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Show o o Constructive GOP Congress Depends on Party Harmony News Behind By BAUKHAGE IV'miw Analyst and Commenlutor. ; a -4AI ? if Ji 5PA ',. - . la j Baukhage WMI Service, 1616 Eye Btreet.N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. - Now that the senate has settled Its first problem naming of the committee chairmen chair-men the next big question Is whether the Re- rv"'im!""l Dublicans are go ing to be able to develop a leadership leader-ship able to ride herd and establish estab-lish the party discipline dis-cipline necessary for iron-handed control. The Republican Re-publican majority major-ity is very slim and there are a number of restive rest-ive members who will be as hard to get into the corral, come roll-call time, as the "sons of the wild jackasses" used to be. It Isn't the lack of a leader to much as a surplus of them that worries Republican politico politi-co that and the danger that the lradera may start leading in different directions. Another factor not calculated to further unity Is the flock of presidential presi-dential bees crawling all over the Inside of the capitol dome. In his December poll, Gallup listed four senators as possibilities In the following fol-lowing order: Vandenberg, 9 per cent; Bricker 8 per cent; Taft, 2 per cent, and Saltonstall, 1 per cent. These are small figures compared to the poll's 52 per cent granted Governor Dewey of New York, or Minnesota's ex-Governor Stassen's 17 per cent, the two leading Gal-lup's Gal-lup's list But that doesn't mean the candidates think that way about It Nobody Is placing bets yet. As the veteran Republican National Committeeman Clarence Budding-ton Budding-ton Kelland said: "I don't think yon are going t see the matter Jell at all until Ohio decides whether It la backing Tart or Bricker. When that decision la made, the lineup line-up will come fast." Gallup predicted that, Elsenhower'! Elsenhow-er'! star would rise higher and thus whip the hopeful senators to added real. Lapel buttons labeled "Draft Ike" are already out Under whose banner Eisenhower would be drafted draft-ed it Is not stated, but it is generally gen-erally conceded his personal leanings lean-ings would be more Republican than Democratic. Neither Vandenberg nor Saltonstall' Salton-stall' s friends have begun to fight, and at this writing neither one has even indicated publicly he Is In the running. More distressing to the men who have to make the upper house members mem-bers hew to the Republican line is the old problem of the so-called progressive element. Some people ' are predicting that there may be more harmony in the next session I among the minority, so widely split laat time, than among the majority ma-jority with its swollen ranks. Some Republicans are worrying lest they , be divided to the extent that their power will be considerably reduced. Senator Works For Hit Stat Many people fail to realize the many factors which contribute to Individualism In the senate. In the first place, each senator Is, and so considers himself, an ambassador from a state., it is his business to serve that state to the best of his ability and his ability can be greatly great-ly supplemented by the prestige he acquires. Indeed, prestige, if acquired ac-quired by nothing but seniority can go long way toward making up for lack of ability. But It Is not mere personal ambition which drives a senator to work for Individual prominence promi-nence it Is a part of his Job to strengthen the sovereignty of the sovereign state he represents. . Another thing which often forces senator to walk alone or as part of a small group is sectionalism' not a hidebound attitude either, but the demand that he truly represent the interests of his community, even If those interests conflict with those of other parts of the country. The ancient antagonism of West-versus-East has never quite died. It was only a little over three decades ago that the 17th amendment was passed which authorized the popu lar election of senators. This was accomplished largely through the influence of western and southern states which had already, by means of state primaries or other subterfuge, subter-fuge, managed to take the choice of senators out of the hands 'if the state legislatures, The Republicans 'benefited by the failure of the Democrats to maintain main-tain a West-South alliance, but they now suiter in turn from other sectional sec-tional and ideological cleavages, I heard one man remark the other ,day that two recent speeches,, otie by Senator Morse. Republican of Oregon, and the other by Senator Byrd, Democrat of Virginia, each expressed views much more in line with the opposite party's than "with their own organizations. There are many other similar anomalies in the 80th congress, as there were in the last session. The belief that the extreme conservatives con-servatives will be in the saddle ready to ride rough-shod over any liberal move is not generally supported. sup-ported. True history has shown that the American people can stand Just so much reform at a time. But on the