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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. = ETERNAL VIGILANCE, NOT TELEGRAMS . . . There's Plenty to Take Care of at Home ... IS THE REAL PRICE OF LIBERTY H. I. PHILLIPS Letter to Telegram Senders Ladies and Gents: What is the sense in protesting against the use of a blackjack when at the same time you are pounding yourself on the head with six feet of lead pipe? Deluging state legis latures and the national congress with wires demanding that some thing be done about mock trials in the Kremlin pattern is all very well, but what about us all personally doing a little less cheering, hat tossing and voting here on home grounds for candidates for city, state, and national office who are known to be so far to the left that a slight breeze could send them over to the Moscow line? Huh? mmmM Ultiti tn// 'Pifjfffi// W HAT n death tnii a quiet night ol deeping AM at Cannes', intgotren, and all pain Our eyelids slttsed and shaken of then weeping. Out bodies waiting Orengrh to tome again We say good night to out beloved, then turning, Go thmugh the shadowy hall and up the Can The little light goes out that has been burning, We watch the Cars beyond the window square. Then, soft as nightfall on the meadow flowers. Sleep comes and bears us dreamles ly away. And red is sweer though long or shim the hours. Until we waken, and again ‘ns day. With its bright glory, and its sudden splendor. And. dazzled by the golden light chat spills. We will anse. all lithe and On mg and slendet And young again, to climb the golden hills Is there anything screwier than expressing indignation over the Cardinal Mindszenty outrage, with its threat to religion everywhere on earth under communism, and then taking it on the double to the polls to vote into office leaders who are not wholeheartedly for the American way? * . Eternal vigilance Is the price of liberty, not eternal tele grams. Americans mast wage this fight at the polls not at the Western Union offices. Bal lots, not wires or postcards are Uncle Sam’s first line of de fense if he is really indignant over that Hungary trial and wants to make sure that no coart routines of that type ever come to America. If I were a congressman I would answer all wires with a terse, "Re ceived your telegram urging me do something. Fine idea. What are you doing besides sending wires? Are you by any chance among those millions of easily- fooled folks who by word, deed or vote make the way easy for the Communist routine in America? Don’t answer too fast Sit down and give your conscience a good check ing up." • This country’s Number One Loons are the boys and gals who think they can stop the "reds” and “pinkos’’ by Western Union instead of by an all-out determination never to support for any office (govern ment, labor union or chowder club) any candidate who has a smile for the Kremlin way. All Russia laugh up its sleeve at that kind of hy pocrisy. They love it and count on it. And they have been getting it from plenty of telegram senders. • Ton can’t stop by wire an evil which yon are not trying to stop by your own love of country and mental alertness. It makes no sense. I don’t mean to lay off telegrams of protest against persecutions of the church and defiance of all the rules of human justice. They help. But you’re just performing in a squirrel cage if you rush off a wire of indignation in the morning and dash off in the afternoon to vote in to office some crumb you know very well is the type who might play footsie with Pal Joey. • There is ro percentage in yelling for the eradication of rats and at the same time voting for looser storage of sharp cheese. Yours for a little horse sense, ELMER TWITCHELL • • • Cuff Stuff Ima Dodo has a cold and says she thinks she sat in the Atlantic Draft • Herbert Hoover is in Washington striving for a little economy in gov ernment. This establishes him as the country’s foremost optimist . • Secretary Acheson says Wash ington Is sympathetic toward China In its present plight, but will not Issue a statement on It Anything Uncle Sam might say now. In view of the many changes tn attitude, would seem Chinese to aU. • We heard a fellow complain that there has been such a slump that a fellow can no longer make a dis honest dollar. • King George will name a royal commission to look into gambling in Britain. A rumor has reached the Palace that wagering on the horses, dogs, etc., has been going on around the empire. • • • Joe Di Maggio has signed tor some $90,000 a year or around $15,000 a month to play baseball in the warm months. These are times when we can refer to a rich man as a fellow with a bat. STAR DUST Bette Davis Made It on Her Own By INEZ GERHARD B ETTE DAVIS, according to latest reports, was the movies’ high est paid