Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. MORE DUPLICATION WASHINGTON. — President Tru man is a sincere, hard-plugging ad vocate of unified armed services, but he should persuade his army to obey the policy of its commander-in-chief. At present the army is building a special wing to Walter Reed hos pital at 12th and Dahlia streets in Washington which will exactly dupli cate the navy’s. This wing is to take care of the President of the United States. Simultaneously, the navy also has a floor of its Bethesda Nai/al hospi tal reserved for the President. It is all set to take care of him at any time. However, medical officers have changed in the White House and a navy doctor isn’t in command any more. The army now runs the show. Roosevelt, always partial to the navy, appointed Adm. Ross M'In- tire White House physician. But Tru man, who served in the army, se lected Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham as White House physician. And of course an army doctor does net like to practice in a naval hos pital. Therefore the army medical corps, wanting to avoid the humility of sending ‘he President to a naval hospital, authorized a new wing to the Walter Reed Army hospital. Thus, at the expense of thousands of feet of scarce lumber, tons of strategic metal and several thousand bricks, the special wing for the President is being built. • « * U.S. VS. U.S.S.R. DEMOCRACY Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes has been telling the fol lowing story about the differ ence between democracy in Rus sia and the United States. “An American soldier,” he re lates.. “was talking to a Russian soldier in Berlin. The American said that in his country, he could go to Washington without a per mit, go to the White House, wait his turn, get in to see the Presi dent and tell him that he doesn’t like American foreign policy. ‘That’s democracy,’ said the G.I. “ ‘That’s nothing,’ the Russian soldier replied. ‘In my country I can go to Moscow, knock on the door of the Kremlin, walk in, wait my turn, see Stalin, bang on the desk and say, “Mr. Stalin, I don’t like Truman’s for eign policy either!” And noth ing would happen to me. Thai’s real democracy.’ ” • • • SUPPRESSED REPORT While President Truman and oth er high government officials con tinue their enthusiastic support of the new Philippine government of President Roxas, there remain locked in the files of the White House and Attorney Gen. Tom Clark two copies of a report which, if made public, has explosive power nearly as great as that of the sup pressed Rogge report. The Philippine report was written by a special investigator sent to Manila last winter to determine what action should be taken against islanders who had collaborated with Jap occupation authorities. Inside fact is it pins guilt on nearly all the leaders of the present Philippine ad ministration. Documentary evidence of collaborationist records of a large part of the present senate, cabinet and President Roxas himself is in cluded. The charges include such crim inal acts as aiding the Japs to wipe out patriot guerrillas, conspiring to seize food from famished Filipinos for use by the Jap armies, in addi tion to the declaration of war against the United States in 1944. Although the vast majority of the Filipinos hated and resisted the Jap*, corruption spread through the top layers of political and industrial leaders. Result was that the justice department investigators recom mended that the most important col laborationist clique be tried not in the Philippines, where it would be difficult to find a native court com pletely free of bias, but in San Fran cisco. Reason this recommendation was never acted upon, officials say, was largely Gen. Douglas MacArthur. * * * UNDER THE DOME Speaker Sam Rayburn doesn’t want the job of minority leade:'. . . . Southern congressmen are not en thusiastic over continuing the lead ership of Massachusetts’ John Mc Cormack and they have the votesuo put him in or out. . . . One fixture in the capitol regardless of political turnover will be the Rev. James Shera Montgomery,- the house chap lain. Appointed by the Republicans in 1921, he was continued by the Democrats. •; * MERRY GO ROUND All cabinet members are strength ening their legal staffs, knowing they face the most exhaustive series of congressional investigations in the last 20 years. . . . Retiring Speaker Sam Rayburn tells friends that he will serve in the house only one more term. Sam has been a con gressional fixture for 35 years, now wants to retire. . . . Nine members of the new senate are former news paper men and publishers; three are f jrmer teachers. Sixty-four senators are lawyers, the largest group. Open Diplomacy, Take It Away The “open convenants openly ar rived at” idea begins to look like a mistake. The old style behind-the- door diplomacy may have seemed bad, but it sounded better. * Monkey wrenches weren’t half as alarming when they were invisible. * The world thought that if it could make diplomats do their stuff out in the open it would get some where, but the goings on at all the peace sessions since have proved double-talk was less disturbing when it wasn’t put through ampli fiers. f * The only difference is that now you get the plots, suspicions and hard feelings in technicolor and the words by international hookup, all of which leave nothin'; to illusion, | kicks hope in the pants and makes peace seem like something that can only be attained by television. ♦ Mankind is speaking openly. And he doesn’t sound good. * The views of the diplomats are now sprayed into homes everywhere and they are leaving the occupants j more troubled and befuddled than if