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THE NEWBERR\ 4 MN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
United Nations of N. Y.:
New York is the breath-taking
atone and steel monument to the
20th Century. It was erected by the
brawn, brains and sweat of foreign
ers and their descendants. The
varied nationalities, religions and
races have liveH together in peace
and enjoyed the benefits of democ
racy. New York is the striking real
ity of the American dream. ... If
one great city can be the living ex
ample of the UN ideals—and if 48
United States can do it—so can the
United Nations. . . . New York rep
resents the test-tube of the One
World experiment. If 8 million peo
ple can accomplish that—billions
can. For the experiment has suc
ceeded far beyond the wildest hopes
of starry-eyed dreamers and proph
ets.
Our fabulous metropolis should be
an inspiration for visiting UN dele
gates. Here is living proof of UN
ideals. The Big Town’s diversity of
creeds and nationalities wouid
amaze even many native New York
ers. Every member of the United
Nations has contributed to its
myriad population, plus some na
tions that aren’t members. This is a
big city and a little world.
The British atmosphere of Ye Olde
English Chop Houses along Thames
Street. Many of them are replicas
of famed ^ eateries in London. They
feature wood-paneled walls, sepa
rate stalls and are decorated with
early prints. The cuisine is simply
ripping, old boy. It is usually so
quiet there—you can hear a mon
ocle drop.
The West Forties and Fifties have
a French population that is large
enough to form a true French Quar
ter. Bastille Day and other French
national holidays are celebrated
here, and many restaurants serve
Gallic dishes. If you pass this sec
tor — you can enjoy the sight of
stylishly - groomed mademoiselles
living up to their reps as slick
chicks. Whew-la-la 1
Every section of the planet is rep
resented in our incredible over
grown hamlet. Among the foreign
colonies that thrive here are the
Hindus, Persians, Mexican Indians
and Koreans. The Hindus and Per
sians are for the most part prosper
ous merchants and importers. . . .
The mosque in Brooklyn attracts de
vout Mohammedans. Most of the
Mohammedans in our town are
Turks.
The Estonians periodically hold
music festivals, at which many of
the men and women appear in the
Estonian peasant costume—and
a good time is had by all. . . . An
imposing edifice known as the Nor
wegian Seamen’s Church is mani-
tained chiefly for Norwegian sailors.
It has always had its pastor select
ed by church and governmental au
thorities in Norway.
The East Side Armenian shops—
holes-in-the-wall — feature copper
coffee urns, silver vases, ornate Vic
torian lamps and mantel clocks and
an occasional porcelain shepherd
ess. Priceless antique metalware is
sold here as well as the shoddiest
machine-made' articles.
Aftei' Czechoslovakia became an
independent nation in 1918 many
Slovaks from downtown moved up
into the Czech quarter, and the two
groups have combined many of
their interests. Pride in their lan
guages and traditions has prompted
them to maintain separate schools
where (after public school hours)
the children can be taught their
native speech and history. One of
the city’s most colorful spectacles is
the annual Decoration Day Czecho
slovak parade in native costume.
The Latin-American colony on
Saturday nights is alive with ex
citement. Dance dens are throbbing
with rhumba rhythms. Watch these
lithe people weave their ball-bear
ing torsos during the tantalizing
tempos. They make the rhumba a
fine art.
Famed Chinatown is packed with
more happy orientals than you can
find in Asia. Here are unique joss
houses where Chinese Buddhists
worship. Shops hawk exotic herbs at
fantastic fees. And if you listen
closely, you can pick up the jive
lingo and swift patter of the al
mond-eyed jitterbugs.
At the foot of Washington Street
you will appreciate New York’s cos
mopolitan rep. This is the Syrian
Quarter where newsstands feature
Arabic dailies.
Turks, Armenians and Greeks also
make their homes here. Shops glit
ter with vivid Syrian silks of rain
bow hues. Coffee houses and confec
tioneries of the Levantines add a
picturesque touch. Occasionally, you
can be startled by the sight of an
old man in a fez.
