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THE SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C„ ^CEMBER 12. 1941 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) "NJEW YORK.—Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, command ing the air arm of the British offen sive in Libya, probably could find _ . hisway Psychologists Can around the Find No Subjects fighting ter- Among the R.A.F. rain without a map or a compass. For many years, off and on, he has been scouting this sun burnt waste of jagged rock and sand, with the British air force, based in Egypt. He is a husky and good-look ing 46-year-old Australian, a group captain at the Calshot R.A.F. station in 1939, upped rapidly in rank since the start of the war, a veteran of every kind of air fighting and an air buckaroo who has ridden every kind of plane. His success and responsibility, however, is not all due to technical skill. It is a personality success as well, and it just now happens that personality resources in air wars is being authoritatively examined. Dr. Robert Dick Gillespie, distin guished British neurologist, now lec turing in this country, held forth at -the New York Academy of Medi cine the other night, on the lack of neuroses in the R.A.F., as com pared to other arms of the fighting forces. The doctor’s "'eory, which he says has been con acingly dem onstrated, is that air training and fighting makes for individuation which greatly strengthens personal ity resistance to the devastating nerve shocks of modern war. Marshal Coningham would make a fine laboratory sample. In all this department’s gleanings about his career, from various sources, it is emphasized that his every relation ship in his fighting command is per sonal. He has a prodigious memory and he likes persons, rather than people. He has a keen wit and ready humor. But he’s a hard-boiled dis ciplinarian. He entered the World war from his native Brisbane, Australia, at the age of 19, serving first in Samoa and then in Egypt. Coming to England, he joined the Royal Fly ing corps, where he knocked about in all sorts of primitive planes. He won the military cross and the dis tinguished service order. W HEN Nebuchadnezzar married a country girl, the daughter of Cyaxares, she was homesick and wanted a bit of foliage around the house. The Aerial Gardens of king put in Rockefeller Center just a few Surpass Babylon’s window boxesat first, then got really interested and built his famous hanging gardens. Rockefeller Center went botanical for an entirely different reason, and will, if it hasn’t already done so. surpass anything Babylon could show in the line of aerial agricul ture. The genius of the gardens in the sky is A. M. Van Den Hoek, horticulturist for the center, v’hose wizardry with growing things he successfully transplanted from his native Netherlands lowlands to the Sixth Avenue highlands. We were checking with him on that chestnut tree he planted re cently. It has a mate and hive of bees ready for the big job of pol- lenization at the first signal of spring. These trees were brought from China. Weather-wise and earthwise, the sky-high farmer might have come out of Vergil’s Georgies, but there’s nothing rural about his smart tailoring, or his red- leather, push-button office. But this setting is mostly for winter farming. In the summer, he wears overalls on his 50-1 acre, ground-level farm near Flem- ington, N. J. After studying horticulture in sev eral continental countries, he went to England, in 1905, at the age of 21. There he worked in the famous Ros'i Gardens of Hampstead and tended the ancient grape vine, the fruit of which goes annually to the king. After 14 months in England, he re moved to this country. He worked for two years in a nursery at Morrisville, Pa., then got a job with a Netherlands horticul tural firm. Advancing steadily in his profession, he became the horticul turist for Rockefeller Center in 1933. The skyscraper onion crop was exceptionally good this year—also the cabbages, tomatoes, mint, kohl rabi, spinach and carrots. The espalierd pear and apple trees are getting on famously as are the 150 plane trees and the eight 50-foot \ elms that were planted around the center. Mr. Van Den Hoek just recently planted 25,000 tulip bulbs, of Hol land ancestry, via England. He says that these tulips are extraordinarily varied and beautiful, and seems to see in each of them a chalice of hope for his native homeland. (McClure Syndicate—WNU Service.) 