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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. IkeJlome. R&pjOSlt&l in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Corrtipondeni WNU Washinzton Bureau. 1616 Eve St.. N. W. Congress Lacks Courage To Solve Our Problems f WALKED ACROSS the broad, ■* beautiful lawns of Lafayette park with its century-old trees, toward the White House. The fountain play ing in the foreground beyond the high iron fence, flowers in bloom, sun bright, peaceful, as traffic rolled leisurely up and down Pennsylvania avenue. I flashed my pass at the gate, and the guard waved me up the paved driveway toward the White House press room. It wasn’t a good press conference. I felt sorry for the President, a little embarrassed. For here he was, heading the world's most pow erful nation . . . the world’s big gest government . . . the world’s only great Democracy and he was, figuratively, wringing his hands. Why was he wringing his hands? There is only one an swer. Because the world’s most powerful nation, the world’s big gest government and the world’s only great Democracy is not united behind him. Our power is being clipped and hacked un til other nations who stood shoulder to shoulder with us are fearful. Our legislative branch of the government is cringing, supine, and there is not a ves tige of leadership apparent on either side of the political fence. What little legislation that is enacted is shot-gun legislation, worse than none. And our great Democracy, under test at this moment as never before in history . . . watched by the rest of the world ... is apparently fu tile, running in circles, seemingly rudderless . . . without unity, tack ing this way and that with every gust of a wilful wind. Selfithnees in Saddle Why? Because personal selfish ness is rampant . . . because arro gant labor leaders grasp at mo ments of national opportunity to seek more power . . . because mem bers of congress are afraid to face facts . . . because farmers refuse to sell grain at parity prices even when their government offers a bo nus, to feed starving fellow human beings . . . because ranchers and cattle raisers sell meat to the black market so they can get more than ceiling prices . . . because every mother’s son of us will buy from the black market or any place else in our scramble to get what we want when we want it . . . because manufacturers withhold goods from market waiting for inflation prices . . . because industrial and business leaders grab the opportunity creat ed by selfishness of labor leaders to penalize all labor . . . because congress, stung, as John L. Lewis single-handed, defies the govern ment and slows up the reconver sion program in his grab for power and money, fiddles and “deliber ates” . . . because business men in their mad grab for more money would tear away the last vestige of controls for a shibboleth they have named “free enterprise” and which is not freedom but license—and so we are quarreling and squabbling and stumbling and staggering . . . and the world which looked toward this nation as the hope of the world . . . the one great, firm rock . . . now gasps with amazement and horror, their hopes rapidly fading. ‘And We Jitterbug’ We have wealth, the produc tive capacity in field and fac tory, the raw materials, the manpower, the know-how, the consumer demand, the world demand, we have everything in cluding the amputees, the soul weary veterans, the lame and halt-wounded, the hospitalized victims of a world war . . . and we have the ideal for which they fought and a quarter of a million of them died. We have the atomic bomb with which a wavering congress is afraid to deal . . . and all humanity fears a craven man with a gun in his hand . . . and we Jitterbug. We are deadlocked everywhere along every front . . . our secretary of state makes commitments and our congress knocks the props from under him and from under our vet erans and members of the armed forces. If congress had deliberately set out to sabotage and hamstring our foreign policy they could have done nothing more injurious than what they did do by voting their own personal selfishness on the se lective service bill, responding to election year pressures. At this particular time in the world’s history there is no substitute for strength and this most powerful nation is showing nothing but weak ness ... all brought about by per sonal selfishness and intolerance. And when you watch this thing first hand ... as it is unfolded here in Washington, it is not a pretty thing to see, nor to contemplate. Are we going to let the rest of the world down . . . are we going to let ourselves down . . . for what is happening is there for all to see . . . it’s in your town and on your farm and it’s here in Washington. Released by Western Newspaper Union. DESTRUCTION OF SMALL BUSINESS FEARED THE FOUNDATION of free en terprise is the opportunity to make a profit. It is that opportunity that attracts investments; those invest