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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. ri DREW PEARSON Motive Behind Greek Revolt ACCORDING to the diplomatic grapevine from Athens, the so-called Communist uprisings inside Greece were care fully timed—not by the Communists, but by the Tsaldaris- Maximos government—to coincide with the departure from the U. S. of former Gov. Dwight Griswold, Greek aid admin istrator for Athens. The Greek government’s motive is to convince Griswold that the Tsaldaris-Maximos regime is essential to the security of the country and must remain in power. Actually, what happened was that the E.A.M., or so-called Communist group, was holding conferences with Prof. Alexander Svolos of Athens university just a few days previously with a view to a political compro mise by which they could resume participation in Greek political affairs under U. S. protection, when, suddenly, about 4,000 of them were arrested. U. S. diplomats are pretty well convinced that there can be no po litical stability in Greece and no success for the American aid program if the present reactionary Greek regime remains in power. Even patient Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh is reported to have come to this conclu sion. To counteract this, Tsaldaris is doing his West to convince Griswold that there would only be more chaos if the present Greek government resigned. WALTER WINCHELL Notes of a Bystander The Late Watch: Many of the women up at the Columbia univer sity faculty section are reported soooo fluttery over General Eisen hower’s appointment. They’re all getting perms, new fall outfits, etc. . . . Observation: In the papers a photo of Harry Truman’s birthplace disclosed that it now is occupied by a loan firm! The Keeley institute of Illinois (where drunks are dried up) ex plodes the cinematic legend that newspaper men are rumpots. Out of 12,012 palcoholics treated there (between 19)0 and ’46) only 9) were newspaper men. The oth ers were architects, brokers, bank ers. But topping the list for worst tipplers (hold 'er. Newt!) were farmers. PAUL MALLON The Show Folks: The hat-check lass named Helen Westcott started playing in "The Drunkard” 13 years ago as the baby. As understudy to all the femmes in the cast (although she rarely goes on) she is the troupe’s most useful member. Helen can play all the roles, and has. Quotation Marksmanship: M. K. Johnson: She nagged him into another woman’s life. . . . Hecht-O’Rourke: He’s the vice of experience. . . . Percy Faith: Her eyes lit np like two vamps. . . . Corey Ford: She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words. ★ ★ 1948 Race Is Like a Pretzel T HE political situation is shaping up like an unterminated pretzel. You can see the curves up to now plainly enough. But where the dough maze will wind up, nobody knows. Dewey went out to make character in the West. From New York with 96 convention delegates, he went out to the six delegate states, not to gather party votes, as popularly supposed, but chief ly to gather a 10-gallon political disposition. Candidates often make the same trek for the same purpose at this stage. If Dewey went after delegates, he should have come down to Wash ington to see the Republicans in both houses of congress. This is where the delegates are. Senator Martin has the 76 or so from Pennsylvania in an inside pocket. Senators Taft and Bricker could tell Dewey about Ohio, and probably also Indiana and Illinois, although it might not be anything Dewey wants to hear. Speaker Martin could issue Massachu setts and probably all New England like script. Harold Stassen could tell him about Minnesota and perhaps Iowa; Wherry about Nebraska; Baldwin about Connecticut, and so on. Dewey could take a pencil and paper, come to Washington at much less railroad fare and ascertain he lacks a majority of delegates without favorite son support. He might win a few primaries next spring and show some strength (this is what he is figuring on, they say) in which case the boys might come up to his backroom at Albany. So while Dewey is supposed to be making a runaway race out of it, no one will predict where he goes from here. Taft is going west himself, and will identify himself while there as the only prominent opponent of Dewey to date. H. L PHILLIPS Comments on the Day s News VANISHING AMERICANISMS "Remember, we have to hold our customers!" • "One overcharged patron is a lost patron." • "Our job is to make the customer feel he got his money’s worth." * * * Rationing is coming back, it is freely predicted, there being no oth er way that we can send to Europe the things required. Everything "POINTS,” as it were, that way. • • • One nice thing about war in the old days was that you could almost always tell when it was over. WALTER