The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 12, Ed. 1 Monday, January 15, 1951 Page: 2 of 6
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TKSj DAILY NEWS-TELEGBAH, SiTLTKS* SPRIGS, TEXAS
Uncle Sam Takes the Ball
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Maverick Morse Has Been I
Betting Against Home Team vk||j
BY PETER EDSON ULmJR
NBA Washington Correspondent mk,
IN—(NBA)— Before the last election Republican Sen.
.jrse of Oregon bet Republican frontX
per cent of the vote by following his own independent line and cham-
pioning progressive Republican causes. This ra^Ridntr^r^
vote percentage scored by any Republican senatorial candidate—Sen.
George Aiken of Vermont being first. By comparison, Sen. Robert A.
Priest Has Bold, New Concept
Of Right to Strike Blow’
The idea of “preventive war" has been threat moved back in space, fii
examined thoughtfully and rejected by use of knives and then of the
our leaders. Theyjiave spumed it on two bow and arrow, and finally gu
counts: lengthening ranges, the dange
1. There is really no such thing as a immediate and real. In othei
preventive war in the sense that a war can was close in time, though not ir
be fought to prevent war. Father Walsh reasons th
2. Undertaking a war to get the jump would not attempt an attack 01
on the enemy and prevent defeat is some- well armed with A-bombs,
thing else. But our moral position in the knows we would use such weap
world will not allow us to take this step her instantly in retaliation. If
even though we know the Soviet Union is #he would strive for surprise, :
plotting our destruction. We must, the and an absolutely crippling efft
argument goes, wait for conflusive overt the start—to prevent our strikin
action by our prospective enemy. Knowing this, for us to awai
Most of the speculation on this point, blow” is thus obviously to invit
VS59E51
Smith of Maine $25
in Congress. L
made so many
however, has assumed that if we were to national suicide. As far as effective re-
strike first, we would hit well in advance sistance by us goes, the first blow might
of the first enemy blow, when he was per- be the only one necessary,
haps giving no sign of immediate action. Father Walsh argues that we cannot
An entirely new notion has now. been take that gamble, that we cannot allow
injected into this argument by Father Ed- the enemy to strike first if we wish to sur-
mund Walsh, S. J., regent of Georgetown—vive.
University's foreign service school; ' His Were we to adopt Father Walsh's
statement carries especial weight because thinking as our national policy, it would
he is' a prominent Catholic educator treat- impose a tremendous strain upon ourvcivil-
ing a subject on which the church has jan and military intelligence services. We
strong moral convictions. would have to count upon them to tell us
Father Walsh believes we may be ful- when—for sure—the enemv was about to
ly warranted morally in striking the en- strike. We could not afford to be wrong,
emy first if we have positive, reliable in- either way. '
formation that he is about to hit us. He Our national leaders may contend that
illustrates with the case of Japan in 1941. the burden on intelligence would be too
The Japanese carrier fleet left a Jap great. that the risk of making a mistake
port on Nov. 26, 1941, bound for its crip- would he colossal.
pling attack upon Pearl Harbor on Dec. if that should be their conviction, it
7. According to Father Walsh, we would would seem incumbent upon them to de-
have been thoroughly justified in inter- vise an alternative policv which would
ceptmg that fleet at any point in its course guarantee to us the right to defend and
—had we known beyond doubt what its preserve our nation and our people while
goal was. there is still time to save them.
Put simply, this is the right of self-de- What that policy should be is a mat-
fense and self-preservation, which is sane- ter for debate. The nation can thank
tioned both morally and legally by our Father Walsh for the fact that this vital
democratic system. Primitive man could topic has now been fe-opened for discus-
not be blamed for striking first when he »ion at the most critical juncture in our
saw an enemy fist coming at him. As the national life.
fun of it. Latest gag in this category was a faked rumor that ex-Sea
Happy Chandler of Kentucky would be made Secretary of State,
succeeding Dean Acheson, who would then be made Baseball Com-
missioner. This pipe dream-was offered by its inventor as not only
a sure-fire way to wreck the State Department, but also as a sure-fire
way to wreck professional baseball as well.
A DD Gags of the Week Department:
Things were so tough around Washington during the holidays
that a new scrap drive was suggested—to salvage the tin foil oft the
champagne bottles. ... *
After the President is dead.and gone, says another wag, historical
markers will probably be, erected in Washington newspaper offices,
reading: “Harry Truman Wrote Here."
Ex-President Hoover’s new defense plan was recommended as a
sure way to get the grass growing in the streets again—after the
atomic radiation died down.
• • • *
Presidential messages to the 82nd Congress may be strung out over
the first couple of weeks of the new session. Under present plans—
subject to later change in scheduling—the President’s annual “State
of the Union” message would go up first, on Jan. 2 or 3. The Eco-
nomic Report is now tentatively scheduled for Monday, Jan. 8. The
Budget Message may not reach the Congress until a week later, or
about Jan. 15. This later date for sending uji the Budget is permitted
under a new administration law. Formerly all three messages went
up in the first week of the new session.
« * •
National Security Resources Board, which was to be the top civilian
war agency under W. Stuart Symington, may reduce its staff from
about 250 experts to some 2!j. Reason is that ODM—Office of DefefMB
Mobilization under Charles E.'Wilson, has been given most of tn*
NSRB functions. Mr. Symington remains as adviser to the President
and member of the National Security Council. NSRB can’t be abol-
ished outright because it was created by law in the National Mefense
Act, which unified the armed services. What NSRB now beetles is,
in effect, another council of economic advisers to the President, con-
centrating on problems relating to the national defense effort.
sprang up on an East Texas cot-
ton field near Daingerfield in
World War II.
