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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S.
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in WASHINGTON
By Walter Shead
WNU Corr*ipo»rf«>f
WNU Washington Bureau
1616 Eye St.. N. W.
Veterans’ Organizations
Mighty Pressure Groups
ETERANS of Uncle Sam’s mili-
’ tary establishment are receiving
benefits at the rate of $15,376,174,665
for the fiscal years 1946 and 1947,
and what’s more they can get what
ever they want for the next fiscal
.year from this new 80th congress.
One out of every four adult Amer
icans is a veteran, distributed in the
same ratio throughout every con
gressional district in the country, so
veterans and veterans’ organizations
constitute the top pressure groups in
the country. They have a long legis
lative program mapped out for this
congress. Main features of this pro
gram, which are likely to receive fa
vorable consideration, include re
peal of the on-the-job training pay
ceiling and the time limit, cash ter
minal leave payments, increase in
pensions and subsistence allowances
and liberalization of government in
surance policies.
Then there are such matters as
housing, universal military train
ing, liberalization of reemployment
rights and other subjects of particu
lar interest to veterans. The 79th
congress, during its two-year ses
sion, passed most veterans’ legisla
tion on voice vote, the members not
bothering with a roU caU, except on
measures where they wanted to get
on record as having favored a
specific proposal.
Closest record vote on a piece of
veterans’ legislation in the 79th con
gress was 225 to 39 in the house on
a bill to give priorities to Veterans’
administration for hospital equip
ment. In two years the senate of
the 79th congress took only one rec
ord vote on a mattei of sole con
cern to veterans, the measure in
troduced by Sen. Joseph Ball (Rep.,
Minn.) to subtract mustering-out pay
from terminal leave payments. It
was rousingly defeated by a vote
of 67 to 12.
Bigger, Better Benefit*
Most items in the legislative pro
grams of the four top veterans’ or
ganizations call for increasing bene
fits to be paid to members. Most
fertile fields for this increase in cash
benefits lie in pension and subsis
tence allowances, in changing tech
nical definitions through which pen
sion rates are set, or in reclassify
ing disability ratings. American Le
gion will push a measure to give an
education allowance of $50 a month
to orphans over 16, of veterans of
the first and second world wars who
died as a result of war service. VFW
proposes that World War I veterans
have the same pension rights as
Civil and Spanish-American war
veterans, who are presumed to be
totally disabled at 65, thereby giv
ing them full pensions. AMVETS
wants a 15 per cent increase in sub
sistence allowances to veterans go
ing to school under the G.I. bill and
a measure which would pay dis-
abihty compensation on the basis of
cost of living.
All four organizations. Legion,
VFW, AMVETS and AVC, are for
taking the ceiling off on-the-job pay
ments; three of the four—Legion,
AMVETS and VFW—want cash ter
minal leave payments; Legion and
VFW want universal military train
ing, while AVC is against it and AM
VETS has taken no stand.
All four organizations want in
creases in pensions and subsistence;
three—Legion, AMVETS and AVC—
want insurance liberalization, while
VFW has taken no stand.
Wont Leave Pay in Cash
These organizations have set up
definite legislative committees and
have registered lobbyists on the job
and will spend money for the es
pousal of their cause. The records
show, for instance, American Le
gion spent $49,000 for lobbying ac
tivities from January 1 to Septem
ber 30, 1946, although Veterans of
Foreign Wars had spent nothing, and
the other two organizations had not
yet filed their expenses as this sur
vey was made.
Appropriations for the 1947 fiscal
year for pensions was $1,905,090,000
and for 1946 it was $1,080,150,000.
G.I. bill benefits which include sub
sistence and other benefits, exclu
sive of unemployment compensa
tion, totaled $3,491,387,000 for 1947
and $795,000,000 for the 1946 fiscal
year. Terminal leave pay appro
priation for 1947 was $2,431,708,000.
This was to be issued in five-year
bonds. Now the veterans want their
terminal leave in cash, and they
likely will get it.
So in all probability the expendi
tures for our war veterans will take
a decided hike for the 1948 fiscal
year in the face of a promise and
an expressed determination by the
new Republican leadership to slash
the cost of government. Congress
man Dwight L. Rogers of Florida
told your Home Town Reporter that
he had reserved House Bill No. 2
at the coming session, so the second
bill to be introduced into the house
will be Congressman Rogers’ bill to
provide that terminal leave bonds
may be cashed immediately by vet
erans if they so desire.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for January 19
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education: used by
permission.
JESUS INTERVIEWED BY
NICODEMUS
LESSON TEXT—John 3:1-11, 1«. 17.
MEMORY SELECTION—Except a man be
bom again, he cannot aee the kingdom of
God.—John 3:3.
