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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Congress Beats Off ERR Fund Cut; Russia Winning Cold War in East; Personal Incomes Rise in Nation (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these eolnmno, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not neeessarily of this newspaper.) SALUTE TO ISTANBUL . . . The U. S. sixth task Beet ar rived in Istanbul recently for a five-day visit. One of the ships, the USS Fargo, a cruiser and flagship of the group, Is shown fir ing a salute to Istanbul city. In middle background can be seen the aircraft carrier Coral Sea. ERR FUND: 5.75 Billions More The European recovery program appeared set for another year. The senate, by a vote of 63 to 7, voted a 6.75 billion dollar appropriation to taKe care of European recovery needs and pay U. S. occupation costs abroad. Final action came after two weeks of debate. THE SENATE voted a full 12- znonth program, with no authority of the spending agency to expend the money in a shorter period. At the same time, it approved an out lay of $344,000 for a congressional watchdog committee to keep a check on foreign spending. The upper chamber of congress gave tacit approval to nationaliza tion of industries—in England, that la—by knocking down an amend ment which would have withheld recovery funds from any nation which in the future nationalized an industry. This was aimed directly ■t Great Britain. The bill provided: One hundred and fifty million dollars for ECA loans to Europe. A billion, 740 million dollars for ECA’s May-June operations. NINE HUNDRED MILLION for army occupation costs in Ger many, Austria, Japan and the Ryukyu islands. Forty-five billion for Greece and Turkey. In its struggle with the bill, the senate beat off efforts to earmark 600 million dollars for a loan to Spain and to require the ECA and the army to earmark two billion dollars for surplus U. S. farm prod ucts. CHINA: Lost Cause Accusations, name-calling, re criminations did nothing to distort the picture—if the United States was winning the cold war in the West, she was losing it in the East. The Unit'd State’s "white pap er” on what had happened in China and why charged vigorously that Communist victory over the Chin ese and the disintegration of the Nationalist government were all the fault of Nationalist Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-Shek. SAID DEAN ACHESON, U. S. secretary of state: “Full blame for the ominous result of the Chinese civil war accrues to Chiang Kai- shek and other Nationalist leaders because they lost no battle as the result of a lack of American aid.” In obvious contrast to the firm policy in dealing with Russia on problems affecting the West, Ache- son said of China’s future and U. S. aims in that direction: “Future U. S. policy must concentrate on relieving China of the Moscow-in spired foreign yoke of Commu nism.” That appeared easier said than done, however. There was no pact and no arms program to warn off the Reds, and, anyway, the Com munists were on the ground and in control. Even the most optimistic among the diplomats in Washing ton would realize that throwing the Communists out of China would be a long, hard fight. A FORMER AMBASSADOR to China, Major Pat Hurley, was quick to charge that the state de partment’s "white paper” was nothing but an alibi for U. S. failure to stem the Communist tide in China. Radio Jam According to reliable reports, Moscow’s Jamming of radio pro grams has tuned down the “Voice of America” to a mere whisper of its former self. THESE REPORTS declare that Russian Interference with pro grams beamed to the Soviet has been so effective as to cut to 10 per cent the American Broadcasts which now permeate the region around Moscow. Two official American protests against these jamming tactics were made last year, but in each case Moscow disclaimed any know ledge of such interference. The Kremlin aim is obvious. Rus sian leaders are making every ef fort to isolate the Soviet people more completely from the west. Reception of American-originated broadcasts would have no place in that objective. U.S. INCOMES: Higher Than Ever The status of consumer buying power in the nation was good. In fact, personal incomes, which are the mainsprin t of such buying, in creased in June, according to re ports of the federal department of commerce. THE RISE helped push incomes for the first six months of 1949 to a level 2.6 per cent higher than the first half of boom-time 1948. The report estimated that the flow of personal income from all sources reached an annual rate of 213.5 billion dollars