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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13

Motor Patrolman Joseph McCar'
thy; Mary E. Scadden, of % Whit
tlesey avenue; John P. Shea, Of ST
East Main street; William r. Ten.
nant, of "a Linden street; and Mrs
Coffey.
The findinr follows;
About To0 .. m, September 26,
1888 MIS- Margaret s. Coffey drove
aa automobile owned by her, east
ward on cast Nam street, in Wa
terbury, and into the intersection
of Cole street, and when at a
point approximately on line ex-
tended northward from the east
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13

berS of the COM
mittee Of arrange
ments in C u d e
Mrs. Ernest Hes
pelt, Mrs. John
10 h n S on, Mrs.
George A y o. t e
and Mrs. John
Pracny.
Proceeds from
the sale will be-
come part of the
fund for the con-
tinuance of broad
casts OF r e v .
Charles E. Cough
lin, famous radio
priest of Royal
Oak Michigan,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13
By NEA Service

BY NEA Service
Let's see. what's the date? FRI
day, Oct. 10. Ouch, that ruins the
entire day. Well, no driving the
automobile or anything like that
until tomorrow. What bad things
have happened today that can be
charged up to the calendar?
Is there any sense to it? Friday
the 18th always unlucky-who said
so?
One of Americas largest insur-
ance companies claims the supersti-
ton is the bunk. Friday is the luck
lest day in the week, 1t contends,
and cites statistics to prove it. On
Friday, May 10, 1888, fewer acct
dents were reported by policyholders
than on any other day Of that
month.
The unluckiest day, according
to the survey, is Saturday, the very
next day after the day we worry
about. Last year ia per cent Of
claimants were injured on Friday
but 1853 per cent were hurt on
Saturday, 1874 per cent on Sum-
Gay. Friday, then, is just lull
before the storm.
MAYBE IT'S
BABYLONIAN INFLUENCE
AS for the 18th jinx, Babylonian
astrologers of ancient history
feared the combination of one and
three.
So, today many hostess would
call off her smash party of the
social season if she couldn't find
a 14th guest to invite. A leading
Chicago hotel owns a dummy,
dubbed mfr. 49,, who is taken out
of storage to serve as the charm
breaking factor at the empty plate
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13
Woman Driver Freed
By Coroner's Finding
No Criminal Negligence Found in Death OF Bryan
MahOney, Former Fireman. on September 70

Margaret s. coffey OF 26 Whittesey Avenue, today
was ahsoyee Of criminal responsibility in the death OF
Miles +. McNGf IT., today Mahoney was fatally injured
september 26 when struck by Mrs Coffeys AUTOMOBILE at
nesses were examined by Deputy Coroner McNff during
his inquest They were: william Cunnip, Of Bethlehem
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13
Building Permits

The following permits have been
issued at the office Of Building
Inspector Patrick Carlin:
Mrs. Nora Griffin. to erect gaso-
line station on Meriden road, 81
900.
Josephine Daddona, 10 erect
one-family dwelling on Burr
street, $500.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13
SALE ARRANGED
BY STUDY CLUB
Admirers of Father Cough
lin Rally to Defend Free
DOR CT c9eech

Iindey zee auspices ct he Citizens
StuaT Gia q waterbury a food
safe Will be held Thursday. October
26th, at Grieve, Bisset and Hollands
store on North Main Street. Mem
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13

when 10 people stage private
dinner in the building. Many sky
scrapers have no 18th floor.
Sailors hate to leave port on a
Friday. Financiers dread the day
because Friday, Sept. Is, 1869,
marked the most disastrous panic
in Wall Street history. Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated on FRI
day.
LETS LOOK
AT THE RECORD
On the other hand, however:
history builds up a strong luck
case for both parts Of the Friday
the 18th bugaboo. There were IS
original American colonies: the
flag has 10 stripes.
The cornerstone Of the White
House was laid on Oct. 10, 1892. Cen
eral Pershing was born on Friday
Sept 10, 1860. Other 18th birthdays
King Edward III of England, Thom-
as Jefferson, Pope Sixtus v.
It was on Friday that Columbus
started his successful voyage. II
was on a Friday that the Pilgrims
landed in America. It was on q
Friday that the Declaration of In
dependence was introduced.
Why, just three years ago, on a
Friday the 18th, a fishing boat
landed the largest cod ever caught
off New England.
The record, all in all, is just az
good as it is poor.
And just to prove our contempt
for the superstition-this story con-
tains Is paragraphs
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
TOWNSEND MEETINGS

