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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTE5IBER 29, 1948. SECTION 1 777? A U.S. Negro Don't Be Surprised If the World Disappears In a Cloud of Dust SeV 'i Palestine's From the Scientific American By John Ed Pearce Ciwr-Jmd Staff Writer GREETINGS From Allan M. Trout Y1TTHEN I was a boy, granny women ho sat in chimney comers smoked an herb, called life everlasting by sonr.e.

rabbit tobacco by others. I find an unusually heavy growth of this herb in the orchard this fall, I see in it an omen that the old custom of sitting in chimney corners may become stylish again. And speaking of Pern Fnend, of Pikeville, submits a valued report. "Ned Hamilton lives in Mossy Bottom, Mr. Friend writes.

"He was raised in Morgan County, but moved to Pike County a few years ago. He has just returned from a visit to Morgan County, and he tells me one of his old neighbors says the Republicans are sure to elect the President in November. "He tells me his friend has got an old hound dog that is sensitive to political conditions. Back when Hoover was running for President, the old houna gathered every bone in sight and buried them in a hollow close to the house. When the Hoover depression hit, the dog had enough bones to carry him through.

"Mr. Hamilton says his fnend reports the old dog again is hunting bones fr and wide, and is burying every blessed one in the same hollow." every direction, two relatively close particles of dust cast shadows en each ether. With the light pressure between them thus reduced their own force ef attraction moves them together. Other nearby particles react similarly. Given enough time, a great cloud forms.

With every added particle, the cloud's force of gravitation increases. Finally, upon reaching a critical diameter of some billions of miles, the outer particles respond to the powerful central attraction and the cloud collapses. Under the effect of this compression, the temperature at the cloud's center begins to mount higher and higher, intense agitation literally rips the atoms apart, nuclear reaction begins and the various chemical elements appear. As the huge dust cloud collapses. Irregularities within its swirling body encourage the formation of minor masses.

These tend to circle the blaring center, becoming planets. Finally, the new system's, outer parts cool. They settle into orderly configuration and a pattern of seemingly timeless rotation. Should further study prove the dust cloud theory correct, we have reason to suppose, in contrast with former theories of star birth, that worlds with human or intelligent life may be fairly frequent. throughout the universe.

Who knows, perhaps someday our descendants may visit these distant neighbors in space ships, or at least establish radio contact with them. orces Truce team, editor of the year book, and graduated surr.ma cum la tide, a member ef Phi Beta Kappa. Given $1,000 by admiring townspeople, Bunche entered Harvard, where he received his Master degree in government- For while he taught at Howard University in Washington, D. but returned to Harvard to earn his Doctor'! degree with an essay on colonial and mandate areas and peoples in Africa, an essay which, characteristically, won the Toppan Prize for the best essay of the year in social sciences. "FT WAS the work connected with this thesis which took Bunche abroad for the first time, and introduced him to the field of race relations and colonial policies at which he has become an acknowledged authority.

Unable to afford a true safari for his research work with the African tribes, he bummed his way across the continent on government trucks, or walked, alone and unaided, through the jungle to confer with the tribes under colonial or mandate rule. He became a familiar and popular figure with the jungle tribes, and his arrival was announced by tribal drums, a show of ceremony, and a day of feasting. After his return from Africa he studied for a while at Northwestern, London and the University of South Africa Then, with the advent of World War II, he joined the Office of Strategic Services as adviser on colonial peoples in Africa. He was soon "borrowed" by the State Department for special work in the African division, and became an adviser to the San Francisco Conference where he- helped organize the Trusteeship Division of which he later became a director. His full-time work in the U.N.

began in 1947 at the insistence of Trygve Lie, who "borrowed him from the State Department to supervise the Trusteeship Division. He later became a member of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine, and was one of the first to urge partition. He has been in Palestine ever since, and intends to stay Shaky r' THE earth should disappear some day in a cloud cf dust, a possibility which is mentioned haiferiously in these deranged times, philosophers on another planet might find a rertain poetic symmetry in its birth and death. Recent astronomical studies have given us reason to surmise that the earth was born in a cloud of dust.

