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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
So Wilson Held Up the War
For Fast Shorthand Lesson
-By BILLY ROSE-
During the closing days of World War I, I took the President of
the United States out of play for 15 minutes. I did it with my little
shorthand pencil.
At the time. I was working for the War Industries Board in Wash
ington as a stenographer, and running out to get chocolate sodas for Mr.
Baruch, its chairman.
A few days before the Armistice, a Board executive handed me a let
ter and told me to deliver it to the proper party. The proper party was
Woodrow Wilson.
The White House that day was a
Jumble of senators. Cabinet mem
bers, ambassadors and important
brass. News of the Armistice was
expected any hour, and the tension
was like the last few seconds of
the Dempsey-Firpo fight.
I handed the letter to one of Mr.
Wilson’s secretaries, and was asked
to wait in case of a reply. A few
minutes later the secretary re
turned, looking
puzzled. “The
President would
like to see you,” he
said.
I got trembly In
side. I was pushing
18 at the time—
fresh out of the
East Side, and also
plain fresh. But my
Billy Bose dealings with Pres
idents had been limited to the one
I had seen on dollar bills.
Mr. Wilson smiled when he saw
me. "I understand you’re quite a
shorthand writer,” was his greet
ing.
• • •
MY TREMBLES vanished. I knew
the President was a shorthand
writer of sorts—the tachygraphy
magazines were always bragging
about it. “I hear you’re pretty good
yourself. Mr. President,” I blurted
out.
Mr. Wilson blushed prettily.
"I don’t get much chance to
practice these days,” he said, like
a fisherman apologizing for a
six-inch trout. "Mr. Baruch tells
me yoss can write 200 words a
minute. I wonder if yos/d give
me a little demonstration."
He handed me a pad and a pen
cil, and picked up a New York
newspaper on his desk. Then, in
his clipped, precise speech, he
read one of the editorials at about
150 words a minute. When he had
finished, the President said, “Now
let’s hear you read it back.”
Well, as every stenographer
knows, it’s the reading back that
counts. I shot the editorial back at
him a good deal faster than he had
dictated it. And then I started at
the bottom of the page and read the
editorial backwards.
Wilson chuckled. He asked me
questions about Gregg shorthand—
he was a Pitman writer. By this
time, I was patronizing him a lit
tle—the caddie who shoots a 61
isn’t self-conscious when he dis
cusses mashie shots with a Rocke
feller.
• • • *
1 PICKED UP the New York pa
per and handed the pad and pencil
to Mr. Wilson. “I wonder if you’d
mind writing for me, Mr. Presi
dent,” I said.
Wilson rubbed his glasses on his
sleeve. “Don’t go too fast,” he
warned.
I read the editorial at abosst
one hundred words a minute,
and then asked him to read it
TO A CONVALESCENT
I AM praying for you, friend, while you are
waiting
The long hour through for strength to come
again.
God grant you patience that you may wait bravely;
God grant you courage for these days, and when
The healing comes, as come it will, I pray.
Health may be yours for many a useful day.
In the meantime, rest, and know the everlasting
Arms art close about you, that they will
Sustain you, and a gentle voice commands you
"Know that I am God, be still, be still.’’
And heeding him, his healing touch will mend
Your weary heart and mind. God bless you,
friend.
— GRACE NOLL CROWELL
back. When I told him he had
made no mistakes, the President
sighed like a kid who has just
finished playing The Elves’
Walts? for Paderewski.
I picked up his notes. "If you
don’t mind, sir,” I said, “I'd like
to keep them.”
Woodrow Wilson reached for my
shorthand notes. “We’ll exchange,”
he said.
I walked out of the White House
and floated back to my office via
the rooftops.
The
Fiction
Corner
BAYING IN! MOON
By
Richard H. Wilkinson
T
T HE ALPHA, Alpha, Alpha. Alpha
fraternity at Boynton univer-
sity is responsible for the fate of
Percival Oakes. It happened this
way.
During his freshman year the
AAAA’s pledged Percy to member
ship, and initiated him into the
mystic three R’s. (Rites, Rituals
and Regulations.) Percy took it like
a man. When or-
3 . dered to imitate
■ Minute a dog howling at
Fletion moon he did
his level best.
The result was as
tonishingly successful. Percy sur
prised even himself.
The brother AAAA’s cheered
loudly and clamored for encores.
Percy obliged a second time and a
third. He was immensely pleased
with the applause and at the atten
tion he attracted.
The next day, en route to class.
