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i NEW YORK; June 4—Mrs, Bing Croshy, Bask from Europe, says she understands why Paris has no night life between midnight and 2 a. m.: “Everybody's already passed out by midHight. eS PD i "MILTON BERLE—having battled with his ex-wife ‘Joyce Mathews as we told you last week-—now dates beautiful blonde Fran Keegan of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” Fran tells us that NY showgals find ‘very few men want to wait till 11:30 at night to go

.. out on a date.”

“It's unfortunate,” she says, “but when midnight comes and it’s time for a showgirl to be home in bed, she is.” o- <> o TOMMY MANVILLE is so mixed up, says Coleman Jacoby, that if he had been - Freud's first patient, Freud would have become a dentist. * Sb JACK DEMPSEY'S pretty young showgal friend Joan Olander told me they were ‘definitely ‘engaged,” but when 1 asked Jack, he said: “She's a nice kid, and I'm trying to help her, but there's such a difference in our ages, he wouldn't have me around for a month. I'm not engaged to anybody.” SH FRED ALLEN visited Comedian Jackie Gleason in the hospital to talk about the Frigidaire TV show they'll do June 10. “Now you're doing a television show the right way,” sald Allen—“I mean going to the hospital first!” Sb ob WALTER WINCHELIL, the famous Florida columnist, expects to spend several hours on Broadway next week. “ db B'WAY BULLETINS: CBS has.& “secret weapon” for next fall—a sponsor willing to spend lots of money to “buck Berle” and try to wear him down. ... .-Show-S8hoppers: “Make a Wish” i= a fine family show. The kids’'ll énjoy Nanette Fabray....!] Now a drugstore price war looms. . .. Beautiful model Barbara Dobbins was flown to the coast by Howard Hughes’ scouts who want to

Americana ly Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June ¢—TI have got me a medal that weighs at least a pound. It is mounted on velvet and the name is writ large and 1 guess I am properly grateful. The only thing is that I don’t know what I got the medal for, or what the medal lets me in for. Medal says about “Freedoms Foundation, Inc. Valley Forge, Pa.” and 1 have purposely not investigated what the foundation may represent in the way of ideology. It says on the back of this biscuit, when you pick it out of the velvet piecrust, that I am honored because of “outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life.”

I cannot say for sure what I have done lately to improve the morals of the motley, but it must have been something pretty fioble, because George Washington is graven into the metal, and there I am right along side the country’s papa. Me and George. Or Geerge and me, Wow! \ Sd b> I DO NOT WISH to kid the people who threw this discus at me. But also I do not wish to be too overcome by a sudden choice as boy-of-the-year by an outfit I wot not of, It is possible, in my current state of ignorance, that I have been suddenly adopted by a group which stands foursquare against motherhood and dogs. Maybe I am in with a fascist front, or a commie front, or ‘a’ pro-juke box front.

What I am fronting for I can’t say, because all this. esteem occurred when I was out of town, six cuts igicker than a snake, and all the correspondence got handled by the help. For all that I have been able to control, personally, I could just as easy have been dead and decorated posthumously for being the best-looking corpse in ‘that particular coffin, @& <> <>

BUT WITHOUT my personal knowledge or consent, here is little Buster, all of a sudden hooked up with an outfit he doesn’t know. I must be pretty thick with these kids, otherwise, why do I get honored by ‘em? You know, guilt by association, birds of a feather, and that sort of stuff. If they simmer down to being wrongos, I am dead in the eyes of whichever fresh committee is being outraged for television at the moment.. We have seen some pretty awful examples of

ned Last Nizm Showgal Supe Men

© Avoid 11:30 P.M. Dating

hire her, , ABC reportedly is tempting Bill Stern to “eave NBC with just a wee I'l $4 million deal. . . . Irving Hoffman calls those insults now popular in cafes and restaurants “rap-partee.” eB THE. MIDNIGHT EARL . .. Could’it be that NBC might merge with 20th "Century Fox, and

Warners with Dumont, and MGM with CBS--—as |

Paramount did with ABC? That's the talk -— and ¥#rank (NBC) Folsom has been conferring a lot with Spyros Skouras of 20th. Then the big NBC-20th TV show would be telecast from the Roxy Theatre to.a combined TV-movie audience and telecast to scores of other movie-TV audiences simultaneously. «od ®

