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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, DECEMBER 12, 1941 A IR service is just as important in football as it is in actual war. It isn’t everything, but air control usually means victory. Line play is vitally im portant. So is a running attack. But an all-around pass ing attack can be more devastating than anything else, as it also gives the running game a chance. Frank Leahy, Notre Dame’s master - minding mentor, was quite Grantland Rice willing to tell you what he knew about a passing at tack. After watching Boston Col lege last fall and Notre Dame this fall, my guess would be that In structor Leahy knows his share. “In my opinion,” Leahy said, “the passing game moves in about this order: First, the passer; sec ond, pass protection; third, receiv ing. Each detail is important. “To keep a passing game work ing on the winning side you must have a first-class passer—you must give him protection and you must have speed that can get to the pass —and then hold it.” Notre Dame this year had all three essentials — something they were unable to show against Army in the rain and mud. The greatest pass weakness is weather. “The best passers are born—not made—to a large extent,” Leahy continued. “They must have a natural aptitude for throwing a football. A coach can improve an average passer—but he can’t make him into a Luckman, a Baugh, an O’Brien, an Isbell, a Parker or an Albert.” “Or a Bertelli?” we suggested. Mr. Leahy smiled, wanly, “Or a Ber- telli,” he added. “Giving the passer protection and catching a ball are easier to teach—and learn. We have devel oped good receivers in a year. We couldn’t develop good passers in that time. Good passers—I mean the better ones—usually started as kids, something like the caddies who later on make most of the lead ing pros. “Good protection is just as nec essary. You may remember how well Dutch Meyer at T.C.U. sur rounded Davey O’Brien with Al drich and Hale—center and tackle. We use more than two protectors at Notre Dame.” There were times in the Navy game when almost the entire Notre Dame line seemed to be on guard around Bertelli who was rarely hurried or rushed, even by Navy’s desperate efforts to break through. Season Oddities There are always wide football ranges, but 1941 was fairly close to the all-time record. For example, the first five oppos ing teams scored 132 points against Pittsburgh this season. These five teams had averaged slightly better than 26 points a game. Then suddenly Fordham couldn’t score against Pittsburgh. This was the main shock of this game—more than Fordham’s defeat. Baylor, beaten by Villanova, slaughtered 48 to 0 by Texas A. and M., suddenly turned on a great Texas team, a team that had averaged 34 points a game against teams that looked to be about on Baylor’s level —and gives Texas an even fight. Pittsburgh never had a chance to get back on her feet after fac ing such teams as Michigan, Min nesota, Duke and Ohio State on successive Saturdays. But the Panther was on all four feet against Fordham, which has developed the mournful knack of jumping off the cliff once a year somewhere along the route. One answer is that certain teams, such as Harvard, start slowly and begin moving up week by week. Others, starting at top speed, be gin falling back around mid-season. Harvard, beaten by Pennsylvania and Cornell in her first two games, was a match for anybody at the end of the season. From a Coach Question—Would you like a short tip? You football writers build us up beyond our actual strength, and then a lot of you cut our throats because we lose. A lot of us are not as good as you said we were, even while winning—and not as bad as many think when we are losing. It’s the average football writer— not the Old Grads—who gets us into most of our trouble. I think you know that. Answer—No answer. It’s practi cally 100 per cent true. The Best Play Question—What was the best sin gle play you saw this year? Answer — By Bertelli — in the Navy game. All officials working this game agree on the verdict. The Notre Dame passer first dropped back and faked a pass. He then tucked the ball under his arm and faked a run to the right. He then stopped suddenly and completed a fine pass for a long gain. By his two fakes he had jet Navy’s de fense twice. He is . first-class actor as well as a brilliant passer. Kathleen Norris Says: Real Happiness Means to Live in Peace (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) LEARN HOW TO LIVE To learn how to live, you must first learn how to get along with others. One of the saddest stories in the world is that of the older woman who could never get along with her family and friends and, consequently, now finds herself left alone. To really live, says Kathleen Norris, you must learn to adapt yourself to another’s interests as readily as to your own. The woman whose husband likes to go out shoidd try to enjoy going out with him, even though she may prefer to stay home