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7 • Vi ■ W: :;:M - THE NEWF ^PY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Phillips- Washington, D. C. FARMS FOR VETERANS After all the talk about helping those who are making the big sac* rifice on the war fronts and giving them an opportunity to reestablish themselves when they come home, newly appointed war liquidator Will Clayton is fighting hard against the veterans. The issue came up when broad- gauged War Food Administrator Marvin Jones backed a proposal to take all the army and navy camps purchased during the war and turn them into farm developments for veterans after the armistice. Both Marvin Jones and Franklin W. Han cock, farm security administrator and former congressman from North Carolina, are urging the idea. They argue that, with military hous ing already in these areas, they will be ideally suited for getting war- tom veterans back to the land ana a normal farm life of benefit both to themselves and the nation. But Will Clayton, until recently right-hand man to Jesse Jones and the biggest cotton broker . in the world, argues that the land should be sold, with the former owners get ting first crack at it. While Mar vin Jones and Hancock don’t oppose the theory of letting former owners buy the land back, they point out that, in actual practice, the former owners will not have the money, so that the land would go to the big land syndicates and insurance com panies, thus increasing the concen tration of farms into big estates. • • » SKILLED WORKERS Inside fact about the hot debate on deferring industrial workers is that the President first signed an order for their nondeferment without even consulting his War Manpower Com missioner Paul McNutt, or his Di rector of Selective Service General Hershey, or the head of his War Mobilization board. Justice Jimmie Byrnes. What happened was that the war department sold him on the idea, and he okayed it without consulting McNutt, Byrnes, Hershey or even Donald Nelson, responsible for in dustrial output. When they heard about it, they rushed to the White House and persuaded the President to reverse his order. Then ensued a tug-of-war between the army on one side and Donald Nelson, rubber czar Bradley Dewey «t al, on the other. From this came the compromise to permit defer ment of essential workers over 25, and permit deferment of only 40,000 skilled war workers in the 18 to 26 age bracket. • • • STORY FROM TARAWA Latest story from Tarawa is about Lieut. Gen. Howland (“Howling Mad”) Smith. Just before the marines landed, a shell struck a building near the wa ter’s edge, and a white cloud arose from the ruins. Actually, it was a cloud of Jap undershirts. When the marines landed, they discovered that the building had been a Jap quarter master supply depot, and Jap under wear was blown all over the place. After the bloody taking of the beachhead, many Leathernecks dis carded their grimy uniforms and put on clean Jap underwear, as well as sections of Jap uniforms found around the destroyed building. While tills quick-changing was un der way. General Howland Smith ordered the American flag raised on a pole nailed to the top of a palm tree. “Get a bugler out here to blow colors,” commanded Smith. Next moment, he was amazed to behold a young marine bugler standing at attention in the clearing and dressed from head to foot in a Jap uniform. The general emitted a roar that shook the island. In the confusion that followed, the ougler literally dove into the ranks of his buddies. He emerged in jig time, reattired in a marine uniform. • • • ALASKAN REPORT Young Representative Warren Magnuson of Washington, recently returned from an inspection tour of our Aleutian and Alaskan bases for the house naval affairs committee, is making a report to the committee which will recommend: That the present system of rotat ing men in isolated areas, such as Alaska and the Aleutians, be changed from 18 months to one year, provided that transportation facili ties are available to bring them back to the United States for a rest. Magnuson will reiterate the im portance of the North Pacific fron tier as a "prong” in the war against Japan, will stress the im portance of keeping our forces in the Aleutian area fresh and ready for the big move against Tokyo. • • • CAPITOL CHAFF C Having taken the initial diplomat ic punch