Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. SENATE MONSTROSITY WASHINGTON. — Seldom has a senate committee been so loath to put its name to a piece of legisla tion as the senate banking and cur rency committee which finished sabotaging the price control bill recently. About all that was left of the bill was its name. When it came to signing it, New York’s Senator Wagner, chairman of the banking and currency com mittee, flatly refused. He pointed out, in a closed-door session, that he had opposed the emasculating amendments and would submit his own minority report. Senator Taft, who did more than almost anyone to tear the bill to pieces, also hesitated. He said he had his own bill which he wanted to introduce. Finally someone proposed that the senators’ names be signed in a cir cle, so the public could not tell who signed first. “It reminds me,” said Ken tucky’s Alben Barkley, “of the young man who shot his mother and father, then appealed to the court for leniency on the grounds that he was an or phan.” NOTE—Finally, Senator Barkley agreed to report the gutted OPA bill to the senate, but accompanied by a stinging criticism of the way the OPA had been virtually de stroyed. * * • PATIENT LAUNDRY LEW Secretary of Labor “Laundry Lew” Schwellenbach is a patient man. He learned the virtue of pa tience as a Spokane laund^ynian when he had to handle customers’ complaints about frayed collars and lost shirts. Patient as he is. Lew has had a tough time with his boss in the White House during the mari time strike negotiations. Shortly after the talks began, Schwellenbach called on the unions, the shipping people, and government officials to say nothing which would arouse feelings and imperil the negotia tions. The very next morning, however, Lew’s boss in the White House did exactly the op posite by announcing plans to use the navy to break the strike. This, of course, put the ship owners in a favored position. They were no longer under any compulsion to settle before the strike deadline. When patient Laundry Lew heard this, even he hit the ceiling. Then the navy announced, with White House backing, that it was calling on its reserves and volun teers to break the strike. Again this played into the ship owners’ hands; again the secretary of labor was upset. Finally, he sent Assistant Sec. of Labor John Gibson to the White House with a personal appeal to the President to refrain from prejudic ing the negotiations. Truman agreed, issued a statement saying the gov ernment hoped for settlement, did not want to be put in the position ■ of breaking the strike. * * * CABINET CONFIRMATIONS American history shows that Presidents of the United States have had more difficulty with senate con firmation of the secretary of the treasury than any other cabinet post. In all, 10 different votes have been cast by the senate defeat ing confirmation of cabinet mem bers. The first of these was Andrew Jackson’s fight to appoint Roger B. Taney as secretary of the treasury. Jackson was defeated. Second senate battle was Presi dent Tyler’s attempt to appoint Caleb Cushing as secretary of the treasury. Tyler forced three differ ent votes in the senate to confirm Cushing, but lost each time by large majorities. Tyler also had trouble appointing David Henshaw as sec retary of the navy, and James M. Porter as secretary of war. The next senate fight over cabi net confirmation occurred in the ad ministration of Andrew Johnson, when he attempted to appoint Henry Stanbery, as attomev gen eral, but was defeated. Calvin Coolidge also 1 .. a fight to appoint Charles B. Warren as at torney general. The first vote on Warren was the famous occasion when Vice Pres. Charley Dawes failed to be present. His excuse was that he was napping and his alarm clock failed to go off. However, Coolidge, who never got along with Dawes, always suspected that his vice president wanted to avoid being put on the spot by a tie vote, which he, as pre siding officer, would have had to break. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF Six-foot, eight-inch high governor- elect Jim Folsom of Alabama is go ing to be a political force to be reckoned with. He has six months to plan his strategy before taking office, and one move he will make is to spend one month in Atlanta as a guest of Georgia’s hard hit ting Gov. Ellis Arnall. Folsom will study Arnall’s liberal adminis tration from A to Z in order to profit from his experience. . . . Folsom was a leading Henry Wallace dele gate at the 1944 convention. feu® tnem g(WNU Service), Typewriter Doodling: Love-Letter Dept.: From Emery Reves, autifor of the best-seUer, “The Anatomy of Peace.” . . . "This is one of the most peculiar moments of history. The problem of war between the nations is solved. The organization of peace on