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EASTER STORY
Ritual Centuries Old A
gaia PerfoUimed By
Brotherhood.
SANTA FE, N. M-. April 24. -<
The plaintive tones of a flute
.lfide instrument sounded along
the foothills of northern New
Mexico yesterday summoning the
penitent brotherhood Los Her
manos Penitents to their tiny
chapels.
In those chapels, nightfall
bringsi-a re-enactment of the last
h'olirs of the agony of Christ,
ending the penitentes Lenten
activities.
Early on Good Friday a por
trayal of the tortuous journey to
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AND A WISH-FULL TIME TO ALL!
EASTER TIME—
Let your Voice say what your heart is feeling—in song this
Easter! Miay~we join In ycur deeprooted wishes for Victory
-iHuad add to. Vour prayers, our wish for everlasting peace.
We greet you feist Easter with bright hope in our hearts and
a resolution to carry through as before . . serving fee **y '
tkm to the best of our abilities . . . turning our efforts to'
fee quickest possible achievement of a peaceful world feat
will be guarded jealously by a more enlightened people.
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accompaniment of the pitero, an
instrument similar to 4 flute, and
chanting, the heavy wooden
cross will be carried from a
chapel to some secret spot.
The “Cristo,” fleeted by his
brother penitent*®, trudges the
stony path lugging his burden to
Calvary. *
Behind him trails the rank
and file of ILos Hermanos Peni
tentes. Yucca whips lash their
bare backs, and crowns of catus
thorns adorn their heads.
The penitentes are believed ta
1 have originated in the Third Or
der of St. Francis. The secret
society was established in New
| Mexico probably with the ar
! rival of Spanish colonists in the
late 16th century,
j Although little is known of
i their rites, which once centered
j principally around penance by
| flagellation, the penitentes to
day are credited with represent
! ing a sincere religious folk sur
vival.
Most of the membership is
Spanish-American, and its chari
ties among the remote native vil
lages in northern New Mexico
and Southern Colorado are le
gion.
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Middle East for the President.
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A BOMBER squadron drones
through the night sky over
| Germany. Somewhere in the utter
blackness below lies the target for
: tonight. »
A young navigator checks his in
struments. They tell him what he
cannot see —that the target is not
'far away.
Now to find it! Voices over the
communication system; crisp orders.
A flap opens and a thirty-pound ob
ject hurtles into the darkness be
low. Another follows. And an
other . . .
Moments pass. The bomber swings
aroiind. Suddenly, the blackness be
neath is broken by a burst of daz
zling light. A brilliant magnesium
flare sheds an eerie white radiance
over the checkered terrain below.
Unchecked, the flare would plunge
swiftly to earth, its bright light
quickly extinguished. But it falls
• slowly, drifting, its descent eased
by a small parachute. In its million
< andlepower glare the observer" sees
a railway yard, a factory chimney,
buildings like toy blocks.
Target has been located.
Tlie bombers make thejr runs.
From then on the night is a lurid
hell of bursting boipbs, crashing
nck-ack fire, billowing smoke and
flame The target is blasted into
destruction. *
Without the flares, the carefully
planned raid might have been a
failure. You can’t bomb what you
can’t see.
MADRY WILL RUN
FOR ROTARY HEAD
AT ROCKY MOUNT
Committees Appointed
Fdr District Conference
At Rocky Mount April
28-29.
ROCKY MOUNT, April 24.
Robert W. Madry of Chapel Hill,
director of the University News
Bureau, official news distribut
ing agency of the University of
North Carolina, and mayor of
Chapel Hill, is to be nominated
for governor of the 189th Dis
trict of Rotary at the annual
Conference to be held in Rocky
Mount April 28-29.
Roxboro Rotarians who. are
committeemen are R. L. Harris
and W. Reade Jones. Music will
be in charge of Mr. arid Mrs. W.
Wallace Woods*
Hal S. Orr, of Rocky Mount,
present District Governor, who is
iin general charge of arrange
ments for the conference pro
gram, which will draw represen
tatives from 51 clubs from High
Point to Manteo said that Madry
is the only nominee to be made
at the business session of the
conference.
Mayor Madry has been active
in Rotary for I£> years. He serv
ed as president Chapel
Hill club several years ago, and
during his administration Chapel
Hill won the District Governor’s
Achievement Award, presented
to the club making the best all
round record that year.
Publicity Chairman. ' «
He served last year as Publi
city chairman for the District
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W. C BULLOCK
The flares were made of Canadian
magnesium. The parachutes too
were Canadian-made—of rayon pro
duced front, the humble Canadian
spruce. •
Silk was once regarded as the
only material possessing the special
qualities required for parachute use.
A flare chute must have strength to
withstand the shock of a thousand
foot fall with the weight of a
thirty-pound flare. It must be per
meable to cushion its descent. It
must be water repellent. *
With Japan’s entry into the war,
, closing the source of silk supplies,
Canadian experts tackled the job of
developing synthetic silk, or rayon,
; as parachute material. Rayon from
Canadian spruce, subjected to a
, special resin treatment developed by
Canadian scientists, now fills the
! bill. Rayon has even been perfected
[ to replace hemp in making the
shroud lihes that hold the flare car
, tridge to the canopy. «
, The resin treatment was the out
come of many experiments to find
a method of overcoming the wet
. and dry strength of artificial silk to
I make it moisture-proof. Canada
( produced neither flares nor para-
I 'chutes before the war. Lacking silk.
) the new wartime industry might
have foundered had it not been for
r quick action in developing rayon as
i an efficient substitute. Incidentally
l the cost of the flare parachute has
beer: wived..
and as chairman for the On-to- I
Toronto ccmmittee which put on |
a campaign that resulted in an j
attendance of around 60 dele
gates at the International Con
vention.
He has been" director of the
University News Bureau for 20
years. Signal recognition of his.
ability as newspaperman and
publicist came several years ago
when he was elected president
of the American College Publi
city Association, the national or
ganization of college publicity
directors.
A native of Scotland Neck,
Mayer Madry is a graduate of
the Scotland Neck Graded
Schools, the University of North
Carolina, and the Pulitzer School
of Journalism of Columbia Uni-1
versity.
Be ok demand in England is up
150 per cent since the war start
ed.
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Comedians Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello, recently acclaimed
the nation’s No. 1 box office
champions, also hold an envi
able record for aiding tLe sale of
war bonds and war stamps.
Before beginning work on
their new Universal picture, Da
mon Runyon’s “It Ain’t Hay’,
coming Monday and Tuesday at
the Palace Theatre, the comics
visited 78 cities and 101 "war pro
duction plants in the. course of
34 days. .
“Reap Wild Wind”
DeMille’s 66th Film
“Reap the Wild Wind,” new
Paramount sea spectacle in
Technicolor, at the Dolly Madi- 1
son Theatre Monday and Tues
day, is the sixty-sixth full-length !
film made by Cecil B. DeMille, I
who is now celebrating thirty
years cf screen showmanship.
Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard
and John Wayne are co-starred
in “Reap the Wild’ Wind.” Fea
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I Lynne Overman, Robert Preston,
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