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I THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Released by Western Newspaper Union. HOOVER, TOO, STRUGGLED WITH SELF-WILLED CONGRESS UNFORTUNATE IS THE Presi dent who, in times of emergency, must deal with what he considers an obstreperous congress. Presi dent Truman was by no means the first chief executive to have such an experience. One of the compar atively recent occurrences of the same kind fell to the lot of Presi dent Hoover. At the congressional elections in the middle of his term, the Democratic party captured con trol of the house of representatives. When the banking emergency arose and became especially acute dur ing the last three months of the Hoover administration, the Presi dent was entirely dependent on a Democratic house for any legisla tion needed to meet that emergen cy. During the months between the presidential election and the inaug uration of Mr. Roosevelt the banks were failing by the dozens every day. Congress was in t session in December, and would continue in session until the day of the inaugura tion, March 4. Mr. Hoover did not- need congressional action to close the banks but he- did need action before they could be opened. Not to reopen them quickly would mean financial chaos for the nation. Pres ident Hoover called the Democrat ic leaders of the house to a confer ence. He explained his difficulty; showed them the proclamation he wished to issue closing the banks, and the bill embodying legisla tion needed to make a r '.'opening possible. He asked their co-opera tion in passing that legislation. Those leaders told Mr. Hoover the house would pass the desired legis lation only at the request of the president-elect, Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Hoover sent the whole story to Hyde Park, including the statement of the Democratic house leaders regard ing the passage of the legislation if Mr. Roosevelt requested such ac tion and assuring him of full credit for such action. There was no re ply. A second appeal, in January was made, that time sent by spe cial messenger. The reply to that was that Mr. Roosevelt would be go ing to Warm Springs in February, and would stop in Washington for a few hours to talk it over. In the latter part of February Mr. Roosevelt called at the White House but declined to make any request to the Democratic majority in the house saying it was not his prob lem until after March 4, and he would act at that time. On March 5 the new president closed the banks by issuing the proclamation prepared by Hoover, but with the Roosevelt signature. He called a special session of congress for the purpose of passing the iden tical bill prepared by the Hoover administration that would make it possible to reopen the banks. Between the time when the out going administration had asked for co-operative help and the March 5 date hundreds of banks had failed, millions of dollars had been lost by depositors, but the incoming admin istration was credited with con structive action. Such is the way the game of politics is played. Blue chips are not wasted even in times of emergency. President Truman’s demands on congress may be wrong or they may be right but wrong or right the game of poli tics must be played according to political rules. • • • THE RECORDS, as compiled by FBI, show the percentage of crime in proportion to population has migrated from Chicago, New York and the East to the Rocky Mountain and West coast states, and to the South, especially Flor ida and Kentucky. The differ ence is the newspapers of these sections do not boast of their crirr.c supremacy, as did those of Chicago. HOW SATISFYING it will be to ns consumers when we can have a buyers’ market; when we can walk into a store with a reasonable assurance of finding what we want whether it be a loaf of bread, a package of sug ar, a slice of ham, a shirt, a suit of clothes, a washing ma chine, or an automobile. We will welcome the days when the merchant can keep what he has on the shelf rather than under the counter. Those will be the happy days for which we have so long been wishing. The com plete realization should not be far distant. • • • THOUSANDS, many thousands, of Mexicans were specially imported to harvest the grain crops of the West. At the same time thousands, many thousands, of American citi zens were being paid unemployment benefits. The greatest thing wrong with ps is too many people expecting to be provided for without effort on their part. * • * ' CAPABLE OR OTHERWISE, and no matter what they say, most peo- j pie enjoy the sensation of being picked for leadership in any group, > U/KflflNCIN Tf I r k Cr I 11 ; — Farms Homes Factories By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Feature A balance