Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, June 06, 1946, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textl/JoHiingtoh MEURt'GD-ROUND |\l| DREW P^**soH HOOVER AND REPORTERS WASHINGTON. When Herbert Hoover staged a press conference after his talk with President Tru man and Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, newsmen immediately asked what President Truman had told him. The former chief executive —who had as rough a time with the press as any United States President in this century—replied with deep feel ing; “There ought to be a law,” he said, “against anyone re peating what the President has said to him.” Hoover also refused to answer any questions about administration measures to meet the European emergency, and would not give any opinion when asked if U. S. ration ing might be necessary. ♦ * • ARMY DENTISTS At long last Maj. Gen. Norman Kirk, who has the reputation for hoarding more medical manpower than any other surgeon general in history, has decided to let a few more doctors slip through his fin gers and go back to civilian prac tice. He has decreed that all medical corps officers who have served 30 months as of May 1 can be released from the army before June 30. However, this does not apply to army dentists, who are now getting to be the forgotten men of the U. S. army. For some strange reason best known to General Kirk, general service doctors can get out of the army after 30 months, but a dentist must remain in 39 months. And today there are hundreds of patriotic dentists who gave up good practices to Join the army, now marking time at army posts, unable to get discharged. Furthermore, the brass hats have permitted the discharge of many younger dentists, while older men have to stay on. Many of the young sters, educated at army expense, have been declared “essential to civilian practice” and discharged, while older men with families to support, can’t get out. This means that younger dentists get their civil ian practice firmly established be fore older men can even begin to look for scarce office space. ♦ ♦ * HOW TO HANDLE LEWIS Towering Gov. Bob Kerr of Okla homa, who packs close to 250 pounds and a droll wit, tolls this story about a chat with a “prominent Repub lican” during a recent visit to Wash ington. “Why doesn't Truman do some thing about John L. Lewis,” com plained the GOP-er, “instead of sit ting around on his hands while Lew is ties up production in the entire country?” “Lewis is a tough man to handle,” said Kerr. “What would you sug gest that the President do?” “I could give him plenty of ideas if I had the chance.” “Okay,” said Kerr. “I’m go ing to give you the chance. I’m a close friend of Harry Truman. In fact, 1 am going to see him tomorrow morning. And I hap pen to know that right now, more than anything in the world, he wants the answer to this coal strike. So you just sit down and write out the solution and I’ll give it to him the first thing in the morning.” The discussion ended right there. ♦ • • RAIL BITTERNESS For a long time, bad blood had existed between the trainmen-engi neer brotherhoods and the other three—conductors, switchmen and firemen. It has been somewhat like the CIO-AFL row, but the bitter ness deepened after the Roosevelt arbitration dispute. Whitney, at the time, sent a let ter to all his trainmen excoriating the other brotherhoods for refusing to arbitrate—a letter which doesn’t put him in such a good light today. Among other things, he made up a little poem which read: “Three blind mice—hear how they talk! They all refuse to arbitrate— They’re gambling with their country's fate— Though the hour is getting late For the three Wind mice.” “Were they afraid to trust the President?” Whitney asked his fel low trainmen in the round-robin let ter. “Or is it possible that they (the other three brotherhoods) were playing organization politics in the hope that they may strengthen their numerical and financial condition?” • • * CAPITAL CHAFF Candy made in Fascist Argentina is now sold in the house of repre sentatives’ restaurant. . . . Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley grows in stature daily as a result ol his difficult battles in a hard-head ed senate, . . . John Pehle, just re signed from the treasury, will go to work for the French government . . . The Soviet government is now permitting the state department t« up the circulation of its Russia) language magazine Amerika fron 10,000 to 60,000 copies a month. BREAD LINES BEGINNING TO FORM . . . Not the depression soup lines, but bread lines caused by the rationing of flour to bakeries, has resulted in bread lines in most cities and before the doors of most bak eries. Photo shows a bread line in Detroit. The baker says he has 600 loaves daily, soon to be cut to 450 loaves, but the line-up each morning soon buys up the entire allotment. HOW ALLIED AIR FORCE WRECKED FRANKFURT , . . Bombs from American and British air forces rained from the skies caused a vast panorama of ruin at Frankfurt, Germany. Photographs show Five Fin ger Place as it appeared at end of war. Insert shows same location as