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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1940
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By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
D ON WILSON, the plump and
genial radio announcer,
has turned actor with a venge
ance. He led up to it gently by
using his voice, but not his
poundage (he tips the scales at
300) in “Buck Benny Rides
Again.”
You’ll see him in person in
“The Round-Up,” in the role of
“Slim,” made famous by the
late Macklyn Arbuckle. And
who knows, he may like acting
so well that he’ll never want to
return to announcing.
The chief difficulty so far has
been finding a horse that would
hold him, but he’s promised to
take care of that by producing
one that he rides frequently—
seems that, though hefty, he’s
an expert horseman.
Right off the griddle is the report
that Professor Quiz is all set to sign
a deal with one of the major movie
companies for a series of shorts
centering around the Professor’s ra
dio specialty of questions and an
swers. Perhaps he’s been inspired
to do it by the success of thos<
“Information Please’’ shorts.
—*—
Gone are the days when a hero
had to be perfect every minute that
he was on the
screen. In Para
mount’s “Road to
Singapore” Bing
Crosby is a shift
less sort of guy,
aided and abetted
in a career of idle
ness by Dorothy
Lamour and Bob
Hope. Three other
matinee idols have
forgotten the max
ims of their copy
books, so far as
new pictures are
concerned. Robert
Montgomery gets himself hanged in
“The Earl of Chicago”; George
Brent portrays a fugitive from jus
tice in “Till We Meet Again”; and
Tyrone Power, believe it or not, is
a gangster in his latest.
*
Judy Garland is mi her way up,
and rapidly. This year it was quite
a distinction for anyone who wasn’t
in the cast of “Gone With the Wind”
to win one of the annual awards of
the Motion Picture Academy of Arts
and Sciences. Little Judy got a spe
cial one for work as “an outstand
ing juvenile.”
Kathleen Norris Says:
We All Have to Pay the Piper for
Our Mistakes
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Bing Crosby
Janice Logan looked so attractive
in the brief costume that she wore
when working in “Dr. Cyclops,” the
forthcoming Paramount technicolor
picture, that the Art Students league
voted her “The Best Undressed
Woman of the Year.” (That’s the
JANICE LOGAN
trick picture in which the members
of the cast are reduced to one-fifth
their natural size.) So now Miss
Logan must be all-round champion
so far as clothes are concerned.
When she was a senior at swanky
Sarah Lawrence college she was
voted the School’s Best Dressed
Student.
*
According to Joan Bennett, one
of the greatest predicaments well-
dressed women fear is putting on a
new outfit and then finding someone
else wearing one just like it. That’s
what happened to her not long ago
when she appeared to take part in
a Bing Crosby broadcast. She was
wearing a nifty new hat. She
glanced around, and saw one exact
ly like it on the head of Sabu, the
young Indian movie actor—he’d just
put on his native turban.
—m—
ODDS AND ENDS . . . Douglass Mans
gomery will make a Star Theater appear
ance March 27th with Florence Reed and
Helen Claire in “Double Door” . . . Basil
Rathbone had to pet a black cat for a
scene in “Destiny”—the mangled thumb
that resulted has just healed . . . Have you
listened to the new IFestinghouse pro
gram, “Musical Americana”, recently?
Ifs even better than it was in the begin
ning . . . Joel McCrea had a perfect va
cation not long ago—according to his
ideas; he stayed on a ranch where he
worked as a cowhand, branding cattle and
living in tents with the cowboys. Some
thing new in vacations.
Pay the Piper
«L When we’re young we call the
tune and when we are older we
pay the piper, says Kathleen
Norris.
C It’s an inescapable “fact of
life." Nobody else can carry
your cross for you. There’s no
putting it down. That’s why fa
thers and mothers waste their
breath advising and warning. If
all the warnings and advice were
heeded we’d have a wonderful
world in a few generations. But
unhappily people go right on
making mistakes.
C. And when the time comes to
pay up, the best thing to do is to
accept the bill and start paying.
C. If it’s money trouble, accord
ing to this writer, you have much
for which to thank God. For
many other troubles are worse.
Several years after th-iir divorce Mary and Paul met and discovered they loved
each other still. The results were u second divorce for Paul and his remarriage
to Mary.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
W HEN we are young we call
the time, and when we are
old we pay the piper.
It’s a terrifying thing to think of,
but it’s one of the inescapable facts
of life. The cross you make for
yourself in youth you must carry
in old age, nobody else can carry it
for you, and there’s no putting it
down.
