Show Depends on Party Harmony Dy DAUKHAGE Newt Analynt and WSV service 1616 Eye Street NW Washington D C Now that the WASHINGTON enate hai settled Its first problem —naming of the committee chairmen — the next big question is whether the Re- publicans are going to be able to develop a leadership able to ride herd and establish the party discipline necessary for control The Republican majority is very slim and there are a number of restive members who will be as hard to get into the corral come l time as the “sons of the wild jackasses” used to be It isn’t the lack of a leader o much as a surplus of them that worries Republican politicos — that and the danger that the leaders may start leading in different directions Another factor not calculated to further unity is the flock of presidential bees crawling all over the Inside of the capltol dome In his December poll Gallup listed four senators as possibilities in the fol lowing order: Vandenberg 8 per cent Bricker 8 per cent' Taft 2 per cent and Saltonstall 1 per cent These are small figures compared to the poll’s 52 per cent granted Governor Dewey of New York or Minnesota’s Stassen’s 17 per cent the two leading Gallup’s list But that doesn't mean the candidates think that way about it Nobody is placing bets yet As the veteran Republican National Committeeman Clarence Budding ton Kelland said: ’I don’t think you are going to see the matter Jell at all until Ohle decides whether It Is backing Taft or Bricker When that decision In made the lineup will come fast" Gallup predicted that Eisenhower’s star would riae higher and thua whip the hopeful senators to added - f ' ' ') ' teal Lapel buttons labeled “Draft Ike” are already out Under whose banner Elsenhower' would be drafted It la not stated hut It Is generally conceded his personal leanings would be mere Republican than Democratic Neither Vandenberg nor friends have begun to fight and at this writing neither pne has even Indicated publicly he ia in the running More distressing to the men who have to make the upper house members hew to the Republican line is the old problem of the progressive element Some people ere predicting that there may be more harmony In the next session so widely among the minority split last time than among the majority with Its swollen ranks Some Republicans are worrying lest they be divided to the extent that their power win be considerably reduced t ' t it Senator Workt For Hit Sfofe people fail to realize the many factors Which contribute to individualism in the senate In the first place each senator Is and ao considers himself an ambassador from a atate — it is his business to serve that atate to the best of his ability and his ability can be greatly supplemented by the prestige he acquires Indeed prestige if acquired by nothing but seniority can go a long way toward making up for lack of ability But It la net mere personal ambition which drtvra a senator te work for Individual prominence— It is a part of his Job to strengthen the sovereignty of the sovereign atate be represents Another thing which often forces a senator to walk alone er as part of e amall group la sectionalism— not a hidebound attitude either but ilie demand that he truly represent tho interest of his community even If ihoa interests conflict with those of other parts of the country The andent antagonism of has never quite died It was only a little ever three decades ago that the 17th amendment was passed which authorized tho popu far election of senators This was accomplished largely through the Many i B A Ii IS S (Edltor’e Note: This Is anotb-e- r la the “Stories of the State" series) Commentator influence of western and southern states which had already by meani of state primaries or other subterfuge managed to take the choice Of senators out of the hands of the state legislatures The Republicans benefited by the failure of the Democrats to maintain a alliance but they now suffer in turn from other sec- I tionai and ideological cleavages heard on man remark the other day that two recent speeches on by Senator Morse Republican of Oregon and the other by Senator Byrd Democrat of Virginia each expressed views much more in line with the opposite party’s than with their own organizations There are many other similar anomalies in the 80th Congress as there were in the last session The belief that the extreme will be in the saddle over eny ready to ride liberal move la not generally supported True — history has shown that the American people can stand Just so much reform at a time But on the other hand they have seldom been willing to sacrifice past social gains Consequently when the Republicans have been swept into office after periods like the Wilson "New Freedom" they have been very chary of repealing lawi which were passed In