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NEW SELECTEES
It needed no mind rtaief to
fathom wr.at waj behind that war
department announcement of tfee
purchase of 7Qfi.OM.QCC feet of tan
ner and 240 006 kegs of nails—the
biggest order of its k_nd is U. S.
history.
The rr.at* rials are for the ccwv
•traction of numerous new army
cantonments and the enlargement
of existing ones
Army strengtn. don to 1 606 UX
after the dcencbtiiaeatHci of 23 to 35
year olds last fal.. a due for a big
increase—at least another 1,991,060
after the next draft lottery foHex
ing the February 16 registration of
men between 21 and 44
An estimated 2t,000j000 mil regis
ter next month, and on the basis of
past experience only about 3 per
cent mil be rated l-A. that is, *ui>
ject to immediate call. Heretofore
the army has inducted only men in
good physical condition, with no de
pendents and not engaged m “es
sential" production.
However, as the need for military
manpower develops, l-A standards
will be broadened and many thou
sands of 1-B, 2-A. and 2B deferees
by pre-war standards mil be called
up.
For the present, the army still Is
placing primary emphasis on youth.
The February 16 registration is ex
pected to List around 2,006,000 20-21
youngsters and the largest propor
tion of new inductees will come from
this- group Registrants in the 36
to 44 group mil have to be in top
condition to get in the army at this
time.
However, big scale inductions
from this age group can be expected
by fail, particularly those with no
dependents and with previous mili
tary service.
For the present the army will take
its older-age recruits from the 22
to 25 year olds who were exempted
because of dependency ’or defense
work.
REDTAPE BISTER
Ordnance is the haughtiest and
moat hide-bound branch of the
army. So much so that tt has been
the object of much bitter private
criticism by civilian defense chiefs.
But there is one notable exception
to this Ordnance rule. He is Wil
liam Van Antwerp Kemp, a tall,
husky, dynamic engineer, who made
a big success in private business
and volunteered his services when
the national emergency arose. Since
then, as an Ammunition division ex
ecutive, he has been making his
tory, busting redtape in tradition
bound Ordnance.
There are many tales of Kemp’s
unconventional exploits. The latest
is one of the best.
Asked by a general to suggest a
manager for a new government
munition plant about to begin pro
duction, Kemp recommended a crack
expert who had been loaned to tfee
British to build a plant m England.
“He ought to be finished with his
job over there by now,” said Kemp.
“If he is. get him,” was the order.
From the British, Kemp learned
the expert had completed his work
and was available. So Kemp picked
up a phone and called the state de
partment. *
“I want to talk to the guy,” he
said, “who gets guys back from Eng
land.”
There was a gasp, but the operator
switched Kemp to someone who
asked him who he was and what
he wanted.
“I'm Kemp of Army Ordnance,”
he said. “There’s a guy m England
we want to run an ammunition plant
for us. Get him back here right
away, will you?”
Six days later the expert reported
to Kemp and left for his new job.
A few days later the genera] again
summoned Kemp, asked what had
been done about the expert.
“It's all taken care of, general,"
said Kemp. “He's been on the job
at the plant two days.”
“How did you get him back here
so fast?”
"No trouble. I just called up the
state department, asked for the guy
who gets guys back here and he
arranged it."
“Kemp." said the general severe
ly, “do you know who that guy in
the state department was?”
“No, sir.”
“He was the undersecretary of
state.”
Note: Kemp has persistently re
fused to accept an army commis
sion. Finally, pressed by the gen
eral for the reason, he retorted:
“Some day I may want to come in
here and blow up. If 1 do, as an
officer you could court-martial me.
But as a civilian, all you can do is
fire me. I’m remaining a civilian.”
JAP SCHOOL LESSONS
After three years' probing of sub
versive activities, it takes a lot to
excite Rep. Marlin Dies, but the oth
er day the rangy Texan hit on a
discovery that took his breath away.
His committee has been making
a sweeping inquiry of Jap fifth
colummng on the West coast, includ
ing subversive teaching in Japanese
language schools located all over
southern California. Investigators
found that from the primary grades
up students in these schools are in
doctrinated with militarism and the
Ideology of their Jap ancestors.
Kelson’ j Winning Game
A short while back Craig Wood,
V. S. Open golf champion, rated
shoemaker in golf oB
Nelson backed up ■ ■
f. j generous triiv P *
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title-holder by com
mg cacx in 3o at
last
m. or to win the
111 ilO Open by a
strokes.
few know GrwsHand Rice
more about Nel
son's game than Leo Diegel, a
smart observer, we asked the diag
nosing Diegel to let us in on the
secret of a great golfer's style and
success.
