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Show urns Lincoln vitn tne Us spirit Ages DREW PEARSON III Martyr, Emancipator, Myth, Europe Needs New Hope Abe Is 'Builded Forever' W HAT rr.t t F ' - ;.! I.kfia We. U.C Ilif I 1 1 -- m1 t.l tins politic.il ymr, prcp ir.itinni ' Sit n lijrihii.iv in re chu Jly a m.ittcr ,f iiarn- i Jim. I1 ui li Dn (Jr at Kmancipat'irs writings to f.n a Uxt f"! .. I. i l l .irti-a- n iHitlUist. Hut Fttmi.nv 12 is the oc-- r n r :i mure t n a Jmi I a;'.i (t political spccclu-I.it. f.T l.jfl. crt, thmff r I m 1 . j i , ! x A H r I hit t!t iul. ij lu "li mourning veil of the day which she felt perhaps w much fur Lincoln then as it was for ps i; , , f' i. ' V her solder bus-- f TMtsi 1 who had bund L , , 4'z given his life in .MoaSfttl !,e tme cause. L To my mother, staring at that Coffin In Chicago, there alwav a confused impression of ftiouriung for the man she thought was not dead, but sleeping, and the father she never had seen Perhap that feehrig was Imparted to me. My (Hotter described ihe scene fo me It was clearly etched In her memory like the rest of the strange l.cgira which she took westward with her widowed mother from a little town In New York state las a bride, my grandmother had pioneered the West with her young New Yolk state farm born husband! were Of course, the memories bh red and blended, undoubtedly, with later repetition of the event, but the picture was clear, and I only wish 1 could repeat it in my moth cr's own words The train trip west, the arrival in the great eily. the crowd about her as she advanced slowly with her mot' cr h to the great hall Then the coffin which sne did not know was a roflm for theie was no such word in her tmv vocabulary. ller mother let go the' little gttl's hand to move back her own he ivv veil. Then the little girl remembond being lifted in the strong hands of the guard About him she could recall only a blue tunic, shiny brass buttons and Ihe smell of tobacco. Then the face of the sleeping" man and her mother's quiet tears Vi N Nm is POTUNDA CAPITOL! P. IE65, a! 3 M. Free Speech. Russian Style j The celebrated Christ-- j mas with a pm he criticism of Rus-sum factories bv the commercial duector id Mostorg, the Soviets hugest dep.ii tment s' ore The direc-t"- i n j ,i i .1 tt, .t the factories Iiu-sia- ! i r i- wire pp.duc.ng interior produrts He w mted it, me and better goods, g none mtihm.es, vacuum eltaners, rtli igci atm s and decent 'me. fui n Are you surprised that such eritn ism is permitted? If you are, you don't understand the Soviet system. Criticism is allowed as a sound method of correcting faults although it doesnt necessarily displace the which means banish"cure. ment temporarily or permanently to Siberia, Just as in Ihe good old days. I am reminded of columnist Lowell Mellett's story about the scope of Russian criticism. On his trip to Russia, he was shown around by a very clever female guide Mel-let- t asked her about freedom of the press, and she said. Oh, yes, they had a free press, the press continually criticized things, including gov eminent enterprises. Well, would they be allowed to criticize Stalin, Mellett wanted to know. Secretary Marshall wants the European recovery plan to be run by a single admini-t- i ator. not an eight-maboard as has been suggested If the old saw that the committee is a committee of three with two members out cf town is correct, perhaps Marshall is right g There were many other letters. One Irom the niece of one incoln's cabinet members, William Pitt I cssenden; another enclosing the announcement shown in the cut. a'. out I i f January saw three presidential messages presented to congtC'S Each document had many a passage born only to waste its fragrance on the desert air of an unsympathetic majoiity. Too bad the Republicans dont care for Mr. Trumans budget The budget message was printed up so nicely, bound so neatly, and it IS t unique unique in that it is the peacetime budget ever presented to any congress. b.g-ges- It ir t'msar t rer.ch as the spirit of Lim oln lives. live-- To the , 't'e cC''ri bu'-i- the ra'n mill Si- ai s ton's ti c a, '1 or - G j f " s ii to the his j vms r rough sha on a Si'ar an al'en.a B it e'ct.d Republican presidential nomination this year. But