Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. R. C. PROSPECTIVE POLICY WASHINGTON.—With Repubrcan leaders gathering in the capital to begin organizing their own G.O.P.- ruled congress for the first time in 16 years, here is a merry-go-round view of what the country can expect during the next two years: FOREIGN POLICY — On the sur face there will be no outward change. Later, however, important changes will become apparent. The British already are worried over our swing to the right. BUDGET—The three largest ex penditures of government are for army-navy, veterans and service on the national debt. These can’t be pruned — unless the Republicans want to cut down the army and navy, which they are not likely to do. Easiest pruning job, therefore, is ca foreign loans and relief. UNRRA will be the first to go. A 200 million dollar loan to Italy, planned by Truman, will be ditched next. Other loans to European and latin American countries will be axed. This is where one change in foreign policy comes in. The Italian loan was planned in or der to help struggling Italian democracy and prevent Italy’s swing to Russian Communism. Midwest Republicans, many of them still privately isolationist, will veto this. However, the end of several war time expenditures such as price sub sidies and service separation pay ments should permit balancing the budget. TAXES—Despite current talk of tax relief for small wage earners, there will be only minor tax cuts. One of two things will happen. Ei ther expenditures will be such as to forbid major tax reduction. Or a cut will be made in the lower brack ets, after which G.O.P. congress men, pressured by higher-bracket groups, won’t be able to resist the temptation to get aboard the gravy train. If they add tax reduction for the higher brackets, it means that Truman will veto the bill. TARIFFS — Midwest Republicans would like to go back to the old Hoover high tariffs. Some of the eastern Republicans from manufac turing regions wall go along with them. If they get going in earnest, however, there will be a stalemate. Truman will veto. LABOR—One Republican faction favors immediate and outright re peal of the entire Wagner act. How ever, they know this 'would bring a veto and that the veto probably would be sustained. Another G.O.P. group wants to avoid antagonizing labor. Certain AFL leaders, espe cially John L. Lewis and Bill Hutch inson, carpenters’ boss, helped them win the election, and they want to keep labor happy for 1948. Therefore, the following compromise is prob able: 1. The Case bill will be passed once again, and this time will become law. Even if Truman vetoes, which is doubtful, south ern Democrats and the strong G.O.P. majority will be able to override the White House. 2. Senator Ball’s bill, putting labor unions under the anti-trust laws, also will be adopted. IMMIGRATION—Republicans are traditionally hostile to immigration and minority groups* and the house immigration committee now is in herited by Rep. Noah Mason of Illi nois, well-known witch-hunter. Dis placed persons in Europe will get little comfort from Mason. A re vived and stronger “Dies commit tee’’ can be expected—probably in both houses of congress. AGRICULTURE — No major change in the farm program is in prospect for the next two years. However, you will hear the same cry for parity prices on farm prod ucts. Co-ordination of all farm agencies wall be demanded. ECONOMIC OUTLOOK — Prices generally will rise during the next six months, although not so rapidly, and with some commodities such as food and textiles dropping in the winter. Food prices should slump after the Argentine and Australian crops are harvested in February. Clothing and furniture prices should come down soon, certainly after Christmas. Autos wall remain scarce for some time. Rent control will be dumped with in about six months, although the Republicans will be too smart to re peal it outright. They will pass the buck back to the individual states, which will mean the virtual end of rent comrols, since state legislatures are notoriously susceptible to real- estate lobbies. That, in brief, is the future G.O.P. congressional picture. » • • CAPITAL CHAFF The big brass of the navy depart ment has been pleading with Adm. W. M. Miller, retired, now TWA vice president, to return to his old job as chief of public information. But it’s no dice. Miller quit because of meddling advice from Vice Admiral Carpender. . . . Death in office is | the only thing that has ever removed a president of the United States while serving his term. Andrew Johnson escaped impeachment by one vote in 1868, but no president has ever resigned. England Gets Back to Normal Things are returning to normal in England faster than we thought. Jewel robberies now are considered important enough to be mentioned among life’s major annoyances. * Scotland Yard, cat burglars, pal ace jobs, international rings and super jool criminals are back in the British headlines. News that Lon doners who survived the blitz now are disturbed by little things like loss of the family gems is cheering. Things must be looking up. » It is close to a decade since a Brit isher on the home grounds felt like even making a complaint if he got home and found nothing worse had happened than ransacking of a dressing table. * The Duke and Duchess of Wind- 1 sor come right out and admit a loss of $80,000 worth of ice. It is only now that they would admit it made any difference. • Scotland Yard is hot after the jewel robbers but we think the thieves