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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. DISPLAY HISTORIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON.—Attorney Gener al Tom Clark is hatching a unique plan for selling civil liberties to the American people. He will send a special train through the 48 states carrying some of the priceless treas ures of American freedom. It was Clark, working quietly be hind the scenes, who had more than anyone else to do with organizing the president’s special committee on civil liberties, which will study southern lynchings and race prob lems. Accordingly he has evolved the idea of sending a special train across the United States containing the most sacred doc uments of American history which guarantee our freedom. At first Clark proposed equipping two special cars with showcases which would display the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independ ence, the Emancipation Proclama tion, the Constitution and so on. However, he found that the Proc lamation of Emancipation by which Lincoln freed the slaves was in the hands of Abraham Rosenbach of Philadelphia, famous collector of old manuscripts. Clark, therefore, called Rosenbach to tell him about his plan and ask for the loan of the proclamation. Rosenbach agreed to cooperate, and suggested an entire train instead of two cars. He offered to help raise the extra money and, as a result, it now is planned to equip an entire special train with showcases in which will be displayed the most cherished documents of American history. Soldiers will guard the train, just as guards stand watch continually over these documents in the Library of Congress. In addi tion, as the train arrives at each state border, an extra car will be added displaying the historic docu ments and civil rights mementoes of the state. Finally, Clark plans to have large- size duplicates of the freedom docu ments “blown-up” as permanent ex hibits to be left behind in the high schools of each city through which the train passes. * * * IRON CURTAIN STAYS DOWN Assistant Secretary of State Bill Benton, who has tried desperate ly to lift the iron curtain, recently was prevented by the Russians from visiting Moscow. Benton was scheduled to fly to Moscow with Chester Bowles, his old advertising partner. But the Rus sians found Benton had only 48 hours in which to make the trip, let him get as far as Berlin, then stalled him for 48 hours, claiming Moscow weather made it impossible for his plane to land. Finally, Benton went back to Paris, where he checked by cod ed cable with the American em bassy in Moscow, found that the weather in Russia had been per fect during the time he was be ing barred from the Soviet capi tal. Benton, who is in charge of state department information, has tried to beam radio broadcasts into Russia in order to give the Russian people the real truth about the USA. Many Russians don’t even know that the American army and navy partici pated in the war against Japan. • * * NEW WAGE POLICY A new policy line in preventing strikes was agreed on at a secret meeting of Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach and his top advisers. Hereafter, government mediation machinery will swing into action four to five months before union con tracts expire in major industries, in stead of waiting until union demands and strike threats are in the air. It is felt that many serious work stoppages can be avoided if union demands are anticipat ed and negotiations begun well in advance of contract expira tions. First major industry on which the new policy will be tried will be the maritime, which faces another pos sible work stoppage in June. At that time, union contracts of seamen of the AFL and CIO on the west and east coasts expire. • • • PROBE MONOPOLY The department of justice is trying to decide whether to bring anti-trust proceedings against American Tele phone and Telegraph company for freezing out small competitors. In dependent would-be manufacturers of telephone equipment have little chance to break into the market be cause of the A. T. & T. policy not only of owning all its own equip ment but buying it from its own Western Electric company, a 99 per cent A. T. & T. subsidiary. * * • CAPITAL CHAFF The coal strike may seriously af fect next year’s potato and apple crops, according to the department of agriculture. The trouble is that the shortage of coal tar curtailed supplies of insecticides, which are needed to fight such crop pests as the chinch bug. the European corn borer, the coddling moth and the potato bug. . . . James Mead, re tiring New York senator, now has the inside track for chairman ship of the Democratic national Committee. U. N. Is Ofiered a Home New York will fight to hold U. N. if it takes Rockefeller's last nickel. John D. offered an $8,500,000 six- block water-front site to keep the United Nations in the big city. Alad din has stepped into the picture in U. N.’s housing crisis. The only question is whether there is any body in the United Nations who can veto a lamp. • From Flushing Meadow to a Rockefeller center in one blue print is quite a travelogue. One minute U. N. seemed like a for lorn G. I. searching for an unoccu pied Quonset. The next minute he was having six blocks of New York’s choice real estate handed him on a gold platter. NO cover charge. • If there were long months when Miss United Nations thought New York was cold to her, she now must realize she is being suddenly pur sued with $8,500,000 worth of love and six blocks of unmortgaged pas sion. * Pa Knickerbocker might have let her go to California, but to pass up Gotham for Philadelphia . . . never! • Pa knew that a city that could hold as many five-star attractions as it