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Thursday, September 16, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Way Back When t jk v jo ll about By JE A N N E FROM LUMBER YARD WORKER TO VICE PRESIDENT OF C. S. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAY chool S "M erm aids" Vanishing The “ mermaids” w ill soon be extinct. These curious sea crea tures, resembling human beings and which were mistaken for them by old-time sailors, are dugongs, a species of sea-cow, which were exceedingly common in the Indian and South Atlantic oceans years ago. Now, due to the constant commercial hunting for their meat and oil and the sharks ravaging their young, they are among the rarest of all living creatures. I Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. TPO KNOW whether you have cho- Lesson for September 19 * sen the right vocation for suc HOENIX, ARIZ.—A gentle cess in return for your efforts is CHOICES AND THEIR CONSE man took me sightseeing sometimes difficult to decide. But, QUENCES IN A NATION’S LIFE it begins to dawn upon you through a cemetery that abound once that you could go further in another ed in proud mausoleums and occupation, it is time to change. at. LESSON TEXT—Deuteronomy 11:8-12. se GOLDEN TEXT—Choose you this day The greatest advancement lies stately shafts. whom ye will serve —Joshua 24:15. I figured he wanted to show me where your talents and interests are PRIMARY TOPIC—Our Country. JUNIOR TOPIC—Choosing Sides. that rich folks continue to enjoy the greatest. Charles Dawes, who made INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— the under-slung pipe famous when Utmost luxury even The Importance of Our Choices. he became Vice President of the after becoming de YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— United States, might have been rel My Part in Making Up the Nation's Mind. ceased. atively unknown if he had not How futile and Nations as well as individuals are changed his mind about the occupa how vain are most responsible before God for the man tion he would follow. tombstone inscrip He was born in Marietta, Ohio, ner in which they live. They enjoy tions. They give the in 1865. He attended the public the blessings of right living and dates of birth and schools there and entered Marietta suffer the penalty of wrong moral death — events in college, graduating at the age of choices. While it is true that na neither of which the nineteen. During the summer tional leaders may not always re departed had any months he worked in a lumber yard, flect the true character of the peo say-so — unless he shifting lumber. It is easy to imag ple, it is generally true that there is committed suicide. And just as the av Irvin S. Cobb ine that without vision and analy- a sort of national character which over a longer period of time accu erage graveside eu rately represents the moral condi logy is a belated plea for the defense, tion of the people as a whole. offered after the evidence is all in, Many earnest men and women be so an epitaph is an advertisement lieve that the United States of for a line of goods which perma America stands today at the cross nently has been discontinued. roads of national moral decision. Somehow this burying ground There has been an unquestionable stuff reminds me of hired critics of decadence of true religion, of home other men’s efforts. The difference life, of social purity, and a growth between professional book review of moral indifference and outright ers and the other obituarians is that wickedness which causes men who the latter do their work after you think to cry out for a revival of old- pass on, but the reviewers can’t fashioned spiritual and moral stand wait until you’re dead to write your ards ere it be too late. The most literary death notice for you. effective, and in fact the only really Maybe critics are to authors what effective way to bring that about, fleas were to David Harum’s dog; is a revival within the church of they keep authors from brooding on Christ, and a resultant renewal of being authors. its service in winning men to Jesus • • • Christ as their Saviour and Lord. Catching Barracuda. I EO CARILLO is quite a yachts- sis, ha might have set the proprie A 24-page booklet “ Lessons in Soul- * - / man when not acting for the torship of a lumber yard as his Winning,” by Dr. W ill H. Houghton, screen or leading parades. He’s our goal. Dawes was always fond of w ill be sent by the w riter without champion parade leader. I t ’s got music. He played both the violin charge to those requesting it. If so they don’t dare let a colored fu and the piano, and music has been possible enclose a 3 cent stamp. I. Right Choices Result in Blessing neral go past his house for fear he’ll his chief diversion. He composed rush right out and head the proces “ Melody in A Minor” which Fritz ( w . 8, 9). Kreisler, famous violinist, included Making the right choice is in fact sion. a simple matter, for it means only On one of those days when there in his repertoire. After college, Charles Dawes went obedience to God’s commandments. wasn’t a parade, he took Victor Moore and me out on his boat. We to work in the engineering depart God is the author of th$ moral caught a mess of slim, yet fragrant ment of the Toledo and Ohio Cen law. He alone can and does deter fish. Leo called them barracuda, tral Extension railroad, working up mine what is right and wrong. Man but, with their low retreating fore to chief engineer in charge of con need not determine, nor is he heads and greedy jaws, they looked struction. He decided to study law, equipped to decide that question. He more like shyster lawyers to me— or he might have been simply a can and must relate the details of Graduating his life to the law of God. How im the kind who chase ambulances and good civil engineer. from the Cincinnati School of Law, portant it is then that he properly eventually get disbarred. he practiced for some years and understand that law, and what folly \ ♦ became interested in politics. Presi it is to neglect the study of God’s Glad, Mad Artists. dent McKinley appointecl hipn comp T J ERETOFORE, the