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Lögberg - 31.03.1938, Qupperneq 5
LÖGBEIEG, FIMTUDAGINN 24. MARZ 1938 5 VJE’RE ALL NUTTY , HERE AND THERE Rj> P. N. Britt____ THE other day I met an old friend who had to go to the dentist, and he was full of fear. I have always been meeting people who have been afraid to go here and there, but I have met more people afraid to go to the dentist than to go anywhere else. Men have operations for appendi- citis and things and women have babies and none of them make as much noise about it or have as much fear about it as folks who have to go to the dentist. All the dentists I have met have been fine fellows, gentle understand- ing men. I have never had any work done by a female dentist but I am sure if I had she wouldn’t be any harder to get along with than the dentists I have had something to do with. * * * 1T has always seemed to me that dentists are given a good drilling at college about how to get along with impossible customers. They must have been or they would not get along with the hard cases that crash into offices with jumping toothaches and go out smiling to tell their friends at bridge parties and churches and places that it was “the hardest tooth that was ever pulled.” * * * IHAVEN’T been to a dentist for a long time. It was in the year of the big strike I had ’em all out. I always remember the year be- cause I had to walk up to the sixth floor in the Somerset Building to have the X-rays made. It was a tough climb up those stairs, because I was all run down from going around for six months, in mortal fear of the dentist. It had come to the point where I had to decide as to whether I’d have ’em out or have a flock of bridges and things. * * * HEN it comes to making a de- cision it’s a tough job, unless it is making a decision to avoid the dentist. That’s the first thing most folks think of—avoiding the dentist. It comes as natural and as easy as avoiding a bill collector or canvasser or a dark lane on a dark night. * « * FOR months, I had been talking to all my Ifriends about what I should do about the teeth. Just two out of the fifty or a hundred people from whom I had solicited opinions, told me to have ’em all out. They had store teeth themselves, and because of that they seemed the only ones who knew what they were talk- ing about. Out they would come, I had decided. * * * THE dentist advised some canti- lever construction, and when I asked him how long that would last, he said maybe five or six years. And, then I’ll be back to you again, to have it all over, I said, my mind full of the drilling noise I had heard in the dentist’s office whenever I happened in. This made me a more rabid extractionist. samtals um 161 miljón kilómetra á síðasta ári. Samsvarar það um 4,000 flugferðu'm umhverfis jört- ina við miðjarðarlínu. Þögul borg. Höfuðborg Póllands, Varsjá, hef • ir nú bæzt í hóp þeirra borga, sem vilja hafa þögla umferð. Hefir ver- ið bannað að þeyta hornin á bif- reiðum í miðbiki borgarinnar á dag- inn og i allri borginni á næturnar. Einhœft þýfi. I borginni Lexington í Virginía kom það fyrir ekki alls fyrir löngu, að þjófur braust inn í heimavistina við Washington and Lee háskólann, en allir ibúarnir voru á grímudansleik, og stal 150 hálsbindum, er þar voru. Bölv og ragn. ítölskum hermönnum er strang- lega bannað að bölva og ragna. Hafa verið sett upp spjöld í öllum herskálum imeð þessari áletran “Guðlast er hermönnum til van- virðu. Skv. 274 gr. refsilaganna og 51. gr. reglugerðar hersins er her- mönnum bannað að bölva.” —Vísir 7. marz. GÖMUL STAKA Enn nærist elskan sanna, enn kærleiks funinn brennur, enn blossar ástar tinna, enn kviknar glóð af henni, enn giftist ungur svanni, enn saman hugir renna, enn gefast meyjar mönnum, menn hallast enn til kvenna. *Staka þessi mun vera eftir Pá! lögmann Vidalín). WHEN I had the pictures from the X-ray man, I told him I decided to have them cleaned out. He was amazed, said it was foolish to do that, and added: “If you do that, you’ll never chew an- other beefsteak.” We used to sit down together for a beefsteak off and on, at the old C.V. cafe, at the corner of Portage and Main, and we had always enjoyed the beefsteaks very much. We had long been friends. * * * THE fear I had of the dentist and what looked like a chance to get rid of him was all that counted with me. Besides, one of the two friends who advised extraction as- sured me I would find the new teeth the best I had ever had. He was a machinist and he knew I had had lots of toothaches. I had confidence in him. He was a good friend and a good machinist. • * * SOME years before I had to make this decision as to what kind of a job I was going to have the dentist do I had been going to my dentist off and on get- ting a back tooth drilled and treat- ed. It was just about ready for filling. The big cavity was filled with medicated cotton and I was allowed to go “for a day or two.” About six months later I went into a drug store, to get a small bottle of oil of cloves or something like that. The druggist was an old friend of mine, and this time he ask- ed me what was the matter with me, why was I always coming in for a bottle of oil of cloves. “Well, Jack,” I said, “I’m ashamed to tell you that about six months ago I went to the dentist and got a back tooth all ready for filling, and I never went back to have the job finished. I’ve been putting clean cotton and oil of cloves into the cavity every morning. I haven’t the courage to go to the dentist.” The druggjst had a good laugh and he told me most folks were like that. He said he had a dental job half done himself and he hadn’t seen the dentist for three months. He said we were a pair of darned fools and ought to be ashamed of our cowardliness. He told me to put the oil of cloves money back into my pocket, called up the dentist and made an appointment for both of us for the first thing in the morning. And, we went a few doors up the street and had a bottle of coca cola or something. Next morning on time we met in the dentist’s, told the dentist all about it and had the jobs finished up in perfect comfort. When we walked out the dentist was with us and we went to the same place we had gone the evening before when we decided to shake off the fear and go sensibly and have a friendly session with the dentist. Lots of folks are nutty about den- tists. (Höfundur: Hannes Bjarnason, prestur að Ríp í Regranesi): Sú var fríðust drósa drós, dygð og trygðum vafin, sannPnefnd víðis ljósa ljós, landsins prýði, hrós og rós. DRAUGALAG (Vísurnar eru eftir Bólu-Hjálmar). Ríðum, ríðum lög og land, línið foldar sökkvi. Reiðum, reiðum bitran brand, bragnar undan hrökkvi. Ríðum, ríðum því til þín þurfum steini kasta.— Hrími storkna hempan min heitir langafasta. —Visir. ISLENZKUR SÖNGVARi FRA VESTURHEIM1 A NORÐUR- LÖNDUM íslenzki söngvarinn Arngrímur Valagils er fyrir nokkru kominn til Norðurlanda til j>ess að syngja í Osló, Stokkhólmi og Kaupmanna- höfn. Hann skýrir norskum blöð- um svo frá, að hann hafi haldið hljómleika viðsvegar um Ameríku og sungið í útvarp á mörgum stöð- um þar vestra. Hann kveðst þegar fara aftur til Ameríku þegar þess- ari söngferð til Norðurlandanna sé lokið, en telur þó að svo kunni að fara, að hann skreppi snögga ferð til íslands. Um söng hans í hátíðasal háskól- ans segir Dagbladet í Osló, að rödd hans sé ekki þróttmikil og hafi ýmsa galla, en eigi að síður hafi verið 'mjög ánægjulegt að hlusta á hann og auðfyndin gleði hans yfir því að fara með góða tónlist. Mest lof af liðum söngskrárinnar fær “Dauðsmannissundið” eftir B'jörg- vin Guðmundsson. Norges Handels- og Sjöfarts-Tidende segir að rödd- in sé ekki nægilega þjálfuð, en falleg.