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The Family Council
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nychutrtit, three cl.rfyaien. three editor, and a womtn'i editor.
ch article It a .iimmary of a lamlly dliifreemenl preterite to tht
Council. The Council deali with problcmi, major and minor,
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Mri. E.V.-Shc'd be married
by now If she knew when to
shut up.
Rita N. - It happens that
I m well-informed. '.Vhy hide
it?
Mri. E.V. - I'm sick of ar
ranging dates for Rita. She's
my best friend and I'd love
to see her married and settled
down like the rest of us. But
she has one fault that seems
to queer her with the boys
who take her out. She talks
too much.
That would be all right if
it was clever talk, like asking
the right questions and mak
ing the fellow feel ten feet
tall. But it's show-off talk, to
prove how well-educated and
well-read she is. I've tried to
explain to her that no fellow
takes a girl out to get his
mind improved. He wants to
relax and have a good time.
Nevertheless, she acts like
a female Billy Graham trying
to stuff a man full of words
Can the Council show her the
folly of this?
Rita N. - If a man can't
enjoy talking to a woman.
then he must regard all
women as being alike and
serving just one purpose.
When I'm out with someone I
like to show him that I'm dif
ferent, I'm me, I'm someone
interesting. I can't believe
what my friend Ella keeps
telling me, that men like
dopey girls because then they
feel brilliant by comparison.
Nobody, male or female, likes
. to be in the company of a
blockhead. ,
I'm passionately interested
in Broadway and off-Broad-
way shows, and in oil paint
ings, and in the best - seller
books people talk about. I
also keep up with the head
lines in politics and business.
What's wrong with opening
my mouth and having my
say? If a man can't stand an
alert girl, let him date a
store-dummy.
is a sultan with a harem, he
seeks a girl, who, as a wife
can be several women rolled
into one. When - he strays
then, it simply means that
wonder Woman has fallen
down in one or more depart
ments, even though she's OK
in some. But the last to stray
is probably the husband
whose wife is "passionately
interested in him-never mind
Broadway, oil paintings, etc.
Clever girls sense this and
when vis-a-vis a fellow they
line, pusn all those bright re
marks into a mental cubby-
nole labeled Use Sparingly!"
That's all Mrs. V. is trying to
get across to Rita. She's warn
ing her not to let herself get
carried away with her own
brilliance (real or imagined)
lest it keep her from ever get
ting carried across a bridal
threshold.
Of course Rita may realize
this. Perhaps she hasn't yet
met the guy who leaves her
breathless and speechless. The
ones who date her, on orders
from Mrs. V., may be such
bores that she decides if she
can't love 'cm she can "learn",
em. So she goes into her
spiels on the European Com
mon Market and Virginia
Woolf to keep from yawning.
But just to make sure that
Rita gets the message of how
important It Is to romance for
a girl to know when to open
her mouth and when to close
it, we cite the great allure of
the enigmatic Mona Lisa. And
think of the Sphinx, a female
who has lasted for centuries'
by letting everyone else have
the last word.
Once safely married to the
bright man she will surely
snag, (by giving him the spot
light,) Rita can regale him
with scintillating conversa
tion and be the shining star at
dinner parties they attend to
gether. Always, howeycr, she
continues to cultivate (1) the
art of listening, (2) a sense of
timing, and (3) his ego.
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,rTj?N - 'THIS
CiFIIrWAR
WASTES
Nashville's Saga Comes To End
By MERTON T. AKERS
UPI Correspondent
The saga of the CSS Nash
ville came to a violent end
Feb. 28, 1863 on a shoal in the
Ogeechce river south of Sa
vannah, Ga.
The Nashville's career was
a checkered one. She was
part commerce destroyer,
part blockade runner.
Little of the romance and
dcrring - do of the Confed
erate war cruisers which sail
ed the seas and burned un
armed Union merchantmen
fell to the lot of the Nash
ville. Nor did she achieve
much of the tremendous prof
its and adventure of the jaun
ty blockade runners which
pitted their speed and daring
against the Union patrol
ships guarding southern ports.
Her destruction was a neg
ative sort of victory for Adm.
Comedian Arrested
On Drugs Charge
Hollywood, Calif. (UPli Co
median Lenny Bruce's entan
glements with the police mul
tiplied Saturday when he was
arrested on suspicion of pos
session of narcotics.
The noted "sick" comic,
who also has charges of using
obscnitics in his night club
act and battery against a tele
vision cameraman pending
against him in Beverly Hills,
was released on $2,600 bail
shortly after his arrest.
Bruce, 37, also has a simi
lar narcotics charge pending
against him from an arrest in
North Hollywood.
$35 in Coins Taken
From Gas Station
Charles Frank Risse. 820
West Fourth St., Mcdford, re
ported $35 in coins were
taken early Saturday morn
ing from the Chuck Risse
Richfield station at 204 South
Central ave., according to
Mcdford police.
Missing are a roll of 50 cent
pieces valued at $20, a roll of
quarters at $10 and a roll of
dimes valued at $5.
Samuel F. DuPont's Union
blockaders but it removed her
as a potential menace to
northern shipping and gave
the admiral a chance to try
out his new ironclad moni
tors. The Nashville was a fast
and powerful merchant steam
er which the Confederates
seized in Charleston, S. C,
at the start of the war.
Two Brats Cannons
Her commander, Robert B.
