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— — — THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, JUNE 5, 1942 by, Eleanor Roosevelt ARMY AIR SCHOOL. MIAMI BEACH, FLA.—It was very good to be back in Miami Beach, for I have looked upon it in the past few winters as a very pleas ant place to rest. This year I have taken no holiday during the winter. I can hardly call the three days spent here now a complete period of rest, but they certainly have been both interesting and enjoyable. I have seen a number of people I was glad to see again. The techni cal school, which has just been es tablished here, is one of the most interesting of the army air force training centers. General Wooten was most kind and showed me all the various things they are doing. Col. Horace Smith, who was a White House aide, did everything possible to make us comfortable and happy while we were here. The representatives of the Farm Security administration took us to see the various improvements which have been made in the camps for migratory workers since I was here last. I was glad to have another opportunity to see the change that has come about in the living condi tions of these workers, whose effi ciency is so important to our food production in this war period. • • • VICTORY BOOK CAMPAIGN I felt I had hardly been away, for the days in Miami Beach were so full of interest. I have just been notified of a new idea which is being sponsored by the Victory Book cam paign, and which I hope will be very successful. A number of college presidents and a small student group have formed a committee to urge that, at commencements, students throughout the country bring a book with a personal autograph to some member of the armed forces. This ought to bring in a great many books and I hope will be a widely observed custom. The Navy Relief society is joining with the Army Emergen cy relief in undertaking more work than has ever been done before for the families of the men in service. Up to this time, the navy has always taken care of its own people. For the first time, through a series of special events, they are asking the gen eral public to join with them in raising their funds. I am sure there is going to be a very warm response. From these funds the navy will lend money to the families of men who find themselves temporarily in need of assistance. Where allot ments, social security and Red Cross gifts do not completely take care of any home situation, the Navy Relief will be able to help the three branches of its service—the navy, marine corps and coast guard. These are war time appeals I am sure we shall be anxious to meet, so that no community will have dif ficulty in raising its quota. * * * WASHINGTON.—I had an inter esting morning visiting one day. First I went to the school which Diana Hopkins has attended this winter—St. Agnes Episcopal school in Alexandria, Va., of which Mrs. Helen Macan is principal. The school is situated on Bishop Lloyd’s old family estate. There are only a small number of boarders so that there can be a feeling of real home life. The additional number of day scholars allows for rubbing up against more varieties of human be ings, which I think is very good for young people. The staff seems to me very re markable, for we went into no class room where there did not seem to be absorbed attention on the part of the students. They go from kinder garten to high school and the school has just won a much-coveted stand ing in the state both in Latin and French. Something which seems to me almost as important as the educational side of the school is the evident realization by the students that their student government be longs to them and having made the rules, they must abide by them. In study hall, there was no teach er, but I never saw a quieter and more orderly study period. • • * SPEEDY MOBILIZATION As I think it over, the most inter esting thing being done by the air corps at the technical training school in Miami, Fla., was the ef fort to classify men by examination and interview. As the man in charge told me, they are really trying to find round pegs and put them in round holes. The other thing which impressed me was the speed of organization. It is barely two months since this set-up was started, and yet every, thing is running smoothly. » • * RUSSIA AND CHINA RELIEF I hope that the magnificent effort which the Russians have made will spur all the organizations through out this country to do all they can for Russian Relief. I was sorry not to be able to attend a meeting for this purpose in Miami or Los An geles, for both places asked me. However, I am quite sure that my presence was not needed. We owe so much to Russia and China today and we can only ex press our gratitude by sending them all we can in relief funds. Kathleen Norris Says: You May Have to Make Overtures Bell Syndicate—WNTJ Watures. The girl then left him, her face burning. But before she reached the campus gates, a clumsy man, wearing a top coat and an old cap, was beside her; and the pro* fessor was carrying her books. By KATHLEEN NORRIS “ T WONDER what would hap- T pen,” an East St. Loui'i girl writes me, “if I had made a button bearing the words, ‘I want to get married,’ and wore it on my coat?” She goes on to tell me her story, and it is a hard and he roic story. “I am 29,” writes Caroline, “healthy, tall, slender, smart, and without any real fault of feature. My mirror shows me a good straight nose, good eyes, plenty of brown hair, perfect teeth—my best feature—dull skin and an expression that evident ly suggests ‘Keep Off.’ “I was the only daughter of a bank-commissioner father and a very fine mother. When I was nine my father was convicted of dis honest dealing; this was not true, as we afterward proved, but it ruined my father. He served a seven- month term, after which we three moved into the mountains, and lived an isolated life for ten years. I had no friend except my mother. “My father’s name was cleared just before he died. He had planned often to come back and try to begin again, but there was no time. After his death, helped by the old friend who had fought my father’s cause for ten years, my mother and I came to the city ahd I studied book keeping and stenography. We had very little money; we lived in one room and cooked our meals there. When I began to earn money every extra dollar meant a treat, or the wonderful feeling of paying off bills; we two were sufficient to ourselves. Mother Became HI. Four years ago my mother devel oped an incurable malady. Turning to the friend who had saved us once before I borrowed enough money to take her to the woods she loved for the remaining ten months of her life. “Since then I have plugged away in gradually improving jobs; I now make $1,800 a year, live comforta bly, and have a few good woman friends. Also I think I ought to tell you that two men, both married, jave expressed affection for me. One is the friend of whom I have spoken. After my mother’s death he told me quietly that anything he could do for me was a pleasure to him, because he had always felt a strong affection for me. “His wife and I are friendly, al though I don’t see either of them often. She has two children by a former marriage and is wrapped up in them. “The other man is an army cap tain. He was stationed here without his wife, who is an invalid. These circumstances made me feel that I am not without attraction for men, but the truth is that few of them seem to know that I am alive. Se riously, I know I would never have the courage to wear a button an nouncing my marriage-hungry state to the world, but is there some less er device that you could devise? I want a home; I want children; I want someone to love and spoil. How to go about finding them?” Must Not Be Impatient. Caroline, you are only 29, and the tragic story of your life accounts for your being far behind most wom en of your age in opportunity. You had no girlhood, no school friends with whom to form natural social affiliations. Those were years of exile and shame for you in the most sensitive period of your life. Your father’s sorrowful death, just after BE PATIENT If your youth was like Caro line's and you find yourself at 30 without the home and husband and children you had dreamed of, be patient. Begin by making friends. If you are shy, concen trate on your interest in other people, not on their apparent lack of interest in you. And don't look only for the man who has the position and money you ex pect. Look, too, for another lonely person like yourself. Kathleen Norris tells the charming story of a girl who had to take the initiative to “get her man." This girl is now the happy wife of a professor in a California college. justice had been done him, the pov erty and anxiety of the following years, your mother’s long illness, were all so many barriers between you and normal happy youth. Now for the first time you are free to make your own friends and find your own place, and you must not be im patient if it takes a little time. Look about you, not for the at tractive, popular men of just the right age, position, income to make ideal husbands, but for some soul perhaps as lonely as yourself, with as unusual a story, and be a good friend to him before you expect him to be one to you. One way to find him is through church circles, or language or study clubs. But the probability is that he is in the group about you now, ei ther at the boarding-house table or in the office or somewhere in your immediate vicinity. With the idea of giving friendship rather than seeking admiration make a few sim ple overtures to this man. Try it on two or three at a time, so that the law of average will be on your side. Prepare for Rebuffs. You won’t have to do anything as radical as wearing a badge bear ing the words “I want to get mar ried.” But you may have to over come shyness and awkwardness and inexperience as great as your own; so be prepared for rebuffs. The moment you have his atten tion, remember that you are trying to make him feel your interest in him rather than to win his interest in you. His secret passion may be duck shooting, stamp collections, chess or cooking; find it out. Then lead him on. In California there is a beloved professor who is regarded by his associates as a genius. He and his plain, sweet, clever wife have three daughters and a son. It was 19 years ago that the wife, then a lone ly girl of about Caroline’s age, de liberately stopped at his desk as she was leaving his laboratory class and asked him whether he would dine with her and her mother some eve ning. His answer was an inarticu late roar. Two days later she asked him again. He answered sourly that he had no time for social engagements. This time she said seriously and slowly, “I am 28. I am lonely. If ever you feel you would like me for a friend will you let me know? I like you very much.” She then went on her way,with a burning face, and the simple wish in her heart that the earth would open up and swallow her. But be fore she reached the campus gates a clumsy figure in a top coat, with spectacled eyes and rough hair under an old cap, was beside her, and the professor was carrying her books. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for June 7 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. FRIDAY: THE DAY OF SUFFERING (II) LESSON TEXT—Luke 23:33-46; Mark 15: S3. 34. GOLDEN TEXT—But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we axe healed.—Isaiah 53:5. Dark and distressing days have often come upon the earth, but the darkest day of all history was that day when cruel men with wicked hearts laid unholy hands upon the Son of God and crucified Him. And yet, by the grace of God, it was a day of bright hope for the sinful sons of men, for on that day complete re demption was wrought out. The veil was rent and the new and living way into the holy presence of God (Heb. 10:20) wvas opened for you and for me. The cross is popular as an orna ment on a church or on a golden chain, but it is far more than that. It speaks of the black hour of the Saviour’s cry, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” and it also tells us of the One who be came sin for us that we might know the righteousness of God (II Cor. 5:21). Three thoughts emerge from our lesson. I. Crucifixion — Bringing Life (Luke 23:33, 34a). “There they crucified him”—four words summing up the almost un believable thing that took place on Calvary. He died; but in that death life and immortality were brought to light (II Tim. 1:10). As believers in Christ, we are in terested in all that took place at the crucifixion, for we know that as we contemplate Him on the cross we can say with Luther, “For me, for me!” And yet it was not for us alone that He died—it was for all mankind. So we turn to our un converted friends and direct them to “the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1: 29). He was crucified that they might live eternally. He who had only a plea for the forgiveness of His persecutors (v. 34a) tenderly of fers His forgiveness to men today. II. Rejection—Bringing Accept ance (Luke 23:34b-43). Those who appear around the cross afford an interesting and strik ing picture of humanity. There were the indifferent ones, those not interested at all in who was being crucified, but only eager to share in the division of His garments. There stood the people “behold ing”—perplexed, unable to believe that the miracle-working Christ was about to die. Verily, they were as sheep without a shepherd. Then we see those who scoffed. They knew His claim to be the Son of God and hated Him for it. Now at last they had their chance to rail at Him, to ridicule and taunt. More ignorant and yet equally derisive, we see the mocking soldiers. Even one of the thieves by His side “railed on him” (v. 39), ridi culing His claim. But here is the marvelous thing—the other thief, rough and wicked person that he was, saw in Christ a Saviour to whom he turned in faith, which was quickly and fully honored (vv. 42, 43). The picture is thus complete. The Rejected One is “the way” to ac ceptance for all who believe (John 14:6). He said, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved” (John 10:9). III. Darkness — Bringing Light (Luke 23:44, 45; Mark 15:33, 34). Physical darkness fell over the scene at the cross,* as though all nature would go into mourning, or sought to shield the suffering Sa viour from the curious and hateful eyes of men. Then, too, it was God’s sign that this was not the death of any ordinary man, even as it spoke of the judgment of those who had laid violent, sinful hands on His Son. But deeper yet was the spiritual darkness into which Jesus went, as bearing the horrible load of the sins of the world He “was made sin for us” (II Cor. 5:21), and God the Father turned away from Him. We cannot fathom the full meaning of that hour, and we dare not at tempt to explain it. We can only accept it and thank God that be cause He was made sin for us we may by faith be “made the right eousness of God in him.” Out of the darkness of that hour shone forth the one light which nothing in time or eternity can dim. Route to Happiness The truest and happiest of earthly lives, proven over and over again by hard actual experience, is that life which accepts and observes most nearly St. Paul’s great postulate, Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.” Right fully pursued, it in no way inter feres with the intensest enjoyment of our time here on earth. We have but to see that we do God’s will in everything. NEW IDEAS fosi <M‘04ft&-mcJzeAA By Ruth Wyeth Spears pf'VERY day we homemakers are gaining confidence in our own resourcefulness. We may not brew herbs and roots to make dyes as in Revolutionary times but this pair of flamingo red chairs in a modern setting shows that we un derstand the importance of the warming glow of color. The tan of the couch covering makes the cording for the chair covers and the red of the chairs makes the cording and cushions for the couch. The sketch shows PREPAREDNESS AMERICAN RED CROSS 'T'O THOUSANDS of