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1; Yhere are but few—if any—religious events more im
pressive-than an Army field mass.
’ Tfr-js an inspiring sight to see thousands of service
who will risk their lives on the firing line—as
sembltjo ask God’s blessings on them.
Tpj£ reason why such a scene makes such an im
pression is because the lives of those men anid fu
ture arT a little more uncertain than the lives ql citizens
who pursue. Most people turn to God when their lives
are in Sanger
It fS not often that civilians have an opportunity tjo
witness such a sight. Ordinarily, they are heftl only on
the battle field. Thus, the big Catholic field rriass to bt
Dunn ball park Sunday provides citlzehs
fAr'a»qc)Dortunitv. No citizen willwant to it
PSCner Francis McCarthy, pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church, Army officers and c-jber Catholic offi
eirts hije arranged for a great assembly.
“A number of nationally-known Catholic figures, in
cluding Major General William R. Arnold, a Catholic
Bishop who formerly served as Chief of Chaplans, will
US'ltere*«for the event.
The Daily Record joins in extending to these riotables
welcome to bur town upon the occasion of their
visit for such a splendid purpose.
1 This is not just a Catholic event. An invitation has
6n extended to citizens of every faith to attend. The
yers offered will not be just for Catholic soldiers, but
all service men.
| Afgreat throng is expected here Sunday and you will
SC the loser if you fail to attend.
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' i ynick Most Intereesing
ie Honorable Capus M. Waynick, who gained fame
Irst-class bridge player long before he made his
to politics, has come forth with the exciting news
ie’ll tell North Carolinians or by September 1
tr or not he will, be a candidate fer Governor,
s’s taking time off from%iaF6uties as the new Am
or to Columbia to visit Raleigh, Greensboro, High
ind other cities of the State to discuss his political
is quite possible that some of Mr. Waynick’s sup-
> —perhaps including Mr. Kerr Scott—are in great
<f And all intense waiting for that momentous an
iment from Brother Waynick.
b strongly suspect, however, that Mr. Waynick is
ao>-e interested in whether or not he’ll run for Gov
jthjat; most North Carolinians. We haven’t seen or
b£ anybody holding his breath anxiously awaiting
fiypick’s entry into the race,
ankly; we can wait without losing any sleep.
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FREDERICK V. FIELD
Frederick Vanderbilt Field has
come into the news as a million
aire Don Quixote, duelling the
wmdmilis of the law, in grim, de
termined hopelessness. His thin,
youthful figure gives him the air
more of a Hamlet than a Don Quix
ote. fie rejected the disclipines of
his family, his country, his God.
but g»ps to jail tor accepting the
discipline of Joe Stalin.
It ah seemed so unnecessary and
so . fruitless. Freddie used to be a
gentle and lovable person, charm
ing tp a fault, gay and big-heart
ed. That tight mouth gild first
clenched about his pipe, that
fighting to be shnet when his yery
nature shculd force ,lum to speac
out loud, shows wnat the discip
lines of communism can do to a
man, once he submits to its rigul
ities.
When I first met Freddie Field,
he was not a Communist, fie was
a nuld but very confused Norman
Thomas (Socialist who had come to
the feu east on his honeymoon ana
wgs full id ideas on how to save
the world.
In the 19th century, he would
probably have become a clergyman,
perhaps a missionary. In the per
iod. of Theodore Roosevelt, h e
might have fought the trusts or
gone in tor conservation. In the era
of Franklin p. Roosevelt, ne be
came a communist, but with a bit
terness, a vindictiveness hardly
understandable to those who be
lieve that boys and girls of good
families could not possibly become
Stalin's stooges. It is too often boys
and girls of good families who
make bad headlines. *
Freddie's background was not
unusual for a Vanderbilt. He lived
in a marble palace on Fifth Ave
nue and in the magnificent estate,
"Highlawn” in Lee, Massachusetts,
near Lenox and Stockbridge.
Frederick Vanderbilt Fie 1 d's
mother was a gentle woman who
I managed the complicated affairs of
i such a household with competence
and efficiency. I lived for some
months of the year An the
shlres and can say that file toeMk’
people still remember Mrs. Field
favorably.
The sanje cannot be said about
the father. He was a curiously gross
person, reactionary, selfish, over
powering. We once argued about
revolutions and the communists
and the forces at work in the
world. I reached the conclusion that
had he lived in Germany, he
would have been a Nazi.
There can be no question but
that the really dominant factor in
Freddie's conversion to Marxism
was a revolt against his father,
who did nothing but live on in
herited wealth. This revolt turned
to distress as his father’s life be
came increasingly messy.
