Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, November 4, 1948
Washington Digest?
By BAVKHAGE
WASHINGTON. — In this post-election calm which has
settled over the dom estic political scene, m any a vest, sh irt,
blouse, or slip in the cap ital conceals a p alpitating h e art.
W hat about my governm ent job a fte r the glad (?) New
Y ear?
The regular classified civil servants haven’t much to fear They
can’t be fired without cause, and no matter how thorough a new admin
istration's housecleaning may be. most of the furniture lands right back
where it was before, although here and there, you may at first fail to
recognize an old friend in a new slipcover.
Long ago most 100 per cent New->
Dealers in high places displayed the be the public relations secretary
w isd o m
w h ic h in the White House. The other was
they felt was the a man who probably won't be in
b e tte r p a r t of Washington at all—Dewey's veteran
v a lo r and v a political adviser, Edwin Jaeckle.
moosed. O th e rs
There was no conflict between the
assumed new col two. a rare situation indeed. Jaeckle
ors. Some who supplemented Hagerty,
had not been too
This would seem to contradict the
careful previous sharp charges of Warren Moscow,
ly to keep the author of “ Politics in the Empire
right hand from State” which came out this fall.
knowing what the Moscow, one of New York City’s
left hand was do top-rank political reporters, who
ing gradually be also covered Albany, claims that
gan to grow am Dewey shut down news sources dur
b id e x tro u s and ing his governorship in an attempt
soon were able to to thwart any criticism. That he
Baukhage
write the lesson even tried to lay down a press con
on the blackboard without exposing ference rule that a question was
the wedding-ring finger.
“off the record,” thus covering up
There is however one class of the fact that an answer had been
permanent Washingtonians which given not to be made public or had
goes on like the brook. But even been refused. Moscow asserts that
individuals in this class may find Dewey wanted to be the oracle, the
the nature of their daily tasks dif one ana only, the sole source of
fering slightly as administrations what should be reported.
change. I refer, of course, to the
If that was true earlier in Dewey’s
Fourth Estate which now includes career, the dapper New Yorker
commentators (since radio news who has been widely-touted of late
men as well as newspapermen are for being able to take advice and
eligible to the National Press club), for being able to pick people who
thus establishing at least a mini know how to advise, has had some
mum standard of merit.
good advice. If he should revert to
methods such as Moscow describes,
Naturally we who cover the
two things would happen: first, he
White House always wonder
would suffer; second, he would fail
what manner of man we are
in his attempt, and the effects of
going to have to handle. While
the effort might be permanently
a new incumbent is learning
disastrous.
the art of getting his name
favorably inserted into a Wash
Some presidents have tried to
ington dispatch or broadcast we
conduct government by dis
have a chance to learn the care
turbing the "checks and bal
and feeding of the source of
ances.” * It never works long
news which feeds the news to
and the freedom of the press
us.
is one of the checks— a prin
ciple that is part and parcel
Once Dewey had a bad reputa
of the American concept of
tion in this regard. But then, most
government.
candidates are suspect before they
start, since it is taken for granted
A notable example of how the
that they all are subject to the dis very weight of the news, legitimate
ease of presidentitis which affects news, breaks through any wall, was
victims differently.
the case of the financial conference
Coolidge, for instance, was per called by President Hoover just be
haps least afflicted with this malady fore the end of his regime— 1931, to
that attacks the strongest individ be exact. Hoover had no intention
ual when he walks under the white- whatever of deceiving the public.
pillared portico of 1600 Pennsyl He simply didn’t understand that
vania avenue to stay for at least you couldn’t have a gathering like
four years. And Coolidge was about 4fcat—without making an adequate
lis rich in front page material of explanation of some kind. At any
his own making as the clam he rate just a bare announcement was
sought to emulate.
issued.
I remember a remark William
F
re e Pre»» I»
Hard, now an editor of Reader's
Beat
C heck
Digest, once made to me:
The next day at the White House
“Cal never seemed to suffer from
presidentitis” (Hard invented the news conference. Hoover said he
word, I believe)—“he is the only would not comment on the meeting
occupant of the White House I know (though the notice had appeared
of who, when he lay down to take in the papers), and that he consid
his daily siesta, didn't think when ered it the duty of the press.not to
he awoke that the world had gone print anything which was only par
tially true, or else incomplete.
to pieces.”
