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THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C„ OCTOBER 23, 1942 Washington, D. C. WICKARD FEARS FOOD CRISIS Secretary of Agriculture Wickard has made it very clear in private conferences that he takes vigorous exception to Donald Nelson’s recent statement: “We are going to have enough to eat throughout this war and we probably will not have to put any very drastic limitations on our range of choice in that regard.” On the contrary, Wickard says that we are going to be more and more up against it for food—unless we give the farmer more machinery and more labor. Briefly here are the reasons why: 1. An army uses twice as much food as civilians, (a) because a lot is lost at sea, (b) a lot is lost in the field of battle, and (c) soldiers eat more than civilians. 2. We have to feed our allies more and more. 3. We will also have to feed the occupied regions when they are set free. But meanwhile, farmers actually are killing good dairy cows for beef because they cannot get labor or machinery to keep up their dairy herds. In the Chicago milk shed alone, 1,700 dairy farmers have sold their herds and gone out of busi ness. In one specific case, a dairy farm er lost the use of his litter-carrier when the tub went bad. The car rier, complete with trolley and hoist, had cost him $250. A new tub to replace the rusted one would cost only $10. But he couldn’t buy a new tub. And he couldn’t find addi tional hands to do the work of the machine. So he sold his cattle and closed the dairy. Foreseeing this machinery short age, Secretary Wickard asked WPB to permit manufacture of agricul tural machinery up to 38 per cent of normal. The request was made July 22. He did not get a reply until this week. Principal log-jammer is WPB’s civilian supply committee, headed by Joseph L. Wiener, which has to act on a great variety of civilian problems and does not pretend to be expert in agriculture. Its lack of expertness was indi cated by two questions asked by members of this committee, in dis cussing farm problems: “If there is a labor shortage on the farms, why can’t farmers work overtime, just as factory workers do?” “What is the difference between a wheel type tractor and a crawler type?” So the United States may fail as the larder of democracy if a farmer can’t have a new plow point or some other item—and the necessary farm labor. • • • NO NIX ON NAVY’S PIX On the important question of pho tographs, the navy has completely reversed itself, with the result that the stay-at-home public is seeing daily action shots of the war. Until recently, there was a ban on taking pictures of “confidential” scenes. But on September 1, the navy issued General Order 179, which stated that “commanding of ficers are directed to obtain photo graphs at times of emergency, dis aster, and combat action.” Picture taking in the navy used to be confined to “nuts arid bolts photography”—routine shots of ma terials to observe their action under stress. But now the navy is taking pictures of some of the most dra matic and colorful incidents in the history of warfare, with some 1,400 photographers. If you saw the picture of the Jap carrier sinking in the Coral sea, or the Jap heavy cruiser sinking at Midway, or the U. S. sailors leaping overboard from the carrier Lexing ton, you have seen the work of navy cameramen. Some were appointed to do noth ing else but take pictures of the battle, but some did their camera shooting only after laying aside a machine gun. The famous picture of the sinking Jap carrier in the Coral sea was taken by a machine gunner from the rear nest of a navy plane. Primary purpose of the picture taking is not to inform the public, but to inform the navy. The pic tures are used to check on opera tions, to instruct learners, and, most important, to study the enemy’s po sition. Today, tomorrow and every day, navy planes are flying over New Guinea and the Solomons, tak ing pictures of whatever lies below. The developed shots may disclose that the Japs have moved into a new area, and that the little black spot, seen under a microscope, is an oil tank just installed. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF One U. S. general, returning from London, reported that the waiting policy of the British in Africa re minded him of the Union generals in the War Between the States who dallied in Washington, wondering what Lee would do next. Among the closest friends in the senate are Barkley of Kentucky, Democratic floor leader, and Mc- Nary of Oregon, Republican floor leader. They disagree on nearly everything except this: That they are both swell guys. One of the really great songs of this war is “This Is Worth Fighting For.” It is being heard on the radio, but not half enough. • • • Elmer Twitchell is heart and soul in the move to get along on less meat. “My only regret,” he an nounced today, “is that I have only one chin to give for my country.” • • • We are behind Westbrook Peg- ler’s drive to take the bumpers off all cars and give them to the government to be converted into war weapons. But what are we going to do the next time some stalled fellow says, “Bud dy, can you give my car a push for a half-mile or so?” • • • ALL-AMERICAN A patriot’s a fellow who Without a sign of yelping Ignores for the red, white and blue A third, or second, helping. • • • “All gambling in New York must be wiped out.”