re*\\'o football coaches visiting in
1 York recently know all the
hazards of the preseason tom-tom.
They are none too keen about it.
A ne is Carl Snavely of Cornell and
Jhe other is Homer Norton of Texas
a and M.
Both face the new season with vet
eran squads that were untied and
unbeaten a year ago. Both have
be en picked for a mop-up campaign,
which is always dangerous. Snave
lv and Norton lose only one or two
men from brilliant teams—but foot
ball is a funny game.
It would be something of a record
for two unbeaten teams to go un
beaten another year, so both know
the law of averages is all against
them. Too many things can hap
pen, And there are many times
when senior teams dip below the ,
level of junior play.
I asked Bob Zuppke about this :
once, when one of his senior teams ;
cracked up.
“Sometimes,” Zup said, “as sen
iors they get too smart to keep tak
ing a beating— to keep sticking their
heads into a jolt.”
The Rasping Angle
“Who can pick any team to beat
that Ohio State bunch?” Cornell Carl
asks you morosely. “Look at that
backfield, headed by 215-pound
quarterback Don Scott. They are
all fast, all experienced and they’ll
average around 205 pounds. Our
backfield average may be under 170.
Ohio State should be one of the
best teams in football this fall. And
Ohio State isn’t the only team on
our schedule. They can all be
tough.”
“All you have to do is look at
our schedule,” Homer Norton of
Texas A. and M. says. “We are
in the top-flight sector of football.
Each and every game is hard to
win— much less all of them. Don’t
let anybody tell you Southern Meth
odist will be any setup this fall.
They have a fine line and a pair
of backs that will match anybody
in football.”
“How about matching that run
away giant of yours—Kimbrough?”
“That’s different. But S. M. U.’s
Johnston is still one of the best.
Kimbrough is about as good a back
as you ever saw.”
Talking It Over
In the group of select coaches now
at the New York Herald Tribune
football coaching school there was
the usual talk back and forth about
the stronger teams.
Bo McMillin of Indiana tells every
rival to look out for Ohio State, Min
nesota and Michigan in the Big Ten.
Bill Alexander, the keen sage from
Georgia Tech, warns all comers
BO McMILLIN
against Duke, Tennessee, Tulant
and possibly Alabama.
“What about your Ramblin’
Wreck?” I asked Alex.
Alex grins. “Pretty small and
light,” he says, “but we’ll still keep
reporting for every game.”
Georgia Tech has one of those
baffling attacks that keep a defense
thinking of a will-o’-the-wisp in a
midnight swamp.
“And don’t overlook Mississippi
State,” another Southerner says.
“Here’s a team that will be full of
headaches for anybody they meet.
And that means anybody.”
Harry Mehre’s Old Miss will be
another troublemaker.
They all rated Tulane’s outlook
one of the best in years—power plus
speed, and both plus experience un
der Red Dawson’s direction.
“Don’t miss that Duke-Tennessee
game,” they all advise.
They’ll tell you, too, about Biff
Jones’ Nebraska outfit.
They were talking about the stars
of 1940.
Bon Scott, Tom Harmon of Michi-
S an > Kimbrough of Texas A. and M.
drew the leading backfield votes.
Hut there was also a Nebraska en
try, and Johnston of S. M. U., and
others from the Far West. Not
overlooking Paul Christman of Mis
souri.
Rest Pro Yearling
“I’ll name you the best freshman
Pro football entry,” one coach
said. “He is Kay Eakin of Arkan
sas, now with Mara’s Giants. He
Was the best all-around back I saw
al * year. Here is a great runner, a
une passer and a good spirit. He is
every bit as good as Tuffy Leemans,
°oe of the best. This
"ill be a sensation. Be sure to keep
an eye on him this season.”
Phis is about the same story I got
■ j m coaches throughout the entire
southwest last fall.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
THOSE little red school- ,
houses at the cross roads—
if there are any left—will soon
be able to give concerts by
some of the greatest musicians
in the world, and their pupils
will be able to see the musicians
as well as hear them.
Rudolph Polk, vice president of
Columbia Broadcasting System’s
artists bureau, recently announced
the formation of Artists’ Films,
Inc., which will make 21 musical
short subjects, and issue these one
reelers in groups of three, as con
certs.
