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THE SUN, NEWBEHEY, S. C- FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1940 A f t * • Bob Grove Kathleen Norris Says: Don't Be Scared by Your Own Children (BeU Syndicate—WNU Service.l They aren’t satisfied to read that the coming-out party of one young girl costs sixty thousand dollars, and that another young girl, tired and hungry, slips into the cool river to end it all in despair. The New York Yankees are look ing closely at the Red Sox and the Indians. Although holding every club in the league dangerous on any given occasion, they naturally ex pect the strongest resistance from those two teams. They are concerned with the pitch ing in Boston and Cleveland. As they see it, they will be aided by a contin uance of the ineffec tiveness of 'Old Mose Grove and menaced by the skill of Bob Feller. They even think—at least some of them that I talked to the other day— that these two pitch ers, one near the end of the string as a big leaguer and the oth er just heading into the days of his great ness, may bring about a change in the positions of their two leading rivals. As Joe McCarthy puts it. Feller is dcing for the Indians what Grove used to do for the Red Sox but can do no longer, apparently: step in and halt their skidding with a well- pitched game when the other pitch ers are faltering. So far, of course, the Red Sox have managed to do all right without Old Mose in the form he held through last year. But what of the months ahead—the hot months when the strain will be heav ier on the other pitchers. Grove Through at Last? I asked some of the Yanks if they thought Old Mose was through—that after 15 years of hurling, during which he slipped under the .500 mark only once, and that in his first year out of Baltimore—if the Lona- coning Limited really had lost his stuff. I asked them that, remem bering that everybody thought he was through as far back as 1934 when he won only eight games in his first year in Boston. They remembered that, too—and remembered how he came back with a rush—and what a pitcher he was right up to the end of last season. Only one of them answered. “I don’t know," he said, “but that’s what we heard when we were in Boston. The dope we got was that while he might come through with a good game once in a while— might get out there any afternoon BOB FELLER and blow that curve ball of his around the plate and then let go with a fast one now and then just to remind the hitters he still has it— he isn’t going to be much real help to the club any more. “If that’s so, those other Boston pitchers had better be hot all sea son. Check back and you’ll find that the 15 games Grove won last year meant the difference between sec ond place and fourth—at least." The Yanks Admire Them Incidentally, Grove and Feller, who may in one way or the other have such an effect not only on the fate of their own clubs but on the fate of the Yankees as well, are two of the Yanks’ favorite athletes. Naturally, they like to beat the two Bobs every time they hook up with them. But they admire Grove for his year-in and year-out perform ances, the courage he showed in beating his way back when every body had him tagged for the clean ers and the skill with which he has made over his pitching style. They Don’t Like ’Showboats’ They admire Feller not only for the natural stuff he has but for the i way he has taken his fame in stride. There are no swelled-heads or show- offs among the Yankees and they freely hand it to the kid from Van Meter for having already touched greatness without making any fuss about it. The Yanks, I might say, are criti cal of ball players they call “show- boats.” Not understanding Dizzy Dean, they took an almost violent dislike to him and got a terrific kick out of his crack-up in the all- star game in Washington in 1937 and the defeat they slapped on him in the World Series of 1938. But Diz got them on his side after the final game of the 1938 series when he walked into their clubhouse at the Stadium and said he hated to lose but getting beaten by a great ball club took some of the sting out of the defeat. By KATHLEEN NORRIS C fG ago, when as a young woman I found life filled with heavy responsibilities and burdens, I wotked out a lit tle scheme for myself. It has worked for forty years now, and I believe it will always work, for anybody at any age. The scheme was simple. It consisted merely in picking out the worst of my troubles, look ing it firmly in the eye and de ciding two things; first, whether it was my fault, and second, whether there was anything to be done about it. If it positively wasn’t my fault and there was nothing more that I could do to cure it than I had already done; then I experienced a certain relief, a certain peace of mind from the mere contemplation and analysis. For example, if one of the younger children was ill, and I inordinately worried, just the thought that the doctor had the case in charge, and that the child was being carefully watched, did something to reas sure me. Or suppose I had to deny one of the younger