1~) AVIE stood at the camp window and looked out over the great frozen lake. “Do you think he’ll come right across the ice?” “He?” Mother answered from the kitchen. “Oh, Santa Claus? Why, perhaps, darling. But not this morn ing, funny boy; not before evening.” Such unquestioning five-year-old faith, and she must watch its be trayal. Because there weren’t going to be any presents. There wasn’t any money. Suddenly Davie screamed with ex citement and his mother went run ning to look out too. “Why, it’s a deer, Davie.” “Reindeer,” said Davie, without any question at all. “One of Santa’s, you think? May be the sleigh tipped over and all the presents spilled! Isn’t that too bad?” They watched the graceful crea ture until it disappeared into the woods on the other side. Then moth er returned to her baking and Da vie followed. “It’s a shame for it to happen just the day before Christmas when there won’t be time to make any more. How disappointed all the chil dren in the world will be! But you Two small blobs appeared far out against the snow. won’t mind so much, will you, Davie darling, because you’ll know what happened. Just think, you saw the deer! And wasn’t he beautiful?” “Yes,” Davie drew a long sigh of rapturous memory. He fell silent, then: “May I go out and play?” The eleven o’clock sun was warm and she bundled him out. Suddenly it was one o’clock and time for lunch. And she had heard no sound from Davie for an hour! No answer when she called from the door. Davie wasn’t in the yard. Of course he had gone to find the sleigh, the tipped-over sleigh and the presents. How could she have failed to consider the way a child’s mind would work? She dared not leave the baby, who had a slight cold, nor start out with her on a search which might last for hours. Nothing to do, then, but wait for Jock to come in midafternoon. It was three o’clock before a small blob appeared far out against the snow. Two small blobs, in fact. She waited, sobbing with relief. “I didn’t find Santa Claus’ sleigh. Mama,” he explained as soon as he could speak for her kisses, “but I found his house. She lives there— and that was one of his reindeer. The tracks went right into the yard. Santa Claus was gone. There was just a man asleep in the kitchen. I think he’s one of the toy-makers.” “No, that was Ned,” said Goldi locks. “What’s your name, dear?” “Phillie.” As the afternoon wore on some thing familiar about the contour of the little face kept tickling her mem ory until realization struck. Golden curls and a blue zipper suit! Phillie! Ned—Ned Cozetti? Of course. This was the Bentley child. Phyllis Bentley, kidnaped Thanks giving day and given up for dead! Jock, bending to unlace his snow- shoes, was met by a whirlwind bun dled to its ears in shawls and sur rounded by three miniature whirl winds similarly wrapped. “Crank up the car right away. We’ve got to get into town before the telegraph office closes. Do you know who this child is?” The whirl wind gave a bounce and grasped his arm. “Phyllis Bentley, that’s all. And her mother thinks she’s dead and this is Christmas eve. Oh, hur ry! Davie was gohe three hours to day and I know just how she must feel. And if we get hauled up for driving without a license, there’ll be ten thousand dollars to pay the fine!” Toys for Little Tots Can Be ‘Noise-Makers’ Children from one to four years of age like noise-makers. For them we might suggest a set of a half a dozen baking powder tins, each with something in it to make a noise, as buttons, nails, paper clips, pebbles or screws. Since some of the con tents might be easily swallowed, the tops should be firmly cemented on before the tins are given two or three coats of enamel paint, each can a different bright color. Santa’s Troubles Our mechanized age ^certainly puts Santa at a disadvantage, be cause his reindeer never had trou bles like this. Several inches of snow prove too much for his modern carriage, so Santa Claus has to wield a snow shovel in front of a New York store to free it. (Editor’s note: Wonder what he does at the North pole where the snow is really deep.) Christmas Marked In Early Colonies By Jollity, Feasting Early American colonies along the Atlantic seaboard could have been located on different continents, so far as their Christmas celebrations were concerned. Many of the customs of England were followed by the southern colo nies of Georgia, Carolina, Maryland and Virginia. Here the Christmas season was a holiday in the true sense of the word. Feasting and merrymaking were common, but re ligious worship and