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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, MARCH 13, 1942 Washington, D. C. V. S. MOUNTAIN WARFARE The army is buying pitons, kara- biners, ice axes, skis, sleeping bags and parkas, to be used not in an expedition to the North pole but in preparation for warfare on snow- clad mountain sides. If you ask what mountain sides the reply is: “We are preparing for any emergency.” Army chiefs have carefully noted what has been done in Europe in mountain and win- iter warfare, and they intend that U. S. troops be trained in the same tactics. Today, in the Railroad Retire ment building (headquarters of the quartermaster corps) you can find a group of men known as “the Cold Climate Clothing and Equipment unit.” They are ski experts and mountain climbers, who know by rigorous experience what is needed for life in the cold latitudes and high altitudes. They are Bestor Robinson of the National Ski association; Robert H. Bates, editor of “Five Miles High”; and William House, a famed climb er and explorer. Working indoors ten hours a day, they are preparing specifications for the best military skis, the best goggles, boots, and high-pressure stoves that can be carried in a knapsack. Note: Germany’s expert in moun tain warfare, Paul Bauer, carried out his last peacetime mountain climbing exploit in the Nanga Par- bat expedition in India in 1938—with the consent and co-operation of the British government. —Buy Defense Bonds— MRS. WOODROW WILSON Mrs. Woodrow Wilson sewed for soldiers 25 years ago, and now she’s doing it again. Every Wednesday morning, she meets at the swank Sulgrave Club for Red Cross sewing with Mrs. Jesse Jones, and Mrs. D. Bu chanan Merriman, better known as the duchess of Windsor’s “Aunt Bes sie.” After the sewing, they lunch at the club, then adjourn to Mrs. Jesse Jones’ apartment at the Shoreham hotel, or to Mrs. Wilson’s home on S street, for bridge. The lady who, as “the beautiful widow Galt,” set all the town talk ing during World War I, still sets the town talking wherever she ap pears today. She gives her name freely to Democratic party and pa triotic causes, but her most regular activity is providing floral decora tions for the Wilson shrine at the National Cathedral. She has made a study of floral arrangements, per sonally supervises the decoration ev ery few days. Measured by the code of the cave dwellers, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is an active woman, but she stares in amazement at the activity of the First Lady of World War II. * • * SUGAR SHORTAGE If there is an investigation of the sugar shortage, certain agriculture department masterminds will have to do a lot of explaining. Few know that these master minds, over the protests of domestic beet - sugar producers, last year forced a reduction of sugar-beet acreage of from 17 to 20 per cent; also that cane which would have yielded 300,000 tons of sugar was left to rot in Puerto Rican fields because processing was prohibited. Sugar producers on the other hand, vigorously urged that domes tic quotas be lifted to permit maxi mum output. But the agriculture moguls refused to heed these warn ings. Led by Secretary Claude Wickard, they insisted the United States had ample sugar supplies for all needs—and they kept on chorus ing this refrain right up to a few ■weeks ago when Wiclfard, as a guest speaker on Mrs. Roosevelt’s Sunday night radio program, completely changed his tune and broke the news that sugar would have to be rationed. Wickard bases the shortage on two grounds: (1) heavy demands from our Allies, particularly Russia, whose sugar producing region has been devastated by the Nazis; (2) greatly reduced imports from the Philippines and Hawaii. The Philippines are out, but not Hawaii. Large munitions shipments are constantly going to these islands, and sugar is coming back. Agriculture department tycoons are making a big ado about how es sential their activities are to the war effort. One essential might be less bungling in unrestricting farm pro duction. Note: Puerto Rico now has on hand, and waiting to be ground, more sugar-cane than it is allowed to process under the production quo ta set by the agriculture depart ment. NAZI RAIL SHORTAGE The United States government has difficulty getting accurate reports of conditions in Germany these days. But from a neutral listening post comes the following: Germany is suffering an acute shortage of rail equipment. Civil ians have been instructed not to travel- anywhere on the railroads, except on the most urgent business. Penalties for violation of this rule are severe.