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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON AND WAR’S END
Washington officials who watch
the trend of the war admit now pri
vately that “things will happen very
fast” in the next few months. If
pressed, they even make flat predic
tions that Germany will fold before
summer.
Publicly, they stick to the line that
it will be a long war. This is the
only sound position to take, as an
official line, since no war can be suc
cessfully waged if the people spend
their time peeping around the corner
for the approach of peace.
But the facts allow a hopeful ex
pectation. Unquestionably the inva
sion of Europe will be a winter in
vasion. For many reasons, spring
will be too late. February is the
likeliest month. The exact time will
be no secret to the Nazis, because
we will be pounding the French
coast well in advance.
The offensive will be a tremendous
operation, combining a cross-chan
nel invasion with heavy drives from
Russia and Italy, plus all-out air
attacks everywhere. (The Balkan in
vasion urged by Churchill is doubt
ful.)
Some experts go as far as to name
the length of time—in days—which
this big operation will require, be
fore the end. One highly placed of
ficial says it will take three months
and twenty days. Thus, if the in
vasion starts by mid-February, this
would mean the end by early June.
But military experts won’t say
such things out loud, because they
fear the U. S. public will overlook
the fact that the days between Feb
ruary and June will be the bloodiest
days in the history of all the world’s
wars.
• • «
ARMY POSTAL SERVICE
On a recent visit to the front lines,
Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark found a
soldier busy scribbling a V-mail let
ter on his mess-kit. The soldier
looked as though he had lost his
last friend, so General Clark asked
him what was wrong.
“Oh, I’m getting a little weary of
this life, sir,” replied the soldier.
“What’s your trouble?” asked
General Clark.
“Why, I haven’t received a letter
in five days, General,” replied the
soldier. “What does the post office
department think we are over here
—a bunch of archeologists?”
“Personally, I think five days is
pretty good service from the United
States to the front lines, son,” re
plied Clark. “But I’ll talk to the
postal service officials and see if
you can’t get your love letters quick,
er. I see your point, soldier.”
• • •
VETERANS EXPAND
The Ramspeck committee inves
tigating civil service has spent most
of its time trimming the numbers
of government workers. But it has
now stumbled into a situation re
quiring a complete change of policy.
The Veterans administration, in
stead of submitting to a reduction of
personnel, is asking for more—thou
sands more. Men are being dis
charged from military service so
fast that the task of Veterans ad
ministration is going up like a sky
rocket. Now employing 45,000 work
ers all over the country, V. A. will
soon have to double its staff.
• • *
BACK TO PEACETIME
INDUSTRY
Donald Nelson is engaged in a
behind-the-scenes race with Elder
Statesman Bernie Baruch to work
out plans for the reconversion of
American industry and see who can
get it done first. This was behind
the war production board meeting
last wees when Nelson called in his
top aides and outlined a big post
war program of civilian production.
Nelson wants plans for the change
over of industry to begin at once.
This does not mean the actual re
conversion of factories, since a lot
of them may be busy on war orders
for some time. But it does mean
full speed ahead on plans for recan 1 -
version.
This may provide one clue on how
soon the administration expects the
war to be over in Europe.
However, insiders who know
something about personal rivalries
of Washington, sea in it also the
desire of Donald Neson to grab the
ball away from Baruch and “Assist
ant President” Jimmie Byrnes.
These two long have wanted to get
Nelson out, and at one time FDR
actually signed a letter appointing
Baruch chairman of a special com
mittee to take over all war produc
tion.
Note: Before Nelson got busy on
reconversion, Baruch had been
asked by the White House to study
plans for converting industry back
to a peace basis.
• • •
CAPITAL CHAFF
41. The war department is keeping a
watchful eye on the labor policies of
hard-working Lieut. Gen. Robert C.
Richardson, commanding officer in
Hawaii. He is suspected of playing
in too close with the big sugar
barons.
