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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C.
ARMY AND MEAT SHORTAGE.
It happened behind closed doors,
but a lot of housewives would have
relished being present when Cong.
Clinton Anderson’s special food com
mittee quizzed an array of Wash
ington bigwigs.
A lot of star witnesses were pres
ent, but the army, represented by
Maj. Gen. Carl Hardigg of the quar
termaster corps, chiefly took it on
the chin.
War Food Chief Marvin Jones
started the ball rolling when he pro
duced figures showing that last year,
when meat was plentiful, the army
gummed up the works by failing to
take anywhere near the quantity al
located to it. In the fourth quarter of
1944, the army had asked for one
and a quarter billion pounds of meat.
Actually, the army took half a billion
pounds less.
That, according to the closed-
door testimony, was the chief-
reason why ration points on meat
were dropped last year and the
housewives got a windfall. The pub
lic then got back to the habit of eat
ing meat. But today, with meat far
less plentiful, the army has ordered
even more than allocated to it last
year.
General Hardigg was unable to
satisfy the congressmen as to why
the army failed to take up its meat
last year, or at least failed to put it
in cold storage for later use. Had
this been done, army demands
would now be much smaller. Gen
eral Hardigg also was asked to re
port back to congress on meat con
sumption per soldier in the Brit
ish army, also in the Russian
army. Congressmen also asked Har
digg to report on how much meat
was consumed by U. S. troops over
seas, as compared with that con
sumed by troops in the United
States.
RELAXED MEAT INSPECTION
One proposal to ease the meat
shortage is to abolish federal in
spection in small local slaughter
houses. These slaughterers
have to pass state inspection
anyway, and most of them are
thoroughly reputable. But to sell
inter-state they must pass fed
eral inspection, so many now
sell only within state limits. This
is one reason why cattle-raising
states are experiencing no meat
shortage today.
General Hardigg, however,
sat on the idea of relaxing fed
eral inspection. He argued that
federal inspection must con
tinue. War Food Chief Jones and
War Mobilizer Vinson were not
impressed with Hardigg’s argu
ment.
“I never tasted federally in
spected meat until I was in my
20s,” scoffed Texas-bred Jones.
"Out in Kentucky we did all right
without federally inspected meat,”
Vinson agreed. "I never had it until
I was out of my teens.”
Representative Anderson of Al
buquerque, N. M., chairman of the
committee, then took General Har
digg to task for the army’s system
of poultry buying.
“Out my way, where we’ve got
plenty of meat,” Anderson said, “the
army isn’t interested in buying
poultry. Here in the East, where
meat is scarce, you’re taking all
the poultry. Why not spread your
poultry buying so that in areas
where the public has a hard time
getting meat it can at least get a
little poultry.”
He pointed out that the army is
taking 100 per cent of the poultry
in the Delmarva area — Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia.
Vinson supported Anderson, telling
Hardigg: “Try to work that out with
the war food administration, Gen
eral.”
• • •
SEVENTEEN SWORD WOUNDS.
INSIDE JAPAN. — The Jap high
command ordered 15 divisions out of
Siberia a month ago to defend the
Japanese homeland. . . . But since
the Russians denounced their neu
trality pact, the Japs are frantical
ly scouring the country for more
troops to bolster the Russo-Japa
nese frontier. . . . During the Stalin
grad battle, the Russians depleted
the red army in Siberia. It was the
Cossack cavalry, rushed to Stalin
grad, which saved it. Now the red
army in the east is at about full
strength again. . . . New Premier
Suzuki of Japan was left for dead
on the street when the young fas
cists of the Black Dragon society
murdered most of Japan’s moderate
leaders a decade ago. He was
carved up with 17 Fascist sword
wounds. . . . Today Suzuki is front
man for Japanese big business
which long has leaned toward a
negotiated peace. So has the em
peror — if they can get it.
• • •
CAPITAL CHAFF
C. Handsome Secretary of State Ed
Stettinius spent several days in New
York rehearsing for the state de
partment movie on Dumbarton
Oaks. But despite rehearsals, movie
goers get a chuckle out of the way
Ed rolls his eyes. Reason is he
didn’t learn all his lines, had to look
at a blackboard just over the movie-
camera in order to read them. This
makes his eyes roll away from the
lens as if he were a torch-singer.
Otherwise it ranks as an A-l pic
ture.
Lint From a Blue Serge Suit:
Just before the war, Jan Smeter-
lin, the eminent Polish pianist, was
on a world concert tour and at one
point visited Valdemosa on the is
land of Majorca, which was the
place where Chopin lived. Smeter-
lin visited the monastery which was
Chopin’s home (and has since been
turned into a private residence)
hoping to see the piano on which
Chopin played. He was told that the
piano was now the property of a
private family in Palma. Smeterlin
located that family and as he stood
in rapt awe looking at this box,
which was the instrument of the
great Polish immortal, the man of
the house said, “Surely, Mr. Smet
erlin, you’re going to play on it!”
