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PAGE TWO JJaihj J{tmrb * DUNN, N. G. Published By RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY At 311 East Canary Street NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. 805-217 E. 42nd St„ New York 17. N Y. Branch Office* In Every Major City SUBSCRIPTION RATES UY CARRIER. 20 cents per week; $8.50 per year In advance; it for six months; $3 for three months IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: $6.00 per year; RiO for six months; $2 for three month* OUT- OF-ST4TE: $8.50 per year In advance; $5 for six months. SI for three month* Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, N. C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1879. Every afternoon, Monday through Friday The Eisenhower Victory The election of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as 34th President of the United States came as no surprise, but the landslide proportions of his victory exceeded even the most optimistic prediction of his most ardent supporters. Most people, regardless of their personal preference, will readily concede that Eisenhower won one of the great est personal victories in all of America’s political history. It seemed that everything was against him. Most political dopsters pointed out in the beginning that Ste venson could count on the “Solid South," the big metro politan centers and some border States. Times are good, even though seme claim it is tem porary prosperity, there are now 28,000,000 Federal checks going out every month; organized labor was for Stevenson as well as most minority groups. But Eisenhower overcame alLfhe obstacles. Proof of his personal popularity lies in the fact he ran way ahead of his party. Even here in this strong Democratic county. General Eisenhower received about twice as many votes as the Re publican nominee tor Governor. , The voting showed conclusively that people are doing more and more independent thinking. Even those who voted against Adlai E. Stevenson came to admire him as a man. He fought a good fight and he proved himself a good loser. Had it not been for the is sue of Trumanism, he might have been elected. But the issues of the campaign are a thing cf the past. The election is over. Nothing can be achieved by further debate, Dwight D. Eisenhower is now the president of all the people. Adlai Stevenson very eloquently summed up the si tuation in his very line statement on election nigiil: “It is traditionally American to fight hard before an election,” said Governor Stevenson.. “It is eaually tradi tional to close ranks after an election. That which unites us as American citizens is far greater than that which diyides us as a political party.” It should be the hope and prayer of every citizen for General Eisenhower to become a truly great and success ful President, that America will continue to go forward as the greatest country in all the world. Frederick OTHMAN MEXICO CITY. Today I am a saddened man. I’ve been let down by the one man in Mexico I really wante dto respect, our Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, the Hon. WWilliam O'Dwyer. He denied a story I wrote saying he intended to resign and stay in Mexico as counselor to a firm of Mexican attorneys. He denied that he tol dthis to me, himself. He even denied that he’d taken two hours at his home to do the telling. The Hon. Bill knew who I was. He knew when he invited me to call that I was a reporter, who in tended to write a dispatch about him. He knew when I asked him a series of questions that I was en gaging in no idle chit-chat. He answered them carefully. As honestly as I could I reported exactly what he said, which was to the effect that he wuold quit his job between January 1 and 20 to associate himself with what he called a prominent Mexican legal firm. As counselor to the local lawyers, he continued, he wouldn’t actually practice in court and so would not need under Mexican law to aban don his American citizenship. Chummy he was, too. I’d never ac tually met him before, but soon he was calling me. Fred. So he told in detail about his career as cop and eventually as Mayor of New York: bitterly he assailed these who has charged him with graft. He said he’d never managed to save 25 cents and that this was his sole reason for joining the Mexican lawyers. He spoke as though the deal already had been made. Then the Hon. Bill said he was anxious to meet my bride, about whose adventures on the farm in McLean, Va., he'd read in the paper. He urged that we attend a cocktail party he was giving a couple of nights later for a con Hatcher (Skinner Funeral Home Established In 1912 Ambulance Service MhmM 2447 Dunn, N. C. vention of Latin architects. We did and he went all out to be a genial host. He showed Hilda through his handsome