ments create jobs, they keep Amer ican business ticking. Remove that opportunity to make a profit and free enterprise is dead. This ap plies especially to small business. When government encourages workers to demand higher wages, but, at the same time, refuses to per mit higher prices for the commodi ties produced by those higher paid workers, government has taken away the opportunity to make a profit. Large business can, to some extent «rt least, defend itself. Small business is helpless. Lawrence Sullivan, in Nation’s Business, cites hundreds of business concerns, small, yes, but represent ing thousands of jobs that have been forced to close their doors, be cause government has denied them the opportunity to make a profit. These small business concerns were without sufficient reserve capital to carry a loss month after month, while they fought through the red tape of OPA to show the necessity of a raise in price. To the nation, and to thousands of individuals, it has represented a permanent loss in jobs, and in the production of those commodities for which there is so great a demand, and a need if we are to escape that feared in flation. It seems all very much in line with the avowed purpose of those who would "make Amer ica over.” The bureaucracy that proposes to plan for Amer ica, to regulate and regiment our business and people, has no place for small business. Their purpose is to operate big busi ness. Small business must get out of the picture. OPA, with its control of prices, represents the heart of that bureaucracy that proposes to "make Amer ica over.” It is the one great est danger to American busi ness. It has in the past, is now, and if congress permits, can •ontinue to force the closing of production plants, especially the smaller ones. The bureaucratic theorists do not want to fool with the operations of small plants. Their ambition is to plan the operations of big busi ness, but they want no small business to confuse their plans. The time will come when big busi ness, despite their financial re serves, will be forced to quit. Our bureaucratic theorists see that as the time government will take over. That time draws nearer each day. When it arrives our American free enterprise will be dead. We will have state socialism that will lead to a totalitarian government. We will have what they have in Russia; what failed in Germany and Italy. The government will then direct what we will produce: what work ers will be employed at what jobs, for how many hours, and at what wages. Regimentation, with its de tailed regulation, is more than a threat; it is nearing the stage of reality and OPA is the bureau that is fostering it. * • * “THE EMPLOYEES of this town are sadly underpaid. They should have an increase of as much as 50 per cent,” said the big-hearted citizen. But when he was shown such an increase would cost him $60 a year in in creased taxes he had a different kea. • • • FRANTIC DEMAND FOR NYLON STOCKINGS BEFORE THE WAR nylon, as a leg covering, was coming along in popular favor by American women at the cost of much expenditure for advertising. War demand for that comparatively new product sudden ly created a scarcity, and nylon hosiery disappeared from store shelves. With the women it became a popular subject of conversation to bewail their inability to purchase nylons. Doing without became one of the great sacrifices women made in the war cause. All the wealth of the DuPonts, expended for adver tising, could not have created such a demand for their product as has the nylon scarcity. Women who had never worn, or had scarcely heard of nylon stockings, insist on having them today. War scarcity created a demand it would have tak en years of advertising to have pro duced. Despite all evidences to the contrary, women are not so fickle as are men, and the nylon craze fol lowing this war will last longer than did the silk shirt craze that followed World War I. • • • A UNITED STATES SENATOR said recently: "The people can no longer be aroused.” If that is true then “government of the people, for the people” is dead. * • • THERE ARE SOME THORNS in that “retired” mattress that looks enticing to those who have been busy working over many years. • • • THE LAST REMAINING few of any generation are more to be pit ied than envied. They survive in a new and strange world. Women's World Tight Dress Can Be Altered To Fit Wearer Comfortably A DRESS that fits you, and you alone, is good value. It will give you real pleasure every time you wear it, no matter how inexpen sive or expensive it may be. But just what is meant by perfect fit, as we know it today? A dress that fits easily at the shoulders without straining when you bend or stretch is just right for you. The shoulder seam should lie about one-quarter inch back of the center of the shoulder and be abso lutely straight from neckline to sleeve. The sleeve seam should lie at the extreme edge of the shoulder. Now, how should shoulders be padded? If you are square in the