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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY. SEPTEM—‘R 20, 1940 General HUGH s. JOHNSON Jaur: United Feature* WNU Scrrfc* CAMPAIGN WEAKNESSES WASHINGTON. — You certainlyj have to hand it to the old master in, ithe White House for his ability toi keep the show going all by himselfl land to conduct a brilliant political campaign without* even seeming toj know that one is going on. He is doing it in scintillating fash ion. He is getting away with it. e tle isn’t even being seriously chal- enged by what should be his opposi- ion. Maybe Mr. Willkie is just wind- ling up, but he is taking a painfully jlong time about it. Public enthusiasm is a fickle jade. Mr. Willkie’s performance in taking Ihe nomination away from the pro fessionals at Philadelphia was as 'Spectacular a show as Mr. Roose- jvelt’s getting the naval and air Abases. It captivated the country, but, as the President knows so well, a popular figure has got to keep the glass balls dancing. Mr. Willkie, himself, apparently relies more on Orrin Root’s ama teur Willkie clubs than on the Re publican party organizations in the 'several states. That is a mistake that Mr. Roosevelt never made. He had all kinds of amateur clubs, too, Businessmen’s Roosevelt for Presi- •dent clubs, the Good Neighbor league and as many others as could (be thrown together. These don’t have to putter around (depending on emergency organiza- ition and manufactured enthusiasm. They depend on dough and, Hatch act or no Hatch act, money still talks. Mr. Roosevelt has 10 billions •to spend. Yet, with all that intri cate pattern of decentralized region- |al organization, Mr. Roosevelt never .neglected the good old Democratic political organization. On the con trary, he relied on it, rewarded it, reorganized it, and built it up to a ;greater strength and on a wider .range than any Democratic organi zation had ever known before. Mr. Willkie may have been nominated in .spite of the professionals, but he certainly cannot be elected without them. He can’t be elected without mak- ;ing election issues either. The am munition is there by the ton—cais sons bursting with it. But no shell ■is worth its cost v/ithout a gun to shoot it. I always thought the Presi dent was wrong in condemning “Yes-But” men in off-term debate of issues but you can’t get any where in a political campaign if all ;you have learned to say is “Yes- ,But.” You have got to learn to say •“No Sir!” and make it emphatic land convincing enough to be heard land carry conviction. | I didn’t expect that any candidate 'or any party would ever again make (the terrific blunders of the Alf Lan- Idon campaign, but so far this Re publican campaign looks enough like dt to be its twin. * 1 • The high command of both the po litical armies appear reasonably confident and tranquil, but the great •general staff of each is in a dither. For the Democrats, the loss of ^Jim Farley on the eve of the battle of the third term was some such catastrophe as would be the loss of Hitler to the Nazis before a decision in the Battle of Britain. Mr. Flynn, make no mistake about it, is a very able man with a better basic brain, I think, than his great predecessor. But Mr. Flynn’s field command has been restricted to the Battle of the Bronx and this great American terrain is a very different matter. Even on his own ground, Mr. Flynn will have to wait until the great boss - buster, Tom Dewey, gets through with him. Mr. Flynn’s Bronx empire was just a little imitation, competition Tammany. I don’t know what bones are buried in that realm—but may be Mr. Dewey does. On the Republican side, campaign manager Joe Martin is as active as a night prowling tom-cat on a tin roof dodging missiles and talking back, but that is in congress—not the campaign. The purely politi cal general staff is therefore, leader less and accordingly disorganized. There isn’t even a speech-factory. There is no strategy board of elder statesmen—or rather, seasoned poli ticians. Mr. Willkie fascinates ev erybody who sees him or hears him talk extemporaneously either on a chair or platform, but there are 130,- 000,000 people in this country and he can’t see them all. There is the radio, but he is not coached to click there and in spite of the wailing of several such speech experts as Haines Falconer that he has a natural equipment with which he could promptly be made the greatest radio orator of our time, a combination of diffidence and rug ged individualism prevents that. A great opportunity seems to be trem« bling in the balance. • • • WASHINGTON.