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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. COOLS TOWARD PRESS WASHINGTON.—Newsmen prob ably won’t write about it, but Presi dent Truman’s Bermuda trip climaxed a significant change in his relations with the press. The old days of intimate, chummy talks now have vanished! Truman was cool, aloof, even chilly. And for good reason. Some of his supposedly most trusted news friends let him down. Off-the-record talks which the President thought were going only to half a dozen people leaked out and became the property of millions. Most disillusioning of these was a reunion of the “Hard Rock Club,” a group of a dozen newsmen who cov ered Truman’s vice presidential campaign when he was ignored by the rest of the country. Several weeks ago the President invited the boys to an evening on the yacht Williamsburg. They played poker, drank bourbon and generally let their hair down— especially the President. He was indiscreet enought to tell all about the Russian situation and what he thought of Chester Bowles — then OPA administrator. His remarks were not com plimentary. Truman minced no words about either Bowles or the Russians and it was hard to say which he liked least. Al though he favored OPA, he thought the fight to win its ap proval from congress would not have been so hard if Bowles had not issued so much prop aganda and talked so much. Shortly afterward, Time maga zine published a brief account of this very confidential evening. Blame for the leak fell upon Ed ward Lockett, Time staffer who is a member of the Hard Rock club. Truman was so indignant that for a long time he would not speak to Lockett. Other club members vir tually ostracized him. Later, the Chicago Sun’s Tom Reynolds, no member of the club, wrote another account of the Presi dent’s off-the-record remarks on that memorable evening. Natural ly, Truman’s views got back to the Russians. This made him even more vexed—and worried. So from now on the chief execu tive has decided not to be the naive and trusting gentleman he once was with his supposed close friends of the press. During the Bermuda trip, for instance, he gave press secre tary Charlie Ross instructions that newsmen were to ask no questions which did not pertain directly to the trip. And when one man violated this rule to ask why Rhode Island’s Sen. Theodore Green was not in vited aboard the Williamsburg, the President nearly snapped his head off. * * • LEARN OF SPEECH Final decision for the Jimmy Byrnes speech on Germany was imparted to high officials in Wash ington about 12 days before he made it. The suspicion is that the Russians learned about it at the same time. Byrnes phoned President Tru man about 12 days in advance, told him the Russians were on the ram page, that nothing could be done to satisfy them. He therefore proposed that the United States and Great Britain try to set up a German gov ernment which could be won over to democracy and which could serve as a bulwark against Rus sia. President Truman, who has come to put complete trust in Byrnes’ judgment, agreed. Whether or not the Russians tapped the trans-Atlantic phone, or whether they had other ways of knowing what was going on is anyone’s guess. Maybe it was just coincidence. Anyway, it was shortly after this that Foreign Minister Molotov made his sudden, mystery flight to Moscow. Simultaneously, inspired stories began to leak out of Poland that Russia would take Silesia away from Poland and give it to Ger many. Obviously this was German bait to counteract the offer Byrnes was going to make to Germany. If Russia goes ahead with this policy of “The Soviet giveth and the Soviet taketh away,” it will cause the toughest showdown so far experienced between Moscow and Washington. The categorical Byrnes-Truman position is that the Soviet can neither “giveth nor taketh” with out the consent of its allies, that Germany’s boundaries are to be de cided only at the final peace treaty —which Russia so far has refused to call. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF Donald McGregor of Houston, Tex., will step up to replace able Jim McGrenery as assistant to the attorney general when the latter be comes a federal judge in Philadel phia. . . . One hundred and twenty- six G.I.s will be ousted from the Hollywood canteen if the Los An geles zoning commission has its way. They say the canteen is a rooming-house. So what! . . . Chief Justice Vinson has spent the sum mer reading last term’s Supreme court opinions. ELMER TWITCHELL ON THE BEER OUTLOOK “Well,” said Elmer Twitchell, “1 see where it is announced that on account of the government’s 15 pel cent increase in grain allotments to the breweries the beer shortage will be over in a few months but 1 am still betting that there is a big J battle ahead before the old time j glass of beer comes back. The < demi tasse glass of suds has be- | come routine stuff and it would break a lot of barkeepers’ hearts if they ever had to serve the stuff in a man-sized goblet again. • “I admit there has been a real beer shortage and that with *osts of operation and high taxes the schooner of beer and the growler had to go. Bnt my point is that once the size of anything sold to the consumer is cut down it rarely comes back. And I know of nothing ! that was cat down so much as the size of the beer glass since Pearl Harbor. • “In