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Show J. w I fighting WdtWeMPm ' ? ' P i' I E . L X& - ' ; x ' - vu 1 ,v'V "i 4 i ' -- i ' .N ftL A i J ' A - 'l -- I ' PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN by trie California, Wisconsin and Minnesota delegations spearheaded by Mayor Hubert J. Humphrey, of Minneapolis. This plank paid high tribute to President Truman for his civil rights stand and called upon the congress to support the President In (1) the right to full and equal political participation; (2) right to equal opportunity of employment; (3) the right of security of person and (4) the right of equal treat-ment in the service and defense of our nation. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 65 Ui to 582 12. The vote does not indicate relative strength of the opposing forces since many states voted against the resolution merely to uphold the resolutions committee which had adopted a compromise plank on civil rights. The platform differs from the Republican platform In some es-sentials it demands repeal of the Republican Taft-Hartl- ey labor act and declares it has proven a fail-ure; it demands repeal of the discriminatory taxes on oleomar-garine; it pledges to oppose any re-vision of federal laws "designed to curtail the most effective function-ing of farm cooperatives." This is interpreted to mean the party goes on record against change of the tax-exem- pt status of farm coop-eratives. As a matter of fact the platform supports all forms of co-operatives and "other democratic associations for the purpose of carrying out any proper business operations free from any arbitrary and discriminatory restrictions." The foreign policy plank pledged continued support of the Truman doctrine, the Marshall plan, the United Nations, the Good Neigh-bor Policy with respect to South America; and, taking a slap at the Republicans, pledged sufficient ap-propriations to carry out the will of the congress on Its foreign com-mitments. Truman s Opposition , Lacked Leadership In the hectic days prior to the roll call of states, the re"olt against the nomination of President Truman, followed much the same pattern that was evident in the Republican convention held In the same hall only a few short weeks before . . . the opponents of the President could settle on no single leader to make the race. So it was in the GOP convention . . . opponents of Governor Dewey could settle on no concentrated op-position. So the President ran away with the nomination on the first ballot as Dewey did on the third. While many of the faces of by-gone glory were at Philadelphia and the ghost of Franklin D. Roosevelt still hovered over the conglomeration of factions which always has made up the Demo-cratic . party, there was no single leader able to cement these fac-tions Into unity as Roosevelt and his braln-truste- rs did through four national conventions, one of them here at Philadelphia In 1936. While some sources sought to In-terpret this factionalism in the convention as a "wake" or a "breaking up" of the party, the po-litical history Indicates there has always been such factionalism in Democratic conventions. This fac tionalism or sectionalism has been brought about by geographical and political philosophy factors ... the south ... the liberal element, labor, even religion and race. As a matter of fact in only three conventions since the civil war has this factionalism been brought to-gether with any degree of national unity ... the 1884 Chicago conven-tion which first nominated Cleve-land; the 1912 convention at Balti-more which nominated Wilson and the 1932 Chicago convention which first nominated Roosevelt. In all three the cement of unity was a national crisis. A great many of the delegates be-lieved the nation again faces a major crisis . . . that any day some Incident may touch oft World War in. Hence they sought Gen. Elsen-hower as a national leader who could weld the party into unity. Eisenhower refused. Then they turned to the liberal and New Dealer, Justice William O. Douglas. He refused. Then in attempting to center on someone else revolters could find no one. Sen. Claude Pepper, of Florida, one of the better known liberals, put himself forward. But the big states . . . California, New York, Illinois refused to take him and swung back into the Truman col-umn after James Roosevelt, son of the late President, had been severely chastised by his own California delegation. The south wouldn't accept Pep-per's liberalism. So, Gov. Ben T. Laney, of Arkansas, was tossed into the ring by conservative and reac-tionary southerners who put states rights above civil rights. Party cau-cuses were bitter. Barkley's Keynote Sparked Enthusiasm The delegates were whipped into something like ed "de-mocracy" when Barkley delivered his blistering, fighting keynote speech. The veteran Kentuckian was given a demonstra-tion. These delegates were Just waiting for something to cheer over, to lift the morale from the bitter depths of factionalism and Barkley gave it to them. He speeded up the tempo of the con-vention so that by the third day there was some evidence of the will to win and to fight for the nominee of the convention. Due to the absence of competing downtown headquarters at the various hotels, such as was the case In the Republican convention, there was not quite the activity and en-thusiasm engendered among dele-gates at this convention. Aside from this fact however, the convention nail pageantry was Just as hectic and in all probability these Demo-cratic delegates wanting desper-ately something to cheer about, cheered all the louder for their speakers and the demonstrations were Just as vigorous and noise-som- e as the Republican convention held here such a short time