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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ MARCH 6, 1942 Fired! Captain—Is this gun working? Private—No, sir. It’s been dis charged. Quite Simple Sully—Wkat's your idea of a simph wedding? Joan—One that costs twice as much us the family can afford. t-IORNSBY’S entry into basebaU’s Hall of Fame brings up once more an ancient argument. Who have been the greater hitters—the right-handers or those who swing from the left side? The female of the speeches is deadlier than the male. Ain’t It So? Philosopher—And what do we want in this world to make us happy? Cynic—The things we ain’t got. What’s Wrong With That? Exam. Paper—If it took seven men four hours to dig a ditch four feet deep and two feet wide, sixty feet long, how long would it take three men to dig the same ditch? Bright Student—No time at all, the ditch is already dug. 'Best’ Man Best man at a wedding in Greece is, in one way, the lucky man. He gets the bride’s first kiss! IECETABI oouwive • In NR (Nature’s Remedy) Tablets, there are no chemicals, no minerals, no phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are dif ferent—act different. Purely vegetable—a combination of 10 vege-a 1 ingredients formulated over 50 years j. Uncoated or candy coated, their action is depend able, thorough, yet gentle, as millions of NR’s have proved. Get a lOf Con- vincer Box. Larger economy sizes, too. COATIP •r REGULAR! HH TO-KIGHT; TOMORROW ALRIGHT The left-handed swingers offer you Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, George Sisler, Lou Gehrig, Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker and Ted Williams for a starting lineup. This is quite a col lection of talent to move against. The right-handers counter with Rog ers Hornsby, Hans Wagner, Napo leon Lajoie, Ed Delehanty, Harry Heilmann and Joe DiMaggio—a pretty fair crop also. The left-hander, being closer to first base, has more than a full stride’s advantage. I’d say the left- handed hitting side had a slight edge, but nothing to rave about. For Hornsby, Wagner, Lajoie, Dele hanty and DiMaggio could also lean against the leather. Don’t forget that Hornsby aver aged above .100 for four consecutive years, taking in his average for that time, which is something. An Odd Turn Baseball happens to be the one game in which the left-handed hit ter takes a high place in any all- time ranking. In golf, no left-hander has ever won a big championship. No left hander has ever won the U. S. Open or British Open, the U. S. Amateur Ruined by Servants More have been ruined by their servants than by their masters.— C. C. Colton. ROGERS HORNSBY or the British Amateur crown. In fact, no left-hander has even come close to any major golf event. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. 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They are apt tc become over-taxed and fail to filter excess acid and other impurities from the life-giving blood. You may suffer nagging backache, headache, dizainess, getting up nights, leg pains, swelling—feel constantly tired, nervous, all worn out. Other signs of kidney or bladder disorder are some times burning, scanty or too frequent urination. Try Doan'* Pills. Doan's help the kidneys to pass off harmful excess body waste. They have had more than half a century ql public approval. Are recom mended by grateful users everywhere. Ask your neighbor! Doans Pills There have been good left-handed golfers. But no great ones—no Jones, Vardon, Hagen, Hogan or Nelson. The portside entries can play in the low 70s, they can break 70 here and there, but they are lost in major events. In golf there are no such left- handed stars as Cobb, Ruth, Jack- son, Speaker and many others. Just why this is no scientist seems to know. If so many people can handle a baseball bat so effectively as left handers, why not golfers? In Other Sports The same is true in tennis. There have been good left-handed tennis players, but few champions. Nor man Brookes was one. The Austra lian was a star. R. L. Murray was another. But the crushing preponderance is all on the other side—Bill Tilden, Bill Johnston, Rene Lacoste, Ells worth Vines, Don Budge, Maurice McLoughlin, Bill Lamed, Fred Per ry, Anthony Wilding, Norris Wil liams, on through the present gen eration. The star right-handers in tennis outnumber the present gen eration. The star right-handers in tennis outnumber the star left-hand ers by ten to one. The same is true in polo. All great polo players have been right-hand ed swingers — Devereux Milburn, Tommy Hitchcock, Cecil Smith, Luis Lacey. I can’t recall any left-hand ed polo players. Maybe there are none. In games where you pick up some form of a bat to hit the ball, base ball is the only sport that can show you a line of top-notch left-handed swingers. There have been great left-handed pitchers — Waddell, Grove, Ruth, Pennock, Gomez, Plank. And foot ball has known fine left-footed kick ers and fine left-handed passers. But outside of baseball the left-handed