Roy A Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star and leading sentipromoter of ment. now says he definitely will f tnlit hat la tlr o if l.ii it.'e .. cJ newly FiuLi2or Roberts' prediction was that the general soon would remove himself from all consideration along those lines. Said Roberts: "I'll venture a guess that before June the general may take himself completely out of the political pic- ture. I am sure the message will come when he lays aside his mili- tary uniform February 15. He emphasized, though, that he was not ij caking for Eisenhower. With Alf Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nominee. Roberts had been doing most of the political for Eisenhower. Bill Legislation to establish a permaAmerinent, government-regulatecan rubner industry with a 675 annual capacity and a required annua! production of at least 225.000 tons a year has been introduced by Rep Baul Shafer (Rep, Mich). The bill refers throughout to the product in question as "American-madThe word rubber. thet.c,as the term for factory made rubber, is not mentioned. 000-t-- e drum-beatin- h h Christmas New Year's fall on Sa'urc: ivs the three hohdovs. two cone on week-:,- , is without the ai i ' f nnv id'nsvnrrac.es on the part 'p calerd ir I, our Div Pepten er 6 th's Div the last time February 22, and J ilv 4 all fell on' Sun-ay- s in 'he year was in 1920 Ihe ndt t me after this vear will be in 1976 The 'iecdng factor the ex'ra div 'February 29 So. 11049' May rerrng ( 39 sc v en le p it rs, Now th.s e the r'.'trp for ho kr )'a s nlerdir I,u to anue 'Mat s.fco the Conor ycur 20iX) (a reoi.ry er-- d iMhle by 400 js not a le t v. II be 32 more ip e,ir t d roe r J h 23. Nper d ever ir Sun- - n t a a i 'Vn subject to g about. a 1 srrltl tag fur a ttatU ir.irl Jautr hi Mill ataia .tt 4 est-- 0 V, ' p ft .. 4. ji J.!a s ii. t ' S f l FASTI X ; T im Neu- )iai Ac ua amatrJ nofoni uufinluti immrJialtlr t'HitcJ I fit mtiilatt from if I biJtnul. - ruing Arm ti t', J. hat ft Junat off mail kanu Ii fl'al tha by the unr hpf'tJ (A tom-pailmr- t, AU-VEC- IAXAI In NR (Silurt'i Father tre aa jihfnoj drnri'nn ! .r d.firrta diflfrmt WESTBROOK PEGLER lablrs at f I, r oil mam tiomghl o to Pam amd bui tl im de of An Imak Many retauranl which serve steak today do so merely as a courtesy. Claim they ackchelly lose money on them. . . . One night club owner really is working for the "real owners" cf the Joint his chef and three of the wait ers. Unionism li 4, h i.i lev uraht't 7 rial g of turn? he "wears bow tin exclusively'' md then a h to show him wearing a fm.r in hand. . . . The Luce bra.n trust has selected the name f..r its tt te-d- t rrmbmam uAo Am itertf for hum. . . . lit mow tollriti a rruarJ uAi.A lower from fbt Am bat impend om fbt amaitmr img. girt. Ten m 1 k A Safe, Sound I? Buy U. S. Sir- - beefing about the condition attai bed to I n. Ir Sam's aid gift of 3?0 million dollar. Would they like to Iry fur the CIO million dollar qur Tee lire Prp'l: The riere m Graier in a national mag say - r Mi I ugdl It iM li; 1. 1 ttit i I 1 4 j . , . II I a ." 'NTIBt ,tm n mag. due in lh ho U is "L'.e!." deodorant! fart ed i Its Worst i Sf Conti :!U! tngrHimi for a perfect, all purpose example of the J SHALL ever thank Dan Tobin stop d.t.v cf the unionism that was imposed upon the Americans by the late Roosevelt who. to do him justice, probably did not know the whole meaning of his acts. T tun's union, the Teamsters of the AFL. bars not only Communists but partial Communists who tel. eve selectively In parts of Communism, and all members of all "other subversive organizations." Tobin yield to none In hi reverence for The Memory, and few of hi brethren would deny that he Is qualified to go forth and bumble the master's word. Ills finest hour came the night when he stood host to Franklin in the Staffer hotel In the fall of '4t while moose jaw eaikled about hi dog, and venerable tosspots at the board busied glasses for emphasis. The Teamsters' Union is an ideal reservation for the loose confinement A a million head of Little People, according to Mr. Big'a ideas. He indicated his approval of old Dans work many times, usually In compliments, purposely made extravagant for ludicrous effect. It arr.usid hnn tu provoke Tobin's vanity, and he