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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- APRIL 17, 1942
Washington, D. C.
STANDARD OIL LOBBY
Lobbying will always be practiced
in Washington. Recently, however,
it has reached new heights.
In the pre-New Deal days, lobby
ists lobbied to get land grants, lum
ber concessions, and Teapot Dome
oil leases. Under the New Deal
they lobbied for Public Works con
tracts, WPA grants, and steamship
routes.
Today they lobby for war con
tracts. But perhaps the most avid,
rapacious and lustful lobbying is
for priorities on the purchase of
materials.
In this connection. Standard Oil
has just managed to get a remark
able priority rating for the shipment
of $14,500,000 worth of steel to Vene
zuela. The story illustrates how a
job can be done if you have the
lobbyist to do it.
In this case Standard Oil is ably
represented by Washington attorney
John N. Bohannon, who knows his
way around, even to the White
House.
What Standard wanted was steel
for its oil wells in Venezuela, and
it had the plausible argument that
it must keep up Venezuelan oil pro
duction for the American and Brit
ish navies. However, other Ameri
can oil companies also wanted steel
for wells in Texas, Louisiana and
California. Also they had the ad
vantage of producing oil which does
not require a long and hazardous
tanker haul. However, they did not
have the advantage of an A-l lobby
ist.
For Mr. Bohannon went to Ad
miral Stark, then chief of naval op
erations, and practically scared him
to death about the danger of losing
Venezuelan oil. Stark called Donald
Nelson, boss of War Production, and
put the pressure on him. Mean
while Bohannon and friends pres
sured the state department, lend-
lase administration, board of eco
nomic warfare and finally the White
House.
If there was anyone Standard Oil
forgot to high-pressure they were
sick in bed. So Standard Oil got
what it wanted, a priority rating of
A-l-C, higher than that of domestic
oil companies, and the materials
have now been shipped.
* • •
LEWIS PAYROLL
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
wishes to correct an earlier state
ment that John L. Lewis had three
relatives on union payrolls whose
salaries, plus his own, gave the
family an annual “take” of $48,500
from the collections of union dues.
We regret to say that on further
investigation we find we erred griev
ously. We apologize to Mr. Lewis
for underestimating his capacities
and print below the full Lewis fam
ily payroll showing that the miner
czar has not three but nine rela
tives in cushy jobs and that the
family “take” is not $48,500 but
$70,500:
John L. Lewis, president. United
Mine Workers $25,000*
Kathryn Lewis, daughter, secre
tary - treasurer. District 50,
U.M.W 7,500*
Denny Lewis, brother, head of
United Construction Workers
organizing committee 10,000*
J. R. Bell, brother-in-law, C.I.O.
controller 6,000
Orin Miller, brother-in-law, su
perintendent of the U.M.W. of
fice building in Indianapolis ... 5,000
Dan Collins, brother • in - law,
C.I.O. organizer 3,600
William Thomas, cousin, super
intendent U.M.W. building in
Washington ;. 5,000
Margaret Lindig, sister-in-law of
Denny, U.M.W. stenographer .. 2,400
Ann Miller, daughter of brother-
in-law Orin Miller, U.M.W.
stenographer 2,400
Son-in-law of Floyd Bell, another - '
Lewis brother-in-law, District
50 organizer 3,600
Total Lewis family payroll . .$70,500
(*Ih addition to their big salaries,
Lewis, his daughter and brother also
have fat expense accounts. What
they spend is their secret. No fig
ures have ever been revealed, even
to union members.)
And Still More.
Imposing as is this payroll list, it
still does not tell the whole story.
There is one Lewis relative who
is not on n, union payroll but who
garners a nigh-bracket income from
unions controlled by John L. He
is brothertin-law Floyd Bell, an in
surance agent. Representative of a
surety company, Bell has what
amounts to a monopoly on the busi
ness of bonding all national, district
and local U".M.W. officers and all
C.I.O. officials.
His commissions are estimated at
$40,000 a year.
This sum, plus the payroll listed
above, would bring the total “take”
of the Lewis family up to $110,500
a year.
V * »
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Wayne Coy, brainy young White
House assistant, is slated for a pro
motion. The ex-Indiana newsman
will be made assistant budget di
rector. Coy will also continue as
head of the Office of Emergency
Management.
Good news for the cotton grower.
Under war stimulation, cotton con
sumption now is around 1,000,000
bales a month, is expected to reach
an estimated total of 13,500,000 bales
for the year. This is nearly 3,000,000
bales more than last year.
ELMER TWITCHELL OFF TO
CO-ORDINATE
"I’m off to Washington,” declared
Elmer Twitchell in an unusually
high state of ex
citement.
“What for?” we
asked.
“I wanna be a
co-ordinator,” he
replied eagerly.
“What do you
wish to co-ordi-
aate?” we hopefully asked him.
“I ain’t particular,” said Elmer.
