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tion in Philadelphia, Henry Wallace
repeated several times the assertion
that he was not a Communist, that
he didn’t want Communist support,
in fact, that he wished they’d get
out of his party. For jhis, as some
observers pointed out. Wallace was
lace seems to be beginning to back
up. through pity, and now is finding
that he has to endure them, whether
he likes them or not.
ington plays one role that it plays in
no other American city. It becomes,
on certain occasions, few or many
according to the taste of the in-
cumbent president, a ceremony of
state. No matter how private a pres-
ident wants to be when he sees a
show, be can’t help being a public
personage on such occasions.
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Hp*HE full context reveals the fact
A that Baruch exhibited courage
as well as faithfulness in his serv-
ice as scribe to Jeremiah, it was
not an easy task. Nor will it be
easy to fill our posts as couriers
of the Good News. But it was a
rewarding experience for Baruch.
He served his day and generation
according to the will of God.
Mr Henry Ford, Sr., believed in
having a "opy of the Bible near at
hand wherever he might sit down
in his home. I heard him say once
Embrace, Pity,
Then Endure
Before his third party’s conven- that he had a Bible on .every table
in his home. “I ao this in order that
I may reach over and spend a few
minutes with the Lord wherever I
may sit down And I always cher-
ish the hope that others will find it a
lamp unto their feet and a light
along their daily pathway."
Let us give thanks for Baruch—
the trusted friend who served Jere-
miah, and thus served God.
ing in different theaters at the same
time. It was a good town for open-
af the outstanding year of 1942 and , UP until fairly recently.
the record set in 1946. '
Acreage in crops is among the
a floor fight which proved rather
tame in view of the anticipated
knock-down, drag-out battle. .... .........
The platform calls on congresa I cations pointing to a general crop
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' the upper stage-box of this theater,
President Abraham Lincoln was as-
the actor, John
i vealed in figures compiled by the
[National Industrial Conference
board.
Accompanying this increased em-
l° ployment was a decline of more
■ than 200,000 in unemployment over
the year's period.
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j Fundamentally, the force that
rules the world is conduct, whether
it be moral or immoral. If it
: is moral, at least there may be
i hope for the world. If immoral,
th -e is not only no hope, but no
prospect of anytnlng but destruc-
tion of all that has been accomp-
lished during the last 5,000 yean
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PERSHING:
Taps Sounds
Gen. John J. (BJackjackX^Pewh-
ing, who led American troops to-
victory in World War 1, is dead at
the age of 87/
The aged former chief of staff
had been ill since February, 1938,
when he was stricken at Tucson,
Ariz,, by a form of rheumatism
which affected his heart muscles.
He came close to dying at that
time, but rallied with a display of
fighting spirit .which amazed his
physicians.’ Since then he had lived
at Walter Reed hospital in Wash-
ington, D. C.
Death was caused by a blood clot
which reached his lung. At Persh-
ing’s bedside ■ when death came
were/his son, Warren; his sister.
Miss May Pershing, and his lorig-
flme physician, Maj. Gen. Shelley
Marietta. ■ , • ;
Pershing held the • rank of general
st the armies, a title conferred on
only four other American soldiers,
Washington, Grant, Sherman, and .theater, erected jn 1895 on Madison
Sheridan; He outranked such con- I__________;____ place, „
temporary five-star generals as
George C. Marshall, Dwight D.z
Eisenhower, and Douglas Mac-
Arthur. Their title is general of
*he army.
Pershing won his greatest fame
as commander-in-chief of the
American expeditionary force in
World War, I. Appointed to that
post' in 1917, he took personal
command of the American troops
sent to France. He almost 'imme-
diately became involved in a dis-
pute with other Allied commanders
who wanted to break up the
American army and use it to rein-
force the French and British,
^armies wherever necessary. ~
Ing flatly refused to let his troops
lose their identity.
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DEVOTIONAL READING: PiaJnu 82. •
a Baptist-church on Tenth street.
er we may. Here I pause to pay
i tribute to the American Bible So-
| ciety and all others, including the
Gideons, who help to make ,the
' Bible known to all men everywhere.
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I A MAN ON WHOM GOD COUNTED
I npHUS we see that Baruch was
JL a man on whom God counted.
j His work was done well, and we
1 read that, “Whc^i they heard all the
j words, they were'afraid both one
j and other, and said unto Baruch,
We will surely tell the king of all.
these words."
