The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, August 07, 1942, Image 2
THE SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C- AUGUST 7, 1942
Washington, D. C.
U. S. FOREIGN LEGION
Most people don’t realize it, but
there are many enemy aliens who
are officers in the U. S. army. In
fact the army, true to the American
tradition of the melting pot, is made
up of American citizens of almost
every national and racial back
ground, including 2,720 German ali
ens, not to mention 2,700 Germans
who are naturalized citizens.
The Italian total is 2,472 aliens and
3,781 naturalized. In addition, there
are 644 Japanese in the army, plus
3,000 Japanese-Americans, formerly
of the Hawaiian national guard,
most of whom are assigned to the
100th battalion at Fort McCoy, Wis.
The army goes on the assumption
that any man who wants to fight
can be a good soldier. Of course,
the “enemy aliens” are checked and
double-checked before they are ad
mitted for enlistment. The men who
pass these tests are found to be even
more zealous for the defeat of the
dictators than the average Ameri
can.
Lstin-American Battalions.
To make the melting pot more
complex, the army has a Filipino
infantry battalion, and is forming a
battalion for Norwegians in the
U. S. and Norwegian-Americans. In
struction and conversation in this
unit will be in the Norwegian lan
guage.
Equally eager to fight are thou
sands of Latin-Americans, especial
ly from the nearer countries, such
as Cuba and Mexico. The office
of the U. S. military attache in
Havana is flooded with applications
from young Cubans who want to
wear the uniform of Uncle Sam.
Most of them would renounce Cuban
citizenship if necessary.
But what they do not realize is
that if they come to the United
States, they are likely to be swept
into the U. S. army, whether they
like it or not. Within five days after
entering this country, aliens must
register for the draft, and they had
better leave the country pronto if
they don’t want to be inducted.
Not yet arranged, but highly de
sirable, is a Latin-American bat
talion. There are now ten Latin-
American countries which have de
clared war on the Axis, and thou
sands of their young men want to
follow up that declaration with
something more than police duty at
home.
• • •
BACK-BREAKERS
An American diplomat returning
from Italy tells this revealing story
about the true sentiments of the
Italian people.
In his office at the U. S. embassy
in Rome he found a clerk, an Italian
girl, crying. When he inquired what
was wrong, she replied: “Oh, I’m
ashamed to be an Italian. You re
member what boasting the Fascists
did about the Greek campaign?
They said: ‘We will break their kid
neys.’ But everybody knows who
really beat the Greeks; it was not
our army; it was the Germans. But
now—have you seen the poster on
the streets this morning?” And the
girl broke into tears again.
The diplomat looked outside at the
poster, which that day was appear
ing all over Italy. It showed a
Greek soldier lying on his face,
with a steel bar across his back. On
top of the bar was the Fascist in-
signe, and on the side, the swastika.
The caption read: “We said we
would break their kidneys. Musso
lini is always right.”
Note: All reports from Italy tell
of a growing disgust with the Mus
solini government, and a growing
hatred of the Germans. But the
people are too cowed to revolt.
* * *
NO-CHAUFFEUR ARNOLD
Trustbusting Thurman Arnold hails
from the small town d? Laramie,
Wyo., and he doesn’t see any rea
son why he should hire a chauffeur
to drive his car. So he drives it
himself.
One evening, after he and Mrs.
Arnold had been dinner guests of
Mrs. Evalyn (Hope Diamond)
McLean, they were going out the
front door, when the doorman said,
in his most elegant manner, “Shall
I call your car, Mr. Arnold?”
With a dour expression on his
face, Arnold said, "You can call it,
but I don’t think it will come.”
* • •
CAPITAL CHAFF
C. The Thurman Arnolds are mourn
ing over the fact that Angelica has
eaten Henry Wallace’s corn. When
the vice president heard about it, he
having given the Arnolds a present
of Iowa hybrid corn, he remarked:
“I hope the com did Angelica some
good.” Angelica is the Thurman
Arnolds’ cow.
C. Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of Sena
tor “No-X-Card” Pepper of Florida,
walks to social engagements or
takes the street car.
