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\ / The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C- Thursday, April 1, 1937 *M***4r** ** ******** f STAR | ! DUST I M. ovie • Radio Paul Muni By VIRGINIA VALE *★* L ITTLE did Jack Benny know what he was letting himself in for when he decided to gp to New York for a few weeks and do his broadcasting from there. So many requests for tickets came in, and from very important people too, that the largest studio at Radio City wasn't anywhere near big enough to hold them. So, National Broadcasting com pany had to rent the biggest ball room of the Waldorf-Astoria and send the Benny broadcast out from there. Jack is one of those big, affable, patient fellows who can re member practically everybody he ever met, and he has met thousands in his years of vaudeville, musi cal comedy, pictures, and radio. First results of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts awards are be ginning to be no ticed at the studios. Luise Rainer, whose performance in ‘‘The Great Zieg- feld” was voted best of the year, has been given a five- year contract by Metro - Goldwyn- Mayer. Paul Muni, who got the year’s award for the best actor for his work in “The Story of Louis Pasteur,” evidently figures that he won’t be out of a job for a long time, so he is talking to contractors about building extensive dog ken nels at his house. Someone has given him a valuable schnauzer, and he is shopping around for some other dogs. For the fifth successive year Walt Disney won the award for best car toon, Mickey Mouse in “Country Cousin” being the one singled out as the best of the year. You will have a chance soon to see all of the Disney winners in one evening, as United Artists is going to com bine the prize-winning comedies of the past five years, calling them the Walt Disney Revue. —*— Edgar Bergen, the ventriloquist who has become such a favorite on the Rudy Vallee radio hour, has joined the wonderful array of com ics, opera singers, and dancers that Sam Goldwyn has lined up for his Goldwyn Follies. Bergen’s skill as a ventriloquist was developed when he was just a youngster. He liked to play jokes on his mother, mak ing strange voices call to he? from various parts of the room. Later he worked his way through Northwest ern university giving shows at col lege parties. Apparently Sam Goldwyn won’t be happy until he signs up simpty everyone of note in the entertain ment world for his Follies company. Over in London he has put Vera Zorina, sensationally successful young ballerina, under contract. You may have seen her in person, for last year and the year before she toured the United States, play ing in one hundred and ten cities with the Monte Carlo ballet com pany. She won’t just dance in Goldwyn pictures, but will be groomed as a dramatic player. Jane Withers just dares any kid naper to come around her house threatening her now. In addition to her usual body guard, a Texas Ranger who looks as if he Could rout an army single- handed, her father is usually around, and he has been sworn in as a depu ty sheriff, complete with guns. Further more, there is an electric signal be side her bed which rings a bell in all the police stations near Beverly Hills. Everybody is betting that the mischievous Jane will never be able to resist pushing the button just once, just to see the police come dashing to her rescue. ODDS AND ENDS: Janet Gaynor slipped out of Hollywood and went to New York for a vacation, and now she says she won’t come back until she can play in a comedy . . . Skippy, the famous wire-haireid terrier whom you know as Asia in "The Thin Man" pictures, has a big part in the R-K-O picture, "China Passage" .. . Joan Crawford has launched a new style, wearing old-fashioned bead bracelets that match the color and design of her print dresses . . . Sonja Henie cancelled the rest of her personal appear ance tour and hurried bqck to Hollywood to make picttirdi. Maybe the rumor that Tyrone Power was rushing other girls had something to do with her impa tience to return . . . Bobby Breen is go ing to star in a new radio serial culled "The Singing Kid" for National Broad casting . . . Another program to watch for is Paramount’s Sunday morning hour that will he staged at the studio. C Western Newspaper Union. Jane Withers I v:-” £ ••.vXvX ;••••■ XvXvX. l-vXvX- K Colonial Covered Bridge in Virginia. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Waahington, D. C.