C The Russians plan to relieve Len
ingrad without firing a shot—chiefly
by a drive through Latvia and
Lithuania to the Baltic sea. This
would cut off the Germans around
Leningrad unless they could execute
a Dunkirk
THE FUEHRER AND
AMERICAN MOVIES
Adolf Hitler, it develops, is a rab
id movie fan and especially likes
to get American films for some
strange reason, and have them run
off for him at Berchtesgaden. When
the Drottningholm, prisoner ship,
was returning from Scotland, the
Nazis confiscated a batch of them
for the Fuehrer. They-included Dis
ney’s “Eambi,” Betty Grable in
"Coney Island” and the films “Crash
Dive” and “Cairo.”
•
He had better be careful how far
he goes. If he goes in for our
double-features he will get that
breakdown, after all.
•
Of course it is just possible that
Hitler doesn’t really like American
films. He may merely take them
to Berchtesgaden so he can spend
an evening booing.
*
Still, Adolf is the type who would
be a movie fanatic. He likes dark
ness, bad air, blatant credit lines,
Donald Duck, Popeye, the Dracula
sort of thing and a chance to argue
with ushers.
. Scene in the Chancellery.
Adolf (to Goering)—Well, did we
seize any American films this week?
Goering—Fuehrer, our forces to
the north won another tremendous
victory. They seized "I Dood It,”
“Lassie Comes Home” and “The
Gang’s All Here.” On the west, we
took “Buffalo Bill,” “Looney Toons”
and “Wintertime.”
Adolf (shuddering —Ach, give ’em
back that last one! It gives me
the creeps. Any word from Rom
mel?
Goering—He almost got “Always
a Bridesmaid” and “For Whom the
Bell Tolls" but had to retreat at the
last moment.
Adolf—How is Kesselring doing?
Goering—I have a wire from him
that he has brought up reserves and
is within ten miles of a new Carmen
Miranda vehicle.
Adolf—Anything new on the Rus
sian front?
Goering—The situation there is
pretty clouded.
Adolf—I remember when every
thing on that front was in techni
color.
• • •
Goering—There are reports that in
the Minsk sector we are threatening
“Mission to Moscow” and “North
Star.”
Adolf (fiercely)—They don’t even
exist any more. The Warner Bro
thers have been exterminated, not
to rise again for a thousand years.
Goering—Here’s a message from
our U-boats.
Adolf—Yes, yes, what is it?
Goering — They have torpedoed
“Yankee Doodle,” “Victory Through
Air Power” and “Salute to the Ma
rines.”
• • •
The radio program of the year
is the one just put on the air by
Variety, the show-world magazine.
What an idea! It takes outstanding
performances of the week in the
amusement business and puts on a
Sunday night program. To us the
best thing about it is that it intro
duces new talent, picking up able
entertainers who haven’t had the
breaks and sweeping them into na
tional fame overnight.
• • •
Prepared
Although my husband’s gone to war,
He’s just as safe now as before.
He had some first-rate inside tip:
To make fast work of nasty “Nips.”
He’s just as safe rs he can be,
FOR HE’S LEARNED SELF-DE-
FENSE FROM ME!
Romayn Allen
• • •
A new weather forecaster has
been named for New York and
promises an improvement in gen
eral conditions.
• • •
Ima Dodo went to see “Sahara”
last night and says she coughed all
day from the sand in her nose and
throat.
• • •
Baseball is to get a livelier ball
next season. One thing the Teheran
and Cairo conferees have Just real
ized is that more home runs, say
what you may, are one of the main
essentials to a bright new world.
* * •
Elmer Twitchell hears that the re
volt in Bolivia was caused by the
fact that President Penaranda for
got to send a Christmas card to
Major Villarroroel.
* * *
What this country needs is a cigar
maker with a good five-ceut con
science.
. • .
Can You Remember—
Away back when you could dis
pose of many Christmas problems
by merely going to the bank and
saying: “Ten $5 gold pieces, please”?
•
Away back in prohibition days
when prices were reasonable? And
when you said, “Oh, I’m not asking
for liquor back, I’d be satisfied with
light wines and beers”?
•
When you could say, “I’ll take a
cigar this time” and get it?
Grantland Rice
W E HOLD no grudge against the
ballyhoo set up for such young
er entries as Col. Matt Winn, 82,
Connie Mack, 81, Lonnie Stagg, 81,
or Col. Ed Bradley, 83. They have
all had more than their share of the
headlines for over 60 years.
