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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940 OW that a new baseball season is blooming again, there are possibly a number of clients who would like to be carried from the present into the closing days of September. The main purpose of i this quick voyage will be to see the standings of the clubs on closing day—not opening day. Here is-- your correspondent’s surge into the future, as the future looks: AMERICAN LEAGUE No. 1—New York Yankees, by a' much closer margin. No. 2—Boston Red Sox, with a fight ing chance. No. 3—Cleveland Indians, with Bob. Feller. No. 4—Detroit Tigers, the power-, house tribe. No. 5—Chicago White Sox, may flnr! ish fourth. No. 6—Washington Senators, slight ly improved. No. 7—Philadelphia Athletics, still on green side. No. 8—St. Louis Browns, in the old homestead. NATIONAL LEAGUE No. 1—St. Louis Cardinals, by an eyelash. No. 2—Cincinnati Reds, just about as good. No. 3—Brooklyn Dodgers, improved over last year. No. 4—Chicago Cubs, due for better luck. No. 5—Pittsburgh Pirates, may fin ish higher. No. 6—New York Giants, hardly ready for long route. No. 7—Boston Bees, not enough punch. No. 8—Philadelphia Phillies, tha day’s best bet. How It Figures The Yankees have been good enough to win going away, by kill ing margins year after year, and if they are slipping so are the Rockies. They have the pitching and the punch, are a great defensive team, have all needed replacements, have youth and experience. The Red Sox will be stouter chal lengers. Give them Dickey and you’d see more trouble. But who is going to give them Dickey? Cleveland should finish third with Bob Feller facing probably his great est year. Sheer power should carry De troit into fourth place. It will be a rough outfit for any set of pitchers to face. Quite a bit here will depend on Gehringer’s condition, one of the great ball players of all time. Bill Dickey Jimmy Dykes may swing his White Sox into the first division, but it will take a gallant thrust to ac complish this. Mr. Mack’s Athletics are still an uncertain quantity. He has some good young talent, but it still needs more seasoning. His team may move up a notch, but I can’t see them much higher than the seventh notch. The Browns will be a better ball club. But they still have a long way to go. The Older League Conditions in the National are much looser, much more tangled and uncertain than they are in the American. The Cardinals and Reds are close to a tossup. Bill McKechnie needs much more help for his two star pitchers than he got last year. Der ringer and Walters are two of the best in baseball, but Thompson, Whitey Moore and Vander Meer, plus some rookie, must come to their aid. The Cardinals, a young team last year, came from 14 games back after a slow start to make a pen nant bid in late September. You must admit they have been none too hot this spring. But a big league race is something different. If they all pile in and give the best they have, the net result should be enough to win. They have a strong combination of youth and ex perience in their pitching staff—and they have Mize and Medwick. I can’t figure any other pennant possibilities from the other six clubs. Brooklyn, Chicago and Pitts burgh should be well bunched. There is little to choose here. Frisch will make the Pirates dan gerous. I still like the rating I sug gested above. I can’t figure the Giant infield get ting any too far. Nor the Giant out field. The Giants may get away nicely. They are quite apt to do so. But I don’t believe they can hold any hot pace after June or July. There are too many weak spots on Terry’s club—too many fading veterans. Anything can happen in this league for the first few weeks. After that I expect to see the Reds and Cardinals gradually pull away —not too far, but far enough to carry one of these teams into another World Series. Kathleen Norris Says: When Wife Is Man of the Family... (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) I gei out to the farm Saturday at noon, to receive a warmly affectionate wel come, but no comprehension on the part of Rex and the children of the burden l carry. By KATHLEEN NORRIS HE situation in the Brown family is one that could not have existed a hundred years ago. It is a problem born of our modern civilization, and one that many a wife and hus band will have to solve if social and marital adjustments are to be made successfully, and un necessary divorces avoided. Ann Brown is 36, tall, ener getic, radiating health and high spirits, and equal to every demand life has made upon her. Her husband, Rex, is a milder type, and has never been particu larly fond of business of any sort, or capable of holding anything