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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.
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A A General Quiz
The Questions
1. What federal government de
partment includes the secret serv
ice?
2. If you eschewed your dinner,
would you eat it fast, slow, or not
at all?
3. How many plants capture in
sects?
4. Are Negro spirituals always
of a religious character?
5. What state in the United
States is bounded by seven states?
6. Why are there no proper names
in the Bible beginning with “W”?
7. Is a jail the same as a prison?
The Answers
1. Treasury department.
2. Not at all.
3. More than 400 different spe
cies of plants capture and digest
insects.
4. No. Many of the songs do not
deal with religious subjects.
5. Kentucky, bounded by Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Vir
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6. The Hebrew language, in
which the Bible was originally
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7. No. A jail is a place of de
tention for people not yet convict
ed of a crime or for those serving
short sentences. A prison is where
one convicted of a crime serves
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