Peeler Gives To Henry Wallace His Unconditional Release With Many Regrets
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DAILY BIBLE QUOTATION
“One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all,
who is above all, and throughout all, and in us all. (Eph. 4, 6)
This month’s Daily Bible Quotations are suggested by Father
Peter M. Denges, Pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church in Roanoke
Rapids.
American Education Should Be Stressed
Fifty-Two Weeks Not One Special Week
This week has for one reason or another been
set aside for American Education Week, and in so do
ing it joins one of the other “weeks" the American
people are so prone to observe.
There is only one drawback with setting aside
one week of the year to emphasize education on a
national scale and that is that it leaves 51 weeks
in the year which are NOT devoted to education.
Every week in every year should, in our opinion,
be devoted to keeping American education in the
public eye because it is a matter of prime importance
to us all. There are often many statistics quoted on
the most important inmgs prouuceu m aiucu^, How
ever youth is frequently not included in the list.
Actually there are no more important citizens
in any community than the children. These children
deserve nothing less than the best their parents and
their community can offer them, therefore it seems
a shame to devote only one week of the year to try
ing to rouse the interest of the general public in edu
cation.
Our own community is, perhaps, fortunate in
having a school system which in many ways is su
perior to that of our neighbors. Yet it is not diffi
cult for even the untrained eye to see there is much
still needed to give our children the very best in edu
cational standards.
When we realize that most of the daylight hours
of children between the ages of six and sixteen is
spent in the school, it becomes increasingly evident
that the schools should be emphasized at all times.
Along with the home and the church, the schools of
our nation are the biggest influences on the nation’s
future because it is in the schools that young minds
are being trained to grasp the fundamentals of liv
ing useful lives together in a society which is con
stantly changing. Unless the children of today are
taught the importance of living together in peace, we
cannot hope for the future to bring anything better
than international misunderstanding.
The schools for years have been increasing their
influence on our nation by training young minds. It
is important that those young minds be given the
benefit of the best teaching, the best facilities and the
best training possible.
That cannot happen unless all of us make it our
own job of furthering the cause of education in every
way possible—not only during this American Educa
tion Week but all the time.
Observers Say Communists’ Present
Purpose Is To Bankrupt The U. S. A.
The purpose of present Communist strategy, in
relation to the United States, according to some ob
servers, is an effort to lure the United States into
excessive expenditures in the hope that eventual
Bankruptcy will stop our interest in foreign affairs.
These is no doubt but that the United States is
spending immense sums of money. The national de
fense establishment is expected to require from fif-.
teen to seventeen billion dollars next year. In addi
tion, the Economic Cooperation Administration will
need from three to five billion and there is also talk
of a peace-time Lend-Lease program to cost between
one and three billion dollars.
Certainly, if the United States attempts to fi
nance the world in a campaign against Communism,
it will have to spend immense sums of money. This
means that there is little chance of tax reduction in
this country. Something of a counter-offensive
against the policy of the nation will develop, not from
the Communists in this country but from the capital
ists who will not relish the payment of the taxes nec
essary to support the program.
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AFTER-ELECTION THOUGHT
Tucker Classes Truman's Election As A Body Blow
To Joe Stalin And Upholding Of U. S. Foreign Policy
eye uu me nuivni-v. — r
returns. Thev note, too, that
he is not the first Chief Execu
tive to realize that many mil
lions of voting Americans have
economic and blood ties, mystic
but compelling, with their kin
and friends across the seas.
Now that he owes possession
of the White House to nobody
but himself. Mr. Truman is ex
pected to take even greater com
mand of the handling of for
eign affairs.
In doing so, he will probably
get rid of Secretary Marshall
and Under Secretary of State
Lovett. Although an excellent
soldier, Mr. Marshall is no great
shakes as a diplomat. Both he
and Mr. Lovett embarrased the
President at critical moments
during the campaign.
CONTROLLED It is also doubt
ful whether the so-called bi
partisan foreign policy will sur
vive the Republican debacle. It
was built and represented as a
bipartisan affair only because
Republic ans controlled the
House and the Senate, with
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
of Michigan and Representative
Charles A. Eaton of New Jersey
heading the Senate and House
committees which deal with
these issues.
Now, those committees are
chairmaned by such loyal, un
questioning Democrats as Tom
Connally of Texas and Sol
Bloom of New York. •
INSTINCTS Despite his po
litical handling of foreign mat
ters during the last few months,
Mr. Truman’s instincts and im
pulses are good, honest and
democratic. When he ousts a few
“brass hats’* and hidebound dip
lomats in the State Department
and abroad, he will probably
pursue these general policies:
ft) Strang support iaaiga sag
outside the United Nations for a
larger Palestine than the Berna
dotte plan, which won Secre
tary Marshall’s immediate ap
proval, provides.
