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McCORMTCR MESSENGER. McCQRM/GK. ^C. y THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938 >• • Star Dust ★ Judge Hardy Craze ★ Gary’s a Wrangler ★ Glamour to Order By Virginia Vale Y EARS ago, when the “Amos and Andy” craze started, enthusiasts used to defend themselves against skeptics by saying that they liked the radio program because it was so human. Now the movie-goers, in droves, are saying the same thing about the pictures based on the lives of the MICKEY ROONEY Hardy family. The latest one, “Love Finds Andy Hardy,” is making plen ty of friends for the series, and may lead to demands that earlier Judge Hardy and Family pictures be re vived. ... The cast is good; Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Anne Rutherford, Lana Turner, Ross Clark, Raymond Hatton. You’ll feel that you know them as well as you know your neighbors. Mickey Rooney is superb. His per formance might well be listed as among the best of the year. Don’t miss “Love Finds Andy Hardy.” * Gary Cooper is perfectly happy, now that he is making “The Cowboy and the Lady” and wearing the kind of clothes he wanted to for his role; not the expensive togs that the stu dio’s wardrobe department picked out for him, but the kind that a cowboy really would wear. —*— They are telling an amusing story around New York about Jon HalL It happened when he and Frances Langford were honeymooning there, and were guests at a lake not far from the city. Hall took a canoe out one day, and the attendant stopped him, saying that he couldn’t do that until he’d taken the canoe test. So Hall, who grew up in Ta hiti and of whose skill in the water you know if you saw “Hurricane,” took the canoe test as obediently as if he hadn’t practically lived in one from the time he was born. *— The new Boyer picture, “Algiers,** has been the inspiration for a new dance, a slow fox-trot very much like the tango. Kay Kayser, whose radio popularity is spreading rapid ly, played with his orchestra when It was introduced in New York. —*— Glamour can be cultivated, these days, if the girl who wants it hap pens to be in Hol lywood. There’s a ' man named A1 Siegel who has made a business of it; teaches his pupils how to walk, how to use makeup, how to i r put a song over- Koi Patricia Ellis )w to do prac tically everything that most of the girls on the screen, and in ra dio have to do these days. He is credited with de veloping such stars as Ethel Mer man, Dorothy Lamour and Shirley Ross, and among his pupils at pres ent are Marsha Hunt, Andrea Martin and Patricia Ellis. Much of his work is with people who have made a hit in radio, been signed up for pictures, and don’t know the tricks of the trade. —*— Odd* and End*—Too bad that Don Ameche had to tpoil the first part of that long-awaited European vacation by com ing down with appendicitis . . . And may be 20th Century-Fox wasn't wild when they heard of his illness! . . . The new house which Lupe Vties arid Johnnie Weis muller were building will be finished and rented, unless Lupe changes her mind again about getting a divorce . . . There’s a radio in every room of Jack Benny’s new house . . . The Pickens sisters, who climbed so rapidly to success in radio, are now working hard to achieve it on the stage; they’re at the little theater in Provincetown, and experts say they’re ■ good . . . Douglas Corrigan has agreed to signing a film contract, if the story is to his liking—and it should be, for it will be the story of his own life . . . Martha Raye set September Mth^fpr the date of her wedding to David RtiJe, and then was in formed that she’d have to call off her plans, as she would be working that day . . . The picture will be u Never Say Die,” with Bob Hope; Mr. Zukor expects to make the Raye-Hope team a comedy-star ring one . . . But Martha wishes that he would postpone his plans for a month or so. • Western Newspaper Union. ADVENTURERS* CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! «< »* Playing With Dynamite By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: e The old phrase, “Playing with dynamite** has come to mean about the same thing as doing something foolhardy. That*s the figurative meaning of the expression. But literally speaking, the man who monkeys around with high explosives is usually one of the unsung heroes of our age. Over in France, twenty years ago, millions of men were playing with dynamite, and T. N. T. and just about every other explosive known. We didn’t call those fellows foolhardy. In those days, it was generally considered that they were doing a brave and noble thing. This is a story of another such lad who toyed with danger in a good cause. Herman Beaver of Chicago wasn’t juggling explosives in and out of ^ome sort of firearms over in France. He was taking an even longer chance with the dangerous stuff. On a hot day in July, 1917, he was working in a munitions plant on the northern outskirts of Milwaukee, Wis., on the banks of the upper Mil waukee river. Grinding Salvaged Powder. Over in France, millions of men were crouching in trenches, avoiding the explosives that the enemy was hurling at them, but Herman Beaver had no way to avoid the explosive that he was dealing with. His job was to handle the stuff—and to handle it roughly, too. He was grinding salvaged powder that came in to him in chunks and long tubes that looked like spaghetti—grinding it in a machine that looked'a lot like an old-fashioned, hand-operated coffee grinder. That powder, when it had been reduced to bits, would be used to load rifle grenades. ... In only one way did that machine differ from a coffee grinder. Between the handle that he turned continuously and the hopper into which he fed