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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. EDITOR’S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western News paper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. W Washington, D. C-, is able to bring read ers this :/ jekly column on problems of •he veteran and serviceman and his fam ily. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this news paper regularly. Big College Enrollment Estimated enrollment of students in the 1,686 colleges, universities and other institutions of higher learning for the 1946 fall term was placed at 1,558,081 by the veterans administration, with the total capac ity of these institutions at 1,673,349. Of this amount, the enrollment of veterans under public laws 16 and 346 was estimated to be 695,321 or 44.6 per cent of the total esti mated enrollment for the semester. Now there are 394,551 veterans enrolled under these laws showing that the entrance problem is not as serious as it was first thought. The survey was conducted by Nelson R. Henson, director of training facili ties ser .ice of VA’s vocational re habilitation and educational divi sion. Mr. Henson said his de partment is now preparing a de tailed list of all educational institu tions showing names, locations, number of vacancies, etc., to guide veterans in applying for educa tion. These vacancies, it is pointed out, will occur almost entirely in the smaller and lesser known schools as the so-called “big-name and football team colleges are al ready full-up.” Questions and Answers Q. I would like to know how long my husband will have to serve in the army. He went in on July 20, 1945 and went overseas March 4, 1946. His dependents are his wife and one son. — A worried wife, Ashland, Wis. A. I am afraid you will have to keep on worrying, for there is no way for me to estimate how long he will be in service since he has only about nine months service May 1 and the army has not issued regulations for discharge beyond June 30, 1946. He has only earned points from July to September 2, 1945 and has 12 for his dependent son and the army has not set a new date for critical point scores, depending now more on length of service. Q. Can you tell me how many battle stars or other decorations have been awarded to the 644th bombardment squadron and the 410th bombardment group? — J. V. Me., Chicago, 111. A. The war department says that the 644th bombardment squadron is credited with the battles of Nor mandy, northern France, Rhine land, Ardennes and central Europe. The 410th bombardment group, light, with air offensive, Europe. Q. I was drafted into the USNR and I passed the examinations OK. I stayed in only three weeks and was discharged as inept for naval services. I am now farming and I would like to know if I co ne under the G.I. bill of rights? — Reader, Ozark, Ala. A. The law says you must have served at least 90 days unless dis charged previously for disability. I cannot tell whether your discharge was for that reason or not, Q. Is hospitalization or medical care provided for families of men or officers in the merchant marine? —J. L. B., Rising Sun, Ind. A. No, insofar as I can find out there is no provision of hospitaliza tion or medical service for the families of merchant seamen. Offi cers and men of the merchant ma rine, themselves, however, are pro vided with care in marine hospitals from the public health service. Q. My husband is in the army and when he was inducted he took out a bond a month. I was receiving them until January when I received the last one, for November. They are still taking the money out of his pay. Where can I write or find out about it? — Soldier’s wife, Nelsonville, Ohio. A. Write all details to war bond division, U. S. army, 4300 Goodfel- low blvd., St. Louis 20, Mo. Q. Are men being drafted into the navy now? — A. H. J., Towson, Md. A. The navy says that although draftees under the selective service act are eligible for entrance into the navy, at the present time all re quirements of the navy are being filled by voluntary enlistments, so all inductees are being taken into the army at this time. Q. My husband is a veteran of World War I serving for 18 months. He is now 52 and almost unable to do any work. We have to rely on one boy, coming 16 and two girls at home. My health is no good. Where can he get help on a pen sion?