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
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"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
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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. She held 28 different jobs while a tim e to die.—Ecclesiastes 3:1, X
In fact, next to the average profes- ! perfecting herself in the art of fly
In tbe Silent Watches
sional pugilist, I can think of no one ing.
___ In 1928. she won
____
the ______
plaudits of
While alone and in silence, man
who, in the heat of combat, equals 1 the world by being the first woman
can commune with himself.—Van
a w riter for showing such magnifl- to fly the Atlantic. Aa a result of Am
burgh.
cent self-control when it comes ei- this flight she gained recognition as
ther to inflicting personal injury or the foremost woman flyer, became
Flood of Ambition
sustaining same.
1 aviation editor of Cosmopolitan
Ambition like a torrent never
IRVIN S. COBB.
Magazine, and vice president of two
tooks back.
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