—Alþ.bl. 8. marz. Dr. Helgi Péturss 66 ára 31. marz 1938. “Ráðinna raka risnum studdan, reistir þú stigann til stjarna. Viti, er sér vonar veg-gengt þangað, beinir þú styrkustu stöfum.” (Upphaf á kvæðinu “Nýall,” sjá “Andvökur” IV., bls. 133). Nú langar mig, Helgi, að ljóða þér brag er lít eg á einstiga þýfið; þú starfaðir ákveðinn öðrum í hag, “Úr álögum” frelsar þú lífið: Ef samtíðin vildi nú vera með þér Og vinna að mann-þýfis sléttum; Að afvopna dauðann, sem ægis- hjálm ber, Með aðförum nýjum og réttum. Þú leiðir um. góðviljans hugsun að hlíf, Sú hugsun er guðlegur máttur. í sorga- og dauða-stað setur þú lif; Já, svona er góðviljans háttur. Þú skilur að gatan, sem gengin er nú Til glötunar myndi oss leiða. Og því vilt þú afnema tafir og trú*) En “traustimi’ veginn a'ö greiða. Og hann, sem vill skilja þitt skil- greina mál Mun skoða og athuga strykið — Og finni hann hvorki þar fals eða tál Þá færð þú hans traust fyrir vikið. Þá rætast og uppfyllast óskirnar þær, Sem eru af góðviljans toga. Er guðlegur háttur frá hjartanu nær Til heilans! \uð skulum þá voga: Að treysta í einlægni, tállausri dygð, Sem teflir burt lifsgæfu sinni, Með þróttmesta viti, við sárbeitta sigð, Er sálga vill hamingju þinni?— Hann setur upp ekkert! En sjáðu nú til, Að sæmd okkar stendur í voða, Ef skortir oss greind til að gera þvi skil, Sem góðvild og hamingja boða? Því Guð hann er hamingju hámarkið það Og Helgi er leiðsögu andi, Sem hugsar og stýrir og heldur þar að— Er hamingju-guð býr í landi. Að lengja nú kvæðið þitt líkaði mér, Því ljóðgjafinn býr nú í sinni! Eg lengdi það máske til leiðinda - þér? Því “lífgeislinn’ rímar þitt minni. 23-—3-—1938. Jak Norman. *)Dr. Helgi Péturss gerir grein fyrir því í bókum sinum: “Nýall” og “Ennýall,” að orðið trú hafi þýtt á dögum Krists það sama sem við táknum með orðinu traust, og því hafi Kristur ekki getað gert kraftaverk í sínum heimahögum: að til hans hafi ekki verið borið nógu mikið samhuga traust af þeim sem þektu hann í sjón. SMÆ.LKI Inflúenzufaraldur geysar árlega í næstum öllum löndum heims. Ár- lega kostar inflúenzan bresku þjóð- ina 50 miljónir sterlihgspunda. # # * Borgarstjórinn í franska srnábæn. um Ehuns, sem er rétt hjá París, tók við emibætti sínu 1878 og hefir haldið því síðan. Borgarstjórinn er nú 85 ára gamall. * * * Fjórar miljónir manna í Eng- landi eru með amerískar tennur. Á síðasta ári voru keyptar til Eng- lands, 41,797,000 tennur frá Banda- ríkjunum. STOLKUVISA KJÖRKAUP A BRÚKUDUM VÖRUFLUTNINGABILUM Að því er R. T. Hazell, Motor Truck Manager fyrir International Harvester félagið i Winnipeg seg- ist frá, er nú um óvenju mikið úrval að ræða af brúkuðum vöruflutninga bilum hér á slóðum, sem seljast við verði, er telja fná að sé við allra hæfi. Eru bílar þessir eða Trucks í ágætu ásigkomulagi, sem nýir væri. Mr. Hazell lætur þess jafn- framt getið, að í brúki séu víðsvegar um fylkið vörubilar, sem þannig séu útlítandi að þeir spilli fremur en bæti fyrir viðskiftum þeirra, er þá nota; nú sé mönnum farið að lær- ast hve mikíls það sé um vert, að flutningatæki séu í góðu standi og séu vel útlítandi,- 1 tveggja vikna tíma, eða frá 4. til 18. apríl næstkomandi, verða brúkaðir og endurnýjaðir vörubílar til sýnis hjá International Truck umboðsmönnum víðsvegar um landið, þar sem fólk getur orðið sjaldgæfra kjörkaupa aðnjótandi. Þetta ætti almenningur að færa sér í nyt, og það umsvifalaust. Til vina< séra Jóhanns Friðrikssonar Eg er staddur hér i Bottineau, 'J. D.„ og býst við að dvelja hér fram yfir hátíðina. í bænum er á- gætt sjúkrahús — óvanalega gott iyrir kaupstað af sömu stærð. \ bessu sjúkrahúsi liggur vinur minn og bróðir, séra Jcviann Friðriksson, r,g er hættulega ve'kur . g stundum mjög þungt ha'd:’ :.. . Tilgangur s;'ssara fáu lína p. tilkynna vin- im hans nær og f|:er að svona er ástatt fyrir honum. Kona hans og börn eru i Deloraine. Man., og auð- vitað búa þar við mjög erfið kjör. Eg legg til að vinir séra Jóhanns og þeirra hjóna skrifi honuin án þess að búast við svari, og eg vona að séra Jóhann fyrirgefi mér þó cg bæti við að seðill með hverju bréfi ntundi korna sér vel. Nærri iná geta hvort ekki er þröngt í búi þegar heimilisfaðirinn er rúmfastur í margar vikur og jafhvel marga mánuði. Séra Jóhann er ágætur drengur og góður prestur. Það er einlæg bæn okkar allra að hann fái fullkominn og varanlegan báta; en ef ekki þá veit eg að himnafaðir- inn gefur