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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—
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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.
Whatever happens, the directing
heads of every sport will have to
redouble any past efforts in the way
of vigilance and guardianship.
BasebalVs Major Shifts
The two major shifts of the year
in baseball belong to the game’s
strongest offensive player and the
game’s best defensive player. This
means Hank Greenberg’s shift to the
Pirates and Joe Gordon’s move from
the Yankees to the Cleveland Indi
ans.
Even at the age of 36, many years
away in the service, Greenberg was
lusty enough at bat to lead Ted Wil
liams in home runs and runs batted
in.
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