has been struck in Wisconsin where the happiest combination of farm and fac tory has been found! The state is rural in appear ance, its industry so wide spread that it is never far from a dairy barn to a factory door. The truck and garden plot, the orchard and the country home are but a step from the gears of in dustry. In V/isconsin, the neighbor liness and friendliness of the small town is never lost. The milk of hu man kindness is never evaporated in the fiery ovens of a factory. A great industrial state, with more factories and mills than you can count, Wisconsin remains the land of milk cows, cheese, butter, apples —and more milk cows! Everything grown in the north temperate zone is produced in Wis consin in grains, vegetables and fruits. So varied is its agriculture that the state produces corn, wheat, rye, barley, hay, flaxseed, potatoes, sugar beets, tobacco (for cigar wrappers), hops, peas, sorghum and maple syrup. More peas are canned there than in any other state, and more hemp is raised. The state ranks high in cranberry production and also produces apples, cherries, plums and other fruits. Wisconsin remains a leader in the number of dairy cows, in cheese production and in the output of condensed milk products. Industries Are Varied. “Made in Wisconsin” stamps thousands of articles used all over the world, from the smallest radio part to the greatest earth-moving machinery. The state has miscel laneous mining and quarrying, saw mills and lumbering, paper mills and wood products factories, brew eries and flour mills, cheese fac tories and creameries. Manufac tured goods include sheet metal work, foundry products, farm ma chinery, electrical goods, engines and pumps, plumbing supplies, tools and hardware, automobiles and tractors, refrigerators, preci sion instruments and countless oth er articles. During World War II its hundreds of factories produced tools of war for the army and navy, backing U. S. fighting men on ev ery front. Wisconsin is one of the most for- FISHIN’ . . . Two Great Lakes, Superior and Michigan, and hun dreds of small ones lure fisher men to Wisconsin. tunate of states in transportation facilities. Steamboats ply the Mis sissippi and other rivers. Lake ships dock at Superior, Green Bay, Mil waukee, Racine and other points, and Great Lakes traffic is consid erable. Fast, modern railroads speed across the state. Truck traf fic from city to city, and from Wis consin to the rest of the United States, is increasing steadily. Lived ‘Like Badgers.’ The pioneers found Wisconsin a vast wilderness. They cleared it, broke,it, and built upon it. They dug deep into lead mines and often lived in holes in the ground—“like badgers,” some said. (That is why it is often called the Badger State.) But the people of Wisconsin, for all their industry, always have loved to play, to enjoy life, and to find re freshment in the state’s great play grounds. The northern half of Wisconsin is a great forest, smelling of pine pitch and brush fires. Rivers thun der over trap-rock ledges or flow quietly on clean sand beds. There are hidden ponds, many swamps and uncounted lakes. A third of the northern boundary juts out into Lake Superior, and the entire east ern length of the state is washed by the waters of Lake Michigan. In the southwest sprawls the coulee country, often sleep and irreiular, veined by streams and rivers, trib utaries of the Mississipr . Apple orchards smother the ridges with their pink and white blossoms while the slopes are covered with sugar bush and abandoned gingseng beds. Wisconsin has 8,500 counted lakes, 10,000 miles of trout streams, 500 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, in numerable rivers and springs. It has lakes for swimming, boating, fishing and all water sports—Lake Winnebago, Lake Geneva, and the lakes around Madison, to name a few. On the Great Lakes, trim sail ing craft course out to the horizon, while outboards and racing boats split the water near the shores. Jean Nicolet was the first white man known to have set foot on Wisconsin soil. He came to the Green Bay area in 1634 and visited the Winnebago Indians who lived along the shore (and whose de scendants still live in Wisconsin). Territory Organized. In April, 1836, over 200 years aft er Nicolet’s visit, the “Territory of Wiskonsan” was organized to in clude what is now Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas and Illinois. The townsite of Madi son, the capital, was surveyed and platted that year. Gradually, how ever, the territory shrunk in size after long and bitter boundary quar rels. To give Illinois an outlet on the Great Lakes, the boundary was moved northward and Chicago was lost. The northern peninsula, a re gion rich in copper and iron, was given to Michigan to replace