The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 12, 1947, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
PAUL MALLOW
Do Unions Represent All “Labor”?
W ITH firecracker words, union people write me asking
“Who are the consumers”? They then furnish their own |
answer, which is that they are the consumers. With the sheer |
volume of their organized mail, and explosive epithets from ,
such nebulous unidentifiable characters as “a labor house- i
wife,” they are trying to crowd me into retracting my frequent
economic analyses showing the unions are working against the consumert. ■
Indeed, they are trying to convince me that the unions themselves are
all labor, simply because they call themselves “labor.”
Well, let’s look at the matter more thoroughly.
There are 60,000,000 workers in this country today. The unions
only claim to represent about 15,000,000. Therefore they are not
all labor. They are not even a majority of labor. They are about
•ne-fourth. They are one-fourth which tries to monopolize the
whole economy of the country by sheer superior weight of political
pressures, propaganda and indeed any means at their command.
Now there are 140,000,000 people in the United States and if the
unions represent one-fourth (if they have raised the same size families
as others) they are ?5,000,000 people trying to run 140,000,000 by any
means, including intimidation.
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H. L PHILLIPS
The Garble Sisters Speak
"Are you following the baseball
race this season?”
“Yes, it looks like the Yankees
were a sure thing. They’re great
under that new manager, Ernie
Bevin. Brooklyn is going great
guns, too.”
“Look at the way Tony Baksi and
Tito are hitting the ball this sum
mer.”
m m m
“What new movies have you
seen?”
“The ‘Two Mrs. Paulines’ and
‘The Egg and the Badman’ were
good, I thought, but I like ‘Brute
Crossfire’ and ‘The Huckster and
the Bobby Soxer.’ ”
DREW PEARSON
"Clothiers Worried Over Lining
Problem"—headline.
*
The customers have been worried
over the lining problem for the last
five or six years.
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CAUTION
I cannot buy a house
And there’s nothing to rent:
I’d live in a barrel, except
I’m afraid I’d ferment.
Gertrude Flynn
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Paul Whiteman has joined the
ranks of disk jockeys. We take
it his diet now includes laying oil
artistic ideals and using dignity
sparingly.
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Highest Paid Lobbyist
THE 700-odd lobbyists registered with congress under the lobbying
act, ex-Senator John Danaher, Connecticut Republican, shows up
as having received the highest fee.
Danaher, who formerly, served as an all-round manager for the Re
publican national committee at a salary of $25,000, has now listed him
self as lobbyist for the Revere Copper and Brass company. It paid him
$25,000 for getting the import tax on copper suspended.
In addition to the $25,000 fee, Danaher also received $2,000 for
appearances before the house ways and means committee and be
fore the senate finance committee.
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Since the copper industry profited tremendously from removal of the
import tax, Danaher’s fee was considered reasonable. As a matter of
fact, other lobbyists probably were paid much more for performing
other jobs by claiming they were paid for “legal” services, not lobbying.
This is one of the new dodges used by lobbyists which maMfes it appear
that some of them merely worked for love.
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OIL WELLS, HOLLYWOOD STYLE . . . Looming like a giant over this startlingly life-like miniature oil field,
a Hollywood technician makes a final adjustment on an oil derrick before cameras begin to roll. The oil
field scene was used in a film, produced for Shell Oil company, which traces the growth of the oil business
from a single well to the industrial colossus it is today. More than a year was spent in making the film,
which takes but 23 minutes to show on the screen.
BLAST LEVELS FOUNDLING HOSPITAL . . . One of the more pitiful results of the tremendous explo
sion in Cadiz, Spain, when 2,500,000 pounds of explosives in the Cadiz arsenal and naval torpedo factory
blew up was the destruction of this foundling hospital. In the foreground of the picture are some of the
tiny beds of children who died in the disaster, which claimed more than 200 lives in the district and brought
injuries to additional thousands.
WALTER WINCHELL
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Peculiar People in the Big Burg
Sabbath promenaders along Stat
en island’s small town streets.
You’d never guess this was part of
a big city. . . . Uppity dress shops
where patrons are served cocktails
gratis. . . . The rich eccentric who
dwells In a Park avenue hostelry.
