The Hitch in It?
"Marriage," says a writer, "is
the greatest university. Yes, a
university where a man loses his
bachelor's degree without getting
his master's."
An hduest (are is an unmixed
blessing. It gets its owner plagu'd
by eonndence men.
A Delightful Subject ?
The ideal companion is the one
who talks to you about yourself.
It might be possible for a innn to write
a sensible lore letter , but he seltlom
does.
Blestetl by Doers
The wuiiu is iiScSScu rr.oct by
men who do things, and not by
those who merely talk about them.
? James Oliver.
DON'T LET
CONSTIPATION
SLOW YOU UP
? When bowels are sluggish and you feci
irritable, headacny and everything you
do is an effort, do ns millions do ? chew
FEEN-A-MINT, the in "ern chewing
gum laxative. Simply ch?..v FEEN-A
MINT before you go to bed? sleep with
out being disturbed? next morning gentle,
thorough relief, helping you feel swell
again, full of your normal pop. Try
FEEN-A-MINT. Tastes good, is handy
and economical. A generous family supply
FEEN-fl-MINT"i'o<
Believe in Life
To believe in immortality is one
thing, but it is first needful to be
lieve in life.? K. L. Stevenson.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Crcomulslon relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and Did nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender. In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
(or Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Search Thyself
Search thy own heart; what
paineth thee in others in thyself
may be. ? J. G. Whittier.
BUNIONS
Got this quick relief. Lift#
whey* pressure, soothes,^
cuAiona tho sensitive^
spot. Costs bub a trifle.
Nation's School
The nation that has the schools
has the future. ? Bismarck.
YOU
WORK
TOO
HARD
but there"# no way around that
if you want to hold a job. If you
do not get enough Vitan.in Bl
and Iron in your regular diet,
and your appetite needs en
crmrnirrTnent, try VINOL. Your
druggist hat this pleasant-tast
ing tonir.
Poor Worldlings
Much wealth, how little world
lings can enjoy. ? Young.
Horse Increases In Size
The horse has increased consid
erably in size since it has been do
mesticated by man.
Most Churches in Pennsylvania
There are more church buildings
fn Pennsylvania than in any other
state.
BARGAINS
? that wilt save you many a
dollar will escape you if
you fail to read carefully and
regularly the advertising of
!ocal merchants ? ? ?
Washington, D. C.
AN INSIDE STORY
Here is the inside story on what
happened in all the fuss and furore
over the Free French seizure of the
two tiny North Atlantic islands of
St. Pierre-Miquelon.
The story illustrates a very im- j
portant point: That U. S.-British for- j
eign policy has Rot to pull closer to
gether in th" future, and that state
department officials might have
vmAighi twice "bo-!? planning Brit
ish policy in the face ? especially at
a time when Winston Churchill was
sitting in the White House working
on plans for closer Anglo-American
co-ordination.
The crux of the situation was that
the radio stations on these two
French islands long have been sus
pected of giving information to
Vichy? and then to Berlin ? on Brit
ish convoys crossing the North At
lantic: also on Britain-bound bomb
ers hupping off from Newfoundland.
French fishing vessels from St.
Pierre-Miquelon cruise all over the
Newfoundland banks and are in an
excellent position to observe Allied
activity iii u>ia vital part of the At
lantic. More recently, Nazi subma
rines have been prowling closer to
U. S. shores and it was suspected
they might be getting information ?
or even supplies ? from the fishing
vessels.
So the British gave the nod to
General DeGaulle to move into the
islands. In fact they even let his as
sociate, Vice Admiral Muselier, take
three French corvettes to do the
job. There was no great secret
about it, for Admiral Muselier
stopped in Canada to talk to Ca
nadian Naval Minister Angus Mac
Donald, and also picked up some
American newspaper men to wit
ness the taking over of the two is
lands.
?SO-CALLED' FKEE FRENCH
However, on the morning Admiral
Muselier placed the Free French
flag on St. Pierre-Miquelon, Secre
tary Hull, getting the news at his
breakfast table, hurried to the state
department and OK'd a scathing
statement, castigating the "so
called" Free French.
This upset the British considera
bly, because they had been encour
aging the French people to think of
the Free French not as a "so-called"
government, but as a government
more truly free and representative
of the French people than Vichy.
Also it upset the Jugoslavs, the
Dutch, the Greeks and a lot of oth
er "so-called" governments which
have been maintaining headquarters
in London and have been calling
themselves the real governments of
their countries ? even though in
exile.