woman star of 1948. Yet, when she first tackled Hollywood practically no one, exbept Bette her self, would have thought she had the ghost of a chance to get any where niar the top. She was not pretty; her figure was not espe cially good. Hollywood swarmed BETTE DAVIS with very beautiful girls, many of them with influence that counted in their favor. But she had what counted—belief in her own talent, determination to get ahead, willing ness to take roles the pretty girls wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole. She deserves every penny of her salary. A quartet of gay comedies worth remembering if you like to laugh— “A Foreign Affair,” (Dietrich, Jean Arthur, Lund) “June Bride,” <Davis, Robert Montgomery) "A Letter to Three Wives” and “Fam ily Honeymoon.” Pity Penny Morgan, who con ducts more than 300 auditions a week to weed out the talent for Arthur Godfrey’s “Talent Scoots.” Everywhere she goes entertainers appear and try to Impress bet with their talent. Even when she stays home there is no respite. “I even have a singing mailman and a tap dancing grocery boy," she com plained the other day. When “My Friend Irma" reaches the screen, via Paramount, Marie Wilson will have the role she plays on the air. Diana Lynn will be •Jane,’’ John Lund will be Marie’s friend, Don DeFore will be the millionaire who falls in love with Diana. Martin and Lewis, the comedy team, will appear—not too often, let's hope—as a pair of am- oitious actors. 'C/ce' FICTION Cotnec GENERAL JAKE By Richard Hill Wilkinson M aybe you’ve heard of this old wardog Gen. Jake Sears. You must have. He’s been cited for bravery a dozen times. Consid ered one of the finest officers in the army, knows all the answers, as far as strategy is concerned. Smart. A hero. Well, maybe he was a hero. I sup pose any soldier is a hero who knocks the devil out of the enemy, no matter how he does it. That’s war. Still somehow I’d always had a notion that a hero was one who braved odds. Queer the ideas kids get. Queer the way they stick with a chap as he grows older. At v any rate, I was with Old General Jake’s outfit at Lameraux. Remember Lameraux? Sure, General Jake got his biggest medal for what hap pened at Lameraux. Well, sir, the day before the Boche moved in—of course we didn’t know it was the day be fore until later—up comes a messenger from headquarters with Instructions for General Jake to hold Lameraux as long as he could. I mean, headquar ters knew General Jake’s tac tics, and they didn’t want him walking out without some show of resistance. General Jake smiled thinly to himself and tore the orders into little pieces and threw the pieces away. And then the next day the Germans moved in. We had ample warning. Everything was in readi ness for a hasty and efficient re treat. Of course, the smart thing to do was blow up the bridge, which offered the only means of approach, before quitting the village, there by impeding the Germans no end. Everyone expected orders to that effect, but General Jake had a sly look in his eyes. He was thinking of those orders from headquarters, I guess, and thinking what folks might say if he retreated as he planned. So instead of ordering the bridge blown up, he issued some hurried instructions. Then he started the retreat. Two miles up the road he circled the outfit and headed back through some woods. We waited at the edge of the woods for an hour, watching the Germans cross the bridge into the village. Then Gen eral Jake sent a messenger scam pering off to the field station he had established. Ten minutes later there was a terrific explosion. Hie bridge flew into the air like kindling wood. The Germans who were on the Lamer aux side stared in amazement, but their amazement gave way to con cern, for just then General Jake’s boys came swarming out of the woods. What followed was pretty aw ful, even for a war. Our men abered those Germans who had crossed the bridge about three to one. We had the advantage of knowing just what we were to do and having a flock of machine guns set up ready for use. By the time the slaughter was finished and our own wounded cared for and the outfit organized again, the body of Germans left on the other side of the river had built a pontoon bridge, and what with this and boats and rafts they were coming across with murder in their eyes. But General Jake had planned everything. Before the first of the remaining body of Germans touched the Lameraux side of the river we were in retreat, and a fast retreat at that, although there was plenty of time and nothing much to worry about That Evening we reached the town of La Roche, which was oc cupied by plenty of our boys, and there we made camp. I don’t know exactly what sort of report General Jake turned in at headquarters, but I do know that he was