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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940 T N THE midst of the recent Good- 1 all round-robin struggle for mas tery among 15 of the world’s best golfers we began thinking again of the part that the mental side or mental attitude plays in this baffling game of golf. The 15 contestants in this tourn-y were all fine golfers on the physical side. Most of them can hit the ball a long, long way and keep tt straight, most of them are fine iron players, keen pitchers, and at least a few are consistent putters. The main answer is one’s mental atti tude for the day or for the tourna ment—his ability to concentrate along the right lines. This, of course, is an old story. But how does one locate this phan tom will-o’-the-wisp? I had been watching Jimmy Dem- aret, winner of seven big tourna ments, one of the main favorites at Fresh Meadow. I had seen him smile and laugh and appear care free ctming up to the ball—then sud denly focus perfectly on the next stroke. So I talked to Demaret, the Texas Tarantula of the ancient green. Demaret's Angle “I drew a fine break in the art of concentration when I was a young kid,” Demaret said. “There were nine in our family. There was al ways a turmoil around. I had to learn how to study and concentrate with a football game or some other game going on all around me. There was always a din and a racket. I had to force myself to think of what I was reading or working over in spite of these outside distractions. “So I had to develop the habit of quick concentration from an early age, when all lasting habits are usu ally formed—I mean the ones that usually stick with you. “Here’s a funny angle. I am sup posed to be free from any nervous trouble. Yet I um one of the most nervous men you ever knew. I mean until a tournament starts. I’m even nervous in practice. But when the tournament gets under way I turn back to my kid days, forget every thing else, all the outside distrac tions. I think of only one shot at a time and I think of a round after the fashion of one shot at a time.” What to Think About “Bobby Jones once told me,” I said to Demaret, “that he thought of at least three things before playing any shot.” “What were they?" Jimmy asked. “First, the pace of his backswing to be sure it wasn’t hurried. Next, the full body or the needed body turn, find, last, cocking his left wrist at the top of the swing.” “I also think of about three things before playing a shot,” the Texan said. “First, I want to be sure I have a firm, comfortable and cor rect grip. Next, I want to feel that I have an easy, comfortable stance. Last, I also want to be sure I don’t hurry my backswing and that I also take the needed amount of body turn. “Golf,” Demaret said, “is a game you play largely with your hands, wrists and forearms. They swing the clubhead. The body should work together with the hands, but in most cases the body works against the hands. The average golfer lets the shoulders and body, or maybe the feet and legs, tie up the hands. “Now, the average golfer has a hard time concentrating because he tries to think of too many things. It can’t be done. He merely gets a blurred picture of what he is trying to accomplish. I believe in making golf as simple as possible.” “What should the average golfer try to think about?” I asked. Comfort and Ease “He or she should try to think first in terms of being comfortable and easy, and not to get all tight ened up. After this, he should think about letting the hands and fore arms swing the clubhead. He shouldn’t start locking his feet and legs, or stiffening his body. He should have a picture of hands, of live hands, taking that clubhead back as smoothly as possible, letting his body turn naturally, and from the top of the swing he should be in no hurry to start any down-swing speed. That’s where so much trou ble comes from—hustling or hurry ing the downswing, which will usu ally take care of itself if you just learn to leave it alone. “Golf isn’t a left-handed game nor a right-handed game. It is a game in which both hands swing the club head. It isn’t nearly as difficult as most players make it, if they would only think of the few necessary things one must do. Let Yourself Go . “Watch any of these 15 players in this field. They all give you the impression they are using their hands more than anything else. And they are. They are not thinking about half as many things to do as the average golfer does. Never mind too many details. They just tie you up. Keep as relaxed as you can. When you begin to tighten up, step away, and take your stance again. And don’t think of anything but the swing itself, of using the hands in the proper manner. Kathleen Norris Says: How Many Women Are Making This Woman 9 s Mistake? (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) “The unfortunate result of our change has slowly affected Louise. She has grown silent and depressed 9 * By KATHLEEN NORRIS E HAVE been able to keep our heads above water, but