: His great friendship with Joseph
Barnes, at college and at the in
stitute of Pacific relations, ended
when his first wife left him and
married Barnes. To an outsider,
Freddie and his first wife seemed
to be perfectly mated and very at
tached to each other. Often the
man with his fist against his own
life turns to some rigid discipline
ys a rationalization for the causes
of his bitterness.
The tragedy in Field’s life is that
he rebelled against the disciplines
of a society he knew and under
stood and yet accepted the rigid
disciplines of international Com
munism, on account of which he
is now in jail and likely bit be lor
some time. It; is this communist
discipline which forces him to Ue
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BEHIND THE SCENES \ i
On the afternoon of Mqy 13, 1950, your reporter spent several
hours with the then Mayor William V. OTWyer. Oracle Mansion.
He confided, in confidence, that he was retiring from, office, ,
“Now I want to ask your opinion," salt} o’jf)vfycr. .VEJ Hjap is
working out a deal With the,White House for me to become Ambassador
to Mexico.” .1 suggested that it would be a'ehd for him to rfesign js
the mayor of the world’s greatest city, on the grounds of complete
exhaustion) and then accent,Sk comparatively unimporfcapt ambassadorial
host. “Ft would look a*, though,you were runnlpg away," i-tqld hhp.
“I’m glad you sal4.,p>kt,” sai<jl the Mayor, "that is exactly the way
I felt about It. I wffl not go to Mexico.”
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‘Tf you’re dead set on retiring.” suggested this reporter,“why not
resume you law practice?”
“You hit the nail' right on the head,' beamed O’Dwyer. “And there’s
something else. Just before Gene Pope died, he assembled his sons and
told them they were to stick together. H told them, too, that they
should (King in an older man to guide them-in short, he told them
to get irie.”
“Good,” said this reporter. “Then that Mexican deal is out.”
"Yes sir,” grinned the Mayor. "But don’t break it in the column
until I give you the word.” -
Thr e e months later, O’Pwyer resigned as Mayor and started for
Mexico. I reflected, in the -column, that a reporter has enough trouble
living his own life without trying to live others’ lives, but repeated my
amazement that a n}an would yield the mayoralty of the world’s greatest
city for the Mexico City way-station.
In'the course of two years, sorne pieces of the O’Dwyer jigsaw
pugltib have fallen into place. The Kefauyer probe suggested that behind
-fh 8 O’Dwyer facade, strgnge firings had happened. He had publioiy
Tattled the National Democratic Club, because it housed Frank Costello.
The Kefauver probe revealed that he had gone to Costello’s home, pri
vately, and that his go-betweens, Jim Moran and Irving Sherman, were
on closest terms with Costello.
His strange conduct of the Anastasia case,, when he was Brooklyn
district attorney, in which witnesses were turned loose and co-inclden
tally murdered, came up again to haunt him.
On October 21, 1949, Mayor O'Dwyer attended a beefsteak dinner
at the National Democratic Club. A photograph taken at .this affair
showed ex-Gov. Lehman and Frank Erickson among the diners. Both
O’Dwyer and Lehman stormed that “this was a plot on the part of the
Newbold Morris-Dubinsky-Roe group.”
The name of Bill O’Dwyer continues to pop up in the news, usually
with unfavorable implications.
I’ve often wondered what his career would have been had this
personally likeable, attractive Irishman not gotten off on the wrong
foot in Brooklyn, via the Anastasia case. Unfortunately, young men
with political ambitions need bankrools to run their campaigns.
AU t*»e unpredictability of Bill O’Dwyer—his habit of saying one
thing but doing another, his broken pledges—were rooted in insecurity.
He never was liking of all he serveyed. He was a victim of alliances
entered *into, years back, alliance* that never enabled him' to get away.
I’m quite certain that he wanted to be a good Mayor. The work he
did in slum clearance and housing for the poor indicated his compassion
and his ability for constructive thinking and planning.
But people who live in glass houses can’t heaVe rocks, for fear nf
inviting retaliation. Bill was imprisoned in a glass house.
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A ngw mecca for gourmets. K
Food expert, Duncan Hines, has just sampled and approved the
food served at San Quentin and this news has caused some Interesting
reactions around the country.
In one jail, the inmates have reversed the usual procedure and
are sending food to their friends on the outside.
And in another, tough prisoners, who Were planning a break, de
cided to raid the prison ice box instead. \
This endorsement of prison cuisine may lead to it new type of
radio show which could sound something like this; “This is your
favorite chef. No. 73431, with thfe recipe for today ...chicken ala Sing.
