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THE CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
Democrats' 1948 Chances Uncertain
iTruman’s Popularity Grows
But Party Itself Is Shaky
1
dent Truman said, in paying trib-
ute to John Witherspoon, “when we
eeded more of the backing of those
eople who believe in the Golden
file, and who believe in the teach-
ings of Jesus Christ."
: The President was, of course,
speaking of moral support, but he
?iad reason to be
rather cheerful be-
cause of another
kind of backing
which he had just
/learned he had —
■the kind measured
by Dr. Gallup’s
ipolls. Gallup called
it “one of the most
{dramatic reversals
iof political senti-
ment in history.”
On October 16 of
{last year, the poll
reported Demo-
cratic party' Baukhage
strength at its low-
est point in 16 years. Three weeks
later, the survey was confirmed at
{the polls with election of a Repub-
lican congress.
But today, Mr. Truman’s popular-
ity is way up. A year ago the score
was 53 to 47 in favor of the Re-
jpublicans; in the last count it was
66 to 44 in favor of the Democrats.
On the question: “Do you ap-
prove or disapprove of the way
Mr. Truman is handling his job
as President?” the scoreboard
| said: Approve — 55 per cent;
Disapprove—29 per cent. The
I rest expressed no opinion.
Much water has flowed over the
By BAUKHAGE
- Nem Analyst and Commentator.
(This follows a series on the men most talked about as candidates for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination).
WASHINGTON.—One Sunday last month, a friend and I
watched President Truman unveil a plaque on Covenant First
Presbyterian church. The occasion was a ceremony establishing
the church as a national house of worship for Presbyterians.
Just previously, a wreath had been laid on the nearby statue of John
Witherspoon, Presbyterian clergyman, signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and one-time president of what is now Princeton university.
“There never was a time,” Presi-^
“* m------ ---'J ----4-:u Franklin Roosevelt claimed there
was no labor vote, as such. Former
Secretary of Labor Frances Perk
ins said there was none, and in
those days, there wasn’t, despite the
existence of the American Labor
party in New York City.
I doubt that there is a “la-
bor vote” now, despite the
AFL’s new “Education and Pub-
lic Relations” unit, and the CIO-
PAC, and their threats to pun-
ish supporters of the Taft-Hart-
ley law. As a matter of fact,
I understand opposition to the
law is cooling, except where
fires are being artificially fanned,
and old-timers tell me it will
(a) be modified and (b) be for-
gotten.
The fall congressional election in
the eighth Pennsylvania district
where such Herculean efforts were
put forth to make the bill an issue,
didn’t prove too much either way,
except that the highly-organized CIO
campaign did NOT defeat the Re,
publican candidate.
Party Machinery
Ha* Deteriorated
Democratic party machinery has
deteriorated rapidly since 1938 when
it was discovered that Roosevelt’s
coat-tails were no longer strong
enough to put local candidates
into office. Gradually, precinct, city,
county and state organizations be-
gan to take far more interest in
electing local officers than they
were in working together as a unit
for the national candidate. In Roose-
velt's case, that was hardly neces-
sary. And the White House got into
the habit of thinking it wasn't nec-
essary to do much for the local peo-
ple either. So the gulf widened.
It is true that real bell-ringing
was carried on by the left wing or-
ganized around the CIO-PAC, but
in some cases this support proved
the kiss of death. The Democratic
machine will have to work for the
co-operation of Wallace and the
present offshoots of CIO-PAC be-
cause it cannot afford to alienate
that type of support. Gallup a month
or so ago reported in a survey of
political orientation that 50 per cent
of the American people favored a
middle - of - the - road policy.
Of course, much depends on
who becomes the Republican
candidate for president. That
is the reason that the possibil-
ity of an Eisenhower or even a
MacArthur on the horizon
raises jitters in the executive
mansion.
Much also will depend on the
strength of the big city bosses. The
Kelly machine is pretty weak. Chi-
cago’s new Mayor Kennelly is giv-
ing the city an administration such
as it hasn’t had in a long time. But
he has weakened, not strengthened,
the old Kelly outfit. However, I hear
that Sen. Scott Lucas a down-stater,
who always fought Kelly until the
last time, may run for governor of
Illinois. He is strong down-state.
This might help Truman with the
Illinois delegation.
