Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS MOST . . . Boola Boola Boys Battle Bicarb Business ... ARE MORE COLLEGES FOR CHEFS By H. I. PHILLIPS COLLEGE FOR CHEFS G. I. Schools in cooking, menu planning, restaurant operation and hotel management are being con ducted in various parts of the coun try, with one more or less affliated with Yale. For this we give a lusty cheer. If there is one field in which plenty of education is needed, is it in the operation of the average American restaurant and lunchroom. The run-of-the-mill eating places of this country are presided over largely by chefs who are strictly grease-and-hot-flame boys. . . Even the proper technique ir. fry ing an egg escapes them. Their idea of a good dinner is anything that has been in and out of a grease bath. And they can make coffee taste like essence of marine varnish. They got into the business on a bet, learned to cook by taking an elementary course in arson and kept their jobs because the boss ate elsewhere. • A college for chefs, cooks and stewards Is a crying need. America desperately needs it. The customers are tired of be ing guinea pigs for apprentice bam-and-bean boys whose motto is, "If yon can eat It without catsup, it’s our mis take." • There are G. I. students from 38 states in the school at New Haven. The boys study cooking under ex perts and nobody who thinks two minutes are enough for a four- minute egg makes the team. No student with a fixed idea that any sandwich is tasty if well uphol stered with faded lettuce finishes his freshman year. • We understand special attention is paid to the matter of chicken pies and beef stews and that the dean flunks any student who insists all a chicken pie needs to be ir resistible is a slight segment of wing, one quartered potato and a boiled onion whipped in glue. • As for menu planners, ah, there’s a field! Take 150,000 middle-class restaurants in this country today, and 149,923 think the menu has been radically Changed if the string beans are left out. • Dietitians? Yes and no. Per sonally, we think that the moment a person gets a sheepskin as a dietition he or she thinks it is a license to skimp on all the essen tials of lunch except eggplant and coleslaw. The course in hotel management is needed, too. What a field! There are thousands of cities and towns in America where, except for one innC if lucky), the hotels are run by sock peddlers hired to keep down expenses and operate wholly on the theory that the guest should bring his own plumbing kit, be able to fix a lock and make no complaint if he has to have the hotel physician immediately after ordering the day’s special. • Three cheers and a tiger for that school up in the rarified at mosphere of Yale. And we hope Harvard and Princeton will see the light, too. ... Cuff Stuff “Realtor” won a race at $43 in Miami the other day and Shudda Haddim is still knocking himself with reproachments. “Realtor! A name like that in Florida and I don’t know it’s a sure hunch!” he cried. “Every third guy I meet this winter down there is selling lots! I can't do any handicapping the night before this race on ac count of everybody on the porch is arguin' over real estate. “That night around midnight I get waked up by a phone call in the next room and some guy starts making ( an appointment to look over a sub-division. At breakfast my three-minute eggs are done a half hour on account of the chef is tryin’ to sell the dishwasher a bungalow cheap. And on the way to the track the taxi driver stops to point out his acreage! Yet there is this skinner ‘Realtor’ on the pro, gram and I let him go.” ... On closing day at Hialeah the Seminole Indians were given their annual day in the infield. This one annual observation of the White Man at play sends them back to the Everglades thanking the Red Man’s god that they have escaped civili zation. lya A S^ng from Sorrow O UT of my sorrow 1 shall malcc & song So beautiful that others’ grief will cease. If one but li&en, silently and long, I promise him my song shall bring him peace: One clear high note of faith, one note of cheer. And one of courage. Bung againit the sky; But not one tremulous, low note of fear. And not one muted, agonizing cry. Oh, 1 shall make my song a thing of light. The darkness only can put forth a ftar; And out of sorrow—darker than the night— A song shall lift that men will hear afar. And likening, with faces eager—glad— Will say, ** Where is the sorrow that we had?