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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C~ SEPTEMBER 25, 1942 Washington, D. C. FOURTH TERM DATA Not much has been said about it publicly, but already the question of the Fourth Term has come in for a lot of backstage discussion. Republicans, worried about it, want to do everything possible to block it. And in the vicinity of the White House, some of those who would like to stay around indefinite ly, want to do everything possible to encourage it. But those closest to the President are convinced that there will be no Fourth Term. Even if he could get it, they say that this is the last thing Roosevelt wants. Or even if there should be a tre mendous demand on the part of the public against changing horses in midstream, they don’t think the President wotdd yield. His ideals for preservation of the democratic system are too deep-rooted, they say, for him to continue in office for what would be a total of 16 years. However, the President does have one very definite political goal, and that is to retain control of congress during his two remaining years in office. He remembers all too clearly, when he was assistant secretary of the navy, the chaos which the coun try faced when Woodrow Wilson lost control of the house of representa tives. He also remembers the trou bles faced by Herbert Hoover, Cal vin Coolidge and his cousin Teddy Roosevelt when they faced a rebel lious congress during their last two years in office. - So the President is out to win the house, and win it at all costs next November. To that end he will leave Washington—something he hasn’t done since 1940—and take a swing through the Middle West some time in October. • • • JOBS TO REPUBLICANS Some of FDR’s political advisers, among them Democratic Chairman Ed Flynn, tell him privately that the battle to control the house in November will not be easy. One trouble is patronage. Patronage is a word which may bring a bad smell to the public, but to the politician it is like the smell of raw meat to a circus lion. He will not perform without it. Back in the early days of the New Deal, Jim Farley kept a little card index of how every congress man voted on important issues and what jobs he had received. When the congressman stopped voting right, he stopped getting jobs for his constituents. That system worked like a charm—for a while. But in recent years Roosevelt him self has given more and more jobs to Republicans, while Leon Hender son, the greatest job dispenser of war times, has placed everything in the hands of state governors, a large proportion of them Republicans. So today, the President’s political friends say that his definition of pa tronage is: “Something which you hold out to your friends, but use to reward your enemies.” And these friends have had the short end of the patronage stick for so long that, as November ap proaches, FDR is finding a lot of the old politicoes unwilling to go to bat for him, while the rewarded ene mies won’t stay put. So the congressional elections are going to be tougher than a lot of people realize, and you will probably see certain seasoned political sea- dogs, among them Ed Flynn, resign ing from the picture before many weeks are over. Note: Patronage under the old congressional system had a lot of faults, but it was not half as bad as under the present dollar-a-year man system, where somebody gets a key WPB job or a cellophane commis sion merely because he is the friend of a big accounting firm or a part ner of a Wall Street broker. • • • WHERE CREDIT IS DUE One of the best jobs of Americani zation has been done by the Illinois State Register of Springfield in its series of editorials and radio pro grams paying tribute to the big con tribution foreign groups have made to the culture and progress of the U. S. A. The radio program, called “Amer icans All—Immigrants All” told the story of how the men of many races had contributed to this country—the Italians, including men like Frank Capra, LaGuardia, and Ernest Cu- neo; the Welsh, including Charles Evans Hughes; the Slavs—Louis Ad amic, Sikorsky, Seversky; Joseph Pulitzer from Hungary, John Philip Sousa from Portugal, George Vour- nas from Greece and thousands of others, • • • THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY Dear Ma and Pop: Well, it has now been almost two years since I said “No” to any body. It is an unknown word in the army, in fact this is one place where a man can’t even say, “I’ll think it over.” I know this will be hard for you to believe on account of when I was home it was so hard for you to get me to do anything. • • • I got to thinking last night about famous words and expreshuns that I don’t use or hear no more and I made up a list. Here it is: “Wait a while.” “Do it yourself; can’t you see I’m busy?” “Take these eggs back and cook them over.” “You can’t talk to me like that.” “Either you change the hours or I quit.” “Don’t wake me up before noon.” “I haven’t got time just now.” • • • “Can’t it go ’til later on?” “You know I can’t eat meat rare like this.” “Tell the tailor to have those two sports suits back this