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Weight and Age
COME YEARS AGO I ran across
an old friend. His name was
Keene Fitzpatrick of Yaie, Mich-
igan and Princeton. One of the great
trainers, Keene
Fitzpatrick be-
longed with Mike
Murphy of Yale
and Pennsylvania.
I would also !ike
to add Mike Sween-
ey of Hill School
and Yale.
Murphy. F i t z-
partick and Sween-
ey were three of
the best. So was
Johnny Mack. The Irish have it.
Mike Murphy has been dead
a long time. What a coach,
trainer and phitosopher Mike
was. Not too many remember
him. He was one of the ait-
time greats. Keene Fitzpatrick
was another. Keene reported
at Yaie weighing !64 pounds.
He weighed around l<!i pounds
at Michigan. He was around 16!
pounds at Princeton.
In forty-four years Fitzpatrick
was never two pounds away from
164 pounds. I couldn't tell you the
number of times Keene and I met
and talked over this matter of
weight and age. It is only in the
later years I appreciated the logic
and philosophy of Keene's long-
time knowledge.
Keene could coach and train
football, track, rowing and the art
ef living.
"I've never missed a day's
work in 44 years," he said
once. "!'ve never been out of
condition. There arc times
when ! get upset by watching
some of these young fetiows
from 19 to 22 years oid report-
ing for foothaH practice. Too
many of them are overweight
and soft from a summer that
certainty wasn't devoted to
keeping in condition. At my age.
over 60, ! couid outrun many of
them. I've seen them come to
eariy practice at teast 25 pounds
overweight. One man reported
35 pounds above his best weight.
He was of iittte vatue most of
the year. It isn't hard to put on
excess weight. In fact it is
quite easy. Hut try to take it off
and see what happens. It's
hard, stow work."
"A man of 50 or 60 should try to
keep his weight close to what it was
at 25 or 30. He might be a few
pounds heavier, but the difference
ahould be slight."
There were more than a few
young fellows this past September
who would have given more than a
trifle to be in better shape when
football's practice opened. When
you have to spend most of your
time lopping off 10 or 20 pounds the
punishment more than fits the
crime.
But it is twice as tough 20 or 30
years later.
* * *
Tack Hardwick's Exampte
Those who fee! Tack Hardwick's
recent death more than anyone
else are the Boston kids.
I have just had a letter from one
of the head men of one of Boston's
leading boys clubs.
"I only wish," he said, "that
every athietic star in this coun-
try eoutd onty fottow Hard-
wick's exampte. Here was one
of Harvard's alt-time greats,
living, when he cared to, in a
weatthy, exclusive society. Yet
he had been the most active
member of our ciub for the tast
28 years. No one had worked
harder. Tack came to atmost
every meeting to tatk and mix
with the kids. They toved him
and he loved them. Not tong ago
we had to have 27.000 fotders
that were badiy needed. Tack
paid for them aii. With Tack it
was aii a work of iove. Onty
two days before his sudden
death, he dropped into the of
flee.
" 'I've had a lot of lucky breaks'
he said. 'But I can tell you this—
I've gotten a bigger kick out of the
little I've been able to do for these
kids than all the honors I've ever
known wearing that big H on my
crlrpson sweater. I wish a lot of
other former athletes would do all
they could for this younger genera-
tion. We have never given them
a break."
This eomes from the Hard-
wick that I knew so tong. If
former athtetes. former stars,
ean't heip the kids—no one ctse
oan. The hoys certainty get iit-
tie heip from the politicians,
whose main interest is a gov-
ernment pay check.
The kids today get their thrills
from the stars of football, base-
ball, boxing, golf, tennis, track, etc.
It has already been proved that a
big part of juvenile delinquency is
due to senior stupidity.
Sport has done a fair share in
helping the juvenile tangle. It has
done a bigger share than any other
form of our social organization.
