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TKE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. GETTING TOUGH WITH SWEDEN After too many months of Allied super-patience, the Swedes are in for a tough crackdown. At long last, the State department, the Foreign Economic administration and, per haps more important, the British, have determined to pull together in telling the Swedes they will have to fish or cut bait in sending vital war materials to Germany—especially ballbearings. The question of ballbearings in volves the world-famous SKF ball bearing company in Sweden, which operates a subsidiary company in Philadelphia. The president of the American company, William Batt, is vice-chairman of the War Produc tion board. Not many people realize it, but despite the loss of 600 U. S. aviators in bombing the Nazi ballbearing plant at Schweinfurt last fall, to say nothing of the loss of countless other lives, the Swedes have been nullify ing these American sacrifices by shipping great quantities of ball bearings to Germany. Hitherto secret, has been the fact that the Swedes have supplied Ger many with 70 per cent of certain vital airplane ballbearings. And when you consider that one bomber alone requires up to 3,000 ballbear ings, you realize that this is the most important single commodity Germany is now getting from the outside world. In fact, ballbearings are so essential that, without them, the Nazi airplane industry would be paralyzed almost overnight. No (lane can be constructed without everal hundred to several thousand allbearings. U. S. officials recently have unearthed information indicat ing that the Nazis deliberately planned, well before the war, to use Sweden as their source for ballbearings. A conversation re ported to have taken place with Air Minister Goering has re cently come to light, in which Goering explained that he was not anxious to build up the Ger man ballbearing industry too much, since it might be advan tageous to have the industry in a neutral country where it could not be bombed. • • • SEDITION TRIAL MONKEYSHINES The most patient man in the world is presiding over the “mass sedi tion” trial in the Federal District court here. He is painstaking, square-shooting Chief Justice Ed ward C. Eicher, who is recognized by the legal profession as absolutely fair and who has been leaning over backward to give the 30 indicted defendants their full day in court. . However, the defendants are de manding more than that. So brazen are some of them in their tactics to delay the trial, that they boastfully refer to themselves as “monkey wrenches from heaven,” because, they say, there is always one among them capable of “pulling some thing” to cause another delay. Here is an example of what the patient Justice Eicher has had to put up with. Whenever a defense motion has been denied, Charles B. Hudson of Omaha, Neb., publisher of a pro-Fascist news letter, “America in Danger,” has turned and chanted to reporters: “Railroad! Railroad! Toot-toot, toot!” Eicher has overlooked much of this by-play in order to ex pedite the trial. However, he has almost worn out his gavel try ing to keep Mrs. Lois de Lafay ette Washburn—the nose-thumb ing, Fascist-saluting Chicagoan who boasts descendency from the Revolutionary hero — and some of her more demonstra tive cronies in line. At one point, Mrs. Washburn leaped up and screamed: “Lafayette, we are here to defend ourselves!” Ellis O. Jones, tall, lanky defend ant from Los Angeles, also had to be gavelled down when he com plained about the food in the dis trict jail. “I’ve already lost ten pounds,” protested Jones. “If this keeps up, you’ll have to get me an undertaker.” NOTE—Eicher finally decided that these antics had continued long enough. Since he cited two defense lawyers for contempt, others are beginning to realize that Hitlerian horseplay of the type used by the Brown Shirts when they were tried after Hitler’s unsuccessful Munich putsch will not get by forever in an American court. On the other hand, many of the defense at torneys, of excellent standing at the bar, are doing their best to preserve court decorum. • * • CAPITAL CHAFF C. Friends have started a quiet boomlet for OPA Administrator Chester Bowles for vice-president. It began by pushing him for the Gov ernorship of Connecticut, which he declined. Bowles, incidentally, has made one of the most unpopular jobs in Washington, the OPA, reasonably popular. C. Mexican workers have now earned $12,000,000 in the United States under the emergency gov ernment program which brought them to U. S. farms and railroads. E ARE now moving into a v v strange field, the fourth dimen sion. For us it is the sixth dimen sion. It is Mr. Einstein’s field of “rela tivity,” as applied to sport. It isn’t complex at all. It is quite simple. It sim ply means that all things are relative, for the time being. Meaning compari son. For example, Mike Jacobs had no Lou is, Conn, Cans, Leonard, Nelson, Greb, etc., this last winter and spring, yet Mike had his best season. Last fall, football had lost many of its leading stars to army and navy, yet had one of its big years, col lege and pro. It was a relative matter of “what was left against what was left.” The same thing will happen to baseball and racing this spring and summer. Suppose baseball has lost DiMag- gio. Feller, Dickey, Cochrane, Gor don, Keller, Ted Williams, Mize, etc. etc.? The game is still left—and the game is greater than any star. I remember the time they used to ask me what was going to happen to baseball when Wagner, Mathew- son, Lajoie, Cy Young and Rube Waddell were through. What was going to happen when Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker turned in their uniforms? Who would take their places? There is always someone ready to step into the vacant spot. It may be a relative spot, but sport works in the same way the universe works, where all things are relative. The Main Point The main point is that all games worth while are far greater than any individual star. For example, baseball, as a game, is far greater than Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Joe Jackson, Christy Mathewson, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Hans Wagner, Frank Frisch, Bob Feller or anyone else you can name. Football would have been a great game minus Jim Thorpe, Bronko Nagurski, Sammy Baugh, Sid Luck- man, Pudge Heffelfinger, the Chi cago Bears, Notre Dame, and ail the high spots you can remember. No Cobbs or Ruths made base ball. No Notre Dames nor Chicago Bears made football. No Bobby Jones or Walter Hagen or Harry Vardon made golf. I happen to be a great believer in the game above any individual. When any individual is more impor tant than the game, then it isn’t the right game. Action, Thrills Still Left This, again, is where relativity comes in. In other words, class is only relative with class. There can still be action, entertainment and a real contest where top class is miss ing. I agree with my old friend, now dead, one of the greatest competi tors and one of the greatest sports men I have ever known. The name is Devereaux Milburn, the polo-play ing star. “It is the contest and the hard, close competition that makes every game worthwhile,” Dev said. “I get more of a thrill in being beaten in a tough, hard, close scrap than I ever' get in winning a walk over or a runaway. To me it is the game, the contest, that counts—and not so much the final score. I know this sounds like hokum. I like the sort of scrap where you have to give everything you have in order to win. I still say it is more fun to lose in that type of contest than it is to win against out-classed opposi tion.” Milburn was exactly 100 per cent right, as he usually was. Winning, of course, is an important factor. But it isn’t everything in sport. We have planted too much impor tance on individual stars, too much importance on winning, over the greater values that come directly from the game itself. Who, after all, could ever compare I*ouis and Dempsey, Corbett and Tunney, Grange and Thorpe, Ruth and Cobb, Vardon and Jones? It can’t be done. For there is a rela tive angle that most people over look. Time, equipment, training and many other details. Decades and conditions are all relative. Baseball, minus its many stars, can still have a more inter esting season them it has known for a long time. Grantland Rloe Those Sewell Boys Those Sewell boys from Alabama have done all right, one way and another. First there was Joseph Wheeler Sewell and his kid brother Luke Sewell, from Titus, Ala. Then there was Rip Sewell from Decatur, Ala. Joe Sewell stepped from a few months in the minors to help Cleve land win a world series—and then go along to set a new record for con secutive games played, up to the Lou Gehrig era. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY! chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST D. p. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. WACS AS BETTER WIVES Lesson for May 28 “WACs will make better wives than women without military train ing,” declares Lieut. Col. Walter Jaeger of the Army Industrial col lege. “A former member of the WACs in a household will be an in valuable asset.” “Oh yeah!" was the reaction of Private Oscar Purkey today. “It all depends on the WAC. Personally I would not marry no girl for her military experience! • "Now If she is just a private maybe it would not be so bad, al though I think it does no good to a marriage to have the wife used to military routine, to driving trucks maybe and to sleeping four or six to a room. And if sbe is a officer, no dice! • “Once a girl has got used to being saluted it is a bad business. She will think she always rates it. Also a wife who has been a officer, even if just a corporp’ will be used to giving orders tl she will never want to just give hints when she wants something. If there are any words which does not fit in the lan guage of love they is ‘Attention!’' ‘On the double!’ and ‘Forward march!’ ♦ "And how is a G.I. gonna get a wife all excited over what he done in the war if she was in it too? She could even have more citations than' he ever got! A husband should be a hero to his wife and it won’t be easy if she also has decorations. • “Yeah, there may be some ad vantages. I guess a wife from the WACs would be handy around the house. She could change the tire, fix the carburetor, find out what blew out the fuse and everything like that. And she would be satisfied with just a couple of hats a year. * “But I would not marry no WAC, as swell as they are. They are great gals. But they will of got the army spirit and met a lot of other WACs and all their Uves they will be packing and rushing off to Chi cago, Boston and San Francisco for annual conventions and reunions. • “And another thing. If a man marries a WAC who gets up and in vestigates noises at night?” J • All-Out Arlene, the WAC of WACs, had something to say. “I don’t know whether I’ll make a better wife,” she said, “but I will need a better husband. The army has shat tered a lot of illusions about men. They no longer wow me as superior creatures. » "War has made us girls self re liant, independent, tough and prac tical. We will never be awed again by a man just because he is good looking, has a deep voice and is rather sweet. But I don’t think I’d marry a military man anyhow. Who wants to sit up all night comparing battle eiperiences?” • • . Belated Confession to a Criminal Past We see where some men have landed in court for selling some little pills on the claim that, dropped into a gas tank, they will increase mileage. Well, we don’t know any thing about this particular case, but the arrest makes us tremble a little. For back in our boyhood days we were a party to a similar project. » With old Bob Hyman, who used to be cashier on the New Haven Regis ter, we became New England agents for a gasoline energizer. Mr. Hy man shared our burning yen to get into business. We read about a pill that would give more pep to gaso line. Gas then cost only around 12 cents a gallon, but is was thought pretty costly. * We acquired the agency by the simple process of putting up a few