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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHA' nvvnv TTTAH . "5t 5 'i2t hrB"rrr cTwl? ' WESTION: wer paint on mr? 1 The cement f, 0 it seems to be J',' It washes oflC1 small stones. ANSWER: (art painting the flo J ht be able to'g coat on the presYnT5 probably i, J. It might be bett? ;.niritasaba QUESTION: Our old house is full of chemneys, some of which we would like to use occasionally. They lon't smoke, but they are open with so damper, so that they really con-sume warm air and fuel. Can a iamper be purchased that will not require taking out half the chimney to install ANSWER: That cannot be cone in a chimney that is already built f you wish to close off tbe fireplace penlng much of the time, have iheet metal panel made to fit the opening that can be taken out when the fireplace is to be used. This panel will prevent the escape of n arm air up the chimney. QUESTION: I have a large win-dow, the pane of which when broken is expensive to replace. I am won-dering if it would be practical to put in a vertical strip to divide the sash, thus using two panes half the present size. Could I do it myself? ANSWER: It would be best to take the sash to a miUwork shop to have the mutin bar inserted there. The sash will have to be grooved to hold the bar in place. If there is no mill handy, a competent carpen-ter should be able to do this for you. QUESTION: How do you re-move black marks on a Tarnished floor caused by bed rollers? ANSWER: Rub lightly with ft handful of very fine steel wool moistened with turpentine, then touch up the spots with a little paste wax. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS GOP Convention Hands Nomination To Dewey in Display of Unanimity; Warren Second Choice on Ticket By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer . (EDITOR'S NOTE: Wh plnlom art xprcuH In th tolnmiu. thty art thoti Waters Ntwipiptr Union's news analysts and not n r I lj at Inn wspapr. GOVERNOR DEWEY AND FAMILY . . . They uant a new, white house . . I CRACKDOWN: Marshal Tito bad twitched Russia's iron curtain Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia was central figure, but remamed Z before only a brief instant bosses whisked him off the boardi. Tito, hitherto P!ain fact was that of eastern Euro-pean the fair-haire- d boy communism, had been all but purged from the Communist party trying to make a because he was play for western capitalism. with his Actually he. together henchmen in the Yugoslav govern-me- nt was ousted from the Cominform (Communist in-formation bureau) which was estab-lished last year to provide greaUr unity for the Soviet satellite states of eastern Europe. Tito and his regime were charged with virtually everything the Soviet politburo considers a crime-ran- ging from Trotskyism and m to "ineptness" and "false demagogic tactics." Behind this official facade which the Communists had thrown up, however, were the real reasons for Tito's expulsion from grace: As the only wartime hero of the Communists the Yugoslav marshal had begun to take' himself too seri-ously, hence, was beginning to feel the need to express his own opinions and policies on matters political and economic. Stalin wanted no other boss In his sphere. Tito was building up a "personal police" army which was molesting other Communists, including Rus-sians, in Belgrade. Also, he had fol-lowed an independent foreign pol-icy without Moscow's approval. Finally he committed the cardinal sin of currying favor with western capitalist diplomats with an eye to obtaining reconstruction credits for Yugoslavia. SERVICE: Drafting That draft which men in the age group are begin-ning to feel is the result of the U. S. armed forces drawing in their breath and preparing to expand all over the place. Between next fall and next sum-mer the services plan on calling about 30,000 draft-ag- e young men every month. Drafting is scheduled to start about September 22. With a strength of 837.000 au-thorized by congress in the selective service bill, the army has estimated that it will need between 225,000 and 250,000 selectees to approach its authorized strength. That number is in addition to the 250,000 or 300,-00- 0 volunteers it so fervently hopes it will get In discussing plans for this second peacetime draft in U. S. history, Army Secretary Kenneth Royall ex-plained that the army now has 542,-00- 0 men but it won't jump to the 837,000 figure immediately because funds for the fiscal year which be-gan July 1 are not sufficient Thus, by July 1, 1949, the size of the army will bt an estimated 790.-00- The peacetime draft is a rela-tively process. Certainly it can't compare with the wartime levying of manpower. Peak of the induction rate during the war was reached in February, 1943, when 406,374 men received their greetings. When the army attains its full 837,000 strength it will consist of 12 regular army divisions. Backstop-pin- g these will be six national guard divisions, together with other sup-porting elements such as anti-ai- r. craft artillery and service troops. BLOCKADE: Berlin Russia's freight blockade of Ber-lin, while a stark enough action In its own right nevertheless was a secondary manifestation of the same old cold war crisis arising out of the Soviet bid for power In Europe. While American and British planes by the hundreds were flying in food to besieged Berliners the western powers were pondering a question they had had to answer in 1938 when Hitler was in power-whet- her or not to appease. Long range plans of the Kremlin of which the