Percy was stopped by a grave-faced
sophomore and asked to give his
imitation of a dog howling at the
moon. For a moment he hesitated,
conscious of a circle of grinning
faces that had silently formed about
him, faintly resentful of the fact
that the brothers of the AAAA had
made public the discovery of his
hidden genius. He glanced once
more into the grave face of the
youth who had accosted him and
then threw back his head and bayed
lustily.
A mighty roar of applause
greeted the rendition. There
were cries of "More!” “More!”
Percival obliged a second time
and then once more.
Returning to college in the fall,
Percy had completely put from his
mind the cause and fact of his last
year’s popularity. There were other
and more important things to oc
cupy his interest. He was now a
sophomore, with all the rights and
liberties and sensations of impor
tance that are synonymous with
that lofty position. Best of all, he
He looked at the moon and
from his throat there came . . .
rich tones of a baying honnd.
was now unhampered by the 30-
odd freshmen rules that had last
year cramped his activities.
One sophomore caused Percy’s
brain to swim. Here was loveliness
and intelligence and femininity all
combined. Unhappily, it took him
a fortnight to negotiate an introduc
tion. Her name was Delia Winter,
and she was as popular as she was
beautiful. This was discouraging
and disheartening. Percy could of
fer nothing; she had her pick of
the college.
F T WAS one of the Saturday night
informal dances at the college
gym. They had been dancing to
gether for perhaps 60 seconds when
Delia looked up at him and said:
“Aren’t you the boy who can im
itate a dog howling at the moon?”
Her eyes twinkled.
Percy reddened to the ears. He
felt a chill, a horrible apprehension.
"No,” he bleated. “No! Whoever
told you that is crazy!”
Delia didn't press the subject, but
Percy knew he was sunk. He let a
month slip by before he could con
jure enough courage to ask tea a
date, felt pitifully grateful when she
assented.
Within the following month
he kept five dates with Delia,
bnt it was always the same;
the “thing” was always there
between them. He thought she
most think him rldicnlons. She
pitied him.
During the intermission at the
Dartmouth victory dance, Percy
and Delia strolled out onto the now
dry ice-skating rink and sat down
on the bulwark and looked up at
the moon. Because of his great and
hopeless love Percy was moody,
unhappy, thoughtful. Suddenly he
was startled by the petulant tone of
his beloved.
“I think it must be wonderful,”
she said.
“What must?” asked Percival.
“To be able to imitate things. I
mean, anyone can play football, or
learn to skate, or dance well, but it
takes genius to be able to imitate
things.”
“Do—you mean that?"
"Why, of course I do! I’ve always
admired people who—have creative
ability. Genius. Of course I mean
it!"
She looked squarely at him, and
the last trace of doubt vanished
from Percy’s soul like mist from a
river bed before a rising sun. He
stood up, he threw back his head,
he looked at the moon and from his
throat there came the clear,
deep, rich tones of a baying hound.
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I had no sooner gotten to my
desk than the phone rang. “Mr.
Baruch wants to see you.” said his
secretary.
“Pretty good for Delancey
street” I said to myself as I walked
down the hall. “Woodrow Wilson
and Bemie Baruch in one hour."
The girl in Mr. Baruch’s office
looked up as I bounced in.
"The boss wants you to get him
a chocolate soda,” she said.
iE-^SCREI
BY INEZ GEBHARD
W HEN DEAN MARTIN and Jer
ry Lewis CNBC Friday eve
nings,) teamed up for the first
time, at an Atlantic City night
club, they were so unfunny that
the manager warned them they’d
better pick up fast or they’d be
out of work. Jerry says they used
the old formula—“All you gotta do
to get a laugh is kill yourself.”
While Dean sang, Jerry rattled
MARTIN AND LEWIS
dishes, threw food, took up collec
tions among the audience. They in
sulted the patrons, who howled
with laughter and begged for more.
That routine paid off; they have
clicked in pictures (“My Friend
Irma,”) on the air and at night
clubs, now make about $10,000 a
week.
Betsy Blair decided, when she
married Gene Kelly, that her mar
riage was going to be more im
portant than her career. She was
well set on Broadway, but she gave
up the stage to be with him in
Hollywood. So she’s very happy
over being signed for an important
role in “Mystery Street,” at the
studio where he works. His next
musical is “Summer Stock.”
Haide Goransen, the Swedish
model whose picture was on the
cover of a recent copy of “Life,”
has been deluged with movie offers
as a result. Producers Robert
Smith and Robert Briskin made
plans for her to take a screen
test in Stockholm; Fox and Uni
versal executives also approached
her. She says she’d like to come to
Hollywood, but it must be on her
honeymoon.