Although the observations and deductions of astronomy fix the earth's natal day at a period in history some two billion years ago, the process which accounts for its birth, if the most recent theory is correct, continues to this very day and new stars are being born continuously throughout the universe. The new "dust theory begins with the fact that our telescopes reveal vast clouds of dust and gas in the abyss of space that lies between the stars. Interstellar space, formerly supposed to be empty, is now known to contain an astonishing amount of microscopic material. Its immensity defies the grasp of human imagination. In the Milky Way alone, the amount of free floating dust amounts to some 300 million, million times the mass of the earth! JT IS well known that light, like the wind on a sail, can exert pressure.

Since, in interstellar space, light comes from LYONS DEN J-EW YORK POLICY: At a meeting of 1 1 Western Power officials, Anthony Eden told of a conference he had with a French diplomat, to whom he expressed concern over the frequent changes in the French government. "What good would an agreement with prance be, if the next day a new government takes over?" Eden suggested. "It's much better to have seven governments with one policy, like in France," the Frenchman told him, "than one government with seven policies, like in Britain. QONTRARY to all the rumors, Judge Sam Rosenman has not written any of the President's campaign speeches. Evelyn Waugh no longer is the darling of the British literary teas.

At a recent tea, when he was introduced to a man who said "Pleased to meet you," Waugh replied: "I wish I could say the same." Mrs. Betty Henderson, who monopolized the publicity at the Metro- politan Opera opening last season by placing her legs on a table, has completed her plans for the new opening. She's commissioned her hair stylist, Mark, to create a Futuristic BY AN almost whimsical twist of fate, an American Negro today maintains the uneasy truce in the racial battle between Palestine's Jews and Arabs. His appointment as U.N. Palestine Mediator, to succeed the assassinated Count Folke Ber-radotte, climaxes the unspectacular but distinguished career of Dr.

Ralph Johnson Bunche, grandson of a Southern slave, son of a Detroit barber, who, 34 years ago, found himself a lonely, homeless, 10-year-old Negro orphan. Dr. Bunche is well aware that his new position is one of danger as well as prominence. Members of the Stern Gang, Jewish terrorist' organization, who openly boasted of" having murdered Bernadotte, have warned that they are "ready to do away with the man who succeeds him." They mean Bunche. And the Sternists usually mean business, in a violent manner.

But the new mediator has lyiown dangifc-before, and he has already announced that he has no time to fret over the threats of the Stern Gang or the possibility of Arab reprisals. He has a job to do enforcing the truce, and supporting the policies of Bernadotte and he expects the Arabs and Jews to do their jobs as well, affording him the protection to which he is due under the U.N. terms. JF TAST performances are any indication. Dr.

Bunche will do an outstanding job, too. He has an old habit of excelling at difficult tasks despite handicaps. He started this habit when, at the age of 10, he was left an orphan and forced, while living with his grandmother, to work his way through high school. He not only finished school, but graduated with highest honors, valedictorian of his class and the school's star football player. A year later he entered U.C.L.A, where he made one of the most brilliant records in the school's history.

Though again forced to earn his way (waiter, janitor, carpet-layer, part-time teacher) he was for three years on the West-Coast championship basketball team, baseball and football teams, the debating Kentucky Loses a IT BEGINS to look like Louisville is going to have to do without Jean Burkhart, the former Louisville singer and dancer. She is in California working ami stud3ing for a career as an actress and has made a few dents in the Hollywood armor plate. Jean has been promoted by Jack Carson, the comic, and she won the scholarship which Jack offers annually for study with Ben She also did Lady Macbeth in a Ben Bard production on stage in Hollywood. This performance drew from Hedda Hopper the following: "Jean Burkhart's Lady Macbeth has talent scouts drooling. Jean advises that she is working 14 hours day, but that it is the work she likes so she enjoys the routine.

She also gives love to our family and invites them to visit her when they get to California. Fine business. I can visit Lady Macbeth, I suppose. You will remember Jean as the Jean Audette on local radio stations and as entertainer at many club dates before she moved to the coast. TETANY, many thanks to Charley Vettiner 1 ahd his "Smoke Kings" column in the "Jeffersonian" for awarding to the Almanac a corn cob pipe as a "Smoke Ringer" who has done something for his fellow man.

