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' % t THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- OCTOBER 16, 1942 Washington, D. C. FARM PARITY FIGHT To Roosevelt advisers, the farm parity fight was an ominous runner- up of what many of them expect during the next two years—IF the November elections turn sour for the Democrats. It left people a little worried around the White House. Up until now, the White House has been confident that the house of rep resentatives would remain Demo cratic—despite the warning of Chair man Ed Flynn that the Middle West and probably California would go Republican. So the fight over farm parity was a shock; and administration leaders shrink from the prospect of fac ing that type of congressional bat tling for two long years to come. But, if the Republicans organize the house, or even if the Democratic majority is appreciably cut, that is exactly what will happen. Three reasons are given, back- stage, for the faulty handling which resulted in the terrific farm battle. 1. The President himself, who couched his message to congress in terms of such a strong ultimatum, rather than the usual Roosevelt pep- talk strategy at which he is so adept. Incidentally, the speech was writ ten in large part by brusque, bull dozing Leon Henderson. 2. Speaker Sam Rayburn, who dropped his usual kindliness and stormily told congressional friends that the President had promised him not to send a farm price stabilization message until later. Rayburn’s at titude was a tip-off in deeds if not words “To vote as you please, boys.” 3. Price Czar Leon Henderson, who was considered the political ogre and bogeyman for whom the farm stabilization bill was being passed. • • • WAR BONDS A war savings bond salesman in Buchanan county, Iowa, was non plussed when the spokesman for a colony of 75 families flatly refused to buy even so much as a 10-cent stamp . . . The salesman was about to leave, but was called back and handed $6,450 in cash as the colo ny’s donation to the war effort . . . Seeking an explanation, the bewil dered bond seller was told that the community was composed of Amish families and that their religious creed forbids them to make a profit out of war . . . They were willing to make a gift of the money, but could not buy interest-bearing bonds. Presidential adviser Isador Lubin, after 36 straight hours of hard work, went to bed one morning at nine o’clock, slept until nine the next morning. The infantry company at Fort Devens, Mass., boasts that every member of the company is buying war bonds, and it is 101 per cent correct. • • • ARMY SHOES If you are a draftee with high arches or low arches, one flat foot or two flat feet, or even if your right foot is a half size larger than your left foot—it doesn’t matter. The quartermaster will fit you any way. Even if no one of the 238 different sizes of army shoes fits you, instruc tions to army posts are that every foot shall be fitted, and fitted com fortably. This order is to be obeyed even if it means making a plaster cast of the odd foot and making a special shoe from an individual last. In such cases, the individual last is tagged with the name of the sol dier and filed away until he needs another pair of shoes. Such service would cost $25 a pair in private life. Army experts declare that a sol dier with sore feet is worthless. • • • NO CELLOPHANE COMMISSION Siegfried Bechhold, president of the Armored Tank corporation, is now a private in the army. After making a small fortune in manufac turing tanks, Bechhold joined the army as a private, age 42, was sent to Camp Lee, Va. Friends expected to find him unhappy after exchang ing his soft life for the rigors of the army. But when Bechhold got away for his first week-end, he de clared : ‘This experience is making a man of me, and 1 wouldn’t miss it for the world! I’ve served in other armies, but there’s no army to compare with this one. You talk about ‘morale’— the soldiers don’t need ‘morale’; they already have it. “You have to get out of Washing ton to learn what Uncle Sam’s army is really like. If 1 had ten sons, I would tell them all to join the army.” * * * MERRY-GO-ROUND C. Some doctors who passed their physical examination for the army three months ago have not yet been called. Yet the army is still appeal ing for more doctors. C. President Ernest M. Hopkins of Dartmouth will be campaign man ager for Republican Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire against ex-Republican Francis Murphy, now Democrat. Like Bridges, President Hopkins has been a militant sup porter of Roosevelt’s foreign poli cies. ‘THE WAR CONTRACT’ OR ‘WHERE AM I?’ Mr. Wimple wanted to find out about a pin. It was a little pin required as part of a gun mechan ism. The government needed this type of pin in large quantities in a hurry. Wimple, who made pins, had been told. He had received a letter from the PDQ or something urging him to convert his shop for an all-out production of pins. He replied, asking about a few particu lars and got back a letter from the PDQ saying that the BBA now had charge of the matter. n Mr. Wimple decided he had better go to Washington and get things straightened out. He went to the building which housed the BBA to see the chairman, a Mr. Zoofus. He was told to wait in an anteroom. After a few hours a clerk came out and told him that Mr. Zoofus had been assigned to another bureau and that he would have to see a Mr. Bilch. Mr. Bilch was in the office of the PQX or something 15 blocks south, “take your next left.” III Mr. Wimple couldn’t get a taxi so he walked. At the office of the PQX he was told that Mr. Bilch was in conference with officials of the HQA about a VCB matter. But Mr. Gim- py was present. “State your business,” said the attendant. “I stated it three hours ago,” said Mr. Wimple. “Oh,” said the attendant, “just a minute, please.” He disappeared and came back presently. “Mr. Gimpy took a plane to Oshkosh about an hour ago,” he explained. “He left word he couldn’t discuss those bolts today.” “Not bolts,” corrected Wim ple. “Pins!” “Oh, pins!” exclaimed the attend ant. “The man you want to see is Mr. Tookle over at the DPBA. That’s in the Effadoofus Building.” IV He finally reached the Effadoofus Building and found the DPBA head quarters. Mr. Tookle was in. What did he wish to see him about? About pins. Take a chair, please! After a while Mr. Tookle sent out word that he was not prepared to discuss, those brass washers yet. “Pins,” groaned Mr. Wimple, “not washers.” Mr. Tookle came out, a little ex asperated. “Pins?” he asked. “You don’t mean gaskets, do you?” “Pins,” said Mr. Wimple wearily. “I’m Wimple, the pin manufacturer. Maybe this cor respondence will clear it all up.” He showed a packet of letters from Washington. “Oh,” said Mr. Tookle, “this is about pins, not ratchets. You will have to see Charlie Zamm. He’s co-ordinating that matter. Three miles north, take your left at the ninth traffic light. Good day!” V Mr. Wimple now stole a motor cycle. He was getting desperate and was determined to cover ground more rapidly. He made the next building in fair time. Was Mr. Zamm in? Which Zamm, Charles or Joseph? Charles, he thought. No, Charlie Zamm was in Moscow but Joseph Zamm would be glad to dis cuss those metal clips with him. “Pins,” said Mr. Wimple. “Take a chair; Mr. Joseph Zamm will be back any minute.” VI It was pretty dark now. Mr. Wim ple was thinking of calling it all off when Mr. Zamm appeared. “Sorry to hold you up,” said Zamm. “I’m glad you came down, we need those hub-caps as fast as you can turn ’em out.” “Pins,” said Mr. Wimple, weakly. “I thought you were the hub-cap contractor,” said Mr. Zamm. “There is some confusion here.” “Nuts,” said Mr. Wimple, leaping through the window. (P. S.—He joined up with the marines. It seemed to be the only way to help win the war without too much delay.) • * * Some Excuse. Some think the woolly Hottentot Undoubtedly has gotten hot From many futile desert charges Toward equatorial mirages; So if in some secluded spot A Hotten-man (or Hotten-tot) Throws in a skinny visionary Who says he is a missionary, I urge that we abhor such pranks For he has drawn so many blanks. UNO HOO. » • • BULL’S-EYE! “People assume that if a business man is big he’s got to be good. That’s all wrong. The battle of pro duction has got to be won by the small fellows and by the man with grease under his nails and plenty of ‘know-how’ between his ears.”