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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. CREDIT WHERE DUE Across the Potomac, in the sprawl ing Pentagon building, Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. chief of staff, gives all credit for U. S. invasion success to the boys over there, their officers and to General Eisenhower. However, those who have watched lean, graying General Marshall close-up during the tense months of the war, know how he too has worked, planned, dreamed almost every detail of the invasion. Three years ago, before we en tered the war but when everyone knew it was a certainty that we would, this columnist asked General Marshall what chance there was of a British cross-channel invasion. “Do you realize what it takes to land an army in France?” he re plied. “It takes not merely ships and men—and naval vessels to pro tect those ships. It also means docks, warehouses, railroad termi nals, and freight cars by the thou sand. But especially it means docks —some place to land. In the last war, we didn’t have to worry about any of these things. The French supplied them. But in this war”— he shook his head ruefully—“it is different." As he talked, Marshall thought back to 1917-18, when he was only 36 and a captain. At that time, he performed a modern miracle of ma neuvering—second only to that of the present second front. He worked out for Pershing the plan whereby one million men were transferred from the St. Mihiel to the Meuse- Argonne front. Nineteen railroads, 34 hospitals, 40,000 tons of ammunition, 93,000 horses, 164 miles of railway, 87 sup ply depots and 4,000 cannon all were moved up just beyond the German lines—and the enemy didn’t even now it. • • • COOPERATION WITH EISENHOWER A general in modern warfare does not ride into battle waving a sword. He sits behind a desk. And this time General Marshall, instead of being close to the battle-front, has done his plan ning from behind. And unlike the situation in the last war, Marshall and his Eu ropean commander cooperate beautifully. They are close friends. In the last war, Gen eral Pershing was in bitter con flict with Gen. Tasker Bliss, the IT. S. chief of staff; later with Gen. Peyton March, who succeeded Bliss. Today, Marshall and Eisen hower are considered Pershing’s boys. He is strong for both of them. And every Sunday before the war got too tense. General Marshall went out to Walter Reed hospital to chat with his former chief. Pershing still be lieves he can win wars, and gives Marshall his opinion on various strategic problems. After each interview, Marshall rises and sa lutes. “Thank you, General,” he says. “Thank you. General,” is the reply. NOTE—General Marshall is one of the few chiefs of staff we have had who did not go to West Point. Due to the fact that his father was about the only Democrat in Union- town, Pa., during the McKinley ad ministration, he could get no West Point appointment, went to Virginia Military institute instead. • • • THEY DIDN’T KNOW EITHER War department officials are laughing behind their hands at the fact that military intelligence, sup posed to know all about everything going on behind enemies’ lines and inside our own lines, chose D-day to move their offices. In the Penta gon building, where military intelli gence, or G-2, is housed, moving day was called “G-2’s D-day.” They ■“invaded” their new offices. But never could they have chosen a worse day to move than the Allied D-day. Other war department offi cers kept calling up G-2, asking for information. “Sorry,” said the operator, “but the telephones are all torn out. G-2 is moving.” Furniture was being moved down corridors, files of secret informa tion were being shunted from one place to another. Everything was confusion on the one day which meant most to the war. Apparently, military intelligence, supposed to know everything, didn’t know when the big day we were to cross the English channel was scheduled. • • • REASON FOR CRACKDOWN Now it can be revealed why Presi dent Roosevelt was so tough in his crackdown on the Irish regarding the removal of Axis diplomats. It long had been planned, though a strict secret, to land on the Cher bourg peninsula. To reach it, many U. S. troops had to steam through the Irish sea. Naturally, the President wanted no scrap of information regarding the early passage of landing barges through the Irish sea to leak out in any manner, shape or form. S ATURDAY, Sunday and night baseball have already taken care of the 1944 season and these factors will continue to operate until autumn leaves begin turning red and gold. Weekday afternoon attendances jump from 1,200 and 1,500 per game to anytldng from . 20,000 to 50,000 un der the conditions named above. This is largely due to war work but it may also become a fixture after the war is over. There is still a fourth factor that has been a big help. This is the close- Grantland Rness of both races, especially the American league, where there is no outstanding team. From the 16 teams in both leagues only the Cardinals have any decided advantage and if they happen to lose a few men to the draft, the scramble will then be complete. The one big weakness in major league baseball has been the fact that in the last few years, two or three teams have dominated the two races, leaving the other 13 or 14 outfits straggling to see the lead er’s vanishing dust. Year after year, we’ve seen the Yankees so far in front by July that you could turn your attention to something else. In the last few years the Cardinals and Dodgers have been the only teams that counted in the National. A few years back the Tigers, In dians and Reds broke up this com bination for a short spell, only to subside later on. But it's all different now. The greatness that was the Yankees be longs to “the glory that was Greece —and the grandeur that was Rome." Week after week eight American league club4 have been running along only a few games apart, from top to bottom. Six of the eight clubs have been traveling in a com pact bunch and there isn’t a man ager in the league who can pick you a favorite with assurance. The Yankees can win it, or they can finish fourth. This applies to the Senators, Browns, Tigers and others. v More Interesting Races There have been only a few seasons in some 40 years where baseball had two or three teams in both leagues still in the race after August. The greatest single season was 1908 when Cubs, Giants and Pirates were deadlocked through September in the National league and where the Tigers, White Sox and Indians were well bunched in the American. But in later years the Yankees began wrecking their league, where you knew by July Fourth there was only one club left in the race. In the meanwhile Cardinals, Reds and Dodgers at least gave the National league a few continued thrills. Everyone knows today the caliber of war baseball has fallen off badly. No game can lose such men as DiMaggio, Feller, Dickey, Ted Wil liams, Joe Gordon, Herman, Red Ruffing, Keller, Slaughter, Terry Moore and a hundred others with out showing the deficit. But the quality of the two pennant races has more than made up for the absence of so many shining headlights. After all there is no big kick in watching the home club struggling along from 12 to 30 games in the rut. The wonder is that baseball has done as well with so many lop sided races, with certain teams los ing from 90 to a 100 games each season as others won from 90 to a 100. Baseball has needed a better dis tribution of playing talent, but I still wouldn’t know how to bring that about with larger cities and wealthier owners having all the best of it. The war has taken charge of this weakness. Among the 16 major league clubs it has left only the Car dinals with any decided playing ad vantage so far. The Cardinals will still have to lose more than one or two of their best men to fall back with the pack, and make it a real two league scramble. Just how many more will be taken into war service is still anybody’s guess. After all, what the public wants is a contest—not a runaway or a walkover. Those who have lived in second division cities, watching their ball clubs try to finish sixth or seventh, can understand this much better than those pulling for pennant-winning teams, high up in the race. Home-Run Timing When it comes to the matter of home-run timing, pound for pound, weight for age, displacement and power, Mel Ott of the Giants comes close to leading the entire col lection. It must be remembered that Ott, the lone entry from the National league, had to battle against such American league mam moths as Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg, who outclassed Mel in every physi cal way, all over 200 pounds, all six footers, with Greenberg at 6 feet 4. CRADLE OF HEROES The town you glimpsed from the speeding train— The ones you passed so fast. . . . The little burgs with the streets caUed “Main,” That seemed in one mold cast; The towns you thought of as such “small fry” And saw as through a haze. . . . You know ’em now, for their names are high In the war communiques. The towns that pass In a blurry scene And seem a postcard view. . . . The huddled stores and the village green. . . . The steepled church or two. . . • The little places we all Ignored— The ones we couldn’t find— They’re big-time now as the fights are scored— And credit is assigned! The town you said was a one-horse place And “only fit for hicks” . . . The burg that lacked, so you said, all pace. And scoffed at as “the sticks” ... The "whistle stop” and the “milk train run” . . . "The turkey In the hay” . . . They now stand out when the dying’s done To save the U. S. A. The Robert Johnsons, the Richard Bongs, And thousands of that breed. Who do their stuff to right bitter wrongs Knew not the city’s speed; From Lawton and Piqua and towns like that They make their valiant bid. ... And despots know what it means to bat Against the small-town kids. 4 The "bus-stop” town doesn’t seem so much— It looks a little slow; It lacks what’s known as the “big town touch”— And isn’t in the dough; But read the papers and get the dope. From land and sea and skies. . . . The buckoes killing the tyrants' hope Are mainly the small-town guys! TROUBLE IN THE HOME “Kaiser” trouble is sweeping America. Husbands are in revolt everywhere. Something’s gotta be done. • No matter what a man is asked to do around the house, if he says that it is beyond his abilities his wife says: “It’s a good thing Henry Kaiser isn’t like you!” » The wife wants you to put up the storm windows; you find them swollen, and after dislocating your spinal cord, barking your knuckles and falling off a ladder you say it’s a job for a carpenter. “If Henry Kaiser dropped things as quickly as you do the country would be in a bad way,” sneers the missus. * She finds something wrong with the kitchen sink and wants you to do something right away. You fumble around a little and then ad mit that you are no good as a plumber. “Suppose Mr. Kaiser gave up on anything that seemed diffi cult?” chirps the Little Woman. « “I’m sick of it,” declared Elmer Twitchell today. “I’ve left the house and am staying at a hotel. Nothing but Kaiser, Kaiser, Kaiser one day after another! I wish they’d shut up about that guy. • Wedding Strains I plunk down fifty dollars— They tack on twenty per cent; Bridal bells in June Have a doleful tune As I say, “I’ll have it sent.” » • • Mergs B. Russels thinks some of those radio programs should be ad vertised as “boast-to-boast” pro grams. • • • New York is swamped with eggs. There are not enough storage places to hold them. And the worst of it is that the hens won’t take them back. • • • H. G. Wells wants Hitler put into an insane asylum after the war and not executed. If the other inmates aren't crazy this will do the trick. • • • Reaction The radio commercials— They drive me out of mind; I hear the firm’s trade label— And buy some other kind! • • • Do You Remember— Away back when no matter where you might expect grandpa to be you would never think of looking for him down at the golf course caddying? * And when you could appease your hunger by going into a restaurant? * When you could go in for a spare part and get it? • When no employee exactly rel ished the idea of the government taking the business from his boss? IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQtTIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicaza. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for July 2 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Educations used by permission. ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND LESSON TEXT—Joshua 1:1-9: 23:1-5. GOLDEN TEXT—Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dis mayed: for the Lord thy God la with thee whithersoever thou goest—Joshua 1:9. The forward look is typical of God’s people. They are always to go on. They are to be like Israel, to whom came the word, “Moses is dead,” but “now therefore arise and go”—under a new leader. Our lessons for this quarter cen ter around the experiences of Israel from Joshua to David, a period rich in historical data, much of it with most helpful spiritual application. It ffords a real opportunity for effective teaching. , Moses was now dead, but that only brought forth I. God’s Provision of a New Lead er (1:1, 2). God buries His workmen at the end of their day of labor, but God’s work goes on. The people bad become attached to Moses and had learned to trust his leadership (even though they often murmured). With his death we might have assumed that there would be a letdown, but that was not in God’s plan. The Lord works through men. He gives them abilities and uses them for His glory—often in a way which astonishes them and others. But let them not become proud, for God has someone to take their place when they are gone. They are not indispensable. Sometimes people talk as though all the great leaders of the church had died, or were dying. Yet God has some obedient men who are ready to step into the gap. Joshua was ready, when God was ready, and he stepped into leader- ship. n. God’s Promise of Victory (1:3- 5). The promise given to Moses -was still good. God’s promises are al ways good. They are the only real ly stable thing in a