- About 130,000 freight cars are be lieved to be in use in Russia or in th* Russian campaign. ILPhiHipr VIEWPOINT Our part we must do in a terrible war— A victory final we seek; So forward to rescue the world (maybe more)— On forty-four hours a week! No time’s to be lost in this job that’s ahead— Our efforts must rapidly soar; So let our endeavors be rapidly spread On forty-four hours, no morel The world is on fire; we feel the hot flames; Around us we see the walls fall; So into the blaze and the holocaust, James! . . . For forty-four hours, that’s air! The enemy, ruthless, is at us full tilt, Our lives and our homes are at stake; So into the fight in which no one can wilt— Unless the work limit we break! We never have faced such a terrible fight— Defeat is a possible fact; So over the ramparts with all of our might— Observing the Walsh-Healy act! Like slaves we would live if the enemy won And get a few pennies per day, So into the battle! And no ordeal shun— Excepting one affecting our PAY! A barbarous foe’s winning great victories— He stops at no outrage or crime; So forward to bring the beast down on his knees— UNLESS IT INVOLVES OVER TIME! • • • What’s causing all those Florida train wrecks? The last one was a head-on collision in broad daylight, and Elmer Twitchell suspects that, the racing influence being what it is down that way, somebody thought the trip was a jumping event. • • • Oh, Boy! Explanations from Vichy Sound terribly fishy. • • • Question to any prisoner at the Riom trial, “Do you plead guilty or do you wish to admit every thing?” —Buy Defense Bonds— “Sir Stafford Qripps, the new min ister named in the British cabinet shake-up, was a firm critic of Stan ley Baldwin’s policies, he regarded the British action in the Ethiopian crisis as hypocritical, he held that the League of Nations had gone back on its pledges, he opposed the British sly support of General Franco, he fought appeasement all the way and had no use for Neville Chamber- lain.”—Newspaper item. That would seem to make him pretty much a man of the hour if you ask us. • • • Why Congressional Speech Readers Go Mad Mr. Snyder: “Mr. Chairman, we are now engaged in a most stupen dous and destructive war . . . The question confronting us today iswhat we, the democracies, must continue to do, or must initiate and do, to eventually win. The University of Pittsburgh’s football team last fall started off by losing to small col leges like Westminster. They lost every game except the next to the last one. Fordham had won every game and was looked upon to be the outstanding contender for the Rose Bowl invitation. Fordham went to Pittsburgh to play their annual game. Only a few thousand people turned out because they thought it would be a pushover at 100 to 1 for Fordham. But what happened? Pittsburgh’s football team pulled it self together and ran over Fordham. “Mr. Chairman, I mention this because it is appropriate and ap plicable to our world situation. What enabled Pittsburgh to win that day? Only one thing, spirit and determi nation.”—Congressional Record. Now that that’s all cleared up, let’s go! —Buy Defense Bonds— Believe it or not, we know of a case where a young man who is about as husky a physical specimen as we have ever seen, unmarried and anxious to get into the war, tried to join the coast guard and was rejected on the ground his upper and lower teeth didn’t meet! P.S.— They took him in the draft. • • • Ima Dodo took a lump of sugar downtown yesterday to have it re treaded. • • • Rhymes for the Button Your Lip Campaign He who hears. But doesn’t tell, Serves Old Glory Very well. • • • Little bits of gossip, Little tongues that wag Help put big successes In the Axis bag. * * • If you’d beat the Japs Shut your traps! —Buy Defense Bonds— With Our Boys ‘Somewhere in Northern Ireland’ Picture at left shows a private in the A.E.F., on sentry duty, somewhere in Northern Ireland. Irish chil dren—two of them barefooted—watch and admire him. It is a true case of “hero worship.” Right: These sol diers have just finished mess and are pictured as they clean their tin plates. Judging from their happy faces, the food “over there” is agreeing with the boys well enough. Generals Learn How to Keep ’Em Rolling Brig. Gen. T. E. Marchant (left), and Brig. Gen. J. C. Hutchinson get into overalls at motor transport school, Hoiabird, Md., where, for the first time in history, high ranking officers are taking a two-weeks’ course with a view to giving the officers first-hand information on driving convoys in difficult terrain. Right: A master sergeant shows three brigadier generals the inside of a truck wheel, and how to keep it properly greased and prepared. War Bonnet for ‘Big Joe’ Stalin The head of the Russian Reds has been named honorary chief of the Red Indians, as outstanding warrior for 1941, although the Indians asso ciated with the Indian Confederation admit that Gen. Douglas MacArthur is a sure candidate for honors in 1942. A fine war bonnet, which will go to Stalin, is being presented to Edward Carter, president of the Russian war relief, by Chief Falling Trees at the Indian Confederation pow wow in New York. Paraski Troops Ready for Action After a hard training grind, ski troopers of the 503rd parachute bat talion are now seasoned paraski soldiers. A group of the jumping snow birds are pictured inside their transport plane en route to their jump-off place near Alta, Utah. Their skis and other equipment will be dropped to them by large parachutes after they have leaped. Rough on Japs An Igorot warrior of the Philip pines. Thousands like him are now fighting with American comrades on Bataan peninsula. Gen. MacArthur reports that Igorots rode on top of U. S. tanks, guiding them through the jungle in an annihilating attack. Youngest Captain v.