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THE NEWRERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Washington, D. C.
FOOD AND THE WAR
Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes
called a meeting of the War Mobili
zation committee the other day to
discuss the vital question of food for
1944. In preparation for the meet
ing, War Food Administrator Mar
vin Jones had his staff prepare a
lengthy report on food prices, farm
labor, machinery and other phases
of the farm problem.
This report was distributed before
the meeting so that members of the
War Mobilization committee would
have time to study it, but it soon be
came apparent that genial Judge
Jones had not read carefully his
own report—if at all.
When he began to talk about the
drastic need of farm machinery and
the restrictions on its production,
WPB’s Donald Nelson quickly picked
him up. Obviously, Nelson had read
Jones’ report and had some facts of
his own to refute it. He pointed out
that the only thing getting a higher
priority than farm machinery on the
war production schedule was the
landing craft program, and that the
President had ordered landing
barges placed ahead of everything
else.
“You wouldn’t put farm machin
ery ahead of landing barges, would
you?” asked Nelson.
“Well, it won’t do ’em any good to
land if they haven’t got food,” re
plied Jones.
Undersecretary of War Patterson
also tangled briskly with Jones over
farm deferments. Patterson point
ed out that there were 750,000 boys
between 18 and 21 with permanent
draft deferments because they were
farmers.
“This is greater than all the oth
er deferments of the entire country,”
said the undersecretary of war, add
ing that, while agriculture should be
in a preferred position, it should not
be a “haven for draft dodgers.”
“Well, the army’s got to have food,
doesn’t it?” replied Jones.
• • •
HOG MERRY-GO-ROUND
Hog farmers all over the country
are dizzy over conflicting directives
from Washington. A farmer turns
on his radio one morning and learns
that Washington wants him to feed
bogs heavy. Next, he is asked to
market them lean. Next, just as he
is snatching the extra corn from the
pigs, a hurry call comes from Wash
ington to feed ’em fat again.
Farmers are thinking of staging a
little satire to express their feelings.
Entitled “Make Up Your Mind,
Washington,” it has the following
chorus:
“How can a man know what you
mean,
Whether a hog shall be fat or lean?
Make up your mind and stick to
that.
Whether a hog shall be lean
or fat!”
However, the situation is not en
tirely the fault of the bureaucrats.
In normal times, 225 pounds is a
good average weight for hogs. The
American market likes its bacon
lean. But for lend-lease purposes,
extra production was required, espe
cially to supply lard for the Soviets.
So farmers were implored to feed
to heavy weights.
Came the com shortage, and farm
ers were implored to stop feeding,
market their hogs, and release the
com for shipment to dairy and poul
try areas. Each change was im
plemented by shifts in the federal
price supports.
But the hog run became phenom
enal. January’s slaughter broke all
records. Hogs became a glut on
the market. Farmers couldn’t get
near the slaughter houses. They
had to keep on feeding. Hogs auto
matically got heavier, at the rate of
15 pounds a week.
But if they got over 300 pounds,
they passed the support level, and
the packers docked them. Fearing
to lose money, farmers jammed
their hogs into market channels, and
the run became chaotic.
So now Washington has swung
back again, and is inviting farm
ers to feed to heavier weights. The
support price has been extended to
330 pounds.
Note: Probably no decision of War
Food administration was made with
greater reluctance, and the support
price will be reduced again as sooq
as the hog run tapers off.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
4L Washington real estate agents are
evading price ceilings by requiring'
new tenants to decorate apartments
at their own expense ... To pack
’em in tighter, a Washington bus
driver called out, “Push to the back,
folks, and get together like you were
in church.”
4 Ed Stettinius, undersecretary of
state, discovered that ambassadors
returning to Washington had no
space in the state department build
ing. With one phone call, he fixed
up a suite of six rooms.
C. Sen. Ralph Brewster of Maine, a
dry, used to have a hard time re
fusing drinks at capital cocktail par
ties. “But now,” he says, “with liq
uor so scarce, I’m the most popular
man at the party!”
4, British embassy officials, mind
ful of food and liquor shortages here,
are avoiding the usual diplomatic
•otertaining.
SCHOOLS FOR TAXPAYERS
“Washington, D. C.—The internal
revenue department encourages col
lectors in major cities to establish
schools for instructing accountants
and other representatives of large
employers in filling out the new tax
blanks. These ‘trainees’ would in
turn school individuals.” — News
item.
That’s what we need. Schools.
With pointers, chalk, blackboards,
erasers and apples for the teacher.
And time oat for spitballs to ease
the strain.
•
School days, school days,
Dear old raise the pool days;
Income and outgo and overhead—
Any old color as long as it’s red;
You were my tutor, more or
less,
You taught me to add, subtract
and guess;
I wrote on my slate just “SOS”
When we were a couple of kids.
•
Taxpayers need instructions. And
for the first time the accountants
need ’em.
