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Kathleen Norris Says:
How Dangerous Is College
For Your Daughter?
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Sarvlco.l
Carolyn mil alto find ai collega a mId young gi oup that mistakes freedom for
lietiue, and familiarity for Una. Ska will find girls and man who art at homt in
ovary nightclub and roadhouse for miles.
’"THE subject matter of “head lift-
ing” in golf may not seem to be
as dramatic as a pennant race or
a heavyweight tight, 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 ciy, “Heads up,” in
baseball. But this cry is connected
entirely with mo-
rale, not with any
physical attitude.
And a golf ball isn’t
flying waist high or
shoulder high as a
baseball flies.
“1 didn’t raise my
head to be a golf-
er,” should still be
the game’s theme
song.
A certain well-re-
spected instructor
writes me that I
have overplayed the
importance of keeping the head still
or down, or the chin back, through
the swing.
"If you do this,” he comments,
“you immediately stiffen up. Just
; think of looking at the ball."
The fact remains, however, that
if yon 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
i something the star golfer can’t af-
ford to do?
Grantland Rice
Bruckart’s Washington Digest
U. S. Industry Cannot Compete
With Dictators’ ‘Slave Labor’
Hull’s Reciprocal Trade Treaties Will Be Rendered
Useless as World Market Becomes Flooded by
Materials Produced at Pittance Wages.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union)
I7VER since Cecil B. DeMille
tL used bathtubs as an aide ia
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
/'"'CAROLYN graduated from
I 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
iebate.
"She is so pretty,” her mother
.mites “She has always been so
carefully watched! How can we
safeguard her from the danger we
know is there? What is your honest
of co-educational institu-
What do you think are the
i that ate will have the won-
ul time she anticipates, and re-
i to os happy and satisfied when
ready to take up
; home and smalltown life
n?”
W,!'Tanswer to that is. what
sort of a girl is Carolyn? From what
has Carolyn come?
Mts of character
of Carolyn is Carolyn's
is ago Carolyn
marrying, at it.
tbs front seat of a
never to see her
She might have
Mo a lifetime of
but she
it, ptenged into
and farming
child reti, endured whet-
her mate’s totem-
perance, or unsuccess, or harshness
imposed upon her.
College isn’t quite so serious
step. And yet it’s gravs 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 And 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 I
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 plana will quickly reassure
her, and she will plunge back into
the whirlpool, glad to escape tho
need at analysis or giving the metier
any greet consideration or any vary
serious thought
When the inevitable moment
comes to end all this, the valuable,
the implacable element of her life
k 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-chib 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 Bohemiamsm
to which college years have accus-
tomed her.
Girl Mast Maks Owe Deckles.
Some colleges and all sororities
try to keep their girls under control
by maans at permissions, regula-
tions, closing hours, “lockouts ” But
these only work with fee girk whs
want them to work.
Anchor to the Swing
The head,” as Long Jim Barnes
I told me years ago, “must be the
a 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 *s
the backswing started. And each
kept it there until after the ball was
well on its way.
“I’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 yon keep your eye on
the ball when your mind is on some
banker, pond, out-of-bounds, or oth-
er trouble on beyond? I’ve always j
believed that “keep your mind on
the ball” was a far better slogan
than “keep yonr eye on the ball."
The eye travel* with the working of
the mind.
By WILLIAM BRL’CKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON. — The Hitler ar-
mistice terms that were imposed
upon France brings to this country,
and other nations of the Western
hemisphere, the stark reality that
our whole business structure must
undergo drastic reorganization and
readjustment. It is a fact that can
no longer be ignored. We are face
to face with a situation that re-
quires our government and our eco-
nomic leadership to look first, last
and all of the time to the preserva-
tion of an American principle.
Whether we like it or not, the
terms forced down the throats of the
French by Hitler and the gagging
added by the fatty Mussolini have
put the United States, its consuming
public, its workers and its general
commercial effort in a tough spot.
It is a situation in which we must
produce all of the tilings we need,
and we need not plan on producing
more than we need!
To present one phase, one result,
of the economic destruction of
France by the Hitler victory, it is
necessary only to point to what has
happened to the trade agreement
program arranged and defended al-
ways by Secretary Cordell Hull of
the department of state. Secretary
Hull, to my mind, is the most sin-
cere and honest individual of the
Roosevelt administration.' He con-
ceived and supported the trade
agreement plan because he believed
it was the solution to many prob-
lems arising between nations. It
was, he believed, a step toward
international peace because most of
the international troubles start from
international trade jealousies.
HalVt Trade Treatiet
Are *Waehed Up’
But Mr. Hull's trade treaties are
gone, washed up. They mean noth-
ing at all now. None of the Euro-
pean nations that have come under
Hitler influence will be able to ob-
»erve them, because Hitler will di-
making his heroines more glam-
can be sold and they will be sold at orous our screen players have
prices below anything ever dreamed showered and scrubbed before
of under our system and the Amer-
ican standard of living.
