Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C r Vandenberg Stock Surges H ottest report on the politi cal battlefront is that Gov. Tom Dewey will swing his supporters to Ben. Arthur Vandenberg if Dewey gets caught in a convention deadlock with Senator Taft and can’t get the GOP nomination himself. Despite repeated disavowals of white ambitions, Vandenberg will have strong “silent” backing at the Philadelphia convention — particu larly among the so-called Willkieites hi' GOP ranks, most of whom now are supporting Dewey, but who are ready to swing to Vandenberg as their second choice because of the Michigan senator’s broad-gauged stand on foreign affairs. Those close to Vandenberg, however, insist that he does not want the nomination. The Michi gan senator, who will be 64 years old this month, feels the presidency would be too great a burden, although a re cent physical checkup showed him to be in good shape. Vandenberg also is upset about the health of his wife, who has been ill. Inside betting, however, is that Vandenberg probably can get the nomination, and that he will accept If a deadlocked convention drafts him. • • • Not an Accidental Job ALL THE INNER-PARTY bitter ness against one Harry Truman has been brought to the boiling point by Henry Wallace’s thumping victory In the Bronx, and for the first time certain Democratic leaders have de cided that it is about time to look around for another 1948 candidate. Helping to spark the intense back- stage discussion, Harold Ickes, the Old Curmudgeon, has pointed out something many people have for gotten — that it’s the exception rather than the rule for vice presi dents to be reelected. Out of six vice presidents who became presidents of the United States, only two succeeded themselves — Calvin Coolidge and Teddy Roosevelt. Four others were thrown out by their parties as unsuited to hold office further. Vice President John Tyler, who became president on the death of Henry Harrison, was dis carded by the Democrats. Millard Fillmore, who entered the White House on the death of Zachary Taylor, proved to be a flop and was not renominated by the Whigs. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was almost thrown out be fore the end of his term, while Ches ter Arthur, who took over after Gar field’s assassination, was denied the Republican nomination to succeed himself. In other words, American histori cal precedent has recognized the fact that the vice president of the United States is usually a political accident and has treated him as such when it came to new nominations to the non-accidental job of president. • • • Grandstanding John L. IF JOHN L. LEWIS calls a coal strike on the excuse that his miners should get retirement pensions, it will be the flimsiest of all Lewis strike excuses. Unquestionably aged miners deserve a pension. But the real fact is that Lewis already has around SO million dollars paid into his welfare funds by mine operators which could be used for pensions. The miners’ welfare and retire ment fund out of which old-age pen sions would be paid has been built up by a royalty of five cents a ton, paid by the coal operators on every ton of coal mined. Actually there are two miners’ welfare and retirement funds. Fund No. 1 was set up when the govern ment controlled the mines and, based on a royalty of five cents per ton of coal mined, has received a total of 25 million dollars. Out of this, 8 million dollars has been disbursed for disability payments and death benefits to miners’ widows. The re maining 17 million dollars is being held in escrow. Fund No. 2 was established under private operation of the mines and by it mine operators pay 10 cents on each ton of coal mined. By June 30 it will contain 50 million dollars. This fund is administered by Lewis him self, plus Ezra Van Horn, represent ing the coal operators, and for a time Thomas E. Murray, a New York manufacturer, representing the public. However, a failure of Lewis and Van Horn to agree even on details caused Murray to throw up his hands in despair and resign. Meanwhile, Lewis has not even agreed on a proper actu arial system for pensions such as that put into effect by any insurance company. Under the Taft-Hartley law no money can be paid out for pensions until such an actuarial system is established. Therefore, while Lewis has around 50 million dollars with which to pay pensions — once he complies with the Taft-Hartley law — he now is intimating that he will call a strike to get pensions for aged miners. As usual, it is the miners who suf fer while Lewis and the operators make faces at each other. STALIN GOES MUSICAL What Stalin wants is music which has something of the rhythm of Gromyko and the lyrical beauty of a Vishinsky speech. He has listened to the music on the Voice of Amer ica broadcasts and is determined that the Russians shall never be cap tured by a couple of crooners from Pinsk or Minsk. * We can imagine a scene at the Kremlin should any Russian come up with “Too Fat Polka.” SONG COMPOSER: “Here’s a silly ditty. You can sing it right away, Now here is what you say; Say it while you may.” STALIN: “Stop! The opening line is too bourgeois. You start off with the premise that the song is silly. In Russian music nothing can be silly. And that line ‘you can sing it right away’ is a waste of words. Only a stupid Britisher or American has to be told he can sing a song right away.” COMPOSER (resuming): “Here’s a silly jingle, You can sing it night and noon, Here’s the words, that’s all you need, ‘Cause I just sang the tune." STALIN: “How decadent! Jin gles! Bah! This song is an attempt to introduce commercials to the So viet Republican. It is a capitalistic plot.” • COMPOSER: “Ob, I don’t want her. You can have her. She’s too fat for me. She’s too fat for me, She’s too fat for me.” STALIN: “What nonsense! The Soviet mind rebels against any such philosophy. The question of weight never stops a Russian. Only a weak ling nation declines a dance with a woman over a point of poundage. Unless you wish to find yourself in Siberia, you will change it to some thing like this: / I don’t want him, You can have him, He’s a Marshall planner; He’s too dumb, he’s too corrupt. He’s too much of a warmonger for me.’ ” COMPOSER: "If you’ll hear me through, it goes on like this, sir: ‘I get dizzy, I get numbo When I’m dancing with my jumbo.’ ” STALIN: “Did Marx get dizzy dancing? Do you find anything in Lenin's works about getting numbo, however great the task? A Russian is strong and resolute. If he dances with a jumbo he does it like a man. Change it to something like this: *1 get mystic, I get fistic With a girl that’s capitalistic.’ ” • COMPOSER: “Please hear the chorus: ‘Can she prance up a hill? No! No! No! No! Can she dance a quadrille? No! No! No! No!’ ” STALIN (suddenly enraptured): “Wait! You’ve got something there in the true Russian spirit of the times. Cut out every line in the song except the ones with the ‘No! No! No! No!’ in it.” COMPOSER: “Very good sir.” STALIN: “And listen. . . . Put in more ’Noes!’ ’’ * • * MANHATTAN PORTRAITS. In the Waldorf Astoria There’s little to woria; Far up in the towers Are few troubled hours; Like as not your life touches A duke or a duchess. Some great Hollywood maidy, A lord or his lady; At the newsstand you might See a rajah some night. . . . And best of all hobbies— Getting lost in the lobbies! • • « The burglar alarm system on a bank stuck up the other day had been out of order six months. That's carrying thrift too far, say we. Ye ed has to laff at the current tactics of Hollywood in showing cheap crime pictures (yoo hoo Eric) under the pretenses they are glorifying federal law enforcement bureaus. * • • “There has been no racket in the disability retirement system. All cases have been carefully screened and nobody able to work has got through.” — Brig. Gen. John Dahlquist before a house committee probing the charges that thousands of army and navy officers, with very minor aches, have been retired on high monthly pay, tax free. • Wanna bet? • • • England is allowing Elizabeth and Philip $200,000 a year. Britain doesn’t want anybody going around saying to the Princess: “Your ans- terity is showing.” • • • CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when the cry, ”/ struck oil!" didn’t come from a fellow who had solved his heating problem over a weekend? earn We can’t understand it. Snow, like everything else is up, but it is not hard to get this season. THAT CHILDREN MAY WALK . .. When two farm youngsters decided to help sell the Easter Seals that have helped them, Patricia Lee Sisemore, 7 (left), of Fauquier county, Va., and Jimmy Sikes, 8 (right), of Fairfax county. Va., made their first sale to Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson. Easter Seals gave Jimmy a brace for his para lyzed left leg and soon will provide