residence, including his own enormous bed room, which was green, an his wife’s smaller one, which was peach. A pleasant evening it was, too. When we left, he urged that .we join him and Mrs. O’Dwyer (who then was in New York) at a lun cheon before the first bullfight of the local season. He struck me as a maligned man and I wanted to believe everything he told me. Then my story appeared in print a couple, of days later. The; local correspondents for American press associations and newspapers phoned him for confirmation. And there was the Hon. Bill blandly assuring them that he'd told me no such thing. He said he hadn't even seen me, except with 200 other people over cocktails. I do not intend to enter into a brannigan with our Ambassador, but I can’t help feeling hurt. Lesser men have done such things to other reporters before. but somehow I always thought am bassadors were different. I’ve been thinking about him all afternoon and I hope you will excuse me for being personal, but I have been a reporter now for more than 25 years and during that time I have striven to tell only the truth. Os this I have been proud. Os the many hundreds of people I have interviewed over the years, some few have been angry. upon seeing their/ own w/T'.’s in cold print the next morning, but not one of them ever accused me of falsifying. Not, that is, until I ran into our Ambassador to Mexico. So, I guess Hilda and I shall be attending no bullfights now with the Ambassador and his beautiful wife. Probably just aswell; these are bloody exhibitions which in the past have left me weak in the knees. These Days £ckcLkif A PLEA FOR RtFORM Now that the election Campaign is over, it ought to be clear to Americans that the business of electing a President is too expen sive. too time-consuming, too ham pering of the conduct of the ord inary affairs of the nation. It is. impossible ever to approxi mate the cost of the election. The various reports made by candidates and by political parties of their receipts aiid expenditures do not represent a third of the actual cost of these Campaigns. Large numbers of national and local committees make independent reports which seem trivial and are not noted. Totalled up. for the entire country, they are enormous. Labor unions do not report their political ex penditures as a rule because they are "educational.” Much money is passed under the table in cash to avoid identification as well as to evade legal limitations. Everybody . denies the giving dr receipt of un listed contributions but they are no secret in the market-place. If the conventions Were held a round Labor Day and the cam paign were limited, by agreement, to one month, from October 1 to November 1. with a few days of silent interval between the last day of oratory and the day of voting, the people would have a chance to think for themselves without the constant din. About two-thirds of the expense would be saved. It woul dseem as though the only beneficiaries of the endless yak-yak on radio and television are the net works which charge enormously for their facilities. If the campaign were cut to one month, the candidates would not have to repeat themselves endlessly on the same subject. They might even have some time to write their own- speeches and do some think ing. One reason that the speeches become increasingly dull as the campaign proceeds is that the ghost-writers, weary of endless conferences, endless pounding on typewriters, endless editorial meet ings With each writer fighting for his gem of though and expression. Stevenson's ghost-wirters were superior to Eisenhower's, although the product of both was fairly poor in thought and organization. Stev enson used Robert Sherwood of the Roosevelt regime, Professor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., of Harvard and the A. D. A. and Leonard Spiegelglass of MGM. the movie company, among others. These are professional word-stingers. Eisenhower used the old Dewey team which had lost for him twice. Stanley High of the "Readers Digest” and about any body who would lend a hand. How much if any of these speeches were written by the candidates themselves will never be known: they were very few. The speech mills turned out hundreds of them, not only for the candi dates but for side speakers. A man who delivers TO or 12 short and long speeches between breakfast and bed-time is usually too word drunk to know what he is talking about. It was thought that with the ad vent of television, the : “whistle - stop” could be eliminated. Actually there was more whistle-stopping; in this campaign than ever before. And everybody got into the game to the delight of the railroads. Maybe : it is good. politics for the people to have a look at the candi dates, their wives, sisters, sons and mothers-in-law. But what one gains from a few