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Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
William L. Shlrer’s Book, “Berlin
Diary,’* is now out. Shirer was CBS
correspondent in Berlin for years.
He tells of the German mother of
an airman who was notified by the
Luftwaffe that her son was dead. A
few days later, BBC in London
(which weekly broadcasts a list of
Nazi prisoners) announced that her
bay had been captured. Next day
■he got eight letters from neighbors
telling her they had heard by short
wave that her son was alive in Eng
land . . . It is against the law in
Germany to listen to foreign broad
casts . . . The mother had all
eight arrested for “breaking the
law" . , . When Shirer wanted to
use the story on his broadcast the
Nazi censor deleted it on the ground
“that Americans would not under
stand the heroism of the airman’s
mother*’!
The way the foreign eorrespond-
now use the phrases “informed
sources’’ and “according to reliable
information’’ because stories in Eu
rope are difficult to confirm, recalls
this classic about the cub reporter
... He was on a small town news
paper and was assigned to cover a
bridge party. He was told never to
write anything as a fact that he was
not absoultely sure about . . . His
story came out in thg paper this
way: “It is rumored that a bridge
party was given yesterday by a
number of reputed ladies. Mrs.
Smith, it was said, was the hostess.
The guests, it is alleged, with the ex
ception of Mrs. Brown, who says
die comes from Illinois, were all lo
cal people. Her husband says he is
rich . . . The hostess, Mrs. Smith,
claims to be the wife of Alexander
Smith.**
hf Clma Scott WaUoet
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
America’s Troubadour
/’Y N JULY 4, 1776, a group of men,
meeting in Philadelphia, ush
ered into the world a new nation—
the United States of America.
On July 4, 1826, in another Penn
sylvania city, occurred another no
table event in American history. For
at noon on that day the ninth child
of William B. and Eliza Foster was
ushered into the world to the time
of “Hail Columbia,” “Yankee Doo
dle,” “Hail to the Chief” and “The
Star Spangled Banner,” played by
blaring bands as Pittsburgh celebrat
ed the fiftieth anniversary of the
signing of the Declaration of Inde
pendence.
No one there could have realized
it then, but this child was destined
to become “America’s Troubadour”
and to write the songs which were
to be closest to the hearts of the
| .nation whose birthday was also his
birthday. For he was Stephen Col
lins Foster.
As a gay young blade of 19 in
Pittsburgh, Foster had a half dozen
boon companions, youths of his own
age, who met regiUarly twice a week
to sing at Stephen’s home. They
brought their banjos and guitars with
them, and called themselves the
“Knights of the Square Table.” It
was for this group that Foster wrote
many of his finest and earliest songs.
For one of them Foster received
$100, an event which determined his
career for him. “Imagine my delight
in receiving $100 in cash!” he wrote
later. “Though this song was not
successful, yet the two $50 bills I
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S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for July 6
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE GOSPEL IS TAKEN INTO
EUROPE
LESSON TEXT—Acts 16:6-15.
GOLDEN TEXT—Come over Into Macedo
nia and help us.—Acts 16:9.
outstanding appeasement
are very quietly pre
paring to become patriotic. Prep
arations have been made to get be
hind the gov’t at the next break in
U. S.-German relations. A face-sav
in* device is being worked out for
their editorial about-face . . . Un
cle Sam has just cracked down hard
cm a “refugee” who was caught do
ing Nazi propaganda here. His final
citizenship papers are being with-
His draft board got after him
visas for kin refused . . . His
are H. C. . . . Immigration
officials have just discovered a big
illicit traffic in Puerto Rican birth
certificates for aliens.
New York Heartbeat:
The Story Tellers: Chas. Lind
bergh Sr. is profiled in the SEP by
his one-time law partner, Walter Eli
Quigley, who calls the piece “Like
Father, Like Son” . . . Read the
senior Lindbergh’s speeches in the
hook, “Your Country at War,” and
youTl see how “like” they are. The
arguments the father made against
Invasion in 1917 (sensible then, may
be) show up in the son’s soapboxing
fa 1941 . . . Jack Oakie has a good
phrase, in Liberty, for those senti
mental memories of hard times, “all
that,” he says, “reads better than
it lived” . . . National is a new
comer, taking its name from its
chief subject, national defense. It is
common-sense-ational. Read it and
give your brain a break.
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER
(From the portrait by Thomas
Hicks, 1852)
of
Typewriter Ribbons: Zona Gale:
He not only could neatly cock an
eyebrow—but could also produce in
h s victim a feeling that he had
e med and fired it ... A. Devere:
Prejudice, which sees what it
pieases, cannot see what is plain
. . . Jean Richter: Recollection is
1 e only paradise from which we
< mnot be turned out . . . Oscar
> 'fide: Unselfishness is letting other
I eople’s lives alone . . . Alvin C.
York: By our victory in the last
\ ar, we won a lease on liberty, not
a deed to it . . . Jay Russell: A
f ood test of man’s character comes
when he’s getting ahead without get-
1 ng one on the way . . . Mark
Twain: Don’t part with your illu
sions. When they are gone you may
still exist, but you have ceased to
I've . . . The Akron Beacon-Jour
nal: Fate does its part, yet most
of the things we regret or resent
could have been avoided if we had
tried.
