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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, THE TEACHER PROBLEM WASHINGTON.—School teachers have gone on strike in Buffalo, St. Paul and several other cities, with more strikes brewing elsewhere. But the new congress has failed even to consider the fact that jani tors and charwomen in many cities are paid more than the teachers responsible for training the next generation for an atomic age. Several bills providing federal funds to increase teachers’ salaries have been introduced—perhaps the best and simplest being that of Ver mont's outstanding GOP senator, George Aiken. Others have been written by Democrats Green and McGrath of Rhode Island and Mc- Carran of Nevada, and Republican Taft of Ohio. On the house side Democrat Pace of Georgia and Re publican Welch of California have entered bills, in addition to a drop- In-lhe bucket bill by Rep. Sterling Cole of New York. Bet the GOP leadership ap parently thinks that the labor situation—even thongh we have no major strikes—is more an emergency than insuring the uninterrupted education of the nation’s children. In both the house and the senate, education and labor legislation are handled by the same committees, and the two chairmen—Taft of Ohio and Hartley of New Jersey—have not bestirred themselves about edu cation, even though Taft does have his name on two bills relating to the matter. Taft has appointed Aiken chair man of a subcommittee to handle education. But because the full com mittee is heading into weeks of wrangling over labor laws, Aiken probably can’t schedule hearings before April. A subcommittee has been appointed on the house side, but no hearings are scheduled. * • • MISSISSIPPI VS. N. Y. TEACHERS Never before has the federal government made a regular appro priation for educational expenses. However, Senator Aiken points out that 60 per cent of all Americans today are living in states other than those in which they were educated, proving that education is an inter state or national problem. Aiken further points out that edu cational standards vary so widely that in Mississippi the average ex penditure per pupil per year in 1944 was only $42.25, while the average in New York state was $185.12. His bill would insure expenditure of at least $100 per pupil per year in each state. Chief opposition to such a bill is from southern senators, wbo fear it might require their states to spend "too much” on Negro schools. For the bill spec ifies that the $100 average for each pupil must be maintained for each school district. Aiken’s committee on expendi tures in the executive departments plans hearings on a bill by Taft and Senator Fulbright of Arkansas call ing for establishment of a new cabi net post—secretary of health, wel fare and education. While Aiken is anxious to proceed with this bill, he is more anxious to see increased teachers’ salaries. • • » GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY BOGS Whether he intended it or not. President Truman’s trip to Mexico did more for the lagging good neigh bor policy than anything since Franklin Roosevelt’s time. Thanks to the astute backstage guidance of Sumner Welles. Roose velt built up our friendship with Latin America. He made a special pilgrimage to Buenos Aires and Montevideo, and frequently cruised through the Caribbean, touching at Ecuadorean and Central American cities; also visited Mexico and acted as host to many Latin Ameri can presidents. With Welles’ exit from the state department much of this came to an end. So also has ended the eco nomic cooperation given Latin American neighbors. Regarding this, Latin Americans have been especially bitter. They complain that whereas during the war they sold raw materials to the United States at stabilized prices, foregoing any war profits, they now cannot buy goods in the U. S. A. When they attempt to purchase here they find that European coun tries have a priority. We pay more attention to Greece, they complain, than to neighbors close at home— neighbors which are much more im portant to our long-range welfare. What Latin American diplomats hope is that in addition to good-will tours, the U. S. A. now will loosen up economically. They want to buy. not beg, but they can’t even do the former. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND J. Edgar Hoover has locked in FBI files several sensational stories on big city corruption, showing how certain city bosses are tied up with crime. Unfortunately this is beyond Hoover’s bailiwick, so he proposed a sensational educational movie to 20th Century-Fox based on his files. Cautious 20th Century-Fox turned him down. . . . General Eisenhower has ordered the bodies of all Ameri can soldiers buried in the China theater to be collected and shipped home. Czar for the Airwaves Radio is to have a czar. A sort of Judge Landis with time signals. And maybe cash prizes. * Broadcasters, advertisers and in dustry have formed a joint commit tee to eliminate radio evils. It has been decided to name a head man to clean things up. His first test will be to prove he can start functioning without a commercial. * "Radio today is far from per fect," syas one committeeman. This is the understatement of the generation. * Any and every industry has some faults. But