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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Hospitality Stiffens WASHINGTON.—For two years the agriculture department has been trying to crack the “iron curtain” and inspect a Russian project that might teach us new lessons in how to conquer the southwest’s great “dust bowl.” But repeated appeals tor a look-see have been turned down by the Russians. As a result, the agriculture department now will atiffen its own hospitality toward Russian agriculture missions. The Russian project Is a scientific “shelter belt,” planted with trees to eave the soil from erosion. Report edly it was started more than 50 years ago, but American soil ex perts didn’t learn of it until after the war. By visiting it, they hoped to learn new methods for controlling the restless topsoil in our own south west. Despite Soviet secrecy, how ever, the agriculture depart ment so far has turned the other cheek and shown Russian ex perts all aspects of American agriculture, even though the Russians always carried cam eras and asked exhaustive ques tions. For example, a Russian mission Inspecting the forest product labo ratories at Madison, Wis., wanted to know the cubic measurements of each building, how may people each would hold and intricate de tails about the equipment. Also the Soviet embassy always gent more people than stipulated, such as a recent mission to Oregon State college. Arrangements were requested for two, but five showed up and stayed on until they wore out their welcome. From now on, U. S. hospitality, if at all, will be frigid. Hoover’s Choice Herbert Hoover tells friends that he intends to remain “strict ly neutral” toward all candidates in the race for the G.O.P. Presi dential nomination. However, Hoover feels that Tom Dewey, Sen. Bob Taft, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg or Speaker Joe Martin—any one of them— would make a good president. Mysterious Delay There is a big hole on the east side of New York City where the United Nations headquarters some day are supposed to be. Meanwhile, a mysterious delay has developed and some say it leads directly to the White House. One White House caller even came away reporting that the President favors moving the United Nations over to Geneva —despite the prodigious efforts of Americans to bring the United Nations to the U. S. The Presi dent complained that too many U. N. pressure groups have been pothering him. Meanwhile, a hush-hush meeting took place on Long Island the other day. Net result was a decision that each member of the United Nations would pay up a proportion of^ the cost for the new buildings. Mean while, since the United Nations has no immediate cash on hand, a loan of 68 million dollars will be neces sary from Uncle Sam, to be liqui dated out of annual U. N. income. Matter of Timing Wives of Republican congress men are hopping mad at Mrs. Truman. The First Lady sched uled the White House reception for congressmen on February 10, the very same day that most Re publican congressmen were out making Lincoln day speeches. G.O.P. wives hint that Mrs. Tru man wants to prevent the Repub licans from getting a preview of the White House so many of them •hope to occupy next year. 1 • • i Feudin’ and Fightin’ FDR’s running feud with Capitol Hill Democrats is a well-known story, but with Harry Truman it was expected to be different. After all, he had served in the U. S. senate, and once, as President, even re sumed his old seat on the floor of the senate; sometimes goes to lunch with senate Democrats in the pri vate office of Leslie Biffle. Today, however. Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are just as sore at their old pal, Harry Truman, as they were at Roose velt— possibly more so. What Alben Barkley and ex-Speaker . Sam Rayburn say about their ^ chief in the White House can’t I be printed in a family news- ! paper. ^ They were especially indignant a« the way he handled the attempt to fire Marriner Eccles, replacing him with dyed-in-the-wool Republican Tom McCabe. They also were burnt up at the way Mr. Truman ousted James Landis from civil aeronau tics. Finally they are not at all happy over the present tax battle and the fact that they have to go down the line for what they call "Trum’s acrewball tax plan” to reduce ev erybody’s taxes by $40. Sweepstakes Hospital Idea An American metropolis has voted to ask the state to give the green light to a lottery to raise a million