Contracts have been signed with
Albert Spaulding, Jose Iturbi (that
i favorite guest of the Bing Crosby
broadcasts), Mildred Dilling, the
distinguished harpist, and several
others. Commitments have also
been madewith several Metropolitan
Opera singers, including Helen Jep
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flilk * \
JOSE ITURBI
son, Gladys Swarthout, Richard Bo
nelli and Frederick Jaegel, and at
the moment efforts are being made
to sign Lily Pons, Nino Martini,
Mischa Elman, Josef Hofmann and
Efrem Zimbalist. The first group
is scheduled for release October 1.
The time has come when Frankie
Burke wishes that he didn’t look like
James Cagney. The resemblance
got him into movies a couple of
seasons ago, when he played Cag
ney as a boy of 12 in Warner Broth
ers’ “Angels With Dirty Faces.”
He went on from there, doing the
same kind of role for other studios.
Now, as Wayne Morris’ roommate
in Paramount’s “Quarterback,” he’s
persuaded the director to let him
forget the Cagney mannerisms; he
wants to get parts because he can
play them well.
Loretta Young is convinced that
Mexican fans’ appreciation of movie
stars is more embarrassing than
flattering. When she slipped into a
theater to see her Columbia comedy
“He Stayed for Breakfast,” the film
was stopped and the lights went on,
so that the audience could see her
in person. And she was wearing the
old clothes in which she’d gone
fishing.
Even if the names of directors of
pictures don’t mean a thing to you,
you’d better make a note of one—
Preston Sturges. He’s no newcom
er—a playwright, the author of
“Strictly Dishonorable” among ott
er hits, he’s written plenty of movie
dramas and had experience as a
director.
His name should be remembered
because he wrote and directed
“Down Went McGinty,” one of the
funniest and best pictures that has
been launched in some time. He
didn’t want any big stars or glamour
players; Brian Donlevy, Akim
Tfimiroff, Frank McHugh and Muri
el Angelas suited him fine. He just
wanted to write and direct a com
edy. He followed it with another,
“The New Yorkers,” a satire on ad
vertising, and he’s scheduled for
plenty more.
Ronald Reagan and his wife,
Jane Wyman, played a love scene
for “Tugboat Annie Sails Again,”
and then worried about whether or
not it was effective.
“When we kissed in that scene
just now,” Reagan said to Director
Lew Seiler, “I was thinking about
how hungry I was and what we’d
have for dinner. Janie told me she
was thinking about the same thing.
In the love scenes we made before
we were married, we’d kiss and for
get to eat.”
Seiler grinned. “You did better
this time, thinking about food, than
you did before, when you forgot to
eat because you were making love,”
he replied.
ODDS AND ENDS
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tan during two months in Hawaii that
she’ll have to be bleached before she can
play a pale miss of Manhattan in Girls
! Under 21."
' ft Evidently "Before I Die” was too
. grisly a title for the new Douglas Fair.
I banks Jr. Rita Hayworth drama; Us been
renamed "Angels Over Broadway.
[ ft Marjorie Rambeau has proved to be
. so able a successor to the late Mane
Dressier in the character of I tugboat
Annie ” that the series will go right on;
' "Tugboat Annie in Drydock will be the
' next one to be made.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
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THE WAR BY RADIO
Dear Ed.—
Well, I have been following the
war almost a year now by listening
to radio broadcasts, and all I can
make out is that it is a gigantic
struggle between the breakfast food,
nickel cigar, hair tonic, railroad
watch, ice cream, salad oil, savings
bank and soap interests.
• * *
I thought it was a fight between
philosophies and systems, but what
I mean is that you could never
prove it to me by what comes out
of my radio set. I have spent the
whole of 1940 listening to the radio
war news, and as the situation now
stands the Nazis are better off in
coconut-covered confectionery and
part-Havana-leaf stogies, while the
democracies are ahead in point on
scalp oils, stop watches and the
breakfast food that has four vita
mins, from what I can grasp.
• • *
You wrote me that your radio has
been on the bum and would I tell
you what has been going on, so I
am glad to give you my impression.