my opinion the barkeepers could have served a much larger glass at the price they were getting and not have gone to the poor- house. But be that as it may, what America needs as much as any thing else is a good five-cent glass of beer. Or maybe I should say a good glass of beer, even if it costs 10 cents. • “There will be no rest, peace and contentment in this country until a man can get a decent glass of suds at a decent price. You can talk about all the things that have caused unhappiness, trouble and low morale here, but among the top causes is the custom of serving beer through an eye-dropper and getting as high as 20 cents a glass for it. • “This nation knew its most con tented and peaceful years when beer was passed out in a glass that was hard to lift and when, all over town, there were signs ‘The Biggest Glass of Beer in Town for a Nickel.’ * “There was little of ffhe brother- hate-brother stuff, every man didn’t suspect every other man’s motives, the soap-box orator on the green was almost talking to himself, the country wasn’t echoing to the cries of ‘We’re being exploited,’ and war was about the last thing anybody had in mind. • “Bring back the five-cent glass of beer and the free lunch and civilization will take on its old-time appearance!” Elmer was quite excited. “It's something the U. N. should put on its agenda,” he declared. “Let it drop half the stuff it is studying as the cause of war and just study the beer situation. Let it drop every thing else, and come out for the re turn of the free lunch! Even Russia will be appeased!” • • • THE SOARING ORANGE The ceilings have been taken off all fruits except oranges and bananas, lest the prices run away. Personally, we can’t remember back to a time when the price of an orange didn’t seem to be not only to be running away but going for the record. * • • Secretary Anderson, we note, also has suspended ceilings on “edible tree nuts.” That simplifies our food problem for the fall and win ter, provided we can get a priority on ladders and shoe-spikes. * • • ALL OKAY (“Mr. Porter has agreed to decontrol oats . . .”—(Fall Street Journal.) My oats are wild And decontrolled. Vitamins added And perfectly rolled. C. H. • • • OLD SONGS RESUNG Drink to me only with thine eyes And you won’t have to join Those anonymous guys. * Now sleeps the crimson petal, Now the white, But garbage cans keep me Awake all night. * O! Give me a home— Period. Wallace Cox. • • • Henry Ford is still an optimist. He con tinues to believe that the day will come 1 in America when people will buy auto mobiles freely. • • • “Family Fights for Mussolini Es tate.”—Headline. * It was cut off, it seems, without a balcony. f • • Barbers, everywhere, are raising prices. But at this stage there are some people in America whose rich relatives will stake them to a haircut and shave once in a while. • • • RURAL OBSERVATION Country life is often synonymous With alcoholics not so anonymous. ENLIVENING CHILEAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION . . . Here is shown one of the numerous fights that marked election day in Chile, when the people went to the poUs to vote for a new president. Com munists and Socialists were rivals in the brawls. The tackier here seems to be trying to haul his opponent into the ditch. Gabriel Gonzalez Videla received a majority of votes over his opponent Edwardo Coke. ITALIAN ORGAN GRINDER LURES CROWDS . . . Banned from the sidewalks of New York by edict of former Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, now the boss of UNRRA, the hurdy gurdy survives in Italy, and this particular street organ in Palermo, Sicily, was used to attract crowds when the American representative of UNRRA wanted to announce the distribution of relief supplies. FARM RELIEF HORSES MENACED . . . These government-owned horses bought by the U. S. department of agriculture for European farm relief, faced possible death because they were unable to be trans ported to their destination as a result of strike-delayed shipping schedules. UNRRA officials say that a death toll of over 10 per cent resulted in shipping yards at Savannah, Ga., due to pneumpnia and lack of nourishment. The horses were from the West and could not stand mu^. QUADRUPLETS BORN TO FRENCH MOTHER . . . Four nurses feed the quadruplet daughters born to Mrs. Margaret Walza, 38, of Paris, France. The four little girls, who are thriving in an incubator, are Jacqueline, Danielle, Anne-Marie and Nicole. With food and cloth ing scarce, Mrs. Walza will have a problem to provide for her new fam ily. Many offers of ration cards and food have been placed at the disposal of the new quadruplet girls. TOMATOES ARE HIGHER . . . Louis “Corky” Grimes, 2, Chicago, knows that tomatoes are p enty high in the local stores, but finds that they come even higher in hia neighbor’s yard. This giant to mato plant in the yard of Frank Grimaldi, is 8V2 feet tall, believed to be a record. Doc Blanchard HEADS V.F.W. . . . Louis E. Starr, Portland, Ore., newly-elect ed national commander-in-chief of Veterans of Foreign Wars, which held its 1946 convention at Bos ton. The convention favored ex tension of draft and universal training. ID ED BLAIK’S brilliant Army football team is on the march again. With a record of 18 consecu. tive victories picked up in 1944 and 1945, Army’s first team should carry it through another big