(2) Possible revival of the ab
ortive idea of sending a personal
emissary such as Chief Justice
Vinson for a last-minute show
down with Stalin.
Should this attempt fail to
wheedle or force Russia' into a
change of heart, as it probably
MORE MORE MORI z
would. Mr. Truman would have
greater justification lot asking
huge appropriations for rearm
ament and a military lend-lease
measure to aid anti-Communist
nations abroad.
(3) Greater assistance, both fi
nancial and military, to China.
Fail to recognize that Mos
cow’s penetration of this vast
and heavily populated land may
be more dangerous than tha
Kremlin's poke into Central
Europe, and the Balkans, as
blamed on Mr. Marshall’s per
sonal dislike of Chiang Kai-shtk.
(4) The use of American might
and prestige in regional difficul
ties which the United Nations
seems unable to compose be
cause of Russia’s power of veto.
In such instances, howevei,
President Truman will make
clear that he is supporting maj
ority UN opinion rather than
bypassing the international or
ganization.
JUDGMENT Despite t h a
Democratic landslide which
washed out so many Republican
members and brought back to
Washington many Democrats
who were drowned by tha
GOP’s 1946 “wave of the fu
ture” in Congressional contests,
the voters showed extraordinary
and encouraging judgment in
voting for member* of tha
House. They picked, chose and
voted with uncommon common
sense.
Here are a few outstanding
members who wore reelected
without regard for the presiden
tial voting, meaning that there
were many thousands of split
ballots:
Christian A. Herter and
George Bates of Massachusetts,
both Republicans. Gordon Can
field, although his election ia
still in doubt, and Harry L.
Towe of New Jersey, both Re
public**. Andrew Somers of
New York, a Democrat. Dan
Flood, Sam McConnell and John
C. Kunkel of Pennsylvania, Mr.
Flood being the only Democrat
Jim Patterson, Republican, of
Connecticut, a distinct comer on
Capitol Hill. Also Representative
John D . Lodge of the Nutmeg
Ctate.
SMARTER Others deserving
and receiving reelection were:
John M. Vorys Of Ohio, a
GOP brilliant. Albert J. Engel
and Roy 0. Woodruff of Michi
gan. Dick Welch and Jack An
derson of California. Mike Mon
roney of Oklahoma. And, of
course, despite their philosophi
cal enmity, Speaker Joe Martin
of Massachusetts and future
Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas.
This does* not complete the
list of worthy members who
were reelected. But it is suffi
cient to suggest that the Ameri
can people are far smarter than
Stalin thinks.
They vote with their heads,
not with their hips I
MARLOW
Government Aid To Education Is Big
Problem New Congress Will Tackle
By James Marlow
Washington, Nov. 10—(AP)—
Government aid to education is
one of the pro Diems the new
Congress has to tackle In 1040.
Such aid would mean giving
federal money to the states to
help them educate grammar and
high schodl children.
The new Congress may ap -
prove, although the idea has
been batting around a long time
without getting anywhere.
This year, with the Repub
licans in control, it passed the
Senate, backed by Senator Taft
of Ohio. But the house Repub
licans let it die.
President Truman has plugged
hard for it. You can expect
him to plug harder next year
with his Democrat running
Congress.
For 30 years bills to give such
help have been offered in Con
gress in growing numbers.
Why?
On the grounds that some
states are so much poorer than
others that they can’t afford
money for a fair education for
their children
One of the main points in the
argument against giving such
help is this: sooner or later it
would give the federal govern
ment power to dictate the na«
dan’s educational system.
inert • anotner question:
Besides helping the public
grammar and high schools,
should any of the federal money
go to private or religious schools
in the states?
There'* been strong support
for doing that, and strong op
position to it. All the argu
ments, and there are many have
gone on a long time.
The Taft bill, passed by the
Senate, tried to reach a com
promise on some of them. It
may be the model for what Con
gress does in lMt.
For example: the Taft bill
doesn’t bar private or religious
schools outright from receiving
any of the federal money. But—
They couldn’t receive a cent
unless, under the law of an in
dividual state receiving the mon
ey, such schools were receiving
state help already.
As for government control, un
der the Taft bill the govern
ment could not tell the states
what to teach In their schools.
The government would merely
act as a kind of bookkeeper to
see that the money was distri
buted by a financial formutsr.
Under the bill the states would
receive $100,000,000, at least at
the start, to help them give their
children a bettor education.