Sing..,.the dish that’s always delidQus becausepthe flayor is locked,in."
The program might sign off With: “I’ll be. on the air the same
time tomorrow,.- unless 1 hear from ms lawyer.”
And any day new, I expect a penitentiary graduate to open a
restaurant with the slogan; "Reg jdst like the warden used to bake.”
It is difficult to understand what
pressures, intellectual or otherwise,
the communists can force upon
such t person that will drive hpn
to the which Field Ya
we employed? What power dp, they
ekgciee over him? ghat jeagg
rdo noTfiwwTT ]
I was discussing the Situation the
other day with a man who was
| were both on the “crimson” and
Both belonged to the same chibs. 1
I ajd° li SaSd St hfm Ed wUh d drtmj^n
ih the driver's seat of his car and
officers came along.
But they’re' do danged pcUe about
it hat I can’t figure out exactly
what they mean. On this one, may
be you can help;
There before the House Appro
priations Committee was Mrs. An
na M. Rosenberg, who u perhaps
the most powerful lady in Wash
ington. She Is Assistant Secretary
in charge of manpower and per
sonnel. J . •<
Mrs. R. was explaining to the
gentlemen what a good Job she’d
done to date. Many savings has she
made, she said, in manpower. One
thing she's started to do Is cut
down on what she called the shock
ing number of carbon copies Fed
eral stenographers make of their
I< tou?'t^ l cri^ed <^g*<^ipets,
mijion-tolqt; .detoise . .apprMCTt
znan who c lined one. efdjqnt
<4 wa n^ r
tliat one.
of buildup that
was .*W«n .joy waste expected
you to do znlraclas ,ais you are not
yqu havejjeep 1 . Ip 'oftjcie & jiwT'what
ed "WhaOiave you bptually dfjjpie
in Ihe way o{ concrete, things
where we can put our finger on
them and see some benefit to the
taxpayer?””
Mrs. R. said she would be de
lighted. She came up with a 1,200-
word printed statement listing her
achievements 'as* manpo'Wer tess.
"Madame witness, demanded
Rep. Harry Sheppard (D„ Calif.),
"are you a production engineer?”
Mrs. Rosenberg didn’t even gulp.
She smiled and she replied: “I.
would say that I am a manpower
specialist, if such an animal exists,
Congressman. That is a very em
barrassing answer for a woman, but
that is what I am supposed to be.”
“I assume there is such an ani
mate ' in existence,” retorted the
gentleman from California. T (fid
not coin the phraseology.”
Worrying me now is what did
Mrs. R. and Mr. S. mean? Shep
pard said he guessed possibly Mrs.
Rosenberg qualified as a personnel
specialist. . • •
"I would sag,” said Mrs. A. with
out false modesty, “that when it
came to doing utilization work. 1
have done probably more than any
one In the country today, both in
utilization of civilian plants and of
government facilities.”
She said she sometimes rushed in
where angels feared to tread, but
that so far she had not noticed
much difficulty getting things
done. „
“If you will permit me an obser
vation here,” Sheppard said, “to
.that degree you are a typical fe
male.” v ,
“With our disadvantages we have
our advantages, too,” Mrs. Rosen- #
beri replied.
"That is quite true,” said ShepJ
Now it’s your turn, gentle rehder.
You try to read between the jibes.
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1951
LYNN NISBET:
Around
(JapUbol SquahSL 1
CONGRESS Richard Queen v
of Waynesviße rislted around capi- t
tol square Wednesday, enroute to c
Washington from his home. While i
st home over the week-end be an- f
nounced his candidacy for the (
twelfth district aest in congress be- I
lng surrendered by Monroe Redden, s
The unexpected entry speeded poll- t
tics in the mountains and is said <
to have broken several play- 1
houses. Most likely opposition to <
young Queen will be affoided by '
Frank Parker of Asheville, former' ‘
state senator. Several conferences 1
have been held among Buncombe i
county leaders seeking to find a 1
-(.ruEidutj who plight reasonably 1
solid county backing. The political ■
dopes tors were putting out word
Tuesday that Parker is the man. <
and that likelihood of a contest be- 1
between Flank Parker and Roy 1
Jaylor, legislator and county at- 1
itTVALRY—With the race virt
ftaHy between Buncombe and Hay
wood counties, with the rest of the !
