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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, WESTBROOK PEGLER The Communist Infection T HROUGHOUT the wrangling over fine questions of the right of congress to ask a witness whether he is a Com munist, I have been aware that most of those who doubted this right never have been disturbed over injustice in the trials and even less formal mockeries conducted by the unions under the monstrous Wagner act. When congress asks a man whether he is a Communist, the quesUon actually means “Are you a sworn enemy of the United States?” In most, if not all cases, the Thomas committee on un-American activities had proof that the witnesses actually were members of the Communist party at the time of their testimony. The Communist party is commonly believed to have a legal right to exist in the nation whose destruction by treachery and force is the party’s purpose for existing. Some of our people think it is Just cute or amusing—our quaint American way—that this is so, but a glance at other places in the world shows that it is terrible folly. Those who believe the party should be allowed to exist remark with Jovial condescension for our fears, "We are big and strong enough to keep our political health and ignore such a little infection.” That is like arguing that it is a good thing to pick up a few germs in our bodies. The bugs are small and few, but that was so in Russia in 1917. It has been so in all the other countries which the Moscow conspiracy has conquered. ★ ★ ★ ★ H. L PHILLIPS Soviet Delegate Objects Mr. Herschel Johnson—Mr. Chair man, I desire to put a motion, some what early, recording this organiza tion as wishing everybody a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Mr. Vishinsky — I oppose any such motion as typical of the capitalistic mind and as another effort to im pose the will of Wall street on the rest of the world. Mr. Johnson — I had assumed that wishing the world a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year might be one thing on which we could all agree. Mr. Vishinsky — You can’t pull the wool over my eyes. A French Delegate — Mr. Chair man, in a spirit of compromise it might serve the purpose if we elimi nated the adjective "very” which I take it is objected to by the Soviet WALTER SHE*AD* delegate as going perhaps farther than is necessary at this time. Mr. Vishinsky—A rascally horse trade! * * • GOVERNMENT ULTIMATUM Listen, little hen, If you plan on stayin’ Around the coop you Had better start layin’. • • • A New York hotel will put tele vision in its rooms at a charge of $3 a day extra. After paying for a hotel room in New York these days, where do they get the idea anybody has $3? • • • SUCING IT THIS One fellow who has never had to be urged to save chicken or turkey is the fellow who slices it for the delicatessen store sandwiches. ★ ★ Farm Program Delayed D ESPITE the fact that price supports on many farm commodities expire December 31, 1948, there apparently is no inclination on the part of congress, or even in the farm organizations here, to hurry any long-range farm program. Although the house agricultural committee has held extensive hearings here and elsewhere throughout the country which developed almost as many ideas on the farm program as there were hearings, there appears to be no strong demand for action for several months to come. The concensus seems to be that with farm prices high, supplies short and demand strong, the thing to do is to let things slide for a while and let nature take its course. It may be that shortly before election time things may start poppin’. WALTER WINCH ELL Lint From a Blue Izxit true that the J. P. Morgan company has a lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania for three bux??? . . . There have been many fights in a bar near 88th and Colum bus avenue — involving Russians (dwelling in the vicinity) and Ameri cans. . . . Fergoodnessakes Dep’t: Up-to-date dictionaries include “Communazi.” . . . The Rooshyuns keep cussin’ Americans for being capitalists. They’d be in an awful fix if we were paupers. . . . A1 Bernie says his new six-weeks young daughter (Darken) is wearing her dydees the new length. One of the things we didn’t appreci ate at the Washington H’wood probe was this: One film writer was asked if he ever VISITED a Communist. . . . What would that prove? Didn't the conservative President Truman visit the biggest Communist of all at Pots dam? DREW PEARSON Serge Suit General Eisenhower (slated to start at Columbia university in mid-April) has requested a 60- day leave of absence, to begin the day he becomes prexy. This would cover through the Repub convention in June. Headline: “Economists Expect Mild Business Recession Will Begin Next Spring.” Begin??? . . . Henry Wallace (after all) will stump for Mr. Truman (“better than any Re publican”). His advisors are work ing on the alibi. . . . Herbert Hoover hopes to snare John Hanes, former U. S. treasury undersecretary, for his government reorganization com mittee. . . . Execs on the Redaily (the Worker) are frantic about the steady circulation slump. Sub scribers apparently are worried about being seen buying a copy and advertisers in it being “marked”? ★ ★ The Merry-Go-Round T HE White House will ask congress to pass another unification bill next session if the President’s blustering