and read a book. If she doesn’t, she may find that her husband prefers someone else’s company to hers. I enjoy quiet evenings at home. But my husband is socially inclined and likes to be on the go continually. There is ahvays some pretty woman to listen to his line of talk. To me it seems that of a college boy. By KATHLEEN NORRIS T HE smart women in this world are those who realize that you have to live in peace with somebody. That is, if you want to live, in the true sense of living. One such woman lives in a city not far from the country town where I am writing, a com fortably rich woman who, they say, was once quite a beauty and a belle. Her young husband died only a few years after mar riage, leaving her with one son. She married again, unfortunately, and was divorced, with considerable bitterness on both sides, for the sec ond husband had wasted not only a large part of her fortune but some of her son’s as well. The son later sued for his share and she hasn’t seen him, as a consequence, for more than twenty years. Two nieces in turn have tried liv ing with Aunt Carry, but with both she made life so difficult that each girl presently went her own way. Now this dreary old creature lives alone in a large mouldering house, quarrelling with her cook, and ex acting devoted attention from a handsome French chauffeur of about 24, to whom she says she is going to leave all her money. The French man has been engaged for two years to an attractive American girl, a waitress, but his despotic old em ployer has forbidden him to men tion her or see her. Eternally Complaining. Another dreadful old woman of my acquaintance is penniless and alone, supported by a daughter and son who see her as rarely as possi ble. She is a strong, husky woman of 60, eternally complaining and crit icizing. She says she hates the daughter’s husband, and that the son had no business to marry while his mother needed him. This woman tried boarding-houses for years; the meals, the service and her fellow boarders in all of them disgusted her. Now she has one room, a two-burner gas stove, and a bathroom four doors down the hall, and cries when you meet her because meals prepared and eaten alone are so lonely. Her daughter is not strong and has three small children, but when Mrs. Vee occasionally calls she sits in the parlor like a stranger. Her son’s wife was in the hospital seven months last year with a broken spine, and paid a housekeeper all that time. Mrs. Vee said she never could forget the way Emily acted when she and Jacky were first mar ried and their troubles weren’t hers, anyway. The women who drift into this sort of isolation in old age always have wonderful reasons for it. They will tell you of them at length. A Flirtatious Husband. I am wondering whether Laura is going to be one of those old women. She is only 31 now, but the letter I have from her indicates that she is already on the wrong track and rather proud of herself for being there. This is part of the letter. It comes from Pittsburgh, Pa. “How am I to deal with a flirta tious husband?” writes Laura. “He is in every other way a perfect dear, but heroes like the ladies! He and I first met three y£ars ago, when both were unhappily married. My first husband was a man who was all but unbalanced mentally, jealous, unreasonable and changeable to a degree that almost affected my own mind. “My daughter by that marriage is with her father; his mother, who had interfered from the beginning with our marriage, used her influence to prove that before the divorce I had made arrangements to marry Cal, my present husband, and generally to discredit me. This caused a break with my brother, who is my first husband’s partner, and lost me many friends. “I have a little girl one year old. Not feeling particularly interested in the sort of social contacts that my husband makes, I enjoy quiet eve nings with books and radio music at home. But Cal is socially inclined, and likes to be continually on the go, and, as I say, there is always some pretty woman to listen to his line of talk. To me it seems that of a college boy, and I feel we should have abandoned such nonsense long ago. Always Facing Trouble. “If I plead that I must stay with Barbara Ann, Cal says we can take her across the street and leave her with his mother. But I do not approve of her treatment of small children. She spoils her other grand children dreadfully and would spoil mine if I let her. Cal’s sister and I were in school together, but we have drifted very much apart and I don’t care to be under obligation to her when it comes to leaving Bar bara Ann for an evening or a week end. “It is very hard nowadays to get a trustworthy maid, for they are all running after war-time jobs and salaries, and I am a particular housekeeper and won’t take just any one. I would rather do it myself if it kills me. My husband takes no interest in domestic duties. “How can I cure him of his phi landering? It is never serious. It is just foolish, and I have given you