19. 1947
Impress People by
Your tetter Writing
Capitol Hill Hears Earnest Request
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Senate Chaplain Marshall
Offers Challenging Prayer
WlNTy
many millions, fol­
M ILLIONS,
low baseball records closely.
By BAVKHAGE
A nalyil anJ Commentator.
year, and it might be well to record
a bit of recent history as a back­
ground to his selection.
WASHINGTON — Many words
Dr. Ze Barney Phillips was chap­
spoken beneath the high-arched
dome of the capitol become first lain of the senate for 15 years—from
page news. But seldom quoted are 1927 to 1942. When he died, many
the words which senators had favorite candidates
appear beginning for his Job. They "auditioned”
w ith the third them, just like radio announcers—
paragraph of the although the ministers didn't know
first page of the they were being auditioned, and no
C o n g r e s s io n a l senator would admit such a thing.
From among the candidates. Dr.
Record. However
twice
recently Frederick Brown Harris, Methodist,
they were quoted emerged victorious, gossips say, be­
— a n d widely. cause he delivered the shortest
Later on Dr. Harris’
They were pre­ prayer.
ceded by two first prayers became longer, a common
paragraphs which phenomenon among senate chap­
for the past 10 lains according to some of the old
years have va­ tim ers in congress. What they don’t
ried only as to add is that in the speech-makingest
the proper names body in the country, the affliction
Baukhage
and hour men- may be contagious.
Traditionally, filling of the chap­
tioned therein: —
lain's
post is a m ajority party pre-
at
11
o’
clock
"The senate met
a m. on the expiration of the re-
cess.”
"The chaplain. Rev. Peter M ar­
the following
shall. D. D., off«
prayer:”
(Then came "paragraph three.” ;
including the part of the prayer of- .
fered for that day that appealed to
me):
"Forbid it. Lord, that we should
walk through thy beautiful world
with unseeing eyes. Forgive us, our
Father, for taking our good things
for granted, so that we are in dan­
ger of losing the fine art of ap­
preciation. With such dire need in
every other part of the world, make
us so grateful for the bounties we
enjoy that we shall try, by Thy
help, to deserve them more. Where
we are wrong. make us whiling to
change, and where we are right,
make us easy to live with.”
I repeated that last paragraph on
my broadcast because one of my
associates had called it to my atten­
tion that morning. Since then I
The Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.,
have been getting letters from all
senate chaplain, offered a prayer
over the country asking for copies
that probed deep into the con­
of that prayer. E arlier (though I
sciousness of the nation's busy,
had not noticed the items) Time
magazine had carried a story about
harassed legislators.
Chaplain Marshall, and Newsweek
magazine had quoted part of anoth­ rogative, and so when the Repub­
lican 80th congress convened, after
er prayer:
disposing of the question of Senator
“ Help us to do our very best
Bilbo's qualifications. Senator Wher­
this day and be content with to­
ry arose to offer a resolution that
day’s troubles, so that we shall
Dr. Marshall be elected chaplain of
not borrow the troubles of to­
the senate.
morrow. Save us from the sin
But Wherry's proposal touched
of worrying, lest stomach ulcers
off an argument occupying nine
be the badge of our lack of faith.
close-typed columns in the Con­
Amen.”
gressional Record. (No chap­
I think my choice is a fairer sam­
lain would dare deliver a ser­
ple of Marshalliana. But both se­
mon THAT long.)
lections reveal one characteristic of
the doctor’ s utterances, which per­
Democratic Sen. Alben Barkley
haps is a reason for his popularity. maintained that Dr. Harris had done
He is able to reduce religion to the a fine job and should be retained.
simplest and most understandable He added that politics should not be
terms—his similes (like those of his permitted to touch the office of sen­
Teacher) are taken out of our daily ate chaplain. He opined that Re­
life.
publicans were “ offering a very
Peter Marshall is an interesting poor example’ for the time when the
person as well as a popular preach­ Democrats resume control of the
body two years from now.” (1948—
er.
