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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. News Behin the/Ni By PaulMallon Released by Western Newspaper Union. NEW STATE POLICY RETREAT TO RUSSIA WASHINGTON. — In complete of ficial privacy, the state department has spent some weeks getting up a new statement of American for eign policy. The only great question of policy, of course, is how to treat Russia. On this, the paper was not illuminating in its original form. The Byrnes policy established at Moscow and London since mid- December, has been substantially this: Press no point which would be of fensive to Russian claims. Retreat on policy as much as possible and accept Russian conten tions. The appar ent but not pro fessed purpose has Byrnes been to entice Rus sia out of her na tionalistic isolation into dealing in the world of affairs. This has kept world news rather calm but events behind the news, particularly from Europe, are work ing up boldly and may break sensa tionally. Do not for instance, let yourself be cur rently misled into believing the dom ination of the French govern ment by Commu nists and Socialists is a permanent ar rangement, or that the name of De Gaulle will remain forever in re tirement from French politics. Give greater notice than has been given to the victory of the Belgian Catholic party over both Communists and Social ists. Belgium is half French, with all the same elements of French politics in miniature. In deed throughout Europe, even in Yugoslavia, the resistance to Communism is taking the only effective form yet evidenced in the gathering together of Cath olic elements. I have heard American statesmen say these Christian groups are the only ones in the world today who know how to resist Communism, Ideologically or politically. These groups have a firm ideology them selves. REDS PUT ENGLAND ON DEFENSIVE Britain was the first nation to talk up to the Soviets, but the dip lomatic resistance of Bevin at the London UNO conference was tacti cal rather than formidable. The Russians had raised the question of British influence in Greece, pri marily to cover their own tracks in Poland, the Balkans, Iran, Turkey and other places where they are at tempting to extend their influence. They forced Britain to the defensive by raising this question. After ac complishing this purpose, and suc ceeding in getting UNO to allow Moscow to deal separately with a pro-Comnmnism Iranian prime minister installed at Teheran for the purpose — Russia withdrew her Greek charges against Bevin. The common current belief that Bevin may have found a way of treating with Moscow therefore is unjustified. He twice passed “the lie” to them and they backed down, true enough. But when you add up the results, you will see Russia won the action she wanted from UNO, while Bevin won nothing except the red herring. President Truman, meanwhile, is recognizing that the army seems to know how to get along with the So viets, without losing their shirts, bet- er than our timid and confused dip lomats. He chose General Marshall to go to China to get Chiang into a peace with tile Communists; and now he selected General Eisenhow er’s chief of staff to be ambassa dor to Moscow, instead of a diplo mat or a politician. Army men, by nature, should be more interested in results than in the political ideas of Justice for this and that, which have so confused our diplomats in recent years. (Latest ex ample: Joe Davies, who thinks Russian spying on Canada Justi fied, but no doubt would cry out against any Canadian spying on Russia, whereas any realist knows all nations have always spied on all others and always will.) This new reliance on army real ism is the most hopeful develop ment in American foreign policy, in contrast to these childish but pompous accumulations of vapor- pus generalities the state depart ment plans to put out under the claim that they are great state pro nouncements. I mean it is most im portant, if a recent pronouncement by Mrs. Roosevelt does not out- measure it. Mrs. Roosevelt has been recognized as a spokesman for the class-thought which pressured Byrnes into the appeasement poli cy, causing him to retreat. De Gaulle House-to-Auto Phone Call (Following the recent announcement that hou.iC'to-ear and car-to-car telephon ing will »oon be in operation.) Wife—Central, this is a car call. Central—Carl who? Wife—Car call, car call! Central—Clark Hall? You'll have to look up his number in the book. Wife—Listen, I’m trying to get an automobile. Central—You’ll find a