Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. FRIEND OF ENLISTED MAN WASHINGTON. — If there were more men in the army like General Eisenhower, this newsman would not be so swamped with soldier mail. The other day Sgt. Samuel Cohen of Philadelphia, stationed in Berlin, received a cable telling of a serious emergency at home. Physicians ad vised his return immediately. Two weeks passed and all Cohen got was the usual army run-around. He couldn’t get a furlough. Finally, a friend suggested that Cohen call General “Ike” directly. “What can I lose?” Cohen asked, going to a telephone. When he asked the G.I. operator for General Eisenhower, the opera tor asked with no surprise in his voice whether he should ring the general at his home or his office. Since it was then about 10 o’clock in the evening, Cohen said to try the general’s home. An aide to Eisenhower an swered and listened to Cohen’s story, excused himself for a few minutes, came back to the tele phone and said, “Sergeant, if you will call the office of Gen eral Clay, perhaps something can be arranged for you. “You had better wait about 10 minutes before calling General Clay,” he added, “to give Gen eral Eisenhower a chance to talk with him first.” Ten minutes later, Cohen called General Clay, where an aide said, “Oh, yes, sergeant, we’ve been ex pecting your call. Now can you come in at eight o’clock tomorrow morn ing? We’ll see about transportation then.” Cohen took off by air the next day before noon. • * * TRUMAN TURNS REPORTER Congressional leaders who met with President Truman recently to discuss serious legislative problems got a chuckle over Truman’s story about his surprise flight to see his mother on her 93rd birthday. Newspapers have already told how Truman called the Kansas City Star to announce his arrival in Grandview, Mo. But in addition, here is what Truman told his con gressional leaders really happened: It was Sunday afternoon and the usually bustling city room of the Star was in a lull. Only a skeleton editorial force was on the job, and a young reporter answered the phone. “This is the President,” said Truman. “Who?” said the reporter. “This is President Truman.” “The bell it is,” exclaimed the newsman, convinced that some body was pulling a practical joke. “Mister, who are you try ing to kid?” Finally the call was tranferred to another writer on the paper, who knew Truman personally and could identify his voice. Highly amused, the President told him the news of his visit. • • • FOGGY FOREIGN POLICY Harry Hopkins, now hospitalized in New York, is not improving. Al ways a living skeleton, Hhrry kept himself alive because of his love of FDR.* Now that FDR is gone, Harry has no more zest for work. . . . Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida is returning from a three-month tour of Europe to blister the administra tion’s handling of foreign policy. Coming on top of Senator Ful bright’s two-fisted attack, perhaps* somebody around the state depart ment will wake up to the fact that the seeds of World War III can be planted right now. . . . The strategic services unit of the war department (it was formerly the “Oh-so-secret” office of Gen. “Wild Bill” Donovan) has just set up a very interesting project which will not keep the peace. It is working on a “plan for an order of battle for a war with Russia.” The job is under direct su pervision of Maj. Raymond Crom well, former Tokyo correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF Former Coast Guard Comdr. Joel Fischer was in Germany trying to root out hidden Nazi funds. Cross- examining war criminals, he found them anxious to get American law yers to act in their defense. When asked his views on the best Ameri can lawyers, Fischer, with straight face, replied: “You ought to try to get Clarence Darrow or Perry Ma son.” Fischer’s victims took careful notes, not realizing that Darrow has been dead for more than five years and that Mason is a fictional char acter in Earle Stanley Gardner's mystery stories. Government press officials recent ly beat down a second attempt by War Mobilizer John Snyder to main tain a peacetime censorship over the statements of their basses. They rejected all censorship schemes flat ly during a secret session at the Wh'te House, promising to check among ’.nemselves to be sure major policy statements of cabinet mem bers and other key officials are not too far apart. . . . Randolph Paul, one of the ablest tax men