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JOHN LEWIS STRATEGY
WASHINGTON. - John L. Lewis
confided his strike strategy to a
friend the other day as follows:
“Before you can get action,
you’ve got to have a crisis.
And in any crisis, someone’s
nerve has got to crack. I al
ways bet that I can hold out
longer than the government or
the operators. My nerve won’t
crack first.’’
• • •
GOP CONGRESSMAN
REWARDED
Few congressmen have enjoyed
a higher rating at the White House
in the last two decades than hard
hitting Richard J. Welch of Califor
nia, a Republican congressman for
21 years.
AJways subordinating party inter
est to the national welfare, Welch’s
rugged integrity won him the
esteem of both Presidents Hoover
and Roosevelt, with Harry Truman
equally fond of him.
It is an axiom in congress that
when Dick Welch wants something
at the White House, he gets it. His
last visit, 10 request Presidential
support of another bridge connect-
i-'J San Francisco and Oakland,
was no exception.
Despite opposition from the
navy, which contends that ex
panded aircraft and water-
transport facilities in the bay
area make a new bridge inad
visable, Welch told Truman that
the bridge was imperative.
Traffic on the present Oakland
bridge, he said, was moving
“bumper-to-bumper.”
“All we are asking is a public
hearing to state our case, Mr.
President,” said Welch, "but the
navy is even opposed to that.”
“This is an election year,” com
mented Welch with a grin, “but
there are no political considerations
in the bridge project as far as I
am concerned.”
Truman may have been thinking
of Welch’s unflinching battle to sup
port OPA as he replied:
“In your case, Dick, It
wouldn’t make any difference to
me whether there were any
political considerations in it or
not.”
CONGRESS RETREATS
It isn’t often that the public rises
up in protest so quickly and effec
tively as over the recent cutting of
price control in the house of repre
sentatives, However, the “Save
OPA” mail drive on congress now
appears to have scored a bull’s eye.
Senate opposition to crippling
house amendments is mounting and
anti-price control senators one by
one are beginning to yell “uncle!”
Despite this, OPA Boss Paul
Porter and Economic Stabilizer
Chester Bowles are awaiting the
senate showdown with crossed
fingers. What they fear is a
compromise senate bill — a
watered-down, but still danger
ous, version of the house “re
peal” measure.
Porter warned of this in a re
cent secret conference with Bowles
and other top officials when the
question was raised as to whether
the outspoken Bowles should con
tinue his cannonading for air-tight
OPA legislation. Bowles himself
felt that it might be smart for him
to pull punches temporarily.
Porter, however, vigorously ad
vised the contrary.
“This is no time to trim our
sails or for you to let down,
Chester,” he told Bowles.
* * *
MISSOURI POUND CAKE
President Truman’s first cousins,
Nellie and Ethel Noland of Inde
pendence, Mo., are writing quite a
few letters these days about the fa
mous "pound cake” which long has
been a favorite delicacy of the Tru
man and Noland families.
Last Christmas, while Truman
was in Independence for the holi
days, one of the Noland sisters’
cakes was featured on the menu.
A writer for the Associated Press,
apparently inexperienced in the
kitchen, obtained the recipe and
published it. Later housewives
throughout the country tried their
hand at preparing the cake. But
something was wrong. Scores of
letters began pouring into the No
land mailbox at 216 North Dela
ware street. Housewives were hav
ing kitchen difficulties.
A check revealed the Associ
ated Press reporter had failed
to include in the recipe one
pound of butter — necessary for
good results in baking the cake.
Perhaps the AP reporter was pa
triotic and didn’t think butter should
be used in cake in view of the edi
ble fats shortage. Anyway, Presi
dent Truman’s cousins have been
writing letters ever since.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Eighty-five professors at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania’s Wharton
school of finance and commerce
were polled regarding the continu
ation of OPA. Eighty-one signed a
petition urging continuation of price
controls. . . . Telegrams were sent
to clothing manufacturers recently
by the civilian production adminis
tration asking a report on the
men’s suit shortage. Reply was that
the government’s goal of 28 million
men’s suits will be almost met. . . .