— Guy Holcomb. , Never was a truer word spo ken. The big business man has only one thing on the small busi ness man: he gets to work lat er, quits earlier and takes twice as long for lunch. Don’t Cuss Weatherman—It’s Weatherwomen Now Milady has finally stormed one of the last bastions of man’s exclusive field by establishing a beachhead in the Washington, D. C., weather barean. Girl at left fills the ballast balloon with its quota of gas. This bal loon will be attached to helium-filled balloon that carries radiosonde aloft. Center: Radiosonde about to be sent into stratosphere in search of weather data. Right: Assistant Weather Observer Barbara Ritchie gives Jun ior Flight Dispatcher J. R. Wells the weather dope at Washington airport. U. S. Commandos of Jungle Prepare for All Comers “Bushmasters,” Uncle Sam’s Commandos of the jungle, are shown at left building a “wiki-up” in the dense, rainy forests of Panama. It’s a pup tent raised from the ground to keep the men dry and protected from snakes. Right: Wearing gas masks, these crack jungle-Commando infantry men offer grim evidence of the deadly surprise awaiting any enemy attack in the Panama area. Torpedoed U. S. Tanker Beats Raging Fire When a tanker is burning as fiercely as this U. S. tanker (top photo) it usually must be abandoned. Despite this raging fire, caused by an Axis torpedo, crew members brought the flames under control. Below: The 18,000 ton tanker, a gaping torpedo hole amidships, stands by after the fire. It was towed to port by a U. S. navy ship and is now being repaired. ‘Sgt. York’ No. 2 Sergt. Alvin York captured 132 Germans in World War I. Sergt. Keith Elliott of New Zealand, cap tured 130 Germans near Ruweisat, in the Alamein line in Egypt. He is pictured after the exploit, which won him the Victoria cross. Enemy tanks attacked three sides of his battalion and 19 men were left of Company B. Elliott led them in charge after charge. While capturing a German machine-gun nest single-handed he got three wounds in the back and legs. He handed over the entire batch of 130 prisoners. British Awards for U. S. Instructors Held in Nazi Zoo Gen. Sir Harold Alexander is shov.n giving British decorations to three U. S. officers in recognition of their services as tank instructors with British forces in the Middle East on the first anniversary of American participation in Middle East fighting. Left to right: Col. William Cornog, Augusta, Ga.; Capt. J. W. Smothers, Princeton, Ind.; and Lieut. Kindle Watson. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bedaux, at whose chateau the duke of Windsor was married, who were reported to be among hundreds of Americans rounded up in Paris by French police. The captives were interned in the zoo monkey house. For extra flavor in dark fruit cakes use cider or spiced fruit juices for the liquid. • • • "THERE was a certain cluttered -*■ up road leading somewhere be tween Avocourt and Montfaucon in France, late in September, 1918. The night was dark and the rain was even wetter than usual. There was I an artillery captain, getting his bat- I tery through this muddle and mire, j and he wasn’t very gentle about get ting the right of way. “These guns go through,” he barked, and you could see he wasn’t particular about how they got through. Through the jumble and the tangle and the rain and mud and darkness this battery moved on its way. The artillery cap tain was a fellow by the name of Larry MacPhail. He was a rough and ready Grantland Rice officer looking for action, and he has been the same ever since. Now he is on his way back to his old artillery job, and whether you like him or not, the army will. And that happens to be the main idea. Then and Now Larry MacPhail is no longer a kid. It has been i.Lrnost 24 years since that night in France where refugees, stray army outfits and complete confusion almost blocked the road which MacPhail helped to open for his guns. When buttering sandwiches dip knife in hot water frequently and it will be much easier to dpread the butter. • • • Sift spices with flour so they will be distributed properly throughout the batter or dough. • • • For a flavorful top coating for meat loaves, spread with a thin layer of chili sauce the last 20 minutes of the cooking period. « • • Squash are very tender and so easily injured by frost that care must be taken to cover them in the field against injury. They should be allowed to harden in the