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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
The Economic Front
WASHINGTON. — When news of
the stock and commodity market
break first reached the White
House, President Truman was deep
ly concerned. He felt it might start
wholesale dumping of securities by
frenzied investors, which in turn
might touch off an economic de
pression.
However, after the council of eco
nomic advisers had surveyed the
market and reported to him in de
tail, Mr. Truman told one close ad
viser:
“I am now glad it happened
— for two reasons. First, we
■cared a lot of speculators out of
the grain market, and, second,
; prices are coming down to a
level where they will be gov
erned more by the law of sup
ply and demand. That’s where
they should be.”
The White House economic sur
veys show several significant
things.
Most important to the housewife
la that the somewhat hysterical re
ductions in retail prices are the re
sult of grocers’ psychology. Actu
ally, cheaper raw commodities
couldn’t possibly be passed down
the line to bread and meat for sev
eral weeks. However, grocers have
been scared into price reductions by
headlines and the threat of competi-
t< n. They are gambling on lower
prices in their next wholesale ship
ment. Also the stocks of food on
their shelves have increased—due
to high prices and the fact that the
housewife has simply cut down on
her buying.
Another significant factor is that
the stock market has remained fair
ly stable compared with the com
modity market. In other words,
commodities were price-heavy and
toppled.
Presidential economic advisers
have reported to Mr. Truman that
there is little likelihood that the
break in commodity prices will
spread generally to industrial
prices.
One cause for the commodity
break was the flood of wheat
which farmers sent to market
after January 1. They had been
bolding back (1) for higher
prices and (2) for income-tax
reductioqp. Since both Republi
cans and Democrats have come
out in favor of tax reductions,
farmers felt it was safe to let
their hoarded wheat go to mar
ket. A lot of them let loose at
the same time, hence the del
uge.
Another reason for the grain-mar
ket decline is the law, recently
passed by the Republican congress,
requiring the administration to hold
150 million bushels of grain in this
country as protection against future
crop failure. With the prospects of a
good crop, this 150 million reserve
bushels is bound to have a depress
ing influence on grain prices.
In brief, Mr. Truman’s advisers
have informed him that the com
modity nose-dive is more likely to
avert rather than cause a depres
sion. Commodity prices, formerly
resting on empty clouds, now have
come back at least to the mountain
peaks.
G.l.s’ Best Friend
Kindly Gen. Omar Bradley,
known as the G.I.’s best friend,
bad a birthday anniversary re
cently. He was 54.
As Bradley just had been made
chief of staff, top brass of the
Pentagon building were in some
thing of a twitter as to who would
be invited to the general’s birth
day party.
As time of the party arrived,
the mystery was easily solved.
Those invited were the clerks,
secretaries and enlisted men
who worked in Bradley’s office.
None of the brass hats was pres
ent except for one man—Brad
ley’s old friend. General Eisen
hower.
West Coast Shipbuilding'
1 -esident Truman was anxious to
get those big shipbuilding plants on
the zest coast, idle since V-J Day,
back into operation.
However, he told GOP Rep. Dick
Welch of California and other west
coast congressmen that they ought
to do a little missionary work with
their own appropriations commit
tees in congress if west coast ship
building is to be revived.
Congress, Mr. Truman reminded
his visitors very pointedly, was the
bottleneck—not the White House.
“I’m wholeheartedly in favor
of a government subsidy to en
able west coast shipbuilders to
compete with eastern builders,
who have lower production
costs,” the President said.
“However, unless congress
votes the money to pay the cost,
there’s nothing I can do to get
these idle plants running again.”
Democratic Rep. Henry Jackson
of Washington reported that ship
building costs in the East were from
6 to 11 per cent less than on the
Pacific coast, due chiefly to lower
material and labor costs.
The most important reason the
President wants to keep western
ship plants in operation is defense.
THOUGHTS ON SKI FANATICS
This is the biggest skiing season
America has ever had. You can’t
look out of any window above the
Mason-Dixon line without seeing a
flock of “schussboomers” zooming
by in various positions of complete
| instability.
m
A ski enthusiast is a fellow who is
happiest when he has both feet off
the ground and is wearing the facial
jxpression of a parachute trooper
who suddenly realizes he jumped
without his chute.
*
He is a guy who doesn’t mind
where he is so long as he is not
rightside up.
