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I was ambling along in my car
counting posts and watching my
nervous windshield - wiper * as it
slapped out a clear segment of a
circle when I spied a smallish man
walking ahead. The back of his
neck seemed a bit scrawny and a
little round hat sat on top of his head
as though a vagrant breeze had
dropped it there.
He was carrying a small bunch
of flowers. When I pulled alongside
I asked him if he wanted a lift.
His clothes were limp with the
steady drizzle and he seemed to
have walked a long way. “I’ve only
got a short way to go now,” he said.
“It ain’t hardly worth bothering
about.”
"Jump in, anyway,” I said,
“you’re all soaked.”
"All right. But I’m only going
around the bend there to' Cypress
Hills.” As he got into the car he
held the flowers high so as not to
break the stems.
“Cypress Hills,” I repeated by
way of showing a little interest.
“That’s a cemetery, isn’t it?”
“Yes, it’s a cemetery.”
“Oh,” I said. Flowers, cemetery,
rain. I kept a respectful silence.
When we had driven a short dis
tance there was a great rumble of
thunder through the
low hills and the
sky opened with a
sudden torrent that
made the surround
ing landscape a wet
blur
“Guess I’ll pull ;
up alongside the i
road until it blows
over,” I told my
passenger. Neither of us spoke for !
a while.
The great clatter of the storm out
side rendered the silence behind the
closed windows a little oppressive.
Presently the little man said, “My
wife is buried over there.” He point
ed in the direction of Cypress Hills.
“I’m sorry,” I answered.
“When—” J
“Just a few weeks ago.”
“Was it sudden or—”
He ignored my unfinished ques
tion and said absently, "It’s strange
what a delicate thing life is. It can
be cut off by an accidental move
or even a thoughtless word. Some
thing you say can snap it off just
like a thin piece of thread.”
There was a clap of thunder and
the downpour wrapped us in a fresh
film of rain. The little man told me
his story. I give it to you in his
words as closely as I can remember
them. . . .
Martha spent her whole life trying
to build me up into something. She
started right at the wedding. She
was about an inch taller than me
and she wore her flattest heels at
the wedding and stooped over a
little when the minister stood us Op
for the ceremony. She looked so
proud you’d think she was marrying
a millionaire. And me only a book
keeper at the mill.
THE BUILD-UP
By RUBE GOLDBERG
There wasn’t much about me she
could brag about, but she made up
a lot of things. She said she won
me away from a fancy blonde
named Tillie and told how I saved
the company’s payroll when six
armed bandits broke into the mill.
Of course, tjiere wasn’t any blonde
named Tillie and the six armed
bandits were just two fellows who
looked in when they saw a light and
asked the road to Cloverdale.
Martha wasn’t very strong and
got spells now and then. They said
it was her heart. I didn’t pay much
attention to what the doctor said.
I’d always make her rest after
one of her spells and she’d come
during that time Martha got some
of the red back in her cheeks and
she moved around more lively than
she had in years. She made me
get a dinner coat with all the fixings
that went with it. She had the studs
screwed in the shirt four days be
fore the banquet.
After we wrote the speech we
went over it here and there until it
sounded right. Each evening after
dinner we’d go to the kitchen where
people couldn’t look in and I’d stand
on a chair and make the speech.
I must have delivered that speech
at least fifty times.
Well, the big night finally came.
When I got dressed up I looked pret-
‘How did it go?” she cried. I shouldn’t have told her.
around fine. Jed Miley down at the
post office told me his wife was like
that and as long as they didn’t get
any excitement or shock they could
live to be a hundred. Martha al
ways rested when I told her but she
never really rested even when she
was lying down. Her mind was
working. She was thinking how she
could make the town know what a
great husband she had. I tried to
explain that it didn’t matter as long
as we were happy. But she kept on
being riled. I just kind of hoped
something big would happen to me
for Martha’s sake.
Well, sir, it was like the hand of.
fate. Something big did happen at
last. At least, it was big to Martha
and me. Mr. Clawson, the presi
dent of the mill, was getting up a
dinner in honor of the town council
and asked me to make a speech!
When I came home and told Mar
tha that evening she nearly jumped
out of her skin. I had never made
a speech before in my life. I was
scared stiff at the thought of it. But
Martha was going to prove - every
thing she had said about me,
through that speech. I just had to
show Mister Clawson and the coun-
cilmen she was right.
The dinner was two weeks off and
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ty good. Martha stood at the gate
waving good-by and looked ten
years younger. I was sort of choked
up and happy. I was only sorry she
couldn’t come along. It was just
for men, you know.
I left my car in front of the house
and walked down to the Clifton Ho
tel so I could go over my speech
just one last time. When I got there
I said hello to everybody—even
Longyear, president of the bank. I’d
never spoken to him before. I felt
pretty important.
