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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.
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Gas on Stomach
Relieved in 5 minutes or doable your money back
When excess stomach acid causes painful, suffocat
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DISTRESS OF
When your child catches
cold, rub his little throat,
chest and back at bedtime
with warming, soothing
Vicks VapoRub. Its special
relief-bringing action goes
to work instantly . . . and
keeps working for hours to
relieve distress while he
sleeps. Often by morning,
most distress of the cold Is
gone. Try it! Discover why
most young mothers use the
one and only Vicks VapoRub.
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CUTS, BURNS
A favorite household antiseptic dress
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soothing gums to relieve the soreness ai
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Takes the sting and itch out of burns,
scalds, insect bites, oak and ivy poison
ing, wind and sun burn, chafing and
chapped skin. Its antiseptic action less
ens the danger of infection whenever the
skin is cut or broken.
Keep a bottle handy for the minor
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