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McCORMTCK MESSENGER. McCORMTCK. S. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1938 Star Dust j ★ Pearl Was Canny ■ ★ Gorgon Reduces ★ “Willie” Flops By Virginia Vale P EARL WHITE’S death brought out an odd fact, when her father denied that she was forty-nine. She was forty- ene, he said, and added that she had just tacked on a few years, long ago, “to keep ahead at Mary Pickford.” A woman who interviewed the se rial star in the heyday of her popu larity was talking about her recent- br. “She was an amazing person,’* she said. “Think of her having sense enough to save money, back in those days when to be a movie star meant throwing it around. I’ll never for get, either, going to see her one and finding her reading a French book—in French.’’ It seemed odd, too, that Warner Oland, who so often played the vil lain in Pearl White’s pictures, should have died soon after she did. He was famous in those days, but of course his great success came with his creation on the screen of the character ct “Charlie Chan." * ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! 'Tragedy Closes In* By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: You know, they say troubles never come singly, and I know doggone well that is true in at least one case. It’s the case of Amy Castaldi of Chicago. When fate began piling grief on Amy’s shoulders, she piled it up high. It was a Friday morning, the.second day of July, 1933, when things began to go wrong. Amy's eight-year-old son, out playing with some other kids, burned the pupil of his right eye. He was in constant pain, and for two days and nights after that Amy never left his bedside until a far worse calamity forced her to. And right on the heels of that accident came the news that an uncle had died in Louisville, Ky. Amy couldn’t go to the funeral. Not with her boy in constant agony. So, on Saturday night her husband went without her, leaving her to take care of her son, and her two young daughters. Fierce Gale Struck Her House. Night had come on. Amy had put her two little girls to bed and they had gone to sleep. She was back at her son’s bedside, weary and worn, for another long night’s vigil. The hours rolled on. The wind had begun to rise. At 2 o’clock in the morning it was blowing a young gale. The Castaldis’ house was completely exposed to that wind on three sides. On the other it was protected by a factory, but the gale wasn’t blowing from that direction. “The Crowd Roars’’ not only gives Robert Taylor a chance to give an excellent performance; it also krings Bill Gargan back to us in a good picture, minus some 20 pounds. Leslie Howard sent for him to come The wind rose steadily. It whistled and howled in the tele phone wires outside. The whistle rose to a shriek, and still it kept on rising. Then, suddenly, the lights went out in the street. A burst of hailstones rattled against the house. And at almost the same time a window crashed in the front of the dwelling. The house was • shaking—shaking violently. It was about all Amy’s frazzled nerves could stand. She let out a scream. The scream woke BILL GARGAN In England and play in “Alias Mrs. Jones,’’ which he is producing, be fore Gargan made a hit in the new Taylor picture. But the name of foe production will have to be changed, probably, when it is shown to this country, otherwise people ■re going to think it’s just another If the Jones family pictures. * If you’ve seen Hedy Lamarr in "Algiers” you probably have won- Cered whether she will be one of our ftrl movie stars in a year or so, or wfll just be making pictures that ■re nothing special. And if you’ve Been the announcement that Josef van Sternberg has been engaged to Erect her first picture for Metro, probably you’re still wondering. Of coarse, Mr. von Sternberg may not have been responsible for slowing ■arlene Dietrich down so that she ■eemed to be doing nothing but ■tend around, but sometimes he’s been blamed for it. Tliere are a lot of good pictures pt large nowadays; better make a fst of them. Include “The Crowd Roars,** “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Mother Carey’s Chickens,** •The Rage of Paris,” and, if for eign pictures come your way, “May- erling.” * Charlie McCarthy has been such a success on the air here that the British Broad- casting company tried out the idea of having a Char ge of their own. They called the puppet “Willie Winkett.” And “Willie” was a Bop. Which proves how clev er Edgar Bergen really is. Incidentally, Bergen is work ing on another puppet — figuring that, no matter how popular you are, there’s always a time ahead when the public grows tired of the same old thing. * ODDS AND ENDS—Watch W. C. Fields mudce a come-back as author of, and actor ■a, “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man,” mnd make Paramount regret releasing him . . . Isn’t it good news that Carole Lom bard and Bill Powell are to make a pic ture together again . . . Harold Lloyd u threatening to turn producer—though he’d still act in a picture occasionally—and is aUo considering making his next picture in England . . . After having too much excitement, seeing too many people, and having the door of a car slammed on her fuger, Shirley Temple was awfully glad m> end her vacation and get back home . . . Lots of people didn’t believe that Simone Simon would really sail off to trance without signing a new contract, though the only contract that offered seemed to be one for appearance at a New Yotk night club. C Western Newspaper