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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. RUSS DON’T LIKE U. S. A. WASHINGTON. — Inside reason why the Russians are pulling wires to have the capital of the United Nations moved back to sleepy Geneva is that American public opinion has been too powerful a champion of the smaller nations. So the Russians have been work ing behind the scenes to corral votes in favor of the Geneva trans fer and can count on Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland and France. However, they can’t count on the British, who once favored a Euro pear capital, but are now 100 per cent sold that American opinion is one of their best allies. The Russians also can’t count on the Latin Americans. In the old days, Pan - American diplomats loved lolling in Paris most of the time and turning up in Geneva a few days of the week. Today, how ever, Paris is one of the most uncomfortable places in the world, Geneva is short of food, and New York is far more pleasurable. The Russians, who originally favored an American city as the U. N. capital, now consider this a serious mistake. They dislike the fact that American newspa pers publish columns and col umns of front-page news on ev ery move made by the Rus sians and they figure that American newsmen at Geneva would sit drowsily in the Swiss cafes drinking beer, or spend week mds in the Swiss Alps. In Europe, they also believe, no photographer or newspaper would have the energy to trail Ambassa dor Gromyko on his famous and circuitous trip around New York City when he almost stopped in at the Security Council meet’ ig, but didn’t. If the Iranian question had been discussed at Geneva, instead of New York, the Russians figure, it never would have attracted so much attention and the Soviet would have come off with a complete vic tory. • • • NO ARMY RACE PREJUDICE A Negro, former master sergeant in the army, Marion F. Green, tes tified before General Doolittle’s “caste system” board the other day, that there was little evidence of racial prejudices and discrimi nation in the army. When General Doolittle inquired about this, Ser geant Green replied: “Colored soldiers found some resentment against them when they first joined the army, but this was quickly ironed out aft er a few months of training. In February, 1941, we had some fights and riots while I was sta tioned at Camp Livingstone, Lousiana. However, by the time we finished training, everybody was getting along fine. I en countered no racial bias what ever overseas.” The ex-G.I. also suggested the saluting of officers be optional when enlisted men are off duty and off the post, to which Lt. Gen. Troy Middleton, now an executive of Lou isiana State university, countered: “Wouldn’t optional saluting such as you propose tend to tear dow* dis cipline?” “Not necessarily, general,” re plied Green. If a man does some thing to merit respect, he will get that respect whether he is a civilian or an army officer.” ' * * * POWER AND NYLON LOBBIES Many congressmen will vote against dynamic Speaker Sam Ray burn in a secret committee s sion, but don’t have the nerve to stand up and oppose him on the floor of the house. Very soon, however. Democrats who have fallen for the beguiling promises of the giant pow er lobby are going to face the latter test. Sam Rayburn really has fire in his eye when he talks about the power lobby. And today that lobby ranks with the real estate buttonholers as one of the most potent on Capitol Hill, has even gone to the extent of dangling nylons before the wives of con gressmen in order to win votes against the government’s south west power authority in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and south ern Missouri. Tfie question at issue is whether the government can construct its own electric lines to distribute elec tric power from the Denison dam on the Texas-Oklahoma border and the Norfolk, Ark., dam. Without such power lines, the gvernment merely generates the power but can’t sell it. The power lobby wants to prevent this sale. So far, the power Ipbby’s tech nique has been successful with the appropriations subcommit tee, which knifed the construc tion of the distributing lines. Cong. Ben Jensen of Iowa, Henry Dworshak of Idaho, Rob ert Jones of Ohio, and W. F. Norrell of Arkansas were the gentlemen reported to have fall en for the wiles of the lobby. However, when the bill comes out on the floor of congress, Sam Ray burn, together with the dean of congress, Adolph Sabath of Illinois, plans to stage a real battle. The President and Horseshoe Pitching President Truman has decided to build a horseshoe pitching court on the White House . grounds. This should make America feel better. Much of the trouble that the world is in today is due to the fact few, if any, rulers have been horseshoe pitchers. * There is something about horse shoe pitching that keeps a man cool, eases his nerves and lessens the chances of his doing anything cock eyed. We had a few horseshoe pitch ers among our earliest Presidents, and their administrators were the most peaceful in history. * Perhaps