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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
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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
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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
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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
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44 Turkish
government
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49 Frenchman
50 Stains
52 Occasion
54 Musical
syllable
55 Sheltered
57 To be
undecided
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infinitive
61 Hawaiian
dish
63 King of
beasts
65 Again
67 Conjunction
68 Pirate
executed in
London, 1701
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2 Science of
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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. Harris now travels
by plane to preach in isolated com
munities frequently deprived of a
minister’s service.
Repenting of a crime career dur
ing the first year of a 15-year prison
term in San Quentin for robbery,
Harris decided to become a minis
ter. He spent the next six years
preaching to his fellow convicts and
has continued his ministerial work
since his parole 16 years ago.
As a child, Harris had listened to
stories about the James brothers.
After he left home, he acted as a
western outlaw, underground char
acter and stunt man in Hollywood,
but picture work did not bring the
income he desired. Using the plot
of his current picture as a pattern,
he formed a gang and robbed a
bank.
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1. Where is the Song of Solomon
found?
2. How fast do shooting stars
travel?
3. Who were the Casket Girls in
American history?
4. The land occupied by Arling
ton National cemetery was once
the home of what person?
5. How many words and how
many chapters are there in the
Bible?
6. How big do mushrooms grow?
7. Mount Popocatepetl is located
where?
8. What is the largest city in
area in the United States?
The Answers
1. In the Bible.
2. Slow meteorites travel about
25,000 miles an hour; rapid mete
orites at approximately 180,000
miles per hour.
3. Women imported into Louisi
ana as wives for settlers.
4. Robert E. Lee.
5. There are 1,189 chapters in
the King James version of the
Bible, and 773,692 words.
6. One found in Thuringia, Ger
many, weighed 56 pounds.
7. Mexico.
8. Los Angeles, Calif., is the
largest in land area. It is 50 miles
long, 9 miles wide, and covers an
area of 450 square miles.
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