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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY. JUNE 21, 1940 A/f Y OLD Purdue college pal, George Ade, once introduced one of the finest of all slogans. It was called, “Flowers for the liv ing.” The dead neither know nor care. If any living ball player is en titled to flowers at this stage of his career the name is Melvin Thomas Ott of the Giants. Ott has at least one record that no other ball player carries today, as far as I can locate the vital statistics. Born in Gretna, La., in 190 9, this young prodigy suddenly showed up with McGraw’s Giants in 1925 at the age of 16. For 16 years there has been no other city marked against ‘ this name — only New York. Mel came from trict straight to the big town. He has never played in a minor league. He was a bat boy in size and years when McGraw saw him—and never let him go. “This kid was a big leaguer the day he was bom,” McGraw once told me. “He doesn’t need any minor league schooling.” When the young spring of 1940 came riding through gales, sleet, snow and weather blown from the Barren Lands, they said Ott was about through. He was only 31 years old, but he had been around a long time. He was starting slow ly under killing weather conditions, but he was still out there, hanging around. When the season opened Mel Ott war still on the job and as time moves on, Mel is still up around the .300 class with the old punch. Ott’s Career Ott, at his physical peak, is five feet nine inches in height, weighing from 155 to 160 pounds. He was never a Babe Ruth, a Jimmy Foxx, a Hank Greenberg, a Hack Wilson or a Lou Gehrig in physical make up. He always had a queer habit of lifting his foot from the ground as he started his swing—his right foot —and then swinging from his left as his right foot promptly settled back into place. It was his own foot action. It wasn’t supposed to be “form,” but it was the way Ott wanted to play. And it was “form,” after all, the “form” of shifting weight. It must be “form." For in his 15 years with the Giants, up through 1939, Ott had mauled out 369 home runs and 359 doubles. He had lashed out 2,061 hits, and 791 of these blows had been for extended extra bases. As far back as 1928 Mel plastered 42 home runs. He had hit 25 or more home runs through 10 or 11 years. He had hit over 30 home runs through seven seasons. With the bulk of Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx or Greenberg, Ott would have broken all records. He is anywhere from 50 to 80 pounds shy in weight while compet ing with the major siege guns. But he won’t be far from the 400 home- run mark when 1940 turns in its set of records. He is still something back of Jimmy Foxx and Lou Geh rig, but don’t forget that Mel had to spot them more than 50 pounds, which means a lot in long-range hit ting. The Bayou Entry Mel Ott has never been interested in trying for so-called color. He never pops off. He has never tried to make a headline by some eccen tric action. He gets into no brawls with umpires. He has no interest in being a showman. • “I just happen to like baseball,” he tells you. “If I’m anything at all, write me down as a ball player.” If Ott isn’t a ball player, there are no ball players. Shy, retiring, he ducks the spotlight. But the main answer is that Mel has batted in more than 1,400 runs from something over 2,000 hits, with a 15-year average, up to this season, of .315. I don’t believe the fan crowd, at large, appreciates Mel Ott. This goes for New York, especially. They take him for granted. They take him for granted because he never breaks training, never folds up on the job, always plays his game to the limit. It is always “Good old Mel. He’s always there.” But not being a nut or a headline seeker, never caring to be a showman, the mob forgets how long “good old Mel” had always been there. They forget that he has lambasted over 20 home runs a year for 12 consecutive years—that he has passed the 30 home-run mark for seven years. Even big Hank Green berg has passed the 30-homer mark only five years. In addition to all this, Mr. Mel Ott is quite an outfielder. He can cover his full share of terrain under fire. Thirty-one isn’t old. Lefty Grove is 40. But Ott is in his sixteenth major league campaign, and through all these years he has given everything he had to give, with nothing like a loafing moment. Mel Ott the Bayou dis- Kathleen Norris Says: Here Come the Brides! (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service ) Marriage is usually the first important step that a girl takes as an independent person. Before that advice and influence have been used liberally by uncles, aunts, mother, father, everyone. By KATHLEEN NORRIS ER marriage is usually the first important step that a girl takes as an in dividual, independent person. Before that everything has been more or less discussed by the family, and advice and influence have been used liberally by uncles, aunts, mother, father, everyone. Even Anna, waiting on the family table, has had her word to say. “Don’t you go off east to col lege, Miss Jane. You stay here where your friends are,” says Anna. “Mother needs you, lovey,” says Grandma. “I’d just as soon go a little easy on the financial end," hints Dad. “Now, whether you go or stay home, let me talk to you about your clothes,” says Aunt Mar garet, who works in a frock shop. Jane goes to college. Immediate ly the agonizing question of a so rority arises, and all the girls tell Jane such contradictory things that she frequently goes into hysteria be fore deciding between the merits of Kappa and Theta. When she buys clothes her chum goes along. When she gets an in vitation Mother suggests a yes or a no. The books she reads, the hats she wears, the dances and night clubs she frequents are all a mat ter of mass selection; Jane only asks to be allowed to do what the other girls do. Then comes the awful moment when she