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YOU KWOW ' HOW/ HE MAKES, VTRACKS; >r?, MVEW-.^THlS IS I PAIKIT'N UE IS makikj'apatterm OF DOS TRACKS AU- OVER "TU ' UlklOLEUm LOllil By CHARLES SUGHROE TT Rabaul Cleans Up After Most Destructive Quake < Capital of New Britain in Zone Used to Shakes. Washington, D. C. ? Residents of Rabaul, New Britain island, in the southwestern Pacific, which was badly damaged by an earthquake, now are returning to the'r homes and resuming normal trade. The 5,000 inhabitants, of which 4,000 are natives, and the remainder whites, Chinese and Japanese, will be em ployed for days repairing buildings and clearing debris from the streets. "Rabaul, the largest town and capital of New Britain, is situated at the western end of the crescent shaped island, and is in a zone ac customed to earthquakes, showers of volcanic ash and devastating waves," says the National Geo graphic society. "But, unless the COOL AND SMART Transparent black organza, tucked in a plaid design, is cool and looks crisply smart in this little suit. Hie blouse top on the skirt is white organza and the slip combines black and white silk crepe. The halo affect hat is white pique with a black felt crown and bandeau of black belting ribbon. ?bocks and eruption* are extremely ?evere, the natives merely shrug their shoulders and go about their usual tasks undisturbed. Caused Heavy Damage. "The recent quake was so severe that residents fled to higher ground inland. Many buildings were de molished or their foundations were made unsafe by the quivering earth. Three thousand tons of pumice, blown by frequent explosions from the crater of a nearby volcano, cov ered some portions of the town a foot deep. And then came a great wave of sea water from the harbor whose bed had been raised by the seismic disturbance. Lack of water in the harbor temporarily left large cargo boats careened on mud banks, and an island, formerly low, rose to 60 feet above the water. "Such disasters are not new to Rabaul. Old residents recall that their town was somewhat similarly stricken in February. 1878. when an earthquake of major proportions shook it like a leaf in the breeze, a new island rose in the harbor, and a great wave swept inland. "New Britain, which is the larg est of the islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, lies about 50 miles off the northeast coast of New Guinea and like many of its neighbors in the southwestern Pacific, is of vol canic origin. Throughout its 370 miles of length, a high mountain range, with peaks rising to more than 7,000 feet, forms a lofty back bone. Cannibalism Once Rampant. 'The island is only a short dis tance below the equator and lush tropical vegetation blankets the mountains and valleys: but trade winds so temper the atmosphere for many months of the year that the climate is not oppressive. Seldom does the thermometer touch one hundred degrees. "While the greater portion of the island has been explored, civiliza tion, for the most part, has pene trated only a narrow coastal zone. The natives are Papuans who wear little more than a loin cloth and metal arm bands. Most of them are employed in gathering coconuts and cocoa. "Before white men established themselves at Rabaul and other towns on New Britain, the natives were cannibals, infamous among the early mariners for their treach ery and cunning. Tribes were con stantly attempting to annihilate one another. Even now there is some danger in traveling through villages of isolated tribes, although mis sionaries and agents of Australia, of which the island is a mandated territory, have made great strides in wiping out cannibalism. The un explored part of the island where cannibalism may linger is in the central part of New Britain; both ends of the island long have been dominated by Australian officials." Printing of Bank Note* Takes More Money Now Washington. ? Paper money costs more these days. To print a thousand sheets of Federal Reserve notes at the Gov ernment printing office now in volves an expense of about $97 In June. 193S, the cost was $86. Under Section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act the cost of issuing Federal Reserve notes must be met by the Federal Reserve banks. ? Electrical SIGHT ? WHERE MS, AND NOT FAILURE IN THE OPTICAL NERVES, ABE CAUSING BLINDNESS, SIGHT WAS BEEN RE STORED THROUGH ELECTRICAL STIMULA TION TO THE NERVE ENDS. WNU Seme*. AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENT1FACTS BY ARNOLD Dangerous PARACHUTES/] Bolivian aviators have FOUND PARACHUTES ALMOST useless. Much of the coun try BEING AT lijOOO FEET, THE AIR IS SO RARE THAT A PARACHUTE DESCENDS AT DANGEROUS SPEEDS. OUR YOUTH PROBLEM By LEONARD A. BARRETT In his little volume, "Good-Bye, Mr. Chips," James Hilton makes one of his char acters say, "Modern parents are beginning to demand some thing more for their three years' school fees than a few scraps of language that no body speaks. . . something be sides a factory for turning out snob culture based on money and machines." The month of June is known as the Commencement season. High schools, colleges, and universities grant degrees to thousands of our ambitious youth. It is truly an oc casion in which our young people, for a moment, occupy the center of