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WkiTO p1 fl-1 ffl fT ^)p^? Defeat of Wheeler Marks Passing of Able Legislator By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNC Service, 161G Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. There was something rather pa thetic about it to me when 1 heard 'the President say two words that marked the obit uary of a long career. The terse reply was made at a presidential press-radio con ference when a reporter asked Mr. Truman if he cared to say anything about the senatorial primary in Mon tana in which Burton K. Wheel er was defeated by Leif Erickson. There wu nothing more that the Prexident could xay. He already had endorsed' Wheeler with that re markable loyalty that he has lor his friends?a virtue which easily may go down in history as one of his faults. Wheeler gave the freshman sena tor, Harry Truman, his first oppor tunity to show his mettle by letting him bat for him as chairman of the important Interstate Commerce committee. Truman made good, and a warm friendship developed. But even presidential aid couldn't save Wheeler. The other day 1 was looking over the autographed photographs with which Harold McGrath, superin tendent of the senate radio gallery, had decorated the walls. It was lust about the time that things be gan to look bad for the senator. We commented on the senators we had known who had ended long careers in defeat. Of course, Sen. George Norris was the classic example. Five terms. Then he was replaced by an anti-Roosevelt man. Sen. Kenneth Wherry. Senator Norris' closest contender for the longevity record in recent years was Ellison ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina, violently anti-New Deal. He was defeated by a pro-Roosevelt man the year after Norris lost out Up on the radio gallery wall is a picture of Henry Ashurst, the sen ator whose tongue fairly dripped epigrams. He came to the senate when New Mexico was admitted to the Union. That was 1912. He left in 1940, serving five terms, plus five The year 1940 wai a bad one (or veterans?besides Aahurst, William King of Utah left us, having served since 1917, and Lynn Frazer of North Dakota, who came to Wash ington in 1923. Senator Wheeler served only four terms, but his vivid personality made it seem longer. He made many enemies. Many people disapprove of his isolationism and some of his other views most thoroughly. But there are many, even among his detractors, who respect him for his integrity, for his ability as a legis lator, something which perhaps is understood in Washington better than elsewhere, and also because they consider his pacifism sincere. 1 remember a conversation I had with Jerry O'Connell, former rep resentative who tried to take Wheel er's seat in a campaign somewhat similar to the one which brought victory to Erickson. Jerry was pret ty sore. He had a copy of the Ana .conda Standard in his hand as well as a clipping. The clipping was a report of one of Senator Wheeler's campaign speeches, made early in his career. I can't remember the phraseology, but the general idea (expressed by Wheeler) was that if the Anaconda Standard, which was supposed to represent the senti ments of the big copper interests, ever praised Wheeler, It would be a sign that he was no longer worthy of the support of the people of Mon tana. O'Connell read that to me. Then be picked up his copy of the Stand ard, and read from it some very kind words for Senator Wheeler. However, 1 think it would be grossly unfair ta say that Senator Wheeler ever "sold out," even fig uratively, to any Interests. As far as 1 know, he is as sincere to day as he was when he made his first fight on whatever issue had a side unpopular enough to attract him. In February of 1933 I had a long interview with Senator Wheeler. I have the yellowing clipping before me. It is illustrated with a huge photograph (more picture than text) showing Wheeler, his fist clenched about to drive it into his palm?a favorite gesture. I remem ber when the picture was taken. Here are two paragraphs from the story: "Last autumn (remember this was written in February. 1935), citi zens of Montana sent the same young man to Washington as a sen ator for his third term with the largest majority ever given a can didate by the Mountain State." A decade passes and new voters grow up. "Wheeler (I observed this in the same interview) came back to his office in the Senate building with the pictures of the high mountains and the deep valleys of his adopted state on the wails, and a victory measured in the same magnificent dimensions. His hair is a little thinner than it was but he can wake the echoes with the same thunder he released when he first arrived. He is still up and at 'em. And the higher they fly the more anxious be is to make them falL" Wheeler, Norris, Ash urst?they, too, flew high. ? ? ? Matron Upsets Solon'i Aplomb It was during the day and night senate sessions on OP A. The senate recessed at 6 p. m. to continue de liberations at 8 p. m. Republican Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hamp shire, bitter OPA opponent, and Mrs. Bridges went to a restaurant for