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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ DECEMBER 19, 1941 Baer and Louis ILL BRADY, whose boxing lore goes back a matter of 50 years, is one of the few who believes that Buddy Baer can peddle out a large package of poison to Joe Louis, if trained and handled properly. Mr. Brady, who directed the ear lier destinies of Jim Corbett and Jim ( Jeffries, has thought for some time that the young Baer was the most dangerous challeng er Louis had to face. He thought that before the first Louis-Baer mix- up in Washington, and he hasn’t changed his mind since. “Buddy Baer is a Grantland Rice fair boxer, and he is big and game. But, above all, he can punch. And he is capable of showing more speed than he has turned in so far. Buddy needs an extensive training campaign under smart handling. If this happens even champion Louis will have a busy afternoon.” In the other Louis contest Buddy proved that he could punch, and that he could take a bundle of punches on the side. But he was entirely too slow, and if this weakness is corrected in the next six weeks the younger Baer can be built into a threatening challenger. • • • The Popular Call Not all the arguments belong to football, although football brings out the greater heat. . There is another debate on now as vo which is the more popular sport—basketball or bowling. This argument will have to be re stricted to the number of players in volved, since basketball is ahead when it comes to attendance. Bowl ing supporters claim something like 20,000,000 players. Basketball back ers speak of millions, with no set figures. On the playing side, bowling should have the call since it is a simpler family game to take up and older people can give it a try. Bowl ing is now on a new boom, covering the entire map. On the playing side it leads the list. * * • Fifty Years Ago "Dear Grant—I saw Harvard and Yale play their annual game in Springfield in 1889, and I was just thinking about the changes that have taken place when you move up to 1941. I was a 13-year-old kid when I saw Yale beat Harvard, 6 to 0, that day, with 20,000 looking on. Those were two great teams. Among others, Yale had Heffelfin- ger, Stagg, McClung, McBride, Hartwell, and Morrison. Harvard had Cumnock, Upton, Cranston, Bemie Trafford, Lee and Dean. “We youngsters had never seen this new type of football. When the two teams started warming up we thought they were playing with old footballs knocked out of shape. Also, there were only two substitutions In a hard, rough game. “The big thrill we got was the arrival of Frank Hinkey at Yale. I’d like to say that any one who doesn’t put Hinkey on his all-time All- America simply doesn’t know his football. He weighed only 155 pounds, but he was the hardest, surest and deadliest tackier I ever saw. And yet in his four years of play Frank never had time taken out. “Hinkey was the star of football’s all-time roughest game. This was in 1894. I remember how busy the stretcher-bearers were all through the game. The big howl came when Hinkey tackled Wrightington, a 190-pound Harvard back, so ter rifically that Wrightington was car ried off with a broken collarbone. Fred Murphy, a Yale star, was rushed to the hospital in a serious condition. "It was in the 1891 game that Harvard introduced the flying and revolving wedges, which Hinkey, ‘the disembodied ghost,’ helped to solve. The game has improved in many, many ways. Grant, but not in the manner of fighting spirit. How that old guard loved body con tact, especially Heffelfinger and Hinkey, two of the game’s greatest. “Jack Doyle.” No one has looked through a run of 50 years or more with more ob serving eyes than Jack Doyle, the well-known betting commissioner, one of the few left who has seen them come along from Heffelfinger to Endicott Peabody. * • * The Year of Backs One of the features of this season has been the number of brilliant backs supplied by the Midwest and South especially. The Midwest offers Bruce Smith, Westfall, Hillenbrand, Graham, Bertelli, Harder, Steuber, DeCorre- vont, Kuzma and many others. The South has Dudley, Jenkins, Lach, Sinkwich, Hapes, Hovious, and from the Southwest such talent as Moser. Layden and Crain. PHYSICAL FITNESS Late one afternoon I flew over to Philadelphia to take part in the beginning of their National Defense week. Mr. John Kelly was in charge of the evening. There had been street races in the afternoon for boys, and, while I was there, the prizes were given out to several in dividuals and teams. They had some wonderful high school bands, as well as police and firemen’s bands. I had to catch the 9:15 plane back to Washington, so I missed the greater part of the ex hibition, but the glimpse of what the young people could do was a great satisfaction. I felt there was potential strength there which could be translated into sound and healthy bodies as they grew up. I feel that our physical fitness program should serve