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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. XU* FICTION Cot Her DOLL FOR LUCK By GENE GILBERT P ALMER soared through the skj i with a light heart. He was leav I ing a hard life behind, years of hand-to-mouth existence, years of depending on occasional charter trips and the students able to pay the high rates on his big machine. ! The future opened before him: He i would ge' a new ship, one of those long-range, all metal jobs, go in for long-distance competitive races. And he would have a swell-looking girl with a pile of dough to pay the bills. He glanced at the instrument board, saw that everything was all right. The cabin ship roared stead ily over Connecticut at four thou sand feet. There were scattered clouds beneath him, but not enough to hide the ground. His luck was breaking right for the first time, just right. Reaching up, he patted the mascot swinging from the roof on a length of ribbon. It was a small doll, black of face, with two pearl buttons set in the satin for eyes, a piece of red silk stitched across the lower half of the face for a mouth. It was garbed in a loud plaid dress green and red. That rag-stuffed little figure had been hanging in this ship for over two years. Palmer had come to be lieve it was lucky. The girl who had loaned him the down payment on the machine had put "it there. He had met her one summer when he had been barnstorming with a small, old ship, and they had knocked around together for three months. She had been pretty sure of herself. Palmer recalled, loaned him money, talked about how “we” were going to make a fortune with the larger ship. He recalled the night when they had won the doll at a small car nival, in one of the ring-toss games. He had made up his mind already to pull out sometime soon. And it had annoyed him somewhat to see her having such a gay time. But he could not tell her, there was no need to say goodbye tearfully and j have her bawl and carry on in front of him. On their way home she had in sisted that they go to the field where his ship was staked down in the open, and sit in the cabin for a few minutes. She had been big, and light blonde and sentimen tal. Just before they had left the cabin, she had pinned the thing to the upholstery on the ceiling. "That’s our luck. Eric,” she had said. “As long as she’s there, we’ll always be safe.’’ Palmer had smiled, kissed her and taken her home. At dawn of the same morning, he had taken off and come East. He had never returned. Once in a while, a letter from her had caught up with him. but he had not answered. What was the use? He had intended to send her back the loan when he could. He was grateful for the help, and everything. But how could he explain without hurting her. that they were just not suited to each other? When the letters had stopped coming, he had thought that she had understood. Then some fellow, who had known them both, had handed him a clipping, without a word. She had been killed in a crossing accident. It seemed that her car had stalled on the tracks, and that she had made no effort to get out. The fellow evidently thought she had done it on pur pose. Palmer knew better. That girl had had character, she would iot have done away with herself over a few hundred bucks and a broken engagement. He had been tempted to take that doll down. Then he had rea soned that it would be, in a way. an admission of remorse. And he had nothing to blame himself for. The doll had brought him luck at lai.t: Eleanore. She had looks and background and money. Further more, she had the kind of a spirit he liked, which he needed close to him. To her. a ship wasn’t some thing to work for a small house, for an ordinary living. She enjoyed what he enjoyed, fame, her name in the papers. She loved him, all right, but she would always understand that he must take long chances. A HEAD, he saw the small field where she was waiting. They would drive to her home, be mar ried, and fly away. He tipped his left wing, banked lazily over a field. A bright spot of color de tached itself from a long, sleek, dark car. Eleanore waving her scarf. That was service—already: His girl waiting for him with a sixteen cylinder bus, complete with chauffeur. His spirits surged higher. This was a private airport, no inspector would be around, so he was safe in giving her a show. He slammed the motor full on, nosed down then hauled the ship up and over in a tight loop. He leveled off and eased her around, a few wing-overs—and level flight again. Somethipg caught his eye, the doll, swinging from the root grin ning redly. He smiled and slapped it like a punching-bag a few times. Mock Tkrtle. The latest fashion to turn into a fad is the long-sleeved, turtle neck cotton knit T-shirt. You’re wearing it in white only and you tie one of your shad ed silk scarfs under the roll collar with the long ends hang ing down in back. On the front of your turtle neck shirt you wear your trickiest pin or set of match ing pins. At a CALLING ALL GIRLS fashion show held up in Stamford. Conn., we counted no less than eight of these shirts, similarly scarfed, in the