The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, February 13, 1942, Image 2
THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S, C„ FEBRUARY 13, 1942
Washington, D. C.
WART GRAVY-TRAINER
You can write it down that Secre
tary of Agriculture Claude Wickard
is going to be very chary about us
ing that gravy-train veto power the
farm lobby voted him in the price
control bill.
He knows that the White House is
still sputtering over his unauthorized
endorsement of this lobby scheme
at a crucial moment in the senate
fight over the legislation. Also, that
if he attempts to exercise the power
he is liable to be slapped down even
harder than when he fronted for the
lobby.
Actually, under cover, Wickard
has promised in effect to be a good
boy.
It didn’t leak out at the time, but
during the secret deliberations of the
joint senate-house conference com
mittee on the bill, he wrote the com
mittee a letter repudiating his pre
vious endorsement and saying he
didn’t want the veto power over
farm prices.
Wickard wrote this letter under
White House pressure. He knew he
was in bad and he tried to square
himself.
But for the administration, the
backdown was too late. The dam
age had been done, for the amend
ment was in the bill and the lobby’s
pals on the joint committee were in
a powerful position to stpnd pat.
In this final bitter fight, two Ala
bama Democrats and a Michigan
Republican were responsible for the
retention of the gravy-train provi
sion. They were Sen. John H. Bank-
head and Rep. Henry B. Steagall of
Alabama, and Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott
of Michigan.
As the amendment originated in
the senate, under the rules, it was
necessary for the house conferees
to propose deletion. Steagall, chair
man of the house group, publicly
makes a great show of being a red
hot Administrationite. But behind
closed doors of the committee room
he adamantly refused to heed Roose
velt’s pleas for elimination of the
lobby amendment.
Backed by Wolcott, who fought the
vital war bill from the start, and
with Bankhead running interference
in the senate group, Steagall forced
the retention of the provision.
Note: The administration’s fight
was made by Sen. Prentiss Brown,
Michigan Democrat, and Sen. John
Danaher, Connecticut Republican.
Another Row.
Wickard’s fronting for the farm :
lobby in the price control bill isn’t
the only row he’s had on this
score with inner administration
leaders.
The papers are full of stories
about a big crop expansion program
this year to meet the food needs of
U. S. war allies. Frequent press re
leases issue from the busy publicity
staff of the agriculture department
about grandiose plans.
The real inside is that Wickard
didn’t get busy on these plans until
he was practically ordered to do so
by Vice President Henry Wallace as
head of the Economic Warfare
board.
Wallace sent Wickard two sharp
letters demanding prompt action to
expand crop production and only
then did Wickard bestir himself.
Certain farm elements are against
crop expansion, on the ground that
scarcity makes for better prices.
Working through politically minded
Triple A officials, who have a lot of
influence with Wickard, the anti-ex-
panders kept him on the fence until
Wallace jarred him off.
Note: Secretly, the AAA politicos
also had a lot to do with Wickard’s
endorsement of the gravy-train
amendment in the price bill. The
AAAers are jealous of Price Admin
istrator Leon Henderson’s authority,
want to elbow their way into the
war set-up as big shots.
• * •
F.D.R. AXES LEWIS
The inside reason why John L.
Lewis was not named a member of
the three-man C.l.O. peace commit
tee .was because President Roose
velt personally blocked it
When he and C.l.O. President Phil
Murray discussed the counter plan
that scuttled Lewis’ blitz scheme,
Roosevelt advised that the new
A.F.L. and C.l.O. peace committees
be limited to three members each.
That would avoid turning the joint
committee into a “mass meeting,”
he explained, and also make it eas
ier to keep hostile Lewis out of the
picture.
“If you have too large a commit
tee, Phil,” the President added with
a smile, “you may appoint Lewis.”
“I guess you’re right, Mr. Presi
dent,” laughed Murray.
Note: Lewis intimates say he
would not have accepted appoint
ment to the committee if it had been
offered him.
• * *
GENERAL MARSHALL
You weren’t seeing things if you
saw the news picture of Gen. George
C. Marshall, army chief of staff, at
tired in the uniform of an air corps
officer.
It was him all right and he had
on an air corps uniform.
Marshall is not a flier. He is an
infantryman. But outside of the
corps, he is the flyingest officer in
the army. Whenever possible
Marshall always travels by air and
is an authority on planes and aerial
tactics.
ELMER ON MORALE
AND BALONEY
“I am for morale building,” de
clared Elmer Twitchell, well-known
philosopher, horseshoe pitcher and
stamp collector, today. “Morale is
important in any struggle. Three
cheers for all we can get. But noth
ing is breaking my morale down just
now like some of the baloney being
spread by alleged morale builders.”
• * •
Mr. Twitchell was more dis
turbed than usual. “The quick
er we get the phony element out
of this morale stuff the better,”
he resumed, pounding a table.
