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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. MAY 8, 1942 Washington, D. C. IMPORTING COTTON? For years the United States has had a huge surplus of cotton. The idea of importing cotton seemed fan tastic. Yet that is exactly what is about to be done, as the latest de velopment in the Good Neighbor pol icy. Oscar Johnson, leading Mississippi cotton planter and former official of the AAA, will go to South America to buy surplus cotton from Peru and Brazil. He carries a checkbook of the Commodity Credit corporation, whose funds for domestic and for eign crop purchases amount to $4,000,000,000. Both Peru and Brazil are suffer ing severely from loss of foreign markets. Brazil’s cotton was sold in Europe, Peru’s to Japan. Both Lat in American countries wholeheart edly backed the United States at the Rio conference and now Uncle Sam is returning the favor. For some time, department of ag riculture officials, fearful of out cries from the cotton belt, were tim id about buying foreign cotton. They thought they might get away with purchases for storage in South America—but not for imports into the U. S. But two agriculture officials—John B. Hudson, president of Commodity Credit, and Sam Bledsoe, aide to Secretary Claude Wickard — con ceived the smart idea of putting the plan squarely up to southern con gressmen, with Oscar Johnson as the choice for buyer. This worked like a charm. Cotton congressmen have full confidence in Johnson, and they even approved importing some cotton, especially the long staple variety from Peru, which does not directly compete with U. S. cotton. Meantime, plans are being made to purchase other Latin American agricultural surpluses, including beef and vegetable oils. But Argentina, which is suffering more than any other country, will get no U. S. help while President Castillo re mains on the neutrality fence. * « « MERRY-GO-ROUND President Roosevelt has indicated to Democratic chiefs who urged him to tour the country, that he may take a transcontinental trip this summer—if the war permits. Demo cratic candidates facing tough elec tion battles are eager to have him visit their states. Also the Presi dent long has wanted to inspect several army camps and war pro duction centers. • • • HOPKINS LOOKS AT WAR Following his trip to England, Harry Hopkins is giving close friends a very optimistic picture about the war situation. He is convinced that Hitler is really alarmed at the tough resist ance of the Russians, the growing war strength of the United States, and the fear of an invasion on the European continent. One of Hitler’s greatest weak nesses, Hopkins believes, is man power. German industry has done a great job hitherto. But now with an increasing drain on both indus try and the German army, the tre mendous losses at the Russian front are having a definite effect. To his close friends, Harry Hopkins is known as one of the most optimistic men in the ad ministration. But even discount ing this natural optimism, other war chiefs in a position to know seem to have a fairly bright look in their eyes recently. It will be a long time before we can begin to do any real crowing, for the situation in the Near East is almost as sour as the very, very sour situation in India. It does look, however, as if the spring had def initely brightened the war picture. * * • MUSSOLINI’S DOTAGE Inside word brought back from Italy by those in the know gives a desolate picture of Benito Mussolini. He has been pretty well isolated from the war command and from direction of the government, both of which are dictated, directly or indirectly, by Nazis. Mussolini has gone in for reminis cing on his younger days when he was a militant young socialist, part of the time exiled in Switzerland. He has even sent for his old so cialist friends, including some pre viously exiled to France. And they have sat around talking about the good old days when they were young. Maybe this is insanity. Maybe it is just getting back to sanity after 20 long years of delusions of grandeur. • • • POWER PROBE A powerful lobby is again back on the Washington scene. Driven out of the capital a few years ago by the blasting investiga tion of Justice Hugo Black, then U. S. senator from Alabama, the util ity forces have quietly resumed 'their undercover pressure opera tions. Inquiries at this office elicited the explanation that the purpose of the power interests was to “facilitate co-operation with the government in the war effort.” 'T'HESE seem to be the proper -*• days to study the basic founda tions of winning competition. You can get one answer in the New York Yankees’ dressing room from such fellows as Bill Dickey, Joe Gordon, Red Ruffing, Spud Chandler, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Keller and sev eral others. Opening their 1942 home cam paign, the Yankees are facing ihr. prospect of winning their sixth pen nant in seven starts. It might net happen that way. But that is how it looks. The Yankees have the bulge in hitting, pitching and fielding'. That’s a fair start. But they have some thing more. Something just as im portant. In addition to their physical mar gin, which can’t be overlooked, McCarthy’s hired men are a team together. They spend 100 per cent of their time fighting the enemy— not fighting each other. Or fighting umpires. Yon’ll find no individual jealousy, no bickering, no squabbles, no high hats, no stars. I’ve picked up the true lesson of team play from the Yankee dressing room