Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elderly (119 years) but lively Zion's Herald, No. 2 Methodist weekly, waxed hot last week over racial discrimination in the Methodist Church. "Our sin against the Negro lies as a log across the path of Methodist progress," editorialized the Herald. "In these days of war, with discrimination against the Negro becoming a nationwide scandal, we are tongue-tied. . . . What is the church going to do about real brotherhood...
General MacArthur, who has no mania for secrecy, soon dynamited the worst censorship log jams. Then the correspondents were left to fight the battle of transmission. Before the war the South Pacific had eight cables, several big radio stations. Only two cables remain, one of them a slow, alternate route around Africa. These puny facilities are jammed by Government priority messages; correspondents sometimes have to wait in line for as many as 400 Government code messages...
...first patented typewriter and the first letter written on it; remains of Morse's telegraph and Bell's telephone; the log of the Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic...
...master at St. Paul's had such an influence as Gil Winant. His shaggy, outthrust head, his dark burning eyes made those who saw him think of Lincoln. His young pupils found themselves wishing he had been born in a log cabin, were convinced that he would be President some day. They did not know whether this gauche, inarticulate teacher was a great man; but he made them sure that great men existed...
Died. Martha McChesney Berry, 75, "the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot," founder and developer of the famed Berry Schools for poor mountain children; in Atlanta. As the young daughter of a wealthy north Georgia cotton planter, she read stories to poor-folk neighbors, built (and taught in) first one log-cabin school, then another, next established a boarding school (now more than 1,000 students). She was one of the first modern educators to recognize the need for teaching crafts, one of the first to set up a work-and-study plan, saw her ideas widely copied...