How strong will the new Kansas
City machine be? O’Dwyer is re-
furbishing Tammany, but the Tiger
hasn’t its old wallop. How much
the greatly-weakened Hague ma-
chine in New Jersey can contrib-
ute, I don’t know. There is one
thing to be considered. Almost all
the machines (except Crump’s
Memphis regulars) have been weak-
ened by the growth of power of the
labor bosses. What the Democrats
may gain by the labor bosses’ influ-
ence in attracting some of the lib-
erals who made up the Roosevelt
following, may be lost in alienat-
ing some of the old-line party work-
ers.
dam since the two polls were Taken.
More will flow; and, at any rate,
no poll can measure the imponder-
ables facing the Democrats. They
{have been going through a whole
‘cycle of hopes and fears. The Octo-
ber poll may have been almost as
surprising as pleasing to party lead-
ers. They know there must be an
end to all things, and it is pretty
hard to prove that the stream has
not been crossed and that the voters
who used, sometimes, to elect Re-
publican presidents, still shudder
at the danger of changing horses.
The one biggest abstract obstacle
to the election of the Democratic
president is the fact that the Demo-
crats have just been around too
llong. Undoubtedly the biggest con-
crete threat is General Eisenhow-
er. When that atomic boom first
threatened to break, the President
was on the high seas, but the de-
tails were reported to him blow by
blow—and it was quite a blow.
Probably the next biggest
headache is the internal condi-
tion of the party. After long
delay and much dissatisfaction,
a new national chairman, Sen.
Howard McGrath (Dem., R. I.)
was selected, and welcomed in
most quarters. He has a job cut
out for him because the Demo-
cratic machine has grown very
rusty in the last years, and it
is not only rust which has cor-
rupted.
Nor is it the machine alone that
creaks. Will-o-the-wisp Wallace with
bis constant threat of a third party
.is a threat to the Democratic party
iitself. Nobody believes that a third
party candidate could possibly be
elected as things stand now.
But did you ever see that traffic-
safety slogan: “Don't try to guess
what b child will do?” Democratic
leaders are up against the same
thing. They don’t dare guess what
that problem child, Henry Wal-
lace, will do. He is quite capable
of going ahead and starting a third
party with the full knowledge that
it couldn’t accomplish anything but
the election of a Republican presi-
dent.
A third party would have not
merely a nuisance-value, but Wal-
lace might dream
up a long-range
scheme of leading
a political labor
movement like Brit-
ain’s. After many
defeats, that turned
into a political
party which finally
attained power and
put a socialistic
impress on the
whole British na-
tional economy. So
the Wallace threat is a very defi-
nite one.
And what about the labor vote? It
has long been a theory, iterated by
former AFL boss Gompers, and
(until passage of the Taft-Hartley
act) reiterated by his successor,
Mr. Green, that there was no such
animal
Wallace
FALL IN . . . Harold S. Shields of Columbus, Ohio, a war vetei,t
won the grand prize ($1,500) in the newspaper national snapsa
awards contest this year with this picture of a baby sparrow ii.
situation unique among baby sparrows. Shields called it “Fail Ii_
NEWS REVIEW
Meat, Wheat Peril Seen;
Get Tough: U.S. Public
FOOD PUZZLE
Meat vs. Wheat
Domestic food situation in the
U. S. is entering a critical stage,
with two aspects standing out in
sharp opposition to each other:
1 The government, determined to
1* ship 500 million bushels of
wheat to Europe by next June, is
campaigning to save a major por-
tion of that amount by cutting down
on the feed consumption of cattle,
hogs and poultry. That line of
reasoning holds that smaller flocks
and feeding to lighter weights will
save more grain than any other sin-
gle effort.
O The supply of meat is going to
be considerably less than it has
been and the demand will be great-
er. Meat prices are expected to go
much higher in 1948. Further cur-
tailment of meat production by say-
ing grain at the feed trough will
intensify that already serious situ-
ation.
There is no danger of a bread or
food shortage of any kind this win-
ter because of the nation’s bumper
wheat harvest. The pinch, if it
comes, will appear after the middle
of next year, precipitated by a cur-
rently threatening drouth and fail-
ure of the winter wheat crop.
Added to that is the fact that do-
mestic uses, plus exports, will leave
from this year’s harvest of 1.4 bil-
lion bushels only a 100 million-
bushel carryover by the time of
the next harvest — too small a vol-
ume in the event of a short crop.