But we’d like to make anothei
nomination that even tops this list
when it comes to
the matter of cele
brating another New
Year. His name is
Arlie Latham, now
84 years old, and
looking somewhere
in the early 60s.
Arlie is now a
guardian of the
press box in New
York. But there was
a time some 60-odd
years ago when he
was a star infielder
for the St. Louis Browns in the
crazy days of Chris von der Ahe.
And it was the irrepressible Arlie
who contributed his full share to the
incipient lunacy of old Chris, one
of the rarest characters basehall
ever knew.
Arlie Latham came to the Browns
around 1880. He was an able in
fielder, a good clutch hitter, base
ball’s top clown and also an in
spiring entry. Arlie was one of
the smartest men that ever played
baseball, in any league or at any
time. He had a keen, quick wit
that dominated any situation where
repartee might figure.
From the Browns Latham came
to Cincinnati’s Reds in company
with such famous old timers as Long
John Riley, Bid McPhee, Tommy
Corcoran, Tin O’Neil, Elton Cham-
oerlain, Tony Mullane, Jim Keenan,
Jim Duryea, Billy Earl, Billy
Rhines, Germany Smith and others.
This old Red team was oi.e of
the most colorful casts that base
ball has ever known. They were a
rather rough and rowdy bunch, in
many respects, but they could play
baseball—and Arlie was then one of
the best.
Looking Back
I first ran across Arlie Latham
after he had finished his playing
career. This was back in Atlanta in
1903 when Latham was a Southern
league umpire. He was something
more than an umpire. He was a
riot. His quick wit and his sarcastic
comeback were much too fast for
the ballplayers of 1903—and for that
it would have been the same for the
ballplayers of 1943.
Arlie came south as umpire at
the time the north was sending us
such veterans as Gus Weyhing, The
odore Breitenstein, Red Ehret, Amos
Rusie, King Bailey and a few others
who bad been pitching 70 or 80
games a year before the fading
soupbone needed a touch of south
ern sun. The best of the crop that
came from the north in those days
was Theodore Breitenstein, the
“$10,*000 beauty,” a mighty sum in
any sale in those days.
“Breit had a tragic baseball fin
ish,” Arlie told me recently. “The
most tragic finish baseball ever
knew. He was getting on at the
time—around 40 or maybe 42. He
came to the close of the ninth in
ning with two men out and a sure
no-hit game in sight. Nothing like a
hit—up to that spot. One man left.
The one man left drove a low liner
through the box that broke Breit’s
ankle, wrecked his no-hit game and
closed out his baseball career.
“They were a grand bunch in
those days,” Arlie tells you. “Some
of them were nuts—but who isn’t?
One way or another. I can look back
and see ’em now—Bid McPhee—
Heiny Peitz, Red Ehret, Tony Mul
lane—all the others.
“In those days a pitcher who
didn’t work in 60 or 70 games, may
be more, must have lost both arms."
Connie the Bat-Tipper
“Do you remember Connie Mack? ”
I asked.
“Connie was younger than I was,”
Arlie said, “but I remember him.
I’d call him the Bill Dickey of 60
years ago as a catcher, but he
couldn’t hit within a mile of Dickey.
Connie was only a fair hitter. But
he was the best bat-tipper I ever
saw. The batter would be all set to
swing at a fast one coming in—and
then miss the ball two feet and
start a young war. Connie had
tipped his bat with a fast-working
hand. His idea was to win the ball
game, any way he could, and the
umpires were not so strict in those
days. Connie was always smart.
“Don’t forget those old timers
could play a lot of baseball,” Arlie
said. “Baseball was their life. There
were no motor cars in those days,
no motion pictures, no radios.
“There was nothing for them but
baseball—and not too much cash. Do
you remember the time Larry Lajoie,
then with the Phillies, batting .400,
held out for $2,500? So did Ed Dele-
hanty, one of the greatest hitters I
ever saw. Lajoie and Delehanty
could hit for me.”
The main point is that Arlie Lath
am at 84, a veteran who can look
back over 60 years, even beyond
the days of Connie Mack and Matt
Winn and Lonnie Stagg, 30 years
before Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth were
ever known, is still hale, hearty and
active.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
UNDAY I
ichool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for January 23
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
JESUS TEACHES IN PARABLES
LESSON TEXT—Mark 4:1-9. 28-32.