Little Italy’s rollicking fiestas are
among the town’s wow scenes. The
streets are strung with lights, and
happiness gets a workout. The peo
ple sing and dance and toss inhibi
tions to the winds.
Washington, D. C.
RUSSIA IS LIKE U. S.
WASHINGTON. — Reminiscences
of a Reporter—It’s been a long time
since the sixth Pan-American con
ference in Havana, 1928; but that
conference has certain similarities
with what’s brewing in New York
today. Calvin Coolidge made a spe
cial trip to Cuba, the first time in
years a President set foot on for
eign soil. Charles Evans Hughes,
ex-secretary of state, dominated the
U. S. delegation. Frank B. Kellogg,
his successor as secretary of state,
also fretted and fumed in the back
ground.
Reason for the desire to im
press the brethren: Worry . . .
Worry over American troops on
Nicaraguan soil. . . . Worry over
American troops on Haitian soil.
Worry about the right of Amer
ican troops to intervene in vari
ous countries such as Mexico to
protect U. S. oil.
Memory Flashes: Charles Evans
Hughes, sedate, bewhiskered, im
pressive, buttonholing Latin dele
gates. He made a great picture, did
a beautiful job of organizing a bloc
of pro-U. S. A. nations. . . . Cuba,
Panama were to us as Poland and
Yugoslavia are to Russia today. . . .
Hughes’ objective: To prevent any
discussion of intervention. In other
words, the U. S. A. reserved the
right to land troops on foreign
soil without being hauled before the
public court of Pan Americanism.
. . . Hughes won out. Our inter
ventions in Haiti, Nicaragua, were
successfully barred from the agen
da. We didn’t have to stage a walk
out as the Russians did' at New
York.
Biggest Test: Whether the
U. S. A. would consent to arbi
trate disputes with its Latin
neighbors. . . . Hughes had in
structions to duck even ♦his. The
state department didn t even
want to discuss the matter. It
was a tough fight to bar all de
bate of arbitration, but Hughes
won out even on this.
TROOPS IN NICARAGUA
PAN-AMERICAN ARBITRA’l ION
CONFERENCE, Washington, 1929—
U. S. public opinion, usually ahead
of the government, by this time had
begun to change. . . . There had
always been resentment against
landing troops in Nicaragua. The
Pulitzers plus other liberal news
papers poured a torrent of abuse on
the state department. Even con
servative papers were skeptical. . . .
Charles Evans Hughes was raked
over the coals for opposing ever,
the discussion of arbitration at Ha
vana. . . . Like Russia, we still de
manded the veto, but unlike Russia,
the American people didn’t support
their government. They were ’way
ahead of it.
RUSSIA AND UvAN
NEW YORK, 1946—Today, Rus
sia, fuming against the United Na
tions, is in the same boat as the
U. S. A. before the Pan-American
union. Instead of Nicaragua, it’s
Iran. . . . But there is one essential
difference. ... In 20 years, the
U. S. A. moved far ahead in inter
national morality—due to the power
of public opinion. The American
people, its press and pulpit, were
continually pushing their govern
ment. . . . The opposite is true of
Russia. The Russian people know
little about Iran, little about the
UNO conference, have to take what
their government gives them. A
Stars and Stripes quiz of Red army
soldiers showed that most of them
thought Churchill was an American.
.♦ . . We have to make allowances
for Russia because in a sense she
is a new nation—sensitive and sus
picious.
* « •
COLUMNIST ICKES
Probably it was pure accident,
but Harold Ickes begins his new
career as newspaper columnist on
the same day he is needed most
in his old job as coal administrator.
And, good columnist that he is bound
to be, probably most people would
prefer Ickes at the helm in this coal
dispute rather than wielding a pen
three times a week.
