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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, NOVEMBER 27, 1942 Washington, D. C. BRAZIL AND U. S. OFFENSIVE Though the landings on North Af rica were a carefully guarded mili tary secret between high British and American officials, one other coun try let in on the secret was Brazil. In fact, Brazil, through Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha did some Important spade work for the United States in regard to vital Atlantic Islands, the Azores and Madeiras. These lie along the route of the American supply line to North Af rica, the Madeiras close to the Af rican coast. Therefore, it was considered pos sible that the Germans might at tempt to use these islands as sub- fnarine or even air bases, or that the United States in turn might need the islands for emergency bases. Both island groups are Portu guese. So, long ago, Brazil, which looks to Portugal as its mother coun try, made informal diplomatic foundings to make sure that these islands would line up with the United Nations in case of emergency. • • • SOLOMONS vs. AFRICA One thing that got under the skin of high U. S. army officials during the weeks just before the North Af rican landings was the navy’s policy regarding the battle of the Solomon Islands. Though all the details had not been worked out, it had been def initely agreed with Churchill and the Russians to start some kind of Second front operation this summer. However, the navy also claimed that it could start the Solomon Islands campaign simultaneously without taking any ships out of the Atlantic or disturbing the Second Front prep arations. The admirals promised the war department that the num ber of ships used in the Solomons would be very small indeed. But before the Solomons opera tions had lasted many weeks, the navy had used several times as many ships as it expected—some of them sent to the bottom of the Pacific. Ships were taken off the supply lines to Russia, despite def inite promises made to Russia. Ships were also taken off the supply lines to England to such an extent that supplies to England dwindled to a driblet. • • • LESSON FROM ALEUTIANS Inside the navy it is pointed out that one of the best jobs Admiral Nimitz ever did was to let the Japs get into the tip end of the Aleutian islands. This proved to be a beau tiful decoy, like flies to molasses. The Aleutians were too exposed foa the Japs to defend safely, too near our bases. As a result, ..the Japs lost 10 de stroyers—a big chunk out of any navy—and we are continuing to whittle them down with no loss to ourselves. U. S. bases are now so close to Kiska that U. S. planes bomb the Japs every day without fail—and bomb them so badly that recently no Jap fighter planes have been put in the air. Apparently they are all smashed. But in the other end of the Pacific, army strategists fear that we may have got ourselves in the same posi tion as the Japs have in the Aleu tians—with our necks so far stuck out that, despite current successes, we have lost more ships than the Solomons were worth. • • • CHRISTMAS TRAVEL The railroads have been negotiat ing with the schools and colleges to extend their Christmas holiday pe riod so that it will begin before the usual Christmas home-going dates and extend beyond the usual return ing dates. The purpose was to get rid of the school and college traffic before taking on the burden of the furlough movement of soldiers, go ing home for Christmas. This longer vacation would be okay with a lot of girls and boys, but most of the schools and col leges have turned thumbs down. They said they could not change their schedules. Result is that the American rail roads will carry the greatest bur den in history during the period from December 15 to January 5. The peak will come between Decem ber 20 and 24, when the railroads will have to carry: (1) Home-going students; (2) the usual heavy civilian Christmas trav el; (3) soldiers on furlough; (4) sol diers on week-end passes; (5) the normal troop movement, which will not be suspended for Christmas. So between December 15 and January 5, civilians are asked to stay off the railroads! * • • AFRICANA C. Frenchmen listening to Roose velt’s broadcast to the French peo ple in the French language won dered who wrote his speech. They said it contained grammatical er rors and sounded like schoolboy composition. Roosevelt’s accent, however, was good. C General Giraud, new French com mander in North Africa, is the first ‘Frenchman to use motorized units in cleaning up North Africa. He waged a successful campaign against the Riffs. POPPER EXPLAINS INFLATION “Popper, can you explain infla tion so I can understand it?” “Don’t bother me now, son, I’m too busy.” “How long will you be busy, pop per?” “I’ll always be too busy when any body wants me to explain inflation.” * * 1 (Voice from Mother—“Aw, go on and help Junior out! He’s got to write a school essay.”) • * • “Well, ahem, sonny, it’s like this, ahem . . . inflation means a condi tion under which the dollar will be worth less. “But it will still be a dollar, won’t it?” “Yes. A dollar bill will still be a dollar bill, but it won’t be the dol lar that we used to know. What I mean is that while, a dollar may still be a dollar, strictly speaking, its value as a dollar will not be the same value as it would have been if there had been no change in values . . . ahem ... Is that quite clear to you?” “No. Is it to you?” “No. Let’s try it a different way. Let us take meat for example. Take a $100 bill. Now let us assume that tH!fe $100 will buy a stack of steaks piled up 45 feet in the air. Got that?” “Forty-five dollars will buy 100 steaks piled up how high, popper?” “No. Now, take your time. We’ve got our steaks piled up 45 feet. And right now we can buy them for the $100 bill.” “What hundred dollar bill, popper?” “Shush! Now, then, comes in flation . . . What happens?” “That’s what I’m asking, pop per?” * • * “Well, we suddenly look around and find that while the steak pile is still 45 feet high the $100 bill has shrunk down to $32.79.” “Huh?” “No, that’s wrong. Let’s make it easier. The $100 bill is still O. K. but the steaks have changed. In fact, the pile is now only 20 feet high. See?” “Is that in regular steak or ham burger, popper?” “Omigosh! Any steak. I don’t even have to use steak in this story. I could use eggs or liver or even codfish cakes. I could make it just as clear if I used a suit of clothes, a new tie, a pair of shoes or a bi cycle.” “Let’s do it with codfish cakes and bicycles, popper.” “Why!!!” “It’ll be more fun.” • » • (Voice from Mother—“Gee, Clin ton, I don’t think you’re explaining it to Junior very simply.”) “Very well. Now lissen, son. Let us take house paint. Today $25 will get me enough paint to paint our garage two coats.” “We haven’t any garage.” “Don’t interrupt. Let’s paint it, anyhow. Comes inflation, and what happens if we want to paint it a year from now? Twenty-five dollars will only buy enough to paint three sides, and only one coat. Do you see what happens?” “Yes. We write Mr. Roosevelt and he paints the other side at government expense, popper. But what CAUSES inflation?” “Awah-h-h!” • • • THE SMITHY Beside the empty used car mart The village smithy stands; The smith is mighty glad of heart, For business still expands. The busy forge he engineers Is, like his heart, aglow— This man has waited fifty years To say, “I told you so!’' —Gerald Raftery in the N. Y. Times. He hears a motor, and its noise Comes to him from afar; It passes and he says, “Look, boys, It IS a motorcar!” Then once again his sledge he swings And says, as well h'i may, "I knew when I first saw them things They wasn’t here to stay!” • • • “High-heeled shoes are to be dis continued for the duration to save leather.”—News item. • • • Wanna bet? • • • Merrill Chilcote says there can’t be any manpower shortage. “All those fellows who have been standing around excavations watching foundations for new buildings laid cant be working indoors,” he says. • • » THE HOARDER AT HOME Our table’s getting bare, you bet, Though good food I demand; My wife says it’s too early yet To open food she’s canned. —Merrill Chilcote. * • • “The WPB has frozen all canned sauerkraut until April 1943.”—News item. Ima Dodo is terribly upset. She says cold sauerkraut is awful. And what she’s afraid of is that it may now be turned out in flavors in sauerkraut cones. Four Swift Fighting Ships Go Down Ways The Federal Shipbuilding yard, Kearny, N. J., launched four destroyers at the same time, on schedule- powerful new additions to our first line of offense in our fight for freedom. The destroyers, shown above, are the Stevenson, the Ringold, the Stockton and the Schroeder. Invasion Tactics Used in Opening Second Front American troops were trained intensively for the invasion of North Africa. Before the U. S. army task force members were assigned to the new invasion group they spent a considerable period in carefully directed maneuvers under simulated attack conditions. That they learned their lesson well is confirmed by their re markable success in the initial stages of the opening of the second front in North Africa. The pictures were taken during maneuvers, by the U. S. Signal Corps. U. S. Boston Bombers Raid Le Havre Big Ben Poses United States air force Boston bombers, also known as the Douglas A-20 C’s, attacked Le Havre docks in a daylight raid. This photo, which is one of the clearest of its kind that has been made during this war, shows one of the Bostons over the target area as the first stick of bombs of the attack breaks on and near the western end of the quay in the Bassin De Maree, where there are E and R boat pens. During this attack, bombers were escorted by U.S.A.A.F. fighter planes. “H Duce in the zone of opera tions,” says the caption on this pho to, which appeared in an Italian propaganda magazine. Obviously, the “zone of operations” was in North Africa, if the tropical helmets of the soldiers, diplomatically air brushed into the background by the artist, are any indication. Recently the “zone of operations” became a race track for II Duce’s men. Grim Humor Among Our Fighting Allies Courage and grim humor mark the spirit of our Allies in the fight against the Axis aggressors. The picture shows South African soldiers at an anti-aircraft battery in Kenya, Africa, ready for all comers. Their signpost speaks for itself. In African Fight Shown here is Rear Adm. Henry K. Hewitt, who is commanding the American forces participating in the second front action against Vichy- controlled North Africa. 