are doing the world a favor. They are flashing the glad news that the war is well into the background and that once again some of the worst things that can happen to you can be endured without a bomb shel ter. * It shows that England really Is recovering faster than some of her allies. No jewelry ring has been an nounced in France yet. Russia hasn’t bee i bothered by a cat burglar. Even in America we are not yet ing the big stolen-string-of-pearls stage of recovery, but caught some where between the Miss America re newals and the price of Christmas liquor. • It’s nice to have Scotland Yard back. It seems such a long time since it was found anywhere except on radio programs. ♦ With Scotland Yard intact and “Mister Inspector” on the job once more, the routine of happier years returns. We should not have to wait long now before hearing about the tailor who buried eight waves in an old well in Sussex and the profes sor of chemistry who amused him self by experiments with arsenic on housemaids. • But one thing disturbs Americans. We have supposed the British were having as much trouble eating as we are. Yet the main objective on the crime wave there is a ruby, not a lambchop; an emerald, not a hamburger. How come? • • • “Bourbon whisky will cost S10 a fifth by Christmas.”—News item: * ff'e stand at Armageddon and we “bot tle" for inflation. • • • * So You Never Saw A1 Jolson BLAST WRECKS SCHOOL . . . Crowds of anxious parents and volunteer rescue workers gathered quickly at the Baroda consolidated school at Baroda, Mich., following a boiler explosion in the base ment of the school which killed one child and injured at least 16 others. When reports were first received at Chicago rescue planes with medical supplies were rushed to the scene. A1 Jolson’s life story has been put on the screen. A1 doesn’t appear in it. A young movie actor, Larry Parks, plays the role while Al’s voice is synchronized into the picture. Parks does a good job but there was only one Jolson and no imitator could ever touch him although hundreds tried. Never to have seen Jolson is to have missed one of the most electric personalities the stage ever knew. * He wasn’t just a comedian; he was a battery with a voice, an electric charger with a human per sonality, a bolt of lightning in black face. He was a thing of watts and amperage. No doctor ever took Jol son’s pulse; they took his voltage. * You felt Jolson’s presence while he was still in the wings and when he swept onto the stage it was like seeing a four-ring circus break out of an egg. • He was a great showman without seeming to be, a super comedian who never had to cram the idea down your throat. Jolson al ways seemed to be having more fun than the audience, and it always seemed to us that he played a 30th performance with all the vitality and sparkle of a first night. * You hummed the Jolson tunes as you filed out of the theater. You told his stories for weeks. * What a man! And, come to think of it, he never boasted about the big salary he was getting, wrote a book or did a column as a side line. Maybe it was two other fellows, after all. * • * SITUATION WANTED. That day, indeed, IT1 dance and sing And laugh and rave and holler When guys will do most anything To earn an honest dollar. —Pier. • * * “Price ceilings have been takei from radios, fats and oils” — Newi \ item. * Our dealer can’t get us a radio and he hasn’t any fats or oils that will give us Fred Allen or Henry ]\floruon. HONOR YANK PIGEON . . . Credited with flying 20 miles in 20 minutes with a message that saved the lives of 100 Allied soldiers during the Italian campaign, “G.I. Joe,” a U. S. army pigeon receives Britain’s highest award for animal valor, the Dickin Medal, in a ceremony at the historic tower of London. "It was the first time a bird or animal ever received this medal. Maj. Gen. Sir Charles Keightley is decorating the pigeon. Insert is a close-up of “G.I. Joe.” ESCAPE IN FRANKFURT . . . Although it must seem unusually tame to people who have looked aloft in terror as Allied bombers showered down their loads of death and destruction, the aerial show in battered Frankfurt proved a main attraction for war-weary citi zens who tried to forget a multitude of troubles that beset them. IN THE GOOD OLD WINTER TIME . . . They are traveling a mile a minute on their water skis at Cypress Gardens, Fla., but Bill Silzle, who hails from Anaheim, Calif, (and if this be treason, make the most of it) finds time to put “the eye” on Nancy Stilley, Florida aquatic star. If the California chamber of commerce wants to know why Bill is vacationing in Florida, away from his own sun- kissed bailiwick, the Florida chamber of commerce will answer. PORTIA’S PORTIA . . . Adele I. Springer, New York City, recent ly elected head of the National Association of Women Lawyers, has called upon men and women of America for united action to establish law and order. ADMIRAL BYRD HONORED ... Rear Adm. Richard Evelyn Byrd planning another Antarctic expedition, who was recently presented a gold star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit for out standing secret service during re cent war years. NOBEL WINNER . . . Prof. Don ald W. Kerst, 35, University of Illinois physicist, who has been announced as a 1946 winner of the Nobel prize for his contribu tion to physics on his research pertaining to atomic science. FRENCH HOPE . . . Displaying his double might with which he hopes to take American pugilis tic honors and earn some of the good old American currency, Marcel Cerdan, French boxer, shows his fists at American em bassy while awaiting visa. SWEDISH HEIR . . . Six-month- old Prince Carl Gustaf, third in line of succession to the Swedish throne, poses for first photo. The young prince is the first son of Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prin cess Sibylla. 