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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. \Vashi1\9ton Di9est North, South Fought Hard Over President Buchanan I By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Democratic harmony, so far as the Dixie- •rat revolt is concerned, remains an uncertain quantity. Demo crats, basically, are still Democrats, but there will always be cer tain fundamental differences between North and South which existed even before slavery and secession became issues. Beyond that, however, recent clashes with the Dixiecrats are largely only a levelling off process and probably nothing a sensible compromise cannot cure. BAl’KHAttE People outside of Washington are often surprised that differences still arise between North and South over ancient mat ters . which most of the country has tforgotten. The country has also forgotten that it I was here that the 1 earliest outbreaks of sectional feel- I ing took place. As [early as 1848, there was a riot i following au “un derground” slave running incident in which 76 household servants were spirited off to freedom. The Abo litionist Weekly was stormed and the capital suffered the biggest at tack of jitters it had had since the British burned the White House 34 years before. Nine years later a band of armed ruffians from Baltimore entered the city bent on help ing the “Know Nothing” candi dates in the local election. (We had local elections then.) The marines had to be called out: six men were killed and twice as many wounded. The tide continued to rise and no President, from Tyler to Buchanan, could or would do anything about it It was an open secret that Bu chanan’s sympathies were largely south of the Mason-Dixon line. Historians agree that he learned in advance the decision in the famous Dred Scott slavery case which was me of the last of the explosions which started the Civil War. To day supreme court secrets are kept secret. But Buchanan knew the court had ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen under the meaning of the Consitution, and could not be made a citizen; further that the Constiution affirmed a property right in slaves, and such slave prop erty was protected by the “due process of law” clause. Buchanan realized what the effect of this decision would be, but in bis inauguration speech piously advised the country to accept the verdict, no matter what it was. Later when southern sentiment grew in the capital,' Buchanan did try to organize a militia, but con gress would have none of it. The regular army troops in the city were known to be of doubtful loyalty. The militia, much larger on paper, could muster only 150 men. Meanwhile the southern group, the Militant Jackson Demo cratic association, was drilling 800 men. Finally the militia managed to get a thousand men under arms. But feeling ran high, and on Washing ton’s birthday following the election of Abraham Lincoln by the elec toral college but before his inaug uration, the militia paraded. Ex- President Tyler, a Virginian, went to Buchanan and protested the fact that they had been allowed to dis play the Stars and Stripes, and Bu chanan is said to have apologized. Most people have forgotten the Borthern animosity toward Buchan an, but it was to crop up again in my time when it was the subject of one of those asidulous debates for which Sen. Cabot Lodge was notorious. Many Presidents are memorialized in stone in Washing ton, but not all, and in Lodge’s time, Buchanan was one who was not Buchanan had been a bachelor and had taken his niece with him to the White House as hostess to as- sist in the brilliant entertainments for which he was noted. She later became Mrs. Harriett Lane Johns ton, lived to an affluent old age and when she died, left the sum of $50,000 (which bought a lot more marble and bronze then than it would now) for the erection of a statue of her uncle. The donation of a site required the approval of congress. This donation was cheap, consider ing that, unlike similar tributes to the nation’s hero, all ex penses werp provided. Congress was willing enough, bnt not that stalwart yankee. Lodge, who lived perhaps nearer to the age of Buchanan to his own genera tion. He chose to dig up all the un savory memories his scholarly brain could muster to block the do nation of the site. Naturally hot southern blood grew hotter, and what some of Mr. Lodge’s opponents lacked in data, they more than made up in oratory. The motion was passed, but not until tempers had been thoroughly ruffled. The site chosen for the statue was not conspicuous. In fact, I had never seen it until it was brought to my attention by a gentleman fully con versant with the details of the dis pute and likewise familiar with every nook and cranny of the capi tal city. I asked him to show me the statue. He said he knew where it was. In Meridian Park. But just before we arrived at the scene, he paused and said: “It ought to be here.” It developed that he had never seen it either. It was there—in an inconspicuous spot, a huge bronze statue, of good workmanship, backed by a wide exedra which is defined as “a seat wKh a high back”—but this would seat several squads of infantry. It is a huge piece of stonework flanked by two symbolic figures in classic style,-one representing dip lomacy, in which Buchanan was skilled (he had served well as min ister to Great Britain) and one representing the law in which, if we may judge by his breach of ethics in connection with the su preme court decision, he was not of equal stature. Perhaps his niece was sensitive on this point for she specified the inscription—the only words on the