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Notes of a New Yorker:
After all of George Jean Nathan's
work and struggle for recognition,
his home burg, Fort Wayne, Ind.,
erected a plaque to a movie gal
named Jane Peters (Carole Lom
bard) . . . Gary Cooper stands a
fine chance of copping the Academy
Award this time for his tip-top per
formance in “Sgt. York” . . . When
Gary was a student at Grinnell Col
lege, Iowa, he applied for member
ship in the dramatic society there
and was spurned because, they said,
he couldn’t act . . . Back from
vacationing in the Catskills, a Broad-
wayite enthused about the rural sec
tor . . . “So peaceful!” he raved.
“Every night you’re lulled to sleep
by the chirping of crickets, the
croaking of frogs, and the ripple of
the borscht!” . . . New York is like
this: In the office building at 515
Madison Avenue the tenants include
the America First Committee and
the R.A.F. Benevolent Society.
■ • • • —
Louis Fischer in his book recalls
one of Goebbels’ quotes which is
probably choking Berlin’s lyingest
midget by now: “Whoever treats
with Bolshevism will end by being
devoured by it” . . . The gag in
Rumania, they tell you, goes this
way: “Ever since we joined the
Axis we are getting food like Ger
many’s—earthquakes like Japan’s,
and an army like Italy’s!”
• • • • —
Comforting Thought for the Draft
ed: The Commander-in-Chief wants
them to stay in an army camp for
another year so that their families
will never be shoved into a concen
tration camp forever.
• • • —
Ray Clapper, the columnist, ex
hibited some of the abusive and
stupid letters he gets from Lind-
berghers . . . Clapper pointed out
that abuse has replaced reason in
the minds of those people . . . All
of which is a new way of spelling
crackpots . . . But get this irony.
Those who submit vile letters are
the ones who yelp that their heroes
are being smeared . . . Hitler
claims he is fighting a religious war
against the Russians “who do not
recognize any church” . . . That’s
a cinch to debunk . . . Every time
Hitler’s air force recognized a
church in England—they bombed
it.
• • • —
The Yoo-hoo incident between
Lieut.-General Lear and troopstrain
ing in Tennessee has aroused na
tional controversy. Many take the
side of the General, claiming that
discipline is more important than
the soldiers’ sore feet (from march
ing 15 miles in a 97 degree heat as
punishment for flirting with some
girl golfers) ... On the other hand,
many think the punishment too se
vere. The following story is offered
to show that not all officers are
starchy.
On a dark, rainy night, out from
the front lines of Verdun a water-
soaked, mud-caked group 6f Amer
ican doughboys trudged in the
French mud ... At ease for a mo
ment one of them approached an
officer in the darkness . . “Ex
cuse me, Sir, have you a cigarette?”
. . . “Certainly, son,” was the an
swer ... As file doughboy lit up
his cigarette the match revealed the
face of General Pershing.
’“General Pershing!”, said the sol
dier.
“Yes, son,” replied the general,
“you took an awful chance. I might
have been a second lieutenant!”
• • • —
A London arrival (via clipper)
brought a half dozen lemons—Which
is practically the same as a million
dollars right now . . . The boys
at the Savoy were smacking their
lips over the thought of a lemon in
their cocktails, when they discov
ered that Kathleen Harriman,
daughter of Averill, had used the
precious lemons for a rinse!
• • • —
Typewriter Ribbons: Nate Col
lier: No horse can go as fast as the
money you bet on him . . . Punch:
His desire was nipped in the budget
. . . Ed Howe: A good scare is
worth more to a man than good ad
vice . . . Lyman Beecher: Elo
quence is logic on fire . . . Abe
Martin: Hain’t it a relief when a
clerk finally admits he hain’t got
what you want? . . . Anon: You
could tell the show’s goose was
cooked as soon as the audience
started roasting . . The Brandon
Sun: Only two classes of people
fall for flattery—men and women
. . . Jack Warwick: Many things
can happen while the experts are
making wrong guesses . . . George
Bernard Shaw: In Heaven an an
gel is nobody in particular . . .
Dolores Anderson: Everything in
Hollywood is real—except the peo
ple.