However, Secretary Hall seemed
to be even more upset than the Brit
ish. He had made a deal with
Vichy's Admiral Robert in Marti
nique a few days before, by which
Admiral Robert was to keep an eye
on St. Pierre-Miquelon. And he felt
this agreement should be kept. So,
his Tennessee dander up, Mr. Hull
cabled U. S. Ambassador Winant in
London to take up the matter with
the British government.
Ambassador Winant, in turn, went
to Malcolm MacDonala, minister of
colonies, who was upset that the
United States and Britain should
be working at cross-purposes, and
telephoned his friend Lord Beaver
brook back in Washington to have
Churchill straighten the matter out
with Roosevelt.
By that time, Sam Reber, in the
state department, had telephoned R.
E. Barclay of the British embassy
wanting to know what the British
were up to, and every Anglo-Ameri
can co-ordinator seemed to b" in
every other Anglo-American coordi
nator's hair.
What the President said to his
secretary of state is their secret,
but in the end Mr. Hull adopted a
milder tone toward the Free French
and is working out a compromise
agreement with the Canadians.
The crux of the controversy, of
course, is that Mr. Hull still be
lieves in appeasing Vichy, and the
British gave that up long pgo.
The British say that General De
Gaulle did most of the lighting for
the Allied cause in Syria, while
Vichy, in resisting, killed many Brit
ish troops. So they are going to
stick with DeGaulle.
But whichever side is right? the
British or Secretary Hull ? it might
pay to work out some teamwork in
advance.
? ? ?
MERRX-GO-ROKND
Lend-lease officials were puzzled
by a British request for "horn and
hoof rr>??p!" frofii dead
cattle ? untu mey leameti it ex
cellent for extinguishing incendiary
bombs.
For Want of One
"I ttipiHtir ymt have a Rood excuse
for that black rvr?"
",Yo. If l\l had a kihuI excuse my
wife uouldn't have pirn me a black
eye.'
The only thins to do when a eirl
refuses to kiss you good night is
to try a little ardour.
The Barrier
Mr. Chuzz (her father) ? Is there
anything between you nnd ray
daughter?
Dolcini? Only you, sir.
COLDS' MISERY NEWS
DISCOVERY
from muse lea. Rub on Penetro as directed.
It s gone like vanishing cream. Helps two
ways? inside, by vaporising; outside, by
counter-irritatioo. Fur touiglit say Good
Night to colds^ miseries with Penetro.
Light From Unseen Stars
On a moonless night, the earth
receives more light from the stars
that cannot be seen by the unaided
eye than from those that are visi
ble.
Pull the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels, with
Ease for Stomach, too
When constipation brings on acid in
digestion, stomach upset, bloating, dizzy
spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste and
bad breath, your stomach is probably
"crying the blues" because your bowel9
don't move. It calls for Laxative-Senna
to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels,
combined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect
ease to your stomach in taking. For years,
many Doctors have given pepsin prepa
rations in their prescriptions to make
medicine more agreeable to a touchy stom
ach. So be sure your laxative contains
Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Caldwell's
Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pep
sin. See how wonderfully the Laxative
Senna wakes up lazy nerves and muscles
in your intestines to bring welcome relief
from constipation And the good old
Syrup Pepsin makes this laxative so com
fortable and easy on your stomach. Even
finicky children love the taste of this
pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Cald
well's Laxative Senna at your druggist
today. Try one laxative combined with
Syrup Pepsin for ease to your stomach, too.
Strike Ilard
The unforgivable crime is soft
hitting. Don't hit at all if it can
be avoided, but never hit softly.?
Theodore Roosevelt.
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Visible World
The visible world is but man
turned inside out that he may be
revealed to himself. ? Henry
James.
WHEN kidneys function badly and
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with doziness, burning, scanty or too
freauent urination and getting up at
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all upset . . . use Doan's Pills.
Doan's are especially for poorly
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2?42
mODERIUZE
Whether you're planning * party
or remodeling a room you should
follow lb* advtrtiiemrnt ? ... to learn
what'a new . . . and cheaper . . . and
better. And the place to find out
about new things is right here in
this newspaper. Its columns arc
filled with important messages
which you should read regularly.
'improved'
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD I. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for January 18
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Kehftlous Education; used by
permission.
JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JESUS
LESSON TEXT? Luke 1S-17. SI. SS.
