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RHEUMATISNCmbago A NAME FOR THE MOTHER-IN-LAW “Did you see,’’ asked Senator Dumm, "where a group of women recently voted for a change in the term ‘mother-in-law’?” “I did,” replied Representative Dummer. “They voted to change it to kin-mother, the big sillies.” “The foolish season is here ahead of time,” said the senator, “and win ter must be nearly over. There are many names I could call the old girl, but kin-mother is not among ’em.” “What was the big idea, anyhow?” asked Dummer. “Were the moth ers-in-law complaining?” “Mothers-in-law are always com plaining,” snapped the senator. “Do you see this bruise over my eye?” “I do,” said Dummer. “How come?” "From walking up to my wife’s old lady and saying, ‘Hello, kin- mother’; that’s how I got it. She thought I said something else, and when I tried to explain she said mother-in-law was good enough for her, and it would have to be good enough for me.” • • • “I noticed that there were many other names suggested before the final vote,” said Dummer. “One of ’em was ‘Blitzkrieg Moth er,’ ” laughed the senator. “I rath er liked that one. It will linger in my memory long after I have for gotten all about ‘kin-mother.’ But do you know what I think is called for now?” “No.” “A new name for mothers-in-law to call their sons-in-law and daugh ters-in-law.” “Haven’t our mothers - in - law enough names for them already?” asked Dummer. “I mean something printable; sr mething that can be used in po lite society,” argued the senator. • * • “How about asking her to call you a kin-son?” asked Dummer. “She would re taliate by calling me a kin-bum and say she misun derstood me,” barked Senator Dumm. “Couldn’t she just call you a kin-guy or a kin- sap?” asked Dummer. “She might be glad to,” said the senator. * • • “Will anything come of the whole business?” asked Dummer. “Nothing whatever,” declared Senator Dumm. “A man never re fers to his mother-in-law as his mother-in-law, anyhow. Ke either calls her ‘that woman,’ ‘old iron sides,’ ‘the crackdown’ or ‘the fam ily static.’ ” • • • “Do you know what I call mine?” asked Dummer. “What?” “The Roman Galley,” declared Dummer. “Why?” asked the senator, a bit puzzled. “Because she is always putting in her oar,” concluded Representative Dummer, dodging a chair. • • • LINES AFTER LOOKING OVER THE PICTURES For Robert Taft, as fi iherman, I simply cannot root; He fishes in high-polished shoes And in a business suit. • • • Add similes: as uncomfortable as a skiing enthusiast on a Caribbean cruise. • • • Mr. Dewey says the time las come for us to tighten our belts. But too many Americans think their belts are tight when it’s merely indigestion. • • • CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when an icebox looked like an icebox? • • • Walt Disney’s “Pinnochio” is all right. The trouble, however, is that it encourages too many other animated cartoonists. * • • THE PROOF I know when winter’s on the lag And going to the dogs: It’s then my mail is flooded with Those fishing catalogues. • • • ISN’T IT SO? Manhattan, so all the records show, In books and public print* Was settled 300 years ago . . . And hasn’t been settled since! Avery Giles. • • • ASSISTS “Tobacco Road” has run so long It must be a federal project. • • • Attention, Mr. Farley! I ran across a postage stamp the other day with George Washington on it. Milt the Berle. i THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940 "Let's Play AutL And He's Gr Postage iors," Says Ui King Us a Nev Stamps to H< ide Sam, k Series of ?lp Us Do It QJ ■ By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) R emember back in the “good old days” when you used to play “authors”? It was a card game, you re call, but it wasn’t the kind that some puritanical folk frowned upon because there was a taint of gambling at tached to it. Instead, your parents and your teachers en couraged you to play it be cause they considered it “edu cational” — it familiarized you with the names of the great literary figures of the world and the novels and poems and stories that they had written. Well, your Uncle Samuel re cently decided that it might be a good thing to revive that old-fashioned game. At least, he decided that we Amer icans ought to become more familiar with some of the great literary figures in our own past so he’s started a variation on the old game of authors on a nation-wide scale. You don’t “play” it with pasteboards. You “play” it with stamps, which your Uncle Samuel manufactures and sells you (at a very good profit to himself, incident ally). All of which is by way of call ing your attention to a new series of “Famous Americans” stamps which the United States post of fice department is issuing this year. The first set in the series was issued the last part of Janu ary and the first part of Febru ary; a second set was issued in February; a third will be placed on sale this month and each month until November will see a new group of American notables being honored by having their faces appear on a new set of stamps. It so happens that the first of the seven groups which will be issued this year displayed the faces of five famous authors and the second the countenances of five famous poets—hence the statement at the beginning of the article that Uncle Sam was ask ing us to “play authors” with him by buying these new stamps for use on our letters. As a matter of fact, he’s going to honor other “Famous Americans,” too—edu cators, scientists, composers, art ists and inventors. Last November Postmaster General Farley announced that there was to be a new series of “Famous Americans” which would be composed of peace-time heroes, instead of military and naval heroes, or statesmen. An ticipating possible criticism by some people in regard to the se lection of the men and women whose portraits were to appear on the stamps of different values, Mr. Farley pointed out that the selection of the various denomi nations, which include a one- two, three, five and ten-cent stamp for each of the seven stamps of the series, was to be governed by the date of birth of the 35 famous Americans in this new series. In other words, the lowest de nomination in each of the seven groups was assigned to that par ticular American notable whose date of birth precedes that of all others appearing in this particu lar group, with the notable of the most recent birth being awarded the highest denomination. This chronological birth order has been followed throughout the new series. Thus, no one who beb'eves that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a greater poet than James Whitcomb Riley can object be cause the face of the Hoosier bard appears on a stamp of higher value than that bearing the por trait of the New Englander. The fact that Longfellow was born in 1807 and Riley in 1853 was the determining factor in placing the picture of the former on the one- cent stamp and the fact of the latter on the 10-cent. Similarly those who love the songs of Stephen Collins Foster can’t object because his picture is on a one-cent stamp, whereas those of Edward A. MacDowell and Ethelbert Nevin, of whom they may neVer have heard, are on the five-cent and the 10-cent stamps, respectively. Of course, it may seem rather silly that Uncle Sam, as represented by his postmaster-general, has to be so very careful to avoid the slightest suspicion of partisanship in such a matter as this. But it’s amaz ing what queer notions people have sometimes, and they’ve raised a veritable “tempest in a teapot” over lesser matters than this. Having chosen his list of authors, poets, educators, scien tists, composers, artists and in ventors to appear on his new series of stamps, Uncle Sam next decided on the places for “first days,” i. e., where each of these stamps were first to be sold. In every case the home town of the notable or some place closely as sociated with his career was chosen. Thus on January 29 the green one-cent stamp bearing the por trait of Washington Irving was placed on sale at Tarrytown, N. Y. On the same day the post office at Cooperstown, N. Y., be gan selling the red-two cent stamps bearing a likeness of the author of the “Leatherstocking Tales”—James Fenimore Cooper. On February 5 the Ralph Waldo Emerson stamp (three-cent, pur ple) was first sold in Boston and the Louisa May Alcott stamp (five-cent, blue) in Concord, Mass. On February 13 the mem ory of Samuel Langhorne Clem ens (Mark Twain, to most Amer icans) was again honored at Han nibal, Mo., with the first day sale of a new 10-cent brown stamp. Thus Uncle Sam started his new “game” of authors and he continued it during February by issuing the five stamps in the poet group, as follows: February 16, the Henry W. Longfellow stamp (one-cent, green) was first sold at Portland, Maine, and the John Greenleaf Whittier stamp (two- cent, red) at Haverhill, Mass.; February 20 the James Russell Lowell (three-cent, purple) at Cambridge, Mass., and the Walt Whitman (five-cent, blue) at Cam den, N. J.; February 24, the James Whitcomb Riley (10-cent, brown) at Greenfield, Ind. Beginning this month with the educators’ group the stamps will be placed on sale as follows: Educators. March 14—Boston, Horace Mann, one-cent, green. March 14 — Williamstown, Mass., Mark Hopkins, two-cent, red. March 28—Camoridge, Mass., Charles W. Eliot, three-cent, pur ple. March 28—Evanston, 111. Fran ces E. Willard, five-cent, blue. April 7 — Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Booker T. Washington, ten- cent, brown. Scientists. April 8—St. Francisville, La., John James Audubon, one-cent, green. April 8—Jefferson, Ga., Dr. Crawford W. Long, two-cent, red. April 17—Santa Rosa, Calif., Luther Burbank, three-cent, pur ple. April 17—Washington, Dr. Wal ter Reed, five-cent, blue. April 26—Chicago, Jane Ad- dams, ten-cent, brown. Composers. May 3—Bardstown, Ky., Ste phen C. Foster, one-cent, green. May 3—Washington, John Phil ip Sousa, two-cent, red. May 13—New York, Victor Her bert, three-cent, purple. May 13—Peterborough, N. H., Edward A. MacDowell, five-cent, blue. June 10—Pittsburgh, Pa., Ethel bert Nevin, 10-cent, brown. Artists. September 5—Narragansett, R. I., Gilbert C. Stuart, one-cent, green. September 5—Lowell, Mass., J. A. M. Whistler, two-cent, red. September 16—New York, Au gustus Saint-Gaudens, three-cent, purple. 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