C. There may be a gasoline short
age, but you would never know it at
Washington’s Congressional Country
club. On a recent Sunday there
were so many golfers that caddies
had to double up and carry two or
three bags each ... On the same
Sunday, motorists so jammed the
highways between Washington and
Eastern Shore beaches that cars
were lined up for three hours wait
ing for the Chesapeake ferry
AT THE BICYCLE RATIONING
BOARD
Q.—Why do you want a bicycle?-
A.—It’s the only card missing
from my collection.
Q.—Do you want a high-wheel or
a low-wheel machine?
A.—Low. Any idea you have that
I am going into a revival of vaude
viile is false.
» • •
Q.—Have you ever operated a
bicycle before?
A.—No, but I come from an old
family of bicycle people.
Q.—What do you mean by
that?
A.—My dad could ride back
wards. And I had an uncle who
could stand on his head in the
saddle.
Q.—Are there any bicycles in
your family now?
A.—Those things I trip over
in the dark every night can’t be
road rollers.
• • •
Q.—Give the board three reasons
why you should be allowed to ride
a bike?
A.—I can’t get any gas. The other
two don’t matter.
Q.—Do you live near a bus line?
A—Yes.
Q.—Why not use the bus?
A.—When I coast down hill I want
to do it on my own responsibility.
• • •
Q.—Are you aware that there it a
shortage of bicycles?
A.—Up until the last year I thought
they could only be found in antique
shops.
Q.—What do you want to do on a
bicycle that can’t be done some other
way?
A.—Go through a red light and
park where I want to.
Q.—Do you regard your having a
bicycle as essential to winning the
war?
A.—Of course. It will keep up na
tional morale.
0-—How so?
A.—The people need entertainment
and when they see me on i bicycle
they will get it.
* • *
Q.—How far do you live from
work?
A.—Twenty miles.
Q.—Our records show that it is
only two miles.
A.—You forget that it’s all uphill.
• • •
Q.—Have you thought of pooling
bicycles?
A.—What do you mean?
Q. —You take a neighbor to work
one day and he takes you the next.
A.—Who do you think I am, Joe
Jackson Jr.?
• • •
THE SILVER LINING
This year, ah me,
Good luck is mine.
I’ll never see
A detour sign.
—Merrill Chilcote.
* • •
The best laugh line of the
month in this department’s opin
ion is to be found in “Tb*- Cram-
bury Tiger,” a baseball story by
Bugs Baer in Collier’s. In a
fantastic tale about a busher,
there is an episode where a shot
gun marriage takes place at the
plate during a critical inning.
The game is then resumed and
the batter strikes out. “He
is now in a fine spot,” says
Baer. “He is struck out and
married on a wide outshoot.”
* * *
The police of a Pennsylvania
city have stopped bingo games
to save gas, oil and rubber. As
if anything in this country could
justifiably be given a priority
over bingo.
• • •
One of the prisoners held for aid
ing those Nazi spies was a former
steward on the Nourmahal, presi
dential yacht. And we always
thought those millionaire boats were
well screened.
• • •
Playing cards now have the airplanes of
all nations on them. Maybe the reason
some bridge addicts lost all the time was
due to lack of air protection.
• • •
Taxi Driver (to a driver of a pri
vate auto)—Come out from behind
all them stamps and say that to my
face!! 1
• • •
The fellow who strikes oil on
his property is nothitfg today
compared to the man who
strikes it at a filling station.
• • •
Many breweries are now putting
out beer only in quart bottles. And
Elmer Twitchell complains that
when he now goes to the icebox
for a bottle of beer he brings along
a helper.
WHAT HURTS
I don’t mind walking here and there
In order to save gas,
But how I hate to climb a tree
To let the speeders pass!
—Robert W. Rogers.
• • •
Capt. Oscar Walker, who imper
sonated Paul Revere, then mounted
a house and rode off.—N. Y. Times
It’s a good trick—if he did it.
* * »
R. Roelofs Jr. insists that he went
into a big hotel the other day, asked
for a room and got the curt demand,
“Where’s your army uniform?”