Last night I hear that the Greek
dictator, some fellow named
Bounds, has had a conference with
three Turkish leaders rich in pro
teins, headed by Meatena, over the
sinking of a couple of Greek ships
named Vim and Vigor. It looks
like Greece may be taken over and
divided between the Tastee Gum
Drop alliance and the Open a Check
ing Account With Us for Any Sum
From a Dollar Up bunch.
♦ * *
There is not mych new from Af
rica. Mussolini has took Fruity
Bars, Blue Owl and Fair Humor by
direct assault, but the British are
holding onto the Smoothier and
Glossier Hair Area, and Berlin is
remaining aloof. I don’t know
whether it is aloof of white or rye.
The thing to watch is whether the
British lose the Pure and Delicious
Suez canal, which is rich in those
qualities what gives you energy and
ambition and a clear complexion, on
sale at all leading drug stores, but
pretty vulnerable from the air.
* ♦ *
I don’t seem to make much out
of the situation in France. Petain,
the marshal with that rich, creamy
quality, has named a court to try
six Frenchmen and a whopping
stick of chocolate that comes in
three sizes. The French govern
ment would like to leave Vichy and
the watch that is the official time
piece of 11 railroads and move back
to Paris and the soup that comes in
II flavors at 10 cents a can. I don’t
know what will come of it all on
account of I use a dollar watch and
do not care for soup except vege
table, home made.
* ♦ •
Personally, I think the situation
is very confused and that no good
will come of it for us, no maHer
what we smoke or eat, but I tl Jik
congress should top stalling and
pass a conscription law which has
at least Vitamin C in it. I also
favor letting England have 50 fall
flavored destroyers and a case of
Meatena in return for Bermuda, a
year’s supply of Dr. Whoziss’s
Tooth Powder and any good peach
nut ice cream.
Yours,
Luke.
• * *
TOOT!TOOT!
(“Railroads to Sell Tickets on In
stallment Plan.”—Headline).
Oh, give a thought to Wilbur Gaines,
He travels on the choo-choo trains;
He travels far to see sights new—
And does it on an I. O. U.
He grabs a train to Buffalo
Without a thought about the
dough;
He goes to Frisco or Pen Yan
And does it on the credit plan.
• * *
The Westinghouse Electric com
pany is exhibiting “Sparky,” a me
chanical dog which sits up and begs
at the odor of an all-hot. And there
probably will be some man mean
enough to feed it a mechanical
frankfurter and roll.
♦ ♦ ♦
A big laugh comes in a Broadway
musical when Jack Haley, the co
median, during a scene in a haunt
ed barn, is advised, “If you see any
thing suspicious, just call ‘Oh, Alex
ander!’ And Haley replies, ‘Don’t
wait for the Alexander; just coma
in on the Oh!’ ”
* * *
MOVIE
; He holds her hand . . .
Wedding bells . . .
Rockbound coast . . .
Citadels . . .
, Knife in teeth,
He drives away
i Savages
And she’s okay.
, Ruth Page.
• • • •
[ Ima Dodo can’t quite make out
: which is in the tougher spot, the
! British empire or the New York
Yankees,
Ww# *” IM P ROVE D I ’ J J
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
Br HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for September 22
Lesson subjects and Scripture teits se
lected end copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE VOICE OF WISDOM
LESSON TEXT—Proverbs 4:10-27.
GOLDEN TEXT—Keep thy heart With all
diligence: for out of It are the Issues of
Ute.—Proverbs 4:23.
What to do und how to do it—
these are the vital things which the
book of Proverbs imparts. It deals
with every condition of life, good
and bad, in the revealing light of
God's holiness and love. Good ad
vice may have its value, but we also
need to know how to put it into
practice. Therein is wisdom dis
tinguished from knowledge. A man
may have an unbelievably great
store of knowledge, and yet be a
foolish man because he does not
have the wisdom to use it.
Knowing that these notes are used
by a great many boys and girls, as
well as by their teachers, the writer
would suggest an outline for next
Sunday which can be remembered
by everyone who has ever crossed
a railroad track. What docs the
warning sign say? “Stop, Look, and
Listen.” Then what? If all is clear,
go ahead. That is just what our
lesson tells us. Stop, for someone
has a message for you; look, at the
two ways of life; listen, to the wise
words of counsel. Then go straight
ahead in the right way.