military aide, Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, has his way. This time it is a merger of the national guard with the army reserve. Vaughan is boldly pushing the merger backstage. . . . White House Secretary Charlie Ross is quietly promoting the idea of running Clark Clifford, chief assistant to President Truman, again !t GOP Sen. Forrest Donnell of Missouri. If the U. S. government wanted to save money, it might take a lesson from the Canadians. The Canadian government uses dis carded mimeographed press releases and old government reports to make envelopes. These are folded outside in, then pasted to gether in the form of envelopes. Yet Canada supplies us with most of our paper. Think of all the press releases wasted by U. S. bureaus every day! Paul Fitzpatrick, New York state Democratic chairman, tried to get Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. to run for congress against liberal Republican Jack Javits next year. Young FDR refused. Instead, he will follow in his father’s footsteps and run for the New York state senate. . . . Actor Adolphe Menjou soon may repeat in court his scene before the house un-American activities committee. The suave screen star is legally protected from libel for his statements at the committee hearing, but he made the mistake of repeating his charges at a Hollywood restaurant. Two lawsuits now are being prepared against him. ★ ★ ★ ★ WRIGHT PATTERSON Tyrants Eventually Will Fall T HROUGHOUT history many peo ple have attempted to bite off more than they could chew; have outgrown the capacity of their britches, and have had their ears slapped back for their presumption. Napoleon and Hitler were two nota ble examples. Now James Caesar Petrilln a would-be labor czar, is ★ ★ seeking an ear slapping. Nothing has done so much to make the mass of the world’s people music-con scious as has the phonograph. Now Petrillo attempts to blast the res ervoir by cutting off the flow of pho nograph records. No mite of a labor dictator can be greater than the wishes of the world’s people. ★ ★ MADE IT . . . Among the recent arrivals in Washington to attend the special session of congress was Sen. Glen H. Taylor’(Dem., Idaho) who came in on a horse after com pleting his cross-country ride from California. The poor man’s Paul Revere pulled the stunt as an objection to U. S. foreign policy. EAT SIX HENS, SAVE THIS GRAIN . . . This is how the Poultry and Egg nation?.! board of Chicago has chosen to dramatize the necessity for eating more chickens if the nation is to save more grain for Europe. If every family eats one chicken a week for six weeks it will save 64 pounds of grain. Nancy Leddy holds glass tubes containing that amount —-26 pounds of wheat, 14 pounds of oats and 24 pounds of corn—which six chickens normally would eat in six weeks. HE’S THE YOUNGEST ... Dr. Samuel D. Marble, 31 years old, automatically became the young est college president in the United States when he was inaugurated as president of Wilmington col lege, Wilmington, Ohio. BUTCHER SHOP BLUES ... In Rye, N. Y., Rocco Martino, a butch er, says he knows from nothing about economics, but he has a plan for selling meat and it’s working. He sells his meat at what it costs him, plus a flat weekly service pharge of $1.25 per family. SIGHT FOR SORE EYES . . . Now the people booming Gen. Dwight Eisenhower for presi dent in 1948 are trying to give the general that new look. Kay Com- iskey of New York wears the sen timent on her sunglasses. SYMPHONIC GIFT ... Dr. Jury Arbatsky, young Russian com poser and former student of Rach maninoff, is reported to have dedi cated a symphony to Princess Elizabeth of England as a wed ding gift. But no one knows for sure. BATTLE OF NEWARK BAY . . . There was still a lot of scrap left in the old battleship New Mexico, and that’s what started all the trouble. A New York salvage firm started out to tow the 30,000-ton dreadnought to Port Newark where it was to have been scrapped. Newark’s Mayor Vincent J. Murphy had other ideas, however. He didn’t want the port turned into a “graveyard” for old warships, so he sent out a fleet of tugs and fireboats to intercept the battleship. Both sides later agreed to a truce. IRON WOMAN ... Frankie Groves 16, Stinnett, Tex., high school junior, played her first honest-to- gosh football game against the Groom, Tex., team. The other 21 players were boys but Tackle Frankie did fine. DENFELD NAMED NAVY CHIEF . . . President Harry Truman has announced the appointment of A dm. Louis Denfeld as U. S. chief of naval operations to succeed Adm. Chester W. Nimitx who is scheduled to retire December 15. Admiral Denfeld has been serving as com mander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet. Photo shows Adm. Louis Denfeld (left) and Adm. Chester W. Nimitx at a desk In the navy department. Nimitx undoubtedly will write his memoirs after his retirement. Measure Found For Aptitudes Factors in Human Ability, Hitherto Unrecognized, Useful in Tests. WASHINGTON. — Wartime apti tude tests of army air forces have revealed six hitherto unrecognized factors in human ability which are measurable, and there is a strong suggestion of at least 10 others. This has been reported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science by Dr. J. P. Guilford of the University of Southern California, who had a leading part in construct