Young people will do well to pon-
der this incident. In the varied
contacts of young Christians in this
modern day, we may be used of
the Holy" Spirit in making known
j the words of God in countless ways. ■
Thus, like Baruch, you may be
_______ used of God'to make known his will
social reasons. He simply can’t book . unto mankind.
shows if he continues race discrim- 1 ♦ * *
ination and he thinks that if he
raises the ban, he can’t sell tickets
to enough white people to make it
pay-
To southerners it probably seems
absurd that such a question should
'arise, and northerners probably will
be just as surprised for the opposite
reason. Washington was once a
Southern city, now it is a mixture
of North and South and typical of
neither.
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Wilkes Booth.
There was a saloon on the corner
below the theater where Booth was
said to have had his last drink be-
fore he crept into the theater, shot
Lincoln and leaped to the stage,
tripping on a piece of bunting and
breaking his leg.
For many years, over the bar
of that saloon, hung a crude pic-
ture of the assassination, and on
the floor was a metal marker
where the half-mad .actor was
supposed to have stood as he
warmed his courage In prepara-
tion for his theatric crime.
Washington theatergoers were
well acquainted with John Booth’s
acting but better still with that of
his elder brother, Edwin, who had
the greater talent. But they never
saw Edwin Booth on a local stage
again. He was so heart-broken over
his‘ brother’s crime that he never
Continuing the postwar upward : again played in the capital.
trend in civilian employment. 1.5 | A theatrical performance in Wash-
million ’ more. persons were em- * ' ’ ........
ployed in civilian occupations last
annexed new territory. Most cities AprHJth.®nJP Apri’’
seek to annex suburban land to
solve their population problems.
“Cities want outlying territory |
to equalize local tax'*rates- and to 1
provide uniform public services
according to the association.
mildly spanked by the Daily Work- I
er, mouthpiece of Muskovite com-
munism in America.
It seems to me that Wallace is i
following one of Alexander Pope’s i
quatrains in reverse. Remember
Pope said:
“Vice is a monster of so fright-
ful mien
,As to be hated needs but to be
seen,
Yet seen too oft, familiar with
her face, •
We first endure, then pity, then
embrace.”
Having embraced the Reds, Wai- |
lace seems to be beginning to back i
aide of 1917.
feeble, the general followed daily
developments closely from his hos-
pital room, paying particular at-
tention to “my boys,” who included
Generals Marshall, Eisenhower,
and George S. Patton Jr.
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GENERAL PERSHING
Last Battle ’
There is one theater, now a mu-
seum, which is still a point of in-
’The right to equal opportunity * *argest In recent^years and '"yield terest for tourists. Originally it was
- - _ - ’ prospects are good for most crops,
OUR BIBLE
HEN Jeremiah called Baruch,
the son of Neriah, , and
Baruch wrote from the mouth of
Jeremiah all the words of the Lord,
which he had spoken unto him,
upon a roll of a book. And Jere-
miah commanded Baruch, saying,
I am shut up; I cannot go into the
house of the Lord, Therefore go
thou, and read in the roll, which
thou hast written from my mouth,
the words of the Lord in the ears
of the people in the Lord’s house
upon the fasting day; and also thou
shalt read them in the ears of all
Judah that come out of the cities,”
Jeremiah 36:4-8.
How did we get our Bible?
Through this simple process of God<.
speaking through his appointed
prophet, and by the faithful work
of men like Baruch who served as
scribes.
tion in the armed forces.
The long-heralded southern
volt, however, failed I
into the Dixie-wide proportions !
predicted. Only Mississippi's 22
delegates and 13 of Alabama’s 26
stalked out of the convention in
protest against President Truman’s
nomination and adoption of the
strong civil rights plank.
However, 263 remaining southern
delegates registered that area’s
protest by voting for the presiden-
tial nomination of Sen. Richard B.
Russell of Georgia. Size of the pro--
test vote indicated the Democratic
party still has a problem on its
hands in the South.
(Copyright by the International Council
ot Religious Education on behalf of 40
Pidestant denominations. Released by
WNU Features.)
