Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 45, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 February 1950 — Page 2

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PUBLIC ENIGMA NO. 1 TS JOHN L. LEWIS a super-patri- “ ot, an economist extraordinary, or just a common garden variety of power-grasping human being like nearly all others who have tasted of omnipotence’ and are incapable of putting down the cup? Following the passage of the Wagner act, labor leaders so abused the license which it granted them that they aroused the ire of the customarily lethargic citizenry and the rumblings of action became audible. But these, by now, power-hungry labor czars knew not when to stop. They had enslaved their unions’ members and were dictating to our very government. Finally Lewis’ extreme disregard of their interests so angered the people that they elected a new congress—the 80th—for the specific purpose of controlling these excesses. Was Lewis a super-patriot who dared everything that he might defeat the threat inherent in the behavior of these embryonic dictators? Under our present management we seem unable to handle too much prosperity. The more of it we acquire the deeper our government runs into debt and the shakier becomes the structure. Now, as we have? stated before, every time we begin to gain industrial momentum Lewis puts on the brakes. Is it because he foresees the havoc our present government might create if a tremendous boom should develop? Is he the farsighted patriotic economist—willing to make himself the butt of a nation’s hatred for the sake of that nation’s future? John Lewis holds great power over the lives not only of his miners, but all of us. Is he—like so many before him — just another grasping crackpot carried away by that unaccountable passion for power? Is this the answer to the riddle? I IHk wm wmi i - QUARRELSOME QUEENIE . . . Mary Kennedy, 17 months, howls her little head off despite the fact she has just been chosen “Miss Diaper Queen of 1950” at a New York fashion show sponsored by a baby powder manufacturer. That’s a $1,200 mink diaper.

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[PB — I Next Season’s Top Stars HUDDLING with a group of veteran ballplayers and managers we finally steered the argument in the general direction of headline makers for 1950. Who would they be? From the American league you start right off with Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich and such pitchers as Mel B Parnell, Ellis Kinder, Joe Page and possibly Rae Scarborough, Bob Lemon and Ed Garcia. In the national league you had Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Ralph Kiner, Enos Slaughter and such Grantland Rice pitchers as Don Newcombe, Preacher Roe, Ken Heintzleman, Howie Pollet and one or two others. “There won’t be much change among the top bunch,” Frank Frisch said. “Ted Williams still has a few big seasons left. DiMaggio has one or two after 18 years in baseball. In the National league, Jackie Robinson will be hard to head off again. He has shown Musial and Slaughter, who are not getting any younger (who is?), that both will have to have even bigger years to beat him. Some of the fellows out front last season may not repeat. Kinder at 35 or 36 is no kid. Neither is DiMaggio. For tiiat matter Robinson Will be 31 in January.” “The younger fellow with the best chance is Don Newcombe,” another manager cut in. “This big fellow has had less than a year in big league baseball and yet they are all talking about him. If we are going to have any 30-game winner in 1950 it will be Newcombe. He’ll be the best pitcher in either league.” What about Mel Parnell? Parnell is only 27 years old. He is with the best run-making club in either league. “I’ll bet you 10 dollars Parnell finishes above Newcombe,” an American leaguer cut in. “I mean that he’ll win more ball games.” The two shook hands. “How can you tell?” another said. “Kell has a lifetime big-league average of .297. Ted Williams has one around .354. Yet Kell outhit Williams last year. “He won’t come within 25 points of Williams this year,” a Red Sox entry cut in. That led to another 10-dollar bet. “And I’d like to bet that Stan Musial gets more M.V.P. votes than Jackie Robinson,” some outsider said. “Robinson is good but he isn’t any Stan Musial.” T>ere are not many Stan Musials lying around loose. After all, Musial is only 29 and he has known only eight big-league seasons. That’s little more than a warm-up. Or at least it should be. , Other small bets made: Kiner to beat the 50-home-run mark again; Williams to hit over .350; Robinson not to lead the N.L. at bat; Newcombe to win 25 games. Two bets on Joe DiMaggio to play in 120 games. * * • Dyer and the Cardinals Eddie Dyer, the crack blocking back from Rice some years ago, feels that his Cardinals are about due again. Eddie won the pennant his first 'year out in 1946. He finished second to the Dodgers in 1947. He ran second in 1948 and last year he was beaten on the final day by a lone game. “We’ll have at least four .300 hitters next season,” Eddie said. “Who are they? Musial, Slaughter, Jones and Schoendienst. It’s true that Jones and Schoendienst hit only .299 and .297 respectively last year but they’ll pick up those extra points sure. They are really .310 hitters. As a matter of fact we have another good kid who should hit better than .300. His name is Ed Kazak, our third baseman. Ed hit .304 in 92 games last year before he was hurt. This would give us three infielders and two outfielders in the .300 or better class.” “What’s the doubtful side of your outfit?” I asked. “The answer is nearly always the same,” he said. “Pitching. Last season we landed Lanier and Martin well into the season.” • • • For Double Platoon “A year ago 1 was dead against the double platoon,” Wes Fesler of Ohio State said. “Since then I have changed completely. I’m all for it. I believe those coaches who dislike it haven’t given it a fair trial. I know I hadn’t when I was against it Since then I’ve discovered most of the players want it. That’s a big reason for liking it I know it produces faster, better football. I also know it gives many more students a chance to play football.” ■Don’t miss an inspiring story sh the American Weekly, the great magazine with Sunday’s CHICAGO HERALD-AMERICAN, of three chaplains who banished bigotry from their hearts to bring faith to the men of the IK S. Navy. Learn how the three chaplains worked together to dissolve intolerance and to build the Navy’s present day Chaplain service. Read “A Rabbi, a Parson and a Priest,” another true-life story in the Sunday Chicago Her- [ ald-American’s great color magazine.

