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I THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. UNEASY OVER FLIGHTS WASHINGTON.—The splurge of recent air crashes is causing con siderable worry to the secret service agents responsible for the life of the President. The secret service is afraid the day may come when the President’s special plane, “The Sacred Cow,” also may encounter bad weather or mechanical trouble. They also know something about the President’s pro pensity for taking off, rain or shine, and it keeps them awake at nights thinking about it. When he wants to go some place, he simply goes. Result is that a quiet cam paign is under way inside the secret service to persuade the President to abandon air travel generally. They want him to take the train—as President Roosevelt did on almost all oc casions. FDR enjoyed train travel. It rest ed him and gave him a chance to get caught up with his correspond ence. Truman, however, loves the speed of an airplane. He can get to Kansas City in four hours where as it would take him two nights and a day by train. The secret service has never re covered from the scare it received on Christmas, 1945, when Mr. Tru man flew home to Independ ence in weather that had grounded all commercial airlines. However, the President is a hard man to persuade, and his secret service bodyguards are not any too opti mistic about the chances of keeping him grounded. .J» • » AIR CRASHES Despite the recent series of air crashes, fact remains that commer cial air lines hung up twice as good a safety record in 1946 as in 1945. Although the total number of air craft fatalities increased, it is im portant to recall that the airlines flew twice as many passenger miles in '46. This cut the fatality rate in half. /mother factor most people over look is that the Civil Aeronautics au thority, which regulates commercial flying, is operating in the face of a pinch-penny congressional appropri ation. Despite the small appropri ation, CAA worked out a bad-weath er instrument-landing system which has now been adopted by every country, including the Russians. • * • ARMY EDUCATION Public opinion expert George Gal lup proved to the last decimal point that more men would enlist in the army and navy if military authori ties had “a system whereby educa tional training in the serivce would count toward high school or college diplomas.” The army’s information and edu cation branch was glad to hear that they should educate servicemen, but they want to know one thing: Who’s going to educate Dr. Gallup? What he apparently doesn’t know is that the United States Armed Forces institute makes every con ceivable type of study course avail able to any soldier, sailor, marine or coastguardsman who wants it. More than 1,900,000 men al ready have acquired schooling via USAFI. Also, they’ve got credit for it. In the last year alone, 20,000 servicemen re ceived high school diplomas via the army. These diplomas and USAFI’s college courses are ac cepted for credit by almost ev ery school in the country. Gallup goes on to make the weird statement that army authorities question the idea of the army’s going into the business of general educa tion. Clearly, none of Gallup’s score- keepers asked the secretary, of war or power-packed Gen. “Buck” Lan- ham, head of the army’s Information and education branch, about this. They not only don’t question it, but they do it; sending teachers and books and quizzes and lessons by the thousands all over the world. • • * BACKSTAGE NAVY LOBBY White House insiders report that brain truster Clark Clifford is having a tough time drafting an army-navy merger bill for congress that will both carry out the President’s ideas and not offend the brass hats. President Truman wants it clearly stated in the bill that there will be a secretary of national defense, with full cabinet rank, and three under secretaries with sub-cabinet rank, representing the army, navy and air forces. The latter, however, is not at all what the brass hats want. They want full cabinet rank for each arm of the service—in other words, three new cabinet members. * * * CAPITAL CHAFF Alert Senator Brewster of Maine, i giving colleagues sm off-the-record report of his Latin American trip, ! disclosed that British agents are sell ing British planes all over Latin ! America and outselling the USA. They are taking orders for delivery on jet planes which will be far ahead of our transports. In two years, Brewster predicts, the British will force Latin Americans to use British-type instruments for land ing, making it hard for Americans to operate on the same fields. The Specialist Versus The Old Family Doctor Dr. Willard C. Rappleye, dean of the Columbia college of physicians, says the day of the general prac- tioner is gone. What he means is that the era has passed when a sick man could get anybody to listen to him for $2. • The age of the specialist has been sweeping over us at high speed and today the doctor’s bill at times brings more pain than the ailment. The old-time family doctor who was no one-line marvel but who could make you feel better without finan cial complications has about disap peared, as Dr. Rappleye says. And it saddens us. * The old - fashioned doctor was often wrong and frequently stumped but be was always deeply and per sonally interested. He lacked the specialist’s brain, but his heart was