INSTRUMENT OF MERCY ... A hundred and fifty thousand dimes, contributed in the 1946 March of
Dimes, paid for the fully equipped mobile emergency unit, three views of which are shown above. In addi
tion to moving emergency patients, the unit serves as a training center and auxiliary hospital facility when
needed. The unit proved its worth during the severe epidemic last summer.
CEASELESS WAR
High Polio Toll Gives Impetus
To March of Din les Campaign
WNU Features.
With latest reports compiled by National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis indicating that the year 1946 witnessed the most
severe epidemic of polio in the history of the foundation, concerted
effort is being centered on the 1947 March of Dimes which opened
throughout the nation on January 15.
The national foundation, spearhead organization in the cease
less war against the great crippler, is directing agency for the
annual March of Dimes campaign. The drive will be concluded
January 30.
Heavy expenditures resulting O'
from the nationwide 1946 epidemic
have dipped deeply into the founda
tion’s funds, directors assert in urg
ing generous support for the 1947
solicitation to provide means for
coping with any emergency in the
future. The March of Dimes, they
add, is the only method employed
by the foundation to raise money
to finance its many activities.
Fatalities Decline.
Figures compiled by the founda
tion disclose that in 1946 there were
more than 24,000 cases of infantile
paralysis, with fatalities running
between 5 and 10 per cent. In the
year 1916, before the foundation was
organized, the greatest polio epi
demic in history was recorded. That
year 27,363 cases were reported by
28 states, fatalities running as high
as 25 per cent.
The sharp decrease in fatalities is
attributed in part to the persistent
educational program waged since
the foundation was started in 1938,
which brought about better diag
nosis and early hospitalization. At
the same time improved therapeu
tic methods were credited with pre
vention of many cases of permanent
crippling.
Hardest hit during 1946, ac
cording to foundation figures,
was the Mississippi valley region,
where Minnesota headed the list
of heavily hit states with a total
of 2,813 cases. However, Flor
ida on the east coast and Cali
fornia on the west coast, also
were seriously affected, and oth
er widely scattered regions
were hard hit as well.
Adhering to its policy of leaving
half of all funds collected during
the March of Dimes with its local
county chapters, the foundation left
more than eight million dollars with
these chapters during January,
1946. Up to November 1, more than
360 of these chapters had entirely
depleted their shares of this fund
and had to call upon the foundation
for help. This help reached the sum
of more than four million dollars.
Emphasize Research.
Besides supplying local chapters
with emergency funds the founda
tion used its share of March of
Dimes collections in furthering a
concentrated and widespread pro
gram of research into causes and
possible cures of the malady* and
in training doctors, physical thera
pists, epidemiologists and other
"front line” soldiers in the war
against polio. A considerable
amount also was spent on public
education, and during 1946 more
than six million pieces of literature
on the disease were distributed
free. During the last fiscal year
nearly two million dollars was ex
pended for research activities.
The foundation emphasizes
that no victim of polio, regard
less of age, race, creed or color,
need go without the best avail
able care through lack of
funds.
Infantile paralysis, the statement
points out, is among the most un
predictable of diseases. No one
knows when or where it will strike
—but until research finally finds the
answers to many puzzling questions
still obscured, there is one sure
thing about polio—and that is that
it will strike.
No Group Immune.
Despite its name, it can strike
and has struck persons of all age
groups, although the age group five
to nine appears to be most suscept
ible. Boys seem to be slightly more
susceptible than girls, and there is
no evidence to show that any one
race is more immune to its rav
ages than any other.
What is important at this stage,
the report says, is that a doctor be
consulted as soon as the disease is
suspected — and sometimes the
symptoms so closely resemble
those of a common cold that no
chances should be taken. Early
diagnosis and hospitalization may
prevent death or permanent crip
pling, the report stresses, and the
early services of a competent medi
cal man are absolutely essential.
In discussing the future, the re
port expresses confidence that the
cause and a prevention of the dread
crippler will be found. In the mean
time, it is pointed out, the public
has every assurance that March of
Dimes funds, distributed by local
chapters in their territories, have
made possible the best available
care and purchased the most up-
to-date equipment regardless of
cost, so that any foreseeable exi
gency can be met.
Aid is Assured.
Behind the local chapters stands
the national foundation, carrying on
its program of public education and
research, and ready to send aid to
any county which may deplete its
funds through unusual epidemic
conditions.
The work will go on, the founda
tion promises. Funds collected dur
ing the 1947 Mareh of Dimes will
replenish exhausted treasuries so
that when the 1947 polio season rolls
around—sometime in the late spring
and through the summer—the na
tion will be ready.
RELIEF FROM CAMPUS GRIND
College Students Given Time To Think'
college students in the future will
be given “time to think”!