By INEZ GERHARD EDGAR BERGEN has what many a man longs for, an outlet for a side of his character that otherwise would be buried. Bergen isn’t funny; Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and the other Bergencreated characters are. Bergen is polite; Charlie is the rudest person on the air. People look for■i- WNW w X. I BERGEN AND MCCARTHY ward to tuning in on CBS Sunday nights to hear him say the kind of things they’d like to say. Bergen is kind; the Bergen Foundation lends money to student nurses, without interest, to finish their training. He also maintains 12 scholarships in speech at Northwestern university — the school where he couldn’t finish because he had not quite enough money. For a. scene in Goldwyn’s “Our Very Own” Ann Blyth was to be licked on the cheek by Rags, k shaggy canine. He did fine until it came time to kiss Ann; heartily disliking the makeup she wore, he refused to have anything to do with her. Trainer Jack Pack solved the problem by rubbing her cheek with a chunk of beef, and Rags’ performance was enthusiastic. Lou Steele was just visiting the Paramount studio when Hal Wallis spotted him. Steele was given a screen test which resulted in a supporting role in “September Affair”: Wallis saw the rushes and put him into “The Furies.” “The Red Shoes” had - ran for one year and 11 weeks at New York’s Bijou theater when Eagle Lion Films and the Bijou’s managing director made an amazing deal; for SIOO,OOO the theater purchased the right to continue its run of the film for as long aS it wishes. The film has broken all records for continuity of patronage, and has won three Academy awards. Walt Disney tested more than 400 applicants before deciding that Ilene Woods’ voice was the ideal for "Cinderella.” Then he picked red-haired Helene Stanley as the model for her looks, and for part of her personality. Corinne Calvet, the French siren who scored with American audiences in “Rope of Sand,” has been cast in an important role in "My Friend Irma Goes West.” The principals will be the same as in “My Friend Irma.” In “Bright Leaf’ Gary Cooper is shown admiring a hogshead of fine tobacco labelled “Plews Consignment.” Plews has been a property man at Warners’ for 20 years, and has always managed to get his name into pictures he works on. Larry (“Sammy”) Robinson made a New Year’s resolution to Gertrude Berg that he would be on time for “The Goldbergs” rehearsals in 1950. So —on January Ihe was caught in a typical New York traffic jam and ruined his record. Earjy morning at Warners’, with Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford and Patricia Neal having their hair washed — nothing unusual about that, except that, too late, the hairdressers found there was only one dryer; location companies had taken the others. Ginger mad to work in “Storm Center” at 9:00, Joan wasn’t due on “The Victim” set till 11:00. Patricia had “Bright Rehearsals” at 10:00. Some stars would have fought for that one dryer, but the Misses Crawford and Neal gave Ginger the dryer and settled for towels. A scene in "The Glass Menagerie” shows Jane Wyman taking a dancing lesson from Kirk Douglas. A former chorus girl, Jane is one of the best dancers in Hollywood; Douglas can’t do anything but waltz—which is what he teaches her. ODDS AND ENDS . . . The Cass County Boys, Western trio heard on Gene Autry’s radio show, are set to play in square dance scenes in Columbia’s “Beyond the Purple Hills” .-. . Kinuyo Tanaka, actress came to watch John Wayne and known as “the Bette Davis of Japan,” was one of the people who Janet Leigh on the first day’s shooting on RKO’s “Jet Pilot” . . . In the 21 cities where “The Outlaw” is finally being shown the crowds waiting to get in look like the lines at the world series. The Local Merchants who advertise regularly support The JOURNAL —and all other worth-while community moves. There would be no newspaper here without our advertisers.

Do You Want To Cut Your Federal Taxes? Slash Government Cost If your personal or business expenses go up and your income and efficiency come down 1 this year at the same rate as that of the Federal Government, you will be in the hands of the sheriff at an early date. Workers, farmers, and businessmen from Maine to California know this. The answer is in the Report of the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Thia twelve-man, bi-partisan Commission was unanimously created by Congress with the approval of the President At the suggestion of Mr. Truman, former President Hoover was made its Chairman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Vice Chairman. The late president Franklin D. Roosevelt long had advocated such a reorganization of the government There is a two-fold purpose behind the effort to reorganize the Executive Branch of the Government: One—the elimination of inefficiency caused by overlapping and duplication; two—this should lead to a reduction of your taxes. If our Government can save from three to four billion dollars a year by more efficient methods of conducting our business, failure to act is stupid short-sightedness. Action, however, depends upon the President and Congress. The President has already submitted a number of reorganization recommendations. The Congress has _ adopted several of these, most important having to do with the housekeeping of the armed forces, which save the taxpayer more than $500,000,000 a year. But these are only first steps. There will be moire ahead if Congress is made to realize Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer want more tax-saving economies. Congressmen and Senators will vote for just so many of the Commission’s recommendation as you. their constituents, demand. What can you, as an individual, | do about it? The answer is to write your Congressman and Senators. Tell them you want the Recommendations of the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government made the law of the land. Join the non-partisan Citizens Committee set up to obtain the necessary action to make the Commission’s report work. Write to the Citizens Committee for Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, 1421 Chestnut. Street, Philadelphia 2, Pennslyvania, for more information about the Commission Report. Tell your neighbors about it. Make speeches! 1 Make your representatives in Washington act —now! COUNTY RECEIVES $47,498 ’ AS SHARE OF GAS TAX Kosciusko county has received $47,498.56 as a quarterly share of the state gasoline tax money, it was reported Friday by county Auditor Earl Himes. The money, $1,794.77 more than the sum received during the same quarter a year ago, goes into the county gravel road repair fund for use. by the county highway department. Last year the county’s share of the gas tax money amounted to $248,589.57. WHEN SYRACUSE CLUBS MEET ■ i Pythian Sisters —Ist and 3rd Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. American Legion Post 223—1st Tuesday, 8 p.m. American Legion Auxiliary — 4th Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. F. & A. M. No. 454 —Each 2nd and 4th Monday, 7:30 p.m. R. A. M. No. 124 —Each Ist and 3rd Monday, 7:30 p.m. O. E. S. —Each 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 8 p.m. Rotary Club, every Monday, 6 p.m., at Dixie Grill. Chamber of Commerce, seepnd Tuesday of each month. Town Council, Ist and 3rd Tuesday nights. P. meets first Thursday night of each month at High School. W. R. C. First and third Fridays of every month at 7:30 p.m.

