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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C Washington Di9CSt; Autumn Offers Many Joys For the Faithful Beholder By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON, D. C.—You are reading these lines, I trust, not too long after the autumnal equinox, which I hone you celebrated with the proper ceremonies. The word equinox is Latin for “equal night” which implies equal day. All over the earth there is that kind of equality at this time. Thus the Creator established equality of such nice perfection that neither the strongest telescope nor the most accurate micrometer can question it. Equality was some thing that had no measure of weight until the philoso phers proclaimed it and until it was preached to the western world by a lowly carpenter’s son of Nazareth. We worked near ly 2,000 years be fore a politick! goal embodying this philosophy was written into the Constitution of a nation — the United States. It is an unachieved goal but one more nearly reached here than anywhere else in the world—fellow travelers to the contrary, notwithstanding. Strangely enough, the one idea chiefly associated with equality of day and night—the equinox—has been proved utterly unfounded. For a long time it was generally ac cepted (and is still believed by many) that violent storms which were given the name, “equinoxial gales” are prevalent at this season. Suppose you were to approach the 10 men—or twenty or thirty —who have spent the most time studying this particular subject, gathering all the facts, check ing all the records available, as long as authentic records have existed. If you asked them if it is true that there are especially bad storms at this time of year, they would answer (in carefully worded and virtually under standable sentences) “That is the blink!** At the equinox the sun is in the process of crossing the celestial equator. That is the circle parallel to our equator which, if expanded would touch the sun. The sun does this in the spring (vernal equinox) and in the fall (autumnal equinox). At this srason, if you live in my neighborhood (or within several hundred miles thereof) you will heed this piece of advice in the Hagerstown (Md.) Almanack which says: “The ravages of the tent cat erpillars go unnoticed by many persons until the leaves are eaten from a tree. Naturally it makes extra work for the tree to produce another set of new leaves, which weakens the tree, and alter a few years of this extra work, the tree is in dan ger of dying. “The greatest natural enemy of the tent caterpillar is the common house wren. These are valuable birds to have in your gardens during the growing sea son.” And now after that piece of ad vice, which i4 not seasonal for my friends "down under” where the autumnal equinox heralds the com ing of summer and not fall and win ter, let us return to our meteoro logical mutton. I will not become technical but I think it is just as well to get better acquainted with the phenomena, natural and otherwise, which sur round us. There is no reason why, if one rises late in the night to let the cat in (or out) he need crack a shin on a chair, once he understands why and in what position his wife has moved it since he last noticed its location—and the stars are just celestial furniture. What In Thin Thing * ‘Retrograde Motion’? There is a certain “retrograde motion” from east to west of the equinoxial points, which I won't go into in detail for several reasons, one being that I haven't the slight est idea what the phrase means. Nevertheless, I will mention that retrograde motion was discovered by a gentleman by the name of Hipparchus in the year (about) 120 before Christ. Experts say this mo tion accounts for the changes in the position <}f the Pole star, the North Star as it is usually called. Some people think the Pole star doesn’t change. A number of im portant people since Hipparchus have thought so. Take one, William Shakespeare. Remember in Act III of Julius Caesef when a petition for repeal of the disenfranchisement of Publius Cimber is presented? Cassius drops to his knees to beg for the repeal but Caeser says: “I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, pray ers would move me: But I am constant as the north ern star. Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality There is no fellow in the firma ment. The skies are painted with un number’d sparks. They are all ‘fire and every one doth shine, But there’s but one in all doth hold his place . . .” Perhaps Shakespeare had never read Hipparchus. (Some say he couldn’t read but if so, where did he get his plots?) Anyhow, Hippar chus said, (and nobody has dis- proved his theory) that the position of the Pole star does change (from our viewpoint). One authority ex plains it this way: “The pole of the earth is swing ing slowly as if it were the axis of a top, or as if the earth, rotating, were a kind of gyroscope.” The study of what is called the "pre cession of the equinoxes” (their moving backward in relation to the constellations) is fascinating. But I have no intention of reading a lec ture on astronomy here—for sev eral reasons, including the one mentioned before. But I do want to mention some things which George Stimson (with whom I have just been talking i brought up. You remember George? He comes from Anamosa, Iowa, where he has just been spend ing a wonderful vacation with his mother who, at 77, does her own cooking because she likes it bet ter (and, according to George, for good reasons) than anyone’s else. George, to whom most Wash ingtonians turn when they want the right answer, says that rec ords for a period of 50 years show that there were actually fewer storms during the period between September 20 and 25 (which overlaps the equinox) than there were immediately preceding September 25. The same, he says, is true of the vernal equinox. “The notion about equinoxial storms in one form or another,” says George, "dates back to at least 1748 and probably originated among seafaring people.” All this information is in his “Book About a Thousand Things” and if I had thought to look it up first I wouldn’t have interrupted him in his work on his book about a thousand (or more) things regard ing American history which will be his next opus and which I’m willing to say in advance of publication is going to be good. So much for the equinoxes, with whom, since we meet them twice a year, we ought to get better ac quainted. Blackjack Pernhing’n Life and Timen Speaking of books, Col. Frederick Palmer sent me his latest book en titled “General John J. Pershing.” It was written some time ago, re cently brought up to date after Pal mer’s last interview with Pershing, but in accordance with the author’s stipulation, was not published until after Pershing’s death. “It was not to be submitted to him or to appear in the light of an official biography or one authorized by his heirs.” This is stated in the foreword and Palmer elaborated on his attitude to me during a luncheon shortly before the book appeared. Colonel Palmer is the elder statesman of the war correspond ents. But years are of small ac count to him. He is pert, active and his memory is phenomenal. I knew of him in connection with the Russo- Japanese war although at the time of that conflict my military experi ence was limited to playing with a painted fleet of warships. The warships were a Christ mas present received while I was still building with blocks and shooting Indians with bows made of umbrella ribs and drill ing in an infant cadet corps. Later I came to know a colleague of Palmer’s in that war which gave Japan the toe-hold in the Far East that made her "the power she was in World War II. His colleague was Photographer Jimmy Hare, the dean of his clan for many decades. The Pershing book I have not read at this writing but as soon as I do I’ll tell you about it. • • • What a wonderful three - point landing, said the little kangaroo to its mother. • - » • Although the special session of congress was mad at the President for calling them back, they gave the reading of his proclamation assembling them a tribute rare in history. They stood up while it was read. They got up because they thought the invocation was about to be made and they didn't like to sit down and reveal their error. • • • There may be a new King o( Spain. Nice work if you c*n get away with it. Baukhage RULING CLASS . . . Those kings and queens just keep on coming aroftnd. Holland’s new titular head is Queen Juliana, who ac ceded to the throne upon the ab dication of 68-year-old Queen Wilhelmina, Juliana’s consort is Prince Bernhard (right). WATER BOY . . . Searching for new worlds to conquer, indus trialist Henry J. Kaiser has turned to sports. With Arno Apel (left), speedboat designer, he will seek world’s speedboat rec ord with a craft built for speeds up to 160 miles per hour. MINIATURE . . . Probably the world’s youngest golfer is 2-year- old Robert MaUick Jr„ of Pitts burgh. He has been golfing ever since he was given a set of toy clubs on his first Christmas. Now he plays with a solid-shaft iron mashie. CZECH OUT . . . Bofaus Benes, nephew of the late Edward Benes, resigned his post as Czechoslova kian consul in San Francisco in protest against “a regime of Red fascism.” He has been in the U. S. since 1942. BROTHER KONRAD . . . Kon rad Goebbels, brother of the late Nazi propaganda minister, Jo seph Goebbels, has gone on trial In the Darmstadt, Germany, denazification court as a Nazi “major offender.” HENRY IN THE LAND OF COTTON . . . Henry Wallace. Progressive party presidential candidate, fared but ill daring his campaign tour through the South when he discovered that the people there weren’t having any of the political ideas that be preached. As a relief from the moral batiering he was taking from