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Show Taft Swings to Right As GOP Senate Leader By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. Recently the keen ears of the master politicians on Capitol Hill have been tuned to some strange squeaks and rat tles developing In the otherwise smoothly running ? Republican senate sen-ate machinery. It Is confidently predicted pre-dicted on the Democratic side of the aisle that "Chauffeur" Taft who had pretty easy going in the driver's seat up until the latter Baukhage part of February will have to Jump out and tinker under the hood more than once. From now on, observers say, there are going to be a lot more orders or-ders from the back seat. When the gentleman from Ohio took over after the November elections elec-tions even the old-timers sat up and took notice of the way he assumed charge. He Just shuffled the deck and dealt himself the cards he wanted: want-ed: chairman of the policy committee; commit-tee; chairman of the labor committee commit-tee which was going to direct labor legislation on what had been almost the No, 1 Issue of the day; chairman of the committee which handles the new economic report. Under the reorganization act, this report must JOHN W. BRICKER Dark Horse in Laasb be submitted annually to congress by the President's economic council. With reasonable support from party par-ty stalwarts and with these power, fill chairmanships in his hands it looked as' though the senior senator from the Buckeye state easily could ride herd on the party vote, delivering deliv-ering it when and where he wished. But, did you ever try to ride a horse or drive a cow with a large sized bumble-bee leaping from forelock fore-lock to buttock or from cud to rump? Not to easy, and no bumble-bee ever buzzed or stung like the apis presidential presi-dential . Early In January I reminded you of the trouble the presidential bee wai expected to cause when I quoted quot-ed Republican National Committeeman Committee-man Clarence Budlngton Kelland's remark; ,..;,(.,, , ,n .. "I don't;, think, you. are going to sea the mtt,er Republican candidacy), candi-dacy), Jell at all .until Ohio decides whether It's "going to be Taft or Brlcker And it hasn't jelled. Although" Al-though" K ' was predicted Brlcker would bow out, he has refused to bow. Quite,, the contrary, it is Taft who la bowing not, out, . but to the demands of the right wing of the partyj ' (Taft'i' friends insist Brick-tr Brick-tr will exit at the right moment.) But Taft's first obeisance was made toward the end of the Lllien-thai Lllien-thai hearings. He announced his opposition op-position to the confirmation of the TVA head and did it with such absence ab-sence of the famous Taft logic that eyebrows went up all over the place. The reason for departing from the common sense path that his superior intellect usually dictates toon became evident. Simultaneously Simultaneous-ly his control of the party in the tenate began to slip. That was seen in the vote on the budget. In that case Taft took what most people considered the sensible, middle-of-the-road course. The four and a half billion cut rather than the tlx billion urged by the house. What happened to force Taft's antl-Lilienthal statement? Well, a certain conservative commentator talked with Taft criticized what he implied was a dangerous lack of BARBS The British have a right to resent America' back-seat driving on Palestineat Pal-estineat least until we step In and offer to help change tires. With pork prices soaring Lewis Carroll made more tense than non-tense non-tense when he wondered why the tea wat boiling hot and whether pigt have wings. . "i . . ,. "- lis w - conservatism for a prospective standard-bearer of GOP. Then, a well-known columnist came forth with the story that some of the powerful pow-erful backers of the Republican party par-ty enlisted the support of a number of Republican lawmakers In the antl-LIIienthal movement. They began be-gan to whisper that perhaps Bricker would represent sounder, safer, saner san-er views for the presidency. Taft heard the whisper and came out emphatically, em-phatically, if not too convincingly, against Lllienthal. About that time the Roper poll revealed re-vealed the percentage of preference for various Republican potential can-didntes, can-didntes, against Truman. And lo, all the rest, Dewey. Vandenberg, Stnssen, Brlcker, led Tnft. That doesn't mean that Taft will be last in the hearts of the delegates to the Republican national convention conven-tion in 1948, but wiseacres are saying it does mean that Tnft no longer