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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
Washington, D. C.
FARM LAND BOOM
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
will soon trot up to Capitol Hill with
a proposed bill in his pocket to put
an end to the farm land boom. He
is keenly worried about speculation
in farm properties, has made a cou
ple of speeches on that subject, but
has not disclosed the full extent of
the penalties he will propose to stop
land speculation.
His bill carries a tax of 90 per
cent on profits from the sale of
farms held less than two years. In
other words, if a farm is bought and
then sold again in a few months,
the deal is obviously for speculation,
not for farm production, and the
profit would be practically confiscat
ed by the proposed tax.
Farm sales are so heavy that, if
the present trend continues, they
will surpass those of 1919-20, which
was a record year. Iowa farm
land, for example, is bringing $225
an acre.
Wickard has evidence indicating
that the men engaged in this specu
lative buying are not farmers, and
most of them are not even residents
of farm areas. They are investment
houses and insurance companies,
who have money lying around loose
and think they can make a killing,
as they did in World War I.
The record of their speculation in
that period is still written black on
the pages of farm history. It is seen
every time AAA makes benefit pay
ments, for the largest checks in
many states go, not to individual
farmers, but to insurance companies
and banks which have bought land
or taken it over by foreclosing
mortgages.
Wickard is prepared for opposi
tion to his bill. However, the oppo
sition will come, not from farm ele
ments, but from the speculators, and
also from Wall street brokers who
fear that the next move might be a
capital-gains tax on stock-market op
erations.
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ELK HILLS BOILS
Latest developments in the Elk
Hills oil controversy are known qnly
to those who can see the inner work
ings of the cabinet.
Attorney General Biddle was ex
pected to denounce the navy’s con
tract with Standard Oil of California
as illegal. The reason he didn’t is
that two cabinet colleagues got next
to him and changed his tune.
Experts in the justice department
have declared the contract definite
ly illegal, and passed their findings
along to Biddle. Biddle, in turn, was
expected to tell the house naval af
fairs committee the same thing, with
the result that congress would un
doubtedly recommend condemna
tion. Thus, Standard of California
would relinquish all the property to
the government.
But when Biddle appeared before
the committee, he pulled his
punches. Instead of declaring the
contract illegal, he merely stated
that he had “grave doubts” about it.
The committee was expecting »
forthright statement. Even its
chairman, Congressman Vinson of
Georgia, who is very close to navy
officials, privately favors condemna
tion.
Secret of w T hat happened is this
Two cabinet colleagues got hold of
Biddle’s coattails. One was Secre
tary of the Navy Knox, who was
responsible for the contract in the
first place; the other was Harold
Ickes, whose Petroleum administra
tion is headed by a Standard Oil of
California executive.
Tie fight is not over. Look for
firev.-orks in public hearings before
the committee next month.
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SUBSIDY ISSUE POSTPONED
The 9-8 vote by which the Bank-
head anti-subsidy bill was defeateo
in the senate banking and currenc 1 '
committee came as a surprise to in
siders.
When they first took it up behind
closed doors, most members of the
committee figured that the bill would
be reported out favorably and that
Roosevelt would suffer a resounding
defeat on subsidies. As it turned
out, the deciding vote for subsidies
was cast by Republican Senator Jo
seph Ball of Minnesota, whom Bank-'
head supporters considered in their
anti-subsidy camp.
Terrific pressure had been exerted
on Ball by some of the big dairy
interests in his state. However, the
young Minnesotan is a fearless
statesman who believes in putting
the interests of the nation and of the
majority of the people over special
or state interests. He not only voted
against the inflationary Bankhead
bill, but also against the Taft com
promise which was licked by a lop
sided vote.
'T'HIS fighting game In the war
now going on isn’t handled en
tirely by athletes or famous com
petitors.
These have certainly done their
share—but they are not the only
ones in the big show.
A few days back I happened to run
into a pair of old friends—“Blondie”
Saunders and “Ros
ie” O’Donnell, two
of West Point’s best
football players.
When the Japs at
tacked Pearl Har
bor, “Blondie” and
“Rosie,” now a gen
eral and a colonel,
happened to be in
the air above Pearl
Harbor when the
Japs came over.
They were up there
shooting.
Later on they had an even greater
record in the South Pacific. They
did a few incredible things which
they refused to talk about.
Both are stout believers in foot
ball and all other forms of competi
tive sport in the way of war train
ing, whether it be land or sea or air-
fortress or tank or bayonet.