just above water,” writes a Pennsylva nia woman. “For the past ten years money matters have been a constant anxiety to my husband and myself. Not for ourselves, but for our daugh ter, who is now 21. Ten years ago Louise had everything, she attended a smart private school, went about with a very nice crowd of girls, and nat urally supposed that her life was to fall into pleasant lines. “Then came the crash, which affected my husband seriously. We were buying our home; that had to be sacrificed. We moved to a small but nice hotel apart ment, promising Louise that it was but temporary, but we have found it a great struggle to maintain even this much of an appearance. Much service is included in the rent, but tips to elevator boys, porters, chambermaids, window wash ers, waiters, amount, to more than the price of one good servant in a private home. Jani tors and delivery boys must be remembered regularly, and as no laundry work is permitted in the house that is an additional expense. Indeed, everything we do costs mon ey and with a $55 rent taken from a salary of about $225 a month even my most careful management leaves little for pleasures for Lou ise. She cannot entertain very much; we no longer have a car, and of course her clothes are simple and few. My husband was quite ill last March, and although he is now well again, he dreads another breakdown and has taken out more insurance than it is comfortable for our fami ly to properly handle under the cir cumstances in which we now find oursefves. Daughter Depressed. “The unfortunate result of our change in position has slowly af fected Louise. At first she attempt ed to keep up with her old friends, and as most of their families had suffered too, this was not hard. But now many have drifted away, or have regained their old prosperity, and she feels keenly that she cannot keep pace with them. She cannot drive about, buy clothes, join coun try clubs, and although she did take a position for a short while in a fashionable frock shop, she was un able to stand the physical strain and had to give it up. Many of the nicest girls, and indeed, some of the wealthiest in town, have done this, so that she felt no embarr'ass- ment in trying it, but it was too hard. “She is extremely pretty and un usually bright and attractive, or was so. For she has grown silent and depressed now, and I have consulted a doctor and a psychopath about her. There is nothing organically wrong, but she does not sleep, takes small interest in anything, and has long fits of the blues. If I couid I would send her on a long trip about the world, hoping the change of scene and contact with new friends would shake her out of her depres sion, but that is impossible now for many reasons. Does Loan Offer Solution? “I have seriously considered go ing to wealthy friends and borrow ing sufficient money to re-establish ourselves in a handsome home again, give her the sort of life to which she would probably marry. But my husband, although devoted to her, refuses to consider this. What do you think of this plan? It would be only for a few years. Later we could move into much less expensive quarters and, by economizing, re pay the entire sum by degrees. My husband sympathizes with her and with me, but he is not-at home all day, to struggle with her apathy and unhappiness, and consequently I, feel that he does not fully understand. Please advise and help if you can. Louise’s Mother.” Poor Louise’s Mother, and Lou ise’s Father, and Louise! One hard ly knows which to pity most; the father, gallantly struggling not only to support them now, but trying also to lay aside enough insurance to care for them should he drop in his tracks; or the pretentious, super ficial mother who never has learned anything of the true values of living; or Louise, spoiled and idle and dis contented, destroying by her own young ignorance and selfishness the years that might be the happiest of her life. An Unhappy Household. What a wretched failure that boxed-up little apartment in the ho tel must be! Dad tired and discour aged; one of the million men who were deceived by false prosperity before the crash, who never really deserved the high positions and high salaries to which national prosperity swept them, and who will never get bapk again. Mother straining every nerve, physical, mental, social, to keep up appearances; to maintain her diminished household upon the scale that luckier women can at tain with no worry at all; to secure for Louise friends, amusements, clothes all just a little too expensive. And Louise, hating the small rooms, hating the small salary, hating her clothes and her parents and above all herself. Tiiare the three are, tied together, failing each other on every count, destroying each other ai d themselves like three unhappy animals in a cage. Here is a family where a definite readjustment is ab solutely necessary. Louise’s mother ought to lift that load from the man of the house by moving immediately to smaller, cheaper quarters, to an