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AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
Long-Haired Sheriff
PERRY OWENS,
L born in Tennessee in 1852, went
to Texas in the early seventies and
spent 11 years there as a cowboy
before becoming foreman of a cow
outfit in New Mexico. He wore his
hair long— almost to his waist—and
carried his six-shooter on his left
side, the butt pointing forward. Old
timers in the Southwest were doubt
ful whether such a “show-off” had
“real sand.”
They found out he did have when,
singlehanded, he killed three Navajo
Indian cattle thieves. Then the peo
ple of northern Arizona decided he
was the man to clean up the out
laws in their section and elected him
sheriff of Apache county in 1887.
He broke up a band of 16 cattle
rustlers after killing Ike Clanton of
Tombstone fame and two others and
capturing his brother, Finn Clanton,
leader of the gang.
But his greatest feat was his sin
gle-handed fight with four members
of the Blevans gang, one of the fac
tions in the famous Pleasant Valley
war. In this fight, which took place
in Holbrook, Perry killed three of
the four, including Andy Cooner, one
of Arizona’s most dangerous gun
fighters. It was one of the most
desperate encounters at close quar
ters in the history of the state, not
even excepting the famous fight at
the 0. K. corral in Tombstone.
Refusing re-election as sheriff,
Perry became a special agent for
the Santa Fe railroad, later express
messenger for Wells-Fargo and then
a United States marshal. He gave
up his man-hunting work in 1900
and became a business man in Sel
igman where he died in 1919.
• • *
First in Yellowstone Park
WHAT an adventure it must
have been for the first person
who saw the Yellowstone! John Col
ter, who for three years had served
in the famous Lewis and Clark ex
pedition, was the lucky man. He
had just left the party and estab
lished himself with the expedition
of Manuel Lisa from St. Louis who
traveled up the Missouri river to
trade with the Indians.
A fort was established at the Big
Horn and John Colter was sent
ahead to notify the red men. With
courage typical of that period, he
began his lone expedition into terri
tory never before trod by even the
most courageous trappers and pi
oneers of the time.
Informed by the Indians that
ahead lay a territory that was be
deviled and that they would not pen
etrate it, his curiosity and his ad
venturous spirit impelled him to ex
plore it. He was well rewarded for
records show that, in 1808, he went
through and then completely encir
cled what is now Yellowstone na
tional park.
Alone, he saw before any other
person, the boiling springs, towering
geysers and strange mineral depos
its. Not only was he a pioneer
among white men, but more adven
turous than even the red men, being
years ahead of them in risking ex
istence in a land where the earth
trembled and groaned, spouted fire
and hissed steam.
When Colter returned, he told
such an amazing story of smoking
pits and the smell of brimstone that
the men of the fort laughed at him
and told others what they thought
were ridiculous stories of “Colter’s
Hell.” it was several years before
anyone else had the courage to veri
fy his discovery.
* • •
First Arctic Explorer
gENJAMIN FRANKLIN is famous
for a long list of achievements
but one more should be added to the
list—that of patron of the first Amer
ican voyage of Arctic exploration.
Early in the Eighteenth century
16 English parliament offered a re-
A ar d °f 20,000 pounds to anyone who
Proved the existence of the fabled
Northwest Passage to Asia. A Brit
ish expedition set out in 1746 but
faded to find it.
Then Franklin helped outfit the
w-ton schooner, Argo, which set
r? r n in 1753 under the command of
apt. Charles Swaine. Sailing in
r. arch ’ tlle Argo encountered ice off
t-ape Farewell, but finally succeed
m entering Hudson’s strait in the
‘after part of June.
t , H , er o e ff? e >ce packs were so high
,f, d Swaine was forced to give up
bftcrhpt to penetrate further
1P Aard and . *° * urn bsck to the
,j_ sea , again. He then carefully
xamjnecj the coast q{ Labrador be .
etur j'. to Philadelphia where
arrived m November.
next y? ar he made a second
* a « e °. f discovery in the same
, nd ' Again he was unsuccessful
os- ;, et r ed 111 ° ct °ber with the
men ’ who wer ® killed
coast - But even
n £ ht g t^ had , failed ’ he had won fh®
Arctir 6 °* “ Birst American
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save '.. u rank “n , 8 latest biographer,
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ha | ter 111 the history of
r ® an adventure,”
* Western Newspaper Union.