SHEAD* J. Caesar Petrillo admits before a house committee that he draws down about $60,000 a year, which we assume helps immeasurably to sus tain his love of music. • • • "I don’t think the cause of atomic energy has been served by this dis closure of the theft of certain data.” —Senator Hickenlooper. * The cause, we take it, is better served by just letting the secrets be stolen and saying nothing about it whatever. In short; the senator be lieves that whether the bomb should be dropped or not, the matter of its proper protection should be. ★ ★ Congress Plays Good Samaritan T HE senate was about to convene for a political discussion of export controls. The Rev. Peter Marshall, chaplain, asked Divine Guidance and said: "May freedom be seen not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to please to do what is right. May it ever be understood that our liberty is under God and can be found no where else. Let us, as a nation, not be afraid of standing alone for the rights of men, since we were born that way, as the only nation on earth that came into being ’for the Glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith.’ ” And in answer to an objection by Senator Taft over continuing export controls on fats and oils as “illogical,” Sen. Alexander Wiley of Wis consin said: "There is such a thing as the higher logic of the mind and soul. Our responsibility is to keep our own economy healthy and at the same time attempt to perform the function of the Good Samaritan in helping to make other peoples adequate.” In debate over farm price supports. Sen. Milton Young of North Dakota said price of wheat in the Argentine without controls was be tween $5 and $6 per bushel. Arguing for continuing controls, Senator Young said American farmers would be tickled to sign a contract for five years at $1.50 a bushel rather than face the possibility of $5 wheat this year and probably 30-cent wheat in a couple of years. WRIGHT PATTERSON Military Training Will Aid Youth U NIVERSAL military training would instill in young men the two essentials of the soldier’s life— discipline and endurance. These two essentials come from training, and with that training comes a physical hardening that adds stamina. Universal military training would give to our young men those two first essentials, and, temporarily, the physical hardening. We may not, we hope we do not, have to fight another war, but war or no war, military training for all the young men of America will make for a bet ter and more successful citizen ship. It will give to that large percentage that needed training they have not had. RECORD RAIN FLOODS ERIE . . . Small boats were brought Into service at Erie, Pa., when a record nine and one-half inches of rain fell in eight hours. Two feet of water deluged city at height of the flood, as more than 20 families were evacuated from low-lying areas. It was estimated that damages caused by the flood would be about a million dollars. Light and telephone service" was disrupted in some parts of the city, but power, gas and water supplies continued to operate. NEIGHBORHOOD TURNS OUT FOR ROCKY ... In the Seventh street-Second avenue area of New York, Rocky Graziano is the local boy who made good by winning the middleweight championship of the world from Tony Zale, even if the New York boxing commission doesn’t admit it. Battered but happy, the Rock received a hero’s homecoming from the neighbors who knew him when. Graziano, who belted Zale for a technical knockout in the sixth round of their title bout in Chicago, offered to give Zale a rematch within 90 days. LONG AND THE SHORT ... Bellhop Raymond Karns (5 ft. 1 in.) looks to be strictly out of his class in the company of these towering cuties, all six feet tall. They are among the members of 15 social clubs from cities all over the country organized exclusively for males at least six feet four inches tall and girls who extend at least six feet into the air. Attending a convention at Los Angeles, they discussed problems of short beds, clothes, chandeliers, low ceilings and making friends. BRAW, BRICHT LADDIE . . . William Leslie Slorach of Glas gow, Scotland, pushed his sun glasses down on his nose, the bet ter to see the sights of New York, as he arrived aboard the S.S. Er nie Pyle. He’s wearing kilts and his heart is probably in the high lands. He is on his way to Ontario, Canada, to live with a sister. MARINES ON THE AIR ... One of the services offered by the United States marines based in Tsingtao, China, is a full schedule of radio entertainment broadcast from the marine corps operated station XABU. The station is an enterprise of the Armed Forces Radio Serv ice, whose mission is to provide entertainment, education and infor mation for U. S. armed forces abroad. BOY MEETS GIRL ... It isn’t graduation time any more, but who could resist this picture of two old grads of the Chil dren’s Aid society kindergarten in New York. Schools Study Saving of Soil Conservation Made Part of Curriculum in Early Grades in Iowa. DES MOINES, IOWA.