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V THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS' New Roosevelt Political Dynasty Seen in FDR, Jr.’s Vote Triumph; Clay Urges Accord With Germany BARKLEY: No Guards ‘Tm a big boy now. And besides, who would want to harm a young man like me anyway.” Thus did Kentucky’s Alben W. Barkley, Vice-President of the United States, dismiss the idea of personal guards. BARKLEY, who will be 72 in November, goes where he wants, when he wants and flatly refuses protection of any sort. He told newsmen that President Truman had “tried to get me to accept a few secret service men,” but was turned down. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder and top G-man J. Edgar Hoover also offered to provide bodyguards. But Barkley wanted his freedom. “I like it better that way,” he •aid. Barkley claims he’s just a “com mon man, nothing fancy.” In fact, he gets a kick out of people trying to figure out how to address him. “I STILL call myself senator,” he says, “a habit after 22 years in congress, but the kids call me •veep.’ I like that.” He could also be called Mr. President, since that’s how he’s re ferred to in the senate over which he now presides. RADIO: Godfrey Tops Carrot-thatched, gravel-throated Arthur Godfrey, radio’s chief ex ponent of the “be yourself” type of entertainer-announcer, led the CBS network in earnings during 1948. He was paid $440,514.16 last year by the broadcasting system for which he labors. Newscaster-, didn’t fare so bad ly, however. Lowell Thomas was a close second with $420,300. Oddly enough, the network boss, Frank Stanton garnered only a measly $109,798.80. All these figures cov ered income before Uncle Sam took his cut, so there was some difficul ty in trying to ascertain just how much “ta v " home” pay these gen tlemen received. For the ABC network, Don Mc Neill, emcee of the Breakfast Club, was tops with earnings of $180,229.- 40. Paul Whiteman, ABC’s musical director and vice-president, re ceived $145,316.56. Again the net work president ranked lower. ABC’s president Mark Woods got only $75,000. TROOPERS CATCH TARTAR Last Man Over (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper./ ROOSEVELT: Did Tradition The old tradition was running true to form: you can’t beat a Roosevelt. Young Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., most like his father in looks, charm and smile, won the New York congressional seat left vacant by the death of Sol Bloom. And he won it with the national ad ministration and Tammany allied against him. FDR worshippers were jubilant. Those who had fought the “champ' throughout his years in the White House professed to sec in the elec tion result the creation of a new Rooseveltian political dynasty. Already the cry of the exultant victors was "on to Albany,” New York capital which Franklin D. Roosevelt, four-time President of the United States, used as a spring board to the White House. Denied the Democratic nomina tion, young Roosevelt ran on the Liberal and Four Freedoms par ties’ tickets in a contest which kept Manhattan’s west side in an uproar for months. A surprise to many Americans, who did not know such procedure was permissible, Roose velt does not reside in the district he will represent in congress. It seems that all the while there has been no bar in the law to prevent a candidate from living in one dis trict and representing another. DESPITE his victory as a stand ard bearer for two other parties Roosevelt declared he is still a 100 per cent Democrat. Campaigning, he visited thou sands of voters, turned on the old Roosevelt charm, mingled with the masses in their homes, attended house parties as honor guest, made street corner speeches. One defeated candidate sounded a familiar note heard so frequently during other Rooseveltian cam paigns: “The formula in this election was a glamorous name and a quarter of a million dollars, and neither of these did we have.” Lt. Joe Rosso, U.S. army air force, is shown holding a bou quet of flowers presented to him after he landed his air plane at Tcmplehof airdrome to complete the last airlift flight before the lifting of the Berlin blockade. GERMANY: Clay Speaks Up If Gen. Lucius D. Clay, retiring United States military governor in Germany, had his way, America’s ex-foes would be permitted back into the company of democratic nations as soon as possible. BACK in Washington where he was feted and decorated by Presi dent Truman, Clay warned that un less Germany is restored to the community of western nations, an alliance with Russia by our former enemies is inevitable. Speaking to the house of repre sentatives, the general declared