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THE SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C JULY 3. 1942
Washington, D. C.
DRAFT PICTURE
If you are registered on the draft
rolls, here is the general picture of
your prospects under the selective
service amendments just passed by
congress:
If you are between 20 and 45, un
married with no dependents, your
status is unchanged.
If you are married and now classi
fied as 1-A, your draft board will
be directed to shift you to 3-A. That
means the chances are strong you
will not be called for at least an
other 8 to 12 months, depending on
the trend of the war and on what is
done about lowering the draft age
to 18.
If you are unmarried, but have
dependents and are classed 3-A, you
will be moved up to 1-A and headed
for induction by fall. The new al
lowance and allotment act, under
which soldiers with dependents put
up $22 a month and the government
$28, is the basis for this change.
As selective service officials
figure it, by offsetting these two
switches against one another,
the 4,500,000 army which the
war department wants to raise
by January, can be obtained
frpm 1-As in the 20 to 45 age
groups. After that, if the army
still needs men, selective serv
ice either will have to turn to
married, men now deferred, or
the draft age will have to be
lowered to 18, as strongly fa
vored by military chiefs.
That will take congressional ac
tion, and until next November, there
is no chance of anything being done
by congress. Even after November
elections there is no certainty con
gress will be any more eager to
act. It will depend on what hap
pens in the elections and the way
the war is going. If it is not going
well, congress is likely to be more
willing to follow the demands of the
military and include 18-year-olds.
' If that is done, then married ex
empts will get another breather,
probably into the summer or fall of
1943. It is estimated that 18-19 year-
ers will furnish 1,200,000 new sol
diers. This would bring the army
to over 6,000,000 by next July.
If by that time still more men are
needed, then will come the turn of
married registrants, beginning with
the lower age groups.
Note: Privately, military experts
believe that before the war is over
the U. S. will have from seven to
eight million men in the army and
navy.
• • •
EUROPEAN REVOLT
After returning on the Drottning-
holm, Leland B. Morris, U. S.
charge d’affaires in Berlin, and
George Wadsworth, charge in Rome,
gave the senate foreign relations
committee some eye-opening slants
on international conditions in the
Axis countries, coupled with a blunt
warning. The warning was:
“Don’t depend on the peoples of
Germany and Italy revolting against
their masters.”
There is only a long-shot chance
of an Axis collapse through revolu
tion, the two diplomats reported.
The German and Italian people, they
said, are under such severe mili
tary rule and surveillance, that it
would be extremely difficult to plan,
much less carry out, revolts at
present.
Morris, who served in Berlin
about 18 months, also pooh-poohed
rumors that the German people are
not loyal to Hitler.
“They are weary of war,” he
said, “but they are still faithful
to Hitler. Make no mistake
about that. They may not con
sider him the idol they once
did, but they are still behind
him. Anyone who thinks other
wise is fooling himself.”
Asked about German “morale,”
Morris replied that from the stand
point of loyalty to the fuehrer, “it
was good.”
Wadsworth said the Italian people
are kept in such subjugation and fear
by the Germans that it was difficult
to get a true expression of their feel
ings, though the morale of the Ital
ians definitely was not as good as
that of the Germans.
“Do you think there is any pos
sibility of a revolt in Italy in the
next year?” he was asked.
“I do not,” Wadsworth replied.
• • •
WAR NOTES
C Here is more good news for U. S.
_ cbtton growers: Camouflage re
quirements in the far-flung war
areas are making heavy inroads in
the huge cotton surplus. Vast
quantities of cottr .'loth are being
bought by the am.* for camouflage
purposes.
• • •
<L Suggestion to the army and navy
air branches: How about giving the
navigators and radio operators of
plane crews a favorable mention in
announcements of successful at
tacks. Pilots and gunners, who of
course richly deserve credit, are al
ways cited.
• • •
«. Australian External Minister
Evatt. busy flying between Sydney,
London and Washington to beg
planes for his government, never
theless found time to write a book
on tb» Australian labor rnnvemptrf
IN THE midst of the turmoil of
1 nations and the crash of planets
the argument has arisen as to which
is the more proficient type in com
petitive sport—the fellow who is
knock-kneed or the one who is
bowlegged?
This query comes in from one of
the army camps, where it seems
that quite a debate followed with
out arrival at any fitting and proper
exit.