in these troubled times of irascibility, frenzied disputes, hair - trigger decisions, impa tience, with the other fellow’s view point and the itch to settle every thing overnight, horseshoe pitching may save civilization! * Had Adolf Hitler ever gone in for pitching horseshoes the yen to con quer the world would never have developed. In your wildest dreams can you picture Mussolini fooling around with a horseshoe? * On with the horseshoe stuff, Harry! You’re no genius in states manship. You are not the wisest ruler of the day. But nevertheless when the atomic bomb crisis agitates the great men of the earth, when potentates on all sides are shout ing at one another and when so many big men have so many hot ideas for causing trouble, it will be good to know that you spend a little time each day out behind the White House pitching horseshoes. * * * Circus Memories The circus is back in New York, and thousands of big city kids will be thrilled no end. But we pity the kid who never knew the circus in a small town. Back home in our boy hood it was the event of the year. The first flush of posters on the bill boards kindled our imagination. . . . we were sleepless for nights before the great day . . . and we were up at 3:30 a. m. the morning the big show arrived. ... It was always unloaded in the freight yards down at Long Wharf off Water street, and what a thrill it was to hear the locomotive whistles and then see the circus trains pull in, unload and start on the five-mile trek to the circus grounds, which used to be in Elm City park back of the Hubinger mansion. After the unloading had pro gressed an hour or so, we hustled to the grounds to see the tents go up. . . . The rat-tat-tat of the stake driving crews . . . the rumble of the wagon wheels . . . the smell of tambark and hay . . . the aroma of lamb chops and boiled potatoes from the cook-tent . . . oh, boy! We generally managed to get a job leading a pony in a parade and got a free pass to the show. * * * The “O” has been knocked out of “UNO” which now becomes officially “U.N.,” which makes it sound like an In dian grunt. Now if they would only take the “N” out it seems to us it would per sonalize its message tremendously. * * * A head of the Mexican baseball league threatens to complain to the American ambassador about an American baseball pl»yer who has quit the league. The matter may get before the United Nations se curity council. Which is a fine idea. It would give the organization ter rific press notices, especially if any delegate walked out. * * ♦ General MacArthur recommends that the Japanese adopt the A.B.C. alphabet. The Japs are satisfied that they were nuts to stage the re cent war and they may be ready to admit that the Jap alphabet drove them crazy. * But we still doubt that the Japs will seem any less warlike because they spell, “Does the cat see the rat?” our way. * Soon we shall be hearing of the worthy citizen who started life on a shoestring and ultimately acquired a furnished room. * Isn’t it about time the book clubs began selecting the book clubs of the month? * * * Laugh of the Year—The announce ment, with a sober face, by OPA ' enforcement agents at this late date that wholesale butchers have been forcing retailers to make “tie-in” purchases! * * * PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN “This is an outrage,” he declares When in a subway jam; “There ought to be a law!” he screams, “What (Jo they think I am?” . . His squawks are terrifying, oh, They can be heard a mile— But at the race track he will stand And take it with a smile. » * * * The old league of Nations is now closing in Switzerland. It is surpris ing everybody by a display of firm- “ALAB i” PRESENTED TO TRUMAN . . . Future Farmers of America, and 4-H clubs, presented President with an Aberdeen angus bull calf as proof that Alabama can raise cattle as well as cotton. Left to right, Dorothy Fuller, Birmingham, Ala.; Max McLaughlin, Blue Springs, Ala., state president of Future Farmers of America; Luther Fuller, Birmingham, and Billie Smith, Fosters, Ala., president of 4-H clubs of Alabama. SNIPERSCOPE REVEALED AS SECRET WEAPON ... A soldier presses the handgrip to turn on the light of one of the U. S. army’s most carefully guarded war secrets. The device permits a soldier to see at night by means of an invisible light, infra-ied radiation, which casts a beam but cannot be seen by the enemy. It is mounted on a .30-calibre carbine. SOLD THE FIRST POPPY . . . Betty Lou Hall, 4, daughter of Infantry man Arthur A. Hall, who was killed in action in Europe, traveled from the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Home for Widows and Orphans at Eaton Rapids, Mich., to the White House, where she sold Presi dent Truman the first 1946 buddy poppy to inaugurate the annual buddy poppy sale conducted by the VFW for relief work. ELECTION RETURNS—AMERICAN STYLE . . . Just as any Amer ican couple would sit before the radio to get late returns on election night, Emperor Hirohito, the debunked mikado, and his wife, the empress, sit before the radio and get the latest results of Japan’s