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PEARL: COME HOME Lincoln—His Spirit Is with the A ges Martyr, Emancipator, Myth, Abe Is 'Builded Forever' WAS easy enough to understand I T why Ewell Blackwell was base By B A l’KHAGE A’eus Analyst and Commentator. Like everything else in this political y ear, p rep aratio n s for Lincoln’s birth d ay in 1948 a re chiefly a m a tte r of s c ra m bling through the G reat E m a n c ip a to r’s w ritings to find a text for a highly-partisan outburst. But F e b ru a ry 12 is the oc casion for m ore than a b a rra g e of political speeches. It *aa all my fault, l’earl. I admit I was surly and grumpy. No wonder that oven the kida wore scared of mo. But everything’s hotter now. I’ve found out that constipation caused by lack of hulk In my diet ran ba licked 1 Believe me, I advise others who suller the sumo way to do what I did: just eat a bowlful of K ELI.UGG'S A Z.Z/-ZIZZA fiZavery day and drink plenty of water. They say It's America's most famous laxativa cereal—believe me, It sure gets my vote. Or make it up into muffins — they taste grand too . ,. Come home, dear, and find a bran new man wait ing for you. That's mo—your over- j lovin’ husband, JOE. ball's best pitcher in 1947, and why he might eusily be baseball's best pitcher In 1948. After meeting Blackwell again out here in L«s Angeles, I began to study his physical make-up. Six feet five and a traction, for a starter he looks slinvner than a quill, thinner than a drink of water. I Your first guess would be that the Red's able sniper would weigh in ut I 160 or 165 pounds. I “ I do better than I Grantland Klee t h a t,” Blackwell j said. “Make it 198 ' pounds, and you'll be right " Which I means there is a lot of fiber and 1 muscle on those long bones. To me Lincoln is real because he and my childhood conception of my TRl'MAN ENLISTS . . . Clifford Edgar Truman, 17, of East Chicago, grandfather are strangely blended. Both, like Merlin’s Camelot, are build- Did . third cousin of President Ilarry S. Truman, has enlisted In the ed forever because, to me. they never were builded at all—they were navy. He is being sworn in by Lt. (J.g.) Robert Rinone for his three- myth rather than fact— a myth not of my own making, but handed down year hitch, and will study aviation radio after his basic training. through two generations. "S'------------------------------- My mother, as a little child, “saw Lincoln" (like a man “sleeping," she thought) as he lay in state in C h i c a g o . My g ra n d m o th e r “This coming National league stood beside her race should be the best in baseball swathed in the HV H ONOR OF history," the Red bean pole said. heavy mourning "The American league race will be veil of the day a two-club scramble — Red Sos and which she felt The celebrated “cold war” has” • O ffrn tiv e cough due to cold*, smok Yankees. In the National league, perhaps was as been enriched by another U. S. ing! G rt this prmeriptlon-type furinul* they already are talking about the FOREIGN AID: much for Lincoln propaganda strike, probably the Dodgers, Braves, Cardinals and J of proven cough-relief ingredients long then as it was for heaviest yet, against Russia. usrd b y doctors. Q u ick, long lasting re T a k a h e l i l a th e Hoover Plan Giants. These will all lie tough. But her soldier - hus It took the form of official state lief S im portant ways: THE CAPITOL! Herbert Hoover, former U. S. ROTUNDA OF the Reds won’t be any push-over. band who had department publication of captured president, has urged congress not to I • la » « . ttlrw el tick Is “We'll be stronger than we were given his life in German foreign office records re this nation—even "morally" last season. We'll get much better ' 2 < * > • '< • • • rs w . Irrita te d stssibrosss the same cause. Thursday, Ma, 4th, 1865, at 3 o'cloct P, M, vealing the extent and nature of commit — to- a four-year European recovery pitching. We'll scoro more runs. To my mother. J 3 • M slpt Isesee , t i l - , m Baukhage Nazi-Soviet relations from 1939 to program, und advised a reduction We'll bother more teams. Johnny ' staring at that ■ t l l l t ONLY 1941, the period covered by the non of the 6 8 billion-dollar outlay pro Neun is planning a drlvo at that I , lu i t fwaril D-'p. coffin in Chicago, there always re I , «... g F. r«h, aggression pact between the two posed to carry the Marshall plan first division and we won't be far . 1 Ren,.«, ef S.-ph.'CT. mained a confused impression of ___ nations which ended when Hitler through its first 15 months. G -COSt YT OlSCOSSOUTV away." mourning for the man she thought attacked the Russians on June 22. In the 4,000-word statement which “Just how do you figure the : was not dead, but sleeping, and the 1941. he filed with the senate foreign re .race?" I asked the human sky- j father she never had seen. Perhaps la tio n s c o m m itte e ' In the light of the U. S.