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W,r York Ringside: of us wondered how the Louis- „° nne rK0 fight films would real blow get wasn’t a truck in Round One and not much JJrting finish. in the following rounds un¬ til the awful dull.’ “Ihe movies will be taid a fellow. “They'd look a lot better, said wag, “with Lana Turner!” , Oracle Allen, the fight expert of Burns & Allen, was among the Working Press section in Row A When the 6th round ended, she ho-hum'd: “Only nine more rounds to go 1 ” • Sherman Billingsley was • the the guest of Prof. Runyon at ringside. The Stork man was thrilled about getting a “free” seat. He bought $1,000 worth of $100 ducats, which he gave to friends. After round two (in which Conn irked the champ with some fancy hoop-la) Louis gave Conn the most refrigerated glare since Sonja Henie iced Dan Topping. . . . When In¬ come Tax Collector Nunan met heavy taxpayer Ann Sheridan, she groaned: “Hullo, boss.” ... As the gambling wiseacres put it: "Never bet against a champion—until he Admiral Halsey was irked over an editorial in a mid-western paper, which rapped his former Comdr., Harold Stassen. . . . The editorial¬ ist inaccurately stated that Stassen "hid behind Halsey’s skirts.” "That’s the damndest tommyrot I ever heard of,” barked the Admiral. "It was just the other way ’round! I was far behind Stassen’s ship when the Japs dropped bombs on it —killing 75 of Stassen’s crew!” Gen. Eisenhower has a new style of answering politicos who are try¬ ing to get him to give some hint on whether he’d consider running for President on the Repub ticket. He refers them to his wife, who says: “I don’t like politics.” . . . While Uncle Sam sends vast hunks of our fleet to Bikini for destruction—the Brit¬ ish continue to build up their navy. .. . The king without a throne (Leo¬ pold of Belgium) will figure in a story out of Switzerland where he plans to white-wash his war record with some sort of defense. . . . The National City Bank has purchased a plot of land in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and paid more for it than they paid for their Wall Street headquarters. ... A Boston firm recently bought a million and a half surplus knives, forks and spoons from the gov’t. Then they stamped them: “Stolen from the U. S. Army.” They sold like mad to war vets who like to boast. A group of Soviet engineers have arrived in the U. S. “to study public works systems,” under the tutelage of the Federal Works Agency. . . . They’ll visit Chi, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. They are “interested” in bridges, streets and highways. ... Is dot zoh? . . . If the Army-Navy merger goes through (which insiders believe it won’t), Stuart Symington will be Secy of Nat’l Defense . . . Lots of big shots are reported loaded with Mexican gold. They keep it to circumvent the ruling about posses¬ sing American gold coins. . . . You’d be amazed at the number of big- shot American writers and others who pay no taxes by living in Cuba —and continue selling pieces up here. And for good reason, too. Au¬ thors often use four years to write a book, and if it’s any good, it is a best-seller. Then they are taxed heavily the year they are paid— rot the four years devoted to doing the work. Silhouettes About Town: Admiral Ralsey, in mufti, at the Stork with his daughter, Mrs. Lee Spruance, Hirrah-shim-mah confirming that it is pronounced not Hiro-shee-mer. • • • When we reported that months 8go a Navy lad “corrected.” Youthful . . Lord Lascelles (King Geo’s revview), one of England's greatest catches,” lunching unrecognized at he Colony. Gen. Hap Arnold . . a tweed get-up at the same spot. • • Jimmy McLarnin, who furious- y fought Tony Canzoneri many lmes at the Garden, embracing him a boots’ . D. Runyon shopping . a Hanson’s drug store unrecognized y some of the kerrickters he got rich writing about. Prof. Albert Hinstein, . . . New York’s top answer to -ngland’s BevingTate. Dudley . . *gges, the first to be signed for ^gcn J?irrv P e * ay O'Neill’s J “Ice Man Goldstyne, Com- ‘ ‘ ’ ac( l ues ‘Is good-will man-about-town, in ° f v * sitin £ Ingrid Bergman. Ip 5 t ^ bettor matr a probably the was the heav- lf s. p on fight in these u t a skyscraper bundle on i* ‘ ‘ • • G. O. Welles’ best trick new show ("Around the ° * s niaking the critics eat t P rT ^? views co-star • • Paul • In “Born Yes- * Douglas rips nip ev eral Phone tomes easy as *ithout that Paul Douglas couldn’t . this trick), but if you bake two book you can tear in mi .. ltkou t much exertion. A * ... to ontest t ress designer is expected Major Bowes’ will. anct he /. A- mu OVQ PtGGV £>r * /?