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ANNUAL MESSIAH . . . For 64 years the singing of Handel's "Messiah" by the Bethany College Oratorio society has been an annual event at Lindsborg, Kan. The 182nd rendition this year will be given on Sunday, April 14, and the 183rd on Easter Sua day, April 21. Dr. Hagbard Brase, who has been the conductor since 1915, will again direct the chorus of 500 voices and orchestra of 65 pieces. Oldsters, Aged 80 to 100, Make News the World Over Life may begin at 40, but the centenarians are crowding into the news all over the world. They just won't take a back seat for youngsters any more! Medical science is saying that lon gevity is increasing, and the news columns bear it out. ttecenuy a snumeboard tourna- ' ment was held at Daytona Beach, FLa., for octogenarians. Sixteen players, with their ages account ing (or 1,367 years of living, com peted. All were'over 80 years old. At Caetbeu. Maine, Jeremiah CatnpbeMon, who will be 107 years old nest August, is again fit as a Addle after falling down a flight of stairs at his daughter's home re cently. From Moorland, Ind , comes a re port of a blind man, 99 years old, who operates a farm alone. He is David Rhoades, who guides himself to the carpenter shop, bafti and gar den by kinky hay wires which he han strung up. "I like to be kinda independent," he says, blinded for the past 16 years. Jast Like a Woman! Exercising her womanly preroga tive, Miss Siobella Shepherd of Rhud dlan in Flintshire, England, insists that she is only 106 years old. But pension officials say ? outside Miss Shepherd's hearing?that she is real ly 111. The Rev. Theodore B. Farry, totally deaf, recently spoke at the Jopiin, Mo., First Methodist church an the eve of his 100th birthday. His subject was "A Clean Life as Kxernplifh-d by Daniel." In Warren ton. Ore., modern ma i Aiassypi lived the downfall of Clar ence OQiayt, who died from auto cisUb bjsras at 101. After being atrwafc doom, however, he battled grimly tor M days before giving up. Each day's news carries its stories at older people who have found that 80, or 90, or even 100 years is not so unusual today as it was a few decades ago. f* AN Baseball Teams Ta Be 1946 Champs, Predtctwns Show By Store Edwards mm Sports They're all pennant winners and world's champions this year ? the Cubs, Cards, Browns, Tigers, Yankees, Braves and all the rest. Anyway, that's what the managers and players are talking now. Charito.Grtmpn declares the Chi cago Cuba have the pennant spirit again. He detfaies he's never seen a "bunch of more hustling, aggres sive, competitive players'' than the Cuba ere in practice. Mart Cooper ot the Boston Braves saye his wiag is in great ahape after having 10 bone chips removed from the right elbow. "Feels the best it haa In five years," he declares. In fact, the Braves are said to look like a fast, cocky crew in their warm-hp games. The Philadelphia Nationals have a few predictions too. "We're comin' up out of the cellar," Manager Ben Chapman avers. He expects Frank MdCtiHHfCk, tus flrsi baseman from Cincinnati, to clout around 20 home runs. He Bgurea Jim Tabor, his third honeman from the Boston Red Sox, far another IS, sod Ron Northy, his rlgto flakier, and Vince Di Maggio, center fielder, for from IS to 20 bomeruns apiece. Naturally, the St. Louis Browns ex pect another pood year, and the Car- 1 dinala are pretty sure of one. James J. Dykes, manager of the Chicago White Sox, has a string of M ath letes (he says), including pitchers, which will make his outfit a for midable one. Poor old Joe Louis! The sports writers are accenting the "old" whan they talk about him. Many ars-wraditttod that he can't possi bly win bis bout with Billy Conn. "DwVP tte^uf(f> the ydats, since Jolhi L. Bolfivaa took the heavy weight crown from Paddy Ryan, in only four ansae has an older man beaten a younger one for the cham te* miia nut. Bnt *W' Jns goes his unhurried jMMMMMfld-way. Ma>rb* 'OsWs Aviation notes ?STINSON VOYAGER 150' IS NOW ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE Production of the four-place "Voy ager ISO" has begun at the Stinson factory, Wayne, Michigan. Exhaus tive tests, including hundreds of hours of cross country flying, were given the plane by experienced pilots. Among the performance tests giv en the "Voyager 150" prototype was for high altitude operations in the Rocky mountains in Colorado. These tests were made at Creede, Colo., where the airport is 8,700 feet above sea level, the highest CAA designated field in the United States. In repeated takeofls carry ing a capacity load of four passen gers, the "Voyager" was always air borne in less than 1,350 feet. Powered by a 150 horse-power Franklin engine, the postwar "Voy ager" cruises at 125 miles an hour and has a range of 500 miles. ? ? ? Will Racers Field Will Rogers field at Oklahoma City has been chosen as the loca tion for several important CAA activities. Among the units to be moved there are the standardization center, general aircraft mainte nance base for the midwest, and the signals