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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ JANUARY 23, 1942 SPHERE was a time, not so many dynasties ago, when the New York Giants were the most valu able franchise in baseball—worth more than almost any stock on the big exchange. Now the same Giants are in a spot where it may well take a million dollars to bring them a first-division ball club, where the success of the Brooklyn Dodgers kept them floating neck deep in the surf. It is a far and eerie cry from McGraw’s Giants of 1905 to Mel Ott’s Giants of 1942 and the home- run hitter from Gretna, La., has a long and rough pull upward to get them on the old camping grounds. That 1905 delegation was the first batch of McGraw Giants I ever saw in action, and it still remains in memory among the best in the game. At any rate, you’ll find no MEL OTT stronger battery work today than Mathewson and McGinnity pitching to Bresnahan. There was plenty of Irish on that Giant squad—McGinnity, Bresnahan, McGann, Devlin and Mike Donlin, to mention only a few. It was the be ginning of a new Giant history that was packed with merry sagas up until the last three years when Bill Terry’s material dropped to the sec ond-division class and floundered out of polite baseball society. The Giants, in their day and time, have had such pitchers as Mathew son, McGinnity, Wiltse, Ames, Mar- quard, Tesreau, Nehf, Schupp—and the great Hubbell. They have had such ball players as Devlin, Bres nahan, Donlin, Beauty Bancroft, Heinie Groh, Pep Young, Buck Her zog, Larry Doyle, Bill Terry, George Kelly, and a long line of others well up on the list. It is different now. Ott’a Job No one can expect Mel Ott to reach into the dugout and bring forth a miracle. These are tough rebuild ing days for any owner or man ager. Ton’ll read where the Dodgersneed maybe two or three additions— where the Cardinals can stand pat— where the Reds need a few changes —where the Pirates need pitchers —bat the Giant need takes in the pitching staff, the infield and the out field. Mel Ott is a smart, keen baseball man who knows his trade. But he will need at least 10 or 12 new, good ball players before hp will be back in old Giant territory, around the top. And good ball players are not picked up around the first comer. It is hard enough to get one or two good new men, much less 10 or 12 or more. Someone has let the Giant ma chine go to rust. It will take a large bale of money to have it shining again. MacPhail at Brooklyn has proved the job could be done. But he found no substitute for money on his way up. For that matter, Tom Yawkey and others have found that even money isn’t always quite enough, no matter how much you spend. The Changing Years I can take you back to the days when the Yankees were struggling on the old hilltop and the Dodgers were just another club in the Na tional league. At this time the Giants were the Mt. Everest of baseball. Under McGraw they were winning 10 pennants. The Yankees and Dodgers were trying to get out of the second division the greatei part of the time. Last fall the Yankees and Dodgers met in the World Series show with the Giants so deep in the second division that it took a deep-sea diver to locate their bodies. Just who it was that let the Gianta go to seed—Stoneham or Terry— isn’t so important now if the right move is made to bring them back. But the point is that the Dodgers and the Cardinals are already strongly fixed around the top—the Reds have the pitching that may again carry them close—the Pirates and the Cubs have been building for another upward surge. It is easy enough to understand the killing job Mel Ott faces in clearing most of these hurdles, especially if first baseman Babe Young goes into the army. Kathleen Norris Says: Women Pay Great Price for Indiscretion (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) My married life teas perfect until a man I knew in college turned up in our neighborhood. The story of our affair is not new. All the lessons in the world can't save me from what is going on now. By KATHLEEN NORRIS O LANGUAGE is strong enough to convince young boys that theft and forg ery are wrong. And not merely wrong in being punishable crimes. Wrong because of what they do to a boy’s character, even if he is never found out. Wrong in boyhood, because the stolen quarter or the forged school excuse are steps to more serious forgeries and thefts, and once schooled well in those di rections it takes heroic fortitude —it takes indeed a complete change of personality, to resist later temptations. In the same way I wish I could find words impressive enough to help girls to see just how great is the price women have to pay for that thrilling “giving in” to the young lovers of school and college days. If your husband told you, one of these cosy winter evenings, that dur ing his senior year at college he supported himself entirely by steal ing and forging, you would be hor rified. You couldn’t laugh it off, tell him that it didn’t make the slightest difference to you. You could not honestly say, “I love you for what you are, dear, not for what you were.” Having sold his honor once, you would feel—and the world would feel —he might sell it again. And in ex actly the same way a man knows that a girl, who was reckless in giv ing her favors in girlhood, is not go ing quite suddenly to attain an en tirely different position toward what ought always to be the sacred sym bol of her ■ honor. These are old-fashioned phrases, and to girls mine seems an old-fash ioned attitude. But 1 can , assure them that, viewed in the light of later years, they will see the whole thing differently. It would be easier for a young wife to explain to her husband that she lifted some money out of the department-store cash register when she was working there years before her marriage, than to explain that she was intimate for a few months with one of the men who is known to her husband in business. Buried Secrets Reappear. Of course, if she can avoid it, and hope permanently to avoid it, a girl doesn’t tell her prospective husband these things. But that security isn’t always as sound as it seems. Hardly a day goes by without bringing me a desperate letter from some young wife who has supposed her secret long forgotten and buried. Many of these women say that, feeling it would be more comfort able to admit to the affair before marriage and start on an apparent ly honest basis, they have softened the story by saying that the man was "someone you never met. He died the following year.” This does smooth things over for the moment. Few men, especially in anticipation of an immediate marriage to an adored woman, will waste time on jealousy of a dead man. But matters are much worse when the perverse turn of events brings this man into contact with the family again, and the unsuspect ing husband is perhaps cordial to him. So that the wife must either make a clean breast of the whole thing, or put up with the insuffer able situation of having a secret with one of the guests of the house that would crush her husband’s pride and faith in her if it were made known. NOT WORTH IT No amount of good advice will keep some girls from saying to themselves “Everyone else does y, why shouldn't l?” So they willingly give away their future security and peace of mind. Per haps they do “get away with it" for a while. But sooner or later they must come face to face with their earlier indiscretion, only to find that it really wasn’t worth it after all. Be sure to read Kath leen Norris’ advice to the “J. G.” of this letter, a happily married woman whose girlhood folly threatens to destroy her home and the love of her invalid hus band. Such a case is that of “J.G.,” who writes me from Georgia: “When I married my husband, I loved him,” says her letter, “but now after 11 years of unclouded hap piness I know that my early love was only a shadow of what real love could be! He is not a strong man; we live for our garden, our books, and our one daughter. "Reggie was invalided after a terrible bout with pneumonia four years ago, and we took what capital we had and bought a tiny farm, which my nine-year-old Rachael and I have brought to the point of being an asset rather than a liability. Meanwhile Reg had started writing, little bookish essays at first, for which he was not paid; later more ambitious literary studies, one of which is to be published in book form in the spring. Our lives were per fect—perfect perfect, until a man I used to know as a coUege student turned up in the neighborhood. “The story of our old affair is no new one to you. I thought it con cerned only ourselves. I was away from home for the first time, and ‘every other girl did it, why not I?’ The 15 years between that time and this have been disciplinary years, and I know they have made me a finer and wiser woman than anything that was promised by the nature of that girl of 19. “But all the lessons in the world can’t save me from what is going on now. I suppose you would call it blackmail. Victor amuses Reggie, who calls him a ‘rough diamond,’ and Victor wants to come and live with us. He has no job, no money, no ambition. He has grown heavy and lazy, but on the three occasions when he has called hq has, as I say, made himself amusing, and outlined what he would like to do with the farm to develop it. “Oh, Reg wouldn’t divorce me or leave me,” the letter concludes, “but his faith in me, his pleasure in what he calls my ‘lily’ girlhood, would re ceive a terrible shock. He is not strong; he cannot go about as other men do. He has so few pleasures! His utter pride in Rachael and me is the greatest of them all.” I’ve written "J.G.” telling her that the only way out is the way of full confession. That means she can dis miss the odious Victor in no uncer tain terms and then resume her hap py way of life with no further refer ence to the cloud that has come up so suddenly. Victor will have her old letters, of course, and she the sting of old memories. And Reg will have to replace his idealistic love for ^lis wife with something less fragile—less perfect. I wonder what her answer would be today if she could hear that girl, of 15 years ago, asking, "What's the difference?” THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY Dear Ma: Well from what I read in the I papers and hear on the raddio I gess the boys in the army are a lot cooler then the folks back home in civilyun life. I hope you and pop half not had a breakdown liste.