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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.
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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.
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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
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let it t immer.
* • •
When using a double boiler, the
food will cook more quickly if the
water in the outer vessel is salted
in the proportion of a fourth of a
cup of salt to one quart of water.
• • •
Always keep perfume in a dark
place Daylight will affect every
odor differently, according to its
formula In extreme cases per
fume turns bright red as soon as
it has been exposed to the sun
• * •
To bring out the full flavor of
raisins, dates, currants or figs,
soak them in a little boiling wc-
ter for five minutes Two table
spoons of boiling water for each
half cup of fruit will be satis
factory.
• • •
Keep your furnace, flues and
chimney clean. Dirt and soot cut
down furnace efficiency. Cleaning
once a year should be enough, but
if you burn a high-soot coal, your
furnace may need cleaning twice
a season.
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