Southern Oregon Miner. Thursday, July 4, 1946
BAUKAGE DISCUSSES OLD 1944 ‘FIGHT’ ¡JStag
Reads Right Meaning Into
Barkley's Break With FDR
While They Wait
By W ALTER A. SH EA D
W N I' ('•r r « » p » n 4 * n l
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This dispatch
u a i filed from the atomic bomb testing
area only shortly before the fin i lest
bomb urn scheduled Io be dropped.)
By BA VK H A G E
Veit» ,4no/y»f and Commentator.
W N l Service. l« t$ E ye Street, N .W ..
W ashington. O. C.
Continually I encounter evidence
of the importance of semantics, as
I have mentioned FT
before in this col
umn—the impor
tance of words,
of their mean
ings, and of the
necessity that the
meaning in which
the speaker or
writer uses them
is the same at
tached to them
by the listener or
reader.
A few days ago
Baukhage
I r e c e iv e d
a letter from a listener lamenting
what she called “one of our greatest
troubles today”—lack of faith in our
leaders.
She then described her "conster
nation” when she heard Senator
Barkley’s “gushing and flowery
talk” nominating Franklin Roose
velt for President in 1944. after
hearing the senator's famous “re
volt” speech sharply criticizing the
President’s veto message in the tax
bill the previous February.
To Washington, there was nothing
inconsistent in those two perform
ances at all. What happened was
this: two persons who had worked
together in a common cause fell out
Amends were made, and still loyal
to that cause, the man who had been
affronted registered his complaint
and then, feeling that the virtue of
his position had been recognized,
took up his labors in the common
cause again.
Perhaps that explanation would
satisfy my disillusioned listener, had
it not been for the fact that she not
only misinterpreted the significance
of Senator Barkley's speech, but
actually put into his mouth words
that he didn't use.
She said that Barkley had said
that the President was dishonest,
and that he (Mr. Roosevelt) knew
he was dishonest.
Now, by interesting coincidence,
something had recalled that speech
of Mr. Barkley’s to my attention only
a day or so before I received the let
ter.
A loyal toiler in the Democratic
party had remarked to me that the
senator from Kentucky, having
served as majority leader longer
than any man who has held that job
in the senate, had increased tre
mendously in stature in the eyes of
supporters and opponents. And, my
friend explained, it was his “re
volt” of February 23, 1944, which
marked the moment when Barkley
began to wax in the favor of op
ponent and supporter alike!
As a result of the coincidence—
the letter and the remarks of my
friend—I reread the revolt speech.
Nowhere in it did Senator Bark
ley accuse the President of being
dishonest. But it is easy to see
how a listener might have missed
the shades of meaning in the speak
er’s words. However, those words,
correctly interpreted, I feel cer
tain. reflected precisely the feeling
of the senator. Had he wished to
go further, he could easily have
done so.
• • •
R eaent P e r io n a l
S la p a t C o n g r e u
There were two especially sharp
passages in Barkley's talk. The
President had charged in his mes
sage (vetoing the tax bill) that “it
is squarely the fault of the congress
of the United States in using lan
guage in drafting the law which not
even a dictionary or a thesaurus
can make clear.”
There was a biting, personal fla
vor in that sentence which congress
as a whole, and Barkley individually
and as majority leader, could not
help resenting.
Barkley said: “If it (the above
statement) was made by anybody
who ever sat in a tax committee
meeting, it was a deliberate and
unjustified mis-statement in order to
place upon congress the blame for
universal dissatisfaction with tax
complexities and in order to pro
duce the illusion that the executive
departments have in vain protested
against this complexity.”
Here one can see that Barkley is
defending the integrity of the con
gress. He did not spare his anger
at the affront. But, since he knew
FDR had never sat in a tax com
mittee meeting, he wasn’t placing
the onus entirely on the President.
There was one other sharp riposte
in which Barkley came still nearer
to making, but did not actually
make, the “dishonesty” charge.
He said the President used a
method of calculation “which obvi
ously was handed to him by a mind
more clever than honest.”
