Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE MEWBEKKY SUN, NEVVBEUKY, S. C. STALIN’S HEALTH WASHINGTON.—Diplomatic dis patches from Moscow indicate def initely that Marshal Stalin’s health has had another setback. He suf fered a heart attack some time in November and now is resting in the Crimea. This fact has been made the sub ject of an official report to the state department. This last heart attack Is the second suffered by the man who has ruled Russia so long. Last winter he also had to go to the Crimea to recuperate from an illness. Stalin is now 67 years old, but has crammed more di versified life and hardship into those years than any other world leader. Radio Breakfast Programs Of History (King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.) Anne—Good morning, Henry. Henry — Good morning, dear. Where’s my bicarbonate? Anne—Oh, come now, it isn’t time for that commercial yet. Henry (studying the script)—Ah, what a lovely morning. Isn’t it won derful just to be alive? Anne (with a shudder)—I’ll bet that’s what you say to all your wives! Henry—Let’s start off with the weather. It’s clear and warm here in the castle, with possible storms by afternoon. Anne—With you, honey, life is one Stalin was imprisoned and exiled ! storm after another. What’s the of- A -1 mI— X * - — XI A M ^ 1 — 1 — — x n to Siberia eight times, and the years have taken their toll. He was not play-acting when he held up Church ill and Truman by staying in bed one day at Potsdam. It is generally expected that For eign Minister Molotov will succeed Stalin. • • • THE REAL-ESTATE LOBBY Next major lobbying drive in Washington will be against rent con trols, only control measure which survived President Truman’s sweep ing OPA decontrol order. The President has decided to elim inate OPA completely, and has on his desk an executive order trans ferring rent control to the depart ment of commerce. The real-estate lobbyists know they can’t get even a Republican congress to repeal rent control. So they’ve decided on a new tac tic. The lobby is drawing up a bill which would transfer rent control from the federal govern ment to the states. This will be advanced as a “states’ £T|hts” and “economy” measure. The result, however, will be the same. Twelve states now have no rent control, and in other states most control laws are elastic. * • • LAME DUCKS PLAY INDIANS Twice in recent weeks. President Truman has been visited by con gressmen who asked him to appoint friends on the new Indian claims commission. Sen. Joe O’Mahoney of Wyoming urged the appointment of Louis O’Marr, attorney genera! of Wyoming, while Representative Bill Stigler of Oklahoma brought along his candidate—Justice Earl Welch of the Oklahoma Supreme court, who is part Chickasaw himself. The President made no commit ment beyond saying he intends to announce the make-up of the new commission soon. He did apologize to Stigler, how ever, for the delay in making the appointments. N What Truman did not explain was that he also had been urged to wait to see whether any worthy Democrats, defeated in the election, might want the job. • The names of lameduck con gressman Will Robinson of Utah, an excellent man, and Jed John son of Oklahoma, who lost out on a chance to be a custom court judge, now have been suggest ed. The commission is one which will require a topflight staff, since it will have to pass judgment on all Indian claims which have not gone into the courts. There is absolutely no statu tory limit on the age of the claims— which means that if an Indian tribe wants to claim that it has legal right to the entire territory of the State of Utah, the commission may have to hear the argument. * * * NEXT GOP CONVENTION Although the Republican national convention is two years off, several cities already are pressing GOP mo guls for the privilege of helping nom inate the man they figure will be the next president of the U. S. Rep. George Bender, Ohio con- gressman-at-large and head of the Cleveland Republican committee, appeared before the national com mittee to propose Cleveland as the convention site. As soon as Bender proposed Cleve land for the convention site. Com mitteeman Werner Schroeder of Hii- nJis asked, “Isn’t it true that Ohio has a couple of candidates for the nomination? Don’t you think it might be better to meet on neutral territory?” “Is there a state that doesn’t have a candidate?” asked Bend er. “If you’re going to rule out states with candidates, about the only place we could hold the 1948 (SOP convention is Miami.” *' * • POSTMASTER JIM MEAD? The White House is afraid that if Bob Hannegan resigns both as postmaster general and Democratic national chairman the Republican senate may refuse to confirm any one who is to serve in both jobs. One man the senate would confirm, however, is Sen Jim Mead of New York, who lost out in his bid for governor of New York. The senate rarely questions the appointment of any senator or former senator to an official post. Moreover, Mead is considered a postal authority. ficial temperature from the weather bureau? Henry—Have you forgotten? The weather