As a starter I put the matter up
to P. Hal Sims, golfer, bridge player
and a close follower
of all sports where
he might pick up a
worthy wager—and
on the right side.
Mr. Sims promptly
went for the knock-
kneed entry.
“I know in golf,”
he said, “that it pro
vides a more com
fortable stance, and
it also allows you to
pivot much more
freely.”
To carry out his point Mr. Sims
picked up a random brassie and
proved that a bowlegged golfer had
to turn with great effort, whereas
the knock-kneed party had no
trouble at all in this respect.
“With the two knees bearing in,”
Mr. Sims continued, “you are bal
anced at the start. You are all
set.”
To prove his point further, artisti
cally and financially, Mr. Sims then
played the first nine holes at Garden
City in 36, one under par.
Other Stars
On the knock-kneed side I can
give you the case of two star per
formers. One was Ruby Robert
Fitzsimmons, who stopped Jim Cor
bett at Carson City, Nev., some 45
years ago.
Fitz was a terrific puncher—espe
cially for his weight, which was
from 158 to 165 pounds. One day
Fitz had a workout with Kid McCoy.
In that workout Fitz gave the Kid
a heavy lathering. As the operation
was taking place, McCoy’s keen
eyes noticed how Fitz stood—how
knock-kneed he was.
Deciding this stance, a natural
one, provided at least part of the
leverage, the Kid tied a towel around
his knees, just enough to permit
him to move around, but getting the
benefit of the knock-kneed effect.
He always claimed as a result he
became a much harder puncher lat
er on.
“It was the added leverage,” ac
cording to the Kid, “that did the
job.”
He went on:
Christy Mathewson was the most
knock-kneed pitcher I ever saw. It
was Matty’s idea that being knock-
kneed helped bis balance tremen
dously—accounting in part for his
fine control. You could barely get
the segment of a toy balloon be
tween Matty’s knees.
Against this, Hans Wagner was as
bowlegged as a barrel hoop. You
could drive a horse—a short one—
between Wagner’s wide-spreading
legs.
I have known many great football
players who also were on the bow-
legged side.
The Normal Stance
Mr. Sims brings out the point that
in golf, instructor Alex Morrison al
ways advocates an inward roll of
the left and right foot—left foot on
the backswing, right foot on the
downswing. This naturally comes
much easier to the knock-kneed par
ty, who has a slight start along that
route.
But it must be admitted that the
normal stance is the straight-legged
fellow — Joe Louis,
Ty Cobb, Bobby
Jones, Walter Hagen,
Byron Nelson, Jack
Dempsey, Bill Til-
den, Babe Ruth.
I don’t think there
is any question that
a pigeon-toed take
off provides more
leverage and a quick
er start than one
that is slue-footed.
I should say the
pigeon-toed stance
would come more naturally from a
knock-kneed player than from one
on the bowlegged side at least gen
erally speaking.
Stance is largely a matter of bal
ance and leverage. There is cer
tainly more power to be gotten from
the inside of the feet than from the
outside. You can get an inside
grip, whereas there is no outside
grip.
The Greatest Ball Player
“Do you know the greatest ball
player I ever saw?” Andy Coakley,
the old Philadelphia Athletics’ star,
asked. “His name was Louis Sock-
alexis, the Indian who once played
with Cleveland. Lou lasted only a
short while, but he had everything—
Ty Cobb’s speed, Babe Ruth’s
swing, a great arm. He was a mas
ter artist. If he had only given
more attention to baseball he could
have been a steady .400 hitter. I’ve
never seen another who had as
much natural all-around ability.”
Grantland Rice
Walter Hagen
First Under-Water Photos of Life-Saving
A demonstration of life-saving is shown above, photographed for the first time under water, as staged
by members of Boston chapter of the Red Cross. At left, three swimmers enact role of “victim,” untrained
rescuer and trained rescuer. Victim grabs wonM-be rescuer about neck; would-be rescuer gets panicky,
grabs victim. Trained rescuer drops down on both and breaks their grips, prying both apart as shown in first
and second photos. Right: Rescuer flexes knees for spring that will shoot both to surface.
