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Show I MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA. UTAH "Porty Split" More Pyn than a Fire Schism of Dixie Democrats Could Wreck Party Hopes By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator, A political year may be pretty hard on business, inter-- 'j national affairs and persons who expect congress or the Pres- - 'j ident to take some highly important but controversial action j; which might scare away votes but, if you can stand on the sidelines dodging the brickbats which each side hurls at the j; other, a political year is lots of fun. One thing that is as interesting to the casual observer as workmen excavating a cellar, a sandlot baseball game, a fire or a dog-figh- t, are ' the quadrennial ."party splits" which threaten (several months before the conventions) to rend the big parties in twain. They usually end the " same way both splinters singing Sweet Adeline, and cursing the other nartr in r,trfppr harmfmv 3 f - - - j i On the surface the recent row be- - j tween the southern Democrats and !.'! the White House : t ( .'. 'II' i. looks like one of those affairs. There is no doubt ' that the south-erners are good and mad. And by all their stand-ards they have every right to be. So there is no telling what might happen! But the fact re- - mains that the Negro voters in both Republican and Independ-ent voters, they must stop try-ing to sell the program of the National Association of Manu-facturers as good Republican doctrine . . ." That wasn't Henry Wallace speak-ing. Nor Democratic national head-quarters. That was Republican Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon. Morse assails "the conservative leadership" of his own party as vigorously as he scores re-action in the 'Democratic party. I already have discussed Wallace and his third party "split." There are those who think it of so little importance that it can be ignored. Some now are predicting that be-fore the election, Wallace will be granted some concession, some ad-vantage, and will come out for Tru-man for president. I wouldn't go that far, but I have heard the pre-diction in more than one quarter. Republicans are supposed to welcome Wallace to the race, and to count on him to cut down the Democratio vote to some-thing almost insignificant. Let me quote Senator Morse on that subject, as his words appeared in an article in the February issue of the Progressive magazine. Morse says that Wallace mustn't be taken too seriously, but that he mustn't be ignored either. He adds: "Let my Republican party never forget that there are not enough Republicans to elect a Republican president, nor enough Democrats to elect a Democrat as president. For-tunately there are not enough s to elect Wallace." "Splits" can't be ignored, it is true. They are important because there is always the possibility that the splitters might find another Ted-dy Roosevelt, to lead them. That can't happen often, though, and meanwhile splits are fun to watch. Baukhage the norm can ;l vote either Re-- publican or Democratic, Just as they ', please. In fact, the colored popula- - tion really has more freedom than the rest of the electorate because it j: has no tradition of following a strict : pattern. ,'i A Democrat, however, Is he lives in the South and if he is to remain a ' Democrat, .has to vote with the Democratic party, even if he does it with anger in his heart and tears in his eyes. Since the administration j banks on this, we see even a presi- - dent from the southern state of Mis- - souri, defying the wishes of his : friends below the Mason-Dixo- I am not questioning any of the j ';! supporters of civil rights and the ' Constitution from the President down, but there does remain the 1 j fact of the Negro vote, and there re- - j mains likewise many a warm pe'r- - i sonal and political friendship which ' j has to be subjected to a painful I ordeaL The "split" is exciting to watch whether with Sweet Adeline ! or not. j ' And if you look across the aisle, j j you'll see some more splinters. j Listen to this: ... If Repub-- ' Hcan leaders in congress want ' to win the political confidence of ' . CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT. AUTOS, TRUCKS ArrES3 pcfiiiarnntrfi RS i M Good Will 0 G0.f m'ifmil"- - M !' ' 'f!Si,"' M' ch" " ill Ayflwtitern America. LIVESTOCK , Don't Take Chancel With Calf Scoor. ' 90 of which are caused by vitamin Hi V-- clency. 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For aale at all arm " If f Why scratch iwj , Itrhlifln sufTerhopelelr! IIUIIIIIU Find happy W " i,, as so many other! Of Dry do usesooib- .( T RESINOL, ih .!K tczema p- -a ' Mil WNV W 3-- :Ci, TRAVEL. TRAIr.!N6..Pr NsJ The NAVY Offers You 'Kj Real BusSness Propos'10 hi) To find out what the Nav? to offer, ask for the above m pj trated booklet, "Life " Peacetime Navy," a I0 cat Navy Recruiting S S . v ;; - - . i '.X t - ' ' ? , , v ' - A BEST DOG IN SIGHT . . . Champion Rock Ridge Night Rocket, a Bed-Iingt-terrier, was chosen best dog of the show at the annual West-minster kennel club dog show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The champ is owned by William A. Rockefeller of New York. ROMANCE OF THE BELLS . . . Cast In Spain In the eighth century, an ancient bell with a romantic history, has summoned McKendreo college students to classes for nearly a century. The bell reposes in the dark belfry of the tower of the historic college chapel (above), which Was built soon after the turn of the 19tb century. IN THESE UNITED STATES Students Heed Aged