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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.—The WPA barrel
isn’t like the widow's cruse of
oil in the Bible. They expect to be
scraping the bottom by next June.
Who gets fired
WPA Trouble and when is a
Shooter Finds naturally dis
Relief in Cloud* Messing prob
lem, falling
mainly on Dean Brimhall, trouble
shooter and handyman for the
WPA, who looks and talks like Sin
clair Lewis and who used to hunt
bears in Utah. Officially, he is di
rector of the section on employ
ment problems of the WPA, and
just now these problems loom up
like the peak range of his native
Rocky mountains,
s
‘ Ax-grinders, angry congress
men, union disputants, kickers,
fixers, Utopians, and what not
see Mr. Brimhall, and, when he
isn't taking this rap, he is ex
perting and editing administra
tion outputs on labor relations
and employment, making sur
veys on relief technique, or flying
in his own plane to some spot
where employment is ebbing. A
trap-drummer is just snoozing
along compared to Mr. Brim
hall. Merely getting a bear by
the tail was never like this. For
relief or nerve tension, he hops
into his plane now and then and
makes a getaway in the clouds,
which seems like a nice idea.
Reared in the Church of the Lat
ter Day Saints—his grandfather
trekked west with Brigham Young
—he was one of a group of twelve
Utah business men, Marriner Ec
cles among them, who craved New
Deal action for some of their ideas.
Six of them are still active. On
the side, he still maintains a live
interest in four different concerns—
an airplane company, a railroad
company, a lumber business and
extensive real estate interests. Og
den is his home town.
He hauled coal to pay for his
education at Brigham Young
university, and one winter he
maintained his family nicely
with a shotgun, hunting large
and small game. Under Mc
Keen Cattell at Columbia uni
versity, he studied experiment
al psychology and later taught
that subject at Columbia and
Brigham Young. He saw the
Wrights make their first Euro
pean flight and he has been in- •*
terested in flying ever since—
flying and hunting. On every
week-end and holiday he's high
in the sky, his plane poised and
pointed toward his beloved
Rockies. But there seems to
be no likelihood of his doing a
“wrong-way Corrigan.”
He says he still could get a living
with a shotgun, but instead of his
gun he has to shoulder the troubles
of citizens less versatile.
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npHE United States senate, pos*
sibly ‘‘standin’ in the need of
prayer,” does away with piece-work
supplication and puts praying on
. the regular
Senate, in Need, daily schedule.
Puts Daily Task Last year, the
On Its Chaplain occasional
prayers by the
official chaplain, the Rev. Ze Bar
ney Thome Phillips cost the govern
ment $420 a prayer. Now the rate
for each will be about $16, as Mr.
Phillips gets $1,680 a year.
The change was brought
about by a resolution by Sena
tor Neely, by which the senate
will "be opened by prayer on
every calendar day, instead of
only on “legislative” days as in
the past. The latter are a fic
tion by which the senate may
free itself from things diurnal,
as effectively as did Joshua.
But, since the senate is entitled
to a good prayer on every real,
not figurative, working day, it
is going to get it. Possibly as
a tribute to Chaplain Phillips'
prayers, the vote on Senator
Neely’s resolution was unani
mous.
While both parties in the senate
have on many occasions claimed
divine guidance and inspiration for
their side, Mr. Phillips, although a
Republican, appointed by Calvin
Coolidge in 1927, has been strictly
non-partisan. He is a distinguished
Episcopalian clergyman, rector of
the Church of the Epiphany of
Washington, and has discharged his
office with simple eloquence and
dignity.
Chaplain Phillips, 63 years
old, is a native of Springfield,
Ohio, educated at Wittenberg
coUege and the General Theo
logical seminary. He engaged
in special studies at Oxford in
1916 and 1911 and has served
pastorates la Cincinnati, Chi
cago, St. Louis and Philadel
phia. His children are «»»—^
Faith, Deacon and Sallie Hews.
• Cop*°H&?frd<,N**f» Featuiaa.
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Star Dust
^ King Tyrone Off the Air
Joan Signs for 5 Years
★ Fan Gets New Illusions
— By Virginia Vale —
THERE’LL be no more Ty
rone Power on the radio,
by order of his boss, Darryl
Zanuck, production head of
Twentieth Century-Fox. Mr.
Zanuck made this announce
ment as a result of pro
tests from theater exhibitors
against too many appear
ances of screen stars on radio
programs. Mr. Zanuck stated
that he had no quarrel with
radio, but that the stars were en
dangered because it was so difficult
tp get adequate material for those
weekly appearances, especially
since it must be new.
So Tyrone, recently elected king
of the movies by some 22,000 news
paper readers, had to go off the air.
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Joan Blondell has tied up her
future again, so far as making
Joan
Blondell
movies is couceiriieu.
