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tary plan of fighting imitation to the
people as a sop or a substitute for
action, that prices would be higher
when they came back to Washing
ton for this second session.
They knew the law they gave
President Truman to sign as an in
strument to halt high prices was a
sham and only gesture . that it
was phony law wholly lacking in
the tools and the teeth to do the job.
Many who voted for it admitted pri-
vately it wouldn't work and in fact
the COP leadership didn't ex-
pect the Democrats to take it
they thought the Democrats would
vote against it. But the Democrats
fooled them. AS a matter of fact,
both were playing game a
game of politics and neither had the
intestinal fortitude to put forward a
real government control law with
strength in it. Now both parties will
be forced to 60 to government con-
trolls and to either rationing or price
controls or both.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
United Effort Needed

Several weeks ago this column kanded
The members of congress for their states
nansbib, generally speaking, in passing
the emergency aid to Europe legislation
sDifb eomtaratively fen voices in opposi-
ton. Today much more far-reaebing
program is before congress in THE Euro
pean recovery plan. 1t piH take The bigb-
est sort OF sfatesmansbib to knock down
The sfrsW-men set up in OPPOSITION and no
bote We Uont have to recant about bon
this congress has risen above partisansbip
and pressnres from minority groups. There
is danger though. The traditional isola-
fionisnu of The Midwest, specifically in In
diana, Ohio and Illinois is Shouting
through The fabric Wopen to preserve fbe
Bipartisan foreign policy. Some senators
and congressman from those states are
forming a "wreekine ereW"to sabotage The
Marshall plan. They wont succeed. The
Marshall plan will pass, but they'll muddy
tbe u,afers.
Recently blue-eyed, blonde Mar
garet Truman made her Washington
debut as concert singer. Constitu-
ton Hall was packed to capacity.
Music critics here were no less criti-
cal of her voice than those of other
cities. But despite the voice of the
critics, Margaret, it is reported, has
signed contract which tops her
dads salary. Not bad for the little
Missouri girl.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
Hard Training Needed

There seems to be a wide diff
ference of opinion as to how Joe
Louis will look and act on his re-
appearance in front of Jersey Joe
Walcott in June.
No one, of course, expects to see
the Louis of his peak years, the
Louis that used to be. On the other
hand, I don't think you'll view any
decrepit old man. You'll see much
better Louis than the one who met
Walcott a short while back.
When Louis came to this contest
he had actually fought only seven
full rounds in six years. The rounds
against Billy Conn consisted en-
tirely of walking, barring one or
two punches. The Mauriello furry
lasted less than three minutes.
Louis had been leading soft life
up to his brief training period, look
ing on Walcott as soft touch to be
eliminated without much effort. So
there was neither any physical
hardness nor any mental lift to the
Louis effort. He had overlooked the
fact that while he was loafng, Wal
colt had been fighting. This can
make a terrific difference when one
has passed 30, and has been around
the ring IL or l3 years.
still believe Louis can whip him.
self back into first-class fighting
shape, if he has that much ambi-
ton left. For this isn't going to be
any easy job.
Road work isn't the only answer.
Back in training, he needs sparring
partners who can jolt him, hurt him
and cross him up. Joe has never
been the rings quickest thinker
when he gets crossed. He needs
time to figure things out. He I'm
tracks slowly. But up to the Walcott
party, he had always been willing
to throw punch, once he got in
reach. This time, after catching up
with Walcott. he waited for Walcott
to lead.
A serious, hard-training campaign
of three or four months could bring
Louis back a long way-quite long
enough to win-if Louis is willing to
pay this price. At least he will never
look as bad again.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
No War Guilt