cited for the Lameraux episode not long after. That’s the sort of thing that makes a war hero, I guess. At any rate, that’s the rank Gen eral Jake goes by now—war hero. Across 1 Obese 4 Coniferous tree 7 Trip 8 Elliptical 10 Male duck 11 Royal 13 Trouble 14 Question 16 Exist 17 Bachelor of Medicine (abbr.) 18 Fuss 19 Amazon estuary 21 Type measure 22 Misrep resents 24 Country, SW Europe 27 Italian poet 28 Spanish conqueror of Mexico 30 Greek letter 31 Confederate 32 Often (poet.) 34 From 36 Sun god 37 Scotch river 38 Obstacle 39 A marsh bird 42 Left-hand page of a book 44 Hauled 45 Send forth, as rays 46 Girl’s nickname 47 Alcoholic beverage Dowa 1 Colt 2 Flightless bird 9 Step 4 City (Pa.) 5 Evening (poet.) 6 A wit 7 Neat and tidy 9 Inserted lip ornament 10 Peck 12 Rent under contract 15 Weep con vulsively 18 Friendship 19 Any flower 20 Japanese aborigine (var.) 21 Nobleman 23 Editor (abbr.) 24 Wound marks No. 25 25 Country, N. Europe 26 Northeast (abbr.) 29 Girl’s name 33 High tem perature 34 Malt kiln 35 Back 37 Covered with dew 38 Edge of a hat 40 Vex 41 Size of coal 43 Ostrichlike bird Aiuwer to Paula Number M aaaa asaoi saaaa uaaaa aaama aaoaa ana uua Ban na aauHa na aaaa amuuau □□□ auu unDamD aaaa au annan au □aa ana nao □BDaui auatia aamBQ □□□ub Mutifci uuati Series K—48 KATHLEEN NORRIS Block That Divorce NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS Democracy Out of Chaos B RUCE BARTON has been a friend of mine for many years. He was a congressman represent ing a New York City district. Ac companied by Mrs. Patterson, I called at his Washington office in the house office building and asked if he would assign one of his young lady assistants to the job of escort ing my wife to the seriate and house galleries so she might see the legislative - branch of her gov ernment in action. I saw Mrs. Patterson again about 4 o'clock that afternoon. She was almost in tears and could not talk with out a tremble in her voice. I asked the cause. “I’m badly dis appointed and greatly discouraged by what I have seen. I cannot con ceive of the nation PATTERSON continuing to live with such men run ning it," she said. In the senate one senator was making a speech. There were not more than a dozen senators in the chamber ind none ,of them was paying any attention to the speak er. Some were reading newspapers. Others in small groups were talk ing among themselves. There was no deconun, no dignity, no interest. “In the house of representatives it was different, but more discour aging. There it was a rabble. Every one was talking and interrupting every other one. It was senseless. I had expected to see two great de liberative bodies, the membership of which represented the brains of our nation; to be thrilled and en thused by their deliberations. I was not. I was only discouraged by 4 rabble.” The lady had built up a wrong conception. She had envisioned a gathering of supermen who would deliberate with great and austere dignity; whose every word would represent wisdom and statesmanship ability. But if we did have such a mem bership of both the senate and house, they would not represent government “of, for and by the people.” What she had seen has in the past, represented America and that for which America stands—and always will. In the membership of the two houses of congress are to be found the types we have in every community. They are typical of the people they represent. As it has been in the past, is now, and will be in the future, there are to be found a limited few of outstanding ability in each congress, but the vast ma jority are the types that are our real Americans. Congress is, as it should be, but a national town meeting. It has been that since the begin ning of the federal government. It is that now, and let us hope It continues to be a national town meeting. As long as it is that, ours will be a government “of, for and by the people.” As she looked at thfe indifference displayed in the senate and the pan demonium in the house, Mrs. Pat terson did not realize that the real work of both bodies is done behind committee room doors. That in those committees careful considera tion is given each piece of proposed legislation. All too frequently that consideration is based, not always on the best interests of a majority of the people, but often on partisan advantage, on the number of votes t will attract for party candidates it the next election. That is a flaw created by self ish political interests inherent in our two-party system. It does not spring from any defect in the federal constitution. With all of that, government “of, for and by the people,” as repre sented by congress, is far supe rior to the rule of an army of bureaucrats, directed by a dic tator. They may not be able statesmen; they may not be men of exceptional