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THIS SCRIBE OF LONG AGO
TN the introductory paragraph I
I sketched briefly the story of
Baruch. He was a trained man,
trusted and beloved. This he had to
be, else God would not have ap-
proved Jeremiah’s selection of Bar-
uch to copy what he was saying
for God. And not only was he se-
lected to write down what God was
saying, through his prophet, but he
was used to proclaim the words of
God to the people in the Lord’s
house. Baruch was amanuensis,
reader and distributor of the Bible-
—a 'distinguished role, indeed. Let
us today be gladly ready to read
the Bible to others, and to distribute
this was "after he’ left "the' "white i and circulate the Scriptures wherev-
House and while he was making a
political speech in Milwaukee.
It was the movie which drove
out the later Washington legiti-
mate theaters, but this death
blow Jo the present-day National
theater arises out of the grow-
ing demand to end segregation—
a demand which made itself felt
after World War I. and which in-
creased in World War II. The
frequent, well-publicized con-
troversies over lifting of the seg-
regation ban in Constitution
hall, property of the Daughters
of the American Revolution and
one of the few available concert
hails in the city, have spotlight-
ed Washington’s segregation
habits—they aren’t laws.
The manager of the National thea-
ter is not closing the theater for
ond lieutenant in the sixth U. S.
cavalry and launched a career in
soldiering to which he devoted
his entire life. He fought Indians
in the American west, Spaniards
in Cuba, Moro tribesmen . in the
Philippines, Mexican bandits un-
der Pancho Villa on the U." S.-
i Mexican border and Germans in
France. z i but because of the rough going (the
Throughout World War II, Persh- | wealthy didn’t like to risk their
ing received a full report twice a fancy equipages out on bad nights),
, month from General Marshall, his cost as much as $10 to get from
aide of 1917. Although old and home to the show. . <
. Now you can ride all the way
from Capitol Hili lo what was
forest and farmland in 1835 for
30 cents.
The capital’s greatest theatrical
development began right after the
Civil war and went on for three dec-
ades. By the time I attended my
first show here in 1914, there was
no dearth of dramatic entertain-
-..w-.^r ment and sometimes three original
[bumper crop this year, with indi- Broadway^companies would be play-
■ L'ctiiuua pumnujs iv a gcuEia: nup
I production which may surpass that
platform pledging the Democratic i
party more specifically than ever
before to work for basic constitu- I
tional civil rights was adopted after \KeC0rd Output
Barring a major crop disaster,
the nation ’will harvest another
, “governor of the city”
under Josiah (II 'chronicles 34:8),
and his father, Ner-
iah, appears to have
been an official dur-
ing the reign of
Jehoiakim. He was a
trusted friend of Jer-i
emiah (Jeremiah 32:
6-15 and 43:5-6). Tra-
dition holds that
Baruch was carried
to Babylon, where he
wrete the apocryphal
“Book .of Baruch,”
and died in 574/B.C.,
twelve years after
the fall of Jerusalem.
Our golden text for this lesson is
found in Psalms 119:105, “Thy
word is a lamp unto my feet, and
tight unto my path.”
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the service and defense of our na-
tion”—meaning the^end of segrega- J dry, hot August or an early frost.
-• (Previous record was 3,287,927,000
luthern re- jbUShels in 1946.
to develop j wheat crop prospect of 1,241,-
751,000 bushels represents a gain of
4 per cent from earlier forecasts,
j If that amount is harvested, it
■will rank as the second largest
crop in history.
Rice will set a new acreage rec-
ord and nearly equal last year’s
record output. Oats and barley will
be well above average crops.
Bumper crop prospects are not
expected to mean any immediate .
increase in meat supplies or any
noticeable decrease in meat prices
but the record harvest should mean
larger meat supplies in the future.
of employment” — another way of
promising a fair employment prac- lagricufture’ department spokesmen In 1861 was converted into what
tices act. . I Bajdt On the basis of July 1 condi- j was called Christy’s opera house.
“The right of security of person” tiOns. Later it became Ford’s theater. In
—meaning a federal anti-lynch | ^,n all-time record corn crop of
law. - 3,328,862,000 bushels was forecast ,
“The right of equal treatment in although com. the largest teed sassinated by
the service and defense of our na- cr0Pt still faces such hazards as a
facing La-
Wl fayette square, may
be reconditioned
IslBi and leased “> a
' management which
will lift the racial
■ discrimination prac-
H tice (the Belasco
■ is currently gov-
■ ernment property
■ and is used as a
I , storehouse). If the
Belasco . is not re-
opened, Washing-
ton will be theater-
less.