dinner. Coming out, they were caught by a sudden sharp rain storm. The dapper, white-linen suited senator hailed a passing cab, and he and his wile piled in. Be fore they could shut the door (and in accordance with Washington's group riding) a huge and very damp Labrador retriever bounded in, landing in the senatorial lap. The dog was followed by his corpulent mistress. Some moments elapsed as the quartet arranged themselves in the cab's back seat. The dog con tinued to snuggle and drip on the white linen suit Suddenly the corpulent . lady, glancing sharply at the senator, said: "Why, you're Senator Bridges, aren't you?" Bridges, pleased to be recognized, nodded graciously. "Well," said the lady, jerking the sycophantic canine away from the Republican senator, "I'm a regis tered Democrat!" ? ? ? Schwllenbach Yearns for Wott mere * a persistent rumor that Labor Secretary Schwellenbach would like to desert the Potomac for Puget Sound. That's not hard to un derstand since heavy pressure Is being exerted to make drastic changes in the labor department and since Schwellenbach is as pop ular as he is in his home state. In 1934, when he was running for the United States senate, Lew Schwellenbach carried every county of the state?the first time this ever had happened. Vicariously, as shown in the re cent resounding success of his brother, Edgar Schwellenbach, in winning the Supreme court Jus ticeship of the state?his popular ity persists today. Edgar Schwel lenbach, almost unknown outside his own community, filed against the incumbent. The court elections usu ally don't draw a very heavy vote ?yet the man with the former sen ator's name received more votes than were cast for the Republican and Democratic candidates for the senate. ? ? ? Senator in for Happy Returns The eyes of Washington Post readers bugged out recently when they read in a story describing sen atorial wives' experiences with ris ing prices that "Mrs. Glen Taylor buys groceries for a family of 10, the youngest eg whom was an M year-oM baby." I understood im mediately that the reporter had meant lS-DAY-old baby, because Just two weeks before I had the pleasure of smoking one of the SO excellent cigars sent up to the radio correspondents gallery by the sena tor. It isn't often that cigars are dis tributed in the senate tor this par ticular reason, as most of the legis lators have put aside childish things. But radio correspondents smoked Senator Taylor's cigars and congratulated him on his third son, as well as on the other honor re cently tendered him by a panel of radio experts. They voted him the "legislator most likely to succeed in radio." The two honors had no connection. J BARBS . . . by Baukhag* A new bird-proof windshield has been approved by the Civil Aero nautics administration. Now, let us look for a bird-proof automobile top. ? ? ? "The average person of >0 now has as many year* of life remaining to him as a new-born child had in 1900," says .the Metropolitan Infor mation service. But can be use them to any better advantage T Some 30,000,000 home* have no central heating tyitem, tayi Petro leum Notea. But what la worse? several million veterans have no homes. ? ? ? As late aa 1880, 40 per cent of men's clothing was ready-to-wear, says the Twentieth Century foun dation. In 1M6 It may be ready but K'a already pretty worn. FAKMERS TAKE TO AIR . . . More then SM Byinf farmers from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indi ana left their tractors and combines to dy to Lafayette, Ind., to attend the first annual flying farmers' field day at Pardee university, and to prove that the airplane will play an important part in Midwest sericulture. The new fsoup, which has 1,*56 members, watched demonstrations. THREE-MAN DECONTROL BOARD . . . Future price control wfll rest with a three-man price decontrol board. Recently named to the board by President Truman are, left to right: Daniel W. Bell, Washing tan, D. C., former undersecretary of the treasury; Roy L. Thompson, New Orleans Federal Land Bank president, chairman; and George H. Mead, Dayton, Ohio, former chairman of the industrial advisory board under the NBA and member of advisory board of OfBee of War Mobilisation. I 2 EYE-DROPPER BABY?THEN AND NOW. . . Wfcea Richard Rom man wa? bora In IMS, be wd|tcd last U oncci. Doctors lighting to saro the life of the tiny mite fed Mm with an eye-dropper, as shown at left. He was kept In an Incubator. Today, Richard is a strapping young man of 4* pounds, of stardy body and well-developed muscles. BATTING FOB HAT FEVER SUFFERERS . . . Full war ? ragweed, which la hlaaed far mart af the miaeriea of hay fever victims, waa opened in Breeklyn aa a campairs (at ahiaay to eradicate the weed hi vacant lota. Photo ahowa city employees spraying a inxarions growth af the peaty weeds with a herbicide. dichierephenexyaeeOe. la six to eight weeks, treated plants de fraaa a M per cent silatlsn af spraying. CaaapMe cantial af ragweed la new peaaible. REGAINED MEMORY AND RIGHTS . . . Rajah Kumar Ra mendra N a ray an Roy of India, who waa believed to have died and been burned on funeral pyre, 12 yeara later retained his mem ory