Drama critics aren’t always
meanines .' . . When George Ber
nard Shaw was a critic a young ac
tress asked him what he thought of
her ability . . . Shaw told her to
get married, have two children,
learn something about life, then she
would be able to act . . . She fol
lowed his counsel . . . Five years
later she returned to the theater and
became a great English actress . . .
Sybil Thorndike.
Sounds in the Night: At the Fa
mous Door: “If you had my brains
you wouldn’t have anything to wor
ry about” . . . “Gawan, if I had
received for it had the effect
starting me on my vocation.”
Then E. P. Christy, head of Chris
ty’s Minstrels, asked him to write
a song for him to sing before it
was published and the result was
the world-famous “Old Folks at
Home” or, as it is more familiarly
known, “Suwanee River.” By per
mitting Christy to sign his name in
stead of Foster’s to this song, the
composer obtained an advance of
$15. Later he received more than
$2,000 in royalties from its sales but
he had a great deal of difficulty in
establishing his authorship because
Christy copyrighted it in his own
name.
The decade 1850 to 1860 was Ste
phen Foster’s heydey. In 1850 he
was married to Jane McDowell. In
1852 he wrote “Massa’s in de Cold,
Cold Ground”; began efforts to have
himself acknowledged as the right
ful author of “Old Folks at Home,”
and with his wife took that memora
ble steamboat trip to New Orleans,
the rich fruit of which was to be the
song, “My Old Kentucky Home.”
But Foster’s married life was not
a happy one. He and his wife lived
for a few years with Stephen’s fam
ily in Pittsburgh, then moved to New
York. There the composer yielded
more and more to the temptation of
strong drink until at last his wife
left him, mainly because she had to
earn a living for herself and their
child, Marion.
Foster died on January 13, 1864,
in Bellevue, a charity hospital in
New York city. In his clothes they
found a small purse containing 38
cents and s slip of paper with five
penciled words on it. They were
“Dear friends and gentle hearts.”
Says John Tasker Howard fa his
biography of Foster:
“No doubt this was to have been
the title of an unwritten song, but
whatever its intent, the phrase de
scribes quite perfectly the dear
friend and gentle heart who added
‘Old Folks at Home’ and a dozen
other immortal songs to the world’s
spiritual riches.”
• • •
On the campus at the University
of Pittsburgh stands the Stephen
Collins Foster Memorial building,
erected at a cost of half a million,
America is coming to the fore in
the thinking of a confused world as
the final hope of democracy and
religious freedom. Europe, or at
least most of Europe, represents in
our thinking dictatorship, a totali
tarian disregard for the personal
rights of man, including his freedom
to worship God according to the dic
tates of his own conscience.
It is therefore very appropriate
that on this “Fourth of July” Sun
day, when patriotism has been much
in our thoughts, that we remind our
selves in the study of our Sunday
school lesson that the roots of Amer
ican life, both cultural and religious,
reach back into the European soil
on which our forefathers dwelt.
Much of that which we as Chris
tians count precious has come to us
because Paul, the missionary, was
responsive to .the leading of the Holy
Spirit and carried the gospel into
the heathendom of Europe, from
whence, in due time, it came to our
own land.
It was a crucial point in the his
tory of Christianity; yes, and of the
world, when the gospel came to
Europe.
I. By Providential Hindrance (w.
6-8).
Not only are “the steps of a good
man ordered by the Lord” (Ps. 37:-
23), but his stops as well. That is
not an easy lesson to learn. Let us
remember that we may be as much
in the will of the Lord when all our
efforts are thwarted as when they
prosper.
Paul had set out on a second jour
ney to carry out a follow-up cam
paign in the cities where he had
already preached. This was a good
plan and had God’s blessing (see
v. 5). But soon we find that word
“forbidden” (v. 6) and then “suf
fered not” (v. 7). The Holy Spirit
began to close doors to the gospel
preacher. Now what? Shall he go
on in determined self-will? Or shall
he become discouraged and embit
tered in his soul? No, let him wait,
for God is guiding him by providen
tial hindrance, which is soon to be
followed
n. By Divine Guidance (w. 9,
10).
The Spirit spoke to Paul in a
vision, revealing the divine purpose
that the gospel should go over into
Macedonia. The Spirit leads in our
day, possibly not by visions, but by
impelling inward prompting com
plemented and checked by the teach
ing of Scripture and by providential
circumstances, and thus a man may
know what is the will of God for
him.
A word of caution is needed at this
point. Some earnest Christian peo
ple go astray by projecting their own
desires and purposes into the place
where they seem to be the will of
God, and thus do themselves and
others, and Christianity itself, much
harm. The three things should
agree—(1) the inner prompting of
the Spirit, (2) the teaching of God’s
Word, and (3) God’s hand in our
outward circumstances.
If these three do not agree, the
Christian does well to wait, prayer
fully, expectantly, for the Lord’s
further guidance^
III. Through a Faithful Witness
(w. U-14a).
