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Leave Us Lay, Harry
So President Truman, as he writes Rep-
resentative F. Edward Hebert of Louisiana,
feels that North Carolina contributed to the
new low level reached this year in politics
in which he has been gainfully employed
since 1906. As a man who knew Tom Pen-
dergast and his machine when, we accept
Harry S. Truman as knowing politics first-
hand; but we'd like to suggest there are
some things which he may have overlooked
in the North Carolina campaign which he
listed among his lows.
Senator Willis Smith, who led the forces
so displeasing to the President, did not
call his opponent an S. O. B. Neither did
he accuse the Marines of propagandic
talents commensurate with those of Stalin.
Nor has he threatened to beat up a dramatic
critic or other representative of the work-
ing press of the nation or state.
Indeed, Senator Smith, however much he
may have kicked or bitten in real or imagi-
nary clinches, was cheerfully voted for by
the President's friend Frank Graham.
It is, however, a country in which every
native-born boy- or girl-child can properly
aspire to be President. But that doesn't
mean that each and every one of them
could or should grace the position.