Americans seeking news of their families and friends in war-tom countries, 25 words on an official Red Cross form have meant all the difference between hope and despair. Ever since the outbreak of the war, the American Red Cross has been for many people the only me dium through which they could get news of their relatives in Poland, Holland, Belgium and the other oc cupied nations. Even when the news has been bad, even when it has been the worst possible, it has at least meant merciful release from torturing anxiety and uncer tainty. For a while it was possible in a few cases to maintain contact by letter over long roundabout routes. Since America’s entry into the war, all remaining avenues of com munication have been closed. Today, under the rules of the United States Office of Censor ship, personal messages to residents of enemy or enemy occupied territory may be for warded ONLY through the Red Cross inquiry service here and the International Red Cross committee in Geneva, Switzer land. Regulations governing the send ing of one of these messages from the United States are that the com munication, which should be filled in at a local Red Cross chapter, must not be more than 25 words, and should be in English. If it is written in a foreign language, an English translation must be at tached. 1 . The United States Office of Censorship rules that no men tion may be made of politics or military subjects, defense materials, shipping or weather conditions, business matters or geographic names. But even the strict regulations cannot rob the brief message on the International Red Cross form of its human warmth and drama. The original message, made out in some local Red Cross chapter here, goes on its long and slow journey across ocean and conti nents. Space is provided on it for a reply message, to be re turned to the original sender. It needs little imagination to picture the joy and comfort that brief message from some loved one brings to those cut off from ev ery other chance of contact. Prepared Exclusively for WNU. how the chairs are padded and an article appearing soon will show the covering process. • * • NOTE: Clip and keep this article as this sketch is not in any of the home making booklets prepared by Mrs. Spears for our readers. The dimensions for mak ing the chair frame are in the new BOOK 8, which contains working directions for 31 things to make from what the average household has on hand, or frotn inexpen sive new materials. Send your order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for Book 8. Name Address o-0-0-0-o-o*-o--o-o-p-o-o-c^o-o-o-rw-o~o~ l ASK ME ** ? ? ? ? ANOTHER 7 ■ ? A General Quiz ? ■> ? ? ? 1. Where is bilge water found? 2. What two countries fought the Hundred Years war? 3. A one-inch rainfall is equiva lent to how much snowfall? 4. Where in London is the clock called Big Ben? 5. What date is set by the Greeks for the beginning of the Olympian games? 6. According to the Arthurian legends, what knight found the Holy Grail? 7. What West Indian island yields large amounts of asphalt? 8. Gilbert Stuart painted the portraits of how many Presidents? The Answers 1. In a ship’s bottom. 2. France and England (1337- 1453). 3. Approximately ten inch-j. 4. The houses of parliament. 5. The year 776 B. C. 6. Galahad. 7. Trinidad. 8. Six—Washington, John Ad ams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Mother’s Love If there be one thing pure, where all beside is sullied, and that can endure when all else passes away—if aught surpassing human deed, or word, or thought, it is a mother’s love.—Spadara. Different Route Farmer—Stowit is about five miles from here as the crow flies. Soldier—And supposing the crow had to walk and carry a rifle, full pack and have a bothering sore heel—how far then? “Look, Pop,” said Sonny. “Yon said on your income tax report I’m worth $400 to you. All I ask is 25 cents for the movies—leaving you a net profit of $399.75.” Flared Up “Here's Bronson married anain. I thought he said the light of his life went out when his first wife died.” “Yes; but 1 guess he must have struck another match." All in the Family Albert—My father has another wife to support. James—What? You don’t mean to tell me he’s turned bigamist? Albert—Oh, no; I just got mar ried. When the soldier talks about “the skipper” he means his cap tain, the head of his company. And that’s just what the title “cap tain” means. It comes from the Latin word “caput” meaning “head.” Another leader high in Army men’s favor since ’18 is Camel Cigarettes. (Based on ac tual sales records from Post Ex changes and Sales Commissaries.) It’s the gift they prefer from the home folks. If you have a rela tive or friend in the service, send him a carton of Camels. Your dealer is featuring Camel cartons to send to service men.—Adv. Try All 7 flavors He Who Wins The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.— Napoleon. Nursemaid to a 20-ton Clipper! HE'S A “SELF-STARTER ft CORN FLAKES ~~ nu —— PAN AMERICAN'S IOC wuller is cr.ief of the “Beaching Crew". ' tr r big, ocean-flying South h.,iarican Clippers. He says: "You've got to keep your eyes open on a big job like this. The breakfast that helps keep me in there pitching is a big bowl of Kellogg's Corn Flakes with fruit and plenty of milk. It’S a great favorite here at the employees’ cafeteria, too.'* Copr. 1942 by KellocK Company