The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 24, 1940, Image 2
THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, FRIDAY. MAY 24. 1940
Kathleen Norris Says:
Women Dodge Thought of Aging
(Bell Syndicate—Win; Service.)
IT IS becoming evident that the
- 1 Yankees of 1940 are not going to
do as much league wrecking this
season as they did the last four
years.
In the first place Joe OiMaggio
may be a doubtful quantity for some
time to come.
And Joe DiMaggio means more
to the Yankees than one might
imagine. When you
remove a .385 hit
ter, one of the lead
ing home-run punch
ers and one of the i
best of all defensive
outfielders, you are
losing something no
team can afford to i
lose—not even the !
Yankees.
The odds are that |
DiMaggio will be as
.i j good as ever in a
Grantland short while, but he
K,ce will still be a gam
ble. A wounded knee is always a
gamble. Ask any good trainer.
Another Angle
Here is another angle one of the
rival managers gave out recently.
“For the last four years,” he said,
“most of us have taken it for granted
that the Yankees couldn’t be
stopped. They were just too good.
Partly for this reason too many of
our teams were beaten before a
Yankee game started. But you get
tired of taking too many beatings.
They begin to leave a deeper sting.
This season yoa’ll find most of the
teams out to beat the Yankees, hus
tling harder than they ever have be
fore.
“This can make a lot of differ- !
ence. Especially as the Yankees, '
after four big years, won’t have the
same keenness. They can’t have. I
It isn’t human nature.
“I remember hearing Ty Cobb
say once that three or four years of j
success was about all any ball club
can carry. This doesn’t mean the 1
Yankees can’t win again. But it i
does mean we should have a real
race this season.”
Larry MacPhail
Spirit and the Dodgers
This matter of team spirit brings
us alongside the Dodgers. I asked
Larry MacPhail how he accounted
for that wild and woolly getaway
the Dodgers put on this season.
“Hustling and spirit,” Larry said.
“I honestly think we have 25 per
cent more spirit than any team in
baseball.
“We haven’t a great team as far
as playing personnel goes. But we
have a hustling
manager and a hus
tling bunch of fel
lows who keep on
their toes from start
to finish.
“As you know
from the old days
at Camp Sevier in
Greenville,” Larry
continued, “I’ve
been around quite a
while looking things
over. (Officer Mac
Phail, around 1917
and early 1918, was stationed in the
next snow-covered lot with Colonel
Luke Lea’s 113th. F. A. And he
happens to be one of Colonel Lea’s
crack officers, willing to try any
thing, including a Kaiser kidnap
ing.)
“Yes, I’ve been around quite a
while,” Larry continued. “But I
haven’t seen any better spirit in
either baseball or football than
Brooklyn has this year. We have a
great city back of us, one. of the
greatest baseball cities in the his
tory of the game. When you can
draw more than a million people
with a team trying to finish third,
and just making it, you can un
derstand the type of fans we have
on our side. Don’t forget that
means a lot.
Tops in Team Spirit
“If we have 25 per cent more
spirit than any other team carries—
and I think we have—the average
Brooklyn fan has 40 per cent more
spirit than any other fan. He may
turn against us a little if we start
flopping, but why shouldn’t he? The
main business of a big league ball
club is to win ball games. But if
we give him a chance no other fan
can rally as quickly. This season
we put out $140,000 for talent. We
lose $110,000 from the weather,
$110,000 we needed badly. Try to
match that break.”
The two best baseball cities in the
country are Brooklyn and Detroit.
They win—going away. They know
baseball, and they love basebaU.
They are well ahead of New York
and Chicago, whose “topless tow
ers,” surrounded by nearly 15,000,-
000 people, are overshadowed. They
want winners, but more important
still, they love and know the game.
In this respect they have taken
the play away from Boston, the real
cradle of baseball knowledge and in
terest some years ago. There was
a time when Boston was the main
baseball Citadel of Swat. Boston
is still a great baseball city. But it
isn’t a Brooklyn or a Detroit.
In a four-month tour of some
10,000 miles through winter and
spring I’ve found that about 70 per
cent of the outsiders are pulling
for Brooklyn to win the National
League pennant and for Boston to
fly the American League pennant at
the Red Sox rampart.
Your Companion
Maybe you never stopped to think
about it, says Kathleen Norris, but
there really is only one companion
that you have throughout your life and
that is YOU.
Finding out just what that compan
ion is like, what she wants and doesn't
want, what she needs and doesn't need
is the job every woman should take
upon herself.
Age creeps up on a person and all
the things that seem important to young
women aren’t really that important.
Find out what you need to prepare
for old age. Prepare yourself for it
and it will be the happiest period of
your life. Don’t prepare and you’ll
live to regret that you didn’t.
Whatever she is when she is old—and to her forty-five is old—she knows she’ll
hate it. So why worry about it?
