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'Say When' IEoUntL dD ipi WhalWill 8113 Bring JOHN iKMPI.E C.KAVKS Democracy-a La Creole The house committee hearing on the 28 bills of fered the special session of the legislature by Governor Ixng, including the revised call for a constitutional- "For the vto ieth nver It and it gone, and the place thereof know it no more convention, was one of those good old examples of "democratic government" a la Creole. For one thing, everyone was allowed to sit down. In opening the legislature the previous night the governor had reminded the legislators they were not i Laving a r-onerstone these days, as we have been doing for our new citv hall, nas lugubrious aspects. You wonder if the things put underneath will ever see the light, or what the light will be. Vou wonder if the wind is going to Mow stone, building and mortals to atomic dust long before opening lime.

trained seals. So, no one brought balls, hoops, barrels or stands to the committee meeting to play with; just 23 hi The governor personally kame "the witnesses" it was a simple matter for him to represent both sides since his side apparently was the only side considered. Of course, he had his ''legal beagle1 along to handle the big words. Some were surprised at the governor's presence but it was pointed out that he himself stated that 15 of his pet bills got lost last session when he wasn't around very much. No use taking chances with only six days to go.

A representativ named George Gullota from New Orleans, who hadn't read the election returns of July 25th, suggested that the hearing be jost-poned until "those who favor and those who oppose these bills can get here to be heard." He might as well have been talking Hussian. The governor personally made some remarks about Our cornerstone proceedings are a defy to Joe Stalin. They teil him we expect to h. doing business in the same old place a hundred years from now, still speaking freely, and still speaking English. In the famous Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe university In Atlanta, widen not to be opened until St 13.

precaution was taken against the possibility that English woud have become a dead language. "A language' integrating machine" Is the first thing that will confront the opening party. The machine is described as "a mutoscope with a phonograph attachment. Upon turning the crank a motion picture of a man will appear beneath in printed Roper, who had high standing as a poll-taker, called Dewey "almost as good as elected." Truman bettors in early August were demanding, and in some cases getting, very high odds. Right up to Zero Hour Wall Street had no irikling of the avalanche over their heads, and stock prices took a nose dive on the day after the election.

On July 24 Wallace had been nominated for president on a third-party ticket, and he was expected to poll 5,000.000 or so votes, most of them taken from Truman. Democrats and Republicans alike would have called you crazy if you had predicted that Wallace would get only 1,156,103 come election da v. The Republicans were confident also because on July 17 anti-Truman Democrats from 13 Southern states had nominated Governor Thurmond for president. His States'. Right party would obviously take some Southern states from Truman.

As a matter of fact, Thurmond polled 12,918 more votes than Wallace, so that his party was really the third patty. Three months before the 1948 election the Republican congress had been called in special session by President Truman to do something about price inflation. It was the first special session in a presidential election year since 1S50. The special session paid little head to the presidential recommendations, adjourned after two weeks. The Republican leadership planned to wait until 1949 to enact far-reaching legislation under the guidance of President Dewey.

In the midterm elections of 1940, when the Republicans took control of both branches of congress from the Democrats, neither party was really confident three months before election day. One week before the votes were cast, the betting odds gave the Republicans only an even chance to carry the senate, better than an even chance in the house. Unless the Republicans gain some seats in the senate this year, they will hardly be able to win senate control in 1952. This year 23 senate seats now held by Democrats are at stake, 15 of them outside of the Solid South. Only 13 Republican seats are at stake, only six of them in states where the Democrats are given a gocxl fighting chance.

Other things being equal, this 1950 set-up favors the GOP. But in 1952 only 12 senate seats now held by Democrats are scheduled for contest, and only three of these are in states where the Republicans are given a good fighting chance. At least 20 seats now held by Republicans will be contested in 1952, only two of them in states where Democratic candidates have little or no chance. The figures could be increased by senatorial deaths, but other things being equal, the 1952 set-up favors the Democrats. the constitutional convention call.