A day off “now and then” will be
granted so students can study, talk
to their teachers or “just sit and
think through” some of their aca
demic and social problems, it was
announced by Byron Hollingshead,
young president of the local college.
Faculty members will stick
around the campus for informal
conferences, “preferably over a cup
of coffee in the grill,” Hollingshead
said. Library and reference rooms
will remain open. The day will be
selected well in advance by the fac
ulty executive committee and the
student council.
Averring that “right now modern
education defeats its own purpose,”
the young educator declared:
“It’s impossible to get an educa
tion in the modern colleges be
cause the colleges make it impos
sible by rushing the student through
the curriculum.”
The average college, he insisted,
is cursed by “entirely too much
teaching and too little learning.”
“It’s about time we gave our stu
dents a chance to sit back and think
about what they’re told,” he added.
Further relief from the campus
grind also is assured Coe students.
Administrators hope eventually to
give them a week’s vacation from
classes when it counts the most—
right before final exams.
New Device Tests Drunk Drivers
EAST LANSING, MICH. — Latest
device introduced by Michigan
state police in an attempt to curb
highway accidents is an “intoxi-
meter,” an on-the-spot, roadside
chemical test for drunk drivers.
All patrol cars in the state will
be equipped with the newly-devel
oped device by mid-March, accord
ing to Capt. Caesar J. Scavadara,
head of the state police traffic di
vision.
The device has a two-fold pur
pose: To eliminate miscarriages
of justice resulting when persons
are charged with drunk driving be
cause they are sick, injured or have
taken drugs; and to provide police
with a “foolproof” method of prov
ing intoxication.
The intoximeter, enclosed in a
small cardboard cylinder, permits
a police officer to make an on-the-
scene test for intoxication subject
to later check by a technician.
The motorist or pedestrian in
volved in an accident or giv
ing signs of intoxication blows up a
small rubber balloon attached to the
device, the officer clocking the time
required for a red fluid in a glass
tube to become colorless.
Longer Life Pays Gash Dividends
CHICAGO. — Man’s never-end
ing quest for long life is paying div
idends — in cash, according to
Frank G. Dickinson, economist and
statistician for American Medical
association.
In contrast to the heydey of the
Roman Empire, when anyone 35
or 40 was considered “old,” life ex
pectancy in the United States has
jumped from 49 in 1900 to 65 in
1946.
The advance is credited by Dick
inson to modern medicine, better
food and improved housing.
In 1900, Dickinson points out, the
average man of 20, earning $1,250
annually, could have valued his life
time earnings at $27,400. In 1940 he
could place a value of $29,900 on
his prospective earnings.
Prospective earnings for a man
of 35 increased from $25,000 to $26,-
200 during the same period.
Huge Plastic Buffalo
Planned as Memorial
CODY, WYO. — As a memorial
to Buffalo Bill, a mammoth plastic
buffalo one day may be erected
atop Cedar mountain here. Sculptor
Lawrence Tenny Stevens says he
plans to build a buffalo standing 150
or 200 feet high on the mountain
in memory of the famed scout. In
side the body will be an elevator,
lunch room, curio shop and perhaps
a cocktail lounge, the sculptor adds
How does one become a Chris
tian? This was the question of Nico-
demus, and it is the question in the
hearts and minds of thousands in
every generation. The answer is
clear and definite.
The only entrance into the Chris
tian life is by th.e door of the new
birth. Regeneration is the act of
God whereby the divine nature is
imparted to the believing sinner and
he becomes the child of God. He
who has not entered by this way
has not entered at all. He is still
dead in trespasses and sins, with
out God and without hope (Eph.
2:1, 12).
The Pharisees who looKed for
the coming of the Messiah as a sec-
| ular conqueror wondered at this
‘ new spiritual leader. It was prob-
I ably as much on their behalf as his
! own that Nicodemus came to in-
1 quire of Jesus. In answering his
questions Jesus reveals the neces
sity, the nature, and the method of
regeneration.
i I. The New Birth—a Necessity
(w. 1-7).
Our Lord’s visitor was h man of
distinction and standing in the com
munity, but Jesus was not unduly
impressed by the dignity and high
station of his visitor, nor by the vis
itor’s courteous aknowledgment of
his own position as a great teacher.
With decisive boldness Jesus de
clares that this man, a cultured
and distinguished ruler of the Jews,
must be born again, if he is to see
the kingdom of God.
God is no respecter of persons.
The doctor of divinity must be bom
again just as much as the illitefate
fisherman. D. L. Moody once said
that he was thankful it was to such
a man as Nicodemus that Jesus
presented the necessity of the new
birth, or men would have said that
only the down-and-outer needed to
be saved.
