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JSPfsjpgi '< < THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. OPERATION UNITY Unity Must Be Top Consideration In Alliance of Western Nations v By Farnham F. Dudgeon (Editor’s note: This is one of a series of articles prepared by the Editor of West ern Newspaper Union whHe on a 13,000 mile flight through Europe and the Near East. Purpose of thi trip was for the writer and thirteen other American jour nalists to observe progress made in build up of strength and integration of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces and the efforts being made by the Europeans themselves in self-help.) “The program on which the Unit ed States is embarked in Europe must succeed, tor there i» no ac ceptable alternative tor our coun try. If you are in a boat in a strong sea, you do not stop pulling your oar if the boat starts leaking; you keep on pulling, even harder.” It was with these, and other equal ly inspiring words from General Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Su preme Headquarters, Allied Pow ers in Europe, near Paris, France, that we began our eight-country, 24-day inspection trip of the major Western European countries allied with the United States against Soviet aggression. In this same initial briefing, the supreme allied commander author ized another direct quotation, which was to register with us again and again as we talked with United States officials, and with the mili tary and political leaders of France, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Western Germany, and the Nether lands. General Eisenhower said: “The free world vastly outnumbers the Iron Curtain countries in total resources. The essential, however, is unity. Dictatorships achieve unity by a dagger in the back; the only way in which we shall obtain unity in NATO is for each of our coun tries to realize that its enlightened self-interest is best served by cling ing together in this association.” Can this “enlightened” unity be achieved? In an attempt to get some kind of answer to this vital international question our group of newspapermen had a pretty good look at much of what is happening in these coun tries ringed tightly around the west ern footlights of the Iron Curtain. Here are some of the essential im pressions created as a result of our observations: Deployed Around U.S.S.B. The United States and its West ern allies are very definitely de ployed in a political and economic organization and in a limited mili tary aggregation around the Rus sian perimeter from Norway on one flank through Turkey on the other flank. The battle lines for defensive mili tary tactics are drawn. Our strategy to defend the free world from Rus sian aggression has been charted, lyiaps showing the deployment of the enemy forces have been compiled from a hard-working intelligence or ganization. What forces we have in readiness are placed where it is believed they would do the most good, should “the gong ring to morrow”. There is no feeling of false optim ism or of bluff. Our leaders admit that we would be in serious trouble if the Soviet forces were to move tomorrow. But we are in better shape today than we were six months or a year ago. If we aren’t strong enough to hold the Russians back, why haven't they Qstruck to date? One military leader put it this way: “We think Russia knows that if this thing breaks, it will be a fifteen round fight. Russia might win the first round, but we think they know that there would be tourteen more rounds to fight.” War is going to be up to the Rus sians. The Allied forces have no thought of a preventive war. General Eisenhower told us that there is absolutely no talk of such tactics, and that it was completely out of the Western concept of civilization. Strength Growing Our military strength is growing every day, and our leaders are op timistic about achieving military goals set for next year and the year after, and reaching their culmina tion in 1954. Great progress has been made in the year just passed in building up the allied political or ganization through NATO, and the military side through SHAPE. It has been through the shear willpower and inspiration of Gen eral Eisenhower, and other mili tary leaders, like his brilliant chief of staff, Gen. Albert M. Gruenther, that so much progress in planning the military organization at SHAPE has been made in such a short period. And, of course, on the political side. General Eisenhower, again, must be given much credit for the success of NATO to date. Every where we went, his name was magic. Everywhere, also, people speculated on his candidacy for the 1952 United States presidential elec tion. (Net impression of our group of observers was that General Eisen hower will be a Republican candi date, and that his place in the Allied military picture will be taken by another American general.) European Army One of the biggest problems facing SHAPE is the building of an integrated European army, in which century-old nationalistic enemies will be fighting side by side under a common command. This problem, like others, is being met head on, and is being solved because of the great “religious” fervor which grips the allied leaders from General Eisenhower down through all echelons of command. This “religion” takes on a very definite form as you visit and listen to the military and poliUcal leaders, who are faced with thejob of build ing an organization to offset the Soviet power. This code, is built on optimism that the job eventually can be done, and on an unyielding faith that it must be done. The problems of the Allies cer tainly are not confined to military matters. The national economies of Great Britain and France, partic ularly, are in another critical phase. The economies of all of the other countries which we visited need sup port. In many of the countries, the facts presented to us indicated that had not the present military crisis evolved, these governments today would be self-sufficient. But cer tainly the military crisis is at hand, and without the flow of money and materials from the United States, there would be little hope in Europe today. There is no particular secret about the fact that should the Rus sian choose to launch his offensive tomorrow, our military forces, and those of our allies, would be sorely pressed to do anything but give a creditable showing in strictly defen sive tactics. Rewarded A Catholic nun in Angers, France, has been awarded a Legion of Hon or decoration for 50 years of nurs ing in peace and wartime emer gencies. crossword mm LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ACROSS 1. Fanatical 6. The Pentateuch 11. Harden 12. Goddess of peace 13. Sounds 14. Expressed juice of apples 15. Finish 16. Seize 18. Plural pronoun 19. Ghastly ■ 21. Place of learning 24. Female sheep 27. Given to pouting 28. 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Frozen water I f5 21 27 30 45 47 22 15 31 14 25 10 THE FICTION CORNER STOCK IN TRADE ^ By Richard Hill Wilkinson S AM’S pride, his independent na ture and almost belligerent dis position were his stock in trade. Everyone said so. They were re sponsible for his success as a real estate agent. He always said what he thought, regardless of the con sequences. He gave no quarter and asked none. But he always kept his word. Minute Fiction That’s why people tolerated him. And now he’d fallen in love with Audrey Gardner. Audrey was a mama’s girL She depended on her mother for everything. It was al ways: “Yes, mama.” “Of course, mother, dear.” “Well, if you think it’s best, mama.” It got under Sam’s skin. A yes-man or a yes-woman denoted a weak character, a spine less, shallow individuality. But he had to take it and like it if he was going to have Audrey. He wanted Audrey. That's why he swallowed and suppressed. Secretly he was disgusted with himself for doing so. After the wedding they went to live in a cottage close by where Audrey’s mother lived. Audrey’s mother oame over every day. She made suggestions; she issued com mands. The dining rpom should be done in blue, the living room furni ture was atrocious, the bedrooms were cold and barren. Everything should be changed. It was. Sam ground his teeth and said nothing. And when he tried to sell a building lot to a bridal couple they weren’t very impressed. They grunt ed and stalled and said; “Hum Well, we’ll talk it over.” And went home. Sam was wild. He’d never let a prospect walk out on him like that. It happened a second time and GRASSROOTS Nostalgic Recollections of Old Rural General Stores By Wright A. Patterson Y ESTERDAY I visited a store, as I do whenever opportunity of fers, that carried me back to boy hood days in an Iowa village, in every detail it was the old type gen eral store in which I spent my pennies in those long ago boyhood days. And the store keeper'--they were storekeepers, not merchants, were prepared to supply every hu man Heed from the cradle to the grave. «£ Somewhere In their stock, they did not always know jnst where, were diapers, soothing syrup, paregoric, colic “cure”. There were high chairs and trundle beds. On one shelf were “patent medicines,” guaran teed to cure every ill of man or animal to which flesh is heir. In a shed at the back was kero sene, axle grease and paints for home or barn. Included in that stock were coffins in which the people of the community would be buried. Veritably every hu man need from the cradle to the grave. The stock of that Iowa general store in which I, as a small boy, was specially interested was its stock of penny candies. I still recall how patiently that store keeper served me when I went to spend my one or two pennies. How many I would get of this for one cent, and how many of that. I listened to it. all, carefully and ft'ngthfully con sidered each Rem, and in the end went back to the stick of striped peppermint candy, from that I could get more hours and minutes of pleasure than from anything else he could offer. Yesterday l headed for the counter on which the candy was displayed. There were the same varieties, includ ing the striped, peppermint sticks, but instead of one or two pennies a stick they had gone up to five and ten cents. The storekeeper gave me the same patient, courteous, attention l had received as a boy. Beside me stood a small girl looking hungrily at the array of