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Show 1948 Campaign Maneuvers Started Top Republicans Angling For Presidential Candidacy By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. More than two weeks before congress adjourned, the last bit of fight went out of it and it looked very much as though it would glide rapidly but smoothly to an unperturbed finish. Then the Missouri scandal raised Its ugly head. Sen. James P. Kem (Rep.. Mo.), insisted that he was going to present his resolution, S. Res. 150, to investigate the Justice department's handling of the alleged Kansas City vote frauds in 1946. This, despite the fact that the Judiciary committee commit-tee of the senate already had decided against such a probe. io me uepuDiicans wis was Dy- no means an unpleasant dish to have on the fire - . nrn-niinjiiim hi mmtwmnw)imi mwu,,, . . I f i ! V1'; ,f 1 V" , . ; h- i - r I I'- f a ' U 1 U I : 1 N t H ; j Baukhage for they Intend to make it one of the pieces de resistance re-sistance of the campaign. But they didn't want to start it cooking cook-ing before adjournment ad-journment for they realized that while too many cooks can't spoil this broth, it might make ev erybody late for dinner dinner back home. The Democrats, of course, were set to fight it and some of the Republicans Re-publicans rather than prolong the ' battle, wanted to forget it for the present. It couldn't be entirely neglected for, despite violent digging on the part of the Republican and Democratic Demo-cratic national committees, no really real-ly luscious campaign issue has been unearthed. The Pendergast issue will be used but it cannot be depended upon as a major weapon in the battle of 1948. At present the Republicans, although al-though they are optimistic enough concerning the final victory, realize that It cannot be achieved without some heavy artillery capable of smashing the Democratic defensive, the strongest feature of which to date is the poll the poll that showed In July that Harry Truman still had 54 per cent popular majority. That is why a lot of politicians on Capitol Hill are saying: "We'll win with Dewey," not just, "We'll win." You'd be surprised to see how many good Democrats turn sadly way, without replying to the Republican Re-publican boast. There is one group, of course, which is insisting stubbornly: "We'll win with Taft." They may admit if you put them in a corner that they can't "win with Taft now," because of the positive evidence re fleeted In the Truman poll and the negative evidence revealed in the Taft poll. But, they say, "Taft hasn't started to campaign. When he does he'll change all that." How about Warren of California. toward whom those who like neither Taft's conservatism nor Stassen's liberalism nor Dewey's deweyism are looking hopefully? Well, there is one story that Warren couldn't possibly swing the No. 1 place and that he doesn't want the No. 2 job-that job-that what he does want is the attorney at-torney generalship. , At this writing nobody is afraid of the formation of a third party by the left-wingers who would follow fol-low Wallace in the hope of building him up for 1952 or merely to spite everybody else. As to a "revenge" labor vote for the Taft-Hartley act. Taft's friends are going to insist that he was the man who saved it from being a really vicious anti-labor weapon. Shortly after the veto was overridden, over-ridden, he Indicated that the clauses which muzzle the labor press and prevents them from expressing their political views should be amputated. In fact, some people who are much farther to the left than Taft. in both parties, insist that this bill is going to lose its terrors with time, that familiarity will bring, not contempt, con-tempt, but the realization that it may be "used" by both management manage-ment and labor to their advantage just as the railway labor act, much-belabored much-belabored in its early days, eventually eventu-ally became a useful all-around gadget. gad-get. Meanwhile, the White House contingent con-tingent has not been heard humming hum-ming Tosti's "Goodbye." rnvUft'rittftirii ftiWaiilf-ltu'Ouj.' NOSTALGIC SCENE ... A scene dear to the hearts of old-timers Is that of mares at the watering trough. These three Percherons are typical of the many blue-bloods who will be rounded up from farms throughout the U. S. to compete at the National Percheron ahow August 23-29 at the Ohio state fair In Columbus. NEWS REVIEW Aid to Poland Cancelled; Reds Delay Jap Treaty i k tr Serving the Public wnat does the word "advertise" mean to you? Does it mean "to warn, to give notice to, to inform, to notify, to make known