Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, Ju ly 15, 1948
OUSEHOLD
Washington. D igest;
No Right-Minded Candidate
Will Antagonize Newsmen
By BAUKHAGE
Vcir» irialvtt and C om m entator
CON VENTION H A LL, P H ILA D E LP H IA .—The notes for
this column are inspired by a view from the extreme left wing
of the Democratic platform. I do not mean that figuratively,
but literally.
I am sitting in the left-hand corner of the wooden platform
idled with the brass hats of the party and their friends who are gathered
together to nominate a Democratic candidate for President of the United
States.
The scene isn't so very different
from other political conventions I
have attended back to—well, never
mind how far back. I have in my
mind's eye a dif­
ferent picture. It
is a platform,
viewed from just
about this angle,
but instead of
this high ros­
trum protruding
i n t o the hall
from the middle
of the wide plat­
form t h e r e is
just a wooden
box with boards
atop it — rough-
îewn rails to fence off the speakers
'rom the shouting delegates. The
lame of Abraham Lincoln is being
jut in nomination. This vision, let
ne hasten to add, is purely vision-
iry. I did NOT cover that conven-
tion. I saw a picture of it in a book.
The scene I have been watching
is no more placid. That Demo­
crats love a Donnybrook is an old
saying. No smoke-filled rooms, no
private fights for them—rather a
free-for-all in a wide field, even if
they know what the final outcome
is to be in advance.
But frankly I have been thinking
about something else as I sit here in
this tropical heat—that is, in the
moments when I have been able to
think between the flashing of the
light which is the silent bell on the
telephone beside the mike I am
sharing with Earl Godwin. The flash
of the light on the phone means
someone in the A B C booth, high
above us, wants one or the other
of us to jump in and give a brief
word-picture of what is transpiring
in our immediate neighborhood, for
we are in the thick of things here
and, believe me, sometimes things
are pretty thick.
What I have been thinking about
is the lot of the newsman and the
small thanks he gets for his pain
and suffering in a political year. Be­
sides being hauled and mauled by
the public—his public, as the listen­
ers of a commentator are referred
to—besides that, he is under slant­
wise attack by the candidates when
they forget themselves.
Nobody, either the partisan lis­
teners or the politicos, ever
thinks the columnist, commentator
or reporter is being fair unless he
Is boosting his side.
Candidates, when they are in pos­
session of their full senses, don’t
go around arousing the wrath of
the newsmen. Even Franklin Roose­
velt, who was forever needling the
newspapers, always carefully ex­
plained that it was the publishers
and editors and headline writers
who twisted the news, not the men
who wrote or broadcast it.
But sometimes candidates slip. And
as we sit. perspiring under the
klieg lights and trying our best to
tell the truth without malice and
with as much charity as possible
about what is going on before us,
we recall without too much rancor,
the statement of the candidate who
is not being unanimously nominated.
On his recent trip he made one off-
the-cuff remark, which prompted
him to send that offending piece of
haberdashery to the laundry imme­
diately after he had thought it over.
President Truman opined to one
rear-platform audience that it was
almost impossible to get the facts
definitely before the public "be­
cause there are certain people in
the newspaper business and cer­
tain people in the radio business
who have a distorted view of what
the people ought to know and
what the people ought to think.”
It might have been better if he
had worded his plaint in the lan­
guage of an earlier candidate—much
earlier—John Quincy Adams, who
at least narrowed his charges against
the press to a few papers, even
though he didn't name them specif­
ically. This offered a sop to the rest.
However, President Truman, in a
previous outburst on that same
western trip was specific too He
attacked the Chicago Tribune and
the Spokane Spokesman-Review. In
lambasting the Tribune, he was fol­
lowing in Franklin Roosevelt’s foot­
steps Ycu may recall that on one
occasion when FD R was asked a
particularly sharp question by a
Tribune reporter, he replied: "Oh,
tell Bertie (Robert McCormick, pub­
lisher), he's seeing things under the
bed.”
Mr. Truman's attack on the Trib­
une came about this way: While
travelling through Washington state,
a reporter put to him a question
which, although it seemed guileless,
might have concealed a barb. Any­
how the President Interpreted It that
way when Senator Magnuson re­
vealed that the reporter asking the
question represented the Spokes-
man-Review.
The President knows that part of
the country and the sentiments ex-
pressed by its publications. It was
then that he said the Spokesman-
Review and the Chicago Tribune
were “ the worst newspapers in the
country, the Tribune having the
edge." That was about as sharp a
thrust as a President ever has
launched at the press in modern
times. It was in that connection that
he also called th^ present congress
the worst in our history, later
amending it to "second worst."
It would have been kinder to
the rest of us if Mr. Truman had
stuck to the specific instead of
adopting the sweeping generalisa­
tion quoted earlier—"some people
in the newspaper and radio busi­
ness, etc.—”
Presidents since the time of John
Quincy Adams have not been shy
about airing their views concerning
the Fourth Estate. But Adams, while
not specific, at least narrowed the
field of his complaint to “eight or
10 newspapers of extensive circula­
tion published in various parts of
the Union acting in close concert
with each other and pouring forth
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
. . . rear platform opinion . . .
