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A lva Bradley was practically
the only man in the recent Der
by day crowd at Churchill Downs
who wasn’t talking or thinking about
the Derby winner. Mr. Bradley was
thinking and talking only about the
Cleveland Indians.
You can’t blame him for that. Mr.
Bradley is president of that aston
ishing ball club.
It may be remembered in the past
that the same Alva Bradley has had
more than his share of baseball sor
row. The Oscar Vitt episode was
the starter. That was the year
Cleveland blew a pennant it should
have won by a dozen games. Then
Bob Feller’s departure into the serv
ice was no great help, and the boss
had to gamble on a 24-year-old man
ager, who had no Feller around.
Naturally Mr. Bradley was not
looking on the 1942 campaign
through any rose-tinted glasses. He
was all prepared for the worst. For
him there were no “bluebirds over
the white cliffs of Dover,’’ or Cleve
land. Then the incredible suddenly
happened as the Indians took to
the warpath.
About Boudreau
“We had full faith in Lou Bou
dreau from the start,” Mr. Brad
ley said. “I’ll admit none of us
looked for any such early surge.
But Lou worked like six horses this
ALVA BRADLEY
spring and his men worked with
him. He had not only their re
spect but also their friendship.
“Boudreau hasn’t been out of col
lege long and he brought the old col
lege spirit back to our club. He re
fused to let Bob Feller’s loss get
him down in any way. The other
pitchers knew they had to take up
the slack.
“At this point I’d like to say that
none of us are claiming any pen
nant. The main idea is to hustle
all the way and win all the games
we can. They say we are playing
far beyond our real strength. That’s
something for time to tell.”
The Big Change
It was easy enough to see in the
Indians’ training camp at Clear
water, Fla., that Boudreau had done
a high-class job in the way of switch
ing Cleveland’s mental attitude.
There were no longer any trouble
makers around. There were no sore
heads.
Boudreau set up an informal club-
room where the bunch could get to
gether to read, loaf or play cards.
Out on the field they were all hus
tling, none harder than the young
manager whose attractive personal
ity was no small help.
Even that far back Boudreau
said, “I don’t know where we’ll fin
ish, but I can promise you wo’ll
have a team trying hard every sec
ond of every game.”
No one could figure then, with
Feller absent, that the ex-Illini star
was to get the pitching his team
has gotten in the first starting
weeks. Nor quite the heavy hitting.
But Boudreau and his team have
at least shown what a new spirit
can do to a squad.
Looking Ahead
It will take another month to get
the truer picture of the two pennant
races. Despite the present club
standings, the Brooklyn Dodgers
and the New York Yankees are
still the two teams to beat. Late
in May last spring the Yankees
were seven games out. They picked
up 26 games on the Indians from
that point on.
Before the season Leo Durocher
figured that Dodger power would be
more than Cardinal pitching could
meet. Leo had no great respect for
the St. Louis attack, which so far
hasn’t been on the devastating side.
But the Cards are still a better hit
ting team than their present mark
ings indicate. And they still have
all the pitching any team needs.
The Cincinnati Reds got away
slowly this spring and they haven’t
been flaming balls of fire so far.
But they also have better pitching
than they have shown—and a better
ball club, once it moves into its
normal stride.
If any outside team is to crowd
out one of the top three, rated by
form, it should be Frank Frisch
and his Pirates. They can hit their
share, and if the pitching holds up
they will be a threatening factor.
The main test doesn’t come until
the athlete has been baked out in
five or six weeks of summer sun.
THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ MAY 22, 1942
War Effort Strengthened
By High School Graduates
Armed Services, Industry and Farms Lure 1942 Students;
Vocational Training Now Becoming
Increasingly Important.
By WILLARD E. GIVENS
Executive Secretary, National Education Association.
I T HAS been estimated that over one million boys and girls will
leave high school this spring with their diplomas.
It is this same group of boys and girls, the youth of the
nation, who were figuratively being spoken to when a commence
ment speaker said to a group of graduates before him:
“You have seen more history than you have read.”