list of sales rooms in the back of the directory. Wife—Please, Central, please! I wish to phone my husband who is in his auto. The number is 66-355 J. Central—Is that a sedan exchange or a limousine number? Wife—It’s on the flivver circuit. Central (after a minute or two)— That car seems to be busy. Wife—It’s just the way it acts. Try again please. Central—I got an answer just a second ago. Didn’t you get it? Wife—No. That was a backfire! Central—Excuse it, please! * Voice—Hello. Is this Ficklestein’s Restaurant? Wife—No. Please get off the wire. Central—Did you get your party? Wife—I didn’t even come close. Central—I’m certain I heard some body answer. Wife—No. It’s just a rather noisy car. Central—Here’s your party! Voice—Hello. This is Buxbaum’s Moving Van. Wife—Wrong connection! Central—There seems to be a lit tle trouble. Ah, now I have it. Voice — Murphy’s Beach Wagcn . . . what can I do for you? Wife—Oh get your old beach wag on off the wire. Murphy—You can’t talk to my beach wagon like that. ♦ Central—Excuse it please. Now I have the number you asked for, madam. Wife—Is this you, Gerald? Husband—Yes, Honey. But you’ll have to speak louder. I can’t hear you. Oh my mistake! I had the cig ar lighter in my ear by mistake. mm* Maybe It’s Just a Dream Wonders will never cease. The New York Stock Exchange is now running big space advertisements to keep the public from playing the market! * It is spending thousands of dollars warning people to buy no stock with out being sure of the facts behind it. It is blasting tips, rumors and brokerage office gossip. • We expect the following trend any day: BEWARE OF WALL STREET! A fool and his money are soon Parted. Never buy a security un less you are rich, well informed and especially rugged ! Write the Stock Exchange now for its special book let: How to resist a Rumor in Ten Lessons. • • • That Hollywood director who slugged a youth five times in a nightclub while the victim was sit ting in a chair must have as his slogan, "Never hit a man when he is UP!” • • • Harvard is conducting a spe cial research into cures for deaf ness. Its present difficulty is to determine whether Yale men are deaf or just not listening. Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald are to be together in a new movie, for which Allah be praised. In “Go ing My Way” they struck this de partment as a team that made the picture what it was. They parted and Bing appeared without Barry in “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” a film which needed Fitzgerald badly. • • • Hollywood studio workers are de manding a 50 per cent wage raise. Nobody out there ever does things in a small way. If things come to a strike we hope the fights between employers and workers will be pho tographed and used as a new pat tern for those screen battles which still follow the routine of 1907. • • VANISHING AMERICANISMS 1— The banauet will con fl per plate, including cocktails. 2— Let’s take the whole two dollars and buy a lot of stuff for an all day picnic! 3— Til take that fl pair of shoes for the little boy. 4— Yes, that 40 cent lunch tail be all right. In These United States Groin Bins Are Turned Into Houses at Shenandoah, Iowa SHENANDOAH, IOWA.—“Housing Problem Is Solved,” proud ly announced the Shenandoah Sentinel recently, when the chamber of commerce purchased 97 grain bins, and worked out combina tions so that two of the bins could be combined to make a dwelling unit. “Scattered through the state are hundreds of these bins,” the Sen tinel stated. “They were built by the department of agriculture to store excess grain. For some time they have been empty and avail able to purchasers. They are all made of good prewar lumber, and were built in three sizes—12 by 16 feet, 14 by 20 feet, and 14 by 24 feet. They already have a good pitched roof on them.” The Shenandoah chamber of com merce raised money enough to buy 97 of the bins and set to work. Windows were put in and plumbing was installed. With a coat of paint and well insulated, the completed house sells between $2,300 and $2,500 —and that includes a heating plant! In several other Iowa communi ties the building of homes by using old grain bins is progressing rapid ly. Frank Lawson, a contractor at Storm Lake, bought 150 of the bins and is converting them into houses. By the time spring arrives, hun dreds of new dwelling units will be scattered over all of Iowa where the housing shortage has been acute. It looks like the Shenandoah Sen tinel is right: “The Housing Prob lem Is Solved.” NEW MEXICO . . . Drilling