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CLARIFIED Governor Kerr
Scoot thinks the national Demo
cratic party will De smart to nora
taeit# President Truman for an
and he also thinks
'' MitoiAl' Carolina has special reason
p 'tor- -supporting the entire Demo-
Sf'CWtlc ticket; regardless of who
nominated for president
Kr vice-president. He is for Tru-
Wy m an because he thinks Truman has
f best chance to lead the party to
national victory, and also because
he believes in the Truman program,
including civil rights, with some
limitations on the FEPC item. The
governor amplified rather than
clarified his position on these points
at a press conference Tuesday
morning. His statements came in
answer to questions about apparent
inconsistency in appealing to the
South to support the president, in
order to retain places of leader
ship at Washington, when the
president and his group have for
, months been trying to discredit or
nullify this same southern leader
ship.
SELFISH The governor refer
red to the selfish interest North
Carolina may have in retaining
top.. committee chairmanships in
the . congress. He mentioned the
honor coming to the state by reason
of Congressman Doughton heading
the powerful ways and means com
mittee, and chairmanships held by
other Tarheel representatives, but
was especially concerned about i
possibility of Congressman Cooley j
being succeeded by a western Re- 1
publican as chairman of the agri-l
culture committee. He noted that!
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- bama are seeking larger share of
- the* acreage alloted to flue-cured
. j tobacco,- in which North Carolina
5 presently enjoys distinct advantage,
l Asked if that did not afford basis
• for resentmnet and opposition in
the other southern states the gov
t emor admitted it does, and sug
■ gested that is another reason it
; might be just as well for North
i Carolinians not to “start anything"
i BROADER One reporter asked
! if that Statement meant the issue
[ should be considered wholly from
; the state’s viewpoint. Governor
’ Scott replied that he thought it
( ought to be much broader than
that, but he could see no reason
\ to throw away advantaged now en
’ joyed. The Democratic party, he
said, contains so many minority
, groups it is extremely difficult to
! promulgate a national platform
upon which all of them can stand
There must be a lot of give and
take, each group making some con
sessions to the others. That is why
he thinks the FEPC plank in the
1952 platform will be considerably
| milder than theone inserted in the
: 1948 document.
PRACTICAL Governor Scott’s
approach to the situation is that
of the practical politician, which is
to get all you can, but take what
you can get. He considers chair
; i manship of the agriculture com
| mittee, and the large share of gov
-1 ernment military installations in
| North Carolina sufficient reason
: I for this state to stand by the pre
- sent administration. If that works
the disadvantage of other southern
states, let those states do the talk
ing and the worrying. Another
suggested practical reason for
North Carolina to stay with the
party is the governor’s belief
.shared by most, observers— that
despite resentment and open op
position in some quarters, the South
as a whole will give itß vote to the
Democratic nominee. It has always
done that. North Carolina deviat
ed in 1928, but stuck in 1948, both
of which years saw southern de
flection but majority southern
loyalty to the name—ls not al
ways to the platform—of the Dem
ocratic party.
HANDICAPS President Tru
man certainly, and the Democratic
nominee if somebody else probably,
faces two heavy handicaps In
North Carolina. It is generally con
ceded that the deflection In 1928
was because A1 Smith was a Catho
lic. There is now deep resentment
at the Truman appointment of a
full-rank ambassador to the Vati
can State. Governor Scott has pub
licily approved that oppointment.
Another handicap is the firing of
Lamar Caudle last week by the
. president. > ,
, REPS URGED TO ACCEPT FjACI FLAN
it? r N *y ION WI M ,ADD»iSS, President Truman urged Russia to accept
the west s proposal tor disarmament and world peace. The Chief Execu
| tive warned the Soviet that unless she does, the United States will con
tinue building up the free world’s defenses. Truman said that under the
proposed plan, “all nations would have to lay their cards on the table
and keep them then at all times." (International Soundphoto) j
CAUDLE Governor Scott de- I
dined to comment on the Caudle
incident. In answer to a direct
question, he said he did not know
enough about the case to discuss
it. Other prominent North Caro
linians and dozens of newspaper
editors have not been so reticent.
Censsnus among these commen 7
tators is that the President has
said too much or not enough. The
president has been quoted as say
ing he asked for the resignation
of the assistant attorney general
in charge of tax cases because of
Caudle’s “outside activities”, but
that he did not Impute any illegal
or immoral act to the discharged
off leal; and he did not say what
the outside activities were. Pub
lished editorials and unpublished
conservations among North Caro
linians have followed a * distinct
pattern. Judgment is reserved as to
degree of guilt, if any, on part of
Mr. Caudle; but on showing made
In disclosures of congressional in
vestigations, there is almost un
animous opinion that North Caro
lina’s Caudle was made a scape
goat, for that numerous others
against whom more definite charges
had been proven were retained and
promoted.
BALANCE From here and
now, it looks like these are the
items going onto the balance scales
i with respect to North Carolina’s
position Jn the next presidential
nomination and election;
For Truman (or some other Dem
ocratic nominee): All-out support
of Governor Scott and all the
prestige he can bring to :bear be
cause of his office; multi-million
dollars spfnt for military installa
tions in v North Carolina; better
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bacco acreage aUotments and other
Items incident to having vital con
gressional committee chairman
ships; century-old tradition, broken
rally once or’twice, of allegiance to
* the Democratic party.
Against Truman (or his hand
picked succesaoi for the nomina
tion); Opposition to the civil rights
program which runs contrary to
southern traditions; violent opposi
tion (call It prejudice if you like)
against closer affiliation with the
Catholic church; resentment at
picking a distinguished North Caro
linian for a scapegoat in federal
tax scandals; fundamental policy
of North Carolinians ill preferring
to be right than to vote for the
winning president; traditional ad
herence to constitutional concepts
of the rights of individuals and
states above the bureaucratic con
trol of federal agencies, establigh
• ed by fiat of executive order in
stead of by authority of elected
legislative representatives.
DUCK LOVER ACTS
HAMBURG, la. lift Authori
ties here looked for a duck-lover
with a Carrie Nation qomplex
Someone walked down a row of
16 ‘hunters’ boats and chopped a
hole in the bottom of each witjh a
hatchet.
TRUCK RIDES HEAVY
EAST ST. LOUIS. Os) lll
inois state police thought a truck
carrying a power shovel might be a
little overweight, so they weighed
11 The truck and load weighed
113,400 pounds 41,000 pounds
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f weight. ,
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i BOSTON. m A modern llve
> stock market is to be buUt on
the site of America’s first stock
. yards. It was these Brighton stock
. yards that supplied Gen. George
j Washington’s army with meat
. when it was bivouaced in Boston
. in 1775.
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: BUTTE, Mont. (IB Elvin Kin
' ner, 48, was shot by a dog. When
I Klnner swerved hiS- pickup truck
, to avoid an oncoming car, his shot
, gun, which had been propped
; against the car window, slid to
' the seat. The dog stepped on the
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RICHMOND, Va. (W Appar
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okayed moving a horse-watering
fountain from a busy downtown
intersection but stipulated that’ it
be relocated a few blocks away.
FAIR ENOUGH REQUEST
HORTLAND, Me. (IP) A mid
get automobile parked daily near
police headquarters bears a sign
on the rear which reads: “Hit
Someone Your Own Size.”
OLDEST PENSIONER IS 102
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division for turning In -a false
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