Star Dust
★ Law Forces a Fake
★ ISO for Life of Child Star
U. S. Groceries to Europe
By Virginia Vale
THERE’LL be a bit of fak
ing about Principal Pro
duction’s “Way Down South,”
but it’s not the fault of the
producer, Sol Lesser. The
story of the picture is laid in
Louisiana; it deals with plan
tation life in pre-Civil war
days. One of the high lights
of the picture is a sugar cane
festival, the autumn celebra
tion that marks the comple
tion of the harvesting season.
Lesser ordered a freight car of Lou
isiana sugar cane, and thought
things were all set, when the Cali
fornia bureau of agriculture stepped
in and stopped it at the border.
Seems that “foreign” cane can’t he
brought into, the state.
So native cane from near Bakers
field will be used instead. It is
neither so heavy nor so tall as the
genuine Louisiana article, but the
art director will take care of that.
Everything else about the picture
is genuine. Bob Breen and the 50-
piece Hall Johnson choir have been
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BOBBY BREEN
rehearsing for two weeks, so that
the American Negro spiritual mu
sic will have the true beauty and
charm of the Deep South.
Peggy Ann Garner, a six-year-old
native of Los Angeles, won out over
100 other children in tests to find
just the right child to play the part
of Carole Lombard’s daughter in
“Memory of Love.” She is inex
perienced, but she has charm and
her tests were good, so she was
signed up to appear with Miss Lom
bard, Helen Vinson and Katherine
Alexander, starting, perhaps, on the
road to fame.
—* —
Of course, this matter of being a
movie star isn’t half so much fun
for a child as other children are
likely to think it is. Irene Dare,
(another six-year-old) who is work
ing in “Everything on Ice,” can tes
tify to that. She rises at 6:30 every
morning, practices skating until
eleven, then has a ballet lesson for
an hour. After lunch she has a
dramatic lesson, then another hour
of skating practice, although she is
an accomplished skater. Her spare
time is filled with fittings for cos
tumes and tests for hairdressing and
make-up.
—*—
Remember Aileen Pringle, you
folks who went to the movies in the
days of silent pictures? You’ll see
her again in “Girl From Nowhere,”
with Anne Nagel and Warren Hull.
Douglas Corrigan, the wrong-way
flier, won’t make another picture
after all, at least not for RKO. And
Eddie Cantor is not to make “The
Flying Yorkshireman” for that firm,
after all. Both plans were just
cases of misplaced enthusiasm, ap
parently.
—*
Phil Baker is probably one of the
most spoiled husbands in the world.
When he and his wife travel in Eu
rope she takes along a supply of
American groceries, because be
doesn’t like continental food.
—* —
Another radio serial will reach
the screen before so very long. It is
“Hometown,” heard over WLS,
which stars Lulu Belle and Skyland
Scotty, and will be filmed by Re
public Productions.
—*
Whenever a new engineer is as
signed to the Charlie McCarthy pro
gram he’s initiated with the same
gag. Don Ameche and Edgar Ber
gen pulled it on the latest recruit.
They stood in front of a microphone,
moving their lips but not uttering a
sound, while the engineer nearly
went wild trying to find the trouble.
ODDS AND ENDS—The CBS Hit Pa
rade now enjoys the highest rating in its
history, and Mark Warnow’s contract has
been renewed—first time a bandleader
has been retained on that program for 2f
consecutive weeks ... Walt Disney want
ed the film rights for Maeterlinck’s “Blue
bird” but 20th Century-Fox gal them
Shirley Temple will be starred in the pu
lure . . . Pat O’Brien is readying a radi <
show that will be somewhat like the cw
rent program of Edward G. Robinson . .
When Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylo
finish 44 Lady of the Tropics” they’ll star
44 Guns and Fiddles”—they teem to mak
an excellent co-starring team . . . Robei
Montgomery leaves soon for England, t
make two pictures.
(Western Newspaper UnlonJ
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAV |
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
® Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for May 21
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by InternaUonal
Council of Religloua Education: used by
permission.
BEVERAGE ALCOHOL AND THE
HOME
LESSON TEXT—Jeremlah 35:3-10; Ephe
sians 5:15-21; 8:1-4.
GOLDEN TEXT—Do not drink wine nor
strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee. —
Leviticus 10:9.
A home is more than a house, and
yet people live as though it were not
true. They build attractive houses,
fiU them with comfortable furnish
ings, and think they have a home,
no matter how they may live. God
is forgotten, pleasure becomes the
chief object in life, and money is
desired because It buys pleasure.
Intoxicants are freely used both out
side and inside the home, apparent
ly with no thought of their destruc
tive influence.
Alcohol burned in a stove produces
heat, in an engine It produces pow
er, in a man it produces disgrace
and disease, and in the home it pro
duces sorrow, suffering, and ulti
mately destruction. Why should the
decent and intelligent people of
America supinely submit to the dev
astation of this juggernaut, the liq
uor traffic? What are you doing
about it?
The lesson for today presents
three factors which make for happi
ness in the home.
I. Loyalty to Family Standards
(Jer. 35:5-10).
When the traditional standards of
a family are good and right in the
sight of God, they afford a worthy
rallying point for the younger gen
eration. The Rechabites were obe
dient to the instructions of their
forefathers. The prophet had sub
jected them to a test (not a tempta
tion, for he did not expect them to
fall) in the presence of the Jews
and in the great city of Jerusalem.
They were surrounded by the unac
customed luxury and temptations of
the city, and now the prophet tries
them further by saying, “Drink ye
wine.” But they were not afraid to
be thought old-fashioned or queer,
for they knew that the customs of
their fathers were good (see Jer.
6:16), and they stood by them.
To depend on that which is good
and noble in the past of our people
or family, is a sign neither of weak
ness nor ignorance, but rather of
wisdom and strength. What kind of
family standards will your boy and
mine look back to? What of the lit
tle baby who lay in his buggy while
the young mother helped her hus
band pick out the bottle of whisky
in the store window which he then
went in and bought? When I see
such things my heart burns within
me against this wicked business
which 1 destroys all of the finest in
men and in their homes.
11. Accuracy in Daily Living (Eph.
5:15-21).
“The Greek word rendered ‘cir
cumspectly’ 15) may be more
closely and simply rendered ‘accu
rately.’ The thought given is that of
painstaking attention to details, un
der a sense of their importance; a
remembrance not only in general
but in particular of the duties of the
Christian’s walk” (Moule).
Every phrase in this section of our
lesson is overflowing with meaning
but we cannot here refer to them
all. Note the temperance applica
tion. The man who walks accurate
ly will be “wise” (v. 15) and will
“be filled with the Spirit” (v. 18).
The inaccurate walker i? a "fool”
(v. 15), and one of his follies may
be in feeing “drunk with wine” (v.
18). But there Id far more in this
passage. Spirit-filled people know
the will of God and therefore re
deem the time. They cultivate that
delightful spiritual exercise of home
religion known as hymn singing.
Have you tried that lately? Gather
the family or friends around the or
gan or piano. Turn off the ever
present radio for a few minutes.
Open the old hymn book and sing.
Don’t overlook thankfulness in verse
20, and then try that golden recipe.
