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HARD GUYS
By MILTON BRACKER
T HE dead man’s foot protruded
from the blanket like a dis
carded boot. A pan of water rested
on the sidewalk; they had tried to
do something for him. without being
able to. Just an ordinary sidestreet,
a speeding car. a rat-tat-tat and
that was all. Another not-so-big shot
was through.
Five minutes after the cops came,
a squeaky sedan jolted to a stop at
the opposite curb. Half-a-dozen men
piled out.
“Reporters.” someone in the
crowd decided.
The newcomers took in the scene
in a matter-of-fact way. then
swarmed about the lieutenant and
the homicide squad man and plied
them with questions. One of the
newspapermen was chewing gum.
The others were smoking and one
rotund fellow laughed raucously at
something the homicide squad man
said. Soon a few broke away and
headed for the drugstore across the
street with the blue and white tele
phone emblem outside. Within
twenty minutes all of them
squeezed back into the car.
“S'long. Mac, see y’in church,”
the man at the wheel yelled to the
lieutenant as the gears meshed.
“Hard guys,” the man in the
crowd muttered, as the machine
turned the corner.
“You said it,” his companion
agreed, dryly.
An hour later, Joe Melsner of the
City News Federation, “Old Man”
of the borough’s police reporters,
left the smoky-walled pressroom on
the ground floor of the Supreme
Court Building to buy an afternoon
paper. Johnny Hennessy, of the
Globe, the kid of the shack, sat in
a corner figuring out his expense
account. Jim Reide, of the Post-
Flash, Nason, of the Mail, Cohen,
of the Reflector and Lenox, of the
Home Press, with a few of the usual
pressroom hangers-on, were at the
inevitable rummy game. Opposite,
Delany, of the Star, legs stretched
majestically across his desk and
feet high in the air, sat back read
ing a fat book with a scarlet cover
and yellow edges. Levito, who was
with an up-county paper, fidgeted in
a phone booth, waiting to “clean
up” the shooting story.
A voice thundered in the corridor.
The others looked up; they always
did when Melsner spoke. He was
pointing to something huddled at
the doorway.
“Now what d’ya call this?” the
Old Man grunted, stooping over.
He picked up the cringing some
thing and deposited it gingerly on
his desk, a massive roll-top affair
with “Private: Keep Out!” on it in
forbidding letters. The “something”
was a very tiny dog. a bedraggled
puppy that looked as if it hadn’t
eaten in as long as it hadn’t bathed.
Its eyes were red-rimmed, as if
with weeping. But there was a pink
spot on the end of the moist black
k nose. And the eyes themselves
sparkled, giving a pert look to the
whole tangly bundle.
Hennessy stopped pondering, De
lany tossed his book aside, and both
ambled over. Reide turned his head
from the card table.
“The mutt probably has fleas,” he
remarked. “Keep it offa my desk."
As if understanding, the puppy
turned to its critic appealingly.
Melsner laughed gruffly, ignoring
the complaint.
“It’s a cute-lookin’ mutt at that,
ain’t it, kid?” the Old Man winked
to Hennessy. “Send out and we’ll
give it a feed.”
One of the ever-present boot
blacks was dispatched across the
street. In a minute or two, the
pooch was sipping milk and sniff
ing chopmeat, oblivious to further
criticism, or his audience.
Ginger, temporarily deserted,
sniffed in and out of the chair legs,
feeling for Reide, who always
petted him. The dog rubbed against
Brown’s trousers by mistake.
“Why, the .” the startled
clerk swore. He reached down,
picked up the pup clumsily, and
tossed him carelessly to the floor
about a yard away. “Wonder you
guys wouldn’t keep animals outa
here,” he growled, drawing a card.
"You’d think it was a zoo.”
Nobody replied. Hennessy looked
up queerly from his typewriter.
Ginger, not having sensed the re
buff, returned to the table. Again
he brushed Brown’s trousers. As If
having anticipated the annoyance,
the clerk k^ked vigorously. There
was a sharp- squeal, then Ginger,
living up to his name, bit.
Brown roared, grabbed the pooch
from his leg, and before anyone
could protest, hurled him with
crushing force against the wall.
There was a crunch, then a whim
per.
Every eye in the place turned to
the battered little body on the floor.
But in a split second, every eye was
glued on the centre of the room.
‘Hennessy caught the clerk with a hard left to the jaw.