' | 'HEY put me on the platform next
to Charlie Simmons, who is quite
a wit around these parts. He has
one of those ventriloquist dummies
and also does card tricks. He told
me a few jokes and I laughed al
though I didn’t listen. I took a taste
of the soup but after that I couldn’t
eat a thing. The speech kept pound
ing in my head.
After the ice cream Mister Claw
son rapped for order and made a
flowery speech about the town coun
cil. Then the head of the council
said a lot of nice things about the
mill and how much good it had
done the town. More speeches fal
lowed. Each time the toastmaster
got ready to call on the next speak
er I shook all over thinking it might
be me. It seemed that everybody
in town was making a speech. My
mouth got dry.
Then Simmons got up and did his
dummy act and some card tricks.
He went over to the piano and sang
some songs. People called for more.
They all laughed and sang with him.
I looked at my watch. It was eleven
o’clock.
I managed to get my head clear
and quickly thought over the first
few paragraphs of my speech. They
were saving me for the last. A sort
of surprise, I thought. Then Mister
Clawson got up and his voice sound
ed far off. He said some of the boys
wanted to play poker and others
wanted to sit around and chat. It
was too late for more speeches.
After hearing Simmons any more
talk would be tame. It was a
wonderful evening and everybody
had enjoyed it thoroughly. They all
stood up and sang Auld Lang Syne.
The dinner was over.
You can’t blame me for not being
able to think clearly after that. I
was so disappointed I got kind of
numb. I sneaked out through the
back door and went home. Martha
ran down to the front gate and
grabbed me around the neck. She
cried, “How did it go?”
I said, “They didn’t call on me.”
I shouldn’t have told her the truth.
It was a dreadful blunder.
SCRIPTURE: Ecclesiastes.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Ecclesias
tes 5:1-7.
Worthy Objectives
Lesson for September 28, 1947
Dr. Newton
Solomon was
many of the
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' I 'HE Book of Ecclesiastes, written
by Solomon, B. C. 977, is profit
able in the fact that it discloses the
findings of a very remarkable man
on life. Solomon
tells us that he had
tried every tempt
ing offer of the
world, but found it
vanity. “Vanity of
vanities, all is van
ity,” he declares.
Solomon is of
ten referred to as
the wisest of men.
He does not make
this cl^iim, nor
would I suggest it.
As a matter of fact,
a very unwise man in
manifestations of his
life. He had every advantage, but
yielded to selfish pursuits of pleas
ure when he might have been serv
ing his day and generation by the
will of God.
Why do I point to Solomon as an
unwise man? From his own testi
mony—“I gave my heart to know
wisdom, and to know madness and
folly; I perceived that this also is
vexation of spirit. For in much wis
dom is much grief; and he that in
creaseth knowledge increaseth sor
Excellent Advice
E^VEN so, Solomon was ready, by
the time he wrote Ecclesiastes,
to give some excellent advice. He
had discovered that pomp and cere
mony are meaningless—that they
turn at last to ashes.
For example, “He (God) hath
made everything beautiful in its
time,” chapter 3, verse 11. Solo
mon had dealt in the artificial.
He had worn the most costly
robes, lived in the finest palaces,
had gardens set up to please any
passing whim.
But now that he has come to see
the vanity of men, he can at last
open his eyes to the beauty which
God creates. And now he has be
come a wise man, indeed. There is
beauty everywhere if only we have
eyes to see.
Words of Wisdom
npHE next section of Sunday’s les
■*- son brings us to one of Solo
mon’s greatest confessions. He says,
chapter 3, verse 14: “I know that,
whatsoever God doeth, it shall be
forever; nothing can be put to it,
nor anything taken from it; and God
doeth it, that men should fear before
him.”
We do well to remember that
God is, and that he is good, and
that he is sovereign. “This is our
Father’s world,” wrote Maltbie
Babcock. Here is a truth for to
day. In our dismay over the
atomic bomb, we are about to for
get that God intended for man to
discover atomic energy, and he
expected man to have enough
moral stamina to use this discov
ery for his good and God’s glory.
Which brings us to the heart of
the Preacher's message, chapter 12,
verse 13: “Let us hear the conclu
sion of the whole matter; fear God,
and keep his commandments; for
this is the whole duty of man.”
* • •
Seeking the Best in Life
COLOMON, by his own testimony,
0 missed much of the finer things
of life; but he admonishes the read
er to profit by his mistake and seek
the best in life. For example, in
chapter 2, verse 24, Solomon says:
“There is nothing better for a man,
than that he should eat and drink,
and that he should ! make his soul
enjoy good in his labour.”
Every boy and girl in the world
knows the joy of honest work, at
least I hope so. Have you grown
a beautiful flower? A vegetable
garden? Cut a cord of fire wood?
Then you know that work is one
of the essential ways of seeking
the best in life.