minutes' glance at a President-to-be. is difficult to ap praise. Actually, the various can didates looked like a lot of very tired men who could do with a night's good sleep. Usually, as the long campaign ■ proceeds the managers get into a wrangle over who gives the last ' word. The Democrats in New York, for instance, were in a hassle be tween the regulars and the volun -1 teers that reached a state of high ; comedy in Madison Square Garden • when the volunteers put on their vaudeville, with a band blaring, 1 while the candidate for U. S. Sen ! ator, John L. Cashmore, was de livering what was to him the most important address of his campaign. Cashmore had to shut up because ' he could not compete with mum : mers, most of whom exhibited themselves in Madison Square Gar ; den before, that time for Eisen hower. Maybe I am all wrong about , what a campaign is about. Maybe [ it is meant to be lots of fun. The [ ever-growing role that is being , played in campaigns by actors, , movie writers, musical comedy composers, danceis and Hollywood jesters somehow gives the im pression that the Presidential election is becoming one big joke. On whom? Somewhere, someday. 11l be run ning into the Hon. Bill again in the course of my business. This is inevitable, but I never shall see him alone. Other reporters will be present, or I have no conversation with Ambassador O’Dwyer. Exclusive interviews are fine and usually productive of news, but in this case the heartaches for a con scientious reporter, meaning me, simply arent' worth it. TKK DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C. MISTER breger ~ o j/ “Er . would you be interested in an insurance policy against loss of time listenin’ to people trying to sell you something?” ‘ a Merry -60* round »ttw muon _ WASHINGTON. President Truman has fairly definite ideas as to what he wants to do when he leaves the White House, but they may be hampered by problems at home. The chief things he hankers for after January 20 is a leisurely trip around the world. He wants to go to Europe and return the visit of the heads of states who have called on him, also attend the coronation of Britain’s new Queen Elizabeth on June 5. However, there are a couple of complications. One is the health; of his 90-year-old mother-in-law’, Mrs. David Wallace. The public hasn’t generally realized it, but Mrs. Wallace has been living with the President and Mrs. Truman during most of their sojourn in the White House, and Mrs. Truman has been quite firm that she would not leave her mother for a long trip out of the United States as long as he is in poor health. Another, though lesser, compli cation is finances. The President has not been able to acquire any monetary backlog during his seven years in office, and some way will have to be found to finance the trip. One of two Embassies have al ready discussed whether he coqld be entertained as an official visitor at the expense of their govern ments, eve nthough by . that time he wall have lost his official status. Mr. Truman wants to visit India, , Japan, and various Asiatic coun tries and some consideration has been given to the idea of his making a series of speeches on the peace ful goals of the American people. There has been so much Russian propaganda to the contrary, abet ted in part by rash statements by American generals, that a godd part of the world is sold on the idea that the United States wants war. State Department officials be lieve that a man of Mr. Truman’s simplicity and directness might carry considerable impact in nulli fying this propaganda. They have even been considering the idea of his making a whistle-stop tour a broad in favor of peace. The President has also told friends that after his trip he would like to do some lecturing at a university and some writing on history. If so. he would follow the precedent of William Howard Taft, who became professor of law at Yale after he left the White House. Hints have also been dropped a round the Capital that Trumar. should be appointed a delegate to the United Nations. However, no matter w-hat he does, the President is genuinely looking forward to enjoying himself after he retires to private life, ... ; ■ ■ ■■ 4 MlltS ’’ “She’s talcing her part as understudy too seriously. That’s the star’s boy friend she’s with now." EXIT THE TRUMANITES Here's what some of the Truman Cabinet members are going to do. come January 20. Dean Acheson will go back to his law firm. Financially hard up, he might have retired earlier ex cept that he was under fire—Pres ident Truman has promised his | secretary of the treasury, John ; Snyder, to help him find a job, tut : turned it down—Secretary of labor i Maurice Tobin will return .to his : Boston law practice, perhaps enter i politice again—Secretary of com- i merce Charles Sawyer is returning i to