U. S. Foreign Marketi
Will Be Closed
To put the question bluntly: how
will the owners of our steel mill!
or our automobile factories or thou-
sands of other businesses be able
to compete with that kind of labor?
Rates of pay in this country long
have been double and triple and
more above the European or Asiatic
rates. Our workers continue to seek l js based on that popular
more and more of the share of pro- book, ’“The Tree of Liberty.” The
duction. But will the things they author, Elizabeth Page, did exten-
produce ever reach a market, except gjve re'search for it; Producer-Direc-
in the United States, when Germans j tor Frank Lloyd had experts at work
for months before a camera turned.
' But—the author wrote a scene i»
which the hero takes a bath to
CORDELL HULL
'His treaties collapsed’
rect their trade. Few, if any, of
the nations elsewhere in the wtftid
can continue to observe the agree-
ments because they must look first to
self-preservation.
While I never have felt that Mr.
Hull’s conception of dealing with
international trade was such hot
stuff, I have felt always neverthe-
less that his ideals and his objec-
tives were to be respected. He has
fought for the principle through all
of my quarter of a century in Wash-
ington. Now, one swoop of a mili-
tary machine, not even within our
borders, and the whole program be-
comes impotent and unimportant.
It ia a tragedy of the kind that some-
times hits ideals.
And with the Hull program out of
the window, what next? At best,
any statement can be only a guess.
Yet, some at the facts, must be ac-
cepted as basic. One of these facte
is that throughout all of the Europe,
where people live under the steel
boot of a dictator, workers are go-
ing to be little more than slaves
for the next decade or longer. They
Win be peons. They will do the
work assigned to them and they will
do it at rates of pay fixed by the dic-
tator.
Since the dictator form of rule will
direct at least 80 per cent of all
Europe end an equal portion of
Asia, it is easy to conceive that the
dictators will use the products of
the labor to gain money for re-
building and rehabilitation and for
maintenance of the greatest armies
, the world has ever known. Those
Try to forget all that poisonous wU1 * wherew ^
terrain beyond the ball. Try to j
1 make yourself keep your head i
j where it belongs until you think the !
ball has landed—somewhere. It •
can't land to much worse places !
j than it usually locates for a habitat, 1
j awaiting the slash of the recovering '
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
oe stars, because these golfers have
picked up an instinctive method,
rhey were first imitators. Then
the fundamentals became thorough-
'y set—except to 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 ne 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 acti<».
“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 rare el
a smooth, —hnwid backswing.
Don't be too taxis— to hammer the
cover off the ball. Golf bails have
tough covers. Don’t he too anxious
to harry toe downswing. A slight
pa—e at toe top wtfl help.
the camera, with due discretion.
Remember Joan Crawford’*
bubble bath in ‘‘The Women”?
That was one of the screen's
most elegant bathing bits, in re-
cent years.
But in “The Howards of Virginia”
Cary Grant takes a bath that may
get him into trouble with the his-
torians, though if it does nobody will
be to blame.
"The Howards of Virginia," you’ll
and French and Italians and Rus-
sians and Japanese and others are
working for a few cents a day? I
think not.
Or take agriculture. Will Ameri-
can wheat or corn or fat hpgs or
dairy products be sold in the mar-
kets of the world at the cost of pro-
duction when the workers of the dic-
Raleigh tavern, at Williamsburg,
Va. The first regulation bathtub
was not brought to America until
several years after the story takes
place. Research failed to uncover
anything in bathtub styles current
tator nations are producing the same ; for the period; in fact, the general
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things and being given perhaps only
enough food for living?
There could be countless other il-
lustrations offered, but these serve
to illustrate the steadily closing gap
through which our excess of agri-
impression seemed to be that the
male gentry performed such ablu-
tions in the Potomac river.
So Lloyd used his imagination,
and decreed that Cary Grant should
take his bath in a round wooden
cultural products and manufactured tub; maybe that's not according to
commodities heretofore have been Hoyle, historically, but it’s the best
passing. I think the picture that is he could do.
plainly visible now ought to compel , —*—
every government official and every j Motion pkture Director Sam
political party to turn thoughts to ( Wood took y,,. European war by the
horns recently and forbade the
presence of radios on the set for
“Rangers of Fortune.” "I had to
do something,” he said. "The play-
ers had five radio* on the set and
did nothing but talk of the war. Now
the American problem.
Hitler’s Peace Terms
Are Terribly Harsh
The Hitler terms have been re-
leased only sufficiently for a concep-
tion of their terrible harshness. No
one yet can tell how much of France
will remain under complete control
of Germany, or how much of it will
become absolute German territory.
We know only that, in general, all
of France's sources of supplies will
pass into German control, or will
be managed under Hitler's Nazi pro-
gram. We do not yet know whether
there will be surrender of all coloni-
al possessions, islands and the like.
Yet, there is none so foolish as to
believe that Hitler will overlook the
opportunity of directing the produc-
tion and trade of every area which
may serve as a cog in the great
Nazi economic machine.
