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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Washington Di9est GOP Tries to Face Facts: Changes Are Sure to Come By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON—I don’t want to get into semantics but I have to say something about the word “conservative”, purely as a word, tf I am going to discuss some of the undersurface terms in Washing ton recently. H it is fair to define a conservative as a person who has something to conserve, and I think the American people are naturally conservative In that sense, when you take away that something, Americans will join the radicals or anybody else to win back what was taken away. The majority of the people don’t want a free lunch. They just want a cbanee to earn enough to pay for their own lunch. But if they can’t get : lunch any other way, they’ll take it how and where they , can get it. That is a lesson which cer- j tain conservatives \ (in the political [ sense) are learning [ slowly. Last month Tom ! D e w e y returned I from his political i grave to say at a Republican Lincoln Day dinner that if the GOP tried to go back to the 20’s, It would become the "deadest pigeon in the country.” BAUKHAGE The burden of his theme was that the party was split wide apart and it had better get to gether, slongh off one extreme element which wants to “turn the clock back”- and the other extremists who want to "out- promise the Democrats.” He de manded that the party stand for “social progress under a flourishing system of private en terprise where every human right is expanded.” Those op posed to “liberal and progres sive policies” should get out of the party. Here again we run into semantics —what is "progressive,” what is "liberal"—for that matter, what is Sylvia? To one an owl, to another a nightingale. To the pinks, a “liberal” is a reactionary. To the conservative a “liberal” is a red. Dewey said that the Republican party (or the party as he sees it) believes in “unemployment insur ance, old age assistance on an in creased basis, in broader social se curity generally, in slum clearance, in public development of our water resources, in farm price supports, in vigorous protection of the rights of labor.” And he seems to recognize that all at us. Republicans included, will have to take certain things for granted. Certain social and politi cal changes which we may net like any more than our grandfathers liked a lot of “new-fangled” ideas they met with, like the safety razor, say. The federal reserve board, the income tax, women’s suffrage—all were once considered little less than the instruments of the devil himself by a lot of people who never think twice about them now. What policy the federal reserve -board follows is debatable by either politi cal party, but nobody would be fool enough to try to eliminate the board as an institution. Both parties claim they invented it. The size of the income tax, and how it’s distributed is also a matter to be settled by the party in power, but I can’t quite see anybody trying to eliminate income taxes entirely. Other matters like the principles of government regulation of inter state commerce, of old age and imemployemnt insurance and dozens of other activities seem to be here for good. If I am a Red for saying that, you can measure me for a suit of long underwear to match, tuck me into the one-hoss-shay and send me home. As a matter of fact I am really pretty much of a moss-back. Al though I’d trade in my used air plane for a rocket, if anybody has a surrey with the fringe on top and I had a place to park it, that’s what Td really prefer. This was my answer: “Dear Sir: I have your letter saying that you wonder which is the most dangerous, the truck driver I referred to or an idiot with a vast radio audience —and also that you have heard me a few thousand times. I am glad to note we have so much in common.” My reference to Taft which so infuriated the letter-writer was in connection with an implication that Senator Taft IS the Republican party in the Senate as it exists to day. This situation may change, though there are no present indi cations it will. Taft rides the ele phant, regardless of who happens to play the calliope. And paradoxically enough, it will be Senator Taft, the strongest fig ure in the senate, arch-Republican, symbol of reaction to his enemies, who probably will be a powerful factor in the enactment of more than one of the so called “social- service” laws which are a vital part of the administration program. Housing and federal aid to educa tion are two measures which might be named. And although the Taft- Hartley act will have a new name, the imprint of its senatorial sponsor will not be entirely eradicated from its structure when it comes out of the hopper. Taft was able to drag out the labor bill hearings for two weeks longer than was originally planned, and I