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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. K. ' I 'HIS chubby-cheeked dolly with movable limbs is in for lots of loving. Three pieces form her soft, cuddly body; the arms and legs are each made from two pieces. Her hair is soft yarn and her pretty clothes may be chosen from the contents of your scrap bag. Pattern 871 contains transfer patten and directions for doll and clothes. 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. Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. SM W. Randolph St. Chicago M, HL Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern I No Name — Address* CI/IM IRRITATIONS OP 9WIN EXTERNAL CAUSE Acne pimples, ecsema, factory derma titis, simple ringworm, tetter, salt rheum, bumps, (blackheads), and ugly broken- out akin. Millions relieve itching, burn ing and aoreneae of theee miaenea with sample home treatment. Goee to work at once. Aida healing, works the antiseptio way. Use Black and White Ointment only aa directed. 10c, 25c, 60c Bsea. 25 yearst auccees. Money-back guarantee. Vital in cleansing is good soap. Enjoy fa mous Black and White Skin Soap daily- y& voice of £ Prophecy WISE—WAYS—WUU WC8C — WATL — WBDW — wna WPDQ—WTSP —WDBO BCX 55 - LOS ANGELfS 53 CALIf Koop the Bottle Rolling With War Bonds and Scrap ^ \ . j.-T - ^ j... , Washington, D. C. letter to a lonely mother To a lonely mother with a son on the beachhead in Normandy and another in the Aleutians: Dear Mrs. R.: I have your letter wondering why you should sacrifice the sons you so carefully taught not to hate or to hurt, on a bloody beach head where every minute they must hate and hurt in order to survive. You say that you write and tell your sons that, after it’s over, life will be the same and we’ll all be happy, but that, deep in your heart, you know it won’t be, for there will be more wars Bind more blood shed all over again. Naturally you would expect a hard-boiled and cynical newspaper man, trained to look under rocks for all the seamy side of official life, to agree with you that we will have more wars and that your boy on the Normandy beachhead is making his sacrifice in vain. But somehow or other, I don’t agree. Somehow or other, I have a sneaking suspicion that things are not going to be so bad, and that we may be able to prevent your son’s son from doing what his father had to do in Nor mandy. ' Maybe I am too much of tin opti mist, but it seems to me, looking back, that we made a lot of progress toward permanent peace between the last-war and this. In the end, we failed. But there are a lot of things you do that fail the first time, or even several times, before you finally make the grade. Kellogg's Dream of Peace. One of these tries which failed was the Kellogg Treaty to outlaw war. Old Frank B. Kellogg, who wrote that treaty, was just an ordinary American citizen from Minnesota, not much different from the rest of us. He was Coolidge’s secretary of state, and not a very brilliant one. But he had one great dream—to out law war. And he kept pecking away at it, and hammering the idea home on the unwilling governments of Europe, until the people of Europe were too strong for their govern ments, and they just had to sign the Kellogg Pact. I was with Kellogg when he sailed to Europe to sign his pact, stood with him in the Quai d’Orsay in Paris when, with a great gold pen given him by the people of Le Havre (a city now under bombardment), he scratched his signature to the document which carried the hopes and prayers of millions. Of course, many of the diplomats who also used that golden pen on that hot August afternoon in 1928 had no sympathy with the hopes and ideals of the people they repre sented—among them, Count Uchida, whose imperturbable face gave no hint that four years later he, as for eign minister of Japan, would be snapping his fingers at the treaty he had signed. Cynical newsmen watching the ceremony remarked that this would be smother case of the League of Nations—an instrument of peace de vised by the United States but which the United States would abandon. There, however, they were wrong. Frank B. Kellogg, of course, was ahead of his time. But so were most of our great leaders—Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln. The history of progress is a constant succession of men who are ahead of their time. Stimson’s Fight Against War. However, it did not fail until it hod been used—and almost success fully—by another man also ahead of his time, the man who succeeded Kellogg. Henry L. Stimson, secretary of state under Hoover, was one of the few men in high position who then saw clearly signs of approaching wars, and who fig ured that, if the world could head off the minor wars in the Chaco between Paraguay and Bolivia, in Siberia between Rus sia and China, and in Man churia between Japan and China, then we could build np a machinery of peace strong enough to head qff the major war which he knew was coming on the continent of Europe. His greatest effort was to mobilize the peace machinery of the world against Japan in Man- churia. And he almost made it. That he failed was due to an isolationist revolt inside his own Hoover cabinet, pins the nnder- cutting of British imperialists who pat their own selfish em pire ahead of world peace. I was with Mr. Stimson during part of that trying time. I know how heroically he labored. Three times in all, he went to Europe determined to hew out new machin ery for peace. MAIL BAG Capt. Dan T. Moore, Washington —Thanks for the gentle reminder that r-a-d-a-r spelled backwards is r-a-d-a-r. . . . Pvt. Gordon Lange, Camp Grant, 111.