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THE SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. JANUARY 16, 1942 ’ | 'HE army, the navy, the air force and the marines are looking in one main direction for their re cruits. This direction is toward the athlete who is supposed to be—who ought to be—in physical condition, plus the alertness he has drawn from competitive sport. This means above all, the football players. After this comes baseball players, basket ball players, fighters and track men. We have received some complaint that too many sports writers are trying to place the main burden on athletes, especially well-known ath letes. This is where the main burden belongs. It is only natural that a country should look to its young men trained in sport, above any other class, when war arrives. These young men make—or should make—the best service material, with something to spare. They should be much more physically fit than others who have had no such chance to get in such fine shape. Competition is supposed to de velop the form of alertness needed in war—especially football competi tion, where one has to think and act in a hurry. Most of these now in sport—and not yet in the service—have re ceived unusual recognition from their country in the way of headline and radio tribute. Also, in the way of financial rewards. More will be expected from our athletes than from any other class. These happen to be better equipped to serve, and only the most vital reasons should keep them from re membering this line—“But when the bugles sounded war—they put their games away.” ‘Don’t Wait Too Long’ 1 recall the sound advice that Maj. Swede Larson, late excellent navy football coach, gave a promi nent gridiron star before we were in the war—as we are now. “Please don’t wait too long before enlisting,” Swede said. “I don’t be lieve the country at large is going to like famous athletes, still young, MAJOR SWEDE LARSON cleaning up in other lines. Some form of the service needs men like you—needs them badly. We need what you can give us in a personal way. We need your example even more. So I’m asking you again not to make the mistake of waiting too long.” Again the final verse of Winfred Lett’s war poem came back to us— “God bless you happy gentle men, who laid your good lives down— Who took the khaki and the gun, in place of cap and gown. God bring you to a fairer place than even Oxford town.” Big Time Over Once again big-time sport for spectators is all through until the war is over—and won. When men like Colin Kelly are diving at Japanese warships and dying—when a few marines proved what marines are at Wake island, the broken-field runner and the blocking back and the charging tackle are badly overshadowed. The nation expects football play ers to put their games away—as far as all available for service are concerned. It is up to these men in sport—the younger men—to prove that competitive sport—that big- time sport—has a purpose to serve beyond publicity and gate receipts. This doesn’t mean just a small percentage. It means an over whelming majority. It doesn’t mean exemption through flat feet or some minor physical detail. It doesn’t mean dependencies, unless it is a matter of dire need. Another Problem “I have tried to get in both army and navy,” a certain well-known athlete writes, “but have been turned down on account of de fective eyesight. I hava done my best. Yet I can see people looking at me queerly, wondering why I am not in some service. I am not alone in this respect. There are many, many others. Isn’t there some way the war or navy department could give us a button that will show we have at least tried to get in? It is too much to keep explaining.” "" ' ■ ' - 'Y Kathleen Norris Says: Old Way of Life Is Gone Forever (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Women have a share in the world catastrophe. Make **l will be afraid of nothing* your first rule. Yes, even if death is going to be your share, and the boy doesn't come home from the wars—face it. By KATHLEEN NORRIS HE strangest years of her history and the greatest crisis she ever has faced are immediately ahead for America. She has always been a friendly country, willing to let other countries solve their problems and worship their gods in their own way, not afraid of her weaker neighbors any more than they were afraid of her. But all this has been changed, and we have “enemies” now, we are to be the world’s arsenal and to attempt to police the world. And you, the quiet mis tress of a quiet household, have your share in the world of catastro phe, and must do your bit to pull, us all out of a chaos into which the blindness and stupidity of the na tions overseas have drawn us. They talked world brotherhood, world peace, world distribution of opportunities and necessities 20 years ago. But nobody meant those promises or took the slightest inter est in their fulfillment; blockades went on; mandatory powers were not released; children starved and their mothers and fathers went mad for revenge. These conditions will be repeated in a few years when the war is over, for the men who are respon sible for it are not dealing honestly with their peoples now, and are not apt to change afterward. No, they will retire, wealthy and unpunished, as they did 20 years ago, leaving sorrow and ruin and bitter change for all the rest of us to face. Make Family Unafraid. Your share is to make the little unit that is your family, and if pos sible your group, self-sufficient and unafraid. Begin this very day to change your house into a place to which a man and children love to return at night. No worry, no fears and complaining, no violent discus sion of public affairs at your table or around your fireplace. Just the courage of a woman whose fore bears have faced loss and change, and who will bear her own share of the burden when and if it comes. Make “I will be afraid of nothing” your first rule. Vbur faith will af fect every member of your family. Yes, even if death is going to be your share, and the boy doesn’t come home from the wars, face it. Three million American mothers will be beside you. Life won’t ever go back for any of us to what it was. But face it, and in love for those who are left, and who will grieve less, will suffer less, if you always show a smiling face, learn to bear the unbearable. For a second rule: Get out of debt. Whatever your income is, live on exactly two-thirds of it. Save; buy a little farm, and when you own it, buy another, to rent. Get your feet solidly on the ground for what is coming; for each one of us who can take care of a neighbor will have to do it then. Cut down everywhere you can. Maybe your income is inflated now, is much larger than it was be fore defense activities began. If that is so, try to live as simply as before, and invest in national bonds, or in those few acres of real estate that some- day may mean a cellar full of your own apples and squashes and potatoes, closet shelves filled with preserved berries and fruits, chickens. And now for a third rule: See that the family income does not KEEP YOUR CHIN UP! That’s what the women of this and every country are going to have to do—keep their chins up. They are going to have to smile, even when they would rather have a good cry. And they are going to have to make “home,” in spite of sorrow, hard work and sacrifice, a peaceful and courageous place. Kathleen Nor ris believes that a better world is in the making. She says that the more fully we understand the suffering and injustice others must endure, the better able we will be to help build a truly civilized society. There may be fewer millionaires when this is over, but there will probably be fewer poverty stricken slums and pale children looking with be wildered eyes on a heartless world. come from just one man. You would feel yourself heavily bur dened if you had a wife, a boy and girl, an old mother, an occasional maid, a car, a home, insurance and taxes to maintain; and believe me, in the face of the clouds, dark ening over the world today, your man does. One of you, or better, two of you, ought to be helping out, in however modest a fashion. Share the Burden. One woman in my neighborhood went to a contractor and had him turn her big top-story into an inde pendent flat, with a roofed outer stairway. Bath, kitchen fittings and stairway were the main expense; stove and plumbing cost her $912. But the husband, who had been getting $8 a day was now getting $16, and sometimes more, and she could pay this off, and did pay this off, at the rate of something more than $100 a month. Then she furnished it, buying new curtains, but otherwise merely ex tracting from the 12 rooms down stairs such tables, chairs and beds as she could spare. This apartment rents for $75 a month and she says she could rent three of them. Now she has taken three back rooms on the second floor—yes, the boys’ rooms, both her boys are in the service. But she won’t let her self worry or grieve; she says she never thought life was easy, and that she thanks God for all the years she had her sons. She is turn ing these three rooms into a sitting- room, bedroom and kitchen, and they are so pleasant, clean and roomy that even while the paperers are in there the suite is rented for a two-year term. This woman, strong, confident, capable, is ready for anything. Are you? Does your husband come home to an atmosphere of peace, courage, helpful planning? Is his mind at ease about what would hap pen if he became incapacitated? Old Way Gone Forever. That old way is gone forever. But I believe in my heart that new light is shining behind the blackness of these clouds, and that in God’s good time it will break through. I think we know more of the suffering of the world than we once did, and that we never again willingly tolerate the crowding, the cold, the hunger and poverty that the world has so long taken for granted. We may live more simply, but it will be more happily, too, if we can feel that the old day of contrasted luxuries and miseries is over, and men have learned that the real riches of life lies in sharing. HITLER AND THE DOCTOR “I’m feeling very funny,” Said Adolf in disgust; “You’d better fetch a doctor— And get one I can trust!” A doctor came arunning. And cried, “You sick! Ah, me! This news is most amazing— I thought YOU couldn’t be!” IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson I By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. M The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ) Lesson for January 28 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International i Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JESUS LESSON TEXT—Luke 3:1-6. 15-17. 21. 22. GOLDEN TEXT—Thou art my beloved Son: In thee I am well pleased.—Luke 3:22. "No small talk,” barked Der Fueh rer, “Just get to work, and quick! I’m just as dazed as you are To find I CAN be sick!” "What seems to be the matter?” The doctor did implore; “You’re asking me!” snapped Adolf— “That’s what you’re summoned for!” “Stick out your tongue,” the doctor Requested (and we quote); Der Fuehrer sadly did so . . . And, boy, was that a COAT! • • • It plainly showed a fever, And stomach all upset; “It was that Russian dressing, And other things he ‘et-’ ” It showed grave indigestion. And bile disturbance, too; It showed amazing symptoms Of ailments far from few. It showed clear indications Of major gluttony— Of ulcerous ambitions And chronic treachery. It showed some bladder trouble— (No blight could that tongue hide); “Your spleen's bad,” said the doc tor, “Your trouble’s deep inside!” “Your arches they are falling, Your kidneys aren’t good . . . I don’t think you’ve been doing Exactly as you should!” • • • Der Fuehrer’s eyes were bulg ing— His nerves seem torn apart, And now the doctor whispered, “I’ll listen to your heart.” 0 0 0 He listened and he listened. He listened everywhere. He listened most intently— But heard no ticking there! The doctor said: “Your heart, sir ... I hear no beat, alas!”— And Adolf answered, sneering, “I have no heart, you ass!” • • • The doctor was befuddled. He took another look At Adolf’s tongue deep coated And wrote this for the book: “His uniform this patient Once said he’d never doff. But one thing I can tell him— THAT COAT HE MUST TAKE OFF!” 0 0 0 The Russians captured a carload of iron crosses marked “For pres entation after the capture of Mos cow” the other day. Maybe the Nazis would now like to mark the whole Russian campaign "Opened by mistake.” • . . OF ALL THINGS! “The speaker told the audience that America should develop a cheerful-sounding air raid warning. Victory chimes were suggested.— News item. This seems eligible for the Baloney of the Year Award. Amer icans are complacent and cocky enough without trying to provide an air raid signal with an entertain ment motif. It is the most cockeyed sugges tion so far made. Any minute now we await word from the man who has invented an air raid signal that will combine the music of Irving Berlin with the soothing qualities of another aspirin tablet. Not to mention the fellow who will come forward with an idea for tying up the signals with a system of radio crooning. * * * Employees of Yale university have joined the C.I.O. by a vote of 462 to 143, which must be quite a shock to conservatives under the elms. We can now understand why the Blues put so much more feeling, when they sing the Boola Boola song, into the line “Break through the Crimson line, its strength to defy.” This labor movement at our uni versities suggests interesting possi bilities. Perhaps ultimately the whole jurisdictional issue will be settled by having the C.I.O. play the A.F. of L. in the Yale Bowl. 0 0 0 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU They’ll bake you a cake with frost ing, With your name done in candle lights, And I’ll wish you happy returns of the day, But I'll worry about your nights. • • • A Newport mansion costing more than a million dollars was sold at auction for around $23,000 the other day. To dream you dwell in marble halls these days is enough to make your hair stand on end. “A reed shaken with the wind?” No. “A man clothed in soft rai ment?” No. “A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written. Behold, I send my mes senger before thy face. . . . Verily I say unto you. Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist.” Such was the testimony of Jesus (Matt. 11:7-11) about the man who in our lesson of today bears his tes timony concerning Jesus. I. John: the Preacher of Repent ance (vv. 1-3). The times in which a man lives will often make or break him. If times are dark and difficult most men submit to the burden of the day without protest or effort. But not so with John. The period in which he lived is graphically brought before us as we consider the names of civil and religious leaders mentioned in verses 1 and 2. Tiberius Caesar, the emperor, was virtual dictator, “talented, ambitious, cruel, licen tious, infamous, inhuman” (Van Doren). Pilate was the governor of Judea, who later condemned Jesus to the cross. Herod was a seducer and murderer. Annas and Caiaphas shared the infamy into which the priesthood had fallen. God needed a man with a flam ing message of judgment, and He had him ready out in the wilder ness, far from decadent Rome and spiritually dead Jerusalem. Upon this man John came the message, a word from God—“Repent”—which stirred the whole countryside. But he had even a greater mission. II. John—the Forerunner of Jesus (vv. 4-6). He humbly identifies himself as the voice In the wilderness prophe sied by Isaiah. His was the impor tant duty of preparing the way for the coming of the Lord Jesus. The picture is that of the prep aration for the coming of an orien tal monarch. When he “was about to make a journey, a servant was sent before him to prepare the high way. Valleys needed to be filled, hills lowered, crooked places made straight, rough ways made smooth. Thus, before men would be ready to receive Christ, moral obstacles must be removed, men must repent of their sins and turn from them” (Erdman). Isaiah says that “all flesh shall see the salvation of God,” some thing which God has made possi ble, but which we have not even yet fully carried out. The gospel is uni versal in its character—for all man kind. This prophetic word will, of course, have its complete fulfillment when the King comes to reign. Then “they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them” (Jer. 31:34). III. John—the Follower of Jesus (vv. 15-17). The humility of the man, his rec ognition of true greatness in Christ, his willingness to efface self, is seen in the words of these verses and in such other passages as John 1:29- 30, where he directed his disciples to Jesus, whom they followed, and John 3:26-30, where in response to' the effort to make him jealous of Jesus because his (John’s) disci ples followed Him, John replied, “He must increase, but I must de crease.” He was glad to be the friend of the Bridegroom who re joiced when the bridegroom came (John 3:29). He declared himself unworthy to loose the latchet of Christ’s shoe (Luke 3:16). The Christian virtue of humility is evil spoken of by a world of force and hatred, but it is still precious in the sight of God, and the orna ment par excellence of Christian character. “Be clothed with humil ity: for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble” (I Pet. 5:5). As he put himself in the back ground, John put Christ forward as the one whose baptism would not be a material element, water, indicat ing the inward change of repent ance, but would be with Holy Ghost fire, cleansing and transforming life. However, the Christ who comes as a Saviour to the repentant one, comes also as the flaming fire of judgment upon the impenitent. There is wheat and chaff in the world of men, and the fan of Christ will soon separate the wheat which goes into His eternal gamer from the chaff which He will burn with unquenchable fire. Our God is a God of unfathom able grace, but He is also a God of severest judgment upon those “that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus ChrLt.” Read the solemn words of II Thessalonians 1:7-9. It is an awful thing to reject the Sa viour, and thus to make Him our Judge. Gay Pup Tea Towels “CITUATIONS” are what these ^ two pups seem to get into every day of the week. Embroider them on that new set of tea towels and let their antics decorate the kitchen towel rack. Single stitch and outline make these motifs; the bows could be appliqued. * * • As Z8230, 15 cents, you receive designs for the 7 tea towels and a matching pan holder. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo. Enclose IS cents lor each pattern desired. Pattern No Pattern No COLDS’ MISERV NEWS DISCOVERY say new users of Penetro, vanishing type salve You can enjoy a new experience when yon try Penetro for the first time. Discover this new enjoyment in rubbing colds’ miseries from muscles. Rub on Penetro as directed. It’s gone like vanishing cream. Helps two ways—inside, by vaporising; outside, by counter-irritation. For tonight say Good Night to colds! miseries with Penetro. Blessed by Doers The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. —James Oliver. but then’s do way around that if you want to hold ■ job. 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