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b&^f w- '• '• . " * McC< S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1937 wW>:^' Pfer; \ FAMOUS n^iD ■ypOTii^anri ▲ iYCNTUKet/ CIUB <« . if Late for Work By FLOYD GIBBONS Y OU know, for a long time I’ve been inviting the boys and girls to tell me about the biggest thrills of their lives, and here’s Frank J. Starr, Jr., of Bergenfield, N. J., writing me as follows: “The greatest thrill I ever had in my life came when I read an article in a newspaper.” Well, sir, when I got that far in Frank’s letter I began thinking to my self, “Hold on, there! Reading a newspaper might give you a thrill now and then, but it just ain’t adventure.’’ And then I read on through the rest of Frank’s letter, and doggoned if there wasn’t an adventure in it, after all. You see, that newspaper article was about Frank’s dad— Frank J. Starr, Senior. And it was all about how he almost got fired for being late for work. That doesn’t sound like an adventure either, does it? Plenty of people not only “almost get fired,” but DO get fired every doggone day, and nobody thinks it’s exciting. But this is a special ease. You’ll begin to realize that when I tell you that, after Frank Starr’s bosses thought it over, and investigated the situation, they changed their minds about firing him for being late for work and decided, instead TO GIVE HIM A MEDAL FOR BEING LATE FOR WORK! > Frank Heard a Scream for Help. Boy, that is news, isn’t it ? All my life I’ve wanted to work for a boss like that. But being late for work still doesn’t come under the head of adventuring, so I guess I’d better get down to brass tacks and tell you WHY Frank Starr was late for work. The story that Frank Starr, Jr., got such a kick out of when he read it in the newspaper. Frank Starr—young Frank’s dad—worked for the dock department in New York City. He lived in West One Hundred Fifty-first street, not far from where he worked, and he was in the habit of going home at noontime to get a hot, home-cooked meal. On September 14, 1918, he had been home for lunch and was on the way back to work again, and as he was walking along the waterfront at One Hundred Fifty-fifth street and the Hudson river he heard a loud scream. “HELP!” Frank looked in the direction from which the scream had come. Out there on the water he saw a head bobbing up and down and a little arm raised up in the air. A kid out there in trouble! Frank didn’t hesi tate a second. The tide was running strong out in the river, but he didn’t even stop to take off his shoes or throw off his coat. He leaped into the water clothes and all and began swimming toward the drown ing youngster. It was hard going with his clothes on, but he swam on toward the spot where he had seen that little head go down. As he reached the place, the boy came up again and Frank grabbed him. He took him under one arm and had started to swim back to shore again when he heard an agonized voice on the shore cry: “Save Jimmy—save Jimmy, too!” Jimmy Also Had to Be Saved. Jimmy? Who was Jimmy? Frank had seen but one head bobbing around in that water. Was there another kid out there? He looked around. About thirty feet away he saw some bubbles coming to the surface. With one drowning boy already under his arm he turned again and swam toward those bubbles. He had a tough job reaching the spot. His clothes—the current— the boy under his arm—all of those things hampered him in his battle. At last he reached the place where the sinister stream of bubbles rose to the surface. Down under the water he could see where those bubbles came from—a still form floating down there. He reached down and pulled up a second youngster. Frank tucked the second youngster under his other arm. Both his arms were full now. Two KIDS, as- well as a lot of heavy clothing, were dragging him down. But he started for shore again, fighting with his feet alone to keep afloat. He didn’t have to swim far. A boat was putting out from shore and coming to the rescue. Frank swam toward that boat. It reached him when he was half-way in, and he put the two kids into it and climbed in himself. Too Modest to Tell of His Feat. Both kids were unconscious when they reached the shore. After a long treatment they were both brought around again and taken to their homes. The doctors wanted to do something for Frank too, but he refused their offer of medical aid. He—well—he said he was all right, &nd he guessed he’d better run along and change his clothes. He was late for work then, and he’d be a whole lot later by the time he got into some dry duds. Frank showed up for work just half an hour late. The boss wanted to know what was the trouble, and Frank—well—he just sort of shrugged his shoulders and said he’d got wet pulling a couple kids out of some water and had to go home and change his clothes. That report went down on the record, and pretty soon it came to the