but a routine office job. Life Moves East. For four years before she mar ried, Ann taught in an aristocratic private school. Then, before mar riage, she entered a woman’s col lege as a junior, and graduated with honors in eighteen months. In the three years after her marriage she had a son and twin daughters and managed them magnificently. Upon Rex’s small salary Ann pur chased a large country house with seven acres of orchard and garden, and had paid for the place whe > Rex lost his job seven years ago. She immediately opened a girls’ concen tration school, taking four boarders and enrolling a class of eleven. This paid well, for many of the pupils were difficult or arrested cases, and Ann’s teaching experience had been largely with children of this type. Three years ago she was offered a position in state work at $300 a month. Her children were safe in the hands of their father and a fine old colored servant, and Ann was free to go to the capital and em bark upon work that fascinated her. A radio contract now pays her an extra $50 a week. Here is a part of her letter explaining the problem she has to meet in making a sound adjustment for herself and her family. Rex’s Life Happy. “Rex lives happily upon our little farm,” writes Ann. “He adores the children, and he and Lenny, the housekeeper, and certain friendly neighbors live a community life that more than satisfies him. I send him $200 a month, and he saves on it, raising garden vegetables on the farm and selling apple and walnut crops. We have two cows, but Rex doesn’t get up to milk them; he trades milk for a farmer’s services. Rex sleeps, and eats, and laughs, and loafs about, and says he is the happiest man in the world. “Meanwhile I keep office hours, interview scores of persons every day, carry a heavy responsibility in the decisions I have to make and the treatment I have to recommend, hold innumerable distressing meet ings with parents, prepare my 15- minute radio address every week, handle hundreds of letters, and live alone in a small apartment. I get out to the farm Saturday at noon, to receive a warmly affectionate welcome, but no more comprehen sion, on the part of Rex or the chil dren, of the burden that I carry than if they were so many birds. Offer Rejected. “Some months ago Rex had a real ly good offer to go into the real- estate business with a man who would put up all the capital, and expect Rex to contribute only his personality, which is very pleasing. My husband declined the offer, ex plaining to me that he was too hap py as things are. His salary, if he succeeded at all, would have made it possible to save for the children’s schooling; I would like to put all three into fine boarding schools some day. “I ask you if you consider this a fair adjustment of a family’s finan cial problem. Is it fair to have one partner working hard all day long, occasionally skipping even the week end holidays, and to have the other living on the fat of the land, en joying his children’s companionship and entirely free from care? And if you agree with me that it is not fair, then what do you suggest as an argument or change that will bring matters back to normal?” The Answer to Ann. Well, to begin with, Ann, you de scribe here exactly the normal mar ried life, were the position of the sexes reversed. Thousands—millions of women, for hundreds of years; have had the home, the housekeep er, the fruit and flowers, the chil dren’s companionship, the regular income, the freedom for neighborly intercourse that Rex is so much en joying. Were you the one at home and he the one at work, nobody could find anything to criticize in the situ ation. If that were the case you might very naturally find yourself com plaining that while you were rele gated to dull household and farm duties, the company of children and an old colored woman, Rex was liv ing an exciting and important life among the lights and gaieties 'of the big city. You are, obviously, the business member of the family. Everything you touch succeeds, and your in come already is one that many a man would be proud to earn. You’ve followed your bent, taking a few years out for wifehood and mother hood, it is true, but immediately re turning to the wider field, to the great service that you are privi leged to give to the unfortunate and defective children of the world that you meet in the course of duty in the position of trust that you evident ly hold. Consider Rex. Why grudge Rex his content? So few men are content! If he likes to putter about with apples and wal nuts, to take the muddy old car and go bring the children home from school, to hang on a fence gossip ing with a neighbor or to go off for a few days’ fishing, why shouldn’t he? If those quiet