Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 8, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 January 1941 — Page 3

Sportlight

by GRANTLAND RICE

“IF YOU care to look a few months ahead, or a year ahead,” writes one of our leading citizens, “I’ll give you the answer concerning sport. I happen to be in a position to know what is taking place. We will have more sport than ever before, but most of it will be in army caipps. I mean both baseball and football, especially football next fall. “By that time we’ll have around 2.000.000 in army or navy life. Their

main recreation will be sport. There have been so many turned down through physical disabilities that we will soon have a rush on athletes. It will not be a surprise to see an appeal made to all college athletes and to professional athletes of the right age to enlist. “Young, unmar-

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ried athletes earning fame or money next year will not be popular heroes. Certainly not with the divisions scattered all over the United States. I think you can get their viewpoint. The luck of the draft won’t be taken into consideration. They will not be cheering stars who are young, strong and well fixed financially. It will be just as it was in the World war more than 20 years ago. The New Schedule “I think I can give you the new schedule, as army and navy officials think it will pan out. There will be baseball and football games, plus boxing matches, between regiments and divisions and armies. These men in camp wilFneed something beyond the average to break up their routine -existence. They won’t get this from entertainers, except in part. In fact, they can only get it from sport, and that will necessarily mean the top-ranking part of sport. “It will mean the best, of our football playeys, college and pros. It will mean many of our better big league and minor league baseball players. They will have to come in, either from the draft, or through the force of public demand. The old term ‘slacker’ proved very effective in obtaining recruits during the World war. “They won’t be extra money for this service. There will be no cashing in. It will be company against company regiment against regiment—division against division—army against army, and then you’ll see some real competition. l "This means we will suddenly have the greatest amateur swirl in our history. We will have games that will overshadow Michigan and Minnesota, or all the bowl contests. They will take place all over the map. But they will be army and navy contests in which Bob Feller may be pitching against Bucky WTal- ■ ters or Joe Louis may be facing Billy Conn—not for World Series money or 40 per cent of the gate receipts, but for the pride and honor of the regiment or the division. Just the way that Gene Tunney fought in France. "You may not believe mcj but this is what will tak;,e place.” The Right Angle This seems reasonable enough. In 'the last war I know the feeling en-' listed men had against those who were still cashing in on their physical ability to play some game. It was bitter. This time we are not at war. But in many respects camp life is worse than war, when it comes to the matter of dull routine. This routine will have to be broken up. The only answer is sport. W’ith a million or two million men in camp, averaging less than SSO a month from private to lieutenant, you can understand how they would* feel--and their people would feel about younger and stronger athletes mopping up financially. You may say this is unfair —that the luck of the draft is all that counts. Well, the luck of the draft won’t count with those fellows getting up at reveille and waiting for taps. Not unless human nature has changed completely. They didn’t ask for it, either, but they got it. They are not going to start cheering for some young fellow around 21 or 23 or 25, making the headlines or getting big money, through physical skill, while they are carrying a gun or driving a tank or flying a plane for a buck a day and no headlines. A Change Due So far the volunteer enlistment and the draft seem to be Unimportant. Just wait .a few months. It will be quite different. There will be a tremendous change in mental attitude on the part of the public, as well as those moving from reveille to taps. There still will be big-league baseball and college and pro football games. But I think there still is a big chance these will be secondary matters to army and navy sport.

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS President Scores ‘Peace Offensives’ And Urges Additional Aid for Britain; Nazis Pour More Troops Into Rumania; English Bombers Pound Invasion Ports

(EDITOR’S‘NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they •re those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) j by Western Newspaper TTntnn >

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE—A picture released by the German censors, purporting to show French newspaper men being shown the effect of German cannon fire on the Maginot line fortifications. The line, upon which France once pinned its faith against invasion, is now a bad memory of the past for those in occupied France.

PEACE: r V. S. Offensive As the U. S. administration moved ever more vigorously toward aiding Britain, isolationists groups in senate and house started individual “peace offensives” which the President had scored in no uncertain terms in his radio address Sunday before New Year’s. Back of them all was the familiar theme of asking the U. S. to demand that Britain and Germany state their war aims and that this country make one last effort to bring the two chief warring nations together before the world as it now exists falls apart. The theory bgck of it all seemed to be a feeling on some of the administration’s heartiest opponents that President Roosevelt still would like to see himself in the role of peacemaker, or) any basis. But the President himself indicated that there could be no negotiations with the Axis powers bent on “conquering the world” by the use of gangster tactics. The demand of Knudsen that manufacturers work for “victory,” and by this evidently meaning a British victory, was seen as enough indication of the true temper of White House feeling in the matter. Editorially, the anti-British American press this domestic “peace offensive, ' and the Anglophile press editorially condemned it, saying that normally intelligent senators and congressmen were allowing themselves unwittingly to be made tools of Hitler. Defense Capacity America’s productive capacity for defense is rapidly expanding to meet the nation’s armament needs. According to the defense commission, the nation’s arms output has reached 2,400 aircraft engines, 700 planes, more than 10,000 semi-auto-matic rifles and 100 tanks a month. The commission added that more than a million persons have been put to work in the last two months and that “several million more” will be needed by next November. GREECE: Note Anxious There were two schools of thought as to the reports that Germany was sending anywhere from 100,000 to 500,000 soldiers into Rumania via Hungary. • School No. 1 figured that these troops were aimed to be shot into Greece through Bulgaria, thus attempting to keep Italy going, and thus perhaps hulling Russia and Turkey into the southeastern end of the World war. School No. 2 it out that this latter eventuality was just what Germany sought to avoid, and that the troop if any, were largely a “smoke screen” to cover a severe invasion attempt on the West Front. j The British evidently belonged whole-heartedly to School No. 2, for they followed up Ihe unofficial holiday truce by hurliing an average of 100 bombs a minulte on the invasion ports, giving therjn a taste of war from the air that I they hadn’t had since October. Early advices from England’s

