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Sam Goldwyn gets credit for the champion understatement of the season. When someone mentioned the atom bomb, Sam is alleged to have said: "THAT STUFF'S DYNAMITE."

Speaking of the bomb, * **i" written a Congressional committee is still investigating the administration of Chairman Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission. What softies we are ! Many weeks ago when he admitted on the stand that he was knowingly educating active Communists '.vith our tax money and thought it was the right thing to do, he should have been kicked out on his head without an hour's notice.

He's as fit for that job * tin'" fit for a munitions depot.

I have a book on my shelf that is filled with hundreds of cases of misconceptions and misquotations of history. But nothing in that book compares with something I have just read in the current issue of Colliers. Like countless millions of people I have long treasured as one of the most beautiful of all Irish songs-if not the very top-"I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen." You, gentle reader, have probably done the same. No list of Irish songs and no Irish program is ever complete without that haunting and tuneful song of the heart. For generations that lovely tune has been melting Irish hearts.

And now I learn through Colliers that it is really a German song, written by a German-American music teacher in Chicago as a promise to his wife to take her back some day to her old home in Germany. Isn't that a shock? Thomas Westendorf, according to this authority, was a music teacher and composer who lived in Chicago in 1875, and he wrote ':I'll Take You ffome Again Kathleen" for his wife who was lonesome for her Fatherland. You will recall as you run over the words of the song that there is no mention of Ireland or any other country. Perhaps it was the name "Kathleen" that developed the misunderstanding.

While not doubtin* ,ol ". *l*"rra the authenticity of the Colliers statement, I must admit that the knowledge leaves me kind of cold. My mother was Irish and sang me Irish songs throughout my very young days, and her favorites were "Kathleen Mavourneen," "I'll Take You Flome Again Kathleen," and "The Lass from the County Mayo." Wonder if I'll ever enjoy the Kathleen song as much again? For surely the truth has destroyed one of my fondest illusions.

Of all the strange misunderstandings and misconceptions of history, I think that nothing compares with those which concern the Biblical character, Mary Magdalene. To the world she has come to be known as "The Magdalene," the scarlet lady, the sinful woman. Artists have painted pictures of her in that character. She has been depicted with flowing hair and tearful eyes, waiting on the Carpenter of Nazareth. History has so painted her. And what a damage suit she could bring against posterity.

Biblical students are at a loss to explain it. For there is not a single word of that sort about her in the Bible. Mary Magdalene, instead, was one of the loveliest characters of the New Testament. She was the close friend and companion of the Virgin Mary, a friend and companion of Jesus, and the first person to whom He appeared after He rose from the Sepulchre. Yet from thousands of walls the world over there looks down from framed pictures a sad, weeping, sinful woman, called Magdalene. Just goes to prove what so many have said, that everybody talks about the Bible, but nobody reads it. ***

Brother, what a tempest I could start by naming other glaring and popular misconceptions and misunderstandings of the Bible. I won't risk it. But when Bruce Barton called it "The Book Nobody Knows" and wrote a grand book under that title, he was certainly stating a most potent and provable fact. Followers of religious faiths generally read the Bible with blinkers on their eyes. Instead of seeking the Truth they often seek to Drove that their own particular religious faith is the true and only road to salvation. So they miss a lot. Take the blinkers off, brother, and read that Book. It's swel..

I can't resist the temptation to hand out one little sample. About keeping holy the Sabbath day. An earnest young follower of the Carpenter once asked Him the direct question, what must a man do to have eternal life? And just as directly and simply Jesus answered. And He gave him just six commandments to keep, five of the Ten Commandments of Moses, and that newer commandment of His own that thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Why only these? Nothing about keeping holy the Sabbath day, for example. Not a word for the Blue Law adherents to pin their faith to. Read it in Matthew, and Ponder on it'

Jimmie Durante is a friend of mine, and a swell guy to swap stories with. IIe's a devout Catholic. Here is the last story I got from him. Cohen, a very old man, was dying. It was night time. His home was in a Northern

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