Bell's Call to Class for Century Aged Evangeline Oak Receives Special Aid ST. MARTIN VILLE, LA. In an attempt to stimulate the aged tree, special tree food has been placed in the ground at the roots of historic Evangeline Oak, which stands on the banks of Bayou Teche near the old Atta-kap-trading post. About 100 pounds of a special preparation were embedded near the roots to overcome slight de-terioration of the tree noted re-cently. WNV Features. LEBANON, ILL. Oldest chapel bell in the United States is not the famed Lib-erty Bell in Philadelphia or an aged bell from long-settle- d St. Augustine, Fla., but an an-cient bell which has rung classes in and out of McKen-dre- e college here for nearly a century. This fact is authenticated by his-torical data, meager in spots, but fact nevertheless. The bell has a,re-corde- d history that dates back for centuries before founding of the Lebanon institution. The bell, which is located in the clock tower of the historic chapel building on the campus at McKen-dre-a Methodist institution, has been used almost hourly to summon students to class ever since the col-lege was a mere stripling of 30 years. But its sonorous voice was heard centuries before Colum-bus braved the' Atlantic to dis-cover America. The vibrant toll . of the bell first was beard in Spain, where historians say it was cast in the eighth century. Later it was recast in Spain and brought to Florida sometime in the 16th century. There are many unfilled gaps in the story of the bell's turbulent his-tory. From Florida it found its way to the Southwest during the histori-cal era when the West was the last frontier of the country. In the 1850s a roving band of Santa Fe traders found the old bell, dated as to its arrival in America, in a deserted Indian mission in New Mexico. For some reason the heavy instru-ment was brought to St. Louis, then the gateway city to the new coun-try. Historians disagree as to whether or not the bell was recast or repaired in St. Louis. Anyway, the name, "Saint Louis," is visible on the bell, as well as other symbols and insignia so corroded as to be almost undecipherable. Following its arrival in St. Louis, the bell was taken to Centralia, 111., in 1858, to be exhibited at the Illi-nois state fair. Here it was pur-chased for McKendree college by a Mr. Cobleigh, at that time president of the budding institution. The bell was taken to Lebanon and hoisted into the bell tower of the new chapel then under construction. Since then, it has reposed In the dark belfry of the tower above the building, where the ontside world little realizes the romance of its long history. Just how the bell served during Its first century in America is un-known. McKendree college, founded in 1828, is conceded to be one of the oldest colleges in the Mississippi basin, and one of the buildings, known as "Old Main," is said to be the oldest assembly hall west of the Alleghenies. Very few people have seen the bell at its resting place high in the clock towel- of McKendree's chapel, for to reach it, a person must climb a series of ladders that lead upward to the darkened tower. Broncho Busters Thrill Youngsters Of Old River Town CASSVILLE, WIS. This is one town where the youngsters don't have to go to the Saturday after-noon movie to see their cowboy heroes. . Some of the best broncho busters, trick ropers and buDdoggers in the country live right here in this Mis-sissippi river village of 956 popula-tion. To the delight of the town's youngsters, they wear their big hats, fancy jackets, loud shirts and high-heele- d cowboy boots around town whenever they are home from rodeos in New York, Chicago, Den-ver, Pendleton, Salinas and other cities. The hard ridin' hombres who give the village a touch of the rough and ready west are four members of the Buschbom family. They are Bill Buschbom Sr., 41, and his two sons. Jack, 20, and Bill Jr., 23, and Bill's brother, Ted, 34. At present the Buschboms have more than 100 horses, some trained and some wild, and an assortment of bulls, steers and calves on their ranch near here. As usual, Cassville youngsters anxiously are awaiting the ad-vent of spring. Then the Busch-boms will spend a few weeks practicing bareback riding, rop-ing and bulldogging steers in the field near the big barn be-fore hitting the sawdust circuit. During those two weeks, Cassville mothers are going to have a hard time getting their pistol-p- a ckin' cowboy sons home in time for meals. Jack Buschbom ranks as one of the top three or four bareback rid-ers in the country, winning about $5,000 in prize money in that compe- tition last year. Bill Jr. is one of the top ranking trick ropers. The father, a former bronc rider and bulldog-ge- r, now confines his activities al-most exclusively to putting his 8 to 12 trained horses through thetr paces in his "liberty act" at major shows. Occasionally, however, the lure of his old calling impels' him back into the ring for bulldogging contests and last year he won first place in a Mobridge, S. D., show Uncle Ted also is a bulldogger. NEWS REVIEW Reds Assume Control Of Czech Government There were six days of crisis in$ Czechoslovakia and then it was all over the Communists were in com-plete control of that nation of 13 mil-lion population. The iron curtain came down with a muffled clang as President Eduard Benes accepted the resignation of 14 of his cabinet ministers after he had refused for a week to do so. Into power strode Communist Premier Klement Gottwald who had led his party upward from a minority status in Czechoslovakia until now its members