the U. S. treasury has ever had, is completing a book on taxation, written for popu lar reading. The Big City: The iron coughing of trolleys as they rumble from corner to corner. . . . New York servicemen (just back from overseas) strolling along Bright Light Lane and warming their spirits over familiar sights. . . . The sunrise festival of vivid hues celebrating the birth of a new day. . . . Broadway’s visual poetry punctuated by skyscraper exclama tion points. . . . Hot-dawg addicts gulping the delicacy as if it was the last h. d. on earth. . . . The numbing surgery of a comely wait ress’ sharp glare cutting off a Ro meo’s spiel. . . . Cabbies bullying their way through traffic. ... A beanery with a caviar tag: Rendez vous de Leon. . . . Film box-offices growing tails of waiting patrons blocks long. . . . Shadows -cribbling grotesque murals across the street. The furry waves of mink-coated first-nighters drowning a theater in luxury. . . . Side-street hotels bruised with age, where misery goes to find company. . . . Vain Stem thespians basking in the spot light of their bragging tongues. . . . Weary night-workers squatting on the masses’ throne—a subway seat. Their cob-webbed orbs peer at each other as if they weren’t there. . . . The well-heeled set pulling them selves up by their own booty. . . . Salesgals tucking the frayed edges of their patience under a smile and pinning it with a dimple. . . . The rainbow glint of jewelry on a Money Lisa. Her diamonds are campaign stars for boudoir battles. ... A deep, blue-eyed noon sky twinkling with sunshine, scarcely noticed by lunch-hourites. Morning stripping the Big Alley of its sparkling fig leaves, while the sury exposes is nude ugliness. . . . Shooting galleries recruiting custo mers by playing martial music. . . . Dusk prowling about the horizon as The Street puts on its mazda apron and goes to work impressing pass- ersby. . . . Professional mendicants who are skilled window-dressers of their sympathy display. . . . Five ayem, when Broadway’s raucous roar subsides into a comforting purr. . . . The Saturday evening ju bilee spree, when Neon Valley is packed to the brim with humanity attempting to smuggle a little amusement into their harried lives. . . . Midtown’s paralytic traffic snailing its way forward. . . . Tin Pan Alley’s jittery tempo striking up an overture for songwriters’ in somnia. Midtown Vignette: George Mann reports about the kindly gentleman on a park bench, who was break ing bread crumbs for the pigeons. One pigeon fluttered down on the old man's knee to peck at crumbs, that had fallen there. . . . “Do yoi l like these crumbs better than pop corn?” asked the kindly old fellow. . . . The pigeon cocked his head up at him and then resumed eating. “Well,” continued the old man, “here it is nearly December. I sup pose you birds will be leaving me soon for the Southland.” . . . Again the pigeon looked up—said nothing and went on eating. . . . The old man got irritated and yelled: “Whatinell’s the matter with you? Are you too good to talk to me?” . . . This time the pigeon didn’t even look up but went on eating. . . . “How do you like that?” asked the old gentleman shaking his head. “A deaf and dumb pigeon!” Sounds in the Night: In the Metro- pole: “Waiter, bring me a skirtch and soda.” ... At Enduro: “She stays out until the woo hours of the morning.” ... At Armando’s: “They’ve just been divorced. She got custody of his money.” ... At the Henry Hudson Terrace: “He’s a heeluva guy.” ... At Lum Fong’s: “She used to be his heartache. Now she’s just his earache.” ... In the Stork Club: “Mayor LaGuardia will be the first guy in show business, who knows enough about horses not to bet on them.” ... At the Cha teaubriand: “Oh, well, here’s mud in your mind.” DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR ALL . . . The accused at Nuernberg trials are shown in lower left. They include Goering, Hess, Von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicber, Funk, Schacht, Doenitz, Raeder, Von Scbirach, Sauckel, Jodi, Von Papen, Speer, Von Neurath and Fritsche. Upper photo shows the court of ficials. Lower right, the entrance is being carefully guarded by American troops. The records contain his torical evidence that would ordinarily require years of research to compile. DOLLS TO AID*S ANT A CLAUS . . . Photo shows left to right, Marilyn MacGregor, Warren, Ohio; Betty Rez- ner, Durham, N. C.; Francis Tibbetts, Melrose, Mass., and