ing the tests. First is the “space factor.” It consists, he said, “in a preceptual awareness of the arrangement of ob jects with respect to right-left, up- down and in-out dimensions.” Cor rect choice as to dimension of movement depends on it. This abil ity varies greatly from person to person. A factor which Guilford calls "manipulatory visualization” is shown by a test requiring one to imagine transformations, move ments or other changes. A typical test presents a picture of a square of paper being folded one or more times in successive steps and a hole of given shape being cut out. The person being examined selects one of five other pictures, each showing plausible creases and holes, as the paper would appear after being un folded. General Factors Vary. Third is a general factor which seems to run through all mechani cal ability, from tinkering- to skill in manipulating a steam shovel. A fourth factor is ability to estimate correctly the length of lines. This also varies greatly among individ uals. Distinct from manipulatory visu alization is a factor which Guilford calls “visual memory”—the ability to describe a stationary object from memory. The two factors probably depend, he says, on different prop erties of the visual cortex at the back of the brain and they perhaps are dependent on different groups of brain cells. A person may be good in one kind of visualization and quite poor in the other. Another new factor he describes as “judgment—the ability to esti mate correctly sizes, times and dis tances.” “It actually may be a fourth kind of reasoning,” he says, "which has been almost entirely missed in most intelligence tests.” Last of the verified new factors is psychometer co-ordination in finger dexterity and use of arms and legs in such tests as using mock airplane controls. Two Kinds of Reasoning. He further discriminates ability in two kinds of reasoning which do not seem to be related—reasoning by analogy and reasoning by induc tion and deduction. He says: “These tests suggest that the term ‘reason ing’ conceals a number of unrecog nized functions. Some of these may be determined biologically, but oth ers may be in the form of reason ing habits brought about by educa tion. Until the variables are better defined in this area, studies or train ing in thinking and of the problems of formal discipline cannot be ef fected adequately.” The fir force tests also showed, Guilford says, the probability of two hitherto unrecognized forms of space perception and two distinct kinds of memory. All these factors, it is pointed out in the report, are statistically independent of each other. Round Sckoolhouse Proves Safe for Pioneer Teacher BROOKLINE, VT.—Still standing here is the only round red school- house in America—and therein lies a tale. In 1822, a tall, handsome man who identified himself as Dr. John Wil son appeared in this village and ap plied for a job as schoolteacher. Hired immediately, he soon ar ranged to have built the round red schoolhouse which, with five win dows, commanded a view of ap proaches from all directions. Not until Dr. Wilson died was it learned why he wanted to teach in a schoolhouse which provided such excellent visibility. Through certain physical defects and other clues. Dr. Wilson was identified in death as the notorious Captain Thunderbolt, a criminal who had escaped from a British prison and sailed for New England. Captain Thunderbolt’s accomplice in crime, a man known as Light ning, escaped with him and even tually was hanged as a murderer in Boston. RighMo-Left Dishwashing Best, College Tests Prove PULLMAN, WASH. — If a house wife is tuckered out at the end of a hard day at the dishpan, chances are she is a left-to-right scrubber instead of a right-to-left operator. “Washing dishes from right to left is more economical of time and mo tion,” says Mrs. Elizabeth Wiley, junior home economist, who is do ing research on the subject for the Washington state agricultural ex periment station. Mrs. Wiley says that less total dishwashing time is consumed in the right-to-left approach than in the left-to-right procedure. Weapons Now Exist That Peril World Could Wipe Out Last Vestige Of All Forms of Life. NEW YORK.—Weapons now exist, without including the atomic bomb, “that could wipe the last vestige of human, animal and vegetable life from the face of the earth,” accord ing to Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacha- rias, U. S. N., retired. "These weapons exist,” Zacha- rias wrote in the United Nations World, a privately financed maga zine and not an official U. N. publi cation. “They are being manufac tured right now and they are not an American monopoly. Several na tions are known to have them.” The admiral described the weap ons—"shrouded in the closest mili tary secrecy”—as of a biological, bacteriological and climateologicaJ nature. He added that the United States now has an atom bomb 50 times more powerful than those dropped at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Russia, the navy man asserted, is investigating military applica tions of cosmic rays and is proceed ing with rocket development; Brit ain is making progress in guided missiles, and the United States has a secret biological weapon, “a germ proposition” sprayed from aircraft or rockets. “These modern weapons," Zacha- rias said, “bear only slight similar ity to