More and more gals are taking it
j up. A female ski jumper is a girl
who thinks the laws of gravity were
! written by Benny Goodman in col
laboration with Olsen anfl Johnson.
She is a snowbunny who doesn’t
care where she goes, provided her
| destination is vague and her arrival
abrupt and embarrassing.
*
Put a damsel on a ski slide and
you are witnessing a demonstration
in bizarre behavior hitherto re
served for escapes via the icy roof
j by inmates of the Home for Way
ward Girls, all making their get
away in the belief a couple of bed-
slats made an ideal pair of shoes.
_*
She goeth where she listeth
and she landeth where it hurt-
eth.
*
Once upon a time you could go to
the snow-hills of this country and
find only ski jumpers who knew how
to do it. Today every slope consti
tutes a convention site for a bevy of
beginners, all of whom do not know
where their next fracture is coming
from.
*
They confuse the take-off from a
snowy peak as the same as a leap
from a boarding-house attic. Every
thing is jake with them if they come
down the same season, with no
navigable parts missing.
♦
As long as a ski artist had to
climb back up the hill there was
no mass participation. But for
the last few years the ski slides
have had mechanical towropes
to haul them back, and now
everybody can play, whether for
fun, fresh air, suicide or to settle
a bet.
Pass the buttered rum and put
another log on the fire. We have tied
a pine plank to each foot and are
about to find out if we are man or
jetplane.
SILVER LINING
The snow is high, the ice is
thick;
There is no heat for me to cook;
But, ah, the mailman came today
And brought a spring seeds book.
* • •
Lines on the Winter of '48
In forty-seven-forty-eight
The winter never did abate;
It went from bad to extra raw—
There never was the slightest thaw.
The icicles of early fall
Had not decreased by March at all;
December’s frost on window pane
Each morning showed a one-yard
gain.
By keyhole in the kitchen door
The snow came in six feet and
more;
Storm-windows gave up every
where—
They couldn’t take the frigid air!
Hot water bottles by the pack
Just froze upon the feet and back;
A woolen blanket charged with heat
Felt like a strip of frozen sheet.
The radiator and its tubes
Gave out with nothing but ice cubes;
The furnace gave no trace of heat.
We used the thing for freezing
meat!
• • •
DOG CHAMPS
This is the dog show season and
we await the following awards:
MINERVA’S ACE III: — Shows
splendid disposition, despite all the
substitutes fed her for meat.
ALLIGAZAMMUS DUDE: — Has
never bitten the butcher, although
conscious of fact the tightwad
hasn't thrown in a few beef scraps
in two years.
KING WHIFFENPOOF’S BABE
II:—Still likes human beings after
having lived in Manhattan apart
ment all life, with two brief trips
outdoors each day.
• • *
VANISHING AMERICANISMS:
"We haven’t much money, but we
have a nice warm home.”
*
"Rap on the radiator, I’m cold."
• * •
A legislator proposes a law to
arrest autoists for driving too slow
ly. This being the screwball age that
it unquestionably is, we suggest a
statute providing a life sentence for
the driver who makes a street cross
ing carefully, and the chair for the
fellow who has never run over any
body in his life.
PORPOISE POISE POISONIFIED ... Down yonder In the tropical
waters of the marine gardens at Islamorado, Florida keys, the peri
patetic porpoises do everything except get down on one knee and sing
“Mammy.” Any porpoise lover would find his manifest destiny here at
the “Theater of the Sea,” new marine studio in which all the marine
life lives not in confining tanks but in natural pools.
THE MEMORIES HE HAS . . . Charles E. Taylor of Los Angeles, who
was left ?800 a year for life by Orville Wright, holds book of the Wright
brothers and recalls thrilling days when he assisted in the building of
the first airplane engine the brothers used in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, N. C.,
in their epochal flight. Ill of a serious heart ailment, Taylor, when told
of the bequest, said he was “grateful to Orville.”
•AND ALL I ASK IS A TALL SHIP' . . . Swift and graceful as It cuts
the waters off Miami Beach, the “Cyclone,” Cuba’s entry in this year’s
Lipton cup race, inevitably calls to mind the memory of Sir Thomas
Lipton. Except for his tea, the amateur yachtsman asked for little but
“a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” Sometimes called the world’s
greatest sportsman, Lipton spent millions over a period of many years
In an attempt to bring the yachting title to England.
j
WHAT, NO PIN BOY? ... If this favored land holds another three-
generation family of bowlers the Rockrohr clan of Clinton, Iowa, would
like to arrange a match. Above are (left to right): Grandfather Otto, 78;
Father Le Roy, 52, and Son Le Roy Jr„ 23. Grandpa Rockrohr began
bowling back in 1910, and despite his advanced age he still maintains n
neat average of 152 that many n young dnffer can envy.
