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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. WAR NOT EXPECTED WASHINGTON. — That the Tru man cabinet is not looking for war in the near future, despite warlike talk, was indicated at a secret ses sion of the senate military affairs committee recently. When Secretary of State Bymes and Secretary of War Patterson testified in favor of an extension of the selective service act, the figures they presented on planned strength of the army and navy were exactly the same as those presented early in January. In other words, they pro posed an army of barely over a mil lion men by July of 1947. The senators had expected that because of the complicated inter national situation a larger army would be asked for, but the war and state departments made no such request. When one senator asked how it happened that there was no “emergency” planning. Sec retary Byrnes refused to answer. He passed the question to Secretary Patterson, who also did not reply. * * • WALLACE SPEECH CENSORED. It wasn’t supposed to be known outside the cabinet, but Henry Wal lace’s speech at the Jackson Day dinner was censored — by President Truman himself. Wallace had one line in his speech which he thought would answer Republicaa critics. It read: “Abraham Lincoln was not a member of our party. But he was certainly a fellow trav eler.” Truman thought such a reference to the martyred Lincoln might be misunderstood and cut it out. Wal lace was glad to concur. MEN’S SUITS It still looks like a long wait be fore veterans can get the clothing they need. The office of war mobili zation and reconversion will soon bring out a report on men’s cloth ing showing a need for 40 million suits this year but production plans for only about 28 million. The report will also show that first quarter production has been only about 5 million, and officials of the civilian production administra tion are worried sick that even the goal of 28 million suits for 1946 will not be met. There is no sign yet that the increase in prices granted this month by OPA will mean more men’s suits. There are indica tions, however, that large stocks of suits are being held off the market in the hope that price control will not be extended be yond June. JOHN L. LEWIS* For years John L. Lewis has been one of labor’s top negotiators. Usual ly he has his facts cold. Recehtly, however, while arguing safety pre cautions with Harry Moses, an im portant Pittsburgh mine operator, he said: “Why, Harry, your father is a good illustration of why we need these safeguards. Everybody knows him as a veteran coal man, and we’ve all seen him limping around for 50 years because of a mine acci dent. So how can you sit there and deny us the safeguards to pre vent the same sort of thing from happening to other miners?” “John,” replied Moses, “1 don’t know where you got your information about my father— but it wasn’t so good. I’ll tell you how he hurt his leg. It wasn’t in a coal mine. It was playing baseball. He broke his leg sliding into second.” NOTE — Bureau of mine officials heartily endorse Lewis’ demands for better safety precautions in the mines. * * * DIPLOMATIC VICTORY During the heyday of the Roose velt administration, Vice Pres. Jack Garner gave a dinner for the late Will Rogers at which the cowboy humorist, commenting on a forth coming international conference, said: “This country has won every war, but lost every conference.” Recently, however, one inter national conference closed at Savan- nah, Ga., at which the United States won every single round. It was the first world monetary confereuce, and the man responsible for the American victory was hard-hitting Fred Vinson, secretary of the treas ury. His chief battle was o^cr the loca tion of the international bank and the stabilization fund to be estab lished under the Bretton Woods plan. The British wanted the bank and fund located in New York, but Sec- re’ary Vinson wanted them in Wash ington. When the vote was taken, there was only one vote against Washington — Lord Keynes’ vote. • « • CAPITAL CHAFF Two movie companies are bidding for “Saints and Strangers,” the new best seller written by George Wil- lison. . . . Former Democratic Sen. Clarence Dill of Washington is be ing urged for one of the vacant assistant secretaryships of the inte rior department. . . . Jim Landis may be beaded for a new impor tant administration job soon. . . . New Mexico’s Gov. Jack Dempsey decided after two talks wilh Pres ident Truman that he would not op pose Sen. Dennis Chavez, N. M. . . . An Innocent Bystander: The conflicting stories from Iran recall a quip that was popular with overseas newsboys during the war: It concerns the Ministry of Infor mation carrier pigeon, leisurely fly ing to its destination, when it was jostled by a second pigeon that shouted: “Get a move on. I’ve got the denial I” A N. Y. editorial writer stated that Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. can not