year, even ifflts spotless record so far happens to be dented before De cember arrives. At least no one should expect any further wild romp- izig over such teams as Notre Dame, Michigan, Duke, Cornell, Co lumbia, Pennsylvania and Navy. “Our first line strength is ex tremely good,” Red Blaik tells you, as he looks over his eager talent— talent that includes such backfield stars as Blanchard, Davis, McWil liams and Tucker. “But we are no longer three deep. We are no long er even two deep. In addition to our starting backfield, which will match any in football, we have Fu- son at center, Poole and Foldberg at ends and two good guards.” As good as Blanchard and Davis are, they are not as likely to steal the entire show again from such fine backs as young Tucker at quarter and Shorty McWilliams at halfback. A look at the complete records in McWilliams’ case proved the Army was entirely blameless in connec tion with Coach McKean’s charges from Mississippi State. It was Mc Williams, backed up by his fam ily, who wanted to con e to West Point. McWilliams made applica tion while still in high school, be fore he ever entered Mississippi State. Letter after letter has proved this. The trouble started on his home furlough when rather luscious finan cial inducements, apart from any Mississippi State official connection, were made. And don’t believe this was the only large financial induce ment offered a college football play* er this year. A Smart Choice McWilliams elected to stay at West Point of his own free will. It was a smart move in his case, as too many leaving service football have come under the gossip of duck ing the draft, whether or not the charges are true. I might add that his opponents will find the able entry from Mississippi is one of the best backs in football. He is a great kid with unusual ability. And if there is a better quarterback in college football than young Tucker, or a much better passer, I’d like to have his name. This year of 1946 may be the last season in some time that Army c m field any winning team. For one reason, too many colleges are paying good football players money that West Point and Annapo lis won’t and have no desire to meet. For another reason, too many young men have no yearn ing to gdt up at 5 a.\m. and work 16 hours a day. It is my belief that college pay- checks are going to lead to a na tional scandal unless there is a sud den check. The fight for young stars, plus inducements offered, al ready have broken all past records. Athletic scholarships and jobs that can take a young fellow through college, are O. K. But not the substantial paycheck on the side, usually handled by keyed-up alumni. Back again to this 1946 Army squad— In my opinion Army will have the best backfield in college football— Blanchard, Davis, McWilliams and Tucker—power, speed, smartness and spirit. Once again, keep a more open eye on McWilliams and Tucker. Tough Year for Army “This is the hardest year we’ve known since 1943,” Blaik says. “Frank Lahey at Notre Dame is three deep with a flock of veterans who range back to his great team of 1943. Many have picked Notre Dame as the best team in football. It may be Pennsylvania will give us all the trouble we can handle. Navy had some hard luck in losing men, but Tom Hamilton will do a fine job with a squad that will give anyone a battle. “Few men 01 our squad,” Red added, “have »ver known defeat. They love football. They are all fine officer material, and that is what West Point is supposed to turn out. We can be beaten and we may be beaten, but unless we are handicapped by injuries to key men, it will take quite a team to turn the trick.” At this point. Athletic Director Colonel Biff Jones was gazing mood ily into the autumn sky. “I was just thinking,” be said, “that if we had enough parking space for the human body, we could play to at least 300,000 in the Michi gan game, and over 800,000 in the Notre Dame and Navy games. We might do 300,000 in the Pennsylvania game. “You. don’t think so? Come along to my office and see the ticket re quests already piled up. There were ever 110,000 applications for the Michigan game early in June. Bedside Tables Of Orange Crates npHIS crisp green and white bed- -*■ room is proof that it is not what you use but how you use it that counts. Orange crates for in stance. The problem always is how to cover all of the rough wood inside and out if you want to use them for cupboards or tables. Here it Is done with oilcloth and ging ham with muslin frills all to harmonize with the bedspread and lamps. * • • More complete directions for covering the crates may be found in BOOK 7. Di rections for making monograms from straight strips of fabric such as the one on this bedspread are in BOOK 9. Books are 15 cents each postpaid. Write direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills, N. Y. Drawer U Enclose 15 cents tor each book. Name Address . .. . 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III! II. In. JIHIIIlim I, FtHIMI Like High Temperature Peperomia, which have thick, waxy leaves and seldom grow over 12 inches tall, thrive well where temperatures are high and the Light poor. Philodendrons also will grow 1c the same conditions. Production Handicap Many surveys of industrial work ers have indicated that about one out of five has shortcomings in vis ion sufficient to be a handicap to efficient production.