The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 05, 1947, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
PAUL MALLON
Can We Absorb 400,000 Refug ees?
C ONGRESS failed to enact the Stratton bill admitting 400,-
000 displaced persons from Europe. This is bestirring
considerable bitterness among people who can make them
selves bitter about such matters, believing the United States
should be a refuge for anyone who needs a political haven.
These people had spread their own impression that a critical emer
gency on the issue requires immediate action.
There are perhaps 1,000,000 Europeans who do not wish to
return to their homes for political or social reasons (they fear to
go under the wing of Communism). About 21 per cent are chil
dren; 13 per cent are over 44 years old; 20 per cent are Jews; 65
per cent are Catholic; 15 per cent Protestants; a majority was in
agriculture before the war.
Congress realized the problem could not be solved simply by opening
American immigration gates to let the mass flow in, although some
evidence indicated many had relatives here who might support them.
Perhaps a faster part-answer to the problem will be found at the
forthcoming meeting of foreign ministers of the Americas. Certainly Latin
America is a young and growing area in which immigration and coloni
zation is needed more than in the United States. Better opportunities
for the DPs may exist there. For us to absorb some may be found eco
nomically feasible for both them and us. An All-America agreement
would certainly be better than a United States decision alone.
★ ★ ★ ★
H. I. PHILLIPS
Dangers of the Open Road
The papers inform me of approv
al of a super-dooper national high
way system to embrace the whole
United States. It will connect 42
state capitals and link the larger
‘cities of the land by express high
ways, viaducts and tunnels.
*
Link 42 state capitals by superhigh
way my eye! Unlink a few of ’em, say l.
*
There are too many good
highways already and too many
people going places on them.
Instead of broader highways
with fewer stoplights we need
narrower ones with more stop-
DREW PEARSON
lights if the population is not
to be kept in a state of sustained
flight from home and fireside.
Americans were a sturdier,
more likeable, steadier and gen
uinely happier people when they
were home part of the time.
* * •
What does Russia want? Can it be
a cut in the world series? Two for
^Oklahoma”? An end to husband and
wife radio programs?
* « *
Why the apparent hatred of
America and all things American?
Have some of Stalin’s friends been
using our subways?
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Junkets to Alaska
XT’S AMAZING HOW MANY congressmen suddenly find they have urgent
•* business in Alaska this summer—with travel paid for by the sweltering
taxpayer back home. Even Cong. Evan Howell, Illinois Republican, now
appointed to the U. S. court of claims and who won’t pass on airfield sites
any more, now finds he is needed in Alaska to inspect new airfield routes.
Here are the different congressional groups that have found
urgent business in Alaska, though this summer they are careful
to pay personally the expenses of their wives and families:
Junket No. 1—Senate public lands committee.
Junket No. 2—Senate small business committee.
Junket No. 3—House interstate commerce committee.
Junket No. 4—House public lands committee.
Whereas the senators made no effort to conceal their Alaskan trips,
Wolverton’s interstate commerce junket tried to get off without public
notice.
If these legislators really got to know Alaska, their visits might be bene
ficial; since that neglected territory deserves consideration for statehood. So far,
however, few congressmen have been willing to pay much attention to Alaskan
problems, except during the summer.
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SOAP BOX SPEEDWAY . . . The tenth anniversary running of the all-American and international soap
box derby got under way at Akron, Ohio, with a spectacular pre-race parade, all derby entrants partici
pating. The derby, won this year by Kenny Holmboe of Charleston, W. Va., was held on a special track
built for the motorless speedsters.
BIG CHECK FOR CANCER RESEARCH . . . California has received its first $100,000 allocation from the
Damon Runyon memorial fund for cancer research, presented by a group of representative leaders of the
motion picture and radio profession in behalf of the treasurer, Walter Winchell. Presentation was made
to the California division of the American Cancer Society, represented by Dr. Lyell C. Kinney. Shown left
to right are: Tyrone Power, Danny Kaye, Greer Gar son, Dr. Kinney, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Jimmy
Durante.
WALTER WINCHELL
Oddities in the New York Scene
At one time New York City
threatened to secede from the union
and form an independent nation. . . .
The mammoth illuminated sign
atop Doctors hospital is a signpost
for mariners and also a reminder
not to toot their boat whistles in
front of the hospital. . . . Many of
the trees in New York streets man
age to exist by pushing their roots
into sewers to absorb water.
Some of the wealthiest New
York families originally made
their fortunes when their ances
tors worked with Captain Kidd.
