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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
FIELDING HURRY-UP YOST of
P Michigan was 70 years old a
month ago. He came ulong when
football was young and at 70 he is
(tili as rugged as his West Vir-
ginia oaks or his Michigan hem-
locks.
By a rule of the Western confer-
ence, 70 is the retiring age, which
means that one of
the ablest and most
colorful characters
from the American
sporting scene has
come to the end of
a football road that
goes back to West
Virginia and the
autumn of 1895.
Only Lonnie Stagg
and Pop Warner
can look back a
Qrantland Rice deeper distance to
a faraway past-
faraway and long ago.
The game has given us only one
Stagg—only one Warner—only one
Zuppke—and only one Yost. They
painted the scene with a flaming,
flaring smear of vivid color that
no one else—barring only the fa-
mous Knute Rockne—has ever ap-
proached.
It was in 1895 that a big, shaggy-
haired, gawky backwoods teacher
from Fairview saw and played in
his first football game. Hurry-up
Yost had arrived.
Yost was so keen about football
from the start that no one univer-
sity could offer him enough compe-
tition. So in 1895 he played with
West Virginia, Lafayette and the
Allegheny Athletic club. Brink
Thorne of Yale was one of the
Lafayette coaches when Yost was
starring on a team that beat one
of Pennsylvania’s star elevens by
< to 4.
"Yost wanted to play football all
day long,” Brink once told me. And
talk it all night, he might have
added.
Covering the Map
On his march across the country’s
map Yost coached teams at Ohio
Wesleyan, Nebraska, Kansas and
Stanford.
Again one university wasn’t
enough. While at Stanford he also
coached four other teams success-
fully—the Stanford freshmen, San
Jose Teachers, Lowell high school
of San Francisco and the California
Hess Known for Loyalty
To Hitler, Nazi Germany f %
Was to Succeed Goering as Nation’s Leader;
Washington Legislators Closely Study
Letters From Constituents.
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
FIELDING YOST
Uklah team. Five teams—that’s
what you might call putting in a
full season.
Most of his teams had victorious
sweeps, but it was not until 1901
when his famous battle cry of
"Hurry-up—Hurry-up” arrived at
Michigan that Yost came to instant
fame.
"I still believe those Michigan
teams from 1901 through 1905 were
the greatest five consecutive foot-
ball teams any university ever
moved into destructive action. Play-
ing through heavy schedules they
won 55 games, tied one and lost
one while scoring around 3,000
points.
Yost coached Michigan for 25
years before he took over the direc-
torship of athletes. In those 25
years his teams won 169 games and
lost but 10. They won or tied for
the Big Ten title eight times, and
during 11 of those 25 years the
Maize and Blue was not in the con-
ference.
What an all-time Michigan team
Yost could have put into the field
from the men he coached. He turned
out 16 All-American nominations
through 1926.
In addition to all this, Yost directed
the construction of six athletic
buildings, including the Michigan
Stadium that seats some 87,000
people.
A Football Life
For over 40 years football has
been Yost’s life. He has eaten it,
dreamed it, talked it and lived it.
The last time I saw him we had
lunch together at one o’clock. At
three o’clock the next morning he
was still showing me what made a
good punter, and how to block. At
the finish I was a battered and a
beaten wreck.
You have to be in ideal condition
to talk with Yost. He hammers
your chest with the powerful, stub-
by fingers of both hands.
(WNU Service, 1343 H Street,
Washington, D. C.)
WASHINGTON.—It’s a mad world
(hese days and Washington is a
nervous corner of it.
Outside the iron pickets which sur-
round the White House, human pick-
ets walked. Their banners protested
against convoys, against sending
American soldiers abroad to fight.
Soldiers who may be sent abroad
to fight charged the protesting pick-
ets, knocked down the men, pushed
the women around. Home-returning
theater-goers stopped to cheer the
soldiers.
On Capitol Hill mall protesting
against convoys poured in.