division school. Will Rogers field was chosen because of its convenient geographical location, good airfield facilities, excellent fly ing weather and availability for cen tralization of all CAA training activi ties, T. P. Wright, CAA administra tor, stated. SPIN-PROOF . . . The Ercoupe wai recently declared one of the safest planes to fly bacauae it la certified "incapable of spinning" by the CAA. Advocates Folding Wings Folding wings in personal planes "would save airplane owners $150 or more a year in storage charges and at the same time increase the airfield owners' income," John H. Geisse, assistant to the administra tor for personal flying equipment, CAA, recently stated. With folding wing planes, the cost of hangar construction per plane would be cut two-thirds or more, Geisse believes, and the number of planes which could be accommodated at a am all airfield greatly increased. ? ? ? Lnscombe Silvalre in Service Jimmy O'Neill, former vet and now manager of the Fair Haven, Vt., airport, recently flew a Luscombe Silvalre from Texas to place It on display at his field. ? ? ? If in taking off, your ears pop, open your mouth for a little while. ? ? ? GIVES UP MAJORS FIELD Majors Held, used during the past four years to train American and Mexican flyers, has been trans ferred With all its facilities to the city of Greenville, Texas, for use as a city and county airport. ? ? ? Ike Fly lag Mereals Missis Pat and Otoria Moroni, sla ters, are often seen flying aro?xad the Marlon, 111., airport. Pat recent I , . _l ^ 1 BLOSSOM TIME ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON . . . While man; parts of the nation were still covered with snow, blossom time came to Washington. For years one of the show features of the national capi tal has been the blanket of blossoms from the thousands of trees on C 'ernment grounds. 'CONNIE' TEACHE8 YOUNG FAN . . . Jimmy Smith, S. West Palm Beach, Fla? takes a "lefty" stance at the plate under the watchful eye of that grand old man of the diamond, "Connie" Mack, at Wright field. West Palm Beach, where the Philadelphia Athletics are being trained by Manager Mack. "Connie" never refuses the request of any youngster to show him how to play baseball. Many kids owed their start to the veteran. HI-HO SILVER?AWAY . . . Kenneth Hayes, 8, New York City, going to town on a ralloping horse in bronco-bus tine style at the 43rd American Toy fair. The largest show erer held, is showing 1M.888 models made of rubber, steel, plasties and other products. BIO POOD THREE OPEN TALKS . . . Herbert Heaver. termer President et the P. Read World War I IMS edmlnUtrmtor, bow war vtetfcas, la Ami Beaten lit with CUataa Aadereaa. eecretary at atilaaMaie, aad tbidir Dm via. eaater, ehaifaa at the FUihe KwiHiaii) iibimIiiIib, right, aa they aut at the agriealtare de JOE CROWNS QUEEN ... Joe DiH>([io, New York Yankee baseball star, places crown on Sil via Sells, queen in the first na tional carnival celebrated in Pan ama City, Panama, in (our years. It was a legal holiday. WHERE'S MI PAPER ... The gentleman is "Kaiser Wilhelm II" who daintily laps up a bowl of milk at the home of Mrs. J. Levy, Great Neck, Long Island, then looks around for the morning pa per to read abont troubled world. INDONESIAN PRESIDENT . . . Although Dr. I. R. Soekarno served under the Japanese oeenpation, he has managed Jo retain his anthor ity over the 80,004,604 Indonesians. Be is nationalist leader as well as president. PAl'LET WITHDRAWS . . . The nomination ol Edwin W. Pauley, Beverly Hills, Caltf., as undersec retary of navy, was withdrawn by President Truman, when it be came apparent that the oil man's nomination would be rejected. FARMER GENERAL ARNOLD . . . It's ? farmer's life for Gem. Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, re tired chief of the army air forces, who Is shewn at heme en his raneh near Saaema, CaRf. His ? ?J I ? . Kathleen Norris Says: The Woman Who Won't Forgive BeU Syndicate.?WNU Feature*. The goodness?just old-fashioned goodness?that is patient with a sometimes dis appointing husband, with exacting children, is what America so desperately needs now. By KATHLEEN NORMS Margery curry writes me from Plain field, New Jersey, that she wishes she could forgive a person who once has injured her. She says she is so made that she cannot, and that her married life is being destroyed in consequence. This is the purest nonsense. To assume that you "cannot forgive" an injury or injustice in this life is to proclaim your self a person of limited intelli gence, incapable of growth. Margery's story is that her hus band was deceiving her about mon ey for many years. For 14 years Bob sent $50 a month to an old wom an who worked for his mother as housekeeper, seamstress, nurse. When the old woman died Bob's of fice secretary commented to Mar gery upon Bob's generosity, and Margery hasn't "forgiven" Bob yet. She keeps a cool civility going be fore the children, but she has moved out of the room she and Bob have shared for 15 years, and as Bob says that unless this sort of foolish ness stops