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Show tlHilWi'lll U. Beleased by Western Newspaper Union. - Royalty Does Its Stuff This is not a criticism of private courses. There is no reason to criticize them. But the handwriting is on the wall the public course is coming into its own. The private course has seen its best days. The reason, as usual, is financial. During the past few decades golf has been an expensive game. The laborer and the white collar worker havent, for the most part, been able to afford to play. The most serious blow to expensive golf layouts came with the depression. The rich failed to get richer and the treasuries of all too many clubs were exhausted. Memberships declined and were slow to pick up again. The demand for daily fee courses continued to grow. Another change is due the cost of playing the game will be reduced. Sarazen has his own ideas on that score: There is no reason why a set of clubs for the average goffer should cost more than $30. They dont have to be hickory-heade- d clubs. Whats wrong with glass heads, plastics and things like that? The price of balls-wilhave to be cut. The new crop of goffers will demand these things and get them. About Leo Diegel Sarazens reference to golfs role in the rehabilitation of the soldier brings to mind the case of Leo Diegel, another well known professional. Diegel has suggested a plan for the rehabilitation of the wounded and the mentally ill to the PGA, the paid goffers union. His plan came from the British, who have found that golf has a psychological and therapeutic value that does not exist in any other sport. It wont be long before well have our share of these cases, reasoned Diegel, so why not be prepared for the inevitable? The result is that the first golf course designed for convalescents is now nearing completion. It is a nine-hol- e course on the grounds of the Valley Forge General hospital, just outside of Philadelphia. The hospital is government owned, but the government supplied only the land. Benefit golf competitions were held to raise money and it wasnt long before Diegel and his helpers had raised enough funds to build the course. Diegel is the sparkplug of the PGAs efforts to nationalize the idea. The plan is simple. The PGA would serve as the planning unit and local the clearing house groups would take over, just as in Philadelphia. Once the units were completed they would become a government operation. Very little thought has been given to sports as a healing agency. The emphasis has been on sports for .morale. The government is beginning to realize the value of athletics as a rehabilitation agent and several programs have been put into effect. But it wasnt until Leo Diegel got underway that golf got any official attention. ; Yank Roundup A New York man left a will leav ing all his money, about $5,000, tc the three members of the firm foi which he. had worked 22 years ir grateful remembrance of the treat ment accorded me as an employee." In these days when the boss is so widely denounced as a Simon Legree, an exploiter of his workers! etc., this becomes almost the NEWS ITEM OF THE GENERATION. . Employers as a whole would forgo gladly the money if now and then they could get a similar expression of kind regard. Never have they needed anything more. Can you fancy what a will if th following type might do for theii morale? I, Jarvis P. Withers, being ol sound mind, do hereby declare this my last will and testament: the firm of Jones, BrOwn & Smith, by which I have been employed for many years, I give and bequeath a framed testimonial in which I declare that, while we had 1 our disagreements and run-innever once had the feeling that 1 was EXPLOITED; and in which 1 further testify that I at no time found them to be brutal, ruthless, money-mahounds of hell, imps of Satan or polecats. 2. To Hilary Jones, senior partner, I give and bequeath the sum oi $1,000. I figure I loafed enough on London metropolitan police (bob- his time over the years to have cosl bies) cooperate with U. S. military him much more money. The days check- I got in late, left early and soldiered police in extensive west at on the job must have meant quite of in aimed end London, up a loss to the firm over the years. absentees and deserters tracing Jones was a little aloof, rather Mr. from U. S. forces. Above, bobbies and MPs hold a powwow in a strict and wanted his moneys worth, but after all he was not a bad egg. blacked-ou- t street. 3. To Prentice Brown I give and bequeath the sum of $800. I never got to know Prentice very well. (He never got to know me very well, either. Looking back, it was rather a nice arrangement, and did not prove there was anything hellishly wrong about either of us). Although Prentice was reputed to be of extreme dignity and quite a sourpuss, I once entered his offics when he had announced he was io conference. I found him playing the harmonica in his shirtsleeves. 1 always liked him for it. Then there was the time we both got into the elevator an hour late for work and he didnt look at his watch. 