Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWHERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. IT ALWAYS has been our belief * that the time to compare ath letes is at the end of their careers. For example, why try to compare Ted Williams, after five seasons, with Ty Cobb’s 24 sea sons? Why try to com pare Bobby Jones, retired for 16 years after win ning 13 national and international championships, with Byron Nelson who so far has „ „ ,. won 3?. And don’t Tycoon forget that Jones’ ran 1-2 in the U. S. Open eight out of nine years. Ted Williams and Byron Nelson have many years left in which they may rise to even greater heights, or for one reason or another sud denly fall away. I recall just about the outbreak cf the war when more than a few v/ere placing Joe DiMaggio above Tris Speaker as an all-around out field star. DiMaggio was and still is a great ball player. But even Joe’s most vehement supporters to day wouldn’t place him above the flight of the Gray Eagle, the class of all outfielders in the air or along the ground, who could also hit from .350 to .386 in his better seasons through a long stretch of time. Take Ty Cobb and Ted Williams. Few pitchers could. Ted Williams is the longer, harder hitter. But how many remember that Ty Cobb led the American league nine years in a row — that he led the American league in 12 out of 13 consecutive seasons. Think that one over. What hitters were in Cobb’s road? What was their class? Prac tically no one except Shoeless Joe Jackson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Wahoo Sam Crawford, Bobby Beach and a few of that ash-tinted ilk, I see they are now comparing Bob Feller and Walter Johnson, certainly two of the greatest. No one can tell me that Bob Feller or anyone else had Johnson’s speed. Feller has a greater vari ety. But Johnson’s speed was enough. They usually beat him 1 to 0 or 2 to 1 and even working with a weak-hitting outfit, he still could win mere than 30 games a year pitching against some of the great hitters of all time. But none of these great hitters was on Old Barney’s side. The idea is that Johnson has already turned in his 20-year re'.'ord. Feller still has many years to go. Feller isn’t working with much of a ball club, either. He is to a certain extent in Johnson’s spot. Johnson, pitching for the Athletics in those days, could have won 40 games more than once. Feller, working with the Red Sox, could be another 40-game winner. There will oe time enough later on to rank Johnson and Feller. ‘Old Pet*’ Alexander If you talk to hitters who faced him and who have been around, they won’t nominate Walter John son or Bob Feller as the top mas ter of the pitching tribe. They won’t give you Cy Young who won 510 or Christy Mathewson. Their nominee is an entry known as Grover Cleveland Alexander, also known as “Old Pete.” Working with the lowly Phillies, Alexander won 31 games in 1915, 33 games in 1916 and 30 games in 1917, a total of 94 games in three consecutive years with a ball club that never belonged — outside of Alexander. In 1916 he pitched 16 shutout games, most of them in the Phil lies’ bandbox park. Through six years, he had an earned run aver age under two rims per game. As a rookie in 1911 he won 28 games with the lowly Phillies. Alexander was a stretcher bearer with the army in 1918, one of the tough jobs of any war. He then had been pitching seven years. On his return to the Cubs in 1919 and 1920, he allowed 1.72 and 1.91 earned runs per game, an incredi ble performance. Through his career Old Pete had no interest in any form of training. He hap pened to be an eccentric genius, a great artist, which so few are. He knew exactly where the ball should go to certain hitters, and he could put it there too. Johnny Evers, who had batted against the best, once told me that Alexander was the only pitcher he ever faced who made him feel like throwing his bat away. “I knew how useless it was,” Evers said. Cardinal Class Overlooking the boisterous and heartfelt boos from Brooklyn, the Cardinals have been the class of the league from the start. They have had no better ball players than Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser and Pewee Reese. But no sane baseball follower can tell you that the hustling Dodge-s have the class to match S' i Musial, Marty Marion, Country Slaughter, Red Schoendienst, Ter ry Moore and Whitey Kurowski. Editor’s Note: While Win- chell is on vacation. Jack Lait is acting as guest columnist. Unshackled