• • • —
When the White House sent some
of the secretarial staff in a White
House car to the funeral of Louis
Howe’s sec’y at Asheville, N. C.,
the car was barred from the pro
cession because it did not have a
union driver . . “Any three-card-
Monte player will tell you,” Howard
Whitman declares in Coronet, “that
good, simple, honest people make
the best suckers” . . . Smarter
crooks will tell you different . . .
The ripest sucker is a chump with
a taint of larceny, and he’s in
variably hooked.
by Cltfus Scott Walla*.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Peacetime Hero
np HE recent petition of the Ameri-
can Humane association to Pres
ident Roosevelt and Postmaster
General Frank Walker to issue a
special stamp this year in honor of
Henry Bergh has made many Amer
icans aware, for the first time, of
the services of one of those “peace
time heroes” who are all-too-often
unhonored and unsung. For Henry
Bergh was the founder of two great
agencies for relieving distress—the
American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals and the New
York Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children—both of which
were pioneers in their fields.
Bergh was born in New York city
in 1823, the son of a ship-builder
who died in 1843, leaving the fortune
which he had made in the service
of the government to his three chil
dren. Young Henry Bergh entered
Columbia college but before finish
ing his education there went to Eu
rope where he remained for five
years.
In 1862 President Lincoln and Sec
retary of State Seward appointed
him secretary of the legation at St.
Petersburg and acting vice-consul.
But the severity of the climate
forced him to resign in 1864 and he
spent the next two years traveling
on the continent and in the Orient.
The cruel treatment of their live
stock by the peasants of many of
the countries which Bergh visited
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T HE “Bahama Passage"
troupe won’t soon forget that
picture. They journeyed to Nas
sau and began work in the mid
dle of May at Salt Cay, a deso
late island nearby. After tnat
they worked on other islands, in
caves and finally some of them
worked under water. Edward
Griffith, producer and director,
hied himself to a submerged wreck
and went down in a diving bell to
officiate while scenes were made of
Madeleine Carroll and Stirling Hay
den (we’re assured that they didn’t
use doubles!) diving down 18 feet
to the ocean floor.
Shooting the under-water scenes
was no small task; it took more than
a day to set up the heavy Techni
color camera inside the diving bell.
&
Fourteen-year-old Stanley Clem
ents has already retired twice. A
Major Bowes dis
covery, he landed
an engagement with
a theater manager
in Chicago; home
sickness ended it,
and he went home
m to New York. A few
Hi days later* he re-
turned to Chicago—
and a strep infec
tion sent him home
once more. Then he
landed in the mov
ies—in “Tall, Dark
and Handsome,”
“Accent on Love” and now in Met
ro’s “Down in San Diego.” He’s
won his success in “toughie” roles,
but he still has to fight against
homesickness!
*
Stanley
Clements
sickened him and he resolved to de
vote his life to the interests of dumb
animals.
When he returned to his native
land, he discovered that there was
plenty of cruelty to animals here,
too, so he began his crusade—in the
streets, in the court room and be
fore the New York state legislature.
He encountered great difficulty in
rallying the public to his cause but,
alone and in the face of ridicule and
even active opposition from men
who loudly asserted their “right to
treat their property any way they
chose,” he persisted on his course.
Finally the legislature passed a
law, governing the treatment of ani
mals, which he had prepared, and
on April 10, 1866, Bergh organized
and became the first president of the
American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals to carry on his
humanitarian work on a nation-wide
scale. In 1871 Louis Bonard, a
wealthy Frenchman, who lived in
great simplicity in New York, died
and left $150,000 to the society which
facilitated its work. Soon afterwards
the attorney general authorized
Bergh to represent him in all cases
pertaining to cruelty to animals and
with this official indorsement of his
society, Bergh started out on a lec
ture tour in the West which resulted
in the organization of similar so
cieties in other states.
In 1874 Bergh’s attention was
drawn to the case of a little girl
who had been inhumanely treated
by . her parents and this resulted in
the founding, with the aid of El-
bridge T. Gerry and others, of the
New York Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children. This
was the first organization of its kind
in the world and it was the fore
runner of an international move
ment to protect unfortunate chil
dren.
From his crusades have grown the
modern licensing system for pets
which requires owners to care for
them, and dispose of them merci
fully and at the same time provide
revenue for cities and towns having
such a system. He encouraged the
education of children in kindness to
animals and the building of animal
shelters and hospitals, such as are
found in thousands of cities through
out the country.