JVA’s Tin Can Army’ Goes Into Action
The first Junior Victory Army tin can assembly line goes into action in Chicago. At left one of the
young members receives first aid from a JVA nurse as other members carry on. Next from left, another
member removes labels from cans. A third, with a precision can opener, sees that both ends, are opened
properly and tucked in. Another pounds the cans flat and then final inspection is made before the cans are
packed for shipment to the junk yard.
Navy’s Triple Threat to Enemy Submarines
Three destroyers In 35 minutes—that’s the navy’s newest triple threat to enemy subs. The triple launch
ing occurred at the Federal Shipbuiding and Dry Dock company in Kearny, N. J. The three destroyers will
soon be on the prowl against the forces of aggression on the seven seas. They are the USS Davison, the USS
Edwards and the USS Saufley. The three destroyers were named in memory of naval officers.
Australia’s First Lend-Lease Tanks
Prominent Hobbyists
Australia has received her first quota of lend-lease tanks from the
U. S. The M-3 mediums and lights are important fighting weapons.
Crews for the tanks, mostly experienced men from the Libyan and Ma
layan fronts, are trained as crewmen. The Aussies are shown unseal
ing them after- they were received from the U. S. prior to putting
them into final fighting shape.
Mrs. Donald M. Nelson, wife of
the chief of the War Production
board, likes to mend toys in her
spare time, while Maj. Alexander
Seversky, aviation authority, likes
to play the accordion. They are
telling radio audiences about it on a
recent broadcast.
General Eisenhower Confers with Staff
Coast Guard Hero
Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the American forces
in the European theater of war, is shown (center) conferring on military
problems with two members of his staff at headquarters in London. Pic
tured at left is Capt. Ernest R. Lee, and at right, Lieut. Com. Harry C.
Butcher.
Coastguardsmen John C. Cullen
who helped trap Nazi saboteur:
landed by German sub on the At
lantic coast, dances with Miss Alyse
Nelson in a New York night club.
'T'HESE soldiers, sailors, marines,
*■ airmen and coast guardsmen
have all the work they can handle,
but they still have time enough
left for arguments,
debates and rebut
tals of one sort or
another.
Here is a camp
query that covers
practically every
detail of baseball:
“To help clear up
a lot of arguments
we’ve had in this
camp would you
mind answering the
following: Who is * GrantlandRice
(1) the fastest pitch
er baseball ever knew; (2) the hard
est hitter; (3) the best natural hit
ter; (4) the best base runner; (5)
the best infielder, fielding and hit
ting?”
Here are the answers from
this lookout:
1. Fastest ball pitcher—Walter
Johnson, with Lefty Grove sec
ond.
2. Hardest hitter—Babe Ruth.
3. Best Natural hitter—Joe
Jackson, with Nap Lajoie close.
4. Best base runner—Ty Cobb,
going away. Max Carey next.
5. Best infielder—Bonus Wag
ner, great infielder and {greater
hitter.
Ranking Golfers
Here’s another barracks request,
this time from a group of golfers:
"How would you rank the golfers
from the viewpoint of stroke
making, all-around skill, winning or
losing temperaments, putting? If
we can get this settled it will shut
off a lot of noise in this camp.”
1. The best stroke-maker I ever
saw, the straightest player, was
Harry Vardon.
2. The best combination of stroke
making, hard work and putting be
longed to Bobby Jones.
3. The best golfing temperaments
I ever ran across were Johnny Mc
Dermott, Jerry Travers and Walter
Hagen. McDermott and Travers
were marvels at concentration.
Hagen had less tension. He also
had as much golf smartness.
The two best putters I ever saw
were Walter Travis and Jerry
Travers. In modem play this dis
tinction goes to Horton Smith. Paul
Runyan is close.
I’ve seen Harry Vardon play
many rounds of championship golf
and I can’t recall ever seeing him
play a shot from the rough or from
a bunker. He was a bad putter,
with a nervous stab. It was nothing
unusual to see him take three putts
from 10 or 12 feet.
