Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, DECEMBER 18, 1942 Washington, D. C. TWO-FISTED JEFFERS Rubber Czar Bill Jeffers lived up to his two-fisted reputation when tes tifying at a closed meeting of the house interstate commerce subcom mittee which was probing the need of nation-wide gas rationing. Jeffers bluntly told the subcom mittee, headed by Representative Clinton P. Anderson of New Mex ico, that congressional efforts to block the rationing program would get nowhere. “I understand the position of you gentlemen, but I want you also to understand mine,” said the rubber administrator. ‘‘My job is to carry out the recommendations of the Baruch report and I intend to do it.” Jeffers said he hoped to keep the nation ‘‘on rubber,” so we will have sufficient transportation for workers in war industries. Nation-wide gas rationing is an essential step in this direction, he added, ‘‘and I’m all for it.” The rubber boss was questioned closely on whether Leon Henderson was co-operating with him. He re plied that it was difficult to be the price administrator and also handle rationing, since the two things are contradictory. As price chief, Hen derson was supposed to protect the public, while as rationing director he is depriving the public of some thing, Jeffers explained. Several members of the subcom mittee continued to fire leading ques tions about Henderson, hoping Jef fers would take a poke at the OPA boss. They pointed out that it was Henderson who had initiated the nation-wide gas rationing jjugram and t'*3t the rubber administration and the Office of Defense Transpor tation were forced to go along, whether they approved of the pro gram or not. ‘‘I guess you were the victim of a cigar that was too big to be chewed,” commented Representa tive Hatton Sumners of Texas. “What do you mean?” shot back Jeffers. “I can chew a pretty big one.” “You misunderstood Mr. Sum ners,” broke in L. D. Tompkins, Jef fers’ assistant. “By cigar he meant Leon Henderson.” The rubber boss laughed but made no comment. • • » ADMIRAL DARLAN Co-operation with Admiral Darlan continues to cause controversy in side the cabinet and among the war chiefs. Admiral Darlan’s support saved priceless time and even more price less lives. But it had its difficulties. Many members of the European un derground which had been working with us against the Nazis in the oc cupied countries threw up their hands and got extremely skeptical about playing ball with us in the future. However, there is definite evidence that Darlan, though an opportunist, several months ago was ready to co-operate with the United States if there was any promise that we would really set up a second front. Now that we have used Darlan, some people want to throw him over board immediately. But the weak ness of Hitler is that he breaks agreements overnight. Our strength is that we don’t break agreements. However, we are now in the dilem ma of breaking a tacit agreement with the anti-Vichy group made ear lier, or breaking with Darlan now. TIN CAN CO-OPeWtiON The Washington Merry-Go-Round salutes Milltown, N. J., for its tin can exchange plan. Officials in Washington have been pulling and hauling over the tin can collection problem. There were wrangles over de tinning facilities, and other wrangles over the best methods of collection. In New York city, cans came in so fast, the dirty mixed with the clean, that detinning plants couldn’t handle them, and Mayor LaGuardia was forced to revise the campaign. Meantime, the borough of Mill- town, population 3,500, has instituted a plan of its own which makes Wash ington sit up and take notice. It is called the “can-for-can exchange plan.” If a housewife wants to buy a can of soup, she must bring along a prepared empty can, to be sur rendered in exchange. If she has no empty, she must pay two cents extra for the new can. A prepared can is one which has been cleaned and flattened, with both ends and the label removed. In this form, cans can be shipped eco nomically and de-tinned efficiently. Note: Milltown, near New Bruns wick, in the center of the state, is not to be confused with Leon Hen derson’s home town of Millville, ir south Jersey. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND C Admiral Halsey, tough command er in the South Pacific, got to know the Axis as naval attache in Berlin. «. Texas’ Lyndon Johnson, proposing to FDR that Maury Maverick be ap pointed head of a Mexican-American defense commission, said: “Would you mind calling up Sumner Welles at the state department and asking him to see Maverick?” “Oh,” said the President, throwing up his hands, “Sumner just wouldn’t under stand a man like Maury.” IMAGINARY DIALOGUES—THE TAX MAN AND THE CITIZEN (“Twenty million Americans who never paid income taxes before will have to pay them March IS next, and considerable dif ficulty is expected in getting the money. A poll has indicated that many who now come under the income tax do not even know it yet."—News item.) Tax Man—What are you planning to do about your tax? Citizen—Me? I always pay it when I buy the cigarettes? Tax Man—Not that tax; I mean the income tax. Citizen—Oh, that one! The rich pay that. It’s none of my concern. Tax Man—It is from now on. Ev erybody getting over twenty dollars a week has to fork over. Citizen—Quit your kidding, mister. Tax Man—I’m not kidding. Don’t you read the papers? Citizen—Yeah, but they don’t put any tax news on them sports pages. • • • Tax Man—What do you get a week? Citizen—About $30. Tax Man—You’ll have to pay $181. Citizen—I never get ahead that much. Tax Man—You’ll have to dig it up this time. Citizen—How? Tax Man—That’s your head ache. Don’t you ever save any thing? Citizen—No. The government will have to wait. I got too many bills in ahead of it. Tax Man—You realize that the government comes first? Citizen—Sure. First in war, first in peace, last on the list of bill collectors. * • • Tax Man—You realize, of course, that a war has to be paid for; don’t you understand that Uncle Sam has to get the money somewhere? Citizen—I haven’t been bothered so far. Why worry me now? Tax Man—The expense is greater than ever. Isn’t it up to every citi zen to come across? Citizen—It’s a great idea. All I’m saying is that I haven’t got a dime ahead. They’ll have to get it from those guys who have saved a little. Tax Man—Do you realize that there are twenty million being asked for the first time to pay this tax? Citizen—They ain’t all got my ex penses. Tax Man—Don’t you want to do your part to pay for the war? Citizen—Sure, but they can’t get blood out of a turnip. Tax Man—Do you want ’em around trying that kind of a vege table test on you? • • • Citizen—No, but listen; if I ain’t got $181 I ain’t got it. Tax Man—Maybe so, but you’ll have to come across some way. Citizen—Can’t my ward boss fix it up? Tax Man—Nobody can fix it so you don’t pay your income tax. But the treasury has an nounced that it will lend you the money to pay the tax. Citizen (quite startled)—You mean that if it’s got to have money from me it will lend me the dough to pay it? Then where does it gain anything? Tax Man—It charges you six per cent interest on the loan. Citizen—If I ain’< got enough to pay the original tax how am I going to pay back the loan with interest? • • • ■TO LADIES TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME’ Dear Ladies, you’re V'arlike, and talk with a punch Of Axis and Flackses and Taxes, But WHY do you stay in so long after lunch. Discussing the WAVES and the WAACSES? I believe that you’re saving the world, as you say, As long as you’re sipping and munching, But O, like the snow wraiths, my faith melts away, As the hours slip by after lunching. War Cuts Deeply Into Yule Jewel Business Factories that made Yule baubles are now making other things that have little to do with good will to wards men. There are still a few, however, turning out trimmings for the Christmas tree. At left a pretty maid applies the glitter to oodles of glass ornaments. Right: Here is where those paper festoons are made by the mile. The paper roping rolls off the machines in red, white and blue rivers without end. Looking In on WAACs During Daily Routine A new group of WAAC members have assembled at Florida’s famed Daytona Beach to undergo their basic training course. In ideal surroundings the WAACs are taught a variety of jobs and occupations that will help them serve the nation at war. Shown at left, one WAAC helps another to adjust and check head harness of the gas mask upon completion of drill. Center: Third Officer Jessie Hogan, who has learned to