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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool l_esson Br HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible InsUtute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Washington, D. C. LOOKING ’EM OVER The other-day, the White House called WPB’s production wizard, Charlie Wilson, to come to see the President. Wilson went, not know ing what it was about and not know ing he was to stay to lunch. When he got there, he found himself lunch ing with FDR, all alone. The conversation ranged over ev erything under the sun, from the probjems of business management to Far Eastern trade to Latin Amer ican relations to war plant recon version. When the President asked for Wilson’s views on world trade, the former General Electric execu tive replied: “Mr. President, I’m a manufac turer, not a merchandiser.” The luncheon lasted more than two hours and, after it was over, Wil son didn’t know quite what to make of it, because no very important problems regarding war production had been discussed. When he ex pressed bewilderment to close friends later, they replied: “Why, Charlie, you’re just a po litical neophyte! Don’t you know what he was doing? Looking you over to, see how you would do as second man on the ticket.” Embarrassed, Wilson replied: “People don’t seem to know that I’m a Republican.” NOTE—-Some politicos figure that the President is now looking for a conservative running mate with a Republican background who would swing votes from business. Under secretary of State Ed Stettinius is an active bidder for the job. Some conservative groups also figure that, if they can pick the vice president, FDR will resign shortly after the war, and they will be in the saddle. • • • ANZIO ORDNANCE Although the problem of supply on the Anzio beachhead has been em phasized, another factor which the public doesn’t realize is the prob lem of ordnance. Inside that slender foothold in Italy, there must be not only kitchens and temporary hospitals but, even more important, ammunition dumps and repair shops. This is the job of ordnance. A tank is no good unless it is kept in repair and it is the job of ordnance not only to build tanks, but to train men to go along with them into the field of battle to see that they are kept running. The same is true of artillery and every other type of weapon. That is why the Anzio beachhead has to maintain machine shops and repair garages, plus a large number of trained ordnance men to keep the weapons at the front operating. All of this has to be done under the ter rific hazard of enemy artillery fire, because Nazi big guns are never out of range. Paradoxical fact is that the man responsible for the good job being done by ordnance is a former navy man. He is hard-hitting Maj. Gen. Levin Campbell, chief of ordnance, who graduated from Annapolis but later joined the coast artillery and has been in the army ever since. It was Campbell who decentral ized the somewhat moribund ord nance department shortly after Pearl Harbor, moving ammunition to St. Louis, automotive vehicles to Detroit, safety and security to Chi cago, artillery carriages to Rock Is land, HI., and getting things away from Washington where, as he says, “People are always breathing down your neck.” It was Campbell who cleared the decks for the famous bazooka anti-; tank gun. Though he has been criticized for not developing an air plane rocket gun similar to the Ger mans' weapon, it was really General “Hap” Arnold, chief of the air forces, who failed to take action on the airplane rocket gun when its feasibility was proposed several years ago by Arnold’s arch-critic, Major Seversky. Actually, the ordnance depart ment has to be guided by what the fighting services want. “They never get credit for the new inventions they develop,” according to Assist ant Secretary of War McCloy, “but if they ever miss one, they catch helL” • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND CMystery recently surrounded the apartment of the Argentine assistant air attache, Lieut. Ronald J. Rossi- ter. His rooms at the Marlyn apart ments were charred and burned. In the diplomatic corps, the gossip was that dirty work had taken place be cause of Argentina’s anti-U. S. pol icy •. . . Solution of the mystery: Lieutenant Rossiter went to sleep smoking, had to be rushed to a hos pital, and was kept under an oxygen tent to recover from carbon monox ide poisoning. <LThe warning that more farmers must be drafted comes on the heels of another warning that Italian pris oners no longer can be counted on for farm labor. The status of Italy as a co-belligerent will soon take Italians out of the prisoner category. CHarold Hopper, recently resigned chief