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I RAN across Oscar Vitt the other
night and we stopped to talk
about Bob Feller. Based on his
natural ability, his gain in experi
ence and the way
he has been round
ing into shape, ev
erybody expects
the Van Meter fire
ball pitcher to have
a great year. So, I
discovered, does
Vitt.
“He can’t miss,”
the manager of the
Indians said. “This
will be his best year
up to now—another
step on his way to
being perhaps the greatest pitcher
we have ever looked at.
“Let me tell you about this kid.
You hear all about his fast ball and
his curve ball—you’ll find the ball
players will talk more about his
curve ball than his fast ball because
that’s what he strikes them out with
in the clutch—but you don’t hear
much about how hard he works to
improve himself. And that, if you
ask me, is the greatest asset he
has—or that any ball player has.
He Practice:, Bunting
“Here’s one detail: I rounded all
the pitchers up one day and talked
to them about bunting. I don’t
mean fielding bunts. I mean doing
the bunting themselves.
“ ‘When I send you up there to
sacrifice,’ I said, ‘what do you do?
Most of the time you bunt the ball
right back to the pitcher for a force
play or you pop the ball in the air.
Anybody can learn to bunt if he’ll
only give a little time to it. And
remember this: You’re working for
yourself when you’re at the plate
just as much as you are when you
BOB FELLER
are in the box. You can help your
self—or you can wreck your ball
game. Do you realize that by learn
ing to bunt, so that you can move
runners along when you’re up there
trying to sacrifice, you might win
two more games a year? Two more
games won might make a difference
in your record for a season and
might make a difference in the
standing of the club.’
“ ‘They all agreed with me. They
had to, because I was right. But
you know who has done most about
it, don’t you? Sure. You guessed
it. Feller. He came to me after
practice that day, when everybody
else was heading for the club house,
and asked me if I could get a couple
of fellows to throw to him.
“ ‘Throw to you?’ I asked him.
‘What do you want them to throw
to you for?’
“ ‘So I can practice bunting,’ he
said.
“ ‘You bet your life I’ll get some
body to throw to you,’ I said.
“I got a couple of strong-armed
young fellows out to throw to him
and he practiced bunting for an
hour. He’s been at it every day
ever since. The other pitchers have
been practicing, too. But not like
this kid.
All He Had to Say
“You see, I told him if he could
bunt, it might win two more ball
games a year for him. That’s all
I had to say. He’d do anything to
win two more games a year. He’d
stand on his head in the box if he
thought it would help him that
much.
“It’s the same way with pitching
with men on the bases. That was
his big weakness—but it isn’t any
more. They might steal on him
once in a while, just like they will
steal on any pitcher once in a while.
But if they think they are going to
run on him this year like they used
to, they’re crazy. I hope some of
them try it. He was a sucker for
them once—but he’s laying for them
now.
“It’s a great thing to see in a kid
like that. The average kid breaking
in as young as he did—why, I was
looking at him the other dfey and
thinking to myself he still looks like
a baby—and getting all that pub
licity—the average kid would have
got a swelled head and you wouldn’t
have been able to tell him any
thing. But this kid just hangs
around waiting for you to tell him
something or asking questions of me
or some of the older players on the
club—and he is a cinch to wind up
as one of the greatest pitchers we
ever had—maybe the greatest.”
GrantUnd Bice
Bruckart*s Washington Digest
Keeping Out of Europe’s War
Is Order of Business for U. S.
Conflict’s Spread to Norway and Denmark Brings Problem
Of Neutrality to Attention of Nation’s
Statesmen.
“The Name
Is Familiar—
—•—
BY
FELIX B. STREYCXMANS
and ELMO SCOTT WATSON
'It’s the Bunk!’
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—More and more
people seem to be expressing doubt
that the United States can stay out
of the new world war. One hears
the talk in many
quarters, official
and unofficial. It
frightens me. It is
disturbing because
so many seem to
feel that the war is
growing closer to us
and they are, there
fore, taking the view
that we cannot stay
out of it.
