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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. TMI Home Tomn #EPOPT£P IN WASHINGTON WALTER SHE AO. WNO Correspondent Impact of Election T1THILE THERE will be compara- ” tively few new faces in the 82nd congress and the Democrats will maintain “paper” control of both houses, the result of the re cent election may be far-reaching in its impact. These factors may be considered: (1) With a presidential election coming up in two years the Repub lican leadership actually did not want control of the 82nd congress; (2) Democrat leadership has been warned and forewarned concerning the issues to which the American people object; (3) Although Dean Acheson, the day after election, denied vehemently that he would resign as secretary of state, there is a persistent rumor here that he may quit, which will involve an extensive cabinet shake-up; (4) De spite the proportions of the victory of Senator Taft in Ohio, there is bound to be a clash in the Repub lican ranks over leadership of the party in the senate, and (5) it is evident Democratic policies will move over closer to the conserva tive side with every indication that the 82nd congress will be an anti- administration congress. Prior to the 1948 election the Re publicans found that performance, instead of promises, was a difficult feat, and as a result their control of the 80th congress was a factor in the Truman victory in that cam paign. For this reason the GOP leadership believes their best posi tion prior to 1952 is the minority in the congress where they will be free to act without the responsibil ity of making a record. The GOP leadership, therefore, is elated over the election results for the reason that a definite Re publican trend is indicated which puts them in position to go on from there in 1952. 4t the same time, the voters in the home towns throughout the country indicated in no uncertain terms they took to heart the fight made by Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin against Secretary Acheson and the alleged harboring of Communists in that agency. Although Senator Mc Carthy never proved his charges the folks back home - acted as though there must be some fire where there was so much smoke. Hie defeat of Sen. Milliard Tydings of Maryland, veteran of 24 years in the senate, was because of this issue of “McCarthyism.” Tydings, chairman of the sub-committee which probed the McCarthy charges, found them unfounded and was in turn charged with “white washing” the whole thing. Mc Carthy stumped Maryland from one end to the other telling the people this story and lambasting Tydings unmercifully. — * Duff Called Anti-Dewey Although Gov. James Duff of Pennsylvania, who defeated Demo crat incumbent whip of the sen ate, Francis Myers, was an anti- Dewey man at the Republican na tional convention, it is not believed he will team up with the Taft- Wherry-Millikin axis in the Repub- fican leadership. Rather, because of his more liberal beliefs and his eagerness to clean the GOP of re action, he is believed likely to throw his lot with Senators Lodge of Mas sachusetts, Ives of New York, and other more liberal senators on the Republican side. * * * May Drop Farm Plan Significantly, Secretary of Agri- eulture Charles Brannan said a few days before the election that he might be willing to sidetrack his Brannan farm plan in the interest of unity. Also significantly, every where candidates supported the Brannan plan in the election they were defeated. This happened with Thomas in Utah, Thomas Fairchild in Wisconsin, Albert Loveland in Iowa, Ferguson in Ohio and others, • • • Tydings Big Upset The only real upsets in the elec tion were Tydings in Maryland and Thomas in Utah. However, one of the paradoxes which developed was in the Utah race and in Missouri where Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., defeated Republican Sen. Forrest Donnell. Both Thomas and Hen nings made their campaigns oa a straight fair deal program. Hen nings won handily, but Thomas, one of the most scholarly men in the senate was soundly whipped by Wallace F. Bennett, Republican, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers. lance of Power If they desire, the southern bloc of Democrats can take over the reorgimization of the senate. They .have the votes to name one of their own members, probably Sen. Rich- aid Russell of Georgia. However, the best bet is that the southern- v ers will let President Truman name his leaders so they can feel free to oppose whatever legislation they desire including civil rights. It appears that Sen. Joseph O’Mahon ey may. succeed Sen. Scott Lucas- Unbidden Guests tpHROUGH EIGHT WEEKS out of ^ each year each American fam ily must entertain an unbidden and unwelcome guest. During that time, that unwelcome guest must be pro vided with three meals each day at an average annual cost to each family. That guest is a civilian em ployee of a government—federal, state, county and municipal. He is an unwelcome guest in every Amer ican home, and the cost of provid ing for his keep has ihcreased from $155 in 1929 to the present $402. And the numbers of such guestu for