domestic occupa tions had satisfied you, he would have been perfectly willing to have you enjoy them, and would have plodded away patiently at the office work he hates, to support you in them. It is a poor nature that, taking what it wants itself, yet looks aside jealously at the simpler pleasures of other folk and resents them. Wives who fret because their hus bands enjoy downtown lunches, oc casional bridge games at the club on the way home, lodge meetings, golf, hunting, are pretty narrow wives. To make someone else un happy never contributes to your own happiness. Should Rejoice. Rejoice, rather, that matters have fallen out so fortunately. The chil dren have their father, and a com fortable country home. Rex is use ful and needed, for you could hardly turn the responsibility of the farm over to Lenny. He decides about crops and pruning, about the care of the cows, the car, the roof shin gles, the children’s colds and scratches and homework; on bitter nights, on burning noondays you know he is there to keep an eye on the household. Somebody has to do it. Meanwhile you pursue the profes sion that is not only so valuable to humanity, but that must be peculiar ly gratifying to you. You have your office, your assistants; your opin ions are respected. The radio work alone sets you apart as a conspicu ously successful woman, and there are other doors ahead of you—other triumphs and achievements which you must aim to achieve. ELMER AND THE 1940 CIRCUS 'T'HE circus is on the way again, -*• and this department is afraid. It is filled with grave misgivings. It is apprehensive. It fears the mod ernistic trend will be continued and that there will be further attempts to make an elephant glamorous, give “oomph” to a camel and envelope the hig tent as a whole in an atmos phere of silks, satins and “it.” • • • For the last three or four years this influence has spread to a point where the customers have been coming home a little confused and declaring that they have just been to the “Barnum and Billy Rose Cir cus” or “The Forepaugh and Shu bert Combined Shows.” • • • “Old P. T. Barnum had the right Idea about a circus,” declared El mer Twitchell, chairman of the Na tional League to Preserve the Fla vor of the Big Tent. “It should look like a circus, act like a circus and smell like a circus. Last year they even advertised that it would be air- conditioned and perfumed. I thought the elephants and camels acted very depressed about it all summer.” * • • “Tha circus was really a circus when you could smell it a mile away. The smells made it. Air-condition ing is all right in its place, but the circus should be left untouched by it,” continued Elmer. “However, that’s all done and over; what I’m afraid of is that the Follies dec orative influence will spread, espe cially in the opening pageant. • • • “The opening pageant has always tnade a hit with me, but especially So before George White, the late Flo Ziegfeld, Earl Carroll or any of those boys could touch it. I warmed up to the pageant when you could tell that Sir Galahad was just a bum, that Ben Hur was a hustler who needed a shave and that Cleopatra and her ladies were just a lot of faded women. • * • “For the last few years the idea has been to put an Errol Flynn on every horse and a Hedy Lamarr on every ele phant. It softened up the whole show. I can stand for one of those Winter Garden ensembles and for those Holly wood super spec tacles from the Arabian Nights, but I like my circus parades straight.” * * * "I’m just hoping for the best,” concluded Elmer, “but I fear the worst. One more yard of lace in that opening pageant, however, and I’m through!” • • • “Democracy is greater than cyn icism. Decency will prevail over trickery. A people of integrity will insist upon a government of integ rity.”—Mr. Dewey. Wanna bet? • • • VICIOUS CIRCLE Demosthenes Dowd was a shyster. With an outlook exceedingly blue. So he soap-boxed his way into con gress By shouting the country was through. He speaks of himself as a liberal, Denounces reaction as dross; He raves of the virtues of labor. And rants at the sins of the boss. Yes, he speaks of himself as a lib eral, Not knowing the hokum he spouts Was reaction way back before Nero, And oft turned the “Ins” into “Outs.” • • • A leopard got out of its cage at the circus in Madison Square Gar den and chased a reporter. It gave up its original intentions when the reporter showed it his police card. • • • Add similes: as funny as Nazi Germany trying to prove that some other nation is a knave. • • • “You can beat a man and a tick et, but you can’t beat a trend.”— Alf Landon. • • • With the G. O. P. it’s a case of when a feller needs “a trend.” • • • Let’s Be Fair, Girls! “Wife Forgives Husband Who Set Her Afire.”