“We’ll call him Ginger,” Hen
nessy suggested. “Lookit the fire in
his eyes, will you?” Ginger yapped
appreciatively, provocatively. That
finished the card game. Reide, the
most die-hard of the players, threw
down his giapimy cards, and with
the others, gathered around Mels-
ner’s desk. Fondly they watched the
grimy little mutt push his snoot into
the worm-like chopmeat.
Two days later. Ginger was part
of the life of t/vj shack. A bootblack
had been commissioned to give him
a bath, to provide a lined box for a
bed, to continue general caretaking.
While the men were out on stories—
holdups, suicides, fires, whatnot—
Ginger tripped around impatiently,
until they came back. Then he
greeted them joyously, with quick,
short barking yelps.
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The pressroom was crowded one
sultry afternoon, crowded with
sweaty men in shirtsleeves. At the
card table, next to Reide, was A1
Brown, a thick - necked hardware
clerk who spent his idle hours with
what he called the “newshounds.”
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8 Man’s name
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and Ginger was forgotten. Hen
nessy has sprung from his chair
like a starting sprinter, yanked
Brown from his seat, overturning
the table at the same time—and
smashed a hard fist to the outsider’s
jaw.
Brown reeled, regained his foot
ing, swung, and missed. Nason and
Delany started to intervene, but
Melsner, who had taken everything
in quietly, stopped them with a
move of his hand. “Let ’em go a
while,” he said, grimly. The others
backed away.
Thoroughly aroused. Brown
lunged at his lighter rival, who
danced aside just fast enough. As
the clerk plowed by, the reporter
grabbed'him by the scruff of the
neck, swung him around, and sent
him sprawling away with another
punch that cracked against his jaw.
Brown shook his head, spat, then
went for Hennessy again. The re
sult was still another crack; he
could feel his eye swell as if air
had been pumped around it. Clear
ly he was no match at boxing for
the fire-eyed “newshound” who side
stepped and stung him so deftly.
He dropped back, then plunged low
like a football player and threw
Hennessy to the floor.
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Again Nason and Delany leaped
forward to interfere, but the Old
Man, an intense gleam in his eyes,
restrained them.
It looked bad for the reporter.
Brown pressed his advantage, bore
down with his full weight. One of
the newspaperman’s shoulders was
down, the other twisted consul-
siVely as the panting fellow on top
sought tb wrench it into the dirt of
the floor-boards. Then suddenly one
of Hennessy’s legs appeared, en
twined about the body of his foe,
the other leg applied pressure from
beneath, and a perfect wrestler’s
"scissors” hurled the heavier man
to the side, almost reversing the
positions.
The knotted pair whirled crazily
across the floor like a two-headed
fiend. They crashed into Melsner’s
desk, upsetting a bottle of purple
ink, which spilled over both of
them. Then they tore apart, and
each staggered to his feet, a livid
mess.
Brown wiped his brow, smearing
it grotesquely with sweat, ink, and
blood. He lunged again, but for the
last time. Hennessy, his whole
frame taut for one blow, poised like
a matador and as the clerk rushed
in, brought his left fist forward and
up like a lead mallet. It caught
the hardware clerk on the point of
the chin, and he went down for
good. From the corner, a faint bark
signalized Ginger’s approval, and
jolted the wide-eyed onlookers to
their senses.
Ten minutes later, a few blocks
down. Brown was telling his boss
how he’d been “mobbed” in a card
game brawl with a “half-dozen” re
porters.
“I told you to keep away from
those fellows,” he was told.
“They’re hard guys.”
In the pressroom, Reide held a
blue bowl and Delany held Ginger.
The others were clustered around,
beaming. The puppy’s bruised side
was bandaged clean around his fat
little middle, and tied with a funny
bow on top, like a Christmas parceL
“Will ya look at the rant go for
that milk, will ya?" Melsnei
grinned at Hennessy.
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‘Memos.
**«
Economical Cuts
Of Meat Are Tasty
If Prepared Right
Leftover meats are easily
creamed and served in patty
shells on a platter generously
heaped with vegetables—an econ
omy note for your budget.
Budget-wise homemakers are tak
ing a second look at their budgets
this season, and most of them are
keeping one eye on their purse
strings, while the other eye is glued
to prices. One item that is getting
extra consideration is meat.
There’s hardly such a thing as a
budget cut of meat anymore,
but naturally
there are some,
that are less ex
pensive than oth
ers. Breast of
lamb is among
those as well as
some of the beef
cuts including
tongue; if you mj
like pork, you’ll
have to be satis
fied with a suggestion of the flavor.