** — Grace Noll Crowell By INEZ GERHARD D EE ENGELBACH, producer- director of CBS’ “Hallmark Playhouse,” may not be a star- maker, but Joan Fontaine, Irene Dunne, Gregory Peck and many other stars agree that he gets out- ■ tanding performances from actors who might not give them otherwise. Miss Fontaine did "Random Harvest” on the Play house and asked to have him di rect her next picture. Peck had JOAN FONTAINE fought off requests to play Abra ham Lincoln, saying he was a cinch to be typed as Lincoln and wanted to postpone it — but could not refuse the role, in "The Prairie Years,” with Engelbach directing. “Tactful but forceful direction” — that’s what they sa^-they get from him. Hollywood has lured two of “The Guiding Light” cast into its fold. Willard Waterman, “Ray Bran don”, starts work as Bing Crosby’s stuffy brother-in-law in “Riding High”, and Betty Gerson, the fe male lead, will have a leading role in a picture at Republic that’s un named so far. This will be Miss Gerson’s first film venture, so here’s luck to her. The new “March of Time” may give you a lot of ideas, if you don't know where to spend your next va cation. Or it may show you a place you’ve already enjoyed. The film shows a cross-section of American holidays — cruise ships, big and little hotels, camping trips, dude ranches. Americans spend some 11 billion dollars on vacations; here is how they do it. Kid Chissell, one of the ex- prizefighters in RKO’s “The Set- Up”, used to work out in a Cleve land gym in 1925 with an amateur fighter named Packy East. Then Packy took the long count, gave up fighting, and Chissell didn’t know what had become of him. Didn’t see East until some years later, in Hollywood. Packy had won quite a reputation there as Bob Hope. The By DYER WILSON Fiction MAGIC MONTH Corner H ELEN AND A N D Y weren’t laughing. They were sitting in metal chairs which were placed at right angles to each other, instead of side by side on the glider, and the glow in their eyes was replaced by anger. "The trouble is you have no am bition!” Helen was saying as her wide set gray eyes flashed signals, “You act lazy!” The long curls were given a toss as she got to her feet. Andy got up too. He gave her the one sided smile he’d brought home from war with him and shrugged his heavy shoul ders. Andy had blond curls, too— tight to his well shaped head and the merriest of hazel eyes. "You can say that again,” he told Helen, “I act lazy, do I?" He thought; Well, that’s that and I’ll re-enlist and get as far from Hyville as pos-> sible. proud of himself and ready for any thing that came along he just went right after the mechanics job he saw advertised in the morning paper. Saturday night the whole family gathered for the radio program telling of the contest and the win ners. “But I didn’t win,” Andy said helplessly when the program was over, “they didn’t mention my name and that Robert Am herst won the five hundred dol lars.” The door bell Interrupted Andy and when the messenger boy gave him a telegram he glanced at it and ripped it open. “HOW DID IT FEEL TO BE A PRIZE WINNER FOR A FEW DAYS? STOP. THE BOYS. Andy was half way out the door when Helen caught up with him, “where you going” she asked. ‘Til bust those guys in the nose," Andy cried, “of all the dirty, low down tricks.” Helen laughed as she read the telegram. Tears rolled down her lovely cheeks and still she laughed. Andy couldn’t help laughing with her. “If they hadn’t done it we’d still be angry with each other,” she pointed out, “and you wouldn’t have your job—and we wouldn’t be plan ning on getting married.” CROSSWORD PUZZLE Minute Fiction When he got home the radio was playing jive and he wound one leg over the chair beside it. His mother came into the room and said, “aren’t you going to look for a job today, son?" As he worried for an answer the announcer interrupted the program to tell about a soap contest. “Five hundred dollars for first prize,” he said, “just tell in twenty-five words why you like Sudzy-Soap best!” “I’m trying to think up an entry for the contest. Mom," said Andy directing his hazel eyes up and grinning like an imp, "only I’ll have to have the wrappers from three bars of the darned soap.” Andy Tyson tried not to under stand that she inferred he had wasted too many afternoons. He made great work of wording his en try and addressed the envelope for mailing. \ Habit turned his steps into the corner store where the fellows laughed and teased him about his entry. Half angry again he hurried out of the place and tossed the letter into the near est mailbox. In the three weeks that went by he didn’t go near Helen nor did he look for a job. One day slipped into the next and a laxness seemed to hold him tight. He was marking time and getting more dissatisfied with every passing hour. T HE NIGHT, a day later, when he got home to find excitement in the very air and Mom holding out a telegram he ripped it open and nearly passed out SUDZY-SOAP IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE YOU WINNER OF FIRST PRIZE. STOP. LISTEN TO USUAL SATURDAY PROGRAM. STOP. CONGRATU LATIONS. ACROSS 1 Front of a boat 5 Snow shoes 9 Thick cord 10 Penitential season 11 Muffled 12 Become liable to 14 Chief god (Babyl.) 