radio is the only one that has subsidized and glamorized them. The things that annoyed the public in 1925 are still annoying it, but over more networks and with more cash prizes between exasperating mo ments. It seems to have been the idea of the sponsor and the advertising agent that a cotnmercial isn’t ade quate unless it makes the ultimate consumer writhe. * Study the commercial of 1925 and of 1947. and you will come to the conclusion that it has merely grown longer. And. worst of all. developed a particularly annoying technique through which the fellow spouting the commercial leaps into the act before the entertainer has fully finished. * The radio man crashes in to praise a washing powder so swiftly he telescopes the news broadcaster. The soloist doesn’t finish her final note before the guy with the tooth paste spiel whams in froln a run ning start. * How about some listeners on that board, including some top showmen, a couple of family people and the guy who just split his radio into pieces with a hatchet? • • • Your America and Mine Squddyhunk Creek. — The Boz Wintergreens have separated. Mrs Wintergreen was chosen queen on the Queen for a Day radio program recently and never got back to earth, says Boz. GRANDMOTHER A STOWAWAY . . . Mrs. Grace Albanese, Italian- American wife of a Bronx, N. Y., grocer, as she arrived aboard the army-operated American liner Marine Perch—a stowaway. Mrs. Albanese sailed to Italy last November to visit her failing mother and her married son, Tony, a sailor, who won a Silver Star in action. Strand ed after four months, she walked aboard the Marine Perch in Genoa. The adventurous grandmother arrived wearing a navy jacket, on which she sewed her navy son’s service insignia. Japan over to the United Nations is the advice that Gen. Douglas MacArthur recently gave the world. He is shown with Ambassador Paul V. McNutt, who visited Tokyo recently. "Dopey” Clinghammer, who has always been a town problem, even more so since he got married, is laughing at folks who had said he would never get anywhere. He won a 10-room house completely fur nished and $5,000 cash the other night by giving Napoleon’s first name and telling why he preferred Tizzie-Wizzie Toasties. Bing Boggs had a windfall this week. His pa died and left him a hog. • • * CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when the major auto mobile companies saw to it that the customers could get an essential spare part when needed? • When you could scare the landlord into painting the house and fixing the roof by threatening to move? EPITAPH Here lies Joe Zilch On grassy slopes: He’s through with taxes Now ... he hopes! United Nations expects to have the first unit of its New York home erected by November of next year. We hope the world will last that long. We hear that when “Babs” Hut ton hears the question “What is the name please?” she now has to con sult the record. * * • "Gen. Eisenhower is in fine fettle. He played nine holes of golf Sunday in 46.”—News item. * Well, that score for nine means close to 100 for 18 holes, and we re fuse to think this is Ike’s game. Any body who saw him go from the Brit tany coast to Berlin in par or better, knows he must be playing the Chevy Chase course with a niblick and putter. • • • It looks more and more as if the next atomic war could come in the midst of the arguments over the use of atomic bombs in the next war. • • • HORSES AND HOLLYWOOD Even race horses go to Hol'y- wood now to get into the big money The other day Louis B. Mayer, fa mous movie mogul, put his skinners up at public auction and they brought over a million and a half dollars. And that, even in Holly wood. is hay. • • * MUTUAL EXCHANGE AT MOSCOW If you trust me Like I trust you WeX still be here In fifty-two. RED CROSS IN FINLAND . . . The Timonen family, shown above, formerly of Suojarui, India, is among 450,000 Finnish evacuees from the Baltic province which now forms part of Russia. The American Red Cross, whose relief program to Finland has counted heavily dur ing the cold winter months of the past two years in alleviating the needs of the nation, is taking care of families like the Timonens with warm clothing, such as the boy’s pajamas—his first. WIN THEIR OSCARS . . . Photo shows the big four winners in the 19th annual academy award program at Los Angeles. Left to right: Ann Baxter, winner of award for best supporting actress of the year; Sam Goldwyn, winner of the Irving Thalberg award for outstanding picture of the year, “The Best Years of Our Lives”; Olivia de Havil- land, winner of the Oscar for the best actress of the year, and Harold Russell, handless veteran in "The Best Years of Our Lives,” won the award for the best supporting actor and a special Oscar. COURT NAMES HIM . . . M. E. Thompson, Georgia’s former lieu tenant governor, as he received the telephoned news that the Su preme court of Georgia had ruled in his favor in the governorship hearing. He will be governor un til next election. SMALLEST CAMERA . . . Built and designed for use by OSS agents and underground forces during World War n, this tiny "M.B.” camera, no larger than its namesake, a matchbox—is now on the market. DEFENDS JAPS . . . Miss Elea nor C. Goode, New York City, the first woman to appear before the 8th army tribunal as defense coun