for seven years. Joe McCarthy stands for no bad actor—no individual who stands for himself above the good of the team. McCarthy simply passes this type on to some other unhappy man ager, while he goes for team spirit. More About the Yankees The Yankees have been charged with being colorless—just a group of young business men handling a job. They keep in condition. They start no rows. They are all friends in a bunch. They are just out to win, and to be ready to win. They are a quiet lot. They are a team of stars who refuse to be accepted as stars. Just ball players. Their business has been playing baseball, and they play it better than any other team. You’d get a better understanding of this if you could mix a while with such fellows as Dickey, Gor don, Keller, DiMaggio, Chandler, Ruffing, Priddy, Levy, Hassett, Hen- rich, Gomez, Rizzuto, and the rest. I asked Bill Dickey about the Yankees’ lack of color. The tall catcher from Ar kansas, who has been around a sligh matter of 17 sea sons, here and there, mostly with the Yankees, was mildly indignant. The Arkansas quail shooter gets only mildly indignant. “Color?” he said. What is color? Is it getting drunk and getting in fights? I don’t think so. "Color to me is standing back of the plate and watching that Joe Gor don make plays that I know can’t be made. I’ve seen him kill off more sure base hits than anyone I ever saw. On one play you’ll find him back of second base handling a hot grounder. On the next you’ll see him somewhere in. short right field killing another hit. ‘Tf they want color why don’t they watch Joe DiMaggio play center field and make hard plays look easy? Or watch DiMaggio and Kel ler at bat when the chips are down?” Dickey on Color I don’t believe quiet, easy-going Dickey knows how much true color he has. But Bill knows the main details of color, especially when he is talking about the Yankees. “Who has had the most color in American sport?” he asked me. “I’ll tell you—Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Bobby Jones, Ty Cobb, Walter Haben and Bill Tilden. But did you ever stop to think each one of these was a star performer—one who had greater skill than the other fellows had? “You can’t have color—true color —without exceptional skill. I still say the Yankees are packed with color on account of the different things they can do as hitters, field ers and pitchers. I believe the true baseball fan appreciates this. He likes to see a job well done game after game, better than anyone else can do it.” I’ll string with Dickey in this respect. A big part of color must be based upon performance under fire. I’ve never seen a colorful punk in any game. There are no colorful duffers in golf, no colorful dubs in tennis, no colorful third- raters in boxing. It may be we have stressed color, that was not directly hooked up with outstanding ability, too much. The Main Contest There is now one highly interest ing sporting scramble under way that has nothing to do with titles, pennants or championships. It con cerns a form of inner rivalry as to which sport will contribute most in the matter of winning the war. Will needed war funds get greater help from boxing, baseball, golf, tennjs, racing, football or what? Joe Louis and Mike Jacobs sent boxing spinning well ahead in their army and navy relief shows—and they are only warming up. Bill Dickey Down to the Sea in a U. S. Submarine THE UNIONIZED MILK INDUSTRY John L. Lewis is now trying to unionize the milk industry through out the country. If he succeeds every bottle of milk delivered will have a union label certifying that there has been no non-union contact from the cow pasture to the door step. 5 s r* r */ Hard to Raise Brown—Why has Jones carried that mortgage on his house so long? Smith—Because he can’t lift it, I guess. His Trouble “My advice to you, colonel, is to go through the movements of driving with out using the ball,” said the golf in structor. “My dear fellow,” answered the colonel, “thais precisely what Fm try ing to overcome!” The idea is to have milk from union farms handled by union dairy hands and delivered by union milk men. The new slogan may be “Milk From Union Cows, Contented or Not!” Confusing “But why do you always look puzzled when I say I’m a self- made man?” “I just can’t decide whether you’re bragging or apologizing.” IFe can imagine a union cow, chewing its union cud in a union meadow, swish ing e unionized tail and lowing in tones approved by the Musicians Union. • • • We can picture union clover, union brooks, union hillsides and union hay. • • • Same Difference “No, sir,” said the defendant, “I -vas certainly not drunk, though I may have been intoxicated.” “Well,” said the magistrate, “I in'ended to fine you ten dollars, but in that case I’ll make it a s.iwbuck.” These navy-approved photos may give yon an idea of life aboard a U. S. submarine. If you were standing on the conning tower of a sub this is how your craft would look, forward (picture at left). And this (upper right) is the gadget-studded spot of the torpedo room. All those wheels, dials and gauges are as plain as capital letters a foot high to the boys that know how. Lower right: Submarine deck as a gun crew takes bat tle stations at the deck gun. Filipinos Train to Recover Lost Homeland Under command of Lieut. Col. R. H. Offiey, an American officer of the regular army, the First Filipino Infantry battalion at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif., is now undergoing rigid training. The battalion will give Filipinos a chance to fight for the restoration of their homeland. At left First Sergt. R. Simmons, rear, in structs two Filipinos in machine-gun operation. Right: Pvt. Gregorio Mante is shown here practicing throw ing a hand grenade. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea. The plowman homeward plods his weary way— All unionised and happy as can be. • • • Whoever thought the cowbarn would some day become a closed shop. • • • What would grandpa have thought if somebody had predicted that the walking delegate would wind slowly o’er the lea, that the cow would jump over the moon only if it had a union permit and that the milk maid’s answer to “May I go with you” would have been “Not unless you are a member of the union in good standing, mister.” • • • Somehow we find it hard to gaze over the rolling country these spring days and take in the bucolic scene without feeling that, although he is not there in person, the spirit-form of John L. Lewis flits through the meadows, looks disapprovingly on the gusto of the rushing brook and, wielding an invisible rubber stamp, puts an “Okay J. L. L.” on the flank of every mooly. • • • Whispering into the ear of every cow the wonders of the five-day week and warning the bull to take orders only from its local board. • • • To revise Anne Emilie Poulsson’s old verse: At five o’clock he milks the cow. The busy farmer’s man. At six o’clock the strains the milk And pours it in the can. ALL-BRAN FUDGE SQUARES-BEST YOUEVERTASTED! Every mother in the land will want to bake these scrumptious cookies. Chil dren will demolish a plate of them In a wink. Grown-ups rave about their •‘different” taste and new crunchy tex ture. They're made, of course, with the famous cereal, Kellogg’s All-Bran. KELLOGG’S ALL-BRAN FUDGE SQUARES 3 squares un- 1 cup sugar sweetened % cup flour chocolate % cup All-Bran % cup butter % cup nutmeats 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanllle. extract Melt chocolate over hot water and add butter. Beat eggs well, add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add melted chocolate and butter. Stir In flour, All-Bran, chopped nutmeats and fla voring. Pour Into greased pan, making a layer about one-third Inch thick. Bake In moderate oven (S75 0 P.) about 30 minutes. Tleld: Sixteen 2-lnch squares (8x8 Inch pan). For Only 10/Now Dr. Hitchcocks LAXATIVE POWDER ‘Happy Birthday’ to Der Fuehrer Gets Japs, Medal The people of New York celebrated Adolf’s birthday in Duffy’s Square by hanging an effigy of the leader of the Reich. The purpose of the rally was to urge the purchase of war savings bonds and stamps. Der Fuehrer was hung and burned and his bier rested in view of thousands who saw a fresh nail driven into his coffin for each bond or stamp purchased. Navy pilot Edward O’Hare, 28, who pitched into a formation of nine heavy Jap bombers and shot down five before they reached his air- cifift carrier. O’Hare received pro motion to lieutenant commander and the Congressional Medal of Hon or—at the White House. Generals Talk Bomber Production Assists MacArthur Brig. Gen. Kenneth B. Wolf and Lieut. Gen. William S. Knudsen (right) talk production with Andrea Longstreet of North American Avia tion’s tubing department, in Inglewood, Calif. Andrea is working on tub ing for North American Aviation’s B-25 Mitchell bomber, which is similar to the type that carried out a recent raid on the Japs in the Philippines. Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, of Aus tralia, who has been named by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as commander of the Allied land forces in the Southwest Pacific area, At seven there’s a clamor and A merry little row, It’s found the cow that gave the milk Was not a union cow. The busy farmer’s man is called— With him it goes quite hard; It’s charged that when he strained the milk He lacked a union card. At eight o’clock John L. appears, A frown upon his pan— And there will be no milk today— ’TWAS NOT A UNION CAN! * * • “I’m short of food but long on stair carpet and paper treads, wheelbarrow, snath, flag 6 by 56, 12- foot staff, hose, iron washtub, van- ner, crowbar, jigsaw puzzles, dust mop and kitchen utensils. A609.”— Yankee Magazine. • • • And a man must live. • • • YOU’LL FIND OUT Little grains of sugar. Little ration books Tend to cramp the style of Many pastry cooks. * * • One-half pound of sugar per per son per week will be the new fed eral sugar ration. “But I can’t wait a week! I use it every day,” complains Ima Dodo. • • • The race tracks of America will donate two million dollars to army and navy re lief funds this year. The chart writer would perhaps describe the belated deci sion thusly: “Slow to get off, appeared out of it at first turn, responded to urging in stretch and came through under a hard drive.” • • • Mahatma Gandhi must be one man who is moved somewhat un usually by the prospect of losing his shirt. * • • Elmer Twitchell, the old horseshoe pitcher and chess champion, is quite sore. He says Mr. McNutt abolished those bureaus before he got his games co-ordinated. • • • —Buy Defense Bonds— Secretary Morgenthau says every doorbell in the country will be rung at least once in the drive to sell war bonds. The trouble is that they have been rung so often for various purposes that most of ’em are out of order. • • • “Bombers Set Back at Stadium 5 to 2.”—Headline. • • * We always said those baseball fans wouldn’t stand for any non sense from Tokyo or Berlin. 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