Meat, which right now is a little
cheaper than it has been because
more animals are being slaugh-
tered, will continue in great de-
mand next year because consumer
buying power will remain high.
The supply, however, will be less.
The agriculture department esti-
mates there will be only 21.5 bil-
lion pounds of meat produced in
1948, compared to 23.2 billion
pounds this year. There will be 4
million fewer cattle on farms next
January than last January, small-
er hogs will be sent to market and
there will be no increase in the
stocks of sheep, which are at an
80-year low.
PLAGUE:
Egypt Stricken
Cholera, the dreaded black plague
is spreading so swiftly in Egypt that
a total of 6,000 dead has been pre-
dicted by year’s end.
With many stricken villages iso-
lated by troops, other small com-
munities are ringed with bonfires
day and night in the belief that fire
will keep out the disease.
Meanwhile, neighboring nations
were taking steps to prevent the
spread of cholera from the upper
Nile valley. Greece, Italy and Pales-
tine have discontinued international
traffic, while private shipping lines
will bypass Egyptian ports and air
travel is diverted away from Egypt.
Outside help in combatting the
disease is at a minimum in Egypt.
Swiss scientists alone were said to
be helping local health officers.
There is a desperate shortage of
vaccines, DDT and medical special-
ists.
var-|
. can;
GET TOUGH:
U. S. Approves
Soviet leaders, who cry
monger” every time an Am a““
diplomat splits an infinitive,,^
gravely in error if they si be.
there is any major cleava^ '
tween the American public’s {L,
on Russia and the state oa:
ment's so-called “tough” polii
ward the Soviets. .
That conclusion was brought,
in a recent Gallup poll which inc
cated that, actually, the predorm
nant mood —*•'*-
Process for Killing
Turkeys Explained
Proper Slaughtering
And Bleeding Required
Before killing turkeys, as well as
other fowl, see that they have ac-
cess to water but no feed during the
12 to 18 hours prior to slaughtering.
When the turkey shows feed in the
crop it will not be graded as quality.
To kill a turkey for market, sus-
pend them by shackles, leaving the
wings free. Insert the blade of the
killing knife in the turkey's mouth
•xFa.
Proper method of killing a tur-
key as well as other fowl. —Draw-
ing, Cornell university.
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COON. OPOSSUM. FOX, RABBIT and
combination hunters—bird dogs and pups.
Trial allowed. Write for free literature and
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LIVESTOCK
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condition. Stimulate lagging appetites with
Gear’s Stock Powder in their feed.
can buy. Sat-
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The best stock tonic money
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and make one clean cut across the
upper part of the throat just back
of the junction of the head and
neck, as shown in drawing.
Hold the turkey head down, with
the beak open, until the blood is
weil started. With the left hand
grasp the head in front of where the
cut has been made to prevent the
pressure of the fingers from check-
ing the flow of blood. Poor bleeding
is indicated by visible blood in the
veins and by the dark red appear-
ance of the carcass after picking.
When the blood is flowing freely,
of public opinion today‘hri|st the knife, blade straight back
. ft °n a SSe between the‘eyes SmTears,"
through the cleft in the roof of the
mouth and into the lower lobe of the
brain. Give the knife a quarter turn.
This kills the bird and loosens the
feathers.
FOB SALE
8 young pure bred Jersey cow* with young
calves. One herd bull.
Mrs. Alma Nath Carbiu, Grapevine, Tex.
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favors an even tougher policy than
the state department is following. ,
Answers to the question, “Do you
think that in dealing with Russia
and other countries the U. S. is .in-
sisting too much on having its own
way?” were: Yes, 12 per cent; No,
78 per cent; No opinion, 10 per cent..
Further, 62 per cent of the Ameri-
can people believe that the U. S. is
being too soft in its policy toward
Russia. Only 6 per cent think it is,
being too tough, and 24 per cent say
our official attitude toward the So-
viets is about right.
FINAL TOUCHES:
Marshall Plan
After caroming from praise to
criticism to condemnation for the
past few months, the celebrated
Marshall plan to help Europe re-
gain its feet is being whipped into
final shape under direction of Secre-
tary of State George Marshall, its
progenitor.
