Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, August 08, 1946, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA "yOU would think that Tom Yaw * key, owner of the Boston Red Sox, after spending so many millions and waiting so many years to win a pennant, would now be a happy, carefree man. From what wo hear ■ Yawkey, usually a any crisis, is now >.wA nervous as a cat on Wp' J team has shown no i sign of the jitters, » A J but Owner Yawkey has. He apparently Joe Cronin can’t believe that his dream has a most excellent chance of coming true. As a high-class sportsman in ev ery way and a real lover of base-' ball, winning a major league pen nant became one of Yawkey’s ob sessions years ago. Money was nev er a barrier along the pennant road. It is estimated that the Red Sox owner has unloaded over $3,000,000 for the exclusive purpose of finish ing in front. The amount may be considerably higher. But his pen nant dream kept turning into a nightmare. Something always hap pened and it was usually to the Yankees. In the meanwhile Yawkey re fused to weaken, much less to quit, lie also stuck to his manager Joe Cronin, where the Red Sox, under average baseball ownership, would have known four or five different managers in the last few years. While it was known early this spring that the Red Sox would be good, the Yankees and the Tigers were also in the pennant-race pic lure. The Yankees with Joe Di- Maggio, Charlie Keller, Tommy llenrich, Joe Gordon, Phil Ruzzuto, SnufTy Stirnweiss, Bill Dickey, Nick Bitten, Johnny Lindell and Spud Chandler shaped up as a formida ble looking outfit on both attack and defense. The Tigers, too, looked dangerous. Many Uncertainties The Rod Sox at the time had sev eral gambles to face; at first, at third, and their pitching staff. They had Tex Hughson and 800 Ferris, but the others were uncertain ties, just as Yankee pitchers were outside of Chandler. You can un derstand, during those March days at Sarasota on the west coast of Florida, why Tom Yawkey should have been a trifle on the jittery side. Tom was—but Joe Cronin wasn’t, although Joe knew this had to be his year. Cronin refused to make any predictions beyond saying this: “We’ve got a good ball club. We’ll give anybody a battle.” Now past the midsummer spot with a long lead and the best ball club, you would feel that Tom Yaw key at least should be able to take a deep, free breath and relax. In baseball's greatest year, so far as attendance and public interest goes, with something close to an all star team in one corral, every one connected with the Red Sox should be able to stand up and sing “Just around the corner there’s a rain bow in the sky,” or “Happy days are here again.” All of Boston, outside of the Yaw key office, are humming these cheerful tunes. After all Boston, one of the cradles of baseball, has gone 28 years without a pennant. Boston kept looking back these 28 years to the days of Long, Lowe, Duffy, Big Bill Dineen, Smoky Joe Wwod, Carrigan, Speaker, George (“Duffy”) Lewis, Hooper, including George Stallings’ miracle Braves of 1914. Boston also could look back to a burly fellow by the name of Babe Ruth and a great squad that Harry Frazee sold to New York to make the Yankees famous. It was Bos ton that gave New York its Yankee fame—Ruth, Pennock, Jumping Joe Dugan, Red Ruffing, these and many more. But Babe Ruth was enough. For 10 years the Yankees without Babe Ruth in his prime, would have been just another ball club. A good one—but not a great one. If ould Have Kept Stars If Tom Yqwkey bad been owner of the Red Sox around 1919 or 1920, Boston would have dominated the game through the next decade, not the Yankees. For Yawkey would have kept Ed Barrow, one of the smartest men baseball has ever known. He would have kept Babe Ruth, Red Ruffing and Pennock and many others—and to these he would have added the best ball players a few millions of dollars could buy. This shows you what an owner means to a major league club. Harry Frazee, a theatrical, not a baseball man, wrecked the Red Sox for at least 10 years. It has taken Tom Yawkey another 10 years to sweep away the debris and replace the damage. He faced an almost impossible job with the Yankees en trenched as they were—largely through Red Sox talent all those years. From this you can under stand why Tom Yawkey and the se date city of Boston is so wrought up over the prospect of getting a long-delayed revenge over the Yankees, who robbed them of vic tory so many times. Released by Western Newspaper Union. HOOVER, TOO, STRUGGLED WITH SELF-WILLED CONGRESS UNFORTUNATE IS THE Presi dent who, in times of emergency, must deal with what he considers an obstreperous congress. Presi dent Truman was by no means the first chief executive to have such an experience. One of the compar atively recent occurrences of the same kind fell to the lot of Presi dent Hoover. At the congressional elections in the middle of his term, the Democratic party captured con trol of the house of representatives. When the banking emergency arose and became especially acute dur ing the last three months of the Hoover administration, the Presi dent was entirely dependent on a Democratic house for any legisla tion needed to meet that emergen cy. During the months between the presidential election and the inaug uration of Mr. Roosevelt the banks were failing by the dozens every day. % Congress was in session in December, and would continue in session until the day of the inaugura tion, March 4. Mr. Hoover did not need congressional action to close the banks but he did need action before they could be opened. Not to reopen them quickly would mean financial chaos for the nation. Pres ident Hoover the Democrat ic leaders of the house to a confer ence. He explained his difficulty; showed them the proclamation he wished to issue closing the banks, and the bill embodying legisla tion needed to make a reopening possible. He asked their co-opera tion in passing that legislation. Those leaders told Mr. Hoover the house would pass the desired legis lation only at the request of the president-elect, Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Hoover sent the whole story to Hyde Park, including the statement of the Democratic house leaders regard ing the passage of the legislation if Mr. Roosevelt requested such ac tion and assuring him of full credit for such action. There was no re ply. A (second appeal, in January was made, that time sent by spe cial messenger. The reply to that was that Mr. Roosevelt would be go ing to Warm Springs in February, and would stop in Washington for a few hours to talk it over. In the latter part of February Mr. Roosevelt called at the White House but declined to make any request to the Democratic majority in the house saying it was not his prob lem until after March 4, and he would act at that time. On March 5 the new president closed the banks by issuing the proclamation prepared by Hoover, but with the Roosevelt signature. He called a special session of congress for the purpose of passing the iden tical bill prepared by the Hoover administration that would make it possible to reopen the banks. Between the time when the out going administration had asked for co-operative help and the March 5 date hundreds of banks had failed, millions of dollars had been lost by depositors, but the incoming admin istration was credited with con structive action. Such is the way the game of politics is played. Blue chips are not wasted even in times of emergency. President Truman’s demands on congress may be wrong or they may be right but wrong or right the game of poli tics must be played according to political rules. • • • THE RECORDS, as compiled by FBI, show the percentage of crime in proportion to population has migrated from Chicago, New York and the East to the Rocky Mountain and West coast states, and to the South, especially Flor ida and Kentucky. The differ ence is the newspapers of these sections do not boast of their crime supremacy, as did those of Chicago. • • • HOW SATISFYING It will be to us consumers when we can have a buyers’ market; when we can walk into a store with a reasonable assurance of finding what we want whether it be a loaf of bread, a package of sug ar, a slice of ham, a shirt, a suit of clothes, a washing ma chine, or an automobile. We will welcome the days when the merchant can keep what he has on the shelf rather than under the counter. Those will be the happy days for which we have so long been wishing. The com plete realization should not be far distant. • • • THOUSANDS, many thousands, of Mexicans were specially imported to harvest the grain crops of the West. At the same time thousands, many thousands, of American citi zens were being paid unemployment benefits. The greatest thing wrong with us is too many people expecting to be provided for without effort on their part. • • • CAPABLE OR OTHERWISE, and no matter what they say, most peo ple enjoy the sensation of being picked for leadership in any group. GIRDS FOR PEACE Spectacular Development of AAF Recalled at Anniversary Developed from a three-man divi-<S>- sion without an airplane in 1907 into a destructive force unparalleled in history, army air forces celebrated its 39th anniversary August 1 with a new watchword, "Air Power Is Peace Power.” At its wartime peak in March, 1944, army air forces had grown to 2,383,000 officers and men, 64,591 planes, including 41,848 combat planes which flew 108,015,909 hours during four years of war and dropped more than 2,000,000 tons of bombs in crushing the Axis war machine. But the big planes of World War II are on their way out of the air picture and the AAF rap idly is converting to jet-propelled aircraft to defend the security of America. Guard Against War. “America’s best insurance against a future war is an adequate alert air force,” Commanding Gen eral Carl Spaatz said, in calling on the nearly 2,000,000 veterans of air actions all over the world and the 400,000 air force men to ob serve the anniversary occasion. Some interesting and little known facts about army air forces are that; Every airplane used in Europe prior to V-E Dsy was designed in this country before Pearl Harbor. From 1903 to 1940 the U. S. built only 40,000 planes but from 1940 through V-J Day, 295,000 were con structed. For every soldier in the air force, there was a civilian work ing in an aircraft plant. First Bomb in 1911. AAF planes consumed 10,000,000,- 000 gallons of gasoline during the war. In all of 1944 not one aircraft was grounded