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...Arthur Summerfield becomes Postmaster General next month, he will resign as Republican national chairman. Last week most of the G.O.P. speculation about Summerfield's successor was beamed toward one man: lean, relaxed Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 48. Roberts was working on his family's weekly Oskaloosa Independent (circ. 1,400) when he plunged into Republican politics in 1936. With time out for a World War II stint in the Marines, he served the Kansas G.O.P. and its state administrations in various jobs until 1950, when he got out of active politics to start his own public-relations firm...
There were some who talked like Corn &Hog Raiser Carroll Brown of Oskaloosa, Iowa. "When the farmer asks too much," he reasoned, "the rest of the guys may gang up on us some of these days and we'll get nothing." There were those who felt like C. B. Skipper of Georgia: "The Brannan Plan? I'm against it. I don't like to feel that anybody is giving me anything. The way things work now, I don't feel like anybody is giving me a handout." And there were, above all, farmers who spoke...
Just as the Service Committee has come to symbolize Quakerism to many non-Quakers, hardworking, articulate Secretary Pickett has come to personify the Service Committee. Farm-raised and Quaker-educated (William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa), Pickett spent World War I leading Friends' meetings, defending conscientious objectors and getting the side of his house painted yellow for his pacifist pains. In 1923 he joined the faculty of Earlham College at Richmond, Ind., where his favorite course was a study of the application of religion and ethics to current social problems...
...intimidation"; he charged: "We are guilty of almost every charge we level at the Russians." At Iowa City he demanded a meeting between the next President and Stalin, adding: "Roosevelt always said he could do business with Stalin. That's what he often told me personally." At Oskaloosa, he derided the idea that U.S. Communists are controlled from Moscow...
Occasionally reporters thought they saw the man that Wallace would like to be. Just outside Oskaloosa, Wallace stopped at small, Quaker-run William Penn College, spoke to its 250 students in the white, high-ceilinged chapel. With the bright Iowa sunlight streaming through the windows, Wallace talked earnestly and simply. Said he: "The guiding principles of the Quaker faith are still the most practical guide to ordinary living." Afterward, he sat under a tree on the lawn, chatted with undergraduates...