sel for an accused Jap war crim inal, is shown in court. Her client is charged with brutal treatment of Canadians. NEW GOVERNOR . . . Oscar Rennebohm as he was sworn in as governor of Wisconsin. The new executive, former lieutenant gov ernor, replaces Walter Goodland, who died at the age of 85. Renne bohm says he will follow the poli cies of Goodland. CONGRATULATIONS . . . Ken neth Spencer, 6, oilers his con gratulations to “Blackout of Toka- den,” winner in male collie class at VaUey View Park Country club, Sherman Oaks, Calif. ' | 'HE citrus crop took quite a -*• shellacking from the rather rough winter that assaulted Florida this season. This was practically the same winter that almost wrecked England and Europe and was none too soft on the South, the Southwest and the Middle West in the U. S. A. But for all of that, the pennant crop in Florida is looking to one of its biggest years. If you recall the facts, the Cardi nal^ who trained at and the Red Sox. who trained at Sar asota, won the two major pennants a year ago. In the American league, Florida - trained teams, the Red Sox, Tigers and Yankees ran 1-2-3. In the National league they ran 1-2. According to A1 Lang, who was bringing teams to Florida when Connie Mack was a rookie, it will be the same this season. "Red Sox, Tigers ttod Yankees will run 1-2-3 again,” A1 tells you. “The Cardinals will prove once more that St Petersburg is the best training spot on what is left of this globe. Florida stands pat This state will dominate the two leagues, and we’ll still have a few oranges, grapefruit tangerines, strawberries and what not left over.” Lang still figures the Yankees would have done much better if they had come direct to St. Peters burg in place of using up their early training days in Puerto Rico and other Latin-American countries. I agree with him. The main reason for a big league team coming south or heading westward is condition— not exhibition games. The main idea is to build up legs and arms, to develop wind, to get ready for the 154 games that wait on beyond the middle of April. You get that on turf and sod, not in the air or traveling on trains. The Yankees were far ahead of the Cardinals this time last spring. In Shape Too Early “They are a full month past us,” Eddie Dyer told me. But the Cardinals were 20 games ahead of the Yankees in late Sep tember. Ball players I meet around here don’t figure the Yankees can come close to the Red Sox, who are picked again to get another killing jump, due to saner training meth ods. At least partly. Not entirely. The Red Sox also have much the better ball club, no matter where the training site. “How can anyone tell about the Yankees?” one veteran said. "Who could have told you 10 or 11 of their best hitters would fall off 30, 40 or 50 points? Who can say how many of these will bound back to where they used to be? Who can tell you how good Joe DiMaggio, the big man on the club, will be? Their pitching was pretty good last year. It was their weak hitting that wrecked them. DiMaggio, a great ball player, could be a big lift if he is the ball player he was before the war. May be he will be. I wouldn’t know. But having DiMaggio in a slump is like having Bob Feller with an off year or Ted Williams batting .280 or Hal Newhouser trying to win 15 or 18 games. Look how Babe Ruth car ried the Yankees so many years. Sure, he had a lot of help, but it was the Babe that supplied the spark. "DiMaggio makes a much greater difference to the Yankees than the hits he makes or the runs he drives in or the great catches he can handle. Joe can lift or let down the entire club on the mental or hustling side. Plenty of Possibilities “The Yankees are still packed with possibilities. Spud Chandler is still a great pitcher. Stimweiss, Rizzuto, Lindell, Keller, Henrich, Johnson, Robinson and others have shown in the past how good they can be—when they are right. With the exception of Chandler and Rob inson, most of the Yankees were not too hot last year. “They have high-class handling from Harris, Dressen and Corriden. They couldn’t ask for better. But it is the ball player and the spirit of the ball player that gives you the answer. The spirit of the Yankees, I happen to know, was bad last sea son. They were a long way from the Yankees I used to know. I’d like to see first how much fight and hustle they have left. I’d like to see them with more of the stuff the Cardinals and the Dodgers have.” • • • The Hard Luck Breaker It has been a long time since I saw Spud Chandler of Georgia run ning, blocking and kicking against Yale. After leaving Georgia, Spud spent most of his time fighting off hard luck. He was shifted here and there, finally landing with the Yan kees. He started several weeks be fore the spring training season but broke an ankle while running. A year later he fielded a short bunt with a quick snap that wrecked a ligament in his right arm. SL Petersburg, Grantland Rice Man About Town: Broadway Confetti: Passing an apartment the other day we heard some music. It brought us up short. It was beautifuL Here’s the low- down: It won’t be released until May. Watch it click. The name of the ditty: “Rockin’ Horse Cowboy” (words and tune by Tony Starr and Frank Capano), recorded by Frankie Carle. The vocalulu is by Marjorie Hughes. . . . Murray