She’s signed with
Columbia to make
two pictures a year
for five years, and
starts the ball roll
ing with “Good
Girls Go to Paris,
Too,” originally
scheduled for Jean
Arthur. It’s said
that Columbia want
ed to borrow her for
that one some
months ago, and
that Warner Broth
ers' refusal to lend ner was at least
partly responsible for her winding
up her contract
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“Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs" will be retired from cir
culation the first of April, after
breaking records in every impor
tant city all over the world, and will
probably be re-issued again about
this time next year. It cost $1,700,
000 to make, and will gross about
eight million. It played in 41 coun
tries, and was the first sound pic
ture to be translated into a “talking
book" for the blind. And “Dopey**
got more fan mail than all the other
characters put together.
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When Madeleine Carroll paused
recently in New York on her way
from Europe to Hol
lywood she shat
tered one movie
fan’s illusions. The
movie - mad girl
went to a smart
night club, and dur
ing the course ol
the evening noticed
a rather buxom
young lady who
danced every dance
with great enthusi
asm. She had on
rather dismal look
ing gun-metal col
Madeleine
Carroll
ored hose and very flat shoes, re
ported the movie fan. Decidedly
not smart. But her hat was an un
copyable French bicorne, and the
collar of her suit marked it as one
of the latest efforts of a famous
French modiste.
Suddenly the rather buxom young
lady smiled, and the movie fan
wilted. She had recognized Miss
Carroll—and had learned that movie
stars, when left to their own de
vices, aren’t always as smartly
dressed as they are on the screen.
Incidentally, the next Carroll pic
ture is “Cafe Society,” and jthe one
after that is called “Air Raid,” and
is the story of two young people
caught in a city in the war zone.
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Hollywood has to be awfully care
ful about these war pictures. In
“Idiot’s Delight,” for example, Es
peranto was used instead of Italian,
French or German, just to avoid
the danger of angry protests from
foreign governments. When it was
done as a play no such precaution
was taken. 1
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When fame begins to come to a
radio performer it certainly comes
fast. Kay Kyser, the orchestra
leader, wasn’t particularly well
known even so recently as a year
ago. Now he’s so well established
at the top of the ladder that when
he signed recently to appear with
his band at a New York movie
house the contract called for a sal
ary of $12,500 a week—an all-time
high.
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Want to know what sort of thing
is likely to trouble big executives?
It seems that there were weeks of
huddles over the title for Raymond
Paige’s new program. It was to bo
called “100 Men and a Girl,” and
Paige had 100 men in his band,
and the girl was Hildegarde and
everything was fine. But Universal
owned the title—remember the pic
ture by that name? Eventually
somebody thought Up “99 Men and
a Girl,” and after more indecision
because that was pretty close to
the original it was cleared.
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ODDS AND ENDS-Phil Baker’
sponsor has never seen either Baker o
the cast of hit 'radio program, so th
broadcast is to be shifted to HonoluL
for a time ... Edgar Guest and Andr
Kostelanetz, the orchestra leader (an,
husband of Lily Pons) are coUdbom
tng on a song.
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BRAZILIAN DIPLOMAT
Recently arrived in Washington is
Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian for
eign minister, whose visit to this
country is expected to have signifi
cant results in examination of mutu
al economic and defense problems.
Expected results are: (1) U. S. finan
cial assistance to Brazil; (2) redivi
sion of the world’s cotton market;
(3) increase in sales to Brazil; (4)
examination of defense problems.
Desert Sun Bathers Enlist Science
Sun bathers at Palm Springs, Calif., have enlisted the cause of
science in their behalf. The boxes enclosing their heads are made from
sea shells, and are Said to permit only beneficial rays of the sun to
pass through them, protecting the shapely bathers from an overdose of
the heplth-giving sunshine.
And How Do You Look While Sitting Down?
If ladies must smoke they should be graceful about it. At least according to models in Mme. Frances Dela
Fortrie’s Hollywood School of Modeling in Philadelphia. Mildred McCue (left) and Dorothy Mitchell teach in
one easy lesson how to become a horrible sitting example. The awkward position of the feet, the stocking
not drawn taut, and the clumsy, messy way of lighting a cigarette, combine to detract from personal charm.
Pictured at the right is the correct way of sitting, and the graceful way of lighting a cigarette.
World’s Fair to Feature Court of Peace
A colorful part of the New York World’s fair of 1939 is the foreign
nations and federal government zone area where the twin-towered Federal
building and exhibitions of 62 nations center on a seven-acre Court of
Peace. The $155,000,000 “World of Tomorrow" exposition will open April
30 as the host city makes lavish preparations to entertain millions of
visitors during the coming summer months.
MILITARIZE ccc?
John Chrosniak, lieutenant colonel
in the United States army reserve,
is president of the newly formed
American Conservation association,
a group making an effort to organ
ize the Civilian Conservation corps
on a permanent basis, fully officered
and supervised by reserve officers
on permanent detail. If the associa
tion's efforts are successful, the new
group will add another pressure unit
in the political scene which might
easily rival the widespread influence
of the American Legion.
