Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 127, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 16, 1952 Page: 2 of 6
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Washington Scene
C«yrt«ht. INI, Clay Fniwm fyaS., la*.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 —This
is tl» story going the rounds of of-
ficial Washington as to how Martin
P. Durkin, me big boy of the
plumbers' union, got the word that
he had been chosen secretary of
labor tn the Eisenhower cabinet:
The boss pipefitter, who is not
only a Democrat but an ex-Adlai
supporter, was sitting in a hotel
room in Chicago when the phone
rang. The caller opened the con-
versation by saying:
“Mr. Durkin, this is Herbert
Brownell. Dc you know my?”
“I don’t know you personally,
Mr. Brownell,’’ the labor leader
is quoted as having replied. “But
of course I have heard that you
are to ue the next attorney gen-
eral.”
”1 am speaking on behalf of
Gen. Eisenhower,” said Mr. Brow-
nell. "He has commissioned me to
ask you if you will accept the
post of secretary of labor in his
cabinet?”
A long pause ensued. Then Dur-
kin blurted:
“Mr. Brownell, are you sure you
KNOW me?”
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The Library or Congress, prob-
ably the world’s largest repository
of knowledge, admits it is stump-
ed.
It has been handed a familiar-
sounding quotation and asked to
identify the source. It has gone
through a thousand volumes, ref-
erence and cross reference works,
and. hasn't come up with the an-
swer yet.
Through its “information bulle-
tin” it is appealing for help. Any-
one who can lend a hand will
please communicate with the li-
brary. The baffling quotation
reads:
"On the plains of hesitation
Bleach the bones of countless
thousands
Who, oq. the eve
tffested— „•
resting, died.”
of victory,
And
I seein to remember having
heard that one myself, but 1 have,
no idea of th* author. It reads
as if It could have been Tom
Dewey in 1948.
Miss Mary Martin, who waded
her way through a couple of
“South Pacifies,” committed a
rather embarrassing faux pas the
other day.
She- was honor guest at a lunch-
eon of the Women's National Press
Club, The members are vary de-
termined ladies, practically break-
ing out with independence and
confidence in themselves. They
feel they are beholden, for their
eminence in journalism, to no man.
Whan Miss Martin was called
upon to say a few words she sur-
veyed the assemblage and said
prettily:
, “I have never seen so many
well-groomed wives of the na-
tion’s newspapermen.”
A gift shop here in Washington
is featuring in its Christmas dis- .
play window, "Real stuffed dress-
-d fleas."
I'll take a velocipede.
A cave owner out in Missouri
sends a press handout advising
me that he is giving a $50,000
steak and champagne party in his
hole in the ground for Missouri’s
13 Republican presidential elec-
tors. The host says he will greet,
the guests in a leopard-skin out-1
fit. He adds:
"Aftar the party, the 13 electors
will journey together to Jeffer-I
son City, the state capital, for
electoral college balloting.”
Let’s hope they remember whom
they’re supposed to vote for.
Tuegday,
Drew Pm
.Ptra°‘*r.1<lL
anon
Washington Merry Go- Round
vet i ", ift i « ». -. i
Capyrlffct INI, fey Ik* Ball Syadtoata, Isa.
WASHINGTON. — It was prob- were paying the General. Natural-
lone- ly the General got sore.
ably a mixture of nostalgic lone-
liness plus just a bit of personal
pique that caused the big Europe
over MacArthur and Eisenhower,
European Asiatic Commanders
the T»^cArthurSSSDecch1^^dvd To *at®’ *win*ln«- P“l th* Major.
nnt'bf Korea 1 h Inow a MaJor General, in command
knew the way out in Korea. jn North Africia, then in Europe.
To understand it you have to J* was up to him to get as many
go back to the days when a young ti-oops, as many supplies as possi-
Major occupied a desk in the ex- b,le- A dynamic personality, Wiu-
treme outer office of the chief of stun Churchill, backed him. Na-
staff in the old state, war and turall.y **>* and suppUes he
Navy building in Washington. The K°‘ lessened those (for his old
chief of staff in those days was commanding General in the Far
Douglas MacArthur, about 50 years * he young Major, now a
old, dynamic, straight as a ram- full-fledged General, won his Eu-
rod and given to pacing up and r°P®an Part of the war first,
down his office nervously toying' £brc® years passed, an election
with a Japanese fan. ^arJ}e , UP* a™J a®”3® Republicans
talked about drafting the old Gen-
The young officer about three! eral, now in Tokyo. Many Demo-
offices removed was Maj. Dwight crats also talked about drafting the
Eisenhower, who wrote brilliant young Major, now president of a
He hasn’t got enough
. Warren of California
take Taft.
sex appeal. ____
won’t go with Wall Street, and
Vandenberg’s got a bad heart.
“So when it’s all over, they're
going to have to come back to me,”
concluded the old General. “That’s
their only altematl'/i •— if they
want to win.”
