Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. T HE REAL TRUTH about the Soviet cabinet shakeup is that no British or American observer really knows what's going on in side the Kremlin—and this in cludes our super-secret military in telligence men as well. The iron curtain around the Krem lin is almost impenetrable, and all the speculation as to what the Molotov-Vishinsky shift means was nothing more than that—mere spec ulation. There was a time when the United States was able to get reasonably accurate inside-Krem- lin information from the Czechs and the Poles but since the Czech Communist purge and the tighten ing up in Poland, those sources have dried up. However, if past precedents are any criterion, the Russians will not take the north Atlantic pact lying down. They are more than likely to move—and may move in the opposite direction. That is behind feverish Amer ican plans to fortify Iran, also be hind U. S. Ambassador John Wiley’s frantic cables from Teher an. He seems convinced the Rus sians will move there next. “S.O.B.” User Rebuked The vice-president of the United States isn’t advertising it, but he once participated in a severe note of censure of a congressman who used the same S. O. B. initials re cently used by the President of the United States. The vote of censure was tak en against Rep. Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat of Texas. Passed unanimously by the house of representatives when Alben Barkley was a member, the resolution stated: “Whereas Thomas L. Blanton . . . inserted in the Congressional Record, a letter which was in decent, obscene, vulgar and vile; “Whereas the said Thomas L. Blanton . . . has offered an in dignity to the house and to the people represented by the mem bership in congress . . . for which he deserves the severest rebuke and drastic censure, therefore be It "Resolved that the speaker of the house is hereby directed to summon him to the bar of the house and deliver to him its repri mand and censure.” The obscene matter which Blan ton had inserted in the Record on Oct. 22, 1921, was a letter written by Millard French, an employee in the government printing office, addressed to George H. Carter, public printer. The letter con tained the abbreviation S. O. B. Narrowly Escaped Ouster Nevertheless, Blanton escaped being expelled from congress by only an eight-vote margin. A total of 293 congressmen voted to expel him. Among those in congress at the time were such close friends of President Truman as James P. Byrnes, later Tru man’s secretary of state; Tom Connally of Texas, now chair man of the senate foreign rela tions committee; Speaker Sam Rayburn, and Vice President Barkley. All the above voted to expunge Blanton’s S. O. B. abbreviation from the record but none of the above opposed the resolution of censure, though they did not vote to expel The attack against Blanton was led by the late Rep. Frank Mon- dell of Wyoming and Nicholas Longworth, late speaker of the house, also now deceased. Mondell, urging that Blanton be expelled, said: “Anyone uttering in public anywhere the words placed in the Congresional Record by the mem ber from Texas should be subject to fine and imprisonment. While we cannot repeat the words which form the basis of this charge, it can be said that they are unspeak ably foul, vile, filthy, profane, blasphemous, and obscene.” After the resolution of censure was voted, Blanton was called be fore the speaker’s rostrum, where Speaker Fred Gillett stated: "I have been directed to cen sure you because, when you had been allowed by the cour tesy of the house to print a speech, you inserted in it foul and obscene matter . . . and that disgusting matter was f transmitted as part of the pro ceedings of the house to thou sands of homes and libraries throughout the country to be read by men and women, and, worst of all, by children. In ac cordance with the instructions of the house and as its rep resentative, I pronounce upon you its censure.” As Blanton left the floor of the house he collapsed in the corridor, struck his head on the marble floor and had to be assisted to his office Who’d Pay the Bill? S HOULD PRESIDENT TRU MAN'S proposed social se curity amendments be passed by congress, what would be some of the results and who would pay the bill? Here’s what would happen: On July 1, of this year, the employer would take from each employee’s pay envelope per cent of his pay. The employer would add to that another lt6 per cent as his part. As an illustration, let us presume the employee is paid $50 a week, and is employed in a sewing mach ine plant. Let’s say the normal price of the machine he is produc ing is $30 and he is credited with producing two machines each week When that 75 cents is taken from his pay envelope he would object and demand a full $50 as a weekly “take home” pay, and, to prevent a strike, be would get the raise and the employer would pay both the employer’s and the employee’s payroll tax, amounting to $1.50 a week, on the production of two machines, or 75 cents per ma chine. THAT TAX, being part of the construction cost of those machines, would be added to the selling price to the wholesaler. It would mean 75 cents added to the manufactur er’s price of each machine, making it $30.75 per machine to the whole saler. That is inflation. The wholesaler has em ployees, too. He, too, would take m per cent from each employee’s pay envelope. That employee, too, would demand and get a 75-cent-a-week raise that his “take home” pay may remain at $50 per week. The employer also would add an other m per cent to that of the employee as his share of the payroll tax. Thus, the wholesal er would add 75 cents to his cost of operation and add that 75 cents to the price of a sew ing machine that now sells at $31.50. That is more inflation. The retailer would have the same experience as the manufacturer and the wholesaler and would up his