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S o u th ern Oregon News Review. Thursday, Ju ly Washington P e n n y -S a v e r Q u ilt To ohtaln thla pattern send ?• C I NTH (In i <><■■•), Y O H K N A M K , ADDRESS »ntf P A T T E R N M M - II E lt to: i Some Things Are Worse Than Being in the Army By B A IK H A G E < iiiiih tl and Commentator. N r» In s f i n i e N e e d lr r r a tt U ept, S(l( W Itanrtiilp h St. ( h lra z » S». III. Kuvio»« 20 vents for p a tte rn N o ______________ ‘Starter’ Fertilizer Boosts Tomato Yield WASHINGTON.—Less than a m onth from now the d ra ft Best Results Obtained will hit young A m ericans, but it will be a nudge, not a wallop. One of its chief im m ediate purposes is to deflect the flood of With Cannery Produce enlistm ents of young m en from the national g u ard and the re Tomato yields have been increased serves to the re g u la r services. It is expected that so many eligibles w ill enlist rather titan wait until greatly by scientists who used start "*HE BATTLE of the two leagues for ull-star talent goes on snap- pily front year to year. This season the National has the Jump on Its American league rival when It comes to the rookie contingent, but the American still has the lead in veteran headliners. The average playing quality in both leagues this season hasn't been any too hot. It hasn't been boil ing at any point. The effects of the long war, the draft and war service, haven't worn away yet. They are still in evidence by the number of ball players in the big leagues who are H iiliäni» not b ig league ballplayers. This applies especially to pitch ing, with any number of right and left arms trying in vain to locate the plate. There have been too many badly played games, too many mis plays. But there are still more than a few stars. How would you size them up? Here, at least, is a starter: American league—Ted Wil liams. Joe DiMaggio, Lou Boud reau. Joe Gordon, George K rll, Ken Keltner and Allen Zarilla. National league—Stan Musial, Kalph Kiner, Hank Sauer, Coun try Slaughter, Johnny Mize, Andy Pafko, Pee Wee Reese, 1 er solutions at transplanting time. Completely soluble, high analysis fertilizers now are available which It isn't at all strange that there ls$- w ill make excellent “ starter” or e certain amount of reluctance on unreasonable distance from where transplanting solutions for cannery the part of so he lives. tomatoes, according to the Nc.v 5 m any young York state experiment station. There are three kinds of defer A m e ric a n s to One of the best of the new ments for those planning on going s leap to arms the to college (1) for all full-tim e stu formulas is a 15-30-14 combination ! moment they as dents, until academic year ends; of chemically p u r e ingredients certain that their (2) advanced students in certain which dissolves completely in water, country has de specialties; (3) four years’ defer thus avoiding the time and trouble cided they are ment for college students enrolling needed. There in a full four-year ROTC course or ’■ SR’ • ,v; are no b u g le s other m ilita ry courses under spe blowing. No for cial conditions. eign tyrant has There are exemptions under cer s o ile d the na tain conditions for m arried men. tio n 's honor, high school students, scientists, en there is no vis gineers and reservists. ible sign of a So not many young men who "m ilita ry neces Baukhage don’t want to are going to have sity” to disturb to serve in the armed forces of the even tenor of their activities— their country. At least at pres sandlot, movie, poolroom, work ent there seem to be enough study or play. ready to step forward before On the contrary, there has been they are actually called. an almost steady anti-m ilitary prop As I remarked, it is easy to un aganda from all sorts of sources, derstand why the average youth all the way from the paid agents of would rather not accept the restric the Krem lin to the innocent ideal tions and discipline of army life. of straining out the insoluble resi ists or the doting mothers ^ho think A part of the lack of enthusiasm for due which results if ordinary fe rtil Del Ennis, Tom m y Holmes and that if fighting must be indulged in, soldiering is due to the long tradi izers are used for this purpose. Ex Carl Furillo. it certainly should be done by some tion in the United States that sol cellent results may be obtained from The National league has come up other mother's boy. The polls show diering is a wartime business for using the 15-30-14 formula at the With the stronger hitters in Kiner these propagandists are in the m i all those who don’t make it their rate of four pounds to 50 gallons of and Sauer, two able powerhouses in nority, but they are a loud m inority. fulltim e business. And I use the water, or 10 pounds of a 5-10-5 to human mold who can hit the ball a Personally, if I were advising long way. As things look at this word business because it describes the same amount of water. a teen-ager I never would rec a career honored in this country far somewhat early date, the older The solution is applied at trans ommend close order d rill or above that of the professional man planting time at the rate of one- league has picked the better crop tossing together a batch of fir »—the artist or the w riter—and the fourth pint to the plant. Increased of kids. ing data which would produce homage rendered is even greater yields of a ton and a half of to almost as many shorts as overs, in comparison if a member of the matoes are not uncommon from the Lack Great Ballplayers as the one most terrifically m ilita ry profession is involved, ex use of these solutions, which cost But outside of Musial, the older scrumptious method of whiling cepting, of course, war heroes. less than $1 an acre for materials. circuit has nothing to match W il away a couple of years. This is something hard to change. The beneficial effects are especially liams, Boudreau and DiMaggio as On the other hand, I have had But the thing we can and should more adulterated pleasure in doing combat is the propaganda referred marked at the first picking of can great ballplayers. Williams is the only ballplayer quite a number of things in which to earlier—propaganda which is put nery tomatoes. Market gardeners are left with even an outside chance were not included learning the m ul forward in many cases for fa r d if not likely to find the practice so to crowd Ty Cobb’s brilliant tiplication table, cutting the lawn, ferent reasons than even the p ro beneficial because of the more in tensive fertilization of their land lifetime record of .367. Williams making a tria l balance, working a ponents realize. is up above .356 for his entire and the better nourished plants they paper route, translating the chap Far too often objection to m ili career, which means he w ill usually employ. ter which begins "Caesar trans tary service is made on the need two or three .400 seasons to Rhenum pons fecit,” or even carv basis that it in itself is a bad start a threatening challenge. ing the Thanksgiving turkey the thing or a wasteful thing, when In any event, Williams is the only first time "h e r” relatives came for Precautions Suggested the real reason behind the argu dinner. ballplayer left hanging around with ment is a selfish unwillingness To Cut Haying Mishaps the Hornsbys, Jacksons, Sislers and As I say, l can imagine several to take the risk or sacrifice the things many people would rather do Haying mishaps annually account one or two others who belong on the time and effort which the serv than these mentioned, including for a large percentage of the mount higher uplands of swat. ice involves. W illiams is the last of the big m ilita ry service, but having done Frequently this false reasoning ing farm accident toll. National thenfi most people are better for it. stems entirely from the influence of Safety council points out in urging j hitters, the only one who might I admit that for one of a delicate a parent whose purely selfish pos farmers to take extra precautions know another 400 year in his league. The National has its chal nervous disposition, unable to ad sessiveness has perverted the mind during the haying season. lenger in Musial, a great ballplayer, just his personality to groups, carv of a youngster who otherwise would To reduce hazards and thus avoid ing a turkey for the first time be accept his responsibility and take disastrous losses, here are a few and another potential .400 entry. W illiams and Musial are the two fore in-laws might be the worst his training in his stride w ith no suggestions: best we have left when it comes to thing imaginable. It might be the more than the ordinary, harmless Carefully check all equipment for moving the old ash furniture around one particular thing that the par grousing which is as much a part of ticular trauma affecting that par m ilita ry service as the alibis at the defective hitches, ropes, pulleys, the house. lifts, hay racks or ladders. Loft The pitchers? You can forget ticular individual couldn’t stand. 19th hole. floors should be put in good repair about them. There Isn’t a pitcher Extreme psychosis m ight re s u lt- It W , asn’t Like This and hay chutes guarded. today in the same class with Cy even a psychotic condition that , would lead to homicide or some oth- the Qjld Army Make starts and stops gradually Young, Pete Alexander, Christy er emotional outburst that a strong- The arm y psychologists have been in all haying operations and watch Mathewson, Walter Johnson—espe er psyche could have repressed or | working double tim e ever since they out for falls from hay racks, hay cially Johnson. And no one around who is as good as Eddie Plank or sublimated into kicking the dog or discovered that it took more than stacks and hay mows. Lefty Grove. dropping molasses on his wife’s g ir guts and gunpowder to win wars, Machinery should be stopped and The last great pitcher the game dle. and that the winning was easier oa thrown out of gear before oiling, ad had was Dizzy Deal». Bob Feller I grant all this freely. There something besides hardtack "and justing or unclogging, and safety could have been, if it hadn’t been are men so unable to meet the whiskey. guards should be kept in place at for his outside interests, plus the simple challenge of the crowd, In World War II, besides the best all times. w war. Hal Newhouser isn’t too far for instance, even those only food an arm y ever ate, better med Pitchforks are dangerous; always off. Ewell Blackwell was on his way m ildly afflicted with agorapho ical attendance than the average place them where they are in plain when a sore arm bowled him over. bia, that they never could stand civilian can get, and a lot more su sight of all workers. Never throw a a simple formation like pay- perlatives, the armed forces went pitchfork. call. I have known the type in Golf Psychology in for yards and yards of colored Do not wear loose or ragged cloth-1 civilian life so sensitive to the ribbon. It did no harm, even if the Golfers can't understand why presence of others that although B ritish did say the Yanks got a ing which may catch easily in mov their games should change so quick ing machinery. he had been drinking peacefully new service stripe every tim e they ly and so sharply. for hours and accepting the hos Damp hay is one of the principal saw a battle in a newsreel. And it Golf is largely a game of p ita lity of say two or three ac causes of barn fires. Be sure the helped morale. mental attitude for the day. Thia quaintances, when an addition hay is well cured before storing and And now something new has varies sharply. There are cer al member appeared (just when check regularly for several weeks been added. A whole new sys tain days when you can con it was our subject’s turn to buy for any signs of heating. tem of chevrons in two colors centrate on what you want to a round) he would jump through have been devised for combat do. As Jim Barnes put it— a plate glass window, four sto and non-combat non-commis “ Concentration is thinking of Two Row Stalk-Cutter ries to the street below. sioned officers. Combat lead- the right thing—at the right Someway, he lacked the group in ers—squad sergeants and pla tim e.” stinct. I admit that type probably toon sergeants, for exa m p le - This means that you can remem wouldn’t get on in the arm y—long. get an inch-wide tab of green in ber to swing smoothly—to keep However, I claim these are excep the middle of each shoulder your head In place, two of the es tions. loop. sential things to do. A day later The m ajority of the problems Despite all this, I can't help think you’ll keep hurrying your back- which the youth of our land is go ing of the verse that came out cf a swing and then hurry your down ing to have to face soon are not too war where the prevailing color was swing. Your mental attitude la one tough. And they are good exercise olive drab—with the drab predomi of hurry. —like parading in full kit. nating It goes like this: Oh the "On the days I play well, or better Meanwhile 694,000 men, without general with his shiny stars, leadin’ than usual,” a certain leading ama giving more than a thought to the the parade, the colonel and the ad The two row stalk-cutter is teur said recently. " I feel lazy. hardships ahead of them (197,000 jutant a-sportin’ all the braid, the turned on its skids for transport That’s a good way to feel if you of these, according to the experts, m ajor and the skipper—none of ’em between fields. When reversed want to score. Feel lazy. That are re-enlistments and therefore look so fine as a newly minted cor (with cutting blades on reel re doesn’t mean you have to loaf walk should know what they are getting poral a-comin’ down the lin e !” moved) and riding on cutter ing. It means you are in no hurry into) w ill already have joined up, blades, the tool levels corn stalks to get the club head In motion. You Ike Couldn’t thus reducing the number of those so the ground can be prepared loaf on the backswing and then loaf who bashfully await their Uncle’s Say A nythin g more easily for the next crop. Arc on the downswing.” nod this year. welding makes a rigid frame that Before the Democratic political Thus out of the 924,000 new men convention, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- is required when the cutter is Finish Your Backswing needed, less than 250,000 w ill be hower couldn’t sit down to write a hauled through a field behind a This is true enough. On certain drafted. And many of those who letter without reading in his news tractor. days, the golfer starts his down are called w ill not be chosen be paper the next day that that letter swing before he finishes his back cause of the number of exemptions had been translated into an accept swing. This is one of the game's granted. 2 ,4-D Spray Proves Fatal ance on his part to run against Tru most common faults. Unless the Veterans with combat rec man for the presidential nomina To Some Woody Plants backswing is fully completed, the ords, with 90 days service be tion. Mdhy woody plants, Including w il downswing is wrecked In advance tween Pearl Harbor and VJ- Had Eisenhower written a letter “ You looked up on that one,” day, or with 18 months* service saying that he often leaned back to lows, are partially killed by 2, 4-D someone w ill aay. Looking up sprays. K illing of large shrubs or since September, 1940, w ill be dream about the North African wasn’t the fault. Hurrying the exempt, as w ill anyone who has campaign or to think about the de trees cannot be expected. The spray backswing was the fault—the may be used, however, to prevent earned a combat infantrym an's cisions at Casablanca, someone reason, the head was lifted. badge, a Purple Heart, A ir Med would have been sure to come forth resprouting of susceptible species by You can feel lazy on certain days. al, or any combat medal. to say; "See that? He talks about applying as a concentrated spray to Exemptions w ill be granted to a campaign—obviously hinting at resprouts after the trees and shrubs On other days you can’t. You try •n y veteran joining an organized the presidential race—and ‘deci have been cut. Repeated applica to—but it won’t work any too ef reserve unit, or if the nearest one sions at Casablanca’—get that? Cas tions w ill be necessary to prevent fectively. 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