in the right place. His greatest vir tue was a sense of obligation to any sick call, regardless of money, time or distance. . • He lacked plenty of stuff but he would answer a call in the middle of the night and get to a patient through mud up to his buttocks and snow up to his chin. • He would go wherever a man could carry a bag, a stethoscope and a smile. • Even when he wasn’t very good as a doctor he cheered you up as a fellow man. • He would see you at the office most any time without preliminary palaverings or negotiations, and there was no pay-as-you-enter sys tem, no portal to portal contacts with autlying secretaries and no impres sion that you were in luck to gain admittance. * The first words of the old time general practioner were “Lemme see your tongue.” The specialist doesn’t want to see it. It over-sim plifies the matter and is strictly * two-dollar routine. * The old-fashioned “sawbones” knew you from the cradle to the grave, not from the cradle to the bank. When he felt your pulse you knew he was using his own watch. • And when he applied the stetho scope to your chest he never for got himself and said “Very good. You are up an eighth since yester day’s closing.” * Not that we are belittling the spe cialist. He is a necessity and often a blessing. He saves a lot of lives by substituting knowledge for guess work. But we wish family doctors werq still easy to find. They didn’t make one so skeered of being sick. ; * Dr. Rappleye makes a fine pro posal. Realizing the difficulties many sick people have in get ting a specialist he suggests that the specialists in all communities get together in a spirit of group responsibility and coordination. What, he means is that they pool their knowledge in a pinch so that the patient won’t have to see more than one with the consequent finan cial entanglements. Second the mo tion! • • • CAN YOU REMEMBER Away back when the salesman could say "I'm losing money on this?" with a straight face? • When whatever our high courts might lack, it was seldom horse seme? • And back when people would stoop to pick up a lost nickel? • • • Don’t Kill a Voter! President Truman has appealed to all autoists to drive carefully in 1947. He clearly thinks the situation has reached a point where every voter counts. • What we would like to know about the President’s appeal for safer driving is whether he would carry it to an extreme where a Demo cratic driver is expected to slow down for a Repubican pedestrian. • • • Returning to Normal To buy stocks now, only 75 per cent of the purchase money is re quired. This is about the same thing as winning the right to take off from a ski jump with the last 50 yards negotiated on notes. • • * A woman bank robber has been caught out West. She just entered banks, whipped out a small via] and threatened to blow everybody through the roof. They ail assumed it was some of that cheap perfumery and gave in at once. • • • Having tossed a few rocks at Hoi- j lywood for pictures that have noth ing but an eVil influence on the 1 kids, we herewith throw our hats , in the air for “The Yearling,” a tremendous example of what the movies are capable of. WAR AFTERMATH . . . Washed ashore one mile from Pacific Beach, Wash., was the mine pictured at bottom where it is being compared with the size of a Jeep. The mine is believed to have been in the water at least two years and supposedly came from a Japanese harbor defense installation. Top shows the demolition by Lt. Devon G. Winslow, who during the past year has disposed of U mines which were washed asflore on the Pacific coast. REPAYS DEBT BY SAVING DOG’S LIFE . . . Sonny Wells, Stone Mountain, Ga., right, who said he was once saved from drowning by “an old hound dog,” repaid the debt recently when he rescued the dog, shown here, from several hundred feet down the steep side of Stone mountain. He was aided in the rescue by Walter Ashe, left. NO BOTTLES—NO MILK ... So acute has the shortage of milk bot tles become that the U. S. department of agriculture and state agen cies are lending their influence in an appeal to consumers to return the 25 million empties which have accumulated in basements and storerooms of the country. According to the dairy folk, it takes eight milk bottles to keep one bottle full in the icebox and those 25 million bottles are desperately needed to prevent a milk shortage. REDS BLOCK YANKS’ ROUTE OUT OF CHINA . . . Photo shows Chinese Nationalists turning railway tracks between Hsin Hsing and An Yang right side up after Chinese Communists had turned them over. Nearly 2,000 Americans are stranded due to Communists dis rupting rail service by burning the stations and tearing np the rails. Chinese government troops have kept the service open but admitted the Communists were still close to the right-of-way. PRESIDENT-ELECT . . . Presi dent-Elect Thomas Beretta of Uruguay upon his arrival at Mi ami, Fla., en route to Washington, D. C., to confer with President Truman as well as representatives of his government. NEW SOLICITOR GENERAL . . . Philip B. Perlman, Baltimore, who was nominated by President Truman to be solicitor general of the United States to succeed J. Howard McGrath, now a U. S. senator from Rhode Island. JUSTICE’S DAUGHTER SERVES SODAS . . . Millie Douglas, 17, daughter of U. S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, dur ing past five months has been working behind