unfashiona ble neighborhood and a $25 rent, and Louise ought to lift herself and her problems from the shoulders of both parents by getting a job, any job. There would be a real adven ture for all three, a stimulating change, a re-birth of affection and confidence between them all. His wife ought to convince this worried, struggling man that two healthy women can get along in this world without draining the life-blood from a fellow-creature to do it, and the daughter ought to begin to bring into the group not only financial as sistance, but cheerful daily reports, healthy contributions to the conver sation at the dinner table, bracing reactions to her first contact with realities. Change in Living, Thinking Needed. Louise’s mother probably doesn’t know it, but once she was removed from the misery and humiliation of constant contrast with women luckier than herself, she would find life extremely pleasant. Among humbler neighbors she might find herself considered the fortunate one, the women to copy and admire. So cial standards are poor things, if they inspire us to extravagance and idleness and envy. Far better to get into the open air of honest work after so many years shut into the unhealthy hothouse of having to do what the Joneses do. As for borrowing money to bol ster up Louise’s delusions of gran deur and idleness, that would be sheer madness, and would wreck whatever chance is left to escape from the net. THOSE RADIO TAXICABS IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson There’s another revolt in the offing. This time it’s against radios in taxicabs. No man can serve two masters and no taxicab driver can do justice to three traffic lights and four or five radio programs. • • » A public cab should be a con veyance and not a loud speaker with hot brakes and loose fenders. • • • There is no reason why a man who wants to cross town in a hurry should be obliged to ride with a swing orchestra, a cooking program or a couple of radio comedians. • • • The taxicab companies insist that the customers prefer radio hacks. They say the riders regard an out side aerial as more important to transportation than four-wheel brakes. But this correspondent doubts it. He thinks the ride is tough enough without the incidental static. * • * For every cab fare who wants to hear “Oh, Johnny,” “Town Hall To night” or the United States Marine Band while taking sharp corners on two wheels, there are at least ten who prefer to do their rough riding unaccompanied by symphony orchestras, radio tenors and mas ters of ceremonies. • • • It has sprung to the rescue of a long-suffering public with a demand that taxi driving by ear be forbid den, and that the hose be turned on the quaint notion that there isn’t noise enough in a big city without radios in taxicabs. • • • The drivers won’t give up without a battle, however. They contend that their lives are drab without mu sic, wise cracks, hints on how to prepare a shrimp sal- a d and a voice shout ing from somewhere every five minutes, “Right, Miss Turpey! 100 per cent right! Lincoln’s first name was Abraham, and you win five silver dollars!” » • • They insist that, with or without passengers, they are entitled to the full companionship of the Radio Corporation of America. If that contention is sound then a paper hanger is entitled to use his port able radio while papering your liv ing room and a doctor is justified in listening to the Bison City Quartet while discussing your symptoms. • • • This department is also mildly op posed to radios in private automo biles. Driving is hazardous enough in modern traffic without giving the driver three extra switches, another glass dial and a lot of additional noises to worry over. • • • WAR NOTE The servants are listening to the broadcasts all night and both Ger man and French cooking is in a severe slump—in fact, it’s terrible. That’s why you see so many famil iar faces dining out en familje. R. ROELOFS JR. • • * A telling commentary on the con trast in living on two continents came over the radio the other day. “The French commander,” the voice said, “has called on all men to die at their posts rather than re treat. The fate of the world is at stake,” he declared. “Warneke now rubs a new ball. The count is three and two.” • * • Information, Please! Speaking of Leap Year, ‘ Haven’t I heard It’s the early worm That catches the “bird”? Marjorie Lederer. • * • Roosevelt is still reported as considering Mayor LaGuardia of New York for vice president. Well, anyhow, the attempt to make Fiorello play second fid dle anywhere, any time would make one of the great radio fea tures of all time. • • • A big airport recently went into bankruptcy. In selling stock for an airport is anybody ever offered a chance to get in on the ground floor? • • • Some candidates for the presiden cy are so full of intolerance, par tisanship and bias that you could speak of them as tossing their “hates into the ring.” • • • “Do you remember,” asks Wal lace Cox, “when ‘German Lieder’ meant a group of