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Show J rHE RULLE- - niNGHAM. UTAH Making leathernecks' at Parris Island - .p- - vuvir Tl A r' ' I r . - ..ijp ;f.) Sp-;-; i Above are three photos of marlncs-ln-the-makin- g at Farris Island, S. C. At left, recruits begin their three-wee- k course on the rifle range. Center: After a day's firing at the range these recruits scour out the barrels or their rifles in a long trough of hot water. And at the right we have a view of the leatherneck's laundry, with recruits busily engaged at one of the wash racks. Kathleen Norris Says: Extravagance in Marriage Is a Pitfall (Bell Syndicate WNU Servlct.) wish you could tee what my wife got for our baby. Perambulator, high chair, crib, bathineUf, tterilizing outfit, blanketsthe coat wal $200 more than our budget for the child allowed. By KATHLEEN NORRIS many young wives HOW feel horrified shocked if their husbands could be identified as the "Tired Tim" who writes me this letter? If you happen to be a young wife the letter may help you to see one of the pitfalls of modern mar-riage a little more clearly than you do. I say modern marriage, be-cause marriage used to be quite a different thing a hun-dred years ago. A girl was so glad to get a husband then that she practically idolized him. Families were large, having from eight to fifteen members. Dependent moth-ers and unmarried sisters lived with the young wife, and all together the women han-dled the tremendous burden of domestic duties. They hung out long lines of wash; cleaned windows; fed chickens; cared for babies; started children off for school; wrestled with coal ranges and dirty grates; made fruit cake and bed quilts; took rugs out to the yard and beat them; put up fruit; nursed the sick, and In be-tween other Jobs wrote voluminous letters to dear old school friends. But it's different today. Each bride launches out by herself. In the following letter one young hus-band explains just where his wife fails him. Wife nad No Training. "Bert is the most adorable girl In the world," writes Tired Tim, "but she never had any .training, and money simply doesn't mean anything to her. We talked budget before we were married, and worked it out on paper, but she's never glanced at it nor given it a thought since. "We've been married two years and have a baby, seven months old. I wish you could see what Bert got for the child. Perambulator, high chair, crib, bathinette, sterilizing outfit, blankets it came to $200 more than our budget for him had allowed. My salary is $85 a week, but I carry insurance and contrib-ute $20 a month as rent for my mother, who has a pension; also pay $87 for our house including taxes and amortization of debt, and about $40 more monthly for refrigerator, stove and so on. "These expenses will lessen as time goes on, but Bert already has found a larger place she likes better, where we will have a room for a maid. We now have only dinner help. "Bert Is hospitable, and nothing is too good for her friends. In plan-ning menus she spares no expense. 'Let's have steaks again, and a mousse, and alligator pears,' she will say. Our friends are all better fixed financially than we are, and my wife likes to keep up with them. YOV MAY HAVE TO PAY If you are letting your hus-band worry about money you spend his hard-earne- d salary on beauty treatments, bridge prizes and clothes you fail to abide by the house-hold budget you planned long before you were married Then, says Kathleen Norris, you have failed in one of your most important duties as a wife. For no matter how pret-ty you may look, if your beau-ty shop bill is more than your husband can afford to pay, he won't be pleased. No matter how necessary that extra piece of furniture may be, if it costs more than it ought to, he'll probably hate the sight of it. In time you may be the one to pay in heartbreak and tears. ty well burdened, and not satisfied to face a future which may be an indefinite repetition of this sort of thing. Can you make a suggestion that I can pass on to her in the hope that she will take a different attitude toward extravagance and bills?" The trouble began many years ago. Tired Tim, when Bert was a little girl. Perhaps because she had no mother she evidently grew up feeling that she had only to want a thing to buy it, and that there was no relation between honest money and dishonest bills. Thousands of women much older than Bert have this failing, and thousands of moth-ers let their daughters go into mar-riage without a hint of the serious-ness of this oversight. The simple truth is, any woman who lets her husband worry about finances is a poor wife. This seems like a sweeping statement, but it is true. To be only a money spend-er, squandering his hard-wo- n sal-ary cheerfully on beauty parlors, frock shops, theaters, club lunches, bridge prizes, is to fail in your job, and more marriages go on the rocks because of this inexplicable stupidi-ty on the part of intelligent women than because of any other one thing. It doesn't matter how fresh, groomed, curled or frocked you are, or how charming your house is, with the new hangings, the new china, the chromium chairs and the Venetian blinds. If your husband is worrying about money, he hates it all. Husbands Like