had always been able to hold would look cheap getting a rejection slip from an organization with a global audience. • The proposed site has many advantages. It is located where the diplomats may see a poor- house from one window. East Side life from another, the very heart of New York from another and some society residential sec tors from another. If the view doesn’t give them a democratic intermingling of scenic ef fects, characters and types of living, nothing will. • The rich, the poor, the middle classes, the “haves and the have nets”; the limousine and the sub- : way sets, the people who have the 1 veto and the people who merely . have the corner delicatessen and Grogan’s bar . . . they’re all visible there on a clear day. » The six-block area now is mostly the habitat of meat packers and ! slaughterers and is known as the beef zone. There are those who in sist U. N. possession won’t change that name. * Any day you can stand in this zone and hear the doomed sheep bah-h-ing as they are led to slaugh ter. We commend the sound to some of the more selfish and obstreperous figures in U. N. * Personally we are not too sure about a super peace center in the heart of Manhattan as a brotherly love influence. It seems to us that the world or ganization needs an atmosphere of calm, leisure and dignity rather than one of speed, traffic jams, general jostling and high- pressure chaos. We would say it would do better with a back ground less like big business and card-index efficiency and more like Bethlehem and starry night. Men engaged in the greatest job of history, the bringing of peace and the brotherhood of man to a blitzed and baffled globe need some thing more than express elevators, 38 floors of de luxe offices, spe cial lighting, adjacency to the sub way and an opportunity to lunch at the Busy Bee cafe between debates. • Still a home is a home and it’s nothing to sneeze at. And as Grant said, “Let us love peace”—every eight million dollars will help. * * * GOING UP! The U. N. on a winter’s day Fled the meadow, sweet with hay; So swiftly was the lady’s pace She found a home near Beek man place. * The U. N. subcommittee’s enthu siasm for the Rockefeller offer of a home is so hilarious that it may be called “Hooray-dio City.” * On the other hand if those scraps between United Nations’ diplomats keep up, the headquarters may have to be tagged “Sock-A-Feller Cen ter.” • * • MESSAGE FROM PETTIGREW THE PENGUIN dear sir colon all i hope is that with the united nations function ing in a great skyscraper center the d^ve of peace doesn’t get caught in a revolving door period yours comma pettigrew the penguin. * We assume names for the new U. N. center will be desired, and the first that come to mind include Amity Arms and Concord Towers. PREMIER-PRESIDENT AND NEW FRENCH CABINET . . . Premier-President Leon Blum, 74-year-old Socialist, is shown with members of his cabinet as they appeared after approval by the assembly. Front row, left to right, Felix Gouin, Mme. Andree Vienot, Premier-President Blum, Guy Mollet, Augustin Lau rent, Edmond Naegellen and Andre LeTrouquir. Rear row, M. T. Prigent, P. O. Lapie, Paul Bechard, Paul Ramadier, Jules Moch, Andre Phillip, Lamine Gueye, Eugene Thomas, Albert Galier, Daniel Mayer, Jean Biondi, Max Lejeune and Pierre Segelle. SHE ONLY WANTS TO SEE . . . Janice Charlotta Lis comb, 10, Bar Harbor, Maine, shown with nurse, Bea- tric Anzalone, at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary, wrote a letter to Santa Claus that all she wanted for Christmas was "one eye—even a fairly good eye.” Janice lost the sight of one eye. RESCUED FROM FLAMES . . . Nurse Maria Zalesak ministering to Dorothy Frasier, 2, left, and Jane Frasier, 5, at Detroit receiving hospital where the two youngsters were taken after being rescued from their flaming home. When rescued, Dorothy was unconscious. ‘I SAID I WOULD WALK AGAIN’ . . . Mary Drury, 13, of East Orange, N. J., on the fourth anni versary of the day she lost both legs under a speeding train, proved she was right when she insisted that she was going to walk again and attend school. NEW SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE . . . Rep. Hal Holmes <R., Wash.) presenting to Rep. Joe Martin (R., Mass.), a gavel with a head made of petrified wood, to be used at the opening of congress. Representative Martin is on right. With the house organized by Republican members Representative Martin will play one of the leading rolls in the 80th con gress. Most of the chairmen of committees were selected before con gress met. OXFORD HONORS ... Dr. Harold Clayton Urey, professor of chem istry at University of Chicago, and one of the scientists who developed the atomic bomb, shown at left as he received honorary degree of dc - tor of science at Oxford. Bierman COME short while back, one of the ^ leaders in college football asked your correspondent to name the 15 leading coaches in the country. The only answer we could think of in a given time limit was this: “The 15 coaches who have the best ma terial.” There is little questioning the fact that for the season of 1946, Red Blaik of Army deserved his award, due largely to the fact that Red and his staff carried Army three years without a defeat. Time and again we have been asked to rank the coaches in order. This is an impossi ble job. Look over just a few from the list — Neyland of Tennessee, Blaik of Army, Harlow of Harvard, Little of Columbia, Crisler of Michigan, Thom as of Alabama, Leahy of Notre Dame, McMillin of Indiana, Neely of Rice, Butts of Geor gia, McKeever of Cornell, Wade of Duke, Snavely of North Carolina, Odell of Yale, Le- Brucherie of U.C.L.A., Bierman of Minnesota—but why keep on? This is only a partial list, where, if