for lack of fuel. Total air power blitz of the AAF during the war included more than 2,000,000 tons of bombs and two atom bombs dropped and 459,750,000 bullets fired. First AAF bomb was heaved overboard by hand in 1911. It was an 18-pound “blockbuster.” The army’s first airplane con tracts specified that the flying ma chine had to be transportable on an army escort wagon to be pulled by DIRECTS RESERVES . . . Lt. Gen. George S. Stratemeyer com manding general of air defense command, one of AAF’s three peacetime operational commands. z\EWS OF FLIERS AND FLYING AIRPORT CHATTER The War Asset administration has declared the Arlington airport, Arlington Heights, 111., surplus, and the chamber of commerce has taken steps to acquire it. ... A dusting plane operated by DuMac air serv ice did a flipflop in one of the Love potato farms near LaSalle, Colo. The pilot wasn’t hurt, but the plane —whew! . . . Dean Boyd of Willow Hill, HI., purchased a new Taylor craft and then built his own farm runway out of crushed limestone. . . . Robert S. Jondahl, World War II pilot, has been placed in charge of the Glasgow, Mont., city-coun ty airport. • * * The “stratoscope,” which com bines a panoramic radio transmit ter-receiver with a sensitive aneroid diaphragm altimeter, will warn a pilot of approaching planes or the height of any ground obstruction. Such a device could prevent planes flying into skyscrapers and moun tains during bad weather. ♦ * * Dick Powell, the movie actor, is so crazy about flying that he wants everyone else to learn too. He rents out his owm plane for lessons when he is not flying it himself. ★ ★ Planting Trees by Plane The Oregon state forestry depart ment wall soon know whether or not trees cah be planted successfully by plane. Two large tracts have al ready been seeded from the air. One is a 1,400-acre area in the great Tillamook burn. The other is an 800-acre site in Polk county. About 500 acres were planted with Doug las fir and Port Oxford cedar. The remaining area was planted with Douglas fir, Sitka spruce and West ern hemlock. Regular checks will be made to determine germination. ' a f fa |B||K fa. A * * 1 HEADS AAF . . . Commanding general of army air forces is Gen. Carl Spaatz, who directed ar rangements as 400,000 AAF mem bers and nearly 2,000,000 veterans of air actions on worldwide battle fronts noted 39th anniversary of unit’s founding. two or four mules. They would have a difficult task with the AAF’s new super-heavy bomber, the B-36, which has a wingspan almost twice the distance flown by the Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk, N. C. Expand Rapidly. On August 28, three days before Germany set off World War II by invading Poland, the AAF was regularly using 69 bases. Fifty months later in January, 1944, it had 1,400 bases, of which 800 were overseas. Almost 20,000,000 tons of AAF supplies were sent out of the country during the war—enough to fill a warehouse 75 feet wide with the front door in Washington, D. C., and the back door in Philadelphia. New AAF developments now permit test pilots to check jet planes safely. The plane is put through its paces while the pi lot stays on the ground. The secret is remote control and television. The U. S. spent more money developing radar than was spent on the atom bomb. More than 42,000 WACs served in the AAF, 7,000 of whom were over seas in 21 different countries; 1,600 chaplains were on duty in the AAF at all times. Of the 282 Congression al Medals of Honor awarded dur ing the war, 34 were won by mem bers of the AAF. Compare Records. The World War I air force had 35 pilots, 1,087 enlisted men, 55 training planes, 7 tactical squadrons —with a balloon school at Fort Omaha, Neb. Eight World War I aces are credited with downing 10 or more enemy planes or balloons; 29 World War II aces shot down 18 or more planes, no balloons. First round-the-world trip by an army plane took 174 days in 1924, It took an air transport command plane 151 hours in 1945. It’s a small world, with the men and planes of the army air forces a strong bul wark in making it a world of peace and guarding America’s future. I, jm « \ Jagy. \ IIP"/ vs ...iSSSWBSiM ■> wfe ■ ■ ; i . wiftliiriTyWiK I# I ' GRANDMA FLIES PLANE . . . on her 62nd wedding anniversary recently Mrs. Anna Hartman, 80, of Glenshaw, Pa., said to her hus band: “Before I die I want to go up in an airplane.” Photo shows Mrs. Hartman at the controls of the plane soaring over the farm where she lived more than half a century. ★ ★ Lakeview Now Open to Public The Lakeview, Ore., airport is again open to the public. Follow ing a four-year period of operation by the navy, the port was made available recently to civilian flyers and the general public. The port has an excellent hangar, taxiway and landing facilities. • * 0 The first organization of its kind, the Flying Farmers of Ok lahoma, was organized in 1944 with 38 members. Killing Heel Flies With Power Sprays Cattle Grubs Can Be Eliminated Profitably By W. J. DRYDEN The cattle grub and heel fly are different forms of the same insect. Starting in the spring, when it is in the fly form, the heel fly lays eggs in hairs of the animals. These eggs hatch into maggots which work their way through the hide and enter the muscle