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"-(Sec. II) Statesman, Salem, Ore,, Mon., Nov. 21, 5l. 1952 Spirit of Political Revolt 'Only FKckering in Southland' v , --"(Editors Na -.The ollUc-U discontent in the: Sontk before the last presidential election which later snowballed lata a .tfrive for Ike that carried four soothers states U aot evident today. Bat there I arc rumblings which again could cause a rap .tore among Democrats. Here's hew today's situation compares fwlth that .of fear: years ago, an -hrterpreaje by a. reporter wha 'We.it rmCi la 1351 and agaia this fear to find tut) ;.'.? By DON WHITEHEAD NASHVILLE UrV- The spirit of poetical revolt in the southland fasn't been snuffed out but it's Democrat or a Republican at that point. But rebellion was stirring. Some southern political . leaders were predicting darkly that Eisenhow er might be able to split the '"solid South," even if be should run for the presidency as a Republican. An "I Like Ike" boom already was developing. Drive Begins And then the uprising that start ed as a "Beat Truman" campaign became a drive for Eisenhower which carried Texas, Virginia, Florida and Tennessee into the Republican camp. Compared with 1951. the South today is calm and passions are not being flaunted openly. No southern close to matching Eisenhower's personal popularity with the peo ple. 'Kefaaver Failure' One of the most intriguing as pects of the southern situation is the past failure by Sen. Kefauver to win wide, support in the South ffor his presidential aspirations and what is happening today. ' In the 19S2 convention when Ke fauver piled up- 340 votes on the first ballotjnore than any, other candidate he failed to get a single vote from eight 'of the 11 southern states. These states were Arkan sas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississip- itMci;enng or.iy ieeDiv inese cays : In comparison with the fiery pas- leader with any real stature has sio-is which were mounting four emerged to call for rebellion with years a?o. - m inis ume in it si, reDeuious Dixie leaders were waving rebel banners and gathering legions of " followers for a "Beat Truman" drive. , Harry S. Truman, then presi ' den', hadn't even : said he would in the Democratic party. There is (at this tune) no tide running even comparable to the anti-Truman tide. There 'is (at this time) no "anti" feeling that has mounted to red-faced anger. Fairly. Normal In short, the South s political run again. Gen.Dwight D. Eisen-, blood oressure is fairly normal Bower sun was in nis western oe fenf e command post outside Paris glistening to pleas that he run for "the presidency. - No one was cer tain whether the general was a But this relative calm doesn't mean that a man, an issue or some unforeseen development can't come forth to cause a rup ture within the Democratic party, There still are rumblings of dis content against northern control of the party. . .against union la bor's close relationship with the party. . .against "left-wing" influ ences. . .against choosing a nomi nee who isn't a "moderate" and a platform that doesn't 'have the same tag But if southern political leaders have gauged the temper of the people correctly, this discontent Bygone Eras ; l?unny,Says Musical Star By WILLIAM GLOVER T" "'":' hasn't yet become a threat either A Ti ::jJ;r. ' as a revolt or as a third party movement. The weight of opinion seems to be that the southerners for the most part win try to achieve their aims within the Democratic party. . Interesting Treads At this time, the most interest ing and significant political devel opments below the Mason-Dixon line include: 1. The emergence of a strong effort to present the Democratic party as a "party of moderation" in which the "moderates" have the controlling voice. Texas Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson is the key man in this effort .. 2. What looks like a surge back toward "party loyalty" due pri marily to the likelihood that Ei senhower will not be the GOP presidential candidate due to his heart attack. 3. Efforts by supporters of Ten nessee's Sen. Estes Kefauver to gain broader southern support at the national convention by break ing through the barriers raised against him mainly by profession al politicians. 4. Efforts by backers of Tennes see s handsome. 35-year-old Gov. Frank G. Clement to make him the Democratic convention key noter and thus project him into the national spotlight and perhaps the vice presidency. Moderation Idea Placing the Democratic party in a frame of "moderation" is an idea that is southern in origin but it is by no means a sectional effort Those who are developing this ap proach to the campaign see it as star Carol Channing, "as the good eld days." ; i ?! Miss Channing, j a comedienne fenowned for remarkably huge eyes and a crackling soprano ' toice'that includes a bass falsetto, has just returned to town in a new musical "The Vamp." It is her third consecutive I deadpan spoof ' V the not too distant past " "There's rwthing so funny as an era that has gone by and that tt e're not a part of." she explains. Twenty years from now we'll be Just as funny. j Z The opus at the Winter Garden fissects the early days of movie making and especially the heavy lidded sirens of the silent screen. Previously Carol took apart the Boop-a-doop, bathtub gin era in ' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." and the great depression in "Wonder ful Town." fitting Respect ! She approaches her satires with fitting respect ; "You can't do it by exaggeration, tut' have to play those days straight and believe it with ; all your heart." 21 "The - Vamp" provides Carol's most strenuous part She sings seven numbers and variously leaps, romps, slinks and gyrates en stage .virtually the whole per formance. Despite such exertion she has put on five pounds so far. "The physical work never tjpthers me," she explains. "It's like a good tennis match relax ing" . " Some of the critics on opening night found the overall-production somewhat disappointing but they agreed ? unanimously that Carol herself was superb. She has, it appears, reached that upper strata i stardom where, like Shirley Eooth. the Lunts and a few others, the placer can do no wrong. Ko'abl Asset -Besides Miss Channing 'The pi. North Carolina. South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. On the second and third ballots, Arkansas gave him V votes but the other seven states didn't even pay him this small courtesy. Ke fauver' s southern support came from Tennessee's 28 votes; 8 of Alabama's 21 votes (this total dropped to 74n the final bal lots); and S of Florida's 24 votes. Supporters Hopeful Kefauver's -supporters are hope ful that their man again will have Tennessee's support; that he will win- Florida's preferential primary to capture all its votes; that Ala- 1 bama and border-state Kentucky will line up behind him; and other southerners will discover that Ke fauver is more acceptable to them than any other candidate. . But Kefauver's position in Ten nessee Is muddled because the young man sitting in the gover nor's chair has national ambitions of his own. And neither Kefauver nor Clement has shown any inclin ation to step aside or the other. Kefauver people argue that the governor can't afford to be in the position of denying support to fellow Tennessean at the national convention, and that in a final Cans of Food to Admit Kids to Movie '"tar "J" ' ' ' . . f 4 , .;y - i U . f : - idra :; .. i T" i mi Mi ii i a i it i i in - i t DAILY CROSSWORD mm 2 To collect canned food for Salem area Christmas baskets, Salem Active Clnb will sponsor a three hour movie -program for children, with admission price to be one can of food. Standing by the kind of canned food stack the club hopes to obtain are (left to right) Active President Jack mt--ij-. n...ii XT. VI. r CIm t..V 0 a nil Canilra RralOiannl 0 Th mavl. inrlndlnf a nu:&clM- nalwlu auK , Haul, mriwmo, - " -r - i r Western and six cartoons, will be staged at noon Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, in Holly- He's young and he can go on ; showdown, Kefauver will have Tennessee's delegation . behind him. Uncomfortable Position But on the other Side, a strong Clement supporter says: "If Ce ment sides with Kefauver, then he will have double-crossed his best friends." ,. That is the uncomfortable posi tion Cement finds himself in while his supporters, as discreetly as possible, are plugging for him to become the convention Keynoter. They believe Truman is looking with favor on Clement as the man to light the fires of enthusiasm at the convention and they are counting on Truman's support But even if Clement does have Truman's -support this can be a complication in- itself because Tru man is known to be bitterly i op posed to Kefauver. This opposition was born in isw-si, politicians say, when Kefauver was directing his spectacular crime lnresuga tion to the embarrassment of a good many Democratic leaders in the big cities ..: j ! To this day, many Democratic chiefs believe that Sen. Scott! Lu cas of Illinois, then senate majori ty . leader, was defeated by 1 the backlash from Keiauver s inquiry i into crime in Chicago even though Lucas wasn't remotely involved in the inquiry. Ambition 'Vice' J In a business where excessive ambition is regarded as a vice rather than a virtue, Clement's friends are trying to. avoid any appearance that they are pushing him too far too fast. But they don't conceal the hopes they are placing in his future. . 1 One of his enthusiastic admir ers said: i. "It Clement can become the keynoter, he'll set that place on fire. He's young He's handsome. He looks good on television. And there's not another orator in the country, including Alben Barkley, who can match him as a speaker. "If he speaks before that con vention, he may come out of it as the vice presidential nominee. The least he can do will be to put him self in line for some high adminis tration post if the Democrats win, ACROSS 1. Equipment I.Vlper .Forearm :.'"' i ' -, V" 10. 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Greek letter 40. Arabiut garment 42.Exclama -, tion (slangj jjjgjt 2. j. 5 b jy b W IL 1 22 t . 