Her idea of fun is tossing coins
from her window to watch peasants
scramble. . . . The cluster of saloons
on South street, where sea-faring
men gather. They have labeled that
sector “The Jungle."
The mellow tones of Radio
City’s guides. Most of them
hope to be announcers. ... A
cop who is stationed near an
East 49th street dock. It’s a
favorite jumping-off place for
those who want to end it all. . . .
Well-dressed Wall Streets—from
clerk to top exec—all impec
cably attired.
WALTER SHEAD
A pigeon fancier near St. Patrick’s
cathedral explaining the varieties
of pigeons to anyone willing to lis
ten. . . . Fifth avenue window-
dressing craftsmen who plan their
latest creations in deepest secrecy—
to make certain rivals won’t filch
their ideas.
Saturday crowds in the ice cream
sodamats, where you’ll find more gay-
ety than in the silk and mink jbynts.
. . . The retired vaude magician who
amuses children in Central park with
his sleight-of-hand wizardy.
Swanky salons of fortune-tellers
on upper Madison avenue. Among
their clients you’ll find some of New
York’s wealthiest and most respect
able people. ... An organ grinder
whose monkey has a tiny derby
perched on its head. If you give a
coin, it tips its lid.
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Strategy in the Economic War
T) EGARDLESS of how peace-loving Americans try to rationalize the
present uneasy state of world affairs, there is one stark, basic fact
that stands at the bottom of it all. The United States and Russia are
engaged in war—vast, tremendously important political and economic war.
What the outcome will be, the man on the street and the man
on the farm does not know. No more does the man in high office
in Washington. It is like any war involving arms and troops; no one
can say with certainty which side will win. All that can be done
is to outline the chief aims and objectives and plan the strategy
accordingly.
In this case, the U. S. aim, on the surface, at least, is clear-cut.
It is, we are told, the securing of individual and national freedom in
eastern Europe. U. S. strategy is equally well defined and is following
a definite course. Eastern Europe is in desperate need of American cred
its, goods and services. The United States, in a continuing series of ex
pedient maneuvers, is granting or withholding these goods and services
as strategy seems to indicate.
Will this plan of battle be successful, or does it amount to
nothing more than shadow-boxing with Communism? No respon
sible observer expects any sensational results, simply because
the Communist hold on eastern Europe is already too strong. Prob
ably the most that can be hoped is that present U. S. methods will
at least weaken, to some extent, the Soviet influence in that
pivotal zone.
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WRIGHT PATTERSON
Rights of Local Government
A N ISSUE that will loom large
in the coming presidential elec
tion will be a return to the people
the rights of local and state self
government. Strange as it may be
in the light of history, that will be
more a Republican than a Demo
cratic demand. In that connection,
there is one privilege neither party
will demand for the states. That Is
the spending of state money for the
development of state projects when
the federal government can be in
duced to pay the bill. Nevertheless,
just why the people of Boston, for
example, should assist in paying for
a control of flood waters in the Los
Angeles river is hard to answer.
AT LAST, A CHINESE TYPEWRITER ... Lin Yutang, Chinese
author, is shown at his New York home as he introduced the Chinese
typewriter, fruit of 30 years’ work, which he invented. It is the
first such device which can type all known Chinese words, and it can
print 90,000 Chinese characters. Called the Mingkwai (clear and
quick) typewriter, it enables a typist to do in an hour as much work
as a Chinese copyist could do in a day.
SPEED RECORD BROKEN IN RECORD TIME . . . Comdr. Turner
Caldwell Jr., shown here walking away from the Douglas Skystreak
jet plane in which he set a world’s air speed record of 640.7 miles an
hour at Muroc Field, Calif., held the title of the fastest man in the
world for just five days. His record was broken by marine Maj.
Marion Carl who piloted the same plane over the three-kilometer
course for an average speed of 650.6 miles an hour.
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AIRBORNE . . . This is not a pic
ture of a man taking pre-flight
training. Ray Apolskis, member
of the Chicago Cardinals profes
sional football team, is working
out at Waukesha, Wis., to get in
shape for the grueling, bone
bruising season ahead.
PAWN OF WAR . . . The look of a
hunted animal is on the face of
this Indonesian woman as she
searches in the dirt of a street in
Batavia, Java, for grains of rice
to eat. She is one of the nameless
little persons who receive no glory
from war, only horror and
hunger.