As a columnist, Ickes should tell
the inside story of how he outsmart-
ted John L. Lewis during the last
coal strike and made him call it
off.
During Lewis’ illegal walkout
over organizing foremen last fall,
Ickes pulled his trump card. The
government-owned big inch and lit
tle inch pipelines no longer were
needed to carry oil to the East
coast; so Ickes threatened to con
vert them to natural gas.
With this trump card, plus the fact
that the miners themselves didn’t
want to strike, Ickes bulldozed Lew
is into calling the strike off.
* * •
UNRRA MERRY-GO-ROUND
After Mayor LaGuardia was ap
pointed to take Governor Lehman’s
place, delegates of hungry nations
at the Atlantic City UNRRA con
ference wisecracked: “We asked
for 500,000 tons of wheat and you
gave us a Tittle flower’.” . . . With
out disparaging the many fine quali
ties of Fiorello, some felt that food
problems would not be solved by an
atomic bombshell. . . . The La
Guardia appointment was right out
of the Missouri mule. The Little
Flower is now at work.
WARSAW, CITY OF RUINS . . . Life goes on in a city of complete
ruins. Children in Warsaw, Poland, are playing games in front of the
ruins of Marien Kircher, the oldest church in the Polish capital.
Charred wreckage forms a cross in the background. The population,
once over a million, has dwindled to a few thousand of under-nourished
and ill-clad population. Warsaw is the “ghost city of Europe.” The
mystery is why the few remain in Warsaw.
HOOVER DISCUSSES FOOD . . . Herbert Hoover, center, former
president of the United States, who is currently making a tour of
Europe to study the food problem, is shown following his arrival in
Czechoslovakia with Lawrence Steinhardt, left, U. S. ambassador,
and President Benes, right, of Czechoslovakia. Hoover has reported
an urgent need for food in most countries of Europe if open revolt
and starvation is to be averted. '
PINING UNDER THE PINES . . . ’Tis said that in the spring a young
man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love, so Jimmy Murray, Johnson
City, N. Y„ not wanting to be an exception to the rule, whispers
sweet nothings to his lady fair, Kathy Callahan. They’re all wrapped
up in the mysteries of puppy love as they hold a tryst under the pines.
Many an oldster could take a lesson from this young fair couple.
PARIS CELEBRATES AGAIN . . . For the first time since the war
Paris burst forth with all its pent up gaiety in a colorful carnival that
brought forth its brightest costumes and floats. The holiday spirit
penetrated downward into the younger brackets, too, hnd here we
see three children of the many who marched through the streets of
Paris in masquerade, the hardships of war a thing of the past.
AIR COMMANDER . . . Lt. Gen.
George Stratemeyer, former com
mander of the U. S. air forces in
China, has been appointed com
mander of the newly formed air
defense command. He will be
responsible for defense of the
United States.
MAY RULE AGAIN ... As a
result of the recent Greece elec
tion, King George II, now in exile
in England, may be returned. He
first reigned in 1922, but fled the
country the next year due to an
uprising. He was restored to his
throne again in 1935 but forced
into exile in 1941 when the Ger
mans overran his country.
CONTENDER WORKS OUT . . .
Billy Conn, who meets world’s
champion heavyweight Joe Louis
at Yankee stadium on June 19,
punches the bag at his camp at
Greenwood Lake, New Jersey. A
$3,500,000 gate is expected.
EGGS GETTING LARGER . . .
This S. C. White Leghorn hen is
certainly in a class by herself.
Held by owner, Mrs, William
Burnham, Albany, N. Y., she looks
over her 14-ounce egg, 5 inches
long, 9 inches in circumference.
COMPTON HONORED . . . Dr.
Karl T. Compton, president of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Boston, who was awarded
the highest award the war depart
ment can bestow on a civilian.
Sweet Round-House
Those designs for living in the
world of tomorrow keep coming.
Every day some fellow who must
have studied architecture .while
riding in Mardi Gras parades
springs something newer and screw
ier in housing.
