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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Washington Digest Tax Bill Is Rabbit Stew To Congressman Doughton By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Another rabbit stew has been served up to Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, and he’s all ready for it. Representative Doughton, I might suggest if you don’t know it, is not only the oldest member of the house of representatives (85) but likewise the oldest hand at handling tax measures. He had to step down from the chairmanship of the ways and means committee for the brief Republican interlude. Now he's back at the old stand, sharpening the butcher knife again. But to get back to rabbit stew. Last season when President Tru man vetoed the second Knutson tax-cutting bill and and fired it back at congress, a reporter asked Doughton how he felt about it. He leaned back and told a story, for he’s fond of answering in parables. A Tarheel house wife, it seems, served her husband rabbit stew every night for a week. When the second Saturday night came BAUKHAGE around and the same old dish with it, the husband bowed his head as usual, but instead of saying grace he was heard to mutter: “Babbit’s rough. Rabbit’s tough. Oh, Lord, I’ve had rab bit enough” That, opined Mr. Doughton, was the way he felt about the tax bills. But he has to help meet the big gest peacetime budget ever sub mitted to a congress and he's ready for it. In the 38 years that he has rep resented the state'of North Carolina in the congress, the habits of the dean of the octogenarian’s club in the lower house have changed very little since the last time. I explored them in some detail more than a score of years ago. He has earned a tremendous re spect from the men who work on fiscal matters in the house of rep resentatives where the money bills have to originate. And because he has a theory of his own about col lecting and spending the people’s money, no bill comes out of his "Ob, Lord, I’ve had rabbit enough.” committee looking very different than he wants it to look, though it may not always suit all the other members. Doughton doesn’t go so far as to say that fiscal legislation should be non-partisan, but he does say it ought to be as non-provincial and as pro-national as possible. His experience in collecting mon ey that ought to be collected goes back a long way. One story involves a man he went to see about a horse—two horses, to be exact. This man had bought a team from Doughton (the congress man is still a farmer in his own right, though he has to spend more time away from home than he used to). Later on the man wrote that he didn’t think the span was worth the $800 he had agreed to pay and wouldn't pay it The deal had been negotiated at a distance and the principals had never met. So one day Doughton dropped in at the farm and said he wanted to look over a good team. The man showed several, but none seemed to suit Mr. Doughton. “All right,” said the man, ‘TU show yon tbe best pair yon ever saw in yon life.” He brought out the horses re cently acquired from Mr. Doughton, but still unpaid for. And what might they be worth? WeU considerably over $800. Mr. Doughton introduced him self and didn’t have much trou ble in coUecting. There is another reason why Doughton is a good man to have on the collecting end of a bargain— if you aren’t the debtor. He’s a farmer, true, but he is also a bank er, and he works at both when he isn’t in Washington. He doesn’t keep banker’s hours, however. He goes to his office at 6:30 a.m., works throughout the day, and he's often back in the office after din ner. He lives right across the plaza from the Capital. For the first 45 years or so of his life, Mr. Doughton held no elective office, but he managed to find time for an active interest in his com munity which is deep in the Caro lina hills. Laurel Spring, N. C., is still his home. He was bom on his parent’s farm near there. His father, wounded in the war between, the states, died when he was a grown boy. His mother was keenly active to her last hours, interested in the day’s mail and the daily newspaper to the last. Inheriting some land from his father, the boy started off for him self, gradually acquiring more until he became a livestock raiser and farmer. Then he entered business, finally becoming president of a bank. He has described himself as a horse trader. There ore many tales that have grown