it appeared on a prewar German post card. Only the little statue is unmarked. Few cities took a more sustained beating than Frankfurt. TO BE TOGETHER . . , Courage and devotion dominating one of the truly great love stories of modern times. Maj. Hans G. Hornbostel, San Francisco, veteran of two wars and the “Bataan death march/' is exerting every effort to enter the Leprosarium at Carville, La., so that he can remain at the side of his wife, who contracted the ravaging disease while in a Japanese prison camp. Major Horn bostel, who is not afflicted with leprosy, is shown with his wife as they talk with Dr. J. C. Geiger, chief of San Francisco health department. AbHlk b9HBh Y tv jyg ? ft vgi iLytjJxSr * ™lr ;&SB*.; ,S :sSS&, ii MOON-JUMPING COWS . . . Flying cattle to South America from New i.'ork City leads the way to a new modern method of transportation of high quality breeding stock. Valued at $20,000 these Ayrshire dairy cattle are shown on plane, converted into a flying barn. The trip will take about 20 hours, instead of several days as would be necessary by rail and water. More exports of cattle will follow from the United States to other southern countries. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY. GEORGIA POSTAL PAY INCREASE . . . Pres. Harry S. Truman as he af fixed his signature to the bill giv ing all postal employees a raise of $4OO per year. Postmaster Han negan witnessed the signing of new postal pay bill. i FAIRWAY TO FURROW . . . Pausing between tournaments on his farm near Denton, Texas, golf champion Byron Nelson relaxes behind the wheel of a tractor. He raises sweet potatoes, peanuts and cucumbers. PhiHipr Jr jJj VNL Senior ALL DONE BY MIRRORS Mother Goodness, haven’t you heard a thing on that new auto yet, dear? Dad—No; they tell me there ain’t a chance of getting one for another six months. They just ain’t getting ’em through. RADIO—And remember, folks, to gel one of those 20 new sedans being given away by Twiggle’s Deodorant. You jusl send in a four-line jingle on body odors . . . just a four-line jingle and four cents in stamps.... Every week 20 lucky persons see a brand new 1946 sedan roll up to their door. Mother—Now how do you explain that? If they can give twenty cars a week away as prizes in a radio contest I should think that you . . . Dad—Now, please, don’t make me go into that again! * Mother (a little later)—l don’t know whether to call a doctor or not. Dad—What’s wrong? Mother—All those bruises and contusions. Dad—What bruises and con tusions? Mother—Oh, I got ’em yesterday in one of those nylon lines. It was awful. Dad—Did you get any nylons? Mother No; thousands were turned away. The supply is still terribly limited, you know . . . RADIO—And now, folks, for further de tails in our wonderful contest in which 5 ,000 pairs of nylons will be distributed absolutely free to the women of America! . . . All you do is send in a 25-word essay on why you use Zaflex for bleeding gums. . . . Merely send in a 25-word essay and the six box tops and win a dozen pairs of nylons. . . . Dad (with sarcasm) Supply scarce, did you say, honey? Mother—Now I know I’ll have to call the doctor! Those bruises hurt more than ever. » Dad (as the radio announces an other contest in which 10,000 pairs of suits will be raffled) —Make it two doctors! Mother (at the phone)—l can’t get a doctor. They all say they won’t be free for weeks. RADIO—Do you want a doctor? Are you feeling indisposed? Clip the tops of four boxes of Byxby's new face simonizer and . . . Mom and Pop—Awahh-h-h-h! * » * Merrily We Roll Along A National Highway Safety con ference is being held in Washing ton, with its main object safer auto driving. Well, we think its emblem would be four slices of baloney float ing in a dish of applesauce. Every body knows that the incredibly reckless driving and the hundreds of tragedies every day are due chiefly to three facts: 1. Few states make more than a pretense of an adequate test for auto drivers, seven out of ten of whom don’t even know the elemen tal rules of the road. 2. Not a community in America has police enough to make a real war on reckless drivers, and the cops now on the job are almost helpless, due to the fact the courts let the reckless drivers off with piddling fines. 3. Big cities, especially New York, permit flagrantly dangerous speeds on crowded streets day in and day out, with the traffic cops apparently loving it. * * * “Orson Welles has written a mu sical with forty scenes, calling for ‘much activity among the audi ences.’ ” —News Item. ♦ If a good title is wanted how about “Welles-A-Poppin”? * * * VANISHING AMERICANS “The government won’t stand for it.” “Let’s see, you had two beers and gave me a quarter; you got 15 cents coming back.” • “We’ll get married first and find a place to live afterwards.” « “Ask for our 25-cent steak sandwich.” • * * Models, style parades and the dis tribution of nylons are now features at Yankee stadium ball games. We expect to hear of a pitcher taken out for a bathing beauty any day now. • * * CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when you could take the car to a service station and have the carbon cleaned for less than the cost of a new auto? • * * “Anybody got a one-man power saw they are sick of what works? Mention your needs and I’ll take a look out back. NHM 1909.”