davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1950-08-18

Scott, is unlikely to have any such
cheerful destiny, not so much
because it is downright bad, but
rather because it is not downright
good. It's material is too time
worn to be redeemed by even
such earnest work as that of the
principals, backed up by a far
better man than any of them in
the person of Edmund Gwenn.
When Actor Gwenn cannot quite
make something out of nothing.
1t is due to the inferior quality
Of the nothing, and this seems to
be quite evident in the instance
Of Pretty Baby"
&% * X
There seems to have been
vagrant thought in the minds of
Writers Everett Freeman and
Harry Kurnitz that maybe they
would do a little satire on the
advertising business when they
started Pretty Baby"
AS every one knows, advertising
is funny business and quite pos
sibly vulnerable to ironic jesting.
Nevertheless, the authors of the
Warner film do not carry through.
Using an advertising agency back
ground. they groove their farce
in situation that could exist in
any reasonably well-dressed occu-
patton, banking say, or dentistry.
Center of the situation is girl,
Miss Drake. She is a Margaret
SULLIVAN sort of girl, virtuous and
breathleSS and wiStfully earnest
in everything she does. She has
q cute, whimsical turn of mind,
the kind that might get an adver-
tiSing agency which employed her
into charming mess.
This is exactly what happens.
BY way of assuring herself a seat
on subway trains, Miss Drake car
rieS a rubber doll wrapped in
fetching baby blanket. She gives
it the name of Cyrus Baxter,
which happens to be the name of
the manufacturer whose account
her ad agency employers are try
ing to land. Then one day she
and the real Cyrus meet on the
subway. He thinks the baby is
real, that the girl is charming,
and that there is nothing for him
to do but become the godfather
Of both the baby and the girl.
You know, of course, where that
leads.
X X X
Gwenn, who made every one be-
lieve again in Santa Claus in
Miracle On 34th Street" a few
seasons ago, is not up to the same
miracle again. He creates a mild
ly amusing portrait of an irascible
old industrial tycoon whose heart
is gold so far as the girl is con-
cerned, but dry ice to the rest of
the world. He is especially good
in several sequences in which he
tries to hide from his Office staff
that he is about to melt for JOY
in discovering that a nice young
girl has named a baby for him,
even an illegitimate one.
The picture dwells much less
upon old Cyrus Baxter than upon
the two young advertising agency
executives and their wide-eyed
Miss Drake, who may or may not
finally land the Baxter account
for them.
Director Bretaigne Windust
uses his principals and material
as an able man should, but not
quite ably enough. He finds only
moderate fun in the situation in
which the guile of the two agency
executives is frustrated by the in
nocence of Miss Drake, always
with the threat that the business
will be extinct within the next
two minutes.
Miss Drake, a local girl who
made good in the movies and
married Gary Grant, seems to be
drifting into roles that make you
think of Maisie If the latter were
played by Margaret SULLIVAN.
This is not in itself a bad thing:
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-12-15
West Palm Beach, Florida
Former Israel Minister to
Moscow Returns Home


TEL AVN, (JTA) - Morde-
cal Namir, former Israel Minister
to the Soviet Union, who resign
ed his post, returned to Israel
this week.
Addressing a news conference,
MIR. Nalnir stated that relations
between the Soviet and Israel
Government continue to be cor
dial. Israel'S gift of medical sup
plies to United Nations forces
fighting Communist aggression in
Korea did not evoke unfavorable
reaction in Moscow, he reported.
Evening star., 1950-03-22

much missed. The senior Repub-
lican Is not only an influential
voice on legislation; he is a Sem
ator who enjoys his membership
in the club and contributes to its
good fellowship.
Absence Remarked On.
Senator Vandenberg's absence
is also remarked on fearfully by
supporters of the present foreign
policy. especially ECA and the
military assistance program. They
do not perceive senior Senators
with comparable influence among
the other four Republicans on
Foreign Relations and they sus-
pect the isolationist tinge in Sena-
tor Taft and Minority Leader
Wherry.
AS Of now. such forebodings are
unjustif1ed. according to Repub-
licans in position to speak with
knowledge and authority.
It is predicted that the Foreign
Relations Republicans - Senators
Wiley, Smith of New Jersey,
Hickenlooper and Lodge-can be
depended on for reasonable sup
port of administration policy. An
ECA bill is viewed as certain of
approval with a compromise cut
that will not damage its efec-
tiveneSs.
Evening star., 1950-03-22