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
D ON’T be one of those
women to whom only
beauty, money and a
good digestion are important in
life.
Don’t be one of the millions
who consider eating and drink
ing, amusements and parties,
flirtations and gay companies,
smooth hair and smooth skin
the real objects and aims of
existence.
All these things are fun, in
mild doses. But there is only
one companion who goes with
you to the end, and that’s yourself.
Find that companion, cultivate her,
give her a taste for the things that
last, before it is too late.
Women don’t think enough about
this. When they are young they
feel that age never will come, and
when it does come it finds them ut
terly unprepared. These ripe years,
which ought to be the very best of
all, strike them like a thunderbolt.
They’ve never considered the finan
cial side of them. They’ve never
considered the social or domestic
side of them. They’ve never con
sidered the moral side of them.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
To be sure, 25 years ago Peggy
married gaily enough, leaving her
own father and mother alone. And
when that mother was widowed,
Peggy shed dutiful tears for her lost
father and felt quite sorry for moth
er, who was immediately plunged
into money difficulties.
But all this doesn’t affect Peggy
personally at all. SHE never thinks
of herself as fifty, and alone. SHE
never will be widowed, her one child
married, her entire provision for old
age a small life insurance policy.
When these inevitable conditions
arise in her own case Peggy is
shocked and despairing. All her
plans have included herself as im
portant, attractive, and protected by
John. But now her daughter is mar
ried and gone, her husband dead,
she must give up her home, and in
her bitterness and loss she feels
that there is nothing left. She very
probably sinks into the limbo of
those unhappy lonely little women
who live only in their child’s life—
complaining, remembering, griev
ing.
Burden on Others.
Instead of having that child de
pend upon her, and half envy moth
er’s independence, freedom, high
spirits, Peggy becomes a burden
upon the younger family. Her con
versation becomes a long dreary re
cital of what glories and possessions
she once had. She cannot sufficient
ly reiterate the trials, the dismal
ness of age; when you get to her
age, she says, you might as well be
dead, and goodness knows she often
wishes she were dead.
Now, since you know, you women
of 25, 30, 40, that this time must
come, why not prepare for it, why
not defeat it of its horrors? It can
be the most serene, the most trium
phant period of your whole life.
It can be a time of harvest, rather
than of famine.
Older Women Different.
For in the years after 45 a woman
can be herself, express herself, live
her own life as she never can in
younger years. No girl is so use
less, so defeated and unhappy, as
the girl who tries to be independ
ent. In rushing off to Paris, or into
some unknown field of endeavor, she
only proves to herself that she has
thrown away the honest beginnings
of life, refused to play the game by
rule, sind beside making herself ri
diculous, has made it practically im
possible to get back to a real start.
With the older woman it is differ
ent. She has served her apprentice
ship. She has been daughter, wife,
mother, housekeeper for a long
quarter of a century. And these
have been happy years, proud years,
years full of the joys of trips and
frocks, parties and flattery and self-
confidence.
But they have vanished now. And
now comes HER time; the time
when she can be most truly and
wholly herself. Her small house is
a veritable kingdom with its gar
den, its dog or its cats, its visits
from adored grandchildren, its qui
eter visits from old friends. In plan
ning trips, in club work and chari
ties, in easy hours and easy dress
ing and games of dominoes or crib-
bage or backgammon with a few
tried and true neighbors and friends,
are real pleasure.
If the companion of her youth is
still beside her, all this felicity is
doubled. But even if he is not, rich
and ripe and useful living is still
hers.
Tame and Uninteresting.
Now, unfortunately, this paradise
of the middle years sounds extreme
ly dull, to youth. It sounds tame
and uninteresting to the last degree.
Youth never will change ideals with
age; it hates the thought. Age is
no more convinced that it never yiill
be youth than is youth sure it never
can grow old.
And so many a woman who could
be planning now for her later years
draws away in repugnance from the
thought of them. Whatever she is
when she’s old—and to her 45 is
old—she knows she’ll hate it. So
why think about it?
Why train her character to de
sire what is true and lasting; why
search into her own soul and de
velop its miraculous resources? Why
deny herself and the children su
perfluous luxuries and extrava
gances now, to gain the superlative
comfort of financial security for her
old age? Why form a taste for fine
books, for language study, for gar
dening, for any one of a hundred
interests and avocations, when to
day there are movies and beauty
parlors and flirtations and night
clubs to fill her time?
What is the answer?
Ask yourself why.
Answer Is Apparent.
The answer is that if you knew
that in 25 or 30 years you had to
move to a strange country, a coun
try in- which the eyes you use now
could see nothing, in which your
present ears could hear nothing, of
whose language and customs you
know nothing, you would certainly
prepare to make that change. You
would study the conditions, the lim
itations and opportunities of the peo
ple of that country; master its lan
guage; cultivate a few friends who
must make that journey with you.