/V W.tM.U. RELEASE en- tered the house quietly, when she re¬ turned from aiding Martha. Tim Mac- Tavlsh awaited her, declaring she had been out with Tom Fallon. "You are in love with him.” Jim again attempted to get her to sejl the farm, but she re¬ fused angrily. The next day Larry came for lunch and afterward they walked to¬ gether to the ridge. Larry told her that he knew she loved the old farm, for he loved it too. He told her he did not want her to sell the place, and declared he wanted to marry her whether they lived In Pleasant Grove or In the county seat. He kissed her lightly and laughed, "1 can’t say I blame you for not wanting to give all this up.” CHAPTER VIII They went hand in hand up the path and to the fiat rock that crowned the very top of the hill. Megan sat down and Laurence fol¬ lowed her to the rock. They sat closa together for a moment, looking out over the scene spread below them. Megan knew the thought that was In his mind, and she tried hard to marshal all her arguments so that he could understand; but when he turned his head and looked at her, and smiled, he said quietly, “I can’t *ay I blame you for not being will- ig to give all this up! We are go- ig to be very happy here.” Megan felt as though she had tak- i a step in the dark and plunged jadlong Into space. She could only stare at him, wide-eyed, her mouth open a little. Laurence laughed and leaned forward and kissed her. “Did you think, darling, that I’ve known you almost your whole life and been in love with you since I was fifteen, and didn't know what your own land meant to you?” he asked her quietly. “I admit that 1 was fool enough to hope, for just a little while, that you loved me enough to be happy in Meaders- ville. But when you telephoned me in alarm because you had been of¬ fered what we both know is a very generous price for the land, and you didn’t want to take it—well, I faced facts then and got busy to see about just what could be done. Be¬ cause make no mistake about it, my love—you’re going to marry me, whether we live in Meadersville or Pleasant Grove!” There were quick tears in her eyes, but she smiled tremulously. “Thank you for understanding, Larry,” she told him huskily. “It’s —a tremendous relief.” Laurence frowned as though not luite sure that he liked that. “You mean you didn’t think I vould understand?” he protested. “Well, for Pete's sake, why not? Aft- *r all, we’ve grown up together. These last years since your mother died, I’ve watched you fighting drouth and flood and hail, boll wee¬ vil and corn borer and blue mold and chinch bug—when it would have been so much easier to give up and sell out. Don’t you suppose during those years, I’ve come to un¬ derstand what the place means to you? And to be frank with you— I’m kind of fond of the old place my¬ self! Never having owned a square foot of real estate in my life, hav¬ ing grown up on a sharecropper’s place—the thought of becoming a landowner—in partnership, anyway —seems pretty swell!” He grinned at her and said hastily, “Not of course that I want you to get the idea that I’m merely mar¬ rying you for your farm—perish the thought! I’d marry you if you didn't "lave a foot of land!” She laughed and let him kiss her. And at first, that seemed quite sat¬ isfactory to Laurence; but after a little he let her go, and sat looking down at the rich dark earth, where his heel was absently digging a hole. “Then you’re not In love with me. after all,” he said quietly, and there was a note in his voice that caught at her heart. She stared at him, blinking in amazement. “What in the world—why do you—” she stammered. “I’m not exactly a blind fool, Meg- gie,” he said evenly. “I admit I don’t know a heck of a lot about women; but I do know that when a girl is in love, she is not only kissed —but kisses, in return.” The color burned in Megan’s face, but her eyes met his straightly. “I—kissed you, Larry,” she told him unsteadily. He shook his head. kiss Meggie, ’ “You let me you, he returned. “There s a big differ- ence.” and then she There was a silence, “I’m-sorry, dear. ’ aaid unevenly, be “There’s nothing for you to '»rry about, Meggie. If you don’t ove me. you don’t, and it’s plain hat you don’t.” His voice sounded Ired. of . Larry, „ _very fond you, ^legan said quietly. “Thanks, Meggie,” he answered quietly. “But I’m afraid that’s not quite enough.” her breakaway And then, taking by the unexpectedness of it, he asked, “Is there someone else, Meggie?” met his glance. Wide-eyed, she “But—how could there be some¬ one else?” she protested. reminded “I’m asking you, he er# question, Larry "H'g _it’s a crazy I don’t know anyone else,” she pointed out. “That’s not quite flattering,” he assured her, and now he seemed amused at her confusion and her bewilderment. “Never mind, dar¬ ling. We’ll let it go, for now. But I wouldn t want you to marry me, Meggie, unless you felt a little about me as I feel about you. I guess I don’t quite expect you to be—well, as much in love with me as I am with you; the wise people who claim to know about such things claim that one person in every marriage cares more deeply than the other. I don t mind a bit if I love you more than you love me. Maybe that’s the way it should be. I’m afraid I’m not wise enough to decide that. I only know that unless you're—more than just fond of me—It wouldn’t work out.” Megan said faintly, “You mean you want to break off the engage¬ ment, Larry?” “Do you, Meggie?” he asked quietly. “Why—why—no, Larry—of course not,” she stammered, and put out a hand in a helpless gesture. “I_I She shot Megan an oblique look and then came out frankly with what was on her mind. think I’ve always expected that we’d be married some day. It’s—well, I’ve sort of grown up with that thought. Maybe—could it be that that’s the reason you don’t think I love you enough?” “It isn’t that I think you don’t love me, Meggie — I know you don’t,” he told her. “I’ve tried to kid myself that you did, and tried to hope that once we were actually engaged, you’d—well, warm up to me a little. But when you thought of setting a date for our marriage and realized that you couldn't give up the farm or the dogs and cats apd cows and chickens, to make a new life with me somewhere—or any¬ where!—that was all I needed to convince me that you’re not ready to marry me yet. If you loved me as I love you, Meggie, nothing in the world would be as important to you as being with me—anywhere, anyhow.” He broke off as though searching for words with which to make his thoughts clear to her. “It isn’t that I’d want you to make even the smallest sacrifice to be with me, Meggie,” he pointed out. “It’s just that if you loved me the only way I could want you to—you’d be willing to sacrifice anything and everything just so that we could be together. Do you understand, Meg¬ gie?” She was still for a moment, and then reluctantly she nodded and said faintly, “Yes, darling — I under¬ stand.” “Then we’ll leave It at that, for the present,” said Laurence as he stood up and drew her to her feet. “And now Annie will be sending out a searching party for us if we don’t hurry,” he added, smiling, deliber¬ ately breaking the growing tension, struggling for a lighter tone. Suddenly, a mist of tears In her eyes, Megan turned to him impul¬ put her hands on either side of his lean, pleasant brown face and stood on tiptoe to set her mouth, cool and fresh and sweet, on his. Involuntarily hi% arms went about holding her close and hard him. His mouth on hers urgent, demanding, seeking a that, after a moment, he with a sick certainty, was not And then he released her, at her, his face pale and set, and half under his breath he said “Thank you, darling.” Annie was Just finishing the last for the midday dinner they reached the house, and came in, well-groomed and deb¬ quite as usual, as they were to sit down. He greeted Laurence with an ur¬ that was almost patronizing, Improved SUNDAY Uniform SCHOOL International LESSON-- By HAROLD L. LUNDQUTST, D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for July 14 Lesson subjects and Scripture International texts se¬ lected and copyrighted by used by Council of Religious Education; permission. JESUS AND SUPREME LOYALTY TO GOD LESSON TEXT—Exodus 20:3-6; Joshua 24-16. 22-24; Luke 14:25-27. MEMORY SELECTION—No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one. and love the other; or else he will hold to the one. and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mam¬ mon.—Matthew 6:24. The first three commandments bring man into the presence of God. where he is taught how to worship God in spirit and in truth. "The first commandment (Exod. 20:3) bids us worship God exclu¬ sively; the second (vv. 4-6) bids us worship him spiritually. The first commandment forbids us to wor¬ ship false gods; the second forbids us to worship the true God under false forms” (Farrar). We shall lose much of the value of our lesson if we confine the ap¬ plication of it to Israel. We miss the point if we think only of the gods of wood and stone which the heathen worship and fail to apply the truth to any and all idol wor¬ ship of our day. The loyalty to God of which our lesson text teaches may be sum¬ marized in four words. It is a loy¬ alty of I. Purpose (Exod. 20:3). Jehovah means, "I will be what I will be,” or “I am that I am.” (Exod. 3:14). His very name de¬ clares God to be the self-existent, eternal one. How infinitely gracious then is the use of the word "thy” in Exodus 10:2! He—the great I AM—is my God, a personal God. It must be our constant purpose to worship him only. There are many things concern¬ ing which we do not speak dogmat¬ ically. There are even Christian doctrines about which spiritual and earnest men may honestly differ, but regarding God we say with ab¬ solute assurance and complete ex¬ clusiveness—there is but one true God. If he is what he claims to be, if God is not to be declared to be a liar, then it is beyond the realm of possibility that there could be any other God. Hear it, men and women of Amer¬ ica who in an enlightened land and age bow down in heathenish wor¬ ship “before the god of gold, the god of self, the god of wine, the god of success, the god of fame, the goddess of pleasure, the god of licentiousness.” The one true god says, “I am Jehovah. . . . Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” II. Performance (Exod. 20:4-6). What is in the heart must show in the life. The second command¬ ment calls for the undivided devo¬ tion and worship of man. It expressly forbids idolatry in any form. The injunction is twofold. (1) Men are forbidden to make any material likeness which to them represents a being to be worshiped. It matters not whether it be an image of what men believe God to be like, or the image of an angelic being, a heavenly body, in fact, “anything that is in the heaven above,” or on the earth, such as a man or animal; or under the wa¬ ter, such as a fish. (2) If such ob¬ jects have been made either by our¬ selves or others we may not bow down to them, nor render any serv¬ ice to them. Let us all examine our religious ceremonies and practices in the light of God’s commandment. Observe that obedience to this command brings rich blessing to "thousands” (v. 6), whereas dis¬ obedience is a curse not only to the man who disobeys, but also to his descendants. III. Promise (Josh. 24:16, 22-24). Before the aged leader of Israel came to the close of his life he called leaders of the people, whom he had led in the taking of the Promised Land, and urged them to continue in the way of faith and loy¬ alty to God. They promised rather readily, but he made clear to them that God was not interested in lip service. They were to prove their promise by putting away all strange gods. This they agreed to do. Wherein they failed, they suffered defeat, and wherein they kept their prom¬ ise, God blessed them. We may learn from their experience. IV. Practice (Luke 14:25-27). It is not always necessary to choose between our natural affec¬ tions for those near to us and our loyalty to Christ, but if the time comes tor that decision, Christ must come first without question and without hesitation (cf. Matt. 10:37). The word “hate” (v. 26) does not carry with it any thought of malice or personal dislike. We know from other scriptures that we are to hon¬ or our father and our mother (Exod. 20:12). The one who fails his own is declared to be worse than an infidel (I Tim. 5:8). The point is that no personal loy¬ alty or responsibility is to stand in the way of our devotion to Christ. Our own lives must be counted as a glad sacrifice to him as we take up our cross—in the crucifixion of self-will and devotion to his will (see Gal. 2:20; 6:14).. but after a few moments he said briskly, “Well, Larry, my boy, 1 hope you’ve been able to persuad* this girl of mine to be sensible." Laurence answered lightly, 'T’rc not sure I feel that she needs anj persuasion along such lines. I’v« always considered Meggie a very sensible young woman!” Jim tried to laugh, patting his crisply barbered gray mustache lightly