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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Washington Di9cstj Baukhage Finds Old Dates Of Interest in Year 1948 By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. Y/ASHINGTON. — New Year’s day, according to an encyclopedia which I once remember consulting, is cele brated in the western world by merrymaking and, theoret ically at least, in the meeting of old friends. I remember when we took toe idea of New Year’a “cans” seriously. That was back in western New York. I also remember later, when I was a student in Europe, three of us living in toe same “pension” (a word winch Americans abroad prefer to “boarding house”)'. We made our calls consecutively so that toe one pair of gloves and one silk hat, which we possessed coUectively, could serve for all. In that day and place both were essential. * Today I have been meeting some$- •Id “dates of 1948.” The first I have to record is Jan uary 8 . . . “Baukhage talking . . . from the radio gallery of the house of repre sentatives after having watched toe opening of the second session of toe historic 80th congress.” Note the word "histor ic.” No one guessed then that other adjectives applied to that legislative body were to help cause one of toe great “upset” election victories of American history. « On January 7 (my birthday) there was “a bright sun shining down on toe Capitol but.” I broad cast, “the shadows beneath it are deep and dark.” Ob that day the President de- ■ livered his message and the next day the Associated Press said: '“Most of President Tru man’s 1948 legislative propos als, particularly his tax reduc- tien and anti-inflation plans appeared headed today for a congressional waste basket.” How true that was and bow It helped re-elect him. In his an imal message he is to present most of them again, more hope fully. January 12 was a cold day in New York which had just emerged from a blizzard. I was there cov ering toe assembly of the United Nations and that day the Palestine commission was preparing its pro gram of partition which was to be completed with bayonets and hand- grenades. JANUARY 23. At 11:30 a. m. a message came over the news tick er, and such a sigh of relief went up from the White House and from both Republican and Democratic headquarters that the trees on Con necticut avenue bent nearly dou ble. “I am not available for and could not accept nomination to high political office.” Signed—General Dwight D. Eisenhower. JANUARY 30. Gandhi is dead. Hie priest and prophet of Indian Independence was shot to death at bis prayer meeting on the lawn of the estate where he lived. , MARCH 9. Trupian announces his .candidacy; MacArthur re nounces his. MARCH 10. Jan Masaryk is dead. Much died with that name. From the house radio gallery again on March 17 I report toe re enunciation by the President of what was then called toe “Truman Doctrine.” MARCH 19. WaUace attacks the President’s foreign policy. It was no April Fool’s day i Joke when the Russians stopped the trains in Berlin. The next day, April 2, our counter move: Congress passes the European recovery pro gram. The gaygreen of leaf and lawn cni this 12th day of April are not enough to dispel Washington’s con cern over the revolution in Bogota. (Remember? A Communist-directed affair. Secretary of State Marshall was there.) At 10:30 in the morning of April 19, Justice T. Allen Goldsborough ruled John Lewis guilty of crim inal contempt. On April 27 come the rumors of war from Palestine. The Moscow newspapers of May 11 are bought out—Ambassador Bedell Smith is conferring with Molotov. Th9 birthday of a state, May 14—Israel is born. Dewey wins the primary in Ore gon on May 24. Later he won the state. A veteran steps down. Prime Min ister Smuts of South Africa is de feated on May 28. Oregon in the news again, trag ically. The little town of Van port is inundated. May 31. Tragedy for a neighbor state on June 10. Secretary of Labor Schwel- lenbach of Washington state dies at toe age of 53. Outdoors, Philadelphia was cloudy and gray on June 21. Inside Repub lican headquarters it was rowdy and gay. Dewey starts his shook and blitz tactics against the field. Cor respondents discuss the mystery of toe vacant seats in toe gallery. (Did this foreshadow the absence of the Dewey voters from toe polls on election day?) The attractive Republican glamour lady. Clare Booth Luce, hurls her barbs in a clever speech without revealing that she and her husband are going to plump for Vandenberg later. Television is most unkind to what should have been a most telegenic subject. % JUNE 23. A heavy mist hong over the city of brotherly