given the same material and the same schedules, luck would have to write the story. I can say this. There is no bunch connected with sport that gives as much time, thought, worry and com plete concentration as football coaches give. They brood by day and bight. An ankle, a shoulder, a knee or a back can make all the difference in the world. Those in front figure they must stay there. The losers must win a game or two. There is a big difference in material from time to time but the old grads and the public at large never consid er this. They look only to the final scores. Such coaches as Red Drew of Mississippi, Red Sanders of Van derbilt and Paul Bryant of Kentucky may be unknown nationally, but they are as good as the best with j what they have. | ‘A Coaches’ Coach’ There may be a better coach than i Dick Harlow of Harvard—but who | is he? Neyland of Tennessee can ! keep pace with anyone. Jock Suth- , erland was the coaches’ coach in col- | lege until he came over to pro ranks. , Spend a few days with Steve Owen ■ and Greasy Neale, in or out of sea son, and you get part of the answer —fall, winter, spring and summer— they’re always talking and thinking football, still playing over games they lost. Lonnie Stagg at 84 was still 1 in harness this last season, reluc- . tant to retire. Lonnie was a star at Yale, 60 years ago. With all the tears they shed and all the moaning | they give the world, it is almost ; impossible to shake them loose with- ! out using a grenade. Your correspondent more than once has ducked the opportunity of picking or trying to pick the 10 . best coaches of all time. Looking back to something over 40 years we’d say that four of the best were Pop Warner, Knute Rockne, Hurry-up Yost and Percy Haughton. i Pop Warner gave football more on the technical side than anyone else, ■ including the single and double wing, ' a system still just as effective as the T. Colorful Yost New French Law Hits at Sale of Forged Paintings To prevent the sale of forged paintings, France how has a law under which an official group of art experts passes on the authen ticity of every picture put up at public auction. Furthermore, the seller usually gives the purchaser a written guar antee that he may return the paint ing within six months if he doubts its authenticity. Portland Vase Smashed, Yet Increases in Value The British Museum in London recently purchased, through a pri vate bequest, the Portland Vase which it has had on loan from the Portland family for 135 years. Col lier’s reports. Ten inches in height and made of blue glass engraved with white figures, this vase was found in a tomb near Rome in the 16th century. Moreover, in 1845, a lunatic smashed it into some 250 pieces and, although put together by ex perts, it has since been imperfect. Yet the vase has increased stead ily in value. The price paid for the vase by the museum was not disclosed. However, in 1929, the owner re fused an offer of $148,000 for it. MILES LITTLE PILLS are little ‘‘ftems of com- fort.” They help polish up your sparkle and smile When you wake up and find constipation has put a dull finish on your pep and personality. Here's a laxative that works with you, not through you. So little, but— OH MY! . . . how smooth, how com forting. When you want a laxative- mild but firm—get Miles Little Pills from your family druggist. CAUTION: Not to be used when abdominal pain or other symptoms of appendicitis are present. Take only as directed. Miles Laboratories, Inc., Elkhart. Ind. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell yon a bottle of Creomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or yon are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs. Chest Colds. Bronchitis JUST A DASH IN FEATHERS.. OR SPREAD OIM ROOSTS Men who walk for a living use SOUS as well as Heels Yost gave football its first flare of coaching color and Michigan its first great college football record— 56 victories in five years, blemished only by a tie with Minnesota, before Chicago broke the string in 1905. Knute Rockne brought to football its greatest combination of coaching ability, human interest and person ality. Rock, in addition to being a great coach, was also the game’s star personal contribution when it came to human contact. Bob Zuppke of Illinois brought to football coaching the added gifts of philosophy and humor. Zup had more color than two rainbows. One of his best friends was the late How ard Jones of Yale and Southern Cal ifornia. No two men were ever fur ther apart as human beings. But they were fine coaches and close pals. Haughton of Harvard today is a greatly underrated coach. Cold, hard, austere, he was one of the greatest. A star tactician and tech nician, Haughton was probably the best of all in discipline. As Tack Hardwick told me once, “If Haugh- fbn told Harvard to jump off a 100 foot cliff and he would catch us— we’d all jump. And Percy would catch us.” Character Builders The thousand, at least a thousand, football coaches we’ve met and known in the last 40 odd years, have made an almost unbelievable con- fribution, not only to sport, but also to the good of the nation at large. Not all of them, of course. But the big majority have turned out a great job in the way of training, instruc tion, discipline and, if you’ll pardon the phrase, “character building.” Did you ever know Dan McGugin or Lonnie Stagg? Ask their play ers, many of them now gray or bald. WNU 02—47 MERCHANTS fcYour Advertising Dollar ftuys something more them space and circulation in the columns oi this news paper. It buys space and circulation plus the favor able consideration of our readers for this newspaper and its advertising patrons. LET US TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT