Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 4

WrdnfwUf August SJ 1MI Corner Yindow The Times' Doily Tonic Tbe Lord who gave ua Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all Hes given The book Hs lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black Masefield SCiuxjapnrt iMittra Do-Zj Hwta wm KUftiiwt la By McAuliffe A woman says that her husband is a grouch because he willnot go to a party But if he is a grouch who wants him at a party? When there waa no advantage in making war on women and children the whole world held up its hands at the idea of making war on women and children But when it became possible to win wars more quickly by making war on women and children the whole world decided that it was necessary to make war on women and children Necessity is thS mother of morality as well as 'the mother of invention When your bridge clicks you will win the prize at the party or you will go see your dentist In Hollywood By Erskine Johnson Kti Staff CarreipsBdcnt Hollywood NEA) Our friend Dan Sayre Groesbeck the artist whose views on life and people enhant us even more than do his wonderful studies of plunging horses barbarous pirates tragic clowns and leering banditti of the Tibetan wilds had hit long painful legs folded in front of the fire and was delivering his valedictory to Hollywood But then as all his friends know Mr Groesbeck has killed hia last' bull oftener than Mr Hemingway's little matador who used to give a farewell performance every year But he cant actually leave Local phMsophers won't let him Artists Graveyard "Hollywood Mr Groesbeck was saying is where good artists go when they die While they've got a park of life left in them they hun it like a haunted house" Mr Groesbeck abominates the Moderns defending the ancient practice of painting a roan with only one head and snarling that the heretics are nothing but ignorant sons of commercialism misled by the saying that two heads are better than one Although" he conceded fairly on some producers they might be And he recalled the time he was commissioned to paint an advance visualization of a scene in The Good Earth" showing a cloud of locusts grasshoppers" he called them descending on the crops "The people he explained were supposed to be In despair which was just pisln damn fobllshness because this picture was laid in China and in China they eat grasshoppers I know I've eaten some myself and theyre right tasty You toast 'em "Why I told this fellow on the picture that when those grasshoppers showed up the people would have been delighted They would have gone on a regular grasshopper binge Well he couldn't believe It-He aald he couldn't imagine' anybody eating grasshoppers Biblical Ignorance There is a battle on between ex-Governor Lehman of New York and ex-Mayor LaGuardia of New New York for the nomination for senator We hope Butch wins if for no other reason than to see him mix it up verbally with Bilbo: Wouldnt that be Vashlngfon Merry-Go-Round By Drew Pearson Truman Kills Latin Rearmament It wont be announced officially but the elaborate plan for standardization of armaments throughout tba Western Hemisphere announced personally by President Truman last May haa now been allowed to die very quietly Inside fact is that Truman himself has killed it Legislation authorising this move under which armies of Latin America and possibly of Canada would hava been equipped with up-to-date materiel wee Introduced in both houses of Con-greae three monlhe ago The bill also called for tba establishment of uniform training methods to be directed by military missions Following lengthy public bearings before the House Military Affaire Committee the project wee favorably reported General Eisenhower Admiral Nlmltx Secretary Byrnea and other high officials gave It their heartiest endorsement Then unexpectedly the bill was shelved Casual inquiries by reporters brought the explanation that pressure of OPA and other domestic legislation had sidetracked the arms measure Some congressional sources added that continued strained relations with Argentina wera also a delaying factor This however was not tha case Actually it can now be revealed that Truman himself decided to hold up passage of the -bill while more detailed information was being gathered for him embassies In a dozen Latin American countries were asked for confidential 'reports on tbe present disposition of lend-Iease armaments and their potential use In case of revolution When the reports began to come In they presented a disturbing picture In Haiti for example it wee shown that tha armed uprising of six months ago could not hava succeeded without the use of American-made guns trucks and ammunition Ecuadorean Dictator-President Vdlasco Ibarra said the report from Quito was maintaining order with arms In Bolivia Paraguay Chile and El Salvador it was indicated our guns tanka planes and bullets have played or are due to play a major role in the post-war political upheavals now brewing throughout most of Central and South America In some instances the ins are holding the outs at bay with tommy guns and howitzers In others rebel elements control these weep-one There was another large fly In the ointment Truman had stated that he had no intention of fomenting an armaments race in this hemisphere He envisioned only the replacement piece for piece of obsolete equipment but as soon as the plan waa announced severe! governments put In bids for fsntestic quantities of arms alleging that their present stocks of materiel were inadequate for defense On top of all this came strenuous protests from London where any scheme which would close Latin American munitions