»
The brass ring in this month’s
Caroussel Ride with Blueprints goes
to a Kansas man who has produced
a round bungalow.
*
It looks like a butter dish with
ventilation arrangements, a super
mousetrap with roof, a derby hat
with windows.
.
It is made of aluminum and is
suspended on cables from a steel
shaft. The rooms, six of ’em, are
cut in like slices in a pie. It is the
ideal home for a six -day bicycle
racer who has married the winner
of a marathon waltz and who is
raising a family of hysterical roller
skaters.
_
It takes a heap of living to maKe
a place seem home, as Edgar Guest
said. And Edgar never lived in a
home where the tenants had to steal
three laps on themselves to deter
mine where the front door was.
.
A window runs all around the
house. No matter where you sit you
get a choice of views. Life in a
house like this must make you feel
like a cross between a roulette bail,
the needle in a compass and breast
of chicken under glass.
.
In such a home you are really a
chocolate eclair with ears and a
cream puff with plumbing troubles.
*
Viewed from a distance the place
looks like half a watermelon with
curtains over the wormholes.
*
In it there is the spirit of a- Sal-
vadore Dali dream sequence, a
night-club designer’s nigbtmaie
and a pinwheel maker’s lost week
end.
*
We are ordering one for summer
occupancy. But we will shoot the
first neighbor who sticks his head
into our living room and yells
“Fifty dollars for a sprint!”
• • •
Spring Signs
Gentle spring is here I know—
The thrush sings in the tree,
The turtle dove is singing low,
(We’ll soon bomb Bikini) . .
The frogs are croaking on the pond,
The kids play mumble-peg.
Lambs gambol in the fields
beyond . . .
("Will peace now lay an egg!).
The vernal season, yes, is here.
And I have ample proof:
Much gayer is the chanticleer,
’Ihe squirrels romp my roof;
I saw an oriole today,
the buds burst near my door—
And everywhere the people say,
“Looks like another war!”
The bluebird soon will be along,
The dew is on the grass,
The woodland now is full ol song
And congress full of gas;
The hurdy-gurdies grind it out . . .
(The little states get knocked about
As ultimatums fly!).
The waterfall is foaming white,
The trout are seen to break,
I heard a nightingale last night . .
(Joe Stalin’s on the make);
Along the wall, the chipmunks run,
We soon will have bock beer,
(Our army has a rocket gun
To pierce the stratosphere!).
* * *
Have you heard about the UNO
delegate who was disturbed in a
New York hotel and phoned down,
“I demand a little peace here!”?
* * •
There may be some good reason why no
nation ever lends any money to Uncle
Sam, but there can*t be any why none ever
offers him a cigar.
* * •
Use for Old Street Cars
The papers are devoting much
space to the “discovery that old
street cars can be converted into
pretty comfortable dwellings.” Dis
covery my eye! Years ago we were
a surface-car tenant, a two-surface-
car dweller to be exact. Two were
hauled down to the beach of a Con
necticut shore resort and a small
living room built between them,
with a porch added front and rear.
Each car was used as a bedroom.
We occupied a set-up with a bunch
of boys back home. There was only
one drawback. Jim Finnegan used
to get in after midnight and enjoy
ringing up fares.
• • •
SHORT STORY
I matched my ready wit with men
And now I’m all alone again.
• • *
With the Want Ads
“1937 Plymouth, 4-room sedan,
ceiling price $350. John Musil, 542
W. 49”—N. Y. Times.
*
With ijuest room between the car
buretor and the battery?
• • •
We trust that if there is a free lunch at
the UNO bar there will be absolutely no
baloney.
A S YOU probably know, it isn’t
an easy job to get baseball
managers to give out personal inter
views concerning the comparative
strength of certain
stars pr certain po
sitions. It so hap
pens that one of the
most important
sectors in baseball,
especially winning
baseball, is that
spot of the diamond
guarded by the
shortstop and the
second baseman.
