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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. The Broadway Scene: The Late Watch: Hollywood night spot men have solved the puzzle on why biz took a slump: “No more army officers who blew a month’s pay in a night.” . . . Prices have come down so low that theaters of fering two-bit values now are charg ing only 85 cents. . . . School teach ers and nurses attention: Dishwash ers in Broadway hotels now rate $15 daily plus meals. . . . Secy, of State Marshall is the only World War II vet in the U.N. council. . . . Marion Hargrove is working on a syndicated idea with an Ernie Pyle flavor. . . . Alf Drake and Bernice Parks of “Beggar’s Holiday” are feudin’. When he’s supposed to kiss her, he merely hugs her. (The silly!) . . . The state seal of Georgia motto is: “Wisdom, Justice and Moderation.” There seems to be a race be tween the British and Ameri can armies to see which one gets out of Berlin first. We felt safer when they were racing to get in. Broadway Ballad: (By Don Wahn): Let’s set it down—and add the total up. . . . And find if it was worth the final cost. . . . There were the inns that held the jeweled cup. . . . There were the songs that now are strangely lost. . . . And there were girls to feed the flame of youth.' . . . Girls who were touched with moonmist and delight. . . . There was the quest for certainty and truth. . . . There was the throb of whispers in the night ... So we will add this gossamer of mine. . . . Knowing full well the terror we will find. ... An empty heart—an empty cask of wine. . . . The futile whimper of an eerie wind. . . . Yet, who am I to mourn a sinner’s wake? . . . There was no other road— that I could take! The politicans have suggest ed legislation to keep crooked ness out of sports. Now if some one will only suggest something to keep it out of politics. Manhattan Murals: The desert ed trolley tracks on 59th St. with the Columbus Circles under their eyes. . . . The Riverside drive milk man who does his chores in the frigid weather with no coat. Just undershirt and trousers. Exhibition ist .. . The lad in the NBC news room named Bonaparte, who says he is a descendant of Napoleon. . . . The gal ticket seller at Pennsy sta tion, who went to school with Movietown’s Marie McDonald, still her closest chum. The walls of the ticket booth are lined with Marie’s photos. . . . Dunhill, famed for mak ing pipes, has exactly five of them in its huge window space (on Vth near 50th). Everything else from ladies’ pocketbooks on up. . . . Sign in a 42nd St. stationer’s: "Our foun tain pens just write.” Sudden Thawt: Axis Sally probably will travel first class to the tl. S. A. on a ship that will bring dead American troops in steerage. Man About Town: The water- filled trough on Broadway at 106th, now a terminal for the new busses that replaced the street cars that replaced the horses. . . . The steeples at St. Patrick’s emerging from their scaffolding cacoon as wings of faith stretching into the sky. . . . The little tot spanking her dolly for falling into the 3rd avenue gutter. . . . The Chinese Salvation Army officer preaching in the cold at 46th and the Main Drag. ... A reader who saw it happen suggests it for a coin-raising poster. A crip pled mendicant putting a dime in a March of Dimes container. Bob Hawk believes that one big reason we find it hard to sell democracy is because of the poor sample case we are showing. 1' ’ Midtown Novelette: One of the fly-by-night realty firms in town promoted a simple-mind ed office boy to vice-president at $25 per week. . . . When any of their apartment houses lost , money they'd put it in his name as a “present from the firm.” ... The happy youth, however, dis covered that he wasn’t so lucky as creditors foreclosed on him. . . . The realtors repeated this trick a dozen times. . . . Our Hero recently died. . . . The top salary he ever made was $40 a week. ... But the obit pages said “he died owing $2,000,000.” Quotation Marksmanship: J. E Gobson: Learn to like people in stead of wishing they liked you. . . . Marcelene Cox: He sharpened his wits on the edge of her nerves. . . . F. M. Howard: He gave her one of those person-to-person looks. . H. Barstow: As impartial as a traffic light. . . . S. Torrence: She used cosmetics to edit her face. . . . Anon: People have improved everything except people. . . . Mar- ya Bond: It is only fitting that the Cracker State has a crumb as gov ernor. VUtJfome *1044*1 R&potiteJi In WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU WNU Washington Bureau. 