Extend his own term in office? Why the idea! This bill really was a measure to sliorteu the governor's term by tico -vinntlm! Just a matter of elemental mathematics take the present term of four years, add two years to it to make six years, and then "cut two months off the total. Savvy? Everybody savvied except the Gullota fellow, who still hadn't gotten his July 2Hth papers. Some savvied so well that broad and learning smiles spread from ear to ear as they nodded to each other. Good old Karl, always sacrificing himself! Somehow or other mention of "the people" crept in, though of course nothing like that was on the agenda. Some people did not seem to understand that this was "democracy at work" and not a "people's gov English.

In case Atlanta is just a lot of dogwood and razzle-dazzle-weed by 8113, it has oeen arranged that the crvpt be located on maps determined by a trangulation from Stone mountain and Kennesaw mountain, these to be sent to libraries and Institutions of learning all over the world, especially the Potala In I.hassa in Tibet" (somewhere near Shangrl-Ii). The Idea is that somebody somewhere may be surviving and' set forth to find where Atlanta went with the wind. Hope they send one to the Birmingham Public library. We of Birmingham think we are the logical one to find where Atlanta was. conferred with Chiang over possibilities for fending off a Communist attae' by air and water.

Even the possibility of return after death has been considered. In that event, Bing Crosby has been invited to be master of ceremonies at the opening. He has accepted "contingent upon my motion picture schedule at the time." Hope to Embroil Us In War With China By KAY TUCKER The Devil Has Had A Long Turn at Bat By WESTHKOOK PEGLEK Thus, although open hostilities have not begun, the United States has been jockeyed into the position of preparing to fight Communist China. In that event the Korean conflict would become a mere sideshow. Foreign statesmen have leen quick to realize thee implications.

ments and such key labor groups as munitions, dockside and railroad workers. If this program can be pursued effectively, Stalin believes that the western world will be weaker in five years than it is now, despite the billions which the United States may pour out for national defense and rearmament of its allies in western Europe. Washington. George Kennan the "Mr. who serves as the state department's policy -maker and expert on Russia, is the principal exponent here of the theory that Stalin will not precipitate global war within at least five years, despite his preliminary triumph over the western powers, and especially the United States, in Korea.

Strange as it may seem, the Ken-nan belief is that Moscow's Korean successes will incline him to defer the ciav of all-out war instead The Atlanta Crypt, most ambitious and all-inciusiv ever conceived, was fatherd by famous Dr. Thorn-well Jacobs, founder of Oglethorpe university. It is a vault 20 by 10 feet, closed with a steel door. Walls and celling are lined with vitreous procelain enamel. The year 8113 was chosen because, when Ir.

Jacobs had the big idea In there had been 6,177 years of recorded time since the vear 4241 B.C. when Egyptian priests began their calendar. Wondering how much of life in 10-'W would be intelligible after 6.177 rears, that number was added to lf): to arrive at U3. The hope is the R2nd Century will have much more of a line on us than we have on those Egyp right away and there we got. the practical leginning of the present disorganized and demoralized condition of our fighting services.

The "brass" were a Jot of vain, selfish, predatory, glory-hunters. The West Pointers were a gang of cowards called the West Point Protective association. On performance, we had been able to tall up at one time a wonderful corps of planners, executives and fighters. The American army, navy and air force had not only stood off Japan It explains why Britain, trance, the Netherlands and India, which have recognized Mao Tst-tung'a government, have disassociated themselves from our Formosan venture. If we are forced into a vvar ith China, these nations may remain neutral, although they have far more at stake in the Orient than has the United States.

ernment" taking over. In kindly tones, as if reporting the demise of Torchy, the pet cat, the governor explained that there was unfortunately a great deal of ignorance among the people. People themselves would be surprised to know how many people don't want to run for people's delegates before the people. "The people? My God, not the people!" he exclaimed, perhaps mimicking the people afraid to run before the people or maybe in the manner of Hamlet seeing his father's ghost for the first time. But the people finally got a break.

The governor wanted all the people, rich and poor, bankers and farmers, to help write the constitution. The way to assure that would be for him to appoint a few people; certainly the people couldn't be given the job of electing people! But, of course the people would vote on the reduction of the governor's term from four years to two months less than six years; but not on anything else in the constitution. In time they might get educated enough to do that, too. but not this time; and after all wasn't the state superintendent of education going to help write the constitution? Education for the people above all else! That Gullota fellow began inter rupting again about letting the people vote on the whole constitution but someone handed him the July 2(ith newspapers and all 28 bills were approved while he read about "the people's victory" at the polls. The demonstration of "democracy at work" adjourned for tea with a Iladacol chaser, a night's rest, and a trip to the house the next morning.

