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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C., FEBRUARY 13, 1942
by
Eleanor Roosevelt
DELIGHTFUL STORY
Mr. Rex Stout has sent me a de
lightful story, for which his sister
is responsible. I am going to give
it here, exactly as he has written
it to me:
“Jim, the young man who used to
sell me eggs, dropped in last eve
ning and I asked him how he was
making out in his new job at the
tool factory. ‘Fine,’ he said. In
spite of the expense of the baby he
and his wife were saving money ev
ery week.
“I said: ‘Of course, you’re buy
ing defense bonds with it?’ ‘No,’ he
said, ‘guess I ought to, but with
the baby to think of—such a re
sponsibility, our first baby—we just
feel we can’t afford it until we’ve
go.t maybe a thousand dollars put
away—then we can start buying de
fense stamps every week.’
“And Jim isn’t dumb by any
means, he’s a very intelligent young
man. I wonder how many Ameri
cans have the same understanding
he had—thinking that when they buy
•defense bonds or stamps, they are
giving something, making a contri
bution? I explained to Jim that de
fense bonds are the safest invest
ment in the world today—the best
and safest way for people like him
and his wife to save money.”
Someone suggested to me that de
fense bonds might well be given a
new name and come to be known as
freedom bonds, for they will not
only pave the way for freedom now,
but they may help us to economic
freedom in the post-war period.
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REAL OBJECTIVES
FOR YOUTH
In spite of rather gray looking
skies, I left Washington one after-
roon, hoping to land in New York
about 6:45. But we came down at
an unfamiliar airport, and I found
we were in Philadelphia and the
flight was cancelled. I drove to the
station and caught a train almost
immediately and reached my house
at 9:15, so I might just as well have
taken a five o’clock train out of
Washington.
I talked to some army boys on
the way over, who had just had
their orders. One youngster in a
sailor’s uniform sat just a few seats
ahead of me. When he turned
around, I felt sure he must have
added a few years to his age, for
he looked 14 instead of 18. They
tell me that the boys coming over
here from England to get their train
ing in flying, are very young, rang
ing from 16 to 20. Some of our own
pilots are 20 to 22. It is a curious
thing to me, that older people
seem so often to accept with com
placency these young armies. I re
bel, and yet I know an army must
be young.
I have a great desire to see our
fighting forces organized in the most
efficient possible way, by putting
each individual in the place where
he will serve best, because only in
that way shall we shorten the horri
ble period through which we are
living. I want to see everyone in
civilian life at the present time, do
ing the job he is best able to do,
and doing it as well as he possibly
can.
If women are able and skillful
enough to go into factories, I hope
they will. I hope that all men,
young or old, who work in factories
in defense industries, will do the
most efficient job that can be done.
Whatever the jobs are that people
are doing, I want them done by the
right people and in the best possible
way, because that is the way to
win this war.
Every day that goes on, means
more young men in every land are
dying. I am confident that our cause
is just, but I want to see youth free
again to fight a different kind of
war, a war to find a way by which
we all live more decently and hap
pily together.
All of us know that, at the end
of this war, that other war has to
be fought, and we shall need youth
to fight it. I hope that, in every fac
tory today, and in every service
camp, young people are discussing
the kind of a world they intend to
build after the fighting is over.
It may not be the kind of a world
in which my generation has lived,
but if it achieves the ends for which
we are fighting—real freedom for
every individual regardless of race,
creed or color, economic freedom
for every individual who is willing
to put his capacities to work of some
kind—then these horrible days will
have obtained good results. We have-
to live through them and I accept
the necessity, but at the same time
I hope we do our share in civilian
life to prepare for a different and
better future world.
C. S. AIR PILOTS
AND THEIR JOBS
Traveling by airplane these days
is extraordinarily interesting, be
cause there is nearly always a quota
of pilots aboard returning from hav
ing ferried planes to some place.
Some of these men are doing a great
many hours of flying, more hours
than we would have thought consti
tuted real safety in ordinary times.
I wonder if, in our communities,
people are aware of the fact that
these boys from all over the coun
try, are dropping in and out, deliv
ering planes or picking them up.
Suits of Every Imaginable
Type Set the Fashion Pace
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
■^JOW that the challenge
of “our country at
war" has been brought
home to designers, manu
facturers, merchandisers and the
American woman, there’s a neap of
constructive thinking and planning
going on about the matter of creat
ing apparel that will serve well dur
ing the stress of the times.
