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WEATHER AHEAD
/ By JOHN H. HOSE
The counter man reminded Harv of someone he knew—a brilliant
man whose life had been destroyed by a selfish, beautiful woman.
T HE plane settled down on the
bumpy field, and jolted to a halt
. . . the explanation for the un
scheduled stopover was simply the
cryptic statement, “Weather
ahead!” The stewardess had no in
formation about the length of the
layover, so we walked across the
field toward the town. Harvey Al
len and I were bound for the coast
on a brief business trip, seeking a
new contract for one of our major
network productions.
We walked along the main—and
only—street of the little town until
we came to a small restaurant. It
was dark and cool inside after the
heat and glare of the midaftemoon
New Mexico sun. Settling in one of
the tiny booths which lined the wall,
we ordered some lunch. Except for
the counter man and a tired looking
waitress, the place was empty. X
noticed Harv staring intently at the
man behind the counter. I glanced
up, but the fellow was a stranger
to me.
"Know him?” I asked. Harv had
a genius for knowing people every
where . . . and remembering them.
“He reminds me of someone,” he
answered. The girl came with our
lunch, and we ate quietly for a few
moments. Harvey continued, then,
asking,
"Did you ever know Mark Stev-
ens?”
I sipped at my iced tea before
replying.
“Nope; he was before my time.
But, of course, I've heard about
Who hasn't? Isn’t he the chap
him.
As we strolled back to the air
port, I asked the question that
had been in my mind ever since
Harvey started that story.
some Hollywood glamour gal took
over the hurdles?”
Mark nodded. “Elsa Armstrong.
The face and figure that launched
a thousand hopes! Elsa the beau
tiful. Elsa the magnificent.” He
lifted his tea glass in toast,
“Hail, Elsa! Destroyer of men—
of Mark Stevens in particular.
Would you like to hear what really
happened, Stu?”
I lighted a cigar as I replied in
the affirmative. Harvey settled
back in the booth as he recounted
the story of Mark Stevens.
“Twenty years ago, tnis business
of ours was just a puppy. And the
master of that puppy was Mark
Stevens. His was the brain that
built the advertising business. You
really owe that $150 suit you’re
wearing to him, Stu. Mirk Stevens
lifted us out of the mire and into
the moola. We all owe him plenty.
“Mark built his organization by
buying talent where he found it, and
he had a genius for finding it. I
remember I was doing advance
work for Williams’ Brothers Carni
val when I met him. We got to
gether in San Antonio one night,
and the next day I was working
for him. Just like that.
“I started small—writing copy on
some accounts that weren’t too im
portant. And all the time I was
watching the master, learning all
the little nuances and twists, get
ting set for the day he saw fit to
move me up a notch. It wasn’t
long in coming either. The firm
was marching, and I was right in
step.
“After about a year, Mark opened
a branch ofifice in Chicago. I went
there as copy chief. From that
move, both the business and I
mushroomed. Dallas, Seattle, Den
ver, Los Angeles, San Francisco.
Five years after that meeting in
San Antone, I was head of the San
Francisco office. We had branched
out all over the country, but this
San Francisco outfit was second in
importance only to the home office
in New York.
“When radio and advertising had
a happy marriage, the Mark Stev
ens Associates really hit the top.
We opened a Hollywood office and
began handling only the largest ac
counts. I came down from San
Francisco to head the new office,
and Mark made almost monthly
trips to the coast to give his per
sonal attention to some of the real
ly important clients.
“It was on one of those trips that
he met Elsa Armstrong. Did you
ever see a bouganvillea in bloom,
Stu? Or a hibiscus? That’s what
she was like. A lovely, fragile
beauty, and that’s an inadequate de
scription. But she was smart, too.
Smart . . . and tough when it came
to getting places.” Harvey twirled
the iced tea glass, clinking the ice
cubes against its hard surface as he
reminisced. Then he continued,
“She wasn’t an actress; even in
those days talent was an important
item, but Elsa's only talent con
sisted in looking so beautiful it hurt.
Strangely enough, she didn’t want
to be a star. Elsa was hunting
something - entirely different. She
wanted money and position. Mark
had both, and Elsa took him like
Grant took Richmond. The first
thing I knew, I was back in New
York and Mark had taken charge
on the coast. Or rather, Mark was
on the coast and Elsa had taken
charge.