But betb believe that too little
credit has been given to the clerks,
the fellows from the farm, the kids
from the city streets, the sporting
unknowns who have been handling
guns or planes over the South Pa
cific, or over Italy or Germany,
with the coolness and courage no
star could overmatch.
Most of these fellows have played
games of some sort and have the
right spirit of competition. But you
never heard of them in sport.
The Bigger Job
“Some fellows,” General (“Blond
ie”) Saunders said, “have the im
pression that only great athletes
have starred in this war. I believe
in football and all body-contact
sports. But I don’t believe these
men have deserved the credit the
clerks and the soda-water jerkers
and the mechanics and the farm
kids have earned, who have gone
through hell without batting an eye
lash.
“They were not good football play
ers or good basketball players or
good baseball players or prize-ring
fighters. They were just about 80
per cent of the kids of this country,
so far as any headlines were con
cerned. But when the showdown
came, along the ground or in the
air, they were still America, will
ing to give their lives away to win.”
“But don’t you think,” I asked
Blondie and Rosie, “that football
and other such man-to-man or body-
pressure games are a big help?”
“There’s no question about that,”
“Rosie” O’Donnell said. “In an all-
out war you go all out. And that
includes everybody. The trained
competitors from sport have the
call. They know what it means to
be under fire, even college fire. But
I’ve been in spots when kids, who
never had this chance, were just as
good as any great sporting star
could possibly be. I’ve seen them
look right in the face of death and
even laugh. I’ve seen them look into
almost certain human destruction
and carry out their jobs to the finish.”
How Youth Feels
The grip that football has on the
youth of this country is an amazing
thing. For football is also a grind
and hard work. It isn’t all glory.
For example, this last season, due
largely to army regulations, Har
vard, Boston college, Vanderbilt and
Tennessee had to abandon football.
At least that was the early plan.
It was the young football players,
many of them minus coaches, who
picked up and got going again, at
least with informal games.
“At Ohio State,” Paul Brown told
me, “we had no navy trainees. We
had to depend on 4-F’s and kids
under 18. Yet we had 45 men out to
play one of the hardest schedules
of the yeor. We finished with a
total squad of 35 men. The kids
knew in most cases there wasn’t
even an outside chance to win—not
against such teams as the Seahawks,
Purdue and Michigan. But they
were keen to try it out.
“I think 1943 has been football’s
toughest year. We have the chance
now to do some better matching for
1944—a chance we never had this
last season. I think you will see
games much more evenly played,
just as Ohio State and Illinois were
matched in one of the most excit
ing games of the season. There
should be more civilian games.
There will be quite enough service
teams and navy trainee teams to
build up first-class schedules all
around the map.”
Grantland Rice
TIP ON PEACE RUMORS
Note to New York stock brokers:
When you g?t panicky over peace ru
mors, read the following words of
Col. N. B. Briscoe, commanding of
ficer at Fort Knox, Ky.:
“There is much talk of early
peace. If you were in a poker game,
consider when you would like the
game to end. Obviously that would
be when you had all the chips in
front of you. The Germans and the
Japanese would be greatly pleased
to make peace now while they hold
caotured possesions.”
Letter From India
Captain Zimmerman, who a year
ago was sporting editor of the Los
Angeles Times, writes from India:
“We are a long way from home,”
he said, “but all service men I’ve
seen are keen about getting the
sporting news. We had the World
Series replayed for us a day late
over the air, but it would have been
just as welcome a week or a month
later. I have trlked to many of
them about the sporting programs
back in the states, especially base- i
ball and football. They are all for it. I
THE TRADE-IN HOME
Dr. Harvey N. Davis of Stevens
institute predicts that the postwar
world will bring a house that can
be traded in for a new one every
three or four years. It will be made
of paper and plastics and will be de
livered in packages, assembled at
high speed and have a prescribed
“trade-in value” each year.
»
We assume it will be ordered by
color, with a Duco finish, and that
every little while pop will hear mom-
mer say: “Now remember, Chidsey,
this is the day you wash and simon-
ize the bungalow.”
•
Can’t you imagine the situation
when considering the Home of the
Future? The folks will be sitting
around the old (aged three years)
homestead:
Mom—What was that?
Pop—What was what?
Mom—That funny noise I keep
hearing.
Pop—Oh, that’s the house . It’s be
ginning to RATTLE.
_ •
Mom—Yes, and it’s full of
squeaks. I suppose we ought to take
it in and have it tightened up.
Pop—How long have we had this
home?
Mom—Lemme see . . . they de
livered it three years ago Fourth of
July.