-Russian scraper. that feeling was imparted to me. Hoover expressed wartime alliance, the Nazi docu tory of America, that gives Ameri “A very tough race." Blackwell My mother described the scene to his opposition views said, “too tough for me to pick. But ments, published in book form. t-’H me. It was clearly etched in her cans the assurance that his spirit, a sordid story of secret agreements, to the admlnistra 1 can promise you this. Boston is , memory like the rest of the strange especially in these times when evil global gambling with nations for tion’s foreign aid going to make a big effort to have gods make their black magic to be- hegira which she took westward . _ . plans. a Boston world series It could hap with her widowed mother from a muse the minds of men. is not dead, stakes and the feverish fetish of po Of greater slgnlf pen. With (he new stars brought in, little town in New York state (as a but sleeps. waiUng only the clarion litical expediency which gripped the icance, however, Stephens and Kramer and other minds of German and Russian lead bride, my grandmother had pio- call of the people whom he* loved to ers before and during the war. was the fact that help, the Red Sox have the edge L o ses 6 5 Lbs. wake it into action. neered the West with her young New- Hoover's own opin in the American league. Not a big W e a rs S iz e 1 2 A g ain High point of the hitherto secret tre 1H0 I ba., I Meo«by J. M llU f. York state farm-born husband). ions amounted to a edge, but a margin to wdrk on. It O 2ixn dossier was the revelation that in W. 7Vth St . Chicago. Io«t Of course, the memories were F re e Speech, b It* arckly f<r M wr«A* with documentary of the would be a killing margin if we 1940 Adolf Hitler and V. M. Molotov the re in a rk a b lf N E W A Y D S R ussian S ty le blurred and blended, undoubtedly, H oover entire right-wing, of Russia agreed that Britain and Keduc ing l*tan amt • ! * now The Russians celebrated Christ the U. S. must be excluded from conservative element of thinking knew that Hughson, Harris and Fer- Candy with later repetition of the event, «rara sue 12 again, AFD-Y h a riss would be O K. d tu lu r 'i a m m iriti d i n o w r y , mas with a public criticism of Rus but the picture was clear, and I only which rejects an “internationalist" |*K (H )F R O S IT I» K! Eminent Europe. Asia and Africa. wish I could repeat it in my moth sian factories by the commercial whyakian«eus*rv »wd rimirai testa Pick Proves to P e tit foreign policy on the grounds that The book told also how, in 1940, l quick an<l inwes er's own w-ords. The train trip west, director of Mostorg, the Soviets’ “The Braves will be tough to han •m of 14 to W U» nver H■) Stalin had ottered to join the Ger U. S. resources should be concen uL,a. H mm»»ds, Y p x r » with .R IM I.N T > . _ , the arrival in the great city, the largest department store. The direc dle in the National. They have two trated at home. man-Italian-Japanese axis if Hitler No eartcler. N o laaatlveo. N o drugs. Eat crowd about her as she advanced tor complained that the factories star pitchers in Spahn and Sain. Decrying even a “moral commit plenty. N O D IE T IN G ' You ainiply take A Y D S l»l.»s nwala «Web slowly with her mother into the were producing inferior products. would give Russia a free hand in ment" for the four-year period con They have a star manager and a Finland, a military base near the automatically cu lla the appetite. The te»““ ■ great hall. Then the coffin which she He wanted more and better goods, (lock of good ballplayers. The templated in the state department s vini eat less and haw Wright. Only S i SJ did not know was a coffin for there more washing machines, vacuum Dardanelles and a dominant voice proposals, he asserted the U. S. Dodgers should be just as good and full .'IS «lays s'ippb l’ T ' Ì * " " .il lha' 7 oV ù'ii the oil-rich Middle East. Then the need. Your money rrfuadra <m the vrrX hint '*** was no such word in her tiny vocab cleaners, refrigerators and decent in documents show how Hitler, disdain should keep itself entirely free "to the Cardinals will be better than a il you (ail to lose weight. Cofne, phone or write. furniture. ulary. ing even to answer Stalin's proposi end our ettorts without recrimina year ago. But the Braves still have Wherever Drug» Are Sold Her mother let go the little girl’s a good chance in a very tough Are you surprised that such tion, ordered his armies to prepare