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Show TIIE LEIII SUN. LEIII, UTATI homes Uncertain rr eimosra I' TANK Afoj r PERM ENTER 5' 1948 C .It"" F ' i J 1 I ( i j fe taunts I ' It. r. miiMrM Baukhage Three weeks later, the survey was confirmed at the polls with election of a Republican Repub-lican congress. But today, Mr. Truman's popularity popular-ity is way up. A year ago the score was 53 to 47 in favor of the Republicans; Re-publicans; in the last count it was 56 to 44 in favor of the Democrats. On the question: "Do you approve ap-prove or disapprove of the way Mr. Truman is handling his job as President?" the scoreboard ' said: Approve 55 per cent Disapprove 29 per cent. The rest expressed no opinion. Much water has flowed over the dam since the two polls were taken. More will flow; and, at any rate, no poll can measure the imponderables imponder-ables facing the Democrats They have been going through a whole cycle of hopes and fears. The October Octo-ber poll may have been almost as surprising as pleasing to party leaders. lead-ers. They know there must be an end to all things, and it is pretty hard to prove that the stream has not been crossed and that the voters who used, sometimes, to elect Republican Re-publican presidents, still shudder at the danger of changing horses. The one biggest abstract obstacle to the election of the Democratic president is the fact that the Democrats Demo-crats have just been around too long. Undoubtedly the biggest concrete con-crete threat is General Eisenhower. Eisenhow-er. When that atomic boom first threatened to break, the President was on the high seas, but the details de-tails were reported to him blow by blow and it was quite a blow. Probably the next biggest headache is the Internal condition condi-tion of the party. After long I delay and much dissatisfaction, a new national chairman, Sen. Howard McGrath (Dem.. R. I.) was selected, and welcomed in most quarters. He has a job cut out for him because the Democratic Demo-cratic machine has grown very rusty in the last years, and it Is not only rust which has corrupted. Nor is it the machine alone that creaks. WiU-o-the-wisp Wallace with His constant threat of a third is a threat to the Democratic party useu. iNoooay Delieves that a third party candidate could possibly be elected as uungs stand now. But did you ever see that tram. safety slogan: "Don't try to guess wnai a cniid will do?" Democratic leaders are up against the same thing. They don't dare guess what that problem child, Henry Wallace, Wal-lace, will do. He is quite capable going aneaa and starting a third party with the full knnu,w it couldn't accomplish anything but me eiecuon oi a Republican president,. uura party would have not merely a nuisance-value, but Wal lace might dream up a long-range scheme of leading a political labor movement like Britain's. Brit-ain's. After many defeats, that turned into a political party which finally attained power and put a socialistic impress on the whole British na. tional economy So Wallace threat is a verv defl- Truman's Popularity Grows But Party Itself Is Shaky By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. (This follows a series on the men most talked shout as candidates for the Republican presidential nomination). WASHINGTON. One Sunday last month, a friend and I watched President Truman unveil a plaque on Covenant First Presbyterian church. The occasion was a ceremony establishing estab-lishing the church as a national house of worship for Presbyterians. Presby-terians. 3 Just previously, a wreath had been laid on the nearby statue of John Witherspoon, Presbyterian clergyman, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Inde-pendence, and one-time president of what is now Princeton university mere never was a lime, fresi-" dent Truman said, in paying trib ute to John Witherspoon, "when we needed more of the backing of those people who believe in the Golden Rule, and who believe in the teach ings of Jesus Christ." The President vs, of course, speaking of moral support, but he had reason to be rather cheerful because be-cause of another kind of backing which he had just learned he had the kind measured by Dr. Gallup's polls. Gallup called it "one of the most dramatic reversals of political sentiment senti-ment in history." On October 18 of last year, the poll reported Democratic Demo-cratic party strength at its low est point in 16 years. Franklin Roosevelt claim? was no labor vote, as such. Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Perk-ins said there was none, and in those days, there wasn't, despite the existence of the American Labor party in New York City. I doubt that there is a "labor "la-bor vote" now, despite the AFL's new "Education and Public Pub-lic Relations" unit, and the CIO-PAC, CIO-PAC, and their threats to punish pun-ish supporters of the Taft-Hartley law. As a matter of fact, I understand opposition to the law is cooling, except where fires are being artificially fanned, and old-timers tell me it will (a) be modified and (b) be forgotten. for-gotten. The fall congressional election in the eighth Pennsylvania district where such Herculean efforts were put forth to make the bill an issue. didn't prove too much either wav. except that the highly-organized CIO campaign did NOT defeat the Re- puoiican candidate. Party Machinery Has Deteriorated It ' - - ' i - t ' - 1 N .... . V ,,::::. ., . . 'f. -W v i. i J 4 i i FALL IN . . . Harold S. Shields of Columbus, Ohio, a war veteran, won the grand prize (51,500) In the newspaper national snapshot awards contest this year with this picture of a baby sparrow In a situation unique among baby sparrows. Shields called it "Fall In." NEWS REVIEW Meat, Wheat Peril Seen; Get Tough: U. S. Public " 1 Wallace the nite one. And what about the labor vote? It has long been a theory. Iterated by former AFL boss Gompers, and (until passage of the Taft-Hartley act) reiterated by his successor. Mr. Green, that there was no such animal Democratic Dartv marhinprv hna deteriorated rapidly since 1938 when it was discovered that Roosevelt's coat-tails were no longer strong enough to put local candidates into office. Gradually, precinct, citv county and state organizations be gan to take far more interest in electing local officers than they were in working together as a unit lor the national candidate. In Roose vek s case, that was hardly neces sary. And the White House got into the habit of thinking it wasn't nec essary to do much for the local peo ple either. So the gulf widened. It is true that real bell-nneins was carried on by the left wing or. ganized around the CIO-PAC. but in some cases this suDDort Droved the kiss of death. The Democratic machine will have to work for the co-operation of Wallace and the present offshoots of CIO-PAC be cause it cannot afford to alienate that type of support Gallup a month or so ago reported in a survey cf political orientation that 50 per cent of the American people favored a middle - of - the - road policy. Of course, much depends on who becomes the Republican candidate for president. That is the reason that the possibility possibil-ity of an Eisenhower or even a MacArthor on the horizon raises jitters in the executive mansion. Much also will depend on the strength of the big city bosses. The Kelly machine is pretty weak. Chicago's Chi-cago's new Mayor Kennelly is giving giv-ing the city an administration such as it hasn't had in a long time. But he has weakened, not strengthened, the old Kelly outfit. However. I hear that Sen. Scott Lucas a down-stater, who always fought Kelly until the last time, may run for governor of Illinois. He is strong down-state. This might help Truman with the Illinois delegatioa How strong will the new Kansas City machine be? O'Dwyer is refurbishing re-furbishing Tammany, but the Tiger hasn't its old wallop. How much the greatly-weakened Hague machine ma-chine in New Jersey can contribute, contrib-ute, I don't know. There is one thing to be considered. Almost all the machines (except Crump's Memphis regulars) have been weakened weak-ened by the growth of power of the labor bosses. What the Democrats may gain by the labor bosses' infln. ence in attracting some of the liberals lib-erals who made up the Roosevelt following, may be lost in alienating alienat-ing some of the old-line party work ers. FOOD PUZZLE Meat vs. Wheat Domestic food situatinn in tht U. S. is entering a critical stage, with two aspects standing out in snarp opposition to each other: IThe government, determined to ship 500 million bushels of wheat to Europe by next June, is campaigning to save a major por tion ot that amount bv cutting down on tne leed consumption of cattle. hogs and poultry. That line of reasoning holds that smaller flocks and feeding to lighter weights will save more grain than any other sin gle effort. 