Byt the raw fact is that the so-
called civilisation we know today
has never approached the dream
of Tack Hardwick and others who
arobtom of today's
Record s !n
tv.s. SPfND/NG;
Deficit System Hit
It seemed an obvious conclusion
that the President's council of eco-
nomic advisers was having little
effcct in influencing government of-
ficials to insist upon a real effort
by the administration to put its
financial house in order.
ANY such conclusion would have
been bolstered by the fact that Dr.
Edward G. Nourse, chairman of
the council, was quitting that body.
In an address before the national
retail farm equipment association.
Dr. Nourse hit hard at federal def-
icit spending and charged that the
government is "slipping back into
deficits as a way of life."
Instead of deficit financing, he
said, the government should be
"putting its fiscal house in order
and husbanding reserves to support
the economy if less prosperous
times overtake us."
According to reports, Dr. Nourse
had informed President Truman
that he was going to leave the gov-
ernment, although there was no
word as to whether the President
had accepted or would accept the
resignation.
WULl, PLACED official circles
were said to believe that Nourse's
decision to leave the advisers coun-
cil was because of his belief that he
had failed in what he regarded was
a fight to keep the council on a
strict professional plane of fact-
finding and advice-giving, divorced
from political issues.
In iiis address, Nourse was crit-
ical of elements among labor, agri-
culture and management, chiding
farmers for "demanding stimula-
tive prices," labor for demanding
shorter hours in the face of the
need for increased production.
RfN7"S.-
Kcep Leve)
A rather surprising thing had
happened. A survey showed that
lifting of rent control in more than
500 areas had not resulted in whole-
sale rent increases. Lifting of con-
trols, put into effect in wartime,
began last April I.
TAKEN as a whole, however,
rents in key decontrolled areas did
go up a little, but the hike was not
as severe as most observers had
predicted.
The survey disclosed that land-
lord reaction to decontrol was
spotty. One major factor in the
over-all rent picture was said to be
the number of vacancies available
—a factor which might, after all.
have considerable restraining ef-
fect on any appreciable over-all
rent increase. Some landlords
raised rents, but haft to cut them
again when tenants moved out.
Also some landlords were still
bound by leases issued in the period
before decontrol.
According to the survey, in-
creases were scattered, rather than
general, in most places.
THUS THE PICTURE of the rent
situation generally is clouded by
the factors enumerated, factors
which may of themselves have
enough restraint value to hold
down rent hike, as well as a dis-
inclination of landlords to raiss
rentals to levels most Americans
expected.
Continuing strikes, loss of income,
more accessibility of housing sites
may all combine to keep any gen-
eral and extensive rent increases
from being made in the near fu-
ture.
15 5 Bittions
If war comes, America intends to
be ready. Demonstrating that fact,
congress finally got together on a
record peace-time military appro-
priations bill totaling approximate-
ly 15.5 billion dollars, including
funds to build the air force up to
58 groups
BREAKING a month-long dead-
lock and spurred, no doubt, by re-
ports that Russia has the atomic
bomb, house and senate hurried
through the details of the fina)
measure which went to President
Truman for approval.
In this action, the senate finally
bowed to house insistence on giving
the air force some 10 groups and
740 million dollars more than Pres-
ident Truman had requested for it.
CONCERN over the possibility of
enemy atomic attack was indicated
whon congress also appropriated
50 million dollars to start construc-
tion of a vast radar screen de-
signed to warn the United States of
any enemy air attack.
President Harry S. Truman,
with congress finatty in ad
journment, woutd have to go
to the peopte with the record
of that congress in the fight
for Democratic seats in the
1350 etections. Littte of his
program was enacted, hut
there was tittte doubt he woutd
defend the congress to the end.
B/G
Brcok for Kids
Underprivileged children in more
than 3,000 U. S. and Canadian com-
munities will reccive assistance
from H far-reaching program of
youth welfare announced by Ki-
wanis International and The Na-
tional Kids' Day Foundation, Inc.
J. Hugh Jackson, Stanford. Calif.,
president of Kiwanis International,
in announcing the cooperative ef-
fort, said "the problems of under-
privileged children are the prob-
lems of the entire nation but their
solution depends upon local action.
