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V THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. OSCAR'S TAKING FEWER ASPIRINS THESE DAYS . > . Pact Is Likened to Alcoholics 'Anomnibus . . . BUT HE'S KEEPING HIS UNIFORM IN MOTHBALLS By H. I. PHILLIPS PURKEY ON ATLANTIC PACT Ex-PFC Oscar Purkey, veteran of the last war, feels better after reading the Atlantic pact, but he still thinks it’s smart to keep moth balls in his uniform and not swear iff canned eggs for life at this oint. “If the world was in its right mind, in fair health and not so jumpy, this Atlantic pack would be okay,” he writes, “but you got to remember that it is in the same shape as Alcoholics Anomnibus holding a street-corner huddle when a liquor truck turns turtle in full view. dlnswered Grace Noll Crowell prayer I long had prayed God heard. Yet answered not a word My bean had not been schooled to wail An answer that came late. I could not underSand! Dismayed I clutched His robes and prayed And then. Strength spent, I kept quite Still — At last I learned His will Through Strangely silent nights and days rsomchow learned His ways. “At first I think this Atlantic pack is not serious on account of it is not accompanied by no news that six blocks along First avenue, New York, is to be torn down to make way for a head quarters,” his letter continues, “but I find it is on the level and the matter of a official address will be took up later. * "The swell thing about getting eight out of a dozen nations together like this is that at least it ends the day when they would not go far enough out on a limb to give each other their right phone numbers. They now agree not only to do this, but each one promises to answer the phone, no matter who is calling or how hot is it. * “I am sure the pack is a good thing on account of Henry Wallace and the Daily Worker and Russia is giving it the old elbow. If Henry was for it, 1 would be pretty sus picious. The way it shapes up to me is that with England, France, Canada, the United States, Bel gium and those other nations on my side, I can afford to let Henry stay on the bench. * ‘I can’t quite figure out what the Atlantic Pack does to the UN. Everybody says it does nothing serious, but my com mon sense tells me you can’t have two police departments on the same job in the same spot without some difficulties here and there. I hope they work okay together in this case, but one of ’em will want the star’s dressing room maybe and there is apt to be some professional jealousy. If the friction don’t start a new war, I will be satis fied. "All this Atlantic Pack does is to provide an agreement that all the nations outside the galvanized-lron draperies will consult together if any enemy starts playing rough. Personally, when the shooting starts I’d feel nervous if my side were just to confer on tjie matter. In the next global war, the sneak- puncher is going to have a awful head-start on the boys who go into a conference first. But I guess our side will find a way to perfect the jet-propelled huddle so that there will be only a few seconds of elapsed time between the attack and the answer. • “The western nations in this Pack may seem a little too gentlemanly for comfort in a global crisis, but it looks to me like this time they are with Stonewall Webster or Kayo Henry or whoever it was that said we have got to hang together or wire the newsreels men to photo graph us all hanging separately. Anyhow, the news about this Atlan tic pack has done me some good. I ain’t taking so many aspirin.” Cuff Stuff “Boys Wear Reported Off This Winter.”—Headline . . . And the girls seems to be overdoing it a bit, too. • • • Railroad trains are now being made so glamorous and comfort able that it is pretty distressing. A fellow is compelled to travel all the way out of town and back without getting a decent chance to develop a mood of deep irritation. • • • Shudda Haddim is sick again. This time it’s over the fact a horse called “Day” won at Gulfstream at $23.40. “I would of had him,” he weeps, “except when I’m looking at ’em in the paddock somebody starts humming ‘Day is done.’ ” • * • Alaska proposes to tax women who do not get marHed. In those cold climates, it pays to be realistic. iE^SCREEN^MHO By INEZ GERHARD H AL WALLIS, Anatole Litvak and Rouben Mamoulian will judge the motion picture synopses submitted for the National Five Arts $100,000 award; Norman Cor win, Arch Oboler and Erik Bar- nouw will pick the best radio scripts. Plays, popular songs and short stories will be judged by equally prominent authorities. HAL WALLIS Each sub-contest carries prizes of $2,000, $1,000 and $500, plus up to $70,000 in fellowships as well as professional productions of the winners. For details write to Na tional Five Arts Award, 715 Fifth Ave., New York City. All entries should be sent to that address. Here's a wonderful chance for un knowns! Anatole Litvak is known for many successful directorial jobs; “Sorry, Wrong Number” and “The Snake Pit” are two recent oneS. Wallis has signed Joan Fontaine for “Sep tember,” to be filmed in Italy in August for Paramount. Pat Knight thinks maybe it is an omen forecasting her future star dom — during filming of Columbia’s “Shockproof’ she found a letter in her uniform’s pocket, addressed to Joan Crawford, who wore the uniform in “A Woman’s Face”. A Moroccan Michooe”, some thing new in New York parties, launched George Raft’s “Out post In Morocco”. Shot against magnificent, authentic back- grounds. It is a story of the French Foreign Legion, with plenty of action. The men In the supporting cast, headed by Akim Tamiroff and John Li tel, are excellent. Marie Windsor must have been cast only for her looks. Joanne Dm became an actress because she was too shy to make friends and took dramatic lessons to overcome her shyness. Howard Hawks saw her at a dramatic sct'ool, hired her for “Red River”. The , Fiction Corner r/rpHEY’RE all curious,” insisted ■I Arthur Jordan. “There never lived a woman who wasn’t 99-44/100 per cent curiosity. I could quote you a dozen bits of poetry proving the fact—” “For goodness’ sake, don’t!” urged Clem Tate. "I’ll take your word for it. Honestly. But Elsie isn’t that way. I’m telling you.” “You’re the kind that would never be happy with your wife asking you this and looking over mail and rooting about in your desk when you’re out of the house. I know you.” "Don’t speak of Elsie Lyons as ‘rooting’, if you please,” Clem Tate said coldly. “I’ll tell you what. I’ll lock the office door and give her the key — since you mention Bluebeard —and then you and I will go out. I’ll keep the key of the corridor door, however, and we’ll come in again and sit here. I’ll tell her not to use that key at all. See? Then if she is as curious as you say, she’ll come bouncing in a la Made moiselle Bluebeard or whatever her name was and we’ll be sitting right inside here.” “O.K. with me,” said Arthur Jordan. "She’ll be in here and don’t yon forget I told you so. I’d as soon have a homelier girl and one who wasn’t so careless anyhow. She’s decorative but she’d forget her head if it weren’t for the curls there.” Now Elsie Lyons v/as pretty. She knew that fact as well as anyone else. Fluffy golden hair framed a heart-shaped face with a pointed chin below a widow’s peak of hair at the upper edge. Her great grey eyes turned to pansy-color at times. But looks and business efficiency do not always go hand in hand un fortunately and Elsie ran about ninety-nine and forty-four one- hundredths per cent efficiency. “I am locking the door to the pri vate office. Miss Lyons,” said Clem Tate distinctly. "I want no one to go in there. No one. Is that clear. Miss Lyons. Here is the key.” “Certainly, Mr. Tate,” she said demurely, placing the key in her desk drawer. The two young men walked re solutely into the outer corridor and the outside door swung too gently behind them. “Well, Bluebeard, how about it?” asked Jordan when he put the key into the door to the private office. As the door swung open they both looked in eagerly. They heard the telephone in the outer office. Silent ly they sat down and Jordan gave his partner a poke in the ribs when Clem Tate looked too triumphant as the moments passed. A T THE END of a half hour Clem Tate rose to his feet. Jordan followed him and they made their BLUEBEARD'S BET By i Lilliace M. Mitchell way silently into the outer corridor again. “Well, was I right, Jordan?" asked Clem. “You win, Bluebeard—er, I mean, non-Bluebeard,” said Jordan. "Say, I’ve got to have a breath of air after that self-imposed silence. I think maybe we both like talking a little better than we thought we did. I had a thousand things I wanted to tell you while we sat there. But as for your charming little Elsie — she’s the real thing all right, all right. Never even clicked the key in the lock, did she? Or looked through the key-hole at us?” Jordan ambled towards the eleva tors with a wave of his hand. Clem Tate stood an instant at the outer door and then entered the suite of offices. He hurried through to the door of the private office and tried the knob. “Oh—” he said, "Miss Lyons, I forgot that this door is locked. Let me have the key, will you, please?” “I—I’m sorry, Mr. Tate. But I simply can’t think what I did with that key. There was a tele phone call the moment you lift and I looked for the key so that I could —could—er—lay the message on your desk. “But I said not to go in.” She laughed gently. Dimples peeped in and out charmingly. She bent again and then with a sigh she murmured: "Oh! Here it is! I’m so careless!" 