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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. New York’s Black Magic There is a vibrant hush alongside streets when midnight puts on its negligee. . . . The canyons are packed tight with silence extending as far as the ear can reach. . . . Restless breezes hold a whispered tete-a-tete as they hum around cor ners. . . . Darkened windows are whitewashed with moonshine, and th< luminous buildings stand like frozen ghosts. . . . Street lamps poke fingt'i s of light through the inky night. . . . Stillness grips the atmosphere in a lover’s embrace. . . . The sinister beauty of ebony silence prowls the streets searching for the dreams of poets. Central Park spills its scenic treasure in the dark. . . . Fallen leaves frolic with balmy winds—in dulging in their whackrobatics. . . . Trees drip with greenery. . . . Wind ing roads are disturbed only by the metallic gargle of passing cars. . . . Sometimes it’s so quiet—you can hear the castenets of crick ets. . . . Spacious lawns are patches of natural beauty in the stone and steel landscape. . . . The surrounding skyline is coated with moon jlow. . . . Flashlights of patrol- ing park police turn on and off like giant fireflies. The Main Stem during the pre dawn hours settles down to a para lytic pace. Its bonfire of activity has been quenched and only tiny flickers of energy remain. When the mazda display is snuffed out—the street’s shallow gayety vanishes like dreams. . . . The Grandest Can yon is cushioned with calm while it patiently waits for the soundless crack of dawn. There are always humans haunt ing the town from midnight to sun rise. Many of them are rootless people, withering and waiting for zeros. . . . Many are sinful and shameless. Most are the homeless and the lonely, who have found life a continual war. The serenity of night seems to offer them a little peace. It’s so quiet you can hear the crisp rustle of newspaper pages be ing turned. Or your c_. s motor purr. . . . Night workers gaze through leaden-lidded orbs a id swap empty stares. ... A gust of wind heralds the approach of a bus or trolley as they wreck the wall of silence. . . . Cleaners sweep tha littered pavements — the swish- swish-swish of brooms and hose pro viding an accompaniment for a symphony of boredom. Harlem usually is brimming with excitement. That sector never stops to catch its breath. Some of its streets are as busy during the mid- dle-of-the-night as they are at noon. . . . Though Harlem is plagued by poverty, there are more amusement spots here than in any other part of town. . . . Trouble-makers pour from bars. . . . Police cars snake in and out of tne 28th precinct, where 100,000 poverty-stricken peo ple are bunched in a square mile. Night-clubbers who swept into places like squirts of seltzer — now exit with all the fizz taken out of them. . . . The doorman appears to be the only jne whose face isn’t .smudged with fatigue. . . . And there is always the glum sight of a lady lush looking as though she had stepped out of a nightmare. . . . Peo ple trying to clutch a little merri ment with noisy desperation. Throughout the night there are odd keddikters who are starring in their own tawdry sideshow. . . .Un fortunates taking an inventory of garbage cans, trying to find some thing that might be of value. The soft chill of early morning is ignored by lovers as they wrap themselves in the warmth of their romance. Here is Paradise in action. . . . Peace is here and life is a waltz. Their personal fortress of blue skies and stars shuts out the grim headlines. Castles-in-the- air are furnished with bright Hopes. . . . Whispers unfold the old —but thrilling tale. ... In a world where hate, famine and violence are common disasters — lovers engaged in a lingering goodnight in the quiet streets of a Big City—rep resent a miniature miracle. When the city is drowsy with dawn the sky is jubilant with vivid hues. . . . Stars fade and the rouged toes of sunrise start to pull them selves over the horizon. . . . This is the serene instant when light and darkness wed. . . . The marriage marks the start of a priceless heri tage—the birth of a new day. Overheard at a Washington party: “We’ll be at war within six months.” . . . The man who will deny that he said it, was allegedly Major-General Groves, in charge of the Atomb! . . . FDR Jr. says that not one allied war veteran is helping make the peace at Paris. Most of those at the conference are over 60. . . . Prices may be going down in Wall St. but they keep going up on Main St. . . . We asked Lord Beaverbrook: “Is there going to be another war?” . . . He re plied: “No nation can lick the U. S.” IkeJtome fl&pjosUeSi in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Correspond"* Red Feather Flown as Symbol In Social Service Fund Drives WNU Washington Bureau 1616 Eye St.. N. W. Business Now Served by County Agent System /~\NE OF the so-called visionary ideas