The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 14, 1945, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
(Note-While Drew Pearson is on vaca
tion, Secretary ol Agriculture Clinton P.
Anderson contributes a guest column.)
By CLINTON P. ANDERSON
Secretary of Agriculture
WASHINGTON. — The first Sun
day after V-J Day, a friend came
by with an automobile to take my
family and his for a drive into the
country to have dinner with another
friend. Nothing like that had hap
pened in years. We were all de
lighted at the chance to ride through
country lanes, to talk about the
height of the com, the possibilities
of crops, and the probability that we
would enjoy meat for dinner.
But as we started back into Wash
ington, we could not help but notice
that the roads were filling up. There
was a long line of traffic and many
folks drove by at speeds which
set tied reckless to us. They were
perhaps driving 40 or 45 miles an
hour and we had become accus
tomed to the 35-mile an hour leisure
ly gait.
When one speeding car
swirled past us, I heard my wife
murmur, "My, what I wouldn’t
give to have gasoline rationing
back.”
I began to wonder how many of
the tilings that war had brought to
us as sacrifices or privations we
would soon come to appreciate as
blessings in disguise. I began to
wonder how long it would be before
people would sometimes sigh for
some of the real advantages of the
days during the war when we all
lived a little closer together, a little
more simply, and perhaps a little
more in the traditional Ameri
can pattern that had started this
country on its way to becoming a
great nation.
Real Values of Life.
Do you remember back in the
years of the depression that Henry
Ansley out in Amarillo, Texas,
wrote a book entitled, “I Like the
Depression?” Frankly, I liked his
little book, because he told of the
blessings that had come to him with
a reversal in his financial situation.
He told of the discoveries that he
had made as the period of wild pros
perity passed and the long months of
depression set in. He told of the
farmers who had gone back to liv
ing on their farms instead of living
off their farms.
The war has done something to
all of us. It made us appreciate
some of the real values of life
that many of us had lost sight
of. We all complained a little
about the war, didn’t we? We
were a little disappointed when
we found that the stocks of new
cars were frozen, but we dis
covered that the old car was a
lot better and would run a lot
longer than we had thought.
Car-Pool Neighbors.
I remember my first experience
with a car pool. We had two auto
mobiles at our house; our next door
neighbor had two automof es at his
place. We were not well acquaint
ed, mostly because it wasn’t neces
sary, until the war came along.
Then my next door neighbor and I
and two others, who heretofore had
gone to our offices by separate
means, found ourselves fused to
gether into a car pool. We were ir
revocably tied to each other. We
had to rise at the same time in the
morning, leave at the same hour for
work, and return home together in
the evening.
I am sure that at first we all re
sented a little the fact that we lost
our freedom of action, but we
gained a great lesson in iteighborli-
ness. We found out that the people
who lived next to us might be just
as interesting and attractive, just as
pleasant and just as companionable
as the people whom wg had always
known who lived down the street or
across the city.
Victory Garden Blessing.
How many women improved their
figures as they walked to market!
And think what Victory gardens did
for the men!
Like Drew Pearson, I will perhaps
Le away from Washington when
this column is printed, away on a
short vacation. While I am gone,
someone will be mowing my lawn.
During the war I had to mow my
own lawn. I couldn’t find anyone
interested in taking care of my par
ticular little piece of property. And
a strange thing happened: I found
that I could mow it as well as any
one else, that I could mow it
quickly, and that I could learn with
in a short time exactly how each
particular section could be best
mowed to develop the best cut of
grass. And I found out also that
when I mowed it myself, I not only
improved the lawn, I improved my
own digestion.
I’ll miss that now that the war is
over, because I’ll tell myself that
I’m too busy to do it when I can
hire someone else for the job. I
suppose that my wife will miss
something, too, because she used to
walk to market and carry her gro
ceries back home in a basket.
As for myself, I reflect upon the
fact that an autom^jile sa’esman
used to be able to sell me a new
car each year. But when the war
came I learned that automobiles
will go 50,000 or 100,000 miles and
still be pretty dependable as a
means of transportation.
Broadway and Elsewhere
By JACK LAIT
Whispered in Washington
Impending changes—Lt. Gen. Ken
ney to succeed Gen. Arnold as chief
of Army Air forces. . . . Admiral
Nlmitz to get Admiral King’s cushy
Navy post when King is ready to re
tire, which won’t be right away. . . .
Undersecretary Sullivan is re
garded as having the best chance to
fill in when Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal steps down. . . . Secre
tary of Commerce Wallace isn’t as
sure of sticking as he and his “lib
eral” friends think he is. ... A la
bor bloc in the Senate, prodded by
CIO’s Sidney Hillman and Rep. Vito
Marcantonio, is organizing to de
mand that President Truman veer
sharply left or not only face a legis
lative fight, but possibly a new, third
party on a nucleus of the American
Labor Party and Political Action
Committees. ... In this group are
Senators Wagner, Kilgore, Pepper,
Hill, Guffey and Murray, and they
are working' on Magnuson, Thomas
and Mead, who haven’t yet decided
to go all out.