markets to British Interests is regarded with cold disfavor Reluctantly the President came to the conclusion thet his project had fceen ill advised He passed the word to Congressional leaders not to press for the bills passage How the Seventy-ninth Congress has adjourned and all measures on which It failed to act must be reintroduced next year In order to receive consideration -Tba inter-American armaments act will not be on the revival list A Mrs Rogers thinks that women! should be represented at the Peace Conference No doubt that would mean more action and less A delegate to the conference-says he is disgusted because alLhe hears -is speeches quack quack quack all the time says he Meanwhile humanity is crying out quick quick quick! I W-M Sword Of Damocles And if you listen carefully to a little noise in the background it becomes an ominous tick tick tick That is the Atom Bomb zssmssssz National Affairs By Peter Edson H33 Washington You can walk Press Comment Book Guidepost By Rogers 'You can't I told him 'All right you know the Bible don't you? You know the atory of the manna falling from heaven? What do you think that manna was? Grasshoppers! You never saw a man look more flabbergasted in your life Well well he said you don't tell me! Mmmmm grasshoppers! So thats what it waa Well live and learn I have often puzzled over that story and wondered what tha manna could have been And you know Mr Groesbeck I always thought it must have been something like popcorn!" For 20 years Mr Groesbeck has tarried in Hollywood in the constant attitude of being poised for flight There was only once when he really wanted to stay That was just after Pearl Harbor when terror waa sweeping the West Coast and other people in Hollywood wanted to leave The beautiful woman who is both wlfa and mother to the aging eagle urged that it waa now or' never But Mr Groesbeck a gleam in hia eye and a grin of happy anticipation on his face sank quietly back and folded his wings And miss the show?" he said up to the line citizens pay your money and take your choice as to whether civilization will be de- stroyed by atomic bombs or by sects There was a lot of large talk after the discovery of DDT how mans battle against the was won at last There were scare stories right after DDT sprayed all over Saipan that it kill off all insect life and a biological desert where would be no bees to do their with the flowers and nothing grow It hasnt worked out way at all cant kill bugs that have in a hole and it cant kill eggs for next year's crop of It cant be used on cucumber and melon vines It will kill the two varieties of horn that infest tobacco plants other variety of horn worm to get fat on it It will kill coddling moth that makes apples wormy but it makes the apples taste as if they had been kept storage in the bottom of a tramp making a slow cruise the world take what DDT does and do to the greatest insect of them all the cotton boll This has been the worst for boll weevils since 1941 A winter enabled many of last weevils to survive A mild with plenty of rain and hot dry spells except in (Ed Hole While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation hia column will be written by several distinguished guest columnists today's by Debs Myers former associate editor of Yank the Army weekly one of the most promising young writers to come out of World War Two) Somebody says that the government should quit making pennies because they are' not good for anything anymore But it would sound strange to hear somebody announce over the radio that the government will no longer make cents Sometimes it doesnt seem to now Just as we thought The civil war in China is said to be aiF the fault of the United States The way of the Peacemaker is as hard as the way of the Transgressor "Dust Fall in Kingsport Surpris- ingly High It could only be surprising to somebody who never lived here Thomas Jefferson used to say that successful democracy depend- ed on an educated citizenry By educated he meant intelligent Wonder what he would say if he could see some of the people run-' ning the government as a result of the intelligent way people use the ballot? A fellow named Jester will be the next governor of Texas Well we have seen dome jokes elected to high office in this country before now Part of the program to regenerate the people of Germany is to show them American movies Better be careful Some American movies will be more like to de-rather than re- generate them The American people are greatly interested in pennants The preach- -ers tell us we would be better off if we were more interested in When 1948 Rolls Around We wouldn't know just how much political significance there may be in it but we daresay politicians in both parties will be interested in a Gallup poll which discloses that the new voters of the country by which is meant the young men and women who will be eligible to cast their first presidential vote in 1948 show a preference for the Democratic party by a small majority Republicans will comfort themselves with the reflection that the majority is small while Democrats will take satisfaction from the fact that even though the majority is small it is nevertheless a majority and indicates that the political leaning among the new voters is in their direction If a presidential election were held this year 53 per cent of the new voters interrogated on the subject indicated that they would vote the Democratic ticket while 47 per cent asserted a preference for the Republican party the remaining 21 per cent said they were undecided at present It is among those 21 per cent that the workors in the political vineyard must put forth their