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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. OBJECTIVES IN MOSCOW WASHINGTON. — As a military man, General Marshall planned two great offensives. One was in 1918 when he charted for General Persh ing the transfer of one million men from St. Mihiel to the Meuse- Argonne front, plus 40,000 tons of ammunition, 34 hospitals, 93.000 horses, 164 miles of railway and 87 depots—all in a week’s time with no enemy aviator discovering it. The other was in the last war when as chief of staff he planned the historic landing on Normandy. These two offensives, great as they were, in some respects are not as difficult as the two great peace time objectives which George Mar shall as secretary of state is at tempting to win at the conference in Moscow. Those two objectives are: 1. A permanent peace treaty with the nation which has caused every major European war in the past century—Ger many. 2. The end of our present sus picions, chip-on-the-shoulder re lations with Russia and estab lishment of a permanent friend ship with the nation which can be our most disastrous enemy. Both, obviously are interdepend ent And if Marshall can win real friendship with Russia, the treaty with Germany will be much easier to perfect. * • • LESSON FROM LATIN AMERICA One of the great lessons learned from our Pan-American relations is the importance of teamwork. Prior to the good-neighbor policy we worked as an individual nation. We landed troops in Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. We banged Mexico over the head with diplomatic threats and mobilized troops on her border. Result: All Latin America disliked us. Then Sumner Welles sold Roosevelt the idea of being a good neighbor, of sharing re sponsibility. So when trouble arose in the western hemi sphere, the Pan-American na tions solved It as a team. Re sult: Fewer mistakes were made and when they were made Uncle Sam didn’t get all the blame. The British empire hitherto has operated on a unit basis. It didn’t worry about teamwork. Result: It is hurriedly liquidating parts of the empire and reaping bitter criticism In Palestine and Greece. Further result: The United States is asked to share the financial responsibili ties—and the headaches—in one of those countries without having too much to say about the things that cause the headaches. If we become the bankers for British headaches, the pain and the blame can extend to Turkey, Italy, North Africa and all over the world. That’s why we should take a leaf from the Pan-American good-neigh bor book and let the United Nations get busy in Greece before it is too late. • • * DEFLATED DREAM Most interesting, though some what deflated political figure in the senate today is Robert A. Taft of Ohio, together with the question: Will he achieve his long-cherished dream of following the footsteps of his father up the front steps of the White House as President of the United States? Not since 1940, when energetic, progressive Wendell Willkie stole the Republican nomination from under Taft’s nose, has he forgotten for a minute his ambition to dupli cate the father-son presidential suc cess of John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Viewing the 1940 Philadelphia convention in retrospect—after the trouncihg FDR handed Willkie— Taft was not too unhappy about it. In 1944 he realized that FDR could not be stopped, and he was glad to let Tom Dewey and his Ohio GOP colleague John Bricker "take the rap.” The big chance for the Re publican party, Taft figured, would come after the war. The results of last November’s congressional elections definitely convinced Taft that he was right. The next two years held his big chance for the presidency. After 1948 it might be too lata. He has played his cards accordingly. Taft immediately put himself at the head of the Republican party as far as Capitol Hill was con cerned. At first, Taft was riding high, wide and handsome. Today, his reins are trailing in the dust. He is scarcely riding at all. And what Is especially depressing is that Taft’s reverses have come not from Democrats but from his own forces which he assumed' to lead. • • • UNDER THE DOME Few people know it but a tight Truffian triumverate — Hannegan, Secretary of the Interior Krug and Attorney •General Clark—has ironed out a lot of inner cabinet wrangles. . . . Two women clutching passes to the senators’ gallery asked the doorkeeper: “Is this where you go in to see the senators perform?’’ . . . Now that he has left the RFC, George Allen is really expanding his business holdings. He even owns one per cent of the Broadway hit, “Born Yesterday.” The New York Express: New York Novelette: She used to walk with a preoccupied air through the downtown East Side streets in Manhattan. . . Not disdainfully or proudly, but with the fierce deter mination of the very young. . . She knew these streets and the people, and she hungered to know more. . . After studying dancing many years sht became expert at the art, and when a big B’way show was being organized she applied for the job of putting on the routines. . . The pro ducers took her on, and the notices singled out "the wonderful dance” which highlights the hit’s theme. . . The hit is the musical version of Elmer Rice’s “Street Scene”. . . The dance?. . . The trilling number of two street kids. . . The choreog rapher? . . . Little Anna Sokolow, who had all the critics asking: “How could she have so truly cap tured the flavor of squalid city streets?”