of Henrv Wallace which has just come into practical frui tion since he was fired from the post of secretary of commerce and suc ceeded by W. Averell Harriman is being hailed by small business men as one of the most helpful ever con ceived by the department as an aid to small business. Back in the days when he was secretary of agriculture, Wallace liked the idea of the county agent system. When he became boss of the department of commerce, he “dreamed-up” the idea of adapting the system to business by estab lishment of a business “county agent” in every county of the na tion. If county agents were helpful to farmers as business men, then why wouldn’t county agents for small business be helpful to the lit tle business men of the nation, he argued. And he set about to estab lish just that. Announcement has lately been made that 33 of the 50 new field of fices, planned as a part of Wal lace’s expanding service for small business at the grassroots, are in operation. The erstwhile secretary, who himself comes within the cate gory of small business men, saw that the huge department of com merce with its tremendous re sources for research and technical information was of substantial aid to big business. The machinery, however, was not set up for getting this information down to the small towns and rural sections and into the hands of the small business men of the country. His idea of business county agents was the answer. Now from the office of small business, directly through the new field offices or “county agents,” the small busi ness man will get what help he wants on management problems, marketing prospects, questions in volving surplus materials, priorities and government contracts, basic facts on trade associations, con struction and up-to-date data on the business population, life expectancy of certain enterprises and causes of business failures. Provide Valuable Data Under the Wallace plan these field offices were expected to work close ly with the local individual business man and also with local chambers of commerce and other trade organ izations in an effort to be a real help to the local communities and to bring to small business all the data, information and research on business and industrial subjects too expensive for the small business man to obtain for himself. What will happen to this new pro gram under the regime of Harri man, who always has been identi fied with big business with a capital “B,” is not known. The chances are it will continue to function. At any rate, Harriman’s appointment to succeed Wallace was hailed with de light by the big business interests, as one of their own and “as a man of proven attainments with unques tioned devotion to American ideals.” Harriman is known as essentially a conservative with the viewpoint of a “chairman of the board,” as a synthetic New Dealer, having con tributed, it is said, equally to the Roosevelt and Willkie campaign funds. His mentor during the Roose velt administration was the late Harry Hopkins. One of the old-time reporters here in Washington whose acquaintance with Harriman runs back over the years, declared: “Main trouble with Harriman is that his zest is short-lived. He often shifts from one enthusiasm to an other and he seldom stays put. He will need a good stable under-sec retary to carry the heavy chores." How About Raiboad Case? There is considerable specula tion here, too, over what is likely to happen to the government’s suit against the group of western rail roads charging conspiracy to vio late the anti-trust laws, which will likely go to trial in Lincoln, Neb., some time this winter. Harriman, now a cabinet member, is a director and chairman of the board of the Union Pacific railroad, one of the defendants in the case. Until re cently he was chairman of com mittee of directors of all the rail roads, to which were referred rate cases and other problems for final settlement. The government’s suit grows out of the so-called agreement between the western railroads to fix and settle their own rates and other problems without first going before the Interstate Commerce commis sion for permission. In 1943, in testimony before the Wheeler committee taking evider.ee on the bill to legalize the rate bureau practices, Harriman sent a statement to be read into, the rec ord to the effect that if these agree ments constituted conspiracy, then what the railroads need is bigger and better conspiracy. Badge Is Beacon Of Hope To Sick, Weary, Homeless For centuries the red feath er has been accepted as a badge of courage and generosity. Robin Hood awarded red feath ers to his followers for heroic and generous deeds; outstand ing Indian braves often were the recipients of red feather awards for feats of valor and acts of kindness. This year, in cities throughout the United States, the Red Feather will mean hope for the sick, homeless and friendless. Community Chests of the country have adopted the Red Feather to designate