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Learn To Emlwo AHNetIM pjEAPLY TWO YEARS ago Helio P. Sampaio, a dtreator of lhe - Import company, San Paulo, Brazil, was stricken with Landry’s paralysis, which spread so rapidly that within three weeks he was left in such a state that he could mow on part of his body except h'is head. Almost by a miracle his life was spared. He was so despondent that he hoped death would follow; he wanted to kill himself, but this wasn’t possible since he couldn’t even move his arms to cause such a tragic end. A. jwu*,H* S w *f® and his friends devoted themselves to him, cheerfully, hope- ’’ 1 Jl® fully. The latest medical discoveries 1 were applied Gradually he improved a MjFW a Ii tie. At the end of four months, he could move his arms, and his breathing — murcles and torso were improved. Now C — cafi he began to experience faint hope. He concentrated on gymnastics, massages, and the doctors n ?°V5 h th ® h ® co®ld hope for was to be a paraplegic the rest of his life. u eg A?”i* reading ’ and derived strength from » hl hlhS it d hn i Mll . ton> ?; ho was blind: “It is not miserable to KJ rtw y ™ Serable not to be able to endure blindness.” SnJ th!r h i meth ? ng^ n a that gave him hope in sugSShl S f th I k hve tor the day only. That helped wonderfully, for he found he could get something out of each day. 7 yben he asked himself what was the worst thing about being a permanent paraplegic. Well, the worst thmg wou.d be a negative attitude toward it, thus mak-:-tcr with him. He could do something about th-'.. Ins thoughts began to clear, worry and fear decreased. From that time on, his physical improvement became very noticeable; his mental attitude became more and more hopeful, definitely Mr. is in a position to carry on in work which interests him. His wife and friends think he is like a different man from the one they started working with a year and a xislf ago, when the doctors were almost ready to give him up yA-Waslnngton''!

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S budget message, calling for something like 42 billion dollars, a cut of almost two billion dollars under the last budget, reverberations from his statc-of-the-union message and the tensity in congress due to the coming- elections this year were highlights of the week in Washington. There was little doubt in anyone’s m'nd here that President Truman's state -of - the - union message was aimed over the heads of congress at the’’’people of the United States, for there is no doubt also in these same minds that the President will get little of his Fair Deal program at this session. The reason is that the southern Democrat and the northern Republican coalition is once more ready for operation. One of the highlights of the week was the naming of Sen. Robert A. Taft to head a senatorial committee to join hands with a policy committee named by Guy Gabrielson, chairman of the Republican national committee, to draw up a statement of principles for which the party stands. Senator Taft took the job despite his statement he thought the action was useless and bad politics, and senators who are up for re-election this year were definite in declaring they would not be bound by any statement. Sen. Eugene Millikan of Colorado, chairman of the Republican conference, pointed out that the reason for the statement was to satisfy contributors to the party and , not the masses of the Republican j voters. He is quoted as saying: j “We could not satisfy all these contributors anyway, be- i cause they would not only go back to the ox and cart stage, i they would go back before that. i I sljall campaign on those tilings I think are sound and I expect to be judged by the people of my state on my record.” Seri. Wayne Morse of Oregon said, “Mr. Chairman, be sure’ to keep my name off of it.” The Oregon senator also challenged the right of the GOP national committee to involve itself in the question of policy, declaring that policies are matters for those on the firing i line. Senator Lodge of Massacbu- < Safety Pina Mothers find stainless steel safety pins sanitary and easy to use because they don’t corrode.

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setts said he was willing to stand on the 1948 GOP platform. ‘‘Our trouble,” he said, “is that we didn’t carry it out.” Senator Aiken of Vermont agreed. Sen. John Bricker of Ohio indicated the whole procedure was meaningless. Said Senator Bricker, “We ought to have a statement that makes it clear we want to end the New Deal. But we won’t, so the positions we take are no good. I move a 90-day postponement of action.” His motion lost, and his colleague, Senator Taft carried the meeting when he said although he always opposed such policy statements as meaningless, so much pressure had developed, they better go along with it, although nobody need be bound and no harm Would be done. Silent throughout the discussion were Senators Vandenburg of Michigan and Wherry of Nebraska, senatorial minority • leader. The Democratic national committee is early pumping for adherents to the national health insurance program, for mailed out this week in democratic national committee envelopes is an elaborate folder prepared by the “committee for the nation’s health,” describing what national health insurance “means to you” and enclosing a form seeking memberships and contributions for the health committee. • * • The President’s pronouncement with regard to the Chinese island of Formosa has opened up another barrage of pros and cons regarding the Chinese situation, but despite opposition in certain Republi- ; can quarters and even in some Democratic circles, his statement I on the question which he permi.ted i newsmen to quote directly was generally well received. The President declared: “The United States government will not pursue a course which will lead to involvement in the civil conflict in China ... it does (not) have any intention of utilizing its armed forces to interfere in the present situation.” Strangely enough one of those most vigorously opposing the President’s stand was Senator Taft. Save the Bees Arsenical killing dusts are harmful to bees and should be used witli extreme caution. I