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"'-r- THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. m GOOD CITIZEN Democratic Government Based On Individual Freedom, Dignity LAST WEEKS ANSWER ^ This lb the first sf s series of 10 articles from the booklet “Good Citisen” published by The American Heritage Foundation eon- eerning the rights and duties of an American. Composed of leaders in the fields of religion, education, industry, labor and eommeree, the foundation was organised early In 1047 to fight the rising tide of Indiffereneo and eynleism toward the privileges and responsibilities of Amerlean citizen ship. It is strictly a nonpolitical, edu cational organisation. It is not an tagonistic to any group or prln- eiples unless those groups or prin ciples are hostile to the dignity and freedom ef W HE THE R YOU call it democ racy or a Republic, whether ^ou judge its benefits by the car in your garage or by freedom to wor ship at the church of your choice, by the food on your table or by your freedom to speak out in pub lic without fear, you are living under a system of government based on the dig nity and freedom of the individual, that derives its powers from the bottom up rather than from the top down. Clearly we must work at democ- xacy to make democracy work— we must work for the freedom that works for us. By INEZ GERHARD J EFF CLARK, who earned his way through Westminster College, in Sharon, Pa., as a radio-engineer disc jockey, landed high on the star dust trail when he was picked as top vocalist on “Your Hit Parade”, as substitute for Sinatra. He switched from his platter-playing role with instant success in his first radio singing job, won the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout award, and starred in his own New York radio and television shows before being tapped for starring honors. The handsome young baritone—he’s 25— is unmarried, plays the violin and the guitar and is the inspiration of a large and active group of teen agers, who call themselves "Clark’s Larks”. Elizabeth Taylor’s wedding gown may have been gorgeous, but a lot of girls are going to decide to copy the one Claudette Colbert wears in RKO’S ‘The Secret Fury.” A Hat tie Carnegie original, it is white, em broidered in seed pearls. Stan Freeman, one of the per manent stars of the popular "Piano Playhouse”, can give a Carnegie Hall concert one night and arrange a singing commer cial the next day. He’s heard all over the air; "Rate Yonr Mate”, the new Joey Adams show. Is his latest assignment. In 1941 he won the McDowell Award as the outstanding young American pianist in the country. Some of the most dramatically beautiful scenes ever filmed with mountain backgrounds were brought back from the French Alps for "The White Tower” by Director Ted Tetz- laff. An avalanche provided a real ly sensational sequence. What are your rights as an Amer ican citizen? • • • 1. FREEDOM of worship accord ing to your conscience. 2. FREEDOM of speech and free dom of the press, including right to criticize the government and public officials. S. RIGHT of the people to as semble peaceably and to petition the government for a redress of grievances—fancied or real. 4. THE RIGHT to keep and bear arms. (This means that the people as a whole shall have the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of their country. Their right to carry certain types of weapons for personal use, or to have them in their homes, is frequently limited by various federal, state, and local regulations, such as the Sullivan act in New York state.) 5. PROTECTION of the people against unreasonable search and seizure of person and property by the government without proper au thority and good cause. 6. NO PERSON shall be held to answer for any major crime with out review and indictment by a grand jury. 7. NO PERSON shall be placed in jeopardy (indicted, prosecuted or imprisoned) twice for the same crime. 8. NO PERSON shall be com pelled to act as a witness against himself in any criminal case. 9. IF A PERSON is accused of a crime, he has: the right to a speedy trial; the right to the help of a lawyer; the right to trial by a jury, impartially selected; the right to call witnesses in his favor. 10. NO WIFE may be required to testify against her husband (or vice versa) in any criminal pro ceeding. 11. NO PRIVATE property may be taken for public use without just compensation and due process of law. 12. EXCESSIVE bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines im posed, nor cruel and unusual pun ishments inflicted. > 13. A PERSON is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. 14. THE RIGHT to vote, secret ly, for anyone you want. (The con stitution protects you against abridgement of this right. The specific right, however, is granted by the various states.) 