—headline. That’s the spirit, lady! It’s a humdrum world at best, with the average man find ing little opportunity for self-expres sion, adventure, excitement. He works all day in a humdrum office, goes home in a humdrum subway, and reaches a humdrum home to find everything in the same pat tern. No zest. No novelty. At last he breaks under the strain. Any good wife should understand. Keep some matches and kerosene around. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY | chool iLcsson By HAROLD L. LUNDOUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for May 5 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se- (ected and convrighted by Intern trmal Council of Religious Education: used by permission ISAIAH GIVES GOD’S INVITATION LESSON TEXT—Isaiah 55:1-11 GOLDEN TEXT—Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near —Isaiah 55:(5 Thirsty? A thousand signboards will tell you what to drink to refresh yourself. Most of the suggestions are there only to get your money, and often their proffered lift is a push downward and their refresh ment is only a prelude to destruc tion. But they do declare that thirst is universally present. Throughout the Bible thirst is used to express man’s need of and longing for God. He is a spiritual being made in the likeness and image of God and in tended for fellowship with Him. Never will he be fully satisfied until he comes to God and meets his hun ger and thirst with that “which is good.” The invitation of Isaiah is present ed under the figure of a purchase, “Come ye, buy.” In carrying out that thought we suggest that there are four steps in buying and using anything. I. Listen (v. 1). “Ho, everyone that thirsteth.” This is as Spurgeon says “the cry of a’salesman at a fair.” Amid the confusing sounds and disturbing sights surrounding his customer the salesman must make himself known and catch the interest of his cus tomer. The latter must listen to the offer and the recommendation of the things for sale. This is an unusual offer. Isaiah invites the buyer to make his pur chase “without money and without price.” Does that mean that the thing for sale is cheap or worthless? Far from it, for it is priceless. Sal vation is free for the sinner, but it cost God the price of His only begot ten Son. It is because Jesus paid the price of redemption that we may have it freely without cost. II. Compare (vv. 2-5). A good shopper compares values lest he make a bad bargain or buy that for which he has no real need. What is the situation of the one who is invited to buy what God offers? He is a sinner who has been fool ishly seeking to satisfy himself with what the world has to offer. With money he has tried to buy happi ness, contentment, recognition. The bread of this world will never satisfy and the water of this world only in creases one’s thirst. (See John 4: 13, 14.) Compare what God has to offer, “that which is good,” that which delights the soul (v. 2). Here is life (v. 3) assured by the promise of One who made an “everlasting covenant” with David, assuring him of His “sure mercies.” It results in ultimate glory (v. 5). The one who honestly makes such a comparison is quickly satisfied that the time has come to III. Buy (vv. 6-9). Penniless, the sinner may “buy” without money. He may call upon God, for God has already called him. He may seek God, because He like the good shepherd has been out seek ing the lost sheep (Matt. 18:12). While man can certainly not save himself, there are things which God expects the sinner to do. First, he is to “seek the Lord.” Where? Right at your side, sinner, for “he is near” (v. 6). Then when the sin ner meets the Lord he is at once conscious of his sin. What shall he do with it? Forsake it in both thought and deed (v. 7) and God will “abundantly pardon.” Observe that men may by their sinful rejec tion of Him bring themselves to the place where they not only do not listen to God’s call, but actually do not want to hear it. “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found” (v. 6). IV. Enjoy (vv. 10, 11). Some foolish folk buy things and put them away where neither they nor anyone else can enjoy them. Some worry so much about the price they paid or are so concerned about the preciousness of the thing pur chased that tney find no pleasure in using it. Salvation is not a thing to be hidden or put on a shelf. In fact, it is not a thing at all, but a life. It is to grow, to bud, to blossom and to bear fruit. How? Ey being ready to receive God’s Word which comes down like the rain from the heavens, refreshing, encouraging, and fructi fying the life of the believer. God’s Word never returns to Him void. He prospers it to accomplish His own purpose. But