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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940 Kathleen Norris Says: Long Engagements Have Their Advantages, Too 1 (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) EDSEL AND HENRY DISCUSS THE PLANE IDEA Edsel—Well, Pop, what do you think of it? Henry—I never imagined I’d ever be in this business. How did it hap pen anyhow? Edsel—We just got up one morn ing and found ourselves in it. Henry—Do you think we can turn out 1,000 a day? Edsel—If it can be done you can do it. Pop. IT ow Be done ‘ ) CAN DO IT, POP Henry—All I’m afraid of is that the government will keep changing the model. Edsel—If they do that we can’t turn out one a month. Henry—You know how the gov ernment generally does things, but I’ve got a promise it will stick to one set of plans. • • • Edsel—She’s a slick looker, ain’t she? Henry—Not to me, son. I hate that kind of machine. Man’s place is on the ground. He don’t belong up in the air. Edsel—Your early models kept him up in the air, Dad. Henry—It wasn’t the car’s fault; it was the rough roads. • * • Edsel—I don’t think there’s much more work on this plane than on a de luxe sedan. Henry—Not as much. There’!! be no women passengers in it; that’ll save us a lot of gadgets and fan cy stuff. We won’t have to worry where to put the vanity case and ash tray. Edsel—We can save a lot of time there. Henry—You’re telling me! * * * Edsel—The upholstery won’t be optional, either. Henry—But it won’t be easy sail ing. We have to be careful turning out planes for war. We can’t make any little mistakes. A loose nut may be okay in a flivver but it’s bad stuff in an airplane. A driver who gets up a mile in the air and discovers something was left off his plane is in a tough spot. • * • Edsel—What colors are we going to make these war planes? Henry—Now don’t bring up that matter. One color is all I’ll stand for. It’s going to be hard enough satisfying everybody on this job without getting into any arguments over colors. Edsel—Are you sure Washington won’t insist on reds, pinks and greens? Henry—Nobody can be sure of Washington on anything, but I’ve got a promise, and if some bureau crat comes rushing in and demands that the air force works better in a light blue plane than a gray one I’m going to raise the devil. * * * Edsel—Have you ever thought .vhat may be the outcome of this job. Dad? Maybe after we get into production the public will want planes instead of autos. Henry—I’m afraid of that. Edsel—Maybe the general public will always prefer to stay on the ground. Henry—If you watched the aver age Sunday driver you wouldn’t think so. Edsel—Well, anyhow, we’ll get busy and do our best. Henry (reflectively)—Gosh, but this seems funny. And to think that in the last war my contribution was A PEACE SHIP! * • * PLEA Be as brutal as you may— Bitter, scornful, mean or clever; But treat me like a neutral? . . . Say, Positively, mister, never! Hit me till the harpists play, Kick me in the middle section, Scalp me, but, please never say “This is done for your protection!” • * • Elmer Twitchell is so disturbed by fifth columns that he never reads beyond the first and second. • • * Nobody gets more frightened by war than a holder of stocks 3,000 miles away. • • • Elmer Twitchell was out on the lawn with his new gasoline-driven lawn mower last night. Causing a neighbor to sneer: “A mechan ized attack againl” Our girls of IH and our boys of 21 are bound to fall in love. The President has decorated George Cohan for composing two great war songs. They are given as “Over There” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag.” But if Irving Ber lin doesn’t get a little federal recog nition, it won’t seem quite fair. “Oh How I Hate to Get up in the Morn ing” was a favorite war song, too. • • • Add similes: As futile as a fellow who finds he hasn’t the house keys at three in the morning. Martin R. Ragaway By KATHLEEN NORRIS T ODAY’S paper has the story of a boy of 21 and a girl of 19 who couldn’t af ford to get married and so de cided to die. The boy couldn’t earn enough to support a wife and the girl had to help out at home, where she had an in valided father, a hard-working mother and a small brother. The sympathetic press adds that: ‘‘Here is one more trage dy of youth caught in today’s cruel tide of no job and no fu ture.” If this girl and boy were the only selfish young couple who took this course they mightn’t be worth noticing. But there is a lot of this sort of thing. There is a lot of self-pity in youngsters who have caught up the modern jargon about conditions in America, and who use it to dis guise weakness and inefficiency. There are ALWAYS more than 40,000,000 jobs in America, and to say: “I can’t get a job,” means that there are 40,000,000 persons in the land who can do what you can’t do. But that doesn’t mean that in any land under any conditions a boy of 21 can be started off at employment that will support a wife. And that doesn’t mean that a girl whose $30 contribution to the home finances is badly needed is free to get mar ried; free to start off with her boy husband on his $18. a week, and have him, burdened and worried and ex hausted, lose even that job in a few years, when her second big, fat, hungry, exacting baby is four months old. Flaming Youth. When our girls of 18 and our boys of 21 fall in love the immediate question of everyone concerned is: “And when is the wedding to be?” And the sooner it is the better satis fied are both. They are burning up with young passion; their first and foremost consideration is physical possession of each other, and while her