price to the consumer in order to offset his increased cost created by that payroll tax. The sewing machine which normally would be sold to the consumer for $30 now would sell for $32.25, all of the increase being taxes. The payroll tax would be responsible for the inflated price and the consumer would be doing all the paying. The consumer would be paying for checks those employees would, in time, receive from social security THOSE WHO receive social se curity checks now, or will receive them sometime in the future, loud ly acclaim the President’s proposal to increase the payroll tax and to increase the amount of those monthly payment checks. They do not think of the inevitable result of such proposals on the dreaded national inflation—or who is do ing and will continue to do the paying. It is a question of how much of such taxing and paying the nation can stand. Today, just about one-third of each income- dollar received by each of us is taken away by taxes. Much of it, like the payroll taxes pro posed, is “hidden” and we do not fully realize who pays them. They constitute a major portion of what we call the high cost of living. They represent inflation, those high prices for everything we buy and about which we are bitterly complaining. Enactment of the President’s pro posals into law would mean more and higher prices and more infla tion. THE ADDED COST, when ap plied to but one item of mer chandise does not seem much, but the total is staggering and we con sumers will pay all of that vast sum. As an average, taxes—local, state and federal—are taking from each average family of five around $1,500 a year, or an average of $300 for each individual. Some portion of that is included in the price of every thing we buy. The proposed additional payroll tax would be added to what we are now paying and we will pay it in the same way, as a part of the price of everything we buy. wheth er it be a sewing machine, an auto mobile, a refrigerator, a suit of clothes, shoes, food or any neces sity or luxury. Do we want to pay? • • • The Los Angeles Times found a new way to illustrate what the ex pending of billions on the part of government means to the American people. Last yea"r the production of all California mines, including oil, amounted to a value of $1,099,- 703,000. The California budget for the next fiscal year totals $1,066,- 187,939. California is considered one of the larger mineral pro ducing states. Minerals constitute its natural resources. The cost of state government, alone, is con suming those natural resources. CHILDREN DEFT FATHER AND PRAY ... A father who doesn’t want his young daughters to believe in God is under court injunction to stop trying to teach them atheism. Camera study above typifies triumph of faith over sterile skepticism as the two girls, Nanette, 11, (left) and her sister Peggy Lynn, 7, sing hymns of worship before stained window of a Chicago church. The father, Duane Free, a printer, is in Detroit. The mother, Mrs. Esther Free, who lives with her daughters, is suing for divorce. HEY! FELLOWS, HOWYA LIKE THIS? . . . This young fellow Is not a fugitive from an Orson Welles broadcast. It’s Stefan Olsen wearing a "man from Mars” helmet by which means he’s actually controlling ; the flight of the sound control glider. The helmet contains a tiny radio transmitter which can broadcast through an amplifier to control the glider at distances of 400 feet. The glider can be flown out, turned and flown back to hand. This fascinating gadget is one of thousands of new toys available now. BABY LEOPARDS ARRIVE BY AIR . . . Squirming In the arms of Miss “Jungle Jenny” Cuprys of Williamstown, N. J., are two three- month-oid leopard cubs that arrived at Idlewild airport by air from the Far East. They were included in a cargo of live animals which made the 12,000 mile trip from Singapore and Bangkok on a DC-4, con verted into a flying zoo. There were 133 animals in the flying zoo, in cluding six baby elephants. The cargo weighed 13,000 pounds. A 23-foot python was also a passenger on the trip. METAL WINGS . . . That's what “Mutt” the ostrich had when he was flown from LaGuardia field to Brazil. Bonnie Leopold, airline staff member, sits astride “Mutt” in baggage room and uses ban dana for halter as she pretends to ride the critter. GALLIC GLAMOUR . . . Patricia Patrick was recently selectedjn a contest in Paris, France, as the actress typifying what French movie-goers like to see on their silver screens, Pat’s name Is really Patricia Gonzales. NEW CHAIRMAN . . . Representa tive John Kee (D„ W. Va.), a strong administration supporter, succeeds the late Sol Bloom as chairman of the house foreign af fairs committee. PLANS POLIO CLINIC . . . John L. Matthews, 36-year-old Centraiia, 111., polio victim, is shown on way to Australia in attempt to persu ade Sister Elizabeth Kenney to some to Centraiia and intervene and keep open a polio clinic. The clinic was closed for inability to meet standards. DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT . . . The two top men in the field of long-distance flying met each other during a nationally-broadcast radio program in New York. On left is Capt. Bill Odom, who flew non stop from Hawaii to New Jersey, 5,000 miles, to break all such records for non-stop light plane nights. At right Is Capt. James Gallagher, commander of "Lucky Lady n”, B-50 long range U.S. bomber that flow non-stop around the world, refuelling in flight. iRIEF INTERLUDE . . . 