to"? Or does it mean some sort of high-powered high-powered skull-duggery involving skyscrapers, sky-scrapers, Hollywood blondes, billboards bill-boards and singing commercials? The first definition was written by Webster (not the serfetor, the gentleman gen-tleman who wrote a dictionary). The other concepts are the result of a rash of lampoonery of advertising which, while some of it may contain con-tain a grain of truth, looks to me like biting the hand that is not feeding feed-ing you. The big, bad novel about adver-Using adver-Using at its blooming worst was called "The Hucksters." a best seller sell-er highly salted with erotica which has been turned into a movie. There is no accounting for tastes, and I won't object if you see the picture and like it. All I ask: "Don't accept ac-cept the advertising sequences as the literal truth. There is much about advertising I could loudly decry (and often do) at the risk of biting the hand that is not feeding me. But there are "hucksters" who are undertaking projects of a very decent sort of which you may not be aware. I Maybe in these past few months you ve asked yourself: Why doesn't somebody DO something about a lot of things. Something" about the people killed or injured in automobile accidents every year. Something about housing. The war ended two years ago. Yet the land of the free still isn't providing homes for the brave. Shame on all of us! Something about the shortage of medical services. Patients are neglected, neg-lected, hospital wards closed because be-cause the nation desperately needs nurses. Training them is a long-range, long-range, national Job. Something about world trade. Our economic future depends on unhampered unham-pered world trade. Yet pressure groups make our world trade a football foot-ball for selfish interests. Something about the nation's health. Between theges of 15 and 84. tuberculosis is our greatest killer. kill-er. At any given time. 500,000 pec pie have it But they don't know it Alarming? You bet it is. Something about our kids. Your children are getting a rough deal in scnooL Too few teachers. Too antiquated equipment, old textbooks or none at all Make you mad? It should. What has all this to do with advertising? ad-vertising? Just this: The above words were copied from an advertisement, adver-tisement, a full-page advertisement In a recent New York Times, and perhaps other papers by this time. It isn't an ordinary ad. It Is not directed primarily to the people without homes, without nurses, it is directed to the persons and organ! zauons wno can help bring these facts home to the general public to you. it is an ad written by and about the Advertising Council, con cerning an operation of which al most everyDody is conscious but about which few people know the details. ' It is an operation based on giving away wnat the givers ordinarily sell advertising space, advertising ideas, advertising copy. It answers the question: "Why doesn't some body DO something?" The reply is it's given in works as well as words "Somebody IS." The council grinds nobody's axe except yours, the public's, seeks no profits, asks no expense account, has only one objective: To make America Amer-ica a still better place than it already al-ready is. The Advertising Council was born a week after Pearl Harbor when Donald Nelson, about to take over chairmanship of the war production board, called in a group of advertising advertis-ing executives and discussed with them what the average citizen could do to help victory and incidentally, wnai wouia make him do it. Now you are reading and hearing the results of the council's peace-toie peace-toie efforts they are embodied In the various forms of advertising of many firms, as spots on the radio, many other places. The council is providing suggestions, ideas, radio fact sheets and other material to members of business firms, unions, civic groups and other citizens who can put that tremendous power, advertising, ad-vertising, to work personalizing big national problems. j POLAND AID: Canceled ouowing a report py a u. 5. sur vey mission that Poland has enough food to meet her minimum require' ments at least for this year, the state department canceled Poland's share of the 350 million dollar American relief program, In its announcement, the state de partment said that special items. such as medical supplies and sup- lementary foodstuffs for particular groups, could be supplied Poland through private relief agencies and other organizations. The announcement added: "In view of the above and of the fact that funds available are sufficient suffi-cient to meet only the most urgent