Railroads themselves and bad
railroad management, not the war,
are responsible for the freight car
shortage. So declares the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad. In no
single year since 1925, the c. & o.
says, have the railroads of the coun-
try bought as many freight cars as
they have junked.
They could release thousands of
cars, more extra cars than shops
possibly could build, by the simple
device of lifting deliberate freight
slow-downs since schedules are
fixed so the fastest freights are held
back for the slowest-so no road
can have a competitive advantage.
In the meantime wheat and other
farm produce and manufactured
commodities are stacked on the
ground or on platforms to deterio-
rate because of lack of freight cars.
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joined him in Paris after the armis-
tice. Walking down Rue de la Paix
one day with Roy I was mumbling
"reminiscences of riding beside my
battery of ISIS. Suddenly he grabbed
me by the arm. Buck" he said,
that's poetry. Let's write book.
I'll illustrate it."
OF course, it wasn't poetry but it
was verse the GI.s of our day I'M
derstood and the illustrations we're
art, if art is life - and death -
as Roy had seen it.
We came back and went our sepa-
rate ways. He now had a partner,
Caroline Singer, perfect compile
ment. She was a California news
paper woman. They built home,
leaving it periodically to travel the
Seven Seas - China, Japan, Europe
again, India, Africa, criss-crossing
out their books in perfect collabora-
ton.
But Roy's book is his own story,
perfect American saga. AS Ameri-
can as the wind that bows the Mid
west corn fields; as foreign as the
sounds and smells of Picking, Yoko-
hama, the click of sabots in a tiny
French village, varied as its rib
bon-breasted diplomats. kings, Sene-
gambanian bellies and Teheran
beauties.
But it's more than that. It's the
story of the making of a human phil
osophy old as the Monaghan noun
tains which are part of its back
ground, new as today.
LEFT and right" writes Bald
ridge, "are not two evils, they
are the same evil; and safety
without the solidarity of class
conscious groups, screaming
slogans, or party orders to lean
upon, liberals must be staunch
enough to walk lonely road"
know that Roy would like to
have me conclude this review - if
you want to call it that with the
following quotation which gave him
his title, the biblical quotation:
1.-The race is not to the swift, nor
the battle to the strong, neither yet
bread to the wise, nor yet riches
to men of understanding, nor yet
favor to men of skill; but time and
chance happeneth to them all"
! would not dare to doubt the
words of the Preacher (Ecclesi-
astes kid - but l know that
here was man who graSped
time by the forelOck, was able
to hOg-tie and saddle it, and one
who took his chances If not with
out fear. at least without falter-
ing.
When Tovarich gets the idea his
rubles are going to be worthless, he
acts just like a wage-slave in be-
nighted capitalistic country.
Will your home be old-fashioned in
1860? asked the Magazine Build
er." hope not. That's about the
time hope it will be built.
Before the war, 40 per cent of our
exports went to the British emr ire.
Most of our British imports now are
Scotch.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

Der the number of games Art Fletch-
er won for the Yankees? l can't tell
you the number either, but Fletcher
won plenty. could tell you about
the game that Gonzalez had saved
for the Cardinals. There are many
others"
why is the third base coach so
important. and why is the job SO
toush?" I asked Frisch.
Third base is the scoring spot"
Frlsch replied. 1T is the big cor
ner. There are men on first and Sec
ond. A hit follows. The third base
coach has to judge the speed of the
hit, He has to"know something about
the outfielder's throwing arm.
Should he send the runner home?
Should he send the first base run
ner on his way round to third? He
must watch the ball. He must
watch two base runners.
Games Lost at Third
1T might surprise you if should
tell you the number of games saw
lost last season through incorrect
decisions on the part of the third
base coach. l couldn't blame them
for they had too many spots to COW
er, too many places to watch, all in
split-second time"
Looking back, you can see what
Mr.. Frisch was talking about. Base
ball is packed with close games
with games won or lost by a run.
Should the base runner be sent
home, or held at third? Should
the runner on first be sent around
to third? With two men scamper-
ing around the bases and the ball
bouncing around the infield - three
different spots to watch - what is
the next move?
Third base coaching is not only
tough spot" Frisch says, but a
highly important one. It can mean
the difference of 10 or IL games a
season, margin that could win
pennant for three or four teams.
There are so many things that look
unimportant in baseball that can
win or lose your games" Frisch
continued. "Just a little mistake
here - just another one there. Not
much of mistake. But there goes
your ball game"
"Frisch is right when you look
over the number of ball games won
and lost by the margin of single
run. Just a run, that's all. But it
means the ball game.
The Dodgers won a flock of games
by one run last season. Suppose
third of those had gone the other
way? What a sad hamlet Brooklyn
would have been.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

er who has to watch
both infield and out
field. Practically
every job at every
position is an impor-
tant one. But how
m any people do
you ever hear talk
about the coach at
third base? To my
mind that's as big
a job as there is in
ba S b all. Just to
take one example,
how manu- raroep,.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

Sartorially correct Sen. Ken
meth Spicer Wherry, the Ne
braska mortician and whip of the
senate, boosted he would like to
claim as much of the glory as
possible for defeating OPA. His
was the loudest voice against it.
Senator Wherry comes from
small town in Nebraska, Pawnee
City, population about 100. His
business interests are in other
small towns and apparently he
has had chance to get close to
the home folks. In all the debate
over legislation to halt initiation
and high cost of living, there has
been hardly a peep out of Sena-
tor Wherry.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

