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By FRANK JENKINS
The scene is sunny Florida.
The speaker is Brigadier Gen
eral Wallace Graham, President
Truman's personal physician.
The stage setting is provided by
several dozen correspondents,
pads open and pencils poised.
GRAHAM: I'm bothered about
the president and his weight.
It's only 175, but it ought to be
a lot less.
CORRESPONDENTS: You
mean the president is developing
a pod?
GRAHAM: Well, he used to
brag that he could get into his
World War I uniform. I dare
him to now.
(Business of correspondents
writing frantically In their note
books). GRAHAM: Harry Truman is
the healthiest president the
country ever had, but that isn't
enough. He has more burdens
and needs more strength. It's
these cooks. They fry everything
in butter. More corn bread and
mustard greens, and less breaded
pork chops, fried in bacon grease
that's what Harry needs.
CORRESPONDENTS: Is that
all, sir?
GRAHAM: Well, you might
add that a broiled steak and a
lew vegetables, boiled, not fried
in butter, wouldn't hurt him any.
(Business of correspondents
dashing frantically for the near
est telephone.)
YOU understand, I presume,
what it's all about.
Harry isn't much of a fisher
man, and it has been a basic
tenet of the American political
faith that nobody but a fisher-1
man can be re-elected president.
In Harry's case, they're having
to scratch around for a substi
tute. His WEIGHT looks like it
might be it. Everybody in lush
and abundant America is wor
ried about his (or HER) weight.
We all worry about extra
pounds. HARRY WORRIES
ABOUT EXTRA POUNDS.
So, you see, a bond is estab
lished between the president and
us common people. Without a
bond between the chief execu
tive and us heavy-voting com
mon folk, the jib would be up
PERSONALLY, I'm not so sure
that Harry needs all this
worried - about - his - weight
stuff. In his give-'cm-hell tour
around the country in the fall
of 1948, he displayed a talent
for getting close to us common
people and then he was still let
ting it be known that he could
get into his old uniform without
pulling in his tummy too much.
If his ideas about national fi
nance were as sound as his in
stinct for getting votes, I think
I'd be throwing up my hat for
him myself. You just can't help
liking the little guy.
j ' News of4-H
CLUBS
" Gold Hill 4-H club met at the
; Estremado home March 15, with
j 20 members and eight parents
i attending. Club Leader Norman
Gail was unable to be there, be-
ing still confined to his home
I from the effects of his recent ac
; cident. Dick Biles, club presi
dent, was also absent, and the
'i meeting was in charge of George
i Christensen, vice-president, and
J Jerry Esgew, assistant leader.
.' Club projects for the coming
year include 14 sheep, five dairy,
one poultry, eight beef and 12
Pig-
" Next meeting will be at the
1 Eskcw home on April 12.
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