relief needs, it has been decided not to undertake a relief Droeram tnr Poland." Next on the list, according to indications, in-dications, might be Hungary, where better crop prospects are in sight. The state department said that the decision to cut off relief to Poland was based entirely on the relative needs of European countries. coun-tries. No official comment was made on the fact that Poland is well within the Soviet sphere of influence in-fluence and that Hungary is definitely defi-nitely Communist-dominated. NEW SPLIT: Peace Treaty Russia's rejection of the United States proposal for drafting a Japanese Japa-nese peace treaty is showing up as another breach in the already badly weakened structure of American-Soviet American-Soviet unity. In addition, It may delay indefi nitely work on a peace treaty for Japan which, the United States contends, con-tends, is an absolute necessity If the conquered nation ia to get back on its economic feet American proposals for begin ning tne task of writing a treaty on August 19 were turned down by Moscow on the grounds that the U. S. was attempting to act unilaterally uni-laterally and without having made any previous agreements with Great Britain, China or Russia. Major question now facing the United States and other nations interested in-terested in making progress on a Far East peace settlement is whether to go ahead with the writing writ-ing of the Japanese peace treaty without Russia. 1 GUN T0TER: Coincidence For a few minutes Washington puuee mougni mey mignt nave a would-be assassin on their hands when they picked up a man carrying carry-ing a gun inside the capitol just after Fresident Truman had made a visit to the senate chamber". But Clifton R. H. Spires, 39. of Augusta, Ga., arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, appeared ap-peared more confused than anyone else about the affair. He seemed to think that he had a grudge aeainst "the big shots in Washington," but apparently held no animosity toward to-ward the President Later, he was sent to a Washington Washing-ton hospital for observation. The coincidental appearance of President Truman in the senate chamber was the result of a dare which he took while having lunch with some of his former colleagues from the senate. He spoke for five minutes from the seat he held as the senator from Missouri, dwelling largely on the "auld lang , syne" theme. READING PUBLIC: 49 Per Cent Heard It is probably a safe surmise that Secretary of State George Marshall was shocked clear down to the bot tom of his briefcase when a Gallup poll revealed that only about 49 per cent of America's voting population naa heard or read of bis cele brated plan for repairing and rebuilding re-building Europe's shattered econ omy. On the other hand, he could take some consolation from the fact 57 per cent of those who were aware of the Marshall plan also approved of it (The plan, in simple terms, was m suggestion to the European nations mat they get together to work out their economic salvation on a coober. tive, self-help basis. Playing a major rvtw n nnanctnt the recover tunulA be American money obtained through taxation of both the 49 per cent who dm oeara of the plan and the 51 per tent woo oaan t.j Here is the first question which Gallup pollsters asked: "Have you heard or read about the Marshall plan for helping Europe get back on its feet?" DREW 'PEARSON Motive Behind. Greek Revolt ACCORDING to the diplomatic grapevine from Athens, the l y so-caned Communist uprisings inside Greece were carefully care-fully timed not by the Communists, but by the Tsaldaris Maximos government to coincide with the departure from the U. S. of former Gov. Dwight Griswold, Greek aid administrator admin-istrator for Athens. The Greek government's motive is to convince Griswold that the Tsaldaris-Maximos regime is essential to the security of the country and must remain in power. Actually, what happened was that the E.A.M., or so-called Communist group, was holding conferences with Prof. Alexander Svolos of Athens university just a few days previously with a view to a political compromise compro-mise by which they could resume participation in Greek political affairs under U. S. protection, when, suddenly, about 4,000 of them were arrested. U. S. diplomats are pretty well convinced that there can be no political po-litical stability in Greece and no success for the American aid program if the present reactionary Greek regime remains in power. Even patient Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh is reported to have come to this conclusion. conclu-sion. To counteract this, Tsaldaris is doing his best to convince Griswold that there would only be more chaos If the present Greek government resigned. WALTER WINCHELL irVY ".