attention of Murray Hurlburt, who was then commissioner of docks. Commissioner Hurlburt took a look at that report but he wasn’t sat isfied. Maybe it just looked like a new version of the sick grand mother alibi. Anyway, he decided to investigate. He found out about pulling those kids out of the water all right—found out that there was a lot more to it than Frank Starr’s own modest statement indicated. So instead of firing Frank for being late he made a couple of telephone calls and told a couple of people what a brave fellow he had working in his department. And the result of those phone calls was that Frank was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Medal of the Life Saving Benevolent association of New York—for being late for work and, to use the words engraved on the back of one of those medals, “For sav ing human life in peril.” O—WNU Service. Spiked Boots Ban Saved Traverse City Sidewalks His boots were as sacred to a lum berjack in Michigan’s boom timber era as a saddle to a cowboy, but the loggers couldn’t wear them in Traverse CUy, reveals a Traverse City correspondent in the Detroit Free Press. The city passed an ordinance pro viding a maximum fine of $10 or 10 days in jail for the lumberman who was found wearing spiked boots in the city limits. In the ’80s and the ’90s, there was a good reason for the rule. Traverse City sidewalks then were constructed of wood. After a couple of instances when the city had laid a sidewalk of new white pine and three or four hundred rivermen had come off a drive and riddled it with their spiked boots the city decided to call a halt. The boots, made of the finest kan garoo skin and costing as much as $45 a pair, were purchased in the fall. Through the winter the loggers treated them carefully with mutton tallow, but they never wore them until spring when the drive started. Then the boots went on and stayed on for as long as two months. Why the loggers insisted on wa terproof boots when they spent most of the working day waist-deep in the water hasn’t been explained. Marks of Past Illness Shown by Hair and Nails Signs of past illness often re main long after the illness has end ed. These are to be found where the circulation is poorest, viz., in the hair and the nails, says a writer in Pearson’s London Weekly. After a severe illness, you will often find that a ridge appears run ning across the nail and growing with it, advancing towards the free end as the nail gets longer. This is due to the fact that the illness has absorbed a good deal of the patient’s strength and the circulation, in con sequence, has not been sufficient to nourish the nails properly. When anyone gets run down in general health, the nails frequently suffer in other ways, especially if the condition is a chronic one. They may become brittle and crack eas ily, while sometimes they are pit ted with small holes as though they had been worm-eaten. To restore the appearance of the nails you must, of course, first re store the general health. The prin cipal cause of the debility must be treated, and when this has been done improvement in the circulation follows. As soon as the nails be gin again to get proper nourish ment they quickly regain theii healthy look. fit IEME JOURT AND HOW IT WORKS The Will of the People By ROBERT MERRILL T HE Supreme court exists to interpret the will of the peo ple as expressed in their basic law—the Constitution. But the task is not always an easy one. Sometimes the members of the court themselves are not in accord. Sometimes critics outside the court disagree with its findings. That is only natural. Consider, for example, three of our outstanding constitutional rights: Trial by jury, immunity from un reasonable search, and prohibition upon the taking of life, liberty or property without due process of law. The language of the Constitution as to the first of these is very clear; as to the second it is less clear, and in the case of the third it is still more vague. Defining Our Rights. Since the function of the Supreme court is to protect the individual citizen against the invasion of his constitutional rights, the task of the court is easiest when, in the Constitution, the will of the people has been clearly expressed. Thus a federal statute authorizing a judge to dismiss the jury in a criminal case and himself pronounce the de fendant guilty would be a fairly clear violation of the provision that tl-.e trial of all crimes shall be by jury. In case of a warrant to search a citizen’s house, there might be plen ty of room for difference of opinion whether the attempted search was or was not “unreasonable.” Finally, when the citizen com plains merely that the congress is proposing to deprive him of liberty or property without giving him a square deal, the court has the diffi cult task of determining, upon the facts of his case, whether or not his complaint is well founded. In all three