efforts in the next two years in an attempt to gain recruits To tell the ruth how- By Debs Myers Urawt 1M tooOilM rm ledMn UHtuuea and IM Sadn lirtat tiMa cm Uwn tmpt liiartif and Osadar rbm irutd rM a aantWa Ua aafcitrauoa at aU MM dUMVtM ctMNM Id It wttiM la mu tmort lad iiw tn ru am MaiUM ama tnund al pad Ht at tma a a imad ctaaa adl biiim October II UH aadat Ud act al Marts I tr: "Ct Subscription rate by mall: First Postal Zona Daily and Sunday One Tear $4 00 By carrier: Daily and Sunday One Week 23c Today's Bible Thought For both prophet and priest are profane yea In My house hare I found their wickedness salth the Lord Jeremiah 23:11 A Last Word On Nite Clubs The discussion of the recreational program in Kingsport has taken a turn which we wish it had not taken because we believe that it will lead to angry rather than intelligent discussion and as far as results go be entirely fruitless That is the matter of night clubs in the Kingsport area No doubt it is entirely due to a very unfortunate use of words on our part in speaking about this phase of a recreational program but several readers received an impression that we were cither treating the matter with levity or opposing night dubs As a result we have received several letters some of our readers have a tendency to be quarrelsome which is not helpful It ought to be possible to exchange views without thaL We might say in passing that we cannot publish anonymous letters we must know who is wnitirg We will withhold signatures if asked to even if we wish people would not ask However letters from writers who insist on getting nasty will not be printed without signatures People who write that way should be willing to take full responsibility for what they say We can take it insults and all if the writer will put his name to it We have one letter however which raises an honest question which we are glad to answer Having answered it we will not discuss the subject of night clubs further The question is "Why do you say that night clubs are impractical and out of the question?" In answering that question we would like to make it dear that we are not -cussing whether we "should" or "should not" have night clubs Whether they are bad or harmless or heathy is not the question here But we are discussing facts not opinions and to explain the phrase "out of the question here are the facta Number One We understand a night club to be a place where people go to dine and dance enjoy a floor show and are allowed to consume liquor if they behave themseles That last is the crux of the whole business Maybe there is such a thing as a night dub that does not permit any liquor but we have never heard of one and from the letters received we believe that our correspondents include the serving of liquor to some extent in what they want in the way of a night club Someone will immediately say well what is wrong with that? But we are rot discussing the right or wrong of it Maybe it is right The point is that liquor is an essential part of night club life That we are all agreed on we believe Number Two Before such a night club could be opened legally we emphasize legally in Sullivan or Haw kins County the law would have to be changed We are living in a section of the country that is legally dry intoxicating liquor can neither be served or consumed in public places That is the law Again some people will say that it is a hypocritical law and that the people drink wet and vote dry But again we say that is net what we are talking about Whether we like it or not the law is there and until it is changed a legal night dub is out of the question Number Three This is a matter of opinion not strictly of fact but after a long residence in this part of the state we are quite convinced that if the people vere given the chance to say whether they wanted the law changed the very large majority would say no We may be wrong in this but we believe that any one who has lived here for any length of time will agree with this opinion regardless of whether they want things changed or not It is of interest to note that not so long ago the people of Eliza bethton outlawed the sale of beer by a vote of something like nine to one Scott County Virginia will vote next month on the question of dosing the ABC store and they will probably vote tn do it You can say as some will no doubt say that this is all wrong and that legalized liquor is better than bootleg liquor but that does not change the situation as it exists It is for these reasons that we say that the suggestion of a night club in this area is not a practical suggestion and that opening one is out of the question Perhaps some day -the situation will change and it will not be out of the question but as things stand there can be no legal night dub here Everyone is entitled to his own opinion and to do whatever occurs to him to do to change the situation if he can Eight now the question is what can be done to improve the recreational program Bringing night clubs is not one of the things that can be done It a of in out on of man all tried into Is and greet to when He on here" "Chariot of Wrath by Leonid Leonov translated from the Russian by Guterman (Fischer $250) The hero of this nOVel Is a steel would monster: a 34-ton tank Creaky smelly scarred survivor of earlier battles tank No 203 sets out in one of the great Russian counteroffensives It has a crew of four: Lieutenant Sobolkov novice driver Lltovchenko Obriadin and Dybok You follow the fortunes of the vehicle as among lumbering companions it roars out across an open jleld under fire rescues a big sister with a few licky shots flees from superior enemy forces bogs down in