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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) .^■EW YORK.—One bright, sunny ■ L ~ day in July, 1920, King Chris tian X of Denmark, mounted on a beautiful white horse, led his troops it across a Military t orce boundary line It New Problem to reclaim the Tor Dartith King lost to the Germans in 1864. Den mark had been crippled in the World war, suffering much more than Nor way and Sweden, but somehow she had managed to save her little king dom. The king, addressing a cheer ing throng, hailed the organization of international law and order, un der which small nations could live in peace. The king, who is six feet, six inches tall, the tallest man in his kingdom, recruited a guard of the tallest and handsomest young men he could find, but none so tall as he. They were gorgeously uniformed and the ceremony of the changing of the guard might have been read ied by Franz Lehar. But many times, the king reminded his people that all this was merely appropri ate ceremonial, and that Denmark’s safety lay in keeping in the van guard of civilization, and not in armed forces. Last summer, under great nerv ous tension, he seemed to feel that the pozers of darkness were clos ing in, and suffered a serious ill ness. Today, with the fate of Den mark resolved in far-ranging and desperate issues, the old king, near ing 70, yields to the inevitable. The New world structure of law and or der has fallen and Denmark is one of many casualties. At the age of 28, Christian mar ried Alexandrine, princess of Meck- lenburg-Schwerin. When he was crowned in May, 1912, the Danish populace was prepared to dislike him, descendant of an alien dynasty as he was, and there were some overt demonstrations against him. But he won his people with his fur therance of a liberal, constitutional government. Although he was trained as an army officer, and had a liking for military pomp, he fre quently denounced militarism and opposed efforts to gn. his tiny coun try goose-stepping and arming. While he was proud of having the tallest and most resplendent guard in Europe, he slipped away from his bodyguards at every opportunity and enjoyed tremendously bicycling around Copenhagen, unattended. Into the ruck with Denmark’s gains of two decades goes what probably has been the world’s most succes- ful state-sponsored industrial and agricultural co-operation. * PMIL HURJA, big, Babe Ruthian political statistician and preci- sionist, who greatly aided the early New Deal by charting the public d tu- if u drift - is now Political Field an ally of It ‘Gold Mine’ the Garner To Emil Hurja ^Sty w^’ assaying in the gold fields inspired his system of getting the mill-run of public sentiment. He once told this reporter about his interesting career. Taking a start from the wilds of the Michigan peninsula, when he was 18, notes from his di ary might be something like this: Rode the rods on the way to Seat tle. Found more comfort in the cattle car. Landed in Yakima, did this and that, and finally got to Seattle. Since I had learned to set type at the age of nine, I convinced the Post-Intel ligencer I was a newspaper man. Managed to get by, but realized an education might help, so started grabbing one off the side at the Uni versity of Washington. Found Dr. jRenry Suzallo, the president, was the greatest man I ever met. Dr. Suzallo said Henry Ford want- ad him to send somebody on his peace ship and it might as well be me. Went on the peace ship; came home and rammed around the Texas oil fields and then got to Alaska. Fell in with Ben Smith, who had a real gold mine. Came back home and got into Wall Street and poli tics. Began assaying political mother lodes; got so I could tell whether I would get a string of color, and found I was assistant to Mr. James Farley, chairman of the national Democratic committee. Like Mr. Garner. « EIGHTEEN years ago, Manuel Quezon, president of the Philip pine commonwealth, said to a group of American business men, “I would rather live under a government run like hell by Filipinos than under a government run like heaven by Americans.” Now, with the shadow of Nippon reaching out into the Pa cific, he isn’t so sure. Word from Washington is that while he still thinks 1946 may be all right for casting off, but he is dickering for a re-examination of the Philippine problem. Norway’s Armed Forces Drawn Up in Battle Array By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) J UDGE DUDLEY S. VALEN TINE of the Los Angeles Superior court conducted an important trial recently—not in court, however, and the judge wore overalls instead of his ju dicial robes. The issue