in June. The commerce department’s study showed the upturn had been con tinuing for three months, April through June, and that the gain ac celerated as it continued. An increase in farm Income was cited by the department as the main cause of the June increase in personal income. THE DEPARTMENT regarded as more magnificent, however, the fact that factory payrolls were credited with a slight increase in June after having declined steadily since last September. COMIC BOOKS: New Approach The impact of so-called "comic books” on juvenile minds and their influence for good or evil has re cently been a subject of wide spread controversy in these United States. Some municipalities banned sale of the more objectionable books, others contented themselves with talking; but San Diego, it ap pears, has come up with a most sensible approach. That southern California city has started what it calls a “comic book of the month club.” It’s purpose is to “put the fun back into funny books,” from whence it has been conspicuously absent all these years. The movement was launched aft er many San Diego families be came disturbed about the subject matter of many of the comic books. THE project depends upon co operation of the comic-book pub lishers. If that can be obtained, publishers would submit the books to a board of review in advance of publication. Books that were ap proved would be mailed to club subscribers, who would be divided into different age groups. 'JOHN BULL' IRKED British Resent Policy Criticism in U.S Word from London was to the effect that the British are no little perturbed at the mounting criti cism in the United States of Eng land s recovery efforts. Official British sources said they believed many of the complaints are based on lack of knowledge of Britain’s problems and achievements since the end of World War H. The British were rather percep- t tive in partial interpretation of the cause of criticism here. Some in formants expressed the belief much of it may stem from dislike of President Truman’s overall eco nomic policy, and added this may be the reason Britain has become the object of attack by Republicans and others who seek to pile up po litical capital in America by co» tinuing to criticize the British. POLITICS: GOP Seeks Unity The one thing it did not have in 1948 and the one thing it seeks most in 1952 is the one thing the Republi can party seems most unlikely to find—and that is unity. IT is characteristic of the Amer ican voter that when things are go ing fairly smooth at home, there is little disposition to change ad ministrations. The long tenure of the Republicans and the even long er tenure of the Democrats with Roosevelt and Truman point up that fact. Therefore, if the GOP failed to attain unity in the 1952 presiden tial race, how could the party ever hope to win? There was an outside chance that, under a unified cam paign, the party might win in ’52. That chance lies in the fact that a lot of Republicans have been vot ing with the Democrats simply be cause they were at odds with their own party’s candidate and fed up with the “me, too” policies of twice-contender Thomas E. Dewey. BUT the chance for any real harmony within the party was slim. This was indicated by the bitter split in factions when Guy George Gabrielson of New Jersey was selected to replace Hugh D. Scott, Jr., of Pennsylvania, as the party’s national chairman. Tlie changeover served merely to stir up new party turmoil and to pose the more immediate problem of unity in the congressional races now just 15 months away. Whether Gabrielson can bring this about is, of course, wholly conjectural; but it should be remembered that if the GOP would not rim hitched to gether when the White House was the desired destination, there is little reason to expect them to hold tight in congressional contests. GHOST STORY: Boy Is 'Haunted' Because of the myriad uncertain ties which beset his existence, man always has been fascinated by the macabre, the supernatural, the weird beliefs and stories concern ing ghosts and spirtual manifesta tions. THIS is evidenced by the fact that the prominent part played by spirits of the dead in the lives of the living has been recounted and extolled since the days of the most ancient tribal existence. And through most of the scoffing which greets such tales in this en lightened century there runs — if the truth were ascertainable — a tiny thread of credulity. It’s rather like the old classic remark of the man who said that while he didn’t believe in ghosts, he certainly had no desire to encounter one. So the story of the Washington, D. C. boy “haunted” by “mid night