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I THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. \ L UCY AMES could always tell when her husband drove In by the children's uproarious welcome. They were crowding down to the garage now—Bill Junior, Calvin, Cynthia, Paula and Roger, aged 8. Lucy heard their shrill, excited cries and, after a minute, Bill’s hearty, roaring laugh. She smilled a little, faintly, as she went to the window and drew the curtain aside. Why, she wondered, did children always adore their fathers? Perhaps }t was because fathers were not Home all day, telling them to do this, not to do that. Or because they were something of a novelty, who came home from week trips, with intriguing gifts. Her smile faded as •he let the curtain drop. This father, Lucy reflected with a aigh, was a strange mixture of bluff, good nature, generosity and ego tism. Bill was a king in his own home — a fat, rollicking monarch whose reign had never been dis puted. And there, Lucy decided, was the trouble. The children humored him. They purposely indulged his desire to win at whatever games they played, be cause they seemed to instinctively know how much it meant to him. They fed his vanity, took a delight in keeping his laughter quick and ready. Lucy's face shadowed. She wondered why such a trivial matter as Bill’s winning children’s games should annoy her. But it did— it had from the first—that day last Sum mer when she had seen Calvin de liberately throw a handicap tennis match so his father could win. “Dinner ready?” They streamed in. Bill in the van, the children following. He caught Lucy by the elbows, and raised her for a kiss. At the table there was a great clatter of crockery, voices. Bill tell ing about his trip, the children like trained stooges giving him leading questions. Bill Junior, looked down the table at his father. “How about the family ping-pong tournament finals, dad? Play them off tonight?” Lucy saw her husband’s nod. “Sure, any time—but we’d better make it tomorrow. I’ve got a report to write after dinner." He addefl, amused: "Think you can beat me?” “I’ve been practicing all week at the ’Y’," young Bill told him. In the dark, long after the others were asleep, Lucy thought about the family tournament. For a long time Bill Junior had wanted a bicycle to cover the rounds he made after school in search of magazine sub scriptions. Dreamily, Lucy decided that if he won the toumment—if he beat his father—she would get it for him. Again she wondered at herself, at her annoyance. Such a small, harm less conceit, this desire to win on big Bill's part. Why should she want to have him defeated? It was silly. And yet— They assembled In the playroom the next night. Calvin made a log fire and Cynthia arranged the chairs. Paula was umpire and, cross-legged, graced the top of the radio table. Her expression was serious as if with the heavy respon sibility of her role. Lucy, her arm about Roger, who had been allowed to stay up an extra hour for the mo mentous struggle, sat on the comer divan—watching. It was brilliant table tennis. Hard fought, clean, clever. Twice Bill Junior seemed to have his father beaten. Twice his aggres sive defensive appeared to bewilder Later, Lucy went from room to room making sure windows were not open too wide, that blankets were over small, hunched shoulders, doors properly closed. The dark lay thick in the room Bill Junior shared with Calvin. She heard someone move when she went in on quiet feet "That you, mother? She sat down on the edge of the bed. Her son’s hand slipped into hers. “A good game. Bill." She squeezed his fingers before she released them. “Wen played. I’m sorry you didn’ win.” He drew a deep, long breath. “So’m L Pop’s tough. Got to be awful good to take him.” “I suppose so.” Her voice was low, flat. “Goodnight, dear. After she quietly closed the door and her footsteps dwindled down the haU, BUI Junior raised himself on one arm. “Awake, Stinky?” The springs in Calvin’s bed twanged as he turned over. “Yeah, why?” Lucy wondered why young Bill failed to press advantage—and then glanced at her husband’s grimly set face. BUI. Lucy noticed that her hus band’s smUe had faded—how grim his face was. And then, at each psychological moment, he callied and evened the score. Why, Lucy asked herself, did Junior’s flashy, pressing play weaken? Why didn’t he drive his advantage home when he had the game and set practically won? T HE heavy, significant sUence broken only by the click of the bouncing ceUuloid baU and the gal lery’s strained, anxious breathing ended in a scream of sudden joy. “Game and set!” Bill threw down the rubber-faced paddle and let out a shout of laughter. The chUdren swarmed enthusias tically over him. This, Lucy knew, was her husband’s usual moment. Her smile was smaU and cryptic when she began rounding up her brood, sending them off to bed. Bill shook hands with his oldest son and switched the lights off. “Guess the champ can’t be beat en,” young Bill said huskily. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Horizontal 1 Continent 5 Keyed up with interest 9 To cut 12 Confined 13 Upholstered couch 14 Part of "to be” 15 Note of scale 16 The Orient 18 Exclamation K used to :20 Symboi for samarium 22 Okinawan capital 24 One of the Great Lakes 27 Self-satisfied 29 Grain allowed to germinate 31 Hotel 32 Inmost parts 34 Planet 36 Note of scale 37 Territory U. S. bought from Russia 39 Oriental * salutation 41 Artificial t language 42 To tip 44 Turkish government 45 Ovum . 47 Bog 49 Frenchman 50 Stains 52 Occasion 54 Musical syllable 55 Sheltered 57 To be undecided 59 Part of infinitive 61 Hawaiian dish 63 King of beasts 65 Again 67 Conjunction 68 Pirate executed in London, 1701 69 To portend Vertical 1 Likely 2 Science of earthquakes Solution in Next Issue. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, 10 11 . 12 13 14 15 16 17 n 18 19 n 21 n 22 l 24 25 26 27 26 i 29 30 P 31 32 33 34 35 li 36 37 38 39 40 42 43 44 45 46 47 4^ 49 50 51 \NN>, 11 52 53 li 54 55, 56 57 58 n 59' 60 61 62 - 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 Bill Junior chuckled. “Got some news for you. It’s a secret for the time being, but I’ll let you in on it if you keep your mouth shut.” “I won’t say a word,” Calvin promised. “What is it?” “Last night Dad told me he’s get ting me a brand new bike the first of the month!” Young Bill’s whisper was excitedly vibrant "I ought to double up on the subscriptions soon as I get it. Pretty swell, eh?” 3 Preposition 4 Chewed up and _ swallowed 5 Province in NE British India 6 New York City 7 Concerning 8 Colloquial: chatter 9 New Zealand aborigine 10 Either 11 Pronoun 17 Article 19 Faroe islands windstorm 21 Subtle emanation 22 Cry of sorrow 25 Inspired with a foolish passion 26 Outer layer . of the teeth ft Frightened No. 37 28 Archaic: deportment 30 Pitfall 33 To pass lightly over 35 To plod 38 Landed 40 Russian inland sea 43 Three-legged stand 46 Frozen 48 To rectify 51 Symbol for selenium 53 Printer’s measure 56 Large deer 58 To peck 60 To be obliged to 61 Colloquial: father 62 Upon 64 Two 66 Negative Answer •« Faille Nsmber SS JUST KEEP BUSY When he started in business for himself, in a field which was over crowded and harsh, a friend of mine ran into high stone walls of discour agement. Often he was ready to quit. Why keep on trying? he would ask himself. There didn’t seem to be much ahead but failure. “I would go home night after night perfectly willing to call it quits with life,” he told me. "Three times I wondered if it wouldn’t be better to end it all.” His wife advised him to see the family physician, and the physician recommended a psychiatrist. The examination lasted three days, but I can give you the gist of his recom mendation in three words: “Just keep busy.” The psychiatrist’s explanation ran like this: “The end of life is not thought. It is action. We are made for action. That we may move and act we have a marvelous system of muscles, nerves, senses; all de signed for action, for doing some thing. “The mind responds gleefully to the active life, and happiness con sists, in the end, of action, action, action. “Happiness depends upon what you do, not upon what you have, not upon what you think—but upon what you do." I have observed many times that the most interesting personalities are not those of the lounge lizards or the do-nothings. They are the per sonalities which have been stamped definitely in the forge of action. The minute this friend of mine be gan taking the advice literally, he began developing a happy outlook on life, began making good in his business. I am glad to report that today he is in a thriving way, completely happy and well adjusted to his world. He has made good—because he kept busy. My friend added some facets to the jewel the psychiatrist gave him. He began letting part of his action take the form of service to others— which further added to his happi ness. When black discouragement would come to him, he would think of something he could do for someone else. A cripple in the block didn’t get out much. He’d take him for a ride. He’d make kites for the kids who lived near by. He’d go on errands for his wife. Anything of action and service—that was his field. There emerged from his discipline something fine in the way of a hu man personality and character, and I am not so sure but that this is one of the most vital personality lessons any one of us can possibly learn— “just keep busy.” “THE SPIRIT OF 1776” . . . The Freedom Train, which Is making a tour of the nation with 128 historic documents that are the founda tion stones of our liberties, is shown in Philadelphia at the start of the year-long trip. Two members of the train’s marine corps guard stand beside the locomotive. 