shoulders, little or no padding may be necessary. If, however, you are rounded or sloping in the shoulders, one or even two sets of pads may be necessary. Collars should lie flat without pull ing or wrinkling. If there is any tightness in sewing the collar, you can bet on its wrinkling sooner or later, particularly when the dress is washed. That taut look around the bustline means the dress is too small, and chances are you do not look your best in it. I’ll tell you how this can be remedied a little later, but in the meantime, when you buy a dress or pattern, get one that fits well across the bust. It’s possible, too, that an other style might be more Becom ing — one with fuller shoulders or more fullness in the bodice. Waistlines, Skirts Sleeves Important. Most dresses you buy will not nestle down on your natural waist line because most of us vary slight ly from the average. But just where is the natural waistline? Tie a tape measure or belt around the waist line and you will find out easily. Bend slightly to the front and the tape measure will settle at the cor rect line. You can also determine the size of the waistline accurately if the zip- // your dress is too tight . . per slides open <>nd shut easily with out straining. Don’t try to gather in a too-large waistline with a belt. It looks untidy and you’re uncomfort able. It’s far better to refit the waist line. An easy fit over the hips is a big comfort. Sit down when trying on a dress and it it doesn’t ride up, you have a well fitting hipline. Length is also important. Most women are wearing their dresses just below the kneecap, but this can be varied slightly as looks best on you. Full skirts sn.uld be slightly shorter and snugly fitted skirts can be a trifle shorter than average. Armholes must be big enough so that you feel at ease in them. When trying a dress, move the arms up and down. There should be no strain ing. On long sleeves, look for the elbow easing to come right. This is at the crock of the arm. If you have chubby arms, do hot wear tight short sleeves with cuffs. Here's how to make it fit. These will not only make the arm look larger, but will not be com fortable. If just the bustline is off, pieces may be added underneath the sleeves to ease the fitting, and a bolero can be made or purchased to go with the dress. If you have a two-piece dress in Torso Jacket Hattie carnegie’s cosmopolitan suit is made of gray sharkskin and favors the longer torso jack et. Saddle pockets around the hips accentuate the small waist. which you cannot make the skirt fit, you might make a darker skirt to go with the jacket. Dark skirts are very slimming with lighter colored jackets if you are full in the hips. If you have a princess type dress or a button-front dress, try contrast ing panels down the center or on the sides to add fullness. This is a good way to adjust the dress for the short, full figure. If the waistline is too tight, and the dress too short, with no hemline to let out, consider placing a piece of contrasting colored material at the waistline. This may be set in wide or narrow as necessitated by your problem. If the neckline is too tight, let the shoulder seam out enough to ease the strain on it. There is usual ly enough in the seam allowance to take care of this minor problem. If your sleeves are too short, add crosswise bands below the elbow. Add this detail somewhere else in the dress, too, so that it will look as if it belonged. If your skirt has stretched from wear, adjust the bagginess at the waistline. If the skirt is too short, add a band of ruching or ruffles or braid around the hem. Several rows of gay rib bon will also do the trick. Add this detail to the sleeves, too. Stitching Pointers Mercerized thread is recom mended for most sewing because it is strongest and easiest to use. Select the color of thread by matching closely to fabric. Use correct needle and thread sizes and test on a piece of mate rial before attempting to stitch the garment. Fine, sharp-pointed needles are best for pinning. In pinning ray on and taffeta, take care not to mark up the fabric from pinning. Adjust the tension to suit the fabric and test on a scrap be fore sewing the garment. Gen erally speaking, a tighter tension is more suitable for sheerer fab rics, a looser tension for heavier fabrics. Stitch with paper underneath the fabric when working with sheer materials. This provides a firm sewing base and prevents slipping. When you have completed as many single seams as possible, get out the ironing board and press them out. Seams should be pressed before sewing other {parts together. Press each bit of binding and facing after basting, and some times before and after to assure smooth fitting. They will be much easier to machine stitch if the fabric is pressed and seams are straight. Summer Fashion Notes Long full peplums and skirt draperies are a high fashion note these days as the fullness over the abdomen movement gathers itrength. It’s often been said that most women