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evil with good. Romans 12:21.
. —Mr. Erskin Sanders, Cleveland Ave., City. .
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Bilbo's Four Peckerwoods
' By PETER EDSON '
) NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—When Senator Theodore G.|
Bilbo of Poplarville, Miss., walked out on a fili- |
buster of the British loan to go home and cam-'
paign for re-election, he said it was to take care {
of: “four peckerwoods” who were trying to take his
job away from him. :
Prominent Mississippians who follow closely the
way politics is played in their native state claim |
that a year or so ago Bilbo was beaten. The word |
had got around that Bilbo was doing his state no |
good in Washington, that he had no patronage to
speak of, and that he had got the state little or
nothing in the way of federal money.
Then the bills to abolish the poll tax and to
create a permanent Fair Employment Practices
Commission came up in Congress. Bilbo took out |
after them. And a choice crew of northern news-'
paper columnists and radio commentators, aided by |
the CIO Political Action Committee, took out after
Bilbo. All during the poll tax and FEPC fights;
these professional bleeding-hearts railed while
while Bilbo ranted. |
The result was that the people of Mississippi |
reacted as anyone with a grain of sense should have
anticipated. They decided that if the north didn’t |
like Bilbo, he must be all right. He became a hero,i
and he practically cinched his own re-election.
Only The Primary Counts In Mississippi l
Actually, it isn’t the November election that
counts in Mississippi. Since there is no Republican
opposition, few people bother to vote unless it’s
a presidential year. If ‘nominated, Bilbo will prob- |
ably be returned to the Senate by a vote of little
more than 50,000, out of a voting-age population of |
a million, of which white voters compose one-h’aif.i
The primary on July 2 is something else again.
That's what counts, and Bilbo will have to stay
home till it’s over. From 150,000 to 200,000 votes
will be cast in the primary.
Before Bilbo left Washington, he confided to one
politician that he had “four opponents, but no op
pogition.” The only thing he had to be afraid of
was that the northern columnists and radio oracles'
would stop attacking him. And if the CIO-PAC
cohtinued to be against him, he was safer still.
The only way to beat Bilbo, say the native Mis
sissippians, is for the damn Yankees to shut up
and let the people of Mississippi deal with him
in their own way. It's his northern, out-of-state
opposition that re-elects Bilbo every time.
As for Bilbo’s “four peckerwood” opponents in
the primary, ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins of
Meridian and Jackson is the best known. Collins
has served 10 terms in Congress. He and Bilbo
were great pals in their early years, and cam
paigned from the same buggy. Collins was state
attorney general when Bilbo was lieutenant gov
ernor. Later they fell out over settlement of a state
anti-trust suit, and they have been enemies ever
since.
Fhis is Collins' third try for the Senate. He ran
third in the 1934 primary, Bilbo winning the run
off. Collins also ran to succeed the late Pat Harri
son in 1941, but was beaten by James O. Eastland.
Collins will probably have a big campaign fund
for, his race against Bilbo in this year’s primary,
but Bilbo will get the votes.
The Other Candidates Have Little Chance
Of the other candidates, Douglas Smith is a land
scape architect and greenhouse operator in Jack
sof. He ran for Congress once, and got less than
1000 votes in the primary. ‘
Nelson Levings is just out of the Navy, in which
heiwas a lieutenant commander. He saw no battle
action, but he saw to it that the flag of Mississippi
was flown from the mast of the U. S. S. Missouri
when MacArthur came aboard the Japanese sur
render. Levings was in Washington recently, and
arranged to have himself photographed riding on
the trolley-car with Bilbo. Levings once ran for
lieutenant governor of Mississippi, and was de
feated.
The fourth candidate is Frank (Peachtree) Har
per. A great hitch-hiker, he is 73 years old and
_weighs 90 pounds. He used to carry peachtree
seedlings around, selling them, and got his nick
name from that. He served in the state legislature
for a while, and gained fame by introducing a bill
ey - (Centinued in Coiumn Five.)
System and Results
In his valedictory address as retiring president
"of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Eric
;lJohnston called for a “new national fervor” for
the “new capitalism” which he advocates—*“a
human institution, vibrant and evolutionary, cap
able of constantly adjusting itself to new condi
tions.”
| This thesis, which Mr. Johnston argued with
good sense and realism, is not new. But it hasn’t
been common of late to hear a man in public life
urge a positive, aggressive pride in the capitalistic
system, and at the same time admit its shortcom
ings.
