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Show I i f THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH ""j Martin Ds Likely GOfP Dark IHIorse A " Confesf Befween Taft,Dewey Decisive in Republican Race By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. , As this is written, the crystal ball gazers say that the 5' 8" black-moustach-ed governor of the Empire State is go-ing to be the next President of the Unitf 1 States. Some people will question this, and three, six or more months from now, even my private crystal-gazer- s may revise their predictions. But the Dewey following is confident, even in the face of the latest Roper poll, which shows that Harold Stassen is the only Republican (now that Eisenhower is out) who could win four out of the six major geographi-cal reeions of the country from Mr. TrumanI The Doll n VS Stnsspn lftoria I everywhere but in the solid South. Suppose the solid South should split from the Democratic party, as they indicated own family and is kept alive with close personal contacts in the armed services. I simply say this to the voter: You may have a tremendous respect for a man's military record, but that doesn't mean you'd call him In if your child had appendicitis. Politics is just as much of a profession as med-icine or the law. We need a trained leader in this particular kind of leading. Maybe we will get one. Maybe we won't Speaker Joe Martin Universally Popular they might in or-der to rebuke the President for his so - called "anti-souther-civil rights message which recom-mended anti-lync- h, anti-poll-ta-fair prac-tices legislation, which is labelled "pro-Negro- " by many southern critics? Well, sup- - Stassen has certain qualities of leadership with which he seems to have impressed the people inter-viewed by the Roper pollers. But unless Stassen could "sweep the pri-maries" I'm frankly quoting my chief crystal-gaze- r he hasn't a chance at this writing. There doesn't seem to be a chance of his sweeping the primaries, and anyhow there aren't many states which have adopted this device, which it was thought could beat the "smoke-fille- d room." Now, the man who is going to be nominated is the man who wins In the Taft-Dew- ey contest (always, as of NOW). That doesn't mean it will be Taft or Dewey. But it does mean that it will be the man who, although he hasn't enough votes on this prelim, can pick up enough in-- dependent votes In later con-tests to see him through. At the present writing, it looks as if there were enough of those "changeable" votes to nominate Jewey. If it's neither Dewey nor Stassen, the wise guys in Washington say it will be none other than Speaker Joe Martin, who never insulted anybody and has more friends in and out of Washington than a winner in a crap game when everyone else is broke. Without ever pulling any rough stuff, Joe Martin has put more peo-ple under willing obligation to him than any man I know in congress. For example when the Taft-Hartle- y fight was at its hottest, a certain Republican congressman came to Joe and said: "I'm sorry, Joe, I've got to bolt. My constitu-ency doesn't want this bill." Joe didn't argue. He simply said: "Don't worry. I understand your situation perfectly. We'll cet the BAUKIIAGE P" of the Uiat' "n! " poll (February 5), Stassen has it. Still the old-time- stick to their prediction of Dewey, which they make with tears in their eyes, in-stead of smoke from the smoke-fille- d room where decisions are sup-posed to be made. I wish that you people could have attended that over-crowde- d lunch-eon at the National Press club when Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spoke and introduced his successor, Gen. Omar Bradley, as chief of staff. It was a good talk, and you probably read the report of it. You also probably have read the report of the question and an-swer period which General Eis-enhower permitted, and which was one of the best news con-ferences that's what It turned out to be that I ever have at-tended. Members who couldn't get in were standing up, cocking ears, IZ to 15 deep outside the entrances to the dining room. Naturally some questions dealt with the Eisenhower withdrawal statement issued late in January. The night after the Eisenhower withdrawal, which most Republicans and Democrats considered as final, I happened to be with two die-hard, right-win- g Republicans, who wouldn't even admit they were as happy as they were. They kept say-ing, why couldn't he have said that much earlier if he meant it, and anyhow he has left a loophole so he can run, if not now, in 1952. I couldn't see that. I knew a lot of Republicans thought Eisenhower's letter was an absolutely honest statement dictated by the reason-ing of an honest man, untrained in politics, it is true, but speaking from his heart. There isn't space to repeat Eisen- - votes anyhow. Forget it." That man is Joe's friend for life. Some years ago, a magazine took a secret poll of the Wash-ington correspondents to deter-mine the most "useful" man In congress. He was to be judged by his "integrity, intelligence, Industry and influence." Joe got the highest vote of anyone hi either house or senate. Not long ago there was one of those big parties here, periodically thrown by various visiting firemen. It was a regular stampede, but some way I managed to back Joe Martin into a corner with my two Washington-wis- e assistants. Joe is a bachelor, and these two women are not lacking in