Arouhd the Capital:
At midnight oh Jan. 29 Bon-
ham’ Rep. Sam Rayburn will
eclipse the record of Henry Clay
of Kentucky for length1 of service
as Speaker of the House. .
Some doubt had existed as to
the exact datp. It was announced
once that Clay’s record was eight
years, four months and i'i days,
which would appear to have been
surpassed by Rayhiurn on Jan. 27.
Lloyd BeSscn, Jr., of McAllen, in
a quest ft? get the big Harlingen
air force base reactivated.
Mayor E. G. Schugart of Dal-
hart headed a group asking the
Air Force to reactivate the big
World War Two flying center in
their part of the Panhandle. With
him were Floyd Richards, District
Attorney, and S. E. Brown, bank-
er-cowpuncher. Their first stop
was at the office of Senator Lyn-
don B. Johnson (D-Tex.) to ar-
range appointments.
Fort Worth’s aggressive Cham-
ber of Commerce manager, Wil-
tiam Holden, spotted at the capi-
tol, said he was “just looking
around” to see if new defense en-
terprises could be brought to the
city that B-36 airmen call home
base.
The recently passed military ap-
propriation bill, incidentally, pro-
vided several million dollars for
three vast new warehouses at the
Fort Worth qQartermaster center.
Army officials reported some of
the space would he used for stor-
ing Australian "wool. This precip-
itated a prompt query from San
Angelo men who wanted to know
why their city, in the heart of the
Texas sheep and wool area,
shouldn’t be* picked for a wool
warehouse. They pointed tn the
dry climate and presence there of
expert graders and handlers.
Three Dallas business men, offi-
cials of the Lone Star Steel Com-
pany, conferred with Rep. Wright
Patman in.d government authori-
ties in quest of an $83,000,000
loan to build an oil pipe manufac-
turing plant.
The trio wCre Eugene Germany,
president of the company; W. H.
Johnson, vie* president and comp-
troller/«fid John D. McCall. They
Texans In
Washington
(By Ai§oriated Prem>
Letter From Washington by jahe eads, a. p. staff writer
Washington.—Capital social life, which got nff
to a meteoric climb to unparalleled brilliance
earlier in the season, has nose-dived to a partial
dim-out-with the increasing seriousness of the Ko-
•rean situation: Hostesses are. either canceiling ’all
parties, or cutting those long-scheduled to the
simplest proportions, with the general attitude re-
miniscent of the early days of World War II.
Vice President and Mrs. Alben Barkley are
credited with starting the trend, calling off the
party they had’scheduled for early December, hon-
oring President and Mrs. JTruman, Lot* of women
In official circles are said to have cancelled orders
for finery to wear to this function, and others to
follpw^jgfter the mandate of the “Veep” and his
Missus.
While many of the city’s debutantes have al>
ready made their bow with the usual fanfare,, oth-
ers scheduled to be presented at glamorous shin-
yards. Once friore, he predicted,
“It’ll be a run.” But it was an-
Washington—The third trek of
Texas business and civic leaders to
Washington in a decade has start-
ed in quest of industrial and com-
mercial expansion for their State.
The first one started just be-
fore the advent of World War II.
The larger cities were’in first,
some even assigning full-time rep-
resentatives here to proclaim the
advantages of their areas for fed-
eral installations. •
Soon delegations were coming
from towns not even large enough
at the Mayflower hotel where all ballrooms hadjto maintain „ chamber of corn-
been hired to take care of some 1,500-guests and meree- And not long afterward,
efiro™* .nd „th„ iWr*d were S? "SSt
to be served.
Congressional Library research
experts'later found that some leap’
year dates were involved and that
it won’t be until Jan. 3.0 that Ray-
bum goes ahead.
James E. Wheeler of Gilmer, a
sergeant on the Capitol police
force, passed out cigars last week
to all Texans he encountered in
the legislative corridors.
He said he. didn’t have a name
to announce yet. They had plan-
ned on a girl and guessed wrong.
The ydung fellow weighed in at 9
pounds and 11 ounces.
by Hershberger
Three orchestras had been hired and
the affair was to have lasted until dawn when a
special breakfast was to tSTserved. ’Tis said the
floral decorations alone were to have cost a small
fortune. J
Instead, Mjm Tydings made her bow -to a
“small
TEXAS
LAUGHS
group of 500 young friends at the exclu-
sive Chevy Chase Country Club.
™ The town’s Number One hostess, the exotic,
Viennese-born Mrs. Morris Cafritr, wife of Wash-
ington’s top realtor, has practically put away her
party date book.
“This is no time to talk of gaiety,” she told
me. “I'm not even going to think of parties until
things get better.
DallB $eu»-€elegram
. A drunk was attending a foot-
ball game. Notre Dame received
the kickoff and, as they lined up
for the first play from scrimmage,
the inebriated fan announced,
“It’ll be a pass.” Instead, it was
an end run, good for 15 yards.
As they lined up, the drunk said,
“It’ll be a line plunge.” Instead,
it was' a pass, which gained 20
of ftweUl Pfcpatnhna h»r«ln art >1.., riwrwl.
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Of course, there will be the
usual small dinners and we can’t let down the
young folka whose happiness in the world today
is sort of fragile, to say the least.
Siaaalf UMO.
Xn Ohio Judge says the youngster of today
knows all the answers. Except during school
hours.
MXllmSi mix, 1 u$a Vllfi
Calif.. San Franc!**©, Calif.. SC
“W« should have expected this—ahe’s from the gnat
open space*!”
ALLEY OOP
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WE’VE NO
TIME TO BE
PRISONERS
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TH1 WOLFUS
THAT CARRIED
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WE HAVE HER IN
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By J. R. Williams
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The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 12, Ed. 1 Monday, January 15, 1951, newspaper, January 15, 1951; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth828116/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.