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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Reads Right Meaning Into Barkleys Break With FDR By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., to making, but did not actually Washington, D. C. make, the dishonesty charge. He said the President used a Continually I encounter evidence of the importance of semantics, as method of calculation which obviously was handed to him by a mind I have mentioned more clever than honest. before in this colIt was natural to assume that umn the imporsome White House advisor had protance of words, duced the data, and in all likelihood, of their meansome literary aide had written that of and the ings, the veto message. Indeed, one of necessity that the the columnists omnisciently anin which meaning nounced at the time that it was the speaker or the work of Judge Rosenman. uses writer them As a matter of fact, I can state is the same atwith absolute certainty that1 that tached to them was one of the few speeches which the listener or by President Roosevelt, who was good reader. and mad because congress had A few days ago to give him the tax bill he I Baukhage wrote himself, inditing wanted, a letter from a listener lamenting the entire philippic with his own what she called one of our greatest hand. troubles today lack ' of faith in our Whether Senator Barkley would leaders. have replied with greater or less She then described her consterhad he known the actual aunation when she heard Senator vigor I do not know. The fact thorship, Barkleys gushing and flowery remains, however, that he said what talk nominating Franklin Roose- he meant and meant what he said. velt for President in 1944, after Nowhere did he call the President hearing the senators famous re- dishonest. He did establish his volt speech sharply criticizing the own and that of conPresidents veto message in the tax gress,independence, and probably did the Presibill the previous February. dent a favor by warning him against To Washington, there was nothing allowing his emotions to get the betinconsistent in those two perform- ter of him. ances at all. What happened was In delivery of the this: two persons who had worked speech,Barkleys and his nomination of Prestogether in a common cause fell out. ident Roosevelt less than six months Amends were made, and still loyal later, there was nothing inconsistto that cause, the man who had been ent. Certainly nothing which, when affronted registered his complaint, understood, should shake the puband then, feeling that the virtue of lics faith in the public man. his position had been recognized, took up his labors in the fommon Brakes Save re-fus- ed received 4 cause again. Perhaps that explanation would satisfy my disillusioned listener, had it not been for the fact that she not only misinterpreted the significance of Senator Barkleys speech, but actually put into his mouth words that he didnt use. She said that Barkley had said that the President was dishonest, and that he (Mr. Roosevelt) knew he was dishonest. , Now, by interesting coincidence, something had recalled that speech of Mr. Barkleys to my attention only a day or so before I received the let- ter. senator from Kentucky, having served as majority leader longer than any man who has held that job in the senate, had increased tremendously in stature in the eyes of 'supporters and opponents. And, my friend explained, it was his revolt of February 23, 1944, which marked the moment when Barkley began to wax in the favor of opponent and supporter alike! As a result of the coincidence the letter and the remarks of my friend I reread the revolt speech. Nowhere in it did Senator Barkley accuse the President of being dishonest. But it is easy to see how a listener might have missed the shades of meaning in the speakers words. However, those words, Very little publicity was given to something that almost happened the day Secretary of State Byrnes departed for the foreign ministers conference in Paris. Something which might have given us a new Presi. , dent. , Mr. Truman, in order to emphasize the importance of the mission, rode with Mr. Byrnes to the airport to see the delegation off. There was no motorcycle escort, and while the car was moving along Constitution avenue at a fair speed, there came an very near to being accident similar to that which cost General Patton his life. A truck dashed out of a side street toward the official automobile. Fortunately the brakes of the Presidential car held. The party had a bad shake-ubut that was all. It might have been otherwise. The newly appointed and not over popular Secretary of the Treasury Snyder might have had to move next door. After the secretary of state, who shared the near-mis- s with the President, the secretary of the treasury is next in line of succesp, sion. This is not the first time Mr. Truman has taken risks. But he is by no means the only President who has worried Secret Service men to whose care the lives of the Chief Executives are entrusted under the correctly interpreted, I feel certain, reflected precisely the feeling law. Three times, newsmen, trying to of the senator. Had he wished to go further, he could easily have keep up with Presidents, have been in serious automobile accidents. done so. A certain amount of speed is desired at times when a presidential Resent Personal party is passing through strange Slap at Congress territory but, as a rule, the White There' were two especially sharp House chauffeurs who are specially passages in Barkleys talk. The picked men, loaned by the army, President had charged in his mes- if left by themselves, lean to the sage (vetoing the tax bill) that it safe and not the sorry side. is squarely the fault of the congress At least one President was forced of the United States in using lan- to change his automobile habits. guage in drafting the law which not President Hoover had a fishing even a dictionary or a thesaurus lodge at Rapidan in Virginia, some can make clear. 