A Nichols' Worth of
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Unir.d Prau Future Writ..
Washington, Feb. 22 (U.R)
Fat men, skinny men. Men with
gray hair and men with no hair
at all. It seems
that almost ev
ery able-bod-i
e d American
male over 50
fancies himself
a potential
George Wash
ington. We carried a
little piece the
other day say
ing that the
national capi
tal sesquicen
t e n n ial com-
Uarnun Nichols mission was
looking the land over for a man
to play the part of the father of
our country in a symphonic
drama. Paul Green, the playwright,
was hired to direct the thing
with one hand and with the oth
er to beat the backwoods for a
if i J 'I
character to play the part of
Washington. The man must be
rugged, heavy almost "crag
gy." Jovial at times, deadly se
rious at others. Slightly heavy
lips. Must have the voice of au
thority. Hair slightly grizzled.
Alan past 50, slightly taller than
the average man.
Reading between the lines,
candidates saw that the final se
lection for the role would be
fixed for life. Particularly if the
character happens to be a com
mon man. There would, of
course, be the news reels, a nod
from Hollywood, magazine ar
ticles and the like.
Read Between Lines
The public read between the
lines. The response has been ter
rific. One woman wrote from the
middle west and asked me to
please ask Paul Green not to
look any farther. Her husband,
said she, was just the man for
the job.
"My man," the woman wrote,
"can be jovial and has a mag
nificent broad smile. He also can
be very severe believe me!"
A gentleman wrote from Ken
tucky that he didn't see any
sense in continuing the search.
"It's me," he said. "I am a
blacksmith, used to be a distil
ler and understand Washington
was one of the first. I even look
like George."
A housewife in California de
clared that her gardener has the
quiet manners and at the same
time the "sharp tongue" our first
president had.
Reason Enough
"I don't see how you could
overlook him," she said. "And if
you do not I would thank you.
The man is getting in my hair."
Green would like to make it
clear that he is "calling on all of
the resources of the modern
theatre to make his play tell the
story of George Washington
through "pantomime. American
and English folksong, dance,
mental speech, dreams, story
line, music and vivid choreog
raphy." The play, said Green, will em
phasize the latter part of the
first president's life, dwelling at
some length on the dark and
! bitter days of his second admin
istration, when it seemed that
ins wisdom ana courage wouici
not be sufficient to save the
young nation . . ."
The "wisdom and courage"
part caught the fancy of a lady
in Seattle. She plugged her man
by saying:
Wisest In World
"My husband is the wisest
and most courageous man in the
world. A lot of folks think he
looks like George, too."
On my own, in the first story.
I mentioned tongue in cheek that
it would not be too bad for the
candidate to know how to belt a
cherry tree with a hatchet and
claim strict honesty. That
brought a note from an 11-year-old
boy in Minnesota who claim
ed he already had wrecked a
couple of cherry crops and re
fused to tell any lies about it.
ROMANCE COOLED
Seattle. Feb. 22 (U.Ri Mi
chael Evankovich was in Jail to
day charged with stealing S550
and spending $220 for an engage
ment ring, $23.50 for a guitar
and $116 for a love seat.
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Reds Seen No Bar For
Hawaii Statehood
Washington, Feb. 22 (U.R)
Rep. Richard Nixon (R., CaU,
believes that alleged commun
ism in Hawaii should not bar the
island from statehood.
"If this were a proper issue,"
he said, "we might well also con
sider the advisability of separat
ing New York City from the
union."
Nixon is a member of the
house committee on un-American
activities which will make
an investigation of communist
activities in Hawaii in April.
Even if the committee finds
that communism is rampant in
Hawaii, he said, it can be han
dled better by a state govern
ment than by "a national admin
istration which has on frequent
occasions demonstrated its un
willingness to recognize the
threat of communism within the
United States."
! Wednesday. February 22, t950
Salem. Ore.. Feb. 22 (U.RI
The Oregon State Farmers' un
ion opened its 40th annual con
vention here today.
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
OCE Praised On
Teacher Training Job
Monmouth, Ore., Feb. 22 ;U.R
John Eklund, national president
of the American Federation of
Teachers (AFL), yesterday com
plimented the Oregon College of
Education for its "basically in
telligent and fine jobs of teacher
training."
Eklund told OCE students and
faculty members that what he
had intended as an attack on
"remnants of a three-year certi
fication program" in Oregon had
been misinterpreted and mis
quoted as an attack on "the dual
system as it now exists in Ore
gon." The Denver, Colo., speaker
said he agreed "whole heartcdly
with Dr. Louis Kaplan's view
that the heart of the matter is
flie certification and standards
problem here and elsewhere in
the nation. '
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State Game Protector
Puts Self In Arrest
. Republic, Wash. (U.R) Law
rence Sprengel, state game pro
tector, did his duty by arresting
himself after he had shut two
grouse when he fired into a bush
where he saw only one bind. He
already had one and two was the
limit.
"If I had found another hunt
er with three birds," he said, "I
would have arrested him. There
was only one thing to do and
that was to arrest myself."
Justice of the Peace George
Panes approved Sprengel's devo
tion of duty but fined him $2.50.
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