One known fact loomed large in
the mind of the American taxpayer:
The plan may cost up to 20 billion
dollars for the four-year period dur-
ing which it will be in effect.
Marshall, who abandoned tempo-
rarily his debating in the U. N. gen-
eral assembly, returned to his
Washington office to put the finish-
ing touches on his plan, which will
be laid before congress when the
special session opens November 17.
The Marshall plan, subject to late
revisions, may be outlined broadly
in these main points:
1 U. S. would make available to
I • Europe next year a combination
of relief and recovery supplies total-
ling about six billion dollars. Relief
supplies (food) would be free; re-
covery supplies (machinery) would
be financed with loans.
3 Because of shifting conditions,
“• it will be impossible accurately
to forecast the amount of help Eu-
rope will need beyond the first year.
■J Sums from the U. S. would de-
*-»• crease each year as recovery
progress was made.
A The plan would be administered
• • in the U. S. by a new govern-
ment agency and in Europe by an
organization representing the 16 na-
tions which drew up their estimate
of needs at the Paris conference.
Herds and Flocks on
Successiul Farms
Feed bunks for cattle should be
30 inches high for mature stock and
24 inches for calves. Allow 30 inches
of trough length for each grow*
animal, 20 for each calf. Make the
grain and silage bunk three feet
wide for feeding’ from both sides.
Many ewes die every winter from
a condition known as pregnancy dis-
eases. The losses are not as com-
mon in flocks where the ewes are
kept gaining slightly in weight dur-
ing the gestation period.
REAL ESTATE—BUS. PROP.
RAINBOW COURTS. Highway 80. 6 units,
trailer spaces. Gas Station, grocery store,
$12,000. Make me offer. Contact owner.
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butane, attic fan,
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Weil-conditioned ewe that should
cause no trouble.
Lousy cows, when freed from lice,
give 10 per cent to 15 per cent more
milk, according to Michigan State
college. This means the equivalent
of another cow in a herd for $1, by
controlling lice. In winter, which is
a bad time for cattle lice, apply a
powdered louse killer containing
DDT and repeat the application in
10 to 14 days.
Early spring litters of pigs do
poorly unless the brood sow has an
abundant supply of milk at farrow-
ing time.
75,000 WORKERS
Building U.N. Home Huge Task
The 65 million-dollar job of con-
structing the United Nations’ world
capital along the East river in New
York City will benefit more than
75,000 workers during the next three
years, headquarters planning offi-
cials have predicted.
Chief architects of the future sky-
scraper city of glass and marble
estimated that a total of 25,000 per-
sons eventually would be employed
in construction and other direct
work upon the actual site.
An additional 50,000 workers are
expected to contribute indirectly in
production of materials and in other
outside labor. Labor expense will
account for 42 million of the total 65
million dollar construction cost.
Currently, the more than 50 ad-
ministrative, architectural and en-
gineering members of the head-
quarters planning staff are more or
less marking time while they wait
from day to day for some word on
how the skyscraper project is to be
financed.
A sledge-hammer detail of 100
workers already has demolished
about 40 per cent of the old slaugh-
ter houses and garages now occupy-
ing the area, but no large-scale con-
struction can begin until the gen-
eral assembly gives the go-ahead
signal.
And that signal will not be forth-
coming until a financing program,
almost certainly to be based on a
big United States loan, has been,
arranged.
In the meantime, considerable
work is being done on refinement of
detailed designs, improvement of a
master system for circulating peo-
ple and vehicular traffic through the
international zone and on prelimi-
nary surveys regarding interior de-
sign and furnishings.
Officials say U. N. may decide to
follow the example set by the.
League of Nations and accept fur
nishings from each member coun-
try, each nation contributing a
product for which it is famous—like
rugs from Persia and tapestries
from Belgium.
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of feed. This Washington State col-
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cost. It will serve 100 chicks for
their first 10 days.
New Poison Reported
More Potent Than DDT
An insect poison four times as
potent as DDT against certain in-
sects has been discovered. Called
synklor, it is particularly powerful
against such household pests as
roaches, ants, moths and carpet
beetles. Hordes of grasshoppers in
recent years also have bowed to this
new chemical. It has proven effec-
tive for hard-to-kill German roach
as well as weevils, aphids, lice and
ticks.
SPEEDED-UP COMFORT
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