field and then should be removed from the vines without breaking the stems. • • • Grass stains usually come out when saturated with lard or other fat, then washed several hours later in warm soapy water. • • • If pears have to stand a little while when you’re canning them, it’s best to keep them covered in salt water so they won’t darken. Use two tablespoons of salt to a gallon of water. To help keep pears used in appetizers, salads or desserts from darkening, sprin kle them with a little orange, lem on, lime or grapefruit juice as soon as they are peeled and store in a cold place. Since that time he has been the major factor in building up two pen nant winners in the National league —first, Cincinnati’s Reds, then Brooklyn’s Dodgers. There have been many times when he looked to be hard and ruth less, but he was always smart. As someone has said, “MacPhail’s mis takes, and he had made many, have always been about minor matters. He has yet to make a mistake that was important.” If the charge that he has been hard and ruthless is true, there could be no bigger boost when it comes to the matter of winning this war. McPhail and the Dodgers Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis MacPhail was talking about the Dodgers of 1942. “When the season opened,” he said, “I thought we could win. We had done all we could to strengthen a team good enough to win the pennant the year before. But when we were ten games in front you will remember I told you that I was worried about what might happen. “The year before we were only think ing about winning ^ e Pennant. MacPhail Through this sum mer we have been thinking only about meeting and beating the Yan kees. It was easy enough to see our pitching was crumbling. It was also easy to see that we were no longer hitting. The box scores showed that better than any large bale of words could hope to do. No one could fig ure at that time that the Cardinals, a young hustling team, would sud denly move into a .900 per cent pace. But that’s what they did. “Then there came the injury to Pete Reiser, who suddenly changed from a .355 hitter to a .240 hitter. These are no aljbis. The Cardinals had their share of hard luck last year. Indiscriminate Defense The indiscriminate defense of right and wrong contracts the un derstanding, while it hardens the heart.—Junius. Downhill Is Easy From poverty to wealth is a troublesome journey, but the way back is easy. WkySuft*#- xhes at pas if RHEUMATISM NEURITIS-LUMBAGO MCNEILS ^ggl MAGIC REMEDY BRINGS BLESSED RELIEF Large Botttob ■ariM)*n»-Sma! i! 1U (III nil SIllEt it IT 1111 u ncilit if iriti McNDL DRUG CO, Inc. 830 Broad Str—t—iaefcaomdia. Florida mJ “The main point is that we ran into a change in mental attitudes. Last season we were pennant-hun gry and world series money-hungry. By this season we’d gotten ours. The Cardinals hadn’t. And don’t forget this Cardinal team is quite a ball club. I mean skill, speed, and spirit. The Difference “Mental attitude,” MacPhail con tinued, “is one of the big factors in any game. I’ve heard Bobby Jones say it was at least 75 per cent of golf. Any football coach will tell you the big part it plays in his sport. Of course, skill is important, speed is important and power is impor tant. So is experience. But mental attitude is even more important. “I recall late last summer when Whit Wyatt would walk into the clubhouse before some hard game and say, ‘Listen, you bums, give me one run today. That’s all I need.’ “And when the pinch came, that’s all Whit needed. This season you had the feeling that for many of our pitchers even three or four runs were not quite enough.” About Football Lou Little said some time ago that 1942 would be ‘ootball’s best offen sive season. Columbia’s mandarin makes few bad guesses. It will take some remarkable defensive formations to keep the combined speed and power under check which most teams have to meet. That Missouri backfield will be ofie of the best. It has speed, drive and experience, headed by one of the best in Steuber, a big fellow who can move. Find the Scrap to • • ‘ Eliminate the Jap ^ The buyer’s assurance is the advrrti* ^ tng he or she reads in the newspaper. V That is the buyer’s guide. It tells the S prices one must expect to pay. Let the ? idler who tries to charge more bewarel