previous. Comparatively, the convention set-u- p was identical. Some of the state delegations had been changed around to give the more favored ' Democratic states better with positions regard to the speaker's podium. Some Things Are Worse Than Being in the Army By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator, WASHINGTON. Less than a month from now the draft will hit young Americans, but it will be a nudge, not a wallop. One of its chief immediate purposes is to deflect the flood of enlistments of young men from the national guard and the re-serves to the regular services. It is expected that so many eligible will enlist rather than wait until they are invited that only between 200,000 and 250,000 will actually be requested to report or . It isn't at all strange that there is a certain amount of reluctance on me pan oi so many young Americans to leap to arms the moment they as-certain that their country has de-cided they are needed. There are no bugles blowing. No for-eign tyrant has soiled the na-tion'! honor, there is no vis-ible sign of a unreasonable distance from where he lives. There are three kinds of defer-ments for those planning on going to college (1) for all full-tim- e stu-dents, until academic year ends; (2) advanced students in certain specialties; (3) four years' defer-ment for college students enrolling in a full four-yea- r ROTC course or other military courses under spe-cial conditions. There are exemptions under cer-tain conditions for married men, high school students, scientists, en-gineers and reservists. So not many young men who don't want to are going to have to serve in the armed forces of their country. At least at pres-ent there seem to be enough ready to step forward before they are actually called. As I remarked, it is easy to un-derstand why the average youth would rather not accept the restric-tions and discipline of army life. A part of the lack of enthusiasm for soldiering is due to the long tradi-tion in the United States that sol-diering is a wartime business for all those who don't make it their fulltime business. And I use the word business because it describes a career honored in this country far above that of the professional man the artist or the writer and the homage rendered is even greater in comparison if a member of the military profession is involved, ex-cepting, of course, war heroes. This is something hard to change. But the thing we cun and should combat is the propaganda referred to earlier propaganda which is put forward in many cases for far dif-ferent reasons than even the pro-ponents realize. Far too often objection to mili-tary service is made on the basis that it in itself is a bad thing or a wasteful thing-- , when the real reason behind the argu-ment Is a selfish unwillingness to take the risk or sacrifice the time and effort which the serv-ice involves. Frequently this false reasoning stems entirely from the influence of a parent whose purely selfish has perverted the mind of a youngster who otherwise would accept his responsibility and take his training in his stride with no more than the ordinary, harmless grousing which is as much a part of military service as the alibis at th 19th hole. Wasn't Like This In the Old Army Baukhage "military neces-sity- " to disturb the even tenor of their activities sandlot, movie, poolroom, work, study or play. On the contrary, there has been an almost steady anti-milita- prop-aganda from all sorts of sources, all the way from the paid agents of the Kremlin to the innocent ideal-ists or the doting mothers who think that if fighting must be indulged in, It certainly should be done by some other mother's boy. The polls show these propagandists are in the mi-nority, but they are a loud minority. Personally, if I were advising a teen-ag- er I never would rec-ommend close order drill or tossing together a batch of fir-ing data which would produce almost as many shorts as overs, at the one most terrifically scrumptious method of whiling away a couple of years. On the other hand, I have had more adulterated pleasure in doing quite a number of things in which were not included learning the mul-tiplication table, cutting the lawn, making a trial balance, working a paper route, translating the chap-ter which begins "Caesar trans Rhenum pons fecit," or even carv-ing the Thanksgiving turkey the first time "her" relatives came for dinner. As I say, I can imagine several things many people would rather do than these mentioned, including military service, but having done them, most people are .better for it. I admit that for one of a delicate nervous disposition, unable to ad-just his personality to groups, carv-ing a turkey for the first time be-fore in-la- might be the worst thing imaginable. It might be the one particular thing that the par-ticular trauma affecting that par-ticular individual couldn't stand. Extreme psychosis might result-e- ven a psychotic condition that would lead to homicide or some oth-er emotional outburst that a strong-er psyche could have repressed or sublimated into kicking the dog or dropping molasses on his wife's gir-dle. The army psychologists have been working double time ever since they discovered that it took more than guts and gunpowder to win wars, and that the winning was easier on something besides hardtack and whiskey. In World War II. besides the best food an army ever ate, better med-ical attendance than the average civilian can get, and a lot more su-perlatives, the armed forces went in for yards and yards of colored ribbon. It did no harm, even if the British did say the Yanks got a new service stripe every time they saw a battle in a newsreel. And it helped morale. And now something new has been added. A whole new sys-tem of chevrons in two colors have been devised for combat and non-comb- at officers. Combat lea-derssquad sergeants and pla-toon sergeants, for example--get an Inch-wid- e tab of green In the middle of each shoulder loop. Despite all this, I can't help think-ing of the verse that came out of a war where the prevailing color was olive drab with the drab predomi-nating. It goes like this: Oh the general with his shiny stars, leadin' the parade, the colonel and the ad- - Jutant all the braid, the major and the skipper none of 'em look so fine as a newly minted cor-poral down the linel" Ike Couldn't Say Anything Before the Democratic political convention. Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-how- er couldn't sit down to write a letter without reading in his news-paper the next day that that letter had been translated into an accept-ance on his part to run against Tru- - man for the presidential nomina-tion, j Had Eisenhower written a letter saying that he often leaned back to dream about the North African campaign or to think about the de-cisions at Casablanca, someone would have been sure to come forth to say: "See that? He talks about a campaign obviously hinting at the presidential race and 'deci-sions at Casablanca' get that? Cas-ablanca is Spanish for White House! m a tasa viisu v. j M aaa. a are men so unable to meet the simple challenge of the crowd, for Instance, even those only mildly afflicted with agorapho bia, that they never could stand a simple formation like pay-cal- l. I have known the type in civilian life ho sensitive to the presence of others that although he had been drinking peacefully for hours and accepting the hos-pitality of say two or three ac-quaintances, when an addition-al member appeared (just when it was our subject's turn to buy a ronnd) he would jump through a plate glass window, four sto-ries to the street below. Someway, he lacked the group in-stinct. I admit that type probably wouldn't get on In the army long. However, I claim these are excep-tions. The majority of the problems which the youth of our land is go-ing to have to face soon are not too tough. And they are good exercise like parading in full kit. Meanwhile 694,000 men, without giving more than a thought to the hardships ahead of them (197,000 of these, according to the experts, are and therefore should know what they are getting into) will already have joined up, thus reducing the number of those who bashfully await their Uncle's nod this year. Thus out of the 924,000 new men needed, less than 250,000 will be drafted. And many of those who are called will not be chosen be-cause of the number of exemptions granted. Veterans with combat rec-ords, with 90 days service be-tween Pearl Harbor and VJ-d- 7, or with 18 months' service sluce September, 1940, will be exempt, as will anyone who has earned a combat infantryman's badge, a Purple Heart, Air Med-al, or any combat medal. Exemptions will be granted to any veteran joining an organized reserve unit, or if the nearest one which he otherwise might join is an Bad The best way to large pece w away. ' Glassware win le if washed Z Borne laundry bhin h a fewhoL screw top 0f m aJ dressing bottle to " clothes sprinkler When dog or cat to, upholstery, rub the with a damp piMeo(-Uun-r rubber snon K you're growing , a chunk of charcoal h will help it along. Tipe cleaners are y for cleaning the be", drinking straws. j Use a curved graptf. scoop the insides out or pepper. If properly applied, make floors slippery M should be applied in coats: the polishing well to a dry, g wax shoi to dry thoroughly before used too much wax t buiTing have givea u undeserved repuUUon faUf. To add flavor to tea piece of orange rind In DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE Truman, Barldey Head Ticket By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU Washington Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa. In a thrill-pack- ed convention, probably the most dramatic In modern po-litical history, President Harry S. Truman was nominated for a full term for the presidency and the veteran Senator, Alben W. Bark-le- y, of Kentucky, was named his running mate to head the Demo-cratic ticket for the 1948 campaign. And to feed the flames of a bedlam- -rocked convention hall, the President broke all precedents and threw down the gauntlet to the Republicans by literally daring them to carry out their platform pledges at a special session of the Congress which he said he would call July 26. While sweltering delegates who had battled each other throughout a day In which Irate southerners had staged an open revolt against the civil rights plank of the plat-form, cheered themselves hoarse, the President openly challenged his Republican opponents In a ringing declaration of war: Let's see if their platform means anything. If it does then we can get some action in 15 days. The President's spirited and bristling speech of acceptance topped and threw into the back-ground events which at any other convention would have been top news . . the walk-o- ut of the Mis-sissippi delegation . . . the threat of a rump southern convention at Birmingham ... the spanking of the southerners who were given a sound drubbing when they sought to challenge the report of the plat-form committee and the delegates by overwhelming vote adopted a more drastic civil rights plank . . . Checking off the promises of the GOP platform on domestic issues, the President, In a fighting mood which swept the delegates and gal-leries in rafter-rockin- g appjause, declared he had time after time asked the Republican-controlle- d 80th Congress for action on the very pledges made in their plat-form. But they won't get away with promises, he told the packed convention hall. He said that he would demand that the special session of