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Hoover was misled.”
This led Senator Lucas, Illinois,
Democratic floor leader, to state
that he was both “shocked and sur-
prised that the good Republican
from Ohio would deal with
Hoover in this manner.”
'THOUGHT LAW:
Held too Broad
The fallacy of attempting to deal
with ideologies through laws has
been highlighted by a Maryland
circuit judge. The judge, Joseph
Sherbow of Baltimore, ruled that
the state cannot punish a person
for what that person thinks.
The opinion was given in a case
involving a state law against peo-
ple who join or work with subver-
sive organizations. It was the first
courts test of the new law that re-
I quired loyalty oaths by public em-
ployees and candidates for office.
“The supreme court,” Judge
Sherbow said in his opinion, "has
made it clear that laws may punish
acts and conduct which clearly,
seriously and imminently threaten
substantive evils.
"They (the laws) may not in-
trude into the realm of ideas, re-
ligious and political beliefs, and
opinions. The law deals with overt
acts, not thoughts. It may punish
for acting, but not for thinking.”
The law which Judge Sherbow
tossed out did not specifically ban
the Communist party. Its preamble
said communism is a dangerous,
world-wide conspiracy that fits
the definition of subversive activity.
Anything that aims at the over-
throw of this government by force
was deemed subversive.
Justice Sherbow said the law was
too general. Declaring it violated
the first, fifth and 14th amend-
ments to the constitution, and
Maryland's declaration of rights,
he added:
“As stated by Justice Jackson
(in a West Virginia case before the
supreme court):
“If there is any fixed star in
our constitutional constellation, it
is that no official, high or petty,
can prescribe what shall be ortho-
dox in politics, nationalism, relig-
ion or other matters of opinion,
or force citizens to confess by word
or act their faith therein.”
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TOO MUCH WHEAT?
Problem of Farm Price Support Mounting
It might be an unpleasant task,
but an inescapable one—the de-
mand for wheat was falling off.
That was the conclusion of the
National Industrial Conference
Board.
This organization reported that
total domestic consumption for the
year beginning July was expected
to be lower than at anv time since
1941.
Great Pitching
In a season of rather shoddy
pitching where the average pitcher
has only a vague idea of where the
plate is located, we took a brief
journey through years long under
dust to see what past performances
had to offer.
In juggling around we ran across
a compilation by Tex Oliver known
as "Kings of the Mound.” In this
review from the present to the long
ago, Oliver put together some of
the most remarkable feats of the
game.
For example, he gave high-
est rating for the year to Eddie
Rommel, the umpire, back in
1922. That year Rommel won
27 games and lost 13 with the
Athletics, who finished seventh
with one of the worst ball clubs
on record. Oliver figured that
any pitcher who could win 27
games with the 1922 Athletics
should wear an Oliver wreath
studded with laurel blossoms.
He gives his next rating to Jack
Chesbro in 1904, who won 41 games
and lost 12. Walter Johnson runs
third in 1913, when Old Barney won
36 and dropped only seven with
Washington, as remarkable a rec-
ord as one can recall.
The aame to true of Ed Walsh
tn 1998 with the weak hitting
White Sox. Walsh that year
won 49, lost 15 and saved nine
other games.
Walter Johnson won 23
games with the 7th place Sena-
tors in 1911 and Urban Faber
won 25 with the 7th plaee White
Sox in 1921.
In 1924 Brooklyn finished 2nd.
yet Dazzy Vance won 26 and lost
but six that year. In 1925 Brooklyn
finished in a tie for sixth place but
Dazzy led the league with 22 victor-
ies and nine defeats
WELFARE:
No Cabinet Status
The senate was having none of
President Truman’s proposal for
creation of a federal department
of welfare with cabinet status. A
coalition of Republicans and south-
ern Democrats dealt the project a
pulverizing blow by a vote of 60
to 32.
WITH a constitutional majority
in either house able to veto any
such plan, the senate action meant
complete and final defeat of the
plan to transform the federal secu-
rity agency, which handles the na-
tion's education, health, and social
security functions, into a depart-
ment of welfare.
This proposal stemmed from the
recommendations of the Hoover
commission which spent two years
seeking ways and means to make
government more efficient and eco-
nomical.
OHIO’S Republican Senator Taft,
^denying the Republicans were re*
i pudiating Hoover • in opposing a
jflan they believed ran counter to
the Hoover commission recommen-
dations, declared: wvu»u ue h typivai movniuiui
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superbly with his fine sense of the
dramatic.