Off-hand we can't think of what we have done, but we have great confidence in Charley and if he says we've done it we are happy. He's done enough so he ought to know. Pretty Girl to Hollywood By Leonard Lyons coiffure which requires three fittings. Norman Thomas, the tallest of the Presidential candidates, will make a campaign tour by Austin car. 'TRIUMPH: For the past several months American entertainers have held headline spots in London's vaudeville theaters.

Danny Kaye, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Sophie Tucker and now Betty Hutton all went London, at high salaries, and scored successes. Last week Max Miller, a cockney comic, finally became a headliner. He walked onstage 'at the first performance and announced: "This show didn't cost a single, blinkin' dollar." 'T'HE current Iron Curtain story is about ar visitor to Hungary who asked a native, ow many people would you estimate are against the Communist regime here?" "Six," said the native. "Only six?" said the visitor. "Are you sure only six?" "Yes," said the native.

"Six You, He, She, We and They. ii trie I Yr Welcome to Louisville, President Truman even a family reunion i. Te -X. Dr. Bunche until U.N.

effects partition and makes his dangerous, difficult job unnecessary. It is a tribute to Dr. Bunche's ability that his race is no obstacle in managing the Belgian, English, French and American members of his staff. Associates say that he gives no evidence of awareness that his skin is of a different color than that of his co-workers. He is neither shy- about his race, nor is he aggressive.

On the surface a calm, smiling man. Dr. Bunche betrays his nervousness only by his habit of chain smoking, often consuming three or four packs of cigarettes a day. His chief complaints are about his weight (he weighs 195. in comparison with the 160 he tipped as a college athlete), and his enforced absence from his family and the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose Jackie Robinson he follows with the ardor of an old baseball fan.

The only exercise he gets in Palestine is an occasional game of billiards, and he worries about his physical condition. He knows he smokes too much, but justifies it by pointing out that he does not inhale. gag. Until the other day nobody heeded. The other morning he noted some friends in the studio, R.

W. Robison and Bill Dysart. Dick waved, and went on to his commercials and his turntables. At the first mention of coffee the pair turned and left the studio. Returning from their car they breezed in with a large container.

"What have you?" queried Dick, his mike switch still on. "Coffee, they replied 'in unison. "Five gallons of it! And we will stand here while you drink every drop!" Seems Bill Dysart travels in his car listening the while to Dick and his records. Bill likes coffee, too, and it is just as hard to obtain traveling through the country in a car as it is in WCIF's studio. A year of listening to the Harris yen for coffee finally did it.

So we do not know whether you will hear more or less about coffee on the Richard Harris show. They are planning to rename it, "Wake Up and Yak About Coffee." gOUTH End Optimists will hear Wednesday that they made about twenty grand at the State' Fair by running wheels of alleged chance. All of this dough goes into Boys Club activities and Leon Younger is the busiest man in town reorganizing on a sound footing. Knowing Leon and his interest in. boys, you know they will do a good job.

CAGACIOUS Judge Sam Rosenman of New York, who used to write speeches for both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry gave a private diagnosis of Truman's campaign talks the other day that would have delighted the ears of Dewey forces. Chatting with a close friend, Rosenman declared: I don't know who is writing this stuff the President has been delivering from the platform," but it will lose him more votes than he will win. "In my opinion, the President is harping on that Street-against-the-farmer and capital-against-labor theme too heavy. That type of appeal doesn't register any more, except maybe with the Wallaceites.

The farmers are too well off this year to be frightened by Wall Street. Judge Rosenman said he would have been glad to have offered his advice on Truman's "speeches, "for whatever it was worth." but added that "some people around the President apparently think I am a bad influence. J1JERE is a paraphrase of a recent intelligence report which throws light en Russian secret designs regarding Germany: Russia will ask withdrawal of all troops from Germany, secretly plans to send her troops back into Germany a year later. It will be easy to find a pretext. Reason: Russia has stripped all she can get out of her zone of Germany, which was an agricultural area in the beginning and lacked the machinery Russia wants.

Part of Russia's plan to move back into Germany a year after withdrawal includes a series of wildcat strikes in America to harass troop movements and discourage the U. S. from sending troops to assist in "restoring ordersor helping along whatever the Russians use as an excuse to march back into Germany. jf km i a mi if iff Mf mm iwm. 'V, f.l I I W.

