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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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ly HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
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Lesson for June 8
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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.
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2. In what year did the first
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In the world?
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5. In what story does Jean Val-
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6. Which of the following did not
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1. Wellington, New Zealand.
2. In the year 1914.
3. The Lutherans (61,000,000).
4. The coffee consumption of the
United States far exceeds the
combined consumption of all oth
er countries.
5. “Les Miserables” (by Victor
Hugo).
6. George Washington.
Bearing Ills
There are three modes of bear
ing the ills of life; by indifference,
which is the most common; by
philosophy, which is the most os
tentatious; and by religion, which
is the most effectual.—Colton.
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