Elizabeth Peterson, Cornwall, Pa., as they sit among some of the 1,000 dolls that will be deUvered to social agencies and through them to poor children con fined in hospitals. The dolls were provided by students at Wellesley college, Wellesley, Mass. TO HAVE AN EARLY CHRISTMAS . . . “Dear Santa,” writes pain- wracked three-year-old Marvie Clark, with the aid of his mother, Edna Clark. But Marvie will never know Santa’s response, for doctors have told his parents that Marvie cannot live until Christmas. IS STILL RUNNING ... Dr. Karl Kobelt, newly elected president of Switzerland, did not stop running when he was recently elected to office. Manhattan Murals: Placard in an E. 56th St. candy store window: “Welcome Home, « Tony, You Phony!” . . . The 98c packages of Jap souvenir invasion money sold at newsstands in Penn depot. . . . Jimmy’s Sawdust Trail where the cover charge is ten cents. . . . The “No Dogs Allowed” sign outside the Pea Circus on 42nd Street. . . . The tiny restaurant near Toots Shoe’s on W. 51st Street, which advertises: “Lunch 65c—Positively No Celebri ties!” . . . One ad agency is so snooty it won’t hire any office boy “below the rank of Lieut.-Colonel.” On Thanksgiving Eve, during that heavy rainstorm, cops recorded 41 fights on B’way. Most of them over who hailed the cab first. . . . Foot ball betting with Broadway bookies this season totaled more than 12 million dollars in the Metropolitan area. . . . Clen Ryan, ex-secy to the mayor, is starting his own realty firm with nothing but millionaires for partners. . . . Eric Johnston’s first official banning (since becoming movie boss) was Carols Landis sing ing a film ditly titled: “I’ve Got a Flame Too Hot to Handle.” WINS LAMB AWARD . . . Wayne Disch, 15, Evansville, Ind., with his pen of three Southdown lambs that won the junior championship at Chicago market fat stock show, held during the 24th National 4-H club congress. The average weight of the animals is 110 pounds. The International, re placed this year by the market fat stock show, will take place in 1946. A nation-wide 4-H club program is directed by federal, state and county exten sion services. The national committee on boys and girls club work is pri- "atelv supported bv voluntary grouus of interested citizens. SENSATIONAL FOOTBALLER . . . Herman Wedemeyer, Hawaiian- born halfback of the St. Mary’s Gaels, selected as “the most useful player on the Pacific coast.” He will play with the Moraga, Calif., team against Oklahoma A & M in the Sugarbowl classic at New Orleans. S upporters of ffie ivy League policy of no football scholarships or pay, and those who believe in such scholarships and big-time foot ball, are still tangled up in an argu ment that is now 40 years old. The correct answer is that there is room enough for both but there is no reason why they should meet in competitions that are almost certain to be uneven and unfair. Football needs badly the restrain ing influence of the Ivy League and other confer ence leaders to keep from running com pletely wild in the scramble for talent all over the map. But there is also something to the argument that many poorer students would be unable to get a college educa tion except from the Grantland Rice rewards that foot ball offers through scholarships and other financial aids. “Why,” one of the leading coaches in the country asked me,* “shouldn’t a poor boy have the chance to use his football ability to pay his way through college? I have been a football coach for well over 20 years and I could tell you of hun dreds of such boys who have re ceived college educations and moved far up in life, who except for foot ball would have had no such chance to improve. Why should so many of these be barred simply because they are poor? It is much easier on the football coach to have this steady pressure of developing a winning team every season re moved. Today in many cases, this matter of digging up material is the toughest part of a coach’s job. It is much easier to build character than it is to build a winner.” Give Help to Local Boys “This part of your argument is O.K.,” we replied. “But what about this ranging for material 1,000 to 2,000 miles away, scouring the country for prep school or high school stars in a hot competitive race—where many are only given courses they can handle without risk ing any brain collapse?” “This,” said the veteran coach, “isn’t right. Players in the main who draw scholarships