—WNU Service. F EW works of man more pro foundly affect his destiny than does the bridge. An empire was at stake when Xerxes threw his pontoons across the Hellespont, and Rome’s long arm stretched over Europe when Caesar’s army bridged the Rhine. Lack of pontoons on which to cross the Seine, Napoleon com plained, kept him from ending a war. Our own Gen. Zachary Taylor reminded the War department that its failure to send bridge materials had prevented him from “destroy ing the Mexican army.” Yet history, being so largely the annals of wars, fails to emphasize the importance of bridges in every day life. When you reflect how bridges now make travel easy and swift between towns, cities, states— even between nations where* rivers form frontiers—you feel that few other devices conceived by man serve more to promote understand ing and mutual progress. Ride the air across America and see how bridges dot the map. If the day be clear half a dozen may be in sight at once.. From culverts over backwoods creeks to steel giants that span broad rivers, you see a bridge of some kind wherever rails or highways cross a Water course. How many bridges of all kinds America has, nobody knows. No official count exists. United States army engineers, concerned only with bridges that span navi gable rivers of the United States, have more than 6,000 on their list. Look down on any river city, such as Pittsburgh; see the steady two- way traffic that flows over its bridges, like lines of ants march ing. Think of the jams, the chaos in traffic, should all bridges suddenly fail! Trace the bridge through history and you see how its development is an index to man’s social and me chanical advance. The Urge Is to Get Across. Fallen trees, chance stepping stones, or swinging vines formed his first bridges. He used them in flight from enemies, to hunt, fight, or steal a wife on his own predatory quest. Fantastic old woodcuts even show us living chains of monkeys swinging from tree to tree across jungle creeks! To get across, even as when the waters parted and Is rael’s Children walked dry-shod over the Red sea floor, was the primary urge. To this day, as in parts of Tibet, Africa and Peru, men still cross dizzy canyons on bridges of twisted grass and wild vines. Yet the func tion of these primitive structures is the same as that of the new Golden Gate bridge or the new giant at Sydney, Australia. They carry man across. We do not know who built the first bridge* At the end of the reign of Queen Semiramis, about 800 B. C., an arched bridge spanned the Euphrates at Babylon. The legend ary “Hanging Gardens,” some say, consisted of trees and plants set along the roadway of this wide bridge. Explorers at Nebuchadnez zar’s palace at Babylon found no traces of any bridge. Yet the use of the arch is very old thereabouts; you see proof of-this in the amazing ruins of Ctesiphon palace, east of Babylon, where the "vaulted ceiling of the grand banquet hall, still standing, is 85 feet high. Romans left us fine examples of the ancient arch bridge. To this day their masonry work is unsurpassed for strength and beauty; some of their early stone bridges are still in use. Only in recent times came cast iron, steel, and cables. In our own country it was the advent first of railways and then of improved highways for motor cars and trucks which was to strew bridges from coast to coast. In the pioneers’ bold trek to our Middle West and beyond, they ford ed streams or used crude ferryboats drawn by cables. Often the ’forty- niners swam their horses and oxen, and floated their heavy wagons by lashing logs on either side of the wagon boxes. Covered wagons bound for the “Indian Territory” camped at fords to rest, wash clothes, swap horses and shoe them, and to soak their tires. Today steel bridges span many such creeks; across them whiz motor cars, so fast that passengers barely catch even a glimpse of the streams that once seemed so wide. Built for Railroads. Train riders, asleep or busy with books and cards, are rushed for 20 miles over the famous Salt Lake cut-off of the pioneer Union Pacific railway. The “world’s longest bridge structure,” it is called. Stand this trestle on end and it would reach so high that men on the ground could not even see the top of it! Most new bridges we now build Schoolmaster of a Nation LJ E WAS “the most popular * * American of the Nineteenth century, the man who had the larg- . ... . est Influence in determining the are Wfihway. But when you thoughts and ideals of the American ™ r ! P«P'* <IWn t a*t period and the than 200,000 miles of rails, you can see how the railroad, first with its crude wooden trestles, scattered bridges across America. As west ward migration rose to millions, the use of fords and ferries dwindled and bridges multiplied, sometimes not without local disputes. When the first railroad bridge was started over the Mississippi at Dav enport, Iowa, steamboat men en joined its building as a “nuisance” to navigation! Abraham Lincoln, lawyer, argued the case for the rail way—and the bridge was built. “He is crazy 1” men said of James B. Eads when he sought to build the largest steel-arch bridge of its time over the Mississippi at St. Louis. Doubters sniffed at Eads’ use of pneumatic caissons for bridge pier foundations. “I