2 The supply of meat Is going to be considerably less than it has been and the demand will be greater. great-er. Meat prices are expected to go much higher in 1948. Further cur-tailment cur-tailment of meat production bv sav. ing grain at the feed trough will intensify that already serious situ ation. There is no danger of a bread or food shortage of anv kind this win ter because of the nation's bumper wneat harvest. The pinch, if it comes, will aDDear after the miHHl of next year, precipitated by a cur rently threatening drouth and failure fail-ure of the winter wheat crop. Added to that is the fact that do mestic uses, plus exports, will leave rxom this year's harvest of 1.4 billion bil-lion bushels only a 100 million- bushel carryover by the time of tne next harvest too small a volume vol-ume in the event of a short crop. Meat, which right now is a little cheaper than it has been because more animals are being slaughtered, slaugh-tered, will continue in great demand de-mand next year because consumer buying power will remain high. The supply, however, will be 1 The agriculture department esti mates there will be onlv 21.5 hil- lion pounds of meat produced in 1948, compared to 23.2 billion pounds this year. There will be 4 million fewer cattle on farms nirt January than last January, small er nogs will be sent to market and there will be no increase in the stocks of sheep, which are at an 80-year low. s- .-:" si WINTER AGAIN , of Cheyenne. ' ' first snow of the !!M Cheyenne recenllV warm weather had .i enne's summer fl0B long season this year PLAGUE: Egypt Stricken Cholera, the dreaded black nlami is spreading so swiftly in Eevnt that a total of 6,000 dead has been predicted pre-dicted by year's end. With many stricken villa ees inf lated by troops, other small communities com-munities are ringed with bonfir day and night in the belief that fire wm keep out the disease. Meanwhile, neishborine nation. were taking steps to Drevent th spread of cholera from the Nile valley. Greece. Italv and Paio.. tine have discontinued International traffic, while private shipping lines will bypass Egyptian Dorts and air travel is diverted away from Egypt. Outside help in combatting tha disease is at a minimum in v.wnt Swiss scientists alone were said to be helping local health officers. There is a desperate shortage of vaccines, DDT and medical social ists. GET TOUGH: U, S. Approves Soviet leaders, who cry "war monger" every time an American diplomat splits an infinitive, are gravely in error if they suppose there is any major cleavaee be tween the American public's views on Russia and the state department's depart-ment's so-called "tough" policy to ward the Soviets. That conclusion was brought out In a recent Gallup poll which indi cated that, actually, the predomi nant mood of public opinion today JOHN BARLEYCORN TAKES A HOLIDAY . . . With Americans cut- In IT AnxMrn nn thats jfrtnlr Int e 4va titivinrrvr Fiirnnoatia ma V cfpn nt " mwiiu Miv ii u tuning ow vuii w u uu a J mim vjivuuj 4j w- ma a their eating, distilleries have stopped making whiskey for 60 days upon request of the citizens' food committee. Here, Joseph Rodo, employee at a Philadelphia distillery, is shutting off the valve that stops the mash from entering one of the huge vats. All grain unused by the distillers dis-tillers np to the shutdown will be turned back to the government. JUWHIUUUHWIIUJU". : yii) 4 fr-,. I t ."- t v , j . 5 V ' J f V ', : ? vty v.- I 'ytof ' V : S I 4 JV isidi 4' TUGBOAT AXXlP a , BeUowing orders from r of the salvage tug, Beat Angeles harbor is stain McKaye, able seaman, t plus, who is saving tugboat of her own. tin 3 SI .10 f : cnl tl s b; r.arme it fcrc favors an even touaher Dolicv than tne state department is following. Answers to the question, "Do you mime that hi dealing with Russia ana other countries the U. S. is in. sisting too much on having its own way?" were: Yes. 12 per cent: No. 78 per cent; No opinion, 10 per cent ifurtner, 62 per cent of the Ameri. can people believe that the U. s ia being too soft in its policy toward Russia. Only 6 per cent think it is being too tough, and 24 per cent say our official attitude toward the So, viets is about right HIPPO, HIPPO, HOORAY . . . Pygmy hippos that's a new ane. At any rate, this one in the picture is a new one, and its proud mother looks like she might be cheering the event lustily. Gtimdrop IV, the pygmy, was born not so long ago at the Washington, D. C, soo. He weighs 12 pounds, his mother is a delicate 450. The Washington zoo has bred about eight pygmy hippos, and