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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Notes of a Newspaper Man: Churchill and Ass’t Sec’y of State Berle thrashed out a lot of prob- ! lems at 10 Downing street during the war. Berle protested Churchill’s support of only one Yugoslav party (Tito’s). . . . Finally Churchill said: “Cahn’t you permit an old man one romahnee?” “Sure,” said the American, “but, as in all these cases, I can only fcope the affection is returned!” The Democrats were going to use “You Need Mead!” for the N. Y. gubernatorial cam paign slogan. . . . Until they heard that those mean, old Re publicans were going to coun ter-attack with just one word— right under theirs: “Dewey?” Quotation Marksmanship: Goethe-. There is no more terrible sight than ignorance in action. . . . Anon: Always listen to the opinions of oth ers; it probably won’t do you any good, but it will them. . . . B. Pen rose: Public office — the last refuge of the incompetent. ... A. Head: Some women carry their secrets about them like an alluring per fume; others wear their secrets in their eyes. . . . J. Csida: The glazed pain in her eyes—like frozen tears. . . . P. Baker: News is anything that makes a woman say: “For Heaven’s sakes!” ... A. Franklin: Truman the Chief Axe.cutive. . . . Ike Eisenhower: To win the peace you have to fight like hell. . . . R. McDowell: The trouble with money ie that so few people can afford it. J. Billingsley: Love conquers all— except poverty and a toothache. “How are the Dodgers do ing?” “Which do you mean — the ones in Brooklyn or the ones in the State Dep’t?” Sounds in the Night: In the Stork: “They seem to be treating Henry Wallace like he was Henry Aid- rich!” ... At the B’way Hofbrau: “He’ll make a fortune with hi? new invention for columnists. A foun tain pen that writes under pres sure!” ... At Lindy’s: “What’s the S in H. S. Truman stand for?” . . . “I dunno. What’s Harry Tru man stand for?” ... At the Riv iera: “Wallace went down for the count of 10—Downing street” . . . At Hansel’s: “Look. I want to be your Now Or Never—not your Now and Then!” ... At the Colony: “Wish he’d stick to the Stork mar ket and leave the Stock market alone.” ... At the Blue Angel: “A Broadwayite is a Jerque who knows the inside of everything—ex cept his own home.” Whatever became of that old gag about the restaurant pa tron who asked the time of a passing waitress, who kept on going as she said, “Sorry, but that’s not my table.” It’s on page 23 of the current Old Yorker. Sallies in Our Alley: They were discussing a Broadway actor on the skids. “I hear,” said a Lindyite, "That he and his wife may go on the early morning radio with one of those breakfast routines.” . . . “I geddit,” summed up Hal McIn tyre, “one of those has-been and wife teams!” . . . It’s been arv nounced that divorces in the U. S. have gone up 25 per cent, and J. F.linson thinks he knows the chorus girl responsible for half of ’em. International Weather Report: Dark war clouds over Europe; continued fog over Washington. A foreign correspondent tells about his conversation with a Rus sian scientist who deplored those who discuss atomic energy only in terms of war—when that energy •ould accomplish miracles in peace. He summed up with this canny analogy: “To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.” Manhattan Murals: The Ham burger Heaven opposite St. Pat rick’s cathedral on 51st, which serves little paper envelopes (of sugar) on which is printed: “And stir like H—!" . . . The pathetic sight of a little blind boy “looking” into a 3rd avenue toy shop while his mother shopped at a nearby butcher’s. . . . The panhandler with the H’oxford accent. His requests for handouts are masterpieces of eloquence. . . . The chalk sign on a construction fence: “Annie Get Your Goon.” . . . The 42nd street and 6th avenue bootblack whose parrot (on his shoulder) calls out: "Shine, buddy?'’ EROES Then and. Now More than a year has passed since the armed might of the United States shattered for ever the delusions of grandeur of Dai Nippon, blasting the dream of Japanese war lords that the Pacific one day would be a Japanese lake. In the grand finale that ended V-J Day there were many heroes. Their names flashed comet like across the pages of the nation’s press for a day or two—and then were lost. VICTORY SPEARHEAD . . . The name ol Capt. Donald McMillan of New York City was headlined when he piloted the first plane load of Ameri can personnel to Japan’s Atsuki aero drome. RECONVERSION . . . And this is Mc Millan today, one year after his his toric flight to Tokyo. He is shown in his working clothes as a geologist at Anaconda Copper company, Butte, Mont. CONNECTICUT YANKEE ... A Yankee who speaks Japanese fluently is a rare bird indeed. Such a one was Lt. A. H. Smith of West Haven, Conn., marine corps interpreter during vic tory operations. ALAS, POOR YORICK! . . . Reminis cent of the graveyard scene in Ham let is this one showing Smith back at his job as assistant professor of an thropology at University of Texas at Austin. MtM The few modest heroes pre- j sented here are typical of the | men who finished the job in j Japan. A year ago they made I headlines. Today they are I working quietly in peaceful I pursuits, proud of what they I accomplished but not expect- ling to he hailed as wor 1 ! sav- [ iours. 1 here was a job to do j that necessitated a detour from j the life they had planned. IN FIRST FIFTY . t. Among the first 50 men of the U. S. occupation forces to land on Japanese soil was Sgt. Jo seph Archosky, radio operator of the 68th army group, army airways com munications system. STILL TEAMWORK . . . Archosky is a firm believer in teamwork. He saw what it did to Japan. So he still prac tices it. He and his bride team up here to unravel a college homework problem. Navy to Honor Sea Victims at Memorial Rites WASHINGTON.—FoUowing a cus tom inaugurated in 1945, navy planes and ships will scatter flow ers over the oceans of the world on Navy Day, Oct. 27, in tribute to shipmates who gave their lives at sea in defense of their country dur ing World War II. People desiring to participate in the service may send one flower to the senior naval chaplain at any designated TJ. S. port before mid night Oct. 26. The flowers will be put aboard planes and ships for transport to sea. California’s Lure Proves No Magnet In Three States LOS ANGELES.—The magic lure of California has little effect on resi dents of Maine, New Hampshire and Wyoming, chamber of commerce officials regretfully admit. Reporting that its mail volume has increased fourfold during the past year, the chamber says the least number of inquiries come from those three states. Greatest percentage comes from New York and Illinois. Not Only Girls Bewail Current Hish Doll Costs WASHINGTON. — Members of Washington Council of Church Women are awaiting return of the 29-cent doll as impatiently as any child ever awaited Santa Claus. The reason is that the current high price of dolls is holding up plans for the council to extend its famous “doll adoption” plan to chil dren abroad. Now the council wants to inaugu rate a doll adoption program in Lat in America and China, but its plans are stymied by the high cost of dolls. Servicemen Help Solve Canada’s Need for Immigrants Bigtown Smalltalk: The Army. Notre Dame game will make the local hotel sitcheeayshun tougher on November 8-9. Every hotel (includ ing the side-street joints) is booked to capacity. Not one has any room for former Stars & Stripes staffers who hold their reunion event in N. Y. on November 8. . . . There is no 30th (or 60th) floor in the Chrys ler building. But, tinlike many oth er buildings, it has a 13th. . . . Zil- lionaire J. P. Kennedy pocketing toothpicks as he left the Hote St. Regis after a dinner. OTTAWA, CANADA. — Service men provided a helpful answer in Canada’s quest for increased popu lation—they simply married the prospective immigrants. Immigration officials estimate that one out of every five eligible Canadians who got overseas during wartime returned with a wife. When the movement is completed, officials figure that some 45,000 women and I about 20,000 children will have en tered Canada. The war brides, in effect, are the forerunners of what Canadian of ficials hope will be a continued and selected movement into this vast na tion. Indications are that Europeans in impressive numbers have “got the word about Canada.” Except for residents of the enemy nations of Germany, Japan, Italy, Romania, Hungary and Austria, as well as Asiatics, there are hardly any restrictions to entry here. About all one has to show is a sound mind and body and the ability to support oneself. Immigration to Canada was heavy in the ’20s, reaching a peak of 167,723 in the fiscal year 1928-29. It dropped to 88,223 in 1930-31. From 1931 to 1938 only about 95,000 en tered and after that immigration practically stopped, with even ille gal entries negligible. RejaxPitesi