for helium bearing gas, bureau of mines sinks a bit near rugged Shiprock. Helium is a valuable non-inflammable and non-explo sive gas used in navy blimps. Bromfield Stuck with Phone Company Which He Just Doesn’t Want MANSFIELD, OHIO. — Author- Farmer Louis Bromfield, famed for his long-distance conversations, rue fully admits that ownership of a ru ral telephone system is something he doesn’t like. In colorful and somewhat pungent speech, Mr. Bromfield explains that when the rural tele in financial trouble, phone company was he loaned $1,000 to keep the line to his model Malabar farm open. But the owner, after nine months of trying to keep the outmoded equipment function ing, got tired of it and mailed the au thor a bill of sale L. Bromfield in payment of the loan. “All I want is a telephone, not a telephone company,” Mr. Bromfield declared. “I don’t want the Lucas Telephone company with 142 sub scribers and 28 miles of line.” So definite is Bromfield in this belief that he has instructed his counsel to petition the Richland county common pleas court to name a receiver and sell the,company to a competent operator, not an author. Has Marshal Again Since Vet Returned STRATTON, COLO.—George Her- shey finally returned from Uncle Sam’s navy, and Stratton again has a town marshal, after being without one for many, many months. The town board thinks it was “fortu nate” to get George back. Idaho Ranchers Feed Deer When Snows Are Deep IDAHO CITY, IDAHO. — Mr. and Mrs. William Hlrt, who live on Middle Fork, proved to be friends of deer and elk this win ter when the deep snow made food scarce for animals. The deer and elk come in herds to the Hirt place where they bed down like cattle during the night. They seem to know they are pro tected, for they eat in the Hirts’ back yard. “They merely stand and watch any activity about the place,” Mrs. Hirt declares. Many deer were driven up the river to partake of the Hirt hos pitality when eagles and coyotes attacked them. Teachers Will Be Lectured Before Trip to Mexico AUSTIN, TEXAS—United States school teachers, who expect to take the Mexican tour sponsored by the National Education assooiation next summer, will have to listen to two days of lectures first. Dr. Carlos E. Castanada, an au thority on Mexican history, will lecture on the historical background of Mexico and discuss interesting places on the itinerary. Sociological and cultural informa tion will be given the teachers by Dr. Rex Hopper, assistant professor of sociology at the university. Austin will be the meeting point for teachers of the South and West making the 27-day tour to Mexico City. A similar pre-travel session wifi be held in St. Louis for teachers from the North and East who will make the tour. Sit, Look Pretty In 1946 Dresses NEW YORK. —Clothes for Amer ican women this year will be de signed to "sit and look pretty in,” according to Designer Omar Kiam. He predicted an era of romantic femininity in dress, of accent on feminine curves, and of startlingly revealing styles. Evening gowns, sheer dresses, lavish and dramat ic negligees and play suits will show the new trend. Golf dresses will be cut in nightshirt style, with slit sides in the skirt, cinched by a belt. GOVERNMENT ‘RAT’ MEN WORRY OVER—RATS! WASHINGTON. — Government “rat” men are increasingly worried over rats—and how much they eat. one rat eats 120 pounds of food in a year — preferably grain. Multiply this by the rat population of the U. S. A. and you get some idea of what rats cost to keep. They have caused more destruction than all the wars in history! The wheat they eat never goes into bread, even the darkest kind. DROVE PATTON . . . Pfc. Horace L. Woodring of Sturgis, Ky., was the driver of the car in which Gen. George S. Patton rode when the fatal accident occurred. Private Woodring has now returned to the United States. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who has not lately sadly said: IS this my own, my native land? —Fred Dahl. • • • “Miami Hotels Robbed.”