\ . . '.-"V .. -V. .. . . Cant. Robert Knight, 28, youngest captain in the U. S. marine corps. He is stationed at the U. S. naval reserve aviation base at Atlanta, Ga., as flight instructor. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) End of the Trail YY^HEN Capt. James H. Cook ’ ’ died recently on his 15,000-acre Agate Springs ranch in Sioux coun ty, Neb., the passing of this 84-year- old Westerner broke one of the few remaining links between the present and- that era in American history epitomized in the phrase “the Wild West.” For “Captain Jim” was an authentic frontiersman—a cowboy who trailed Texas longhorns north to the roaring cow towns of Kansas and Nebraska, a guide and big game hunter, a scout for the United States army in the last of the Indian wars and a pioneer ranch man in the heart of the Indian coun try in western Nebraska. A descendant of Captain James Cook, the famous English explor er, the future frontiersman was bom in southern Michigan August 26, 1857 His father was a seafar ing man but young Cook did not choose to follow in his sire’s foot steps. “I think the spirit of the hunter was in me at birth,” he once said and, as a boy, he became an expert marksman with the rifle. By the time he was 17, the call of adventure had taken him west—to Kansas, where he found a job as a herder near old Fort Harker Then he went to Texas with some cow boys who had brought a herd up the trail from the Lone Star state. In San Antonio he became acquainted with the redoubtable “Big Foot” Wallace who liked the “shorthorn” CAPT. JAMES H. COOK From a photograph taken in 1886 kid so much that he gave young Cook one of the best of his three- year-old colts. But Cook didn’t re main a tenderfoot long Within a year he was working as a cowboy for the famous Ben Slaughter and during the nexi four or five years he became one of the most expert "brushpoppers’ in the cattle coun try During this time also he helped trail many a herd north to the In dian agencies in Nebraska and the Dakotas, became acquainted with the Sioux Indians and laid the foun dation for a lifelong friendship with such famous Chiefs as old Red Cloud, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Little Wound and Ameri can Horse. At Fort Laramie he met Baptiste Gamier, famous on the frontier as “Little Bat,” hunter and army scout. Under the tutelage of “Little Bat,” young Cook became a skilled big game hunter and in 1878 he made his last trip up the trail as a cow waddie. At Cheyenne, Wyo., he fell in with “Wild Horse Charlie” Alexander, renowned for his skill in capturing wild mustangs. The two men became pardners in supplying game for the markets in Cheyenne and other towns along the Union Pacific railroad. During the next four years Cook served as a guide for many a hunt ing party of Easterners and Eng lishmen in the wilds of Wyoming and this led directly to his being employed by one of them—Harold C. Wilson of Cheltenham, England —to take charge of the ranch which Wilson purchased in southwestern New Mexico. Cook was manager of the “W S” ranch until 1887 and dur ing that time he won his greatest fame as a scout by serving with the United States troops in running down the Apache leader, Geronimo, after his last outbreak in 1885-6. In the meantime Cook had pur chased the ranch in western Nebras ka which was to be his home for the next 50 years. At the time of the Ghost Dance excitement among the Sioux in 1890-91 he performed valuable service for the army be cause he was one of the few white men whom the Indians trusted. Ever afterwards they were frequent visitors at his Agate Springs ranch and when he died on January 27, 1942, there was sadness among the Oglala Sioux for they had lost their good friend, “Little Eagle.’' In 1923 his autobiography was published by the Yale University Press under the title of “Fifty Years on the Old Frontier’' and the intro duction to that volume was written by Gen. Charles King, who served as a lieutenant and adjutant of the “Fighting Fifth” cavalry in the Sioux and Apache wars In it Gen eral King paid tribute to “the scouts of the Plains, men famous in song and story, of whom Kit Carson and Jim Bridger in the early days and ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody and, later still, ‘Captain Jim’ Cook were the shin ing lifihts.” CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT FRUIT TREES FRUIT TREES, two anti three-year Otd. leading varieties, ten and fifteen cents each. Buy now. Don’t wish you had. ELLIJAY NURSERIES, Eilijay, Georgia. 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