at Ireland, the President is reported holding back regarding further threatened moves. Home front pressure from powerful Irish- American forces apparently was too strong for him. C. There has been terrific undercov er griping at Russia inside the ad ministration since Stalin’s recogni tion of the Badoglio government; sev eral orders, previously giving Rus sia certain information she wanted have been cancelled. Graatland Bice AN INDIGNANT non-combatant writes in criticizing our off-side guess that for a combination, bas ketball probably has the greatest number of players and spectators. His selection was softball, where, as he says—“with proper facilities there would be over 30,000,000 soft- ball players.” I doubt this very much, knowing also how many people play softbaU. Bowling can claim close to 20,000,000. But when you dig underneath the sur face there are just four major sports that from the read ing and the general interest angle have the greatest appeal. These four are football, baseball, boxing and racing. From the writing and the reading an gle, above the playing angle, these are the four tops. Hockey, a fast moving game, la only known to a small section of the country with no national following. Basketball is almost strictly local in its appeal, even if thousands play it and millions watch it. It is al most an impossible game about which one can write with any na tional or general interest. Track and field has only a limited reading or spectator interest. Bowling is more of a home and family game, a magnificent sport that is largely unreadable. The two basic reading and writing games of the country are baseball and football—or football and base ball. And just back of these we find boxing and racing. One Answer In the last few months it has been a privilege to talk before many groups of servicemen who come from every part of the country—in cluding those who have never left the country, those who have seen action—those who have been wound ed. Most of the sports writers have given what they had to give for this service. The usual manner of procedure comes through questions from the army or navy audience you face. In keeping an official box score, I would say that over 90 per cent of the queries thrown your way con cern football, baseball, boxing and racing. No one has yet asked me to an swer any question about basketball, hockey, track and field or bowling. There have been a few scattered queries about golf aud tennis. This doesn’t mean that there are not millions interested in basketball, bowling, track and field together. There are just as many interested In hunting and fishing. Probably more. But the point is that most at the arguments are built around base ball, football and boxing, with raeing getting a smaller share. What do they want to know about? What team will win the National league pennant — The American league pennant—the World Series? What about the Dodgers, always sure fire? What about the Yankees? Could Dempsey have whipped Joe Louis? How good is Beau Jack? Was this 1943 Notre Dame team better than Rockne’s best? These are the types of questions they fire at you from those who have come along from the East and West, the North and South. The ‘Argument’ Sports Baseball, football and boxing are the main argument sports, especial ly the first two. For example, the two major leagues represent a long parade of smaller hamlets and country toyms from which most of the stars come. Baseball and football belong to all 48 states. They are writing games and reading games and on the read ing side they appeal to many more millions than all other sports lumped together. They have an appeal for the kids, the veterans, the men and the wom en. They have such names to give as Ruth, Cobb, Johnson, Mathewson, Dickey, Alexander, Thorpe, Grange, Speaker, Nagurski, Baugh, Hutson, Luckmaiy DiMaggio, Feller, Ted Williams, Gehrig, Sisler, McAfee, Bertelli—or such teams to follow as the Yankees, Dodgers, Cardinals, Notre Dame, Minnesota, Michigan, Southern California, Tennessee, Ala bama, Duke, Texas—and we are barely warming up. Out in front on the reading side this is a football and a baseball country—with boxing and racing next in line. Mel Ott’s Foot Action There has always been consider able comment on Mel Ott’s ability to hit so many home runs, swinging from one foot. The main answer here is that Mel