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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
Washington, D. C,
ARMY DOCTORS
It was lost in the news shuffle, but
Dr. John H. Musser of the Tulane
university medical school, a mem
ber of a special committee named
by Secretary of War Henry Stim-
son to study medical conditions in
the army, made some startling ad
missions recently at a senate com
mittee hearing on the utilization of
doctors by the war department.
Testifying before the Pepper sub
committee on wartime health and
education at a hearing in Pasca
goula, Miss., Musser was asked if
the army had too many doctors.
“Yes," he replied. “There has
been too much indiscriminate re
cruiting of medical men without due
regard for civilian needs.’’
“Do you think that the army has
utilized its doctors properly?" he
was asked.
“Definitely no,” replied the Tu
lane professor. “The present sys
tem of medical service in the army
is based on a procedure that dates
back to the Spanish-American war
and calls for the recruiting of a
disproportionate number of physi
cians from civilian life.”
To illustrate his point, Doctor
Musser pointed out that Tulane uni
versity’s unit of doctors in the army
medical corps had spent more than
a year “twiddling their thumbs” at
Camp Benning, Georgia, while
awaiting a call for overseas duty.
At this time. Doctor Musser said,
there was a crying need for doc
tors by civilians.
Doctor Musser said he realized
that the need for doctors was far
greater than in the last war, but that
the army medical corps wasn’t mak
ing the fullest use of its personnel.
• • *
WILD ANIMALS’ HOLIDAY
Since the army has a priority on
guns and shells, there hasn’t been
much hunting for two years, with
the result that wild animals are
creeping up on civilization. Both
farmers and state officials are de
manding cartridges to drive off this
Invasion.
War production board has re
ceived urgent messages from state
officials in every part of the country.
Pennsylvania is alarmed at the bold
ness of bears and deer. New York
says rabbits eat Victory gardens.
Louisiana needs shotguns to drive
off the flocks of rice birds.
This explosive situation was the
last task handled by Maury Mav
erick before he left WPB’s govern
ment division, to become WPB vice
chairman in charge of the small
plants division.
He tried to raise the civilian car-
ti'idge quota from 12 per cent of
normal to 50 per cent. At first, the
army was willing. But that was be
fore Cairo-Teheran. After*the Big
Three powwow the army hinted
that it would need everything for
the invasion, and declined to pass
the ammunition.
When the news reached the back-
woods, says Maverick, the deer did
a dance, and bears celebrated with
Hg bear hugs.
• * *
COSMOPOLITAN CONGRESS
The farm bloc is all-powerful in
the house of representatives, but
you’d never guess it to judge by the
number of members who are real,
active farmers. There are only 30.
Lawyers, because of their natural
bent for politics, continue to domi
nate the house membership by an
overwhelming majority. Out of a
total 435 members, 234 are lawyers.
Business men rank next, with a del
egation of 60.
There are 27 teachers and, profes
sors, 23 writers and newspaper men,
9 former government officials, 9 in
surance agents, 4 doctors, 2 engi
neers, 2 dentists, and 2 certified
public accountants.
Only one minister holds a con
gressional seat, Rep. Charles A.
Eaton of New Jersey, former rector
of the Madison Avenue Baptist
church in New York city, although
Rep. Walter H. Judd of Minnesota
was a medical missionary in China
for several years.
The sports world is represented
chiefly by Congressmen Joseph
O’Brien of New York, former pro
fessional wrestler and football play
er; Samuel Weiss of Pennsylvania,
a football referee who still officiates
In National Pro league games; and
La Vern R. Dilweg of Wisconsin, for
mer All-America footballer at Mar
quette university.
The rest of the membership hails
from a miscellany of trades and pro
fessions, including a number of la
boring men, miners and mill work
ers, two druggists—Representatives
Carl Durham of North Carolina and
Harve Tibbott of Pennsylvania—and •
a veterinarian. Congressman George
W. Gillie of Indiana.
• • •
CAPITAL CHAFF
C, D. B. Robertson, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, privately denounces Bill
Green’s statement that the railroad
strike would never have been pulled.
Robertson says he and his men
meant ever word of it.
Because of his interest in Com
munism, singer Paul Robeson has
been prevented from making USO
concert tours of U. S. army camps.
The state department even denies
him a passport to go to England,
where he is immensely popular.
TELEVISION NEWSPAPERS
General Electric published a
newspaper by television the other
day. Fifty editors saw the dem
onstration. None rushed out and
sold his paper, but all agreed the
stunt had bewildering possibilities.