That’s why fathers and mothers
waste their breath advising and
warning. Don’t drive so fast, dar
ling. Don’t start going with that
particular crowd, dear. Don’t eat
too much. Don’t drink too much.
Don’t marry until you really love;
and when you do marry don’t quar
rel, don’t waste money, don’t flirt,
don’t be extravagant.
If this generation of children lis
tened, and profited by advice, and
if the next generation did the same,
and if the parents themselves were
wise good men and women who
hadn’t made serious mistakes them
selves, what a world of high char
acter and nobility and happiness we
would have in a hundred years!
But alas, the parents are often as
busy making mistakes as the chil
dren are, and when one mistake is
superimposed upon another, and
half a dozen more are thrown in
from all sides, human lives get into
terrible tangles, and only superhu
man powers can straighten them
out. Prayer will, humility and pa
tience and faith will, but who be
lieves that in reference to the tire
some little tangles of every day?
We save our prayers for the great
crises of life, and even then usually
bestow them generously on someone
else. That Norma’s baby will
come safely. That dear George will
get well. That Betty won’t be so
impatient with Gerald. We rarely
pray that we ourselves will change,
because one of the first things a
baby learns, and one of the convic
tions that sticks to him most firmly,
is that he is all but perfect.
If you’ve made a mistake and
you have to pay for it sometimes it
helps a lot to face the music hon
estly and say, “I was wrong. I
was young and ignorant and hot
headed and blind, and I made a
serious mistake. All right. That’s
past. Now for the future, without
mistakes!”
A Ridiculous Mistake.
In a letter that lies on my desk
a woman who calls herself “Mary,
Paul’s Wife,” tells me of a rather
ridiculous mistake she and her hus
band made, and of the price they
have to pay for it.
They were married 12 years ago,
and had two boys, now 10 and eight.
Six or seven years after marriage
hard times came; Paul lost his job;
his wife went to work, and domes
tic trouble ensued. They were di
vorced by her wish, although she
says when it came right down to
leaving Paul she cried for four days
and nights.
She married a man named Ben,
and Paul married a girl named
Maude. Ben died, and two years
ago Paul’s first wife met him again.
He is very prosperous now; he was
not happy with Maude, and he and
Mary very soon discovered that they
loved each other still. He needed
his boys, and the upshot of that ac
cidental meeting was a second di
vorce for Paul, and his remarriage
to Mary. They are now ideally hap
py, have a third small son only a
few months old, and would be one
of the world’s contented couples if
it were not that Paul has to pay
Maude $200 a month. That eats into
Mary’s very soul.
“Maude is well-fixed anyway,”
she writes. “She has a car, a beau
tiful apartment, and a maid. She
goes away summers, entertains,
dresses perfectly. We are paying
almost a third of Paul’s remaining
income for our home, have three
children, and only occasional help
with housework. Is it fair that the
money that would give me a good
nurse and great comfort must go to
this selfish woman who lived with
Paul only two years, never made
him a home or showed him any
real affection, and doesn’t need the
money? Of course we want the boys
to be well-schooled, to go to col
lege, and yet that ridiculous $2,400
must be taken out of our income
every year for a woman who
means nothing to either of us.
They Must Pay tne Piper.
“When we remarried and made
this arrangement, we felt that
Maude would marry again, but she
shows no disposition to do so, and
as she is beginning her forties she
probably will not. I don’t know
what we can do about it, but it
does seem that we should do some
thing.”
My dear Mary: There is nothing
you can do about it except pay the
piper, and thank God that the mis
take you made wasn’t of a more
serious nature and isn’t going to
cost you even more. Actually hun
dreds of thousands of families lost
all their hard-saved capital eight or
ten years ago, through speculation
or unfortunate investments, and
they have to pay the piper. Mil
lions pay the piper with chronic in
digestion and headache, because
they WOULD eat and drink indis
creetly. An innocent small girl
pays the piper because her mother
would take her driving in a bitter
wind, and the mastoid operation
that followed a head cold cost her
her hearing.
Unhappy and unsuccessful lives
are all paying the piper; paying him
for parental stupidities, for bad
home influences, for lack of guid
ance or intelligence or grace. Slums
and drunkenness and poverty and
illness are all preventable, and
while we let them exist someone is
going to pay the piper for each
and every one. War is the crudest
and stupidest mistake human be
ings make, and how we pay for it,
and how our children’s children will
pay for it someday!
