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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940 such an extent they left a cock-eyed slant on the double corral. They left too definite an impression that the American league was the whole show, including the pink lemonade, the big tent, the elephants, the hard blue seats and the side-show after the main act. It was never quite that way. It wasn’t the American league which dominated the dia mond. It was merely the New York Yan kees. They won something like 28 out of 31 World Se ries games, dating from 1927. So, natu rally, the National league must have been a flock of sand loiters. But don’t forget that during that four year spell the Yan kees were also an nihilating, assas sinating, murdering, manhandling and mauling the Boston Red Sox, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland In dians and the remainder of their league. I recall a certain Yankee slump in the Midwest a year or two ago. They lost six out of eight games. I asked one of the Yankees about this cave in. “No,” he said, “we were not ex actly loafing. But why run for a car you’ve caught. We knew we were from 12 to 15 games better than the rest of the league. We knew we could loaf and still gallop in.” But Not Today But it’s all different today. The Yankees of 1940 are far and away from the Yankees of 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939. And with the dizzy descent of the Yankees from their old heights, so the dominance of the American league has ended. I saw the National league win its all-star game in Tampa last March. I saw National league pitchers tie American league sluggers into an assortment of true lovers’ knots. The same thing happened in St. Louis recently. Once again National league pitchers put silencers on American league bats. In the last 18 innings of all-star play, from March to July, Ameri can league sluggers have ham mered, exploded, thundered and mauled one flabby run across the plate. There was a time when the A. L. had most of the dynamite. It may have the jump in long-range shooting today, but not against the pick of National league pitching. No set of home-run sluggers are going to make any headway against Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Carl Hubbell (that’s right) or many others I could name. The Yankees from 1935 through 1939 were an exception. They had practically everything—the hitting, the fielding, the pitching, the confi dence and the poise. They had am «- ing balance, which is something that time works on in its leisurely way. The Two Leagues ' American leaguers will tell you that Detroit, Cleveland, Boston and New York all could win the National league pennant, with something to spare. National leaguers, now lifted from the gloomy abyss of the years that knew defeat, are telling you the Reds and Dodgers would run away with an American league pennant. “What do you suppose,” one vet eran National leaguer asked me, “would happen to that American league if their hitters had to move out against Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Junior Thompson, Jim Turner, Whitey Moore and others ■day after day? There wouldn't be a team in that league hitting .240 against Red pitching.” This is moving a trifle fast the other way. The two leagues now are better balanced than they have been in some years. Again this is largely due to the Yankee drop. “Where are my Ruffings and Dick eys and Gehrigs and Gomezes and Gordons and Rolfes and Crosettis?” Joe McCarthy also might be asking today. Baseball, in losing the four-year Yankees — losing them so far, at least has built up additional inter est through both leagues, especially the American league. ‘Ill Wind,’ Etc. The present campaign may be an ill wind for the Yankees, but it has been a soothing summer breeze for the other clubs which have been shivering in the Barren Lands since 1935. Now we have two great pennant races, two well-matched leagues, and two great stretch runs on ahead. Who can ask for more? Barring, of course, the Yankees, who still can’t understand who swung the lead pipe and just what has hap pened. Paul Derringer Grantland Rice Kathleen Norris Says: The Stepmother’s Duty Is to—Wait (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) The little thing seems to have an uncanny instinct for making trouble; if her father starts to talk to me, she must go around the table and climb into his lap. By KATHLEEN NQRR1S VERY marriage is a sepa rate problem and a sepa rate lifework. June brides might as well get that truth through their exquisitely waved young heads right here and now. If wedding vows were for six months or one year nothing in the new life would seem so seri ous. Jean would remind her dear old friends in a laughing aside that ‘‘after Christmas” she would be free for br-'Jge and lunches and long evenings of gossip again! John would be more lover-like than even in en gagement days because so soon he must lose this dear little af fectionate companion. But both know that marriage is a long-term contract. Unless things really go wrong Jean and John will be together when Jean is a wrinkled little old lady, and John’s teeth and hair and eyes have all been artifi cially reinforced. Fifty years! At any age that seems a long, long time, and at 27 and 22 it sounds like the clang of a jail door. Right Start Important. That’s why it is so important to start right, with a good heroic mix ture of unselfishness, silence, self- control, humor. That’s why it pays to sacrifice a good many things, to put the family into second place, to give up intimate chattering old friends, and girlhood’s habits of reading books until the dinner is actually announced, or nibbling can dy so that one