Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- JULY 31, 1942 Washington, D. C. PROFESSOR VS. SUBS Governor Rex Tugwell of Puerto Rico was flying from his post to the British island of Jamaica a short time ago, and just before he stepped into the plane, the young naval pilot said: “I don’t suppose we’ll see any thing. But we might as well be ready just in case.” So they loaded the plane with half a dozen depth charges. It was a small transport plane, had no regu lar bomb bay, so the depth charges were merely placed on the seats. Out over the Caribbean, suddenly the pilot looked down, said, “There she is.” Below them with its con ning tower above water, was a Nazi submarine. Both the pilot and Governor Tug- well reached for the depth charges, opened the window. But before they could drop even one, the sub marine had submerged. The ex- braintruster came home with no submarine scalp in his professorial belt. —Buy War Bonds— EYE TRICK The war has spawned a number of rackets, designed both to gain deferment for unwilling draftees and to aid others in passing their phys ical examinations. But the most ingenious to date was uncovered by the navy department. A Washington doctor has been re storing 20-20 (perfect) eyesight to applicants for commissions — long enough to enable them to pass their “physicals”—by injecting a high- powered drug. The trick was brought to light during an examina tion of a young commission-seeker with defective vision. He had been examined three times and each time was told to go home and practice eye exercises. But his eyesight remained 31-9, far below the required standard. After the third test, the applicant was told he would be given one more chance. If he flunked again, he would be rejected. When he returned the fourth time, he amazed the navy eye doctor by passing with a 20-20 mark. Doubt ing that the exercises had achieved such a phenomenal result, the doc tor decided to make a check. He sent the applicant into an adjoining room and kept him there five hours. Then he was given another exam ination. This time his vision was found to be 31-9 again. The applicant finally broke down and admitted that his temporary perfect vision had been due to a shot in the arm given him by a Washington doctor. This doctor, he said, had told him to make sure he was examined within “four or five hours” after the injection, as its ef fect would last only that long. * • * NAZI FOOD SHORTAGE Word from inside Germany makes it clear that Nazi officials are an ticipating a hard winter, even if Hit ler does take the vast granary of South Russia. They have already completed arrangements for emer gency food distribution, in anticina- tion of serious shortages. The plan calls for community feeding throughout Germany. It would mean that families would no longer sit down to dinner in their own homes, but would line up at a community feeding center for a gov ernment handout. Under this system, the hausfrau would not buy her own provisions, ration cards would b^ replaced by meal tickets, and one-dish meals of the “stew” type would be handed out several times a week. Under this system, the Nazis will be able to distribute food supplies more efficiently, with greater use of substitutes, and with equal treat ment for all. Hitler may not see the irony of It, but this system brings him to communism, from which he pro fesses to be so eager to “save Europe.” —Buy War Bonds— MERRY-GO-ROUND C Opening prayer in the senate was offered recently not by a clergyman but by a member of the U. S. senate itself — Berkeley L. Bunker of Nevada, a former bishop in the Mor mon church. C. “Whenever I come to Washing ton,” says Walter Winchell, “I am amazed at the number of big men supposed to be working for the coun try who spend their time working against each other.” C. Curtailment of musical instru ment production will save enough metal to build 12,000 six-ton trucks, more than 100 big tanks, 500 pieces of heavy artillery, and 50,000,000 rounds of machine-gun ammunition. C. The OPA soon will crack down on a number of tire recappers on charges of incompetent workman ship and waste of vital materials. «. Hon Wu, chief oi the 500 Chinese residents in Chicago’s Ciiinatown, points proudly to the fact that his group was one of the first in Chicago to be organized for civilian defense. C. Northrop Aircraft company has evolved a new welding process that is claimed will revolutionize plane making. The new method will per mit the construction of all-magne sium planes. Magnesium is one- thij'd lighter than aluminum. AMERICA GOES BACKYARDISH This is going to be a backyard summer. The slogan is “See Your Own Landscaping First!” • • • The gas and tire crisis is going to reintroduce to millions of Ameri cans the attractions of their own >omes. • • • Merchants report boom sales of hammocks, swings, lawn games, rustic furniture, porch comforts and outdoor grills. One big department store reports a run on shuffle board sets, croquet sets and archery equip ment. Believe it or not it is even advertising “six-foot stilts as great fun for grown-ups.” So many target games are be ing bought, together with the archery sets that it is a question whether or not more peo ple won’t be hurt at home than were formerly hurt on the open roads. People who have gone for life in their own backyards insist that they have discovered it possible to enjoy all the comforts they used to drive miles to get. With a 50 per cent cut in indigestion, no interference from the motorcycle cops and 90 per cent fewer family disputes. The great joy of spending an en tire Sunday in one family group with no battles regarding detours is being widely discovered. • » • And it is amazing how many peo ple are discovering that a hotdog cooked on a back yard grill tastes better than the ones in the road side stands. Not to mention the additional exer cise setting up the grill, getting the charcoal and rushing for salve to apply to burned thumbs. * • * Imagine the complete change in American habits: a whole Sunday without any interference by traffic lights! • • » The fine thing about a charcoal grill is that it has no carburetor ad justments and no defective wind shield wipers. • • * And it has no body squeaks or funny noises under the chassis. • • • And this is what makes a charcoal grill such a genuine relief: you only use one to the yard and no woman driver is going to back into it. • * * That the hold-out system of col lecting the income tax will go through is certain. Out of almost every man’s salary a percentage will be deducted at the office and turned over to Uncle Sam. Can you remember away back when the bookkeeping department in a busi ness house lived a normal life? * • • Have you got a rubber stamp? You know how it tends to slow; Give it to your country now— Let it help to slow the foe! » • • “General Spaatz Named Head of AEF Air Forces.”