answer to a demand for new privileges for the many By EDWARD EMERINE WNU F eaturet “Chust look at dis! It’s coal! ” John Peter Salley one of an exploring party had picked up what seemed to be another rock and found it to be bitu fminouscoal Today West Vir Rinia with its 585 mlncs 0ften Nation Clingt To Old Reformt Harold Laskl the British labor leader would have us believe that there is a "return to reaction" in America II says in a recent arUcle under that title that “In abandoning the Roosevelt heritage Mr Truman made the shaping of the postwar economic policy of America the concern of business and not of congress" Mr Truman would be the first to deny that he deserted the New Deal heritage whether he waa personally inclined ' V I r I kU ' X Senatore Bricker (left) Taft: Hold Presidential Key to support all of its tenets or not And I can see the hackles of congress rise even on the leftish side at the suggestion that “the initiative was returning to the hands” of National Manufacturers' Mr Truman waa removed by the election from a namber of restraints and pressures from groups which favored courses he personally disliked but he baa not been party to any move t sacrifice past "social gains " and I cannot ace congress allowing the few reactionaries ia either party or In the house er senate to set bark the clock As the Beards point out in their "Basic History of the United States" the Republicans despite their landslide victory over Wilson In 1920 did not or could not “stamp out the spirit of progressive or radical insurgency eld in American tradition and yet ever new in its to changing condapplication ition’’ Harding’ “normalcy” and conservatism temporarily did end our Internationalism But their next choice was Herbert Hoover who had been speaking with continual concern over conditions affecting the lest privileged In 1923 for example he had called on the nee companies to study unemhe had enployment insurance dorsed an amendment abolishing child labor be had frightened the reactionaries to death when he proposed the inheritance tax to “redistribute overswollen fortunes" Going further back Into history we note that after three successive victories the Republicans even when they had majorities In both houses did not repeal "reform" measure passed up to When 1900 te they returned power in 1921 although attempt were mad to do ao such measures as the Income end inheritance taxes were not abolished or reduced to an empty gesture Yesterday’ radical la tomorrow' conservative 6y Kaukhajie- - referred to es the "coal bln of America” When William Tompkins used natural gas as fuel to evaporate water from brine in 1841 he became one of the first men in the United States to use gas for Industrial uses Welt Virginia’s natural gas produc-- ' tion in 1944 was 213 billion cubic feet In 1797 Elisha Brook began extracting salt for commercial purposes from a brine spring in Kanawha valley near the present site of Charleston Other West Virginia salt works have been operating for more than 100 years Develop New Indnstrles As early at 1790 a furnace was built by Peter Tsrr of Kings Creek near the present site of Welrton now one of the biggest steel producing cities in America Cannon balls made here were used by Commodore Perry't fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 Michael J Owens son of a coal miner invented a machine in 1903 and started a new epoch in that Industry West Virginia produced in prewar years glass china and pottery valued at 50 million dollara annually Miflln Marsh made stogies and sold them to passengers on Ohio river boats in 1840 M Marsh A Son Wheeling is reputed to be the largest stogie manufacturer in the United States And back in 1915 when World War I cut off the German aupply of playing marbles Akro Agate was founded at Clarksburg and today the concern makes over half of the world’s glass marbles Bot lest West Virginia’s Industrial achievements blind ua te her ether claim te fame and distinction let us look farther than bituminous' coal production natural gas petroleum chemicals salt stone bardwood timber steel and Iron manufacture textiles glass pottery ceramica and others There la ais the romanilo and historic West Virginia And there ia the mountalnoua and acenle West Virginia which baa become ono of tho nation’s greatest recre' ational areas It Is said 30 per cent of the people have had mumpi without Wht a shame that their knowing best friend didn’t tell them! The naUon spent ever a halt billion dollar on candy during the first 10 monthe of thla year Now the reducing will begin again A prize” heifer '‘being auctioned off In tha ballroom of the Congress hotel In Chicago for S 300 fell down and had to be alld bnrk to her pen Many a lady might have fallen for How are our children going to get th laugh from our