Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Marshall Plan for South WASHINGTON.—The need for a Marshall plan for our own southern states has been recommended in a shockingly frank report prepared for the house agriculture commit tee. Written by a group of southern economists, in cooperation with ex perts from the agriculture, com merce. labor and interior depart ments, It recommends that 27.4 bil lion dollars be advanced to get the South on its economic feet. In rather blunt terms the report sets forth the evils that make the South what it calls the nation’s poor- house. To cure them, it urges a revolutionary eight-point program. Underlying cause of southern poverty, the report states, is the rutted agrarian system. An overbalance of manpower is straggling without adequate tools to wrest a living from me diocre soils, which are highly erosive and badly damaged by past cultivation. Added to this is the prolific population on soothera farms. The reproduc tion rate is 80 per cent higher than needed to replace itself. "Until non-farm alternatives can be found for a part of the present farm working force and for all the net increase in farm population,” declares the house agriculture com mittee report, “there can be no last ing improvement in the productivity and in earned incomes of southern farm people.” These old agrarian problems, however, are overshadowed by a spectacular new force—farm mech anization. Revolutionary new tools, such as the mechanical cotton pick er, flame weeder and improved tractors, are expected to displace 2,1S0,Q00 southern farm workers by 1965. • • • Program for Future At the request of President Truman, the council of economic advisers is drawing up the fol lowing things: , 1. A long-range study of the prospects for continued pros perity. 2. A program for the increase of social security. 3. Stabiilized wages and price controls to guarantee the con tinued productivity of American agriculture. When these studies are com pleted, the White House will send them to congress. Now Reclamation Formula Washington’s hard-driving Sen. Harry Cain is working on a revolu tionary new scheme for financing reclamation projects, a plan that he claims will settle a half-dozen ques tions at one time. His idea is to issue federal revenue bonds to the gen eral public, then pay off these loans from power and irrigation profits. Under the present system, Cain argues, the reclamation bureau must show that its projects will be self-liquidating anyhow. On the other hand. Senator Cain claims that his bill will: 1. Eliminate the annual squab ble over reclamation appropria tions and reduce the drain on the budget; 2. Permit the har assed reclamation bureau to plan more than a year ahead; 3. Stir up public interest in rec lamation by the public’s sharing in the financing; 4. Serve as an anti-inflation measure by draw ing off large amounts of surplus money. Library of congress researchers already have gone over the plan with a fine-tooth comb, and have reported favorably to the senator. Hoof-and-Mouth Menace President Truman heard some blunt warnings about hoof-and- mouth disease from Mexico when he conferred with Albert Goss of the National Grange, C. E. Weymouth of the Texas Cattle Raisers associa tion, and Charles W. Holman, sec retary of the Milk Producers federa tion, and a group of cattle spokes men. The cattlemen warned Mr. Tru man that they didn’t think the se cret treaty now being negotiated with Mexico would work out either to the benefit of the United States or Mexico. Additional steps, not em braced by to* proposed treaty, will have to be raken to stamp out the dread disease. One necessary step, they said, was the appointment of an adminis trator who would work in liaison with the Mexican government and have full authority to make com mitments for the United States. Such an administrator would report directly to the President, but would operate in unison with the state, agriculture and other agencies. Goss and his colleagues urged “planned eradication’’ of infect ed Mexican cattle as another step. Cattle vaccinations, now being tried in many parts of Mexico, will delay the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease, but will not stamp it out, the cattlemen emphasized. “Planned eradication,” inciden tally, is one phase of the treaty now being negotiated. Army Transfer xor Quality Men Bared Restoration of 200,030 Men to Combat Duty Told. CHICAGO. — The quality of in fantry and other combat units, which army ground forces consid ered below average during World War II, was raised most effectively in late 1944-1945 by the wholesale transfer or restoration to combat duty of 200,000 top specimens from the air and service forces and other ’sections of the army. This is reported in the Infantry Journal in the concluding article of a feries on manpower in World War II by Robert R. Palmer, whose stud ies are incorporated in the army’s official war history. Earlier Palmer had stated that combat ground forces were over weighted with men of t poor physique and low mentality, which created a serious leadership problem in the lowest command echelons, and bore direcUy on high casualty rates. The wholesale transfer came too late to do much good. Palmer writes, because half of the divisions already were overseas. Training of the remaining divisions which re ceived the new and supposedly bet ter men, he said, had to be hasty and fell below army ground forces standards. Man-Made Rain Saves Big Crop on Caribbean Isle NEW YORK. — The Domini can information center said that man-made rain had ended a nine- week drouth in the rich La Vega agricultural area and had saved an estimated 15 million dollar to 18 million dollar food crop, some of which was intended for Eu rope. Squadrons of the Dominican air force bombarded moisture-bear ing clouds over the area with dry ice, chemically treated with a for mula created by scientists of Uni versity of San Domingo and the Dominican agriculture depart ment. Heavy rain lasting for hours followed. The operation climaxed a se ries of experiments begun in Sep tember under sponsorship of Pres. Rafael Trujillo, the center ,said. Contact With Moon Turned Into Routine by Signal Men NEW YORK.