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N. C., under the l»ws of Congress, Act of March 3. 1379.
Lv, _ e-very afternoon. Momiay through Frida?
isgmething Very Ney/
Whether Dr. Casper Warren, pastor of the
largest"fchurch, will run for governor of North Carolina,
vw know. Neither doAs he, though' as of Wednesday
he seriously doubted the possibility. “$Jy mifid is open,”
h§Jssid. But it will take a real call to persuade him to run
„—a call similar tQ that which persuaded Br. Dan Poling,
Baptist minister, to run for mayor of Philadelphia.
i»Br. Warren runs, it wilj: be a case of the office seek-1
ing the man rather than the man seeking the office. Some
—tmnfe we often hear about but seldom if evier see. The same
' thing aoay be said of General Eisenhower, if he runs for
| President.
Think how unusual if would be if chief executives of
both the nation and the state were “drafted’’ for office.
C .The ‘draft Warren” movement if it ever reaches
the proportions of a movement—difj not originate in poli
~{U:al circles. The idea was bom in the mind of a woman
, takes both her religion and her citizenship very ser- 1
and believes it is time they came closer together.
“Bhe.rawiewsd the state’s need and the people’s desire; then
she surveyed the state and came up with the conclusion
that Do* Warren was the man who best fits the needs and
: meets„the desires. It was about as “unpolitical” approach
‘tp’tittjproblen) as has ever come to our attention.
- • ■ tttft the idea, or the movemant, has the potentialities
■ of the most effective kind of politics, if the people of North
t t Caroliyp want the kind of governor Mrs. Hunter Dalton
l think»»-a deeply religious man who has proven himself to
be an able administrator and leader as well as a preacher;
man .without any background c f professional politics.
Whether that is the type of man the people want as
• their governor—whether Tar Heels generally are desir
oiysjgf a new face, new blood and a new approach to the
pra»lstjs of state—only time will tell. Only time and the
peWpite themselves. But if they do we are going to have
somthing very different in North Carolina next year—
duringjjfhe campaign—and a new type in the governor’s
j| office. * ’).
f A campaign between Pr. Warren and some other-man,
Tasswpin& there, iSJHUy one, .will be pitched on the highest
plane. No one will attack him, for obvious reasons, and
yon’t launch a personal attack on any man. His lack of
.tyS&riehce in statecraft and government may be an issue
is about all anyone can say against him. His own
campaign, if he runs, will be concerned with what he
» «*f t*V not with any person whom he opposes.
Warren himself does not “forsee the possibility”
BTa draft-movement of such proportions as would per- ,
3 Wade him to run—and being without the slightest per- .
'gahal political ambition—he is not going to do anything to
a movement about. There has been no such
movement in our memory. So, from the practical
the odds seem definitely against the minister
?*“ nn} S£r But if there are enough people who think as Mrs
does, and if enough of them do one tenth as much
-s6«heftas done to bring their desires to the Charlotte man’s
.ajjtorvtion, he will rim.
I f^? uld one of the most interesting developments
JOtf he history of North Carolina politics. —From The Hieh
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EXPLANATION
The record in the McCarran hear
ings is very different in prices from
the digests in news stories but it
could not be otherwise. For no
newspaper could publish all the
words of congressional hearings.
There are too many of them.
Yet, perfect gems of testimony
often appear in tne record. For in
stance, this one;
■Senator Ferguson. Don’t you
, think that Lattimore told you in
j those two paragraphs that have
been read that he was wanting you
to follow the Commie line?
"Mr. Carter, It would seem to
me that he was assuming that 1
was and I denied it. '
- collator rerguson. And wanted’
you to continue; is that right?
"Mr. Carter. He was giving me
a bouquet.
"The tnairdian. He was approv
ing ui
"Mr. Carter. "Yes, I would prefer
to aoaress tnese questions to natti
inore oecause ne would remember
wnat was m it.
"The cnau'man. Mr. Carter, when
he said you were cagey, he was
approving oi it, was he not?
Mr. carter. It wqs a obuquet.
' -senam* misumid. way uia not
that letter raise a grave question
U* youi- unnu dt uie very least as
uj w nether, or not Uattmiore was
a oommumst?
"Mi-, ogiter. My conviction was
ana is ne was not and never has
oeen, ana second, this should be re
memDerea; in tne contest oi lass
wnere tne political pattern oi tne
world ana tne tensions were totally
aulerent from what they are now,
we were ieenng out to urn out who
were our allies. We didn’t care
very much wno they were, so long
as tney pasted the japs and got us
ready to oeat tne Oermans.
