The Seaforth News, 1961-08-17, Page 7i lu6lo Strip M n't
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As the Ste Department'.
classified training film opens, a
slinky siren is about to seduce
an American diplomat. His face
is clean-out as a granite cliff,
but his heart is beating hard.
His pockets are lumpy with do-
euments, her bulges are entirely
esthetic.
For a shacking moment, it
looks like a' patent case of trea-
cherous lechery, or vice versa,
Then conies the reassuring voice
of the narrator, whois explain-
ing the movie to the U.S. For-
eign Service ty:os it is intended
to indoctrinate.
"This," says the narrator, 'is
what espionage is popularly be-
lieved to be, But Mata Rorie
have gone out of fashion a long
time ago, Electronics and other
scientific devices have taken
their place,"
Last month, ::ie State Depart-
ment had public cause to regret
its assumption that science has
supplanted sex in internatinnal
intrigue, On a rare clear muin-
ing in Washington's Foggy Bot-
tom, the FBI, a: State's own be-
hest, arrested Irvin Chambers
Scarbeck, 41, who was, until
his recent recall, second secre-
tary of the U,S. Embassy in
Warsaw, Poland.
Under surveillance abroao for
weeks before he was ordered
home, Scarbeck was charged
with passing classified informa-
tion to "an agent of the Peoples
Republic of Poland," and jaded
in absence of 550,000 bond. Con-
viction could mean a maximum
penalty of ten years Imprison-
ment and a $10,000 fine.
Searbeck,' the first Foreign
Service officer formally accused
of espionage in the nation's his-
tory, was as unlikely a spy as
any of his colleagues could ima-
gine, The Warsaw embassy's
housekeeping officer, burdened
with such mundane duties as.
housing, transportation, and
maintenance, he was always
ready to help a friend with a
wayward. washing machine or
recalcitrant refrigerator. He was
the 'life of the American Club
attached to the embassy, a lead-
ing talent in amateur theatricals,
and a star caller in bingo games.
He lived with his German-
born wife, a naturalized U.S. ci-
tizen, and three children (he has
another child by an earlier mar-
riage) in a comfortable apart-
ment at S Piekna Street, in War-
eaW.
He had no regular access to
the embassy code room, or any
ioritically secret information. But,
dike all diplomats of his rank,
he saw many coded messages of
secondary Import; and a trans-
lation of a coded message, how-
ever unimportant in itself, is
'crucial In breaking a code.
How did able, stable Irvin
Scarbeck's accusers explain his
alleged plummet from grace?
The State Department wasn't
talking.
A BIT OF THE ORIENT --Down
to the beach goes this straight,
lace `beach sheath and strap-
less swimsuit, Collarless and
sleeveless, the covering but-
tons down one side and falls In
el straight line to the knees.
TOUGH TONY TALKS TOUGH — Anthony (Tough Tony) Anastasia, International Longshore-
men's Association vice president, puffs on a cigarette as he speaks to longshoremen in New
York. Anastasia, boss of the Brooklyn Longshoremen, demanded that President Kennedy issue
a Taft -Hartley injunction to end the maritime strike and "make everybody happy to get back
to work,"
Tired
Of Living On His Wits
A ; Complete Story
By SHEILA BURNS
As a' boy, James had broken
into his little sister's money -box.
She was eight years old at the
time, a simple child with a thrif-
ty nature, Happily, quite ignor-
ant of where he had got his
money, Amelia accompanied him
to the toy shop where he bought
an expensive model ship for him-
self and,, being a kind boy, treat-
ed his little sister to a penny
doll.
Little Amelia was very, pleased
with the gift and. beamed de-
lightedly. She was hot quite so
delighted later on when she dis-
covered who had raided her
money -box . , .
James did not abandon his
early habits. He believed in
helping himself to other people's
possessions and he did rather
well with his light fingers and
unscrupulous morals.
When Amelia grew up she
married a penniless person who
made her very happy.
"One day . your sins willfind
you out," Amelia told her bro-
ther when he. acted as godfather
to her little daughter, He had
brought a handsome christening
cup with him, and- Amelia was
ashamed that she should wonder
how he had obtained it.
She could never forget the
money -box incident of years
gone by.
"I'll await the day when my
sins draw level," .he said and
laughed mockingly.
Reaching his early thirties, he
became a little wearyof living
for ever like the proverbial cat
on shot bricks, He decided that.
the answer to his problems was
to marry for wealth.
That was when he met Frieda
Tealwell. She was charming and
pretty, but there was one ob-
stacle—her father.
A big, blustering man, he had
made a fortune in bird seed as
a result t of the boom in budge-
rigars'as pets.
Mr. Tealwell had done so well
that he had acquired a castle in
Wales, a -splendid. London house
and a mansion in Sussex, The
latter he settled on his only
child. Just my cup of tea, James
told himself.
A wily old dodger, Mr. Teal -
well invested money in extrava-
gant jewels for Frieda and
amassed a fabulous collection,
James did not really under-
stand jewels, but he gotthe idea
that there was a future in them
when Frieda showed him the
safe in her sitting -room,
The safe was let into the wall
behind a portrait of King Cophe-
tua and the Beggar Maid. Very
suitable, James thought, only he
was the Beggar Maid and Frieda
was Cophetua.