So stop worrying about the money
Paul has to pay Maude. You and
he both acted like undisciplined chil
dren when hard times came; you
didn’t stick to him as a wife should,
and the discovery that you did love
each other, after the quarrel, is
what you are paying for. Forget
Maude; forget the details; only say
to yourself that you won’t make that
mistake again, and will try to pre
pare your boys for marriage along
better lines than your own were.
See that they know fine girls, and
are ready to assume the responsi
bilities of life courageously and
wisely, and you’ll more than make
up for the errors in your own life,
expensive as they seem.
Mary Should Be Grateful.
When your worst trouble is
money, you have much for which
to thank God. A cruel or drinking
husband, a crippled child, circum
stances that separate you from
those who love and need you, phys
ical suffering from some chronic dis
order, grinding poverty, quarrel
some atmospheres—these are real
troubles.
1
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FORM FOR A CENSUS •
1. What is your name and does
it rate a low auto plate?
2. State your residence. Did you
pick it out alone or were you in
fluenced?
3. What did it cost, and have you
sued the agent for misrepresenta
tion?
4. List every person who usually
lives here and don’t try to hide
Uncle Edgar under a rug.
5. Give color of house. Do you
claim it was the painter’s fault?
PART n.
6. How wet is the cellar and does
the oil burner monopolize all your
time except that which you give to
census agents?
7. If you have a coal furnace who
carries out the ashes?
8. Have you an electric icebox,
and how do you like not owning
your ice outright?
9. Do you have one or more ra
dios in the home?
10. What are your two favorite
programs outside of federal broad
casts?
PART III.
1. Do you own your radio out
right? If you still are in debt for
it do you regard yourself as owing
money or as having an investment?
2. What is your mother tongue?
If a native of America, how do you
explain your grammar?
3. What is your occupation when
not answering questions from cen
sus takers, Fuller brush men and
callers who want to know if you
would like some fresh eggs?
4. How far did you go in school?
Did the school have an electric ice
box?
5. If you did not go beyond the
fifth grade state whether you quit
to enter congress.
6. If you went to college give
name of college and state if the
college owned an electric icebox.
7. If employed give name of em
ployer.
8. Does he own an electric ice
box, radio, trailer or automobile?
9. What is the name of your im
mediate superior?
10. Does he own an electric ice
box?
11. List any and all members of
your household who are on the fed
eral payrolls. (Use both sides of
paper.)
12. Are you allergic to census
takers?
13. Are you particularly allergic
to them if they own electric ice
boxes or radios?
PART IV.
14. Do you know you can get 60
days in jail for not answering the
census taker?
15. Do you know whether the jail
has an electric icebox?
• • •
HELP!
"The dancers face each other
about five feet apart. They stand
motionless for a moment, then rear
their heads upward and bow low,
fingers touching the floor. After a
few seconds they arise, then greet
each other by rubbing noses. The
head is then put under one’s left
arm, then under the right arm, then
raised toward the ceiling. The danc
ers then hold each other lightly by
the waist, suddenly breaking into an
extemporaneous bit of hula, and
then, just as suddenly, they repeat
the dance. This routine is performed
three times.”—From a description
of “The Gooney,” the new Hawaiian
dance.
THANKS FOR THE WARNING!
• • •
Thoughts On a Bank Closing.
Stonington, Connecticut, closed its
only bank, the old First National,
the other day because of lack of
business. Stonington is rarely vis
ited these days except by people
who anchor there on a cruise, but
it is a quaint New England seacoast
town which once knew the pomp
and the glory. Swift steamships on
the Boston-New York line once
made it daily. It was a buzzing
ship terminal, and the rotting tim
bers of its ancient piers are still
visible. The town itself still has
some of the loveliest dwellings of a
former day and it is like stepping
into the quiet, calm and orderly
past to visit it. Bank my eye! Ston
ington is too rich in other things to
miss it, say we.
• • •
Sign observed on the rear of a
flivver doing about 60 miles an hour:
“Pass Quietly. Driver Asleep.”
• • •
A CHANCE AT LAST!
Jimmy Roosevelt is in a new
.novie corporation that proposes to
show movie shorts in nickel-in-the-
slot machines. It seems to us that
le struck a great idea. There ought
.o be some way a man can see a
movie and not see any of the flashes
rom next week’s features.
