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»vv> McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938 ‘T—— i 1 WHO^ NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK.—Prevailing fashions in iron men make us proud of our own model. Wo cite big, smil ing, durable Gabby Hartnett, bat- _ .. . _ ting .296 over a Gabby is Our period of 16 Own Model of years, with a An iron Man hi gh °* - 354 » dropping only three pop flies in all that time and still pegging the ball to second with no letdown in machine-gun speed and precision. Phil Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, ups him $5,000 in a $27,500 player-manager con tract, for his eighteenth season with the Cubs. He's growing gray over the ears, but this department is ready to lay a bet that he’ll still be in his catcher's armor after the overseas iron men have been sent to the showers, even if they are batting 1.000 at this moment. He’s a marvelous handler of pitchers, with a laugh that eases tension and keys down nerves. At Woonsocket, L. I., where he grew up, he was Charley Leo, a name long since lost. It was in 1922 that he signed for what looks like a lifetime stretch, as a rookie catcher for the Cubs. F)R. OLIVER CROMWELL CAR- ,a “ , MICHAEL lives up to his name. At the conference of southern busi ness leaders at Atlanta, the chancel lor of Vanderbilt Dr. Carmichael Criea Down Yen For Security university cries down the yen for security as “the goal of stagnation and defeat.’’ With grim Cromwellian tenacity, he has been shoving this home for years. Dr. Carmichael says “security” is fun damentally at war with sound eco nomics. He is a native of Goodwater, Ala., a Rhodes scholar from the Univer sity of Alabama. A HARD-BOILED, bantam-weight British newspaper man was as signed to a colonel’s staff in the World war. The colonel was con- temptuous. He Warns England tossed the new- Clean Sweeping comer a hand- is Vital Need ' book on Syria. “Take that,” he said, “and study it. You might be able to digest it in six months.” “Perhaps I can,” said the scrivener. “It took me only three months to write it.” That was gamey little Leopold S. Amery, one-time ace reporter fpr the London Times, later a cabinet member, now putting his steel spurs to Mr. Chamber lain’s “appeasement,” the re ciprocal trade treaty and all deals with the dictators. He says, “Yon might as well try to please a tortoise by stroking its back.” In parliament, he has been for many years the leader of the die hard' conservatives. He is against any social fixings or trimmings whatsoever, and, having been, like Kipling, a reporter in India, is for the old empire formula without any modifications. The son of a poor civil servant in India, he scrambled through Oxford by snagging every scholarship in sight. He went to parliament and in 1922 became secretary of the ad miralty. Later, as colonial secre tary, he swarmed all over the em pire, making fluent orations in Syri an, Arabic, Turkish, French, Ital-/ ian and German. In Cambridge he had confounded his elders by his gift of tongues. He is a bitter-ender who says Der Fuehrer’s big horses aren’t going to run over him. He has been a prophet of doom and has warned England against meet ing a erisis by sweeping the dust under the rug. EVERAL months ago, the Nazis expelled George Grosz from the realm. He had beaten them to it by about six years. Just now, he . gets American Beats Hitler s citizenship. He Order of Exile was a savage By Six Years and ' ironic cari ' * caturist who had raised many blisters on sundry Nazi hides before he made his getaway. While he is a certified Aryan, he was an outstanding candidate for a concentration camp and was shrewd enough to see what was coming. When he landed here in 1932, to teach at the Art Students’ league, there was a row in the league, but President John Sloan defended him as “one of the greatest of modern artists,” and here he is, painting happily, and everything is gemeutlich. He has given up caricature and lets the world go by. His paint ings are hung in many good galler ies, and he has a nice home in Queens, where, with his wife and two children, he says he enjoys his exile tremendously. <£> Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. BELLS OF Trrrrnj lulled them to sleep. Bells are the simplest, yet the most compelling musical instrument in the world and it is fitting that they should toll the universal message of Christmas, of “Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men.” RIGHT—Bok singing tower and bird sanctuary at Mountain Lakes, Fla., said to be the most ideally conceived and located carillon in the country. It rings each Christmas day. Worlds Oldest, Simplest Musical Instrument Is Universal Yuletide Symbol Each nation has its individual symbols of Christmas: In England there is the Yule log, in France the candles and in Holland the wooden shoe. But throughout the entire world there is one universal symbol, the bells of Christmas. This is strange because bells were not associated with the church until at least 400 A. D. when Paulinus, an Italian bishop installed them in his church. €> Some bell authorities claim that Pope Sabinianus. gave us the first church bells in 604. The custom has grown until there is perhaps no use of church bells so widely known in Christian countries as the ringing of chimes to herald the advent of the birth of Christ. From huge cathedrals to tiny country churches, from the fro zen arctic to the sunny tropics, the bells peal forth each Christmas sea son an old, old story of “Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men.” America’s very national existence is wrapped up in the priceless Lib erty bell at Philadelphia, and cer tainly no one can say that bell mu sic isn’t the most democratic music in the world. It’s always free, un restricted to any few who can buy tickets to a concert. In recent years the ancient bell has “grown up” into the carillon, a highly sensitive instrument on which Christmas carols seem to find their most perfect expression. There are now more than 200 of these instruments, 30 of them in the Unit ed States. Similar to the carillon, but differing in the number of bells, tuning and arrangement of key board, are chimes. Some of the finest chimes hang in English ca thedrals and spread the Christmas message each December. A chapter in the history of bells may be found in the story of al most any creed or culture. First known in the East, they were used by aboriginal people as ornaments. They came down through Grecian days and called Roman citizens to the forums, later stunmoning early Christians to worship. In the Mid dle ages they called people to arise, guided the far-away traveler. Napoleon loved bells so dearly he would not destroy them, while Hen ry VIII took fiendish delight in de stroying them. Bells have made people laugh and cry, have stirred them to action and ABOVE—Mrs. A. S. C. Forbes tests the tone of a replica of a Cali fornia mission bell, which were among the first church bells in the terri tory later to become the United States. >&<Vyy>yy>yyVvm ir/-- " M ^ M t?, v - 11 ijllppi 18131 mm S'. ; - wmm • v.v.v/.v.v.y*y . . Wv...;. .TJWpJ. '• ' > 'm- a - .w.y ' 5 am > I xfsaSssKB®:® Wm : : : * The University of Chicago chapel which has one of America’s most beautiful carillons, the gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Inset, Kamiel LeFevere, noted Belgian musician who was brought to the United States to play it. This carillon, too, rings out the story of Christmas each year. Typists for V. S. G-Men - Buy Gifts for ‘Children 9 WASHINGTON.