The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 26, 1947, Image 3

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% THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. History Lives in Washington Statues Americans Dote on Nation’s Monuments to Its Heroes By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—If you haven’t anything else to do, just take a seat beside me on this bench for a moment. I think this is one of the nicest “little parks” in the world. It doesn’t take its name from the gentleman on the horse right over Jhere in the center, behind the iron pickets. I don’t know why. Of course, he is only a replica. The original is in a sqtiare in the city he defended from the British—in the “vieux carre” of New Orleans. He was GENERAL Jackson then. We think of him as President Jackson now. And we make fun of the horse he’s sitting on, that prancing steed with his feet planted so firmly in the air (“like a liberal congress man,” as one of the old conservatives used to say). It took many pounds of lead in Andy’s horse’s tail to keep the two of them in balance, they tell me. Baokhage But don’t think the horse’s hind <$>■ feet are not firmly planted! The one man who tried to move them brought down an avalanche on his head, and gave a President of the United States a real headache. It happened this way: There is a statue of George Washington tucked off on a circle in a neighborhood which has nei ther the distin guished past nor the glorious pres ent of Lafayette Square. Back in the regime of President Har ding, that statue was taken down for a litUe re pair. A newspa perman, hard up for a feature, sat down and wrote himself quite a piece. His name was John Russell Young, and he is now commissioner (mayor) of the District of Colum bia. In his piece, he suggested that when Washington was prettied up and returned to public view, he should be placed in the center of Lafayette park. Andy Jackson, Young thought, could be relegated to Washington’s former relatively obscure position in Washington Circle. Local officials agreed. Then the deluge. The story was widely printed and it seemed that every Democrat in the United States was person ally affronted. The presidential secretaries had bales of mail to answer. The climax came when a long-forgotten Andrew Jack- son patriotic and marching club, which appeared to be very much alive and kicking, threat ened to descend on Washington in a body. The President had to issue a public statement saying that Andy was safe. But I didn't intend to run on about Andy. The park is not, as I said, named after him. It’s named after that young man you see over there oft the southeast corner — looking right across Pennsylvania avenue into the window of the No. 1 guest chamber of the White House. His, name is Marquis Marie Joseph Paul Yves Rich Gilbert du Motiir de Lafayette. Yes, we’re in Lafa yette park. Over there on the northeast cor ner is another Frenchman, Field Marshal Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau. Over there on the northwest, oppo site the Decatur House where Com modore Stephen Decatur died after being shot in a duel with a fellow officer (Commodore Barron) out at Bladensburg, is Baron Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich von Steu ben, who was as useful to General Washington, in his way, as Lafayette was in his. i Kosciuszko Statue Stirs Reminiscences But that brings me to the statue I was really going to talk about: Tadeusz Andrzeg Bona ventura Kos ciuszko, standing on the fourth cor ner of the park across from the house which once belonged to James Madison. Dolly lived there after her husband died. The other day, a dispatch came in from Warsaw which said that the minister of educa tion of the Communist-domi nated Polish government bad ordered there would be no more “salacious chattering jokes and significant smiling” in Polish schools and universities. I got to reminiscing on the air about how I had been told Polish students acted in the days when Po land was divided between Russia, Austria and Germany. Teaching of Polish history was suppressed, and the Russian secret police then were as brutal (if not quite as efficient) as the Communist police in Poland are today. It seems a Polish teacher in those hays occasionally would slip into his lecture some subtle anti-Russian or patriotic remark. There wouldn’t be the slightest response from the stu dents. The teacher would go right ahead, and then, after a perfectly innocent sentence of' some kind, he'd pause (and probably do a little “significant smiling”). Then the students would fairly raise the roof with applause and cheers—delayed action. I mentioned that on the air, as I s: id, and commented that every time I passed by the statue of Kosciuszko, I could