Gems of Thought
IT HAS been well said that
* the man who is wrapped up
in himself is carrying a small
package. A shriveled life and
a pinched soul are all it holds.
)'???, "/><? no i-t iC that i? i int/er
sUmmI : rum ? learn the harder, braver
rule, "lh> kihhI."
Love is strong as death; jeal
ousy is cruel as the grave. ?
Son? of Solomon.
Life is a schoolroom, not a
playground. ? Anon.
The consciiHts utterance of thouxht,
by speeeh or wtion, to any rml, in
art. h'mersttn.
A clear conscience is a coat
of mail. ? Old Proverb.
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Man a Knot of Roots
A man is a bundle of relations,
a knot of roots, whose flower and
fruitage is the world. ? Emerson.
FIW SHAVING COMFORT ? PLUS SAYING USE
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Kind Nature
Nature is always kind enough to
give even her clouds a humorous
lining ? Tames Russell Lowell.
bjVl?T ?X0 ClOCGED NOSrwOWMG
ON A112-A6AJN -W1TH2DR0P
Of SELF-SPREADING
V A l PENETRO NOSE PROPS
No Flap In 1777
The continental congress intro
duced the flag resolution in 1777,
but the nation didn't have an ail
American flag over the Capita! un
til 3866. English-made cloth was
used before that.
Lives With Rival
Iowa social welfare officials told
of an old-age pension applicant who
lives as a by-the-week boarder in
the home of his divorced wife and
her second husband.
Wordless Poem
A picture is a poem without
word s Corn ificus .
ASSUR/tUCE
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The buyer's assurance is the advertis
>ng he or the re*ds in die newspaper.
That is the buyer's guide. It tells die
prices one must expect to pay. Let die
seller who tries to charge more beware!
Washington. D. C.
DEFENSE JAM-Bl'STER
Donald Nelson, for many years
executive of the Sears, Roebuck
mail-order house, now has become
one of the chief Ion-jam busters of
, national defense. Olllcially his job
is director of procurement for the
United States treasury ? in other
words, in charge of government pur
chases.
Recently the navy department
sent a very important order to Beth
lehem Steel corporation with a pref
erence number to expedite it for the
earliest possible delivery. The next
day word came back from Bethle
hem: "Sorry, but you will have to
wait."
For some unexplained reason the
navy said nothing to the defense
commission about Bethlehem's de
lay, even though the commission has
the power to compel compliance. In
stead the navy tried to handle the
situation itself. But after two weeks
of unsuccessful effort, the navy final
ly went to Nelson, who in addition
to his procurement duties aids the
defense commission.
Nelsot. reached for a telephone,
callcd Walter Tower, secretary of
the American Iron and Steel insti
tute, and said, "I hope we don't have
to get tough, but when an order
goes out marked 'expedite.' it
means just that. I want immediate
action on that ordor."
Twenty minutes later, Eugene
Grace, potent boss of Bethlehem,
personally telephoned Nelson and
assured him it was all a mistake.
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F. D. R. AND ARGENTINA
There has been a lot of publicity
regarding Roosevelt's conference
with Argentine diplomat Leopoldo
Melo over buying Argentine beef.
Actually the conversation covered a
lot of things besides meat.
Roosevelt promised that this coun
try would substantially increase its
imports of Argentine products; first
because Argentina has suffered
heavy loss of her European export
market and faces an acute depres
sion; second, because Argentina con
tinues to buy from the United States,
but this buying must fall off if she
cannot sell here to obtain dollar ex
change for purchases.
Discussing these problems, the
President told Melo that the defense
program would require heavy pur
chases of wool for uniforms, hides
for shoes, and canned beef for the
commissary. Though the govern
ment would not buy direct from Ar
gentina, the buying from domes
tic sources would create a new de
mand for imports, substantially ben
efiting Argentina.
There was also discussion of using
a part of the new Export Import
bank fund of $500,000,000, about to
be voted by congress, for trade with
Argentina.