mem bers of the family the money or the luxury or the advantage that some other child had; to remind myself that that advan tage, however large or small, simply could not be afforded, through no blame to myself, instant ly stabilized my own position. Face One’s Problems. And so with older and more se rious problems, in all the years, the habit of facing them, analyzing them, dismissing them, has proved to be the successful way to escape them. That’s why I’m recommending this process of analysis today to all the mothers and fathers of America who are worrying about one of our latest national epidemics. I mean the tendency our children have, in high school and college years, to yearn for other sorts of government, other social experiments, other isms of all sorts. Too often we dismiss this tenden cy—and it is widespread—with a mere nervous “I don’t know what’s getting into schools and colleges nowadays, they’re turning out per fect REDS!” And to the eager student we say coldly: “I don’t want to hear any more of that nonsense! You don’t know one thing about Russia. Peo ple buying divorces the way you buy theater tickets, and no religion, and everybody living in one room! Don’t you let your father hear you talk that way, and don’t you bring that red-headed boy to this house again!" Look to the Constitution. Now, it seems to me we ought to take quite a different attitude. It seems to me we ought to try rather to convince these young revolution aries what the simple truth is: that there is no ideal social system that is not perfectly compatible with the principles upon which this greatest of all republics was founded. There is no system of the sharing of labor, wealth, land that is not practicable under our own Constitu tion. It has been called the noblest document ever emanating from the heart of man, and it deserves the description. If we were true to it, if we spent upon the study and de velopment of it one half the time we spend upon strange despotic ide ologies from war-torn, hate-envel oped Europe, we would have no time to look across the water to what goes on over there. For that matter if THEY had saved their powder and their guns for a fev hundred years, and taken a good lovk at the Sermon on the Mount, vhich they all profess to believe, we never would have heard the names of Stalin or Hitler. If the czars and the military and the Greek priesthood of Russia had not been sunk in luxury and oppression and taxation the bitter scenes of 1917 in that country never could have taken place. A Practical, Sane Solution. Today, if we in America stopped wringing our hands over the strange tendencies of our children to adopt drastic means of settling the ques tions that disturb the national peace of mind, and set ourselves seriously to supply these rising young Ameri cans with sane and practicable means to accomplish the ends they desire, we would find ourselves still safe under the Constitution, and in a much improved world. How often, when they are spouting their young complaints and criti cisms at the dinner table, do we an swer them with a simple “What do you want changed? Just what are you working toward?” Well, they want equality, they want security, they want work for everyone and a fair living for every one who works. They aren’t satis fied to read that the coming-out par ty of one young girl costs $60,000, and that another young girl, tired and hungry and coughing her life out after too many hot hours in the cotton mills, slips into the cool river to end it all in despair. And I say more credit to our chil dren for caring, for not taking their own privileges and advantages for granted, as the more fortunate folk have done for so many generations, but determining to do something to make right the age-old wrongs! There is no reason why general— indeed, universal peace and pros perity and opportunity should not flourish here, without disturbing one word of the Constitution. There is no country in the world that will of fer them a better opportunity for utopian experiment. Nor need our basic laws be upset. Those of us who will may still worship in our churches; those of us who love sim ple home life and privacy may still preserve these privileges. And those who hate work, who refuse to assume family responsibil ities who won’t go to church and will go to roadhouses, will be per mitted to pursue their own lives peaceably, as they do today. In other words, the freedom of the in dividual, that precious heritage that was given us byfhe founders of our country, will still be respected by all who chance to come into con tact with it. Cure Lies in Co-operation. Far better than the fear or scorn with which we treat our young reds today, would be an analysis of their motives and desires. What got them into this way of thinking, anyway? Why, just what we all felt at 18 and 20 and 22. A passionate resentment of the injustices of life; a passionate desire to cure them. Find out what they want, and then see if it isn’t something easily achievable and practicable. Help them to get inter ested in the native problems of ad justing wage scales, clearing out slums, increasing employment by in creasing trade, opening up new tracts for new cities and farms, and they will discover that instead of the leprosy and typhus that the coun tries of the old world have had to handle, America’s troubles are only heat rash and chickenpox. | Sick Child May Be Problem to Parents, Doctor By DR. JAMES W. BARTON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) J UST as a child learns to have confidence in and a liking for his physician, so also can he have fear and dis trust. Certain thoughts or feel ings are associ ated with the visit or, sight of the physician and patience and kindness will open the way to the child’s trust and confidence. Dr. Stewart R. Smith, Indianap olis, in the Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association says: “The general practitioner of med icine can be one of the most pro found influences on the emotional life of the children whom he meets. The doc tor should know that this influence can accomplish a great deal in helping a sick child to a healthy acceptance of his illness, but if this influence is mis directed it may be a Dr. Barton big factor in causing the youngster to be an invalid for life.” Doctor Must Know Parents. To gain full knowledge of why a youngster behaves as he does, the physician must know the child’s sur roundings, including the type of par ents he has. “Arguing with these children is useless, shaming is cruel, and coddling is fatal.” “In dealing with these children, the practitioner might well have un ending patience, have faith in the child’s ability, try to see the prob lem as the child sees it, and believe that in every sort of conduct dis order the child is trying to solve some problem.” I believe that parents and teach ers before referring a youngster to a physician because of some “odd” behavior could save the time and patience of the physician by asking themselves “Why does he behave this way?” The answer, as Dr. Smith points out, is that the young ster is trying to solvfe a problem. By patient questioning, parent or teacher or both might learn what is the problem and help the youngster to solve the problem for himself. Immunization Is Boon to Children PHYSICIAN friend of mine once confided the following to me: “I wish we had lived in a poor and more thickly populatea section of the city when my youngsters were small; they would have had all the childhood diseases—measles, scarlet fever, chickenpox, whooping cough—and have become immune to (free from) virtually all ailments, now they are grown.” I do not think many parents would choose this method of “strengthen ing” their children because the com plications from these childhood ail ments might have resulted in par tial deafness, heart disease and even death. There is, however, a way of pro tecting children from many of these diseases. It is called the “immuni zation” of the children. In an article by Prof. C. S. Raue, M. D., Philadelphia, writing as guest editor of the Medical World, it is said: Earliest Immunization. “The earliest immunization pro cedure is vaccination against small- pcqc. The best time to vaccinate an infcint is between the third and the sixth month. At this age complica tions are less likely to occur and there is little or no danger of brain inflammation following vaccination.” After the infant is six months old, there should be immunization against whooping cough; it is claimed that 80 per cent of children receiving Sauer whooping cough vaccine will, two to three months after vaccination, be immune for several years. Nine months is the age to immu nize against diphtheria. The horror of diphtheria is almost unknown to young parents today. The advisability of immunizing against scarlet fever is not fully endorsed by the medical profession; it is left to the physician’s judg ment in each case. “There is no vaccine for obtain ing permanent immunity against measles, but a child exposed to measles may be protected by an in jection of placental globulin. • • • QUESTION BOX Q.—What causes pain at the top of the head as if it were gripped by an iron lung? A.—This is often a symptom of neurasthenia—physical and mental fatigue. Q.—What are the symptoms of goiter? A.—The symptoms of the severe type of goiter are nervousness, rap id heart beat, sleeplessness and in direction. TODAY'S HEALTH COLUMN x ” IMPROVED J UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for June 30 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education: used by permission. JONAH: THE OUTREACH OF GOD’S LOVE Peace Treaties The Versailles treaty, signed June 28, 1919, officially concluded the war between Germany and the Allies. The treaty of St. Germain, signed September 10, concluded peace between Austria and the Al lies; of Neuilly, November 27, be tween Bulgaria and the Allies; of Grand Trianon, June 4, 1920, be tween Hungary and the Allies; and of Sevres, August 10, 1920, be tween Turkey and the Allies. The United States did not of ficially conclude peace treaties with Germany, Austria and Hun gary until 1921.—Pathfinder. Falsehood Flies A lie has no legs and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.—Warburton. LESSON TEXT—Jonah 3:1-10; 4:10. 11. GOLDEN TEXT—Salvation is ot the Lord. —Jonah 2:9. "There’s a wideness In God’s mercy Like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness In His Justice Which is more than liberty. "For the love of God is broader Than the measure of man’s mind; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind." Such is the message of the book of Jonah. How appropriate it is to close our series of studies on the prophets with this declaration of God's love and mercy. I. A Second Chance (3:1-3). Jonah had been sent to Nineveh with a message from God, but, secretly wishing in his heart that this great city which was the enemy of Israel should be destroyed rather than repent and receive God’s bless ing (see 4:2), Jonah made an at tempt to run away from God’s com mission. We know how God patient ly dealt with him and now gave him a second chance to do His will. How gracious God is “to continue to us . . . the privilege of service even when we seem to have sinned away our first chance, misused our endowments, and have by our very failure embarrassed ‘ His plans.” Dr. J. Stuart Holden goes on to point out that only God gives a second chance. Nature does not; man seldom, if ever, gives his fel low who has failed a second oppor tunity. But God does. Praise His name! There was also a second chance extended to Nineveh. God was not willing to bring judgment upon the city without another warning. Quot ing Dr. Holden again: “I care not what is the history of failure, of shame, of sin which is behind you ... I care not how close upon your heels are the hounds of accusation and condemnation which bay at you. I tell you tha. Jesus Christ is here ... to give you a second chance, and that everything depends upon your attitude of acceptance or re jection of His proffered grace and mercy.” H. A Stirring Revival (3:4-10). So great was the city that it would have taken Jonah three days to bring his message to the entire pop ulation (see v 3). He had only be gun when, at the end of the first day, the city, from the ruler down to the humblest inhabitant^ was in deep mourning and; repentance for its sin. Jonah, the man who had been brought back from a living death as a sign (Luke 11:29-32) to Nineveh that God was gracious to repentant sinners, pointed to the fact that though his message was one of con demnation (v. 4), they might expect God to be entreated of them (v. 9). He was (v. 10). God has sent times of revival when whole cities—and even whole nations—have been turned from their sin. Such revivals have been occurring in recent years in various mission fields. Thousands of earnest Christians are praying now that such a revival may come again in our own land. The writer knows where helpful literature along this line is available without cost. Let us pray and be faithful, and trust God to bring revival to the hearts of men. Ill A Selfish Reaction (4:10, 11). Jonah, instead of rejoicing in the repentance of Nineveh, showed his narrowness and selfishness by be coming angry (see 4:1). How petty and childish are the attitudes of men when contrasted with the mercy of God. The Lord, dealing gepfly with Jonah, gave him a place of refuge and a gourd plant to shade him from the sun (4:5, 6). Then, to teach him a lesson, a worm was permitted to kill the gourd (v. 7). When Jonah was greatly concerned over the loss of the plant, God pointed out to him that it is wrong to be stirred up over the passing of material comfort and not to be con cerned for the souls of men. How many of those who poured out millions of dollars (and rightly so) for the relief of the harassed people of Finland, would give five cents to win them to Christ? Many who will give liberally of money, time and effort to the commendable work of flood or famine relief, will not so much as cross the road to talk to a neighbor about Christ. A farmer will sit up all night to care for a sick cow, but will he spend an hour or two on Sunday or some evening of the week in an effort to win his neighbor’s boy (or his own boy) to Christ? These are pertinent and serious questions. What is our answer? God will hold us respon sible. A Prayer O God, Who hast given to us the knowledge of right and wrong, and hast taught us that it is Thy will that we choose the right throughout our lives, give us grace to be loyal to the right as we see it, and faithful to the highest we know. Amen. Expenses Over Income He is poor whose expenses ex ceed his income.—La Bruyere. Effects of Travel Travel makes a wise man bet ter but a fool worse. smokes the slow-burning cigarette— PETER FICK-World’s Champion Sprint Swimmer "■K TO SPEED for me in my cigarette,” X V jayj Pete. "I know what a difference there is between a fast-burning smoke and a slow-burning one. I stick'to Camels.” Yes, Camel’s costlier tobaccos and slower burning give you extras in mildness, coolness, and flavor—and extra * 1 smoking, too (see right). 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