Pop—Well, there ain’t much sense
trying to go on in a house much
longer than that. It’s stood up pret
ty well.
Mom—I don’t agree with you. We
had trouble with this house from the
minute they delivered it. It never
was what you’d call a smooth job.
Pop—You didn’t take the care of
it that you should.
Mom—Now don’t go giving me
that stuff. I was very careful about
this place.
•
Pop—Well, I guess I’ll phone the
builder and see about getting a new
one. They’ve got some pretty smart
bouses on the market this season.
Mom—Mrs. Maloney just got a
new home and it would knock your
eye out. It’s got sensationally new
lines and comes in three colors. It
is heated by radio.
Pop—That’s nuthin’. They’re turn
ing out a house now that’s heated
by television.
*
Mom—I read about a seven-room
job where you can raise or lower the
windows by pressing a button.
Pop—And they say there’s a model
out this year with a gadget which
installs or removes the screens by
hydraulic pump.
Mom—What do you think they’d
allow us on this place?
Pop—Oh, about 50 per cent of the
original purchase price, I suppose.
I’ll have the man come over and
appraise it. What are you doing to
morrow?
Mom—Why?
Pop—I thought maybe we could go
down and look at a new house and
maybe take a DEMONSTRATION!
• • •
“Urge Clare Luce for Vice Presi
dent.”—Headline.
•
This department is all for Mrs.
Luce as vice president. If there is
any place in America where glam
our is desperately needed, it is in
that office. It would be nice, too, to
be able to look at the little girl
babies and say: “She has the same
chance every other girl has to grow
up and become vice president.”
*
We ce i imagine the women mak
ing regular trips to Washington just
to see what the vice president of
the United States is wearing.
• • *
Says Elmer Twitchell—
The rubber shortage doesn’t seem
so critical now after we have chewed
on the wing and neck of the holiday
birds.
•
Some of the turkeys we have seen
look as if they were retreads.
•
That tie-up racket persists. We
went into a store to buy a turkey
yesterday and the butcher tried to
make us take a goose, a pigeon, a
rabbit and some pigs feet as well.
• • •
The Nazis have a new war weapon,
the most terrible of all time. And
gosh are they scared of it!
• • •
A proofreader quit the job today
because the Russians had captured
300 more of those towns no two
people spell alike.
• • •
Then there’s the fellow who swears
he was hijacked on the way home
from a turkey raffle.
• • •
Problem
This is the question chat makes Hit
ler pout:
Is Inonu in or is Inonu out?
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad grossed more
money than at any time in its his
tory in the past year, $179,604,388.
This was $23,000,000 over the pre
vious year. The common stock is
65 cents a share and the preferred
$2. It just goes to show what a
bad influence financial prosperity
can be.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicagow
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for January 9
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts M-
iected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
JESUS BUSY WITH HIS MINISTRY
OF LOVE
LESSON TEXT—Mark 1:32-4S.
GOLDEN TEXT—I must work the work*
of him that sent me, while it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work.—
John 9:4.
Jesus said that He "must work
the works of him that sent him”
(John 9:4). And so we find Him go
ing straightway about His Father’s
business. It is a good example He
bps set for us.
What He did and how He did if
will give us many lessons which we
may apply to our service. We can
not do exactly what He did, but in
His power we may do mighty works.
We find our Lord doing four im
portant things—
I. Healing (vv. 32-34).
We will do well to include verses
29-31 in our thinking, for there we
find our Lord tenderly sharing the
sorrow of the home of a friend. One
can picture the anxious hush that
hovered over the home as distressed
relatives and friends sought to al
leviate the suffering of the one with
a fever. They knew the possibility
of a serious outcome of the illness.
Many of us have gone through that
dark valley. All at once there was
new hope, and soon there was joy.
Jesus had come and had brought
healing. Many of us have also
had that blessed experience.
Christianity is not a selfish faith,
if it follows its Lord. We see in
verses 32 to 34 that all the city
came to His door with the diseased
and demon-possessed, and He healed
them all.
The account of the kindly and in
telligent care of the sick is written
large on the pages of the history of
the Christian church. We do not
have His divine touch of immediate
healing, but we may have His com
passion which served the multitude
with tenderness and kindness.
II. Praying (w. 35-37).
The Son of God sought out a place
and a time for prayer communion
with His Father. How often we who
profess to follow Him fail to pray
at all. Certainly we need the grace
and power that prayer can bring far
more than Jesus did. But, we say,
we are so busy. So was He. We
are tired. So was He. People will
not let us alone. They also fol
lowed Him. We make excuses, but
we have no real reasons for our un
fortunate delinquency.
