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j It was decided by the members
of a humane society to rent a
store window and put in an ex
hibit of wild furred animals to
aid them in their campaign
against the ruthless killing of the
creatures. It was a grand exhibit
and was spoiled only by a man
who insisted upon getting in
amongst the stuffed animals.
*‘I belong in there,” he insisted.
At first they thought he was in
toxicated but when he pointed out
Ids argument they admitted he
had some cause for his actions.
His reason for wanting to join
the exhibit was a large sign the
society had had printed and
placed in the window. It read,
“We were skinned to provide furs
for' fashionable women.”
Not Always
Sonny had read many fairy
tales but apparently had never
realized until now that most of
them began: “Once upon a time.”
**Do all of them begin that
fway?” he asked his mother.
“Why, no,” she replied, “some
times you hear a telephone ring
and when you answer it you hear
a voice say, ‘Sorry, dear, but the
boss called a surprise meeting at
the last minute.’ ”
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BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
Attack of Amnesia Transforms
Milquetoast Into Roost Ruler
by BILLY ROSE
The other day I picked up the telephone to call Eleanor, and
it was almost half a minute before I could remember my number at
home. At the time, this memory lapse didn’t seem worth brooding
about, but last night I happened to meet up with a well-known
psychiatrist at the Stork Club, and over a jigger of ginger-beer I
told him what had happened.
“It was probably a mild attack of amnesia,” he said. “As a rule, the
victims are folks who, consciously or unconsciously, want to escape from
their routine chores, and every now and then their minds blank out as a
protest against doing the same old things the same old way.”
“What kind of pills should I
take?”
“Fun pills,” said the mind-med
ico. “Buy yourself a sailboat, take
up skeet-shooting,
or get a set of
water colors and
learn how to
paint.”
“And supposing
I don’t.?”
“Chances are
nothing will hap
pen except that
you’ll forget a
few more phone
numbers. On the
Other hand,
there’s always the possibility that
the spells may get longer and more
frequent. That’s what happened
not long ago to a good friend of
yours.”
Billy Bose
JERRY—and I’m sure you know
the Jerry I mean—used to be one
of Broadway’s leading juveniles
and stay-up lates. Five years ago,
as you know, he put away his hair-
oil and got a job producing radio
shows. And not long after, he mar
ried the daughter of a network
executive, bought a home in Scars-
dale and decided to settle down.
"Well, as often happens when
a girl has too much dowry, his
wife did most of the settling for
him. She made him exchange his
friends for hers, his fun for hers
and his life for hers. And within
a year, the man who used to be
a gay dog became all dog— a
W estchester version of Caspar
Milquetoast.
“After two years of being yam
mered at by his missus, Jer^y
came in to see me one day and
said that he was having trouble
with his memory—that it was
blacking out on him now and then.
I asked him some questions about
his home life, and when he told
me what it was like I advised him
to stand up to his wife, and if neces
sary, slap her down occasionally.
He told me, quite seriously, she
wouldn’t stand for such a thing.
“One morning several months
later, he came to my office, and
told me quite a tale. It seems that
on his way home the night before
he had had an attack of amnesia,
and when he came to 15 hours later
he was in a New York hotel room,
with no idea of what had happened
in between.
"I phoned his wife, and from her
story, managed to put the pieces
together. Jerry’s memory had
snapped as he got to the door of
his house in Scarsdale—perhaps in
protest against the stuffy people
his wife had invited to dinner—
and all he knew was that he was
standing on a strange stoop.
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“AFRAID TO RING the bell, he
sneaked into the back yard, found
To One In Sorrow
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ET me come in where you are weeping, friend.
And let me take your hand.
[, who have known a sorrow such as yours.
Can under&and.
Let me come in—I would be very Still
Beside you in your grief;
I would not bid you cease your weeping, friend.
Tears bring relief. .
Let me come in—I would only breathe a prayer,
And hold your hand.
For I have known a sorrow such as yours.
And understand.
GRACE NOLL CROWELL
an open window, hoisted himself
through, then recognizing nothing,
stopped to puzzle out the situation.
