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In case some friend gave you a bottle of licker for Christmas, and you want to find out whether it is good stufr or not, you might follow the directions recently sent me by a friend, as follows: PasE an electric currcnt through a quart bf the stufr. If the current causes a precipitation of lye, tin, arsenate, iron slag, and alum-the licker is just fair. If, however, the booze hauls off and chasee the current of electricity back into the generator-you've got yourself some good whiskey. *

A prominent British owner and operator of bars and pubs has been in the United States studying and observing the methods pursued by eating and drinking places in this country. He said he came over because he thought there should be better relations "between these two English drinking countries." {. ,B 1(

A well known writer says he is certain now that Ike Eisenhower is a candidate for President because alt his recent photos are taken without his glasses. Come to think about it, it's true, but it took a mighty observant fellow to tumble to that t1,.* *

I heard Ike make a speech recently, and he said some things that must have hurt the feelings of sorne folks in Washington. For instance, he said, ,'A liberal is a man in Washington who wants to play the Almighty, with our money." Guess fke meant the same thing another smart man I know did when he said that our government has repealed the multiplication table, substituted government for God, started re-creating the world through planned economics. * * *

Also, Ike said that he deplores the drift away from an earlier simplicity, and loss of respect for mere thrift and independence. And, he added, he thought that America's high standards of living are NOT the result of political legerdemain or crackpot fantasies concerning reward without effort, and harvests without planting. I gathered from his remarks that General Ike is NOT entirely in sympathy with the drift to security and from liberty that is so much praised in high government*"tTt.r today.

Such remarks and others of like portent have been dropping frequently from Eisenhower's lips for some time now, and up to the present moment Mr. Truman has not seen fit to publicly castigate him, or place him categorically among those "selfish interests" who alone would obstruct the drift toward the welfare state.

I gather from news reportr tfiat the President DID write a letter to James F. Byrnes and give him unshirted hades for his recent speecher which sort of took the hide ofr of our present governmental trends. And the papers have also credited the Missourian with the statement that nine out of every ten newspapcr editors and columnists are againet him. Well, that puts me in good company, at any rate. The fact is that of all the newspapers I read, only one defends the fiscal and economic policies of the Fair Deal. And, strange as it may Beem, the editors that talk loudest and hardest against our preoent administration, are old, hardshell Democratic writers in the South. No Republican writers I know of are half as bitter in their condemnation of what goes on in Washington today, as are the best known and most respected Jeffersonian Democrats among the Southern editors. Funny, isn't it?

There was once a fellow named Thomas Jefferson-tall, freckled, red-headed chapwho had more or less to do, if f remember rightly, with the creation of this nation. Likewise, unless my memory plays me false, he was the founder of the Democratic Party. When Ike Eisenhower deplored our drift away from our earlier simplicity of government, he probably had in mind Jefferson's opinion regarding what our federal government should be and do. For Jefferson suggested that our "general government" as he called it, "be reduced to a very simple organization and a very inexpensive one-a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants." * :&

A simple and inexpensive organization with a few servants to do all the chores! Jefferson was a great patriot and statesman, no doubt, but as a prophet he was a total failure. Wonder what the old boy would think if he knew this "simple organization" spends nearly fifty billions of dollars annually of the taxpayers' money, and sticks its nose into the affairs of all men, at home and abroad? Hope he doesn't know. It might make him unhappy, even in heaven' ,. * *

One Southern Democratic editor recently described our national situation in this fashion, "The assumption that government is Santa Claus is sheer illusion and sucker bait. Government can't give anything to anybody without first taking something away from someone else. As a clearing house, government can rob Peter to pay Paul. And the sixty million gainfully occupied, self-supporting Americans should be alerted to the fact that they are the Peters who are being robbed*Ot*an. political wasters."

One more quotation from a Democratic editor, Ed Kil-