If that helps any.
Colder Winters Ahead
Cooler weather with old-fashioned
winters like grandpop used to know
are returning, the United States
Weather bureau says. Weather
trends come in 50-year cycles, it
explains, and for the past half cen
tury we have been moving away
from the winters in which folks had
to dig through the snowdrifts to lo
cate clothespoles.
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Now will come a slow move back
to the days when grandpop often
walked into the second story of the
old farm right from the snow level.
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“And a good thing it will be to
toughen up the citizenry,” declared
Elmer Twitchell today. “We’ve
been getting soft in sissy-like win
ters when the folks thought a bliz
zard was any snowfall that kept a
limousine down to 40 miles an hour
in open country. ‘Blizzard Sweeps
Cty’ has been the routine headline
every time a snowdrift got half
way up a milk bottle on the wind
ward porch.
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"What’s become of the old fash
ioned fellow who had three fingers
missing from the deep freezes?
Where’s the native once common
to every community who got around
on a wooden leg most of his life
because of exposure in an icepack
in his own back yard? Where are
the countless folks who went around
all their lives with tender ears and
noses because of frostbite in their
early days?
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“When I was a boy,” he contin
ued, “you had to face the house
southward or you’d get four or five
loads of snow in the bedroom right
through a door crack. It was noth
ing to have a fire freeze up over
night. Once every winter they had
to get a snowplow to dig me out
of bed . . . and I slept in the attic!
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“Big cities get out super-plows to
fight a snowstorm that old-timers
would tackle with a whiskbroom,
and without bothering to put on any
thing but a pair of pants and an
open shirt.
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“Let the old-fashioned winters
come back for the good of the
race!” he concluded. “There will
be less squawkin’ about minor in
conveniences.”
• • •
Feltman’s famous restaurant
at Coney Island, in existence for
72 years and known to millions,
is changing hands. We link the
old place up with our first visit
•to the big city. How it dazzled
us with its city-block dimensions,
its dozen separate restaurants
and its several bars. And how
we thought we were splurging
when we went there for a full
course dinner for $1.25! With
beer 5 cents a schooner! And
cocktails two for a quarter!
• • •
DIETING A PLEASURE
I’m giving my tummy to Poland—
To China I’m giving two chins;
A jowl I am giving to simplify
living
For Bulgars and Slovenes and
Finns.
Those rolls on my waistline are
going
To help a cause worthy and great;
While famine now marches I’m giv
ing up starches—
This time my reducing can’t wait.
• • •
(“Henry and Clara Ford Married id
years."—News item.)
Here’s to Henry Ford and Clara,
For so long a happy pair-a;
For 58 years they rode together—
That’s mileage, sir, in any weather!
Here’s to Clara and here’s to Hen!
On quite a journey they have been;
No couple made a journey finer;
I guess the bumps were pretty
minor!
• * *
The Hobos of America have
voted to hold their 1947 convention
in Miami, because the cities usual
ly chosen are too cold in the spring.
In this announcement you have a
reflection of the American mood
these days. A bum used to be will
ing to take his fun where he could
find it, and always convenience of
locale and economic considerations
counted most. But now the climate
must be right regardless of travel
ing distance and general expenses.
The modern hobo refuses to loaf
except near the Gulf Stream and he
prefers to get there by plane.
• • •
1946
This is the slogan for each dinner!
“Mother, slice the bread much thin
ner!”
• • •
“Truman asks Americans to Tight
en Belts.”—Headlme.
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The trouble with most Americans
is that they think their belts are
tightened if their pants don’t drop
to the floor when they inhale.
• • *
Governor Dewey has signed a bill
raising the speed limit in New York
to 50 miles an hour. The previous
limit was 35 to 40. The governor
says that while the previous limit
was seldom observed or enforced
the new one will be. Wanna bet?
