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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. IT. S. TREATMENT OF GERMAN PRISONERS Parents of boys who are prisoners of Germany get increasingly burned up at reports showing how badly they are fed by the enemy, while German prisoners in the U. S. are eating better than American civil ians. German prisoners of war, many of them arrogant, insolent, and con sidered beyond political rehabilita tion, get rationed foods denied civ- ilians, and in some cases receive scarce foods requiring four times the food stamps now allowed Ameri can civilians. The provost marshal, of course, is living up to the strict letter of the Geneva convention regarding prisoners, which provides that they be fed the same rations as U. S. sol diers. Thus at one Florida camp, a one- week menu recently showed that the Nazi prisoners’ ration for a single week would have required 45 meat points and 63 processed food points per man. Here is a sample of some of the meals German prison ers of war received at MacDill field, Florida. Dinner: Turkey a la king, parsley potatoes, cauliflower, celery and pickles, bread, butter, chocolate cake, coffee. At breakfast the next day they re ceived grapefruit, dry cereal, fresh milk, boiled eggs, toast, butter, jam and coffee. For luncheon they had veal steak, lyonnaise potatoes, stewed corn, fruit salad, bread, butter, peaches and coffee. For supper the PW's had veal loaf, gravy, escalloped potatoes, green peas, cabbage and pineapple salad, bread, butter, cinnamon rolls and coffee. The prisoners are served butter three times a day, seven days a week. During other days of the same week they had fried pork chops, bacon and eggs, beef stew, spareribs, roast veal, veal a la king, roast beef with gravy, baked ham and baked beans with salt pork. They were also given Boston cream pie for dinner, butterscotch pudding, pineapple fritters, marble cake, fruit cobbler, mince pie, peach shortcake, and other fancy dishes. Meanwhile, American boys held by the Germans complain that were it not for Red Cross packages pro vided them by relatives they would be hungry constantly. ARMY DISCHARGES With all the pressure the army has been bringing for a work-or- fight law, no one in congress has taken time for a real investigation of the army’s own wasteful dis position of manpower. Among other things, there has been no probe of army policy regarding medical discharges. Actually, army medicos all over the country are discharging men for minor ailments which, although rendering them unfit for front-line action, don’t effect their ability to do clerical, construction, or other types of work. Last summer General Marshall also ordered discharges for men found to be developing nervous dis orders as a result of their army service. But last October, so many men were successfully faking these difficulties that a six-week freeze was called, and a much stiffer dis charge examination required. But “goldbricks” and “gripes” are still the men who most frequent ly win their discharge papers. If a man dislikes the army, is un cooperative and is determined to get s medical discharge, the attitude of his officers is usually “good rid dance.” But a good man on other than combat duty, who has a legiti mate illness which merits dis charge, finds it extremely difficult to get his release because “he’s a good man and we need men like him.” • • • CAPITAL CHAFF C. The office of War Information so far has banned Leste*. Cowan’s new movie hit “Tomorrow the World” from distribution in European liber ated countries. The story shows a Nazi youngster transferred to the U. S. A. and being beaten up when he still sticks to Hitler’s idea. OWI officials say they may release the ban for France and Belgium, but will not let the film get to Germany. 4L An inside row is being waged over the reappointment of A1 Woll, son of AFL labor leader Matthew Woll, as U. S. district attorney in Chicago. Matt Woll is 100 per cent against Roosevelt and White House advisers don’t see why his son should be rewarded by FDR. How ever, Sen. Scott Lucas, friend ol Jake Arvey, is pulling wires for Woll’s reappointment. C. Behind the United Automobile Workers’ nationwide referendum to continue the “no-strike” pledge, was the feeling on the part of some workers that this pledge originally was forced on them by the union bosses. Union leaders therefore wanted to give them all a chance to vote. . . . The Walter Reuther faction of the auto work ers previously favored a “no strike” pledge until the war with Germany was over, but Reuther is now supporting the all-out “no strike” pledge for the all-out effort against the Japs. A FTER all wars, morals collapse and character takes a nose dive. For wars are destructive in more ways than in the matter of human life, human flesh and bone, and man-built cities. It was after the first world war that the Black Sox scandal devel oped. This was in 1919. But the Black Sox were not the only crooked offend ers. There were many others — on other teams. Everyone has heard recently of the 12,090 soldiers who,were AWOL in France where every man was needed for his job. Many of these sold cigarettes and other front-line needs to the French black market. Only a few have been convicted and sentenced to death or long terms of peni tentiary