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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, April 8, 194H place and the m aterials to do the Job, and I was to be the judge of whether the copies produced were acceptable or not. If we had too much argument we could each choose a friend and they would choose a third party to settle the By ROBERT e B LA C K M O N argument. There wasn't anything left for me to do but go through *T»HE finest sermon I ever heard If a man can’t look at it like that, with it. I was going to each Phil lip Crasor a lesson, anyw ay.” ended and the benediction came he has no business betting.” M y forgotten cigarette burned my straight from the heart of the He tooled the big car around a broad-shouldered figure in the pul curve. Sunlight was on the lake, fingers and I tossed it from the pit. The stirring voice of the big a moving pattern of glinting water car. “ I turned over a small cottage organ filled the church and the con under a cloud splashed sky. down on the lake to Phillip Crasor, gregation began to leave. “The club was in an uproar, with H a rry Thatcher and I were sur men betting each other we’d both stocked it with a Bible, paper, pens, rounded by sober, thoughtful people back out. or go on with it. I went ink and blotter: and told him to go as we went to the car. He drove over to the big bookcase nt the other to work. I left a man there to see that he didn’t get outside help. It end of the room to think it out. out toward the lake. was strictly business with me 1 •’I saw the Bible in the book “ Don,” Thatcher said abruptly aft had $50,000 nt stake.” case and remembered my mother er he got a cigar started. We were telling me that the Book was good “ PhlUip Crasor was going to entering the lake drive. “There are to read when you didn't know what produce 10 perfectly legible hand three million, five hundred and to do. I didn't know what to do. written copies of the Bible, as the sixty-thousand, four hundred and “ I took the Bible and saw in the contract provided, or he would eighty letters in the B ible.” lose the bet.” “ I suppose so.” I almost dropped back where it had so many letters “ I didn't get back for a” week m y cigarette. His talking about the and words and all that, and it gave Book took me by surprise. His in me an idea. When I was in school or two. and Phillip had spoiled a lot of paper but produced nothing ac terest was financial news, exclusive I couldn't spell. “ The teacher used to make me ceptable. He wanted to fight, but ly- write missed words on the black- I told him to read the contract and "There are seven hundred and seventy-three thousand, s e v e n hundred and forty-six words in its thirty-one thousand, one hundred and seventy-three verses.” Party Apron Ha$ Gay Appl¡qut ™ FICTION CORNER STRICTLY BUSINESS “ Sure.” ing. I looked at him, wonder rtU P hillipr S TA Ò E <S C R E ÌO A D Ì0 Dell Syndic a t « .- W N U Features. PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER By INEZ GEKIIAKI» The race to be Mister Harassment or tlie Worrying Man, otherwise known as President of the United States, is on. Everybody is coming Into the ring at the drop of a hat. to to speak. The stewards may hava to divide It into two heats to pre- vent overcrowding and piling up in the stretch. mm * rem Gen. Douglas MacArthur is w ill ing to go to the post. He Is quite a man. George Washington threw a dollar across the Rappahannock but MacArthur threw a brass hat across the Pacific ocean. General MacArthur offers him self to the Republicans If they In sist and It sounds a little like a reiteration of his famous state ment, " I shall return.” Anybody who ran wind up ruling Japan after Corregidor Is not to be dis- counted no m atter how long oi difficult the road. H E blessed show” —Unit’s whnt Irene Bensley and her stuff cad her CBS “Grand Slum,” because I right from (he beginning listeners whose questions have won them a $100 bond, ns well as vurtous other prizes, have written her to say that the money cuine at Just the right time. Sometimes the same thing has huppened to studio purticipunts. The idea for the show came to Irene In her sister's kitchen up In Con necticut. Tlie sister wanted u ra- jjo t how in which listeners like her- self could participate. A few days later Irene obligingly thought up “Grand Slam .” Don't miss visiting It If you're in New York, and be sure to meet Irene! • • • When Irene Dunne sings un old Norwegian cradle song to her sick daughter in “ I Remember M am a” you wonder why she doesn't sing in every picture she makes. You also wonder why Hollywixid doesn't give T ' P HIS handsome bib apron Is President Trum an made the an nouncement that he would like four years more of trials and tribulations the same day MacArthur's word came from Tokyo. In the last cou ple of years H arry has been through more fighting than Douglas. His gray eyes were half closed, his broad face grave. One could see why he was called “ Bull dog” Thatcher. He had a reputation of going after business, wherever it was, and getting it. 5 3 8 7 * such easy sewing, look, , o pretty fo r your hostess Julies. This •ppllqued pansy pocket in yellow and brown or purple and lavender ailds a nice accent. Vs« ergnndy w ith eyelet trim , gingham or per cale. r “Shortly after the w ar ended, a young man named P hillip Crasor To obtain complete culling pattern Danae Messrs. Dewey. Tuft, Stassen, opplluu. Pattern Anlahlng |n .lr» rtlo n , came into m y club one evening.” Vandenburg and other GOP hopefuls Thatcher settled himself more com MS. I tlsoe Id. I * an.) I I In ,I.