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■ THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C VIRGIL By Len Kiel* MUTT AND JEFF sav. vou're "me cuy WHO SOLD ME this. Bird a couple of/oh months ago J VEH/ IN VOUR , ^rn£yl HOWS PET SHOP/ THE BIRD?; VOU SAID SHE VA/OULD TALK AND SHE AIN'T SAID A WORD VET/ SHE V .SHOULD TALK / SHEk A FEMALE/ HOW DO I KNOW ] EAS V/ \ IF SHE'S A SHE/ F |eT 1 WORM AND AND NOT A HE? A MALE WORM AND GIVE 'EM TO VOUR PARROTj THE MALE WORM IT'S aSHE and IF IT EATS THE FEMALE IT'S A HE/ I TELL IF A WORM ISA MALE OR FEMALE? By Bud Fisher \Koh , VOU’LL HAVE y TO TAKE THAT UP WITH THE WORM STORE/, I ONLVSELI BIRDS/ JITTER By Arthur Pointer WYLDE AND WOOLY WE DONY WANT ANY TROUBLE, BOYS. SO WE'RE ASKIN' OUR By Bert Thomas "SORRY, LADY, BUT YOU'RE A PEDESTRIAN NOW... .you'LL HAVE TO GET OFF THE BRIDLE PATH ' " “GEE, DAD, AREN'T YOU GLAD we Gor A TELEVISION SE' r ^' - ’n, [ n;T 'i—■ 111 ’ I "111 MmII SCRIPTURE: X Corinthians 10; Luki mil 1*12 DEVOTIONAL READING: John 20 19-23. Truth About Easter Lesson for April 9, 1950 "TTP THIS WAY,” writes a friend ^ in a great city, "the hats and the bunny-rabbits have run awaj with Easter.” The fact is, th« world has stolen Easter and mad< something silly out of it. The world will not believe the truth about Easter, yet the world wants a holiday. The Man from Mars, visiting our planet at Easter time, would have a hard time guessing what the festival means. Rabbits? New clothes? A Dr - Foreman day off? The return of spring? Nol at all, nothing of the sort. Bunniei and hats are gay; but the righl word for Easter is not Gaiety, it if Glory. • • God’s Victory 'pVEN IN churches you will not always hear the whole truth about Easter. You may hear thaf it is the festival of Returning Hope, or that it s. u.oolizes new life, oi that it stands for the triumph o/ faith over despair, or that it ex jpresses our belief in immortality. In a way, all these ideas about Easter are true, but if that is all, then we have not yet got down tc the truth about Easter. The fact is—the fact which give* a solid ground for all these othei facts—the first Easter was the daj when God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. It was the day of God’i victory over death, when the gatei of death swung backward and th« bars of death were broken. The truth about Easter is that something happened on that day that never happened oefore and never will happen again. Because never before had the Son of God risen in per sonal triumph from the grave, and never win that have to be done over again. If it were not for that fact, Jesus might have been remembered as « long-dead Jewish teacher, a hope ful but mistaken and defeated teacher, a name to be found onlj in encyclopaedias. But the trutli about Easter is that Jesus is not dead, his hopes were not mistaken, he was not defeated, his Name is above every man! He is the Chris tian’s living Lord. • • • His Power in Us T hat strangely twisted man Kierkegaard called Chris tianity "God’s attack on man.* You could not get that idea from the New Testament. ’Marvelous as it is, Christian ity is God offering to man the power to rise oat of oar dead selves, to do for ns what we eonld never have done for our selves. What has this to do with Easter? Just this: That when the Apostle Pan! wants to explain what the power is which God sets at our disposal, what it is like and what it will do, he tells ns it is the same power with which God raised Christ from the dead. (See 1 Cor. 6:14; Eph. 1:19,20; 2:6; PhiL 3:10. You see the truth about Eastei Is that it is the day when the Chris tians celebrate the most tremen dous act God ever performed on this planet, or rather that day when God brought to a climax the whole mighty action of the coming and the life and death of Christ. And that is the power which is avail able for the Christian. • • • A Christian Is Supernatural I F ALL YOU WANT of God is to have him do something for you, then you are rather like a baby who keeps crying for some one tc bring him more toys . . . but he stays a baby. If your want of God Is to have him do something with you, in you and through you, then you are Idee a child who really grants to grow up. The Christian is a supernatural oeing. As C. S. Lewis puts it, we are not God’s little toy soldiers, are are intended to be his sons and daughters. Bat if the Christ Is the "first-horn among many breth ren” then here in this life those who accept him have access to the same power that wrought in him. And at the end of life we shall not be afraid, know ing that we belong to the same God who raised our Lord from the dead. The glory of Easter is not some thing merely to be remembered or lung about; it is something to be experienced. The same God who conquered death "giveth ns vic tory through our Lord Jesua Christ.” (Copyright by the International of Religious Education on behalf Protestant denominations. Rele WNU Features.) HP* Record Throngs Eager to Hear 'Noisiest' Band HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — The cash register’s steady jingle is drowning out the cowbells, door bells, trolley gongs, ringing anvils, bicycle pumps and timed flitguns of the world’s noisiest orchestra. Spike Jones, the comic band leader with the concave face, has made music depreciation an art. And how this clanging, banging and squealing pays off is a wonder to behold: On tour last year, Jones’ outfit commanded $120,000 for 16 days at the Texas state fair. They got $12,500 a week in big hotels at Las Vegas, Nev., and St. Louis, Mo. The smallest stops among a hun dred cities guaranteed $3,500 a night, or 60% of the gross. The average, except in the largest spots, was $5,000 a night. College towns got off with a flat $3,500. In Milwaukee Spike drew 5,000 to the Coliseum at the state fair park. Spike’s recording of a single number, “Twoi Front Teeth,” sold 1,100,000 copies in six weeks. RCA Victor sent him a golden record, framed, and an extra frame for the second golden rec ord RCA expects him to win with sales of the reissue of the same number. Jones has just signed with pro ducer Harry Sherman to make a comedy western. Spike’s seventh film but his first as the star. The 1948 tour, 125 one night stands, grossed over $1,000,000. Spike’s junket in 1949 nearly matched that figure although the band "took it easy” by staying longer in some cities. This is big business for a guy who started with a washboard and a $10 set of cowbeHs. The revenue isn’t all gravy, however. Spike takes about 40 people on tour, augmenting the band with singers, acrobats and comedy acts. They travel in a chartered train of two Pullmans and a baggage car. Spike estimates traveling ex penses at $700 a day. Salaries come out of the gross, too, and Spike’s side men are ex pensive. They have to be good musicians to kick a piece around the way they do. Jones’ travesties may sound like uproar to the un initiated, but they are very care fully arranged. His style is com, but it’s sharp.. His most steadfast admirers are sophisticates — not hillbillies. Among Spike’s fans are conduc tors Arthur Fiedler and Leopold Stokowski. ; AfF l ? ANOTHER I l J A General Quiz * J * The Questions 1. Who first made trousers pop ular for women? 2. What is the meaning of sedi tion? 3. When and why was the Mex ican War fought? 4. On what parts of his body does a dog perspire? The Answers 1. Marlene Dietrich. 2. Language or conduct directed against public order, also the stir ring up of such disorder, tending toward treason. 3. 1846 and 1848, to determine the boundary line between Mex ico and Texas. 4. 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