tion." hand to move back her own heavy T.o« Out This Ad a gsmlnda» He expressed, too, the fear that a scramble. criticism is permitted? If you “to crush Soviet Russia in a quick veil. Then the little girl remembered “After winning 22 games last sea lavish outpouring of aid would are, you don’t understand the campaign.” being lifted in the strong hands of weaken the American economy to son, I was sorry that I was halted Soviet system. Criticism is al One of the major factors which the extent that all world recovery by an injured knee and a bad back," the guard. About him she could re lowed as a sound method of cor precipitated the German attack on would be defeated. call only a blue tunic, shiny brass Blackwell said. "1 was no good the recting faults — although it Russia was the Soviet demand for buttons and the smell of tobacco. The volume of exports and funds last three weeks. I’d like to slip by doesn’t necessarily displace the dominant control of the Balkans. proposed in the Marshall plan, he that 25 mark this year.” Then the face of the "sleeping" “cure,” which means banish Hitler, who was as aware as any opined, might aggravate the al from common colds man, and her mother's quiet tears. Johnny Lindell, another 6 foot. 4 ment temporarily or perma man of the political, economic and ready serious inflation, draining our or 5-inch athlete, came by a few nently to Siberia, just as in the (The body of the martyred strategic value of the pivotal Balkan national resources and continuing minute later. good old days. President, as you know, was area, turned thumbs down on that high tax rates, “ all of which might Lindell is one of the most under taken from the East Room of Creomulslon relieves promptly be I am reminded of columnist Russian desire also. bring depression and thus destroy rated ballplayers in the game. John cause lt goes right to the seat of the the White House to the capitol Lowell Mellett’s story about the Sum and substance of the state the strength of the one remaining ny was an all-around star in Cali trouble to help loosen and expel where it lay in state. Then it scope of Russian criticism. On his department's spectacular publica source of aid to a world of chaos." fornia — baseball, football, tennis, germ laden phlegm, and old nature was carried across the country, trip to Russia, he was shown around tion of the Nazi documents was little Hoover recommended further that track and field and golf. This covers to soothe and heal raw, tender. In pausing for homage in several by a very clever female guide. Mel- more than an emphatic indication of the Marshall plan, if it is adopted, quite a span. In basrball he ran flamed bronchial m u c o u s m e m branes. Tell your druggist to sell yon cities until it reached Spring- lett asked her about freedom of the an already well-known fact: That be run by a bipartisan commission, pitch, play the outlirld, first base a bottle of Creomulslon with the un field, Lincoln’s home.) press, and she said, “Oh, yes, they Russia, with aggressive consistency, and suggested that up to three bil and hit. derstanding you must like the way II Lindell refuses to concede the Red quickly allays the cough or you are 1 repeated my mother’s story had a free press, the press contin has been hungering for years for lion dollars in food, coal, fertilizers ually criticized things, including leadership in the Balkans, for new and cotton be labeled frankly as Sox any pennant. "I know how much to have your money back. after her death, as best I could on government enterprises.” pre-eminence in the Dardanelles, “gifts” because unsecured loans ! those Browns will help," he said, the air—and there were sequels. Well, would they be allowed to expansion in Central Asia and “will not and cannot be repaid.” “but I'm not sure they'll cover the for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Letters—one from a lady in New criticize Stalin, Mellett wanted to for for a free hand in Finland and 12-gam<* margin we piled up last England for whom the broadcast know. Poland. REFUSAL: fall. Here's another angle — what had awakened memories . . . her “ Why!” the girl was sur Value of the publication of these J wins pennants? Pitching, of course. father had been one of the Union documents at this time is question Prediction prised, “What has that got to do We'll have another strong staff soldiers chosen to stand guard at About all the average U. S. citizen | again, backed up by Joe Page. But with it? You couldn’t criticize able, despite the flagrantly apparent for to-called the catafalque in Chicago. It might him because there Is nothing anti-Russian propaganda they can knows about Gen. Dwight D. Eisen j