Kentucky Floods Win Race With Control Project
Ait outboard motorboat furnished transportation to these searchers la the finnitnd Sn^ntii l — --a
Middlesboro, Ky„ after the town waa Inundated by February moanUta irrenf me nooST^Tb^l^.^
dlesboro’s WOO.OOOBood e.ntrnl .ov.rnment project cEZib. compESd/ .Ull^S.^5
exaosure. Untold damages resulted la the stores and shops. “ 99m
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| SUNDAY
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LESSON -:
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. Di
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for February 26
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
PETER IN SAMARIA
LESSON TEXT—Acts 8:14-25.
GOLDEN TEXT—Come ye, buy, and
eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.—Isa
iah 55:1.
Commercialism certainly should
have no place in the Christian
Church. But in an age that will
even commercialize a man’s love
for his mother, it is small wonder
that the great holy days of the
Church—Christmas and Easter—
have become the special object of
profit-seekings purveyors of every
thing from hats to whisky. New
Year’s day. Thanksgiving day,
Mother’s day, Father’s day, any day
at all, becomes just another oppor
tunity to take a man’s money, waste
his time, and possibly to destroy
his soul. It is high time that intelli
gent folk make effective protest
against such perversion of sacred
things.
The Scripture lesson for today
tells of one who went so far as to
try to buy the power of God for mon
ey, that he might use it to get gain
for himself, failing to realize that
the power of God is a gift and to be
used only for His glory.
I. Spiritual Power—the Gift of
God (vv. 14-17).
The Holy Spirit who is the third
person of the blessed Trinity had
called Philip, a layman, and sent
him forth to preach in Samaria.
Men and women were converted,
and when the church at Jerusalem
heard of it, they sent Peter and
John to give counsel and help to the
new converts. Through the laying
on of hands these received the gift
of the Holy Spirit even as we now
receive Him the moment we believe
on Christ
What a glorious truth it is that
the believer is indwelt by the Holy
Spirit (I Cor. 6:19). Thus even the
humblest believer has in Him the
One who redeems many gives grace
for holy living, and empowers for
service. The greatest power in all
the world is consequently available
to every true and yielded believer.
Gone then are all excuses for weak
and careless living. Gone is every
ground for claiming that one can
not serve God. The power and
grace are His, and He gives them
to His followers as a gift. Christian
friend, are you giving the Holy
Spirit of God liberty to infill and
use you as He will?
n. Spiritual Power—Not for Sale
(w. 18-24).
Men who put their trust in money
are prone to think that one can buy
anything. They say with Walpole,
“Every man has his price.” But
they are wrong. There are men
and women in the world who can
not be bought, and it is even more
certain that the best things that life
can give a man have no price tag
on them—a mother’s love, friend*
ship, fellowship with God, the Holy
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others are not for sale.
Simon, a professed believer, rec
ognized that these followers of Je
sus had a great power which he
thought to buy for his own business
as a magician. His was a very gross
and blatant effort to do what many
have done in the Church, and are
croing today, by more skillful asiti
sometimes by under-cover methods.
There are those who by holding the
purse strings seek to control the
message of the preacher, or who use
their financial influence to obtain
control of church organizations and
institutions. Their efforts are
doomed to ultimate failure, but the
present harm they do to the cause of
Christ is appalling. Many a church
and pastor would be far better off
if they could rise up and say with
Peter, “Thy money perish with
thee.”
III. Spiritual Power—for Testi
mony (v. 25).
Peter and John set the Samari
tan believers a good example by
permitting the Spirit of God to use
them to testify and preach the Word
of the Lord in many villages. The
Holy Spirit does “not speak of him
self,” but guides the believer “in
all truth” (John 16:13), and His
primary ministry is to glorify Christ
(John 16:14). It follows that the
outstanding mark of a Spirit-born
and Spirit-filled believer is his de
sire to speak of and to glorify
Christ
Such a testimony will be “not in
words which man’s wisdom teach
eth, but which the Holy Ghost teach
eth” (I Cor. 2:13), and will bear
fruit for eternity.
A Common Adversary
Much contempt and hatred to
wards erring humanity would be
averted — and instead compassion
would be excited—if we kept con
stantly in mind the humbling
thought that we have the same com
mon adversary! Indeed, such real
ization would elicit prayer in lieu
of caustic criticism.
Simple Things
ThereJs a sort of wealth in the
ability to find happiness in simple
things like books, birds, flowers anc
friends, that cost nothing.—Vintoz
A. Holbrook.
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mers or itinerant players in I*
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village during Lent playing*
drama based on the history*
Montezuma. Dressed in fantasH
Indian costumes and carrying*
ties as their orchestra, they*
tray the desertion of his people*
Montezuma, his luring backbyl*
smiles of Malinche, the final*
union of king and people, and*
killing of El Toro (the bull),*
source of all the misfortune. 1
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