family borrows money for a modest wedding, the boy rashly commits himself to a long lease on an adorable bungalow. Into it they ecstatically scramble, equally enchanted with the little rose-bowl her chum gave her, and the electric refrigerator for which they have to pay $11 a month. It is all such fun! Kisses and laughter season the burned omelette and the watery coffee; on Saturday and Sun day nights the college crowd come in, and smashed crackers and stepped-on cheese and sticky glasses and over-loaded ash-trays litter all four of the pretty little modern rooms. Baby Brings Care, Worry. But if a baby arrives at once, then suddenly all glamour disap pears. Marge and Rob, if they are sweet-natured, fine persons, may still love each other. But it now be comes an anxious, a wearied love. The baby is a darling, but the baby’s presence means that the old, young good times are forever over. Milk for the baby. Someone to sit with the baby. Bills. Worries over the Baby’s fever. Wakeful nights when the baby cries. And when Joe Smith and MUdred stop at the door with a car, on a broiling hot Sunday, with talk of the beach, and barbecue sandwiches, Marge and Rob of course can’t go. “I couldn’t leave the baby in the car, Mil.” “No, I suppose you couldn’t, you poor thing, you!” No Babies—Headache Too. Off go Joe and Mildred, and Rob And Marge turn back to the morn ing papers again. No hurry about beds or breakfast dishes. Now while the baby is asleep they can take it easy. Nothing to do all day. If there are no babies, curiously enough, the situation is worse. It doesn’t seem so, at first. Marge’s mother says firmly: “No babies un til you can afford them,” and Rob’s mother warns him that a baby would be a calamity. They are free to go about with the old crowd, insofar as they are able to afford it, and Marge has nothing to do when the simple housework is over but to shop, have her hair done, fix flowers in vases. But shopping is expensive, lunches downtown with the girls cost money, beauty parlors are ruinous to budg ets. Marge sees frocks and hats she wants, and kitchen ware and a gor geous bridge lamp. Also she hears the girls talking of the winter sports that week-end. Everyone is to give Connie $10 and Con and Fred will manage everything. Ten dollars, with Rob’s whole salary only seven times that every month! Nature’s Protective Plan. And the childless young marriage has an even deeper and much more serious handicap. It is this. The marital relation is a fragile and sacred thing; its physical aspects inseparable from the more subtle elements of mind and soul. Uncon trolled mating would destroy even animals, and animals are protected from it by Nature herself. Mating seasons are interrupted by the long periods of bearing and rearing the young. When human beings interrupt this process, passion, here called love, soon burns itself out. The imma ture boy and girl, never trained for life at all, not developed in re sources and interests and character, tire of each other, and the emo tion that should extend itself through long and beautiful years, that should be only a part of a thousand other balanced elements in married life, is destroyed. So what about the long engage ment? In Italy and Germany and England and France, seven and eight and even ten years are not supposed to be too long for a man and a woman to maintain a dignified friendship before conditions permit them to marry. Certainly five years would not be too long.' They must learn to control themselves in many ways if they are to be happily mar ried ; control extravagance, laziness, temper, selfishness, over-indulgence. Why not practice self-control in the most important matter of sex? Sex Self-Control Essential. Thousands of fine men and women achieve continence even in marriage for one reason or another; thou sands of happily married folk, effi cient and successful in their lives, know that that one thing will be al ways denied them. Why all this hullaballoo about the children not being able to wait? Of course they’re able to wait, if they’re properly trained to respect themselves and each other, and to regard marriage as a state some day to be entered upon with reverence, with an in creased appreciation of its high priv ileges and an increased sense of its responsibilities. To those who wait, who study the duties and cares of marriage se riously, who develop a fine and deep- rooted friendship and a congeniality of taste while waiting, marriage comes as an almost miraculous con summation of hope and desire and love. The long-anticipated home is a sacred place. Their community of tastes, their memories of long plan ning, make every hour together a fresh delight. The man has com pleted his professional training. The girl has discharged to the full her duty to her own people. They are a man and a woman, this husband and wife, not a pair of passionate children. Statistics seem to indicate that one of our national dangers now is the young divorce. More than half our divorces are of persons under 24, and two-thirds of those after marriage periods of less than tbze« years. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAVI chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for July 7 s Be Spick-and-Span This Summer In Chic Wrinkle-Resist Linen By CHERIE NICHOLAS Lesson subjects and Scripture texts — lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education: used by permission. JOB TEMPTED TO DOUBT | GOD’S GOODNESS LESSON TEXT—Job 2:1-13. GOLDEN TEXT—In all this Job slpned not, nor charged God foolishly.