Don MacLaughlin, “Dr. Jim
Brent" on “Road of Life,”
wonders how he dared do it—
his first audition was also his
first appearance in a studio
and his first broadcast. And It
was “live,” heard by several
thousand radio listeners.
Betty Clark, ABC’s 13-year-old
blind soprano, has been the sub
ject of more than a dozen maga
zine articles this past year, and
has managed to mention her sing
ing idol in almost every interview.
He’s Vic Damone, once a Brook
lyn neighbor of Betty’s. Vic and
Betty are close friends and never
miss a chance to boost each otlh
er’s talents.
By JIM RHODY1
Save Your Game!
If you want to prevent waste on
that hunting trip of yours this
autumn, it would be wise to follow
these directions issued by the U. S.
forestry service:
GO PREPARED—Take at least
a hunting knife, belt-axe, 30 feet
of %-inch rope, some twine, sev
eral pieces of clean wiping cloth,
red flagging and four muslin sacks
—each large enough to hold a
quarter of the animal you hope to
get. A small meat saw and some
black pepper will also come in
handy.
DRESSING OUT K/LL—Tag ani
mal as soon as it is killed and do
not destroy evidence of sex. Open
carcass from crotch to throat. Turn
animal downhill so it will bleed
freely. Be careful not to puncture
the intestines or the paunch. In all
operations prevent hair from com-
D«n’t make a target out of
yourself by carrying an ex
posed hide or antlers.
ing in contact with meat. Open
chest cavity by spreading with a
stick. Drain off blood and wipe
with clean cloth. Do not wash with
water. If the animal must be taken
out of the woods before cooling
and quartering, leave the liver and
heart in the body cavity.
COOLING—Because the animal’s
body heat causes rapid spoilage,
your kill should be completely
cooled as soon as possible, prefer
ably by hanging in a shady place.
QUARTERING — If state laws
permit, it is best to quarter the
animal before moving. The hide is
worth saving and should be re
moved in one piece if possible.
Place quarters in clean muslin
bags and hang in shade. In warm
weather, hang out only at night
and wrap meat up during the day.
ALWAYS KEEP THE MEAT
COOL.
TRANSPORTATION — Don't
make a target of yourself by car
rying an exposed hide or antlers!
Don’t transport the animal on an
automobile fender next to a heated
motor. Transportation is, of course,
easier if it is possible to pack the
animal from the woods in quarters
on a horse or in a pack sack.
STORAGE—Always unpack meat
as soon as possible and store in a
dry place. If weather permits, it
should be allowed to “cure” for
about a week or 10 days before
storage.
AAA
No value in dollars and cents cars
be attributed to the recreational values
of the sport of fishing and bunting.
The fact that }0,000 fishermen and
70,000 hunters annually take to the
field with rod or gun is proof, how
ever, that this type of recreation it
considered valstable to a large teg.
messt of our population.
AAA
Picking Pheasants
According to experts on the sub
ject, many people who skin pheas
ants are destroying the fine fla
vor of this game bird.
Because of its tender skin, the
pheasant is. difficult to pick once
it has become cold after shooting.
They may be picked very easily
without breaking the skin, however,
by brushing off the feathers im
mediately after the bird has been
killed.
In warm weather, the bird
should be rough dressed in the
field, and the cavity stuffed with
coarse grass, cornhusks or news
papers to help the cooling-out pro
cess.
After picking and dressing, the
birds should be dropped into indi
vidual paper sacks before being
placed in the hunting coat. Head
and feet should always be left at
tached in the field for identification.
AAA
Under a new law, effective July 1,
New York state game protectors
alone may issue butsting licenses to
minors under 17 seeking their first
licenses and then only after the pro
tector has schooled the applicant in
the proper handling of firearms.
AAA
Adirondack Deer
Deer hunting prospects for the
fall of 1949 will be better in the
Adirondacks than they were last
year. In the Catskills there will be
little change, with some counties
improving, others declining.
In the western counties where
bucks and does were legal last
fall, the deer population is sub
stantial!: lass than a year ago,
but in the other counties of the
region a general increase in nun*
ber of deer will be evident.
AAA
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
'T/e That Binds?
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Can't Show Force
By Lawrence Gould
Does living together
Answer: That depends on wheth
er they are doing so because they
want to or because they feel they
have to. Under normal circum
stances, people who ae willing to
adjust themselves to one another
become more and more attached,
the more experiences and interests
they share. For the more you see
of anyone, the more strongly you’ll
be apt either to like or to dislike
him. But whatever you are forced
to do tends to become repugnant,
and there are no more virulent
hatreds than those between people
who "can’t get away from one
another.”
draw relatives closer?
symptoms are human and natural
—they express the very impulses
which our moral leaders recognize
in us and urge us to controL The
psychopath is essentially a person
who has grown up with no con
science. Most of us fall somewhere
between him and a saint
Is a “Psychopath” inhuman?