Middle age, old age, can be a
long peaceful holiday. A useful hol
iday—not by any means an idle hol
iday. But a happy time in which a
woman who has done her honest
share of living in the younger years
can find endless interest, a thousand
absorbing occupations, complete
peace of spirit.
That’s something worth achieving!
THAT MILLION-FOR-HITLEB
OFFER
Mr. Samuel Harden Church,
The Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dear Samuel:
I have read your offer of a million
smackers for the capture of Adolf
Hitler and in reply I would state
that the proposition interests me.
But I do not like the way you empha
size the part about his being caught
“alive, unwounded and unhurt.”
What about me?
* « •
However, it is a novel idea and
the most original business proposal
of a decade. I know of no cash of
fer like it since the depression and
it is good to know there is a man in
this country who knows where to
get a million dollars these days.
For that much money there are peo
ple who would do anything. The big
drawback is that Hitler has got such
a big start, and I don’t think it
sporting to limit the offer to May.
This is pretty short notice for grab
bing a guy who has been on the
loose so long, and besides, May is a
hard month for the capturing busi
ness on account of the birds and
bees and little green things furnish
ing so much distraction from any
pursuit. Could you extend the timet
through June?
And are you serious about the
“undamaged, unwounded and un
hurt” clause in your spring offer?
Are you willing to stretch a point?
I mean would it be okay if Adolf is
brought in with a little mouse over
one eye or with a lock of his hair
missing? It would be a helluva note
if I catch him and you rule the
capture illegal just because he
says that his back hurts him or
something.
* * *
Who is going to judge whether he
is hurt or not? I want a good ref
eree as I have a hunch that Adolf
will do a lot of squawking when he
finds himself in Pittsburgh in a “Mil
lion Dollar Thirty Days Only Con
test,” and he may insist that he is in
terrible condition instead of being
undamaged and as good as new. In
fact I think you should stretch a
point and say that if he is warped
a little in transit the cash offer will
still stand.
• • *
And about the idea of trying him.
I do not want any part of that. If
I deliver him it is up to you and
Pittsburgh to run the trial. I am
taking no chances on trials. All he
would have to do would be to get a
good lawyer to say that he wasn’t
quite clear mentally. Then there
would be the old business of get
ting the psychiatrists to ask him a
lot of questions and then report he
was clearly a victim of the fact
his folks made him eat lettuce with
out sugar in his boyhood or some
thing. He would get put on proba
tion and in no time would be on
the loose again. So I want the cash
on delivery, Sam.
• • •
Let me hear further details from
you soon.
Yours,
Elmer Twitchell.
P. S.—What are you offering this
veek for Mussolini?
* • •
‘ALL DONE BY MIRRORS’
“The New York police department
today began distributing leaflets in
scribed ‘A healthy driver is a safe
driver’ in a campaign to keep down
auto accidents. ‘The health of a
motorist is an important considera
tion in any safety drive,' said Police
Commissioner Valentine. ‘There are
many accidents caused by sudden
illness.’ ”—News item.
Apple sauce! Also hassenpfef-
fer, baloney and bunk! A healthy
driver is not necessarily a safe
driver; we have been chased up
alleys by some of the healthiest
drivers in existence and knocked
for a goal by drivers who were
notably in the pink.
* • •
FAT GIRL: 1940
You’ll get thinner by and by,
If on a diet you plan to sup,
Meanwhile let them laugh at you;
Chins up, little lady, chins up!
Richard Avedon.
• • •
Comedian Jack Haley’s definition
of Yale is “a period between a
change in voice and a job as an in
surance salesman.”
• • •
DAYLIGHT SAVING CHAOS
Today at timetables I stare,
And find a train that won’t be there;
It’s where it ain’t, the trainmen
say—
I guess I will not go away!
* * *
ADD SIMILES
As individual as the way a person
opens a boiled egg.
As shabby looking as your old
shoes when you are trying on a new
pair.
As long-winded as credit titles in
a movie.—Wallace Reybum
Strange Facts
!
‘Realistic’ Paintings
Suicide Excursion
Fire Ruins Granite
C. Many medieval Russian artists,
when painting a holy personage on
an icon, used an odd method to
make each figure “realistic.”
They would first paint the skele
ton, then the body organs, th.en
the flesh and, lastly, add fne
clothes.
C. During Japan’s last suicide
wave, which occurred between
J.933 and 1935, 313 persons succeed
ed in jumping into the volcano on
the island of Oshima. Of the 1,208
others who were foiled by the
guards at the crater’s edge, 29
managed to jump off the boats on
the way back to the mainland.
C. Although the diplomatic mail of
the United States is free of inspec
tion in all countries through a re
ciprocal agreement and is deliv
ered to our embassies and lega
tions by American couriers, each
pouch is equipped with a special
lock that records the number of
times it was opened on each trip.