To this end two lines of thought
are in progress. The one recognizes
that whether their service be volun
teer or paid, thousands of women
will be engaged in activities that
will require dress tuned to the par
ticular type of defense work as
signed them. This means that func
tional, utilitarian clothes are abso
lutely imperative. On the other
hand, it is no less important that
women maintain a high morale.
To this problem all who are carry
ing on in the fashion field agree that
the suit, or the jacket dress that
looks like a suit, is the perfect an
swer. There is no doubt that a tre
mendous suit season is at hand for
spring and the coming summer. As
an antidote for low spirits, style cre
ators believe in color. Suits may be
ever so simply styled, but they’ll be
colorful!
The very fact that suits are be
ing so simply styled is resulting in
an increasing enthusiasm among
women to “make their own.” Wheth
er your taste runs to spun rayons,
gabardines, jersey or tweedish cot
tons that look like wool, many of
the most desirable materials are so
inexpensively priced that they act as
another incentive to do your own
sewing. If you take advantage of
the magic of modern sewing ma
chine attachments, you’ll find you
can actually be a fashion standout
in the costume you make. Now
adays experienced seamstresses as
well as beginners are surprised to
find how easy ruffling, pleating, shir
ring and other distinctly “couturier
finishes are if you use modem ma
chine attachments.
The three suits pictured in the il
lustration above are of the simple
type the average woman can make
at home. For your first spring
costume, why not break into a gay
colored print? A neat printed rayon
weave is used for the jacket-dress
ensemble shown to the left in the
group illustrated above. In this in
stance, a rib-hugging long three-but
ton jacket tops a simple short-
sleeved frock. Patterns for simple
suits are available at all well-
equipped pattern departments.
The suit dress centered in the
picture above is easy to make.
Choose a bright rayon plaid for the
dress. The skirt is cut on the bias.
The jacket of monotone spun rayon
picks up the leading color in the
plaid. Shoulder insets of the plaid
unify the jacket and dress.
Spring elegance and tailored sim
plicity are combined in the sleek
figure-flattering gabardine suit to
the right in the above illustration.
All roads lead to gabardine this
spring. It is used for suits, for slacks
costumes and for uniforms as well.
The new gabardines come in all the
smartest colors.
The importance of common-sense
shoes built for comfort is particular
ly stressed this season. Highlighted
for walking (we will be doing con
siderably more of it this year) are
shoes of the type pictured in the
inset above. This swank and sturdy
low-heeled pump has an elasticised
front trimmed in bright nailheads.
Low-heeled types often come in gid
dy colors such as red or Kelly green.
Navy is also shown.
(Heleased by Western Newspaper Union.)
Rustic Style
If you are on the committee to
entertain soldiers on furlough, you
will very likely be tripping the light
fantastic. The newest party frocks
have a simple and rustic manner,
perfect for “barn-dances” and other
informal settings. The dress pic
tured above uses a quaint cotton
print with a bright yellow back
ground for the full peasant skirt,
which is caught up at the front hem
line with a red bow to reveal a red
taffeta petticoat. The bodice is of
colorful jersey. And a necklace and
hair ornament add color.
Spring Hats to Be
Casual and Pretty
Women will be wearing casual
hats with their functional tweeds
and gabardines. Big, soft, noncha
lant brims are featured. Color is
emphasized. And there are dashing
quill trims.
However, there is no indication in
the new showings that women are
going to get down to regulation
types. On the contrary, there is a
demand for pretty, feminine, flatter
ing hats made lovely to the eye with
charming flower trims. Cunning
little sailors, worn straight on the
head, will be garnished with flow-
efs, as will the new calots and the
smartly veiled pillbox types.
A vogue for profuse use of violets
is predicted. Little violet sailors
will be worn with matching corsages
of violets. Wide brims will be faced
with violet petals, and even brace
lets will be made of violets to
match hat and corsage.
Designers Use Patriotic
Red, White and Blue
A noted designer is turning out
slim dinner dresses in navy with
red and white panels at the front.
From another style creator come
daytime dresses in white with an
applique of red and blue disks. A
smart evening dress with a lor g,
narrow skirt of navy has a long-
torso blouse top done in horizontal
bands of red, white and blue.
Knitting Bag
A cleverly designed knitting bag
is on the market. It can be worn
with long strap over the shoulder.
