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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
'Dear Old Golden Rule Days/
Help Resolve Labor Difficulty
By BILLY ROSE
The following story was passed on to me by one of the field
men of the national labor relations board. I’m running it, not be
cause I’m jumble-brained enough to think it proves anything, but
because it’s an interesting yarn. If you find any moral or message
in it—well, remember you’re strictly on your own. . . .
In December of 1947, a strike was called in a textile plant in New
England, and when the picket lines first appeared everybody thought they
were only part of the usual bluff and bluster that went with contract-re-
newal time. But as the days added up to weeks and the weeks to months,
the townspeople began to worry.
Hie strike, as far as anyone could
make out, had nothing to do with
wages and work*
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Billy Bose
ing conditions,
but seemed to be
based on the in
ability of labor
and manage
ment to sit at
the same table
without throw
ing four - letter
words at each
other. Albert
Hanson, presi
dent of the textile company, had
one meeting with Burt Murphy, re
cently elected head of the union,
but after a few minutes of invective
and table-thumping, both men had
stomped out and from then on had
refused to talk to each other except
through local headlines. And when
a national labor relations man had
offered his services as mediator,
he had been told to peddle his pa
pers elsewhere.
TO A FEW insiders, however,
the animosity between Hanson and
Murphy was nothing new; in fact,
it had been going on since they were
kids in a village 60 miles north of
the mill town. They had competed
for the same position on the school
baseball team (Albert had gotten
it), and pulled the pigtails of the
same junior miss (Burt had mar
ried her). And they had continued
to cat-and-dog it during the years
when Hanson was fighting his way
sSa
up from salesman to plant presi
dent and Murphy was organizing
the workers.
One day, as the strike was go
ing into its fourth month, the
textile man got a note from old
schoolteacher. "Dear Albert," it
read, "l haven’t seen you in al
most 40 years, and I’d appreciate
it if you would come by the
schoolhouse at 10. Sincerely,
Anne Peck."
Hanson chuckled at the precise,
schoolmarmish handwriting, but he
remembered the old lady kindly,
and so on Saturday he got up early
and drove the 60 miles to his home
town. *
The schoolhouse looked much as
he remembered it, and so did the
room inside with its neat rows of
desks. But the thing that hit him
right in the nostalgia was the sight
of Miss Peck herself, still sitting
behind her desk on the raised plat
form in front of the blackboard.
“It’s been a long time, Albert,”
she said.
“Not so long as I thought,” said
her old pupiL “Let’s see. Seems I
used to sit right over there.”
He walked to a desk near the
window and wedged his bulk into
the seat.
“That’s right,” said Miss Peck.
“Helen Brennon used to sit in front
of you and Burt Murphy had the
desk on your right Now, just ex
cuse me until I finish correcting
this paper.”
At the Beautiful Gate
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TOO, have sat at the Beautiful Gate
Of the temple, asking alms.
Begging for paltry copper coins
To be tossed to my out-ftretched palms.
Asking for little, receiving less:
A penny, a Stone, a curse,
When all the while at my waiting side
Was the wealth of the universe:
The Beautiful Gate that would let me in
To the house of the living God;
The healing touch that would bid me rise
And leap on the earth's bright sod;
The power of prayer upon which to draw
For all of my vital need;
For the garments of praise for my heaviness,
And Bread upon which to feed.
GRACE NOLL CROWELL
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FIVE MINUTES later, Burt Mur
phy walked in. There was a grin on
his face, but when he saw the tex
tile man he stopped smiling.
“I’m glad you got my note and
could come,” said Miss Peck. “Do
you remember where you used to
sit?”
"What’s this all about?" asked
the union boss.
The old lady looked at him
over her glasses. "If youtll take
vrOUNG EBEN CLIFFORD drew
* rein and studied the broad val
ley of the Hoosick at his feet. An
hour ago he had abandoned the
trail made by his predecessors on
their ride from Bennington to Al
bany, and skirted the western
shoulder of Mount Anthony. If In-
dians were wait-
ing to ambush
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him, Eben felt
sure they would
choose the Hoo
sick. , It offered
a means of escape, should the mail
rider by any chance be accompa-
by an escort
Eben felt once more of the leather
pouch that was tied behind the sad
dle. Contained therein was a dis
patch of the utmost importance for
Gen. Newton at Albany. Col. Albee
of the Bennington garrison had
called Eben aside that morning.
( “No one is supposed to know
you’re carrying the papers, Eben.
An escort would only excite suspi-
cion. You must go alone. There is,
of course, the possibility that Bon-
* ney, the white renegade, and his
1 Indian cutthroats, have learned
what Pm up to. In any event, if
you’re attacked, destroy the pa-
w
He sat for a long time study
ing the valley without moving.
A curious sense of excitement
stirred his Mood. Without know-
, he sensed danger. A
later he glimpsed a
1 column of smoke rising from
* the summit of a hill across the
valley.
A signal fire! They had sighted
him. Eben sucked in his breath.
Well, his chances of getting through
were pretty slim now. There was
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kept to the high ground
g hour, watching the
signal.
one ford in the Hoosick that
was accessible at this time of year.
They’d never let him cross it. The
sensible thing to do was turn back
and insist upon an escort.
A thin smile played across his
lips. Sensible, but not advisable.
Eben explored the river for half
a mile in both directions, then
urged his mopnt into the stream.
WATER WAS ICY, breath
taking. In another moment the
’s legs went out from under
sod the swift current was car
rying them rapidly down stream.
Eben did all he could to help the
noble beast in its fight to reach
the opposite shore. He was begin
ning to think he had underesti
mated the strength of the current,
when they struck a sandbar. The
horse floundered, nearly lost its
footing, then gripped hard and
held. Eben breathed a sigh of re
lict
After a momentary pause he
urged the beast toward the west
bank. Ten feet from his goal
he drew rein sharply. A loose
stone had come tumbling down
from the high bank. Eben sat
very still, his heart pounding.
A feathered bonnet showed
above the embankment.
He tried frantically to get his
mount toward the east bank, but
the river sheared off there; the
strength of the current was against
him. ’ The Indians were running
along the bank, howling and
screaming their triumph. In an
other moment he’d be swept
against the high west bank and
they’d be upon him.
Remembering Col. Albee’s in
structions, Eben unwrapped the
leather mail pouch, gripped it tight
ly and flung himself from the back
of the floundering horse. Instantly
water swept over his head. He
swam as long and as far as he
could beneath the surface. Then he
bobbed into view and a sense of
dismay sent his heart downward.
He was within three feet of the
west bank. A leering Indian was
reaching out toward him.
Dimly, as he went under again,
Eben heard a chorus of wild shouts.
He was far below the spot
where the Indian had stood,
but equally as close to the
bank. To his amazement there
were two soldiers standing
there yelling and gesticulating.
One of them was Gen. Newton.
The sound of gunfire came
from upriver.
“Thought you might have seen
their smoke signal and realized
they had sighted us,” Gen. Newton
was saying. “Figured Bonney
would be up to something, so I led
a detachment out to meet you.”
Eben sank to the ground. It was
good to rest.
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services
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your seat," she said, "the clast
will begin."
Murphy, to humor her, sat down
next to Hanson.
“Things haven’t changed much,
have they?” said Miss Peck pleas
antly. “You’re still throwing spit-
balls at each other, only now they
hurt a lot more than they used to.
Do you remember how it was with
you two in the old days? Most of
the time you were pretty good
friends, but every now and then
you’d get into an argument and
make so much noise that none of
the other pupils could do any work
“And when you did, I’d just stop
the / class, make you stand up, and
tell you to go outside and not come
back until you had straightened
things out. Sometimes you’d go out
in the woods and settle it with
your fists, and other times you’d go
down to/the brook, sit on the bank
and talk it out, but you’d always
come back smiling. Stand up, you
two.”