a world-wide level is within our grasp. And yet—the probability is that we shall run into our own de struction because of the conform ism and complacency of the press, radio, movies, churches and all the other organizations and technical media of mass enlightenment and education. I thank you for the rare exception you represent.” Quotation Marksmanship: R. C. O’Brien: Think, before you brag about your ancestors—would they brag about you? . . . Chuchu Mar tinez: As inseparable as ham and ego. . . . Irving Hoffman: Ethel Merman’s tombouyancy. . . . Anon: We have two ends, one to sit on, the other to think with. Success depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose! . . . J. Joubert: Mediocrity is excellent to the mediocre. ... I. Panin: All wish for a long life; few realize it means old age. . . . R. Frost: The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work and the rest willing to let them. . . . Mile. Ber lin: There’s nothing new except what is forgotten. . . . Dr. Wm. Brady: And other things too bloomerous to mention. . . . Eric Remarque: Women should be adored or abandoned—nothing in-be tween. Larry Singer, visiting the bunch, told of the hoax put over (in the 1930s) by the editors of the Cornell University Sun. . . . They sent out scores of invitations to political leaders throughout the nation, ask ing them to attend a dinner in hon or of Hugo N. Frye, “the founder of the Republican Party in N. Y. State.” . . . Effusive tributes to that stalwart gentleman came from many Congressmen, Senators and Governors. . . When the Sun staff finally held their shindig they re vealed the name of their hero— “You-Go-and-Fry!” Some of the lobster shift over at the N. Y. Mirror (having put the final edition to bed) sat around gab bing about the craft. They rehashed Irv Leiberman’s saga about the two correspondents (for a national mag) who had strolled out of a mess hall at a Pacific base. . . . Just then a beau tiful native doll ankled towards them along the road. . . . She came on gracefully, looking neither right nor left. ... As she passed, one of the lads clutched the other for sup port, and both gave her a double- take. Her button-down-the-front dress was securely fastened by eight Good Conduct Ribbons! Johnny and Mike Hodgins of the composing room brought in this clipping, which Editor & Publisher quoted from a mid-west paper. “Pa,” said the subscriber’s little daughter, “why do editors always refer to themselves as ‘we’?” “So that,” replied papa, “the fel low who doem't like win t is printed about him will think there are too many for him to lick.” Several correspondents have re ported that the American occupa tion of western Germany is proceed ing according to anything but the plan set at Potsdam. . . . One of the staff, who recently returned from there, explained: “The DPs are getting kicked around while some Nazis live in comfort. That’s at the bottom. At the top, German industrialists are being helped back into power instead of being in dicted as war criminals. It seems that the Nazi occupation of Ger many is proceeding smoothly and the Hitlerites are determined that the U. S. zone will soon be com pletely de-Americanized.” One of the interesting observa tions came from Irving, the night phone operator. ... He told of the editor of Algar, an astrologists’ mag. . . . This editor used to get as high as $1,000 per reading from Wall Streeters. ... He once took a policy from broker Max Reibeisen —for $10,000. . . . “Do you,” said Max, “wish to pay it annuaDv, semi annually or quarterly?” “Quarterly—up until July Slst,” said the astrologer. “It is silly aft er that because my horoscope says I’ll die then.” On July 21st, to’ the very day, Reibeisen received a phone call from Atlantic City. . . . The astrol oger succumbed from pneumonia. Critic Robert Coleman said that Alec Woollcott once slept through an opening and then, after filing his review with Western Union, went to Sardi’s, where he promptly fell asleep at a table. “Look at that guy,” said Kelcy Allen, “taking an encore!” SETTING FOR OPERATION CROSSROADS . . . Where history’s moat important explosion is expected to occur some time this summer. This authoritative drawing from Popular Mechanics was made from informa tion supplied by task force headquarters. At Bikini Atoll in the Marshall islands the target will be an as sembly of more than 100 unmanned ships totaling approximately 200,000 tons valued at $500,000,000. Newsmen Admit Apprehension of A-Bomb Mission By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU Correspondent ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN (Via Navy Radio)—Civil and mili tary welcoming committees out of the way, with the beauty and color of the Paradise of the Pacific a pleasant memory interlude in the