and was awarded his prop erty rights. He reported that rain had put out the Sre and brought him out of coma and that for years he wandered as a beggar over India. The Lord Privy coun cil now has ruled that ho is the rightful owner of a huge estate with a yearly Income. POTATO BLOSSOM QUEEN . . . Miss Inttt Gt(m, Vu Bares, Me., ?ks was eboses from same 15 pea candidates sad tusad Maine aetata blossom SPECTRE OF ANOTHER WAR i EN ROUTE TO PARIS. ? Under way in the palace of Luxemburg is the conference on which so many mothers set their hearts, for which so many mothers' sons gave their , lives ? the conference to win the peace. | Some 13,000,000 men in the Amer ican armed forces alone fought four long years?with the hope that it might be the last time human be ings would have to go through the terrible ordeal of war. la the Paris conference comes the climax of their dreams, and __ already disillusionment has be-" gun to set in. Already the dreams are tinged with night mare ? the spectre of another war. Here are some of the distressing facts this conference has to face in trying to chart the peace of the world: 1. Historians criticised Wood row Wilson because he was slow in nego tiating peace. But he got started two months after the armistice and finished six months later, a total of eight months after the war. In con trast, it is now almost one year after the armistice with Japan and 15 months after the armistice with Germany, yet the final peace conference is only getting started. 2. The longer peace is delayed, the more the Allies fall out; the more the other nations forget their gratitude. So the longer the delay, the harder it is to negotiate a | permanent peace. 3. Russia deliberately has endeav ored to postpone the peace. This conference could have been held long ago if the Soviet had not said no. DELAY TACTICS PLANNED Moscow's delay tactics were by no means accidental. They were carefully planned, and with three motives behind them: A. The longer peace was delayed the more time Russia got to nail down its hold on the Balkan satel lites ? Hungary, Austria. Anti-Rus sian factions had to be stamped out; pro-Russian factions trained to carry on. This could not be done overnight B. The more uncertainty and un rest occurred in the non-Soviet-oc cupied countries ? France, Bel gium, the Netherlands ? the great er the likely growth of Communism. C. Finally, Moscow did not want the Red armies converging back to Russia. There wasn't food to feed them, and their quick return risked economic, political turnovers. Thus, ever since V-J Day, Russia has been the greatest obstacle to early peace. AMERICANS NOT BLAMELESS In this peace conference, how ever, not everything is black or white. There is some gray shading in between. And in real fact, American di plomacy during the early stages of this greatest of all diplomatic en deavors was just as guilty of sabo taging the peace as the Russians? perhaps more so. I say more so, because we pride ourselves on be ing more advanced, more alert, more idealistic. Tet actually, our diplomats were Just as woefully unpre- ' pared for peace as the army and navy were for war at Pearl Harbor. When it should have been ready for the most Impor tant peaee offensive In history of the world, the state depart ment was caught completely napping. Congress has spent several months of intensive study to ascer tain who was responsible for Pearl Harbor; yet no one has lifted a finger to probe the equally impor tant disaster of our unpreparedness for peace. If senators probed the files of the state department, or even their own files, significant facts would come to light. ? ? ? OBT-TRBMANS TRUMAN Capital observers credit Sen. Jim Mead ot New York with a new in vestigating verve which may out Truman Truman. . . . Significant new venture in radio: 350 local streetcar and traction companies throughout the U. S. are inaugurat ing a coast-to-coast radio pro gram. Working under American Transit association, they represent 23 billion annual streetcar riders. ... No men from the Dallas naval air station were permitted to at tend church the other Sunday. Offi cially speaking, they were not barred from attending church, merely barred from taking a bus into town. Since there was no chap lain at the station, it amounted to the same thing. Lieut. Comdr. Leil Johnson issued the order. ? ? ? CAPITAL CHAFF Assistant Secretary of State Bill Benton leaves soon on a good-will tour of Latin America. . . . U. S. broadcasters over 10 transmitters to Soviet Russia now are giving the common people of Russia the truth about the news. . . . Maxim Litvinov was considered for Rus sian ambassador to Argentina. However, Stalin decided Litvinov's appointment would arouse Ameri can suspicions. . . . Jim Newman, ; who piloted die McMahon bill in congress, resigns soon. Genu of Thought GRANT that I may not criti cize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moc casins.?Indian prayer. A penny trill hide the biggest tter in die universe if you hold it dose enough to your eye?Samuel Graf ton. Change lays not her hand up on truth.?Swinburne. 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