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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
FINDING MEN FOR
FEDERAL JOBS
WASHINGTON.—Few people real
ize it but President Truman spends
a lot of time these days trying to
persuade people to take important
federal appointments.
An illustration was the tussle he
had with astute 40-year-old Wilson
Wyatt, mayor of Louisville, Ky., just
appointed federal housing czar.
Wyatt was first offered just about
every job in the book. Postmaster
General Hannegan tried to get him
to serve on the important civil aero
nautics board, also to accept the job
Jim McGrr.nery wants to resign as
assistant to the attorney general,
one of ‘he key spots in the justice
department.
The civil aeronautics board job
really tempted Wyatt, and he asked
for a few days to think it over. Next
day he got a phone call.
TRUMAN PLEADS.
“This is the President calling,’’
said a voice at the other end of the
phone.
“Mr. President, I’ve been think
ing,” Wyatt said, “and I’m afraid
I’m going to have to turn down that
civil aeronautics job.”
“That’s swell,” replied the Presi
dent. “I have a more important job
for you. Please come back here
right away.”
Next day, Wyatt appeared at the
White House, where Truman told
him about the tough job of co
ordinating housing.
“I consider this housing situation
the most important problem con
fronting the country today,” ex
plained the President. “If we don’t
solve this one, we’U really be in
trouble in a year and a half.”
“But, Mr. President,” said Wyatt.
“I’m afraid I can’t afford a federal
job. I want to go back home and
practice law. I need the money.”
“I know you want to go back to
your law practice,” Truman said.
“I know you want to make some
money. But I don’t like being Presi
dent either. However, I feel I have
to do' it, so I’m doing it.”
Then, staring at Wyatt sharp
ly, he said, “How can I do a
good job if fellows like you
aren’t willing to come up here
and help me?”
This made a deep impression on
Wyatt. Next day he called at the
White House for five minutes. Walk
ing into the executive office, he said,
“Mr. President, I ve come in to sur
render.”
Ordinarily it is the work of a cabi
net officer to tender a man a job.
But now Truman finds he has to
phone men personally and beg them
to work for the government. The
other day, Truman, who resents
criticism of his numerous Missouri
appointments, told one visitor:
“People complain about all
these Jackson county (Kansas City)
appointments. But whenever I try
to appoint someone else, they are
too busy making money. At least
the Jackson county boys are willing
to take the jobs.”
NOTE—Actually most top fed
eral appointees can get jobs
paying twice as much outside
the government. Wyatt received
only $5,000 a year as mayor of
Louisville, could be making $50,-
000 a year practicing law.
IKE’S FIRST SENATE SESSION.
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower went
over big at his first meeting as chief
of staff with members of the senate
military affairs committee. It was
an off-the-record affair, for which
the senators went across the Poto
mac to Eisenhower’s office in the
Pentagon building for luncheon.
Sitting over coffee and French
brandy which he had just brought
back, Eisenhower spoke frankly
about Soviet Russia and other mat
ters, including co-operation with
congress in running the army. Dis
cussing his experiences as the chief
U. S. representative on the Allied
control commission in Germany he
declared:
“If the American people had
a chance to study the Russians
at close range, and vice versa,
I am certain there would be a
fine mutual understanding and
respect between the two peo
ples. I rubbed elbows with Mar
shal Zhukov and others and
have a high regard for them.
We enjoyed splendid co-opera
tion. I was always able to get
along with them.
“What most people don’t real
ize is that the Russians are a
good deal like us. They enjoy
life like we Americans, are full
of fun and have a fine sense of
humor.”
The general said he held no fears
about future amicable i relations be
tween our own country and Soviet
Russia. There will have to be some
give-and-take in our relations, he
said, but eventually things will
work out well.
Regarding his own relations with
congress, Eisenhower declared:
“This is a people’s army and I
intend to run it like one, along dem
ocratic lines and in close accord
with congress. I am especially anx
ious to get along with the military
affairs committees of both houses.”
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in WASHINGTON
By Walter Shead
WNU Correspondent
Future of Farm Loan
Agencies in Doubt
FARM leaders here, governmental
* and private, are split wide open
over the question of whether or not
farm credit agencies should be
combined under one head within the
department of agriculture, or sepa
rated from the department and oper
ated as an independent agency.
On the one hand, there is the
Farm Bureau federation, the Na
tional Council of Farm Co-opera
tives and the National Grange who
are backing the bill introduced by
Con. John W. Flannagan Jr., (D.,
Va.) which would separate the farm
credit agencies from the depart
ment of agriculture and place them
under the jurisdiction of a bi-parti
san board to be named by the Pres
ident, of which the secretary of agri
culture would be an ex-officio mem
ber.
On the other hand, the progressive
National Farmers union, the secre
tary of agriculture and a group of
farm-minded congressmen are seek
ing to retain the farm credit agen
cies within the department of agri
culture under direct control of the
secretary, but with the appointment
of an advisory board and an assist
ant secretary of agriculture, who
would be the executive administra
tor of the agencies.