which American families must provide, grows, because jobs mean votes. In the bygone days in New York, Tam many controlled the city through jobs. It was figured that one job would mean not less than eight votes for Tammany can didates. When more votes were needed in any borough, more jobs were created, and it worked. Today the nation has been Tammanized. At only four votes per job it means now the bestowers of jobs have an assurance of eight million votes. When we find them inviting more guests to be seated at our tables, it is time to call them to account. They find it easy to spend the other fellow’s money for an advantage for their political assistants, and so far themselves—money they would not spend if it came out of their own pockets, guests they would not in vite to their tables. If - government, all govern ment, federal, state, county and local, would but get back to what was considered essential only 20 years ago, a very large portion of these unbidden guests at our family tables could be eliminated. That is a duty we owe to ourselves, to our fam ilies, and to our American in stitutions. Under our American system the people can control if they will. They can elect to office those who will represent the public interest rather than selfish political interest by the creation of needless political jobs in any of our levels of govern ment—jobs for which the American families, to the amount of 402 per job, per year, as an average each family must pay. It is an unfair system that has Tammanized the nation, the buying of votes with jobs for which the general public, not the politicians, must do the paying. The figures on which this little piece is based, are not mine but are from a bulletin issued by the family economics bureau, of the Northwestern National Life In surance Company of St. Paul, Minn., a perfectly reliable fact finding institution t I have but ap.. 4*ed the facts to what I hope is an illuminating illustration as to how “jobs for votes, are being used by those we elect to office, in both the legislative and executive branches of gov ernment at all levels from the federal, down to that of our counties and towns.” With such an illustration, I hope I may arouse some American fam ilies to vigorously protest against the Tammany system that foists these unbidden guests upon them, at an average cost of $402 annually for each guest and each family. That is the price each family is paying those who are privileged to name the job holders. At the fed eral level, does your congressman or your senator vote for appropria tions to maintain these civilian gov ernment job holders for which you, not they, must do the paying? It is at your table, not theirs, at which these unbidden, civilian gov ernment employee guests do their eating to the extent of $402 as an average for each American family. It is high time to tell our politicians to pay for their own votes. During the past year, there was an increase of approximately 150,000 civilian employees in the state, county and municipal governments, bringing the total of such civilian employees to 4,050,000. Those are the home payrolls we can most easily watch and protest any in crease. Since that day when Japan sur rendered to Gen. Mac Arthur, this country has contributed to the peo ple of other free nations more than $283 for each man, woman and child in the United States—more than $1,000 per family. That fact should be pleasing to Joe Stalin who ardently wishes for the day when we have given away so much that we will be unable to finance a war with Russia, and must surrender to the dictates of the Communists. * We are still waiting to be told what our far eastern foreign policy is. • That line frohi the Alaskan is lands through Japan and Okinawa to the Philippines leaves a danger ous gap in our Pacific defense. n It is high time that we say to western European nations that they either prepare for their own de fense against Russia or permit the arming of Western Germany for that purpose. B\LL OF RIGHTS Bill of Rights Is Heritage and a a Precious Solemn T^ist This is the first of a series of three articles on the BUI of Rlrhts and Bill of Rights Day which will be celebrated December 15. December 15, Bill of Rights Day, commemorates the one hundred and fifty-ninth anniversary of the most important document in Amer ican history. As every school child learns, the Bill of Rights comprises the first 10 amendments our found- By INEZ GERHARD T ONY DEXTER, chosen from 75,000 candidates for the lead in Columbia’s “Valentino” movie, began life as a Nebraska farm boy, the son, grandson and great-grand son of clergymen. While in college he became interested in acting; his first role was with Eva LaGallienne in “Ah, Wilderness.” As Walter Craig he had a successful Broad- Valentino . . . Dexter Way career, interrupted by three ySars in the army. Katherine Cor nell suggested him for the Valen tino role, and Producer Edward Small kept him under wraps for three years, training him for the part; because of his startling re semblance to the dead star he couldn’t even rhumba at a dance hall! Linda and Boyd Morse, great grandchildren of Adolph Zukor, titular head of