will call the turn on legislation. . Crack 'Iron Curtain' With Short Wave If there is much more evidence of the cracking of the so-called "iron curtain," the impression may get about soon that It Is a pretty porous protection of the secrets of the Soviets. So-viets. Recently I was walking the corridors corri-dors of the state department with one of its officials. "How long," I asked him. "do you expect the Kremlin to permit you people and the British, with your American and British propaganda magazines and pamphlets and your broadcasts, to poison Ivan and his Tovarishes, with this western poison?" "Oh," he replied, "they won't stop us." "Why not?" I Inquired. "They can't," was his answer. British Broadcasting company has been beaming broadcasts on Russia to Russia In the Russian language for a year or more. BBC reports that the programs have been well-received well-received and that the effort is worth while. The state department began Its broadcasts last month. Some of its officials believe that it is worth the millions it will cost to continue them. The first program had few listeners; it was criticized. It is being tailored according to listener comment. There is no way for the Russians to know about the programs, pro-grams, since notice of them, except by announcement over BBC, appears ap-pears in no Russian paper. How Is It the Russians permit it at all? And even if they don't put obstacles In the way, will the Russians Rus-sians listen? Are there enough radio ra-dio sets with short-wave receivers to make up a worth while potential audience? au-dience? These are the questions I asked. I'll try to give some of the answers. As to the Russian attitude, It seemt negative. When the British first talked about broadcasting to Russia, a Russian official it reported to have taid: "We have tried to cooperate co-operate with you. You have your kind of democracy. You believe In freedom of speech. So we have cooperated co-operated with you by sending you broadcasts in English, from Russia. We have our kind of democracy. We do not believe in freedom of speech. So1 we hope you will cooperate with our kind of democracy by NOT broadcasting to us." If that wasn't actually tald, it ought to have been. It Is too good to be untrue. The British did not cooperate. Neither did 11 other countries, including in-cluding Ecuador, which, along with the United States, are all now beaming beam-ing their programs on Russia. I don't know about the others, but the British seem to have quite a following follow-ing and since the Russian people are more Interested In America than in any other country, I see no reason why the state department's effort shouldn't be quite as successful. What are the chances? In the first place, radio listening has been developed de-veloped in Russia. People are encouraged en-couraged to have sets and they are short-wave sets because short-wave Is the communication method used by the Russian government. That's because of the great distance. How many have sets? When Averill Harriman was there he made an estimate of 75.000 sets. A later estimate put the figure as 75,000 to a million. According to the Russian five-year plan the goal is 325.000 for the first year. We know that the Russians seized all the radio sets they could in territory they occupied; also the government returned re-turned all sets seized from Russian citizens during the war. by Baukhage March weather is uncomfortable. Too hot for galoshes; too wet without with-out them. Apologies to my listener In Hope, Ark., who claimed I put a rat in apparatus instead of a ray In ap-paraytus. ap-paraytus. Tomaytos, tomahtoes, to-matos to-matos that's what you get lor moving around. Rural America Has Major Role In Annual Red Cross Campaign r 7 -t . w Atfb W ' n s ' y '' ' it I I FRIENDLY FLAVOR . . . Tvni-ral Tvni-ral of the variety of Red Cross services that makes hospital routine rou-tine take on the flavor of life outside out-side are the various duties performed per-formed by Red Cross Gray Ladies at McGuIre Veterans hospital, Richmond, Va. Farm Leaders Laud Red Cross in Urging Support in Campaign Paying tribute to the Red Cross as a "good neighbor." Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, has urged rural America to support the 1947 fund campaign. "It is a neighbor who works for a better local community and, at the same time, for a better world community," Anderson declared. "Rural people are grateful to the Red Cross. Rural America knows the vnlue of good neighbors and gets real satisfaction from cooperating coopera-ting with them." Two other farm leaders. A. S, Goss, master of National Grange, and Edward A. 0'Ne-:l, president of American Farm Bureau federation, federa-tion, also endorsed the current drive. Goss characterized the Red Cross service as "indispensable," pointing point-ing out that "throughout a large part of the world the suffering and need arising from war are almost as great as during the days of conflict."'"'': con-flict."'"'': "The great work of the American Red Cross, whose principal objective objec-tive it the alleviation of human misery, has become legendary," O'Neal asserted In his tribute. "No matter how great the need," he continued, con-tinued, "it has always been able to accomplish its mission of mercy because be-cause of the generosity of the American Amer-ican public." Churches Utilize Chartered Buses To Swell Crowd PHILADELPHIA. PA. As a means of swelling attendance, 15 Philadelphia churches are engaged In a novel experiment of providing provid-ing "portal-to-pew" transportation services. The program involves buses chartered char-tered by churches to make scheduled sched-uled stops at pre-arranged street corners to pick up parishioners, carrying them to church and then returning them home after services. serv-ices. The 15 churches hire from one to four buses regularly every Sunday. Clergymen admit they are prepared to "cater" to members as a means of maintaining and Increasing attendance. at-tendance. Attendance at Holmesburg Methodist Meth-odist church has been boosted 30 to 40 per cent in the year the church has used chartered buses. Historic Gloria Del (Old Swedes) Protestant Episcopal church, situated situ-ated in a neighborhood formerly residential but now entirely commercial, com-mercial, also has resorted to chartered char-tered buses. Old Swedes bus riders pay a minimum mini-mum of 10 cents a ride, with "the sky the limit." On a rainy Sunday, one grateful parishioner slipped the driver a $10 bill. Church officials agree that the transportation problem Is more pressing now than ever and that it affects all denominations. Many families have moved from the old neighborhood, yet still desire to attend their old church. In other cases, public transportation is not available to residents of outlying areas and new residential districts. lack of Sleep Termed Harmful as Too CHICAGO. Lack of sleep can produce the same symptoms as drinking one too many cocktails, declares J. P. Fanning who, as secretary sec-retary and general manager of National Association of Bedding Manufacturers, has studied sleeping from every angle. "There ought to be a law against staying awake too long," he insists. Persona who think sleep is a waste of time are as dangerous as those Agency to Stress Four Main Fields Of Service in 1947 WNV Features. Rural America the provision provi-sion stockpile of the nation-has nation-has an especially important share in the current fund campaign cam-paign of the American Red Cross, officials at the Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, national headquarters head-quarters emphasize. With a 1947 campaign goal of 60 million dollars, the Red Cross again is relying upon the rural areas and the small towns which center the farming communities for substantial substan-tial support in attaining its quota. Because 1947 will be in the nature of a "shakedown cruise" for a nation na-tion newly returned to peacetime, and because In the uncertainty of the postwar existence many Americans Ameri-cans are inclined to question the need to support even the most deserving de-serving of organizations Red Cross officials have related the answers to some of the "whys" of the fund campaign. Major Red Cross responsibilities responsibili-ties will be four-fold In 1947-18. They Include service to veterans veter-ans and their families; to men In army and navy hospitals; to men serving with the armed forces overseas or In this country, coun-try, and to the community. During the war period of 1941-46, Red Cross was supported by contributions contri-butions in the. amount of $784, IS 1,000 in five fund campaigns. In numbers, rural community chapters 2,908 of them account for more than three-quarters three-quarters of all the Red Cross chapters chap-ters in America. With the overwhelming over-whelming majority of their workers work-ers unpaid volunteers the Red Cross said, these smaller chapters were the backbone of the ARC during the war and will continue to be so in peace. Expand Services. In the coming year, on a greatly reduced budget, the Red Cross will conduct a program exceeding any previous pencetime operation in its entire history. Services for