During the first half of 1942, the pages of history have been
Victory vs. Luxury
“John’s older brother who fin
ished high school in 1941 burned
up the tires of his old jallopy on
the highways at sixty miles an
hour, either pleasure or business
bent. John will ride a bus or
walk to “go places and do
things.” Susan who graduates in
1942 will find that permanents,
fluffy evening dresses, silk and
nylon hose were luxuries that her
older sister of 1940 did not be
queath to her. Youth, like the
rest of us, must sacrifice some
of the refinements of existence,
and before the struggle is over,
may forego some of the necessi
ties.”
workers, electricians, ship carpen
ters, joiners and other skilled
trades.
turning fast, recording the names of<s>-
men and their deeds in the greatest
drama of all ages.
And now today, not only the high
school graduate, but all those who
have read the story of man’s up
ward struggle from the early dawn
of history to the present time, rec
ognize the climax of history in
which they are now living. Each
and everyone—especially the high
school graduate—is seeking to find
the proper place, the suitable niche
in it.
The Significance of Today.
Only to the man who is in some
measure educated is it granted to
know what is going on about him
and to estimate its significance.
There is an old story of two peas
ants of Brabant who were weeding
their crops on a sultry June day in
1815 when the guns of the Iron Duke
greeted those of Bonaparte at Wa- |
terloo. One of the peasants lifted I
his eyes from his hoe and scanned
the horizon. “Soule,” he said, "it
thunders; it will rain today!” As
the guns of destiny broke the silence
of their fields, these two peasants
went on hoeing their vegetables, al
most as ignorant as their beets and
cabbages of what went on any
where else in the world but in the
limited sphere in which they moved.
The mental isolation of man
kind in the not-so-long-ago un
happy days of the human race
when one class of men was priv
ileged to enjoy the culture and
refinement of wide knowledge,
and another class was doomed
to live and die in vulgarity and
poverty, is banished. Universal
education has banished it. The
high school, especially, is re
sponsible for making this vastly
different world from the one
which existed a century and a
quarter ago when Europe was
rocked as it is today by the
clash of arms and ideals—and
only a few knew the issues and
fewer still had a part in resolv
ing them.
Today, high school students see
themselves in the setting of time
and events. In their hearts is a
stirring that finds its expression in
a common question, “What is my
place in all this?”
Some of the boys may volunteer
at once for service in the armed
forces. The army has just an
nounced that volunteers 18 and 19
years old may select training in the
combat branch of their own pref
erence—infantry, cavalry, artillery,
tank corps, air corps, signal corps,
or corps of engineers. Others will
wait the decision of the Selective
Service system as to where and
when they may serve best.
Many graduates will continue
their education under the direction
of the navy, which has in operation
plans by which graduates may go
on to college and pursue studies
in which they may earn college
credits and at the same time pre
pare for more effective service in
the navy. From this group, the
huge two-ocean battle fleet now
building in our shipyards will se
cure many of its commissioned of
ficers.
War Industries to Hire Many.
Some thousands of these high
A mechanized army calls for the
utmost inventive and operational
skills which the American people can
produce. These Denver high school
boys will know how to operate an
electric semaphore if they should
serve in the signal corps of the
army.
school graduates, boys and girls,
will at once enter war-industries to
help manufacture the guns and
tanks and planes upon which the
fighting men on far-flung battle
fronts depend. The graduates may
enter these industries at once, or
they may enroll in one of many
different types of training for more
skilled service in the factories pro
ducing the material of war.
These training opportunities range
from the elementary vocational
schools where the simpler skills of
the assembly line are acquired, to
the technical and engineering
schools of our great universities
which are turning out recruits for
highly responsible positions both in
the armed forces and in industrial
ranks.
The high schools themselves in
many city school systems, and in
some of the village schools serving
farm areas, are equipped to offer a
high grade vocational training.
Some graduates who have taken
non - vocational courses in high
school will immediately begin such
courses, if available, in the schools
from which they have been gradu
ated, or they will seek that kind of
training in neighboring communi
ties.
The federal govern nent in June,
1940, appropriated $15,000,000 to
equip and staff the rapidly ex-
There is opportunity of some
kind today for youth every
where. All can join in the
“great adventure” in some
capacity. This is true for girls
as well as^or boys. Many girls
are taking their places in the
war industries. The great ex
pansion of offices in Washington
and other centers of administra
tion of the war effort issue calls
for typists, stenographers, clerks
and secretaries. Many girls are
enrolling in nursing courses
which lead to direct or indirect
service, for some of which of
ficer’s commissions are avail
able, in the armed forces.
The kinds of military work for
girls to choose from are numer
ous, and announcements of fur
ther opportunities are expected
from time to time.
Ofttimes the impulse to seek serv
ice far afield is ill advised. There
is also the home front. Whole states
must be prepared to resist invasion
from land, sea or air. Civilian de
fense is vital. First aid, air raid
duty, auxiliary fire and police serv
ice must be manned and adminis
tered.
In hundreds of agricultural com
munities high school graduates will
immediately lay aside their diplo
mas for cultivator handles and hoes.
There is much truth in the slogan
that “Food will win the war.” The
Many high school graduates, such as these at the Hannah Penn, junioi
high school, York, Pa., will be able to take their places without much furth
er training in the ranks of those who are planning to defend their com
munities from death dropping down during air raids.
panding vocational departments and
schools of less than college grade
which had undertaken to train
workers for defense industries. The
need of workers was feo urgent and
the plan of meeting it so successful
that subsequently other sums were
appropriated for this purpose.
By March, this year, approxi
mately 2,463,862 workers had been
prepared for the war industries in
this manner. This number is in
addition to those trained for simi
lar occupations in the vocational
courses that constitute the normal
service of the schools.
The demand for the graduates
of these vocational courses is
much greater than the supply
and is increasing. According
to the War Production board,
over ten million additional war
industry workers will be needed
within the year ahead to staff
plants now being built or ex
panded.
The vocational training activities
in Oakland, Calif., are typical of
those in many cities near great ship
yards or other centers producing
the machinery of war. On April 1,
1942, there were 199 classes in “de
fense training” in the Oakland
schools, enrolling 3,901 students.
This was 473 less than the number
of students the Oakland schools
were prepared to accommodate in
this kind of work.
During January, February find
March an average of 500 trained
workers a month were placed in
war manufacturing from this scltool
system. There have never been
sufficient trainees enrolled to meet
the demand for riveters, chippers,
caulkers, ship fitters, sheet metal
provision of food stuffs and the use
of foods dictated by modern knowl
edge of nutrition for both civilian
and soldier are of vital importance.
Many of the opportunities may be
seized without leaving home or
community. The alert and eager
high school graduate will look about
him for unfilled places in the ranks,
step in where he is best qualified
and serve.
The student selected by fate for
graduation in 1942 faces towering
handicaps as well as opportunities.
For many of these graduates, school
days are ended. In any case, edu
cational careers will be interrupt
ed or diverted from original pur
poses.
The Test They Face.
Ambitions must be modified, new
emphasis placed upon ideals and
duties. The high school graduate oi
1942 faces the severest kind of test
which can be give"! to individuals—
the test of flexibility, adjustment to
untoward circumstances. This ap
plies to the minor as well as to the
major enterprises of life.
The contrast is still greater if we
compare this generation with grand
father’s as an illustration of change
in our national life. To that elderly
gentleman now toasting his slippered
heels in retirement by the fireplace,
Horace Greeley’s advice, “Go West,
young man,” was an inspiration.
There was an immeasurably wealthy
West to conquer. Grandfather saw
the finishing touches given to the
world’s greatest economic empire,
as the ingenuity, energy, and de
termination of a New world, assem
bled from the tribes from the Old,
trimmed off the last frontiers from
the American ./ilderness.
Problems of Education
Aired at Conference
At an annual meeting of the
American Council of Education,
Chicago, 111., the following state
ments were made by educators:
Roscoe L. West, president. State
Teachers college, Trenton, N. J.,
said: “People know intuitively that
education must focus on getting
folks ready to live better in their
community than they would have
lived otherwise. And by community
I mean the nation and the world.”
