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THE NEWBEPRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washing ton, D. C„ it able to bring readers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent col umn. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper regularly. Administration Problems While the Veterans’ administration is still several weeks behind on va rious phases of its work, it has made tremendous headway during the past two months towards keeping its business current, according to Gen. Omar N. Bradey, director. This tremendous agency is now handling the insurance, job training, farm, home and business loans, pensions and other features of vet erans’ benefits for more than 13 mil lion veterans and a potential busi ness of 20 million veterans. To do this job it is short of office help, in medical help and in staff ing its hospitals. Here are a few statistics as of February 1 showing how far behind schedule the admin istration is on handling its business —out of 500,000 applications for training under servicemen’s read justment act, 91,176 are in training, 258,781 have been declared eligible and the balance are pending; on in surance, the department is about 20 days behind and is now handling direct premium payments on 1,073,- 712 policies with 10,357,788 policies being paid by allotment; there are more than 2,000,000 disability claims on file with 1,567,000 adjudicated, 1,038,000 allowed and 458,000 pend ing. This office has received scores of letters asking when they will re ceive pensions, when they will re ceive subsistence checks. To all such inquiries we can only advise patience, since we believe the VA is doing all it can under the circum stances. Questions and Answers Q. I have a brother in the army in Italy. He has been overseas 13 months. His parents are 65 years of age and have no one at home with them. Would it be possible to get him discharged because of his parents’ age and health? It so, where would I write for particu- ars?—A reader. East Lake, Minn. A. Application for a “hardship” discharge must be filed by the sol dier with his commanding officer. It might help if the parents also filed all particulars with their local Red Cross, since the- army asks the Red Cross to investigate the case eventually. Q. Where would a person find out the details as to where wives of servicemen overseas are able to make application for transporta tion to Japan when they are per mitted to join their husbands?— Mrs. L. W., Omaha, Neb. A. The war department says all such applications must originate with the soldier who files his appli cation with his commanding officer. Q. I would appreciate receiving ir' }rmation concerning civilian oc cupations which may be compara ble to assignments held by officers while in service, particularly that of adjutant.—C. R. F., Long Rr<*nch, N. J. A. Your nearest office of the Unit ed States Employment service will have a list of occupations available. Q. My husband was a World War 1 veteran. I filled out a blank for pension December 14, 1945. Do you know how long before I will get it? Will I get $45? How much will my two boys get, one 16, the other 14 years old?—Mrs. P. S., Lilbourn, Mo. A. You do not give sufficient in formation. If your husband’s death was service-connected, you might get $50, plus $15 for the first child »*id $13 for each additional minor child; if not service-connected, $35 plus $10 for the first and $5 for each additional child. It you have filed your claim and given all particu lars, the Veterans’ administration will determine the correct amount in due time. Q. 1 am a disabled veteran of 'World War I with a 15 per cent dis ability rating. Due to this disabil ity and heart ailment, am unable to work. How can 1 get this rating raised? It was granted in 1928.— W. J. E., Columbia City, Ind. A. The VA says you should make application to the regional office where your original rating was granted for a re-examination. If the rating board says you are en titled to an increased disability rat ing, it will be granted. Q. I have a son who has been in the army signal corps almost 33 months and my wife and I are all alone on a large farm. We would like to know if there is a possible chance of him getting home this spring, or if we could try to get him home?—H. S. B., Carlton, Minn. A. I would say there is a good chance for him to be home this spring, since General Eisenhower has said all men with 30 months’ service as of April 20, or with 45 points, will be home or on their way home by April 30 this year. Elmer Twitchell, world famous architect, high-wheeled bicyclist and planner extraordinary, comes out with a blueprint for essential buildings at the proposed UNO vast international peace city. * Mr. Twitchell himself has contrib uted the funds for two of the most important buildings, a Hall for Nervous Breakdowns and a Hospit al for Overworked Interpreters. ♦ The Twitchell Plan follows: Wishing Well: Large and imposing, to be erect ed in the very center of UNO as a sort of key to the whole business. All delegates would be required to visit it before each session. Special exercises for the small nations whenever the Big Four are in a private huddle. Ice Hockey Center: Must be especially spacious. When meetings in the regular auditori ums become too rough, adjournment to the hockey center can be taken at once. Seismographic Building: In no territory on earth will the prompt detection of disturbances within the earth be more essential. Building should have super type seismographs, and carry spares for use when main ones are broken by disturbances within the UNO itself. Hall