Propaganda Is Used
To Make People Slaves
Some may ask why this dark out-
look is emphasized and what basis
there is for it, beyond the explana-
tions already given. I think the i
answer is simple. The drain of war j
preparation that has been made '
upon all of those nations involved, j
not to mention the tremendous ex-
penditure of men and money during
actual fighting, has left each race of
peoples denuded. The dictators dare
not let revolutionary movements get
started. The steel boot will walk
across the bodies of every person
who offers opposition to any order to
produce food and fiber. Propagan-
da will be used to convince those
peoples that it is their duty to their
homeland. Propaganda was success-
ful in working those people like
slaves, as Hitler did, in building up
the war machine.
We have seen some indication of
this in Russia. The Soviet dictator
has decreed an extension of work-
ing hours for all workers in Russia.
The people were told merely that
they will work many hours more.
They have to do it, or be shot.
It may be that the new Soviet or-
der represent* a renewed war prep-
aration on the part of the Commu-
nists. None here knows the answer.
The fact remains, however, that
the great horde of Russians are to
be driven like plow mules into long
days of harsh labor-while the cheap
Communistic agitators to this coun-
try foment new strikes for short i time." tosses the watch over the
hours and higher and higher pay., footlights kite the audience, and they
It is a sour situation. But it is row with laughter,
very real, and it shows what die- j —*-
tators can do.
All of which seems to me to prove 1
that there is a right important bat- j
PATRICIA MORISON
we spend five minutes at 10 o'clock
in the morning and at four in the
afternoon listening to war bulletins,
and that's all.”
Patricia Morison, who has a fea-
tured role, agreed quite willingly,
though she has two cousins fighting
with the royal air force, and it’s a
long time between tea and four.
—*—
Describing his gift as “the least
we can da in these troubled times,”
Frederic Msreh recently purchased
and presented to the American Red
Cross, for use in Enrope, s com-
pletely equipped ambulance. He
and Mrs. March were asked to par-
ticipate in a benefit, bnt he was un-
able to do so because of bis work
ia Paramount's “Victory.” He said
tost be thought toe ambulance would
be more welcome than their ap-
pearance.
When a radio program cornea on
the air with its studio audience
laughing, somebody ha* worked
hard to get just that effect Fibber
McGee has an old-fashioned watch
which dangle* from his vest pock-
et. With 85 seconds before the
broadcast he checks the time ann-
iouaiy with the control room; with
one second to go, Fibber nonchalant-
ly says, “Oh, shucks, we got lots of
niblick.
If the bend remnton ne "anchor
to the swing.” tin swing can't be
far wrong. But it ia an action that
must be watched at every shot It
cw*t be taken for granted, tar it
So the problem is strictly Cwo- ' won’t work that way.
iyw'*- It ia lor her to decide it; : tog human nature.
Mother and Dad can't do much. I
You ate fight-
V. 8. INDUSTRY
William Bruckart, Washington
correspondent, forseee a closing
world market for American prod-
ucts as a result of the Eurtpean
war. He predicts that U. S. farm-
ers and manufacturers will be
iniable to compete with materials
produced to the dictator coun-
tries with farced labor Bruckart
advises us to follow the old adage,
"charity begins at boms.”
tie to the United States that we had
better win. While administration
folks and partisan politicians shout
and create new hysteria about a
military machine to defend us, I
bold to the idea that we bad better
divide attention to defense of the na-
tion into two phases. We had bet-
ter prepare to defend within as well
as without
It ia tragic, of course, that mil-
lions at old people and women and
children are suffering in Europe. Bui
I rise to inquire whether they have
a claim on our government ahead
of the folk.: who have become a part
of America? There have been a dozen
or more appeal* from within this
country by which it hat been sought
to make home* here for the desti-
tute and the unfortunate victim* of
the European conflagration. The sen-
timent is flue but I, for one, still
believe in the old adage that "Char-
ity begins at home.” We should
eliminate suffering here first*
ODDS ASD EHDS-P,uy Kelly re-
turns to films in Bel Hooch’s “Rood
Stow," ( '
efter an absence of two yean .. .
Brothers’ "All This, end Hessen
Too" with Bette Deris end Ckmlet Borer,
is the first picture to ton its premiere
performance broadcast by ulevitian . . .
John Garfield will ton hit first cowboy
rate in “flowing GoUT . . . Isabel Man-
lung Hruson’t governess' pat admonition
am, 'Hush, lUel, or ther’ll hear yam a
Ueck *S£.hul didn't hush, and
now, as ABC's feminine commentator, the
■s heard from coett to coast!
“Musical Americans," the West-
feghouse radio program, has
•hanged time—it Is now heard am
Tneaday nights at nine. Eastern Day-
light Saving Time-and has also
changed location. It to broadcast
traaa New York, so that, H you're
vtoitlag tho city and want to attend
a broadcast, you can do so. Yen
can arrange for tickets at the West-
£*•'"** b»Mtol at to* New York
World’s fair ; if you can’t gat over to
*»di# City, you can listen to to
aa a * serial rebroadcast from too
12*-fect-higb Singing Cascades.
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