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APPLAUSE FOR LEWIS . . . Regardless of how the rest of the
nation may feel about John L. Lewis and the soft coal strike, he is
still popular with his own forces. Photograph shows the coal czar,
leader of United Mine workers, drawing applause as he arrives at a
meeting of his 250-man policy committee, in Washington, D. C.
WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS QUINTS . . . Above Is Dr. L. J. Smith with
the Fairbury (Neb.) Cornhusker quints. They have been named after
the Big Five. Left to right, England, Russia, China, United States and
France. All but France are bulls. Although less than half the weight
of average beef calves at birth, at 514 months they are fully as big and
as weighty as beef calves of the same age born singly. They will tour
leading fairs this summer. Chamber of Commerce at Fairbury has
built them a modern home. Wayne Photo.
CHINA’S FAMINE CORRIDOR ... Chinese lad Is shown carrying
his starving mother from their Hunan farm intp (he village of Kung
Ping, in the heart of Hunan’** famine corridor. Hunan sustained great
er losses of men and material than any other province. Estimates
are that 577,000 persons were killed, 1,500,000 wounded, 945 buildings
destroyed and 642 animals killed. Starvation is even worse today.
PIONEER TO TEACH ... Dr. Lee
De Forest, 73, known as the “fa
ther of broadcasting,” has accept
ed the position of director of the
veterans training program in Chi
cago television laboratories. He
will have 2,200 veteran students. De
Forest is a veteran of the Spanish-
American war. He developed the
three-element (audion) tube.
FOR OPA . . . Secretary of the
Treasury Fred M. Vinson, as he
appeared before the senate bank
ing and currency committee, con
ducting hearings on bill to extend
life of OPA. He urged that the
office of price administration be
retained for the common good.
GETS NEW PAL . . . Life was
meaningless for six-year'-old John
ny Conklin when his dog, Rex, was
killed by an auto, but things bright
ened when he acquired a new pal,
six-weeks-old Lady, given to him
by a sympathetic reader who saw
his picture in the paper.
MARINES IN DANGER . . . Says
Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, to
senate naval affairs committee at
hearing on proposed merger of the
armed services. He stated that the
unification legislation will in all
probability spell extinction for the
marine corps.
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Newspaperman’s Notes:
Besides being a vegetarian,
George Bernard Shaw is a hater of
any sort of physical exertion. . . .
Outside of occasional bicycling he
debunked all athletics. Once, they
say, Sandow, the Great Strong Man,
cornered Shaw. . . . “Look at me,”
he boasted, pounding his frontage.
“I can lift elephants, pianos and
20 men on my chest!”
“Oh, foof!” said Shaw. “I want
to keep bores off mine!”
Hy Gardner memos about the
time Ann Sheridan, the star, met
Jose Iturbi in Hollywood. . . . The
talented man suggested that Ann
phone him when she came to
New York. . . . When she arrived
here, she was a bit foggy about
his name and addressed him as
“Jose Shurbert.” ... A few hours
later she received a reply. ... It
was addressed to: “Ann Schlepper-
man.”
It happened in Buenos Aires. A
minor gov’t official bristled into the
American Consulate. . . . Ignoring
the room full of people, he stormed
over to the receptionist and de
manded an audience with the Con
sul. ... He was politely informed
there were several ahead of him.
“But I am Gonzales!” he bel
lowed, impatiently glancing at his
wrist watch. “At two o’clock I
have the appointment.”
“I am Joe Kelly,” replied the
American in his best North Pole
manner, “and at two o’clock you
have the disappointment.”
Zachary Scott was at a meeting
where a lad with a fine war record
made a speech. ... It was dull,
and the audience started walking
out. ... A man who meant well got
up and announced: “Gentlemen,
please sit down. This boy has gone
through hell for us, we can do as
much for him!”
One of the pet newspaper quips
deals with the reporter assigned to
cover an affair staged by the Great
er New York Fund. ... He turned
his copy in carelessly and tardy.
. . The city editor bawled him out.