tissues. During the next nine months they migrate through the in ternal organs of the cattle and come out'along the back. Cysts are formed and the maggots then turn into grubs about an inch long. In the spring they work their way out of the holes in the hide and fall to the ground. Within a few weeks they turn into heel flies and the yearly cycle repeats itself. The USDA reports an annual loss Grubs crawl out when insecti cide under pressure is sprayed into the holes they make in the backs of cattle. Photo—Food Mach. Corp. of $100,000,000 in milk, meat and leather due to cattle grubs and heel flies. While the use of a DA rotenone dust has proven effective, many will find it advisable to treating cattle with a power spray. For this method either of the following solu tions will be effective: 20 pounds rotenone sulphur with 100 gallons wa ter or cube or derris, 10 pounds, so dium lauryl sulfate, 2 ounces add ed to 100 gallons of water. There are many good commercial prepara tions on the market. Know Your Breed Herefords By W. J. DRYDEN The grand champion bull at the 1945 National Hereford show, and owned by the Circle M. Hereford ranch, Senatobia, Miss., and illus trated here, will illustrate this re markable beef type of cattle. It is distinguished from all other beef breeds by its red body and ' white face. The white color is found also on the underline, flank, crest, switch, breast and below the knee and hock. A product of England, they were brought to U. S. in 1817. Here fords are outstanding as hustlers and of utilizing grass very advan tageously. Could This Be a New Corn Hybrid? “Frankly, Simpson, I didn’t think conservation farming would make that much difference.” Try New Coccidiosis Chicken Treatments The use of % to 1 pound of pow dered sulfaguanadide to 100 pounds of feed for two to three days is be ing recommended as a cure for coc cidiosis with turkeys and chickens by Missouri station. The larger dosage, 1 pound to 100 pounds of mash, is recommended for severe outbreaks and when death losses are exceptionally high. The smaller amount is used for less severe outbreaks in the flock. A WRONG TWIST The old Negro drayman’s mul. had balked in the middle of th! road, completely blocking traffic After working and pleading in vain' the old fellow made his wav to a telephone in a nearby farmhouse Calling his employer in town a few miles away, his conversation wen* this way: 1 “Boss, oT Puidin-Head done sulked ag’in. Ye’suh, Fs give ’i m a whippin’—l’s built a fire under ’im, too. “Ye’suh, I done tried tawkin’ wid ’im. Don’t do no good. Fs prom, ised ’im ’bout ever’thing us got in de barn. “Dat’s right, Fs twisted his ears till dey’s knotted lak ribbons. “Nawsuh, I do lak you say-I ain’t gonna twist his tail. A gent’, mun who driv up an’ got out to he’p me done tried dat. Dey’s tuk him to de hospital. He looked lak a city-bawn gent-mun.” QUITE A STROLL The proud mother was telling the absent-minded professor of her won derful child. “Can he walk?” he asked with affected interest. “Walk? Why, he’s been walking now for five months!” “Is that so?” murmured the pro fessor, lapsing into reflection. “What a long way he must have gone!” Willing to Try Two farmers had been bargaining over a cow at a leisurely pace for more than an hour. Finally the pros pective buyer came flatly to the point. “How much milk does she give?” he asked. “Well,” said the cow’s owner, “I don’t rightly know ain’t never measured what Prtmella gives, to tell the truth. But she’s good na tured—she’ll give all she can.” Giddyap! The deacon of a small church in the south bought a horse and buggy and took his wife out for a drive one Sunday afternoon. They came to a neighboring town and saw a sign which read: “Speed Limit 15 Miles Per Hour.” “Here, Ma,” said the deacon ex citedly, “you take the lines and drive and I’ll use the whip. Maybe we can make it.” Proof “Are you positive that the defend ant was drunk?” asked the judge. “No doubt,” growled the officer. “Why are you so certain?” “Well,” replied the officer, “I saw him put a penny in the patrol box on Fourth street, then look up at the clock on the church and shout: ‘Good heavens, I’ve lost M pounds!’ ” IGNORANCE OF THE LAW Justice in our early western courts was willing enough, but fre quently abysmally ignorant. In a certain California trial, the suspect, having clearly established his inno cence of the charge against him by an alibi, had the satisfaction of hearing the prosecuting attorney re mark to the court: “I think, your honor, that this trial had better stop right here. The alibi has been fully established.” “I think so, myself,” replied bis honor, with an approving nod; and then, summoning the prosecutor to his side, he said, in a stage whisper which was only too audible through out the courtroom, “I say, "bat is the penalty for an alibi?” A Bit Mazy A New Yorker who went to li ve Boston decided to get rid of an old cat left in his new home by toe former tenants. So he put it into 1 a sack and took it clear over on th® other side of town and turned 1 loose in a vacant lot. “Well,” remarked a friend, suppose you got rid of the cat a right.” “Heck, no!” rejoined the new b tonian. “Say, listen, if I hadn t ° lowed that cat I never would no' found my way back home.”