15 Having a handle (var.) 18 Kingdom, NW Europe 19 Tantalum (sym.) 20 Mysterious 21 Obnoxioul plant 23 Fascinate 25 Endures 26 Absorbed, as in thought 27 Fly aloft 28 Mulberry 29 Raged 32 Clay-like 35 Hewing tool 36 Mohamme dan bible 37 An toinette 39 Gains 40 Covers with ink 41 Alcoholic drink (Orient) 42 Register DOWN 1 A dried plum 2 Large round rooms 3 Open (poet) 4 Marry Solnilon in Next Issu*. No. 29 5 Lurk 6 Knows (Scot.) 7 Indian (Peru) 8 Speak stum- blingly 11 Insane 13 Peruses 15 Chest 17 A market 18 Fortify 21 To tire 22 Identification marks 23 Clatter 24 SUght depressions 25 Exclamation used to frighten 27 Pig pen 29 Meaning 30 Live 31 Scotch river 33 Melody 34 Pull 37 1/1000 of an inch 38 Keel-billed cuckoo Answer to Puiile Number 28 Series K—48 Next day Andy got a job. It was really easy. He felt so good — so GOP Has No Procram A T THIS STAGE of the 81st congress, which on the surface has been embroiled in considerable confusion including a filibuster and an apparent split in the Demo cratic forces—south against north— there is still only a one-way street down which the objective reporter can travel in gathering the news. For as a matter of fact, there is still only one positive program be fore the congress: the program which President Truman laid be fore its members in his state of the union message. Try as one may to find one, the Republican minority in congress does not have a pro gram, except the negative pro gram of opposition and that does not completely hold water because many of the Republi can members will go along with a majority of the Truman program. The GOP policy committee holds periodical meetings t o decide what position to take on a given bill, but even these meetings do not result in any agreement since men like Aiken of Vermont, Flan ders of Vermont, Morse of Oregon. Thye of Minnesota, Ives of New York, Baldwin of Connecticut, Langer of North Dakota, Lodge of Massachusetts and others, do not see eye-to-eye with the leadership of the committee which is wrapped up in Senator Taft of Ohio. So no matter what the policy committee decides, these men are left pretty much tc their own thinking on the problems before the senate. Then there is a seeming disagree ment between house and senate Republicans. The senate GOP cam paign committee is going its own way, detouring around the Repub lican national committee on both matters of policy and operation. The senate committee has hired Victor Johnson, one-time strategist for former governor and presiden tial candidate Harold Stassen, as a public relations director. The house GOP campaign committee, headed by the wily ex-speaker Joe Martin of Massachusetts, . is planning its own policy and operation and while giving lip service to Chairman Hugh Scott of the GOP national committee, is preparing to set up its own publicity staff and conduct its own operations. The senate com mittee, according to information is starting off with $50,000 in the kitty, but the house committee is not so well off and will start from scratch to raise its own money to better its press relations and get Its public relations story over to the people. The progressive Republican lead ership is hoping that ultimately they will come up with a unified pro gram upon which they can go to me people, but that time has not yet come. With the party apparent ly so hopelessly divided, whether |that time will ever come is a matter ^ o r conjecture. Simultaneously whether or not the split between northern and southern Democrats is so deep that it cannot be healed and will endanger the Truman pro gram also is a matter for conjec ture. If so, then this congress will eventually turn into a coalition congress of southern Democrats and northern Republicans and will operate ineffectually, much as the 79th congress operated. • • • Truman Will Fight The best thinking here in Wash ington holds that President Truman regards the vote at the last election as a mandate of the people and is out to use every power he has to force through his liberal program, a program which has been labeled everything from “pink New Deal- Jsh” to “socialistic” and even “communistic” depending upon the point of view of the opposition. And this same source of thinking indicates that despite the Democratic split, the ad ministration Democrats, with liberal Republican help, will push through most of the Tru man “Fair Deal" program. This