a fountain at an Alexandria, Va., drugstore. She says she likes the work. BARRED FROM SCHOOL . . . Blind Patsy Ruth Fergus, 16, Los Angeles, caresses her guide dog. Lucky, after Patsy was barred from two Los Angeles schools un less she agreed to attend class without her specially - trained guide dog. MILITARY ATOMIC HEAD . . . Col. James McCormack, Louisiana, who has been named director of the division of military application of the Atomic Energy commis sion, to represent the war depart ment on the atomic bomb. BASEBALL has grown restless. Especially in the spring. This time they will be playing and training as far apart as Hawaii and Cuba. Teams will be shifted all over the spring map. The Giants move from Miami to Phoenix and travel as far west ward as Hawaii. The Cleveland In dians shift from Clearwater, Fla., to Tucson, Ariz. The Yankees tour Cuba and sections of Cen tral and South America before landing at St. Petersburg, Fla. The Dodgers leave Florida for Cuba and other Latin GrantUndRlce turf. Th e new slogan ought to be—“Join a ball club and see most of the world.” The Cardinals are firmly set at St. Petersburg, the Red Sox at Sara sota and the Tigers at Lake Wales. The Yankees hit St. Petersburg around March 12. The Reds report back to Tampa. Arizona gets its first big league training test with the Giants at Phoenix and the In dians at Tucson, where a warm, dry sun ought to help. But we like the training idea of the Cardinals, Red Sox and Tigers best. They go directly to one spot, from which point they have only a short traveling range to meet high grade competition. Smart ball players begin working out their legs before spring training starts through golf or hunting. Ball players could use better legs. Watch a pitcher after he hits a triple. He winds up at third, puffing like a volcano and it often takes him an extra inning or two to re tain his pitching form. The Cardinal System The St. Louis Cardinals have the best idea of the qualities that go into the making of a good ball player. Their farm system was ar ranged on the general idea of giv ing experience to young players who could run and throw. For the past 20 years the average Cardinal could run and he had a good arm. Hard hitters or big hitters who were slow, rarely stayed around. Ball players with bad arms were not wanted, no matter how good they might look otherwise. The arms of Terry Moore and Country Slaughter in the past have been as deadly as twin rifles —and both were extremely fast on their feet. When a Cardinal starts from first to third he usually makes it. And when some rival starts from first to third he is quite often cut down short of the bag. Branch Rickey and Sam Bread- on were the pair who worked out this selective plan and now Rickey is using it for his Dodgers. Experi ence is a big factor but a brace of young legs and a young throwing arm are also useful. Dodgers Are Younger Eddie Dyer and Durocher are both banking on speed and good arms this season. The Dodgers have this advantage—they are younger. More than one Cardinal star is now deep in the veteran class and speed doesn’t increase with the years— not even with a Terry Moore and an Enos Slaughter. If Robinson makes good at third, or wherever he is used, bis addi tion will increase Dodger speed. Teams in the National league hop ing to crowd out either Brooklyn or St. Louis will need more speed than they have shown so far. A large number of ball players can get in better condition and stay in better condition than many do. For any daily competition that runs through 154 games demands the best sort of physical condition. This can be obtained much better by sticking as long as possible to one spot, rather than through extensive traveling around. * * * College and Pro War There is now an underground, un declared war between the colleges and pro football which may break into the open any day or any week. The colleges are charging that the pro leagues are taking away star football players, who have from one to two years left for college football—a direct violation of pro- promises not to take any man who is eligible for the college game. The pro leagues are charging that college football coaches and col lege athletic associations are hold ing players in college, or trying to hold them, long after their classes have graduated. This argument or feud of course dates back to the war. I happen to know that when the war came along, many southern coaches were something more than mildly upset over the fact that Army and Navy had taken away their best players. Unless he actually wants to fin ish a college education above every thing else, I can see no reason why a man of 25 or 26, especially those with families, should stay on in col lege to play football. Under these circumstances, I would say that he is entitled to leave college and get the best pro job available. When your little one catches cold- T onight... do what most mothers do to relieve mis eries of children’s colds: Simply rub warming, sooth ing Vicks VapoRub on throat, chest and back at bedtime. Results are so good because VapoRub’s special relief-bringing action starts Instantly ... and keeps on working for hours during the night while the child sleeps. Often by morning most misery of the cold Is gone. Remember, Mother... be sure you get the one and only Vicks VapoRub. 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