that the German people, in spite of their recent history of aggressive war and “extreme cruelty,” now had shown their preference for a government standing for the “digni ty of man as an individual." In the spirit of the residents of Berlin who survived through the airlift. Clay declared, there is a spark for German freedom that “may grow with the years.” He told the senate how the people of western Germany had adopted through their parliamentary coun cil a constitution which guarantees free elections and is "devoted to reestablishing in Germany the dig nity of man.” WITHOUT referring to the Soviets by name, he charged, neverthe less, that the Russians have two objectives that were irreconcilable with the efforts made by the United States, England and France to create a four-power government in Germany based on international co operation. He defined these objectives of what he termed “the fourth power” as intent to exact the maximum in reparations from Germany and to set up a government that could be controlled or exploited by a police state. COMMUNISTS: Losing Ground Whatever was responsible—the American airlift, a conviction that American democracy had more to offer or a general revulsion to all police states — the Communists weren’t doin„' so well in the east ern Berlin elections. THIS was in contrast with the confident predictions of Commu nistic politicians in the Soviet zone of occupation of an overwhelming majority. The vote was being taken on a “people’s congress" of 2,000 mem bers, all hand-picked by Commu nist-controlled organizations and put on a single ticket. However, the Communists were picking up only about a third of the votes ex pected. Some voters wrote on their bal lots “wc- won’t vote for a police state and we reject Communism.” Early returns from Berlin showed a majority of “no” votes—the only way the congress could be re jected since only one list of candi dates was submitted. THE “PEOPLES’ congress,” if it were to be set up, would be the Soviet answer to the western state being set up in the western zone. Oojective observers couldn’t fail to see in the initial trend of the voting an indication that in any case where American system and idealogies may be contrasted with that of the Soviets, the latter can not command support. Wild West Showman Defies Georgia Law Many a man has had a hanker ing to do just what Col. Zach Mil ler did when he ran afoul of state police on a speeding and driving without a license charge. It hap pened in Georgia where the colonel and his c'river, James Colbert, were riding the range at 75 miles per hour. The limit is 55. Colbert, it seems had no license. Two troopers hauled in Colonel Miller, 71-year old Texan and boss of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show, for permitting use of his panel truck by an unlicensed operator. Colonel Miller refused to stand trial. In lurid language he declared he’d “rot in jail,” before he paid a dime. The sheriff explained further: “Miller refused to stand trial.” ACCIDENTS: Three Reasons Plain stupidity, bad manners, am. liquor are the top three causes of automobile accidents, accounting for three-fourths of all fatalities, or over 24,000 deaths per year, accord ing to a case analysis by North western National Life Insurance company. By far the top killers are the “stupid” group of driver offenses— excessive speed, ignoring traffic signs or traffic officers, passing on hills or curves, and other miscel laneous "dimwit” violations; the study finds that one or more of these offenses is involved in 40 per cent of all fatal accidents, and is the principal cause of 32 per cent. FOOLISH ACTIONS by adult pedestrians—crossing against traf fic signals, crossing intersections diagonally, crossing between inter sections, coming from behind parked cars, and walking in the roadway in the same direction as traffic cause another 12 per cent of fatalities, based on experience records of 1946, 1947 and 1948, the study finds. Thus 44 per cent of our annual traffic death toll results from failures by drivers or pedes trians to use common sense. Bad manners, such as road hog ging—driving over the center line or actually on the wrong side of the road, and “barging through” when the other fellow has the right-of- way cause another 15 per cent of traffic fatalities, the records reveal. TRAFFIC DEATHS due to alco hol are estimated by the insurance statisticians at a minimum of 15 per cent—12 per cent due to drink ing by drivers and 3 per cent due to drinking by pedestrians. This is the most difficult group of cases to measure accurately, the study points out, because: Many drinking drivers try to conceal such facts in case