Union. Edgar Bergen Amy grabbed her children and ran for the back door. up her two little girls, and they came running from their beds. The little boy was already awake. He, poor kid, hadn’t slept for two nights. Fled With Her Three Children. Another window broke with a clatter, glass falling to the floor. The kids huddled around Amy, clutching at her dress. One by one the win* dows crashed, there was a louder crash—a shriek of rending wood—and a huge piece of sheet metal came TEARING RIGHT THROUGH THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE! The wind had stopped howling now. Instead, it tore by with a loud, steady, hissing roar. The house was deluged with water that came through the broken windows. Now rocks and pieces of lumber came hurtling in and Amy could hear more flying debris battering against the side of the house with a force that was all but tearing it to pieces. “I was about to faint with fright,” Amy says. “I grabbed my children and ran for the back door. I took hold of the knob and tried to open it. It wouldn’t budge. The movement of the house under the force of the storm, had wrapped it tightly shut. My children were screaming, and their cries gave me strength. I tugged at the door with renewed vigor and finally opened it.” But when the door opened, Amy paused and looked out on a scene that looked almost as uninviting as did the inside of her home. Before her was nothing but the blackest of darkness and the terrible hissing roar of the wind. Thunder boomed and a streak of lightning rent the sky. As the flash illuminated the heavens she could see that the air was. full of flying debris. More rocks and pieces of sheet metal—boards, bricks and everything imaginable. Just Escaped a Live Wire. Says she: “My head was reeling. I almost fainted again. A piece of sheet metal landed near us, barely missing our heads as it fell from above. For a minute I wondered if the world were coming to an end, and I began to pray. Then, with what little strength I had left, I gathered my children close and made for the gate of our back yard.” The wind tore at her, almost sweeping her off her feet. Cling ing to all three of her children, she led them across the yard. When she came to where the gate should have been she found it gone—and the rest of the fence along with it. Across the street was the factory—the nearest solid building—and she headed for that. “We walked and stumbled—fell and picked ourselves up again,” she says. “I thought that trip would never come to an end, but finally we reached the factory. We learned later that we had walked over a live wire that had been blown down and we can only thank God that none of us stepped on it. But once we were inside the building the night watch man came to our rescue.” ^hen Amy went back to her house the next morning she found every window broken. The furniture was water-soaked and broken by flying debris and the whole doggone place looked—well—like a cyclone had struck it, which was the truth. “But I didn’t care about that,” says Amy, “for my children were safe. The next day the papers carried stories about the freak tornado and told about the damage it did. But no newspaper will ever be able to describe the way I felt during those awful moments while it was occurring.” Copyright.—WNU Service. Strangest Portrait In the West Highland museum, Ft. William, Scotland, is one of the strangest portraits ever painted. It looks like nothing but a mess of colored paint, but when a metal cylinder of the right size and shape is placed at a certain spot on the canvas, the reflection mirrored on the cylinder becomes a portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, pretender to the British throne in the Eighteenth century. China’s First Railway China’s first railway, 10 miles in length between Shanghai and Woo- sung, was built by foreign enter prise in 1876. After a farmer had been run over and killed, however, it was purchased by the Chinese government arid torn up. Happiness and Unhappiness A goodly part of human happiness md unhappiness consists in the iwelling upon what has been, what nay be, what might be and upon what might have been. A Cheerful Word Have you ever had your day sud denly turned sunshiny because of a cheerful word? Have you ever won dered if this could be the same world, because someone had been unexpectedly kind to you? You can make today the same for every body. It is only a question of a lit tle imagination, a little time and trouble. Think now “what can I do today to make somebody hap py?”—Maltbie D. Babcock. Brush-Turkey Covers Its Eggs The brush-turkey covers its eggs with a mound of earth, sand and dead vegetable matter often having a circumference of more than 100 feet, and being 2 feet high. The young, when hatched, dig out. 