TUTTLE, of Somerset, favors us with an old-timer in six lines: Here' to the cogger That is no bigarr Than the point of a very fine pin; But the bump thot he raises Itches like blares. And thot is where the rub comet in. AjY FRIEND remarked the other evening she had to mind her P's and Q's aSl day at the office, because the boss had been on his high horse," reports Elizabeth Gray, of Princeton. "It miRht promote the progress of industry if you would clarify her statement." And again, ma'am, it might not. To mind your P's and Q's dates bark to the days of the old-time ale-house.

A solid citiren, sitting in for an evening's tippling, more often than not had the refreshments charged to his account. When he told the bartender to mind his pints and quarts, it was to caution him not to charge a quart when only a pint had been served. I saw a restoration of one of these old colonial ale-bats at Williamsburg, a few weoks back. The pints and quarters were in gleaming copper. They also hd a device that operated by a coin in the slot.

It was a tobacco box which sat on the bar. A coin in the slot released the lid, whereupon the smoker reached into the box and took a handful of tobacro. The word HONOR was embossed on the bras lid, to remind the smoker he was, not to take more tobacco than his coin warranted. awaits you Thursday evening. fall features Bold Look THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Drew Pearson 5y Truman Wants to Retire Admiral Leahy Bill LadtT ALMANAC Now we will take up corn cob pipe smoking, abandoning our muggles.

'J'HIS will learn Richard Harris, who disk jockeys for WCIF in Madisonville. Dick's stint is on an opus called "Wake Up and Live" which is on the air at the Jean Burkhart improbable hour of 7:15 to 8:45 in the morning. Who could be so rash as to plan on living at such an hour Dick does not state. Dick makes a plea every morning for coffee to restore his flagging spirits. For a year and a half he has been carrying on this some important mission we can send him on something really important.

Admiral Denfeld promised to look into the matter, came back a few days later with the idea that Admiral Leahy be appointed U. S. Ambassador to Spain. Leahy had already served as Ambassador to France and Governor of Puerto Rico, has something of a diplomatic background and Truman was delighted with the idea. However, he overlooked the fact that we have no diplomatic relations with Spain, and have agreed not Admiral Leahy Spain imt Quite ready yet to appoint an Ambassador until the Franco Government is recognized by the United Nations.

This fact was promptly brought to Mr. Truman's attention when he suggested that Leahy become Ambassador to Spain. The State Department was emphatic and adamant. No Ambassador, it said not even Admiral Leahy would be sent to Mr. Truman is still looking for a job for Admiral Leahy.

i J. I 7 7 i 1 1 hi i WASHINGTON President Truman has been privately turning on the heat to ease out his Chief of Staff, 73-year-old elder tatesman Adm, William D. Leahy. Mr. Truman, who hates to fire anyone himself, recently called in Leahy's close friend, Adm.

Louis Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations and the man who really runs the Navy. Addressing Denfeld as "Lou, though he calls him Truman said: "Lou, I want you tq do something for me. I want you to ask Leahy to retire. "I lfke the old man, the President continued, "but he's outgrown his usefulness. just hate to do this, but you can find a way of suggesting it to him.

When I first came here, he offered to resign and I said no. Then last year hje offered to resign again, and I asked him no stay. So it's very embarrassing to me and I can't very well ask him myself. Admiral Denfeld, who has known Leahy all his life, demurred. "I suppose Secretary Forrestal has been telling you that I have two votes in the joint chiefs of staff mine and Leahy's, he "But just look at the racord.

YouU jjjjq jLjeany mws vi n. time." "He's gotten too reactionary countered tH President. "He and George Marshall are hardly on speaking terms. Everything Marshall "proposes, Leahy tears to pieces. Clarlc Clifford tells me the public reaction to him is bad.

Denfeld replied that he didnt see how he pould possibly ask Admiral Leahy to retire, i "He's my superior, he said, "and I can't go to him with a proposal like that. 44 TTJELL, figure out some, big job we can give hirn," countered the President. 1 want him to retire in a blaze of glory. JLfter his career he deserves it. Think up All the newest Bold-Look for Fail'are here at Rodes! For example: THW BOLD-LOOK SHIRT in solid-color, end-to-end madras.

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