—Senator Pepper wants the President to have the power to “suspend all statutes” in preparing for defense and, imagin ing that he is Patrick Henry, shouts: “If this be dictatorship, make the; most of it.” It happens to be Pat-; rick Henry in reverse. ( Senator Josh Lee wants the Presi dent to have power to take the news- | papers and radio for “propaganda” —in other words, to suppress truth; and tell lies to the American people. In short, they say, we must be come Nazis to fieht Hitler. Kathleen Norris Says: What Is This Thing Marriage, Anyway? (Bel! Syndicate—WNU Service.) DIVORCE Social changes which have occurred in the past hundred years seem to have removed the stigma from divorce, Kathleen Norris observes. She is con fronted by a young wife who has an unfaithful husband, asking if divorce is the only solution to her problem, or if there is any better way she can find happiness. Miss Norris advises her not to seek a divorce, but to develop other interests. I By VIRGINIA VALE I (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T HOSE little red school- houses at the cross roads— if there are any left—will soon be able to give concerts by some of the greatest musicians in the world, and their pupils will be able to see the musicians as well as hear them. Rudolph Polk, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System’s artists bureau, recently announced the formation of Artists’ Films, Inc., which will make 21 musical short subjects, and issue these one- ieelers in groups of three, as con certs. Contracts have been signed with Albert Spaulding, Jose Iturbi (that favorite guest of the Bing Crosby broadcasts), Mildred Dilling, the distinguished harpist, and several others. Commitments have also be£h made with several Metropolitan Opera singers, including Helen Jep- Before the first anniversary Dan was deeply attracted to one of the nurses in his uncles’ office. By KATHLEEN NORRIS O NE of the most disillu sioned and discouraging letters I ever received came to my desk some weeks ago from a woman named Mary Baker. She is 32, has been married eight years, and she says she is scared. “Dan and I married for love, and for six or seven months we revelled in our love and home and plans,” she writes. “But before the first anniversary Dan was deeply attracted to one of the nurses in his uncles’ office. He works with two dentist uncles. The affair worried him, made him ashamed and unhappy; presently the girl married and Dan got over it. But it shook the ground under my feet, and I never felt quite the same confidence in him again. “He was thrilled when our little boy was bom, and said he hoped we would have three or four children. But Peter was not a year old when I went away to the country for three weeks and during my absence Dan carried on an affair with a divorced woman, who had always said she was my friend. When I got home he confessed that he had been car ried away by temporary emotional excitement, and that it was ever, but Mrs. B. came to see me, show ing me a letter in which Dan had written that if I would give him a livorce they could be married. Bears Sorrow Silently. “This disgusted me, and I had a time of despair. For weeks I did not speak to Dan, and as I would not tell even my own mother of what had occurred I had a lonely and uncomfortable time. Eventual ly we were reconciled in a sort of surface fashion, and after some months, convinced of his reform, I returned to his room and enjoyed a short time of confidence and happiness. Our second son was born, and Dan was so devoted to all three of us, and so helpful and patient that I thought myself a for tunate woman, and that our troubles were over. “My boys are now six and three. And Dan is again in love, this time with a woman so cheap and ordinary that it is unbelievable to me that any man could fall for her, least of all Dan! Marriage in the Modern Manner. “Now, I know your advice. I’ve been reading your column all my married life. I know all about being independent of anyone else for my happiness, and building a life around myself and my boys. But what I want to ask is, what is marriage? If it is a relationship that nine times out of ten grows irksome and stupid to both parties after a few years, and is maintained only because of children, or society, or family dig nity, or business considerations, isn’t it a failure? Most of my friends are already taking a sort of serio comic attitude toward their mates. To a great many of them the sud den ending of the married state, through any cause, would be a great relief. Don’t you believe this is true of all but the exceptional mar riages? The husband enduring all sorts of defects in his wife, the wife setting her teeth to force herself to put up with her man’s limita tions, peculiarities and general cussedness. “What’s the answer, if this is true? Is a wife to go on for 30 more years, blandly accepting, as in my case, the fact that any flat tering unscrupulous woman can make a fool of her husband, break up whatever happiness remains in her home, give her friends a chance to pity or laugh at her, and then. when the infatuation is over, blandly forget and forgive and go on as if nothing had happened? Where is my dignity, where is that future toward which all women want to build, a future of security and peace, with children growing up, and gar den, home, friendships, trips, vaca tions all shared with a real com panion? And is it my fault that Dan has no desire to plan for such a fu ture, but pays me attention only when he is not interested in some one else? A Five Year Plan. “My owi> idea is that all mar riages ought automatically to be cancelled at about five years, at which