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'.hen soak In cold water for several
lours
Remove wrappers from sonp as
•oon as you get It home so the air
vili get at It while It's stored. Stale
•oap lasts longer than does fresh
map.
IS only fitting that the heavy­ Excessive Use of Lime
I T weight
championship of the world
was decided between two Negroes,
since most of the better fighters in
the last few years have belonged
to the Negro race. I might mention
Joe Louis, Jo e Walcott, Ray Robin­
son. Ike Williams, Ezzard Charles,
Beau Jack and a few others. The
only two white entries I can think
of now who belong around the top
are Tony Zale and Gus Lesnevich.
“ Why is this?" I asked a well-
known trainer.
"Here's the trouble,'* he said.
“ Most of the white fighters are lazy
or yellow. They won't train and
they can't take it."
This is a minor detail that the
white section might consider. Re­
member this: "They won't train and
I they can't take i t ”
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Good white fighters have become
about as scarce as the extinct dodo.
Zale and Lesnevich are exceptions.
So is Willie Pep.
Outside of Zale, Pep and Lrsne-
vlch. most of the white fighters
that I know are crude, lasy and In­
competent Tory dislike the train­
ing routine or, like Rocky Graxl-
1 ano, they won't learn their trade
—how to box. "A right hand will
do it,” was Rocky's answer. Only
It didn't
Zale is a professional. Graziano
isn't He never will be, except on
the financial side. Graziano will
never be the pro that Zale Is.
"Strictly a pro,” Francis Albertanti
says of Zale. "Graziano? Maybe a
semipro. But never a pro.”
• • •
Citation's Goals
Unless something of a harsh phy­
sical nature happens to Calumet's
Citation, he is almost certain to reach
two coveted goals—
1. To finish the high-money win­
ner of all time—above one million
dollars in total purses.
2. To be ranked as the top horse
of all time—rated definitely above
Man o’ War.
There is little doubt of his pass­
ing the one million dollar mark un­
less he breaks a leg or is badly in­
jured. The Calumet star already has
slipped by the $544,000 mark, and
he is just warming up with such
stakes as the Arlington Classic in
Chicago and the $100,000 Interna­
tional Gold Cup race, at Belmont
on his list.
There is more than $500,000 in big
stake purses left on the '48 schedule
and Citation is still a young three-
year-old.
There will be much baying and
braying among many members of
the old guard in placing any horse
above Man o' War. But don't for­
get two thlng^-that Man o' War
ceased firing as a three-year-old
and that Man o’ War never won a
handicap race. He never ran
against older horses—except Sir
Barton who, at the time, was bad­
ly crippled.
! Man o’ War was a great race horse.
I But the big test comes in the handi­
cap division where you might give
away weight, where you must carry
from 130 to 140 pounds to prove
your place. There is no reason to
believe Man o' War couldn't have
carried this weight
Citation already has run against
older horses and beaten them. Two
of these were Armed and Buzfuz in
the Seminole handicap.
Citation can finish his three-year-
old career on even terms with Man
o’ War, getting none the best of
:
things. But if he goes on from there
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into the handicap division to meet
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older horses, he is almost sure to
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finish as the greatest race horse
this country ever has known.
It is always just as well to wait
until a competitor has at least
reached the stretch of his career be­
fore he is finally judged and placed.
• • •
Exhausts Soil Fertility
Specialist Warns Other
Plant Foods Required
You can forestall the tarnishing
of gold and silver slippers by wrap­
ping them In old stoeklngs when
the shoes aren't being worn.
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When your silver polish dries up
you can usually remedy It adding
water slowly.
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Mid hard by m ixing It well with a
few drops of linseed oil.
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03,
Sturdy Roots Required
For Top Crop Output
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No crop can do a better crop ,
producing job than the roots that
nourish it. To get strong, healthy, [
bushel-boosting growth above the
ground, you have to have a sturdy
root development below the surface.
Roots need plenty of "living
room" to stretch out for moisture,
ccutinual streams of slander upon
i my character and reputation, public
I and private. No falsehood is too
broad, and no insinuation too base.
for them . . .”
President Cleveland also had his
press troubles, and history admits
he got a rough deal. One summer
when he was governor of New York
air and plant nutrients. They need
and was sweating it out at Albany,
that room not only in the plow layer,
j New York newspapers reported him
but also in the subsoil below.
as taking his ease at Newport.