1616 Eye St.. N. W, U.N. Food Organization Moving Towardo Workable Program A S THIS is written, representa tives of 18 governments of as many nations are in almost continu ous session attempting to piece to gether a workable and acceptable program for a world plan to handle and stabilize the prices on all food surpluses and for international co operation on world food problems, under the aegis of the United Na tions Food and Agricultural organiza tion. Any prediction a few months ago that the international commission could work out such an agreement and, more important, that the Amer ican congress would accept any such plan, would have been shrugged off as highly improbable. However, the fact is that the experts declare a practical plan is ready for recom mendation. What is more, there is every likelihood that our congress, despite its ultra-conservatism, final ly will approve the recommenda tions and that the United States gov ernment will join in the world food plan. The recent proposal of England’s Sir John Orr was so widespread in scope and dictatorial in its concep tion that the United States govern ment could not go along. However, the present commission, according to advance information, is attempt ing to accomplish the sanys results by means of multilateral agree ments with the several nations on various commodities. Stabilization Sought According to information, the most promising proposals which have been accepted by the commission came from our own department of agriculture and from the newly- formed International Federation of Agricultural Producers, organized in London earlier last year. It rep resents and speaks not only for our own national farm organizations but also for the farm organizations in 13 member countries and for 5 other countries which have not yet joined the FAO. Recommendations of the commis sion provide formation of a World Food council and this council would, by agreement, attempt to insure that trade and commodity programs would conform to the efforts of agri culturists to stabilize world food prices of surpluses and generally im prove production and distribution of agricultural products. The council also would cooperate with such in ternational organizations as the In ternational Trade organization, which has for its purpose the in crease of world trade and stabiliza tion of commodity prices; the In ternational Federation of Agricultur al Producers, which has for its pur pose the stabilization of farm ex port prices and to fix minimum and maximum prices for food exports, and the International Trades Union organization, also recently estab lished in London. These three organizations would act as fountain heads of suggestions upon which the World Food council would act. The temporary com mission, now in session, has before it the suggestions of many nations involved which have been presented during the past two years and which have resulted from the conferences at Mexico City, Copenhagen, Lon don, Quebec and Washington. Long Range Improvements According to information, the U. S. department of agriculture spon sored the suggestions which have been accepted in principle, that (1) countries in dire need for whatever reason, certified by FAO, would be provided food through finances of the international monetary fund, either by grant or by special price terms, with the cost shared equitably among FAO member nations, and (2) to provide a long-range food pro gram for needy countries where they are undertaking to increase the pro duction by scientific means of their own agricultural economy, at agreed prices. According to word from the com mission sessions, there is an amaz ing unanimity of opinion as to the need, and negotiations for agree ment have the blessing of our own state department as well as the de partment of agriculture. When agreement is reached, the trick will be to sell the idea to congress. The prediction is that pressures from our own farm organizations will get approval finally. Those who have been studying the proposals have gone deeply into the machinery of the world food problem (1) to learn that two-thirds of the two billion people of the world are underfed, (2) to give to these backward nations the benefits of our science, (3) to spread the doctrine of nutrition throughout the world, (4) to stabilize world agricultural sur plus prices so necessary if this and other countries are to gain full agri cultural production. They declare that the choice is between this pro posed world food council or nothing. Woman's World Colorful New Curtains Give Needed Tonic to Many Homes 8u Crtta Mate V 'T'HIS is the time of year when many a homemaker gets the urge to do something “different” to her home. I’ve even heard of this feeling taking expression in such drastic steps as changing the whole layout of furniture, or in buying new things that put big dents in the budget. Most of us can’t afford this big a dose of tonic, so I’m going to tell you of a simple way to add a new feeling to the home and to give your self a lift at the same time. You’ll find that simply adding new treat ments to the windows will give you just the touch of freshness you’re seeking. First, here’s a tip about selecting a color. Study the room carefully and try to pick up one of the colors in your furnishings or wallpaper which you’ve neglected. Then see if this can’t be made up into