FAST BUCK . . . Gripped by nos
talgia for the Old South, suh. Rep.
Prince Preston (Dem., Ga.) made
the mistake of redeeming a five-
dollar Confederate bill sent in by
a fellow Georgian. Word got
around, and now the Confederate
spinach is pouring in by the car-
petbagfuL
L’ENVOI ... Sir Oliver Shewell
Franks, British statesman and au
thority on Europe’s needs under
the Marshall plan, has been
named new British ambassador
to the U. S. He succeeds Lord
Inverchapel who is retiring from
diplomatic service.
I
MISSIONARY . . . The Rev. Wil
liam Leising is one of six Catholic
priests who operate radio and
weather stations in the icy wastes
of Canada’s Mackenzie territory.
Part of his job is to warn U. S.
if an aggressor tries to strike over
the polar regions without warning.
ADDED STARTER . . . Herbert
C. Holdridge, retired brigadier
general, says he is running for
President. He claims that his own
“People’s party offers the only
hope for tomorrow under Ameri
can traditions, thus avoiding the
necessity of choice between fas
cism and communism.”
t
NO PAUPER . . . E. T. Maynard,
Chicago speculator, leaves meet
ing of senate grain gambling in
vestigators after being called to
explain , how he made between
8200,000 and $400,000 in recent
commodity market tumble.
SAVING SIGHT ... A maternal desire to take good pictures of her
son led Mary R. Brown into the field of professional photography, where
she now specializes in the complicated photography of the human
eye. She is shown above with camera anct patient at the New York
Eye and Ear infirmary.
SCIEHCE IN SURGERY
Complicated Device Photographs
Perfect Camera—The Human Eye
Most people understand how the X-ray is used by the med
ical profession, and many have heard that photography is be
ing used in the medical field. However, it is difficult for the
average person to visualize just how photography can be used
to advantage in medicine. A
A visit to the New York Eye and
Ear infirmary, the oldest specialized
hospital in the western hemisphere,
where people from all walks of life
have been treated for more than a
century in its numerous eye, ear,
nose and throat clinics demon
strates .the value of the technique.
This hospital is staffed by the great
and near-great in the fields of oph
thalmology and otolaryngology.
Surgeons with Park avenue prac
tices come daily to diagnose and
treat the 35,000 people who pass
through its clinics each year.
Here medical photography ha?
become a recognized and estab
lished service in the treatment of
many eye diseases.
Explains Techniques.
This department was organized
and is run by Mary R. Brown, one
of the few women in this country
who specialize in the field of oph
thalmic photography. She is a
pretty, quiet woman whose own son
is just completing his medical edu
cation. Mrs. Brown explained some
of the scientific techniques she uses
daily in her diagnostic research and
medical record work for surgeons
at the New York Eye and Ear in
firmary.
In addition to the small and
delicate cameras that photo
graph the outer sections of the
eye, there is the Fundus cam
era used for photographing the
retina of the eye—the area deep
within the eye itself. This com
plicated camera uses the lens of
the patient’s eye as part of its
optical system and the resulting
pictures are in color. They have
great diagnostic value; the sur
geon’s decision depends many
times on these true-to-life photo
graphs.
Mrs. Brown relates that, “Only
recently, a young lad who had his
eye hurt playing basketball was
brought into the hospital. A growth
had formed on the retina and ret
inal pictures were ordered. These
were airmailed to a famous eye
specialist in England to corroborate
our own surgeon’s diagnosis. With
nothing but these colored slides,
magnified and thrown on a screen,
he recommended preserving the
eye, as our own men did. In time,
the growth went away, just as the
specialist said it would, and today
this boy has his sight.”
Recalls War Case.
“Back in November 1945,” Mrs.
Brown recalls, “a young G.I. bride,
HAVEN FOR AFFLICTED . . .
The New York Eye and Ear in
firmary, where Mrs. Brown helps
guide surgeon’s hands and scal
pels with her photographic tech
nique, is the oldest hospital of its
kind in the western hemisphere.
