les- seps Morrison, of New Orleans, makes a fine figure of a man as he goes into a swimming pool at Miami Beach. His honor used to be a swimming star at Lou isiana state university. iKAND CHAMPION . . . “Old Gold,” a 1,200-pound black angus junior, was grand champion of the 49th International Livestock Exposition, held in Chicago. She is shewn here with her exhibitor, Cleo Yoder, 32, of Muscatine, la. His wife, Margaret, is shown giving her nervous husband a congratulatory kiss. “Old Gold” was sold for the record price of 812,900. A BABY DOES IT Forget the war threats, the eco nomic crisis, the Communist sweep in China, the predictions of a tough winter and the development of a midget-sized turkey! Everybody's happy. The world is smiling. Prin cess Liz’s baby has arrived! Moth er, child and publicity are doing well. * The world needed a baby. A V. I. P. baby, a baby that would glamorize and romanticize all babies, a Page One Infant in a day when the grown-ups as a whole are such bad advertising for any planet. * There is something about a baby that stirs the human heart, brings out the tenderest emotions and makes the whole world kin from jungle cave to palace penthouse. It probably makes even Vishinsky a little less denunciatory. It can even make the Republicans drop their hatred of poll-takers. ___* Millions of ’em are bom daily, many just as lovely as the Prin cess’s honey chile, but they get no press or radio. Their mothers are happy and their dads are proud, but it takes a baby like Liz’s to make Old Man Earth strut around passing out the stogies. * It was easy to have misgivings about this royal infant. It was slat ed to come into a bitter, sour, groggy, scared and preoccupied world. It’s debut was market for a period of fist shakings, violent speeches, marching armies and a million tough problems for man and beast. There was a time when the world was a pushover for any royal babe, but this time we won dered about it. * Then it happened and—socket the first wail of the child pat global trouble flat on their * backs and made also-runs of all the great figures of the planet. • The doctor had no sooner given it the usual slap before London had Moscow, Berlin, Mukden, Israel and Washington in the minor leagues. . Guns boomed, bands played and people cheered in all parts of the British empire, and there were few countries that didn’t throw a hat into the air and feel better about life in general. For once the ques tion “Do you think there will be another war?” gave away to "Is it a boy or girl, and how’s mom doing?” • Even Pravda had no derogatory comment. Henry Wallace didn’t dis approve and may even claim some credit. Lots of Democrats declared it couldn’t have happened if Tru man hadn’t won. * Sourpusses that haven’t known a smile in years flashed a supergrin. Lovers and old married couples felt fine. Bus drivers stopped barking at pas sengers. Editors smiled. Print ers and proof-readers seemed their happiest in years. Here and there somebody said “Please” and “Thank You.” Strikes were deferred. Picket lines seemed less menacing. A tight board of corporation di rectors decided to declare an extra dividend. The dog wagged his tail more. The canary went Juke-boxy. m Why? Because no matter how thick your hide is, you have a deep- rooted affection for story book king doms, princesses, palaces, pump kin coaches, and all on top of your natyral reaction to a newborn babe. It could be that this is just what thr world needed. It can warm it up, make it more human, take that sneer off its puss. It is hard to read about a baby and still want to punch anybody in the nose. This planet needs something around which to center a publicity that will dwarf unpleasant news. It has too many unblessed and not enough blessed events. Hooray for the royal young ster! It’s just what the doctor or dered! • • • EPITAPHS FOR TOJO Here To jo sleeps , Flat on bis back, Too deep to make A sneak attack! • • • It used to be thought difficult to find men ignorant and inexperienced enough to want to run the world, but it now requires no effort whatever. • • * Would you call that row between Gypsy Rose Lee and that night club trouble in the Tease Zone? • • * Snowden Carter, a Baltimore newspaper handicapper picked eight straight winners the other day. A $2 parley would have won more than $3,000. Mr, Carter asked later if he had cleaned up said, “No, I lost $4 in actual bets.” “See what I mean,” moaned Shudda Had- dim today. "It’s them last min ute switches.” Wheat Price Argument T HE blast against the British by Undersecretary of Agriculture Albert J. Loveland had more to it than meets the eye. What Loveland was driving at was not so much Britain’s wheat and cotton agreements with Canada, Australia et