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Newspaper Page TextThe subject matter of "head lift ing’’ in golf may not seem to be ~ dramatic as a pennant race or « heavyweight fight, but it is far more important to some 2,000,000 or 3 000,000 suffering human beings, not overlooking the stars. You hear the cry, "Heads up, in baseball. But this cry is connected en^ely^w^^ didn’t raise my spected 'instructor ' ' writes me that I Grantland Rice have overplayed the importance of keeping the head still or down, or the chin back, through the swing. ‘‘lf you do this,” he comments, •‘you immediately stiffen up. Just think of looking at the ball.” The fact remains, however, that if you notice the slow motion strokes of all star golfers you will find the head is still unlifted, the chin slight ly back, well after the ball has been hit. How can a duffer get by with something the star golfer can’t af ford to do? Anchor to the Swing ‘‘The head,” as Long Jim Barnes told me years ago, "must be the anchor to the swing.” Long Jim is right, as usual. ‘‘The chin back” matter, advocat ed by Alex Morrison, even before the backswing started was first used by Jerry Travers, then by Walter Hagen, then by Bobby Jones. They merely wanted to be sure of this one detail in advance. Each tilted his chin back, to the right, just as the backswing started. And each kept it there until after the ball was well on its way. ‘T’ve found out,” Jerry Travers, Winner of five national titles, told me once, “that on an average I move my head incorrectly about six times during a round and that means I’ve missed at least five Shots.” To let the chin move only an inch or so towards the line of flight, ahead of time, means almost certain trou ble. “You lifted your head on that one.” How often has every golfer heard this somber tip from a playing com panion? You know? How can one break up this fault? In the first place, head lifting is usu ally the result of three advance faults— 1. Too much tension. 2. Muddled or befuddled or poor concentration. 3. Too fast a backswing and too fast a starting downswing. Mind on the Ball How can you keep your eye on the ball when your mind is on some bunker, pond, out-of-bounds, or oth er trouble on beyond? I’ve always believed that “keep your mind on the ball” was a far better slogan than "keep your eye on the ball.” The eye travels with the working of the mind. The main trouble with most golf swings on the average side is the mind working back of the swing. This doesn’t apply so much to those who came up as caddies to be stars, because these golfers have picked up an instinctive method. They were first imitators. Then the fundamentals became thorough ly set—except in big championships, where they also blow up, through tension and faulty concentration. One good example was Snead’s opening 67 and his closing 81 in the recent National Open. The average golfer has no such foundation to build on. He must use his meager resources to the limit — and one of these beyond any doubt is head action. And back of head action there must be mind action. “How can I keep my head still?” In the first place, the main idea Is to think largely of the backswing. The main idea should be to elim inate anything beyond the ball it self. Never mind the ponds and the bunkers. The ball has to stop somewhere. The next move is to be sure of a smooth, unhurried backswing. Han’t be too anxious to hammer the cover off the ball. Golf balls have tough covers. Don’t be too anxious to hurry the downswing. A slight pause at the lop will help. Try to forget all that poisonous terrain beyond the ball. Try to make yourself keep your head where it belongs until you think the ball has landed—somewhere. It can’t land in much worse places than it usually locates for a habitat, awaiting the slash of the recovering niblick. If the head remains as "anchor to the swing,” the swing can’t be mr wrong. But is an action that must be watched at every shot. It can’t be taken for granted, for it won’t work that wsty. You are fight tng human nature. Kathleen Norris Says: How Dangerous Is College For Your Daughter? (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Carolyn will also find at college a wild young group that mistakes freedom for license, and familiarity for love. She will find girls and men who are at home in every night-club and roadhouse for miles. By KATHLEEN NORRIS CAROLYN graduated from high school this spring, and Carolyn’s mother wants to know whether it’s safe to let a girl of eighteen go 500 miles away to college. Carolyn, of course, is dying to go. She has never been away from home. She has never been on her own. Jean is going. Caro lyn and Jean have been school mates for all the four years of “high.” They have studied and chattered and walked to and fro together since small-girl days; they have danced with the same boys at school dances, and gone to many a movie with boys and without. It would be really cruel, thinks Carolyn’s mother, to refuse to let the child go on into the new experi ence that means so much to her, that glamorous world of college of which she and Jean have been dreaming for actual years. And yet— Pitfalls Loom Large. And yet one hears such disturbing