afternoon.” “Where’s that new blue silk shirt of mine?” “I won’t be in to morrow; I’m going to the ball game.” • • • “You know I can’t do any heavy lifting.” “Let’s take a bus; I hate walk ing.” “Either I get more money or I’ll go some place else.” “I know I was up late last night but look at all the time I’ve got to sleep today.” “I don’t want any trouble with anybody.” (Remember that one?) “I’m checking out and going to the shore for a few days rest.” “This coffee is awful and tell the cook I said so.” • • « “I’ll take another portion.” “It’s too hot; I’m quitting early today.” "Yeah. I heard you but I’m too tired.” “It’s two blocks away and yet you want me to go back to the drugstore for you! You must think I’m a horse.” “This is soup. I ordered clam chowder.” “They can’t do this to me.” “I wouldn’t mind doing it if I had an auto.” “Send this suit back; it’s a little “I want a room all to myself.” “I don’t mind be ing up late; I can sleep as late as I like tomorrow.” “If it’s so impor tant do it your self.” “That barber will never cut my hair again.” * • • Well, ma and dad, that’s just a few and I can think of plenty more things that now are a dead language to me. But it is all for the best. If I ever get back to civilyun life I will be a new man. I will never refuse you anything and what a pleasure it wood be to be home now and not be asked to do nothing ex cept tend the furnace, move the piano, help take down the porch screens, mow the lawn or run down to Feeglebaum’s deli- catessin store any time you asked me to. • • • I hope you are both fine. I am in the pink and I feel so good I may open a second front in person un assisted any day now. Ask Nellie Busby to write me. All my love, Oscar. • • • Transportation Commissioner Eastman urges people to carry only one bag on railroad trains. And not those big ones, please. The trains are crowded with big bags going places with small people. • • • “I’ll insist on one thing if drafted: that I’ll be a soldier and no more, and that I will not be required to write. I have been the best propa gandist this country ever had.”— William Saroyan as quoted by the Herald Tribune. —Buy War Bonds— • * • CAPITAL CHAFF <L According to fair-minded Senator Styles Bridges, who sits on the Re publican side of the aisle, Demo cratic Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois is one of the coming men of the country. C. When Henry Kaiser first got his big shipbuilding contracts he had Tommy “The Cork” Corcoran as his Washington contact man. Now he doesn’t . . . Kaiser isn’t making much headway with • his cargo planes. —Buy War Bonds— “WANTED—To swap wine press, fruit crusher, large funnel, nine wine barrels and a brass bird cage for power wood-working tools or other good tools. 1952 Yankee.”—Yankee Magazine. • • • The complete repudiation of the Bohemian life. * * * A man who would steal gas ra tion books would steal the supple mental gas application from a wid ow and her child, says Elmer Twitchell. U. S. Transport ‘Wakefield’ Burns at Sea The former luxury liner, Manhattan, now a naval transport ship and renamed the Wakefield, caught fire and was severely damaged at sea. More than 1,600 passengers and crew members were removed without loss of life by U. S. warships in the convoy. In the upper left the Wakefield is shown at sea, and at right is its commander, H. G. Bradbury. In lower left, passengers and crewmen are shown jammed on rear decks awaiting rescue. Notice the rope nets which were usea to climb to the deck of rescue vessel. (Navy photos.) Unsung Heroes of Medical Corps Play Important Role One of the most ticklish jobs which men of tl|e~P. S. army medical corps are called upon to undertake is the removal of wounded men from the inside of tanks. The method of this removal may mean life or death to the casualty. At the left you see trainees from the medical corps field service school at Carlisle, Pa., engaged in the task. The man has been successfully removed through the tank turret and is being placed on a stretcher atop the tank. At right you sse a demonstration of a method of transforming a pair of skis into a smooth-running litter fog transporting a wounded man over the snow. Commando Tactics at Harding Field, La. Laugh Is on Axis Soldiers are undergoing a special training course in Commando tac tics at Harding Field, La. Here we see a soldier about to leave the jump ing tower and dive into a blazing pool of water. The soldiers are taught to swim with a modified breast stroke, splashing water in front of them to protect them from the flames. The tower from which they leap is 20 feet high, the approximate distance of a transport’s deck from the water. In case of a torpedoing, the soldiers would have to dive into the flaming water with their full packs and swim for shore. The Axis boasted that a floating drydock they had sunk at an Egypt ian port would never be raised. Capt. Edward Ellsburg, U.S.N., con founded them by raising the dry- dock in record time. He is shown here in an official auto in Egypt. . Mexico’s President Makes Wartime Report Gen. Manuel Avila Cam «ho, president of the United States of