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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. CT. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Vari- ^ ety is supposed to be the spice of life, but so are arguments in a baseball training camp. The argu ment this time, including members of the Cardinals and the Yankees, had something to do with brains on and off the ball field. “Why is it?” one Cardinal want ed to know, “that a fellow can be smart in many ways, but dumb when he gets into football or base ball? Or why he can be pretty dumb until he gets into some athletic competition, when he may be smarter than almost any body?” This is a fair question. Does any one recall the most intelligent mem ber of the old Giant team from 1908 through 1913? I can give you his name. He is better known as Bone- head Merkle — the Giant who for got to touch second base in 1908. Yet Fred Merkle was the best edu cated member of the Giant squad. But his reflexes on the ball field failed to operate as quickly as some others who would have been baffled by McGuffey’s second reader. Fred had to take time to think things out. You can’t do that when split second co-ordination or intuition must rule. For example, Rube Waddell was a mental eccentric. But there were few smarter, once the gangling Rube reached the mound with* a Saseball in his left hand. There were two famous ball players who, as far as I know, never made a mental mistake on the field. One was Babe Roth who came along from an industrial school. The other was Nap Lajoie who was lifted from a cab driver’s seat in Woonsocket, R. I., and a trifle later was surrounded and cap tured by Uncle Egbert Barrow. Neither needed any college degree to be smart on a ball field. They were bom that way. Instinct and Intuition The athlete who is naturally smart in competition must have a high degree of instinct, intuition and concentration. I know Eddie Arcaro figures it that way in racing. “You haven’t time to think in a split second,” he told me once. “There’s an opening or there isn’t an opening, and you have to make up your mind in a flash. Which means largely instinct for the right things to do.” Ty Cobb had this natural instinct, this ability to concentrate, but Cobb also worked on these natural gifts. “I used to lay in bed at night for hours thinking up plays," he said once. “I planned some of these plays weeks ahead against certain teams.” Old time ball players had no mo tor cars, movies, night clubs or oth er distractions to kill time. So many of them thought only about baseball. 1 mean such men as King Mike Kelly, Kid Nichols, John Mont gomery Ward, Charlie Comiskey, Hughey Jennings, Clark Griffith, John McGraw and most of the old Orioles. „ The main mental asset in any game is concentration. Many have this needed ingredient more than others. But the art or knack of con centration can also be developed. Concentration means keeping your mind on the job from start to fin ish. As Knute Rockne used to tell his squad—“Keep physically relaxed — but mentally alert.” • • * Borovoy’s Predictions We caught Hank Borowy on the fly just as he was heading for the Cub camp and Catalina island. “How about Cub prospects?” we queried. “We’ll need all the pitching we can get this season,” the Cub star said. “By that 1 mean most of the other clubs will be stronger where we will have about the same cast. We got little back from the service. The Cardinals, Giants and Dodgers will all be stronger. So will the Pirates, Braves and Phillies. “We’ll be pitching to better hit ting strength all along the line, while at the plate we face improved pitch ing als). That means tough going. A flock of dangerous hitters have been added to the league since last fall. “Hitting in the two leagues? I can’t see much difference. I had a better record in the National than I had in the American. But my arm was in much better shape when I joined the Cubs.” I asked Borowy how the National league race looked from his angle. “The Cardinals are the team to beat,” he said, “with so much strength at every point. But they can be beaten. I’m sure we’ll be up there. The Giants have all the pow er any team needs at bat, but their pitching is still uncertain. What pitcher can Mel Ott depend on for as many as 18 games? “The Dodgers will be better and they were tough enough at times last season. The Pirates will be im proved and the Braves will probably be bothering everybody. Grantlao' Rice TO MOVE AGAIN . . . Robert Lee, Texas, first christened Hayrick, was settled in 1889. The next year it moved several miles to the Colorado river in search of water, and changed the name to Robert Lee. Now it’s preparing to move again—because of water. This time a reservoir, Buffalo dam, will be built on the Colorado river, and Robert Lee, unless it moves, will be several feet under water. Quarry Stone as Fathers Did to Build New Parish Woman's World Recipe for a New Spring Suit: First, Take a Dated Formal DECORAH, IOWA. — “In the faith of their fathers,” as the De corah Journal expresses it, men of Washington Prairie church are quarrying limestone for their $30,000 parish house. And too, they will be the masons who lay each stone in place. The Rev. Oscar E. Engbretson said two-thirds of the men engaged in the work are grandsons of men who did the same job to build the church nearly a century ago. They are taking turns working on the quarry crew and in the construc tion work. Every man in the church expects to do his share. Two hun dred tons of stone are needed. The beautiful, high-quality lime stone is being taken from a hilltop quarry belonging to Oscar Bruvold northeast of Decorah. No dynamite is used, lest it shatter the rock. The whole job is hand work, just as the Grandpa Was Upset BAKER, ORE.