things about girls who are pushed out of the home nest so young, who have to choose their own friends, de cide which amusements to take and which ones to refuse, manage allow ances, guard health, and avoid all the pitfalls that are always awaiting the inexperienced. The general con sensus of opinion, thinks Carolyn’s mother, is that college girls are pretty reckless, and that home train ing is soon forgotten in the inde pendence and exhilaration of univer sity life. It’s expensive, too. Extremely ex pensive. No, Carolyn’s parents think they’ll have to say “no.” But what to offer her in place of a prospect so completely alluring? Carolyn has had a week-end at col lege. She has, seen the beautiful dignified buildings set under the great trees; she has heard the laugh ter of the free and happy groups crossing the lawns and going in and out of the big doorways; she has sat in the memorial theater, so fasci natingly complete in every detail, and listened while girls and boys no older than herself have walked the boards. Friendships, excitement, fun, picnics, theatricals, beaus— summed up, college comprises ev erything Carolyn’s heart or any oth er girl’s heart wants, and she pleads and weeps and promises and argues passionately while the matter is in debate. “She is so pretty,” her mother writes. “She has always been so carefully watched! How can we safeguard her from the danger we know is there? What is your honest opinion of co-educational institu tions? What do you think are the chances that she will have the won derful time she anticipates, and re turn to us happy and satisfied when she graduates, ready to take up family and home and smalltown life again?” Questions Mother Can Answer. Well, the answer to that is, what sort of a girl is Carolyn? From what sort of a home has Carolyn come? In the everyday tests of character how sure of Carolyn is Carolyn s mother? A hundred years ago Carolyn would have been marrying, at 18, and perhaps departing, bonneted and shawled, on the front seat of a prairie schooner, never to see her homefolk again. She might have been stepping into a lifetime of misery and disappointment, but she would have faced it, plunged into cooking and sewing and farming and bearing children, endured what ever discomfort her mate s intern HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA perance, or unsuccess, or harshness imposed upon her. College isn’t quite so serious a step. And yet it’s grave enough, too, and mistakes made in college years can shadow all her future for a woman quite as deeply as even an unfortunate marriage can. Even the most ill-starred marriage has about it a certain dignity. But the girl who creeps home beaten and destroyed from college has to possess superhuman qualities to bring her young, broken life back to anything near normal again. Groups Vary Morally. At college Carolyn will find all she dreams in companionship and freedom. She will find that many of the girls and men are fine, come from good homes, hold to a code es sentially the same as that their fa thers and mothers knew. These love good times, dancing, picnics, house parties, theatricals, sports, big games, and are continually planning and plotting for all of them. But they take them as rational human beings, the men, however uncon sciously, thinking of all women in the terms of their mothers and sis ters, and the girls well aware that to hold the respect of desirable men friends they have to preserve their own. So in groups, with the right element of brothers and sisters and responsible persons, they go up into the snows to ski, descend to the beaches to swim, fall in love, fall out again, consult over finals and seminars and extract from a glori ous youthful time its very happiest possibilities. Carolyn will also find at college a wild young group that mistakes freedom for license, and familiarity for love. She will find girls and men who cut classes, entertain a general scorn for teachers and for learn ing, are at home in every night club and roadhouse for miles, and believe in giving free rein to the most elementary human instincts. The first boy she fancies will choose some occasion when she has been eating and drinking, petting and dancing to excess, to convince Caro lyn that what all the other girls do certainly can’t be such a serious mistake, and without caring very much Carolyn will presently find herself involved in the usual sordid affair. A Sheepskin of Cynicism. There may be moments when she is genuinely shocked, made uneasy by considering just how rapidly all this has come about, but the tele phone ringing, and the voice of some ringleader telling her of the new day’s plans will quickly reassure her, and she will plunge back into the whirlpool, glad to escape the need of analysis or giving the matter any great consideration or any very serious thought. When the inevitable moment comes to end all this, the valuable, the irreplacable element of her life is destroyed. Whether she has had only a dozen petting parties or a hundred, one lover or six, one be wildered half-intoxicated evening in a night-club or twenty, one flunked subject or ten, won’t matter. She will come home utterly disenchant ed, hardened, cynical. Her