modem bathing girl that we do from the gay ninety bathers? Let’s hoj-- wt leave more to their sense of humor that w have to their tmaglnaton it y worthwhile mountain From farms gTssi aide In ClarCHIEF EXECUTIVE ence Watson Meadows waa elected tho 22nd governor of West Virginia in 1944 A former lawyer ho had served as atate attorney general and Judge of tho 10th Judicial circuit court before his y election He la a native of W Va where he waa born February 11 1904 The first white men went into what is now West Virginia as early aa 1719 and a few years later cabins were being built After 1735 South Branch valley began to fill up with the overflow from Shenandoah valley and from Pennsylvania and Maryland Settlers were of several nationalities — and the composition alof the people of West Virginia ways has been different from that of the country east of the mountains Story of Controversy West Virginians heartily supported the Revolution and tent troops to help New England and the Middle Colonies but the history of western Virginia before 1801 is a story of controversy with eastern Virginia Socially politically and economically the two sections were unlike from ‘the very beginning Western Virginia was democratic while eaitera Virginia was aristocratic The idea of separation was foremost long before the Civil war When war broke out between the states in 1861 there were bound to be repercussions through the entire atate Eastern Virginia was the heart of the Confederacy Western Virginia waa opposed to secession The long desired separation was tops the to Manhattan Murals: The who (every morning) cafegoes int the 49th end 6th teria and shave himself at the table while bia coffee coole n 8th movie The marquee which advertises thla appropri"Down Misate souri Way" and "Flying NoThe elderly dandy where” in the 57th atreet automat He near the window and Its gowatches the ‘crowd his chauffeur outside in his limousine watches him The big card game In the balcony of a 42nd street movie The car en Fiftl Joynt avenue (with Georgia license C 27767) with ibis painted all over It: “Peace Is Lave Justice and Brotherhood Put Into Practice! ” (Oh go practice It In Ga) blue arlcBitar1 Is a Virginia of West revelation Anyone must marvel at the agriculture and fruit that are produced in a state that ranks among the first In Industry Prize beef and bituminous coal? Yes anything la possible in West Virginia "Stonewall” Jackson was Gen bom at Clarksburg and West VirW ginia also gave the nation John Pearl S Buck and Ann JarDavis was it vis In case you’ve forgotten Ann Jarvis who in 1907 asked a of Philadelphia friends to group wear white carnations on the first anniversary of her mother' death —and thereby founded Mother’s Day State ef Contrasts The state's northwestern border is the Ohio river the aquatic highway that opened the West But the and the Kanawha rivers are important too West Virginia’s elevations range from 240 to 4860 feet above sea level with the high- est average elevation of any state Yes it’s a east of the Rockies mountainous state but every wood- ed hill every shady nook and every In Our Alley: EncycloSallies paedia Britannic makes no mention at all of Santa Claus or of St Nicholas— the cynics Stop wast- ing your time kidding soap operas that The Hooper aurvey reveal 10 out re the most popular Vince Cur- daytime programs ran claim the way Leo Durocher’s sparkling stream belongs to Just going— Leo the Wolf is becoming such a state About 60 per cent of es Just as famous out in ITwood the state’s area it covered by forWhen songstress Leo the Lioa est with trees ranging from spruce Patti Clayton (a rabid Dodger fan) in the highlands to prickly pear heard about Durocher’s new inspircactus and other plants ation (Laralne Day) Patti asked in the lowlands only one question: “Can she pitch?" Scenery wildlife and extensive e Is that loud argument arees combine to lure between Fred March and vacationists to West Virginia's two Ruth Gordon over billing? You vast national forests the Mononga-hel- a mean even when they’ve been in the and the George Washington for decades they still take The state also has 15 state parks lights The that seriously? billing end seven state forests league of N Y Theaters has asked hiking Fishing hunting riding a major mag's critic to come to tennis boating-well golf swimming sober openings what do you want for recreation? And what is your trade what New Yerk Story: la 1941 are your business ambitions your Broadway welcomed a new And specifications for success? A Texas "acker" what of youf "dream” home where 5 years He was nature is loveliest? Perhaps the young — full of wim wlgor answers are— in West Virginia! Ia a witality and year aid a half he eqnandered ever $400 Ml backing flops that had more turkey In them thai you