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DAILY MEDITATIONS
He that believeth on the
PO FIEAD Son hath ever]asting life,
and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God
abideth on him.—St. John 3:36.
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Cabinet Speculation Looks to
Democratic Ticket for 1952
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, — (NEA) — Who will succeed
President Truman and Vice President Barkley as
heads of the Democratic ticket in 19527
President Truman will be 68 in 1952, Barkley
will be 75. It is unlikely that either will be renom
niated. Sam Rayburn is likely to be Speaker of the
House in. the new Congress, but he will be 70 in
1952. So the Democratic Party must find new and
younger leaders and build them up during the
next four years.
That’s.swhy talk of making Senator Scott Lucas,
56, of Illinois, majority leader of the Senate is im
portant. Lucas would take the place of Senator
Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, now 79,
That’s 'why there is so much talk about possible
shifts in ?I‘ruman’s cabinet. Waghington is now just
as full of cabinet rumors as it would have been if
Dewey had been elected. Party ieaders vacation=
ing at I{{gy West, Fla.,, have lots to talk about.
Since Democrats consider the election such a
smashing victory for the New Deal principles of
Frankliu; D. Roosevelt, the parly leadership would
like to find some ardent New Dealer to build up
for years to come,
DOUGLAS BOOM UNDERWAY
A boom has already been started for Supreme
Court Justice William O. Douglas, now 50, He was
the unwilling candidate of Leon Henderson's
Americahs for Democratic Action before the Phil
adelphia convention. Labor groups also backed
him: :
“The Q!ay now is to get Douglas named secretary
of state, to succeed General Marshall if and when
he retires. That would put Douglas in the lime
light and give the public a chance to know him
better, ¢
. Princii)al obstacle in the road of the Douglas
backers now seems to be Dean Acheson. When he
left the‘;ob of undersecretary of state, to go back
into private law practice and recoup his fortunes,
ruman is supposed to have told him: “Dean, some
day I wnat you back -as seeretary.” Acheson
wasn't sure whether the President meant it, or
whether it was just a nice speech. Acheson’s
friends now say that he would be available if the
job were offered him.
‘Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, now 56,
bowed himself out of the 1948 political picture
early this year. He may have bowed himself out
for good at the same time. One explanation is
that he wanted to keep the national defense job
on a nonpartisan basis. The other explanation is
that he wanted to keep his job regardless of
which party won the election and that he had
been flirting with the Dewey Republicans,
Much of the gossip now flying around Washing
ton on imminent cabinet changes is inspired by
people who want some incumbent fired, and so
plant rumors.
Take the case of Secretary of Commerce Charles
Sawyer of Ohio. It has been reported that h 2
might get the bounce because he made no cam
paign speeches in support of President Truman. It
was Sawyer, however, who had a big hand in ar
ranging Truman's campaign trip in Ohio,
Several people are said io want Sawyer's job,
including Eric Johnston, who is a Republican, and
was mentioned as a possibility for the job under
Dewey. Friends of William Benton, former assist
ant secretary of state, are hoosting him for the
Commerce job,
KRUG JUST ISN'T INTERESTED
Interior Secretary J. -A. Krug's case is much
like Sawyer's, Krug is not only the biggest but the
youngest man in the cabinet, being only 41. He
would have a great political future before him,
only he just isn’t interested and can’t be bothered
with pelitics. \
During the campaign Krug made a six weeks’
inspection tour of Interior projects in the West.
He has done this every summer. President Tru
anan wanted him to do it again this year. Besides
which there was no money in the Democratic
kitty to finance a political tour for Krug. He did
make 25 speeches and held numerous press con
ferences on his tour, appealing for independent
and Republican support for the present Depart
ment of Interior policies. At the end of the -tour,
- Krug made political speeches at Seattle, Madisor
~ @nd Hot Springs, on his way home.
; Reports that Krug would retire from the cabi
et and go into the textile business arise from the
ct he holds a small interest in Brookside mills,
grnoxville, Tenn. When Krug entered the cabinet
»'_’he told the President he owned this stock and in-
Ztended to keep it, and this was okayed,
Unification Of Armed Forces
Not long ago there was much discus
sion as to the advisability of unifying
the United States Armny, Navy and Air
Force. The movement in that direction
was fought by the units involved, espec
ially by the Navy. Out of that fight
emerged the law that unified the three
forces under .the general direction of a
cabinet secretary, the Secretary of De
fense.
There never was any valid reason why
these agencies should not be unified. The
divided responsibilities did not work well.
Neither unit was doing its best work and
there were frequent collisions as to defi
nite responsibility. It has now been con
clusively shown that it was a great bene
fit to unify them in their efforts. The new
arrangement has worked well. '
Jealousies, conflict of authority have
been eliminated and all three depart
ments are working together harmoniously
and are doing more satisfactory and more
effective work than ever.
Recently a most encouraging report on
the program of real unification rather
than mere paper unification has been
made by Lieutenant General Quesada of
the Air Force concerning the underlying
philosophy of Operation Combine ll[ at
Elgin Field, Florida, where each unit
contributed its part to the program. It
was pointed out by General Quesdda that
he had found a new spirit of team work
which went far below the surface and
showed that there was wholehearted co
operation by all the services in the large
operation, each responding not only to
the letter, but to the spirit of the basic
directive. ;
This was as it should be and there is no
doubt but that the three defense forces
will operate in the future much more ef
fectively than before the unification was
brought about.