—Sending radar sig nals to the moon and receiving them back within a matter of seconds is routine these days for the army sig nal corps. The corps now is developing new radar equipment designed to keep in contact with the moon 235,000 miles away almost constantly dur ing the time between moonrise and moonset. The laboratory doing these tests is located at Belmar, N. J., near Asbury Park, where man in Jan uary, 1946, established radar con tact with the moon for the first time. The powerful radar equipment bounces signals off the moon at the •speed of light. The signals make the round trip in about two and one-half seconds. The signal corps scientists have not yet tried to contact Mars, but they do not rule out such an at tempt, even though Mars is much farther away. ' Mars, however, will be only 34 million miles from earth about the middle of next February. If the signal corps radar equip ment could contact Mars, the sig nals would reach there and return in about six minutes. Postman’s Walking Limited To Duty Unless Girl Agrees LONDON. — A lovesick postman was ordered jailed for trying to court the unwilling daughter of a peer. Short, bespectacled Richard Har rison, 34, who delivered mail to the home of Lord and Lady Norton of Fillongley, Warwickshire, fell in love with the Honorable Mary Nor ton, 25, and took to walking into his lordship’s hall unannounced to ask her to go for walks. Some time ago Lord Norton ob tained a court order banning him from the mansion for life. Accused of violating the order, Harrison was ordered committed for contempt of court. When the court asked what excuse he had, he replied: "I’m in love with his lordship’s daughter — that’s sufficient excuse.” Sidewalk Trippings Due to High Heels Worn by Women DETROIT.—The city fathers sat listening to the third feminine claim ant in one morning ask for damages for injuries sustained on the side walks of Detrqjt. “Why is it," George Edwards, council president, asked, “that only women try to collect money from the city for falling on sidewalks?*’ He got a quick answer from James R. Walsh, assistant corpo ration counsel: “It’s simple. It’s the women who wear high heels and 9 out of 10 of the people who trip on sidewalks are women.” “Has anybody ever thought of suing the designers of women’s shoes?” Edwards asked. Nobody had. The council then agreed to pay the women’s doctor bills. IT’S COME TO THIS IN PALESTINE ... War is no respecter of age or sex, and the hostilities in Palestine between Arabs and Jews are doing nothing to destroy the truth of that axiom. This girl, armed with a machine pistol which she knows how to use, is one of the fighting women of the Jewish Haganah. She mans a rooftop post on the border between Tel Aviv and Jaffa, an area which has been the scene of some of the most ferocious Jewish-Arab encounters since partition. THE PIT IN KANSAS CITY ... This picture shows commission merchants and brokers as they bid spiritedly for commodity grains on the Kansas City board of trade which Rep. Clarence Brown (Rep., Ohio) charged with receiving and handling “more orders from the District of Columbia than any other state.” Grain pits came Into lime light with congressional investigation into grain speculation by govern ment officials who might take advantage of their inside information to profit in commodity trading. BIRD IN THE HAND . . . Ger trude Lawrence, England’s great gift to the theater, loves birds (not the kind you get in Brook lyn). On her shoulder is a rose- crested cockatoo and in her hand she holds an African grey parrot. ROYAL THANKS . . . When Julie Alloro, 4, of Brooklyn, sent a tur key to Princess Elizabeth for a wedding gift she thought that was the last of it. Then came thank- you letter from Buckingham pal ace with royally picked wishbone enclosed. DOUBLE TAKE . . . The face in the background and the diamond back terrapin at the left are nor mal, but the terrapin at the right is a genuine double-header. It turned up out of an egg at the department of commerce aqua rium in Washington, D. C. LAUNCHING OF ANOTHER ROCKET . . . Take a good look at this German V-2 rocket as it roars straight up into the stratosphere from the White Sands, N. M., proving grounds. It could be a mild and unemphatic preview of what another war could hold in store for the world. This was the 29th of the 100 captured V-2’s brought to this country for study by the army. Each rocket was built at an approxk mate cost of $50,000 by scientists in Germany. NEW ON THE JOB . . . Alexander Semonivich Panyushkin is the new Soviet ambassador to the U. S. He replaced Nicolai V. Novi kov who was recalled to Moscow for "reasons of