Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Backbone of Nation WASHINGTON. — President Tru man heard some plain talk on what farmers think about soil conser vation and reclamation when he met recently with a group of Democratic congressmen who have been polling farm-state sentiment. “This can’t wait, Mr. President," warned Rep. Walter Granger of Utah, referring to soil depletion. “You should act at once to allay misunderstandings about the Mar shall plan among our agricultural producers. Farmers must be as sured that we are not going to de plete the soil by taking something out without putting something back In to safeguard future crops. Young Rep. Eugene Worley oi Texas also stressed that most farm ers were of the opinion that the Eu ropean relief program was "purely humanitarian.” This, said Worley, was due to the lack of educational publicity from Washington. “We talked to a great many people during the (congres sional) recess,” related Rep. Stephen Pace of Georgia, "and we found not only farmers, but people generally, of the opinion that our soil should not be neglected while the country Is making this food contribution to other lands.” Rep. Thomas Abemethy of Mis sissippi told the President about the facetious remark of a Negro farm er at a hearing Abemethy and his Democratic colleagues held in Montgomery, Ala. “Mr. Chairman,” said the farm er, “they always say that the farm er is the backbone of the nation. If that is true and you folks in Washington continue to neglect the farmer, then all I can say is—this country is going to have a mighty weak backbone.” Pattern for Prayer Ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce and New York’s left- Ish Vito Marcantonio clashed ve hemently in a radio debate over the possibilities of “war with Russia.” Mrs. Luce said Russia’s tactics made war certain. Mar cantonio repeated the Vishinsky theme about warmongers. After their bitter debate, how ever, Mrs. Luce and the New York congressman, once col leagues on Capitol Hill, relaxed. “You know, Marc,” said Mrs. Lnce, “after the lesson I taught you tonight, you should get down on your knees and pray.” • “Clare,” replied Marcantonio, “you don’t pray with your knees. You pray with your heart.” Bureaus Count Dollars It should interest those who worry about government expenditures that the agriculture department has been haggling lately with its most stub born customer — the army. The argument is a familiar one in the grocery business. Agriculture has some surplus stocks on its hands that it would like to sell — dried fruits, dried eggs, sweet potatoes and peanuts. But the army is a fru gal buyer and won't pay the prices. Agriculture argues that the army is in no position to quibble over prices with starving people to feed in occupied areas, points out that the army’s duty is to lay hands on any food it can get. Besides, isn’t it more prac tical to buy up goods that will help both Europe and America at the same time? But the army complains that its budget is running low as a result, first, of the shaving congress gave appropriations; second, the sudden skyrocketing of prices, and third, the extra bills which dollar-bank- rupt Britain left the U. S. holding. Now it looks as if congress may step in and settle the controversy. At the backstage prompting of Sen. Carl Hayden, Arizona Democrat, the senate agreed to make surplus foods available for overseas relief at the same price per calory as wheat. If the resolution passes, congress will make up the losses to the agriculture department. • * • Best Friend of U. S. Sen. Warren Austin of Vermont, now U. S. delegate to the United Nations, arose in the closing ses sion of the assembly and paid trib ute to a great American — Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil. The average newspaper reader might not think of the former Bra zilian foreign minister as an Ameri can, because we have the bad habit of thinking that only North Ameri cans are Americans. But not only is Aranha a great American — whether North or South — but he has been one of the greatest friends of the United States. Time after time during early stages of the war, when the Bra silian army and even President Vargas were convinced the U. S. forces would not recover from the crippling blow at Pearl Har bor, Aranha forced them to give vital Brazilian military bases to the U. S. At the recent United Nations meet ing, Aranha as president did more than any other one man to pilot the assembly through the pitfalls of Vishinsky recriminations, British vacillation and Gromyko vetoes. Wanderlust Hits Airline Hostesses Glamor Girls of Skyways Like Travel on Vacations. CHICAGO. — Even though they Whisk across the continent in a mat ter of hours during their "working day,” airline hostesses have the wanderlust when it comes to vaca tions. The urge to travel, which origi nally brought many of them to the skyways, would take many of the stewardesses to the far comers of the globe if their vacation desires