If this number does not check with
the schedule, an investigation is
made.
C. Although granite, like marble,
is noted for its hardness and
durab iity, granite buildings have
been known to crumble and fall in
devastating fires that have only
scratched marble surfaces.—Col
lier’s.
Gems of Thought
XX/’HAT men need today in
this time of trouble is not
a way out so much as a way
of high and manly living with
in.—Sir Wilmott Lewis.
The merit belongs to the be
ginner, should even the succes
sor do better.—Arab Proverb.
A word of kindness is a seed; oft
dropped by chance, it grows into a
flower.
Do not anxiously hope for
what is not yet come; do not
vainly regret what is already
past.—Chinese Proverb.
Let friendship creep gently to a
height; if it rush to it, it may soon
run itself out of breath.—Thomas
Fuller.
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ASK ME
ANOTHER
Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
The Questions
1. Rome was built on how many
hills?
2. How is the temperature of a
Centigrade thermometer reduced
to Fahrenheit?
3. Why did Lady Godiva ride
through Coventry?
4. What is a salaam, a fish, a
salutation, or a small coal bucket?
5. To win the Democratic pres
idential nomination a candidate
must receive—a majority of the
votes in the party convention, two-
thirds of the votes, or four-fifths of
the votes?
6. Why are rats used extensively
in biological research?
7. Will a car develop less horse
power at 5,000 feet elevation than
at sea level?
8. What is the beam of a ship?
9. What is a peccadillo—a Span
ish word for a puck measure, a
petty fault, or a piglike mammal?
10. What British islands in the
South Atlantic control the Strait
of Magellan?
The Answers
1. Seven.
2. Multiply by 9/5 and add 32.
3. To help the people escape
heavy taxes.
4. A salutation.
5. A majority.
6. One chief reason: Owing to
their size they require a minimum
amount of testing substances.
7. A car developing 100 horse
power at sea level will develop
but 82 horsepower at 5,000 feet
elevation because the density of
the air decreases with altitude.
8. Its width.
9. Petty fault.
10. Falkland.
T HERE is not such a mighty
difference, as some men im
agine, between the poor and the
rich—in pomp, show and opinion
there is a great deal, but little
as to the pleasures and satisfac
tions of life.
The poor and the rich enjoy the
same earth, and air, and heavens;
hunger and thirst make the poor
man’s meat and drink as pleasant
and relishing as all the varieties
which cover a rich man’s table;
and the labor of a poor man is
more healthful, and many times
more pleasant, too, than the ease
and softness of the rich.—Dr.
Sherlock.
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Bertha Wished to Know
Punishment—Just in Case
“Don’t fidget!” snapped moth
er.
Little Bertha stopped toying
with the lid of her chocolate box
and endeavored to concentrate
upon the play. But it was a dull
affair.
In two minutes her small fin
gers were busy again.
“Now, Bertha,” exclaimed her
mother, “I warn you.”
When her mother spoke like that
she was not to be disregarded.
Glancing doubtfully at the dull
stage, and then at the tempting
lid, Bertha whispered:
“Would it be a hairbrush, mun>-
my, or just your hand?”
Clothes From Trees
In parts of South America, na
tives skin the bark from certain
trees, cut holes for the arms, and
wear it like a shirt. In Rhodesia
the inner bark is stripped from
trees and soaked in water. Origi
nally white, it becomes brown,
soft and pulpy. It is then tapped
gently with a club , and twisted
and stretched tc about four times
its original area. It is rubbed
with oil, dried in the sun and worn
as a cloak.
Mixed Defense
The indiscriminate defense of
right and wrong contracts the
understanding, while it hardens
the heart.—Junius.
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Evil Is Failure
However things may seem, no
evil thing is success, and no good
thing is failure.—Samuel Long
fellow.
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Early Fear
Early and provident fear is th*
mother of safety.—Burke.
SPEED'S OKAY IN BASEBALL, BUT I LIKE MV CIGARETTE
SLOW-BURNING. CAMELS BURN SLOWER AND GIVE ME
THE EXTRA MILDNESS I WANT—EXTRA SMOKING, TOO
• In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS
burned 25% slower than the average
of the 15 other of the largest-selling
brands tested—slower dian any of
them. That means, on the average, a
Smoking plus equal to
EXTRA SMOKES
PER PACK!
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GEORGE CASE—leading base-stealer
of the major leagues
G EORGE CASE, Joe DiMaggio, "Bucky” Walters,
Johnny Mize... so many of the top-flight players
in America’s favorite sport prefer America’s favorite
cigarette—Camel.
They have found—and you will find—that Camel’s
matchless blend of costlier tobaccos and Camel’s
slower way of burning mean several important
"extras” in steady smoking pleasure and in actual
amount of smoking per pack (see below, left).
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