15. FREEDOM of person, under the protection of habeas corpus, which gives any person who claims to be unlawfully held by an officer or private person the right to have a hearing at once so that he may know the reason why he is being held. (This means that the govern ment of the United States cannot secretly, or openly for that matter, arrest persons as individuals or groups, throw them into prison or concentration camps, hold them there indefinitely and do what it pleases to them.) 16. NO "EX POST FACTO” law can be passed. (This means that in our daily living and thinking we can enjoy the liberty of doing and saying all that the existing law per mits. Even if, at a later date, our government makes these things il legal, it cannot "date back” the law to make illegal anything that was done before the law was passed.) This article le the introduction of the booklet “Good Citisen,” pro duced by The American Heritage Foundation, sponsors of the free dom train. A complete book may be obtained by sending 25 cents to The American Heritage Founda tion, 17 East 45th Street, New York, N. Y. ACROSS 1. Millponds 5. Branches of learning 9. Legitimate 10. Begot 12. Beetle 13. Smoothing tool 14. To get back 16. Speak imperfectly 17. Least whole number (Math.) 19. Sesame 20. Run before a wind (Naut.) «3. Small explo sive sound 25. Board of Ordnance (abbr.) 26. Anxieties 28. Girl’s nickname 30. Siberian gulf 31. Free 33. Pastry desserts 34. Conjunction 36. District in London 38. A girl at & coeduca tional school 40. 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Wilkinson E XCEPT FOR the fact that Allen Bursley was a coward. May- belle’s happiness was complete. Be ing a Weslyan, even though the once vast properties of her fore fathers had shriveled to a mere 20- acre farm on the outskirts of Stockbridge, she could not abide cowards. Worst of all, Allen Bursley didn’t seem to think that being branded a coward was at all important. "Why,” he asked, "should I want to fight Steve Legge? I’ve nothing against him. He’s done nothing to offend me.” “Why?” she stormed. "You ask me why? Isn’t it enough to be told he’s saying such dreadful things about you?” “But suppose the stories aren’t true? And what if they are?” "Allen Bursley,” Maybelle said tensely, "you listen to me. When you came up here and bought the Thompson place and tried to make a go of farming, everyone laughed. But you fooled ’em. You made the place pay by dint of hard work, and then you made me fall in love with you — and — and I was tre mendously happy and wanted to get married only—” "Only,” said Allen, "every one figured you were Steve Legge’s girl, and when we be came engaged Steve began to threaten. And now you won’t marry me, till I’ve licked him.” "I wouldn’t marry a coward,” said Maybelle scornfully. The word spread like wildfire. Maybelle Weslyan had broken off her engagement with Allen Burs ley, because Allen had admitted BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET A Little Secret of Murder-Revealed After 40 Years By BILLY ROSE On an October morning in 1903, in a village not far from La Rochelle in eastern France, a young priest paled as he listened to his first confession. "Yesterday afternoon,” he heard the penitent on the other side of the curtain say, "I met a strange girl on the dirt road that runs by the pond. When I tried to make friends with her, she laughed at me, and I got so mad I picked up a stone and hit her to make her stop laughing. She fell down, and when I yelled and she didn’t move I got scared and buried her beside some bushes.” Father Antoine recognized the voice as that of a 15-year-old who was known in the village as "the story teller”—a boy who was always talking about his daydreams as if they had actually happened. Even though he didn’t know wheth er the confession was fact or fiction, the priest imposed the most severe penance, and in addition ordered the boy to visit him every day after school for a friendly talk. A few weeks later. Father Antoine was almost certain the "crime” was an hallucination. For one thing, there had been no report of a miss ing person in the district and, for another, the boy’s descriptions of the murder grew more and more confused. Billy Rose ONE AFTERNOON he finally ad mitted to the priest that his story was a fabrication. "I did meet a girl,” he said, "and she got me so angry that I wanted to kill her. But I never touched her, and after wards I got all mixed up about what I wanted to do and what I really did.” ”1 suspected as much all along" said Father Antoine, "but l must admit l was shocked at first. You see, you were the first person who bad