Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. SHIFT OF COMMANDERS WASHINGTON. — Inside fac' about the shift of U. S. commanders in Germany is that the stage was set for the change shortly after Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay visited the Na tional Association of Manufacturers in New York. Shortly before that, the senate war investigating committee’s chief counsel, George Meader, had come back from Germany with a prelim inary report highly critical of what went on in the U. S. occupation zone. General Clay, then in the United States, was upset by this report and talked to Secretary of State Byrnes about resigning. He felt that Gen. Joseph McNarney, top commander of U. S. troops in Germany, was the man really responsible, although he. Clay, as head of the military govern ment for Germany, got the blame. On top of the unfavorable Meader report, General Clay addressed a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers and afterwards sat down at an off-the-record meet ing of NAM leaders including some of the top moguls of American in dustry. Their solution for the future of Germany was simple. They told Clay that they should be permitted to get in touch with their opposite numbers in German industry — the big industrialists who helped build up Hitler’s war machine. If allowed to do business With the German cartels, the U. S. indus trialists told Clay, they would have Germany back on its feet in no time. This shocked General Clay. He said he would retire from the army immediately if any such deal was carried out. He warned that the Ger man people did not believe in or understand free enterprise and that Germany could only continue under strong government controls. • * • CAPITAL CHAFF The RFC apparently thinks that the Germans are a better risk than veterans’ housing. It will advance about 3 billion dol lars to rebuild Germany during the next three years, but was afraid of losing money on Wil son Wyatt’s prefabricated hous ing for veterans. . . . Wyatt, ex mayor of Louisville, passed out golden keys to the city of Louis ville to guests he invited to a farewell party. ... No wonder John L. Lewis is hard luck for labor. He’s the “13th” vice president of the A. F. of L. • • • AIRLINE DYNAMITE The dynamite now exploding in side Trans World Airlines between Jack Frye, its president, and How ard Hughes, its chief stockholder, has caused members of the civil aeronautics board to begin some careful probing of the aviation in dustry. Their probe indicates that things aren’t going anywhere nearly as well as the airline ballyhoo indi cates. Among other things, six companies operated in the red during the first nine months of 1946—TWA, Colonial, Chicago and Southern, Northeast ern, Pennsylvania-Central and West ern. Furthermore, the airlines have over-ordered new planes to such an extent that they will never be able to use more than a fraction of the planes supposed to be delivered. For instance, the present fleet of civil planes has a capacity of 15 billion seat miles annually. Howev er, when the planes now on order are delivered, capacity will be 41 billion passenger seat miles. This is in contrast to the fact that the planes now on hand are 100 per cent in excess of the passengers now carried. Result is many unpubli cized cancellations. One of the most disquieting situations is the fact that TWA has placed large orders with Lockheed, and heavy cancellations would deal Lockheed a tough blow. • * * PACIFIC MERRY-GO-ROUND Best way to gain popularity in the Far East today is to take along a supply of Roosevelt dimes. Congressional travelers returned from China and the Pa cific islands report that these were the most welcome gifts they could make to native digni taries. . . . First general election in history of the Truk island group in the Pacific was held in January. Island chieftains and officials for the entire group were chosen. Heretofore these offices have been hereditary. . . . Among the voters were many who have lived under Spanish, German and Japanese control. This was their first election. • • • IN FULL PRODUCTION FOR QUIZ PROGRAMS “How now?” we asked the Man Who Built a Better Mousetrap. “What’s the situation?” “Everything’s going good,” he re plied. “We’re in full production.” “Stuff getting through to the American homes at last, eh?” we said. “Oh, no,” said the Man Who Built a Better Mousetrap. "Noth ing’s getting through to the Amer ican home. Nothing at all.” “Where is the stuff going?” we asked. “Radio programs,” said the M. W. B. A. B. M. “We’re just like most industries, we don’t expect to get much through to the customers for a couple of years. The radio programs take everything we can turn out.” "Don’t tell me that mousetraps, too, are among the prizes on radio programs.” “Why not? The radio people don’t tell the winners they’re mousetraps necessarily. They say they’re a new ash tray imported from France, or a novelty air purifier or an electric lighter or Swiss book ends. Of course, if a master of ceremonies on a radio program sees a contestant who doesn’t look very bright he may admit it’s just a mousetrap but tells the radio audience it can be applied to a stiff shoulder as a poultice.” * “The quiz program has been a great thing for industry,” we sug gested. “In the old days a slump could not be cushioned by merely getting a lot of people into a studio and seeing