reporter finds that the mail of many congressmen, even in cluding some southern congress men is unusually heavy. Some of fices are swamped with mail, the big bulk of it from individuals and that almost 90 per cent of this mail is definitely favoring the program advanced by the President in his election campaign. The President and the president’s cabinet are be coming more and more outspoken In demanding congressional Demo crats to go along with the program. President Not ‘Kidding’ There is every indication that the President was not kidding when some weeks ago he indicated he might “get on a train” and make another trip to take his program to the people if his measures were not forthcoming from congress. He may make some radio talks, but he has found he is not as effective oa the radio as he is face-to-face with the audiences out in the home towns of the country, talking to them in their own language. WOMAN'S WORLD Fabric, Style Values Awaiting Those Who Do Sewing at Home By Ertta Haley G lorious fabrics and new, enchanting styles await those of you Who are handy with the needle and like to whip together your wardrobe on the sewing ma chine. You’ll like the feel of the new fabrics when you sew them, then again when you wear them. Pat terns employ all the latest style tricks, and there's no reason why you can’t come out with clothes that look as though they had been purchased from the smartest shops. If you don’t consider yourself professional enough for a strict tailoring job, and still want a suit, why not choose one of the new soft bolero style suits? These are for girls as well as for their mothers, and look equally attractive. Another new wrinkle in the fashion picture which has been used extensively with the bolero type suit is the print blouse that goes with the skirt. In some cases these are attached to the skirt, so that when you remove the bolero you have a dress. If you prefer, make a basic dress in one of the new soft woolen materials, then top this with a bolero. Wear the dress with scat ter pins or a necklace, and you’ll be well dressed for club activities, shopping, business or calling. Select a suitable pattern Swirling Skirts Suitable For Casual Wear The full skirted dresses are used for basual or dress-up occasions among the younger crowd. These, too, are simple in line and style. Easy to make, these dresses take time only when you hem the full skirt. If you’re planning to be out-of- doors much, you’ll undoubtedly want a casual dress with a bared neckline, topped with a quaint bolero. Even an inexperienced seamstress can make an attrac- Por your own measurements. tive cotton dress in this style be cause the lines are simple and cot ton is so easy to sew. After, you’ve had success with a cotton, you may want to enlarge the wardrobe with a rayon or silk print in much the same style since this style will go anywhere. Should you want to save on sew ing, skip the bolero and make a scarf or a cape. Fringe, which is so smart for the new season, may be purchased by the yard and used to finish the edge of the scarf. Fit Yonr Patterns Carefully No matter how excellent your pattern, it will not do you justice unless you fit it to yourself. Very Be Smart! % As perennial as the robin is the redingo te outfit! In this season of the button-down-the- front coat, you can choose a double duty coat that gives you the effect of a redingote dress, plus an ever so wide versatility in your wardrobe. You’ll find some of these coats sold with their own matching print dresses, combinations such as the dress of darkish green print with a lighter green coat in the sketch. Or, you may assemble your own basic outfit, with an eye to the other teammates, present or future. Budget-Wise Coat This all-over quilted coat, made of economical Indian Head cotton, is easily created at home with the aid of a quilt ing attachment on the sewing machine. Steel-gray with a bright red lining is a good com bination to use. The coat serves now for school and casual wear and later over light dresses on breezy summer days. Note the natural shoulder line and full back which are fashion - wise features. few of us coincide with pattern measurements and this means slight adjusting. Those of you who have had ex perience altering clothes know it’s much easier to take in a dress that’s too large than to enlist material for use in a dress that’s too small. The same is true of pat terns. It’s better to buy the next size larger in a pattern if you have one or two measurements in excess of those given on it. Tucks are easy to take on those portions in which you have smaller measurements. Patterns do not run the same sizes as ready-made dresses, so it’s best