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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. CU THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1941 alferv M-ir incne The Midnight Beat Hollywood’s star feud is between Chas. Boyer and Jean Gabin. It’s blazing higher than the Eiffel Tower over the fate of France. Boyer’s sympathies have been with De- Gaulle from the start. Gov. Lehman, insiders hear, will come out for O’Dwyer against May or LaGuardia ... In appreciation of O’Dwyer’s support when Lehman ran against Dewey. The British Gov’t is supposed to have requested the duke of Windsor not to “make a parade of the night clubs” while in New York en route to Canada. The legs featured in that hosiery advert on the back cover of Life be long to Evelyn Carmel. Motion Picture and Screen Life mags will marry with the January issue. The Book-of-the-Month club will of fer a dual selection in November: “Inside Latin America” by John Gunther (Harper’s) and “Young Man of Caracas” by T. R. Ybarra (Ives Washburn). Overheard: “Be careful of that guy—you’re leading with your chin” . . . “Don’t worry. He never punches that high.” “My Little Sunshine” couldn’t be an oldie called “My Little Rain bow,” could it? Lieut. Comdr. Arthur Godfrey re ports seeing this sign on a small town highway: Every Car Going Through This Town at Sixty Miles an Hour on Saturday Night Must Have a Driver! A major who was dropped by the army not long ago for dilly-dallying with local Nazzys—is now connected in some way with the state dep’t. Next thing on the market will be bottled soda pop with a straw al ready inside and ready for use when the bottle is opened. Ex-U. S. Attorney General Jack- son was the gov’t official who ar ranged the swap of newspaper men AUen and Hottelet for Nazi agents Zapp and Tonn. The Herald Trib’s revelations of the un-American activities here by Vichy agents probably will get them expelled . . . How true is the buzz that New Brunswick (Nova Sco tia) has an unlimited supply of gas —which is not even being used? Don’t miss the newsreels of that 19-gun salvo (by night) during the U. S. S. North Carolina tests at sea. One witness describes the flames as tiie kind “you see only in a tortured dream!” • • • — The Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter On Page 426 of Lizzy Dilling’s “The Roosevelt Red Record and Its Background,” published in 1936, she recites the “red” tainted record of Senator Wheeler. Testified Mrs. Pilling: “Wheeler, Sen. Burton K.: Montana, radical; 1931, ‘Progres sive’ Conf.; ardent F.D.R. support er; American Civil Liberties Union Bill; caUed ‘Socialist, I.W.W. Paci fist’; Vice. Pres, candidate with La- FoUette, 1924, on Socialist and Pro gressive tickets; resignation asked during war because of his refusal to prosecute radical slackers; . . . Signer of application for pardon of Communist Party N. Y. District or ganizer, Chas. Krumbein (Daily Worker 9-635) ...” On Page 2 of her round table let ter, dated March 21, 1941, she speaks of her Mothers’ Crusade to Wash ington and her conferences with va rious Senators as follows: “Defenses of me from the floor of Congress, by fiery, patriotic Senators Clark and Wheeler are in the Congres sional Record. Thank God we have some fighters like these men repre senting real Americans in Con gress!” • • • — The Story Tellers: By all means read Walter Davenport’s pen por trait of Leon Henderson in the Sept. 6th Collier’s. No man is doing more for this country . . . The crisp tempo of Faith Baldwin’s piece in the Oct. Cosmopolitan is paced by her opening line: “The Countess was shooting craps” . . . Time’s report on the U. S. S. North Caro lina’s bing-binging made the thrills dance on your vertebrae . . . Bert rand Russell pens his obituary in Coronet and isn’t at all harsh with himself. Recalling, mebbe, that it is customary to speak well of the dead . . . World Digest has a good dep’t in “I Quote,” the smarter excerpts from the films and plays. The cur rent batch, however, contains more typewriter weeds than posies . . . Sen. Rob’t Reynolds of No. Car. probably doesn’t care for the way his neighbor, Jonathan Daniels, clears him (in The Nation) of hus tling for a foreign power. “Bob,” says Daniels, “has never yet been passionately interested in any prob> lem outside his own hide.” A. W. Doniphan (Released by Western Newspaper Union. Camp Cavalcade CHADOWY figures in a cavalcade ^ of American history—such 'are the men behind the names of the great army cantonments scattered all over the United States, where young Americans are learning to be soldiers in order to