A4@AAS ~
Whatever his shortcomings,
President Truman has this es-
sential simple human quality in
politics more than any other
President in long time. What
was it that carried him through
VIGOROUSLY in 1948? It un-
doubtedly was his dogged fight
against heavy odds. Our people
love a scrapper. He was that
right UP to the end. No devious
politics here-just being natural
and straight-from- the e-shoulder.
People Admire Loyalty.
Loyalty to friends and faithful
lieutenants is another quality our
people admire. Harry Truman has
that. and sometimes in cases
where it seemed misplaced for a
President of the United States.
Republicans have hammered
away at loyalties which were
Vulnerable, and often with sound
reason as matter of good govern
ment, but the people were not
greatly agitated. In many an
other Administration, for exam
pie. Gen. Harry Vaughan would
have been ridden right out. He is
still at the side of the President.
Now, in an entirely different
category and on the top level, a
strenuous fight is being made to
oust another Administration fig
ure, Secretary of State Dean
Acheson. Here the President 10y
atty is well-placed, for Dean
Evening star., 1950-03-22
.cLemore-
Sure Elephants
Work in Office
By Henry McLemore

I have seen elephants in their
natural wild state. tearing around
uprooting trees and humping
heads just for the fun Of it, and
Evening star., 1950-03-22
By Thomas L. Stokes

by 1NOmNS l.. OfOReS
Politics Is regarded as a devi-
Gus game-particularly by the
uninitiated. 1t often is. too, at
Evening star., 1950-03-22


workers "repugnance" to hand
ling American military equipment
which is intended to plunge the
workers of Europe into a war
for the capitalist United States. D
Others-particularly in France,
will be camouflaged as walkouts
intended to improve the living con-
ditions of workers. Still others
will be manifestations of the work.
ers' indignation against police
measures taken to maintain law
and order.
Moscow Hand Visible.
Whatever official reasons are
given for the creation of dis
turbances the hand of Moscow
will be clearly visible. The major
labor unions in all these Western
European countries continue to
be dominated by the voice of Mos
COW and the strikes have been
ordered directly by the Kremlin
Russian leaders are not par
ticularly worried, it is said, over
the rearmament of Europe. They
consider present arms shipments
from the United States as a mere
drop in the bucket. Under pres
ent military arrangements, made
as the result of the Atlantic pact,
the best that can be done is to
increase the efficiency of the
armed forces to cope better with
internal disturbances.
The Russian general staff is
fully aware that the creation of
one or two additional divisions
this year will not be handicap to
the Kremlin's plans to overrun
Europe. The Russian high COM
mand also is aware that the threat
of mir bombardment Of Western
Europe's beautiful, ancient cities
could bring about the collapse of
Evening star., 1950-03-22

In the mid Henry McLemore.
die of Manhattan. on 45th street,
is a company which I am positive
is manned by herd of elephants.
This company is a reminder serv-
ice which takes care Of people
whose memories are bad, or peo-
pie who have no memory at all.
All for Nominal Fee.
For nominal fee this organi-
zation will do your remembering
for you. It will let you know,
several days in advance, when you
are supposed to go to Washington
to be sworn in as President, when
to start canning asparagus and
tomatoes, when to wash the dogs,
when to write home for money,
and when to call the fire depart
ment.
AS this company never forgets,
it must be manned by elephants,
they being the only animals which
never suffer from lapses of men,
ory. I am looking forward to
walking into this Office and being
greeted by a young and coy fe-
male elephant receptionist wear
ing spectacles and a well-tailored
suit, and hearing her trumpet for
me to sit down. that the president
is tied up in conference at the
moment.
I'd bet I know what the head
of the company is going to look
like. He'll be an old tusker of
some $50 years Of age, with his
trunk poked into q dictaphone,
and have a picture of Mrs. Pachy-
derm and the children on his
desk. He'll be, no doubt. as
pompous as any human president.
While I plan to visit this COM
pany, certainly do not intend to
sign up for the reminder service.
Wants the Opposite.
In fact, what I am looking for
is a service just the opposite of
this elephant-operated reminder
one. What I want is a service
that will see to it that I forget
certain dates.
I want one, for example. that
will call me up and tell me that
the day after tomorrow is not
the day I should go to my dentist
for a check-up. and that a week
from Wednesday is not when the
next payment on my flreless
cooker Is due. ,'f@-''@'a.
I don't want my memory logged
on birthdays and anniversaries.
Those things cost money, and
what with the favorites running
out of the money so often at the
tracks these days, fellow needs
all the cash he can lay his hands
on for higher and nobler pur-
poses than boxes of candy and
punches of flowers.
Neither do I want to know
when So-and-So is getting mar
ried. or when q ninth cousin twice
removed is to graduate from high
school. I am tired Of sending
platinum nut dishes to brides I
scarcely know and wrist watches
to relatives just because they are
valedictorians or the like.
Distributed BY McNaught Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1950-03-22
This Changing World
Western Europe Police and Military
Alerted on Expected Red Strike Wave