“I lost track of events then, un
til one day the auditor came to me
with the remark that Mr. Stevens’
personal account was in terrible
shape. Together we went over it.
I decided that the auditor’s origi-
. nal evaluation was strictly an un
derstatement. The bills Mark had
okayed seemed to indicate that he
alone was trying to support half of
California’s furriers and jewelers.
A few days later I began to hear
complaints from different accounts
that their affairs on the coast were
not being handled properly. I de
cided to fly out and see what went
on.
“Mark met me at the airport.
He was . . . ah, well . . . definite
ly not in the best of condition. He
was unshaven and mussed. The
meeting was most embarrassing
for me. and I piled Mark into a
cab and directed the driver to
Mark’s home in Beverly Hills. He
passed out on the way, and when
we got there, I had one rugged
time getting him upstairs and into
bed, even with the sympathetic and
capable help of the cabbie. This
done, I returned to Hollywood and
the office.
“There, I began to ask questions.
The answers weren’t pretty. Mark
hadn’t been in the place in weeks.
But his bills had. His and Elsa’s,
that is. Oh, she had a personal
account, too. It figured on the books
as his, which explained why we in
the East didn’t know about it. I
decided to see Elsa.
“She wasn’t available at home,
so I started to make the rounds
in pursuit, finally catching up with
her at The Players.’ She wasn’t
alone. I sent word to her table that
I would like to see her, and in a
few minutes she joined me.
“I told you she was beautiful,
Stu. When she sat down beside me,
I almost forgot what I had wanted
to talk to her about. She was loaded
with diamond doo-dads, and in each
one I could see Mark’s money re
flected. That snapped me out of the
trance and into the purpose of our
tete-a-tete.
"I told you she was tough, too.
Brother! She was hard as nails.
No, she’d not seen Mark in a month.
Why? After all, a girl has to look
out for her future. And Mark had
been troublesome. Stuffy about her
friends. I asked if the guy she was
with belonged in that category. She
merely shrugged. I got the idea. I
rather pointedly asked her how
come, if she and Mark were
through, her bills continued to come
Into foe office. Another shrug; Mark
owed her something for the way
he'd acted, she felt.
"My personal opinion was that
he’d acted pretty generously to
ward her. Too generous, from the
shape both he and the firm were
in. I said so. And I nearly choked
when she agreed with me. Yes, she
was very candid about the whole
thing. Very candid, indeed. I al
most gagged. I gave her a brief idea
of what I thought of her, adding
that we weren’t paying any more
bills. Without further ceremony, I
left.
“When I got back to Beverly
Hills, Mark was awake, sober, and
sick as a dog. I told him I’d seen
the books . . . and Elsa. I told him
a lot of other things, too. Boss or
no boss, I got the whole works off
my chest. But it wasn’t Mark Stev
ens I was talking to. It was the
beaten, wasted shell of a man 1
once knew and respected. He took
it all without a word. When I fin
ished, he just sat there, nodding
his head foolishly. I walked out in
disgust I never saw Mark Stevens
again.
“The rest ot the story you’ve
heard, Stu. How he walked out on
everything and just disappeared.
The company was taken over by the
associates; but his genius was gone,
and a few months later we folded.”
Harv snapped open his cigarette
case, lighted the smoke casually,
indicating that was the end of the
story. Finally, I broke the silence
to ask,
“And what became of Elsa?”
“Elsa? Oh, she dropped out of
sight shortly afterwards. A scan
dal washed her up in Hollywood."
A PPARENTLY Harvey was no
longer interested in the story or
its principal actors. He just sat there
watching the counter man, and I
was mulling over the details of the
story, thinking about how easy it
was for a guy to go haywire. Just
then, one of the airline employees
looked in, saw us and announced
that the flight would start in twen
ty minutes. We rose to leave. While
I paid the waitress, Harv walked
over to the counterman and said
quietly,
“Good luck, friend.”
As we strolled back to the air
port, I asked the question that had
been in my mind ever since Harvey
started that story.
“Harv, that guy back in the
restaurant . . . was that Mark Stev
ens?"
He smiled. “No, that wasn’t
Mark. Didn’t even look like him.”
"Then why,” I asked, “did you
happen to recall the story of Stev
ens? And why did you wish him
luck?”
“Because, if things haven’t
changed, there’s weather ahead for
him,” he replied softly. "You see,
the waitress in there was Elsa.”
bv NANCY PEPPER
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
A Sloppy Joe is the new name for
a Dagwood Sandwich?
A Schmoehopper is a girl who
dates nothing but Drips?
An S. S. N. D. is a Steady Saturday
Night Date?
Fish Bait is your name for anyone
who reminds you of a worm?
Cnstardy is the expressive new
synonym for Smooth?
K. O. is the new way to say "Drop
Dead” because it means “Keel
Over”?
A Sleek Sheik is the W^if that'you
should keep away from your door?
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Well, if you don’t know ANY
THING, you’d better fill your ball
pen with Info Fluid. It’s a won
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Right Answers.
G$<S>ludLd!ie
‘ Grace JNoll Crowell
I F I can put new hope within the heart
Of one who has loft hope.
If I can help a brother up
Some difficult long slope
That seems too Steep for tired feet to go,
If I can help him rlimh
Into the light upon the hill’s far creft,
I shall begrudge no time
Or Srength that I can spend, for well I know
How great may be his need.
If I can help through any darkened hour,
I shall be glad indeed.
For I recall how often I have been
Digressed, didraught, dismayed.
And hands have readied to help, and voices called
That kept me unafraid.
If I can share this help that 1 have had,
God knows I shall be glad.
Community Nests lor
Poultry House Urged
Installation Decreases
Number of Dirty Eggs
Taking cognizance of the premium
prices paid for clean eggs on the
market, poultrymen with large lay
ing flocks are giving increased at
tention to installation of commu
nity nests.
Dirty eggs brought 15 cents less
a dozen than clean eggs when sold
through Ohio cooperative eggs auc
tions in June, D. D. Moyer, spe
cialist in poultry husbandry at Ohio
State university, points out, adding
that the owner of a large laying
flock either has to take a cut in
price, spend almost as much time
cleaning eggs as in all other care
of the laying flock or change the
SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 1:8; 3:3sfj 4:1;
6:27-28; 8:1-11; 10:1-9; 15:1; 18:9; 22:ta-u
25:13ab. 28; Ecclesiastes 1—3; James
3 * 13-18
DEVOTIONAL. READING: James 3:
13-18.
You Build It
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Photo shows community nest
for poultry house suggested by
Ohio station to assure clean eggs.
poultry house equipment to reduce
the number of dirty eggs gathered.
Installation of community nests
in place of the small box type will
decrease the number of dirty eggs
by 50 per cent, Moyer claims. They
are easier to clean and can be kept
free from parasites more easily
than the ordinary little cubicles.
Original construction cost also is
considerably less than that of an
equal amount of nesting space of
the old type inasmuch as less labor
and material are required.
The community nest recommend
ed by the Ohio station is 8 feet long,
2 feet wide, 14 inches high in front
and 30 inches high in back. The
space is divided in the center so
there are 2 4-foot compartments in
the nest, providing facilities for 80 to
100 laying hens. The front half of
the nest cover is hinged so it can
be lifted for gathering eggs. The
bottom of the nest can be hinged
so it will swing down to dump the
nest litter. Hens enter the front of
'the nest through openings,8 inches
square in the center of each com
partment.
Materials required for construc
tion include; 9 pieces of 1-inch by
8-inch by 8-inch for lid, front bot
tom ends and partition; 5 pieces
of 1-inch by 10-inch by 8-inch for lid
and back; 1 piece of 1-inch by fl
inch by 8-inch for lower front board;
4 pieces of 3-inch by 4-inch by 8-
inch for cleats, nest perch and en
trance lids; 1 piece of 1-inch by 2-
inch by 8-inch for cleats for the
ends and partition; 1 piece of 1-
inch by 4-inch by 10-inch for bot
tom supports, with the piece bev
eled at the ends if hinged; 3 pairs
ot 8-inch strap hinges, and 3 8-inch
hooks and screw eyes if the bottom
is hinged.
If a flock of Leghorn hens were
to go househunting, they would look
for just about the same comforts as
their human prototypes.