hitter is far below the average of his right-handed rival. We’ll still let the scientists figure this out. About Hornsby Hornsby has been something more than a great hitter, a fine infielder and a winning manager. He also is one of the best instructors that base ball ever has known. For some un known reason baseball never has been too hot on the instruction side. The main idea in baseball is to swing tbe bat on a line, not up or down. I’ve seen Hornsby correct this fault more than once. If base ball ever had the training and tbe teaching that golf gets the improve ment wonld be terrific. Latest Silhouette Combines Box Pleats With Long Torso By CHERIE NICHOLAS T N DISCUSSING and planning for A a program of timely dress for women during the war period, it has been definitely conceded by every one concerned in fashion industries and design that in order to render the highest service women must see to it that they are an inspiration in appearance as well as in deed. This sentiment is reflected in the charming costumes illustrated above. These models, selected from a galaxy designed and displayed by the style creators of Chicago in t their spring showings, are just the sort that women will love to wear and soldiers will take delight in see ing. Gay in color and young in feeling is the ensemble shown to the left in the foreground of the above illustra tion. Here a navy coat in spun rayon and wool mixture is worn over a red and white printed crepe frock. The self-fabric ties, tipped with little plastic dice, repeat the print motif of the dress, thus mak ing a new-looking closing for the coat. White saddle stitching trims pockets, sleeves and the red leather applique on the coat front. To the right in the foreground a novelty striped print in white and red on green ground is paired with a bright red spun rayon and wool jacket. Self fabric ruching trims the dress collar which is worn outside the cardigan jacket. The skirt has all-around box pleats below a dee; hip yoke. The costume shown to the righl in the above illustration con veys the most welcome and highly important style news, that the bo lero costume has returned in all its glory to the fashion picture. You will see boleros played up through out the style program this season. In this case self-color eyelet em broidery elaborates the bolero jack et of a two-piece navy sheer cos tume. The bodice, softly draped a! the top, is pink. To the left above in the picture is shown a two-piece dress that uses a shantung weave, combining white, orange and brown in daring con trast. The separate skirt features box pleats from a hip yoke. Box pleats are really newer than side pleating. Eminently correct for a wartime “suit wedding” is the creamy beige sheer ensemble at the top right in the above illustration. The full-length coat looks like a dress but is really a wide pleated skirt seamed to a jacket top, with self-covered buttons down the front from neck to hemline. Finely pleat ed bowknots trim the four slot pock ets that adorn jacket and skirt. The dress worn under this coat repeats the pleated skirt of the coat, while gathered bodice fullness developes from a deep yoke. Generally speaking, the favorite silhouette is the long torso effect with some sort of pleated skirt. Also, there is much interest in slim wrap around skirts and those which have slenderizing harem drapes. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) New Flounce This dress has two very important style messages to convey. The one is the coming vogue for allover em broidery on wool, or rayons and cot tons that look like wool. The other is the news that simple wool frocks will be finished off at the hemline with a flounce. Flounces are among the ways designers are contriving to add a prettily feminine note to simple daytime frocks. In the smart est dress collections you will see flounces conspicuously featured. The gown pictured in the above illustra tion is of soft beige wool with bright green embroidered diamond dots. It has a softly molded waistline, set-in belt and, of course, the flounce! I Style Show Reflects Lowly Fabrics’ Use A preview of spring and summer styles held in Chicago recently showed the 18,000 buyers from 17 states that they were going to carry home an array of chambrays, cali cos and denims in women’s and chil dren’s fashions. For these lowly fabrics have come into their own because of the influence of war. Style and practicability are still the theme in these fashions, for the designers have kept their eye on both national defense needs, and the desires of millions of women pur chasers in stores throughout the na tion. Dresses, garden costumes, play clothes and work uniforms—all have been styled by the designers to reflect the signs of the times. Until manufacturers run out of twills and such fabrics which are fashioned into foundation garments, girdles are here to stay, despite the rubber shortage. Priorities on tin and other defense needs have caused tie fastenings instead of hooks and eyes, zippers, buttons and clasps to