love on the day of the convention’s crncial session. I had left the hall at 4 o’clock that morning. We had witnessed a stirring and a pathetic scene when the blind veteran, Harlan Kelly, nomi nated General MacArthur in £ clear, unhesitating voice which held In It the ring of a true devotee. Earlier, there had been the longest demonstration so far, for Taft. Stassen’s had been the most vigorous. JUNE 24. I was looking over the public opinion polls and mentioned that qualities the voters said they would prefer in a presidential can didate were those of “the humani tarian, toe protector of the weak, toe benevolent guardian of toe chil dren, of the common man.” Per haps that was a better guide to wh^t toe choice was to be than the figures toe pollsters provided us. It was late in the evening when candidate Dewey, accepting the nomination, raised his hand and swore that he had made no com mitments to any man. JUNE 26—The BerUn airlift, which with the Marshall plan achieved the two greatest victories in the cold war, begins. JULY 12. The other side: a le thargic Democratic convention woke to life with a 28-minute dem onstration for keynoter Barkley which "had more real feeling and spontaneity in it,” I broadcast at the time, “than anything which even the super-confident Repub licans produced. JULY 13. This was a day-of the battle of the extremes against the middle. The Negro attacking toe Dixiecrats; Southerners begging for a candidate acceptable to the South. So heated were toe arguments on the floor that policemen walked into toe aisles several times. The Democrats’ glamour girl had her chance, and Helen Gahagan Doug las, for some reason or other more telegenic than her Republican rival, emerged equally triumphant, foren- sically. JULY 14. The President finally is nominated and makes his accept ance in the small hours, offering a sample of what was torfeome forth in the campaign. Many had already left the hall. He called for the spe cial turnip day session of congress. “I have run into perhaps four or five people,” I commented next day, “who venture toe assertion that perhaps he might still win.” But everyone else laughs at the thought. The calling of toe congress proved good strategy. Thousands of people braved Washington’s heat of July 19 to line the long, slow march of the caisson bearing the General of the Armies, John J. Pershing, to his last rest in Arlington. On the afternoon of Friday, the 13th of August, as we were leaving the White House press and radio conference, Stephanove Kasenkina jumped from the window of the Soviet consulate in New York City. She lived to become toe symbol of the escape which so many human beings, suffocating behind toe iron curtain, have sought before and since. AUGUST 16. The diamond’s rough- diamond, beloved Babe Ruth, dies. SEPTEMBER 17. Tragic end of a man who had lived and died for peace. Count Bemadotte. SEPTEMBER 20. A stormy ses sion of the United Nations begins. Its deliberations all but forgotten in the heat of toe presidential cam paign. NOVEMBER 2. The election of a President who nobody believed when he went to bed that night—or even in the early hours of the next day —had won. NOVEMBER 3. A little before noon in a New York hotel Gover nor Dewey announced one of the greatest upsets in American po litical history when he conceded his defeat Ind congratulated “toe champ." NOVEMBER 14. A male heir-pre sumptive to the British throne is born. DECEMBER 13. Baukhage re turns from his vacation with a lot of lies about the fish he caught. I hope my readers will understand that toe last hectic days of the year have been recorded in toe daily press and are fresh in your mem ories. Hence I think they can bo safely omitted. HAiFA NAZAfrETH •» ? n ‘J J Nazareth today is little different from the Naza reth ruled by Arabs before Jewish occupation. The narrow market streets look just as they did before, and people from surrounding villages still come to shop. (pixiwuL Prfftorn for Although bitterness of rarrern rur heartandHiesava ge- ★ D P A C ry of man’s violence f E im have poisoned the Holy Land for more than a year, there is one place in Palestine where Jew and Arab are demonstrating their ability to live together in peace. It is Nazareth, the small city north of Beth lehem where Jesus spent his formative years. • Nazareth was taken by Israeli forces before the second truce in the Holy Land; but the Nazarene Arabs, unlike their brethren in other Jewish-occupied territory, stayed where they were and threw themselves on the mercy of their conquerors. The result was tranquillity when the Arabs and Jews found that they could live together in peace. Arab