of an accident, and an un known number succeed; second, a considerable proportion of other violations such as reckless driving, which are directly blamed for cer tain accidents, would not be com mitted if the driver were fully sober and his judgement clear. Summary: Of our annual traffic toU of 32,000 to 33,000 deaths, 44 per cent result from acts of folly by motorists or pedestrians, 15 per cent result from bad driving man ners, and at least 15 per cent from liquor. Total: 74 per cent. SNEEZER: 150,000 Times Michael Hippisley had sneezed 150,000 times and was still sneezing. London doctors sought frantically to bring some relief to the 14-year old schoolboy who had sneezed once every three seconds for nine days. THE only time the boy hadn’t sneezed in the nine days was when he was knocked out by drugs or sleeping. “I’ve had kerosene up my nose, drops down my ears and hundreds of tablets,” Michael told reporters. “Then they cauterized me. 1 couldn’t feel anything more, but I kept on sneezing.” When news of Michael’s plight got about, some 50 callers offered sympathy and advice. One sug gested hypnotism. Another said sneeze in a paper sack. Unfortu nately, all remedies had been tried. SCIENCE, making great strides with allergy controls and remedies seemed stymied on this case. The Hippisley family doctor said that’s what he thought it was—the constant “aa-chooing” was due to Michael’s “abnormal sensitivity to pollen dust.” Cheats Death mm i Wmm / i § m MSS ■ wSf.* I I GARDENIA TIME . . . It’s “gar denia time” in Dixie and Helen Hatfield poses with and amidst some of the flowers at Cypress Gardens, Fla. As a gaidenia girl, this Hatfield is the real “McCoy” as she seems to urgt that you “wear a little white gardenia.” '< BRONX CHEER (BOTTLED) FOR QUADS . . . Bottle time at Lebanon hospital in the Bronx is an event these days since the arrival of the Collins quadruplets, each of which is a “heavy drinker” requiring an individual “waitress.” The nurses here supplying the nourishment are, left to right, Lucille L. Wilers, Florence Dressman, Fledira Ortiz ' and Edith Di Tomassi. I , . ! BARES SPY RING . . . General Izydor Modelski, former Polish military attache who resigned his post and lefused to return home, declared Communist agents are trying to foment revolution and disorder in the United States in preparation for war. ROUGH GOING FOR JOCKEY . . . This is the end of the line for jockey J. Murphy and his mount. Pilgrim’s Way. After taking the final jump in a steeplechase event at Pimlico, Murphy was tossed from the hurdler — and just in the right spot for newsphotographer Jimmy Klemartin to record the jockey’s distress. p - -v- ; ■ - v 'ii v". . ' . T > 21 ■ • ij tv. V Itv ' v r . , - LADY BULLFIGHTER . . . Con- chi ta Cintron, celebrated woman bullfighter from Peru, is shown as she prepared to enter the arena in Paris in a bloodless exhibition of her art. Parisians enjoyed the show, which ended with the bull alive and kicking. SMOKE SIGNALS SIGNIFY BLOCKADE LIFTING ... For the first time in 10 months the chimney stacks of a great electric power house ' belch smoke into the sky over Berlin at midday — an indication that the plant no longer has to be miserly about its coal. This plant is in the American sector. It had begun to dip into its reserve coal supply when the agreement to lift the blockade was announced. High above the stack an airlift plane is shown on the return trip to an allied zone from Berlin. P Flashing a smile of victory over death, Reid C. Lewis, is shown in hospital at Santa Mon ica, Calif. His heart stopped after a minor operation and re mained stopped, as did breath ing and pulsebeat, for 12 minutes. His doctor, remember ing an old Boy Scout trick which sometimes revives drowned persons by breaking a bone, snapped one of Lewis' ribs and the shock restored him to life. PARKING: Mo, Thanks In a nation where parking space is at a premium, parkers were shunning a Great Bend, Kas., park ing lot in great numbers. Joseph Nolan, a short-time park ing lot operator is authority for the reaction. Nolan opened his lot in the heart of the downtown district. In eight days his gross income was only and exactly $1.20. He tried every device he knew, even "free parking.” Still they stayed away. MAHATMA’S SON . . . Manilal Gandhi, son of the late Mahatma Gandhi, who is a South African newspaper editor, is visiting the United States to see the country and to observe sessions at the United Nations in his capacity as a journalist. -Gl DREW SON m FOUR ARMS is on the face piness. He is many years, paper asking parents when the story and FULL OF HAPPINESS . . . One never could mistake what of 10-year old Andy