with his napkin. “Sensible young woman? That hardly sounds as loverlike as I would have expect¬ ed under the cirumstances!” “Oh, I’m a very sensible young man,” Laurence assured him pleas¬ antly. “And sensible young men don’t go in for a lot of romantic nonsense, nowadays.” “Don’t they, now?” Jim was elab¬ orately surprised. “Well, of course, things have changed a lot since my day! But seriously, I feel that we have a splendid offer for this place, and since you and Meggie won’t be able to run It yourselves, and a tenant is very unsatisfactory—” “Megan seems to feel that It would be best for us not to be mar¬ ried for another year,” Laurence said gently. “And therefore, she will want to run the place herself this year, at least.” “Another year, eh?” he said at last. “Sorry—thought you two were In love with each other and had been waiting several years for you to get a start so that you could get married!” “As I said before, we are sensible young people, Meggie and I. Slow and sure is our motto,” Laurence told him. Jim’s jaw set and he made a pre¬ tense of eating, but after a little he looked at his watch, thrust his chkir back, and asked to be excused un¬ der the plea of an engagement. They heard the outer door close behind him with a bang that threatened Its old-fashioned glass panel. “I’m afraid he’s upset,” Lau¬ rence’s words were wry with un¬ derstatement. “He won’t try to make things difficult for you?” “Goodness, no—and if he does, it won’t matter. I’m not in the least afraid of him!” She laughed at the very idea. Laurence nodded. “But if there should ever be anything to—well, to make you feel you need help—you’ll remember my telephone number?” he reminded her. “Of course—didn’t I yell for you the minute I thought Matthews was going to insist on that commission?” In the next few weeks, life in Pleasant Grove, on the surface at least, was entirely normal. The draft called up more and more young men for the armed services; several girls registered for the Cadet Nurses’ Training Corps; Bud Harrison’s oldest girl, twenty-year-old Marianna, joined the WAC; Preacher Martin, beloved and feared for his “straight talk¬ ing’ ” to evildoers and the like, fell on his front steps and broke his leg; the Jordans, over behind Turkey Bend, had another baby. But there were currents under¬ neath that popped above the sur¬ face now and then, and to no one’s very keen surprise, Alicia Steven¬ son seemed to have a large part In them. Her malicious tongue, her sly little smile that hinted at so much she did not say, the way she had of always being in the very middle of any untoward event, filled people with angry unease. “It’s got so a body ain’t safe in their own home nights, with that woman snoopin’ around,” Mrs. Stuart complained to Megan one afternoon as they sat sewing before the fire that the chill rain made very welcome. She shot Megan an oblique look and then came out frankly with what was In her mind. “I can’t Imagine what your paw sees in her, anyhow.” Megan dropped the tablecloth she was mending and stared at Mrs. Stuart. “My father?” she gasped incred¬ ulously. Mrs. Stuart sniffed and set an unusually sharp stitch in the diaper she was hemming for the newest “Jordan youngun.” “Well, if you don’t know that the way your paw’s runnin’ after that Stevenson woman is the talk of the town, it’s high time you was finding out, I say,” she snapped belllget- ently. "They’re always ridin' around In that car o’ hers—and where she gets the gas, nobody seems to know, but folks say it’s 'black market’ and she gits all she can pay fer—or what your paw can pay fer.”' Megan said curtly, “My father does not patronize ‘black markets’ for gasoline or anything else.* And I doubt very much whether he has seen Mrs. Stevenson more than half a dozen times—” “Half a dozen times would be a-plenty, with some folks,” Mrs. Stuart cut in as curtly. Later, when Mrs. Stuart had gone, Megan got up and went out to the kitchen. She thought Annie looked at her covertly, but she couldn’t be sure until suddenly, as though she could no longer keep her words to herself, Annie said, "Miz’ Stuart’s right, Miss Meggie—folks is talkin about Mist’ Jim an’ dat Miz’ Ste¬ venson—” “That will do, Annie,” said Me¬ gan sharply. (TO BE CONTINUED* Gems of Thought T^O what NOT be ashamed not ashamed to say you are to think.—Montaigne. Character is what we are in the dark. 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