glad, mad troller of currency and, after four tyord, where the commandments of * ■* geniuses, who produce master years of service, Dawes organized God are made known unto men. Choosing God’s way means for pieces of sculpture and painting the Central Trust company of Chi which resemble nothing on heaven or cago. He was general purchasing both men and the nations which earth or in the waters below except agent for the A. E. F. during the they make up (for my country is in possibly some bad dream which World war, and director of the the final analysis myself, and other these parties had once while feel budget bureau under President individuals like me) the assurance ing pretty bilious, have depended Harding. In 1924, he was elected of God's blessing and prosperity. II. God Encourages Right Choices upon the ultra-ults among the intelli Vice President of the United States (vv. 10-12). gentsia for support. under Coolidge. Our God is the great and untiring But now one hears divers million * • • “ giver of every good and perfect aires may endow for them an aca FAMOUS AVIATR IX ONCE gift.” We need but to lift up our demy or a gallery—or possibly it ’s DROVE A TRUCK eyes and look at His handiwork, an asylum for the more violent cases. Anyhow, there’s money be T 'H IS is a note of encouragement or stir up our memories to recall his goodness, and we know that he hind the cult, and when money gets * for “ tom-boys" and particularly behind a thing in this country, it for parents who may not under and all his blessed works encour usually flourishes, provided the stand them. Girls who fa ll into the age us to do right—to live right. But, alas, all too often God’s money doesn’t get too far behind, classification of “ tom-boys” usually as happened in 1929, when the rest simply have a stronger spirit of choicest gifts are perverted and are of the country was trying to figure competition or a greater streak of used to bring the very opposite re out what had become of the deposits adventure than other little girls. sult. The most beautiful lakes and and investments, which we, of the Their greater activity may be early naturally delightful surroundings sucker class, had entrusted to our expression of a sense of leadership are used for resorts and clubs which all too often lead men to moral de leading financial wizards. which may later lead to fame. struction. Parents almost fear that Still, we of that same ignorant Amelia Earhart, queen of avia mass-group do not have to buy ex tion, was a tom-boy. Bom in Atchi their daughters may be too attrac amples of this new schoool. We don’t son, Kan., in 1898, she was an un tive, for the world, the flesh, and even have to look at them unless usually active little girl. She loved the devil are constantly out “ scout ing” for beautiful women whose we’re in Germany and are escorted very God-given beauty may be used to the official state-run display by a to glorify sin and lead others into regiment of Nazi storm-troopers. disobedience to God. And, aside from their ideas of III. Right and Wrong Are Funda what constitutes art, it ’s said that mental and Eternal (vv. 26-32). some of the artists themselves are It needs to be repeated over and not really dangerous, merely annoy over again in these callous and in ing in an itchy sort of way. In different days that there is laid other words, they’re all right if you down in the very constitution of the don’t get one of ’em on you. • • • entire universe a moral distinction between right and wrong. Right is Pugilistic Authors. always right, and wrong is defi JM ALWAYS missing something. nitely and eternally wrong. There On the occasion of one really his is no moral tw ilight zone, where toric battle between a brace of dis things are neither white nor black, tinguished writers, I yawningly left but a neutral gray. the scene before Messrs. Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser quit Note that the difference between swapping hard words and started right and wrong was to be the same swapping soft blows. “ on the other side of the Jordan.’’ And it was just my luck to be out Time and place have no power to here recently when Ernest Heming rough and tumble games, and she change moral law. What was right way threw a book—or maybe it was could beat most of the boys her or wrong for your great-grandfather a publisher; anyhow some such age in sports and contests. She Is right or wrong for you. What hard, knobby object—at Mr. Max graduated from Hyde Park high was right in your home on the farm Eastman and Mr. Eastman retort school in Chicago and went on to is right in the city where you now ed with a tremendous push which a g irl’s school in Rydal, Pa. From live, or vice-versa. The passing of damaged Mr. Hemingway not at all. school she went to Canada where the years or a change of residence The typical w riter, no matter how she worked as a nurse's aide in a does not alter that law of God. red-blooded his style may be, packs Toronto war hospital. Stories of May God help the people of our all his wallops in his pen and never World war pilots appealed to her lation, and all the countries of the in his fist. There have been excep sense of adventure and daring; and earth, to remember that it is still tions. Once Rex Beach cleaned out Amelia made her way to California, true that “ righteousness exalteth a a night club all by himself, but his determined to learn to fly. nation: but sin is a reproach to any opponents were hoodlums, not fel Here her self-reliance and “ tom people” (Prov. 14:34). low-writers. He had something sub boy” courage was helpful, for she stantial to work on. had to earn the money for her in A Season Some of my belligerent brethren struction. Amelia Earhart worked To everything there is a season, in the w riting game never lose an for the telephone company and even argument, but, on the other hand, drove a sand and gravel truck Lat *nd a time to every purpose under none of them ever won a fight. er, the attended Columbia univer the heaven; a time to be born, and Neither did their literary opponents. sity. 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