Richard Oulihan of the New York
No newsman, except toward
Times,
one of the most be
the last, could complain about
loved and respected correspondents
Franklin Roosevelt's news con
who ever covered Washington, and
ferences. Regardless of what
an outstanding leader, made a typ
one might think of his views,
ically dignified, but very emphatic
his news was always printable.
protest then and there. He said it
It will be hard to produce an
was out of the question to ask the
other such.
reporters not to get as complete a
The heavy majority of those who story as they could. It was pointed
traveled with Dewey on his cam out by another well-known reporter
paign trips had nothing but praise. that the press would have to have
But a few of those who had ex the story, and the reporters would
perienced his press conferences, have to get it, regardless of the
and had enjoyed—or otherwise—his President's wishes.
press relations in earlier days were
The President refused at first, but
cynical.
the reporters insisted. Finally ha
“W ait,” they said, “until the agreed to give out an official state
honeymoon is over.”
ment after the conference.
i I found it hard to get concrete
I have known other examples
predictions. I myself had seen a
of short-lived gag rules. One
vast improvement in Dewey’s press
which Secretary of the Treas
relations over the years since his
ury Morgenthau tried to estab
first campaign. And I see no rea
lish on the treasury. He issued
son why a person can’t and doesn’t
an order that none of the treas
learn.
ury officials could talk with
On the train, whenever he could
newsmen. He might as well
(and that is the way most of the
have told reporters not to read
correspondents
d e s c rib e d
it—
the market quotations. It failed.
“could,” not “would” ), Dewey
Legitimate news continued to be
went into the press car attached
reported as it always had been.
to his train, chatted individually
Franklin
Roosevelt had, at one
with the fellows, learned to connect
names with new faces, answered time, at least 80 per cent of the
He
questions, and at least appeared to newspapers "against” him.
be frank and free with his “off the knew he couldn't change their edi
record” remarks concerning Re torial views by giving out news to
publican doubts and fears, real, im their representatives. He also knew
agined, or assumed. He sometimes that if he tried to withhold news,
took time for a game of chess the American people would be far
less likely to support him. And be
“ with the boys.”
cause he understood the meaning
'
There was, however, much
of the freedom of the press, he
less informality in the atmos
wouldn’t have thought of trying.
phere of his entourage than
And he knew how to make it appear
there was in Trum an’s. The
as favorable as possible.
Dewey affair moved so smooth
The most effective check in a
ly that a creak or two would
democracy is not the first, second
have been welcome. Like the
or third, but the fourth estate. An
farm er in the poem “ so even
unenlightened public conceivably
ran his course of life the neigh
might elect a totally bad president
bors thought It odd.”
and a totally bad congress which
There was one man who made would establish a totally bad su
press relations on the Dewey cam preme court, but unless the press is
paign train a Joy—well, two men. gagged, the public in a democracy
One was Jim Hagerty, trained re cannot be democratically unen
porter himself, who is expected to
lightened.
Creoinuhion relieves pnirniuly bet s u m
it goes right to the tre t of the trouble
Do not use shellac on a winJow
iush. It is not recommended for
wood which is exposed directly to
sunlight.
Famous Sons Arrested
A e g j A n a h it and Commentator.
From Common Colds
That HANG ON
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U. S. Presidents Respect
Members o f Fourth Estate
Beware Coughs
OUSEHOLD
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/ ” 'H IE F Justice Fred M Vinson
is not going to Moscow and his
name, therefore, will not become
a by-word with the Russian people.
Down in Virginia, however, his
name is so well known that it caused
a Virginia traffic cop to rub his
eyes.
Among the students at Washing
ton and Lee university happen to
be the grandson of a late famous
Virginia senator, the great grand
son of a famed Civil war hero, and
the son of a chief justice. All three
were riding together near Lexing
ton. Va., when arrested for speed
ing.
The policeman, proceeding to
book them, asked their names.
"Robert E. Lee IV ," replied the
first student.
It happened that he was telling
the truth. The traffic cop looked up
quizzically, but wrote the name
down, then asked for the next name.
"Carter Glass I I I , " was the re
ply.
The cop wrote the name down,
then queried the third student.
“What's yours?”
“Fred M. Vinson J r.,” replied
young Vinson.
"Then my names' Napoleon,”
exclaimed the flustered cop.
and let all three boys go.
NOTE—Mrs. Vinson, wife of the
chief justice, suggested to her son
that after graduating at Washing
ton and Lee he might want to take
his law degree at Yale. A Yale de
gree. she intimated, might give him
a better springboard into the legal
fraternity. Replied her son: "Little
Old Center college (Kentucky) was
good enough for dad, wasn't it?”
• • •
Taxes Go Up in Smoke
Brass hats have kept it hushed
up, but the air force wasted thou
sands of dollars taking worthless
movies of the Bikini atomic-bomb
tests. For some unexplained rea
son, the job w’as turned over to in
experienced officers.
Brig. Gen. Paul Cullen, then a
colonel, had charge of the air force
camera crews at Bikini. His master
piece was a glorified, technicolor
training film called "Able Baker
D ay,” which he sent over to Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer to be edited. But
even after the Hollywood experts
added their touches, the picture
was such a flop and so hostile to
the army and navy that it couldn't
be shown.