prayer were not forgotten. In sharp contrast to this happy celebration was the manner in which Christmas was marked in New England. Puritan leaders did their best to create a different concep tion of the day. Celebrations were declared pagan in origin, and it was believed such rites were out of keep ing with the true spirit of the day. Their efforts were overcome after a number of years and New Eng land yuletides gradually assumed a character more like those of old England. Christmas in the middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania and Delaware was cele brated in the manner that the col onists followed in their countries of origin. In addition to England, these colonies were populated by people from Germany, Holland and Swe den. The Germans, for example, brought to America the custom of using the Christmas tree, but the Quakers of Philadelphia limited their observance to religious cere monies. Family reunions marked the sea son in both the middle and southern colonies. Houses were crowded with welcome guests who were treated to the best of fowls, wines and sweetmeats. Along the frontier Christmas was a season of active merrymaking which in places verged on rowdy ism. As time went on, Christmas in the various sections of the colonies became fused until there is today a considerable similarity of prac tices throughout the United States. St. Nicholas Loved For Piety, Grace The name of Santa Claus is mere ly slurring the Dutch San Nicho las, which is, of course, Saint Nich olas. American children are proba bly the only ones who say it exactly that way. Nicholas was an actual person. He was Bishop of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, in the first part of the Fourth century, A. D. He \#as also the youngest bishop in the history of the church. From the day of his birth Nicholas revealed his piety and grace. He refused on fast days to take the natural nourishment of a child. But Nicholas was not a barefoot recluse vowed to poverty. His fa ther was a wealthy merchant, and his riches enabled him to be a dis penser of the good things in life. The feast of Saint Nicholas was originally celebrated on December 6. Later when church people in the late Middle ages tried to suppress the festivities which grew up around the Boy Saint’s day, his festival came to be associated with Christ mas day. Christmas Celebrated in 98 Tradition says that Christmas was first celebrated in A. D. 98. It was ordered to be held as a solemn feast by Pope Telesphorus in A. D. 137. There is no record of any commem oration during the life of Christ. About A. D. 340, St. Cyril made careful investigation as to the actual date of Christ’s birth and reported December 25 as the most nearly cor rect date. Pope Julius accepted this and established the festival at Rome on this date, which was accepted by every nation in Christendom. Make Merry With Cookies and Candies! (See Recipes Below) Xmas Gift Boxes Christmas is the time for giving! Thus runs the refrain during this festive season. And what could be more appro priate, more wel come than gaily wrapped boxes packed right in your own kitchen —boxes full of sweet, crunchy cookies warm and fresh from the oven, candies, tempting tidbits of sweetness made with spices and nuts. Cookies and candies wrapped with waxed paper in small tin boxes will delight the heart of that boy you may have sent to camp, your daugh ter away at school, or a neighbor. *Bran Fillet; Hermits. (Makes 45 medium-sized cookies) % cup butter or margarine 1% cups sugar 2 eggs % cup milk % cup all-bran 3bb cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 114 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon cloves % teaspoon mace % teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup mincemeat or preserves Cream shortening, add sugar and eggs and beat well. Add milk and all-bran. Sift flour with remaining dry ingredients and add to first mix ture. Mix well and chill. Roll dough to an eighth of an inch thickness on lightly floured board. Cut into rounds. Place 1 teaspoon mince meat on one-half the rounds and top with remaining rounds. Crimp edges with a fork. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet in fairly hot oven (400 degrees) for 12 to 15 minutes. Cookies right in tune with the Christmas season are these with red or green sugar dusted on them. Make them in fancy Christmas tree, Santa Claus or wreath shapes with a cookie cut ter. Use butter for a really good flavor, cut them thin and chill well before cutting. 