Pickin' Pears
By SID HOLLINGSWORTH
Veterans are looking forward
to the annual show to be pre
sented Friday by the youthful
company of starlets known as
the "Young Oregonians." As the
name implies, it is sponsored by
the Portland Oregonian.
Among those glad to assist in
publicizing the show is George
Parker, who at Camp White is
synonymous with this esteemed
newspaper. He is the representa
tive who distributes the Oregon
ian daily as well as Sunday.
George is something of a show
himself, and his habit of getting
in and out of tight situations
goes bacTc to a harrowing exper
ience at the time of the First
World War. It need hardly be
mentioned that George Parker is
a native of Brooklyn. He dates
his interest in the newspaper
business to an incident which
occurred in the Kingston City
Hospital where he was sent for
emergency treatment. The ex
perience was dramatic enough
to attract the attention of a fa
mous war correspondent of those
days Floyd Gibbons.
Here is what Gibbons wrote
about George Parker. It was pub
lished in the New York Ameri
can:
You know, lots of adventures
have happened because someone
did the wrong thing somewhere
along the line, but here's one
that resulted from saying the
wrong thing.
It's the story of George T.
Parkpr. of 639 55th street. Brook
lyn, N. Y., and it's as fine an ex
ample of a horrible experience
as I've come across in many a
day.
It isn't that George talked out
of turn or tried to start an argu
ment. No, there's nothing like
that in this yarn. What little
George did say, he said with the
best and most peaceful intentions
in the world.
As a matter of fact, George
was just out of the operating
room and lying on a hospital
bed when he said it. Birds in
that fix don't go around looking
for fights, and you and I know
it.
But just the same. George sure
talked himself into a sizable lot
of trouble trouble that came
near causing George's death.
For two days after his opera
tion, George was a pretty sick
man, what with the ether he had
swallowed and the shock of be
. ing cut up by the surgeon. On
the second day, an old fellow
with a beard became delirious
and started to rave and that
didn't help George's frame of
mind any.
"He was talking about some
one named Lenny," George says,
."and he kept it up' until every
one started to complain. I
thought it would be all right to
to trv and riarifv him en uition
he called for Lenny again, I an
swered him."
i The trick seemed to work. The
old fellow actually thought he
was talking to Lenny. "What did
you do with that junk in the
attic?" he asked. And George
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answered: "I sold it." "How
much did you get for it?" the
old fellow wanted to know. And
George told him, "Fifteen cents."
After that the old fellow was
quiet. At 10 o'clock, the lights
were put out and George dozed
off.
Then suddenly, George woke
up at the sound of footsteps be
side his bed. "I looked up," he
says, "and there staring down
at me was the old fellow. His
eyes seemed to be popping out
of his head and his good hand
was reaching down for my
throat. And in a low voice he
hissed: 'Where is the fifteen
cents'?"
It might tiave been funny
that situation if it hadn't been
so pathetic too. But to George
there was neither humor nos
pathos in it nor anything else
but just plain terror.
There he lay helpless, two
days out of the operating room,
and hardly able to lift a finger
in his own defense, and over
him stood a man out of his mind
and plainly bent on violence.
"I couldn't find my voice
couldn't utter a word. I put up
my hand to protect myself, but
it was weak and shaking. The
old man grasped me by the throat
and began to squeeze.
"His hand was strong, and it's
lucky for me he didn t have two
of them that the other one was
crippled with blood poisoning
or he might have strangled me
then and there."
George wondered if he was
going to die there in the appar
ent safety of a hospital bed. And
then, suddenly, the lights came
on. Nurses and attendants came
running to the rescue. Tony, a
poor fellow with a broken spine,
had brought help. He had awak
ened, seen what was happening,
and pushed the buzzer that sum
moned the nurse.
George was so shaken by his
experience that they had to take
him out of the ward and put
him in a private room. "And,"
he" says, "I came pretty near not
writing this story."
Founder of News
Supplement Dies
Laguna Beach, Calif. (U.R)
Alfred David Mayo, founder of
the nationally syndicated Sun
day supplement, This Week, died
yesterday of a heart ailment at
his home here. He was 79.
Mayo was once secretary and
general manager of the Crowell
Publishing company, and pub
lisher of the Chicago Record.
He was also at one time presi
dent of the Butterick company"
of New York.
He began the Sunday supple
ment, Newsweek, which later
became This Week. Mayo retir
ed 12 years ago. He was sur
vived by his widow, Teresa; a
brother, Walter of St. Paul,
Min., and a son, Winston, of
New Gardens, New York. Ser-J
vices will be held Thursday.
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There are many men who feel
that they can dictate to their
wives and intimidate them by
using the threat they know is
most effective: leaving and tak
ing the children with them. That
is why I am advising the young
wife who wrote the following
letter to call her husband's
bluff. She says:
(Q) "Wo have been married
for seven and a half years
and have one son, six years
old. I am expecting another
baby in July. My husband and
I haven't been getting along
well for a long lime. The oth
er day, he threatened to leave
me as soon as the new baby
arrives and take both the
children with him. Can he do
this? I can't go back lo my
parents and take the children
with me as they are both,
getting old and not in good
health. I do not feel it would
be fair to give them this ex
tra burden and worry, espec
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lo live on. I feel trapped
and don't know what lo do.
Please advise me as this whole
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wreck of me."
(A) Your husband knows that
he has you trapped and he is
behaving like a brute. He has
threatened you
when you are
carrying his
child and he is
taking the
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his hands on,
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er's children
Dr. Hurlock from her.
He was obviously counting on
your not knowing the law, and
he has won so far. Or he may
be even so ignorant of the law
that he thinks he can do as he
pleases. In that case, he is in
for a rude shock.
Go to your minister at once
and tell him of your husband's
threat to leave you and take
your children away from you
as soon as the new baby ar
rives. Then ask him to make
arrangements for you to take
your problem to the domestic
court in your district.
When the judge hears of
your husband's threat, he will
doubtless call him into court
and ask him to explain it. The
judge will know your side of
the story before your husband
takes action and will be in a
position to stop him.
Your husband cannot take
your children away from you
unless he can produce proof that
you are unfit to be their moth
er. Furthermore, he will be leg
ally responsible for your support
and theirs, should he leave you.
When he knows the law is on
your side, he may change his
tune.
(Copyright 1955. General
Features Corp.)
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