—M. H., Madison, Ala. A. If he has never applied for a physical disability rating, suggest that he contact his nearest veterans administration office and ask for an examination to determine whether or not he is eligible for a disability pension. There is a contact region, al office of VA at Huntsville. America r s By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Features. P ARADOXICALLY, the oldest part of the United States, in point of settlement, was only recently re-discovered by the people of America. It is the state of Florida, where only a half cen tury ago the first train rumbled into the statiof! at Miami, and the highway to the Keys was not opened until 1934. Only in recent years have Florida agriculture, livestock and industry, as well as substantial year-around living, been brought to the attention of the United States. The “empire of the sun”—old in history and ti. iition —is new to millions of people. Florida is more than sweeping coastlines, broad beaches, beautiful hotels and resorts. It is more than a playground. It is a commonwealth of stability, offer ing the last eastern frontier and tremendous areas for development. Florida has known a procession of discoverers and conquerors—Spanish cavaliers and grandees, tonsured friars and soldiers of fortune, villains and heroes, men of incredible daring and men of fiendish cruelty, dream ers who sought Utopia and the Fountain of Youth, men who murdered in their lust for gold. Back of the Florida of today, with its bathing beaches, golf courses, race tracks, social events, fishing, agricul ture, livestock and industry, is the romance of centuries when men of many nations battled and fell, where mail- clad Spaniards struggled through morasses, where In dians resisted bitterly their white aggressors, where thousands were murdered because of their religion, and where swash-buckling pirates, mer ciless warriors and fantastic adven turers held sway. When the Spaniards first arrived on the mainland in 1513, they saw Florida Indians wearing gold and silver ornaments. Drawing largely on their Latin imaginations, the Dons sent word back to Spain that Florida was a land of golden treas ure. Fact and fancy were so close ly interwoven in the history of early Florida that much of it must be passed over lightly. But a Latin imagination is not re quired to add luster to Florida to day! A Land of Fruits. The palm trees are real; they are not desert mirages. (Incidentally, there were no palm trees growing when Florida was discovered. The palm trees came when a cargo of coconuts washed ashore from a wrecked ship in 1879 and a grove was started at I’alm Beach.) The citrus trees are rsal, too, and Flor ida’s grapefruit, oranges, tanger ines, limes, lemons and kumquats are used in millions of American homes. Likewise, Florida watermel ons, strawberries and non-citrus fruit are extremely edible and nour ishing. No figments of the imagination are fields of celery, potatoes, beans, cabbage, cucumbers, lettuce, pep pers, tomatoes and other truck crops. Florida has no equal in the production of phosphate, naval stores. Fuller’s earth, sponges, ci- '<»- •vK'ev wt? " GOVERNOR CALDWELL of Florida Millard Fillmore Caldwell re signed as representative in con gress to move to his farm in Leon county. He raises pecans, gen eral farm crops and beef and dairy cattle. He also practiced law in Tallahassee before he be-* came governor. gars, etc. Likewise, Florida leads all states in the variety of soils, crops, fishes, trees, flo*-ers, herbs and birds. And Florida is big in area. An automobile to reach Key West from Pensacola, by way of Jackson ville, must drive 100 miles farther than Jacksonville is from Washing ton, D. C. Florida pineapples are real, too. And the fields of cotton, tobacco, peanuts, hay and other crops are substantial. Poultry raising is a large and growing industry. Florida has nearly a million and a half cattle — both dairy and beef types, and many more ranges and pas tures are available. Its ranches are measured in thousands of acres, with cowboys riding herd on Brah man and other steers! There are 10 million acres of good land as yet undeveloped in Florida. Industry in Florida is an actual ity too. The "playground” is being utilized for workshops and factories, shipyards and mills. Its paper mills are producing, and new ones being built. Florida cement plants are always busy. Florida factories make everything from glassware and cotton goods to furniture and ships. Approximately 10 per cent of the fish business of the United States is centered in the Peninsula State. The only commercial sponge fish ery in the United States is in Flor ida. Mine and Forest Products. Nature gave Florida phosphate, limestone, sand, kaolin, clay and cement. Its lumber industry is great and growing greater. The Florida tidewater red cypress is known as “the wood eternal.” Florida’s yel low pine is produced in volume for a variety of uses. Turpentine and ros in, "naval stores,” are liquid gold from Florida pines. Tung orchards are a new and vigorous industry for the state. Millions of Americans visited Florida for the first time during the war. They were the men and wom en of the military and naval forces who were trained at Florida bases — Pensacola, Valparaiso, Camp Blanding, Orlando, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Miami, Key West and many others. Now that the war is over, many of them are re turning to Florida where they will make their homes, enter business, and help develop