. . . Smeterlin replied reverently,
"Oh—I wouldn’t think of touching
It.”
To which his host said, “Oh, non
sense—my children bang on it all
the time!”
Supreme Court Justice Hugo
Blaek is a fiend for lyonnaise pota
toes. A new waitress at his favor
ite restaurant brought him french
fries in error and told him she
couldn’t change the order. ... A
Washington reporter, seated near
by, asked her if she knew the patron
was a United States high court
judge.
Unimpressed, she refused to
change the order, explaining: “How
often do they change their de
cisions?”
We’ve only used it twice before,
but every time some contributor
offers it we get the giggles and have
to print it all over again. It’s about
Mr. Mefoofsky and his four-year-old
son, Itzic. . . . They were strolling
in the park, and the boy kept ask
ing all sorts of questions. It was
getting on Mefoof’s “noyfs.”
“Poppa,” persisted Itzic, “wot
kind flowers is doze?”
“How should I know?” exploded
Mefoofsky. “Am I in the millinery
bizniz?”
James Gordon Bennett, (who used
to own the N. Y. Herald) had a
list of "don’ts” for reporters that
was as long as the memory of a ra
dio comedian. . . . Every once in a
while, though, the boys made him
take one back. “Don’t use ‘patron’
or ‘guest’ in referring to a paying
customer at a hotel,” one rule
went, “because you are using the
word incorrectly.”
The rule was changed when the
boys on the rewrite desk (searching
for other words) started to refer to
persons who registered at hotels as
“inmates.”
New Yorkers' Notebook:
The English are giggling over
the cook’s dog at an RAFlying field.
The canine dashed down the run
way in pursuit of a plane taking
off. . . . "Does your dog always do
that?” a new officer asked. . . .
The cook said yep. . . . “Why?” the
officer wanted to know.
“I don’t know, sir,” replied the
dog’s owner. “But what worries me
is what he’s going to do with it
when he catches a plane.”
Ivor Newton, the London pianist,
heard a Cockney give this explana
tion of his own courage regarding
the robot bombings: “I see it like
this. It must take the Germans a lot
of trouble to make the bloody things,
and then they have to get them into
those pits and up in the air, and it is
quite a long way from France to
London, and if they do get to Lon
don, they still have to find Lime-
house, and even then, it isn’t, every
one who can find 37 Bulstrode road
where I live, and if they do, it’s 10 to
1 that I would be down the comer in
the Pub."
At the home of mutual friends,
after the funeral of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, Winston Churchill,
who was touched by the prelate’s
passing, said: "Once again, the na
tion has lost a great churchman
and a great Englishman.” . . . Then,
in an aside, Mr. Churchill, who cred
its his 70 years to having a drink
now and then, added: “And once
again one of my good friends has
met the untimely end of a complete
teetotaler!”
Story of the Week: The newest
General Patton legend according to
just-retumed correspondents. . . .
When the Germans cold-bloodedly
murdered Gen. Maurice Rose, Pat
ton was strangely silent for a long
time. . . . Then he reached slowly
into his jacket pocket from which he
removed a German-English diction
ary. . . . And crossed out the word
“mercy.”
The other night Prof. Leo Reis-
man relayed the one about the
trainee at a naval radio training
center in Georgia. His station was
the radio tower. . . . He became
worried when he couldn’t account
for an incoming fleet of planes. He
flashed: “X Radio Tower calling
Pilot Jones. Been messaging you
but got no answer. If you hear me,
wabble wings.”
Shortly came the reply: “Pilot
Jones calling X Radio Tower. I
landed two hours ago. If you hear
me, wabble tower!”
Territory Affected by Russ-Nip ‘Falling Out’
With Russia’s denunciation of her neutrality paet with Japan, hostili
ties may break out in the area pictured on the above map. Should
hostilities start, some of Japan’s better troops that garrison Manchuria
to protect key war industries will face Siberian forces of equal if not
superior strength. While Russia possesses strategic advantages in the
air, Vladivostok and the Siberian maritime provinces are exposed to iso
lation by quick Jap thrusts.
President Truman and Family
President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret
are shown during the ceremony when President Truman took oath to
become the 33rd President of the United States.
Why Waste Boypower? Use Waterpower
That’s what this farm boy in the Uharrie mountains of North Caro
lina thinks as he uses his homemade bucket-toter to get some water
from a spring several hundred yards down the hill. When the bucket
reaches the spring, metal weights wired to bucket lip cause it to tilt over
and fill. Then the boy winds the bucket back up the hill with the con
verted auto wheel.
Argentina Subscribes to Chapultepec Pact
Adolfo N. Calvo, Argentina’s representative in Mexico City, signs the
pact of Chapultepec at the secretariat of foreign relations in Mexico,
thereby declaring war 0% the Axis.