old friends will not interest her, but no town or crossroads village will be so small but what she will find in it the sort of superficial Bohemianism to which college years have accus tomed her. Girl Must Make Own Decision. Some colleges and all sororities try to keep their girls under control by means of permissions, regula tions, closing hours, “lockouts." But these only work with the girls who want them to work. So the problem is strictly Caro lyn’s. It is for her to decide it; Mother and Dad can’t do much. wwww., IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western-Newspaper Union.) Lesson for July 14 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education: used by permission. JOB’S STRUGGLE TO FAITH IN LIFE AFTER DEATH LESSON TEXT-Job 14:13-17; 17:13-16; 19:23-29. GOLDEN TEXT—For 1 know that my re deemer liveth,—Job 19:25. If life ends at the grave, it has comparatively little meaning and its struggles and sorrows are hardly worth bearing. Job, living in all probability about 1,500 years before Christ, did not have our knowledge of the resurrection of Christ and the assurance that He is but the “first fruits of them that slept” and that we too shall rise (see I Cor. 15:22, 23). But in the midst of suffering, discouragement and spiritual con flict, he looked with the eye of faith all the way beyond the grave. The background of our lesson is found in Job’s experience with his three professed comforters, who speak thus: “Eliphaz: But who ever perish being innocent (4:7)? Be gmd that you are being corrected (4:17). Job: Answer my question and I will keep still. Show me where I am wrong. What does your ‘proof’ prove (6:24, 25)? “Biddad; Do you think God per verts justice (8:3)? Ask the wise men of the ages. Consider what our fathers taught (8:8). Job; It is all the same; God destroys the right eous with the wicked (9:22). “Zophar; Do you expect to un derstand God? Put evil away (11:7,14). Job; I know as much as you do (13:2). Your burning re marks are cold ashes (13:12). I would like to reason it out with God (13:3). I have stated my case; I am righteous (13:8). “The three friends have not helped him, but Job struggles on alone with the problem.”—Dr. Carl S. Knopf, I. Uncertainty—“lf a man die, shall he live again?” (14:13-17). Job, while maintaining that he was righteous, felt that his sufferings must indicate that God was dis pleased with him. He thought he might best seek refuge in Sheol (R. V. in place of “grave” in v. 13), the abode of the dead. But sudden ly he turned again to the hope which was dear to his heart; namely, that somehow there must be a blessed future life with God. He asked the question, “If a man die, shall he live again?” The fact that he quickly lapsed into despair indicates that he was not certain that the answer to his question was “Yes.” How blessed it is that we know, for have we not heard the voice of the One who, standing be fore a grave in Bethany, said, “I am the resurrection and the life: he that, believeth in me, though he weroi dead, yet shall he live” (John 11: 25)? 11. Hope—“ Where, then, is my, hope?” (Job 17:13-16). Eliphaz had again sought to set Job right by accusing him of vanity, impatience and pride (chap. 15). Job answered (chaps. 16 and 17) that his friends were worse than useless as comforters, being so sanctimoni ous in their assurance of his wick edness, when in fact he was only a man who was on the verge of de spair, but still holding to his faith in God. Job cried out, “Where, then, is my hope?”—undoubtedly thus express ing his bewilderment, bordering on complete despair. Yet do we not even in the question see that he still had hope? The man who has given up s iys, “There is no hope”; but Job continued to hope against hope, cry ing out, “Where is my hope?” know ing full well that his only hope was in God. There is a lesson here that we do well to learn. Whatever our situa-, tion may be we shall find that God is there and that we may trust Him. “Does all the world seem against you And you In the battle alone? Remember, at ‘Wit’s End Corner’ Is where God’s power Is shown." 111. Faith—“l know that my re deemer liveth” (Job 19:23-29). What blessed vision and what glorious faith! Job lived in the time of Moses or before. He had no New Testament —no old Testament—but he did have God, and by faith he believed that God was to make Him self known to man here on earth as a living Redeemer. We say that we know because we have the record of His coming; of the Son of God incarnate; of His bearing our sins on Calvary; of His death and resurrection again; of His ascension to be with the Father, and His coming again in glory and power. Job, however, had to reach through doubt and darkness to faith in life after death. How much rich er should be our faith, infinitely more precious, stirring us to loving obedience and service for Christ our Redeemer. A Blessed Inheritance Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which ac cording to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.—l Pa ter: 1,3, 4. e '« JTERNh Ueparthlnt SWEET and summery as a bas ket of flowers, this frock (8729) is perfect for warm afternoons. 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