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I THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. BLOCKED ARMY PROMOTIONS The army is pulling all sorts of wires backstage in the senate to break the log-jam against perma nent wartime promotions—especial ly those of General Somervell and General Patton. The senate military affairs com mittee some time ago proposed a policy against rushing through per manent promotions in wartime, ar guing that temporary promotions were sufficient and that permanent promotions could come after the war when the senate and the public could survey all of an officer’s record. Some senators still remember the manner in which General Pershing was jumped from the rank of cap tain to brigadier general after he married the daughter of Sen. Fran cis E. Warren, then chairman of the military affairs committee; and they recall also the resentment this caused in the army. However, the policy of blocking permanent wartime promotions is being opposed by the army’s effi cient lobby on Capitol Hill; and re cently, a new move was made to put through promotions for Generals Patton and Somervell. Their names had been before a subcommittee which was adamant against promotion. Patton is now only colonel though holding the tem porary rank of lieutenant general. Somervell’s rank is similar. So Chairman Bob Reynolds of the military affairs committee put their names before a subcommittee in cluding himself, Elbert Thomas of Utah, and Warren Austin of Ver mont. Significantly sandwiched in between Patton’s and Somervell’s names is that of General Wain- wright, now a prisoner in Japan, whom every senator is anxious to promote. So it will be difficult for the subcommittee to promote one without the other two. • • • GRILLING GENERAL HERSHEY Draft director Lewis B. Hershey and manpower boss Paul McNutt came in for some rough handling re garding the bungled draft situation at a closed-door meeting of the house military affairs committee the other day. Members took their hair down and said a lot of things that have been rankling in their bosoms about conflicting draft orders which have promoted confusion. After the meeting adjourned, the committee announced that it had re fused to approve a labor draft bill. Inside fact, however, is that formal action against the labor draft was taken only after the committee had heard a furious grenading against the Hershey-McNutt team, including a demand that both be fired and re placed by a single draft czar. Chairman Andrew J. May of Ken tucky, Rep. Walter G. Andrews of New York, ranking committee Re publican, and Reps. Ewing Thoma son of Texas, John M. Costello of California, Leslie Arends of Illinois and Forest Harness of Indiana all got in some forthright licks against the fumbling of the m sin power and draft program. The assault was led by Texas’ two-fisted Thomason, who declared that one man should be put in com plete charge of both military and in dustrial manpower with the nation at war. • • • MYSTERIOUS HOSPITAL There is something awfully mys terious about the war department’s determination to get rid of the Breakers hotel in Palm Beach as an army hospital, and the extent to which Attorney General Biddle seems anxious to cooperate. In order to unravel the mystery, the Truman committee called upon Biddle for the Breakers hotel report prepared by his two-fisted young As sistant Attorney General Norman Littell. Littell, who is in charge of lands acquisition, had pointed to the foolishness of spending a lot of mon ey making a hotel into a hospital and then turning it back to the Flor ida East Coast railroad just when we are on the verge of a second front and do not know what our casualties will be. But when Biddle received the Tru man committee’s request, he got in touch with Rudolph Halley, its acting chief investigator, and asked him to withdraw the request. Halley dip lomatically complied. But next day, when members of the Truman committee heard about it, they called up the justice depart ment and subpoenaed the Littell re port. Whereupon Biddle promptly sur rendered. He asked that the sub poena be withdrawn and he finally sent the Littell report to the com mittee. Meanwhile, the army is hold ing up its plans to evacuate the Breakers. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF C. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, U. S. aide to Lord Louis Mountbatten, complains that he has br en sitting in New Delhi with nothing to do but read Sandburg’s “Life of Lincoln.” Wedemeyer is one of the top strate gists ii\ the U. S. army, spent six years in Germany, where he knew General Yodel and other Nazi field marshals. But instead of being put in a place where he could advise on strategy against Germany, he was sent to India, a country about which be knows little. _ Babe Ruth ’T'HE glamour and fame of Babe Ruth’s career began in 1914 when he reported to the Boston Red Sox. The Babe Ruth that almost every one knows stepped out beneath the great white spotlight at that 30-year- ago date. But how many know the story of the Babe Ruth between the ages of 12 and 19 when he was a kid at the St. Mary’s Industrial school in Baltimore? We