Note ? Latest export figures show
that Argentina has now become the
leading foreign purchaser of Amer
ican passenger cars.
BRITAIN'S FOGS
The most important development
during the last few days of bombing
London is the realization by British
and American observers that bad
weather is not going to help the de
fense of London, but instead will
hinder it.
Second important development is
the realization that Britain's only
real defense is retaliatory raids
against Berlin. This means, of
course, more long-distance bombers
? almost all of which are now ob
tained from the United States.
It has been generally expected
that with the arrival of foggy weath
er, London would be safer because
Nazi raids would have to abate.
However, there was considerable
cloudy weather over England last
week, and during it, Nazi bombers
had a field day. What they did was
to use the clouds as a shield and
drop their bombs, without aiming,
all over London.
On clear days they had tried to
aim at military targets. But at
night, and during cloudy weather,
the Nazis gave up any pretense of
taking aim.
What happened was that when
British planes went aloft they could
not find the raiders. The Nazis were
hidden in cloud banks, dropping
their bombs indiscriminately. Un
der th?se circumstances, there was
only one way for the British to lo
cate the enemy bombers ? by means
of sound detection and radio direc
tions from the ground.
However, these radio directions
must be three dimensional to be ef
fective, and there is such a wide
margin for error that looking for a
bomber in the clouds is like looking
for a needle in a haystack. That is
why British plsnes simply did not
go into the air when the weather was
loo cloudy.
TV THE Yankee clubhouse they
* were talking about the fastest
pitcher. The argument got down to
Lefty Grove and Bob Feller. I ran
in my nomination ? a fellow named
Walter Johnson.
"I never batted against Johnsm,"
Bill Dickey said, "but my vote goes
for Grove when he
was at his best. I
can see Feller's fast
one, even if I don't
hit too well ? but I
couldn't see
Grove's."
"I never saw
Johnson work," Joe
Gordon said, "and I
never saw Grove at
his best, at the top.
But I'll string with
Bob Feller. He is
fast enough for me.
Sometimes too fast."
Grant! and
Rice
I still stick with Johnson. One
answer is that Big Barney pitched
more shutouts and had more strike
outs than any pitcher in baseball ?
113 shutouts, if I recall the exact
figures. And Johnson had no chance
to ease up with a weak-hitting club.
Also every hitter in those days knew
a fast one was coming, but they still
couldn't hit the Big Train.
"I guess Johnson, with that rec
ord, gets the call," Dickey said.
The Detroit Mystery
Here's another angle few fans fig
ure out. I asked one of the Tiger
stars how he accounted for Detroit's
sudden rise from a sixth-place pick
to a pennant contender, and then the
mid-season slow-up prior to the final
surge.
"Nature," he said. "In the spring
we were afraid of Dick Bartell's legs
and Charlie Gehringer's legs and
back. But we happened to get a
damp spring which ran into June.
We had soft ground to work on until
July. This gave both
/eterans a chance ]
to save their legs. ;
Then the sun baked
out all diamonds ? J
and what a differ
ence this makes to
older legs."
"T his is true
enough," Bartell
told me. "I was a
kid again as long as
I had soft ground
under my feet. But
these hard, baked
oat diamonds are rough on your legs.
I could begin to feel the difference
in a few days ? sore ligaments, sore
feet."
Bartell was one of the main fac
tors in Detroit's early summer
charge. Both his spirit and his play
were major factors in the Tiger
drive. And the same goes for Geh
ringer, who stands out as one of the
great second basemen of all time.
When these two begin to skid the
Tiger infield began to look porous.
"Figure this one out," one of the
Yankees said. "We all know the
value of big, powerfu1 hands in base
ball. fands like Wagner's and La
joie's ? but one of the best infielders
I've seen in a long time has the
smallest pair of hands in either
league."
"Meaning whom?" we asked.