midst of this serious military ex periment the “Big Apple” today has her nose pointed westward on the second leg of our hop toward Bikini atoll and the atomic bomb test, the results of which may revolutionize naval tactics. The waters of the Marshall Islands are not new to the Appalachian and the members of her crew who firs’ took her into combat duty in th^se very waters . . . the conquest and capture of Kwajalein, which is our next port of call. She is a sturdy ship and bears few scars of her tour of duty in the war in the Pacific in the Marshalls, the Admiraltys, the Solo mons, at Leyte, the Marianas, at Guam and other action since Pearl Harbor. On this tour she is the press ship of Adm. W. H. P. Blan- dy’s task force and aboard are COWS SAVE FIFTY DAYS BY FLYING ... This bunch of purebred Guernsey calves are the first group to be shipped to a distant point by air. They took off from Teterboro, N. Y., bound for Bogota, Columbia. The trip will take 2 days, instead of 52 required by sea. Cattle transported by sea have taken six months to a year to recover from the rigors of a sea voyage. The result of the air trip is being watched by agricul tural experts as well as air specialists. CHICKS FOR CZECHS ... Cargo plane of veteran’s air express, piloted by former AAF pilots, took off from Chicago with 60,120 hatch ing sggs produced in Illinois. The plane was chartered by the UNRRA to rush the eggs to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help restore war-de pleted flocks. Claire Saunders, left, and LUlian McLellan see eggs off. A newsweekly (the other issue) featured this: Justice Murphy’s opinions are now referred to in Su preme court circles as “justice tempered with Murphy.” RARE CHINESE PAINTING ... This 18th century painting was presented to the American association for the United Nations at ceremonies at its headquarters recently in New York, as expres sion of good will and friendship of Chinese association for the Unit ed Nations. Dr. Wuo Safong, left, representing Dr. Chu Chia-hua, minister of education of China, turns over painting to Clark M. Eichel- berger, American chairman. SENATOR JOHN HOLLIS BANK- HEAD . . . The death of Sen. John Hollis Bankhead removed the name of a famous family from the rolls of congress. The Alabama senator was co-author or supporter of Bankhead cotton act, the Bank- head-Jones farm tenancy act, the FSA, AAA, soil conservation and parity prices tor agricultural prod ucts and many other bills for the benefits of the farming industry while in the senate. MUSICAL OMELETS ... Mur ray Weiss, Brooklyn scientifio poultry fancier, found that musio hath the charms to make biddy lay more generously. Advantage is I that the hen doesn’t have to eackle. TO DROP BOMB . . . Major Har old Wood, age 30, of Bordentown, N. J., responsible for bullseye. picked newspaper men and repre sentatives of the other media such as news reels, radio, technical mag azines, television and others. Al though most of them are on other ships of the group, such as the Pan- amint and the Blue Ridge, there is a sprinkling of scientists aboard and a sort of friendly ribbing going on constantly between the “lay” or mine-run members of the press and these scientific writers, many of whom are members of the “I Am a Frightened Man Club” and predict dire results and dangers to person nel of this task force when the bomb burst, scheduled July 1, takes place. In spite of their fun-poking, the newspaper men generally privately admit they feel some apprehension and beneath the raillery there is a feeling of tenseness among many of us which increases daily. The trip thus far from Navy Pier in Oakland to Honolulu, where our two-day jtay was all too short, has been like a pleas ure cruise but now we are get ting down to the seiions part of this most stupendous military experiment in history. The in formation officers aboard ship offer every facility and we are scheduled for a series of round table conferences to orientate us to the main objectives. One of the most interesting phases of this operation is the time ele ment. Fourteen different time zones are involved in the operation by vir tue of the location of Bikini west of the International Date Line. For instance if the first atomic bomb is dropped at 10 a. m. Monday, July 1, it will be 5 p. m. Sunday, June 30, in Chicago. As this is written out of Pearl Harbor we still have some 2,200 miles of trackless blue water to tra verse at a speed of approximately 11 knots or about 13 miles an hour. Before we reach Kwajalein where we will spend a day viewing the elaborate installations which have been set up in quarters, laborato ries, air facilities as a base for the army air corps which will drop the bomb and the 37,000 men. The logistics and the planning which have gone into