At the same time, wheat stocks
in all storage positions on April 1
were greater than in any other April
with the exception of 1942 and 1943.
In addition, the 1948-49 wheat har-
vest may be the third largest in
history. With the U. S. already hold-
ing more than a quarter of last
year’s wheat crop, farm price sup-
port was becoming a maior nation-
al problem.
Seeking to win a bet of 31,000
against $25,000, Don Haynes,
Ashland, Ore., is to spend a
year in this deluxe car. He
made the bet with rancher D.
M. Mauldin, a neighbor. The
year wil be up next February.
Haynes holds a girl’s picture
he found in the road and she
was to be given a new car if
she identifies herself.
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It wil be slim pickings for
holdup men who go after Frank
B. Tippins* store in Miami.
Twice within one month hold-
up men came and got a total
of $513. Smartened up now,
Tippins will no longer be a lure
for robbers.
i home freezer units unfolded and
expanded. Finally, the sordid
angles of the "5 per centers” op-
erations reached to the White
House.
WITNESSES before a group
probing the extent and results of
“influence” obtainable by the
"5 per centers” testified that of
several deep freeze units given
away by the manufacturers, one
went to Mrs. Harry Truman, wife
of the President of the United
States. Others who apparently re-
ceived a similar gift were Chief
Justice Vinson of the U.S. supreme
court, James K. Vardaman, Maj.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, Mr. Tru-
man’s military aide. In fact, Gen-
eral Vaughan got two, so the wit-
ness said.
In connection with that develop-
ment, there was a question which
it seemed should have been an-
swered long ago by the man*most
concerned. The man was Presi-
dent Truman. The question was:
' Why hasn’t the President declared
that White House influence and
prestige are not for sale, cannot
be wheedled by favorite hangers-
on, and cannot be swayed by any-
thing except the best interests of
the people of the United States?
ANY FAIR-MINDED citizen will
concede that there is no reason to
think the acceptance of the gifts
mentioned involved any law viola-
tion. Even though the company
which paid the bills for the home
freezers is linked with the ubi-
quitous John Maragon and the in-
quiry into the activities of “5 per
centers” the mere fact of receiv-
ing personal gifts does not consti-
tute legal offense.
In any sense of the word, it
seems to be an offense against
propriety. It is further evidence of
a downward trend in political mor-
als, a not too new development in
these changing times. On the evi-
dence at hand thus far, the deep
freeze affair is not important—it
is merely symptomatic.
ELECTIONS:
Toft Is Target
The American Federation of La- I
bor, looking to the 1950 congres-
sional elections, set plans for raise
ing a million dollar war chest with
which to knock off candidates ob-
noxious to the organization.
THE MILLION DOLLAR figure
was the “minimum” officials said,
with a voluntary contribution of
$2 a head to be asked of the federa-
tion’s members for work in the
1950 campaign.
It was no secret that Ohio’s Sen-
ator Taft was the main target of
AFL efforts, with the second tar-
get being Senator Donnell (R., Mo.)
who was described by AFL’s Wil-
liam Green as “more like Taft
than anyone in the senate.”
The per capita contribution,
double that of the organization for
the 1948 elections, will be split
evenly with the state federations
whose share is to be used in work-
ing at the precinct level.
AFL’s election activity will have
an important bearing on the futura
of the Republican party in the na-
tion. For instance, if Taft should
be knocked off in his race for re-
election to the senate, it would |
mean that Dewey would remain as
a top figure in the GOP hierarchy.
On the other hand, if Taft should
win and Dewey were defeated in
a bid for his third term as New
York’s governor, the party would
be all Taft’s
SYRIA:
New Cabinet
The fighting, the blood-letting
were over. Peace of a sort reigned
in Syria after a lightning like army
coup that overthrew and executed
President Hossni Zayim. The army
committee which took things into
its own hands was replaced by a
new coalition cabinet which was
organized by Col. Sami Hennaui
who headed the revolution.
IT APPEARED that civilian rule
would predominate, inasmuch as
the new cabinet was composed
mostly of civilians. The new gov-
ernment represented three politi-
cal parties and various independ-
ent groups that opposed both Zayim
and the constitutional regime
which fell last March.
The premier is Hashim El Atas-
sy, head of the national bloc and
a former president of Syria.
SAILORS:
Pockets, Mac!