—Soil con servation is now an integral part of the curriculum in Iowa’s schools. In the classroom, on field trips and in special projects, a majority of the state’s 48,000 rural school children are being taught "to see that civili zation moves, survives or disap pears with the fertility of the soil.” The first year of a three-year ex perimental program ended with the close of school this spring and Iowa students, for the first time, found 40 questions dealing with soil conser vation and related problems on their state examination papers. A committee of educators and soil conservationists worked to gether in drawing up the course outline. Miss Iva Green, state su pervisor of rural education, said that it was hoped that a permanent program could be set up from a study of the three-year experimen tal plan. Plenty to Observe. There is no lack of opportunities for first to eighth grade children to see in the rolling, fertile farm lands that surround their little schools some of the things they have stud ied in the classroom. They study soil samples to see their various compositions. They are taken to fields where erosion has slashed deep ditches or where water stands in fields not properly drained. They may observe a pas ture which is overgrazed and filled with noxious weeds. Various methods of preventing soil erosion are explained and the teacher, if the opportunity presents itself, may take her class to see a contour plowing contest or to look at grass plots sponsored by the soil conservation commission for stop ping bad erosion. The children are encouraged to question their parents and other farmers in the area about the his tory of their laijds. In some classes pupils are asked to draw maps of the farms on which they live show ing the running streams, dry creeks, gullies and ridges. They are asked to report on the conservation practices on their farms. Wild Life Studies. Studies of wild life, an important part of the course, help hold their interests. The Iowa State Conserva tion commission works closely with the schools, and runs in its monthly publication stories on some phase of wild life included in their studies. Miss Green said there had been a “decided increase” in building of shelters and feeding stations for wild birds and game. She said she had received enthusiastic letters and poems from children describ ing wild life in their area. How deterioration of the soil has a direct bearing on the welfare of the child is stressed early in the training course. The teaching out line suggests that teachers have their classes make lists of things which the pupils or their parents need in the home or on the farm. Then they are shown how not only the money to buy such things but also the basic products from which they are made come from the soil. Watch Export Restrictions Lifted by Swiss Government BERN, SWITZERLAND. — The Swiss government has lifted export restrictions on watches to the Unit ed States and other dollar-bloc countries. The action came after one Swiss factory had closed down for four days in protest against what the factory management said was too low an export quota for this par ticular factory. The government fixed export quo tas more ■•than three years ago on watches on the grounds that Swiss export to the United States were far above imports from that coun try, and that an unfavorable bal ance of trade, with attendant ex change difficulties, resulted. Now the trade current has reversed. Meanwhile. Swiss watch manufac turers have complained that man ufacturers in the United States were capturing the South American and South African markets and that un employment threatened part of the Swiss watch industry. Woman, 82, Gets Divorce; Was Married for 53 Years MARYVILLE, TENN. — Mrs. N. W. Lakey, 82, who told the court that her 86-year-old husband would go “for a month sometimes” with out speaking, was granted a di vorce. They had been married 53 years. “And all this time he wasn’t speaking, I was doing his cooking and keeping house,” Mrs. Lakey told Circuit Judge Pat Quinn. laps Produce Miniature Auto to Sell for $200 OSAKA, JAPAN.—What might be the world’s smallest automobile has appeared in Osaka. The vest pocket car weighs 50 pounds. It accommo dates one passenger who can reach a speed of 17 m. p. h. on the 1% horse power engine. It costs $200 and its manufacturer hopes to mass produce it for sale abroad. Russia to Mobilize Young Men for Work May Be Called On to Toil in Mines and Factories. MOSCOW.