Serenity. For men, surprisingly, aren't fussy about furniture. They love comfortable old chairs, familiar lamps, "Dad's old desk" and "Mom's old spoons." They even get to like the dresses of yesterday; many a wife has been exasperated to answer, "I've had it three years," when an affectionate husband com-ments admiringly upon her costume. What a husband likes is serenity at home, a woman content and busy, bills paid. Very Much In Debt. "Last week my office boss told me that they had considered me for a promotion, but the fact that I was fcbout $2,300 in debt to doctor, hos-pital, dentist, florist, and so on, seemed to them a serious thing and they wanted an explanation. Fool-ishly, I told Bert this, and her "an-swer was to appeal to her father for money, "because Tim was being so mean." The old man, very much wor-ried, gave her a diamond ring of her mother's to pawn, and Bert ever since has been anxious to redeem it, for she naturally values it highly. "Now don't think," the letter con-cludes, "that I am criticizing my arife. But I am working hard, pret- - I remember one young wife who "fell madly in love" with the pic-ture of a nude girl by a stream. It was in the "September Morn" era. The picture cost $300. It was no prettier than the picture on the gro-cer's calendar that year, but she wanted it, and she had to have it She paid Installments on it for more than a year. Her husband hated it, and friends made fun of it She told them she was just storing it for Emily. Her F husband, run down and anxious, f died of pneumonia that winter, leav-- lng an estate of something less than 1 $2,000. Almost one-tent- h of that had 1 to go for the picture. I hope she felt it was worth while. f fi tfOOD, not only one of the j Lst ol all our National Open P joi, but also one of the most f md one of the smartest, has 1 1 message for the march-l- i at golfers whose scores vom T5 to 120. or up. leof try In win the Open ; unship, the Masters' and a tfBnients once more, my from now on along the jisiruction is to bring a sim-)- S or a simpler style to the I . the Winged Foot blond I headquarters at the excel-- I miandy Isle course at Miami cf ! where he operates a golf 'Hh hf the benefit of all sufferers hT aid esteem it much bliss to inf ! ( road from the rough and , ii .WHHiWl,illllltl.ll II. - Ul s? J - jkhi-- Y 3 - . :lLm j CRAIG WOOD back to the fairways, K rl the carpet is green and 5 h National Open champion, al-- " always a fine golfer, has '! i the top spot over the harder ' He has had to fight off the 51 it type of luck, and found his n rward and upward largely d U : intelligent study in the mat; c ' improvement, and this has ! a outfit him for helping oth-- " : giving sound advice. mv Methods 3! hat does Champion Wood jj simpler or more direct :ie first place," Craig said, jive you only a brief outline 8 expect to take the matter :uch greater detail later on. ' main point is the matter of y club's face comes through . There was a day in golf J er) thing was pronation and galled open face. I am now a rtiliever in swinging through with a squared or closed ' chioh simply means keeping b face square to the line of v also a firm believer now in the main burden on the fr6 wrists and arms not the 'the body. The less work the :o, the better off you are. s t watch Byron Nelson, in my the finest golfer we have roie to green. See how simple I'ng looks. It seems to be nails and arras controlling the olJ1 the club. j e!l to Improve fa! essity," Craig continued, "is I1 Jier of many things. In golf L ecome the mother or father 'overwent. I'll tell you about -- 1 of it. Anywhere from fifty adred of the world's finest pros move from Florida to nj Ja, then back across Arizo-v- ;, 'as and Louisiana to Florida f It is a desperate struggle 3ri 'It even, even if you win a xa ve made as much as $2,500 of these winter tours, which J a profit of maybe $200. e ,jn we began to find that par 'jj nearly good enough. You'd ,. jtpar for four rounds and fin-,,-- th or twelfth. We began to that you bad to beat par I or maybe eight strokes to naturally, everyone began to certain experiments. None s 'could afford to stand pat on je had. We Just bad to get ror finish one of these tours je from $1,500 to $2,000 out J Pocket. ' of the first things I had to J improve my putting. There ji'as a golfer great enough to sfjile putting poorly. I did this pig a mora comfortable bal-A- d by going more Into the 4an idea. My approach putts 4 keep running three and Ft by the cup, but I'll take fee on holding the next one liback. 3 ; ! ftag for a shorter cut to lower f" Wood said, "we began to fjiat one answer was the fi or shut face. One excep-njth- is is Ben Hogan, who takes deeper or fuller swing than n else. Ben weighs only 135 rf so he has to use a much )Jrc to get those big drives. stance off the tee means a Jjolf today. You can't keep J'iimber two irons and number ijoods trying to hit a green f an opponent using number four irons. j51! iI i SPEAKING OF j SPORTS By ROBERT McSHANE 1 ' RtUaitd by Wtittrn Nwspapr Union IN SELECTING. Joe DiMaggio as the American league's most valu-abl- e player for 1941. the Baseball Writers Association of America hon-ored an athlete whose name will be remembered as long as baseball is played. The slugging outfielder for the New Vork Yankees, who set the baseball world on fire with a record string of hits in 56 consecutive games last season, was similarly honored in 1939. Last year's most valuable player was not in the run-ning for this year's award. Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers, first choice of the writers In 1940, spent most of the 1941 season in the army and had no opportunity to re-pe-j During his six-ye- career with the Yankees, Joe never has hit low-er than .323. never has totaled less than 29 home runs and never has batted in fewer than 125 runs. He batted .357 in 139 games in 1941. His consecutive hitting streak this season started May 15 with a single off Edgar Smith of the Chicago White Sox and continued until July 18 when the string was broken by Cleveland Pitchers Al Smith and Jim Bagby. The selection wasn't a simple matter. After all, Bob Feller's 25 pitching victories for the Cleveland Indians were high in the league. Boston's Ted Williams outstripped Cecil Travis of Washington, his nearest rival for the batting title, by 47 points. Williams hit .406. Fifteen of the 24 committeemen for the baseball writers cast first place votes for Joe and the other nine approved him for second. Eight committeemen nominated Williams for first. 14 for second and two for third. Feller was named by 14 for third place, six for fourth, one for fifth, two for sixth and one for sev-enth. DiMaggio played for the San Francisco Seals in the Pacific Coast league for three full seasons and part of 1932. He was sold to the Yankees for $25,000 and five players in 1934 but did not join the New York club until two years later. He has been a member of the Amer-ican league All-St- ar game squad every year since he came to the majors. Though the price paid for Joe wasn't peanuts, the Yankees con-sider it one of the best investments ever made by the club. His value to the world champions can't be measured solely by statistics. His hitting streak meant a great deal more than is evidenced by the record book, i i Brazil's Contribution to Hemisphere Defense An impressive view of the military airport In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (upper picture) showing some of the planes of the Brazilian air force, most of which are of U. S. manufacture. Below: Three of Brazil's four submarines, at their base at Luakes island navy yard. Brazil keeps these submarines, all of which were built in Italy, In tip-to- p shape, ready for any eventuality. Lucky Driver ill! M fell This auto, driven by Philip Faico, 34, of New York, smashed through the guard rails, sending car and driver to railroad yards below. Falco got off with a bruised knee and a cut over the eye. Fighting 'Raid Bombs' in Gotham Vv - r" " 4 Assisted by regular firemen, air raid patrol workers are shown using rescue ladders In the "air raid" drill staged In Union Square, New York city. Mayor Florello LaGuardia, national director of civilian defense, watched the boys douse "incendiaries" and rescue victims. Bowling the Right Way By LOWELL JACKSON (ThiM is en ol striti ot letsoot ia bowlint by Lowell Jackson, one ol the country's outstanding bowlers. Mr. Jack-son has eighteen 300 games to his credit and has a league average ol 210.) Free, eusy and natural! HOW TO DELIVER A STRAIGHT BALL The straight ball is naturally the easiest to roll and can be more readily controlled. When you start your delivery of a straight ball, your thumb is pointed directly at the headpin. When re-leasing the ball, do not turn or twist your fingers. At all times refrain from putting your full effort in your delivery. Swing your arm from the shoulder freely, remaining as relaxed as possible to keep from forcing. A forced ball is likely to be what bowlers call a "dead ball." Remember to roll your ball down the alley. Do not pitoh it through the air to land on the alley several yards beyond the foul line. In swinging into your delivery of, a straight ball, hold it as close to your right leg (left leg if you're as possible, and re-lease it directly at the pins; that is, your swing should be on a line be-tween the spot where the ball hits the alleys and the headpin. Exag-gerate your follow-throug- h with your arm to assure positive direction. Back to the Wars ' 4 ' ! I -- ' 4s-' , f , iAr fry . L - . !"-- J r x. .. . j- - !? . , "". E- - - - .. "" ' ww. v .v Released by the British naval at-tache, photo shows British battle-ship H.M.S. Malaya steaming out of New York harbor after undergoing repairs under lend-leas- e program. U. S. Officers in Eskimo Regatta - . . i!' x 4 , rtt0 " i v rv. JyOt--: - An army lieutenant (upper left) and a navy lieutenant (center) are here shown as they participated in an Eskimo kayak race dnrlng a visit of a navy patrol vessel to Lake harbor, Baffin land. The officer are members of the Greenland patrol. t SPORT SHORTS , Sam Snead, long-drivin- g United States golf pro, won the Central Argentina Open with a total of 28012 under par. Jimmy Dem-are- t was second with 289. C,The Los Angeles Angels have purchased Second Baseman Roy Hughes from the Montreal club of the International league. l Frank Filchock, fullback for the Washington Redskin professional football team, was born in Cruci-ble, Pa. now lives in Grind-stone, Pa |