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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C,
BIG FARMS VS. SMALL FARMS
WASHINGTON. — Inside fact
behind the senate small business
committee’s release of the report on
small-scale and large-scale farm
ing is that the report had been sup
pressed for nearly two years by big
California land interests.
! The very fact that the bureau of
agricultural economics dared make
the study was one reason the last
congress cut its research funds. The
study so infuriated Representative
A1 Elliott, California Democrat and
friend of the big farmers, that he
has fought all appropriations for
farm research ever since.
The study was begun in the sum
mer of 1944, while Congressman El
liott was leading a fight to repeal
the old law by which no one could
own more than 160 acres of U. S.
reclamation land. The study com
pared two towns in San Joaquin val
ley section of California’s huge Cen
tral valley—one, Arvin, is composed
mainly of workers on large industri
alized farms; the other, Dinuba, is
made up largely of people who own
and work their own farms.
It was found that Dinuba, the
small farm community, had two
independent business establish
ments to every one in Arvin, the
big farm community; that retail
trade was 61 per cent greater
in Dinuba; that 20 per cent
more people were supported by
the same dollar volume in agri
culture in Dinuba than in Arvin;
that the residents of Dinuba had
a far higher standard of living—
better streets, garbage disposal,
schools, parks, public recrea
tion, more churches, participa
tion in local government, (wo
newspapers to one.
TLf: study was recognized by econ
omists as of great importance, but
the pressure of large farmers and
landholders was too great. It lay
buried until it was brought to the
attention of fair-minded Sen. Jim
Murray of Montana, chairman of the
small business committee. He de
termined to publish it.
* * *
SURPLUS GRAVY
The comedy of errors that led
to discovery of more than two
million gallons of high octane
gasoline in surplus military
planes sold to a Jefferson City,
Mo., scrap dealer caused an epi
demic of red faces at War Assets
administration.
However, WAA chief Gen.
Robert Littlejohn and his aides
would have been even more em
barrassed had the whole story
leaked out. Besides the 5,540
planes with their $700,000 worth
of gas sold to the Missouri deal
er, WAA also sold about 15,000
other planes, also tanked up with
high octane gas. This fact, how
ever, didn’t get out. In addi
tion, dealers who bought the
planes reaped a tidy windfall
from costly radio equipment,
motors and gears.
* * *
OIL SALESMAN LEWIS
In the coal and oil trade, John L.
Lewis is sometimes called: “The
greatest oil salesman in history.”
Here is the reason why:
Railroad after railroad, unable to
afford costly tie-ups from coal
strikes, now is converting from coal
to oil. There was a day when the
railroads, deriving a tremendous
revenue from hauling coal, sided
with the coal operators and the min
ers in opposing oil. But not now.
The Boston and Maine, which, next
to the Maine Central, pays more per
ton for coal than any other rail
road, is switching to diesel engines
as quickly as possible. The Jersey
Central, which taps the Pennsyl
vania anthracite fields, also is going
over to diesels. And the Pennsyl
vania, which runs straight through
the best bituminous coal fields in
the East, is laying in some diesel
switch engines.
But the most interesting conver
sions are taking place on the Union
Pacific. That road has long burned
oil to some extent, but it also hap
pens to be the sixth largest coal pro
ducer in the world, with a produc
tion of 6,500;000 tons annually.
The towns of Rock Springs and
Hanna, Wyo., are almost entirely
dependent on coal mined for the
Union Pacific. Today, however,
those towns may become like
the skeleton mining cities of the
gold-rush days.
For, in addition to 600 oil-burning
locomotives, the Union Pacific now
is converting all mainline passenger
trains to oil. In addition, their
“Big Boy” freight locomotives, the
world’s heaviest, are converting,'to
gether with 115 switchers and 45
diesel units.
The Santa Fe also has just ordered
new diesel units.
* * *
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Gen. Mark W. Clark will be with
drawn as Allied commander in Aus
tria immediately after the Moscow
conference. He then will receive a
new arirjy post in the United States.
. . . Ex-congressman Wesley Disney
of Oklahoma, who lost out in the
Democratic primary two years ago
against Sen. “Cotton Elmer” Thom
as, will try again in two years. He
may face a primary fight from Gov.
Bob Kerr. . . . Assistant Postmaster
General Gael Sullivan has been of
fered the presidency of Air Cargo.
^rll.Phillipr
BT
A Review of 1946
Looking back over 1946, it was a
year you wouldn’t believe if you had
seen it in the movies. President Tru
man went down in a submarine, the
general public went up in a free bal
loon and John L. Lewis at last got
into a battle in which he didn’t get
at least a tie. It was a great year
for Ingrid Bergman, the St. Louis
Cards, the Republican party and
Assault.
United Nations started the year in
the Bronx with a cafeteria lunch
and finished on Manhattan island
with $8,500,000 in choice real estate,
thus nosing out Leo Durocher, “The
Egg and I,” and the Elliott Roose
velts for profitable seasons. Navy
almost beat Army, Henry Wal
lace picked one of the easiest of
those sixty million jobs, Abie’s Irish
Rose at last got into pictures.