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ncriue oaja — — 9 ■
Roerich Cut Wallaces Popular \ote
By Westbrook Pegler
(Copyright, 1948, By King Fea
ture* Syndicate. Inc.)
I am sorry to let him go, for
he was very useful to me for
more than a year, but I am
giving Henry Wallace his un
conditional release and I doubt
that you will hear much more
about him. The authorship of
the babbling letters to Nick Roe
rich has been established and
I hope I may say without im
modesty that the revelation of
bi. oienead’s tangled conduct cut
down his popular vote from a
potential of six million, the fig
ure which Jim Farley mention
ed last spring, to about a mil
lion votes. Some tea-leaf read
ers then thought Henry would
get eight million votes, but all
this was goose-bone prophecy.
Speculation and prediction will
continue, however, and the el
ection will find experts and
pollsters at it again as though
nothing had ever happened.
Does a baseball seer retire, be
cause the team he picks in A
pril winds* up last?
I would point out, too, that
not only we professionals of
punditry and the more modest
lines of journalism, the strident
oracles of radio and the book
makers, were wrong. Barney
Baruch, the, in a generous man
ner of speaking elder statesman
must have felt sure that Gov
ernor Dewey was practically in
or he never would have slam
med the White House door for
•vpr in his own far** hv mllinff
President Truman a “rude, un
couth, ignorant man.” True, he
thought the better of it after
sleep, but his scared statemen
that he had not authorized quo
tation of his remarks was nei
ther truthful nor extenuating.
Dan Tobin, the doddering king
of the teamsters, and his regent,
Dave Beck of Seattle, were e
qually at loss- and missed the
bandwagon. John L. Lewis had
been at war with Truman for
years so this was only another
proof that his authority ends
when the miner votes.
This bring us to the fact that
the miscalled labor vote still
flouts the orders of the union
bosses and the alarms of candi
dates. There is a theory afloat
that a “labor vote” elected Mr.
Truman in response to his un
blushing recitation of all the for
mulated union claptrap about
the Taft-Hartley Act. But “la
bor,” in that evil sense of an
honest word, is concentrated in
centers of population which Gov
ernor Dewey carried with eclat
or lost too narrowly as to dis
prove the idea that "labor” lick
ed him. This fact 'only mud
dles the confusion again. It is
futile to accept explanations
which are false on sight.
I find two homely parralels
in this situation of old events
on the sport side. . When Tunney
fought Dempsey the first time
most of those who made a pro
fessional practice of picking win
ners for a few cents a copy,
the standard price of papers be
fore Truman inflation, were con
vnced that bluejaw couldn’t
lose. The few who picked Tun
jnev, like those who professed
to be confident of Mr. Truman’s
victory were personal friends
or dependents of one degree or
another. Thier wisdom, there
fore, was divided by their loyal
ty and self interest.
And in the same vein, we haya
in Mr. Truman a buck Cinderel- .
la, a fellow who, as it were, (
had to tape his own hands,carry
his own bucket and swing his
own towel. Like Jimmy Brad
dock, a fighter o. very similar
characteristics, improbable re
jected, and forlorn Mr. Truman
won by himself. And he won »
despite the men who owed him
help but denied him oft ere
cock-crew. He seems a bitter fel
low for his closing remarks were
fierce warnings of revenge to be
taken if he won as now he has.
If that be so surely he owes
more hurtful and degrading pun
ishment to William O’Dwyer, of
New York, to Jimmy Roosevelt
and Eleanor to Frank Hague, ,
to Jim Curley, of Boston, to
Jake Arvey of Chicago, Sena
tor Pepper of Florida, Henry
Wallace, Tobin and Beck of the
teamsters, Johnson of the rail
road engineers and Harold Ickea
than to men who never took hla
food or fee but met him frankly
as political enimies.
All these and Brauch, as pro
fessed democrats in debt to the
White House, turned Truman a)
downed at Philadelphia. It was
for a fact, a core humiliation
that a man of pride and mascu
line ethics could not forget. Na
turally, Republicans- and dissen
ting essjjyirkis would fight him,
but Jhese were his own people
antTthey didn’t fight but sneered
If he is a conventional American
he must still respect the state’s
rights democrats who fought
him on issues as declared op- M
ponents. He never has believed
in so-called social program him
self.
O'Dwyer, Hague and Curley,
not only quit him: They insulted
him. Jimmy Roosevelt, a party
norooita urVtrt fattonoH at
trough and gave nothing, public
ly belittled him in Los Angeles.
Eleanor and Leon Henderson, a
marvel of levitation who stayed
up for several years without vis- ^
ible means of support, organized
a thing called the Americans for
democratic action which yelled
for Eisenhower or Douglas. The
old girl came through with a
letter at the last minute after
Truman had barnstormed the
country on his own, but it had
the sound of a plea for her $12,00
job in the United nations, her
last means of public attention.
She had to write it. Truman ^
might tolerate her, but Dewey
certainly wouldn't. So what
had she to lose?
They haven’t the finest char
acter, these professional bleed
ing hearts. After all his scur
rilous abuse of Robert R. Mc
Cormck, John boettiger, Anna’s
husband, poor weight, called on
McCormick last winter and
came away with dust on his
knees. He wanted a job with the ^
iron tory, who was remarkably
decent, all things considered,
but sent him away. After all
his abuse of Truman, Ickes came
in toward the end for obvious
motives. Turned columnist af
ter he quit the cabinet lest he
be fired by Truman, he soon
lost his Washington client, the
star, by a brutal attack on the
facts of a known situation.
This cost the old miser money *
a tragic, turn, and his vanity *
W’rithed, for now he had no soap
box in his own town. It is
strange that Truman received
him, for he swings no vote but
his own.
NISBET
Two Raleigh Business Men Meeting
Failure To Predict Election Squarely
Rr f .vnn Niehet rliontc onrl ic
Alibi—While most of the big
time pollsters and politicians are
trying to alibi out of the mess
the election put them in, at least
two Raleigh business men are
meeting the issue squarely. J.
Elvey Thomas hands who come
into his floral shop a printed
statement addressed to the
press, radio and his friends, and
saying: “I made one helluva
miscalculation.” Sim Wells, a
real estate man, carries around
a typewritten card and before
his friends can start kidding him
he shows it. The card reads:
■‘You are looking at a damn
fool.’* Both men say this pro
cedure doesn’t make crow taste
good, but it does make eating
possible. They are having a
good time.
Counsel—Rumors current for
9everal weeks that Governor
Kerr Scott would name J. El
mer Long as his legislative coun
cel have been confirmed. The
60-year-old Durham attorney is
no stranger around legislative
halls. He served in the house
of representatives in 1911 and
t913, and was lieutenant gover
nor with McLean from 1925 to
1929. Between times he had
functioned as private secretary
to the late Congressman Sted
man of the fifth district. Al
though his official connection
with the general assembly end
ed when no stepped down as
president of the senate in 1929,
he has appeared before legisla
tive committees in practically
every session since in behalf of
“knowing his way around.” As
matter of fact, Long is already
doing reliminary work on the
Scott legislative program as it
will be resented in his inaugur
al address and his first message
to the general assembly. The --
big job of the legislative coun- •
sel is to get support of the exec
utive program as the session
moves along. The post was held
by H. P. Taylor in 1945 and by
Brandon P. Hodges in 1947. Tay
lor was elected lieutenant gov
ernor and Hodges was elected
state treasurer last week.
Accreditation—One of the rea
sons offered in support of re
quests for tremendously increas- M
ed appropriation for state edu- ^
Rational institutions is desire
for accreditation by the proper
authorities. It is perhaps pos
sible for a good student to learn
as much in a non-credited insti
tution, but the diploma doesn't
rate as high. Standards set by
college associations and by pro
fessions require minimum labor
atory, library and facultyrating
for accreditation. In many cases u
the North Carolina schools *
fall below these minimum re
quirements, and in others they
are barely met.
Short—Two instances serve to
illustrate the point for all. The
school of journalism at Chapel
Hill and tl school of design
(architecture nad landscaping) at
State College are seeking ac
creditation. To gain such recog
nition, they mast have more a
money for equipment, working 1
•pace, libraries and faculty sal
aries.
By Ray Tucker
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10
President Truman's election in
his own right is a body blow to
Stalin, despite the Missourian’s
sneaking liking for "Uncle Joe”
and despite campaign charges
that the Administration had
harbored Communists who crept
into key offices during the
Russo-American wartime al
liance.
The Soviet propaganda agents
here and abroad were prepared
to interpret a Dewey victory, al
beit wrongly, as a repudiation of
the Truman-Marshall doctrine
and program.
Although political enemies
have accused the White House
of wavering in the conduct of
foreign affairs, especially with
respect to Russia, China and
Palestine, the Kremlin cannot
and does not forget that, break
ing from the Roosevelt policy,
Mr. Truman and Secretary Mar
shall authored and implemented
the program for rehabilitating
anti-Communist countries in the
Mediterranean and Western
European areas, for rearming
the United States and for en
circling Russia' with a ring of
armed foes from Scandinavia to
Korea.
FOREIGN Even Trumanites
admit that the President hand
led foreign problems with his