«1-1 S„ ,| took the entry of General MacArthur F a tte ra * N w ab rel •'"* fortably in the broad front seat of with a show of minimum concern the car, one big hand on the wheel D o * ts a a a a a e a a l lr la r g e d e m a n d an d but no race is ever made any easier rim . "H e had been a pilot. 1 don’t by traffic congestion at the post know how m any missions, but rmialred In Silina erdera far a few e f Iha • » '• • I popeler patlarna. * enough. Star end at the university General Ike, the Abilene Bear- Ken.I your onfer tor before that. A ll around athlete. He rat, announced that he would not had been mentioned as a possible be a candidate and added that he Olym pic change. Folks had a lit SEW IN tl w C e IK O IIK SM SnotS ll. f 'IK S«. N F « M h 1 lr I a » ,,“ M ? ,n did not see anything In the situa tle money.” My man cabled me that Phillip Crasor had locked himself In the Encina« 20 cents for P allara tion which required a m ilitary man IRENE! DUNNE The car rolled with almost no cottage and wouldn’t let anyone In. No---------------------------- to make a general headquarters of noise. I said nothing. This wasn’t N am «. us more such pictures as “ 1 Re the White House. Plainly M acA r the H a rry Thatcher I'd known. I'd board a couple of hundred times. it was time for him to put up or Add rea member M a m a "—simple, true to thur’s reply to this is, "Ses you!” dropped in on him last night since I wrote about 20 words a minute, shut up. I thought he would burst. life, making you laugh, tugging at X was in town for a few days, and writing carefully. 1 figured I could The club was betting he'd last about Democratic politicians are Insist your heartstrings, and done with he'd insisted upon my going to w rite perhaps 30 words a minute, another week. I did not think he’d ing that if they could get Trum an to fine direction and a superb cast. church with him this morning. fast. That meant about 15,000 words go that long.” • • • step out and get Ike to ride the don Thatcher was not a church man, so in a full day of writing. At that Thatcher looked out over the lake, key it wouldn't make any difference Tom Moore of “ Ladies Be fa r as I knew. X waited. rate, it would take 50 days to com Seated” Is convinced that women “ Phillip had got some cockeyed plete a handwritten copy of the then his eyes came back to the if the Republicans ran MacArthur, Doolittle, Bradley, Spatz, Nim itz and are distrustful by nature. When ideas in the a rm y ,” Thatcher went Bible. Ten good, clear, handwrit drive before us. “ Business suddenly took me to Halsey all on one ticket. he gives $8 to each of two contes on. “ Some radical talk. He started ten copies would therefore take Are you slim enough to wear the new _ • tants at the start of his quls gam r, griping about youngsters in the arm y about 500 days, and the bet was for France and Ita ly and I stayed there for months.” He coughed again, atyles?,,,Remember, no matter what “ Famous Faces," they nearly al Could it come to pass that, with getting killed while the big-income a y e a r.” you pay, “ new look” fashions aren't apologetically. “ A ll wars are not General MacArthur seeing an excuse ways count the money! businessmen stayed home safe. M y Thatcher laughed softly, rem em flattering it you're overweight. won on the battlefield, and a ll sol for a m ilitary man camping on the • • • income runs up a little .” He couldn’t bering. 11 7 d“ciln< now—or plan to diers do not wear uniforms, you Potomac, General Eisenhower might conceal a note of pride. “ He looked “ I realized that this was an ideal “ Warming up” a studio audience S 1 ‘^ • ‘ • / ’Kellogg’. know. Anyway, I was gone over be prevailed at me when he said it and I thought job for the purpose. It required no upon to change his oefore a comedy radio show goes on Weight Control P la n " ’ helnful D nine months. M y man cabled me he was making it personal. I told technical skill neither of us had, and mind? We shall see what we shall the air is quite an art, but Bob Hope gives 3 special sets of acientiflekllv him big-income men were worth there was a good chance that Phillip that Phillip Crasor had lccketL him see, as the fellow said as he looked Is