defend their country when the need arises. The only man for whom two camps are named (one near Boise, Idaho, and the other near Vancou ver, Wash.) was not a native Amer ican, although he rose to the rank of brigadier-general in our^ army. He was French-born Benjamin L. E. Bonneville (1793-1878). Graduated from West Point in 1815, he soon was sent to the Western frontier. In 1831 he obtained a leave of ab sence to explore the country be yond the Mississippi and his Odys sey furnished the material for one of Washington Irving’s best-known books. Absent without leave for nearly two years, he was threatened with a court martial by the secre tary of war but President Jackson restored him to his former rank. He served brilliantly in the Seminole war and the War with Mexico, and at the outbreak of the Civil war he was retired with the brevet of briga dier-general for his “long and faith ful services in the army.” Even more distinguished in the Mexican war was Col. Alexander Wil liam Doniphan (1808 - 1887) for whom Camp Don iphan at Fort Sill, Okla., is named. This Kentuckian studied law and went to Missouri to practice. Com missioned colonel of the First Mis souri Mounted Volunteers at the outbreak of the War with Mexico, Colonel Doniphan marched with Kearney into the Southwest, was left in command at Santa Fe and from there, ih December, 1846, start ed on a march into Mexico which was to i make him famous. He de feated a superior force of Mexi cans at Bracito river, captured El Paso and, after a weary march of 250 miles through the desert, led his force of less than 1,000 men against an army of 4,000 Mexicans strongly intrenched at the Pass of the Sacramento. The result was a brilliant victory which gave him pos session of the whole state of Chi huahua. After the war, Doniphan went back to law practice in Missouri. Near Petersburg, Va., where he carried on the last of the campaigns which established his fame as one of the greatest military com manders of all time, stands a camp which bears the name of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). Amer icans, both North and South, take pride in the achievements of this gallant lead- er of a “Lost Cause” who had worn the army blue during the War with Mexico, on the Western fron tier and as superintendent of the United States Military academy at Y/est Point before he exchanged it for the Confederate gray when his native Virginia seceded from the Union. For three years he out- maneuvered and outfought some of his former comrades in arms until at last, on an April day in 1865, he came to Appomattox. There he sat down at a table ir. the McLean house with a brother West Pointer, clad in a dusty uni- form of blue. They talked for a while of Mexican war days, then turned to the business which had brought them here. That busi ness was the terms of surren der for the rag ged hosts of the Army of Northern Virginia, worn down by the re peated attacks of superior numbers. The man who played the other historic role in the drama of Appomattox was Gen. U. S. Grant (1822-1885) native of Ohio and citizen of Illinois, who was des tined to become President four years later. A camp near Rockford, 111., bears his name. R. E. Lee U. S. Grant • • • - Man About Town Raymond Gram Swing’s pilots overshot Scotland and didn’t discov er it until they were over Norway when they fled back . . If you start for Britain via Overseas Airways from Baltimore (a regular service) and you don’t make it—your tribe collects insurance. If you fly there in a bomber—no insurance. • • • — FDR is so fond of LaGuardia, don’t be surprised when he comes out for his re-election at Mad. Sq. Garden the Satdee night before the polls open. Medals and Decorations A service medal is given to all American soldiers who honorably participate in some campaign, ir respective of the value of their in dividual services. A decoration is an insignia of honor for some indi vidual act or service. A badge shows qualification in some military sub ject. Authorized army decorations are the following: the Medal of Hon or; the Distinguished Service Cross; the Distinguished Service Medal; the Oak-Leaf Cluster; and the Cita tion Star. (mproved UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL 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 September 28 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE FULFILLMENT OF HIS TORY: THE NEW JERUSALEM LESSON TEXT—Revelation 21:1-7. 10-12, 22-?* GOLDEN TEXT—He that overcometh shau innerit all things; and I will be his Gfid, and he shall be my son.