HIGHLIGHTS ... in the week's news

Athens: Greek sources reported a submarine had attacked and sunk an Italian convoy in. the Adriatic, with a loss of 25,000 to 30,000 tons. Melbourne : Australian army chiefs reported that a Nazi sea raider, disguised as a Japanese vessel, shelled and badly damaged buildings on the isle of Nauru, 5,400acre atoll in the south Pacific, chiefly noted as a source of phosphate.

THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST

By Edward C. Wayne

scouts on the continent seemed to indicate that the objective had been attained, and that any invasion attempt .would have to be postponed again. At the same time the British put into volume production a new type of torpedo boat, said to travel 70 miles per hour, barely touching the tops of the waves, highly maneuverable, and carrying all sorts of armament, including one cannon and several torpedoes. Purpose of this boat is to be a counter-moye against any troop-car-rying barges that may seek to cross the channel. BRITISH;! Get Second Wind The campaign in Egypt, which saw the British capture upward of 35,000 and huge quantities of war material while hurling the Italians not only out of foreign territory but well back within their own Libya, reached a point where the British sat still for a while, apparently catching their “second wind.’ r Sit-down point was Bardia, where a state of siege was declared, and the British, under General Wavell, apparently decided to shell the defenders into submission with artillery from land and sea and bombs from the air rather than to risk heavy casualties in a direct assault on the well-fortified town. Bardia is said to be defended by 20,000 Italians, and while cut off from outside help or supplies, and apparently doomed to fall, showed signs of being able to hold out for a while. Prisoners who deserted from within the town and ran the gantlet of fire to the comparative safety of surrender, said Bardia was a hell-on-earth. y s They described the havoc wrought by British fire, and felt themselves well out of it all, Rome was slow to admit British successes, .but there were signs of sweeping further changes in command. These mostly came from British sources, which announced that as the Italian air force was fighting more vigorously, they assumed that Italy once more had fired a general and hired a new one. : DIPLOMACY: Beats the Punch Diplomatic circles did a bit of shadow-boxing around a supposed plan of President Roosevelt to widen the neutrality area to include Ireland, thus permitting British-aid-car-rying American vessels to run to west Irish ports. The diplomats themselves said nothing, but the newspapers in the dictator nations opened fire on this proposal before it was made, and their barbs 7 shot in all directions and across all oceans. German papers threatened America with everything, practically including a declaration of war if the move was made. The ships would be sunk without warning, they said.’ They called it Britain’s “dirtiest trick” that the English have tried to foist on America. ■Following this the Rome press followed suit, going ever further, and promising Ireland that the Axis powers would give Eire full aid if she were to go to war with Britain. And this shot fell into Ireland and set the Irish almost at each other’s throats again.

Ft. Meade: Camp building for the National Guard and draftees is big business, this cantonment reporting that 18,000 men were currently at work there. Lisbon : A move is on foot, it was reported at Lisbon, on the part of the Vichy government to set the African colonies free, thus giving them carte blanche to move in any direction they see fit.

Camera, Action—!

Here is Richard Green , motion picture actor , climbing out of a tank “Sometvhere in England,” where he is training with the tank unit in which he enlisted. Sometime before his enlistment was accepted in England he made a flying trip from Hollytvood to Vancouver, B. in an attempt to enlist in the Canadian army. He was rejected there but is note serving with the British forces.