pray tell me, if we never study it or even read it, how can it help our lives? We “grow in grace” only as we grow “in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (II Pet. 3:18). We grow in knowledge as we study God’s Word. Thus we come to enjoy our Christian life. Healing Powers There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jeru salem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spir its and they were healed every one —Acts 5:16. HCWB SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears /"\NE day a snap-shot came from a reader showing a half dozen braided rag rugs spread out on the grass. No two were alike. I thought this one with a scalloped border was particularly interest ing and the maker wrote me that the scallops do stay flat on the floor. She uses wool rags and fre quently dyes them the colors she wants. She cuts or tears them into strips an inch or more wide, according to the weight of the material and then braids them tightly. The braided strips are sewn together with double carpet thread and she keeps the work flat on the table all the time she is sewing. For this rug, the cen ter row is 15 inches long. Sew around and around this, using the colors indicated. When the oval is 31 inches long and 16 inches wide, divide it evenly around the edge with pins about five inches apart. Now, sew a row around with a 2-inch loop at each pin. Sew the next three rows around these AROUND THE HOUSE loops easing the braiding in just enough to keep the work flat. NOTE: “The Rug That Grew Up With the Family” is another interesting rug-making idea. Di rections are in Mrs. Spears’ Book 3, which also tells how to make spool shelves; streamlining an old style bed; and many other useful ideas. Write Mrs. Spears today, enclosing 10 cents in coin and book No. 3 will be sent to you by re turn mail. MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedlord Hills New York Enclose 10 cents tor Book No. S. Name Address O-Cedar it/ Motherl Don't clean and polish/ tool Do BOTH at once. Afty lovely lady can polish her furniture ana floors as she cleans them. All the work she used to do to wash and dry AND them polish her furniture . . . was half wasted. Instead, use O-Cedar Polish in your damp cloth and wash and polish at the same turn Your neighborhood dealer sells genuine: MOPS, WAX, DUSTERS, CLEANERS ANB O-CEDAR FLY AND MOTH SPRAY Better a Jewel Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.—Confucius. The cookie cutter will not stick and gum up if dipped in flour be fore cutting the dough. • • e Old-fashioned iron beds can eas ily be camouflaged by putting at tractive slipcovers over the ends. • • * To keep mashed potatoes hot, place them in a tightly covered kettle set in a pan of hot water over a low heat. ♦ * * Wipe off parchment lamp shades with a cloth dampened with olive oil. It will remove all soil and will restore the former freshness. * * * Grease spilled on a hardwood kitchen floor may be quickly re moved by pouring kerosene over the spot. When the kerosene evap orates, the grease will have dis appeared. * * ♦ Chopped cooked prunes mixed with peanut butter or cottage cheese makes a good sandwich spread. * * * Add a tablespoon each of pre pared horseradish and mustard to half a cup of whipped cream. Serve with ham, veal or pork. * * * The sun should not be allowed to shine directly on begonias or plants that have large, rather soft leaves when leaves are wet. If water is left on leaves, they are likely to burn. * * * Washing machine hints: Always turn off the machine if you are suddenly called away. The aver age tubful of clothing requires six minutes for ordinary washing— and 10 minutes for badly soiled ar ticles, such as overalls. Change the water twice in laundering soiled articles such as rugs and play suits. Never overcrowd the washing machine, since the gar ments in it may be torn. WHY SHOULDN'T\ ! STCAIH/M FROM YOU I gave her my best, but—my sister hated me. Maybe it was because we were only half-sisters. Our mothers were dif ferent; as different as we were our selves. But, I had promised our father on his deathbed that I would see that Gladys got everything until she was old enough to look out for herself. I was faithful to that promise. Gladys was beautiful, popular—and in spite ofmy efforts—wild. And sho envied me the man I loved. Yet she might have found real happiness, but— * * ★ Maybe you, yourself, are in the position of Jane Kent, or maybe you know some one who is. How would you work out this human problem? That there is a way out—a real solution — is proved by the human, poignant diary of Jane Kent who writes her real life story under the title “Wild Sister” in June fine Stoiy mmmsmmmmmmmmm Afomt On Sa/£