the stage and are given a diploma as an educational credential. Com mencement time is truly a begin ning. The old has passed away; the freedom of academic life, a thing of the past; life with its chal lenge for youth to " make good" is beckoning. It is a strange bewil dering world into which the young IT WAS SO BIG President Roosevelt describing the size of his catch. A sculptured caricature by Jack Sparling, a twen ty-two-year-old cartoonist on the New Orleans Item-Tribune. The young artist presented his creation to the President at the White House recently. collegiate is ushered He feels that he is qualified to do a splendid piece of work. He may have specialized in some particular study, and this specialization causes the thermom eter of his ambition to rise to a higher level. He will make a name for himself. He will have a glorious career. He will succeed. But in spite of his adequate preparation, he finds the matter of "placement" much harder than he had imagined. While there is always plenty of room at the top, the pathway lead ing to the ladder's top is crowded, indeed, overcrowded with similarly minded youth. For the first time the youth realizes the ruthless eco nomic competition of the world. A cold impersonalism depresses his spirit, and his idealistic world be gins to totter. Unless he has re ceived m his long course of study something else besides "a few scraps of language," unless high school or college has been some thing more than "a factory for turn ing out a snob culture based on money and machines." the young person soon meets his "Waterloo." The greatest value of a college course is not what we leam or the culture we attain, but the wisdom of utility of knowledge and of self. Life is based on the trath af a saying of*a wire man of old: "Wis dom is Ike principal thing, there fore get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get nnderstandiag-" Our youth problem is not only the lack of proper discipline in many cases, which causes failure to meet the demands of a stern material istic world, but it is lack of balance in the economic system. There are too many efficiently trained young men and women for the number of available joba. Perhaps this can be explained partly by the fact that rJ~/o\itsQ>(\ofd rJ~fints y ' By BETTY WELLS y \/f AYBE you can't trip off to the ^ beach for a breeze, but don't let that stand in the way of you and comfort for the summer months. Mary T., one of our readers, has the right idea about that. She writes: "We don't have money to burn but we are determined to make our home as attractive as possible during the summer. I se lected the dining room for most of the improvements because it's the coolest room in the house. We've had a double window expanded into a French door so we can open the room right into the garden; not such a fancy garden, to tell the Maybe You Can't Trip Off to the Beach for a Breeze. truth, but pretty in a tangled over grown way. Our dining-room furni ture is colonial mahogany ? new, and we're very proud of it. The room itself is large with space enough for an old sofa and two mahogany Windsor rockers and an easy chair besides the dining furni ture. We're keeping these because they add such a lot of comfort to the room, but everything had to be freshened. "The walls were done over in white with light green woodwork and a very pale yellow ceiling. Then we got a green summer grass rug for the floor. The chairs in the dining set we slip covered in yellow rep. It took away the heavy dark effect of the furniture. The sofa and easy chair got slip covers, too, a fabric with green leaves on a white ground ? washable and com pletely shrunk of course. The employment has increased fourteen per cent over the low mark of de pression, while dividends have in creased fifty per cent. Until this spread can be more adequately ad justed, the problem will remain. Culture per se is glorious, but it too demands the right to earn daily bread. What is a job after all, but something someone else can do. But work: that is something to create. Let us have creative youth! e Western Newspaper Union. POTPOURRI Ferns There are aoout ?,u01j .species of ferns scattered throughout the temperate and tropic zones. They range from delicate plants re sembling moss to great trees. The latter, in South America and the Pacific islands, reach heights of forty or more feet. Geolo gists have proof that large sur faces of the earth were densely covered with ferns during the carboniferous period centuries ago. t Western Newspaper Union. Windsor rockers have pads of this same cool looking cotton print. We used pongee dyed yellow for cur tains, making them floor length and to draw back and forth on rings. The pongee hangs beautifully and seems so cool, yet it's bright and fresh looking. "You've no idea how much we enjoy this room during the dog days . . . it's so simple and seems secluded yet beautiful. In the fall, we'll bring back our old green broadloom rug from the cleaners and I'm going to have a flat weave mohair for slip covers on the sofa and easy chair, somethine in a floral with a coral ground. The din ing chairs will doff their slip covers and keep their regular coral velvet seats and the Windsors will have | coral velvet pads to match. That way the walls, woodwork