“Look at those WaCs, General,”
said Eichelbergcr, Hying to get
his chief’s mind c.ii politics. “You
know WACs look different going
than they do coming.'*
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Disappointment In Philadelphia
But the old General was inters
ested only in what:happened when
the Republicans convened in Phila-
delphia. And he told Eichelberger
to get ready to take over in
Tokyo.
In Philadelphia next week,
“MacArthur headquarters" was
said ~ no" bedecked with banners, its
visitini
General who dominated the War . old General that Gen. Bob llichel-! a,u* fewer voted for him when the
i Mass
shadowed by the vibrant-voiced Tokyo, had so buttered
------------ old General that Gen. Bob xsicnei-1 --------- ,r — ----- -—
berger, then his deputy comman-! ™11 was called on the convention
Department. , ——.....-........—......—
I der, tells how on July 4, 1948, just |
That was in 1932. The years before the Republican convention | sw*fnB “*® Pendulum of fate,
passed. The pendulum of fate in Philadelphia, he gave the Gen- i 11 continued to swing. Two years
swung back and forth to change , eral the review of his life — Army, S,a*sed- Came the Korean war.
the positions of these two. i Navy, Waves, WAC — polished Things did not go well for the
Major Eisenhower went to the up with lick and spittle. And the
Philippines with the General, help- old General stood erect, straight-
ed him train the Philippine con- as-a-ramrod, his arm rigidly at
stabulary, differed with him, was salute, talking out of the side of
shipped home. Reasons for the his mouth to Eichelberger.
friction vary. Some Filipinos say | “They’re not going to take Dew-
they found the Major was doing ey,” said the old General, his eyes
the real planning for Philippine fixed on the parade but not really
defense, figured they could pay watching it. "The leaders don’t
the Major, save the money they like him. And they’re not going to
Try and Stop Mb
-By BENNETT CERF—
"pHE LECTURER finished his travelogue with a heartfelt sigh.
A "Yes, ladies, there are some spectacles one never forgets!”
\ lady in the third row interrupted suddenly with, “Will you
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The difference between
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himself as Tommy Burns, 11,
is that the fellow with am-
nesia doesn't know where
he’s going and doesn't have
to run.
Back from his first day at ______
school, young Gerald assured
his mother, “I sure did learn
something today. Every other kid In the class gets a quarter a
week allowance.”
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SCRAM - BALDV!
By Wilson McCoy
old General. The victory which
the American people expected ov-
ernight, the quick-and-casy hum-
bling of Communist forces, did not
come. Regardless of "who-was to
blame, there were bitter moments
for the old General and for the
American public.
Politics got into the act. Re-
publican leaders in Washington
began using the old General. He
began playing into their hands.
Finally he was ordered home.
Remarked the young Major,
now a five-star General tn Eu-
rope: “When you put on the uni-
form there are certain inhibitions
you accept.”
A year later, he came home to
run for President, despite a warn-
ing from the old General in Lans-
ing, Mich., that no military man
should serve in the White House.
And despite the old General’s
keynote speech, calculated to stop
him the young Major was nomi-
nated.
Five Minutes’ Walk
As the pendulum swung further
and as it looked like a close race
on November 4, certain friends
approached the old General urging
him to endorse the young Major
who once sat in his outer office
and who was now running for
President. No less than the ex-
president of the United States ap-
proached him; and Witnthrop Ald-
| rich, head of the Chase bank, and
j Gen. George Kenny, his old air
I commander in the South Pacific.
“Look, boss,” said Kenny, "It's
) only a five-minute walk from here
I to Eisenhower’s suite in the Com-
modore Hotel.”
"And it’s only a five - minute
walk from the Commodore here,”
replied the old General.
So November 4 came, and the
man whom the old General still
thinks of as a young Major, won.
He won even without the endorse-
ment of his old commander, with-
out the margin of votes his com-
mander might have swung to him.
Sitting alone in the Waluorf
Tower since then, the old General
has had plenty' of tim^ to think.
For no matter who you are or
what you say, it’s not easy just to
fade away.
And the real reason for the old
General’s speech suggesting a way
out in Korea — if only he were
consulted — was that the old
General wanted to shake hands a-
gain with the young Major who
once sat writing speeches in the
extreme outer office of the Gen-
eral staff suite of the old state,
war, and Navy building. For the
truth is that the old General has
been lonesome.
Erich Brandais
Looking al
Life
Ad.vvkd* .
Hypocrites, holier - than - thous,
sissies and long-haired men, please
don’t read this column.
It will only increase your blood
pressure—and you need a com-
paratively low blood pressure to
lake care of all your other peeves
and prejudices.
four escape serious injuries
IP ONE OP THE BOVS
PIP IT HE WOULDN'T
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A THOUSAND &UCk«? "VBEATS
WHAT GOES ?VvH VIS THE Ml ME.
