Show I M-HII M r I I t 1 I 1 IM I'M 1 1 I mi I I I I n I I mn I I I 1 II mi mii I I i WHO WAS WASi I WHO i I IBy 1 t By Louise M. M Comstock I I- I l Ii I M H-M I 1 1 I 1 l MM I 1 H I I l 1 IM 1 1 1 Mi 1 1 1 MI 1 1 1 Mi I 1 FAUST IT T WAS no grisly bargain with the devil deIl that made Faust the central figure of at least two plays and three operas In Main Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many In the Fourteenth century people won a n reputation for undue Intimacies with the devil very easily and Faust won his bis overnight overnIght overnight over over- night almost with a printing press I Johann Gutenberg had bad Just lust Invented Invented invented In in- vented the process of printing with movable type To commercialize his Invention he formed the first printIng printIng printing print- print Ing company Gutenberg Faust and to which he contributed the idea Iden and Faust the capital and anda a flare for tor sales promotion was Faust's son In Since there were no patent laws at the time the printing had to be done behind behind be be- hind closed doors often at night to prevent the Idea being stolen The TIle public accustomed to slowly and laboriously printed hand letters gazed In awe at the freshly print print- printed ed pages turned out so rapidly In la lathat that mysterious shop and hinted magic Faust perceived the sales value of that word encouraged d Its use and became popularly kno known n i not as a printer but hut a man with some strange allegiance with the devil I Old records show that Faust later won Von a law suit against Gutenberg for funds Invested In and lost In the printing of the famous Gutenberg Bible DIble a single copy of which perhaps per per- laps haps proving the theory of magic sold In 1920 for W v v l y y y SKIPPER IRESON John Greenleaf Whittler Whittier WHEN used popular tales circulating about the fishing village of Marblehead Marblehead Marble Marble- head In his bis poem Skipper Ireson's Ride h he unwittingly served to perpetuate perpetuate perpetuate per per- a great Injustice Floyd Ireson for his hard heart wrote Whittier was tarred and feathered and carried on a cart by the women of 1 Marblehead On the night of October 28 1803 the fishing schooner Betty Skipper Ireson In command passed almost within balling bailing distance of the Active Active Active Ac Ac- tive about to sink In n the heavy sea Skipper Ireson would have bave stopped to give gle aid nId his cre crew fearful for tor their own lives disobeying his orders orders or 01 ders to stand by to succor the Active Active Ac Ac- tive Ue and set sail sall for home bome while he ho was t taking a n bit of a nap be be- low Once safe home ome they accused accused the skipper of ot refusing aid and their story was affirmed later when four survivors sur of at the Ill-fated Ill Active reached port Th The angry populace of Marblehead seized Skipper Ireson ireson Ireson Ire- Ire son stripped and ancI bound him tarred him and co covered cored red him with feathers feath feath- ers and ancI dragged him through the streets In an nn old dory When Its Us bottom fell tell out they put their vic vIe victim vIctIm tim In n a cart and proceeded howlIng howling howl- howl Ing on their way Not till many years later when Skipper Ireson was W old blind and destitute and ancI It was too late to tomake tomake tomake make amends was the true story tory told by the Bettys Betty's cabin boy now noV grown grown to manhood and a new sense of honor V V V V V V CASABIANCA CASABlANCA T TWO WO generations of school boys boya have declaimed and parodied Mrs Hemans Heman's poem commencing The boy stood on the burning deck few of them perhaps realizIng realizing ing lag that the small hero therein described described de de- de scribed really lived ll and died as the poem tells During Napoleons Napoleon's expedition Into Eg Egypt pt England sent her famous famous famous fa fa- admiral Lord Nelson against the French fleet and all but four of at the French vessels were sunk or captured The French admiral bad had fallen and the flagship wr wrapped In flames and ancI sinking was deserted by all of ot her crew who could squeeze Into the lifeboats or swim Only the captain Louis Casablanca already badly wounded but following following follow tollow- ing the tile time honored tradition of ot sea captains refused to leave Iea his post determined to go down with his bis ship Suddenly those on the attacking British vessels saw that the gallant captain was not alone His year ten-year-old son who bad hIdden hidden hidden hid hId- den In a coil coll of ot ropes until the decks s were cleared now rushed up to his father threw a supporting arm about him find arid stood ready to share his fate Commands and entreaties entreaties entreaties en en- treaties failed t to move mo the boy And And fighting was suspended and the I British cheered and wept as the flaming ship bearing the two heroes heroes heroes he he- roes sank Into the water p 1932 1132 Western Newspaper Union |