' •senator nastlana. - *ou say we
followed toe u. s. e>. H. iwe gitn
out me appearance ot oemg suosei -
vient.' ’inat statenjeht was igit
lit tieed iaic< to you no was a com
munist?’’ • •
i*ow, in 1533, the United States
Was liut at war worn anygudy ana
had no aii.es. Musi, persons, even
•ciy weli-nuoruied peisons, aid nut
expect a general War. Hitler anu
ouinn weie seci’etiy lornimg an ai
nance lor tne conquest oi Europe,
mere had not yet oeen an invasion
ox r-olana oy ivussia anu dermany
acting jointly. japan and tne
united states were ran at war.
rt is tne piausiule excuse mat is
so oiten given oy those wno served
Russia or favored Russia or were
pro-communist that their attituue
was based oh the circumstance oi
tile tunes. 1 notice that in a con
troversy between Jtuwaru weexs or
trie ’VitrantiC Muutoiy ’ anu the
’editors oi ' counterattack,' Weess
ddUiits me same position. in a
woiu, theie are no aosuruies in the
world m wmen we live; mat morals
are oi the moment, smiting as me
tines or policy too and now.
r-eiintps many or these editors
and writers ana commentators win
now snig me praises oi rianeo, tax
ing men’ cue rroui state ucpait
ment policy.
i was uiioe present at one of those
oai’gantuan parties that rasa Max
wen gave, anu at Wundt tne dis
cussion was concerning the Third
mtienatioual. rt seemed lb me mat
v.ic euiiversation was geared to a
denial or tile existence or me Tiaru
mitoi national, rrl raet, X Heard one
broadcaster say mat altnougn he
uaa oeen in Kussut tor many years,
.cp.esc..„mg a rauro networa. ne
nau never nearu or a rmru mter
natibirar. rr my memory serves me,
—OlOtny ’r up.opson toox on tins
suucotmn or ijing newspapermen
mid lamp broadcasters anu nmreu
wirein aoout nitenqctuany until they
siiumu nave spnix on in suauie. out
none oi tuem uru and .iCuie are stin
aiouUd uowaoaj* denouncing
-tairu because toe lasmou has
caanged. **
..urn such men could say ts that
nicy serve' am mate mepamneui,,
iignt or wrung, ana uiat every
country aiiicu to the united totates,
TiO Ur a occr aWUipOl tti iiy, IMS-*
moment oi amalice anu an uSureui
-1C detn wngn nv> in » suite OI
alliance, rnat is a posiuoa widen
~d-. oe hfcm ii so Out it
m not related to Wue truth- ” .
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Gilbert and Sullivan met on Route 7, the direct route to Danbury,
Conn., a few hours ago. It happened when this reporter drove to that
city to play a benefit. En route, he stopped off at Stonehenge, nvned
and operated by ex-GI Victor Gilbert. Gilbert treated Sullivan to a
bourbon Manhattan and thus refreshed, I went on to the city iis
tinguished for its hills, Its lakes and its manufacture of elegant hats.
In Stonehenge, a distinguishsd-looking gentleman walked over to the
table. “I’m going to mention a name to you,” he said, “to see if it
rings a bell.”
“What’s the name, sir?” I asked him. politely.
“Joe Lowe," 1 he said. And as he said it, the bells started ringing.
You’ll “ave to go back with me about nine or ten years, when we
were staging the first great war show in Madison Square Garden, for
Gen. Thomas Terry’s command in this area. All proceeds were to go
to Major-Gen. Phillipson’s Army Emergency Relief.
To raise a bundle, I established a price of $5,000 for the boxes
scaling them down to tI.OOO 1 a box for the poorer locations, SIOO a
seat for the first" five rows and so on down the line. “You’re nuts."
amiably advised my committee. "Nobody will pay that kind of dough.”
Your reporter, even with faith in. the public, was half-inclined
to agree with his committee. But the tickets looked awfully impressive.
In
rhe day the tickets Wen* «n raie, a stranger phoned me at .the
'apartment. “I’m Mr. Davis* he Said, diffidently, "and though I knoW
you’re awfully busy, I’d like to talk to you about gottihg some tickets
for tile Army show.” ,
willing to talk to Hopalong Cassidy’s horse or Dagniar’s uncle, had .tele
vision created them, that early. “Go right ahead and talk, Mr. Davis,”
your reporter urged. “No", said Mr. Davis, ‘Td rather sec you per
sonally.” , - ’ . i
Right then and there, I knew that Mr. Davis wasn’t going to be of
much help. People who want tq see you, personally, always have a .song
they want published, or they have an invention, or they Just are lone
some nnd want somebody to talk to.
“Call me on my private phone,” I suggested. “Not even over a
private phone,” said Mr. Davis.
So in came Mr. Davis. He was bashful, not the big business type
that’s loaded with dough. He talked almo t furtively of the weather and
then said, hesitantly; “Now about the tickets. We ,were going to buy
one, but after thinking it over, Mr, Lowe has decided to take two.”