trembling uni verse. The question is, Are we ready to accept Him at His word? If our love were but more clmple. We chould take Him at Hts word; And our Uvea would be aU sunshine In the sweetness of our Lord. —Faber. They were to step out by faith. The land was promised to them only as the sole of their foot should tread upon it. Israel never took out the full promise of verse 4. They lacked faith. Do we? God honors those who believe Him and who move forward by faith to plant the foot of spiritual conquest in new territory. Some are doing it now. Are we? The enemies of God’s people were many and mighty, but they were not able to stand in the way of God’s people when they were moving for ward for Him. Here again, Israel failed. They did not drive them out, because they did not take God at His word. The application of that truth to us is obvious. HI. God’s Plea for Obedience and Courage (1:6-9). “Be strong and of good courage.” There is a side to the believer’s character which calls for submis sion, for turning everything over to God, for being sweet and spiritual. All that is good and very desirable, but it can never be substituted for that other side which shows virile courage and fearless abandon to the cause of our God. Joshua was made to realize—as we must too—that serving God (and especially in a place of leadership) calls for a measure of high courage unsurpassed in any other pursuit of man. It takes all there is of a man to be a real follower of Christ—be sure of that! This courage, however, is not to be confused with a foolhardy brav ery which is reckless and unin telligent. No indeed, for it is based on the observance of God’s law (v. 7). Note (v. 8) the importance ol meditating upon God’s Word. This (which is really a lost art in our day) means so absorbing the prin ciples of the Word that our very lives are conditioned by them, and we are made ready to meet every problem in the light of its teaching. IV. God’s Purpose for the Future (23:1-5). Passing all the great and stirring experiences of Joshua, we have now a glimpse of his closing days. He was counseling the people regard ing the future. It is the mark of a great man that he looks beyond the end of his own short existence and plans for the future. Many there are who are not concerned about what hap pens once they are gone. They have no vision, no concern about the con tinuity of life, in fact they come and go almost like the beasts of the field. What about the future? Joshua re minded them that every blessing they had received, every victory they had won, everything, had come from the hand of God. There and there alone was their hope for the future. And it was enough! Pattern I?o. 5162 T'HESE seven, smiling little busybodies of kittens will put you in a very good humor, in deed. Each design for towels, for kitchen curtains, for the corners of a breakfast cloth, is about 6 by 6 inches and is done in cross stitch and outline. All-Purpose Bulletin Board for Kitcken H ERE is a bulletin board and blackboard that is easy to make and is so decorative that you will enjoy having it in the kitchen, the upstairs or the down stairs hall; the rumpus room; the children’s room or that private corner called one’s own. Dad will find a thousand uses for one of these gayly decorated boards in his study, or den, or over his workbench in the basement. Mom will find one handy in the sewing room where she can pin up fashion ideas and pattern in struction sheets for reference. • • • NOTE—Mrs. Spears has prepared an actual-size pattern and complete direc tions (or making the combination bulletin board and blackboard. Stencil designs and color guide for decorations at top and on the handy trough at bottom are included. Pattern No. 287 will be mailed tor 19 cents. Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 19 Enclose 15 cents for pattern No. 267. Name Address........ To obtain transfer patterns for all seven kittens, sketches of stitches used, color chart for working the Kitten Towels (Pat tern No. 5162) send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few ol the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South Wells St. * Chicago. Enclose 15 cents (plus one -cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No Address Button Custom in China The Chinese generally wear five buttons on their coat fronts to re mind them of the five principal vir tues recommended by Confucius— humanity, justice, order, prudence and rectitude. STOMACH oismss JU (jo**- l Relieve thodistmsoi m apietttom- mch with eoothinj rxPTO-BISMOLt Many doctors recommend pepto- bismol because it’s pleasant-testing; non-«lkaliT>o and non-laxative. Ask your druggist for PZPTO-BISMOL whan your stomach is upset. 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