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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. BILBO’S NEXT MOVE Senator-Elect Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi, now drawing his month ly salary of $1,250 while giving no service to the nation, is sure to get an additional 30 days in which to recuperate—at the expense of the taxpayer, of course. On January 4, the senate, by unan imous consent, laid Bilbo’s contest ed credentials on the table for a period of 60 days. This backstage arrangement had been worked out by senate leaders after Bilbo told Dixie .colleagues he was “flat broke and in desperate need of hospitalization." Both sides accepted the compromise in order to break a filibuster upon opening the 80th congress. Bilbo’s 60 days “on the table” expire March 5 and he is slated to appear in the senate March 6 to take his oath and seat, something GOP leaders now find it expedient to postpone for at least another 30 days. Sen. Robert A. Taft, chairman of the senate committee on labor and public welfare, has calculated that at just the time Bilbo is due to ap pear. the senate will be debating ma jor legislation which he very much wants the senate to pass prior to March 31—the date on which John L. Lewis’ strike “truce” expires. • * • NEW VETERANS HOUSING Wearied by Truman’s housing boondoggle, some war veterans are moving independently to get roofs over tbeir heads. They are organizing cooperatives to pur chase housing developments built for defense workers during the war. Plans for taking over a num ber of such projects, including the Lake Forest development at Wilmington, N. C., already are near completion. However, the cooperative movement is caus ing all sorts of trouble because former defense workers must be evicted to make way for occu pancy by the vet owners. Federal officials now fear there will be other “marches” on the White House and congress as the coop housing drive gath ers steam. * * • NEW FARM PROGRAM Some very basic aspects of the postwar agriculture program were laid before President Truman when Albert Goss, president of the Nation al Grange, called at the White House recently. Goss outlined for the President what he holds to be the four major approaches to the entire question of government-farm relationship and urged him to adopt one of them. “These are the four courses whteh have been advocated, boiled dov/n to their essentials,” he told the Pres ident. “A decision will have to be made soon: “First, the farmer will plant and sow exactly what the government asks of him, and in return will be guaranteed an income approximat ing 75 cents an hour for his labor.” (Goss did not tell Truman, nor does he admit it widely in Washington, but this is his own analysis of the National Farmers’ union program.) “Second," continued Goss, “the government can let the farmer do as he pleases, planting as much or as little as he desires—a sort of laissez-faire philosophy. And it can pay subsidies where necessary in or der to assure him a basic income. "Third, we keep production down to stipulated levels and place a floor, at 90 per cent parity, under farm prices.” (This is essentially the program of the American Farm Bureau federation.) “Or, four, we can provide a floor under farm prices high enough to prevent disaster, but not so high as to cause large surpluses. This floor would fluc tuate according to economic con ditions and according to the par ticular crop. Production would be designed to leave some sur plus. “This fourth plan,” concluded Goss, “is the grange plan, Mr. Pres ident. We like to talk of a stop- loss floor, which would vary—some times above, sometimes below par ity. We propose to have planned surpluses of some crops—potatoes, for instance—turned into starch or glucose. And the grange would be prepared to help dispose abroad of anything we found surplus to our domestic needs.” Truman did not commit himself regarding any of these alternative plans. So far his department of ag riculture has not yet taken any clear position on them; so all he could do was tell Goss he was tremen dously interested in the analysis. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF President Truman now plans only a two-day stopover in Key West, Fla., following his return from Mex ico early in March. Another stop over will be in Puerto Rico on his way to observe navy maneuvers in the South Atlantic. . . . Former New Deal Economist Bob Nathan is re signing from the World-Wide Devel opment company, composed of ex administration economic experts, be cause the group just took a con tract to do work for Argentina’s Colonel Peron. Edison's Desk Reopened (The rolltop desk used for years b) Thomas Edison and kept sealed since hii death was opened in anniversary ex ercises in honor of the great inventor— News Item.) An old and battered desk— The desk of Thomas Edison— Sealed since his death, Locked and dusty. Marked by the toil of year ... Open it reverently! Only yellowed papers? . . . Only faded memoranda, notes. Dull figures and dusty data? . . . Nay! Look closer at this desk . . . You will see the genii there . .,. Aladdin’s lamp, amulets and talis- men . . . Fays and sprites and fairies! This desk felt the touch of the Gods . . . Over It great dreams were dreamt . . . Incredible magic performed . . . Secrets penetrated . . . sorcery done . . . Above it fairy wands moved. The Gods smiled and a superman Worked miracles that mankind Might be made happier! . . . Merlin sat here . . . This desk knew Zeus’s elbows \ . . And heard Prometheus! Open it reverently And let a transformed world Look on in gratitude! • • • We hear that Sonja Henie has a ter- sible recurrent dream. In it the goes skat ing on a pond with no electricians any where. • • • More Reconversion ‘ “SWAP tennis court net, stove, golf clubs, goat’s cart, sleighbells, baby crib; want electric motor. D913.”—Yankee Magazine. « Through with fun, eh? • • • The rules about gambling are to be tightened in all sports. From now on, everything is to be done to help a full grown athlete realize that honesty is not against the gen eral policy. • • • WINTER SONG Of all sad words The ski fans know The saddest ones Are these: “No snow!” • • • IMPRESSION Andrei Gromyko and Oscar Lange Wanna see the world go bang; The way they act and the way they speak You’d think they wanted it this week. • • • Ima Dodo thinks a platter jockey is a husband who does the dishes. • • • Spending has taken a big nose dive in the Miami zone, we hear. It is being discovered down there that the Gulf Stream can blight a $2 bill improperly protected. • • * Things that make us feel we’re getting old: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in a movie of ’’Sinbad.” • • • Life with the party in Little Amer ica can’t be so bad. It is almost im possible there to get by radio those cash quiz broadcasts or any idea what is going to happen to Tom Mijc next. • • • “The Office of Rent Control de clared, however, that the liberali zation of controls did not mean a break in the general line of rent | controls.”—News Item. . Wanna bet? • • • ILLUSION DESTROYED From time to time we ean’t help wondering what affect television will have on radio performers. We are especially intrigued by the question whenever we hear “My Kisses Are Yours for the Asking,” and “Yours (s My Heart Through All Eternity,” from one of those songsters who is fat and fiftyish and whose per sonality is that of a hard-boiled com mission merchant. • * • Elmer Twitch ell says that when ever he hears those tobacco auc tioneers now, he thinks it is a big league baseball magnate disposing of a famous player who has given his life to the club. • * * We are in the way of making a fortune. Our idea is to cross a dachshund with a mole and sell it as a pet fo* couples in Quonset huts. • * • Grandma Steps Out “Who’s that?" we heard a man ask in a midtown cafe as he nod ded toward a middle-aged woman surrounded by highballs, smokes and 1 make-up appliances. “All I know," replied the bartend er, “is that it isn’t Whistler’s moth er.” • • • Whatever became of the old fash ioned American who even in mo ments of disagreement with his fel low man spoke with restraint? FRIGID TRAINING FLIGHT ... As part of the army air forces training program, Boeing B-29 superfort resses of the 28th bombardment group are pictured in a practice formation flight over the rugged Alaskan terrain background. Training flights have taken off with the mercury from 25 to 50 below zero as men and machines are put to the toughest tests ever encountered. DOG RECEIVES TRANSFUSION . . . Chicago’s dog blood bank chalked up another donor when Tess, a large dog with plenty of life-giving fluid to spare, willingly gave up a quart of blood to save the life of a small unnamed cocker spaniel. Canine blood is not typed, enabling any dog to donate blood to another. SHE KNOWS HER POTATOES . . . Miss Yvette Cagne, 18, Van Buren, Me., has challenged Idaho and other potato producing states to ex hibit better Irish spuds than she is shown with at Pittsburgh. Perched atop a pile of potatoes at the Pittsburgh auction, Maine’s potato blos som queen acted as auctioneer. Proceeds were given to the Red Cross. Maine potato producers claim that they not only have the nation’s best potatoes but the prettiest potato queen. SALLY COMES HOME . . . Although Sally, 3-year-old doe, was given her freedom by Mrs. William H. Russell when she was two months old, the grateful deer returns regularly and makes her self at home. Sally was found on the army’s reservation at