other hand they have seldom been willing to sacrifice past social gains. Consequently, when the Re publicans have been swept into of- I flee after periods like the Wilson ; "New Freedom," they have been i very chary of repealing laws which ; were passed, in answer to a de- mand tor new privileges for the : many. Nation Clingt To Old Reforms Harold Laskl, the British left-wing labor leader, would have us believe that there is a "return to reaction" in America. He says in a recent article under that title that "in abandoning aban-doning the Roosevelt heritage Mr. Truman made the shaping of the postwar economic policy of America Amer-ica the concern of business and not of congress." Mr. Truman would be the first to deny that he deserted the New Deal heritage whether he was personally inclined v a .-r ' ' t . . ' . -A . I ly?. i....... Senators Bricker (left), Taft: Hold Presidential Key to support all of its tenets or not And I can see the hackles of con gress rise, even on the leftish side, at the suggestion that "the initiative initia-tive was returning to the hands" of National Manufacturers' associ ation. Mr. Truman was removed by the election from number of restraints and pressures from groups which favored courses he personally disliked but he haa not been party to any move to sacrifice past "social gains," and I cannot see congress allowing al-lowing the few reactionaries In either party er in the house or senate to set back the clock. As the Beards point out in their "Basic History of the United States," the Republicans despite their landslide victory over Wilson In 1920 did not or could not "stamp out the spirit of progressive or radical radi-cal insurgency, old in American tradition and yet ever new In its application to changing conditions." condi-tions." Harding's "normalcy" and Cool- idge's conservatism temporarily did end our Internationalism. But their next choice was Herbert Hoover, who had been speaking with continual contin-ual concern over conditions affect-ing affect-ing the less privileged. In 1923, for example, he had called on the insurance in-surance companies to study unemployment unem-ployment insurance; be had endorsed en-dorsed an amendment abolishing child labor; he had frightened the reactionaries to death when he proposed pro-posed the inheritance tax to "redistribute "redis-tribute overswollen fortunes." Going further back into history, we note that after three successive victories, the Republicans, even when they had majorities in both houses, did not repeal so-called "reform" measures passed up to 1900. When they returned to power in 1921, although attempts were made to do so, such measures meas-ures as the income and tnher'tance taxes were not abolished, or reduced to an empty gesture. Yesterday"! radical is tomorrow's conservative. (Editor's Note: This is another anoth-er in the "Stories of the States" series.) By EDWARD EMERINE KM Features "Chust look at dis! It's coal!" John Peter Salley, one of an exploring party, had picked up what seemed to be another rock, and found it to be bituminous bitu-minous coal. Today West Virginia, Vir-ginia, with its 585 mines, often Is referred to as the "coal bin of America." When William Tompkins used natural nat-ural gas as fuel to evaporate water from brme in 1841, he became one of the first men in the United States to use gas for industrial uses. West Virginia's natural gas production produc-tion in 1944 was 213 billion cubic feet. In 1797 Elisha Brooks began extracting ex-tracting salt for commercial purposes pur-poses from a brine spring in Kanawha Kana-wha valley near the present site of Charleston. Other West Virginia salt works have been operating for more than 100 years. Develop New Industries. As early as 1790 a furnace was built by Peter Tarr of Kings Creek, near the present site of Weirton, now one of the biggest steel producing cities In America. Cannon balls made here were used by Commodore Commo-dore Percy's fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813. Michael J. Owens, son of a coal miner, invented a bottle-making machine in 1903 and started a new epoch in that industry. West Virginia Vir-ginia produced, in prewar years, glass, china and pottery valued at 60 million dollars annually. Miflln Marsh made stogies and sold them to passengers on Ohio river boats in 1840. M. Marsh & Son, Wheeling, is reputed to be the largest stogie manufacturer in the United States' And back in 1915, when World War I cut off the German supply of playing marbles, Akro Agate was founded at Clarksburg, and today the concern makes over half of the world's glass marbles. But lest West Virginia's Industrial In-dustrial achievements blind us to her other claims to fame and distinction, let us look farther than bituminous coal production, produc-tion, natural gas, petroleum, chemicals, salt, atone, hardwood limber, steel and Iron manufacture, manu-facture, textiles, glass, pottery, ceramics and others. There Is also the romantic and historic West Virginia. Asd -there Is the mountainous and scenic West Virginia which has become one f the nation's greatest recreational recre-ational areas. '.': : "V':-''': .'' -'-''J ( ' J " " '( ' '' '(' : f.: ; 1 Vi p . V ' IS: :i 'J. "''-f : I :f'"''V.v''l:Jy f I :;;?::v'.o ''$r:.v . : . 