14 EIIIIlIIIll Group Demands End to Congress Seniority System WASHINGTON Iff Abolition of the congressional seniority system and effective curbs on Senate fili busters were among legislative re forms recommended Saturday in a report published by the National Planning Assn. The association defines itself an independent, non polidtal organi zation of leaders in business, agri culture, labor and the professions. Ten years ago it published a report by Robert Heller which was the basis of many reforms embodied TRADE TRIP STARTS ,R0ME Lf) " Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino is off on a 17-day tour of Japan and Thailand with hopes of drumming up trade be tween Italy and the Far East He will make another trip in late De cember to Ceylon, India and Pak istan.' . in the 1948 Congressional Reor ganization Act The current report, titled "Con gress and Parliament," was writ ten by George B. Galloway, Amer ican government specialist in the Library of Congress. It is a com parative analysis of the operation of Congress and the British Parliament HUKTTIHG FOR EXTRA POWER? I j 'if. ' ' 9fl3 Q '. i a tent large enough to accom modate all except the "extrem ists" among the liberals and con servatives. In his role as senate majority leader, Johnson has been the adroit middle man bringing Dem ocratic liberals and conservatives together in the senate in what was at times a remarkably united yamo" has another notable asset front Now this same effort in sub- -it is the first musical comedy to reach town this season and few are billed in the weeks ahead. Box oTace activity indicates that it is apt to be one of those shows on fchich audiences overrule split ifritics ... i - A few blocks away from "The stance is bein projected to the national field. ' The move to encourage modera tion has come at a time when a good many Democratic leaders both in the north and in the south , seem to be pulling back into a wait-and-see position of neutrali- TOmp," there's further evidence ty before making commitments on that Carol is right 'about memory a nominee., lane being great for laughs . . .Adlal 'Strongest' the New York City Ballet Company The consensus among southern has come up with a new item governors at their recent confer- Souvenirs'' which kids high life, in 1915 . . . and just by coinci Bence the -central figure is also a vamp , ence was that Adlai Stevenson, the party's 1952 nominee,, is now the strongest potential candidate. But there also is a feeling as recently voiced by Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia that Stevenson and 5 Fabulous Widow: A remarkable triumph of the show season in-1 Gov. Averell Harriman of New yolves a tiny . Viennese actress York both may be a bit "too far named Lotte Lenya, whose late to the left" to suit a good many husband Kurt Weill provided some ' southerners. The name 0 fOhio's cf Broadway's greatest music. I Gov. Frank Lausche is being men I'jShe is one of the main reasons , tioned with increasing frequency why the revival of Weill's "The 'by southerners. Threepenny Opera" at the Green- Politicans in Dixie agree gener- -ich Village theater Delys is play-: ally that without Eisenhower to ing to a packed house. Career Entwined Lotte's career is strangely en twined with "Threepenny." She Sang in its first Berlin production ta 1928, recurrently appeared in it thereafter and was present for its " sensational success last season here. She has made six recordings fa single song from it the two latest being a Dixieland version and.one carolled in duet with Louis JSatchmo" Armstrong. Oddly, this "pirate song" didn't originally belong to her role; and . the sang it first for a recording when another player didn't show - top. "-"I guess K must have been fated Sot me to sing it," Lotte says lead the Republican ticket iif 1956 the Republican chances of break ing into the south will be immeas urably more difficult. The main reason -for this, they say, is that no other Republican can come Truman May Accept Oxford U. Degree CHICAGO Former Presi dent Harry S. Truman said Satur day night he may accept a degree from Oxford University in England next spring but he will be on hand for the August-Democratic presi dential nominating convention. Truman told a reporter be has been offered a degree similar to x v r I for Jthe ''Big M" At the moment she has dashed conferred on Winston Chur tl to, Germany, to attend a re- Eval of another Weill show and make more records. At the end Elf next week she comes back to resume the part that has been hers lot 27 years. Z Broadway Roundup: The town's newest high-tension drama Is "A featful of Rain. which concerns Jhe problem of narcotics addition and which displays Shelley Win gers and Ben Gazzara in Jsome superlative acting ... a single first night is due this week, the arrival of Margaret Sullavan, Robert Preston and Claude Dauphin in a romantic comedy f Janus by Carolyn Green at the chill but has not finally, made up his mind whether to accept it Car-a-Year-For-Iife Won on Video Show , HOLLYWOOD (f)' A 43-year- old ML Vernon, Ohio, housewife Saturday night; won a television giveaway contest that will give her a new car every year for life. Mrs. Lloyd T. Conkling, mother of three children, was high scorer in a traffic safety quiz to win over two other contestants. 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