Berlin blockade is just one phase, call for the forcing of the western Allies out of Berlin This, according to Soviet thinking eould be done by either of two means: Either by threats and involving the risk of war or by a four-pow- negotiation which could be hoped to result in a western appeasement policy such as grew out of the Munich conference of 1938 Britain and the U.S. are on a dangerous spot If they pulled out of Berlin under pressure of force applied by Russia the power and in-fluence of western democracy would be perilously weakened in Europe DEWEY EYED GOP Convention Out of the smoke-blurre- d rooms during the recess before the third roll call came the word: It was Dewey first again with the medi-cine men. From the very beginning of the GOP convention In the sweltering confines of Philadelphia's conven-tion hall it was a simple case of Dewey against the field. The field was composed of Taft Stassen, Vandenberg, Warren and Mac-Arth-plus a scattering of fa-vorite sons. Despite some frenetic Jockeying for delegates by Dewey, Taft and Stassen over the week-en- d pre-ceding the convention, the big three of the GOP started out on Mon-day with their alignments unchanged. But by the time Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois had finished with his keynote address Monday night It was apparent that a stop-Dewe- y movement, was struggling to get under way. As It turned out that movement never did get beyond the struggling stage and Dewey re-mained virtually the only one un-affected by it In retrospect, the convention by that time already had assumed an inexorable course toward the Dewey camp. Second guessers maintained that the whole affair oozed along as if motivated by some fundamental and changeless law, although that was not fully evident until the convention eould be viewed as a finished product If there was a fundamental law it was compounded from a series of heterogeneous factors, political and personal: First of all there was the superbly functioning Dewey machine, oper-ating with almost 100 per cent ef-ficiency to corral votes. Secondly, the Dewey opposition was divided. Taft and Stassen, poles apart in their political phil-osophy within the Republican party, could not get together. Stas-sen flatly refused a deal and Taft kept waiting for a break that never came. California's Gov. Earl War-ren refused to have hand in a stop-Dewe- y drive. Insisted he was running for the nomination and not Just against Dewey. Vandenberg added to the confusion by remaining silent noncommittal and even dis-interested. Nomination Actual climax of the convention came when Sen. Edward Martin of Pennsylvania renounced his favo-rite son candidacy and threw his support backed by about half the members of Pennsylvania's 73 dele-gates, to Dewey. That started the blitzkrieg. From then on it was Dewey and downhill all the way. As the crucial balloting began in humid, steaming convention hall It became more evident that a stop-Dewe- y coalition had not jelled. On the first roll call it was Dewey 434. Taft 224, Stassen 166. On the second ballot Dewey had gone up to 515 and Taft to 274, while Stassen dropped to 149. At that point the convention re-cessed for three hours, a move engineered by Taft Stassen and other anti-Dewe- y leaders to give them time to decide whether or not to continue the fight When the convention reconvened for the third roll call the stop-Dewe- y drive had changed to a nominate-Dewe- y stampede. Sen. John Bricker of Ohio was the first on the rostrum to withdraw the GOVERNOR WARREN ... He accepted . . . name of his state's candidate, Sen-ator Taft This was swiftly fol-lowed by similar withdrawals by Warren, Stassen, Vandenberg and MacArthur. On the third ballot the 1,094 dele-gates to the convention nominated Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as their unanimous choice to run as the Re-publican candirfito for President in 1948. Warren Selection of Gov. Earl Warren of California as the Republician nominee for came as a complete shock to almost every-one, despite the fact that the choice was a logical and reasonable one. Warren was a surprise pick be-cause prior to the convention he had maintained stoutly that he could not afford to take the and would not accept the second spot It was even more a departure from the norm in that the Dewey-Warre- n ticket failed to offer a grain of consolation to the old guard and isolationist wing of the party. Warren has strongly inter-nationalist political views even more so than Dewey and has been a consistent critic of the GOP iso-lationists. Initial speculation as to the nt spot ran to Rep. Charles Hal leek of Indiana or Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, both of the "conservative Republican" tradi-tion. But in the night-lon- g pow-wo- w that followed the Dewey nomina-tion it was Warren who was chosen. Dewey himself averred that he had not influenced the choice, that the party leaders had become convinc-ed that the California governor was the best bet Nevertheless, Dewey had had to make certain promises in order to get Warren for the job: The he said, no longer would be the stale, flat and un-profitable post It has been. He planned to make Warren a "full partner." Significance Whether the GOP convention constructs its policy platform to fit the candidates or nominated the candidates to fit the platform is, of course, an impossible ques-tion. Nevertheless, the Republicans managed to do both. Categorically, the platform is a sound, forward-lookin- g one in the light of the issues, both foreign and domestic, to