terri tory taken from Michigan by Ohio. Other boundary adjustments fol lowed as the drive for statehood was accelerated. On May 29, 1848, Wisconsin became a state. Thfr years following Wisconsin’s admission as a state brought a great influx of German and Scan dinavian immigrants. Population doubled and trebled each decade. Railroads opened the rich interior of the state to farmers and lum bermen. Wheat became a basic commodity, with flour and grist mills springing up everywhere. In troduction of livestock brought about Wisconsin’s noted dairy in dustry. By 1880 many towns were offer ing inducements to industry, and manufacturing was begun. Paper and pulp mills began operating, and meat packing was introduced. Shoes and leather products followed nat urally. The metal industry, now one of Wisconsin’s greatest, grew rapidly because of the state’s loca tion halfway between Minnesota’s iron ore deposits and coal fields in Illinois and Indiana. The land of green v/oods and cool waters continues to grow and pro gress. Its industry, agriculture and good homes make life better. Wis consin is a serene and balanced land. LIFELONG RESIDENT . . . Wal ter S. Goodland, governor of Wis consin, is a native son, born in Sharon December 22, 1862. He has been a lifelong resident of his native state, having been en gaged successively as a school teacher, lawyer, newspaper pub lisher, mayor of Racine, farmer and lieutenant governor before becoming the state’s chief execu tive. He took the oath as gover nor January 4, 1942, and has served continuously since. Editor Credited with Major Role in Dairy Promotion On the agricultural campus of University of Wisconsin at Madi son is a bust of William Dempster Hoard. A glance at Wisconsin his tory discloses that he was governor of the state from 1889 to 1891. But the story of Hoard and his service to Wisconsin ^.nd the world goes back a score of years before he was governor. * In the little town of Fort Atkin son about 1870 there was an editor who noted the soil-depleting results of many wheat crops. He believed that in time there ,would be no good farms unless farmers turned from wheat growing to raising of livestock. He argued that Wisconsin no longer could depend upon grains and that the future prosperity of the state lay in dairying. At first hfe devoted a column to his campaign, then a page and later a separate section. Eventually he founded Hoard’s Dairyman, a mag azine that circulated widely, even to day. He supplemented his writing by touring the state and speaking until he hammered his gospel into the consciousness of the people. But the farmers of 187U were in clined to resent being “tied to a cow.” After a while Hoard con vinced a group of German farmers to go into dairying, and many Scan dinavians were to follow. Wheat production began to drop as tha dairy output increased. IjWRyKI, EDITOR’S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the lEashington Bureau of Western News paper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., is able to bring read ers this weekly column on problems of the 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. Look Out for ‘Slickers? The war department is warning relatives of servicemen killed in ac tion against spurious promises ofi slick promoters to “expedite return to this country of bodies of deceased veterans.” The war department handles the whole matter and there is nothing any one, but an official of that agency, can do to help any relatives in this matter. On the question of which relative has the final say about disposition of a body of a soldier killed over seas the war department recognizes* wishes of kin in the following or der: If the deceased was married, the widow has the preference, but she must not have been divorced or le gally separated from him at the time of his death and she must not have since remarried. If the wife has remarried or been divorced, the preference passes to the sons if they are over 21. If not over 21 then to the daughters if they are over 21. If all children are under age or if there are no children, then the right to dispose of the remains passes to the surviving relatives in the order of their relationship, father, moth er, brothers, sisters, etc. If the de ceased was not married, then the de cision rests first with the father, then mother, then brothers and sis ters over 21 and if there are none, then the right passes along to other relatives. Questions and Anoi/oers Q. I know of a lady who served as a WAVE in the navy and her husband also served in the navy. I am told they are drawing $100 a month each and will draw this for a year. I have a son in the navy and he will be discharged in July. Is there any such law granting this amount to servicemen? If so how can my son obtain this? Do they have to be unemployed or self-em ployed? Is it based on time spent in service or rating?