•
Schools will prove if our education
al system is any good. If it can
teach people to fill out those new tax
blanks it’s wonderful. U it gets
them by the first page it’s still won
derful.
•
Yoo hoo, teacher.
What do you jvant?
I want to know if we are getting
anywhere?
That’s funny, I was just going to
ask you the same question.
•
What page are we on?
We have left pages and are now
cutting the answers in stone.
Is it easier that way?
It ain’t any harder.
•
Teacher!
What now?
What’s the scoraf
Let’s work it out together. I just
kicked a field goal from my own 50-
yard parenthesis. You tried a for
ward pass from Paragraph 14, Page
5 and the referee penalizes us 10
yards and $400 for double talk.
Was that for this year or last
year’s double talk?
It’s a little of each.
I should have quit when I was
even.
•
Hey, teacher!
Yes, yes.
Please, may I leave the room?.
What for?
I’m dizzy.
That puts you in a higher bracket.
Keep quiet and try to concentrate.
I concentrated last year and had
to pay a concentration tax.
•
It will go on like that all through
the school year. But think of the
fun come graduation time. You get
a nice cap and gown, straitjacket,
bail, chain and time off for good
behavior. Also a certificate proving
you are still in a hole. Then a di
ploma with the almonds inside, and
the right to stand on your head if
you feel better that way. After which
you plant the class ivy in the back
ground around Section 19, Para
graph 23, where the shade from the
bughouse will protect it.
* *
(Note: We prefer an outdoor
school. With playground attached,
• • •
Seasonal Interview Between Axis
Partners (by telephone).
Hitler—Is this you, Tojo?
Tojo—How can I be sure in my
present condition? Who’s speaking?
Hitler—This is Adolf.
Tojo—Adolf who?
Hitler—Adolf Hitler . . . H-I-T-
L-E-R . . . Remember?
Tojo—Oh, the fellow who used to
be in the war in Europe I I was
wondering whatever became of you.
•
Hitler—Listen, how are we doing?
Tojo—You’re taking the question
right out of my mouth.
Hitler—I was thinking of asking
Japan to come in on my side.
Tojo—Japan came in on your side
two years ago.
Hitler—I heard rumors but I want
them verified.
•
Tojo—Is it true what they say
about Russia?
Hitler—Izzit I
Tojo—Japan got a decision there
once.
Hitler—Why don’t you try it again.
It would be a big help to me. To
gether we might do something.
Tojo—You’ll have to hold those
Russians alone.
Hitler—V/haddaya mean “hold”?—
I would like to remind you that I
counted on you to attack Russia.
Tojo—So solly!
• • •
White Meat for Sen. Byrd.
Well, that delicatessen shop that
Senator Byrd accused of charging
! 15 a pound for turkey, all white meat,
has been fined a total of $90. The
corporation was fined $65 and the
owner $35. That’s about the profit
on one turkey and we can’t see how
the corporation or the boss can bear
up under it.
•
The WPB is now permitting pro
duction of razor blades. This is a
good thing. A lot of Americans were
losing face with those dull blades.
\ATHAT was the greatest Notre
“ ’ Dame team? The Four Horse
men? Rockne’s masterpiece of 1930?
Or Frank Leahy’s 1943 squad with
Bertelli on the job?
Here’s the opening argument—
“Dear Grant: They are saying th»
1943 N. Darners were a better aggre
gation than the
undefeated fight
ing Irish of 1930.
Those who do
overlook the fact
that the latter
outfit had the
coaching benefit
of the daddy-stir
rer-upper of ’em
all — the best
damned coach
Frank Leahy that ever lived.
Rock, himself! In
battle, Grant, between these two
teams, how much of a factor would
having Rock on your bench figure in
the final outcome? I should say
plenty, the fact that Frank Leahy’s
an inspirational leader and a bril
liant strategist, himself, notwith
standing. But Rock was Rock, that’s
all. And that means the best.
“I think another proof of the 1930
team’s greatness is the fact that I
can remember names from it. And
I’m not a Notre Dame man, nor
rooter. I generally root for the
N. D.’s to get it in the neck. The
little guy, the underdog, always finds
favor with me. But I can remem
ber the many nominees for All-
America mention from that team;
the guards, Bert Metzger and Can
non, Tommy Yarr, the center, the
great tackles, Joe Kurth and Harris,
and Philadelphia’s Tom Conley, the
captain and end. The other end has
bowed to memory, but I know he
was a dandy.
“But the backs! Frank Carideo, a
Mills’ pupil, and one of the greats
of all time, certainly would give his
team a vast edge in this depart
ment. Marty Brill, with Earl Brit
tain of Illinois, will go down in his
tory among the great blocking backs.
Joe Savoldi was a human battering
ram, while Marchy Schwarz was
the breakaway guy who could do
more than his share of breaking
away. Chuck Jackwich, Bucky
O’Connor, and Moon Mullins were
other fine backs and important cogs
in Rock’s mighty machine.