armed resistance almost before
Red ground forces start their ad-
vance.
Nothing but the presence OF at
least six American tank divisions
and a powerful American tactical
and strategic air force will induce
the peoples of Europe to offer SOL
i'd resistance to Russia. And
Moscow is fully aware that at this
time we are not in position to in
crease-by even two divisions-the
effective forces we maintain in
Germany.
Various statements have been
heard to the effect that the Com
munist-planned Whitsun demon
strations in Berlin-which will te
held the last week end in May
are nothing but part of the war
of nerves.
One of Trump Cards.
However, these demonstrations
on the part of German Communist
youths - some 100000 strong -
supported by the first appearance
of about $4,000 German regular
army troops apparently is one of
Moscow's trump cards in the cold
war.
Allied intelligence officials In
Germany report that they cannot
be sure just what will happen.
There may be only local violence
and the usual fracases in Berlin.
It all depends, intelligence Off
cials say, on how strong the West
ern contingents are in Berlin and
how determined Allied authorities
are to handle the "pranks" OF
the Communist German youths
and the still untried German Peo-
pies Army.
The coming strike wave In
Western Europe is intended to
soften up the French and create
such a chaotic condition in that
part of the continent that strong
action in Berlin will be discour-
aged. Domestic crises in France,
Italy and the Benelux countries
will force these governments to
pay little heed to what is going on
across the Rhine and to concen-
trate on saving their own posi-
tions in their respective countries.
There still are over 2 million
card-carrying Communists in
France and a slightly larger num-
ber in Italy. Compared with the
10000 registered Communists in
Britain and not more than $4,000
known Communists in the United
States the figures for France and
Italy - countries with a much
smaller population are impress
Siye.
Evening star., 1950-03-22
Vacant Desk in Senate
Vandenberg's Absence Due to Illness
Leaves Gap in Foreign Policy Front

It Is stressed that to date the
Mccarthy charges and the de-
mands for Secretary of State
Acheson's resignation are personal
to Senators and neither wide
spread nor a matter of party poll
cy. Incidentally. Minority Lead
er Wherry's feud with the Secre-
tary is a very old one; Wherry
raised the lone no to his confir-
nation to the Cabinet post.
Weakens Truman Position.
It is not denied that Senator
Vandenberg's Illness leaves a very
wide gap in the foreign policy
front. Fortunately. one Senator
pointed out. there are no grand
new schemes afoot that require
ground breaking: there are ex-
tensions OF projects already in
operation which have been gen.
orally approved by the public
The Appropriations Committee
ever eager to encroach upon the
legislative committees, will prob
ably be emboldened but floor
fights can always be made against
its actions.
The combined factors which
weaken the Presidents position
on the hill are seen in some quar-
ters as one reason for the long
delay in vital appointments which
require Senate confirmation, such
as two Atomic Energy commits
sioners, chairman and one
other. and chairman Of the Ma
tional Security Resources Board.
Men who have already proved
acceptable to Senators have been
given first call upon these Jobs,
including Secretary Gordon Gray
Of the Army. Secretary Syming-
ton Of Air and ECA Ambassador
Hartman. It is understood that
Mr.. Gray at least has finally re-
fused, pleading his wife's health
as his reason for going home to
the presidency of the University of
North Carolina.
It is one of the administration
counts against Senator Mccarthy
that he transforms working for
the Government into an obstacle
race.
Evening star., 1950-03-22

the middle in
the second row
on the Republi-
can side.
B ut for a
m tn now
they have not
found Senator
Arthur Vanden-
b erg in hi S
place nor are
there any firm
a S s u r a n c e S
about when his
health will per-
NIT him to re-
L
Evening star., 1950-03-22
Loyalty Well-Placed
Truman Defense of Dean Acheson
Declared Shrewd Political Move