at stake was wheth er or not he still retained his skill as a locomotive engineer. The scene was a movie location set, and the stars of “Torrid Zone” comprised the jury. It seems that years ago the judge was a railway engineer, and when he learned that an old-time locomotive would be run over its own private track on the movie location, the jurist accepted the invitation of the location man ager—also a former engineer—to put the train through its paces. With Pat O’Brien and Andy De- vine in the cab, His Honor took the driver’s seat, tugged the whistle cord and opened the throttle. He made the two-mile run in six min utes flat, cheered on by his two pas sengers. * If you liked “Topper” and "Top per Takes a Trip” you’ll probably be delighted with “Turnabout,” by the same author. Hal Roach is pro ducing and directing it, and the cast is made up of people famous for their gift for smart, sophisticated comedy. It includes Carole Landis, Mary Astor, Veree Teasdale, Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan, Margaret Roach, John Hubbard, Donald Meek and Polly Ann Young. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has pur chased the rights to “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and is planning to pro. ROBERT DONAT duce it in England, with Robert Do nat in the dukl starring role. Many years ago it was the horror picture of the year, with John Barrymore playing the lead so magnificently that he scared audiences almost into fits. Los Angeles is noted as being one of the athletic centers of the coun try, but when Ona Munson (the “Belle Watling” of “Gone With the Wind,” and the “Lorelei” of radio’s “Big Town,”) landed out there she couldn’t find any women to play squash with her. She is an avid squash fan, so she advertised in a newspaper for feminine partners, and received no replies. But Ona didn’t let that stop her. She was determined to play squash—and play squash she does, with men. The Men’s University Club in Hollywood has an ironclad rule—“No Women Allowed.” She’s an exception. She’s admitted, to play squash—but on Sundays only. X ODDS AND ENDS—William Powell and Myrna hoy will next be co-starred by Metro in “l Love You Again” . . . When radio’s “Screen Guild 'Theater” rings down its curtain the last of this month the motion picture relief fund will have added $570,000 to its treasury . . . Bing Crosby may spend this year’s vacation in South America . . . Miriam Hopkins will appear opposite Melvyn Douglas in “Sing apore,” for Columbia. X Since his current program, “Mu sical Americana,” took the air Ray mond Paige has received thousands of letters from students requesting auditions and advice about careers. Paige’s sponsor—Westinghouse—re cently held auditions for a "Vocal Stock Company.” and received enough applications to form hun dreds of them. In preparation for bringing Kath arine Hepburn back to the screen in “The Philadelphia Story,” Metro made a recording of a performance of the play. She has had a long and successful run in it, and it’s one of her best roles. In the screen ver sion Robert Taylor will have th« male lead. Edgar Bergen wasn’t sorry t« pack up Charlie McCarthy and go back home to Hollywood. During his recent series of broadcasts from New York the demand for ticket! was overwhelming, and Bergen con fessed to a friend that he didn't be lieve he’d ever dare come b-rck— said he’d had to refuse tickets to so many people that he was afraid he’d alienated all his friends. Paramount has announced a new picture, “Merchant Marine,” with Fred MacMurray in the lead. Typical of Norse fighting men who are resisting the Nazi invasion are these soldiers—part of a small but well-trained and well-equipped army. Top left: An artillery detachment on the move, ready to go int# action against the Nazi war machine. Bottom left: A battery of Norwegian howitzers being wheeled into position on Norway’s west coast. Right: These smiling soldiers, on duty at the fallen port of Narvik, pictured before that city was seized by Germany. Parachute School Holds Graduation Exercises At the parachute school of the Lakehurst, N. J., naval air station, “graduation” exercises take a very practical turn. Before students are awarded a diploma they must make a mass parachute jump with a ’chute packed by themselves. Left: Members of a class boarding a plane ready to take their last lesson. Right: With breath-taking speed the ground comes up to meet the student jumper. He has finished the regulation training period. The jump is his final lesson—and he knows tbat he has packed his parachute correctly. Jimmy Demaret, left, of Houston, Te first prize money from Bobby Jones, rig