I. Stop (vv. 10-13).
Life moves on at a rapid pace.
One of the devices of the devil to
gain and keep his hold on us is to
keep things moving so fast that we
never stop to think, or to heed the
counsel of others. The wise man
has something of importance to say
to the young man whom he calls
his “son.” Let us stop and give heed
to his warning, for we are assured
that it will mean for us a long and
happy life (vv. 10, 12),
Nobody but a fool Would hasten
past such a “stop” signal, nor thrust
aside this opportunity for life-giving
instruction (v. 13). Here is some
thing far more important than
mathematics, literature, or econom
ics. Here is life.
11. Look (vv. 14-19).
There are really only two ways of
fife—“the path of the just . . . that
shineth more and more unto the per
fect day” (v. 18), and “the way of
the wicked,” which is only dark
ness and stumbling (v. 19). There
is no middle way. We cannot walk
in both paths; it is “either—or.”
Young people should get hold of that
fact, for in these days there is a
constant attempt to blur the colors,
making things neither black nor
white, but gray; neither good nor
bad, but just advisable or inadvis
able.
The moral laws of God are not
changed; right is still and will eter
nally be right, just as wrong is and
always will be wrong. Wickedness
is so wrong that it causes men to
spend sleepless nights trying to en
trap others (v. 16). But no one need
go that way; just do not “enter”
that path, “avoid it,” and if by
chance you have wandered into it,
“turn from it” (v. 15). God will
help you.
111. Listen (vv. 20-25).
Listening is important business,
calling for real attention and appli
cation. Especially is that true as
one listens to the truth of God. It
should be received by an attentive
ear (v. 20), kept before one’s eyes,
and pondered in the heart (v. 21).
Such listening is sure to bring re
sults, and we find them enumerated
in verses 22 to 25,
Life is assured to those who heed
the words of God’s messenger; not
just a bare existence, but a healthy
life (v. 22). God’s spiritual children
are not (or at least should not be)
invalids or weaklings.
Keeping the heart right (v. 23)
keeps the whole life right, and the
way to be sure that the heart is
right is to fill it with God’s Word
(v. 21). Then see how the whole
life responds; the lips speak no for
ward *R. V. wayward) or preverse
words, and the eyes look straight
ahead along the shining path of the
just.
Now that we have stopped to give
attention to the Lord’s word through
His messenger, and looked careful
ly at the two ways of life, and lis
tened to words of wisdom and guid
ance, what comes next? Do we stand
idly by and commend ourselves for
our wisdom, or do we sit down and
take our ease? No. Being assured
that the way is clear, we
IV. Go Ahead (vv. 26, 27).
God wants His people to move on
to greater glory and usefulness. At
the Red sea, God told Moses, “Speak
unto the children of Israel that they
go forward.”
"Move forward! valiant men and strong,
Ye who have prayed and labored long;
The time has come for you to rise,
For lo! the sun rolls up the skies.”
Thoughtful, vigilant, lest he be
led into a bypath on the right or
left, turning his feet away from ev
ery evil path, the child of God goes
forward, and as he goes the road be
comes brighter and brighter with the
glory of the presence of the Lord,
shining more and more until that
| perfect day when he shall find him
! self at the end of his journey and
at home forevermore in the Father’!
house.
S AROUND
THE HOUSE
Potatoes that are to be French
fried should stand in cold water
at least an hour before cooking.
• • •
One soon learns by handling pots
when managing house plants that
if pots are light the plants are
dry; if heavy they may be left
without water for a time.
• • *
Dors having access to the house
should be kept thoroughly clean
and free from fleas. Serious dam
age may be done if fleas enter
rugs or upholstered furniture.
• ♦ •
It is a good plan to disinfect
sinks and other drains once each
week,
• • *
A teaspoon of salt and dessert
spoon of lemon juice answer the
same purpose as “salts of Lemon”
{for removing iron mold from linen.
{lt is not a poison and will not
prove injurious to the linen.
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