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THE WEST NEWS
Victims of Jap Subs on California Coast
At left, the 5,6SS-ton freighter Absaroka. hit by a Jap torpedo off the California wast, is shown, with deck
awash as she made some port. One crew member was killed. Right: This photo pictures the thrilling
landing of part of the crew of the tanker “Montebello,” which was sunk by a submarine off California. Here
a lifeboat bobs in the boiling surf, dangerously close to the rocks, as rescuers throw men a line.
‘Pause in the Day’s Occupation’
Smiling cheerfully as they pusn German forces hack the way they came, members of this Russian tank
crew (left) halt for brief pause in their march westward, tor lunch. Rigors of the Russian winter seem
to have no terrors for these hardy soldiers. Right: These Italian prisoners in the Libyan desert seem too
miserable to attempt to escape, and yet they are guarded carefully before being shipped to a concentration
eamp.
Fierce Moro Tribesmen Fight Japs
To Fill Men's Shoes
A deadly warm welcome was extended Japs who tried to open a
second front in the Philippines by invading Mindanao island. On hand
to greet them were aome of the fiercest Bghtera known, the More tribes-
men, to whom fighting is a profession. They are shown being inspected
by Col. Ralph McCoy in Zamboanga, P. I.
First members of the Canadian
women’s army corps to leave Can*
ada on active service are shown as
they left Ottawa for Washington, 0.
C„ where they will take ever duties
formerly performed by men at the
Canadian legation. All are company
sergeant majors.
President Roosevelt With War Cabinet Tops in Autographs
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Kathleen Norris Says:
7'easing Is Innate Cruelty
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
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(Then Maude end her husband came to us joe their fir$l dinner party as mar-
ried people Date, my husband, began teasing her. To my horror, he mentioned the
name of the men with whom Maude had been in lot*.
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Me President, 1 D. Roosevelt,'
bv An
HREE years ago, when
I was 18," writes Janine,
my chum Maude and
I thought we were deeply in
love. Our two boy friends took
us everywhere, dancing, ski-
ing, to movies and night clubs,
and we felt there was no harm
in the intimate relationship
that naturally resulted. I can
truly say that no thought of
hesitation or guilt ever crossed
my mind.
When I became engaged
last year, however, I told
Dave of that early affair. He
immediately assured me that
he was no angel and had not
expected me to be one, and
that he felt that sort of thing ought
to be forgotten.
Maude was also married some
weeks ago. and after her honey-
moon she and her husband came to
us for their first dinner party as
married people. We had a table of
eight and everything went perfect-
ly, except that Dave began to tease
her, and to my horror mentioned
the name of the man with whom
Maude had been in love and asked
her if she ever saw him.
“All this mystified Maude's hus-
band. Maude called me up in a
perfect panic the next day. saying
she had not told Rod anything of
her early affair and that Dave nad
simply infuriated her by his teasing
talk. Immediately I told Dave he
said that he would of course not
go on with it, and added that he
would never have thought Maude
was that sort of a girl.
Caused a Quarrel.
“You can imagine how this made
me feel! I was so mad that we
had what Dave called our first
knock-down-and-drag-Out fight, but
we got over it and were friends
again and decided to forget the
whole thing and start fresh. But a
day or two later he asked me how
long my intimate relationship with
my first sweetheart had gone on. 1
answered only for about three
months, and nothing more was said.
"Yesterday morning the paper
mentioned the fact that Maude is
on the women’s committee to pro-
vide amusement for the men in
camps, and Dave made a sneering
reference to it; he said this was only
in fun. But later Maude sent me
a brief cold note, saying that they
could not come to a buffet party
that we are giving after the big
football game, and I know they
have given two dinner* at least in
the last month, but we have not
been asked to their house yet, I
am afraid David has carried hia
fun too far.
“Maude is my oldest friend, and
we have talked for years of the
pleasure we would have as brides
doing our shopping and discussing
our housekeeping together. Can you
make any suggestion that may save
me from losing her friendship and
influencing Dave not to teaae her or
remind her again of the past?
A Fatal Flaw.
A teasing husband, my dear
Janine, is a much more serious
matter than it sounds. Impulse*
toward murder, theft, arson and
forgery are kept in order by the
law, and by a man's natural fear o#
punishment. But teasing is t fatal
tour in the relatkrnsMi
married persons, and I don't
of may cure.
Teasing is innate cruelty
an outlet. It veils its
ITS NOT FUN
No one—not even the teaser
himself — escapes the conse-
quences of the hints that are
dropped “all in fun.” It's not fun
for anyone boncerned. when a
husband begins to suspect that
the jokes about his wife may
have some basis in truth. It's not
fun for anyone, when a wife
loses her best friend because her
husband just can't resist the
temptation to make personal re-
marks. Kathleen Norris believes
that those u-ho enjoy teasing
others have in their makeup a
streak of real cruelty. “Teasing,”
she says, “is innate cruelty seek-
ing an outlet.” Don’t be deceived
by the fact that it is supposed to
hie a joke.
to sting and hurt under a merry
mask of fun. It is always "just
fooling."
When he carelessly and laughing-
iy has threatened the actual founda-
tions of a marriage, as Dave in his
light-hearted banter with Maude, he
retreats, coward-fashion. Dave pre-
tends not to 'realise that he may ,
have started suspicions in the mind
of Maude’s husband,
May Regret Her 8ecrecy.
You were smarter than Maude in
that you made a clean breaat of
your own early weakness in the
safety of engagement days, when
Dave was so anxious to win you that
nothing you could have done as a
girl would deter him. Maude chose
to keep her secret, and she may yet '
live to regret the deception.