Congress will get a battle from the
Army. . . . The legislators, fresh
from their home constituencies,
will whoop it up for more and quick
er discharges. . . . The Army will
resist. . . . The lawmakers will
claim that on the present 85-point
system, only about 1,000,000 are eli
gible for release, and they will pro
pose militantly that the basic mini
mum be reduced at once to 60
points or less. . . . The army will
argue that keeping men in uniform
is the perfect answer to unemploy
ment during the reconversion inter
im. . . . But, in its secret councils,
the Army doesn’t monl sy much
with economic strategy — just
wants to keep a big Army.
East Coast, West Coast —
Clark Gable’s real name is Wil
liam — William Clark Gable. . . , .
Warners have settled on the man
to play Will Rogers — Joel McCrea.
. . . *Lt. Henry Fonda, in the Navy
since ’42, has won the Bronze Star
for heroism in the Mariannas. But
they say his domestic affairs are
not too happy. . . . MGM’s official
biography of Robert Donat says,
with no amplification or footnotes:
“— Returning to England, he re
sumed his film career in ‘39 Steps’
and ‘Night Without Armor,’ with
Marlene Dietrich, then took a six
months’ leave of absence to regain
his health.” . . . Jack Dempsey and
his two daughters are living in a
house rented from Estelle Taylor,
where Jack and Estelle spent their
honeymoon. There is talk since she
divorced Paul Small, she may re
wed the Old Mauler.
Many who saw the sharp and strik
ing MGM newsreel reporting of the
plane crash against the upper
stories of the Empire State Build
ing may have admired the enter
prise which made these releases by
far the best. Therefore, they may be
interested in the story behind the
story. . . . “Newsreel” Wong, the fa
mous Chinese photographer who has
been with Metro 21 years and has
covered every battlefront and the far
reaches of the globe for news sub
jects, was given a furlough while
attached to Gen. MacArthur on Lu
zon. ... He decided to spend it in
New York, the only place of inter
est and importance he had never be
fore visited. ... He arrived on a
Saturday morning, in uniform and
with his cameras, looked up the
Metro Manhattan office in the phone
book, and went there. The place was
closed for the day, but some scrub
women were at work and so the door
was open. . . , Wong was about to
leave, when a telephone, hooked on
through the switchboard, rang. He
picked it up. An excited voice re
ported the crash. . . . Wong grabbed
a cab. Police lines were closed, but
because of his uniform ancf'a breast
ful of service ribbons he was al
lowed through. ... He did his stuff
with his usual vigor and sped back
to the office. ... By that time, the
executives had heard of the hot
story and were in and ’phoning for
photographers frantically, when
Wong, whom they had never seen,
whose presence on this continent
was news to them, entered with the
whole thing in his bag. . . . They
slapped him on the back, hugged
him, etc. . . . “That’s quite all
right,” said Wong. “I always did
want to see the Empire State Build
ing!”
Investigators of two Congression
al committees are in Hollywood,
looking into the activities of the
Communist groups in that area. |
With the “degradation” of Earl
Browder by his monkey-glanded
party, a lot of the boys and girls in
the picture cokmy and its offshoots
felt they had to get furiously
busy to prove their Red loyalty. . . .
When a resolution condemning com
munism was presented to the Central
Labor Council of California, the
motion picture crafts were in the
foreground voting it down.
Official Pearl Harbor Blame
Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, upper right; Adm. Harold R.
Stark, left; and Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, lower right, shown on back
ground of attack on Pearl Harbor, have been given the official blame
for the unpreparedness of American forces when the Japs attacked the
islands. General Marshall, also named, was declared not responsible by
President Truman.
Germans Try at Postwar Farming
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Complying with General Eisenhower’s order of “harvest or starve,”
German farm people are utilizing anything and everything in order to
harvest their crops for winter usage. Here a farmer and his wife use
a pair of oxen to draw their reaper, in the absence of power machinery,
on a war-torn farm near Honad, Germany.
Siamese Twins Start Life
Siamese twin girls, delivered by their grandmother, were given a
good chance to live, although physicians expressed doubt if they could be
severed. The twins, born to Mrs. Miranda of Coldwater, Ariz., a suburb
of Phoenix, weighed a total of 8 pounds 9 ounces, and are almost identical
in size. Their condition seems to be improving.
War Chiefs Honored by France
Four American officers of five-star rank are shown wearing their
new decorations after they had received the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honor of France from Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Left to right are: Adm.
William D. Leahy; Gen. George C. Marshall; Adm. Ernest King and Gen.
H. H. Arnold. General de Gaulle conferred tile honors in Washington.
General Wainwright
Lt. Gen. Jonathan W. Wainwright,
who commanded the American
forces in the Philippines when Cor-
regidor surrendered, is shown after
his release from Jap prison camp.