3 1 CMlEF EXECUTIVE . . . Clarence Clar-ence Watson Meadows was elected elect-ed the 22nd governor of West Virginia Vir-ginia in 1944. A former lawyer, he had served as state attorney general and judge of the 10th Judicial circuit court before his election. He is a native of Beck-ley, Beck-ley, W. Vs., where he was born February 11, 1904. The first white men went into what is now West Virginia as early as 1719, and a few years later cabins were being built. After 1735, South Branch valley began to fill up with the overflow from Shenandoah valley val-ley and from Pennsylvania and Maryland. Settlers were of several nationalities and the composition of the people of West Virginia always al-ways has been different from that of the country east of the mountains. Story of Controversy. West Virginians heartily supported support-ed the Revolution and sent troops to help New England and the Middle Mid-dle Colonies, but the history of western west-ern Virginia before 1801 is a story of controversy with eastern Virginia. Vir-ginia. Socially, politically and economically, eco-nomically, the two sections were unlike un-like from the very beginning. Western West-ern Virginia was democratic while eastern Virginia was aristocratic. The idea of separation was foremost fore-most long before the Civil war. When war broke out between the states in 1861, there were bound to be repercussions through the entire en-tire state. Eastern Virginia was the heart of the Confederacy. Western Virginia was opposed to secession. The long desired separation was ef- ! fected, not with the Civil war as a I cause, but rather as an opportunity. I On December 31, 1862, the congress i of the United States gave its con- j I sent to admit West Virginia as a I state, and the next spring, on April i j 20, 1863. President Lincoln issued ! his proclamation. West Virginia be- ! came the 35th state of the union two ' months later. Many Historic Shrines. Three states and two rivers meet ' at historic Harpers Ferry where I John Brown's anti-slavery raid was : staged. Blackwater falls, Seneca l rocks, Pinnacle rock, the burial mounds at Moundsville, the state i capitol building, the historic! shrines all are interesting and worthwhile.: i From mountain tops to blue grass farms, the agricultural i side of West Virginia is a revelation. Anyone must marvel mar-vel at the agriculture and fruit that are produced in a state i that ranks among the first In industry. Prize beef and bituminous bitu-minous coal? Yes, anything is possible in West Virginia. Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson was born at Clarksburg, and We . Virginia Vir-ginia also gave the nation John W. Davis, Pearl S. Buck and Ann Jar-vis. Jar-vis. In case you've forgotten, it was Ann Jarvis who in 1907 asked a group of Philadelphia friends to i wear white carnations on the first anniversary of her mother's death and thereby founded Mother's Day. State of Contrasts. The state's northwestern border is the Ohio river, the aquatic highway that opened the West. But the Mo-nongahela Mo-nongahela and the Kanawha rivers are important too. West Virginia's elevations range from 240 to 4,860 feet above sea level, with the highest high-est average elevation of any state east of the Rockies. Yes, it's a mountainous state, but every wooded wood-ed hill, every shady nook and every sparkling stream belongs to just such a state. About 60 per cent of the state's area is covered by forest, for-est, with trees ranging from spruce in the highlands to prickly pear cactus and other semi-desert plants in the lowlands. Scenery, wildlife and extensive, semi-primitive areas combine to lure vacationists to West Virginia's two vast national forests, the Mononga hela and the George Washington. The state also has 15 state parks and seven state forests. Fishing, hunting, hiking, riding, swimming, golf, tennis, boating well, what do you want for recreation? recre-ation? And what is your trade, what are your business ambitions, your specifications for success? And what of your "dream" home where nature is loveliest? Perhaps the answers are in West Virginia! 1 1 ILA iYliWli.;3 CMV7ZAA'Dy hz B A R B S . . . by Baukhage It is said 30 per cent of the people peo-ple have had mumps without knowing. What a shame that their best friends didn't tell them! A prize heifer being auctioned ff In the ballroom of the Congress hotel in Chicago for $1,300 tell down and had to be slid back to her pen. Many a lady might have fallen for that The nation spent over a half billion bil-lion dollars on candy during th first 10 months of this year Now tin reducing will begin again. How are our children going to get the laugh from our modern bathinj girls that we do from the gay nine ty bathers? Let's hope we leavi more to their sense of humor that we have to their imagination. ! .....j.s-ssi 11 ., "ws!:'.;:.i:, '-ytJMs? s '---TvV' " ' V,' ' MonUni Smpr.') I ;n inir ' i llftn i in ' ii - : : - ; Lrtsri