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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, MARCH 20, 1942
Washington, D. C.
The furious battle over the bill to
suspend the 40-hour week in war
plants caused a personal rift be
tween two house leaders that may
take a long time to heal.
When Rep. John McCormack,
Massachusetts liberal, was elected
Democratic floor leader, one of his
strongest supporters was a col
league who had nothing in common
with McCormack except friendship
—anti-New Deal, anti-labor Rep.
Gene Cox of Georgia.
It was with hushed astonishment,
therefore, that the house listened to
Cox’s bitter attack against McCor
mack during the stormy debate over
the anti-40 hour proposal. His voice
strident in anger, Cox denounced
McCormack on the ground that his
opposition to abolishing the 40-hour
week was “not good sportsmanship,
and I wonder if it is good leader
ship.”
“I have hoped,” the Georgian
thundered, “that at some time the
gentleman from Massachusetts
would come to a realization that he
is supposed to speak for the major
ity of this house rather than for
somebody else.”
Friends rushed to McCormack’s
defense, but he made no reply. Next
day, however, under McCormack’s
leadership, the bill was defeated 226
to 62—a taily which left no doubts
about who spoke for the “majority.”
Note: Two undercover factors
were responsible for this vote, which
probably did not reflect the general
sentiment of the country. One was
a tremendous pressure drive by the
A. F. of L. and C.I.O. in the district
of each congressman. This was par
ticularly effective with Republicans,
who, with their eyes on next fall’s
congressional elections, are very po
litical-minded. Second, was the fail
ure of the farm bloc to support the
bill because it feared labor reprisals
against the parity and other boodle
grabs which the farm bloc is after.
The bloc has been counted on to kill
the 40-hour week, but the laborites
served blunt notice that if the bill
was passed, labor would ax the
farmers. Result, the farm bloc ran
for cover and the bill went into the
ashcan.
• • *
WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
The other day Harry Hopkins had
a visitor in the person of Aubrey
Williams, head of the National
Youth administration, who has been
one of his closest friends for many
years.
“Harry,” said Williams, looking
around the room in the naval hos
pital, “how many bottles of medi
cine have you got there?”
“About 18,” replied the lend-lease
administrator.
“About 18 too many,” commented
the National Youth administrator.
“And how many doctors have you
got?”
Hopkins told him.
“Well, Harry, what’s the use of
your fooling around with all these
doctors and all this medicine,” said
his friend. “You know that the more
doctors you have the more this
whole thing gets on your nerves.
Now there’s only one doctor who
really knew what ailed you, and
that’s Andy Rivers out at Mayo’s in
Rochester. Why don’t you have Dr.
Rivers come East and get you fixed
up?”
Harry Hopkins acted on his old
friend’s advice, sent for Dr. Rivers,
and now is out of the hospital.
He says he has forgotten about
medicine and doctors, and feels bet
ter than he has in months. Fur
thermore, Dr. Rivers has told him
that without any question he can
recover entirely.
NEW G.O.P. CHAIRMAN?
It’s very shush-shush, but in cer
tain inner Republican circles there
have been secret pow-wows on re
placing Rep. Joe Martin as national
chairman.
The hard-working little Bay Stater
wanted to quit last year, but party
chiefs decided that the wisest course
would be to persuade Martin to stay
for the sake of harmony.
Now some of the strongest advo
cates of his retention are after his
scalp. The hostile fire is from two
sources.
One is from Mid-West leaders,
sour on Martin, (1) for his failure to
give them recognition in national
headquarters; (2) for his secret
financial wooing of Pennsylvania oil
millionaire Joseph Pew and Penn
sylvania steel millionaire Ernest
Weir.
In the farm belt the two big-money
contributors are political dynamite
and the Mid-West G.O.P. chiefs can’t
understand why Martin is palling
around with them. So they feel the
time has come for one of their group
to be named either national chair
man or executive director.
FRENCH PROBLEM
When you get them out of official
earshot, exiled members of the old
French cabinet now in Washington,
are very suspicious of what the
Vichy government is doing in Mar
tinique and Guadeloupe.
Guadeloupe is a less publicized
French island near Martinique, and
certain coded messages have been
intercepted indicating pro-German
activities on both islands. Suspi
cion is strong that Guadeloupe is be
ing used as a submarine refuelling
base for Nazi submarines operating
in the Caribbean.
STILL SQUAWKING
Elmer Twitchell says that when
he asked the OCD for some data on
gas masks the other day he got auto
graphed photos of two movie stars
and that his request for some dope
on air raid shelters brought him a
pamphlet on the care of baby’s
teeth.