—Job 1:22. Poetry has in all ages been the i language of the soul. Feelings be- ! yond the reach of the choicest prose j seem to pour forth unhindered ! through the poetic channel. That is one reason why Christian people find ; such a response in their own souls as they read the magnificent poetry ; of the Bible. For the next three \ months we are to be privileged to 1 carry on a study of the poets of the : Bible. None of us should miss a j single lesson. The book of Job deals with and solves the fundamental problem, \ “What is the meaning of the suffer ing of the righteous?” Our first les son presents Satan as the great ad versary and accuser of man, and reveals that man may successfully resist him by faith in God. I. Satanic Accnsation (w. 1-5). The lesson opens with a scene in heaven, where the angelic beings present themselves to give an ac- j count of their activities. Satan, too, is there as the adversary and accus- , er of men’s souls. He had already, ‘ by God’s permission and as a test j of Job’s faith, destroyed all of Job’s property and taken from him his family (see Job 1:14-19), but he had not destroyed Job’s trust in God (1:21). Now Satan had a new charge; namely, that Job could bear the loss of his children and his riches, but if God would permit his own body to be afflicted, he would deny God. It is the familiar refuge of those who would lie about the servants of God J to say, “He is in it for what he gets 1 out of it." Those who use that lie do well to recognize the originator j of their calumny; they are working . with Satan when they thus hinder ! the Lord’s work. II. Spiritual Integrity (w. 6-10). The trial of Job was most severe, { for only his life was spared. His affliction was evidently not only that I ! of boils on his skin (which would I I have been bad enough), but . a sys- I ! temic condition which made his ! i whole body sick and made him so repulsive as to be unfit to live with other people (see Job 7:1-5, 14, 15; 16:8; 19:17-20). Not only did he suffer physically ! within an inch of his life, but he was subjected to the mental and spiritual I torture of having the one who should j have stood by him—his wife—urge him to renounce his faith in God and die. Many who have borne excru- j ciating physical pain have broken down under spiritual cruelty, but j Job still maintained his integrity. Why God permitted him to suffer he did not yet understand, but he knew God and he was willing to take from His hand evil as well as good (v. 10) as long as His heavenly Father was in control. What a tes timony! HI. Sympathetic Friendship (vv. 11-13). His wife and neighbors had aban doned Job, and even the children of the street despised him (19:18), but he did have three friends. Thank God for friendship—not the fair weather kind, but the type that stands by in the hour of trouble. These friends apparently came from a distance (vv. 11, 12) and at some sacrifice of time, effort and money. Friendship that doesn’t cost any thing usually doesn’t amount to anything. Note the intelligent and sympa thetic manner in which they shared his sorrow. They were themselves sorrowful (v. 12) and they sat with him, not saying a word. In the hour of deepest need words are futile and often only add to the sorrow, but how much it means in such an hour to have someone who will si lently, and yet sympathetically, stand by. One could wish that his friends had continued as they began and not later have spoiled their comfort by many important sound ing but foolish words which the Lord had to condemn in tfie serious words found in Job 42:7, 8. We shall see the answer to the question regarding suffering in our lesson for July 21 as being that man might be brought to really know God and to see himself in the light of I God’s holiness. Thus, by victory j through testing, man proves to him self and to his fellow men that God is worthy of our fullest confidence, that faith in Him will bring us through the deepest darkness and the severest trial. Wf ANT to keep cool and look ^ v fresher and crispier than ever during the hot summer days? Then put some linen costume on your wardrobe list and on yourself For a fresh viewpoint on warm weath er apparel and an immaculate ap pearance, pure Irish linen is un doubtedly the perfect answer to the annual summer problem. That’s what they do in the tropics, they wear linen because the con struction of the flax fiber makes it naturally cool. And that’s what smaft women and girls are doing this summer, wearing linen during the warm months, because it is cool and imparts the well-groomed look. There are a number of details that distinguish the better linens this year. There’s embroidery, for in stance, it takes the lead in the new er linen trends, especially outlining scalloped hems and along closings worked with contrasting threads. Linens with a scattered allover em broidered motif are also good look ing. Sawtooth edgings make for effectiveness in styling the new linens, as well as scallops. Con trasting braided effects are also em ployed. Jacket dresses, princess frocks and shirtwaist types are all basic styles that are making linen a “must” in every summer ward robe. The smartest • selection you can make is a suit of black or navy linen. Very chic is the new dark linen that is enhanced with white eyeleted collar and cuff sets with a bit of white eyeleted petticoat re vealed at the front open skirt. Often there is a combination in a linen jacket dress such as a black linen skirt with a maize linen jack et. Navy jacketed in dusky pink is effective or dark green linen with a red jacket. Going to town you will be ever so smartly costumed if you wear a peacock blue wrinkle-resistant lin en suit such