dollars for new hospitals. Well, the general letting down of bars against gambling in this coun try won't result in any upbuilding of character, but since everybody is taking a chance on something, it is hard to frown on the idea of hospi tals benefiting. All we hope is that no city dedicates one new institu tion as the Straight, Place and Show hospital or adds a Daily Double wing. We can’t help wondering how a sensitive patient in a hospital built through gambling will feel at times. Will he feel a little un certain whether the nurse has been scratched when she is a little late showing up? * Will he want the morning line on doctors, in order to get the weights? And will it do him any good to see a notation, after a medico had bun gled a bit, “Will do better next time out?" • Will there not always hang over the Sweepstakes hospitals the mood of the race track, the lottery and the pinball machine? Isn’t it pos sible that in some insidious way the time may come when a diagnosis will be made through a slot ma chine? « We are all for anything that will build modern hospitals and improve the old ones, but we don’t want to feel that the medi cal staff is handicapping pa tients. • There is thought to be a better than fair chance that the state will permit the development of hospitals through gambling, and should the lottery take the form of a sweep- stakes we look for the following chart notations: Night Nurse ... In and out. Interne . . . Needs schooling. Thermometer . . . Reliable sort. Staff Doc . . . Good at times. Cashier’s office . . . Strictly money type. Diagnosis . . . Good when right. Iron Bed . . . Tough spot. Sleeping Pill . . . Well liked. Breakfast Tray . . . Shows little. Menu . . . Unreliable sort. The Pill . . . May be sleeper. Pajama Pants . . . Moving up. Orange Juice . . . Weak sort. Soft Diet . . . Pass this one. Hospital Steak . . . Away long time. Square Meal . . . Later perhaps. Day Nurse . . . Shows flashes. Boiled Egg . . . Needs long rest. Tender Sympathy . . . Scratched. Solicitude . . . Now and then. * * * Letter for Special Delivery Mrs. John Kieran, Riverdale, N. Y. Dear Margaret: You and Jonathan will be going on the air soon, I predict, in a hus band and wife program and I don’t see how you can miss. But I tuned in on you and "The Brain” on a couple of programs and I want to warn you about something. You have to be firm. Do not waver on this point or you are lost. Jonathan is unconsciously a platform-hogger from away back and not too inclined to fly in company when he can fly solo. * The appeal of a Mr. and Mrs. Kieran radio program will be, to no small extent, to get a load of you, as the wife of a famous man. But that man of yours has no inferiority complex and you will have to battle your way to the mike with a rugged deter mination. * You have to heed this advice, Margaret. Take a firm stand now, before it is too late. He is no man to give an entertainment partner an even break. Use violence if neces sary. But don’t weaken. Hold out for at least 50 per cent of the micro phone and don’t settle for 49. 0 You may have to carry a little stick with a nail in it. Jab him the minute he monopolizes the mike. The big novelty will be you. And you’re good. Don’t agree to any pro gram that can be called, “The John Kieran Sawing a Partner In Half Hour.” Yours with all good wishes, ELMER. • • * Washington theme song: “I’m Causing a Heat Wave by Making My Wheat Wave.” « * • VANISHING AMERICANISMS: "Change to oil and end your wor ries." • "Since we did away with the old cold furnace we have had no heating difficulties." "Keep it up around SO; I’m cold." • * • APARTMENT LIFE Radiators Were meant for heat But mine was made To deep-freeze meat. James Fisher. GOLD STAR WIFE . . . Mrs. Ruth Dutcher of Arlington, Va., is new national president of the Gold Star Wives of America. Recently in stalled in office, she is determined to get action on house and senate bills which would relieve the dis- ress of many a gold star wife. HARD-HEADED . . . Earl O. Shreve, president of the U. S. chamber of commerce, put him self on record as endorsing the Marshall plan, but stipulated that it be backed up with “hard-headed business experience” and econ omy in government at home. AGE OF INNOCENCE . . . Even if four-year-old Carol Ann Coulon of Miami had never seen a Flor ida orange she still would be plenty cute. Her own state thought so, too, because she won the “Little Miss Florida” contest. NEW BILLS FOR OLD . . . Rep. Frank L. Sundstrom (Rep., N. J.) has submitted a bill calling for Issuance of a new series of U. S. paper currency and cancellation and destruction of all existing pa per bills. TP TO MARGARET* . . . Frank G. Handy, son of G. C. Handy, publisher of the Ypsilanti, Mich., Press, was reported to be object of the affections of Margaret Tru man, daughter of the President. Bald Handy: “If there Is any an nouncement It will have to coma 1 from Margaret.