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Id T* io ii It 14 25 Vo 17 7/A ie 29 W/ 51 32 i\ i b i 54 si P I P 56 57 I M 41 XT 45 v/y YS/< 44 it i I KATHLEEN NORRIS The Easter Miracle 7 Vase with a foot 8 Distress signal 9 Female sheep 11 To read again 16 Girl’s name 17 Await 18 Home-like 19 Walk slowly 21 Waste land, SW France 22 Beneath 23 Ornamental nails • 25 A film form ing on port 28 Inns 30 A swine No. 30 32 Flower 35 A short stocking 36 TiUe of respect 37 Constellation 38 2,000 lbs. 40 June-bug 41 Epoch 42 Coin (Jap.) Answer to Fussle Number 29 Series K—48 Bell Syndicate—WNU Features By KATHLEEN NORRIS «TF I COULD actually have seen ^ a miracle, in the .days of Christ’s life on earth, of course I’d believe!” So many people—bewildered, anx ious, troubled in these dark days —say that, that it seems worth while to point out to them in this time of Easter, a real living, inex plicable, undeniable miracle. Well, then, there lived a young carpenter 2,000 years ago, who talked strange talk of God’s being his father. God, the avenging, cruel, mysterious ruler of the old reli gions, just as a father, understand ing and wise and loving! This was so extraordinary an idea that it is no wonder that this young man, Jesus, was regarded with dark suspicion. He never wrote a line, never had any position or money, never gained an influential friend, and He presently died the death of a com mon criminal. All this happened in a little oriental town more ob scure than is the nearest cross roads village to you. No railway to his town, no telephone, radio, movie news. Nothing. Nothing, one would think, to prevent this po litical criminal from sinking into the obscurity that has swallowed up such young radicals from the beginning of time. Radical In His Ideas For radical He was. He said children were way ahead of the rest of us in the secret of eternal life; He said the humblest among us would one 1 day stand first; He said anyone who needed your kindness was your neighbor. He said things about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked that were quite new to oriental philosophy. And He went further; He went against all human precedent and custom. He said, “Forgive your enemies.” Why should you? He MIRROR of your MIND Kisses Mean ® ^ ^ Different Things By Lawrence Gould said, “If your enemy take your cloak, give him your coat also.” Who ever heard such nonsense? He said, “Overcome not evil with evil, but overcome evil with good." Why, said the wiseacres then— as they are saying today—if you did that, your enemies would simply walk over you, and you’d be destroyed! So they began to re gard Him as dangerous, and in the end satisfied themselves that they had destroyed him. Spread Across the World However, they hadn’t. With the inexorable power of its divine or igin, that strange doctrine of His spread—spread to the new world of Europe, the new world of the western hemisphere. And the blaz ing, irrefutable miracle of this Easter Day is that the name of this obscure carpenter is today the one best known among all men. We call our world Christendom. We call our philosophy Christianity. Christianity ruled Europe for hundreds of years. What else did Europe have that the oriental na tions didn't have? I can think of nothing fundamental. Was it Christ’s law, then, feebly and imperfectly as it was followed, that raised the cathedrals and the hospices, that painted the great Madonnas and-' cut the marble saints, that added streets, hospitals, museums, colleges^ libraries, bridges and laws becoming stead ily more and more humane? You don’t see all this where Christianity is not. Built upon the old Jewish faith, carrying over much of its ritual magnificence, still the law is that of the humble carpenter who let them crucify Him, and forgave them with His dying breath. Had we followed His law closely and heroically, we would not be where we are today. There would never have been slums and poverty, heartless wealth and bitter need. When spring brings the glory and beauty, the lilacs and buttercups of Easter, we must admit that there is something we don't understand in the power of Christ’s name—that name that eclipses all other names. Deer and Goat Become Fast Friends on Farm TOLU, KY.