either brains or pulchritude. They'd both met the speaker before, more or less pro-fessionally, anyhow rather formally. This wasn't formal. Neither of them is a born-and-bre- d Republican. Like me, and all other Washingtonians, they are voteless and more or less neutral between the parties. Both of them fell for Joe Martin hard. And it wasn't because it is Leap Year and Joe is a bachelor. They are both happily married (the only kind of assistants my wife and I hire). At any rate, Joe Martin is a good dark horse to watch. ' hower's long statement in which he said, among other things: "I am not available for and could not accept nomination for ' high political office. ... My deci-sion ... is definite and posi-tive. "The necessary and wise sub-ordination ef the military to civil power will be best sus-tained . . . when lifelong pro-fessional soldiers . . . abstain from seeking high political office. ... I would regard it as un-alloyed tragedy for our country tf ever should come the day when military commanders might be selected with an eye to their future potentialities in the political field." General Sherman said: "I will not run if nominated and will not serve if elected." But what motivated Sherman . . . and Eisenhower? The sincere belief expressed in Eisenhower's statement that a man of purely military training wasn't ' equipped for the job? (That state-ment, as you know, was thrown back at Eisenhower as a sideswipe at Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who has emphatically NOT said that he didn't choose to run.) I have spoken of the Eisenhower family at some length before in this column. I do not claim to be more than an acquaintance. But, as I said, when General Eisenhower's statement came over the wire, I was firmly convinced that there wasn't any equivocation in it. And I am glad that the press and their friends heard Eisenhower answer the ques-tions as he did, giving back steel for steel on every throw. There was a big sigh of relief, of eourse, when the Republican and Democratic leaders knew Eisen-hower was out. I felt the same way, but for a different reason. My rea-son for being glad that Eisenhower isn't going to be President as he would have been on any ticket if he had run is the same reason he put forth, I have tremendous respect for him, personally, professionally. I am not a professional soldier, but my experience as a wartime soldier is reinforced by an indirect impres-sion of military thought which goes back for man generations in my X o lTS y$ if f 1 MARGARINE STRATEGY . . . Rep. Edward A. Mitchell (Rep., Ind.) acted as host at a capitol luncheon for congressmen and members of women's leagues, who favor repeal of the present tastes on oleomar-garine. Donning a chefs bulging cap, Mitchell demonstrated the process housewives must go through to color their margarine at home. DREW PEARSON Town Bucks Black Market little town of International Falls, THEcify 2 S.-w- ould rather buck tiSi Kyftiel oil on the black market. Hearing of the TantMnflation fortitude, President Trumanimse , pomised to send an emergency cargo to the rescue-- at regu- - ffirnaUonal Falls .lmost straddles the Canadian border A recent cold spell pushed the mercury out the bottom of the thermometer. Simul-taneously, certain unscrupulous oil dealers brought In fresh supplies and lacked up their prices. Bather than pay black market rates, many citizens closed their homes and doubled op with relatives and neighbors. One angry group threatened to overturn an Incoming truck, and the nervous dealer started arming his trucks. Other citizens wrote to their congressman, young John Blatnik. who in turn went to see the President. Mr. Truman promised immediate action. Note The oil industry willingly sent 10 tank cars to mother town, St. Cloud, which bad less need than shivering International Falls. 1 he reason: St. Cloud is in the district of powerful ways and means chairman haront Knutson, who writes the taxes. 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They were Invented during the de-pression. . . . Aren't draft board members getting letters dis-cussing their availability for aervloe again? . . . Perfume bis Is at an all-tim- e low, with man ufacturers weeping into their bottles. Characters in Search of a Colyumist: Almond-eye- d Abie, a bland-face- d little Chinese. Owns a Chatham Square laundry Chinatown). Gives a weekly party for the cast of the China Doll girlie show (all Orientalent), and his hilarious slantics keep the entertainers amused. . . . Hot Harry: He buys odd lots of silk remnants; has them made into ties. Sews on labels of famed stores and peddles them to you at a good fee via his whisper: "This is all hot stuff, swiped it me-self- ". . . , The press agent, who snaps himself out of depressed mood by reading a Chinese newspaper in the subway just to see people do "double-takes- ." NEWS REVIEW Peril Seen for Tax Cut; Soil Control Row Due $, AID BURDEN: Taft's Plank Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio's G.O.P. aspirant to the White House, started off another campaign jog around the West by offering a thoroughly Republican message calculated to appeal to a large portion of the western voters. The United States cannot allow its foreign aid program to jeopard-ize freedom at home, he said in Chicago, his first stopping place. "We should not be actuated by purely altruistic desire to improve Following the first blush of joy over the