to awaken in terest among young people and their elders to look into all avail* able sources of material. • • * PLEDGES OF FREEDOM Carl Sandburg has just sent out Office of Civilian Defense two short pledges, which I hope people will copy and carry around with them. The first is: “I pledge myself to be a little thoughtful every day about the meaning of freedom and how and why I am a citizen of a repub lic of free men and women, and how and why men and women toiled and fought yesterday for my free dom today.” If we bear this in mind, I think we shall have a greater sense of re sponsibility about the preservation of our freedom today. Mr. Sandburg’s second pledge reads as follows: “I pledge myself to do a little thinking every day about the need of discipline and how, in a time of national danger more than ever, my own rights as a citizen are tangled and interwov en with the rights of others and these rights always deserve a de cent respect.” * * • HEALTH PROBLEMS In New York city I went to Amer ica’s Town Meeting of the Air. I enjoyed the program very much. As so often happens, I felt that many sides of the problem of health could not be covered, even in as long a period as we had on the air. One thing I felt needed emphasis, namely, that the workers them selves, through their labor union organizations, are doing a great many things to improve their health. It seems to me that the employer has an obligation to use every safety device possible to pre vent accidents and has an obliga tion to initiate other programs, with the idea of social welfare always in the background and the realization that health is a stepping stone to all real welfare and security. But the employees also have a responsibility for plans and pro grams which they can work out themselves, or in co-operation with the employer. I think a shining ex ample of this is Mr. David Dubin- sky’s International Ladies Garment Workers union, which has worked out programs for both health and recreation. They are valuable men tally, spiritually, and physically. * • * WOMAN S LAND ARMY I have had so much enthusiasm over the suggestion that a Woman’s Land army might be needed. I know there are a great many wom en and young people who would welcome preparing for some defi nite thing. It is not in the province, of course, of the Office of Civilian Defense actually to carry out a pro gram, but we hope before long to be able to suggest ways in which people can fit themselves to do whatever emergency work may be required in their communities when the summer comes. There will be parts of the country where it will be possible to provide paid workers for farmers who need help. Wherever that is possible, it should be done. Volunteers may be needed in various specific ways, but they will be of value only if they have trained and disciplined themselves to stand outdoor work. * * • NEW YORK ‘HOUSECLEANING’ I found myself one day devoting my time to catching up on the mail and doing various things in my house in New York city. My husband holds over my head the fact that if these houses are sold, I shall have to leave them at very short notice. Since we have always kept certain things in locked closets, I fill up my spare minutes and hours trying to decide what to do with things that have a certain sentimental value and, which, per haps, none of our children will have any real use for now, or in the future. This particular day I found some very beautiful and large old table cloths and napkins with handsome embroidered coats of arms, such as no one would think of indulging in at the present time. In fact, very few people who are economically inclined, use large or small table cloths any more. Also, most of us have learned to use paper in many ways which we did not consider possible in our grandmother’s day. However, we may return to napkin rings and the careful use of napkins, since paper is now to be conserved. Kathleen Norris Says: You Should Spoil Your Family (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) A wife told me once that when her husband said to her, early in their married life, “I never heard you say a cheap or mean thing about anyone,” she made up her mind that he never would. By KATHLEEN NORRIS O YOU spoil your family? You should. These are terrible times when we need everything that love can do for us; we need to hold on to love, to go on believing in it. And spoiling is love. Love fulfills the law. It is all that human hearts need. A man may be rich, popular, young, successful. But if his wife doesn’t love him he can’t possi bly be a happy man. He may think he can win to happiness by divorcing his wife, making a highly satisfactory arrange ment for his children, finding a more affectionate woman. But nine times out of ten he mar ries exactly the same type of woman, just as cold and calcu lating as the first. So that doesn’t work. Another man may be poor. He may not be a great success in busi ness. Other men may be stepped up over his head, and there may be doctors’ bills and filial obligations always ready to jeopardize the budg et. But if in his little house there is abundance of loving: children rac ing to meet him; an old mother smil ing as she puts the forks and glasses on the supper table; a sweet woman turning from the gas stove for his homecoming kiss, that man is rich. Must Be Preserved. Love is no accident. It is life’s inexhaustible miracle. But it has to be preserved, held sacred. When a woman regards her marriage as merely a springboard to social suc cess, clothes, entertainment, flirta tions—sham is the sham gold she pays for her improved position. But when it is real marriage, when the wife feels that, having chosen, she has sealed'her fate, she puts real love into it. And the difference is that between the poles. Spoiling his family means, for a man, sometimes to consider their point of view; to try to put himself into his wife’s place, into his chil dren’s places, and think of what they want from him; what would make them happy. Instead of mere ly shoving his hand into his pocket and giving her some money, let him add a little sympathetic inter est to the money. Just saying, “Don’t you get awfully tired cater ing to us, Mary?” or “I notice Mum my isn’t getting much out of that for herself!” will make her heart fly up like a bird. A wife told me once that when her husband said to her, early in their married life, “I never heard you say a cheap or mean thing about anyone, darling,” she quietly made up her 20-year-old mind that he never would. To have Dad take a tender interest in a small boy’s homework, or say sympathetically, “What can I do to keep you from worrying about that, Mummy?” is to insure happiness to one woman, anyway. Avoid Lamentations. The wife’s job of spoiling the fam ily means only being kind. Not nervous, not critical, not eager to retail all the bad, depressing, fright ening news possible at the end of the day, but looking serenely ahead to better times, and unafraid to go forward. It is an absolute duty for us all to refrain from lamentations and vain regrets now; to keep up our hearts; not to cry until we’re hurt. WE NEED LOVE NOW With the world apparently go ing to pieces around us, we need love now more than ever. And Kathleen Norris believes that “spoiling your family just means loving them, giving them a little more, rather than a little ICS's, attention than necessary, and trying to give them what they want, not what you want them to want. No one can be really happy without love, and the poor man who has an adoring wife is far richer than the man of means whose wife regards her marriage to him merely as a stepping stone to social success. And the happy man or woman is pre pared to face an uncertain future with the hope and courage that only love can give them. Here is a letter that may have a suggestion in it for some wives. It comes from a Chicago husband; he is 40, the wife two years younger; they have two small boys. “Marie is a fine cook and a good manager,” he writes, “and we own our small home. The boys go to public school; we can pay our bills, and though my wife is pretty much of a home body we do coax her out to picnics or movies now and then. But she’s so darned b-l-u-e! And I don’t know what to do about it. “She sits silent at the table, some times sighing. Or if she quotes a headline it’s always a depressing one. When she sends the boys ff to school she says Jim is just 1' a her father, completely irresponsible, and that she hopes Ned isn’t starting another cold. The Brown’s are los ing their lovely place; they think what Anna has is cancer; it looks as if Harry and Margaret were going to get a divorce. “Customarily my wife begins the day on a long groan. While I’m half-asleep I hear her ‘Oh, dear, Tuesday again! I ought to see Ma bel; she’s been home a week. Oh, dear, that means we ought to ask them here, and the rug isn’t back. You never can trust those people. Oh, rain again. No wonder the chil dren get colds. Now I suppose eggs will go up. I hate and despise this sort of a day. I’m afraid you’re go ing to have a stupid birthday, dear. I hate to go to the bother of mak ing a cake because you’re on a diet and it’s bad for the boys, and I don’t know what to give you—I’d so much rather you’d pick yourself a present.’ Wife Is Not Well. “This goes on indefinitely, and I’m sure it’s bad for all of us,” the let ter ends. “Will you make a sug gestion that may cheer a good, kind, devoted wife? And thanks in ad vance, Jay Bee.” Well, my first suggestion, “Jay Bee,” is that your wife isn’t well. She’s showing every symptom of sluggish insides. I know this isn't either a romantic or a popular solu tion, but if she can get her system to working perfectly, her spirits will rise with every mile she walks. It is almost impossible to be de pressed if one is in really good health. Just utter wellness, such as small children sometimes feel. Then no future seems alarming, and no duty anything but a joy, and the whole world sings. Rain is a mira cle, snow a breath-taking delight, and the power and opportunity to serve one’s own beloved ones an unending joy. Lesson for December 21 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE COMING OF GOD’S SON LE SSON TEXT—Isaiah 9:6, 7; John 1:1-4, 10-14 I John 4:9-11. GOLDEN TEXT—The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.—I John 4:14. Christmas again! How shall we keep it in a world torn by strife and poisoned by man’s bitterness against man? Let us keep it with all the joy and gladness at our com mand. Let us make this the best Christmas we and our families have ever had. How? By giving more and richer gifts? No—although they have their place when rightly given and received. By feasting and mer rymaking? No—although they too have their place when carried on in the true spirit of love and friend ship. What then? Let us make this an outstanding Christmas by cen tering our thoughts, our affections, our joys—yes, and our gifts of self and substance—around God’s Son, whose “birthday” we celebrate. May Christmas, 1941, be the best you have ever spent. This is the writer’s sincere wish for you. One way to make it just that is to dili gently study our lesson for this next Sunday, which tells of the coming of God’s Son. I. His Coming and Character Prophesied (Isa. 9:6, 7). God who was to send His Son into the world to become the Saviour of sinful man fittingly made known His coming through Isaiah (and others) 800 years before it took place. This greatest event in all history was th^ subject of exact and detailed proph ecy, which was completely fulfilled. Although Isaiah calls Him “a child” (as indeed He was), he saw Him as the divine One whose glory and pow er is revealed in the magnificent ar ray of names found in verse 6. “Wonderful,” a much abused and misused word, found its real mean ing in Him—He really is wonderful in every way. “Counsellor!” He does not need or seek the counsel of others—He is the Counsellor. Have you sought His counsel? “The Mighty God”—not a mere man, but God unlimited in power. “The Ever lasting Father,” which is really the “Father of eternity,” the One to whom eternity owes its existence. “The Prince of Peace,” who will one day bring peace to the earth when He comes to reign; something we need not expect before that blessed day. Little wonder that “the govern ment shall be upon his shoulders” (v. 6), and that He shall reign on the throne of David forever. That is prophecy yet to be fulfilled, but it will be, even as the others, for “the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” II. His Incarnation and Redemp tion Completed (John 1:1-4, 10-14). The Eternal One—who was in the beginning with the Father, He who was God and who made all things, this One who was the life and the light of men—humbled Himself and took upon Himself the likeness of sin ful man. He was “made flesh and dwelt among us,” revealing the grace and glory of God. The in carnation of Christ is a truth the greatness and glory of which we cannot fully understand; but we know that it was for us that He came—for our redemption. The world—His own world—re ceived Him not. "But”—and thank God for that blessed “but!”—“as many as received him, to them gave he the power (or better, ‘the right,’ as in R.V.) to become the children of God.” Redemption is by a new birth, a divine birth, “not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man.” It is a complete redemption by faith in Him who re vealed the grace of God to man. This is the great message of Christ mas. Let us not miss it. But there is another word for this precious and blessed season—it is that of love. III. His Love ^nd Our Love Mani fested (I John 4:9-11). The love of God has been ex pressed in many precious ways, but the full and final manifestation was in the sending of His only begotten Son into the world that we might have life through Him. This is love supreme, that God loved us when we did not love Him, the altogether lovely One giving His best and dear est in loving sacrifice for the alto gether unlovely ones. Such love in making the unspeak able gift to us must of necessity call forth from us not only love to ward Him, but also for one an other. Christmas is an excellent time to deepen and sweeten the love which exists between Christian brethren. We need to be drawn very close to one another for mutual en couragement, strengthening of our faith, and for the effective outreach of Christ’s love to the whole world through us. The eternal, glorious Christ came. He wrought out redemption full and free. He revealed God’s great love to us—and to all the world. What a delightful Christmas message that is. Let us receive it and declare it. Personal Touch Instead of sending her presents through the mails, this young lady prefers to deliver them herself. It adds a personal touch that is great ly appreciated by friends on Christ mas day. First Christmas Seals Originated in Denmark - To Fight Tuberculosis That harbinger of the holiday sea son, the cheerful Christmas Seal, has recently made its appearance as the National Tuberculosis asso ciation opened its annual drive for funds to continue work in the pre vention and cure of this dread dis ease. The idea of the sale of seals to aid the fight against tuberculosis origi nated in Denmark in 1903. The follow ing year the first seals were sold. The idea gained almost immediate popular ity and soon spread to neighboring coun- Christmas seals appeared in the United States in 1907 when Miss Em ily P. Bissel of the Wilmington, Del., Red Cross chapter designed a seal that was sold locally. The campaign was so successful that the next year the National Red Cross adopted the idea and conduct ed a nation-wide campaign. From then until 1919 the Red Cross con tinued the annual Christmas Seal distribution. In their last year the returns had risen to nearly $4,000,000. Beginning with 19z0 the National Tuberculosis asso ciation began distri bution of the seals. The designs of these stamps have been the work of promi nent artists who have interpreted the Christmas spirit each in his own way. In addition to the United States approximately 40 other countries have adopted the Christmas seal for raising anti-tuberculosis funds. Post Office Auctions Gifts Tost’ in Mails Uncle Sam will soon make profits by selling Christmas presents sent through the’ mails, but he would much rather deliver them—and he would, if he knew where they were supposed to go. American people are so rich and in such a hurry that they don’t even take the pains to see that their gifts sent by mail are properly wrapped and addressed. Of course, all are not careless about it, but the post men do have a hard time during the holidays. Extra mail clerks receive millions of dollars in wages, and a good share of this extra force is kept busy handling poorly wrapped and im properly addressed packages. Many thousands of Christmas gifts will be sold because they contain no clew concerning their sender er the intended destination. The “unad dressed” department of the inquiry section of the post office in large cities resembles a warehouse. Some gifts cannot be held long, such as alligators from Florida, live chickens, turkeys, or fruits. These are quickly sold and the sale price held in a fund which is ultimately turned into the treasury. When all efforts have been exhausted, the un identified and unclaimed packages are sold by an auctioneer. Wrong Use The name Kriss Kringle is some times erroneously used to designate Santa Claus. Kriss Kringle is a cor ruption of the German Christ-kindel, the Christ-child. Mountain Beauty Christmas in the Swiss mountains is full of scenic enchantment and poetry. Every hamlet and every village is a wondrous vision in white, with its fleckless beauty stiff accentuated by the sapphire blue of the sky. Tip on Toys To be in demand, toys should b» educational, full of action, or dupli cates of large articles. Most toys used through the ages faff into ona of these three categories. Two-Piece Frock Sleek and Simple H ERE’S good news for belles- on-a-budget who yearn for the smooth smartness of a two- piece frock! Pattern No. 1485-B offers a streamline version—sleek, simple to make with a three but ton cardigan neck topper, a skirt with a front pleat and a dickey collar which gives a trim touch of white in a flattering line next to the face. This dickey is easily adjusted—doesn’t need to be even pinned in place. We easily can see the advan tages of a suit of this type. The jacket emphasizing width at the shoulders and fitting smoothly over the hips helps the average figure achieve youthful slender ness—the skirt is comfortable to wear for walking, standing and sitting, the dickey provides a note of freshness for this costume so that it is always attractive to wear. Make it now for yourself in gabardine, twills, plaids, nov elty rayons or serge. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1485-B is de signed for sizes 32. 34. 36. 38, 40. 42. 44 and 46. Size 34 requires 5 yards 35-inch material; 3 yards 54-inch. Dickey re quires % yard 35-inch material. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 311 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No. ..J Size Name Address 0 Know Your Limitations Ere you consult fancy, consult your purse.—Franklin. 'CessedRelifiJL RHEUMATISM^bagc Backed by Pride Too rigid scruples are con cealed pride.—Goethe. Have You Tried DR. TUTT'S PILLS? Created io 1845 for the relief of constipation. Buy them! Try them! TODAY CREATING NEW WEALTH TO ORDER • Advertising creates new Wea»vh by showing people new and better ways of living, and as it creates new wealth it con tributes to the prosperity of everyone touched by the flow of money which is set up. In this way, don’t you see, advertising is a social force which is working in the interest of every one of us every day of the year, bringing us new wealth to use and enjoy.