Lucid Explanation
On November 6, Foreign Minister Mol
otov told the Russian people, “The defeat
of the Republicans and Dewey, who ad
vanced a frankly reactionary and aggres
sive program, proved a majority of the
Americans rejected this program.”
On November 7, Marshal Timoshenko
told them, ‘“The policy of the present
leaders of the United States . . . is a policy
of aggression, a policy of unleashing a
new war.”
In other words, the majority of Amer
icans rejected a program of aggression in
favor of a policy of aggression.
It must be tough on the poor Russians,
trying to figure out the complexities of
American politics from the contradictory
explanations of their illogical leaders.
Just Barely 5. R. 0.
Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, appearing be
fore a Federal Grand Jury on a charge of
payroll padding, stood on his constitu
tional rights and refused to testify.
Mvr. Thomas was lucky to find a place
to stand, - since the famous Grounds of
Self-Incriminatoin = are already crowded
with Commuqisits and alleged Commun
ists who have refused to testify before Mr.
Thomas' Un-American Activities Com
mittee for the same reason.
Over the Hill
Current news from Washington gives
us hope that the housing situation is fi
nally heading back to normal.
The owners of the White House have
given the present tenant a long-term
lease, have agreed to repair and decorate,
and will permit said tenant to have large
parties, keep the back porch he added on,
and play the piano late at night.
If we get the necessary funds each fis
cal vear . .. four years from now we will
have an up-to-date minimum Air Force.—
Lt-Gen. Benjamin W, Chidlaw, deputy
commanding general, Air Materiel Com
mand, U. S. Air Force.
We study cancer in order to learn how
to defeat it. We must study Soviet philos
ophy in our universities and elsewhere
for the same reason.—Dr. James B. Con
ant, president, Harvard University.
The greatest tragedy.about human na
ture is that we put off real living. Life, we
learn too late, is in the living of it. I plead
with you to learn to live.—Dale Carnegie,
author and lecturer, S A A i
AR BANNER-HEEALD, ATHEN?, GEOBGIA
ECHOES FROM MEMORYLAND
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How We Ran The Drunks Out Of Our Law Office.
BY T. W. REED
3, When Tom Cobb and I formed
a law partnership more than fifty
years ago, we had our law office
son the second floor of the build
{ing on the corner of Broad and
Thomas streets, later on occupied:
|for years by the Eppes-Wilkins
greecery establishment. We lo
rated there so as to be near the
large library of Edwin Cobb in
‘lthe same building,.
For a while, we were great
ly annsyed by drunks who» had
loaded up on corn whiskey at
the nearby Athens Dispensary on
Broad - street and were secking
some place where they could tak=
a drink and explode their vision
ary ideas. For the iaw gaid that
liquor could be bought at the
Dispensary oniy in bottles not to
be opened on the premises and’
they had tc zeek some other Pplace
in which to imbibe it. So many
of them chose to come up the
first stairway and use the hall-’
way as a place where they would
be out of sight and could do their
drinking. Thus these drunks be
came an abominable nuisance
when in addition to drinking in
the hallway ihey would drift in
to our office. sit down and begin
to tell all kinds of imaginary
stories with nothing to them
l Down on Sapelo Island on the
iGeox;gia Atlantic coast, a large
'portion of which as owned at
fthat time by Tom’s relatives, the
Treanors, there were plenty of
‘big rattlesnakes. I remember that
‘Judge Howell Cobb told -me that
down there'it was a regular bus
;iness to catch rattlesnakes, press
Ithe oil cut of them and use it as
ja remedy for rheumatism.
' Now one of those Sapelo Island
‘relatives had sent Tom the skin
'of one of those rattlesnake, prop
‘erly stuffed and the old fellow
was over six feet long and" pos
sessed of at least a dozen bui
|tons. That stuffed rattlesnake
.was a beauty to behold.
| So he brcught it down to our
office and stretched it out.on one
.oof our library shelves.
| Presently one of the old soais
drepped in and sat down 'in
‘r:halr. e was in that state that
‘bordered on delirium trens and
,was seeing all kind of things.
,Suddenly he lifted his eves to
the ceiling ard there on top of
the library shelving was that en
ormous rattlesnake. The old soak
jumped from the chair and stari
ed for the door.
| “What's the matter?” said Tom.
i The old poy shrieked out “Why
don’t you see¢ thal big snoke on
itop of those books?”
| “Snake” Why there is no cnake
ithere. You are just seeing things.”
' And to prove there was no
,snake there, Tom stepped over
and ran his hand along the body
of the stuffed snake from tail to
| head and took his protruding fangs
in his hand to make the demon
‘stration more effective.
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“My ‘God, man” screamed the
drunk, “that snake will bite you
and kill you” The terror of the
drunk increased when Tom took
the snake’s head in his hands and
began to play with his fangs.
That was more than the old
soak could stand. He rushed out
into the hall and staggered down
the steps into Thomas Street.
He must have spread the stot“y
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about that snake around to . all
his acquaintances and advised
them to stay out of that hallway
and our office in the future, or
they might also be seeing ¢hings.
From that time on we were
not bothered by any drunks stop
ping in our office. Tom strategy
and that snake from Sapelo Is
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