S o u th ern O regon News Review , T hursday, S eptem ber 8. 1949
ONLY BUREAUCRATS NOW BEAT PATH . . .
Unhappy Designer May Convert to Rat Traps
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A BETTER MOUSETRAP
»/»TOW ARE THINGS as of early
September?" we asked the
man who built a better mousetrap,
this being our regular seasonal in
quiry into business conditions.
"I can't quite make out,” he re
plied, with a glance at the paths
made to his door. “The paths
seem fairly active but the activity
could hardly be called path-beating
at this moment.”
"Would you say there was a
DOOR OF THIS MOUSETRAP MAKER
By H I. PHILLIPS
slump?”
"I might think so, but Harry Tru
man says no.”
"Does he think much about
mousetraps?”
"You know Washington. There
are experts in everything available.
The President has aides who claim
to be specialists in mouse habits
and mousetrap trends in our eco
nomic system. There is a federal
mousetrap commission at work
now.”
GRACE NOLL CROWELL
OD loved you much to trust so great a grief
To you.
¿Z
He was quite certain of you. O my dear,
He knew
How silver-bright your fire-tried spirit would
Come through.
He stood above you, watching, waiting there
To shield you from a hurt too great to bear.
And he who waited by the furnace saw
You rise
From agony to move about with still,
Calm eyes,
To go your tranquil way more beautiful,
More wise,
The silver of your spirit shining through.
God knew that he could trust this grief to you
Effect of Choke
possibly some mechanical de
vices that will make it possible
to bait a trap by pressing a but
ton. This will cost a lot of
money, but I can borrow it or
something."
To the beginner and confirmed
"Has it been here?”
wing-shot alike, the subject of shot
"I think so. There has been a
gun boring is always a fascinating
group here which acted like a fed
one. Unending are the arguments
eral committee. It came up the
concerning the respective merits
paths backward, asked where it
was, and immediately wanted to
and effect of one bore over anoth
know where there was a good
"Have you thought of turning out er. Except for patterning his gun,
place to eat.”
a trap with fewer holes?" we the average shotgunner is never
. . .
asked. "Wouldn't half as many able to see what huppens as a
"What did it do after eat
holes mean that people with mice result of various bores; nnd, ex
ing?”
would need twice as many traps?” > cept for photos such as those here,
"It showed up every day at
"Aha!” exclaimed the M W.U A. he is never able to see Just what
11 and quit at 3, announcing
B.M., showing us the door. "I happens when a shot charge leaves
after a week that It had studied
knew it. You are one of those eco the muzzle of various-bored bar
my business thoroughly and
nomic experts direct from the cap rels.
would have an early report with
ital. Scram!”
Thanks to the Winchester arms
a complete solution to all prob
We scrammed.
company, here is presented visual
• • •
lems in the mousetrap field.”
ly "what happens” when shot
"You think it will find that
you are prospering and that
there Is no cause for concern?”
we asked.
"I am sure of it,” said the
man who built a better mouse
trap. "The commission left in
a very happy mood and an
nounced nothing was worrying
me."
VANISHING AMERICANISMS
By INEZ GERHARD
RNOLD MOSS has succeeded
in so many fields that it is
hard to know where to begin de
scribing him. He entered college at
15, has a m aster’s degree. He has
been a success on the stage, radio
and screen, as actor, writer and
producer. As narrator for “Duel in
the Sun” he was so good that he
was engaged for the same stint
for "Arch of Triumph.” His latest
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That night we had dinner at
the Plaza and it was there that
we first saw Kandace. She was
sitting alone in a booth, and
when she caught Joe staring
at her boldly, she nodded and
smiled at him.
ARNOLD MOSS
picture is “Reign of Terror,” for
Eagle-Lion. During the war he did
broadcasts in four foreign lan
guages, narrated six pictures for
the navy. The coming season will
see him on the stage in "Twelfth
Night,” and on television as well.
He is married, has two young
children—and makes interviews a
pleasure.
Daytime serials may be broad
cast in Korea, if Miss Ok Yul Kim,
an announcer, and Mr. Young Ho
Song, a director, both with the
Korean radio network, have their
way. Here to tour New York’s
radio studios and study American
technique, they visited “The Road
of Life” and "Young Dr. Malone"
broadcasts, said they’d recommend
them to their government-operated
radio system.
George Burns and Gracie Al
len cut their European visit
short by two weeks, came rush
ing home to Hollywood early
this month. Could be that they
had last-minute preparations to
make for their new comedy
show, starting September 21 on
CBS.
Lon McCallister has made only
two pictures for Warners', but they
represent the high and low of his
career. In 1941, in "Gentleman
Jim,” he did a bit role; in “The
Story of Seabiscuit” he’s co-starred
with Shirley Temple and Barry
Fitzgerald.
Instinctively I knew, when I saw
the tall dark man come through
the door, that Joe was in for trou
ble. And I was right. The tall dark
man strode toward the booth and
there was something about him
that caused my blood to creep. I
stood up, but was by no means
quick enough. The stranger had
grasped Joe by the coat front,
jerked him to his feet and slapped
his face.
After a while a messenger came
in and handed me a note. I read it
and looked sourly at Joe. “Now
you’ve done it. That was Count
Obeid and that was his girl you in
sulted.”
“Insulted?” said Joe.
"And he wants to fight a duel
with you. He realizes our boat
sails first thing in the morning,
so in order to accommodate us
he’ll await our pleasure at
dawn. He will do you the honor
of permitting you to choose
your own weapons.”
Joe shook his head and tried to
grasp it. “That punk—the dope who
smacked my jaw—wants to fight
a duel? You mean like they do in
Sabatini’s books?” "And I can
choose my own weapons,” Joe
went on. He stood up. “Come on.”
I followed him, not quite daring
to use force in stopping him again,
yet ready for any emergency. We
went back to the Plaza. The count
and his girl were, of course, gone.
Joe made inquiries, wrote down an
address and beckoned me to fol
low. A taxi deposited us before a
pretentious looking house of white
adobe. A servant admitted us and
presently Count Obeid appeared.
"You’re giving me the honor of
choosing my own weapons,” said
Joe “ I’ll take these,” and he knot
ted up his fists and held them
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ns bonus. No runvusalntf, investm ent
or e x p erien ce necessary.
FASHION FROCKS,
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You can have either the meat
or the fish course—the price Is
about the same.
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7 DAYS
W IL L D O IT
s e e
"I'd like to see a return of blood,
sweat and tears to economics."—
BERNARD BARUCH.
Instead of bunk, debt and leers?
By
Richard H. Wilkinson
Corner
under the count's nose.
"Those!” said the amazed count.
"Yeah,” said Joe, "and on your
honor as a gentleman you can’t re
fuse. Also, why wait till dawn?”
HAT followed was pitiful. We
trooped into the back yard.
Joe and the count took off their
coats and squared off. Grinning,
Joe stepped in and delivered a
quick one-two on the nobleman's
chin. Blood appeared on his mouth.
He swung wildly. Joe set him back
on his heels. The count came in
again and Joe knocked him down.
He got up and came back for more.
“Listen, old horse,” he said,
"you're as dumb about the customs
back in America as I am about
them over here. Only I didn’t have
the guts to fight you your own way
clothes
nutlonully know n F ash io n F ro c k s
No. I never go away for the sum- I
mer. Not with a climate like New ■
York.
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F ic t io n A MISUNDERSTANDING
LL NEVER FORGET the spec
tacle of Joe Abbott and Count
Obeid fighting. Thinking of it, I
am more apt to shudder than smile.
Though it certainly had amusing
aspects.
You see, Joe
is an American.
And he wasn't
'M inute
used to the way
Fiction
they did things
in Luandia.
Anyway, when Joe and I stopped
off at Cabindas on our world cruise,
we were much pleased with the
place.
AMBITIOUS WOMEN
who w e.tr
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. . .
I give the kid a quarter allow
"Strictly on your own." we asked, ance—and he saves 15 cents a week
"what is the real situation in the out of it.
mousetrap industry?”