happened to run across Brother Gil bert who knew the Babe in those early and far away days. “I was the base ball coach at Mt. St. Josephs, around 1911,” Brother Gil bert told me, “when I first ran into the Babe. He was then 16 years old, a tall, stringy kid, well built, but in no sense bulky. “When I first saw the Babe play be was a left-banded catcher. He wore his catcher’s mitt on the left hand and I was amazed at the swift ness and the deftness he employed in tossing aside his big mitt and throw ing to second with his left hand. It was easy to see that the Babe was no catcher—but it was jnst as easy to see that he was a natural ball player who had the winning spirit. The Babe jnst thought he had to win. Even as a young kid he could never understand defeat. “I watched him from that time on. In one of the first important games I ever saw Ruth play he hit three home runs. He was a fine hitter when he \v as onl y 12 - There used to be three or four teams play ing at St. Mary’s and everyone want ed to see the young Babe swing a bat.” The Earlier Years “The time came," Brother Gilbert said, “when the Babe was ready to get his chance. So I recommended him to my close friend, Jack Dunn, Baltimore’s famous manager. In the early training season Jack used the Babe at short, where he did all right. But Dunn knew that a left-handed shortstop just didn’t belong, so he moved Ruth into the pitching spot. In his first real professional test he shut out the 1914 Athletics, Ameri can league pennant winners, 6 to 0. “He was then 19 years old, weigh ing around 185 pounds. Later he beat the 1914 Boston Braves 2 to 1 and as you remember the Braves whipped the Athletics four straight. The two pennant winners that sea son got just one run off the Babe in 18 innings. And he was then just a kid. The Babe’s curve ball was just fair, but he had everything else, in cluding a cod head and a stout heart. Plus fine speed and control. “There was another time that spring where the Babe started a dou ble header. He was knocked out in the first inning of the first game and then came back to win a shut out in the second.” Brother Gilbert was a close friend of Jack Dunn’s and Connie Mack’s. I asked him why it was that Con nie didn’t get the Babe. “This is an odd story,” Brother Gilbert said. “Early in 1914, the year that Babe started with Baltimore, he was of fered to Mr. Mack for $10,000. “But it so happened at that time that Connie had too many good ball players. His Athletics had won the pennant in 1910, 1911 and 1913. They won again in 1914. They had been so good that they were beginning to draw smaller and smaller crowds. Early in 1914 when Connie could have bought Babe, he had such pitchers as Chief Bender, Eddie Plank, Bullet Joe Bush and I think Jack Coombs. He had a likely look ing left-hander coming along by the name of Herb Pennock. He had one of his greatest ball clubs. ‘I know this boy Ruth is a great ballplayer,’ Connie told me. ‘But I already have too many great players in my club. Why should I add another?’ “I remember one game at St. Mary’s when the Babe was only 17 years old. There was another ball game going on at another spot in the same field. When Ruth came to bat the other fellows stopped their game. “ ‘We’d better look out,’ someone said, ‘or that guy will kill some body.’ Ruth hit a low line triple that just cleared their heads. “Ruth was a great kid,” Brother Gilbert said. “He was a kid who loved kids then and has loved kids all his life. We’d get him a few jobs, but he’d never hold them long. He only wanted to play baseball—to catch, to pitch, to play the infield and the outfield—to knock the ball over some fence.” About the National League A few nights ago I had the privi lege of facing a group of wounded soldiers. They wanted to know who I thought would win the National league pennant. Here is my opinion: The Cardinals have a good prewar team. Billy Southworth has a big jump on his league. The Cardinals may run away with the pennant be fore mid-July. Many managers rate the Reds, Pirates, Dodgers, Giants and Cubs in a compact bunch, giving the Phillies and Braves a chance. liPhillipr GASOLINE FROM THE FARM The American Chemists society is told that enough gasoline to supply America’s cars of the future can be made from cane sugar, sweet pota toes, corn stalks and other farm products. Fine! Now if somebody will produce a good road map from a head of cabbage and show us how to make an all-hot out of radishes we will feel all set for happy week ends in the postwar world. • It will be like driving over hill and dale in a vegetable dinner. * But it is going to seem funny to see a sign on the gasoline station, “CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF THE CORN BORER.” . • And we don’t think we will feel quite right when we take the car in to be gone over and hear the mechanic say, as he examines the carburetor, “It’s a sugar case. This car has got to go easy on sweets.” * The convention of chemists hears that farmers will find a new and perhaps better living in raising “gasoline.” « Exit the man with the hoe; enter the man with the hose. « “He’s got a wonderful farm” you will hear