White House Mourns
Above photo shows the White
House flar at half mast, following
the sudden death of President Roose
velt. Lower photo, the President’s
cottage at Warm Springs, where
President Roosevelt suddenly passed
away.
Henry Bush, eight-year-old son of
Lt. Com. and Mrs. B. H. Bush of
San Francisco, Calif., proudly dis
plays this big bonito he landed off
Ocracoke island. North Carolina. Of
course his pappy helped a little, too.
The bonito is a relative of the mack
erel, and sometimes comes in close
to land.
Yank Looks at Coblenz
A lone American soldier of the
Third army looks at a wrecked trol
ley ear in front of a damaged cathe
dral in the ancient city of Coblenz.
This bistorie Rhine bastion fell be
fore the irresistible drive of the
Third army of|Lt. Gen. George Pat
ton.
Senator Entertains
“Baby Senators Night,” in the Na
tional Press club, Washington, D. C.,
marks the indoctrination of new
members of the senate to Washing
ton life. Here Senator Forrest C.
Donnell of Missouri entertains.
IT IS generally understood that the
A postwar boom in sport 'will be on
the amazing side. But it will be an
entirely different matter from the
sport boom after World War I.
It will appeal to a far greater num
ber of actual players but I doubt
very much that it will even approach
the so-called Golden age that foV
lowed the First World war—thesu
years that brought
us Babe Ruth, Jack
Dempsey, Bobby
Jones, Bill Tilden,
Bill Johnston, Red
Grange, Charlie
Paddock, Earl
Sand e, Rogers
Hornsby and many
more iri almost ev
ery line of sport.
Babe Ruth had been
a star pitcher be
fore. But it was not
until after the war
that he unwrapped his big mace and
began hitting home runs.
I can’t see any such stars in sight
for some time to come. For this has
been a longer and far more punish
ing war as far as our athletes are
concerned. It has arrested the play
ing careers of far more young stars,
such as Bob Feller, Ted Williams,
Billy Conn, and so many others who
were still short of their prime and
peak when called to service.
Here and there among the young
er servicemen we’ll have a certain
number of stars who may come
close to the old-time mark—boxers,
ball players and football players.
But anyone who expects to see a
Ruth - Dempsey - Jones - Tilden-
Grange - Sande and Hornsby parade
Is likely to be disappointed.
It could happen, of course. Since
almost anything can happen in sport.
But it isn’t a good bet. The odds
are against it. There will be too
many of our greatest stars around
Pearl Harbor days back in 1941, who
will be over the hill physically be
fore they have the chance to return
to competitive sport. They will still
be good, many of them, but too
many of them will have lost their
best years.
Another Type of Boom
The sport boom that will follow
this war will be another type. While
it may not give the spectators such
big names as we have mentioned,
so many outstanding stars, it will
accomplish something much more
important. It will lift the general av
erage of play and skill far higher
than it ever was before.
The First World war contributed
nothing to the headline mastery of
the Golden age. The sport stars of
that era had practically no connec
tion with the war in any way. You
can ring in Grover Cleveland Alex
ander, since Old Pete was a star
pitcher back around 1911.
But it will be different after this
war. Army and navy now have
from 12,000,000 to 14,000,000 men in
the service. And army and navy
have outlined one of the biggest pro
grams for sport ever known, along
the line of coaching, training and
competitive play.
This big swing in the direction of
sport is a vital necessity. Andy and
navy know this. When the war in
Europe is over, there will be millions
who can’t be rushed home or on
to Asia and the Pacific at a day’s
notice. They will need a vast sport
ing program to keep them inter
ested in life while waiting for boats
and planes to bring them back, or
carry them to other theaters of
action.
, The big weakness of sport in the
United States is that we have been
too much of a spectator nation—and
not enough of a playing nation. This
applies to our youngsters and to old
er men. When 25,000 out of 100,000
18-year-olds are rejected by the
draft, something is obviously wrong.
Army and navy now plan to give
all these millions a chance to play
the games they like with greater
skill, even if few of them ever be
come champions. There can only be
one champion, at a time, after all.
But there can be a vast improve
ment in our average skill.
• • •
Postwar Football
, There is one knotty, thorny prob
lem that the pro-football league or
leagues will soon have to meet. This
involves returning servicemen who
may have a year or two years of
college football left, but who may
want to play pro-football, rather
than return to campus life.
As the pro rule now works no play
er can be taken into pro ranks until
his class has graduated. This regu
lation has worked well so far and
has drawn the full approval of the
colleges and the college coaches.
The war is almost certain to be
over in Europe before next fall.
That doesn’t mean that all football
players in army or navy will be re
leased. But many will be, including a
few from the Pacific.
Some of these college players will
want to return and finish their col
lege course. Others won’t. One pro
football angle is this—“If these men
don’t want to go back to college,
why shouldn’t we use them?” Others
believe the present rule that calls
for waiting until their college time
is over should be kept as it is or
was before the war.
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