Mexico, makes his annual report before the congress of Mexico. This report— his first wartime capitulation of the situation—was particularly impor tant and was addressed to the rest of the American continent as well as to Mexico. Thousands of distinguished guests heard him in person. Flag in Solomons Old Glory is raised over the em battled Solomon islands, eight months to the day after Pearl Har bor. This is the first territory that has been taken from the Japs since the sneak attack. JUST how much training and hard driving can the human system stand? When it comes to a matter of lifting a human being to peak form, training is one of the most subtle of all the arts. It is a job that calls for expert treat ment. For example, I was talking about this with Col. Bob Neyland.head coach of the army team. Colonel Neyland knows what condi tion means as well as anyone I’ve run across. “The point you have to watch,” he said, “is the human limit. You can’t afford to pass that point. In my many years of coaching I’ve seen squads brought up to 80 per cent efficiency when it came to blocking or tackling. When we tried to lift this 80 per cent to 85 per cent by harder work and longer time, on almost every occasion the squad. would drop back to 75 per cent or even 70 per cent. They were willing enough to give all they had, but physical and mental fatigue would leave its poison and the extra work was worse than wasted. It was harmful.” Football and War If this goes for football, it also goes for training needed in war. A good many people, knowing that war is a tougher game than football, or any other game ever invented, can’t understand why a soldier shouldn’t be worked from daybreak reveille to nightfall. They can’t see why any recreation is needed. But those who know their business in the army and navy understand the cracking point. When anyone is packed with men tal and physical fatigue, there must be resting spots, as every good trainer knows. After that point he can’t absorb any further develop ment in skill or condition for the time being. This is why both the army and navy have been smart in getting so many physical conditioners who know what should be done. Golf, for another example, is not a killing game. But a fatigued golf er is rarely any good. The mes sage that comes from a tired brain to tired nerves and muscles is al ways badly blurred. The Surest System The surest system is to start train ing kids from 13 to 16 years of age. They can be trained to walk from 10 to 12 miles a day. As they get a little older this can be lifted to 15 miles or 20 miles. We have too many hundreds of thousands of boys from 13 to 16 who have known far too little leg work. At that age body contact should be light, to be increased from year to year. Someone was smart enough in both Germany and Japan to start training these younger boys as far back as 10 years ago. Standing be fore the Army-Redskin game in the Los Angeles Coliseum a few weeks ago several of us from the top tower looked down on the Olympic swim ming stadium, recalling Jap swim mers from 14 to 16 years of age winning distant swimming events. These youngsters had been started at the age of nine or ten. Some of them were among the Jap troops that swam to Hong Kong. I have mentioned before about the hundreds of thousands of Ger man kids from 12 to 16 who were in hard training all over Germany during the 1936 Olympic games. In this respect both Germany and Japan, knowing the inevitability of a war they were going to start, made this youth training a national plan. This youth training isn’t a matter of surmise, but a matter of fact and of record. I still recall an old Southern Civil war poem to Little Giffen of Tennessee. Part of it ran like this— “Smitten with grapeshot and gangrene— Sixteenth battle—and he fourteen." The Only Way Almost every athlete of any im portance started his game as a kid. You never develop stars who start after 25 or 30. Bob Jones began playing golf at the age of eight. Jack Dempsey was street-fighting at the age of 10. Babe Ruth was playing baseball at 11. You never make the Big League starting some game after 20. The knack comes to younger minds and younger muscles—to kids who came along to championships later on. If this is true in sport, it must be true in many phases of combat work in war—flying, marching, shooting, swimming, parachute jumping—any part of the war games that calls for skill and stamina. So far this has been overlooked in this country. For the army or navy I’d much rather have a 16-year-old boy than a civilian beyond 30 or 35. The latter are game enough. They will have just as much courage. But they can’t have that unbeatable gift of youth—so much more easily taught, so much more effective when the showdown arrives. GrantlandRlce Watchmaker Kept Word As Well as Man Waiting! The customer was obviously very angry as he strode into the watch-repairer’s shop. "Look here!” he shouted. “I brought my watch here a month ago, and it’s not mended yet.” “Well, sir,” said the other sooth ingly, “we’re short-handed and spare parts are hard to get. 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