GOOD RUMOR MAN: Insurance companies hint Al Jolson was 70 at death, If so. his estate owes the Damon Runyon Fund $100,000 on a wager Al made to two columnists last year. . . . Frank Sinatra hopes that he and Ava'll be able to settle down next year in California where he'll spend about all his time, . . . Jack E. Leonard got off to a good start on B'way Open House. Jackie Gleason wired him Monday night, “If you die it won't matter anyhow because tomorrow is Memorial Day” . Jovita sings with the rhumba band at Tavern-On-the-Green. «>

EARL’'S PEARLS , . . Prices are rising so fast, says Geene Courtney, that a dollar saved is 50 cents lost,

Jovita

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “A B'Way lush is a glow-getter,”"—Martin Block. ’ ‘ * > WHOEVER NAMED IT SMALL TALK, suggests Corrine Valdez, never listened to many women. , + That's Earl, brother.

Bob Gets a Medal. But He's Puzzled

people being suckered into joinings that smacked them in the kisser at a later date. You get yourself nominated as Mr. Man of Distinction for any logrolling outfit and three years come Tuesday you find out that the mothball industry, or whatever sponsored you, is in real ugly odor with the authorities. This I do not wish. ww SP TEMPERS change, you know. I am technically guilty right now of collusion with the Russians because in 1943 I made a North Atlantic run which had some aid and comfort ahoard the ship for people we now recognize as enemies. The fact that this little journey was made at the direction of the War Department does not lessen my personal guilt. I helped the enemy beat the Germans. The Germans are now our friends. That's all, brother. Maybe next week we will be sore at the Germans again, or sore at the Japs, but I feel guilty a little because I helped take men and munitions. to the Pacific, too, where Japs were known profanely as beasts and Nips and squints and slats because we were mad at all of ’em at the time. o Bb - THIS public temperamentality is why little Buster does not join things of superior significance. You can kill yourself on a letterhead. The Society for the Advancement of Juvenile Pool-Shooters occasionally turns out to be a gimmick for the Commies; or the Fascists. or Just people who have an ax and who are looking for a good, strong grindstone. As the situation sits, we have this medal. I will’ not send it back. But I will be on the record here and now as espousing nothing that the society endorses, even if it be the milk of human kindness. I have no idea how I have contributed to anything but the necessity of food in my personal kitchen, but the heavy print says that G. Washington and I are now bloo@ kin. This is fine by me except for one thing: I did not start out to simonize the habits of anybody, and I did nothing consciously to win an award from anybody, and I never heard of the freedoms foundation until I saw the medal sitting on the desk and asked the gal friend what the hell

yt was and where the hell it came from. Selah.

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MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1951

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO AT HALF-PAST 7 palm-clad islets had appeared in a row all along the horizon to westward. The southernmost lay roughly ahead of our bow, and thence there were islands and clumps of palms all along the horizon on our starboard side till they disappeared as dots away to northward. The nearest were four or five sea miles

away. A survey from the mast-

head showed that, even if our bow pointed toward the bottom island in the chain, our drift sideways was so great that we were not advancing in the direction in which our bow pointed. We "were drifting di-

_agonally right in toward the. ‘reef. With fixed centerboards

we.should still have had some hope of steering clear. But sharks were following close astern, so that it was impossible to dive under the raft and tighten wp the loose centerboards with fresh guy ropes, We saw that we had now only a few hours more on board the Kon-Tiki. We were still under full sail in the hope of even now being able to steer clear. As we gradually drifted nearer, half sideways, we saw from the mast how the whole string of palmclad isles was connected with a coral reef, part above and part under water, which lay like a mole where the sea was white

{ with foam and leaped high into

the air.

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McCarthy Gives A Bipartisan ‘Kiss of Death’

WASHINGTON, June 4 (UP) Ben. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) doesn't want to give anyone the “kiss of death” but four southern Democrats would be acceptable to him as replacements for Becretary of State Dean Acheson. Sen. McCarthy said yesterday

Richmond.