—Mayor LaGuardia. • • • Wanna bet? • • • Secretary Stimson must be a real fighting secretary of war. He is the only one ever to knock out a heavyweight champion and the contender with one punch. • • • Wendell Willkie is for a sec ond front as soon as possible, *ven if some army and navy men have to be prodded. He knows what one would have meant to him in the last elec tion. • • • “Canned ham and eggs may be all right,” says R. Roelofs, Jr., “but wait till the boys try to decide which is sunny side up.” • • • “Union Square Demands Second Front.”—Headline. One that it can participate in only by the radio. • • • More than 500 pamphlets, bulletins, re leases, etc^ by government bureaus have been cut out or suspended by Elmer Davis. This means that you just can’t get copies of “How to Be a Bee,“ “The Inner Life of the Common Toothpick” and “The Art of Dogsled Weaving.” « » • Private Purkey was found 50 miles behind his outfit the other day. But he denied he was es tablishing a Second Rear. • • • Alfred G. Vanderbilt, in the navy as a boatswain, came into another five million dollars the other day. It is a break to be in the navy when you get five million. In the army, unless you had your own dice, you would lose it in no time. • • • New York city is going to tear down numerous big buildings for scrap metal. Among them is a 22 story skyscraper at West End ave nue and 72nd street, built 18 years ago and never occupied by anything but pigeons. Thousands of visitors, passing on the Fifth avenue buses, just before the turn onto Riverside drive, have noticed this gaunt struc ture and asked about it. Once we heard a tired busman reply, “That’s Grant’s tomb, lady.” “I thought Grant’s tomb was further up?” she said. “That’s just his summer tomb,” he replied. “This is his win ter one.” • • • Ima Dodo has written a movie. It is about a girl and a boy on a desert island. Tbe boy disap pears. The girl is alone for months, reduced to starvation. Finally a ship loaded with ten derloin steaks is wrecked on the island, just in time to save her life. Ima says the big thing about it is her title: “Meat Buoys Girl.” • • • THOSE OIL ZONES “A” stands for fuel oil more copi ously Than you’ll ever get it in homes in Zone “B.” • • • “B” is for heat which will keep you quite hot Compared to the homes in the zones where you’re not. • * * Indian Summer: That time of year when you want to scalp the fellow who says: “This is the best time of the whole year.” • • • Ima Dodo is going all out in the scrap drive. She has asked her sweetheart to give the iron from his blood. And she personally is going to abandon her determination of steel. • • • “For Sale—Two pianos, $4.98 each; cash and carry; no fooling. E. J. Arderson.” — Pleasantville lournal. • • • That’s what you think! • * * With boots rationed and with the fuel oil regulations in force, the Republican candidates in the coming elections would get the break of their lives if elec tion week weather turned out to be floods, followed by freezing. —Buy War Bonds— ‘Sniff Sets’ for Air Raid Precautions Two savants of Providence, R. I., college, the Rev. Frederick G. Hickey, OP, and Prof. J. J. Hanley, are manufacturing “sniff sets” of various poison gases that might be used by enemy raiders, so air raid wardens may readily recognise the gases when encountered. At left, Prof. Hanley fills one of the sniff set bottles with mustard gas sample. Center: Father Hickey and his colleague show the correct technique of decontami nating a vertical surface. Right: Creating a miniature lab-explosion to show what can happen by putting chloride of lime alone and undiluted on gas for decontamination purposes. Chloride should be mixed with earth and water. Combined Offensive in Desert Warfare Drill Air and armored forces of the United States army flex their military muscles in the flaming deserts of California. Here they combine to spearhead an attack. The air force’s attack bombers form a vital “um brella” as the tanks roar and rattle over the rough going of the desert badlands. Build 1,070-Ft. Bridge in Less Than 2 Hours Solomon Isle Hero Army engineers in the Canal Zone set what is believed to be an all- time record by spanning a river with a '1,070-foot pontoon bridge in one hour and 40 minutes, in a test to show how they could span rivers under fire. The last section here is swung into position ready for a test run of a ten-ton unit. Sergt. Maj. Vootha, of the native police, who was captured by Japs at . Guadalcanal, was tortured with a bayonet when he refused to give in formation about U. S. forces there. Left for dead, Vootha escaped and returned to a U. S. marine camp with valuable information. This picture was taken before he was captured. Another Step Toward Tokyo Struggling through the cold night to bring tons of supplies ashore, during the surprise, landing by American forces in the Andreanof group of Aleutian islands, U. S. doughboys did not think the job .complete without setting up a sign which reads “2,640 miles from Tokyo.” Keeping ’Em Rolling ' Malriteuanee'crews-consisting *en- 1 tirely of women arc now working at the shops of.Hhe.