Then Solomon comes to the first
eight verses of the last chapter—a
golden section for memory. It is
one of the first passages of Scrip
ture I ever learned. I trust every
young person reading this column
will commit that passage to mem
ory, if you have not already done so.
• • »
Tesfing Life’s Philosophies
COLOMON concludes his confes-
sions with this probing declara
tion: "For God shall bring every
work into judgment, with every se
cret thing, whether it be good, or
whether it be evil.”
What is he saying? He is remind
ing us that whatever may be our
philosophy of life, such philosophy,
together with our commitments
thereto, will be tested out under the
white light of God’s ultimate truth.
My conclusion is that I desire but
one thing—to find and follow the will
of God, which is always right and
always best.
(Copyright by the Internationa] Council
of Religious Education on behalf of 40
Protestant denominations. Released by
WNU Features.)
7
Television's Range
Broadened by Tube
May Prove Big Step Forward
For Many Purposes.
PALO ALTO. CALIF.—Stanford
university scientists say they have
developed a new radio tube which
will make it possible to amplify
simultaneously as many as 300
black-and-white television broad
casts.
The new "traveling wave” tube
doubles the ability of earlier models
to cover a wide range of frequencies
and handle huge volumes of radio
traffic, they said.
Dr. Lester M. Field, electrical en
gineer, said the tube was a radical
departure, eliminating those fea
tures of previous tubes which re
stricted them either to low ampli
fication or few channels.
The slender, foot-long tube is
capable of amplifying 250,000 tele
phone conversations simultaneously
or 100 color telecasts. Field said.
The tube may be a big step for
ward for commercial television, he
indicated.
The vast number of frequencies it
covers will enable many television
stations to operate simultaneously
without interfering with each oth
er's signals.
With further development, he said,
it could cut down costs of television
sets by reducing the number of am
plifying tubes needed.
He said the new tube also pro
vides a method by which long-dis
tance telephone- lines could be re
placed by a chain of radio relay
stations.
Infant Cries Before Birth;
Twin Sister Doings Weil
CINCINNATI.—A day-old girl
whom physicians said they heard
crying full hour before birth
was “doing nicely” in Good Sa
maritan hospital here.
So was a twin sister, born a
short time later, and their moth
er, the hospital reported.
Dr. Joseph Crotty, Cincinnati
obstetrician, said it was the first
time he had heard an infant cry
ing before birth "in more than 10
years in specializing in this
field.”
He recalled that “two or three
cases of this kind” were reported
some years ago at Lying-In hos
pital, New York. i
Wins $200,000; Treasury
Sues for $160,000 Income
WASHINGTON. — Treasury
agents driving against tax evaders
have slapped a $160,000 income tax
claim on a war construction worker
whose $200,000 winnings while gam
bling made somebody angry enough
to “turn him in.”
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
disclosed this and cited eight other
cases in which would-be evaders
have been assessed more than eight
million dollars in extra taxes and
penalties.
Snyder reported the treasury has
just received its biggest single cash
payment of taxes in a fraud case in
history — $2,500,000 — from a man
convicted at Cincinnati of liquor
blackmarketing.
He identified the payer as Robert
Gould, and said Gould drew a six-
year sentence in federal court.
The construction worker was not
identified by Snyder, who said the
man also faces criminal prosecu
tion as well as the $160,000 assess
ment for extra taxes, interest and
penalties.
‘$andwich War’ $tirs Up
Lisbon; Consumer Loses
LISBON, PORTUGAL. — The
“battle of the sandwiches” has
been engaged *ith vigor in Lisbon
both by consumer and supplier, and
at the moment the consumer has
lost the first engagement.
After several years during which
all snacks and sandwiches were
prohibited because of the scarcity
of bread, the government passed a
decree permitting their sale.
The first day of sale cafes and
bars, restaurants and stalls were
besieged. But consumers accused
sellers of overcharging.
So vigorous were protests that
cafes have gone on strike and re
fuse to sell sandwiches. Their pro
prietors state that they will not do
so until the government has fixed a
just price to which all cafes must
keep.
$trong Man Pulls Heavy
Truck With His Teeth
SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Pat Amaran-
do, Syracuse strong man, can pull
a 12-ton fire truck with his teeth.
For that feat, Amarando, who at
42 still thinks maybe he is "the
strongest man in the world," uses a
fireman’s leather belt attached to
the truck bumper.
“I haven’t had a toothache in 15
years,” claims Amarando.
Find Elderly Ailing Couple
Dead in Each Other’s Arms
TRURO, MASS.—An elderly cou
ple died of a heart ailment in each
other’s arms at the same time here
—on the wife’s 80th birthday anni
versary.
John E. Rogers, 77, had called s
physician to treat his ailing wife,
Ellen. While the doctor was at the
house, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers both
were stricken.
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