spirit of deflation which seemed to have been evoked by the commodity market price slump, U. S. citizens began to realize that complications might set in. Most significant hidden gimmick behind the market skid appeared to be the development that the price decline might, in the words of Sen. Scott Lucas (Dem., 111.), "eliminate all possibility" of income tax re-ductions this year. And that apparently was the cau-tious but considered opinion of the entire g senate finance committee, of which Lucas is a member. Sen. Owen Brewster (Rep., Me.), also a finance committee member, expressed a concurring view, point-ing out that any appreciable gen-eral price decline "certainly would have to be taken into consideration" by Republicans in their g plans. Another member of the group, Sen. Harry Byrd (Dern., Va.) said that if a decline of market prices develops into a business recession, it probably would have "a consid-erable effect" on tax reduction. "I certainly am not going to vote the condition of a lot of other people who have failed for centuries to do the job themselves. "We want peace and prosperity throughout the world to eliminate a threat to our own freedom, but it is certainly not worth uhilA trt nrinnt fl TAFT foreign policy so burdensome on our own people that it will destroy at home the very freedom we are try-ing to protect" There was expressed a major plank in Taft's campaign platform: Careful control of the foreign aid program In the light of how it may effect this nation's do-mestic economy. Also, it was consistent with his activities in congress where he has been making that theory felt with regard to approval of the Marshall plan. U. N. PLUM: To Eurone for any bill that would put the treas-ury in a deficit position," said Byrd. While the senators' statements re-flected a good deal of pussyfooting and at least a temporary surge of indecision with regard to tax reduc-tion in the light of the market slump, it was obvious that they were thoroughly concerned' with this turn of events. Theory which set their tax-cuttin- g plans awry is that a continued slump of commodity market prices would bring down the national in-come and tax receipts, thus render-ing any major tax reduction per-ilous. a Decision on where the United h tions will hold its 1948 assembly meeting will mean that some Euro-pean city will get a healthy, plum tossed in its lap. Because the choice of a site for the coming meeting probably will involve that much money there is a considerable ferment of anxiety in the cities of Paris, Brussels, Geneva or the Hague, principal contenders for the honor. Trygve Lie, U. N. secretary-genera- l, just back from a tour of Euro-pean cities, has made a factual re-port without actually recommend-ing any one spot. He did, however, narrow the field down to those four cities. The 57 member nations of the general assembly decided at last fall's session to hold the 1948 parley in Europe, possibly to get away from the scene of their erstwhile rather futile efforts. SOIL CONTROL: State or Federal? One of the springtime battles now shaping up in congress will concern the issue of whether the national farm erosion program should be federally or state controlled. Fireworks are scheduled to begin in March when the house agriculture committee opens hearings on a bill sponsored by Rep. Harry D. Cooley (Dem., N. C.) which would turn over the soil conservation program, operated by the agriculture depart-ment since 1935, to state land grant colleges. Along with the transfer of autho-rity would go about 10,500 depart-ment agents who administer the program in about 2,000 districts. That will provide a point of strong controversy, as will the measure's provision for federal grants to help states foot their soil-savin- g bills. Pushing the switch from federal to state control most strongly is the national farm bureau, one of the most powerful lobbies in Washing-ton, on the grounds that the soil conservation program would ac-complish more under state author-ity. The federal program has not been as effective as it should be so far, the farm bureau contends. But op-ponents of the transfer counter with the argument that the states lack experience to handle the project satisfactorily. Currently operating under an an-nual budget of 39 million dollars, federal soil conservation service has 10,500 persons working rith farmers, helping prepare conserva-tion plans which the farmers may accept or reject. So far it has prepared conserva-tion plans for 478,128 farms cover-ing 131,855,608 of the country's one billion acres of farm land. WESTBROOK PEGLER The Law Bows to Politics THE department of justice is more sinister now than it has been at any time in the life of the existing American people because it has no eode but politics. . Cong. Fred A. Hartley of New Jersey, of the Taft-Hartl-labor emancipation law, remarked, with elfin delicacy, that4 he thought the department had been exceedingly lax in its preparation of the case against Jimmy Petrillo in Chicago. This was only one defeat if many which Hartley might view with deep suspicion. The department is adept at losing cases in which political proteges of the Democratic party might be caught guilty. Its record of defeats Is long, consistent and disgraceful. Murderous, thieving unioneers who will become historic in the national gallery of rogues have walked out of court free in every important case, although the department of justice had proof