were fulfilled, it is revealed in i re cent poll of United Air Lines’ 650 sky girls who fly on Mainliners from coast to coast and west to Hawaii. Asked where they would “like” to go, many indicated South America, Bermuda, Europe and Hawaii. Some even expressed a wish to go to Alaska. But asked where they “would” go, the majority indicated they would take a trip home to see the folks. The typical stewardess, the poll disclosed, is five feet five inches tall, 23 years old and has brown hair and brown eyes. She likes smooth dancing and current popular music. In the fall and winter she likes to bowl and in the summer months swimming and horseback riding are her favorite sports. Her "working day” may take her from sunny California to New Eng land, but once she’s off duty a stew ardess’ tastes in recreation and home life are the same as those oi any other business girl. More than one third of them like to cook, their favorite dish being steak. Fried chicken and apple pie take the No. 2 and 3 spots on the menu. Further more, almost none of the steward esses finds ft necessary to diet. Active sports far outweigh spec tator sports. Right now, bowling is the favorite, followed by bridge and dancing. In the summer, swimming leads horseback riding and sailing. More than a third of the steward esses play some instrument, most of them preferring the piano. A ma jority of them collects records. Mu sical preferences are headed by popular tunes, but classical music takes a close second and boogie- woogie lands at the bottom of the heap. As for reading, historical nov els are in the lead, followed in order by love stories, biographies, mys teries and travel. Oh yes, the skirt length contro versy was included in the poll—and it came out nearly 50-50 for and against the lowered hemline. Why do they like being steward esses? That was the easiest ques tion of all. The answer from one of them covers all. "I like being a stewardess,” she said, "because of the fun I get out of meeting people and seeing the world.” Death Postpones a Call Until Old Wager Is Paid BOSTON, MASS.—Five years ago Allan Sharpe made a bet. He wagered he would not live until 65. His doctor took the bet. On his sixty-fifth birthday an niversary Sharpe wrote his doc tor a note telling him he was never happier to lose a bet. He enclosed a $10 bill and then mailed it. When he returned to his apart ment, after climbing three flights of stairs, he collapsed and died of what Dr. Joseph Gregory said was coronary thrombosis. ‘Spivs’ Poison ’Mums in Plot To Fix Flower Show Results LONDON. — A meek English flow er lover had two silver cups as evi dence of his victory over the London gamblers who poisoned his prize chrysanthemums in an effort to “fix” the Macclesfield flower show. Jim Jackson, rural Macclesfield’s chrysanthemum champion, was the first target of the fast-money boys who have been making book on rural flower shows during their en forced absence from the British capital caused by the government’s drive to make everyone work. One day when Jackson was away from home, the “spivs” crept into his hothouse and poisoned his six best blooms. Then they sat back and waited to rake in the bets. Macclesfield police were baffled. The chrysanthemum “murder ers” are still at large. But Jackson had dozens of flowers in reserve. When his “first team” withered away, he entered the show with his six next-best plants and won two silver cups and 18 lesser prizes. He still has the best chrysanthe mums in town. African Girls Called Spiritual By Touring Yank Business Man CAPE TOWN. — An American business man touring South Africa “went overboard” about the girls of Worcester, according to local citi zens he met. “I am pretty hard-headed and a keen observer,” they quote him as saying, “but never have I seen such healthy-looking young women as 1 have seen striding your streets. They seem naturally attractive and friendly. I am sure if we could ship a team of them across to the States and provide training, they would seriously challenge the Ziegfeld Fol lies girls. They seem to have a sub lime spiritual quality.” CORN KING . . . Walter J. Harpel, 45, of Shannondale, Ind., crowned 1947 Corn King of North America, is shown with the 19-year exhibit of Indiana certified yellow dent hybrid 844-D corn that won him the grand ' championship at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. Harpel’s recipe for growing top-flight corn is “good soil management that builds np the soil’s organic matter supply, good seed, plenty of fertilizer and hard work.” WORLD CAPITAL—CITY OF GLASS . . . Glass will be the main motif of the projected United Nations buildings in New York, shown here in a model. Most startling innovation is the use of double-paned glass sheets which provide for about a foot of space between inner and outer windows so that solar heat can be isolated, making it simple to keep buildings cool in summer. Coolness will be a vital prerequisite of any building housing some of the hot