Acheson is an able public servant.
The President has great respect
and admiration for him and, be-
yond that, likes him personally.
He has let it be known from his
retreat at Key West that he is
going to stand by his Secretary of
State and is ready to fight for him.
Quickly the President dispelled
rumors that popped up over the
week end among the professional
slatemakers that Dean Acheson
was to be removed and Chief
Justice Fred M. Vinson would re-
place him. The rumors were mag
nified when the Chief Justice was
called to Key West by the Presi-
dent.
Political Liability.
Some Democrats in Congress
have been worrying about Dean
Acheson as possible political liza
bility in the fall elections. Politi-
clans become unusually skittish in
an election year and are ready to
clear out any controversial figure
in high places who might hurt
their chances for reelection. This
fear in the case Of the Secretary
of State was transmitted to Presi-
dent Truman.
Mr.. Truman is, himself, a
shrewd politician, as is now we'll
known. Confident himself Of his
Secretary Of States ability, he has
chosen to stick loyalty by him and
depend on the people to see his
way eventually in regard to Mr..
Acheson. He has much at stake
politically, himself, in the Con-
gressional elections. but he doesn't
frighten as easily as do some
members Of Congress.
Circumstances already are de-
veloping In his favor. It is be-
coming obvious now that the latest
crusade against the Secretary of
State. that of Senator Mccarthy,
Republican, of Wisconsin, is be-
ginning to boomerang as the Sen
ator's house of Red" cards that
he tried to build in the State De-
partment is collapsing about his
head. Responsible Republicans
have SHE'D away from this one
and are letting their colleague go
it alone. but he has, nevertheless,
stuck his party with it, at least
temporarily.
Evening star., 1950-03-22

p4AS &o"S& CLIO
But, In the big
league, at the
level of Presi-
dents of the
United States,
the most sue
cessful politics
frequently is to
be natural, to
act like an Or
binary human
being, to ap-
peal to others
t h r ug h the
simple virtues
that we all ad-
miro
Evening star., 1950-03-22

I have seen
them in ZOOS
a n d circuseS,
patiently rock
ing back and
forth like un-
happy blimps.
But I have
n e yer Sc e n
them working
in a business
office. I intend
to. h ow e v er,
before I leave
New York this
time.
Evening star., 1950-03-22

to start this
spring.
Dockers, long
Shoremen and
railway workers
in France, Italy,
the Netherlands
and B e ! G iu m
are reported to
have received
instructions to
prepare to leave
their jobs as
soon as ordered.
In some cases
the strikes will
ha hocaI m thu
Evening star., 1950-03-22
By Doris FIeeson

AS the Senators Straggle into
the upper chamber at the stroke
Of noon these days, their eyes are
apt to turn to the third desk from
Evening star., 1950-03-22
By Constantine Bro,on

Police and military forces have
been alerted everywhere in West
ern Europe to cope with a wave
of violent strikes which is expected
Evening star., 1950-02-21

gated him, drew up charges and
dismissed him. The purpose Of
this, he charged. was to discredit
him in the eyes of the House COM
mittee. so as to avoid public ex-
posure" of alleged subversive ac-
tivities in GAO.
Mr.. Davidson said the charges
against him were false and
malicious" and resulted from =
conspiracy among the three de-
PENDANTS fearing for their repu-
tations"
His attorney. Harrison Fargo
Mcconnell, said yesterday that
Mr.. Davidson was accused OF in
subordination, among other things,
at GAO.
Evening star., 1950-02-21
Fired Worker Sues
GAO for $4,000

a discharged General Account
ing Office employe today was seek
ing $4,000 damages from the
Government, charging the firing
was unconstitutional.
Daniel C. Davidson, so. a World
War veteran who lives in Jasper,
Ala, filed the suit in District
Court. He named as defendants
Controller General Lindsay War
rem and two personnel directors of
GAO.
Mr.. Davidson said his discharge
came after he caused an unspeci-
fed number Of "subversive" GAO
employees to be investigated and
dismissed.
He said that when authorities
refused to drop certain other en-
ployes on the same grounds last
year, he asked the Houes Un-
American Activities Committee to
take action.
At this point, Mr.. Davidson
declared. GAO officials investi-
Evening star., 1950-02-21

makes. These are floor samples, trode-ins and
demonstrators! Yes, some are brond-new in
original factory eortons. Every article sale is
guaranteed by Georges. We cannot accept
mail phone orders. None sold to dealers.
Shop Georges Downtown Store early on Wash
'nston's Birthday! You will really save money!
Evening star., 1950-02-21
Petty SmuqqIers Fooled

