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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
SOAP SHORTAGE CONTINUES
WASHINGTON. — Most important
question facing every housewife on
Monday morning—soap—probably
won’t be solved for some time. This
is bad news, but it’s hard to get
around.
There are two main reasons
for the soap shortage, one of them
unavoidable, the other avoidable—
provided the government Had been
tough enough with industry.
First reason is the loss of coco
nut trees in the Philippines and the
war-torn South Pacific. Whereas
coconut oil and copra used to be a
glut on the market, many trees
were destroyed in the Philippines,
in the Solomons and wherever fight
ing occurred. There are still plenty
«f trees left, but it takes time to get
neglected plantations going again
and General MacArthur at first re
fused to let Philippine civilians re
turn to some of these areas.
The other reason — which
could have been avoided —is
that the soap manufacturers
diverted a larger percentage of
their materials to higher-priced
toilette soaps. That is why some
housewives actually are using
perfumed soap to do their wash
ing.
The situation in soap is similar
to that in the men’s clothing indus
try, where civilian prod option ad
ministration permitted clothing
manufacturers to divert material to
higher-priced women’s wear in
stead of men’s clothing. Profits in
the women’s trade were larger.
Likewise, profits are larger in the
expensive perfumed soap trade.
Government authorities have done
little to divert soap materials to
the cheaper brands used for kitch
en and laundry. Of course, the min
ute the government tries to inter
vene, it gets accused of interfer
ing with private enterprise, so some
of Mr. Truman’s aides are getting
a little chary.
Another factor in the soap short
age is that housewives have
grown careless about saving kitch
en fats. During the war housewives
were conserving fats at the rate of
200 million pounds a year, a great
part of which went into soaps.
However, with no patriotic im
pulses to continue the practice,
much fat is now going down the
drain or into the garbage can.
Another difficulty has been lack
of inter-island boats for moving
coconut cargoes to Manila. The
U. S. navy recently stepped in and
allocated several hundred small
landing boats for this purpose, but
even so the commerce depart
ment estimates the laundry-soap
shortage will continue until the end
of the year.
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ED PAULEY’S LATEST REPORT
When Ed Pauley gets away from
oil and politics he assumes much
greater stature. As a result of his
travels in Europe, he has just
written a private report to Presi
dent Truman on the question of Jew
ish refugees which makes those who
have read it understand not only
the plight of the refugees but the
sensitiveness of the Jewish peo
ple.
Here are some of the most strik
ing portions of the Pauley report:
“The more one hears about the
wanton murder of the Jews by the
Germans, the more one wonders
why this great crime has not
shocked the conscience of mankind
more than it has.
“Newspapers are accnstomed
to speak of mass murder when
a half-dozen victims are shot
down by a gunman. What shall
we call it when whole towns
die and the slaughtered are
numbered by millions?
“When I first heard that the Ger
mans had used the flesh of these
victims to make soap, I did not
believe it. There are a number of
exhibits at the trial from the ‘soap
factory.’
“The clearer a picture one gets
of what happened to over five mil
lion Jewish men, women and chil
dren in Europe during the last sev
eral years, the clearer an under
standing one develops of thg tragic
situation of the surviving Jews in
Europe.
“We cannot bring five million
dead bodies to life — we cannot
breathe the breath of life into the
pits of human ash and human bones
—we cannot even find the little
bodies that once wore the thousands
of baby shoes found amongst piles
of shoes of every size. But we can
take action—and take it now—to
make certain that the over one
million European Jews who sur
vived the Nazi terror are given a
chance to live. The time for talk
has long passed—the time for action
is long-overdue.”
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
It hasn’t been publicized but the
American Legion’s “Americanism”
program proved a complete flop.
Alvin Owsley, Americanism chair
man, called off the deal when Texas
legionnaires could raise only $32,000
of a $450,000 quota. The program
will be revamped at the San Fran
cisco convention. . . . Trans-Atlan
tic air travel these days is all
right—provided you can get h*me.
But the backlog of returning trav
elers is terrific. Recently in Shannon
more than 400 awaited passage.
THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS
A PAIN IN THE NECK
What’s become of the old-fash
ioned American who wanted more
work? The fellow who was out to
increase his business? The man who
wanted to hold his customers?
Have you tried to get anything
done lately? Have you needed a
paperhanger, a painter, a plumber,
an electrician, a mason or even
somebody to cut the lawn? If so,
you know what we’re driving at.
*
Nothing seems to startle a busi
ness man like the prospect of some
new business. “Can you do it right
away?” has become a phrase from
a dead language. “Immediately”
has become the most futile word in
English. "Soon” is almost as mean
ingless.
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Once every community was
full of alert, good-natured pro
prietors of their ottn businesses,
all eager for customers. You
could get the pipes fixed, the
walls papered, the porch re
paired, the roof shingled and the
lights fixed any time.
