‘Sammy the Rose’ –
Rosenman named as writer of blistering tax bill veto
Roosevelt’s legal aide may become new whipping boy
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
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‘Sammy the Rose’ –
Graham candidate for Congress race
Butler, Pennsylvania – (special)
Attorney John C. Graham today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress at the April 25 primary.
Mr. Graham has sought election to Congress several times, the last two years ago when he polled Butler County over Congressman Louis E. Graham, but lost the nomination in the results from the other two counties in the district, Beaver and Lawrence.
Mr. Graham said his candidacy gives Butler County a chance “to have a representative in Congress for the first time in 20 years.”
Last of convict-kidnappers caught as car is wrecked
Three hold farmgirl for 18 hours as hostage
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Ohio man on trial for triple slaying
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Fliers ignore storm, make 34-hour trip
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U.S. airmen rescued from Alpine icefields
London, England (UP) –
The German DNB News Agency reported today that a number of U.S. airmen had been rescued from the icefields of the Eastern Alps. They were reported suffering from frostbite and hardly able to move.
An earlier DNB dispatch said 114 U.S. fliers who bailed out in that area were doomed to death in the snow and cold because storms were making it impossible for German Alpine guides to rescue them.
Model of body of slain baby shown at trial
Prosecutor seeks to prove Noxon electrocuted imbecile son
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Jury sought in cadet’s case
Defense fails in effort to disqualify judge
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Democrats in House
Nashville, Tennessee –
Tennessee Republican leaders at their 1944 Lincoln Day dinner to hear an address by Alfred M. Landon, GOP candidate in 1936, were somewhat surprised, to say the least, at the selection of background music. Among the songs selected were “Donkey Serenade” and “Night Train to Memphis” (Memphis is the stronghold of Edward H. Crump, Democratic political boss).
Independents ready to vie with CIO, AFL
Leaders say confederation has been made into real ‘third labor movement’
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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3 U.S. divisions carry big load in Italian push
3rd battles on beachhead, 34th and 36th attack around Cassino
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Carrier-based planes prove turning point in the Pacific
Conquest of Kwajalein blasts theory of their inferiority, aircraft executive states
By Max B. Cook, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Flamethrowers clean out Japs, thickens efficiently
White hot plumes of fire destroy everything in their path, and infantry moves up
By Richard W. Johnson, United Press staff writer
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Japs and Nazis feel power of Allied air arm
Raids on Germany’s plane plants will save many lives in invasion
By Col. Frederick Palmer, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Editorial: President and Congress
Now that Congress has overridden the President’s unprecedented veto of a tax bill, and Senate Democrats have endorsed Leader Barkley’s revolt against Roosevelt usurpation, where do we go from here?
The answer is far more important than the political fortunes of any man or party. Winning the war and winning the peace are at stake. There can be no national unity and no efficient war government as long as the President and Congress are fighting each other. Teamwork between the White House and the Hill, in the letter and spirit of coordinate constitutional powers, is the most acute need in America today.
Such cooperation will not be easy to achieve. Congress has been alternately ignored, smeared and bossed for so long by the President that its human temptation is to pay him back now that he has so grossly-overreached himself. Freedom that comes from successful revolt is a heady wine – Congress could get drunk on it.
Cooperation is even harder for the President. By temperament and habit, he is a one-man show. Moreover, as wartime Commander-in-Chief he is in a spot where even the humble Lincoln found it necessary to be dictatorial at times.
But above all other causes of growing conflict between the President and Congress is the fourth-term election. It is hard for him to divorce War President Roosevelt from Candidate Roosevelt, and still more difficult for Congress to do so. Even when he speaks with wisdom and selfishness, he is heard as a clever politician maneuvering for 16 years’ rule. And when he loses his poise – as in his recent insulting messages – he is jumped on as a blundering candidate, rather than helped out as a national leader who sometimes stumbles under the world’s heaviest load.
Despite all barriers, the President and Congress must get together.
Congress must forget and forgive his past usurpations, remembering its own frequent defaults of responsibility.
The President must learn, from the humiliation which he has just brought upon himself, that he no longer can drive the elected representatives. He must reason, if they are to follow. He must reason, if they are to agree. He must respect their constitutional function, if they are to work with him.
The present tax and foreign policy disputes are typical. The Constitution makes Congress chiefly responsible for taxation, and the President chiefly responsible for foreign policy, but both responsibilities are to be shared. We repeat here the proposals we and others have made so many times for joint executive-legislative committees. Unless the President and Congress can get together on a simplified program for increased taxes, the nation is threatened with inflation and worse. Unless they can get together on a foreign policy, the nation is threatened with another Wilson tragedy and loss of the peace.
They can get together, if they will.
Background of news –
Divided Democratic Party
By Bertram Benedict, editorial research reports
In the House vote last Thursday to override the veto of the revenue bill, about 80% of the Representatives who stuck by the President come from urban areas. With the President were all but two of the Democrats from New York City, a large proportion of those from the West, a considerable number from Oklahoma and Tennessee, but only five from the Solid South (two on pairs).
The Democratic Party is an uneasy amalgam of the South and the large cities of the North and West. About one-half of the Democrats in Congress are Southerners; about one-third urban Easterners and Westerners, about one-sixth non-urban Easterners and Westerners.
In 1924, the party delegates split 50-50 at the national convention in New York on condemning the Ku Klux Klan by name, with most of the Southerners against condemnation, most of the Easterners for it. The convention deadlocked for over 100 ballots between the candidacies of Alfred E. Smith, supported chiefly in the East and in Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and of William G. McAdoo, supported chiefly in the South and the rural West.
In the election of 1924, the Smith states gave little support of John W. Davis, the party’s compromise candidate. When the Smith camp demanded and got the nomination for their man in 1928, half of the Southern states voted for Hoover.
Alliance is nothing new
Today, the Northern and Western Democrats yearn to retain the labor vote and Negro vote, necessary to party success in many parts of the North and the West. Southern Democrats in Congress usually can expect reelection whatever the fate of the presidential ticket.
From its very beginning, the Democratic Party was a union of the South and large cities of the North.
Thomas Jefferson rode to power by dint of an alliance with certain urban political organizations of the North, notable Tammany Hall. The alliance ultimately came to grief, despite Jefferson’s attempt to hold the Northerners in line with patronage, and by the end of Jefferson’s administration, he had all but lost control over his party in Congress.
Even at the time of the Civil War, the Southern cotton planters were in close political alliance with Northern cotton manufacturers, and most of the considerable vote in the North against Lincoln for reelection in 1864 came from large cities and towns.
In Grover Cleveland’s second administration, he turned ultraconservative, according to the prevalent views in the South and West during the long depression of the ‘90s, and the South and West took control of the Democratic Party at the 1896 convention. Over Northern opposition, they put across a Free Silver plank and the nomination of Bryan, and the convention even rejected a proposal to commend the Cleveland administration.
Labor turns to GOP
With the Democratic Party in the hands of Southerners and Westerners, Eastern labor turned largely to the Republican Party, especially since the GOP “sold” labor, as we say today, on a protective tariff.
Woodrow Wilson managed to keep the Southerners in line for the pro-labor program of his administration, but in those days, industrialization had made few inroads into the South, where the trade union movement was still more of an abstraction than a reality.
Today, the South has come to know at first hand the attempt to organize both industrial and farm workers for higher wages and shorter hours, and the South is cold to pleas of the Northern and Western Democrats that they need the labor and Negro vote for political success.
The South, on its side, insists that the Northern and Western Democrats don’t appreciate the excesses in Reconstruction days, when voting restrictions in the South were largely relaxed.