'Pretty Linda Carson of Reno staged • brief sltdown strike when a non interstate airline refused to sell her a ticket from San Francisco to Los Angeles. She was per suaded by police to move. MIRROR Some Executives of your ® ® ® Need ‘Yes Men’ MIND By Lawrence Gould Do minor executives favor “yes-men”? Answer: That mainly depends upon how sure they are that they can go on holding down their own jobs. For a person with a “sense of insecurity” will usually have so strong a craving for moral support that he’ll surround himself with peo ple who will tell him how good he is and—possibly without realizing it —will be unfair to a subordinate who dares to question his decisions. But the fellow who is sure of him self (and he’s generally headed to ward promotion) will be glad to be told when he’s wrong if it is done politely. Is the urge to write neurotic? Answer: Yes, when it is over whelmingly strong, asserts Dr. Ed mund Bergler in the Psychoanalytic Review. Except in the case of peo ple who write mainly for a living, the urge to “creative writing,” es pecially fiction, is a way in which the writer manages to ease the ten sion of his own neurotic conflicts. But since people with such conflicts do not understand themselves, they cannot picture the real motives of their characters, and because they’re too neurotic to be capable of love, they can’t describe love ac curately. Is "make-believe” bad for children? Answer: On the contrary, some make-believe is necessary for a child’s emotional development, and whether encouraged by their elders or not, children always indulge in some degree of “pretending.” A child forced to face the fact that he is powerless to make his wishes come true and forbidden to console himself by gratifying them in his imagination would be overwhelmed with terror and frustration. But as any child is given a chance to taste the thrill of actually doing things for himself, his interest in make- believe fades. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE J CSc'e/vr netrreen ** ^ ^ HEMn,rnEve poll ipowz i$m m PAS TUB OfPEATEGT \X\- PS&CEHTAL3E OF A q 0EUEVE&S IN OOP... V* The united states is SECOND IN TUB list: -T . —-“‘ij KEEPING HEALTHY \ Residual Goiter Symptoms By Dr A FEW years ago I was examin- ing a heavyweight wrestler and noted the changed expression on his face, particularly the bulging eyes. I immediately thought a goiter was present; yet, when I took his heart rate, it was normal. I told him that I thought he had goiter, but that, as his heart rate was nor mal, I was mistaken. He laughed and stated that he had had a goiter, but had undergone an operation the previous year and seemed to have lost his nervousness and rapid heart beat His eyes bulged less, but were still too prominent. While most goiter symptoms disappear after removal of the thyroid gland, there are some cases in which the symptoms persist—much to the disappoint ment of patient and surgeon. Patients who have undergone an operation for removal of the thy roid gland to rid themselves of nervousness, rapid heart beat. James W. Barton sweating and bulging eyes, often retain some or all of these symp toms which are, therefore, called residual symptoms. Just what causes these symptoms to remain never has been definitely proved. • In studying 33 patients (in whom the action of the thyroid gland ap parently was normal) at intervals ranging from two and a half to ten years after the removal of the glrnd by surgical operation, it was found that 31 retained symptoms even after all this time. The bulging eyes were the only true sign or symptom that could be directly attributed to thyroid disturbance. What, then, was the cause of the other residual symptoms? The other symptoms — nervous ness, rapid heart rate, sweating— were attributed to other factors present in the make-up of the pa tient, to the emotional effect of the disease and operation, or to other causes aside from thyroid disease and emotional disturbances. HEALTH NOTES When there is not enough juice manufactured by the thyroid gland or the pituitary gland, excess fat will accumulate. But it can easily be seen how a worried tor frustrated person may sit with a box of candies or rich food available and continue to eat to make up for his frustration. Thus, obesity (overweight) largely is a compensation for worry or frus tration. • The main cause of hardening of the arteries (loss of elastic tissue in the walls of the blood vessels) is believed to be infection—teeth, ton sils, gums, sinuses, gall bladder or large intestine. An infection poisons the blood, which is carried by the blood vessels to various parts of the body. This poison inflames the lin ing of the blood vessels which af fects the elastic coat Colonial Laws Launched Public School Systems - The Massachusetts’ school law of 1642, which declared that all children should be taught to read, was unprecedented ia the Eng>- lish-speaking world. At first, the colonial school sys tem was — traditionally — volun tary and subordinate to tbo church. When it became apparent that voluntary efforts could cot guarantee general education; the general court enacted the law of 1642. In 1647, the Massachusetts” gen eral court set another precedent by ordering a school system es tablished and maintained, fixing the tradition by which educational facilities are provided to enable the state to better enforce the educational obligation it imposes upon parents. AS PURE AS MONEY CAN’BUY St.Joseph aspirin WORLD'S LARGEST SELLER AT 10< COMMON SENSE.. proved thouiancts upon thousands of times t a ^ALL-VEGETABLE LAXATIVE NATURE’S REMEDY (NR) TAB- LETS—A purely vegetable laxative to relieve constipation without the usual griping, sickening, perturbing sensa tions, and does not cause a rash. Try NR—you will see the difference. Un coated or candy coated—their action is dependable, thorough, yw gentle aa millions of NR’a have proied. 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TMm.* Jkc* ALWAYS did think "Table-Grade” Nu-Maid wuz jest about perfect— now they’ve gc ae and made it even better. Yesslr—the new Nu-Maid’a tastier and smoother spreadin’. And it'a got a fine new package that seals in that "Table-Grade” flavor. will be paid upon publica tion to the first contributor of each accepted saying or idea. -Address "Grandma," 109 East Pearl Street, Cincinnati 2, Ohio.