Poultrymen Advised
To Retain A ll Pullets
Culling Hens Is Means
Of Increasing Returns
To assure top poultry profits dur-
1 ing tho winter season, keep nn all-
pullet Hock. Pullets lay in the fall
and winter when egg prices are
high. At the same time, old hens
are going through their fall molt
I and consuming 25 to 30 pounds of
feed while producing no eggs.
In the spring, when old hens re
sume laying, egg prices are down,
thus necessitating a
¡very heavy layer
¡to pay the $1.50
i feed bill which was
amassed during the
winter months.
Old hens may be
sold at once or they
may be culled indi
vidually as they go
out of production.
___
J A w eekly check of
! the old hen flock will enable the
I poultryman to cull out the loafers.
If an old hen flock is maintained
over the winter months, separate
housing for pullets and old hens
j should be provided for best man-
' agement and disease control.
As another step in culling the
j poultry flock, old roosters also
i should be eliminated. They serve
J no useful purpose and cat lots of
feed.
Some pullets also may have to be
culled if the flock is to be main
tained at the desired size for profit
able operation throughout the win
ter. In this case, only the best po-
i tential layers should be retained A
good ready-to-lay pullet is one that
is smoothly feathered, plump in
body and carries richly pigmented
shanks.
Pullets so developed can be
brought into 50 per cent egg produc
tion without crowding by the time
they are six months old. Pullets,
however, never should be forced into
! high production during their first
two months of laying.
Since the atomic energy commis
sion had called upon all the armed
services to cooperate in filming the
Bikini explosions, the navy was
working on a similar picture at the
same time Cullen was making
"Able Baker D ay." But Cullen was
in such a hurry to finish the air
force picture first and scoop the
nayy that he sent an air force tech
nical adviser under the pretense
of helping the navy, though with
secret instructions to obstruct and
delay the navy picture.
The air force also made another
$50,000 technicolor extravaganza of
Bikini, called “ Phantom Wings.”
This smelled so that it also was
never shown again.
It was produced by MaJ.
James L. Gaylord whose total
photographic background, up to
that time, had been as a per
sonnel officer.
And here is how the air force
has rewarded the two officers who
wasted so much of the taxpayers’
money: Cullen was promoted from
colonel to brigadier general, and
Gaylord—in spite of his first flop—
was placbd in charge of filming the
recent super-secret tests at Eniwetok
for the atomic energy commission.
He was supposed to have finished
24 films by October 1; so far, has
delivered only five.
• • •
U. S. Army’s Prisoners
Unfortunately, several thousand
U. S. prisoners still remain in U. S.
prisons for desertion, crime, or
violation of discipline during the re
cent war. Even more tragic, some
prisoners have suffered “perma
nent physical impairment” in soli
tary confinement. This was con
fessed in a recent circular issued
by the air force inspector general.
Meant only fer the eyes of
the top brasa, the circular
warned grim ly that regulations
governing the treatment of these
prisoners were “ not being com
plied w ith.”
—•—
Crackers spread with peanut
butter and broiled until bubbly
make excellent appetizers.
— a—
Remove any meat that is to be
broiled or roasted from the refrig
erator and let it reach room tem
perature before putting in the
oven. It not only saves fuel but
results in a better flavor.
—_o —
you can handle thorny plants
easier by getting a pair of ice
tongs and using them instead of
your fingers.
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Instead the top brass ordered
all the extra prints burned, and
only two copies kept for the
files.
Since Cullen had gone
ahead and ordered 48 prints,
this made an expensive bonfire
—paid for out of the taxpay
ers’ pocket.
Cost of the film
alone that went up in smoke:
$86,000.
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Fertilizer Is Valuable
For Succeeding Crops
Farmers who think fertilizer costs
should be charged off In one year
are overlooking carry-over assets
that pay long-term dividends in big
ger crop yields, according to Middle
West Soil Improvement committee.
A good feed of fertilizer gives the
soil a backlog of plant nutrients
that benefit succeeding crops. Well-
fertilized legume-grass crops in any
good soil building program leave
behind them important carry-over
values. Legume-grass mixtures fed
with plenty of phosphate and potash
will add to the soil’s organic mat
ter and build soil structure. They
will Improve tilth, drainage and
ventilation.
Because of these carry-over bene
fits, agronomists recommend a min
imum of three years for charging
off the cost of fertilizer applications
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Thorough Check of Silo
Will Prevent Wastage
Silos will help to assure good use
“It Is essential,” the air Inspec of this year's bumper crop of corn
tor general stressed, "that pris stalks. To prevent waste of the en
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bread and water be given one full be in good condition.
Thorough cleaning is the first
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and scraping old silage off walls
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“ Failure of medical authorities Walls should be examined for air
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