an expert at it. However, to make balanced menus for every meal aarwrv Into the wrong end of a telescope, sure of appreciation. Bob sees to day o t the week—arid Insurance^ what they got and he said they Crasor couldn’t do it. I didn’t want self in the cottage and wouldn’t let But we hope the campaign will be it that Les Brown’s orchestra mem- <’omP«ny weight tables for each type were a lot of stuffed fools. I got to lose $50,000 any more than he anyone in. The year was almost up when I got back home. It had about sore. I told him he couldn’t handle wanted to lose the five. Phillip recognizable as a political contest i bers know nothing of the gags until j ,of . body frame . . , These menus include K E L L O G G ’S a $50,000 job for a month, much hadn’t stuck at anything since he 20 days to run. I hurried down to and not a m ajor m ilitary event. ' they hear the actual broadcast. That the cottage.” less a y e a r.” came out of the arm y, and I figured gives him 20 listeners who catch whlrh contains vital whole-grain pro Thatcher flicked ashes from the Thatcher coughed a little, apol he'd drop out within a few weeks even Hope's fastest sallies, and the tective food e le m e n ts ,— needed cigar. E lm er Twitchell is close Io a Z. I d“'t or not • • • T h b book» ogetically. at the most. Then, I ’d return his audience laughs with them. “ M y man said Phillip Crasor had rl just write Kellogg C o - fortune. He is thinking of sign “ I was a captain in the first money and teach him a lesson he • • • Dept. N , Battle Creek. Mich. The 10 ing up to supply the United Na world war. Infantry. Shrapnel.” wouldn’t forget about betting. And been gone for a week. Humphrey Bogart made his stage handwritten copies of the Bible were tions with loopholes. The demand His hand moved to his right side. there was a very good chance that, debut on February 27. 1923. in a play lo r smaller ones is especially “ They wouldn’t take me the last after he learned what the job was on a table in the cottage, all per called “Swifty.” Same day, same fectly legible. On top o l one pile high. that makes folks tim e .” to be, he’d drop the whole thing year, Edward G. Robinson made his, ’ ■ w sleep ail night! He straightened. Breeze from the and agree to call the bet off. That was a letter to me from Phillip TTie Bright Shaw.” On February I have that letter home lake swept our smoke from the car. would have been fine with me. I Crasor. ‘ l*ip “ ■»‘‘ “ "»T’- d txw M « . of 27. 1897, Lionel 3arrym ore begin Special Delivery '.*?! b“ ’1« »««Aened night «flair He said he “ P hillip Crasor said he had $5,000 couldn't back down as long as Phil now, in m y Bible. Ol«lit eiioU he A°ae bbuldrr «rrUel,.,«. .„ { (A. his theatrical career. All this was Dear Uncle Sam: that said he could handle any $50,- lip wanted to go on, of course. The wouldn’t take the $50,000 and the bet 1,1«/ divulged one day when the three l u u „anally alley within 34 hour. Hmre Foley was off. I paid, though, to the This is a follow up to my recent 000 job for 12 months. Inherited men at the club never would have prevalent and Foley |-,lb ao were working in “ Key Largo.” at potant. Toley f ill. n,uat benefit you within 24 letter asking if you didn’t think it the money from an aunt, I believe. forgotten it, and it would have hurt church we attended this morning. Warner Bros. The year. 1948. And lo u r , or Ix J U H I K V o l ' l l M O N E Y H A C K time you snapped out of that self Anyway, he said for me to put up me in a business way. I went back When a m an loses, he should pay. iu , r n i 1? 1 Get Fol,z p,lto i'n™ the date, of course, February 27. I t ’s strictly business. I f I ’d won—” destructive trance in the drug-store lioNSY BACK.*’ U‘'° Of Y0L' “ or shut up. The fellows in the club to the others.” • • • “ But what about Phillip Crasor?” window and started acting as if you laughed, and I —well, I lost m y tem He nursed his cigar for a few "Crisis in Ita ly ,” the new March I held another forgotten cigarette were hep to the fact that Kremlin per. I called him at ten to one, moments. of Tim e film . Is a “ must.” Il in m y hand. workers for your liquidation are just betting 50,000 against his five that “ Phillip Crasor exploded when he brings us the truth about the rise “ Oh. He preached that sermon about the most efficient, wideawake, he couldn’t handle the job. I was learned what the job was to be. I high-powered 24-hours-a-day shift or of communism In Italy, presents to name the job. I t wasn’t to be didn't know it, but his handwriting you heard this morning." conditions In that country far more ganization in the land. impossible, or require technical skill was awful. He thought I was rib vividly than newspapers or radio neither of us had. I t was foolish, bing him. The men in the club reporting possibly can. Sure, the people are asleep at but neither of us would back down. were having