hear a faint murmur. I had no doubt it was Kosciuszko telling what he would do today if he could just get down from bis pedestal. A number of people wrote in about that. They always do when I mention the statues. People are in terested in statues even though they have gone out of style as monu ments. You know, the Du Pont fam ily took the bust of old Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont out of the fa mous circle named after him, and replaced it with the present beauti ful memorial fountain. Some Wash ingtonians were deeply offended and the national parks service was kept busy for several days answer ing phone calls and letters from in dignant citizens. In fact about the only complaints the national parks service has been receiving of late years have been concerned with the upkeep of the 77 statues entrusted to its care. Some Washingtonians call up to rebuke the service for the greenish tinge creeping over some of them, like Kosciuszko's. It is bronze and weather turns it green, which most sculptors feel adds to its beauty, so the service doesn’t worry too much. There wasn’t much money for the national parks during World War II to pretty up Washing ton’s statuary. About all the service could manage was a yearly washing of each statue (it takes several men a whole day for the laundering job). But this year congress gave the service $10,000 for trucking equipment, hoses, masonry re pairs, plumbing fixtures for the fountains and other monuments. They have another $10,000 to spend on structural repairs—to re place missing arms, legs and chunks hacked out by souvenir hunters, for statues have their ghouls, too. But most of the finger breaking, it is believed, is done by perverted youth. On the whole, peo ple like statues. This is the Washington statue of Kosciuszko, Polish patriot, gen eral and statesman, who served as George Washington’s adjutant and laid out the fortifications at West Point. There is another monument to him at West Point. FLORIDA OYSTER FLEET . . . Fishermen are busying themselves again along Florida gulf ports bringing in the fi^st of the 1947-18 oyster haul. Here “oysterers” secure their craft after a long day’s hunting in Apalachicola bay. NEWS REVIEW Corn Estimate Lowered; Aid Europe Now, Plea REPEAT: Less Corn The 1947 corn crop, estimates of which have been shrinking like a $10 suit ever since August, was re duced by another 33 million bushels in the department of agriculture’s September report. Total estimate cuts since August 1 were 256 million bushels, and the expected outturn this year now has been placed at 2,403,913,000 bushels. There was more potential bad news, said the department: In case MEAT SUPPLY Meat production can be main tained at a high level in the next year, despite the curtailed corn crop, animal feeding authorities declare. Extensive and efficient use of vegetable oil meal and other products will enable farm ers to produce pork freely at less cost than if corn were used exclusively in feeding. an early frost should blanket the corn belt, another reduction would be likely. Crop reporting board said that “it now seems likely that at least 75 per cent of all corn in the 12 corn belt states will have matured bv the average date of the first killing frost,” but warned that if it were a week early, it would catch about 40 per cent of all corn at an immature stage. If frost came a week later, only a 15 per cent loss would be registered. Latest estimates also foretold a sharp reduction in the record wheat crop. Output was set at 1,408,602,000 bushels, as compared with the Au gust 1 prediction of 1,435,551,000 bushels. ♦- booming him for vice-presidential nomination. IN MILWAUKEE . . . Mrs. Lucy Nostrand stepped from a bus at a busy intersection, was knocked to the pavement by a hit-and-run cow, a refugee from a meat company shipment. URGENT: Stopgap Aid IN NEW YORK . . . Margaret Truman, coloratura soprano, was unanimously approved by the board of governors for membership in the American Guild of Musical Artists (AFL) as a junior vocalist in good standing. IN TOKYO . . . Hidekei Tojo, for mer Japanese premier, now on trial for his life as a war criminal, peered in to the future, chose an epitaph for his tombstone: “By Buddha’s grace all sins committed while living are ab solved.” IN LONDON . . . Elliodor M. Libon- ati, visiting Legion naire from Chi- Tojo cago, paused in front of No. 10 Downing street, the prime minis ter’s residence, wickedly waved a handful of dollar bills in the air, attracted no takers. IN TALLAHASSEE . . . Sen. Clau4e Pepper (Dem., Fla.) opened his mouth to say that if the Demo cratic party should feel that he could render ‘greater service in some other way, I would be greatly influenced by that feeling,” turned around to find that