health,” or maybe you prefer your own reasons. FROM KAMIKAZE TO THIS ... A former Japanese kamikaze pilot who never had to make the fatal dive was inspired to invent this toy sized electric car which Pfc. Jackson Neeley of Hampton, Va., waves down the Ginza in front of the Tokyo P.X. The vehicle gets its power from a 30-volt battery and can hit speeds of from 25 to 30 miles an hour for six hours before recharging is necessary. It sells for $2,400, but immediate delivery is not guaranteed. CAREER GIRL ... No pampered do - nothing is Drucie Snyder, daughter of John Snyder, secre tary of the treasury. At Bethesda, Md., station WBCC, she worked her way up from girl-of-all-work until now she has her own news program. DOCTORS dj CLINICS NURSES ELECTRICIANS FRJEEroTuKWai OPERA-TORS SEED TESTERS JiniaL PLAY fields community BUILD! N6r8 SWIMMING POOLS SMALL TOWNS. B.S.*. Rural America Is oa Threshold Of Maay Revolutionary Changes By EARLE HITCH Released by WNU Features (Editor's Note: First its a series of articles on the vital problems and opportsmities of small town and rural America.) Almost like clicking a switch, rural America has been snapped into a new age. It is the era of big-scale, scientific agricultural production. Farming is undergoing revolutionary changes. As a consequence there is a shifting and shuffling in rural occupations. The new farming demands fewer work ers. But it wants more mechanical skills, more capital and more business brains. Industry is decentralizing. Branches of big plants are getting away from the congestion of cities. More small shops and mills are springing up in rural environments. This, too,"is changing the character of rural, em- <~ ployment. As machines displace la bor in farming, new rural occupa tions will have to be created. Other wise local population losses are inevitable. Hence the people who live in the country today need, and will have, a new kind of community. The new community must be more than a place for trade. It must be the civic center of the whole country round about, as much devoted to matters of health, recreation and social good, as to matters of business. New Outlook Demanded. To keep pace with these changing conditions, the small towns will have to get new shapes and new outlooks. They will have to adapt to the needs of their particular sur roundings. They need re-designing to make their activities suited to the new rural life that is developing. The country itself is becoming "citified.” That is. country peo ple are as style conscious and as socially alert as city people. They have new expectations of their towns. Thus the towns must reconsider their reasons for being. The towns that recog nize this will find ways for more community usefulness. Those that act boldly and with imagi nation are going to be heard from. These are the conclusions of those who are watching the trends over rural America. That is why the years just ahead promise to be an era of activity in rural community plan ning. For the small towns which bestir themselves a bright and larger fu ture is in prospect . Now, for the first time since the automobile and the smooth highway switched trade to the city, the rural communities have a chance to "come back.” They need not be content with ob solescence. What they need is to come alive, to shake themselves and take hope. That’s the opinion of leaders in the rural life movement, among whom are Eugene Smathers, who has developed a model plan at Big Lick, Tenn.; Dr. Baker Brownell, who directed the Montana rural study for Rockefeller foundation; O. E. Baker, social scientist of Uni versity of Maryland, and Monsignor L. G. Ligutti, secretary of National Catholic Rural Life conference. Pioneer in Program. Important pioneering has been done in rural community reorgani zation. The lead in actually demon strating what can be done has been taken by the Catholic and Protes tant churches, which have estab lished missions for social work in several rural communities, and by the American Friends Service com mittee. which has community proj ects in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Surveys and studies have been made by Rockefeller founda tion, by various farm bureau feder ations, the farmers’ union, the na tional grange, some of the agricul tural colleges and the U. S. depart ment of agriculture. Taken together, these surveys and inquiries show what is needed and practical ways to go about filling the needs. The inquiries and experiments have confirmed what civic lead ers have been maintaining — that there are many ways in which the small community, probably .to its own surprise, can provide what growing num bers of people want and cannot find elsewhere. That is, first of all, a pleasant place in which to work and live. The towns which realize this and act on the idea will be in favorable position. Things most needed over the country generally are better health services, clinics, hospitals, park spaces and swimming pools; new jobs to take the place of those that are being eliminated by farm ma chinery, and more opportunities foi small farming on a family-support ing basis. Devise New Projects. Among the practical projects that have been devised are rural home steads for industrial workers, other types of homesteads for young rural couples wishing to get land and make a start in small farming, new rural industries like seed testing, poultry killing, alfalfa and sweet po tato