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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. "Time and Chance/' Tale of a Credo Artist-Writer Builds Self Philosophy 'for to Admire' By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Every once in a while, I devote this col umn to a book. Not a review, but just my feelings about the book and its author. I couldn't help writing about “Time ai.d Chance” by artist Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Not merely because the book interested me, or because tt is a most attractive piece of autobiography, or because the drawings are a book in themselves, or because other reviewers liked it—but be cause I happened to share some of the experiences it describes and - be cause I lived, as he (and you) did, through the times and chances which Baldridge interprets in terms of his own. Also I want to write a review be cause of what these experiences, the fruits of the varied environments which the artist-author describes, did to form a career, a character, a philosophy, which is “for to see and to admire.” In Roy’s own words, it is the story, partly done in pictures, of “how a well-meaning. Bankhage but provincial farm boy got an international point of view.” He summarizes his own thoughts on this attractive 400-page volume in a note to me, this way: “Grandfather (was a) share cropper and vet. “At seven (Roy) was driv ing a horse on mother’s wagon selling cooking through Arkansas, pots. “Worked way through college with Baukhage.” (Roy did the working, I, subsi dized, loafed considerably.) “Peace conference (Paris, 1919) with Baukhage, and sold on Wil son’s idealism. Still sold on ideal ism, the term now altered with the times. “Worked enough to save money enough to see Far East, Near East, Africa, India.” (And how he worked I) Then he concludes: “All men the same, discount ing the apparent differences caused by varying backgrounds caused by ‘time and chance.’ ” To reach that conclusion, Roy made an Odyssey beginning with the "cooking pots” into domains of which Homer never dreamed. He had an artist’s eye trained from the age of 12 when he was tolerated in a Chicago art school with young artists who were later to achieve national reputations. Such men as John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist; Webster, creator of the "Timid Soul,” and many others. Goudy, the great type designer, who died last year, was Roy’s teacher, along with the school’s director, Frank Holme, who became a second father to the wide-eyed child. At that school, Roy learned his most impor tant lesson—self criticism. His mother re-married, and Roy became bellhop and baggage-smash er in his stepfather’s small-town commercial hotel; finally he went to college on a scholarship which, when he arrived, he found wasn’t there. Utterly alone, without the so cial prestige of a college fraternity, he achieved campus success; be came what was considered a “prom inent student.” He grew to realize the empti ness of "college honors” but, unlike Vincent Sheean who was to follow him, Roy learned to admire the university which he had “cellegiately” exploited. At our 29th reunion, he interpreted the word “university” in its ob solete but new meaning: “the whole ... all things . . . the universe ... a body of persons . . . the body of the people.” I shared those campus years with Roy, but I missed most of their sig nificance and experience, for I was carefully sheltered (after a few freshman heartbreaks) behind the protective coloring of Greek letters. But I managed to know Roy and learn a little from his experiences. He is a man who inspires high loyal ties. There was a post-college period when we lost each other. He was commercial-arting and living in the University of Chicago settlement, where he taught art to little toughs from the stockyard district, devel oped a social conscience, became a national guard cavalryman (be cause he dreamed df “going west” and being another Frederick Rem- ington), got his first peep into the world oif culture and fell in love with a chaming and “modem” men tor out of a world until then strange to him. One day shortly after World War I broke out, I received a long dis tance telephone call. It was Roy, he was going overseas. Wouldn’t I join him? I had just completed a tour of European wandering much more conventional than Roy’s was to be. I also had a job. So I, the congenital bourgeoise, rejected the idea. Later I learned that he then had two inceativaa I lacked: A broken heart and a sketchbook, as spurs. Unbelievably, without credentials, he wormed his way through beleaguered Belgium to the German front, where he learned to hate war. IJe came back to fight out a career in New York. I’m not going to write any more of Roy’s story for it is his story told far better than I could hope to re count it. I can only say that when World War I came to America he Jiad his part in it, a fraction of which 1 again was lucky enough to share with him. He was a cartoonist on the Stars and Stripes, after experi ences on every front with the French. I joined him in Paris after the armistice. Walking down Rue de la Paix one day with Roy I was mumbling reminiscences of riding beside my battery of 155s. Suddenly he grabbed me by the arm. “Buck,” he said, "that’s poetry. Let’s write a book. I’ll illustrate it.” Of course, it wasn’t poetry but it was verse the G.I.s of our day un derstood and the illustrations were art, if art is life — and death — as Roy had seen it. We came back and went our sepa rate ways. He now had a partner, Caroline Singer, a perfect comple ment. She was a California news paper woman. They built a home, leaving it periodically to travel the Seven Seas — China, Japan, Europe again, India, Africa, criss-crossing out their books in perfect collabora tion. But Roy’s book is his own story, a perfect American saga. As Ameri can as the wind that blows the Mid west com fields; as foreign as the sounds and smells of Peking, Yoko hama, the click of sabots in a tiny French village, va ried as its ribbon- breasted diplomats, kings, Seregam- banian belles, and Teheran beauties. But it’s more than that. It's the story of the making of a human phil osophy old as the Mongolian moun tains which are a part of its back ground, new as today. “Left and right,” writes Bald ridge, “are not two evils, they are the same evil; and safety without the solidarity of class conscious groups, screaming slogans, or party orders to lean upon, liberals must be staunch enough to walk a lonely road.” I know that Roy would like to have me conclude this review — if you want to call it that — with the following quotation which gave him his title, the biblical quotation: “The race is not to the swift, nor Ybe battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.” I would not dare to doubt the words of the Preacher (Ecclesi astes IX:li) — but 1 know that here was a man who grasped time by the forelock, was able to hog-tie and saddle it, and one who took his chances if not with out fear, at least without falter ing. When Tovarich gets the idea his rubles are going to be worthless, he acts just like a wage-slave in a be nighted capitalistic country. GIFT FOR CHEESE LOVERS . . . Curious shoppers watch Tony Scu- tillo cut in half the huge 1,500-pound Wisconsin-made provolene cheese which went on sale as a special holiday item in a Greenwich Village market in New York. Helen Rippa is the impatient shopper seated on the cheese. NEWS REVIEW Wallace Enters Race; Romanian King Leaves Wallace history would Henry Wallace was deluding no ^ one, not even himself, about his chances of being elected President of the United States in 1948 on a third party ticket when, with zeal ous idealism, he announced that he would be an independent candidate. His entry into the contest, as he announced on a nation-wide broad cast from Chicago, was based upon his revulsion against “the bi-parti- san reactionary war policy which is dividing the world into two armed camps.” Both Republicans and Democrats, he indicated, can be filed in the same political pigeon-hole because both stand for the bi-partisan poli cies which are leading the nation to war and depression. “That menace can be met and overcome only by a new political alignment in America which re quires a new political party,” averred the former vice president. Whether or not it could be met by a third party — a “peace party” — founded on the assumption that the U. S. must adopt a softer, more co-operative attitude toward Russia and at the same time reject universal military training and pre paredness in gen eral was a question that probably even not answer. Domestic political significance of Wallace’s emergence as a third party candidate may be summed up briefly: Republicans like it. Demo crats don’t. If Wallace can get on the bal lots in one or more of the pivotal states — New York, Ohio, Califor nia, Pennsylvania or Illinois — he may be able to split off enough of the Democratic vote to swing the election to the Republican nominee, and if he makes his inherent de votion to Rooseveltian ideals stick, he may be able to corral a consid erable section of those on the left side. Always the eminent liberal, Wal lace is angling for all or a portion of the left-wing Democratic vote. One tiling was certain. Wallace would have the hearty, although somewhat onerous, support of the Communists, no matter how much he might avow his own anti-Com- munist principles. He would have to go through the campaign with the Reds and fellow-travelers hanging to his coat-tails. REPUBLIC: Michael Quits Communist-controlled eastern Eu rope cast off its last tie with a hap pier past when King Michael I of Romania made public his abdica tion from the throne. His announcement had not yet fully registered on Romania’s bewil dered populace when the Com munist government promptly pro claimed the nation a “popular democratic republic.” Thus, with the 26-year-old mon arch's abdication, ended a dynasty established in 1866, the last mon- London Braces England is full of suspense but it isn’t the kind that keeps a man’s trousers up. British braces (suspenders), made under a government order limit ing the elastic to three inches at the back, have