conventional armaments of the past, permit the waging of inter-continental war from long dis tances. They are designed to de stroy life in enormous areas.” Furthermore, he said, the new weapons are of such a nature that their lethal quality continues long after actual use, would jump inter national-boundaries and oceans. Areas attacked would have to be quarantined and it might be “a thousand years before those blasted areas will again support life of any kind.” Swedes Set Trap to Prevent Flight of Political Refugees . MALMOE, SWEDEN. — Police and coastguardmen along Swe den’s southern and southwestern coasts were ordered to stop the flight of political refugees from Eastern Europe. Police officials, denied the order was the result of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk’s flight from Poland. There has been no official re port that Mikolajczyk, leader of the opposition to the Communist- dominated government of Po land, was in Sweden. Police admitted, however, that most of the refugees who had ar rived in the last month were from Poland. They said several high Polish officers had arrived in coal boats. Prisoners’ Train Finishes Wild Trip Across Country CAMP COOKE, CALIF. — Pas sengers on the army’s transconti nental prison train “Hell Run” were lodged in quarters here from which escape would be “extremely diffi cult.” The 141 tough prisoners, trans ported from Greenhaven, N. Y., made the trip a nightmare for their guards with unruliness, escapes and attempted escapes. Seven got away in Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. Six were re captured, one of them shot serious ly. One man was being hunted in Kansas. There were scores of attempts to escape every time the train slowed down, officers said. Several prison ers were shot and wounded by guards. Col. Wade D. Killen of Salt Lake City, train commander from there westward, described the men as “habitual criminals, many of them inured to crime before they en tered the army.” All have been sen tenced for serious crimes, many to life terms. Britain Takes Covers Off Information About the Atom LONDON.—Britain is taking the covers off more information about the atom. A second list of 25 reports from the government’s secret files on atomic energy and related sub jects has just been released by the ministry of supply. A first list, containing 73 reports, was released in March, copies being obtainable on loan by interested re sponsible workers. The ministry of supply says that it is hoped that the British station ery office also will be in a position shortly to supply documents of American origin on atomic energy, and applications for these will be considered. Automobile Sold Five Times In Five Days at Good Profit GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.—PoUce, tracing a 1941 model automobile that left the scene of an accident, said that the car changed hands five times in as many days at an aver age increase of $100 per sale. Policeman Jack Fahlsteadt said the original owner, whom he did not identify, received $300 for the car on a trade-in. The car passed through the hands of three dealers before the present owner bought it for $800, the officer added. Lovely Overblouse Gayly Embroidered A S handsome an overblouse as you’ll see, and one certain to bring you a wealth of compli ments. For extra special occasions make of heavy white silk crepe and embroider the bows in gold or silver. Or try a colorful print and omit the embroidery, if you like. • • • To obtain complete directions, tissue pattern, sizes 14, 16 and 18 included, fin ishing instructions, transfer for design and embroidery instructions for Beau Catcher Blouse (Pattern No. 5586) send 20 cents in coin, your name, address and pattern number. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South Wc!!s St. Chicago 7, HI. Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. No Name . Address fS- A o Kir* FeatufM Syndkate. Al DIONNE'QUINIS’ I promptly relievo coughs of ] CHESTGOLDS WHEN CONSTIPATION makes yon feel punk as the dickens, brings on stomach upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take Dr. Caldwell’s famous medicine to quickly pull the trigger on lazy “in nards” and help you feel bright and chipper again. DR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful sen na laxative contained in good old Syrup Pepsin to make it so easy to take. MANY DOCTORS use pepsin prepara tions in prescriptions to make the medi cine more palatable and agreeable to take. So be sure your laxative is con tained in Syrup Pepsin. INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL’S—the fa vorite of millions for 50 years, and fed that wholesome relief from constipa tion. Even finicky children love it. CAUTION: Use only as directed. DR. CAUIWELL'S SENNA LAXATIVE CONTAINCO IN syrup pepsdi How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulslon relieves promptly S3* cause It goes right to the seat off the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way It quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION lor Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis IF YOU WERE A WAVE, WAC, MARINE or SPAR Find out what Nursing . - offers you! V — an education leading to R. N. — more opportunities every year in hospitals, public health, etc. — your allowance under the G. 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