* * *
“At the moment it is the race
track people who are pretty close
to tops in overdoing this angle. I
like racing. I hope the war won’t
stop it. But it gripes me to listen
to a continuous stream of bunk
about horse tracks being of primary
importance to the war effort. You
would think from some of this stuff
that the war and the mutuel win
dows were linked in the all-out de
fense effort.
* • •
“I listened to a broadcast after a
big race in Florida the other after
noon, and, immediately after giving
the payoff prices, the broadcaster
went into a spiel on the importance
of the eight-race program to ulti
mate victory. It lacked only ‘Hearts
and Flowers’ by a string orches
tra.
• • •
“It was the crowning peak to a
lot of similar flapdoodle that has
been coming from the racing inter
ests for months, and it is doing the
morale-building business no good.
* • •
“Give me a day at the races when
I have been working hard and am
feeling blue. I yield to no man in
my love of the thoroughbred. I find
a peculiar attraction in the mutuel
window. I love the soft whispers
about the good things coming up. I
can even stand all those photo fin
ishes. But don’t give me that stuff
about the ponies being of such vital
importance that the American peo
ple will never be able to bear up
through the war without them!
There’s a limit!”
» • •
It is now predicted that It may
be necessary to ration men’s
socks. The center of minimum
worry about this is in the
Ozarks.
• • •
SONG FOR TAXPAYERS
(Irving Berlin has written a song to
cheer up income taxpayers. It is called “l
Paid My Income Tax Today.” — News
item.)
Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray!
I paid my income tax today;
In acts like this I love to glory . . .
At least, my friend, that is my
story!
A tax is quite a joy to me—
I paid it very cheerfully;
It made me anything but blue—
I love to come across, sez you!
When I’m feeling rather sad,
There’s always something makes
me glad:
I love to sing, tra la tra loo
The minute that my tax is due.
When I am feeling extra low
And down my spirits seem to go
I find relief, oh, many thanks,
In filling out some income blanks.
Should dark depression o’er me
spread
Such feelings I know how to shed:
I ask an income tax to pay
And Morgenthau, he says “Okay.”
Old Irv Berlin is happy, too
To pay each levy high and new,
And I’d be twice as gay, I know—
If I had all that fellow’s dough.
• • •
A vaudeville unit is on its way to
Iceland. It will, of course, open cold.
• • •
“Need Parachutes for Food.”—-
Headline in the N. Y. Times.
* * •
We’ll just take a plain dirigi
ble salad with no fixings.
• • •
The king and queen of Eng
land have moved from Bucking
ham palace and taken a flat.
What a kick it must be for a
queen to be close enough to her
own kitchen to smell toast burn
ing!
• • •
“Remember back when a man
wasn’t ashamed to allow his chil
dren to look at the covers of maga
zines displayed on news stands?”
asks Merrill Chilcote.
» • •
Electricity in private homes
may soon be rationed. It is go
ing to be tough to have to turn
off the radio when you’re not
listening.
* * *
We went into a restaurant one
night and found the sugar bowl
missing. We complained to the
head waiter, who explained all. “All
the dames help themselves and fill
their handbags with it,” he said.
“We had to cut out the bowls. How
many lumps shall I bring you?”
Applaud Anti-Axis Agreement in Rio
Symbolic of the spirit of co-operation at the anti-Axis conference is this photo of Dr. Enrique Ruiz-
Guinazu (left, seated, in white), foreign minister of Argentina; Caraacciolo Para Perez, foreign minister of
Venezuela (center), and Sumner Welles, U. S. undersecretary of state. All are shown applauding the anti-Axis
agreement arrived at by all.—Soundphoto.
Another Score to Settle With Adolf Hitler
Above is shown some of the crew of the ill-fated Norwegian freighter, Varanger, which went down al
most within sight of the New Jersey coastline after being hit by a torpedo from an enemy siibmarine. The
entire crew of 42 which took to lifeboats arrived in port safely. They are symbolizing victory as they eat
«t Gloucester, N. J. Inset: The Varanger sliding beneath the waves following the attack.
Para-Ski Parachute Battalion Members
For a Raidy Day *
Para-ski members of the 503rd parachute battalion get their first
training in the snow-covered mountains and valleys of Utah. Some of
these paratroopers had never seen snow until they arrived in Salt Lake
City for training. Here Instructor Hugh Bauer demonstrates to his class
the proper way to do a kick turn.
Philadelphia is going right ahead
with its air raid precautions, and
the latest innovation is the fire
fighting suit for women wardens,
made of chemically processed fire
proof cloth. Above is shown the
suit with helmet as worn in action.