*' PLANTING FORESTS BY AIR . . . Forests are being planted by helicopter now. First job of this kind was undertaken recently by a west coast paper manufacturing company when 2,640 acres of the company’s tree farms in Washington and Oregon were seeded from the air with five species of native forest trees. CANAL ZONE GETS JETS . . . U. S. air force’s 36th fighter group, one of the defense units for the Panama Canal zone, has completed its conversion from the wartime P-47 aircraft to jet-propelled P-80 Shooting Stars. These P-80s are shown en route to their home station, Howard air force base in the canal zone, where they will become an integral part of the canal’s defense system. C BIG JIM MEETS HIS MATCH . . . James E. “Big Jim” Folsom, governor of Alabama with aspirations toward the presidency, found a man his size when he entered the conference room for the closed session of the southern governors’ conference. He was surpassed in physique by Capt. Reid Clifton of the Florida highway patrol, whose 305 pounds and 6 feet 6 Inches overshadowed the Alabama governor’s 250 pounds and 6 feet 8 inches. HURDLES HIS OWN HANDICAP ... Maimed war veterans at Vaughan hospital in Chicago watch with new hope as Walter Saa kovich, who lost a leg when he was a child, gives amazing demon stration of high jumping. “If I can do it, so can you,” Baskovich told the disabled vets. Show was presented by University of Chicago acre- theater to illustrate how determination can overcome handicaps. OFF THE RUBBISH PILE . . . Boys’ club members check a working drawing of a speedboat model, limited in cost to $1, for the Skipper’s Cup contest. Explaining construction details are Guy Lombardo, left, and David W. Armstrong, executive director of Boys’ Clubs of America. START FROM SCRAPS Boys Comb Rubbish Heaps For Boat Contest Materials It’s a treasure hunt in the rubbish heap for boys all over the United States. They are seeking old tin cans, mother’s castoff garters, scraps of wood, paper clips, rubber bands and even leftover paint, all of which will be used for building entries in the first nationwide Skipper’s Cup model speedboat contest. To build a swift and sturdy craft ^ for less than $1 is the immediate objective of many of the quarter million youngsters who are mem bers of or affiliated with Boys’ Clubs of America. This organiza tion and Eveready Battery com pany are co-sponsors of the nation wide contest. If the “skipper” qualifies lo cally, his next aim is to survive regional eliminations so he can race his speedboat in the Reflect ing Pool at Washington April 10 and II for final honors. The national contest is dated to coincide with annual observance of Boys’ Club Week. The contest is limited to boys un der 16, all of whom are supplied with working drawings of model types. The model boat was designed by Douglas Rolfe, who also will serve as one of the judges of the national finals. Instructions cover ing length, weight and detail gov ern all series. Hulls must be com pleted a«d water speed tests certi fied to national headquarters on or before March 13. Builders of the best boats locally will receive awards of tiny, two- ounce electric motors and a supply of flashlight batteries. Winners in the seven Boys’ Club regions of the U. S. will receive regional Skipper's cups. In the national finals in Wash ington the seven boys who score top time trials, regardless of re gion, will compete before U. S. and foreign celebrities under the shadow of the Lincoln Me morial. Judges will include Guy Lombar do, band leader and speedboat champion; Bill Stern and other well- known sports figures. Former Pres ident Hoover is serving as honorary chairman of the national commit tee. Local craftsmanship contests will precede speed trials. Judging, which will be on a basis of point competition, will cover basic de sign, originality, workmanship, fin ish and over-all appearance. Woman Lighthouse Keeper Quits Post As Feet Are Tired’ TURKEY POINT, MD.