Cincinnati. He had planned ’ some time ago to resign from the 1 Cabinet come what may—Secre- i tary of Defense Robert Lovett will i return to his Wall Street firm. Lo- i vett has been in government now i ever since the war days, as assis- * tant Secretary of War, Undersecre- 1 tary of State, Undersecretary of • Defense, and now Secretary of 1 Defense. A Republican, he has '• served steadily in Democratic ca- 1 binets—Postmaster Qenersfl Jesse 1 Donaldson is looking for something ; in private industry. The first lion- 1 political career postmaster gener- 1 al, thousands of postal employees ; will celebrate his exit. LONGER DRAFT PERIOD I Gen. Mark Clark has sent the Pentagon an ultimatum that more replacements must be rushed to ( Korea or he will keep his front- j line soldiers past their rotation ( date. What Clark objects to is releas- ‘ ing combat veterans and replacing . them with green G. I.s at revolving- , door speed. After a man is well ' trained for combat Clark complains. , he has to be sent home. That war w'hy he boosted the number of points required for rotation from 36 to 38. only to be overruled by Secretary of the Army Pace. How'ever. Clark is now' threaten ing to hang onto his eligible re turnees another month or two, despite Pace's orders unless the rate of replacements in increased. This points up an army-wide, complaint that the manpow'er turn over is so rapid the army scarcely finishes training new men before they are released and the army has to begin all over. As a result, the Defense Department probably will ask the new Congress next year to lengthen the time draftees must serve. TRANS-ATLANTIC PIPELINE Adm. Robert B. Carney, U. S. Commander in the Mediterranean, is following the current trend of some generals to be diplomats and politicians. He took it upon him self to negotiate with Italy for bases recently, without bothering to consult Washington. The State Department promptly slapped him Walter WineheD York amioro It Is silly to say there are two sides to every question. More often than not there are a half dozen .. George S. Schuyler, the noted Neg ro columnist of the Pittsburg Cot'. - rier. has some comment on the Josephine Baker-Peron affair wliich probably contains too much objectivity for Borey Yellow ’s muek rophone For Schuyler's right of public comment and our right of private satisfaction, here are some excerpts. “Now that Robert Ruark has led the public uproar over Josephine Baker's love feast with bloody dic tator Juan Peron of hapless Argen tina and her out'ageous falsifica tions anent the U.S.A. race ques tion, I presume the original heo ster on this variety artist may be .permitted a further word. The'news that she had dramatically signed the guest book at ruthless Eva’s temporary tomb with the words ‘Your sister. Josephine, who loved you dearly,' evoked from me only a slightly amused 'Ho Hum!’ Like wise did her revelation of all the lynchings she had ‘personally seen in the U.S.A.. probably during the slight intervals when she wos not getting $20,000 weekly to, prance a cross the boards in exagge-ated Paris creations crying ‘I love you. I love you all!’ “It was with amusement on the grim side that 1 recalled the hur ricane of denunciation that lashed me when I publicly stated the sig nificant sequence of events in the lady’s off-stage career. I recollect ed how certain Negro ‘leade -s’ pick eted the Stork Club over her ‘dis crimination’ which two official in vestigations later exploded sky high, and which NAACP lawyers admitted was quite imaginative. I chuckled over how my fellow-jour nalists were gullibly taken but never attained sufficient moral stature to admit it. I remembered how I had predicted in the Courier (May 5. 1951 i that she ‘may be making her last visit to the U.S.A. A fine artist is being misled by some of her fellow-traveling advisers. My only error was my generous pre sumption that she was being mis led. Now she is hobnobbing with the bloodiest dictator outside the Iron Curtain. Her dupes will kind ly line up on the right (for a change!) and one by one soak their heads under the faucet! Os course, currying favor with oppressors is not a new role for her. An Associated Press dispatch of Oct. 1. 1935 quoted her as an nouncing that she was on the side of Mussolini against the Ethiopians. , who were then being bombed and gassed by the heroic legions of fas cism. which later surrended in droves to the British (Note by W. W.: When I reported this first the N. Y. Post and many other careless reporters said it wasn't true. La ter I revealed that the Oct. 1, 1935 N. Y. Post published it. But the Post editor Wechsler kept printing that it wasn't true. In short, he doesn't believe what he reads in down, reminded him that he is an admiral, not Secretary of State .. .. Prime Minister Churchill tried to phone Britain’s A-bomb genius, Sir William Penny, the other day. After repeated delays, the Prime Minister demanded that Dr. Penny be put on the phone “at once.’’ “Sorry, sir,” said his secretary, “but the telephone company says Dr. Penny’s number is to secret to give anone." .... Gen. Matt Ridg way has warned the French com mander of NATO ground forces, GGen. Alphonse Juin, to keep his mouth shut about Spain or give up his command. The talkative Frenchman has been sounding off about bringing Spain into thfe Western defense alliance' Italian Prime Minister De Gas peri has warned that European trade* has slumped so alarmingly a depression is likely unless the West acts. De Gasperi has urged a full-scale international economic conference to decide what to do .... The British are so far ahead of schedule on jet production that they are selling jet fightsrs on the* commercial market. Brazil has al ready contracted to buy'7o meteor jets, a second-string fighter in the 500-mile-per-hour class— CONGRESSMAN THREATENEED The House Committee on un- American Activities has a ' hot story which it hasn’t told the pub lic. One of its top members, Dem ocrat Francis Walter of Penn sylvania, has received tow threats on his life. Shortly before Walter opened the Los Angeles hearings on subversive activities in September, a letter came to his office warning that his life would be in danger if he showed up for the hearings. Posted in Los Angeles with no return address, the letter stated: “You have done enough harm to innocent people in California. If you come back you ■yvill suffer the consequences.” Walter turned the threatening note over to the FBI arid went to California anyhow. * In Chicago, Walter got an even blunter warning. “If you do anything more,” said a nanonymous phone caller, “You’ll never get out of town alive.” THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 6, 1952 The Worry Clinic §HI By Dk. GEORGE W. CRAHF Men beware! Too many calories will kill your erotic desires and make you of the neuter sex by the age of 45. For the fires of passion are fed by surplus ener gy! If you carry extra poundage all day long, you aren’t likely to have any surplus pep that can l)f diverted into romantic chan nels. Case E-385: Otto H.. aged 46. is a successful business executive who weighs 242. “Dr. Crane. I am like your aunt, w hom you described last week,” he commented. “For my high blood pressure is mainly due to fat. It is now about 207. “A few years ago I dieted and brought my blood pressure down to 150 by taking off 65 pounds. “But apparently, I have no will power and enjoy good food too much. Even the fear of a stroke of apoplexy hasn’t been enough to snap me out of my gluttony. “But you mentioned (that ro mance and sexual vigor may also be depressed, or even eliminated by too much poundage. "Well, that’s my vulnerable point right now. For I have lost my mas culine vigor and ani willing to diet if you think it will restore my er otic power.” PEPLESS PAPA Sexual energy and romance are associated with youth, for that is the time when we have a surplus of vitality. We could retain much of that surplus energy into old age if we streamlined our figure and kept thin. Look at Otto, for example. He weighed 155 in college. Even if we allow a maximum of 15 pounds extra weigh;t his top pounds should not be over 170. even tod^y. Instead, he is constantly bur dened with a load of 87 pounds be yond what he carried as a man of 21. Is it any wonder, therefore, that he is exhausted? Even a vigorous young soldier would be almost dead from fatigue if he carried an 87- pound pack for only one hour? And a tired soldier is not very ardent! STAY ROMANTIC Sexual vigor is chiefly a core his own paper. Practically making it unanimous). “One singularly unpublicized in cident during the financially suc cessful Josephine Baker Day staved by the New York NAACP on May ; 20. 1951, was its picketing by the African Nationalist Movement. Why? Well, according to the pick ets’ signs and to James R. Lawson, the Movement’s leader, the lady had won her French war-time dec oration by turning over to the French authorities in Morocco a list of some 150-odd leaders of the Isti qual (independence) party. They were promptly nabbed, jugged and I believe some were guillotined, thus temporarily crippling this movement to which even the Sul tan belonged. “According to Lorenzo de Abe-. Courie’s Mexico City reporter, there was much of significance in the lady’s sojourn there; such as the adoption of a child of a ser vant of a member of the Soviet Em bassy staff (with all the poor U.S.A. black babies available for adoption!) and the employment of former ser vants of the same Muscovite gent lemen. “There was a mass meeting in a Red-frequented theatre which she reportedly financed and which was packed with Commies, and where her World Cultural Association Against Discrimmination was form ed. Suspiciously, branches immed iately sprang up all over Mexico and Central America in time for delegations to carry signs in May Day 1952 parades. Who could have established them so quickly? Before me is a large illustrated clipping from Impresna Popular, the Dadv Worker of Rio de Janeiro, dated Sept. 5, 1952, with big headline en thusiastically reporting the lady's ‘vehement denunciation’ of racism in the U.S.A. Know who organized it? 