Win- ant’s kiddie album, "It’s Fun To Eat,” is a click. He will do several albums—taking all child problems off your headaches. . . . Street scene in Washington Square: Little 7-year-young Susan Greenberg (in the early yawning), who has the honor of giving Fala his daily stroU. From all those reports of American looting in Ger many you’d gather that we have divested the Germans of every thing but pro-Hitlerites, Reports from there indicate that nation alism again is on the rise. Well, you can’t blame ’em. From the way we’ve been treating them, they are bound to think THEY won the war! The Stage Door: Paulette God dard, twitted for exotic evening dress (without hosiery), observed the following afternoon ankling (and such ankles) along Vth avenue with more sensible covering. . . . Leonora Corbett of the British stage is a new Yankee Doodle Dandy.' . . . Not too many playgoers know it, but “The Importance of Being Ear nest” was dashed off by Oscar Wilde when he was happily mar ried, and not after his famous fumble. . . . Clark Gable told re porters he considered himself lucky to wind up with $1,000 after a year of earning $6,000 weekly. Lucky is right. One columnist we know (he makes almost twice that much) winds up owing his heirs 10 times what Gable keeps. Midtown Vignette: One of those naive, gullible, midtown husbands was finally told that his Mrs. was giving him the Old Razzoo. . . . “We’ll show you with your own eyes,” said a pal. .. . They went to a movie theater and, sure enough, there she was (necking like anything) in the next-to-last row with a fella. ... They watched the whole thing and then left. . . . “Well?” said the pal. . . . “So what?” was the answer. “I don’t even know the guy!” The Press Box: A Detroit daily neatly nutshelled: “The basic task at the Moscow conference will not be to make peace with Germany but to keep peace among the Al lies.” . . . Since the end of the war, American taxpayers have shelled out half a billion to solve Germany’s problems. A fraction of that sum would solve the housing problem of American war vets. . . . Both John L. Lewis and Joe Stalin have dis covered that when Uncle Sam runs out of patience—you will start run ning for cover. Hitler also discov ered that. In short: America’s an swer to the iron curtain—is an iron fist! . . . Washington bizmen report that biz has tobogganed 32 per cent (in the last six months) because of government payroll slashes. The Irony of the Week: It was just a short paragraph on an in side page, but the irony of the yarn packed more of a dra matic wallop than any play wright could concoct: Many Germans are now trying to be converted to the Jewish faith in the hope that it will make it easier for them to get a visa to the United States! We only regret that the Jews those Germans helped slaugh ter didn’t live to view the spec tacle of their cowardly tormen tors trying to hide behind the religion they hit from behind. Colyumemos: Herbert Lehman told a group seeking donations that he is unemployed for the first time in his life, with no prospect of a job in sight. Then he donated $45,000. . . . Victor Gilbert’s millionaire parent built (for him) a hotel in Ridgefield, Conn., which cost $200,- 000. It makes most other hotels its size look like hobotels. The fee for a weekend is only $200. . . . After reading a vignette here about Ben Grauer (the radiorator) losing heavily at a gaming casino in Ha vana, the New York state income tax department sent Grauer a $595 refund. . That’s love department: Dr. Peter Lindstrom flew in from the coast (in risky weather) to spend two days with his beloved wife, Ingrid one-guess. Sounds in the Night: In the Mer maid room: “Some big name actors have talent, but most have press agents.” ... In the Copacabana: “She didn’t mind his wife, at all. She just couldn’t stand his girl friends.” ... At Howie’s: “Instead of giving Hollywood newlyweds best wishes, everybody gives them odds.” ... At Yank Sing: “He does the stage more ham than good.” . . . In Bradley’s: “Many a true word is spoken in whispers.” ... At Pallini’s: “A typical society triangle —him, his wife and her money.” Gems of Thought K nowledge is to know— Wisdom is the right use of knowledge — Understanding is the how of it all. Don’t be too sure of yourself. One of the most enlightening dis coveries a man can make is that his own opinions are not always infalls- ble. A maiden’s best dress is bash fulness. Practical Instruction* For the Home Nurse HOME HURSINc Treating Wounds W HEN Junior’s hand is cut open by a rusty nail, better call the doctor right away—there’* always the danger of blood poison, ing. • • • <? Meanwhile, cleanse the wound thorough ly with soap and water. Then pour in ; enough peroxide to dig out all those particles of rust and dirt, and soak the hand in a hot, strong epsom salt solution. Our booklet No. 81 contains 40 pages of helpful advice about home nursing. Cov ers nursing of contagious diseases, care during pregnancy, after operations. In emergencies. A must for every home! Send 25 cents (coin) for “Practical In struction for the Home Nurse" to Weekly Newspaper Service, 243 W. 17th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print name, address, booklet title and No. 81. 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