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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941
If Sima Scott WatiOH
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Victims of the Code Duello
/^\N THE morning of March 20,
1820, two American naval offi
cers stood facing each other in a
grassy field near the town of Bla-
densburg, Md., not far from Wash
ington, D. C. They had been ship
mates and friends once but now
there was something akin to hatred
in their eyes as they looked at each
other across the space of eight
yards that separated them.
Both men were well above six
feet in height. One was about 40
years old, slender and graceful. He
was Commodore Stephen Decatur,
one of the nation’s greatest heroes
because of his brilliant exploit in
burning the captured frigate Phila
delphia as she lay at anchor in the
harbor of Tripoli during the war
with the Barbary pirates. The oth
er was about 50 years old, broad-
shouldered, his hair a little gray at
the temples. He was Commodore
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STEPHEN DECATUR
James Barron, who had been court-
martialed and suspended from the
service for five years because he
had surrendered the frigate Chesa
peake to the British man-of-war
Leopard just before the outbreak of
the War of 1812.
A trifling incident had caused
the first rift in their friendship.
Later Decatur was caustic in his
criticism of Barron’s conduct in the
Chesapeake-Leopard affair and in
an' exchange of. letters which fol
lowed made so many insulting state
ments that Barron eventually chal
lenged him to a duel.
So here they were on this March
morning meeting “on the field of
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JAMES BARRON
honor.” Their friend, Commodore
! Richard Bainbridge, was to give the
words of command—“Fire—one—
two—three.” Neither man was to
fire before the word “one” or after
“thfee.”
“Gentlemen, to your places.”
“Take aim!” Decatur leveled his
pistol at Barron’s waistline and his
adversary pointed his weapon at De
catur’s hip.
“Fire—one ...”
The reports of the two pistols
sounded as one and both men
dropped to the ground.
They brought a carriage to bear
Decatur back to Washington. There
was no such vehicle ready for Bar
ron and Decatur insisted that his op
ponent be taken with him. But there
wasn’t room for both. As they lift
ed the young officer into the car
riage, Barron called to him, “God
bless you, Decatur.”
“Farewell, farewell, Barron!” he
replied as the carriage rolled away.
That was the last time he ever
beard Decatur’s voice for the gallant
young officer, after suffering intense
agony all day, died that night. Bar
ron recovered from his wound and
lived to be 83 years old, the last
of his generation in the navy.
• • •
A Cloud on His Name
“James Barron, who had for years
been ‘Barron of the Cheapeake’ nou
bore the odium of having killed the
nation’s most popular hero,” writes
William Oliver Stevens in the chap
ter, “The Two Commodores” in his
book “Pistols at Ten Paces” (pub
lished recently by the Houghton Mif
flin company) upon which this ac
count of the famous duel is based.
“To this day the cloud still hangs
over his name. He is still ‘The Man
Who Killed Decatur.’ *'
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Military Influence PredorniiSant
In Juvenile Clothes for Spring
By CHEftlE NICHOLAS
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W HAT’S new in children’s fash
ions? To tell the story would
require endless recital, for design
ers ' of juvenile modes have found
at command so many contributing
sources of ideas that they have been
inspired to do and to dare this sea
son.
Perhaps most exciting of all is
the rush of patriotic themes preva
lent in all the apparel for the young
er generation. Emblazoned stars,
eagles with wide-spread wings, flags
unfurled, ships, anchors and other
nautical insignia, braidings, epau
lets, sailor collars, officers’ capes
and brass-buttoned coats, colors red,
white and blue in the true American
way hold endless fascination for
youngsters, especially when they
adorn their very own coats and
dresses and stylish cape outfits as
they do this season.
What could be more attractive,
we ask, in the way of new spring
ensembles for school-faring sisters
than the cunning two-sister cape
models shown in the illustration
herewith? To fully sense the charm
of these clever cape outfits, one
must visualize them in their own
original bright colorings (matching
red wool capes, hats, and skirts with
navy jackets) as displayed at a pre
view of American-designed fashions
presented in connection with a se
ries of breakfast style clinics held
in the great Merchandise Mart of
Chicago. Pace-making fashion
events are these clinics which thou
sands of merchants and buyers at
tend each season in search of de
pendable authoritative forecasts
which these style shows present.
The two coats in the picture
shared applause with the cape suits.
Their message is buttons. Rows and
rows of ’em! Bright metal ones a la
militaire are favorites.
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Children adore buttons, and three
rows of them as used on the new
aqua Shetland wool coat pictured to
the right is enough to triple any lit
tle girl’s joy. The pretty eyelet em
broidered- collar helps- make this
coat an' important spring fashion,
for white collared coats are featured
for both adults and little folks.
The nautical influence can be seen
in the coat pictured in the inset.
