Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Ted Williams CO FAR 1946 has been an amazing ^ season in two ways—for its bril liancy and its failures. For its Mex ico—and the good that Mexico has done for ball play ers everywhere. The Red Sox, Joe Louis and Assault have taken full charge of the spot light side. They have been the out- s t a n d i ng cham pions. Golf has no entry with Ben Ho gan and Byron Nel son, the two lead ing money winners, trailing Lloyd Mangrum in the U. S. Open. We seem to have the best tennis players but a Frenchman is still the Wimbledon winner. What has happened in the first year after the war? Except in the way of record attendances and gen eral enthusiasm, the aftermath of World War II hasn’t even ap proached the aftermath of World War I. Not in the way of competi tive class. Can you name competitors today who have anything like the com bined class of Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Bill Til- den, Tommy Hitchcock, Rogers Hornsby, Earl Sande, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Red Grange, Man o’ War? We have Joe Louis. But Joe Louis has been the world’s heavyweight champion for over nine years. • We have Ted Williams, but Ted Williams hit over .400 before the last war. He was a great ball play er, or at least a great hitter, before World War II ever developed a slight fever. Sammy Baugh and Sid Luckman go well back before World War H. The brief postwar period has de veloped a wild stampede to the box office. But very little beyond that. In baseball the batting stars today •include Ted Williams, Dixie Walk er, Dom DiMaggio, Vernon, Musial, Hank Greenberg and a few more. But these are veterans—most of them. Hal Newhouser of the Tigers and Rocky Graziano have been the two leading stars since 1941. Against this list I haven’t the heart to give you the names of those who have faded, folded up or slipped badly—who, returning front army and navy assignments, fell far behind. The outstanding per formance of 1946—so far—has been the Red Sox, plus Ted Williams. Plus the Dodgers’ fine showing against heavy odds, player for play er. The second nomination is Joe Louis—who against Billy Conn had almost no opposition. Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson are the two major money winners in golf—but Lloyd Mangrum is Open champion and Herman Keiser is the Master’s winner. And Sammy Snead is British champion. It is all very much confused, very badly tangled up. Most Class in Football In my opinion the feature part of 1946 won’t belong to baseball, racing, boxing, basketball, track, golf or tennis. It will belong to football. This applies to both the college teams and the pros. This first applies to the quality of com petition. There will be far more class to football than any other postwar sport can even approach. I understand that over 100,000 ap plications had been made for the Army-Michigan game back in June. There will be over 200,000 ticket applications for this contest at Ann Arbor. Applications for the Army-Notre Dame game will pass the 300,000 mark before September. Army-Notre Dame and Army-Navy together could leave the 500,000 mark behind — if there was only space enough. The Navy-Georgia Tech game in Atlanta already has two times the seat applications that Atlanta can handle. Notre Dame, Army, Navy and Michigan will be a triple sell out for almost every contest. The same thing will happen to South ern California and UCLA on the west coast. Also to St. Mary’s and others. But I doubt that Notre Dame will have the team Frank Leahy had in 1543 or that Army will have the team Red Blaik had in 1944 or 1945. The talent hasn’t improved, but the crowd interest has. Veter ans coming from army and navy service have proved nothing. Some have been better — others have taken a big dip. This has been true in baseball — and it will be just as true in college and pro football. There will be stars from other years who will shine — and there will be stars from other years who will be flops. There will be a professional foot ball entanglement that will leave you gasping—and more than a few pocketbooks flatter than a thin plank. In looking on ahead you will also see a big revival, in ten nis interest — and one of ’’the hot test amateur golf championships any galloping member of the Thun dering Herd has ever known. Bud Ward — Frank Stranahan — Cary Middlecoff — golfers good enough to beat the Nelsons and the Hogans in major tests, plus young stars moving up. This has been a rather dizzy season so far, up and down. Released by Western Newspaper Union. , REGIMENTATION BEARS MOST HEAVILY ON ‘LITTLE MAN’ WHEN THE GOVERNMENT starts regimentation, the making of regulations