Townsend meetings this week.
end follow:
Friday-All-city. No. "a. at 7:30
Townsend hall. 1i3ih Ccmmerce
It.. business meeting. with card
party and refreshments.
Des Moines, No. /. At the home
Of Mrs. Arthur Campbell.
Iasaquah, No. 1, at the Grange
hall.
University Place, No. IS, at the
schoolhouse.
saturday-rswcett ave-, No. 10.
at Eagles hall. So. 18th and Faw-
cett ave, business meeting. with
discussion Of Townsend doctrine by
Rev. J. II. Berringer Of Seattle.
assistant state representative. Sc
attic district, public invited.
Sunday - Meeting at district
headquarters. ? p. m, Townsend
hall. llS1h Commerce at. public
invited.
South Prairie, No. !, ut the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Maietsky.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
MUST PAWN RING IN
ORDER TO PAY fine

Ann Hin. arrested late Tuesday
night In the Bohemian club. 1884
broadway, entered = plea Of guilty
bsfore Police Judge Joe Mallery
"wednesday afternoon to . charge
q bsing IN = place where liquor IL
sid. She was fined $25 and costs.
The woman said she did not
have the money. but could get 1t
II the court would permit her to
70 out and pawn diamond ring.
Judge MalIery assigned an officer
70 escort the woman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24

minnie scout MS. Wm. a. Mann
s nrs. Mr. Sne'. snd MRS ray Geo osn I waite. n
SGT. Floyd W. Crane. Mis- Betty Lee
James n. Leo. Mr.. and Mrs. W. H
Lee. MI. and Mrs. Z. J. Callahan. Mr.
and Mrs. Paul A. scheffer. Mrs. J.. d
Robertson, Clara Fjermcdai Heller
Thrane. Mr. Y Mrs, nyron D. Gin.
N sGn' B. y oli sne M1 Mrs J. X I'e GILLESPIE nss
Serena w. Anderson. Adeiyn Richards.
Mrs. Arthur Merrill. Etheiyn @. Part
ridge Mr., and Mrs. r. pahlin.
J. ?. Shook, Louise Shay, Mrs. 4.
Cyrs. Bob sesblcom; walt seabloom,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar eeabloom. Blanche
Miller. Mr.. and Mrs. o. Holt. Frances
Holt. Anna Holt. Mrs. James Aman.
and Mrs. v. &. Anderson ana son.
Raymond Carlson. Jim Pstrich. Mr..
and Mrs.. v. a. eorcnsen, Yvonne De
chaux Jean De chaux, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lucia P. Davenport. Mrs, r. W Chris
tie. Charles Late. sherry Nyman, LII
Ian WahlGrcn, Fred Wahlgren. John
Hcaton. Carl T.. Hellstrom. Mr.. and
Mrs. p. n. Halstrom. Gene Snyder.
osorse !. Noe. Nay Nuyams. sumis
s S'asws' NJ se0 snS n an%i 4. W. p0 ssshe N.
Mr.. and Mrs. ). p iexa, Anna Rus
eli, MI. and Mrs. A. Bennett and
family.
william Hurnsy, Bob Carlson. o. d.
woodring. Donald woodrins. Mr.. and
Mrs.. Pred Thompson, Jasmine Lund-
ouist. Jean Cheim. Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
bert Cheim. Helen Ostness. Sam A.
Soult, Ina A. Tuthill. Ethel Remission.
Mr., n. r. Elstrom tr, Marianne STAR
bick. Miss velma Kavacich. Hazel
Peterman. jess Cooper. Mrs. Chas. J.
Nerthney. Arthur i. Warren. Mabel R.
Borlsnd. Gerald NJ. Johnson Mrs. Q.
L. Kegel. NJ. and Mrs. H. Keii. Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Herzog. Mr.. and Mrs.
Al Kruguer. Doris NJ, Kuna. Irene d.
Ritbar. MI and Nrs, H. H. watson
Blakemore, Mrs. Mary Neuman, Mr.,
and Mrs. Cheeter J. Doud, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Black, Mr.. and Mrs. Nels
Frank Dye. Betty Thomson. Alice
Westerland. Ruby De weese. Philip
Dartenetti. Betty Lee. Ruth Esther
Moody, Shirley NJ. johnson. Shirley
Jean Unlisted. Cinema J. Brown. Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Miller and son. Bill
Arnold. Howard white, Dan Stewart
Emile Kislinsoury.. Frances koval
Hideko Horike, Yoshi Yamasaki, Tetsu
Yamasski, Mrs. J. A. Feck. Helen
Feek. Dtly oxholm. Mr.. and Mn
Axei II. Oxhoim, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F
Hooker. Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Goddard
John MAckesay. Andy zelensk, Mar
earet Paulus. Grace Mccarthy.
Jean " Mcdonald. Mr.. and Mr.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
NORTON Will
have JUBILEE
Celebration to Open
Sept. 2 and End
On Labor Day

