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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.
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Pentateuch
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12. Goddess of
peace
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apples
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16. Seize
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pronoun
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21. Place of
learning
24. Female
sheep
27. Given to
pouting
28. Not so many
30. Emmet
31. Explosions
32. Put forth
shoots
35. Depart
37. Lines
38. Short
haircut
41. Permit
43. Coronet
45. Smoothing
tool
46. Notoriety
47. Anxious
48. Staggers
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2. Soon
3. A dike
(Orient.)
4. Anger
5. Demolish
6. Sounds, as
a watch
7. Bay window
8. Primary
color
9. Afresh
10. In this place
17. Trouble
19. Obtained
20. Cone- bear
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21. Resort
22. Against
23. Rude
dwellings
25. Moist
26. Bitter vetch
28. Confuse
29. Consume
31. Bend
33. Lying face
downward
34. One who
rows a boat
35. Open the
mouth wide
36. Bulging pot
38. Large
bundle
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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.
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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
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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.
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Lately the use of drugs to keep
the blood in a more fluid state pre
vents clotting, thus preventing oh
struction of blood vessels.
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