him with an artificial limb to replace the right leg he lost in an automobile accident. DISPLACED PERSONS PROBLEM ... More and more Americana are becoming increasingly aware of the moral responsibility that is theirs—and all humanity’s—in finding homes for the displaced persons of Europe.) Congressional legislation to permit DPs to enter the U. S. is one possible step toward a partial solution. Here, Sen. Homer Fer guson (Rep., Mich.) discusses such pending legislation with eight DPs. COMPASSION ... It happened in Montrose, Calif. There was the usual tumult and omnipresent curious throng that accompany every automobile accident. Then, beside the crumpled body of five-year-old Wesley Leske who was killed in the wreck, an unknown but compas sionate passerby knelt briefly in prayer, then disappeared in?the crowd. "N HE’S THE LEADER OF THE IRISH . . . John A. Costello (right), newly elected prime minister of Eire, is presented the seals of his ofifice by Sean T. O’Kelly, president of Eire, in an unobtrusive cere mony in the library of the president’s house. A six-party coalition which swept into control of the Irish assembly elected Costello premier and defeated the perennial Eamon de Valera who had been in offleo for 16 years. GOODBY OLD FAINT . . . With faithful Chicago police horses or dered to be sold at auction. Officer Richard L. Eldridge bids farewell to Tom, his sturdy mount in the screaming traffic of Chicago’s loop for three years. ROMANCE OF THE BELLS . . . Cast in Spain in the eighth century, an ancient bell with a romantic history has summoned McKendree college students to classes for nearly a century. The bell reposes in the dark belfry of the tower of the historic college chapel (above), which was built soon after the turn of the 19th century. IN THESE UNITED STATES Students Heed Aged Bell’s Call to Class for Century WHEAT KING . . . Tw J. F. Brensing of Hudson, Kan., went the honor of being named wheat king of his state after his wheat was selected as best by Kansas wheat improvement association. He also received Pillsbury wheat award for his achievement. PARDNERS . . . Happiest couple of the week were Sen. Glen H. Taylor (Dem., Ida.) (left) and Henry Wallace after Taylor an nounced that he was leaving the Democrats and would accept nomination as vice president on Wallace’s third party ticket. OFF THE COB . . . This photo graph of a sublimely hungry and happy G.I., snapped by M/Sgt. Leo H. Gillie of Wetumka, Okla., took second prize in a recent photo contest conducted by the army. MAN OF PRINCIPLE . . . Ste phen Kertesz, former Hungarian minister to Italy, turned down offer to become Hungary’s minis- tey of foreign affairs because be disagreed with Communist doc trines. Now he is in U. S. to study international law. WNU Features. LEBANON, ILL. — Oldest chapel bell in the United States is not the famed Lib erty Bell in Philadelphia or an aged bell from long-settled St. Augustine, Fla., but an an cient bell which has rung classes in and out of McKen dree college here for nearly a century. This fact is authenticated by his torical data, meager in spots, but fact nevertheless. The bell has a re corded history that dates back for centuries before founding of the Lebanon institution. The bell, which is located in the clock tower of the historic chapel building on the campus at McKen dree, a Methodist institution, has been used almost hourly to summon students to class ever since the col lege was a mere stripling of 30 years. But its sonorous voice was heard centuries before Colum bus braved the Atlantic to dis cover America. The vibrant toll of the bell first was heard in Spain, where historians say it was cast in the eighth century. Later it was recast in Spain and brought to Florida sometime in the 16th century. There are many unfilled gaps in the story of the bell’s turbulent his tory. From Florida it found its way to the Southwest during the histori cal era when the West was the last frontier of the country. In the 1850s a roving band of Santa Fe traders found the old bell, dated as to its arrival in America, in a deserted Indian mission in New Mexico. For some reason the heavy instru ment was brought to St. Louis, then the gateway city to the new coun try. Historians disagree as to whether or not the bell was recast or repaired in St. Louis. Anyway, the name, “Saint Louis,” is visible on the bell, as well as other symbols and insignia so corroded as to