M0RT0N-os1 Man Gloom has
been chased cut q the eastern
portion Of Lewis county IN order
that residents may enjoy the
hilarity promised during the Log
gers' Jubilee to b staged at Nor
ton Sept. :. : and Labor DAY.
A bang-up program Of unusual
entertainment had been planned for
The three-day event. and should
attract not only Lewis county
reHdcnts, but those u other nearby
counties a. well.
Some 5000 southern mountain
people IN the Cascade range, most
q whom are from Kentucky ana
West Virginia, have Joined in the
spirit Of the jubilee celebration
and have agreed to dramatise real
old hui lffs Of the uppsr south.
They win trek 10 Morton leading
hound dogs. carrying rifles, wear
Ing coonskin caps. and the garb
* the real hin biIly.
Already thess former kentucky
and Wost Virginia residents have
famed hill bf1y attire and ars
navIhG the time Of their life.
othen IN IL eastern part a
he county have donned red hata.
nackor@v uhiyfa ntaw nvounn1ne hnnvv
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24

Fred Burholtz jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Ritner. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank j. Muir
tough. Mr.. and Mrs. L. +. wiecking,
MI, and Mrs; r l: Mott l. L Hande-
o. H. Anderson. Adah Wells. Ida Nc
Questen, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Z. An
derson, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold A. Ras-
suran. J d. Kolesar. J. Z. Howe. Law
renee Mytnek, Frances Newton, Mr..
and Mrs. A. J. Newton. Myrtle Hansen.
son and Mary. Bud Crooks. Mrs. II M.
Dunn. L. Agnes Dunn. Mr.. and Mrs.
H. w Savage, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Boden, Mary O'Reilly, Mrs. Mae Starr.
Myrtle McHenry, Frank Graham. Ruth
Matson. Frank Ekberg. Al Swanstrom.
Roy Swanstrom. Lawrence Lyons, Bud
Lyons Mrs. NJ; p. Madsen, Rev. and
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Hubbard. Mrs.
Stella W. Dursalle, Mr.. and Mrs. W. l..
Campbell, Mr.. M Mrs. Fl. r. Herms-
meyer. Mr.. n Mrs. p. r. Hayes, Mar
tin = Rendriean. Mrs. J.. d. Kolesar.
BOY tucker Howard Tucker: Edward
Zieeler, Maxine Poston, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. r. Balinger.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Radcliffe, Manda
Seipp. Mrs. Minnie Scott, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. Hansen. Norma johnson, Mr..
and Mrs. w Z. johnson. Mr.. m Mrs.
N. r. Bingham. Clay Carlock, Stella j.
ouilhough. Mrs. J. J. Quilhough.
Evelyn N. Fiske. Harriet STACK. Mrs
NJ. l.. Donaldson, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
L. Hufford. Myrtle Hansen. Inga
Mark. Virginia Judd. Mr.. and Mrs.
p. w. judo, Z. A. Bader. Miss Hilma
Sandback, Gloria Beck. Mrs. q. Beck,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. s. Bass, W. Reneber.
Mrs. Frances Williams. Mrs. Mary
Young. Benjamin H. Robertson. Mrs.
Emmie Cook. L A. Mcclure. Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. S. Rau, Mr.. and Mrs, ]. e.
Brady. Jean H. Fuller. Anna Tiffany.
Miss Gladys Harmon.
Mr.. and Mrs. =. T. Short. Mrs. Ches-
ter Flint, Pat Norman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert NJ. Guy, Gerald r. Grove jr..
r, l.. 0aiser, Norma johnson, Anne
Murray. Frances Young. Mrs. D. J.
Young. Robert NJ. Young. Hilda NJ,
Evans. Paul Young. Louise Blaser. Mr..
and Mrs. Cecil Fasson Blogg. w. Z.
Graham, Mr.. and Mrs. D.. c. Goodman,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Lendelle. Isabel
Eggleston, Elna johnson. Esther A,
Towe. r. J. Cameron. May Andrews,
Martin r. Kenbrig. Barbara Holt, Don
| Corcoran, Frank kindziora. Don
Gavin. Kenneth L Craig, Naomi r.
Craig. Edward Heating. H. c. Hub
bard.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. McCulioch. vir-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
SURE
Of RFC LOAN