And aside from these two schools
of thought, there is another group
headed by Rep. Harold Cooley, (D.,
N. C.) and Reid F. Murray, (R.,
Wis.) who are seeking to set up a
entirely new corporation to be known
as the Farmers’ Home corporation,
which would operate upon a plan
similar to the Federal Housing ad
ministration insofar as farm loans
are concerned and which would as
sume many of the functions of the
existing farm loan agencies, within
the D. of A.
Struggle for Control
Thus, there is a three-way fight
for control of the multi-billion-dol-
lar farm lending agencies, which
since their inception in May, 1933,
have made various types of farm
loans through June 30, 1945, totaling
$16,868,539,301 under the head of the
Farm Credit administration, and an
additional billion dollars under the
Farm Security administration.
The various lending agencies,
which have been established under
the Farm Credit administration gov
ernorship, include the Federal Land
banks, the Production Credit cor
poration, the Federal Intermediate
Credit banks, the Federal Farm
Mortgage corporation, the 13 Banks
for Co-operatives, Emergency Crop
and Feed loans and the Regional
Agricultural Credit corporation, all
of which, as of June 30, 1945 had
loans outstanding amounting to $2,-
246,628,252.
The National Council of Farm Co
operatives and the Farm Bureau
federation believe the Farm Credit
agencies should be set up on an in
dependent basis much the same as
the Federal Reserve system, and
should co-ordinate the different
fields of farm credit loans to elimi
nate gaps and duplications, operat
ing within the framework of the na
tional governmental policy, under
the jurisdiction of a bi-partisan
board of six to seven members.
Combine FSA With FCA
Sec. of Agriculture Clinton P. An
derson believes the Farm Security
administration should be combined
with the FCA, but by retaining all
agencies within the department of
agriculture. He believes that farm
loans are inter-related with all the
other functions of the department,
and that persons who nave a voice
in making credit available to farm
ers should have a voice in the for
mulation of other farm programs to
make a maximum contribution to
the welfare of the farmer.
“Because of the prevailing view
that agencies of the federal govern
ment should be grouped under cabi
net officers responsible directly to
the president,” Mr. Anderson said,
“I believe that for the long run, the
question is not whether the farm
credit and the farm security pro
grams should be set up within an
independent agency of the federal
government. To me, the question
rather seems to be whether it is
more appropriate for these agencies
to be in the department of agricul
ture, or in some other executive de
partment of government. Since these
are farmers’ programs, it seems
obvious to me that they belong in
that department which is engaged
primarily with the problems of
the farmers.”
This writer believes that since
Mr. Flannagan is chairman of the
house agricultural committee and
his measure has been reported out
for passage, it is likely it will stand
a good chance to pass the house in
spite of the opposition of the agri
cultural secretary. Whether it will
get by the senate, however, is an
other question.
The Farmers union believes the
Flannagan bill will definitely kill
the FSA and they are standing
alongside the secretary in the fight to
keep the credit agencies within the
department of agriculture.
ICE HAMPERS FIRE-FIGHTERS ... In sab-zero cold which brought
frostbite and exposure to scores of fire-fighters, fire in Akron, Ohio, down
town business area burned with a loss officially estimated at $500,000.
The above photograph shows part of the ice-encrusted buildings in the
fire-gutted block. It was Akron’s biggest fire in 25 years in which the
business section was endangered due to freezing temperatures.
REVIVAL OF NICE CARNIVAL ... The pre-Christmas famed carnival
of Nice, France, held in abeyance for the duration of the war, burst forth
in full color and glory for the first time during December, 1945. Thou
sands participated in the merrymaking in honor of Nicois, and the mam
moth figures, with a few new ones added, once more were paraded
through the st: ;ets to form this welcome preceding Christmas.
HIGHES PRICED BULL . . . Thirty-five thousand dollars is not hay, al
though it would purchase many tons for the Franchester farms, Cleve
land, Ohio, former home of Curtiss Franchester Levity Ave. This Guern
sey bull recently sold to Charles G. Lang of Langvalley farms, Glen-
arm, Md., for that sum. It is believed to be the highest ever paid for m
Guernsey bull. His dam. Green Meadow Levity, sold for $25,500.
COMMUNICATES BY MORSE CODE . . . Jimmy Sarchet, 15, Detroit,
victim of spinal injury from which he will never recover, is shown taking
a message by Morse code from his mother, Mrs. Fred Sarchet. He is
unable to talk or hear so must rely on the code instrument for communica
tion. Doctors have given up all hope of restoring his voice or hearing and
state that he will never again be able to walk or sit up. His mother
taps out her messages to him.
TOTAL ECLIPSE . . . The first total
eclipse of the moon visible generally
in the United States in more than
three years was observed by a
photographer in New York City, De
cember 18, from 7:37 p. m. until
10 p. m.
SLAYER OF 26 REFORMS . . .