New Effort Due Today To End 3-City Bus Strike |#']] Erase Its

Talks were to be resumed today in an effort to end the five-week-old strike that has tied up bus service at Muncie, Anderson and |

Mayors of the three cities] joined union and magagement of- of debt-ridden Canterbury C ollege| ficials and State Labor Commis-/ continued to rake in cash contri-| sioner Thomas Hutson Saturday butions iin an effort to settle the wage dis- from their balance sheets today | pute and send some 270 striking! in a snowballing aftermath of a

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he thinks Mr. Acheson should be AFL transit workers back to thir hectic money-raising drive.

impeached. Democrats who would Jo be acceptable as successors, said, are Sens. Walter F. George and Richard B. Russell of; Georgia, Harry F. Byrd of Virnia, and John Sparkman of Al-| bhama.,

" FOUR REPU 'BLICANS who

“no progress” |Faeeting.

bs. The meeting was adjourned | he after five hours until today. J. T: Martin, Indiana Railroad rade, Bus Lines vice president, reported Senator ride an elephant and a! after Saturday's

Thief Robs Church, Then!

Acting college president Fred-|

which saw a Republican | {Democratic Governor mule team, was | “kickoff” to stir up enthusiasm | and “let people know we mean|

also would be acceptable to him| Takes Bike Out in Front aq B

are Harold E. Stassen, New York!

sota. ~ Sen. McCarthy said a year ago $150 he would not have been ‘sat-|plates. isfied”

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Acheson, but would now. |said. }

COLUMBUS, O,, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Sen, Wil-_Police hunted today for a thiet|$90,000, liam F, Knowland of California, without a conscience. and Rep. Walter Judd of Minne- pnit entered St.

during mass yesterday and took to give up without a fight.

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lone with a knife, slugged Preston Butel, 18, of 421]

N. Noble St, about 3:42 a. m. today as he worked in the Alabama Grille, 1601°N, Alabama St. After slashing their way through a rear door screen, the men took Mr, Butel's billifold containing about $27, forced him to dismiss a doughnut deliveryman while they waited in the rear room, then took “probably $100” from the cash register, according ito” the grille,owner, Milton Cobb, 1228 8. 11th St, Beech Grove. The two men slugged Mr. Butel | leaving, breaking his

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miles, not counting the adjoining reefs of Takume. The whole of its longer sida faces the sea to eastward, where we came pitching in. The reef itself, which runs in one line from horizon to horizon, is only a few hundred yards clear, and behind it idyllic islets lie in a string round the still lagoon inside.

It was with mixed feelings that we saw the blue Pacific being ruthlessly torn up and hurled into the air all along the horizon ahead of us. I knew what awaited us; I had visited the Tuamotu group bafore and had stood safe on land looking out over the immense spectacle in the east, where the surf from the open Pacific broke in over the reef. New reefs and islands kept on gradually dppearing to southward. We must be lying off the middle of the facade of the coral wall,

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ON BOARD the Kon-Tiki an preparations for the end of the voyage were being made. Everything of value was carried into the cabin and lashed fast. Documents and papers were packed into watertight bags, along with films and other things which would not stand a dip in

the sea. The whole bamboo cabin was covered with canvas, and especially strong ropes were lashed across it. When we saw that all hope was gone, we opened up the bamboo deck and cut off with machete knives all the ropes which held the centerboards down, It was a hard job to get the centerboards drawn up, because they were all thickly covered with stout barnacles. With the centerboards up the draught of our vessel! was no deeper than to the bottom of the timberlogs, and we would therefore be more easity washed in over the reef. With no centerboards and with the sal) down the raft lay completely sideways on and was entirely at the mercy of wind and sea. We tied the longest rope we had to the homemade anchor and made it fast to the step of the port mast, so that the KonTiki would go into the sturf stern first when the anchor was thrown overboard. The anchor itself consisted of empty water cans filled with used radio batteries and heavy .scrap, and solid man - grove - wood sticks projected from it, set crosswise, Order number one, which came first and last, was: Hold on to the raft! Whatever hap-

_ pened, we must hang on tight “on board and let the nine great

logs take the pressure from the reef. We ourselves had more than enough to do to withstand the weight of the water.

If we jumped overboard, we should become helpless victims of the suction which would fling us in and out over the sharp corals. The rubber raft would capsize in the steep seas or, heavily loaded with us in fit, it would be torn to ribbons against the reef. But the wooden logs would sooner or later be cast ashore, and we with them, if we only managed to hold fast. . ¥ ” NEXT, ALL HANDS were told to put on their shoes for the first time in a hundred days and to have their life belts ready. The last : precaution; however, was not of much value, for if a man fell overboard he would be. battered to death, not drowned. We had time, too, to put our passports and such few dollars as we had left. into our poekets. But it was not lack of time that was troubling us.