Two reasons are given by our
Lord for the "must” of verse 7:
(1) The Kingdom of God is a spirit
ual Kingdom and cannot be en
tered by way of our human nature;
and (2) “that which is bom of the
flesh is flesh” and is radically and
essentially bad. To learn why that
is true read Jeremiah 13:23 and
Galatians 5:19-21.
Scripture on this point is almost
diametrically opposed to much . of
the teachings in our schools and
colleges. But God’s Word is right;
let us follow it.
II. The New Birth—a Mystery
(vv. 8-11).
God has graciously revealed to
us “all things that pertain unto life
and godliness, through the knowl
edge” of Christ (II Pet. 1:2). But
it is true—and we say quite appro
priately true — that he has some
things hidden in his own blessed
counsels. We know the experience
of the new birth. We see the blessed
results of regeneration. But what
actually takes place is a divine
mystery, not fathomable by human
reason. Those who insist that all
spiritual truth be put through the
little norm of their intelligence will
never understand it or receive its
blessing (I Cor. 2:14).
The striking illustration of the
life-giving and energizing wind
used by our Lord is most illuminat
ing. Wind is unseen, but the re
sults of its movement are evident.
| Even so the spiriual rebirth of men
is an enigma to the worldly man,
! but even he can see its results in
I godly living.
We know‘that regeneration is not
1 only a possibility, but an actuality,
a fact; in truth, the greatest of all
facts.
III. The New Birth—a Reality
(vv. 16, 17).
Just as there was healing and
life in a look at the uplifted serpent
in the wilderness (Num. 21:8), so
there is life for a look at the Cruci
fied One. Faith receives God’s per
fect provision for sin.
Verse 16 may well be regarded
as the greatest sentence in the
greatest Book in the world. It
presents the whole plan of salva
tion—its source, its ground, its re
cipients, its condition, and its re
sult.
This glorious salvation is for all
men—“whosoever”—but some re
ject it. Notice that God does not
condemn them. Their own evil
works and desires condemn them
(vv. 17-20). God in his grace is
ready and willing to save, but men
love “darkness rather than light,”
for their works are evil.
Our tender, loving heavenly Fath
er has no desire to condemn any
one. The man or woman who falls
under his condemnation of sin does
so by choice. God’s desire is that
all should be saved.
Will you, unbeliever who reads
ihe%e lines, respond now to his gra
cious invitation?
This Home-Mixed
Syrup Relieves
Coughs Quickly
I.Vcds No Cooking. Saves Money.
The surprise of your life is waiting
for you, in your own kitchen, when
it conies to the relief of coughs due
to colds. In just a moment, you can
mix a cough syrup that gives you
about 4 times as much for your money,
and is surprising for quick results.
Make a syrup by stirring 2 cups of
granulated sugqr and one cup of
water a few moments, until dissolved.
No cooking needed—it’s no trouble at
all. Or you can use corn syrup or
liquid honey, instead of sugar syrup.
Then put ounces of Pinex (ob
tained from any druggist) into a pint
bottle. Fill up with your syrup, and
you have a full pint of really wonder
ful cough medicine. It never spoils,
lasts a long time, and children love it.
This home mixture takes right hold
of a cough in a way that means bus
iness. It loosens the phlegm, soothes
the irritated membranes, and quickly
eases soreness and difficult breathing.
Pinex is a special compound of
proven ingredients, in concentrated
form, well known for quick action
in coughs and bronchial irritations.
Money refunded if it doesn’t pleas*
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If you catch cold easily—becausa
you lack all the natural A&D
Vitamins and enersry-buQding^
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C'OR most of ns, life Is what
1 we make it. But for some
pedestrians, it’s IF they make
it.
There are two sides to ev
ery question—your side and
the wrong side.
A lot of fellows who com
plain of their bosses being
dumb might be out of a job
if the bosses were smart.
Crematories Offer Service,
Niche for Departed Pets
Of the four crematories for pet
animals in this country, the most
modern is in New York City. Es
tablished in 1939, it cremates an
nually over 500 pets, such as dogs,
cats, parrots and canaries, charg
ing from $15 to $25 for the service,
from $5 to $300 for the urn and
from $25 to $100 for a niche and its
perpetual care.
Rands Need Care
During the winter months, hands
need special care to keep them soft
and attractive looking. Improperly
washing and drying your hands is
often a cause of chapping.
Rotating Crop*
Legumes in rotation with culti
vated crops serve a double purpose
by increasing the fertility of -the
soil, and in turn the crop yield, and
by protecting the soil from destruc
tive erosion and loss of moisture.
Cooking Proteins
Protein foods such as eggs, ham
and fish should not be boiled, but
should be simmered or cooked in wa
ter just below the boiling point
High heat of boiling toughens pro
teins.
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