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(d ED URSIIS These letters, ang millions of| Almost immediately, it beâ€" others, are in the files of a reâ€" came clear that they had been markable 39â€"yearâ€"old organiZaâ€" ‘right in thinking the depressionâ€" tion, the Lutheran Laymen‘s ridden public was in the mood League, sponsor of the first regâ€" for a hardâ€"hitting religious proâ€" ular religious program to be gram. Four years later it went broadcast on radio. The proâ€" |international, and . today The ,gram is The Lutheran Hour, |Lutheran Hour is heard over pioneer of all the church proâ€" (1,250 stations, in 56 languages grams on the air today. and in 65 countries. More than Behind the League stands one ]20,000.000 listenâ€" in each week, of America‘s most contradictory ‘and the â€" yearly | letter â€" count religious groups â€" a . strange|stands at well over half a milâ€" blend of fiercely orthodox theâ€" |lion. ology and enlightened social ‘_ Many ot the listeners are beâ€" philosophy. â€" It is The Lutheran hind the Iron Curtain. Recently, Churchâ€"Missouri Synod. *ia speaker ventured the hope ‘Those who know of the Synod‘s |that listeners would say "Amen" rigid adherence to doctrine find |to a declaration of faith in God it hard to believe that one of its During the next few days, hunâ€" bodies, the Lutheran Human dreds of postcards arrived from Relations Association in Amerâ€"!behind the Curtain. All were ica, recently urged colleges to unsigned,. naturally, and bore force fraternities and sororities |just one word: "Amen." to eliminate race and nationalâ€" Much of the program‘s sucâ€" ity restrictions. â€" _jcess in its early yeafs is attriâ€" a woman of easy The words he heard turned his lust to fear, then to repentâ€" ance. Five minutes later he made a Uâ€"turn; five days later he joined the church and began a new Christian life. He wrote the radio program about it. the _ radio against | adultery. While millions listened in their homes, a man was driving along i Church Broadcast Heard By Millions *That same day, in an adjoinâ€" ing state, another listener put away a shotgun he had loaded to blow out the brains of his divorced wife. He too wrote the program. to eliminate race and nationalâ€" Much of the program‘s sucâ€" ity restrictions. |cess in its early yeafs is attriâ€" The story of the. Missouri buted to Dr. Maier, a flamboy. Synod goes back to 1839, when |ant man of God who apparently the first Lutherans arrived from |never really believed he could Germany and settled in Perry be heard on the air unless he County, Missouri. Eight years shouted at the top of his lungs. later. 37 of their leaders. zealous | _ Nor was he one to spare the for "The pure and uncorrupted | sinners. He _ never ‘minced explanation of the divine word," | words.. In â€" the â€" broadcasting met in Chicago and combined booth he would strip to his unâ€" their 12 congregations and 22 dershirt for greater comfort, carâ€" ministers in the Missouri SynoQ ing not for dignity where the Those early builders of the Synod had missionary ardor in full measure, but even they could ‘not have foreseen today‘s 5.000 .churches and more than 2.000,000 members; or that the Synod would become a leader in the use of a yet unborn mediâ€" um of communication. It was tne 85,000 memoper Luâ€" theran Laymen‘s League, »comâ€" posed largely of shrewd Midâ€" west businessmen and ~fdrmers, that helped the Synod: become the second largest Lutheran body in the country. In 1930, perhaps the most important year of the Synod‘s history, the Leaâ€" & .» RIBBONS AIN‘T MAY! â€" This prize heifer moos.loud and tong to let everyone know that winning two blue ribbons isn‘t enough to keep her happy. She‘s hungry, and ith long past chow time. als. He too |to "cultivate a faith built {)n the cdr radio.|sure promises of the Bible, not ard turned |on hoarded wealth and guiltâ€" to repentâ€" Iodged investments." â€" Neverthe. ; later hejless, it was lack of wealth and days later |investments, . "guiltâ€"edged" . or and began’otherwise, that almost starved _ He wrote |The Lutheran Hour in its cradle. pout it. |Radio time was monstrously exâ€" an adjoin. bensive, and in 1931 the proâ€" stener put |Eram went off the air. had loaded > But the Lutherans had faith ains of his in the program and by 1935 they o wrote the had raised enough money to get lit back on the air. C Dr. Hoffmanr is fiercely deâ€" d termined .that the Synod shall o)get the last penny ofwalue from .)a radio program | that â€" costs i,131.30'(\),000"n“yelr. And "value" gue started The Lutheran Hour over a 32â€"station network, "to bring Christ to a troubled wor _ The Hour‘s first speaker, Dr.i Walter A. Maler, urged listeners | Nor was he one to spare the| sinners. _ He â€" never ‘minced‘ words... In â€" the â€" broadcasting | booth he would strip to his unâ€"| dershirt for greater comfort, carâ€" | ing not for dignity where the work of God was concerned. At| his death in 1950, even unbeâ€"| lievers who had smarted under | his words had come to respect | him as a devoted and selfless servant of Christ. ‘fo millions, Dr. Maier was The Lutheran Hour. With his passing. the program seemed to lose much of its impact, alâ€" though ‘the various guest speakâ€" ers who followed were outâ€" standing ministers. The son of a Nebraska minâ€" ister, Dr. Hoffmann holds deâ€" grees in the arts and divinity. and was ordained in 1939. For |seven years he taught Latin and ‘Greek. gradually becoming a Ikey figure. in Missouri Synod ‘counsels. When The Lutheran |Hour situation became crucial, \Dr. Hoffmann got the call. | Since his radio ministry beâ€" ‘gan, Dr. Hoffmann has had to ‘spend much of his time away |from his wife Marcia and their four children, Peter. Paul, John, ‘and Katherine Ann who was (born three weeks before he took ‘over the program. Then last September a new and vibrant‘ voice was heard, and word spread that The Luâ€" theran: Hour was back on the rails. The voice belonged to Dr. Oswald Hoffmann, an unusual combination of,. goodâ€"natured, relaxed extrovert, scholar and passionate man of the Lord. Dr. Hoffmann is more than six feet tall and heavyâ€"set but he moves swiftly and easily. His broad face and high foreâ€" head are +eminiscent of the late author, Thomas Wolfe. Also like Wolfe, he possesses great phyâ€" sical vigor which comes over the airwaves with dramatic ef. fect. Yet he manages to avoid histrionics, and he attracts the educated and sophisticated as well as the average listener, At 42, Dr. Hoffmann has a highly successful record as director of ‘public relations for the Missouri Synod, a job he retains. About half the program‘s budâ€" get goes for foreign broadcasts. to Dr. Hoffmann lies in the Biblical injunction to "preach the Gospel to every creature." n;‘t;/ Incidentally, for a,. strictly For nonâ€"gambling group, the Syngd ang |overlooks no bets. One of its g a members, Mrs. Cart Deitemeyer nod {of Lincoln, Nebraska, was named erap |"Mrs. America of 1956" Worried icial, | Lutherans were, of course, inâ€" "formed that a bathing suit apâ€" be_;pearance was not involved in 4 to the Mrs. America competition. way | _ This Is The Life has one great thei‘_}.’sdvamalge over The‘ Lutheran ohn, |Hourâ€"it gets free .time as a was TV "public service" program. topk |The Lutheran Hour must pay, {but to the Lutheran Church â€" ge. | Missouri Synod, it‘s worth every shal) |cent it costs. It would more fmm)than ju;ti(y its expense, they costs Say. if it brought only one soul Auan (to Christ.â€"From "Coronet" | THREEâ€"WAY INSPIRATION â€" Courage of Sanford Shaleen and | 1 two devices developed by fellow engineers of Minneapolis | | Honeywell form a threeâ€"way picture of inspiration. Stricken with ' | polio three years ago, Shaleen cammove only his head and feet. | A movement of his head actuates device developed by his comâ€" | |rades which turns pages of technical paper on easel at right. Touch of his toe on an employeâ€"developed switch at foot of bed | nergizes dictating machine and Shaleen records through microâ€" | | phone near his head. With aid of the machines he completes review of a vast amount of material each week. In the U. S., The Lutheran Hour usually originates from: |Station KFUO on the campus of ‘Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The Mutual network and a number of indeperident stations carry it at varying hours every |Sunday to every state. of the ‘Union. In Texas, 56 stations use the program; North Carolina is lrunnerâ€"up with 36. 