'TpHE top word and the most mis- -*■ used word and what should be the rarest word in the language is the word “best.” This is a word that covers more ground than we can follow, using an airplane and a telescope. By this we mean such phrases as “the best team”—“the best passer” —“the best receiver”—“the best kicker”—“the best line”—referring here to football. For example, some days ago Major Jablonski, one of the leading Army coaches, rated Angelo Bertelli of Notre Dame as “the best passer.” Lou Little naturally countered with Paul Governali of Columbia. Both are fine pass ers. But what about Frankie Sinkwich of Georgia Or Eddie Prokop of Georgia Tech? Or Glenn Dobbs of Tulsa? They all* work un der different condi tions, with varying support, through widely different schedules. Of the lot, Gover- nali, Columbia’s able sniper, has the hardest handicap to overcome so far as team protection is concerned. Most ot the better passers work on teams that also can run. Columbia’s only scoring passage is through the air, and ev ery opponent knows it. « The Top Man Football’s three best passers are Sammy Baugh, Cecil Isbell and Sid Luckman. You can have them in any order so long as Baugh is No. 1. Taking a crack at our earlier angle about the word “best,” foot ball has never known a pass receiv er close to Don Hutson. Hutson has grappling hooks for hands and the speed of a cheetah. He also has a deceptive method of faking the en emy out of position. Baugh is an amazing athlete. “I weighed 180 pounds when I played with Texas Christian several years ago,” he told me recently. “I still weigh exactly 180 pounds. I don’t figure I’ve changed as much as two potmds in any recent year.” I can recall few athletes who have kept in such fine physical shape for so long a time. Back to the Collegians How many would run far and pass well against such teams as Minne sota, Alabama, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Georgia, Georgia Tech or Notre Dame? For example, Wisconsin has two of the star backs of the year, but look at that Badger schedule! It included Notre Dame, Missouri, Great Lakes, Purdue, Marquette, Northwestern, Ohio State, Iowa and Minnesota. How many new records could the best of backs set up against this opposition? The caliber and quality of oppos ing teams too often is overlooked. And there is many a potential star who is also overlooked on some of the poorer teams, with which he has little chance to operate. Hard to Compare It takes no starry-eyed expert to announce that Boston College and Alabama have two of the country’s greatest lines, Including depth of material. They can’t be stormed along the ground—just too many big, fast men. But it is harder to compare such passers as Governali, Sinkwich, Prokop, Dobbs and others. Gover nali hasn’t anything like the man power support the others have. There is a large difference between working or playing with Columbia and playing with Georgia or Notre Dame. A good running game can be a big help to any passing game. Aft er all, Baugh has Dick Todd, and you may recall the time he had Cliff Battles—two of the best run ners working with a great passer. And Luckman has had some of the greatest backs in football history with the Chicago Bears—Standlee, McAfee, Osmanski, Nolting and oth ers. Sinkwich has his own Running ability to call on in addition to other fast backs. Bertelli has all the run ning help he needs. The best single exhibition I’ve seen this year came from Sinkwich in his two-touchdown march against Alabama’s strong defense — some thing like 11 passes completed out of 13 tossed in that final period. • • • Apparently no set of adverse fig ures ever can prove to the racing bettor that he is up against a bit more than he can digest. For example, the case of Whirl- away serves our point. Long Tail is the biggest money winner of all time. He has had an amazing rec ord of running and winning. Yet, if someone had bet $5 on Whirlaway in every race of his career, said bettor would be behind financially. The answer is that Whirly has lost too many races when he was an odds-on choice. After his first few races there was little chance to make any money backing Man o’ War. There were times when he was l-to-100 or l-to-80. 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