Navy Shetland with a red and white k
trimmed sailor collar and two rows
of glittering silver buttons is the.
formula adopted by the designer of
this smart and attractive model.
The pendulum has swung back to
sailor dresses. Both children and
grown-ups will wear huge white lin
gerie sailor collars with their new
spring frocks. The top color for
spring is navy in coats, dresses
and capes.
Amusing it is to see the way chil
dren’s fashions this year copy those
of their elders. An adult fashion
that repeats in miniature for little
daughters of the household is the
print-with-plain costume. Cunning
versions for tots are pleated-skirt
print dresses tipped with capes (na
vy or pastel wools) lined throughout
with the print of the dress.
Influences other than the navy o*
the army that make for versatility
in styling are South American trends
that bring vivid color into play. Dude
ranch fashions also delight tots.
There are lariat ties, cowboy fringe
trims and studded leather belts.
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If you are fashion-alert and have a
yen for exploiting “the latest,” you
will choose to wear with your spring
suit or ensemble a coolie hat as pic
tured above, for Chinese influence is
noted throughout costume design
this season. This baku coolie is in
bachelor blue, a color slated for
spring success. In this instance
there is a side cluster of tiny gros-
grain bows and an attractive under
chin loop.
Colors as varied as a kaleidoscope
give to the other hat a definite this-
season aspect, for current fashion
fairly shouts color, color, color! This
dashing beret is made of black, pale
and deep rose, purple, green and
yellow grosgrain ribbon stitched to
gether in a pinwheel treatment.
Footwear Features
Colors, Low Heels
Glamorized by style designers,
low heeled shoes will lead the fash
ion parade this spring. Newest mod
els have been given flippant touches
to make them more attractive.
The great emphasis on color is
perhaps their most outstanding fea
ture: the more color the merrier.
Sandals or step-in oxfords in a glow
ing tan, pale blond or smart wine
red shade will enliven even the so
berest black or navy blue suit.
Tan tones are slightly favored
over other colors. They range from
the grayed twig tans, soft cocoa and
tortoise, to khaki. This last color is
especially smart in combination
with black patent leather, with
khaki gabardine used through the
center of the shoe.
Wedges are renamed “lifts” and
are recommended for country and
sports wear.
Soft cocoa-colored suede is used
for one of the dressier shoe styles
known as a Capri sandal.
Something a little different is even
done to the navy blue oxford. Here
the navy influence is definitely mak
ing itself felt. One oxford of navy
blue calf and gabardine has three
narrow folds of white calf across the
toe. Similar bands of white cross
the back of the heel. For the final
touch, the shoelaces have flat leather
ends with a small white star design
in the center.
JESUS CONDEMNED AND
CRUCIFIED
LESSON TEXT—Luke 23:13-25. 32-34a.
GOLDEN TEXT—What shall I do then
with Jesus which is called Christ?—Mat
thew 27:22.
Hand-Crocheted Hats
Inexpensive to Make
Sailors, turbans, brimmed hats all
done in hand crochet—here’s news
that is news. Ask your milliner to
show you some of the new crochets.
If hats are not all-crochet, then tha
crochet idea i? interpreted through
trimming, such as crochet applique,
yarn pdmpons, and huge twist# of
bright wool yarn.
Two nights stand out in the story
of the life of Christ, and therefore in
the history of the world. The first
was His first night on earth—that
“silent night, holy night” of which
we sing at Christmas, when He was
born as the babe of Bethlehem. The
other was His last night on earth.
Except for the precious hour of fel
lowship in the upper room and His
communion with the Father in the
agony of Gethsemane, it was a night
of darkness, denial, and betrayal.
There were six trials—or mock
trials—of Jesus, three religious ones
before Annas, then Caiaphas, and
then again before the Sanhedrin;
three political trials, before Pilate,
then Herod, and Pilate again. At
the close of this last trial before
Pilate Jesus stands
I. Cleared by the Evidence (w.
13-17).
At the first trial before him Pilate
had declared on the basis of his ex
amination that Jesus was “Not
guilty” (v. 4). Herod, to whom He
had been sent, had only played with
Him (w. 8-11). What a travesty!
Now Pilate again presents Him to
the people as having “no fault.” It
is a striking truth that no man of
any age has ever been able honestly
to point to any fault in the life or
character of Jesus Christ. Think
that over—unbeliever!
Now came Pilate’s first step in
the wrong direction. An accused
man without guilt should be de
clared innocent and released. But
Pilate feared the Jews who had al
ready made trouble for him with
Caesar. So he compromised and
said he would chastise Jesus before
releasing Him. John Merely was
right when he said, “Under some
circumstances compromise is the
most immoral word in the English
language.” It gained Pilate nothing;
in fact, It led to his next step down
ward.
n. Condemned Through Coward
ice (w. 18-25).