All men were seeking Him (v.
37), but still He took the needed
time to pray. It has been said that
“if you are too busy to pray, you
are busier than God ever intended
you to be.”
When His disciples wanted Him,
they had to look for Him in the
place of prayer. Christian workers
and pastors, do people find us there?
III. Preaching (w. 38, 39).
Jesus said, “Let us go . . . that I
may preach . . . for therefore came
I forth.” It bears repetition that
while Jesus did many miracles (and
not for a moment would we detract
from their worth and glory), yet He
repeatedly, by word and act, empha
sized the importance of preaching.
Foolish though it may seem to the
natural man (I Cor. 1:18-25), preach
ing the gospel in the power of the
Holy Spirit is now, as it has been
through the centuries, God’s chosen
means of accomplishing His pur
pose. What a pity that churches
and pastors are forsaking it for
book reviews, dramas, social hours,
forums, and what not!
God give us a revival of great,
humble, and fearless preaching of
the Word!
IV. Cleansing (w. 40-45).
There is a sense in which the
cleansing of the leper was another
act of healing, but leprosy is such
a striking type of sin that the inci
dent calls for special consideration.
Leprosy is like sin in that it is a
destructive malady that pursues its
insidious way without revealing its
true nature until it is far advanced.
It renders a man unclean, loath
some to himself and dangerous to
others. At least such it was in the
days of our Lord.
Was there then no hope for the
leper? Yes; Jesus had come. The
smitten man cried out, “If thou
wilt, thou canst make me clean.”
And Jesus said, “I will . . . and
he was cleansed.”
So may the sinner be cleansed,
for “whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved”
(Rom. 10:13). He will not turn the
vilest of men away, for He came
“to seek and to save that which
was lost” (Luke 19:10).
There is another important lesson
here. The man who was cleansed
disobeyed the instructions of Jesus
(v. 44), with the result that the
Lord’s ministry in that place was
greatly limited.
We should obey the commands of
God without question, and without
any deviation from them. Disobedi
ence, even though it be by reason
of great joy and enthusiasm, results
in confusion. Our Lord knows ex
actly what should be done in a par
ticular place at a certain time. When
He guides, we should conform—for
our own good and His glory.
8516
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Has Personality.
\X7HEN it comes to flattery and
all out charm—it would be
hard to exceed this gay, young
frock! See how it whittles your
waist to a mere nothing!
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Pattern No. 8S16 is In sizes 11. 12, 13,
14. 15. 16 and 17. Size 13, with rhert
sleeves, requires 3>A yards 39-inch ma
terial.
35 or 39-tnch material, 1% yards
made pleating.
Due to an unusually large demand a
current war conditions, slighUy more th
is required In filling orders for a few
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
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Enclose 20 cents in coins for
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Has Shapely Midriff.
1V/IAKE this frock with the shape-
ly midriff for your favorite
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or taffeta—as a party frock or it
can be cute as an every-day frock,
in calico!
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pattern No. 8507 is In sizes 3. 4, 5, 8.
7 and 8 years. Size 4 requires 1% yards
‘Thinking’ Machine
CARMEN
BRAND
TEA
Just 2 drops Penetro
Nose Drops in each
nostril help you
breathe freer almost
instantly, so your
head cold gets sir.
Only 25c—times as
much for 50c. Caution:
Use only as directed.
Penetro Nese Dfps
A huge mechanical “brain,” a
device that solves in minutes high
ly complex mathematical prob
lems that would take expert math
ematicians days and even months,
is employed at a Boston institute
in the solution of vital war prob
lems.
The highly complicated ma
chine, constructed at a cost of
$130,500, can “out-think” the most
acute human intellect. It solves
obscure differential equations, sci
entists say.
War Dogs Tagged
Every army dog carries an iden
tification card—A tattoo mark am
its left ear.
GiyCERINE KADE from YOUR SALVAGED FAT
GOES INTO TME MAKING OF EXPLOSIVES BUT
DO YOU KNOW
GLYCERINE IS USEP IN
SURGICAL DRESSINGS
AND MANY ANTISEPTICS
TME DEFENSE WORKER
USES GLYCERINE IN
PRODUCTION
PROTECTIVE COVERINGS
FOR BATTLESHIPS, TANKS,
PLANES CONTAIN GbCERlNE
INTO THE 1 MIRACULOUS
UFE-SAVINGSULPH* DRUGS
GOES GLYCERINE