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THE SUN. NEWHERRY. S. C- ERTHAY. OCTOBER 29, 1937 Ttoyd ADVENTURERS* CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! Eric Yelled to Him to Stop. tains. Either he starves to death, freezes to death, or ends up at the bottom of a gorge with his bones broken.” He put away his lunch un eaten—strapped on his knapsack, and started out with the rest of the party to search for the lost man. Riding Fast to Sure Death. For two hours they hunted, doubling back on their own tracks, try ing to find the place where he had left the party Finally, they spotted him—a rapidly moving speck, far off to the left—a man on skis, hurtling at express-train speed down the side of the mountain. It was a sight that should have brought joy to that anxious little party of searchers, but it only filled them with a new and awful fear. Unfamiliar with the country, the man on skis was riding STRAIGHT TO HIS DESTRUC TION. The slope he was careening down so merrily ended in*a steep, towering cliff. If he wasn’t stopped before he got to the bottom, he would be dashed to pieces on the ice-covered rocks below. Eric thrust his feet into the toe-straps of his skis—tcld his comrades he was going to try to head that poor devil off. “You can’t do it,” his friends told him. “He’s too far gone. Nothing on earth could reach him in time. You’ll only go over the cliff yourself.” Eric didn’t even hear the last of it. He was on his way, shooting down the mountainside in the direction of the doomed man—and the threatening, ever-nearing cliff. The man ahead had almost a two-mile lead when Eric started. He’d need all the speed he could muster to close that gap in time to save the poor fellow from the cliff. He raced along down the mountain, knees bent, head and chest thrust forward to lower the wind resistance—using every bit of strength and skill that was in him. Saved by Eric’s Desperate Measure. He was careening along now at forty miles an hour, the rush of cold air in his face making his eyes water so that he could hardly see. He crouched lower and stepped up his pace. Now he was making forty-five— forty-eight—fifty, and slowly gaining on the man ahead. About half a mite from the cliff’s edge, he caught up with his man—motioned to him to halt. Then his heart sunk as the fellow waved back at him and kept right on going. Eric yelled to him to stop. The wind ripped the words from bis mouth and carried them away up the mountainside. He tried making motions again, but you can’t make many motions bal anced on a pair of skis going fifty miles an hour. The edge of the cliff was only two hundred yards away now. There was one chance left and Eric took it. He whipped up his speed, passed his man, and flung himself headlong in his path. There was no mistaking that gesture. The friend braked his skis, slowed own, fell in a heap over Eric’s bruised and lacerated body. When ho got up again—saw the edge of the cliff only fifty feet away— his face turned white as the snow that had nearly carried him to his death. And after that, boys and girls, came one of the briefest conversations on record. The lad Eric had saved stood up, looked down at that gaping declivity before him, and in a weak voice said: “OH.” Eric didn't say anything. After all, what was there to say? e—WNU Service. Cymbalism Most people regard the cymbals as an unimportant instrument in an orchestra, but some of the most striking effects are obtained by them. Unless the note produced by banging them has just the right timbre they are useless, and manu facturers regard the production of perfect cymbals as a hit-or-miss affair. But there is one cymbal maker, according to London Tit-Bits Magazine, who guarantees the right tone every time. For centuries his family have made cymbals, and he possesses a secret tempering proc ess which makes them sought after by every famous orchestra in Eu rope and America. Although he em ploys dozens of assistants, the tem pering of every pair is done by him. Corn Boon to Colonists The first Europeans to recognize corn’s importance were the English colonists on our Atlantic coast. Wheat they tried and it failed them; and when the very existence of the Massachusetts and James town settlements hung in precarious balance during those first hard win ters, it was corn that saved them. Capt. John Smith forced every fam ily of his little band to plant corn. They were rewarded handsomely. Like the sparse crops of the first dawn of civilization, it became a means of exchange, a form of mon ey. Surplus corn built up trade and commerce, encouraged the growing stream of immigrants crossing the Atlantic, and opened the gates to wealth and prosperity. Scenes and Persons in the Current News “Downhill Toward Death?