in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Corrwtpondfit WNU Washington Bureau 1616 Eye St., N. W IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for October 20 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used b7 permission. Unpaved Feeder Roads Retard Farm Progress DUBLIC Roads administration ten- * tatively has considered approxi mately 200,000 miles of secondary farm-to-madiet roads to be taken into the nation’s secondary highway system under provisions of the 1944 federal aid highway act. There is now available some 600 million dol lars in the second postwar fiscal year for this type of road. Two hundred thousand miles seems like a lot of mileage ... a stretch which would reach from New York to San Francisco some 66 times. Yet, viewed in the light of total mile age of these secondary or feeder roads, of which there are 2,400,000 miles and of which 1,400,000 miles are unsurfaced, it is only a step toward taking rural America out of the mud and dust. This fact was pointed out graph ically in a recent highway meeting by Charles M. Upham, engineer-di rector of American Road Builders association, who emphasized the fact that despite federal aid for farm-to-market roads, local and county road improvement is not keeping pace with mechanization of American farms. "Improved year-round all-weath er farm-to-market roads are as nec essary to the people of the nation as the primary trunk lines,” Upham said, and to back up his assertion he pointed to the fact that of the 512,000,000,000 worth of farm pro duction annually hauled to market, nearly the entire amount is trucked over secondary or farm-to-market roads to reach consumers of the nation. As an example, he declared that in 1944 approximately 3,620,000 truck loads of livestock alone—some 56,- 000,000 cattle, sheep and hogs—were shipped to market over these sec ondary roads, good and bad. Carry a Third of Traffic Under the 1944 act a billion dol lars a year in matched funds ii made available to the nation’s high way system, of which 30 per cent was apportioned to these secondary roads, 45 per cent to the federal-aid system or primary roads and 25 per cent to urban roads and streets. States reporting and asking for these matched funds indicate that 29 per cent of all needed construc tion work on highways is on the sec ondary and feeder road system. This is due largely to the fact that 34.5 per cent of the nation’s vehicu lar traffic, measured in vehicle miles, is carried over these county roads serving 68,953,000 people or 52.3 per cent of the population of continental U. S. A. who live in the areas fed by these secondary high ways. Farmers of the nation are among the greatest road users, since agri culture uses 34 per cent of all trucks built, adding up to 1,600,000 trucks now on the farms of the nation, of which 1,100,000 are farm-owned and 500,000 are for-hire units handling farm products and supplies. So the food distribution system, so vital in these days of food shortages, relies almost entirely upon the secondary road system. That congress has at last taken cognizance of the need for improve ment of these roads is evidenced by inclusion of them in the highway- aid law. Lack of funds, which here tofore has kept many thousands of farmers in the mud, is no longer a valid excuse. Statistics show that only 45,000 miles of feeder roads have high-type paved surfaces; 99,- 000 miles have low-type bituminous surface; 788,000 miles have non- treated surfaces; 613,000 miles are merely graded and drained, and 861,000 miles are classed as “primi tive.” Despite the fact that 200,000 miles are tentatively considered for improvement, the rural highway pic ture is not too bright, and immedi ate action in bringing more mileage into the system for improvemenl is considered essential. Highway Taxes Diverted One of the disturbing factors in the farm-to-market highway picture and indeed in the entire field of nighway construction, is the contin ued diversion of highway-user taxes to other purposes by the several states. Improvement is being made, however, since during the past 17 years 18 states have passed consti tutional amendments to prevent di version of these funds. How these taxes have grown is in dicated by the fact that under a reg istration of 29,485,680 motor vehicles in 1938, total receipts from all high way-user sources was $388,625,000. In 1944, with a registration of 29,- 900,000 vehicles, only slightly great er than seven years earlier,- receipts had grown to $1,126,570,000, more than three times the amount collect ed in 1938. The average auto owner pays $53.64 a year. With federal aid added to state funds there should be plenty to take rural America out of the mud. PAUL TRAINS FOR HIS LIFE WORK LESSON TEXT—Acts 9:19b-22; 11:25, 26; Galatians 1:17-24 MEMORY SELECTION—And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he Is the Son of God.