There are many, of course, who wiil take an
aggressive stand for the status quo, and who con-
Isider capitalism “a closed and perfect system of
{life resting on congealed and untouchable dogmas,”
as Mr. Johnston put it |
There are others who are on the defensive, who
apologize weekly for the system or, more ex-{
itremely, charge that capitalism is fdndamentallyl
‘wrong, that it is getting worse, and that it might‘
! better be scrapped than overhauled. It is they whoi
tell us that we must “show Russia” that capitalism‘
works better than communism, or else adopt com
munism. l
To be sure, capitalism is not at the top of the
|economic heap today. The British people havej
ielected a government pledged to a modified social-}
/ism. And most of the liberated countries of Europe
lare turning either toward Britain’s new course or
toward Russia’s communism. ‘
Q But does that mean that capitalism is wrong in
;theory? Or have Europeans turned their collective
{ back on capitalism because they blame it, as it was
I practiced in their own countries, for many of the
| misfortunes that befell them? If capitalism hasn’t
Eworked fairly and justly in China, for example,
must we then call it wrong for the United States?
The results are important. And if the resuits are
bad, people tend to change the technique when
they are free to do so. But famine is famine,
. whether under communism or woligarchy—and it
i has occurred under both. =
' Let us look, then, at the material results of capi
{talism in America. They are imperfect, but what
! other system’ offers more in human comfort? And
the imperfections are being remedied, though there
is still a long way to go.
Today’s capitalism is not the capitalism of 50 or
even 20 years ago. It is not the capitalism of the
Jay Goulds and the Jim Fisks, the sweat shops and
12-hour days and “the public be damned.” Grad
'ually freedom of opportunity and advancement and
| realization for the many has been advanced at the
| expense of freedom of exploitation for the few,
though some have fought all advancement bitterly.
By all the evidence around us, capitalism works
in America—not perfectly, but well..lt will proba
bly work better with a little more of the “national
| fervor” Mr. Johnston suggests, and considerably
|less apology, selfishness, class bickering, and de
| featism.
Bad Setting for a Tantrum
Fiorello LaGuardia has really pitched in and
started things moving since he took over as director
‘general of UNRRA. But besides bringing to his new
’job the dynamic energy which he displayed as
mayor of New York, he seems also to have retained
some of the less winning qualities of temperament
which also marked his long term in office.
For instance, he recently warned a congressman,
during a broadecast, that this legislator and his col
leagues must appropriate $600,000,U00 to UN_-RRA
“graciously.” He threatened to quit “if there is any
haggling, any bitterness, and controversy or bad
taste over this appropriation.”
Surely if there is any lack of congressional
graciousness over this appropriation, it will not be
directed at Mr. LaGuardia personally. And even
more surely, Mr. LaGuardia’s rather petty offer to
resign if the tons of congressional debate did not
please him will neither frighten Congress nor solve
any difficulties that may be encountered in the
UNRRA matter.
Mr. LaGuardia cannot overestimate the import
ance of the tremendeus and fateful job which he
has tackled, and which he has seemed to do so
well up to now. He can vastly overestimate his per
sonal importance in that job.
~ The $600,000,000 which Mr. LaGuardia asks for
UNRRA is intended to buy food for starving people.
They do not care whether the money is appropri
‘ated with bad taste or good. They only want the
food which the money will buy. Getting that food
to them is a task which Mr. LaGuardia has bravely
undertaken. We hope he will nos permit the pica
yune conditions which he laid down.to turn him
from that task. \
Whenever the military men and the political
powers that be don’t interfere, scientists can get
together despite barriers of language, space and
different government.—Dr. Harlow Shapley, direc
tor Harvard Observatory. .
The pump can be primed only with food. With=
out food Germany cannot support the minimum
transportation and industry. Without coal Germany
cannot produce fertilizer and unless it produces
fertilizer it is unable to improve its own food sup
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U. S. forces in Eurcpe.
OPA policies just aren’t working. They are hin
dering production. That's why you can’t find meat.
—Wesley Hardenburgh, president American Meat
Institute.
Thousands of car owners did not drive at all
during the war period. Those who did drive were
faced with highway conditions which were not dif
ficult. Consequently now that cars are returning
to the highways in large numbers, new driving
skills must be acquired.—Robert F. Raleigh, Inter
national Association of Police Chiefs official.
1t is time we scientists stuck our necks out. Too
many of us are afraid. Afraid of politics, afraid of
the limelight of -public discussion, afraid of our
jobs.—Dr. Anton J. Carlson, ex-president American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
The British make the most sanctimonious pre
tense that they are for freedom for every one in the
world. To every Englishman in the world they
offer freedom, and that is about as far as their re
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THE ROAD HOUSE
XX
Debby came down the stairs in
her white graduation dress and
her high-heeled slippers and at
the bottom she stopped, sniffing,
and glared at the heater. It was
going, and it smelled even worse
than she had thought it would.
She had combed her hair back
around her ears, and by working
at it ever since Joel and Bart left,
she had managed to make it curl
on the ends. She went into the
kitchen, and Agnes and Ellie
looked at her curiously. She
looked taller and more mature,
but when she walked around the
table the way she walked was a
little like a man dressed up in a
woman’s clothes. Agnes scowled
and bis her lip.