The governor arrived again still not taking chances. He wrote notes to the legislators, thus displaying full confidence in their education; only "the people" are ignor ant. The fellow from New Oilcans got up, then sat down. He had been reading the wrong story in the July 2rth papers and had the victories of "The people's Government" of North Korea contused with democratic gov of hastening it. Kcw York, Aug.

7 Time and again in jeais pant, clients of these hf asked me to change the subject from unions, racketeers, the Roosevelt and their gratifying and demoralizing conduct and the Communists. But I knew that the unions were a subterfuge, a trick organization comparable, to he Nazi party in Germany or the Peoples Fronts in the Communist satellite countries and were being used by Roosevelt to establish a control of the people which the constitution knowingly withheld from government. I spelled it all out by quoting from the union and laws and revealing thf atrocious practices of union jurisprudence under gangster and Communist judges and trial boards. Now you are going to lie sorry that you ever listened to thoe who persuaded you that uch abrogations of your constitutional rights as a citizen were necessary and reasonable when you became a union member. You are going to be sorry that you ever gave a vote to a paltry hack from an underworld political machine that did not spurn the profits of prostitution in Kansas Citv.

who went His sally in that barren and remote peninsula, where he has succeeded in committing American and western forces to a hard and drawn out struggle, although it is relatively unimportant, convinces the Kremlin that it can duplicate this strategy in many other places. Moscow's immediate objective, according to this viewpoint, is to embroil the United States in a war with Communist China. The Korean aggression was designed deliberately to force us to take hostile action against the Mao Tse-tung regime on the mainland, and Stalin's plans have worked far better than he had antieifJated. Despite his previous desertion of Chiang Kai-shek, who has been repudiated completely by the Chinese people, President Truman has given protection to Formosa, Chiang's last toehold. The Seventh fleet is now patrolling the waters letween the island and the mainland.

General Douglas MacArthur has Britain wants to maintain a foothold at Kongkong, Singapore, Burma and Malaya, which are threatened directly by the Kremlin's Far Eastern aggression, for reasons of trade. France has sent more than 100.000 troops and spends half of her military budget' to retain control over Indo-China. The Netherlands has not looked her commercial grip on Ind-nesia. Prime Minister Nehru of India cannot afford to break With China or Russia. Thus, barring a miracle, the United States may find itself at war sooner or later with (C'onOnurd On Fallowinc Page) tians from their pyramids, parcn-irients, mummies and tombs.

It makes your flesh crawl to think history might repeat the oblivion Shellv described: "And on the pedestal these words appear:" My name is Ozymainjias, king of kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, anil despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away." The Kremlin, according to Mr. Kennan's confidential advice to the White House and state department, will hoard and build up its internal resources while it (1) wages guerrilla warfare against us in distant places and (2) weakens its prospective foes through Communist infiltration in governments, parlia with less than one hand until Hitler was out of the way, hut had crossed the Atlantic and Mediterranean in colossal force to dispose of him.

Then, they had demolished the fearsome Japanese empire, a political mistake to be sure, for that feat of arms turned Stalin loose against Americans in Korea, but a grand professional performance. Nevertheless the "brass" now liecame a cult of panoplied bums. The unioneers said so! After all these years of sacrifice, tension, struggle and fomented hatred in our midst, surely ours must le a better world than Her-tert Hoover left us! Yes. we had had some male Apple Marys on some few corners in New York and shark-towns by the tracks, but suppressed history has been revealed since then which shows that Itoth were exaggerated and exploited outwards of an economic slump much less due to Hoover than to the fanatic Wilson, who had to have his war. But even if Hoover couldn't have cured the depression would he have contrived a whole series of war emergencies to bail him out of his crises? Would he have turned our sixteen million Americans over to a gang of licentious, rioting criminals, subject to unlimited taxes and ferocious persecutions by kangaroo courts all outside the written forbiddance of the constitution and the public laws? Was there anything in the modest story of hi gentle wife to indicate that she ever could have in God and mir-and our own do not propose level stretch of We who believe American genius strong right arms to be a lone and Good Words Can Hide An Evil Movement By GKOItGK SOKOLSKY sand a nun-Let the of Jones valley limestone rired years from now.

