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McCORMICR MESSENGER. McCORMICR. S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938 KM mi T ! WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK. — In the pre-war years, about the only sure- enough newspaper man who cov ered Europe was Henri S. De Blow- itz, the Bohemi- U.S. Scribes an w ho became Set Pace for a Frenchman British Boys ' 8111(1 scooped the world with the full text of the treaty at the con ference of Berlin, at the end of the Franco-Prussian war. Although he did this for the London Times, Eng lish journalists — distinctly that, rather than newspaper men — seemed to think it wasn’t quite cricket and they went on wearing spats, carrying canes, and dodging leg-work. I remember citing to an English friend the De Blowitz book, published posthumously in 1903, in which he told how he got that beat on the treaty—an exciting newspa per yarn if there ever was one. “Bit of a rotter, don’t you think?** said the Englishman. After the war, the English cor respondents started shaking a leg, hat, with all this Chauvin ism loose in the world, we may hoast that it was the American lads who set the pace. One press association and a few of onr newspapers sent over to the big war some news beagles who began retrieving stories right under the nose of the morning eoat scribes. They've been get ting better all the time, and one of the bell-ringers is Frank Smothers of the Chicago Daily News, the tenth correspondent to be bounced ont of Italy for faithful reporting in the last year. Mr. Smothers was a fast-stepping and fast-thinking reporter in Chi cago for nine years before he went to the Orient, as correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and the Boston Transcript. He was close in when the Japanese made their first grab for China and pegged home some of the best stories from that beat. In Italy, he made a sim« ilar record. A keen analyst, as well as news-getter, he is one of a num ber of American foreign corre spondents wh6 have told the sto ry of world catastrophe faster and better than any others at any place or time. He grew up in Roseville, I1L, and finished at the University of Wisconsin, aft er two years at Northwestern. He is 37 years old. EORGE RUBLEE, 70 years old, is beset with a thousand plans for taking care of European politi cal refugees, as he heads the Ameri- _ _ ,. can efforts in George Rublee • this humane un- Vet of Delicate dertaking. His Negotiations fame rests upon his achieve ments as an international lawyer, of the firm of Covington, Burling & Rublee, of Washington. He was a strong supporter and ally of the late Robert La Follette. Whenever they have had oil trouble anywhere in the Western hemisphere, they have sent for Mr. Rublee. He has straight ened out snarls over oil rights in Colombia, Mexico and other countries. He was a friend and associate of the late Dwight W. Morrow and helped him settle a number of oil and banking arguments in Mexico. He is a native of Madison, Wis., and an alumnus of the Harvard law school. He began the practice of law at Chicago. npHERE was a news story the x other day about a thwarted art ist, who came through and had s glorious revenge on his thwarters. The Fine Arts Substitutes asso ciation, in be half of teachers flunked by the New York board of examiners, gives an exhibition by which the public is to judge whether the board bopped them unjustly. Among the exhibitors is Max Weber, dis tinguished artist, represented in the Metropolitan museum, who was among those flunked by the board. With his picture goes a note to the board in which Mr. Weber tells what he thinks of it and cites his suc cess as “proof of their incompe. tence.’’ .- Mr. Weber, a native of Rus sia, here at the age of 10, was * modernist, so far out of bounds that the academicians would turn in a riot call whenever any body mentioned his name. He has been marked up more by the critics probably than any other man in America. The turn in Mr. Weber’s fortunes came in 1925, when a discerning New York Sun critic, among oth ers, piped him up as a thoroughly competent artist. His pictures sell. He has a nice home at Great Neck, Long Island. • Consolidated Newa Featurea. WNU Service. Identical Twins Feature of St. Louis Banquet Flunked Artist Evens Things With Boppers No optical illusion this, but five pairs of identical twins attending a dinner sponsored by an organization of twins in St. Louis, Mo. Regular meetings are sponsored by the St. Louis Pairs, a fraternal organization ail members of which must be twins. Left to right are Marcia and Myra Kelly, Opal Jean and Mary Jane Tuttle, Marie and Jeanne Gartner, Annabelle and Isabel Roques, Jane and Jeanne Gagnon. All live in St. Louis. There are several similar organizations throughout the United States with membership limited to twins. The St. Louis club is one of the most widely known. Mishap Season Gets Early Start The season for accidents like this is well under way in many cities. Mishaps, frequently amusing to the more fortunate, happen often on icy streets, and they’re by no means confined to cities. In New York the worst eerly fall snowstorm in years brought grief to many a pedestrian, and impeded traffic in the busiest sections. Accidents on slippery streets each year result in an alarming number of deaths, and exact a costly toll in dam aged automobiles. Their Schooling Is Matter for Court wmm > -' I 4-H CLUB CHAMPS Seeking possession of his four children in order that they might be entered in British schools, Guy Maynard Liddell, head of England’s civil intelligence department, has applied for a writ of habeas corpus against his wife, Mrs. Calypso Liddell, mother of the children and from whom he has been separated since 1935. All of the children are honor students in a Miami, Fla., grade school. Hal Clark, 17-year-old youth from Clark’s Hill, Ind., and his grand champion 4-H pen of sheep. Clark’s sheep won honors at the thirty-ninth annual International Live Stock show in Chicago, where proud own ers from all over the nation exhibit ed their animals. PRESENTATION SET From Stagecoach to Airliner As an Indian scout for Buffalo Bill Cody, Henry D. Zeitz rode horse back ahead of stagecoaches on the old overland trail. Now, a Denver, Colo., restaurateur, the 73-year-old ex-plainsman does his riding in the modern manner. Flying from Seattle to Denver he made the trip over night. His first trip, a 450-mile journey from Kansas City to Colorado, took him 3 months and 20 days. Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, niece and namesake of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, will be presented in Washington at a White House dance to be given by President and Mrs. Roosevelt the latter part of Decem ber. Her father is Hall Roosevelt of New York city, brother of Mrs. Roosevelt. 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 December 18 CHRIST’S NEW COMMANDMENT LESSON TEXT—Matthew 5:43-48; 22:34- 40; John 13:34, 35; 15:12-14. GOLDEN TEXT—A new commandment I give unto you. That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.—John 13:34. Do Not Need Bifocals Man; apes, monkeys, marmosets 1 and lemurs are the only creatures that can focus their eyes and dis tinctly see both near and distant nbiects. says Collier's Weekly. Lesson suojects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. The heart of all moral law is found in the Ten Commandments, but the very heart of the command ments is the “new commandment’’ of Christ, that we love God with our whole being and love our neighbors as ourselves. For if we have that perfect devotion to God we shall keep His commandments (John 15: 9, 10), and- shall show our love to our neighbors by positive acts of interest and devotion, as well as by refraining from falsehood, violence and impurity. The message of our lesson today is one which will strike home to the hearts of honest and earnest men and women. When we stand in the revealing light of God’s Holy Word we cry out for forgiveness for the manner in which we have failed truly to represent our Lord in the world, and in prayer for grace to live as we should. Let no unbeliev er who reads these words use them as a basis for criticism of his Chris tian neighbor; but let him consider his own need of the regenerating and enabling grace of God. Our outline for today we borrow with thanks from Points for Em phasis, by Dr. Hight C. Moore. It so aptly presents the truth that it merits our study. I. Standard of the New Command ment (Matt. 5:43-48). “Love your enemies’’ (v. 44), that is the standard which Christ has established for His followers. While the love one has for the brethren is without doubt a more intimate relationship than the love one may have for an enemy, we must not seek to minimize the real love we should have even for those who curse and revile us. It is to move us so deeply that we not only treat them kindly, but also pray for them. Humanly speaking such a thing is impossible, but in Christ it is not only possible, it has actually been demonstrated in life. It is so easy for Christians to speak with derision that borders on hatred about “the devil’s gang,” to lose all love for the crowd that hangs around the tavern and the gambling house. Let us hate their sin, but may God help us to show that we really love them. H. Scope of the New Command ment (Matt. 22:34-40). It is as high as God, as deep as the lowest sinner, and as wide as the circle of all. mankind. A man must be right with God if he is truly and fully to love his fel low men. To be right with Him does not mean a half-hearted one- day-a-week interest in religious matters, and that only up to the point where they do not interfere with our own interests and desires. To love God means to give Him the devotion of our entire being. Loving one’s neighbors does not just mean the man next door. Even that is none too easy at times; and some of us realize that we have failed even there. But the man in Sweden, China, Germany, anywhere on this earth, is our neighbor and needs our love. There are no “for eigners” in God’s thinking about love; no poor or rich, no ignorant, no members of “another social or der”—they are all our neighbors. IH. Spirit of the New Command ment (John 13:34, 35). “As I have loved you”—that is the spirit that is to move us to love our neighbor. God is love, and it was always His will that men should love one another. But the new ele ment in this commandment of Christ is that He, the final and per fect revelation of God’s love, had come to give His life in loving serv ice and sacrificial atonement. Paul caught the spirit of this command ment when he said, “The love of Christ constraineth us” (II Cor. 5: 14). There is the real motive, the true spirit of Christian life and serv ice. IV. Sacrifice in the New Com mandment (John 15:12-14). Love draws no limiting line be yond which it will not go. Love says: “I count not my life dear if in giving it I may bring deliverance to my friends.” Some folk talk piously of their love for God, but are not willing to go even across the street to speak to a soul about Him. If we love Him we would willingly go to the ends of the earth for Him, or con tentedly serve Him in what seems to be a forgotten corner. We shall not question His guidance nor blush to own His name, even though the testimony may mean our death This we shall do for Christ’s sake, and for the sake of a suffering hu manity. The writer thinks of John and Betty Stam whom he was privileged to teach in the classrooms of the Moody Bible Institute, and who not long afterward poured out their gal lant young lives in martyrdom for Christ in China. “Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.” CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT JEWELRY Watches, Wrist Watches, Diamonds. Jew elry. % price. Write what you want. %K $55. IK $120. IJ-iK $160. Will send exami nation. 1234 S. St. Bernard, Phila., Pa. BABY CHICKS For Sale—Our Famous U. S. approved, Pullorum Tested New Hampshire Red Baby Chicks every Thursday 10c delivered. Pine Mountain Valley Farms, Hamilton, Ga. PHOTOGRAPHY Free album and negative file. 2 enlarge ment coupons with each roll developed; 8 guaranteed prints 25c. 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