been the cause of a number of London breeches falling down and finally drove Historian Arthur Bryant to reporting his plight in a letter to the London Times. In the past year, he said, he bought four pairs of braces. "After each occasion,” lamented Bryant, "the braces have broken irretriev ably within th\ee months." The Times, in a helpful mood, deplored the situation in an edito rial: "The Four Freedoms are a hol low mockery if our braces are go ing to be bursting all the time. No nation can be expected to hold up its head if it also is required to hold up its trousers." archy in the Soviet sphere of influ ence in eastern Europe and the last throne held by the House of Hohen- zollem. Michael, as some romanticists would have had it, might have re nounced his throne purely for the love of Princess Anne of Bourbon- Parma and Denmark, but the Com munist establishment of a “repub lic” and immediate reorganization of the government came too swift ly, too efficiently to lend much cre dence to that theory. As the king himself pointed out in his abdication proclamation, he was resigning the throne because a monarchy no longer coincided with the “great political, economic and social changes” in Romania. Nor was it logical for the Com munists, grim advocates of their “international dictatorship of the proletariat,” to be countenancing and cooperating with a hereditary monarchy. And Michael had acted as a sort of brake on some Com munist actions in Romania. NEW HIGH: Farm Prices U. S. farmers continued to set new records in price levels, both for the produce they sell and the goods they in turn buy. It was reported by the department of agriculture that the general level of farm prices rose 5 per cent be tween mid-November and mid- December to a record high of 301 per cent of the 1909-14 average.' - Previous all-time high was 289 per cent, set last October. At the same time, prices paid by farmers for items for living and farm production also reached a new record. On December 15 the index of prices paid was 245 per cent above the 1909-14 average. The farm price level in mid-De cember, the department said, was 14 per cent higher than January, 1947, and the index of prices paid 16 per cent higher. Between mid-November and mid- December, average prices for vir tually every group of farm com modities except fruit showed meas urable increases. PUSHBUTTON BILL-OF-FARE Meatball Due To Be Electrified The pushbutton may never re place the meatball, but with the rapid ascendancy of electric vend ing machines it is promising to exert a profound influence on the destiny of that spherical aggrega tion of ground beef, as well as on many another item in the Ameri can diet. Even now plans have been drawn and preparations are being made by C-Eight laboratories in Newark, N. J., to open a retail store in Los Angeles where customers will be able to make a variety of purchases —from food and beverages to dry goods—simply by stepping up to an electrical vending machine, insert ing the prescribed amount of money in the slot and pushing a few buttons. • This unique establishment, sched uled to open its doors in April, will be operated in Los Angeles on an experimental basis. If customers in dicate that they are pleased with this brave new twist in merchandis ing, similar electric vending ma chine stores can be expected to spring up in other parts of the coun try. Presupposing that such a trend is established, persons living in small or rural communities can look for ward to seeing these robot sales clerks in their local stores around 1950. The experimental store in Los An geles will feature machines quiver ing with electrical impulses and ready to dispense at a touch such varied merchandise as bottled cof fee, mouthwash, peanuts, fruit juices, bread, canned goods, eggs, blouses, stockings, neckties and other ready-to-wear goods. Still in the developmental stage are other pushbutton marvels which will accommodate deep-frozen foods or, to go to the other extreme, com plete, cooked meals that will erupt from the vending machine piping hot and ready to serve instantly or in an hour or half-hour as you wish. The deep-freeze and cooked foods machines, however, are still too ex pensive and complex for widespread use; so housewives can’t look for ward to being emancipated from standing over a hot stove all day for at least some time. What happens to the sales clerk if electrical vending machines sweep the country on a mass scale? That is a question for which no one has come up with an answer so far. As a matter of fact, no one has started worrying about it yet. Poison Gas Now Used To Ease Cancer Pains Nitrogen Mustard Gives Quick Relief to Sufferers. BOSTON. — Discovery that the World War II poison gas, nitrogen mustard, can give dramatic relief from suffering in some cases of can cer has been reported to Radiologi cal Society of North America. In no kind of cancer whatever, however, has nitrogen mustard caused a cure, or anything more than the pain relief. Since the war 50 different kinds of this poison gas have been made by chemists, and tested on mice, in hopes of finding