hope to be President because he was born in Canada and a Chief- Exec must be a native-born Amer ican. Overwhelming weight of legal opinion: Anyone who is born of American parents in a foreign coun try and properly registered can be President. . . . Ho, hum. Any other questions? ” Another reason for our tense rela tions with Russia is that the Amer icans Russia respected (and trust ed most) can no longer help us Iran out differences: FDR, Harry Hop kins and Wendell Willkie. It happened at the Brooklyn in come tax bureau recently. . . . Two men named Thomas McNally and Joseph Sweeney were having their tax forms filled out by an agent when they suddenly began speaking to each other in Yiddish. . . . Ques tioned by the startled income tax agent—McNally and Sweeney ex plained they were Dublin-born Jews. Talk about blazing red faces: A few days after Lord Halifax public ly opined that Goering was anxious to prevent war—Goering testified (at the war crimes trial) and took every opportunity to praise Hit ler—the Nazi system—and every thing the Nazis did. A quip causing tee-hees in seme of the back rooms in Argentina con cerns the recent incident when Mrs. Peron turned up at a social soiree. . . . During the evening one of the guests turned to his neighbor and remarked: “Well, there sits Argen tina’s First Lady.” “That’s no lady,” was the retort. “That’s his wife!” The State Dep’t has been shoved around like a revolving door. But now it has been complimented—the Rankin Committee plans to probe ■the SD. . . . Rankin’s witch-hunt ing spree recalls the time a Dies Committee member (Cong. J. Par nell Thomas) ranted that the WPA theater was a “hot-bed of commu nism” and demanded the investiga tion of a play titled “Prologue to Glory.” The play concerned an American named Abe Lincoln. Quotation Marksmanship: John W. Raper: A man picks a wife the same way an apple picks a farmer. . . . D. Yates: Bold as the bark of a puppy. . . . Voltaire: The ear is the road to the heart. . . . Muriel Gaines: His wrinkles are overload ed with decisions. . . . Singapore Sal: The only difference among women is their faces. . . . James Kelly: She walked as though she were carrying a chip on her hip. . . . Nancy Donovan: An actor, full of hambition. . . . Chinese Prov erb: The broadminded see the truth in different religions; the narrow minded see only their differences. . . . Seaman Jacobs’ opinion of a guy with no initiative: He’s always in there catching. . . . Wm. Schiller: Our friendship with Russia seems to be strictly platomie. . . . Eileen Deneen: War do we go from here? Sallies in Our Alley: A Broad way showman walked up to a new comer-lovely last night and asked: “Want to work in my night club as a showgirl?” ... To which her companion (agent Paul Small) said: “I offered her a receptionist’s job only today at $25 a week and she laughed at me.” . . . The showman indignantly rejoined: “You’re not offering people $25 a week these days?” . . . “Who are you to talk?” barked the agent. “You’d offer it to a star!” . . . Ozzie Nelson says when a show’s a success the pro ducer knocks wood. When it isn’t, he knocks critics. Midtown Vignette: At the Ber nard Baruch dinner for Mr. Church ill, Cardinal Spellman was also an honored guest. . . . Baruch is a tall man—Churchill is a shorty—and they were having quite a time of it with the microphone. . . . Until, that is, a volunteer got up to help. . . . The mike-adjuster (raising it high or low) was the Cardinal. Years ago when a double-talking official told newsmen, “I never said that!” (although a dozen reporters knew that he had), one editor ridi culed him by sending him the fol lowing note: “Sir: You may recollect we print ed yesterday your denial of having retracted the contradiction of your original statement. Would you care to have us say that you were mis quoted in regard to it?” Confucius: Warmongers Making Mountain Out Of A Churchill, OKLAHOMA WINS NATIONAL BASKETBALL TITLE AGAIN . . . For the second year in a row, Okla homa A. & M. college, Stillwater, won the NCAA basketball championship by conquering North Caro lina at Madison Square Garden, 43 to 40. Photo shows the winning team circled around their coach, Henry Iba, as he accepts the St. Clair memorial trophy from Mrs. Jimmy W. St. Clair, widow of the late basketball committee chairman, in whose name the award is granted annually. AT OPENING OF UNO SECURITY COUNCIL ... A general view from the rear of the council chamber as the momentous opening session of the United Nations security council got underway at Hunter Col lege, New York City. U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes is addressing the delegates. He declared flatly that no nation has the right to take the law into its own hands. Governor Dewey welcomed the delegates. SPRING HAS TRULY ARRIVED . . . When the youngsters forsake the nursery for a day of fishing in New York’s Central park lake. The gentleman, Bruce Fitzgerald, 2, has had nary a nibble