—Other names for General Donovan’s office of stra tegic services are: “Oh So Secret,” “Office of Synthetic Soldiers” and “The Cloak and Dagger Club.” Its job deals largely with highly secret intelligence, some of it behind the enemy lines. Tradition is that, to get in you have to be a Repub lican, though a few lonely Demo crats have been admitted. OUR BARBER AND OPA CEILINGS (“Ceiling prices are proposed for barber shops."—News item.) “I’m a quit da biz,” declared Raviola, the barber, today. “Sheeza feenish.” “What’s the trouble?” we asked. “No cutta da hair weeth da ceil ing. I no freeza da shave,” he said, with feeling. We didn’t quite follow him. “I’m a quit da biz,” he repeated. “You wanna shave and haircut? You see Chesta da Bowley.” “Where is Chester’s shop?” we asked. “You aska me! Sheeza here, sheeza dere, sheeza everywhere. Whatta he know about hair cut? He’s da advertise man.” “Oh you mean Chester Bowles 1” wc said “Chesta da Bowley of APA,” he replied. “OPA,” we corrected. “OPA, IPA, UPA, whatza da dee- ference? I’m a quit da biz. APA freeza da haircut and shave. Pretty soon sheeza ration da bayrum an weetch haze.” * “I missed reading about it. What’s it all about?” we said. “APA wanna freez da barber. Washington’s sheeza control da ra zor. Roosevelt is roll back da face massage. I’m a quit da biz.” “Well,” we said, “you fellows nave certainly been jacking up the prices. Look at me. Bald as a bat and you sock me 75 cents for a hair cut.” “Da shave and da haircut sheeza ho the same theeng like da lamb ■hop, da cheeze and da hamburger.” “I have seen shaves that had much in common with the hambur ger,” we remarked. “I vote for da Roosevelt, I no shave for heem,” snapped Raviola. ‘‘Da barber has to live.” “Why?” we asked. 0 “I’m a quit da biz,” insisted Ravi ola, ignoring our query. “I no maka da ceiling. I no giva da haircut on points.” “You are evidently not aware that the shave and haircut are essential to winning the war,” we suggested. “Da boys wheech winna da war shave demselves,” countered the barber. “General Eisenhower he no say da 75 cent haircut hold uppa da invashun.’’ “A haircut and shave are helpful to morale if ’properly priced,” we argued. “I no sella da morale. I sella da naircut. I am a quit da biz. You wanna haircut next time? You cal] jp da Washington and ask OWL” • • • ‘Local Boy Makes Good’ (“Onr military leaders are de lighted with the way the first all draft units made good in the latest smashing Italian drive.” — News Item.) The kids we saw in induction lines, And wondered how they’d do— The green hands drawn from their peaceful lives To ways of war so new— The lads from office, store and shop— From farm and school and mill— They didn’t look so hot at first, But how they fill the bill! The tall and gangling, awkward kid— And “Shorty” with the grin— faie youngster with the baffled look— The kid with freckled skin— The East Side hard-eyed sort— ‘Not much like warriors,” we mused— They’ve answered now, “SEZ YOU!” The lad that seemed so numbed and sad— The one who clowned so much— The other one called “Butch”— All brought up in the peaceful ways, We wondered how they’d cope With fighters trained and in the pink . . . Well, Hitler’s got the dope! The nervous boy who looked so tense That mofn the train pulled out. . . The pudgy, bandy-legged one Who seemed a mere Boy Scout. . . “How will they do D-day?” We asked ourselves, and now we know— The answer is “O.K1” The student type, the scholar sort The sloppy looking guys . . . Ihe kids who took it as a joke— The ones with tear-filled eyes , . “They’re no go-get-’em bunch,” Some whispered, but behold ’em now— Say, how those kids can p(inch! • * • The senate has cut the cabaret tax down from 30 per cent on each bill to 20 per cent and exempted all servicemen. We now expect thou sands of men to claim they are sol diers and sailors who never thought of it before. • • * General De Gaulle strikes us as the type of man who would have to be dipped in boiling water to unbend. * • • Famous Last Words Any Nazi Marshal to Another: “Are you busy just now?” Grantland Rice IN THE wild scramble now taking 4 place in the American league, where all eight clubs have spent the greater part of two months under a blanket, we have conducted a popularity poll. What teams are the mass or mob rooting for, outside of their own hometown squads? The answer is the St- Louis Browns and Connie Mack’s Ath letics. These two teams take the place the Dodgers held a year or two ago when they be came the national favorites. Now the Browns have taken their place, with the Athletics, piloted by 81 - year - old Con nie Mack, the sec ond popular choice. It’s easy enough to understand the pennant popularity of the Browns. They are the one team that has never won a pennant in the 44-year history of the American league. Clark Griffith’s Chicago White Sox won the first A. L. pennant in 1900 and repeated in 1901. Connie Mack’s Philadelphia team came along in 1902. Then we had Boston. But in the long march there is no mention of St. Louis. Chicago, Philadelphia, B ston, New York, Cleveland, De troit and Washington have won but not St. Louis. Now the Browns have at least a chance. Handled by Luke Sewell, a. swell fellow and a good manager, one of the old Alabama Sewells, the blasted and battered Browns of past years, the wrecks of more than four decades, have just as