never swings from one foot. “When I start my swing,” Mel told me lately, “I lift my right foot to be sure that I am set and balanced on the left. But if they watch closely enough, you’ll see that my lifted right foot is on the ground again before the bat reaches the ball. This gives me my right leg to hit against.’' LINES ON READING ABOUT SOME FLYING ACES "A hick-town guy” was the old time craek, “He’s fresh from the sticks, the boob; You know what them small-town fellers lack— Remember, a rube’s a rube!” But now the war it has changed all that— Look up where the hot flak files Up there, with the aces who treat ’em rough Behold all the small-town guys! Lieutenant Ickard from Granite Falls . . . Meroney from Pine Bluff Ark . . . They’re with the boys in the payoff brawls With Murphy -'f Eastlake Park ... Captain Don Gentile of “Piqua O.” • And Newman from Goose Creek, Tex.— They’re with the serappers who blast the foe And add to the Axis wrecks. “Snowflake” — there’s one that is new to you — It’s onl* a whistle-stop, But from it Grant Turley is with a crew That’s making those Berlin hops; Nicky Megura, Ansonia, Joe Turner from Bartletsvifie . . . There’s Stuffy O’Hare of SidonVi And Williams from Rickett’s Mill. Ridgewood, old Newton and West- bury, Verona and Stony Creek . . . From Milford and Bethel and Big Oak Tree, Corona and Owlhead Peak . . . From old Williamantic and Beaver Dam, North Canton and Lebanon, Missoula and Bingville and Cedar- ham, Deep River and Rising Sun. Afoot, on the seas, in the flaming skies, Fight lads from some little town. And tall are feats of the hick-town finys Whenever the ehips are down; The villages there by an old mill- stream— The towns by the forest deep— The hamlets so far from a spot light’s gleam— They’re THERE when the task Is steep. In foxholes, in crashboats, in bomb ers great. Wherever the fighting’s hot Are guys who have swung on a farm yard gate And fished in a wooded spot; The Hicktowns, the Goosevilles and Spotted Cow, East Birdville and Painted Sky— They’re up in the front with the big towns now And writing their names up high. • • • THE BOOK OF WAR ETIQUETTE "Marvin Jones, war food admin istrator, urges Americans to sop up the gravy, squeese the grapefruit dry and pick bones up in the fingers to get the last morsel from them. He says 20 per cent of our food is wasted.”—News Item. . Dear Mr. Jones: I am a little girl anxious to do the right thing at the table. I read your appeal to sop up the gravy, and I think it is a fine idea. Is it all right for me to lick the platter? Some of my friends say it is not. Kathie. Dear Kathie: Platter-licking in a crisis like this is a definite contribution to tbe war effort and a proof of patriotism. Your friends are Axis agents. Be a good girl and lick every platter you can, remembering the slogan: “Lick a platter and help lick the Axis!” • Dear Jonesy: I have been wellbred, but am by nature a rebel. All my life I have picked up most bones with my fin gers, and fought it out on that line if it took all summer. Lately I have .been grabbing up the main bone in the steak, gnawing the edges to a fare-thee-well. I have been widely criticized. Is there any way you could back me up more substantial ly than by a mere statement of pol icy? J.B.J. Dear Mr. J.B.J.: The government is considering the adoption of a small tag for distin guished bone-picking. Any person picking bones in a resolute manner without regard for criticisp or op position will be eligible. In the meantime, keep picking away. • • • In Poland the Nazis have imposed a prison term on a woman because her dog growled at a Nazi officer. We understand the dog’s defense is that the Nazi officer growled first. • • • An enormous supply of alcohol is to be made from potatoes. One rye highball, with the skin off, please! We found a potato bug in our old- fashioned cocktail the other day. • • * There are two types of Russian most feared by Nazis: the Mad Rus sian and the Mud Russian. >ATT SEWINtS CIRCLE Patchwork Apron. IT’S the nicest apron that ever * went into a kitchen! Big enough to cover your dress, well-fitted so that it is as smooth as you’d like an apron to be, bright with color applied in an interesting design at the hemline, it’s an apron which lends itself handsomely to any good bright colored percale, mus lin or cotton. • • • Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1937 la de signed for sizes 14, 16, 18. 