one that might do better, or be less difficult to take. So far two have been found that are about is good, but not better. These reports were made by sev eral doctors from Memorial hospi tal, New York City. In illustrating the relief from suf fering, Dr. Lloyd F. Graver said an elderly woman was brought to Me morial choking to death frorh pres sure of a cancer on her windpipe. Surgeons feared to operate. Nitrogen mustard was injected into a vein in her arm and the can cer shrank so quickly that choking ceased. Later she died, but a more peaceful death. Results, although they only re lieve pain, were reported encourag ing the hope that it may be possible to find some chemical that will go farther, and perhaps all the way, toward curing cancers. New Telegraph Station Picks Up Wires in Auto BALTIMORE, MD.—After sev eral months of experimental op eration here, Western Union an nounced it has perfected a “tele graph station on wheels” which picks up messages transmitted from a downtown office by radio- facsimile. The "telecar” went on public display at Baltimore’s 150th an niversary exposition. ‘Telecar” messages are re ceived on a facsimile recorder installed under the instrument board of an ordinary sedan while it is cruising and the passenger then drives to the address to de liver the wire. U. S. Will Protect Lives and Property of Citizens in East WASHINGTON. — The state de partment said new measures to pro tect lives and property of about 10,000 Americans in troubled Pales tine and nearby countries are being studied. These Americans are being ad vised through embassies and consu lates in the Middle East to refrain from any acts which may be con sidered provocative and from taking any unnecessary risks. Lincoln White, press officer, said he did not think a decision had been reached on actual evacuation of Americans from areas considered dangerous. White said the United States had emphasized that foreign governments had the duty to pro tect Americans accredited to their countries. Passports still are being issued for persons to go to Palestine and nearby Arab countries, provided they have valid travel reasons. These reasons do not include inten tion to serve in armed forces of any country other than the U. S. Reporters were told existing regu lations would bar American pass ports for any of the army of 250.000 proposed by Rabbi Baruch D. Korff to be recruited in the United S’ates to fight for Jewish Palestine. Korff made the proposal in Boston. White’s statement said the ap proximately 10,000 Americans now in the Middle East area include 1,100 in Egypt, 3,400 in Saudi Arabia, 4,200 in Palestine, 1,600 in Syria and 250 in Iraq. White said one “conjecture” after wrecking of the United States infor mation office in Bagdad by an Arab mob was that the attack might have been Communist-inspired. Son’s Truck Kills ‘Best Paid Private’ in United States Army DES MOINES, IOWA. — Cyril G. Wolfe, 46, father of 11 children and once listed as the highest paid private in the U. S. army, was crushed to death in the driveway of his home here. A truck, driven by one of his sons, accidentally backed into Wolfe, pin ning him to the wall of the nearby house. Wolfe became the highest paid army private in June, 1943, when he enlisted in the army. Because of his large family, he drew $203.50 a month. Later he became the “high est paid corporal” with $310 a month. Reaches for the Jelly; Her Car Just Escapes Plunge PLEASANTON, CALIF. — Reach ing for jelly got Mrs. Earl Derby in a jam. The elderly woman was passing a truck on a hill road when several jars of jelly began slipping from the front seat of her car. She reached for them. Her car swerved into the truck, hit a guard rail and stopped with the front end hanging over a 50-foot embankment. She was treated for shock and a fractured collarbone. Petrified Trees Found in Africa Great Trunks Preserved in Stone Are Described by Expedition Leader. NEW YORK.—A remarkable pet rified forest has been discovered in southwest Africa’s Kaokoveld by Dr. Charles L. Camp, leader of the scientific expedition of University of Chicago. Dr. Camp heads a scientific sa fari that is seeking new light on the origins of mankind through excava tions in limestone caves and the study of fossilized remains of a man-like creature turned up early last year near Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Camp reported that he was guided to a plateau in the adjoining territory of southwest Africa where he found the remains of ancient trees turned to stone and preserved in the rocks for more than a hun dred million years. The logs, he said, are in consolidated "Karroo” river gravels that extend out from beneath a volcanic mountain. Some of the trunks measure more than 100 feet in length and up to 514 feet in diameter through their bases. Details of the original struc ture of the wood, the annual rings, the woody cells and fibers, the knot holes and even the borings of an cient insects beneath the bark could be seen clearly. The wood. Dr. Camp said, has been replaced by agate and other siliceous material. Some of the trunks also showed sec