operate many types of motor transport vehicles, is now competent to teach WAAC trainees to do likewise. Right: Housekeeping is second nature to the WAACs. Mopping up the kitchen floor is done after every meal. Tubeless Tires Tested Before House Four-Point Landing Fresh progress in the “Tulsa plan” to reclaim some 277.500 tons of rubber by detubing the nation’s auto tires was demonstrated at the Capitol by John B. McGay, Tulsa manufacturer, who fathered the plan. The demonstrations were made before members of the house interstate and foreign commerce committee. Mr. McGay said a tubeless casing can be remounted, filled with 40 ounces of asbestos-type sealing fluid, and then can be as serviceable as the tubed tires with which 30,000,000 American cars are now equipped.' Photo shows, left to right, Rep. Richard M. Simpson (Pa.); Rep. Lyle H. Boren (Okla.); Rep. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (N. C.); Rep. Clarence F. Lea (Calif.), chairman of the committee; Rep. Clarence Brown (Ohio); and John B. McGay, as he demonstrated the use of an ordinary auto tire without the use of an inner tube. Max makes a four-point landing on his regulation fifth parachute jump from a moving plane, at Fort Benning, Ga. This makes him a full - fledged mascot. Max, who weighs 90 pounds, has been given his silver wings. Fair ladies are blessings in peace and in war, I am sure, but I still have a hunch, ma’am, That the peerless, the priceless, the pearl and the star, Is the one that goes home after lunch, ma’am! —M. A. M. SANTRY. • • • The question this winter, if any body gets to the Florida winter re sorts will not be “Where are you stopping” but “How?” Over 300 ho tels have been taken over in the Miami area alone. • • • Can You Remember— Away back when enemy aliens could doublecross Uncle Sam and get away with it? • • • Buttcrless days are now being urged in restaurants. Some of ’em have practically had bread less days for years, unless you had a financial backer. * » « R. Roeloffs Jr. wants to know what is going to become of the fellow who could tell which side his bread was juttered on? French Troops Off to Fight Axis French troops about to leave for the Tunisian front after joining the United Nations’ forces, are shown being saluted by American troops at “present arms,” in Oran. These were some of the first French soldiers to throw their lot with the Allies following cessation of hostilities in French North Africa.—Soundphoto. He ‘Passed’—Got Zero Out in the Pacific, where zero is a passing mark, Sergt. V. W. Zekas of Wilkesbarre, Pa., is all smiles. He passed into ranks of “Jap slap- pers,” knocking down the first Jap Zero he ever saw. Jap attacked bomber on which Sergt. Vincent was a gunner. Zero for zero! 'YVT'HATEVER else has happened ’'’'or might still happen, foot ball’s worst prophet or predictor has at last been uncovered. He is the one who said, before the season opened, that on ac count of the war there would be no sectional arguments this season and no claim for any na tional title. On the contrary, we have seldom heard a louder, tu mult, most of it in the way of protest. Most of this comes from the Midwest and the South— the two strongest football sectors. Here are some of the charges brought against this department: 1. For not putting Ohio State far in front of the field, with no one else close. 2. For not putting Georgia on top of the pack, with something to spare. 3. For not ranking Wisconsin on top for beating Ohio State decisively. 4. For overplaying Tulsa, with the old run-around—“What did Tulsa beat?” 5. For not giving the Far West a fair break, with the old: “Wait for the Rose Bowl against your Georgia team.” 6. For overplaying Boston col lege, “that kept beating no body” until it met Holy Cross. 7. For overlooking Auburn and Holy Cross. • A Few Rebuttals We have a few rebuttals to offer in return. Under present conditions there is no part of the argument that could be called important—but it seems to affect a good many millions. 1.-2. We have never attempted to rank Ohio State and Georgia. We haven’t any idea what would hap pen if they met. 3. Wisconsin has had a fine team and a big year. So have others. 4. Tulsa hasn’t been overplayed. This Tulsa team is one of the best. Ask Big Steve Owen of the Giants, who has had them scouted. 