doesn’t want dinner, or coming in late of an afternoon, or yawning at breakfast, or forget ting toast until it bums, or making mild jokes at John’s expense. These things don’t sound important, but like every other business, marriage has got to be built upon a sound foundation of mutual respect and consideration, as well as upon young love, and like every other trifle in the beginning, these trifles have a horrifying fashion of growing strong and menacing if they are let grow. Jean Davis, married last Christ mas, writes me of her special prob lem, and spatters the beautifully written and expressed letter with tears. A Five-Year-Old Problem. “I’m 24 and Rod’s 37,” says the letter. “He’s stunning, and I’m not pretty. He’s rich, and I was his of fice secretary. His people all have homes on the lake, in summer; my father has an agency for a patent oven device. ‘She did pretty well for herself,’ everyone said, when I married Rod. “And so I did, in everything that affects him and myself. We are ideally mated, ideally happy. Or we would be, except for Doris. Doris is his daughter, five years old. Her mother died when she was born, and two aunts and a grandmother have had her since. Rod wants her with us now, and for his sake I am glad to have her. “I’ve always liked children, al ways gotten along with them. But I never saw a child like this one. She is a pale, determined little girl, completely spoiled. Everything causes a fight, everything causes a scene. She will wear a blue dress; she won’t wear her white shoes; she won’t take a bath, or when she’s in the tub she won’t get out. A Constant Battle. “The little thing seems to have an uncanny instinct for making trou ble; if her father starts to talk to me, she must go around the table and climb into his lap. She isn’t affectionate, but she can stir him so with wistful references to ‘my own Mummy’ that his heart melts toward her. Every week-end she spends with her grandmother and aunts, and every Monday she comes back completely demoralized, with some good reason for not going to school. STEPMOTHER A newly married girl comes to Kathleen Norris for advice on a vital problem: her husband had a daugh ter by his first wife from whom he was separated by death. The little girl is almost unmanageable, putting a con tinual strain on a normally happy re lationship between the young woman and her husband. Kathleen Norris an alyzes this problem and tells the young wife how it can be solved. “My own hope has always been for a houseful of children. But yes terday Rod said that it hurt him to think of anyone ever making Doris feel second. If ours could be a boy, he said, it might be different. But if it was a little sister it might upset her psychologically. At least, he said, that’s what one of his sisters told him. “I honestly think Rod would be happier if we left the child with his mother. But he hates to admit it. And so the screaming and crying go on. If I dress her, ‘Jean hurt me!’ If I fix her lunch ‘it tastes horrid!’ When the aunts come she flies to them and clings panting, and of course Rod and casual visitors draw their own conclusions. I want to do my duty by her, and see that she’s decently dressed for school, does her homework, eats at least a part of what she should, gets to bed at some reasonable hour. Can you help me see the right way?" Jean, perhaps I can. For you’re not the first stepmother who contra dicts all the old fairy-stories by be ing a gentle and well-disposed hu man being who wants to give a be loved husband’s children a break. Go Indifferent. And first of all, I think you must abandon any idea of controlling or influencing Doris at present. Just suddenly go good-natured and com pletely indifferent. If she asks you for help dressing, make no com ment. If she refuses her normal food and demands specialties, leave it to her father and the cook. If her nurse—supposing her to have one, you don’t say,—appeals to you, pass the appeal straight on to father, grandmother, aunts. If she’s rude, smile. If she demands her father’s attention, concede it amiably. If he questions you about her, say leni ently that she’s only a small girl after all, and she’ll grow wiser. This course cannot fail. It re moves you entirely from the scene of combat and places responsibility where it belongs. Once you adopt it, the more outrageously Doris acts the better for you. Her best clothes will be speedily destroyed, her grandmother and aunts will grow tired of a more-spoiled-than-ever child who visits them at odd hours with all sorts of demands. And of the whole distracted circle you will be the only one still smiling and re mote. Ofder Out of Chaos. By all means have children. Go straight ahead and fill your nursery with girls and boys. With every one of them you strengthen your own position and rationalize hers. At 10 Doris will be an orderly little creature, perhaps silent and jealous and embittered in her small soul, but grown out of her baby non sense. If you can wait for that hour, and befriend her in the mean while in steady, gentle, patient ways, you will reap a rich reward. It seems too bad for grown-ups to have to scheme against a small girl in this fashion. But the mischief is not of your choosing, and little Doris must learn common sense sooner or later. As a matter of fact, she will. Spoiled children may grow into dis contented and twisted childhood, but they sooner or later stop the teas ing, tantrums, spoiling of clothes and scorning of food. They must, if they are to live at all. I’ve known a great many tyrants of five who like Doris have been spoiled by a series of circumstances. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) E dward Griffith, who’s producer and director of Paramount’s “Virginia,” drew a long breath of relief when Madeleine Carroll landed safely in New York. She’d said that she would be back in time to start work promptly, but it seemed unlikely that she would be able to keep her word, es pecially when nothing was known about her except that she was somewhere in France. For her the trip was a disappoint ing one. She couldn’t reach either her family or the orphans to whom she had turned over her chateau near Paris. She couldn’t see her fiance, although she did succeed in learning that he was in Tunisia. De spite the harrowing experiences that she went through, she looked loveli er than ever when she returned; she spent a few days in New Y',rk, and then departed for Charlottes ville, Va., and “Virginia.” * Remember the girl who won a con test that was conducted over the radio, and got the name of “Alice Eden” and a part in a movie as a result? Her name was Rowena Cook, and she’s taken it back again and gone on record as saying that ROWENA COOK the lot of a contest winner in Holly wood is certainly not an easy one. She was thrilled over winning the contest and getting a role and a con- tract. Everybody was swell to her. She’d spent years studying dramatic art, and naturally thought she’d be considered ..an ^ actress. But she learned that people just thought of her as a contest winner. Her contract expired, and she was on her own. Instead of giving up hope, she decided that this was really her chance to make good. *T literally bnried Alice Eden,” she said the other day. “And started out to be just Rowena Cook.” And as Rowena she landed a part in Edward Small’s “Kit Carson,” and did so well that she’s had a lot of other offers. —-* “Love Thy Neighbor” has been of ficially set as thg title for the com edy in which Jack Benny and Fred Allen will share starring honors. Mary Martin will have the feminine lead, and Rochester, Virginia Dale and Theresa Harris will have sup porting roles. —* It takes only one good idea to make a successful radio program— Ralph Edwards had one a while ago, and his “Truth or Consequences” resulted. It’s so good that on August 17 it will switch to the coast to coast NBC Red network—after starting out with only four stations! An announcer of many a quiz pro gram, Edwards got the idea that contestants would have more fun— and so would listeners—if they had to do something as well as say some thing. So he adapted the old par lor game, “Truth or Consequences”; if a contestant fails to answer a question, he must act out some hu morous feat. For example, one con testant recently had to don a 10- gallon sombrero and sing “I’m an Old Cowhand,” while riding a buck ing electric horse and shooting a cap pistol. The Merry Macs (you used to hear them on Fred Allen’s program, and now they’re on A1 Pearce’s,) are a curious combination—the three brothers improvise their own ar rangements, can’t read a note of music and seldom know what key they’re singing in. They hired the fourth member of their group, Helen Carroll, because she’d been elected beauty queen at the University of Indiana—only after she’d begun singing with them did they learn that she’s an accomplished musi cian. ODDS AND ENDS C. It’s possible nowadays to make money by listening to “The Court of Missing Heirs”—a reward of fifty dollars is award ed for information leading to the discov ery of heirs sought on the program. * <0. Ray Miltand has taken out a $2,000 insurance policy on two rubber trees he imported from Java for his garden. * C. Preston Foster has applied for a but ton in the swordfish club—after seven years of trying he finally landed a 275 pound fish, which entitles him to the coveted button. Gay Plaids and Stripes Add Zest to Smart Play Clothes It’s Easy to Make And Easy to Wear By CHERIE NICHOLAS M AKE it in a few hours, and wear it day after day after day! You can see, from the small diagram sketch, how easy this ! dress is to put together—merely five pieces, including the sleeves, and the only detailing consists of a few simple darts at the waist line. But you can’t really tell until you get it on, how easy it is to wear and work in, how unhamper- A N outstanding move ment developing in the world of fashion dur ing the last several sea sons is the increasing at tention given to the styl ing of play clothes. It is indeed something to reck on with, this matter of being correctly outfitted in tho field of sports. This new im portance attached to play clothes is proving a lively incentive to de signers to turn out outfits that shall add to the picture as well as prove practical down to the last detail. There is no more fascinating en deavor that the field of costume de sign has to offer than this of creat ing play-clothes for young moderns. It adds greatly to the pleasurable excitement that materials these days are produced so nearly per fect, not rlone from the pictorial standpoint, but that they neither fade nor shrink in the wash, neither do they wrinkle or prove unseemly in the wearing. Playgrounds this season, because of the spectacular garb of fun-loving outdoor enthusi asts, burst forth in a blaze of color that fairly dazzles the eye. And of all the conspirators in the color game we know of none that are so loyally flying cheer-inspiring color ings as are the fashionable-for-play clothes plaids and stripes. The picture shows how dramati cally and’ picturesquely color-bright stripes and plaids are .being fash ioned into clothes that go golfing, tennis playing, cruising, dude-ranch- ing and so forth wherever your wan derlust happens to take you this summer. I The very attractive outfit which you see to the right in the illustra tion makes one parasol-conscious at very first glance. Which is as it should be for one of the very