wAsHINGTON-A reconstrue-
ton finance corporation Official
said yesterday that final obstacles
10 disbursement OF a $4,000. 600
loan to the city OF Seattle for
modernization of the municipal
street railway had been removed
and that the RFC has already
begun to pay some OF the funds.
A disbursement was made yes
terday but the RFc official did not
know the amount because he said
the whole matter vas being ham
died in Seattle. 1t vas understood
that the first funds drawn by Sc
attic would be applied toward re-
funding some of the outstanding
obligations of the railway.
The final details were completed
yesterday. according to informal
ton received here from RFC Off
Gals who went to Seattle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
BAckAcnE,
LEG PAINS NAY
BE DANGER SIGN

niss<abaA. dsa's ,uss eomplsia and Do scskise
abcut then. Nature naS b. warning you thai
ysur kdnaps Dssd ,atssaslca.
Ths hdneys 80 Ssturss cAi>f ~ Il sAkine
exos,s scds and pesscncus s.sss cut e he
shcs1 : po.1fs Z waneA
Freuupnt - ecAnfy pamAao voA snars<ne
and burning sApvs thew may ~ som<<hin9
wrong NTH your Kidneys Or hiaddsr.
II tAs Is mix Il kidney tabss cd kis@s
deaf vork v>l pcecnoos vnsas nsetsr stays
IN rs hicud- Tksss ps@sons nay sssxs saanaa
esrk.rks rkeu~stie psins. i>g psins. ics 4
Pep asd snerC. Gstting ~ nigbts. sveihnG,
pg1n4 s.1r de y~sL kselAcAo and aissinn1
~. ~ 10y ~ =
-. rkse 30 hsppx r.hsf Nd N help ~
- niiss Z hdne< tab. funk eut possonsn
v.sss ts>a ~ 49, c. Dsaas R4A adv,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
ELECTRIC PLAN
TO AID FARMERS

OLYMPIA, wa~h. New rural
line extension rules designed to
expedite rural identification were
filed here yesterday by the Wash
ington Water Power Co, Public
Service Director J. schaaf an
nounced.
Schaaf said the new rules repre-
scented a new departure in rural
line extension policy. providing for
construction OF up to 2.4oo feet of
line for a farm customer who pays
So monthly for electric service dur
ing a five-year period.
After that a regular minimum
Of one dollar a month would be-
come effective under the new rules.
The company would agree to build
additional rural line extensions be-
yond 400 feet at the customers
expense with a provision for
spreading the cost over five annual
payments.
Schaaf said the rules provide for
refunding OF advance construction
payments on the basis Of a custo-
mer's use of electric service. Rates
to be charged customers on lines
built under the new extension rule
will be the same as those now
charged by the company in rural
before scanning new rural
extension rules.
Under these new rules the Wash
ington Water Power Co. goes a
long ways towards bringing cleo
trio service to hitherto unserved
farms in eastern Washington and
northern Idaho.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24