Sufficient space, good ventilation,
uniform temperatures, a sturdy
foundation and floors are a few of
the recommendations for housing
the birds, according to suggestions
in a revised extension bulletin on
"Poultry Housing” issued by the
.University of Minnesota.
Like all construction, building a
poultry house is an expensive prop
osition. As it is difficult to correct
mistakes after the building is up,
flock owners are advised to consider
their problem and needs carefully
before starting construction.
True Wisdom
Lesson for October 31, 1948
55WT!
Dr. Foreman
W HAT is the most important
thing in the world? What is
worth more than anything else?
Some would say Money; some Pow
er; some Goodness;
some Truth. Anoth
er answer is given
by the writers of a
jroup of books, two
sf which are includ
ed in our Bible.
“Wisdom is the
principal thing;
therefore get wis
dom,” they say.
The books of
Proverbs and Ec
clesiastes in our Protestant Bible,
and the books of Ecclesiasticus and
the Wisdom of Solomon in the Apoc
rypha, all have this viewpoint and
are therefore called the Wisdom
Literature.
Other writers in the Bible divide
the human race into the Good and
the Wicked, or the Believers and
the Unbelievers; but these writers
see mankind as the Wise and the
Foolish. The books they wrote (es
pecially Proverbs) were intended
partiflularly for those who are so
far neither foolish nor wise—that is
to say. the young.
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Knowledge Is” Not Wisdom
W ISDOM (as these writers use
the word) is not the same thing
as knowledge. A person may know
a great many things and still be a
fool. Or he may not even know how
to read and write, and yet be wise.
Some* modern writer has said:
Knowledge is knowing what to do;'
skill is knowing how to do it; and
virtue is doing it. Wisdom is all of
these put together.
But the special feature of the
“Wisdom Writers” is this: True
wisdom begins with the fear of
God. “The fear of the Lord Is
the beginning of wisdom . . .
the knowledge of God Is under
standing.” In other words, wis
dom without religion, without
faith, is foolish after all.
We can see how in our times the
story of the Nazis has shown this
once more to be true. The German
Reich of 1935-1939 had the best ot
the science of the world; they had
scholarship and wealth and "know
how” in many fields; but they re
jected God and defied his church—
and so a nation was destroyed.
We too may profit by their exam
ple. We of the western nations have
wealth and technical skills beyond
any other peoples, we have the
atom bombs—but have we the wis
dom without Which all these things
are but as torches in the hands of
madmen?
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University on Ant-Hill
K NOWLEDGE may be expensive.
It costs a great deal of money
to know what it takes to be an en
gineer or a surgeon. Wisdom,
strange to say, is less expensive.
It is in fact on such a low shelf that
most people pass it by.
Consider where the "Wisdom
Writers” tell us we may learn wis
dom. One place is experience. "Ex
perience keeps an expensive school,
but fools will learn in no other—
and hardly from that,” says a more
modern proverb.
Maay of the proverbs in our
Bible are simply distilled drops
of experience. “A soft answer
turneth away wrath, but griev
ous words stir up anger,” for
example. Do you need an angel
from the sky to tell you that?
Another source of wisdom is just
Nature herself. “Go to the ant,
thou sluggard (lazy fellow); con
sider her ways and be wise." A
lazy man is a fool; but how shall he
learn to be wise? Not by reading
books—just by watching the ants,
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Inspired Common Sense
A FORMER governor of Virginia
used to say that during his term
of office he received more practical
help from reading Proverbs than
from any of the books on political
.science in his library. For the sci
ence, or the art, of government is
simply one specialized form of that
most important art, getting along
with people. And the Wisdom Lit
erature shows us how it is done.
Some people think that Inspira
tion is always mysterious, and that
the Holy Spirit would not stoop to
inspire what we could learn In any
ordinary way. But the Christian
church, when it declares Proverbs
(for example) inspired, expresses
her belief that there is such a thing
as Inspired Common Sence.
God may speak to us, and does
speak—if we will listen—in the
advice at our parents, in our
everyday experiences, In the
hard-working ant and the maj
esty of the soaring eagle. All
truth Is God’s truth, even when
we find it in our own backyard.
(Copyright by the latorhatioasl Council
of Religious education on behalf ot 40
Protestant denominations. Released by
WNU Features.)
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