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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.”
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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!”
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chool Lesson
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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.
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“CITUATIONS” are what these
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every day of the week. Embroider
them on that new set of tea towels
and let their antics decorate the
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and outline make these motifs;
the bows could be appliqued.
* * •
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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.
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