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POLITICAL scoreboard fruman’s Popularity Declines Some, Recent Tabulation Shows! By GEORG E GALLUP ud'vf'FTDN ®ir®ct°Tr’, American Insti tute of Public Opinion „t,,fh«s dedined in the tat two weeks "* Truman’5 Beneral P»P»larity with the But the drop from May has not been s harp. h laMr Trnm^n’wLT^Hr th®.^nation’g voters polled by the institute approved of thewav Mr. uman was handlmg his job as president. Today, 54 per cent say they appro' ed, ‘e J Pe ce«t. disapprove an d the rest express no opinion. Thus, one year oeiore tne 1948 nominating conventions, Mr. Tru an jn spite of his troubles with Congress continues to enjoy sub jtan’ial support from the people. TVo powerful voting blocs ac count for a large part of his pop ular;tv and for the general •trength of the Democratic party jabor union members and farm ' Among those two groups Mr. Truman's popularity is greater than among any other major groups m ;he population. The president went to bat for urbanized labor by vetoing the Tap-Hartley act, expressing his opposition in vigorous language. Today's survey, which gives full reflection to the post-veto mood of union labor, finds that as com pared ;o May the President has held bis own with this group, and if anything has gained a little. In the case of farmers, the long peiuod of farm prosperity undoubt edly has a great deal to do with the present popularity of the head of *he Administration in power. During his two years in office, j)r. Truman has had rises and fells of popularity that resemble i°ride on a roller coaster. Starting in .July, 1945 from the dizzving height of 87 per cent— higher even than Franklin J). Roosevelt ever polled—he plum meted to 32 per cent in the short ipace of 15 months. That low point coincided with the meat shortage of the summer and au tumn of 1946. confusion over O.P. A, and over foreign policy. Then early in 1947 the Presi dent's popularity began to turn upward, partly as the result of his handling of John L. Lewis and of the nev. firmness with Russia. To;- rise continued through March, when the line again turned down ward, sliding to the present 54 per cent. The he id follows: “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Mr. Truman is hand ling his job as President?” Ap- Disap- No prove prove Opin. July, 1945 87% 3% 10% Nov, 194 5 8 2 9 9 Feb., 1946 63 22 15 July 43 45 12 Oct 32 53 15 Jar.. 1947 35 4 7 18 Feb 43 39 13 Mar. 60 23 17 May 57 25 18 TODAY 54 33 13 The president's popularity with organized labor has likewise been up-and-down affair, with labor re ading favorably toward him at the presen* time. Following is the trend of sen timent among union members, and among another powerful voting bloc, the farmers of the country. Per Cent Approving Truman Union Farm Members ers Nov., 1945 _ 84% 82%, Feb., 1946 . 7 1 66 July ... 41 50 Oc". _ 34 33 Fe'o . 1947 „. . 43 59 May .. 56 61 TODAY 58 61 TOMORROW: How popular is Truman among Democratic voters as a candidate for re election? Has Wallace gained or lost popularity in the Demo cratic Party as a possible 1948 candidate? Self-sealing gasoline tanks are rubber-lined with a special ma terial that expands and closes a tde when gsaoline seeps into it.. Through An Error in Yesterday’s Editions WILLIAMS dby cleaners Address Was Incorrectly Listed! The Correst Address Is _ 808 S. 17th. St. ANNOUNCING THE OPENING WHITEVILLE AUTO AUCTION LOCATED AT SOUTH WHITEVILLE HIGHWAY 701 — WHITEVILLE, N. C. FIRST SALE MONDAY JULY 14 - 12 O'CLOCK HE PARKING SPACESALES FEE $5.00 —AM LUNCH COUNTER Call Tel. 2571, Whiteville For Reservation Owned An d Operated By A- W. BALDWIN-WHITEVILLE, N. C. C* W. MILLS & SON RENNETS VILLE, S. C. ^_ _, Trumans Popularity 2. UNION MEM3ENS [ APPROVE TRUMAN 5. FARMERS ’U-OJLZ-LJLJL S-X-/-/ Y.u t APPROVE TRUMAN : MR. TRUMAN’S popularity (1) nationally, (2) among union mem bers and (3) among farmers is shown above, based on findings of the latest Gallup Poll. The poll was conducted after the Taft-Hartley veto. It shows that despite a small drop since May throughout the nation as a whole, the President continues popular with union mem bers and with farmers. The question in the poll asked voters whether they approve or disapprove, in general, of the way Mr. Truman is handling the job as president. PRICE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DAN’L CUPID’S BUSINESS Whether it costs five dollars or four dollars to get married in Wilmington doesn’t seem to make much difference. The course of true loves runs along without the dollars and cents sign. At least that is the way it looks in the office of Adrian Rhodes, county register of deeds. Since the new state law went into ef fect July 1 reducing the fee of a marriage license from five to four dollars, there has been virtually no change in the number of is suances. Ten license* had been procured in New Hanover county for the first 10 days of this month ending last night. There were approxi mately a like number issued last month for the first 10 days. The first 10 days of July a year ago also revealed about the same number—nine to be exact. Matter Of Fact By Joseph And Stewart Alsop Dragons Are Old-Fashioned WASHINGTON, July 10 — The great flying disk scare is a curi ous commentary on our times. Even until ten years ago, the ancient nightmares—dragons, sea serpents and their relatives—serv ed very well. But now instead of cosy, old-fashioned Loch Ness monsters, the minds of men are haunted by the man-made horrors of the age of the absolute wea pons. Trie trouble is that the man made horrors are quite real, quite imminent possibilities. And so