up about his astuteness that, if embellished by repetition, are not doubted by those who have watched his steady advancement in congress. He entered under a Republican regime—President Taft's—accepted minor committee appointments, but rose rapidly to the position he holds today—chairman of the power ful ways and means committee. One of the horse-trader stories he tells is this: after disposing of some animals he had meant to sell, he was made a very attractive offer for the horse he was riding—his owp saddle horse. Done, he took tbe money, turned over the bridle, put the saddle under his arm and walked back home, 70 miles, says tradition, under his own power. There doesn’t seem to have been any deep-laid plan for a political career in the farmer boy’s mind when he began life among the ox carts and hand looms of those early days in the South following the war. Nor yet when he had acquired his own acres and entered into the business life of the community. He ,was chosen a member of the state board of agriculture and served on the prison board. Then one day it was decided to run him for the state senate. He was elected and served for a term. Congress was next, but there was a sort of unwritten law in his dis trict that one term was all a man could expect, for Republicans and Democrats had always swapped terms. But Doughton changed all that. Or at least his con stituents did. When be had served his term in the 62nd con gress, instead of retiring him, as had been the custom, the voters sent him right back again, and they have been doing it ever since. There isn t any question that Robert L. Doughton likes his job in Washington. But it’s equally true that when the session is over, he likes to hie himself back to his Carolina hills and enjoy life there. Around the capital he has the reputation as being as good a judge of men as he is of horses. This year President Truman’s request for six billion dollars more in taxes, including some social security withholding levies, will get very careful scrutiny before it becomes law. Meanwhile, Dough- ton’s committee has to take care of the bill to extend reciprocal trade treaties. Also, studies will begin on the subject of extending social security benefits. There is in addition the matter of certain revisions in the basic tax code. But Representative Doughton is used to rabbit stew. The biggest peacetime budget ever submitted to a congress ($48,858,000,000) has its oppon ents, too. Rep. Charles Halleck (R., Ind.), former GOP major ity leader, and Rep. John Taber (R., N. Y.), former chairman of the house appropriations com mittee, look grimly at the volu minous budget, promise a fierce fight to slash all spending proposals. DOING FINE . . . Mrs. Suzy Jones and her six-pound new born son are doing fine at Gan der, Newfoundland, after the mother was taken hurriedly from a transatlantic plane in which she was enroute to join her hus band, an unemployed seaman, in New York. BEFORE COMMITTEE . . . Dean Acheson, secretary-of-state des ignate, is shown here as he ap peared before the senate foreign relations committee. Acheson ap peared before the group to defend his qualificaions for the top diplomatic post. SWIM-HEALTH QUEEN . . . This long - stemmed American beauty is Terri Hanrahan, of Montclair, N. J., who was chosen ‘Miss Florida Swim for Health.” Miss Hanrahan, 18 years old, is one bathing beauty who can really swim. She won her title at a contest conducted in Miami. HELD IN MURDER . . . Jeff Conners, 40, free-lance writer, character actor and movie stand- in, was held in San Francisco in the two-year-old mutilation slay ing of Elizabeth Short, which became the famed' “Black Dah lia” case. TEXAS TALK . . . Toting a six-shooter and wearing full cowgirl regalia, Linda Brown, 1949 March of Dimes poster girl, tells Presi dent Truman all about the “United States of Texas” after the President presented her with a birthday cake on her fourth anniversary. Linda, who hails from San Antonio, was stricken with polio two years ago, but fully recovered through treatment provided by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. agppiafew ■» - fy*. * « rn&m . * k- 4; i hi : WILL GET WISH . . . Santa Claus couldn’t quite make it with the gift five-year-old David Cookson, Scranton, Pa., wanted most for Christmas —a pair of hands. His parents were heartbroken when they could not fix it so Santa could arrange that gift, but Scranton veterans’ organ- | izations