cases, however, it is important to remember that the lan guage of the Constitution is not the court’s language, but the people’s. As is stated in its Preamble, “we, the people” wrote the Constitution. As was also provided in the original draft, we, the people, can change its language or provisions. We have, in fact, done so many times, through the process of amendment. And when we make such changes the Supreme court has no choice but to apply, to any case, the rules which the people have written. The Case of Mrs. Minor. The Equal Suffrage Amendment offers an interesting illustration of this. Let’s go back into a bit of general ly forgotten history for an illustra tion: In 1872 Mrs. Virginia Minor, of Missouri, was denied the privilege of registering as a voter in that state. She insisted that she had the right to vote, and brought suit against the officer who would not let her register. He held that the constitution and laws of Missouri provided that “Ev ery male citizen of the United States shall be entitled to vote.” Mrs. Mi nor replied that denying her the vote was a violation of her rights of citizenship under the United States Constitution, and therefore the pro visions of the constitution and laws of Missouri were in this case void. The appeal went to the United States Supreme court. After hearing both sides it de cided unanimously that while wom en had always been considered cit izens, nevertheless the right to vote had not been made one of the priv ileges of a citizen by the United States Constitution, and that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution did not add the right of suffrage to the privileges and immunities of citizenship as they existed at the time of its adoption. Amendment Clears Situation. “If the law is wrong,” held the court, “it ought to be changed; but the power for that is not with us.” It held further that under the Unit ed States Constitution, “the consti tutions and laws of the several states which commit that important trust to men alone are not neces sarily void.” Today that situation is changed— because the people decided that women should have the right to vote and said so clearly in the 19th Amendment, adopted in 1920. Emphatically they asserted: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Since 1920 any law which deprived a woman of the right to vote would clearly be unconstitutional, and the Supreme court would so declare. What had formerly not existed as a right was made a right by the peo ple, by changing the rules. ® Western Newspaper Union. Free Bread Since 1656 Free bread was distributed to nearly 100 widows and fat'ierles* children at St. Ives, Eng., as de creed in the will made in 1656 by Robert Langley. While return ing home to St. Ives from Godman- chester, traveling along the River Ouse, Langley was caught in a snowstorm. He was saved from drowning by hearing the bells of St. Ives Parish church, and made the bequest as a mark of thankful ness wSS9 IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, Da * ‘ * “ * * Jean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. O Western Newspaper Union. zsac Lesson for May 2 ABRAHAM A MAN OF FAITH LESSON TEXT—Genesis 12:1-9; 13:14-18. GOLDEN TEXT—By faith. Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an in heritance. obeyed. Hebrews 11:8. PRIMARY TOPIC—A Friend of God. JUNIOR TOPIC—A Hebrew Pioneer. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Adventurous Faith. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Creative Faith. One of the greatest characters in all human history comes before us today in the person of Abraham. He is venerated by Christian, Jew, and Mohammedan alike. His per sonal history is replete with inter est and instruction. But his claim to an outstanding place in history is broader than any of these things, for he was the one by whom God called out a nation for himself and began his dealings in sovereign grace which continue to our day. In choosing Abraham God began the history of the Jewish people, his chosen nation. They were called by him to be not only a national witness to the one true God, but also to be the repository for his truth (the Holy Scriptures) in the earth, and, above all, to be the channel for the coming of the Re deemer to the earth. Our lesson, however, centers on the faith of Abraham. As the Gold en Text (Heb. 11:8) indicates, it was by faith that Abraham responded to the call of God. That call came to him in his father’s house in Meso potamia (Acts 7:2, 3). His partial obedience brought delay at Haran (Gen. 11:31), and wasted years, but in Genesis 12 we find his complete obedience and resultant blessing. The study of faith is always fas cinating. Faith is the thing in man that pleases God. He is quick to honor our trust in Him. Unbelief shuts the door not only to blessing, but also to usefulness. I. Faith Calls for Separation, Obe dience, and Worship. 