his southern audiences, Wallace turned now and then to more basic things. Here, at Boas, Ala., he talks about cotton with Robert Knott who has 20 acres of it and ought to know something about it. REFLECTIONS OF HOPE ... Wherever there are bars there are hopeful, longing faces peering through them. These people are citizens of Berlin, not Imprisoned but simply watching through the fence around the Allied control council in the German capital as the Allied and Soviet military governors were meeting once more in an effort to ease the dangerous situation in that city. And the amtiety on these faces is the anxiety of the world, possibly excepting the' Russians, who seem to be doing all they can to promote more anxiety. THEY WON IT AGAIN . . . Here are the members of the U. S. Davis cup team who again clinched the classic tennis trophy for the United States by virtue of victories over Australia in matches held at Forest Hills, N. Y. Left to right are: Frank Parker, BUI Talbert, Alrick Mann, non-playing captain; Gardner Mulloy and Ted Schroeder. They are posed with the handsome trophy which they retained for the U. S. without being put to too much trouble. Winning the Davis cu^ matches has become a habit with American teams in recent years. CALL OF THE WILD . . . The skeptical reader may entertain some doubt about this, but there is supposed to be a new 1949 Nash automo- bUe in that big box. Also, this picture would lead one to believe that the Eskimos, who customarily travel by dogsled—like the one displayed here—are agog with impatience as they wait for the wraps to be torn from the new car so they can tell It to mush. (Editor’s Note: While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Washington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old part ner, Robert S. Allen.) Lewis May Retire JOHN L. LEWIS intimates are whispering a startling report about him. They say he is seriously consicb ering retiring as president of the United Mine Workers at the union's October 2 convention in Cincinnati. Poor health is given as Lewis’ reason. The 68-year-old miner czar has had a number of sick spells in the last few years. He is suffering from a circulatory ailment that af fects the heart. The past two months Lewis was in seclusion at a Mon tana health resort, on the. advice »f his doctors. It Lewis steps down, he will do so at the peak of his power and with his union larger and more prosperous than at any time in its stormy history. Min ers are drawing more pay than ever before, receive bigger pen sions, and the UMW treasury bulges with more than 10 mil- Uon doUars in government se curities. In the event Lewis quits, his suc cessor will be UMW Vice President Tom Kennedy. Short, quiet-man nered, soft-spoken and friendly, he is the direct antithesis to the tur bulent and melodramatic Lewis. But the two men are very close. Lewis’ retirement plan, accord ing to intimates, does not include complete separation from the UMW. He will retain an active hold on its affairs. Campaign Bombshell President Truman is quietly nursing a bombshell he will de tonate during his western cam paign tour. It will be the announcement that a number of reclamation projects will have to be shut down because the G.O.P.-con- trolled congress failed to pro vide sufficient funds. Top among these projects are Boysen in Wyoming, Heart river and An gostura in the Dakotas. The President will charge this is an other example of congressional disregard of public welfare. Morb Fuels Assured The outlook is very promising for more fuels this coming winter than Jast. Barring some unexpected upset, the supply of coal, oil and natural gas will be from 10 tn 20 per cent greater than last wirter. Certain sections may encounter shortages but the country generally will have enough winter fuqis to meet normal needs. Of the three major fuels, coal is in best supply. Reserve stocks are now so ample that restric tions on foreign export were re moved September 1. Fuel oil output is now 10 per cent above that of last year—an increase slightly above the expansion in use ot this fuel. Also, reserve stocks are considerably ahead of 1947. If everyone uses restraint, there will be enough fuels for all this winter. • • • Biting the Hand . .. The Greek government ooesn’t like the salaries the U. S. is paying its Greek aid mission officials. This money comes from U. S. tax payers, the same as the remaindei of the $500,000,000 the U. S. is pour ing into Greece for recovery and military purposes. Also, the two toughest prob lems confronting aid officials are to try to get the Greek gov ernment to impose a just tax on its wealthy classes and to lop off thousands of drones on the government payroll. Notwithstanding all this, the Greek national economy commis sion, at a recent meeting, sharply assailed U. S. mission pay scales. The commission was particularly outraged by one salary for $12,000 a year and another for $10,000. These were held "out of proportion not only in re’ation to the salaries of local employees but also to those which the U. S. pays its highest officers.” m m m Best’Selling Diary The U. S. government is profiting very handsomely from the diary of the late and unlamented Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minis ter. To date, the publication has netted the alien property custodian over $300,000. Found by a German in Ber lin’s rubble, the manuscript was initially traded for 16 cartons of cigarettes. For a while, it looked like the lucky American publisher would make a big killing from book mag azine and newspaper sync :ation sales. But Asst. Atty. Gen. David Bazalon stepped in and claimed the work as U. S. property. It has been paying off to the U. S. treasury since. WALKIE-TALKIE STATIC The FCC announces that it is about ready to license individuals for walkie-talkie. Quantity produc tion of these radio contrivances is near, it would appear that it is not only going to be hard to get off by yourself and away from everybody, but almost impossible. * People with walkie-talkies strapped on them can communicate with one another over fairly long distances and we fear the worst. The wife who had to wait un til he got home to supper now can start talking to her hus band on the fourteenth hole, down at Gilligan’s bar or even when he is in a rowboat fishing under the tin bridge. And a husband can crash right through into any cocktail party or bridge game where the wife is hiding out. • Junior’s happiness Will be limited further. Just as he reaches the oT s^fimmin’ hole, mom can demand by walkie-talkie, “Where are you and what are you doing?” * Everybody will be able to start gabbing with somebody else on a mere whim. Talk is going to be not only cheap but unavoidable. (It might be wise to ration it) m The fellow who invented radio started something. And the finish is getting pretty hectic. There was a time when a man’s home was his castle, but it has been a communication bureau for a quarter of a century. The “hush of the fireside” is extinct. But ui> to now the old man could hide out behind the barn or exe cute a runout by sneaking off to watch the excavations for the new chain grocery. • There is some comfort in knowing that the FCC will require walkie- talkie addicts to have a license. This will limit the talking somewhat. But what will be the punishment if a fellow talks without a license? Will he have his right to scuttle- butt suspended for 30 days? * The walkie-talkie is expected to be of great help in operating a farm or ranch. The Lone Ranger, we take it, no longer will be lonely. He will have all the privacy of a man engaged in an open debate in Madison Square garden. * Heigh ho. Silver! Are ya lissenin’? • • • Special Delivery Service A new stamp in memory of Babe Ruth is proposed. This department suggests that it be a special delivery stamp, as something is desperately needed that will lit such letters over the fences of snafu in our post al department, especially in the matter of special delivery, for which the higher rates are asked. * To cover up shortcomings in the special delivery service, the postmaster general recently ordered that Important record ings of the delivery be aban doned. It is now almost impos sible to trace their course with accuracy. This department re- . cently mailed two letters spe cial delivery at a cost of 19 cents each. One of them got through in good time; the other hasn’t arrived yet. • • • Ever since the post office issued that new chicken stamp it seems to Elmer Twitchell that the post office pens have more feathers In them. « • • The U. N. discloses that while all the other nations to whom we loaned billions in World War I now have scratched the debts from their ledgers, the United States still carries them on our balance sheet. Washington still believes in good fairies and for lorn hopes, regardless of the expense. * • » Axis Sally, a young woman who broadcast for Hitler and told U. S. soldiers they were fools for fighting, is back in this country on treason charges. But the present picture in this country being so cockeyed, it would not surprise us if she ran on a political ticket, denounced con gress, defied questioners and charged that proceedings against her were a red herring. • • • It strikes this department that if congressional committees really in tend to concentrate in a serious way on identifying everybody in Wash ington who lied in the last 14 years, the exposures will have to take place in Yankee stadium. • • • "Reno May Cloze Its 23 Legal Brothels.”—Headline. * Every once in e while that city amazes the country by reflecting a slight tendency to become de cent. CLASSIFIED DE P A R T M ENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. eta r* A OCJXT'XT/'iTfW BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. 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