Pica- tinny arsenal. Lake Denmark, N. J., when she was two days old. Mrs. Russell, former instructor for the seeing eye and director of the arsenal’s K-9 patrol, raised the deer. Since then Sally has mothered two fawns and expects another. She never brings her fawns into the house, leaving them in the yard. HOW TO FEED FOUR AT A TIME . . . Mrs. Charles Henn, mother of Baltimore’s lusty young quadruplets, shown above taking her first lesson at the hospital nursery. Mrs. Henn said “it’s fun,” but she found she needed help to keep all four going successfully without any wailing. The babies are growing splendidly, hospital officials said, and are just about ready to go home. * FRANCE’S YOUNGEST HERO... Classmates gather around Jean Thomas, 16, France’s youngest underground resistance worker, after he had been awarded the War Cross. In 1943, Jean, only 13, escaped from the Germans after being tortured. O OTHER winter season, no oth- er Hot Stove League of Sport, has ever known as much discussion nor has seen as many headlines about gambling and bribery as the present winter. Almost every cure in the book has been suggested with out covering much ground. For example George Preston Mar shall, owner of the Washington Red skins, suggests that all racing entries, odds and selections should be trans ferred to the stock market page, away from the sporting page—and that no odds or selections should be carried on football, baseball or basketball games. “Racing is legal ized betting,” Mar- shall says, “but it proposition entirely, not a sporting proposition. It doesn’t belong on a sporting page. In my opinion no one connected with college sport, professsonal football or baseball, in a guiding capacity, should ever be seen at a race track.” I can’t see much cure in this. Racing has had no part in the scan dals and bribery talk involving other sports. Cupid Black, former Yale football star, has a much sounder suggestion— mm Grantland Rice is a financial "I can see no harm,” Black says, “in betting a hat or a reasonable amount with a friend on a football game. Or a fight. The trouble comes when you start betting with book makers, where a long array of even small bets can run into millions of dollars, which in turn can be used in the wrong way. I happen to love college football—every variety of football. IVo Bets With Bookmakers "I’d like to see everyone who loves football, who believes it is a great game refuse to make a bet with any bookmaker or any other profes sional gambler. No one is going to stop the betting on football or any other game. But we can wreck the gambling professionals if we leave them out. This would eliminate the big sums these bookmakers handle. There is always somebody to bet with, apart from the professional gamblers.” This is a sound suggestion. There will always be the cheaper sort of humanity who will still place their bets with the bookies. But the list can be cut down. The stumbling block is human na ture, the selfishness of what a top philosopher has called “the so- called human race.” All through the fading winter, a large part of the headlines on sporting pages have been concerned with stopping the gamblers. If most of those, who feel they have to bet on games will only bet among themselves and leave the gamblers out there would be no problems of bribery or crookedness. This will be impossible to stop in racing, since racing is legalized gam bling or legalized betting in 26 or more states. But football, baseball, boxing and basketball still have their thrills apart from any betting an gle. Those who happen to like or love these games can solve the prob lem quickly along the lines suggest ed above. Majority Are Honest There are more than a few kinks in sport, since it is conducted by human beings. But its general aver age, in the way of honesty, is still well above politics, labor unions or what is known as big business. I don’t believe anyone will try to dis pute this statement. The point is that the public at large demands a far higher honesty average from sport than it demands from politics or business or labor unions. The public expects its sports to be completely clean, not nearly clean. Amateur bettors are not go ing t^.try to fix anything. Only a few professional gamblers will. But these few can wreck a sport if not suppressed in one way or another. The suppressing part isn’t as sim ple as it sounds. But at least a heavy curb can be developed. Aft er all the publicity that has covered the sporting pages, any athlete from now on who doesn’t report an at tempted bribe is either a completely dumb or a completely dishonest per son. The terrific amount of money that has come into sport was sure to set the chiselers and crooks to work. 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