Keep ’Em Loaded and Keep ’Em Flying
At an army air depot somewhere in the western part of the U. 8., huge transport planes, _ “the flying
box-cars” of the army air force, ship freight on wings to foreign battle fronts. At left the loading crew is
transferring freight to waiting “flying box car.” Inset: Poised for flight are these air freight pUnes, to any
air field in case of an emergency call.
War Heroes—and Symbol of Their Purpose
Plead for Lives
Thirteen British and American war heroes visit Independence hall,
Philadelphia, Pa., after being given a rousing welcome in New York.
They are shown grouped around the Liberty Bell—the bell which is the
symbol of that freedom in whose cause they performed their heroic
deeds. The heroes then went to Washington to visit President Roosevelt.
Stark terror written on their hag
gard, unshaven faces, these five
Frenchmen, - accused by the Nazis
of being saboteurs, cringe pitifully
on their knees somewhere in Occu
pied France. Their fate? We leave
that to your imagination.
Messersidimitt Flies Over U. S,
Swell Falla
The first German Messerschmitt plane ever to fly in the U. S. took
part in the Air Cavalcade—a joint army force and treasury department
tour to boost sale of war bonds. The itinerary included 18 cities. The
plane (shown above) was shot down over England. Included in the
Cavalcade was a British Spitfire, famous fighter plane.
“Falla,” the nation’s No. 1 Scottie,
owned by President Roosevelt, did
his share in tbe national scrap rub
ber salvage campaign by rounding
up balls, rubber bones and other
gadgets dear to the heart of a pup,
and donated them to the drive.
PRIVATE MANN
(“Eugene L. Mann of Wenatchee, Wash.,
el the age of 65, has enlisted in that state
and been assigned to M. P. duty. This is
his third war. He is the head of three cor
porations and spent the last ten days play
ing golf and arranging for their operation
in his absence.”—News item.)
I
Chuck my golf bag in the cellar—
Hang my golfing togs away;
Tell my corporation staffs that
I will not be in today.
Put my slippers in the discard—
I’il not need the things for I’ve
Joined up with the U. S. army—
I am only sixty-five!
n
Stick pway my trusty driver—
Cover up my irons well;
Tell my locker-room companions
I’ll be missing for a spell;
To the boys down at the office
Say I’m leaving ’em quite cold—
Once again I am a doughboy—
Who says sixty-five is old?
&
HI
In the drawer put my golf balls—
I’ll not need ’em any more;
There will be no hooks or slices
In my present type of war;
Let my varied business interests
Run along as best they can.
For the third time in my lifetime
I’m becoming Private Mann.
IV
I have five more years to travel
Ere I’m three score years and ten;
But my feet feel only thirty—
They’re the dogs of younger men;
Age is only what you make it—
On the links I’m pretty fit—
Half the effort spent in golfing
Will suffice to do my bit.
V
I joined up to fight the Spaniards
Back in eigteen ninety-eight;
I was in the last world fracas.
And I never join up late;
This big war completely dwarfs
’em—
Now the main bout makes its bid;
In those others I was merely
A “preliminary kid!”
L’ENVOI
So it’s Johnny blow the bugle!
I’m a real old hand at war;
Tee up all those Axis partners! ...
Private Mann is calling “Fore!”
• • •
PRIVATE PURKEY ON THE USO
DRIVE
Prescott S. Bush, National Chair
man, USO Drive.
Dear Mr. Bush—Like every other
service man I want to do my bit
to boost the USO witch is now mak
ing a big drive for more dough to
make life for us more comfortable.
If the general public knew what the
USO had done for the U.S.A. it wood
be serprised. I got a idea for the
whole story in a nutshell and here
it is:
GIVE TO THE U.S.O.
SOS
And the U. S. A.
Will win the war
P. D. Q.
O. K.
• • •
We used to sing about keeping
the home fires burning. The USO
is moving the fires right into the
camps and furnishing coal and
wood. It has b- ang all the comforts
of home right to the army and navy.
Why, Mr. Bush, a jeep now lives
better than a general used to and
some times I gess when the war is
over and I get back home I will be
squawking how I miss all the com
forts of army life. If you keep on
doing so much for us you will have
to start a drive after the war to raise
dough to see that we have as many
comforts at home as we used to
have in war.
• • • .
Good luck to the USO which
rates AAA with U and with I
for what it does for the U.S.A.
Oscar Purkey.
