Thursday, September 9, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON Scenes and Persons in the Current News Way Back When By JEA N N E GARBO LATHERED FACES IN A BARBER SHOP Ai I F YOU had walked into a certain 4 Stockholm barber shop ’way back in 1920, you would have seen wistful little Greta Garbo working up a lather and preparing hot towels for stubbly faces as she assisted the local barber. Later, in Bergstrom’s department store, you might have taken a second look at the pretty little clerk who sold you a hat. But if someone had told you she would one day be world famous Ir. pictures for her portrayals of romance, pas­ sion and ecstasy, it would have seemed too fantastic to believe. Greta Garbo was born in 1905 in the mill district of Stockholm. Her father was a poor machinist, and her mother an uneducated farm woman. The mysterious airs and aloofness of the great Garbo of to­ day are natural, for they were traits 1—John L. Lewis, chief of the C. I. O., who attacked William Green, president of the American Federa­ of the sensitive little daughter of tion of Labor at the Milwaukee convention of the United Automobile Workers. 2—The American Dol­ this poor family. Her father died lar liner, S. S. President Hoover, bombed by Chinese planes in the Whangpoo river at Shanghai. 3—The “Sawbwa of Hsipaw” and his sister, Sao Kya Nyun, shown as they sailed from New York for their far eastern kingdom of Burma. H A N D Y W IT H B IK E Challenger’s Right Jolts the Champion 5 William C. Bailey, eighty-four, who took up bicycling at seventy- nine, shown as he pedaled out of Chicago on a return trip to his farm in Vermont. The octogenarian made the 1,028-mile trip by cycle to Chi­ cago to visit relatives in 18 days. He planned to make some stops en route home but declared he would pedal the entire distance to the Green Mountain state himself. a Doctor’s Invention Saves Infants L E G L E S S S W IM M E R IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAY chool S Of INTEREST TO ItlE HOUSEWIFE I Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute ol Chlcafo © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for September 12 A NATION NEEDS RELIGIOUS HOMES. LESSON TEXT — Deuteronomy 8:4. S; 11:18-25. GOLDEN TEXT—Train up a child In tha way he should go: and when he la old. ha will not depart from It. Prov. 22:8. PRIMARY TOPIC—At Our House. JUNIOR TOPIC—At Our House. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —What Makes a Home Christian? YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— The Influence of Christian Homes In a Na- tlon’s Life. Home! The very word stirs our hearts and quickens the most pre­ cious of memories. Toward its com­ forting threshold turns the one who has borne the heat and the labor of the day. Within its portals are those who gladly give themselves in sac­ rificial service that it may indeed be a haven of rest and comfort. The inroads of modern life and of our so-called civilization are do­ ing much to break down home life. All too frequently home has be­ come the place to which one goes when there is nowhere else to go; a place to sleep, and sometimes to eat; an address for mail; a tele­ phone number. Shall we then abandon the effort really to maintain a true home—one that is in touch with God, and there­ fore ready to serve man? No; for now as never before we need the influence of a home life empowered by the worship of the true God and guided by his Word. None of us, who are engaged in the determined effort to maintain such a home in the midst of the driving intensity of present day living, speaks too easily when she was fourteen and she went on this subject. We know the diffi­ to work in the department store to culties; we have heavy-heartedly help support her penniless mother, tasted failure; but we also know the her small brother and sister. The sweetness of victory. By God’s manager of the millinery depart­ grace we press on. In his dealings with Israel God ment chose her to model hats and, through publication of photographs presents to us an example of what made then, she was given a chance a godly home may be, and what in motion pictures. Her rise to fame it will accomplish for the commu­ was rapid, and the little lather girl nity and for the nation. Such a of Stockholm betame the greatest home— example of modern motion picture I. Worships the True God (vv. 4, 5). publicity. This is “the first and great com­ One of her very first pictures was mandment” of the law, according awarded the Nobel prize, and she to our Lord Jesus. (Matt. 22:36,37.) received the medal of the New York It is an important part of the Scrip­ Film Critics for her performance ture repeated twice daily by all or­ in “Anna Karenina.” Men fought thodox Jews. In its context, in Deu­ duels over her, and famous direc­ teronomy 6, it is clearly associated tors, writers and actors have sought with the home. It is there that he her favor. So, think twice before who iS the “one Lord” is to be you laugh at that neighbor's child loved, which means far more than with the theatrical ambitions. The that he is vaguely recognized or great Garbo was once a lather girl I distantly respected, • » • II. Honors God’s Word (w . 