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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. NATLRAL GAS VS. LEWIS WASHINGTON.—It has now been more than a year since it was sug gested in this column that the only way to counteract John L. Lewis was to convert our two war-built, government-owned pipelines to nat ural gas. In the interim not a single move toward conversion has been made. In the interim also millions of cu bic feet of Texas and Louisiana natural gas have gone up in smoke and will never be recovered. Most people don’t realize that this is one of our most valuable natural re sources. Nevertheless, much of it is burned up in Texas as waste gas or allowed to escape. At some Texas oil wells a constant blaze is kept going, night and day, in or der to bum off surplus gas. Reason for the government’s fail ure to convert the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines to gas is not entirely red tape, nor the secret opposition of John L. Lewis. Vigorously pull ing wires to keep the pipelines away from natural gas are the railroads and the coal operators. They are Lewis’ secret allies. Illustrative of this wire-pulling is a natural gas pipeline only 1C miles from Washington, D. C., which orings gas from West Virginia. Origi- aally the pipeline was constructed to feed the nation’s capital, but the :oal industry and the railroads blocked the entrance of natural gas into Washington. They were bring ing in coal which the gas company then converted into expensive arti ficial gas. So for 10 years West Virginia nat ural gas flowed to within sight of the nation’s capital but was never per mitted to come into the city. Only during the war was this finally changed. Now the West Virginia pipeline has been tapped and Wash ington, at long last, is using cheap natural gas. * * • Most amusing sight on the merry-go-round scene today is the frantic scramble of the so cialites, the lobbyists and the lo cal power politicians to get re ligion in a hurry. In this case, religion is better known as the GOP. After 14 years of Demo cratic rule, the Republicans were so far down the social list they almost developed an inferi ority complex. But now they are staging a grand comeback. In vitations to once-scorned Repub lican senators and congressmen have doubled and tripled, as hostesses bid for the newly won prestige of GOP solons. * * * SCAN LABOR HORIZON One veteran senator and one new comer are destined to play leading roles in GOP labor relations in the aext congress. The veteran is ag gressive, square-shooting Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine. The newcomer is Sen. Irving M. Ives, scholarly, 50-year-old New York Republican, who had an impressive labor record in the N. Y. state assembly and at Cornell university. It was Ives who fathered th bi partisan committee on labor legisla tion in the New York legislature, and steps now are being taken pri vately to set up a similar committee in congress. Chief behind-the-scenes plugger for this plan is Brewster. Already he has had some confidential chats with labor spokesmen, has warned that unless they play ball, drastic legis lation scuttling the Wagner act is sure to be enacted. Brewster’s idea is to negotiate a covenant for labor peace between congress and labor, which could, if successful, obviate the need of rough, legislative crackdowns. Such a peace pact might take the form af a strike moratorium or an agree ment to arbitrate major disputes. Come what may, some labor curbs, including revision of the Wag ner act, seem certain to be voted, but Brewster believes these curbs can be tempered in direct propor tion to labor’s ability to control its own mavericks. I • * * For some strange reason, Sec retary of State Byrnes has be come awfully jittery about hav ing a senate committee probe what’s goii^: on in Germany. He is putting all sorts of ob stacles in the path of the old Truman committee’s investiga tion of the reported breakdown of American morale in Germany and the secret flirtation of some C. S. business firms with Nazi cartels. Several members of the committee, now the Kilgore com mittee, flew up to New York for a session with Byrnes regarding this, but he remained adamant. Artificial Snowflakes The General Electiic Corp. Gentlemen: Must you make me feel depressed, sour and apprehensive? Is it fail for you to go out of your way tc spread gloom and disillusionment? Can’t you do something about that man Vincent J. Shaefer, one of your head scientists? * ’ Nothing has saddened us so much in years as a headline the other morning—“General Electric Makes Real Snowflakes.” And the subhead —“V. J. Shaefer finds way to pro duce genuine crystals.” We are cry ing still. * If there was one thing tha', we thought this world would be able tc retain in the time-honored form, with no substitutes or imitations, it was the snowflake. I was always a warm friend of snowflakes. I might say I loved them from boyhood up.They were beautiful beyond words; some thing too lovely to be dreamed of as the work of man. I thought of God when I looked out on a moonlight night and saw the snowflakes drift ing down like