statue beside the dates of his term and the single word “Buchanan"—It reads: — "The incomparable statesman whose walk was upon the moun tain ranges of the law.” (Al though it isn’t indicated, it was Buchanan’s own attorney-gen eral who said that. There is a certain ironic touch in the fact that Buchanan’s memory had to be perpetuated in stone by family subsidy, for from 1820 to 1830 he was one of the few members of congress who pursued the futile attempt to get congress to approve a suitable memorial in the capitol to George Washington. Efforts in this direction either were circumvented or ignored until 1831, the centenary of Washington’s birth. At that time, the public was so aroused over the indifference of congress that George WattersonI then librarian of congress, formed an association which raised the money for the Washington monu ment which was eventually com pleted on the spot originally chosen for a statue of Washington by Major L’Enfant who drew the plans for the city. • • • The President said recently he didn’t depend on opinion polls un der any circumstances. Well, if anybody has a reason for that at titude, it certainly would be Harry Truman. EJUJCATION BUSS . . . Earl J. BlcGratb (above) a University of Chicago professor bas been nominated by President Harry 8. Truman to take over the post of O. 8. commissioner of educa tion. McGrath was named to oncceed John W. Studebaker. m . ♦ if CASE! AS SWAM1 ... Mr. Casey Stengel, pilot of the New Fork Yankees baseball team, ceeo nothing bnt good in store for his boys in 1949. Brain Vs. Brawn Is it better to be bigger or be smarter? Is it better to have brawn or carry brains? Would yon rather be a wrest ler or be Einstein? (Who draws the bigger money for h^s pains?) Would yon rather be a Plato or a fighter? Which quality will help yon best to thrive? Would you rather be a muscle or a thinker? Well, I’m satisfied to be al most alive. Bikini Test Probe S ECRETARY of Defense Forres- tal and the navy are moving frantically to hush it up but a full-fledged congressional investiga tion’ of the effects of the Bikini bomb tests is in the offing. In fact. Sen. Brien McMahon, chairman of the atomic energy committee, may announce it any day. Senators say privately that they are fed up with the hush-hush pol icy of the brass hats. While the senate committee is 100 per eent in favor of keeping secret all atomic information of possible value to an CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOK., v SEWING MACHINE DEALER WANTED New Shelton and rebuilt Singers; exclusive'' territory; co-op adv. plan. 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Also, corn- while the race is to the swift, the mittee members feel the brars hats battle Is no longer to the strong? are deliberately suppressing con- In checking over siderable information about the ef- midwinter disburse- fectiveness of the bomb to cover |p/ ments of the laurel up mistakes they have made in IH and the olive, the failing to redesign or abolish war- awards of crowns ahips. and coronets by _ . , One Interesting fact now In the hands of the senate com mittee is part of the Inside story of Bikini. It shows that of the 73 ships involved In the Bikini tests, more than 61 were, sunk or destroyed. This is an enormous loss from only two bombs. Yet it was never released in understandable form to DRIVE-IN THEATER EQUIPMENT New. $3,174. Construction and operating In struction furnished. ACME AMUSEMENT CO.. DabHn, Gurgte. SALESMAN—AGENTS Terrific Profit—Ncn-Electric Neon Effect Plastic signs. New as tomorrow. United PUatie Signs, Ino., Starke, FI.ride. 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Walker, of 8.M.U., weighs 165 pounds. Jnstice of North Caro lina weighs the same. Albert of the San Francisco 49’ers Is around 160. TRAGEDY FORGOTTEN - NEW LIFE AHEAD . . . It’s hard to be lieve that this smiling, pretty five-year old Is the little girl who was | hurled, by her father, from the rail of 125-foot high Kosciusko bridge, in New York, on January 7. Her body was . crushed, she suffered a ractured skull, internal Injuries and loss of speech. Her father, Gab riel Nicoletti, also hnrled her brother off the bridge and then Jumped himself. Both were killed. Bnt here, little Gall la waving happily as she Is supported by her mother. FIRST NEW DRESS . . . Four- year old Renate Klock, Berlin, smiles shyly as she poses In the first new clothes she has had since the day she was born in the inferno of an allied air raid. The Los Angeles Red Cross chap ter was the donor. HELD AS SPY . . . Mrs. Anna Louise Strong, above, 64-year old American writer, has been ar rested by the Russians on charges of espionage and sub versive activities against the Soviet onion. It was reported that she would be deported to the United States. fully spread out over a period of time so that the man in the street never really knew what happened. What Bombs Did } The real fac*, however, is that two bombs at Bikini sank the Bat tleship Arkansas, the carrier Sara toga, the Japanese battleship Na- gato, two cruisers, 10 destroyers, three submarines. 12 transports and numerous other vessels. The , .. „ .. . aircraft carrier Independence, ™L S is ° n ^ slde oi f Same which was subjected t0 intense that has Deen taking on weight year blasts (rom both Bikini bombs. 