Floods, droughts. disaster, air
raids, riots. hunger, war, armies,
China, Spain, Ethiopia, Czecho-
sloyakia, Danzig - non Of these
events 10 Of such earfh-shaking
importance n to jar loose the
Engiishman's monocle. The wearer
Of this symbol of traditional Brit
ish calm Is G. Grey Wornum, Lon
don architect decorator, pictured
As he arrived In New York aboard
the Queen Mary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
GETS 80 DAYS

gil Anderson. Helen Thompson, LII
ellie Chadwick, Floyd Green. Verne
Heidal. Blanche d. Parker. Betty Ann
Hooker. Mrs. Gus Kaeeler. Mr.. and
Mrs. G. v. Pryor. Billy Knudson. Mrs.
II, E. Clark, DR.. and Mrs. d. H. Bell,
Mrs Violet Peterson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
Scores of Tacomans Sign
Registration Book at Fair

A list of Tacomans who registered recently at the San
Francisco-Golden Gate exposition was furnished Thursday by
the Washington State Progress commission, as follows:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24

90 sss..,;s -: 49, =
in. = -. 80 DT: .ssss.s -: =
Ek%
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-24
JUST THE CORE
RECEIVE NINE BIDS

N. c. J~annsen, Seattle, was low
bidder for digging a well at the
new State custodial school at
Buckley with a bid of S1,147,
Finance Director Olaf L. Olsen
reported Wednesday in Olympia.
Star Machinery Co.. Seattle, bid
S1,1s1. and II. D. Fowler Co, Seat
tie, $1,243. There were nine bidders.
Two pounds Sunrise coffee, Csc.
Cow Butter Store. adv.
TRIPLE BILL AT MANITOU
The Park Travelling theater will
give a complete triple bill at 1870
p. m. Thursday at Manitou park.
The SHOW will close next Wednes-
day.
Hospital flowers. HIM florist.
(adv.)
GRANTED WATER PERMIT
Pete Z. Moceri, Sumner, has
been granted a water permit for
one second foot, from an unnamed
source, for irrigation. The cost
was listed at $1,000.
Hospital flowers you can afford.
Garden Shop, Rhodes Bros.-adv.
GETS 80 DAYS
John McIlraith, So, found guilty
on a charge of disorderly conduct,
was sentenced to serve 80 days in
city Jail Wednesday afternoon by
Police Judge Joe Mallory. Nc
Ilraith was arrested by police
Tuesday afternoon after neighbors
complained they watched the man
in Wright park 60 through indie
cent motions while lying on the
grass near Division ave. and G 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09

there was soapbox was that the young man
did not have money to buy proper showcase
for his wares, and had put them in what he
could find There they were. Watercolors and
sketches for all sorts of novel theatrical SUBJ
jects.
Mr. Kahn looked in, and what he saw made
him look again please bring them tomorrow
to my house on Long Island. Then l can 60
over them more carefully" And so the soap
box went to Long Island. past the butler and
into the living room. Mr. Kahn. now with
more time, looked closely. Could it be pos
sible that this was the work of man from
park bench? But there was the work, and
there was the young man, and there was the
creative passion in his face! The young man
believed in his work, and when he talked
Mr.. Kahn believed in it, too. Mr. Kahn
wanted to know more about his soapbox visi
tor; and the visitor told him. The park bench
was nothing, the visitor said; the future was
everything Mr.. Kahn believed that, too
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09

he composed telegram. He composed and
composed, and the result was startling. He
said he had talent - that he knew he had! -
and asked the banker philanthropist to bring
him to New York so that he could show him
what he had done already. But that was not
all. He asked also to bring his wife and child.
Then he marched to the telegraph office, and
when he marched away again he had twenty
cents in his pocket!
startled Mr. Kahn got the telegram. but
there was fire and sincerity in it, and he
decided to take chance. He sent money by
wire, four hundred dollars of it; and inside of
twenty-fo four hours, too.
There was an even more startled Mr.. Kahn,
one busy Saturday morning ten days later. A
visitor was announced. Not just an ordinary
visitor, but a most persistent visitor with
soapbox! Mr.. Kahn went out, and found that
his receptionist had been right. 1t was soap
box and the young man was mad. There
could be no other explanation. The reason
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09