"Boudrean, the Cleveland short
stop," he answered. "Boudreau has
extremely small hands. They are
delicate looking. But I don't know
of a better shortstop anywhere to
day. He has been one of the main
reasons for Cleveland's success.
When he gets either hand on a ball
(t sticks with him."
Dick Kartell
The Eternal Argument
"I'll tell you something," one of
the Cleveland veterans said. "Old
timers are always talking about the
play of the stars who once made the
headlines. They talk about a more
| scientific game. I'd like to see
some of these old-timers handle the
ball they hit at you today ? infield or
j outfield.
"The name today is twice as last,
rhis modern ball comes at you like
a rifle shot many times. You can't
afford to lose a split second. The
same is true in the outfield where
line drives come whistling by. It
takes much better starting speed to
handle the new, faster ball, no mat
ter what position you play. Those
old-timers were lucky when it came
to handling a much slower ball, one
that gave you more time to cover
j your ground.
"Baseball today is far harder on
the nerves. You have to be alert
every second a man is at bat. You
arc tense all the time in any close
game. The old-time game may
have been more scientific, but the
game today is largely a matter of
speed and power."
ASK ME
ANOTHER
A Qu,z With Answ<rs
Offenng Inform^
on Various Subjects
The Question ?
1. What arc the four fundamen
tals of combustion?
2. Is "insignia" a singular or
plural noun?
3. Who stole Helen ? Ulysses,
Paris, or Acliilles ? and thereby
brought about the Trojan war?
4. Who said: "Cauliflower is
nothing but cabbage with a col
lege education"?
5. Can anyone who dies on duty
In U. S. military or naval service
or has been honorably discharged
be buried at Arlington?
6. What is the origin of the *or,j
"alimony"?
The Answers
1. The tour fundamentals e{
combustion are mixture, air, timt
and temperature.
2. Plural. The singular form is
insigne.
3. Paris.
4. Mark Twain (Pudd'nheadWil.
son's calendar).
5. Yes.
6. The word comes from the
Latin "alimonia," which means
sustenance or nourishment.
No Chance!
Mother ? Now, Joany, why didn't
you give your little brother a part
of your apple?
Joany? Not me! That's what
Eve did to Adam ? and she's been
criticized ever since!
ROUND ONE
"I've just been having an area
ment with the dentist."
"Who won?"
"It ended in a draw."
Where It Goes
"I haven't been feeling at all
well," said Browne to his doctor.
"But you're looking perfectly
splendid," said the doctor.
"I know. But it takes all my
strength to keep up appearances."
Out for It
Athlete ? How high is my tempera
ture, doctor?
Doctor ? One hundred nnd one.
Athlete ? W hat's the world's record?
Who Wouldn't
Dots ? What's the matter with
you?
Eleanor ? I'm terribly worried. I
v.TOte Jack in my last letter to for
get that I had told him I didn't
mean to reconsider my decision
about not changing my mind, and
he seems to have misunderstood
me.
Their Aim
First Life Guard ? Boy, look at
that bunch of coeds! Aren't they
honeys?
Second Life Guard ? No, I don't
like coeds; they have only one
great ambition.
First Life Guard ? And what is
that?
Second Life Guard ? To go with
every Tom, Dick, and marry.
Good Risk
Insurance Inspector (indignant!,)^
Why in the world did you M.rj.
a policy on a man 'til years old'
News Agent? H ell, I /oo^d'up th,
1940 crnsus figures and found ihrrt
were only a few people of thai ,w
died each year.
The man who boasts of keeping
his head above water should re
member that wood floats.
Envious
"What was the sermon about,
John?"
"Marriage."
"I hope the preacher gave you
some good advice?"
"I wish I knew as little about
it as he does."
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A man who is sure to cause in
juries to be done to him wherever
he goes is almost as great an evil
and inconvenience as if he were
himself the wrongdoer.? Sir Henry
Taylor.
Faith an Incentive
Faith is the most powerful in
centive and the best guide to fur
ther progress in science.? Dr.
Birkhoff.
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