honum eins og að undart- förnu styrk og hugrekki í þessu þunga sjúkdómsstríði. Vinsamlegast, Carl J. Olson. —Bottineau, N. D., 11. marz, 1938. VINARKVEÐJA Winnipeg 28. marz, 1938. Kæri vinur, Guðmundur Hjartarson, Steep Rock, Man.:— Eg er að hugsa um að biðja Lögberg að bera þér þakklætis- kveðju fyrir bréfið og myndina; vel hefir myndasmiðnum tekist, er myndin prýðisgóð, ber með sér að þú hefir góðan mann að geyma, eins og fólk þitt margt á fyrri tið. Eg ætla ekki að fjölyrða mikið i þetta sinn, býst við að blaðið verði rúm- lítið og vilji ekki hýsa neina pestar- gemlinga. Samt hugsa eg að það geri mér þann greiða að láta þig vita að bréfið kom til skila. Doll- arinn sem var með, og eg þakka fyr- ir, fór eg með hann næsta dag til gamla mannsins blinda, frænda þins. Allar gjafir, sem. af hjarta eru gefnar, þóknast Guði. Bað Vigfús Þorvaldsson frændi þinn mig að skila til þín kærri kveðju fyrir þenna bróðurlega og góða hug, sem nú skin inn að hjarta hins ní- ræða manns, þar sem hann situr hugsandi í myrkurs einveru rúmi, sviftur allri gleði sem aðrir geta notið. Konan hans er ljós hans og stafur; hefir hún reynst honunr sem bjarg á lifsleiðinni. Eg læt þetta nægja, vinur, í þetta sinn. Það er sama liðanin hjá mér og var þegar þú varst á ferðinni. Konan biður að heilsa. VTertu svo kvaddur af þínum gamla vin og uppeldisbróður. Víglundur Vigfús$on frá Úthlíð. Styttið bökunardag yðar Bakið á fimm tímum með DYSON’S MIUACIÆ \ DYS O N’S YEAST MlRACLÍ Gott I alla bökun. 1 kúfuð terskeið af Miracle Yeast sam- gildir 1 köku af nýju eða þurru gert. Selt i IO centa. pökkum Biðjið kaupmann yðar um þetta, en hafi hann það ekkl, getið þér sent oss 10 cent fyrir venjulegan pakka. Skrifiö á islenzku ef yöur svo lízt DYSON’S LIMITED Dept. Y WINNIPEG, MANITOBA Sunday School Hockey (By James Einarson.) Climaxing a most successful sea- son, members of the Hockey teams in the First Icelandic Lutheran Church were honored guests at a banquet held last Friday night in the Church parlors. Nor- man Bergman, president of the Men’s Club was in the chair. Mrs. J. Jonasson, president of the Jun- ior Ladies’ Aid, was in charge of ar- rangements. The teams were entered in junior, midget and intermediate sections of the Sunday School Hockey League, though they failed to win a single title they gave a good account of themselves. The junior team won their way into the semi-final round before being eliminated by the St. Stephen’s Broadway, the latter club incidentally won the honors. Norman Bergman, as chairman, welcomed the guests and congratu- lated the boys on the wonderful showing, which had brought such prestige to the church. He remind- ed the boys that next year the church would be celebrating its 60th anni- versary and he would like a hockey title won by a team from the Church to keep in with the anniversary spirit. G. B. Barager, a former chairman of the Sunday School Hockey League, was guest speaker, and in a few words told of the value of sport in building a boy’s character. He also told of several incidents in his own boyhood days, stating that several times he was tempted to do certain things which he did not like to do. George Stone, mascot of the in- termediate team, toasted the ladies and thanked them for the wonderful banquet provided, and he presented Mrs. J. Jonasson with a large box of chocolates. Mrs. Jonasson suitably replied. Entertainment for the evening was admirably handled by Cy Gardiner and a sing-song, led by Tim Stone, with Gordon Harley as accompanist. Members of the various clubs en- gaged in a guessing contest, the win- ners to receive a pennant mounted on a hockey stick. After a close contest with Bob Feldsted, Len Quiggans won the midget award; Murray Dempsey the intermediate, and Har- old Thompson the junior. During the evening presentations were made to the coaches and man- agers of the various teams: The Jun- iors, Harold Thompson to Gordon Harley; Bud Stephenson to Dort Henrickson; John Johnson to John Johnson of the Junior team; Murray Dempsey to