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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
SPECTRE OF ANOTHER WAR
EN ROUTE TO PARIS. — Under
way in the palace of Luxemburg is
the conference on which so many
mothers set their hearts, for which
so many mothers’ sons gave their
lives — the conference to win the
peace.
Some 13,000,000 men in the Amer
ican armed forces alone fought four
long years—with the hope that it
might be the last time human be
ings would have to go through the
terrible ordeal of war.
In the Paris conference comes
the climax of their dreams, and
already disillusionment has be
gan to set in. Already the
dreams are tinged with night
mare — the spectre of another
war.
Here are some of the distressing
facts this conference has to face in
trying to chart the peace of the
world:
1. Historians criticised Woodrow
Wilson because he was slow in nego
tiating peace. But he got started
two months after the armistice and
finished six months later, a total of
eight months after the war. In con
trast, it ?s now almost one year
after the armistice with Japan and
15 months after the armistice
with Germany, yet the final peace
conference is only getting started.
2. The longer peace is delayed,
the more the Allies fall out; the
more the other nations forget their
gratitude. So the longer the delay,
the harder it is to negotiate a
pennanent peace.
3. Russia deliberately has endeav
ored to postpone the peace. This
conference could have been held
long ago if the Soviet had not said
While Walter Winchell is on va
cation, Jack Lait, writer of the
“Broadway and Elsewhere” col
umn, will appear in this space
as guest columnist. Winchell’s
column will be resumed on his
return in September.
Follies of 1946—
The dogdays are here. ... It
shouldn’t happen to a dachshund.
. . . Winchell is on vacation, mean
ing he can get up at 7 p. m., in
stead of 6. . . . But the show must
go on. . . . So Lait will jiggle the
dots and juggle the dashes. ... It’s
fun. . . . Let’s get started!
Unreported incidents in Holly
wood, eye-witnessed by my bureau
of information, which never sleeps,
never drinks, seldom eats: Betty
Grable said she would not accom
pany Harry James east on his six-
week tour. Almost as soon as he got
off the train, she got on a plane
—for New York. . . . Before John
Perona flew to Paris, Mary Pick-
ford gave him a solid gold St. An
thony’s medal. . . . Bill Cagney
begged Howard Hughes to take him
up on that test flight and was turned
down. ... A movie company is
paying $2,000 to advertise its pic
ture-to-be, “The Egg and I,” Oi\ an
ostrich egg which is being hatched
at a farm which raises the big birds
in Pasadena. Thousands visit there
daily. The deal is that as each
party goes through, the mother os
trich is to be shooed off her future
offspring, so that gawkers can read
the copy. Thre are seven words
painted on the egg, which figures
out at a rate of $275.75 per word.
DELAY TACTICS PLANNED
Moscow’s delay tactics were by
no means accidental. They were
carefully planned, and with three
motives behind them:
A. The longer peace was dc ayed
the more time Russia got to nail
down its hold on the Balkan satel
lites — Hungary, Austria. Anti-Rus
sian factions had to be stamped out;
pro-Russian factions trained to
carry on. This could not be done
overnight.
B. The more uncertainty and un
rest occurred in the non-Soviet-oc
cupied countries — France, Bel
gium, the Netherlands — the great
er the likely growth of Communism.
C. Finally, Moscow did not want
the Red armies converging back to
Russia. There wasn’t food to feed
them, and their quick return risked
economic, political turnovers.
Thus, ever since V-J Day, Russia
has been the greatest obstacle to
early peace.
AMERICANS NOT BLAMELESS
In this peace conference, how
ever, not everything is black or
white. There is some gray shading
in between.
And in real fact, American di
plomacy during the early stages of
this greatest of all diplomatic en
deavors was just as guilty of sabo
taging the peace as the Russians—
perhaps more so. I say more so,
because we pride ourselves on be
ing more advanced, more alert,
more idealistic.
Yet actually, our diplomats
were just as woefully unpre
pared for peace as the army
and navy were for war at Pearl
Harbor. When it should have
been ready for the most impor
tant peace offensive in history
of the world, the state depart
ment was caught completely
napping.
Congress has spent several
months of intensive study to ascer
tain who was responsible for Pearl
Harbor; yet no one has lifted a
finger to probe the equally impor
tant disaster of our unpreparedness
for peace.
If senators probed the files oi Jie
state department, or even their own
files, significant facts would come to
light.
• • •
OUT-TRUMANS TRUMAN
Capital observers credit Sen. Jim
Mead of New York with a new in
vestigating verve which may out-
Truman Truman. . . . Significant
new venture in radio: 350 local
streetcar and traction companies
throughout the U. S. are inaugurat
ing a coast-to-coast radio pro
gram. Working under American
Transit association, they represent
23 billion annual streetcar riders.
. . . No men from the Dallas naval
air station were permitted to at
tend church the other Sunday. Offi
cially speaking, they were not
barred from attending church,
merely barred from taking a bus
into town. Since there was no chap
lain at the station, it amounted to
the same thing. Lieut. Comdr. Leif
Johnson issued the order.