Who was he? What sort of man
would climb through the window
of a strange house? Only a burg
lar, of course. Ergo, he must be a
burglar. And so he tiptoed up
stairs, entered his wife’s bedroom
and began stuffing her jewelry into
his pockets.
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##TUD’S ONLY going to be here
a couple of weeks,” Connie
said. “And after all, he’s my
brother Tom’s guest and it’s up to
me fb help entertain him. You
understand, don’t you, Marc?”
“Sure,” said Marc, not looking
at her, “sure, I understand. You
go ahead and be nice to him, Con
nie. I understand all right.”
Which was true, bitterly true.
Marc had begun to understand two
days after Jud
Morrison had
3 -Minute landed at the
Fiction Norberts ’ iOT a
nviiyii fortnight . s vislt .
Jud was big and
handsome and had a way with him.
In college he had been quite a
rage. Tom Norbert, his roommate,
lUd raved about him before he ar
rived, but even Connie hadn’t ex
pected such a splendid specimen
<?f manhood as Jud proved to be.
' A roadster stopped before the
house and Jud came bounding up
the walk. “Hi, Connie,” he grinned.
“AD set for our round of golf?”
Ihen he saw Marc standing on the
porch beside Connie. “Hello there,
Marc. How about joining us?”
Marc smiled and shook his head.
“Thanks,” he said. “I’ve got a ten-
nis date. See you two tonight.”
If, he reflected, he could
only get Jud out of his element
perhaps the college hero
wouldn’t show up so well.
Several nights later at the coun
try club dance Marc got Connie
alone and suggested a fishing trip
for the next day. “We can take
Jud along,” he explained. “It’ll
be something new in his exper
ience and probably he’ll get a bang
out of it.”
Connie, who liked fishing herself,
thought it was a grand idea.
•And so the three of them drove
up to Beaver Lake the next day.
“And, besides. I’m satisfied
with the man I have—a man
who’s big enough to be kind
to a man like Jud Morrison.”
In the afternoon they put on their
waders and fished.
Connie elected to show Jud how
to rig his line and cast, and watch
ing them Marc knew a feeling of
frustration. He had planned /to
somehow get Jud to follow him into
the rapids where the going was
treacherous and where only one
experienced in such things could
navigate without losing- his foot
hold. He had a vague idea of res
cuing Jud from the swirling tor
rents, thereby establishing Jud’s
weakness in Connie’s mind and his
own prowess.
S UDDENLY HE KNEW that he
was helpless.. There was noth
ing he could do about the thing
that was happening between Jud
and Connie. The feeling that he
had toward Jud was not one of
condemnation, but envy. If Jud
were trying to steal Connie away,
he was doing so unwittingly. Any
one but a fool could tell he wasn’t
aware of any understanding exist
ing between the girl and Marc.
And so Marc abandoned his
scheme for revenge.
They returned home the next day,
and the day after that Marc made
a business trip to Belknap. When
he got back, Judson Morrison was
gone. Marc didn't call Connie. To
morrow or the day after he was
leaving on a month’s journey up
state. He didn’t want to see Connie
before he left. It would hurt too
much.
world have you been?”
“Away on business. Unexpected.”
“Well, I should think so.” She
came close to him and sat down.
“Jud left this morning. He asked
me to say goodbye to you.”
“Jud’s a good egg,” Marc said.
‘Too gdod,” said Connie. “Good
ness, I’d hate to be married to a
man like that.”
“You would?” said Marc, aston
ished, “why?”
“Why? why, because—I would.
Jle’s too self-sufficient.” She
laughed. “And besides, I’m satis
fied with the man I have—a man
who’s big enough to be kind to a
man like Jud Morrison.”
Abruptly he laughed, and when,
puzzled, she asked him what was
funny, he shook his head.
‘There’s nothing really funny,”
he said. “I was just thinking about
a close can I once had—how near
I came to making a fool of myself
—and what a relief it is to know I
escaped.”
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"At this point, bis missus
walked in, told him to stop play
ing cops and robbers, and began
badgering him at the top of her
over-sized lungs. But Jerry, the
burglar, instead of melting into
the carpet, belted her one right
in the teeth.