—Girls working in the typing section of the G-men’s fingerprint division at the United States Department of Justice will stake their three “adopted” fami lies to a Christmas dinner on De cember 25. Last Christmas the girls adopted three needy Washington families, agreeing to help them throughout the year. Annually the federal bureau of investigation em ployees distribute food, clothing and toys for orphans, hospital patients and other needy people of Washing ton. Roosevelt 9 s Greetings Broadcast to C. S. Navy WASHINGTON.—Christmas greet ings from President Roosevelt and high ranking officials of the Navy department will be flashed Christ mas eve from the radio towers at Arlington, Va., to the fleet and na val ships and stations throughout the world. The message is an an nual custom, awaited by American “gobs” and officers alike in their iron-clad battleships thousands of miles from home. 6 Silent Night, Holy Night 9 My. NEW YORK.—Youthful members of the choir of St. Vincent of Fei rer’s church, New York, lift their boyish voices in the unforgettable hymns of Christmas. Throughout the United States, church choral groups are preparing special music for Yuletide recitals, for song plays an all- important part in the observance of Christmas. No church music is better known than Yuletide hymns. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. e Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for December 25 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. GOD’S GREAT LOVE LESSON TEXT—Matthew 2:1-12. GOLDEN TEXT—God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.—John 3:16. Christmas Day on Sunday—what an appropriate combination! Today we commemorate the birth of our Lord, the coming of our Redeemer to dwell among men on the day of the week which is a perpetual re membrance of His resurrection from the dead—the Lord’s Day. He came as the babe of Bethlehem’s manger in order that He might in His death and resurrection from the grave prove His victory over sin and death. For those who know and love the true spirit of Christ mas, this should be a great day of rejoicing in Christ. We have an unusual opportunity to study the birth of Jesus from a text not commonly used for Christ mas, namely, the coming of the Wise Men from the East to find and to worship Him. It is suggested that their experiences may be con sidered as showing the way to Jesus, who is the perfect revelation of God’s great love. We should I. Look for His Sign (w. 1-3). While most of their fellow men saw nothing but an unusually bright star (if they even noted that much, in their hurried devotion to the in terests of everyday life), the men of the East showed that they were wise by recognizing that here was the promised sign of Numbers 24:17. Be sure to read that great prophecy. When they told Herod, he, fearing lest his own power and prominence should be challenged, became troubled in his heart. The parallel to our day is striking. Everywhere in our lives, personal and national, are the unmistakable signs of the presence and power of Jesus. Most people heed them not in their mad pursuit of gold and pleasure. Others hate His name, and would destroy His influence on earth. Let us be among the wise rffSh who come today to seek and worship HiniT — v ~ II. Listen to God’s Word (w. 4-6). The Wise Men knew that He was to come, but they needed further light. They knew where to find it— in God’s own Word. How different would be the history that is in the making in our day if instead of turn ing to the philosophies of men, or trusting in the might of armaments, we would turn to God’s Word and let it lead us all to Christ, the Saviour of the world, the Prince of Peace. III. Seek the Saviour (w. 7-9). Different motives mqved in the hearts of those who consulted the Scriptures on that far-off day in Jerusalem. Herod, while hypocrit ically professing to want to worship, really was looking into it so that he might kill Jesus. There are hypo crites who study God’s Word in our day for the same purpose while os tensibly worshiping. The people of Jerusalem had the curious bystand er’s interest in an unusual event. They have their counterpart in our churches and communities on this Christmas Day of 1938. Then there were the chief priests and scribes, who had a purely professional in terest in finding what the Scriptures taught concerning this promised One. There are plenty of that kind of religious leaders and workers to day. None of these actually sought the Saviour except the Wise Men. Thank God for the thousands of men, wom en, and children who will today seek the Christ who is the very reason for the observance of Christmas, but who has been all but lost in the nonsense and commercialism that have practically ruined Christmas as a sacred “holy day.” IV. Worship Him (w. 10-12). These faithful seekers found Him, and in Him they found joy (v. 10), worship (v. 11), opportunity for sac rifice of self and gifts (v. 11), and fellowship with God in the great work of redemption (v. 12). God spoke to them, gave them a person al and secret commission which thwarted the wicked plans of Herod. Christmas may mean all of that to each one of us if we let the Lord Jesus come into our lives in all the beauty of His redeeming love and holiness. To you who read these lines just now, the writer makes this plea in the name of Christ—let Him have your life and transform it by His grace and for His glory. Only thus can you have a joyful and blessed Christmas. The Parent Mind The souls of the sons of God are greater than their business; and they are thrown out into life, not to do a certain work, but to be a cer tain thing; to have some sacred lineaments, to show some divine tint of the Parent Mind from which they came.—Martineau. The Nation’s Progress National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and up rightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness and vice. 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