—Grandfather John A. Burton, age 82, went for his first plane ride with his grandson, Capt. Robert B. Alexander, and greatly enjoyed it. But he was a bit puzzled by the way it ended. “Isn’t there a better way to land a plane than this?” asked gramp as he hung upside down from his safety belt. * The plane had hit a snow dtift in landing and had upset. • • • Can He Wreck That Many? Paul Mantz, Hollywood stunt flier, has purchased 475 surplus war planes. He claims to be the world’s largest individual air craft owner. • • • States Join ha Airport Plan A group of southern Vermont and New Hampshire communities set the pace for interstate and intercommu nity co-operation in providing ade quate airports without duplication of facilities when several towns, in cluding Brattleboro, Vt., and Hins dale, N. H., got together and select ed North Hinsdale, N. H., as the best site for a combined airport.— White River Valley Herald, Ran dolph, Vt. • • • More Hostesses Needed The nation’s airlines will need stewardesses by the thousands in the next decade to staff domestic and international passenger planes. Expansion of service, introduction of larger planes and use of stew ardesses for the first time on inter national flights all have contributed to the need for three times as many this year as were employed in 1941. * • • Airport Promotion Securing permission from the civil aeronautics board, Paul Lind- strom of Rifle, Colo., flew over sev eral towns distributing handbills, some of which entitled the finders to a free airplane ride. A benefit dance was held for the benefit of the Rifle airport. • • • Scobey Airport to Re-Open Once an international point of entry, the Scobey, Mont., air port has been reopened by Jim Cross, a former bomber pilot, _ who hopes to build it up to its prewar status. The Scobey city council recently leased the air port to Cross, who is now giv ing pilot instructions to students. • * • GIRLS’ FLYING SCHOOL Colby junior college at Dennisport, Mass., is one jump ahead of most girls’ schools. It lists among its sub jects an “aeronautical secretarial course,” which is adapted to famil iarize the young women with the component parts of aircraft as well as prepare them to become trained secretaries. • • • Train to be a GOOD pilot first, and you won’t be too anxious to become a “hot-rock.” grandfathers did it. Bruvold is do nating the rock. The men are donat ing their work. The men in the first week of their work quarried about a third of the needed stone, Pastor Engebretson said. The parish house, designed by one of the country’s leading church ar chitects, is expected to make Wash ington Prairie church one of the na tion’s most completely equipped country churches. It will match the beautiful high- spired native limestone church. Stone for this church was quarried by the pioneer members. This church became the home par ish of the Rev. V. Keren, pioneer missionary, who founded many Nor wegian Lutheran churches. He first held services at Washington Prairie in 1853. THE FLYING FARMERS The National Flying Farmers asso ciation, organized to promote great er use of airplanes by farmers and ranchers, has headquarters at Okla homa A. & M. college, Stillwater, Okla. Some 222 farm men and wom en attended the Flying Farmers meet at Stillwater in 1945, and twice that number are expected this year. Farmers using airplanes in all states are being urged to organize and then affiliate with the national association. • • • RECONVERSION . . . Former glider tow plane, hospital plane and cargo carrier is being con verted into an airline passenger plane. Mrs. Terry Stidd and Francis (Hawk) Lippert former ly served in the armed forces, Mrs. Stidd as a member of the WAC and Lippert with the 15th air force. Picture taken at Haw thorne, Calif. * * * AIRLINES BOOMING Airlines are mushrooming to day like the railroads did in 1880 to 1890. Instead of the 5,000 pilots now being used by air lines, the need will be near 50,000 within the next 10 years, it is estimated. • • • First Plane in County The first private plane in Gates county, N. C., a yellow Piper cub, was purchased by John Rountree, who recently spent a Sunday after noon demonstrating it to the people in and around Gatesville. • • • A PILOT’S PAY Capt. Merle C. Robinson of Ameri can Airlines recently announced the pay for the average pilot. Co-pilots start out at $220 per month, and re ceive a $20 raise every six months, until they reach a top of $380. Be fore that time arrives, however, they’re likely to be promoted to cap tains at a base pay of $600 per month, with extra flight pay and night work raising the total to $700 and even $800. And for those who graduate to the big four-engined ships, the salary is even higher. Winston Churchill and a Missouri Degree (Winston Churchill went to Missouri with President Truman, where he re ceived a degree from Westminster college at Fulton, Mo.