of WPB’s motion picture sec tion, is urging the American cinema industry to get busy now to prevent motion picture embargoes after the war. Free distribution of movies— one of the best means of American propaganda—should be a plank at the peace table. Hopper urges. IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS Honorable Japanese and Honorable Ancestor Jap — Honorable ancestor, what goes on? Ancestor—It’s got me puzzled, too. Jap—I always understood we were a master race. Ancestor—So did I. Could we both be wrong? Jap—That’s what I was wonder ing! • Ancestor—Will honorable descend ant kindly give complete picture to honorable ancestor? Jap—Don’t be nervous. Ancestor—If you can be nervous why can’t I? Jap—I am not nervous. Ancestor—Come now, you can at least be on the level with an ances tor. • Jap—I want yon to feel just as confident about Japanese supremacy as I am. Ancestor (with a grimace)—That’s what startles me. * Jap—Everything’s going my way. Ancestor—That’s just a line from Oklahoma. You know better, don’t you? Jap—What Oklahoma, the play or the ship? Ancestor—Both! Jap—I know better, but I had hoped you didn’t. Ancestor—Sometimes I think I got a better picture of the whole war situation from the grave than you get from where you are. Jap—I’m thinking seriously of joining you, just to prove you’re right. Ancestor—Whatever happened to that Japanese peace in Hie Amer ican White House? Jap—You aren’t going to hold me to that, are you, grandpappy? ' Ancestor — Honorable descendant should tell honorable ancestor when ae is just kidding. » Jap—We are doing fine. The American soldier doesn’t know how to fight. The American sailor is a joke. The An>*Hcan airman is no match for the Japanese airman. You know that, don’t you? Ancestor—Of course I do. You know it and I know, but do the Americans know it? Jap—Do you want an answer to that last question? Ancestor—No. I just got it. Jap—How? Ancestor—I heard about those Pa cific islands. Jap—That’s a lot of Truk! • Ancestor — Honorable ancestor must respectfully urge honorable de scendant that honorable prestige is at stake. Jap—You’re telling me! Ancestor—Honorable ancestor be gins to fear he placed too much faith in honorable descendant. Jap — And honorable descendant has same fear the other way around. Ancestor—Who started this super race idea, anyhow, you or I? Jap—You did. Ancestor—Nothing of the kind. It’s all your idea. Jap—Nonsense. It comes down from you. Ancestor—It’s entirely your the ory. (This goes on indefinitely. It ends in a tie.) • • • Congress now talks of an income tax system under which all the bur densome business of filling out a crossword puzzle will be eliminated. But the number of public account ants and tax experts thrown out of work will create the greatest un employment crisis the country has ever known. • • • Fritz Kreisler, who has always spurned the radio, has at last sur rendered and will go on the air soon. Radio has been trying to get him for years but he has just been fiddling around. • » • We can’t understand why some radio dance music program doesn’t call itself “Syncopation Please.” • • • Radio Commentators Here’s to Vandercook (Johnny)— His deep views are never in hock; His stuff he intones In the very same tones My preacher directs to his flock. • Ray Gramm Swing Explains each thing With skill and force . . . But why that horse? * Old Gabe Heater Makes life sweeter Unless you don’t share His concern for your hair. • • • Can You Remember— Away back when: Bartenders asked, “Do you want Rye OR Scotch?” Butchers played pinochle only at night? The noise of coal delivery jarred your nerves? Railroad blackboards used little chalk? You made a gift of a shoe that pinched? Taxis raced for hack-stand posi tions? Banging on a pipe brought heat? A VETERAN non - combatant, looking on from the sidelines for many years, brings in another argument. L re is the point he makes—“Who have been the smartest men you’ve known in sport—not only in their professions, but also outside of their professions? We all know there have been many smart ballplayers, fight ers, etc., who were shrewd and can ny enough in their own games, but who were dumber than an iron ox in every other phase of existence. What about their own games and their outside abilities?” This is an interesting angle. Being a glutton for punishment as well as an end-of-the-limb inhabitant, we’ll take a chance. No. 1. Boxing. Our nomination is James J. Corbett, a great heavyweight and the best of all boxers. Not only a smart ring man, but a first- class actor, a bril liant talker and ad- libber, a striking per sonality who could match a quick wit on the stage with such a comedian as Frank Tinney. Bobby Jones In this outside respect, including