To avoid a disturbance and to keep
the leaders from complaining to
Caesar, Pilate gave Jesus into their
hands with the “sentence that it
should be as they required” (v. 24)
when they cried “Crucify Him!”
Pilate was in a difficult place, but
that does not excuse him. It is in
the hard and trying place that a
man should stand for the right,
come what may. Too many of those
who profess to follow Christ are
afraid to stand up for Him in the
hour when men deny Him. Some
unbelievers are fearful about declar
ing their allegiance to Him, because
they fear the opposition of men.
Where is our courage, our manli
ness? Have we lost the moral stam
ina of our pioneer forefathers, the
religious conviction of our Christian
fathers and mothers? Pilate was a
coward, and we are ashamed of
him. Let us not be cowardly and
make Christ ashamed of us (read
Matt. 10:32, 33).
HI. Crucified with Malefactors
<W. 32-34a). ’
The details of and circumstances
surrounding the crucifixion are of
deep interest to every Christian.
We stand with Luther and weep as
we see Christ’s unspeakable agony,
not only of body but of spirit, and
we cry as did Luther, “For me,
for me!” How can any believer con
template the cross and withhold self,
substance, or service from Christ?
Equally earnest and heart-search
ing is the message of the cross to
the unbeliever. He knows Jie is a
sinner (Rom. 3:23), he knows that
“the wages of sin is death” (Rom.
6:23), and he knows that “neither
is there salvation in any other, for
there is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Here at the cross he meets that one
“who his own self bare our sins in
his own body on the tree, that we,
being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes ye
were healed” (I Pet. 2:24).
There were two malefactors who
were crucified with Him (v. 32), and
one railed at Him. The other said,
“Lord, remember me when thou
comest into thy kingdom”; and Je
sus said to him, “Today thou shalt
be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:39-
43). Unbeliever, will you not just
now take the eternal life which Je
sus died to make possible for you?
Loving His enemies to the last,
our Lord prayed for the forgiveness
of those who thus despitefully used
Him. What matchless grace! One
wonders how many of them by re
pentance for their deeds made it
possible for that prayer to be an
swered. That door of redemption
stands open today for every one
who up to now has crucified the Son
of God afresh (Heb. 6:6) by sin and
unbelief.
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Man About Town:
New York Novelette: Mr. Pirolle
ran a good restaurant on West 45th
Street for a long time . . . One! of
his patrons a few years ago was a
young writer, who’d hang up a tab
for two. or three months until he
peddled a piece—then he’d pay up
. . . “You won’t regret this,” he
used to tell Mr. Pirolle, “some day
I'D make good and do you a good
turn” . . . The other day PiroDe
got a letter from the success . . .
It told of a restaurant in Hollywood
that needed better management.
The pay was big plus free rent in
a nice huge house for PiroDe and
his wife . . . Pirolle sold his 45th
Street restaurant and is now bound
for Movietown, where most of his
old customers are anyway . . . In
cluding one who didn’t forget—
Preston Sturges.
Manhattan Murals: The lights on
the marquee of a newsreel theater:
“Crime Doesn’t Pay”—“Italians
Retreat” . . . The Peke in a Madi
son Avenue restaurant who gets
a daily saucer of orange juice for
breakfast . . . The basebaU argu
ments creeping into the Main Stem
conversations—a whiff of Spring . . .
The Sixth Avenue bookshops where
you can get Shakespeare for a
nickel . . . The meticulous irfanner
in which the pastries are arranged
In Lindy’s windows—like a Rockette
precision parade . . . Times Square
on a Saturday eve—resembling an
annex at Fort Dix.
Portrait of a Man
Playing the Typewriter:
No wonder Wayne King’s dreamy
music still is popular after all these
years; no brass, no earachers, no
blasts. Just music . . . No quip
has been credited to so many “origi
nators” as the one about the hus
band’s postcard to his wife saying:
“Having Wonderful Time — Wish
You Were HER!”
The March Reader’s Digest re
minds the appeasers, via a former
attache in Berlin, that we couldn’t
do business with the Nazis, unless
we became Nazified . . . Quentin
Reynolds’ literary lace in Collier’s:
“Lisbon is a city under death, and
her bright lights are really her fu
neral candles” . . . The Supreme
Court ruled that it was iDegal to
imitate clothes styles . . . Bet that
decision scared the dickens outta a
lotta colyumists . . . What the RAF
is holding back was neatly recorded
by Dorothy Thompson: “If Britain
falls—the weight of the whole world
wiU be on the side of the Fascist
elements in the U. S.: Trade, weap
ons, propaganda, armies and fleets”
. . . We hope that makes it clear.