it, after Demaret won the sev enth annual Masters’ golf tourney at Ai gusta, Ga. In center is Lloyd Mangrum, who was second. Demaret si ot a 280, Mangrum a 284. victory made Demaret leading money wii mer of the winter circuit. Head of newly formed puppet group in Norway is Major Vidkun Quisling, Fascist leader, who an nounced a new government to re place that of Premier Johann Ny- gaardvold. IVV W W W IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) s Lesson for April 28 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; uaed by permission. ISAIAH COMFORTS AN AFFLICTED PEOPLE LESSON TEXT—Is*l»h 40:1-11. GOLDEN TEXT—God Is our refuse and strength, a very present help In trouble.— Psalir. 48:1. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith the Lord,” knowing as He alone can the great heart sob of sorrow, pain, and disappointment which arises to Him from His people everywhere. No study of God’s Word which omits His tender word of comfort is in any sense com plete. No teacher or preacher who fails to bring that message to his people is declaring the full counsel of God. No more appropriate pas sage could be chosen for presenting that truth than Isaiah 40. The prophet spoke to a people who were experiencing the bitter treat ment of their enemies. They were facing the devastation of their coun try and the deportation of its people into captivity. In such a desperate day one might say that there could be no true word of comfort, but there was, and that word may well encourage us to look up in this our confusing day. The Comforter of Israel is ready to be our comforter. I. The Source of Comfort (w. 1-5). “God is our refuge and strength” (Ps. 46:1). “Behold your God” (Isa. 40:9). "Comfort ye, saith your God” (v. 1). He is “the God of all com fort” (II Cor. 1:3). The astonishing thing is that mankind is so prone to seek comfort elsewhere, turning to God only when everything else fails rather than going to Him first cf all. His comfort is abiding, for it rests on a removal of the source of all pain and sorrow, namely sin. The day of Judah’s comfort is to come when her “iniquity is pardoned” (v. 2). That is also the first step for us to take in seeking comfort, to repent and forsake our sin, seek ing pardon in Christ. The one who brings us God’s com fort is Jesus Christ. Verses 3 to 5 speak of His coming. John the Bap tist was the voice and it was Jesus for whom the way was to be pre pared (see Luke 3:4-6). Jesus is the Lord Jehovah, God Himself, the Son of God, and the bringer of God's comfort to men’s troubled hearts. It is He who is revealed in this pas sage in all of His glory and grace. II. The Need of Comfort (w. 6-8). Man thinks he is great, wise, pow erful and able to take care of him self. William Henley expressed it in his “Invictus,” “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” But God says, “Man is as grass,” and declares that when “the spirit of the Lord bloweth” on him he fades and withers. We know that God’s witness is true. Boast as he will in the hour of prosperity and strength, mem knows in his heart that when he faces the real issues of life he is utterly impotent, needy and undone. Gerald Massey spoke more truly than William Henley when he said, “Surrounded by unnumbered foes Against my soul the battle goes!” The man who has come to the end of himself and who realizes that there is neither in him nor in his fellow mortals the strength to meet life’s struggles is ready for the min istry of God in Christ, forgiving, cleansing, strengthening and com forting. He has come to realize that “the grass withereth, the flower fad- eth, but the word of our God shall stand forever” (v. 8). III. The Way of Comfort (w. 9-11). Good tidings were proclaimed even in that dark hour of Judah’s history. We have good tidings for our day as well. Let us declare them from the mountaintops. Lift up your voice with strength and do not be afraid I Here is something to shout about, “Behold your God!” The prophet’s holy enthusiasm had two excellent grounds. First, he tells us that God is strong. He “will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him.” Here is com fort with assurance because God is strong. He is also loving and len der. His strong arm is used to gath er the lambs to His bosom and to tenderly lead His sheep. Gentleness is the attribute not of weakness but of strength. God’s strong men and women are His gentlemen and gen tlewomen. They, like their Lord, are loving and kind, using their strength not to destroy or to impress others, but to help the weak, to bring com fort in the name of Christ. 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