be almost undecipherable. Following its arrival in St. Louis, the bell was taken to Centralia, 111., in 1858, to be exhibited at the Illi nois state fair. Here it was pur chased for McKendree college by a Mr. Cobleigh, at that time president of the budding institution. The bell was taken to Lebanon and hoisted into the bell tower of the new chapel then under construction. Since then, it has reposed in the dark belfry of the tower above the building, where the' outside world little realizes the romance of its long history. Just how the bell served during its first century in America is un known. McKendree college, founded in 1828, is conceded to be one of the oldest colleges in the Mississippi basin, and one of the buildings, known as “Old Main,” is said to be the oldest assembly hall west of the Alleghenies. Very few people have seen the bell at its resting place high in the clock tower of McKendree’s chapel, for to reach it, a person must climb a series of ladders that lead upward to the darkened tower. STEVENS POINT, WIS.—For the first time, the practice cottage con- ducted for seniors in home econom ics at Central State Teachers col lege has male occupants. The three men, however, are not studying home economics but are husbands of three seniors in the course. Spending part of a semester as bccupants of the practice cottage is a requirement for home economics seniors. The idea, of course, is to put into practice what was preached Aged Evangeline Oak Receives Special Aid ST. MARTINVILLE, LA. — In an attempt to stimulate the aged tree, special tree food has been placed in the ground at the roots of historic Evangeline Oak, which stands on the banks of Bayou Teche near the old Atta- kapas trading post. About 100 pounds of a special preparation were embedded near the roots to overcome slight de terioration of the tree noted re cently. Broncho Busters Thrill Youngsters Of Old River Town CASSVILLE, WIS. — This is one town where the youngsters don’t have to go to the Saturday after noon movie to see their cowboy heroes. Some of the best broncho busters, trick ropers and bulldoggers in the country live right here in this Mis sissippi river village of 956 popula tion. To the delight of the town’s youngsters, they wear their big hats, fancy jackets, loud shirts and high-heeled cowboy boots around town whenever they are home from rodeos in New York, Chicago, Den ver, Pendleton, Salinas and other cities. The hard ridin’ hombres who give the village a touch of the rough and ready west are four members of the Buschbom family. They are Bill Buschbom Sr., 41, and his two sons. Jack, 20, and Bill Jr., 23, and Bill’s brother, Ted, 34. At present the Buschboms have more than 100 horses, some trained and some wild, and an assortment of bulls, steers and calves on their ranch near here. As usual, Cassville youngsters anxiously are awaiting tbe ad vent of spring. Then the Busch boms will spend a few weeks practicing bareback riding, rop ing and bulldogging steers in the field near the big barn be fore hitting the sawdust circuit. During those two weeks, Cassville mothers are going to have a hard time getting their pistol-packin’ cowboy sons home in time for meals. Jack Buschbom ranks as one of the top three or four bareback rid ers in the country, winning about $5,000 in prize money in that compe tition last year. Bill Jr. is one of the top ranking trick ropers. The father, a former bronc rider and bulldog- ger, now confines his activities al most exclusively to putting his 8 to 12 trained horses through their paces in his "liberty act” at major shows. Occasionally, however, the lure of his old calling impels him back into the ring for bulldogging contests and last year he won first place in a Mobridge, S. D., show. Uncle Ted also is a bulldogger. in the home ec classrooms. The three degree seekers, Lillian Korzilius, Elizabeth Paulson and Gloria Schultz, tried out their les sons on real, live husbands when Miss Bessie May Allen, department director, permitted the three cou ples to live in the house. Two of the husbands, Edward Korzilius and John Paulson, also are students in the college while the third, Louis Schultz, is employed in Stevens Point. Home Ec Students Practice on Husbands iwedish Schooner Lisa Of 1799Still Sailing Seas The Swedish schooner Lisa, built n 1799, claims to be the oldest sail- ng ship still in service. 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