Pcgram, armed her with two
small brass cannons her
decks were too light for heav
ier guns. He was suposed to
carry James M. Mason and
John Slidell, Confederate
commissioners, to Europe but
they took a smaller steamer
instead. If Mason and Slidell
had sailed on the Nashville
the famous Trent case, which
so nearly brought on war be
tween the United States and
Britain, never would have oc
curred. For the Nashville sail
ed through the Federal block
ade on Oct. 26, 1861 and
reached England without in
terference from the U. S.
Navy.
On the way she overhauled
a Federal clipper ship, the
Harvey Birch, captured and
set her afire after removing
the crew. Two days later,
Nov. 21, the Nashville arriv
ed in Southampton, England,
the first time the British had
seen the Confederate flag in
one of their ports.
The Nashville had been
damaged in a storm at sea
and she was allowed by the
Admiralty to undergo repairs
for that damage but not to
take on arms or ammunition.
But about that time news
of the Trent case arrived in
Britain. That gave the Nash
ville more time for repair be
cause sympathy for the south
ern cause skyrocketed.
But before the Nashville
was ready to sail a brand
new Federal warship, the
Tuscarora, appeared in t h c
harbor. The British prompt
ly notified her captain, T. A.
Craven, that under interna
tional law 24 hours must
elapse before departure of one
belligerent ship in pursuit of
another.
For a month the Tuscarora
lay in wait, trying to cover
both axits from the harbor.
On Feb. 3, 1862 the Nash
ville evaded Craven and
sailed safely to Bermuda.
Then she ran the blockade
into Beaufort, N.C., taking
one prize on the way.
Blockade Runner
From then until July the
Nashville turned blockade
runner under private owner
ship instead of remaining a
Confederate warship. She
made several successful voy
ages. But on her last one she
escaped only by throwing ov
erboard her cargo and quick
ly changing course in a rain
squall, thereby evading a
Federal warship which was
closing in.
1 Now late In February 1803
the Nashville lay up the Ogee
chee river, loaded to the
brim with cotton and await
ing a chance to dash out to
sea.
All that kept the Union
blockaders from going up the
Ogeechee and blasting the
Nashville with their superior
armament was Fort McAllis
ter on Genesis Point just
above where the river runs
into the Atlantic. For eight
months the fort had guarded
the Nashville.
But early in 1863 the north
ern shipyards were turning
out monitors, improved ver
sions of the original Moni
tor which had fought the Mer
rimack to a standstill in
Hampton Roads nearly a year
before.
Admiral DuPont had sev
en of these new but untested
ships. He wanted to try them
out.
On Jan. 27, 1863 he sent
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one of them, the Montauk,
into the Ogeechee against
Fort McAllister.
The Montauk ran up to
within 1,500 yards of the fort
to a point where the masts of
the Nashville could be sight
ed above the trees on a bend
in the river.
For four hours the Mon
tauk and the fort bombard
ed each other. The Monitor
was hit repeatedly but was
undamaged. So also was the
fort.
Again on Feb. 1 the Mon
tauk moved in and engaged
the fort, meantime keeping
tabs on the Nashville. This
time the Montauk was struck
46 times by Confederate shells
but again, was only dented.
Remained Untouched
DuPont was finding out
that the monitors could take
punishment but the Nashville
remained untouched.
While the Montauk's crew
was eating dinner late in the
afternoon of Feb. 27, the
Nashville was reported in
sight.
The USS Seneca investigat
ed and reported the Nashville
was hard aground just above
the fort.
Capt. John L. Worden, com
manding the Montauk, (he
also commanded the Monitor
in its fight against the Mer
rimack) decided to wait un
til morning to finish off the
Nashville.
He moved in for the kill at
the first signs of light.
An officer of the Montauk
described the Nashville's last
hours.
"It was a mild, pleasant
morning," he wrote, "and the
surface of the river was
scarcely broken by a ripple.
At five o'clock and ten min
utes we weighed anchor, and
in ten minutes more we were
steaming at the rate of six
knots up the river . . .
'There she is, swing by the
tide, and now pointing down
stream, yet still there hard
and fast. We see many on her
forecastle and considerable
bustle and confusion . . "
The Montauk anchored 000
yards from the fort.
The officer continued:
"Fort McAllister is on our
left, in the angle of the bend
of the river . . . the Nashville
is a mile and a half above
the fort, but only 1,100 yards
from us across the marshy
peninsula, and lying with
full, fair broadside toward
us . . .
"At seven minutes past sev
en we fire our first gun (the
11-inch) at the Nashville, and
immediately they let fly at
us from the fort three guns,
but their shots all go by
us . . .'
Column of Smoke
The Montauk continued to
fire its 11 - inchcr and its 15
incher, ignoring fire from the
fort.
"At fifty seven minutes
past seven we discovered a
small column of whitish
gray smoke coming out of her
forehatch, and in ten min-
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"We fire our last shot at
three minutes after eight;
having fired 14 times; and as
soon as the smoke has clear
ed away, we see the flames
bursting out around her pad
die-boxes . . . The fog, whim
has been slowly gathering
around us, now entirely shuts
us in . . .
"In a few minutes the fog
and smoke had risen, reveal
ing the Nashville enveloped
in flames. The fire came out
her sides, from around her
smokestack base and masts,
from between the ribs and
braces of her iron wheels,
and indeed she is shrouded
in fire.
"At thirty-five minutes past
nine she blew up with a
smothered rumbling report
like distant thunder. The ex
plosion was amidships . . .
carrying with it the charred
and broken timers, and tho
burning bales of cotton . . ."
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