Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. LATEST ON CIVILIAN GOODS The Truman committee is about to issue a report which will be good news to manufacturers, to say noth ing of the housewife who has been scrimping along with a worn-out re frigerator, no washing machine and an electric iron that blows out fuses. The Truman committee will rec ommend that the War Production board go much further than the army has been willing in restoring production of civilian goods. The committee will not urge anything near unlimited production, but it will point out the following impor tant facts: (1) War contracts are being can celled at an increasing rate. The war department cancelled 10V4 bil lions in contracts as of January 31, while the navy cancelled 2V4 bil lions up to February 5. This means more factories and more men avail able for civilian production. (2) Tremendous stockpiles of steel and other materials have been ac cumulated—far more than can be used for the war. Already alumi num plants with a capacity of a half-billion pounds a year have been closed because the supply of alu minum is so great. (3) The military was slow in cur tailing civilian production. Now it is slow in letting the country get back to civilian production. Therefore, the Truman committee recommends that while we cannot "soon resume full-scale civilian pro duction, we can produce limited quantities of a few score additional items classified as essential." SOME REVEALING FIGURES The impending Truman commit tee report will reveal that 100 big corporations hold 70 per cent of all the war orders; furthermore, these 100 first companies of the nation had only 30 per cent of the country’s business before the war—and the Roosevelt administration was sup posed to help the little fellow I Norman Littell, hard-hitting assist ant attorney general, will get a boost from the Truman committee for hur rying up government payments to the farmers and others whose land was seized by the army and navy. The committee will recommend that all government purchase of land be handled by Littell. American labor doesn’t look so bad when contrasted with British labor. The Truman committee will find, despite the national service act, long operating in England, there were 1,638 English strikes involving a manpower loss of 1,676,000 man- days. Taking into account the larg er population of this country, U. S. strikes were only .025 per cent worse than England—even without a na tional service act. President Roosevelt didn’t know it, but the Truman committee had pre pared some devastating evidence supporting him on one of the most controversial phases of the tax bill —renegotiations of war contracts to recapture excess war profits. Nevertheless, all the members of the committee except Mead of New York, Kilgore of West Virginia and Wallgren of Washington voted to over-ride his tax bill veto. • • • LOUIS BROMFIELD, THE PROPHET Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard is chuckling over a letter he has received from the Reader’s Digest, signed by William Hard Jr., associate editor. It is the last, pa thetic note of a correspondence be gun last summer when the Digest published the Louis Bromfield arti cle, "We Aren’t Going to Have Enough to Eat.” At the time, Wickard wrote to the Digest, refuting Novelist Bromfield, offering to write an article to tell the other side of the story and saying we would have plenty to eat. But the Digest declined to hear the other side. They confided privately to Brom field that they were embarrassed by reactions to his story, but publicly they stood on his gloomy forecast. He had said: "I would rather not think about next February. By then, most of our people will be living on a diet well below the nutrition level." February has now come and gone. People are eating well despite Brom field. American farmers have writ ten the refutation. Actually, we have a greater accumulation of stored foodstuffs than at any time in his tory. Wickard couldn’t resist the temp tation to rib the Digest, and recently sent to Editor DeWitt Wallace a few figures about the overflowing granary. In reply, he received merely a short note from William Hard Jr., saying, “Mr. Wal lace is home, fighting off a cold.” • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND C. Each day, White House reporters are given a list of the President’s appointments, beginning usually at 10 a. m., with cabinet officers, mili tary and naval advisers, diplomats, congressmen or other callers. Re cently, reporters were startled to note on the calling list: "2:30 p. m. —Mrs. Roosevelt.” fl. Reports from Bolivia indicate that the new government, which the state department refuses to recognize, is becoming more and more en trenched. THE GARBLE SISTERS "Ain’t it wonderful what the Rus sians are doing?” “Yeah. They’ve taken Umphrey Lee, Ramirez and some place called Lake Lepke.” “That general they’ve got Is ter rific. What’s his name?” “Novgorod, I think.” "I thought it was Pravda.” "Maybe you’re right, I’m awful on remembering people.” ♦ "Did you read all that stuff about the need to get a national