There are more than 3,000 Kiwanis
clubs which are geared for partici-
pation in the program."
FOCAL POINT of the campaign
will be the observance of an an-
nual "National Kids Day," the first
to bo held on Saturday, November
19, when each community will be
asked to enlist the support of its
citizens in meeting the problems
of local youth.
The Kiwanis president empha-
sized that National Kids' Day will
not be celebrated as a holiday or
used as a gift-giving occasion. "It
is our intention to use the observ-
ance of this day as a means of
rallying the forces of each com-
munity toward solving local juve-
nile problems," he continued. "By
this means, we hope to raise ad-
ditional funds to carry on a year-
round program of youth activity
in cities and towns in the U. S. and
Canada. Money raised in each com-
munity will be spent in the same
community for the benefit of chil-
dren."
CHARLES PETTIJOHN, execu-
tive secretary of The National Kids'
Day Foundation, Hollywood, Calif.,
said his organization was formed
last year to call national attention to
the right of underprivileged youth
to enjoy some of the benefits nor-
mally accruing to boys and girls in
more fortunate circumstances. The
Foundation also seeks to attract at-
tention to the accomplishments of
youth and to stimulate additional
interest in the problems of youth.
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A Speedup
The United States was moving
swiftly to meet the threat of Soviet
possession of the atomic bomb.
President Truman and the atomic
energy commission had ordered a
30 million dollar expansion of atom
bomb facilities at Oak Ridge
Tenn., and Hanford, Wash.
THUS THE RACE to sec whether
the U. S. or Soviet Russia could pro-
duce the most bombs seemed to be
on, and with it went any immediate
hope, at least, for any international
control of atomic energy. The ex-
tent of the U. S. effort in the race
was seen when authoritative quar-
ters announced that the new atomic-
plant-construction program ulti-
mately would cost 300 million dol-
tars.
Chairman McMahon (D , Conn.)
of the congressional atomic energy
committee, called the project a
"major expansion effort." Mc-
Mahon would not say that the ac-
tion stemmed from Russian prog,
rcss with atomic fission, hut there
was a certain evidence of haste in-
asmuch as White House clearance
for the project came just six days
after President Truman announced
the atomic explosion in Russia.
M/DDLf COURSf
!ndia Wouid Fight if Liberty Threatened
India will steer a middle course,
clear of entanglements in the cold
war, but when "man's liberty or
peace" is endangered, then India
wilt fight.
That was the declaration of In
dia's prime minister Jawaharlnl
Nehru in a foreign policy speech
in New York a few daya after hiis
arrival in the United States.
d upon the world to talk
less of war and to think more of
peace and how to attain it, and ad-
monished both cast and west that:
"The very proccss of marshaling
of the world into two hostile camps
precipitates the conflict which it is
sought to avoid.-
The Indian statesman's vtews
were given in an address marking
ceremonies in which Co'umhia uni-
versity made him an LLD.
Pressure Ends Probe
M/HEN good old Clyde Hocy. the
Y* swallow-tailed senator from
North Carolina, announced there
tvould be no more hearings on Cen-
tral Vaughan, John Maragon and
the five-percenters, it didn't sur-
prise anybody on the inside.
For insiders have known how
much pressure has been exerted by
the White House to shut the investi-
gation up.
About six weeks ago it was an-
nounced that public hearings would
be suspended in order to give the
committee staff a chance to do
; more investigating, also to give
{ committee counsel Rogers a two-
week vacation. Since then, however.
White House pressure has been ter-
rific. with even staff investigators
threatened with loss of government
pensions.
Since then, also, some sensation-
al leads have been glossed over by
committee investigators or care-
fully stowed away in pigeonholes.
One of the most interesting fig-
ures which Senator Hoey and his
staff have turned their backs on is
David A. Bennett, the perfume
manufacturer, who sent seven deep
freezes to General Vaughan, Mrs.