veterans and the armed forces and their families will be the major concern of the Red Cross. The increasing need for assistance to veterans will continue for years Approximately 1,100,000 veterans and their families Were assisted by Red Cross last year through its workers in chapters alone. Thousands more were aided by Red Cross workers in hospitals. Under authorization of Veterans' administration, there are 155 Red Cross field directors and assistant field directors in 105 VA hospitals. Nearly 350 Red Cross claims experts ex-perts are stationed in VA offices throughout the nation. In Puerto Rico. Hawaii and the Philippines. On army posts and naval stations Small Town Rates Frequent Mention As 'Coldest Spot' BIG PINEY, WYO. - Although this little cattle-raising community nestled in the Wyoming mountains has only 241 residents, it probably rates mention in the nation's newspapers news-papers more often than any other small town in the country. It's not at all unusual for stories about weather conditions to include the statement that "the coldest spot in the country was Big Piney, Wyo., with 20 degrees below zero." The dubious distinction of being the "nation's ice box" is blamed by the weather bureau on a "cold air drainage" off the mountains lying to the west of the town, which is situated in a mountain valley of 6,280 feet altitude. "Masses of cold air drain off the mountain range into the valley just like streams of water," the weather bureau explains. "There Is also an elevation to the east. This inclosure prevents the wind from sweeping out cold air and warming up the valley." Frigid blasts are almost a year?, around proposition. Big Piney had only a 61-day growing season last year, compared with 148 growing days at Cheyenne, some 300 miles to the southeast. Street 'Strays' SANTA FE. N. M.-Camino de las Vacas Street of the Cows has been lost or strayed in this ancient city. Notified that the street is 40 feet south of where it was originally established 60 years ago, the city council ordered the street committee commit-tee "to corral the straying street." who never want to stop drinking, Fanning warns. Sleeplessness, he adds, slows their reactions and makes it unsafe for them to drive automobiles. "Anyone who feels sleepy ought to try walking a white chalk line," he says. "They might actually be drunk, even without liquor." Fanning declares he has scientific proof that sleeplessness is as harmful harm-ful at drunkenness. A group of sci y -j fp " - . i I; -.Von' ' i L ' .... 1 ----- - - -v ........ . ft I1ELPINO HAND . . . Red Cross Gray Lady Mrs. John W. Johnson has a long shopping list. She is shown adding Items wanted by a patient at Bay Pines Veterans hospital, St. Petersburg' Fla. She'U buy them at the canteen and downtown. In this country and overseas. Red Cross field directors are serving, giving emergency assistance, counseling coun-seling and helping keep the men in communication with their families at home. In the field of community service, Red Cross disaster work Is a round-the-clock operation opera-tion the country over. National, state and local governments expect ex-pect the Red Cross to assume leadership In disaster preparedness prepared-ness and relief, and rural areas know well the work of Red Cross following tornadoes, floods and fires. Red Cross first aid, water safety and accident - prevention services have been carried on in all communities com-munities of this country. First aid instruction for young people and adults, swimming classes for children chil-dren of the community, and spreading spread-ing the gospel of safety from farm accidents, are several ways these Red Cross safety services function. Aid Rural Areas. Red Cross home-nursing instruction instruc-tion in rural communities where hospital facilities are scarce is receiving re-ceiving greater emphasis. Community Commu-nity nutrition classes teach the homemaker how better to prepare and preserve foods. The American Junior Red Cross, with its 19 million youngsters, provides pro-vides effective channels through, which school children throughout America may put to practice citizenship citi-zenship responsibilities and good neighbor practices with children of nations overseas. Sawing Proves Easy as Sewing, Woman Insists JACKSON, MICH. -Although she has made her living for years as a dressmaker, Mrs. Myrtle Ann Dibble Dib-ble Is as adept with a hammer and saw as with a needle and scissors. For proof, she soon will have a seven-room house completed practically prac-tically entirely by her own efforts. Faced with a housing problem, Mrs. Dibble decided