merchants continue in their pre-occupation trades ... a sun-bonneted little girl waits patiently for a customer to buy her goats. Villagers bring their products to market, seemingly unperturbed by the deep unrest that pervades the rest of Palestine. Without portfolio, Arab residents of Nazareth and Jewish officers on duty to keep order are man aging to underwrite their own pattern for peace. Only Jewish soldiers in Nazareth are those on leave to visit the city. Arab and Jewish officers work together without friction, while Franciscan friars at the monastery need exercise only a token guardianship of religious shrines and relics. ifphiHipr NEED ANY WEATHER? Weatoer forecasting now has be come a business. Companies are selling predictions to railroads, communities, shippers, airlines and all sorts of corporations whose busi ness is affected by weather. It looks like a good depression-proof business. There never can be a weatoer SHORTAGE. * A man in toe weather industry need never worry over conservation movements, embargoes or federal controL « , And Washington never can ra tion It! * John E. Wallace, a former army air forces major and ex-employee of toe Washington weather bureau, started toe weather forecasting sales service, and is reported swamped with orders. He says he takes It up where toe regular bureaus leave off, and dopes out the probable weather in greater de tail and over more specific areas. . This is one type of weather prophet who can’t lose. He gets paid—win, lose or draw. • We are sorry we didn't think of this first. Imagine cashing In on the age-old question: “What’re we gonna have, rain or snow?” • From the beginning of time peo ple have been answering that one for nothing. It has been strictly * give-away program. * And suddenly there arrives the rain, snow, sleet, hail and sunshine specialist, the tycoon of tempera ture changes, the mogul of cloud movements. * The man who started on a shoe string and worked up to a million- dollar industry now gives way to the fellow who began with an isobar and worked up to a major corporation. * We await the radio commercial: “Do you suffer from unexpected weather? Are you among those peo ple who get caught in the ruin? Does snow enter your life without warning? Are you a victim of fall ing temperatures? Then. why not write today for Never-Miss Weath er Forecasts? Find peace of mind and nonchalance through knowing about blizzards instead of merely guessing. Yes-s-s-s-s,_, Never-Miss Weather Forecasts will take those wrinkles from your forehead, end those falling hairs, efface that ap prehensive look from your eyes and send you outdoors every day radi ant in the thought that you are pre pared for anything from a shower to a typhoon. “And don’t forget that you can win one of 500 mink coats, com plete with deep-freeze unit and muff, by completing the sentence, *1 like to know whether it is going to rain or snow BECAUSE . . * • • WHY CINEMA REVIEW READ ERS GO NUTS “Lunacy in a family is not a fun ny thing, nor does it seem fitting and tasteful as a matter to be treated as farce. Neither does a giggling half-wit seem an apt comic character. Somehow it just isn’t funny to see a pitiful affliction made a joke.”—Bosley Crowther on “Miss Tatlock’s Millions.” • “Far from being tasteless, “Miss Tatlock’s Millions” holds to a high level of fantastic humor. It is gen erally delightful entertainment. Charles -Bracket’s idea of having a man masquerade as a half-witted heir makes for elegant nonsense." —Howard Barnes. • • • Dr. Edwin G. Nourse has been named chief of an anti-inflation board. Is he a trained Nourse or a practical Nourse? • • • A commission has found that Washington could save 250 million dollars a year by merely buying supplies with a minimum of red tape, duplication and poor business methods. Paper work on 1.5 million orders a year involving only $10 in each case cost toe government more than $10 for unnecessary let ters, carbons, filing, duplication of effort, unnecessary help, etc. That gives you an idea. • • • During the shipping strikes we heard of a fellow who went to a travel agency and asked, “What’s toe best liner to take and not go anywhere at all for a long time?” We heard his companion asked for a deck chair on the sunny side of the mediation board. • • • VANISHING AMERICANISMS: "The people want a change in Washington" "Truman is a good man, but. . . * "Its all done by cycles." * "You wouldn’t go against the polk, would ya?" + * * The new chief of staff of toe Brit ish army is named Slim. We will feel better if the head of any oppos ing force is a General Fatso. am Truman Goes Slow T ALKING to a close friend