selective service law by renegotiation?” “The idea is to draft everybody who votes in the next election and make them do whatever Washing ton wants them to do to help win the war, ain’t it?” “If you or me or anybody else is needed in some shop or shipyard we get orders to pack a bag and go there.” “What happens if we refuse and stand firmly on the Curzon Line?” “It goes to an arbitration board but before anything is done about it we get taken over and operated by the Secretary of War, I think.” “I remember reading something about it last week. Two railroad presidents were confiscated but giv en back later.” • • • John M. Webb, a turret gunner, bailed out of a bomber and landed squarely on the back of a grazing horse. The horse, be says, paid no attention at first but suddenly threw him. It ii. Just possible the airman was on the wrong end of the steed for a turret gunner. • • • The WPB announces that there will be more automobiles, dresses and potatoes available this year. We can’t .wait to apply for a good two- passenger potato, buy our girl a new dress and take her out to some restaurant where we can get a big Idaho sedan with butter. • • • Wendell Willkie starred on "Infor mation Please” recently and it is now up to Governors Bricker and Dewey to get on Duffy’s Tavern or Truth and Consequences if they are to have a chance for the presi dency. • Willkie, we understand, may base his claims to the nomination for the presidency on the fact he made the pickle program more than twice. • • • Frank Sinatra is in his first mov ie, “Higher and Higher.” But Ima Dodo went looking for him all day yesterday under the impression the picture was something called “A Guy Named Frank,” “As Thousands Faint” or “For Whom The Bull ToUs.” • • • SNAPPY STUFF George R. Knied, gunner in a Lib erator plane, returning from a mis sion, summed it up, “No flak, no fighters, no fun.” We think it be longs among the great phrases of history. » A flash through the skies with a rip and a snort— A search for the foemen begun— Then back to the base with the clas sic report: "No flak, no fighters, no fun!" • • • We saw a man in a hot argu ment with a sidewalk pencil peddler the other day. We inquired what was the matter. “Renegotiation pro ceedings,” explained the peddler. • • • Wendell Willkie, emphasizing that a debt of 300 billion will mean a service charge of six billion a year, says it is “staggering.” But the trouble is that the American people by and large are no longer as con scious of staggering as they once were. They now are confusing stag gering with boogie-woogie dancing. • • • A DOG’S LIFE IN ENGLAND “General Eisenhower’s pet dog, a Scottish terrier, has been put under quarantine for six months in Eng land under a law to guard against the spread of canine diseases.”— News item. • We can see the general’s pooch now, lying on the floor dejectedly, brow wrinkled, wondering if this war, which the chief is directing is really a fight for freedom. “The Four Freedoms!” we can imagine the dog musing; “Huh! Well, I will settle for one!” •' We can fancy General Eisenhow er’s terrier, tail between his legs thinking: “I just can’t understand it ... In all the war talk I’ve heard there’s always been a lotta empha sis on the battle for liberty! . . . And looka me! • Governor Saltonstall of the Bay State, twitted about his failure to keep his socks up without garters, announces he has received many pairs from newspaper readers and is now using them. We regret this As a member of the Let the Socks Fall as They May Club of New England we had depended on the guvnor. • • • Spain has decided on strict neu trality. She will doublecross every body instead of having a selected list. TN THE recent gathering of old- *■ time stars for war bonds and Red Cross collections, the matter of the Dempsey - Firpo fight has been brought up more than once as the leading chapter of all brief sporting thrills. Even this far away from the battle areas it is somewhat astonish ing to see the number of letters you receive from servicemen all over the world about this spectacu lar whirlpool. To help clear up any further ar guments, here are a few of the more important de tails that took place: 1. Tex Rickard had a series of chills and fevers in the belief that Dempsey would stop Firpo in the first round before a Mil lion Dollar Gate. Fir po, to Rickard, was a complete flop as a fighting machine. He begged Dempsey to carry Firpo at least three rounds to satisfy the big crowd. Dempsey re fused to make any commitment. 2. Dempsey took the fight in a deadly serious way, knowing that Firpo could still punch. In a visit to Dempsey’s training camp with Bob Edgren, we told Dempsey what Bill Brennan had told us: “This Firpo guy throws rocks at you. You think you are out of reach by three feet and he hits you with a rubber arm, or a rock.” This is what happened in the first round. 