where he taught art to little toughs
from the stockyard district, devel-
oped a social conscience, became
a national guard cavalryman (be-
cause he dreamed of "going west"
and being another Frederick Rem
ington), got his first peep into the
world OF culture and fell in love
with chaming and modern" men
tor out of world until then strange
to him.
One day shortly after World War
broke out, I received a long dis
lance telephone call. 1t was Roy,
he was going overseas. Wouldn't I
join him? I had just completed
tour of European wandering much
more conventional than Roy's was
to be. I also had a job. So I, the
congenital bourgeoise. rejected the
idea.
Later l learned that he then
had two incentives I lacked: A
broken heart and a sketchbOOk,
as spurs. Unbelievably, without
credentials, he wormed his way
through beleaguered Belgium to
the German front, where he
learned to hate war. He came
back to fight out a career in
New York.
I'm not going to write any more
of Roy's story for it is his story told
far better than I could hope to re-
count it. can only say that when
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

through Arkansas, selling cooking
pots.
Worked way through college
with Baukhage."
(Roy did the working, l, subsi-
died, loafed considerably
peace conference paris, 1919
with Baukhage, and sold on Will
sons idealism. Still sold on ideal
ism, the term now altered with the
times.
worked enough to save money
enough to see Far East, Near East,
Africa, Indian" (And how he
workedD
Then he concludes:
"All men the same, discount
ing the apparent differences
caused by varying backgrounds
caused by time and chance
To reach that conclusion, Roy
made an Odyssey beginning with
the cooking pots" into domains Of
which Homer never dreamed. He
had an artists eye trained from the
age of u when he was tolerated in
a Chicago art school with young
artists who were later to achieve
national regulations. Such men as
John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist;
Webster, creator OF the "Timid
SOUL" and many others. Goudy,
the great type designer, who died
last year, was Roy's teacher, along
with the schools director, Frank
Holme, who became a second father
to the wide-eyed child. At that
school, Roy learned his most impor-
tant lesson-self criticism.
His mother Remarked, and Roy
became bellhop and baggage-smash-
er in his stepfather's small-town
commercial hotel; finally he went to
college on scholarship which,
when he arrived, he found wasn't
there. Utterly alone, without the So
cial prestige of a college fraternity,
he achieved campus success; be-
came what was considered prom
inent student"
He grew to realize the empti-
ness Of college honors" but,
unlike Vincent Sheean who was
to follow him, Roy learned to
admire the university which he
had "collegiately" exploited. At
our goth reunion, he interpreted
the word university" in its OBJ
sOlete but new meaning: "the
whole all things the
universe body Of persons
:. the body of the people,"
I shared those campus years with
Roy, but l missed most of their sig
nificance and experience, for was
carefully sheltered (after a few
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
The Questions

l. About 1900.
2. Wolfgang Amadeus.
3. In 1888.
4. An ostrich has four toes.
5. Out of 500 cities surveyed,
Boston was the quietest, Los An
geles was runner-up and New
York was third.
6. Calender, a roller machine;
colander, a perforated vessel; cal
endar, a table of dates.
7. Thomas A. Edison.
g. Mercury.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
Western States Win

At the last regular session of the
8Otf- congress the economy minded
leaders slashed millions of dollars
from the interior departments bu-
reau of reclamation projects. De-
spite opposition of western senators
and congressman who claimed these
projects were the life blood of the
west. the sashes went through ruth
lessly. But the special session re-
stored approximately thirty-two mil
lion dollars of those slashes in recla-
nation appropriations.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
, ASK NE -
ANOTHER (
!, A General Quiz
The Answers
@ooe@eN@Nf

l. How many persons IN the
United States have passed the cen
fury mark?
2. What was Mozart's given
name?
8. Lloyd's of London, insurance
firm, originated from the coffee
house opened by Edward Lloyd in
what year?
4. How many toes has an os-
trich?
S. Which is the quietest city in
the U. S.?
6. What is the difference be-
tween calender, colander and cal
endar?
7. Who invented the motion pic
ture machine in 1893?
8. What planet is nearest the
sun?
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

a Well-meaning,
b u t provincial
farm boy got an
in t ernatio n a !
point of view"
He summarizes
his own thoughts
on this attractive
400-page volume
in a note to me,
this way:
"Grandfather
(was AZ share
cropper and vet.
"At 8 e v e n
(Roy) was driv-
ing a horse on
mothers wagon
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

ward spiral. Time
presses and the pa
tience of the Amer
lean people grows
more and more rag
ged as their savings
and current income
buy less each day.
The pitiful part
about it is that con-
gress knew when it
adjourned a f t e r
throwing the sadly
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

World War I came
to America he had
his part in it, a
fraction of which I
again was lucky
enough to share
with him. He was
a cartoonist on the
Stars and Stripes,
after experiences
on every front with
I h q French 7
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
no II 49,.
REpoRzzRxz&I
Neglect by Congress
m WASHINGTON


AP FORTUNATELY six
IA weeks have elapsed since
congress adjourned for the
Christmas holidays and then
convened on January 6 for the
second session of this Both congress.
In those six weeks the cost Of iv-
ing has continued its inevitable up
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
Washington IIl:S$Syz
Artist-Writer Builds Self
Philosophy for to Admire
BY BAUkHAGE
Ne,us Analyst and Commentator.