!? !)
Immigrant Boy
Republican Senator Bridges was
shocked at the implication that poli­
Fulfills Ambition
tics might be involved. Why, he
Dr. Marshall’s personal history is protested, he didn’t even know Dr.
reminiscent of early Horatio Alger. Marshall’s politics.
He came to this country from a
But the Republicans had their
foreign land because he believed
m ajority, Dr. Marshall got the
America was the land of opportu­
job, and as far as I can learn,
nity. But his story is unique in this:
nobody
has
regretted
the
He came, not with the dream of
choice.
“ making his fortune.” but to fulfill
an ambition for neither wealth nor
There are some Washingtonians
power, but simply to get a theolog­ who have read and listened to this
ical education.
Scottish boy whom America has
He was born in Coatsville in Lan­ awarded for achievement in a call­
arkshire, Scotland. His father died ing in which there are often few
when he was little, and Marshall earthly awards, who feel that his
was raised by his mother and step­ presence in the Lincoln church is
father, who sent him to public quite as “ appropriate” as his ap­
school and later to a technical in­ pointment as chaplain of the senate.
stitution. On graduation, he took a They feel that if the ghost of the
position in a tube-manufacturing Great Emancipator ever slips into
his old pew of a Sunday, he smiles
concern.
But he wanted to be a minister, in approval of the simple, earthy
and he decided it would be easier truisms, not too unlike his own,
to obtain an education for this call­ which come down from one pulpit
ing in the United States. He came in that friendly Scottish burr, with
to this country in his early twenties; the same terse impact with which
found work in New Jersey, but soon they echo from the rostrum of the
had an opportunity to go to Alabama senate.
vAiere he joined the business depart­
ment of the Birmingham News. With
the help of some friends who be­
came interested in this pleasant
Scottish boy with the intriguing burr
and the inspired goal, he was able
to enter Colombia Theological sem­
inary, from which he was gi aduated
in 1931.
WASHINGTON. — Chances of a
He held two pastorates in Geor­
gia. and made the acquaintance of depression in the near future ap­
the young lady who is now his wife. pear slim, in the opinion of a com­
In 1937, he was called to the his­ mittee of congressmen studying the
toric “ Church of the Presidents” in nation’ s economy.
In its report, the joint senate-
Washington, a church which has
numbered among its worshippers house economic committee dis­
John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jack- closed that most of the 583 persons
son. W illiam Henry Harrison, James who answered a survey expect a
Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, M illard "m ild recession” this fall. The com­
Fillm ore, Grover Cleveland, Theo­ mittee concluded, however, that
dore Roosevelt and Abraham Lin­ "answers to the economic questions
coln, whose pew, left as It was when do not give any real support to the
he used it, is a shrine for tourists. theory that we are nearing a de­
Dr. Marshall was elected chaplain pression."
The survey showed “ general
of the senate on January 4 of this
VfcTTER
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Washington, D. C.
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THREE YEARS AFTER DESTRUCTION . . . It has been Just
three years since American and Allied troops stormed the beaches
of Normandy D-Day to begin the invasion of Europe. Streets like
this one in Caen, France, raged with bullets and mortar shells, and It
would have been impossible then for a little girl to walk along the
sidewalk carrying bread for the fam ily's dinner. But now the war
looks far away.
NEWS REVIEW
Shipping Crisis Impends;
Predict High Feed Prices
Fears of a minor crisis in railway
shipping in mid-July have been ex­
pressed by federal transportation
experts in view of an apparent
slowdown in friegh* car construc­
tion.
Contributing factors are mount­
ing industrial production coupled
with increasingly heavy wheat ex­
port movements, and officials pre­
dict that the “ minor crisis” could
sw iftly develop into a m ajor trans­
portation block unless steps are
taken to ease the traffic slowdown
or prevent it from occurring.
With fate*of the now financially
embarrassed Office of Defense
Transportation still undecided, the
Interstate Commerce commission
has been requested to assume full
responsibility for continuing orders
requiring fu ll loading of boxcars in
the event that congress does not ex­
tend the life of ODT beyond its June
30 expiration date.
Meantime, ODT has sent investi­
gators to freight car building com­
panies to probe report, that allo­
cated steel tonnages have not gone
entirely into the 10,000-a-month car
construction program.
Reports for the first half of May
indicated that only 1,751 freight
cars were built, 81 short of the num­
ber constructed during the corre­
sponding period in April.
Explanation offered by the car
builders is that inadequate steel
supplies and strikes within the in­
dustry have been responsible for
the grave decline in freight car con­
struction. That view, however, is
discounted by federal officials who
point out that the government
forced the steel industry lo provide
the necessary 290,000 tons of steel
for the 10,000-a-month goal.
FEED PRICES:
To Stay Up
Prospects for the 1947 feed crops
w ill be an important influence on
feed prices, according to a depart­
ment of agriculture report.
The very strong foreign demand
for grain is expected to continue to
support prices through 1947 and into
1948; although if production of feed
is as large as in recent years, feed
prices probably w ill decline, at
least seasonally, in the last half of
1947.
Corn prices this summer, the re­
port predicted, w ill average higher
than the June, 1946, ceilings, but
lower than in the summer of 1948
after price controls lapsed.
The department’ s survey went on
to reveal that reports in early May
indicated that approximately 832
m illion bushels of 1946 corn would
be marketed this season. That fig­
ure would be 50 per cent greater
than the 1938-42 average and 14 per
cent above the previous record
sales from the 1944 crop. Farm i
sales of other feed grains from 1946
crops also ran generally larger.
SWINGBACK:
Braden Quits
Spruille Braden, longtime advo
cate of and principal force behind
this country's hard-handed attitude
toward Fascist-inclined Argentina,
has resigned as assistant secretary
of state in charge of Latin-Am eri­
can affairs.
To succeed him in that post.
President Truman was expected
to n o m in a te Nor­
man A r m o u r of
New Jersey, top­
flight career diplo­
mat. Armour pre­
viously served as
American envoy in
the Argentine and
is well known and
liked there. Latin-
American reaction
to his appointment
was expected to be
Armour
highly favorable.
Acceptance of Braden’ s resigna­
tion by President Truman was gener­
ally regarded as a strong Implica­
tion that the United States is ready
to swing back to a
policy of appease-
m e n t in L a t i n
America. It w a s
anticipated that the
changed a ttitu d e
w o u l d take the
form of “ just a
little a p p e a s e -
ment” of L a t i n -
American
Fascist
dictators,
particu­
la rly Juan D. Pe-
Braden
ron, president of
Argentina.
Braden, long a foe of Peron and
his methods, told Mr. Truman in a
letter that personal responsibilities
compelled him to return to private
business.
Departure of Braden from the
state department followed closely
on the heels of his being overruled
by the administration on two basic
issues in inter-American relations:
Supplying of arms to Latin-Am eri­
can nations and formation of a m ili­
tary alliance with other republic« in
the western hemisphere.
This Includes batting and pitching
especially. But you often wonder
Just how much they actually mean.
Tukc the won and lost column.
What chance has a pitcher working
L
with a tallendar
or a cellar con-
t e n d er ugalnst
Gracious Invitations
one pitching tor
a winning team?