A roast is good economy if it is
beef or lamb because you can count
on two or three meals as well as
sliced meat for sandwiches. If you
plan on one roast per week—careful
ly cooked so as to avoid expensive
shrinkage—then it’s easy to use the
economy items I’ve already men
tioned to fill up the other days
nicely.
Liver-Rice Cakes.
(Makes 10 cakes)
1 pound sliced pork liver
% cup shortening
H small onion
1% cups cooked rice
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
1 egg
tablespoons milk
Y* cup milk
Fry the liver in the % cup of
shortening until nicely browned and
let cool. Put the liver and onion
through the food chopper. Add the
rice, salt, pepper, egg, milk and mix
well. Shape into small cakes and
brown in % cup of shortening until
brown on both sides.
Barbecued Lamb Breast.
(Serves 4)
2 pounds breast of lamb
1 medium onion
% cup chili sauce
1 teaspoon salt
Pepper
% teaspoon red pepper
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 cup water
Cut lamb into 5 pieces. Season
with salt and pepper. Place in a
hot skillet with
the fatty sides of
the meat on the
bottom so they
wjll brown easily.
Mix chili sauce,
red pepper, vin
egar and water
and pour over
lamb. Slice onion
and place over meat. Cover. Sim
mer for 1% hours, then remove lid
and cook for about 20 minutes or
until most of the barbecue sauce is
absorbed.
A pot roast is very nice to have
as the roast of the week, and then
it’s easy to use as sliced meat for
supper, or ground and used for
meat pies, stuffing for peppers, pin-
wheels with biscuit dough, etc. If
you make it creole style, it will
have plenty of flavor for other uses.
Creole Pot Roast.
5 pounds chuck of beef
34 cup salad oil
Juice of 1 lemon
2 bay leaves
1 onion, minced
2 teaspoons allspice
5 teaspoons salt
Pepper
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons lard or drippings
2 cups tomatoes
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To Vegetables
Curl your raw carrots by slicing
them with a potato peeler and curl
ing them around the finger. Slip
oft the curls and place them close
together in a dish of very icy wa
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and the curl will stay.
When you broil ham for dinner,
place com or green beans in the
dripping pan and let the vegetables
catch the delicious juices.
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•Cream Swiss Steak
Browned Potatoes
Lyonnaise Carrots
Pineapple Cole Slaw
Bran Muffins
Floating Island
Beverage
•Recipe given.
SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 3:1—«:5; 9—10.
Matthew 4:1*11.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Philippian*
2:1-11.
Apostle of Better Things
Lesson for October 12, 1947
Mix oil, lemon juice‘and season
ings; rub well into meat. Dredge
meat with flour
and brown slowly
in fat. Add the
tomatoes. Cover
closely and cook
in a slow oven
for about 4 hours
or until meat is
fork tender.
Swiss steak is
cheaper than some cuts of meat, and
the leftovers may be used as the
meat from pot roast.
•Cream Swiss Steak.
134 pounds round or arm steak
134 teaspoons salt
34 teaspoon pepper
34 cup flour
2 tablespoons lard
34 cup sliced onion
34 cup water
34 cup sour cream
Have steak cut 134 to 2 inches
thick. Season with salt and pep
per and pound flour well into steak.
Brown steak on both sides, in lard
or drippings. Add remaining in
gredients. Cover closely and sim
mer for about 3 hours, or until ten
der.
Rice-Beef Balls.
134 pounds ground beef
34 cup uncooked rice
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon grated onion
1 can tomato soup
34 can water
2 tablespoons chopped onion
2 tablespoons chopped green pepper
Mix meat, rice and seasonings.
Shape into small balls and drop
them into tomato soup to which the
water, onion and green pepper have
been added. Cook very slowly for
40 minutes. Serve with tomato
sauce poured over them.
A few slivers of leftover meat
are easily used in an attractive
salad served in shells to make
a substantial luncheon dish. Add
eggs, cottage cheese and vegeta
bles if you are some what shy
of meat itself.
Here are two real economy dishes
which you’ll like for the cooler
weather:
Breaded Oxtails.
(Serves 4)
2 oxtails
3 sprigs parsley, chopped
3 sprigs thyme
1 bay leaf
Salt and pepper
Dash of cayenne
1 egg, beaten
1 cup sifted dry bread crumbs
Wash oxtails and cut into 4-inci.
lengths. Cover with boiling water.
Add parsley, thyme, bay leaves,
salt, pepper and cayenne. Simmer
tails until tender, about 2 to 3 hours.