Debby said, “Boy, that thing
stinks.” »
“Thats just burnin’ off the
newness,” Ellie said. “After it’s
burned off the newness it won't
hardly smell at all. You wait and
see.”
She put her coat on and sat in
the straight chair by the window.
She sat forward, with her elbows
on her knees and her hands out
in front of her opening and shut
ting the clasp on her handbag.i
It was almost half an hour before
Joel came, and all that time the
three of them sal there without
speaking, Ellie reading the paper
and Agnes sewing and Debby
opening and closing the clasp on
her handbag.
She saw the car coming across
the field and waited until it
stopped by the barn. Then she
stood up and buttoned her coat
up around her mneck and said
“Good night” and went out. It
was a dack night: no moon and
no stars and no wind, with a
damp smell in the air that madel
her think it might rain. But even
the damp smell was good after
that oil.
She was "almost to the barn
door whan Joel came around thel
car. “Hello,” he said, sounding
surprised. And when he went on
his voice was Kkind of kidding,
“This isn’t right. Don’t you
know? You should be up in your
room there. And after you heard
me come in, you should have sat
down on the bed and waited
twenty 'minutes and then come
down and acted surprised, as
though you hadn't expected me
to be there.
- * *
She laughed uncertainly. She
knew in a way it was a com
pliment, that he was really mak
ing fun of other girls, but just
the same she wished she had
waited in the house for him to
come in. She stood still, fidget-.
ing with her handbag. 1
~ “You look nice,” he said.
“Do I?” she asked.
' “Swell.” .
She guessed maybe he meant
it. It was a good coat, and she
[always did think it looked nice
buttoned up around her neck the
'way she had it. She knew it was
la good coat, because Ann Wy
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man had helped her pick it out in
Hyannis.
Joel had turned the car round
so she wouldnt have to walk
around it. He opened the door
and st\od there holding it for
her, grinning. “Big night tonight
eh?” he asked.
She smiled nervously and
ducked into the car.
They had redecorated the
Woodland Garden since the last
time Debby was there, and she
would hardly have known it for
the same plpce. ‘lnstead being all
‘bright, the wdy it used to be, it
was so dim you could hardly see
around. The only bright thing
was the juke-box down at the
other end, and that was new too.
and all lit up with pink, white
and pale green lights. And now
that they had got Repeal, there
was a real bar down there beside
the juke-box, instead of the little
one where they used to serve the
near-beer and stuff.
Along the walls were high
backed booths, a dozen or so on
each side and on each table there
was a little lamp with a red shade.
Only three of them were lit, and
that was all the light there was
in the place, except for the juke
box. ? J
“Very romantic,” said Joel.
“I'm glad you like it,” she said.
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~ The waiter led them to a booth
and turned on the light for them
and brought a menu and a wine
list. Someliody started the juke
box going with “Smoke Gets in
your Eyes,” and three couples
came out and danced. Debby’s
eyes were getting used to the
dark, and she saw that all three
of the girls were wearing sweat
ers and skirts, and she wondered
if she was dressed up too much
in her graduation dress. She still
had her coat on, but it was hot in
there and she guessed she’d have
to take it off when they danced.
Joe] was staring straight ahead
¢f him as though he was miles
away somewhere and he was
drumming with his fingers.
Suddenly he snapped out of it
and smiled at her, but he didn’t
look very happy. ‘“What do you
want to drink?" he asked.
- “Gee, I don’t know. I—l.don’t
drink much.”
. “Anything you say,” he said.
“Beer? Gingerale? Milk?”
She giggled. “They don’t sound
very exciting.” She was blushing
again, and she was so nervous and
confused she couldn't think of
words. “Maybe—maybe I could
have # drink. What do you
}think?"
' He looked a little annoyed. “I
don’t believe a drink would hurt
‘Lyou‘ What kind do you want?”
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BILBO'S FOUR
PECKERWOODS
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state highways. w
Just before the election lists
closed, a sixth candidate got into
this race for the Senate, in the
person of Tom Q. Ellis, of Water
Valley, Miss.,, a town of about
' 2,000. Ellis for the past 10 years
' has been clerk of the Mississippi
Supreme Couri, a job to which he
was elected and re-elected over
whelmingly. He has been all over
the state and has a wide acquain
tance. Tom Ellis may give Bilbo
and Ross Collins a little trouble.
Another socurce of hope is that
| with six candidates in the field,
' no cue will get a majority on the
first primary, and a run-off be
tween the two high men will be
necessary. In such a run-off, a
combined opposition might beat
Bilbo. But it's doubtful.
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«What are you going to have?”
e was looking off into space
again. “Scotch and soda.”
“Al] right,” she said, trying to
smile gaily, “that’s what I'll
have,” She could fee] the per
spiration on her upper lip, and
she wiped it off with her napkin. |
“Gosh, it’s hot in here,” she said. |
“Perhaps you’d better take of
your coat,” he said dryly. .... .
(To Be Continued)
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