first row of the audience! Your favorite teen department has the T shirts, you have the scarfs—so what glanced at his altimeter. He still had fifteen hundred feet. One last stunt and then he could land. He circled the field once more, swung around and when he was almost ov er the car, shoved the throttle full on and dove in a screaming fall. The moving doll again attracted his glance. Eleanore had tightened _ her Ups when he had told her it was a souvenir from a dame, before he got serious with her. It might be tactful to ditch it now—scarcely the memento for a perfect honey moon! A small sacrifice to love. He reached out, jerked it loose and tossed it out through the open side window and pulled the wheel back to neutral Eleanore was standing still by th; side of the car, he noticed and he decided to level off. No need to frighten her. He hauled back fur ther on the wheel. It yielded an inch —and stuck. He pulled again, hard er, and the wheel stuck—the wheel stuck— He must get her nose up, level off—he was doing better than two hundred and the ground was close. Too close . . . • • • Caught between the horizontal stabilizer and the counterweight for the elevators, the small black doU in the loud green and red plaid dress seemed to widen the grin of her scarlet satin mouth. are you waiting for—a date with Lon McAllister? • • • Time Marches On. Oh. happy the days when dates were for eating And happy the days when dates were for learning; But, now you’re a teen, there’s no retreating— / Dates are for making, breaking— and yearning. Yon Said It—and Yon’re Glad! "Well, Mock My Shodesty”—Ex pression of surprise which you could transpose to mean, "Well, Shock My Modesty.” Only it wouldn’t be so much fun that way. “Glad to Hear it”—Your comment on any good news. "Sad to Hear It”—Ditto on any bad news. "Concoct a Witticism”—Very for mal for “pop a corny.” “That’s Your Red Wagon”—That’s your worry. “Icky Bird” —I New name for a drip and no relation to the Dicky Bird who announces spring in that popular song. “T Man” — Top man, formerly known as your O. A. O. “Once in a Red Moon”—Indicates a much longer interval than the traditional “Blue Moon.” “I Wish Your Mother Had Raised Ducks Instead” — This retort can mean only one thing; that you wish the person to whom you’re talking had never been bom. “Chee Chee”—You pipe it in a mousy voice and it means “wonder ful.” It also means you’ve been spinning Rose Murphy’s platters. Well, as the man said when he followed the fire engines, "I want to see what’s cooking!” * * * TRIXIE TEEN SAYS— - You’re so engrossed in how you’re going to look for this important date that you haven’t given much thought to how you’re going to sound. You know he’s a big basket ball play er; you know he’s a bug for avia tion; you know he’s majoring in his tory and economics at school. They’re all clues to his interests— but you haven’t had time to follow one of them. Instead, you've concen trated on your clothes, your hair, your make-up. Well, you’ll be pret ty as a picture, all right—but haven’t you heard that silent pic tures are obsolete? These days, a boy prefers a picture with sound— a talky that really has something to say! Jp HE WHO IS GLAD Grace Noll Crowell E WHO is glad for every day’s bright J 1 beauty, - ” For a flower or a red leaf in the wood. Who seeks fresh color in each hour’s drab duty, I think he thanks his Maker as he should. He who is brave to meet each day’s new sorrow, Whose courage marches with him as he goes, Carries a stronger heart into tomorrow, And thus thanks God the very best he knows. He who walks calmly, surely, through disaster, Trusting an unseen hand to bring him peace, Lifts up his life, a prayer unto his Master, And offers him a praise that does not cease. He who moves gently when the stress is pr Lending a hand, such as a woman would, Who turns his days and years into a blessing, I am sure he thanks his Maker as he should. ’’g. TRICKS FOR TEENS By NANCY PEPPER Researchers Develop Radio V/hich Uses No Vacuum Tubes NEW YORK—A new scientific achievement, a radio set with no vacuum tubes, that plays instantly when turned on, has been de veloped. The heart of this set is a few bits of metal, as big as match heads. These are solid, but they do the same work as intricate, conventional ra dio tubes. Smaller sets seem possible. But whether they will be the size of wrist watches is not yet known. The new set, shown by the Bell Telephone laboratories, does not need to warm up before it plays. It neither lights nor glows nor produces any heat. Less juice than a flash light runs it. The set still is under experiment, and is not soon to be on the market. Bell scientists, who made it, have discovered a new principle of elec tronics, and expect this principle to have many uses in addition to radio sets. In place of radio tubes, the *set uses little metal cylinders, hollow, not much larger than the metal tips of shoe laces. At the base of each is set a match-head size bit of metal that does the new radio miracle. This metal is one of the sort known as semi-conductors. That means the metal transmits electricity very pborly. But the metal amplifies