- 111 Notes of a Bystander ine Late Watch: Manv of the women up at the Columbia university univer-sity faculty section are reported soooo fluttery over General Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's appointment. They're all getting perms, new fall outfits, etc. Observation: In the papers a photo of Harry Truman's birthplace disclosed that it now is occupied by a loan firm! The Keeley institute of Illinois (where drunks are dried up) explodes ex-plodes the cinematic legend that newspaper men are rumpots. Out of 12,012 palcoholics treated there (between 1930 and '46) only 95 were newspaper men. The others oth-ers were architects, brokers, bankers. bank-ers. But topping the list for Worst tipplers (hold 'er, Newt!) were farmers. PAUL MALLON The Show Folks: The hat-check lass named Helen Westcott started playing in "The Drunkard" 13 ydars ago as the baby. As understudy to all the femmes in the cast (although she rarely goes on) she is the troupe's most useful member. Helen can play all the roles, and has. Quotation Marksmanship: M. K. Johnson: She nagged him into another woman's life. . . . Hecht-O'Rourke: He's the vice of experience. . . . Percy Faith: Her eyes lit up like two vamps. . . . Corey Ford: She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting Into words. 49 TS YES 1948 Race Is Like a Pretzel "pHE political situation is shaping up like an unterminated pretzel. You A can see the curves up to now plainly enough. But where the dough maze will wind up, nobody knows. Dewey went out to make character in the West. From New York with 96 convention delegates, he went out to the six delegate states, not to gather party votes, as popularly supposed, but chiefly chief-ly to gather a 10-gallon political disposition. Candidates often make the same trek for the same purpose at this stage. If Dewey went after delegates, he should have Ington to see the Republicans in both houses of congress. This is where the delegates are. Senator Martin has the 76 or so from Pennsylvania in an inside pocket. Senators Taft and Bricker could tell Dewey about Ohio, and probably also Indiana and Illinois, although It might not be anything Dewey wants to hear. Speaker Martin could issue Massachusetts Massachu-setts and probably all New England like script. Harold Stassen could tell him about Minnesota and perhaps Iowa; Wherry about Nebraska-Baldwin Nebraska-Baldwin about Connecticut, and so on. Dewey could take a pencil and Daoer. come to Washing a roh less railroad fare and ascertain he lacks a maioritv nf rtpWateo nntm,i favorite son support He might win a few primaries next spring and show some strength (this is what he is figuring on, they say) in whicb case the boys might come up to his backroom at Albany. bo wniie uewey is supposed to be making a runaway race oat of it, no one will predict where he goes from here. Taft is going . west himself, and will identify himself while there as the only prominent opponent of Dewey to date. H. L PHILLIPS Comments on the Day's News J. Caesar Petrillo admits before a house committee that he draws down about $60,000 a year, which we assume helps immeasurably to sustain sus-tain his love of music. "I don't think the cause of atomic energy has been served by this disclosure dis-closure of the theft of certain data." Senator Hickenlooper. U-vr av - t as SEEK WORLD'S OPIXIOX Eugene Pulliam, Indiana Ind., newspaper publisher, , his wife scan world atlas prtp tory to leaving on world ton, find out what the plain people over think of the United Sta tin! f'fea ilnt cai sen id? oft 18 e' as: dec fhei lie to n o Am i it Iving Vned 1 1 t. ! St( anic ts tc :ng ts tl eing kvhit T7T VCf W17 Jltl f tM w A. Lewis, Los Angeles attorn; has been elected . grand exa! ruler of Benevolent and ProtJ tive Order of Elks. Those who had heard of the plan were asked: "What is your opinion of the plan?" 7Y J 21 22 APPgQVE DISAPPROVE OPINION VANISHING AMERICANISMS "Remember, we have to hold our customers.'" "One overcharged Matron is a Intt Patron." "Our iob is tn mah Ua feel be got bts money's worth." m m Rationing is comine hack, it la freely predicted, there being no other oth-er way that we can send to Euron the things reauired. Fvprvthin "POINTS," as it were, that way. One nice thing about war In th old days was that you could almost always tell when it was over. j WALTER SHEAD Congress Plays Good Samaritan VT!30 of export and said: wwmam, asKea Divine Guidance "May freedom be seen not as the right to do as we nlease but as the onnortimiHr . . 