good a chance as any other club to give St. Louis a city series against the Cardinals, the class of the National league. Only a minor miracle will keep the Cardinals away from the top of the National league race. Chicago has had her intercity world series. New York has had many such affairs. Now there’s a chance that St. Louis will hook op with Chicago and New York in this respect. Always remembering that October is still a long way off. At least the Browns have a team that is as well balanced as any other eiub can show at this June date. Athletics’ Strange Career Next to the Browns, we found most of the interest built around baseball’s most amazing manager— Connie Mack. Connie Mack has been in baseball over 60 years. He has won nine American league pen nants. He has had two of the greatest squads ever thrown together upon any field—his Athletics from 1910 through 1914, who won four cham pionships—you remember—Collins, Mclnnis, Barry, Baker, Bender, Plank, Coombs, etc. In his career Connie has given the game the four greatest left handers of all time—Waddell, Plank, Pennock and Grove. But against this he has broken all records by finishing in the cellar 14 times. From 1915 through 1921 Connie’s staggering Athletics finished in the subway division. No other manager could have survived such a span of wreckage and disaster. Connie hap pened to own a big part of his club. And there was still his record as a winning manager and a great sportsman. It is almost an unbelievable fact that a manager could win nine pen- nants and a flock of world series games, and yet finish at the bottom through 14 years. His Athletics fin ished last in 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943. The venerable Connie has had the best and the worst ball clubs that ever inhabited a diamond. I doubt there was ever a better combination than his teams from 1910 through 1914, the team that won four pen nants and three world series. But in 1916 his Athletics set an all-time rec ord by losing 117 games. Connie’s Athletics have lost 100 or more games nine times. This is a record that is incredibly bad. A rec ord thrown against one that is in credibly good. In any event, there are millions of fans who would like to see Mr. Mack win one more pennant before he finally decides to retire. This would leave him on even terms with John McGraw, who remains in front as the winning pennant win ner with ten flags flying from his remembered masthead. The Yankees have had their share. They have been the over powering 10-year force. Why not the Browns or the Athletics? We’ll add our vote to this choice. A Record for Closeness “This present American league may easily set a new record for closeness.” The speaker was George Weiss, head of the Yankee farm sys tem. “Both leagues have had close races before,” Weiss continued, “but as a rule only two or three clubs were involved. Now we have all eight clubs in the running. It means nothing at all for a team to drop from third place to sixth in a day or two, or to climb from sixth to second. ON THE HOME FRONT ‘ RUTH WYETH SPEARS /~\N THE center table in most Victorian parlors there was a kaleidoscope. Guests gazed intd this after they tired of looking at the family album. Bits of colored glass were reflected in an endless number of intricate patterns in this ingenious device. Very much the same effect was obtained by the method of putting together the simple six-inch quilt block shown here and that is why the pattern was called the kaleidoscope. This quilt has just the right fla vor for today’s decorating trends. It will make a stunning spread for your bed either in the colors suggested here or in any other combination that suits your room. The blocks are so easy to piece and are such a convenient size to carry around that they make ideal summer pick-up work. • • • NOTE—Mr*. Spears has prepared a large sheet with actual size quilt piece patterns for three of her favorite quilts. The Kaleidoscope, the Aim Rutledge and the Whirl Wind are Included. This is pattern No. 200 and the price is 15 cents. Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills Ntw York Drawer 18 Enclose 15 cents for PatternNo.lM. Nama Address WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY « Queer Fish The Labrador square fish walks on land and can remain as long as four days out of water. Fish in Desert Water from wells 300 feet deep have brought fish to the surface of the Sahara desert. It is presumed they have traveled through under ground streams. A F;\E cfiRm^n \ ORAi\GE PE<OE & =£<06 T«fl IMPROVEMENT after only 10-day treatment with SORETONE Foster D. Snell, Inc^ wdl-known consult. Ins chemists, have just completed a test with a group of men and women suffering from Athlete’s Foot. These people were told to use Soretone. At the eod of only ■ ten-day test period, their feet were exam ined in two ways: 1. Scrapings were taken from the feet and examined by the bacteri ologist. 2. Each subject was examined by a physician. We quote from the report: "After the use of Soretone according to the directions on the label for a period •f oidy ten days, 80.6% ef the cases shewed clinical improvemeot of an infec tion which is most stubborn to control" Improvements were shown in the symp toms of Athlete’s Foot—the itching, born- in*. redness, etc. The report says: "In our opinion Soretone is of very def inite benefit in the treatment of this disease, which is commonly known as ‘Athlete’s Foot 1 ." 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