to check measurements be fore buying. How to Achieve Good Fit Don’t rush the dress to comple tion without fitting it carefully to the figure. It’s a good idea to baste the dress and press it, then try on and check fit carefully before do ing the permanent stitching. Should the dress be too large to look attractive or too loose for comfort, make the tucks at the waist, under the arms or on the shoulders large enough to take up the excess. When the dress is too snug, let out some of the tucks and see if you can’t give yourself additional room by making the side seams slightly smaller. All of these fitting tricks are much easier to do before per manent stitching. Try the dress on again before stitching to make absolutely certain that the fitting maneuvers have worked their magic. Quilted Coats Are Simple to Make Quilted, casual coats may be added to the wardrobe without up setting carefully planned clothes budgets if you sew at home. Teen agers will probably want one of these to wear at school now and then later, on breezy summer eve nings. Since piece goods .counters are featuring an abundance of cottons, the material for the coat may be purchased for a small amount of money. Then with the aid of a time-saving, quilting attachment on the sewing machine, the finish is simple to make. An attractive coat may be made of quilting Indian Head steel-gray with bright red similar material used for the lining. You can find out about using the quilting attach ment at a local sewing center if you don’t know how to use it. Redingote Ensembles Are Popular Redingote ensembles are the favorite fashion among more ma ture women or among those who must look well groomed, well dressed, crisp and business-like. With the new prints now available as well as with the luscious, solid- colored, lightweight woolens, these fashions will be among the most popular ones made at home. Smart women select not only one print for the woolen coat that but tons down the front, but two so they will have an easy change of costume. T OOKING for fa. bluebird? Let ' these bring color and cheer to your kitchen towels. Even the youngsters will love embroidering them. * • • Designs every needlewoman knows will be effective. Pattern 676 has transfer of 6 mo tifs SVaxTVs inches. Send 20c (in coins) for each pattern. It’s NEW! It’s wonderful—our Needle- craft Catalog. Send fifteen cents for trations of newest designs that begl_ find easy, experts prefer . . . crochet, ting, embroidery, toys, dolls, hor~ and personal accessories. Free printed in book. Sewing Circle Needlecr&ft Dent. 564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80, UL Enclose 20 cents for pattern. No Name High Peaks Although Pikes peak is only 38S feet lower than Mt. Whitney, high est in the United States, it is sur passed by 27 Colorado peaks. MUSCLE STRAIN? SORETONE Liniment's Heating Pad Action Gives Quick Roliof! When/»ligue. exposure put mhery in muscles, ten dons and back, relieve such symptoms quickly wiki the liniment spedallyunade toe this purpose. So retone Liniment conuina effective I cient tna red tents that act like glowmt warmth (rom a heating pad. Helps attract fresh surface blood supply. ) So retone is in a class by itself. Fast, gentle, satisfying relief assured or price refunded. 50c. Economy size SI.00. Try Soretone for Athlete’s Foot Kills al S, types of common fungi—on mtHartl 5?- SKIN DISEASE Persons suffering from a rash or itch in am s requested to Wilts us regarding our sdantMc of relief. McCUNTOCK ECKOtT •m stzs- StJoseph ASrlRIH AT ITS BUT Me- ££velopi ANY SIZE (6 or •) EXP. ROIL FILM DEVELOPED. • HOBBY PRINTS (ffWary VolmbU PrtmnmtOom on acma etcruers roe uss TA.CM. RABBtT < S PA. K. TA. /VtS UR.G S.C. IVNU—7 14—49 Watch Your Kidneys/ Help Them Cleanse the Blood of Harmful Body Waato Tour kidneys are constantly filtorfng xraste matter from the blood stream. Bin ridneys sometimes lag in their work—do not act aa Nature intended—fail to ro» move imparities that. If retained, may K ison the system and apeet the whole dy machinery. Symptoms may be nagring backache, persistent headache, attacks of diirln—, getting up nights, swelling, paffinees under the eyes—a feeling of anxiety and loss of pep and si Other signs of kidney or bladder i order are sometimes burning, scanty or too frequent urination. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment la wiser than neglect. Uao Doan'* Pill*. Doan'* have been winning new friends for more than forty years. They have a nation-wide reputation. Are recommended by grateful people tbm country over. A*k your neighbor! Doans Pm Whet’, Hie truth . jbout our town? What do world •vent, uwau to m? Reed out owu com munity newa^par.