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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.
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IEME
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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
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
UNDAYI
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Da * ‘ * “ * *
Jean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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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.
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on Left Side,
Crowds Heart
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lower bowels and brings out foul
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or nervousness.
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feel. Just ONE dose relieves GAS and
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Words and Deeds
Words are but holy as the deeds
they cover.—Shelley.
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