ficial cornerstone opener recall It People's Forum TP.IItl TE TO BROOKS Editor, The Times: Your editorial Saturday morning, "How to Get Mad." 'was very timely, and certainly was concurred in by a great majority of the voters. I am glad you gave us your thoughts along that line. There is consolation to many of us, however, that there are exceptions to the rule, and your editorial does not apply in its entirety for even gratitude was expressed and lhanke offered to the Great Physician by one of the ten lepers healed. While not comparing our politicians as lepers as a whole, in some cases you note the resemblance, foi out of (he ten who succeeded in obtaining their goal among you snarling that the acts of congress which tried to curb the powers of Ihee Brown Shirts and Reds was a "slave labor law." I am afraid the fight to loosen the grip of these despotic people on the throats of Americans will not be won. Some are just ignorant, rock-fisted thugs, but there are bela kuns among them, too.

We are going into a war economy as sure as you are born and in this terrible hour we find even Governor Dewey, who knows even more than I do alout the brutal, predatory character and practises of the goons, breaking bread with some of the worst and using the occasion to cry up the alarm that our danger is "immediate and perhaps desperate." I don't much blame him now. They are the strongest power we have and the sudden job of muscling up and making discipline is des(erateiy urgent. In New York the goons are even trying to absorb the cops. I The record of the unions in the Second World ar wa an appal- ling exploitation vf the Wood, an- guish and sacrifice of the people and of the country's peril, to flern-e loyal war-workers of billions watched closely because they are often trojan horse operations designed to weaken the will of a people to resist conquest. In any war effort, the main objective of an aggressor is to destroy che will to resist of the country he intends to destroy.

What better weapon can be used, in this age of quick and emphatic expression in newspapers and radio, to achieve such an end than to start a widespread peace movement which no manner affects him but does weaken his enemy? For instance, the present world-wide peace effort seeks to limit the military potential of the United States while it places upon Soviet Russia no limitations. This Soviet Russia sought to accomplish with the petition, the Stockhold pledge, widely signed in this country by prominent names. This actually is nothing more than a public relations movement to create and accelerate public opinion against the use of the atomic bomb by the United States, even in self-defense. Manv who signed that document brought 'herself to butt into bu-j reaucratic affairs, foreign iolicy 1 and legislative functions always in favor of crummy misanthropes and spies or to revel in graft on the by-j product of the election returns? i Did any Hoover ever take a dirty wiollar or even a doubtful one? Mary Pick ford wrote a naive book a few jears back called "Why Not Try God?" 1 find many a one thinkine that wav now. God knows In our favor when clad in gay and shining raiment he applies the atomic' jet-chisel on August 3, 2050, while the band plays "Dixie!" Morning Meditations Unman 5: I-- Therefore lieing justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have accefsi by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

And not only so. but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; nd experience, hope; And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God Is ihed abroad In our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto lis. For when wp were yet ithout strength. In due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man wfiil one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

But God commendeth his love toward us. in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Horoscope Today's degree indicates one of very superior ahilify, who generally ernment of the people" in Louisiana. Everybody shouted about "democracy." Finally it was decided that "democracy at work" meant that the people could not vote on a constitution they are supposed to write. The tally was 50 for democracy barring he people and for democracy letting them in.

A quick check showed that the newspaper subscriptions of each of the 33 expired last July 24th and none had been renewed. Then democracy worked again with a vote of 71 to 24 in favor of passing the bill, which had been given due and democratic consideration for matter of minutes figurativ ely speaking. -Nine of the original now had gotten the July 2Uh papers, which accounted for the shift in the totals. The governor returned to the mansion the people's" mansionall abeam. Democracy sure does work when you grease the skids enough.

A new demonstration of "democracy at work" will come today or tomorrow in the Rumors that strange forms were seen on the capitol lawn last night balancing balls on their noses are vigorously denied. It was just some "little people" rolling hoops in the moonlight. It is rejwted without confirmation that the new constitution might contain a provision to let "the people" go roll their hoops to their heart's content. Kepeiilant Sinner Senator Glenn Taylor, the "repentant sinner." goes to the polls today in Idaho to seek renomination in the Democratic primaries against former Senator D. Worth Clark and Rep.