To all of those who
are saying that it william
appears we are Brnckart
doomed to get into
the war which remains, as before,
simply Europe’s war, and to every
one else I want to present this ques
tion:
Why is it necessary for us to get
into it?
That is the question. It is not how
can we stay out, but why should we
get into it.
There is no doubt, of course, that
extension of the war, spread of the
flames to Norway and Denmark
touches more American hearts. It
is sad, indeed. But it would sad
den many more hearts in these
United States if we get mixed up
in the conflagration. Moreover, no
one has presented so far as I know
any reason why the United States
or any of its people or any of its in
terests should be involved in a war
that represents fundamentally noth
ing more than the thirst for power
of a very few men in all of the
people. Again, it is sad, but it is not
a quarrel of our making and I fail
to see any reason why or how the
United States should shoulder any
responsibility.
The American government is tak
ing precautions. Some of them
seem to be rather silly, rather an
excitable reaction. For instance,
Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts,
and Representative Vinson, of Geor
gia, chairmen of the senate and
house naval committees, respec
tively, held a long conference with
President Roosevelt the other day
at which they discussed the propo
sition of an expanded navy.
President Has Extended
Foreign Combat Zones
The President has extended the
“combat zones” which no American
ships or citizens may enter, legally.
Very wisely, I believed, he did not
delay in issuing a proclamation that
the war zones of Europe included
the waters of Norway, Sweden, and
similar areas. That will go far
towards preventing greedy, daring
and chance-taking individuals from
getting their ships shot to pieces.
Some of them would take that
chance, you know, because the prof
its are large. But always the rest
of us must think of what our gov
ernment is forced to do when citi
zens of the United States, on legal
business, are slaughtered by a for
eign navy or army. We have only
to look back to 1915 and 1916 to
see how such killings, step by step,
took us into World war No. 1.
There is considerable doubt, how
ever, about the wisdom shown by
the President in sending Undersec
retary of State Sumner Welles on
that European junket. Mr. Welles
has been home a month now. Some
of the results, can be appraised
properly. The answer is that in
sofar as tangible results are con
cerned, the trip was a flop of the
first water. That is, unless the trip
may have aroused suspicions of our
motives, it was a flop. If the sus
picions were aroused—suspicions
that America was planning on fu
ture entry—then, of course, the trip
was a most dangerous thing.
European Rulers Might
Misjudge Welles’ Mission
Private expressions from some
diplomats here have caused me to
believe there is some suspicion
about us in Europe now. It is nat
ural, I suppose, that the dictators
and even the French and the British
would be looking for hidden reasons
for such a mission as Mr. Welles
executed. They are always double
dealing themselves, so we can sup
pose that they look for similar traits
among Americans. In any event,
nothing of consequence came out of
that tour of the European capitals,
not even political prestige for the
President.
Which reminds me that when Mr.
WAR TALK
Talk of the United States’ en
trance into the European war is
growing in many quarters, ac
cording to William Bruckart. He
maintains that such talk is not
necessary. Because the conflict
has spread to Norway and Den
mark, Americans believe that it
may some day be impossible for
us to stay out of the fight. But
Bruckart asks for just one good
reason for our involvement.
Welles’ appointment was an
nounced, there was a good deal of
undercurrent gossip in Washington
that the whole plan was conceived
and engineered by a little group of
New Dealers. They thought the
mission might lead to peace negotia
tions and Mr. Roosevelt would be
come a sureshot for a third term
in the White House. As usual, the
so-called “inner circle” had no
knowledge of what the real fight
was about overseas.
As against the things that might
cause trouble and thereby endan
ger our neutrality—and more about
our neutrality below—it surely is a
commendable thing that the mem
bers of congress are keeping their
tongues still for once in their col
lective lifetime. I do not mean that
senators and representatives are
quiet. I do not mean that the halls
of the house and the renate are not
ringing with the usual amount of
demagoguery. Far from it. What
I mean and what I am commending
is that congress as a whole has ex
ercised the finest caution in talking
about the war. Whether they re
alize it or not, the members of the
house and senate, by maintaining
silence on the subject of the war,
are inducing millions of other
people to quit talking about the war.