if they knew the name of the bridge Steve Brodie jumped from.” “It must have been tough,” sighed the Mousetrap Builder. “Fancy being in the manufacturing business and not be able to supply prizes for the Queen For a Day program!” » “One thing is not clear,” we said. "Isn’t there a terrific public de mand for most everything manufac turers produce today?” “Oh yes.” “Then, why do the manufacturers deluge quiz programs with millions of dollars worth of products hourly?” The Man Who Built a Better Mousetrap regarded us sternly. “So you’d get stuff to the consumer and not to all those people who turn up on radio programs and tell what Washington’s first name was!” he said, abruptly leaving us. • • • Presidential Campaign And Television More bad news! * The candidates and orators in the 1948 presidential campaign are coming to us by television! * The long-suffering public is going to get not only alarming speeches but alarming faces! * Just as election campaigns were first broadcast in the Hoover era, the first big-time television per formance will be put on during the next Presidential campaign. * Candidates should be heard but not screened. Only one in a million has a face that an interior decora tor would call essential. Undef^sim- ple radio, there was always the comforting thought a candidate might not look as bad as he sound ed. Under television he can be guilty on both counts. • We predict right now that tele vision will cancel out the women’s vote. It took 150 years for them to get the ballot. Under television they may give it back. * The only candidate with a chance may be the fellow who makes the women voters remark not “Sound, isn’t he?” but “ah-h-h! What a hunk of man!” • • • "The situation in the Democratic party is not hopeless if new blood is infused."— Jim Farley. This is the first time anybody has classified its plight so desperate as to call for transfusion. • • • “Seventy Per Cent of Lend- Lease Repaid,” says President.— Headline. • “I didn’t realize,” says Ima Dodo, “that we could afford to advance the money to pay us back.” • • • New low in movie titles: "The Corpse Came C. O. D." * • * BACK SEAT PHONING SCHOOLS NEED TYPEWRITERS Schools and colleges may come ahead of veterans in getting surplus war property for educational uses, according to a plan now under con sideration at the White House. At present veterans get first crack at typewriters, adding machines and all other types of equipment—and when I the vets are through there isn’t > much left for the states, schools and ! colleges. This problem recently was placed before the President by ex- Sen. Joseph Rosier of West Virginia. The guy I label low as lice, I have no fear in owning, Are those who prompt and give advice Whenever I am phoning. Pier. • • * Telegrams have gone up 10 per cent, making a total of 20 per cent in a year. Taking into consideration the high cost of postage stamps and telephone calls, the fellow who has nothing he wants to say to any body is in a soft spot. CONGRESSIONAL BROTHERS . . . Repr. John Davis Lodge, left, Con necticut, and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts, put their broth erly heads together to compare notes on legislation in the 80th congress. They are sons of the late U. S. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, who was a mighty power in the senate during the Wilson regime. Both brothers are Republicans and are expected to take an active part in official Washing ton during the next few years. CRASHED AT JONES BEACH . . . Jones beach, famed New York play ground, narrowly averted being the scene of one of the month’s worst plane disaster. A Baltimore to Los Angeles airliner lost in the snow and unable to find LaGuardia airfield, was forced to crash land at Jones beach. The pilot carefully chose the hard strip of sand between breakers and soft beach sand. The 13 passengers and three crew members were shaken but otherwise uninjured. BABY STRONG MAN ... He stands in the air with the greatest of ease and with the utmost in pleasure, does little six-month-old Ronnie Udkoff, shown standing on the hand of his dad, Bud Udkoff, at their home in Chicago. This part of Ronnie’s education started two months ago, and he seems to be having the time of his life. WORLD'S BREASTSTROKE CHAMP . . . Joe Verdeur, LaSalle col lege, Philadelphia, is hailed as the new world’s champion by his vic tory in 200-yard breaststroke, in breaking record set in 1939 by R. R. Hough of 2 minutes and 22 seconds. Verdeur is a freshman with three more years of intercollegiate competition before him. He also is un defeated in the 220-yard free-style event. LaSalle will count heavily on him to splash the Blue and Gold to further victories. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE . . . Repr. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R., Mass.), as he opened the 80th ses sion of congress, after his election as speaker of the house. Following the Republican landslide, he suc ceeded Repr. Sam Rayburn (D„ Tex.). WITHOUT A COUNTRY . • . Mil dred Gillars, 37, American musi cian-actress, known as "Axis Sally,” arrested in Berlin for treasonable activities on behalf of the Nazi propaganda ministry, is now with out a country to call her own. SAVED FROM FIRE . . . John Roccosanto, Chicago, keeps cool even though a fire burns his hat shop. Here he is shown with some of the hats he saved from the raging flames that completely de stroyed his shop and most of his stock. ITALY’S PRIME MINISTER . . . Alcide de Gasperi, as he arrived at Washington, the guest of the United States government. In ad dition to visits to various govern ment departments he will meet with leading Italians to report as their prime minister. HOGAN WINS . . . Ben Hogan, Her- shey. Pa., who won the Los An geles golf tournament over Toney Penna with a 72-hole score of 280, • new Rivera Country club course record. f I 'HE general attitude toward um- pires is, in our opinion, one of the greatest crimes in sport. Ball play ers in large numbers have been con victed in the pa^ of selling and throw ing games. Players and managers have been indicted on other counts, out side of baseball. But no umpire that I can recall has ever been connected with a scandal of any sort. They have been the backbone of baseball — the foundation of base- Grantland Rice ball. What has been their reward? The age old cry of “Kill the umpire.” They have been hated and assault ed and scorned by the mob. They have been stormed at, cursed, in sulted by players and managers who in the main were using these um pires as alibis for their own mis takes—for their defeats. I can go back a long way in um pires—Tim Hurst, Silk O’Loughlin, Tommy Connelly, Billy Evans, Bill Klem (and what a guy), Cy Wrig- ler, Hank O’Day, Bill Dineen, Lord Byron, Arlie Latham, Charlie Mo ran, on and on and on. A great bunch. Dead honest. Dead ■game, these Big Boys in Blue. You couldn’t buy one of them at any price. You couldn’t scare ’em. No one can bluff any of them. Once in a while they may get to be overly tough, overly officious. But after all they are supposed to run the game—and when they don’t the game will be a farce. A complete joke. Honest and Tough I’ve known umpires for over 40 years. Among the top ones, I’ve never known anyone who wasn’t hon est and fearless—and tough when he had to be. Honest, fearless and tough. For the umpire knows how the managers and the ball players use him in an attempt to cover up their mistakes. Umpires make many mistakes. But Ty Cobb only batted .367 and Babe Ruth wasn’t even close to this mark. That means mistakes for the ball player over two-thirds of the time. Who is perfect or close to be ing perfect in the world’s most im perfect period of time? What is the umpire’s reward for the job he turns in? An outcast, as a general rule. Sure the hours are good, as Tim Hurst once said, but no better than the hours a ball play er or a manager knows. Not only a social outcast, but also the subject of vile abuse from man agers and players—and from the crowd if the umpire doesn’t happen to call the play in favor of the home club. What can the crowd in the stands see? The angles on strikes—plays at the bases—nothing at all. They don’t know that slight angles can make a difference of many feet. These crowds haven’t the slightest idea of what actually happened. They can miss a strike or a ball by over a foot. So can any man ager sitting on the bench. He also is all out of line. He is only guess ing his own way where on a general average he is completely wrong. A vital part of an aggressive ball team, including manager and play er, always concerns attacking and riding the umpire. This is supposed to mean a fighting, bustling team. Why was it, then, that Walter John son never protested an umpire’s de cision? Why was it that you rarely saw Joe McCarthy or Billy South- worth, certainly two of the best, storming from the dugout in some protest? These two let the umpires run the game. Riding the Umpire John McGraw, a great manager, came up in a different era. Mc Graw always faceTd two opponents— the other team and the umpire. You couldn’t give McGraw enough oppo nents, including hostile stands. All Mac wanted was a fight with any body. But the game has changed in later years. And now we have too many managers and ball players trying to copy McGraw. They are using um pires for their mistakee—as alibis. The point I’d like to make is this— here we have a group who should belong at the top of sport. And yet their reward is abuse from the crowds—abuse from the ball players —abuse from the managers. About 95 per cent abuse. In the main these umpires are picked from the best of the ball players. From the smart est and the most courageous . The wonder is that any sane citizen would ever want to be an umpire. * * * The Middleiveights The middleweights, always among the best in the ring, still dominate all divisions by a wide margin. The middleweights mean quality as well as quantity. Some while ago we figured five top middleweights running the show. They were Zale the champion, Graziano, LaMotta, Cerdan and Abrams. The verdict was that ei ther Cerdan or Abrams had to be eliminated. But the Cerdan-Abrams party was too close to be decisive. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. Army Service Shoes, reconditioned. Also flight jackets. Merchants, buy direct, save difference. Blackwell’s, Lincolntoa. Ga. MISCELLANEOUS ARTHRITIS? It you suffer the agonizing pains of arthritis and rheumatism, let us help you. Results guar. Send $1 to Morris Products. Box 981. Bellingham. Wash. WE have 14 new and used airplanes, all low priced. Will trade in new or ’41 or ’42 automobile. Phone 3268. KING'S AIK. SERVICE. MUledgeville. Ga. 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