That afternoon Washington was
stunned to hear that a young farmer
in Scotland helped a German officer
who had Just dropped from the
skies, into his cottage and gave him
a glass of water. The officer was
Hitler's trusted lieutenant, Rudolf
Hess, and the news of his sensa-
tional flight dropped into the midst
of the Washington melee, to make
confusion worse confounded.
The fighting pickets, Hess in the
headlines, pushed history back for
me. Pickets were attacked in front
of the White House at the beginning
of World War I. I saw Hitler lay
the accolade of succession to Nazi
leadership upon Hess the day World
War II began.
Some of the fighting pickets of 1914
are staid grandmothers today.
HESS PARTY LEADER
If you had asked me, in 1939 when
I was broadcasting from Berlin, who
of all men in the Nazi party would
be the least likely to desert its lead-
er I would have said Hess. He was
not a striking figure, he did not pa-
rade in the brilliant uniforms of Herr
Goering, he did not make the fiery
speeches of Herr Goebbels. But he
was the real head of the party, the
inside man. And so when he sud-
denly turned up in Britain, I could
not believe that he was there except
to be about his leader's business.
I can see Hess that day in Berlin.
It was a solemn sight, the hurriedly
called meeting of the Reichstag in
September, 1939. There may have
been many in Germany then who
still hoped that Britain and France
would not fight for Poland. Hitler
had promised he would gain his
ends without shedding German
blood. The bitter memory of the last
war, the starvation, the defeat, the
humiliation were still sharp in the
memories of the people. Then they
had had no victories to cheer them.
Hitler himself was pale and worn
when he walked into the Kroll Op-
era house where the Reichstag
meets. His speech was restrained,
he seemed to me like a man who
had made his will and said his pray-
ers. He spoke almost apologeti-
cally, said his greatest desire was
to be the Reich’s first soldier. Then
he announced that he was going to
the front, "and,” he added, "if any-
thing happens to me in battle, Party-
comrade Goering will be my suc-
cessor.” Goering, in a gaudy uni-
form, on his high pedestal, saluted.
The crowd cheered.
Then Hitler turned to the right,
where the tall, lanky Hess was seat-
ed on the stage in his simple brown
uniform. “And if anything happens
to Comrade Goering. Comrade Hess
will be his successor." The crowd
cheered. Hess rose deliberately,
looked at his chief and saluted.
I could think only of a great, well-
trained and faithful St. Bernard
slowly and obediently answering his
master's whistle.
It is hard to believe that this man
would desert his master. Hess was
fervent. He may not have been as
religious as his frequent calls upon
the Almighty may have indicated,
but he had a fanatical devotion to
Germany. His loyalty to Hitler from
the earliest contact with the Fuehr-
er-to-be was based on a great faith-
on a belief that Hitler, and Hitler
alone, would save Germany.
• • •
Legislators Study
Letters From Voters
The senator I wanted to see was
busy and I was waiting in his outer
office talking to his secretary who
was an old acquaintance of mine. He
had a sheaf of letters in his hand.
In spite of the rules for keeping the
windows closed in order not to dis-
turb the air-cooling system in the
senate office building, the window
was open. A breeze caught one of
the letters. It dropped on the floor
and I picked it up.
“I don't want to lose that,” the
secretary said, “it's important. Read
it."
It was an emphatic protest on the
subject of a measure before con-
gress, written in a firm hand, in
good, straightforward English.
"Notice the paper," said my
friend, “see that hole in the corner.
There was a string through that.
The pad was fastened to the tele-
phone. And it was written with the
pencil tied to another string. I hap-
pen to know the man who wrote it.
He runs a flour and feed store, but
I’d know just about the type of writ-
er it was from the paper.”
“Why," I asked him, “Is it that
important?"
"It’s important because the people
who write on that kind of paper,
with a pencil, are Important people
to us. They elect us."
(This secretary always said “us”
because he had been in politics with
the senator for 10 years, ever since
his chief was a member of the state
legislature.)
For the past few weeks letters
like that—and other ones, too, which
I'll speak of in a minute—have been
flooding the post office in the Capitol
building. They have concerned the
question of convoys. And they have
had a lot to do with how congress
voted.
LETTERS SPUR DEBATE
When the letters stop, the debate
stops. That's an axiom. And on an
important question the number of
letters grows each day until it
reaches a peak. Then suddenly the
number drops. The drive is over.
It's time to vote and settle the issue.
There are several kinds of letters
which come in to congress, to com
mentators and writers. There are
the “nut" letters which are easy to
identify. They don’t count. There
are the form letters, or letters
which, though sometimes they are
individually written, all have the
same phraseology. They are organ-
ized propaganda, easy to identify
and to assay. Then there are the
letters on expensive stationery. Usu-
ally their writers are known. They
are in the minority. Then there are
the letters I spoke about first. Not
always in pencil or on scratch pa-
per. But simple and spontaneously
written. They count.
But here is another Interesting
point. Just because there are more
letters on one side of a question
than there are on the other doesn't
mean that the apparent majority is
an evidence of the real attitude of
the community. More people who
are against a measure will take pen
in hand than those who are for it.
One senator, in a community
where we all knew the sentiment for
a particular reason was very much
pro-convoy, told me his lbtters were
running three to one anti. "They
would have to run ten to one against
a measure before it would mean
that the majority of my constituency
were against it,” he told me.
• • •
PROPHET IN WASHINGTON
A prophet has come to Washing-
ton—but he will not prophesy!
He is John Maynard Keynes, tall,
slim, precise. He was a member
of the British delegation to the Paris
Peace conference of 1919. With the
ink hardly dry on the Versailles
treaty he wrote that ”... the
Carthaginian peace (a peace of
force) is not practically right or pos-
sible . . . The clock cannot be set
back , . . without setting up such
strains in the European structure
and letting loose such human and
spiritual forces as . . . will over-
whelm not only your ‘guarantees'
but your institutions, and the exist-
ing order of your society.”
I asked Mr. Keynes, who is here
in Washington as a British treasury
official to consult on the lend-lease
law, if he thought it was necessary
to prepare for a new kind of peace.
“Yes," he answered, “but I am
much more concerned now with
fighting the war.”
Mr. Keynes believes that we must
raise money for defense by a type
of forced borrowing, a method by
which a part of all salaries are de-
ducted and turned over to the gov-
ernment. After the war, these forced
savings, according to Keynes, would
help tide over the period when de-
fense production drops off and thus
help to avoid a depression like the
one that followed the last war.
We
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THE CALL FOR MORE EGGS
(Washington.—C. R Wickard, sec-
retary of agriculture, has announced
a nation-wide drive to produce more
eggs ns part of the aid to England
and defense plan. He sets the goal
at 30,000,000 extra dozen eggs for
the next 15 months —News Item.)
Come on, hen!
Say when!
* * •
Don’t be a cluck!
Don’t pass the
buck!
• • •
Hey!
Lay!
Today!
• • •
_. „ , _ Across the coun-
The call for more . ..
try goesthe
se call—
The barnyards hear it, one and all;
The message sweeps from east to
west:
"No longer, hen, your second best!"
« • •
A buzzer buzzes and it's done . , .
A paper's signed in Washington . . .
Stenographers rush here and there—
There's action in the very air;
Officials leap to telephones—
The orders ring in solemn tones—
The message flows from silver pens:
A Proclamation to The Hens.
In headlines big the news is played:
“ALL POULTRY CALLED FOR
ALL-OUT AID."
BRIEFS ... by Baukhage
The mosquito almost became a
fifth columnist the other day—it
might have caused a big fire in a
defense plant. One hundred barrels
of water had been placed around
the plant to guard against fire—and
then in order to remove the mos-
quito menace, five gallons of oil
were poured on the water in each
barrel.—FBI.
A labor shortage in defense indus-
tries is now threatened, according to
some authorities. But if present
trends continue, John Studebaker,
commissioner of education, predicts
that 1,000,000 persons will have been
trained for defense occupations by
June 30, 1941. Up to January 1 of
this year, 325,000 have been trained
or were in training.
The wires 'cross the nation sing,
An ultimatum’s on the wing
By horseback and by auto, too,
By radio and by canoe.
By every telegraphic loop
To every hennery and coop,
“Come, hen, your country calls to
you—
One egg is not enough! Give two!”
• • •
The message whistles through the
trees
To startle birds and busy bees;
It leaps across from farm to farm
And spreads a “Hen" Revere alarm,
"Awake! Get up! The goin’s tough!
Get up there, hen, and do your
stuff!”
• • •
The chicken houses rock and sway
To this one order, "Lay, hen, lay!”
The roosts vibrate to one word—
“Scram!”
As they’re abandoned on the lam;
The nests they seem to snap and
creak
As orders reach an all-time peak!
• • •
The hens outside now scamper in,
Their faces drawn a little thin;
"We've laid one egg ’ say three or
four;
The others answer "War is war!”
Mayhap one sulks; she hears a
“Boo!"
And yell of "You appeaser you!”
• • •
Then looms some organizing hen
(From Layers’ Union Number 10);
"Arise!"—her cry is loud and clear,
"Demand the right to bargain here!
Production speed is very nice.
But are we hens or are we mice?”
* • •
Then Washington by hens is stormed
And hencoop picket lines are
formed;
Hark! Overhead the transports dive,
The mediation boards arrive!
• • •
But lest this tale be far too long
The hens are saved; they ain’t done
wrong;
They sign to do the best they can
But scrap the big production plan.
• • •
Then to their nests they quickly
scram
And give three cheers for Uncle
Sam,
Three lusty cheers (and shake a
leg)—
Three cheers, ah yes, but just one
egg!
• • •
ADOLF’S PREROGATIVE
The Nazis emphasize that their
terrible raids on London are In re-
prisal to teach London a lesson for
bombing Berlin. Hitler, you under-
stand, alone has the right to bomb
big cities.
• • •
SPRING LURE
Now I hie me from war talk
To my garden in Norwalk;
Where the purple of crocus en-
chants;
I’m obsessed with a longing
For my choicest belonging—
Them mud-covcred dungaree pants!
. * .
‘MY WIFE’S CHAPEAU’
I'd like to laugh at her new hat.
Instead, I tell her I adore it.
Because I just remembered that
I am the sucker paying for it!
—Lee A. Cavalier.
• • •
A waiter in a Long Island cafe
has been arrested as a Gestapo
agent. He must be the one who al-
ways growled when asked for Eng-
lish mutton chops.
• • •
MOTORIST’S DREAM
I'll buy an army tank some day
And caterpillar up Broadway . . .
And then I'll snicker and I'll scoff
And dare some cab to cut me off!
—Lee A. Cavalier.
• • •
CAN YOU REMEMBER—
Away back when a man who had
only had two years in college could
figure his income tax?
• • i
We expect any day now that Hit-
ler will move Mt. Olympus to Berlin
and claim he is really Homer.
TERNS
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CUNSUIT, overall, frock and bon-
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one easy and inexpensive pattern!
By repeating it half a dozen times
you'll have your tot completely
equipped for summer. Each piece
in this sweet quartet emphasizes
her culeness and curves, and each
piece is as comfortable as her own
personal skin!
• * •
Pattern No. 8925 Is designed in all sizes
1 to 5 years. Size 2. 2‘, yards 35 Inch
material for the whole thing; 3 yards trim-
ming. For this attractive pattern, send
your otder to:
IF here Anger Is a Crime
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
Room 1324
211 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago
Enclose 15 cents In coins for
Pattern No...............Size........
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Address .............................
Returned to his home in Mont*
real after 11 years’ missionary
work in the Arctic, Father
Stephen Bazin says he had great
difficulty in explaining the war to
the Eskimos. They could not
imagine anyone angry enough to
fight. He told them the war start,
ed because one people tried to
steal another's property.
"The Eskimos who, I believe,
ore the most peace-loving, happi-
est people in the world, know now
that a war is going on, though they
still think it is strange,” he says.
