A Nichol.' Worth of
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Prati future Wrilw
Washington, Jan. 19 (U.R
The public transportation people
In Washington offer all sorts
of inducements
for folks to
ride.
Many street
cars and buses
have radios
which give
with music,
news, and the
time.
A 1 T of t h e
public carriers
have fasci
nating adver
tisements asted eve-
Hirnun Nichols high to attract
the strap-hangers.
During a 40-minute ride home
a man can get a liberal educa
tion. In the bus that goes out my
way, attractive ads practically
take a person by the hand and
lead him from the cradle to the
grave.
One notice, paid for by a dairy
advises that without milk from
this certain cow barn life will
be dull, at best, and maybe even
fruitless.
Another placard, done in brief
yellow, says that you can't miss
pulling up bright-eyed and
healthy at 40, where life is sup
posed to begin if, of course,
you remember to down the juice
of a lemon in water every 'day.
One ad shocks the bus-riding
public in big black letters with:
"These folks are healthy. Are
you?"
The artist pictures the head of
a family along with his brood
of six or so. The puniest looking
guy and the sickest looking kids
you ever saw.
I forgot who paid for the ad.
No Trouble To Borrow
A loan company has a cutie
in colors suggesting that it's no
trouble to borrow from $50 to
$1,000 "on your signature alone."
The picture shows a happy group
pulling up to a vine-covered
rambler home in a block-long
limousine. The daddy of the
house lets out a sigh and says:
"Look, kids. It's all ours."
There are liquor ads and beer
ads. One paid notice - for some
of the hard-stuff shows a man
bounding out of the sack just as
tne sun makes it over his window
sill. He doesn't even yawn as he
crawls off the mattress.
"You feel like this after a
night with old so-and-so whisky,"
the ad says.
Ad For Undertaker
It probably wasn't planned
that way, but right next to the
whisky ad was one for an under
taker. It recommended you call
a certain number in case of
death and "get the full treat
ment for as low as $200 a com
plete grave opened and closed
for as little as $65."
The undertaker promised to
put you six feet under with bet
ter service than you'd get alive
in. .the best hotel in town.
"Sixty some services," In fact.
This particular notice had been
mutilated, since I first saw it.
Thursday, January 19, 1950
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE KIWI
In the center of the ad orig
inally was a picture of the fu
neral director. Under it was a
picture of a coffin, looking pleas
antly down on the bus riders
with the lid open.
Master In Coffin
On another ride, I noticed
somebody with an upside-down
sense of humor had taken a
knife, cut out the picture of the
undertaker, cut a slit in the
coffin and put the master, him
self, therein.
Across from this ad, was an
other obviously paid for by the
advertising concern which puts
up the signs:
"Which of these ads do you
like the best?"
Well, that's pretty hard to say.
Junior Chamber Picks
10 Outstanding Men
Chicago, Jan. 19 (U.R) Char
les H. Percy, 30 year old pres
ident of Bell & Howell company
was named today as one of the 10
"outstanding young men of the
nation for 1949" by the U. S.
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
He was the only businessman
named to the award this year
and will be given a key and
scroll at a banquet in Peoria,
111., next Saturday.
The other nine were Kenneth
S. Pitzer, director of research
for the atomic energy commis
sion; Theodore Roosevelt III,
Pennsylvania secretary of com
merce; Oklahoma Football Coach
"Bud" Wilkinson: Rep. Gerald
R. Ford Jr., of Michigan; Mayor
Robert L. Floyd of Miami; In
ventor Charles E. Hastings; Am
vet President Harold Russel; At
torney John Ben Sheppard, and
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy of the
Kansas university school of med
icine Man Killed As Auto
Goes Through Garage
Chicago, Jan. 19 (U.R) Louis
F. Solarz, 35, left his wife, Re
gina, in their automobile while
lie opened the garage door upon
their return from a movie.
Suddenly, the car snot ior
ward. It pushed Solarz through
the garage, knocked out the back
wall, and pinned him against a I
fence 30 feet away.
Solarz was pronounced dead
on arrival at a hospital. I
Authorities said Mrs. Solarz
would be questioned at an in
quest tomorrow to determine if ,
she had accidentally sieppea on
the accelerator instead of the
brake.
AIR POCKET BLAMED
Madrid, Spain, Jan. 19 (U.R)
Officials blamed an air pocket
today for the crash of a military
transport plane - yesterday in.
which 16 persons were killed.
Dead line Sunday Classified ll al
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