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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
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‘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. On certain days, you can
think only of swinging the club
which he otherwise m ight Join is an ablanca is Spanish for White Housel further growth.
bead
they are invited that only between 200,000 and 250,000 w ill actually be
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