for the individual, it is more often the little fellow, rath er than the big and powerful man, who is most seriously affected. When the southern plants were pro ducing more cotton than could be profitably marketed, the agricultur al department issued an edict pro viding that a federal license must be secured before a cotton sale could be made, and fixing a mini mum amount for which a license would be issued. A tenant farmer in Alabama had raised as his total crop one bale of cotton. He could not sell it because he could not get a license for so small an amount. His local paper carried the name and address of William Bruckart, a Washington corre spondent. As a last resort, the ten ant farmer wrote to Bruckart, ask ing that he intercede with the de partment. It was a pathetic letter, telling of a sick wife and no assets with which to provide comforts for her; of his year of effort being rep resented in that one bale of cotton. Bruckart took the letter to the then secretary of agriculture, but the secretary told him the rules pro hibited the issuing of a sales license for so small an amount. Bruckart insisted that the man who made the rules could, if he wished, modi fy them or make an exception. He told the secretary that unless that small cotton farmer was permitted to sell his one bale crop that he, Bruckart, would have that letter printed in the more than 2,000 coun try newspapers for which he was writing. The license was issued. The secretary could not afford to take a chance on arousing public senti ment against his brand of regimen, tation. • • • THE FOUNDATION for that in flation we are fearing is not the spiralling wage and price scales. They are but a visible evidence of the approach of the monster that has been created by our monetary system. Constantly increasing, and constantly depreciating., printing press money is the real foundation, just as it has been in the past in our own and other countries. We had it following the Civil war days. Europe had it following World War I, and the disease in all cases was cheap printing press money for which there was no standard of value. It was not that wages and prices went up. It was that the amount of commodities the dollar would buy went down because the dollar had no standard of value. The more we have of these decreas ing value dollars the higher will go wages and prices. We have far too many of these cheap printing press dollars now. In 1933 all the money in cir culation in this country amount ed to less than 6 billion dollars. By 1945 the amount had jumped to 29 billion dollars. In 1933 the per capita money in circulation was $42 for each one of us. In 1945 it was $240. The increase was in federal reserve notes, and they are purely and simply printing press money. In 1933 the amount of such notes was 3 billion dollars. By 1945 that had grown to 26 billion. Those 26 billion are only as good as the government’s prom ise to pay. So long as the gov ernment’s operations are in the red that promise to pay grows weaker day by day. A stop to deficit finrncing, a reduction in outstanding government obliga tions, will make that promise to pay more substantial, and help to avoid inflation by retiring some of our printing press money. * * * CRAVING FOR SPEED IS AMERICAN VICE EACH SUNDAY a car passes my house at a speed of better than 60 miles in a 25-mile zone. I know the car, know where that driver is headed for, and what he will do when he reaches his destination. He is going to the beach, 12 miles away. At the speed when passing my home, he would reach the ocean sands in 12 minutes. For two or three hours he will sit on the sand, and look out over the Pacific, then he will return at the same high speed. I wonder why the hurry; why endanger himself, his car and the lives of others in order to save five or six minutes. Undoubtedly the reason is only that insane crav ing for speed that afflicts so many of us in our drive through life. It may end for that driver, as it has ended for others, in a prison cell. THERE IS TOO much subter fuge involved in government spending; too much covering up of department and bureau costs. Even members of congress do not know the expenditures of any one of the bureaus that regi ment us. The subsidies paid by OPA are fair examples. No ap propriation was made for them. The money is borrowed from RFC and when RFC runs out of cash congress is asked to in crease its capitalization. By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Feature*. New Jersey, the Garden State, is more than the 90-mile trip from New York to Philadelphia. It never can be appreciated by hurrying through it, or by dashing over to “the Jersey side” for a few hours. But the vacationist