—That large groups of 18- and 19-year-old youths previ ously subject to military service might be called to dig coal and for training and other service in the in dustrial machine was announced in an edict by the Soviet Union. The step was regarded as another move emphasizing the Soviet Un ion’s need for trained personnel in industry and lessening the empha sis on military duty. In its fifth de mobilization order in two years the Soviet Union last February ordered the release of several thousand "older” men from the armed serv ices for jobs in factories and agri culture. The decree affecting youth was passed on by the presidium of the Supreme Soviet. It gives the cabi net authority to mobilize annually for industry these groups of youths: Boys, 14 to 17 inclusive, and girls, 15 to 16 inclusive, for training in craft and railway schools. Boys and girls, 16 to 18 inclusive, for training in factory schools. Boys of 19 for underground work in the coal industry, steel welding, mining and other professions of the metallurgical and oil industries. This effected a change in a de cree passed on October 2, 1940, for calling state labor reserves. Previ ously boys of 14 and 15 and girls of 15 and 16 were called to craft and railway schools and boys or 16 and 17 and girls of 16 to 18 to factory schools. Thus youths of 18 and 19, pre viously unaffected by call-ups for industrial training and service be cause they were eligible for army training, now go into civilian group ings. No figures were given but they represent a sizable proportion of Russia's 193 million persons. ‘Dead’ Boy Lives Again; Firemen Restore Breath HOLLYWOOD. CALIF. — A three - year - old boy was pro nounced dead by doctors. Next day he was chattering happily in his mother’s arms. Gerald Green swallowed a piece of chalk. The chalk cut off his breath. He was taken to General hos pital. On the way, his pulse and breathing stopped. Ambulance doctors pronounced him dead. But N. W. Albright and Neil Wallace of the fire department rescue squad put the boy under an oxygen tent and applied ar tificial respiration. After one and one half hours he began to breathe again. Values of New Building Contracts Ahead of 1946 NEW YORK. — Construction con tracts let in the first half of 1947 in creased , to $2,673,865,000 from $2,- 632,186,000 in the corresponding half of the last year, but physical vol ume this year was about 11 per cent below 1946, the Engineering News- Record said. “If the construction industry is to reach the predicted total expendi ture of 6.5 billion dollars for the new heavy construction by the end of this year,” the publication point ed out, "it will be necessary to re cord an average of at least 146 mil lion dollars worth of contracts let each week for the remaining half of the year. The current trend— which saw a high average week to date through June set at 103 million dollars, as compared with 101 mil lion dollars average through June, 1946—gives no great promise of reaching the required figure. The record week in the first half of 1947, the magazine said, was June 12, with 158 million dollars which was below the 182 million dollar record set last year in the week of June 6. Even though 1947 is dropping be low 1946, it was pointed out, the current year will not be a bad one for the industry, since last year’s construction total was the third best in history, including the war years. Ordnance Works Property Leased to Newsprint Firm WASHINGTON. — Rep. Brown (Rep., O.), chairman of the house newsprint investigation committee, announced that the war depart ment had signed a lease for use of part of the Alabama ordnance works property in Talladega Coun ty, Ala., for newsprint production. The lease is to Coosa River News print company. Brown said the company expect ed to start production in from 12 to 18 months, with an annual output of approximately 100,000 tons of news print. The lease is for 40 years. Burglars Go to a Heap of Trouble and Get Nothing PHILADELPHIA. — Burglars climbed up a fire escape to the roof, broke through a skylight and smashed down three doors to reach the Art Novelty company’s lamp factory. They used a couple of screw drivers, a hammer and six hack saw blades in a futile effort to open the safe. Finally they gave it up as a bad job and departed. The safe didn’t contain a cent. Gems of Thought "^"O COMPANY is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as dis ease is far more contagious than health.—C. C. Colton. It is a maxim, that those whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first. —Swift, CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. FOR SALE—Ladies’ Store A successful business, 31 Va years old. Cause for selling death of owner. LADIES’ READY TO WEAR Best lines carried. MILLINERY, ACCESSORIES AND PIECE GOODS Phone 162, Greer, S. C. MRS. W. K. HILL Greer, 8. C. 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