So he decided to abandon
bachelorhood for wealth and
proposed. Frieda accepted and
invited James to spend a month
hi the Sussexx home, He accept-
ed--and
ccepted--and regretted it. The more
he saw of Frieda the less desir-
able marriage appeared to be,
She 'might be pretty mit hes
conversation was very limited,
His future father-in-law did
not approve of layabouts.
"Your trouble, young fellow, is
that you need a job," he boomed.
"You've got too much time on
your hands. I have just the job
for you—in, the refineries,"
Anything in the nature of a
settled job had always disturbed
James, and the thought of old
man Tealwell's refineries was
scarcely exciting. So lee com-
plained of a bed heart and said
he was going to see a famous
specialist in London, On the
way home he had the luck to
sprain his ankle --genuinely, It
was a help.
About this time he realized
that the Teaiwelis were not his
cup of tea, but he could not gel
out on nothing. The inspiration
came when Mr. Tealwell bought
Frieda the Sparkson emerald.
It was a superb ring and worth
a fortune.
While James was thinking
about this, it ,so happened that
a friend in Australia wrote sug-
gesting going out there, Plenty
of sun, plenty of girls, plenty of
easy money—he made it sound
all very enticing.
This inspiration came at the
right moment, but James had to
have some money for his air
fare.
However, he knew an amiable
fence who, to appear respectable,
lived in a cathedral town and
sangin the choir.
Between the two of them
something could be done, and
this was James's cup of tea.
Frieda showed him the com-
bination for the safe. It was ...
something of a toy to her and she'
liked showing it off. That was
.the day Amelia came to lunch,
and told the story ofthe money -
box, a storyof which James was
getting more than a little tired.
Amelia's sense of humour was
rather unfortunate.
He must get away soon. The
refineries were threatening, and
his ankle was recovering with
alarming speed. He would take
the jewels, and, fly at dawn to
the newlife in Australia,
He 'phoned the fence to expect
him and then cabled his friend
in Australia.
To -night's the night, he de-
cided, for Frieda would be going
out with her 'cello for rehearsal
with the ladies' orchestra and
would be away for an agreeably
long time.
It was bad luck, the. sort of
bad.luck James was getting these
days, that she walked in, 'cello
and all, 'just as he was remov-
ing from the safe a three -string
pearl necklace, a watch, an
emerald ring and a couple of
expensive brooches.
"Whatever are you doing?" So
what. Amelia said about you is
true?"
He did not take the jewels
from his pocket, but he went to
her and' put his arms affection-
ately round her.
"I've got to have some money,
darling! I've got to get away!"
"But we are being married in
September?"
"You're too good for me,
Frieda," he told her. "You are
so far above me that you almost
make me ashamed. These jewels
are my passport to a new life."
She began to cry,
"Oh, James, you can't do this
to me! It's just what Amelia
said . . you can't do this to
me ,
He comforted her with the
skill of a Casanova. After a little
while she said: "I would forgive
you anything because i' know
you would never mean it, but
what do we do?"
"Yet let me go, dearest," he
told her, It would be dreadful
if that hard-headed old business
man Mr. Tealwell came home,
for that might easily mean quite
a stretch in the prison, and time
was running out on him.
He painted a pretty picture of
a romantic adventurer of the
Errol Flynn type, who joined the
Mounties in Canada because
civilization was getting too hot
for him, He must have sounded
convincing for Frieda apparently
believed him.
"Youte wonderful!" she gasp-
ed. She had a kind heart and
she wept a lot but declared that
all she wanted most .was his
happiness.
"The jewels are all insured
and the insurance will pay;" she
told him. "If this is your big
chance I won't stand in your
way."
She still wept, Then sudden-
ly, inexplicably, she started bar-
gaining. "Only I do want the
emerald ring. I want 'that ter-
ribly."
He tried desperately to talk
her 'out of it, But time was run-
ning out and, after all, he 'did
still have a three -string pearl
necklace, a couple of diamond
brooches and a wristwatch in his
pocket. If he was to be now or
never.
"Oh, take it!" he told Frieda,
and pushed the . ring into her,
hand. "Always remember that 1
love . you," she said, and kissed
him a fond good-bye.
He rushed off, first of all to
the fence. "We've got to be
quick, Harry," he burst out,
laying the jewels on the table,
The fence fingered them.
"Fakes," he said.
"Nonsense, I got them out of
FpllITIOUS Hymns
And Their Writers
The joy of singing is native to
freedom and the art of inspira-
tional song has long been recog-
nized as a precious institution of
freedom, often used by great re-
formers to promote it, Thus Mar-
tin Luther paraphrased the song
found in Psalm 45 in his cele-
brated hymn: "Ein' feste Burg
ist unser Gott." ("A mighty fort-
ress is our God.")