this oper ation will rival those in the in vasion of Normandy and scien tists in and out of the navy have ready for installation the most elaborate measuring devices to meter actual effects of the ex plosion on the target array of combat and other ships, army and navy material, live animals tethered aboard some ships and ordnance for army, navy and air of all descriptions. In addition recording devices, spe cially constructed cameras for tele vision, radar controlled drone planes, which will fly through the atomic cloud at varying heights will bring back samples of the radio ac tive materials and vapor to be rushed to the laboratories for test. It is this radio activity for the ex ploded atoms which may be used for the benefit of mankind in peace time pursuits. As a matter of fact, the Manhattan district is now re leasing or has released small por tions of radio activated substances to universities and laboratories. Your Home Town Reporter is quar- il. Phi Hip S' The Auto Telephone Telephone service to and from your auto is now a reality, and the A. T. & T. announces its first sub scriber. This marks the end of the motor car as a pleasure vehicle. * A St. Louis man has the first auto phone. He can pick up the receiv er in his machine and reach 27,000,- 000 telephone outlets of the A. T. & T. “Ring me up sometime when I'm NOT home” is no longer a gag. * Routine cracks will presently be, “I tried to get you on the phone but your limousine was busy,” and “Central, call that beachwagon again. I know be’s in it.” • You can get a phone in your bus for $15 a month. This gives you a phone number, a book and the right to get a wrong number while go ing around curves at high speed. * It is going to make the life of a driver more confusing than ever. Up to now he has only had to watch the road, observe the stop lights, listen to the radio and make conversation with the backseat driver. From now on he will have to remember names, look up phone numbers, keep the phone book handy and ar gue with the complaint operator as well. » Be ready for these answers any day now: “The taxi you called has hung up.” “The beachwagon has been tem porarily disconnected.” “Are you sure you are calling the right flivver?” “I had that sedan on the phone a minute ago but it went into a ditch.” * The outlook is depressing. It was bad enough to have the kids in the back seat taking the hardware off the doors, disconnecting the ceiling lights and playing handball with a hotdog and a mustard pot without having them trying to get playmates on the telephone 2,500 miles away. * One of the great benefactions of the auto was that it gave man a chance to get away from it all. Must he now be practically in a phone booth when he is bounding over the wide-open spaces? * Listen, central, if anybody asks for our car, say we communicate by smoke signals only. An extra patty of butter to: Damon Runyon for his exposure of some of our leading radio pro grams as piping pretty vulgar stuff to the kiddies. . . . “It comes as a great shock to me,” he writes, “when some great performer whose programs are awaited with eagerness blats out vulgarisms that cannot fail to be offensive to most ears. I see no excuse for it. I have heard too many tremendous perform ers who got their laughs without descending to bad taste.” Orson’s Worst Night In all his experiences with “Around the World” (or “Welles- A-Poppin’,”) Mr. Welles will not soon forget his most terrible night in the theater, which must have been at the try-out of this play in New Haven. Everything went wrong. The movies in the intro ductory episode, the key to the whole story, would not focus and after five minutes of confusion Or son came out and was beginning to explain that it would be necessary to forget them when suddenly they began screening clearly. The mo ment Mr. Welles bowed off, the screen went white again. This time Orson, maintaining amazing poise and good humor, came out and made the curtain speech of the year. “We don’t know any more what the trouble is than you do,” he said. “But my mother always told me this would happen to me someday.” * • * Ye Olde Swop Shoppe “Wanted: One or more new white shirts, size 17% or 18. What will you swop? N J M 914.”—Yankee Magazine. * What won’t we! • “To Swop: One pair tan Oxford shoes, men, like new, size 7%, for a stuffed owl in good condition. N H My 904.”—Yankee Magazine. • What are you going to wear on the other foot? * • • CAN YOU REMEMBER— ’Away back when you could be sura which one wore the pants in any house? • • * ENDURANCE CONTEST I know a man who is a grouch He drinks and stays up late; He rarely says a kindly word And is an ugly skate; His wife to no divorce court goes — Her love for him is warm; “He’s been that way for twenty years.” She says, “and MAY reform.''