“I’ve known Byron since he was
a Texas kid,” Diegel said. I’ve
studied his game as it changed with
the years. I think I can tell you
something about him.
“In the first place, I would say
that Byron Nelson, like most of
those Texans, is one of the best
competitors I’ve ever known in golf.
What makes a great competitor, you
might ask? My answer is determi
nation. unbroken concentration on
every shot and his refusal to be dis
couraged by a few bad shots or a
few bad holes. Nelson sinks his
teeth in every round, concentrates
on every shot, and battles it out to
the last putt. He has a fine golfing
philosophy, which so many lack—
and that is to take the breaks of
the game as they happen to come,
good or bad.
• • •
The Kelson Suing
“Nelson,” Diegel continued, “nas
the soundest swing in golf. He is
the finest long iron player I ever
saw. He has one odd feature, and
this is his wrist action. At the top
of his backsw.ng you will see almost
no break cl his left wrist.
“Byron doesn’t coek his lekt wrist
at all—or only slightly. He uses a
strong, firm left hand and wrist
that is always in control of the club
head. which he never lets dip. He
hasn’t nearly as much body action
■s many good golfers have, for he
lets his body work with his hands
and arms. He also has almost per
fect head action. I mean by this
that his head remains in place until
the ball is bit.
“I don’t know of any golfer who
has a more compact style of swing
ing a club. Everything is under
controL He has cut the margin of
error to near zero.
• • •
His Weakest Shot
“1 would say Byron’s weakest
shot was the short chip.” Leo said.
This is due to his lack of even slight
wrist action on this stroke. He isn’t
bad just off the green, but he isn’t
as deadly as he is on other shots. I
have often seen him play long irons
from 200 or 220 yards away just as
close to the pm as he would from 20
yards away.
“Another factor is his perfect con
fidence in his own swing. I’ve also
seen him dacp 8 or 10 balls on the
turf in just average lies, take out a
driver, and hit them all over 250
yards as straight as a nfie can shoot.
“Too many golfers bother too
much with unimportant details.
They don’t concentrate enough on
what their hands and wrists are do
ing with the head of the club. Too
often they think about everything
except swinging that clubhead
through the bail.
“You don’t swing a club with your
hips and shoulders. You swing it
with your hands. If you watch Nel
son you get the idea that be isn’t
using anything except his hands. Of
coarse, he does, bat he lets the rest
of it fit in, not work against his
hands.
9 • •
Tough Competitors
“Why is it those Texans are such
1 tough competitors?” Diegel asked.
"They come along with Ralph Gul
, dahl, who wins two National Opens
in a row. Then they give you a
Jimmy Demaret who wins eight big
tournaments in a few months. Then
along comes Ben Hogan and Byron
Nelson. Hogan is one of the most
successful golfers that ever played.
1 You may recall that he finished in
the money 56 consecutive times be
fore he slipped a little. Then at
I Miami he finished second after lead
ing the field for three rounds.
“Hogan uses his wrists and body
much more than Nelson does. Ben,
weighing only 133 pounds, has to do
this—to get the distance needed to
-1 day. Hogan has a far greater body
turn than Nelson uses, and more
■ flexible wrists. Ben lets the ciub
‘ { head dip at least 18 inches or two
feet more than Nelson does. Byron
uses little more than a three-quarter
[
“Nelson, Hogan and Sam Snead
1 make one of the most interesting j
studies in golf,” Diegel said. “All ;
1 three are great golfers—three of the
greatest we’ve ever had.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. GEORGIA
Kathleen Norris Says:
We Meed Courage. Laughter and Faith
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them for defense wort, there „i something you can do.
By KATHLEES S ORRIS
IF YOU are one o£ the many
women who have been act
ing badly since America
went to war, now is the time for
you to make a fresh start.
Any woman who indulges in
vague, groundless fears, com
municates them to her neigh
bors or allows the children of
the household to be frightened
is a bad American.
Any woman who complains
constantly of change, of the ris
ing cost of food, of the things
she once could afford and can't
now is a bad American.
Such women are not worthy of
the protection and Liberty their fag
has given them: they are essential
ly stupid, a drag upon the supreme
e3ort to which ah America is new
committed.
Nobody wants to hear their trou
bles; there is not one of us women
in our bread Land today whe nas
not plenty of her own. Wbat we
need from each other is courage
and laughter, ingenuity in solving
the new problems and filling the
new blank spaces, and faith that
looks, as the song says, ‘ beyond
the years.”