U. N. debates. REMEMBER TOM MIX? . . . Dedication of a marker to Tom Mix, famed movie cowboy idol, drew crowds (including these three buck- aroos) to the spot along the Florence-Tucson highway In Arizona where Mix was killed in an auto accident seven years ago. The seven- foot marker of malpai stone is topped by a silhouette of Tony, the star’s wonder horse, and contains a bronze plaque. FIRST ARCHBISHOP OF WASHINGTON . . . The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick A. O’Boyle (left), named by Pope Pius XII to be the first arch bishop of Washington, D. C., is congratulated by Francis Cardinal Spellman on his new status. Monsignor O’Boyle, native of Scranton, Pa., is now executive director of Catholic charities of the archdiocese of New York. Washington formerly was a part of the archdiocese of Baltimore. ABOUND THE CIOCK He Still Has Time on His Hands After HaU Century at Trade WNU Features. ELGIN, ILL.—Somewhere in the United States there may exist an untutored and unknown genius of Job-like patience who, after months of painstaking effort, could put together a watch that would run. But the odds are just about one-million-to-one that it would fall far short of the performance demanded of fine watches today, in the opinion of William H. Samelius, director of Elgin Watchmakers college. Samelius ought to know. He has made watches for more than 50 years. Now teaching others the pro fession at the Elgin school, he re ceived his first introduction into the lore from his father, who at one time was the royal watchmaker of Sweden. Samelius came to America as a lad in 1881. Today he is still active in the profession, an honor ary member of at least eight state horological associations and the dean of American fine watchmak ers. Always ready to talk about his life’s work, Samelius explained some of the reasons why making a watch is not the easiest thing in the world. “Our students learn that the best watches must be within a lim ited tolerance of time, fast or slow, before they are released from the factory,” he says. “They learn to maintain tolerances of .0001 of an inch to fit parts into precision watch movements. They master all the in dividual manufacturing operations necessary to restore a watch to its timekeeping ability.” An idea of how small these tolerances are can be gained from the fact that one-ten thou sandth of an inch is the size of a human hair after it has been split the long way 30 times. Samelius’ students also work with roller jewels that are so small that 4,666,000 weigh a pound. Some of the screws used in watch manufacture are so tiny that 20,000 of them just barely fill an ordinary sewing thimble. Despite their size, each screw has a perfect thread and its head is perfectly slotted. Some of Samelius’ students be come proficient in the watchmaking art in a period of from 11 to 14 months. Although he has been in the watchmaking business for more than half a century, Samelius still manages to keep posted on latest developments in the field. He admits that making watches today is con siderably easier than it was 50 years ago. He attributes this in part to innovations in repair equipment and parts. Honesty Still Pays, Jailed Youth Learns ST. LOUIS, MO.—In jail because police caught him breaking into a building, Robert Tolliver, 18, has re ceived a $5 reward for honesty. When a class from Fontbonne college had inspected the jail, one of the students lost the mechanism from her watch, a family heirloom. She informed Warden E. E. Hensley of the loss, leaving $5 for the finder. Tolliver found the mechanism in a box of trash, turning it over to Warden Hensley. “Had Tolliver hocked the works, he wouldn’t have received more than $1,” the warden said. “By be ing honest he gets $5.” It Took Seven Years, But He Cot Big Fish NEHALEM, ORE.—After spend ing seven of his 79 summers hope fully rowing up and down the Ne- halem river in quest of a salmon, Charles L. Judd finally hooked his fish. His patience was rewarded when the catch proved to be a 30-pound Chinook. A battle lasting for an hour and a half was required, how ever, before Judd finally landed the fish. Almost too weary to hold the fish up for a picture, Judd said, “My family thought I couldn’t catch a salmon, so I had to show them.” DEAN OF WATCHMAKERS . . . William H. Samelius, director of Elgin Watchmakers college, is shown here inspecting a clock made by William Geoghagen, one of his students. Driven by an elec tric motor, the nine-dialed clock shows the time in Bombay, Lon don, Hawaii, San Francisco, Yo kohama, Shanghai, New York, Moscow—and Elgin! Mechanical Picker Dooms Husking Bee To Romantic Past AUDUBON, IOWA.