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THE GIDDINGS STAR
N
DANTZAND
ICE a___
D OES a winning horse make a star |
A trainer, or does the trainer |
make the winning horse? Does a
winning baseball team make the
leading manager,
or does the manag-
er make the win-
ning baseball team?
Does a winning
football team make
the winning coach,
or does the coach
make the winning
football team?
This ancient ar-
gument keeps pop-
ping up from time
to time, but the an- Connie Mack
swer is as simple
as adding two and three. The ma-
terial nearly always is about 80 per
cent of it—often more than that. As
a result coaches, trainers and
managers are given far too much
credit for winning results, and have
to shoulder far too much blame for
USO WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 1947
Demobilization
Set for 31st
December, 1947
WNU Features.
THE USO will continue through
A 1946 and until the last day in
1947, when it will complete its war-
time, demobilization and reconver-
sion services December 31, 1947.
Official announcement that USO
will conduct its own fund-raising
campaign next September and Octo-
ber with a goal to cover minimum
service requirements through 1947
was made by President Lindsley
F. Kimball at USO New York head-
1 quarters.
USO came into being on Febru-
ary 4. 1941, when six member agen-
cies joined hands to create one or-
ganization to care for the needs of
the men and women of the armed
forces. So far the American public
has contributed 200 million dollars
failures they couldn't help. They
have important work to handle and
their superior skill is needed at
times to beat an opponent just a
bit better—but they can’t close the
gap between class and mediocrity.
In something more than 40 sea-
sons Connie Mack has won nine
pennants. He also has had as many
or more tail enders. Frank Chance
won four pennants in five years with
the old Cubs, but Chance couldn't
get the Yankees, or Highlanders as
they were known then, within
V-rocket range of the first division.
The same thing applies to football
coaches who are bedecked with
laurel and olive when they have a
big, hard-charging line and fast-
moving backs but who are panned
to a pulp when they can’t win with
a poor line and slow-moving ball
carrriers. Football coaches, realiz-
ing this, with the help of willing
alumni have outclassed all other
fields in locating promising talent
and bringing the same to the cam-
pus they must guard—especially
when they have enough money with
which to work and the scholastic
requirements are softened up. No
one can blame the coaches for
this action, the same being for self-
protection.
As far as material vs. manage-
ment goes, what manager could lift
the Athletics or the Phillies out of
last place? In your summary you
can include Stalin, Truman and John
L. Lewis. The winning answer is
the material. .
Best College Outfit
In the midst of the tumult and the
shouting from baseball, racing, box-
ing and golf, there is a clear note
from college sports that sings its
own song. This note comes from
Oklahoma A. and M. to this effect:
Dear Mr. Rice:
Please allow me to introduce my-
self. My name is Weldon B. Boyles
of Oklahoma City. 1 am attending
Oklahoma A. & M. for the first time
under the G.I. Bill.
When I first enrolled, in January
of this year, 1 realized that Okla,
homa A. & M. was turning out a
basketball team of national impor-
tance and. in view of the fact that
A. & M. had a national ranking foot-
ball team last fall, I began to won-
der if the Aggies were not setting
a new American mark in that: (1)
No school, two years in a row, ever
to the organization.
Still Needed, Says Ike.
In a message to President Kimball,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stated:
“May I earnestly count on your
organization and your host of volun-
teers to stay with us through the
dangerous and difficult period of
transition to final peace?
"We still have a pressing need
for the services of USO and will be
deeply grateful for your continued
help in the future as in the past.”
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz,
chief of naval operations, also sent
a message of congratulation.
For Wounded Veterans.
The need for raising a terminal
fund in the fall of 1946 is due to the
fact that the National War fund
will finance USO only through 1946.
Tentative, purely tentative, plans
for 1947 call for the operation of
some 350 to 400 USO clubs in the
continental United States, largely in
connection with hospitalized but
convalescent veterans. Operation of
station lounges for troops-in-transit,
men on leave, and families of serv-
ice people must continue. Overseas
clubs will carry on in Alaska, Canal
zone, Hawaii, Philippines, etc.
Camp shows will still be seen and
heard in 1947 by men in hospitals
and men overseas.