a trap is dug out by elbow grease and then loose behind German lines raises havoc along a main road and achieves a glorious end The outline sounds suspiciously romantic the sort of thing to be found in popular magazines But the truth is that Leonov is a writer endowed with uncommon talent and this is romance in the finest tradition He ia not just telling a atory but describing a people In crisis and his tal has some of the scope of history I don't remember reading any account of life in a tank as vivid and significant as this The Craters Edge by Stephen Bagnall (Morrow $2) Simon an English soldier finds himself propped up in the edge of a bomb crater with sounds of the attack receding in the distance Unabie to discover the nature of his wound he cannot determine at first whether it is serious But he is unafraid of death he assures himself and jn a contented frame of mind reviews salient incidents in nis life He recalls his deep affeection for a French boy his affair with Celia his profound love for Elizabeth whom he first met when she 11 years his junior was only eight Thfe love of these people for him has been lesser or more impermanent than his love for them and he refelects that he might love God without God loving right about bugs even was make there stuff would that DDT crawled the insects one of worm but the seems the in steamer around Then doesn't pest weevil year mild years summer no long spots This reported Entomology what up The of weevils honey attracted pedatory the boll which windup to say Washington The civilian went before the Army doctors took off his clothes feeling silly jigged stooped! squatted put soma blood in a bottle became a soldier He learned how to sleep In the mud tie a knot kill a man He learned the ache of loneliness the ache of exhaustion tha kinship of misery From the beginning he wanted to go home He learned that men make the same queasy noises In the morning feel the same longinga at night that every man ia alile and that each man ie different Maybe he waa white or black or yellow or red and If he wee on the line it didn't make much difference because a soldier on the line waa so dirty you couldnt tell his color anyway Maybe he huddled at night in a hole dug in jagged coral or clammy sand and prayed: "God let me get hit tomorrow but not bad so I can get out of this" Maybe he didn't fight at ail Maybe he built latrines fn Mississippi or cranked a mimeograph machine In Manila taking chicken knowing that you can't kill the enemy with a shovel or book at more than ten paces still wanting to go home He was often bored he wasnt always brave most times be wea scared of Texas and Oklahoma has ever here is mighty little that the party workers can do about it All depends on the record of the present administration during the next two years and the state of the country in 1948 If times are good and the present industrial and social unrest has disappeared the chances of the Democratic party will be bright in 1948 On the other hand if the Truman administration fails to solve the countrys domestic problems to the people's satisfaction the voters unquestionably will turn the Democrats out and Install a Republican President in the White House Jobs and the cost of living will have more to do with deciding the outcome of the presidential contest in 1948 than party platforms and principles Politicians who question that statement are merely kidding themselves by they arent kidding anybody else Roanoke Times season's insect history as from the Waco Tex experiment station to the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of gives a faint idea of the cotton farmers have been against crop started with an infestation fleahoppers Then came the Then the aphids The dew given off by the aphids and fed the moths of the boll worm Applications of DDT to kill off worms apparently destroyed other pedatory insects feed on red spiders So the is a plague of red spiders nothing of an abundance of We Will Shed No Tears Mississippi State's football coach Aliyn McKeen charges that the Military Academy will not allow Halfback Tom (Shorty) McWilliams to resign "because ha ia a star football player McKeen adds that McWilliams who was a star at Mississippi State before he received an appointment to the Military Academy haa made several unsuccessful attempts to resign from the Academy and says that "if he had not been a star football pMiyer he would have been discharged in from 10 to 20 days All of which may be true as far as we know But we would like to add just one thing to McKeen's statement whether or not he will agree with It If Shorty McWilliams had not been a star football player it Is unlikely that he would have received an appointment to the Military Academy In the first place During the war the Military Academy and the Naval Academy too combed the country for young men with strong backs and good arms and sturdy legs who could lug or throw a football and who preferred tbe service schools to Army life Now that tha war is over many of these same young men are resigning from the Academies or trying to do so having suddenly discovered that they dont want to be future generals and admirals but 'just plain civilians We shan't cry if West Point loses Shorty McWilliams Just as we shad nary a tear when Clyde Scott quit Annapolis last month But if the Military Academy sees fit to make Veterans Vary Our Yesterdays 15 Year Ago The Community Chest announced plana for a Fruit and Vegetable Conservation Depot to be opened on the corner of Shelby and Main Streets Mr and Mrs George ETEast and daughter Magdalene left for Miami Fla The marriage of Miss Eloise Blackburn to Harry James Thayer