—Head line. • Turn about is fair play. ENTERTAINMENT Let’s go to a musical comedy. No. I want to laugh. Quonset Huts House 280 Families Near San Pedro, Calif. New York Newsboy Frenchmen here insist DeGaulle is being held prisoner in his own house in Paris by order of the com- my high command. . . . Rep. Ran kin’s report on Hollywood (to his Un-American Committee) has been sent back for re-writing. So poorly presented, etc. . . . Sumner Welles, former Ass’t Sec’y of State, has an old farm near Babylon (L. I.) for sale. A home is on the grounds. . . . Interesting observation: That big page ad in which the N.A.M. at tacked Bowles was prepared by the Benton & Bowles advert agency, of which he is vice-chairman. . . . One of the best informed State Dept, officials complains that too many of the top men in Washington are fiddling while the world burns—that World War III has already started in the Eastern Hemisphere! . . . Mr. Justice Douglas of the Supreme Court can, if he likes, be Assistant President of the United States. Nylons are no longer the top black market item. A $5 white shirt in many spots brings 20 bux. . . . Lili St. Cyr of the night clubs can’t wear nylons. Allergic! . . . W. Z. Foster, chief Of the U. S. Commun ist Party, issued a rebuke to a headline writer on the local commy paper for “stupid journalism.” . . . Doris Lilly (no dunce, she) insert ed a classified ad in a paper adver tising for an apartment and got 30 replies next day. And an apt.! . . . Sgt. Chet Skreen observes that the legend about British women hav ing no sex appeal took a terrible debunking when H’wood hired two British actresses to film the most amorous women — Amber and Scarlett! Theodore Dreiser’s “The Bul wark” (his testament novel on the decline of 20th Century morals) will be published by Doubleday next month. Original publication date was the fall of 1917. It will be the April Book Find Club selection. . . . Fred Allen and his agent are mak ing a money settlement after a long time romance. . . . Republicans who planned spending oodles for radio time have held up their plans since the Demmys started slugging each other. Lucky stiffs. . . . Some hotels are offering permanents as high as $500 to move out. . Black market butter is selling at $1.10 the lb. . . . Three-fourths of the people in the world could not read the Atlantic Charter if writ ten in their own language—that’s how much illiteracy there is! Backstage Vignette: It happened in Tallulah Bankhead’s undressing room. ... An old bore got by the doorman and found Talu’s retreat. . . Before she could say: “Now looka here!” he brought forth one of those spellbinding ant villages in which the ants build tunnels and whatnot. . . . The star was fasci nated by them. . . . “They are won derful little things,” he kept saying, “they really are. They never stop working, always doing something— always keeping busy. They have their own police force and their own army, too!” . . . “Hmmmmm,” hmmm’d Talu with her straightest face, “no navyr I suppose.” Sgt. Stanley Volchok forwards the U. S. Army paper (The Lud- wigsburg Sentinel) from Germany in which Fritz Kuhn was inter viewed. They quote him as finally admitting: “All the reporters start ed muckraking me. They wanted to build me and the German-American Bund into something sensational so that their papers would sell! Even my good friend Walter Winchell spoke against me, and then the Dies committee investigated me.” Investigated him? It advertised him as a good American and de nounced me as “the leader of a sinister propaganda bund”! Ach, Fritz! How times change since 1933, no? You are back home in your beloved Germany undt Herr Dies is back home in oblivion. Sounds in the Night: At Leone’s: “I love to stand at 42nd Street and Broadway and watch the frauds go by!” . . . At the Blue Angel: “They have a lot in common—they are hated by the same people.” ... At the Latin Quarter: “ ‘Charming’ is a word that means the joke was lousy but told by a very dear friend.” ... At the Penthouse: “Whata snob! Holds her nose so high she nearly drowns when it rains!” . . At WJZ: “Like all bigots, that Congressman has yet to learn you can’t lynch the truth!” . . . At Club 78: “That Runyon is a Damon in the rough” ... At the Cub Room: “Nice feller. He’d give you t bottle of milk for a cow.” Faces About Town: Walter Pid- geon, Nancy Guild, Keenan Wynn and other H’wood notables (at the Stork club) observing that they will be back in Movietown (via H. Hughes’ new Constellation plane) “before you columnists wake up tomorrow!” Manhattan Mural: The “tent house” on Fourth Avenue where a war vet and his wife have pitched their tent. On the roof of an office bldg. SERVICE ■BUREAU EDITOR’S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the fTashington Bureau of Western Netvspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washing ton, D. C., is 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. Factors That Determine Veteran’s Pension Rate Where veterans of World War II have a disability incurred in or ag gravated by service in the armed