It takes plenty of organic matter
Sometimes the newsmen do let
to keep a clay or loam soil roomy,
their spleen get into their report­
well drained and ventilated. Part
ing, but for the most part, they
of that organic matter is burned up
follow Kipling's advice and go on
j every year in producing crops. If
the basis that you can't do a good
it is not replaced, then your soil
job unless “ . . . you keep your
packs down. It becomes "stuffy”
head when all about you, are los­
and hard to cultivate. It loses its
ing theirs and blaming it on you.**
sponginess, or porosity. Roots can­
Television may achieve what the
not grow readily, top growth suffers
less vivid reports conveyed by print
and lower crop yields j-esult.
or the spoken word cannot. Repub-
Several steps are necessary to get
lican leaders, realizing this, sent out
good catches of legumes. Liming,
some pretty strict orders on that
based on soil tests, is important. So
subject before their recent conven­
is the application of fertilizer carry­
tion in this city. The orders were
ing phosphate and potash.
revealed by that all-seeing, all-hear­
To round out a balanced soil
ing monitor of stage, screen and
management program and add to
radio, “ Variety.”
the organic matter supply, animal
Republican delegates were told
manure and crop residues should be
not to be seen (by the eye of the
: returned to the soil.
television camera and thereby mil- j Twenty-Game Pitchers
lions of other eyes) talking to mem- : How many 20-game pitchers, on
bers of delegations from other states
the winning side, will there be this
Steel Farm Trailer
lest the suspicious public smell a season? The crop will be extremely
deal in the making. If they must j
thin.
huddle they were told to huddle
When the 1948 season opened, the
I unseen.
leading probabilities included Black-
Delegates also were warned not
well, Newhauser, Feller, Lemon,
to assume awkward positions on
Reynolds, Dobson, Munger, Marchil-
the floor lest televiewers deduce
don. Trout, Sain, Spahn, Jansen and
that handsome isn’t as handsome
Branca. I could mention one or two
doesn't. And most of all, they
otheis.
were w am .d not to be seen leav­
How many of these will make It?
ing early and coming late. Not
Blackwell and Feller, two of the
This two-wheeled farm trailer
overly hopeful that orders would
favored sons, certainly two of the
has an all-steel frame on which
me followed, monitors were ap­
best, are out of It, unless they fin­
any type of body can be placed.
pointed.
ish like a brace of Citations.
Welded fabrication on the trailer
Since I couldn't see much of the
Blackwell with a bad arm, has
frame eliminates bolts which work
. video product, because, as a re­ three victories out of eight starts.
loose and cause rattles or break­
porter I had to keep my eyes on the At this time last year Ewell, the lone
downs. The tongne In this trailer
; televiewers themselves, I can’t say pine, was on his way to 16 straight.
Is attached In a way that avoids
how well the Republicans comported
Feller has been battling to break
trouble In service. It was designed
themselves when televised, nor can even. It might also be noted that
at Colorado A A M college.
I assay how well the Democrats, cur­ Feller has been driven from the field
rently in the spotlight, profited by of glory seven times, at least. In
what they saw of Republican video less than two months.
Johnson Grass Control
performances last month.
Hal Newhouser drew the roughest
And If either didn't perform with start of the bunch, losing four of his Termed Community Job
all the grace and decorum nobody first five games. But the scrappy
Johnson grass control is a com­
can be blamed but themselves. The and skillful Tiger put on a hot ral­ munity job because it requires the
cameraman gets off easy. The writ­ ly and proceeded to win seven in a attention of everyone in the neigh­
er and the broadcaster still will have row. He still has an outside chance borhood, according to Purdue uni­
versity. Watch for new bunches of
to duck the slings and arrows of the to reach the olive crowned circle.
outraged unfortunate.
Red Munger of the Cardinals has Johnson grass that start in clean
been one of the season's major dis­ fields. Kill them by pulling or hoe­
A recent survey showed that appointments. Picked as a 25-game ing before deep roots are formed.
winner, big, strong and fast, the ex­ The grass spreads both by seeds
radio listeners like hymns most
Probably a television survey would army officer has been below par and root parts and is scattered by
water, in hay, by cultivator or wind.
most of the year.
show that televisioners prefer hen
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Liming can exhaust rather than
rebuild soil fertility, unless lime is
accompanied by the return of other
needed plant food elements to the
soil, declares Dr. William A. Al­
brecht, University of Missouri.
•'Up to the present time in our
land use,” says Dr. Albrecht, "we
have been putting limestone on our
soils under the mistaken belief that
its benefits rested only in reducing
soil acidity. We have gone ahead
with our campaign with the idea
that lime is nil that is needed, In d
that if a little is good, more will be
; better.
"This generous use of lime has
helped produce more proteins in
legume forage and other crops. But
the added crop production has used
up other plan| food elements. Among
these potash has been the most
prominent.
"We have credited the lime and
i the neutralization of the soil with
I working wonders, but we have not
, realized that liming by itself was
helping exhaust our soil fertility
‘ more rapidly," he points out.
"It is essential," concludes Dr. Al­
brecht, "to remember that we need
potash to make the carbohydrates
in the growing plant before we caD
convert them into protein."
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