as the model to the right in the group selects. The white blouse is safely attached to the skirt so it can’t ride up. Red stitching accents the blouse and the color is repeated in the buttons that trim the wide shoulders of the jaunty bolero jacket. Other colors available in this voguish model are pickle green, brown or all black or white. A lettuce leaf couldn’t look any crisper than the perky narrow waisted topper-and-skirt costume of pure Irish linen shown to the left in the picture. The points in the saw tooth trimming emphasize simple clean-cut lines. Like the other lin en costumes here illustrated this is one of those grand wrinkle-resistant linens that does not have to be pressed every day. What a dashing little streamliner is the costume centered in the pic ture! It is one of those stunning figure-flattering princess silhouettes which is so popular this season. The inspiring thing about thi' line is, it is as becoming to the not-so- slender as it is to the sylphlike fig- tire. The designer interprets the scallop theme with decided artistry. Thirty-two buttons march down the front on linen scalloped dresses available in a long list of colors. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lace Redingote Roots of EvQ To abolish evil its roots must be dug up and exposed in the sunlight, where they will wither and perish. These roots thrive underground and are cancerous. No More Vanity Ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations; for I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.— Ezekiel 13:23. To say "lace redingote” does not really let you into the real secret of this handsome costume. The big news is that this elegant appearing redingote, suitable to wear to any pretentious daytime affair and just as timely for practical town wear, is actually made of a cotton wash able lace. Matching crepe outlines the front opening all the way down. Modish is this dress of “medici” cotton lace for travel, sightseeing and about-town wear and it’s de lightfully cool because of the open mesh flower patterning. Add to this the great advantage that lace does not wrinkle, consequently it will look fresh and well-groomed all the day long. Sheer Black for Both Hat and Gown Black magic still holds sway in fashion’s realm. It is not only that a big play is being made on black sheers for afternoon gowns, but the latest news is that with the stunning suits of black rayon mesh and the dresses of coal-black chiffon, mar quisette and so on, milliners are turning out stunning hats made of all-over shirred or finely pleated black tulle, lace or chiffon. These black transparencies frame the face most flatteringly and they are of both off-face and sunshade brim type. You can get these ensembles up as elegantly as you please with in triguing touches of sheer black Chan tilly lace and cunning color accents of pink or blue or bright red or you can hold to the all-black idea, for filmy black can be made to look very young in the hands of an artist designer. Dresses That Tub Is Style Message No matter how formal or high brow the occasion the new cottons and other wash^bles are living up to the event in high style this sea son. The smart thing to do whether you dine, dance, go to garden par ties is to wear a frock that tubs. You will find that the designers are making up cottons and linens, seer suckers, piques, organdies, handker chief linens, fine batistes sharkskin weaves and on through the vast list, with as much finesse and swank as one usually associates with rich silks and satins and such. Cotton Mesh Fabrics For her casual daytime clothes the schoolgirl is particularly fond of the cotton mesh fabrics cut in shirt waist styles. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Carving knives, when not in use, always should be protected either in a box or carefully wrapped so that the edge does not come in contact with other cutlery. * * • To avoid a scorched taste when food sticks to the bottom of a saucepan, remove contents imme diately to a clean pan and don’t stir up any of the stuck portion. • * • Carpets can be kept clean and their colors bright if they are swept occasionally with a broom dipped in hot water to which turpentine has been added. • • • If the grass is cut too short, not enough leaf surface is left to sup ply the roots with plaint food. This results in weakened plants which permit dandelions and other weeds to get started. • • • Linoleum will last much longer if rubbed occasionally with a rag dipped in olive oil. It also restores polish to tables marked by hot dishes. First paint '.he marks with spirit of nitre, then apply the olive oil and polish. Approved by Good Housekeeping Insti tute and the Household Searchlight- If your dealer cannot supply yov« send 20* with your dealer's name for a Trial Package of 48 genuine PB-KO Jar Rings; sent prepaid. PE-KO EDGE jar rubbers; United States Rubber Company Rockefeller Center, New York, N. Y. ' Advertising in Jr,pan Japan is not behind us in ad vertising at least. One manufac turer advertises his necktie as “so elegant as to naturally make the wearers appear noble in their character.” SIMPLE INEURALGIA Fast-working, pow erful because ex tra-medicated. Rub PENETRO By Honesty To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.—Mac Donald. at \ 6000 ’ OIUO STOCK MEHEIL'S MAGIC RHEUMATISMS 1 /^ SPECIAL BARGAINS TATHEN you see the specials of • * our merchants announced in the columns of this paper you can depend on them. They mean bargains for you. • They are offered by merchants who are not afraid to announce their prices or the quality of the merchandise they offer.