The navy has relented at last
Harkening.to a complaint stem-
ming from 1797, the seagoing
branch of Uncle Sam's forces has
promised sailors they’ll have pock-
ets in their pants—but not until
June, 1952. But, having waited this
long, sailors could wait two more
years. And that wasn’t all. Prom-
ised, too. was elimination of the _ . 4. - ,
13-button front on sailors’ trousers, more pull than has the interests of
to be replaced with a zipper. 9” American people
Summir, Smoke mA Football .
Mr. Tennessee Williams, an emi-
nent dramatist, some time ago de-
livered an epic
I known a s “Sum-
mcr and Smoke.”
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GruUand Rice
throwing passes again and
beating teams M to 0 that were
just about as good as Michigan.
Which proves that it still pays
to be smart. Michigan is al-
ways smart. And as long as
the forward pass is legal, Mich-
igan will continue to throw for-
ward passes, dating from Ben-
ny Friedman to Charley Ort
mann.
Why murder running backs]
along the ground when you can
pick up 55 yards on one pitch?
Which brings to mind the thought
of what an amazing combination
Michigan has in Fritz Crisler,
graduate manager, and Bennie
Oosterbaan, head football coach.
Crisler, a great coach on his own,
adds 15,000 to Michigan’s seating
capacity—giving Wolverine follow-
ers space enough for 100,000. Also
Crisler has already sold out his
four big games—Army, Minnesota,
etc. for a 400,000 four-game total.
And in the same interim Benny
Oosterbaan is starting with 22 let-
termen this fall, plus a flock of
promising sophomores, to keep the
Maize and Blue where it has been
for the last two years—at the top.
Red Blaik will have a fine
Army team. It will be ably
coached and directed. But it
will have to be something ex-
tra to invade Ann Arbor and
return with a Wolverine hide.
Look at that Michigan backfield
—Charley Ortmann and Leo Ko-
ceski—the brilliant 220 pound Dick
Kempthorn — Teninga and Tom
Peterson—these and many others.
Will Minnesota with its powerful
line finally return to the Big Ten's
top? What about the reviving West
Coast, determined to slip back into
the big picture? California, U. S.
C., Stanford, Washington, UCLA
and Oregon—all stronger?
What about the revival of the Ivy
League, headed by Cornell and
Dartmouth? This 1949 season can
be the all-time peak.
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Bknudrlne Banned
•THE HALT of America’s new
• dope craze when manufactur-
ers withdrew benzedrine inhalers
from the market was the culmina-
tion of a long publicity campaign [
by Drew Pearson.
STALIN:
Very "Courteous"
The delayed report on how U. S.
Ambassador Alan Kirk made out
with Russia’s Joe Stalin in a talk
in Moscow held nothing more im-
portant than Kirk’s report that the
Soviet ruler was very “courteous
and pleasant.” However, anyone
who might have expected anything
else was indulging in wishful think-
ing.
SOME EXCITEMENT was stim-
ulated by Kirk’s refusal to com-
ment immediately upon his inter-
view with Stalin. He told reporters
following the conference that he'd
have something to say later.
The ambassador, a retired ad-
miral and former envoy to Bel-
gium, held the first meeting with
Stalin that any American official
has had in nearly a year. He de-
scribed his visit to Stalin as a
“courtesy call.”
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Rumpus Rooms
n»O THEIR ATTRACTIVE home
* my neighbor and his wife are
adding an addition, a rumpus room
for their boys.
That room, a sizeable one, has a
floor especially constructed for
dancing. The room will be equipped
with phonograph, radio, television,
a screen and projector for movies,
movie cameras to produce films
showing people, their friends, and
places and scenes they have vis-
ited.
As I have watched the work-
men ereet that play place for
boys of this generation it
served to recall for me the
various rumpus rooms I en-
joyed in the boyhood of my
generation. There were several
of them for different seasons
of the year. Some of them I did
not then associate with play-
time, but as I look back at
them now they aU provided
boyhood recreation.
Chief of the summer rumpus
rooms was the swimming hole in
Long's creek. It was a mile from
town, a place where no girl was
permitted within seeing distance.
There were no automobiles, bi-
cycles, scooters or roller skates
for transportation. We boys ran
the mile to the creek, but we in-
variably walked home.
Another summer rumpus room
were the wild berry patches. Of
course Mother would always want
to can or make jelly at inopportune
times, but just the same, we en-
joyed the picking, the races to
fill the pails, and especially the
eating times in the winter months.