Coincident with the announce-
ment of the USO fall campaign,
President Kimball made public his
annual report, in which he says:
"USO finds that at its peak of
activity, it was serving 1,000,000
people a day in one capacity or an-
other, running up to more than 1,100,-
000,000 the total served since the
i organization was created.
1 3,035 Units at Peak.
1 “The number of operations, such
as clubs, lounges and similar activi-
ties, reached a high point back in
March of 1944, a total of 3,035. As
training camps closed and the men
went overseas this number declined
but the over-all volume of work in-
creased.
"The five-year peak of activity
and cost came after peace in Eu-
rope and before the surrender of
Japan. Redeployment of troops re-
opened many camps, doubled or
vastly increased loads of various
seaport cities. . . . Expenditures
climbed to $5,800,000 a month.”
New Postwar Problems.
ranked so high in both of our ma-
jor sports (basketball, football); (2)
No school has ever accomplished
the feat of winning THREE top
sports in ONE school year.
Here is part of what the Aggies
have done so far:
Referring to the future of USO,
Mr. Kimball says in his report:
“The successful conclusion of the
war does not, cannot, and will not
return the United States to its pre-
war status. ... It is clear even
now that our armed forces in the
postwar period must be numbered
in the millions.
“USO will complete its wartime,
demobilization and reconversion
services December 31, 1947.”
AT CHOW . . . Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran and Clifton Fadiman
of “Information Please,” went G.I. and washed their own mess kits
while on a USO-Camp Shows tour overseas.
HOPE OF TOMORROW
Future Homemakers of America
Membership Now over 200,000
We are the Future Homemakers of America.
We face the future with warm courage,
And high hope.
For we are the builders of homes.
Homes for America’s future.
Homes where living will be the expression of everything
That is good and fair. •------------------------------
WRITTEN by pupil delegates at
a meeting of the national
executive council of the Future
Homemakers of America in Chi-
cago in the summer of 1945, the
foregoing creed dramatizes the
broad objectives of a booming high
school home economics club al-
ready numbering over 200,000 mem-
bers in 45 states and Hawaii and
Puerto Rico.
High school home economics clubs
are not a new idea but the Future
Homemakers movement represents
ADVISER ... Dr. Hazel Frost
Is national adviser of the Future
Homemakers of America.
1O-ROUND
REW PEARSON
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GRAND B/CU/75-
NO BITTER
TASTE! (=
VANDENBURG GOP CANDIDATE
WASHINGTON. - Erudite Sena
tor Vandenberg of Michigan not only
has been doing a good job on for-
eign relations, but he takes it—and
himself—seriously. Perhaps one is
| necessary to the other. Talking to
a friend the other day, the Michi-
' gan senator opined:
"Well, we’re getting along pretty
well now that we have a Republi-
can foreign policy.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, analyze it for yourself,"
shot back the man who may be the
| next GOP nominee. "It all goes back
| to my now somewhat famous
speech of January, 1945."
NOTE—Van claims he Is get-
ting bored with politics. “One
question I can’t answer to my
wife’s satisfaction,” he says, "is
why I’m running for re-election
(as senator). I’ve threatened to
divorce her if she asks me
again." (The answer, of course,
is that if Van doesn’t run again
for senator, he won’t be in the
trial heats for President.)
SENATE LABOR REBELLION
Deadliest backstage punches
, against President Truman’s labor-
I draft program were scored by CIO
Pres. Phil Murray in a secret meet-
ing held by the senate education
and labor committee.
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Those present included Murray;
Lew Hines, AFL legislative repre-
| sentative; Martin Miller, represent-
| ing Al Whitney’s railway trainmen;
| plus Senators Jim Murray of
limited possibilities offered for Montana (chairman), David I.
learning and teaching. Walsh of Massachusetts, Elbert
Designed to stimulate interest in | Thomas of Utah, Claude Pepper of
home economics and integrate high Florida, Lister Hill of Alabama, Joe
school activities with organization Guffey of Pennsylvania and Wayne
work, the Future Homemakers Morse of Oregon.
movement evolved from plans The CIO president got right down
drawn by the American home eco- to cases.
nomics association and the home “My organization has always fol-
economics service of the U. S. of- lowed President Truman s recom-
fice of education in 1944. Within mendations in labor disputes and
a few months, it was accepted by | the record proves it,” Murray de-
the state departments of education | clared. “Look at the auto, steel and
and vocational education and the oil disputes. We went along with the
state home economics associations fact-finding boards. In some cases
of a majority of states, including
Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
‘Toward New Horizons.’