in a Garden of Eden— Best American Divorce, and fastest, is the decree issued by Federal Judge Moore in St. Thom as, Virgin Islands, U. S. A. . . . It takes eight hours to get to St. Thomas from New York via plane, flying the new nonstop route. . . . By a new regulation, after six weeks’ residence, the decree is signed, eliminating long periods of publication and other delays perti nent to Reno or Miami divorces. . . . The Virgin islands are a prac tically unknown paradise — few tourists, best Scotch on earth at $2.50 a fifth, cigarets 50 cents a carton, shopping for native woven products at prewar prices and your buck worth 100 cents. . . . Two American hotels — Hotel 829 and the government - run Bluebeard’s Castle — total accommodations 60 people! . . . The Virgin islands divorce decree is the only one in the country signed by a federal judge, who is appointed by the President. . . . No V. I. divorce has yet been contested by any state. Lawyers feel that the federal char acter of the decree puts it above protest. ... In this tropical Capri, the city-harassed American finds new world comforts along with authentic old world atmosphere like the South Sea islands once had. . . . Natives live in tiny huts, the beaches are blue and coral, the water crystal clear, with vast acres wild, awaiting settlement. . . . The government—local and national—is eager to sell at ridiculously low fig ures. ... At Cancel bay, on St. John (one of the U. S. Virgin group), the most breath-taking beach on earth rests its spreading white arms in cool tropical splen dor — with an average of three bathers a day! Cabanas, furnished by the U. S., are usually empty. Atlantic City shut up tighter than ever. . . . 'Bhe cops just sent the sad word around, and the wheels stopped rolling. . . . Jack Lyncn, who lost his historic club on Philly’s Walton hotel roof when sudden fire regulations closed it, is hunting a new street-floor spot there; meanwhile, he wants to take over the now dark Rainbow room, in Radio City—but the Rockefel lers don’t seem to need the money. When George White, whose “Scandals” rivaled Ziegfeld’s “Follies,” ran into hit-and-run trouble in San Diego, the sup posedly hard-hearted Broad way boys called a meeting and chipped in for a defense fund. . . . Buddy de Sylva was the leader. . . . The kitty went tc $50,000! Faye (Mrs. Roosevelt) Emerson returns to the stage at Cape Cod, Mass., August 12, in “Here Today,” a warmed-over Ruth Gordon star- rer of 1934. . . . It’s official—Joan Crawford’s next is “Possessed,” with Van Heflin, based on a Cos mopolitan magazine novelette, “One Man’s Secret,” by Rita Weiman. . . . Anniversary of Sound Movies Recalls Early Panic of Stars Public, Press Unenthused at ‘Talkie’ Advent Sound came to motion pictures just 20 years ago yet most,of the excitement over the invention that today makes movies one of Amer ica’s chief industries didn’t come from the press or public, but from stars who were panicked by the realization that their voices might not be pitched for recording. Despite an unenthusiastic public, and skeptical producers of the first talkies, “The Jazz Singer” starring May McAvoy and A1 Jolson, was released in 1927. From then on a star’s voice was recordable or he was through. John Barrymore and Conrad Nagel made the transiuon from silence to sound without a hitch. Nagel, who was under contract to MGM at the time and receiving $2,500, was loaned to every other company in Hollywood and in the first two years of talkies, he made 31 films. Westerns Take Lead. Recording sound for Westerns at first seemed impossible but Fox EARLY IN CAREER . . . Douglas Fairbanks, acclaimed by millions as idol of the screen, is shown with his first camera staff while mak ing one of his early pictures. Actress Bessie Love played opposite the star in above picture, title unknown. made “In Old Arizona” withv War ner Baxter as the star and'such film greats as William Boyd, now Hopalong Cassidy, and the late Bill Hart rose to their fame. Westerns HISTORICAL STARS . . . Among the most famous stars in early days of silent films were Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, shown here in a scene from “The Kid.” now total more box office receipts than any other type of picture. Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo both thought someone was playing a joke on them by substituting men’s voices when they first heard record ings of their own voices. Wal lace Beery made a talkie for Paramount — his first — promptly was fired and went to MGM. He’s been there ever since. Zazu Pitts of silent days was con sidered a great dramatic actress. Her voice on the sound track ruined it all and she wisely switched to comedy and made her fortune as a funny girl. Charlie Chaplin, silent and sound comedian of the early days, even now is planning a comeback after six years’ of absence. Started in 1927. Picture and sound recorded and synchronized on the same piece of film caused little excitement when it first was shown to the public in Schenectady, N. Y., in 1927. So the late Charles A. Hoxie of Schen ectady, who developed it in the laboratories of General Electric, carted his Kinemagraphone, as he called it, back to the plant. It wasn’t until a year or so later that the president of the company took it with him to Europe to intro duce an educational film. There it was received with such enthusiasm that company officials believed the talking movie was perhaps best suited to educational purposes. Be fore more educational movies had been produced, however, the movie industry put into general use the Hoxie machine. Today it is used by practically every movie com pany in the country. OLD WESTERN STYLE Civil aeronautics bureau may not know this: When it approved an around - the - world route for TWA linked with Northwest Air-Line, Howard Hughes, who owns TWA, had an option on control of North west. . . . TWA is to fly N. Y. to Shanghai, via Europe; North west is to pick up there, flying to Alaska and Seattle. . . . Hughes’ option was to become effective if, as and when Northwest got govern ment permission to fly the Pacific. . . . So it appears Hughes, who broke the around-the-world uir rec ord, has in hand the around-the- world route he laid out on that famous four-day zoom. . . . And, with announcement of the globe- circling license, plus the approval of the Constellations with changes, TWA stock leaped so that Hughes’ holdings have been rising at a rate of about $1,000,000 a day — as he lies and listens to his ribs knit ting. Jack Dempsey and Jake Amron, former Hollywood restauramt boss, have made a flossy offer for Henry Lustig’s Longchamps tax-tainted restaurant chain. . . . “Tobacco Road” earned a fortune largely be cause Harry Oshrin doesn’t go wild on payday. John Barton will draw $350 a week starring as Jeet- er Lester on tour next season, which gives you a rough idea of what the lesser hillbilly performers will rate. Farmers Pack Guns to Curb Rustlers MADISON, WIS. — Defying mod em methods of criminal detection. Wood county farmers have band ed together in the old-time vigi lante system to curb a recent out break of cattle rustling here. An SOS over a rural party tele phone line prompted the first con certed manhunt, when 50 farmers, packing guns in old vigilante style, set out on a quest for rustlers. They beat a wooded sector from mid night until dawn but the rustlers had disappeared. Bernard Kroening, who lives in nearby Rock, saw a car slip up to a woods on his farm, two occu pants emerging and entering the woods. He fired three shots, chas ing the men deeper into the woods. Meanwhile, his wife got busy on the party line to round up the gang of 50 farmers. Before their arrival, however, the mysterious car raced off down the road. Kroening gave chase in his car but lost the quarry. Kroen ing told the vigilantes he believed the two strangers still were in the woods and that the car had been driven by a third party, who had remained in it. WENDOVER, UTAH-NEVADA. —Reminiscent of the Civil war con troversy is the move sponsored by 2,000 residents of the Utah part of this little Bonneville salt flats town of 2,500 to secede from Utah so they can join their other 500 towns folk as residents of Nevada, where a man can do anything he wants— well, almost anything. “Utah doesn’t even seem to know we’re in the state and apparently doesn’t even care if we’re in the Union,” bewailed Lester Giffen, ; spokesman for the secessionists. 