Washington’s
theatrical tradition
Persh-! began early. One of the first theaters
here was the Washington theater at
Eleventh and C streets. It opened
Durn oepi. ,io, ioou, in me iron- in 1804 and its ads proclaiming the
tier town of Laclede, Mo., Persh-1 grand premiere added in small
ing was graduated from West Point type: “No Segars are to be smoked
when he was 26. He .became a sec-, during the performance.”
When that edifice burned, a
second Washington theater, seat-
ing 700 persons, was opened in
1821. It boasted numerous im-
provements and innovations, In-
cluding stoves, reserved seats,
improved acoustics, no liquor in
the box lobbies and facilities for
Negro playgoers. “Facilities’*
today wouldn’t satisfy—accom-
J . modations would have to be on
a basis of race equality.
; Fourteen years after the new
Washington theater had opened its
) doors the National theater appeared
on the site of the present movie-
house-to-be. It is located in the very
center of what only recently has
been called “downtown," on E
street which meets Pennsylvania
avenue just before it bumps into
the treasury building, skirts its
northern front and ambles past the
White House.
Important .clubs, hotels, and res-
taurants are only a few blocks from
the National today but when it was
built, it was, like any other point
in the young capital, well-nigh in-
accessible in inclement weather.
When it rained or snowed, Pennsyl-
vania avenue became a mudhole.
( Residential areas, except those in
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Truman ‘WE ACCEPT! * Barkley,
In Fighting Mood Born in Log Cabin
ing senator from Paducah, Ky.. for
the vice presidency.
The President’s call for a special
session provided a dramatic and
startling climax to the 30th conven-
tion, which had been marked by
bitter debate over ferocious family
differences’.
The party had been ripped by in-
fighting between northern progres-
sives and southern conservatives
over the issue of equal civil rights
for Negroes. One-half of the Ala-
bama delegation—13 of the 26
votes—and the entire Mississippi
delegation of 22 had stormed out
of the convention amid boos, cheers
and a- great pushing and shoving.
This was the' high point of the
widely-heralded.southern revolt, al-
though a rump, convention was
called to meet in Birmingham,
Ala.
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Discord Flares
Discord prevailed long before
the 1,596 delegates from the 48
states and territories gathered in
stifling, steaming Philadelphia for ,
the quadrennial convention.
Dissident factions of the party ’
rallied behind a concerted drive to ’
draft Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
as the party’s standard bdarer.
“Ike,” However, removed himself
from the race with his third and
final insistence .that he “would not
accept the IfomnigTiori.”
The day after the Eisenhower
boom collapsed, the New Deal ef-
forts to oppose Mr. Truman tflth
Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas also* blew up. Douglas,
whom the President had wanted I
for his running mate, flatly refused I
to be considered and also knocked ■
himself out of the vice presidential
running.
After Douglas declined .to enter
the presidential race. Senator
Pepper of Florida announced his
candidacy with the backing of the
New Deal wing, but his bld was
not considered very seriously.
Civil Rights
After seven days of wrangling, a
The PHILADELPHIA STORY
Truman-Barkley
If the Democrats hadn’t known
before their convention that Presi-
dent Harry Truman was their man
they found out on the steaming
Wednesday when their political
show slammed through to a smash-
ing, triumphant finish.
Harry Truman told them so,
after the enterprising liberal forces
of the party had spent all that
Wednesday in the 105-degree heat
of convention hall proving it be-
yond any doubt.
>■ It looked like the Democratic
party might have been completely
revitalized in 12 tense hours on
that last day of the convention,
ending a period during which the
Democrats’ morale and will to win
slowly had been ossifying.
The revitalization came as a re-
sult of two potent factors which
actually could be reduced to one—-
President Truman’s influence.
In the first place, in adopting the
strong, positive civil rights plank
in the platform the party not only
repudiated the idea and spirit of
reaction but also dealt an extremely
sharp and real slap to the hands
of the southern wing which had
tried, at times almost savagely, to
produce a cleavage within the
parly.
That action, closely followed by
the nomination' of President Tru-
man to run for re-election and the
nomination of Sen. Alben Barkley
of Kentucky by acclamation for the
vice-presidential spot on the ticket
added another solid timber to the
structure that the liberal elements
of the party were fighting so hard
to build,
t* Those developments were, in
themselves, a complete and vic-
torious proof that the Democrats
this year intended to bring them-
selves before the American public
as a responsible, cohesive party
that would be striving for nothing
less than total victory in the No-
vember election.
