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
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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?