If your boy is in the servaie he
may not come home. Granted. Or
he may come home blind cr crip
pled. Granted. But the CHANCES
are that he will return to you whole
and unhurt, and when he dees ycu
must be ready to help him live in
the new world. A poorer world, a
world burdened with tremendous
problems, but, I believe, a happier
one. A world with its eyes wide
open to the fact that peace as well
as war has its battles to win, and
while there is a slum or a hungry
baby or a work-hungry man un
employed in that world, it can hold
no prospect of a secure and honest
future.
Do you realize that in England,
after all the bombings of fine past
year, the death rate was slightly
BELLOW what it had teen in normal
years? What's the answer?
The answer is that the starving
poor had been brought out of the
fearful city slums, the men set to
work, the women given jobs, and
ail of them fed. And also because
the children had been shipped to
country places, where, desp.ie ex
traordinary difficulties, they had
been slowly brought up to the levels
of luckier children, decently fed and
housed and trained.
And because there was so much
.ess motor traffic. It would be a
very terrible battle that cost us 30,-
000 lives, and maimed and wounded
100,000 more of our boys. But that's
what careless driving cost us last
year and will cost us this.
Autos More Dangerous.
You don't tremble and shiver and
shut doors and cower under beds
because motor cars are racing over
the highways, yet there 3 a greater
danger m a steering wheel trusted
to incompetent or intoxicated hands
than in enemy bombs. Especially
as bombs, which have not conquered
gallant England, must come thou
sands of miles to reach us.
Make no mistake. America and
her Allies will win this war, as
America has won every war, little
or big, upon which she has en
tered, even though the odds were
heavily against her. It may take
her a year to get her full forces
into action; and as she pushes the
invaders steadily out of one strong
| hold after another, it may take her
, another year to finish the job. But
time >« oo our sid«
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THERE IS SOMETHING
W hat can I do for national de
fense? That’s what all American
women are asking today. Kath
leen Norris believes there is
something each of us can do, if
it's only taking care of children,
entertaining service men or do
ing any of the menial tasks wom
en called to work in factories
or on other defense projects must
necessarily leave undone. We
cannot all serve in the front
lines , but we can all do our part
to keep things running smoothly
behind the lines. This is no time
for tel hi h nctr-nt and ground
less fears. It is « time far owr
ate md for metiers. tr~i there It
sc net hint ;«o>- on do te wi ;.
Oar resources are limniaag
compare me manpower if a_ me
a unite - ! America.. cmguanc. -üßssna
China, He!lard and all me smaller
always to be powerless—a snow
world’s fighting energy cn cur side'
It 3 tragic, and we women feel
it bitterly, mat it mast come to this;
that evil must be inviked to over
come evil and peace-loving peoples
be forced into me slagging tactics
of the gutter.
Can Signify Strife.
But we can elevate, we can dig
nefy and justify it if we keep in mind
the great objectives; that little na
tters may live unoer just treaties
in no fear of encroachment cr moles
tation, and mat great nations shall
constitute them,selves the watchdogs
over God's peace m the world.
Your jcb and mine is to make
perfect oar lives, outside and in. To
go after health first of all, the all
over health that simple diet and
plenty of walking and good sound
nights of rest insure. To keep the
spirt* within us serene, realizing that
this a peer, fa ulty old Terra Fimta
upon which we live—not Olympus
or Eden cr Valhalla, but a place of
m.3takes and blindness, wherein ev
ery little while we have to pay tn
bleed and sweat and tears for the in
ternals of peace and harmony we
win.
To make home a place where
fears and complaints don’t enter.
Where Mother finds ways of making
meatless meals delicious, of turning
the blackout room into the cosiest
place in the house, cf holding tight
to the thought that when Tom comes
home, aid .03 uniform 3 laid away,
he must find a courageous, solvent,
, busy family, a family more than
equal to the tremendous demands of
war-time, and ready to help him in
peace to find bis place in the world.
Wars used to be entirely a man's
business. He went away to remote
1 parts, news of rum trickled back
only a: long intervals, and the wom
en could only worry, starve, roll lint
and wonder what cn earth all the
shooting was about.
It’s different now. We all belong
in this war. America needs battal
ions of women ready to By to their
posts; scores of San Francisco girls
have called off the cotillions and
shelved the bridge parties for the
jobs of sentinel, intelligence officers,
secretaries, nurses for Defense. If
it is only washing d3hes in a service
club, or taking charge of the babies
of haif-a-dezen young mothers, to
free them for defense work, there is
SOMETHING you can do. And the
sooner you get to it, the less you
are eoing to worry and be afraid.
CREED FOR AN AMERICAN
IN AN ALL-OUT WAR
I am through with compromise,
halfway measures, crystal gazing
and the idea that it's all done by
mirrors,
I am finished with talk for talk’s
sake and the “that's under advise
ment” and “in due time the matter
will be attended to” technic.