'Christmas Butter Cookies. (Makes 6 dozen small) % pound butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon almond extract % teaspoon salt 2 to 2% cups flour Cream butter and sugar. Com bine beaten eggs and flavoring with creamed mixture. Add flour and salt. Mix well and chill. Roll thin, cut into shapes. Dust with colored sugar. Bake on a sheet about 15 minutes or until light brown, in a moderate (400 degrees) oven. Make your cookie and candy boxes provocative with tiny squares of rich, delicious penuche. These pieces can be dressed up in inaivid- ual wrappings of gold, silver, green or yellow gift paper. LYNN SAYS: Now is the time to make your selection of gifts: perhaps you’d like to give away some of that brightly colored jelly or jam you put up last fall. Wrap it in gay paper, and tie it with a bit of silver and blue ribbon. Bring out the fruit cake and plum pudding, someone will be mighty proud to have them, too. When packing cookies and can dies for gift boxes you can make the box more attractive by al ternating the kinds of cookies and candies used. To assure fresh ness, use waxed paper between the layers. Gift Box Suggestions •Bran Filled Hermits •Christmas Cookies •Brazilian Penuche •Popcorn Brit*’.e •Popcorn Fuage •Recipes Given •Brazilian Penuche. 2 cups brown sugar (packed firmly) % cup top milk % teaspoon vanilla 1 tablespoon butter *4 cup chopped Brazil nuts Dash of salt Combine sugar, salt and milk. Cook, stirring constantly over low heat until sugar is dissolved and mixture boils. Cook until a small amount forms a soft ball when dropped into cold water (238 de grees). Remove from heat. Add va nilla and butter without stirring. Cool until lukewarm and beat hard until creamy. Add nuts and turn into greased pan. Sprinkle with sliced nuts. Cut into squares. An old favorite, popcorn, is fea tured in a new role in these candy recipes. If you don’t want to go through the busi ness of popping the corn yourself, you can get along nicely by using the popcorn that comes tightly sealed in tin cans. It’s as fresh and nice as if you made it yourself. •Popcorn Fudge. 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup thin cream 1 tablespoon butter 2 cups popcorn 1 teaspoon vanilla Combine sugar with cream and stir over low heat until sugar is dis solved. Cook until the soft ball stage (238 degrees) or until it forms a soft ball in cold water. Remove from heat and let stand in cold water un til cool. Add butter, popcorn, and vanilla. Beat until creamy. Pour into buttered plate and cut. •Popcorn Brittle. 2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup dark corn syrup 14 cup water 1 quart popcorn (slightly salted) 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 teaspoons soda Cook sugar, syrup and water ir, a heavy skillet. Stir until sugar is dissolved, then boil until mixture will crackle when dropped into cold water. Remove from fire, add va- 1 nilla and popcorn. Add soda and mix well. Pour into shallow, but tered pan. When cold, break into pieces. No Christmas box of cookies would be complete without the delicately flavored Swedish Sprits cookies: Swedish Sprits.’ (Makes 4 dozen) Vfi cups butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon almond extract 314 cups flour 14 teaspoon baking powder Cream butter and sugar thorough ly, add egg and flavorings. Beat well. Blend in dry ingredients un til mixture is smooth. Press through cookie press into various shapes and decorate with candied fruit, if de sired. Bake in a hot oven (400 de grees) 8 to 10 minutes. Cookies hard to make? Not if you use this recipe: Krispie Marshmallow Stars. (Makes 16 to 18 stars) 14 cup butter 14 pound marshmallows 14 teaspoon vanilla 1 package oven-popped rice ce real 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, melted Melt butter and marshmallows ir double boiler. Add vanilla and chocolate and beat thoroughly. Pul cereal in a large buttered bowl and pour in first mixture, stirring brisk ly. Put in a shallow buttered par and allow to cool. Cut into stars oi circles with a cutter. (Note: this cookie is not baked.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool L-esson Bv HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for December 14 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP LESSON TEXT—n Corinthians 8:1-9; 8:6. 7. GOLDEN TEXT—It is required in stew ards, that a man be found faithful.