forces, there is no set disability pen sion he may receive, the amount being determined by the degree of disability upon examination by the Veterans’ administration. The rates of pension range from $11.50 per month for a disability of a degree of 10 per cent to $115 a month for total disability and where certain specific disabilities occur, such as a loss of hands or legs, or blindness, or combinations of dis abilities, the amount payable may be as high as $265 per month. These rates are determined, as near as possible upon the average impair ment of earning capacity. It must be remembered, and particularly in cases of World War I veterans, where application is made for disability pension, not service-connected, that these pen sions are not payable if the dis ability is the result of the veteran’s own willful misconduct or vicious habits. Also where total disability is not service-connected, pension is not payable to the veteran where the annual income is $1,000 if un married, or if it exceeds $2,500 if he is married. Many times, the experience shows, according to the Veterans’ administration. World War I veter ans applying for pensions years after World War I for non-service- connected disability are turned down because the Veterans’ admin istration decides the disability is due to the “willful misconduct or vicious habits” of the veterans. Questions and Answers Q. My son has been in the army for-22 months and spent 16 months in England, France, Belgium and is now in Germany. He is with the 2242 quartermaster truck company. Does the war department have any word when this company will be shipped home?—Mrs. H. N., Plank- ington, N. D. A. As of February 15 this outfit was in Ausbach, Germany, and the war department has no word on when it will be returned to this country. Q. My son, who is in Japan, made out his insurance papers to me be fore he went overseas. I have been married since that time. Do I have to have my name changed on the policy?—Mrs. J. W., Fort Bragg, Calif. A. The Veterans’ administration says it would not make much dif ference, but would probably save some time in the event the insur ance became payable. The veteran must make application to his com manding officer to change the name of the beneficiary. Q. Is a widow of a World War I veteran who is elderly and in poor health, eligible for a pension if she has an income of $100 a month?— Mrs. W. Me., Arlington, Mass. A. If death was service-connect ed, yes, she is entitled to a pension. If not service-connected, she is not entitled if her income is $1,000 or more annually, if she has no chil dren. I would ask your nearest Vet erans’ administration office, how-f ever, because the law says that certain items are not considered in come and determination as to whether the claimant’s income ex ceeds the respective amount is made by the Veterans’ administra tion. Q. My son was given an honor able discharge in May 1945. I wish to know if he should draw a pension as he was wounded in Bel gium. He was with Patton’s 3rd army. He is a member of the Amer ican Legion at Fayette, Ala., Post No. 127, but as yet has not even been examined for a pension. No one knows about the nervous dis position he has except his parents. —Mrs. E. M., Fayette, Ala. A. From your letter, I would say your son most certainly is entitled to a disability rating, but he must apply to the Veterans’ administra tion for an examination tor deter mination of the amount. Apply im mediately to your nearest office of the Veterans’ administration for this examination. Q. My boy died in the army in France. I want to know how I can get the large flag they put over the casket to bury them. I know of some mothers who have received them. I would thank you if you can tell me. — Broken-hearted mother, Brownsville, Tenn. A. Relatives or next of kin of de ceased veterans, who died in serv ice, may receive a United States flag by application to the postmas ter at any county seat post office. Application may be made on Vet erans’ administration form 2008 available at local office. Cross-Stitched Towels 5127 jlgruROAX- Each Day of the Week S TUNNING cross stitch designs for tea toyels, for a breakfast or luncheon cloth, or on place mats that are fun to make. Each gay fruit design is about 7 by 7 inches and is done in realistic coL ors and shadings in cotton flosses. To obtain the seven transfers for tbe Fruit Designs (Pattern No. 8127) cotoe chart for working, send 16 cents In coin, your name, address and the pattern num ber. 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