Harvey Benson; Arni Johanneson to Stoney Stone, and Alvin Blondal, of the Midgets, to George Johanneson. Members of the various teams re- ceived individual awards as follows: Midget—Bill Scott (Captain), Al- vin Blondall, Bob Feldsted, Douglas Pottruff, Tom Bjarnason, Harold Olafson, Bill Finnboggason, Ken Westman, Len Quiggans, Len Lil- lington and Sig Sigmar. Junior—Bud Stephenson (Cap- tain), Allan Halderson, John John- son, Douglas Baldwin, Harold Thompson, Jonas Christie, Angus McRitchie, Oliver Bjornson, Bob Snidal, Norman Thorsteinson, Ray Baldwin, Ragnar Swanson, Rurik Thorsteinson, Allan Finnbogason, Bili Goodman, Bob Swanson. Intermediates—Tim Stone (Cap- tain), Alex Watt, Stefan Johnson, Art Stevens, Bill Eager, Barney Ben- I son, Arni Johanneson, George Stone, ' Stefan Palmason, Clifford Stone, Ted Thorsteinson, Murray Dempsey and George Johnson. NEW YORK LIFE HAS $109,000,000 GAIN Policyholders and beneficiaries of the New York Life Insurance com- pany were paid over $191,000,000 in 1937, bringing the total of such pay- ments for the past ten years to over two billion dollars, Thomas A. Buckner, chairman of the, board announced at the February meeting of the company’s board of directors. New life insurance issued during the year amounted to $477,000,000, ^in increase of $26,000,000 over 1936. Insurance in force on Dec. 31, 1937, aggregated $6,770,000,000, a gain of $109,000,000 over the close of 1936. Assets on Dec. 31, 1937, amounted to $2,520,000,000, which represents an increase of $116,000,000 during the year. Included in the assets are United States government, direct, or fully guaranteed bonds amounting to $512,000,000. This item is $72,000,- 000 greater than at the end of 1936, and now accounts for about 20 per cent. of the total assets. Included in the liabilities is a spe- cial investment reserve of $40,000,- 000, and a reserve for dividends pay- able to policyholders in 1938 amounting to $39,900,000. Surplus funds reserved for general agencies amount to $124,000,000. EHJOV’"eRlCH HUTIV HAV0R 0F H0ME GR0WN CEIERY Golden Supreme The new, outstand- Ing variety bred by Ferry-Morse and of- fered for the first time. A main crop variety for use wher- ever a larger Dwarf Golden Self-Blanch- ins: is wanted. Many buyers who watched it grow to maturity, harvested and packed, pronounced it prac- tically perfect. Postpaid: Pkt. (1/16-oz.) 15e; 2 pltts. 25c; y2-oz. $1.10; 1 oz. $2.00. 23 New Varieties of Vegetables, grown on our own Seed Testing Plant Breeding Farm, re- ceived the Market Gardeners’ Award of Mertt 1936. McFayden’s Seed Llst also contains the A11 Amerlcan Flower Awards. Keep your garden up to date. M^FAY DEN 0 vasizePacket' SEEDS 0rrj3f-4mi. In addition to the newest varleties, not yet ln full production and necessarlly sold at higher prices McFayden’s Seed Company offer thelr regular stocks, tried and tested on tbeir own Plant Breedlng and Seed Testin* Farm, at 3c to Ac per packet postpald. Big ove-NÍ/e packets, too. Bvery packet dated day packed and guaranteed to full amount of purchase prlce. Individual cultural direc- tions. for Canadlan conditions, on every packet. JhSjToSgBg** BUY YOUR SEEDS DIRECT—It is lmpos- sible for us to give in any Commission Cabinet the wide assortment to choose from found in our Seed List, containing 281 varie- ties of vegetables and over 500 varietles of flowers. IF—McFayden Seeds were sent out to Stores in Commisslon Boxes, we would prob- ably have a lot of seed on our hands at the end of the season. If this seed was thrown away lt would be a total loss, and we would have to charge more for our seeds, or put »eed ln a packet to make up for it. If, on the other hand, we did not throw lt away, but kept it over and sent it out in packages again, the tendency would be for us to accumulate a lot of old seed. We, therefore, sell direct to you only NOT through CommÍ88lon Boxes — TESTED SEEDS, and give you the beneflt of the sav- ings made in thls way. 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