“Squat tag or leap frog would be
up my alley. I was national open
squat tag champion in 1928, and I
have written several books on leap
frog which are standard works ev
erywhere.”
“But I am no slouch at lariat
throwing or sack racing, either,” he
resumed after a moment. “Nor at
Indian club swinging, apple bobbing
and blind man’s buff.”
“Are they co-ordinating such ac
tivities?” we asked.
“Oh, yes,” snapped Elmer. “Yes
indeed. They are co-ordinating ev
erything. Haven’t yon been read
ing about the testimony before Sen
ator Byrd’s committee? And this is
no minor co-ordination, it’s an all-
out co-ordination. We are the Ar
senal of Co-ordination, from what I
read.”
• • •
“Do you think you’ll land a job?”
we asked.
“Why not? Ev
erybody else has.
A friend of mine
who has been
good at card
tricks has been
named National
Co - ordinator of
Parlor Games un
der the OCD and Wilbur Jones, an
alligator wrestler by profession, has
landed as National Co-ordinator of
Alligator Wrestling.”
“Really?”
“Not only that but an appropria
tion is being asked for $150,000 for
alligator pools and $75,000 for alli
gators.”
“Can you get alligators for that
money, the kind that will really do
any work?” we asked.
“Yes, alligators are as a class willing to
sacrifice a little for the cause,” explained
Elmer.
• • »
“What does Mrs. Twitchell think
of your working as a federal co-ordi
nator of rope tricks, squat tag play
ing and so forth?” we asked.
“Oh, she’s too
busy to care,” he
replied.
“What’s she do
ing these days?”
“She’s a co-or
dinator,” he said.
“Of what?”
“Either magic
lantern shows or eggplant culture,
I am not sure which,” said Mr.
Twitchell. “She’s doing well. Great
for morale, she says.”
• * *
“The whole Twitchell family is ir,
on it,” we observed.
“Yes indeed. Uncle Chidsey has
been in from the start. He’s U. S.
Co-ordinator of Kite Flying at a
pretty good salary. He is opening
kite flying centers everywhere and
thinks he may get a million dollars
for kites. He says that nothing
bolsters up a people’s morale like
running around with a kite on a
string. And Grandpa Lem is co-or
dinating, too. He’s the one who nev
er did amount to much at anything.”
“What’s he co-ordinating?”
“Top - spinning, I understand,”
snapped Elmer, grabbing a train.
CIVILIAN CASUALTY
Helena Hollingsworth Honeybun
To air raid meeting goes on Mon.
Her bunions burst right through her
shoes
At fire-warden work on Tues.
When Red Cross work arrives on
Wed.
Her limbs feel like a ton of lead;
Helena’s mind seems full of burrs
From salvaging all day on Thurs.—
•
Fearless femme, she bats no eye
Practicing home defense on Fri.—
Won’t someone send on Sat. and
Sun.
First aid for our Miss Honeybun?
—Sam Michael Gevins.
• • *
An insurance company has re
ceived a claim from Corregldor for
losses of watches and other items
at the post exchange. And we can
imagine the insurance company ad
juster looking it over and demand
ing severely, “Just what happened
there?” And, perhaps, after being
told of the Jap attack, adding, “You
will have to send us more proof.”
* * *
Ima Dodo found her typewriter so
hard to operate that she just threw
the cover over it with the exclama
tion, “l guess the War Board froze
it.”
And it is Miss Dodo who has been
using one typewriter riblan so long
that she could be accused of hoard
ing.
* • •
Sign spotted by Tompkins Harris
in Joe Brocato’s restaurant:
It’s Tough to Pay 55 Cents for a
Steak, but
It’s Tougher When You Pay 35.
Uncle Sam’s Stingers Guard Panama Canal
These are the first pictures to show the maneuvers of the patrol-torpedo (FT) fleet that is guarding the
Panama canal with the co-operation of the army and air forces. In picture at left Charles Kiefer keeps a
tight rein on a .50 caliber anti-aircraft gun aboard the command boat of the mosquito fleet. Upper right: A gunner
vigilantly scans sea and sky for the approach of enemy forces. Below: The fast traveling 77-footers of the
navy skim through the sea looking for trouble.
Horse Finds Place in U. S. War Effort
The horse is not yet “through,” as far as war is concerned, his value having been demonstrated this
winter on the Russian front. These pictures show two phases of cavalry action in a day’s training of the cav
alry soldiers stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. Above, the horse artillery is awaiting the command to move
forward to their gun positions. Below, men are demonstrating the speed at which they ride their horses.
All Ready to Dynamite Bridge and Japs
‘Landing Field’
This photograph was taken somewhere in the embattled Philippine
Islands. It shows Filipino soldiers who are determined to see that the
bridge is completely destroyed, if necessary. The soldier in the fore
ground is distributing sticks of dynamite to be placed all over the bridge
to play havoc with Jap troops, if and when they come.