the window treatment. If, for example, you want to use sheer surtains in a creamy white or ecru shade, don’t give up the idea of using color. For a treatment such as this, you might make a frame for the window out of wall board or ply wood. Incidentally, this is a nice trick for making narrow windows look more luxurious. Paint the frame in an attractive design and run it down to the floor; if the window is short, run the frame across the bot tom. Prepared trimmings which are self-pasting also may be used to dec orate the frame, if you are not handy with a brush. Treating Windows to Let Light Come Through Most rooms could use a bit of good old sunlight, and window treatments can be made to encourage the sun peeping through them. In this case you must make use of sheer curtains which will permit light to come through, but drapery material that is heavy and patterned also may be used to enhance the treatment. If you want to let in a lot of light yet give the impression of the win dow being draped, hang sheer cur tains from top to bottom. Then use an extra pair of sheer curtains and hang them in a drapery pattern New Silhouette Create new window effects . . . letting them overlap. Use interest ing colored tiebacks or knobs for a dash of color. If you have short windows, nang them with short, sheer curtains, but don’t stop there! Have a cornice in an attractive color, and then pipe drapery material which has been set on the sides of the window with the same color you have in the cor nice. Or use a cornice made of a pleat ed or gathered drapery material and let the material of extra draperies go at the edges of the window. Another treatment that is very smart employs sheer curtains, but a colorful chintz is added to the cornice, and a deep border of the same chintz is used to border the glass curtains. This gives a room a very finished appearance. Tailored Curtains Best for Some Rooms Perhaps you have a desire to con vert your bedroom from a thing of frilly ruffles into something more To add tonic to your rooms. tailored but still neat and feminine appearing. A smart, unique solution for this is to whip up full length curtains made of eyelet embroid ered material. This may be tinted one of the attractive pastels. Put a strip of embroidery bordered with Molly’s new riding habit silhouette is featured in this spring suit done in shades of light and dark. The upper part of the jacket is done in fieldstone gray. Hat is designed by Lilly Dache. the plain across the cornice and hang floor length panels of solid col ored drapery material. Three pan els make a nice looking treatment, a panel at each side and one down the middle. If you have a room in the attic with small windows, you can have an inexpensive treatment for them by using feed, sugar or flour sacks dyed to match the color scheme of the room. Use short tailored cur tains and run them across the win dows. Place a cornice or ruffle at the top of the windows in a contrast ing, darker shade than you have used for the curtains themselves. Making stubby windows appear longer is a trick that some of us need at one time or another. A cor nice is the easiest way to do this as it creates the illusion of height. If you use sheer curtains and drap eries both at the window have enough of the drapery material so that you can cut the two complete patterns from the drapery and paste these on either side of the cornice. Another simple way of making the window look longer is to use a cor nice and have the top and sides piped or painted with material picked up from the room, a dark, solid color is best. Then pipe the curtains with this same material where they come together and at the bottom. Window Sewing Tips When you are sewing tops and hems on sheer curtain material, place a tissue paper underneath the material while sewing on the machine to prevent it from puck ering or pulling. Simply rip off the paper when you are finished. Unlined draperies need four inches of material for the head ing and five inches for the hem. Be sure to add these measure ments to those for the length of the window. You may save time basting win dow draperies and curtains by marking off the stitches with a single straight line drawn with chalk. Be sure to use a flat sur face for this, however. Make certain machine is ad justed properly for different thick nesses of sewing material by testing first on a scrap of the material you are using. Saves time and stitching. To make tailored curtains, pleat sheer material and use a fringed cornice treatment for in teresting effect. Reinforce the heading of your draperies with a 3% inch width of crinoline. This will help drap eries hang better and prevent heading from slipping forward and exposing the rods. For the young figure particularly in the suit line, skirts are pencil slim and slashed. Nipped in waists are popular, too, and peplum pockets are quite the thing for the teen-ager. Shoulders still are padded, and you might look for new notes in the care ful draping of sleeves from such shoulders in the new dresses. The armholes are deep and comfortable. Skirts may be flounced or pleat ed, but you may be certain there’s more fabric being used in them now than has been for a long time. New spring and summer fashions which you’ll be seeing are as fresh as daisies. Look for gay new prints, among them those which look as if they were paintings of scenes throughout the country. Released by Western Newspaper Union. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COSTS 25 TIMES AS MUCH AS IN 1913 AS LATE AS 1913, within the mem ory of a large portion of our pres ent population, federal government expenditures were less than one bil lion dollars. To be exact they were only 692 millions. To be sure, at that time we were not paying interest on a colossal national debt, nor were we main taining an army of a million men or the world's largest navy. Neither did we have the intricate and com plicated system of government we have today. We paid taxes for the support of government, but not to support ourselves ' as individuals. We were not financing social re forms for the benefit of those un willing or unable to support them selves. Those of us whose memories car ry back to that 1913 period will re call that we had a satisfactory gov ernment. It provided all the essen tials. It did not attempt to regulate each individual’s activities. It did protect us against the depredations of the criminal element, and from being gypped by monopolies. It pro vided federal courts for settling our differences. It provided assistance for schools and for road building. It paid the pensions of many thousands of Civil war veterans, then alive. It policed our borders. It did every thing that we believed necessary for the federal government to do. When, a year or two later, the ap propriations made by congress passed the one billion dollar total, what a howl was raised! The ex travagance of congress was round ly condemned. ONLY 34 YEARS AGO. That 692-million-doIlar year of 1913 was only 34 years ago. In that 34 years government prof ligacy has grown to where, in 1947, more than 37 billions is asked for the operation of gov ernment. Subtract from that sum the interest on the govern ment debt, some 5 billion dol lars; the upkeep of our present army and navy, some 8 billion, and we still have 24 billion as the proposed cost of operating the federal government for one year. That 24 billion plus is more than 25 times the cost of that satisfactory government of 1913. That excess cost must come out of what we produce. It takes from the farmer 25 times the amount of the pro duce that was taken in 1913; from the worker 25 times the' amount from his pay, and on through the long list of those who do the paying for govern ment, which is all of us. Leaders in both parties are de manding economies in government; a simplification and condensation of government activities; a return I to conditions under which the peo- i pig are masters of government rath er than government being masters of the people; a return to the condi tions where what we pay is to pro vide the cost of the real functions of government. If we are not to be drowned in the flood waters of ever increasing government costs, we, the people who pay either directly or indirectly, should sup port that demand for such simpli fication as will lead us back to some thing like the 1913 model of govern ment activities. UNBIASED INFORMATION WANTED WE HAVE had in the past, and probably will have in the future, cabinet officers who are more inter ested in promoting their personal conceptions of government than in carrying out the expressed instruc tions of congress, the direct repre sentative of the people. Such men cannot be depended upon to give congress unbiased information. The legislative branch should have its own corps of experts to dig out the information it needs in enact ing needed legislation. Authority for the creation <yf such a force is a part of the LaFollette-Moroney act, passed by the last congress. It was popular at the time of its (enact ment. It would prove an unpopular move should the present congress \ ignore, or repeal, that measure. The people do not want their representa tives to depend upon prejudiced sources for information. • • • I FIND Southern California a desirable place in which to live. But do not let the propagandists tell you that California, Ari zona, Texas, the Gulf coast or Florida is all sunshine. It is not all sunshine in any of them, as the publicity experts would have everyone believe. • • • The incident of today is of but smali if any, importance tomorrow. • • • MANAGEMENT and labor have said they prefer to settle their own differences without assistance from government ar bitrators or conciliators. It might work provided congress outlaws the closed shop, the check-off system and taxes on production, and makes labor fully responsible for keeping of contracts, as management must be. Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE H ALF an hour spent with Edward G. Robinson is so stimulating that for days other people look pretty drab. He’s been having a brief vaca tion in New York, after finish ing “The Red House,” while waiting for the script of his next picture to be prepared—as co-pro ducer he has a special interest in both of them. “Vacation” meant seeing friends and relatives, look ing at paintings, giving interviews, doing guest shots on the radio— everything but resting. “I have to EDWARD G. ROBINSON come to New York about three times a year, to get re-charged,” said he. Though his success on the stage was unquestioned, he’s not yearning to go back; to make bet ter and better pictures will satis fy him. * Katharine Hepburn, on the other hand, won’t give up the theater. But whatever she does on the stage, she says, must be in the nature of a challenge, or something different from anything she’s attempted be fore. After making "Undercurrent,” with Robert Taylor, and five days later starting “The Sea of Grass,” with Spencer Tracy, she too headed for a vacation, in her Connecticut home. Barbara Britton’s theme song should be “I Love a Parade”; after she rode on a float in the 1941 Tournament of Roses procession her picture appeared in a local paper, Paramount auditioned her, and she was all set in the movies. From minor roles she worked np to the lead opposite Ray Miiland in “Til We Meet Again”; she’ll co-star with Randolph Scott in “Albuquerque.” * Groucho Marx is afraid he may have a hit on his hands. He has a play, “The Middle Ages,” which he’d like to do on the New York stage. But experts have read it and think it will have a long run. If it does, and he appears in it, that will mean that he’ll have to be away from Hollywood indefinitely. He wrote it with Norman Krasna, so he may just rest on his laurels as co-author. * Mercedes McCambridge shocked everybody at a rehearsal of “The Adventures of the Thin Man” by announcing that she’s quitting radio, maybe forever. She’s decided to set tle in the West Indies with her nov elist husband, William Fifield, and John, her five-year-old son. * It’s good news that Katina Pax- inou is to appear in another pic ture ; dropping her after her magnifi cent performance in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” was one of Holly wood’s glaring mistakes. She re cently returned to this country to play the role of Raymond Massey’s wife in RKO’s screen version of “Mourning Becomes Electra,” by Eugene O’Neill. Dudley Nichols signed her. Congratulations! * Thelma Ritter had a fine reason for omitting playing “Bernice” on a recent “McGarry and His Mouse” broadcast. Last Thanksgiving she played a small role in “It’s Only Human,” starring Maureen O’Hara and Edmund Gwenn, when some scenes were shot in New York. When the film was developed in Hol lywood her comedy scene was so funny that her role was enlarged, so she flew to the coast for new scenes. * Two of the outstanding radio pro grams for children are guided by men who are childless. Robert Max well produces the trail-blazing “Su perman,” and Jack Barry is the originator and moderator of the hilarious “Juvenile Jury.” Max well’s married, Barry’s a bachelor. * ODDS AND ENDS — Recent reports show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Har riet" program is fourth in listener popu larity in Canada. . . . The first time Burt Lancaster ("Desert Fury") spoke stage lines was while performing in "Stars and Gripes," the army show, in Italy during the war. . . . Not only will Rosalind Rus sell star in her first Independent Artists production (headed by Miss Russell, her husband and Dudley Nichols) hut she’s also written the story, a comedy called "Madly in Love.” . . . William Holden likes to don skis and have a friend tow him over a turf field behind a jeep; can’t see why Paramount forbade it while he was working in "Dear Rstth." Well-Fitting Nightie For Matronly Figure ^SPECIALLY designed for LL sliuhtlv lartror fivnre is handsome nightie. It has juBt enough of a sleeve, pretty shaped neckline and a narrow belt that ties gayly in back. * • • To obtain complete cutting pattern. In- ishing instructions for the Large'Shied Nightgown (Pattern No. 5046) send 21 cents in coin, your name, address aad pattern number. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South Wells St. Chicago T. OL Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. 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PENETROSRUB Fine Woodwork _ The marquetry (Sixteenth eon., tury art of blending delicately in laid woodwork) representing the “Canterbury Pilgrims” in the cabin lounge of the 83,673-ton Queen Eliza beth required not less than 66 sep arate species of woods to compose. Woods used from native trees od the British Isles alone number It different types. They range from the humble plane tree of the Lon don streets, sycamore, laburnum, acacia, Wych elm—to name a few of the lesser known English spe. cies.