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U?™* - t * McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 5, 1941 istoriod aM _ hf dim* Scott WoUoh (Kefeased by Western Newspaper Union.) Memorial to McGuffey V^ISIT the campus of Miami uni- ^ v^fsity in Oxford, Ohio, and you wiH see there the statue of “the most popular American of the Nine teenth century, the man who had the largest influence in determining the thoughts and ideals of the Amer ican people during that period and the man to whose work many great Americans of the present day pay tribute as being the fountain of their inspiration to aspire and to achieve.” It is appropriate that this statue should have been unveiled on June 14, Flag day. For it is in our pub lic schools that American children learn to repeat “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands; one nation indivisi ble, with liberty and justice for all,” and this statue is the likeness of “the man who educated young America— the Schoolmaster of a Nation.” His name was William Holmes McGuffey and his $10,000 statue has been erected at Miami because it was there that he, as a professor of languages, wrote the first and second of his famous readers—the first in / WILLIAM H. McGUFFEY 1836 and the second in 1837. Mc Guffey had recognized the dearth of reading materials in the common schools of his time. So he decided to do something about it. He had a keen literary sense and was able to select from a wide range of authors much that ap pealed to young minds. It was this selection that caused him to name his books the McGuffey Eclectic - Readers. Humor is absent from them all—from the first reader in which the smallest children learned their ABCs and were fascinated by the quaint woodcuts of birds and ani mals, to the New Sixth, a 456-page volume of solid and forbidding type, described on the fly-leaf as “Exer cises of Theorical Reading with In troductory Rules and Examples.” McGuffey sold all rights to his first reader for $1,000 to its publishers, Truman and Smith of Cincinnati, •<avfF»Y*s MnST Title page of the First Reader but they and subsequent publishers employed him to make revisions un til his death in 1873, so he received some income from them. He never became rich but he lived to see his readers selling into the millions and extending their influ ence into other lands by being trans lated into many foreign languages. How great that influence was is impossible to estimate. But there is no doubt that their serious purpose, their kindly spirit and their high moral tone made children of an ear lier generation better men and wom en today. At least, that is the unani mous testimony of the devoted members of the McGuffey societies —thousands of Americans in all walks of life. • • • It was the Federal Association of McGuffey Societies which erected the statue of McGuffey on the Mi ami campus and the fact that there is such an association is another tribute to the man. The first of these societies, organized for the purpose of gathering at certain in tervals to read again in public from the old Eclectics, was started in Co lumbus, Ohio, more than 20 years ago. In 1935 Dr. Harvey C. Minich of Miami sponsored the national fed eration and now there are McGuf fey societies in half a dozen states. Eleanor Roosevelt Sec. Hull’s ‘Restrain’ On my way back to Washington from New York the other morning, I read Secretary of State Hull’s speech. I must say that I swelled with pride because of the great re straint of expression and firmness of humanitarian interest Secretary Hull so ably expressed. I thought some of the speeches which I have heard from Germany over the ra dio, and compared the sentiments expressed by Secretary Hull with those of Mr. Hitler and his subordi nates. Our secretary of state offers freedom and co-operation in a joint program for world betterment, and I feel sure that our own people will heartily endorse everything he says. I also read two speeches, one of them delivered by John Brophy be fore the Pennsylvania State Indus trial Union Council convention* at Harrisburg, Pa. The other was a speech delivered before the conven tion of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in Philadel phia, Pa., by Charles E. Wilson, president of the General Electric company. Both speeches approach the same problem from different angles. But the spirit that lies back of the ap proach is so similar that one cannot believe that men of this caliber, if they could be multiplied, would not solve our difficulties in the general field of economic conditions, not only as they face us, but as they face the world. In traveling around the coun try, I felt more and more keenly the need for something which is pre sented in the Philip Murray plan mentioned by Mr. Brophy and which is suggested by Mr. Wilson in his general survey of future co-opera tion. FOREIGN ELEMENTS IN U. S. There is one subject which is trou bling me increasingly and which I feel I must talk over with you. It is perfectly natural that we should be extremely anxious now to keep foreign agents from retarding our defense industries, or from creating dissension among us through their activities. We must find aliens who are here illegally and, in so doing, we must question many people who are entirely innocent of any sub versive activity. For that reason I feel that only the highest caliber men, employed the legally constitut ed government authorities, should have anything to do with these ac tivities. For the rest, it seems to me if we know anything really sus picious, we have an obligation to report it to the proper government authorities. Our country, however, is made up of people, many of whom have come here recently, but who are either in process of becoming cit izens, or who may be citizens al ready, though of foreign birth or parentage. They are probably more devoted to the democratic form of govern ment than many of our citizens who have taken their allegiance to de mocracy for granted. These people must be