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THE NEWHERKY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. 35^/^ BISTORT REPEATS ITSELF WASHINGTON. — If you think times are tough today, drop in at the public library and ask for the back files of any newspaper for the fall of 1919 or the early part of 1920. That period was just about as long after World War I as we now are from World War II and the headlines are amazingly similar. In fact, with the mere change of a few names, a glance at 1919-20 headlines would almost convince you that you were reading the news papers of today. We were having the same troubles with Russia then— only a little worse, with Ameri can troops in Siberia and Mur mansk. The northern Adriatic, as now, was the chief bone of contention at the Paris peace conference. Only it was Fiume Instead of Trieste which caused riots in the streets of Rome and Belgrade. “Jews Massacred, Robbed by Poles," was another tragic but familiar headline. “Foresees Jewish state in Palestine. Judge Julian Mack tells of atrocities and asks for migration to Jewish home land.” “Pershing denies large quantities of war goods destroyed in France.” “Rep. Emerson offers resolution asking war department to what ex tent soldiers were overcharged in France.” . . . “War department criticized for offering $4,000,000 worth of fabrics for sale at pub lic auction.” . . . “Sergeants arrest ed in Paris charged with theft of American stores.” When it came to strikes, race riots and soaring prices, the domestic scene of 1919 was even more alarming. Labor troubles caused far more blood shed. The alleged Communist menace was much worse. May day celebratipns in Chicago, Cleveland, Boston and New York produced riots, “citizens’ armies” and an untold number of skull and political fractures. By July 6, 1919, the army stood at 704,845, with 235,000 of these in Europe. Eight months later when the Junkers and German army seized power in Berlin, forcing the Ebert government to flee to Dres den, the American army of occupa tion totaled a nervous 18,000. Meanwhile, the war department was recommending a universal military training program of three months for all 18-year-olds—more or less as today. Unchecked by governmental pleas and voluntary programs, prices spiraled. Shoes were three times their prewar price and women’s stockings were offered at “2—$25 a pair.” Coffee prices jumped 7 cents a pound and, although the government declared 11 cents a pound a fair price for sugar, it was selling for 30 cents within a year. “Food now’ costs N. Y. residents 86 per cent more than six years ago,” announced the New York Times. Only a national “buyers’ strike” in 1920, with prominent society women feeding their families on a dollar a day while their husbands were wearing overalls to their Broadway of fices, changed the trend. New York clergymen were mak ing a survey of churches in an at tempt to ease the housing short age. Headlines on August 16, 1919, don’t seem out of place today. “Di rector General of Railroads Hines sees danger of coal gouging. Cau tions senate that rumors on short age may pave way for price ad vance.” . . . “Begin jailing Ger mans as war offenders.” . . . "Amendments to food control act supported and fought before con gress committees.” All this and prohibition too. “Thousands return to Europe, blaming prohibition here.” Not only were there strikes, but also there were the same, familiar strikes. Telegraph and telephone workers, maritime and a steel strike lasting into the fourth month. . . . Omaha faced a general strike. . . . In the spring of 1919, 10,000 men were locked out of the Willys- Overiand plant in Toledo, a strike committee controlled Winnipeg and police were using tnachine guns in Connecticut strike riots. In the fall of 1919 a United Mine Workers’ strike closed all bitumi nous coal mines and produced a news story headed “Lewis says mines’ demands are ‘subject to negotiation’ — puts blame on operators.” No, history is just the same. His tory always repeats after a war. • » • MERRY-GO-ROUND Gordon Clapp, who succeeds Da vid Lilienthal as head of TVA, has been a thorn in the side of job- hungry Senator McKellar for years. Clapp believes in the revolutionary practice of raising a man from the ranks when he does a good job, rather than handling McKellar polit ical plums. . . . Charles Bay, U. S. ambassador to Norway, came home to vote—and perhaps to look for greener diplomatic pastures. . . . William Pawley. U. S. ambassador to Brazil, is at Mayo clinic. Unfinished Letter for Special Delivery To Everybody Concerned in that Strike of 1,400 Airplane Pilots: Gentlemen: Even if it is all over when you get this, I am still scared. There is something about the very thought of a strike by airplane pilots that raises gooseflesh. I always like to think the guy in thero with all those instruments is satisfied. I like to feel that, while the lad in whose hands my life rests may be think ing of a lot of things, walking out of there is not one of them. ♦ To me the operator of one of those super planes is a sort of god with a little Sir Galahad, a little Tom Edison