Let cool in stock. Drain meat, dip
in egg and roll in crumbs. Fry in
deep, hot fat (370 degrees) until
brown.
Ham-Sweet Potato Puffs.
(Serves 5)
1 cup ground, cooked ham
2 cups mashed sweet potatoes
1 egg, beaten
34 cup sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
34 teaspoon salt
Combine ham, sweet potatoes and
egg. Sift flour, baking powder and
salt together. Add to ham mixture.
Drop by spoonfuls onto a hot
greased griddle. Brown on each
side.
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For cooked carrots, fleck them
with chopped chives or parsley by
adding the latter to the melted fat
you use for'seasoning.
Season chopped, freshly cooked
spinach with crumbled bacon and
a dash of nutmeg. Top with hard-
cooked egg white and yolk, separat
ed and put through a sieve.
Scalloped or stewed tomatoes take
on added color and flavor if you add
a dash of herbs to them and also a
suggestion of finely minced onion
and chopped green pepper.
Dr. Newton
T HIS lesson opens, Hebrews 3:1-8,
with the explanation that Jesus
Christ is the minister of better
things in that he is the apostle and
high priest of our profession, per
fectly faithful to him that appointed
him. The comparison is made with
Moses, who was also faithful, but
within a very small circle as con
trasted with the Son of God.
Called to God an high priest after
the order of Melchisedec, Christ, the
author of eternal
salvation, dealt no
longer with sym
bols, but offered
himself as the per
fect lamb to take
away our sins.
“And for this cause
he is the mediator
of the new covenant
(testament), that
by means of death,
for the redemptions
of the transgres
sions that were un
der the first testament, they which
are called might receive the prom
ise of eternal inheritance,” Hebrews
9:15.
* • •
Jesus and the Bible
TESUS is introduced in Matthew
4:1-4, as he quotes the Old Testa
ment to Satan in the wilderness
temptation. Having been reared by
a God-fearing mother, Jesus was
familiar with the Bible as a child.
What is the best thing any par
ent can do for his or her child?
I would answer without hesita
tion: Teach them to bide God’s
words in their hearts in the im
pressionable years of youth. A
Bible verse learned in youth wiU
serve through all life’s testing situ
ations.
“I will not forget Thy Word,”
Psalms 119:16.
• • •
He Helps Us Use the Bible
T HE better ministry of Jesus is
reflected in the fact that, “We
have a great high priest, that is
passed into the heavens, Jesus the
Son of God. . . . For we have not
an high priest which cannot be
touched with the feeling of our in
firmities; but was in all points
tempted like as we are, yet without
sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, and find grace
to help in time of need,” Hebrews
4:14-16.
Study the example of Jesus in his
answers to Satan in the wilderness
temptation, and He will teach us
when and what to say to Satan. We
are not dependent upon our wisdom
and words. Our great high priest
will supply wisdom and words to
match any situation that Satan ever
presents.
/ think of a story of a junior boy, re
cently accused of stealing. The boy
was the victim of a wicked man who
sought to turn circumstantial evidence
upon him to cover his own sin. The
boy told me that he was innocent. I
went tvith him to the juvenile court.
The judge asked him if he was guilty.
He looked straight into the eyes of
the judge and said:
"Sir. I have not sinned. Who con-
victeth me of this charge?"
The man dropped his head, and
said:
"Your honor, l ask for the privilege
of withdrawing the charge.”
• • •
His Laws in Our Hearts
««T WILL put my laws on their
* hearts, and upon their minds
also will I write them,” Hebrews
10:16. Jesus declares, “I do always
the things that please him,” and he
enables us, by his grace, to do the
father’s will by his indwelling in our
hearts. Thus, his will becomes the
law of our lives, through the grace
of Jesus Christ.
It is impossible for us to keep
the law perfectly, but Christ, the
better Christ, becomes our
righteousness, and then his law is
kept by his grace. In the olden
times, men claimed to keep the
letter of the law, without the spir
it, as in the case of Moses. Now,
through the offering of Christ, we
are enabled to satisfy the spirit
of the law.
• • •
The Sufficient Christ
T HIS lesson should enhearten ev
ery trusting child of God, since
it makes clear that, “He is able to
save unto the uttermost them that
draw near unto God through him,”
Hebrews 7:25.
He is not only able, but yearns
to save unto the uttermost. He
wiUs to save everyone. God has
done everything he can do to save
every sentient soul on this earth.
Those who go to hell do so be
cause they decide to go to heU. It*
is not the pleasure of God that any
should perish, but that all should
repent and be saved.
• • *
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