ability; but as long as we have the Joe Doaks, the Bill Smiths, the Jack Browns and the Mary Lees representing us at Washington, we will continue to have government “of, for and by the people.” They are the average Americans. Bruce Barton conducted an ad vertising agency before his election to congress and is again back on his old job after four years in the limelight. He was, and is, a repre sentative American. He is typical. * • • It began as the Marshall plan, then it became ERP, to which has been added EGA, OEE, OUSSP, PAB, ACFMP and MACIMFP. What they all mean I do not know, except that they are parts of the Marshall plan operations, resulting in com plications in America and confusion in Europe. They also add many hundreds to our government pay rolls plus travel and living ex penses in Europe. • • • Stalin makes a bid for time; not for peace. . . . Consider expenditures . remain all their wedded lives in a state of supreme indifference and ignorance on those points. What they want is the money and nothing else. And some of them urge a man into actual dishonesties in their eagerness for money. Once the money point is settled satisfactorily, the marriage is halfway to success. Girls before marriage ought to be encouraged to work out budgets, to consider ex penditures. The Cutter marriage was on the rocks 11 years ago this year. Every thing was wrong with it. The four expensive apartment-house rooms, the two exacting babies who started coughing in November and didn’t stop until April. The surveillance of Jim’s mother. The money short age. And all the details that dust, didies, dishes, disgust and dis illusionment could supply. The Cutters talked of divorce. But how? If Jim couldn’t support his family in one unit, how could he support it in two? Quarreling Stops Then the older baby got polio and Jim and Nancy were awakened. The carping, scolding, quarreling stopped like magic. Mother and father turned to the task of saving little Beverley. Beverley needed sunshine. So they drove out into the least fash ionable of Toledo's suburbs and bought two acres and a shanty for $1,300. The house had electricity, but no bathroom, no furnace, no luxuries. “Freedom—don’t we all love it— and I was free!” she writes me. “No telephone, no outside interests at all. Just Boppo, who was two when we went out there, and Bev getting well visibly, and Jim com ing home a new man. He put our floor-heaters in, he got the garden into shape, he brought in the first two of my handsome brood of chick ens in Ids pocket—tiny peepers to amuse Bev. In 1940 we mortgaged ourselves to the tune of $19,000 and built two five-room cottages on the front of our place. They are com pletely separate from us, and they bring in $200 a month. Jim says nothing on earth can keep us from being snug and secure. « • • “Well, we aren’t worried about that. We’re happy. "I look back at our life a few fears ago,” the letter ends, “and I don’t seem to be the same woman. That other woman always was try ing to push her life aside and live in some dream. It took terror, poverty, change to awaken her. Ours isn’t one of the sensational American stories. It wouldn’t have mattered to anyone if our marriage had ended in divorce and our family been scattered to try all sorts of miserable makeshifts. Vegetable Motif Adds Cheer '■- r yf. Bell Syndicate—WNU Features S AVE YOUR MARRIAGE if you can. Partly because mar riage is the very root and basis of our civilization, but partly, too, because there is no compan ionship or happiness in the world like that of a man and woman who have achieved a successful mar riage. Don’t think of your relationship with your husband as a fact ac complished, finished, settled, never to change. Think of it as being constantly in a state of develop ment, up or down, for better or worse. Either your marriage is a more perfect thing today than it was a year ago or it is a less per fect one. Which is it? Don’t let it get into an unimagi native rut, a daily pounding along at distasteful drudgery. And don’t let its only bright moment be es cape—the radio, the movies, par ties, murder stories. Make it in itself the core of your happiness, the 'center from which aU these amusements and activities spring. Easier said than done? Of course. But marriage, like anything else worth while, is a slow, hard, de manding job. And its success or failure is far more in the hands of the woman than the man. Money Is The Root Finances are of first importance and most wives fail in one of two particulars there and some fail i:i both. First, the wife won’t keep expenses down to budget lines. And second, she takes no interest in how the money is made. This last, and it is the most com mon failing, is peculiar to American women. 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