dominated every phase of the nation's life and were pre-pared to swing it directly into the orbit of other Soviet satellites. Wielding the club to keep the Czechs in line was Gottwald's good right hand, Vaclav Nosek, minister of the interior, who controls all Czechoslovakian police forces. In f - "4 S J r-- r: wondered whether Austria, France and Italy might not be clamped soon in the Communist vise. There was general agreement on one fact, at least: That the Com-munist coup in Czechoslovakia had forged perhaps the most vital link in the Russian chain intended to shackle the Marshall plan. In Finland and Italy, as in Czech-oslovakia, elections were coming up soon and the Communists were out for victory. Finland, like Czech-oslovakia, is ruled by a coalition government which has acknowl-edged that the country must re-main on the best of terms with Russia. COLD CHICKEN: No Fuel Oil Campaigning politicians this year may have to eliminate "a chicken, in every pot" from their lists of promises because there might not be enough chickens to go around. Reports from the poultry belt In the Midwest say that the severity of the fuel oil shortage is cutting into the 1948 baby chick hatch to threat-en poultry and egg production this year. Thousands of farmers canceled chick orders for early March deliv-ery because they couldn't get oil for their brooder stoves. Iowa and the Northwest were suffering most from the situation, but it also was bad in Illinois and Indiana. The kerosene shortage has been severe enough to cause hardship in most of the poultry producing area. Some poultrymen were deferring chick deliveries until later dates, hoping that warmer weather wouJ ease the tight oil supply.' Officials of one large hybrid chick hatchery in Iowa claimed they needed six tank cars of fuel oil to get their 1948 production under way. One of the most vociferous com-plaints generally being made among farmers was that city consumers were using up all the fuel oil. FEARFUL: Hoof and Mouth Cattle, hog and sheep growers of the U. S. continue to live in the shadow of a fear that the hoof and mouth disease which has been deci-mating livestock in Mexico for many months will spread across the border and affect U. S. herds. At a recent session in Chicago a joint committee of the cattle, hog and sheep raisers forwarded a plea to Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson to renew efforts to eradi-cate the disease. Among other things, the stock-men requested that these actions be taken: 1 Renegotiate with high Mexican officials on plans for resuming the interrupted slaughter and burial program. 2 Immediate construction of a fence along the present quaran-tine line about 250 miles south of the U. S. border. 3 Build new beef canning plants . in the "clean" states of north-ern Mexico and continue to rur those now operating. , Gottwald . . . Nosek. that powerful position in a Communist-do-minated state Nosek was analogous to the mailed glove on the dictator's fist. ' For what it was worth and that was very little aging President Benes had managed to keep at least a superficial appearance of repre-sentative government by insisting that the government be composed of members of other parties of the national front which reinstated the Czechoslovak republic in 1945 when the Germans were being driven out. But it was a hollow, tasteless vic-tory meaningless in any practical application. The new government consists of 12 Communists (there were seven before), four Social Democrats, two Czech National Socialists, two Cath-olic Peoples party members, one Slovak Democrat and two non-part- y men, Jan Masaryk as foreign min-ister and Gen. Ludwig Svoboda as minister of defense. Bewildered Czechs finally knew their cherished republic had come to a grim end when loud speakers in Prague blared this announce-ment into the night: "Reaction has been beaten. Go back to work and let us complete our tasks on the two year plan." In Czechoslovakia's ironic chro-nology the surging wall of the Red tide engulfed their country just 10 years after the western Allies had sold the nation to Hitler at Munich in a tragically selfish and futile effort to avoid war and save their own skins at the price of just one small Central European state. Reaction With the Balkans all tied up with a red ribbon the world began to wonder which small nation the Communis tide would engulf next. Some thought Finland might be the top name on the list, others ! IT IT IT IT i I j: 'Inside Info' Exaggerated was administered very tenderly by an Old Timer, my boss. My assign-ment was helping to cover the Brit-ish embassy early in World War I, before America had become em-broiled. One night, my boss, who knew everybody in Washington, took me along to introduce me to the British commercial attache I'm not sure that was what he was called in those days, but it describes his job. He talked with us quite a while, much more freely than he would have conversed with me alone, for I was a stranger to him. In the course of the conversation, he mentioned that tomorrow, or next day, Great Britain would an-nounce what amounted to an em-bargo on American wool (Britain wanted to switch her buying to Aus-tralia). The attache explained the background of the move in detail. When we were out ,on the street, my boss pulled out his watch and remarked to me: "Now, if we were crooked, we would still have time before the markets close to make a lot of money selling short, wouldn't we?" He didn't have to explain further. AFTER the British had made their announcement, I was able to write a good "follow," interpreting the move. That's all any newsman gets out of "confidential" information, and all that 99.44 per cent of us ever expect. The same thing applies to govern-ment employees. Those who act otherwise soon depart. f ' There has been remarkable inter- - ' ' est recently in charges that Wash-- . j1 ington officials used "inside infor- - mation" obtained because of their j !'',' connection with the government to j play the markets. The other day one highly-place- d gentleman came ; to me in quite a stew. ' i "Have you heard the rumor that j : I was being charged with playing the market on information I got from the White House?" he asked. Jj ' "No," I replied. "Who is doing ? ' the charging?" ' i "That's what I want to find out," ' j he sputtered. i , "Well," I answered, surprised at his wrath, "you certainly don't feel t Insulted by it, do you? Anybody can i : be charged with anything in an elec- - tion year." ;, j ' "I certainly am insulted," he , came back, "not because my honor is being impugned, but it is an insult to my intelligence to imply that anyone who has been around Washington as long as I ') have would be such an ass!" When I first came to Washington as a reporter, I remember there was a minor scandal on "leaks" that had been used for profit. The :' i chief offender, however, was a pub- - licity man, not an official, and from the standpoint of business it proved ' a fine thing for him. As soon as the j charges that he had obtained con- - j fidential information and had passed it on to his client were made J public he had a dozen offers from i j other big firms to get on their pay- - ' rolls. He did, but it wasn't long be- - fore he left Washington. He didn't get any more confidences. ' A lesser factor in the affair was ,f !j newspaper reporter. It was dis- - covered that he was on the payroll i' of a brokerage firm to whom he ' phoned anything he thought might 1j be of interest after he had written his story for his paper whose last C edition had an early afternoon dead-- e line. It was shown that the brokers "ii paid him all 'of $25 a month. In the investigation it also was shown that U while he knew what was news for a fa newspaper, the reporter had only .; the foggiest idea of what would in- - V terest a broker as he probably never owned a share of stock in his life. He was duly fired from the paper, and suspended from the K 'i Press club, but nobody was too y sore. I" j They knew, as my friend in-- j dicated, it was stupidity rather j j than lack of virtue which was his chief sin. My own first lesson on the subject of Washington journalistic ethics V HOW PRICES DEFLATE Consumer Resistance Does It Those same forces which recently knocked down prices of food and other commodities in a spectacular outburst have been quietly at work all during the past year. Rising supply in a number of lines of goods has caught up with de-mand, and in some cases it has bumped into demand and money supplies on their way down, accord-ing to an analysis by the family economics bureau of Northwestern National Life Insurance company. Poultry, eggs, potatoes, oranges, canned fruit juices, certain canned fruits and vegetables, preserves and jellies all have had little private re-cessions of their own during the past year. By the end of 1947 the prices of most of these items either had leveled off or were actually below the levels of a year previous, the study says. In manufactured goods, the sup-ply of small radios recently has overflowed the level of demand, with prices skidding in many cities. Large radios are very close to cur-rent demand, as are washing ma-chines, stoves and deep-freez- e units. As long as consumers demand goods despite rising prices, the study pointed out, the manufacturer will pay higher and still higher costs for materials and labor, rather than have his production shut down and his flow of goods to the consumer cut ofT. Retail stores buy his finished products despite higher manufacturing costs be-cause they know their customers want the goods. But when enough consumers indi-cate they will not pay increased prices, then manufacturers and stores stiffen their own resistance to higher prices of materials, wage boosts and the resulting price mark-ups for the finished goods because it is evident that such further in-creases will prevent the products from being sold. When demand falls off and meets rising supply, the result is a halt in the price rise and often a sharp downturn. Sometimes consumers, merchants and manufacturers all decide that prices are going to keep on declining and therefore cut their buying still more all along the line. Downward price spirals usually start in that way, the study ob-served. Home Ec Students Practice on HushanrJc STEVENS POINT, WIS. For the first time, the practice cottage con-ducted for seniors in home econom-ics at Central State Teachers col-lege has male occupants. The three men, however, are not studying home economics but are husbands of three seniors in the course. Spending part of a semester as occupants of the practice cottage is a requirement for home economics seniors. The idea, of course, is to put into practice what was preached in the home ec classrooms. The three degree seekers, Lillian Korzilius, Elizabeth Paulson and Gloria Schultz, tried out their les- sons on real, live husbands when Miss Bessie May Allen, department director, permitted the three cou pies to live in the house. Two of the husbands, Edward Korzilius and John Paulson also are students in the college while the third, Louis Schultz, is employed ii Stevens Point. |