can wear blue. So, no mat ter what your type, you’ll be seeing plenty of all types of blues, but particularly blues that match the color of skies and seas. Look for the South American influ ence in play clothes and gay cottons. They have a real south-of the-border flavor. If you have any lace tucked away in the attic, now is the time to take it out. Lace is appearing at the neckline, on sleeve cuffs, pocket trimmings and even hems. This is one of dips fashion is taking into prewar era of the first war. IT MIGHT seem strange to say 1 that a manager whose ball club has been doing very well indeed could be even close to the border line of a predicament, much less the brink of an abyss. But for ten years Boston, al ways a great base ball town with a great baseball tra dition, has been dreaming vain dreams of recover ing some of its lost glory. There were the winning days of Jimmie Collins, Bill Carrigan and oth ers, who carried the Red Sox banner high. But in spite of the millions Tom Yawkey has fed into his purchases and pay roll, the Red Sox thus far have been on the outside peering in. Now Cronin has his team winging away at a record clip. He has come through with the hitting and the pitching for which only the most rabid fan ever could hope. Outside of Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr, no one could figure that so many Red Sox would hit so well. No one could figure Mickey Harris winning six straight, with able support from Tex Hughson, Joe Dobson and Dave Ferriss. Cant Hold the Pace Joe Cronin’s predicament is this: no one can expect so many of his men to continne to blast the ball with such deadly effect; and no one can figure that Mickey Harris can continue to hold such winning form, although Mickey is a much im proved pitcher over past seasons be fore the war, when he failed to break even. If the Red Sox had broken from the wire at a steady clip, there would have been no such excitement as reigns in Boston today. As it now stands, any Red Sox slump, which is certain to occur later on after such early speed, is bound to cause a reaction up Boston way. There is the chance, of course, that the Red Sox today have what the old Yankees once carried when they almost wrecked the league, practically closing out the season in late July or early August. It could happen. After all, Cronin’s hired men have shown power at bat and power in the pitcher’s box, which are the two main spots of the game. However, an early rush to the front can lead to much brooding later on. It is still my contention that the Tigers have the best pitching staff in baseball, followed by the Cardi nals. But Red Sox pitching, in ad dition to being an improvement over what it looked to be earlier, also has run-making and fielding support that will bag many a ball game through the summer ahead. However, Boston’s long-suppressed supporters should understand that it is still a long way to October. • • • Chasing the Cardinals My good friend Eddie Dyer, once a star halfback in Texas, is shocked over the fact that his team is still called a 3-5 shot against the field. “We have a good, sound ball club,” Eddie says, “but no team is that good—not even the Red Sox, today. Too many things can hap pen in a ball game. Too many things can happen to your best men. There are other good teams in this league, teams much improved over last season. This includes the Dodgers, Braves, Reds and the Giants. Both Cubs and Pirates will soon begin picking up speed. After all, the weather has made this an uncertain spring as far as any rat ing goes. I don’t believe many peo ple understand what such players as Reese, Reiser and Herman mean to the Dodgers. They are all win ning ballplayers.” One of Eddie Dyer’s greatest thrills so far has been the fine show ing of Terry Moore, not only a great ballplayer but a fine man to have on any club. After being away from action for some time in the army, Terry has been hitting far above his prewar punch; and Terry is no long er a kid. When you look at such ballplayers as Musial, Marion, Ku- rowski, Moore and others—plus the Cardinal pitching staff—whether or not you are a Giant, Dodger, Cub or Brave fan, this is the club to be watched once they have squared away from the summer festivities. It might also be suggested that Billy Southworth has turned in a fine job with the Boston Braves, a club supposed to be planted in the second division. The Braves may finish there, but they are a big im provement over the Braves of other years. They are a hustling outfit, as Billy Southworth’s teams always have been. This can be baseball’s greatest at tendance year, with many thousands to spare, if the two pennant races re main reasonably close, for it isn’t any too easy to keep the popeyed fan keyed up when his home club is outclassed and far out of the race. The danger spots here are the Red Sox and the Cardinals, but both can run into more severe competi tion than one might look for. Both Messrs. Cronin and Dyer confirm this