of the Alibis: This building should be so de signed as to face both ways at once and might even be put on a revolv ing platform Special press gal leries. Day and night lunch serv ice for periods when the diplomats making the alibis and explanations are having stymie trouble. Bull Ring: (Mr. Twitchell wants this one de signed especially for a few figures whose actions and words make such a place essential. More later.) Most Embarrassing Moments Auditorium: Pink marble with sunken floors and disappearing cabinets; with ad junct to be known as the False Whiskers Annex. Very handy for delegates caught in doubletalk. (Automatic blush controls.) Voice Throwing Center: Shiuld be on outskirts of reserva tion where notably persistent ora tors of the filibuster spee'es may keep in shape without disturbing the current sessions, which will be noisy enough. World Amity Gymnasium: Special running track (with trap doors) for any speed boys whose specialty is artful dodging, running in excessive circles, etc. Pussyfoot Infirmary: To provide treatments for build ing up tissues of the overcautious and the extra adroit. Feature of this building to be science’s latest invention, the AM I A Mouse or Man-O-Graph. • • • UNO and the Bathing Beach ("Nearness to the mountains and sea shore, because of summer heat, is empha sized as a consideration observed in select ing the permanent UNO site.” — News item.) Vftien a fellow’s solving problems Of a very global sort— When he’s striving tor more concord And a peace that won’t be short— When he’s busy on a blueprint And all-embracing plan. He wili want to go in swimming Just like any other man. When a crisis in far Denmark And another one in Greece And a third in Argentina Threatened unity in Greece— When the muddles are perplexing And the outlook’s very black, Oh, how nice to find a beachside There to lie upon one’s back! If the day is hot and humid And there’s talk of further wars And there is no breeze for UNO Through the windows or the doors I And the Big Three’s brows are drip ping And their shirtironts watery Any cause of peace is bettered By a dive into the sea. So let nothing interfere with UNO’s closeness to a beach (With a swimming-float, a surfboard And a coke or two in reach); Let it never be the verdict Should war raise its face so grim “That’s what remes ct keeping UNO From a handy place to swim.” • • • Sunspots are interfering with radio reception. Happily many of the commercials are now indistinct. • • • In These United States Kaw River Has Stolen 145 of 175-Acre Farm ST. MARYS, KANS.—When Ferdinand Wild renewed his subscription recently to the St. Marys Star, he remarked wist fully that he would be a lucky fellow if he could renew his land so easily. A retired farmer, now in his mid-seventies, Mr. Wild is certain he stands first in the busi ness of surrendering high-priced soil to the Kaw river. Back in 1918, when he bought the farm where he lives south of the river, Mr. Wild held title to 170 acres of fertile bottom land on the Wabaunsee county side of the riv er south of St. Marys. Since that time, however, the cave-ins and ero sion have frisked him of all but 25 acres of the farm. Up and down the’ ungovernable stream he has neighbors who can recall losing 20 acres here and 40 acres over yonder as the swollen Kaw has taken its toll each spring and fall. But Ferdinand believes he is in a class by himself. His finest land has vanished during the last quarter of a century—land that observers valued at more than $20,000. Across the river on this side, he still has a hundred acres of good soil that has rarely been clipped by •cave-ins. But the record was al most as disastrous in 1945. Over flows that came often during the high water last spring played an other trick on philosophical Ferdi nand. From the hundred good acres on the north side he raised a crop that looked like the fag-end of a drouth season in the mid-thirties —600 bushels of com. Ferdinand has heard that the war years were great years for the farmer. “Maybe so, maybe so,” he mut ters, “but which year and which farmer?” May Name ‘Bald’ Peak for General WASHINGTON, D. C.—Sen. Edwin F. Johnson of Colorado told Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er, army chief of staff, that the state hoped to name a moun tain in the general’s honor. “You have Pike’s Peak now and you want Ike’s Peak?” the general shot back quickly. The senator agreed. “I have only two conditions,” General Eisenhower explained. “First, you want to be certain it is a bald-headed peak, and then I want to be certain there is good fishing nearby where I can get a priority.” Cattle Rustlers Busy in Illinois MANTENO, ILL—Shades of the Wild West! Farmers in the Man- teno area may organize a vigi lante committee to hunt cattle rustlers, according to the Manteno News. In the meantime, there has been no trace of the thieves who recently stole nine head of cattle from the Sylvester Thilmony farm, nor of those who took four head from the Roy D. Piper farm. Farm Advisor George Tupper has stated that the directors of the farm bureau in five townships around Mai.teno may organize a vigilantes committee to combat cattle stealing. 