'In the background is Philadelphia’s city hail, surmounted by a statue of William Penn. SHRINE ON WHEELS Freedom Train Unfolds Story Of Nation’s Democratic Ideals WNU features. History is rolling across America in the form of the Free dom Train, the moving symbol of the nation’s year, of reded ication to the ideals and practices of democracy. From Phil adelphia, universally conceded to be “the cradle of Amer ican liberty,” the Freedom Train has embarked on a 30,000- mile, year-long tour during which it will visit more than 300 communities in all of the 48 states. An integral phase of the year of rededication, which is designed as a broad educational program to em phasize the blessings of the ■ ommon American heritage of liberty for every individual citizen, the Free dom Timlin will bring precious docu ments recording that freedom to the attention of millions of Americans. > Ranging from the first printed ref erences to Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America in 1492 to the charter of the United Nations, ap proved in 1945, the documents un fold a story covering 453 epochal years In world history. More than 125 original copies of such historical manuscripts as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation are included in the national shrine on wheels. Each document is placed in a plastic envelope fitted to the in dividual book or sheet. The en velope is waterproof, firepoof and shatterproof. Manufactur ers claim the material is so strong that it would require a 100-pound bail traveling at 50 miles an hour to pierce the sur face. The covered documents are placed in cases of steel plate cov ered by special shatterproof double glass sheets. The glass is treated to discourage ultra-violet ray penetra tion as the rays are harmful to the old and fragile paper of many of the old documents. Protective Measures. Every object In the seven-coach train with exception of the docu ments is fireproof through installa tion of a special fire-extinguishing system employing carbon-dioxide. Thirty - six marines, including many war veterans, will guard the display day and night. Named “The Spirit of 1776” and sporting a brilliant red, white and blue color scheme, the Freedom Train will be a conspicuous exhibit. Containing 128 items of Amer ican memorabilia, the docu ments included in the Freedom Train display have been termed “the outstanding collection of original American papers ever assembled in dhe exhibit.” The American heritage of free dom and free institutions is typified by such documents as the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson’s Bill for Religious Freedom, the Draft of the Constitution with annotations by George Washington. Lincoln’s first draft of the Emancipation Procla mation and Jefferson’s letter on Freedom of the Press. Shown as a sequel to the Declara tion of Independence is a copy of the Treaty of Paris, signed Septem ber 3, 1783, in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States. The treaty was signed for the United States by Ben jamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay. Historically Valuable. Washington’s Farewell Address, Lincoln’s draft of the Gettysburg Address, papers of Thomas Jeffer son, Franklin, James Madison, An drew Jackson and other leaders in the early days of the country add to the historical significance of the ex hibit. Typical of the more glamorous as pects of the nation’s early history are a manuscript containing the only known authoritative account of th* first raising of the' flag, the bona-fide log book of the famous frigate Constitution, better known as “Old Ironsides,” and Jackson’s letter to the secretary of war de scribing the Battle of New Orleans. Among the odd exhibits are Benjamin Franklin’s own epi taph in his own hand, one of the most famous epitaphs in the English language, which was written out for Samuel Morris and presented to him by Poor Richard on August 31, 1776, and the original letter in Siamese from King Mongkut of Siam of fering to send a gift of elephants to President Lincoln in 1861. Included in the exhibits in the World War II section are the origi nal pencilled draft by Gen. George Marshall announcing appointment of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to com mand the invasion of western Eu rope, the war department’s original copy of the last radiogram sent by General Wainwright from Corregi- dor, the last part of which was garbled as communications were broken off, and* Admiral Nimitz’ original report of the Battle of Mid way. Surrender Documents. As evidence that “Freedom Tri umphs,” the original German sur render documents at Rheims, signed May 7, 1945, and the log of the USS Missouri, displayed at the page covering the Japanese surren der aboard the battleship in Tokyo bay September 2, 1945, are placed on display. Concluding the exhibit is a sec tion, “Flags of Freedom,” which in cludes such historic flags as the fa mous flag raised on Mount Suri- bachi by U. S. marines in the inva sion of I wo Jima. Process Reversed As Teacher Herself Kept After School PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Not a single small fry was on hand to wit ness the teacher’s embarassment when Miss Betty Johnston, 38, in structor at Taggart elementary school, was “kept after school” for two hours. Miss Johnston, who had remained after classes to mark papers, failed to notice the building custodian had locked all doors. She phoned police when she realized her predicament. Two patrolmen arrived with a lad der, but Miss Johnston refused to make the 25-foot descent from a first floor window. A search pro duced the janitor and a key. He’s Sharp PLYMOUTH, MASS. — Leo Bor- ghesani, barber, has decorated his shop window with a collection of more than 500 old-fashioned straight razors, including one used in Greece 700 years ago. Repentant Outlaw Becomes Minister SEWING CIRCLE PAHERNS RAWLINS, WYO. — An outlaw when he was only 14 years old, the Rev. Jenks D. 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