1 Main complaint against Utah is the fact that the Psehive state’s laws are too strict. “A tourist, coming from the East, stops in my place and looks for the slot machines,” explained a cafe owner on the Utah side. “I have to tell him we can’t have them, so he says ‘to heck with Saratoga bit deeply into New York nightlife. . . . The best and stead iest spenders have flocked to the Spa, which, with all its hopes, didn’t anticipate such a gold-rush. . . . The OPA doesn’t seem to have penetrated there. . . . Prices were pegged steep for a short season. . . . But when the New York influx fluxed in, the natives took up some notches in the jacks. . . . Now the common man with a $5 bill doesn’t know whether to lay it on the favorite to show or buy a hot dog. you’—and drives across the border to Nevada.” While this same innkeeper can sell only 3.2 beer, his fellow bar keepers across the state line have some of the best-stocked bars in the West. a. man wants a one or two, then satisfied,” Giffen he has to get a state-owned store Then he feels he whole quart. So up for work the “In Nevada, if drink, he orders he’s happy—and said. “In Utah, permit, go to the and buy a quart, has to drink the he doesn’t show next day.* Petitions will be presented to the Utah legislature and, if ap proved there, must be accepted by the Nevada legislature. Then con gress will be asked to alter the Utah-Nevada boundary to include all of Westover in Nevada. Although hampered by fog, the farmers beat through bushes and thickets for hours without finding the rustlers. Two Marshfield traf fic officers and several deputies helped them. An electric wire which charged a fence on the Kroening farm had been turned off by the thieves, and the farmers theorized that the men had made careful prepara tions for herding the animals through the fence when a truck arrived later. In a previous rustling incident, mysterious strangers fired on a farmer who came upon them un expectedly on his farm near Wis consin Rapids. Texas High School Boy Presents Own Program on Radio MESQUITE, TEXAS. — Although only 17 years old, Dale Berry, Mes quite high school senior, has been booked on a sustaining program over radio station WRR with his own cowboy band. Berry, who secured his own sponsor for the program, formerly played with Bill Boyd’s Cowboy Ramblers and was on the Grand Ole Opry program over a Nashville station. Berry plays the guitar and other members of the band are Robert Jenkins, Cleo Landolt, Benny Will- banks and Matt McGlothern. Instruction in piano and a few guitar lessons represent Berry’a only musical training. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Berry of Mesquite. House-Hunters Covet Mansion Built to Appease Ghosts SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Covetous glances from myriad house-hunters during the current housing short age are being attracted by a man sion here which originally was built to appease ghosts. Started 37 years before her death by Mrs. Sarah Winchester, wife of the inventor of the Winchester rifle of Civil war fame, the sprawling “crazy quilt” structure soon be came an architectural horror. Constant construction and reno vation forced many of the hun dreds of windows in the house to open on solid walls. Some of the doors on upper floors open direct ly on the outside with no stair ways provided, though more than 40 stairways, each with 13 steps, are scatttered through the interior. Many of them, like the windows and doors, have no util ity value except for ghosts lurking in the 'maze of secret passages, hidden panels and trap dootfr Following the death of her hus band, Mrs. Winchester became conscious - stricken by the lethal role of the rifle in war and peace and built additions to the house to “pacify and entertain the ghosts of gun victims.” She continued building additions for many years, each providing a new monstrosity. Every night for 37 years, serv ants prepared and served lavish banquet spreads, as Mrs. Winches ter chatted with her “guests.” ' IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool L.esson SUNDAY SCHOOL—13.S EMS By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIS^. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Lesson for September 1 *-?sson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious EducsUon: used by permission. JESUS AND RIGHT USE OF PROPERTY LESSON TEXT—Exodus 20:15: Proverbs 30:7.9: Matthew 5:25-33. MEMORY SELECTION- -But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break ‘hrough nor steal: for where your treasure is there will your heart be also (Matt. 6:20-21). Labor Day tomorrow! And much in the thinking of all America will be the right division of the fruits of investment of time and money. Property rights are fundamental. God s Word teaches us the proper attitude toward our own rights and the rights of others; namely, hon- esty, yes, just plain old-fashioned honesty. In such a time, the believer in Christ needs to be doubly vigilant lest he accommodate