—Because her feet are tired and she wants to “just rest,” Mrs. Fannie Salter, the last woman lighthouse keeper on Chesapeake bay, has given up her job. Believed to be the only qualified lightkeeper of her sex in the na tion, Mrs. Salter retired from a job she has held for 23 years. She took charge of the Turkey Point tower on February 11, 1925, under appointment by Calvin Coolidge. She succeeded her husband, who had been the keeper for three years before his death. On sick leave since last Septem ber, the woman light tender ex plains that “climbing the tower has given me fallen arches.” Although she has no definite plans for the future, Mrs. Salter, who is in her 60s, insists that she will re main near the water. Her immedi ate plans are to “just rest and catch up on long-delayed visits with rela tives.” War Vets Respond To Call for Blood ATLANTA, GA.—For 24 veter ans of battlefields extending from Luzon to St. Lo, the call for blood was enough. Many of them gratefully re membered that their own lives had been saved by blood plasma during the war, and here was Lawson veterans’ hospital ap pealing for blood donors. All 24, with Purple Hearts shin ing on their jackets, lined up at the hospital to give blood. Proud Son Sees Widowed Mother In Cap and Gown ITHACA, N. Y.—When the library tower chimes at Cornell university peeled forth their congratulations to mid-year graduates, Jonathan Hartwell Harwood III, aged 4, neat burst with pride. Among the young women in aca demic robes was his mother, Vir ginia Oake Harwood. Few fellows have the privilege of seeing their mothers graduate from college. Jonny doesn’t know it, but he was the chief reason why his mother finished her course in the college of home economics. Jonny's father fought in the invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944; and he never came back. Jonny’s dad graduated from Cor nell, too—in 1942. And his mother, whose parents live in Lockport, N. Y., left school in her sophomore year to marry him. They didn’t have much time together—just a couple of summers while dad was training at Fort Bragg. Then he was sent to England to train as a Ranger—and was made a captain. Then came D-Day. . . . “People thought I was crazy when I decided to take my two-and-one- half-year-old son to Ithaca with me in the fall of 1945 and continue col lege,” Mrs. Harwood admits. "May be I was a little crazy. But I had to have something to do—something to occupy my time and my mind. I could be a better mother to Jon ny, I felt, if I graduated from col lege and was prepared to earn my living.” The pension and insurance money made it possible for them to rent a small Ithaca apartment and live in modest comfort And Jonny went to Cornell, too. Jonny attend ed the college’s nursery school. He also will be graduated this year- from nursery school to kindergar ten. Sale of Loafing Space To Restore Old Plaza ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.—Appeal ing to the weaker side of man, Al buquerque Historical society offered loafing privileges in the plaza in return for donations in a drive for funds to restore the old town plaza. Results were good, officials of the society report. The scale ran: For $8.55, one square foot of loafing space; for $10, plain and fancy loafing anywhere; for $17.10, loafing privileges with frills; for $25, your child’s footprint in concrete, and for $50, your own footprint. He Gets Stung Daily—But It’s His Living BALTIMORE.—Harold J. Frank lin gets stung several times a day— but he makes his living by doing it. Franklin’s job entails thrusting his arm into a cage filled with 3,000 mosquitoes. After a minute he withdraws his arm and counts the bites. If they total about 60, well and good. If not, he repeats the process in another cage until he can get the required nymber of bites When he finds a hungry commu nity of mosquitoes, he covers his arm with insecticide and thrusts it in again, giving the insects another opportunity for a vicious bite on his arm. Once again he must la boriously count the number of bites. „ Franklin is a laboratory techni cian for a local chemical company. The process is a test of the power of mosquito repellants. CLASSIFIED PE P A R T M E N T BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR- MAKE AND SELL CONCRETE BLOCKS, operate your own business, cash m on tne building boom, machines 40 to 250 per hour, also mixers, conveyors, motors. Madison Eqaipment Co.. Madison. Tenn. 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