I have canceled my subscription
to the theory that “it ail comes out
in the wash,” even if you haven’t
thought to provide soap.
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I believe in my country’s capacity
to triumph, despite its tendency to
argue, muddle, procrastinate and
compromise.
I believe the “Never say die” spirit
of America will completely super
sede the “What’s in it for ME?”
motif; and that it’s about time.
• • •
I believe the Spirit of ’76 will sub
merge the Spirit of Every Man for
Himself, Every Politician for the
Main Chance and Every American
for Softer Upholstery.
I believe in the American Way
and I now believe it is the way up
ward and forward and not just a
circular path around the artificial
rosebeds.
I believe the country is beginning
to understand that sacrifice is not
merely something done with a goat.
* * •
I believe that patriotism is some
thing beginning to show in the deeds
of Americans and no longer some
thing that was the main concern of
orators during a five-minute inter
val at national conventions.
I believe that “The Star-Spangled
Banner” is now a song to stir every
American to the depths, and no long
er a number reserved in the main
for special school exercises, army
and navy activities and for musical
comedy climaxes.
• ♦ *
I believe that this is a war ir
which Americans see the issue more
clearly than they have seen the is
sue in any war since 1776.
I believe that the hopes of Wash
ington and Jefferson and Abraham
Lincoln must triumph over the hopes
of Hitler and Tojo and Mussolini.
I believe that the Bible must and
shall triumph over Mein Kampf;
and that the kindly figure of the Man
of Galilee shall endure to guide the
way of mankind long after the chest
thumping, plaza-strutting, dictato
rial, microphone addicts and bullies
have dwindled to the size of long
fcr gotten bacciii.
I believe there is more in the Con-
FU-tr.tiin cf the United States, the
De::_aratkc of Independence and
fee American Bill of Rights worth
fgritmg f;r than in any goal or set
a? I'.a-s ever proclaimed by all the
■sir lords of history.
• • •
I believe Uncle Sam is all the
more inspiring and all the more in
destructible through his sudden
awakening to the valor of the Chi
nese. the incredible toughness of the
Russians, the fortitude of the Brit
ish and the fine qualities of all those
nations with which he is now linked
in one crusade.
• • •
I believe Americans can “take u
as well as dish it out.”
I believe they are going to prove,
it in away that will win a new
respect all over the face of this
earth.
I believe there are reversals, hard
blows and great sufferings for Uncle
Sam ahead.
I believe he will toughen up and
show that he is the Uncle Sam of
Breeds Hill, “the rude bridge that
arched the flood,” Valley Forge,
Ticonderoga, Princeton, Gettysburg,
San Juan Hill, Manila Bay, Belleau
Wood and Soissons.
I believe in America!
• • •
JOE LOUIS AND THE ARMY
EXAM
Q. —Have you done much fighting?
A.—No, but what I’ve done has
been effective.
Q. —Have you done any flying?
A.—Not since the first Schmeiing
bout.
Q —Any experience in tank work?
A.—No, that was two other cham
pions.
• • •
There is a difference of opinion
m the dress industry over the re
ported plan to shorten skirts byway
of saving fabrics. Maurice Rentne,
of the Fashion Originators guild
says they can’t be made shorter
without becoming police court mat
ters. But we think he is wrong.
Skirts got so short around the time
of the last war now and then a
husband got mixed up and put one
on as a wristlet.
• • •
The splendid work of the Dutch in
the war brings back to mind an old
song Dr. Fred Beck used to sing at
the Grays' outings back home;
“Those Dutch, they say, they ain’t
got no style—
They get style all the while, all the
while!”
• • •
A robber entered an office at
Broadway and Forty-second street
at high noon the other day and stole
S9QO. He was the only person in
that area working at such an early ;
1 '-OUT.
Trader Rat
The wood rat, Neotorr.a
cf California, also kr.C7.-r. 55 tl’
trade or pack rat, is r.-.tt: .-
raiding camps and cahir. 3* an j
“trading” a twig cr pehhle f ot
some article, says Coi 1:-i:’s. *
search through several cf their
rests recently disclosed scch'ob.
jects as watches, keys, r encila
eyeglasses, mirrors, bolts, et:."^’
Americans in Westminster Abbey
Only three Americans have been
honored by the British with a
memorial in Westminster Abbey-
James Russell Lowell with a
stained - glass window, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow wit.-, a bust
and Walter Hines Page with a
marble tablet.
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from common colds
That Hang On
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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 you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the wav it
quickly allays the cough cr you are
to have your money back.
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—Emerson.
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