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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941
Memos of a Girl Friday:
1 Dear Mr. W.: Billy Rose offered
the editors of the Commy Daily
Worker a job in his Diamond Horse
shoe revue. Billy considers their
flipflops, backflips and somersaults
the most comical in the world . . .
Tip the newspapers to see the next
edition of The Hour—amazing rev
elations on activities of Ukrainians
in the U. S. readying sabotage, etc.,
campaigns. A new Nazi trick be
cause Germans and Italians are no
longer in good standing over here
and Ukrainians wouldn’t be ‘‘sus
pected.’
The German Military Attache in
Washington is supposed to have told
Washington reporters July 27 is the
timetable date for the Nazi war ma
chine to take over the Ukraiiie.
Pearson and Allen are furious
with ex-Cong. J. J. O’Connor of N.Y.
They claim to have a certified copy
of a letter from O’Connor (part of
the Kansas court record) in which
the ex-congresSman recently wrote
U. S. Judge Richard Hopkins of Kan
sas.’ Alleging that two out of three
U. S. appeals court judges in N.Y.
were with him in the Congressman
Sweeney libel action against the
colyumists. Pleading sure victory
in N. Y. t O’Connor asked Judge Hop
kins to postpone any decision in
Kansas, but Hopkins promptly dis
missed all of Sweeney’s suits against
10 Kansas newspapers. Hurray for
him.
On Labor Day, 1939 (after the Com
mies and Nazzies got married)
you reported this: Charlie of Place
Elegante says vodka (Russian) and
Rhine wine (German) is poisonous
when mixed! ... In other words
we scooped Mr. Hitler by two years.
—Your Girl Friday.
Underground Ticker Tape:
The most illustrative underground
story circulated in Germany is about
the time Goering visited the direc
tor of aq important munitions plant
and asked him if there were still
any Social Democrats, Catholic Cen
trists or members of the other out
lawed parties among his workers
. . . “WeU,” said the director,
"about 40 per cent of the workers
in my factory are Social Democrats,
about 30 per cent Catholic Centrists,
and about 30 per cent are still mem
bers of the other outlawed parties’’
... "Forty per cent, 30 per cent, and
30 per cent?’’ bellowed Goering.
"That makes 100 per cent! Aren't
any Of- your workers Nazis?’’ . . .
"On, of course,’’ was the reply,
"they are all Nazis!’*
' During the early days of the Nazi
occupation of Paris, whenever Ger
man officers entered a cafe, the
French patrons would promptly get
up and walk out. This so infuriated
the conquerors that they issued an
edict forbidding Frenchmen to leave
a cafe for at least 15 minutes after
the entrance of a German officer
. . After that, whenever a German
officer entered a cafe, the French
men present would reach into their
pockets and pull out small alarm
clocks, which they set and placed on
the table. At the end of 15 minutes,
the alarms would go off all over the.
place, and the Frenchmen would
rush for the doors!
In Holland, on Prince Bernhard’s
birthday, all loyal Dutch citizens
wore a white carnation, the prince’s
favorite flower, as a symbol of de-
f ince to the Nazis. Angered by this
c’ splay of "insolence” on the part
ot the conquered people, the Nazis
< ent around tearing the carnations
( Om the coats of passersby ... A
s hort while later, Dutch sailors
r lade their appearance on the
streets and in cafes with carnations
I rominently displayed on their
i bests. The Nazis soon desisted
from tearing them off . . . The car*
i ations worn by the sailors con
tained ingeniously concealed razor
blades.
In Holland, one of the big prob
lems in the underground warfare
against the conquerors is how to find
out who can be trusted. One couple
solved it in this manner: A few
minutes before two o’clock every
afternoon, the wife shouted to her
husband, who was working in the
garden; "Come in, dear. It’s al
most two o’clock.” Two o’clock be
ing the time for a London news
broadcast, their next-door neighbors
reported them to the Gestapo . . .
The Gestapo didn’t arrest the couple,
however, because they were able to
prove that they didn’t own a radio
. . . But their neighbors had swal
lowed the bait and unmasked thenv
selves as Nazi stool-pigeons.
Ever since the Nazis conquered
Holland, the natives have been for
bidden to listen to the Dutch broad
casts from London, but most of
them defy the regulation, at the risk,
of their lives . . . One Dutch wom
an, who was recently caught listen
ing to BBC (the British Broadcast
ing Chain), was arrested. The uv
furiated Gestapo asked her explana
tion ... "I wanted to hear Hit
ler speak,” was her calm reply.
"Hitler said he was going to speak
from London last September, and
I’m still waiting for him.”
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by Clma Scott WoUoh.
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The First U. S. Admiral
JULY 4 this year was more than
^ just another Independence day
tfor the little city of Hastings on
Hudson, N. Y. Combined with it
was the observance of Farragut
day, for the next day, July 5,
marked the 140th anniversary of the
birth of the man who was its most
distinguished citizen—David Glas
gow Farragut, the first man who
ever held the rank of admiral in
the United States navy.
Although Farragut was bom near
Knoxville, Term., on July 5, 1801,
it was from a little cottage in Hast
ings on Hudson that he went forth
to win his greatest fame as a naval
commander. He was living there in
1861, awaiting a call to duty, when
he was summoned to Washington
and started on the career which was
to make him the victor in two of the
most important battles of the Civil
war and to place him in our galaxy
of naval heroes along with John Paul
Jones, Isaac Hull and Oliver Hazard
Perry. And all this he accomplished
after he was 60 years old!
Few, if any, American naval offi
cers have had as long and as dis
tinguished a record as Farragut..
Adopted by a famous naval officer,
Capt. David D. Porter, at the age of
eight, young Farragut was given the
appointment of midshipman before
he was 10 years old. He served on
the frigate Essex, which captured
several prizes at the outbreak of
the War of 1812 with England, and
ADMIRAL D. G. FARRAGUT
At the tender age of 12, Midship
man Farragut was made prize-mas
ter of one of the captured ships.
By the time of the outbreak of the
War with Mexico in 1846, Farragut
had risen to the rank of command
er. He immediately applied for
command of a ship and was finally
given the sloop Saratoga. In it he
arrived there too late to take part
in the capture of Vera Cruz, which
had already fallen to the American
land forces. During the rest of the
war he had to content himself with
blockade duty.
However, greater glory awaited
him 16 years later and the story of
his part in saving the Union is one
that is familiar to every American
schoolboy. For it was Farragut who
aboard his flagship, the Hartford,
took his fleet up the Mississippi,
past the thundering guns of Fort
Jackson and Fort St. Philip, and
captured New Orleans in the spring
of 1862. The immediate effect of
that victory was to change the pur
pose of Emperor Napoleon III of
France, who was about to recognize
the Confederacy and take measures
to raise the blockade. It was Far
ragut who ran by the batteries at
Port Hudson and helped Gen. N. P.
Banks capture that important post,
in July, 1863, so that Abraham Lin
coln was able to write "The Father
of Waters now flows unvexed to
the sea.”
And finally it was Farragut who
won the great victory of Mobile Bay
in 1864 and to the famous sayings of
naval heroes, such as John Paul
Jones’ "I have not yet begun to
fight!” and Oliver Hazard Perry’s
"We have met the enemy and they
are ours,” added his own immortal
"Damn the torpedoes! Go aheed!
Full speed!” Stopping the passage
of blockade-runners from Mobile
and thus closing another main ave
nue of supplies for the Confederacy
was Farragut’s last important con-
tribution to winning the war.
By November, 1864, his health had
begun to fail and he was ordered
home. In December New York
gave him a great public reception
and presented him with a purse
of $50,000 with which to buy a home
there. Soon afterwards he was made
a vice admiral and on July 25, 1866,
congress created the grade of ad
miral, hitherto unknown in the Unit
ed States navy, and that rank was
given to Farragut. He died in Ports
mouth, N. H., August 14, 1870.
• • •
Farragut’s memory survives in a
colossal bronze statue which stands
in Farragut square in Washington,
D. C. It was made by Vinnie Ream,
the famous woman sculptor of Civil
war days, and was paid for by con
gressional appropriation. There is
also a statue of heroic size executed
by Augustus St. Gaudens, in Madi
son square in New York and in
the Church of the Incarnation is a
marble tablet containing a bas-re
lief likeness of the man who has
been called “the greatest naval com
mander the world has ever seen.”
WifU 3«rvtc« Unite* reaotrea
Eleanor Roosevelt
U. S. RESPONSIBILITY
EASTPORT, MAINE.—A man in
Brooklyn, N. Y., sends me a clip
ping containing a few words I had
said about our responsibility as a
nation, to the world, and comments
on it in a little rhyme about “look
ing out for number one, before any
thing has begun.” He thinks we
haven’t "plenty to spare” and can’t
"send it all over there.”
It does seem to me that the gen
tleman misses the point. If we bend
every effort now to produce neces
sary material help for those who
are doing the fighting in a cause
which we believe to be right, we
may keep the war from our shores.