Still another was the family garden
with weeds to be pulled and. when
rains did not come at needed times,
the water to be carried from the
well that there might be potatoes,
beets, turnips, beans and other
root or vine crops, an essential
part of the family larder for the
winter. And they were appreciated
as good eating and compensated
for the chores of summer.
In the fall there were nuts to
be gathered, and the woods
became the rumpus room. The
hickory nuts, black walnuts,
butternuts, hazel nuts were the
winter evening feasts that pro-
vided amusements and goodies
instead of the phonograph, the
radio or the movies of today,
and they were pleasant eve-
nings.
The long, snow-coverbd hill in
front of the home and the ice cov-
ered mill pond at the bottom of
that hill were the rumpus room
of the winter season. Belly-buster-
ing down that hill on home-made
sleds afforded more pleasure than
can be supplied today by radio or
television. A roaring fire on the
banks of the pond and a pair of
ice skates were more fun than the
then non-existent movies could
have provided.
Another of the many, but not the
least important, of the rumpus
rooms of my boyhood days was the
family wood pile and the dead red
elm logs that were to be cut into
cook and heating stove lengths.
They certainly provided the physi-
cal exercise a boy needed to keep
the red blood flowing in his veins.
Keeping pace with the wood box
demands was a never-ending oc-
cupation.
Through the winter there were
rabbits to be trapped in boy-made
traps. What a treat was mine when
dad would praise me for the food
I could contribute to the family
kitchen table. The same thrill was
my reward when in the spring,
when the ice in the creek had melt-
ed, I could catch a mess of bull-
heads. My equipment was one
prized fish hook fastened to a cot-
] ton string and a willow branch for
a pole. Those bull heads were not
nearly so large as they seemed—a
| half pounder would be a whoper—
. but because I caught them they
[ tasted better than mountain trout.
Such were some of the rum-
pus room privileges of boyhood
in my generation. For the pres-
ent generation it is decidedly
different, but I am not so sure
I it is more pleasing. We elders
strive and strain that our chil-
dren may have more than we
had In our youth, but we too
had fun, and we enjoyed it,
both work and play. I am not
sure I would wish to exchange
the rumpus rooms of my boy-
hood days for those we provide
for the boys of to-day. Ours
were as nature and boys made
them. They were real.
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Pearson published a series of col-
umns and broadcasts beginning
last February, which pointed to the
manner in which prison inmates,
dope addicts and even high-school
children were tearing the benze-
drine-treated paper from the in-
halers and using it as a cheap
dope. Simultaneously, Rep. Grant
introduced a bill banning the in- i
halers.
Final result came when manu-
facturers stopped the sale of ben-
zedrine inhalers. Instead they will
sell benzedrex, a new inhaler con-
taining a non-stimulating com-
pound.
this I Diplomats Worriod
Foot- <-)ne Uung the Senate investiga-
ting subcommittee is likely to
avoid in its probe of Messrs.
Vaughan and Maragon is the part
they may have played in influenc-
ing the Truman doctrine for |
Greece.
It seems inconceivable that
an ex-Greek federal narcotics
agent from Kansas City should
have had anything to do with
U. S. foreign relations. Yet it
happens that members of the
Greek embassy in Washington
are now as jittery as sunflow-
ers in a Kansas cyclone for
fear their relations with John
Maragon will be probed by the
senate.
Every administration has its
hangers-on, who love to bask in the
limelight of the White House. But
no administration since Warren
Harding’s day has had die benefit
of such a weird and apparently
influential character as General
Vaughan’s so-called “Greek
viser,” John Maragon.
Mara{on'$ Racord >
District of Columbia’s police rec-
ords show that Maragon once pled
guilty of transporting liquor
(7/17/20), was three times arrested
for disorderly conduct but never
prosecuted, and once got into a
brawl in the locker room of the
Washington Senators where some
of the ball players threatened to
beat him up.
Maragon also got into a fist fight
with Don Watson, chief of the state
department’s transportation section
at the United Nations convention at
San Francisco; was fired by the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad; got
into a street scuffle with Brig.
Gen. Wm. L. Lee in Rome, Italy;
was found to be distributing anti-
Semitic literature at the Demo-
cratic convention in Philadelphia
last year; and was questioned in
the death of police detective Ar-
thur Scrivner in 1926, one of Wash-
ington’s most mysterious homicide
cases. Maragon established an
alibi and later married the girl
whom Scriviner was scheduled to
I marry one day after his death.