man gave me the wrong thermometer reading at yesterday’s breakfast and I had him executed. Anne—Aren’t you a little hasty with your executions? Henry—Coming from a wife of mine it is a natural question, sweet, but by my troth I shall decline to answer. By the way, did you notice that stunning girl at the new pageant last night? Anne—Every time you see Jane Seymour at an opening you ask me that. Henry (humming)—If you see Sey mour like I see Seymour. . . . Anne — No singing copimercial, please! Henry—Oh, come on, let’s eat! How are my dozen eggs on beef coming? And remember 12 slices of buttered toast will do for break fast today. I’m not myself. Anne—Aren’t food prices awful, Henry. I paid four shillings for that roast stag you had for lunch yester day, and that was with the feet off. Henry—Were the feet off? I didn’t notice. Here’s where a commercial comes in. Is your appetite weak? Are you finicky at the table? Take Squeeper’s Stomach Bitters — the ones in the green bottle and you will have the appetite of a king. Anne—Come, Henry, don’t exag gerate. • Henry—Anne, my dear, you have a very pretty neck. And that’s the cue for another commercial. Anne—The secret of a pretty neck, I hope you all know, is Perth’s Tis sue Builder, the Cream of Royalty. A woman who uses this need never worry about her neck. Henry—That’s what you think! Anne—Always joking, aren’t you, Henry? Henry—Am I? Anne—I certainly hope so. Let’s get off the subject of necks. * "Henry—By the way, why aren’t our canaries twittering this morn ing? Anne—You know very well why. You ate their bird seed. Dear me, you eat everything. Henry—Odds bodkins, you are get ting flip. Stick to the script. Anne—Oh, Henry! Henry—Go ahead with the puff, but if I catch the fellow who named that candy bar after me I’ll send him to the Tower. He’ll pay for it with his head. Anne—You’re always making peo- j pie pay with their heads. Do you think ‘it funny? Henry—You’ll find out. And now, folks, it’s time for our guest star. * * Anne—Who are our guest stars to day, Henry? Henry—Two charming girls, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard. Anne—Over my dead body! Henry—Okay, if that’s tne way you want it! * * * HOPE \My husband hates the jukebox so That lately he’s been praying That there will come a quarter slot To keep the thing from playing. —Alice B. Matheny. • » • Patter and Platters Ted Husing is now a disc jockey and we suppose his life has become a matter of disca and data. • Husing gets $250,000 a year in his new job with the musical records. Obviously it all depends on the ex tent of the “turnover.” * Incidentally, since Bing Crosby is trying to get Wednesday known as Bingday, how about Ted asking that every day be known as Plattersday? TABLE TALK To dine out at the Homes of friends Is much against my Some guy suggests, When dinner ends: “And now let’s do the dishes.” SURVIVES 13,000 VOLTS ... Johnny Floyd, 9, shown with his mother at their home in Baltimore, survived 13,000 volts of electricity, only slightly the worse for the experience. This is more than six times the amount of voltage used in electrocuting criminals. The voltage passed through his body as he played atop a railroad car. OFFERS EYE TO VET . . . Robert W. Lincoln, Brockton, Mass., vet eran, recently gave a touching ex ample of bravery and generosity when he offered one of his eyes to Corp. Chester R. Perkins, Phoenix- ville. Pa., hopelessly blinded by German mine. MAPS COMMUNITY SPORTS PROGRAM . . . Sports writers from all sections of the country met fti Washington to hammer out a network of community sports programs offerfttg boys and girls an outlet other than juvenile delinquency for their youthful energy. Left to right: W. F. Fox Jr., Indianapolis News; Bob Considine, International News; Douglas W. McGregor, attorney general’s office; A1 Santoro, Los Angeles Examiner; Jack Carberry, Denver Post, and Hugh Daily, Detroit Times, lead pro gram plans. HEADS UNRRA . . . Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks, Arlington, Va., who has been named director gen eral of UNRRA, to succeed Fiorel- lo LaGuardia. Rooks has been serv ing as assistant director during the past year. HUCK FINN GOLDILOCKS . . . Jimmy Garvin, 13, the most rugged of rugged individualists, has all the other characteristics of a Huckleberry Finn, but he wears his hair long. His classmates at Langley junior high school, Washington, D. C., used to kid Jimmy about it. wishes— —Pier. Wilson W. Wyatt has resigned as federal housing chief. Leaving the White House roof in a time of such an acute roof shortage is our idea of conspicuous courage. REVOLT ENDS . . . Pres. Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela, as he an nounced the end of the revolt by conservative insurgents. 