3. Dempsey went out to win—not in the first round—but with the first punch. “I knew the fellow was dangerous, but also wide open,” Dempsey told me. “In the first, I threw a left hook at him that would have ended the fight in less than 12 seconds. But I was overanxious. I just missed and then a rock hit me on the chin and I hardly remember what hap pened through the next three min utes. “Firpo weighed 220 pounds, and I can say now this was the hardest punch I ever took in any fight. I know I wasn’t fighting for any mil lion dollars or for the championship. I was trying to keep from getting killed. Foul him? Maybe I did. I just socked him every time I saw him, before he could sock me again.” ‘Out of the Ring’ Episode We keep getting letters about Dempsey falling on top of our typewriter. This never happened. Just be fore the fight started we moved over three seats. Jack Lawrence took the seat we had just vacated. Dempsey came through the ropes on top of Jack Lawrence. There was no effort made to shove Demp sey back into the ring. There was only the protective effort anyone makes with his hands when 192 pounds is about to land on your head and neck—or your typewriter. The punch that drove Dempsey through the ropes was nothing like the punch that left Jack dazed in the first ten seconds. It was a half lunge and a half swing. It caught Dempsey off balance. But Dempsey was another man when the second round opened. In defense of Firpo it might be said that he could hardly have been ex pected to have a clear head after what happened to him through the first round. In that first round the floor had become “old home week” to him. I’ve forgotten now just how many times Jack had knocked Firpo down. But there were times when the Wild Bull of the Pampas was bouncing around like a huge rubber ball. He had taken plenty on his own by the time he catapulted Dempsey through the ropes. Never Met Again The strangest part of this Demp- sey-Firpo episode is that Rickard never matched them again. After what happened in their first meet ing, here was at least a $2,500,000 or a $3,000,000 show, an all-time rec ord. Apparently there was no de sire on the part of Rickard, Demp sey, Kearns or Firpo to bring about a repeat engagement. Maybe it was just as well. The second might have been a record flop. As the case stood, the two crush ing punchers gave the fight game its greatest four minutes of raw melo drama with a million dollars, and a heavyweight title worth millions more, spinning around the roulette wheel of fate at a dizzy pace. And out of 70,000 or 80,000, prob ably less than 2,000 saw just what happened. Biggest Sport Show Zeke Bonura writes me— “Dear Grant—I’ve been around quite a bit, as you know. But for the last word in sporting color, give me North Africa. I know you’ve heard about the Arab Bowl for foot ball—including a camel race and a donkey race — scarlet-clad Arab troops parading between halves— crack paratroopers bailing out— “Now we are getting ready for sur army North-African baseball round-up. This is the place today where the world goes by. | MPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool l«esson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. - T- -T- : ■ ' ■ . - ■ ■ Lesson for March 19 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JESUS CRUCIFIED LESSON TEXT: Mark lS:22-27, 29-39. GOLDEN TEXT: He was wounded for our transgressions, he wa* bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are healed.—Isaiah 53:S. The crucifixion of Christ brings us to that darkest of all days in the his tory of the world, when wicked men with cruel hearts and hands cruci fied the loving Son of God. But, thanks be to God, it was also the day when bright hope shone forth for sinful humanity, for in His death Christ bore our sins upon the tree, the veil was rent, the old sacrifices were set aside, and the “new and living way” was opened into the “holiest by the blood of Jesus” (Heb. 10:20). The cross is not just an ornament to decorate the steeple of a church, or to adorn man. It speaks of the black horror of the cry, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” But it also tells of our God, who “so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son” as its Redeemer. What does Calvary mean to us? It means that— I. The Savionr Died So We Could Live (vv. 22-27). The details of and circumstances surrounding the crucifixion are of deep interest to every Christian. We stand with Luther and weep as we see Christ’s unspeakable agony, not only of body but of spirit, and we cry, “For me, for me!” How can any believer contemplate the cross and withhold self, substance, or service from Christ? There would be less careless, self ish living if we would go often to the story of the death of Christ and rec ognize the loving, sacrificial devo tion of Christ. Equally heart-searching is * the message of the cross to the unbeliev er. He knows he is a sinner (Rom. 3:23); he knows that “the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23), and he knows that “neither is there salva tion in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Here at the cross he meets that one “who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto right eousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (I Pet. 2:24). Note the difference between the two thieves who