The gospel came to Europe be
cause Paul and his fellow workers
were faithful to their calling. When
God led, they went to Macedonia
(w. 11, 12), where they sought out
those who were in the place of
prayer (v. 13). Paul spoke to them
about Christ (v. 14). There he met
the man of Macedonia who turned
out to be a woman. For some reason
the men were absent from the place
of prayer on that all-important Sab
bath morning. They were undoubt
edly the ancient counterpart of our
present day men who are “brothers-
in-law” to the church, these foolish
men who seem to assume that a bit
of “religion” second hand through
the wife or children will suffice.
IV. Through a Receptive Heart
(vv. 14b-15).
God sent an obedient messenger
to the place where He had a pre
pared heart. Lydia was a woman
of distinction, business ability, and
high moral character. But she
knew, and Paul knew, that even
good people need to be saved. We
do well to keep that fact before us.
Paul spoke the truth of God, who
opened Lydia’s heart. Observe that
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to worry with!” ... At the Havana-
Madrid: “Don’t get him angry, he’s
liable to hit you with his bank book”
... At the Glass Hat: “She’s very
good to her folks. Keeps away from
«bem” ... At the Riviera: “After
fee horse is stolen—they close up
All the consulates!” . . . At El
Morocco: “He’s popular with kids—
they like the rattle in his head.”
of Pittsburgh, in co-operation with
the university and with musical
clubs in 25 other states. It is a
“Foster shrine,” comprising an audi
torium, rehearsal and reception
rooms, and a museum contain
ing a collection of material relating
to Foster which Joseph K. Lilly of
Indianapolis, Ind., gathered together
at a cost of approximately $160,000.
God into her own heart, but at once
gave herself to the task of passing
it on. The first thing she could do
was to give aid and comfort to the
messenger of the truth, and she did
that at once. Be assured that from
that day on she did all she could to
prosper the gospel on its way
through Europe and to the ends of
the earth. Have we done likewise?
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Make this dress in any of the
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linens, rayon. Percale, dimity,
chambray, broadcloth are partic
ularly recommended. Bolero can
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• * •
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Rastus Had Just Gone
Through the Preliminary
“Rastus,” said the judge, “you
are accused of disturbing the en
tire neighborhood on Tuesday
night. And this is not the first
complaint. What have you got to
say for yourself?”
“Well, suh, judge, it was this
here way,” said Rastus. “Me an’
Lucy had an argument. She called
me a lazy loafah, an’ I clap her
down flat. Up she hops an’ smash
a plate on mah head an’ drop me
flat. Den I rise up an’ welt her
one wid a chair; an’ den she heave
a hot tea-kettle at me.”
“I see,” said the judge, “and
then what happened?”
“An’ den,” said Rastus, “we
gets mad an’ starts to fight.”
ASK ME O
ANOTHER r
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
The Questions
1. What baseball player had the
highest lifetime major league bat
ting average?
2. Of all metals, which is the
most malleable?
3. What century often is re
ferred to as the Age of the En
lightenment?
4. Which continent is the larg
est?
5. What is a guerdon?
6. How do carillons differ from
chimes?
7. What occupation did Francis
Scott Key, writer of the “Star
Spangled Banner,” follow?
8. How long did the strike of the
bakers of Colmar last?
The Answers
6. Carillons differ from chimes
in that their bells are stationary,
not swung, are tuned chromatical
ly instead of diatonically, and con
tain at least 25 bells in order to
have two complete octaves in
semitones.
7. Lawyer.
8. That of the bakers of Col
mar, Germany, begun in 1495, is
believed to be one of the longest.
Disgruntled over the loss of their
regular place in the Corpus Christ!
procession, they did not gp back
to work for 10 years.
True Freedom
There are two kinds of freedom
—the False, where one is free to
do what he likes, and the True,
where he is free to do what he
ought to do.—Charles Kingsley.
To remove grass stains from
white clothes make a paste of
baking soda and soap and spread
thickly over stain.
* * *
Stale cake crumbs sprinkled
over the top of custards before
putting into the oven to bake give
the top a delicate brown and the
custard a different flavor.
* • •
A thin slice of lemon with rind
added to soup stock before clear
ing will give soup a delicious fla
vor.
• • •
If washable curtains become
rusted on the rods during damp
weather, dampen the rust spots
and cover them with a thin coat
ing of salts of lemon. Let stand
until the stains disappear.
* * •
Pour pineapple juice, grapefruit
or a rather sour lemonade into
one of the freezing trays in me
chanical ice box to get delicious
ly flavored cubes for adding to
chilled beverages. A piece of mint
added to each cube when partially
frozen gives flavor as well as
color.
MILLION!
SUOSEPH ASPIRIN
Without Bounds
I should always be poor were I
to open a door to the passions.
Avarice, luxury, ambition, know
no bounds; cupidity is a fathom
less abyss.—Petrarch.
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Life is as serious a thing as
death.—Bailey.
1. Ty Cobb (Cobb, .367; Speak
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2. Gold.
3. Eighteenth century.
4. Asia.
5. A reward.
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Enmeshed by Habit
Habit is a cable; we weave a
thread of it eveftr day, and at last
we cannot break it. — Horace
Mann.
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