and a lot of Jimmy Doo little thrown in. The idea that he can under any circumstances look like John Lewis or an unhappy pick et floors me. It takes me right back from a state of being air-minded to one of being covered-wagon-minded. * No matter what I worried about up in the air, I always pictured the pilot as having nothing to take his mind off the altimeter:!, range find ers and various gauges; and I thought he was too busy to tiunk of money, longer weekends, the capi talistic system and what was said at the last union meeting. Now I am sick enough to go to bed at the discovery that way up there, skid ding around a cloud and plotting the right course to dodge the next mountain peak, a superdooper air plane pilot is just a workingman with a union card, a letter from a leader and maybe a conviction that the boss is a louse. • * I sort of had the notion when I was 5,000 feet up there I was where no national mediation boards, fact finding commissions, union de mands or picket lines could touch me. I felt sure the airplane bosses and the pilot were buddies and that the bosses would be as frightened as the passengers if they knew the skippers were sore about anything. * So I hope you have got every thing fixed up now for keeps, and that it can’t happen again. If it does, please keep it out of the pa pers. Here I have put in 15 years getting air-minded, and now all of a sudden I am back where I like bicycling. • * * Viewpoint on American Loans (Soviet Alleges America Enslaves Na tions It Helps—headline) I know he is a low, vile bum; He is exploiting me; I have the proof, with more to come— He aids me cheerfully! He’d make of me a helpless slave, A wooden stooge at best; Full evidence to me he gave— He grants me each request! We must beware of every tie And wary as we go; There can’t be good in any guy Who dishes out his dough. Let not suspicions fade at all! Beware of any man Who answers to a frantic call And does the best he can. The Good Samaritan we ban, That tale is pretty lame; When he helped out his fellow man ENSLAVEMENT WAS THE AIM! * • * CAN YOU REMEMBER— Array back when food was not a lux ury? * * * Things we didn’t know until now: That Congressman Sol Bloom got his start in life as boss of the Mid way at the Chicago World’s Fair and that he invented and produced the first hoochy-coochy show, in America there. Fioreila La Guardia, one of Sol’s best friends, said so in a laudatory article, urging his re-election. The campaign had been pretty uninteresting and we regarded this development as ter rific. To anybody who has watched congress function it is obvious that a hoochy-cooch dance background must be mighty helpful. • • * Office Affairs The phones in- business offices * Speed deals at record rates. The wires hum with big affairs— The girls are making dates. Pier. • • • Elmer Twitchell wants those for mer World Fair symbols at the fair grounds where the U. N. is meeting restored and another added. He has a blueprint showing a trylon, a per- isphere and a veto. • • • Controls are now of) liquor. A man ca” now get inflation and a hangover in one operation. • • * Want a Battlewagon? FOR SALE: One battleship (BB-37) the former “U.S.S. Okla homa”; total weight 24,300 tons. Moored in West Lock of Pearl Har bor. Bids accepted until November 28. Navy Material Disposal admin istration, Brooklyn, N. Y.”—Adv. m Just in case, as Tom Fitzpat rick says, you are disgusted with that outboard moiorboat. CLOUDBURST HITS TEXAS TOWN . . . Two young women of Beaumont, Texas, were forced to leave their flooded homes on the back of their pet pony. A cloudburst covered a large portion of the city with water ranging from several feet to inches deep. Most of the water receded within four days. LIF 2 ON THE ISLAND OF GUAM . . . Navy dependents living in the tropical village of Sinajana on the island of Guam have been furnished with a thriving community under the U. S. naval military government. The Guamanian version of the “little red school house” is being presided over by Mrs. Louise Garrison, Hono lulu. Mrs. Doris Estes, formerly of Auburn, Me., pages through a magazine in the living room. FIVE HUNDRED NEW DEPUTIES . . . Ready for action, more than 500 recruits were sworn in as special deputies by Sheriff George Han ley of Milwaukee to help the police department handle the Allis Chal mers strike at the plant at West Allis, Wis. The plant was closed on election day, but opened the following day with the picket line still active and cases of trouble from different groups of strikers as well as those who passed the picket line. CELEBRATE COMING OF THE “NEW JAPAN” . . . They have a brand new holiday in Japan as part of their “brave new world.” It is called the festival of the reconstruction of the new Japan. It was inaugurated in Tokyo to celebrate the reconstruction of the capital and the new Japanese constitution which was promulgated November 3. Photo shows the Omikoshi shrine, which was carried in the parade. Such shrines are brought from the temples only on ra:'e occasions. LIFE-SIZE . . . Amanda Allers- meyer, New York City, has select ed her Christmas doll