The two men got to their feet and
walked out of the room.
“You heard what the teacher
said,” said the labor leader. “Do
we go into the woods and slug it
out?”
"You always bad a pretty good
left," said the textile boss, "How
about letting a conciliation board
settle our argument?"
“Fair enough,” said Murphy,
“but I still want to play first base.”
“All right, if you’ll keep away
from Helen Brennon.”
“Seeing as how she’s my wife,”
said Murphy, “that’s going to be
tough. But if you’re still stuck on
the girl, drop around tonight and
I’ll get her to fry up an extra chop.”
Then the two men walked back
into the schoolhouse to report.
B
By INEZ GERHARD
ARBARA STANWYCK, whose
latest release is “Thelma Jor
dan,” is going to team up with
Robert Siodmark, its director, to
do something which should have
been done long ago. They will
film the world’s greatest short
stories, in featurettes that will run
BARBARA STANWYCK
about 25 minutes. “Some of Holly
wood’s top stars are interested in
appearing in them,” said Siod
mark, “as an experiment in hand
ling roles vastly different from the
assignments they get in feature
films.” Some of the world’s best
literature is in the short story
form; filmed as they should be,
as shorts, they can substitute for
a second feature on double bills.
Ben Grauer, whose first film for
the U.S. Bureau of Census will be
used to prepare census takers for
the work that begins April 1, has
completed two additional films.
His first training film was reviewed
in Washington by the Bureau’s top
executives, who requested supple
mentary films to present other as
pects of census-taking.
TEEIHCIPE
Road Deaths
On Uptrend
CHICAGO. — A car full of teen
age boys recently drove through a
red traffic light in a suburb neat
here and rammed their automobile
at breakneck speed into the m»
chine of an elderly couple. The ii>
nocent couple was killed instantlj
and all of the boys were seriously
injured—some perhaps for life.
This accident typifies a new form
of mass murder and self-destruc
tion on the highways known ai
“teenicide.”
Teenicide is violent death caused
by an automobile driver under 25
years of age, usually the result of
recklessness or immature judge
ment. Last year, teenicide figures
soared to 7,500 killed and an esti
mated 275,000 injured. This shock
ing total represents 10 times more
casualties than our armed forces
suffered at I wo Jima and cost the
nation 600 million dollars in cold
cash.
Can anything be done to reduce
this slaughter? Scores of insurance
agencies, automobile associations
and other organizations are throw
ing their weight into the teenicide
problem.
Three-Way Problem
James S. Kemper, chairman oi
the Lumbermens mutual casualty
company and a pioneer in highway
safety, believes the present death
and accident rate can be cut only
by changing the frivolous and ir
responsible attitude of youth.
“The teenicide problem must be
attacked in three ways,” Kemper
says. “First, youngsters must be
taught the techniques of safe driv
ing, preferably in schools. Second,
traffic rules must be enforced and
stricter license requirements estab
lished. The third approach—and
most important — is that parents
should hot only teach good driving
but set an example themselves.”
Kemper points out that any teen
age boy who sees his parents driv
ing 50 miles an hour in a 40-mile
zone—and getting by with it—can
almost invariably be expected to
drive 60 miles an hour under the
same conditions from natural vi
tality and exhuberance.
According to statistics, a car in
the hands of a teen-ager is about
twice as dangerous as a car driven
by a mature adult. The 16-20 age
group is involved in five times ai
many accidents as the 45-50 group;
and sixteen-year-old drivers cause
nine times as many accidents as
the 45-50 group.
Instruction Effective
High school instruction in safe
driving has proved highly effective
ih reducing teenicide. But, unfortu
nately, only 600 out of 20,000 IT. S.
high schools offer this course. The
American automobile association is
prepared to lend staff educators who
will trajn high-school teachers in
safe driving. '
In addition to pouring out tons of
safety literature and advertising
each year. Lumbermens helps to
pay expenses for Northwestern uni
versity’s traffic institute. This com
pany also sponsored a safe-driving
contest among college newspapers
last falL
The National Safety Council is
directing much of its highway ma
terial toward teenicide. These or
ganizations and many others are
all eager to help solve this serious
problem.
