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Frank R. Kent
The Great Game of Politics
Sees Senator Pepper Seeking
Vice Presidential Nomination
Concerning the special Indorsement recently given Senators
Mead of New York and Guffey of Pennsylvania as “perfect Sena
tors,” inquiries have come from various quarters as to why the
CIO did not include in its latest honor list the names of Senators
Murray of Montana and Pepper of Florida.
Their voting records, from the CIO angle, have been as perfect
tne Messrs. Mead and Guffey.'
Also, their advocacy of CIO-favored
proposals and their opposition to
proposals (such as the Case billy
which the CIO
la Delect vicious,
have been even
more effective.
Equally servile,
they are more
vocal, energetic
and generally
competent. The
a n s jar e r. of
course, is that
Messrs. Mead
and Guffey are
up for election
this year and the
Messrs. Murray
and Pepper are
not.
Frank R. Kent.
Only those of its faithful servants
who it thinks need its aid are
given special indorsement this year
The Messrs. Mead and Guffey ob
viously need help; the Messrs. Mur
ray and Pepper obviously do not.
The latter do not, perhaps, appre
ciate how' lucky they are. but they
quite understand that they have
not been slighted: that they stand
just as well in CIO favor as the
Messrs. Mead and Guffey- perhaps
a little higher, as they fight more
dashingly', make more noise, talk
more loudly about their “liberalism."
Spoke With Wallace.
At any rate. Senator Pepper,
though not a candidate this year,
is not entirely inactive in his own
behalf. With characteristic modes' y
he has let it be known that, while
he expects Mr. Truman to be nomi
nated in 1948 for the presidency,
though he would prefer Mr. Wal
lace, that he. Pepper, is avail-1
sble for either the presidential or
the vice presidential nomination
would gladly take either.
Recently he acquired some public
ity by speaking with Mr. Wallace
on the night that gentleman made
his famous New York speech, in
which, before a largely CIO audi
ence. he assailed American foreign
policy. The Pepper speech differed
from thp Wallace speech only in
being more violently anti-American
and pro-Russian.
While it is true the Pepper an
nouncement of his 1948 aspirations
attracted little attention, got no
response, except lrom labor leaders.1
and haraly any one. pxcepl Senator!
Pepper himself, seems to think he
really is "available" for such high
offices, it is interesting in that it
shows the extraordinary lack of
preportion and balance which the
CIO manages to inculcate in its own
leaders and those who play politics
with them. They get almost wholly
out of focus not only about issues,
but about themselves.
Talk Irritates Colleagues.
Take Senator Pepper, for instance
Some of his senatorial colleagues
laughed at his "announcement":
others were irritated by what they
called his "insufferable effrontery"—
and other things. But neither the
laughter nor the irritation affects
Senator Pepper at all. 'He is an in
sensitive man. as shown by various
incidents of his sensational career
Tt Is not easy to offend hint How
ever. not until he became closely
affiliated with the CIO politicians!
did he begin to take himself with
such great solemnity. Partly this is
due to the CIO publicity which reg
ularly drenches him with praise;
partly to frequent reference to him
< in the radical New' York press as a
"great liberal statesman’ ; partly to
his recent visit abroad, where he saw
both Marshal Stalin and Marshal
Tito, and came home to make ex
travagantly eulogistic speeches about
both, the general idea sought to be
conveyed being that they not only
are two noble fellows, but very close
friends of Senator Pepper.
Critic of l'. S. Foreign Policy.
This combination has been just
too much for him. One of his col
leagues says it has caused him to
"blow his top. ' Actually, of course.
Senator Pepper is not one of the
first-^rade Senators. Nor is he high
ly regarded by those of the first
grade. He has no record of sena
torial achievement, has performed
no outstanding public service, made
no contribution to the national life
His prominence—such as it is—is
wholly due to the enthusiasm with
which he has espoused the CIO
proposals and has identified himself
with sfhat the CIO leaders call the
"liberal movement." That is really |
all there is to Mr Pepper Never
theless. here he is serioush proposing
himself for President or Vice Pres
ident—whichever he can get. And
he has become the loude.-t critic of
American foreign policy, the most
arden* defender of the Russian posi
tion and the leading advocate of the
abolition of party lines in the in
terests of his brand of "liberalism."
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Democrat, of California, chairman
of the House Interstate Commerce
Committee, with proposing a class
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war in this country. Senator Pepper
counters by shouting “the reac
tionaries must go" and “something
must be done for labor." He does
not appear to mind being called a
demagogue and is impervious to
denunciation. Things have been said
about him and to him that would
disturb any normal man. They do
not disturb Mr. Pepper at all. He
seems to welcome any kind of pub
licity. Apparently, the one thing he
dreads is being ignored.
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are over 2.000.000.000 people in the
world, is it possible to say that no
two are exactly alike?—I. M. S.
A. Students of heredity have
come to this conclusion. Nature
varies inheritance with a mathe
matical precision which prevents
exact duplication.