as yet, but he doesn’t fret so long as his lady, Eleanor Jessup, 3, is by his side. Eleanor has an apple in reserve, just in case they are not able to catch any fish for their lunch. REUTHER ELECTED . . . Walter Reuther, former vice president of the United Automobile Workers of America, who was in charge of General Motors strike, defeated R. J. Thomas for the presidency of the union during a heated elec tion. After election they both pledged united support to CIO. WORLD’S CHAMPION HEN . . . Ernest B. Parmenter, Franklin, Mass., shown with “Miss Massachusetts,” Rhode Island Red hen, which established a new world’s record at official egg laying con tests by producing 351 eggs in 357 days. During the past 14 years, Parmenter’s Reds have won 20 official egg laying contests from Maine to California. This champion may end up in the New England Mu seum of Natural History. URGES INCREASE . . . Bernard M. Baruch, 75, financier and coun selor of Presidents, urged the granting of increased wages and prices as an immediate incentive to production. Swank and the Ball Parks “Get me a table up front at the ball game!” . . . “How’s about a reservation for six at the double- header. And will you put on four quarts of champagne! . . . Never mind who’s pitching; what 1 wanna know is who’s in the floor show!” • These may be routine cracks in American big league ball parks this season. Two private club rooms with bars and 400 boxes to which members only will be permitted will be a feature of the games at Yankee Stadium. I The boxes and club rooms will be open to members paying from $600 to $900 a season, and most of the memberships have already been grabbed by bankers, brokers, busi ness men, theatrical men, etc. * Thus will exclusiveness, social distinctions be introduced to that stronghold of democracy, the Amer ican nation?.! game of baseball. Down through baseball history the millionaire hus rubbed elbows with the street cleaner at the ball parks. “Take your coat off, let your hair | down, relax and be one of the gang!” has been the traditional cry. * All men may not have l^pen posi tive they were equal but at the ball game they felt closer to it than any- i where else. * I And now—of all places—the base ball park is to find class conscious ness, the upper and lower levels of aociety, financial distinction and a touch of the night club and country club flavor. One club room will be modernistic with chromium fixtures and red leather chairs; the other will carry the mood of an old Eng lish inn of the Heathcliff-on-Finch- ely-Finchely type. The bar and res taurant will be a deluxer. » Bleacher fans »rise! We demand that the bottle of beer, the poo bottle, the frankfur ter and the cause of democracy re main intact at American baseball parks never to give way to the breast of chicken under glass, the magnum of vintage wine, cafe so ciety, tie gossip columns and special privileges for the bourbons! * • * The seer shortage may be so serious this summer that we will be applying for priority to get a small glass of suds. But we can stand anything up to the point where, in order to get a schooner of beer, we are compelled, through a tie-in sale, to buy a crate of sweet cider. r * * A rich New York landlord and real estate speculator who worked the old game of charging a war veteran several thousand dollars for a few bits of cheap furniture in order to get a small apartment, got ten days in jail and a fine of $100 the other day. Our idea, if that is the max imum penalty, would be to make the landlord come across with at least $5,000 for the chair in his cell. • « * A. A. Milne says that years of war have hardened the British so that they “are -jiow immune from the scourge of victory.” • • • It seems more and more appar ent that what UNO needs more than anything else are bumpers front and rear and a bullet-proof wind shield. VANISHING AMERICANISMS “Bock Beer, Five Cents.” * “Here’s a quarter. Go get a quart of ice cream.” * “I don’t make a lot of money but I can get all I need and have some fun.” * “Let’s buy him two new suits for Easter.” HERE AND THERE They say General Marshall, back from China, took one look at the American scene and exclaimed, “And I thought it hard to under stand Chinese!” . . . Are-We-Gonna- Get-Inflation Item: the $3.50 filet mignon without vegetables Bakery inquiry, now that the size of the loaf of bread has been cut, “Do you want the small loaf or the in visible one?” • • * Winston Churchill, getting still an other degree, must wish he could repeat his famous line, “This may not be the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning.” • • • Shopper’s Lament The shop windows bulge with the loveliest things; A feast for the greediest eyes! It seems to hurt more with rare ob jects galore To find that they don’t have your size. REMEMBER— When a woman’s complain “He spends his weeks salary on liquor“ implied that he got more than two drinks? 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