first democratic election. They are shown at the summer palace at Hayama. Returns continued all election night. Reds filed objection to results. MODELING FOR MOPPETS . . . Tiny tots staged their own fashion show at the Children’s .Aid society, New York. Latest creations in children’s clothing were shown by the little models, including Mary Panico, front. BRITISH CHAMP ... Bruce Wood cock, British empire heavyweight champ, working on favorite Ameri can ice cream cones. He arrived from England for fight with Tami Mauriello at Madison Square Gar den. CHAMP NEWSBOY . . . Believed to be the best trained monkey in the United States, “Kip,” a chim panzee from Dania, Florida, plays the role of newsboy at a Miami street corner. Sales soared that day. NEW SWIMMING RECORD . . . Ann Curtis, 20, University of Cali fornia co-ed, defeated Brenda Hel- ser, Portland, Ore., and estab lished a new American record in the 220-yard free-style event at Seattle recently. HEADS U. N. SECURITY COUN CIL ... Dr. Hafez Ifif Pasha, as he assumed chairmanship of the U. N. security council, replacing Dr. Quo Tai Chi of China. He has just been made leader of Egyp tian delegation. T HE present year may not be the golden age of sport as far as out standing ability goes. I can see little chance that it will produce master pieces even close to Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Tommy Hitchcock, Rogers Hornsby, Bill Til- den, Red Grange and Man o’ War. Not to overlook Earl Sande. But the year on ahead will outclass the postwar period of the first world conflict when it comes to the matter of attendance and the actual amount of gold or Its equivalent taken in at the turn stiles. This 1946 season will make all other past years look like the tag end of a depression so far as crowds and cash are concerned. The recent basketball season flattened ill past attendance records. We have had over 50,000 people clam oring to pay $20 a seat for a non title fight, meaning Graziano and Servo. California and Florida race tracks have left the past far behind in this same respect. Two Alabama foot ball squads, made up from Ala bama players, recently fought it out before 25,000 spectators in Birming ham. Racing at Jamaica has al ready taken long leaps beyond last year’s earlier marks. The super-brilliant stars who fol lowed the last world war may be missing, but there are still enough good ones to keep the human mass rolling in the general direction of the next show, whatever game it might happen to be. Only Warming Up But these matters are only in the warm-up division. The real harvest from the golden crop is still on beyond us. Baseball expects to shatter all past crowd records by a wide mar gin. The Yankees hope to play be fore something approximating two million at home. The Dodgers would be right alongside if there was only enough parking room for the human frame. The Giants won’t be far away if their ball club holds up. The 450 million dollar bet at New York tracks last season is likely to reach or pass 550 million dollars this year. We have seen crowded Derby and Preakness years before, but nothing to what this next May will offer in these two better than 100 thousand dollar tests. The Yankee stadium hasn’t the attend ance space to equal the crowds that saw the two Tunney - Dempsey shows, but the Louis-Conn meeting will outdraw both financially in the way of extra carloads of cash. They are already talking about Grazi ano being involved in a million dol lar gate and the rock-fisted entry hasn’t even a title. The United States Golf associ ation is dead sure that the open at Canterbury, Cleveland, in June and the amateur at Baltusrol in September will run up far higher figures than either has ever drawn in the past. The crowds who want to see a contest have already far outgrown the limited spaces through spring and summer and fall. On a recent tour of the southeast we were often asked how long the money would hold out. Apparently it is going to hold out for at least another year. No one can say yet in just what fighting shape either Louis or Conn will be, but the rush to contribute at least three million dollars is still under way with the contest coming late in June. Apparently it isn’t the entry list but the game that is drawing them out. As far as one can see neither the Derby nor the Preakness nor the Belmont has any Count Fleet or any Whirlaway or Alsab run ning. No outstanding star has yet shown for these events, but this won’t affect the size of the populace on hand. Baseball comes nearer approach ing the first golden age in playing class. For baseball still has the Car dinals, DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Bob Feller and many others with a high standard of excellence, includ- [ ing Newhouser and Wakefield of the Tigers. Some one recently asked how large the crowds would be if Ruth, Dempsey, Jones, Tilden, Hornsby, were back in their prime. The i answer is they couldn’t be any larger for the simple reason there isn’t any more room. Today they’ll I rush to see anything at any price. Apparently everything is worth $50 —except $50. * • * Genius