8 „ e , r year ’ . . „ , now anchored off San Francis^-,, We read now about Unes that! anent , dest d _ usable onl average 225 pounds from tackle to tackle—or 223 pounds from end to 1 end. We read of backfields that average 187 or 191 pounds. But most of the post-season glory was awarded to athletes below 170. This meant they had to be intelligent and mentally alert. I’ve seen more than a few 220 or 230-pound guards and tackles who were fast, bnt not overburdened with any men tal weight. Some of them were swell linemen just the same. It was an amazing thing for as a testing ground to determine the possibility of removing radio activity. This is still dangerous two years after the ship was at tacked. Members of the senate atomic energy committee point out that the loss df so many ships from one bomb would be considered a major naval disaster at any time, yet, because the public is not aware of the potency of the bomb, our “bathtub” admirals are busily pouring another 14 million dollars down the drain on a 56,000-ton su- BUCHANAN’S ONLY MEMORIAL NU ELECT KIC BLANKET . . . And uoue Is needed here, as In obvious Hops long, in the pouch, the offspring of Winnie, the wan dering wallaroo from Australis, knows bow to solve the problem of getting sway from the cold. SHE’S “SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAS” . . . Mrs. Lonlse Fernandes Traube Is shown as she models for painter Paul Meltsner who is busy transferring her likeness to canvas. He is fnlfilling a request of the Mexican government for a painting of an outstanding American girl who typifies America, Meltsner searched for the proper model for three years before locating Mrs. Traobe, MANNERS NOT INDICATED HERE—JUST ACTION . . . These little girls are eating rice, and after their period of starvation, manners don’t L.ean very much. The idea is Just “get It down." They are Innocent victims of war between Indonesian republic and the Dutch government and are being fed in a Dutch refugee camp. The Dutch established snch camps as a part of a campaign to "restore order*' to the far eastern Island. Frankie Albert, a wolverine among percarrier which could be put out the mastodons and mammoths, to °* action permanently^if a bomb get so many votes. In addition to * ~ his smartness and his skill, Albert has always had, from his Stanford days, another qualification so often missing. This is stamina. You can also add ruggedness. • • • In Other Fields, Too Football isn’t the only game that enters this consideration of brawn versus brain. Baseball hands most of its laurels to Lou Boudreau, an other 165-pound entry. In the past we’ve had Cobb—185 pounds; Wagner—200 pounds; Babe Ruth—225 pounds; Lajoie — 200 pounds; Hornsby—190 pounds, and Joe DiMaggio—195 pounds. Stan Mu- sial, running close to Boudreau, is in at 170 pounds and Cat Brecheen won’t pass 155. Track follows the same Ideas. Two highly-crowned and laurel-embossed trackmen last year were Harrison Dillard and Mel Patton. Dillard is on the smaller side. Patton is slender. Neither goes in for surplus weight. Young Bob Mathias, a well-built kid, is one of the few brawny ones to make the grade. What hbout boxing. Last year not one heavyweight got within ten kilo meters of having a purple toga thrown across his shoulders. Louis? Walcott? Charles? Nothing doing. Most of the awards went to Ike Williams, a lightweight, Sandy Sad dler, a featherweight, and Marcel Cerdan, a middleweight. Cerdan, the Frenchman, led the pack and drew most of the decora tions for stopping Tony Zale, a tough guy to stop. Nothing above a middle weight was even mentioned—no light heavyweights—no heavy weights. And in the latter di vision, it may be several years before anyone comes along to act as a standont. What about golf? Prior to his automobile accident. 137-pound Ben Hogan was the acknowledged champ—one of the best that ever played. Mangrum, who has been close and still is, is another light weight in the 142-pound class. Hag en weighed 185 pounds. Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen were short, but powerfully built, in the 170-pound bracket. Nelson is a 180-pounder and Snead is close to this mark. Jimmy Dernaret is solidly built. But Hogan and Mangrum are two rare exceptions. They take you back to the days of Bill Johnson In tennis—a remarkable competitor at 118 pounds. were dropped within half. a mile of it. Problem “Insolvable” Information brought to the sen ate committee's attention by Dr. David Bradley, a scientist who was an official observer at Bikini, re veals that, after the tests, the navy tried frantically to remove radio activity from damaged ships but without success. Bradley reported that “salt water, lye. foamite, soap, all spread with liberal amounts of gob profanity, had no avail in re moving the radioactivity.” Sandblasting was partly ef fective, but yon can’t sandblast a whole ship under battle con ditions. Nor can yon sandblast Pearl Harbor or the Bremer ton shipyards or Chicago. Pos sibly, with great quantities of strong acid, you might be able to remove enough paint to clear the decks of fission products. Bnt short of that, the coat of radioactivity administered by the A-bomb is on to stay. Bradley concluded that, “Th problem of decontaminating the total service of a battle ship or the brick and cement of a future Hiro shima remains practically insolv able. Plutonium Is the most dangerous atomic element of all. It lodges in the bones, destroys the blood- producing marrow and may kill either by wrecking the red and white blood cells of the victim or it may kill the victim many years later through the formation of bone tumors. Plutonium cannot be re moved by any known process. None of this Information Is secret. AU of It Is known to many of the doctors of aU na tions. Yet Secretary Forrestal, who this year Is building more than 400 million dollars worth of new ships, hasn’t paid mnch attention to the problem. 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