has to make up her mind whether she wants to marry Dick or doesn’t. Nobody can help her here. Mother says she likes Dick, but then she likes lots of other boys, too. Dad nods his head thoughtfully while murmuring: “nice young man. Very good head.” But that’s as far as he will go. The girls chorus to Jane that they think Dick is divine, and among themselves say quite differ ent things, and Jane knows that they do. Loyalty First Problem. In selecting Dick she learns, with a little first premonition of the grav ity, the pain of wifehood, that she has to be loyal to him. She can’t criticize him any more, or laugh at him. She can’t let anyone else criti cize him or laugh at him. One of the bewildering features of an en gagement is this first obligation of loyalty. Often the effect of this on the en gaged girl is to make her feel lone ly. She wants everyone to approve of her choice, indeed to envy her. And if Dick fails her in any way it is much more natural for her to turn back to the old group, and see him as they do, rather than sticking to her own secret conviction that he can’t do anything wrong. No saying was ever truer than that misery wants company; sometimes one sees engaged girls or young wives acting very skittishly, saying things they don’t mean at all, and all the time eyeing Mama and the girls to see how they feel about Dick’s ab surdities, trying to convince them that she, the bride, thinks him rath er ridiculous, too. And yet all the while ■ she wants him to be 100 per cent loyal to her; it breaks her heart, it crushes her, if he shames her or laughs at her in the presence of his old friends or his family. Where Trouble Lurks. Old friends and family! It is in these quarters that so much of the trouble arises, and there is need of loyalty. Sometimes a bride rath er likes her husband’s brothers and men friends, they are so admiring and so much fun! But there never was a husband yet who really liked to have his wife’s married sister, her aunt Mattie, her high school Loyalty If there is any essential quality that a bride must acquire or possess it is a feeling of loyalty to her husband, according to this message by Kath leen Norris. If marriage is going to be lasting and enduring, loyalty must be present. Naturally, the choice she makes isn’t going to be perfect. Everybody has a few faults and the new bride must soon realize this and make allowances. If she doesn’t she finds herself in plenty of trouble before too long. ITith loyalty goes its counterpart— trust. This too is vital to a happy wedded life. With these two elements no marriage can fail. brother or even her mother snugly ensconsed in his especial chair when he reached home tired and hun gry, and there never will be “Talk about loyalty!” says Jane. “Why, I’m always going to put my mother first and Dick Brown may as well know it!” But that isn’t the answer, and if Jane’s mother is a sensible woman she’ll be the first to admit it. As for the old school friends, when with a visible and violent effort, finding them for a third time en joying his home in the late after noon, Dick makes himself be civil to them. Jane is amazed to feel her spirit flaming suddenly into resent ment. She loves Dick, but it is ut terly unreasonable of him to dis like Peggy and Joan. And surely, just because one's married one needn’t be disloyal to old friends! Loyalty, Haven in all Tempests. It does sound irrational. And yet if Jane wants her marriage to con tinue, wants to build a complete and happy and successful relation ship between herself and her new husband, she will often have to be irrational, and he will, too. They will often have to forego reason for that higher attitude in which all logic disappears in the warmth of confidence and love. All marriages have their difficult moments, but these moments will be safely weath ered as long as there is rockbound, unfailing, instant loyalty between a man and his wife. So put that into your spiritual hope-chest first of all, you brides of June. Love is a beautiful thing, and while young love and passion last they fulfill the law; they brim life with ecstasy. But when they waver, when they are overclouded for a time, then put loyalty in their place. Be digni fied, be silent about the trifles in which your new husband fails you. Whether he is at a bridge party and playing pretty poor bridge, or at a golf club and far behind the others at golf, or floundering in some conversation that threatens to make him ridiculous, or ill at aase in some group of your old friends, make him feel that your admiration and under standing are his as a matter of course. He won’t mind any of the humiliations or awkwardnesses of the evening if he knows that you are right beside him, his wife, and glad to be his wife, and ready to talk it all over on the way home. Devotion Pays. “Walter is always reproaching me that I make him feel ashamed,” one of last autumn’s brides writes me. “We go about in a very nice crowd, most of the boys are more success ful than Walter, and certainly I am not going to make much of him for things he hasn’t done and pretend that I like being poor better than I would like being successful!” No marriage can survive that at titude. But any wife who is won dering a little wistfully why Dick is a little silent these days, why he is not enthusiastic about the social af fairs she plans, why some of the bloom, some of the radiance has gone from their marriage, may find the answer here. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. De Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for June 23 IATTERNIW v— 1/El V* 6 % V, AAAAAAAAAiAA Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religh permission. lious Education; used by MALACHI DEMANDS HONESTY TOWARD GOD LESSON TEXT—Malachl 3:7-18. GOLDEN TEXT—Bring ye all the tithes Into the storehouse, that there may be meat In mine house, and prove me how herewith, ■alth the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive It.