they had been given nothing but sketchy transcripts. * In the so-called days of dark diplomacy we got a weekly sum mary of what the peacemakers were saying and thinking. It never scared the public as much as play- by-play broadcasts. ♦ There seems to be just as much dirty work at the crossroads as ever. And it is much more dis turbing with the added super pro duction and sound effects. We used to be alarmed by occasional ru- ; mors. Now we are made doubly apprehensive through being able to see and hear the villains as they still pursue her. ♦ Everything said and done by the United Nations is now on the up and up, and the net result is to indicate that the greatest menace to world peace is speechmaking with no cuts. The last world war saw a p°ace brought about in fewer lan guages and no radio assistance. Our impression is that if there had been microphones in those days, the orators would still have been talk ing. * Open diplomacy is all right if it is not so open that it gets con fused v/ith the commericals, the soap operas and the radio audi tions. • The idea of having all the cards on the table is swell. But it might be just as well if the interludes when the boys play gin rummy were not broadcast. * The best thing that could happen to all bodies at work on peace would be a general loss of voice by the delegates, coupled with a realiza tion that a better world cannot be developed exclusively through the gas works. * * * SAME OLD DESIGNS The New York horse show, renewed for the first time since Pearl Harbor, drew tremendous crowds. We will say this about horses: They come through without strikes, the models do not change every season and you always know there is no gadget on them en which you can light a cigar. * * * Another Freedom Gone THREE NEW U. N. MEMBERS . . . Seated in front of the dais at the U. N. general assembly are the representatives of three nations ad mitted to membership in the United Nations. They are shown as they listen to Paul Henri Spaak, center on dais, as he welcomed them to the fold. Left on dais is Trygve Lie, secretary general. At right is assistant secretary Ivan Kevno. Seated in front are Oesten Unden, Sweden; Thor Thors, Iceland, and Aboul Hosayn Aziz, Af ghanistan, new delegates. WINNERS OF NOBEI, PEACE PRIZE ... Dr. John R. Mott, New York, left, secretary-general of the World Student Christian federa- ation, and Miss Emily Greene Balch, Wellesley, Mass., president of the International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom, who were awarded jointly the 1946 Nobel Peace prize by the Norwegian par liamentary committee of the Nobel awards commission. Four other Americans won awards in physics and chemistry. Life is getting to be pretty cir cumscribed. A man can’t even call a rattlesnake his own. Ralph But ler, a New York man, had a six foot rattler that was his closest friend and pet. He kept it in his apartment, where he found it quite companionable and, in many ways, far ahead of humans he knew. But there were complaints. And a court has taken the viper away. * We sympathize with Mr. Butler . . . Personally, we wouldn’t want a rattler within 10 miles of us, al though they often get much closer. But if a man cottons to them and finds they can be trusted, is it fair to part them? Is it fair to the man? Is it fair to the rattler? * We pause for a reply. Not get ting any, we hold that it is pretty tough to ‘force Butler to go out and find his rattlesnakes in politics and social life like the rest of us. * * * Maybe the drop in cotto* prices is due to the fact so much of it is now coming out of the automobile upholstery. * * * “One thousand beauty shop workers culled strike.”—News item. WELL-DRESSED SOLDIERS . . . Clothing for use In heavy winter conditions is being tested at “Task Force Frost,” Camp McCoy, Wis. From left to right are Pfc. George R. Deal, Big Stone Gap, Va., in ski mountain boots, gaiters and cotton parka with liner; Pfc. Alvis Goins, LaFollette, Tenn., in Arctic shoes, overwhite trousers, parka and winter mask; Pvt. Eugene Tranthan, Springfield, Mo., in mukluks, pile lined parka overcoat; G.I. in air forces parka B-7; and Pfc. Robert Wentermute, Newton, N. J., in sleeping suit. Now for a demonstration of whether anything on earth can stop a woman bound for a facial from crossing a picket line. * * 4 Now a strike of workers in the meat-packing industry is threat ened. Anything to make it a little tougher on the kitchen. TWIN NURSES CARE FOR TRIPLETS . . . Student nurses and twin sisters. Georgette, left, and Colette Dussault, St. Albans, Vt., hold the Skicke triplets, ail boys, born at the Brady Maternity hospital, Albany, N. Y., to Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Skicke. The triplets aie the first chil dren born to the Skickes. All are in excellent health and thriving. So far they have not expressed themselves about their good fortune in having the twin nurses take care of them. OFF TO COLLEGE . . . Roy Fox, 11, complete with bag and Rhode sian college hat, is shown in Lon don ready to depart for Rhodesia to attend Fairbridge college at In- duna. He is one of 700 recruited from British families. ‘JIMMY’ WALKER DIES . . . James J. Walker, New York City’s most colorful mayor, who died as the result of a blood clot on the brain. The ready-witted politician and former song writer was ill only three days before he passed away. SIGNS COAL ORDER . . . Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough. Washington, D. C., who signed temporary order restraining John L. Lewis, head of the UMW from terminating the Krug-Lewis agree ment and calling a strike of all soft coal mine workers. FIRST G.I. BABY IN JAPAN . . . To Mrs. Melina Rita Dugas, wife of Chief Gunner’s Mate Robert J. Dugas, Milwaukee, Wis., goes the distinction of giving birth to the first child born to navy personnel in Japan. CURES BY MUSCLE POWER . . . Mrs. Estrid Dane has won fame throughout England for her cures of baby deformities. She does it by a series of exercises in which the baby’s own muscle pull is the factor. Infantile paralysis is among her cures which include most children ailments. YX/ITH so many rumors and so *' ’ many reports concerning sal aries ranging from $1,000 to $12,000 for college football players, one be- gins to wonder what can be done about it. It has been im possible to get any set facts, since alumni and outside interests are large ly responsible for most of the deals and arrangements, and all you run into is quick and often bitter denials. But a good part of the sal ary scandal is undoubtedly true. We put the problem up to one of the ablest and best college presi dents, who also has been badly wor ried over the situation. “In the first place,” he said, “those controlling the rules of col lege amateurism say no athlete car be paid. But, in permitting schol arships, they violate their own rules, since scholarships are worth from $500 to $1,000. “I believe that a football player is entitled to a scholarship. I also believe he is entitled to a job that will help to pay his expenses. I also believe that it is important he take a standard educational course, and not some easy course set up for football players. The main idea is to get an education, to keep up in class work. Adding two and a half hours of practice and play to the daily college schedule should en title the player to a scholarship re ward. I think this reward should be officially recognized. “I am completely against any other form of pay for play. If a football player is paid as much as $15 a month for expenses you have not only professionalism but the opening wedge to a professional scan dal. The $15 will sdon lead to $50, then to $500 and then to much more. This must be stopped.” Difficult to Control “Don’t you think,” I asked, “that I college presidents should be respon- i sible for the enforcement of ama- i teur football? They must or should . know what is going on.” “Where so many financial ar- j rangements are made by alumni and other outside parties away from the campus, how can the college presi dent know?” he asked. “But he at least can be held responsible for see ing that h.is players are bona fide students who attend proper classes and keep up in their work. If we are given proper rules and regula tions to enforce we are in much better shape to meet the situation which undoubtedly is getting out of hand in many places.” I have seen ads in leading news papers asking for college alumni to subscribe to football funds. One coach told me that with only $50,889 on band he had no chance to compete with other teams which had a fund of $100,000 to back them. There are many ways this fund can be used. Either directly with the player or with the player’s fa ther. I know of one case, given to me by responsible parties, where a certain father was paid as much as $5,000 to see that his football-playing son, naturally a good one, attended a designated college. Needing the $5,000 badly, the father made the proper arrangements, and there is almost no chance that he will talk j about it. It is a deal hard to uncover or to expose. The South admits cer tain financial arrangements, charg ing that other sections are equally guilty, but keep their deeds cov ered up. Charges and counter charges are being thrown back and forth with increasing venom. Sectioned Strife One of the main reasons the Big Nine has voted to play in the Rose Bowl game is to keep that $100,000 fund from going to southern teams, where, as I was told, “they take this money and then raid the North and East. We’ll stop that. Also, we are against teams from the West and North playing southern teams.” This would mean that the South would have to depend on the Cotton Bowl (possibly), the Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl, where only the Sugar Bowl can approach the Rose Bowl reward. The best solution seems to be the Ivy league — which in the main plays only in its own circuit. Yet here, too, close observation reveals certain mutterings. The Big Nine and the Southwest build most of their schedules among themselves. So does the Far West. The South doesn’t go away from ;its borders too often. As one leading southern coach told me: “The trouble with the South is that we spend most of our time at tacking one another. We know other sections are equally vulnerable, equally at fault. But the pressure is so heavy to win in the South that we lose most of our judgment. Someone is always accusing some neighboring coach or college. We are far from being simon pure, but what section is? For my part, I’d much rather get back to playing with students who come to us of their own accord. It would make for better sportsmanship. Grantland Rice Happy Days for Sluggish Folks WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel punk as the dickens, brings on stomach upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take Dr. Caldwell's famous medicine to quickly pull the trigger on lazy “in nards”, and help you feel bright and chipper again. DR. CALDWELL’S;a the wonderful sen na laxative contained in good old Syrup Pepsin to make it so easy to take. MANY DOCTORS use pepsin prepara tions in prescriptions to make the medi cine more palatable and agreeable to take. So be sure your laxative is con tained in Syrup Pepsin. INSIST ON DR. 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