For one thing, for the first time in
history newspaper men may have
to be well dressed and handsome.
*
The test of the city editor of the
future may not be whether he has a
great nose for news but whether he
has the right eyes for screening. And
a telegraph editor may be unable to
get a job unless he has a winning
personality.
•
If the television newspaper is per
fected a bulb may become as im
portant as a managing editor and a
little knob on a radio set may re
place the pressroom. Whether you
get your paper may depend on radio
reception rather than on the news
boy.
•
General Electric gave the dem
onstration in cooperation with the
Albany Times Union. The printed
pages came hurtling through the
ozone so clearly you would have
thought Sinatra was publisher.
*
Cartoons, columns, classified ads
and department store ads came out
of the atmosphere, with real live
models in the cloak and suit ads.
Anybody present could see the pos
sibilities; beer ads with real suds,
fuel ads showing real lumps of coal
and delicatessen store ads showing
just how the clerk uses a razor to
slice meat for those sandwiches.
*
Television ads will bring right
into your home the gnat which that
fellow has been trying to sell for
$16 all these years. And when you
see the left-my-bed-and-board per
sonals you will see the actual bed.
•
When there is a murder mystery
you will see a reporter enacting the
crime and the editor’s stenographer
posing as the victim, if she has the
right personality for murder cases.
•
However, we are not scared by
the threat of a television press. Not
many people who listen to the radio
can read anyhow. And nothing can
destroy the average American’s de
termination to sit over in a quiet
corner and read his newspapers.
Well, maybe they’re not reading, but
it’s an established way of avoiding
conversation.
• • •
‘BUTCH’ O’HARE
(“Butch’s lights went out, and
then he was gone.’’—From a fellow
flier’s story of the death of Lieut.
Com. Eddie O’Hare.)
“Then he was gone.” . . .
The kid who in that day
When fright was in our eyes
So clearly showed toe way I
Th>s Irish lad
Who in those first dark hours
Of our new war
So stirred these hearts of ours I
“Then he was gone.” . . .
This lad with deep-set eyes
Who, when the chips were down.
So terrorized far skies;
Who in green days
When none of us could tell
How brave our youngsters were,
Had flashed the “All is well!”
This "Butch” G’Hare,
Whose name could stir your soul
And speed your pulse
And make your past unrolll , ( ,
“Then he was gone” . . .
A red gull in the dark—
The bucko with toe stuff—
The courage red and stark.
“Then he was gone” . . .
This ripping, tearing ace.
The silent one
Who “put ’em in their place”;
Whose feat of five-a-day
In war’s first hour
Had symbolized our guts
And socking pow’r.
"Then he was gone” . . .
The slashing, slamming guy—
“The Socko Kid”—
“The King Hawk of the sky”—
The kind we have,
Thank God, in days of dread
To take the torch
For our heroic dead!
Peace tc you, “Butch” . . .
There in some distant blue
With all who kept our faith.
The Christian and toe Jew . . .
Now have you joined
Our hosts who knew no fear:
Paul Jones and Nathan Hale
And Lawrence and Revere!
» • •
The Leader
Has he got “that winning look”?
That’s Ike;
Does he Nazi gooses cook?
That’s Ike;
Can he jab and can he hook?
Does he love to throw toe book
At that paperhanging crook?
That’s Ike.
Has he got a winning smile?
Has he got a certain style?
That’s Ike;
Is he slugging all toe while?
That’s Ike.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bfble Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
AVfHO are toe greatest 12 football
v ' players that ever walked on a
field? This has nothing to do with
all-star or all-time outfits, picked
by position. It is all man by man,
regardless of position.
I worked out this idea With Steve
Owen, head coach of the Giants,
and Frank Thomas,
head coach of Ala
bama. This debate
lasted until a Louisi
ana sun came creep
ing in through toe
window.
With no thohght of
any ranking in any
set order, here was
toe list we finally
agreed upon.
Jim Thorpe, Car
lisle Indians, Canton
Bulldogs.
Pudge Heffelfinger,
Yale, and pro-contests after he had
passed 50.
Bronko Nagurski, Minnesota and
Chicago Bears.
Sammy Baugh, TCU and Washing
ton Redskins.
Don Hutson, Alabama and Green
Bay.
Red Grange, Illinois and Chicago
Bears.
Mel Hein, Washington State and
New York Giants.
Wilbur (“Fats”) Henry, W. and
J., Canton Bulldogs.
Ernie Nevers, Stanford, Dnluth
Eskimos and Chicagp Cards.
George Gipp, Notre Dame.
Bill Hewitt, Michigan and Chicago
Bears.
Cal Hubbard, Centenary, Geneva,
Giants and Green Bay.
Facing the Blast
This list will face quite a blast.
Hurry-up Yost will be hurt because
we left off Willie Heston, who played
before the forward pass. Coach
Stagg will feel toe same way about
Walter Eckersall, and Yale men will
wonder why Frank Hinkey or Tom
Shevlin were ditched. Both were
brilliant.
But there are many points to C'.jv
sider here. One is length of service.
For example, take toe case of Mel
Hein. Hein was a high school star
for three years. He was a college
star for three years. After that he
just completed 13 years with the
New York Giants, in which time he
was picked as all-pro center seven
times, an amazing record.
Hein is one of the greatest linemen
that ever played. There could be
no argument about such men as
Jim Thorpe, who could do every
thing, Bronko Nagurski, a great
tackle, a great end and a great
fullback. One of the greatest.
The same goes for Don Hutson,
one of the most amazing of toe en
tire crop. A great artist for many
years. Certainly no one could leave
off Red Grange. “Not only one of
the great ball carriers of all time,”
Steve Owen says, “but also one of
the best of all defensive backs.
Grange and Battles were the two
best ball carriers I ever saw—out
side of Jim Thorpe.”
Bo McMillin picks the 260-pound
Cal Hubbard as the greatest single
football player, the most valuable
star he ever saw. Hubbard was a
great end—a great tackle and a
master at backing up the line
where his 260 pounds and his start
ing speed made him invaluable.
Frank Thomas threatened to leave
our board if we left off George Gipp,
who never played pro football. “Gipp
was a great runner,” Thomas said,
“a fine passer, a brilliant kicker
and a winning gambler on the
field. I have known only one Gipp.”
“Wilbur Henry of W. and J. was to
line play what Thorpe was to back-
field play.” Both Owen and Thomas
voted. “Henry is the greatest line
man that ever played football.” Any
way Henry stands out as one of the
all-time stars.
Beating 11 Nagurskis
Bill Hewitt was one of the great
ends of all time. There were games
where he figured in practically ev
ery play. There are those who be
lieve 11 Hewitts could beat 11 Na
gurskis, which is praise enough.
I wanted Ken Strong on this
squad, but they figured that injuries
had cut down his top speed. Strong
is still something to remember as a
great football player.
Naturally there were many others.
But those who had entered toe pro
circuit got the call.
Anyway this is a list that is open
to any challengers that might come
in. At least it’s an interesting argu
ment with a list sifted .from all the
thousands who came along—and
starred through so many years.
• • •
Pro vs. College Football
Those college players who take up
pro football and then get busy tell
ing everyone that pro football is the
cleaner, harder game, in which toe
player can have much more fun, are
simply lacking in sportsmanship.
Any football player with the right
spirit should still be for his college
and the college game that gave him
a chance to turn pro. Professional
baseball can get along without col
lege baseball, although many big
league stars are ex-college men.
Lesson for February 6
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
JESUS FEEDS THE MULTITUDES
LESSON TEXT—Mark 6:35-M; 8:1-9.
GOLDEN TEXT—I am the bread ot life:
he that cometh to me shall never hunger:
and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst.—John 6:35.
Hungry! That word describes the
crying need of toe greater part of
the world’s population. Men who
have vaunted themselves because of
their ability and ingenuity have
brought the nations of the earth into
such awful confusion that even God’s
abundant provision cannqt reach the
needy ones.
God is concerned about man’s
physical need just as truly as He is
about spiritual needs. This story
brings Christianity into action on a
level that all will appreciate—the
need of food for toe body. It works
there as it does everywhere.
The supply of every need of man
is God. “My God shall supply all
your need according to his riches in
glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19).
Countless Christians have found it
to be true that we may trust God—
completely—and for everything.
The stories of toe feeding of toe
twp groups of people show the wrong
and toe right attitude toward man’s
need. In two approaches to toe
problem the disciples were wrong.
Then Christ showed them toe right
way.
I. They Can Take Care of Their
Own Need (6:35, 36).
“Send them away”—that was the
plea of the disciples when the multi
tude of those who had followed Him
became hungry. The people were
there because they were interested
in Christ. They had come in a hurry
(v. 33) and had not brought food.
The problem was on the disciples’
hands, and they sought the easiest
way out. Let them shift for them
selves—“Send them away.”
The church has followed their ex
ample in dealing with toe social
problems of the people down through
the years. The result is that being
denied fellowship, comfort, and help
by a church which was too busy
building up a vast organization or
a beautiful order of worship, the
common people have respond
ed to the appeal of political leaders
who have provided a substitute for
what toe church should have given
them. v
When Jesus put upon them the di
rect responsibility to feed toe people,
the disciples changed their “slogan”
and said:
II. We Should Like to Help, but
We Cannot (6:37).
Reckoning hastily on what a small
boy had brought for his lunch (trust
an alert boy to be ready!), toe
disciples soon demonstrated that it
was impossible to feed this great
throng. (See similar reasoning in
Mark 8:4).
Logic is such a devastating thing
when it operates apart from faith in
God. They were absolutely right in
their reasoning and in their calcula
tions, but they had forgotten toe one
factor that really counted. Jesus was
there, and Jesus is God, and God
is omnipotent.
As we face toe need of toe world
now and after toe war, we wonder
how toe peoples of other lands can
be fed without depriving our own
land of what it needs. It is a great
problem, and we ought to pray for
those who must work with it.
But let us not forget that all that
we have comes from God, and that
He is able to do "exceeding abun
dantly above all that we ask or
think” (Eph. 3:20). The Christ who
multiplied toe loaves and fishes is
our Living Lord today, and ready and
able to do it again.
HI. Jesus Said, “I Have Com
passion on the Multitude” (6:38-44;
8:1-9).
He started right. Instead of shut
ting His heart against the tender de
sire to help, He let His love for
toe people control. Then instead of
magnifying the difficulties. He mul
tiplied the provisions. And lo, there
was enough for all, and to spare.
“He commanded . . and they
did all eat” (w. 39, 42). When God
speaks, all toe limitations of the finite
disappear, and the needs of men are
fully met—with “twelve baskets full
of fragments” left over!
Note toe orderly manner in which
our Lord met this situation. Five
thousand men, with women and chil
dren to swell the throng, were seat
ed on toe grass. Jesus took the
loaves and fishes and blessed them.
You who forget to return thanks at
the table, notice that quiet and mean
ingful act. Then He broke the
loaves and divided toe fishes. No
doubt they were multiplied as the
disciples passed them out to the
people.
God is able to do that very thing
even in our day. Perhaps not in
just the same manner, but surely
those who serve Him have marveled
as they have seen that "little is
much when God is in it.” Let those
who labor in difficult places with
limited resources take heart—and
trust God.
Note the care with which the frag
ments were collected for future use.
It took this war to teach America
how shamefully wasteful it has been.
Sammy
Baugh
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• • •
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Place a flat dish under toe ash
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DISCOVERYthbCOLBS’REUEF
(home medicated mutton soet)—<
grandma used for coughing—nasal
gention, muscle aches of colds—
modern mothers to follow her
So thefr families get relief from
colds’ miseries with Penetro, the
with modern medication in a base
taining old fashioned mutton suet,
double supply 35c. Demand
A clean burlap sack folded twice
to make four thicknesses and
blanket-stitched around toe edges
with yarn or cord, makes a wash
able, durable door mat.
•' e e
If milk tarns sour, make it into
cottage cheese. Let it stand until
It wheys, then turn it into a cheese
cloth bag and hang up to drain
dry.
ass
Wash off the mud on your work
shoes with warm water. Then rub
oil or grease into the leather while
wet. Stuff the shoes with soft pa
per to hold them in shape and to
absorb moisture from toe inside.
Let dry where it is not too warm,
s a •
Here’s a tip for toe teen-age girl
who likes sweater necks and
sleeves to retain a snug fit. When
not in use keep a rubber band
around them to prevent toe bands
from becoming stretched.
• • •
Here’s a time and patience sav
er when stringing beads. Instead
of using a needle, make a “string
ing tip” on the thread \y coating
with nail polish—then Work with
out a needle.
• • •
And now it develops that those
good housekeepers who always
keep their pots and pans sliek and
shining haven’t so much to be
smug about after all. A blacked
pan, say home economists of toe
department of agriculture, uses
less fuel than a bright one because
a dull surface absorbs heat while
a bright ohe reflects it.
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February 14-15
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These 150 bulls are from leading herds of Georgia, North Carolina and Tenneaam
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