If Great Britain, China and Russia
lose, sooner or later, we will have
to fight.
No matter how well prepared we
are, 175,000,000 people in this hemi
sphere will have quite a struggle;
first on the economic side and even
tually on the military side.
We shall be pitted against 500,000,-
000 people in Europe and Japan, and
heaven knows how many ijoore if
Russia is not able to hold out. I
don’t want war, but I think that
every effort we can put into pro
duction and military preparation to
aid those fighting Hitler is our best
guarantee against war; and our only
safety, should it come.
• • •
AN OLD FRIEND
One afternoon I went over to
Lubec, Maine, to see my old friend,
Dr. Bennet, who is now 90 years
old. He is deeply troubled by the
state of the world and kept repeat
ing: “What has happened to the
goodness in the world?” I think a
good many of us would like to know
the answer to that question.
We went in to see Dr. Bennet’s
son, who is also a doctor, and told
him that there would be 30 young
people in this house for five weeks.
I think he may have to keep an eye
on them now and then, and I re
minded him of some of the esca
pades his father had pulled many
of our people through in days gone
by.
In the evening we read aloud from
William Shirer’s “War Diary.” The
book is a wonderful piece of vivid
writing. It is extraordinary that he
was able to do his work in Berlin,
feeling as he did, and not get into
serious trouble.
* * •
WAR EFFECTS
We have discovered up here thai
war makes a considerable differ
ence in the lives of the Canadian
people. I wanted to buy what
I could in Canada and nejed many
things since 40 people in a house
require a good many more house
hold goods than 20. As usual, most
of my kitchen utensils require re
plenishing also. Therefore, we took
a large boat and went off one morn
ing at nine o’clock.
We proceeded up the bay under
rather gray skies, which was per
haps fortunate, since all of us got
a wind bum, but not the uncom
fortable sunburn which we might
otherwise have had. After buying
all we could in St. Andrews, we
went across to a beach on a little
island, cooked ourselves some
scrambled eggs in the old frying
pan, which has gone on so many
picnics up here, and went back to
St. Andrews to collect our purchases
and to buy some lobsters in the
pound, for one can not buy them now
on the island.
We intended to go on to St.
Stephen to buy the things we could
not get in St. Andrews, but thety 1
are on what I call double day
light saving time in Canada, which
is one hour ahead of our daylight
saving time. We realized that we
would be too late to find shops open,
so we started back to Eastport. Just
to make things seem thoroughly
familiar, the engine overheated on
the way back and we stopped. I
had visions of lying helpless in the
bay for some time, but after ad
ministering some nice cool salt wa
ter, Captain Cline coaxed the en
gine into action again, and we fin
ished our shopping in Eastport.
One always forgets certain things
and I am sure we shall have to do
more shopping. We are busy put
ting everything we have bought into
place.
MAINE INDUSTRY PROBLEM
The sardine factories in Eastport
and Lubec, Maine, are running ev
ery day in the week, for this year
the fish are kind and apparently
making up for their absence in the
last five years. In Eastport, how
ever, a man told me they are lacing
a real problem. They provide coal
for this section, even for many little
islands off shore. The coal is bought
and paid for, but it is in Norfolk,
Va., and they have not been able
to obtain a ship for transportation.
• • •
OFFER OF AID ,
I had a call one afternoon from
Officer Sennett of the Canadian
Mounted Police. He offered his
services in case any of our young
people are lost in the woods, or any
thing else occurs where he can be
helpful. Since he is stationed on the
island for the summer, I certainly
hope that no one will be lost in the
woods. However, such things have
happened, and it is good to know
there is some one who can be called
upon in case of emergencies.
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S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean o£ The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for July 13
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious education; used by
permission.
CHRISTIANITY EXPANDS
IN ASIA
LESSON TEXT—Acts 19:8-10. 23-32.
GOLDEN TEXT—So mightily grew the
Word of God and prevailed.—Acts 19:20.
War is the order of the day, and
much as we may regret it the life of
every one of us is affected by its
feverish touch. Certainly no Chris
tian has any pleasure in the violent
hatreds of wicked men, and can only
pray that somehow a righteous peace
may come to this troubled world.
There is a warfare, however,
which we do seek to foster and pro
mote. We encourage it, and as
Christians make a holy resolve to
battle to the end. That is the war
fare against Satan and his hosts.
As long as he rules in the hearts of
men, and sin and wickedness are
here, we say, "Fight on, my soul.”