4. To Chidsey Smith I give and bequeath $400. He never said a word the time we caught each other at a midweek baseball game when both were supposed to be sick. I recall many occasions when he might have fired me and didnt. 5. 1 order and instruct my executors to state to Messrs.' Jones, Brown & Smith that it is not my Biddle Francis conclusion that all employers are General Attorney testifies before the house special necessarily inconsiderate, Simon Legrees. All my excommittee investigation into the seizure by the government of the perience with them leads me to a Montgomery Ward and company conviction that they are at times plant in Chicago. Left to right, Atty. human beings. The rumor that Jones Gen. Biddle and Rep. Robert Ram-spec- k has a cloven hoof is false. I once saw him with his shoes off. There of Georgia, committee has never been anything about Browns manner to indicate he has a forked tail and spit liquid flames. G. I do not believe that Smith walks through fire as a hobby. It is my belief that the firm is not possessed of devils. Signed, Jarvis Withers. 1. To s, d all-arou- The Private Courses , VmjsotM BEQUEST TO THE BOSS Sarazen, one of the few golfers known for his ability and willingness to express himself, is emphatic in the belief that golf is due for some of the greatest changes ever known to a sport. He made his feelings quite clear recently upon the completion of a tour of army camps. Theyre using golf now as a main feature of a program for the rehabilitation of the soldier, and that means well have thousands of new golfers around the landscape. With the influx of new players, the great change is bound to come. Specifically, Sarazen stated that the days of swanky country clubs, with costly initiation fees and stiff dues, will be a thing of the past within a few years after the war is over. Only a comparative few country clubs will be left. Golf will be brought to the little fellow, and the few remaining private clubs will have to encourage public courses to provide feeders for membership roles. We string along with Sarazen in this matter. Quite a few of the ultra-ultr- a courses are almost devoid of players and only a few miles away the public fee courses are crowded. GENE PhiHips one-nig- King Gustav of Sweden still enjoys his favorite game, tennis. He Is shown (left) in action in the royal tennis hall of Stockholm. Bight: Princess Rangnhild, daughter of Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha, of Norway, is shown (right, front row) with bottle with which she christened the tanker Karsten Wang at the Sun shipbuilding companys yard at Chester, Pa. Aces Dined at National Capitol l ht Biddle Testifies money--pinchi- g ace in the European theater, and Capt. Don S. Gentile, his buddy and wingman, Capt. John S. Godfrey, were dined at the capitol in Washington by the senators from their respective states. The team is on a well deserved furlough after having destroyed 59 enemy planes. Left to right are, Sen. Robert Taft (0.), Sen. Theodore Green (R. I.), Captain Gentile, and Sen. Harold Burton (O.). high-scorin- Deeper Daylight Bombing Against Axis ng I. Rodeo Winner THOSE NAZI PARIS MODES (Styles presented to America as du red from Haris have been found to be News item.) sponsored by the Nazis. No. 1 A crispy tailored tweed reflecting the Berchtesgaden influence, with the Goering fullness to give additional breadth. This snappy model has that distinctive atmosphere. Try one on and be convinced. hasen-pfeff- er comNo. 2 A fetching two-colbination dress and bolero already famous on the boulevards as the or Brauhaus Special. A weird number if we ever saw one! If you wish to look chic in an internment camp, go no further, my good woman! The If you really want somewill make you look that thing different, this is it. Put this on, madame, and acquire that annihi- look. No. With U. S. engineers adding greater flying range to our pursuit soil. For, while nlanes there will be more effective bombing of enemyour bombers can rocket Nazi of blows planes, the escort fighters parry in England force air Our Eighth to unhampered. their targets move new Nazi until bombing in daylight precision held the upper hand our daylight bombing tactics resulted in heavy losses, pushing back as shown by the arc. from 400 miles England, to a only point front whose specialty The escort British, our of planes. This was the range into to make able penetrations deeper been have is night bombing, of moonless of the nights. protection the blackened area because 3 Blutzburger-Katzen-Jamme- r! No. 4 The Paperhangers Fantasy! For sheer madness this is without an equal in the realm of Pvt. Daniel L. Cason of St. style. Conceived by Der Fuehrer on Joseph, Mo., wears the winners the retreat from Moscow, completed wreath as he sits astride his gal- outside of Sevastapol on the gallop lant little donkey. He has just won and offered to America, via Paris, the donkey handicap at the rodeo,, following a huddle of Prussian field staged by the men of the Fifth army marshals. Only a few left, thank on the Anzio beachhead, in Italy. goodness! - |