encouraged to trust and to love their new country and their neighbors. They must be given the same opportunity the rest of us have. I am deeply troubled by certain things that have come to me. For instance, in industries, some people, because their names are Italian or German, or because they or their parents are known to have been born in those countries, are refused em ployment. We, in this country, are opposing totalitarian government. We do not like Nazi or Fascist regimes. But we are not opposing the refugees who want to help us make our coun- v^itry safe, nor citizens who have come '• to us from other lands and who are loyal and good Americans. This de mands from us a refusal to be hys terical and an ability to use our powers of observation, but to use them wisely. PLEASANT GARDEN PARTY , One afternoon the cabinet ladies received with me at a small garden party for the wives of the members of the house of representatives, and the women members themselves. This is always a very pleasant party and I was delighted to have such a good day. Then, for a few minutes, I went to the opening of the Soldiers and Sailors club, which the Women’s Na tional Democratic club is helping to finance as a defense project. It will serve, we hope, as a place of recreation and relaxation fo£ the men in our services who come to this city. We succeeded, somewhat breath lessly, in catching our plane for New York city, and still somewhat breathlessly, we caught the train for Portland, Maine. Here we had a leisurely breakfast and then start ed for Augusta, Maine, by motor, to have the pleasure of lunching with the governor and Mrs. Sewall. • i* • It was beautiful driving through the Maine countryside. The lilacs were in bloom, the blossoms all out and there were sparkling blue water on one side and dark green pines on the hill. There is something about a beautiful Maine day which is hard to match. One forgets it for a while perhaps, but recognizes it immediately one returns to the state. There will always be a pull on my heartstrings with the first view of the dancing water and glimpses of miles of blue-green tree .ops. Intil0 |(WNl/ Service! Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Here’s a story about the timfc Goering was summoned to Hitler’s private chambers to explain the loss of 20 Messerschmitts in a single night’s raid . . . Hitler was nervous ly biting the tips of his paws and moaning over the sour news . . . This disconcerted Hermann . . . “Why are you so worried over 20 planes?” he said. “After all, we still have many more than they” . . . Hitler flew into a tantrum . . . “You fool!” he screamed. “Can’t you see disaster ahead? At this rate we’ll soon outnumber them only five to one!” Gene Fowler addressed the school of journalism at the Univ. of Mis souri*. . . Knowing Fowler’s color ful reputation and good nature, the authorities there asked him to lay off “muscle” journalism and other harsh aspects of newsgathering in his talk . . . Fowler agreed, deliv ered a sugary lecture on the moral code of reporters and the ethics of journalism, all couched (and sound asleep) in copybook maxims . . . Later, he gathered the students and led them outside onto the lawn . . . “Lissen,” he said softly, “every word I said in there was strictly off the pitchfork! The most important thing in journalism is the expense account. And remember this—drink ing and gambling expenses are just as legitimate as cab fares and phone calls—to a guy tracking down a story!” Genevieve Rowe, the canary, of fered this repartee between Adolf and Goebbels. Hitler sent for Joe and said: “Did you see what that awful foreign correspondent wrote about me in hi§ piece yesterday? He said I was a murderer, a thief, a butcher—well, you must have read it. I won’t stand for it!” “What’ll I do?” asked Goebbels, “have him purged or expelled?” “No,” said the mustache, “I’m gonna make him prove it!” Memo to Pulitzer Prize Losers: In 1933 “Tobacco Road,” now in its eighth year, could not have won the Pulitzer ribbon for being the best play because it was a dramatiza tion of an Erskine Caldwell novel ... In 1934, the Pulitzer play prize went to “The Old Maid”—a drama tization of a novel. Clarke Robinson has been squir ing a couple of British sailors about town. Took them to the Polo Grounds, the Stadium, Radio City Music Hall, Jamaica racetrack and several night clubs, winding up on the sixty-fifth floor at the Rainbow room . . . Later they went onto the balcony and looked over New York city by night from the sixty-fifth story—a magnificent sight . . . Rob inson asked them what impressed and awed them most. “I dunno,” said one of them. “I think I should say what awed me most was the way you serve tea in those wee bags.” The Japs literally kicked Wilfrid Fleisher, Herald Trib correspond ent, out of Tokyo several months ago . . . Yet, in his mail the other day came a formal invitation from the director of the Japanese Institute in New York—to sip tea at Rockefeller Center “in honor of the returned res idents of Japan.” (Note to that In stitute: The little man who wasn’t there was Wilfrid.) Roland Brown’s reminder to all Hollywood celebs (who get big heads) in the current heat wave in Hollywood: “In weather like this, don’t forget—the cooling system gets the biggest billing!” 'New York Newsreel: The inspiring “I Am an American Day” ceremonies in Central park— oceans of humanity making public their love affair with America. And the thousands of new citizens open ing their hearts to the wonderful country that opened its gates to them . . . Carloads of families leav ing the city every week-end, eager for a whiff of peace and beauty and gathering energy for next week’s struggle for existence . . . The chalking on the sidewalk at 45th Street and 5th: “What have the peo ple got against this world?” . . . People exiting from clubs and fra ternal groups in midtown, standing on the sidewalk gabbing and saying good-by to each other by easy stages . . . The sapboxers in Union square who wear their ignorance on their tongues and can’t take heckling, al though they demand freedom of speech for themselves. Jobless on Sixth Ave. watching the days tick by, as each empty- handed minute adds rust to their lives — punishment without crime . . . Frayed intellectuals in the Vth Ave. library trying to escape barbed wire reality by plunging into the shelter of a book . . . Waitresses holding their smiles like torches, try ing to please you and trying to hide the fact that their jobs do not please them . . . Celebs taking public ac claim while trying to avoid private whispers ready to pounce on them and spoil it ail IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI L.