Atom Work Aid
In Cancer War
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Researchers Find New
Tools for Battle Against
Dread Disease.
OAK RIDGE, TENN.—With tools
born of American research to pro
duce the atom bomb, new aids for
the attack on cancer have been de
veloped.
“Great achievements” already
have been made in medicine, bi
ology and industry, said a commis
sion scientist, commenting on the
atomic energy commission’s first
detailed summary of peacetime ap
plications of the atomic energy pro
gram.
The scientist added that these
are only "infant steps’’ toward fu
ture developments in these fields
and in agriculture.
The report was issued on the first
anniversary of the release of radio
isotopes for private research work.
These materials, produced here at
Oak Ridge in the same type of
uranium chain-reacting oven used
in the A-bomb development, are
radio-active, or ray-emitting forms
of common and rare elements.
One Agent Tagged.
They can be used as “atomic
spies” to help study the action of
their stable counterparts in various
processes important to man.
A few can be used as “atomic ar
tillery,” supplying direct radiation
for the treatment of certain dis
eases.
The cancer work described in the
report illustrates both those func
tions.
Researchers at St. Louis’ Barnard
free skin and cancer hospital, one
of 170 institutions which have re
ceived shipments of isotopes during
the last year, have succeeded in
“tagging” an artificial cancer-pro
ducing agent with one of the radio
isotopes—Carbon 14.
That is, they have incorporated
the ray-emitting element into the
cancer-producing material—an or
ganic substance called methylcho-
lanthrene—in such a way that it
may be possible to study just how
the tagged agent produces cancer
experimentally.
Trace Signals.
Radioactive materials “broad
cast” signals which enable them to
be traced by delicate instruments
even when they are hidden from
sight.
Work at New York’s Memorial
hospital illustrates use of a radio
active material designed to furnish
radiation for the treatment of dis
ease.
Methods have been devised there
for chemically incorporating radio
isotopes in certain drugs which are
utilized by the body in specific
ways.
The idea behind the Memorial
hospital research is that such drugs
as sex hormones and “nucleic
acids” furnish the means of trans
porting radioactive materials to a
specific area of the body where
the rays can be directed at can
cerous tissue in a “localized” area.
One of the problems in treating
cancer by radiation of any kind is
to confine it to the diseased area
and not affect normal tissue.
Finds Daughter by Chance
Call After 22 Years Apart
OLEAN, N. Y.—A chance tele
phone call reunited a South Caro
lina girl. Miss Lorraine Ellis Ash
ley with her father, Fred W. Ellis
of Olean, after a separation of 22
years.
The girl’s mother died in the ’flu
epidemic in 1918. Lorraine, just one
month old, was adopted by another
family when her father almost died
from the same disease.
Ellis, now a retired mail carrier,
lost track of his daughter when she
and her foster parents moved to
South Carolina in 1924. Neither
knew the other was alive until a
friend of the daughter, who wyked
as a telephone supervisor in James
Island, near Charleston, put in a
call to Olean.
The Olean operator reported a
telephone listed for Ellis, letters
were exchanged and the girl came
here for a reunion.
Army Romance Given Aid
By General Eisenhower
WASHINGTON.— Army romance
got a lift from Gen. Dwight Eisen
hower.
The chief of staff, acting on the
request of West Point superintend
ent, Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
cancelled a’ proposed regulation
which would have forbidden regular
army second lieutenants to marry
until one year after they are com
missioned.
The proposed regulation would
hav<^ become effective July 1, 1949.
Removal of the ban does not af
fect the existing regulation forbid
ding West Point cadets to marry be
fore graduation.
One Baby First, Twins
Next and Now Triplets!
NEW YORK.—It looks like the
stork has picked up a few ideas
about inflation.
In 1943 Mrs. Joseph Steinberg
gave birth to a boy. Two years later
she had twin girls. Recently she
gave birth to triplets, a boy and
two girls, at Rockaway Beach hos
pital.
Thames 'Crash' Tug
Idle Half a Century
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
Waits With Full Head of Steam
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But Nothing Happens.
LONDON.—For half a century »
tug with full steam up has been
moored in the Thames waiting for
an accident that never happens.