1. Separation (Gen. 12:1). “Get thee out” was God’s command to Abraham. It is his command to his followers today. “Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord” (II Cor. 6:17). This is the crying need of the church in our day. Instead of the church’s being in the world seeking to win it for Christ, the world has come into the church and destroyed much of its vital testimony. 2. Obedience (Gen. 12:4,5). “So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken.” Faith obeys God, without question, without hesitation, and without reservation. We need a re vival of obedience in the home, in society, and in our relation to God. 3. Worship (Gen. 12:7, 13-18). “There builded he an altar unto the Lord.” Faith in God is far more than the psychologist’s preachment of self-confidence. It results in fellowship with God, re liance upon him, not on one’s own strength of personality. Faith wor ships God. II. Faith Results in Blessing, Pro tection, and Liberty. 1. Blessing (12:2,3). “I will bless,” said God. “The Lord’s commands sire rarely accompanied with rea sons, but they are always accom panied with promises, either ex pressed or understood.” In the case of Abraham the prom ise was not only to him, and to the nation of which he was the father, but to “all families of the earth.” That promise was fulfilled in the coming of Christ to earth to be our Redeemer (Matt. i:l). 2. Protection (12:3). “I will . . . curse him that curseth thee.” That promise to the seed of Abraham is still true. The nations have forgotten it in their hatred of the Jew, but God has not forgotten. The promise is equally true in the case of those who follow Christ, “the son of Abraham.” His protecting hand is over us even in the dark hour when it looks as though the hosts of Satan had conquered. 3. Liberty (13:14-17). “All the land. . . will I give.” After many and varied experiences in which Ab raham proves God’s grace and pow er, he comes out into a place of unlimited liberty. The man who boasts of his “per sonal liberty,” who feels that he is free from the “bondage of religion,” is in fact a slave to the enemy of his soul. And the man who becomes “the bondslave of Jesus Christ,” he alone is free. None is more fet tered thstn he who shouts “I am the captain of my fate. I am the master of my soul.” And none is so free as he who can say, “Christ is the Captain of my fate, the Master of my soul.” Deciding What Not to Do Men must decide on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.—Mencius. God’s Way God can act where we cannot even think, out of resources that wa know nothing about. Strength of Character He who is firm and resolute in will moulds the world to turns elf. —Goethe. A Winsome Quartette IS76 T HERE was a lull in the mid-morning ac tivities of the Chic Twins (in aprons this time) and their week - end guests when the candid camera caught this gay quartette. The guests are wearing—let’s have a close-up — sports dresses be cause they are so all purpose: tennis frocks go shopping just as often as not. The spectator model to the right with its unusual use of buttons is demure enough to wear when calling on one’s Sun day school teacher and yet would have sufficient swing to “belong” in the gallery at the golf tour nament. Summer days offer so many unexpected opportunities that these dresses are chosen as equal to any informal occasion. A Two-in-One Idea. The aprons on the charming hostesses to the left are both cut from one pattern. The clever miss will never overlook a pattern package that offers two such charming numbers for the price of one. The exhibit is over now; feature in one yourself in the very near future by ordering these patterns today. The Patterns. Pattern 1276 is designed in sizes small (34 to 36), medium (38 to 40), large (42 to 44). Medium size requires 1% yards of 39-inch ma terial. Pattern 1915 is designed in sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42). Size 16 requires 2Ya yards of 35-inch material. Pattern 1224 is designed in sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 40). Size 14 re quires 4% yards of 39-inch ma terial. With long sleeves size 14 requires 4yg yards of 35 inch ma terial. New Pattern Book. Send for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting de signs from the Barbara Bell well- planned, easy-to-make patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing, well-cut patterns for the mature figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and ma trons and other patterns for spe cial occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Send 15 cents today for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, I1L Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Don*t Sleep on Left Side, Crowds Heart GAS PRESSURE MAY CAUSE DISC0MF0RL RIGHT SIDE BEST. If you tos« in bed and can’t sleep on right side, try Adlerika. 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