would not be surprised if these lines appear in print before his gently-led filibuster against the re peal is over, or at least long over. But that does not mean Taft or his party controls the senate. As this was written a theory was abroad that the Republican strat egy had developed to the point where, if the party would keep its “young Turks” in line—the so- called liberal Republican senators who tried and so dismally failed to curb Taft’s power—they could count on enough votes of the southern senators on most controversial is sues (unless these issues step on the toes of southern tradition) to wrest control from the Democrats. In fact, the expounders of this theory were only a little while ago pointing to defeat of the bill to exempt the tax on the inaug uration as proof that the fate of the Democrats in the senate was a pretty dark one. They ex plained it was symptomatic when 41 Rebnblicans voted against the measure, and found to their surprise and pleasure that they were able to get six Democrats to join them, thus providing a majority and de feating the measure. That made things look very sim ple. But there is another side to that story. That vote backfired and hurt the Republicans more than it helped. It did more than a little to create Democratic solidarity, and the really deep-dishers on Capitol Hill are predicting that the Demo crats are going to achieve enough unanimity from now on to main tain their majority on major issues. There will be, of course, matters where members of both parties will desert because the issue in volved is such that the particular state or area from which the sen ator comes has an interest which conflicts with the majority of his party. There will be some issues in which Democrats will join Republi cans as well as vice versa. And, as I said earlier, there are sonr things that don’t appear on the sur face. Mention of Taft Evokes Criticism One can’t discuss the Republican party without mentioning Mr. Taft. And whenever I say anything good ou the air about Sen. Robert A. Taft, I get letters like the following from a man in Lakewood, New York (I had in the same broadcast described a truck-driver who nearly ran over me): , “I can see a picture of you,” he writes, “looking down your long nose at that truck driver and be lieve me, I know just exactly how you felt towards him. However, I wonder which is the most dan gerous, an idiot with a truck or an idiot with a vast radio audience. “You see, I look down my long nose at you just as you did the truck driver and I have the advan tage at having heard a few thou sand of your broadcasts. Through this medium I have explored your brain and believe me I find not much there. Your speaking of the truck driver as well as Taft’s in telligence is a fair measure of your own . ” The harden of the attack against the Democrats, whether yon call them New Dealers, Fair Dealers, or Trnmanltes, is that they seek government control of business. Now I believe most Republican leaders have the brains to admit (and if they haven't they can expect to be defeated, just as the liberals and conservatives were beaten in England) that the best way to kill government control—the antithesis of free enterprise because it is gov ernment monopoly—is to kill priv ate monopoly. The latter is a two- edged sword against free enter prise. First, private monopoly kills competition. Second, it opens the way to government ownership. Today the intelligent leaders of the GOP have to admit what I am sure they believe at heart, namely, that they will have to let the feder al government do certain things for the people, if private enterprise can’t or won’t do those things. Taft, as well as the young Turks, knows that. They also know that private monoply breeds state control. NAMED IN PROBE . . . Well known writer Agnes Smed- ley was named by tbe U. S. army as a Soviet agent wbo cooperated with a Rnssian spy ring which existed In Japan before and daring tbe last war BED CHIEF POSES . . . This is tbe most recent Soviet- government issued stndy of Marshal Josef Stalin, premier of tbe Soviet Union. LIFE AFTER DEATH . . . Born two minutes after her mother, Mrs. Louise Jones. 