ever confessed to me." Two years later, the boy’s family moved to Paris and the priest all but forgot the incident—until a new paved road was laid alongside the old dirt one. Under a bush near the pond was found the decomposed body of a girl, and the coroner testi fied it had been there about two years and the skull had been crushed by some heavy object. Bound by his vows. Father An toine could say nothing, and for the next 40 years the secret re mained with him. • • • THE YEARS of the German oc cupation were difficult ones for those who lived in the La Rochelle district, but many of the villagers did what they could for the resis tance movement—and not the least among them was the priest, now in his late 60’s. And when liberation finally came, a great celebration was arranged with Father Antoine as the guest of honor. After the dinner there was a good deal of reminiscing among the veterans of the underground, but when someone asked the priest to tell of his own adven- > tures, he smiled and declined. 'The occupation was eventful for all of us," he explained, "but in my calling the eventful is almost an everyday occurrence. As a matter of fact, the first confes sion I ever heard was that of a murderer." Then, remembering his vows, Father Antoine apologized for his off-guard remark, and despite the urging of the guests would say no more. Later that evening a delegation of underground workers from other districts joined the celebration and one of them, a colonel in the Maquis, was asked to say a few words. “Meeting Father Antoine tonight is a great pleasure,” he said to the gathering, "and not only because of his war record. Although he doesn’t remember my name or face, I knew him when I was a boy —as a matter of fact, I was the first person who ever confessed to him.” Allen withheld the apology that rose to his lips. being afraid of Steve Legge. Steve became more swaggering. He yearned for some excuse to bully the city man. T HE OPPORTUNITY came a fortnight later in front of the village postoffice. It was evening and more than half of the town’s population was gathered there. Al len Bursley came out onto the porch, his attention concentrated on a letter in his hand. He did not see the outthrust foot of Steve Legge, and fell over it, saving him self by grasping a post. Look where you’re going, you clumsy idiot! Kicking a man in the leg.” Allen withheld the apology that rose to his lips, and said instead: "Keep your legs under you if you don’t want them kicked.” “Say! Who do you think you’re talking to, you shriveled-up city sissy?” Allen hesitated, carefully folded his letter and tucked it into his pocket. "Legge,” he said, "I don’t want to quarrel with you—” Steve let out a roar of contemp tuous laughter. "Afraid, eh? Well, we don’t abide cowards—” "But,” finished Allen quietly, "Since you insist, let me advise you, you brought it on yourself.” Steve lunged and something struck him like a sledge-hammer and set him back on his heels. He struck out blindly, accompa nying his blows with foul curses, only to have the curses jammed between his teeth with the same sledge hammer. Above him Allen Bursley heard a feminine cry from be hind and turned to see May belle running toward him. He held out his arms, but she stopped, hand over mouth, try ing to get out the cry of warn ing, and failing. The club, held In the hand at Steve Legge, descended crushingly on the back of Allen’s head . . When Allen opened his eyes his head was pillowed in the lap of MaybeUe. She was looking up at someone and talking. "Allen licked him,” she was saying. "He’s much stronger than he looks—” Allen’s eyes twinkled. “No, Fm not,” he said unexpectedly. “It wasn’t because I’m strong. It was knowledge—knowing how to han dle myself, like knowing how to farm. That’s the trouble with you folks up here. You don’t know how to do things. See what I mean?” "All I ask is that you teach m« how to—make you a good wife foe ever and aver.” *y JIM RHODYI Summer Techniques r IS characteristic of fishermen that habits and techniques to which they have been accutpmed in taking fish are most difficult to. abandon. This fact often keeps many an otherwise good angler out of the “full creel” classification and gives to his efforts a mediocrity that is discouraging. As a case in point, take the prob lems of summer fishing. During this period of the year, the good fish— that is those which are of a size sufficient to thrill the angler and create envy among his friends—lie in the deeper pools during most of tho daylight hours. It is true that they will come into the shallows to feed during the very early morning and late twilight hours, but it is of the other hours that this is written. During the hot hours of the