most important events on the fashion pro gram this summer is the come-back of parasols. Designers of beach clothes find big appeal in the para sol idea and whenever and wherever it is cansistent to do so they intro duce an eye-thrilling parasol. It worked out beautifully for the outfit pictured to add a matching para sol, arid here you see it in all its glory flaunting the same gay stripes that give color to the smartly fash ioned skirt. The fabric combination for this costume is a very happy one of stripe-printed celanese crepe for the skirt and parasol with sharkskin in monotone for the blouse top. You can get such easy-to-follow patterns for play clothes nowadays, and modern sewing machines have such a vast equipment of gadgets and attachments that almost per form miracles in stitching, tucking, quilting, shirring, cording, it is a temptation to make one’s own out fits. Many smart, fashion-aware women are doing just that, buying up pretty materials and making their own. It is a fact the records show that the home-sewing idea is decidedly on the increase Consider, in the light of being your own dressmaker, the charming gaytime sun suit which the girl seat ed is wearing. Just a few yards of seersucker plaided in vivid colors were required. You can make the whole outfit by sp .nding only a cou ple of hours at your sewing machine even if you are a beginner at the sewing game. A little gathering at tachment in your sewing machine kit will dispose of the yards of gath ering at the waistline in just a few moments. You’ll love the swirling ballerina skirt and the smartly fit ted jacket top that furnish the styl ing theme for this outfit. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ing and becoming. The waistline looks slim but is completely un restraining — nothing about the dress to catch you up short when reaching into the top shelf or dust ing down the stairs. The front fastening makes it easy to get into. This is an eas ily tubbable dress, too. Make up design Ne. 1966-B in seersucker, linen, percale or gingham. Even this simple pattern includes a de tailed sew chart. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1966-B is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 40. Corresponding bust measurements 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 14 (32) requires 3)4 yards of 35-inch material without nap. Send order to: SEWING) CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Wacker Dr. CUcaso Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No Size Name Address New Handknit Fashion experts predict an enthu siastic revival of knitted costumes with emphasis on hand-knit sweaters for fall. This pert little bolero sweat er is just the thing to slip on with your summer outfits and it will prove a life-saver to bridge over midsea son days. It is easily made in sim ple drop stitch using contrasting pas tel yarns. Though the yarn gives the impression of being heavy and substantial it is in reality light as a feather. Patriotic Jewelry Is Latest Fashion The latest fashion gesture is to wear a decorative piece of patriotic jewelry. Of course the American flag comes first in clips or brooches. It has jeweled stripes and stars in red white and blue. Glittering Amer ican eagle emblems eloquently be speak patriotism and they are ever so decorative posed on suit lapel or at the neckline of your summer frocks. Sheer Black Hat Is Smart Fashion The new hats of sheer black horse hair braid or of thin net or chiffon are registering as one of the sea son’s outstanding successes. The smartest ones have large brims ihat are styled to wear far back on the head so that they halo hair and face with a mist of wispy black. They give you the dress-up look that is so important for special occasions. You’ll love a hat of this type with your black and white prints and with the all-black afternoon sheer costumes that are high fashion this summer. Berets for Smart Summer Headwear For chic millinery to wear now and through the fall, the beret, big, black and dramatic carries the hon ors. The present beret vogue is gaining momentum by leaps and bounds. One way of wearing the new beret is to pose it far back on the head. There are also dra matic profile berets that turn up pic turesquely at one side. It is worth while to study up on the beret move ment for be assured berets are im portant millinery news. Two Views Hope thinks nothing difflcul despair tells us that difficulty insurmountable.—Dr. I. Watts. USE FINE SWEDISH CHROME STEEL BLMES IS FULLY QUARANTUD , T SI-.1- Eds. Blact—s or lO DoiabtoUc. «■<»» i KENT! 10c As a Child Is she a child? then treat her with reverence and politeness. AT 4000 STOKES RHEUMATISMS 1 ^ Up, Then Down The man who gives up goes down.—B. C. Forbes. KILL ALL FLIES Big Revival for Knitted Fashions Knitwear enthusiasts here’s good news for you, in that nearly every fashion report mentions the coming importance of hand - knitted cos tumes, capes, sweaters and three- quarter cardigans. So “attend to your knitting” so as to be ready and smartly knit clad when fall comes. A charming novelty is the sweater with a picturesque detachable match ing knitted hood. Xllie ' attracts Guaranteed, effective. Neat, convenient — Cannot spill— Willnot sell or injure anything. Lasts all season. 20o at all dealers. Harold Somers, In 150 Do Kalb Ave^B klyn^i. S 1 M21 m DAI5Y FLY KILLER ! • TEACHING A CHILD • • VALUE OF PENNIES • ! • A child of a wise mother will be • i • taught from early childhood to be- • • come a regular reader of the adver- • i tisements. In that way better perhaps • i than in any other can the child be • i taught the great value of pennies and • the permanent benefit which comes • from making every penny count. •