industry. Less than 75 years ago Rockledge was the most southerly settlement on the east coast. Fort Pierce was in the heart of the Indian country, and Indian river was a wild, al most unknown area, the haunt of wild fowl and flamingoes. St. Petersburg was non-existent. Okee chobee, the largest body of fresh water in all the southeast, was scarcely more than a semi-lengend- ary lake somewhere in the heart of the Everglades. There was not a farm, plantation, settlement or town throughout all the district be tween Jupiter and Biscayne Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Yet St. Augustine is the oldest town in America! Those who see only beaches, beautiful hotels and resorts, palm trees and moss-draped oaks may say: “This is Florida!” And quick ly another may retort: “And so is this!” And he will be pointing to agriculture, livestock, industry and Grapefruit grown near Orlando. substantial homes. Railroads, har bors, waterways, airports and broad highways bring both Flori- das — the playground and the home ground — within 48 hours of any part of the United States. America’s re-discovered land of fers its magnificent mansions, Span ish architecture, rich historic lore, scores of delightful towns, miles of farms and ranches, dozens of fac tories and mills, airports and smooth highways, to everyone. See Florida’s east coast; visit its west coast. And in between the coasts, see the Everglades — the strangest, most unique, most mysterious, of natural land formations on the con tinent. Discover Florida for yourself. Mil lions of others have! West Coast Settled Before East Coast Although much is heard about Florida’s east coast, the west coast on the Gulf of Mexico is equally notable. From 10 to 30 years before St. Augustine was founded, there were Spanish settlements at Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor and Pensa cola. Much of the interior of west ern Florida had been explored and oranges had been introduced be fore either the Dons or the French had erected their first fort on the east :oast. This is Florida. . . . Released by Western Newspaper Union. UNION MEMBERS REFUSE TO VOTE AS ORDERED AS A LEADER of organized labor Samuel Gompers was better in formed as to those who constituted his following than are those who profess to lead organized labor to day. Gompers realized that the members of his unions were Amer ican citizens; that they recognized as their first allegiance that of coun try; that they refused to surrender to a union leader any of their pre rogatives of citizenship. Gompers never attempted to tell members of AFL for what party, or what candi dates, they were to vote. Under his leadership organized labor was strictly nonpartisan. He would ap prove or oppose proposed legisla tion, and was always in a position to seek labor support from the rep resentatives in congress of both parties. Philip Murray, with his CIO-PAC organizations, has taken a directly opposite position from that Gompers maintained for many years. Mur ray failed to realize that his mem bers were first American citizens; that they demanded their right to be their own judges of what they considered best for their country; they would not submit to being told * how to vote. But Murray and his kind in organized labor were not the only ones who failed to properly appraise the attitude of organ ized labor. Many political lead ers in both major parties ex pected the membership of Mur ray’s organization to vote for the candidates and the party as named by Murray. These polit ical leaders were fearful of the vote of the minority groups, whether it be organized labor, or farmers, or any other group whose leaders were making a loud noise in Washington. The national elections in Novem ber, as did the primary elections in many states, will demonstrate that members of minority groups will, as American citizens, vote as individuals for the party or the candidates they believe will serve the best interests of all the people of the nation. * *' * VOTE AS THEY PLEASED That they voted as American citi zens, and not as a leader directed, was demonstrated most conclusive ly in California. The dominant la bor influence in the state is CIO. All the CIO vote thrown to either of the two major parties would mean winning for the party receiving them. The state has an odd pri mary law which enables any candi date to run on both tickets. The names of both the major party can didates for governor appeared on both the Republican and Democrat ic primary ballots. The registered electorate of the state is heavily Democratic, and the CIO, as an or ganization, had endorsed and strong ly supported, the Democratic can didate. Despite such conditions. Governor Warren was nominated by both the Democratic and Republi can tickets. That would not have been possible had CIO members fol lowed the political dictation of CIO leaders. Politically those leaders are phony. They did not, could not and will not be able