Q How long has thvme been culti
vated?-^. L.
A. This little plant has been
known since the third century B C
Tiie ancients grew and used it. It is
said to have been the food of the
famous bees of Mount Hymettus.
near Athens. Greece, which pro
duced for centuries a very special
grade of honey.
Q How many days in a month
does the crew of a lightship usually
serve?—W. E. S.
A. The crew, consisting of from
six to 36 men. generally serve 22
days aboard. This is followed by 10
days’ freedom ashore.
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from its scales?—S. T. A.
A. Scale growth occurs chiefly in
summer and practically stops in
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-J. H L.
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military occupation specialties. Any
Army man discharged after May 12|
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authorized to be worn on the serv
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Cruz. Mexiro. April 28 to November
23. 1914'—C C C.
A. According to the War Depart
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vember 23, 1914.
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A. The term boundary denotes a
line dividing two countries or States
A frontier is usually a region or zone
with width as well as length.
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were drafted into the armed forces
during World War II were single at
the time of their induction?—J. H. H
A. According to the Selective
Service headquarters the total num
ber of registrants is noi broken dow n
to show' marital stater However, a
survey of Army personnel made ii
March, 1945. showed that approxi
mately 40 per cent of the enlistei
men and 64 per cent of the mah
officers were married at that time.
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B <F' which appears on my sons
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Sinister Tickings
Rumba Fans' Replies
By Henry McLemore
Did you ever see a bathtub used
for a mail box?
Well, we have one. It was in
stalled a few days ago right along
side the garage
only a few feet
from the high
way.
We took this
unsightly meas-*
ure as a precau
tion against the
mail I have been
getting since
several weeks
ago when I at
tacked the
rumba as a
menace to those
of us who do
not know how
to perform it
Henry Mcl.emor*.
and are caught on the dance floor
when the gourds begin to rattle. I
maintained that the rumba will
eventually prove to be more deadly
to those citizens past, the age of 35
than driving on the wrong side of
the road, gout and chicken pox.
Everybody Has His Sav.
Ever since that column appeared,
men. women and children have
taken cobra fangs in hand to write
and tell me what a supercolossal
idiot I was and that the nicest
thing that could happen to me
would be for m» to try to go over
Niagara Falls in a hollowed-out
drugstore soda counter.
I can alw’avs tell when the post
man Is approaching bv the ticking
noise he makes. Half of the letters
and packages he brings me from
the rumba addicts tick like clocks
and give every indication of con
taining infernal machines. Natu
rally. it makes hint nervous to carry
•such mail and he was growing old
before his time until I thought of
installing the bathtub. Now. the
minute he pedals up on his bike he
drops the whole lot into the tubful
of water and with a look of relief
on his face mounts his machine and
hustles away.
So far there have been no actual
explosions but the letters I have
received from leaders of rumba
bands throughout the country all
have given off a mad hissing and
spitting noise when lowered into
the tub The leader of the rumba
band which plays tor was playing
at the time' at the Riviera Club
just across the George Washington
Bridge from New York suggested
that I visit his place and have my
head shrunk, my veins opened, and
Anally be thrown into the Hudson
River from the towering Palisades
“Grandmother" Bitter.
He was no more bitter however,
than the woman who signed her
letter “Grandmother This missive
came from Alabama and had to
be handled wfith tongs. “Grand
mother.” who confessed to 55 years
of living, said that life did not really
begin for her until she mastered
the rumba step. “My life was void
until I got into the mood of the
gourds." she wrote. “It Is obvious
from your remarks that you are an
octogenarian, fat. foolish, and should
be horse-whipped. I pity vour wife
I pity you. Curl up and die."
In order to determine if I was
wrong and was really missing some
ihing beautiful in life by not learn
ing the rumba. I enrolled in a
school of the dance I felt pretty
silly going to dancing school ag'ain
—looked pretty silly, too, because
I went dressed in the same little
suit I used to wear to dancing school
years and years ago—little white
pants, blue coat, patent leather
pumps and black ribbed stockings
My instructor. James Sauer, chose
io start my instructions to the tune
of “Terra Va Tembla.” He told me
that the movement of the rumb
was evervthing. so we started out to
master the movement which in
volves shifting the weight from oik
hip to the other. People three doors
away could hear me shifting. Clunk
dank, clunk. Clunk, clank, clunk
More grace, more flow , more poetn
of motion.” my teacher counseled.
I put in all the grace, flow and
poetry I could summon. My tie
began to unknot. My shirt worked
steadily upward. My braces slipped
down over my shoulders. I could
leel myself going into an uninten
tional strip tease. The first lesson
ended just in time.
Another few bars of “Terra Va
Tembla” and the cops would have
raided the place.
No. thank you. no rumba for me
I’ll stick with the Charleston, the
bunny hug and the Virginia reel.
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WANTED: A PRESIDENT.
WANTED: A SECRETARY OF COMMERCE.