candies, but evidently not having the five and ten cents with which to buy. I handed my purchase to her. After a hurried “thank you,” she rushed gleefully off to share her treat with other youngsters. My love for striped peppermint stick candy has faded with advancing years. What an institution those general stores of generations ago were. They have been succeeded in many places by the more modern depart ment store. But the department stores lack much that made the old general store attractive. The;- lack the disorder, the dust and smells. They are divided into organized de partments, with no searching for items you may want. This takes away much of the mystery and pleasure of buying at the general store of yesteryear. The store I visited yesterday, and do so whenever opportunity offers, is the only one that I know still op erating. It was part »f an old west ern ghost town purchased by the owner of a big restai.rant located a few miles out of Los Angeles, and removed to his restaurant grounds for the edification of his patrons. The general store wa ■ the cnly busi ness still operating in that ghost town, but it was included in the pur chase, and the stofekeeper was transplanted to the new location. Without him that store would lose much of its interest. You can get a real thrill out of having him sell you things, especially if you are of the older generation that knew gen eral store; in your home town. Just what source they have from which to maintair the stock it of fers I do not know. The storekeeper told me he had been able to find replacements for all items, though there was no one source from which they came. He had hopes of keeping his stock going indefinitely. It would be a sad blow to that restaurant, and its two to ten thousand daily patrons if he did not succeed. It is the only one of its kind of the thou sands that existed a bit more than half a century ago. * It will not be, but it would seem a just retribution if MacArthur were privileged to tell President Truman to move out of the White House. Indirectly he might do that by his active support of the Repub lican presidential candidate. His in fluence could be responsible for many votes. * To prohibit the supplying of in formation to the people is the act of a dictator. He threw her hat, parasol and handbag ont the door after her. a third. It began to look as if Sam’s business were going to pot. Three months passed. Sam’s busi ness was on the brink of disaster. He had not sold a single piece of property since his marriage. He began to wish that he didn’t love Audrey, that he could stop loving her. H E returned home one evening to find that Mrs. Gardener had spent the afternoon with Audrey. She had come over for a purpose. The purpose was to rearrange and do over the small room off the liv ing room Sam us4d for an office and study. Every other room in the house reflected the personality and ideas of Audrey’s mother. The study had been left until last Sam stood on the threshold and stared. His desk had been moved. Papers which he had left on top of it were swept into the waste basket. Pink drapes hung from the windows. The wall was decorated with a pic ture of a cherub. There as a floor lamp with pinkish frills hanging from its shade. Slowly, then more rapidly a fierce anger mounted in Sam. Sane reason ing fled from his brain. He whirled. His eyes fell on the triumphant, pompous countenance of Mrs. Gardener. He raised a trem bling forefinger and pointed it at her nose. „ “Get out!” he said, his voice like a threatening wind sweep ing down from the mountains and growing ever louder. “Get out before 1 break your domi neering neck!” Mrs. Gardener gasped. She start ed to speak. “Get out!” roared Sam. “Get out! Do you hear?” Apparently Mrs. Gardener heard. She gasped again, but made no ef fort to speak. Instead, her eyes wide with apprehension, she backed to ward the door and disappeared, for getting her hat, parasol and han£ bag. These items, however, over took her as she was sprinting down the walk. Sam banged shut the door and leaned against it, breathing heavily. Slowly, very slowly the significance of what he had done struck home. He had lost Audrey (and he loved her) but there was a warm glow of satisfaction inside of him. Audrey stood in front of him. Au drey said: “Well, my goodness, it’s about time you showed a little gumption. J had begun to think I’d married a freak. I mean, a man without a spine!” The next week Sam sold five house lots. Businessman An Arlington, Va., negro pastor will build a new church with $85,000 he derived from selling an old house and chicken yard during • property boom. Right Clothing A light jacket is essential when fishing in the mountains, both in spring and summer. Early morning or late evening breezes are often very cool and the light leather jacket or popHn windbreaker is good the year ’round in high country^ A slicker or plastic raincoat will come in handy for sudden rain squalls. Your list of accessories besides rod, reel, line, and hip boots should include a creel, landing net, bait box spinner-and-lure box, leader box, split shot, snelled hooks, jack-knife or small hunting knife, a fishing license and