services to or phans, the aged, the blind, crippled children and the sick. In previous years the welfare fund raising organizations from coast to coast have been known by a vari ety of names and their symbols have been many and varied. In 1946, for the first time, practically all of them are known as Community Chests and all fly the Red Feather. Many Join Movement. Last year, 849 cities in the coun try raised close to a quarter billion dollars through community fund raising campaigns. These cities each conducted a single campaign to raise funds to support multiple wel-. fare agencies. It was in Cleveland, Ohio, . that the Community Chest plan was born in 1913. A gronp of Cleveland business men, aware of the many fund drives held each year and of the vast sums spent annually to raise mohey for welfare purposes, evolved a plan to budget the city’s wel fare needs and to hold one cam paign annually to obtain the money to meet these needs. Before Cleveland held the first Community Chest campaign, 6,000 persons were contributing money for welfare purposes. During the 1945 Community Chest campaign, 606,000 residents of Greater Cleve land made pledges to support 100 home front agencies and 22 units of the national war fund. Support 100 Agencies. This year, the Cleveland Commu nity Chest is campaigning in Octo ber for a goal of $4,880,000. Pror !eds will be used for the support of 100 Red Feather agencies, including 21 youth and recreation groups, 19 organizations aiding dependent chil dren, 17 hospitals, 14 family wel fare services and other welfare or ganizations. Throughout the nation, the story of the Red Feather is being told as Community Chests wage their an nual fund-raising campaigns in Oc tober. Chicago, which has the largest Community Chest fund in the na tion, has a goal of $7,939,000 in the current drive. From Community Chest coffers will come 50 per cent THEY NEED “HELPING HAND” . . . Typical of the millions of children throughout the United States who receive aid through Red Feather agencies supported by Community chests are these youngsters from Cleveland. Top left, a poignant appeal for aid is mirrored in the face of Virginia at Goodrich house; top right, Jimmie, patient at Rose-Mary Home for Crippled Children, is overcoming the crippling effects of spastic paralysis; bottom: Lillian, resident at Cleveland Christian home orphanage, gives dolly the kind of care the home gives her; right: 5-year-old Jerry is going to walk some day, thanks to treatment he is receiving at Cleveland rehabilitation center. of the operating costs of 192 Red Feather agencies. An additional $906,000 is sought to continue USO activities for the final year. One of the main objectives of Community Chests is to assure a good start in life for all chil dren. Red Feather youth agen cies universally strive to pre pare the boys and girls of today for their responsibilities as citi zens of tomorrow. To carry out this objective, Phila delphia, for example, will allot the largest percentage of its campaign funds, more than 20 per cent, to its Red Feather youth recreation serv ices and another 11 per cent to its Child care agencies. Last year, the city’s 39 Red Feather youth agen cies served more than 189,714 boys and girls and provided 183,593 days in camps. Returns Near Peak. As the birthplace of the Commu nity Chest idea, Cleveland has at tained one of the best records in the nation for its annual fund drive. Total goal of the past 27 Community Chest campaigns there was $115,- 888,545, of which $113,243,489, or 97.7 per cent, actually was raised. In Cleveland Community Chest hospitals contain two-thirds of all the city’s public and private hospit al capacity; their dispensaries an nually give approximately 200,000 free or low cost treatments; all of the maternity homes for unwed mothers are chest supported; insti tutional care of 1,125 Cleveland or phans is given only by chest agen cies, and 672 children are under fos ter home care through chest aus pices. A high degree of co-operation is essential to success of the Commu nity Chest drive. That sort of co-operation is characteristic of Cleveland’s annual fund raising event. Solicitation of chest pledges is carried out by a corps of 25,000 volunteer workers. City officials au thorize decoration of downtown thoroughfares; the transit system and railroads permit campaign ad vertising; stores feature window displays stressing the work of chest agencies; radio stations, newspa pers and theaters tell the story of the Red Feather organizations. For the sick and troubled of Cleve land, as well as those of 849 other cities in the United States, the Red Feather this year means hope. For the greater number of persons who wear the Red Feather as Commu nity Chest contributors, the brighter the outlook for those who need a “helping hand.” NO LONGER G. I. Vet Students Replace Navy Boots' FARRAGUT, IDAHO.