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!
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•
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.”
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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
•
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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
•
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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.
"What mental mood can you ex­
pect if you are always physically
tense?” he inquired.
•
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•
The shoe industry predicts a drop
After Glenn Ford finished his role
from $1 to $3 in the price of shoes In Columbia’s "The Man From Col
this year. Oh for the days when we orado” he shaved off his sideburns
could afford them on both feet!
—and then was asked to grow a
mustache for “The Mating of Mil
Trum an Says He Will Run. Head- He ”
line.
M ight be a good idea to develop
the hook slide, too.
• • •
Eamon de Valera was in New
York and the city, of course, gave
him the green light
Sidney M ille r, one of Hollywood’s
most versatile actors, had played
practically every sort of role but
a dog, until he appeared on
ABC’s “ Lassie Show.” He played
“ Spooky,”
handling
the dog's
dialog; Lassie did the barking.
kidneys aometlmee lag In th«lr work—do
■ot set as Nature Intended— fall to re­
move Impurltiae that. If rptafnsd. may
Cody "mar* i’/e /y ™ “ d " P’ *‘
Wh°**
8y“ ptoma may be n a n ln f backache,
peralateat headache, attack« of dlaxlneee,
gattlog up nighta, (wdling, pulllneaa
under the eyea— a feeling of nervous
■“ ’ ’•ty and I»*« of P»P and atrengtb.
Other aigng of kldnay or bladder dla-
erder are aometlmee burning, acanty or
too frequent urination.
Thera should be no doubt that prompt
treatment la wlaer than neglect. IJie
D o a t'i P ilh . Doan'i have been winning
new friends for more than forty y a m .
They have a nation-wide reputation.
Are recommended by grateful paopla the
•ountry ovar. A rt your nuiohborl
D oans P iu s