Iff ! U ti'f: y q J jPENMSY LVA N I A cim wtr iiiPi c &V.'fv.f-y' A Tl -"'''--' -ill-inn- - -' r-r r-T J---a NiSSS' O miimm&tmlbmtlktimm mum nil THE PANHANDLE STATE . . . Surrounding the map of West Virginia are typical scenes of the state: (1) Blackwater falls; (!) the administration building at Babcock state park; (3) a modern coal tipple; (4) New River canyon, and (5) apple growing. Eastern Panhandle Is Favorite Spot for Vacationers Old-timers used to talk about "this neck of the woods," and West Virginia's Vir-ginia's Eastern Panhandle may have the answer to how the expression expres-sion started. Back in the wilderness wilder-ness days, the area was called "The Northern Neck of Virginia." Eastern Panhandle retains a flavor fla-vor all its own. Gouging into Maryland Mary-land and Virginia as it does, it partakes par-takes of the traditions of both those itates and remains somewhat dif ferent, if not apart, from the main area of West Virginia. In 1776, the village of Martins-burg Martins-burg had "30 houses" and the community com-munity was building "a courthouse of no inconsiderable size and elegance." ele-gance." Today Martinsburg is the industrial center of the Eastern Panhandle. West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle Pan-handle has as its main attractions Cacapon state park, old homes of the Washington family in Colonial days, Berkeley springs, and large apple and peach orchards. Harper's Ferry, historic center at junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah, Shen-andoah, is the state's oldest town. The Eastern Panhandle is only 52 miles from Washington, 73 miles from Baltimore, and 261 miles from New York. It is one of the favorite spots for week-end and vacation trips from metropolitan areas. BvPaulMallon y?' Released by Western Newspaper Union. CHANGE' IN RUSSIAN POLICY MEANT TO DECEIVE WORLD WASHINGTON. It is strange and unpleasant to be required by the facts to report that the relatively rela-tively congenial international con ferences in New York did not bring victory for the foreign policy of .the i United State's or even progress or advancement toward it. This country, coun-try, frankly, lost ground, particularly particular-ly in Latin America, which we must hold to sustain our doctrine, and in France, Italy, the Balkans, even Britain. Everywhere, except in Japan, China and this country, we gave political footage to one single political opposition force Com munism. Elsewhere around the periphery of this world, Communism is today much stronger than when the New York international meetings meet-ings convened. The American public may not fully understand this yet because be-cause the progress made at tin conference was in superficial!- i ties, while the advances made by Communism are basic. But the delegates appear to understand under-stand it. Some authorities who have heard the debates firs' hand have been dismayed at the plane upon which they are conducted con-ducted a wandering plane of Ideals wholly torn loose from bedrock. WANTS HER OWN WAY ALWAYS On disarmament, for Instance, Russia has changed position repeatedly, repeat-edly, finally embracing ideal disarmament, dis-armament, but refused to let anyone any-one know the size of the Russian Rus-sian army. On picking a site. Russia switched from New York to Geneva and back to New York. She would not go to San Francisco Fran-cisco because it was too far to go for peace, although actually it is closer to Russia than New York. On paying the cost of this peace organization, or-ganization, Russia got a committee to favor her paying only six per cent while we pay half the whole peace bill. While saying she would not use a veto on disarmament, in effect she used it immediately in reference to the Russian army and to the choice of a site. In the site case she said if her wishes were not followed she would withdraw and not attend U. N. The meetings were all like that, as if sincerity were wholly lacking, as if her politicians were playing in shallow tactics which were not real. Look around the world for the real answers. Russia has asked us for a loan of a billion dollars directly direct-ly or indirectly, but it is the only nation in the world which has not said anything about settlement on the 10 billion dollars cf lend-lease material already given her. We cannot can-not find out even what she used, or what she has which could be returned, re-turned, or what repayment she could make in kind as the agreement agree-ment provided. About those things she says nothing at all but she wants a billion dollars more. It does not make sense, unless Stalin is simply taking us for a fool, and acting act-ing as a man does with a genial fool. ILLUSORY ACCOMPLISHMENTS On the surface we have gained five peace treaties with five little countries in Europe, but not yet with Germany, Austria or Japan; a disarmament agreement "in principle" prin-ciple" which seems to be only a delusive Russian game in diplo-natic diplo-natic tactics; a ludicrous budget proposal, an attempt by Russia to force the United States to place the permanent conference site where