A crew of six stokes the fires. Its
skipper—now in his 70s—hopefully
scans the waters. Its engineer—
also a septuagenarian — putters
around the boiler.
But the tug never leaves the dock.
How can such things be?
Remember, this is the country
where Lincoln’s Inn still pays an
annual sum of nails for the right to
have knights in armor joust on what
is now busy Fleet street—five cen
turies after the last such event was
held.
The tug was ordered in an act of
parliament regulating the use of the
tower bridge across the Thames in
1894.
The bill said a tug ought to be
held ready to aid any ship which
might get into difficulties with the
bridge.
No ship ever has. Quite probably
no ship ever will. The bridge is no
more complicated than any other
bridge—it just looks that way. But
good Queen Victoria's parliament
decided to take no chances.
That little item in the 1894 bill
has cost the corporation of the city
of London a neat $1,000,000 since
then, at the rate of $400 a week.
By tradition the tug always has
27 tons of coal in its bunkers. No
one knows-exactly why.
Capt. Richard Hollingum, 73,
spends most of his time trying to
stave off claustrophobia.
All day long ships slip by on their
way to far-away ports that all sea
captains chat about over mugs of
ale in waterfront cafes.
Captain Hollingum avoids such
places. It is embarrassing to an
old “sea dog” to have to admit that
he isn’t going anywhere and prob
ably never will.
Find Prehistoric Bones
Of Tiger Animal in West
LINCOLN, NEB. — Fossilized
bones of a marsupial sabre-tooth
—a tiger-like creature which
lived in the western hemisphere
about one million years ago—
have been found in North Amer
ica for the first time, Dr. C. Ber
trand Schultz announced.
The University of Nebraska
museum director said a skull,
lower jaw and other bones of
the creature were found itfi a test
excavation 12 miles northwest of
Cambridge, Neb.
The discovery is evidence of
“major importance” in supplying
missing information of the evo
lutionary cycle of animal life in
the western hemisphere. Dr.
Schultz said.
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Traffic Radar Beam Will Spy
On Speeders in Connecticut
HARTFORD, CONN. — Motorists
who use Connecticut highways for
speedways when they see no patrol
cars in sight are now up against an
ingenious radar traffic beam, espe
cially designed to single out ve
hicles traveling beyond speed
limits.
Capt. Ralph J. Buckley, in charge
of traffic for the Connecticut state
police, said that the new device,
which he described as “an amazing
black box," was built especially for
the state police and will be put into
use on a state-wide scale as soon as
his force completes an instruction
course.
“It will only be operated for the
present to compile data for road
surveys and to record speed trends
in various sections,” Buckley said.
“Later we will begin surprising
speeders by sending them a post
card, informing them when, where
and how fast they were going. If
the warning campaign doesn’t cut
down the speeders, we will go to
court and use the radar device’s
charts as evidence.”
Twin Problem for Customs
Brought Up by Animal Ship
BALTIMORE.— Customs officials
were scratching their heads about
a twin problem that came here with
the landing of the steamship Mor-
maemoon.
The freighter left Copenhagen
with 14 animals consigned to a cir
cus. It docked with 16.
TwA baby tigers were bom at
sea.
What bothered the customs
agents was how. to admit the cubs
legally when the ship’s manifest
listed only nine tigers and five ele
phants.
The ship’s captain, Philip W. At
kinson of Fitchburg, Mass., re
ported a pleasant crossing. Only
two passengers were seasick. Both
were elephants.
Know What’s in a Name?
31 Letters for One Thing
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. — Dr.
Robert O. Sauer of General Electric
research laboratory has patented a
method of preparing polyorgano-
halogenopolysiloxanes for use as a
water-repellent on glass, quartz and
other surfaces. More usefully, he
also patented a name 24 letters and
a hyphen shorter than the technical
name; "dri-film.”
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Watch Your
Kidneys/
Help Them Cleanse the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
waste matter from the blood stream. But
kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do
not act as Nature intended—fail to re
move impurities that, if retained, may
poison the system and upset the wholo
body machinery.
Symptoms may be nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes—a feeling of nervous
anxiety and loss of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
order are sometimes burning, scanty or
too frequent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt
treatment is wiser than neglect. Uss
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