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Between The Lines . . BY DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK FOR ANP EIBENHOWER THE PITIFUL! The writer was first to speak of Booker T. Washington as having made “That long journey from slave log cabin to the Hall of Fame.” He may also be the first to note Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s long de cline from Eisenhower the Powerful to Eisenhower the Pitiful. Aside from the fact that Eisenhower is a political “Innocent Abroad” as Mark Twain would say, and knows little of nothing about statecraft, he is an amiable character. This writer is acutely aware of Eisenhower’s studied failure to carry out President Truman’s directive to integrate the Negro soldiers; yet he is charitable enough to grant to General Ike the personal pre rogative of prejudice, however deplorable such prerogative may be. Eisenhower speaks much about the mess in Washington, alluding of course to detected cases of corruption qnd financial venality, but the General is in the middle of a mess of messes. Just how the erst while military hero is going to placate the Taft and Dewey and Dixie crat elements is much beyond the ken of this writer. He must address himself for the next few months to getting down on both sides of the fence and to looking both ways at the same time. Stevenson’s jibe of the two-headed elephant trying to go up stream and down stream at the same time fitly portrays of the task that lies before Eisenhower, the Pitiful. By the time General Ike keeps step with Dewey, who gave him the nomination Taft, who envied his nomination, and the Dixiecrats, who want to capitalize on the nomi nation to spite Truman for his stand on civil rights, the General has a political hot potato. Eisenhower is pitiful! Torn between Dewey and Taft, two ruth less political enemies, the General really in confused and frustrated. It is no wonder that he has nothing constructive to offer in his cam paign. By the time Eisenhower keeps such enemies as Taft and Dew ey in cooperative mood, the election will be over and Stevenson will be ensconsed in the White House. When Eisenhower betakes himself to Dixie to win the support of the Dixiecrats he is pathetic; but when he meets Taft in New York at breakfast and signs Taft’s dotted line he is pitiful. “How are the mighty fallen!” With Dewey a twice defeated candidate hanging on one side and Taft the super-reactionary and disgruntled politician on the other and with the confederate-flag-waving dixiecrats upon his back it is hard to see how our erstwhile military hero can negotiate the political waters that separate him from the White House. It has been quite two months since the political conventions. All the while Taft was somewhere sulking and licking his political wounds. The political harmony so loudly spoken of was simply non existent When Taft emerges from retirement he and Eisenhower meet at breakfast, and Taft was the first to assert that he had a writ ten document for Eisenhower and that the latter signed on the datted line. No worse thing could have happened to The General than to have had it known that Taft was his political master. Taft is a big shot where the shots are small bores; but where men are men and facing the new day Taft is simply a political tragedy, a political flat tire, if you please. . _ Just suppose that another political miracle takes place as at the last presidential election, and by some peculiar stroke of fortune Eisenhower gets elected, what would he do with Taft and Dewey? Taft would attempt to run the country and Eisenhower would be only a rubber stamp president and who wants Taft to be President by presence or by proxy? Dewey is the best of the three men and it is to be doubted wheth er Dewey could prevail over Taft and Eisenhower, the rubber stamp president. If Eisenhower is so politically innocent that he has to have a political chaperon, for heaven’s sake let not this chaperon be a man of Taft’s stripe. It would be a supreme tragedy to turn over the pres idency to Eisenhower who would in turn turn it over to Taft the so called “Mr. American.” . .. 0 .. Eisenhower was pathetic enough in his swing through the South leading processions headed by Talmadge, but when he signs Taft s dotted line he becomes pitiful, Eisenhower the Pitiful! Death In The Dark Death in the dark is what driv ing can mean to motorists who ere too careless or indifferent to realize that extra caution is re quired during hours of darkness, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. As drivers too often forget, night brings with it new traffic dangers dangers generally alien to daytime driving. The largest hazard, of course, is the sharp reduction in visibility. This makes objects harder to see and, much harder to identify in the deceptive blending of headlights and dark background. It is this difficulty in identification that in creases the normal stopping dis tances and is the cause of untold deaths every year. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that safe night driving depends on the driver’s willing ness to extend a step further the normal caution he uses in day time driving. This extra caution must begin with dusk, not com GILDAGAY By BERNARD BAIL r you can BrTX f/% GW&a&y&s.' |^^iyppg: plete darkness, since even a slight reduction in visibility can be deadly. Other forms of insurance that a wise driver employs at night include: being particularly alert for pedestrians who may be in conspiciously dressed, walking in or crossing the road; dimming immediately for oncoming cars; keeping within the range of wour headlights; guarding against fatigue; and abstaining from driv ing after drinking. This is the time of the year that the light of late afternaan fades rapidly and gives way to the bad visibility of early even ing. This means that many per sons returning home from work in the evening are finding them selves in darkness at the time when they' are doing most of their driving and are in their biggest hurry. It is up to the driver, and the night pedestrian, to take the simple precautions outlined. ELKS “READY TO ROLL” UNDER NEW LEADER WASHINGTON "We’re readv to roll now,’* were the words of Grand Exalted Ruler Robert H. Johnson, handsome 6- foot-4 Philadelphia head of the IBPOEW, after high level confer ences here with ranking Elk of ficials. Mr. Johnson announced that Govemer Herman Talmadge of Georgia had conferred last week at his Atlanta capital office with Charles P. McClane Sr. of Steel ton, Pa., Grand Director of Pub lic Relations of the Elks, whom Mr. Johnson had sent South to discuss next year’s Grand Lodge with the Georgia Chief Execu tive. Governor Talmadge agreeing with the conference had said he would “be glad to see you" to Mr. McClane. Mr. McClane’s mission was “to acquaint the' Governor with our type of program and to familiarize him with some of the departments of our Order." State and city officials took part in the conference. Taking the 1953 Grand Lodge to, Atlanta was the brainchild of Grand Exalted Ruler Johnson long before he won election at Atlantic City in August. During the conference here the Grand Exalted Ruler went over the organization program out lined by Grand Organizer Her bert E. Jones of this city, who had at one time been a candidate for Mr. Johnson’s post this year. Mr. Jones pledged his unflagging loyalty to Mr. Johnson and made the following public statement: “I want to thank my many sup porters and Eikdom for the ac claim they have given me for |D £ 9 I HAS MOVED TO THEIR NEW LOCATION R ft IN LIBERTY CITY AT R 3 6306 N.W. 15th Avenue | H CALL LIBERTY CITY OFFICE— 84-7032 M p MAIN OFFICE- 48-1119 H And will now take contracts and guarantee completion on all types of homes, stores, and buildings in Liberty City, Brown Sub and Coconut y , Grove. || If you have a lot in Liberty City with a 50* frontage we can get you |jj3 ;•]£: FHA financing. Prices are at a very low level and now is tbe time to M 5e build. We can get you a First Mortgage. d| | SPECIAL NOTICE § The Government has now released restrictions on the amount of down payment necessary to build a new home. D A H CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. can now take very low down payments on new construction. Very fS liberal financing is also permitted by the U. S. Goverment now. ••jtj 2 bedroom homes can now be built on your lot from $8500.00 up. U a Jr o | NOTICE | M The DA H CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. is now equipped to take care H jjHjj of Additions, Repairs, New Bathrooms, Garages and Alterations. D A H will give specialized care to your needs. fjj WE CAN FINANCE YOUR WORK fj ibihi'll suaMJLiJUUJUUtfji MIAMI TIMES, MIAMI, FLORIDA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1952 WHITE CLERGY IN TO INVITE NEGRO CHURCHES RICHMOND, Va. (ANP) The weakness of Christianity in withdrawing my candidacy for Grand Exalted Ruler at a time when continuence of that candi dacy might have jeopardized the unity of our organization. “My personal sacrifice at this time has saved our beloved organ ization from disintegration and may have set the stage for a glor ious era of fraternal activity. We were at the crossroads at the last convention. This was the first na tional convention since we had iost the stabilizing influence of our late Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson. There was extreme danger and the program I cherish has a real chance for develop ment. “In again assuming my duties as Grand Organizer I promise all brother Elks that I will use this office to assist our Grand Exalted Roller, Robert H. Johnson, in every way I can in successfully developing the type of program we have envisaged.” Meanwhile, plans were an nounced for a big Elks’ gathering October 11 at La Plata, Md. and a huge celebration in Philadel phia October 12 honoring Grand Exalted Ruler Johnson. Plans for a nationwide membership drive are nearing completion now, Mr. Johnson said. The conference here was the first held since the grand lodge in Atlantic City. SOUTH AFRAID MINISTERS TO / the South in the face o# southern race prejudice was revealed last week when this reporter found out that the average liberal White pastor below the Mason and Dix on Line dares not invite a Negro minister to preach in his pulpit. A liberal White minister last week told this reporter tnat he would be afraid to invite a Negro minister to preach to his congre gation in Richmond because of the attitude of many of his offi cers and members on race rela tions. in recent years in race relations in Great strides have been made the Presbyterian Church in Vir ginia. Union Theological seminary, White Presbyterian school for some years has admitted Negroes as theological students. Richmond and Norfolk had a bitter fight over the issue of seg regation at their. preaching mis sions. Richmond ministers voted to have their preaching mission next year at the Mosque without the forces in favor of non-segre gation lost, but the White minis ters finally voted to abandon the preaching mission until it can be held without racial segregation. MED GAS? ffUmiWlMllutt— kofojwom>*« lßditMtton. Wk.® » ***••• ÜbMU. Tk#J oontota U" known to SooUn.lo* tho foMoI «• tMnrtborn, «M (M W* ** • PAGE ELEVEN