songs?” By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for June 16 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. HAGGAI URGES THE BUILDING OF GOD’S HOUSE LESSON TEXT—Haggal 1:2-12. GOLDEN TEXT—And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of our selves together, as the manner of some Is. —Hebrews 10:24, 25. Religious work—or, more correct ly stated, Christian work—is a dif ficult and discouraging task, except for the grace and blessing of God. Not only does the Christian worker have to struggle against that arch enemy of God and of the souls of men, Satan himself, but he must overcome the deadly indifference and carelessness of men both out side and inside the Church. Then, as if that were not enough, he finds another enemy, the discouragement of his own heart. Haggai ministered to the Jews who had returned from captivity and who had begun to rebuild the temple. Opposition had developed before they had made more than a beginning, and they at once gave up and turned their interest to their own affairs and the building of their own homes. God was displeased by this sinfulness on their part, and brought judgment upon them through a prolonged drouth. Haggai was called to awaken their con science and to encourage them to action. 1. Consider Your Ways (w. 2-6. 9-11). It was not necessary for the ! prophet to work up any eloquent ' plea to stir the conscience of the people. He had only to point to their own ways. They were thus faced with three reproving facts, j 1. Indifference (v. 2). They were negligent and indifferent, saying the time had not come to build. The same kind of folk today are very | sure that the congregation simply 1 cannot afford to keep up preaching services, or heat and light the church for Sunday School. 2. Selfishness (v. 4). They built for themselves ceiled houses and lived in luxury, while God’s house lay waste. One is reminded of our own communities, which have money for every conceivable com fort and convenience, but only a few niggardly pennies for God’s work. 3. Loss (vv. 6, 9-11). Being stingy toward God is a losing business. He has only to withhold His blessing and we will find ourselves destitute. That is true in the physical realm and is even more true in the spir itual life. Withholding from God will always result in loss (see Prov, 11:24). II. “Build the House” (v. 8). God’s work is constructive. He may have to destroy and tear down, but He only takes away the old arid undesirable that the new and worthy may be built. Three words stand out here. 1. “Go.” The Lord wants His people to get into action. Haggai was interested in getting things go ing. Let us follow his example. 2. “Bring.” We are not to come to the Lord’s service empty hand ed. Only as He blesses do we have anything to bring, but often we fail to bring even that which He has supplied. 3. “Build.” God’s work is com mitted to us. We are to be His builders. HI. “The People Obeyed” (v. 12). “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams” (I Sam. 15:22). God is looking for obedient people, and is ready to bless and use them. The response to Haggai’s message came from 1 1. The Governor. One wonders what progress America would make back to God if its rulers were to lead us in obedience to His com mands and in seeking His face in repentance and prayer. Thank God for every truly spiritually minded national leader, and pray that oth ers may yield themselves to the con trol of the Lord. Then came 2. The High Priest. All too often religious leaders haVe actually hin dered the work of God—and what a hindrance they can be! We read that in Haggai’s time the high priest obeyed. Christian leaders, are we too going before our people in un questioning obedience to God? If not, why should we not begin now? With such leadership, we are not surprised to hear that 3. The People Also Obeyed and Feared God. Many capable Chris tian workers believe that the youth of America of our day, far from being worse than their fathers, are actually seeking for real spiritual leadership. False Christs Shall Rise And then, if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or lo, he I is there, believe him not. For false ; Christs, and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and won ders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.—Mark 13: 21, 22. Speaking the Truth I had rather suffer for speaking the truth, than that the truth should suffer for the want of my speaking. LO0IMDUT MOUNTAIN HOTEL A Vacation Paradise Located on highest point of Lookout Mountain, overlooking Chattanooga and seven mountain ranges. Cool nights —pleasant days. All sports, including outdoor swimming pool, golf, riding, tennis. Rates moderate. Addr— S. JOHN UTTLEQREEN, Manager - * * « • Cha1 Lookout Mountain Hotel Ctaattanoog AAAAAAAAA kAA AAAAAi J'** Heparin ent TYON’T you think it’s one of the prettiest ideas for cotton prints that ever bloomed in the spring—all set for a summer of great popularity? 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