day. When fishing in mid-summer, take some live bait along. the angler must go deep when seek ing game fish. Trolling is effective, as is live-bait fishing when the bait is sunk to the proper level. The plug- caster, most of an, must show pa tience, for he must let his plug sink deep and work it with as tantalizing effect as possible. This means a slow and erratic retrieve which is most likely to bring a strike. The best spots for summer fishing in both lakes and streams are off weed beds and near cliffsides where there are steep drop-offs of rocks. There is no argument about mid-summer fishing not being eomparable to that of spring and fall, bnt the patient, skilled ang ler, who uses his head as well as his equipment, can still take fish consistently. To do so, however, may mean that the fisherman who sneers at any thing but the most tricky in arti ficial lures, may have to abandon that idea and get down-to-earth with his angling friends who resort to worms, minnows and soft craws. So, when fishing for game fish during the mid-summer, take some live bait along. Bi-Visible Tops M ANY DRY-FLY fishermen have discovered that the bi-visible fly rates high when it comes to selecting a fly that will float ex tremely high and ride the ripples where it can be seen plainly. A fly of this type spells doom to brook and rainbow trout during dry-fly time, as they seem unable to resist tile dainty hackle as it floats lightly upon the surface. The trend of American dry-fly fishing calls for the use of a fly that rides the waters high. That such a fly appears beauti ful upon the surface goes without question, and the trout seem very fond of it, too. The heavily dressed Bi-visible dry fly is the ideal fly for late afternoon and evening fish ing as it can be detected upon the waters without squinting the eyes. Being about nine-tenths out of wa ter and riding high, the fly seems to take on the appearance of flit ting an inch or so above the surface. How it actually appears to the trout is a matter of conjecture, but the way they leap when they take the fly it seems reasonable to believe that the fish thinks the insect is about to take off and they are in a hurry to snap it up before too late. AAA Protect Rod Tip T HE FLY-ROD man who is care ful of his equipment, will take special care to protect his rod tip. When traveling through brush or woods, he will never be caught push ing his rod tip ahead of him. In stead, he will carry the rod butt first, holding the line and lure in his hand, or with the hook in the hook ring or securely embedded in the cork handle of the rod. Time generally can be saved by taking down the equipment, especially in the event the trail is fairly long be tween fishing spots. This precaution may save many a fishing trip from failure and much valuable equip* ment AAA Spinner Combination T HE FLY-AND-SPINNER combi nation is a deadly fish-taker, but many anglers fish it too rapidly for best results. The spinner should be startec moving immediately aft er the cast, but only for a couple of feet. It should be permitted to set tle in the water, then retrieved again. By working the spinner in a series of stop-and-go jumps, better success is likely to result than from retrieving the spinner at a steady gait III I II. II I !■ — MIRROR Of Your MIND ^ ^ V/ife-Dependency Shows Immaturity By Lawrence Gould Can a man stand being Answer: Yes, if he is very im mature— or exceptionally mature. A man who is so childish emo tionally that he prefers putting the responsibility for his life on his wife’s shoulders, even at the cost of having nothing much to say about it may be content to be known only as a famous or suc cessful woman’s husband; and so may a man so sure of the im portance of his own work that he does not care if nobody else rec ognizes it But the average male’s insecure self-esteem demands that everyone shall realize that he "wears the trousers.” ’ Do you “own” your children? Answer: Not in the absolute sense In which parents once did. For instance, the law, which once allowed a father to kill his child if be wished to. now forbids your treating a child with excessive cruelty, working him beyond his strength, or letting him grow up without an education. It may even “his wife’s husband”? take your children from you if you are declared unfit to rear them. And you cannot own them psy chologically, either. You can give them a chance to develop or large ly deprive them of it, but you can’t prevent their being themselves and not copies of you. Are only children likelier to be delinquent? Answer: No, reports Dr. William W. Wattenberg, Wayne University (Detroit) psychologist. Study of tiie records of 2000 juvenile offend ers shows that only children are but half