Luther's "All power is given
unto our Lord," to quote one
modern English paraphrase of
"Ein' (este Burg," swept the Ger-
man people to their feet in the
struggle for religious liberty
launched by this brilliant son of
a humble miner who, following
scholastic custom, nailed his 95
submissions on religious freedom
to the door of the castle church
at Wittenberg on that cold No-
vember day of 1517, and thereby
challenged men everywhere to
think on new lines,
Heinrich Heine, 19th century
German poet, has named Luth-
er's stirring hymn the "Marseil-
laise Hymn of the Reformation."
Yet to keep in view the unbroken
thread of freedom woven through
the ages it is well to remember
that Luther drew his theme from
the song of the Psalmist.
To this end Luther paraphras
ed several psalms, the Ten Com-
mandments, and other passages
of the Bible, writing in all 37
hymns, though some of these
were translations from an earlier
period when the purpose of
hymnody was quite different in
character. In 1636, almost 100
years after Luther, the German
poet Martin Rinkart wrote: "Now
thank we all- our God" ("Nun
danket alle Gott") which has be-
come almostas popular as Lu-
ther's own "Ein' festo Burg" in
Germany and abroad.
While he gave unstintingly of
himself in the cause of religious
freedom, Rinkart has not been
ranked above his contemporary,
Paul Gerhardt, as a Lutheran
poet and preacher. "Holy Spirit.
source of gladness," perfect-
ly reflects Gerhardt's reputation
for unfailing gentleness, kind-
ness, and great forbearance in
the face of doctrinal resistance.
The struggle for religious free-
dom in the British Isles gained
much from the work of devoted
hymnists. In the decade after
Luther, a band of . British religi-
ous reformers, sheltering abroad
in Switzezrland, translated over
50 psalms in metrical form in
English. This Genevan psalmody
was introduced in England when
Queen Elizabeth I dine to the
throne. It seems to have been
quickly accepted by the people.
One ecclesiastic has described
the spectacle, with its vast in-
spirational effect, of several
thousand people singing in uni-
son from the Genevan psalmody.
Such magnificent occasions of
congregational singing must sure-
ly have come to the notice of
her private safe!"
"That old man copies every
!ewe] he gives his ,daughter,"
explained Harry. "These are the
fakes. He doesn't trust women
that far,"
They stared at one another.
The fence spoke coldly.
"I thought you knew about the
copies. The only jewel she has
at present which isn't copied—
because the chaps in London
haven't finished it yet—is the
Sparkson emerald, You should
have got that!"
He could not imagine why
James fainted.
From "Tit -Bits"
Elizabeth, if they were not ac-
tually •witnessed by 'liar. In any
case one of her first legal acts
was to provide for the continu-
ance of singing in the churches
"in the best sort of melody and
music as may be conveniently
devised."
Similar royal sanction was giv-
en at a later period to the work
of the then Poet Laureate, Nah-
um Tate and Dr. Nicholas Brady
who had been working on a new
version of the Psalter, "Be Thou,
O God, exalted high" recognized
as the "Communion Doxology,"
is attributed jointly to these
writers. The words are from
Psalm 57.
Dr. Isaac Watts was probably
one of the most prolific of Eng-
lith hymnographers and author-
ities consider that he has pro-
vided more hymns suitable for
congregational singing than any
other writer in the English lan-
guage. Watts certainly did not
spare the pen, as may be seen
from the elaborately descriptive
title of his book: "The Psalms
of David Imitated in the Lan-
guage of the New Testament,
And apply'd to the Christian
State and Worship."
Watts knew conditions on the
inside of prison where he lan-
guished for speaking his mind on
controversial religious questions.
In hymnody, Watts gave what
might be termed literary bal-
ance or form to the work and;
in this sense, at least, must be
regarded as a true pioneer in
English hymnody. A good ex-
ample of Watts' attention to li-
terary structure may be seer lb
his hymn: "0 God, our help in
ages past."
Although Dr. Watts had pub-
lished his "hymns" when Char-
les Wesley was quite young, the
latter easily overtook in reputa-
tion this pioneer in English
hymnody with his astonishing
outpoyring of magnificent
hymns.
At this period during a heavy
-rainstorm in the county of Som-
erest, a man took refuge in a
great fissure in a rock and while
there sheltered in its very heart,
as it were, wrote one of the most
renowned hymns in English
hymnody. Thus came into exist-
ence "Rock of ages," written that
rainy day by Augustus M. Top -
lady.
STEPS TOWARD WEST — Ru-
dolph Nureyev, right, principal
male dancer of the Kirov Opera
ballet group, seeks asylum in
the West. He left the Soviet bal-
let group in Paris as it was
about to embark for London.
Shown with him in "a recent
performance is ballerina Irina
Kolbakova.
CLASS WON'S DISMISS TEACHER — Little Davidlioward and his Memphis classmates did not
want to let their former teacher Bobby Jean Coke go, the trouble was that she was no longer
thei. "Miss Coke" — she was married that morning to Dean O'Farrell. Pictbred above, David
sits on the hood of the ear and refuses to move. Others from his Class form a blockade, trying
to keep her just a little longer,