of guilt that should have left no shadow of a doubt , Prosecutions have been thrown; dangerous immigrants have been eased through the naturalization process; tax cases have been settled on percentages, and paroles and pardons have been arranged In a haphazard way. v v - r r n r H. I. PHILLIPS Caution to Snowstorms Within three years science will be able to bust up or detour snow and rainstorms from hitting big cities, Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric says. It will be possible to switch them to lightly populated areas. But, brother, what a howl will go up from the small town .when it finds itself buried in a snowstorm transferred from a big burg! We don't think the little com-munity will take it lying down. Every village will have to per-fect its own switcher-back- er corps to rush Into the skies and smack the storm right back where it eame from. This could result In a regular hockey game of the skies with snowstorms being swatted all over the heavens. It might require offl. cial referees and scorers to deter-mine what kind of winter we had been through. Dr. Langmuir says that experi-ences with dry ice pellets in pro-ducing artificial rain and snow have had behind them the idea of fighting storms, and that science is fairly close to discovering, how to switch storm from one spot to another. Personally we do aot wish Dr Langmuir too much luck, and we warn the company that it ir on the way to a boycott by all children, with a secondary boy-cott by lovers of "I'm Dream-ing of a White Christmas" and Currier and Ives prints. ... , The kids are more cr less dis-gusted with the grownups now. They really will get tough the day a right smart snowstorm is known to be headed for their own backyard and a lot of scientists pop Into the air and see that it is transferred to Wappingers Falls or Moose Hollow WALTER SHEAD 'Directors' Fail to Plan TSLTstT, 0t" Uni?d StatCS ls bit business in the COirts 0Pate, employs more provide, more services and gives more for less money to every laSb to nation than any other business. If the board of United States Steel or cost of steel or lop off $1,000 from lblTn. 1 iu finding out what it cost, to make MvlZZmb .TnK" would be the first to declare the .sto.ckholder new board. CIC ana aemand a Congress is the board of a And without first finding out how TuZ ii'l XX cYo'ZT. government this year, the house 2Z lopping off $6,500,000,000 In taxes, whle1VSt?iSErS prices the ear. But do the th shall trim the services of government fit tSehrthheoyrdthethcotstthen doing If business any other they wouldnT I S didn't LJ IT? Plicy ' biggest business in the world toe i2d ofVectos SSf V except from year to year. SCIENCE STILL TRYING Plague Struck 600 Years Ago It was 600 years ago, in 1348, that the Black Dsath swept ravenously through Europe, killing about persons, to take its place as one of the greatest calamities of all time. Historians estimated that by the end of the century the Black Death bubonic plague had killed one-four- th of Europe's entire population. In China another 13,000,000 died in an outbreak of the disease at about the same time. Even to this day the seeds of bu-bonic plague are scattered through-out the world. Since 1898 it is esti-mated that more than 12,000,000 per-sons have died of it in India. Authorities don't know where or when the plague first began, but some say that epidemic disease mentioned in the Bible can be con-sidered "true plague" and traced through history to 1320 B. C. It is believed to have started in lower Egypt, and in a few centuries "spread to the ends of the inhabit- - able world." The black rat of Asia, which car-ries bubonic plague, probably was introduced into Europe by returning crusaders in the 12th century. They would have multiplied sufficiently to be noticed in Europe within a cen-tury, and history books say they ap-peared at that time. It wasn't until around 1900 that It was definitely established that the black rat harbors the disease. The rat is bitten by a flea ; the flea then bites a man and ransmits the plague to him. In one form the disease even may be communicated between humans. According to the U. S. health serv-ice, plague among rodents exists in many places in the world today, In-cluding a great part of this country. Outbreaks have occurred among hu-man beings on the west coast, and rodent plague has been reported as far inland as Kansas. However, off-icials do not fear any outbreak of the Black Death in the United States. Medical scientists recently have discovered that the sulfa drugs are valuable in treatment and believe that the new drug, streptomycin, may prove so also. New and more powerful flea and rat killers, includ-ing DDT and the poison are proving extremely effective. WRIGHT PATTERSON Good-B- y --With No Reqrets IT IS doubtful if England, of 1 which country he still is a citizen, would welcome the deportation of Charles Chaplin by the United States. For more than a quarter century Chaplin has enjoyed the ad-vantages this nation provides. He came to America from London, where he had picked up a precarious living from the small change pa- - LontJon P"b and music halls had contributed for his clown-s- h acts In America he has won ame and fortune. Now. because he is peeved, he threatens to leave If there is any way in which we Amer-lcua- n can speed his departure d like to know we so it may be appbed He is welcome to return to the London pubs or to Russia. |