•
Joe Louis, Stymie and Yale had
good years in the world of sports
and the international high jump was
won by Bernard Baruch, who went
from a park bench to the rarefied
atmosphere of the atomic bomb
from a sitting start. . . . Frankie
Sinatra gave his bobby soxers back
to the Indians.
«
Ted Williams, Billy Conn, Ches
ter Bowles, Harold Ickes, Bilbo and
the Boston Red Sox had a bad 12th-
month. The Normandie, OPA, the
New Deal and Joe Stalin’s recol
lection of what he promised at j
Yalta were junked. The radio quiz
industry gave away all but $11.35
worth of all the $25,890,167,879,456.25
merchandise produced in America
since V Day. The horse meat from
the country made good in the ham
burgers of the city. General Elec
tric announced a not too satisfactory
year, but found a way to product
snow artificially and promised a lib
eral allowance on old snowflakes.
*
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt went
so far left of center that she fell
asleep and collided with another
automobile on the Sawmill riv
er highway. A stone to mark
the spot where she once slept
was duly erected. This seemed
quite a reflection on the Roose
velts up to the time two passen
ger airplanes bound in the same
direction collided over Mary
land.
•
There were strikes all over Amer
ica, with the newsreel cameramen
getting some of their best all-time
battle shots. An unknown bettor
tore up a $2,100 daily double ticket
at Garden State. The oldest living
Elk died in 37 states. Russel Crouse
of the theatrical firm of Lindsey
and Crouse was injured badly when
a day’s receipts fell on him. Ex-
Mayor LaGuardia of New York was
extricated from UNRRA before
starting another global war. The
Democrats lost an election in large
numbers. Thirty-five million and
six hundred and seventy-eight thou
sand Americans bought an egg, pre
sented a dollar bill, got two cents
in change and asked “I wonder if
there is any danger of inflation?”
*
The year closed on a touching
note. Fiorello LaGuardia opened a
Sunday program with a tender testi
monial to the Christmas spirit of
goodwill to all men and exclaimed,
“Oh, how wonderful it would be if
we could adhere to the love-thy-
neighbor precept all the year
around.” He then attacked newspa
pers, real estate owners, congress,
the state legislature, a firm of
architects and divers others as
“thieves,” “crooks,” “big bums,”
“corrupt cowards,” “hooligans,”
“mutts,” “tin horns,” “punks” and
all around polecats.
• * •
A BUNCH OF GRIPES
ON A NEW YORK BUS
No windows open,
The heat on full tilt,
No wonder the driver
And passengers wilt.
They snarl and sneeze
And jostle and cuss
And wish for a trolley
Instead of a bus.
—Margaret Fishback.
* • •
Russia now is bringing cars off its pro
duction line pretty fast. There is no
question over there as to which gets
slowed down first, the production line or
the fellow who tries to stick a monkey
wrench into the mechanism.
• • *
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
“Here, I insist, this drink’s on
me,”
The guy will fairly shout.
But ’though he reaches for his
cash
He never gets it out.
—Pier.
* • *
“United States Faces Deficit of
$1,900,000,000.”—Headline .
•
“Is that as good as the Demo
crats hoped?” asks Ima Dodo.
* • «
British Broadcasting company
has prohibited hypnotism by radio.
But in this country it will be per
fectly okay to keep putting people
to sleep over the air as always.
It’s the trend of the times, so it
probably had to happen: The labor
unrest has struck college football! |
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE, TIDAL WAVE AND FIRE .... A striking photograph made as the town of
Shingu, Japan, burned after the earthquake and tidal wave had struck parts of Japan. People fled from the
town to the beach flats in foreground leaving the fire to eat the heart out of Shingu. Hundreds died in
coastal communities and thousands were rendered homeless by the Japanese disaster.
ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATION IN TOKYO .. .General view of the giant demonstration staged by
Japanese labor union in Tokyo to protest government policies and demand ouster of the Yoshida cabinet.
The demonstration, held in front of the Imperial palace, was the biggest in the Japanese capital since the
May day parade that drew censure from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Many Red flags were carried by the
demonstrators.
HAIR CUT AT FOUR MONTHS . . . Stephen Aprigliano, Brooklyn,
N. Y., a mighty young man of four months, is getting his first hair
cut. His mother keeps him in good humor with his diet of milk while
Terry the barber carries on. Stephen actually was bored with the
operation. Terry said Steve was the youngest customer he had ever
served—and about the hairiest one to clip. Usually most boys get their
first barber shop hair cut after they have reached ripe age of one year.
MAN OF THE YEAR . . . Secre
tary of State James F. Byrnes, who
was recently selected by Times
magazine as “the man of the year.”
The selection was made on the
basis of outstanding work done by
Secretary Byrnes during United Na
tions’ meetings.
MISS SLICK CHICK OF 1947 . . . The Poultry and Egg National board
has announced that they will pick Miss Slick Chick of 1947 at the pre
miere showing in New York City of “The Egg and I.” Selection will
be made on charm, personality and sex appeal, including coquettish
ness of eyes, contour of figure and sweep of tail.
PRINCE’S TEACHER . . . Eliza
beth G. Vining, Philadelphia, who
is serving as tutor for Crown Prince
Akihito, also is teaching Japanese
teachers on “education for democ
racy.
"D ECORD crowds set new marks
at the turnstiles last season in
practically every sport. But what
has become of the color that the
games once knew? There is prob
ably, or possibly, greater skill and
ability around than sport ever has
known. But it is quite possible that
the big gates and the bigger pay,
for pros and college alike, have
throttled a vital quality of competi
tion. I think it has. The pay check
now dominates the scene.
You might ask me just what color
is. Here’s one answer—Babe Ruth,
Jack Dempsey,
Bobby Jones, Bill
TUden, Man o’War,
Tommy Hitchcock,
Earl Sande, Dizzy
Dean (in capital
letters), Walter Ha
gen, Extermina
tor, Knute Rockne,
(also in capital let
ters), George Gipp,
Hurry-up Yost, Bob
Zuppke, Pepper
Martin and Frank Dizzy Dean
Frisch. Each one
of these was a champion, but some
thing more than a champion. For
each one had a crowd appeal that
is sadly lacking today.
For example, Leo Durocher of the
Dodgers has drawn more comment
than any five managers. Leo is a
great manager. But a large flock of
this publicity has come from details
far apart from baseball. Ted Wil
liams drew more words, favorable
and unfavorable, than any other
ball player last year. So Ted must
have had a type of color. They at
least knew he was around, liking
him or hating him.
Joe Louis has the color of ring
perfection—one of the greatest fight
ers of all time. But outside of this
Joe is an extremely quiet fellow
who doesn’t like the great bright
spotlight.
‘Just Business Men’
In Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson,
golf has two of the greatest golf
ers the ancient Scottish game has
ever sent to the fairways. But who
could say they were in the same
class with Bobby Jones and Walter
Hagen or Gene Sarazen for crowd
appeal? They are two prominent
business men who can break 70, col
lect their dough and move along.
Stan Musial, one of the nicest
people you ever met, a great ball
player, the top of the year, isn’t
colorful in any sense of the word.
Stan is just a great ball player.
He wants to be nothing else. Neither
is Eddie Dyer, an able manager and
a great fellow. Sport today has be
come big business. There is plenty
in the way of sport left, but with
the billions, not the millions, in
volved, a lot of color has seeped
out.
I was talking about this color
angle with Frank Frisch, the New
Rochelle flower expert.
“Just what is color?” I asked
Frisch, as Johnny Kieran cocked
an attentive ear, a Kieran habit
when any information is coming
along.
“The basis of all color,” Frisch
said, “is always ability first. No
punks get by. Many have tried to
use color, or so-called color, in
the place of ability. It won’t work.
Color means Dempsey, Jones,
Hitchcock, Grange, etc., all stars.
Color is also a natural quality. It
can’t be faked. Two of the most
colorful ball players of all time were
Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean. They
were naturals. They always were
exactly what they were. Human
and likable, but great artists. But
they were real—not phonies. How
that mob can spot a phony.
Game’s the Thing Now
“The game doesn’t need color to
day,” Frisch said. “You can start
a dog fight between two terriers and
draw 10,000 people. Ball clubs that
were far down in the second division
drew from 800,000 to 1,000,000.
Football games that meant nothing
except another football game were
sellouts. Today it is the spectacle,
the contest, that fills a stadium or
a park, not any outstanding star.
It’s the game, the show today, not
an individual star.”
This is all true. It all may be
for the general good of sport. After
all, only the game counts. But de
spite this any writer hanging around
for human copy misses Hagen,
Waddell, Yost, Zuppke and many
others who had a certain hu
man appeal that so few have today.
Sport competitors are serious peo
ple working at a big job now. Most
of them have outstanding ability.
But with too many it is more big
business than sport. The pressure
is heavy. The big idea is winning.
Today we have only a few left—
and I can’t even remember their
names. Joe Louis? The top cham
pion of them all—who limits his pub
licity to ring efficiency. In baseball
we have Ted Williams—who is still
a big story when he flops. Stan
Musial, the best ball player in the
game today, is just the best ball
player. He has no interest in any
outside headlines. Football coaches
—able business men with a big job to
do. No particular color. No Rockne,
no Zuppke, no Yost. It may be bet
ter this way.
I But it’s duller.
Gems of Thought
T O IMPROVE the golden mo
ment of opportunity, and
catch the good that is within our
reach, is the great art of life.—
Samuel Johnson. #
Team to live, and live to learn,
Ignorance like a fire doth bum,
Little tasks make large return.
—Bayard Taylor.
God gives every bird its food,
but does not cast it into the nest.
—Scottish Proverb.
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MFG. Sales Agents wanted, local and
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BUSINESS—FOB SALE. Opportunity for
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