-ung to all them air raid warning tests and trying to follow all the different orders. The army has one thing on the civilyun, it don’t have to work in so much confusion. • • • I got your letter about dad being a air warden. I knew he wood want to do his bit but I half to laugh when 1 think of him ordering anybody to keep away from windows as he is always in a window looking out most of the time. • • • I wish you could realize what a change has come over the boys here. They now want to fight anywhere and most anybody will do. But they put Japs at the top of their list. The more news we get about the treacherous stuff at Pearl Harbor and the brave work of our boys the soarer we get. Sergeant Mooney when he read about the Japs using a two-man submarine said it was probably no sub at all but just one of them barrels they juggle in the circus. And he says even two .Taps in a sub would only be about half a man anyhow. 4> * * They serprised us all right but they got a serprise coming and how. I just heard a definition of a isola tionist. A isolationist is a fellow who thinks a net under a trapese is foolish on account of he is only a spectator anyhow. • * * Well I see where the draft age is to be extended to 44 which dis poses of any idea I may get out soon witch I don’t want to do no more anyhow. A few weeks ago I was kicking like all the rest of the boys and asking what was the sense of all this time in a army with no body to fight but now that we got more people fighting us at one time than ever before it all is different. • « * You may laugh mom but this is a fact that we ain’t been worrying half about what happens to us in the war lately as we been worried pbout the folks back home with all them mayors broadcasting orders at once. I could picture you rushing around shopping for sandbags and pop hav ing a fit because he couldn’t find out how to shut off the gas in case of a raid. Still you better follow instruc tions as best you can as nobody can tell what may happen only I wish the mayors could be as calm as the people. I tuned in one night when Mr. LaGuardia was talking. It was such a cool calm talk I almost felt the war was over but you could of knocked me over with a feather when he wound up his talk by say ing: “Well, I don’t expect any at tack TONIGHT. The weather is unfavorable.” What a crack that was. I hope it did not scare you any. • • • There is a lot of rumors around camp and I think something is up, but I don’t know where we may get sent. Nothing would serprise me and 1 don’t care no more where I go as long as it gives me a chance to do my bit for the greatest country on earth. And I hope when we see action it won’t take no umpires to find out who won. • • 4i Well take care of yourself, do not let those air raid hints scare you too much and say a prayer for me now and then as this is the kind of war when they will all be needed. Your son, Oscar • • • ’ THE INNER CALL (“Hitler says an inner call caused him to take supreme command.”— News item.) He orders this and orders that— He leaps into the newest brawl; He rages, acts or stands quite pat. . According to “the inner call.” He hastens to his mountain place Or leaves it with no word at all; He gallops, or he slows his pace . . . Responding to "the inner call.” He makes a plan, then cuts it out; He quits the front to hire a hall; He turns from confidence to doubt... It’s all a case of “inner call.” Oh, on some future day he’ll find He’s bashed his head against the wall; The reason will then be defined . . . ’Twas nothing but that “inner call!” • • • “Both Germany and America had depressions. But while a German experienced an immense regenera tion of labor, trade and art, Roose velt did not succeed in altering anything.”—Adolf Hitler. As Elmer Twitchell asks, “What’s that guy smoking anyhow?” • * • Elmer Twitchell says he under stands that when the war hit that country the Wild Man of Borneo hoisted the white flag, came in on the run and asked protection from civilization. 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.) Lesson for January 25 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS LESSON TEXT—Matthew 4.1-11. GOLDEN TEXT—For we have an high priest . . . (who) was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.—Hebrews 4 15. “We have sot a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted luce as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15, R.V.). We recognize that Jesus was tempted as the Messiah (see Matt. 4:3, 6) and as One who had no sin, and yet He was tempted in all points as we are; and we may learn from His temptation how to meet tempta tion and be victorious over it. I. Temptation. It is the common lot of all man kind to be tempted (I Cor. 10:13). The strongest ana most noble of men are subject to it; angels were tempted — yes, even Jesus was tempted. We need to know about temptation, so we note 1. What It Is (v. 1). Temptation is of the devil. It is, as Principal Fairbairn expressed it, “seduction to evil, solicitation to wrong. It stands distinguished from trial thus: trial tests, seeks to discover the man’s moral qualities or character; but temptation persuades to evil, de ludes that it may ruin. God tries. Satan tempts.” Note that temptation is not sin, but yielding to the temptation is sin. We are told by James (Jas. 1:13- 15) that man is tempted by his own lusts. He also tells us that God may permit temptations or trials to test our faith (Jas. 1:2, 3), but His pur pose is only to prove us able to stand. God does not suffer us to be tempted beyond endurance, but pro vides a way of escape (I Cor. 10:13). 2. How It Works (vv. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9). Satan has only three tempta tions, although he is a master at giving them different appearances. The temptation of Jesus followed the same threefold line as that of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:6), which is described in I John 2:16 as the gen eral temptation of all men, namely, “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.” Observe how Satan worked on Jesus: (a) By appealing to the flesh (vv. 2, 3). Jesus had fasted 40 days, and Satan took advantage of that fast to sug gest that He use His divine power of creation to satisfy His hunger. To do so would have been to deny His very mission on earth. Satan observes in man the normal appetites of his body, excites them to a high degree, and then tempts him to satisfy them in an improper way. (b) By appealing to pride (vv. 5, 6). God had promised to keep Jesus “in all his ways” (Ps. 91: 11), but casting Himself from the temple was not one of God’s “ways” for Him. The devil wants us to be presump tuous and call it faith, and this is his pitfall for one who really wants to believe—cause him to become a fanatic and substitute foolish pre sumption for faith, (c) By appeal ing to the eyes (vv. 8, 9). By show ing Christ the kingdoms of the earth in some kind of striking panorama, or moving picture, he offered a short cut to their rule by a brief act of worship of him, rather than by way of the cross. The devil showed his real purpose here. He wants wor ship—he wants us to bow to him in stead of to God. II. Our Lord Was Victorious Over Satan. We, too, can triumph in His bless ed name. To do so we need to study the way of victory. 1. How to Gain It (w. 4, 7, 10). Three steps appear: (a) By the right use of Scripture. If our Lord needed and used that weapon, how can we possibly do without it? How can we use it if we do not study it, and hide it in our hearts (Ps. 119: 11)? (b) By complete dependence upon God. Every Scripture used by Jesus against Satan honored God the Father. We cannot fight Satan in our own strength. Luther was right— “Did we in our own strength confide. Our striving would be losing.” The real victory for the Christian is to bring Satan to the foot of the cross. Christ defeated him complete ly there, and we may plead that victory, (c) By denouncing Satan. Jesus sent him on his way. We may do the same, in Jesus’ name. It is always a serious error to argue with Satan, or even to discuss mat ters with him. He is not divine, but he is a supernatural being with knowledge and cunning which are too much for us. Meet him with Scripture, honor God by your faith in Christ, then “resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (Jas. 4:7). 2. What It Brings (v. 11). When the defeated devil left Christ, an gels came and ministered to Him. The overcoming of temptation brings victory, peace, and blessed rest. This is ever true in the life of the believer. Temptations victoriously met make one stronger in meeting the next temptation. There is al ways a next one, for we read (Luke 4:13) that the devil left Christ only “for a season.” UOUSEHQLD UMTS Don’t open cans or chop ice in the sink—you will damage the enamel. • • * Don’t keep green bananas in the refrigerator. They ripen at room temperature. * * * If you like the flavor of cloves, try adding a few whole ones to the fat in which doughnuts are fried. * * • Paintbrushes, when not in use, should be soaked in turpentine and washed in warm soapsuds before they are stored away. * * * Moisten dry stove polish with vinegar instead of water and your stove will take on a better polish. Keep spices tightly covered and away from the heat. Otherwise, much of the flavor may be lost. • • • It is time to change the water in the goldfish bowl when the water is so warm fish come to tile top of the bowl for air. Goldfish like to be kept cool. Treading on Air Even when the bird walks one feels that it has wings.—Lemierre. ® n "*A P J75BlSSSS: QIINIIIPLErS^HEn COLDS Mother—Give YOUR Child This Same Expert Carel At the first sign of a chest cold the Dionne Quintuplets' throats and chests are rubbed with Children’s Mild Musterole—a product made especially to promptly relieve dip- tress of children’s coPU and resulting bronchial and croupy coughs. Musterole gives such MUSteroiE wonderful results because it’s more than an ordinary "salve.” It helps break up local congestion. Since Musterole is used on the Quintuplets you may be sure mothsr. It’s just about the BEST product madel IN 3 STRENGTHS Children's Mild Muster ole. Also Regular and Ex tra Strength for grown ups who preferastronger product. All drugstores. Growth of Palm T’ ee After a palm reaches a height of only about eight feet, its trunk rarely increases in diameter, even when the tree grows to be more than a hundred feet tall. ♦ Per Cake Vitamin A-3100 Units lint.) Vitamin B,-130 Units lint.)' Vitamin 0—400 Units lint.) Vitamin Q—40-VJ Units (Sh. Bear.) Vitamins B|, D and G ate not appreciably lost in the oven, they go tight into the bread. For Great Cause No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause.—Theo dore Roosevelt. Actual sales records in Post Exchanges and Canteens show Camels are the favorite cigarette with men in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNINa CAMELS CONTAINS 28% Less Nicotine than the average of the 4 other largest-aelllng cigarettes tested — less than any of them —according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself l CAMELS THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS