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PARTY GAMES FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE
Cards in the hat, thouifh simple,
■ intriguing. I have known it to
fascinate a group for hours. Both
jtwnger folks and adults like to flip
cards for accuracy and distance.
Try it with your crowd. Place a
•tiff hat on the floor in front of a
efcsir; the hat is five feet from the
front foot of the player who sits in
the chair. The player has a pack
•f cards in his left hand. He places
ki right foot slightly in advance of
)iis left and rests his right elbow on
lus right knee. He tries to flip the
cards, one at a time, into the hat.
He does not throw, but keeps his
■ftmw tight on his knee and flips the
card.; with a wrist movement. He
■*> flick the whole pack, one at a
tfaw, and he scores a point for each
card that goes into the hat. Cards
fh&t rest on the brim of that hat do
met count unless they are later
kaocked in by another flipped card.
Two players may play at once, us
tmz the same hat but two packs of
cards that are different in color.
At first, this is difficult but after
awhile you get the knack of it and
you'll find it lots of fun. Your
crowd takes turns at the flipping of
cards.
Dropping Clothespins is also a
feat that is fun. Place a quart milk
fcolile behind a stright-back chair.
The chair should have a rather
lttgli back. The player stands in
front of the chair, reaches over and
tries to drop clothespins into the
kettle. Each pin that goes in,
•hares a point. Your players take
trying this. You can try the
same thing, using beans instead of
dothespines. If you think it is too
simple, try it!
Bottle Top Toss can be worked
vl with little expense and will pro
duct lots of fun. Secure as many
kottle tops os you can—the sort
tkat come on Dr. Pepper and other
•oft drink bottles. You need ten
for each player, at least. On a
•wide, flat board (cardboard will do)
hrtiw five circles — first a circle ten
■■dies in diameter in the middle of
fkc board, then four more circles
that touch each other and overlap
ioto the center circle. Tffe players
•tend fifteen feet from the target
you have drawn on the board. Each
player, in turn, tosses bottle tops
<t*n apiece) at the target. A top
which falls in the center figure
counts 50. In the rings where the
•verlap comes, the score is 30 and
iu vhe outside rings the scoie is
•a ty 10.
Bean Shooter contest is loads of
f:i Place a pan or a kettle on the
Dcor. Provide a box of soda straws
and a box of large matches. Each
player takes his turn in trying to
shoot matches into the pan with the
•ctda straw used as a bean shooter.
Th'- matches must remain in the pan
to score. Allow five to ten shots
apiece.
Penny Roll will engage your
guests, too. Place the cover of a
safety match box on its side on a
table; the end of the cover against
• hook. The players take turns
trying to roll pennies into the cover,
rolling from a line two feet away.
Eer h penny entering the box counts
a point. But don’t think it is easy
te run up a high score!
REWARDED FOR LARGE
FAMILIES
Parents of large families in Ger
jwny and Italy are recognized and
■■warded, in various ways, by these
■upective countries.
In Germany, types of decorations
asv officially bestowed upon mothers
aad in Italy, fertile mothers are re
warded with medals. The fathers,
kt both Germany and Italy, are giv
en tax exemptions, grants and other
lr'vileges, all of w’hich is calculated
fo distinguish '■uch parents for their
•wtstanding service to their coun
purpose of increasing the population,
tries. The plan is used for the
a*d in that way to build up an army
■Length for preparedness should
these countries become involved in
war. Under present conditions, the
custom has, no doubt, contributed
much to the enlargement of the Ger
man and Italian armies.
ATHENS POPULATION RISES
BY 2,500
Athens showed an increase of 2,-
SOll persons during the past 10 years,
the Tenth District census headquart
ers announced.
Population in 1930 was 18,179,
while in 1940 it reached 20,629.
Clarke County grew from 25,613 to
28,384.
Actual decreases were shown for
five of nine counties announced
Monday, while the larger towns
Aowed increases. Thomson, for ex
ample, gained 58 per cent while Mc-
Duffie County was dropping off.
POLITICS IN GEORGIA
Four For Congreti
Gainesville. Four candidates
qualified for the Ninth district con
gressional race, Herman P. DeLa-
Perriere of Hoschton; G. Fred Kel
ley of Gainesville; Dr. J. S. Golden
of Jasper and the incumbent, B.
Frank Whelchel. T. J. Syfan, secre
tary of the district executive com
mittee, closed the entry lists at noon
Wednesday, June 5. The other nine
Georgia districts closed their lists
Saturday.
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Parker To Offer For State Office
Statesboro, Ga.—Homer- C. Park
er of Statesboro, former adjutant
general of the state, a former con
gressman from the First district and
comptroller under the Talmadge ad
ministration, has announced he
would seek election us comptroller
general.
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River* Name* Muigrove To
Harriton Pott
Atlanta, Ga.—Governor Rivers
elevated Downing Musgrove, of Ho
merville, for nearly four years his
executive secretary, to the post of
comptroller general of Georgia to
fill the vacancy created by the death
of William B. Harrison.
Musgrove, a 29-year-old attorney
and former solicitor of the Clinch
county court, took his oath of of
fice immediately, and began his new
duties.
To succeed Musgrove as executive
secretary, the Governor named S.
Marvin Griffin, of Bainbridge, editor
of the Bainbridge Post-Searchlight.
Griffin has been serving as the Gov
ernor’s aide.
GPA QUESTION BOX
1. What great Jewish leader was
found amongst the bulrushes of the
Nile by Pharaoh’s daghter?
2. What is said to be the longest
non-scientific word in the English
language?
3. What city in Spain is famous
for its leather?
4. What are Igorotes?
5. What are onomatopoetic
words?
0. What was the sin and punish
ment of Lot’s wife?
7. Why are most canal boats still
drawn by mules rather than propell
ed by machinery?
8. What is a fjord?
9. How often is a U. S. national
census taken?
10. Who was the first Christian
emperor of Rome?
ANSWERS
1. Moses.
2. Anti-disestablishmentarianism.
3. Cordova.
4. Inhabitants of northern Lu
zon, in the Phillipine Islands. Some
of them are head-hunters.
5. Words whose sound, as pro
nounced, resembles the sound of the
thing signified.
6. She disobeyed God’s command
not to look back in her flight from
the burning Sodom, and was turned
into a pillar of salt.
7. The disturbance of the water
caused by a propeller causes # the
banks gradually to fill in the bottom
of the channel.
8. A long narrow arm of the sea
between high cliffs, as in Norway.
9. Every ten years.
10. Oonstantine I, the Great
(272-337.)
In circuses the teeth of the rhino
ceros are scrubbed daily in order to
prevent decay.
James Roosevelt Christens His Sloop
James Roosevelt, movie producer and son of the President, is pic
tured above cracking a bottle of champagne over the bow of his new
racing sloop, Half Moan. Young Roosevelt, like his father, is an ardent
and capable sailor. He plans on entering his sloop in the spring series
of San Diego, Calif., Yacht club races.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Southern Baptit Moot Juno 12-16
In Baltimore, Md
Baltimore, Md.—The 94th South
ern Baptist Convention will convene
in Baltimore Wednesday, June 12th,
and continue through June 16th.
More than 5,000 delegates and vis
itors are expected to attend the ses
sion from 12 Southern states.
The convention will discuss an in
vitation to join the World Council of
Churches, but it is stated that Dr.
George W. Truett, of Dallas, Texas,
chairman of a special committee,
“has already announced that it
would recommend declining the in
vitation.”
Dr, L. R. Scarborough, of Fort
Worth, Texas, who has served two
years as president, the limit set by
the convention, will preside.
The annual meeting of the Wo
men’s Missionary Union will be held
June 9. Mrs. F. W. Armstrong, of
Plattsburg, Mo., is president.