or help should be taken from nearby places. But how are you going to stop the alumni from cutting in? Or certain colleges who have smart but well-covered recruiting systems that look after the job? I like to see southern teams made up of southern players, east ern teams of eastern players and western teams of western players. But I don’t see how you are going to stop it.” It is for this reason that college conferences or groups are needed to establish certain set standards. Otherwise all competition will be cockeyed. Colleges that don’t allow football scholarships have no busi ness playing against those that do. They are not evenly matched. This also applies tc scholarship standards. I could give you any number of ex amples concerning young stars who tried to enter certain colleges and failed to make the grade. They then entered other colleges with much lower scholastic standards to return and run over the stricter schools. This is strictly unfair from every angle. Any one can see that. It is for this reason the stricter col leges should play together and let the big timers fight it out among themselves. The first and main purpose of col lege should not be sport but educa tion. Sport, however, is a strong and important sideline. There are many <ho are equipped to handle a much higher form of learning or education (ban others are. But the main idea is to give both groups a chance to improve — even if many can only work along elementary lines. It is for this reason that laxity in the way of scholarships and other help has its place for certain groups that otherwise might be barred from any form of college or educational life. Room for Ivy League But this doesn’t mean there isn’t a major spot for the Ivy League or Eastern conference or any confer ence that decides to set up certain higher standards and see that these are enforced, as far as they can be enforced in a human world. Some time back one of our lead ing educators, who loved football, made this important point, “There is too much “sock and not enough Socrates in our college life today. I am afraid there is a danger of our century’s athletics going the way they did in ancient Greece, where becoming a thorough abuse. We are now moving rapidly into a new age where brain is going to be much more important than brawn. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t still a tremendous need for better physical improvement and develop ment. As a nation, outside of our limited top athletic crust, we are still far shy in the way of physical improvement for the mass, for those who need it most. But this situation isn’t going to be helped by giving most of our time and attention to the winning stars, who need it least. After all “A fair field and no favor” U the basis of all true competition. 9 Harmonize the Odd Pieces for Nursery T'HERE is no trick in matching up an ill-assorted lot of furni ture for the children’s room. The set shown here is typical. An old chiffonier, a cut-down chair, a nondescript bed and an old wash- stand were painted cream color MARCHING CHILDREN PAINTING V _PATTERN Lj/ ^ 288 and then decorated with a gay painting design of bright red bow knots, quaint flowers and jolly fig ures of marching children. * • • This, with his Scottle and wooden sword, is one of half a dozen appealing children to be painted on drawer fronts and panels. All you have to do is to trace the fig ures, flowers and ribbons as indicated on the pattern; then follow the color guide, filling in fiat tones' without any shading. The first thing you know, the figures stand out as real as life. If is a fascinating project, so that the children’s room may be a center of attraction. NOTE—Painting Pattern 288 with large and smnll bow knots, flowers and figures of matching children—all different, is 15 cents. Send request direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS j Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose cents for Pattern No. I 288. Name « Address , . CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. BOOKKEEPERS—Operate your own “Dol- lar-a-Week” Bookkeeping and Tax Serv ice. Full or spare time. Details free. ELLIS. Box 212, Cedar Grove, No. Carolina. BUILDING MATERIALS 100 8x8x10 Concrete Building Blocks per day with hand mold, requiring one laborer, no machinery. Write J. C. HOWARD. 207 No. Auburndale, Memphis, Tenn. INSTRUCTION ADVANCED PIANO COURSE. 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