“What’s the idea,” barked the
boss, “of writing ‘among the most
beautiful girls was a Congress
man’? You’ve got him wearing
skirts!”
“I can’t help that,” was the re
ply. “That’s where he was!”
The Quipping Post: Nicol Smith,
author of the soon-due book, “Into
Siam, Underground Kingdom,” was
an officer in the OSS. . . . One day
he found himself seated next to a
quiet little man at a Washington
banquet. . . . “I’m Nicol Smith,
Cloak and Dagger,” said Smith
introducing himself. . . . “Gled to
mitt you,” was the reply. “I’m Abe
Lapidus, Clukk and Suiter!” . . .
Add snappers to people who boast
of being self-made men: Horace
Greeley stifled one such with this:
“That, sir, relieves the Almighty of
a terrible responsibility!” . . . Sev
eral members of the literati were
moaning about the shortage of good
hooch. . . . John Powers sighed and
intoned:.“That’s what is known as
wishful tanking.”
Quotation Marksmanship: M.
Carter: She indexed her memories,
but time had shuffled the cards. . . .
B. Lytton: A stiff man, starched
with self-esteem. . . . Gene Fowler:
To hide a secret from her is like
trying to smuggle daybreak past a
rooster. . . . Susan Cooper: Their
eyes drew swords. . . . Ben Hecht:
She looked like something carved
out of a marshmallow. . . . Oscar
Wilde: I can resist anything except
temptation. . . . Larry Finley: They
were joined in holy wedluck. . . .
Evelyn Knight: It was four ho-
hum in the morning. . . . Schopen
hauer: Rascals are always socia
ble. . . . Anon: The trouble with
life is that there are so many
beautiful women—and so little time.
The Army short which shows
what Hiroshima looks like. It won’t
be released because in one scene
you see the imprints of bodies that
were blown right into the pave
ment. . . . The talk that Mike
Jacobs will retire after the Louis-
Coon * fight. . . . The two mid- j
western mfrs who were bilked out
of $64,000 by a tout outfit. They
haven’t hollered because they fear
the publicity will make them na
tional jokes. . . The glamazon
named Gloria Camera (she’s 6-3)
and she hasn’t fiddle-feet, either.
. . . The talk that Lucille Simmons
of the shows may wed a coffee mil
lionaire. . . . Sandra Rambeau ditch
ing the British “mint” she was re
ported engaged to. . . . The all-
Chinese gal show at the beautiful
ly appointed China Doll on 51st St.
We offer that soldier Chris Mor-
ley’s merciless doggerel, to wit: “I
came home from years of war. Ev
erything was like before. People
hadn’t changed a bit. That’s the
awful part of it!”
USO SERVING G.I.S IN BRAZIL ... In Brazil, home of the coffee
bean, G.I.s patronize the USO cafeteria for a cup of American java.
It accompanies the steak smothered in eggs which is the most popu
lar dish with servicemen at the Natal USO. The USO still carries on
in almost every country and section on the globe where G.I.s may be
found. Much of their work is now devoted to troops on foreign soil.
PROSECUTES JAPS . . . Joseph
B. Keenan, representing the Unit
ed States, as chief prosecutor at
Japanese war crimes trials, as he
presented the 55-count indict
ment against the criminals to b*
tried.
Sounds in the Night: At Reuben’s:
“He will pat you on the back to
your face and stab you in the heart
behind your back.” ... At the
Stork: “His father’s success went to
his head.” ... At the Anchor
Room: “I saw her at the track yes
terday.” . . . “In which race?”
Gems of Thought
Y^^HAT is really momentous
^ ’ and all-important with us
is the present, by which the fu
ture is shaped and colored.—
Whittier.
The reward of one duty is the
power to fulfill another.—Eliot.
Recompense injury with jus
tice and unkindness with kind-
nes.—Confucius.
We exaggerate misfortune and
happiness alike. We are never either
so wretched or so happy as we say
we are.—Balzac.
Every man desires to live
long; but no man would be old.
—Swift.
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