Attitude in United States
Is Not Really Neutral
About our neutrality: That is not
a proper description of the position
of the United States. We are not
neutral. We are, as a nation, cer
tainly favoring the cause of the Brit
ish and the French. I am that
««¥T’S just a lot of bunk,” is a
4- phrase that owes its existence
to a debate that occurred in the
house of representatives in 1820.
This is not to imply that congress
was free from “bunk” before that,
by any means, but the words
“bunk,” “bunkum” and “buncombe”
originated during a debate over the
famous Missouri Compromise.
Felix Walker, a North Carolina
mountaineer, represented the West
ern North Carolina district which in
cluded his own Buncombe county.
While everyone else was demanding
a vote, Walker wanted to make a
speech. His political friends tried
SUMNER WELLES AND WIFE
. . . His mission misjudged?
way, myself. I really do not care
who blows Hitler and all of his
gang sky-high. Officially, however,
the United States is still friendly
with Germany and Russia. It is so
ridiculous that one has to laugh.
Evidence of how our siding in
with the allies obtains even in gov
ernmental affairs was given just the
other day when the President pro
claimed the new combat zones
around Norway and Sweden. It was
a proclamation that avoided saying
the countries of Sweden, Norway
and Denmark were “at war.”
Why? Well, if the United States
government, acting through the
President, had said those nations
were at war, another law would
have become operative and Mr.
Roosevelt did not want that law to
be operative. If those nations had
been declared formally “at war,”
another law would have prevented
any money being loaned to them.
Mr. Roosevelt wanted to keep the
door open so that help can be ex
tended if it becomes necessary.
There, again, you can see the
possibilities of danger. Also, the
definite evidence of the American
desire to help Germany’s enemies
is plain to see. If we think, how
ever, that the lending of money to a
foreign nation that is engaged in
war does not lead to additional steps
and additional dangers, then we
have become an ostrich and are
trying to hide our head in the sand.
The dangers of these various acts
are apparent, it seems to me. I
make no charge that Mr. Roosevelt
is trying to lead us into war. I
believe quite the contrary. But
with conditions as they are—with a
dozen nations with their backs to
the wall—every move made here re
quires the greatest of care and the
greatest o understanding before it
is made. The examination, as I
insisted at the beginning of this dis
cussion, should be made from the
standpoint: Why is it necessary to
stick out our necks? We can find
no valid reason to get into the war.
The whole Western hemisphere
has nothing to gain and everything
to lose by participating. I entertain
the hope that staying out of the war
will become a major issue in the
forthcoming political campaigns.
In that way, the importance of ev
erything done in Washington, with
relation to foreign affairs, will be
driven home by competent speak
ers. And any candidate who wig
gles or squirms on the question
of why should we get into war ought
to be snowed under so deep that
he would never be heard ttom
again.
to stop him but he insisted on mak
ing a long, pointless harangue de
claring his constituents would be
disappointed if he didn’t say some
thing for “dear old Buncombe.” The
word came to mean humbug or in
sincere talk.
And Buncombe county was named
for Edward Buncombe, a wounded
colonel of the Continental army who
died in Philadelphia in 1780. Thus,
the man whose name is used to des
ignate claptrap had nothing to do
with it and had been dead 40 years
when the word came to have its
present meaning.
• • •
Nicotine
N ICOTINE is a common word but
Jean Nicot, French diplomat of
the 1500s, after whom it was nan ed,
is little remembered.
He studied in Paris, was a court-
I ier to Henry II and envoy of Francis
II to Lisbon in 1560. While in Spain,
he obtained the seeds of the tobacco
plant from a Dutchman who brought
them from Florida. Nicot returned
to Paris with
these seeds and
became responsi
ble for the intro
duction of tobac
co to France.
But the word
nicotine comes
from the scientif
ic word for the
species of the 45
plants and shrubs
from which nico
tine is derived.
They are called
Jean Nicot Nicotiana plants
and that is the word coined directly
from Jean Nicot’s name.
Not all of the Nicotiana plants and
shrubs are used for smoking—some
of them are beautiful annuals and
perennials with attractive flowers.
All varieties bear nicotine which is
used to kill insects and only the
genus Tobaccum is used by smokers
—to kill time.