• • •
The following acknowledg
ment it being received by those
who order from a large Man
hattan auto agency: “We are
enclosing herewith accepted
copy of your order, subject to
further delays due to conditions
beyond our control. Delivery
should be expected from 18 to
25 months.”
Department of internal revenue
has had an agent in Hollywood
checking into the extraordinary
number of refunds claimed and
gotten by high-salaried movie peo
ple. By virtue of an ancient law,
the government pays 6 per cent in
terest on sums paid and held, until
refunded. There is virtually no such
thing these days as a 6 per cent
investment, but anyone who wants
to miscount or forget to enter a just
and provable claim for allowance
can draw 6 per cent on such a sum,
plus retrieving it in full. During
1945, the United States paid out
$17,000,000 of such interest. In 1944,
the amount was $23,000,000. This
year, the interest will be only about
$4,000,000, as the government is
“hep” and rushing the kickbacks.
Most of this, of course, is legiti
mate. But some big moneymakers
have deliberately used it as a
racket.
Howard Hughes, the incredibly
rugged individualist, despite his ex
cruciating physical agony and his
multifarious mental misgivings, has
refused to take one sedative. . . .
Even the mildest sleeping-aids and
pa'in-relievers, given patients who
stub a toe, he has stubbornly turned
down. ... In fact, he refused to eat
or drink, fearing some palliative
may have been slipped in. . . . He
has lived entirely on orange juice
since his injuries, and demands that
it be squeezed in his presence, from
the fruit, uncut until he sees it
halved. . . . Physicians say they
never heard of such a case. . . . But
who ever heard of a Howard
Hughes before?
Father Andrew Cervini,
Jesuit missionary, who lost his
left foot while a prisoner in a
Jap camp, has just finished a
book of his expeHences. . . .
The publishers weighed several
titles. . . . Then Jim Harkins
came up with, “How about
‘One Foot in Heaven?’ ”
Jane Churchill, the girl-in-the-
middle of the Tommy Dorsey-Jon
Hall imbroglio, dyed her hair red
and is in New York, trying to get
a show job. . . . John Gart, the
musical director, tells of a young
male bit-player in Hollywoood, as
signed to escort a famous film
beaut to a premiere. Next day he
grumbled because it was such a
terrible picture, he could hardly
concentrate on it. . . . “This Is
Your FBI,” official air program,
reveals: “America’s annual crime
bill is 17 billion dollars; its total
education bill—from kindergartens
through colleges—is less than four
billion dollars.”
CAPITAL CHAFF
Assistant Secretary of State Bill
Benton leaves soon on a good-will
tour of Latin America. . . . U. S.
broadcasters over 10 transmitters
to Soviet Russia now are giving
the common people of Russia the
truth about the news. . . . Maxim
Litvinov was considered for Rus
sian ambassador to Argentina.
However, Stalin decided Litvinov’s
appointment would arouse Ameri
can suspicions. . . . Jim Newman,
who piloted the McMahon bill in
congress, resigns soon.
Lt. Col. Gregory (“Pappy”) Boy-
ington has written his own story
of his life and adventures, military,
matrimonial and miscellaneous,
and the script probably will be sold
to a wealthy Californian who likes
to dabble and gamble. . . . The
deal calls for book publication, to
be followed by a film based there
on. . . . Bill Cagney is interested
in that, and his brother, Jimmy,
may play the happy-go-lucky hero.
. . . Pappy isn’t temperamental,
tells all, ducks nothing, personal or
professional.
NEW ARIZONA GHOST TOWN . . . Photo shows town of Jerome, Ariz.,
founded on the sloping sides of the mountain from which rich ore was
taken over a period of more than 60 years of mining, leaving the town
dry from '~s. The site produced more than $600,000,000 in copper,
silver and ^old and will be abandoned next year. Businessmen plan to
develop the area as a tourist center with dude ranches, resorts and
private schools, so it will not be a ghost city.
REPRESENTATIVES AT POLICY CONFERENCE . . . Three mem
bers of the National league ball clubs, left to right, Marty Marion, St.
Louis; Dixie Walker, Brooklyn, and Bill Herman, Boston, who will
represent players at policy meet to discuss reforms and adjustments,
including pensions and expenses, pay and other contract provisions.
The movement was started following attempts to unionize ball players
and do away with some objectionable practices.
ONE YEAR AFTER ATOMIC BLAST . . . Here is a view of the city of
Hiroshima, Japan, a year after the cosmic blast that shook the world
was released by U. S. air forces. Little attempt has been made at re
construction due to lack of building material. During the cleaning up,
hundreds of bodies were recovered from the debris. It is estimated
that between 6,000 and 10,000 corpses still li? jmder the ruins of the city.
IDEAL CHICKEN OF TOMORROW . . . America’s chickens will be
bigger, consumers will eat more of them because of their tastier quali
ties, if poultry scientists showed at baby chick convention, St. Louis,
have their way. Shown with painting of ideal chicken are Dr. R. George
Jaap, Oklahoma A & M college; Dr. S. S. Munro, Washington Coopera
tive Chick association, and Dr. T. C. Byerly, U. S. department of agri
culture, Washington.
G. Nourse, vice president of the
Brookings institute, Washington,
who has been named by President
Truman to be chairman of newly
created economic advisory coun
cil for fnll employment.