and ceil ings can stay the same for sum mer and winter, for we expect to go back to the use of summer rug and -summer slip covers every season." ? ? ? A Definite Lift. Dining outside or dining in, a lady with a house does get tired of the same old table settings. It is al ways a little depressing to think of the gigantic task of planning three meals a day every day in the year, but we've found that if the settings of these meals are varied and in triguing, a lady gets a very definite "lift" and her meals take on glam our and piquancy. We don't know why, but summer seems to be the time when our "little gray cells" begin to perco late, and new and unexpected ideas for table settings come natural *o most of us. Just now we're terri bly excited about some linen cloths and napkins we've seen lately in gorgeous audacious colors taken from Chinese paintings ? mandarin red, old blue, moonstone gray and turquoise. Even the most mundane of hashes, if set on white plates against any of these rich colors would bring zest to jaded summer appetites. These cloths are surprisingly inexpensive and are made even more dramatic by a wide band of white around their borders. We'd like them par ticularly with white pottery plates and cups and a dashing arrange ment of the more flamboyant sum mer flowers. Perhaps you could mix black eyed Susans and baby's breath in a white bowl for a cen terpiece on the moonstone gray cloth. Or for a really exotic center piece, try cutting madonna lilies very short and allowing their creamy blossoms to float on the water's sur face in a low, square brass con tainer ? this would be lovely on the turquoise cloth. If you have lovely, spiky zinnias, their colors will give you all sorts of new ideas with your Chinese cloths. We'd like the deep red zin nias in a blue container on an old blue cloth. And, flamboyant dahlias will feel right at home if placed in exotic containers to grace any of these brightly colored cloths. e By Betty Wellm.? WNU Service. Plans Oakland-Moscow Flight Jimmy Mattern, of around-the-world flying fame, is planning a t... stop flight from Oakland, Calif., to Moscow. He will use a Lockheed twin-engined transport plane and plans to (tart about the middle of A ust. He is undecided whether to take a navigator along or rely on mechanical pilot, which frill be a feature of his new plane. "Way Back When By JEANNE JOSEF STALIN STUDIED KOK THE PRIESTHOOD \ 17 ITH what blindness do we at * * tempt to guide our children's footsteps in life, so often forcing on them an ambition o> our own! It might be laughable were it not so seriously in opposition to the man's own desires, but Joset Stalin was forced to attend the Tiflis Greek Orthodox seminary, because his mother wanted him to be a priest Young Stalin legally named Josef Vissarionovitch Djygashvili. did not want to be a priest Born in 1879 Joset was educated in the village school of Gori. Rus sia In his voung days he was a fighter who bore many a black eye. and he was somewhat of a bully, although he always displayed intel ligence ard character At the sem inary. he led the other students in plotting against the authorities, and local railway workers met in his I ? ? . 2 : ^ ? ' . i room Eventually, he was dis missed in disgrace. At the age of seventeen, he joined the under ground dock workers of Batum in a riot and, when the terrorist Bol sheviks were formed became active in their movement. While attend ing a Bolshevik party conference in Stockholm, in 1905, he met Lenin for the first time. Josef Stalin was arrested a half a dozen times, and exiled from Rus sia the last time *He changed his name reguiarly and returned again and again. With Lenin and Trotsky, he took over the government of Rus sia in October, 1917. After Lenin died in 1924. Stalin supporters ex iled Trotsky and through ruthless executions made Stalin dictator. Josef Stalin's life is hardly the kind of biography you would ex pect from a boy who studied for the priesthood. ? ? ? JOAN CRAWFORD WAS A TELEPHONE OPERATOR JOAN CRAWFORD'S life is an *-* example of a girl who bad tal ent, ambition and enthusiasm, but who might never have risen beyond an ordinary occupation without the necessary confidence to keep try ing. Joan Crawford was born about 1907 in San Antonio. Texas, daugh ter of a theater manager. Most of her play hours were spent playing "show," and she danced her way through many struggling years be fore a real opportunity came her way. At fourteen, Joan went to work as a telephone operator in Lawton, Okla. Then, she was sent to a convent in Kansas City, where she had to earn her way by acting as a kitchen maid and waiting on tables. After leaving college, Joan Crawford found a job in a Kansas r City department store as a stock girl at $10 per week, forking dur ing the day and practicing dancing at night. Finally a theatrical agent found a job for Joan in a show which failed a month later, leaving her stranded 300 miles from home. Courageous ly, she found job after job in cab arets and night clubs in Chicago, Detroit, and New York. She was working in a Shubert show, "In nocent Eyes," when a Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer executive saw her and signed her for pictures. Think of the troubles this girl had, the disappointments and struggles. Born in the atmosphere of show business, she was inspired from the time she could first toddle to find a 'place for herself in that glamorous life Then, circumstances took a hand and forced her into occupa tions that were far more on the side of drudgery than glamour. She plugged lines into a switch-board, washed dishes, swept floors, car ried heavy tray*, wrapped pack age* But through it all, the kept her confidence in heraeH ?