the current running into it if the intake and output wires are attached to the little ball at the correct spacing. This spacing is about as much as the thickness of a sheet of paper. The wires are hair thin. They and the bit of metal at the bottom are all the tube contains. The elec tronic action in the piece of metal causes no known wear. The metal in this first set is germanium. Sev eral other metals have been used. Apaeh* Indian Mada Pocket Money by Skillful-Ridinf CACHE, OKLA. — Old timers who came to Cache shortly after statehood recall the wild and woolly days when the Apache Indians in southwestern Okla homa outnumbered the white men. Earl Drummond, Cache pio neer, remembers that one “adopt ed” Apache named Phony Red was a white man raised by the Indian tribe. To make his spend ing money Phony Red would talk the white men into placing a dime in the middle of the town’s main street. Phony Red would race his horse at full speed down the dirt road, bend and scoop up the dime. "He never missed." Drum mond says, “and a dime would buy something in those days.” U. S. Spends More Than a Billion Dollars for Candy CHICAGO.—More than a billion dollars was spent in the United States last year on candy—and that figure is for wholesale prices only. According to the 1948 Britannica Book of the Year, this was an all- time high, a gain of almost 40 per cent over 1946 sales. The 1947 confectionery business amounted to nearly three billion pounds, at an average value at wholesale of 36 cents a pound. The 1946 wholesale average was slight ly over 28 cents a pound. Candy bars represented more than half of the industry’s tonnage for the fourth successive year. Bulk goods represented about 20 per cent of the totaL and package goods made up about 19 per cent, but penny goods were practically un available. i Candy production—and consump- tfon—is centered in a region extend ing from New England westward through Illinois and southward through Virginia. This section, made up of 18 states and the Dis trict of Columbia, produced 85 per cent of all the country’s candy, and ate up 55 per cent of it. The rest of the country, the book reveals, produced only 15 per cent and con sumed the remaining 45 per cent. English Doctor Claims Magic Charms Will Remove Warts LONDON.—Magic charms really are a good cure for warts, Dr. W. S. Inman said. Inman, a Portsmouth physician, wrote to Lancet, a British medical publication, that he had found a little honest spit or a piece of raw potato could do more to remove some warts than all the chemicals at his disposal. He cited several cases in an ef fort to prove his contention that oldtime medicine men may not have been such quacks after all. The case histories included: A boy of 13, who had 50 warts on one hand. Chemicals were used without success. The doctor swore the boy to secrecy and then told him to touch each wart with the tip of his tongue every morning be fore breakfast. Within a month the warts were all gone. A small boy who broke his pledge to secrecy did not get rid of his warts this way. But he did secretly take a potato from his mother’s pantry, cut it in half, touched each wart with the raw surface qnd then buried the potato in the back yard by the light of a full moon. The warts vanished. Lancet published Inman’s report without comment. SCRIPTURE: AeU 16:1-6; 17:13-16; 1 Corinthians 4:14-21; 16:10-11; Philippians 2:19; I Thessalonians 8:1-10; II Timothy 1:3-14; S:14l-15. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalms 118:129-136. \ Faith: A Family Tradition Lesson for September 26, 1948 H ERE IS a brief Bible quiz: What Christian man did Paul recommend to the Phillipians as the one completely unselfish person he knew? When Paul needed a man to present his ideas to a “problem church" whom did he send? When Paul wanted reliable in formation about a church, on whose report did he de pend? Whom did Paul call “son” more often than any one else? The answer to all these questions is the tame: Timothy. Certainly a man whom the great Saint Paul found so congenial, so reliable, so unselfish and effective a Christian, is a man worth our careful attention. We ask this ques tion about him: What made him what he was? • • e Dr. Foreman Faith at Home , S OME MEN have to leave home to find faith. But perhaps the hap piest Christians, certainly the most fortunate, are those who cannot re member what it was not to have faith. It was the atmosphere they breathed as children. The first people they knew were Chirstians, prayer and faith were taken for granted, the name of Christ was heard only in reverence and love, never in jest or anger. Timothy grew up in such a home. When he became a mature, work ing Christian he had no wasted years to regret, no wild oats to pull up. The faith of his adult mind was not scarred by the acid re mains of earlier doubt Timothy’s life was all of one piece. He was bom to faith, he grew up in it Homes can do a great deal for the children who live In them. But nothing else — physical health, poise, culture, friends, ambition—nothing else Is quite so valuable a gift or quite so lasting, as faith. In later years faith may have to