. . . “It’s simple,” says Anna, "when you’ve been part of them.” Manhattan Murals: The Broadway dance hall which ad vertises: “Most Exclusive Place In Town—Everbody Welcome” . . .Francois, u waiter at the Soho cafe, who comes to work in immaculate attire plus spats, diamond stickpin, cane, bouton niere. . . The window-long sign on the canopy of a shuttered, boarded-up fruit market at 46th and 6th. It reads: “Never closed!”. . . The bootblack on 49th street who keeps a copy of Variety available for struggling actors who can afford a shine but not the two-bit show-bible. Lament of a Broadway Press Agent (By Art Franklin): How tense he scans the papers nights and days. . - An adult mind he “presstitutes” for pelf. . . How often does he swear to coin a phrase. . . That's good enough to credit to him self. . . Investing ebbing ingenuity . . . To build some small-time crooner, club or band. . . How piti ful the sum gratuity. . . That keeps some inept act from being panned . . .He camouflages talent “medi- oke”. . . With touches of a genius at his game. . . And if he strains enough—some third-rate “joke”— will cash his clippings in for movie fame. . . The simple fact is this—for he alone. . . Can lick his client’s "flops”—except his own! Talk about tough breaks: The cinema, “Nora Prentiss.” was filmed before the OTDR rage afflicted the nation. One charac ter in the movie Is named Rich ard. During one episode another begs him to open a door. . . It’s supposed to be serious sequence —but you can’t blame the audi ence for howling. Bigtown Smalltalk: Paul Mantz broke the coast-to-coast record with his plane, "Blaze of Noon,” a stunt to put the film (same name) on the front pages. But “Betty-Jo” got the headlines. Ladies first, y’know. . . . Broadway show gels sizzling (nice weatlTer for it, ladies) at the story quoting director John Murray An derson as grousing: “I’d rather work with elephants than show girls” . . . The very old song. “Last Night on the Back Porch” (a Johnny Long platter) has been banned on all networks because of its naughty wordage. . . . Danny Kaye (who got close to three million in four years of film maki’ig) took four weeks of personal apps to raise tax coin. ... At least 10 of the nation’s youthful political white hopes happened to match notes the other day. They found that Mayor O’Dwyer had told each “confiden tially" that he was groomirg him to be his successor. Such a letdown. B’way Confucius: Real Love Do Not Have Happy Ending. It Do Not Have Any Ending. The Intelligentsia: Joi n Stein beck’s new novel, “The Wayward Bus,” was dictated onto records, which a typist then transcribed. Nice best-selling work, if yoa can get it. . . . John Hersey, father of “Bell for Adano” and “Hiroshima,” is incommunicado in Florida, work ing on a new best-seller. . . . Some of Edna Ferber’s most glittering literary nuggets have been put be tween covers in “One Basket”. . . . Mary Martin, the star, gives “bath parties” nearly every night for Lon don friends (there) who have no tub or water. . . . “The Yearling,” after a five-week stand, will be pulled nut of Radio City Music hall. “Too sad." Hit films at that theater usually run twice as long. Sallies lu Our Alley: Did Horace Stoneham (boss of the Giants) tell midtowners Babe Ruth would be offered a big job in baseball? . Herbert Hoover says a billion dol lars is needed to feed the Germans, who have "sunk to the lowest level known in 100 years of western his tory.” Overlooking, of course, the level maintained by the Germans in their concentration camps and crematories. . . . Wanna know why swank spot waiters are so uppitv A survey revealed that they average $85.40 weekly in tips. KING AND QUEEN OF THE WEST . . . Beautiful Margaret Wooten and “Husky” Wright Bomford, who were chosen by felloto students of the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to rule as “King and Queen of the West,” for the next 12 months. They are shown joining the ranks of western royalty by getting friendly with Question Mark, undefeated grand champion Palomino stallion, owned by Tom Cates, Tulsa. This is the first year that such a choice has been made in Oklahoma. SWEDISH COIFFURES . . . Two of the outstanding coiffures shown at a recent exhibition in Stockholm marking the 40th anniversary of the Swedish hairdressers. Norwegians, Danes and Finns took part in the display. At left model shows an evening coiffure. At right, an other evening coiffure of swirls and a high bun. How to get a hat over any of them is anybody’s problem, or perhaps they do not wear hats in the evening in Stockholm. GOVERNOR GETS HIS VITAMINS . . Gov. Millard CaldweU (Dem„ Fla.), accepting a bite of Florida