—Yankee magazine. All we can think of at the moment is a patty of butter. ♦ * * King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has abdicated after 46 years on (or under) the throne. Whatever his tory may say of him, it can never classify him as a fellow who couldn’t hold a job. TT MIGHT seem strange to say 1 that a manager whose ball club has been doing very well indeed could be even close to the border line of a predicament, much less the brink of an abyss. But for ten years Boston, al ways a great base ball town with a My,.. great baseball tra- P®* | dreams of recover- R|| -/I! ing some of its lost & glory. There were IP '*■ the winning days of Jimmie Collins, Bill Carrigan and oth- '■■ L.i * \ ~.J ers, who carried j oe the Red Sox banner Cronin high. But in spite of the millions Tom Yawkey has fed into his purchases and pay roll, the Red Sox thus far have been on the outside peering in. Now Cronin has his team winging away at a record clip. He has come through with the hutting and the pitching for which only the most rabid fan ever could hope. Outside of Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr, no one could figure that so many Red Sox would hit so well. No one could figure Mickey Harris winning six straight, with able support from Tex Hughson, Joe Dobson and Dave Ferriss. Cant Hold the Pace Joe Cronin’s predicament is this: no one can expect so many of his men to continue to blast the ball with such deadly effect; and no one can figure that Mickey Harris can continue to hold such winning form, although Mickey is a much im proved pitcher over past seasons be fore the war, when he failed to break even. If the Red Sox had broken from the wire at a steady clip, there would have been no such excitement as reigns in Boston today. As it now stands, any Red Sox slump, which is certain to occur later on after such early speed, is bound to cause a reaction up Boston way. There is the chance, of course, that the Red Sox today have what the old Yankees once carried when they almost wrecked the league, practically closing out the season in late July or early August. It could happen. After all, Cronin’s hired men have shown power at bat and power in the pitcher’s box, which are the two main spots of the game. However, an early rush to the front can lead to much brooding later on. It is still my contention that the Tigers have the best pitching staff in baseball, followed by the Cardi nals. But Red Sox pitching, in ad dition to being an improvement over what it looked to be earlier, also has run-making and fielding support that will bag many a ball game through the summer ahead. However, Boston’s long-suppressed supporters should understand that it is still a long way to October. ★ * * Chasing the Cardinals My good friend Eddie Dyer, once a star halfback in Texas, is shocked over the fact that his team is still called a 3-5 shot against the field. “We have a good, sound ball club,” Eddie says, “but no team .is that good—not even the Red Sox, today. Too many things can hap pen in a ball game. Too many things can happen to your best men. There are other good teams in this league, teams much improved over last season. This includes the Dodgers, Braves, Reds and the Giants. Both Cubs and Pirates will soon begin picking up speed. After all, the weather has made this an uncertain spring as far as any rat ing goes. I don’t believe many peo ple understand what such players as Reese, Reiser and Herman mean to the Dodgers. They are all win ning ballplayers.” One of Eddie Dyer’s greatest thrills so far has been the fine show ing of Terry Moore, not only a great ballplayer but a fine man to have on any club. After being away from action for some time in the army, Terry has been hitting far above his prewar punch; and Terry is no long er a kid. When you look at such ballplayers as Musial, Marion, Ku rowski, Moore and others—plus the Cardinal pitching staff—whether or not you are a Giant, Dodger, Cub or Brave fan, this is the club to be watched once they have squared away from the summer festivities. It might also be suggested that Billy Southworth has turned in a fine job with the Boston Braves, a club supposed to be planted in the second division. The Braves may finish there, but they are a big im provement over the Braves of other years. They are a hustling outfit, as Billy Southworth’s teams always have been. This can be baseball’s greatest at tendance year, with many thousands to spare, if the two pennant races re main reasonably close, for it isn 1 any too easy to keep the popeyed fan keyed up when his home club is outclassed and far out of the race. The danger spots here are the Sox and the Cardinals, but both can run into more severe competi tion than one might look for. J" ‘ Messrs. Cronin and Dyer confirm this observation. Few horse races ever are won in the first quarter r this also goes for a pennant race.