the wrong impression if you think I am in the least jealous. I am more amused than jealous. But if there is any way in which I can make him appreciate a good home, a lovely child, and a wife who was willing to make the sacrifices and endure the criticism I did when we were first married, I would be grate ful for the suggestion.” Isn’t that a hopeless letter and a hopeless situation? What can one say to such a woman? Except per haps, “Go beat your stubborn com placent head against a wall, break up the stiff little tin compartments in which you keep your affections, learn to live on the terms of others besides yourself! The Junto Lives Again IF THE spirit of Benjamin Frank- 1 lin had been strolling along the streets of Philadelphia on a recent night, it is not unlikely that a pass erby might have heard the ghostly presence of the immortal Ben chuckling to himself. For that day had witnessed the spectacle of 2,000 of his fellow-Philadelphians crowd ing into the Academy of Music to re vive an organization which he start ed 214 years ago, and, according to Time magazine, “at week’s end fresh hordes were still coming. It was the biggest cultural revival in many a Philadelphia year; the cozy little study club he founded in a tavern with 11 convivial compan ions in 1727 has a manynoth re incarnation.” This “cozy little club” was the famous Junto or “council,” a mutu al self-improvement society, formed by Franklin and several of his “in genious acquaintances.” It was a democratic organization, too, for among its members, besides 21- year-old Ben Franklin, were a sur veyor, a glazier, an Oxford scholar and a “young gentleman of some fortune.” Although the proceedings of the club were secret and no minutes of its meetings were kept, Franklin, in his writings, has revealed some of the topics which the members of the Junto discussed. Among them were these: “Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard?” Earliest known portrait of Frank lin, painted probably about 1748, now owned by Harvard university. “What unhappy effects of intem perance have you lately observed?” But the Junto is important in American history if for no other reason than this: It was this club which helped launch Franklin upon the career as a scientist which brought him world-wide fame, es pecially in the field of experiments in electricity. Franklin first became interested in electricity in 1746 when he attended a lecture by a Dr. Spence of Boston. This led eventu ally to correspondence with Peter Collinson of London who sent him an electrical tube and with it Frank lin performed various experiments for the edification of the members of the Junto. Writing to Collinson later, Franklin said: “I never was before engaged in any study that so totally engrossed my attention and my time as this has lately done, for, what with mak ing experiments when I can be alone, and repeating them to my friends and acquaintances, who from the novelty of the thing, come continually to see them, I have, dur ing some months past, had little leisure for anything else.” Undoubtedly the encouragement which he received from his fellow members of the Junto had a great deal to do with his continuing the studies in electricity and branching out into other scientific fields. “Franklin seems to have carried on his studies in physical science, natu ral philosophy, wholly during the period 1747 to 1756, and then to have been driven off from his work, which he described as the most ab sorbing of his life, by the increasing demands of public life and civic ob ligations.” Thus writes Howard McClenahan in the chapter, “Franklin, the Philosopher and Scientist,” in the book, “The Amazing Benjamin Franklin.” In it he lists all of the “striking phenomena observed for the first time by this fundamental physicist.” The Junto lasted for 40-odd years and out of it grew the American Philosophical society, the oldest sci entific society on the American continent. During its existence of four decades it was the originator of many important institutions—in all of which Benjamin Franklin played a leading part. Among these were: 1731, the Li brary Company of Philadelphia, the first circulating library in America; 1736, the Union Fire company, the first volunteer fire department in Philadelphia; 1749, “Proposals re lating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania,” which led to the for mation of the College (afterwards the University) of Pennsylvania; 1751, the Pennsylvania hospital, the first of its kind in America, and 1752, the “Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses From Loss by Fire,” the first chartered fire insurance company in America. T UST the kind of dress the larger ^ woman appreciates—it is inter esting and individual and at the same time manages to make pounds seem to disappear. The full bodice sections are' excellent (v. P~ O" O- O-- O— C 4 -- C'-* O- O- O-- <v. <v. (v. fv.. (v. I jcv ur l ASK ME ? ANOTHER * ? 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