• • •
"I am optomistic. It can't be that
Forty necklaces, bracelets,
the country has caught all the
rings and brooches, one worth
mice. Hence the drop in demand for
$90.000, were in the loot taken
traps must be due to something
by the bandits who stuck up the
else. People may be making old
Aga Khan and the ltegum. This
traps last longer. I had a fellow
leaves them down to their last
come in with some holes and ask
five tons of ice.
that we build a trap around 'em.”
• • •
“Are you operating in the red at
After relieving them of their dia
the moment?”
monds, do you suppose the bandits
"Yes, but don't let the President said, "Now drive carefully, as you
hear it. He would hold I am sab are operating with dimmers.”
• • •
otaging public confidence. He may
even say I want depression for my
President Truman received 100
own selfish ends.”
boys at the White House recently
"So what?”
and showed them around. He ex
“Well I guess I should do some plained to them how it feels to
deficit-financing arid expand. After grow up and have to live in hot
all I don't want federal control of water.
mousetraps.”
• • •
Can you remember—Away back
The man who built a better
when they turned around to look at
mousetrap paused a moment
a daring bathing suit?
and reflected.
"I shall have to style my
mousetraps,” he resumed. “I
must bring out smarter models
with startling new innovations.
Streamlining might help and
A subway conductor was walk
ing through the train beween ex
press stops when tie was startled
to see three pigeons roosting
com fortably on the brim of a
m an 's black derby.
"H ey ,” shouted the conductor,
"you can ’t transport uncaged
anim als on the subway.*'
"In the first place,” replied
the m an with the derby, "they
are not anim als.
They are
birds.”
" I don't care about th at,” in
terrupted the conductor, "they
a re still anim als so far ns I'm
concerned.”
"In the second place,” con
tinued the m an, “ they don’t be
long to me. They got on ut 125th
S treet.”
—and you, well, by gosh, there are
danged few Americans can take it
the way you have. And right here
and now I rise to remark you have
my apology, and I'll tell that dame
so, too, if you'll tell me where she
lives.”
Well, the count only caught
on to about one-third of what
Joe meant and grinned and of
fered his hand.
This series of photos (taken
nine feet from the muzzle)
show how degrees of choke af
fect shotgun patterns. In the
top photo, is shown the shot
charge from a cylinder-bore
barrel. Note how the shot
spreads. Center, a modified, or
half-choke bore, reduces the
spread of shot. In bottom photo,
a full-choke barrel restricts the
shot Into smaller, more concen
trated column.
charges leave the barrels of the
three most popular chokes in use ns. in just 7 d ay«. . . In one short week . . .
by American scatter-gun enthusi
a «roup of people who changed from their
asts.
Despite the diversity of opinion, old dentifrice« toCalox Tooth Powder aver
it is rather well-established that aged 38% brighter teeth by scientific test.
the ideal boring for the upland gun W hy not change to Calox yourself? Buy
ner is improved cylinder, if he is ! Calox today . . . to your
using a single-barreled gun, and teeth can start looking
improved cylinder and modified brighter tomorrow I
choke if he is carrying a double.
The hunter who goes for ducks,
geese and doves will be better
armed with the heavier gauges and
closer-choked guns, although there
is a wealth of contradictory matter
McKesson & Robbins lac., Bridgeport, C ona
on this subject.
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Ten minutes later the three of
us were sitting around a fire in
Kandace's living room, laughing
and talking and drinking punch
and telling each other that it was
too bad there wasn't a perfect un
derstanding about customs of dif
ferent countries, and agreed that
T rue . . . it’I a ¡mail thing, sports
if such were the case every one
manship, but any man who isn't a
would be happier.