Christian life and service are pre
sented in Scripture as a fight. We
do well to learn the methods and the
weapons of this great spiritual con
flict; not stressing a belligerent
note of strife against one another,
and particularly not between the
divisions of God’s army in the earth,
but standing shoulder to shoulder
in the battle against the Evil One.
I. Attack for God (vv. 8-10).
The vigorous prosecution of a
strong attack on the enemy’s posi
tion is good military strategy, and
good spiritual warfare. The com
mand of God is "Forward!” and
His forces are not to hinder their
effectiveness by weak indecision or
fear. Paul sets us an example in
his
1. Bold Preaching (w. 8, 9a).
Paul had met some disciples
(19:1-8) who knew only the baptism
of John and did not have the Holy
Spirit. Dr. Erdman rightly says
that "there are many more like
these twelve ‘disciples’ in the pews
of Christian churches. They are
sincere men, they hate their sins,
they believe in the teachings of
Jesus, they admire the Sermon on
the Mount, they yearn for the high
est and best things, but they lack
spiritual power. Why? Because
they are ‘disciples of John,’ they
have not fixed their hearts and their
hopes upon a divine, risen, glorified
Christ; they do not know ‘the grace
of God.’ When, however, they
learn the full gospel and yield
themselves to Christ, they are not
merely baptized with water, but also
the Holy Spirit.”
2. Careful Teaching (vv. 9b, 10).
Three months of such preaching
brought many converts, but there
were also "hardened and disobedi
ent” men whose opposition caused
Paul to withdraw the disciples
(learners) to the privacy of a lec
ture room for thorough instruction
in Christian doctrine, a sort of Bible
Institute of Ephesus. The church has
largely failed in its teaching minis
try and has thus weakened its effec
tiveness against the enemy. To be
strong workers fqr the Lord, Chris
tians must know the doctrines of the
Bible.
II. Counter Attack by Satan (vv.
23-32).
The enemy of our souls is often
content to let us go on in compara
tive peace as long as we do not both
er him unduly, but once we put up
the banner of a holy life and service
in God’s army, he begins a terrific
counter attack. Paul had felt it
already in the hardening of listen
ers’ hearts (v. 8), but now it began
n dead earnest.
1. By Selfish Opposition (vv. 23-
27).
One way to bring a violent reac
tion against spiritual truth is to let
it interfere with business. Demetrius
and his fellow silversmiths pro-
essed to be concerned about the
threatened destruction of the heath-*
en worship of Diana (and what a
ine testimony that was to the ef
fectiveness of Paul’s preaching!),
)ut in reality they were worried
about the loss of their ungodly busi
ness in charms' (vv. 25-27).
Many of the enemies of the gospel
xi our time are fighting against
Sod’s Word because they are in a
business which is condemned by it.
They know that every time a new
convert is won to Christ they lose
a customer and it troubles them,
deader, if you are in that kind of
xusiness, get out of it quick before
God’s judgment falls upon you.
2. Senseless Tumult (vv. 28-32). *
Knowing that their opposition was
without true foundation, they in
spired and agitated a wild demon
stration. Is it not astonishing how
many thoughtless and foolish peo
ple there are in the world who will
senselessly follow the lead of some-
ane who opposes God?
Shouting a slogan which had no
real meaning, they lent their voices
to the tumultuous agitation against
God. Finally, one sensible man,
fearing the punishment of city of
ficials, quieted them. The Ephe
sians were just like many in our
lay who fear man more than God.
But, may we ask, if you fear the
judgment of men, how think you to
escape the judgment of God? After
ill, it is God and His Word you
jppose, unconverted friend. Do you
hink He will hold you guiltless?
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Window screens may be washed
with a hose.
• • •
When frying don’t put in the
article to be fried until the fat is
still and a faint smoke is seen
rising from the pan.
• • •
Add about a third of a cup of
cooked crisp bacon to the regu
lar muffin batter. This addition
makes a delicious muffin.
* • *
To improve the flavor of stewed
prunes, cook a slice of lemon and
a cinnamon stick with them. A
speck of salt added to any fruit
sauce helps bring out the flavor.
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• * *
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The acquirement of knowledge
obviously is not only potentially
the most profitable but often the
most delightful pursuit in life, and
the interchange of experience,
ideas and thought are of para
mount importance in these days of
mutability.—J. A. Lacqy.
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Let us be thankful that life
comes to us in little bits—one day
at a time with its duties. We can.
at least accomplish that much.—'
Colonel de Burgh.
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