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Today these very same people put
on a sourpuss at your approach,
freeze if you enter the office and
register a complete lack of interest
if you start telling them that you
are in a jam and want something
done.
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The plumber tells the help, when
the phone rings, “If it’s an old cus
tomer, hang up.” The electrician
exclaims “You mean this year!”
when Mrs. Trooksey phones and
says: “All my lights are out! Will
you please come over and fix them?”
*
Your chimney collapses and you
rush to the mason. There’s a young
lady reading a book. She looks up
after the book begins to bore her.
You tell her you have a chimney
emergency and would like to get the
boss. Her expression tells you
“Haven’t you heard? Mr. Spinel-
lio isn’t interested in new chimney
troubles. He has a waiting list.”
*
The water pipes spring a leak.
You phone your old friend Gus Hof-
nagle, who was your first pin- 'her.
You have been giving him your
work for years. Good old Gus Hof-
nagle.
“Gus, there’s two feet of water
i< the living room. I’m sinking,”
you say.
“What is the name again?” asks
Gus.
You have to spell it for him. He
says languidly that there are 18
flooded living rooms ahead of you
and that he couldn’t possibly get
around to an old reliable customer
before Christmas Eve.
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And carpenters! You can get
only as far as “One of my front
stairs needs a . . .” before he pulls
his whole head and neck in like a
turtle and starts backing away
across country.
This “Customers are such pests”
attitude is sweeping the country.
Only this morning we watched a
waitress in a chain restaurant per
form in the 1946 pattern. She glared
at you as you took a table; she put
on a "Dare give me an order”
expression; she took it down reluc
tantly, and when she returned after
an hour or so she slammed the food
in front of you and seemed to say
“I’ll teach customers not to come
in this place twice!”
*
What’s come over people? Are
they all sore doing what they are
doing? We pause for a reply. And
we expect an insult!
• • •
Juvenile Delinquency,
Didja Say?
There will be a national confer
ence on the control of—guess what?
—juvenile delinquency in Washing
ton next month. President Truman
has declared that “juvenile delin
quency is of serious concern to the
whole country,” and Attorney-Gen
eral Tom Clark, who has called the
conference, says 500 delegates from
48 states will "pool their forces to
meet squarely this grave problem.”
*
We will bet right now that within
a stone’s throw of the conference
hall there will be at least six movie
theaters instructing the kiddies in
the fine art of murder, gunplay and
general lawlessness. In technicolor!
• • •
Heigh ho and alackaday! Also a
heigh nonny nonny and a hot cha
cha. (Is Eric Johnson, the chief
of the board of movie censorship,
in the house. And if so, what for?)
• • •
Ye Swap Shoppe
“WILL swap rowing machine with
suitcase for bushel good eating ap
ples. AU 900 ME.”—Yankee Maga
zine.
•
Fun is where you find it.
• • •
HOME WORK
The hammer, tops for vital labors.
Goes wrong in hands of eager neigh- ■
bora.
—Pier.
JAILED FOR CALLING STRIKE . . . Preceded by deputies. Sheriff
Walter Monoghan, second from left, escorts George L. Mueller, third
from left, to county jail to serve sentence of one year for contempt of
court. Mueller, president of the independent union of Duquesne Light
company employees, Pittsburgh, refused to call off the strike or to
apologize for calling court injunction, “scrap of paper.” Mueller later
was released.
WAR BRIDES IN PEACE BONNETS . . . Three of the British war
brides who arrived in a contingent aboard the "Henry Gibbons” show
varying taste in hats. Left to right are Mrs. William Williams, Sharon,
Miss.; Mrs. Everett Cline, Waveriy, W. Va., and Mrs. Russell Helton,
St. Louis. Their bonnets have but one thing in common—all are
smart, but war brides are anxious to don American-made clothes
as soon as they arrive while their American sisters adopt their
former styles.
FOEMEN MAY SEE DOUBLE . . . Three sets of twins are on the
Beloit college, Beloit, Wis., football squad this year. Two pairs are
identical. Here they are: top, left and right, John and Paul Kramer,
Elgin, 111.; middle, Dick and Cliff Allen, Waueonda, 111., and bottom.
Bob and Bill Williams, Arlington Heights, 111. With the football sea
son under way, Beloit is making excellent use of the twins.
BROTHERS BY BIRTH AND BLACKSTONE . . . Associate Justice
Frank Murphy of the Supreme court of the United States is shown,
right, with Judge George Murphy in recorders court at Detroit. They
are sitting in the same court room where Justice Frank presided a
few years ago, before he went on to the nation’s highest tribunal. The
brothers were photographed as they discussed a case now before
Judge George, while Justice Frank was on vacation.
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
. . . W. Averell Harriman, former
ambassador to the Soviet and un
til his appointment, ambassador
to England, has been named by
President Truman to replace Hen
ry Wallace as secretary of com
merce.
DIPLOMATIC MANNING . . .