“By nature they are calm and
patient. Anger is a grave crimo
with therfi. They spend hours
laughing and talking, and havo
really no worries. There is no
such thing as a sad Eskimo.”
Cut small mats from discarded
felt hats and use them under
vases, ornaments and book ends.
They will prevent the scratching
of polished furniture. If the felt
is soiled clean by washing it in
warm water and mild soap.
• • •
It washable curtains become
rusted on the rods during damp
weather, dampen the rust spots,
cover with a thin coating of salts
of lemon and let stand until stains
disappear,
...
If late in starting the roast for |
dinner sear it under the broiler
while waiting for the oven to get
hot. By the time the meat is nice-
ly browned the oven will be hot
enough to continue the cooking.
...
An assortment of rubber bands
comes in handy for the kitchen.
Use them for holding waxed paper
over dishes of food stored in the
refrigerator, for sealing tops of
puddings for steaming and to hold
heavy waxed paper securely over
the rising bread dough. They are
also useful to hold up long sleeves
while working and to keep the
pages open in the cook book.
Granulated honey can be re*
stored to its natural form by plao*
ing it in hot water.
...
To prevent the sides of ice bag*
and hot water bottles from sticks
ing together in storage, sprinkle •
little talcum powder inside then)
after they are thoroughly dried.
...
A simple method of doubling the
life of a window shade, half of
which has become soiled, is to re*
move the shade from the top of the
roller and hem the end thus re»
moved. Then remove the stick
from the hem at the bottom or
soiled portion of the shade and
slip into the new hem. Next cut
off the old hem at the bottom of
the soiled portion of the shad*
and attach the raw edge to the
roller. The bottom or soiled por-
tion of the shade now becomes the
top, and when the shade is drawn
down half the length of the win*
dow a clean, new shade appears.
ASK ME
ANOTHER
?
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
1. How many states border on
the Great Lakes?
2. Who or what in United States
history was nicknamed "Old Iron-
sides”?
3. The independence of the
United States was formally recog-
nized first by what country?
4. Why is Wall street so called?
5. Where is Sanscrit used as a
sacred and learned language?
6. The present Chinese name
for China, “Chung Hua Min Kuo,”
means what?
7. How far can a homing pigeon
fly in a day?
8. What is the source of the
quotation: "Old wood best to
burn, old wine best to drink, old
friends to trust, and old authors
to read”?
9. According to the calendar
now in use in China, years are
reckoned from what date?
The Answers
Eight: Pennsylvania,
New
York, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota.
FEET cmuat heat
Give feet wings of coolness. Sprinkle
Mexican Heat Powder in shoes. Relieves
tiredness. Little cost. Lots of comfort.
2. The United States warship,
Constitution.
3. France was the first country
to recognize our independence.
4. A stockade or wall extended
along it.
5. Sanscrit is used as a sacred
language in India.
6. "Chung Hua Min Kuo” means
Central Flowery Republican Coun-
try.
7. The homing pigeon has been
credited with flying as much as
600 miles in one day.
8. Francis Bacon.
9. 1912 A. D. (the year of the
beginning of the republic).
/At
WORLD'S i HRFST SfUDl/T
Effect of Study
As some insects are said to de-
rive their color from the leaf upon!
which they feed, so do minds ofl
men assume their hue from the
studies which they select for it.-J
Lady Blessington.
Need of the Heart
The heart is a small thing, but
desireth great matters. It is not
sufficient for a kite’s dinner, yet
the whole world is not sufficient
for it.—Quarles.
BIG 11-OUNCE
BOTTLE OF
QptClAL 00
HINDS
£22
HONEY & ALMOND CREAM
Regular *1 size
limited time only —
I
Lacking in Sense
Immodest words admit of no de-
fense; for want of decency is want
of sense.—Wentworth Dillon.
Powerful Necessity
Necessity when threatening is
more powerful than device of
man.—Rufus.
Will and Way
Man has his will—but woman
has her way. — Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
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