Incidentally, there is only one clue
to the treasure that the fabulous
pirate is supposed to have buried
along the Atlantic coast; A num
ber Kidd wrote on a card that no
one has been able to decipher—
44106818.
If you happen to see ghosts
roaming through the night at
WALTER SHEAD'
Bryant park — don’t be sur
prised. It used to be a ceme
tery. . . . When bathtubs first
were introduced in New York,
the very cautious board of
health ordered citizens not to
use them without first consult
ing their doctor.
The Big Town’s most arresting
landscape can be viewed from the
heights of Fort Tryon park. . . .
Wall Street got its tag because the
Dutch erected a wall there (cen
turies ago) when they feared an in
vasion. . . . The reason some streets
in the Big Town have feminine
names: When those streets were
parts of farms, the farmers honored
their wives by naming lanes after
them. . . . The grimmest sea voyage
is taken by the tug that ferries
cadavers from Bellevue to Hart’s
island for burial.
★ ★
What About Federal Spending?
FEDERAL spending in general and President Truman’s 1947 budget in
1 particular combined to make a wonderfully bouncy political football
which both parties have kicked about sportively all year. (A political
football is a thin tissue of truths and half-truths inflated out of all pro
portion with air of a strictly torrid temperature.) As a result, the aver
age American working man continues to go about thoughtfully rubbing
two nickels together and wondering if his government is really as ex
travagant as a night club blonde or whether it is making a genuine effort
to cut financial corners.
What is the truth? Probably it is impossible to get an accu
rate bearing on all the true facts. The Republican congress raised
a victory chant over its cutting of Mr. Truman’s budget estimates.
And, if we can believe what we read, many agency appropria
tions were slashed considerably, including the army, navy, inte
rior department and agriculture department.
But the President, with a weather eye out for his big day in Novem
ber, 1948, has come up with another idea. He has accused congress of
working the hidden ball trick, intimating that the illustrious members
have shifted various budget items around to produce the illusion that
they have effected a great savings. In other words, did we put any
money in the bank, or did we blow it all at the races?
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WRIGHT PATTERSON
Wholesome Entertainment Best
On the lawns of the Orange,
Calif., high school building grounds
we ate a pot luck dinner, and then
everyone attended the ball game
between teams of the Rotarians and
the Lions. Everyone knew all the
players, business and professional
men of the town. That game pro
duced more thrills, was more wild
ly exciting, than any professional
game I ever witnessed in the Cubs
or the White Sox parks in Chicago.
It must have been good, for it end
ed in a tie of 0 to 0. Such recrea
tion as that pot luck dinner and ball
game has replaced, for us, the at
tempt to find thrills at the theaters,
night clubs and other spots.
WILD BLUE YONDER GIRL ... Calm confidence radiates from
the face of Jane Page, 25, of Wilmette, III., who entered as a con
testant in the national Bendix air races to pit her flying skill against
the best male aviators in the world. One of her opponents was Bill
Odom, solo globe-hopper. Miss Page sits atop the P-38 in which she
planned to compete for the $10,000 Bendix prize money.
MOSAIC OF LAST SUPPER . . . F. F. Burfitt, retired Portland,
Ore., plumber, who has been dabbling in mosaic work for several
years, is shown with his recently completed Last Supper. The 5 by 10
foot mosaic contains 49,000 p f jees of vari-colored rock, all picked np
from beaches between Portland and California. It took Burfitt 8,700
hours to complete the detailed work which is an exact reproduction
of Ha Vinci’s immortal painting.
BEST PICTURE . . . This photo
graph by Lloyd MacLean was
awarded first prize in the fourth
annual Hollywood studios still
photograph show. It is a still from
“Stallion Road.”
PARKED AND HAPPY ... To
protect the tot from any do-gooder
who might want to cart her off to
the lost and found department,
Barbara Salsmon’s mom put this
sign on the big waste paper ban
ket where she parked the girt.
Intelligence in
U. S. Declining
Birth Pattern Is Blamed by
Expert for Condition;
Quotes Commission.
WASHINGTON.— Possibility that
the intelligence of the American
people is declining has been dis
covered by population experts. That
this may be true is agreed to by
some top educational leaders.
They expect the president’s com
mission on higher education to rec
ommend broadening of the whole
American education system to in
crease the quality and quantity of
national leadership.
But Guy Irving Burch of the Pop-
ulation Reference bureau, a private
research organization, says the
most alarming threat to intelli
gence is the pattern of human re
production.