—Tony Hana’s deer and goat have established friendly relations and are getting on nicely. Hana, a farmer, found a 60-pound white-tail doe in a roadside ditch near here, its body submerged to the head. It was thought to have taken refuge there from hounds known to have been in the neighbor hood. Hana took the deer home and housed it with the amiable goat Result: friendship. Will a girl who really loves one man kiss others? Answer: That may depend, not on how “really” she loves him, but on what a kiss means to her. And remember, kisses mean quite dif ferent things to different people. In pre-war Japan, for instance, a kiss was considered so extreme an intimacy that the censors cut all kissing scenes out of the movies. At the other extreme, I know social groups in which a kiss is regarded as merely a bit more cordial than a handshake. But courtship is diffi cult when certain actions appear terribly important to one partner and trivial to the other. Do ‘wisecrackers” have a sense of humor? Answer: Not always, at any rate. The typical wisecrack is a form of wit, the essence of which is to de flate someone by making him look ridiculous, and particularly, doing this under conditions in which he can’t show resentment because it is "only a gag.” It is closdr to the practical joke—which is almost pure sadism—than to humor, which prompts us to laugh at ourselves as well as others. The wisecracker who is short on humor will betray the fact by getting angry if you sug gest he is ever "unintentionally fun ny.” Can words help drive people to drink? Answer: Yes, and I do not mean only "harsh words.” For the feel ings with which words become as sociated may affect our attitude to ward the things they describe. A Swedish psychologist. Dr. O. Sundet, calls attention to the fact that in the Scandinavian languages the words which describe a person who does not drink have a disagreeable im plication, while those for intoxica tion suggest sympathetic feelings. To make abstinence from liquor popular would take a new national vocabulary, which would be a long, hard job. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE KEEPING HEALTHY 'Electric Knife' Surgery By Dr. James IV. Barton W HILE many of us know about removing tonsils by electro- surgery, we may not know that this method, the “electric knife” as it is called, also is used for other op erations. (The method—electro-co agulation—involves using a high fre quency current instead of a knife and scissors; it destroys the tis sues by removing all their fluids.) When and why is this “elec tric knife” method used? In “Clinical Medicine,” Dr. Gus- tavus M. Blech, Chicago, states that the principal reasons for use of this method, now an absolute necessity in nerve and brain surgery, are (1) tissues are divided with a least amount of injury; all cells, danger ous and not dangerous, are de stroyed by coagulation; (2) small blood vessels are sealed or closed by this method, preventing further bleeding anti the need for gauze sponging, which irritates the surface tissue when the surgical knife is used; (3) pain following the opera tion is slight because of \the blunt ing of the ends of nerves. The electro-coagulation meth od removes all malignant cells (dangerous, such as cancer cells or suspected malignant structures) to avoid carrying malignant cells into the system, thus reducing chances of starting a growth (cancer) in other parts of the body. The next important use for coag ulation is in hemophilia (where tht blood will not clot) -find in opera tions on organs which are very ricli in Mood and blood vessels, such ai the liver and spleen. Also, it ii valuable in an emergency when th« patient is anemic, run-down or el derly. Of course. In cases surgery, surgery by method — the knife — used because only tiny left, whereas scars electro-coagulation are slow in disappearing. The type of anesthetic used -is lo cal, spinal or into the veins, to pre vent any chance of an explosion oc curring. of plastic the usual - should be scars are made by : large and HEALTH NOTES An individual’s chances of reach ing a ripe old age are far more dependent on environment (his sur roundings) than on heredity. Fig ures based on an insurance com pany’s study of the death rates and family history of policy holders, shows that those whose parents died at relatively advanced ages did little or no better than those whose parents died early in life. 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