in Sports What is this “know-how,” this genius or instinct for superlative play in sport? Ty Cobb’s father was a Georgia judge who had no particu lar interest in any game. Ty Cobb’s children had no interest in baseball. Yet Bill Tilden once told me that young Ty Cobb might have been a tennis champion. Old man DiMaggio never had the slightest idea of what baseball meant. Yet he produced Joe, Dom and Vince DiMaggio. Moonlight Over the Hudson: Silhouettes in the Night: Walter Pidgeon and Frank Sinatra (who have about 40 million young fans between them) spellbound by a middle-aged woman’s conversation in the Waldorfoyer. . . . Gene Ray mond, back from the wars, getting sighs from the Embassy’s hatcheck banditti. . . . Connie Haines wearing a gold-and-ruby dog collar—and her pooch wearing her polls! . . . Mrs. Ray Bolger bawling but the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland for ar riving at her groom’s hit (“Three to Make Ready”) at 9:30. . . . Ex- Ambassador J. P. Kennedy on E. 50th street telling a colyumist that the stories of his “cornering the market in Scotch” are exaggerated. . . . Louise Albritton’s “Palm Springs tan”—in the Stork. . . . Belle Livingston, attractively gray, reminiscing about her prohibition heyday at a 47th Street bar. . . . Lovely Loretta Young at the Wedg wood Room. . . . Sec’y Byrnes (at a party in the Hampshire House) toasting Gromyko: “Those whom war hath brought together—let no peace put asunder!” Sallies in Our Alley: Fred Allen was lunching at Lindy’s with his announcer K. Delmar, alias Sen. Claghorn. . . . The waiter brought the check. . . . “Give it to him,” said Fred, “he does the commer cials.” ... At the Carnival a H’wood producer was being panned. . . . “But,” defended a friend, “he has a heart of gold.” . . . “Yeh,” per sisted the knocker, “yellow and hard.” The Moom Pitchiz: “Dragon- wyck” lights the fuse for a stunning display of emotional pyrotechnics. . . . “The Falcon’s Alibi” is another clue-by-clue saga of a sleuth-happy gumshoe handcuffed by a mediocre tale. . . . “The Wife of Monte Chris to” offers cloak-and-dagger stuff set in an era when a man’s best friend was his sword. . . . “She-Wolf of London” concerns a gal on a spook spree, who scares up a passable quota of tingles. . . . “Last Ride” spins a few cliches in their graves. . . . “Junior Prom” is replete with frantic jive cacophony that sounds like a jukebox calling to its mate. E. Hillman, the mag editor, relays this chuckle: A girl energetically el bowed her way into the subway. Maneuvering a seat, she hurriedly pulled a comb from her purse and ran it through her hair. She applied powder, lipstick and adjusted her earrings. She straightened her stocking seams and drew on a pair of gloves. She consulted her watch. Then she shut her eyes and went to sleep! Quotation Marksmanship: An drew Carnegie: The man who dies rich dies disgraced. . . H. Felton: As friendly as a fairy tale. ... A. Corio: It is easier to toss a heavy brick than a light compliment. \ . . R. Connell: There is no greater bore than perfection. . . . O. Henry: She looked at. him with the unique luminosity in her eyes that comes to a girl with her first suitor—and a kitten with its first mouse. . . . N. Donovan: She had a dreamlined figure. . . . Anon: The art of being a parent consists of sleeping when the baby isn’t looking. . . . H. Jameson: The difference between you and the other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller. . . . Ben Franklin: Where there’s marriage without love there will be love without mar riage. Midtowr. Vignette: During the tense days of last week when Mr. Gromyko walked out of the U. N. Security Council—a crowd gathered around the entrance to the Plaza Hotel where some of the delegates are tepeeing. . . . Two well-dressed women got caught in the crowd. . . . “Wonder what’s the matter,” said the first. “Some movie star, I sup pose.” ... “I don’t think so,” said the other, as she saw a long, black official limousine pull up, “I think it must be those Social Security fel lows from the Bronx!” Main Street Smalltalk: Kay Scott weds John Nerney on the 27th. . . . Garry Davis and Mary McDonnell of “3 to Make Ready” are Doin’ the Old Soft Shoe. . . . Lana Turner paid 75 Gs for her coast manse; sold it for 150 thow. . . . Princess Helene Yeuriavitch is brooding in her borscht over a certain wed ding announcement. Seems he asked her, too. ... A top network exec will toboggan via a beeff shakeup. . . . Damon Runyon’s wire to an aging crony: “Happy Birth day. May there be just as many more of them as you can stand.” Manhattan Murals: The mink- coated woman plus the yaller cow boy boots in the Radio City Chase Bank. Yipee! . . . The 23rd Street window crowded with foreign-lan guage typewriters. . . . The new UN tie featured in a Lexington hab erdasher’s. The design has 51 flags. . . . The pigeons lined up on the 42nd Street library pediment— Rockette Girl precision — almost. . . . The E. 28th Street store that sells only butterflies—mounted. . . . The smallest store in Times Square •™-at 48th and 7th—a jewelry shop. R. Hornsby