—The familiar thud of com against the wagon bang boards is being relegated to the ro mantic past on Iowa farmlands as the machine age muscles in on old- fashioned com husking bee and com husking contests. Romanticists notwithstanding, man can’t compete with the ma chine when it comes to picking com, and as a result those popular pas times of the past are being dis carded. A two-row com picker can har vest 500 to 800 bushels a day while a man, working alone, can pick only 80 to 100 bushels. Mechanical com pickers are becomihg increasingly available to do the harvesting job in the tall com state. The number of machines has tri pled since 1939, when there were 20,029 mechanical com pickers to harvest nine million acres of com. Now, it is estimated, there are more than 60,000 pickers, an average of one machine for every 156 acres of com. Despite the invasion of mechani cal pickers, Elmer G. Carlson, king of the nation’s com buskers in 1935 and now owner of a hybrid seed com company here, doesn't believe the com husking contest is gone forever. "Com husking is a farm sport and mechanical pickers do not detract from the glamor of the old-time contests,” Carlson contends. He believes husking contests would be as popular as ever. His brother, Varl, whom he dethroned as national champion, agrees that the national contests should be re vived. But even the former national champions have given way to the machine age. Both use me chanical pickers in their own cornfields! Space Is Relative , HAMILTON, MONT.—AU of Mon tana isn’t wide open spaces. A law suit has been filed to clear title to a strip of land two and a half inches wide and 140 feet lopg. The sliver lies between a theater and a store. NEW FOOD SAVER . . . James A. Stillwell is the head of a sub committee of the President’s cab inet food committee to take over the food saving drive where Charles Luckman left off. The 1948 program will stress food conser vation In the American home. PUPPY LOVE . . . Softhearted Mrs. John Jacob Astor of the New York Astors carried her Mexican hairless Chihuahua dog inside her mink coat when she ventured out with him on a cold night. There was enough mink fur to keep them both warm. TOLD OF PANIC . . . Alexis C. Ladas, Greek language announcer for the U. S. “Voice of America” broadcasts, is shown as he told of a wave of bank runs and panic buying in Moscow and other large Russian cities as a result of a rumor that the ruble was to be devaluated. ZIONIST LEADER . . . Chaim Weizmann, noted Jewish scientist and president of the World Zion ist organization, was hailed as the first president of the new Judean state in Palestine created by U. N. partition of the Holy Land. PENN STATE BEST . . . Coach Bob Higgins of Penn State is shown with the Lambert trophy and plaque symbolizing selection of the school’s football team as the outstanding one in the East. Experts chose Penn State over Penn, Army, Columbia and Rut gers. This Street Removes Porch Steps at Night BALTIMORE, MD. — Fountain street, near the Baltimore docks, takes in its steps at night and often turns them up during the day. It is a street of red brick row houses, many of which have two white wooden steps leading up to the front door. They are Fountain street's version of the white marble steps for which Baltimore is noted. Families often sit out on them in the evening for rest and gossip with the neighbors. Residents disagree as to how the custom of turning the steps up against the wall during the day and taking them in at night started. SHELLSBURG, IOWA.—Marking a rebirth of the country store in Benton county. Hobby Harbor has been launched as a typical old-time mercantile business establishment by a farmer’s wife in her farm home near here. Mrs. Opal Gardemann, a former school teacher, who wanted to start the venture “in a small way,” thought $500 worth of merchandise would be enough to stock the store. Women Can Vote— If They Tell Age LINCOLN, NEB.—One of wom an’s age-old prerogatives will fall by the wayside when Ne braska women register to vote. The state attorney general has ruled that it won’t be enough to say “legal age.” Registering women will have to say exactly hew old they are. Frederick Wagener, Lancaster county attorney, requested the official opinion after some wom en declined to give their exact age. Now her stock inventory is about $5,000, and she already has made plans to remodel the farm home to provide additional merchandise space. Farm families in the vicinity and motorists attracted by the sign tacked to a telephone pole near the entrance to the Gardemann farm are amazed to find they can buy radios, washing machines, and countless items that are hard to get Farm Wife Launches Country Store T HERE’S a great difference in dogs. So if you are going to own a dog, give time and thought to what kind of a dog it should be. If you have lots of room — fields, woods, lawns — the work ing class dog is for you. Collies and Belgian Sheepdogs are in cluded here and they have proven their value in herding sheep and cattle. The German Shepherd dog is another breed outstanding for herding ability and an excellent watch dog to boot. Working dogs are a dignified, powerful, serious lot, S et they will smother you with affection treated right. 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