QUAKE: Rut No Sabotage New England and a large part of the surrounding country was treated to a pair of earthquake shocks, one of the few disasters in recent months that hasn’t been investigated by the FBI or the Dies investigators or both. jW, Most remarkable was the prediction of one quake expert that the shocks felt are just a preliminary, and left New England sitting on the anxious seat. For this scientist predicted that within eight months the earth’s fault will really settle, and that a truly disastrous quake will occur. " New Englanders, who have smugly sat back for decades looking over at sunny California, studying their own gloomy climate and saying “well, anyway, we don’t have earthquakes,” are now revising their slogans accordingly. And such is their confidence in college professors that New England won’t be “sitting pretty” until the eight months have passed away—without a quake! NLRB: i Gets ‘Red' Tag The Smith committee of the house iof representatives tendered its final report, branding the National Labor Relations board as “avowed enemies of constitutional government,” and recommending not its disbandment, but a thorough house-cleaning. The committee approved the President’s naming of Dr. Harry A. Millis and Dr: William S. Leiserson to the board, and the ousting of Edwin S. Smith. Rep. Howard W. Smith’s group turned its chief barbs~against Smith. Ending 17 months of investigation , of the NLRB, the committee recommended and charged: 1. Prompt dismissal of all members of Communist “front” groups. 2. Sweeping .revision of the Wagner Labor Relations act. 3. Institution by congress of an investigation; of the entire field of labor relations. The report tied up Smith with Harry E. Bridges, the stormy petrel of labor on the West coast, charged it with “wrecking labor and employers alike” and of having pronounced “C. 1.0. sympathies.” TRIAL BY BOMBS: Air War Continues For periods of as much as two days no German planes appeared over England. Then in a lightning raid a devastating blow is struck. One such blow was on the .port of Liverpool and another at Manchester. Damage was admitted heavy. The British, on the other hand, conducted nightly raids, and sought to make them on the same giant scale. Their most serious blow was on Mannerheim, home of the huge I. G. Ferbenindustrie, one of the largest plants in the world. The bombings were not confined to Germany, however, but strung out from northern Norway to Italy. One nfght R. A. F. planes flew as far as Venice, dropped bombs and returned. Neutrals also felt the effects of the air war. Several towns in both Northern Ireland (Ulster) and Southern Ireland (Eire) were struck. Civilian casualties were recorded as well in Switzerland. Otherwise on the war front: C. German Junker planes were reported carrying Italian soldiers from the east coast to Albania. It was denied any German troops were being ferried. C. The British submarine, Swordfish, which attained a notable record, was missing with its crew T of 40 and considered lost. C. The house of parliament again was struck by a bomb. C. Hitler told his Nazi soldiers in a New Year's message that the “year 1941 will bring the greatest victory in our history.”

HOW TO SEW

by Ruth Wyeth Spears

A RE you planning things that will sell well at a Fair or Bazaar? Or is this the season that you catch up on odds and ends of sewing for the house? In either case you will like to stitch up a bag like this one. Everyone seems to have a special use for one of these bags on a hanger. I have one that I use for laundry when Igo traveling. Men and boys like them for closet laundry bags too, as they are plenty big enough for shirts. A little girl I know has a small version of one of these in which she keeps doll clothes scraps. I have also seen them used for everything from dress patterns to dust rags. This green and white ivy patterned chintz with green facing makes a good looking bag. Pictorial chintz will amuse a young-

AROUND the HOUSE

Hard sauce, highly flavored with cinnamon, grated orange and lemon peels and a little fruit juice, gives just the proper finish to hot fruit puddings. Plant bulbs close to the window panes and away from the heat of the room instead of in a dark room. You wij* get better results. * * * A little sweet cream spread over the top crust of a; pie before it is put into the oven will make the crust brown and flaky. * * * v ■, • T \ Save the peels of oranges and tangerines, dry them in the oven and store in glass jars. They give puddings and custards a delicious flavor. * * * Windows may be kept clean and clear during the winter if rubbed over with glycerine occasionally, then polished with a dry cloth. * * * When a splinter has gone very deep into the flesh, try extraction by steam. Heat a wide-mouthed bottle and fill it two-thirds full of very hot water and place under the injured spot. The suction in a few minutes removes both splinter and inflammation. This method is particularly good when the splinter has been in for some time.

Gems of Thought

A MULE’S eyes are set well back, that he may see behind him; a man’s are set toward the top of his head, that he may look above him.— Phelps. There's only one kind of poverty, and that's to have no love in the heart.—Alexander Irvine. There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.—Plautus. Of all those arts in which the wise excel nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.—-Duke of Buckingham. The miser is as much in want of what he.has, as what he has not.—Publilius Syrus.

e rS<^ JL fit* everyone it touches. It benefits the public by describing exactly the products that are offered. It benefits employees, because the advertiser must be more fair and just than the employer who has no obligation to the public. These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious benefits which advertising confers—the lower prices, the higher quality, the better service that go with advertised goods and firms.

ster—something with animals or toys or a landscape in the design. I saw a material the other day with a pattern showing all kinds of rope knots. A boy would like that. Each step in making the bag is shown in the sketch. In SEWING Book 3 there are directions for still another type of bag on a hanger; also a pocket for the pantry door. This book' contains directions for the spool shelves; stocking cat; "The rug that grew up with the family.” and many other of your favorites among articles that have appeared in the paper. Send.order to:

MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS, Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for Book No. 3. 1 Address

Items of Interest to the Housewife

Brass knockers and doorknobs that are exposed to the weather will stay clean and, bright longer if rubbed with paraffin after they are cleaned apd polished with a soft, dry cloth. ♦ • * When making peppermints drop them onto a piece of waxed paper instead of onto a pan. They are more easily removed from waxed paper.

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