The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 26, 1946, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
The Big City:
Free Wirning to Cafegoers: Those
stirrers you get with your high
ball are, not sanitary. . . . Nearly
everyone sticks the things into their
kissers or runs them over their teeth
—and the bartenders have no way
of sterilizing them before passing
them on to the next patron. . . .
Suggestion: Carry your own—they
come in silver and gold. . . . The
jewelry stores can send my com
missions to the Catholic, Jewish and
Protestant Charities.
Oops!: In Movietown there is a
“charm” school that teaches pet
animals various stunts and man
ners. The school also coaches the
master-’ of the pets.
Coh’—ibia Pictures’ boss Harry
Cohn enrolled his dog in the course.
After ten days Mr. Cohn wanted to
quit because: "We’re not getting
anywhere!”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Cohn,” said the
instructor, “but you will have to
learn that you cannot talk to your
dog—as though he were an actor
or a writer,”
In Other Words: After reading
the papers about the way some so
ciety upstarts are behaving, Bill
Schiller memo’d: “They call them
thorough-breds. I call them thor
ough-brats!”
Heheheh: Larry Storch, the Copa
comic, overheard a man and woman
as they came out after witnessing
“The Lost Weekend.”
"I’m through!” said the man.
“With drinking?” she asked.
“No, movies!”
You’ve Met Him: One of those
bores spoiled a party with a series
of spineless stories and loud gab.
Finally, he got up to leave.
“What I need,” he said, “is a little
shut-eye.”
“What you need,” said Phil Brito,
“is a little shut-up!”
It Happened: Hollywood actors
report that it happened on the Su
per-Chief the other week-end. A
man nobody knew kept buying
drinks for all in the crowded club
car. He displayed a wallet packed
with $1,000 bills.
A film magnate was concerned
when he passed out. He helped him
to his compartment. Then the pro
ducer worried that he would be
robbed—since the limp one wouldn’t
think to lock himself in. The pro
ducer took the stranger’s wallet
for safe-keeping.
At noon the producer joined the
drunk in the diner and said: “You
were pretty tight last night, so I
put you to bed. Here’s your wal
let.”
The stranger brought a wallet
from his own hip and said: “Thanks
—and here’s yours.”
Merciless Truth: H. L. Mencken
says there are two times in every
man’s life when he is thoroughly
happy.
Just after he has met his first
love and just after he has parted
from his last one.
The Morning Mail: “Dear Wal
ter,” writes a reader, “I spent the
week-end in the country. I heard
two army horses (which are to be
cared for—the rest of their lives)
congratulating each other—on not
being mere G.I.s.”
Saddest Story of the Week: Les
Brown, the bandleader, brought it
in. . . . It’s the saga of the high-wire
artist. . . . Poor chap. . . . He
jumped 50 feet straight up into the
air—grabbed a trapeze—did 25 fast
flips—and caught the trapeze be
tween his teeth—with no hands!
. . . Imagine! . . .Then he tried it
a second time—missed—and fell to
the stage with a crash that rocked
the theater. . . . The producer helped
the battered performer to his feet,
put him in a chair and said: “You
did fine—and then you had to louse
it up by getting slapsticky!”
Broadway Glossary: Bartender:
The one guy at the bar who knows
what he’s doing. . . . Marquee: Any
actor’s heaven. . . . Chanteuse: Not
a singer. . . . Maestro: Corniest
member of the band. . . . Ingenue:
Chorus; girl who is “Going Places”
—with the producer. . . Romance:
When he picks up the check. . . .
Love: Whei> she does. . . . Man
ager: An unsuccessful booking
agent. . . . Critic: District attorney
invited to the crime. . . . Stagehand:
Off-stage prima donna. . . . Pals:
The penalty of success. . . Loyal
ty: Being true to someone on top.
. . . By-Line: What has ruined
more writers than hooch. . . . Luck;
The other fellow’s formula. . .
Quotation Marksmanship: A. Karr:
Friendship between two women is
always a plot against each other. ;
. . . A. Dumas: All women desire
to be esteemed: they care much less
about being respected. . . . H. Mur- j
row: Washington, D. C., is the na- |
tional headquarters of three parties
—the Democratic, the Republican
and the Cocktail. . . . Anon: Civili
zation is the slow process of gradu
ally falling in line with the visionary
ideas of minorities. . . . M. C. Ban
ning: A handsome man, carefully
stored and refrigerated youth.
NO PLAN FOR ARMY
WASHINGTON. — After the last
war, we let our best officers leave
the army, were content to make the
army a refuge for hundreds of mis
fits who couldn’t adjust themselves
in other walks of life, and settled
down to complete complacency re
garding the armed forces.
Usually history repeats itself.
After this war, however, there is
a little less complacency regarding
the future — thanks to Russia.
But there is almost as much do
nothingness regarding the internal
organization of the army.
President Truman has now de
manded that we have a big peace
time conscript army. But aside from
Secretary of War Patterson’s
healthy board for probing caste, no
steps have been taken to reorgan
ize the army’s long out-dated sys
tem of promotions, its methods of
selecting officers, and, perhaps
most important of all, its system
of eliminating misfits.