If school boards and parents
would cooperate against teenicide,
thousands of lives and limbs—not to
mention the personal agony—could
be saved.
Courtship, Wedding
Materialize From Ad
Placed in Newspaper
ST. JOSEPH, MO.—A five-day
courtship and marriage all of
which resulted from a newspaper
want ad had Charles Donelson, 21,
marveling at the ad’s pulling power
and quick results.
“When things got going, they
really went,” he said.
Donelson was married to Irene
Krebs, 18. It was a double cere
mony which also united Donelson’s
business partner, Orville Mortimore,
20, and Miss Delores Haskey, 19.
Donelson specified in his ad, run
on a Tuesday, that he wanted a
bride by. Saturday. He is an ex
soldier and former circus fire-
eater.
It was fortunate, Donelson said,
that love set in so soon after he met
the blue-eyed, brown-haired Miss
Krebs, when the deadline was so
near.
It was Mortimore’s suggestion
that his roofing-business partner
come along for a dual marriage
ceremony.
Cupid scored a direct hit right
after Donelson arranged a drug
store meeting as soon as the
bride-to-be phoned him.
After that romance had tough
competition from persons who
took a fancy to the couple in love.
Donelson had the extra prob
lem of dealing with some 300 wife
applicants who took a fancy just
to him. Too late, they learned his
choice was Irene.
Phone calls, interviews, photog
raphers’ flash bulbs, and offers of
gifts led the couple through four
hectic days. Donelson lost seven
pounds.
Once, rumblings of commercial
ism tainted the prenuptials. Donel
son threatened to go off to near-by
Troy, Kas., for the dual ceremony,
which was the way he planned it
with Mortimore in the first place.
Sincerity spread to those who
wanted to help out. Cash came in
for the license, and cars and driv
ers were available on a loan basis.
A gown for the bride and a suit
for the bridegroom, plus the ring,
were given.
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Frog* Blitz Two Stroots
As Mobilians Puzzlod
MOBILE, ALA.—Thousands of
dime-sized, mud-colored frogs,
apparently all hopped up wver
something, recently blitzed two
streets here and had residents
rubbing their eyes in amaze
ment.
J. M. Ramsey said he noticed
all the frogs seemed westward
bound from a nearby water hole
and he figured they were “just
migrating.”
Paul English said his duck
flock found the frogs at dawn
and by 8 a. m. had eaten so
many they couldn’t stand up.
“They just sat on the ground
and kept eating every frog that
hopped close enough.”
Where the frogs came from
or why was a mystery. N
Keeps Flock Together
Flock finishes are used to give
the appearance and feel of fabric
to other types of surfaces. First
an adhesive, such as a specially
formulated clear varnish or lac
quer, is applied. While the ad-
hesive is still tacky, the flock is
applied. The flock consists of very
short cut fibers of materials, such
as cotton, rayon or wool. These
| finishes are used for their decorat
ive effect on greeting cards, ad
vertising displays and children’s
books. They are also applied to
file underside of book ends, lamps,
etc.—where their slightly resilient
surface protects the surface
Ineath.
Ain’t It So
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Some men can’t see why a
man needs a good eonseienee,
when he can hire a good
lawyer.
moo
When a man Is too old for a
girl to marry, and too rich for
her not to marry, she’ll marry
him, all right.
HAILS AMAZING RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION
“I suffered with constipation, but bad.
Medicines didn't help for long. Lucky
for me, I decided to make ALL
BRAN my breakfast
cereal. Believe me, I
feel like a new man!”
Sam Plesky, 10517
Churchill Av., Cleve.,
O. Just one of many <
unsolicited letters from
ALL-BRAN users. If
you suffer from con
stipation due to lack
of dietary bulk, eat an ounce of i
Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN daily, <
plenty of water! If not completely
satisfied after 10 days, send empty
carton to Kellogg’s, Battle Creek,
Mich. GET DOUBLE YOUR
MONEY BACK!