told you so,” they said, when the first two half arches approached their junction at mid-span and failed by a few inches to fit. “Pack the arch in ice,” or dered Eads. The metal shrank and the ends dropped into place. The same taunts of ignorance were flung at John A. Roebling and his Brooklyn bridge. “Men cannot work like spiders,” these critics said. “They cannot spin giant cables from fine wires high in air.” Roeb ling died before the task was done, but his monument is the bridge that spans East river. In the half century since its completion, amazing ad vance has been made in the design, materials, foundations, and erec tion methods of bridge engineering. And there is speed! It took more than ten years to build the Brooklyn bridge. Greater structures are built now in one-third the .ime. When opened in 1883, Roebling’s Brooklyn bridge was called one of the “Won ders of the World.” Now the George Washington bridge over the Hudson at New York has a span of 3,500 feet—more than twice that of the Brooklyn bridge. And the new Gold en Gate bridge spans 4,200 feet! Lore of Ancient Bridges. Our American bridges were all built yesterday, as the Old World counts time. Except that American Indians laid flimsy bridges of poles over narrow streams and sometimes sent a crowd of squaws to test a new bridge to see if it would sustain the tribe’s horses, we have little of the lore, the traditions, and supersti tions which cling to ancient bridges of Europe and the East. It is even hard for us to imagine t at the Caravan bridge in Smyrna may be 3,000 years old; that Homer wrote verse in nearby caves, or that St. Paul passed over this bridge on his way to preach! Or that Xerxes, the Persian king, bridged the Greek straits more than 400 years before Christ. Then, tasting grief even as Eads and Roebling, he saw a storm destroy it, so that he had to order the rough waters to be lashed and cursed by his official cursers, while he executed his first bridge crew and set another gang at the task. Reading the papers, it was easy for us to learn all about the Inter national bridge over the Rio Grande between El Paso and Juarez, when President Taft walked out on it to shake hands with' President Diaz of Mexico. Later, by radio, we heard Windsor, and the diplomats speak when the Niagara Peace bridge opened to let Amerians and Can adians mingle in friendly commerce Myths and Folklore. Myths and superstitions linger about many bridges. Since people often die in floods, the Romans looked on a bridge as an infringe ment on the rights of the river gods to take their toll. Hence, human be ings first, then effigies, were thrown into the flooded Tiber by priests, while vestals sang to appease the river gods. In parts of China today a live pig or other animal is so sacrificed when rising floods threat en a bridge. Turkish folklore reveals this same idea. In his book, “Dar U1 Islam,” Sir Mark Sykes records this legend of a bridge under construction which had fallen three times. “This bridge needs a life,” said the workmen. “And the master saw a beautiful girl, accompanied by a bitch and her puppies, and he said, ‘We will give the first life that comes by.’ But the dog and her little ones hung back, so the girl was built alive into the bridge, and only her hand with a gold bracelet upon it was left out side.” It was Peter of Colechurch, a monk in charge of the “Brothers of the Bridge,” who built the Old Lon don bridge. It was a queer struc ture, with rows of high wooden houses flanking each side, overhang ing the Thames. Soon after its com pletion the houses at one end caught fire. Crowds rushed out on the bridge and hosts of people died eith er in' the blaze or from jumping into the stream. UNCOMMON AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson • Western Newspaper Untoa IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI chool Lesson By. REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQU1ST, been o< the Moody Bible InsUt OfMtSTTO i noun of Chicago. • Western Newspaper Union. mute Lesson for April 4 •GOD THE CREATOR LESSON TEXT—Genesis 1:1-9. 96-31. GOLDEN TEXT—In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:1. PRIMARY TOPIC—When God Made the World man to whose work many great Americans of the present day pay tribute as being the fountain of their inspiration to aspire and to achieve.” He was William Holmes McGuffey, the “Schoolmaster of a Nation.” Born in Pennsylvania in 1800, Mc Guffey became a pioneer teacher in Kentucky after his graduation from a little college in his native state and later was offered a position on the faculty of Miami university in Ohio. Recognizing the lack of good reading material in the common schools of those days, McGuffey re solved to do something about it. The result was the publication in 1836 of the first and in 1837 the second of a graded set of readers. The next year he