labor. But here is proof of thousands willing to betray their own fighting mates for some form of profit. This is something far beyond throwing a baseball or a basketball game. Or a football game. It is the ultimate in infamy. So if this can happen to onr army along the fight ing front, with over 12,000 betray als, some far lower than any Bene dict Arnold, yon can see what can happen to sport. The Brooklyn college basketball matter was only a small part of the picture. We all know that the average kid—the average college student—is honest. We also know that we have had crooked governors, crooked senators and crooked con gressmen. But politics is accepted as at least a partly crooked game. Sport isn’t. Must Be on Guard Once they blast the foundations of complete honesty from under sport, the entire structure starts to cave in. We have had too much dishonesty, entirely too much crookedness, entirely too much cow ardice in politics. Everyone knows that. But sport can’t be “almost clean.” It can never reach the low er level of politics, and still get by. It is for this reason that sport must be on guard through the remainder of the present war—and through the postwar period on beyond. It isn’t enough to say that most athletes are honest. This applies to baseball, football, basketball and boxing. In another way it applies to racing. We must go beyond this rating. In 1919 there were over 400 honest ballplayers — yet there were eight players who came near wrecking the game. Judge Landis and Babe Ruth saved it. The professional gambler, as a rule, is smart, smooth and intelli gent, although there are exceptions. He knows human nature and its weaknesses. And he has cash to offer. Above all else, the pro gam bler wants the winning edge, the ' winning percentage, for his money. 1 Too many of these would betray the souls of their mothers for a winning bet. Once again — I honestly believe this applies to the minority. But the minority, with the playing minority in sport, can wreck any game whose main bulwark must be i honest effort. Unless there is the strictest sort of control shown by sporting lead ers — including coaches, college presidents and iron-hearted commis- j sioners, sport can wallow into more crookedness than it has ever known. To me, it isn’t enough to say that most of these athletes are honest. Most people are honest. But there is still many a crook around who can at least come close to wrecking the whole works. Let’s not be too gullible again. Who would have be lieved in 1919 that almost an entire ball club could be bought at a cheap price to throw a world series—in cluding two potential hall-of-fame stars? Who could have believed that 12,000 soldiers in France would betray their fighting mates at the front? Or who could have believed that a Brooklyn basketball team— one of Brooklyn’s prides—would have sold out to cheap gamblers? The gamblers hardly count. They were barely ducking Sing Sing any way. But the five kids are wrecked beyond all help. Their lives are over in any decent community. Sport today needs keen, alert, honest and fearless leaders—more than it ever needed them before. For there is a tidal wave of dis honesty on its way, no matter what the optimists may tell you. • • • Boxing Decisions Just why is it that referees, | judges, boxing writers and the crowd so often disagree violently on j the winner and the winning and los- : ing rounds? I know practically ev ery boxing writer and official around New York. In a ten-round contest I’ve seen two able boxing writers disagree entirely on six or seven of the ten rounds, and both disagree just as violently with the three officials, who in turn were dis agreeing with one another. GrsatlsndRice Servicemen With Their Loyal and Strange Pets mi j\ Mil Four mascots, upper left, of the Seventh Liberator squadron. They ail joined the squadron when smaU pups. Lower left shows a sleeping G.I. with his two strange bedfellows, a monkey and a dog. Right shows a pet that has become as tame as any of the more domestic type of pets. Insert, a G.I. with his white mouse. Thousands of these pets will be returning to the U. S. with their masters when the war is over. Army officials say they have played a most important part in morale building among the servicemen. American Allies Fighting Behind Jap lines * , J g&l ' • ,-V *1 Led by American army, navy and marine officers and enlisted men, the Kachins, perennial hill people of Burma, are focusing their natural fighting talents on combating the Japanese behind enemy lines In Burma. Known as the American Kachin rangers, the Kachins have contributed greatly to the defeat of the Japs in Burma during the last two years. The activities, until recently, have been wit held. G.I. Joe’s Personal Biographer Hi Hi 1 ss. Famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle, whose warm informal human-interest reporting of the war on African and European fronts earned him the title of G.I. Joe’s personal biographer, is greeted by Capt. H. B. Miller, USN, left, and Capt. David S. Ingalls, center, as he arrives in Hawaii to begin a duty tour of the U. S. navy on the Pacific front. Water Buffaloes on Leyte Isle lliPi "V-V: Veteran signalmen of the Seventh division on Leyte give high praise to water buffaloes as pack animals, but have a serious grievance