manifestations” would bring the same scoffing, elicit the same secret thought, however fleeting, the same hidden wonder: “Could it be so?” A local clergyman said it was so. This pastor told the Society for Parapsychology that he had the boy spend a night at his home. The minister said that during the night the bed on which the boy slept shook so violently he could not sleep. The boy moved to a heavy chaff. The pastor said that while he stood over the chair it fell over, throwing the lad on the floor. The minister then put some bedding on the floor, told the boy to lie on it. Soon after the boy fell asleep, the minister saw the bedding and the boy slide slowly across the floor and under the bed. Shakespeare said there are more things ‘twixt heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philoso phy. Beauty Abroad Bebe Shopp, America’s 18- year old first lady of beauty, is shown leaving the Savoy hotel in London for a tour of the Brit ish capital. A tour of London, Paris and Rome was a part of her prizes as winner in the "Miss America” contest of 1948. BABIES: May Sleep More Parents who pace the floor with their infants during the night hours can now look with hope to a new re search project at the University of Chicago. Scientists there are en gaged in a study of the sleeping habits of babies. These gentlemen will seek to learn what part diet plays in the slumber habits of babies through test feedings of proteins and es pecially-prepared meats. FAMILY REUNION . . . The Schumaker family, Waukegan, HI., show happy faces hi Lake county court after reading of "not guilty” verdict in favor of Joyce, 18, (center) after three days of her trial for murder of her married sweetheart, Carl Reeder. On Joyce’s left is her mother, Mrs. Edna Schumaker, and on her right, her father, Fred Schumaker. She took a long rest in the country after the trial to forget the ordeal she had suffered in the court room and at the time of the tragedy. CHARGES KIDNAPING . . . Mrs. Edythe Horowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y., looks longingly at a news photograph of her three-year-old son, Stephen, and his father at a sidewalk soda spa in Tel Aviv, Israel. Mrs. Horowits declares that her estranged husband kidnaped the boy. A former wife charged Horowitz with abandonment of the son she bore him 14 years ago. ICE-CAPADE . . . Fair and cooler Is the forecast in Washington, D. C., as Patricia Everly cools off during a heat wave on a king-size ice cube in a downtown ice house. Betty Leming (right) and Larraine De Boe (left) join Patricia’s chilly party. It seems like a "capital” idea. Patri cia certainly is a cute "chick off the old block,” and so are the other girls. NEW JUSTICE . . . Attorney Gen eral Tom Clark uses telephone in office at justice department after President Truman offered to ap point him to the supreme court. He later accepted the appointment. LADY OF MERCY ... Little Jean Hoffenkamp, Chicago, feels sorry for her Spaniel pnppy, Skippy, and shares her ice cream with him. The frown is because Skippy’s manners are a bit questionable. He would lap up all the ice cream and leave Ms benefactor without any. ,f EYE FOR BEAUTY . . . Charles Eller, Fresno, Calif., offers to sell Ms eye for enough money to bring Ms fiancee here from Germany be fore her visa expires. He met her, Ly Elyse Backmann, while serv ing in Germany in 1946. However, he did not have to sell Ms eye. A public subscription furnished enough money for Elyse’s pas sage. MRS. VEEP TO BE? . . . Mrs. Caneton S. Hadley, St. Louis, Mo., widow, whose name is being linked romantically with that of Vice-President Alben W. Barkley. SPOTS BEFORE YOUR EYES . . . Both Herbert Harris, 11, CMcago, and Sally Brady, 9, Evanston, 111., have enough freckles, individually and collectively, to have won over 30 other contestants in the CMcago railroad fair’s freckle contest. They were named king and queen at the Indian village and also “Toh-poh-mah,” pinto face, by the cMef, Spenser Asah of Oklahoma. Counting these freckles would be like counting the store tat the skies on a cloudless night. SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY . . . Angela Lansbury, British film star, and Peter Shaw, British de signer, wait in New York to board plane for London where the couple planned marriage in August. She was a war refugee here. MIRROR Hard to Force Of Your ® ® ^ Flow of Ideas MIND By Lawrence Gould Need a writer ever “run out of ideas”? Answer: He’s at least more apt to do so if he makes a bugbear of it, since anxiety blocks the crea tive impulse. But in general, if you are alert to what’s going on around you, you