Looking as benevolent as Kris Krin-
gle is Harry Orchard, 80, lifer in
Idaho state penitentiary, as he
reads his Bible. Forty years ago
he was convicted of murdering
Idaho’s governor and 25 others.
SPAATZ HONORED . . . Gen. Carl
A. Spaatz, commander of the U. S.
strategic air forces in Europe dur
ing 1944, has been awarded the Rob
ert J. Collier trophy for outstanding
contribution to aviation during 1944.
ROSE QUEEN . . . Patricia Auman,
17, Pasadena, Calif., who is serv
ing as queen of the Pasadena Tour
nament of Roses. A student of
Pasadena junior college, she is ma
joring in dramatics.
HOUSING EXPEDITER . . . Wil
son F. Wyatt, former mayor of
Louisville, Ky., who has been ap
pointed by Pres. Harry Truman
to be housing expediter in (he Office
of War Mobilization and Reconver
sion.
Grantland Rice
TPHE NEW Golden Age of sport,
following the latest world war,
has had only a few months in which
to get underway. So far it has be
gun to outclass the so-called Gold
en Age that followed the First World
war in the way of attendance, gate
receipts and increasing public inter
est that in 1946 will crack all for
mer mark^ if we can settle a few
problems, and someone doesn’t get
careless with an atomic bomb.
But looking through the mists and
fogs on ahead we still fail to see
any sign that the
performers can
compare in crowd
appeal with Babe
Ruth, Jack Demp
sey, Bobby Jones,
Bill Tilden, Red
Grange, Rogers
Hornsby, Tommy
Hitchcock, Man o’
War, Walter Hagen
and a few others of
that former period
who happened to
be blessed with that
indefinable flair known as “color.”
Most of the star actors we have
left to open or carry on the 1946
program go back well before the
last war started. In this list you
will find Joe Louis, Billy Conn,
Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Joe Dl-
Maggio, Hank Greenberg and others
who had reached, or at least had
come to their peak before Pearl
Harbor.
It is faintly possible, but highly
improbable, that you and I will see
another Ruth, Dempsey, Jones,
Hitchcock or Tilden in action with
as much combined skill and crowd
appeal.
Still Great Fighters
No one can say yet just how
much fighting ability Joe Louis and
Billy Conn can bring to the ring
next June. Louis has almost certain
ly taken a number of steps over the
hill. The odds are that Conn won’t
be as good as he was in his last
attempt to reach the top. Both may
have enough left to give a record-
paying crowd an interesting show.
We’ll know about this later on when
the two get in better fighting shape.
There is no other heavyweight in
sight who compares with either, at
his best. Someone may come along
later on, but he is still some dis
tance away. High-class heavy
weights arrive at wide intervals.
The 4-Fs produced little and neither
army nor navy has any sensations
showing along the horizon.
It might be suggested here that
Army’s football team has taken the
lead in the new Golden Age. It is
better than any football team that
followed the first war. Blanchard
and Davis have been mentioned
more than any two football players
one can recall off hand. And both
will be arourld next fall, with an
other fine Army team that might
easily set a three-year record.
What about baseball? Most of the
stars will be found among such for
mer stars as Joe DiMaggio, Hank
Greenberg, Joe Gordon, Bobby
Doerr, Marty Marion, Terry
Moore, many members of the old
Yankee and Cardinal casts.
But there is still hope for such
young entries as Dave Ferriss of
the Red Sox, Wakefield of the
Tigers, Stirnweiss of the Yankees,
Schoendeinst of the Cardinals and a
few more who may develop rapidly.
Old Stars Returning
The majority of baseball eyes will
be focused on former stars who
should, in the main, be ready for
baseball again next spring. A1 New-
houser will again rate high up after
a brilliant two-year record.
After the First World war, the ill-
fated White-Black Sox of 1919 and
the Giants and Yankees of the early
’20s were unusually strong.
What about golf? So far, among
the professionals, the top men are
still Nelson, Hogan, Snead and Me
Spaden, who have been around quite
a spell. We have no record of any
young new pros crashing the spot
light at this moment. But the ama
teur side with Haas, Stranahan,
Middlecoff, Doering and Givan will
be above the 1919-1920 average. This
list will hardly include a Bobby
Jones, but in medal play against
the pick of the pros they have been
outscoring any set of amateurs we
can now recall.
Professional gblf may have to
wait a while before giving the game
a young star as good as the veterans
still left.
Tennis? Not yet. Amateur tennis
has no chance to match the Big Bill
Tilden and the Little Bill Johnston
of 1919 and 1920, on through 1925.
Some of the kids may start moving
up, but hardly in time for any 1946
or 1947 championships.
Revival of Polo
Polo will be in for an even tougher
touch. Most of the better polo ponies
are now missing. Polo went almost
100 per cent to war and little com
petitive polo has been played in the
last four years. Polo will need a
longer road for its comeback to the
days of Hitchcock, Milburn and oth
ers who were around in 1920 or
1921. But in spite of a lapse in form
and class from 25 years ago there
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field and a greater kid crop coming
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