A thorough re-organization of
the army might make it more
enticing to good men and there
by eliminate conscription. Even
Sen. Chan Gurney of South
Dakota, most ardent conscrip
tion enthusiast, will admit that
a volunteer army is more effi
cient than one composed of men
who are forced to serve.
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COULD USE HORSE MEAT
An important debate has been tak
ing place among food experts in
side the administration regarding
the use of horse meat for feeding
Europe.
Horse meat is a type of food
which Americans know little about.
Within Europe it is standard diet
and certain countries, especially
France and Belgium, have repeat
edly informed the United States that
they would like to buy more horse
meat here. If two and a half billion
pounds of horse meat could be sold
to Europe — which is the amount
available in the U. S. A.—it would
take care of most of Europe’s feed
ing problems and eliminate any
need for U. S. A. rationing.
Such a program has been
urged by UNRRA officials and
also by some experts in the
army and navy. However, the
plan has run up against sev
eral snags, chiefly that of U. S.
meat packers.
The big packers don’t want the
American public to get the idea that
horse meat is processed in their
plants. They fear that the suspicion
would linger in the consumer’s
mind. However, Harry Reed, who
does most of the meat procurement
for UNRRA in the department of
agriculture, leans toward the big
meat packers and they never have
wanted small state packers to get
into the inter-state business.
HORSE MEAT FEEDS ZOOS
Another source of opposition is ex
pected to come from the many horse
lovers throughout the country who
probably would claim that the
United States was being denuded
of horses.
Officials point out, however, that
several hundred horses are slaugh
tered weekly all over the United
States to feed the zoos of the nation.
Furthermore, the United States to
day has a larger surplus of horses
than ever before in history. Agricul
ture department estimates are that
three million surplus horses are
now on the ranges and farms of the
country. The grain which they alone
consume would go a long way to
ward feeding Europe.
Officials estimate that these
three million surplus horses
would supply a total of two and
a half pounds of meat,
also give fats for soap, together
with hides to ease the scarcity
^of leather.
NOTE—While prices of almost ev
erything tended upward during the
war, the price of horses did not.
Government buyers purchasing
draft animals for UNRRA report
that the country has thousands of
four to six-year-old horses which
have never been harnessed. Farm
ers haven’t had time to break them
in, would like to sell them if prices
were right. .
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BUMPTIOUS GENERAL VAUGHN
Twelve years ago, famous Filipino
Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo sent Presi
dent Roosevelt a 9Vfe-foot carved
table of Philippine hardwood de
signed to serve as a cabinet table.
The other morning, however, Brig.
Gen. Harry Vaughn, White House
military aide, hurrying through the
White House lobby, bumped his
knee on a buffalo. Promptly the
four carved buffalo heads came off
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CAPITAL CHAFF
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
is secretly considering resigning
from the cabinet, in order to again
run for the senate.
Bernard Baruch is hopping mad
at the state department for releas
ing its report on atomic energy be
fore he, Baruch, could make his
own investigation. Baruch has ad
mitted privately that the state de
partment report is an excellent one.
However, it’s not known as the
“Baruch report”—which is impor
tant to Bernie.
MEMPHIS COTTON CARNIVAL TO REOPEN . . . Dedicated to the past, present and future of the cotton
industry, the Memphis Cotton carnival will resume this year after bowing out to the war effort since 1941.
Photograph shows previous carnival which will be outdone this year. The 1946 carnival will sparkle with a
series of parades depicting growth of the Mid-South, lively street dances and songfests. Exhibits will show
uses of cotton as well as new applications and artificial fibers and plastics.
JAPANESE HOLD OPEN ELECTION ... An estimated 24,000,000 voters went to the polls in Japan to select
representatives for a new national house of representatives. Unheard of—Japanese women exercised their
right of suffrage. Typical of most voting places was the Votsuya ward office, Tokyo, where the women outnum
bered the men. Final results will not be known for some time, but Red element has admitted defeat.
UNCLE SAM’S OLDEST REGIMENT ... The color guard of the
3rd regiment, oldest in the U. S. army, with some members wearing
the costumes of the Colonial wars, is shown during colorful ceremony
at Heidelberg, Germany, which marked the de-activation of the 7th
army under Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes.
GREECE HOLDS ELECTION ... A voter of the future looks over
the array of posters put up by various parties and candidates to boost
their chance in the recent Greek elections. In contrast to the bitterness
of the pre-election campaign, the voting itself was quiet, with Com
munists and left wing groups fighting a losing battle to persuade
voters to boycott the election. Populist party won.
SOVIET AMBASSADOR . . . Niko
lai V. Novikov, present charge
d’affairs in Washington, who haa
been named to replace Andrei A.
Gromyko as Soviet ambassador
to the United States. Gromyko
will remain with UNO.