H EN w ritin g to in v ite t
The best way
* » frie n d fo r a v is it, be definite.
to Judge u pitch­
T e ll her the tim e fo r a rriv a l and
er's true value Is
how long you expect her v is it to
to take his aver­
lust.
age against the
• • •
average of hts
I f you p lan sp ecia l e n te rta in m e n t lo r
team. Even this yo u r guest, such as a s w im m in g p a rty o r
II dance, b e lte r ad vise tier w h at type of
isn't a fa ir test clothes
W. Johnson
to tilin g along.
since he natural-
D o y o u r le tte rs express the re a l you?
ly would have a better average O r aro they s tiff an d uninteresting? O u r
W eek ly N e w s p ap er S ervice booklet No 27
with a better team.
can help you Send 23c (c ' l l f o r " H o w
I recall in other years, that Io W rite I r t l r r s lo r A l l i-easlon« ’ to
Newspaper Service. 241 W est IH h
Christy Mathewson hud no respect Weekly
SI.. New Y o r k I I . N . V . P l m l n a m e , a d ­
for an carned-run average.
dress, iMioklct title sod No 27.
“ The main Idea Is to win the ball
game." Matty used to say, "and to
save yourself for more work on
ahead. If I can pick up four or live
runs, why pitch my arm off for an
individual mark? This lead «Ives
me a chance lo rest my arm for
other games. Pitchers who bear
Spreading
down all through nine Innings are j
Ira te D in e r—W aiter, there’ s a
sure to have trouble later on.”
Home-run records und strike outs ( twig in my soup.
W aiter—I'm not surprised, sir.
are usually ;arned,' although the
quality of opposition is still a big We’ve branches u ll over the c ity .
factor.
Baloney
Looking over pitchers. Phil Mar- ,
"Tbey lit r e lin in g i l o i t on the tola.
childon of the Athletics ranks ex­
tremely high. Winning four games ; "Darling u b a t a rt yon thinking
with the Athletics puts him far about?" a ikrit be.
She— 'Ihe lame thing you are.
nbove such stars as Feller and
l i t — I'll race you to the if f bos.
Newhouaer.
In checking along these lines, the '
Who Else?
two greatest pitching records be­
“ The last of my daughters was
long to Walter Johnson and Grover m a rrie d to d a y.”
Alexander.
“ Who was the lucky m an?”
Team Support Counts
"Look a t m e !”
Johnson won over 400 games
And Sand the F loor
working for a weak club, and one
" I t ’s so s m a ll," protested the
especially weak at bat. Washington prospective tenunt inspecting an
could give Johnson few runs. He a p artm ent.
"C a n ’ t you m ake i t
had no heavy a rtillery back of him larger.”
throughout his long career. It was
"S u re ,” said the landlord, "w e
Johnson who had to face the Cobbs. could scrape off the w a llp a p e r.”
Ruths, Jacksons. Speakers, l.ajoies.
Collins and such The stars were all
-.» .W ,S . W ^
on the other side.
In the same way Alexander, In
his earlier years, had the weak
Phillies with him, with Cubs, G i­
ants, Pirates and other teams far
better supplied with ballplayers.
Ills feat of pitching 16 shut outs in
1916 stands as a record that may
never be touched. One reason Is
that he pitched many of these in the
Phillies bandbox park where a long
fly meant a home run.
Alexander missed the opportunity
THE
WAV !
of pitching for a strong team until
he was moving over the hill. By the
Made with a Jure cream bate. Yodora
is actually toothing to normal skins.
time Pete reached the Cubs and the
Cardinals his prime had passed.
N o harsh chemicals or irrita tin g
salts. Won’t harm skin or clothing.
It is easy to understand why no
Stayi soft and creamy, never gets
good ballplayer, with a chance for
grainy.
stardom, cares about landing with
, Try gentle Yodora — jeel the wonderful j
a weaker, second-division club.
f difference!
As far as pitching records go for
1947, what about Schoolboy Rowe
and his mark with the Phillies?
Also Dutch Leonard?
In sizing up records, you must
take in the quality of the club and
the quality of the opposition. Other­
wise records can mean little.
Yodora
checks
perspiration
odor
Hartung, Matty, Sister
No, C lint Hartung hasn't yet
proved that he is or w ill be another
Matty, Sisler or Ruth. But he is a
member of their order, which might
be known as the Club of Shifting
— i
ou
C op t r u t h A p p lic a to r
Positions.
