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f THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. BIG VS. LITTLE FABMEKS Forty years have elapsed between the big-business battles of Teddy Roosevelt and Cousin FDR, but one issue which plagued the former is also plaguing the latter and is now before congress. It is the question whether government irrigation, gov ernment water, and government rec lamation shall benefit the big land- owner or the small. The issue is now one of the hottest fights both in California and in con gress,-where Secretary of the Inte rior Ickes has been called to testify on a rider which Congressmen El liott and Carter of California have skilfully smuggled into the rivers and harbors bill—a rider permitting big landowners in California’s cen tral vaUey to benefit from govern ment low-cost irrigation. The question in Teddy Roosevelt’s day was whether any farmer hold ing more than 160 acres should bene fit from government irrigation. The issue arose when the land kings of the Far West wanted to develop their ranches and speculative holdings through irrigation at government ex pense. The West was for it, but the East objected. Eastern states claimed they would be footing the tax bill and that Western irrigation would come out of their pockets. The West replied that the irrigation projects of that day would provide benefits for small Eastern farmers who mi grated westward tomorrow. After a terrific battle, Teddy Roosevelt won out. Congress ruled that government - irrigated land tracts must be limited to 160 acres. That law still stands. But Repub lican Congressman Carter of Oak land, Calif., and Democratic Con gressman Elliott of Tulare, Calif., have ganged up to change it with a rider exempting the central valley irrigation project. Their amendment, already passed by the house, would mean that big ranchers in the central valley could benefit from the new irrigation proj ect no matter how extensive their holdings. Even more important, it would mean that a lot of new land, not extensively cultivated at present, would be subjected to cut-throat speculation. Ickes for Small Farms. Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who has supervised the expenditure of $150,000,000 on central valley irri gation, is determined that the bene fits shall not go to land speculators and big ranchers, plus some of the big liquor companies which have bought up California wineries. The issue, according to Secretary Ickes, is whether the U.S.A. is going to become a nation of large land- , owners hiring Okies and tenant farmers, or whether the nation will feature medium-sized farmers oper ating their own land. NOTE—Business men in the cen tral valley are split over the issue. Many merchants believe that me dium-sized farms rather than poorer : farm labor make for better business in neighboring towns. The Fresno Chamber of Commerce calls 60 to 80 acres of figs an economic unit for a family, or 80 to 120 acres of al falfa. The Chamber has sent out booklets urging settlers to take up small land tracts. • • • FOUR-Fs. Despite all the army howls for 4-Fs to get into war plants, it re mains a fact that physical examina tion in many plants is so stiff that they can’t get in. In fact, the physi cal in some plants is stiffer than in the army. Many a patriotic 4-F has worn out shoeleather making the rounds of war plants, only to find that he can’t get in. A punctured ear-drum, for instance, is considered just as im portant in a war plant as in the army. In recent weeks, belated steps have been taken to relax some of these physical restrictions, but much still remains to be done. So you can’t blame a lot of the 4-F-ers if they aren’t in war plants. Another difficulty which the War Manpower commission might well dig into is the fact that anyone can quit work in a vital war plant but, without a certificate of availability, cannot transfer to another war plant —at least, not until after a 60-day period. In other words, you can step out of an aircraft factory or a synthetic rubber plant and go to work in a barber shop or at a bootblack stand, or just loaf at home. They are not essential industries. But if you want to switch to a munitions plant, you can’t—without a certificate of avail ability (which you probably can’t get), or without waiting the required cooling-off period of 60 days. • « • MERRY-GO-ROUND C. Busy as he is, President Roose velt will soon be called upon to set tle the problem of whether a rail worker’s vacation week is six days or seven. Railroad workers were granted a week’s vacation as part of the wage compromise last year, but the railroad executives now contend that FDR meant the vacation should be six days, not seven. If the rail road workers get seven days, they can stay away Sunday, which is a holiday anyway, plus Monday, or an actual total of eight days. f \ NE large, man-sized job the Na- tional league faces is to pre vent the Cardinals from running away with the pennant before June or July. This was understood in advance. But the Cardinal shadow is even darker and broader than it looked to be. Here is a team that has in Walker Cooper the best catcher in the league. It has much the best pitching staff headed by Mort Cooper, La nier and Brecheen. It has by all odds the best infield, a stronger infield than it had last season with added strength at second base. It has at least one of the better outfields. The Cardinals lost GrantUnd Rice many good men through the draft, but they also ran deeper and had the bulge in re serves. There isn’t much that can be done about it, unless some partial mira cle takes plaee. They might get to be overconfident and start loafing, but this isn’t likely with a bunch that likes to hustle and wants to win. If you check over the remainder of the National league teams, you’ll see what a slight and slender chance there is for any of them to compete on even terms with these Flying Redbirds unless another draft hurri cane blows through their ranks. And unfortunately this is the season that needed a close scramble above ev erything else to make up for the loss of so many stars. In the American league there is promise of a much closer, keener pennant race. This, of course, is the guessing contest with a draft board control that has done more guessing than anyone else. The guessing now must be done from day to day, or from week to week. There is an