-Long Island rail road hi New/York. Here the girls work on the big drive wheels of an erigine. -» /"’ONNIE MACK was talking about ^ the Cardinals. “They take me back a long way,” he said, and Connie can go back a longer way than any in base ball. At the age of 80 there is much to remember. “I’ll tell you what I mean,” Connie said. “During the series I noticed them all hanging around the front of their hotel, looking at the sights. No motion pibtures—no nightclubs — just a bunch of young fel lows sticking together as we used to do a long time ago. “In the same way they take me back to the days of defensive base ball. They only ask a run or two, as a rule and then they’re hard to handle. This means high class pitching and fine fielding. They are fast and aggressive on defense. They actually turn a defense into an of fense. Baseball has been ruled by pluggers for many years. The Ca» dinals turned back the clock in the games I saw them pl(.y.” There Isn’t any question but that the Cardinals finished the season with one of the best pitching staffs in baseball history. This list includes Mort Cooper, Ernie White, Pollet, Beazley and Max Lanier. Starting Pilchers I can’t recall a team with so many good starting pitchers. White and Pollet were afflicted with sore arms most of the season. If they had been in shape all year there is no telling how many games the Cardinals might have won. They might even have passed the old 1966 Cub mark of 116 wins. They had all these men ready for the main series —especially White who needed a shut out to win. Only brilliant pitching eould have stopped Spud Chandler in that third game. To allow one clean hit in eight innings is a working job that de served something better than defeat. One of the outstanding stars in this past series was Bill Dickey. This is Bill’s 15th season with the Yankees. He has been suffering from a heavy cold, with a touch of allergic nose poisoning from rug carpets or any thing that has a fuzz. He has been physically low. Yet he caught bril liantly and after the first three games was hitting around .445. Bill Dickey didn’t need this series to prove his place. He has caught more than 30 Yankee World Series games, and has never shown a flaw in all that time. • • • The Irrepressible Old Irrepressible, better known as Ole Diz, is still one of the most colorful parties concerned with base ball. In the years I’ve known him Dizzy Dean hasn’t changed a leopard’s spot. He never will. Except for a tough break, an in jury to his shoulder, he might have been one of the all-time greats. I’ve never heard Dean complain about this tcugh luck. Nothing that can happen ever will wipe that quick grin off his face. And there is no mental expert who can make him quite sane. Looking Back Ole Diz is still around broadcast ing and advising the players. Here are some of his forgotten classics: 1. The day in St. Louis with the thermometer at 108 when Diz, sit ting on the Cardinal bench, built a fire ,and wrapped a big blanket around his shoulders. 2. The day in Florida when I went fishing with him and he over stayed his time six hours. “What will Frank Frisch do about this?” I asked him. “Ole Frank can’t do nothing," Dizzy said, “except ball me out and fine me $200. What’s $200?” 3. The day he walked into the Tiger ball park in 1934 before the World Series—wearing, among oth er details, a gray felt hat and a blue overcoat, he grabbed the bat from Mickey Cochrane’s hands and hit one on the line—much to Mickey’s astonishment. “That’s the way we do it,” Dizzy said as he walked away. 4. Warming up before the Tiger game that year someone told Dizzy the odds were 2 to 1 on the Cardi nals when he was pitching. “Them gamblers,” he said, “are pretty smart people. They don’t miss no sure thing.” 5. The day he was warming up, as a Cub, to face the Yankees. “How do you feel, Diz?” I asked. “Well,” he said, warming up a sore arm, “I ain’t what I used to be. But who in hell is?” MorJ Cooper, as a pitcher, is the closest approach to Dean that the Cardinals ever have known. Mort hasn’t Dean’s color, but as Ole Dir almost said: “Who has?” Cooper is a big, powerful fellow who only came along this season as one of the best in the game. He still has to prove he is another Dizzy Dean. Connie Mack y-J ON THE (HOME FRONTi IT IS not necessary to make our economies so dull and dreary that they depress every one. Let’s make them so gay and attractive that they give us a lift and a bit of a challenge too. T 1 - old rocker is an example. A saw and a wood chisel were used for removing projections and rockers. An old quilt was found for padding and the feathers from an old bolster were packed into a thick seat cushion to raise the seat which has been lowered by remov ing the rockers. This required a yard and a quarter of ticking. Four and one-half yards of inex pensive chintz in a bold, modem pattern did the rest. • • • NOTE: Tbia remodeled chair la from BOOK 5 of the aeriea of booklets that are offered with these articles. In this book an old-fashioned couch la modern ized; end tables from spools; new uses are found for a camp stool; other types of chairs are made over; and a love seat la made from an old car seat. 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