The Pot Boils

P: South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, was appalled to discover that he had signed a letter inviting the Virgin Island's Governor William H. Hastie to visit him. Said Thurmond : "I didn't know Governor Hastie was a Negro. Of course, it would have been ridiculous to have invited him."

P: Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist candidate for President, declared that he would not be a candidate in 1952. Said Thomas: "I have made almost as many farewell tours for the presidency as Sarah Bernhardt. But, ladies and gentlemen, this is your last chance."

P: Seven days after his all-out attack on President Truman, John L. Lewis wound up the United Mine Workers Convention by giving the back of his hand to Candi date Dewey. Said Lewis: "Some politician said recently that the Taft-Hartley Act at least gave labor the right to organize and protected labor in that exercise. That man hasn't even read the act. The act does just the reverse."

P: The Dewey bandwagon was getting crowded with "independent" newspapers. Among last week's additions: the Scripps-Howard chain, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which supported Roosevelt except in 1936, when it endorsed Landon (in an editorial written by Truman's Press Secretary Charles G. Ross). This week the St. Louis Star-Times climbed aboard, giving Dewey a clean sweep of the major papers in Truman's home state.

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