he'll get out for good,' matters have reached a serious point, and Margery, in floods of tears, has written for my advice. Trust Is Gone. "To think that while I was sav ing and economizing and doing without things," she writes, "Bob all the time was supporting an old woman who had no claim on him at all, and never saying a word to me of that extra $600 a year I He has been a good husband, and we have prospered; I thought myself, a few months ago, the happiest woman in the world. But now I teel that I never can trust Bob again, and what is love without trust? Unfortunately, I'm so made that I can't forgive. I'll bear any thing while people treat me fairly. But once I'm angered?good night!" What a strange thing is the smug ness of these wives who boast of their moral and mental limitations, who gloat over the jealousy or ex travagance or hot temper or the hardness of heart that "can't for give!" This is a form of child ishness that makes it hard for me to answer Margery Curry patiently. But I can tell you one thing, Mar gery, that unless we keep changing, growing, improving, we humans settle into fixed forms, and a part of us dies. When you say that you are "made that way" and that it's a characteristic of your family nev er to change or never to learn to forgive, or never to gain control of the hot temper of which you are all so secretly proud, or never to develop character enough to live within your income and pay your bills honestly?you are announcing that you are among the folk who are incapable of becoming civilized. Real women do forgive. Real women are ashamed of any such boast as that their tempers are un controllable or their jealousy too deep-rooted to be cured. Real wom en grow up. Civilization fat Peril. A good many thinking persons now are anxious about this tired old war-worn world, and with good reason. Unless we women learn to forgive and forgive and forgive, things will grow worse. Unless we leam to deal honestly with our lives, there is no hope for us. Un less we face our problems?each woman her own, and acknowledge them, and study them, and master them, with the good of our men and our children, our community and our God in mind, civilization win suffer a setback from which it won't easily recover. It is no longer a question of an individual woman saying that she can't do this and can't do that. The demand is for actual heroism?the heroism that sweeps aside slights and injustices with the magnifi cence of a strong character. The courage that endures duU days, monotonous dutjes, tiring responsi bilities because it is out of that quiet fidelity that a great nation is built. The goodness?just sheer old-fash ioned goodness that is patient with a sometimes disappointing husband, with exacting children, is what America so desperately needs now. What she needs now, as she need ed servicemen a few years ago, is an army of wives and mothers, each one capable of solving her own problem, and willing and eager to solve it, and by so much lifting the staggering load of the nation's anxieties and burdens. If instead of these courageous women she geta the Margery Curry sort, the whin ing crowd that "can't" forgive, can't live honestly, can't stand marital disappointments, can't put up with the everyday difficulties and disappointments of life, we are in a bad way, indeed. Stopping Bans In Rayon. That old trick of moistening a break to stop a run in silk hose does not work with rayons, because moistening weakens and stretches | the rayon and only encourages the . ? % run. The "run stop" preparations are better than sewing if the run is In a place where it doesn't show. They seal the threads so that the run doesn't get any bigger, and they have the advantage of not Interfering with the elasticity of the stocking. I Careful washing and drying will I prolong stocking life. V "Wt Mat Ian M /baglaa .. ACT MATURELY Mrs. Curry can't forgive her husband for deceiving her. The deception was this; Bob, who is a successful and dutiful husband, has been sending 150 a month to an old woman who was his moth er's nurse. He has been keeping this donation a secret for 14 years. What makes Margery so mad is to think that while she was skimping and saving, Bob was passing out this dole to a wom an who had no reed claim to it. But worst of all, the fact that she was kept in the dark on an im portant family matter for so long has shattered her faith in her husband. The old bond of faith seems to be ripped apart, and Margery cannot bring herself to face the situation. In all oth er ways Bob has been nearly per fect. The sudden discovery of this secret has ended Margery's happiness. Miss Norris replies that we must all forgive and forget. In this case it should not be so hard, seeing that Bob was acting from what he considered the highest motives?gratitude to his moth er's nurse. That he could not af ford this generosity is another matter. The real issue is wheth er Margery can act like a mature woman, and overlook a matter that, after all, is not very seri ous.
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