'Go to the head of the class. “In our Aug. 30, 1952 issue. Joan Conceicao. Courier’s Rio reporter, told of her Stork Club-like hassle . with Television Tupi over a mere light bulb which forced cancel'a tion of the show and the station's apologies to the public. She later told him. ‘lt was a misunderstand ing .. I would never be unkind to the Brazilian people and I only wish to reciprocate the many court esies and applause they have be stowed upon me.’ Why not the same generosity and appreciation for the American people's applause, praise and money? Like Charlie Chaplin and Maurice Chevalier (and to paraphrase a once popular ditty) ‘Josie won’t be back here any more!’ With a world organization oppos ed to racial discrimination, you would expect attacks on its existence everywhere, since cola* bias is widespread in the West Indies. South America, Europe, Asia Afri ca and Australia. But Josie de nounces only the U.S.A,. brand. She said nothing against it in Brazil where it is a national disgrace. Nor in Cuba where she was barred from the swank lily-white El Na tional Hotel. She has not mention ed the periodic head-whippings the Paris gendarmes give hapless North Africans sojourning there nor the late of surplus energy. But Otto doesn’t have any surplus for h" carries 87 pounds of useless fat all day long. That makes him so weary at night that he cannot think of ro mance. And even if he did. he has no surplus energy to serve as the fuel for the fires of passion. The latter cannot be manufac s tured out of thin air. Sexual vigor i is a by-product of a healthy body "that simply has an excess of en- • ergy beyond what is required for the normal duties of the office ol factory. R This excess can, then be con verted into kisses and movie dates, moonlit strolls in the park and even poetic phrases. If you are carrying too much weight, however, your main thought may be to get home to an easy chair where you can shed your shoes, prop your feet on a hassock and soon snore over the evening paper. Not a very rojnantic picture of masculinity, eh wives? No wonder r so many women are frigid! * Alas, girls, the reverse is also true, for a fat, (raddling wife con trasts unfavorably with the slen der, perfumed and adoring young thing whom her husband married. PREVENT IMPOTENCE In my extensive practioe, I have found two things that seem to curb a man’s sex vigor premature ly. They are tobacco and obesity. If the tw ! o are found in the same man, you can write him off as relatively through with romance C by the age of 40 to 45. Since tobacco seems to interfere with circulation to the extremities, as well as to the heart, its' in jurious effect may be due to a re duction in circulation to the go nads. ' Obesity not only helps reduce circulation, but also fatigues us greatly, so there is little surplus fuel for passion. Send for mv medice-psycholo gical bulletin “HOW TO PRE- y VENT IMPOTENCE,” enclosing a stamped return envelope, plus a dime. And if vou are overweight, start dieting NOW. persecutions throughout French Africa. For her, apparently, the South African shambles don’t exist! “Why does this one-w'oihan jere miad against the United States co incide with the current Soviet prop- ( aganda against U.S. ‘genocide’? ,* “Ah!! St. Louis woman with her * diamond rings!” Man Flipping Insects Off A La pel: At Art Ford’s Halloween party (honoring Mickey Spillane, the my stery-murder author) everybody came in some macabre costume such as a skeleton, a coffin, a grave digger. etc. The only one wlio came looking like a respectable author was Spillane Whatever became of Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm? » Borey Yellow, the disc-jockey, is * even scared of telephone calls. He’s had his private number swished. His doctors have advised him to go away for awhile “for his health.” (They mean his nose-bob). From the Hollywood Reporter: “Looks like W.W. is winning his battle with the N. Y. Pest”.. Beat it, Sister. You can't win me back with flat tery. Slain On Beach * A r s jj§T ■, Bjf ' Jy POLICE of Key West, Fla., are seeking a mystery woman in con nection with the flaying of Harry EL Klug, Monmouth, N. J„ a for mer sailor, whose body was found sprawled on the beach. Ha had been shot through the head. 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