5. About the Far West—this sea son it has suffered an almost com plete intersectional wreckage— T.C.U. beat U.C.L.A.—Tulane wal loped Southern California — Notre Dame ran over Stanford and South ern California, 40 points to 0—Ohio State outclassed Southern California —I can find but one West Coast in- tersectional victory; Washington State over Michigan State. 6. “What team did Boston college beat?” What about beating Ford- ham, 56 to 6, and Fordham was still good enough to beat Missouri and North Carolina Navy? Not so bad. Also, B.C. beat Wake Forest, 27 to 0, and Wake Forest beat Duke, 20 to 7. 7. For “overlooking Auburn and Holy Cross”—They finished as two fine teams—but a football game played in September or October is still a football game—and these two teams lost 8 and were tied twice— partly by poor teams. These are details that few consider. Most of them only remember the last game. There should be a better memory course. About Georgia Tech Georgia Tech suffered an even rougher blow than Boston college did. For through the season Georgia Tech turned in a much better job than the B.C. Eagles. Don’t forget that Georgia Tech beat Auburn, 15 to 0—Notre Dame, 13 to 6, in South Bend—Navy, 21 to 0, on a good Navy day—Duke, 26 to 7, after Duke had just run 62 points against Colgate and Pittsburgh— Kentucky, 47 to 7, after Kentucky had held Georgia to a 7-6 tossup— and then Alabama. This is certainly as fine a job as any team in the country has of fered. From the Old Coach At this point we get another squawk from the “old coach” de fending the Midwest— “I wrote you this before,” he writes again. “I just asked you suppose Georgia or Boston college or Tulsa had to play Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, In diana, Iowa and Notre Dame on successive Saturdays? And throw in the Great Lakes and Iowa Navy when it had its full strength? You know what would happen. Sure, they’d win some. But they’d also lose more than one." I might also ask what happened to a Pennsylvania team, packed with fine material and certainly ably coached? I can’t figure this Red and Blue squad losing to any team in the East. But it was tied by an off-year Princeton eleven and beaten by Navy and Penn State teams. The sanest spot on the map was Texas, with good teams, that had no claims to make. Texas was just a little more serious about the war. But some team will find that Texas can handle its own in the Cotton Bowl test. UOUSEHOLD IINTS Do not use a wet or damp cloth for taking ovenglass dishes from a hot oven. • • • A teaspoon of vinegar in starch will prevent the iron from sticking on the garments. • • • A few drops of ammonia will help wonderfully in the dish water if the dishes are unusually greasy. 1 • • • Try rolling sausages in coarse, oatmeal before frying or grilling It prevents them breaking and 1 they will taste extra good. • • • As soon as the drying ( -up towels^ begin to wear stitch two togethen and they will last some time long- 1 er. Tiny holes can be darned overj to strengthen them. • • • When laying down new linoleum, ’ allow it time to flatten out before' tacking it down. • • • Mahogany should not be stained, so dark that the beauty of the| wood is obscured. A lightly stained; finish also permits natural aging< of the wood which enhances its' beauty. • • • To store rags for the winter, clean them thoroughly on both| sides, cover with naphthalene orj paradichloro - benzene, or spray! them, roll each rug tightly andi seal it in unbroken paper, then: place in a storage closet which can be completely sealed. Specials notice AB0UTC0LDS Now when colds striko, relievo miseries with booie-proved Vicks VapoRub that acts2m*s ATONCB" It PENETRATES to upper bronchial tubes with soothing medicinal vapors. It STIMULATES chest and back surfaces like a warming poultice. And what's more, it keeps right on working for boors— even while you sleepl Just rub throat, chest and back with good old Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. VapoRub goes to work Instantly to relieve coughing spasms, ease muscular soreness or tightness. It Invites restful, comforting sleep. And often by morning most of the misery Is t one. Try VapoRub’s special -way action tonight! 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