William J. Hamilton, superintend
ent of schools, Oak Park, 111., spoke
on this problem which faced educa
tion: “There is evidence that dur
ing the post-war period, conditions
pertaining to the support of the pub
lic schools will not be improved.
The demand for social security is
already being given much consid
eration as the principal factor in the
new social order and may super
sede education in importance . . .
public education will become in
volved in a confusing mass of legis
lation.”
Looking beyond the present strife,
there is the citizen-in-the-making
getting ready for the years ahead.
Complete and final victory would be
unavailing if we lost in peace what
we had won in war. There is a tre
mendous task of reconstruction
ahead of all the world. There is
the rubble to clear away; but much
more important there are new struc
tures to take the place of the old.
The vision and capacity of today’s
youth will determine whether they
live in the ruins of a past or in new
edifices builded upon the ideals of
freedom and liberty.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union,)
Pioneer Mother Honored
V/I OTHER’S day this year had a
special significance for the
“Middle Border”—that part of the
United States (North and South Da
kota, eastern Nebraska, Montana
and Wyoming and western Iowa and
Minnesota) where two frontiers met
and coalesced. A short time pre
vious to Mother’s day a painting by
a famous artist, who was born in
South Dakota, was unveiled at Da
kota Wesleyan university at Mitch
ell, S. D., headquarters of the
Friends of the Middle Border, an
organization founded to preserve the
rich cultural heritage of that re
gion. This is the painting:
DAKOTA WOMAN
(Harvey Dunn, artist.)
which now hangs in the Dakota Gal
leries in Mitchell—a perpetual re
minder of one of the most heroic
types of motherhood the world has
ever known.
Perhaps, as visitors gaze upon
Dunn’s painting, they will recall this
tribute paid to just such a woman as
is depicted there:
THE PRAIRIE MOTHER
She came to rock the cradle oi a new
empire. Adventure calls to men, but duty
summons women. And so, when the time
was ripe to breed new stars for the flag,
she set forth from Maine and Ohio and
Killamey’s loveliness and her Swedish
village and her fjord home to mother the
wilderness.
Only God and she knows the fullness
of her giving to the young Northwest.
She lived in sod houses and hay-roofed
huts, with the newest neighbor often a
day’s trudge away.
She had no decencies. She did not even
know the luxury of floor or fireplace. Her
meal was ground in a hand mill and her
baking range was a make-shift oven in
the yard.
She helped in the fields—at the plowing
and the sowing, and she helped to scythe
the crop and bind the sheaves.
She watered stock and spun and knit
ted and tailored. She made a garden and
preserved the winter food, milked her
cows and nursed her children. The
sleepy-eyed sun found her already at her
tasks, and the midmoon heard her croon
the baby to rest.
Her “beauty sleep” began at ten and
ended at four. Year in and year out she
never had an orange, a box of sweets or
a gift of remembrance.
She fought drouth and dearth and sav
ages and savage loneliness, her “Sunday
bests” were calico and linsey woolsey.
She grew old at the rate of twenty-four
months a year at the grubbing hoe and
the washtub and the churn.
She bore her bairns alone and buried
them on the frozen prairies.
But she asked no pity for her broken
arches, her aching back, her poor,
gnarled hands. Or for the wistful mem
ories of a fairer youth in sweeter lands.
She gave America the great North
west, and was too proud to quibble at the
cost of the stalwart sons to whom she
willed it.
She mothered MEN!—Herbert Kauf
man in the Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune.
Or they may recall this poetiu
tribute:
A WOMAN HOMESTEADER
I walked with quick steps up the coulee
trail;
I had to hurry lest the creeping dark
Would catch me and my nervous hands
would fall
To And the wire gate that closed the
park
Against stray cattle. Here my cabin
stood.
In a small wilderness of quaking asp;
Here I "homesteaded.” No one thought I
could
Two years ago. but now I calmly pass
A bristling porcupine, a rattlesnake.
The watching eyes of some wild, hid
den thing—
A coyote sneaking near the dried-up lake,
A row of stunted pines where finches
sing.
The mule-eared deer that often come to
sup.
And nuzzle one another at my spring
(Which, after cleaning, is but Just a cup).
And yet, tonight, how glad I was to
bring
My hands in contact with the wire bight
That held my gate. I thought. "Real
homesteading!
I hate the dark: I only love the light!”
Quickly I shut the door and slid the
draw
Across the iron latch, and dropped the
clamp, V
Firmly In place, bnt not before I saw
Near Tiger Butte the glimmer of a lamp.
I stood a moment puzzled by the light—
Startled, perhaps, and curious as a deer
That lifts its head to catch the rushing
flight
Of a young grouse. And then my silly fear
Vanished like mountain mist. My
lamp! A match!
To cheer that other soul I knew had come
To plough and fence; to have a garden
patch;
To live with God as I and build a home.
—Lillian Leonard in Scribner's Magazine.
Besic .s such tributes as these,
the memory of the pioneer mother is
perpetuated in various parts of the
country in bronze and stone. Several
years ago the Daughters of the
American Revolution marked the
National Old Trails route from the
Atlantic to the Pacific with heroic
statues of the women who followed
that trail across the country. Twelve
of these statues, each 18 feet tall,
are today standing along the trail in
the states of Maryland, Pennsyl
vania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona and California.
ffe&TTERNS
SEWQNG CDKCLE
inine curves of the bosom and con
trols a slim effect through the
hips. You will like the neat de
tailing too, in the low cool neck
line edged with ric-rac, the row
of tiny buttons for the front clos
ing and the prettily shaped pocket
flaps. The skirt has panels, for
slender fitting through the hips
and across the back.
If a touch of white near your
face is especially flattering you
can finish the top with a round
white collar—it would be most ef
fective if the frock were dotted
swiss—or gingham of a tiny check.
• • •
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1560-B Is de
signed for sizes 10, 12. 14, 16. 18 and 20.
Corresponding bust measurements 28, 30.
32 . 34, 36 and 38. Size 12 (30). with short
sleeves requires 3% yards 35-Inch materi
al. Contrast collar and cuffs, */. yard.
2 yards ric-rac for trim.
Send your order to:
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Legal Holidays
SPHERE are few fashions which
do quite as much for the figure
as the dress which looks like
a suit, an appealing version of
which is presented in Pattern No.
1560-B. In this style you get a
smooth fitting top which whittles
the waist, trimly outlines the fem-
JOUSEHOLD
IlliTS
Keep butter covered in the re
frigerator lest it pick up flavors
from other foods. Also keep but
ter in the coldest part of the re
frigerator. Eggs should be stored
in the refrigerator but they do not
need the coldest spot. /
• • •
If one-half level teaspoon of bak
ing powder is added to every four
eggs used in making a souffle,
it will not fall after it has been
removed from the oven.
• • •
Cinnamon toast may be made
without sugar by blending 2%
tablespoons of honey with two-
thirds tablespoon butter. Increase
amounts as desired.
• • •
Individual service table mats
save lots of laundering. Use them
in place of luncheon or tablecloths.
For outdoor or porch serving try
the prettily decorated oilcloth
mats; they only need a daily wip
ing with a dampened cloth.
According to the Constitution
neither congress nor the President
has the power to prescribe legal
holidays except m the District of
Columbia and the U. S. territorial
possessions, says Collier’s. Nev
ertheless, congress has recognized
the following days as public holi
days: New Year’s day, Washing
ton’s birthday. Memorial day, the
Fourth of July, Labor day, and
Christmas.
Since most of these holidays
have been declared local holidays
by the individual states, they can
be said to be national and legal
holidays. The President proclaims
Thanksgiving a holiday.
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power of the press. Early they began using
it to carry their advertising facts and ideas
into homes. And they found it a most
profitable way in which to tell their story
to buyers. And the buyedS in turn found
it profitable to deal with those who were
willing to state in print the values and
services they offered.
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