111. Unity in the Home (Eph.
6:1-4),
A united family is obviously im
possible where one member or more
gives his time and money and very
life to booze. You know and I know
that it just does not work. Think
of the havoc thus wrought not only
in the lives of the parents, but
particularly in the lives and char
acters of the children.
Let Christ reign in the home and
there will be unity. Children will
realize that it is right to obey their
godly parents. They will honor and
cherish father and mother, and God
will reward them for it (w. 2,3;
also Exod. 20:12). But what is more,
fathers will be wise enough not to
provoke their children to wrath.
Much of the trouble in our homes is
caused by disobedient children, but
sometimes I think even more of it
is caused by unwise parents. The
children need nurture and admoni
tion, but that can be done in kind
ness and with constructive results
if we seek the Lord’s help. Father,
mother, let me plead with you that
you permit no interest in business,
social life, or even church work to
come between you and your fellow
ship with your children. That is your
biggest job and your greatest op
portunity.
® AROUND I
THE HOUSE
Refrigerator Deodorant.—Put a
piece of charcoal on one of the
shelves of the refrigerator. It acts
as an absorbent for all odors and
purifies the air.
• • •
Make Shakers Work.—To keep
the metal tops of salt shakers from
corroding, cover the inside with
melted paraffine. While the par
affine is cooling the holes may be
opened with a pin.
• • •
Onion Odor.—A little mustard
rubbed into the hands after peel
ing onions, will remove the dis
agreeable odor.
• • •
Mice Avoid Camphor.—Pieces
of gum camphor placed near
books on the shelves will protect
them from mice.
• • •
Hot Water Marks.—Should you
spill hot water on a polished table
and it leaves a mark, rub it gen
tly with spirits of camphor and
finish off with a gentle rubbing of
furniture polish.
• • •
Waste Tea—Pour left-over tea
into a bottle, add a drop or two of
glycerine, and use for cleaning
windows.
• • •
Easy on the Curtains.—Before
washing net or lace curtains, steep
overnight in a tub of cold water to
which has been added half a cup
ful of ammonia. This draws out
the dirt without soap and rubbing.
Next morning rinse the curtains
and squeeze through warm suds.
ASK ME O A Quiz With Answers \
y Offering Information
A NQiM P» n I on Various Subjects
*
1. Which is correct, “Share it
between you” or "Share it among
you”?
2. Of what English king was it
said that "He never said a foolish
thing, nor ever did a wise one”?
3. How many pieces to the av
erage motor car?
4. How many persons are neces
sary to constitute a riot?
6. What is the difference be
tween scissors and shears?
6. Which is the world’s longest
river.
7. What is the origin of notches
in coat lapels?
8. What is the difference be
tween an alligator and a croco
dile?
9. Are there any round
churches?
The Answers
1. "Between you” for two peo
ple. "Among you” for more than
two people.
2. Charles 11.
3. There are approximately 17,-
645 pieces assembled in an aver
age motor car, according to Mill
and Factory.
4. In law, three or more persons.
6. The cutting blqde should be
gix inches before scissors can be
called shears.
6. The Missouri-Mississippi—
-4,502 miles.
Premier Has Done the
Lion's Share of Work
A photograph of the Australian
premier with his wife and their 11
children appeared recently in a
Danish newspaper.
"Prime Minister Colonizing,”
was the title of the picture. Then
the story below the scene went on
to say: “Australia is a very thinly
populated country. The English
government is there**??? doing ev
erything possible to promote Col
onization, and excellent work in
this direction has already been
accomplished by the Australian
prime minister (Mr. Lyons). He
is seen here with his wife and 11
children.”
He should have the premier
award I
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7. The notch is said to have orig
inated through the rivalry of Gen
eral Moreau with Napoleon, Mo
reau’s followers having devised it
as a secret badge of their parti
sanship.
8. The snout of an alligator is
shorter and broader than that of
a crocodile and the teeth are set
in the jaw differently.
9. England has five, the larg
est being the Temple church in
London.
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