the ring. Gene Tunney ranks second. Tunney actually knew his Shake speare, his Shelley and his Keats, but he wasn’t a James J. Corbett. No. 2. Baseball. Christy Mathewson. Matty was not only an able college graduate but certainly one of the smartest pitchers that ever lived. Probably the smartest. I dropped in with Big Six at the Pittsburgh Athletic club many years ago and saw him play ten well-known chess players, moving from board to board. Matty won all ten games. Matty was a scholar with a brilliant mind. He was known as Old Per centage. Moe Berg knew more lan guages and possibly was a trifle closer to literature, but Matty gets the top vote. Bobby Jones a Lawyer No. 3. Golf. We must offer you Maj. Robert T. Jones of the army air force. Bobby was something more than one of the smartest golfers that ever entered a championship, where his judgment was usually beyond any criticism. He was also something more than a leading graduate of Georgia Tech and a post-graduate from Harvard, where he took a two-year course in one year and finished near the head of his class. He was also a smart lawyer and a smart business man on the side. He has one of the best minds I’ve run across. I don’t be lieve this selection can be chal lenged. No. 4. Football. This is where we move into a number of diverging trails. Football has been packed with smartness. There are such men to consider as KiiUte Rockne, Percy Haughton, Lou Little, Bob Zuppke, Dan Mo- Gugin, Dick Harlow—on and on. My vote goes to Rockne—a smart football player—one of the smartest of all coaches—an able after-dinner speaker—a master psychologist and one of the most interesting people I’ve ever known, no matter what the company. Bob Zuppke as coach, speaker, artist and philosopher wasn’t far be hind. Tilden an Able Writer No. 5. Tennis. The vote goes to Bill Tilden. Big Bill was the smart est of all tennis players. In addition to that he was one of the true mas ters of English as a writer. Many of his articles were used for text purposes in many colleges. No. 6. Racing. My vote here would go to Earl Sande. Sande was one of the greatest jockeys of all time. He has been a high-class trainer. He has also been able to make a living as a singer with an excellent voice. Extremely intelli gent, he is quiet, modest and capa ble in whatever he undertakes. No. 7. Track. Jack Lovelock- New Zealand. Lovelock was one of the greatest miters of all time, I saw him beat Glenn Cunningham in the Princeton meet and later run away from Cunningham in the Ber lin Olympics where he set a new 1500-meter record. On the side he was a brilliant scholar and one oi the best doctors of his day. He is now serving in Scotland and Eng land in this capacity on the war side. , This is enough, at least, to start a few arguments for those who hap pen to be in a debating mood. They are not final pronouncements. They are merely personal opinions, picked up along a 40-year highway. What Sort of Baseball? What sort of baseball will we have? I don’t think this is impor tant. It is far more important that most of the stars and most of the regulars are now in the service. Would anyone want a baseball season where we had such famous baseball names as Bob Feller, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, Johnny Mize, Johnny Beazley, Ted Williams, Phil Rizzuto, Charley Keller, Walk er Cooper, etc., etc., ready to re port in a baseball uniform? I don’t think so. Lesson for April 2 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. SAUL BECOMES A NEW MAN LESSON TEXT: Acts 9:1-9. 13-19a. GOLDEN TEXT: II any man be in Christ he is a new creature.—II Corinthians 5:17. The lives of great men inspire us With an eagerness to make our own lives count for God and for country. Particularly is that true of the life of the apostle Paul, for he combined personal greatness with an absolute surrender and devotion to Christ, which made his life doubly effective. We recall, however, that this peer less leader for Christ was at first the bitter enemy of everything Christian and we ask, "What changed this man?” The answer is— the redeeming grace of God—but that is the story of our lesson. He became a changed man as he went— I. From Threatening to Trembling (w. 1-7). The enemies of God and of our Christ are often loudmouthed and terror-spreading individuals, who, for a time, strike fear into the hearts of men. Such was Saul of Tarsus, and such are the antichristian lead ers of our day. They seem to be so powerful and able to sweep all before them. But wait! Luther said of God’s archenemy, “One little word shall fell him,” and it is true. See what happened to Saul. Off on his jour neys of persecution and destruction, bold and determined, he met Jesus on the Damascus road, and the great threatener is found to be “trembling and astonished” (v. 6). The Lord is still on His throne, and one day every mouth shall be stopped (Rom. 3:19), and all His enemies shall tremble before Him. Would that they would do it while there is time to repent. II. From Persecuting to Praying (w. 2, 8, 9; see also v. 11). Paul utterly devoted to the root ing out of this hated sect of Chris tians was on his way with letters authorizing their imprisonment. It was all very official, zealous and marvelous in men’s sight, until he met Jesus, and it all blew away. Ananias, that faithful layman (may his tribe increase!), was called of God to go and speak to the stricken Saul. When he feared to go, God encouraged him (v. 15), for the powerful persecutor had now be come a penitent pray-er (v. 11). That’s what a face to face meeting with Jesus did for Paul—yes, and will do for any man or woman. III. From Scoffing to Suffering (w. 1, 13-16). Saul doubtless gloried in the breathing out of threatenings and slaughter of which we read in verse 1. He was riding high in the seat of authority and of official approval. It was satisfying to his fleshly pride to make known his dreadful purposes of destruction and imprisonment for these helpless Christians. Did we say helpless? Oh, no, they had on their side all the power of the Eternal One. He who touches the people of God touches the Lord Himself. Paul thought he was fight ing a little sect of Christians, but found that he was fighting the Lord Himself (v. 5). But now that he had met Jesus and was ready to turn in devotion to His sacred cause, he was to learn what it meant to suffer. Let us note well that suffering for the sake of one’s faith may be entirely within the will of God, yes, and for His glory. IV. From Spiritual Death to Spir itual Life (w. 17-19). Men have tried to explain the ex perience of conversion on the ground of psychology, as a cataclysmic change in the life of an individual who has gone through some great sorrow or trial, but it simply will not go down. There is in real con version a regeneration which means a completely changed life. Saul did have a sudden and mov ing experience on the Damascus road, but it was not just because of a blinding light and a mighty voice. It was a light “from heaven” (v. 4), and the voice of the Lord. Saul was “filled with the Holy Ghost,” and received his sight. He was ready now to be used of the Lord as the greatest missionary evangelist and theologian that the world has ever known. This change was one which reached down into his inmost being and transformed his beliefs. The Jesus he had hated, now became his all consuming passion and love. He no longer looked to his works to save him, for now he knew the per sonal Saviour. What happened within showed it self in his attitude toward those without. It always does. He now came to love the very people he had hated and persecuted, and turned every bit of his strength and ability into the task of working with them in the spreading of the gospel throughout the world. Men and women—yes, boys and girls—today need this same change from death to life. Too long have we been trying to polish up the ex terior 6f lives unchanged within. U'VEN as inexpensive a fabric as unbleached muslin can be 6made into mighty attractive aprons if you dress it up with 1 ANOTHER f ? 9 B ? I A General Quiz ? (t* (w (w. ct* C^* <*-<k-^ ft* The Qaestioiu _ 1. What is the average tempera ture (in the temperate zone) at 35,000 feet up? 2. Would a Russian be likely to eat, ride or wear a droshky? 3. The external face of a build ing is called what? 4. The famous cathedral of St. Mark is in what city? 5. Can you name three Biblical characters who committed sui cide? 6. Which is the highest navigable lake in the world? 7. Where is located the center of population in the United States? 8. The small flag or streamer that flies from the masthead of a ship is called what? 9. What is the Mohammedan equivalent of a Christian church or a Jewish temple? 10. What did the early New Eng landers use in their windows in place of glass? The Anawere 1. Seventy degrees below zero. 2. Ride. A droshky is a four- wheeled carriage. 3. The facade. 4. Venice. 5. Judas, Samson and SauL 6. Lake Titicaca (between Bo livia and Peru). 7. A point about two miles south east of Carlisle, Ind. 8. A banderole. 9. A mosque. 10. Oiled paper. bright appliques. Use bright red cotton for the cherries, green for the leaves—it will make a lovely apron! • • • To obtain complete pattern for the Cher ry Apron (Pattern No. 5520) applique de sign and finishing instructions, send IS cents in coin, your name and address and the pattern number. 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