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Another Fi*W Story For ’Believe It
Or Not’
Gainesville, Ga.—Monday after
noon W. A. Powell, of Chicopee, was
cashing with an artificial minnow at
Dunlap dam on the Chattahoochee
river. A big carp struck his line
and finally succeeded in breaking
the line- and getting away. Two
hours later, another fisherman, fish
ing with cotton and dough got a
strike and landed the carp with Pow
ell’s artificial minnow still in his
mouth.
British Consider Canadian Haven
London, June s.—The government
tonight considered evacuation of
hundreds of thousands of British
children to Canada and Australia as
the roar of big guns along the
French coast brought the war closer
to the British Isles.
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Jeanette Rankin Eenter Race For
U. S. Congre**
Helena, Mont.—Jeanette Rankin,
first woman ever elected to congress,
has filed for the Republican nomi
nation from the first Montana dis
trict and took as her slogan: “Pre
pare to the limit for defense; keep
our men out of Europe.”
During her previous term in con
gress, she voted against American
participation in the World War in
1917.
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300 Americans Left in Eire For
Lack of S3OO Ship Fare
Dublin.—Three hundred Ameri
cans, left behind when the United
States liner President Roosevelt sail
ed for home with 700 of their luck
ier compatriots, counted their rap
idly depleting funds and wondered
what the future held in store.
All have a little money, but no
where near the S3OO passage the S.
S. President Roosevelt’s refugee
passengers paid to get away from
Europe’s war.
Some felt their only hope lay in
the dispatch of a government-chart
tered boat to take them back across
the Atlantic at fares commensurate
with their pocketbooks.
There was little encouragement on
this score from the American lega
tion, which took the position that
when Washington warned all nation
als last autumn to leave and offer
ed to take them home at whatever
they could pay its responsibility end
ed.
There are 1,677,000 more women
than men in England.
Fighting Shifts From Handers
As Nazi Air Force Bombs Paris;
Malta Looms as Trouble Spot
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinion* are expressed in these columns, they
•re those of the news analyst and not necesaarliy of this newspaper.)
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If Italy should move against Great Britain in the Mediterranean she
might very likely direct an attack at the great British naval base at
Malta. Malta has been on a war footing since the beginning of the Eu
ropean crises. Map at the right shows the relationship of Malta to Italy.
Vulnerable perhaps to bombing attacks it would be a tough nut for Mus
solini to crack by sea. Top left is a view of the harbor at Valetta with
British man o’ war at anchor. Below, one of the big costal guns that ring
Malta is blazing away during gunnery practice.
(SEE ITALIC NOTES.)
II GERMAN WAR:
Flanders Battle
The Dutch-Belgian-Flanders-Artois
battle came virtually to an end, save
for up-moppings and kitty-corner
operations here and there. The
Dutch and Belgian armies had been
surrendered or finished, and the
First, Seventh, and Ninth French
armies were destroyed. Nobody
came out of it with any laurels save
the British navy, which somehow
succeeded in ferrying perhaps two
thirds of the British army out of
Dunkirk by means of warships,
transports, yachts, barges, and life
boats—and under heavy aerial fire.
It seemed that the German air
force fell down on this debarkation
operation, for British losses, in re
treat, were smaller than might have
been expected. Somehow, the allies
secured a temporary air supremacy
in the Dunkirk sector, and the Brit
ish Spitfire machines showed a
slight superiority to the German
Messerschmitt combat craft. Brit
ish morale, strangely enough, was
reported as excellent, but French
morale did not appear in quite so
favorable a light. The German gen
eral headquarters was strangely re
strained in its moment of triumph.
Lille, fourth city of France and its
“Pittsburgh,” was in German
hands, along with Amsterdam, Rot
terdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend,
Calais, Boulogne, The Hague, Liege,
etc. Would refugee-choked, hyster
ical Paris be next, wondered the
railbirds?
Even as these railbirds wondered,
Hitler’s warbirds came out of the
skies and rained showers of bombs
upon southern France and later
upon Paris itself. In the first at
tacks about 150 German bombers
swept over the city, dropping their
cargoes of high explosives, setting
many fires, inflicting huge property
losses and killing at least 45 persons
in Paris and its suburbs. The allies
promised to repay Germany bomb
for bomb in the new air offensive
they were launching.