'T'HE hot spot of baseball in 1947 will be the Yankees—the Yank ees and Larry MacPhail. For both are hot spots. Even with a team that finished third last season, the Yankees smashed all past at tendance records by an incredible mar gin. They were the first major league team in history to pass the two mil lion mark with a few hundred thou sand to spare. But what about 1947? The new man ager of the Yank ees, Bucky Harris,' Bucky Harris is one of the best in baseball. His assistant is Charlie Dressen of the Dodgers, who, among the insiders, is given almost equal credit with Leo Durocher for the remarkable showing of the Dodgers last season. Dressen is one of the most under rated men in baseball. He has proved in the past to be an able manager and he has proved with Brooklyn’s nimble Dodgers that he could slip into the second slot and still be a star. The combination of Harris and Dressen should give the Yankees ranking class at the top. Their next problem will be a ball club that can handle the Red Sox-Tiger threat in 1947. MacPhail is not the type to ac cept a third-place brand with what you might call equanimity. Mac Phail is too fiery and keen a per sonage to accept the general verdict that it will take tw& or three years to bring the Yankees from the bar ren lands into the uplands, which they held and defended for so long a time. A team that has Robinson as catch er, plus an able infield—Heinrich at first, Stirnweiss at second, Rizzuto at short and Brown at third—plus DiMaggio, Keller and others in the outfield, can’t go badly two years in a row. What about the pitching? One an swer is that Yankee pitching allowed fewer earned runs last season than any other club except the Cardinals. New men will be added and the present guess is that the Yankees of 1947 will be a long leap beyond the Yankees of 1945. Their hitless postwar dip should be over by now, especially with such normally good hitters as DiMaggio, Rizzuto, Stim- weiss and Heinrich. • * • The Army-Navy Game Pomp and pageant still mean a lot to this country. Army and Navy at Philadelphia will be a sellout for 104,000 spectators, even if Army fig ures to win by 40 to 0. Which Army won’t do. While it appears as though there has never been an Army-Navy game that looked as one-sided, it must be remembered that Navy still has good football players. Navy has had a rough road this season, but so has Army. It will be different after 1946. Navy next fall probably will return better material than Army will have. Navy is taking her postwar shel lacking now. Navy already is pass ing through her major depression. Army still has one to face, as far as anyone can see. Any team that loses Blanchard, Davis, Foldberg, Poole, Tucker, Fuson and Enos, with only two replacements left from the 1946 starting team, must stare into the shadows for some time to come. Army-Navy games are always closer than they figure to be. A year ago, Army ran up 21 points against Navy in the early going. Everyone looked for a 40 to 0 count. But after that first crash, Navy had the better of the argument in the last two periods. So there not only will be an Army- Navy game, but also 104,000 specta tors will be on hand to see it. And it can be a much closer meeting than one might predict. • « • Football vs. Baseball No matter how peaceful the sky line seems to be, there is always someone taking the joy out of life. Now an inquisitive correspondent wants to know which game draws the greater number of people—foot ball or baseball. He also asks for an exact check on this count. For one thing, baseball has a far longer season—five and a half months against two and a half months. For another thing there are close to 200 football teams with varying degrees of real drawing power as compared to a consider able less number of baseball teams that can match this collection at the gate. Big league baseball last season drew close to 18 million customers through the turnstiles. The Yank ees drew well over two million ad missions in 154 games. No college or pro football team can match this count in nine or 10 games. Army, Notre Dame, Michigan, Navy, Pennsylvania and Ohio State are among the leaders this fall. They should average around 400,000 spec tators each. For example, Army drew 86,000 at Michigan, 80,000 against Notre Dame, 75,000 against Pennsylvania, and will play before 100,000 against Navy. 5 o r* * * ufe Sure Thing Do you think a bald-headed man has much chance of success? Why, he’s already out on top. Commonplace Passenger—Does this bus stop at the Ritzmore hotel? Conductor—Now, we put it in the bam at night. Such Grace “Swimming is excellent for de veloping grace and poise.” "Oh, yeah! Haven’t you ever seen a duck?” A prominent woman declares women do not wear slacks to imitate men. Thus the last pos sible excuse disappears. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOB. MEN-WOMEN—Sell two great nationally advertised medicines now available tor agents. Al-O-Pine Wonder Rub tor rheuma tism, arthritis, athlete’s foot. River Jordan Tonic—a terrific seller. For better eating, sleeping and pep. Wonderful deal and big profits waiting your inquiry. Write now. RIVER JORDAN CO. 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