orange from Nance Stilley, queen of the 24th annual citrus exposition held at Winter Haven. She was selected from a group of 22 girls to reign over the orange kingdom for a year. The annual exposition attracts thousands each year. JUNIOR ARCHITECT . . . Miniature stone buildings go up under the creative fingers of 7-year-old Danning Greening, New York City young ster when he paid a visit to the 44th American toy fair at the Hotel McAlpin where he found the stone blocks of architectural interest. New toys that are meeting with most favor are those which encourage the children to construct or build. GARDEN CHAMPION . . . Wayne Delventhal, IS, Brighton, Colo., winner of national youth and high school gardening honors present ed by the National Garden Insti tute in the “national green thumb” contest for best gardens. CONGRESSMEN WARNED . . . Rep. Carrol Kearns (Rep., Pa.), told the house labor committee that he had been warned to change his views about labor, after he dined with George P. McNear Jr., murdered railroad president. P. Martin We have the B ASEBALL owners, managers, players and writers often can be wrong. So can baseball fans—who don’t like to admit it. Here is a letter from an ardent Ozark country rooter: “Why don’t you fellows admit that all the great ball players of mod em time come from the Ozark country, where they can run and throw? I mean Arkansas, Missouri. Oklahoma and Tex as? I mean such fellows as Dean, Hubbell, Pepper Martin, Warneke and others. Also this Cardinal ball club that whipped the eastern Dodg ers and the eastern Red Sox last year? legs and arms in this rugged coun try that the East doesn't have.’’ In mingling and hanging around with the Cardinals, one of our fa vorite ball clubs, we began a slight check-up. In a vague way, we also had the idea that this fast-running, hard- throwing, hustling team was a prod uct of the cottonwood trail, the coun try where men have arms and legs and take desperate chances. But we ran across a different answer in checking with the world’s cham pions. For example—there was Enos Bradsher (“Country”) Slaughter, a ball player as typical of Cardinal strength as any man you can find —a ball player with a great arm and a pair of fast-flying legs. “Country” Slaughter should have been a typical Ozarkian. But we discovered that Slaughter came from Roxboro, N. C„ and he got his start In the South Atlantic league with Columbus, Ga. WINS TITLE , . . Pauline Betz, Los Angeles, who defeated Doris Hart to win the women’s single title in the national indoor tennis championship, held at New York City. Miss Betz also holds the national outdoor tennis title. FRANKLIN WINNER ... The 1947 Franklin medal, highest hon or of the Franklin institute, has been awarded to Dr. Enrico Fer mi, 46, physicist at Nuclear Re search institute, Chicago, for out standing work in the field of atom ic energy and physics of neutron. SUN SPOTS . . . Photo made at Griffith Park observatory, Los An geles, allows the main group of sun spots which are Interfering with radios throughout the world. Well, what about George John (“Whitey”) Kurowski, as good a third baseman as you’ll meet today? "Whitey” Kurowski came from Reading, Pa., playing with Ports mouth in the Middle Atlantic league, where he hit only .386. Come From Everywhere Marty Marion certainly must be a member of the cottonwood trail. But we find that Marty came from Richburg, S. C., before moving to Rochester for his baseball educa tion. Marty was with Rochester three years before they decided he could handle an infield rap. But what about Stanley Frank Mu- sial, possibly the best all-around ball player in the game? Musial reports from Donora, Pa., and almost his entire early career was along the Atlantic seaboard, until he came to the Cardinals six years ago. Terry Moore came up from Mem phis, Howie Pollet from New Or leans. Schoendienst worked in the East. Johnny Beazley is from Ten nessee, the city being Nashville. The Ozark landscape certainly has sent in its share of great ball play ers. More than its share. It is surprising how many fans think of these hard-running, hard- throwing, hard-fighting Cardinals as a rather rough bunch from the Ozark landscape. But this Cardinal camp Is one of the quietest and most orderly I have seen. They are all well-dressed, well-behaved, rather soft-voiced and always friendly. Lon an Ozark Boy I still miss my old tobacco-chew ing pal, Lon Warneke, who could wash down a big hunk of tobacco with a bottle of beer. Lon, from Mt. Ida, Ark., held the all-around, tobacco-chewing championship. He has no successor on the Cardinals today. The Cardinals’ manager, Eddie Dyer, is probably best described as the exact opposite of Leo Durocher, his hottest rival, another great man ager. Dyej" is a graduate of Rice institute in Texas, one of the lead ing institutions of learning in this country. The rumor is that he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He was also a football star, one of the best in Tex as in his time. He is a quiet, soft- spoken Texan, who has few argu ments with umpires or anyone else. But