—In an at tempt to crack the national bottle neck in educational facilities, par ticularly for ex-G.I.s, education-hun gry veterans have opened their own college here. At the site of the sprawling naval training station here, the veterans opened a privately operated, non profit, co-educational college and technical institute this month. When the navy declared the huge training station surplus, veterans’ organizations went into immediate action. They saw the station’s vast dormitories, apartments, class rooms, laboratories, machine shops and recreational facilities as the an swer to two major veterans’ prob lems: Lack of educational facili ties and housing accommodations while attending school. Raise $250,000 Fund. Backed by local business men, en couraged by the United States de partment of education and other federal agencies, veterans’ organi zations in north Idaho and eastern Washington formed a private non profit corporation. They called it Farragut CoUege and Technical In stitute, Inc., and set out to raise an initial operating fund of $250,000. Veterans’ groups plunked down sums like $10,000 and $15,000 to start the ball rolling. Private clubs and individual citizens came across. The veterans hired a college president, Dr. Joseph H. Kusner, formerly of Florida, who is a veteran. He rounded up a faculty. The school was chartered by the state of Idaho and acceptable cred its were assured. Federal problems of acquiring the property were hur dled. In Picturesque Country. Farragut, where hundreds of thousands of United States naval men were trained during the war, is on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille—a picturesque spot in the heart of north Idaho’s timber and lake country. It has ample facili ties for 15,000 students, including housing for single students, married students and faculty. Courses in the liberal arts and in the technical and trade fields will be taught by streamlined methods. CHICAGO. — Erosion’s raids on soil fertility are costing the United States nearly four billion dollars an nually, according to the Middle West Soil Improvement committee. “The extent of this yearly dam age is indicated by recent U. S. Soil Conservation service estimates that wind and water erosion re moves 21 times as much plant food from the nation’s farm soil each year as is taken out by crops sold off that land,” the committee reports. Dr. H. H. Bennett, chief of the conservation service, places the an nual loss as a result of uncontrolled erosion and water runoff at $3,844,- 000,000. He estimates that nearly one billion acres of the nation’s farm lands need soil conservation treatment to protect them from ero sion and to maintain their produc tivity. It is clearly evident that eternal SERVICE ■ BUREAU EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement voilh the Washington Bureau of Western News paper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., is able to bring read ers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be an swered in a subsequent column. No re plies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper regularly. Vets Subsistence Allowance vigilance is a ‘must’ if our greatest farm asset—soil fertility—is to be preserved,” Dr. Bennett insists. “The recent wartime burden on farm land to produce record yields to speed victory has been succeeded by an equally heavy peacetime load to produce crops to meet the world-wide food crisis,” the soil improvement group de^ dares, adding that “the only rem edy that will rescue overworked farm land from eventual fertility exhaustion is a program of effec tive soil rebuilding.” Pointing out that any soil rehabili tating plan should be well-rounded, the committee says it should include the raising of legumes to improve soil tilth and to increase its re sources of organic matter, regular crop rotation, steady use of mixed fertilizer containing nitrogen, phos phorus and potash, and pasture improvement. Water Brings $1 Barrel in Drouth AUSTIN, TEXAS. — Fall rains have alleviated a drouth which turned up many eccentricities dur- ging late summer months. At Aspermont in the high plains area drinking water sold for a dol lar a barrel. Also near Aspermont, the Salt fork of the Brazos, the state’s might iest river, became a dry channel one day, then was running 25,000 cubic feet a second the following day. Two large reservoirs of the Lower Colorado river system had evapo ration in excess of inflow. Wichita Falls, busy wheat and in dustrial city, prepared for a drouth by completing an additional reser voir capable of holding 100,000 acre-feet of water. But the branch of the Little Wichita river, which was expected to fill the reser voir, failed to respond. Every Day Is July'4 At Ordnance Depot TOOELE, UTAH.