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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 . . .
I’m planning to go back there
And get in, if there’s room!
• • •
Subway Socrates says he is tired
of bringing home the bacon and get
ting nothing out of it but the rind.
• • •
Playing Safe
A rugged guy
Is Egbert Cass;
He brings to bars
His own ounce-glass.
!/■ EEP ’em looking attractive—
and cool and comfortable on hot
days! This pretty play set is quickly
cut and sewn from a small amount
of material. Airy little sun-suit is
buttoned on shoulders—makes it
simple to launder. Tiny tie-on skirt
matches. Buttoned bonnet is made
of one flat piece for ease in iron
ing.
Two appliques are given—a
bright tulip and a tiny kitten’s
head. Let little Sister choose which
one she wants on her play suit! 1
• • •
To obtain pattern for play suit pinafore,
sun hat and two appUque’ patterns (Pat
tern No. 5328) (adjustable for sizes 2-3A)
send 18 cents In coin, your name and ad
dress and the pattern number.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more time
is required in filling orders Jot a few of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK
538 South Wells St. Chicago.
Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to
cover cost of mailing) for Pattern
No
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