Leon Henderson has put a ceiling
on canned fruits and vegetables, in
cluding fruit cocktails, corn, peas,
spinach, sauerkraut and tomato
juice. This just about throws a pro
tective covering around the typical
American dinner these days.
m m m
Prevent the average house
wife from getting those things
and canned frankfurters and the
husbands of America would
starve to death.
* * •
Alphabetical Story of America in
1917—A.E.F.
1919 to 1929—F.O.B.
1929 to 1930—S.O.S.
1931— P.D.Q.
1932— F.D.R.
1933— WPA, HOLC and FHA
1934— SEC.
1935— NLRB
1936— CCC.
1937 to 1939—(See 1932
through 1936)
1940— Oh! Oh! Oh!
1941— J.A.P.
1942— OCD.
* • •
QUESTION IN A CRISIS
Have we been fed on pap too many
years?
Have we seen life as something
on a screen?
Have platitudes and boastings
stuffed our ears
To all the lessons our traditions
mean?
Have we put all our faith in micro
phones
And only liked our music sweet
and soft?
Have we insisted on the softest tones
And murmured “Don’t disturb,
please!” once too oft?
Have we put speeches and fine
pledges first—
And in the amplifiers put our trust,
Refusing to face facts and see the
worst,
And substituting “Some day” for
the “Must”?
Have we thought of the world as but
a play
And lightly viewed the acting and
the plot?
Have we been blind and stupid all
the way?
Here’s hoping, deeply hoping we
have not!
• • •
Sign reported over a movie
house: “One Foot in Heaven and
Hellzapoppin.”
• • •
The lunch-room man asked Elmer
Twitchell, “How many lumps?” when he
ordered coffee the other day. “One in the
cup” replied Mr. Twitchell, “and one to
take out.”
• • «
PRIORITY MOTHER GOOSE
To market, to market
To buy a fat pig
Before there’s a ruling
With Henderson’s “sig.”
• • •
Why is h that the names of so
many men in a British cabinet al
ways sound like hotels, ointments or
polo fields?
• • •
“Washington authorities explained
that a deficiency in anti-aircraft am
munition such as was reported on an
American warship did not necessari
ly mean it would fail to go off, but
rather that it would go off without
full force. A 30 per cent normal
shell would attain a height of 10,000
feet instead of 30,000.”—Newspaper
Item.
• • •
Just in case that makes you feel
better.
* • •
Donald Mason, Rochester, Minn.,
pilot who sent the famous message,
“Sighted Sub; Sank Same,” has
been promoted and commended for
valor. We trust the navy notifica
tion came to him in one of these
forms:
Message quoted;
You’re promoted.
Nice going;
Future glowing.
Don: Okay;
Medal on way.
* * *
SIMILES
He was in as many places at once
as the Japs.
She was as cold as a Russian
winter.—Jt. Roelofs Jr.
• » •
ON TO NIAGARA FALLS!
“Married: Marian Walk, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Walk to Mr.
Allen Tripp of Detroit.”—Millsboro
Ohio News.
• • •
The best man was Willie Hike.
• • •
“Then the lights come on and Miss
Lamarr stands there, hands in pock
ets, hair down and informal hands
on a built-up brass rail facing s
blank screen.”—Phila. Inquirer.
R.A.F. Raid on Paris Reverberates in U. S.
A view of part of the huge Renault automobile plant in the suburbs of Paris is shown at left. This plant
was the main target of R.A.F. bombers that blasted the Paris area, killing and wounding hundreds. Renault
has been working on German contracts for over a year. Right: French Ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye (right)
expresses strong indignation over the British bombing to a reporter in Washington, after talking with Sumner
Welles, acting secretary of state.
As Java—Land of Bridges—Prepared for Japs
In the United States an ordinary railroad line would count its bridges and trestles by the scores or by the
hundreds. In Java they are numbered in the thousands. Bridges are seen everywhere spanning rivers and ra
vines. And so, before Java fell to the invading Japs, the Netherlands East Indies mountain army became ex
perts in demolition. At left they are seen as they mined a bridge. Right: A small pontoon bridge for infantry
crossing is shown as it was destroyed by a well-placed shell.
Reds’ Manager Does a Bit of Explaining
Royal Rough Rider
Even baseball comes in for a streamlining these modern days. Here
Manager Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Reds (left) explains the opera
tion of a new automatic pitching machine to pitcher Paul Derringer. The
device is in use at the Reds training camp at Tampa, saving much wear
and tear on valuable pitching arms.