—Headline. Eisenhower? . . . Nimitz? . . . Stratemeyer? . . . Spaatz? Boy, will this be confusing to the Germans! • • • A man who killed a neighbor for leaving the radio on too loudly has been let off with seven years in prison. The judge must have lived in an apartment, too. • • • President Roosevelt says it may be necessary to confiscate all auto tires. The President now looks at the com mon citizen and says, “I wouldn’t mind being in your shoes." * • • If tire confiscations become a fact it may be necessary to reword that old campaign pledge: A two quart garage and four cars on every tire. • • • THE WORRIED AUTOIST I have four tires on my car— They’re all a little worn; And every night I have a fear They won’t be there next morn. I pat each one and gently say “Goodnight, and bless your heart! Let’s hope there’ll be another week Before we have to part!” They seem to look at me and sigh, Before the doors I slam, “Well, anyhow, it’s one more day Unseized by Unqle Sam!” With U. S. Troops in Libyan Desert Refreshed by a night’s sleep punctured by the roar of nearby guns, members of the crew of a U. S.-built “General Grant” tank (left) go through the morning routine, somewhere in the Libyan desert. Right: A Ger man ammunition truck is shown afire after a direct hit during a skirmish. Feminine ’Chute Packers See Work Tested Feminine navy league aides, students in the first parachute rigging class for women in the country, at Philadelphia, see the ’chutes which they packed taken aloft for test jump (right) with dummies attached. Pilot Robert Bitner, pilot of the testing ship, receives the ’chutes. Picture at left shows the completion of a successful test jump. The students struggle to deflate the billowing silk so as to pack it again. Greetings to Leader of ‘Fighting French’ Gen. Charles De Gaulle, left, leader of the “Fighting French” (for merly the Free French) shakes the hand of Lieut. Gen. D. D. Eisen hower, U. S. commander for the European theater on the celebration of Bastille day in London. Adm. H. R. Stark, commander of the U. S. naval forces in European waters (center) looks on. ‘Bluebeard Tower’ A force of U. S. marines at Bourne Field, U. S. marine air station, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, looks down on the sunny Caribbean from “Blue beard’s Tower.” The turret is all that remains of a fortress which leg end says was the retreat of the fa bled character. Paul Revere Rides Again Colombians Paul Revere, 25, of Braintree, Mass., lineal descendant of the famous patriot of the same name, is now a buck private in Uncle Sam’s army, hav ing been sworn in recently in the presence of cheering troops. He then toured the camp on Duffy, 101st cavalry horse, before donning his uni form. Above, Paul bids adieu to Duffy and takes over with a jeep. Arriving at Miami to join Presi dent-elect Alfonso Lopez of Colom bia, who was in the U. S. as guest of President Roosevelt, Senora De Lo pez is shown (right) with her daugh ter. /COLLEGE football plans and aims seem to be obscured in a num ber of fogs and mists so far.as the public is concerned. But I can give you one that isn’t. This is Maryland university, where Clark Shaughnessy, late of Fvnford and the T-formation, is the man on the job. We have known Shaughnessy for a brief matter of 27 years, since he started coaching back around 1915. Outside of Lonnie Stagg, now with the College of the Pacific, this makes Clark either the dean of present-day coaches, or close to the mark. And I doubt that football has known any better all-around coach, or any coach with a finer influence on his football pupils. The main point is that Shaugh nessy and Maryland, with the full support of President Curly Bird, has set up a 1942 plan that is well worth looking at. The Maryland System “In this last spring practice,” Shaughnessy said, “we had 87 men out who were divided into four CLARK SHAUGHNESSY teams, and matched together in games. “But this is only a starter. Next fall I expect to have at least 500 Maryland students playing football. And I might say I’ve been spending more time on fellows who never have played the game than on those who have. And it’s surprising how many of these like the game and want to play it, once they get the general idea. “All together in this country we should have over 200,000 young fel lows playing football this fall, even though most of them will never make any first or second team.” A Few Arguments In the course of an evening’s con versation it is only natural that a few arguments should develop. One was the matter of the greatest full back and the greatest running half back. Clark’s selections were Norman Standlee of Stanford and the Chi cago Bears for the fullback job, with George McAfee of Duke and the Bears on the running side. Our two nominations were Bronko Nagurski at fullback with Cliff .Bat tles as the top ball carrier^ The Maryland mentor was willing to admit that Nagurski was the best all-around football player he ever saw. But he refused to concede the point that any line-battering back could wreck an entire defense the way Standlee could. McAfee wds a great ball-carrying back, but I’ll string along with Battles. * About the ‘T* Coach Shaughnessy offered three solid reasons in support of football’s T-formation. “First,” he said, “it is the type of game the players ail want, since it depends more on speed and smartness than mere crushing bulk and power. “Second, it is the type of play that appeals to the public since it is much more in the open. “Third, it is the best type of play with which to win games. It is the most effective winning formatio.i football has ever known. It is al most an unlimited threat against any form of defense. You will find the T-formation used more and more, wherever the material is in any way adapted.” Answering a Complaint One of the main complaints against college football from many outsiders is this: That football is largely a game in which some 25 or 30 trained athletes perform for the benefit of some 30,000 to 50,000 spectators, who get no physical benefit at all. He may not have the best 30 foot ball players in the country—he doesn’t look for anything like this. But he’d like to have the best 500 players, a much more important idea for t|ie general good of all con cerned, including the country at large. And to this football arrange ment Shaughnessy also has added an all-around conditioning program for the entire student body, which is even more important. Shaughnessy’s idea is to fill all open fields full of football players, to bring them out by the hundreds. LJAVE a posie-decked frock in J -*■ your wardrobe! 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