It was natural to assume that
some White House advisor had pro
duced the data, and in all likelihood,
that some literary aide had written
the veto message. Indeed, one of
the columnists omnisciently an
nounced at the time that it was
the work of Judge Rosenman.
As a matter of fact, I can state
with absolute certainty that that
was one of the few speeches which
President Roosevelt, who was good
and mad because congress had re
fused to give him the tax bill he
wanted, wrote himself, inditing
the entire philippic with his own
hand.
Whether Senator Barkley would
have replied with greater or less
vigor had he known the actual au
thorship, I do not know. The fact
remains, however, that he said what
he meant and meant what he said.
Nowhere did he call the President
dishonest
He did establish his
own independence, and that of con
gress, and probably did the Presi
dent a favor by warning him against
allowing his emotions to get the bet
ter of him.
In Barkley’s delivery of the
speech, and his nomination of Pres
ident Roosevelt less than six months
later, there was nothing inconsist
ent. Certainly nothing which, when
understood, should shake the pub
lic's faith in the public man.
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W idgeon.
NEWS REVIEW
When Japs Strike They
Take Over Plant Profits
JA P A N :
L ab orers Strike
At least one President was forced
to change his automobile habits.
President Hoover had a fishing
lodge at Rapidan in Virginia, some
85 miles from the Capital. Hoover
believed that time was money. He
was always a hard worker, and
when he’d finished fishing, he want
ed to get away from there and back
to his desk. It was a job for the
Secret Service men and newsmen
to keep up and keep on the road.
Those mad chases were the sub
ject of considerable conversation by
the correspondents and also their
wives. It was not considered a
choice assignment. Finally there
was a bad accident that sent one
reporter to the hospital.
After that, the presidential car
proceeded at a more normal pace.
• • •
The Alexander Hamilton institute
says savings during 1946 will be
considerably lower than last year’s.
Fine, if it reduces inflation pres
sures; but if it goes too far and the
consumer doesn’t consume, the pro
ducer can’t produce, and we are
back to 1929 once more.
and they declined to $4 a dozen.
A large food company noted a
type of buyers’ strike in the fresh
fruit and vegetable market. The
price of such items as plums, pota
toes, cherries, cantaloupes, lettuce
and other fresh produce appear to
have gotten “too steep,” a com
pany official stated, with the result
that sales of these items fell off
sharply.
Japan's* new democracy is bring
ing strikes to many manufacturing
plants. But even in labor trouble
the Japanese give an Oriental twist
to their methods.
In 26 of the larger industrial
plants in Japan the laborers have
struck. But instead of quitting their
jobs and forming a picket line, the
workers have merely tossed out PO ULTRY :
all management personnel taken
over the entire operation and will Cull H alf Goal
Poultry producers culled their
pocket whatever profits are made!
flocks of about 28.000.000 birds in
May and accomplished half of the
H O U SES:
culling urged by the department of
To Be P refa b rica ted
Préfabrication today, according agriculture as a national goal dur
to Walter Harnischfeger, Wisconsin ing May and June.
The 55.000,000 culling program,
manufacturer, “is one of the new
basic industries in the country." urged early in May, is an attempt
Word comes from Washington and to rid the nation's flocks of low pro
other lumber - producing states, too, ducing birds and reduce poultry
that plants to build prefabricated production in line with reduced feed
houses are increasing steadily. Sev stocks, officials said. Last year, pro
eral plants are reported operating ducers reduced their flocks by 40,-
in the New England states. Har- 000.000 birds in May and June.
nischfeger estimates that from 8 to
10 per cent of ordinary building 1946 MEAT:
costs can be saved by préfabrica P eop le E at More
tion.
At least 3.000,000 more pounds of
It is estimated that a builder can meat and meat products would be
erect two or three prefabricated consumed, if available, by the
houses in the time required to build American public this year, accord
a conventional house. With a crew ing to R. C. Pollock, general man
of four men, the builder can get a ager of the national live stock and
new house under roof in less than meat board.
two days, according to Harnisch
Official estimates point to a per
feger.
capita meat supply of 145 to 150
pounds in 1946. While this is larger
BU YERS:
than prewar consumption, the pub
Go on Strike
lic would buy from 165 to 170 pounds
When prices get too high, the pub per capita, according to Pollock. He
lic won't buy. For instance, when attributed the demand to greater
controls were removed from straw buying power, increasing interest in
berry preserves they jumped to $6 better nutrition, and a growing ap
a dozen jars wholesale, but the shop preciation of meat in an adequate
pers wouldn’t buy them at that price diet.