When the pupil delegates of the
Future Homemakers met in Chi-
' cago last summer they were fully
prepared for formal organization of
their club. Besides writing their
creed and constitution, they devel-
oped policies and procedures, drew j
a work program for the year, de-
cided upon red and white for their
colors, the red rose for their flow-
er, and an octagonal emblem. Fit- |
tingly, they chose “Toward New j
i Horizons” for their motto.
the first effort to co-ordinate all such
activity in a central organization.
Under the stimulus provided by
home economics sections in state
departments of education, the
American Home Economics associ-
ation, and home economics schools
and departments in colleges, in-
dependent units have thrived for 15
years, with recognition of the un-
National in scope, the Future
Homemakers are broken down into
regional districts, with state and lo-
cal chapters.
Presently, Myrtle Hilton of Tip-
tonville, Tenn., is president; Anita
Lehman of Baton Rouge, La., is
vice president; Emma Jo Lewis of
De Land, Fla., is recreation chair-
man; Joan Du Plessis of Swamps-
cott, Mass., is secretary; Barbara
Ann Boggs of Sutton, W. Va., is vice
president and Marie Bresnan of
East Haven, Conn., is national proj-
we had to accept much below what
we asked, but we did so patri-
otically.
“Can industry say as much?"
Murray continued. “Look what
happened during the auto
strike. General Motors held out
for months against the recom-
mendations of Truman’s fact-
finding board, which labor was
willing to accept. That was a
case of management striking
against the government, but did
President Truman call for a
joint session of congress to up-
braid General Motors offi-
cials as he did recently against
labor? He did not."
NO-STRIKE PLEDGE?
Then, with a scowl, the usually
mild-mannered CIO boss acidly
added:
“Did he offer legislation then
to penalize and enslave all
management as he did in this
case against labor? Well, I don’t
remember reading anything
about it.”
Senator Hill inquired if labor
would be willing to offer Truman a
compromise on the strike issue,
sac is
si:
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I DIXIE P
POWDER 5
In FOOTBALL, the Aggies ranked
11th in 1944, plus a Cotton Bowl win.
In BASKETBALL, the Ags placed
1st in 1944, beating DePaul.
But look what they've done this
school year of 1945-1946:
1. FOOTBALL-They ranked 2nd
(tied with Alabama) and won the
Sugar Bowl game.
2. BASKETBALL — They ranked
1st. Kentucky did not meet them
because I don't think Adolph Rupp
cared to take the chance.
3. Wrestling—they won 1st place
in the NCAA tournament, beating
Iowa Teachers.
Is it possible, when you compare
the Aggies against some of the oth-
er schools, that you might print
some of the findings In your daily
column? There probably are many
sports lovers in our land who would
enjoy the reading of such informa-
tion, although you would be laying
yourself wide open to a blast of
controversy from many loyal alum-
ni of other schools.
Weldon B. Boyles.
We have no set of vital statistics
at hand to clear up this point, but
for the moment we can’t recall an-
other college outfit with a better all-
around record against the competi-
tion of present years.
•* •
Career of Jake Jones
The new White Sox first baseman,
Jake Jones, stands 6 feet 3 inches
and comes from Monroe, La. He left
college to play in the Texas league
and in 1941 was called to the White
Sox—but the arrival of war ended
Jones' career as a ballplayer when
he enlisted in naval aviation. Here
is what one of the flying mates says:
“A great guy and one of the best
fliers I ever saw," he said. “Jake
was on the Fighting Lady, one of
the fightingest carriers in the war.
ect chairman. such as a six month
Other officers include Irene Trout
of Milwaukie, Ore., treasurer; Bar-
bara Parker of Carson City, Nev.,
vice president; Margaret Worlton
of Lehi, Utah, public relations;
Phyllis Marshall of Vermont, Ill.,
parliamentarian; Deania Burnworth
of Independence, Kans., vice presi-
dent, and Lois K. Mueller of
Seymour, Wis., historian.
no-strike
of
pledge.