dtttviet choosing sides as much for <
fUh Os U as because of any real <
choice, between the candidates, will ’
barapjouht tong standing rivalry <
voting counties. It 1
53j,aj|o |32g into sharp focus the I
hiwseifi OShfiuversy over establish- 1
meat of aupew interstate highway 1
ajpng the.fc’iScon river and improve- 1
Btoht, fii. to.e present highway into j
Tennessee along the French Broad, j
SUkpfel^—People in the dis-
traqt, Jpad been expecting an an- 1
nounitement from former solicitor
John Queen, who has been working 1
the district ever since Redden no- \
tilted bis * ieonstituients he would
not seCjt re-election. Some of the 1
newspaper readers at first thought (
there was a typographic error and
that Wie annouced candidate was j
John instead of his nephew, Dick. 1
Tlic older njnn removed any doubt 1
when he Issued a brief statement
saying he was retiring from the :
race and would support his young 1
kinsman.
lively—The district expects
lively campaign for several reasons, i
The Buncombe-Haywooct rivalry is i
enough to assure a lot ofeffort in i
both counties, where factional lines
have been clearly marked. Despite :
claims of leaders that in both coun- i
ties the factions have been welded ]
have not been and will play im- i
together, many voters Insist they ;
important part in the next election, i
Candidate Queen is a former, mem- <
ber of the secretarial staff of Sen- ,
ators J. M. Broughton and Frank
Graham, and some observance see
prospect of reviving some issues <
which influenced the campaigns of
of 1948 and 1960. It is conceded on
all sides that the Queen family, 1
of which John is the recognized
chieftan, is political potent in Hay-
Wood and all the counties west, al
though not very important in Bun
combe or Henderson. Opinion wa*
generally expressed around Hender-.
sonville and Asheville early this
Week that Dick Queen will be
stronger as “John’s man” than in
his own right.
GOVERNOD—It is expected that
the governor’s race may have con
siderable bearing on the congress
ional situation, particularly if Bun
combe or RHaywood has a candi
date for governor. Your reporter
talked' with several dozen politi
cally-minded men In Henderaon
lAfrrwe
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day and Tuetoay. He found belief
much Wronger now than it was »
few weeks ago that Brandon Hod
ges will be in the governor’s race.
Hodges, prreenUy serving as stage
ment indicates growing belief that
treasurer, has not ccmunitteed hlm
he is the “best bet” for a real west
ern candidate. Such statements
were generally qualified with an
“if.” William B. Umstead of Dur
ham, only avowed candidate now
In the running, has a lot of strength
in the mountains. As of this date
he would probably walk away with
any other candidate from the Pied
mont, whether he lived on the east
or west side of that mythical div
iding line. For present' purposes'
the mountaineer politicos rate the
east-west line at the eastern foot
of the Blue Ridge. ’*■ V
NARROWED—That narrows pos
sibilities for acceptable “western”
candidates. Other names mention
ed included Hiden Ramsey of Ashe
ville and Monroe Redden, retiring
congressman of Hendersonville.
Ramsey is known to have written
personal friends that he positively
would not be in the race, and Red
den went so far in commendation
of Umstead at the twelfth district
rally last fall he would be em
barrassed by those statements If
he ran againststhe Durham man.
Furthermore, Redden is believed to
be much more interested in the
proposed new federal judgn.hlp
than in the governorship next year
or the nited States senate in 1956.
The same factional rivalries men
tioned in connection with the con
gressional race would to soirte ex
tent, probably much less, affect
mountain area support of Brandon
Hodges for governor. He would get
not a uninamous vote, but indica
tions now are he would be more
nearly approach that status than
any statewide candidate ever has.
POSjSl—'iTfiat situation poses
other problems. Hodges is relativ
ely new on the statewide political
screen, and despite excellent
record as stale treasurer In hand
ling state funds to make a profit
and his phenomenal success lb
bringing new industry into the
state, there is doubt about his pol-.
itical strength outside his native
mountains. Other suggested candi
dates—Capus Waynick. Hubert Ql
wide level, They wouldn’t hold a
candle to Hodges in the mountains,
and apparently would not inter
fere much with Umstead in that
'area. The politicians are trying to
find acceptable answers to the
numerous questions arising out bf
this situation. About all they are,
certain of‘lt that the answer hasn't
been found, and that Dick Queen’s
formal announcement for congress
makes it necessary to speed up Act
ivity all across the board.
Strong At BS
BANGOR, Me. (U 1— Roscoe H.
Haycock, a conductor on the
Maine Central Railroad, still
works regularly at the age N of 83.
During 65 years of railroadlr>,
he’s never had a discipline mark
on his record.