You had better give up the hope ;
of continuing your friendship witji
Maude; young wives almost always
have to sacrifice their school-girl
friendships to the claims of hus-
bands, and you will be no worse off
than the others. Make new friends,
devote yourself—as I am sury you
are devoting yourself—to the full-
time job of keeping Dave happy and
building for you both a sound and
successful marriage.
But if he continues his teasing,
and extends it pretty generally to all
your frienda, one way to spike his
guns is to acknowledge cheerfully
that David isn't happy unless be'*
teasing someone. *
Say something like "He'U tell you
that your children are undersized,
Tom, and that if you'd been as
smart as he is you wouldn't have
had to pay that speeding fine, and
that he know* you and Betty came
here to dinner to get our insurance,
but don't take it seriously. Dave is
a darling in spite of it ail."
Na Perfect tolattea.
This makes what ammunition
Dave has in store decidedly wet. But
it is not a perfect solution. There is
no perfect solution for so serious a
fault except the solution that must
come from the tease himself, a gen-
uine resolution to be considerate of
the feelings and misfortunes of
others.
In New York some years ago
there was a complacent wife who
couldn't sufficiently impress all of
us, who had suffered in the general
financial collapse, with the tact that
she end her husband were luckier
than ever and richer than ever.
"Isn’t ft wonderful?” the would
babble happily, "Harry just got out
of This in time and into That when
tt was going to make thet sense
ttonal rice, and just before the crash
he sold our place tor three times
what it would bring today!"
A SHORT while back we collect-
s’* ed the opinions from over 40
well-known football coaches and
trainers along the line of physical
fitness — of getting
back in shape. With-
out exception they
featured the .legs
and the stomach,
especially the lat-
ter.
As Tom Keene,
the veteran trainer
at Syracuse told
me, “When the bel-
ly’s okay you don’t
have to worry about
the rest of it, for GrantlaadRice
here's the center of
most good health and most bad
health."
We’ve printed their diets and their
suggestions — pltln foods, simple
foods—and not too much of It. But
many of these coaches and trainen,.
Who know their trade, brought In an-
other angle—this was the mental
side, which has direct bearing on
the all-out war today.
"The best football player,” a lead-
ing coach wrote me, “needs some-
thing more than sixe and speed and
, physical fitness. He must be able to-
sacrifice hirgtelf ior the good of the
team. He must be able to take-
punishment—and like it—for the
cause he is fighting for. He must
be willing to give up all outside
pleasures that conflict in any way
with the main idea, which is to win.
Only those who have this frame of
mind or really worthwhile- The
others are only good when things
are rolling their way.
“Football Is no game for those
easily discouraged. Mental fiber Is
even more important than phys-
ical fiber—and mental fiber means
giving all you have in the direction
of victory, no matter what the odds.
We might call It 'Intestinal forti-
tude,’ a phrase the late Dan Mc-
Gugia of Michigan and Vanderbilt
Invented."
The Big Word
Words, as a rule, are unimportant,
when the air is full of flying steel.
But in this same connection we etill
recall a conversation with a hard-
bitten colonel of the First division
in France early in 19U, when the
German army, apparently, was
! about to break through.
I happened to bring up the matter
of courage. The First division
colonel gave me a cold look.
“Courage," be said, “is secondary.
Most people and most nations have
courage. The big word Is 'fortitisdc.'
This Is a tar more important word
than courage.
“Fortitude, of course, includes
courage. But it goes tar beyond.
Fortitude means both physical and
! mental stamina. It means the abil-
ity to carry on a job that might be
dull and uninteresting. It means
giving all you've got to give,.out-
side of the spotlight. In a football
way, it means the blocking back,
who clears the road for the ball car-
rier. It means sacriflcing yourself
for the cause.
"In this war, those up around the
front may get killed, but they get
all of the excitement Those back
of the lines get the drudgery, minus
the thrills. You'll And that almost
all of those back of the lines would
much rather be up where the ex-
citement is. It takes more fortitude
to do your work in a place where
there is little chance for any thrilla.
little chance for any publicity or any
reward."
Bobby Je
A Leading Example
Some years ego I was talking with
Bobby Jones about the brilliant golf
record he piled up from 1922 through
1930. Bobby made no claim to any
superior skill with wood or iron.
"Tournament golf," he said then,
“is a game in which you just can't
afford to be easily
discouraged when
you step into trou-
ble, as everyone
does So I had to
make up my mind
to take a hard nerve
beating— not a
physical beating, of
course. No one will
ever know the time
I felt like chuck-
ing it all, and may-
be wait for another
chanct.
“I may be wrong, but I be lie v*
you can take more of a beating on
the mental and nerve side than you
can on the physical aide. When I
used to pick up those sevens in a
championship round, and I got more
than my share of those, the tempta-
tion to ease up and forget H all was
pretty strong. You get the feeling
there's no use fighting it out at that
particular time.”
This is all tens. I recall Gene
8arases, ene of ear finest golf cm-
petiters, once saying yen can’t win
a Mg ekampteaship with 'serwao.'
“I battle to try to keep from get-
ting any sixes.” Gene said.
But Bobby Jones' championship
cards were studded with sevens. Be
had a seven at Hoylake in hu Grand
Slam march-when it took him five
strokes to get down after to wae
only « yards from the green in two.
He bad • killing seven at Scioto,
but to won He had two seven* on
the test 16 holes at Winged Fast, but
ho went on to win tee playoff.
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Webb, Leonard. The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1942, newspaper, January 9, 1942; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth589570/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting West Public Library.