'Birds Have Combs on Claws Some birds—barn owls, herons, grebes, nightjars, cormorants—have combs on the inner edge of their third claw, with which they scratch themselves and preen their feath ers. Farm [Topics 1J SHOULD BE READY FOR THE HARVEST Have Equipment in Repair To Handle Fruit Crop. By M. B. Hoffman. New York State College of Agriculture. WNU Service. Harvest time is a busy time for the fruit grower. He has to esti mate the crop, plan for dependable pickers, and have on hand the need ed supply of baskets, boxes, pads, nails, liners, and similar equipment. Everything included in the equip ment of harvesting and packing should be in good repair ahead of time. Ruts and rough places in the orchard roadways should be re paired to prevent bruising the fruit when it is hauled from the orchard. The right kind of picking ladder is a big satisfaction. For peaches, prunes, and small apple and pear trees, the stepladder is desirable. A stepladder, wide at the base, nar rowing toward the top and with a single leg for support, is the easi est to place among the branches. For mature apple trees, the rung ladder with a wide base and com ing to a point at the top is the most satisfactory. The larger ladders should be made of light wood. Bass wood makes an excellent ladder. The type of containers used in handling fruit has a great influence on the amount and severity of bruis ing. In general, picking containers with rigid walls cause the least bruising. Males for Next Season Should Be Chosen Early If one desires to hatch one’s own eggs next year, now is the time to select the cockerels that will be need ed, says a writer in the Missouri Farmer. As the chicks grow, the topnotchers of the flock begin to show up. They forge ahead of their fellows, and plainly indicate that they possess more vigor, faster growing and feathering qualities than their brothers. These are the ones to mark for breeding purposes. Out of a hundred males there will be a half dozen or so of these top notchers. These should be kept throughout the summer and then next fall culled again, since sev eral of them will fail to maintain the pace set by the leaders. A few more than will be needed for the matings next year should be kept, since one or two might die in the interim. In selecting cockerels for breeding purposes, vigor is the all- important consideration. Lacking this quality, a male is worthless be cause his offspring will be unsatis factory. Weedy Milk From the standpoint of herd man agement there are two things that can be done to prevent weedy-fla- vored cream. One is to keep the cows off the weedy pasture for from three to five hours before milking. That may in some cases mean that the cows will have to be taken off the weedy pasture at noon and in the evening before retiring for the night, during the time that the weeds are at their worst stage, says Hoard’s Dairyman. The second way to avoid weedy cream is to provide the cows enough good feed so they will not be forced to eat weeds. When cows have access to a good pasture, they will usually leave the weeds alone. If the pasture is short it should be supplemented with hay, grain, silage, or green feed. A com bination of these two methods is ex cellent. Turn the cows on the weedy pasture after milking but transfer them to a good pasture or to a yard where they have access to other feed three or four hours be fore milking. Cross-Breeding For many years American poul- trymen have, by crossing different breeds, produced chicks that show sex differences by the different col ors of the males and females. Rhode Island Red males, for example, crossed with Barred Rock hens pro duce black female chicks with black shanks. The males, also black, have yellow shanks and a white spot on the head. Another example of cross breeding for sex determination of chicks is the crossing of rapid-feath ering Single-Comb White Leghorns with slow-feathering Single-Comb White Leghorns. The male chicks have small primary wing feathers. Females hatch with larger pri mary wing feathers. Cross-breeding has its limitations, however. Two breeding lines must be maintained. Generally the poultryman wants but one breed. Agricultural Extension The United States stands ahead of most other countries in agricultural extension, or the education of farm ers on the land, according to Prof. Bristow Adams, of the New York State college of agriculture. Profes sor Adams, who recently returned from a world tour, studied the meth ods employed in the more progres sive countries south of the equator. Greatest progress, he said, is now being made in Australia and New Zealand. improved”' ' UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for September 4 SAMUEL: SPIRITUAL REVIVAL LESSON TEXT—I Samuel 7:3-13. GOLDEN TEXT—Prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only. I Samuel 7:3. „ „ . PRIMARY TOPIC—When Samuel Was Old , JUNIOR TOPIC—When Samuel Grew Old. INTERMEDIATE AND‘SENIOR TOPIC—9r Putting God First. ’ T _ vrirrhir* T>irnT>T.Tr. AMT! AHTTT.T TOPIC— •‘Revivals are costly. The spir itual awakening which our country so much needs must begin with a spiritual deepening which the church so much needs. There is a price to be paid . . . Strange gods must be put away, gods of worldly pleasure, worldly ambition, love of ease and self-gratification. It is the unwillingness to pay the price that keeps us from the richness and pow er of the full spiritual life” (Prof. L. M. Lowell). Israel had come to the place where the people recognized that they were on the brink of national disaster. They knew they had come to the end of the trail, and were ready to do something about it. I. Return Unto the Lord (v 3.). Samuel appears in his first public ministry to call on his people to return to the Lord. Back of that public act is the history of a godly life and devoted service to the Lord and to His nation. Such a man can consistently urge others to turn to God. The response of the people was wholehearted. They were thorough ly sick of their sin and separation from the favor of God. The earnest of their sincerity was their obedi ence to the admonition of Samuel that they turn from idolatry. II. Put Away False Gods (w. 3, 4). Israel had learned from their heathen neighbors to worship their false gods. These they must put away if God was to be able to bless them. The sarhe