published a third and a fourth reader. Then, with the help of his brother, Alexander McGuffey, who aided in the revision of the earlier works and collected much of the material foi the next two, he issued his fifth and sixth Ec lectic Readers. McGuffey not only had a keen lit erary sense but he was also able to select from the world’s best lit erature selections that appealed to children. That fact, combined witn the high moral tone of the selections, which recommended them to parents trying to bring their children up in the way they should go, gave his readers great popularity. They sold by the mil lions in this country and were trans lated into many foreign languages so that the McGuffey influence was ex tended into other lands. How great that influence was— especially in this country—it is im possible to estimate. But there is no doubt that the serious purpose of the McGuffey Eclectic Readers, their kindly spirit and their teach ings of the essential virtues made ciuldren of an earlier generation better men and women today. At least, that is the unanimous testi mony of many American notables— authors, educators, industrialists, statesmen — not to mention thou sands of “just plain folks” who be long to the numerous “McGuffey So cieties” scattered all over the United States. At regular intervals they gather together to read again their favorite selections from the Eclectic Readers and to the end of their days they cherish in their hearts the lessons they once learned from this “Schoolmaster of a Na tion.” He Saved an Empress IF IT had not been for the re- * sourcefulness and courage of an American dentist, the last empress of the French might have met death at the hands of an infuriated mob of revolutionists and another tragic chapter might have been written in the history of deposed royalty in that country. The empress was Eu genie, wife of Napoleon III, and the man who saved her was a Dr. Thomas W. Evans. Not long after Louis Napoleon be came emperor. Dr. Evans was made court dentist of the second empire. At that time dentistry was not the respected profession that it uy iauiu, we neara is to ^ a y- But such was the genius the Prince of Wales, now Duke of*"P* this form er Philadelphian that he ... was hgjjj jn e q Ua i esteem with all of Napoleon’s ministers. So on September 2, 1870, when news of the disaster at Sedan reached Paris and a bloodthirsty populace began clamoring at the gates of the Tuilleries and threat ening the life of the empress, she said to the officers of the palace guard “I will go to Dr. Evans. He is an American. I am sure he will render us every assistance we require.” With only a veil as a dis guise and accompanied by one of her servants, the empress fled by a secret passage to where a carriage was watting for her. Then she was driven in safety to Dr. Evans’ home, only to find him absent. When he returned, he realized that it would be dangerous for the empress to try to escape then, so she and her servant spent the night there. Meanwhfle Dr. Evans had engaged a private carriage and the next morning he started out with the royal fugitive on a peril ous journey Everywhere soldiers were on the look-out for the empress but the quick-witted action and ingenious ruses of the American, more than once prevented their capture. By spending his own money freely he brought Eugenie in safety to the coast and there he persuaded the owner of an English yacht to take her to England. Dr. Evans continued his practice in both France and America, and his inventions in his profession made him world famous. He later became one of the founders of the Red Cross society, and upon his death in 1896 he bequeathed his en tire fortune of some twelve millions to American institutions. JUNIOR TOPIo—In the Befflnnlnf-God. INTERMEDIATE AMP SENIOR TOPIC- God the Maker of All. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— God in Creation. A thin syrup of sugar and water flavored with almond essence is good to sweeten fruit cup. * » • * • • Your doughnuts will have that different flavor if one half stick of bark of cinnamon and four whole cloves are added to the fat used in frying them. • e a , When the frying pan has got slightly burnt, drop a raw peeled potato into the pan for a few minutes. Then remove it, and an traces of burning will have dis appeared: From the completion of the great Gospel of John, which took us back to that time “in the beginning” when the Living Word “was” and “was with God and was God,” we turn to the first book of the Bible, which is, as indicated by its title, a book of “beginnings.” We find in it not only the record of the creation of the heavens and earth, but of man, and the beginnings of his history, the entrance of sin into the world, the beginning of God’s revelation of redemption. It is in deed a most important book, funda mental to an understanding of the rest of the