“This present team would have it
over Rock’s outfit in the passing de
partment with the Accurate Angelo
heaving the leather. Schwarz and
Carideo were no more than fair
dingers for Rock, but they seldom
had to be, what with the overland
game so profitable. Rock’s line could
invent the holes! And there is recent
proof that a line of such caliber
might completely nullify Angelo’s
fine passing game.
“I’ll take Rock’s boys, Grant, of
the two. And you?
“Very truly yours,
“George E. Heiser.”
A Few Words in Rebuttal
I’m sorry, George, but I’ll have
to string with Frank Leahy’s 1943
squad with Bertelli in action.
To me the Four Horsemen outfit,
with a backfield averaging 159
pounds, plus a rather light line were
the all-top and all-time artists.
Pound for pound. But they lacked
the needed poundage. Here’s the
answer. Red Blaik and other Army
coaches will tell you and prove they
could handle the older Notre Dame
attack. Army outplayed Notre Dame
badly the day Jack Elder ran 95
yards for the winning touchdown—
and Savoldi was there. In 1930,
Notre Dame beat a fair Army team
7 to 6.
The 1943 Army team was far bet
ter than the 1930 Army team. Yet
it is my belief that with Bertelli
faking and passing and running his
squad, Notre Dame could have beat
en Army 40 to 0, or worse.
Don’t forget this 1943 Notre Dame
team ran up over 80 points on fine
Navy and Georgia Tech teams,
which Bill Alexander and Billek
Whelchel will tell you could have
been 60 to 0 in each game, going all
the way out.
“Army teams could hold the
Rockne attack to small scores,” Red
Blaik told me. “We couldn’t hold
this 1943 team to any sifiall score,
even with Bertelli missing. They
hit us with too much speed and pow
er at too many spots.”
The 1943 N. D. team had a bigger,
faster line. It had much bigger,
faster ends. It had a much better
backfield with Bertelli, Creighton
Miller, Rykovich, Mello, Kelly, and
several others.
And it had that smoothly clicking,
devastating T-ftrmation, hitting the
opposition like a bazooka shell.
Bertelli Most Dangerous
Above all—in Bertelli 1943 Notre
Dame had a quarterback far more
dangerous on the scoring side than
Carideo ever came close to being.
It is my belief that Notre Dame’s
1943 team, with Bertelli in action,
could have beaten the 1930 team by
two or three touchdowns and
wrecked the Four Horsemen through
a surplus of power, deception and
passing. I doubt before Bertelli left
that any 1943 pro team could have
beaten it—and the pros in general,
are well ahead of the collegians.
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1. Are the redwood trees of Cali
fornia the oldest in the world?
2. What is the largest city in
Canada?
3. At the beginning of World
War I, how many airplanes did
our armed forces have?
4. Who wrote: “He prayeth best
who loveth best all things both
great and small”?
5. When a broom is carried atop
a submarine, what does it mean?
6. Was there such a person' as
the Wandering Jew?
7. World War II produced a new
name for a traitor to his country.
It is what?
8. The highest tide in the world
is in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.
It is how many feet high?
9. The largest republic in South
America is what?
10. The frequency of sun spots is
subject to what periodical cycle?
The Answers
1. The junipers of the Sierra
Nevadas are still older.
2. Montreal, 50 square miles,
with a population of 818,577.
Aerial Funeral Service
A Fort Worth undertaking firm
has applied for a permit to fly
funeral parties in helicopters as a
regular service; and a Los An
geles cemetery has nearly com
pleted its own helicopter field for
funeral processions that are soon
expected to arrive and depart by
air.
3. But 55, with 35 flying ofificers.
4. Samuel Coleridge.
5. When subs come in from a
patrol they carry a broom to in
dicate a clean sweep of the area
patrolled.
6. No. He was a legendary per
son of the Middle ages. One story
is that he insulted Christ as He
bore His cross to Calvary, and
Christ told him that he must re
main on earth until He should
come again.
7. Quisling.
8. A height of 62 feet.
9. Brazil, with a total area of
3,275,510 square miles.
10. An 11 year cycle, during
which time they alternate, becom
ing visible in great numbers and
disappearing entirely from the
sun’s disk for days at a time.
When you hear a Marine called
a “Leatherneck,” it has nothing to
do with the epidermis of his neck.
Years ago the Marine uniform was
equipped with a high stiff leather
collar. From that time on, “Leath
erneck” has been the word for a
Marine. The word for his favorite
cigarette is “Camel”—the favorite
cigarette also of men in the Army,
Navy, and Coast Guard. (Based
on actual sales records from serv
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there are Post Office restrictions
on packages to overseas Army
men, you can still send Camels
to soldiers in the U. S., and to men
in the Navy, Marines, and Coast
Guard wherever they are.—Adv.
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