Paramount, have roles in the Pine-Thomas “The Last Outpost.” They are also great grandchildren of Marcus Loew, founder of Loew’s M-G-M. Richard Whorf, well known tn Hollywood, heads the cast of The whojly delightful new play, “Season In the Sun.” He staged “Champagne for Caesar” and “The Groom Wore Spurs” be fore leaving for Broadway. Nancy Kelly, appearing op posite him, has /made some 25 films as an aduli, 50 as a child; Anthony Ross has also Included the movies in his career. The play is one of the best comedies to reach New York in some time, and will make an award- contending comedy when it reaches the screen. » The new March of Time, “Schools March On!” presents a vivid story of public school consolidation in Woodford County, 111. It also strik ingly presents the advances of edu cational techniques and facilities in other parts of the United States. But it emphasizes the necessity of improving our public schools and raising educational standards throughout the country. ing fathers so wisely attached to the constitution of the United States to safeguard our civil liberties. Freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion, together with the guar antee of fair trial, due process and equality before the law, form the PD CQlAl DR DII77IC 1X51 WHKS j| joW HU r Ullll answ « « cornerstone of democratic govern ment. Now, as never before, our democ racy is being challenged. Anti-dem ocratic forces often hide behind the protection of the Bill of Rights, hoping to frighten us into curbing our civil liberties, the first step to ward totalitarian rule. Being fully aware of their insidious purpose, we must preserve these liberties, even for those whose opinions we detest. ' m • m ■. TO REMIND AMERICANS of their precious heritage in the Bill of Rights, and to renew the faith of free men everywhere, the Ameri can Civil Liberties Union is plan ning a nationwide program of pub licity through the press, radio, tele vision and magazines. Featured in this program will be a newspaper survey of the current status of civil liberties in the country’s largest cities, a documentary drama broad cast over the National Broadcasting Company network and a series of articles in leading national maga zines. The American Civil Liberties Union is also sponsoring a contest in cooperation with the National Association of Educatiohal Broad casters, for the best college radio script on civil liberties. Today the Bill of Rights takes on new world significance as one of democracy’!# proudest achieve ments. Only by continuous support of both the word and spirit of the Bill of Rights can we insure the heritage of freedom for our child ren and furnish the best argument for universal acceptance of the democratic way of life. NAME WASN’T ON IT . . . Newsmen examines bullet hole in Blair House window after two gunmen attempted assassination of the President ACROSS t. Asterisk 5. Fall heavily on water t. State of U.S. 10. Coin (It) 11. Before (naut.) 12. Siren 14. Transgress 15. Suitable 10. Radium (sym.) 17. Bargained 20. Habitual drunkard 21. Flow 22. Quote 23. A branch' 20. Fidgety 27. Fertile earth 28. Quake 29. Abounding in ore 30. Game played with glass balls 34. All correct 35. Precious stone 30. Wrdth 37.. Danger 39. Privilege granted 41. Irritate 42. Greek poet 43. Auction 44. Ordered , DOWN 1. Capital of Bulgaria 2. Narrow strip of leather 3. Ventilate 4. Spawn of * fish 5. Having a tartan pattern 0. Brisk, merry song 7. Anglo- Saxon money 8. Brightly- colored, tropical birds 11. 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His voice was quite calm and unruffled. “I’ve just been held qp and robbed,” he explained. “I think if you go to No. 302 Market street you’ll find not " ■ only the bandits, 3 - Minute but the money.” EUtlAii “ Wait a min * FlCtlOn u t et ” said Deke Miller. “What is this? Let’s have a few particulars.” “I suggest,” cut in Old Man Bursley, “that you get down to 302 ifarket street at once.” . Deke hesitated. “Where are you now, Mr. Bursley?” “I’m at my office ,at 1102 Main street.” “O. K. You stay there till we get back.” Deke hung up and nodded to me. “Come on,” he said. “It sounds screwy, but you like screwy set-ups.” Old Man Bursley owned and operated one of the city’s biggest department stores. There were abont 300 people in his employ and he personally supervised the making up of payroll envelopes. I asked Deke about details of the hold-up as the police car rushed us downtown. “I don’t know any,” he said shortly. “Bursley simply told us to go to 302 Market and we’d find the money and the bandits.” . The address at Market street was a saloon. We got out and went in side. “Where’s the boss?” Deke asked. The barkeeper shot a quick glance toward a rear door, wet his lips and shook his head. “He ain’t in.” Deke headed for the rear door. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Moe's Biggest Catch Found Rose Dangling on His Line By BILLY ROSE Among the doodads on my desk is an old piece of string wrapped around a wooden spool, and people who come to my office often quiz me about it. My rough, ready and routine answer is: I'm fond of that bit of string because, thanks to it, my business address is Sixth Avenue instead of Davy Jones's Locker. But let me crank the reel back 44 years and give it to you—as my Aunt Frieda would put it—“in sequins.” . . . The scene I remember most vivid ly on the East Side is the dock near the Fulton Fish Market where we used to go swimming on sum mer days when school was out and the tide was in. And the water front character who usually takes stage center in my memory is a little ragbag of a man we called Crazy Moe who spent most of his days spool-fishing over the edge of the pier. We often pointed out to this in- compleat angler that he was wast ing his time that no self-respecting flounder would be caught sauteed in the polluted waters of the East River—but Crazy Moe paid no at tention to us. His answer, when he bothered to answer at all, was that he didn’t much care about catching anything—he just liked to fish. And as nearly as we could tell, he never even tuck the trouble to bait his book. Billy Rom ONE DAY A BOY named Terry, the most promising juvenile delin quent on Avenue A, swiped a mack erel from a fish stand, dove off the dock when Moe wasn’t looking and hooked the fish onto his line. And when the tetched one began to pull in his “catch,” his hands shook so violently that the fish looked alive. Befort A# could get wise to the deception, however, one of the kids grabbed The mackerel out of his hand and backed its head off with a jackknife. Crazy Moe cussed at us for five min- . utes—and it wasn't because be wanted to stuff and mount the fish, be just wanted to throw tbm Poor thing hack. There was another day when this same Terry decided it was time I learned how to swim, and when I tried to ward him off with the wily dialectics of a seven-year-old he began calling me “sissy” and “yella belly.” Finally, realizing there was no way to dodge the dunking, I stripped down to my shorts. Terry and another kid grabbed hold of me, gave me a cou ple of hammock swings and pitched me into the river. I landed ker- splash between a grapefruit rind and a floating bottle, and water be gan rushing into me from every opening. # * » AS 1 WAS GOING down for the second time I somehow got tangled up in a bit of string, and when my head broke water I saw Crazy Moe standing on tire dock hauling in his second fish—me, and I was darned near as dead as the first one. The line, of course, wasn’t strong enough to do more than keep me afloat, but it gave Terry ’ a chance to dive in and pull me over to the ladder. After I had recovered breath and bravado, I asked Crazy Moe to let me have his Ashing line for a # keepsake, and when he demurred I bribed it away from him with what was an important piece of money in x those days— a new Liberty Head nickel. Today, many decades and chins later, the piece of string occupies a prominent place among the' me mentos on my desk—sort of a mute reminder of the time when my life hung by a hair. And my favorite mermaid who, of course, knows this story says it explains why I married her. * “You wanted a swimmer in the family,” says Eleanor, “because the next time they throw you in, there may not be a Crazy Moe hanging around.” The bartender shot a quick glance toward a rear door, wet his lips and shook his head. “He ain’t here,” he said. He banged it open. Three men were sitting around a table and on the table was a heap of money and pay envelopes. ||§|f; There was a lot of excitement dur ing the next -15 minutes. No one but Deke Miller could have handled the situation so adroitly. He stood with his back to the wall at the farther end of the room with a gun in his hand while I called headquarters. W E saw the three gangsters safe ly away in a patrol wagon, then returned to the police car. . “Where to?” I asked Deke. “Bursley’s department store. 1 don’t mind telling you I’m burning up with curiosity.” “Me too,” I agreed. S O WE DROVE up to Bursley* s and a watchman let us in and told us that Mr. Bursley was still in his office. Bursley was sitting there calmly reading the evening paper. “Did you get the money back?” he asked. “Yes,” said Deke. * “Thought you would,” said Bursley. “What made you think so?” Deke asked. “Eh?” said Bursley. “Oh, well that’s where they phoned before leaving here. I and my assistant were locked in that closet. We heard them phone.” “Do you mean to say,” Deke asked “that they were stupid enough to give away their hide-out by phoning from here?” Bursley chuckled. “It amounts to that, though they didn’t know it. They used that phone. Dial, you know. Didn’t have to speak a num ber so figured no one could check back.” I counted the. clicks. Easy You count the clicks of the dial when she goes back, *nd you can figure what number anybody’s calling.” It’s quite a jolt when you find an ordinary citizen as calm and level headed in time of emergency as a cop should be. Deke cleared his throat. “Mr. Bursley, I’d like to remind you again that it is dangerous the way you make up your payroll Now—” “Tut, tut, tut,” said Bursley. “I’ve taken care of that. Begin ning next week I’m having the en velopes made up at the bank. Also I’m paying off by check. Besides that. I’m having a police guard to watch over things.” Yes, sir, gen