and the sportsman, as well as the farmer, laborer, industrialist or home- seeker, will find North Jersey, South Jersey, and all points in between, well worth the time it takes for a visit and inspection. New Jersey is an empire in its own right, the “Mighty Atom” among the states of this nation. It has great industrial areas where “Made in New Jersey” is stamped on thousands of products. Its agricul ture is highly developed. New Jersey provides homes for its own workers as well as for tens of thousands who have a business address in New York City or Philadelphia. It broad highways, each a scenic and historic route, offer motor trips along the coastline of the great Atlantic, or through the hills and valleys, forests and farms, orchards and parks of the interior. In New Jersey, one may have the bustle of the city, the vibrant life of seashore resorts, or the quietude of quaint, forgotten towns where time has stood still. There is Bordentown, where the 19th century still lives on every street, as well as small villages resting solidly in the pockets of northern mountains. There is much for every American to re-live in New Jersey, where Gen. George Washington spent a fourth of his career as commander-in-chief during the Revolu tionary war. Its scores of historic shrines are rich in early American lore and legend. Take Cue From Indians. When the early settlers arrived in New Jersey from Europe, they found the Indians growing corn, pumpkins, gourds, tobacco anu beans. Taking a lesson from the na tives, the settlers cleared the land, imported seed and livestock from across the sea, and developed an impor tant agricultural colony. It became “the Garden State” of the colonies. Today, New Jersey has prosperous small farms and high types of agricultural special zation. Dairy and poul try farms abound. Small grains ar d field crops are grown in most parts of the state. Most of New Jersey’s farm prod ucts are consumed by its own cities, or by Philadelphia and New York. It is but a step from farm to market. Alexander Hamilton selected the^ - site of Paterson for an industrial city. Early New Jersey scientists and iflventors accelerated the trend toward industrialization—John Despite three centuries of de velopment, about 46 per cent of New Jersey still is in forest! Of great significance are the VACATION PARADISE . . . Nature has provided abundant attractions to beckon vacationists to New Jersey. Sparkling lakes and moun- Udns lure many to the inland areas while the thrill of a seashore vacation draws countless others to the New Jersey coast, with its 120 miles of sandy beaches. Fitch and Col. John Stevens with their steamboats, and Seth Boy- den with malleable iron and patent leather—to be followed later by the genius of Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of Menlo Park. Today there are heavy industries at Newark, brick and terra cotta works around Perth Amboy, ship yards at Camden, ceramic plants at Trenton, woolen mills at Passaic, textile plants at Paterson, and many others in such cities as Eliz abeth, Bayonne and Jersey City. The state ranks first in smelting and re fining of copper, dyeing and finish ing of textiles, and ranks high in rubber goods production. It is sec ond in manufacture of silk, rayon and chemicals. New Jersey ranks sixth in che nation for value of man ufacturing. Few people regard New Jersey as a mineral state. However, in 1685 iron was mined in Monmouth coun ty, and this basic resource has been mined ever since. Zinc deposits at Franklin Furnace and Ogdensburg, Sussex county, are world famous. Trap rock, sandr f one, argillite granite, slate, marble, talc and con glomerate are quarried in New Jersey, and it has unlimited quanti ties of sand and gravel, lime, greensand marl and peat. oystermen and fishing captains of the Jersey coast, one of the world’s truly great fishing ^grounds. From Sandy Hook to Cape May, the coast provides every variety of bay, surf, ocean and deep-sea fishing. Dela ware bay, too, offers commercial fishing as well as casting a line for sport. Three Main Divisions. New Jersey might be called a peninsula since, with exception of the 50-mile northern boundary from the Hudson to the Delaware, it is entirely surrounded by water. It has three physical divisions. In the north is a mountainous, lake-stud ded region known as the Appalachi an Highlands. The central or Tri- assic section, with gently rolling hills, supports most of the state’s urban and industrial development. The large southern coastal plain has fruit orchards, market gardens, swamps, pine wastes and miles of beaches and shallow bays. All of New Jersey that touches the Atlantic ocean is famous for its seashore. Asbury Park is one of the best known of North Jersey coast resorts, with boardwalk and convention hall. Long Branch at tracted visitors from Philadelphia as early as 1750. Wide, safe and sandy beaches are plentiful along the southern coast of New Jersey. Atlantic City is known as “the playground of a na« tion.” Traditionally, New Jersey has been the home of many fa mous people. James Fenimore Cooper and Capt. James Law rence of “Don’t give np the ship" fame lived next door to each other in Burlington. Robert Louis Stevenson, when in America, lived at Manasquan. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamil ton fought their famous duel near Weehawken. George Washington v/rote his “Farewell Address” to the army in Berrien House at Rocky Hill. Grover Cleveland, twice U. S. President, was bom in New Jersey Woodrow Wilson was pres ident of Princeton university and governor of New Jersey before be coming President. Walt Whitman’s tomb is at Camden. Alexander Woollcott was bom in New Jersey. Others are Stephen Crane of “The Red Badge of Courage” and Joyce Kilmer, poet, who wrote “Trees.” Many contemporary New York au thors and artists live on the Jersey side. New Jersey is a great state— great in agriculture, in industry, in Clean Milk Comes From Modern Barns Well Constructed and Clean Mangers Urged Concrete dairy bam floors and mangers will prove a big help in producing milk of high quality as well as reducing the amount of la bor required. The U. S. public health service milk code provides that no dairy barn meets the require ments for producing high grade milk without a long-lasting, non-ab sorbent, sanitary floor such as con crete. Forms are made of one-inch lum ber, well braced. Concrete for the floor is made with five gallons of wa ter per sack of Portland cement when sand and gravel are moist. The mix should be plastic and work able, but not too sloppy nor too stiff. Bara floors and mangers prop erly designed and built help as sure clean, comfortable, healthy stock—high quality milk. Build the manger curb first; then the litter alley and the manger. Leave holes in concrete for future stall equipment if not now avail able. Then build stall platforms. These will vary according to the kind of cattle. The mangers should be finished with a steel trowel. The concrete should be damp cured for at least five days before using. Know Your Breed Guernsey By W. J. DRYDEN Valley wood Valiant Hero 235690, a grand champion Guernsey bull of registered performance. The Guernsey breed originated on the small English channel island of Guqrnsey. The breed was brought to America as early as 1818. The Guernsey is of medium size with fawn and white clearly deline ated markings. Summary of 98,297 advanced registered records show the average production was 10,151 pounds of milk and 498 pounds butterfat. Some 53 animals pro duced over 1,000 pounds butterfat and 14 have lifetime records of over 100,000 pounds of milk. Feeding Molasses to Salt Grass for Cows WALTER E. EDGE Governor of New Jersey. education, in historical lore, in pres- ent opportunity, in hope for a con tinued greatness in the future. Its incomparable seacoast, its beautiful lake and mountain country, its ex tensive fishing and hunting grounds, as well as the innate hospitality of its people—two out of five of whom own their homes—furnish proof enough of the greatness of New Jer sey, the “Mighty Atom” among the states of this nation. Good stuff, the salt grass, Here- fords say after they’ve sampled it. Photo—Food Mach. Corp. Salt grass which cattle ordinarily will not eat may be covered with a solution of one-third water and two-thirds molasses. Fewer spray may be used economically with a 20-foot width. Cattle fatten' on the molasses and water combined with the grass, pro duce bigger and tastier steaks. Oth er similar uses may be devised for use of power sprays to meet individ* ual requirements. Typical New Jersey Mountain Scene Weed Killer Shortens Farm Crop Maturity Experiments in Hawaii and Puer to Rico with 2,4-D—miracle weed killer, indicate that it may control the growth of pineapples two years instead of three. It is generally be lieved that further experiments will prove that 2,4-D will shorten the time of maturity for many crops in America. Earlier maturing toma toes, melons, corn, yams, potatoes end other farm crops are among those being experimented with. Funny Little Bears For the Nursery C WINGIN’ on a star and sliding ^ down the moon . . . that’s what our personality-plus bears do. Usa for crib, carriage covers, nursery linens. • • • They're so fat and funny . . . you'B enjoy the embroidery In beginner-stitches. 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