* * •
Bergh’s work also had far-reach
ing results in matters of health. He
was responsible for the first fight for
clean milk, and the society which he
founded still has something to say
about the purity of milk. It also
looks after the transportation of cat
tle intended for market and it fixes
the times and manner of slaughter
ing animals for food. In the matter
of contribution to the health of our
nation alone, it is difficult to esti
mate the importance of the pioneer
work of this “peacetime hero.”
With “The Reluctant Dragon” re
leased at last, Walt Disney has his
next full-length feature production
practically completed. It’s “Dumbo
of the Circus,” and stars a baby
elephant who becomes the world’s
greatest circus performer because
he can fly. It set a record—the en
tire picture was wound up in a
year and a half, instead of the usual
two and one-half to three years de
voted to previous full-length Disney
pictures.
—*—
Have you been listening to Guy
Lombardo’s new Saturday evening
program? He and
his Royal Canadi
ans have won no
end of popularity
contests, so prob
ably you’ve had
them on your list of
broadcasts that you
want to hear since
they began this se
ries on August 2.
Guy plans to intro
duce at least one
new number week
ly which he expects
to be “the hit of tomorrow.”
*
While Paramount’s testing to find
the right actress for the role of
“Maria” in “For Whom the Bell
Tolls,” Ernest Hemingway, the au
thor, cabled from Cuba that he’s
found the perfect solution. She’s 'a
Russian-Spanish girl who looks ex
actly like the heroine.
*
If Raymond Massey didn’t look so
much like Abraham Lincoln he
wouldn’t have to wear a false nose.
He wears it in the new DeMille
picture, “Reap the Wild Wind:” He
i plays a deep-dyed villain, but he
wears the same kind of clothes he’s
| worn when he played Lincoln, and
all of us have grown accustomed to
thinking of Lincoln when we see
him in clothes like that. So—he’s
wearing a pointed extension on his
nose, to make him look properly sin
ister. ;
*
Guy Lombard*
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chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for August 17
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
PETER ENCOURAGES SUFFER
ING CHRISTIANS
LESSON TEXT—I Peter 4:12-19; 5:6-11.
GOLDEN TEXT—If any man suffer as a
Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let
him glorify God on this behalf.—I Peter 4:16.
The announcement that Frank
Capra and Robert Riskin, his writ
ing partner, would handle the screen
version of “Arsenic and Old Lace”
for Warner Bros, assured the pub
lic that the picture will be a good
one. The sum of $175,000 was paid
for the motion picture rights to this
very successful and hilarious stage
success, in which Boris Karloff re-
; turned to the stage.
*
Remember Singin’ Sam? You
should, though he’s one of radio’s
most unpublicized stars. He’s been
on the air for 14 years, and his re
corded programs are heard on more
stations than any other program in
America. In fact, it’s estimated
that he has more listeners than Jack
Benny—about 8,000,000 a day, the
year round; his “Refreshment
Time” is heard over 227 stations
daily.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Gene Autrey’s
signed to appear in the autumn at the
two biggest rodeos—in New York and in
Boston . . . Al Pearce and his gang, who
return to the air waves in October, will
be starred in a feature film by Republic
Studios...John Garfield violently objected
to appearing in “New Orleans Blues," but
made up with the studio when he was as
signed to “Bridges Are Built at Nighf'
. . . Richard Arlen's starring in a series of
three aviation pictures for Paramount re
lease . . . And Chester Morris in three
mysteries . . . Maureen O’Sullivan and
Johnny Weismuller are housekeeping in a
tree again, for their new “Tarzan" pio
lure.
“Sweet are the uses of adversity”
—so says the poet, and it is true
that God is able to make even the
sufferings of man a source of bless
ing and an occasion for joy, “if a
man suffer as a Christian” (I Pet.
4:16). In a world where sorrow
and suffering have been heaped
high by man’s inhumanity to man,
it is indeed appropriate that we
tnink of the encouragement which
God’s Word gives to those who are
in distress.