Bible. Genesis has been the special ob ject of attack on the part of crit ics, and especially by those who saw in its account of the creation statements which apparently did not square with the announced find ings of science. Fortunately, as men make advances in scientific discov ery, as well as in the understand ing of God’s Word, they are begin ning to realize that there is no real conflict between the established facts of science and a proper inter pretation of Scripture. When there is an apparent clash it will be found that either the Bible has been misin terpreted by men or they have mis taken a hypothesis of science for a fact. We are in error when we talk about the Bible’s being confirmed by archaeology or by science. If the United States naval observatory should find that its master clock does not agree with the observa tion of the stars, it would not as sume that the universe had gotten out of order. It would know that the clock is wrong, and would make correction. Science does not confirm the Bible; the Bible confirms true science. The account of creation may be considered in two great divisions. I. The Creation of Heaven and Earth (1:1-5). “In the beginning God”—what awe-inspiring words! How fully and satisfactorily they state the origin of all thingiu ■ Men ask us to believe their theories, but there is no cosmogony offered which does not call for a measure of credulity. Man cannot explain the origin of matter, the ori gin of life, the origin of rational life. These three great gaps a^ many smaller ones his theories ca£ not bridge. Man asks us to take his word for them. But we prefer to take God’s Word. Study the entire account of crea tion. Space here forbids more than the briefest reference to its perfect order and symmetry, its complete ness, the self-evident fact that it is a true account of the working of God. It is so received by thoughtful men and women of our day. Even scoffers have long since ceased to speak foolish words about “the mis takes of Moses.” II. The Creation of Man (w. 16-23). “Lei us” is an indication that the Holy Trinity was active in crea tion. God the Father is mentioned (v. 1), the Holy Spirit (v. 2), and without the Son was nothing made (John 1:3). Man was created in "the likeness and image of God.” This undoubt edly refers to a moral and spirit ual likeness. Man is a moral being, possessed of all the characteristics of true personality. He is a living spirit, with intelligence, feeling, will power. This image, no matter how it may have been defaced by sin, is that in man which makes it pos sible for us to seek him in his sin and beseech him “to be reconciled to God.” “Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, feelings lie buried that grace can restore.” Notice that God gave man “a helpmeet unto him,” that he es tablished the family as the center of life on this earth. He gave man dominion over the entire creation, and his restless pioneering spirit still carries him on to the complete realization of that promise. He pro vided not only for man’s spiritual and social needs, but also for his every physical need. Surely we may say with Moses that “everything that he (God) had made . . . was very good” (v. 31). Date Kisses — Thirty stoned dates, one cup almonds, white one egg, one cup powdered sugar. Chop dates; blanch almonds and cut into long strips. Beat egg very stiff, add sugar, date* and al monds. Drop in buttered tins with teaspoon and bake in quick oven. • • • Filling for a sponge cake is made by creaming three ounces of fresh butter and six ounces of sifted icing sugar, adding two ounces of chopped pineapple and a little pineapple syrup. • • • If sirup for hotcakes is heated before serving it brings out the flavor of the sirup and does not chill the hotcakes. WNU Service. Keep your body free of accumulat ed waste, take Dr. Pierce’s Pleas ant Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cents. Adv. Idler a Rogue Rich or poor, powerful or weak, every citizen idle is a rogue.— Rousseau. A Man of Sorrow One reason why Jesus was a man of sorrow was that He saw as none other the pain and sin and woe of the world. A Hard Road The hard road of sin is always so crowded that it gives little room for turning around and going back Determination He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.'—Emer son. 11 for Wrtfte HEAD :old Tor aptedy ud ribctiT* action Dr. Fa«7*s “Dead Shot” hM so oqaaL One dooc only wlU clean out ▼ora*. 60c. All drucs*** DrPeerv’s Verm! Wrtfhu Pin 0*. 100 Sold Knows the Value He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.—Dante. Coleman| rpn UMTS IISTMTLY-RO WJUTM Ban’s the taw that win onoot; an ironing day*'. It will aave year el .-help yea de better ironing eeeiW and < at ieeeeoet. A Real lateaat Lighting Iren... ae beating ▼1 thma tehee...ae waiting. 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