- WNU Service IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL By REV. HAROLD L LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. C Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for August 8 GOD FEEDS A PEOPLE. LESSON TEXT ? Exodus 11:11-10; 17:1-1. GOLDEN TEXT ? Every good gift and ev ery perfect gilt is from above, and Cometh from the Father. James 1:17. PRIMARY TOPIC? When Cod's People Were Hungry. JUNIOR TOPIC? God reeding His Peo ple. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC? How God Provides for Our Needs. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC? Cod's Supply Adequate for a Nation's Need. Israel, led by God, is on a jour ney to the promised land. But to reach their goal they must pass through the wilderness. Not only are there weary miles to travel, but there are privations to be en dured. Life is like that. "People may be strong and hope ful at the beginning of a project, and most effusively and devoutly thankful at its close, but the diffi culty is to go manfully through the process. Israel was in the desert, and never were spoiled children more peevish, suspicious, and al together ill-behaved. If they could have stepped out of Egypt into Ca naan at once, probably they would have been as pious as most of us; but there was the weary interval, the inhospitable wilderness I So it is in our life. Accept it as a solemn and instructive fact that life is a process . . . more than a beginning and an ending" (Joseph Parker). Note how elemental are man's needs in the final analysis ? bread and water. The very things we take almost for granted as we concern ourselves with life's weighty inter ests and profound problems become, if lacking, the only things that have any real meaning. And who is it that can provide them? No one but God Himself. s UNDAy CHOOL I. Bread from Heaven. (Exod. 16:11-20). Observe first of all that this was a divine provision. There are re sponsibilities in life which we may bear ? and must bear, but in the ultimate meeting of our real needs we must look to God. Secondly, we note that it was a daily provision. What forehanded folk many of us are, and no doubt rightly so, for God puts no premium on improvidence. But once again we must recognize, as did Israel in receiving the daily manna in the wilderness that ours is indeed a moment by moment existence. We plan bravely for the next decade or the next generation, but as a matter of fact it can only come to pass "if the Lord will." Read James 5:13-17. Finally, it was a limited pro vision?enough for the day and no more, except for a double portion on the sixth day, and none at all on the Sabbath. These provisions were made clear to Israel, and yet there were those who attempted to lay up for the morrow, and some even went out to seek manna on the Sabbath day. We marvel at their stubborn ob tuseness, but are we not often just like them. Some there are who are always expecting that the laws of both God and man should be set aside tot them, but, mark it well, they ultimately come to grief. The spiritual application is obvious, and most serious. God has provided a way of redemption, and has made clear how man should and must relate himself to it. Folly it is to ignore God's plan. II. A fltck In the Wilderness. (Exod. 17:3-6). "And the people thirsted" ? for the daily manna was not enough ? they must have water. Needy, yes, con stantly needy are God's childrea. God always provides. There is a rock in the wilderness. But what pleasure does a murmuring people find in a rock when they famish for water? It is God's delightful custom to meet our needs in unexpected ways, and by means which we do not understand. Even our physical necessities come from un thought of sources. ill. The Bread and the Water at Life. Let us make certain that we do not miss the spiritual truth of our lesson wmch is revealed by Scrip ture itself. Paul speaks in I Corinth ians 10:1-4 of this very incident in the experience of Israel, and says that they "did all eat the same i spiritual meat and did all drink ? I the same spiritui.1 drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ." See also John 4:14. Hungry and thirsty soul, you who are still unsatisfied after tasting all that life apart from Christ has to offer, will you not, just now. take him who is the living bread, and come to the Rock which flows with ! living water? Bow to Keep Quiet Character is revealed by small things; it is also hidden by small things. Speech often hides it, and again distorts it, for those who brand themselves by the pettiness of their conversation have some times unsuspected depths within; but the surest revealer of character is silence ? intelligent silence. Progress No man who tec the worth and solemnity of wl*-' at stake will be carelcfs e? progress
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