directions on how to get to your fishing spot. Waders of the waist-high variety are not essential tor stream fishing in spring. Most bait fishing is done from shore. Lake fishing may call tor waist-high waders. In all cases, cultivate a healthy respect for the water. Losing your footing is no fun and the ^vater is uncomfortably cold and often dangerously swift. A pair or two of heavy wool socks in rubber boots when fishing in the spring will cushion the foot against uneven rocks. Wool socks also keep your feet warm despite the low tem perature of the water in which you may be wading. As a word of precaution, in the springtime it is a good idea to put a couple of blankets in the back of your car when starting out in the Rocky Mountains. These blankets, plus a couple of chocolate bars may prove to be life-savers if you get stuck in mud or snow. A coffee pot and a can of coffee under the back seat might be useful on such an occasion, too. Wear loose, comfortable trousers, a woolen shirt, a short fishing jack et with plenty of pockets and a felt hat when you start fishing. Remem ber a belt too ... for holding up your boots. The bulge at the waist line may sustain your trousers but the extra tug of boots may cause you embarrassment in the end! AAA The hippopotamus differs from the rhinoceros in having four instead of three toes. AAA Surprise! It was a very unhappy landing for a large flock of Canada geese which stopped for a rest in Raleigh county one night a few days before the goose season opened. The in cident was reported to the con servation commission by Conser vation Officer Progress© Tocado. Instead of a placid pond, the honkers came down about 11 o’clock on the sheet metal roof of the ma chine shop of the Winding Gulf Collieries at Riffe’s Branch. Flood lights shining on. the roof was be lieved to have attracted the geese. Hearing a commotion of thump ing, honking and hissing on the roof, Nightwatchman E. E. Rine- heart at first was startled. Then, realizing what was happening, he rushed outside amidst floundering geese and flapping wings, and turned off the lights. Soon the thumps on the roof stopped and Rineheart turned the lights back on. All but six of the geese prompt ly took off. The six appeared dazed and some were bloody but all but one soon staggered up and made takeoffs. The remaining one, still stunned, was captured. By morn ing he had recovered his equilib rium and Rineheart carried him home and placed him in a chick en coop. TOcado was notified, came and examined the goose and found both wings apparently in working condition. Carrying the honker to the 609-acre lake at Flat Top, the officer placed him in the water to recuperate. Returning to the lake two days 'later to check on his patient, Tocado found the latter apparently had resumed his south ward flight. AAA The bald eagle was adoped as our national emblem by the Congress on June 20, 1782. AAA Hard to Beat A good split bamboo fly rod is a thing of beauty and personality. When you hold it in your hand it seems to say to you, “Let’s go fishing!” It -asks for a place on your team, and promises an eager participation that helps you cap ture all the fun there is in fishing. The best rods are made from selected hard Tonkin cane, split with the grain, heat-treated and straightened, milled to a mathe matically correct taper accurate to 1/1009 inch, and glued into the six-strip sections that make up the complete rod. These rods are sensitive as a bear’s sore nose, powerful as an archer’s bow. AAA Good Dry Flies Dry flies, as their name indicates, are tied so they will float. They must be tied on light hooks and have hackle that is stiff and glossy. One must pay a good price for really good dry flies, for they rre expen sive. If one wants the best—and nothing else should do—one must pay more, but results will more than compensate for the outlay. Poorly- tied dry flies won’t float properly and, consequently, won’t catch as many fish as those. propzrly tied. HAPPIER MOMENT . . . Here U hitherto unknown picture of “Cinderella” Martha DeVigier and millionaire Swisa husband taken immediately after their glamorous wedding in Paris. Martha has twice since left husband to return to parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris in Los Angeles. MIRROR U U Mothers Need Of Your Outside Interest MIND By Lftnpenco Gould Should mothers have outside interests? Answer: Yes, Dr. Exie E. Welsch, child psychiatrist, told the New York Child Study Association. The parent who does most to help a child “roll with life’s blows” is one who besides being a parent, is a good husband or wife and an inter ested member of the community. This is easier for men because busi ness automatically involves them in social contacts, but a mother who spends her days at home with her children should try to keep up at least one outside interest, like a bridge or book club. If she does not, she risks losing her perspective and trying to do more tor her children than can be done without smother ing them. Do groups judge each other fairly? Answer: No, says Dr. A. N. J. den Hollander of the University of Am sterdam. Every group of people tends to develop a “mental image” of