—Mrs. D. W. M., Cabool, Mo. A. The WAVE and her husband, both veterans, possibly are draw ing readjustment allowance checks amounting up to $100 pep month each for self-employment. The law provides that a veteran who is self- employed in any independent estab lishment, trade, business, profes sion or other vocation is eligible for readjustment allowance if his net earnings are less than $100 for the previous calendar months, the amount of the allowance being the difference between his net earnings and $100. Q. My husband was kept out of the army until the war was over, then he saw he would have to go so he enlisted. Then he tried to get a discharge and they turned it down. Then he enlisted for the regular army on February 18, 1945, knowing he would get out when his 18 months is up. His father is un able to handle the farm properly. He has put in for a discharge and sent in the necessary papers. Do you think he will be discharged?— Mrs. A. B., Stanley, Miss. A. He likely will get his discharge if his commanding officer thinks his is a hardship case, although since he was turned down once, un less he has new evidence it is not likely that he would be discharged on the same evidence. Q. My son served in the army for 22 months. He was discharged to take over the farm work which was too strenuous for his father, who was disabled. In other words he was considered of more value to the army for being on the farm than otherwise. Please tell me if he is entitled to any mustering-out pay? —Mrs. B. S., Morganfield, Ky. A. If the discharge was issued purely on a dependency or hard ship case, then he is not entitled to mustering out pay. Q. My baby was born December 3. My husband was discharged January 3. I sent the birth cer tificate to the navy department, but haven’t heard from them. Where do I write to get my certificate and am I due an allotment for him?— Mrs. E. L. H., Greys, Ky. A. Since your husband is out of the navy, of course you are not en titled to an allotment. Suggest you write the same place you sent the birth certificate. Q. My brother has re-enlisted in the army air corps six months ago. Since he has done this my family has not received any allotment checks. My father is very sick and has been in bed for five years. During this time he has been de pendent on his son’s checks so can you advise me what steps I should take to clear this matter?—Mrs. P. B., Selinsgrove, Pa. A. Since an allotment to depend ent parents is voluntary on the part of the serviceman, would suggest you write your brother and ask if he has applied for an allotment. NEEDLECRAFT PAHERNS Low-Cost Furniture Protection DRIGHTER days ahead . . . and ■*-* your chairs, footstools and sofas deserve them, too! Have fun making slipcovers with these directions. Never put a dress away imme diately after wearing it. Air it to get the wrinkles out. —•— Pared apples will not darken if dipped in leijion, orange, grape fruit or pineapple juice. —•— When through sewing, use Jun ior’s magnet to pick up the stray pins. —•— Moths and beetles breed in a warm, place, but if you must choose between a damp closet or basement or a hot attic, choose the attic.' —•— When handles break off teacups, let them do duty as flower pots. With hammer and nail drill a hole in the center of cup for plant drain age. Easy on the drilling through, to keep the brittle china from breaking. • —•— Inexpensive towels can be made at home from white terry towel ing 22 inches wide. Allow % yard for a face towel or a small child’s bath towel; for an average bath towel, one yard; for an extra large bath towel, 1V4 yards. —•— If you have a weakness for but tons, but despise making button holes, here’s what you do. Use the buttons to make attractive lapel ornaments or to trim the edge of a pocket. —•— To prevent mold or rot, spread out oranges or lemons—do not pile them together. Business Is Wormy, but It’s Profitable in Maine i Since 1930, the demand for ma rine worms for bait by surf fisHer- men has resulted in a sizable in dustry in Maine, says Collier’s. During one recent year, 12,500,000 of these large and brightly colored worms, having a retail value of $750,000, were dug from the tide water flats of this state alone. To conserve its worm resources, Maine requires diggers to be resi dents and to take out a license. Easy, low-cost upholstery protecticnl Instructions 841 has step-by-step direc tions for slipcovers for 6 chairs, 4 foot stools and a couch. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80, 111 Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. No Name — Address I I '1 NO ASPIRIN FASTER or better. 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