Why the Nicotiana plant was
named for Jean Nicot who brought
it to France instead of the Dutch
man who brought it to Nicot can best
be explained by the fact that Nicot
wrote a French dictionary at the
time and merely gave himself a
break.
• • •
Marcel Wave
A LTHOUGH marcel seems to be
the perfect name for the wave
in a woman’s hair, it was chosen
only because it was the name of the
man who invented the first success
ful one. But his name was Francois
Marcel Grateau, so some thought
must have been given to the way
the word would sound or his middle
name would not have been chosen.
Francois was
bom in 1852 near
; Paris and his fa
ther was a stone
mason. His moth
er’s lovely nat
ural wavy hair
was the admira
tion of all her ac
quaintances and
the inspiration for
her son to put all
his effort toward
inventing an iron
that would imi
tate it. Marcel Gratean
In 1886, he succeeded and women
flocked from all over Europe and
England for his marcel wave. Only
10 years later, he retired from active
hairdressing, the acknowledged ben
efactor of his profession.
He lived for 39 years more, how
ever, and died at his home, Chateau
Thiel, near Paris, in 1936, at the
age of 84. Yet when he took up an
apprenticeship in his father’s trade
of stone masonry he was made to
give it up because they said he
wasn’t healthy enough!
There is another and even greater
paradox in his life: He was also
discharged from his job in a beauty
shop as a young man because the
proprietor said he was not suited to
that type of work!
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4- Ruth Wyeth Spears
-PAD WITH COTTON
IATTING BASTED TO
MUSLIN
'REMOVE MAGAZINE
^HOLDER OR ARM
npHIS chair, now so smart in its
sateen cover, button tufting
and moss fringe trimming, barely
escaped the trash burner. It had
been such a comfortable chair
that everyone hated to see it go.
Sis said it was out-of-date and pos
itively untidy. Someone suggest
ed it might be covered. Mother
said that wouldn’t be a bad idea
if it could be padded first! That
gave Sis a brain wave. Why not
tuft it? By pushing a long darn
ing needle back and forth through
the cover, padding and openings
in the wicker? She had been
wanting a tufted chair, so work
began at once.
The sagging arm rest, maga
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around the legs were removed.
The chair was padded and cov
ered, as shown, and a new seat
cushion was added. The tufting
was done by sewing through tight
ly with heavy carpet thread; add
ing a button on each side of the
stitch.
NOTE: Detailed directions for
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A General Quiz
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Also Live Well
Such as are thy habitual
thoughts, such also will be the
character of thy soul—for the soul
is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it,
then, with a continuous series of
such thoughts as these—that
where a man can live, there, if
he will, he can also live well.—
Marcus Antoninus.
O-Cedar it, lady!
Then you WON’T raise clouds
of dust when YOU dust
Once upon a time the family joked about
}iom or Sis chasing the dust around. Now,
when they dust, they pick up the furry dusty
stuff; it STAYS in the cloth. You add a dash
o(genuine O-Cedsi Polish to dustcloth or
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MOPS, WAX, DUSTERS, CLEANERS AND
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1. What official of a national
political convention is called the
keynoter?
2. What First Lady was re
ferred to as “Lemonade Lucy"?
3. Is the bark of the dog natural
or a development?
4. Is the Finnish language a
Scandinavian tongue?
5. What are the reflections on
water made by moonlight called?
6. What is the oldest continuous
ly inhabited community in the
United States?
The Answers
Again Wounded
When time has assuaged the
wounds of the mind, he who un
seasonably reminds us of them
opens them afresh.—Ovid.
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Any man may make a mistake;
none but a foci will persist in it.—
Cicero.
1. The temporary chairman.
2. Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes,
Cvho substituted lemonade for
wines and spirits in serving at the
White House.
3. The bark is an artificial de
velopment. After becoming domes
ticated dogs began barking.
4. No, it is more directly related
to Japanese, Turkish and Mongo
lian.
5. The shimmerings are known
as moonglades.
6. It is believed to be Oraibi,
Ariz., an Indian village in exist
ence since 1370.
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