He quotes bureau of census fig
ures to show that parents with the
least mental and financial ability to
raise children produce twice as
many children as parents of highest
intelligence and income.
Studies in England for the royal
commission on population, he says,
suggest the number of feeble-mind
ed in England may double within
50 years and that there will be only
half as many "students of scholar
ship ability.”
Fewer Good Students.
Dr. Francis Brown, staff associ
ate of the American Council on
Education and executive secretary
of the president’s commission, says
he agrees with the population bu
reau that under present conditions
average American intelligence
seems to be declining.
But he says “this population-in
telligence report does not give
enough importance to the possibil
ity of improving intelligence by
education.
"It emphasizes the part heredity
plays in human intelligence. It im
plies that, because of the law of
heredity, in the majority of cases a
child will have about the same level
of intelligence as his parents. And
it also implies that because chil
dren are more numerous in the
poorer families the average of in
telligence is dropping to the danger
point.
“What it overlooks is this: Hu
man intelligence never has been de
veloped to its fullest among the
great masses of people. No way has
been found accurately to measure
the ultimate capabilities of the hu
man mind.
Seek More Schools.
"There are certain physical, emo
tional and intellectual capacities
that are limited by native intelli
gence, which is the capacity of the
mind to learn and create. These
capacities may be limited by he
redity.
“But what happens in developing
these inborn abilities determines
the level of intelligence a person
will reach.
“All indications are that there is
a tremendous reserve of human in
telligence that never has been de
veloped.”
As for the educational situation.
President Truman suggested his
commission study ways and means
of expanding opportunities “for all
able young people.”
Some studies indicate this would
mean increasing educational facili
ties, including schools, by one-third
“all along the line from primary
grades through college.”
Several groups have recommend
ed that the federal government pay
for the college training of “the best
high school scholars.”
But opponents say this would
create an educational “elite” and
wouldn’t substantially increase the
nation’s reserve of top-level intelli
gence.
Super Speedway Envisioned
For Jet-Propelled Racers
DETROIT.—Plans for a super
speedway to accommodate 300-mile
an hour jet-propelled racers of the
future were revealed here by auto
motive designers who, in adapting
guided missile techniques for ground
transportation, foresee the day when
the reciprocating engine will be as
obsolete as the horse and buggy.
Details of the five million dollar
speedway, for which a site already
has been selected, were revealed
in Science and Mechanics magazine,
which reported that a Detroit cor
poration already has drawn plans
for an eight square mile track on
which each jet racer would hurtle at
airplane speed on his own ramp.
Designers of the jetway foresee its
use as a valuable testing ground for
military transportation experiments,
and say it will provide the incentive
the United States has long needed
"to take the lead in promoting new
and better automotive designs.”
Jet-Propelled Bicycle
Travels 25 Miles an Hour
DAYTON. — William Tenney and
Charles Marks claim to have de
signed the first jet-propelled bi
cycle.
Demonstrating their beltless,
chainless, gearless bike powered
only by three tiny "dyna-jet” mo
tors developed far miniature air
craft, they have attained speeds of
25 miles an hour and say the con
trivance is capable of even faster
speeds.
The jet-propulsion features come
from a series of tubular jet engines
mounted on the rear fender, with
an exhaust tank attached beneath.
Finds Life of Lady
Lifeguard Is Dull
Men Fight Shy of Rescue by
Woman, They Say.
NEW YORK. — Lovely Evelyn
Peterson says the life of a lady life
guard is dull. Eastern men are too
proud to be rescued by women, she
asserts. / *
They huff and puff and speed
away whenever Evelyn dives in to
help them.
"Even if they were really drown
ing I don’t think they would signal
me,” Miss Peterson sighed. “Why,
every time I try to help a man, he
suddenly gets over his cramps or
weariness and starts swimming.”
Evelyn, 21, with 108 pounds in the
proper places, works at Coney
Island.
Miss Peterson, from San Antonio,
learned her lifeguard work in the
Lone Star state.
"Our boys down there were al
ways willing to let me puU them
in,” she explained, “even when
they weren’t really in trouble. I
guess they realized that I needed
the practice.”
Evelyn is a lifeguard three days
a week. The rest of the time she
works as a commercial model.
In salt water, Evelyn claims she
can handle a 200-pounder.
She knows all the different carry
ing grips and what to do if a pan
icky man tries to grab her about
the neck.
“At first, I’d just pull his hair,”
she said, “but if he still acted wild,
I would have to sojk him.”
