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I THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1942 Kathleen Norris Says: We Need Courage, Laughter and Faith (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Nelson s Winning Game A short while back Craig Wood, U. S. Open golf champion, rated Byron Nelson as the finest all - around shotmaker in golf. Nelson backed up this generous trib ute from the Open titleholder by com ing back in 30 at Miami late last month to win the $10,000 Open by a matter of five strokes. Since few know more about Nel son’s game than Leo Diegel, a smart observer, we asked the diag nosing Diegel to let us in on the secret of a great golfer’s style and success. “I’ve known Byron since he was a Texas kid,” Diegel said. "I’ve studied his game as it changed with the years. I think I can tell you something about him. “In the first place, I would say that Byron Nelson, like most of those Texans, is one of the best competitors I’ve ever known iif golf. What makes a great competitor, you might ask? My answer is determi nation, unbroken concentration on every shot and his refusal to be dis couraged by a few bad shots or a few bad holes. Nelson sinks his teeth in every round, concentrates on every shot, and battles it out to the last putt. He has a fine golfing philosophy, which so many lack— and that is to take the breaks of the game as they happen to come, good or bad. Grantland Rice America needs battalions of women ready to fly to their posts. If it is only wash ing dishes in a service club, or taking charge of the babies of young mothers to free them for defense work, there is something you can do. The Nelson Swing “Nelson,” Diegel continued, “has the soundest swing in golf. He is the finest long iron player I ever saw. He has one odd feature, and this is his wrist action. At the top of his backswing you will see almost no break of his left wrist. “Byron doesn’t cock his left wrist at all—or only slightly. He uses a strong, firm left hand and wrist that is always in control of the club- head, which he never lets dip. He hasn’t nearly as much body action as many good golfers have, for he lets his body work with his hands and arms. He also has almost per fect head action. I mean by this that his head remains in place until the bail is bit. “I don’t know of any golfer who has a more compact style of swing ing a club. Everything is under control. He has cut the margin of error to near zero. His Weakest Shot “I would say Byron’s weakest shot was the short chip,” Leo said. This is due to his lack of even slight wrist action on this stroke. He isn’t bad just off the green, but he isn’t as deadly as he is on other shots. I have often seen him play long irons from 200 or 220 yards away just as close to the pin as he would from 20 yards away. “Another factor is his perfect con fidence in his own swing. I’ve also seen him daop 8 or 10 balls on the turf in just average lies, take out a driver, and hit them all over 250 yards as straight as a rifle can shoot. “Too many golfers bother too much with unimportant detail*. They don’t concentrate enough on what their hands and wrists are do ing with the head of the club. Tog often they think about everything except swinging that clubhead through the ball. “You don’t swing a club with your hips and shoulders. You swing it with your hands. If you watch Nel son you get the idea that he isn’t using anything except his hands. Of course, he does, but he lets the rest of it fit in, not work against his hands. • • • Tough Competitors “Why is it those Texans are such tough competitors?” Diegel asked. “They come along with Ralph Gul- dahl, who wins two National Opens in a row. Then they give you a Jimmy Demaret who wins eight big tournaments in a few months. Then along comes Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson. Hogan is one of the most successful golfers that ever played. You may recall that he finished in the money 56 consecutive times be fore he slipped a little. Then at Miami he finished second after lead ing the field for three rounds. “Hogan uses his wrists and body much more than Nelson does. Ben, weighing only 133 pounds, has to do this—to get the distance needed to day. Hogan has a far greater body turn than Nelson uses, and more flexible wrists. Ben lets the club- head dip at least 18 inches or two feet more than Nelson does. Byron uses little more than a three-quarter swing. “Nelson, Hogan and Sam Snead make one of the most interesting studies in golf,” Diegel said. “All tnree are great golfers—three of the greatest we’ve ever had. By KATHLEEN NORRIS I F YOU are one of the many women who have been act ing badly since America went to war, now is the time for you to make a fresh start. Any woman who indulges in vague, groundless fears, com municates them to her neigh bors or allows the children of the household to be frightened is a bad American. Any woman who complains constantly of change, of the ris ing cost of food, of the things she once could afford ^nd can’t now is a bad American. Such women are not worthy of the