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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. And
airport manager Bud Holman, ap
pealing for more pillows, com
plained: “This is really putting us
in a bad position, as we have a 10-
year contract with the Brooklyn
ball club which should bring us in
from $20,000 a year upward.”
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