interesting, compact race ahead. Probably there will be many shifts before October arrives. The American league has no such outstanding team as the Cardinals, provided of course, 'the erratic broom of the draft doesn’t scramble things up again, as it has done so often in the past. There is the chance for a highly scrambled race in the American, as things stand today. There are few wide gaps. But of course this may all change by June or July. Football's Circuit The new National league football circuit now embraces 10 teams that include a Chicago-Pittsburgh combi nation. In the meanwhile Buffalo, Baltimore and San Francisco are still hoping to break in at the open ing. These are all keen sporting centers, but it so happens that 10 teams will have enough trouble fill ing their line-ups without any addi tions at this spot. Playing only Sunday games, pro football has been lucky in its chance to play to war-workers, just as they do in England where 133,000 saw a Scotland-England rugby match a few days ago. You can get by with this where your team plays only 10 games, not 154 as baseball does. Pro football isn’t eager to buck college football in San Francisco where Sunday games draw from 50,- 000 to 60,000 crowds. And San Fran cisco is still quite a hike. Baltimore and Buffalo are both strong cities. Baltimore has been playing to crowds from 40,000 to 60,000 on both- the pro and college side. Out West, Los Angeles can send 90,000 people to a Rose Bowl game and 60,000 others on beyond to Santa Anita in prewar years. Los Angeles is the only city I know that has provided football crowds from 90,000 to 103,000 year after year when No tre Dame came along, far beyond anything New York has ever known in the way of both crowds and sta dium accommodations. In the way of crowd accommodations. New York is still far behind Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, New Ha ven, Chicago, and possibly Colum bus. The Polo Grounds and the Yankee stadium are the two most complete structures for baseball any city knows. But neither is a football lo cation that can even compare with the Municipal stadium in Los Ange les, capacity 103,000; the Pasadena stadium, capacity 90,000; Michigan stadium, Ann Arbor, capacity 90,- 000; Yale Bowl, capacity 80,000; and others that range from 80,000 to 100,- 000. And all more convenient for everything except basebaU. Baseball vs. Racing Baseball’s main followers are people who range from 10 to 35. Racing is followed by a much older crowd that ranges in years from 35 to 70. There are now over 11,000,000 men in the various war services. Most of these are and have been baseball fans. When you take 11,000,000 potential baseball fans away, you can understand the rough hurdle that baseball is facing. And facing successfully, for attendance to date is 13 per cent above last year. BAD NEWS FROM THE RADIO WORLD America has just had one of the most depressing pieces of news in years. Both the Democratic and Re publican conventions are to be broadcast by TELEVISION! ♦ Not only will you be in a position to hear the candidates; you will see them, if you don’t exercise exces sive precautions. ♦ We had been sort of hoping that, due to the war, there might even be trouble hearing the conventions this year. ♦ • It was bad enough in the old days to read about the happenings at a national convention of politicians. Then came radio and we had to listen. And now science is to bring the gasbags right into the old home stead, halitosis and ail. ♦ “Why?” demanded Elmer Twit- chell when he heard the news. “What’s the novelty in seeing Dewey? Who is in the dark as to how Roosevelt looks? Is there any body anywhere who regards a peek at Bricker, Stassen, Hannagan or Spangler as a treat?” ♦ Elmer was quite hot about it. “All conventions are the same,” he de clared. “It would be just as much of a novelty if radio announced a decision to bring Uncle Tom’s Cabin to you by television. * “It looks to me as if the tele vision arrangements mean only one thing: they expect a lot of crooners and hillbilly singers to show np for the nominations this year.” • “What do you think the effect will be on the run-of-the-mill type of convention candidate?” we asked Elmer. “It will finish him off,” declared Mr. Twitchell. “Good looks and personal charm and entertainment value will, be the first essentials for winning the presidential nomination from nofo on.” • “You can imagine the situation,” he continued. “Let’s assume Bricker gets out ahead by a few votes. Hedy Lamarr will be dragged in to speak for Dewey. That will put Dewey away out in front. Then maybe Stassen will toss in Nancy Carroll to speak for him. Taft may counter with Dorothy Lamour. Finally they’ll have to compromise on some handsome guitar player with plenty of oomph.” * Elmer has an idea the conven tions will open with a Benny Good man band, that there will be a quiz program on it, that the nominating speeches may be sung by glamour girls and that cash prizes will be offered to voters who can spell “franchise” correctly. • • • RHYMES IN RETALIATION A New York woman, Ethel Fay, has developed a money-making busi ness through writing verse for hotels to get across messages to the guests. One runs: Before you use that extra towel Think twice and don’t forget That war disrupts our laundry staff And linen’s bard to get. It’s a good idea, but we can't restrain an impulse to offer our serv ices to the cash customers. They have a viewpoint that needs pre senting too. We offer the following free samples: • • • For a Desk Clerk We know the war is quite a strain And makes you weary, very, But is that desk clerk’s hard, cold look So very necessary? • • • For a Bellhop A quarter isn’t what it was And twenty cents ain’t thirty, But still I wish the look you give Me wasn’t quite so dirty. • • • A modem de luxe hotel, the Con tinental, on Cassino heights, has be come a Nazi fortress, with gunners in every doorway and window and with huge Nazi tanks racing across the foyer from one position to another. The scene there must be almost as noisy and confusing as during a routine convention. • • • We can’t help wondering how those who didn’t like “Chicken Ev ery Sunday” refrained from saying it laid an egg. Still, quite a few critics wrung its neck. • • • 1 Hitler’s Next Move The last time I saw Paris I saw Napoleon’s tomb . . . 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