—Acts 9:20. The regenerating grace of God had made Paul into a new man, one who now had no greater delight than telling others of the redeeming grace of God. In preparation for that fuller min istry which was to follow, Paul first gave witness in the place where he had been persecuting the Christians, in fact, in the city to which he was bound when the Lord met him. But now instead of breathing out threats and violence he met these former associates and friends with the new message of the gospel. He had to meet them soonet or later, and it was well that he met them now. A clean break with his past makes a man ready for future service. I. Paul Faces His Past (Acts 9:19b-22). What a surprise it must have been for those persecutors of the Chris tians at Damascus to find that the one to whom they had looked for leadership was now a Christian. What a testimony that was—right to the point! “Straightway”—what a good ,/ord to apply to the servant of the Lord. Paul did not hesitate to declare his faith in Christ, to proclaim that the One who had redeemed him was able to save others. It is the normal and proper ex pression of Christian faith to give testimony to others. That should be true of every believer. With Paul there was the added element of his call to preach, for God had ordained that he should be his chosen vessel for that purpose (Acts 9:15). Paul’s message was Christ. He proved to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ (v. 22), the One of whom their Old Testament Scriptures spake and for whom they professed to be looking. He declared him to be the Son of God (v. 20). They were unwilling to accept the message. They were “amazed” at Paul and “confounded” by the truth he proclaimed, but they re jected both it and him, and he had to escape for his life. Although our lesson only indirect ly refers to it (see Gal. 1:17, 18), it should also be noted that Paul went up to Jerusalem before he went to Antioch, as indicated in our next portion of Scripture. There he faced suspicion on the part of the believers, who knew him as their enemy. Having faced his past we now see that II. Paul Faces His Future (Acts 11:25, 26). He was God’s chosen instrument to bear his name to the Gentiles (see Acts 9:15), and at the invita tion of Barnabas he came up from his home city of Tarsus to minister at Antioch, the place which now be came his real spiritual home, and the center from which his great missionary enterprise was carried out. It is interesting to note how this came about in the providence of God. Persecution spread the be lievers abroad (Acts 11:19), and like the scattered brands of a beaten fire they carried the flame of Chris tianity far and wide. Thus the gos pel came to Antioch, the third great est city in the world of that day. A revival broke out and Barnabas was sent from Jerusalem to be of help. Good and spiritual man that he was (Acts 19:23, 24), Barnabas did nothing to hinder this work of God, but admonished the people to “cleave unto the Lord”; that is, to follow him closely. Would that all spiritual advisers had such a spirit and such sound judgment. He was also wise in sensing his need of help. So he went after Paul, the very man to teach these young Christians and to lead them out into a radiant and abundant life for the Lord. Here it was that the beautiful name of “Christian” was first used. All this was possible because III. Paul Faces His Lord (Gal. 1:17-24). Many years after he had been called to Antioch, Paul wrote this letter to the Galatians to warn them against Judaizing teachers and to urge them to hold fast to salvation by faith. He declared this to be a message which he received from God and not from men. Before Paul went out to preach and teach he went up into Arabia to be alone with the Lord, as he took what we might call his postgraduate course in theology. He learned- alone with God. His life had been transformed. His attitudes had Deen completely changed. His thinking about Christ was diametrically opposite to his former beliefs. 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