18, 19). MOTOR BOAT KING WAS A Loving God and his Word is not CATTLE HERDER a matter for theological speculation or for sanctimonious discussion in ometimes i think we place too some dark cloister. Thank God much emphasis on the stigma of the Christian faith is at its best in failure. A man may fail at one the ordinary affairs of life. It finds thing after anoth* r that he at­ its proper place in the tender rela­ tempts, but he hi never a failure tionship of parent and child. Its himself until he quits. Many a for­ teachings are pure, delightful, sim­ tune has been built upon past mis­ ple, and entirely appropriate to any takes. Gar Wood’s father had a occasion, whether one sits or rises, viewpoint something like that, and I walks, or lies down. God’s words he instilled into his children the be­ are the words to be laid up in the lief that even though they failed in heart and in the soul, to be taught an endeavor, they had fun in try­ to our children, to be the constant ing it. and normal subject of conversation. Gar Wood was born in Mapleton, | III. Testifies to the Community Iowa, in 1872, one of 13 children. 20, 21). All of the children had to earn mon­ (vv. We may not, as did the pious ey early to help make expenses, Jew, fasten a little container bear­ and Gar had little formal school­ ing God’s word on our doorpost, but ing. When only a boy, Gar worked we may make the home itself and as a cattle herder for one dollar a the life of its inhabitants an effective day. He loved boats and enjoyed testimony for God before our neigh­ constructing mechanically run mod­ bors. It is obvious that the home els from clock parts. At the age either speaks for or against God. of thirteen, his unusual knowledge A profession of faith in him, an outward reputation for adherence to religious principles which does not vitally touch our dealings with one another and with the community in which we live—these clearly testify not for God but against him. IV. Serves the Nation (vv. 22-25). God promised that if Israel dili­ gently kept his commandments, loved him and walked in his ways, they would be a nation that would overcome and dispossess their ene­ mies, and prosper in every good purpose. Statesmen clearly see that the home is the unit of society. It was established upon the earth before the nation, in fact, before the church. No nation can ever really | prosper without homes of the high­ type. of boats run by motors got him a est But house without God is not job in Duluth on one of the first really a a home, though it stand gasoline "craft to dock there. As in the midst of even a garden. Neither automobiles became popular. Gar the school teacher, nor the pastor of Wood was hired to sell them. a church can take the place of a He obtained one odd job after an­ God-fearing father, and of a mother other. He was a teacher of elec­ who not only knows God but who tricity and gasoline motors in a can tenderly lead the steps of trust­ night class. He ran a garage for ing childhood in the paths ol right­ awhile in St. Paul. One thing after eousness. Our lesson title is right: another he tried, and failed to ad­ “A Nation Needs Religious Homes,” vance. A less philosophical man, a or, better, "America Needs Chris­ less courageous man might have tian Homes.” become stagnant. But not Gar Wood. His mind was ever alert to Faith that Overeometh new opportunities in mechanics. There is no more enviable condi­ Then he perfected a hydraulic hoist tion than that of him who has made for trucks, risked the family's sav­ the pressure of adverse things the ings in constructing a model, and means of a deep faith became wealthy almost overnight. Suppose this man had been as A Divine Mission utterly stricken with shame as Know that life is a divine mission, some of us think we might be, when for which you have received and he failed in his first attempts to shall receive divine power. make a successful living. He prob­ ably never would have had the cour­ A Mother’s Love age to risk all the money he had No language can express the saved for the model of an invention power and beauty and heroism and others told him was impractical. majesty ol a mother a love. © -W N U S