Show T TZ R lack of political sense leads wallace to oblivion by news analyst and commentator service 1016 eye street NW washington D C washington unless some strange shift in the tide of national affairs takes place between the time these lines are written and when they appear in print the in name a me that once bristled in the headlines made the paris peace C conference 0 shudder and completely confounded the truman ad administration nini will be filed under W and tor for baukhage gotten by most people who arent subscribers to the new republic I 1 refer to the name henry agar IV wallace a lace I 1 have talked with a great many men who knew wallace well most of them who liked him still like him but many who supported him in the past follow him no longer one of them said to me henry wallace has been drowned at 1 last st in a sea of ideas he has gone down for the third time and there Is nobody with a lifeline handy I 1 think of two twe other men one an experienced government official a trained politician another an ardent new dealer who happens to be equipped with a mathematical mathematic al mind sharp as a steel trap each of these men followed henry wallace a long way but each man at one point in his career suddenly aly stopped aghast at one of wallaces self cre sted misadventures adventures mis shrugged s his shoulders and regretfully turned away one of the first criticisms you hear tr from OM wallaces political friends is that bat he has no political sense As hea head d of the department of agriculture ri wallace according to most disinterested observers was a success as a policymaker policy maker and an administrator dont bring up the little pigs he did that against every one of his natural predilections As secretary of commerce commerce he was a dismal failure wallace did understand agriculture agriculturists farmers and agronomy he believed that he had and has the correct formula tor for solving the economic business ills of the country but what he realize was that he was handicapped by what is incorrectly called an inferiority complex when it comes to dealing with human beings who made the wheels of business go round he had a strange and deep suspicion of the business world perhaps that so strange for it reflects the natural attitude of the farmer toward the city slicker perhaps it was another phase of that shyness which characterized wallace lets look at this suspicion business on one of several occasions wallace as secretary of commerce addressed a prominent group of conservative serva tive business men his colleagues watched the event with considerable sid erable trepidation they knew the group was unsympathetic to wallace and that wallace knew it how ever it provided an opportunity to create a friendly atmosphere if nothing tore more wallace made a sw swell ell speech his colleagues were agreeably surprised his audience was almost in fact as the speech went on one after another of the listeners showed that wallaces views were well received were anything but inimical to business many of the ideas he advanced were accepted as sound sane and sensible so far so good wallace reached the end of his prepared script and then suddenly overcome with this strange defensive complex this suspicion said something to this effect tonight I 1 have probably wasted your time and mine tor for I 1 realize that you yeu possibly agree with me nor I 1 with you the whole effect was ruined intimates admire wallaces integrity men who know wallace best agree that he is absolutely honest that he Is unselfish that he can be a very deep student of a subject which interests him that he has a powerful ambition to be a leader of the forces that will preserve old fash boned american tree free enterprise and competitive capitalistic endeavor despite the republican landslide the old gray squirrel on the white houst house lawn lost his taste for puts nuts charles aass presidential news secretary held a press conference in a submarine feet below the surface it if the reporters get the lowdown then they never will but he Is willing to adopt stran strange go methods to achieve this remember the little pigs in making clear to his friends that it was his ambition to be secretary of commerce he convinced them of his bellef belief in five propositions they were that 1 lie believes the capitalistic system B stem cannot survive another war 2 ile he believes the capitalistic system cannot survive another financial depression such as we went through in the early casty 3 lie he Is convinced that the country Is headed beaded for another such depression 4 ile he believes that this catastrophe ta can be avoided it if certain simple measures are taken 5 lie he believes that this end the perpetuation of free enterprise justifies almost any means As soon as wallace became see sec rotary of commerce he attempted to I 1 reorganize the department along lines which had made the depart ment of agriculture so successful insofar as operation cooperation co between government and farmers is concerned one of the first steps was to try to establish a system of field agents similar to agricultures agri cultures county agents good men were hard to find fin d it ta takes kes t time me to build such a system the personnel recruited under in der such conditions and within so I 1 short a time would be bound to in elude clude many incompetents and thus open the system to immediate attack by an unfriendly congress nevertheless erth eless wallace pushed the idea Is as far as he could during his tenure of office this his critics say showed his inability to perform in a field with which he was un unfamiliar famili ar showed his lack of political sense or it if you will his failure to grasp the complexities of interpersonal inter personal te lations like many other men who have bean thrust into high government of fils files without sufficient political experience peri ence crice he attempted to ab absorb s orb that experience vicariously tho the very tact fact that he lacked an understanding I 1 of political and personal relations caused him to accept advisors and counsellors coun who frequently led him astray perhaps if he had been less advised his con conduct du ct would have been less ill advised advise d nations kep keep jealous eye on antarctica adm richard byrd is about to take oft off again for antarctica wi with t h a horde of anxious nations worried to death lest he run away with the live five million square miles of ice capped rock which covers the south polar regions as the dew covers dixie but different the foreign claims are legitimate enough for daring explorers have keen been nibbling at that piece of frostbitten plateau bigger than europe ever since john briscoe actually discovered what was given the name of enderby land in in the early nineteenth nth century many others followed but few took the keen interest in the antarctic waste that admiral byrd did although he turn in that direction until after he had flown over the north pole which reminds me of a dull sunday may 9 1026 I 1 was keeping watch in the washington office of a feature syndicate which had the rights to byrds adventures we knew he was going to hop off fot for the pole from spitzbergen Spitz bergen with F lioyd loyd bennett soon but we know when messenger boys had a habit of dropping unimportant messages on en the particular desk which I 1 occupied and I 1 hardly glanced up when one still soggy was tossed within my reach I 1 finished the last episode of at the comic strip I 1 was studying arid and opened the envelope it contained one word polaris that was the code word that meant that byrd had flown down over the north pole and was back alive on november 29 three years later he flew over the south pole the flight was only a small part of extended explorations made on two separate expeditions now byrd is off again with jealous competitors watching him with jealous concern his expedition probably will be met with mixed emotions by the penguins who are the only human looking inhabitants ol of antarctica byrds first visit was a novelty to those decorous birds who never go out except in formal evening attire but I 1 imagine homo sapiens has become to them just another sap who has to go in when I 1 it snows B BA A R B S by baukhage Bauk hase pilots are aided by nearly farmers who voluntarily make daily observations for or the weather bureau A new prophet incentive says a republican well tr treat the democrats the way they trea treated e us when wilson came lp 1 and I 1 that t good not so sweet are arc the usages of minority |