NAM E S
. , . in the news
C. Former French Generalissimo
Gamelin was said to have commit
ted suicide, while General Corap,
chief of the French Ninth army de
feated at Sedan, was reported as ex
ecuted. General Bodet of the
French Medical corps got six
months in jail for abandoning his
post in the ill-fated Sedan sector.
Thus did la Republique crack down.
C. General Robert Lee Bullard, dis
tinguished U. S. army officer and
patriot, was re-elected president of
the National Security league, which
favors increased preparedness and
is strongly “anti-subversive” in its
hawkeye activities.
C. Proving that American isolation
sentiment was by no means dead,
some 7,000 earnest Catholics prayed
for peace, assembled at St. Patrick’s
cathedral in New York. With the
Catholics, members of other faiths—
peace-minded, despite war propa
ganda—participated. Here were
7,000 anonymous but highly impor
tant Names in the News,
C. Jean Batten, well-known and well
favored young aviatrix, was exhibit
ed as an ambulance driver in the
Anglo-French corps, hooked up with
the Gallic army. She looked won
derful in uniform.
Italic Notes
All private motoring stopped in
Italy, due to government conserva
tion of gas and oil. Italy has no
native petroleum, iron or coal.
Pro-Italians were jailed in Eng
land’s Mediterranean naval base,
Malta. Possession of this strategic
island is a leading Italian objective.
The English suspended Italian pa
pers read by the Italian-speaking
Maltese. A minority of Maltese
talk the ancient Carthaginian tongue
of Hannibal and his elephants.
Mussolini said he was too busy to
see U. S. Ambassador Phillips, who
was toting a message from Roose
velt. Mussolini also broke off a ship
ping deal with the English, in the
matter of illegal contraband control,
which put the shivers into London.
Italian journalists left Paris.
D. of C. AND—
W hite Housings
President Roosevelt made another
request for money. This time it
was for more than a billion, for the
army, navy and civilian train
ing program, coupled with a fear
that all continents may become in
volved in the II German war (he
did not mention Germany by name).
Roosevelt asked for specific author
ity to call up the national guard and
army reservists—if and when need
ed to “safeguard” and “defend.”
And Roosevelt asked for a corps of
dollar-a-year men, to expedite na
tional defense preparations. Also,
there came a request for a million
dollars, to expand the navy depart
ment and munitions buildings in the
capital. Talkative young Elliott
Roosevelt assailed so-called fifth
columns in Mexico. Elliott is a ra
dio executive.
War department plans called for
immediate orders to get 2,800
planes, 1,700 tanks, 500 heavy artil
lery units, and big consignments of
anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns.
The senate voted, 55-4, for anew
alien control resolution, already
passed by
the house.
The immi
gration-nat-
uralization
bureau
would be
transferred
from the de
partment of
labor to the
department
of justice.
Senators
Norris and
Wheeler, lib-
Senator Wheeler
erals opposed to the transfer, as
sailed J. Edgar Hoover and the G
men, while Wheeler censured the
current American “hysteria.”
Archibald Macleash, “radical” li
brarian of the Congressional library
at Washington, said that the II Ger
man war was not a revolt of the
masses. He said that, instead, it
was the revolt of a gang.
$65,000,000:
Battleship
The $65,000,000 battleship, Wash
ington, was launched at the Phila
delphia navy yard. It is a 35,000-
tonner—l,6oo tons bigger than any
American battleship now in opera
tion. The Washington is our first
new capital ship in 19 years. It is
750 feet long. Fifteen-year-old Vir
ginia Marshall of Spokane, great
great-great-granddaughter of Chief
Justice John Marshall, was the
Washingtonian christener. The boat
was named after her home state.
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1940.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST D. D.
Dean ol The Moody Bible Intitute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for June 16
Lesson subjects and Scripture text* *e
lected and copyrighted by International
Council ol Religious Education; uicd by
permission.
IIAGGAI URGES THE BUILDING
OF GOD’S HOUSE
LESSON TEXT—Haggal 1:212.
GOLDEN TEXT—And let u consider one
another to provoke unto love and to good
works: not forsaking the assembling of our
selves together, as the manner of some ts.
—Hebrews 10:24 . 23.
Religious work—or, more correct
ly stated, Christian work—is a dif
ficult and discouraging task, except
for the grace and blessing of God.
Not only does the Christian worker
have to struggle against that arch
enemy of God and of the souls of
men, Satan himself, but he must
overcome the deadly indifference
and carelessness of men both out
side and inside the Church. Then,
as if that were not enough, he finds
another enemy, the discouragement
of his own heart.
Haggai ministered to the Jews
who had returned from captivity
and who had begun to rebuild the
temple. Opposition had developed
before they had made more than a
beginning, and they at once gave
up and turned their interest to their
own affairs and the building of their
own homes. God was displeased by
this sinfulness on their part, and
brought judgment upon thern
through a prolonged drouth. Haggai
was called to awaken their con
science and to encourage them to
action.
I. Consider Your Ways (vv. 2-8.
9-11).
It was not necessary for the
prophet to work up any eloquent
plea to stir the conscience of the
people. He had only to point to
their own ways. They were thus
faced with three reproving facts.
1. Indifference (v. 2). They were
negligent and indifferent, saying the
time had not come to build. The
same kind of folk today are very
sure that the congregation simply
cannot afford to keep up preaching
services, or heat and light the
church for Sunday School.
2. Selfishness (v. 4). They built
for themselves ceiled houses and
lived in luxury, while God’s house
lay waste. One is reminded of our
own communities, which have
money for every conceivable com
fort and convenience, but only a few
niggardly pennies for God’s work.
3. Loss (vv. 6, 9-11). Being stingy
toward God is a losing business. He
nas only to withhold His blessing
nnd we will find ourselves destitute,
i’hat is true in the physical realm
and is even more true in the spir
tual life. Withholding from God
will always result in loss (see Prov.
11:24).
11. “Build the House” (v. G).
God’s work is constructive. He
may have to destroy and tear down,
out He only takes away the old and
•andesirable that the new and worthy
may be built. Three words stand
out here.
1. “Go.” The Lord wants His
people to get into action. Haggai
was interested in getting things go
ing. Let us follow his example.
2. “Bring.” We ate not to come
to the Lord’s service empty hand
ed. Only as He blesses do we have
anything to bring, but often we fail
to bring even that which He has
supplied.
3. “Build.” God’s work is com
mitted to us. We are to be His
builders.
111. “The People Obeyed” (v. 12).
“Behold, to obey is better than
sacrifice, and to hearken than the
fat of rams” (I Sam. 15:22). God
is looking for obedient people, and
is ready to bless and use them. The
response to Haggai’s message came
from
1. The Governor. One wonders
what progress America would make
back to God if its rulers were to
lead us in obedience to His com
mands and in seeking His face in
repentance and prayer. Thank God
for every truly spiritually minded
national leader, and pray that oth
ers may yield themselves to the con
trol of the Lord. Then came
2. The High Priest. All too often
religious leaders have actually hin
dered the work of God—and what a
hindrance they can be! We read
that in Haggai’s time the high priest
obeyed. Christian leaders, are we
too going before our people in un
questioning obedience to God? If
not, why should we not begin now?
With such leadership, we are not
surprised to hear that
3. The People Also Obeyed and
Feared God. Many capable Chris
tian workers believe that the youth
of America of our day, far from
being worse than their fathers, are
actually seeking for real spiritual
leadership.
False Christs Shall Rise
And then, if any man shall say
to you, Lo, here is Christ; or 10, he
is there, believe him not. For false
Christs, and false prophets shall
rise, and shall shew signs and won
ders, to seduce, if it were possible,
even the elect.—Mark 13: 21, 22.