It ties about the waist if so de
sired, and for greater convenience
it can be unfolded into an apron
that has three roomy pockets.
T IEUT. COM. GENE TUNNEY
' has rounded up a first-class set
of ring men for the navy. But the
army still has the top champ in a
fellow by the name of Joe Louis.
Many have said that the next
world’s heavyweight champion would
come from this war assemblage—
which is a dead-sure bet. It’s my
guess that his name will be Joe
Louis, if some unlooked for fate
doesn’t crowd in on the main act.
Or if army life doesn’t pack too
much extra weight on the Bomber’s
frame. It took him only a few days
to add an extra ten pounds after
he’d cleaned out Buddy Baer.
Army life can put on weight as
well as take it off. The ring has
never had a champion before who
spent so much time in a training
camp, who nicked off more miles
in road work, year after year, than
Jolting Joe. It will be interesting to
see how much Louis weighs some
three months from now.
Louis called the turn in his last
fight long before the fight was ever
made. He was training for Lou
Nova at the time. We were talking
about his first Buddy Baer meeting
and the Billy Conn fight. Always
ducking anything that looked like an
JOE LOUIS
alibi, the Bomber finally admitted
that he was stale and well below
par in both contests.
“Before I fought Buddy Baer in
Washington,” he said, “I was dead
tired. I trained in a hot place and
1 began to see black spots before
my eyes. I didn’t have no pep left.
1 hit Buddy plenty that time, but
there wasn’t much steam back of
my punches.”
It was all different in the second
Buddy Baer party after Joe had got
ten his rest and had recovered his
lost steam. Quite different.
Louis also admitted on the same
occasion that he wasn’t any too keen
before the Billy Conn roupdup.
“He’s a fast boy,” Louis said,
“but I wasn’t right. I was too slow.
Maybe he made me look slower, but
I can be faster than I was then. I
was still stale. I’ll be different for
Nova.”
Conn is the challenger picked for
the next Louis start, if there is an
other heavyweight battle soon. At
least, the slender Pittsburgher is the
only one given a chance.
As fine a boxer and as game a
kid as Conn is, I still think he got a
break in catching Louis below form.
Louis also got a break, on the odd
side.
“Here’s a funny thing,” Conn told
me, “the best punch I threw cost
me that fight. I’ll tell you how and
why. I had hoped and expected
to outbox him. I was doing that
through the middle of the 12th
round. But near the end of that
round I nailed Joe on the jaw with
a good punch. I saw his knees half
buckle and his eyes roll. I knew I’d
hurt him. I thought he was about
through. So I decided at that spot
I’d knock him out.
“I wasn’t content any longer to
win a decision. I got rough instead
of getting smart. If I hadn’t landed
that punch I’m pretty sure I
wouldn’t have taken the chance I
took—wading in and swinging flat-
footed. I gave him a still target
to hit in place of a moving target.
And I wasn’t hurt at the time. Don’t
let anyone tell you his body blows
had worn me down. They hadn’t.
“It was that belt on the head in
the 13th when I was trying to out-
punch him that turned the trick. It
isn’t often that your best punch costs
you a fight. But that’s what hap
pened to me.”
At His Best
It is my guess that Louis was only
keyed up in something like four
contests. One was against Max
Baer. The other was the second
Schmeling fight. The third was
against Tony Galento. The fourth
was his final shot against Buddy
Baer.
I know Louis was strung to the
top pitch in his second meeting with
Max Schmeling. He came near kill
ing the Black Uhlan in less than a
round. You can also gamble that
he was all set to wipe out Buddy
Baer quickly with his title at stake
just before entering army ranks.
Louis had made up his mind to put
his army uniform on the heavy
weight champion of the world.
He had no such personal feeling
against Buddy as he had against
Schmeling and Galento. But his
fighting pride was riding high.
Gems of Thought
CO NEAR is falsehood to the
^ truth that a wise man would
do well not to trust himself on
the narrow edge.—Cicero.
Dost thou love life? Then do
not squander time, for that is
the stuff life is made of.—
Franklin.
The stone that is rolling can gather
no moss;
ff'ho often removeth is sure of loss.
—Tusser.
Bad men will excuse their
faults, good men will leave
them.—Ben Jonson.
Study as if you were to live
forever. Live as if you were to
die tomorrow. — Isidore of
Seville.
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