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Lowell Mellett
'On the Other Hand’
Says President Apparently Wants
Good He Does to Live After Him
The President, wisely, is taking his time in the naming of a
new Chief Justice of the United States. He appreciates the im
portance of the decision he has to make.
The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft in
terred with their bones. This is a thought that must occur to
all men who become President. None, to be sure, can conceive
oi any tiling ne does as Deing evn;
none, even more surely, ever has
consciously done evil. All Presi
dents can oass over that, nart
of Shakespeare's
homily without
applying it to
themselves. But
the good they do
— that is an
other matter.
It is oft in
terred, not with
their bones, but
while they still
live to watch
the interment.
And the grave
diggers all too
frequently have
uccii me jus
tices Of the Su- Lowell Melloll.
preme Court.
Has Happened Before.
It has happened throughout our,
history. President Truman has
witnessed it in the case of his two
Illustrious Democratic predecessors,
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D.
Roosevelt. In Mr. Wilson’s time,
much liberal legislation—such, for
example, as that outlawing child
labor—was buried by the court. In
Mr. Roosevelt's time it seemed the
President had only to bring a policy
to the stage of legislative enact
ment to have the venerable jus
tices start sharpening their shovels.
When, in the wisdom of Providence,
Mr. Roosevelt was given the oppor
tunity to name a majority of the
court, he sought to name men who
would not only refrain while he!
lived from undoing the good he at-;
tempted to do. but would permit1
it to live after him.
No President worthy of the office
has failed to give thought to pos- ■
terity. And when a President thinks
about posterity he is compelled to
think about the Supreme Court—
what it may do. in time, to the
Durposes and achievements closest
to his heart.
So President Truman Is giving
hard thought to the problem pre
sented by the death of Chief Justice!
Stone. He is listening to all who
may have something useful to tellj
him. Some of his friends were
startled when he called in Charles
Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice,
and Owen Josephus Roberts, former
associate justice. There were wise-;
cracks to the effect that next to be1
summoned would be James Clark i
McReynolds, a former associate
justice, known to be even more bit
ter in his opposition to the Roose
velt-Truman program than either
Mr. Hughes or Mr. Roberts.
And there was one story to the
effect that Mr. Hughes had given
the President a prescription for z
new Chief Justice that could only
be filled by one man, and that Mr.
Roberts had followed through by
actually naming the man — able
young Charles Evans Hughes, jr.
You can put such stories down as
part of the apocrypha of the White
House—too pat to be true, too pre
posterous to be denied.
Knowledge With Service.
Messrs. Hughes and Roberts could j
tell the President plenty worth his
hearing. Both have an extensive
acquaintance among the success
ful lawyers of the country. Both
have intimate acquaintance with
the present members of the Su
preme Court and are qualified to
appraise the talents of each. In
deed, it was Mr. Hughes who was
first credited with characterizing
Justice Black as the ablest lawyer
on the bench.
It Is a reasonably safe assump
tion that neither Mr. Hughes nor
Mr. Roberts sought to suggest whom
the President should name or even
what the new man’s political philos
ophy should be: they would hardly
do that in the light of the last four
elections. But they could and
doubtless did offer their views con
cerning the judicial capacity of
various men under consideration.
In this connection increased at
tention is now being paid to three
names that were passed over rather
lightly at the outset; Senate Ma
jority Leader Barkley, Secretary of,
the Treasury Vinson and Secretary'
of Labor Schwellenbacli. Of the:
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should know more about law than
he, having in mind the amount he
has helped make. Something the
same is said of the two others, with
their judicial and administrative
experience added. In the case of
all three, however, the President is
compelled to consider the impor
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rendering.
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Questions
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Q. How many famous players are
represented in the Baseball Hall of
Fame in Cooperstown, N. Y.?—
M. M. E.
A. Thirty-eight great men of
baseball are now commemorated in
bronze plaques.
Q How many more total eclipses
of the sun will be visible in the
United States during the twentieth
century?—J. K. S.
A. “Astronomy,” by Russell, Du
gan and Stewart <Ginn & Co.,
1945i lists the following: On June
30, 1954, from Nebraska to Lake
Superior, 1>2 minutes: on July 20,
1963. from Hudson Bay to Maine, 1
minute: on March 7, 1970, from
Florida to North Carolina, along
the coast, 3 minutes: and on Feb
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Manitoba, 2'2 minutes.
Q. Do all four feet of a horse
leave the ground at the same time
when it is running at full speed?
—E. W. M.
A. When a horse is traveling at
full speed it is entirely free from
contact with the ground for ap
proximately one-fourth of the time.
Q. Why was Dr. Sheldon's book.
'In His Steps,” not copyrighted?
—C. R. H.
A. While the chapters of "In His
Steps” were being released to the
author’s parishioners the story was
appearing in a little church paper
called the Advance, which was pub
lished in Chicago. The paper paid
him S75 for the serial, but lost Dr.
Sheldon the copyright because the
editor filed only one copy of the
magazine with the Library of Con
gress, instead of the two required
by law.
Q. Who was the surveyor gen
eral for Florida when it was bought
from Spain?—J. D.
A. George J. F. Clarke was sur
veyor general for Florida when the
United States bought it from Spain.
Q. When was "Black Friday” in
New England?—P. D.
A. “Black Friday” occurred on
May 19, 1780. and was caused by
great forest fires in New York and
Canada.
Q. Is there a place on earth
where the compass needle points
east?—R. S. B.
A. The United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey says that apart
from local irregularities of the
earth s magnetic field, there are two
curves where this is true; one curve
joins each geographic pole to the
nearer principal magnetic pole.
Q. How many men were in the
Corps of Engineers during World
War II?—W. K.
A. There were approximately
700.000 men in the Corps of Engi
neers in World War II. About
500.000 of them served overseas.
Q. Has any one ever made a per
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—N. L. C.
A. The Army has no official record
of a person having made a perfect
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McLemore—
Takes a Hot Bath
To Get Onion Gravy
By Henry McLemore
FRENCH LICK. Ind.—The last
time I took a hot bath provided by
nature, I was in Budapest, Hungary.
On St. Margaret's Island, in Buda
pesi, are nve or
six hundred nat
ural, bubbling
hot springs.
When you go
to Budapest you
must bathe in
the hot springs.
Many people
have crossed the
Atlantic on pri
vate yachts to
bathe in Buda
pest’s warm
water. I went
there with the
compliments oi a
loan office, pay- H'nr)' Mct*more.
able in 90 days or there will be a
man outside your door wearing a
blue serge suit and carrying a stick.
He is there to collect.
I went to Budapest before Hitler
got there. It was a lovely town
then. There was no black market.
There were no hungry people. The
wide, quiet streets had never re
sounded to the goose step.
I registered at a hotel that stood
on the banks of the Danube. I
stayed there one night. The next
day I left the hotel on the banks
of the Danube and retired to the
Jaegerhorn Hotel, which cost me
$3 a day instead of the $20 I had
to pay for the privilege of living
on the Danube.
No Suits Allowed.
A Hungarian who spoke English
accosted me in the lobby of the
Jaegerhorn and asked me if I had
taken the baths.
“Yes,” I said, “I just had a
shower upstairs on the ninth floor.”
"No. no.” he said. “You mis
understand me. What I want to
ask you is have you had a hot
bath on St. Margaret's Island? If
you haven’t, by all means do so.”
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon I
arrived at St. Margaret's, carrying
under my arm a bathing suit that
mama had knitted for me years ago.
It had a shirt with three-quarter
length sleeves and a pair of trunks
which fit me snuglv about the
knees.
The attendant told me I could
not wear this suit. When I asked
him why, he said no suits wert
allowed in the pool.