RD PUZZLE
LAST WEEK'S
ANSWER
good sport in a com petition involving
a fish versus a piece of bait surely is
a dou btfu l risk in the bigger gamble
of human relationships, *
A A A
Why Mix 'Em
2. A bryophy- 23. Coarse,
matted
tlc plant
wool
measure«
3. Celerity
25. Openings
4. Play on
4. Knave of
(anat.)
clubs
words
7. Whip
5. Shoshonean 27. Breeze
Indian
28. Peck
handle
29. Hard
8. On top
6. Standard
black
10. Stocking
7. Selected
wood
11. Absolute
•• Rings,
31. Lumps
as bells
12. Armed
of earth
forces with 12. Buddy
32. Small
legal
13. Piece of
boy
needlework
authority
35. A thin,
14. Insane
15. Perish
brittle
16. Roman
18. Decay
cookie
pound
19. Allowance
38. Thing
for waste
17. Flit
aimed at
20. Measure
22. Perform
(Chin.)
21. Meadow»
24. Gloomy
26. Division
of a book
28. A small part
30. Diplomacy
33. Jewish
month
34. Flourished
36. Music note
37. Marsh
39. Cleaning
rod for
small arms
42. Builder
of the ark
(Bib.)
45. Nourish
ment
46. River
(Orient)
47. Trees
48. Loiter
49. Twilled
fabric
DOWN
1. God of love
PUZZLE NO. 15
ACROSS
X. Type
A n s w er Io pasxle No. 14
40. Burrowing
animal
41. Play
boisterously
43. Wing
44. Squeeze
Up?
CALOX
“•„SLEEP
Tomorrow Night
—without being awakened
If you're forced up nightly because of urges,
do this: Start taking FO LE Y F IL L S for
Sluggish Kidneys. They purge kidneys of
wastes; they soothe those irritations causing
those urges. Also allay back sc has, leg pains,
painful passages from kidney inaction. Unless
you sleep all night tomorrow night D O U B LE
Y O U R M O N E Y B ACK. A t your druggiat
It you own a farm fish pond, you
may have the idea that you should
raise various species of fish to
gether in the same pond. Consider
able scientific research shows that
this is not true.
It is now known that the greatest
production in any body of water,
principally small ponds or lakes,
can be attained only by having the
fewest species of fish present.
Are you going through the func
The largemouth bass and blue
tional ‘middle age' period peculiar
to women (38 to 52 yr«.)? Doe» thia
gill make an ideal combination for
make you «uffer from hot tlanhes.
such waters. The necessity of com
feel so nervoue, hlghstrung. tired?
bining a fish like the largemouth
Then do try Lydia E Plnkham’s
Vegetable Compound to relieve auch
with the bluegill is that the latter
symptoms Plnkham's Compound
feeds on small microscopic organ
also ha» what Doctors call a sto
machic tonic effect!
isms, while the largemouth in its
advanced fingerling sizes and adult V LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S c o m ped
forms feeds on the bluegills. This
cycle of feeding creates the best WNU—1 3 ____
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fish production in a pond.
So—why mix 'em up? For it
really is not advisable to do so.
Factors of food and space, plus the
idiosyncracies of each individual
species of fish as to how it repro
Help T hem Cleanse th e Blood
duces and lives is important to
of Harm ful Body Waste
Your kidney, are constantly Altering
consider when trying to mix species.
waste m atter from the blood stream. But
A A A
k id n e y, sometimes lag In their work do
Watch Your
Kidneys/
Camouflaged Leaders
Camouflaged nylon monofilament
leaders, tippets, coils and spinning
lines are now available. They are
dyed the color of the rainbow by a
special process. The colors are in
the order in which they appear in
the spectrum, and this feature, ac
cording to the manufacturers, aids
in making them virtually invisible.
The leaders offered come in either
level or tapered forms in a wide
range of test weights. Spinning line»
are made in multi-test sizes.
not act aa N ature Intended— (ail to re
move Impurities th a t, if retained, may
poison tha system and upset the whole
body machinery.
Symptnme may be nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes— a feeling of nervous
a n ile ty and loaa of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
order are sometimes burning, scanty or
too frequent urination.
Thera should ba no donbt th at prom pt
treatm ent Is wiser than neglect. Use
Doon’s Ptlle, Tloan'e have hern winning
new friends for more then forty years.
T h e y have a nation-wide reputation.
Are recommended by grateful people the
country over. Ask your nsfykoor/
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