his own stand ards of honesty to those of the world. I. Honest in Purpose (Exod. 20:15). We cannot tolerate anything in word or deed that can be regarded as stealing what belongs to another. The very commandment against stealing implies that men have a right to that which they have made, earned or saved. If no one had any property rights there could be no stealing. Some of our modern political and social isms deny such rights, but their reason ing is clearly not biblical or Chris tian. “Thou shalt not steal,” forbids ev ery kind of theft, and this includes more than robbery or ordinary stealing (see Lev. 19:11-13). It relates to every kind of false dealing with another, such as op pression or the withholding of just wages. That, too, is stealing in God’s sight. Perhaps we ought to oe more specific and apply the truth to our own day. Stealing includes such things as loafing on one’s job, bor rowing money from the cash draw er, taking goods from the stock with which one is working, stealing an other man’s sermon and preaching it as one’s own, lifting material out of another man’s book without cred it, contracting debts which one can never pay, using false weights and measures, adulterating food or oth er material, “watering” milk for sale, selling worthless stock, dodg ing taxes or lying to the tax as sessor, or using a slug instead of a nickel in the telephone to escape proper payment. One might add gambling (which is taking another man’s property by skill or by chance), making an un duly large profit on the labor of another, making money out of the sorrows and failures of others, etc. To be honest means to be fair, and that has broad implications. II. Humble in Practice (Prov. 30: 7-9). It may sound a* little odd to hear this man pray that he should be de livered from prosperity. To ask to be kept from poverty is certainly to make a wise request, but to be delivered from riches, why that’s certainly not sensible. So reasons the world, but as usual, it is entire ly wrong. Experience has demonstrated that the man who has an abundance of good things usually becomes self- satisfied, assuming that he deserves the credit for his affluence, he for gets God, and what had been a good and useful life is soon destroyed. On the other hand, it is true that extreme poverty tends to break down a man’s morale. Watching his family starve is not conducive to honesty if a man can lay his hands on somet’iing to save them, whether it be his or not. We do not justify stealing at any time, but we can well understand that starvation can turn the mind of a normal man into abnormal channels. III. Heavenly in Principle (Matt. 6:25-28). The Bible is concerned almost en tirely with life on this earth. It tells us very little about heaven except how to go there. But (and here is the important point for us just now) it does give us laws from heaven for life on earth. Our life here, our attitude toward property, is to be heavenly in principle. We are not to be anxious (the correct translation of “take no thought,” w. 25, 27, 31) about our life, about food, raiment and other necessary things. Proper fore thought is all right, but worry? Never! How shall these things be pro vided? God will provide. Consider the birds. Do they have nervous breakdowns about where their food and shelter are to come from? They cannot even pray and they are not able to work, and yet God feeds them. Consider the glory of the flowers of the field, for not even a king can dress as they. The Lord does it. “Are ye not much better than they?” What about the future? It is in God’s hands, and even if it were in our hands what could we do with it? Even tomorrow with its needs, its blessings, its joys and its sor rows is not here yet, and when it does comes there will come with it God’s gracious provision (v. 34). Do not hang glass or china cups by the handles. They may chit or crack and finally break off en tirely. —•— Milady’s dresser need not tx marred by lotion or perfume spots it a piece of waxed paper is placed directly'under the- dresser scarf. —•— Line the lower edge of dad’s trouser pockets with a piece ol chamois. This material is sturdy, and keys and other objects he car ries in his pockets won’t quicklj wear through it. —•— Save the drippings from roast beef, lamb, pork, and veal and add them to gravies and saucej for flavor. They need not b« strained as the little browned par. tides contain additional flavor. sum COLD? 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