don’t forget that he knows his trade. As a minor league manager in the Cardinal farm system, he kept sending along ballplayers who made good. Dyer had retired from baseball to work in the oil business with his two brothers in Houston, Tex., when Sam Breadon sent for him to fill in for Billy Southworth. As easy going as Dyer seems to be, there is nothing soft about him. You don’t get to be the best blocking back in Texas football if you’re on the soft side. Dyer has the respect and affection of his squad. "My team wants to play winning baseball,” he told me. “I don’t have to watch their hours. They love the game and like to win. They keep in shape. I don’t want anyone around I have to watch. Just give me men like Terry Moore, Marty Marion, Stan Musial, “Country” Slaughter, “Whitey” Kurowski, “Red” Munger, Howie Pollet and a few more like these, and I don’t have to worry. Whatever happens, I know they are giving the team 100 per cent of all they have.” That seemed to be quite enough in 1946. Ask the Red Sox. Passing of 'Saturday Night' America is losing something in the passing of the old-fashioned Sat urday night. We indorse a recent national weekly magazine editorial deploring the spread into the small er cities and towns of the idea of closing stores so early on Satur day that Saturday night shopping is disappearing. • 4 ‘Merchants in the smaller towns are taking a big chunk of pleasure out of life in their communities by heading into this program,” the pub lication quotes a Minnesota country editor as writing. “The Saturday night shopping trip is like the Satur day night bath. It has a social an gle. Nothing does so much for keeping town and country contacts.” • Good here! But there is little hope. In the headlong dive into a new order of shorter days, shorter weeks, shorter schedules and short er sweats, the American week has been processed into a five-day af fair with the old-fashioned Saturday blitzed to a fare-thee-well. * Saturday night was the great night of the American week through most of its history. It was some thing to look forward to. It had the flavor of a combination picnic, ba zaar, county fair and jamboree. There was a banjo-on-my-knee mood to it • The stores kept open until 10 and closed reluctantly. The dimming of the store lights was as sad as the last tune at the country dance. The crowds were slow going home. Saturday night died hard. ♦ Today the people quit work Fri day night or early Saturday and settle into a prolonged program of week-end recreations that will make ’em miserable. They don’t get as much fun out of a 48-hour pursuit of happiness as they used to get be tween 7 and 1 Saturday night. • Yesterday people went to town Saturday night, fresh, smiling and in a mood for high adventure, and got back around midnight still feel ing they had a good time. Today they pile into the jalopy early Sat urday mom in a mood of irritation and with their faces fairly screamin’ "We’re off for a week-end and Lord how we hate it!” * • « CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when it was the pupil and not the teadher who failed to show up for school? , • » • Russia has cut its military budget The stuff it got from us will help tide things over another year or two. One big Broadway movie theater has reduced its admission prices, noting a drop in attendance, espe cially at the shows which used to draw the bobbysoxers in great num bers. It is our deduction that mil lions of kiddies must have decided that they have completed their crime education. • • • Oh, Say (Hear! Hear!) Can You See? It was proposed the other day that England merge with the United States of America, with King George (shorn of his title), Winston Church ill and others serving in the U. S. senate. That will come to pass, the day a way is found to cross a tea muffin with a hot-dog and an Ox ford class clamors for bleacher seats at a Brooklyn baseball game. * Made half in jest and half in ear nest, the idea has America by the ears. And the English are in a dith er, too. We hope the matter isn’t pressed too speedily. A new war U apt to be started over the mere prob lem of a new joint flag to be de signed by a committee composed of the duke of Windsor, Senator "Hick- enlooper, Gracie Fields, Francis Perkins, Ernie Bevin and Alf Lan- don. * And U. N. won’t know what a real job it is until it is asked to handle the problem of finding an artist to merge the figures of Uncle Sam and John Bull, removing the chin whisk ers, substituting a double chin and making the vest more of a Picadilly weskit. • What an election it will be with Wallie, Beatrice Lillie, Bob Wagner, Fred Astaire, Vandenberg, the duke of Argyle and the Eton soccer team all running! • • • Things are picking up in America. Sales people are looking up when Customers appear, and the other day we encountered a business man who seemed interested in getting new business. • • * The Aluminum Company of Amer ica has been refunded $47,168,157 in overpaid income tax. It seems to prove that all bookkeepers have their off days. 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