But it remained for President
Truman to give the whole affair
a significance that could not be
ignored.
Fighting Finish
It was a far cry from a love
fest as the Democratic clans,
feuding for many months, met in
the City of Brotherly Love for
their 30th national convention.
After three days of strife and
bickering, the conclave came to a
close as a fighting President Tru-
man triumphantly accepted his
party’s nomination for the presi-
dency and then rocked Democrats
and Republicans alike with an in-
stant summons to the 80th congress
to return for a special session
July 26.
The convention, perhaps the
most bitterly divided since 1860
and 1924, ended with a political ex-
t plosion detonated by the quiet man
' from Independence, Mo. The ex-
plosion startled even the regular
members of his own party who had
engineered the nomination of Mr.
Truman to the presidency.
The Democrats pinned their No-
vember election hopes on a ticket
of Harry S. Truman and Alben W.
Barkley. It was the 64-year-oId
modest, low-voiced former senator
from Missouri, who had succeeded
to the office upon the death of
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, for
the presidency. And it was the 70-
L year-old, soft-speaking, compromis-
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f NO LIMITS
American Cities Are Increasing in Size
Los Angeles, brunt of many
,V jokes for its ever-expanding city
limits, is not the only American
city which is increasing in size.
In fact, American cities are get-
s’ ting jigger all the time, with 298
> communities extending their boun-
’ fiaries in 1947 for a new all-time
r,r record, according to the Interna-
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---WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS—
Fighting Truman Gets Democratic
Nomination, Calls Special Session;
Barkley Selected as Running Mate
--By Bitt Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer-----------
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’o news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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Alas, Poor Yorick, Capital
Has Seen Its Last Theater
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By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
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WASHINGTON—As Washington hurries through summei,
forced to commute-to Philadelphia for. its major distraction,
it is faced with a painful prospect of less diversion next fall.
This city, which once boasted of almost a dozen legitimate r> aruch, whose name means
theaters (when it had a much smaller population) is1 about to O “blessed,” was . the grandson
have the last one that lingered on alone turned into a movie of Maaseiah,
house. - '
/ The old National theater, which opened in 1935, was burned and rebuilt
four times, .collapsed once, is now about to end its legitimate days on an
■ issue which is giving the Democratic party equal concern—civil, rights.
Negroes-are not permitted in-the audience.'
There is talk that the old Belasco <2>----------------------------:----------
his life, wouldn’t think of letting him
sit anywhere but in a box where he
is separated from the. crowd. This,
on the other hand, makes him con- 1
spicuous. One guard outside the door
to Lincoln’s box in the Ford thea-
ter could have prevented the as-
sassination.
The fact that there was no( pro-
vision for protection by the govern-
ment in the Temple of Music in Buf-
falo cost the nation its President
William McKinley.
Since then, the chief execu-
tive has had a bodyguard wheth-
er he likes it or not, and ai body-
guard can’t hide its light under
a bushel. Entrance and exit from
a public building become a little
bit of a pageant, no matter how
they are effected.
Woodrow Wilson loved the theater.
He liked vaudeville and was a fre-
quent visitor at Keith’s—now one
of our big movie houses. Edmund
Starling, head of the secret service
under several presidents, often
talked to me about how much Wilson
loved the theater. Starling enjoyed
it, I enjoyed it, and perhaps togeth-
er, we exaggerated Wilson’s affec-
tion for the footlights. But Starling
used to say that Wilson got more
recreation from that source than any
other. In his book, “Starling of the
White House," he says Wilson pre-
ferred musical comedy and vaude-
ville to serious drama. That was
the general impression among the
newspapermen, I know.
Bdth the Roosevelts, Theodore and
Franklin, were great ^theatergoers.
Neither of them was a blushing vi-
olet as far as receiving, adulation of
the crowds was concerned, but for
a number of reasons, largely the
hectic times of the late Roosevelt’s
regime, the former made his at-
tendance anywhere more of a show.
Although an assassin’s bullet did lay
low a man in Franklin Roosevelt’s
entourage—Mayor Anton Cermak of
Chicago when both were visiting
Miami — Theodore Roosevelt was
himself actually shot and badly
wounded on one occasion. However, I
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