the time of their lives the switch. Sure, they are hard to I t was a bet and I couldn't call it A well-known law yer drew up — Double-duty Ituectl- arouse. Yeah, I know 85 per cent Ten-year-old Norma Jean Nillson, off. Betting is strictly business with contract and both of us signed it eldei Kill» b y contact« of all Americans l —“’ •------ — are — so *— busy | "Cookie” on the CBS "Blondie” me. If I win I collect, and if I kill« by fume«. Detfroya Phillip Crasor wouldn’t back down playing pinball machines, writing show, is a veteran actress. She be plant lice but «par«« lose I pay off. Strictly business. and I couldn’t I was to furnish the beneficial Im ech. I m i a limericks for radio prizes, ap came a professional five years ago, BY CHARLES B ROTH o t o r in tto ! res- One ounce plut plauding the wrong people in news when she played her first dramatic fereeri fe ret«rr/«ZZ IfrritffA •oop m a le , 6 reels and trying to get a new se i role, a small part on Arch Obeler's •olio«« of el- GIVE YOURSELF TO A CHAIR tobacco s r - r a o D u c n • fa ttiv e aphid- CHSMICAl CORPORATION dan that the 15 per cent hard at ; “Free World Theater.” ••'e y . N ú n i t t S t t r U l U i ! i» r r IHHS A friend of the late W illiam work to Sovietize America are lO U U V IU S 2. KINTUCKY James, greatest psychologist of his having it easy. Loretta Young's two recent star .7 / 7 /' • lO O K » o r TMt l l * l ON THI PACKAGI day, asked the noted man if he ting appearances on ’’Screen Guild would mind giving a few rules for What we need are demonstrations Players” within a month marked the im provem ent of personality. l e l i e m Distress of MONTHLY In every town and city for the pres- the 10th and 11th times she has been “ One rule I w ill give you,” re ervation of America, and in ’em on ‘he program. She is topped only sponded D r. James, "a simple rule there should be the spirit of the old- by Robert Young and Herbert M ar —but so im portant. The rule is this: time Fourth of July meetings, with shall, each with 12. Learn to give yourself up to a chair the brass bands playing “ Yankee at least once each day.” Doodle" and the eyes of the people Odds and Ends . . . LrRoy Prinz Mystified, the inquirer asked what lighted up with gratitude for the had a nice chore for “ One Sun D r. James meant when he said great blessing of living in the great day Afternoon” — teaching two “ give yourself up to a chair.” M m Helps Up Red Wood! est country on earth. horses to dance together . . . All Do female functional periodic dis • “ Practice conscious relaxation,” Dennis Morgan had to do that day turbances make you suffer pain, feel io he was told. “ Relax every day. Americans are good joiners and nervouo. irritable—s t such times? Then was crank an antique car, but he try Lydia E. Plnkham’s TABLETS to Relaxation, particularly the ease good organizers. Once aroused they broke a small bone in his wrist nelleve such symptoms. Plnkham'i and restfulness associated with are tough babies and nobody’s fools. while doing It , . Dan Seymour, Tablets are also very effective to help utter relaxation, is one of the best How about a national campaign to one of the cinema's fatter, and build up red blood In simple anemia. aids I know in developing a get them as hard-working, alert and better, menaces, has an odd hobby Lydia E. Pinkham's charming personality." vigorous In preserving the country —odd for him, that Is—he raises as the Moscow agents are for feed- parakeets , , , j j m p av|„ used How often one sees these futile I ing it to the crows? I ’m Just ask I some of the money from his first run-arounds, men and women who ing. »op line screen role, opposite are busy from morning till night, Yours still wondering, Bette Davis, in "W inter M eeting,” who never relax, who dash from to buy a home In San Fernando Elm er. one thing to another, who fidget and • • • valley for his parents . . , George fume, who talk rapidly, who burn v n n ____________ Help T h em Cleanse the Blood up energy and tire themselves and ! Y ° ’J E E M E M B E R — Brent is permanent master of o f H a rm fu l Body Waste everyone else out by their fruitless 1 y, back when a man wa* n’* ceremonies for M utual’s “ Leave It « W 1“ »1» Uttering to the G irls.” display of waste motion. And how I arrB,d 10 make more money? J'rete matter from the blood stream. Bui REDUCING? HERE’S A HELPFUL TIP K|C*1JL/C LETS TA LK ABOUT you. RMAU rnuoKss MM Watch Your Kidneys/ rarely one finds the composed, re taxed personality of power. Dr. James' advice was, of course, purely physical—aU you had to do was to give yourself up to the chair, relax utterly, let your body sag where it would. But there Is a l ways a subtle and marked relation ship between mind and body. And the purpose of his counsel was to let your mental moods take their tone from your physical department. 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