somebody say. “He raised over ten thousand barrels of fuel last season, despite the bad weather.” • It may even reach a stage where, looking at a load of hay, you will naturally wonder whether it’s high test or regular. * And how, we wonder, will we feel about corn and sweet potatoes when we know that they are full of gaso line? There was something about sweet corn that always appealed to os, but we thought of it only as a vegetable, particularly nice at clambakes and Elks’ picnics. Now jve shall always feel after eating a *ew ears that we should go in to have our carbon removed and valves reseated. « The same way with sweet pota- oes. Who can ever feel the same about a sweet potato in the era when even as you take a second telping you feel that you are ceeping some poor fellow from get ting his share of gasoline? • What burns us up is that there is 10 way to get gasoline from a tomato. That’s the only vegetable we have ever been able to raise. • • • IF SHE GAN COOK, OKAY! The girl tfho is a good cook is coming into her own again after years of deflation. Her glorification is at hand. The high cost of eating out, coupled with what you get for your money, is making dinner at home seem a major treat. ♦ For years the gal who could cook was denied just acclaim, due to the mushroom growth of restaurants, luncheonettes, taverns, etc., where a dinner saved expense and bother, without destroying the digestive tract. * This was the era when restaurants put out a fairly good meal at a reasonable price. Not only that, but they threw in a little air of solici tude and courtesy. • Dinner for two in the medium- class place would cost $2.50 at the outside, with cocktails at twenty-five cents. Today if you get away with a check for less than $5 you’re get ting sandwiches. The run-of-the-mill lunchrooms are charging twice what they did before Pearl Harbor. Even the dogwagons require a bankroll for successful attack. • And it’s not the decline in quality and quantity that hurts as much as the absence of anything like atten tive service. The best waiters have gone into the war effort. And the re placements have come from the beaneries. • The old-time smile, gracious man ner and customer-is-always-right mood has gone, and the poor • pro- prieter isn’t wholly to blame. Help is so hard to get that he has to stand for anything. • The customer had objected to a nail in the mashed potatoes and the failure of the waiter to bring him a. fork. m Three cheers for the little gal who is handy in the kitchen! • One of the biggest laughs in the movies this year comes in a short episode in which the customer is made to apologize to a waiter for hurting his feelings. • “She may not be a beauty, but she’s a fine cook,” used to be a sort of apology. Today it’s becoming a major decoration with palms and stars. • Home cooking never seemed more wonderful. Or so important to the budget. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL s UNDAYI chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for May 14 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council pf Religious Education; used bar permission. PAUL IN THESSALONICA LESSON TEXT: Act» 17:1-4; I Thessalonl- ans 2:1-13. GOLDEN TEXT: Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; In everything give thanks. •—I Thessalor.lans 5:19-18. Strong, active, missionary-minded churches do not just “happen.” They are the result of the preaching of a true and powerful message by • faithful and sacrificial messenger. Other factors enter in, but these are the fundamentals. Paul’s ministry at Thessalonica, which is described in Acts 17 and explained in I Thessalonians 2, re veals what should be preached and what kind of a preacher is needed. Perhaps some dead or unsuccessful church may learn the secret today and come to new life for Christ. 1. The Message—Christ the Sav iour (Acts 17:1-4). Paul had already met the varying lot of both persecution and accept ance, and had now como to Thes salonica, a large and important city in Macedonia, where he had a lengthy ministry and established a strong church. What was the message which so signally succeeded in this great strategic center? Well, it was not (as some modern preachers in large cities would seem to think) a series of social, political, or literary dis courses. Paul preached Christ. He reasoned with them and presented the Saviour (v. 3) as One who was— 1. Dead for our sin. These people were like us in that they needed a solution for their sin problem. There were doubtless other questions which Paul might have discussed, but he wisely went to the root of their dif ficulty and showed them “that Christ must needs have suffered.” Without the death of Christ there is no salvation for any man. Only through the shedding of blood can there be remission of sin (Heb. 9: 22). Paul had no part in the folly of a “bloodless gospel”—as though there were any such gospel. 2. Raised for our justification. It was not enough that Jesus died, marvelous as that is in our sight. For many a man has died for hie convictions, but none has risen from the dead. Christ could not be holden of the grave. He arose the victori ous Redeemer. 