that if she could cut and sew dresses she also could "run up" a house for herself and her two young daughters. Work was commenced last May when the basement was dug, the only time Mrs. Dibble called in professional pro-fessional help. She mixed her own cement, the two daughters. Lauretta Laur-etta Lee, 13, and Mona Mae, 12, hauling the blocks while she set them. More than 1,000 blocks were required for the basement. . A mason. Inspecting the work, described de-scribed it as a "pretty good job." As the next step, Mrs. Dibble purchased pur-chased green oak logs and had them cut into boards at a sawmill. She fitted them herself, displaying blistered palms as evidence that green oak "saws plenty hard." Driving nails into that wood was "the hardest job I ever took on," she adds. Mrs. Dibble did all the electrical work in the basement and plans to wire the entire house. She also will do her own plumbing. A divorcee, Mrs. Dibble used her life savings to start the house. With expenses running higher than anticipated, an-ticipated, Mrs. Dibble was forced to return to dressmaking to get money to finish the house. Many Cocktails entists, he says, got 35 men "roaring "roar-ing drunk" by keeping them awake four days, after which they were as irresponsible as alcoholics. The sleep advocate says Hitler probably never would have torn the world apart "if he had gone to bed instead of staying up all night arguing in beer parlors." "Napoleon also was a shunner of sleep, and look what happened to him," he adds. SlilGECSCREEf&lAulO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE I IHE radio industry's been breaking out in a rash of birthday and anniversary celebrations, like the "Highways "High-ways in Melody" cocktail party at New Fork's 21, when the program began its 21st year on the air. But the nicest one was just for fun a luncheon at the Plaza given by NBC for Kay Kyser. j The "College of Musical Knowledge" Knowl-edge" man is wonderful when he's turned loose among friends, a top-notch top-notch entertainer, a delightful person. per-son. He got laughs from even the hardest-boiled newspaper people ' who write about radio year in andj year out and are definitely allergic ! to everything but the best broad-1 casts and sometimes even to i those! I No matter where you turn, there's ! Bob Hope in pictures, doing benefits bene-fits and guest shots, starring in his own program He's pretty pleased about hitting the top in the Hoover-atings Hoover-atings repeatedly, because people wondered whether he could reconvert recon-vert to civilian audiences after his concentrating on entertaining servicemen serv-icemen and war workers for so long. It took a little time, but he's done it. Cute Gale Storm has been seeing New York, in company with her husband, and New York's been seeing see-ing Allied Artists' "It Happened on Fifth Avenue," in which Gale stars. Born Josephine Cottle, of Texas, she won the feminine division of Jesse La sky's "Gateway to Hollywood" Holly-wood" radio talent search back in 1939; in 1942 she signed a seven-year seven-year contract with Monogram, and she's definitely on her way up. - All of os who've been missing Jean . Arthur during her absence from the screen are cheering loudly because at last she's going to make another picture. Sounds like a perfect per-fect role for her, too in "Foreign Affairs" she'll be an American con-gresswoman con-gresswoman investigating the morale mo-rale of U. S. occupation troops in Germany with Billy Wilder writing the piece and Charles Brackett producing, pro-ducing, for Paramount. The CBS "The Adventures of Sam Spade" is sprinkled with star dust First, Lurene Tuttle was picked for a role in her first picture, "Heaven Only Knows." Now Howard Duff, who's "Sam," has been signed for "Brute Force," to be made by Universal. Uni-versal. X As an angel come to earth in "Heaven Only Knows" Robert Cum-mings Cum-mings is indifferent to gunfire because be-cause he knows no bullet can hit him. But it took all his control to play a scene nonchalantly, as expert riflemen placed bullets all around him! Cathy and Elliott Lewis are quite a pair; she does all the leading ladies on "Suspense" when male stars are scheduled; he gets star billing on "The Case Book of Gregory Greg-ory Hood." They wrote "The Thirteenth Thir-teenth Sound," which Agnes Moor-head Moor-head did on "Suspense" recently but wrote themselves out of it. And they've written a half-hour show, In which they would star, which should hit the air waves before long. Seems there's a shortage of camels. 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