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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.
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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.
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