tlemen, I’ve decided I ought to have a police guard to keep an eye oo things.” Calumet Farm Makes Profit Grazing Cattle Famous Horse Farm Handles 200 Yearly Proud-faced titans of the turf world and white-faced hereford steers share the lush Kentucky blue grass carpeting the 1,200 acres of pastures at Calumet farms, Lex ington, Ky. Calumet is grazing some 200 head of hereford steers shipped in last April from the panhandle of Texas. Hiey are bought as long yearlings and grazed through No- ‘V* WmWzm. . White-faced herefords shown above have become an Impor tant factor in pasture control at famed Calnmet farm, Lex ington, Ky., the - home o^ Ken tucky Derby winners. vember. Their average gain ranges in the neighborhood of forty pounds per month. ^ Since Calumet is not equipped to fatten cattle for the market, man ager J. P. Erbnelhardt has keyed his cattle program to the eight- month grazing period. “We find,” he says, “our net profit amounts to as much in this shorter period of time as if we had carried them on a feeding program for 12 months.” Ebelhardt and his staff of help ers also prefer herefords “because they seem a quieter type of cattl^ and handle, well in moving from pasture to pasture.” Make Fascinating Gifts From Odd Scraps of Tin Gifts From Cans and Bottles E VEN IF you have never paint ed before you can make these fascinating gifts from odds andi ends of tin and glass by tracing designs and following directions; given in pattern 330. Easy meth od of making lids for cans andi jars, of wood, is also showni Price of pattern is 25c. i 'eea WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer It ' -V '•» Bedford Hills. New Tel* ■'Xj ■ r-—rr. . Farmers Use Larger Part Of Income for Fertilizer . • , v 7 ’v j* * >, Farmers spend a larger propor tion of their income for fertilizer than they did before the war, a recent survey revealed. The aver age amount used, however, may 'still be no more than half the amount that could be wred econo- , mically. / A fairly general standard a farm should be using the equi valent of 100 to 200 pounds of single strength fertilizer per year for each tillable acre in the farm. A .farm of 160 tillable acres using 150 pounds per tillable acre per year would require 12 tons of fertilizer per year. For most economical operation it seems certain that crop expense is not an item to reduce but one that the average farmer needs to in crease. For example, good seed is high priced, but generally the in*' crease In yield offsets the added cost. - Atomic Farmer • r » Aaron Ganz of Chicago, die “atomic farmer” who has grown radioactive tobacco plants, received his doctor of philosophy degree In pharmacology at the University of Chicago. Ganz, working at the university’s “atomic farm”, grew tobacco plants In air containing radioactive carbon dioxide. Minute doses of nicotine extracted from the radioactive plants was injected into rats and mice for the purposes of studying the behavior of nicotine in the hu man body. Ganz’s tests showed that the body quickly gets rid of hicotine. The liver was shown to pick up more of the nicotine than any other organ, the brain the least. Heilers Should lie Bred By Weight — Not Age Many dairymen have calving trou bles in heifers even Xthough they don’t breed them until they are 15 to 16 months old, specialists report. These calving difficulties are usual ly due to small heifers that have not been grown out properly, the specialists said. Feeding of proper growing ration will mature heifers quicker and start them on the road to produc tion. Start right at the top Christmas list and ch the smokers! Then go to dealer. Buy Camels for ette smokers and Prince Smoking Tobacco for the smokers and the man who his “makin’s.'* These two _ products are always welcome — and especially at Chris For, when you g*ve mild, fla Camels anq mellow Prince your giving * joyment money can Camel carton and the of Prince Albert both come fully wrapped for your Christmas giving. And you’ll appreciate the convenient built-in greeting — J for your personal message member, v more people s m o Camels than any other cii_ So give a carton of Camels and be popular with your cigarette-smok ing friends! A pound,tin of Albert is,' the right way “Merry Christmas” to your smoking friends! —Adv. ■ ■ m I f V-iii'iV;/I Effective Cough Syrup, Mixed Home for Ecoiu No Cooking. No WorC .Reel Saving. Hert’e an'old home mixture your mother probably used, and fai atilt one of the moat effective for .cough* due to colds. Once tried, you’ll swear by it. Make a ayrup with 2 cups granulated sugar and one cup water. No cooking needed. Or you can use corn ayrup or liquid honey, instead of sugar ayrup. Now put 214 ounces of Pinex into a pint bottle, and till up with your ayrup. This makes a full pint of cough medicine, end gives you about four times as much for your money. It Keeps perfectly and -tastes fine. And you’ll say it’s really excellent for quick action.* You can feel-it take hold swiftly. It loosens phlegm, soothes irritated membranes, helps clear the air passages. Thus it makes breathing eeay and lets you get restful sleep. 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