* By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: Here’s a yarn, fellow adventurers, that socks me right smack in thg weakest spot I’ve got. You know, I am not afraid of mice, and I don’t go around nights looking under beds for bur glars. Some day I might even get used to being shot at or tor pedoed, or chewed up by man-eating kangaroos. But height— altitude—elevation—anything more than two inches off good, flat, solid ground—just about scares me to death. Today, reading a yarn from Adventurer Eric K. Frank of Palisades Park, N. J., I got a dose of altitude fever I couldn’t very well avoid. It was quite a few miles away from here, boys and girls, and quite a few years back. The episode that is scaring the pants off of me happened on Winsel-Burg mountain in south Germany in the year 1927. Then, Eric Frank vas one of a party of hardy souls who had gone out with a guide for a skiing jaunt on the treacherous slopes of the Winsel-Burg. They had been climbing up steep paths, edging their precarious way along narrow, ice-covered ledges, skirting treacherous cliffs and dodging dan gerous pitfalls. Finally they came out on a broad slope covered with hard-packed January snow, whose vast, glistening expanse reared it self high up the mountain side, and here the leader called a halt. One of the Party Was Missing. Four hours is a long time to be climbing. That bunch of ski-pushers hunkered right down in the snow for a rest—started opening up knap sacks—got out their lunches. They were all set for a nice quiet little meal in the peace and stillness of the great outdoors, but they forgot that old Mother Nature, for all that she is a quiet old dame, can be cruel and murderous when she has a mind to. The knapsacks were open—the lunches out—some of the crowd had started eating when the guide remembered a precaution highly necessary in those regions where people get lost from their parties, fall down cliffs and get stuck in crevasses. He started to check over the people in his charge to make sure none of them were missing. He counted the gang twice, frowned, counted them again. Then, his face pale and his voice shaky, he announced that the party was short one man. Eric Frank had a queer feeling in the pit of his stomach when he heard that announcement. “I was filled with fear,” he says, “and I know everyone else was too. I pity anyone who gets lost in those moun- 1 '"V- " - a lit i V “Nuts to You, Willie Squirrel” ! * ' ,.jfo ' - SIGNS FOR MOVIES IK % / im 88? « Life for Willie, pet squirrel owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Britten of Greenville, Tenn., is just one dentist chair after another. Willie’s front teeth began to curve backward toward the roof of his mouth and his owner carted him off to the dentist to have them ground off. The dentist opined that Willie eats too much prepared food. Airline hostesses are all so capa ble and charming that the inroads of Cupid are the most serious factor involved in alienating them from their jobs. Now comes an announce ment from an airline company Indi cating another threat. As evidence we show you • picture of pretty Daphne Lane, airline hostess who has just received a motion picture contract. BONNEVILLE CHIEF Lily Pad Is His Fishing Boat James D. Ross of Seattle, who has been appointed by President Roosevelt as administrator of the Bonneville dam project. Under the supervision of Secretary of the In terior Harold L. Ickes, Mr. Ross will administer the transmission and sale of all hydroelectric power. Five-year-old Lonny Bliss of Miami, Fla., is a keen angler. He is pictured as he tries his luck for the wily fish that lurk beneath the lily pads. These rare tropical water lilies grow so big that Lonny can get right out on one and use it instead of a boat. New York’s $24,000,000 Highway Opened ■mm IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, Dean ui the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Q Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for October 31 THE MORAL ISSUE IN THE DRINK PROBLEM IJESSON TEXT—Romans 13:13-14; I Corinthians 6:9-11; Galatiana 5:16-24. GOLDEN TEXT—Walk In the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the luit of the flesh.— Galatians 5:16. PRIMARY TOPIC—My Neighbors. JUNIOR TOPIC—The Greatest Law. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Why Is It Wrong to Drink Alcoholic Bev erages? YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— The Moral Issue In the Drink Problem. 1—Miss Jeanette Rankin, former congresswoman from Montana and now associate secretary of the Na tional Council for the Prevention of War, pictured as she addressed a meeting of the body recently and pleaded for American aloofness from foreign disputes. 2—Defenders of Shanghai repelling a Japanese attack on the city. 3—Herr Von Stohrer, newly appointed German ambassador to the insurgent government of Spain (left), shown as he acknowledged cheering crowds at Salamanca, Spain, with the Nazi salute. General Franco, who received the new envoy’s credentials, is shown at his right. Jlsk Me Jlnother # A General Quia The title for our lesson is well- chosen—"The Moral Issue in the Drink Problem.” First, let it be clear that there is an issue. Those who have business, social, or political connections with the liquor traffic would like to have us believe that the repeal of prohi bition settled the matter once for all. But let us be sure of this fact— the liquor problem is at our very door, and it must be met. In the second place, many would have us think that the matter of drunkenness is a social, political, or even a physical problem, without any moral implications whatever. But those who are informed know that even the supposedly innocent beer is inextricably tied up with vice and crime. A prisoner in a fed eral penitentiary writing before pro hibition was repealed said, “Crimi nals hail with delight . . . the re turn of liquor via the beer route and the greater license that the return of the saloon will inevitably bring. With the return of beer will come open prostitution and gambling.” His words were true. I. Drunkenness Is a Work of Dark ness (Rom. 13:12-14). Just as there are darkness and daylight in the physical universe, so there are two contrasting spiritual realms, of darkness and light. Men “loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil," according to the Lord Jesus. (See John 3:19.) This spiritual realm of darkness is directed by “rulers of the darkness of this world” (Eph. 6:12), and their purpose is “spiritu al wickedness.” With the “works of darkness” the believer is to “have no fellowship” (Eph. 5:11), but is to “reprove them” and bring them into the light where their true na ture is made manifest (Eph. 5:13). “God is light, and in him ia no darkness at all,” and those who have fellowship with him “walk in the light.” (See I John 1:5-7.) Drunkenness is a work of dark ness. It separates man from God and makes him fear the glorious light of his countenance. The solu tion for that awful condition is re vealed in v. 14. “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.” II. Drunkenness Is a Work of Un righteousness (I Cor. 6:9-11). No drunkard “shall inherit the kingdom of God” (v. 10), and the man who takes his first drink has put his foot on the path that leads to the drunkard’s grave. Of course no man plans to go that far, but the fact is that such is the tragic con clusion for hundreds of thousands of men and women—damned for time and eternity by drink. Again in this passage we have the answer to our problem. Not refor mation, not education, not culture (desirable and useful though we recognize these things to be), but being “washed," "sanctified,” and “justified” in “the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of God.” Try that on your town drunkard. Thank God, it works! III. Drunkenness Is a Work of the Flesh (Gal. 5:16-24). The flesh—that is our bodies ruled over by self-will as opposed to God’s will—is revealed in the Scriptures to be thoroughly bad, and in opposi tion to God. Consider the appalling list of the works of the fV*h in verses 19 and 20. And note mat in the midst of them stands drunken ness. It is the lowest in man that re sponds to intoxicants. Little won der that the Brewers' Journal came out right after the election of 1932 with the statement that "not one tenth of one-per cent of American youths know the taste of real beer. We must educate them.” In other words the normal taste of an in telligent person would revolt at the stuff, but once give it a chance to stir the lusts of “the flesh” and the victim is caught. Once again, note the antidote— live in the power of the Holy Spirit, and the flesh with its lusts is cruci fied (v. 24). How shall we have the Holy Spirit and his power in our lives? By taking the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Saviour. 1. How much thread is woven into a pair of silk stockings? 2. Why were the Pillars of Her cules so called? 3. What percentage of the mem bers of congress attended college? 4. How many comets are there in the known solar system? 5. Where did the school origi nate? 6. Why do we have summer and winter seasons? 7. What is the largest office building in the world? 8. Are any of the old Roman aqueducts still in use? 9. How great a sway can the Empire State building in New York safely stand? 10. Does the United States have more strikes and lockouts than other countries? Answers 1. In 4-thread women’s hose, 19,- 700 feet; 8-thread women’s hose, 9,900 feet; 10-thread women’s hose, 6,500 feet. 2. From the myth that they had been torn asunder by Hercules to admit the flow of the ocean into the Mediterranean. 3. Eighty-one per cent of the 441 members of congress whose edu cation is recorded in the current Congressional Directory attended college. 4. Approximately 120,000. 5. In ancient Greece. Plato was first to give regular educational courses extending over three or four years end in a fixed place, the Academy. 6. Because the axis of the earth in its revolution around the sun is not perpendicular to the sun’s rays, thus the different parts of the earth’s surface receive the di rect rays of the sun at different 7. The R. C. A. building ia New York city is the largest office structure in the world, with a gross area of 2,924,036 square feet. It has a ground area of 99,770 square feet. 8. Of the nine aqueducts which brought water to ancient Rome, three are still in use. One of them, constructed in 149 B. C., is 56 miles long. 9. Engineers have stated thaf the Empire State building wat built to stand a sway of 24 inches. 10. The number of persons in volved in proportion to the popu lation is less here than elsewhere, with the exception of Canada and the Irish Free State. In the 1930- 1936 period 61 persons in 10,000 were involved in the United States; 63 in Great Britain, 114 in France (strikes only), and 170 in Belgium. The Irish Free Stata had 24 in 10,000 involved, and Can ada, 25. igatef' Many doctors recommend Nujol for Its gentle action on the bowels. Don’t confuse Nujol with unknown products. INSIST ON GENUINE NUJOL Co*». tan. rnmmm b*. GET RID OF BIG UGLY PORES PUN!? 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