tions filled with limestone. Stone-Age Tools. There were more than fifty well- preserved logs on an area of less than 20 acres. Many more extended over the adjacent ground. There the native inhabitants of long ago fash ioned their stone tools from the agatized wood and some of these implements were left strewn about. A local farmer, Jan H. Oberhol- zer, had noticed the wood frag ments below the log plateau and asked Dr. Camp to inspect them while he was hunting fossils in the region of Franzfontein. Dr. Camp followed the fragments up to the plateau and there discovered the forest. The trunks were remarkably straight and tapered very slightly in the first 100 feet, so that most of the limbs were carried at the crown as in some of the modern arauca- rian pines. Dr. Camp reported. One trunk, 118 feet long, was 4V4 feet in diameter at the base and 16 inches In diameter at the upper, broken end. Dr. Camp deduced that the trunks evidently had drifted into sandbars in the rivers and had been cement ed into place when the rock solidi fied. Then heavy masses of sedi ment were carried in and deposited above, causing some of the logs to become slightly flattened. Spectacular Setting. Colors of the agatized wood, not quite so brilliant and varied as in the famous petrified forests of Ari zona, were black, yellow, brown and red and the silicified parts were generally yellow, brown and gray. Dr. Camp reported. He said that a yellow mineral covered some ot the smaller logs. “The setting of the Franzfontein forest is spectacular,” Dr. Camp wrote, "and the whole situation most unusual and instructive as a record of the earth ages ago, shortly after great ice caps melted from the lands of the Southern Hemi sphere.” Emphasizing the danger of de struction of the valuable find, Dr. Camp said that protection could be afforded by establishing a national monument. White men, he said, now are en tering for the first time this fossil area where roam the rhino, the springbok, the gembok and other game of the region. It abounds in •lion, zebra and jackals. Few G.I.s Exhaust Education Benefits, Administration Says WASHINGTON. — Veterans’ ad ministration reported that only 8,400 ex-servicemen have used up all of the training to which they are en titled under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Trainees who have exhausted their education benefits constitute less than two-tenths of 1 per cent of the 4,302,000 veterans who have thus far enrolled under the law. VA officials said, however, that some 1,890,000 veterans voluntarily discontinued training before they had served the maximum period. An additional 123,000 disabled vet erans, who are specially provided for in the vocational rehabilitation act, have either suspended training of their own accord or have been declared rehabilitated. Scientists Will Study Atom Effects on Japanese Youth PALO ALTO, CALIF.—Japanese children will be studied by Stanford scientists for 10 years to see how their growth and reproduction has been affected by the atomic bomb. A number of children in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bad ly burned and bear disfiguring scars. Dr. William W. Gruelich, who re cently returned from Japan, said that there was evidence from the multitude of young babies and preg nant women that the blasts had no detrimental effects on human fer tility thus far. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Dot A f-^arty ^j^t’ocb (^aAy. Reiving ^Jlalterincj oCineA j?or 1/YjatronA Charming Little Dress A DAINTY little party frock for 4* your cherub that’s as simple as can be to put together. The sash ties in a big bow in back, two cute pockets accent the flared skirt. • • • Pattern No. 8249 comes in sizes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. Size 3, 1% yards of 39-inch. Send an additional twenty-five cents for the fall and winter FASHION—52 pages of style, color, easy to make frocks. Free pattern printed inside the book. Slimming Effect. T HIS softly tailored style is cre ated to slim the larger figure. 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About an hour later, when the hump crew prepared to switch out the cars that had been repaired, the yardmaster noticed that all the cars had been freshly chalked “DG.” “How can I tell the ‘okay’ cars from the ‘bad orders’?” the yard- master stormed, “and what in blazes does ‘DG’ mean?” “Why, that’s simple,” the switch man replied, “it means ‘Do Go’ and ‘Don’t Go.’ ” Bronze articles can be cleaned beautifully by immersing a cloth in a solution of vinegar and salt and rubbing vigorously. —•— When the alarm of the alarm clock seems to be weakening, per haps all it needs is a few drops of machine oil. —•— Plaster casts may be cleaned with cold cream. Water is likely to destroy the tint and gloss. To Relieve Your Cough, Mix This Recipe, at Home You'll be surprised how quickly and easily you can relieve coughs due te colds, when you try this splendid re. cipe. It gives you about four times aa much cough medicine for your money, and you'll find it truly wonderful. 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