118 we P,ese he " wla "Sbt- May The cause, we take it, is better served by just letting the secrets be stolen and saying nothing about it whatever. In short, the senator h. lieves that whether the bomb should be dropped or not, the matter of its proper protection should be. . iff", fie tl bi mm ime an M'.y. J IS ' ' ; T, . ' - ? ' w ; iies f - Jv r ' :ed C ' ' "t t ani I ' '"" S J he : - ', - I" - Uedl : - 3 . fueui P cis to iFlam &, wa Ises i JJUXUH FORCES ..A Gen. S. H. Spoor issued an orcf or the day announcing openinf nosuiities between Dutch for and Indonesian troops, follow collapse of negotiations Dutch and Indonesian ments. behtrfFir da govenp!is at f 'attac As a footnote, the poll disclosed that while public opinion was generally gen-erally in favor of Marshall's proposal, pro-posal, support would decline sharp- kt u taxes naa to be raised in order io put it through. be understood that our liberty is under God and for the rights NOT ALL OUTGO Peak Foreign Income Reported WASHINGTON. Com npnatin In Ktj . i A WASHINGTON.-Compensating in tributed to an increase of direct in. vestments abroad. These are direct private business investments not government loans. uey mciuae principally foreign branches end subsidiaries of Amer ican enterprises, and foreign companies com-panies in which Americans own more than 25 per cent of the voting stock. 6 About one-half of the 1946 income or 273 million dollars, was received from .Latin America, and one-fourth. one-fourth. 126 million dollars, from Canada. The remaining fourth-was divided between Europe. Asia, Af-nca Af-nca and Oceania. Among the countries Involved, an infinitesimal degree for the vast sums of United States money which nave flowed abroad during the post war era for relief of devastated countries, earnings on American in vestments in foreign countries reached a new peak of 520 million dollars last year, it is revealed in a department of commerce survey. The return, highest in history, surpassed sur-passed by 18 per cent the best year of the 1930s and was well above the preceding peak of 474 million dollars dol-lars earned in 1928. For 1938, top year of the '30s. the figure was 440 million dollars. The higher return was largely at- v-uidaa nas consistently occupied uisi piace. countries next In im portance in providing income on American direct Investments were Venezuela, uule. the United Kingdom, King-dom, Cuba. Argentina, BrazU and Mexico. Largest single income producer was the petroleum industry, which accounted for 170 million dollars in 1946. Manufacturing was second with returns approximating 130 mil lion aoiiars. Mining and smelting produced 65 ,siu j-n ..." ' " i million- u" - Udruenuis mat ttt. . -6-"-"iuic, ,3 mimon uas stamina. uumuuon industries, 40 million, and other industries, 20 million. ever . m m .,.- lo r . . "u van De iouna no- wne-e eise. Let us. as a nation nt .-:, , .. . . . c "iu oi sianmng alone s or men, since we wcn kn, nation on earth that came into being .f the Glory of God and Zl advancement of the Christian faith!' the And in answer to an objection h .c, t. ... Tn iu. " " ircupies adequate." tween $5 and $6 per bushel Ar,,i 7 Z controls was be-Young be-Young said AiLi?. controls' Senator WRIGHT PiTTF.nsnh 1 r1 r-n Military rmnincr WJll AZA Vl. j " in zuu 1UUL1J temporarily, the physical hardening. We may not, wa hope we do not, have to fight another war. but war or no war, military training for all the young men of America win make lor a better bet-ter nd more successful citizenship, citizen-ship, it will give to that Urge percentage that needej training they have not had. IJMVERSAL military training wuld instill in youn men thp two essentials of the soldier's" life-discipline life-discipline and endurance. These two essentials come from training, and with that training Universal military training would give to our vni,n men those two first essentials, and. If . .i,.".r Eel 60 ify It it" J! 5 ; ' h f I 1 1 4 tak ; ' A' i V fa ' j- f "pn I f h : 1 ' i ' ched r fer - !e doi; JbJ"-"---nllm ' n "ir nnHintiOTH I r-wves. hi, i a nneso rrvnFRirrf.i xxt Lockridge Jr., professor of E4s Wt , om, iiuicc or iour cnuaren, down to his last $100 when honriV tVtrt 1. : i , up v. 4 tree County," had won Metfej nation Goldwyn-Mayer novel award ilhiry worth $150,000. iso! Snd re: i ', , r of, I , ;'ofaie r M7haci A f. coi f " I Mc - I men ' f f y 1 f 3BUR F""-or t !;1 when th. .. nv tic XEW SECRETARY . . . K" I Royall was appointed by dent Trnmnn aa kitpLiTT f ' 1 to succeed Robert Patterson. resienpil after seven rears i ' " . nl 1 war department. RoyaD 'Reris dersecretary of war. |