his friends were George Marshall, U. S. secretary of state, was trying his best to pile up pressure for a special session of congress this autumn to finance im mediate interim aid to keep Europe on its feet until Marshall’s 20- billion-dollar, lon*g-range rehabilita tion plan begins functioning. Stymied by Republican leaders who were either downright opposed or indifferent to an emergency ses sion before January, Marshall was taking his case to the people, at tempting to rally public opinion be hind him. Intolerable cold and hunger are the immediate threats facing Eu rope, he said. The crisis calls for “urgent consideration.” What would it cost this time? Marshall said that there was as yet no estimate of stop-gap needs, but he didn’t deny reports that William L. Clayton, undersecretary of state, had cabled from Europe a request for a special session of congress to vote 2.5 billion dollars for aid now. The special session was far from assured. If it came to a showdown, GOP leaders probably would oppose it openly, and they could, if they wished, stifle any economic aid legislation. GOP VICTORY: Straiv in Wind? Jubilant Republicans were mak ing much of Franklin H. Lichten- walter’s resounding victory over labor-supported Phil H. Storch, Democratic candidate, in a special election to fill Pennsylvania’s eighth district seat in congress. The issue, naturally, was the Taft- Hartley labor law, and the outcome was a two-to-one acceptance by the vqters of the law and what it sig nifies. If Pennsylvania is as much a political weathervane as it is claimed to be, the Lichtenwalter victory forecasts a cold, bleak wind from the north for Democrats in 1948. Republican hoop-la called the vote “a smashing rebuke to the radical labor bosses who chose to make the Taft-Hartley labor management act the paramount issue of the elec tion.” Army Shrinking Alarmed war department officials have estimated that the army’s postwar strength has sunk to a new low of 965,000 officers and men, 105,000 below its authorized quota. The army lost 75,000 officers and men during July and August and gained back only 50,000 through its recruiting campaign, thus suffering a net loss of 25,000 since July 1, when strength was 80,000 below the authorized level. COLD-BLOODED FORECAST Coal Shortase Looms for U.S. Take a tip from the coal produc ers: Unless your furnace , bums oil, it will be a good idea to keep a little sunshine in your smile and warmth in your heart this winter. Because, from the standpoint of obtaining coal, it looks like the win ter of 1947-48 will be the toughest in at least six years. Producers al ready are admitting drearily that there is little chance that fuel short ages, inconvenience and suffering can be put aside. Reasons for this uninviting out look are three, in particular: 1 Unparalleled demand in a peace- •time period which even record production (600 million tons) will not fully satiate. Attempts are be ing made to stockpile, but to little avail. Industrial stocks are the low est in years; retail supplies on hand are only fair. 2 Unprecedented shortage of rail- • road cars. Never, in history of the solid fuels industry, were so few cars available to move so much coal to so many consumers. 3 Domestic buyer indifference to • pleas that they fill their bins during summer months. That apa thy is accounted for by higher re tail prices of coal, combined with the prolonged heat wave which lulled the householder into a false sense of security. At the same time, paradoxical though it may seem, coal produc tion this year will reach a level sur passed only by the output in 1944 when the nation was at the height of its war effort. Even if miners dug and machined an average of only 10 million tons a week during the remaining weeks of 1947, production would be 45 mil lion tons higher than the 532 million total in 1946. Because of strikes, idle time, car shortages and a shorter work week, the mines have lost somewhere be tween 35 and 50 million tons of pro duction so far this year. Concerning prices, the most likely prospect is for them to go up again. Dealers say that the customer ap pears ready to take higher charges for his coal as something unavoid able, but he doesn’t like it. Hay Cured in Silos By Electrical Motor Mechanical Method of Saving New Kay Crop Although the barn mow still is more extensively used today than any other place for the mechanical curing of hay and other forage crops, it lately has been receiving some competition from other farm structures—notably the silo. Use of silos for curing forage crops is gaining favor with farmers who do not have the space required for installation of necessary equip ment in their one-story barns, as well as those who desire to use their mows for other purposes. The accompanying