the ungrounfl powder, was a steel plate fixed so as to shield his body in case anything happened while he was grinding. On this day, while Herman ground away, his eyes wandered out the window and down the row of a dozen or more wooden buildings where the work of loading the grenades was going on. - They were little better than shacks, about twenty-five by fifty feet, built about fifty feet apart, in among trees, so as to obscure the plant’s i-BOOK SHELF- John S. Mill, Child Prodigy, Tells of Life Elizabeth James If A terrible concussion threw him backward. position from the air. Even in those days they were concerned about airplanes. Those shacks were filled with men and women, and even boys and girls—all taking long chances, to supply our soldiers with ammunition. Blast and Deadly Flames. But Herman wasnU thinking about ike chances. The view from the window was pleasant. The trees outside swayed in a gentle breeze. “I was at peace with the world,” says Herman. And then— Without warning, there was a deafening blast. Acrid choking smoke filled the air and fire bit into Herman’s flesh. He felt the earth rock beneath his feet—felt a terrible concussion that threw him backward. It happened so fast that only when he was on the floor did he realize what had happened. The powder that he was grinding had exploded. Behind him were benches covered with pans of powder. In rapid succession they were catching fire. Then Herman saw that his own clothing, heavily saturated with powder dust, was afire too. If they had been soaked with gasoline they couldn’t have burned any more furi ously. “The flames shot many feet above my head,” he says. “I was a living torch.” He was stunned for a moment, but he managed to stagger to his feet. His whole body one mass of flame, he ran to the door—and out of it. By that time people were pouring out of all the buildings in the group. Herman dashed out of the door and kept right on running. He had lost all power of reasoning. All that moved him now was a blind, gripping panic. He wanted to run, and keep right on running until he dropped. And in his terror'he was headed for another building—a build ing that was filled with powder. “Lie Down and Roll.’* If he had run into that building, this story might never have been in. But suddenly, through his panic, he heard a voice. Out of sill the shouts and yells of that mob of screaming humanity that was watching' his plight, that one voice, and that alone, penetrated his consciousness. ‘Roll,” it was shrieking. “Lie down and roll!” Suddenly, Herman remembered. That was what he should be doing. That was the only way to save himself. He dropped to the ground and began rolling. The pain was unbearable, as burned, smarting flesh came in contact with the hard earth. He rolled over once—twicer—and; then he stopped. It was all he could staiid. A workman ran over and tried to beat out the flames. . , ...... His apron caught fire and he stopped to tear it off. Then the superin tendent ran up. He ordered the crowd back, and he himself began roll-, ing Herman over and over. He burned his hands severely, but he stuck at the job until the fire stopped blazmg. When life flames were out, Herman’s clothing—what was left of it— glowed and "mouldered like one large, live coal. They rushed him ihto one of the shacks, sat him down on a box, and began tearing 'the charred cloth off his body. “That shack was filled with powder,” Herman says, “but In their excitement they never thought of that. “There was powder in the very box I was sitting on. The Lord only knows why the whole place didn’t blow up. I know I don’t. ' And I-have two large scars, one on my right hip and one on the front of my left leg, that remind me every once in a while of what a close call I had.” * < Nobody will ever know how that explosion started, but Herman thinks a percussion cap might have found its way into the powder he was grind ing. “I was working with the lid of the grinder open,” he says. “If it had been fastened down when the explosion occurred, the whole machine would have shattered to bits—and I don’t believe I’d be here to tell the story.” Copyright.—WNU Service. Silkworms Like White Mulberry Silkworms will eat any mulberry leaf, but the wfiite mulberry results in the finest silk. The white mul berry, a native of China, is found in many other countries. The red mulberry is a native of America. ‘Ma’ Has Six Meanings In the Annamite language of southern Asia, the term “ma” has six different meanings, depending on the inflection used—young rice, but, horse, ghost, tomb and mama. Bill Curves to the Side The wry-billed plover of New Zea land (a stouter, more compact sand piper), is unique in having a bill that curves to the side, a result, it is said, of searching for food around stones. Best Man at Wedding The custom of having a best man at a wedding originated in primitive days of marriage by capture, when the husband called his friends to assist in carrying off the bride. When his son was old enough to take university life, the wise father explained to John that he knew much that other boys did not know because of his father’s kindness in laWng so much time to teach him. Thbre was never any feeling on John’s part that he had done any thing unusual. When he fir^t went away from borne, he felt that many adults con sidered him somewhat impudent. He states that he did not under stand this at the time but later he saw it was because of his outspoken comments on mature topics. As a man, Mill took an active part in affairs of government, be coming a member of parliament. But this type of work did not appeal to him. He preferred economics and sociology. As long as he lived, Mill wrote and fought for the cause of freedom. In youth he ardently admired Lafayette, then an old man. Mill’s Quotations. These quotations are from Mill’s history of his life. Of school, he wrote, “A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he can not do, never does all he can.” Of family life, “But the children of energetic parents frequently grow up energetic, because they Jean on their parents.” 