At one of the tire company plants
a huge hydraulic device has been
installed which simulates the actual
speed and pressure of a landing
airplane. Here a pair of airplane
“boots” is being tested.
Danny’s Great-Great-Grandparents
Learns Lathe
Only about one baby in a million could pose for a picture like this one
of wee Danny Michael Flanigan, of Memphis, Tenn. Shown are his moth
er, June Flanigan, 16; his mother’s mother, Mrs. Alice Pickle, 35; his
mother’s mother’s mother, Mrs. B. Kidd, 52; and his mother’s mother’s
mother’s mother, Mrs. Minnie Hawkins, 70.
Working on a small crankshaft
grinder adapted to a lathe is Colonel
Stilwell of Camp Shelby, Miss. The
colonel expects to put the knowledge
gained at this school to a test in the
near future.
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Lesson for April 19
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GROWING TENSION WITH
FALSE LEADERS
LESSON TEXT—Luke 11:37-48, 62-54.
GOLDEN TEXT—He that Is not with me
Is against me; and he that gathereth not
with me scattereth.—Luke 11:23.
Opposition to Christ and to Chris
tian teaching has come down
through the centuries practically un
changed. Hence, we find in Christ’s
dealings with the enemies of His
day helpful indication of what may
be done in our time.
It is sad to note that the chief
opposition came from those who
professed to be religious leaders. It
is expected that the world, the flesh,
and the devil should fight God’s
truth, but one might expect better
of those who profess His name. The
difficulty is that there is only pro
fession, with no real life.
I. Hypocrisy Unmasked (w. 37-
44).
The Pharisees professed great in
terest in the observance of religious
laws, but their concern was for the
outward appearance, while God
judges the heart. First we note a
false profession of cleanliness.
Christ came to the Pharisees’ table
;with clean hands, but He had not
observed all their ceremonial wash
ings. When rebuked He struck home
with terrific force at the heart of
the whole matter (v. 39); namely,
that inward filthiness of heart which
often makes folk meticulous about
outward cleansing. This leads to a
substitution of technical observance
of the letter of the law that ignores
love and judgment (v. 42), which
are so precious to God. There can
be a dead, dry, and technical ortho
doxy which entirely misses the
point.
But worst of all is the covering
up of spiritual death (v. 44). Some
times we speak of those who are
“dead and don’t know it,” and that
may actually be true spiritually.
There may be death within and yet
a brave and sometimes self-delud
ing outward show of life.
n. Theological Deadness Con
demned (w. 45-52).
The lawyers of that day were
those learned in the Mosaic law,
hence were really the teachers of
theology and ethics. They came un
der the rebuke of Christ as He pro
nounced three “woes” upon them.
First, they were guilty of heap
ing upon others burdensome require
ments which they did not them
selves keep, and which they did
not help the people to keep. There
are such teachers today who set up
standards they do not themselves
observe, a sort of signpost pointing
the right way, while they are not
themselves going that way. Then
there are those who present high
ethical standards without the spir
itual dynamic needed to live up to
them. To tell a man to be good
without telling him of the Saviour
who can make him good is mockery.
Then, those of Christ’s day were
condemned for hating God’s wit
nesses. They were willing to build
sepulchers for the dead prophets
(killed by their fathers), but were
not willing to hear the living proph
ets. How true to life that is! The
very ones who hate and hinder those
who are preaching God’s Word,
speak and sing smoothly of the faith
of our fathers, and claim as their
own the witnesses of a past day.
Christ also pointed out that while
professing to interpret the law they
obscured its meaning. They threw
away the key to knowledge so that
neither they nor their people could
learn—and yet they continued to
teach. Have not the false teachers
of our day done likewise? They deny
the integrity and authority of the
only infallible Word—the Bible; they
reject the deity of our Saviour,
Christ, and yet they talk about be
ing Christians and preachers of the
truth. Woe be unto them in the day
of God’s judgment and wrath!
What happens when such men are
condemned or unmasked? We find—
III. Enmity Intensified (w. 53, 54).
The scribes and Pharisees had two
approaches: they sought vehemently
to provoke Him to overspeak, and
they craftily laid in wait for Him.
The writer of these notes has seen
both methods at work in our day.
Liberals, or modernists as they are
called, profess for the most part to
a suave courtesy which makes them
speak smoothly and gently about the
conservative and orthodox believer
or teacher; but if one only has eyes
to see, there is often the strong and
cruel hand of iron hidden under the
velvet glove.
Whatever may be the approach,
be assured of this—every effort to
reveal false teaching in its true
light, or to deal with hypocrisy in
spiritual things will bring intensified
opposition. Christ took it—we too
can take it in His name and for
His sake.
Praise the Lord
I will greatly praise the Lord with
my mouth; yea, I will praise him
among the multitude. For he shall
stand at the right ha.;d of the poor,
to save him from Close who con
demn his soul.—Psalm 109:30-31.
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