Yet, on top of all this, the
amazing Maragon turned up at
the White House 30 minutes
after President Roosevelt died
to console President Truman,
accompanied the Roosevelt fu-
neral train to Hyde Park;
showed up at the Stalin-Church-
ill conference in Potsdam, was
the proud possessor of a White
House pass, flabbergasted the
admirals b y accompanying
Truman on the presidential
destroyer during the Navy
Day fleet review in New York,
sat next to the President’s box
with General Vaughan during
the Army-Navy game, and
even had a private compart-
ment on the special train that
Canted the President to the
game.
Maragon’s influence with his old
friend, Harry Truman, has been
oi the wane since first exposed
in this column two years ago. But
his influence with Harry Vaughan
appears just as strong as ever.
When Maragon wants to see the
president’s military aide, he goes
to the east wing of the White House.
Truman Doctrine
Maragon’s influence was near its
zenith in the winter of 1947 when
the famous Truman doctrine for
aid to Greece was formulated.
That the amazing Maragon di-
rectly inspired Greek policy is
doubtful. That he and Vaughan in-
fluenced it indirectly is more than
probable.
The Truman doctrine for Greece,
it will be recalled, was announced
in March, 1947, shortly after Jim-
mie Byrnes retired as secretary
of state. One of the things Gen.
Vaughan constantly needled Tru-
man about was that Byrnes was too
much his own boss, that people
talked on the "Byrnes policy,” not
the “Truman policy," and that
Truman should get more credit for
directing foreign affairs.
That doctrine, which has now
cost us a billion dollars, was pre-
cipitated when the British notified
us they were pulling out of Greece.
The armed services committee
of the house took the cost reduction
teeth out of the Tydings bill as it
was passed by the senate. The sen-
ate bill would take close to a bil-
lion dollars out of the armed serv-
ice cost. The house bill would take
out practically nothing and would
not reduce the useless jobs held
by civilian employees, where the
Hoover commission had antici-
pated making a big saving. Those
useless civilian employees had
livered
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mer
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ball."
Far it sud-
denly occurred
to us that foot-
ball was just
a round the
corner and be-
fore any eould guess what had
happened, Michigan would be
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BARKLEY:
"Much Ado . .
Although he had declared it was
“much ado about nothing," the
nation wasn't dismissing Vice-
President Barkley's seeming ro-
mance with a pretty 37-year old
widow so lightly.
RECEIVING almost as much
publicity as the Rita Hayworth-
Aly Khan love story, Barkley's at-
tentions to Mrs. Carlton S. Hadley,
St. Louis, was second only to the
“5 per center” probe as a topic
of national speculation
The “Veep”—as Barkley likes to
be called—didn't seem too dis-
tressed by all the furore. He was
smilingly posing with the widow
for pictures; he had taken her to
“meet the folks” in his home town
of Paducah, Ky., and he had
squired her to some baseball games
and social affairs.
WOULD HE and the widow get
married? Most folks seemed to
think so. And, if that were current
opinion, it was touched off by the
“Veep” himself. Newspaper read-
ers would remember that, crown-
ing a beauty queen at Culpepper,
Virginia, Barkley had declared
that one day he would crown a
“queen” of his own. The fact that
later, at Paducah, he referred to
his granddaughter as being the
"queen” to whom he referred, few
people believed him.
MacARTHUR:
Problem for Truman
No matter how the Truman ad-
ministration plays it, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur is a tremendous public
relations problem.
THE GENERAL has twice de-
clined the invitation to appear be-
fore senate committees, the second
refusal being in connection with a
bid to come home and tell a probe
group what he thinks about the
Chinese situation. The general re-
plied that he thought he could do
better staying in Japan.
Of course, President Truman
could order the general home, but
if he did so, and MacArthur ac-
cepted the order, both the White
House and the state department
would be in a constant case of
jitters over what the 69-year-old
prima donna might say in speeches
throughout the country.
If the President chooses not to
order the general home, then his
critics will have fuel for added
clamor that MacArthur is being
isolated and persecuted.
APPARENTLY, no one seems to
know the procedure in the event
MacArthur refused to come home
if ordered. There seems to be a
prevalent conviction that Mac-
Arthur can stay in Japan forever,
if he so chooses.
There are those who say for the
general to make that decision
would be a typical MacArthur
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The New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1949, newspaper, September 1, 1949; New Ulm, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1216133/m1/2/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nesbitt Memorial Library.