THE SUN. NEWHERRY. S. C- ERTHAY. OCTOBER 29, 1937
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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-
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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.
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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.
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# 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.
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Words Without Action
Few men suspect how much mere
talk fritters away spiritual energy
-that which should be spent in ac
tion, spends itself in words.
An elevation view of the traffic circle and fountain at Seventy-ninth street, New York city, showing part
ef the superhighway that is a big feature of the $24,000,000 improvement project on Manhattan’s west side
waterfront. Beneath this traffic circle is a garage accommodating 250 cars.
Killing Time
People partial to this crime of
killing time might be pardoned if
they’ll only kill their own.
Kindness
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