be faced. Strongly internationalist and bi-partisan in tone, it rejects the old line of isolationism for isolation-ism's sake and upholds the Euro-pean recovery program. That foreign policy stand, har-monizing as it does with the pre-viously stated convictions of Dewey and Warren, may stand as a his-toric milestone In development of the Republican party. No Right-Minde- d Candidate Will Antagonize Newsmen By BAUKIIACE iVpwt Analyst and Commentator CONVENTION HALL, PHILADELPHIA. The notes for this column are inspired by a view from the extreme left wing of the Democratic platform. I do not mean that figuratively, but literally. I am sitting in the left-han- d corner of the wooden platform filled with the brass hats of the party and their friends who are gathered together to nominate a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Tlie scene Isn't so very different from other political conventions I have attended back to well, never mind how far back. I have In my mlnl'ai VM A H I fm ferent picture. It is a platform, viewed from Just about this angle, but instead of this high ros-trum protruding into the hall from the middle of the wide plat-form there is just a wooden box with boards atop it rough- - way when Senator Magnuson re-vealed thtt the reporter asking the question represented the Spokesman-- Review. The President knows that part of the country and the sontiments ex-pressed by its publications. It was then that he said the Spokesman-Revie- w and the Chicago Tribune were "the worst newspapers in the country, the Tribune having the edge." That was about as sharp a thrust as a President ever has launched at the press in modern times. It was in that connection that he also cailed the present congress the worst in our history, later amending it to "second worst" It would have been kinder to the rest of us If Mr. Truman had stuck to the specific Instead of adopting the sweeping generaliza-tion quoted earlier "some people In the newspaper and radio busi-ness, etc. " Presidents since the time of John Quincy Adams have not been shy about airing their views concerning the Fourth Estate. But Adams, while not specific at least narrowed the field of his complaint to "eight or 10 newspapers of extensive circula-tion published in various parts of the Union acting in close concert with each other and pouring forth fail Hi - 1 hewn rails to fence off the speakers from the shouting delegates. The name of Abraham Lincoln is being put in nomination. This vision, let me hasten to add. is purely vision-ary. I did NOT cover that conven-tion. I saw a picture of it in a book. The scene I have been watching is no more placid. That Demo-crats love a Donnybrook Is an old aying. No smoke-fille- d rooms, no private flghU for them rather a free-for-a- ll In wide field, even If they know what the final outcome Is to be in advance. But frankly I have been thinking about something else as I sit here In his tropical heat that is, in the momenta when I have been able to think between the flashing of the light which is the silent bell on the telephone beside the mike I am iharing with Earl Godwin. The flash of the light on the phone means lomeone in the ABC booth, high above us, wants one or the other of ua to Jump in and give a brief word-pictur- e of what is transpiring in our immediate neighborhood, for we are in the thick of things here and, believe me, sometimes things are pretty thick. What I have been thinking about Is the lot of the newsman and the imall thanks he gets for his pain ind suffering in a political year. Be-lid- ei being hauled and mauled by the public his public, as the listen-er- a of a commentator are referred to besides that he is under slant-wise attack by the candidates when they forget themselves. Nobody, either the partisan lis-teners or tbe polltlcos, ever thinks the columnist commentator or reporter Is being fair unless he is boosting bis aide. Candidates, when they are in pos-icssi-of their full senses, don't go around arousing the WTath of the newsmen. Even Franklin Roose-velt who was forever needling the newspapers, always carefully ex-plained that it was the publishers and editors and headline writers who twisted the news, not the men who wrote or broadcast it But sometimes candidates slip. And as we sit perspiring under the ilieg lights and trying our best to ;ell the truth without malice and with as much charity as possible about what is going on before us, we recall without too much rancor, the statement of the candidate who Is not being unanimously nominated. On his recent trip he made one ff remark, which prompted him to send that offending piece of haberdashery to the laundry imme-diately after he had thought it over. President Truman opined to one rear-platfor- m audience that It was almost impossible to get the facts definitely before the public "be-cause there are certain people in the newspaper business and cer-tain people in the radio business who have a distorted view of what the people ought to know and what the people ought to think." It might have been better if he had worded his plaint in the lan-guage of an earlier candidate much earlier John Quincy Adams, who at least narrowed his charges against the press to a few papers, even though he didn't name them specif-ically. This offered a sop to the rest However, President Truman, in a previous outburst on that same western trip was specific too. He attacked the Chicago Tribune and the Spokane Spokesman-Review- . In lambasting the Tribune, he was fol-lowing in Franklin Roosevelt's foot-steps. You may recall