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When tall, blond, good • looking JUST
.GO MUCH P A R IM I» r
Christy Mathewson reported to the DASH
OR S P R E A D O N R O O S T S
Giants 47 years ago from Norfolk,
Va., where he had won 21 games
and lost 2, he promptly lost his first
three starts in m ajor league com­
petition. Andy Freedman, the Giants
owner,
thereupon decided that
Mathewson was a first baseman
and should be so used.
Women In your “40's"l Does thia
It wasn’t until John J. McGraw
functional 'middle-age* period pecul­
began to manage the Giants that
iar to women cause you to suffer hot
flashes, nervous, hlghstrung, wesk.
Matty's full skill as a pitcher began
tired feelings? Then do try Lydia B.
to be realized. It wasn’t long before
Plnkham's Vegetable Compound to
relieve such symptoms It s turnout
the Bueknell entry was one of base­
for this purpose I
ball’s all-time sensations In the box,
Taken regularly—Plnkham's Com­
pound
helps build up resistance
one of the best that all the years
against such distress. Thousands have
have uncovered.
reported benefltl Also a very effective
stomachic tonic. Worth trying I
The list of those in baseball who
entered the portals as a star in one
capacity and then switched Jobs ig
a long one.
2 5 -4 7
George Sisler was a star pitcher W N U — 13
at Michigan. He could have been
one of baseball’s best left-handers.
The Browns started him in the box,
switched him to the outfield and
then moved him to first. His fame
as a pitcher or as an outfielder
A nd Y our S tr e n g th a n d
would have been cnAning. He fin­
E nergy 1« B elow Par
ished as the star first baseman of
I t may be caused by disorder of kid­
ney
function
that permits poisonous
all time, a great ballplayer in every
waste to accumulate. For truly many
department, where his batting and
people feel tired, weak and miserable
when the kidneys fall to remove excess
his base running left him unchal­
acids and other waste matter from the
lenged at first.
blood.
You may suffer nagging backache,
Almost the same thing happened
rheumatic pains, headaches, dizziness,
to a Baltimore kid still remem­
suing up nights, leg pains, swelling.
omntimes frequent and scanty urina­
bered as Babe Ruth.
tion with smarting and burning Is ass-
other sign that something la wrong with
The Babe broke In as a pitcher
the kidneys or bladder.
with the Red Sox and he was among
There should be no dnnbt that prompt
treatment la wiser than neglect. Use
the brilliants for live years. It was
Doan't I’ilh. It la better to rely on a
In 1919 that Ed Rarrow decided
medicine that has won countrywide ap­
proval than on something leas favorably
that a cannon was more useful than
known. Doan't have been tried and test­
a rifle, so the Babe was moved to
ed many years. Are at ail drug stores.
Get Doan t today.
an everyday job in the outfield,
where Increasing crowds could lis­
ten to the musical boom of his big
bat.
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When, Your
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SLIM CHANCE
Survey Indicates N o Depression
agreement" that prices of most tors on "what they believe is hap­
types of goods w ill fa ll and wage pening In our American economy,
rates w ill rise between now and with particular reference to the
January 1, the report pointed out. current price situation.”
Businessmen are unduly pessimis­ • Taft said he Intends to ask the
tic about other people’ s trade pros­ committee later to study the effect
pects while encouraged about their of potentially large foreign loans on
own, it added.
the domestic economy.
Hearings on the nation’ s eco­
E arlier Taft had declared that he
nomic future w ill be commenced believed President Truman and
next week by the committee, which the Democratic administration had
is headed by Sen. Robert A. Taft
abandoned efforts to bring prices
(Rep., Ohio). Taft said the commit­
tee wants to examine businessmen, down In favor of "heavy lending”
economist«, labor leader«, farm abroad. He contended such lending
leaders, industrialists and cnntrac- would keep domestic prices up.
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