illustration shows a typical silo hay curing installation. In this latest of many newer farm electrification developments, air en ters the hay through vents in the Silo converted for mechanical curing of hay and other forage crops. walls and passes into ^ vertical chamber which extends from top to bottom of the silo. It is exhausted from the structure by means of a fan, located above the entrance. The cost of curing hay electrically by this method with a 5 or 7% horsepower motor is about $1 per ton, the same as in the case of mow systems. Tests show that the qual ity of hay, cured in this way, also equals that cured in the barn, being worth from $5 to $10 more per ton in feeding value than that dried by the sun. KNOW YOUR BREED Dunloggin Mistress La Princess A new record price for Holstein- Friesian cows was received at a Cary, 111., sale, when Dunloggin Mistress La Princess brought $23,- 500 to her consignor, Elmwood Farms, Lake Forest, 111. She was purchased by Wern Farms, Wau kesha, Wis., which later resold her at a private sale to Rehder Bros., Gladbrook, la. Her record of 1,047 pounds of fat and 27,478 pounds milk, 3.8 per cent, made in 365 days, three time daily milking, established a new Illinois Holstein record. She was selected as the Reserve All-Ameri can Aged Cow in 1946. U. S. Farmer Is Best Through improved breeding methods, the farmer today is rais ing finer livestock than ever before. Through modem medicines, he has a type of on-the-farm control of dis ease and epidemic such as never before has been possible. This is the view recently expressed by Dr. Ward L. Beebe, authority on ani mal health care. All the more remarkable is the fact that the farmer has accom plished this despite a ratio of only one veterinarian engaged in farm work for more than 25,000 farm animals. Beet Top Silage Cuts Requirements for Hay The best feeding practices have demonstrated that by use of beet top silage in the ration, the hay re quirements may be reduced by one- half in the feeding for production of beef, mutton or milk, ’the suc culent value of the silage supple ments its actual feeding properties and that of forage and other feeds. Many feeders think that the silage aas a value almost equal to good hay. ton for ton. IT’S HD YOLK All Iowa's Eggs Are Not Confined to One Basket WNU Features. DES MOINES, IOWA.—If all the eggs laid in Iowa in one year were fried “sunny side up” and stitched together into a giant patchwork quilt, they would blanket an area eight times the size of the Chicago loop. Known as “America’s egg basket” because it ranks first in production of eggs, Iowa earned $119,105,000 from this product in 1945, latest year for which figures!® are available, according to a report ! compiled by the Iowa Development ! commission. In that year the state | produced 4,327,000,000 eggs and grossed an income from eggs amounting to three times the gross income from all citrus fruit (lem ons, oranges and grapefruit) pro duced that year in Texas. Iowa produces 7 per cent of the nation's entire consumption of eggs, rated as one of the seven basic foods necessary to assure good health. The state appears destined to lead all other states in prodne- tion of this protein food for many years to come, the devel opment commission maintains, pointing to Iowa’s proper cli mate and enormous feed pro duction possibilities as well as to the fact that producers are interested in exporting superior poultry and egg products. Egg production in Iowa has en couraged considerable industrial development. Produce plants were organized in the state more than 60 years ago. With development of cold storage houses came introduc tion of refrigerator cars which de liver eggs in, good condition to cold storage houses in various consum ing centers. Iowa ships more eggs annually to Boston, Chicago, Phila delphia and New York, the four great egg markets of the country, than any other state. Many of Iowa’s eggs are reduced to liquid form, egg breaking plants having been established in 48 locali ties. Fourteen dried egg plants also are located in various sections of the state. Trailing Iowa as top poultry states of the nation, on the basis of 1945 figures, are: Minnesota with 3,757,000,000 eggs produced, $107,- 557,000 gross income; Texas, 3,309,- 000,000 eggs produced, $94,084,000 gross income; Missouri, 2,890,000,- 000 eggs produced, $78,474,()00 gross income; Ohio, 2,781,000,000 eggs produced, $88,306,000 gross income; Illinois, 2,757,000,000 eggs produced, $76,916,000 gross income, and Penn sylvania, 2,491,000,000 eggs pro duced, $93,526,000 gross income. Old-Timers Tour East In Wheezing 1902 Car PETERSBURG, VA. — “In their merry Oldsmobile,” Wil liam A. Worth, 70, of Peters burg, and his sister, Eunice, 69, of New York, are making