was always tossing the old walrus a herring or a mullet to make him flap his flippers on his tub. I i.jmuL-rf--g- L'ncoaird or cre chon IS drprsdiLt i gentle, it milaoRj proved. Gel i ?:l S-- s H. I. PHILLIPS See A Letter of Sympathy Dear Joe DiMaggio: Well, a few days ago 1 saw in the papers that the Yanks have decided to pay you $fia 000 to $70 000 this year, and it is too bad that a thing like that has to happen to a nice For the last couple of years had a tough time with chipped elbows and heels, and just when you got a right to hope you are out of pain and worry they ram you up into them upper income tax brackets. From now- on you will know you - what real suffering Is like, Joe, and if I were you I would not let ther-- i Y anks do this to me. I would see lawyer and make aD appeal. For years you were one of the most underpaid boys in baseball but it was nice and cozy down there. Now you go up where the state and government really start running the vacuum over you and you will find that none of them Johns Hopkins or Mayo clinic fellers can do a thing about it, no matter how good they may be with heels and elbows. how SCOTTS helpsj build you up! If ypo fell ran dm. nd cold hnnf oo maybe yoa dont enough naturtlThenA4 Vitamin food. i 8cott Ermilaion thL H)OD TOM'-gin to get bak ! eoJda ! How jk Scott' - of natanii At "J enertry-bo- Eay totiktl' J0W'' today at MORE Hi f il'spowerfy! CTffiTTRfD wmm WALTER SHEAD Congress Evades Own Law CONGRESS acts something like a policeman. It's OK for a cop to stop in ' traffic, park in front of a fireplug or run through a red light but not for a mere civilian Its OK for congress to pass laws and the folks are supposed to obey them but congress can disregard the law. as witness the legislative reorganization act which congress passed to eliminate obsolete methods and to streamline its working for benefit of everybody, including congress itself The reorganization art has been In effect more than a year and a survey shows that only about a third of its provisions are being observed. Even those provisions which are being observed are being made ineffective by use of makeshift or evasive maneuvers. For instance, the law directed a streamlined reduction of standing .ommittees from 48 to 19 in the house and 33 to 15 in the senate. Congress did thdt, but immediately started setting up dozens of It might as well have continued the practice of naming special committees. Congress is supposed to set up a budget deadline February 15. Last session it never did set up a budget figure and this year plans are under way to postpone it as late as It was given authority to hire experts to act ar, executive assistants and pay them $10,000. Instead, with very few exceptions, congressmen just raised salaries of their secretaries to $10,000 or so lit it up to give more folks from back home jobs in Washington. Committees were to hold open hearings John Taber's house appropriations committee never has held an open hearing. There wcie to be many other changes under provisions of the law. Already theie have been violations of about two thirds of these provisions. 6WaystoO j with skilfully Resit See how efficiently ointmen. widely used iff' itching, smarting ! Simple Pil Chafing 5 M nor Burns 6 P mples (ran anjAaC Buy today (rom Modern other blood- 40 CINC Rcu h.tiunary war days live. One hundred years ago that science has lowered the d th average had been increased to 28 rate of inf u,,s at u people under 40 years An analysis of old and new B ,t si due fins nut accorrplishi d mortality tables, made by Northh f r th, e who have as n passed western National Life Insurance tl e At the time of the 4nth u company, shows that those of 40 now tl e Ft ei uL ! u.arv nar tho-- c who can expect to live another 30 years. had real I d tl e - ee of 40 still nad Science is promising new and far as ari aiirage. 26 more ears tu Greater wonders in that line. , , a iropurl1' - You Science Aids Those Over oTe' 1JF Hon tbroa b' J of the kainey. over-taie- d WRIGHT PATTERSON the job lfd c m?y e headache, e pairs, i.t k.dnry or tin, .3 b'irning, urination I'rv Dodit mg finding the Li hy supply 5 kng and never h 3 irregular drinking pj: taq, 'ft have ti n along 2Commonb5 4 success.fi to ed nr.er Dry Eczema mid-Apri- I f in rt h ti v.t o Ij Besides, re the '4 i:n appear or s Ho ift( r I97G be? 9 oroea la V i sp-'enn- X ll at Ikl S glum- colmer gali conJurt a g on n which it ghoslrd ty !. r social! registered mater. Mr! Trank Dt Limy. I ranee 1' fi II IS I it H i M - iM.uk ci.'.I) ; of t General n.rmoir g t oi0.0"t) from Doable-day- . cor.f.rmirg a flas.h whiih .ud it ui uld t r ir g Mi i G Virgin 1( gii mi i 11 lod !r in I"- rotate inliundly us giutj t at tl.e last a'.fuw !, V,; el slaVrll rl.t, not. en Pi. d ei- - t has About all the average U S. citizen knows about Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower is that he either will or will not get into the campaign for the . j L('a character Prediction You like tu have hoi, da vs fall on weikerds'1 nun 1948 should be a pcorrse yoir of great M it f M e tra hold i vs this year w il f .1! nn S Ii.rd ivs and whih is cither go. d or hid on how you f. o oh Hit cLperd .e off down at the hi gt "ing J cl . . a t s.Le to keep it f: on g at C-- u tt.un.al g I ..! i I win ha k our loti ground In I urope, the I ruled down penplc'a thraalt. hat (o da moir Ilian inertly cram guy like you. This Won t Happen Again Until 1976 hu Daniel r liKFUSAL: Value of the publication of these documents at this time is questionable, despite the fiagrantly apparent propaganda they can and will inspire. State department's action obviously was aimed at rallying public support behind the Marshall plan, soon to come up for congressional action, but it also would serve to aggravate and in, lame the ulie.idy dangerously touchy "cold war." i - I! (it-rani- Flashes Off the Express HAPPY HOLIDAYS u d foicgn, a place where et at'er is st'ik d before th it ea worn ed to life g re-c, ai e . role by the p.si .red hard tt svr-prise- ij 1, .... 'Ml t . State! ha J 1 WALTER WINCH ELL el Boland. the girl was What has that gut tu do with it? You couldn't critii ize him because there is nothing about him to criticize! "Why! gold-fringe- spilt .A 17 A II four-yea- w.i.-hir.- . -- I'1 pm-po-e- J tory of America, that gives Americans Ihe assurance tfi.it his spirit, especially in these times when evil gods make their blot k magic to bemuse the minds of iiieq. is not dead, but sleeps, waiting only the clarion call of the people whom he loved to wake it into actum. I'l-.tr- Lt-.n- e I The rated "cold war" ba been ci in he ty another U S AID: robably tl.e F0Ki:ir,N propag.n da strike. heaviest yet. ag.c list Russia. limner Rian It took tl.e .,im of cfLcial tate llr!a-r- t Hoover, former U. S department publication of cnptuicd president, ha urged congro not to re German foreign otl.ce record! cornu it this nation even "morally" vealing the extent and nature of to a four year h.uroj can recovery Nan Soviet relations from 19!I9 to grain, and advised a redueti. n (n non d covered by the 1941, tl.e peri, of the 6 8 billion dollar outlay aggression part between the two to carry the Marshall yl.m nations which ended when Hitler through its first 13 month. 2. June on attacked the Russian! In tl.e 4.000 word statement which 1911. he fled with the senate foreign reIn the light of the U S Russian lation committee wartime allance. the Nazi d H over express! d hi oppos tom view putd.shed .n boc k form, tell a sordid story of se ret agreements, to the administra global gambling with nations for tion foreign aid stakes and the feverish fetish of plans. expediency which gripped the Of greater sigmf minds of German and Russian leadhowever, icance, ers beh re and during the war was the fact that Hoover' own opinHigh point of the hitherto secret dossier was the revelation that in ions amounted to a 191(1 Adolf Hitler and V. M. Molotov documentary of the Hoover right-winof Russia agreed that Rritain and entire the U S must be excluded from conservative element of thinking whnh rejects an "internationalist" Europe. Asia and Africa. foreign policy on the grounds that Tlie book told also how, in 1910. Stalin had offered to join the Ger- U. S. resources should be concen man Italian Jaj aricse axis if Hitler trated at home would give Russia a free hand in Decrying even a "moral commit period eon Finland, a military base near the merit" for the Dardanelles and a dominant voice tempi died in the state department s ropi'sals. he asserted the U S in the oil rich Middle Fast. Then the documents show how Hitler, disdain- should keep itself entirely free to end our efforts without recnmina ing even to answer Stalin s proposition. oidered his armies to prepare turn " He expressed, too, the fear that a "to crush Soviet Russia in a quuk lavish outpouring of aid would campaign " One of the major factors which weaken the American economy to the extent that .all world recovery precipitated the German attack on would be defeated. fur Russia was the Soviet The volume of exports and funds dominant control of the Ralkans. the Marshall plan, he Hitler, who was as aware as any pn posed in man of the political, economic and opined, might aggravate the already serious lnllalion, draining our strategic value of the pivotal Balkan national resources and continuing on that down area, turned thumbs high tax rates, "all of which might Russian desire also. and thus destroy Sum and substance of the state bring depression the strength of the one remaining department's spectacular publica- source of aid to a world of chaos " tion of the Nazi documents was little Hoover recommended further that more than an emphatic indication f Marshall plan, if it is adopted, the an already well known fact That be run by a bipartisan commission, with Russia, aggressive consistency, and that up to three bilhas been hungeung for years lor lion suggested dollars in food, coal, fertilizers leadership in the balkans, for new and cotton be labeled frankly as pre eminence in the Dardanelles, because loans unsecured "gifts and for expansion in Centra! Asia "will not and cannot be repaid." for a free hand in Finland and Um OP TUE tty. Ity the air and there were sequels. Letters one from a lady in N'ew England for whom the broadcast had awakened memories . . her father had been one of the Union sold ers chosen to stand guard at the catafalque in Chicago. It might well have been he who lifted my mother. The soldiers who had been chosen for that honored duty were permitted to d k itie the drape that cokeied the cotlin, she v rote me, and she consigned to me a flag ment which I cherish. i!ie I Pacl Told; Too Much Aid: Hoover Nazi-Sovi- ON I repeated my mother's story After her death, as best 1 could on fi ... t lifford 11 1 iThe body of the martyrrd President, as you know, was taken from the Last Itoom of the White House to the capitol where It lay in stale. Then it wjs earned across the country, pausing for homage in several cities until it reached Spring-fielLincoln's home.) r IN I M VAILS' rl Thuse were two sequels to the stcuy of the little girl and her weeping im "'er I think the everlasting secpiel can be read again and again in the itnrv cf America, as the story of Lincoln is projected far on into h, story I think I have seen it project'd in the ciowds who come to avid with guideuouk Washington, ami caneia to collect ''souvenirs" Only this week, the garrulous cab diuei who earned ne from Union stall ti was full of a story of "South A't itii'.i'o" who snent endless hours Oicnmrg to his tmnrgi at r d. The memothe I. u coin .M- rial ion an a hi.ee for all v is.t ns. M i: Funeral Ceremonies! m uoNon or heavy 1ll v J ntlttionary and piapafanda taath. I ifuallk. II Sul mote (inpof laid. It haa It give 1 ulape nr hope, new uli alt. new gualt o wuik lor. t srter than we hake been to mil K t It Ikl ; e t; e Ci : y . the r t ii i j it da ti, it t.. id out alleged b. j f r tt.e future i PROGRAMME or Chicago of Slat t It alto dgar Ifumin. I?, ef I l ( till ago. ixl , thud ruin of rrroidcnl Harry S Iruman. hat enlitlril in the nai. lie i l.elii tturn in b II. ij g I Italnil Itmone for hit Ihrrc year lull h. and will ttudy akialioa radio alter hit batic Inining. 1 aU-a- i I- rijaga!.j ft ll.l.u' l' Ir.oc I t ll.i'.at.i e. tf.at the l.nr lull lij ti. t.. (,o te r:t ) n.ri.t t, ,..iii. ,. , a. e ( ' lat f ill ViH.,j !. krei ri l,..l ,!j .'(. 1 t- - f.e met my rhil.Pi.Hid mi inn if my .! Both. I t.e Met Im ('aou-Lt- , r an- - t'r..ii,,i v air b ul I (IV. i I cause. tu me. Huy never wrre buill.il at all they vktie I' i Mi i.ii'ir lli.m furl ii.ylii no! of rny own rmtKiiiit. bui handed d,wn Uiti.u, ti gri.cr ilni.i M . n i. II r. u, little rhil 1. 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