SEARCH OF TITLE . . . Billy
Conn, Pittsburgh Adonis, who
hopes to wrest the world’s heavy
weight boxing crown from Champ
ion Joe Louis, when they meet in
New York in June.
tll/TLL the coming Louis-Conr
V V fight set a new record for gate
receipts? There are more than two
or three close to the fight game
who don’t think so. It will be a
sellout, but the idea
is that the Yankee
Stadium can’t
match either Sol
dier Field, Chicago,
or the Sesquicen-
tennial in Philadel
phia.
Here’s the low
down from a gate
receipts authority:
“Mike Jacobs will
charge $100 for
ringside seats. He
will scale the crowd
down from that. I believe you will
find the attendance somewhere be
tween 90,000 and 100,000. My guess
would be around $2,500,000, slightly
below the second Tunney-Dempsey
meeting in Chicago which drew
$2,650,000.” Jacobs boasts that he
will gross three million dollars on
this fight.
This sent us prowling into the rec
ord book to check the leading money
records of the game. Here they are:
Tunney-Dempsey, Chicago, 1927—
$2,650,000.
Dempsey - Tunney, Philadelphia,
1926— $1,895,723.
Dempsey-Carpentier, Jersey City,
1921—$1,626,580.
Dempsev-Sharkey, New York,
1927— 81,083,529.
Dempsev -Firpo, New York, 1923
-$1,082,590.
Louis-Baer, New York, 1935—
$948,352.
Louis-Schmeling, New York, 1938
—$940,096.
Tunney-Heeney, New York, 1928—
$691,014.
The first Louis-Conn fight in New
York, 1941, drew only $451,743.
There are two outstanding points in
this financial roundup. The first is
that Jack Dempsey figured in all
the shows over $1,000,000, five al
together. These five Dempsey fights
hauled in $8,338,422.
Dempsey altogether drew in some
thing like $10,000,000 at the gate, far
beyond any one else. It will also
be noted that Dempsey drew huge
amounts against four different oppo
nents—Tunney, Carpentier, Sharkey
and Firpo. Gene Tunney, with
Dempsey out of the picture fell from
$2,650,000 and $1,895,723 to $691,014
against Tom Heeney.
The Louis Gate Record
Joe Louis so far has been in 57
fights, but Joe has yet to know a
million dollar gate. Here are his
five best financial contests:
Louis-Baer, New York, IbsS—
$948,352.
Louis-Schmeling, New York, 1938
—$940,096.
Louis-Braddock, Chicago, 1937—
$640,420.
Louis-Nova, New York, 1941—
$583,821.
Louis-Schmeling, New York, 1936
-$547,372.
The five top Louis fights are near
ly five million dollars below the
Dempsey count for the same num
ber of contests. The Conn engage
ment will be the first tune the Bomb
er moves into the million-dollar row,
and this time it is almost certain to
be better than the $2,000,000 row.
Whether it will reach $3,000,000 is
another guess.
So far Louis has drawn in ap
proximately $5,000,000 at the gate;
37 per cent of this xmount is about
$1,850,000. Even if split evenly with
his managers this should have left
Joe over $900,000.
Taxes have taken a terrific toll
from this amount, but even so one
begins to wonder how Louis could
be in the red, so far as back debts
go, for over $200,000 to the govern
ment and Mike Jacobs.
If you owe $200,000 today and
make $2,000,000, your net will be
about $180,000, and this still leaves
you $20,000 shy. The best Louis can
hope to collect in the Conn fight will
be something about $ 900,000 and
$1,000,000, so far as gate receipts go.
What he will get from motion pic
tures and television is still a guess.
But when they stop lopping off 90
or 92 per cent, the residue won’t be
any too ponderous to carry around.
Dempsey and Tunney had better
breaks. Tunney knocked over $900,-
000 or more for himself in 1927 at
Chicago, but the income tax at
that time was light—approximately
10 or 12 per cent. Both Dempsey
and Tunney kept most of what they
made, although the Mauler split SO
SO with Jack Kearns before they
said “farewell forever.”
Those days now belong with the
dodo and the great auk. Maybe you
can make it today, but if you do—
try to keep it.
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Pennant Race Odds
What should the proper and cor
rect odds be on the two pennant
races just ahead? A few dozen
bookmakers gave me this:
“We’ve made the Cardinals even
money against the rest of the Na
tional league.
“The American league looks
about as wide open as the Kentucky
Derby. The Yankees and the Red
Sox should be slightly favored. We
rate them the better balanced
teams.
Billy Conn
Too Bad, Too Bad
The gipsy held the soldier’s hand
and looked at the lines on it very
earnestly. “Next week you will be
a corporal,” she said impressively,
“next month you will be a sergeant,
and by the end of tbe year you will
be a captain. You are very lucky.”
“Not at all,” said the soldier.
“I’m being discharged next week.”
Promotion?
“I’ve just been congratulating Colonel
Blaze,” sauJ a guest at a luncheon. “He’s
been appointed governor of a prison.”
“Really?” asked his pretty neighbor.
“Now, for a job like that does one need
influence, or does one just start as a
convict and rise from the ranks?”
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