be pounded into a person or shocked into him; but in childhood faith is woven in, welded in, and that is as It should be. Happy the Christian who does not have to tum his back on his childhood when he turns his face to Christ! • e e Book of Wisdom i(T> ELIGION cannot be taught, ■aX. it can only be caught.” is an old saying. It is partly true, for you cannot set any dozen people at ran dom down on a bench and teach them into faith. If teaching religion were as simple as that, then every Sugday school could guarantee that every one of its graduates would become a saint Nevertheless, re ligion can partly be taught for in a book there may be crystallized the faith of many a generation. A book may concentrate and preserve the insight, the inspiration, the as surance of men and women who though dead yet speak. Living with books of faith is like living with many families of faith at the same time. Such a book is the Bible. And it was the Bible, or so much of it as had been written, the Old Testament, which was the one Book in Timothy’s boyhood home. Through the Scriptures, the boy’s mother taught her son not merely her own faith but that of many a generation before her time. In our own day, parents may feel that they come too far short of being saints, so they hesitate about urging their perhaps dim ly-felt religion on their children. Yet in our Bible there is open to all fathers and mothers a means of placing their children In an atmosphere of Intense faith. Personal religious genius is rare; but even though you may be any thing but a genius, you still can bring to your child the treasures of the Bible, product of the highest inspiration and insight the world has known. * • • Women of the Family T IMOTHY’S FATHER was Greek, probably not a Christian. He and Timothy may never have understood each other. It was the women of tne family who molded the boy’s mind and heart, his mother, Eunice, and his grand mother, Lois. It is always so. It is the women of a family who have most influ ence fqr faith or against it. The boy knows his mother before he knows anyone else. She teaches him to talk, he absorbs her atti tudes and ideas even before he un derstands them. If father and mother differ in religion, it is likely that childen will follow mother rather than father. * * * (Copyright by the International Council of Religious Education on behalt of 4B mrotestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS i^leatly. Styled ^Jivo-f-^iece ^t)re5S 8212 34-48 For Larger Figures H ERE’S the sort of two-piece dress every woman admires .. . simple, softly tailored, well fit ting. Designed especially for the larger figure, it provides a choice of sleeve lengths. • • • Pattern No. 8212 comes in sizes 34. 38, 38. 40. 42. 44, 46 and 48. Size 36. short sleeve, 4 yards of 39-lnch. First Aid for Angina Pectoris There are times when a little knowledge of heart disease may be of great value in dealing with heart attacks. One of the most common Is angina pectoris. The main symp tom of this disease is pain in the chest, usually under the breast bone or In the pit of the stomach. This pain may radiate down the arm and is described as tightness or squeezing in character. Quite frequently it is attended by vomit ing, and naturally is thought to be an attack of acute indigestion. The only first aid that can be given in the home is to have the patient sit quietly until the pain subsides. If the patient has been under the care of a physician he will usually car ry nitrogyeerin tablets given to him by the physician. One of these tablets should be placed under the patient’s tongue. If the pain or vomiting continues, a doctor should be called at once. The re cognition of this type of heart at tack, not putting it down as just in digestion, and sacking medical aid at once, may,save a person’s life. The Fall and Winter FASHION con tains 60 pages of smart, easy to make styles for all the family. Free gift pat tern printed inside the book. Send 25 cents for your copy. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago 7. HI. Enclose 25 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No- Name Address- -Size- Like Hymns Most In Chicago the American Music Conference completed a national survey, reported findings no disk jockey in the land could be expect ed to believe, says Pathfinder. From returns on questionnaires sent to a representative 4,537 U. S. families, AMC announced that 60.8 per cent families put religious mu sic, particularly hymns, at the top of their list. Furthermore, churches were rated above theaters and concerts as the No. 1 outside fac tor in stimulating musical interest. 'mAt MM Happy Vacation Cary — How are you getting along at home since your folks went away on their vacation? Mary—Fine^I broke only one dish today. Cary—Wonderful, how come? Mary—Tt was the only one left. Turn Off the Motor Sammy (to kitten purring on hearth)—Well, Kitty, if yon are going to park here, you’d better turn off your engine. No Sales Resistance Einstein’s home in Princeton, N. J„ is a modest two-story house. Yet he once ordered an elevator installed. 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