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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
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WATCH IT, MB. PRESIDENT! . . , President Barry S. Truman appar
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of a Northrop YB-49 after Inspecting the giant “flying wing” at a
ground display ef the latest air force fighters and lumbers at Andrews
base, Maryland. At left is Brig. Gen. Robert B. Landry.
• 1 •' —v • »
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• enemy, they do not believe either
Can it be that brain at last has the U. S. congress or the American
supplanted brawn in sport? That people are an enemy. 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
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various clubs,
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we discovered the
startling fact that
weight, power,
strength, and dis
placement had been
rather rudely shoved aside.
Grsntland Rice
Brain at last returned to its ruling the American public. On the con-
place in the eyrie and the big hulk trary, news releases were care
ts stranded on the beach.
For example, we might as
well start with football. Who
drew the big balk of the
awards? The answer Is qnlte
simple—Doak Walker, Charley
Justice and Frankie Albert.
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-
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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. This
Is the Inside reason why the
atomic energy committee is
now serionsly planning i> full-
dress investigation of Bikini
and Its resalts.
Most important document the
scientists are urging the atomic
energy committee to break loose
is the nonsecret sections of the re
port of the evaluation board of the
joint chiefs of staff on the Bikini
tests which defense secretary For
restal has bottled up. The report
concludes with the significant state
ment that “Future wars employing
atomic bombs may well destroy
nations and change present stand
ards of civilization.’’
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