Reunion After Escape From Hong Kong
Crown Prince Olaf of Norway
(left) and Brig. Gen. R. W. Case,
commander of the army’s proving
ground at Aberdeen, Md., just be
fore the prince donned coveralls and
took a ride in one of the army’s new
tanks over a test course.
‘Bundles for Japs’
China’s most famous family were reunited in Chungking following
Madame Sun Yat-Sen’s dramatic escape by air from Hong Kong to the
wartime capital. This photo, taken before his trip to India, shows Gen.
Chiang Kai-shek with the three Soong sisters, Madame Chiang (left),
Madame H. H. Kung, and Madame Sun Yat-Sen.
“Hirohito’s Mail Pouch” might be
the name for this tincanful of de
struction being loaded by a gunnery
student at Harlingen, Texas. Each
“message” is a .30 caliber machine
gun bullet.
HpHE eyes of a smart catcher
-*■ should be able to study batting
form at closest range. This being
true. Bill Dickey’^ slant on Ted
Williams is worth noting.
Dickey was working in Hollywood
on the Lou Gehrig picture when the
argument was started about great
hitters.
“In my opinion,” Bill said, “Ted
Williams last season was the great
est single-year hitter I ever saw, and
I’ve been around quite a while. I’ve
also seen a lot of good ones, or bet
ter than good.
“But Williams in 1941 was super
good. I worked on him with our
pitchers in something like 22 games
and 1 know what a tough job it was
to get him out or keep him off the
bases. He was always a hundred
per cent poison.”
What Makes Great Hitters?
“What were the main factors in
the Williams swing?” I asked the
Yankee catcher.
"There were a flock of main fac
tors,” Dickey answered. “In the
first place, you just can’t get Ted to
hit at a bad ball—even one only an
inch or two wide. He must have
eyes like a hawk. You've got to get
it over or he’ll wait -and walk. Time
and again I’ve seen him let balls
slip by that couldn’t have missed
the plate by more than an Inch.
“In the second place, William^ has
a great pair of hands, wrists and
forearms. Weighing only 170 or
maybe 175 pounds, he has almost
as much power as the Babe and Lou
used to have. His timing is per
fect. He seems to wait until the ball
TED WILLIAMS
is almost in your mitt before he
swings. I’ve never seen a hitter
who could wait longer before taking
his cut. Few can do this. Every
one is a little too anxious at the
bat and quick hitting or swinging
is a general fault. But not with-
Ted Williams.”
No Weak Spots
“Another thing about Williams,”
Dickey continued, “is that he has
no weak spots. We’ve tried every
thing against him—keeping them
low—keeping them up—fast balls
and slow balls—curves and every
thing else. But his bat seems to
be in the road, no matter what he
is served.
“Remember, Ted is still a kid—
around 23, as I recall it. There isn’t
any telling how many records he
might have broken if there had been
no war.
“Joe DiMaggio is another great
hitter who knows how to wait on a
pitch. Joe also keeps a pitcher at
work. He hits at few bad balls and
you pever see him rushing any
swing. I’ve heard that good timing
was simply taking your time, and
that seems to fit both Williams and
DiMaggio.”
Another Good Year
It might be noted here that the
Arkansas Sniper is apparently head
ed for another big year.
“I’m feeling physically better than
I have felt in a long time,” Bill
said. “I’d like to catch another hun
dred games again and I’d like to
get back in the .300 class.”
It might be remembered that
Dickey broke all major league rec
ords last season by catching 100 or
more games for the 13th time. He
came to the Yankees around 1928
and the tali Arkansas entry has been
a mighty factor in the Yankee
march ever since.
Always a great hitter in the
clutches, Dickey’s main success has
been in the matter of handling young
pitchers—or any brand of pitching.
You never see him excited or up
set, no matter what the crucial spot.
In the midst of wild and turbulent
innings Dickey remains cooler than
the heart of an iceberg.
His knowledge of rival batters is
astonishing. He can tell you the
weakness and strength of every hit
ter in his league.
His pitchers can take his judg
ment in full confidence. He has a
soothing influence on the young en
try, a vital factor in the way of con
trol.
“There is much more to pitching
than a strong arm, much more than
speed and a curve ball,” he tells
you. “A big part of pitching is put
ting the ball where you want it. I’ve
seen more than a few smart pitch
ers, with little left in the old arm,
tie up batters by fine control, pitch
ing to the right spots.”
Bill figures the easiest job he has
Is handling Red Ruffing.
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best last line to a jingle. Over 100
liberal prizes each week. Watch
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The Quints have always had expert
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More Raleigh Jingles
Raleigh Cigarettes are again
offering liberal prizes in a big
jingle contest running in this pa
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—Adv.
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