—I Corin thians 4:2. The Christmas season, when there is so much thought about gifts, is a most appropriate time for a lesson on Christian giving. Dr. John Willis Baer was once asked: “How can we raise money for foreign mis sions?” Quick as a flash, he an swered: "Don’t raise it, give it.” “If all believers could come to a true knowledge of what the New Testa ment teaches regarding giving, and would seriously put this knowledge into practice, the Christian church could advance more in the next 10 years than it has advanced in any 50 years in its history” (Wilbur M. Smith). I. An Example of Liberality (8:1-5). For some reason people «re over ly sensitive when one speaks of money. The subject must be ap proached tactfully, so Paul skillfully directs the attention of the Corin thian church to their fellow Chris tians in Macedonia. They had been in great affliction and were in “deep poverty” (v. 2), but out of their sorrow and want they gave far above Paul’s expectation (v. 5) and “beyond their power,” and then pleaded with Paul that he should let them give more. The explana tion is found in verse 5, where we learn that they had first given “their own selves to the Lord,” and then in loving co-operation with Paul himself, as the Lord’s agent, in this matter of the offering. Is it not strange that those who suffer most for the gospel and have the least to give are the most gen erous in their giving. Those to whom the gospel has come easily, who bear no special burdens for Christ, and who are well situated financially, are commonly the most stingy with their money. Could it be that they have not really given themselves to the Lord? One won ders. II. An Exhortation to Faithful ness (8:6-9). Apparently the Corinthians had made a promise or pledge to give for the poor at Jerusalem, but had become a bit forgetful and negli gent. It seems to be so easy to neglect to keep up a pledge for the Lord’s work. Some folk even feel that they cannot make a pledge. They pledge to pay their rent, to make payments on a car, or a washing machine; but to the church they just can’t pledge, or if they do, the promise is often neglected. Such things are dishonoring to the name of Christ. As they abound in other graces (v. 7), Paul exhorts the Corinthians to abound in “this grace also.” So giving is a Christian grace! And why not? Consider Christ (v. 9), who left the glory He had with the Father and came to the poverty of the One who had not where to lay His head, that we through Him might be eternally rich. Christian friend, when that truth lays hold of your heart and life your purse strings will loosen, your check book will open more easily, you will gladly give—for Christ’s sake. III. A Principle of Christian Giv ing (9:6). The harvest is always in propor tion to the sowing of the seed. The man who is stingy with his seed at sowing time will reap that kind of a harvest. The opposite is also true. It works in the field of business too. The merchant who gives the fullest return for one’s money and the most liberal measure of service is bound to prosper, while the stingy one is left to lament the fact that his goods rot on his shelves. In the spiritual realm it is even more true. But, someone may say, we ought not to do good that we may profit by it. No real Chris tian will give just that he may pros per, but, mark it well, if he does give for Christ’s sake and His glory, God will prosper him. “You can’t beat God giving.” IV. The Spirit of Christian Stewardship (9:7). Our giving is to be done according to the purpose of our heart—not grudgingly, nor with grief, nor yet by compulsion, because someone put on pressure. God loves a cheerful or (as it may be translated) hilarious giver. When done in the right spirit, giving for Christ can be one of the happiest experiences of the Christian life. Let’s make offering time in our church services the most joyful time in the meeting. Then we shall be liberal as well as cheerful in this grace of stewardship. Faith in Christ “Martha said, ‘Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.’ Of all the true disciples of Christ this may with perfect confidence be said, ‘He is here, therefore they shall not die.’ Faith causes Christ to be present in the heart; and where Christ is, eternal death cannot be.” —Dean Howson. Telling Gypsy Fortunes You Delight Your Crowd A Romantic Future in the Cards L OVE, luck, riches—it’s all in the cards! And thrilling times are in store for the girl who knows their meanings. The minute you start shuffling your mysterious deck, everyone gathers round eagerly. Ladies first! 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