About Bobby Jones
Capt. Bobby Jones, taking his
training at Mitchel Field before
being stationed in a southern sector,
believes he worked harder around
a course in championship play than
anyone else. He was supposed to
be “The Machine.”
“I was far from this,” he said re
cently. “Machines don’t take sev- J
ens. Gene Sarazen
used to say you
can’t take a seven
on any hole and
win. I had three
sevens in my last
round at Winged
Foot in theJNationa)
Open of 1929. I’ve
had a flock of sev
ens, which meant I
had to work my
head off on the oth
er holes.
“The oddest sev
en I ever took was at Hoylake
in the 1930 British Open. I was
only 20 yards off the green in two,
got into no trouble, actually didn’t
miss a shot, and yet took five
strokes to get down for my seven
here. How could this happen? The
cup was on a mound. My first chip
shot ran up fairly close, stopped,
and then rolled back. My second
one slipped by the cup, caught a
deep slant and trickled 30 feet on
beyond. Then I took three putts.
The Worst Temptation
“Championship golf,” Bobby said,
“is largely resisting the temptation
to quit after one or two bad holes.
You begin to feel you can’t win, so
why keep on punishing yourself?
The winner has to work for it all
the way, take his beating here and
there, and then continue to work,
harder than ever.
“I believe the hardest-working
golfer I ever saw is Ben Hogan
Ben works over every type of shot,
even the ones that look simple. He
takes nothing for granted.
“Hogan has made no attempt to
master any variety of shots. He
sticks to a few simple ones, concen
trates on these, and never gets dis
couraged. Byr n Nelson is another
hard worker, although Byron can
play more shots. But no one works
quite as hard, round after round,
month after month, as Hogan works.
“I had 18 years of tournament
golf, from 12 to 30, and I know the
nerve and mental beating one has
to take if you are out to win. Just
one lapse is enough to cost two
strokes. There never was a golf
shot that played itself.”
DoubleWeddingRing'
An Old Favorite Quilt
TROUBLE WEDDING RING—be-
loved quilt of many genera
tions—returns in all its tradition
laden beauty. This new pattern
gives accurate cutting guide for
segments containing either six or
eight pieces, so you have your
choice of working with small
piece's or ones which are a bit
larger.
• • •
The quilt size is the same in either
case—an ample 86 by 99. Turn spare
moments into useful moments by piecing
the Double Wedding Ring; prints, plain
color and white or a pastel are required.
The pattern No. Z8131 is 15 cents. Send
your order to:
AUNT MARTHA
Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo.
Enclose 15 cents for each pattern
desired. Pattern No
Name
Address
Buried Hangars
The type “C” hangars of the
RAF in England even defy detec
tion by strangers walking around
them, says Collier’s. They are
vast storage rooms about 50 feet
underground, connected by an ele
vator to a roomless farmhouse on
the surface.
As the building has no runways
for the planes, the incoming ships
are towed from the nearest air
port into an attached shed, while
the outgoing ones are catapulted
from another on the opposite side
of the house.
RHEUMATIC PAIR
Im4 hi tfll ytar Day—Sal aftar II law
Don’t put off getting C-2223 to re
lieve pain of muscular rheumatism
and other rheumatic pains. Buy
C-2223 today. 60c, $1, everywhere:.
Use only as directed. The purchase
price refunded if you’re not satisfied.
Chinese Cannot Whisper
A whispered conversatidh can
not be carried on in a tone lan
guage, one of which is Chinese,
because variations of tone, or
pitch, are used to distinguish
words of different meaning that
otherwise would sound alike.
A Vegetable
[Laxative
For Headache,
Sour Stomach
and Dizxy
Spells when
caused by Con
stipation. Use
only as directed.
. . j £
Dr. Hitchcock s
LAXATIVE POWDER
TO CHECK
ADVERTISING
• ADVERTISING
represents the leadership of
a nation. It points the way.
We merely follow—follow to
new heights of comfort, of
convenience, of happiness.
As time goes on advertis
ing is used more and more,
and as it is used more we
all profit more. It's the way
advertising has—
of bringing a profit to
everybody concerned,
the consumer included