protection and liberty their flag has given them; they are essential ly stupid, a drag upon the supreme effort to which all America is now committed. Nobody wants to hear their trou bles; there is not one of us women in our broad land today who has not plenty of her own. What we need from each other is courage and laughter, ingenuity in solving the new problems and filling the new blank spaces, and faith that looks, as the song says, “beyond the years.” If your boy is in the service he may not come home. Granted. Or ! he may come home blind or crip- j pled. Granted. But the CHANCES are that he will return to you whole and unhurt, and when he does you must be ready to help him live in the new world. A poorer world, a world burdened with tremendous problems, but, I believe, a happier one. A world with its eyes wide open to the fact that peace as well as war has its battles to win, and while there is a slum or a hungry baby or a work-hungry man un employed in that world, it can hold no prospect of a secure and honest | future. 1 Do you realize that in England, after all the bombings of the past year, the death rate was slightly BELOW what it had been in normal | years? What’s the answer? The answer is that the starving ( poor had been brought out of the fearful city slums, the men set to work, the women given jobs, and | all of them fed. And also because the children had been shipped to i country places, where, despite ex traordinary difficulties, they had I been slowly brought up to the levels j of luckier children, decently fed and i housed and trained. And because there was so much less motor traffic. It would be a very terrible battle that cost us 30,- 000 lives, and maimed and wounded 100,000 more of our boys. But that’s what careless driving cost us last year and will cost us this. Autos More Dangerous. You don’t tremble and shiver and shut doors and cower under beds because motor cars are racing ovir the highways, yet there is a greater : danger in a steering wheel trusted i to incompetent or intoxicated hands than in enemy bombs. Especially as bombs, which have not conquered i gallant England, must come thou- j sands of miles to reach us. Make no mistake, America and her Allies will win this war, as America has won every war, little or big, upon which she has en tered, even though the odds were j heavily against her. It may take I her a year to get her full forces j into action; and as she pushes the I invaders steadily out of one strong- I hold after another, it may take her J another year to finish the job. But time is on our side 1 THERE IS SOMETHING What can I do for national de fense? Thai's what all American women are asking today. Kath leen Norris believes there is something each of us can do, if it’s only taking care of children, entertaining service men or do ing any of the menial tasks wom en called to work in factories or on other defense projects must necessarily leave undone. We cannot all serve in the front lines, but we can all do our part to keep things running smoothly behind the lines. This is no time for selfish nagging and ground less fears. It is a time for cour age and for action, and there IS something you can do to help. Our resources are limitless; to compare the manpower of all the other nations of the earth to that of a united America, England, Russia, China, Holland and all the smaller nations—overwhelmed now, but not always to be powerless—is to show a comfortable four-fifths of the world’s fighting energy on our side. It is tragic, and we women feel it bitterly, that it must come to this; that evil must be invoked to over come evil, and peace-loving peoples be forced into the slugging tactics of the gutter. Can Signify Strife. But we can elevate, we can dig nify and justify it if we keep in mind the great objectives; that little na tions may live under just treaties in no fear of encroachment or moles tation, and that great nations shall constitute themselves the watchdogs over God’s peace in the world. Your job and mine is to make perfect our lives, outside and in. To go after health first of all, the all- over health that simple diet and plenty of walking and good sound nights of rest insure. To keep the spirit within us serene, realizing that this is poor, faulty old Terra Firma upon which we live—not Olympus or Eden or Valhalla, but a place of mistakes and blindness, wherein ev ery little while we have to pay in blood and sweat and tears for the in tervals of peace and harmony we win. To make home a place where fears and complaints don’t enter. Where Mother finds ways of making meatless meals delicious, of turning the blackout room into the cosiest place in the house, of holding tight to the thought that when Tom comes home, and his uniform is laid away, he must find a courageous, solvent, busy family, a family more than equal to the tremendous demands of war-time, and ready to help him in peace to find his place in the world. Wars used to be entirely a man’s business. He went away to remote parts, news of him trickled back only at long intervals, and the wom en could