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DEWEY DlXlE?—Authentic re
ports which reached Raleigh last
week on the Dixiecrat doings in
dicate that at least one big holding
company in New York is being
supplied with detailed information
on the political insurrection in the
Deep South. There is some opin
ion here—freely voiced last week
—that Thomas E. Dewey knows of
each move being made and some
times even before.
There was no evidence of any
shortage of cash at the Birming.
ham meeting. On the contrary, the
entire shindig seemed pretty well
Reeled, according to one North
Carolina observer. Where did the
money come from, and why?
Consensus in Raleigh is that the
Dixiecrats will not create a ripple
in North Carolina . . . insufficient
time, insufficient interest.
NEW LOOK WANTED They
are not shouting it from the roof
tops, but four North Carolina Con
gressmen fear that the coves and
ridges of Western North Carolina
may suffer an invasion of the Re
publicans while they are in Wash
ington doing their master’s bidding
during the next four weeks. Con
gressmen Bulwinkle, Jones, Red
don and Doughton yes, even
Doughton anticipate hard fights
this fall, but were forced to leave
their folks and return to Congress
to help elect a Democratic Presi
dent.
Most in demand for the battle
are J. M. Broughton and W. Kerr
Scott, both of whom are keeping
in trim for this final bout. While
old Democratic war horses like
Cam Morrison, J. C. B. Ehring
haus, and Clyde R. Hoey may be
used, the political leaders of the
mountains are pleading c or Scott
and Broughton. They fjel that,
somehow, the people seem to want
that new look in the Democratic
party in this State, and believe
that Scott and Broughton can best
supply it.
The principal worry of th? Dem
ocrats is not the election of State
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too, there is Truman. They must
not forget him.
NOTES—If you want to see any
Big Four football games this fall,
you’d btter get a move on . . .
Some of the early-season events
;n the high schools may be cancel
led because of the polio epidemic
. . . Incidentally, Dr. Hart E. Van
Riper, medical director for the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, reports that deaths from
oolio average only one per hun
dred cases . . . the number of
children permanently crippled is
less than two per hundred cases.
SCOTT—W. Kerr Scott said in
Raleigh last Saturday that he
thinks he will win in November,
has no ambitions beyond being
Governor for four years, will not
sell his farm or discontinue its
operation in Alamance County,
still has “at least’’ 500 letters yet
to write supporters in his cam
paign . . . has hardly had time
to look at his farm since June 26
. . . his telephone rings at all
hours of the day and night . . .
He weighs 208 pounds and is again
going light on the calories . . .
didn’t read a single one of his
newspaper advertisements during
the campaign, and no stories for
him or against him . . heard only
one broadcast concerning himself
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. . . that on the night before the
second Primary . . .
WEEDS —Last year on the south
lawn of Josephus Daniels’ Wake
stone grounds there was a beauti
ful garden . . . also the year be
fore . . . and al during the war
.. . . It’s in weeds this summer . ..
His office at the News and Observ
er is still vacant. . . Editorials are
being written by Jonathan Daniels
and Robert E. (Fleet) Williams
. . . very good ones, too . . .
ON THE CUFF—To see Charlie
Johnson ambling down Fayette
ville Street here you would never
.guess he was the loser in that re
pent incident ... He is said to be
very well fixed financially . . . and
will in all probability be in better
shape in this wise four years from
now than if he had won ... By
refusing J. M. Broughton’s offer
to become his assistant, Mayne Al
bright followed some advice given
him some time ago by W. Kerr
Scott: people like a man who
makes a living other than by sal
ary . . . For some time Albright
had considered hanging out his
shingle, believes now is the time
to make the break . . . He will
also enhance his political future
. . . In his camapign he made
many good “connections,” as they
Call them . . . though most of
them were not of the lucrative
client variety . . . Very liberal,
intellectually and morally honest,
a pretty good speaker and possess
ed of a good mind, he should go
far in the practice of law if his
idealistic outlook permits him to
stomach the various types of cases
and clients which attorneys must
contend with now and then . . .
particularly in their early years.
BIRTH OF A NATION—When
David Wark Griffith died last Fri
day, the notice of his passing made
front pages throughout the coun
try. He was the man who made
“Birth of a Nation,” the writers
said. But North Carolina people
—those who care a darn about
anything of this kind —know it was
the other way around. “Birth of
a Nation” made Griffith. Who
really made “Birth of a Nation”?
Thomas Dixon, from his books,
“The Clansmen,” and “Leopard
Spots.” Dixon was not even men
tioned in the account of Griffith’s
death, but his widow who lives
here in Raleigh had her eyes open-
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1 ed when she read that the film has
grossed more than $10,000,000 and
is still being shown.
Being the second Mrs. Dixon—
he married her, his secretary, only
a few years before his death—she
was the wife of a semi-invalid
for seven years However, she
knows about “Birth of a Nation”
and how the man really responsi
ble for it got so little out of it.
Thomas Dixon’s biography, though
roughly written, lies in a trunk in
her home here on Hillsboro Street
gathering dust. Will North Caro
lina permit this literary giant to
1 e there, all but forgotten, while
it lionizes every brassy hack writ
er, every glib spieler who enters
here?
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