believed 1t 50 much that, then and there
he got Cattle asazza then director of tt :
Metropolitan Opera, on the telephone.
The soapbox went in to see Gatti-C asaz "a.
In exactly a week after that soap box
arrived in New York its owner was commits
stoned to do the scenery for the Am ,fican
opera 'Shanewis" The Robin Woma1).
That was only the beginning. for Bel Geddes
staged and designed Max Reinhardts famous
The Miracle" and he revived the Greek
comedy ''Lysistrata, and he tossed off the first
stream-ined ocean liner in the world. Between
times he worked on Raymond Massey's
Hamlet
Then. one day not long ago, this same man,
still comparatively young, popped up in
Detroit. He carried with him Dream At
least it seemed a dream to the officials of the
General Motors Company. Of course it was
really more concrete than dream. They were
going to have building at the New York
Worlds Fair, he reminded them. and he
wanted to put in something he called by the
fanciful name of Highways and Horizons
The people would be scooted through the
future in talking chairs he said. The bigwigs
looked at him and each other and at him
again Meanwhile, he talked - talked with
the burning passion he had had in the drawing
room on Long Island. The officials finally be-
came enthusiastic -.
There it is. if you go to the Fair - a
smash hit of the show. And there is the
"Futurama, which is the largest scale model
ever constructed. Item: it contains, among
other things million model trees
What will it all lead to? To better high
way system That is what Norman Bel Geddes
hopes To fewer deaths from automobiles; to
greater safety in speed to greater happiness;
to cleaner cities; to warless world. And when
he emissions the World of the Future - the
World of 1860 he talks with the deep and
moving fervor he had in that Long Island
drawing room.
l look back at Fitz- James rousing couplet.
How noble are those sixteen words! How much
- if you catch the feel of them - they can
mean to you. They have meant much to me.
pass them on to you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09

- ID person courage all his life.
think of this in connection with couplet
l used to read in the country school attended
as boy. It. not highly thought of nowadays
by the learned professors of literature, but it
touched me then. And it still touches me
little every time read it. 1t is from Sir Walter
SCOTS The Lady of the Lake, and it is the
doughty Fitz-James who is speaking:
Come one, come all this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I!''
think it must have given courage to Others,
for it 50 perfectly reflects the passionate
bravery of the human spirit.
What is there in us that makes us stick to
our firm base when all is hopeless: The spirit
is as strong today as it was with the heroes of
yesterday: people all around us, on every side,
are sticking to that firm base. We don't have
to 60 to moldy pages, but only to look about.
Maybe that house down the street shelters a
soul who has stuck to its rock.
think of young man who was sitting on
park bench in Los Angeles in 1918, and the
reason he was sitting there was that his rock
seemed unsteady And we'll it might for he
had less than five dollars in his pocket, and
for days he had been looking for work. On top
of this he had wife and child.
A whimsical wind, for no reason at all,
came and tapped the pages of discarded
magazine at his feet. He picked it up and
started casually to read it; and then he read
it not casually at ALL but with all the earnest
ness in him. What he read was an interview
with Otto Kahn, who was the principal hacker
of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The
sum and substance of it was that the rich
should help struggling artists.
And now l will tell you the name of the
man on the BENCH Norman Bel Geddes, born
at Adrian, Michigan, and once bellboy on
Great Lakes passenger boat. All his life he had
been passionately devoted to art. His first
theater had been neighbours barn, and he
had designed the sets and painted the scenery
for it.
He believed what the interview said, and
then and there on the backs of pocket scraps,
Smyrna times., 1939-11-16

the lesson-sermon: Matt. 8: 27-30
And when Jesus departed thence,
two blind men followed him, cry
ing, and saying, Thou son Of David,
have mercy on US. %. And when
he was come into the house, the
blind men came to him: and Jesus
saith unto them, Believe We that I
am able to do this? They said
unto him, Yea, Lord, 20. Then
touched he their eyes, saying, ac
cording to your faith be it unto
you 80. And their eyes were
opened. Correlative from the Text
book, Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" by Mary
Baker Eddy: Whatever is govern
ed by God, is never for an instant
deprived of the light and might of
intelligence and Life.