only worry, starve, roll lint and wonder what on earth all the shooting was about. It’s different now. We all belong in this war. America needs battal ions of women ready to fly to their posts; scores of San Francisco girls have called off the cotillions and shelved the bridge parties for the jobs of sentinel, intelligence officers, secretaries, nurses for Defense. If it is only washing dishes in a service club, or taking charge of the babies of half-a-dozen young mothers, to free them for defense work, there is SOMETHING you can do. And the sooner you get to it, the less you are going to worry and be afraid. ^ vwvMrdM v—— n—w ftetrs Eleanor Roosevelt PARENTS’ RESPONSIBILITY Iif the current issue of Parent’s Magazine, they give their second annual report on the nation’s chil dren. There is a general recogni tion of the grave responsibility of providing our children, in this war crisis, with the services necessary to preserve for them in the future, the things for which we today are fighting. The four freedoms will not mean much to them, if they are told that wq have preserved them for them, unless they are able to use those four freedoms. You can not be a citizen in a democracy and feel con fidence in your own ability to meet the future, unless in your childhood, the basic needs of every child are met, regardless of war conditions. The carrying out of this program to achieve this end, lies largely in the hands of the children’s bureau, and the different health and welfare projects under Administratpr Mc Nutt. But, I think it is the respon sibility of the Office of Civilian De fense to see that the needs are rec ognized. They must have the back ing of people in every community so that the defense councils will rec ognize the importance of meeting them. Such magazines as Parent’s Mag azine can do a great deal to bring before the public the needs of the children and the responsibility of the public towards those needs. I hope that many other magazines and publications will also recognize this responsibility. I must tell you that the pageant on the contribution of the Negro peo ple to the history of the United States, as given last night in the performance called “Salute to Ne gro Troops,” presented by the stage, screen and radio division of the Fight for Freedom Inc., was most moving and thrilling. Any citizen of the United States must have been proud when Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln, each came on the stage and spoke their own mes sage to their people, who loved de mocracy and liberty. It carried into one’s heart an emo tion, which must translate itself into a greater devotion to accept the challenge of this war, and to make of this nation the example which the founding fathers envisioned, but which we have never completely carried out. 4-H CLUB INTEREST I spent two hours at the office one morning and at 11 o’clock went down to meet with a group of the agri culture department extension people working on the 4-H club program. They told me what they had de veloped for their victory work in rural areas and assured me that they would co-operate in the OCD youth activities program in every possible way. Then we discussed how best the Office of Civilian-Defense could help them to carry out a program, which would not only make the community strong now, but leave it stronger at the end of the war to meet post war problems. VICTORY BOOK DRIVE The Victory Book campaign has started. This is a “nation-wide cam paign to collect reading materials for many needs, arising from the national defense and war program.” Miss Althea Warren has been given four months leave of absence from the Los Angeles public library to direct this campaign and she has her offices with the U.S.O. in the Empire State building in New York city. Good books of every kind are needed for the U.S.O. reading rooms. Each club house, of which there are now 400, with many more con templated, will have space for from 500 to 2,000 volumes. There era state directors in practically every state and your state librarian can give you the address of the special directors appointed for these collec tions. If you do not know where to write in your state, write to Miss Althea Warren, 1630 Empire State building. New York city, and she will tell you where to send your books. BLIND PERSONS HELP It is a wonderful thing to feel that in this emergency everyone wants to help. I was glad to hear that the New York Association for the Blind is starting a course for volunteers. The course is designed to train volunteer workers for serv ice with the blind. It will make it possible for them to help the blind to adjust to war conditions, which make even the or dinary occurrences of life more diffi cult. If you attend one of these courses and learn what modern pro cedures and policies are in New York city, you can be helpful in your own home town when you re turn there. ‘SAVE THE CHILDREN’ One morning, at the Office of Ci vilian Defense, I met with some 25 people who are working largely in the mountain areas for the Save the Children fund. They work, as far as possible, with the existing agencies and one of their main ac tivities is to salvage desks from schools that are being remodeled and to provide them for the smaller schools where no desks have been available in the past. In addition, they provide shoes and clothing for children who would otherwise be out of school. TONIGHTS to colds’ miseries. Slip away from achey muscles, sniffles, into sleep. Here’s dou ble help that acts almost instantly. Rub with Penetro. 