• • *
Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief,
delivered such a glowing tribute to
the splendid, brave, humane quali
ties of the late Herr Heydrich that
even Heydrich, if he cou’d have
heard would have sat up and de
manded, "When do you start talk
ing about me?”
• • •
“The whole town of Lidice was
leveled to the ground and the name
of the community extinguished for
ever.”—Nazi statement
Eleanor Roosevelt
’GERMANY WITH TEARS’
There is a book everybody should
read called “Germany With Tears”
by Peter F. Wiener. It is a col
lection of letters. The first one is
written by a student in England,
now in the army, writing to his Ger
man professor at the university. It
tells him that his education 'unfitted
him to deal with German people as
they actually are and was a purely
sentimental and unrealistic ap
proach to international relations.
The professor pleads guilty and tries
to make amends by telling the truth
in this series of letters.
The appalling things to me are
the quotations which go back to
the time of Bismarck and Fred
erick the Great, and have noth
ing to do with Hitler. But it is
better to have these things out
in the open. All the people of
any nation, no matter how they
have been conditioned, are L'ev-
er identical. But if you know
what the conditioning has beex.
you can judge the general re-
suits and prepare yourself for
the time that it will take and
the methods which will have to
be used to develop a new men
tality and new characteristics in
Hitler’s Germans.
• • •
LIDICE WILL LIVE
In the morning paper one day I
read that, not satisfied with wiping
out the village of Lidice, the Ger
mans have gone further and killed
34 more people in the cities of
Prague and Bruenn “in reprisal.”
It does not seem to cross their
minds that they are imprinting the
name of this village on the minds of
the people of the world. None of us
will ever forget a little village
named Lidice. Reprisals of this
kind only bring more reprisals, so
that it is an unending spiral of
murder.
How curious is the German men
tality, that does not realize in giving
a dramatic incident of this kind to
the world it has stimulated imagi
nations to the point where, I am
sure before long, there will be a play
written about this tragic village,
there will be a book in which this
name will be immortalized. It will
appear in current songs. People will
paint scenes from memory or imagi
nation. What the'-Germans thought
to do away with forever, will be
remembered the world over and
lead perhaps to a better understand
ing of the type of people we will
have to deal with when this war
is over in Central Europe.
UNITED NATIONS HEROES
Next morning, the President and I
greeted the British and American
boys, whom the treasury depart
ment is sponsoring on a trip around
the country. The secretary of the
treasury came back from the coun
try to be with them and the British
ambassador joined us on the porch.
I don’t believe they enjoyed the pho
tographing any more than they have
enjoyed some of their experiences.
However, they must be a great
inspiration to some of the people
who greet them in different parts of
the country. These boys are a sym
bol of the unity which exists between
Britain and us in the fight for free
dom. I hope that, before long, we
shall have added to their number
boys from China and Russia, be
cause in this fight no one carries
the burden alone.
It is a joint burden and will
continue to be in the future.
Such honors as we pay individu
al heroes are really only a sym
bol of what is due to heroic
youth throughout the world. We
should not only honor the rep
resentatives of the nations which
are fighting together today, bnt
also those who represent the
other united nations, for they
continue to fight in every way
which is possible in spite of the
occupation of their home terri
tory.
As one reads of the many mer
chant ships which have beer, sunk,
I wonder if there should not be
some special medal of honor for the
men who man these ships. In some
cases they run even greater risks
than the boys in the regular army
and navy. When we realize that,
over and over again, they land from
one torpedoed ship and as soon as
they recover from wounds or expo
sure, they start out on another trip;
we can hardly fail to pay homage
for supreme courage.
That night we saw a moving pic
ture, “Mrs. Miniver.” Because ev
erybody had spoken so highly of it,
I was rather prepared for dis
appointment. Instead, it is better
than I imagined possible—a sermon,
and a charming and beautiful one.
* • •
WASHINGTON ORGANIST
After lunch one day I went right to
the cathedral to hear the young
organist, Mr. Paul Calloway, who
has been so successful in training a
chorus of war workers, in addition
to his work at the cathedral. He is
a delicate looking young man. Since
he has lately been drafted, he will
be in the service before long. I only
hope that his gift of music will give
as much pleasure there as it has to
the people of the city of Washing
ton. He played a very lovely short
program from Bach.