time the man and woman should be forced to live apart for six months or so, to see how each feels about resuming the relation ship. It is frightful to feel that the step you took confidently in girlhood is holding you in prison for life.” That is only part of the letter, but sufficient to show that Mary is one of the great class of wives who feel a childish despair upon discovering that husbands are just human be ings after all, selfish and stupid and subject to flattery and apt to get bored with home ties of wife, chil dren, familiar dinner table, domes tic routine. Stigma of Divorce Removed. Truly today’s husband is a little more trying along these lines than his father was, because of social changes in the last 50 years. With divorce so common an escape, mar riage has indeed come to be some thing of what Mary hints, at least to those whose religious scruples do not prohibit divorce. Many a marriage breaks up in its fourth, or fifth, or seventh year, and many state laws insist upon a period during which the couple, who seek divorce, may have a chance to think things over in cool blood. Fifty years ago a husband had to stand by his wife, and a wife by her home and children, for divorce carries a bitter stigma, and few women could become self-supporting. These re strictions are swept away now, an enormous percentage of the names in the Social Register are those of divorced men and women, and what the Social Register does the less- prominent circles think it right to do. So that the flirtatious detached woman your husband meets in his business may well feel that she is free to win him and hold him. Cure Same Today as Yesterday. There were abuses and difficul ties and domestic martyrs in the old days, of course. But also there was stability, there was security, and both those things are very valu able. The disappointed wife turned her spurned affections to other things, she grew all the stronger and more self-reliant as she aban doned the futile chase toward “hap piness,” and learned to make other people happy instead of herself. And even today in her home and garden and kitchen, with her books, pets, children, friendships, with the letter-writing that was so remark able a feature of a woman’s life a hundred years ago, and today with movies, motor trips, radio, with all the world’s best music boxed for her convenience and with small neighbors needing mothering, any woman can form for herself a life of beauty and use and content, in- side of the jail that she calls mar riage, more easily than outside it. JOSE ITURBI son, Gladys Swarthout, Richard Bo- nelli and Frederick Jaegel, and at the moment efforts are being made to sign Lily Pons, Nino Martini,’ Mischa Elman, Josef Hofmann and Efrem Zimbalist. The first group is scheduled for release October 1. The time has come when Frankie Bmke wishes that he didn’t look like James Cagney. The resemblance got him into movies a couple of seasons ago, when he played Cag ney as a boy of 12 in Warner Broth ers’ "Angels With Dirty Faces.” He went on from there, doing the same kind of role for other studios. Now, as Wayne Morris’ roommate in Paramount’s “Quarterback,” he’s persuaded the director to let him forget the Cagney mannerisms; he wants to get parts because he can play them well. Loretta Young is convinced that Mexican fans’ appreciation of movie stars is more embarrassing than flattering. When she slipped into a theater to see her Columbia comedy “He Stayed for Breakfast,” the film was stopped and the lights went on, so that the audience could see her in person. And she was wearing the old clothes in which she’d gone fishing. Even if the names of directors of pictures don’t mean a thing to you, you’d better make a note of one— Preston Sturges. He’s no newcom er—a playwright, the author of “Strictly Dishonorable” among oth er hits, he’s written plenty of movie dramas and had experience as a director. His name should be remembered because he wrote and directed “Down Went McGinty,” one of the funniest and best pictures that has been launched in some time. He didn’t want any big stars or glamour players; Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, Frank McHugh and Muri el Angelus suited him fine. He just wanted to write and direct a com edy. He followed it with another, “The New Yorkers,” a satire on ad vertising, and he’s scheduled for plenty more. Ronald Reagan and his wife, Jane Wyman, played a love scene for “Tugboat Annie Sails Again,” and then worried about whether or not it was effective. “When we kissed in that scene just now,” Reagan said to Director Lew Seiler, “I was thinking about how hungry I was and what we’d have for dinner. Janie told me she was thinking about the same thing. In the love scenes we made before we were married, we’d kiss and for get to eat.” Seiler grinned. “You did better this time, thinking about food, than you did before, when you forgot to eat because you were making love,” he replied. * ODDS AND ENDS d. Rochelle Hudson picked up such * tan during two months in Hawaii that she’ll have to be bleached before she can play a pale miss of Manhattan in “Girls Under 21.” C. Evidently “Before l Die” was too grisly a title for the new Douglas Fair banks Jr.