38, died in a Newark hospital, this two-pound baby girl Is watched over in an incubator by nurse Jean Browning, Ac cording to hospital physi cians. the baby would live. CHURCHILL HONORED Winston Churchill makes ad dress of thanks after being honored by Holland with presentation ot the Grotius medal, which was instituted tn 1923 to honor Hugo Grottos wbo laid tbe founda tion* ot International law MARINES BATTLE WINTER ON MANEUVERS ... In Kodiak, Alaska, where winter is of a muchness, these two marines, Cpl. Wil liam Renner (left) of Altoona, Pa., and Lt. E. W. Frank of Oceanside, Calif., cook soup in snow as detachment trained under frigid conditions. Every phase of marine fighting, except for amphibions landings, was to be included in the winter maneuvers PARROT IS SILENT WITNESS . . . This parrot was found tn a Troy, N. V., home where a father and son were found dead, apparently from from gas fumes. The presence of the bird pnzzled Investigating of ficials wbo could not understand how It could have escaped gas fumes fatal to two humans. Finding of th# bird, and tbe mystery sur rounding its existence in the death room, added a weird touch. HITTING THE ROAD TO RENO . . Her stormy marriage to Carlos Uuinle, Brazilian millionaire, “beyond reconciliation,” Susie Stephenson Uuinle, New York glamor girl, shown here with her daughter. Candy, soon will be traveling to Reno for a divorce. Her marriage to Guinle, member of one of Brazil’s most socially prominent families, lasted only since last year CLIPS YANKEES .It was “Yankee Clipper” Joe Dl- Maggio, wbo lived op to the title, when be drew down on the Yankee ball club manage ment for a reported salary of 190,000. VNU j.\ «i. S, STRAPHANGERS COMPLAIN .. What with equipment tnu one thing and another, it became rather crowded on board this pachyderm crossing tbe Karnali valley in Nepal. Aboard the ele phant are members of an exploration party, seeking to penetrate into the valley farther than any white man ever has gone before. The ex- ledition was sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Yale nnl- ersity and the Smithsonian Institution Omen of Better Days! The five-cent cigar is reported back. It is creeping into the cigar cases of America again, and few things have made the country feel better. The nickel stogie stands as an emblem of a smoother-going life, uncomplicated by almost every known type of worry. It marks an era when men trusted one another, hated nobofcly to speak of, and never tossed all night, harassed by thoughts of taxes, assessments, new bites, etc. • The five-cent cheroot marked an age when you could know nothing about economics and still not be considered a hillbilly ... a time when “index” was generally thought to be a mountain goat and when a “spiral” was widely accepted as some type of tropical fish. • • • When the five-cent straight smoke reigned supreme the only tax a man ever had to pay was a $2-a-year poll tax, unless he owned property. Anybody who talked of Income taxes was laughed off as a radical, a nut or both. The word “question naire” hadn’t come into our lan guage, tax forms were for land lords only. America was safe from invasion, Mart Badger was selling shoes for $2 a pair, you could get a tailor-made suit for $30 (silk lined) and you could take the family to dinner for what it now costs to get a shrimp cocktail. • You can’t think of the nickel sto gie without recalling the days when only the village bum sneered at thrift, when hard work wasn’t jeered at and when a fellow y/asn’t scut tling the labor movement if. he went back to the office and did some nightwork. —•*— It was a time when a fellow could meet his grocery bill without out side financing, argue for horse sense in government, hold out any where for honest bookkeeping, ad vocate operation of government on a business basis and even denounce trick budget-balancing without fear of reprisals. * In the day of the nickel cigars a spendthrift got no applause except in a saloon. Everybody thought economy was a good idea. A man always had some idea where he stood financially ^t any hour. Only gypsies lived in tents . If a man had the wisdom and frugality to save up enough money to provide for his family after he kicked the bucket, he could determine with out consulting a staff of legal experts whether they would get more than $4 of his estate. • All life was sweeter when most of the cigars in the showcases were five-centers and a 10-cent one was regarded as something of an extra vagance. People let their major worries center on the common cold, the weather for Sunday’s picnic, dandruff, slippery sidewalks and how many quarts of soup could be made from a 10-cent soup-bunch. • We toss a lid into the air at the five-cent smoke’s return. And we feel better now about China, the Russian war danger. President Tru man’s policies, the crisis in South Africa and the world mess general ly. Gotta match, bud? v . . . Florida Report Shudda Haddim, reporting from Hialeah, writes: "It is a good season with me so far, as I have only to walk back from the track about three days a week. Last year my average was four. “I am not getting rich, but 1 am having more fun as there is more room to get around. A lot of racing fans are out of circulation and are not. sending in substitutes. Once I could sit near a mutuels window and see somebody I knew pass, but no more. I think it is because there are too many horse tracks. People don’t have to come to Florida to lose dough fast no more. “I got a room in a private home with use of the family Racing Form cheap. And the eating problem is not so tough. Some lunchrooms are letting