GOLDEN TEXT—If any man hath can
to hear, let him hear.—Mark 4:23.
Parables were often used by our
Lord, particularly when He had
truth to reveal which was not for
unbelieving hearts that had hard
ened themselves against it (see
Matt. 13:10-16).
The method is that of telling an
earthly story, true to life (hence, not
a fable), which is placed alongside
of the spiritual truth it is designed
to teach. It thus differs from an
allegory, which gives the meaning
with the story (see John 15:1-6).
Jesus used parables in our lesson
to teach the truth that the good seed
of the Word of God will be received
in various ways and will bring forth
widely differing results. He—the
Lord—was the Sower, and the field
was the world (Matt. 13:37, 38).
We note first that in that field
there were and are—
I. Feur Kinds of Soil (Mark
4:1-9).
The reception of the seed is de
termined by the condition of the soil.
The great field was essentially of one
kind of soil, but it had become wide
ly different in its ability to take in
the seed and bear fruit.
The interpretation of this parable
is given by our Lord in the verses
immediately following (w. 3-20). It
has striking application to our day.
A road, or beaten pathway, was a
common thing in the fields of Pales
tine. On such hard soil a seed found
no place to grow, and the birds car
ried it away. Such is the condition
of a man who permits the heavy
and sinful traffic of this world to
harden his heart against spiritual
truth. If our heart has reached that
stage we should ask God to break
it up. The birds (always a symbol
of evil in the Bible) are Satan and
his emissaries. They are always
busy about carrying away the Word
of God when it is truly preached.
The rocky soil was a thin layer of
good soil on a rocky ledge. At first
this caused rapid growth, but with
out deep roots it could not survive
the heat of summer. This is the one
who enthusiastically responds to the
gospel appeal, but being without real
conviction and repentance, he has
no stability when persecution comes.
The thorny ground—where the
growing grain was choked by weeds
—typifies the professed believer who
lives in woridliness. The friend of
the world is God’s enemy (James
4:4). Note the things which destroy
spiritual life (v. 19), and shun them.
In the good ground—open to receive
and ready to yield itself for the
growth of the seed—there is abun
dant harvest. Even here there is a
difference in the amount of fruit.
Why not be a "hundredfold” be
liever? „
Changing the picture -a little our
Lord now speaks of—
II. Norma] Growth and a Good
Harvest (4:26-29).
This parable, found only in Mark,
has a lesson for the sower. He is
not to expect the harvest immedi
ately after the time of sowing. There
is a period of patient waiting while
God is producing the growth (and
only He can do itl)—then the joy of
harvest.
There are many lessons to learn
here. We who serve the Lord in
teaching or preaching the Word are
too impatient, too eager to be able
to announce results. God is always
willing that things should mature
naturally and in due season. Let
us wait for Him and be at rest in
our spirits (v. 27).
Then let us be glad as the seed
begins to show signs, of maturing,
but let us not be slow to gather
the harvest when it is ready. Some
forget to gather the spiritual fruit
of their labors, possibly having long
since lost patience and interest.
We should also be encouraged by
this parable to continue sowing the
seed, knowing that it will find place
in the hearts of some and bring forth
fruit unto eternal life.
Next we are warned to be on our
guard against accepting or approv
ing—
III. Abnormal Growth and an Evil
Harvest (4:30-32).
The mustard is an herb, not a
tree; hence this parable gave warn
ing that there would be an over
grown religious system calling itself
Christian. The birds are (as in the
parable of the kinds of soil) evil
men, or “isms,” or organizations
eager to take shelter in a religious
system without spiritual power.
The church had such an abnormal
growth when Constantine espoused
Christianity as a political move,
mixed it with paganism, and ele
vated it to a position of worldly
power.
All this was and still is contrary
to God’s plan for the church. He
wanted a spiritual body distinguished
by lowliness, meekness and service.
These are the tilings that mark the
true Christian spirit. The marks of
true Christianity are always those
of likeness to Him who said: “I am
meek and lowly in heart,” who came
“not to be ministered unto but to
minister.”
ON THE
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RUTH WYETH SPEARS
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• • •
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