Making Barrage Balloons for Defense
Turns on Hitler
A view of the new huge balloon room at the plant of the Firestone
Tire & Rubber company in Akron, where as many as 12 great barrage
balloons may be inflated at one time. These gas bags have proved their
worth in defending vital points against enemy aircraft in Great Britain.
fVerker* in foreground are assembling a big bag.
Once leader of the fascist home
guard in Austria, Prince Ridiger
von Starhemberg is now flight lieu
tenant with the Free French force'
of Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for February 15
. Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE HEALING MINISTRY
OF JESUS
LESSON TEXT—2:1-12.
GOLDEN TEXT—Jesus . . . was moved
with compassion toward them, and he healed
their sick.—Matthew 14:14.
Man is more than a body. He is
made up of body, soul, and spirit.
' In a physical world where he is so
much in touch with physical na
ture, and the needs of his body are
so much before him, he is prone
to forget that there is within a spir
itual nature which is his real self.
God is interested in both the
physical and the spiritual side of
man. He provides all that we need
for our bodies, and above all, He
meets the all-important spiritual
hunger of man’s inner being. We
find the Lord Jesus in our lesson
graciously touching both spirit and
body of the palsied man in response
to the faith of his friends.
I. Faith Brings a Doable Need to
Christ (w. 1-4).
This faith-stimulating story faces
us first with
1. An Impossible Situation. In
curably afflicted and helpless phys
ically and far more deeply afflict
ed spiritually, this man had no one
who could heal his body and restore
his soul. Apart from the power of
God in Jesus Christ his situation
was hopeless, and thus he may well
typify every one of us except for
the grace of Christ.
Furthermore, his circumstances
were such as to make it impossible
for him to get to Jesus, who was
there in his city. Even when his
four friends came to his help and
bore him to the house where Jesus
was, they could npt enter because of
the crowds. So a journey begun in
hope was evidently to close in de
spair. But wait, these men had
2. An Undeniable Faith. “Where
there’s a will there’s a way.” Where
there is faith the obstacles may be
surmounted. Having begun a good
work they persevered in it.
Had these men been bound by
convention or custom they would
never have put their friend at Jesus’
feet. They did try to make a proper
entry through the door, but it was
blocked. The way to Jesus is often
closed, by some custom, a vain
philosophy, or a religious ceremony.
Let us, like these believing men,
open the roof if necessary to bring
our needs and our needy friends to
Him.
Although mention is made only of
the palsy of this man, it is probable
that both he and they knew that his
need was for a double cure, for he
was yet in his sins.
They brought him to Jesus, where
their
n. Faith Receives a Donble Re
ward From Christ (w. 5-12).
Immediately Jesus “saw their
faith” (v. 5), just as He always
does. God is on the lookout for faith
and is quick to reward it. The two
fold need here brought a double
blessing.
1. Spiritual Cleansing. The man’s
physical affliction thus proved to be
his greatest blessing, for it brought
him to Jesus, who cleansed him of
ail unrighteousness. If he had not
been palsied he might never have
met the Lord. Suffering, then, may
be a means of grace. That is more
than a pious platitude, for it has
been proved repeatedly in the exist
ence of men and women.
Certain scribes “sitting there"
(they were not doing a thing to
help) began to reason in their hearts
that Jesus was blaspheming be
cause only God can forgive sin.
Their theology was faultless and
their reasoning was logical, but the
premise of their argument was wrong.
Only God can forgive sin, but Jesus
is God, something which they in
their wisdom did not realize or ac
cept.
We (especially young people in
school) should be careful that the
fluent smoothness of some unbeliev
ing philosopher’s logic does not lead
us astray, and awty from God’s
truth.
Note also the solemnizing thought
that Jesus knew what they were
thinking in their hearts. Let us re
member that “all things are naked
and opened unto the eyes of him
with whom we have to do” (Heb.
4:13). What does He see when He
looks into our hearts?
The challenge of these questioning
scribes is met by
2. Physical Healing. Forgiving
sins was harder than healing the
body, but these enemies of Jesus
lived so much in the realm of the
physical that He had to give them
a demonstration of His almighty
power which they could see. It was
a gracious thing for Him to do, and
perhaps necessary in those early
days of His life and ministry.
Today, with all the light of his
tory upon the work of God, we need
to beware that we do not sit in
the seat of the scornful and demand
a physical sign before we will be
lieve. God is doing great things in
the spiritual realm even in our day,
in which Christian men and women
may share by faith.
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the photographic reproduction of
currency, stamps, bonds and sim
ilar government papers go a step
further to protect certificates of
naturalization. Even the making
of a typewritten copy of such a
document, whether for a legiti
mate purpose or for fraud, sub
jects the offender to a severe pen
alty.
Evenly Paced
Quiet minds can not be per
plexed or frightened, but go on in
fortune or misfortune at their
own private pace, like a clock
during a thunderstorm. — R. L.
Stevenson.
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