—Revela tion 21:7. A happy ending may not suit the fancy of modern writers of fiction, but it does suit God. He “who work- eth all things after the counsel of his own will” (Eph. 1:11) will see’to it that redeemed man shall “be to the praise of his glory” (Eph. 1:12). The eternal, omnipotent God will bring the history of His dealings with mankind to a glorious ending. The last book of the Bible comes to its last pages where, after dealing with the final struggle of man with his enemy Satan (which has gone on since the entrance of sin into the world in the Garden of Eden), we find the glorious, God-given revela tion of the “divine, final restoration of the universe, a picture of the home where we who love the Lord Jesus will forever dwell.” I. “The Tabernacle of God Is with Men” (w. 1-7). Our God is always with His peo ple, but there is a promise of the time when He shall “pitch His tent” (for thus we might translate the word “tabernacle”) in their very midst and “be with them” in full and unhindered fellowship. This He once did for a time when “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14), or literally “tab ernacled among us.” In the day of which our lesson speaks He will come to live permanently with His people The blessings of His divine pres ence are beautifully described in verses 4 to 6. There will be no more tears, because every occasion for them is gone. There will be no death, pain or sorrow, for the one who sits upon the throne will have made everything new. Christianity does not evade the question of sorrow and suffering, but it does point to a glorious day when they will be done forever. What a precious promise! II. “The Holy City . . . Having the Glory of God” (w. 10-12). The description of the holy city is differently interpreted, but per haps the best one is that it will be in the form of a pyramid on a square base 1,500 miles in width and length (12,000 furlongs—v. 16), rising in terraces, and 1,500 miles high at the top. The description of the city is glo rious beyond words (read 21:1 through 22:7), but the crowning fact of all is that it has “the glory of God.” His presence means more than all the glories of precious stones and of “pure gold, like unto clear glass.” He is more than His gifts, and His presence is more glorious than all His mighty works. III. God the Almighty and the Lamb Are the Temple (w. 22). As long as we live under the pres ent conditions of life, we cannot do without a place to meet to worship God and to receive spiritual help and strength—a temple. But when the redeemed are gathered in the Holy City they will have no need for a temple. The place of meeting with God “which now has to be de limited from the world, and set apart for God—yes, and held with determination and force of will against invading hosts—has there expanded to cover the whole area of human experience and activity. God’s presence has no longer to be sought; it is known; it is felt, uni versal and all-pervading as the light of day” (C. Anderson Scott). IV. No Need of the Sun—the Glory of God Did Light It (vv. 23, 24). The great need of man in this world is light. He rejoices in the sun as it sheds its lifegiving rays upon the earth. He does his work and finds his healthful recreation in the day. When darkness comes, he must have illumination, that he may read, study, work, or fellowship with others. From the flickering pine knot man went on to the candle, to the lamp; and now in most places he floods his city and its homes with the light of electricity. But even so there is too much darkness in the world, and the men who love darkness rather than light (see John 3:19) are able to practice their evil deeds. In the New Jerusalem all will be light, for the One who is light (I John 1:5) and the source of all light, permits His glory to shine forth and “lighten it.” Jesus, the Lamb, who is the light of the world (John 8:12), is the never failing lamp of the city. Ih such light not only the nations of the earth, but their kings as well, will want to walk, doing honor with all their glory to the One who is all-glorious. The verses which fol low our lesson tell us that the gates of the city shall never be closed, but only that which is good and honorable shall enter in. Nothing sinful, vile, or false shall come with in its blessed portals. Exercise for Health, Beauty G ETTING old? That double chin means only that you’re get ting soft! Chin and neck exercises, you know, can vanqufsh a double chin, INDIGESTION what Doctors do for it Doctors know that gas trapped in the stomach or gnllet may act like a hair-triggeron the heart. 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