raised a fund and little David will be fitted with niechanical hands. He lost his in a threshing machine accident. CHILLY RESCUE . . . With ladders and ropes police haul John Lafek, 58, New York resident, who fell into the East river and survived half an hour in the icy water, bellowing for help until rescuers arrived and dragged him out. A ladder is commandeered to get him completely ashore, after which he was treated at Bellevue hospital for submersion and shock. ARRESTED ... Vicki Evans was booked in New Yorjc for failure to appear at the Cali fornia hearing of the mari huana charge involving herself, Robert Mitcham, screen star, and two other defendants. INAUGURAL MEDAL ... Edwin H. Dressel, superintendent of the U. 8, mint in Philadelphia, here holds the original plaster cast of the Presi dent Harry Truman inaugural medal. Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, super, intendent of the .mint in Washington and chairman of the inaugural medal committee, holds first medal struck from die press in rear. Medals were sold and proceeds helped defray inauguration costs. So far as was known, it was the first inaugural medal struck. HIGH COST OF WRITING No matter how high the costs of living were there was a time whe you felt you could afford to mail „ couple of letters. But now that an cient satisfaction is gone with the wind. The Forgotten Man’s last firm friend, the U. S. postoffice depart ment, has walked out on him. New postage rates which went into ef fect the first of this year make a luxury out of correspondence. The stamp window threatens to get into the same class with the night club, the musical comedy and the new model auto. * Rates on almost all types of mail are upped, with the special delivery stamp, which for gen erations sold for a dime, going to 15 cents. Parcel post rates, money order fees and almost everything except run-of-the-mill letters and postal cards have been jumped. We heard a fellow at a stamp window ask, “What’s the down payment and how much per week?” as he got the bill when depositing quite a load of mail yesterday. We went into the postoffice with a bunch of special delivery letters and found ourself asking, “Will you take a check?” Getting a negative answer, we inquired: “How’s of opening a charge ac- That got us nowhere. chances count?” either. It’s all very depressing. The postoffice department has for generations been one place which it was a comfort to visit when things were high every where else. It never made you feel like taking your trade some other place. * To raise the mail rates was al ways accepted as bad politics sure to cost votes. But the politicians today know that the public has lost its capacity for indignation and that anything goes. Certainly the post- office department lost money, but that was always “in the lease.” The very idea of the mail service break ing even would have been out of the question any time in the past. But for the past few years the postoffice department has been spending so much money paying for new designs and issuing new stamps in new sizes, shapes and color schemes, that it really had to dig up some fresh dough It is tickled silly with the new rates, as they will give it a lot of fun designing more new stamps. * The three-cent stamp on light majl still stands and postal cards and souvenir post cards will still be handled at a penny each. Why? They must be more trouble than any other mail. And a letter carrier has to take as many steps delivering a pic ture of a bathing beauthy and a message as he does in deliver ing a parcel post package. But it is that 15 cents for a special delivery stamp that gets us. You can send the msssage by wire for a few cents more. And the tele gram is never left hanging around the postoffice two or three days. * Think we’re gonna have inflation in this country, bub? * « • SOUTH PAWS There’s the story of the ol’ South ern Senator who, asked why he was slow in taking his seat for the state- of-the-union message, replied: “I’m waiting for Lefty.” —m— Whittaker Chambers has been photographed on his farm milking a cow. It is good to see that he no longer works from the left side. * That grounding of the Queen Mary is easily explained. All the sables and minks shifted to one side and caused a list which prevented accurate steering. Belmont gets an extra seven days of racing this season. It is felt that the fans need an extra week in order to locate the horses on the straightaway