can hardly help receiving new impressions faster than you can put them on paper. And while the most of these will follow a fairly familiar pattern, there will always be new “angles” from which to ap proach the oldest and most hack neyed subject. Everyone repeats himself occasionally, but if your nind keeps on growing each fresh repetition will be an improvement Is the fear of being ’ neurotic? ‘different” Answer: Neither more nor less to than the feeling that you MUST be different at all costs. For in either case your way of living is determined by that of your neigh bors, not by what you yourself want or prefer. A man who must wear a coat /in summer because every body else dees is in fact a little less neurotic than the chap who has to go without a coat in winter in order to “show his indepen dence.” For there is a practical, advantage in not making yourself conspicuous in ways that arouzo hostility or ridicule from others. De you ever do things * ‘unintentionally”? Answer: You undoubtedly to yourself to do so, and as far conscious motives go, you right. But all the things you you do unintentionally are ucts of unconscious ippUyes, may be not only different your conscious ones, but oppos to your own interest and safet; for example, when you trip a rug you had “forgotten” there, but which your unconscii mind (which never forgets thing) remembered. When one Freud’s children fell and hurt self, instead of sympathizing; _ would ask, “Why did you do that? LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOOI m FIRST mass OFFERED IN TH& COUNTRY £ BELIEVED TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE ON TUB SITE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SHRINE IN ST AU&JSTINE. FLORIDA - (NUESTRA SENSRA PE LA LECHE) There are only 4r great BIBLE SOCIETIES IN THE WORLD.. BRnisK and foreign bibie. soevny. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. NETHERLANDS BIBLE SOClETy. | KEEPING HEALTHY Operation to Relieve Intense Pain By Dr. James W. Barton r HAVE WRITTEN several times ^ about the operation of cutting certain nerves supplying parts of the brain that have to do with ex cessive grief and anxiety. All that was first expected of this operation, lobotomy, was that it would lessen uhdue grief and anxiety. Recently I wrote a number of cases in which following lobotomy, the patient was able to return to home and be of some help there, and of cases where the patient was able to resume his former occupa tion. One of the ailments that causes men and women to become drug addicts or commit suicide is what is called “intractable pain,” pain that cannot be relieved. That this terrible pain can be relieved by this same operation, lobotomy, is now stated in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” by Drs. John B. Dynes and James L. Popper, Lahey Clinic, Boston. “Every physician has in his practice patients who experience pain wMch is unrelieved by the usual measures and gre; t physical and mental suffering result.” These patients are often a burden to their families because addicted to drugs, or mentally unbalanced. Lobotomy for the relief of such cases was performed on 18 patients at the Lahey Clinic. Of the group nine had cancer which was spread ing throughout the body, the other nine had various other conditions causing pain. Before undergoing lobotomy, despite the fact that all patients had been treated by drugs or by local operations, drug and surgical treatment alike had failed to relieve the pain. The patients were not only re lieved of pain by lobotomy but they were relieved of excessive worry and concern. "In patients who are dying of cancer there can be no doubt that their remaining days are more free of mental suffering and happier than they otherwiae would have been.” When we remember that each patient had been treated by all known methods—medical and sur gical—without getting relief from physical and mental pain, lobotomy may well become the operation of choice to relieve intractable physi cal and mental pain. HEALTH NOTES H By use of the new drugs, sulpha, penicillin and streptomycin, the death rate in rheumatic fever is decreasing. • • • While all foods are nourishing, the foods that should be eaten daily in the usual servings (the protective foods) are meat, eggs or fish, milk and dairy products and green vegetables. Because the liver has so many different jobs to do and means so much to our general health, we should all remember that It Is the largest organ in the body and con tains about 25 per cent of all the blood. • • • A few hours or days of complete rest often restore worried, griaC- itricken men and women.