last week. President Truman con fided that he did not intend to make any cabinet changes before Jan. 20, at which time several cabinet members would go. However, Mr. Truman, who knows what it is to be broke, said he didn’t want any cabinet mem ber to appear to be fired, for fear it might hurt hi/ future earning power. “And Pm not going to throw them out while toe newspapers are snip ing at me,” he added. “When the newspapers stop picking my. cab inet for me. I’ll pick my own.” • • • News Omission • U. S. newspapers outside New York and Washington sometimes get mentally kicked around by their readers through no fault of their own. They are at toe mercy of toe press associations which fre quently take their lead from the big WJfishington-New York dailies. Here is a case in point. Front-page news in the big metropolitan dailies recently was the report of Ex-$enstor D. Worth Clark of Idaho urging that several billion dollars be dumped Into China. Clark had been sent to China by Repub lican members of the senate ap propriations committee and al most every newspaper front paged his demand for Chinese aid. However, not one paper carried the very important fact that Ex- Senator Clark was a former part ner in a law firm which was paid $100,000 by T. V. Soong, brother-in- law of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, for the express purpose of getting aid for China. mm* Qualified Public Servant Mayor John F. Davis of Reading, Pa., tells this story on himself. “Shortly after I was elected, I began to learn about toe qualifica tions for government office. A friend dropped in and suggested that I give a job to George Schultze down in toe 6th ward. “ ‘What can he do?’ I asked. “ ‘Nothing,’ replied my friend. ■ “ Then let’s hire him right away,' I- said. ‘We won’t have *o break him in’." • » • Doctor Shortage Unassuming Oscar Ewing, toe federal security administrator, has been doing some quiet digging on the all-important problem of get ting more U. S. doctors, dentists and nurses. “Even today, three years after toe end of to? war,” says Ewing, “there are large sections of the country woefully lacking in doc tors.” Meanwhile, medical schools are overcrowded and medical faculties are so understaffed that, if new medical schools were started, it would be difficult to find enough professors to staff them. Ewing is working on a plan for federal loans to medical students as one way to ease the doctor shortage. Local banks would grant tuition-loans to qualified students, with the government guaranteeing the loans 100 per cent. He is also hoping that toe bill introduced by Senator Thomas of Utah will pass toe next congress giving government' subsidies to medical schools based on the num ber of students they turn out. * • • Truman’s Jaw Comjnents W. F. Bond, Missis sippi’s commissioner of public wel fare: “Samson slew 1,000 Philis tines with the jawbone of an ass— a record which stood for over 6,000 years, and was not broken until November, when Harry Truman with his own jawbone slew over 21,000,000 Republicans.” * • • Labor Diplomat President Truman’s advisers are seriously considering toe appoint ment of a labor leader as assistant secretary of state. Hitherto, high state department Jobs have usually gone to Wall Streeters, as for instance the pres ent Undersecretary of State Rob ert Lovett, a big investment bank er, and Assistant Secretary Charles Salfcpnan, former vice president of toe New York Stock exchange. However, most European governments are now dominat ed by labor. In fact, the mod erate labor leaders of Western Europe are considered the best bulwark against Russia, and it is vital that U. S. diplomats understand -heir point of view. That’s why a labor leader may be among the new state depart ment executives, also why Irving Brown, toe international labor of fice representative in Europe, may be appointed U. S. ambassador to a western European country. Brown’s quiet work among Euro pean labor leaders has done more to combat Sovietism than a whole crew of toe old fashioned U. S. dip lomats combined. Knitted Wool Baby Set ^5804 IUST about the most adorable *■* knitted bonnqt you’ve seen—it’s made of kitten soft blue wool with pale pink pompons. Or use your own color scheme. Matching thumbless mittens are trimmed with tiny pompons. Simple knit ting even for a beginner. • • • To obtain comiilete knitting Instructions and stitch illustrations for Baby Mine set (Pattern No. 5804) send 20 cents in coin, your name, address and pattern number. SEWING ClftCI.B NEEDLEWORK 530 South Wens St. Chicago 1, Ui- Enclose 20 cents for pattern. 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