"That’s fine,” I told him, with false heartiness. With 18,000 tickets
on hand, even two outright sales were something. "Any particular loca
cation?" He shook his head: “No, anything you have on hand will do.
Mr. Lowe probably won’t even go hiihself. He’s pretty busy.”
“Then you can take your wife or your gal,” I said. “What price
tickets do you want. Something in the mezzanine, perhaps?”
"No, Mr. Lowe wanted the boxes,” he said. If he had h't me with a
blunt instrument, he couldn’t have caused a greater shock. I edged away
from him cautiously. This man was mad. The boxes were $5,009 apiece.
- “Y*s, of course,” I soothed him. “Nothing llk£ a couple of .box seats
at a big show.” He nodded: “That’s what Mr. Lowe said when he seat
me up.” t ■c*’ ** "’*' •* ' ’ tj
“And who is Mr. Lowe?” r asked him, gently.. “He’s the popsicle
man," he said. Never having heard 6f a pojjslcle man, your reporter
backed behind the desk. “And this popsicle mgh wants two box seats?"
I asked, weakly.
“Not two seats,” mildly corrected the ’visitor. "Two boxes, the
$5,000 kind.” Wildly, I surveyed him. “Two $5,000 boxes, huh? Ip
other words, he wants to give us $10,000?’,’ Mr. Payis smiled happily:
“That’s whet I’ve been trying to tell you. You send the tickets to the
office and Mr. Lowe will send you the check.”
That night at -dinner, you? reporter told of the berserk incident.
“Don’t y vi know what popucles are. Da4dy", asked the 11-year-old
daughter. “Kids buy more popsicles than anything else. If this man IS
the popsicle man,’he could buy oU of your boxes.”
Very, very parly the next morning, I was on the phone. ’Yes”, raid
the calm voloe of Mr. Lowe. “Just »e»d the tickets down today and your
messenger can pick up the check.” That SIO,OOO was the first money we
took in for the Arniy Emergency Relief show. Eventually we .’old
$203,958.01 and tunjed the check over to Oen. Phillipson almost in toto.
Stagehands, musicians and performers gave their servioes gratis.
A few hours back, I met Mr. Lowe for the first t)me. So the meet
ing at Gilbert Cad Sullivan on Route V, certainly had some personal
historic element to distinguish it.
by ' ilfißl
rad yott.hi»rwfcat the movtestar said?
bu dk ijiig&tr the illusions of millions of movie fans who
thought H wisfcu*
y glfwljEbK^l
to school. Washington University,
St. Louis, class of 1826. there was
no suell thing as an honor system.
Examinations were a battle of wits
between professors and their stu
dents.
Anybody who cout} cheat under
our system was a minor genius, un
usually nimble of brain, and des
tined to become at least a brigadier
general. Mostly we never got away
with our plots to undermine the
authorities, although I must admit
I did manage for two years run
ning to give the business to Doc
Batista, the professor of Spanish
literature.
So for the benefit of the brass
bound pedagogues at West Point,
who now are figuring on how to
reorganize their scholastic scheme,
I’d like to report how we used to
do it on those tense June days in
St. Louis.
The whole class filed into the
examination hall, with ink. pens,
and stacks of blank, blue-bound
books m which to answer the ques
tion. Anything else was verboten
and bulges under coats got the old
double-0. Tlie professor always was
on hand; so were a couple or three
of his assistants to stale down the
aisles like traffic cops.
Getting signals from outside was
no good, because the proctors kept
an eye on the windows against loit
erers. A feUow couldn’t crib from
a pony because he couldn’t get a
book, no matter how slim, inside.
One of my brighter schoolmates
thought up what looked like a mag
nificent idea for the exam in me
dieval European history. With
magnifying glass and fine-pointed
camel’s hair brush he painted on
his fingernails in script too small
to see with the naked eye all the
more important names and dates
on which he expected to be quizzed.
The rest of us admired him vastly.
He would have gotten away with
it, too, except that once he enter
ed the hall he did not dare exam
ine his fingers with a microscope.
He wiped off the ink with a sweaty
handkerchief and took that exam
honestly.
He’d used so much mental ener
gy writing down all that informa
tion in size to lit on the head of
a pin that til the facts stuck in
his head. Made an A for the course
and if he hadn’t tried to cheat he’d
probably have flunked it.
.That brings us to Prof. Batista.
He was a nice little guy And he
certainly did know his Spanish, but
his/idea of an ax*mlnaUon was
fair his students tff translate a ttf*
chapters of an English novel into
the flowery prose hi the Caballeros.
I soon noticed that those students
who filled the most pages with
Spanish got the best grades. The
professor obviously believed in vol
ume.