SINGAPORE, (Pl. Hundreds
of parcels, letters and printed
packets sent from Malaga to Eng
land by petty smugglers were
seized by post office and customs
men. In the drive they found
hundreds of pairs Of nylons con-
cealed in letters and magazines.
Addresses in England were in
formed: The aforementioned
postal packet has been seized ~
forfeit to the Crown"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
ADVISE BETTER VISION TESTS TO
CUT DEATH TOLL ON HIGHWAY

spot danger at right angles to your
car while looking straight ahead.
3. Depth perception. Can you
gauge the speed of approaching
vehicles and tell the distance be-
tween cars quickly and accur-
ately?
4. Light and dark adaptation.
This refers to night blindness, one
of the most serious causes of &C
cidents. In series of night high
way accidents in Pennsylvania, 48
per cent of the drivers involved
were found to be victims of night
blindness.
Most drivers are not aware Of
their visual shortcomings until
something hits them or vice versa"
said DR.. Macpherson. "By better
screening tests the cases that need
attention will be discovered, and
in most instances the problems
can be corrected.
IN the recommended tests the
driver is compared to average
performance on each of several
important visual requirements. If
he falls below par on several es-
sentials we know that he is likely
to be prone to accidents, and he
viii be referred for a more COM
plete examination and correction.
AS evidence of the need for more
attention to vision, DR.. MacPher-
son cited study of accidents made
in Connecticut. More than 10000
out of 44,591 driver license appIi-
cants had impaired eyesight. Yet
only 4,436 of them were volun-
tarily wearing glasses, and 2,779
were completely unaware that
their eyes were not up to par.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
State Electric
Power co-ops
Show Progress

Jackson, MlSS.-Annual reports
from the Ia cooperative electric
power associations affiliated with
Mississippi Services, Inc, reveal
that steady progress was made
during 1949 in Mississippi's rapidly
expanding rural electrification.
Information compiled by the IA
member owned REA associations,
which have repaid the government
more than $4,000,000 in principle
and interest, shows that 5,504
miles of rural power lines were
constructed and energized during
the past year. AS a result of this
extensive expansion project, 1909
additional rural homes were fur
nished with electricity for the first
time.
AS of January 1, 1949, the IA
electric cooperatives had a total
membership of 82,383 member-con-
sumers and during the year this
figure was boosted to 101 ,461. At
the beginning of 1949, there was a
total Of 20,895 miles of rural power
lines owned by the members of the
IA associations and this line-mile-
age was increased to 26,399 dur
ing the past year.
1T is very gratifying for rs to
announce this splendid record of
progress made by our associations
in their rural identification pre-
gram during 1949," 7. d. Davis,
manager of Mississippi Services,
Inc, said. "The expansion of rural
power lines in Mississippi means
that more and more of our fine
rural people are being serviced
with cheap REA electricity. This
means that they are now enjoying
higher standard of living, which
they so rightly deserve and also
gives them an opportunity to in
crease their farm incomes"
Mr.. Davis emphasized the fact
that the above figures apply only
to the IA co-ops not in the IVA
territory in Mississippi, and said,
1T is safe to assume the Ii CO.
operatives in the IVA area have a
similar record Of expansion"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21

has consistently stood for the best
things in American society. It
has been and is staunchly opposed
to any and every attempt of for
eign or alien idelogolies to invade
cur way of thinking, acting and
living. Especially is it categor
ically opposed to totalitarianism.
Communism, Fascism or any like
ism" having for its purpose a
change in the true concept of gov
eminent. Although we recognize
the fact that American Democracy
has not as yet attained the high
ideals of our Founding Fathers;
that imperfections still exist,
Prince Hall Masonry is happy to
reaffirm its traditional position
and to continue to labor assidu-
ously for the attainment of those
high ideals and for the elimina-
ton of imperfections, such labor
to be done within the framework
of our present government. The
contribution Prince Hall Masonry
is making in the current fight
against Communism and its ne
farious doctrines is considerable
and is being increased daily
There can be no divided allegi-
lance. There is room for one
theology in the minds, hearts and
souls of all the people of this
Christian nation. and that is Am
cricanism-the great light that
illumines the path of all of US,
black and white, Jew and Gentle
rich and poor. Prince Hall Mas
onry pledges itself anew to live