early. She found out that Santa Claus had ordered a large number of life- sized dolls, an indication that this Christmas dolls will be big. ANSWERS MOLOTOV . . . War ren R. Austin, chief U. S. dele gate to the U. N. general assem bly, has taken the lead in answer ing Russia’s foreign minister, Mo lotov, on plans to police atomic energy and other issues. A STRIKING picture came along a few weeks ago. This was a Pop Warner picture of Alonzo Stagg returning to the Midway and Stagg field at the U. of Chicago for a look around, before the Northwestern game. The amazing part of this snap shot of Lonnie with the snow-white hair was the fact that he fir^ came to Chi cago as a coach just 56 years ago, back in 1890. At the age of 84, this amazing veter an is still an alert, hard-working coach with the College of the Pacific, and the 56 interven ing years had failed to slow him down with the thin material he had at hand. This picture of Stagg back home again reminded us of great coaches of the past, Pop Warner and Hurry- up Yost, long before the days of Knute Rockne and Percy Haughton. In talking over old times with a veteran group of football manda rins, it was generally agreed that Pop Warner, now forgotten, was the master of them all. Pop is now walking with a cane and a crippled knee around his gar den at Palo Alto, Calif. Pop isn’t far from 80. Bui more than 40 years ago, when the game was young and there were no precedents to work with, it was Pop who brought in the single and the double wing and other innovations that still remain today. It was Pop who discov ered Jim Thorpe at Carlisle, when Jim was a slender young Indian of some 16 years, weighing around 150 pounds. It was Pop who built the Carlisle Indians into a drawing card that today would rank above even Army and Notre Dame on a general aver age. Thorpe, Guyon, Calac, Metoxen, Hauser, Bemus Pierce, Little Wolf and Little Bear, Mt. Pleasant, Hud son — remember any of these, old-timers? They were among foot ball’s greats. Greatest in Football “Pop Warner should be the great est name in football,” a veteran coach said. “Yes, Rockne was great. Knute had the most amazing per sonality football has ever known. Knute was the most popular coach of all time. And a great one. But Pop Warner gave the game more than any of the others when he had Carlisle, Pittsburgh and Stanford. Pop wasn’t a handshaker. He was direct, abrupt and at times brusque. He said what he thought. He was no diplomat. But he was the only man that Jim Thorpe both feared and respected when Jim was king.” There happened to be at least 10 old-timers in this midnight group. All agreed that Pop' was the top— the game’s greatest genius. I’ll vote with Red Blaik of Army along these lines. Another great coach, in some ways the greatest of modern times, is Tom Hamilton of Navy. Tom Hamilton did more for college foot ball than all other coaches put to gether—and I mean all of them in one compact mass. Except for Hamilton’s Navy V and Navy pre flight teams, there would have been no college football from 1942 through 1945. College football should erect a statue or a monument to Hamilton, too high for Luckman, Baugh or Dobbs to cover with a pass—or a kick. He has been the big man of foot ball during the last four years for the job he did of saving college foot ball, whatever happens to him in this waning season of 1946. I hap pen to know the inside story of the fight made against him to abolish college football in 1942, and the val iant stand he took against heavy odds, the odds that Hamilton loves. * • * Kickers and Passers The growth of “air travel” in foot ball—particularly professional foot ball—is one of the features of this air-minded age. I refer to passing and kicking. Passers such as Luckman, Baugh, Dobbs, Ace Parker, Filchock, Christman, etc.,have increased in importance from year to year. And there soon will be a new flock head ing in from the colleges—Gilmer, Layne, Wedemeyer, etc., who will be in big demand when their cam pus time is over. A group of pro coaches recently was atguing about the fastest backs. “I see,” one said, “where Halas names McAfee. I’d say Gallemeau on his own club was even faster. He can fly.” “What about Franck of the Giants?” another asked. “He can also move.” Greasy Neale still refuses to be lieve any of these can outrun Steve Van Buren with a football under ei ther arm. This led to another argument— who is the best combination kicker and passer — Baugh of the Red skins or Dobbs of the Brooklyn Dodgers? Both are great passers and both are among the best kick ers. Both can call on a play that so few use—the quick kick. It is the greatest yard gainer of all. Frock Versatile And Charming CCALLOPS down the front dis- ^ tinguish this charming daytime frock. The belt ties softly in front, and there’s the popular high slit neckline. Picture it in a striped grey flannel or jewel-tone solid tones. You’ll wear it all winter with pride. Pattern No. 8007 is for sizes 12, 14. 16, 18. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14 requires 3% yards of 35 or 39-inch. 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