there and determine when they are within the juris diction of this country. * • * VANISHING AMERICANISMS— ”Wt?ve saved up $500 and are going to send Junior through college.” "Let’s give a banquet for the boss.'" "1 get 30 cents a dozen for eggs so it pays me to keep hens.” "All that worries me is the real es tate tax." • • • Can You Remember way back when nobody was especially un happy if he had to walk four or five blocks? New State Secretary (ED. NOTE—Drew Pearson today awards tbe brass ring, good for a free ride on the Washington nierry-go-round, to Dean Acheson, new secretary of state.) |NEAN ACHESON, son of the late U Episcopal suffragan bishop of Connecticut, has followed with reasonable consistency an unad vertised but earnest desire to help ,his country. He has also cherished a desire*, ever since he was a young lawyer in Washington, to clean up the horse-and-bnggy diplomacy of the state department. Never in his fondest dreams, however, did Dean Acheson, in those youthful days, think that he might become secretary of state. His real ambition was to sit on the supreme court. The fact that he now finds himself secretary of state is probably due not only to ability—of which he has plenty—but an act of kindness to a little man who had just suffered a slashing political defeat. In November 1946, Harry Tru man’s party lost control of both houses of congress. The blow was so great that most observers pre dicted Truman could never be re elected. Even some Democrats, especially Senator Fulbright of Ar kansas, suggested that Truman re sign. , Truman’s trip back to Washing ton from Independence, Mo., where he voted, was almost like a funeral. When he arrived at the union sta tion in Washington, only one mem ber of the cabinet was on hand to meet him, and he wasn’t really a member. It was the acting secre tary of state, Dean Acheson. Acheson rode with the President back to the White House where Tru man read over the singeing editorial comment and asked Acheson what he should do. Acheson was bold and courageous. He advised Truman to issue a dignified, diplomatic state ment urging cooperation between congress and the White House, pointing to other precedents where Presidents had faced hostile con gresses. Truman agreed. Acheson drafted the statement—a masterpiece—and the two men have been close friends ever since. * • • Fired Acheson Acheson is one of the few men ever fired by Franklin Roosevelt who has staged a comeback. His mentor throughout the years has been Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who once taught him law at Harvard, recommended him as secretary to the late Justice Brandeis, and urged FDR to make him solicitor general. Instead FDR made Acheson un dersecretary of the treasury, where he was out-of-step and miserable. Dean was more miserable when, one day while waiting in an ante room of the White House, newsmen came out to tell him that Roosevelt had just announced his resignation. He did not know until that moment that he had been fired. • • • Frankfurter Friend Almost every morning, the long, lanky Acheson can be seen walking two miles to work beside his old mentor. Justice Felix Frankfurter. It was Frankfurter who* persuaded Roosevelt to take Acheson back seven years later as assistant secretary of state, and it was Frankfurter who also urged Ach eson to ask the justice department to indict this columnist—a proposal which Acheson took up in cabinet meeting without success. Acheson first joined the state de partment in 1941 as assistant secre tary in charge of congressional relations. He was an immediate success. Congressmen like Speaker Sam Rayburn swore by him. Maryland Farmer Despite high position, Acheson never has put on any airs, still likes to do chores around his Maryland farm in old clothes on Sundays. At thei state department he juggled his own tray at the government cafe teria along with clerks and steno graphers. Acheson entered the state depart ment pro-Russian—that is, in the sense that he felt the United States should do its best to cooperate with Russia, and that the peace of the world depended on the two coun tries. It was not long after Potsdam, however, that he began to be dis illusioned. Ever since, be has been a consistent, vigorous, bitter non appeaser. • • • Friend of Hiss Some senators will doubtless look askanfce at Acheson’s appointment because Alger Hiss and others, charged with purloining state de partment documents, served with him, and because Donald Hiss, brother of Alger, is now in the Acheson law firm. No one who knows Acheson, how ever, would even remotely suspect him of any toleration of or connee- tion with subversive influences. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. $115 PUTS YOU IN POPCORN BUSINESS- Profit 70%. Electric machines, all supplies; new peanut roasters. Send for circulars. POPCORN SUPPLY Box 838 - - Atlanta, Os. GROCERY, GAS STATION—3 rooms living quarters; including stock and equipment worth $1,000. Eleven acres ground with 2 acres under irrigation. Large garage build ing with 5 rooms overhead, all for $8,000. $3,000 down. Terms. 3 OAKS STATION* Cork Rd., Plant City, Fla. Ph. 62-371. FLORIDA OPPORTUNITIES Plymouth-DeSoto Agency $16,000; fine res taurant $4,000; furnished home and launder ette $22,500; bakery $1,100; 6 lots, federal highway $850; 20 acres, 5 in grove, 6 room house $3,100; 20 acres on highway. $1,000. H. L. CHAMBERS, Realtor, Wanchsla, FIs. MAKE 100%. Internally hand carved flowers in Plexiglas. Pins or Earrings $1. Sprague, 817 Genesee Pk. Blvd., Rochester 11, N. Y. HOME—Fourteen Rooms, 3 Baths, on high way 176. Seven miles south of Spartanburg, main highway to Florida, ideal for motel, tourist home or club. 16 acres ground plant ed in fruit, shrubs and flowers. MISS ZELPHA BROOKS Route No. 4, Box 177 Spartanburg, S. C. VARIETY STOKE STOCK FOR SALE " - - ' 0. Doii Must be sold at once for $3000. Doing $16006 business per year. Getting old and cannot take care of it. Will rent store for $4W per month to party that takes stock. Write L. H. TORREY Owner, Torrey’s 5 and 10c Store Monticello - - Florida. SELL BY MAIL Start a Mail Order Business in your upare time. 25c brings exciting booklet, “HOW TO SELL BY MAIL.” BUNCO, Dept. A, 61 Grand Avenue, Rochester 9, N. Y. DOGS, CATS, PETS, ETC. DACHSHUND PUPPIES AKC REGISTERED Males only $75 each. Reserve now for Jan uary delivery. P. O. Box 8752, Tampa 4* Fla. Ph. 33-5084. HELP WANTED—MEN HOUSE TO HOUSE SALESMEN Make 50% selling New-Molene, Dr. Hollands old fashioned mutton suet rub for colds. Send 25c for sample and particulars. UNIVERSAL REMEDIES CO., Cordele, Ga. WANTED Reliable prescription man capable of man aging store in part-time absence of owner. Good salary to right man. Apply by lefter, reference, and complete history. Address P. O. BOX 111 - • Thomas ton, Georgia. MAKE BXTRA MONEY Salesman wanted. Samples on request. Sea Kelp Co., 214 47th St., Newport News, Va. LIVESTOCK WANTED—KILLER HORSES AND MULES We pay top market prices and no commission charges. Open every day except Saturday and Sunday. Phone 746-J, MARNAT PACK ING CO., BennetUviUe, S. C. MISCELLANEOUS THE DUVALL HOME for mentally afflicted, bed-ridden children. Excellent care. SAT8UMA, FLORIDA. ROLL FILMS DEVELOPED! All MASTER (oversize) PRINTS. 8 exposure roll, only 40c; 12 exposure roll, only 60c; 16 exposure roll, only 75c. O’HENRY PHOTO SERVICE Greensboro - North Carolina. POULTRY, CHICKS & EQUIP. CHICKS, REDS, ROCKS, WYANDOTTES and Orpingtons. $8.95—100 plus postage. Heavy assorted, $6.95—100 plus postage. WHITE STAR CHICKS Box $26-C 5 Points - Columbia, 8. C. REAL ESTATE—HOUSES BARGAIN IN TAMPA 3 B. R., 2 bath rms., breakfast nook, all elec, kit., 3-car gar., 12 large lots, 50x150 each, 38 large fruit trees, sprinkling system, $12.000— 8839 Armenia Ave., 2 blks. N. of Waters. Owner, V. SADOWSKI 11010 E. McNichols - Detroit 5, 1 1 HOUSE 5 ROOMS AND BATH with large attic suitable for 2 more bedrooms. 2 lots 50x142 ft. each. 2 block from City Rail, Okeechobee City on S. R. 70. Electric fin- fiheda Plumbing all finished but sewer. A oargain for $2,500.00. MARION A. COU8ART P. O. Box 306 - Okeechobee, Fla. REAL ESTATE—MISC. SPORTSMEN ATTENTION By owner, new 4-room hurricane proof block house, all modern, new furniture, tot home, lodge or syndicate. Two large Ipts, waterfront, private boat dock, 1947 Crist Craft cabin cruiser, like new. Best fishing and hunting in Fla. Owner leaving state. Sell Below Cost D. H. METZGER, Owner Marco - - Florida SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. PECAN TREES FOR SALE Government inspected; guaranteed true to name: Schleys, Stuarts—money-makers. Write for Prices CALVIN HARMAN - Stovall, Georgia ORANGE TREES FOR SALE—2000 Ham lin, 1500 Valencia, 1000 Parson Brown, 1000 Temples, coming 3 yr. buds, 4 yrs. root, sour orange stock, price 50c to 75c. 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