dehydrating, mechanical re pairs and upkeep for farm machin ery and electrical installations in rural homes, and various coopera tive projects, like machinery pools, creameries, canning and other proc essing enterprises. To keep the rural economy stabi lized and to help the small farm families survive in the competition with big-scale farming, is a national pplicy to which congress long bar been committed, and which is sup ported by churches, farm federa tions and political parties. The farm is the seed bed of the nation, say the population special ists and the rural economists. From the farm come many of the men and women of tomorrow. The cities never have replaced themselves and are not doing so now. The rural institutions that have been outmoded should have the attention of the whole rural community. Over the country generally, everything from churches to mercantile systems needs overhauling, and there should be considerable ed ucation about what a modern rural community should under take to do for its people. The idea that the small town has new and important functions should be planted at once in the communi ties that are determine4 to catch ui with the trends, and should be em phasized by repetition until the citi zens are convinced they should dc something about it. Seeing Is Believing. To get the rural community oul of its obsolescence and persuade il to catch up with farming progress, the whole people, youth and adults, must be made to see community de ficiencies. They will not see until they are made to take a look. This is going to take tact, persistence and energetic leadership. To help develop and direct such leadership is one of the objects ol the agencies backing the rural life movement This movement will be described in the next article in this series. Navy to Close Historic Arms Dump IONA ISLAND, N, Y. — After 47 years as a prime Imk in the chain of American sea defense. Iona is land, nestled in the scenic land of Rip van Winkle, goes on the shelf. The navy has offered its ammuni tion dump on the island for rent, preferably for conversion to manu facturing. laboratory or institutional ise. The island’s 123 acres do not per mit further expansion and modern safety requirements in the han dling of high explosives are difficult to maintain here, the navy ex plained in announcing the rental proposal. The most stirring chapters in the little islands’ history were written during the two world wars, when the ammunition dump provided shell: and other weapon fodder for navy vessels, merchant ships, oversea: bases and shore stations. Classified Department AUTOS TRUCKS A ACCESS. FOR SALE—Eight 33-passenger, high head-room conventional WAYNE busses on 1942 Ford chassis. Leather upholstered city type seats, good tires and mechanical .-•nrw-iitinn r>rir*#»ri £750 tin each. BURNING OIL? Rings bad? Use Grapho- sele—$1 prepaid. 1 try will convince. Ba- schen Laboratories, Box 103. Riverside, in. 1 NEW Chevrolet 35-passenger school bus. Wayne body. Cost price. Irvlndale Farm Dairies. 1130 Spring St., S.W. Atlanta. Ga. FARMS AND RANCHES 21-ACRE FARM, good land and timber: V, mile south Jordan High School; S8.5O0. Write JOHN D. NEELT 703 North Cleveland - Amarillo. Toxaa HELP WANTED—MEN FIXERS—Experienced on Banner 1* step and Jacquard Machines. State age. experi ence, qualifications, where worked. Write SLATEDALE KNITTING MILLS Slatlngton - - Poena. HELP WANTED—WOMEN WANTED—Graduate nurses as supervi sors, instructors and general duty. Excel lent pav. Complete maintenance. Apply to MRS. FRANCES BURWELI* Personnel Director Charlotte Memorial Hospital, Charlotte, N.C. WANTED—Nurse Anesthetist at once. Apply H. F. LONG HOSPITAL Statesville - North Car*Unit HELP WANTED—MEN, WOMEN HELP WANTED—Men, Women. Earn $25 to $50 weekly. Addressing cards. Send 10c to cover mailing. McMillan Company, 5038 Washington Park Ct.. Chicago 15, Illinois. LIVESTOCK HELP YOUR horses and mules keep In top condition. Stimulate lagging appetites vritn Dr. LeGear's Stock Powder in their feed. The best stock tonic money can buy. Sat isfaction guaranteed. MISCELLANEOUS •Will you take in a boarder for $3 a day? Writer’s Digest desires to publish a list of places where free-lanco writers may ’’hole in’* to finish a book or play. Do you have room and board to offer for t3 a,day? If so tell us about it. If we like your letter we will publish the facts in our monthly magazine. Writer** Digest, where they will be read by free-lance writers. We have nothing to sell to you; no charge to make; no fee or bill to send you. Wo ore performing a service for our sub scribers who are free-lance writers. Thcnks to you if you care to help. Write us* WRITER’S DIGEST 22 EAST TWELFTH ST. CINCINNATI 10, OHIO ROI ^tt DE Y? LOPED —Overnight Service 8 Hxgn Gloss Prints. All Sizes 25c. „ Reprints 3c each. SOX STUDIOS - BILLINGS. MONTANA MACHINERY FOR SALE—One practical^ ly new ball bearing 20' tower double-end Trimmer saw used only a short time and. one 40 H.P. Erie City steam engine in per fect condition. COOPER RIVER LUMBER CO. Moncks Corner - N. C» NEW QUICKWAY CRANE CAPACITY 6 tons. Mounted on 1945 3-ton Mack truck. Excellent cond. Priced low' for immediate sale. GA. WOOD PRODUCTS, INC. P.O. Box 1731 - Savannah, Ga. Tel. 31372 ARMY SURPLUS DOUBLE-DECK BEDS STEEL FOLDING COTS WHOLESALE QUANTITIES JONES MACHINERY CO. 408 Bishop St., N.W.. Atlanta, Ga. VE. 4231. 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