Founded in 1820, it ranks as the
third oldest hospital in the City of
New York.
whose husband was still in the
South Pacific, was brought in foi
photographs. Her record, when she
entered the hospital, stated that a
tumorous growth, thought to be ma
lignant, had formed in the iris of the
right eye and therefore the eye
should be removed. The surgeon in
charge at the New York Eye and
Ear infirmary was not in full accord
with this diagnosis and did not feel
that this patient should lose an eye
without further study. He ordered
photographs taken of the condition
every month, carefully measuring
the size and comparing with the
previous plates. At the end of a
year the growth had not expanded
in any direction, these measure
ments proved. During the following
year pictures were taken every two
months and careful checks were
made against the first plates. It has
been fully determined, up to the
present time, that the growth is not
malignant, and this grateful young
woman still has her eye today."
Movies taken in color and used
for teaching purposes are a part oi
Mrs. Brown’s daily work. These
films of rare and delicate opera
tions performed at the infirmary
are being used to guide and teach
a new generation of eye surgeons
throughout the Americas and as far
away as India and the Philippines.
In addition to routine work,
classes in medical photography are
conducted for graduate students in
ophthalmology. Thus the young spe
cialists who train here can take
with them to the small communities
throughout the country a knowledge
of ophthalmic photography that will
help them trace the progress of eye
diseases and their treatments, thus
many times saving the sight of aij
eye otherwise lost.
No Track or Train
But Railroad Pays
Regular Dividends
ADRIAN, MICH. — Although it
hasn’t operated a train or collected
a fare for nearly a century, the Erie
and Kalamaz&o railroad again is
making its semi-annual payment to
stockholders.
Now forgotten by all except his
torians and its fourth and fifth gen
eration stockholders, tke Erie and
Kalamazoo ranked as the oldest
railroad west of Schenectady, N. Y.
Although the railroad has long
been inoperative, it derives a regu
lar income from lease of its original
right-of-way to the New York Cen
tral railroad. The present dividend
amounts to $9,000 after deductions
for taxes and expenses. Last year
the E. and K. paid $19,500 in divi
dends. .
Incorporated by the Michigan ter
ritorial legislature on April 22, 1833,
the E. and K. was capitalized for
$1,000,000 but only $300,000 in stock
was issued.
It originally was authorized to
operate between Lake Erie and
“the navigable waters of the
Kalamazoo river,” but it was
destined to run only between
Port Lawrence (now Toledo,
Ohio, but then part of Michigan)
and Adrian, a distance of 35
miles.
By 1836 track had been laid from
Port Lawrence to Adrian and the
first horse-drawn train clattered
over the wooden rails in October.
Oklahoma Boasts S?lf-Supporting Capitol
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.—One
of Oklahoma’s proudest boasts is
that it has probably the only self-
supporting state capitol in the
world, one that even pays a bonus
now and then.
While other states have to settle
for the oratory, Oklahoma finds its
coffers enriched by black gold. In
the 13 years since the oil wells were
drilled on the capitol grounds by
order of E. W. Marland, former
governor, the state has profited to
the extent of $5,619,945.
The wells were drilled over bitter
protests from residents of the
swank Lincoln Terrace neighbor
hood nearby. Drilling oil wells is
about the messiest job ever, they
contended, besides representing a
fire hazard. They quoted a city zon
ing ordinance to show Marland
couldn’t do it The governor said
he’d like to see someone stop him.
CU/lL 9t So?
Many so - called self - made
persons do a first-class job of
it, considering the poor qual
ity of material they had to
work with.
Almost as good as hearing
ourselves praised is hearing
our eneinies criticized.
Even a watch that won’t
run is right twice a day.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOB.
MAKE AND SELL CONCRETE BLOCKS,
operate your own business, cash in on the
building boom, machines 40 to 250 per hour*
also mixers, conveyors, motors.
Madison Equipment Co., Madison, Tenn*
GROCERY STORE and SIX-ROOM house*
Combined. 3 mos. old with modern con
veniences. Practically new meat case, fix
tures, all groc. Gas, oil. Goes for quick
sale. $9,000 and some terms can be ar
ranged. Good business. Reason for selling,
got to go up North. 1 mi. north of Madison
on Quintman highway.
8. D. MEDL1N, Rt. 8, Madisen. Fla.
POST LAMPS—Rustproof, 10'’x20* $10.95.
•‘Kit of Parts” $5.95. Circular on request.