There are many helpful Scripture
passages on this point, those before
us today being from the writings
of Peter to the Jews of the disper
sion. Scattered abroad and no more
under the guiding and protecting
hand of Paul, Luke and the others,
they were undergoing severe per
secution for Christ’s sake. Some
were apparently disturbed by their
trials, and Peter tells them that
persecution should bring
I. No Surprise (4:12).
We ought to expect trials in this
world; yes, severe fiery trials. Such
things are common to all mankind,
and the Christian should not expect
to escape. To them, such trials are
real tests of their faith, an oppor
tunity to show to the unbelieving
world that God is able to deliver
those who put their trust in Him!
To be forewarned is to be fore
armed. “Think it not strange con
cerning the fiery trial.”
II. No Shame (4:13-16).
There are two senses in which
the Christian is to be unashamed in
the midst of suffering. In the first
instance, he is not to be ashamed
of the trial itself if he bears it for
Christ's sake, for he is thus sharing
Christ’s sufferings. We cannot
share in his substitutionary and
sacrificial suffering on Calvary,
but we can stand with Him who was
indeed “a man of sorrows, and ac
quainted with grief” (Isa. 53:3). In
the second place, he is not to do
anything which would justify others
in making him suffer. It is a dis
grace, a shame which injures the
cause of Christ, when a believer
has to suffer because he has broken
the law, or because he is “a busy
body (R. V. “meddler”) in other
men’s matters.” If you pry into oth
ers’ affairs, expect to have your
fingers stepped on, and don’t expect
God to deliver you out of it or
honor you in that kind of suffering.
III. No Escape (4:17-19).
If the righteous find the difficul
ties and temptations in their way
to be like fiery trials, if those who
have the blessed presence of Christ
to cheer and to guide them find it
difficult at times to make their
way through sorrow and sadness,
what will the unbeliever do? Does
he think that he shall escape?
Surely not—and there is yet that
day ahead when the believer shall
enter into eternal peace, where sor
row and suffering shall be no more.
Where will the unbeliever be in that
day?
IV. No Worry (5:6, 7).
“Put care into Christ’s bag,” said
George Herbert. “Treat your cares
as you treat your sins. Hand them
over to Jesus one by one as they
occur, commit them to Him” (F. B.
Meyer). He really cares about
you—believe it and act upon it. 1
The cure for all worry is right
there, but even as it is true that
the meek shall “inherit the earth”
(Matt. 5:5), so it is true that only
the humble are ready to cast their
cares on the Lord. “God resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble . . . Humble yourselves in
the sight of the Lord, and he shall
lift you up” (James 4:6, 10).
V. No Wavering (5:8-11).
“Steady, perfected and established
in Christ, strengthened by His
grace, sure of the eternal call, and
with the eye of faith on the glory to
come, such is the man who is able
and ready to successfully meet the
devil when, like a roaring lion, he
seeks to disturb and devour God’s
people.
Satan is busy in our day. Dr. Wil
bur M. Smith says: “It is admitted
everywhere by outstanding Chris
tian leaders, in every sphere of life
today, that there has never been a
time, at least in our generation,
when the temptations of Satan have
been so fierce, so frequent, so con
stant, as just now. What Satan wants
to do is to destroy the testimony of
God’s people, to take them out of
places of power and influence for 1
the gospel, to rob them of that joy,
and victory, and power, by which,
through their labors, others will be
brought to confess the Lord Jesus
Christ. Christian people today who
are conscious of being fiercely as
sailed by evil ought not to be
alarmed, but should realize that this
experience of theirs is general,
everywhere, of true believers, and
that there is sufficient grace for ev
ery need in such dreadful times as
these.”
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2. William H. McGuffey is re
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dians live in the United States?
4. The king of what country
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watching a spider spin a web?
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2. Education.
3. There are approximately
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States.
4. Scotland (Robert Bruce).
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The romance of Paolo and
Francesca da Rimini in Thir
teenth-century Italy has been the
subject of more famous music, lit
erature and paintings than any
other true love story, says Col
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Debussey; symphonic poems in
clude one by Tchaikovsky; poems
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Hunt; paintings include those by
Dore, Watts, Rossetti and Cabanel;
and plays include those by d’An-
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Maeterlinck.
Life’s Conduct
So to conduct one’s life as to
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a human being. It is the task of
one and all of us, but most of us
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