—Not once a year but every day it’s Fourth of July at the Tooele ordnance depot, at least insofar as fireworks are concerned. Unserviceable explo sives—American, German and Jap anese—which have accumulated at the depot must be destroyed. Depot officers do the task scientifically, placing about 50 tons of explosives in a crater to detonate them. Recent legislation placing a limi tation on subsistence allowances for veterans enrolled under the G.I. Bill for education or training who are obtaining compensation on the side has brought a flood of inquiries about the new VA regulations con cerning this phase. Briefly, the new law provides that “in no event shall the rate of such allowance plus the compensation received exceed $175 per month for the veteran without dependents or $200 per month if he has a de pendent or dependents.” The lim itation applies to veterans whether they are earning money outside while going to school or earning wages in apprentice or on-the-job training. In other words, if a vet eran is going to school and earn ing $150 per month on the outside, his subsistence would be cut from $65 per month to $25 per month to come within the $175 per month lim itation, if he is without dependents. Veterans administration says that for perhaps three months, perhaps longer, veterans will get the same amount they have been getting in the past, but that enclosed with each check mailed up to October 31 will be a notice from the VA describing the changes in the G.I. Bill and warning each veteran that he later may have to return some of the money he now is receiving in sub sistence allowance during this in terim period. The same notice asks each veteran to give his training of ficer or regional office not later than November 5, a statement of his earnings during August, September and October. Veterans are warned that further checks will be delayed until this notice is received, so they should be sure to meet the Novem ber 5 deadline. After the veteran has turned in his notice, VA will start making adjustments in any subsistence allowance that requires changes. If there is a refund due the government, however, no time limit is set for returning this money. Questions and Answers Q. My husband served 14 months, in the merchant marine, 12 months of this overseas. Is he eligible for the draft?—Mrs. R. M. B., Pensa cola, Fla. A. If you do not have any chil dren and your husband is between 18 and 26 years old and unless he has served for a period of not less than 32 months beginning on or after May 1, 1940, on active duty not less than 75 per cent of the time and unless he applied for and received from the war shipping administra tion a certificate certifying that he has completed a period of substan tially continuous service in the mer chant marine, he is subject to the selective service law and may be drafted. Q. I am a widow with six chil dren under 18 years of age and I am 50 years old and not able to do much work. I had a son killed in France in 1944. I was dependent on Jiim. His wife has remarried. He had his insurance made to her, but he told me he wished he had made half of it to me although he never did. Can I get a part of it now?— Mrs. M. O., Cincinnati, Ohio. A. No, you cannot obtain the in surance. If you are a dependent mother, however, you are entitled to a pension for the death of your son killed in action. Suggest you contact your Veterans’ administra tion office in Cincinnati and give them the details. Your local Red Cross or any American Legion post will help you. Q. My boy friend has re-enlist ed in the army for a three-year period. He has married but sepa rated from his wife and now he wants to get a divorce and marry me. Can he apply and receive this while still in service, now stationed in Germany? — S. P., Havre de Grace, Md. A. Yes, his papers may be filed in either his own home county or that of his wife. He may designate some person with power of attorney to file his papers and act for him. In most towns the American Legion has a legal committee from which legal service is furnished free to soldiers. Suggest you contact the legal committee of your American Legion post. Q. Could you give me some in formation about the 615th port com pany? When did it land in the states and where is it now? — V. S., Con- der, N. C. A. The army says that the last ad dress of the 615th port company was APO 435, San Francisco, and it was inactivated on the island of Luzon at Manila. Q. Can a former serviceman ap ply for a G.I. loan guaranty while he is on terminal leave?—Veteran, Vinita, Okla. A. I should think so if he is other wise qualified or eligible Lovely Centerpiece Is Easily Crocheted T'HIS handsome pineapple doily -*• makes a lovely centerpiece un der a bowl of flowers. It meas ures 17 inches—if you’ve never crocheted a ‘pineapple’ design, here is an excellent one with which to begin. • • • To obtain complete crocheting instruc tions for the Seventeen-Inch Pineapple Doily (Pattern No. 5271) send 20 cents in coin, your name, address and pattern number. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South W^lls St. Chicago 7, HL Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. 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