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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Let's Face Facts
USDA Report Biased
Regarding Problem of
Freight Equalization
By BARROW LYONS
WNU Staff Corrwspondvrt
Suppli es and Troops Continue to Roll In
WASHINGTON, D. C —
Under the guise of impartial and
balanced analysis, the United States
department of agriculture has just
issued an extremely biased piece of
propaganda, primarily in the inter
est of the railroads, but incidentally
against the interests of the average
farmer.
This propaganda is contained in
the principal article of the June is
sue of the month
ly release on the
marketing and
transportation
situation, p u b-
lished by the
bureau of agri
cultural econom
ics. The article is
devoted to inter-
territorial freight
rate differences.
_ _ This report cov-
Bamm Lyons ers some of the
points developed in studies made
of freight rate discriminations
against the South and West by two
governmental bodies—the board of
investigation and research and the
Tennessee Valley authority.
The review is apparently an at
tempt to influence farmer opinion,
and is in bad taste coming as it
does when the Interstate Commerce
commission has just completed final
hearings in the freight’ rate equali
zation cases. It seems to be an at
tempt to undermine the determina
tion of the South to obtain justice,
for it raises broad doubts as to the
wisdom of the South’s position. In
effect, it also casts doubt upon the
position taken by President Roose
velt.
Important Data Omitted
Although the piece goes through
the motions of weighing carefully
all factors involved, its presentation
leaves out of consideration the most
important and relevant data, name
ly, portrayal of the conditions which
have given the South its tremendous
determination to remove the handi
caps that have retarded its indus
trialization, and the importance to
southern agriculture that these
handicaps be removed.
But not only does the department
of agriculture presentation omit im
portant facts, it subtly distorts
some of the data which it presents.
For instance, it shows that first-
class freight rates are 39 per cent
higher in the South than in Eastern
industrialized territory, and all
class rates taken together 33 per
cent higher, but then goes on to
minimize the significance of these
facts. It recites that average reve
nue per ton-mile in the South is only
5.5 per cent greater than in the
East, without making it clear that
this is due largely to lower grade
freight carried on southern roads.
Nor does it anywhere envisage the
advantages which would accrue
from lower class rates.
This intensely lopsided presenta
tion suggests that the railroads may
have influenced the department of
agriculture, perhaps through the
instrumentality of large agricultural
shippers, upon whom they have
been working hard to oppose the
southern governors’ conference.
'nie truth is that a majority of
the people of the South, and many
in the West, have come to the reali
zation that without greater indus
trialization their sections cannot
hope to have the same advantages
in education and material culture
as the people of the East and Middle
West. Poverty, illiteracy, bad
health, ignorance will continue to
oppress a large percentage of the
people of the South and West until
average income is raised through
development of industry. Until then
local governments cannot give their
people the same advantages as
people in other |>arts of the country.
Other Sections Unhurt
In no way can the industrialization
of the South and West hurt the farm
ers of those areas. By increasing
average income, industry will in
crease the consuming capacity of
the South and West for all of the
things the farmer grows. It can
mean only the development of rich
er markets nearer to the farms.
Industrialization of one region never
injures the farmers of another re
gion, but only expands the markets
for the things he ships.
Even the big shippers, some of
whom have been told that commodi
ty rates might be raised if class
rates were equalized, would not be
losers, but would gain from in
creased prosperity anywhere.
True, progress has been made
by industry in the South, even un
der the handicap of a 39 per cent
class rate discrimination. Removal
of this handicap would support one
of the chief hopes we have of main
taining a high level of employment
and income after the war.
• • •
Those who understand the great
struggle between the small farmers
and the big farmers, see in this
freight rate situation just another
phase of the conflict. By increasing
the economic standards of the
South, many small farmers would
be enabled to operate more
profitably, and enjoy more of the
advantages of this modem age. On
the other hand, by holding back the
industrial growth of the South, many
more small farmers would be forced
to become hired hands on the grow
ing plantations of the large farmers.
Striking panorama of the French invasion beach was made by a coast guard combat cameraman
from a hillside cut with trenches, in foreground, by ousted Nazi defenders. The channel is black with Ships
as reinforcements and supplies pour ashore to reinforce the troops to continue their advance southward. Bar
rage balloons float overhead to protect the landings. Until captured harbors have been repaired, and per
haps even later, the beachheads are being utilized to land men, supplies, munitions and food as well as hos-
[ttal and canteen supplies now being furnished the invaders.
Nazi Collaborationist Loses ‘Crowning Glory’
The French patriots made the punishment fit the crime (as any female who has had her “crowning
glory" sheared will attest). Grande Guillotte, 23-year-old French girl was taken from her home by force and
sheared of her long hair for collaborating with the Nazis. Many French patriots have joined together and
have designated a large number of collaborationist suspects. While they have not announced the punish
ment to be given to all the men on the list, it looks as if the women will soon be missing their hair.
First Marines to Land in U. S.
