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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.
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As a Child
Is she a child? then treat her
with reverence and politeness.
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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
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! • 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- •
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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. •