observation. Few horse races ever are won in the first quarter; this also goes for a pennant race. Joe Cronin SERVICE ■ BUREAU EDITOR’S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. WWashing 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. Vets Attending Colleges As of March 10 there were 394,557 veterans of World War II enrolled in 1686 colleges and universities of junior college level and higher, and the estimate for the fall term, ac cording to VA officials, is 695,321. The largest number of these vet erans or approximately 15 per cent of the total are taking such courses as business administration, ac counting, banking and clerical. For instance, out of the 82,543 veterans who started their education in Feb ruary under the G.I. bill, 12,513 en rolled in these courses; 9,459 chose engineering fields including electri cal, mechanical and other types while 8,305 went into mechanics, in cluding auto repair. Other school courses rating high with the veter ans included agriculture with 3,960, metal working with 3,504 and teach ing, law and construction each claimed more than 1,500. Out of this February enrollment, the liberal arts courses attracted 16,182. More than 80 per cent of the new students entered colleges and universities while the balance began on-the-job training. Questions and Answers Q. My husband was drafted in World War I and has been dead three years. I don’t have his serial number. All I have is a form, as his discharge burned in our home. He was drafted from Madison, Tenn., on October 4, 1917 and was kept in service till October 25, 1917 and discharged for disability. Would I be eligible for a pension as I am a widow and unable to work? —Wife, Brownsville, Tenn. A. I believe you would be eligible for a pension, but you should apply to your veterans’ administration of fice either at 408 E. Main, Jackson or 8 N. 3rd street, Memphis. Q. I have a son who was called to the army in October. He is need ed at home badly to care for the farm and stock. He has six depend ing on him. Could I get him outT How long do the boys called in October, 1945, have to stay? How many points and what do they get points on? — M. H., Nashville, Ark. A. Your son evidently is still in training in this country and must serve, under regulations in effect, up to June 30, 1946, 24 months or 40 points as of September 2, 1945. Your son did not get into the army until after September 2, 1945, so we do not know what point score he will have earned by the time new regulations are announced. At the present, one point is awarded for each month of service, one point for each month overseas, 12 points for each minor child and 5 points for decorations or battle stars. Your son, however, likely will be eligible for discharge only on length of service, unless a new point score is fixed. He likely will have many more months to serve. If he can prove a hardship case, he would be entitled to ask his com manding officer for release for that reason, but it would be up to the officer. Q. My husband was in World War I and his insurance lapsed. Upon a physical exam he was refused They said he had asthma and de fective eyes. He tried to enlist in this war but was refused on the same grounds. Later we left that state and he was drafted and found OK at the induction center. Doc tors in the army couldn’t under stand how he could get in since he had asthma and hearing in one ear gene. He was sent to a medical de partment enlisted technician school, but after a few lessons his asthma got so bad he couldn’t attend, so he was flunked and shipped out. They would not hospitalize for asthma and their medicine didn’t help. Upon his discharge he went to the Red Cross who told him he had a claim. He filed for the claim, but was refused for they said he had asthma and poor bearing when he was drafted. Still he was found physically fit for induction. Is there anything he can do about this?— Mrs. R. A., Parsons, Kans. A. You have the right of appeal for the disability rating. There is a contact office of veterans’ adminis tration at the municipal building, Pittsburg, Kans. Suggest you apply there and if it is necessary to go to a regional rating board, they will tell you where to apply. Q. My brother, an M. P. stationed in Brazil for three years, plans to marry a Brazilian girl. If he is dis charged within the next six months, will he have to pay for her trans portation home? Or will transporta tion be provided for her as in the case of the European wives of American soldiers? — Mrs. C. S., Palmdale, Calf. A. I am not sure about after hia discharge, but if he is married while he is in the army, he is en titled to apply to his commanding officer for transportation of his wife to this country. Complete Miniature Circus Has 10,000-Seat Big Top One of the most complete minia ture circuses in hobby history is “Adel Brothers Circus,” which was built by Robert Krueger of Omaha shortly before the war, says Collier’s. 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