1 On freedom of thought, “The for bearance which flows from a con scientious sense of the importance to mankind of the equal freedom of all opinions, is the only toleration which is commendable.” Mill reveals that he held his fa ther in high esteem but had little affectionate love for him. Of his method of teaching Mill wrote, “A defect running through his modes of instruction was that of trusting too much to the intelligible ness of the abstract, when not em bodied in the concrete.” Mill wrote prodigiously, his works being published in the best period icals of England, including the Edin burgh Review, Fraser’s, the Exam iner, Westminster Review, and the Jurist. His books cover a variety of subjects, including liberty, the cause of freedom for women, utility of religion, and government. His life was from 1806 to 1873, and he dominated the thought of England during the third quarter of the Nineteenth century. C n«U Syndicate.—WNU Servlc* By ELIZABETH C. JAMES 'TPHOMAS EDISON’S definition of genius was: “Genius is another name for hard work.” To which the public usually adds, “Plus his own superior intelligence.” In the case of John Stuart Mill, there was hard work added to great natural abil ity. His father used remarkable meth ods in training the boy’s unusual mind. Of these methods and much more, Mill wrote in his “Autobiography. ’ ’ The writer stated that he did not re member when he began the study of languages, but at the age of three he was reading English and Greek. When John was eight years old he was required to teach his lesson bf the morning to his younger brothers and sisters in the afternoon. If they did not know thetr lessons properly when the father heard them in the evening John -was held to blame. In this manner John absorbed his knowledge to a degree of mastery. - ,On long walks with his son, the father talked to John of learned matters, asking the boy’s opinion at various points. At all times the ma terial was over the head of the child, causing him to stretch men tally to reach it. Definite Study Plan. The course of study was laid out for a period of years. One subject at a time was thoroughly covered. For example, the literature of the world was covered in succession, that of England coming first, with that of Greece, Rome, France and other nations coming in order. CHILD PRODIGY John Stuart Mill was born in 1806 in London. His father, a writer of note in his own genera tion, was his teacher until he entered the university. As a boy he was known as a child prodigy, about which Mill writes in his “Autobiography.” The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that Mill understates the amount of knowledge that he had at various ages in childhood and also understates the amount of study and reading that he had done: “About the age of twelve, John began a thorough study of the scholastic logic, at the same time reading Aristotle’s treatises in the original.” The last years of his life were spent in retirement in a little cottage where he had music, books, friends, and long walks in the beauty of the countryside. His stepdaughter was his com panion and solace after the death of his wife. Mill lived until 1873. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAV| chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for August 21 HANNAH: GODLY MOTHERHOOD LESSON TEXT—I Samuel 1:9-18; 2:1-8. GOLDEN TEXT—Hei children arise up, and call her blessed. Riwerbs 31:28. “Godly Motherhood” — All the power and grace of the infinite God working in and through the most tender and at the same time most potent human relationship—mother hood! There indeed is the solution of many of our national and social problems. For we agree with the poet that man, who regards himself as being mighty, ruling over land and sea, must defer to a mightier power. "For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.” Hannah was the mother of Sam uel, who became one of Israel’s out standing leaders—a priest, a proph et, and “the maker of kings.” God needed a great man, so He chose for him a great mother. Our study for today will be topical rather than textual and extended to related portions in chapters 1 and 2. We consider Hannah as a mother who was spiritual and sacrificial, but at the same time practical in her daily life and service. I. Spiritual. Many are the tributes offered to mothers, but none has deeper sig nificance than the testimony of a boy or girl that their mother has led them both by precept and ex ample to have faith in God. Though other advantages may be beyond the reach even of the most self- denying mother, this most impor tant of all benefits she may bring her childreh, but only if she herself is an earnest and faithful follower of the Lord. 1. Hannah trusted God in her hour of trial and sorrow (1:10). Although her husband was a man of good qualities, he had followed the cus tom of his times and taken a second wife. Hannah, childless in the pres ence of Penninah and her children, was in deep sorrow. But she knew where to take her burdens; she brought them to the Lord in prayer. 