Answer: No, writes Dr. Hulsey
Cason, research psychologist in
the U. S. Public Health Service.
We sometimes feel that way be
cause the cold-blooded crimes and
treacheries characteristic of the
psychopath are so foreign to what
we like to belive are our own in
clinations. But the fact is, all his
Is your “mother tongne” ever
forgotten?
Answer: No, however “rusty”
you may seem to be when you at
tempt to speak it. A patient who
claimed to have forgotten all the
German he had spoken as a child
began in the course of his analysis
to recall events and feelings of the
early years of his life. As his child
ish fears were revived, he found
himself speaking German, and un
able to express his feeling ade
quately in English. Again, many
people who speak flawless English
when feeling no strong emotion
will unwittingly slip back into their
parents’ “foreign accent” when ex
cited.
LOOKING AT RELIGION
By DON MOORE
-TO INSURE PRESERVATION IN
THE EVENT OP AN ATOM WAR !
Msins.
THEK’E ARE CHURCHES
POP THE PEAF IN THIS
COUNTRY CLUTHERAN).
‘SIGN LANGUAGE IS
USEP FOR THE SERMONS.
| KEEPING HEALTHY |
Diet and Tooth Decay Are Related
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By Dr. James W. Barton
E ARE FAMILIAR with the Because there has been
advertisement of a paint com
pany which states that if you save
the surface you save all. This is
probably true of wood and paint,
but it is not entirely true of teeth.
Research dentists state that
brushing the teeth with powder or
paste regularly will preserve the
enamel or outside covering of the
teeth. It is through the enamel
that most decay or caries of the
teeth occurs. Particles of food left
on the teeth gradually cause a
small crack or tiny cavity in the
enamel, and once the enamel is
broken, harmful organisms cause
decay of the underlying structures.
Thus it is good teeth insurance to
brush the teeth.
However, all decay of teeth does
not occur from the break in enamel
or surface covering of the teeth;
the teeth must be kept strong by
good nourishing blood from good
nourishing food. Thus several
years ago, the Drs. Agnew, from
experiments in the foreign mission
field, were able to prevent decay
of teeth by the use of “protective”
foods, especially milk and other
dairy products and fruit and green
vegetables.
some
controversy as to the benefits of
nourishing foods preventing tooth
decay, some information comes
from Dr. Genevieve Steams, State
University of Iowa, in the Journal
of Dental Research. These re
search workers found that before
the full benefit of a nourishing diet
could be estimated the child should
be well nourished.
They believe that some of the
nourishing diets to prevent decay
are not apparently successful be
cause the patient is in a run down,
poorly nourished condition and
often many months must elapse
before the child becomes well
nourished. At the State University,
Iowa, keeping children under
strictly controlled diets, complete
stop of decay occurred with diets
high in sugar and diets low in
sugar but always with enough of
the building foods, especially dairy
products which are readily ab
sorbed into the blood.
In other words it is the state of
nourishment of the body when the
protective foods are given that is
the important point as far as tooth
decay is concerned.
Speed and endurance become di
minished after 60, but both mental
and physical benefit may be ob
tained by simple garner such as
bowling and shuffleboard, and
dancing to restore timing and co
ordination.
• • •
With constant noise around us,
we keep our bodies tensed and be
come tired even if at rest.
In some cases of stuffy nose, an
operation must be performed on
the septum or the bony growth—
the turbinate bone.
• • •
Goiter may be the simple type
which is not dangerous, or It may
be severe.
• • •
Cancer of the skin and Up it
easy to diagnose.
How are you doing oft your
Christmas gift list? You can taka
care of lots of people on that list
with the greatest of ease — and
handsomely, tool Just check off
the names of all your friends who
smoke, either cigarettes or a pipe.
In either case you have the gift
that’s just right in their eyes! For
the cigarette smoker — the gay,
Christmas carton of Camels con
tains 200 cool, mild, full-flavored
Camels. And for the pipe smoker
or the man who likes his “makin’s
—the pound tin of Prince Albert
Smoking Tobacco gives hours and
hours of tongue-easy pipe joy. Both
gifts are waiting for you ready-
wrapped in colorful holiday dress.
There’s even built-in space for
your personal greeting. So, this
season save yourself time and en
ergy by giving mild, good-tasting
Camels and Mellow Prince Albert
Smoking Tobacco. —Adv.
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