Tompos for anything but sublime hap- shown swapping hugs with the mother he had not seen In Last Easter Andy wrote to the editor of a Pittsburgh help in finding the mother who left him with his grand- he was a baby. The mother, living in a distant city, read flew to Pittsburg. Andy will live with her. NAVY BOSS . . . Francis Pat rick Matthews has been appointed by President Truman as secretary of the navy. Matthews, 62, is a lawyer and banker in Omaha and has been active in civic life there. Reds Get Advice B IGGEST QUESTION MARK in the minds of every diplomat is whether the Russians have merely got soft temporarily or have made a major policy shift toward long term cooperation with the rest of the world. No diplomat, to date, dares ven ture a definite answer. However, uncensored reports from Germany give one significant clue which may reveal part of the answer. Recently the Russians have been getting advice from Rudolf Nadol- ny, former German ambassador to Russia. Nadolny is not a Com munist, is a German of Hungarian extraction, and a disciple of Bis marck, who always favored close cooperation between Germany and Russia. Nadolny’s advice to Moscow has been to cut out the diplo matic bluster, and talk softly to the west, while simultaneous ly strengthening Russian-Ger man ties. If Moscow extends the olive branch to western Europe and the United States, Nadolny is reported to have advised, western opinion will be lulled and congress will not appropriate full funds for the north Atlantic pact. German-Russian Pact? In addition, Nadolny also met with German leaders last month and gave them significant advice ’ that Germany’s future lay with Russia. The way Nadolny sized it up was reported to be about as follows: If there is peace, Russia can give far more to Germany than the al lies for two reasons: 1. She controls Silesia and can return it. 2. Britain and the U. S. A. are hungry for markets. If there is no war this competition for markets will become keener, and Britain and the U. S. A. will keep Germany [ an agrarian state. Meanwhile Rus- 1 sia has ample markets in China and offers no competition to Ger many. If, on the other hand, there is ' war, Nadolny said he had positive assurances that Germany would be spared. The Red army, he prom ised, would advance either through Norway or Italy. Therefore closel German-Russian cooperation was essential. Result was the stiff position taken by the western German leaders at Bonn, when they first turned down Gen. Lucius Clay’s proposals for a western German state. It was only after the Big Three foreign minis ters granted concessions that the German charter of government finally was accepted. Phony Telegram Lobby Not since the holding-company fight of 1935, when the private util ity lobby bombarded congress with telegrams signed with names taken from a telephone directory, has Capitol Hill been deluged with so many phony telegrams and letters as in the current drive against pub lic housing. One of the lobby’s most in- genious schemes is being worked on California congress men by an organization with the high-sounding name, “Com mittee for home protection.” Congressmen may not realize it, but this is merely a front for the powerful national as sociation of home builders. Its general chairman, Freder ick C. Dockweiler, also happens to be general counsel of the Los An geles home builders institute, while in the background is multimillion aire Fritz B. Bums, biggest west coast builder and former presi dent of National Home Builders. However, California congressmen would be even more amazed if they knew how the folks are being used by the “committee for home protection. Here is how the lobby operates: Committee agents approach citi zens on the street, give them a “facts sheet,” containing 10 sample telegrams denouncing public-hous ing legislation, and ask them to se lect one, copy it on a telegram blank provided by the lobby’s a^ent, and sign it. when 20 such “canned” tele grams have been collected, they are sent to a member of congress. The latter assumes the telegrams are legitimate messages from the voters back home. In addition to the “facts sheet,” which lobby agents hand to the public, they also have an “instruc tion sheet,” which they are very careful not to hand out. These con fidential instructions are a dead giveaway. “1. Select your prospect. Get a man who has absolutely no con nection with the building or real- estate business. This is a ‘grass roots campaign; so look for labor ers, white-collar workers, veter ans, housewives, small-shop keep ers—people in the middle—and lower-income brackets. “2. Show your prospect your facts sheet. “3. Ask him to write