as likely to become de linquent as children with brothers or sisters. But—also contrary to the general impression—tho only child is as apt as any other to be come a member of a neighborhood "gang.” While the causes of de linquency are complex, only chil dren are less often victims of the most important of them—the feel ing of being unloved and ne LOOKING AT Old Half Dollar Commemorates The Old Spanish Trail half lar of 1935 commemorated 400th anniversary of the first over land trek on land that now is part of the U. S. The expedition, heading -—- ward through the gulf states and ending in what is now El Paso, was organized by Cabez de Vaca, a Spaniard, in 1535 in St. Augua- tine, Fla. The 10,008 halves of this spec! Series were struck at the Phils ’ phia mint in September, 1935, they were distributed at $2 eacl the El Paso Museum commit with the profit furthering the l seum. L. W. Hoffecker, El Paso collector and later president of i American Numismatic as tion designed the coin. Edmi Senn prepared, the models. I” trsdt of de Vaca is known the explorer's name means of a cow,” this device .was < for the obverse (heads) of thej The words include Liberty// Nunex Cabeza de Va( **“ States of America/E Pli um/Half Dollar. On the other side is a in full bloom supei a map showing the route through Florida, A Mississippi, Louisiana and the dates 1535-1935 and El Paso/Old Spanish We Trust. Novelty of the design wide comment at the ers charge up to $12 for today. ' / other ROBABLY THE FIRST CENSUS EVER TAKEN WAS THE DIVINEL/ DIRECTED NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AFTER THEY HAD REACHED SI IMA I (ex:38:2iX AT THAT TIME THE NUMBER OF MEN 603,550. KEEPING HEALTHY | Infected Teeth Cause Many Diseases By Dr. James W. Barton While it is true that many special ists in rheumatism and arthritis do not blame all such cases on in fection-teeth, tonsils, gums, sin uses—most physicians in treating rheumatic patients look first at infection, becaue it is the common est cause. A patient consulted bis physician for pain in his knee which grew worse at night. The physician said that joint pain, worse at rest, was usually a sign of infection, and so suggested X-ray of teeth. The patient had two molar teeth removed and stormed back to the physician stating that his rheuma tism was more painful than before. The physician assured him that this was a good sign and that the in creased pain might be present for several days at least. When infected teeth are removed there Is bound to be some tearing of tiny blood vessels and through these torn vessels poisons from the in fected teeth get into the blood ves sels. This actually increases the infection of the entire blood. The general infection not wily in creases the already infected Joint but may start infection in one ot more of the other joints, which la why this patient found himself in worse shape immediately after tha infected teeth were removed. A short time ago I wrote that the fact that infected teeth caused rheu matism was thought to have been discovered about 30 years ago, but about 100 years ago. Dr. Benjamin Rush, after whom Rush medical coUege is named, reported a case of rheumatism of the hip joint fol lowing the extraction of infected teeth. Remember, rheumatism Is only one of the conditions or diseases caused by infected teeth and ton sils. Some years ago it was found that inflammation of the nerves, the lining of the heart and kid neys, the eyes, were often caused by infected teeth. Anemia, thin blood, tiredness are other ailments often caused by infected teeth. Don’t wait to have any of the above conditions occur. The X-ray tells the story. Get rid of your in fected teeth before trouble starts. \! v Tasty, toasty, crisp to the Swell eonree of energy...! vitamins, minerals and prot hi the bargain. Nobody can n the "Snap I Crackle I Poi of Kellogg’s Rice Krispiee. it’s as simpl* at thl with Better caps A M “.VetM S Tt'Ay I. Quality steal—Resilient heavy «««•.»• weskenlae emboeelns e* S. Extra coating—Third seat feed acid resistant enamel on *oM lee- In the final stages of alcoholism, there Is a change in the chemistry of the blood similar to that found in Addison’s disease—a decrease of the sugar and salt of the blood. see A lot of time of suffering can be avoided by having the physician examine the child and have B talk with the parents as to their own and the family’s history of allergy. Patients fearful of their high blood pressure should be given the greatest encouragement, emphasis ing the improvements in the pa tient’s condition and belittling tha possibility of non-improvement. • • • It thin, get outdoors mart a«d eat good nourishing food. 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