The presidency has reached a new low. The people can over
look a mistake—even such an egregious one as that of President
Truman's deliberate approval in advance of Secretary Wallace's
Madison Square Garden speech But they cannot overlook the
humiliatory conduct of President’
Truman in attempting to extricate
himself from an impossible position
by weasel words. President Tru
man s writ ten
explanation o f
the circum
stances sur
round ing his
blessing of the
Wallace speech
explains nothing
except that the
Pres idem was
willing to tor
ture the English
language in an
attempt to ex
plain the inex
plicable. In
stead of taking
refuge in a fog
Harold L. Ickes.
of words he should frankly have
admitted that he did not know' what
he was doing and asked for the
understanding and further indul
gence of a generous-minded people.
At his press conference on the
morning preceding the disturbing
speech there was quoted to the
President the following from the
Wallace press release: "When
President Truman read these words
he said that they represented the
policy of this administration." Mr
Truman affirmed that this was
correct. The correspondent. Wil
liam H Mylander, of the Minne
apolis Star Journal and Tribune,
continued: "My question is, does
that apply to the paragraph or to
the whole speech?" Mr. Truman
replied that he approved the whole
speech. Then Raymond P. Brandt
of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
queried: "Mr. President, do you
regard Wallaces speech a depar
ture from the Byrnes policy toward
Russia?" The President said they
are exactly the same.
Had Ample Warning.
The speech had not been offered
to the State Department for clear
ance, but fortuitously, a copy found
its wav into the office of Acting
Secretary of State Clayton. He
telephoned Charles G. Ross, the
White House press secretary, at fi
o'clock, which was still several hours
before the speech was delivered, to
say that it would be very embar
rassing to Secretary Byrnes. So it
appears that not only by express
words did President Truman ap
prove the speech in haec verba, he
permitted Mr. Wallace to deliver it
after ample warning from the State
Department.
And now he asks us to believe
that "It was my intention to ex
press the thought that I approved
the right of the Secretary of Com
merce to deliver the speech." He
did not have to "approve the right"
of any one to speak. His childishly
weak justification was that "the
question was answered extempo
raneously * *
But how about the Clayton ad
monition. Mr. President, deliWered
to your Mr. Ross bv telephone at 6
o'clock? There was nothing ex
temporaneous about that. If you
had not understood what the speech
itself said, if you had given one
Of your customary "off-of-the-cuff"
answers, that- telephone call cer
tainly put you on notice in ample
time that the speech was likely to
oe embarrassing to Secretary
Byrnes.
The people of the United States
are not fools. Mr. President. The
chancelleries of the United Nations
are not staffed with fools. Mr. Pres
ident.
And how about Secretary Wal
lace, who presumed to thrust him
self into a delicate situation and
sound off as though he was Secre
tary of State. I do not undertake
to pass upon the question of the
Byrnes foreign policy vs. the Wal
lace foreign policy. I have not been
too sure that Secretary Byrnes'
varying positions were either re
concilable with each other or with
the Roosevelt policy that some of
us have thought was to be our lode
stone. And certainly I would take
strong issue with some of the po
sitions enunciated by the Secretary
of Commerce from the podium of
Madison Square Garden.
Only President Can Differ.
But on one point I have no
doubt. There can be no issue on
the proposition that no member of
the administration, excepting only
the President, and even then not
through a mouthpiece, has the right
to take a position at variance with
that of the Secretary of State on a
foreign issue. Perhaps Secretary
Byrnes is nor the right man for
Secretary of State. Perhaps Sec
retary Wallace should occupy that
past. But so long as Secretary,
Byrnes is head of the State De
partment, and so chargeable for our
foreign policy, no Secretary of Com
merce has a right, especially at a
time when critical negotiations are
underway in Paris, to announce a
different foreign policy of his own.
Secretary Wallace is too experi
enced not to know' that, even with
the consent of the President him
self, it was highly improper for him
to say what he did at Madison
Square Garden.
Those who manipulated Mr. Tru
man's nomination for Vice President
at Chicago have a grave responsi
bility to carry down through the
pages of history. He is primarily
and ultimately responsible for a
situation that cannot but make us
the laughing stock of the civilized
world.
Notwithstanding this, the situa
tion calls for the prompt resigna
tion of Secretary Wallace. Will he
resign? I doubt it! There have
been other occasions when it seemed
that his own self-respect called for
his resignation, but he has con-'
tinued to cling to his post like a
limpet to a rock. It seems to me
that he has built up a self-serving
obsession of noble self-sacrifice.
President Truman might well be
sensitive about, throwing to the
lions a sacrificial offering for his
own gross incompetence and stulti
fying and cowardly evasions, but
here is an opportunity ? for Henry
A. Wallace to “prove that he is the
high-minded and aseptic citizen
that he has held himself out to
be. In some small degree he can
atone to the people for the blunder
of both his President and himself
and be.should not hesitate to do so.
He should resign.
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