Evening star., 1948-11-19

aid for the education Of all American children,
which might have had unexpected results II
thoroughly exploited.
Henry Wallace continued to whistle to keep
up his courage to the very end. He, too, put
up a good personal fight. 1t was unfortunate
that he expended his energy in wrong cause.
He is Just as determined to expand his splinter
party into one Of the two major political
parties Of the country as some of us pro-
gressives, including myself. were in 1912 and
1916. But he will not succeed. His misnamed
Progressive Party will shortly peter out
down to its hard communistic core. The Com
munists, having been resolutely shown the door
by the Democratic and Republican Parties,
will exercise squat.er rights as to the PRO
gressive Party" until they can find something
else to which to turn their mischievous hands.
Henry Wallace, who is q stubborn man, may
try to make himself believe, at least for a
while, that he is the head Of party, but he
will soon find himself leading q meager rear
guard from which the genuine liberals who
supported him, as distinguished from the
Communists, quietly have departed one by one.
(copyrisht 1s4s, New York Post corporation)
column printed on the editorial page Of the
Ss
The Crossroads
By Brodie Burnhan
Practically everybody talked to Monday
morning at the Administration Building and
elsewhere asked me If I'd seen O) Harold
Ickes' oplumn IN the Sunday Star and Herald
telling all about how Truman lost the election
to Dewey and what shame it was that the
hoIya 1oI 1.sr =
visers who would tell him honestly that he
hadn't chance-and ca the Monday Ickes
column that pompously exported on how it
was that Truman won and Dewey lost.
Everybody was sourly amused at this horri-
BILE journalistic faux pas. It is human to
derive some satisfaction out Of public defia-
ton Of such a character as Ickes -.
Terrible Harold had Just as much right to
be wrong as any Of the other bigdomes who
pontincated that Dewey would have it all
his own way. But when Harold pecked out
that first column-in advance-kissing of
Truman and then got caught at it simply
because the and doesn't copyread the
canned stuff 1t puts into its editorial page,
it was indeed bad because Harold had been
latterly, Truman's most violent supporter, at
tacking the Republican candidate as Thomas
Elusive Dewey. This was proudly pointed out
on the and HIS page-one story Monday that
said lckes might return to Truman's cabinet.
Not II word of this seeps back to Washing
ton, he won't. Heb, heh!
y
Ickes wrote the column and he wrote 1t In
advance That's certain He probably evolved
it thus so that it could be printed right after
the election and make him look great pundit.
Or perhaps he played it safe and sent two
columns, this one and another saying the re-
verse, with instructions to editors to throw
away the one that was inapplicable. In this
case the s & H was doubly at fault.
But in either event, Ickes, through this
humiliating mistake in our venerable contem-
porary, is exposed as a writer who, posing as
an expounder of truth, secretly takes chances
with fact-who is not above predicating his
most positive pronouncements, his most telling
logic, on what he thinks will be, instead of
what is.