2. She prayed—fervently and ef fectually (1:17, 18, compare James 5:16b). Mother’s prayers have fol lowed many a wayward boy and girl and brought them back to God. When every other influence for good had been swept aside, they have been unable to forget mother’s prayers. One wonders what will happen to boys and girls who go out to face a wicked and ^ bewildering world, with the memory of a prayer less, worldly mother to blight rather than to bless them. 3. She recognized children as a gift of God (1:11). And surely they are. Christian men and women should protest by both word and deed against the vicious modern theory that children are a sort of biological accident to be avoided II. Sacrificial. The most precious possession a woman can have is a child of her own. It was, then, the deepest and finest sacrifice of a noble mother- heart when she 1. Dedicated her boy to God, even before his birth (1:11). Yet this act so fine and commendable was in reality only an intelligent recog nition of the fact that children are a gift of God. Your children and mine belong to God. Let us not. stand in His way (or their way) as He graciously leads them out into serv ice for Him. 2. She kept her promise (1:24-28). Many parents have solemnly dedi cated their children to God before their birth, and then later the pros pect of separation from them has been too much for the parents, and the promise to God has been thrust aside: The writer has on many occasions seen young men and women weep with broken hearted dismay because a mother or father has forbidden them to go to China, Africa, or elsewhere at God’s call. Mother, have you kept your-promise to God regarding your boy, your girl? III. Practical. Hannah not only promised her boy to God; she made the comple tion of! that, promise certain. 1. By guiding her ; boy in the right way (1:24). As a matter of fact, she went with him to the temple. A mother who “sends” her boy to Sunday school or church will never help him like the mother of whom it may be said “she brought him unto the house of the Lord.” 2. By providing for her boy (2:18, 19). There is no more tender and meaningful story in all literature than that of Hannah bringing her boy his “little coat.” It is still true that the best “support” a mission ary of the Cro».» can have is a home that “stands by.” The story is told of a missionary candidate who had no “board” back of her but the “washboard” of a godly mother, and who made a valiant and useful servant in the foreign field.* Such an arrangement may not be the most desirable and it really should not be necessary if God’s people would give, but it has its glorious advantages. Such a mother as Hannah would have such a son as Samuel of whom it is said that he “was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men” (2:26). CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT SCHOOLS 4 ANNAPOLIS—WEST POINT COAST GUARD ACADEMY Hiffb School ffradaatee undergraduates 16 to ZL Write Lieut. ▲. W. Bryan, USN (Ret.) Annapolis. Md. Oct. Civil Service exam, for appointments. Gay Kitchen Means a Gay Housewife! Pattern 1783 Brighten your kitchen and light en your tasks with decorative tow els. Use up scraps for the ap plique flower pots—or do the en tire motifs in plain embroidery. Patterh 1783 contains a transfer pattern of 6 motifs averaging 5V* by 9% inches and pattern piece for applique; illustrations of stitches; materials required. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York City. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. Tarotite Recipe ojf the U/eeA Toasted Coconut Ice Cream (Freezer Method) 3 cups milk 1 package unflavored ice cream powder 1 cup heavy cream 8 drops almond extract 1 cup shredded coconut, toasted Add milk very gradually to ice cream powder, stirring until dis solved; then add cream and fla voring. Pour into freezer can; place in freezer and pack mixture of crushed ice and salt around can (use 8 parts ice to 1 part salt). Turn slowly for 3 minutes, then rapidly. When thick, but not hard add toasted coconut and continue freezing. Makes 1% quarts. How Women . in Their 40*s Can Attract Men Here’s good advice for a woman during her change (usually from 88,to 62), who fears she’ll lose her appeal to men, who worries about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells, upset serves and moody spells. Get more fresh air, 8 nrs. sleep and if you need a good general system tonic take Lydia E. Pinkham a Vegetable Compound, made especially for women. It helps Nature build up physical resistance, thus helps give more vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that often accompany change of life. WELL WORTH TRYING! ■V Matter of Taste The greatest element of criti-' cism is teste.—Sainte Beuve. ruined eyes by neglect; they get red and sore and you let them go. Don't do it. Leonardi’s Golden Eye Lotion cures soreness without pain in one day. Cools, heals and strengthens. < LtONARDI’S GOLDEN EYE LOTION MAKES WEAK EYES STRONG ^§C *t all druggists New Larye Size with Dropper—50 cents t. B. Leonard! & Co., New Rochelle, N. T. Sentinels of Health Don’t Neglect Them ! Nature designed the kidneys to do g marvelous job. Their Issk is to keep the flowing blood stream free of an excess of toxic impurities. The act of living—life itself—is constantly producing waste matter the kidneys must remove from the blood if good health is to endure. When the kidneys fail to function as Nature intended, there Is retention of waste that may cause body-wide dis tress. One may suffer nagging bacfcachet persistent headache, attacks of dizziness, getting up nights, swelling, pufflneas under the eyee—feci tired, nervous, all worn out. Frequent, scanty or burning passages may be further evidence of Kidney or bladder disturbance. The recognized and proper treatment Is a diuretic medicine to help the kidneys f et rid of excess poisonous body waste. ise Doan’s Pills. They have had mors than forty years of public approval. Ara endorsed the country over. Insist oa Doan’e. Sold at all drug stores. Doans Pius