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Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-16 | Page 6 | Old-Time Row Would Help, Pearson Says

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Date 1944-11-16
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City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Old-Time Row Would Help, Pearson Says
Type article
Date 1944-11-16
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 6
OCR Text W Washington M Mer Go rrY I Go Time Old-Time Row Would Help Pearson Says By Dy Drew Pearson WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-It If Vice Pres Thomas Marshall were alive to today today today to- to day he would reaffirm what ho he said in Woodrow Wilsons Wilson's day that that what this country needs Is a a 8 good cigar Looking over the tho aftermaths of at the late campaign its Us rancor and its political wounds this columnist suggests that what this country needs is a good Dolly Gann social war war some some something thing to take our minds off oft poll poli tics Now if Mrs Henry A. A Wallace Vallace could just be bo persuaded to get Into a row with Mrs Harry S Truman as liS to who should sit where at dinner we would all have something something- to talk about If It only Sen Truman could be persuaded to issue a statement that as vice president elect he considers It tho the prerogative of ot his wife wiCe to enter the dining room ahead of ot Mrs Wallace Vallace Then We could begin to forget our troubles Things weren't so tense in the Hoover Hoo administration and folks weren't thinking so hard about war and politics But even so 50 Vice Pres Charlie Curtis patriotically patriotically patriotically patri patri- came forward with an official announcement that his Dolly Gann was entitled entitled entitled en en- titled to sit ahead of the wife of ot the speaker of ot the house of representatives Mrs AlI Alice I c e Roosevelt Longworth And Mrs Longworth patriotically did her herbit herbit herbit bit by boiling over with resent resent- ment The countr country had a marvelous time and nobody worried about anything else for Cor weeks Pulling Hair-Pulling O 00 o n t o C s 5 t t Mrs Truman and Mrs Wallace also arc are patriotic people and they might give this idea serious consideration con con- They ought to consider ton eon sider seriously the fact tact that we have had too much rowing among quarrelsome old men Gov Dewey has emphasized it the columnists have written about it it Its It's an old old stor story So what we really need Is a 8 good pulling hair-pulling contest between two lovely ladies ladles It is true that Mrs Wallace and Mrs Truman arc are good friends But they can put friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship In the background for the good of the country It is true also that Vice Pres Wallace despite despite despite de de- de- de spite what must have been bitter disappointment for him at Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago swallowed his personal feelings and went down the line lino for Roosevelt and Truman like the good sport and real gentleman gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man that ho is But despite that we think tho the Truman and Wallace families might well put patriotism before personal affection and do something something something some some- thing for their country Some folks talks might argue that not many people are going to formal formal for tor- mal dinners during the war and I that Wallace Vallace was never a great I diner out anyway However this is different Even the 0 OP P A would probably waive Its rules and dispense a few Cew extra points to hostesses who would lay their tables for Cor a good hot social war Entertainment for lor Nation Nation- Furthermore it has never been decided yet nere a vice president president president dent and a vice president-elect president should sit at dinner in relation to each other Hitherto one of oC them was usually out In the sticks and didn't come to Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington until inauguration day They never came to grips at the dinner table But now we are faced with the fact that in the senate Henry Wallace Vallace will sit on the dais dals and preside while Sen Truman will be down on the sen senate te floor looking up at him That doesn't seem right Here is the vice ice president-elect president who has been chosen bY toy tho the people people- with the help of Hannegan Kelly and Flynn Flynn and and he should not have to sit on the senate floor looking up at the man he has edged out of the vice presidency Of course Wallace always gets tired presiding over the senate after the first hour and usually turns the gavel over to somebody somebody somebody some some- body else frequently to Truman But this isn't good showmanship It isn't right It doesn't help entertain the American people After all the American people have something coming to them They have really taken if It on the chin They have argued yelled listened to the radio read the columnists and finally voted inthe In Inthe Inthe the toughest election since Abraham Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham Lincoln This campaign actually was much harder on them than on the the candidates The candidates only had to make the speeches The American people people peo peo- plc had to listen So they deserve reward And we think it is up to the vice president and vice president elect to oblige It used to be said that the vice president was the out diner-out of ot every administration But in these war days when man power is short and everyone is doubling up on work the vice president should take on the extra job of oC being the chief diverter of the nation We hope the Truman and Vall Wallace ace families' families patriotism willbe will willbe willbe be equal to it t. t Copyright 1944 by United Feature Syndicate If we wait for the settlement to join a world se security organization organization well we'll never join If we insisted on a perfect set of oC laws before we established municipal or state government wed we'd never have had it it Sen Joseph H H. H Ball R of Minnesota I
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