< chool Lesson ly HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute ewspaper Union.) of Chicago. (Released by Western New Lesson for June 8 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. BEGINNING OF WORLD MISSIONS LESSON TEXT—Acts 12:25-13:12. GOLDEN TEXT—And he said unto them. Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.—Mark 16:15. Nineteen hundred years of “front line action” for Christ began that day in Antioch when the first mis sionaries of the cross were sent forth. There is no more thrilling story in all history than that of mis sions. The glorious thing is that it goes on year after year, and will do so as long as the Lord of the harvest continues to send forth workers. The writer of these notes is glad to be associated with a training center which in its half century of operation has prepared for service about 2,300 men and women who have been sent to the foreign field by their churches and missions, and of whom approxi mately 1,600 are still active on the field in spite of “peril, toil and pain.” Our lesson teaches us how “to fight the good fight of faith” (I Tim. 6:12). First we must have I. The Base of Operations (w« 1-3). Every army must have a home base; just so, the army of the Lord looks to the home church, the local gathering of God’s people. An army would fail if those at the base of its action were asleep, or so interested in the pleasures of this world, or so Indifferent to their responsibility, that they would not work hard in support of the active army. So the cause of Christian missions cannot go ahead if it has to depend on a home church which is spiritually asleep, indolent, indifferent, and worldly minded. The church at Antioch prayed and fasted. * It ministered the Word of God. It was responsive to the guid ance of the Holy Spirit and ready to sacrifice by giving its leaders to the missionary cause. Is your church that kind of a church? If not, why not? Observe also that it is from such a church that God calls His workers. Sunday school teacher, you may have in your class next Sunday one of the missionary leaders of the next generation. See to it that the mes sage from God reaches that heart. II. Good Soldiers of the Cross (w. 2-4). The army does not call for the weak or physically handicapped to serve. Just so, God’s service calls for the strongest men and women of the church, not the misfits or fail ures. A girl was once heard to re mark: “If I can’t get married, I will be a missionary.” Fortunately for God’s work, she did get mar ried. Some men who cannot suc ceed in business think that means they should be missionaries. God wants our best (Deut. 15:2) and He wants the best a church can give, which means the best spiritu ally, but in other ways as well. Note also in verses 3 and 4 that the messengers of the Lord must be con stantly led of the Holy Spirit. III. The Heat of Battle (vv. 5-10). Warfare is not a Sunday school picnic. It means conflict with the forces of the enemy. So the mis sionary of the cross must be pre pared to meet Satanic opposition. 9aul and Barnabas met this “son of the devil” (by the way, reader, we trust you do not belong to that fam ily) who opposed the work of grace which had begun in the heart of the governor (w. 8-10). However, there are those who do seek to hear the Word of God (v. 7) as did Sergius Paulus. The business of the missionary is to preach to them, but not only to them. The city of Paphos was really a minia ture of the world of that day. It was a Greek city of high culture and low morals. It was ruled by the Roman governor, a man of noble character and a “man of understanding” (v. 7). But right with him was Elymas the sorcerer, a wicked and ungodly Jew, a disgrace to his own people and a hindrance to the work of God. The messenger of God rejoices in the opportunity to minister the Word, whether to Roman, Jew, or Greek, of high or low estate, wicked or good, interested or antagonistic. They all need God’s Word. IV. Victory for Christ (w. 11, 12). The army goes into battle with the purpose of winning a victory, or it is defeated before it starts. The Lord’s army is on a victorious march, certain of success, because He that is in us is “greater than he that is in the world” (I John 4:4). In dealing with the sorcerer, Paul brought down the drastic judgment of God. Note that this was not done because Elymas opposed Paul, or because he had some different be lief, but because he in his wickedness opposed God. Those who fight against God are in a losing battle, the victory is always on His side. There was another kind of victory here, and the soldiers of the cross are (or should be) far more inter ested in that type of victory; namely, the surrender of a sinner at the foot of the cross. God won a victory in the heart of Sergius Paulus. THINGS TO MAKE Transfer No. Z9351 u I)OY” and “Girl” meet over a pan of milk, and swift ro mance results—for the purpose of this new tea towel set. While Miss Kitty plucks flower petals to de- rwwwwwwwwwmwwwwwwwwwwwwwm Jlsk Me .Another 0 A General Quiz The Questions 1. W*hat is the southernmost capital city in the world? 2. In what year did the first ocean steamer go through the Panama canal? 3. What denomination consti tutes the largest Protestant group In the world? 4. 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