—News Item). Missouri, meet England. . . . John Bull, meet Hack Finn! . . . Eton, this is Kansas City. ... Westminster Abbey, shake with Westminster College! . . . An ex-British premier in Missouri. . . . Downing street and Main street. ... London and Kansas City. ... Plymouth and Hannibal. . . . Liverpool and Independence! . . . Shropshire and Calloway. . . . Nottingham and Taney. . . . The Thames and “Big Muddy!” This is Westminster College, Winnie. . . . Westminster away ont among the longhorns. . . . Its name is English but it’s all Mis souri. . . . It’s not one of the big colleges But it’s a right smart one. . . . It is no Yale or Harvard in pres tige. . . . But it teaches ’em so they “stay teached.” There must be Missouri stuff in you, Winnie. . . . The stuff of Buck Finn and Joe Folk. . . . Claiborne Jackson and Charlie Hardin. . . . Alec McNair and Mark Twain. You don’t really need a degree. .. . You’ve got more than an Injun has feathers. . , . But this one won’t hurt you: “The Honorable Winston Churchill Honorary Old Grad of Westminster, Mo. . . . Alumnus of the Golden West!” Missourians have to be shown. . > . You showed ’em, Winnie. . . . As you have shown the world. Have an honorary degree. . . . And some Missouri ham and can died yams! . . . Help yourself to Missouri hospital ity. . . . But don’t let that Truman boy Give you any of those Eastern cigars! • • • MAINE WINTERS SOFTENING UP “The State is warming up. At North Jay a house that was built by mistake so the keyhole in the front door lines up with the pre vailing winter winds has some times taken in as much as 37 bushels of snow through the key hole in a single storm. It’s been five years now since any storm has blown in more than 18 bush els. No storm this winter has blown in more than 15.”—John Gould of Lisbon Falls, Maine, in the New York Times. • • • CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when you could find a place to get away fnm trouble? • When anybody with fair eyesight could tell the diffetence between a $5,000 one- family home ami a $125 chicken house? • And away back when it isolated a man if he said he hadn’t a shirt to his back? • » • Boyhood’s Greatest Thrill Buffalo Bill was bom 100 years ago. We feel sorry for kids to whom he is a remote figure. What a thriller the Buffalo Bill Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders was to the small fry of yesterday! It came every year back home, and one of our earliest memories is see ing Buffalo Bill in the flesh, riding down Whalley avenue in an open buggy, at the head of the Injuns, cowboys and buffalo hunters. The show was held in Westville, just back of the Nick Hubinger mansion. Once, lacking money to get in, we climbed a tree to see the show and we almost imagine we got riddled by stray bullets in the hold-up of the Deadwood stage. • • • HERE AND THERE Ilka Chase is running a fever aft er reading the reviews on “I Love Miss Tilli Bean.” . . . Clifton Fin negan is our favorite radio comic. . . . “A Walk in the Sun” is the most graphic war picture ye ed has seen. ... A book title with a kick, “Applejack for Breakfast.” . . . There will be a big black market in beer this summer. • • • Laugh line from “Truckline Cafe“: An optimist is a fellow who worries about the future in the atomic bomb age. • • • Dr. John William Mauchly, 38, and J. Fresher Eckert Jr., 26, have invented and developed the eniac, an electronic machine that can compute and answer questions in the twinkling of an eye. This prac tically does away with John Kieran and promises a war to the finish between the inventors and Dan Go- lenpauL T HERE is no such thing as the young teen-ager who has all the clothes she wants. When some new gadget, trinket or fad takes the school by storm, girls freqently feel out of the swing of things if they can’t have them. On the other hand, clothes budgets for tiie high school girl are frequently limited, and it’s impossible to buy every thing. In cases like this, the girls who can sew, or whose mothers are handy with the needle are truly born under a lucky star. There are al ways dresses in the wardrobe that are dated, rather than worn, but with skillful recutting and sewing they can be transformed into new and lovely things. One of the items in a young girl’s wardrobe which easily acquires a dated look, but does not lose its value as a good piece of material, is a formal. Formats are worn a few tirfes, and then they lose their usefulness as such. But what a wealth of good material for sewing! Not only one but several articles can be made from dated formats. The bodice can be recut and sewed as the top of a suit, and the skirt especially if it is full, offers ample material for the skirt of a suit, and even an extra blouse or slurt. A discarded formal. ... • Striped effects are popular this season for both boleros and jackets. The formal with a striped top can easily be utilized for this providing it is ripped apart completely and every scrap of material given thor ough use. If the skirt of the formal is striped rather than the top, then it can be used for the jacket or bolero, with perhaps a peplum of the same ma- Precision Stripes Impeccably hand-tailored but with distinctive dressmaker detail is this precision striped jacket. In navy and red striped worsted, this suit is indicative of the trend in fashion being shown .this