10, 40, 41 and 44. Size 10 requires 2% yards of 33-inch material; 4V, yards bias fold for trim ming; % yard or bright scraps for lower facing. \ASKMt Of l ANOTHER v | \ A General Quiz 1 | The Questions 1. What is the facial aspect for which the Cheshire cat is noted? 2. What are a ship’s davits? 3. WAC officers and enlisted per sonnel wear replicas of the head- gear of what warrior maiden? 4. Who were the first printers? 5. What is the supercargo on a ship? 6. How long has Turkey been a republic? 7. If a stirrup bar is that part of a saddle to which the strap is fas tened, what is a stirrup cup? 8. The Battle of Brandywine was fought in what state? 1942 12-40 Welcome the Sun! T HE sleeveless, low-necked sun- back dress with full dirndl skirt, big pockets and romantic tie-sash is here to stay—everyone, young and old, is bent on getting plenty of sun and air this sum mer. This bolefip and sun-dress is one of the prettiest to be found! • • • Barbara BaU Pattern No. 1941 la de signed for sizes 11, 14. 16, IS, 10 and 49. Size 14. ensemble, requires 4% yards of 39-inch material. Little sister’s sun-dress with its own matching bolero can be made in the same fabric as her older sister’s or mother’s 1 e • e Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1943 is de signed for sizes 3, 4, 6, 6, 7 and S years. Size 4. requires 2H yards of 39- inch material for tbe ensemble. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in fining orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 336 South Wells SC Chicago Enclose 30 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address \ * The Answers 1. Grinning. 2. Cranes for the lifeboats. 3. Athena. 4. The Chinese. 5. The officer or person on a merchant ship in charge of the commercial details of the voyage. 6. Since 1923. 7. A cup of wine or the like tak en by a rider about to depart; hence a farewell cup. 8. Pennsylvania. One thing a soldier is afraid of is a display of emotion. That’s why his slang so often sounds derogatory. For example, he re fers to the silver eagles on hi4 colonel’s shoulder straps as “buz zards.” But when he speaks of his favorite cigarette, he says: "Cam els.” They’re first with men in the Army as well as with Sailors, Ma rines, and Coast Guardsmen. (Ac cording to actual sales records in service men’s stores.) And though there are Post Offi"* 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. Tou breathe freer al most Instantly as just 2 drops Fenetro Nose Drops open your cold- clogged nose to give your head cold air. Caution: Use only as directed. 25c, 2H tunes as much for 50c. Get Penetro Nese Drops Injnries of Workers Injuries among industrial work ers have been found, in one recent survey, to occur to various parts of the body in these relative fre quencies: hand 1,000, arm 340, leg 311, head 279, eye 236 and foot 119. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT ^ RUBBER Moms By in supplies anti bring out crude rubber from Central American plantations. Weeks are saved by this method of transportation. In buRdlne a battleship H takes 150,000 pounds of rubbsr. This Is sqidvalsnt to ths rubbsr used in ths manufacture of more than 12,000 small passenger-car tires. Tha first city oasnlbas linos, or of modern transportation, ■tions over tba streets of Paris in 1662. Seventy-three per cent of the em ployees In 94 war plants depend upon their can for transportation. Rubber b essential la their walk. Ik mi cz peace BFGoodrich Gods of Batter In Choni, tiny Chinese village, butter is mixed with powdered col ors and molded by the monks into gods that “rule” one night each year. UBHTm WSKIN Dr. paSD Pelmer's Ski WMteeertlftitcns end brightens (axteraelly eeesed). Use 7 dess. If net ssUsA-d KONST BACK. Be et dreseterne. ntn Semple. Seed te poetece to GALBNOL. DeeS O. BesMS. Adnata, Geershu DR. FRED PALMER S SKIN WHITRNCR CRRm*n \ OPANJGE PE<GE T-€ A —Bay War Savings Bonds— So Crisp/ RICE KRISMES "The Crains are Grsat Fssds”— MU# • Kellogg’s Rice Krispies equal the whole r>pe grain in nearly all the protective food elements declared ^sential to human nutrition. THE NAVY ^ they say: ^ "ROPE-YARD SUNDRY* for Wednesday afternoon "4IB CLASS UBfigiy D/TilJMFf for the favorite cigarette with men WUf,Bfc in the Navy "FIELD PAY^for thorough cleaning of ship ★ FIRST IN THE SERVICE