I also came to. the conclusion
that no man, no matter how con
scientious, could read all that guff.
With this thought in mind I al
ways translated carefully the first
couple or three pages of a blue
book, scribbled anything at all, in
cluding doodles, in the middle sec
tion, and resumed Spanish again
on the last couple of pages. This«
worked as I had hoped.
The professor only glanced at the
first page or two of an examina
tion boos. I followed this labor
saving device for my last two years
and'the doc never did on.
This bucked me up considerably.
Somehow I never did figure that
I was cheating and somehow I man
aged to learn the language.
And If West Point .needs any
more hints oh how to educate the
young, without honor systems or
scandals, either, I’m available to
the pedagogical colonels any after
noon at two.
(Copyright, 1951, by United Fea
ture syndicate, Inc.)
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COOL—No;' not the weather. To
the contrary, the heat uas been
responsible for some very queer
political writing lately. Take that
editorial in the High Point Enter
prise expressing surprise at reports
that the candidacy’ of the Rev.
Casper Warren for governor was
accorded a “cool” recepttofi around
Capitol Square. The High Point
editor had expected the reception
would be cold, rather than cool,
and suggests that It probably was
“as cold as the coldest human emo
tion, fear “ It wasn’t and isn't; but
it Is definitely ccml. Folks around
Capitol Square do not fear Uandl
drte Warreh and generally don’t
' think bis candidacy is anything to
bother about. But. it is infcortant '
to remember thio; Capitol folk have
been caught in two Jams in re- <
cent years ’by making choice of |
candidates too soon. Sj there isn’t i
much disposition now to choose!
aides by cither accepting or com- '
plcte’y rejecting any possibility. It
is easy to find some folks here
abouts who concede that another
Baptist preacher, mentioned be
fore Dr. Warren was put into the
running, has “a chance"—to-wit,
Dr. Taluiadge C. Johnson, com
missioner of paroles.
ERUPTION —The heat may be
charged—or credited with some
of the far-fetched gossip quoted
in these columns about sundry
other prospective candidates for
governor, such as Kay Kyser, Dr.
Frank Graham, Judge Dan Moore
and others. Addition of these
names, along with those of Dsb.
Warren and Johnson, to the al
ready long list of potentials in
cluding William Uinstead, Capus
Waynick, Brandon Hodges, Sam
Ervin, Hiden Ramsay, Mayne Al
bright, Thad Eure. Stag Ballen
tine, Pat Taylor, Rotwrt Frazier,
Major McLendon. Harry CaldweU,
et cetera, doesn't mean anything •
except that most folios haven’t
made up their minds about the
next governor. There have been
.numerous pieces written aboqt each
Os these prospects, some" making
sense but a lot more just making
wards. Blue ribbon prize for heat
generated eruption goes to the
News and Observer’se “Under the
Dome” for the paragraph reading:
“Warren’s principal support thus
far has come from a clique which
worked to help Senator Willis
Smith go to Washington. The
clique, Incidentally,’ tieklt its* dtegg :
effective blows through a serieadf
personal attacks on Hie Senator’s
opponent, Dr. Frank Graham
Earlier this year. It vainly at
tempted to attach itself to former
Senator William B. Umstead.
Turned away by Umstead, il then
tried with no better success to
take over the campaign State
Treasurer Brandon Hodges is ex
pected to conduct. Hodges, like
Umstead, managed to steer clear
of the threat, and now the clique
is working on Dr. Warren."
FUNNY lt must be the heat,
unless the writer of that paragraph
is trying to be funny. Votes are
secret except when the voter him
self teUs how he marked his'bal
lot, and it is not possible to know
just how the thinking processes at
candidates work. But it has been
generally understood that both
Umstead and Hodges supported
Smith hi the senatorial campaign
last year and that they would de
pend, largely, upon trie elemeut In
the Democratic Faiiywiuch back
ed Smith tn support them In the
governor’s race next year. Cer-
neither of them is strong
enough or dumb enough political
ly to turn Sway or steer clear of
the majority element which nom
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Senate. That doesn't mean of
course that Cither Umstead or
Hodges c mid get all the votes m
which went to Smith, bat being w
practical politician# It would be
a safe bet. of a thousand tq one
they would like to get them all—
because that would be enough to
assure victory. Instead of turning
away end. steering clear It’s dol
lars to doughnuts any candidate
for goverAor would give a finger—
maybe a left arm—for assured sup
port of everybody who voted for
Willis Smith last year.
HeXr—Unless, thU is. the heat 9
and the general apathy about
1 politics has affect'd potential
candidates as much at it has pol
j ideal writers. In that event almost
j anything could happen
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30,000 Tennesseans volunteered.
Frederick the Great had his cof
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of water.
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