—Malachl 3:10. Spiritually sick—and desperately so—was Israel in the days of Mal- achi. The nation had been released from captivity in Babylon and had’ been back in their own land for almost a century. The outburst of religious enthusiasm which charac terized their return had resulted in the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 1:1-4). In this Jhey were encour aged by Haggai, as we recall from our lesson of last Sunday. They had later been led by Nehemiah in re newed interest in spiritual things and in the rebuilding of the city wall, but now again they had turned away from God. Malachi came with what one might call God’s last word before judgment upon their sins. The lesson centers around four words. I. Apostasy. “Ye ■ have turned aside” (v. 7, R. V.). This was God’s complaint against His people. In spite of His blessings upon them, they had inter married with the heathen, they had dealt treacherously with their breth ren, and had neglected to worship God. What was even worse, they felt no conviction about their sin and denied that they owed God any thing, not even the debt of common gratitude. Read the insolent, self-confident questions and assertions of the people in verses 7, 8, 13 and 14. Think how perfectly they fit the atti tude of thousands of unbelievers and backslidden Christians in our day. One might almost think that Mal achi were reading the secret thoughts of our own people, and pos sibly of our own hearts. II. Robbery. Illness commonly has its center of infection, whether it be physical or spiritual sickness. Malachi struck at a very vital point when he re vealed that the heart of Israel’s dif ficulty was dishonesty toward God. That dishonesty reflected itself in spiritual things, but, since Malachi was talking to an arguing genera tion (just like ours), he gave them a concrete illustration of their deceit —they had withheld from God the tithes and offerings. Men who would never cheat the telephone company out of a nickel will rob God consistently Sunday after Sunday by sanctimoniously slipping a thin dime into the collec tion plate. If that is all a man can and should give, God will bless it and multiply it for His glory. But certainly it does not befit one who lives in luxury to give God’s work the smallest piece of change which he can decently slip into the plate. Tithing may be said to be an Old Testament principle. Doubtless it is also true that the principle of New Testament Christianity is that all we have belongs to God, but often the one who hides behind that fact does not give as much as the people of Old Testament times. Is that hoaest? III. Judgment. God is love, but that does not mean that His patience is without limit nor that He will forever with hold judgment. He says, through Malachi (v. 9), “Ye are cursed with a curse.” The blessing has been withheld (v. 10). The devourer is in the land (v. 11). He promised them release and blessing if they repented and returned to the right way, which obviously means that their failure to do so would bring judgment. We know that Israel despised God’s warning and to this day is paying for its sin. Will America be wise enough to heed God’s call? IV. Blessing. So often the loving God had to speak through His prophets of im pending judgment on sin, but how gracious He is in that He always holds out the promise of blessing for repentance and obedience. Look at the precious promise in verse 10. Thousands of Christians join the writer in saying, “That is true in A. D. 1940 just as it was in 400 B. C.” Read verses 11 and 12. Note that our God is not only a great God, but a good God. Consider the blessings of spiritual fellowship—the certainty of victory revealed in verses 16 and 17. One marvels that Israel could resist such a loving plea just as one wonders also why men of our own day of God’s grace still resist His gracious invitation. EPARTH ENT touch, without any suggestion of width or weight. The paneled skirt flows into graceful fullness at the hem, accenting the narrow hipped look. Make this design (No. 1971-B) of small-figured print, flat crepe, georgette or chiffon, with decora tive buttons down the bodice in the front. The plain v of the neck line invites all sorts of different jewelry and necklaces. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1971- B is designed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 requires 4V2 yards of 39-inch material with out nap. Send order to: i ’T'HIS dress has a beautiful line -*• —slim-hipped, high-busted, ex- ! actly the silhouette in which wom- j en’s sizes look best. And it’s so simply designed! The bodice is fitted in with long darts above the | waistline, and gathered just be neath the shoulders, wh -re nar- | row ruffles add a sof*, dressy A Helpful Heart It is a fine thing to do kindly, helpful deeds. It is one of the very finest in the world. But there is something finer than the helpful hand; it is the helpful heart. .Ask Me Another % A General Quiz The Question* 1. Who delivered the famous orations first called philippics? 2. What is the longest verse in the Bible? The shortest? 3. For what people is Suomi an other name? 4. What is the slop chest on a merchant ship? 5. In how many states are wom en permitted to serve on juries? 6. What is the term for a per son who is always telling you his troubles and finds no pleasure in life? 7. In what country were Arabic numerals first used? 8. Can sailboats travel faster than the wind? The Answer* 1. Demosthenes (his orations denouncing Philip of Macedon). 2. Longest, Esther 8:9. Short est, St. John 11:35. 3. Suomi is another name for the Finns. 4. The store of clothing, for is sue to the crew. 5. In 24 states and the District of Columbia women are permitted to serve on juries. 6. The technical name is anhe- donist. Commonly he is called a grouch. 7. India. 8. 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