regarding other habits of these sturdy beasts. Herds, roaming freely in certain areas of the island, frequently disrupt communications by get- tine tangled in signal corps field wire, laid off roads to avoid tanks. What a Dog’s Life (alter* ^ inche v ■EKErrsmal Notes of a Newspaperman: Story of a Song: Once upon a time (March, 1943) songwriter John ny Burke dined at the home of Harry Lillis Crosby. . . . Gary, oldest son of Crosby, was spouting monosylla bic thumb-noses at the principles of American education. In sum, he hated school. . '. . Burke waved a worldly finger. . . . "My boy,” he said, “you should be glad you’re go ing to school. How would you like to be a fish? A fish can’t read or write or go to ball games. All he can do is swim around and when he gets tired of swimming one way, he turns around and swims the oth er. If you like that sort of life, you might grow up to be a fish.” . . . Mr. Burke was impressed with his own philosophy. . . . He hastened to his partner, Jimmy Van Heusen, and repeated the dissertation on fish. . . . As a result, “Swingin’ on a Star” was born and cast in “Going My Way,” starring Bing. . . . Soon after the picture premiered the ditty made The Kit Parade and stayed on it for 20 straight weeks. ... It became a minor national anthem with kids who asked kin if they’d like to be a fish or a mule. . . . Clergymen used the theme in sermons, and Joe E. Lewis parodied: “Would you like to hang on a bar, with a dame like Hedy Lamarr?” . . . Very soon a book on the theme will be published. They may make a film based on its story, too. . . . Anyway, that’s what came of a kid saying he didn’t like school and why J. Burke and J. Van Heusen pay surtaxes. Ambassador to Brazil A. A. Berie’s wife is known for hei frankness. Recently at a dinner in Washington Mrs. Berle cor nered a Russian General and asked him a few pointed ques tions. The dialog went some thing like this—his answers are in parentheses: “What is Rus sia’s present aim?” (to defeat the enemy). . . . “What are you going to do with Germany?” (Conquer her). . . . “And with Poland?” (liberate her). . . . “And what will you do when you arrive at the Rhine?” (Take a swim). We have just finished Noel Cow ard’s “Middle East Diary,” and the following paragraph in it belongs here, considering Coward’s recent “jam” over his comment in the book about Brooklyn soldiers. . . . “At ten o’clock,” he observes, “I went to call on General Eisenhower. He combats untiringly the little cracks and lampoons and jokes spread by the British against the Americans and vice versa. I believe he even sacked an important member of his staff for making a minor contribu tion to this dangerous, subversive racket. One silly little man with one laborious joke can cause an incred ible amount of damage.” Frank Munn called the American Album of Familiar Music cast to gether and said: “I just wanted to ; tell you a little story. Frank Hum- mert once approached me and of fered a spot on this program. ... I asked, ‘For how long do you want , me?’ “ ‘Maybe 13 weeks,’ he said, ‘maybe 13 years.’ “I just wanted to tell all of you that tonight is the anniversary of my 13th year on the American Al bum of Familiar Music.” Munn holds no contract, shake cemented the deal. A handr My Joey, whippet, resents the in trusion of the photographer into his privacy while he is being beautified. The manicure serves more than vanity in this case, it makes running more comfortable. This is only one of the trials of a whippet. Dishes Made of Ice The colyum’s recent experience (because of an omitted comma in a telegram) recalls this one about a refugee college prof, dining in a res taurant near Columbia University. . . . Speaking English with that ac quired precision which so often shames the native born, he ordered “figs and cream.” . . . The waitress brought a dish of figs covered with cream. “I ordered figs and cream,” he protested. “Well,” she said, "there they are.” “But,” he persisted, “this is figs WITH cream!” “So what?” she so-whatted. “What’s wrong with it?” “Madam,” said the professor icily, “would you say a woman and child were the same as a woman with chUd?” Now that the women of America have learned to operate drills and chisels, they will be making their own ice bowls for salads and sea food dishes, as does Madeline Stone, above. 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Slow-Ripening Fruit The sea cocoanut, found only in the Seychelles, is the slowest ma turing fruit, requiring ten years to ripen. Newspapermen will tell you that corrections sometimes are worse than the original story. . . . This is a concrete example: “Our paper carried the notied last week that Mr. John Doe was a defective in the po lice force. This was a typographical error. Mr. Doe is really a detective in the police farce.” Scrambled Eggs: Betty Hutton’s stand-in is Marie Osborne, better known a decade ago as the famous child star. Baby Marie. . . . Helen Forrest, the thrush, has shelved 15 lbs. in two weeks, which is too fast. ... Before Clark Gable came to town Anita Colby asked him to phone her sister Francine when he got here. He called her and said: “This is Clark Gable.” . . . “Really?” re plied Francine. “And this is Lana Turner!” And hung up! He never reached her. 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