be substituted. Everything in garments has taken on the practical atmosphere. Every thing except the hostess coat which still remains silken and luxurious. Now They Trim Your Hat To Match Your Blouse! There is going to be a riot of frilly, frothy neckwear, and mil liners are giving us something new in the way of hats that repeat the snowy lingerie accents. Fcr in stance, a wide brimmed straw or felt hat may be outlined with an organdy frill that repeats the frill used in the showy jabot. The jabot is one of the most important neck wear items featured this season. Serve and Adorn Besides serving industry, women [ will also adorn it. Trousered uni forms, made from denim and cham- bray, without trim or buttons, and with tight cuffs as accident preven tives were noticed in a recent spring and summer style show. Eleanor Roosevelt FARM AND HOME WEEK I am always interested in the ex hibits at the Cornell Farm and Home week in Ithaca, N. Y., and found, as usual, ingenuity and initiative dis played in various ways. The black out room for the farm home was very well arranged, but that is one thing the farmers can feel fairly sure will not often be used by them, for it is too costly to waste a bomb on isolated farms. The thing which appealed to me was the converted truck, equipped in a way for which any farm family could provide. They had large milk cans placed in barrels, one surround ed by excelsior, and the other sur rounded by newspapers. I was told they could keep food hot in the can surrounded by newspapers for 17 hours in zero weather. They had also arranged compart ments on the fireless cooker princi ple, in which they could put large cans, drawers which could pull out and hold supplies, cooking and eat ing utensils, and a portable canned gas stove which could heat a large quantity of food. This truck could feed 150 people at an emergency meal in a very short time. The book fair, the art exhibit by Ithaca artists, and the craft work done primarily by women, were all interesting exhibits. I could have spent much more time seeing them than I was able to give to any one thing. • • • CIVILIAN DEFENSE While in Ithgca I spent an hour and a half at a regional r <eeting for civilian defense, called by Mrs. Os wald Lord, the regional director. Federal staff members and regional staff members met with representa tives of the different states in this region. It was a very interesting meeting and I think some good sug gestions came out of it. I was par ticularly happy to see some of the new staff of the Office of Civilian Defense in action, and to feel how well they are all carrying out their jobs. Mr. James Landis has issued a statement in which he says what I have known to be true for a long while: that it has never been com pletely decided where physical fit ness, as a division, should be placed. Many of the things which Mr. John Kelly is so ably doing, are things which should be done year in and year out. Perhaps, therefore, a per manent government agency is where his organization would function best. He has done a very good job and enlisted people who can interest both old and young in keeping themselves in good condition. I think no one will question the necessity for young and old, rich and poor, in this coun try to be physically fit. • • • TO SYRACUSE We drove to Syracuse in the after noon, and were grateful for the clear weather. In spite of the cold, there was comparatively little snow and ice on the road. We met with the defense council in the morning, and saw the volun teer bureau, established under the local defense council. They are get ting on very well with their work and Mrs. Pennock, who heads the voluntary participation part of the civilian defense program for the state, has done a very fine job. The same difficulties arise in ev ery community, of course. Some volunteers do not take their duties seriously enough and fail in meet ing professional standards. Some agencies are hesitant about taking on the training and placing of vol unteers. By and large it seemed to me that if Syracuse and Schenec tady, which I visited in the after noon, are good examples of what is happening in the state, then we can be proud of the organization here. The youth council in Schenectady is composed of a group of young peo ple who are anxious to play their part in the life of their city. They held a most successful meeting. • * * UNEMPLOYMENT In reading the papers this morn ing, I could not help wondering how the displaced men feel in industries all over the country. They are anx ious to get to work but, for the time being, must wait for industries to be converted to new uses. Members of congress and governors of states talk about increasing the unemploy ment compensation to a possible $24. People seem to forget that this un employment compensation usually must cover the needs of families ranging from four to six members— rent, food, heat, light, clothing, rec reation, education, medical care must all come out of this sum. Could the congressmen do it on xny less? Could the governors do it on any less? • • • We had a delightful luncheon at Chapel Hill with President and Mrs. Frank Graham and their guests, heard Miss Harriet Elliott, dean of the Woman’s college at Greensboro, make an excellent talk before the delegates of the 32 colleges, who had gathered at Chapel Hill under the auspices of the Carolina Polit ical union and the International Stu dent service for a conference. It was nice to find there both Miss Louise M.crley, conference secre tary of the I.S.S., and Miss Jane WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N ] EW YORK.