85 miles from the Capital. Hoover flabelieved that time was money. He was a There biting, personal vor in that, sentence which congress was always a hard worker, and as a whole,' and Barkley individually when hed finished fishing, he wantand as majority leader, could not ed to get away from there and back to his desk. It was a job for the help resenting. Secret Service men and newsmen Barkley said: If it (the above to keep up and keep on the road. made was by anybody statement) Those mad chases were the subwho ever sat in a tax committee meeting, it was a deliberate and ject of considerable conversation by in order to the correspondents and also their unjustified place upon congress the blame for wives. - It was not considered a universal dissatisfaction with 'tax choice assignment. Finally there accident that sent one complexities and in order to pro- was a bad duce the illusion that the executive reporter to the hospital. After that, the presidential car departments have in vain protested proceeded at a more normal pace. against this complexity. Here one cap see that Barkley is The Alexander Hamilton institute defending the integrity of the conhis not did anger He spare says savings during 1946 will be gress. at the affront. But, since he knew considerably lower than last years. FDR had never sat in a tax com- Fine, if it reduces inflation presmittee meeting, he wasnt placing sures; but if it goes too far and the the onus entirely on the President. consumer doesnt consume, the proThere was one other sharp riposte ducer cant produce, and we are in which Barkley came still nearer back to 1929 once more. - mis-stateme- nt on Roanoke Island, N. C. Above are ms 'or first mV im mimtm m gmti mb nr SUSI scenes of dances, open air theater, the stage, an In-dian god, and the sign that stands on the site of the first settlement. t svVv- TfiilYmi President Truman ed A loyal toiler in the Democratic party had remarked to me that the LOST COLONY, drama, presented i. wiu. ik" ' . .yCv. A WdSfci Ski' II LOST COLONY fi Historic Roanoke Island Has Opened Summer Theater Season MANTEO, N. C. With a new and spectacular stage which in- eludes Roanoke Sound, The Lost Colony, Paul Greens great drama, has been revived for the 1946 summer season and is now playing to capacity crowds. It is an epic of the first attempted settlement of the Carolinas. First shown in 1937, this symphon-ic drama became nationally famous described by Dr. Herbert Graf, and was seen by more than 400,000 director of the New York Metstage people before the war forced its susropolitan Opera house, as the basic pension in 1941. art form for the new American opThe story of Sir Walter Raleighs era. attempt to plant an English colony Over 200 in Company. in the New World is presented in a As staged by Sam Selden, head of large amphitheater on the site of the the University of North Carolina original settlement itself. Performis ances will be given each week, dramatic school, Lost Colony 200 sheer spectacle. A company of Wednesday through Sunday, during is employed, and they play on a July and August. where scenes are shifted by stage The audiences of the new performstrong ances will see the first . colonists black-ou- spotlights which effectually scenes. t all but the row, in small boats, right up to their A narrator, mounted playing in a cupola on feet at the very spot the landing the moving was made in 1585. The new plans in side, keeps the action the brief interludes, and the Westfulfill the, original staging ideas of minster choir and the organ proPlayright Paul- - Green, who wrote vide a most impressive background. the opus in 1936 to commemorate With the new shifting facilities, the the 350th anniversary of the first will upon the waters of lights English attempts to settle America. the sound play and bring spectacular Will Play Forever. realism to the presentation. At first only an extension of the Paul Greens story of the Lost Colanniversary celebration, the producony is an historical rendering of his tion of the play is now a North Caro- version of the fate of the colonists. lina state agency by special act of But it has within it all the elements the legislature, and Lost Colony of romance, of strife, of tender pas- will be played forever on this windswept island. one of the Lost Colony most poignant tragedies in American history, but leaves unanswered a mystery which has fascinated historians for over three centuries. It is the mystery of CROATAN, the word found carved on a tree in Fort Raleigh by a relief expedition in 1591, only legacy of the men and women who had dared the wilds of America. It was the only clue to the, disappearance of Raleighs colonists and little Virginia Dare, first child of English parentage to be born in the New World. Hundreds of stories based upon possible . solutions to the mystery have been written and legends about it still abound in the region of the Dare country, but Paul Green wrote the drama which was so compelling that it grew from a commemorative drama into an institution. And it was Green who RIGHTLY PROUD . . . This set the piece to music and dance, music of the old Elizabethans and chubby Tar Heel has just caught the wild dances of American Indians a trout. He used a hook, pole and worm in the Linville river in North with a background of organ and Carolina. Choir, in a combination which was re-ena- one-seas- sion, of final tragedy in a new land. It starts with the historical landing of the colonists and their establishment of a new homeplace in cabins around the chapel in which they give thanks to Providence for a new life. It proceeds with the little things which go into the making of homes, and a nation, and to the birth of Virginia Dare, first new life in a new world. Finale is Tragic. Mysteriously, the brother of Chief Wanchese is killed; the Indians become hostile, and the tragic finale of the Lost Colony plays itself out in mystery. But the dramatists epilogue, rampant with stirring lines and inspiring music, leaves no doubt that the colony was really the beginning of a new nation, of America. Paul Green wrote Lost Colony as his contribution to the culture of his home state. He presented it in toto, to the people of the Virginia Dare country, and received no royalty from its production, nor has he allowed rights to any dramatic or cinema companies. The entire performance was broadcast by the Columbia Broadcasting company in 1939, and the author has prepared a book on the text which is on general sale. FDR Saw It. First presentations were sponsored and managed by the Roanoke island historical society, a local group organized to take care of the multitudinous details of the actual staging. In five years, almost a halfmillion spectators, mong them President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Lord Halifax, brought an estimated in total revenue to $3,000,000 the Island of Roanoke and the Dare country. As it begins its new, perpetual series of seasons, the books of the organizations are evenly balanced. The new association, headed by former Gov. J. Melville Broughton and operating under especially enacted laws of the North Carolina state assembly, present the opus n committee, all through a of whom reside in Manteo, near Fort Raleigh, scene of the production, during the season. Melvin R. Daniels is chairman of the committee, which is composed of I. P. Davis, secretary, C. S. Meekins, treasurer, Theodore S. Meekins and Dr. Selden, the director. five-ma- |