his mes sage on a telegraph blank. Get him to select his favorite argia ment and state that in a maxi mum of 25 words.” Socialistic Medicine J OE DOAK is a typical American workman; industrious, capable, thrifty, a good citizen. His wage is $50 a week for 40 hours. Out of that $50 there is taken deductions for income tax, social security and unemployment insurance. Joe real izes that he not only pays directly for social security and unemploy ment insurance, but, as a consumer, he pays a portion of the tax levied against the boss. If that were not true, if the boss did not charge that tax to his expense of operation, and add it to the price of his prod uct, he would soon go broke. Twelve years ago Joe Doak mar ried. He and his wife, Mary, have two children; June is 10 years of age, and Joe Jr., eight. Joe and Mary are faced with the possible coming of socialized medicine. They want to know what it would mean to them, and they attempted to analyze it for themselves to de termine what it would do for them. First, there would be the addi tional deductions from Joe’s pay envelope, plus the added cost for what they bought, the indirect pay ment of the tax on the boss. The direct and the indirect would mean] a cost of $4 a week; $100 and more each year. Had they paid such a sum during the 12 years of their married life, it would have amounted to more than $1,200. Their total doctor and hospital bills for that period had not been more than one-third of such an amount, in cluding the expense attending the birth of the two children. As they figure it, the other two-thirds of what they would pay, the $800, would be.needed to pay the army of bureaucrats who would operate the scheme, and to pay for those who did not work, so would not pay, but would be heavy on what ever receiving end there might be. Mary has had experience with rationing boards. She knows the red tape, the delays, the numerous trips and the difficulties of getting food for her family. She wants no more experience with government bureaucrats of whom there would be many thousands. Should they need a doctor, she knows that be fore they could get one, whichever one of the family was ill would be either well again, or be dead. Then, should anything happen to Joe at the plant, the company would have casualty insurance, and his pay would go on while he was off the job, and his hospital and medical bills would be paid. So far as they can see, this social ized medicine idea would be just a scheme to do “to them”.rather than "for them.” It would provide jobs for a whole army of bureau crats; it might do “for” those who did not work, and so pay nothing in, those who were on the receiving end of “something for nothing.” But the Doak family would stick by Dr. Jones, whom they could reach by phone call, and who, when needed, would be there, but quick. Dr. Jones had given fair warning that he would have no part or place in any socialistic medical scheme, and they would stick with him rather than have some doctor they had never heard of, and whose name a bureaucrat pulled out of a hat. x Should congress pass such a law as is now before the sen ate, it would mean they would have to pay twice for such med ical service as they might need so long as they were determined to stick with Dr. Jones. In fact, they would pay about three times, because the govern ment’s socialized medicine scheme would cost them at least twice as much as would their own doctor, and they would pay their own doctor besides being forced to pay the socialistic medical charge. The Joe Doaks represent about the average family in America. They make their own way. They do not ask for, or want, “something for nothing.” They are not on re lief, and never have been. They are good Americans who have never subscribed to any of the socialistic schemes that are so glowingly proposed, but will not bare a careful analysis. To prevent the would-be “do gooders" at Washington from put ting over such a scheme, they must be told emphatically by many, many people who vote that they do not want such socialistic ideas forced upon them, and will not support any one in public life who attempts to do so. When the nation went off the gold standard, some 16 years ago, congress placed in the hands of President Roosevelt and the then secretary of the treasury, Henry W. Morgentheau, a sum of better than two billion dollars which they could use to rig the market and keep the American dollar on an even keel. No accounting was asked for, and, so far as I know, none has ever been made. I frequently won der what really happened to that two billion doUars, but the prob abilities are that my curiosity will never be satisfied. i /