Truman and other bigwigs at about
the time Vaughan's friend, John
Maragon. was trying to smuggle
Bennett's perfume into the United
States disguised as champagne for
the White House.
Yachts & Deep Freezes
There are some other interesting
things about Bennett which the pult-
lic doesn't know, and most of the
record is in government files where
any senator investigator could
easily dig it out.
This column doesn't have the
; same power to subpoena records as
docs Senator Hoev of North Caro-
lina. but since the senate commit-
tee has decided to backslide on the
j job, this writer has done his best
to take up where the senator from
North Carolina left off.
For instance, here arc two inter-
esting things which the public has
a right to know about. Bennett, at
the time he was giving away deep
freezes, acquired fonr government
airplanes without competitive bid-
ding, and four luxury yachts, three
of them from the U.S. government.
Four yachts are a lot for any one
! man to have. For that matter, so
are four airplanes. However, deep-
; freeze-givcr Bennett wasn't satis-
[ fied with four yachts and wanted to
j buy another. To this end, a letter
was writen to John Maragon. care
I of General Vaughan at the White
House, by one of Bennett's subor-
! dinates. The letter, dated Novem-
ber 19. 1943, is in the files of Sen-
ator Hocy's committee, but since
he doesn't seem interested in doing
anything about it. this column is
glad to publish the letter as fol-
lows :
"Mr. John Maragon,
c/o Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughan's
office.
White House.
Washington, D.C.
"Dear John:—
"At the request of Mr. Bennett
am sending you herewith reprint
of an advertisement—on 'yachting'
and '*witor boating.' Mr* Bennett
would like you to contact Commo-
dore Moran. of the small boats di-
vision. maritime commission—Miss
Barrett, sec'y.-and find nut what
condition this is in, and what price
they are asking for same.
's feeling fine after
his little rest in the country, and Is
planning on leaving here again to-
morrow to spend Thanksgiving
. y°" are in the best of
health, and with kindest re-
garas . .
Parties on Yachts
At the time this letter was writ-
h!Jd already
9?^ *?°rscpowor. 121 foot.
221 tons. Valenc." 85 font 1P4
45 foot. 24 tons-
Nedra B." HI foot. 10] tons. Aii
of these, eycept the "Valerie V"
were purchased direct from the
maritime commission. And when
asked to disclose who else bid on
ho vessels, and how much was bi?
the tnformation was refused
When asked whether the bids had
"?vertisod. Miss Marv Ba^
M "if "'""'e 'ctJr
to Maragon. flew into a rage
One reason why Senator Hoev
May w<sh to deat tighttv mo,
he man who had so mnnv deep
freezes and yachts at his dis-
posat was because Harry Tru
man. when Vice President, was
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an poker parties and tht. i "H"*
intimacy between th,- n
the United Strand theT^',
of the Vcrlev nlT Trident
nay be why Maraconle]tlh\tl'
fume as^onsig'S' t'"l',
Bennett yachT^s"^^ jMS—one
Potomac, another J* the
Mich., and another in Florid^"'*'
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Double or Nothing
"Now is as good a time as any,"
said Teeter, senior, as he stood at
a bar with bis son, "to tcach you a
few facts of itfe. Remember, a
man who drinks beyond his ca-
pacity is no gentleman. To enjoy
!,fc you must observe the happy
medium. Have a drink occasiona!-
ty. but never, never get drunk."
"Yes. sir," replied bis dutiful
son. "but bow am I to know when
[ am drunk?"
"Well, you sec those two men
sitting in the corner." said his
father, "if you were to sec four,
you'd know yon were drunk."
"I can see only one there now,
father," grinned the young man.
Mcticutous
Nobody ever imagined that the
scrious-mindtd and somber-faced
editor of dictionaries would flirt,
least of all iiis wife. But one day
; hc found him kissing the maid—
ant) cxt'laimcd:
"Why, John. I'm surprised!"
He retorted:
"\'<<t yii. my dear-1 am sur-
prised: you are astonished."
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