Capt. Harry Manning, who argued
a Nazi U-boat commander not to
sink the SS Washington, carrying
1,000 passengers in 1940, has just
been appointed commander of the
largest United States owned pas
senger liner, SS America. He flew
with Amelia Earhart.
NOW CAN SEE . . . Totally blind
two years ago. Jack JWisnovskl,
15, of Verona, Pa., is making
up for lost time by sightseeing.
It is believed that he is the first
person on record of corneal grafts
performed on both eyes success
fully.
VOWED TO KILL FIFTY . . .
Stanislaw (the Sniper) Ballon, Po
lish outlaw, shown after capture
by American troops. Ballon vowed
to kill 50 Nazi followers in ven
geance for killing of his parents
and three brothers in Poland by
the Nazis.
LEADS DUKE ELEVEN . . .
Charles Edgar (Hill) Milner, 24,
200-pound senior from Waynes-
ville, N. C., one of greatest guards
ever to perform, who is leading
the Duke university football elev
en as captain.
npHE college football campaign of
1946 is so patted or studded
with important da.es that millions
of football followers are left in
a somewhat bewildered state. Many
requests have come to this also be
wildered department, asking us to
pick the major games from a dizzy
schedule that has more class than
any football program we have
known.
We hestitate to pick up this as
signment since it means denunci
ation from a few
colleges and many
chambers of com
merce, who insist
their home - town
games deserve high
ranking. Com-
plaints from the
colleges are rare.
The chambers of
commerce are the
more embittered
souls.
Anyway here is GranUand Rice
our ranking of the more important
contests. There are so many vital
games that one can only hit a few
of the high spots. On October 12 we
have Army meeting Michigan as
the top game of that date, a com
plete sell-out back in June. . . .
87,000 at Ann Arbor. Indiana vs.
Illinois is close behind. For old
times sake, Princeton and Harvard
must be considered, then Navy and
Duke. And among the better games
of this day we find Columbia and
Yale, two of the best teams in the
Ivy league—also the country.
Two Southern Headliners
The big game on October 19 will
be Georgia vs. Oklahoma A. and
M., (at Athens, Ga., not Greece).
This will be one of the season’s high
spots. A game of almost equal im
portance will be Alabama and Ten
nessee — Bob Neyland vs. Frank
Thomas. On this date Army faces
Columbia in a toss-up. A possible
thriller.
The schedule now carries us to
October 26 when Army meets Duke
and Ohio State meets Minnesota.
Just a moment — Michigan meets
Illinois in a game that might easily
decide the Big Nine championship.
And Pennsylvania meets Navy in a
traditional rivalry.
The big game of November 2 is
Georgia and Alabama. This
game is fragrant with a Rose Bowl
odor, a Sugar or an Orange Bowl
taste . . . Trippi vs. Gilmer. Here
is one of the most vital or important
games of the year, if you have the
feeling that football games are vital
or important. Probably they are
not. Anyway this is the game of
that particular date, closely fol
lowed by Notre Dame and Navy.
4rmy-Notre Dame Clash
The outstanding melee of Novem
ber 9 is Army and Notre Dame.
This is the game that could easily
draw 500,000 fans. Biff Jones says
1,000,000 tickets could be sold if
there were only room enough. This
will be the feature game of the
year, considering the Army’s
wrecking assault on Notre Dame in
1944 and 1945, plus Frank Leahy’s
trek of vengeance.
Later on we have Penn and
Army, Harvard and Yale, Ohio
State and Michigan. Also Southern
California and UCLA, Army and
Navy. The schedule makers this
season have given the country the
top menu in football history. With
few exceptions they have all picked
the strongest opponents they could
find. You might add a few sprigs of
laurel blossoms to Tulane and
Southern California who have done
the widest ranging in the tiger
jungle, battling everyone in sight
until December 21. Both play
Notre Dame and both play each
other, as well as such teams as Ala
bama, Ohio State, L. S. U. and a
few more.
This fall campaign of 1946 will be
the high spot of campus play since
Princeton met Rutgers over 75
years ago. The schedule we have
outlined is only a small part of the
big show—a mere fragment. But
there isn’t space enough to cover
all the turmoil.
• • •
Batting Crowns
The National league pennant fight
between the Cardinals and the
Dodgers has been baseball’s lead
ing feature this season and will re
main the year’s high spot.
The Red Sox runaway victory and
the Yankee collapse have been the
American league’s contribution to
the comment of many busy
tongues.
But the individual side has more
than its share of public interest,
which has overwhelmed all past
records in the way of attendance.
One of the main entries k this
field is Ted Williams, star of the Red
Sox. Ted, a great natural hitter,
started out to lead boil leagues at
bat, in home runs and runs batted
in—the triple batting crown.
For a while it looked ai if the
walloping Williams would run away
with all three marks. He began
blasting home runs at an early date
as his batting average hovered
aronnd .389. But toward the close
of the season he found himself tied
into a number of knots. Serious
competition was coming from
Musial, the N. L. batting star.
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