spring. Boleros are going to be more im portant than ever, and so are belts, wide ones, slim ones and colorful belts. Peplums are in to stay, too. Skirts are longer for street wear, shorter for dancing, these ideas tak ing their cue from ballet styles. Speaking of ballet, you will notice that bathing and beach apparel have been much influenced by this clas sic form of the dance, too. Becomes a bolero and skirt. terial. The bodice of the formal, in this case would not offer enough material for the skirt, but the pur chase of extra, matching material would be a worthwhile investment if a complete suit is the result. If you do not want to use the re mainder of the striped skirt materi al in another skirt or blouse, it will make beautiful accessories such as a hat or glcves. The accesso ries will then pick up their cue from the costume itself and add a smart, finishing touch to the outfit. Should you be making a bolero as topping for the skirt, then try the rounded shoulder effect. Pads can be purchased or made from muslin in a large enough size to give the desired rounded effect. They should be fitted carefully to the wearer. For making the pads, you will find that featherbone in two or three ply makes an ideal support for these pads. They are easy to stitch to position with a long machine stitch, Making a Circular Skirt For the Suit The main thing to remember in making a circular skirt is to let the garment hang on a garment hanger overnight. This is done to let the fabric sag—if it will—and let you make adjustments before you really turn the hem and stitch it. This may be done after the garment is on its way toward finishing. When you are ready to sew the hem, take the garment off the hanger and try it on with the shoes you plan to wear. The hem is then marked with a skirt-marker just as you would for any other type of skirt. Now the dress is removed. Lay the skirt on the table, folded at center-front and center-back lines and measure evenly all the way across the skirt. Mark with chalk for length. Trim a little off at the sides because of the sagging bias seams and then measure the depth you want them finished in. A circular skirt re quires a narrower hem than does a lengthwise skirt. Turn the raw edge under a generous one-half inch and clean-stitch it. Use a long stitch to draw up the fullness of the hem with a bobbin thread. When the hem is basted and the lower edge pressed, try the skirt on again for fit. Then slip-stitch the hem into position, doing this with the skirt spread out on a table so the hem will lie perfectly in position. Long slip stitches are best—and be care ful so that they do not show through. Sewing for Youngsters You’ll find these tips worthwhile when sewing for youngsters just past the bib and tucker stage: 1. Choosing materials for chil dren should center on the follow ing points: washability, wearabil ity, ease of making, warmth or protection, and attractiveness. 2. The length of skirts, trousers and sleeves are important. Chil dren’s clothing should look smart if you want them to be happy and win appreciation from their play mates. 3. Good buttons and fasteners, good binding or trimming mate rial such as ric rac are essen tial if the child is to get in and out of his clothing easily, and make the clothing easy to laun der. 4. Little folks like good fitting clothes. Making up a muslin pat tern takes little time and saves ripping and tedious pinning that make youngsters fidgety. 5. Make sewing easy for your self by doing all the cutting at one time. Then the sewing can all be done at a sitting. You can concentrate better when your work is well organized. Tunic suits are being seen more and more frequently in this trend of longer jackets. If you have a large build, wear garments with broken lines to make you look smaller. If you’re young and long for co quettish accessories, select a plaid taffeta bag and hat. Drawstring bags that swing freely are high in favor. Spring Fashion Notes Making Over Old or Sewing New Curtains A RE your curtains shrunken? Take heart . . . here’s not one but six ways of making them over or of sewing new ones with little fabric. • • • The budget’ll balance If you reuse old curtains. You'll be delighted at their smartness. Instructions 829 has direc tions for 6 curtains. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions. sughUy more time la required in filling orders for a few of tha most popular pattern numbers. Sewing Circle Needlecraft Sept. 564 W. 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TONIGHT TOMOMOW ALII6HT DwmfaU. 4//-VieiTABtS LAXAT’VS CAUTION, IASI OMIT AS OltSCTCV How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender. In flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell yoa a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION (or Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Caspian’s Saltiness Varies Different degrees of saltiness are found in the various sections of the Caspian sea. In general it is con siderably less salty than the Black sea or the oceans. In the north, where the Volga furnishes by far the greatest inflow of fresh water, the salt content Is so low that in places < people can drink the sea water. On; the other hand, salinity In the south rises to high proportions, with evaporation leaving large salt de posits at many spots along ths shore.