CHIEF SO MET UP ABOLfl^
THIS MARK?
£
Some time ago I wrote some-
thing about » bit of cussing being
good for the digestion and general
outlook on life, f
I didn’t say it just like that, but
I implied that a "dnmn” every
iow and then is just like letting
off steam.
Not too much, mind you—just
enough to give the effect of taking
i deep breath. What a relief you’ll
fe sL I
That was the general idea.
Then a bunch of people started j
to write in. I ought to be ashamed j
of myself. I’d never go to heaven.,
l was blaspheming God and going j
igainst all the teachings of the
Bible. I was a lost soul.
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I got my idea about cussing from
the late lamented political cam- j
laign when quite a bit of it was
going on.
And now comes General Eisen-
hower—who shows all tin* evi-
kineis of becoming a very great
President—and backs me up. )
He cusses occasionally. He uses |
man’s language. He lets off steam.;
1 like him so much the better |
for it.
The other day he visited the j
United Nations building—one of
tiie most elaborate and craziest
tructures the world lias ever
seen.
There are a lot of things then
that make neither head nor tail-
just like the deliberations that go j
on in it.
The General was very polite. He
smiled at the crowd and even
made a little speech into thi mic-
rophones.
He talked about the work of the
people in this building being "de-
voted to the great cause,” etc. i tc
—you know all the platitudes that j
go with a speech like that.
But, as he went through, he j
turned to Trygve Lie, the Seen-!
tary General, who acted as ins j
juiclc, ami said, "Brother, this is ;
something!”
At one of the modernistic paint- |
mgs, when asked how he liked it, j
he remarked. “Tell me which is j
the front end and I’ll try ”
When Lie pointed out the sur- |
realist lighting anti ventilating
fixtures, Eisenhower exclaimed, |
"Just to be modern you don’t have I
toibe nuts."
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And when he shook hands with j
Dr. Ralph Bunche and asked him
about his future, the eminent
Negro told him he didn’t know
just what bis future was.
"How in iiell can America af-1
ford to let you go?" Eisenhower |
asked.
That is swearing, of course. But
it’s good swearing. If we let a man
like Dr. Bunche go to wasts, that
certainly would be hell, wouldn't
t?
m o«vu ■».
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tempted burclarit s. it Him <!•••
rely and White' Sat.ei-S* I '■
Station No. 2, a elimatu u ’
for Ghidew.it •:’*■ 1‘ i• V. m- • '■
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musicians will occupy the st ira'
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torium Thinsday ei - mr.g
It's to b ■ a tr *e show pi • > ■.t> -
jointly by tin- scii'inl band. • *11• :
d by Alto Tatum, and the elt.a u
club, directed bv Miss Mai: a
Carlynn, and the pi.bln r mv '■ i
Miss Mildred ill avers was fin '
ess for the Ira 7>*ta ('bib when :•
met at her home Tue. day at’.. :
noon at 4,15 pm The puipo-e nf
the meeting w is to dniu ■ the
Christmas banquet of the club
Thi plans arc being made for Dec
:to mstaad of Deecrrtber* 23rd, as
a • tn -1 planned. The banquet
uali he held in the Community
laid.ling *
M: .1 (.' Garisen was leader of
; ingrain on "On’fl(bhas, 1942,''
Ahei The l.udics Auxiliary of the
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mm Church-j
Monday afW
etmu. Mrs. Charles
Hilt- chaitJnar*, was in
• the meeting.
Ic met at th
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the highlight*, of
the lovely paldy held
the
chustmas eijtetlxinnunt
pally held Tuesday
e.oon at 2 o'clock by the
nor Sunday School Class at
hi: Baptist ChAJhCh. Poin-
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world.
J0I FORUNE'S
h loo ag£*t».
There will be a lot of folks who
nil tlirow iifi their hands in hot - j
or because the General thinks
id talks Ilk a soldier.
1 like him for that He’s duvet, j
’le thinks straight. He calls at
pade n spade.
A lot of people will also hi |
ompletely upset because in Ko-
our soldiers give the diffrrintj
olaccs all kinds of funny names. |
Like that dirt road that begin*!
with a sign, "Marilyn Monroe j
Stretch."
Twenty-three curves later. an-|
other sign reads, "St? why?"
I wonder how many of these i
people, who get so upset itt a little I
cussing or a bit of what they |
would call “immorality," realize |
that there Isn’t anything very re-
fin-d about gifting wounded or
killed in that stink hole, Korea.
Eisenhower i* ;l soldier. He
knows what it is all about." If he j
can pull us out of the mess we |
are in—both at home and abroad i
—I for one don’t mind if he uses l
•i soldier’s language.
No matter how strong his langu-1
age may be. it can’t be half as 1
bad as the insults Vlshlnsky has
been hurling at us with impunity ]
in the United Nations.
Startles Hearing
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