that on one occasion when FDR was asked a particularly sharp question by a Tribune reporter, he replied: "Oh, tell Bertie (Robert McCormick, pub-lisher), he's seeing things under the bed." Mr. Truman's attack on the Trib-une came about this way: While (ravelling through Washington state, a reporter put to him a question which, although it seemed guileless, oaight have concealed a barb. Any-so-the President interpreted it that PRESIDENT TRUMAN . . . rear platform opinion . . . continual streams of slander upon my character and reputation, public and private. No falsehood is too broad, and no insinuation too base, for them . . ." President Cleveland also had his press troubles, and history admits he got a rough deal. One summer when he was governor of New York and was sweating it out at Albany, New York newspapers reported him as taking his ease at Newport Sometimes the newsmen do let their spleen get Into their report-ing, but for the most part, they follow Kipling's advice and go on the basis that you can't do a good Job unless ". . . you keep your head when all about you, are los-ing theirs and blaming it on you." Television may achieve what the less vivid reports conveyed by. print or the spoken word cannot Repub-lican leaders, realizing this, sent out some pretty strict orders on that subject before their recent conven-tion in this city. The orders were revealed by that g, monitor of stage, screen and radio, "Variety." Republican delegates were told not to be seen (by the eye of the television camera and thereby mil-lions of other eyes) talking to mem-bers of delegations from other states lest the suspicious public smell a deal in the making. If they must huddle they were, told to huddle unseen. Delegates also were warned not to assume awkward positions on the floor lest televiewers deduce that handsome isn't as handsome doesn't And most of all, they were warned not to be seen leav-ing early and coming late. Not overly hopeful that orders would me followed, monitors were ap-pointed. Since I couldn't see much of the video product, because, as a re-porter I had to keep my eyes on the televiewers themselves, I can't say how well the Republicans comported themselves when televised, nor can I assay how well the Democrats, cur-rently in the spotlight profited by what they saw of Republican video performances last month. And if either didn't perform with all the grace and decorum nobody can be blamed but themselves. The cameraman gets off easy. The writ-er and the broadcaster still will have to duck the slings and arrows of the outraged unfortunate. A recent survey showed that radio listeners like hymns most. Probably a television survey would show that televlsioners prefer hers. Ke,pi,r Persons who irt Into btakeeping Am first their p9rs0R1 stings, relations with fa and suitability of their the early days b.e, . supply the only natural, able, but they were n some for observation fc est in their life ,i keeping i Interesting t work, which may be p, supplementary agricultu ether occupation. It einating hobby. (SUfclMERcJ 1 1 QUICK REUEf WITH Planning for the Buy U. S. Saving fo,..Tastier,Ctgti HMaaiEtaaagK? futis you may think of youri thisii' but her dad stii1 think$ f ber 111(8 ,hi ... and he probably think of you like this . So is to convince him you're a solid-typ- e citizen like ft Prmise f b"ng hme -- and do it! But if something' goes wrong, t Pnone no matter how late. Let him know you is careful, nof like this eJ . And that in flat tires you have a flashlight handy well tell him the flashlight's powered with "EVE BATTERIES ?-bec-ause they outlast 0 brands. ... .And taw I ln General-Purpos- e 4-0- Intermittent TesJ I THIS "EVEREADY" BATTERY I OUTLASTS ALL OTHER BRANDS! KZSL. 1ii Who thought op this te that takes the goM fjfwrj work out of buying flashlight batteries? UJ. j "2 American Standards Aociation. no lessl M thij is the test that mot$ tlostly Pt"oxmn t f thi average me you gie bstteries in your I I ;MZ I flashlight. Be bright tonight! Buy "Eveready ffjgZf I NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY, l :WhW, ?; 30 Eut 2od Siteet. N Vrk 17. N. T f rXjjjWm. Jj t7.li Vnhn CrbtJt EH Caritm Cffnlf TananV Bed Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller Is reported to have the biggest bed in Hollywood. It measures seven by eight feet. Actually, sleep is hin-dered if a bed is too small, but tall people don't have to be movie stars to remedy the situation. Extra length, extra width bedding now can be obtained at small extra cost NOMINEE Dewey Runs on Calculated Ambition Thomas Edmund Dewey is a suc-cess story in himself, featuring the kind of success that is achieved not happenstance but through precisely calculated ambition spearheaded by precisely directed energy. At 46 he has been elected gov-ernor of New York twice and de-feated once for the same office Moreover, he has received the Re publican presidential nomination twice in succession. K is the only instance in the his-tory of the Republican party where a defeated presidential candidate was nominated to run again. Born in Owosso, Mich., Dewey achieved prominence in New York City as a racket-bustin- g district attorney. Emotional Asthma "j Asthma, with its painful choking and wheering, often may be the result of an emotional disturbance rather than being brought on by purely physical factors. Dr. F. B. Schutzbank of Tuscon Am., told the American Medical' association meeting in Chicago that many of the asthmatic victims who Amona ,or "lief could save the trip simp, b v , family quarrel, and other distresses. |