to deliver the votes of American citizens. Such a result as the one in Cali fornia, and somewhat similar ones in every state in which CIO took a definite part in the primary cam paign, should demonstrate to all minority leaders that they cannot politically lead their groups like a flock of sheep. It should ■' also convince some leaders in both par ties that there is nothing to either expect or fear from these groups. It should teach them that compro mise and appeasement of these groups at the expense of the ma jority of all American citizens is not profitable as a vote getting pro cedure. The candidate and the po litical party that serves the best in terest of a majority of all the peo ple is the one a majority will vote for in the November elections. THE ’IRON CURTAIN’ COULD THE AMERICAN PEO PLE but know definitely what lies behind that iron curtain, with which Russia bars her border, there would be no fear of America’s adopting anything on the order of communistic totalitarianism. To practically all that curtain shrouds a mystery. The few who have penetrated it know it covers the utmost of inequalities; an entire lack of freedom for the individual; complete regimentation; poverty for the masses, and a serf dom that is as bad as, or worse than, any that prevailed under the czars. There are those who, for selfish rea sons, would foist that on America. • • • IF ARBITRATION is to settle the disputes between labor and manage ment, the arbiter must have all the facts. He must know the invest ment, the costs, the profits. With out such facts he^can do nothing more than guess at a decision, and a guess means compromise. Unless the decision is based on facts, there will be a continuous demand for more on the part of labor. The pub lic will be called on to pay these increases. The public is entitled to know that such payment is neces sary. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS I^ouncl IjjoLecl 2)reA3 ^(altering fe for 'IJoung. Cjiris Flattering Frock A S PRETTY a summer frock as you’ll see is this flattering yoke charmer that makes up so nicely in contrasting fabrics. Wide extended shoulders accent a tiny waist, darts insure a neat fit. Try it in a heavenly pink stripe with a plain fabric or white eyelet for yoke and sleeves, and trim with oversize ric rac. Pattern No. 1527 comes in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14 requires 2»/« yards of fabric in 35 or 39-inch for lower part of dress; # yard for contrasting yoke and sleeves. ^14 yn. Simple, Cool, Comfortable LJERE’S A wonderfully simple dress to make, for that young daughter of yours. Brief cap sleeves are cool and comfortable, and she’s sure to like the full skirt and narrow belt that ties in back. Why not make it now to have ready when the first day of school rolls around. * • • Pattern No. 8021 Is for sizes 8. 8. 10. 12, and 14 years. Size 8 requires 2 yards of 36 or 39-inch fabric; 3Va yards ric rac. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South WeUs St. Chicafo 1, HI. Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name , Address. In building a casement window in the kitchen remember that it should open out, not in. And the base should be at least a foot above the sink. —•— A basket equipped with such items as soap, polishes, short-han dled brushes, sponge, clean and lintless dustcloths, and the like will save time in cleaning as you go from room to room. —•— Record the guests who have dined at your table by having them autograph the tablecloth. Then, before the next dinner, you can embroider each signature in outline stitch. —•— If you’re planning to paint your house this summer and intend to do the work yourself, remember it is smart to let the first coat dry ten days before applying the sec ond. —•— When game is on the menu, avoid handling before cooking by flouring this way: Put a small amount of flour in a paper sack, pour in the pieces of meat and shake the bag until each piece is well coated with flour. If you prefer to close up the shelves where your canned goods are stored, try this trick. Fasten worn out window shades, still on rollers, to the top shelves and pull down to desired length. —•— To soften putty for removal from window panes, draw a hot solder ing iron over the material, being careful to keep the heat away from the glass. Most putty, however, when it needs to be replaced, can be removed with a small screw driver. DOUBLE MEASURE means quality and quantity in Moroline; petroleum jelly. Aids healing, a soothing dressing for minor burns-scalds and minor cuts, bruises, chafes. Get Morolina. Yes! Sweeter, Tastier Bread • This active fresh yeast goes right to work, gives you full value because it’s full strength. And bread made with Fleischmann’s active fresh Yeast tastes sweeter, is lighter, more tender. If you bake at home—Get Fleischmann’s active fresh Yeast with the familiar yellow label—America’s dependable yeast favorite for over three generations.