the scare of the flying disks raises a perfectly serious question. If there is to be no peace, what warning shall we have that our enemies are preparing war? Most people assume that this question takes the rather simple form: “How shall we know when the Soviets have an atomic bomb?” Oddly enough, there is a way of learning of the explosion of an atomic bomb, even in the distant fastness of Siberia. It has already been tested, with our own bombs at Alamogordo and Hiro shima, Nagasaki and Bikini. As every one knows, the explo sion of an atomic bomb releases a gigantic cloud of radio-active particles, which mushrooms up ward into the stratesphere. Here, in the calmer upper air, the radio active cloud remains for some time, until it is gradually dissi pated or precipitated. It will be recalled how the Alamogordo cloud was by chance partly pre cipitated in Mid-Western corn fields, and ended ty ruining pho tographic negatives whose base was made from the cornstalks. Before precipitation can occur, however, the cloud actually cir cles the earth, like the duslclouds from the volcanic explosion of Krakatoa. And it can thus provide the clue to the explosion of an atomic bomb anywhere on the earth's surface. The presence of the radio-active cloud in the upper air is revealed, of course, by the newly familiar Geiger counter, which measures radio-activity. The heavy hand of the security officers has silenced the government scientists who no doubt traced the course of the Alamogordo, Hiroshima, Naga saki and Bikini bomb clouds. But there are also amateur physicists who have their own Geiger count ers to keep check on the strength of the cosmic radiation from in ter-galactic space, just as farm ers used to maintain measured rain gauges in their backyards for the enlightmen! of the weather bureau. Their work has also prov ed the effectiveness of this odd technique. For example on July 16, 1945, shortly after the Alamogordo ex plosion, Lieutenant Commander A. R. Coven, U.S.N.R., noticed an increase in the normal rate of his Geiger counter at Annapolis, Md. The increase continued until July 18, about sixty hours after E-Mi nute at Alamogordo, when it had almost doubled. The next day it returned to normal. Again, in July, 1946, a couple of days after the first Bikini explosion, G. Her ! zog noticed a sharp rise in tbo 1 rate of the large Geiger counter | on the second floor of his house j in Houston, Tex. By the following day, the count had almost dou bled, to return to normal by eve ning of the next day. Both these occurances have been reported in letters to “The Physical Review,"’ together with one or two others of the same sort, and negative results from amateurs in other areas over which the clouds did not pass. Expert, although unofficial, opinion gives these remarkable facts a simple meaning. A really adequate net of watching stations, designed to detect the presence of a radio-active cloud in any lati-l tude, will announce the explosion of an atomic bomb anywhere on earth. As usual, since the net must be extensive, its main tenance is likely to be expensive. But this is by no means the end of the story. Nothing, In the first place, will prevent a poten tial enemy from accumulating great stores of fissionable mate rial and great numbers of bombs before putting his bomb design to the final test of detonation—and it is only the explosion which makes the cloud. Thus the detec tion of an unexplained radio active cloud in the upper air, if and when it comes, is entirely likely to be a sign that the worst is immediately at hand. Inded, in this age of lightning attack, the worst might already have be gun to occur, for the maximum speed of the clouds on their earth encirclirrg journey seems to be a trifling sixty miles per hour. Against the slight reassurance i;i short, must be balanced new reasons for disquiet. Diplomatic reports from Europe describe the extraordinary frankness of Soviet diplomats seeking to dissuade na tions on the fence from joining the Paris conference on Secretary Marshall’s plan for European re. construction. They have warned, in effect, that in ten years the Soviet Union will have all the weapons of total destruction now possessed by this country, and that, when this happy time ar rives, non-cooperators must ex pect to suffer. Nor is this testimony unsupport ed by other facts. The Soviet re cruiting drive for German and other European physicists and en gineers has been without parallel, and Soviet orders now overload the Swiss, Swedish and other Eu ropean factories which can pro duce the complex apparatus need ed for such plants as Hanford and Oak Ridge. Here, in the evidence of an armament race to produce weapons of total destruction, is the raw material of a world night mare, which is merely reflected in the scare of the flying disks. What is being done to exorcise or minimize this nightmare is still another vital question. Copyright, 1947. N. Y. Tribune, Inc. NEW HANOVER GIRL TO COMPETE IN 4-H CONTEST ON JULY 24 Eulaila Hewlett, winner in the New Hanover county 4-H health contest, will participate in the Dis trict review which is to be held in Goldsboro on July 24. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Hewett of the Oak Hill com munity, Eulaila will compete with 19 other county winners for the Southeastern district title. The district winner will vie with the four other district winners for the state title in the contest which will be held at State College during 4-H club week in August. Tintoretto, one of me greatest painters of the Venetian school, was named Jacopo Robusti. 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