is the only soo In the country that does. FINAL TOUCHES: Marshall Plan After caroming from praise to criticism to condemnation for thB past few months, the celebrated Marshall plan to help Europe regain re-gain its feet is beins whiDnerf into final shape under direction of Secretary Secre-tary of State George Marshall, its progenitor. One known fact loomed laree in the mind of the American taxpayer: The plan may cost un to 20 hiiiinn dollars for the four ing which it will be in effect. Marshall, who abandoned rarily his debating in the V. eral assembly, returned to his Washington office to put the finishing finish-ing touches on his plan, which will be bid before congress when the special session opens November 17. The Marshall plan, subject to late revisions, may be outlined broadly In these main points: 1 U. S. would make available to 1 Europe next year a combination of relief and recovery supplies totalling total-ling about six billion dollars. Relief supplies (food) would be fr- ro. covery supplies (machinery) would be financed with loans, p Because of shifting conditions, it will be impossible accurately to forecast the amount of help Europe Eu-rope will need beyond the first vear. "3 Sums from the U. S. would de-- crease each year as recovery progress was made. 4 The plan would be administered in the TT R ment agency and in Europe by an organization representing the 16 nations na-tions which drew up their estimate of needs at the Paris conference. !rom thi a is 18 thi A : I1 " nmj world. '! I ' ' l' - 1 CO , - , wla ' t ' i, ,'1 Vai ; I j ' " TV ( , ft veil ' . . X It r, V ' Jie I I I 1 DECRIES 'FUMBLING I eep DECRIES 'FUMBLING tifying In Washindoi senate war investigate tee, Bernard Baruch, ; adviser of nresidculs, "foot-dragging and fair World War II costttel sands of lives and t- ! dollars. i ' 'f?' x. '' ln'f ' J m a ffarfai ftakmt p of its fir'tettinj Siobil r.el I 'k of th defense tLen r i mari ! tnd 1 will bi "es an e tradl i "in tl FIGHTING CHOLERA EPIDFMIP rn.t weded to battle cholera JJ'F Vaccine "gently of the precious vaccine has been stepped Ir, It iTO and product,on laboratories in Philadelnhia aifJ. h P i 6 Sharpe nd Dohme sterilized roomlT Jiwi GbUeyfloZktinfflh,n plague area In Egypt as soon as it is rTady. th 75,000 WORKERS Building U.N. Home Huge Task The 65 million-dollar iob of con- I nirronfi, t.. . . . structing the United Nations' world capital along the East river in New York City will benefit more than 75.000 workers during the next three years, headquarters planning offi cials have predicted. Chief architects of the future sky scraper city of glass and marble estimated that a total of 25.000 dpt. sons eventually would be employed in construction and other direct work upon the actual site. An additional 50.000 workora in expected to contribute indirectly in proaucuon oi materials and in other outside labor. Labor expense will account for 42 million of the total 65 million dollar construction cost Currently, the more than an H. ministrative, architectural and engineering en-gineering members of the headquarters head-quarters planning staff are more or less marking time while they wait from day to day for some word on how the skyscraper project is to be financed. A sledge-hammer detail of 100 workers already has demolished about 40 per cent of the old slaughter slaugh-ter houses and garages now occupying occupy-ing the area, but no large-scale construction con-struction can begin until the general gen-eral assembly gives the go-ahead signaL And that signal will not be forthcoming forth-coming until a financing program, almost certainly to be based on a big United States loan, has been arranged. In the meantime, considerable work is being done on refinement of detailed designs, improvement of a master system for circulating people peo-ple and vehicular traffic through the International zone and on preliminary prelimi-nary surveys regarding interior de sign and furnishings. Officials say U. N. may decide to follow the example set by the League of Nations and accept furnishings fur-nishings from each member country, coun-try, each nation contributing a product for which it is famous like rugs from Persia and taDest. from Belgium. r REFUGEE . . SUte lajczyk, leader of the ant party and hesd Communist forces to F; fled from his country' possible persecution nists there. fix f - - ' 3 . ; ' r.' : 7 ,1 MAR A 'he cit -i Integr: i 'narin. 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