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BRITISH SINKINGS Washington, D. C. American naval observers, who have been trying to pierce the maze of German claims and British de nials regarding battleship sinkings, come to one conclusion: The Ger mans have not sunk nearly as many ships as they say they have, but the British navy is not in too good shape, either. What actually happened is that a good many British warships have been damaged and have had to go to drydock. This takes them out of battle for weeks or even months. Temporarily, it is just as effective as sinking them. As of today, five British battle ships are in drydock, and one is sunk. This much is definite. There may be others sunk, as claimed by the Germans, but if so, U. S. naval observers have not been able to con firm it. Since Britain has only 15 battle ships, the wounding of six is a seri ous blow, and gives considerable support to the contention of Secre tary of the Navy Edison that the Time Out for Statesmanship —By Thomas. battleship now must take its place with the horse and buggy. Like the fighting elephants used by Hannibal, battleships are super- powerful, but expensive to maintain, hard to maneuver fast enough to dodge the less expensive airplane. Note—One reason for the constant German claims of sinking British warships is to wring denials from the British which will reveal just what their naval strength is. Actu ally, aviators usually cannot tell when they sink a vessel. They can’t afford to remain in the vicinity to see whether it sinks. Nor do the Germans know just how strong the British are in certain areas, such as the Mediterranean and the North sea. So they try to get revealing denials from the admiralty. • • • GENERAL JOHNSON Jays': UUrf'aftn. J VNUSM. •A BUNCH OF BUNK?’ Washington, D. C. One principal reason why I went to St. Louis, the metropolis of the great valley, was to check up as well as I could on certain state ments so frequently repeated in the East recently. One is that this great hinterland people so short a time ago opposed to our taking any part in the war in Europe have now changed their minds. Another is that the Presi dent’s message on defense has so "electrified” and “unified” them for his foreign policies that an election this fall would be a mistake—that it is no longer necessary. They want a third term for Mr. Roosevelt as a measure of national preparedness. Walter Lippmann, Miss Dorothy Thompson and radio commentator H. V. Kaltenbom seem to have fall en for this line, or at least have stressed various angles of the move to suppress our two-party system on a belief that what we need is unity. That is also the White House janis- sariat and third termite line. It is at the bottom of the President’s dra matic but tricky presentation of the preparedness bill and of his coquetry to seduce a healthy opposition party by the so-called coalition cabinet idea. • • • Well, it is my observation among this valley people of my own begin nings that it is all a bunch of bunk. This mid-western country no more approves the President’s policy of sticking our necks out into the for eign embroglios of Europe and Asia than it ever did< and that was not at all. It does approve the spending of whatever is necessary for Ameri can defense. It always did. It need ed no “unification” on that either by the President’s speech or “coalition cabinet.” It is shocked to learn at so late a date that this administration, while spending so many billions for boon doggling and some useful works, has permitted us to remain so delin quent in defense that we have prac tically no armament against the dreadful weapons of modem war. It is beginning to realize that it has not heretofore been told the truth about this defenselessness. It is especially indignant to learn that as early as 1933 when Hitler started the “mechanization and mo torization of army tactical units” which is now conquering civiliza tion, and which then erased the un employment problem in Germany, Mr. Roosevelt was authorized by congress to spend any part of $3,300,- 000,000 that he chose for the same purpose—and spent it and many bil lions more for other and far less necessary purposes. NAZIS IN BRAZIL? The Roosevelt administration is doing a lot of talking about cement ing relations with South America, and unquestionably the Nazi men ace below the Rio Grande is a cause of legitimate concern. But behind the scenes, the United States is muffing a lot of important moves. One of these is the development of Brazil’s wealthy iron ore deposits. Several months ago, the state de partment arranged for the United States Steel corporation to investi gate the development of these mines and the building of a steel plant near them. Six U. S. Steel corpora tion experts went to Brazil, reported enthusiastically to their board of di rectors. Subsequently, the Reconstruction Finance corporation offered to ad vance money for the development of the mines. The U. S. govern ment was to put up approximately one-third of the cash, the Brazilian government about one-third and the U. S. Steel corporation was to put up the rest. However, U. S. Steel wanted to know what guarantees it would have in case of a repetition in Brazil in the future of the Mexican oil ex propriation policy. The state de partment replied that it could give no guarantees. So the U. S. Steel balked. Following this, Germany, always in need of raw materials, offered to transfer part of the Skoda munitions works, which it had seized in Czecho Slovakia, to Brazil, and set up a Nazi steel mill. But President Var gas and Foreign Minister Aranha, both strongly pro-American, re fused. ‘ However, the Brazilian army, which is strongly pro-German, is pushing them in the opposite direc tion. And unless the United States steps into the picture with another proposal, it may eventually wake up to find a powerful Nazi muni tions works established at its door step. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND Latest book read by Mrs. Roose velt: “Health is Wealth,” by Dr. Paul de Kruif, crusading physician. Remarked a Capitol doorkeeper, eyeing the powerful build of Rep. “Vince” Harrington of Iowa: “That guy certainly would make a swell football player.” He was right. Har rington was a teammate of the fa- mousNotre Dame “Four Horsemen.” Josephus Daniels has attended ev ery Democratic national convention since 1892. This year he will fly up from Mexico City for the convention. • • • Mr. Roosevelt made an effective rearmament speech and got a lot of applause. But the facts are leaking out that he was making a virtue out of his own neglect and inaction in defense, that the appropriation he asked for was unplanned and inade quate. That the speech and the subse quent coalition cabinet stuff was pure third-term politics and had lit tle to do with increased industrial defense production—which is the es sence of our problem. • • • INDUSTRIAL SENSE At the end of a luncheon of B. M. Baruch with the President, Steve Early warned newshawks not to be gin guessing that there would be a new war industries board. He add ed that the government is much bet ter organized than it was in 1917. I think Mr. Early is partly right. But the statement carries hints which, if intended, are altogether wrong. The war industries board was an over-all control of our en tire economic system, including de mand and supply, price and produc tion, transportation and commerce. We were organizing a “nation in arms” for total war by overseas attack. That required us to shoot the works—to make many times the effort we are called upon to make today for defensive preparation. It Is true that we do not need to re peat precisely the war industries or ganization. It is also true that governmental organization is “different” from that of 1917, but Steve is also re ported to have said it is “better.” If that means “better to get the maximum effort and production out of industry,” it is nonsense. To say this government is better organized to do this job of rapid in dustrial production for rearmament could be described as a colossal though tragic joke—if it were not so tragic. In this phase of this war our sole battlefield is on the industrial front. This administration for seven years has built up every barrier it could invent against both. Passing without comment its many laws restricting financing, maximum effort by clogs on speed- ups, overtime and high-pressure management, it has attempted to substitute political regimentation and government competition for the profit motive, which was the only known gas to make our industrial engine go at its best. THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY. JUNE 7, 1940 Nazi Parachute Troops Discard Chutes and Run The Nazis’ highly effective parachute troops, which have so materially helped the success of the German drive, are pictured in action here. Men of this detachment have just been dropped from a Nazi transport plane. They have discarded their parachutes, assembled their heavy machine gun, and are dashing for the protection of the strategic railway line which runs on the embankment in the rear. Will American Battleships Come to This? The whaleback battleship, heavily armored, may be the answer to the threat of the dive bomber, ac cording to the Secretary of the Navy, Cbz.'les Edison. Just what a whaleback battleship would look like is shown by this drawing by Otto Kuhler, New York designing engineer. The rounded armored surfaces give maximum resistance to direct hits and deflect striking power. The whaleback fighting ship would present an ul tra-streamlined appearance, even the smokestack being built like a teardrop. (Above)—Members of the navy high command in conference with President Roosevelt concerning the naval expansion program. James Roosevelt, movie producer and son of the President, is pic tured above cracking a bottle of champagne over the bow of his new racing sloop, Half Moon. Young Roosevelt, like his father, is an ardent and capable sailor. He plans on entering his sloop in the spring series of San Diego, Calif., Yacht club races. The launching of an attack by Nazi parachute troops. The para chuters are bailed out at one-second intervals, their chutes blossoming oat as they dive for their objective. In this picture of Adolf Hitler at the western front the Fuehrer is shown, according to the German censor-approved caption, with para chute troops whom he honored by awarding them the Iron Cross. The parachutists are credited with leading the attack on Fort Eben Emael, Liege citadel outpost. Note the crosses, Germany’s highest honor. S. S. ‘America’ The giant steamship America at dock in Norfolk. The newest and biggest vessel in the American mer chant marine; the largest passenger ship ever built in this country. The ship is 723 feet long. “The Name Is Familiar— —e— BT FELIX B. STHEYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Pasteurize PASTEURIZATION is a term we 1 apply to the process of killing germs in milk because of the dis coveries of Louis Pasteur, French chemist. But few of us realize that his discoveries did not come as a result of his interest in milk but in alcoholic drinks. He is the first man to make a scientific study of fer mentation and set out to find the cause of sickness in beer and wine. One of his first discoveries was that the globules of yeast in sound beer were round but in sour beer they were elon gated. (He wasn’t interested, how ever, in discover ing whether the globules in flat beer were flat.) He found that fer mentation was due to minute or ganisms and when fermentation failed they were absent or unable to multiply. Then he found out that the lactic fermentation of milk was practically the same as that of al cohol and that the bacteria in milk could be stopped from