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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.-
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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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