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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
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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?
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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.
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FICTION
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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.
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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
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2 Flightless
bird
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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
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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
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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. European wives share
every moment of a man’s care,
anxiety, doubt. They know who the
customers are, what taxes and
rent are, what the man’s hopes and
plans are. But some of our women
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A story is told of the attorney
who flew to the west coast to try
an important case. Before leav
ing he promised to wire his part
ner in New York the moment a
decision was reached.
After weeks of anxious waiting
the wire arrived—“Justice has
triumphed.”
The partner wired back: “Ap
peal at once.”
IN THE BOTTLE
Drunk (moaning at the bar):
“It’s terrible, terrible, terrible,
the cost of living has gone up to
$4.18 a quart.”
For Harassed Husbands
“Daddy, what is leisure?”
asked the child.
“My boy,” replied the sire,
“leisure is the two minutes’ rest
a man gets while his wife thinks
up something for him to do.”
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