the members of other groups— a more or less vague complex of ideas about their qualities, appear ance, customs and culture. (The idea of the “stolid Dutchman” is a good example.) But the images of other groups in our mhids are based on feelings rather than facts, and particularly on the wish to see our own group as superior to all the rest. As a result, our judgments generally are neither fair nor up- to-date—there is a “larg” between the progress other groups make and our willingness to recognize it. May narcotics aid suggestion therapy? Answer: Yes, write Dr. Richard N. Brickner and associates in Ar chives of Neurology and Psychi atry, Chicago. After personal in terviews and tests, 39 psychiatric patients were first given large in jections of sodium amytal and then made to listen for an hour while a manuscript explaining the nature of the inner conflicts that produced their difficulties was read to them. Favorable results were reported after following up 30 of the cases for “at least a year.” The tech nique, however, must be described as “suggestive” because the inter- pretations impressed on the pa tients’ minds were the psychiatrist’s rather than their own. KEEPING HEALTHY Tooth Decay From Too Much Sweets By Dr. James W. Barton I OFTEN THINK of the unselfish ness of the members of our school boards who give their val uable time freely in their endeavor to help our boys and girls become useful and loyal citizens. To help along this valuable work, there are formed what are known as home and school clubs which take a keen interest in the regular school sub jects and also in the matters of the other school interests of the pupils outside the classroom. One of these organizations. Na tional Congress of Parents and Teachers, has recently received great praise in The Journal of the American Dental Association for its action in condemning the sale of candy and carbonated beverages in the nation’s schools. A statement issued by the congress said these sweets interfered with a balanced diet and the formation of sound health habits. I have recently written of the efforts of the American Dental As sociation in pointing out that candy. sugar in any form, left on the teeth is the greatest single cause of tooth decay and that the profit from the sale of candy and sWeet drinks in our schools would not begin to pay for the cost of caring for and re moving decayed teeth caused by too much candy and sweets. While every dentist, physician and health worker will agreq with the stand of the American -Dental Asso ciation and of the National Con gress of Parents and Teachers in condemning the sale of sweets in the schools, we are all overlooking one important point. The boy. or girl at the end of the school day, 3:30 to 4:00 p.m., is tired and needs starch food (candy and sweets) if he is to play until the evening meaL The candy or sweets hd eats will carry him, give him energy, until the evening meal. Contrary to gen eral opinion, food eaten and used in play or other physical effort will be all used before the evening meal and the child will still have an ap petite for more food. HEALTH NOTES A thick blanket of fat adipose tissue interferes with regulation of body temperature during fevers. * • • If the body stores more than 15 pounds of fat in excess of its needs, the individual may be called obese. • • * After medical care is completed, most physically handicapped per sons must be retrained in skills nec essary for earning a living Dangerous Calling A man went to an insurance office to have his life insured. The insurance agant asked, “Do you drive?” “No,” said the applicant. “Do you fly?” “No,” answered the applicant a sedohd time. “Sorry, sir,” said the agent curtly, “but our company no onger insures pedestrians.” • Gentle Tap The deaf old lady went to live tear one of the naval ports. Short- y afterwards, a battleship fired a salute of 10 guns. The old lady, who lived alone, got out of her chair, smoothed down her dress, patted her hair; and said sweetly, “Come in.” Sad Fact A person doesn’t always grow wiser as he grows old, but he cer tainly grows older as he grows ^ wiser. $TpjK& Jl «ftw<MfrzaneiMB BROADCAST 1 v l —' , MV/MOM.. ' MEWTHOUfffol MeNTHOATUM I ..nr —— HE SAYS ORA ORA my dent ad sparkling,’' i ortlaud. Me. "Since using ORA ways clean and N. Serlick, P DENTISTS PRAISE O In a survey, an overwhelming ity of dentists praised this i new cleanser. No harmful that can ruin dentures. ORA solution for 15 minW night. Removes tobacco _ is guaranteed not to harm Get ORA today. All i Predsct of McKm— A . . Ain’t It Se The faithful, when they go to church to pray for rain, always carry umbrellas. Some churches say, ‘There ain’t no hell,” and others say, “The heU there ain’t!” A girdle is a device to keep an unfortunate s I tn a tlon from spreading. n f JI rZ C fw 4/Y CJ Water supplies the fluid with which all the organs of the body manufacture their juices. e e • Prevent loss of hearing in chil dren by having early treatment of nose, throat, and ear inflamations. e e • Lately the use of drugs to keep the blood in a more fluid state pre vents clotting, thus preventing oh struction of blood vessels. , -V . t, -. . mm MM