me look at the house tip- heet free if I spend over 30 cents. I’ve never seen so many hotels as at Miami Beach. The gulf stream takes the chill off mortgage money by 20 degress, I guess." • • • LONGFELLOW MODERNIZED Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith is being picketed By all the hired hands. C.T.K. * • • The philosophy of the new Ameri can way seems at times to be ex pressed in a wearisome, “Whatever you are doing it is tiring me out.” • • • Now that he is being allowed $90,- 000 a year for expense money the President can afford an Idaho baked potato with the steak. Show Human Touch THREE DISTINGUISHED states men were on hand to greet the French Gratitude Train when it arrived in Washington—Vice Pres ident Barkley and his former col leagues, Senators Connally of Tex as, Democrat, and Vandenburg of Michigan, Republican. These three have served in the senate together for more than a quarter of a century. Sometimes they have been on opposite sides of bitter political battles, but they have never let party politics inter fere with personal friendship. They know each other as well as they know the senate—which is better than almost anyone else in Wash ington. How much Senator Vanden burg knows about the early boy hood of Senator Connally of Texas is his secret. But at the very conclusion of the ceremonies welcoming the Grati tude Train, as the venerable Tom Connally took a pair of shears and snipped the red, white and blue rib bon scaling the District of Colum bia boxcar, his old friend, the sen ator from Michigan, whispered to the Vice President of the United States: “I’ll bet that’s not the first time Tom has broken into a boxcar.” Acheson Wary of Bevta It isn’t being advertised outside the state department, but British foreign minister Bevin didn’t put his best foot forward with the new U. S* Secretary of state just a few days after Dean Acheson took of fice. Bevin sent what amounted to a frantic SOS to Acheson for help to get him enough votes to squeak by an attempted cen sure of British foreign policy in the house of commons. But after Acheson helped to get him the votes, Bevin, in effect, bit the hand that fed him. Here is the inside story of what happened: Just before the debate on Pales tine, Bevin was yrorried sick that the Labor party might be defeated and have to resign. Part of the criticism was because Britain’s policy in Palestine was upsetting American relations. Therefore, Bevin hit on tije idea of telling par liament that Britain and the United States had settled their differences and now agreed completly on Palestine. Bevin actually wrote out his re marks in advance and cabled them to the state department January 25 to make sure Secretary Acheson had no objection. Bevin also ap pealed to Acheson to issue an Amer ican statement backing up Bevin on 'Palestine. The state depart ment OK’d Bevin’s remarks and gave him the go-ahead—and that statement was the trump card which helped him win a vote of confidence by a margin of only 90. Otherwise the Labor govern ment might have been defeated. However, Bevin extemporaneous ly inserted some other remarks in his speech, criticizing American pol icy. This made Acheson so irate he flatly refused to issue the sub sequent statement on Palestine supporting Bevin. As a matter of fact, Acheson also considered protesting to Bevin about his Amer ican criticism, but finally decided to forget the whole thing. He de cided, however, that he would think twice before helping Bevin out of a jam again. Probe Dodgers’Airfield It isn’t often the government gets mixed up in big-league baseball, but for some time the civil aero nautics authority has been probing the Brooklyn Dodgers’ spring train ing camp at Vero Beach, Florida. Actually, the Dodgers are not in volved. It’s the city of Vero Beach, which the government is interested in, because of a compli cated transaction by which Vero Beach is suspected of leasing a gov ernment airfield to the Dodgers at a handsome profit. The airfield is being used by the Dodgers for their fair-weather training, for an of ficial charge of $5 per year plus the proceeds from an exhibition game. The airfield is owned by the government and leased to the city of Vero Beach for nothing, with the stipulation that any income is to be used for the airfield’s upkeep .and improvement. CAA officials now suspect that a lot more than $5 a year is being paid by the Dodgers for the airfield. What makes them suspicious is a statement by Mayor Merrill P. Barber that tbe city had “entered into a five-year renewable lease with the Brooklyn baseball club at an estimated income of $12,000 (annually).” Later, city officials began to search for extra pillows upon which the Dodgers’ heads were to rest at night. The government supposedly was turning over a certain number of pillows with the airfield. 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