1 A substantial portion of the {mail trom listeners comes to the \League‘s St. Louis office where {75 fullâ€"time employees are kept busy handling it and other Luâ€" theran Hour business. Many of the letters seek personal advice; land these are either answered | from the . Louis office by |elergymen with counselling exâ€" For _ most, _ transcriptions are‘f made in this ‘country by multi. lingual ministers or United Na:, tions â€" translators. â€" The results have been excellent. Japanese stations, for instance, draw 200,â€" 000 letters yearly, and 90 per cent of the writers enroll in the| Bible Correspondence _ Course‘ oftered during the program.‘ Radio Goa receives letters in | such Jndian regional‘ languages‘l as Gujarati, Kanavese, Marathi, Punjabi. Pushtu, Tamil, Telu'iguj and Urdu. Radio Ceylon has reâ€" | ceived mail from=lIceland, half‘ a world away. The Missouri Synod has not neglected the possibilities of TV either. Four years ago. This Is The Life, the serialized story of the devoutly Lutheran Fisher Family, had its premiere. Toâ€" day it is seen weekly on more than 250 stations. Critics have called This Is The Life a religious soapâ€"opera. But 10,000,000 people watch and love the Fishers as they manage to get involved. directly or indiâ€" rectly, with an airplane crash, a fixed basketball game. a case of amnesia, an automobile: acci. dent, and various other difficulâ€" ties and disasters. / Why Proofreaders Die Young! From The Society Page in the Los Angeles Daily News: "Mr. and Mrs. Morris broke the recâ€" ord for bedded bliss when they celebrated their. 70th weddmg anniversary." Hedda Hopper, reporting in the St. Louis Globéâ€"Demoerat: Kathâ€" ryn Grayson had better start seducing «if she hopes to wear that wedding dress she had fitted a couple of months ago." From a Brooklyn Eagle soâ€" ciety page: "Mr. and Mrs. â€"â€" anâ€" nounced the betrayal of their daughter, Doris. to â€"â€"" Excerpt From A Movie Reâ€" view in the Dubuque, Towa, Telegraph Herald: "Eleanor Parker plays ‘opposite him in this birthâ€"provoking adventure in modern marriage." From A News Column in the Fairmont, Minnesota, Sentinal: "Mr and Mrs. â€" left Wednesâ€" day for Rochester, where Mrs â€" expects to have a garter reâ€" moved by the Mayo Brothers." A woman never forgets the men she could have had:; a man the women he couldn‘t. ‘Rickety Jalopies Abound Over ‘Ome A shudder spread through the dozen or so really old jalopies which are parked. amiong the more modern cars of members of Parvliament in the yard under the shadow of Big Ben. At least that‘s what some of us in the press gallery of the House of Commons imagined this week when we heard that the government had finally decided it must do something about enâ€" suring that 2,000,000 or so overâ€" age motorcars, motor bikes, and trucks are safe to drive. MP‘s motorcars are a pFiViâ€" stains will quickly disappear. leged class. They have large red : Q, How long should fish be parliamentary insignia displayed / cboked? on their windshields. They have! A,. A pound of thick fish adequate parking space, which \should be baked from ten to fifâ€" is more than the average LODâ€" teen, minutes: thick halibut or don car has. Some ofâ€"therm are sa)mon should be boiled. per very sleek and luxurious. | pound, fifteen minutes; filets or But, my word, a few of them |steaks should be fried from, four are old. * ‘to seven minutes. The fish is There are twoo classes of | sufficiently cooked when it can There are two classes . of very old parliamentary jalopies. There is the class headed by Lady Tweedsmuir‘s 1934 Pontiac coupe. This is a sort of museum piece, beautifully maintained. Lady Tweedsmuir told this parliamentary reporter the othâ€" er day that there was both a sentimental and an economic factor in her keeping this old car. Despite its being 22 years old, it goes well, and besides, there are &o many other calls on her purse, writes Peter Lyne. * But there are other old parliaâ€" mentary jalopies which would appear to an outsider