The First marine division, with 2,743 happy members, arrived in San
Diego after 26 months in the South Pacific. This unit struck America’s
first land blow at Japan at Guadalcanal. Their most recent action was
on New Britain island where they drove out the Japs.
Marines Flush Out Japs
Saipan marines attacking a Jap position, flush the enemy out with
demolition charges, and pick them off with rifle fire as they try to
escape. The moment the photo was made marines had just killed
a Nip who had tried to escape from his foxhole. Seven-eighths of the
Saipan American losses were marines.
German Nurse Talks
Press interview is given by this
German nurse, taken during fighting
around Cherbourg. With other
nurses she was later transported
back to her lines while hostilities
ceased.
Chief in Hospital
Injured while rescuing an enlisted
man during the fierce fighting at
Saipan, Marine Lieut. Col. E. F.
Carlson, winner of navy cross, C. O.
of the Carlson’s Raiders.
Byron Nelson
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
G EORGE Ade once wrote “High
east winds always prevail in
the locker rooms.’’
Those east winds are still blow
ing as gustily as ever, carrying the
same old argu
ments. One of them
How would the golf
ers of 20 years ago
— Mac Smith, Wal
ter Hagen, Jim
Barnes, Jock Hut
chison, Johnny Far
rell, Gene Sarazen,
Tommy Armour,
Harry Cooper, Bob
by Cruickshank,
Willie MacFarlane
and others — score
if they were play
ing tournament golf today?
The record books will show you
that 20 years ago a golfer could
win almost any tournament by
shooting par golf. The United States
Open at Oakland Hills in 1924 was
won by Cyril Walker with socres of
74-74-74-75 — 297. Bobby Jones fin
ished second with a total of 74-73-
75-78—300.
When the United States Open was
again held at Oakland Hills, in 1937,
10 golfers finished under Walker’s
winning score of 1924. Four others
tied it and Ralph Guldahl won the
title with 284 strokes.
Modern Golf
The Masters’ tournament of 1942
highlighted the near perfection of
of modern golf. At the halfway mark
of 36 holes Ben Hogan was eight
strokes behind Byron Nelson. In the
old days a man that far off the
pace settled for “also-ran money.”
But not diminutive Ben. He burned
up the stretch with phenomenal golf
to wind up in a tie with Nelson at
280—eight strokes better than par.
The two men went into the play
off, one of the greatest nerve shat-
terers in sport. Usually athletes in
play-offs are expected to crack a
bit, to yield to the overwhelming
pressure. They tighten up. But Nel
son and Hogan reversed the usual
form. They played the toughest
course in the United States in beau
tiful totals. Hogan scored a two-
under-par 70. Nelson fired a 69 to
win the title.
This doesn’t mean that Hogan and
Nelson were necessarily superior
to the golfers of a score of years
ago. Today’s scores were impossible
20 years ago. The modern golfer
benefits from the many improve
ments that help produce low scores.
These advantages include steel-
shafted clubs, a longer ball, the
dynamiter and- infinitely better fair
ways and greens.
The dynamiter—or blaster—saves
the average professional players a
few strokes on nearly every round.
Good golfers have lost their fear of
traps. They lay the ball near the pin
from almost any kind of a trapped
lie. ,
One Difference
The old timers'putted on hard,
unwatered greens. Their speed was
no more constant than New Eng
land weather. Fairways, after a dry
spell, were baked to a hard, rough
surface. Today’s golfer plays on
well-watered, soft greens. Fairways
are well kept and smooth. The rough
is controlled.
Many of the men who made golf
popular in this country would sneer
at the suggestion
that Jones, Hagen,
Sarazen, Mac Smith
and the others could
not have scored as
low as the mod
ern players. They
honestly believe that
not more than two
or three of today’s
players would have
had the ghost of a
chance in national
competition 20 years
ago. Golf, they feel,
has been simplified to such an ex
tent that it isn’t the test of skill it
once was.
We straddle the fence on the en
tire question. It is our belief that
the best of the old timers — if they
were at the peak of their form today
—would be as good as the best of
the modern players. And we also
believe that the present-day top-
notchers would have been topnotch-
ers 20 years ago.
Golf is more than a matter of
clubs, balls and course condition.
Two at the qualities most necessary
to reach the top are determination
and concentration. These were the
possessions of many old-timers.
The individual still counts most.
Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Jug Mc-
Spaden are the same kind of play
ers as Hagen, Jones and Sarazen.
ABA
SPORTS SHORTS
C. Zack Wheat, one of the aH-time
greats of baseball, is running a re
sort in western Missouri.
C. Two 16-year-old boys are mem
bers of the 1944 Illinois football
squad.
C. Bob Seeds, former Chicago White
Sox outfielder, now is player-man
ager at Little Rock.
4L Herb Coleman, Notre Dame’s
regular center last year, has been
discharged from the navy and iff
back in schooL
Gene Sarazen
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The ribbon-bill fish can “walk”
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on the surface of the sea for sev
eral hundred yards, giving it the
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