“That is impossible, as far as
the CIO is concerned," replied Mur-
ray emphatically. “My organization
is run on Democratic lines and such
a pledge could never be enforced.
When members of a CIO union are
working under intolerable condi-
tions, I couldn't dictate to them not
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THOSE WHO SERVED . . . The USO continues to aid wounded vet-
erans. Above is Junior Hostess Lucille Massa playing checkers with
• wounded vet at a Battle Creek, Mich., club outside Percy Jones
army general hospital.
Highlights of USO Five-Year Record
A brief summary of USO's ac-
complishments during its first five
years of service to men and women
in uniform all over the world in-
clude the following highlights:
At peak, USO was serving one
million men a day.
During the five years (Febru-
ary 4, 1941 to February 4, 1945)
total of 1,100,000,000 served.
At peak there were 30,035
USO operations.
Peak expenditures were IL
800,000 a month.
Peak overseas units totall-
178.
Overseas club attendant.
(1942 to 1945) was 104,819,151.
During the half-decade, mo
bile services of all sorts totalled
50 million.
Nineteen and one-half million
Individual services performed
by 131 USO-Travelers Aid units.
Wide Latitude Allowed.
While the pupil members of the
Future Homemakers are permitted
the widest latitude in the formula-
tion and development* of their pro-
grams, they are assisted by experi-
enced advisers, including Edna
Amidon, chief of the home eco-
nomics service of the U. S. office
of education; Mrs. Dora S. Lewis of
the executive board of the Ameri-
can Homemakers association;
Emily Haydock of the National Edu-
cation association, and Dr. Hazel
Frost.
Successful in developing a home
economics club in Oklahoma sev-
eral years ago, Dr. Frost, as na-
tional adviser of the Future Home-
makers, has been largely credited
with the phenomenal growth of the
new movement. In assuming her
position with the Future Home-
makers in 1944, Dr. Frost applied
the same principles she employed in
Oklahoma in making the new or-
ganization a close working partner
of home economics classes.
Though mostly composed of girls,
the Future Homemakers also ad-
mit boys to membership.
At the height of activities 700
USO shows were given daily
overseas and in the United
States, by more than 4,900 en-
tertainers.
June, 1943, was the numerical
peak of volunteers — 739,000
of them working that month.
They worked a total of 165
million hours in the five years.
American public has given
200 million dollars to service 14
million men and women in
armed forces.
to strike. Therefore, I would never
agree to such a pledge.”
•• • •
RATIONING FERTILIZER
Agriculture department experts
are worried over a new drive by
Dixie democrats. They now want
fertilizer rationed. Hitherto, potash
fertilizer has been used mainly for
food growing, but now the southern
bloc wants it rationed so more can
go for the cotton and tobacco crops.
Midwest farmers do not object to
the idea of rationing of potash, pro-
vided rationing regulations recog-
nize the supreme importance of
food. The Civilian Production ad-
ministration, however, has always
allocated scarce materials on the
basis of a base period, and the
southern representatives are insist-
ing that any new rationing program
be based upon 1944 consumption of
fertilizer.
In 1944, five southern states
used 44 per cent of the nation's
fertiliser but produced only 10
per cent of the nation's food. In
the same year, five midwest
states produced 50 per cent of
the nation’s food but used only
6 per cent of the fertiliser.
CAPITAL CHAFF
The exit of young men continues.
Josiah DuBois, one of Secretary
Vinson’s crack assistants, has re-
signed to practice law here and in
Camden, N. J. . . . Secretary of the
Interior Cap Krug ended a six-hour
fishing trip in the Virgin Islands
with a painful sunburn, then pro-
ceeded to sweat out 12 days of hot-
ter negotiations with John L. Lewis.
. . . At Fort Washington, Md., is a
half-empty veterans’ hospital which
costs the taxpayers $211 a day per
patient.
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