While no direct
quotes were avail
able we have run
across seven managers and scouts
quite willing to give out their pri
vate opinions.
Here is the way the concensus
came out—
No. 1. Rizzuto and Gordon,
Yankees.
No. 2. Pesky and Doerr, Red
Sox.
No. 3. Reese and Rojek,
Dodgers.
No. 4. BoUdreau and Mack,
Indians.
No. 5. Marion and Verban,
Cardinals.
This ranking or rating inc’uded
all-around quality, hitting, fielding
‘and double-play results. There was
a close finish between the Rizzuto-
Gordon and the Pesky-Doerr com
binations. It was generally agreed,
that the Red Sox pair carried the
higher-hitting average, but the de
fensive play of Rizzuto and Gordon
gave the Yankees a slight lead.
In the work they have shown be
fore and what they have turned out
this spring, it would be difficult to
find a more brilliant pair of infield
Workmen than Rizzuto and Gordon.
Both are all over the lot. And both
can get the ball away quicker than
you can discard a burning package
of paper matches. They keep you
dizzy attempting to follow their dou
ble-play actions or their work on
■some slow grounder that has to be
handled in split-second time.
Pesky arul Doerr are good and
they are likely to rate higher on
the hitting side. But certainly on
defense the Yankees have the edge
over any other combination in ei
ther league.
The Dodger Ranking
I was surprised to see Pewee
Reese and Stan Rojek rated over
some of the others. But these votes
came from scouts who had talked
with National League managers.
They figured that Reese would be
good enough to give either Marion
or Miller a stretch run at shortstop
and that Roiek would be a big sur
prise. Oddly enough they figured
that-while Marion and Boudreau
were two of baseball’s best short
stops, their second-base support
couldn’t match Gordon or Doerr.
And Rojek, with all his bright pos-
sibilties, is still something of a
guess when planted in this able
company.
This shortstop-second base com
bination means a lot to any winning
club. Suppose we look back a few
years—there we're the old Cubs,
winner of four championships in five
years—and their entry was Tinker
and Evers. How about the Athletics
from 1910 through 1914 when they
also won four pennants? Their an
swer is Jack Barry and Eddie Col
lins. Cleveland once had 'Tuck Tur
ner and Larry Lajoie. One of Mc-
Graw’s greatest teams had Dave
Bancroft and Frank Frisch. They
were factors in winning four pen
nants in a row.
It might be noted that the clubs
more favorably mentioned in the
two pennant races are strong at this
essential fortress. They are the
Yankees, the Red Sox and the Car
dinals.
Joe Gordon
Two-Sport Stars
A while ago we attempted a rat
ing of the best baseball-football
combinations such as Frank Frisch,
Snuffy Stirnweiss, Lou Gehrig, Ma-
thewson, Overall, etc. Ra/Farnham
from Philadelphia writes that we
have left opt the star bet of the lot.
“His name is Mickey Cochrane,”
says Ray. "Cochrane is still re
membered as one of the great catch
ers of all time—one of the best hit
ters—a winning manager. But few
remember that at Boston university
in the early twenties, Mickey was
also one of the best backs of many
seasons. He was a star triple
threater—one who could pass, run
and kick with any All-America
named that season. He was also a
magnificent tackier and blocker.
Cochrane was also the strongest
part of the offense used by the
Providence Steam Rollers.”
In addition to this baseball-foot
ball argument we have already lo
cated the best combined tennis and
golf player known to sport. His name
is Ellsworth Vines. In his day tennis
never knew a harder hitter. He
was one of the best. Vines is now
to be' listed among the better pros,
good enough to break 70 here and
there, and usually in the low 70s.
The tall and willowy Ellsworth
can belt the ball a long way, is a
first class iron player and a pretty
good putter. His long game is good
all the way. Vines has always been
a fine competitor