so many jewels. And so did most people. * Oh, sometimes I thought, too, of Heaven, the skies, the glamorous mysteries of nature; yes, and my thoughts wandered to sleigh bells, double-rippers and a white Christ mas. But you can be sure of some thing: I never thought of the Gen eral Electric corporation. I never, in my life, looked at a snowflake and thought of Schenectady, N. Y. i» Tell me it isn’t so, Owen Young! Just tell me you have just made a plastic flake, a cheap substitute, Mr. Shaefer; everything in this troubled world has been altered, shaken up, all fouled up and monkeyed with. The snowflake was about the one thing left untouched. It alone stood out in the original form, with a glamour all its own and a mystery untampered with. Who wants to see a child look out the window at the crystals from fairyland on a win ter morning and exclaim, “Oh, mumsy! Look what General Elec tric is doing!? * Who wants to hear anybody recit ing Whittier— The snow had begun in the gloam jig And busily all the night Had been heaping field and high way With Schenectady products white. . . . • Repudiate the whole thing. Gener al Electric. Or there will be trou ble. This country will never accept without a fight the prospect of coast ing down hill on factory-made snow, • • • The’ Big Four Take an Elevator at the Waldorf Byrnes—This is the one we take, I believe. Molotov—I object to such an abrupt conclusion, amounting almost to a directive, without debate. Bevin—Oh, this is an express to j the 37th floor all right. Let’s not quibble. Molotov—You say it is all right and Mr. Byrnes says it is all right, but I must insist that does not make it necessarily so. Byrnes—If it is the considered judgment of the gentleman from the Soviet Union that another elevator be taken I shall not press an objec tion at this time. ’ • • • Bevin—What does the gentleman propose? Molotov—I propose we designate three elevators. This would give us suitable range and prevent a narrow policy of adhering to one ele vator only. Byrnes—Why not four elevators? In case of a serious issue between us we would each have an elevator all our own. Molotov—That is a capitalistic proposal, plainly designed to im pede Russian freedom of action. The Soviet Union must oppose any solu tion as simple as that. It might satisfy everybody. I must insist on three elevators, thus giving Rus sia the right at all times to get in with somebody else. De Murville — What would the world think if it could see us hesi tant in the mere matter of an eleva tor? I move that we make eleva tors optional. Bevin—I remember the Soviet Union when it would scorn an elev- tor and insist on walking up the 37 flights. * • • POLITICAL CHAFF President Truman has no illusions | about his ability to get along with the new GOP congress. He knows Bob Taft too well. Despite Truman’s conciliatory message to the nation, he believes it will be a constant bat tle with the Republicans once the honeymoon is over. . . . Failure to produce artificial limbs for veterans has induced John Steelman, recon version director, to set up a special committee to break this bottleneck. Gen. Graves B. Erskine, Iwo Jima hero, heads the group. “That gag which B. Cerf includ ed in his joke book giving me credit and which I pointed out I hadJieard from Joe E. Louis was really created by the inimitable Bugs Baer, and first appeared on this very page several years ago.”—Louis Sobol. ♦ Ah, it’s a tough life that any good gag leads these days. Ev erybody gets into the act, except the author. SWISS CRASH HERO . . . Brig. Gen. Ralph Tate Sr., is shown with his son, Capt. Ralph Tate Jr., after the latter had been brought to Meiringer, Switzerland, by one of the Swiss rescue planes. Captain Tate was pilot of the plane that crashed on the rugged glacier. His mother was one of the passengers. Airmen say that the eaptain’s feat of crash-landing the plane on the rugged glacier without loss of life was remarkable. KILROY WON STREETCAR . . . Winner of a contest sponsored by American Transit association with letter on subject, “Kilroy Was Here,” James Kilroy, Halifax, Mass., his wife and nine children take over their prize—a streetcar. The car will be moved from the Boston elevated yards Halifax, where the Kilroys will remodel and use it for an addition their present home. The youngsters claim it will make an ideal play room. OUTPLAYING TRUMAN . . . Tommy may lack the experience of President Truman as a piano player, and his twin sister, Kathy, may not be a Helen Morgan, but they demonstrate their technique. Their father is Reid W. McGibbeny, industrial arts teacher in Crafton, Pa., high school. When the twins were born they were not expected to live, but now the husky pair provides their 85-pound mother, Mrs. Dorothy McGibbeny, 21, with plenty of excitement, including their piano duet. FFA RECEIVES GIFT . . . Gus R. Douglass Jr., 19, of Grimms Landing, W. Va., president of Fu ture Farmers of America, looks on as John E. Kraft, president of Kraft Foods company, signs $5,000 check for the FFA foundation. The foundation sponsors various awards and prizes throughout the nation. JOINS ‘BIG FOUR’ . . . M. de Saint Hardouin, French ambas sador to the U. S., who recently arrived in Washington. SURPRISE! .. . Stan Miasek, Fal cons’ center, is not the only bas- keteer that has been surprised this year. As the elusive ball bounces on its merry way the Detroit play er looks with a forlorn expression at New York player. INVESTIGATE FEDERAL WORKERS ... A. Devitt Vanech, special assistant to Attorney Gen eral Clark, who will head the President’s commission to purge the government of disloyal or sub versive employees. BUSINESS BY TELEVISION ... A legally binding contract was signed simultaneously by executives of Dumont television laboratory. New York City, and motor company in Washington, D. C., as both contract ing parties saw and heard each other by means of television. It was the first time that this newest medium of communication has h'en used to consummate a business agreement. HEADLINER . . . John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers, shown as he arrived in Washing ton to accept service of federal court order on recent contempt or der. Most labor leaders backed Lewis’ stand during triaL Army’s star all-around back, gave one answer against Pennsylvania in the third period. In his day and time Davis has made his share of long runs, thrown and caught his share of passes, while also ranking high among the blockers, tacklers and kickers. But on this play in par ticular Davis ran 40 yards and then, from a swirl of Red and Blue tacklers, complete ly surrounded, the Army back tossed a sudden lateral tc Tavzel, a tackle. Tavzel then ran 40-odd yards for a touchdown. After the game we asked Davis how he managed to find an opening on that bewildering lateral play. “What lateral play?” Davis asked. “I don’t remember any lat eral play. “As a matter of fact,” he con tinued, with a grin, “I don’t re member anything that happened in that period. I caught a good clout on the head and I haven’t the slight est recollection of anything that took place after that.” “Don’t you remember two long runs you made?” lye asked. “No, I don’t,” Davis said. “The tackles you made — the passes you threw — the kicks you got away?” “Not the slightest idea,” he said. “I remember someone asked me what period it was and I thought the game had just started. I didn’t remember anything that had hap pened before.” It Has Happened Before So here was a back playing in a complete fog, yet working perfect ly with the signals, picking his open ings, running on the same strong, fast legs, able to hit his receivers, alert enough to throw a sudden and surprising lateral that ordinarily would have demanded the keenest type of reflex action. Naturally, the Army coaching staff knew nothing of this mental blotting out, as Davis looked to be at his best. And even after his head had cleared later on there was still no memory of what took place in those 15 minutes. We recall other cases along this same subconscious order. In one of his early California fights, Jack Dempsey was nailed on the chin in the first round. “That was the last thing I re membered,” Jack said later. “When I came to I thought I had been knocked out but was surprised to hear I’d won the decision. I could remember nothing after that punch.” Years ago Bat Nelson told me that Aurelio Herrera, the hard-hit ting Mexican, once hit him with a full right. “I turned a complete somersault,” Bat said, “and the lights went out. That happened in the 5th round. Around the 17th round rny head cleared and later I knocked Herrera out. But I could not recall anything that happened in those 12 rounds.” We’ll have to leave it to far great er brain experts as to what hap pens when a fellow in a complete mental fog still can go along box ing and punching, or obeying sig nals, throwing passes and laterals, that usually demands the highest type of mental poise. * * * Baseball Prospects In the midst of all the foot ball chatter, we were glad to stum ble into a covey of baseball people, including both managers and play ers. They were talking about the Yankees of 1947, and their chance to reach for the pennant after this year’s sudden dip. One respected veteran had this to say—“Don’t forget that in Larry MacPhail, Bucky Harris and Char ley Dressen, the Yankees have lead ership that can match anything in either league. Smart, able, keen to move back up. And don’t forget the Yankees still have a number of fine ball players who are sure to im prove over their 1946 form, which developed one of the most remark able team batting slumps I ever saw.” This is true. MacPhail, Harris and Dressen know what it is all about. And such former good hitters as Stirnweiss, Rizzuto, Joe DiMaggio, Henrich and one or two others should be a good many points closer to .300 than they were this last fall. “Few people realize,” MacPhail said, “that our pitching staff al lowed fewer earned runs than any team in either league, barring only the Cardinals. We had good enough pitching, and we’ll have much bet ter pitching next year.” Tne Yankees, with Aaron Robert son and some new talent, may have the best catching staff in the league. 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