There is doubt that the demand
for sewing machines can be met be
fore 1947, in the opinion of Sir Doug-
i las Alexander, president of the
j Singer company. His company will
not reach production before the end
of 1946, he declares.
The Singer factory at Bonnifres,
France, was seriously damaged
during the war and will not be able
J to supply the French market for
some time. The company’s German
factory has been taken over by the
Russians, and the Italian plant is
having labor trouble. Only the Sing
er plants in England, Canada and
the United States will get into full
production this year.
PO TATO ES:
C alifornia Crop
P O LITIC S . . . M rs. Olive Rem
ington Goldman, Chicago, is a
candidate for the house of repre
sentatives. A speech instructor
at the University of Illinois, she Is
the mother of four children.
Department of agriculture official
forecasts indicate that California
potato growers will produce a super
bumper early crop of more than 30,-
000,000 bushels and achieve the big
gest acre yield on record.
California was expected by the
department to turn out nearly three
times as many potatoes as New Jer
sey, second ranking early producer.
California’s average yield is expect
ed to be 370 bushels per acre. The
nearest rival to that mark was ex
pected to be Nebraska with 210
bushels per acre.
PA Y MORTGAGES
Farm Debts Lowest Since 1915
WASHINGTON.—American farm-
ers are getting out of debt at the
most amazing rate in the history of
this nation. The department of
agriculture has reported that the
United States’ farm mortgage debt
dropped this year to the lowest level
since 1915.
The total debt was estimated to
have been approximately $5,081,-
000,000 on January 1 or less than
half the record high of $10,786,000,-
000 set back in 1923.
A department statement said the
debt had decreased $1,500,000,000 or
23 per cent since 1940. This reduc
tion is in sharp contrast, it pointed
out, with developments during and
----------------------------- -------------------
j after World War , when farm
! mortgage indebtedness increased 43
, per cent from 1915 t„ 1919
The department said, however,
that developments during 1945 sug
gest strongly that the long cycle of
decreasing mortgage Indebtedness
which has been under way since 1923
is now approaching its end.”
"During 1945,” the department
said, “the net reduction In debt was
about $190,000,000, or less than one-
half of the average annual reduc
tion that occurred in the two pre
ceding years. In addition to the
slower rate of decline in the U. S.
total, there were 20 states in which
indebtedness showed an increase
for the year as compared with eight
states showing an increase in the
preceding year.”
No prediction of prospects of fur
ther reducing the debt was given.
Many farmeis may find it necessary
to purchase additional farm ma
chinery and other equipment In 1948
or 1947. While much of this might
be paid for with savings, some addi
tional debt might be expected. Like
wise, numerous returned veterans
will go Into debt for farms of their
own.
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A tour of this ship and a visit to
the staterooms where the newspa
per men are housed conjectures on
the outcome of this bomb test meas
ured only by the number of news
paper men aboard. This Is almost
true of the scientific writers them
selves. for most all have different
viewpoints on the possible develop
ments.
These conjectures run the gamut
of total destruction by tidal wave nr
earthquake of the entire task force
in the vicinity of the bomb down to
the theory that the bomb might even
prove a dud forecasts of the destruc
tion of the atomic bombs dropped
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made
by the scientists connected with
Uncle Sam's military establish
ments were fairly accurate and this
reporter is willing to discard the
more fantastic conjectures and
string along with some of these
more conservative forecasts.
Earthquake or Tidal Wave?