-Rita Hayworth drama; it’s been renamed “Angels Over Broadway.” C. Marjorie Rambeau has proved to be so able a successor to the late Marie Dressier in the character of “Tugboat Annie" that the series will go right on; “Tugboat Annie in Drydock” will be the next one to be made. 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 September 22 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE VOICE OF WISDOM LESSON TEXT—Proverbs 4:10-27. GOLDEN TEXT—Keep toy heart with all diligence: for out of It are the Issues of life.—Proverbs 4:23. What to do and how to do it— these are the vital things which the book of Proverbs imparts. It deals with every condition of life, good and bad, in the revealing light of God’s holiness and love. Good ad vice may have its value, but we also need to know how to put it into practice. Therein is wisdom dis tinguished from knowledge. A man may have an unbVlieval ly great store of knowledge, and yet be a foolish maui because he does not have the wisdom to use it. Knowing that these notes are used by a great many boys and girls, as well as by their teachers, the writer would suggest an outline for next Sunday which can be remembered by everyone who has ever crossed a railroad track. What does the warning sign say? “Stop, Look, and Listen.” Then what? If all is clear, go ahead. That is just what our lesson tells us. Stop, for someone has a message for you; look, at the two ways of life; listen, to the wise words of counsel. Then go straight ahead in the right way. I. Stop (w. 10-13). Life moves on at a rapid pace. One of the devices of the devil to gain and keep his hold on us is to keep things moving so fast that we never stop to think, or to heed the counsel of others. The wise man has something of importance to say to the young man whom he calls his “son.” Let us stop and give heed to his warning, for we are assured that it will mean for us a long and happy life (w. 10, 12). Nobody but a fool would hasten past such a “stop” signal, nor thrust aside this opportunity for life-giving instruction (v. 13). Here is some thing far more important than mathematics, literature, or econom ics. Here is life. n. Look (w. 14-19). There are really only two ways of life—“the path of the just . . . that shineth more and more unto the per fect day” (v. 18), and “the way of the wicked,” which is only dark ness and stumbling (v. 19). There is no middle way. We cannot walk in both paths; it is “either—or.” Young people should get hold of that fact, for in these days there is a constant attempt to blur the colors, making things neither black nor white, but gray; neither good nor bad, but just advisable or inadvis able. The moral laws of God are not changed; right is still and will eter nally be right, just as wrong is and always will be wrong. Wickedness is so wrong that it causes men to spend sleepless nights trying to en trap others (v. 16). But no one need go that way; just do not “enter” that path, “avoid it,” and if by chance you have wandered into it, “turn from it” (v. 15). God will help you. III. Listen (w. 20-25). Listening is important business, calling for real attention and appli cation. Especially is that true as one listens to the truth of God. It should be received by an attentive ear (v. 20), kept before one’s eyes, and pondered in the heart (v. 21). Such listening is sure to bring re sults, and we find them enumerated in verses 22 to 25. Life is rssured to those who heed the words of God’s messenger; not just a bare existence, but a healthy life (v. 22). God’s spiritual children are not (or at least should not be) invalids br weaklings. Keeping the heart right (v. 23) keeps the whole life right, and the way to be sure that the heart is right is to fill it with God’s Word (v. 21). Then see how the whole life responds; the lips speak no for ward (R. V. wayward) or preverse words, and the eyes look straight ahead along the shining path of the just. Now that we have stopped to give attention to the Lord’s word through His messenger, and looked careful ly at the two ways of life, and lis- ■ tened to words of wisdom and guid- I ance, what comes next? Do we stand idly by and commend ourselves for • our wisdom, or do we sit down and | take our ease? No. Being assured ! that the way is clear, we FV. Go Ahead (w. 26, 27). God wants His people to move on to greater glory and usefulness. At the Red sea, God told Moses, “Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.” "Move forward! valiant men and strong. Ye who have prayed and labored long; • The time has come for you to rise. For lol the sun rolls up ‘he skies.” Thoughtful, vigilai.t, lest he be led into a bypath on the right or left, turning his feet away from ev ery evil path, the child of God goes forward, and as he goes the road be comes brighter and brighter with the glory of the presence of the Lord, shining more and more until that perfect day when he shall find him self at the end of his journey and at home forevermore in the Father’s house. 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