'He stated that the captured insurgents will be given a fair trial. FRANCO’S CHALLENGE TO UNITED NATIONS . . . Three-hour dem onstration against the United Nations was staged in the heart of Madrid by 300,000 cheering Spaniards. One sign read: “Franco, we are at your orders against the world if you command it.” Generalissimo Franco appeared before the crowd and told them that the United Nations had no right to interfere in the internal affairs of his country. The U. N. proposal to recall ambassadors brought about the demonstration. EXPERT ARTIST . . . Seated at his easel, Glen Scobey (Pop) Warner, football’s famed “Old Fox,” re touching one of his canvas master pieces at his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He formerly coached many cele brated football teams. The Prize-Winning Crocheted Runnel HONORED FOR LANDING SYS TEM . . . The Robert J. CoUier trophy, nation’s highest aviation award, was given to Dr. Luis W. Alvarez, 35, University of California physics professor, for his ground- controlled approrch system, which guides radio-equipped planes. Grantland Rice The college football season is over —on football fields. But it really should be only beginning on the part of those who believe that true col lege football is a great game and should be saved. We mean saved from too much out right professional ism and a degree of semi - professional ism that is just as bad. It may be that we have harped on this subject too often. But it is still a vital matter to those who love col lege football as it should be run and played. There are four leading organiza tions who should have a hand in this checking up. 1. The college presidents—who are supposed to be the heads of their institutions. These men con- tiol student obligations, classroom ability. 2. The graduate managers. 3. The football coaches, who have much at stake and who have taken, a big part of the beating. 4. The alumni who are interested in something more than winning teams at any cost. Those could be major factors. Southern Situation Here is a letter that might inter est you: “Dear Sir: “I happen to be from the South where I know that the football situ- | ation, from a student or an amateur angle, is pretty bad. But it is just about as bad, although better cov ered up, in many other sections. Down here we pay and take care of a lot of football players who in too many cases are poor students. But I have found the same thing is true 1 pretty well around the map. I don’t believe any reformers are going to stop this. I believe it will fall of its j own weight from the feeling I have found developing among the students themselves and the alumni. They are getting sick of seeing their colleges represented too often by physical education and other soft- course players who are interested in football only for pay, and a pro fessional job later on. “Many of these students can just about read and write, and they im prove little even in this respect. Don’t think the real students don’t know this. Most of them know the ones that have been brought in, are being paid and what soft courses they are taking. They know how professional the game has grown in many places. And I’ve also run across a number of coaches who are getting fed up with their jobs of recruiting or taking care of the paid men brought in. —Southerner.” We put this problem up to a veter an football coach in the East who knows most of the inside answers. “I doubt,” he told me, “that you can prevent certain forms of payment that can be so easily cov ered up. There will be no real im provement until entrance tests are made much stiffer, until college classroom requirements are lifted many degrees. I am referring to physgsal education players, for whom football is a good part of their college work. There are sev eral other soft courses I might men tion where big, fast and valuable football players are taken care of. These boys are getting nothing out of college except football. After all, you are supposed to go to college largely for an education. Why not have each college print on its football programs the courses Its football players are taking? Harm to Character “Of course poor boys deserve their chance for an education. Thou sands, possibly hundreds of thou sands, who never kicked or threw a football do get that chance. Foot ball is too great a game to be wrecked by the modem desire to win, no matter what the ethics, no matter what the cost. These forget the great harm they also are doing to young players from the side of building character. They know who is cheating.” As a player and a coach and a man of high character this man’s name stands high in football. Oddly enough, Frank Butterworth, one of Yale’s most famous stars, and John Kieran, the philosopher and thinking machine, had the same answer—“Abolish all gate re ceipts, as Army and Notre Dame did for years.” “You can’t have amateur sport with big gate receipts," Kieran says. Illiterate Athletes I already can hear one indignant war cry. “Our college standards are high. We meet every particu lar in this respect.” Certainly the Big Nine and the Ivy league are among the leaders. But how did one of the college stars from one big conference, who had starred on a team for two years, misspell 41 out of 56 words in a certain brief exam ination (some of these a 14-year- old high school boy wouldn’t have missed) and still be eligible for foot ball? 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