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“==-ACROSS THE PACIFIC ON A RAFT"

The ohi pwrecied Kon.Tiki was washed hi —r Pilike all the other islands dn the

Those were anxious hours in which we lay drifting helplessly sideways, : step after step. In toward the reef. It was noticeably quiet on board; we all crept in and out from cabin to bamboo deck, silent or laconic, and carried on with our jobs. Our serious faces showed that no one was in doubt as to what awaited us, and the absence of

nervousness showed that we '

had all gradually acquired an unshakable confidence in the raft. If it had brought us across the sea, it would also manage to bring us ashore alive. Inside the cabin there was a complete chaos of provision cartons and cargo, lashed fast. Torstein had barely found room for himself in the radio corner, where he had got the shortwave transmitter working. We were now over 4000 sea miles from our old base at Callao, where “the Peruvian Naval War School had maintained regular contact with us, and still farther from Hal and Frank and the other radio amateurs in the United States.

But, as chance willed, we had on the previous day got in touch with a capable radio “ham” who had a set on Rarotonga in ‘the Cook Islands, and the operators, quite contrary to all our usual practice, had afanged for an extra ¢ontact with him early in the morning. All the time we were drifting closer and closer in to the reef. Torstein was sitting tapping his key and calling Rargtonga.

U.S. A.: The Permanent Revolution'—

t).. S. Politics Often Mislea

By RUSSELL W. DAVENPORT

CHAPTER EIGHT THE IMPRESSION created by our political campaigning is that momentous | issues are at stake, involving the life and death of the

| country.

Sometimes, of course, that is so. Yet American politicking is not necessafily the life-and-death matter it appears to be. It is easily misunderstood, not only by foreigners but by Americans themselves. There is a strong temptation, to liken an American political | party to a European political We identify the. Demo-

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the eighth article of a series. It is taken from the book, U. 8. A.: THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION, just published by Prentice-Hall. Mr. Davenport is a noted editor, writer and business executive, the former personal representative of Wendell Willkie.

cratic Party with the British Labor Party and the Republican Party with the British Conservative Party. We imagine that these two are slugging it out for the survival of the “freeenterprise system,” free institutions, or, for that matter, freedom itself, ” » » Yet the genius of American politics is quite different from that of the politics of Europe, even of Britain. No matter what the orators may say, Americans live in fundamental agreement concerning certain long-range aims and principles. An understanding of how the parties really do work is essential to an understanding of the “Permanent Revolution.” Modern scholars, such as the younger Arthur Schlesinger, attempt to make it appear that American politics is a struggle between “right” and “left,” “have” and “have-not)” “conservative” and “liberal.” This interpfetation falls short of the realities. It runs into difficulties, for example, in con-

nection with the “platforms” that the parties issue every four years after prodigious. soul- -searching. ” o ¥ THESE PLATFORM e apt ba almost identical, a5 were

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Entries in the Kon-Tiki's log ran: : “8:15: We are slowly approaching land. We can now make out with the naked eye the separate palm trees inside on the starboard side. *—8:45: The. wind has veered into a still more unfavorable quarter for us, so we have no hope of getting clear, No neryousness on board, but hectic preparations on deck. There is something lying on the reef ahead which Jooks like the wreck of a salling vessel, but

it may be only a heap of drift. ° wood. °

“9:45: The wind is taking us straight toward the last island but one we see behind the reef.. We can now see the whole coral reef clearly; here it ies built up like a white-and-red speckled wall which barely sticks up out of the water as a belt in front of all the islands. All along the reef white foam-

.Ing surf ig flyng up toward the

sky. Bengt is just serving up a good hot meal, the last before the great action! “It 1s a wreck lying in there

on. the reef. We are so close.

now that we can see right

across the shining lagoon be-~

hifi the reef and see the outlines: of other islands on the other side of the lagoon.” As this was written, the dull drone of the surf came near again; it came up from the whole reef and filled the air like thrilling rolls of the drum,

An American Presidential campaign at its ; height, Gov. Dewey (1948) campaigning in Wisconsin

against President Truman,

the platforms of 1048. Further more, relatively few candidates ever stand for the whole of the platform they are supposed to represent. The “party line” is used more as a political convenience than as a matter of conviction. There is, indeed, a kind of unspoken agreement, which the public tolerates, that a man running for office is entitled to differ with his party to the point’ of outright contradiction on specific issues.