al, but her backstage efforts to beat down the price of American wheat in a proposed new international wheat agreement. He 'also was trying to atone for the bungling of the 80th congress. Unfortunately for the Ameri can farmer, the late lamented GOP congress refused to ratify the wheat agreement at a time when Britain and other nations agreed to a top price of $2.00 a bushel for wheat during the next five years. Since then wheat has dropped and the British have been privately plumping for a $1.50 maximum in any new international compact. Loveland’s blast was calculated to soften them up for bargaining at a higher level. U. S. spokesmen at the 57-nation food and agricultural organization have been putting out feelers for a maximum price of $1.75 a bushel for world wheat dur ing the next five years. This is 25 cents above the British proposal but 25 cents under the $2.00 which U. S. farmers were offered last summer but which the Republican congress rejected. The mechanics of drafting and ratifying another wheat agreement by participating nations would re quire six to eight months, but Love land and his boss. Agriculture Sec retary Charles Brannan, are hoping to get a preliminary commitment from the FAO, so as to get the ball rolling. If the proposed agreement falls through the alternative is something nobody wants—a return to rigid acreage controls. For if we can’t sell our surpluses abroad we will have to limit production at home. Truman and Jesse James Harry Truman has a reputation for speaking out for his friends no matter who they are. Well known is the fact that he stood up for Boss Pendergast of Kansas City, whether in jail or out, but not so well known is how the President stands jup for that famous fellow Missourian, Jesse James. An avid readeP of Missouri history, the chief executive has studied carefully the career of James, including both his rob beries and his acts of gener osity. Many good - natured arguments over the character and motivation of the Missouri bandit have taken place between Mr. Truman and members of his staff and, on one occasion, the President’s defense want like this: You take Jesse James. He actu ally was not a bad man at heart. I have studied his life carefully, and I come from his part of the country. James was a modern-day Robin Hood. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor, which, in general, is not a bad policy. I am convinced that James would have been an asset to his community, if he had not been diverted into the lawless life. • • • No ‘Peanuts’ for China General Al Wedemeyer, chief of army way plans, held a significant secret session with the joint chiefs of staff recently on the much-kicked- around question of what the U. S. A. can do about China. Wedemeyer, a former Nebraska farm boy who had a great record as a war strategist, was first sent to China largely because Winston Churchill wanted him out of the Eu ropean theater wherfe the American general was too persistent in op posing the long and grueling cam paign through the allegedly "soft underbelly of the Axis.” So suddenly Wedemeyer found himself appointed aide to Lord Mountbatten in India and China, despite the fact that all his training had been in Ger many. , Because of this quirk of Ate Wedemeyer has now become the army’s chief expert on China, and as such he is vigorously opposed by his old chief. General Marshall. Reporting to the Joint chiefs of staff. General Wedemeyer predict ed that the Chinese Communists could capture Suchow, Nanking and even Shanghai, pretty much when they want to. Wedemeyer believes the Commu nists are deliberately holding off un til economic conditions in China be come even worse. Then they can move in almost at will. Despite this, however, Wedemeyer still be lieves China can be saved by pull ing Chiang Kai-Shek’s battered armies south and defending a new capital at Canton. No one who knows Secretary Mar shall, however, thinks the Wede meyer plan has th^ slightest chance of approval. Marshall thinks pour ing aid into China is like throwing peanuts at an elephant in the zoo. CLASSIFIED DE pARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. FOR SALE General mercantile store, soda xountain, groceries, meats, hardware, cosmetics, sun dries. With or without building. Easy term*. C. A. ST. ONGE - Hobe Sound. Fla. OPERATE VENDING MACHINES Small initial investment. Long profit and pleasant work. Start small. Grow. Our book let, “Dollars from Penneys” FREE. T. O. THOMAS CO., 1572 Jefferson, Paducah, Ky. WANT TO BUILD A MOTOR COURT? Don’t I Buy this one instead and save $10,000! I have a brand-new court on Florida’s heaviest traveled highway near Tampa. Ten units and nice owner’s home. 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