Compton I. White. Taylor is a "good Democrat" now, in the eves of President Truman and the Truman Democratic national committee. He was a bad boy in 1048 when he was vice-presidential candidate on the Henrv Wallace ticket, although Washington didn't mind the fact that he got arrested for violating Alabama's racial laws, But. running with the lefties means nothing to the powers in Washington if the runner votes right in congress later and Taylor txxrnme a Prodigal Son after the 1048 election.

He came home to roost in mama's nest. Whether Idaho will view its errant political son Irving C. Mondore, writing to the Syracuse Post-Standard on June 21, says: "Personally, 1 am going to drink water even if I hear that Russians drink it; I am going to breathe air even if the Russians breathe air; and I am going to be for peace even if the Russians are for peace!" Four -days later, the vvar was started in Korea by Soviet Russia and our boys are being killed there now. Mr. Mondore Is no great exception to the incorrect conclusions reached on historical subjects in this country during the past three decades.

It" is thinking in generalities rather than from known and available data. It is perhaps the product of quick and small doses, beautifully illustrated, that keeps so many of our folks from going to source material. This type of thinking, in the easy manner, is not limited to small and busy-people who have little time from their daily stints to give to great subjects. It has been a characteristic of many of our leaders who seem to have dwelt in a romantic atmosphere of hopelessness that the worst couid not happen and therefore would not. The reason for this it that we run too much to slogans, to short, crisp phrases that sound so wonderful and mean so little.

The advertising asencv is perhaps most respon- sibSe for this habit. "Your best friend won't tell you" may help to sell what it is intended to but it does not help understand why the Slavo-Mongoiian world is succeeding so far in its tremendous impulse to destroy western christian civilization. Peace is good and war Is bad. we gave the devil a long turn at bat. Today in History 1797 The New York Medical Depository, country's first medical journal, first issued.

First sucevssful American locomotive, the "Stourbridge Lion. tried out at Honesdaie, Pa. Came from England. Ran some 25 miles, remained idle thereafter and finally put in shop and its boiler used there. 1S5-1 Horace Smiih and Daniel B.

Wesson granted first patent for the Smith and Wesson metallic cartridge. 1S2 The Writ of Habeas Corpus suspended bv President Lincoln in only one rernemtcred his Benefactor. I am sure of some exceptions, as I know you are. and for which I am very thankful, I would especially call at ten! ion to our very able, alert, and untiring Congressman Overton Brooks who has never ceased to teeognize that he is the servant of the people, anxious, ready and willing to go alt out for a righteous cause in their behalf for our country. He has always been the same affable, trustworthy gentleman the days after election as he was the riayn when he requested our continued support.

He proved himself the friend of our boys in the service and never failed to respond when a request was made of him, if it was a legitimate request. The vote of five to one over two aspirants for the office he sought pretty good evidence pf the esteem and confidence In which he is held by the people of the Fourth congressional district. I predict for him his most successful term of office with hla greatest achievements. Sincerely vours, 14 M. ubRFUTY 150 Wilkinson street, ghreveport 14, I August 6, 1050.

Today's Birthdays Hamilton Owens, editor-In-ehief of the Baltimore Sun-papers, born In Baltimore, 62 year ago. Pauline kord. actress, born Han-ford, 60 vears ago. Dr. Emeat O.

Law rente of the University of California, famous physicist," atomic research leader, born Canton, S. 49 years ago. Edward J. Noble, chairman of Life Savers corporation, born at Gouverneur. N.

(iS year ago. Dr. Oliver E. Buckley, president of Bell Te'epbore laboratories, born of dollars all of which eventually came out of the whole population as taxes. Unioneers were princes of privilege.