New Explosive Can Reach
Beyond Pull of Gravity
SAN FRANCISCO. — Science
has developed a new explosive
powerful enough to hurl steel
cones beyond the pull of gravity
where they will float around the
earth forever, an astronomer
said.
The explosive, named penolite,
has been a closely guarded mili
tary secret for seven years, ac
cording to Dr. Fritz Zwicky,
astronomer at Mt. Wilson Ob
servatory.
Zwicky said that scientists al
ready have attempted to toss
projectiles high enough to be
come artificial satellites like the
moon.
The attempts failed, but new
experiments are being planned,
he said.
Zwicky said that if the experi
ments succeeded, the cones will
become “moons” circling the
earth at 200- to 600-mile altitudes
forever.
Find Large Cache of Arms
At Bottom of Burma Lake
RANGOON, BURMA.—Police in-
vestigating the assassination of
nine government officials discov
ered a large cache of arms at the
bottom of a lake near the home of
former Premier U Saw, who gov
erned during the Japanese occupa
tion.
U Saw and his followers were
among the first to be seized in mass
arrests which are continuing. More
than 50 persons now are in jail.
Police said they found 100 Sten
guns and 170 Bren guns in water
proof boxes when they dragged Vic
toria lake near U Saw’s home. The
nine government officials were
massacred by five men using Sten
guns, a British-made rifle.
Burmese and Indian workmen
demonstrated on Bandoola Square
against the killings, shouting vitri
olic condemnation of the unidenti
fied killers.
The government set aside a day
of national mourning for the vic
tims.
New Surgery Technique
Cures CrosS’Eye Quickly
CHICAGO. — Cross-eyes can be
corrected by releasing the tissue
connecting eye muscle rather than
by cutting the muscles themselves,
American Osteopathic association
was told at its fifty-first annual con
vention.
The new technique was described
by Dr. E. B. Decker, head of the
eye, ear, nose and throat division
of Ridgewood hospital, Daytona
Beach, Fla. Only a few hours of
hospitalization are required for the
new operation, he said.
Dr. C. R. Nelson of Austin, Tex.,
told the convention that poor pos
ture is one of the principal causes
of stomach ulcers "because it dis-
turbs proper functioning of the
nervous system.”
‘Punchy’ Pugilists Cured
By New Brain Operation
BOSTON. — Punch drunk boxers
can be restored to normal mental
ity by a delicate brain operation,
according to Dr. Frank H. Lahey,
director of Lahey clinic.
The so called “punchy” pugilists,
he said, suffer from a subdura-
hematoma—a slowly-accumulating
blood clot—which can be removed
by the operation.
Lahey said that hematoma pro
duced by slight head blows may not
cause unconsciousness and may re
main undiscovered for months, but
often results in mental changes and
even insanity.
He said that in the case of prize
fighters, surgical removal of the
hematoma has resulted in complete
relief.
Gems of Thought
Have some aim in life: be not
simply good, be good for some
thing.—Thoreau.
1 sometimes wish that people
would put a little more emphasis
upon the observance of the law than
they do upon its enforcement.—
Calvin Coolidge.
Errors, like straws, upon the
surface flow; he who would
search for pearls must dive be
low John Dryden.
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Questions About Your
Government Answered
T HERE’S more to our govern
ment than the dull facts and
figures contained in text books.
Did you know, for instance, that
four pairs of our Presidents were
related?
• • •
That the "Star Spangled Banner” did
not become our national anthem until 1931?
That a President can be impeached, but a
congressman cannot?
Do you know why “capitol” and “capi
tal” are spelled differently? Hundreds of
interesting questions about the govern
ment are answered in booklet No. 202.
Send 25 cents in coins for “Know Your
Government’* to Weekly Newspaper Serv
ice, 243 West 17th St., New York 11, N. Y.
Print name, address, booklet title and
No. 202.
GRANdMA
SPEAKIH 1 ...
DON’T WORRY about what
people are thinking about you.
Chances are. they’re not think
ing about you at all, but won
dering what you’re thinking
about them.*
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age of magarine, ye’re sure get-
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ONE THING wrong with some
folks is that they have their
wishbone where their backbone
ought to be.*
Jer>
IT BEATS ME how people
’spect their vegetables to turn
out tasty if they pay no mind to
the season’ they use. I’m mighty
careful to use Nu-Maid ’cuz it
tastes good by itself.
**s
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each accepted saying or idea for
“Grandma Speakin’.” Address
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