* * •
“What,” asked American
Susiness Man No. 1 of Amer
ican Business Man No. 2, “do
you do between federal in-
luiries?”
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By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
D«an of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for March 24
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts __
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education: used by
permission.
The inspiration and spiritual re
newing of Easter day comes to us
again. How thankful every Chris
tian should be for this day of re
membrance of our Lord’s triumph
over death. How much we should
praise God that the day for us who
are His disciples is not one of out
ward display but of inward revival.
May this Easter bring a real
quickening to the Church.
In our series of lessons in Matthew
we have followed our Lord in His
life and ministry on through Geth-
semane to Calvary. Today we find
loving hands giving themselves in
what they thought to be the final
act of devotion to their Lord, and
we also see the hands of wicked
men active in what they thought was
a final act of hatred. Then sud
denly the Lord Himself breaks
through in resurrection power.
I. Love Is Kind (27:57-61).
The women, whose devotion to
their Lord never wavered, were
joined in the final act of taking the
body of Jesus from the cross and
burying it by two secret disciples
of the Lord who now came out
into the open, Joseph of Arimathea,
a member of the Sanhedrin (Luke
23:50, 51), ana Nicodemus (John
19:39, 40). It was a courageous
act on their part and undoubtedly
the expression of their great love
for Jesus.
The two Marys seemed to have
stayed to watch the grave even after
Joseph had gone to his home. The
death of Jesus may have crushed
their hopes, for they apparently did
not recall His promise of resurrec
tion, but they still loved Him. After
all, is not that the ultimate and es
sential mark of a disciple, love for
our Lord? Faith may waver, hope
deferred may make the heart sick
with discouragement, but neverthe
less we will follow the example of
these disciples and never let our
love for Him grow cold. In due
season such fait'ifulness finds a glo
rious reward.
n. Hatred Is Relentless (27:62-
66).
The wicked men who had brought
about the crucifixion of Jesus were
not content to let their hatred of
Him die at the grave. They lusted
after His life and they had taken
that, but even as He lay silent in
the grave, the priests and the Phari
sees came to Pilate and called Him
“that deceiver” (v. 63) and demand
ed a special guard. They feared
that His disciples would perpetrate
a fraud, and after stealing the body
declare that He was risen. Wicked
and deceitful hearts can imagine all
sorts of treachery on the part of
others.
The hatred of unbelievers toward
Christ and toward His followers
knows no stopping place. In civi
lized lands and among cultured peo
ple it operates under a cloak of
respectability, but it is none the
less bitter and relentless in its pur
suit of Him and of His Church.
Observe that while the chief
priests and Pharisees acted in
hatred and unbelief, they unwitting
ly did the cause of Christ a great
service by demanding the guard
over the tomb. They made it for
ever impossible for any charge of
fraud to be successfully made
against the truth of the resurrec
tion.
III. Christ Is Triumphant (28:1-6).
Victory and praise should be the
keynote of Christianity. Why should
we be doleful and sad? Our Lord
has come back victorious from the
grave! We may be glad and sing
even in the midst of earth’s sorrows
and distresses. Let praise be the
employ of our lips constantly as we
worship Him and work for Him.
The picture that greeted the sur
prised eyes of the two women as
they came to the grave as it began
to dawn on the first day of the week
was one resplendent with the glory
and majesty of God. The earth
quaked as the lightning and white
angel of the Lord broke through the
unbreakable seal of Rome and rolled
back the stone which was to have
permanently closed the door to the
tomb. This was done, not to release
Christ—for He had already gone, no
grave could hold Him—but that men
might see the empty grave and
know that He was risen.
To the foes of Christ represented
by the keepers, the coming of the
angel and the revelation of the
power of God brought absolute dis
comfiture. That is still true. Men
will argue with theology, church
methods, even Christian profession,
unt’l they see the power of God re
vealed, and then they can only be
“as dead men.”
To the friends of Christ the angel
brought comfort and assurance.
Their fears were assuaged by his
word of comfort, and then their faith
was revived by the assurance that
Christ was risen. The resurrection
declares that He is the Son of God
with power, the Saviour of the world.
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LESSON TEXT—Matthew 11:57—28:6.
GOLDEN TEXT—But now is Christ risen
from the dead and become the Hrstfruits of
them that slept.—I Corinthians 15:20.
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cretonne was used for seam cord-
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the wings and back of the seat.
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