TEDDY’S GREAT - GRAND
DAUGHTER . . . Mrs. Alexander
McCormick Sturm, Westport,
Conn., grand-daughter of the late
President “Teddy” Roosevelt, is
shown with her daughter, Joanna.
Mrs. Sturm is the daughter
Alice Roosevelt.
WHAT’S YOUR NAME . . . Calm
ly munching on a sandwich in a
Philadelphia police station, where
he is comfortably ensconsed, this
five-year-old lad answered all
questions by asking others. He
wanted to know all, but told noth
ing. At latest report the police
still were trying to determine his
name.
CAN HE SWIM ... Can a pig
swim? Some authorities say they
are excellent swimmers, some
say no. It is maintained by some
that the natural fat keeps them
afloat, others insist they would
sink from their own weight. Pic
tured hale and hearty is Pig 311,
who was said to have been found
swimming after the Jap cruiser
Sakawa went down following first
Bikini atom bomb test.
FIRST AUSTRALIAN AMBASSA
DOR . . . First United States am
bassador to Australia, Robert
Butler, is shown as he took oath
of office. Former representatives
all held the rank of ministers to
Australia.
Union Baseball Up Again
The fight to unionize baseball has
flared up again, with the Pennsyl
vania state labor board accepting
jurisdiction in the Pittsburgh base
ball club’s case. Casey at the bat
may yet be there with a union card
as well.
•
Unionized baseball intrigues us.
We are tired of the old patterns in
the national game and yearn for
such items in the box scores as “out
at first under checkoff rule” . . .
“left on bases; stockholders, 7; di
rectors, 5” . . . “forced at third by
jurisdictional dispute.”
♦
The game has become too
smooth and peaceful. Gone are the
old days of brawls and fireworks
every inning. What may be needed
are some flashy interludes where
the pickets overturn some automo
biles in the outfield, where a game
is called on account of tear gas or
where some Petrilio of the national
fame orders a team to use four
players at first, and put on extra
shortstops at night games.
*
It seems to us that modem ball
players lack the martial spirit.
There is too much friendliness and
goodwill on the field. Can you
imagine Phil Murray taking a
third called strike with nothing
more than a scornful look?
•
It seems to us evident that the
modern baseball player needs pro
tection. He is too prone to taking
a third strike philosophically in
stead of blaming it on the front of
fice. He is too inclined to lose a pen
nant with a shrug of the shoulders
instead of with a protest that he
is being crucified by manage
ment.
Union rules will level off re
wards. There is no reason why a
man who can sock homers every
day should get more than a fellow
worker who does his best but can’t
poke one out of the infield. Hits
and runs are not the proper meas
ure for rewards. All men are cre
ated equal, and beyond that it is
just luck, rhythm and box scores.
Robert Murphy, who is doing the
union organizing in baseball, is a
Harvard man. This puts Harvard
one up on Yale and Princeton,
but we hear Yale may soon demand
a 40-hour week for golfers, while
Princeton will ask for the four-day
week for horseshoe pitchers.
*
Bhtter up! And, remember, ^
fair division of the profits or else.
* * *
OMIGOSH!
“Take It Easy. Avoid Accidents”
has been formally adopted as a
slogan in the war against auto ac
cidents, and stickers are being is
sued to be pasted on windshields.
All of which makes us giggle. “Take
It Easy” lacks punch, but even if
it were a good slogan a windshield
sticker would be about as effective
against auto accidents as a harp
solo against the atomic bomb.
* v
Death and slaughter rule the road—
At laws the goofy drivers snicker;
So up and at the killers all—
We’ll fight ’em with a windshield
sticker!
They beat the green, defy the red;
They run folks down with yells of
“Quicker!” . . .
So let us act decisively—
The cry is “Forward . . . with a
sticker!”
• • •
Elmer Twitchell yearns for an
easing of the meat situation so a
fellow can stop fighting the dog over
a bone.
• • •
YE OLDE SWAP SHOPPE
“Will swap cameras, jewelry,
microscope, outboard motor, canoe,
sail, rod and reel and baseball
gloves for a bassoon or what have
you? 911” — Yankee magazine.
*
It looks like the complete revolt
against the outdoor life.
« « »
Hi—What’s become of the old-
fashioned farmer who, when you
asked about the weather, would
sniff the breeze and give you a
highly professional answer, often
right? A few days ago I asked
one how things were going to
break and he said, “Dunno; I
ain’t heard the radio yet today.”
Irving Kolodin.
“Willark Trout has joined staff of
‘Sports Afield.’ ” — Magazine and
news item.
•
“That’s landin’ em,” remarks
Grid Adams.
• • •
VANSHMG AMERICANISMS
“Leave the waiter 10 per cent, dear."
• • *
“1 had a haircut, shave and massage
Here’s a dollar; keep the change"
• » »
“Any shirt in this window fl.“
• • •
"Hotel rooms #1.50 up.”
• * •
Ima Dodo says, “I’d love to go
to Moscow and see the Gremlin.”
• • •
There is one thing about not get
ting a new auto: You are not mysti
fied by new rattles.
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