was solemnized at the Second Pres- byterian Church in Knoxville 10 Years Ago Hugh Hudson returned to his home in Albemarle after spending several weeks with his sister Mrs Biles He was accompanied home by Shelton Biles found in that time of course But the entomologists are constantly discovering new ones and making improvements on the old Agricultural experiment stations keep on trying and hoping theyll get a kill-all-cure for insects if it takes 15 or 50 or 500 years After and live up to his contract with the taxpayers that will be quite all right with us too Maybe those football players at West Point and Annapolis had better form a union and get themselves a bargaining agent The government fairly leans over backward to give the unions what they McWilliams serve out' his cadetship want it seems Roanoke Times all the atom was finally split The Jr law of nature which says there Miss Virginia Lyons was visiting have to be insecta may be busted her atint Mrs Westmore-too land on Yadkin Street fjq Side Glances sssErasaMrsssaes Maybe he wya young like 20-year-old Ed Halpin who landed at Normandy H-Hour D-Day crawled on hia belly up the beach and said: "Dammit no matter what place the Army picks to put soldiers always picks a piaca thst looks lika Oklahoma" Or mayba he wasn't so young lika Jake Privett 37-year-old PFC who waa killed in the Battle Luxembourg and left a wife and five kids back Blythevllle Ark Or mayba bsa just a memory In a photo album now or a dogtag stuek on a pieca of wood near a tiny town whota name you can't pronounce Or maybe half hie face was torn away and he's ashamed to walk down the streets any more because other people are whole and hes not Or mayba ha cama through all right Maybe no one ever shot at bim Maybe he wonders why he was in the Army what ha did There waa John Padgett rifleman from the blue hills behind Chattanooga who squirted tobacco Juice on bunker of the Siegfried Line and said: "Beats hell of ma what I'm doing here except I always did have an itch to pat my behind at that feller Hitler" Defeated Fascists Maybe he didn't know whet Fascism was maybe be did The CM did not destroy Fascism Rut he helped defeat the Fascists and he took Iway their guns He was part of an Army that left ita bootprints three continents a hundred islands deep in history With his allies he saved the wprld and hoped to God he'd never have to do It again He had learned the ache of loneliness the ache exhaustion the kindship of misery He had learned how to sleel in the mud tie a knot kill a And having learned all this If he got through right the soldier came home and took off hia clothes feeling silly Jigged stooped sous tied put some blood in a bottle became a civilian This Curious World cotton leaf worm When six Insects gang up on one cotton plant what chance has mere man? Entomologists at the Department of Agriculture like to say they are making progress in mans endless war against the insects And they can point to a couple of cases where insect pests have actually been destroyed First was the Mediterranean fruit fly which found its way into Florida in 1929 and 1930 By quar-I antinlng Florida and destroying its entire fruit crop they actually finished off the fruit fly By 1931 it had ceased to exist as an American pest Then there wee the date palm scale that hit California By dint of spraying the trees with kerosene and setting fire to them the scale was destroyed These entomologists say the boll weevil could be similarly destroyed if everybody would agree not to grow a single cotton plant for one year All the weevils would starve to death and it would serve them right too for having dared to cross the border from Mexico way back in 1892 In 40 yeftrs they reached Virginia taking it easy and eating their way as they went Southern Farmers Wont Take A Cotton Holiday But you can just imagine how much of a howl would come out of the South if anyone proposed passing a law to prohibit the growing of cotton for even one year Thats where the insects have the advantage over the atom in thia race to destroy civilization The Insect-experts arent a bit discouraged however They say that insects have been here since long before the daye of the Old Testament and Aristotle Modern scientific economic entomology on the other hand has been here less than 50 years No perfect insecticide could be Demond Respect As a former enlisted man on Yank the Army weekly I have just finished helping edit a book called Yank: The GL Story of the War" to be published next spring With the words above I In the book to describe the man who went the Army and the man who went out I don't think he bes changed much Maybe be listens to the people who sey the war a bore and they are tired of hearing about it maybe be wonders why it is that we should somehow be ashamed that once this country did things Maybe he wonders what happened the great men and the great dreams Want Peace e-z so im av tttA srimoc me ara a rv orr him at all The book ends as he turns to prayer The novel is short the form and substance familiar but the author gives his them a fresh and sincere treatment and writes simply and persuasively It is an unusually placid story to come out of such a strenuous war Probably he gets a cold feeling deep In his bglly he hears ststesmen talk about another war may feel like the GJL who wrote big and black the walls of tbe old fortress at Verdun: Austin White Chicago 111 1918 Austin White Chicago III 1945 Thia is tbe last time I want to write my name All I want to borrow is the down payment on a house dad I can finance an auto a radio a maid and any other little necessities myself 1 NEXT: Success star of the aot i.