Russian pipelines are deepest and largest. Measured agalnt these accomplishments accom-plishments are the advances of Communism around the world while this congenial nullity was being effected. An underground Communist campaign has swept Latin America, noticeably heading head-ing its advancements in the Chilean labor unions. In Europe CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. GrantlandRice cialist opposition to bits, strengthening Itself by elections in the Balkans and by closer delusive management of Tito and its satellites. In France it won plurality representation in the assembly with the parties of liberty. In Italy it Is winning city elections and has broken the Socialist stand against It, gaining Socialist cooperation. In Britain it has driven a deep wedge. A Communist move to get at Spain through its colonies has been detected as being well financed. All these things and more have been accomplished by Communism against the spirit of freedom and democracy in the world while the superficial congenial era was being raised in New York. It is almost as if we had forgotten Communism is a movement for world revolution and had decided to give in to it. But the fact that it is making great strides in its world revolution is obvious and available for all to see even in official quarters while we are not. They are not mine but the plain facts of the world, observable checkable, true. The college football season is over on football fields. But it really should be only beginning on the part of those who believe that true col-leee col-leee football is a great game and should be saved. We mean saved from too much outright out-right professionalism professional-ism and a degree of semi - professional- $ ism that is just as bad. It may be that we have harped on this subject too often. But it is still a vital matter to those who love col lege football as It should be run and played. There are four leading organizations organiza-tions who should have a hand in this checking up. 1. The college presidents who are supposed to be the heads of their institutions. These men control con-trol student obligations, classroom ability. 2. The graduate managers. 3. The football coaches, who have much at stake and who have taken a big part of the beating. 4. The alumni who are interested In something more than winning teams at any cost. Those could be major factors. Southern Situation Here is a letter that might interest inter-est you: "Dear Sir: "I happen to be from the South where I know that the football situation, situ-ation, from a student or an amateur angle, is pretty bad. But it is just about as bad, although better covered cov-ered up, in many other sections. Down here we pay and take care of a lot of football players who in too many cases are poor students, But I have found the same thing is true pretty well around the map. I don't believe any reformers are going to stop this. I believe it will fall of its own weight, from the feeling I have found developing among the students themselves and the alumni. They are getting sick of seeing theif colleges represented too often by physical education and other soft-course soft-course players who are interested in football only for pay, and a professional pro-fessional job later on. "Many of these students can just about read and write, and they improve im-prove little even in this respect. Don't think the real students don't know this. Most of them know the ones that have been brought in, nre being paid and what soft courses they are taking. They know how professional the game has grown in many places. And I've also run across a number of coaches who are getting fed up with their jobs of recruiting or taking care of the paid men brought in. Southerner." Wo put this problem up to a veteran veter-an football coach in the East who knows most of the inside answers. "I doubt," he told me, "that I you can prevent certain forms of payment that can be so easily cov ered up. There will be no real improvement im-provement until entrance tests are made much stiff er, until college classroom requirements are lifted many degrees. I am referring to physical education players, for whom football Is a good part of their college work. There are several sev-eral other soft courses I might mention men-tion where big, fast and valuable football players are taken care of. These boys are getting nothing out of college except football. After all, yon are supposed to go to college largely for an education. Why not have each college print on Its football programs the courses its football players are taking? Warm to Character "Of course poor boys deserve their chance for an education. Thousands, Thou-sands, possibly hundreds of thousands, thou-sands, who never kicked or threw a football do get that chance. Foot- I ball is too great a game tc be wrecked by the modern desire to win, no matter what the ethics, no matter what the cost. These forget 1 the great harm they also are doing to young players from the side of building character. Thev know wno l is cheatine." 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