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'Jkumhd about Sports Broadcasters. SANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Somebody said that there were always two big sporting events—the one Graham Mc Namee saw and the one that actually took place. But, alongside the present sports broadcasters, Graham's wildest flight would sound like the dulcet twit ters of a timid love bird as compared with the last rav ings of John McCul lough. Conches brag of the lowered percent age of serious foot ball accidents this fall. But oh, think of the radio descrip tionists who’ll wind up the season suf Irvin S. Cobb fering from nervous exhaustion, wrecked vocal chords, violent rush of loud words to the mouth, com plete collapse, even madness. You'll be passing the rest cure sanitarium, and, as the windows burst outward, you’ll hear pouring forth something like this: ‘‘Oh boy, boy! with one tremen dous burst, Irish Goldberg is jam ming his way from the red back line right through the black inter ference! Nothing can stop him!" But don’t get worked up. What you hear is merely a convalescent microphone orator mentioning a checker game between two fellow inmates and reverting to form. • • • Virtues in Snakes. COMETHING I said recently about ^ the folly of killing every snake on sight, without investigating the snake’s character, brought a flock of letters from readers who don’t like snakes. Even a so-called venomous snake may have his better side. In Kan sas, in the old local option days, you could get a drink only on a doc tor’s prescription, excepting in case of dire emergency, such as a snake bite. So every properly run drug store kept a rattlesnake on the premises to serve the citizenry. And the only time a drug store rattler ever refused to bite a thirsty stran ger was when he was all worn out from accommodating the regular local trade. And what thougn it was a snaxe that led Eve astray in the garden of Eden? He may have brought sin into the world, but wouldn’t we have missed a lot of spicy reading mat ter in newspapers if he hadn’t? Yep, I plead guilty to thinking an occasional charitable thought for any decimated and vanishing group. I feel that way about old line Re publicans and mustache cups and red woolen pulse-warmers. • • • Political Predictions. tit E TAKE the opportunity to an W nounce that the Literary Di gest, or rather its journalistic suc cessor, will not conduct a poll on next year’s congressional and state elections. The burnt child dreads the poll. Let others go around taking straw votes, but, the way the Digest folks feel now and, in fact, have felt ever since last November, they wouldn't start a canvass to prove that two and two make four. Because, look here—what if it should turn out that two and two merely make some more Marx brothers or a double set of Siamese twins? Anyhow, the business of basing cocksure predictions on half-cocked estimates doesn’t seem to be flour ishing these days. Figures don’t lie, but the citizens who furnish the figures may do so, either uninten tionally or just for the sake of a laugh. The rise of candid camerasa tionalizing—say, we just thought up that word—proves that a photo graph of things as they are is mightier than a lot of loose sta tistics predicated on what the vot ers may or may not do—and prob ably wor-'t, when the time comes. • * • Forgotten Stars. ONCE interviewers clamored for a hearing and her face was on half the magazine covers and her name in letters of flaming light above all the marquees. Once im pressive tycoons catered to her tem peramental whims; press agents waited upon her, courtiers attend ing a queen. Autograph seekers besieged her then, while now only bill collectors desire her signature —and they’d like to have it on a r'Aeck. Speak of her to the newer generation, and somebody will say, "Who? Spell it, please.” She is all through, all washed up. But, like the deaf nusband whose wife has slipped, will be the last person in town to hear the news. Having traveled a road which is sues mighty few round-trip tickets, she still dreams of a come-back. She is the most tragic and the most pitiable figure—and one of the commonest—to be found in this place called Hollywood. She is any one of the host, men and women, who, ten years ago, or even five, were glittering stars in movieland, IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright.—WNU Service. Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1_Nathan Straus, administrator of the United States housing authority, shown conferring with Mayor Fio rello LaGuardia about plans to spur home building. 2—Mahatma Gandhi, sixty-eight-year-old Indian nationalist leader, is greeted by followers as he arrives in Calcutta. 3—Cap*. George Eyston of London shown after he set a new world’s speed record of 331.42 miles per hour in an automobile on the Bonneville Salt Flats near Salt Lake City, Utah. WINS RECOGNITION John Holmes, who started with Swift & Company as a messenger boy 31 years ago and became presi dent of the company recently. He succeeded G. F. Swift, a son of the founder of the business, as execu- 1 tive head of an organization of 60,000 employees engaged in the dressing of live stock and nationwide distri bution of meat, poultry, eggs, but ter, cheese and by-products. Mr. Swift will continue active participa tion in the business as vice chair- ' man of the board of directors. His Honor Weighed in the Balance While a town crier stands by to announce the result, a police sergeant is shown weighing the new mayor of High Wycombe, England, A. J, Gibbs, in accordance with an ancient custom of the town. Trams Carry Fish Cargo An early morning scene at the Newhaven fish market in Edinburgh, Scotland, showing fish wives with their baskets of fresh fish, boarding a tram car to take them to the city. Meanwhile the passengers on the car sit unconcerned while the motorman aids his fares in loading the car. 2-Week-Old Baby Boasts 2 Teeth Mercedes Angeli of San Francisco had two teeth when she was born and now that she’s two weeks old ***w.;.... V,** ■% ••••••rr/T-r-: — they’ve grown to quite some husky molars, as this picture shows. And she takes the dentists’ suggestions, too, about using a toothbrush. Police Give John Barleycorn a Bad Day ..... New York police had a Roman holiday when they engaged in the wholesale destruction of bottles. Jars, kegs and cans «f liquor at the police department warehouse recently. The liquor was seised in raids ov long period. Here you see the fiesta at its height. UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUETf. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chlcafo. • Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for December 5 CHRISTIAN REST LESSON TEXT-Matthew 11:0-30; He. brews 4:1-11. GOLDEN TEXT—Come unto me. an ye that labor and are heavy laden, and X will five you rest.—Matthew 11:30. PRIMARY TOPIC—When We Are Tired. JUNIOR TOPIC—God’s Great Invitation. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC How Christ Gives Us Rest. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Christian Rest. "Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away,” so sang Isaac Watts in 1719. One won ders what he might say today! The mad rush el modern life—its relent less drawing of us all into its terrific tempo—leaves us distraught, nerv ous, overanxious. Nervous disor ders are on a rapid increase, even among children. The condition pre vails in the country as well as in the city, although it is aggravated in metropolitan centers. Let us lay down the burdens of the universe for a bit and counsel quietly about that almost forgotten Christian virtue, rest. Nowhere can the troubled spirit find calm of soul as surely and as quickly as in God’s Word—and in the One revealed there, for true rest is I. Found in Christ (Matt. 11:28 30). Rest for our souls is found not In the cessation of activity, but rather in joining with Christ as our yoke fellow and in going on with him in meekness and lowliness of heart. Most of life's restlessness is the re sult of pride, of driving ambition ta be somebody or to attain something. True humility removes all such dis turbing factors. But we do have a yoke and a bur den to bear. Yes, it is true that not all is easy in the Christian life. But as someone has suggested, the bur dens are like the burden of feathers on .a bird. They may seem to be too heavy for his little body, but as a matter of fact they are the thing he flies with! Such are the "burdens” of Christ. II. Received by Faith (Heb. 4:3). Those who believe enter into rest. Faith in God th;ough Jesus Christ brings a man into an abiding place that the storms of life may beat upon but can never move. Fair weather followers of Jesus who fall into a frenzy of fear and worry when sorrow or loss comes upon them need to learn to walk by faith. “Be not dismayed whate’er betide, God will take care of you,” is more than the picus expression of a hymn writer, it is a statement of fact. III. Rejected by Unbelief (Heb. 4:1, 9-11). The worst thing in the woria is unbelief — because it effectually closes the door to God’s blessing. Jesus could not do “many mighty works” in his home town of Nazareth “because of their unbelief’ (Matt. 13:58). Unbelief will keep us from the rest that God has prepared for his people, for it not only hinders men from coming to the Saviour, but keeps them from resting in him after they are saved. IV. Necessary to Useful Living (v. 11). Only when the follower of Christ appropriates that rest of soul which results from turning from his own efforts and trusting himself fully to Christ will there be that absolute surrender of every detail and prob lem of life to him which will bring out in daily living the glorious beau ty and power of a life at rest with God. A poem by Fay Inchfawn which has blessed the writer’s soul is here passed on, with the prayer that it may help you who read these notes: "Well, I »m done. My nerve* were on the rack. I've laid them down today: It was the last straw broke tb* camel'* back. I've laid that down today. No, I’ll not fume, nor fuss, nor fight; I’ll walk by faith a bit and not by sight, I think the universe will work *U right, I've laid It down today. ••So, here and now. the overweight, the worry, I’ll lay 1* down today; The all-too-anxiou« heart; the tearing hurry; m lay these down today. 0 eager hands. O feet so prone to run. 1 think that He who made the stars and sun Can mind tha things you’va had to leave undone. Do lay them down today." How true it is that we are prone to bear all the burdens of the uni verse when God’s Word has told us to cast all our care upon Him, for He careth for us (I Pet. 5:7). It is a powerful testimony for Christ when distraught and worry-ridden non-Christians see God’s children walking steady and true in the midat of disappointments, trials, and sor rows. And the opposite is also true, that failure to trust God is a prac tical denial of our professed faith. A Good Patriot To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God’s creatures, snd himself as account able for his acting towards them.— Bishop Berkeley. Dnty Duty—the command of Heaven, the eldest voice of God.—Charles Kingsley. Service All service ranks the same with God.—Robert Browning. Foxy Little Terrier For Tea Towels Terry, the Terrier, will dry youi dishes with the seme “punch” he displays when rolling glasses and hurdling silver. It will make your dish-drying a joy just to see his jolly self on the towels you use. These motifs require so few stitches, so little floss, they’re eco I_ nomical and ideal pick-up work. Single, outline and cross stitch make thi3 splendid embroidery for a gift. In pattern 5748 you will find a transfer pattern of six mo tifs averaging 8 by 8V4 inches; material requirements; color sug gestions; illustrations of all stitches used. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to the Sewing Circie, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. YOU CAM THROW CARDS IN HIS FACE ONCE TOO OFTEN WHEN von have those awful cramp*; when your mrvea are all on edge—don’t take It out on the man you love. Your husband can't possibly know hew you fed for the simple reason that be is a man. 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