Dealers inquiries invited. CARLSEN MFG.
CO., Bergenfield, New Jersey.
AGENTS—Amazing selling offer direct
from manufacturer. Religious Mottoes with,
raised Rayon Silk letters; also Glow-in-
Dark. Mail $1.00 for sample order of six.
Sell for $2.40. MARTIN’S SILK SCREEN,
Dept. E, Greenville, Ohio.
DISTRIBUTORS are making real money
selling miracle waterproofing “Silicone” in
practical, usable form; polishes, cleaners,
sealing compounds, that waterproof as
well as polish. There are Silicone com
pounds for every purpose. A big business
that requires little investment. Act now.
as territories are going fast. Send $5.00 for
samples and complete information. Satis
faction guaranteed or money refunded upon
return of unused merchandise.
WAXED SILICONE PRODUCTS, INC.
5022 N. W. 7th Avenue
Miami - Florida
DOGS, CATS, PETS, ETC.
FOR SALE
AKC collie pups, tri-color. Two proven
matrons due in season. $75. Young proven
stud, Arken, strain, $50. KOLLIE KEN
NELS, Rt. No. 6, Greenville, S. C.
HELP WANTED—MEN
SALESMEN—WILLING TO MAKE SS.OS
on each sale and work eight hours each
day. Ten sales or more easily possible.
Write for details.
CHATTANOOGA ART MEDALLION CO.
Chattanooga (2) - Term.
LIVESTOCK
Don’t Take Chances With Calf Scour, . . .
SOI. of which are caused by vitamin defl-
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE—New crop Ga. cane syrup. $1
per gallon in half gallons or gallons deliv
ered in three hundred gallon lots in Geor
gia. MIXON MILLING CO.. Cairo. Ga.
AEROPLANE TIRES and TUBES. New
and used in most sizes. For farm and grove
use. Wholesale and retail. E. H. GREEN.
Box 295, Avon Park, Fla.
POST CARDS with picture of your house,
garden, children, self, or other subject.
Also copies of Children's portraits, etc.
Samples 10c. credited On order. COPY-
CRAFT, Box 507, South Berwick, Maine.
SALESMAN—Teacher, Bank Clerk. Book
keeper—Full time, part time, should earn
$2,000 to $6,000 year in own business. Earn
ings depend on Ambition, Ability, time and
effort spent. Most businesses are live pros
pects for this VITAL BUSINESS NECES
SITY—Jim Sherrill's E-Z-WAY Business
and Tax Record, DEPENDABLE Income
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in 31 states. Write
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y POULTRY, CHICKS & EQUIP.
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A-A Poultry Tabs in all their drinking wa
ter for effective, economical medication.
Satisfaction guar. Be ready with Dr Le-
Gear’s A-A Tabs when your chicks arrive!
BABY CHICKS
Excellent breeding, rigidly culled, Pullp-
rum passed. Low mortality, quick growth.!
Twenty years experience. Prices and cir
cular upon request.
Georgia Permit No. 78-63
ELLISON’S HATCHERY
Scottshurg - - Indian*
BABY CHICKS — Barred Rocks or New
Hampshires. Only $12.95 per hundred.
None sexed. Pullorum tested to no reactors.
Send orders to
BABY CHICKS, Box 645, Lumberton, N. C.
REAL ESTATE—BUS. PROP.
OFFICE AVAILABLE AT ONCE
Suitable for medical dr. or specialist.
20x34 ft. Will also aid in securing living
quarters. A-l location. Contact
JULIAN L. PHILLIPS, Danville. Va.
Phone 748 day; 1146 evenings.
SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC.
ROSE BUSHES—World’s Best. Hints on
care and culture. Free illustrated Catalog.
McClung Bros. Rose Nursery, Tyler, Tex.
AUSTIN’S HOME ORCHARD
BARGAIN OFFER
Austin Boyd offers you—Improved Horae
apple—Elberta peach—Kieffer pear—Wild
Goose Plum—Nectarine—Apricot—1 each
all 1*2'—1 Concord grape—2 Boysenberry.
Only $2.98.
BOYD BROS. NURSERIES
McMinnville, Tenn - Dept. R.
ROSES—QUEEN OF FLOWERS. Hardy,
two-year field-grown, every-blooming va
rieties. Bargain assortment offers, prepaid.
Free descriptive folder. HUDNALL ROSE
NURSERY, Box 702, TYLER, TEXAS.
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