who knows how good Tex Hugh well have been he who lifted my about him to criticize!” and will inspire. State department's hower is that he either will or will son, Mickey Harris and Boo Fer- mother. • • • action obviously was aimed at rally not get into the campaign for the I riss will be? All had bad arms in Backache«, leg pain«, broken sleep, Dainfui pae- The soldiers who had been chosen » quicker • ' - |f l «witch i f yO you usually go «o much Secretary Marshall wants the Eu ing public support behind the Mar Republican presidential nomination 1947. None of the three was any too aagrw for that honored duty were permit io Foley (the new kidney-bladder) rill« Thaw this year. giah kidney• effective. An operation could help atimulatealugginti kidney«; ; then the ALLA Y B LA D - ted to divide the gold-fringed drape ropean recovery plan to be run by a shall plan, soon to come up for con But Roy A. Roberts, president of Hughson. But it also could help D E R I R R I T A I IO N . Th at « tha catue of moH that covered the coffin, she wrote single administrator, not an eight- gressional action, but it also would pain«, ache«, urgM onee thought entirely due to Ho for quhker, I on gar-1 anting relief, me, and she consigned to me a frag man board as has been suggested. serve to aggravate and inflame the the Kansas City Star and leading Spud Chandler, one of the test I've kidneys aoothe bladder a« well a« «tiniulata kidney actloa. If the old saw that the best-working already dangerously touchy “cold promoter of pro-Eisenhower senti ever seen. ment which I cherish. Do thia: u-ie Foley (tha new kidney -bladder) ment, now says he definitely will Pill«: they alao have direct aedative-hke act! committee is a committee of three war.” on bladder. A t your druggist. (Inlssa youifi Tiger Hurling Pest 1 There were many other let not. with two members out of town is them (sr mors aiiUafsctory, DOb’B lJ . YO U “What about Frank Shea — one M oney back . Roberts’ prediction was that the ters. One from the niece of one correct, perhaps Marshall is right. general soon would remove himself of the best young pitchers I ever • • • of Lincoln’s cabinet members, Rubber Bill from all consideration along those saw? His arm was O. K. again at William Pitt Fessenden; an January saw three presidential the end of the season and this should lines. Said Roberts: other enclosing the announce messages presented to congress. Legislation to establish a perma- "I’ll venture a guess that before mean at least a 22-game winner. ment shown in the cut. Each document had many a pas nent, government-regulated Ameri June the general may take himself We’ll have a better pitching staff try this if you’re Those were two sequels to the sage born only to waste its fra can rubber industry with a 675,000- completely out of the political pic than the Red Sox, and that will grance on the desert air of an un story of the little girl and her weep ton annual capacity and a required ture. I am sure the message will make a big difference. ing mother. I think the everlasting sympathetic majority. annual production of at least 225,000 come when he lays aside his mili “I know it’s tough to beat out a • • • sequel can be read again and again tons a year has been introduced by tary uniform February 15.” club that has Ted Williams, Vern On ’CERTAIN DAYS’ Of Month- Too bad the Republicans don’t in the story of America, as the story Rep. Paul Shafer (Rep., Mich.). He emphasized, though, that he Stephens, Johnny Pesky, Dom Di- D o rem ain fu n c tio n a l m o n th ly d is tu rb care for Mr. Truman's budget. The of Lincoln is projected far on into Maggio and so many other good ances m ake you fe e l nervous. Ir rita b le , The bill refers throughout to the was not speaking for Eisenhower. history. I think I have seen it pro budget message was printed up so product in question as “American- so w eak an d tire d o u t— a t such tim es? With Alf Landon, 1936 Republican ones, but we had a pretty fair ball nicely, bound so neatly, and it IS Thee, do try L y d ia E. P ln k h a m 'e Vege jected in the crowds who come to club, too. We ran up 19 In a row presidential nominee, Roberts had made rubber." The word "syn ta b le C om po un d to relieve such sy m p Washington, avid with guidebook unique—unique in that it is the big thetic," as the term for factory made been doing most of the political with our two best pitchers on the to m s. It 's fa m o u s to r th le l T a k e n reg u gest peacetime budget ever present la r ly — P ln k h a m 'e C om po un d helps and camera to collect “souvenirs." drum-beating for Eisenhower. bench or in the hospital. We also rubber, is not mentioned. ed to any congress. b