often find in aomo costly AnyBroadway sandwiches how ko was enjoying himself— having the time of his life He waa very different from moat "angela" who back shows Tho money no was his didn’t promote it with big talk He waa not a toot er bookie ho invaded Broadway to "take" champs by staging ono flop after tho other This man was Big Time Not nickel belonged to anyone hut B S Which are his Initials ne Just loved being around show folks— to help them get along Well hero cornea the panels line Ono of the show gala he befriended gel serious and married him And they lay home most of the time' his rich and wise incounting vestments Instead of empty champagne bottles Inflation Items: Silk shirts at Leighton’a are advertised at only $2850! Peter Lind Hayes ren ports the cost of living in has gone up $3 a quart Plenty of mink coats are showing up for sal in those thrift ahopa Wssssmiua lady ain’t Daaadddy got enough loot left? It’p emax-bi- g but the ballet (long in tho red) ia making money while dance bands and dance halla are limping end dying Some of New York’s eight spots ere so close to closing that employee phone In first and inquire "Are w open tonight?" People wouldn’t misa most of these Joints anyhow A Jolson said to have dropped over $600000 on rectnt atock market toboggans Legit matinees were the worst in five years according to ticket ipcca Add STATE THE PANHANDLE but rounding the map of Wot Virginia are typical scenes of the atate: (1) Blackwater falls (2) the administration building al Babcock stale park (3) a modern roa! tipple (4) New Riser canyon and (5) apple growing Eastern Panhandlo Is Favorite Spot lor Vacationers' to talk about "thli ferent If not apart from the mat beck of th wood" and Wert Vir area of West Virginia In 1776 the village ot Martina-burTanhandle may Eastern glnla’a had “30 houses” and th have th enswer to how the expreswas building “a courthouse sion started Back In th wilder-- of no Inconsiderable size and eleneas day the area w as called "Th Northern Neck of Virginia" gance" Today Martinaburg la th Eastern Panhandle retains a fla- Induatrlal center of th Eastern “ Panhandle vor all its own Gouging into MaryWrat Virginia’s Eastern land and Virginia as it does it parhas as its main attractions takes of the traditions of both those States and renialng jomewht dif Cacrrsn state park old home of uacd that Tbt Broadway Express t f n Midnlgbter NeighMemos have bors say J I Lewis doesn’t not with the Civil war as because cause but rather as an opportunity bis Virginia house patpted much union painters ask too On December 31 1862 the congress conFrit Kuhn who was money! of the United States gave its as a booted out of here now U running sent to admit West Virginia 00 Seneshoe store la Germtny atate and the next spring on April for the 20 1863 President Lincoln issued tor Mead is leading prospect I SUP YOUr beRkker czar post bis proclamation West Virginia Publisher came the 35th state of the union two Showing Dept: Editor it San Anfound this headline in a later months tonio paper: "Dirty White House Shrines Historic Many First Sightseer Shock Widows Three states apd two rivers meet Hotel manageri reveal that the at historic Harpers Ferry where gist thing a auicide (in a hotel) doea was raid n John Brown’s bathe put on clean Seneca is shave staged Blackwater falls etc Women fix their nails Pinnacle rock the burial and apply lip rouge rocks Beginthe state at Moundsville mounds When a worn-a- n historic ning of the End Dept: the building capltol looks more at the glass on the shrines — all are interesting and bar than the one on the wall fected th Washington family fa Colonial days Berkeley apringa and larg arrte and piCh orchards Harper’s Ferry hlatorle center at Junction of tha Potomac and The M mile NtwT pot Eastern Panhandle £5 Uonb from Waahlngton 73 mntl n4 om on of th fVoru for weekend and vcUo Tf’ bipa from metropobtan' are ' Wbirhrttrbrttle —MrsTfcwgn Kavanaugh (the walk- dining In atyl with her chopstlx Estelita th Embassy Clubeaut Ifaturlng vairtngs — on gold lettered "Ys" — th other "Nop" Jos Ferrer— actor durctor-pr Best known for his decency to hopeful young newcomers Wrong Way Doug Corrigan is with Royal Air aervic and will flj cargo ploea Ry Bolger telimmer than Tlilnatra) flghtrg (h wind near hi Washington Ing mint) pair of £ BUSINESS & rnm'iP Cement INVEST KwJnit £omr'inn ated- cap Weekh nroflt wuh? veatment S8 'no Immediate’ d v frvSrai F-- °B0 W col 0u l £ instruction I UNDECIDED ABOUT Btudy Be 'tv Culture niRhly pud Am—'- - H Bill Write for Cat bt ftiWH school or BEArn j lai JhscellanV WE nil Office Furniture FUet tw log Machltus Sates CaT ALI LARE ocuun SS BUT Wtl Briiteii Itl sj J GvShoc Shoes can be mads W er by giving them pull? 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