multiplying. His process consists in partial ster ilization of milk at a temperature between 131 and 158 degrees which destroys certain organisms and un desirable bacteria. Pasteurism, also named after Lou is Pasteur, is a treatment of rabies by inoculation with germs of gradu ally increasing strength. • • • Joshing ACK in the fifties Henry W. Shaw, a real estate man and auction eer of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., began writing a series of humorous articles for the local paper under the pen name of “Joshua Billings.” The ske*ches didn’t attract much atten tion so he stopped writing them for a year. Then he adopted a phonetic style of spelling and sent a previous ly published arti cle, “An Essa on the Muel,” (which began “The mule is haf boss and haf jackass, and then kums to a full stop, natur diskovering her mistake”), to the New York Week ly. It was an im mediate success and he began con tributing regular ly to the New York Saturday Post as well as the Weekly. Other papers reprinted his work and within a short time he was one of America’s most popular humor ous writers. President Lincoln was a great admirer of “Josh Billings” and frequently read his “essas” to members of his cabinet, much to the disgust of some of them, espe cially Secretary Stanton of the war department. After a time people began referring to this humorous style of writing, with its deliberate ly misspelled words, as “joshing” and that word was a common slang word until it was succeeded by “kidding” as a synonym for "to make fun (of); to chaff; to banter.” • • • Daguerreotype ORE than a century ago Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, a French painter of the diorama, an ancestor of the modern movies in that it was a succession of scenes painted on canvas which was caused to pass slowly before the eyes of the observer, made use of the “cam era obscura” in his work. It pro jected the image of landscapes and other objects on the canvas where they could easily be sketched in, thus giving a nat ural reproduction of the subject. Daguerre had noticed that chemically treat ed metal plates would, after sev eral hours’ expo sure in the cam era, retain a faint impression of the object but it soon faded away. So he began to seek a way to catch and permanently record the images on the plate. After experimenting for more than 10 years, during which time he had some aid from another Frenchman, Joseph Niepce, quite by chance he discovered the kind of chemical needed to fix the image on the plate and in 1839 announced his discovery to the world. Thus was born the modern art of photography and, appropriately enough, the first successful photo graphs were called daguerreotypes in honor of the man who “har nessed the sun”—Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Texas Week-End Accidents Nearly half the accidents in Texas during a five-month survey occurred on Saturday and Sunday. Less than 34 per cent of the traffic moved on 1 those days. Daguerre Loots Pasteur “■yES Mam, Lilybud, Ah done I caught it all by mah ownself. Ah did.” Thus Fo’ Bits impresses his mastery of fishing upon his lady fair. And Lilybud seems properly impressed—or fright ened. ’Tis all in fun though, for both little pickaninnies are de signed as cutouts to be placed be side your pool or on the lawn. Jig, coping or keyhole saw will cut them from plywood, and enamel will finish them. They may be used as a pair or singly. Z9181, 15 cents, brings the patr tern for clever little 21-inch Fo* Bits and his turtle. The fishing pole is a stick nailed on. Z9182, 15 cents, is his cute companion, Lilybud, almost as tall. General cutout directions come with each pattern and painting suggestions ere given. Send order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 1W-W Kansu City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents lor each pattern desired. Pattern No Name ••••••• Address Constipation Relief That Also Pepsin-izes Stomach When constipation brings on add indi gestion, bloating, dizzy spdls, gas, coated tongue, sour taste, and bad breath, your stomach is probably loaded up with cer tain undigested food and your bowels don't move. So you need both Pepsin to help break up fast that rich undigested food in your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pufl the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be sure your laxative also contains Pepsin. Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative, because its Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won- ddful stomach comfort, while the Laxatrva Senna moves your bowds. Tests prove the powerof Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger in your stomach, to cause belching, gas&ic acidity and nausea. This is how pepsin- izing your stomach helps relieve it of such distress. At the same time this medkinn wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your bowels to relieve your constipation. So see bow much better you fed by taking the laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin icky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Ca^lwdl’s Lax ative—Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your druggist today I Neighborly Courage People glory in all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their near est neighbor.—George Eliot. 5^'iu" // ^FWST THOUGHT AT 1W FMET ISt WAM1MG O* INORGANIC RMR 1 OR COtDS DISCOMFORTS. ^m^^yoSEPHASPIRW Conceit in Weak Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.—Hamlet. KILL ALL FLIES Guaranteed, effective. Neat. WUlnot soil or injure Lasts all season. 20c _ dealers. Harold Somers, — 160 De KaH> ▲ ve^HklynJl.' il DAISY FLY KILLER Garrulous Fool A fool’s voice is known by mul titude of words. MERCHAMTS •Your Advertising Dollar buys something more than space and circulation in the columns of this news paper. 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