Personal
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Nagging Backache
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exertion, exceedre l _ . _
cold sometimes elowe down kidney
tdon. This may lend many folk* to earn-
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up nights or frequent passages may raaoU
from minor bladder irritation* due to cold.
If your discomforts are due to
jxmm, don’t wait, try Doan’s Pills, a
diuretic. Uaad anecesafolly by minion*
over 50 year*. While
many times Doan’* give happy
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Aid to the Handicapped
For the first time, the U, S. de
partment of labor has established
| a division for the physically handi
capped in the bureau of labor
standards. The division will act
as a staff for the President’s com
mittee on the National Employ
the Physically handicapped.
Air Forces Now Making
Cupid’s Task Easier
WASHINGTON.—The air force
has made things easier for Cupid.
Sometime ago an official direc
tive stated that would-be bride
grooms in the four lowest pay ranks
must obtain consent of squadron
commanders before saying “I do.”
The air force’s position was that
the lower-paid soldier—because of
the shortage of service accommoda
tions and benefits—should, among
other things, prove his ability to
carry the financial end of a mar
riage.
This caused “confusion,” accord
ing to The Beam, weekly news
paper of Bolling Field air base
here. It also caused a decline in
weddings.
Under the new order a prospec
tive bridegroom must , write a
“letter of intent” to the command
er. Then the officer “couhsels” the
enlisted man on finances, housing,
transportation, and other matters
of armed-services married life.
After this it’s up to the couple
whether they want to be married.
f Mum’ Visits in Chicago
To Soo One of ‘Hor 9 Boys
CHICAGO.—Chicago had a dis
tinguished visitor recently—a tiny,
76-year-old lady from London,
England. Her name is Mrs. Ade
laide Gilbert.
Mrs. Gilbert, known to thousands
of America service men whom she
befriended during the war, was in
Chicago to visit one of “her” boys.
She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Ervin Kodat, whose son, LeRoy,
23, once enjoyed Mrs. Gilbert’s hos
pitality in England during the war.
The tiny, sprightly little woman
opened her house to servicemen.
They slept on featherbeds, raided
her icebox and joked with her on
the brief leaves they had before the
invasion.
“Mum” was in the United States
to visit as many of her “boys”
she can find. They all invited her
to their homes to help repay her
generosity.
Inspiration for her unselfish acts
came from her son, Michael, a pri
vate in the British army, who was
killed.
She remembered and opened her
own home to American lads “be*
cause Michael would have wanted
that.”
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Ezpsrlmsntsr Gives Up
Neckless*Chielun Try
BYRON, CALIF.—A chicken with
no neck would be a bigger boon to
white meat lovers than even the
new wingless variety. That idea oc
curred to Lorenzo Armstrong when
he read about wingless birds de
veloped in the midwest.
So Armstrong built his hen houses
with low roofs. Feeding troughs
were breast high. The wire over the
chlrfran runs was lowered. He fig
ured if they kept their heads down
thf chickens’ necks wouldn’t grow.
He gave up finally. The chick*
ens just got humpbacked.
Sergeant’s Son Given
Send-off by Air Foree
LONDON. — Sgt. Urban Single-
ton’s son is off to a flying start—
the U. S. air force took care of that
for the sergeant who was on duty
in England with a superfortress
unit.
Singleton was unable to find
space in an English hospital for
his wife, Margaret, when their
baby was due. The Air Force flew
her to an American hospital in
Germany. There the son, John
Michael, was born.
Maj. Gen. Leon Johnson’s con
verted flying fortress landed at
Northolt Airfield from Germany.
Its only passengers were Singleton,
his wife, and baby.
“I just mentioned to one of my
officers that my wife was in Ger
many,” said Singleton. “The next
thing I knew I was on my way to
pick them up in the general’s own
plane.”
Singleton is from Colorado
Springs.
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