u ild u p resistance a g ain st such dis Only this week, the garrulous cab have a few fellows who can hit tress. Also a g re a t sto m ach ic to n ic I driver who carried me from Union when you need hits. com V ouno station was full of a story of “South “The Tigers may have the best Americans" who spent endless pitching in either league. Their in hours (according to his timing) at field doesn’t look any too hot and W NU-13 05-41 the Lincoln Memorial. The memo their outfield is a guess. Cleveland rial remains a shrine for all visitors, will be a much tougher team to native and foreign, a place where beat. Bob Feller will have or should You like to have holidays fall on$- flippant chatter is stilled before that have a much better year after a So, the last time February 22, much longer rest. But the race almost living replica warmed to life weekends? Then 1948 should be a both Christmas and New Year’s May 30 and July 4 all fell on Sun- should ‘" “"'L be between ‘Z ’ts V" and Day (1949) fall on Saturdays. out of cold marble by the inspired year of great promise. the " v Yankees Most of the major holidays this Of the three remaining holidays, days in the same year was in 1920. .. H q hand of Daniel Chester French. . , . year will fall on Saturdays and Sun two come on weekdays without the The next time after this year will ,ne It lives as the spirit of Abra days, which is either good or bad, aid of any idiosyncracies on the part be In 1976. The deciding factor is ham Lincoln lives. the extra day (February 29) every Tlie Pennant Paces depending on how you feel about of the calendar. SORETONE Liniment'« seven leap years. You can’t blame the west coast getting time off down at the old Labor Day, September 6 this To the little child beside the cata in taking a deep interest in the two year, arrives on Monday simply be mill. H e a tin g P a d A ction Now this is the place for someone falque, except for her mother’s big league pennant races. cause It always falls on the first Sundays, whereon fall Washing who knows calendar law to argue , G ives Q u ick R e lie f I tears there was no mourning in The west coast gave the two Dl- that moment. Only something sol ton’s birthday, Memorial Day and Monday of September Instead of on that since the coming year 2000 (a For fast, gentle relief of ache» from back strain, Joe and Dom, to the muscle strain, lumbago pain, due to faligue, ex emn, something important, some Independence Day, aren’t too bad any one numerical day in the century year divisible by 400) Is not Maggios, Yankees and the Red Sox. The west posure, use the liniment specially made Io soothe month. Same goes for Thanksgiv because the government and most a leap year, lt will be 32 thing that touched old and young i coast sen* J°e Gordon and Johnny such symptoms. alike because it had in it the cosmic other employers observe the Mon ing on Thursday. Armistice Day years, or 2008, after 1976 before the Pesky to the Indians and the Red Sorelone Liniment has scientific rubefacient that act like glowing warmth from a rhythm of the epic, and, as well, the days following as legal holidays and just happens to come on Thursday three holidays again appear on Sun- Sox and Jack Robinson to the Dodg ingredients healing pad. Helps attract fresh surface blood to so extend holiday benefits to their this year. simple, soul-touching melody of the Superficial pain area. Study of the calendar and holi days. ers. employees. Sorelone it different! Nothing else "just like folk song. However, this is not a subject to days for 1948 also developed an This is only a beginning. Ted VVII- It." Quick, satisfying results must be yours or But for the working man it's a And I wonder if there was not money back. 30c. Economy size I I 00 spend much time worrying about. Hams left San IHego to Join the other odd angle. The year’s three rough shake when a holiday falls som e intangible, som e eternal qual Try Soretone for Athlete's Foot. Kills ell I Sunday holidays can happen only Besides, who’ll be alive to take a Red Sox and h» still stands as the types on a Saturday, for it doesn’t bring of common fungi — on contact! ity of what Lincoln did, or what his holiday in the year 2008? ; best all-around batter la baseball. one« every 28 years. character has etched Into the his- an alternate day off. And this year PROGRAMME O K • Funeral Ceremonies! NEWS REVIEW Nazi-Soviet Pact Toki; Too Much Aid: Hoover Get this quick 3-tMV REUCf! E A T S New Kind of C A N D Y It» ■ B ew are Coughs T h a t H an g O n C R E O M U L S IO N SPEEDED-UP COMFORT KIDNEY SUFFERERS GIRLS! W OM EN! NERVOUS HAPPY HOLIDA YS This W ont Happen Again Until 1976 imuE.mnmurs BACK ACHE TORTURE?