a 4,000-mile vacation tour of the East. Their Oldsmobile, however, is an ancient 1902 model. It has only one cylinder, a lever for steering, and is devoid of top, sides or windshield. Opera tion costs. Worth figures, total a cent a mile. ■ Worth set out from his home here, picking up his sister in New York. At last reports they were whizzing through Green field, Mass., at a stately 15 miles an hour. CHEEP! CHEEP! The feeble sound which these baby chicks emit is not representative of the egg output of Iowa, which ranks as the “egg basket of America." This picture, submitted by S. W. Lock of Mason City, Iowa, won honorable mention in the Greater Iowa photographic contest spon sored by Iowa Development com mission at the state fair. Pastor Preaches Sermon Without Saying a Word MACON, GA.—One minister who admits that he preaches his ser mons without saying a word is the Rev. James M. Johnston, 25-year- old assistant pastor of the Four square Gospel church here. He has inaugurated, special serv ices for the deaf and dumb mem bers of the congregation, delivering regular Sunday sermons entirely through the standard hand signal alphabet. The plan started one Sunday when Johnson noticed several deaf and dumb people in the congrega tion listening to the pastor preach. But they weren’t hearing a word. Johnson stood beside the pastor, translating the sermon into hand signals. Johnson admits the method has its drawbacks. When his congrega tion “sin*gs” hymns, you can’t hear them. You have to be content with seeing what they mean, he* explains. In some respects, Johnson feels, his mute congregation has it all over their brethren who can hear and talk. Using hand signals, John son says, h4 has three different ways to say “Praise the Lord” and three more ways to say “Halle lujah.” SCIENCE SHOWS SHOT STRING IN FLIGHT Hunters know that they release not just one projectile, but a three-dimensional column of many tiny shot pellets when they fire a shotgun. With the aid of science, they can now see what a shot column or what is commonly known as a shot string looks like in flight. A high speed movie camera, making 3,350 pictures a second, photographs the pellets as they strike a sheet of lead foil at 40 yards from the gun muzzle. 1. Each pellet perforates the foil, is photographed as pin point of light^ ^ _ -v «- -- A 2. At 40 yards, 135 of the 174 pellets in load of 12- gauge Super-X, IVi ounce No. 4 shot, land in the 30- inch circle. 7v> 3. Ballisticians at Western-Winchester who developed the new method of reconstructing a shot string, next enlarge each of the individual frames from the motion picture (right) and project each pellet into its proper place. The complete reconstruction (below) shows a concen tration of shot pellets in an effective short shot string. Approxi mately 80 per cent of the pellets are included in the first 6 feet of the string. Distance in feet fropi first pellet 12 11 lO Length to include leading . 80% of pellets (6.3 feet) Shortest length to include ^ 80% of pellets (5.6 feet) Shortest length to include . 90% of pellets (7.4 feet) 1 Feet Sidewalk Cattlemen Get Boot Pririleges SWEETWATER, TEX. — Unique boot privileges are enjoyed by members of the newly-organized West Texas Sidewalk Cattlemen’s association. Rules of the association allow the owner of at least two head of cattle to wear boots; the owner of three head of cattle may stuff the right leg of his pants in the top of his hoot; and the owner of four head may stuff both pants legs in his boots, and the owner of six head may wear,spurs. Any infraction of the rules re quires that the violator buy drinks for everybody within yelling dis tance. ■pie club, it is explained by its organizer, Ocie Hunt, is designed to acquaint members all over the United States and in some foreign countries with the west Texas style of humor. Gems of Thought Great men undertake great tbingt because they are great; fools, be cause they think them easy.—Vau- eenargues. You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.—Chinese proverb. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. Telling Fortunes at Parties Lots of Fun ¥) GNMfSWa t-GQOD PaRt/£$ Card Fortunes Thrill XlT’HETHBR you’re planning a ^ ’ charity bazaar or a party of your own, you can always count on a fortune-telling booth to keep the crowd entertained. Bedeck yourself in a colorful turban and dangling earrings; get out a deck of cards, dice, dominoes, a crystal ball or the tea leaves—and you’re set for some fun! * * • Our Weekly Newspaper Service booklet No. 65 explains fortune-telling by six fas cinating methods. Send 25 cents (coin) for “Let Me Tell Your .Fortune” to Weekly- Newspaper Service, 243 West 17th St., New York 11, N. Y'. 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