WASHINGTONEvery in while, devote this column
to book Not review but feelings about the book and
its author.
couldn't writing by Cyrus
Leroy Balddge
book themselves
experiences
Baldridge nterprets In terms of his
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

Also I want to write a review be-
cause Of what these Experiences, the
fruits Of the varied environments
which the artist-author describes,
did to form a career, a character,
philosophy, which is "for to see and
to admire"
In Roy's own words, it is the story,
partly done in pictures, of "how
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
- ~ r;
(5od91i4Q

FRANK FRISCH, sometimes
known as the Fordham Flash,
was talking.
"You know" Frisch said, "they
talk about the toughest and most
important jobs in baseball. Maybe
it's the pitcher. Maybe it's the CATCH
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freshman heartbreaks) behind the
protective coloring Of Greek letters.
But l managed to know Roy and
learn a little from his experiences.
He is man who inspires high loyal
ties.
There was a post-college period
when we lost each other. He was
commercial, arting and living in the
University of Chicago settlement,
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

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Evening star., 1948-05-26
Doq Pack Owner Convicted
OF MansIaughter in Death
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, May ga public
school janitor, whose pack of bull
terriers killed Bronx schoolboy,
was convicted yesterday of second
degree manslaughter, with a jury
recommendation for clemency.
Sentencing of the defendant.
Svend O. Sandgren, 50. was set for
June 10 by Bronx County Judge
Harry Stackell The possible max
imum penalty would be Is years in
prison.
Stanley Balaban, II, was killed
by the dogs last July in a lot
near Bronx swimming pool. A
two-count indictment charged Sand
gren with owning vicious dogs and
with allowing them to roam.
A defense motion for continuance
of his $500 bail was turned down,
and Sandgren was sent to the Bronx
County Jail to await sentencing.
An earlier trial resulted in . jury
deadlock last December 16.
Evening star., 1948-05-26
Insurance Death Payments
Show Decline in District

A reduction Of $417,o00 in death
benefit payments to District life in
surance beneficiaries reflect an "ex-
cellent health record" in the city,
the Institute of Life Insurance de-
clared today.
While greater amount of life
insurance was at risk, the institute
said, District families received $3,-
$4,000 in death payments during
the first three months of this year,
compared with s3,542,0 900 in the
corresponding period of last year.
For the Nation as a whole, $377,-
100000 was paid as death claims
under 353,532 policies in the first
quarter. 9 per cent larger than for
the same period of 1947.
Evening star., 1948-05-26
Vondenberg Asks Yale Students
To Stop c Campaign in His Behalf

Army veteran, he will graduate from
Yale Law School next month and
plans to practice here.
Evening star., 1948-05-26
Opinion on Mundt Bill
To Be Given Senator's
By ; Legal Experts
by the Associated Press,

Three nationally known lawyers
will be asked to tell the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee what they think
of the Mundt-Nixon bill to curb
Communists in this country.
The name of the three-John w.
Davis, Charles Evans Hughes, jr.,
and Seth Richardson-were made
known by Chairman Wiley as the
committee laid plans for a three
day hearing, starting tomorrow, on
the controversial bill
1t was passed by the House last
week by lopsided margin despite
questions as to the constitutionality
of some of its provisions.
Taft Sees Demand for Curbs.
Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Hughes are
members of New York law firms.
The former was the Democratic
candidate for President in 1924. Mr.
Hughes is the son of the former
Chief Justice. Mr.. Richardson Is
chairman of the Federal Loyalty
Review Board.
Chairman Taft of the Senate Re-
publican Policy Committee told
newsmen that if the Judiciary group
reports out an anti-Communist bill
it will be placed on the Senate's
already crowded calendar.
The people" Senator Taft said,
want some kind of BILL
May Not Be Full Answer.
He has indicated, however. that
he doesn't think the Mundt-NiXon
measure is the full answer to the
problem.
AS now written, the bill would
make a felony any activities aimed
at setting up a dictatorship in this
country.
The Communist Party would be
required to register and list all
members. CommuniSt-front organ
izations likewise would have to reg
lister and give the Attorney General
access to membership lists.
The act provides penalties rang
ing up to a $4,000 fine and 10 years
Imprisonment for violations.