John L. Ifwis drove from Washington to Springfield. IU visit his old mother while vou were coasting down icy hills at risk of your life to save a few drop of gas and sneaks were jotting down license numbers on the parking lot in the evening to report that you were wasting gas going to the movies, James B. Carey, a prnfes sional unioneer little qualified that he got hoved out of hi own union, became a sort of dethroned king on the ftounty of the CIO and the White1 He was gien a limouaine with a government driver and gas and tires because his endearing way with the Hoose-velts made him indispensible in the "mr etfort." But these were not the worst. Though heir privileges were shocking, these were mere opportunists out for the ride as deadheads on a hack headed for hell.

l.esU never was a Communist and Catey'8 devotion to Carey left nothing to spare for There were literally tnousands of privi. leged unioneers reading their own word at wisdom in their own groveling tittle Hitlerian papers, collecting laudatory certificates from Morgenihau for investing their subjects money in war bonds and taking bows from the war and navy departments as obscure brigadiers and buck admirals babbled laudations prepared by New Deal press agents at the ceremonial breaking-out of phoney pennants. When was over, still concerned only in their own selfish empires and baronies, they set up hullabaloo for demobilization war a great outburst of aarm tne exceot that oeaee al- thought that they were appending their names in support of peace. I have a letter from a young lady. 20 year old.

a student -at a college, who write me: am terribly upset by your statements, on last night's broadcast, concerning the Stockholm pledge. Very stupidly, but inno-i eniiy, I signed it. about a week ago. There are many idealistic, young people exactly like me who are doing the same thing, what can be done to rectify my blunder, and to prevent others from doing the same Naturally, these young people want peace. When I was a student at Columbia university -it seems centuries ago I joined the collegiate anti-militarism league.

We wanted peace, too. Our country wanted peace. How much peace has there been since 1914? Always a new enemy arises, a new force that seeks to build world empire by force. The aggressor camouflages his intentions with whatever means are available to him. And the slogan it a means which can do infinite damage it leads astray.

The use of gocxl words in a slogan ma? and often doe cover a multitude of bad acu. No one in the United State wanted a war in the summer of 1950 but we got one, and our enemy is a nation which is still conducting a universal peace movement that continues to fool American by ita slogans. with the same forgiveness that the president extended will be determined today. -o- eminence therein. Born in the higher spheres of life the native will attain fame and wealth; in less advantageous circumstances there is still good fortune and the "respect of the associates.

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Los Ancelea. Charlotte. Portland) andSea tt le The Shreveoort Times is an independent newspaper It prints the news Impartially It siioports what it believes to rieht. It opposes what It believes to bw wrong, without regard to party PoUttcs Midi erm Forecasts I ways needs to be There is the peace, for instance, that pas- seth all understanding and it goes by the name of death. It has never lieen true, since 1917, that Soviet Russia has peae.

In fact, peace campaigns instigated by Ho- viet Russia over the year fcsve been sloganized, perversion of a warlike character. For instance, the League Against War and Fascism, an international arm of Soviet Russia, was an intervention in the affairs of the United States, designed to weaken this country. In 19. when the Hitier-Stalin al- lianre was formed, this league became an instrument of propaganda in the guise of peace, lis strongest propaganda instrument, when World War II started, was country over, 1S76 First mimeograph patent bv Fdison. "190 Because the America of that day was little interested in him or in "flying.

Wilbur Wright makes his first" flight in France, J913 President Wilson asks joint session of congress for penalties for profiteer. 1925 4Q.OOO Klu KIux Klanners parade in white sheets In Washington. 1942 Six of the eight Nazi spies secretly landing here electrocuted. 1945 Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Russia declare war or Japan.

President Roosevelt signs the UN charter. 1946 GI leave pay bill, over 2 billion, signed by president. 1949 Senate passes big ERP appropriation for another jear. Three months before the 1950 midterm elections for congress on November 7, Representative Joseph W. Martin, Republican leader in the house, savs: "There is no doubt about it; we will win control of (he house." Two years ago the Republicans were equally confident three months before the election.

A national poll as of July 31 had shown that more than 53 per cent of the voters v'io expressed a preference were for Dew ey, only 41 per cent for Truman, almost 6 per cent for Wallace. The Fortune magazine poll a few days later gave Dewey 40 per cent more votes than Truman. Elmo Sloan. Iowa, Ha years ago. Roy Barton White, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, born in Metealf.

111., 67 years ago, Lieutf, Gen. A Ivan Giilem. bom in Nashville, Term, 62 yeara I ago. the slogan: "The anks Are Not Coming." Hit rave port, Lrfu, August 8, 195 reac movements need, to be.