One of the constructive things
ASCAP should do is stop those or
chestra leaders, such as the one
who sticks his moniker on lovely
Cuban melodies obscure composers
create.
Wonder how much truth there is
to that buzz about Hitler and Goer-
ing being miffed with each other?
. . . Goering, the legend has it, is
in the doghouse because of his faD-
ure in the skies over Britain . . .
And that it’s no secret in Vienna
that his frau entered a loge at a
theater and was booed until she de
parted . . . Supposed to be “in
side stuff” swapped in State Dep’t
corridors.
Wonder what’s become of Sam
Goldwyn’s threat of several mouths
ago to wipe out double features? . . *
And that promise to fire members
of the “ism” groups off the relief
payroDs? ... Or the predictions of
dramatic critics that plays without
scenery “were here to stay”? . . .
The height of something or other is
that radio trio who flung a lawsuit
against a movie firm for using
1 “their” billing: “Tom, Dick and
Harry.” Hmf!
Two magazines that attracted
considerable attention before start
ing (only to flop) were Ken and
Stage . . . Verne Marshall was lam
basted out of the pubic eye by a bar
rage of word-buUets . . . Every
knock is a boost, huh? . . . Notice
how many of the opposition, to
everything the Administration at
tempts to do, do so because they
personally hate Roosevelt? . . . .
One day the history books wiD take
care of them aU—but they won’t
have the crimson faces. Their de
scendants wiU carry the burden of
, shame . . . Bob Quillen’s comfort-
ling thought: A success is a guy
'who accumulates enough to leave
*his widow rich when he works him
self to death.
It cost one fellow a pretty penny
to discover the origin of the phrase:
•“What’s the point?” . . . UsuaUy
cracked when a bore tells a point-
dess quip ... It is dice-house lingo
; —when a gambler forgets the num
ber the shooter is trying to make
... Jan Valtin’s book, “Out of the
Night,” is so thrUling his detractors
are trying to make you believe it
isn’t true ... Of all the so-wotty
arguments! ... I can’t feel sorry
for people who lose $260,000 in jewels
to robbers, as happened to that rich
woman
TIPS
to
quick Slower gardens
V/fANY people want quick re-
suits in the flower' garden, 1
and for them the lists of annual
flowers offer effective aid.
A highly- satisfactory, and eco
nomical hedge, for instance; can
be grown in six or eight weeks
from seed. Kochia is the plant.
A single packet of Kochia seed
will provide a full, bushy hedge
along the front or side of the yard.
For a flowering hedge, Four
©’Clock wiU produce attractively
within two months after seed is
planted. .
Glowing borders of flowers that
beautify the yard, and at the same
time provide ample cut flowers
for the housewife, may be enjoyed
the first summer. The fastest-
growing and most dependable an
nuals for cutting include the Zin
nias, Marigolds, Bachelor Buttons
and Petunias. There are tall, me
dium, and dwarf varieties of each.
Most widely used of fast-grow
ing annual vines is Heavenly Blue
Morning Glory, whose giant, soft-
blue flowers are in a class by
themselves. It is weH to scratch
the coat of Heavenly Blue seeds
before planting them to speed
their otherwise slow germination.
GIVE YOUR
COLD THE AIR
When cold dogs your nose with breath
taking misery, use Penetro Nose Drops.
Often colds may actually be prevented from
developing by early use of this famous
Penetro Nose Drops 2-drop method.
PENETRO DROPS
Late to Understand >
We never know the true value
of friends. While they live, we
are too sensitive of their faults;
when we have lost them, we only
see their virtues.—J. C. Hare.
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Few Accomplishments
He that leaveth nothing to
chance wiH do few things iD, but
he will do very few things.—Hali
fax.
DON’T BE BOSSED
BY YOUR LAXATIVE—RELIEVE ^
CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY
• When you feel gassy, headachy, logy
due to clogged-up bowels, do as znilliona
do—take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next
morning — thorough, comfortable relief,
helping you start the day full of your
normal energy and pep, feeling like a
million! Feen-A-Mint doesn’t disturb
your night’s rest or interfere with work the
next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewing
gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, it’s
handy and economical... a family supply
FEEN-A-MINT To*
Evil Influence
There is no worse robber than a
bad book.
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Short-Lived Joy
The joy that isn’t shared with
another dies young.
SKINNY GIRLS
LOOK UNHEALTHY
Boy friends don’t like that “unpeppy”
look. So, if you need the Vitamin B
Complex and Iron of Vinol in your
diet to improve appetite, to fill out those
hollows and add lovely curves, get
Vinol
AT YOUR DRUG STORE
Angry Thought
He who quells an angry thought
is greater than a king.—Ccok.
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