In the first place Bikini lagoon,
where the bomb will be dropped, is
roughly 25 miles long and 10 miles
wide and the water averages 100
feet in depth and one scientist lik
ened the dropping of the bomb into
such an expanse of water and air to
spark from a welder’s torch
dropped Into a 30-acre lake. Scien
tists admit that the bomb may
cause a slight earthquake and tidal
wave but that in comparison with
nature's earthquakes it will have no
destructive violence and will only be
recorded upon seismographlc In-
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SEW ING M ACHINES:
M aybe N ext Y ear
Brakes Save Mr. Truman
Very little publicity was given to
something that almost happened the
day Secretary of State Byrnes de
parted for the foreign ministers con
ference in Paris. Something which
might have given us a new Presi
dent.
« Mr. Truman, in order to empha
size the importance of the mission,
rode with Mr. Byrnes to the airport
to see the delegation off. There was
¥0 motorcycle escort, and while the
car was moving along Constitution
avenue at a fair speed, there came
very near to being re - enacted an
accident similar to that which cost
General Patton his life. A truck
dashed out of a side street toward
the official automobile. Fortunate
ly the brakes of the Presidential
car held. The party had a bad
shake-up, but that was all.
It might have been otherwise. The
newly appointed and not over popu
lar Secretary of the Treasury Sny
der might have had to move next
door. After the secretary of state,
who shared the near-miss with the
President, the secretary of the
treasury is next in line of succes
sion.
This is not the first time Mr. Tru
man has taken risks. But he is by
no means the only President who
has worried Secret Service men to
whose care the lives of the Chief
Executives are entrusted under (he
law.
Three times, newsmen, trying to
keep up with Presidents, have been
in serious automobile accidents.
A certain amount of speed is de
sired at times when a presidential
party is passing through strange
territory but, as a rule, the White
House chauffeurs who are specially
picked men “loaned” by the army,
if left by -emselves, lean to the
safe and not the sorry side.
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Two Yanks were strolling down H eel
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you?”
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place where I recently was."
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Their tales come right out uf their
heads.
Coins Must Pass 3 Tests
Through Vending Machines
In modern candy and cigarette
vending machines, the mechanism
subjects each nickel and dime to
eight separate tests in one and a
half seconds, says Collier's.
These tests determine whether
the coin contains m etals not used
in genuine flvc-and ten-cent pieces,
and whether it is of the proper
diam eter, thickness and weight,
and has no holes.
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L O N E L Y R E E F . . . F a r out In
the Pacific. Bikini atoll bolds the
97 ships of the “ suicide fleet."
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struments. The release of atomic
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energy at the given point of the
Emulflion rig h t aw a y , i f you feel
bomb burst will in the opinion of
tire d , rundow n, unnhlr to th ro w off
« o r r lM ’tnfl n im m e r eoM»—because
these scientists release heat and en
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of the earth but its effects will be
confined’to a relatively very small
area. One scientist declared that
the radio activity released from the
K £ A R R O U N D T O N IC
bomb, if absorbed by living tissues,
would result In chemical changes in
the proteins of the tissues, in some
cases of sufficient Intensity to kill
the tissues and In other cases like
ly to produce a new kind of living
tissue or a new variety of organ. It
is a well-known fact that X-rays
have created this phenomenon In
due to MONTHLY LOSSES?
living tissues and the radio-active
You girls and women who lose sc
rays from the bomb are practically
much during monthly periods that
you're pale. weak, "dragged out"—
the same as X-rays. Thus a man
thia may be due to lack of blood-iron
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On the other hand, some scientists
predict a tremendous tidal wave as
result of dislodging a huge landslide WNU- 13
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along the slope of Bikini atoll which
rises some 14,000 feet from the floor
of the ocean. Another predicts the
bomb win crack open the ocean
floor and let the water into the
molten matter beneath the floor re
May Warn of Disordered
sulting in a tremendous volcanic ex
Kidney Action
plosion. These predictions, howev
Modem life with Its hurry sad worry.
er, are generally discounted.
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Are Sworn to Secrecy.
This reporter anticipates plenty of
action and plenty to write about
when this bomb is dropped by the
B-29 over the target array of naval
ships. The most dramatic will be
the second test when a bomb is
detonated below the surface of the
water In the midst of what is left
of the target ships. The handicap
under which the lay members of
the press work Is, however, that we
will not know nor will we be told
whether or not these bombs explod
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not In fact they were duds.
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