. Under such circumstances conventional political _categories. such as “right” and “left” are almost useless: both are scrambled together as in an omelet. Indeed, in the course of time, each party has found itself on bath sides of many issues such as states’ right, internationalism; labor, agrarianism, of =n "

IT IS true that the old Fed-

licans have to a large extent represented the property-owning class. But the Republican Party at its best denies the existence

of any such “class,” pointing out that the vast majority of Americans are property owners, that everyone has a stake in property rights. On the other hand, plenty of “property owners” are Democrats, not only in the South but also in the North, where some of the biggest fortunes are tied in with Democratic politics.

Republican Mark Hanna, the intellectuals’ symbol of black reaction, was a pioneer in developing the rights of American labor. Theodore Roosevelt, fervid Republican, rattled the nation’s teeth with his attacks on the trusts snd his espousal of aA whole series of progressive policies, domestic and foreign. The Democratic Party, supposedly “liberal,” has produced some of the nation’s greatest " consermatives; Stephen D

, age. ‘mitted to the voters.”

argued “for human slavery, Grover Cleveland, the only Democrat able to win through to the White House during the last third of the ‘nineteenth century, was a pronounced conservative, Today it would be impossible to make a list of powerful Democratic leaders without mentioning Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia, who is well to the “right” of dozens of Republican leaders. » ” »

AS CONTRASTED with political parties elsewhere, which are génerally based upon doctrinal differences that give rise’ to partisan conflict, the American parties are like big clubs, whose aims afe both _competitive and social. The purposes of these clubs’ are fo win political power and to distribute political patron. To that end they adopt platforms which are then sub-

important to note that hy * Partyspaecedes ‘the platform,

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heralding the, exciting last act of the Kon-Tiki. “9:50: Very close now, Drift ing along the reef. Only a hun= dred yards or so away, Tore stein is talking to the man on Rarotonga. All clear. pack up log now. All in spirits; it looks bad, but - shall make it!” A few minutes later the ane chor rushed overboard { 8 caught hold of the bottom, 13 that the Kon - Tiki : around and turned her

«The Raroia:resfend5 miles

ward the Raroia reef. He asked Rarotonga to listen in on the same wave length every hour, If we were silent for more than 36 hours, Rarotonga must let the No Embassy in 1 Washington know. Torstein’s i 8 last words were: x 5 “OK. Fifty yards left. Here fd we go, Good-by.” ;

TOMORROW: Disaster

strikes as the Kon-Tiki is wrecked on the coral reef, J and the crew members nar- . ey escape with their lives.

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The important word to lea in American polities, therefore, is “organization.” An American party organization is vast and ; complex, varying in the 48 fo

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Even where actual “mae chines” are absent, the em ~ phasis of the American party system tends to fall much tes heavily on vote-getting at the expense of principle. One result is that local leadership datetioratos in character,

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ORATORS RESORT to a kind of emotional symbolism, hurling at the opposite party charges that could not possibly be substantiated. The standard Republican attack on the 4 Democrats as “socialists” is a : case in point. On the other side, labor's attack on the TaftHartley Act as a i‘slave labor law” is for the most part equals ly emotional.

The result of these abuses has been a decline in the prestige of both parties and looks like a rise in the size of the “independent” vote,

People are complaining that the parties are corrupt, that they are not needed anyway, and that if they want to sure vive they must choose bette leaders.

People who make this come plaint are not always clear a§ to what they mean. It is plain foolishness to advocate, as . many , ill-informed Americans do, a rearrangement of the yar. ties along doctrinaire lines, “

As already pointed out, both parties accept a set of principles and belief, referred to at the beginning of this series as the Proposition and the System. The idea that one party could be for the Proposition and the ! other party against the Proposition would signal the end of American democracy as it thus far developed, The task of the political | * ties, on the ehitiary. 4 is w: ply the Proposition, to thenrselves with its ex to reinterpret it cou and with

from this course, Wis fall, :