Has Occupied Tokyo
Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger,
commanding general of the U. S.
8th army, who has been designated
to occupy the Tokyo area. He has
long been considered the most ex
perienced jungle and Jap fighter in
the Allied armies—and marked as a
Jap hater.
Old Mission Fiesta
DACK in the dim and far away
■*-* season of 1876, Chicago won the
first National leagfle pennant under
the leadership of Albert G. Spald
ing. Today in the 70th campaign of
the older league, Chicago’s Cubs are
heading for another pennant with
the Cardinals still in hot pursuit. As
the count stands at this moment Chi
cago and New York are tied with 15
National league pennants each and
if the Cubs win this year, they will
have a one pennant lead over their
closest all-time rival from Manhat
tan.
Charley Grimm
After Albert Spalding won in 1876,
Cap Anson won three in a row in
1880, 1381 and 1882,
and the slugging
Cap repeated again
in 1885 an^ 1886.
Old Cap was one
of the most inter
esting characters I
ever knew In base
ball. Hie was a great
hitter lor close to 25
years. After the An
son cleanup, the
Cubs took a dizzy
dip for the next 19
years until Frank
L. Chance, the Peerless Leader, ar
rived on the scene in 1906 to win
four pennants in five years against
his famous rival, John J. McGraw.
McGraw won 10 of New York’s 15
pennants, but even his aggressive
leadership was not quite enough to
catch up with the Cubs.
Outside of the Cubs and Giants, of
the 69 pennants already delivered,
Boston has 9, St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh
6, Brooklyn 5 and Philadelphia lays
claim to her one and only flag which
Alexander’s pitching brought about
30 years ago.
It has been stated, unofficially,
that the Phillies will not win the
pennant this season. But we have
an idea that under her new owner
there will bo a change for the better
later on.
Grimm’s Victories
Returning to the leading Cubs
and Chicago’s long pennant suc
cess, it was Charley Grimm who won
for Chicago in 1932 and 1935, using
a number of pretty good ball play
ers for this purpose.
Now the cheerful Cub leader
has a shot at his third flag, a
dream that only the Cardinals can
turn into a nightmare. And I don’t
believe they can with the edge
in pitching the Cubs carry. In los
ing such ball playe's as the Cooper
brothers, Stan Musial and Max Lan
ier, from last season’s squad, the
Red Birds apparently have lost
more than they could afford.
In spite of these heavy blows,
Billy Southworth has turned in one
of his best jobs, a statement to
which the Dodgers can testify.
Southworth’s best chance is the 12
games his Cardinals have left with
the Cubs.
There may be a wide gap between
the Cubs of 1945 and the 1906-1910
teams. That Chance outfit was one
of the greatest baseball has ever
known. It had one of the game’s
smartest catchers in Johnny Kling.
It had a strong pitching staff headed
by Miner Brown and Ed Reulbach.
And it had “Tinker to Evers to
Chance,” plus Steinfeldt at third.
It also had such workmen as
Scheckard, Hofman, Slagle and
Schulte in the outfield. This club was
good enough to set a National league
record for a season’s total — 116 vic
tories.
This 1945 round-up is no 1906 brand.
But it is a pretty good ball club for
these war years. Above all else it
has the most consistent pitching
staff in either league. When Charley
Grimm calls on a starting pitcher,
the odds are he will have one who
can finish or at least pitch well.
Reviving the romance and color
ful hospitality of the California of a
century or more ago, the annual
fiesta, interrupted during the war
years, is being renewed at the San
Gabriel mission, fourth of the Span
ish missions built along El Camino
Real.
Discoverer of DDT
Dr. Paul Muller, who with Dr.
Paul Lauger, now in the United
States, gave DDT, the miracle in
secticide, to the world. He asserts
that by proper methods all insects
can be controlled.
Tivo Best Basemen
In Hack at third and Cavarretta
at first the Cubs have two of the
best now left from either league.
Stan Hack has been a badly under
rated ball player for several years.
He has been one of the best, pre
war or through the war. Phil Cav
arretta has been one of the most
improved players of 1945. A good
outfield headed by Bill Nicholson has
given Grimm a solid phalanx com
pared to so many other teams who
have had few dependable workmen.
After a straggling start, the Giants
and the Dodgers out in front, the
Cubs hit their stride in early June
and have had no bad spots since.
Through June and July they had ev
erything it takes against the opposi
tion offered, which wasn’t any too
hot. But above all, in Passeau,
Wyse, Derringer and others they
had better pitching than any other
club in their league could show.
As the two leagues are today, any
thing can still happen with several
weeks of play left. But there are
only the Cardinals to threaten the
Cubs, and outside of Washington’s
Senators I can’t see any other
American league team threatening
anybody.
Whatever happens, the Clark Grif
fith — Ossie Bluege delegation
lounging in the shadow of the Wash
ington monument have been the
surprise team of the year. They
have proved again what pretty
good pitching can do for any pen*
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