“Am I to swim naked?” I asked
with natural Georgian reticence.
“You are,” he said.
I paid him four pengos and en
tered the baths. The baths were
divided into four sections by con
crete walls. The first pool bubbled.
The second pool boiled. The third
pool was open only to Franch fried
potatoes and visiting idots. The
inner pool—or home plate—was re
served for the Old Faithful Geyser
from Yellowstone. No human
being had ever put foot in it and
come back alive. I tried it. As I
entered this cauldron. Hungarians
irom me siaeunes cneeieu rat.
“Vive la jerk!’’ they screamed in
pure Hungarian.
Whistles were blown. Fire trucks
were dispatched. Ambulances roll
ed to the scene. Two prominent
restaurant owners changed their
menu for the night and in place
of goulash listed boiled Americano.
What Booklet Said.
This bath was supposed to do me
good. The booklet issued by the
proprietor of St. Margaret's Island
placed doctors on record as saying
that 15 minutes of swimming in the
boiling waters would cure dengue
fever, hookworm, loss of appetite,
earache and every disease that
starts with a "C” or a "J" or a “Y.”
They took me from this inner
bath to a hospital. The doctors
frowned, but said that with careful
attention and a day and night nurse
I might be able to leave Budapest
within six months.
Now I am in French Lick, Ind.,
where. I have it on good authority,
the water is even hotter than it is
in Budapest. I plan to plunge into
the pool at lf:15 Eastern standard
time tomorrow. I am carrying wdth
me two onions and a carrot, because
the next time I am baked alive
I would like to leave some gravy
for my family.
All I ask the manager of the
French Lick Hotel to do is this—
I would like to be basted every ten
minutes. If there is anything I
despise it's an overdone McLemore.
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Doris Fleeson
Philippines’ Tinderbox
Islanders Worse Off Under American
Than Jap Rule, Observer Is Told
The danger signals are up in the Philippines.
American prestige has never been so low in the islands which
fly the American flag and which are forever sanctified for Amer
icans by the ordeal of Gen. Wainwright and his men.
The whole question of color, of the rule of white over men of
other shades, which this country is accustomed to think of only
as a problem in connection with
British imperialism, is involved in
the crisis.
This is the lesson of the recent
elections, t n e
dismal story
that President
elect Roxas is
flying to tell
President Tru
man this week.
He has sent his
advance warn
ings here
through emis
saries, to trusted
friends of his,
who were in
credulous and
unnerved by it.
“We were
better off under D®r|» Fiee««n.
the Japanese,” one of them said
explicitly to an influential member
of the administration. His auditor
was amazed. The speaker had been
imprisoned by the Japanese, his wife
killed by them. The American Army
officer accompanying him nodded
his head in agreement.' "He is
right,” he said.
Election Told Story.
This accounts, the Filipino went
on, for aspects of the elections
which surprised Americans, the fact
that Roxas, though accused of col
laboration, was elected: that Parades
was returned to the Senate though
he has actually been Indicted for
collaboration and is facing trial.
Parades will be elected Speaker, it
was predicted.
The Filipino continued:
The islands are in desperate
straits, as everybody knows. They
had expected help from America
Instead they have been callously
neglected. They hear of United
States loans to Britain, to France
to Russia. Their finances are cha
otic and they have got nothing
They read of a great clamor for
food for Europe, including the for
mer enemy, Italy. They are hungry
but they are not being fed.
»— 1 1.. 1 ■ ■ -
Yet tire wreck of their country
and economy was equally as great.
The speaker quoted the statement
made in Manila by Gen. Eisenhower
last week that no city in Europe
was worse devastated than Manila
except Warsaw, where the destruc
tion was also deliberately accom
plished by the retreating enemy.
How far Roxas may feel it politic
to go in speaking of the color prob
lem which the Japanese stirred up
and which apparently will not die
down remains to be seen. The Fili
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