25c. DCIkICTD A Use as directed. rCaRC I Kw LJERE is an adorable new fash- ion idea for little two to six ers! A simple, princess jumper topped with a gay bolero! Thus it is a frock to wear any season, any day—and a charming style too for all little figures. For outdoor play, in warmer seasons, the bo lero may be removed. So simple to make that you can finish it in a few hours, here is an outfit to add to your daughter’s collection of frocks. Plain or printed fabrics may be used. • • • Pattern No. 8080 is designed (or sizes 2, 3. 4. S and 6 years. Size 3 ensemble takes 2 yards 36-inch material, 3Va yards ric-rac. For this attractive pattern, send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 311 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose IS cents in coins lor Pattern No Size......... Name Address Water should never be poured on burning fat. It will spread the blaze. Flour will extinguish the blaze. • • • Always store baking powder in a tightly covered container. If it is exposed to the air some of the strength will be lost. • * * Store dried fruits in their origi nal packages, tightly covered, or place them in covered fruit jars. It is best not to wash them until time to use. • • • A raw potato put in soup that has too much salt in it and boiled for 10 minutes will remove the salty taste. • • • Fruit cake makes a delicious pudding served with either hard or hot sauce. Steam the fruit cake before serving. • • • Always cut toast in small squares when making cream toast. It is much easier served cut in this way. * • • The unsightly ring left by clean ing fluids, when used to remove spots, may be avoided by placing under the spot a pad made of thick absorbent cotton. Equalizing “My new girl friend’s very bright. She has brains enough for two.” “Then she’s just the girl for you.” Same With Difference Trying to give a friend a defi nition of “oratory,” a Negro said: “If you says black am whiie, dat’s foolish. But if you says black am white, an’ bellers like a bull, an’ pounds de table with both fists, dat’s oratory.” The Siren The leader of the Fire Service called at the house across the Flesh and Bones “Have you a hobby? Do you ride a horse?” “Yes, but HI have you kivz.-i it's no hobby!” It seems as though the usual unusual weather has been more unusual than usual. Hard to Carry Father — You ought to be ashamed of yourself, not knowing what you learned at school to day. Willie Brown always knows. Bobby—Yes, but he hasn’t so far to go home. Horse Relationship Under American horse-racing laws, thoroughbreds having the same sires but different dams are not half brothers or half sisters. Only those having the same dams are considered to be related. CALLOUSES To relieve painful callouses, burn ing or tenderness on bottom of feet and remove callouses—get these thin, soothing, cushioning pads. D-Scholls no-puds By Results We judge others according to results; how else?—not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.—George Eliot. Maidens’ Desire The desire to please everything having eyes seems inborn is maidens.—Salomon Gessner. /Relieves distress from MONTHLY^ FEMALE WEAKNESS Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound Tablets (with added iron) not only help relieve cramps, headache, backache but also weak, cranky, nervous feelings—due to monthly functional disturbances. Taken regularly — Lydia Pink- ham's Tablets help build up resist ance against distress of "dlfflcult days." They also help build up red ^lood^ollo^^abe^Urections^ In Charge “Had you complete control of the car at the lime 7 ” “No; my wife was with me.” way. “Pardon me, but are you the lady who was singing?” “Yes, I was singing. Why?” “Well, lay off the top notes, please. We've had the fire en gine out twice!” The less people know, the hard er it is to keep it to themselves. Modest, Indeed Mrs. Black was vigorously pow dering her face before going out. “Why do you go to all this trou ble?” asked her husband, who was waiting impatiently. “Modesty, my dear,” was the reply. “I’ve no desire to shine in public!” Energizing -Vitalizing i/an (amp-' POF^K Bean 5 Van (amps PORK .md BEANS Preserving the Best The only hope of preserving what is best lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours. oNiy (REire EVER. M0 THAT es GOOD FHE TlM£. are . ;W£LL! » AND WHAT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ME IS CAMEL'S EXTRA —LESS NICOTINE IN THE smoke THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURN.KG CAMELS COM rAl« 28% LESS NICOTINE [ha „ the avenge oM* to independent ^rS^smokeltseifl CAMEL -THE CIGARETTE OP COSTLIER TOBACCOS