1 Air Force Vets Are Organized WASHINGTON—A new national veterans organization, for members of the air forces of World Wars I and II, has been set up, with former Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle as tempo rary president. The organization is designed to per petuate AAF tradi tions. Doolittle told reporters here that the organization is non-profit and "has no ax to grind of a commercial na ture.” It will be known as the AFA, the Air Force association. Doolittle Key figures of the organization called on President Truman to in form him of the AFA and its aims. The organizers include such former air force men as Col. Willis S. Fitch, its executive director; Sgt. Forest Vossler, Syracuse university, hold er of the Congressional Medal of Honor; Lt. Col. Thomas G. Lan- phier, who shot down the plane car rying Admiral Yamamoto, now of Boise, Idaho; Sgt. Merryl Forst, captain of the 1945 Dartmouth football team; and Col. James M. Stewart, former 8th air force squad ron commander and now back in Hollywood. Whew! What a Day for Rancher In California! KERMAN, CALIF—Roy Bowers, Kerman rancher, will never forget January 16, 1946, for on that day: He had to get ont of a warm bed very early. Ice formed on the windshield of his car. The motor stopped and wouldn’t start again. He lost a race with the stork. And his honse canght fire while he was away. “It all started when Bowers was forced to get up from a warm bed because the stork couldn’t wait,” the Kerman News reported. “He had to rush his daughter, Mrs. Lola Stewart, to a Fresno hospital. “All went well until ice formed on the windshield of the car and Bowers had to get out and start scraping. Then the motor refused to run. After a few grinds from the starter Bowers went to a near by farm house to seek assist- tance. When he returned to his car Bowers found that the stork had proven too much of a match and he was now a proud grandfather; the baby had arrived.” While in Kerman that day his ranch house caught fire, with no one at home to fight it. Fortunately, Bowers knew nothing about that part of the day until he returned home—to find that his good neigh bors had formed a bucket brigade and extinguished the blaze with lit tle damage done. KNITTING . . . While the Pearl Har bor investigation went on, Pfc. An nette Hatcher of Gaffney, S. C., chauffeur assigned to Gen. Walter C. Short, sat on the sidelines deeply en grossed in her knit one, purl one. Plan to Withhold Food to End Strikes VANISHING AMERICANISMS 1— Give me your orders now and Til have it delivered by morning. 2— "Apartment to let." 3— Would you prefer Scotch? 4— Any steak will do as long as its big enough for four people. 5— Want to buy a used car cheap? 6— Til take a dozen shirts, all white. 7— l don’t want any trouble with any body. 8— The money ain’t much, but it’s nice work EDGAR, NE15. — A nation-wide farmers’ “strike against strikes” is the object of Clay county farmers. They voted to withhold their prod ucts from market until industrial disputes are settled. V. Hubert Johnson, who helped organize a meeting at which 271 farmers voted the action, explained the objective. “You might say we’ve got our Irish up,” the 48-year-old farmer declared. “We need farm tools and machinery, bathtubs and refrigera tors.” ' Although a resolution adopted at the meeting said “we are not tak ing sides in the industrial battles,” Johnson said that most farmers here blame labor rather than man agement. “When we shut off sources of food,” he declared, “strikers will work or starve.” Similar action was taken by farm ers at Chickasha, Okla. Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE V IRGINIA JOHNSON, who on November 16, was chosen “Photogenic Day” queen on Mutual’s “Queen for a Day” broadcast and won a seven-year contract at 20th Century-Fox, has had her option picked up by the studio, and is ready to go into her third picture on the lot. She was “Emmie,” a merry-go-round ticket seller, in “Three Little Girls in Blue,” has just finished “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim,” and goes into “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog.” Virginia’s taking singing and dra matic lessons, being groomed for stardom. * Danny O’Neil, CBS “Powder Box Theater” star, was discovered by Chaplain Hjalmar Hansen, who heard him singing in the Blue Jack et Choir at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and gave him his DANNY O’NEIL first chance at a solo. Danny will be featured guest artist at an All Irish concert to be held at Boston Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass., on St. Patrick’s Day. He’ll feature John McCormack’s favorite. —*— Bette Davis drove 9,920 miles dur ing the four weeks following her marriage to William Grant Sherry, on a round trip that took her from Hollywood to Mexico, to New Hampshire, and back to Hollywood. A souvenir of Mexico is a dozen solid silver service plates, a gift to her from the governor of Mex ico. She’s completing “A Stolen Life,” for which she began testing a year ago. * Everything was set for a love scene between Eleanor Parker and Errol Flynn, for “Escape Me Nev er.” But the electricians got an are light too close to the stage sprin kling system, and Flynn fled the deluge, dragging Miss Parker be hind him. * When Tom Harmon, football star and war hero, decided to run for Mayor of Studio City against Jack Carson and Roy Rogers, the burden of the campaign fell on his wife, Elyse Knox, star of “Joe Palooka, Champ.” He invited undecided vot ers home to dinner, and she did the cooking. All she feels really sure about is fried chicken, so that was the bait for the voters. * Sheik, the famous movie horse, a palomino, might well carol “Or would you rather be a horse?” He appeared with Betty Hutton in “In cendiary Blonde,” was used by Bar bara Britton in “The Virginian,” and Ray Milland 'rides him in Mil- land’s first Western role, that of a wagon-train guide, in “California.” But don’t be fooled—Sheik has a double for chases and rough stuff— his own colt, Sheila. —*— Frank Sinatra has his bid in for a two-place advance trainer fighter plane; Pianist Skitch Henderson, who taught cadets to fly the train ing plane at Fresno, will be his teacher. Just to make sure of him, Sinatra looked Henderson up as soon as he was discharged from the army and arranged for the pianist to begin his postwar radio career as guest artist on the Sinatra show. * Sheldon Leonard, “Orville Sharp” of "Meet Me at Parky’s,” is the first actor to set up a regular com muting schedule between New York and Hollywood. He has an acting commitment in Manhattan; he’s there from Monday to Wednesday of each week, then hops a plane for Hollywood and leaves again when the radio show is over. But just about now he’ll be calling it off. —*— ODDS AND ENDS—Dinah Shore has a new, transparent pink raincoat—her dog has one to match. . . . Dancing is the chief hobby of Johnny Desmond, star of “Fallies of 46"; he learned to dance when he wasn't allowed to sing because his voice was changing. . . . Zasu Pitts returns in "The Perfect Marriage". .. At Warners’ they’re starring Bruce Bennett, Joan Crawford's first husband in "Mildred Pierce," and is one of Ann Sheridan’s love interests in “The Sentence". . . Ray Mayer, of “Holi day and Co.,“ is probably the only per former in radio who plays the calliope; learned when he ran away from home and Joined a circus- IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for March 3 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. A PEOPLE FINDING A HOMELAND LESSON TEXT: Joshua 1:1-4; 23:1-11. MEMORY SELECTION: Thou shall blesa the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.—Deuteronomy 8:10. God is the Lord of nations as well as of homes, and he is concerned that those who honor him in their homes have opportunity to serve him in their national life. This was true in a special way with Israel, but it is also true of us today. Ready to enter the Promised Land, the people had to part with their great leader, Moses, who was not permitted to enter. The time comes when even the mightiest of men fall, but life must go on and new leadership must be found. I. The Changed Leader (Josh. 1: 1-4). 1. Workers Die—God’s Work Goes On (vv. 1, 2). God buries his workmen at the end of their day of labor, but God’s work goes on. The people had be come attached to Moses and had learned to trust his leadership, even though they often murmured. With his death we might have assumed that there would be a letdown, but that was not in God’s plan. The Lord works through men. He gives them abilities and uses them for his glory, often in a way which astonishes them and others. But let them not become proud, for God has someone to take their place when they are gone. They are not Indispensable. 2. The Need Is the Same, So Is the Blessing (vv. 3, 4). The promise given tc Moses was still good. God’s promises are al ways good. They are the only really stable thing in a trembling universe. The question is. Are we ready to take him at his word? They were to step out by faith. The land was promised to them only as the sole of their foot should tread upon it. Israel never took out the full promise of verse 4. They lacked faith. God honors those who believe him and who move forward by faith to plant the foot of spiritual conquest in new territory. Some ire doing it now. Are we? The enemies of God’s people were many and mighty, but they were not able to stand in the way of God’s people when they were moving for ward for him. Here again, Israel failed. They did not drive them out, because they did not take God at his word. The application of that truth to us is obvious. H. The Unchanging God (Josh. 23: 1-11). Between our first scripture and this selection will be found the his tory of the conquest of the land (at least, of the larger part of it), and the division of the territory between the tribes. Years have passed quickly, and the new leader, Joshua, is now an old man, soon to go to his reward. He gathers the elders who repre sented the people and gave them good counsel for the days ahead, even as he recalls the blessings of the past. I. God Did Help (vv. 1-3). Israel had been in many hard bat tles. They had gone through the tri als of pioneer days in a new and unfamiliar land. Now they were established and at peace. Perhaps they were recalling thejr mighty ex ploits and their own sacrificial ef forts. Joshua reminds them that it was God who fought for them (v. 3). We need just such a reminder in our land today. 2. God Will Help (w. 4, 5). Joshua had a word of encouragement for the days ahead. There was much yet to be done. The land had not been fully taken. He reminded them of God’s help in the past, so that they would depend on it in the fu ture. It is one mark of a great man that he looks beyond the end of his own short existence and plans for the future. What about the future? Joshua reminded them that every blessing they had received, every victory they had won, everything had come horn the hand of God. There and there alone was their hope for the future. And it was enough! 3. Help Yourself (vv. 6-11). To keep true in the land where their neighbors engaged in idol worship and all manner of immorality re quired definite action on the part of Israel. They were not to deviate in the slightest from God’s way, “to the right hand or to the left” (v. 6), for a little beginning in the wrong direction winds up in awful depar ture from him. They were not even to swear by the heathen gods, not even to men tion them. They were to “cleave” to the Lord, a graphic presentation of the close relation between God and his people. 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