prerequisite to spiritual revival exists today. But some may say, we do not worship heathen gods. Perhaps not, and yet one is astonished at the close similarity between the .ritual and worship of some secret cults and orders and the ancient religions of heathendom. The fact is that we have set up many new gods—money, fashion, social position, and what not. The command needs to go out again through God’s messengers, “Put away the foreign gods.” III. Gather Together and Pray (w. 5, 6). Spiritual life thrives on the gath ering together of God’s people. The crisis in Israel was met by a great convocation of the people. We need to revive the great soul-stirring religious gatherings of a generation ago. “I will pray,” said Samuel. He was a great' intercessor. (See I Sam. 15:11; Ps. 99:6; Jer. 15:1.) Revival never comes without a his tory of faithful intercession on the part of those whose hearts are really burdened. Ask yourself. How much have I really prayed for a revival in my church, my commu nity, and my nation? If I should begin to pray in earnest, would not God hear me and answer? > IV. God Will Save Us (v. 8). “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neith er his ear heavy that it cannot hear” (Isa. 59:1). “Thus saith the Lord . . . have I no power to de liver?” (Isa. 50:1, 2). God saved Israel and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies. The Phil istines, seeing them gathered to gether to pray, assumed that they were preparing to fight and at tacked. In the previous battle at that very spot (I Sam. 4:1-10) Israel had fought with the weapons of men and been disgracefully defeated. Now they fought with the weapon of prayer and faith in God, and great was the victory. America is valiantly battling against the social and economic problems of these distressing days, but one fears that all too often the weapons are those of the arm of flesh which will fail us. Let us look up instead of to one another. “God will save us” (v. 8). V. Ebenezer (v. 12). Our forefathers, familiar with the truth of Scripture, used biblical words in naming their children. The present generation all too often know the names simply as the strange signatures on old letters. The word “Ebenezer” might well merit a bit of a revival itself. Here Israel had met a disastrous defeat. They were broken by it and had become an almost hopeless people. Now God had given them victory in the very same spot and they raised a stone of remembrance of God’s help. The word “Ebenezer” means “stone of help,” but also car ries with it the meaning of Samuel’s word, “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (v. 12). There is an inspiring word of hope here for every troubled soul. You may, like Israel, have fallen into sin. Your life may be defeated. You may be utterly discouraged. Re turn to the Lord, put away sin, gather with God’s people, pray, and God will give you victory, even at the very point of former defeat. Here's New Note in Filet Crochet Doilies • Pattern 6121. Variety in filet crochet to suit your every need! These oblongs make a luncheon set, a buffet set or doilies. If you prefer round doilies, crochet just the center of each oblong. The size is varied by the cotton used. Pattern 6121 contains instructions and charts for making doilies; illustration of them; materials needed. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York City. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. 1 How Women in Their 40’s Can Attract Men 1 Here’s good advice for a woman during her change (usually from 38 to 62), who fears she’ll losejier appeal to men, who worries about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells, upset nerves and moodv spells. Get more fresh air, 8 hrs. sleep and if you need a good general system tonic take Lydia E. Pinkham’s 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! Vain Learning How vain is learning unless in telligence go with it.—Stobaeus. 3,700 Deaths Per Year From Malaria During 1936 (the last year for ■which figures are known) 3,700 people died from Malaria in our 12 Southern States alone. Let this figure be YOUR warning! Winter- smith’s is made with one of the most effective medicines ever found to treat Malaria. This medi cine has helped millions of people —NOT ONLY to reheve Malaria after the chills have started, but ALSO to keep the Malaria from ever starting up! Don’t take chances! Ask your druggist for Wintersmith’s Tonic today! PROVEN by 70 years of use. Poor Refuge Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.—Chesterfield. WORMS quickly removed from children or adults by using the famous remedy, Dr. Peery’s “Dead Shot” Vermifuge. No castor oil or anything else is needed after taking “Dead Shot.” 50c a bottle at drug gists or Wright’s Pill Co., 100 Gold St., New York, N. Y. \ Give to the Living The living need charity more than the dead.—Arnold. GS "BLACK LEAF 40" Keeps Dogs Away from Evergreens,Shrubs etc. IttlMSpOMtal per Gallon of Spray. ■ nm i nnd Faith’s Own Give to faith the things which belong to faith.—Bacon. SMALL SIZE , 60c LARGE SIZE $1.20 Brings Blessed Relief from aches and pains of RHEUMATISM NEURITIS and LUMBAGO Try a battla . . Why Suffer ? AT ALL GOOD DRUG STORES WNU—7 35—38 weak eyes are made strong by LeonardTs Eye Lotion. Inflammation is cured without pain in one day. No other eye remedy so pure and healing. Keeps the eyes in working trim. LEONARDFS GOLDEN EYE LOTION MAKES WEAK EYES STRONG 3 Sc af aU *vggists New Large Size with Dropper—50 cents t. B. Laonardi ft Ca., Naw RocMIa, M. T. — — =a