—With all the bad news now coming through, there is reassurance in finding an intelli gence officer who is really intelli- Art. Lik. Man at g”*' “jjg Thought; Thinks gent and op- a um * atimist, it’s As Man of Action like fading a four-leaf clover. The congenital op timists this department has known in the last few years haven’t been any too bright. Everybody who knows Col. Eg- mont Francis Koenig, intelligence officer of the First air force, sta tioned at Mitchel Field, L. I., testi fies that he is “smart in the head.” As to his hopeful outlook, here’s his current observation about plane pro duction “I can assure you that were you to know the exact figures of actual bomber production your heart would swell with pride, as did mine when these figures were confided to me.” The First air force comprises 22 states of this region. As head of its G-2 section, Colonel Koenig is its eyes and ears, and it’ alarm clock. If he happens to be an optimist, he has to work like a pessimist, who expects the worst. Small, agile, dili gent and alert, insatiably curious about many things, he is at the op posite pole of the brass-hat army tradition, easy to see, an enemy of red tape, popular with his men and la multitude of others eager to give him an earful about anything they consider important. Colonel Koenig’s mind has many facets all of which were polished up in various pursuits before he en tered the first World war as an amateur soldier and rose rapidly in rank as an apt pupil in the science of arms. A native of New York, he was in Europe as Correspondent of the old New York World when the war started and entered the army as a second lieutenant. Two years lat er, in 1918, he was a major, at the age of 26. Back home in 1920, he entered the chemical warfare service. He was one of the founders and the first lec turer at the Army Industrial col lege, later an instructor at the Fort Riley Cavalry school, and then in Hawaii for two years. He was back in 1935, teaching military history and intelligence at the general staff sohool at Fort Leavenworth. He attended St. Francis Xavier and took his bachelor of arts de gree from Columbia in 1912. D EAN SWIFT said he had grave misgivings about the human race as a whole but he couldn’t help liking John and Peter and Paul. Free Frenchmen f^rege'- Would War With dy of “Man Stones if Need Be this department finds the highly person alized aspects of the encounter the most encouraging. One feels that way in meeting Lieut. Gen. Louis Souques of the Free French, in New York, en route to London from French Equatorial West Africa. If you happen to think that there is too much machinery in this war and you long for a dash of the Beau Sabreur, fending off black legions with a broken blade, you in stantly assign the general this role, and feel much better about the chances for a happy ending. The general’s career to date is a remind er that he and the other Free French leaders are tough, realistic, hard' hitting, resourceful and experienced fighting men, who would give battle with cobblestones if they had to. Obviously the lean, whippy gen eral would have fought with the Al pine Chausseurs. He would wear on his tunic the Croix de Guerre and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor and other decorations. Asked whether Hitler would be able effectively to convert and use the continental resources of labor and materials, or whether increas ing sabotage might pull him down, the general replied: “At present. Hitler is converting much of these resources, and it would be unwise to underestimate this. But his troubles are already beginning as the conversion turns from consumer goods to capital goods. Obviously, the Germans must center on heavy industry, in utiliz ing French plants and labor for the war, and the curve of sabotage will go right on up with this effort.” We asked whether the betrayal of France by certain highly placed pol iticians had been due to the infil tration of Nazi doctrine or to venali ty. “Most of them were just graft ers,” he said. “They didn’t care much about political philosophies, but they loved money and they feared communism. Petain wasn’t a grafter, but long before the war he had looked sympathetically on what he considered the German achievement of order and discipline. He was an honest believer in his own conception of an authoritarian state.” 3aK meat requires longer boil ing than fresh. 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