were hanged with Jesus, for it is the difference be tween those who face Christ in our day. One railed on Him (Luke 23: 39), while the other, repentant, had a faith that looked all the way into Paradise (Luke 23:43). II. The Son Was Forsaken So We Could Be Accepted (vv. 29-36). Awful was the railing and mock ing which our Lord endured on the cross. It must have made His de voted, loving heart well-nigh break as He saw the scorn of the very ones He died to save. Yet it was as nothing compared to that moment when He who knew no sin “was made sin for us” (II Cor. 5:21). Bearing the awful load of the sin of the world He knew the bitter agony of being forsaken by the Father. He turned His head away and we hear that saddest of all cries, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” We cannot fathom the full mean ing of that hour, we dare not attempt to explain it, we can only accept it and thank God that because Jle did become sin for us we may be “made the righteousness of God in him” (II Cor. 5:21). He died that we might live. He was forsaken that we might be “accepted in” Him “the beloved” (Eph. 1:6). After the darkness, however, comes the light. He died not as a martyr, a vanquished gladiator de feated in battle; no, there was vic tory. III. The Veil Was Rent So We Could Enter (vv. 37-39). The death of Jesus was not the pitiful weakening of a human mar tyr. Here was the Son of God, cry ing with a loud voice (v. 37), giving up His spirit to the Father (Luke 27:46), declaring that the work of redemption was “finished.” As a visible indication of that fact, and as a declaration that the old dispensation of lnw had given place to the new dispensation of grace, God tore the temple veil in twain. Only He could have done it. No man could have torn this sixty- foot long, twenty-foot wide, and inch- thick curtain, and note that it was torn from top to bottom. This was the act of God. This veil bad hung in the temple to keep all but the high priest out of the Holy of Ho lies, and he entered with fear and trembling but once a year as the representative of the people. Now all this is changed. We have now, “brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil.” Therefore, “let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith” (Heb. 10:19-22). Dempsey This Quilt Breathes Of Gay Springtime COUNDS gay, happy, carefree ^ and spring-like, doesn’t it? A little red bird, big green leaves and nice, fat red cherries are all combined in a famous old quilt de sign. Make 30 blocks, each 16 inches square. Put big leaves of green-patterned material in 15 of the blocks—bright red cherry clus ters in the other 15 blocks. The 8-inch border has 22 red birds and a vine design. Makes the bright est quilt imaginable. * • • To obtain cutting pattern, applique’ pat terns. amounts of all materials specified, finishing directions for the Bird in a Cher ry Tree Quilt (Pattern No. 5283) send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is equired in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South Wells SL Chicago. Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No. Name Address Flavor your next can of corn with a few celery seeds and heat in bacon fat. see Drop a piece of bread in a kettle when cooking cabbage or cauli flower and it will keep unpleasant odors from filling the house. e « e Yonr used kitchen fats, useless to you, are sorely needed, and sav ing them is a small but important service to your country. Turn in every ounce you have. • • • A teaspoon of glycerine added to each pint of rinsing water makes woolens like new. • • • A small bread board is useful in the kitchen to protect surfaces from the damage which may fol low the many cutting jobs that meal preparation necessitates. TRYTHEM TODAY! ALL-BRAN Muffin* « cup milk _ 1 cup ■ifted flour 1U teaspoon salt 2 tablesooona shortening H mu * Uaar A teaspoons 1 Kellogg’s bakiu* » owd " All-Bran Blend shortening Sp nU klfT 0 fl our 0, ,nhSSUu^: And remember, too, kzllooo’s all-bran by itself Is a rich, natural source of the whole grain •‘protecUve■• food elements — protein, the B vita mins, phosphorus, calcium and Iroot ALL-BRAN —Buy War Savings Bonds— —cover with warm flannel—eases mus cular aches, pains, coughs. Breathed- in vapors comfort irritated nasal mem branes. Outside, warms like plaster. Modem medication in a base contain ing old fashioned mutton suet, only 25c, double supply 35c. Get Peaetro. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER In 1912 tropical Americas produced their greatest out put of rubbsr—62,000 tons. It is axpactod that wp will im port 41,000 tons from those countries in 1943, an Impor tant supplement to our syn thetic supplies. Some experts estimate that there are around 300 million Hevea (rub ber) trees in Latin America. Most of them are in jung!es,difflcu!t to get at. "Alcohol and driving don't mix" may still bo a worthy admonition, but nevertheless, millions of gallons of alcohol are needed as a raw material to make synthetic robber for the production of tires now so essential to driving. IzumM peace BEGoodrichl PIRSI in rubber nM We*!