the con-gress take action to halt high prices, to aid education, a national health law, civil rights, Increase in wnw Aft) w pr- - f iti k -- t il j I' ' - - ivj""; ,t ...4. i;,- -Vd frv ! SEN. ALBEN W. BARKLEY minimum wages, extension of so-cial security, funds for public power and cheap electricity, an adequate displaced persons' law to substitute for "the antl-semit- ic and the anti-catho- lic law they provided" in the 80th Congress. The dramatic climax of the con-vention overshadowed the fight for the presidential nomination which became a rout when the south-erners switched from Governor Ben Laney, of Arkansas, their an-nounced candidate, to Senator Richard B. Russell, of Georgia. The only ballot vote was 263 for Russell and 947 V2 for Mr. Truman. One highlight of the convention was the platform fight on the floor over the civil rights program. Southern delegates led by Gov. Dan Moody, of Texas, offered a minority report to the platform committee report containing a states rights program to supplement the civil rights plank adopted by the com-mittee. Not only did the convention snow under this southern states offering by a vote of 925 to 309, but the convention then Immediately adopted a minority report offered Convention Briefs j PUMMELING HOME HER charge that Republicans were re-sponsible for high prices, Mrs. India Edwards, director of the Democrats Women's Division of the ' National committee, waved a Juicy, raw ne steak above her head as she addressed the delegates. She said the steak cost her $1.10 a pound at a Philadelphia butcher shop. Other women speakers high-lighted the high cost of housekeep-ing because of inflated prices. ISi Broadway Chop-Cho- p Life's researchers nailed plenty of inaccuracies in dates and events when editing the Churchill memoirs. When advised. Churchill growled that he wanted his stuff to run the way he wrote it Little known sidelight: Years ago political par-tie- s decided on emblems so illiter-ate voters could identify candi-dates. . . . That's how the donkey and elephant became the Dem and Repub "trademarks." . . . MGM is looking for a kid star to take oyer the roles little Margaret O'Brien has outgrown. . . . That narcotics agent who falsely arrested a local sports writer (in the Yankee press-box- ) has been fired. Mldtown Vignette: We were strolling 5th avenue with him . His recent wife and a friend came out of a nearby bar seeking a cab. ... He turned away and swallowed hard. . . . "Why the blues?" he was asked. "You knew what you were doing when you di-vorced her." "Sure," he sighed, "but my heart can't read legal docu-ments." "Hamlet," the Film, now runs 2 hours and 40 minutes. It will be shaved down to normal running time after the Legion of Decency gets through it. . . . They say the N. Y. Times annex cost twice as much as they guesstimated. That's howcum the economy wave Is on I Nobody fired but nobody hired even as a replacement. "My dear Mr. Winchell: In one of your recent columns I read the note of complaint about radio comics using the phrase, 'Don't be a Schmoe!' from a man in the midwest named Schmoe. What's he complain-ing about? Yours truly, R. F. Schmuck, Dallas, Tex. Sounds in the Night: In Reu-ben's: "I musta had a wonderful weekend; every bone in my body aches." ... At the Stork: "The last time the Repubs won was 1928 and you know what happened In '29!" ... In Lindy's: "What a bore. Every time he gabs it's a moneylogue." ... At Arthur Mur-ray's: 'The boys who took the long trip to Berlin for Eisenhower wish he would take the short one to Vashington for them." In Rome where he was being Interviewed, Orson Welles In-terviewed the interviewer. . . . "What," he Inquired, "am I best known for in Italy? My radio work, my movie directing or my stage acting?" "Oh, Senor, for none of these things!" said the Italian scribe. "In Italy you are best known as Rita Hayworth's The Story-Telle- rs : Two of the current best-seller- s are Involved in a set of unusual coincidences. They are "Raintree County" and "Peace of Mind." Their authors, both young, met untimely deaths at times when their works were lead-ing best-selle- r lists. . . . When Dr. Liebman died, the New York Times' survey showed his book in first place in the n lists along-side Lockridge's book In the fiction lists. . . . Each tome has been on the respective best seller listings longer than all others. . . . But most coincidental is that Ross Lockridge and Joshua Liebman both have 13 letters in their names. In the Wings: Reviewers aren't always hard-boiled- . One of the tenderest tributes ever paid an actor was from Chicago critic Ash-to- Stevens. . . . Recalling John Barrymore's past glories during the star's fading years, the critic wrote: "No one can run faster downhiU than a thoroughbred." Merriman Smith's book, "A President Is Many Men," re-veals that a big shot who re-ceived an invitation to a White House reception eave it to a pet waitress. When her background was discovered she was ejected. Such snobbery. A waitress isn't good enough to mix with an Tress Agent's Alibi: We've gol some wonderful things coming up for you next week. You'll be in more papers than page 2. Your crapbook isn't crowded? That's because we haven't had time tc Paste them all in what's the A ft how much it's costing you? " ,llke money in the bank. No nt m my bank! ... I'm gettins you on a disc jockey program at foui in the morning. All the really im Portant nobodies listen to this one. (V?rUJjaVrrite Sasslety eolyumis.. Le.gh. the debeaut) call, "A Trifle Gossipy" of A Trifle Charming." Senator George Malone frorr Malone is so vwacious and charm l ifeVr" G0V" Warren and hi very charming. . . Gov J " I ever met. Mrs. Dewe, charimg as her husband." 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