dollars and providing an address to which the pellets could be shipped. We received several crates of them. Several natives tried them free and announced that they not only in creased mileage but gave a car wings. However, nobody seemed inclined to try them out on a cash basis. The pills must be in Bob Hyman’s cellar even now. • • • The Nazis claim they have a new secret weapon which can freeze people to death at 500 yards. Some thing that has as its basic element Hitler’s bloodstream, we under stand. • • • With all but the choicer cuts of beef point-free there is some chance of a hamburger becoming almos) as good as a hamburger. • • • A druggist who has served seven years in prison has been found in nocent and released. The courts have cleared him, but the man, now 54, must feel something less than satisfied. We would hate to bo a druggist in a similar position and recognize the judge or prosecutor asking: “Have you something that will put me to sleep?” Leuon mbjecU and Scripture text* M- lected and copyrighted by International Council o£ Religious Education; used by permission. PAUL ENCOURAGES THE • CORINTHIANS LESSON TEXT—n Corinthlens 4:9, 19-19: 5:1, 5-8, 14-19. GOLDEN TEXT—Ye know the grace ot our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your takes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.—n Corinthians 8:9. “Nothing is certain but uncertain ty,” so says the modern philosopher. But man cannot be satisfied with constant change and confusion. That is why, in our day of unheard-of dis ruption of ordinary life patterns, men and women especially need the message of the gospel, for in Christ we find the answer to our quest for certainty and stability. Paul writing to encourage the church at Corinth assured them that life may be steady, useful and true because they are Christians. He pre sents : The Christian—a Servant of Men for Christ’s Sake (II Cor. 4:5), Hav ing— I. A Vision Which Ughtens Afflic tion (II Cor. 4:16-18). Any honest person knows that in the temporal world round about him everything speaks of death. All things tend to run down, to wear out, to decay, including the body of man. He sees his mental as well as bis physical powers coming to a certain maturity only to go into de cline. • , At the same time he is conscious of the deep burden of affliction and sorrow which seems to press down on all the world like an almost un bearable and crushing weight. What can he do about it? Shall he try to dissipate the clouds by artificial cheerfulness? It will not work. Our text gives us the answer. “For this cause we faint not,” says PauL The things which press us down are only temporal—they are of this world. God’s world is eternaL The weakness of the physical body only makes the strength of the spiritual life more evident. The affliction which seems so heavy is only a “light affliction” when one remem bers the “eternal weight of glory.” Is this just a bit of "escapism”? Is it only some wishful thinking? No, indeed. Have not men learned anew in the war that the only pos sessions you can keep are those which cannot be bombed to pieces or stolen? Obviously, that is true in the high est degree of the one who knows Christ, and whose riches are those of eternity. How triumphantly he can meet decay and sorrow! He is of the other world, and nothing here can be more than a light affliction, which seems negligible in the light of the glory of eternal things. Ah, but it’s great to be a Christian in such days as these! n. An Assurance Which Removes Fear (II Cor. 5:1, 5-8). Of all the fears which afflict mor tal man the greatest and the ulti mate one is the fear of death. He knows that it is so absolute and final that it terminates everything and separates him from all that he has known and held dear in this world. That is just the point, death does end everything (except the awful fear of judgment for a wasted wicked life!) for those who live only for this world. Man, however, was never in tended for just this present life. He is a being who has eternity written in his very personality. What if this “earthly tabernacle” —my body—does give up, says PauL I have a “building of God,” some thing which man did not make with his hands, an eternal home in glory. That gives a man confidence. While he is here in the body, he lives and walks by faith, but when absent from this body, he is “pres ent with the Lord.” How altogether delightful and marvelous is the fu ture, even beyond the grave, for the believer. Hence, we “sorrow not as others which have no hope” (read I Thess. 4:13-18). III. A Hope Which Makes Him a Living Testimony (II Cor. 5:14-19). Worldly people sometimes wonder what tremendous and tireless motive power keeps Christians working for the Lord in the face of impossible difficulties. We have that motive named in verse 14—“the love of Christ constraineth us.” There is no compulsion about real Christian testimony and service. There is no feeling that One must do this or that in order to please God. No, the compelling force here is the love of a dying Saviour. It is the supremely powerful and all persua sive influence of love. Christ died for all, and those who realize that, know that they cannot “henceforth live unto themselves” (v. 15). The social standing, or fam ily connections of our fellow men, no longer control. Christ died for them and we must bring them the wotd of life. Notice in verse 17 that it is the born-again-one who has this hope. Many church members whose lives are powerless and sinful are so be cause they have never been born again. “Except a man be born again” (John 3:3) he is not a Chris tian. That is the place to begin. Take Christ by faith. A SPORTS dress with a sun-tan back held in place by one big button—the short, smart bolero can be slipped on when you skip down the street to your marketf Make it in ever-so-bright terials to take on vacation. • • • Barbara Bell Pattern Ne. 1801 la dei signed for sizes 10. 12, 14. 18. IS and 20. Size 12. ensemble, requires 3% yards si 39-lnch material; S yards trim. 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