GOLDEN TEXT? Thou art my beloved
Son; In thee I am well pleased.? Luke 3:23.
"A reed shaken with the wind?"
No. "A man clothed iji soft rai
ment?" No. "A prophet? Yea, I
say unto you, and more than a
prophet. For this is he, of whom it
is written. Behold, I send my mes
senger before thy face. . . . Verily 1
say unto you. Among them that are
born of women there hath not risen a
greater than John the Baptist."
Such was the testimony of Jesus
(Matt. 11:7-11) about the man who
in out lesson of today bears his tes
timony concerning Jesus.
I, John: the Preacher of Repent
ance (vv. 1-3).
The times in which ? man lives
will often make or break him. If
times are dark and difficult most
men submit to the burden of the day
without protest or effort. But not so
with John. The period in which he
lived is graphically brought before
us as we consider the names of civil
and religious leaders mentioned in
verses 1 and 2. Tiberius Caesar,
the emperor, was virtual dictator,
"talented, ambitious, cruel, licen
tious, infamous, inhuman" (Van
Doren). Pilate was the governor of
Judea, who later condemned Jesus
to the cross. Herod was a seducer
and murderer. Annas and Caiaphag
shared the infamy into which the
priesthood had fallen.
God needed a man with a flam
ing message of judgment, and He
had him ready out in the wilder
ness, far from decadent Rome and
spiritually dead Jerusalem. Upon
this man John came the message,
a word from God ? "Repent" ? which
stirred the whole countryside. But
he had even a greater mission.
II. John ? the Forerunner of Jesus
(w. 4-6).
He humbly identifies himself as
the voice in the wilderness prophe
sied by Isaiah. His was the impor
tant duty of preparing the way for
the coming of the Lord Jesus.
The picture is that of the prep
aration for the coming of an orien
tal monarch. When he "was about
to make a journey, a servant was
sent before him to prepare the high
way. Valleys needed to be filled,
hills lowered, crooked places made
straight, rough ways made smooth.
Thus, before men would be ready
to receive Christ, moral obstacles
must be removed, men must repent
of their sins and turn from them"
(Erdman).
Isaiah says that "all flesh shall
see the salvation of God," some
thing which God has made possi
ble, but which we have not even yet
fully carried out. The gospel is uni
versal in its character ? for all man
kind. This prophetic word will, of
course, have its complete fulfillment
when the King comes to reign. Then
"they shall teach no more every
man his neighbor, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the Lord:
for they shall all know me, from
the least of them to the greatest
of them" (Jer. 31:34).
III. John? the Follower of Jesus
(vv. 15-17).
The humility of the man, his rec
ognition of true greatness in Christ,
his willingness to efface self, is seen
in the words of these verses and in
such other passages as John 1:29
30, where he directed his disciples
to Jesus, whom they followed, and
John 3:26-30, where in response to
the effort to make him jealous of
Jesus because his (John's) disci
ples followed Him, John replied,
"He must increase, but I must de
crease." He was glad to be the
friend of the Bridegroom who re
joiced when the bridegroom came
(John 3:29). He declared himself
unworthy to loose the latchet of
Christ's shoe (Luke 3:16).
As he put himself in the back
ground, John put Christ forward as
the one whose baptism would not be
a material element, water, indicat
ing the inward change of repent
ance, but would be with Holy Ghost
flre, cleansing and transforming life.
However, the Christ who comes as
? Saviour to the repentant one,
comes also as the flaming fire of
judgment upon the impenitent.
There is wheat and chafT in tb?
world of men, and the fan of Christ
will soon separate the wheat which
goes into His eternal gamer from
the chaff which He will bum wiJi
unquenchable fire.
ABOUT WOMEN
' ? (HE brain women never In
? terest us like the heart
women; white roses please less
than red. ? O. W. Holmes.
In women is all truth and
steadfastness. ? Chaucer.
Woman is a charming crea
ture. who changes her heart as
easily as her gloves. ? Balzac.
Worn f-n can less easily surmount
their coquetry than their passions. ?
La Hirchrfoticauld.
It has been said that no one
can minister to a mind dis
eased like a mother. ? James
Grant.
To be womanly is the great
charm of woman. ? Gladstone.
I
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Reward Is Sweet
Patience is bitter, but its fruit
sweet. ? Rosseau.
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The Quints have always had expert
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Adversity is the path of truth. ?
Byron.
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