3. Declared to be the Christ. He is more than a man, more than a great leader and an earnest teacher. He is God’s anointed One, Himself divine—and our Lord. Thus Paul presented to the Jews their Messiah, "the Man of Sorrows” (Isa. 53), whose resurrection de clared Him to be the Son of God with power (Rom. 1:4), their Re deemer and Lord. Blessed results followed such preaching (v. 4). H. The Messenger—Approved of God (I. Thess. 2:1-12). Sometimes a man with a true message largely nullifies its value by the manner in which he presents it, or by his manner of life in the community. I. He was faithful (w. 1-6). One of the great temptations facing the one who is a preacher or teacher of God’s Word is to let his fear of men cause him to adjust his message, to use a bit of flattery, to please men. Paul was “bold in our God” (v. 2), not trying to deceive or mis lead anyone (v. 3), seeking only God’s approval (v. 4), not trying to make money for himself or gain standing with men by smooth words (v. 5), and not claiming a high po sition or authority over men (v. 6). 2. He was affectionate (w. 7-9), How often those who are faithful and bold in preaching the truth ruin the effect of their work by be ing harsh and unkind. Here is a lesson many of us need to learn. To be gentle (v. 7) a man must be strong. The cardinal quality of a strong Christian should be that he is a gentleman, or she a gentle woman. If not, there is not real strength in the life. Paul gave not only a message, he gave himself—his very soul (v, 8). The people to whom he minis tered were “dear” to him. The pastor who looks down at his con gregation with hardness, and per haps hatred for some individual, needs to read this passage and find Paul’s secret of success. He labored with his hands to sup port himself (v. 9), lest anyone think he was a burden to them. Let no one think that this means that a preacher is not worthy of sup port. Christ Himself declares that the laborer is worthy of his hire (Luke 10:7). But it does show Paul’s fine spirit of devotion and sacrifice. 3. He was unblamable (w. 10-12). Holy in his life before God, Paul was ready to live righteously be fore men, and thus to stand unblam able before them and before his Lord. This indeed is a life worthy in the sight of God (v. 12). In other words, the preacher was able to say to his listeners, “My life shows you what I mean by my preaching.” The true preacher of the gospel will never be satis fied to be a signpost, pointing a way in which he does not walk. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 544 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80, m. Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No Name .. Address Ibcanriypb- starrii$ JUST a few easy-to-crochet me- dallions joined together make this coobas-a-breeze calot and bag set. Use any color straw yarn to highlight any costume. • • e Crochet for pleasure In odd moments of leisure. Pattern 7040 contains directions (or bat and purse; list of materials. To avoid needlo marks when shortening a raincoat, use adhe sive tape as a hem binder instead of sewing. To lengthen it later, just remove the adhesive tape. e e • Always keep on hand a package of, fancy paper plates. Then when taking cookies or cake to a neigh bor or friend, put the gift on one of these, with or without a paper doily. The food looks attractive, and the plate doesn’t need to be returned. • • • A piece of velvet or corduroy placed in the heel of your shoe will make your stockings wear longer. • • • If yon get tired running up and down stairs, think of the poor stair carpet having the whole family running up and down over it. Buy stair carpet a foot or so longer than necessary, so it can be shift ed when it begins to show signs of wear. • • • To remove a tight glass stopper, wrap around the neck of the bottle a cloth that has been wrung out of hot water, or soak it in vinegar for a while. Work it gently and it will soon loosen. • • • Keep a small box near your laundry, tubs. You’ll find it con venient to hold the buttons, snaps and other pieces that may come off clothes during the washing process. THURSDAY NIGHTS 10:30 P.M. E.W.T. on the entire BLDEiietwoik CONSULT YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER McKesson a robbins, me CAtOX TOOTH POWDER REXEL VITAMIN R COMPLEX CAPSULES NO ASPIRIN FASTER Oum gsnume, pure St. Joseph Aspirin. World’s largest seller at Ity. None s&fer. none surer. Why pay more? Why erer accept less? Dam£d St. Joseph Aspirin. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER Christopher Columbus Is cred ited with bringing Rrst re ports of rubber to the civil ized world, but rubber relics found among Mayan ruins load some scientists to bo- Have that robbar Homs worn In uea in tha elevontb century. Rubber, both wild and plantation, grows best In an area 10 degrees either side of the equator. The production of one com plete large bomber tire trices as moch time as dons tha mak ing ri several track tiros, or ap ta 40 passenger car tiros of the most popular size. The demand for largo tires is se verely straining the produc tion facilities of tha industry. Ik wai peace REGoodrich] PIRSI in rubber A. X