to be little short of a disgrace, belonging, as they do, to men and women charged with the task of runâ€" ning the nation. Lookins at these cars and making a cna judgâ€" Arrow, in picture at right, indicates position of an Fâ€"89 jet apâ€" proaching another plane on a collision coures. It is only one mile â€" four seconds awayâ€"from the horizonâ€"filling view of imâ€" ninent disasterâ€"seen at bottom. Pictures, released with a Budget Bureau report, are intended to emphasize need for adoption of a recommended master plan for air traffic control. According to the report 90,000 military and civilian planes now operate in North America. Passenger airliners alone have an average of four nearâ€"collisions a day. according to the document. All other airborne traffic is said to confront similar ‘potential danger. !_ A. Mix 1 quart of boiled linâ€"| seed oil, 6 gills of turpentine, 6| {tablespoontfuls of burnt sienna.‘ ‘and 4 tablespoonfuls of whiting. Q. How can I renew old silks‘.’l A. Place the silks in a tub of |cold water for an hour. Dip | |them up and down frcquemly.I |but do‘not wring them. Hang | ‘them up to drip, and iron while ; they are still wet. _ ( |_ A. Use a good white soap tor {dish washifng. It not only bene. ‘fits the hands, but is good for ithe fine china and glassware. Q. How can I make a cherry stain? A. Do not move a cake in the oven until it has risen to its full beight. Cakes require a "moderâ€" ate" oven. The larger the cake. the "slower" the oven should be. A. By mixing one: ounce of flour of sulphur, dissolved in one quart of soft water. Do not use until thoroughly mixed and settled. Apply at night. Q. How can I bake better cakes? Q. How can 1 remove egg stains from silver? Q. What kind of soap should be used for dishwashing? A. By â€" rubbing vigorously with coftimon table salt; the stains will quickly disappear. Nelson Crebassa was driving down a moonlit road in the state of Washington recently when he witnessed a most unusual sight. A dark shadow swooped down â€" out of the heavens, touched a speeding" car ahead, and made off with something in its claws. Both Crebassa and the driver of the other car stopped their vehicles to see what the bird had stolen. It was a «squirrel tail, snatched from an aerial on the lead car by a hungry owl! be _ bone easily separated from the Hungry Owl to the interior of the country will always be barred by this escarpment. Trains must laboriâ€" ously ascend it in zigzag grades, and~vessels that attempt to sail up any of Africa‘s rivers sooner or later find> their passage blocked either by rapids or by enormous waterfalls. This is the major cause of the delay in exâ€" ploration which resulted in Afâ€" rica‘s being known the world over as the Dark Continent. Although averaging 2.000 feet above sea level, the great conâ€" tinental plateau of Africa is by No matter where the traveler lands in Africa, his progress inâ€" LAST LAUGH â€" French artists put the finishing touches to papier mache figures which Wwill swirl through the gayety of Mardi Gras time at Nice. The worldâ€"famous, weekâ€"long carniâ€" val reaches its climax on Shrove Tuesday, the eve of Ash Wedâ€" nesday, when the penitential season of Lent begins. no means level; and while there their investments, convinced are no great mountain ranges that Violet would return them such as the Rockies or the with ample interest when her Himalayas, there are a number ‘inheritance was realized. Gainâ€" of isolated masses of lofty ing the confidence of. a stockâ€" mountains. some of which are broker, Violet even found she snowcapped all the year round, was able to gamble on the Stock such as the Atlas Mountains offExchange without ready cash. Morbeco and the famous Mounâ€"! For a time she enjoyed a reâ€" tains of the Moon (Ruwenzori) markable run of luck. Her debts in Central Equatorial ‘Africa. were mounting, but whenever Some of the peaks of Ethopia \she paid the more pressing bills ’are also snowcapped. The highâ€" the bogus heife®s found eager est of Afric@‘3, mountains are tradesmen always willing to alâ€" Mount Kenya,Ҥ040 feet high, low her more credit. By the time ‘and Mount . KiliÂ¥Manjaro, whose ‘she was over twentyâ€"four Vioâ€" isummit looks very much like|let maintained a truly staggerâ€" \an inverted saucer floating in |ing show of wealth, the sky nearly 20,000 feet above‘ She ran a magnificent house the surrounding plain. . . . in the Highlands where every The African plateau is also fortuneâ€"seeker in Scotland paid distinguishe@ by | several imâ€" ‘her court unaware that Violet mense basins in which thejin her turn was keepinig her big drainage is toward the interi0r brown eyes wide op@n for a |rather than toward the sea. The wealthy husband. She ran a kenâ€" \Saharaâ€" itself is such a basin, nel of pedigree St. Bernards in ‘north of the equator, while the Wiltshire and a charming villa }Kajahari Des(-rIA is another but in, North Wales. The African plateau is also distinguished by â€" several imâ€" mense basins in which the drainage is toward the interior rather than toward the sea. The Saharaâ€" itself is such a basin, north of the equator, while the Kajghari Desert is another but smallor one in the south. It has been estimated that about half of Africa is made up of such internalâ€" depressions, drained or undrained, among which are swamp and lake regions as well as desert basins. â€"â€" From "Intro. ducing _ Africa," by Carveth Wells. Pierre Perry, a former French boxer, went to Utah to hunt uranium. When the deer season opened up, he switched his Geiger counter for a rifle. But Pierre didn‘t have any luck. â€" So he switched the rifie for a slingâ€"shot to bring down a chicken hawk. That‘s when a 165â€"1b. buck appeared. Pierre fipped a ball bearing into the slingâ€"shot and let fly. The pellet caught the deer just below the temple. Pierre finished off the ‘animal with his knife. He was hunting at the time with Fred C. Clemore, of Marysâ€" vale, Utah, They both swear to the modern David feat. A small boy visiting New York for the first time, went in a lift to the top of a skyscraper As he shot past the sixtyâ€"second floor at breathâ€"taking speed, he gulped, turned to his father, and asked: "Daddy, does God know we‘re coming?!" Modern David ANXIOUS \ The two were identical. And | Violet Charlesworth, alias Marâ€" {garet McLeod, was the girl ‘whom the papers were calling Red Riding Hood, the vanished |suicide, the bogus heiress, the ‘girl whom (cr_editors had been chasing for thousands of pounds. | Dark-e_vq(i / Violet â€" Charlesâ€" f | worth was still in her early | ‘twenties But/she had been trainâ€" ]‘ ‘ed for years in the role of an | |heiress, Her mother had lived | | by borrowing _ from _ trusting| ‘neighbours, a few pounds at ay time, on the strength of her }daughter's great â€" expectations |until ultimately she owed hunâ€" ‘dreds of pounds. And Violet ‘added persuasive {rimmings to |the story until gentle old ladies ‘were parting with thousands. So many girls in scarlet were accosted and questioned that it became the least favoured colâ€" our of the year 1909. One Lonâ€" don store, in fact, dyed all its red coats blue. Meanwhile the cause of the furore was hiding in a hotel at Oban, Argylishire, living largely on a diet of kippers because it proved to be the one staple dish readily brought to her room. ! The anticipated fortune nevel':nfmI existed outside the florid imagiâ€";*/. _,; ‘nations of mother and daughter.'“?{“‘ | Yet insistently Violet. spread the | m rumour that she would inherit | R°W® |$600,000 on her twentyâ€"fifth C_)ba.n |birthday. And the details grew ‘”’“i‘]*‘ \gradually more romantic. |chall Every morning and evening she sent out for the papers and read how she had been sighted in Ireland and on the Isle of Man, how the police were closâ€" ing in on an unfortunate suspect at Brighton and how the beaches of North Wales were again being scoured for her body. No doubt she smiled to herâ€" self, calculating how neatly her pursuers were put off the scent. But she did not know that in the receptiog lounge downstairs an astute newspaper reporter had already looked up her entry in the hotel register .;rle compared the signature of "Margaret Caâ€" meron McLeod" with the scrawl of Violet Charlesworth. But, above all; Violet Charles~ | worth loved speed, the wind | \whistling past her ears as she | ‘drove wildly over the mountain | roads in the highâ€"slung, big-l bodied â€" but always exhilaratâ€" ‘ing â€" cars of those days. And| ‘furiously driving one day around \the cliffâ€"edge road that snaked | ‘around Penmaenbach Point she \suddenly sa w an easy escape | \route from her pyramid of | | debts. | She had been engaged, she said, to a rich and handsome young Army officer who had died ‘on his way home, leaving her everything. And when Vioâ€" let declared that she was shortly sailing tothe Bay of Biscay to drop. a wreath over his watery grave, one motherly soul surâ€" rendered her life savings in order to make the trip possible. Other victims surrendered their investments, convinced that ‘Violet would return them with ample interest when her inheritance was realized. Gainâ€" ing the confidence of. a stockâ€" broker, Violet even found she It was not enough to have & car, a chauffeur and servants. Violet insisted that her young and innocent sister, who lived with her, should afso have a car and her own maid and chauffeur. What was to happen when she was twentyâ€"five â€" and the proâ€" mised inheritance failed to maâ€" terialize? Violet had deferred the fatal day by pretending to be a little younger than her years. But her debts now stood at more than $125,000â€"the equiâ€" If life‘s not worth living _ ~~ it may be your liver! lh:;- a :oubnku- up r lll':i. |=:“ dhllvh ile a our ive ch:pul l{ywtm bile is not flowing u.'fi your food may not digeat . . . gne bloats Is wour atomach . . . you feel emflmmn ill the fun and sparkle go out of life, to vhen you need mild gentle Carter‘s Little eel that happy day»s are here again! Don‘t 1 in ark aridss tesp Cofter‘s Livus chen F'"‘ meed mild en LBMIO T MUTT Aver Pills. These famous ngublo pills help timulate the flow of liver bile. Soo:‘yom lgestion starte functioning properly and you IT MAY BE YOUR LIVER inds, _ It became swiftly apparent; in rles. fact, that the accident was a early |fake. When tradesmen and other rain _ |victims added up their debts it f an ]became apparent that Violet had liveg |every reason for disappearing. sting Far from lying drowned on the at a&Ssands, the body of Vidlet her Charlesworth was in reality tions lvingâ€"comfortably in bed in a hi. Scottish hotel. gasoline, pointing out that ; _ » 51':36' 031.3, mearly $100, 4 _‘ this comparatively paltry i dent told the bogus heiress 1 the time had come to play / last trick. «â€" / Taking the wheel of or her biggest.cars, the chu‘ radeitiihieihi tlisniatetinbtiaimetiatt Lohb d d last trick. â€" f Taking the wheel of or her biggest.cars, the at her side, her sister in a seat, Violet droveâ€"one night along the ‘coast. faster . . . until the car r Pennrenbach Point.. Ther, was the sound of i and silence but for the & i was the sound of i and silence but for the the sea. When the police scene of the accident, the chauffeur and Vio! in terrible distress, The seemed, had hit the cl with such force that Charlesworth had been through the windshiel the rocks below.‘ ,_Amid the hue and ery a lone \news reporter tracked her to ‘Oban. ‘But when he at last ‘caught a glimpse of her and challenged her, she denied that \she was Violet Charlesworth. _ Only the arrival of the ‘polic«e ‘made her change her mind. |Serving a lengthy sentence of |imprisonment for conspiring to ‘obtain money on false pretences,‘ the missing heiress at last had reason to repent her bogus claims. Unluckily, when the "dead woman" took a stroll, a local tradesman recognized herâ€"and the hunt was wn. She had also been seen, in her crimson cloak, at Hol;'v%: shortly _ before starting onvwher journey north. Last hunting season th¢ Deâ€" partment of Lands and Fprests reported the spread of &:::iu in foxes and advised hun .to be on the alert. We heay now that this disease has spréad to wolves and even a mgosA, _ . It is recommendéed that "K11 people â€"owning hunting dogs or in fact any dogs used in huntâ€" ing should have them incculated against rabies so as to keep them out of danger. YoU CAN DEPEND OM When kidnoys fail to Very. & of seothing, cooling Mqull D. b."D. Prescription pesitively relieves Itch..Itch /33 18808 1 â€" i Rabies L