“That’s all there was to it. Some
how, he got back to New York,
But he did see her. Conple
came over that night and found
him sitting alone on the porch.
“Hello,” she said, “where in the when she brought in the drinks. To
checked in at a hotel, and when he
woke up his amnesia was gone.”
“Did you tell his wife that her
husband wasn’t himself when he
clipped her on the chin?” I asked.
The psychiatrist smiled. “Of
course not,, and what’s more, I ad*
vised my patient to keep munq,
Jerry went home to a big recon
ciliation scene—the old ‘worm-
turns’ story—and ever since, th*
more spine he has shown the moro
supine his wife has become.
“I went to his house for a poker
session recently, and the only
time she came in the room wac
date, there have been no recur
rences of amnesia, and it’s my
belief that if Jerry doesn’t take
any more nonsense from his wife,
there won’t be.”
"Are you suggesting I go home
and bang a shiner on Eleanor's
aye?" I asked.
“In your case,” said the psychia
trist, “I doubt if . it’s necessary.
However, if you have any more
trouble remembering telephone
numbers, I'd suggest you invest a
few dollars in a water-color set.”
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
LAST WEEK'S
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BY INEZ GERHARD
r E SUCCESS of “Halls of Ivy”,
(NBC Friday evenings,) proves
that radio sponsors who for years
lave been heckling Ronald Col-
man and his wife to do a radio
program were right. For 10 years,
during which he had made but one
film a year, Mr. Colm&a had held
off, and Benita backed him up.
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Then Jack Benny talked them in
to doing a guest shot on his pro
gram, and other such appearances
followed. Finally along came Don:
Quinn, who years ago had brought
Fibber McGee and Molly to the
air. He had written the perfect
Show for the ^olmans—for Colman
as a college professor, Benita as
an ex-actress, his wife. Result,
“The Halls of Ivy” a hit from the
start.
Morey Amsterdam is lining up
Lookings for a spring concert tour;
seems the comedy star is an ac
complished cellist whom top-rank
ing musicians have praised. He
plans to perform both classical and
semi-classical selections.
Listeners to Elliot Lawrence’s
Friday night air show may soon
hear his latest composition,
“Ballet for Thirsty Arabians in
Search of Water.” IjHliot says it
was inspired by the water shortage
from which New York U suffering.
Farm Shop Layout
Adds More Space
More Equipment Added
As Skill Is Increased
The shop layout, sketched by
Harold E. Gulvin, New York teach
er of vocational agriculture, in
cludes spaces for more equipment
than most farmors plan to put in
their shops; but he has observed,
he says, that farmers rapidly ob
tain more equipment as they be-
sir
come skilled in handling their own
repair and construction work.
In describing the farm shop in
the book, “Welding Helps for
Farmers,” published by the James
F. Lincoln Arc Welding foundation,
Cleveland, Ohio, states that this
plan is the result of many years of
experience in working in and ex
amining many farm shops, and
makes the following suggestions:
For storage space, many draw
ers should be instaUed under the
benches. The walls can be used to
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hang other tools where they can
easily be seen and reached. The
heating stove is placed in the cor
ner near the smokestack provided
for the forge.
The entire right side of this shop
plan is for tractors and trucks.
There is a handy chain hoist for
raising heavy machinery opposite
the large overhead outside door.
The air compressor and the welder
are close to the outside’ door so
that tires can be inflated and ma
chines can be welded without hav
ing to drive into the shop. The arc
welder should have sufficient
weldipg cable to reach well over
the repair area.
The combination of an arc weld
er, an acetylene torch, a black
smith’s forge, a heavy-duty grind
er, a drill press, and a metal
lathe are all included in this shop
and are grouped together. ^ The
grinder and drill press are In
stalled on a supporting post, allow
ing the grinding and drilling of
long pieces. The pipe vise is at
tached to another supporting post
Top Hereford
Herschel’s Pride, 1,190-pound
Hereford which waa named
grand champion steer of the
American Royal Livestock
Show in Kansas City, with the
lad who bred him, 19-year old
Bob McKinley, of Dale, Okla
homa, and McKinley’s 17-year
old fiancee, Mourine Johnston.
Fertilizer Shortage Seen
As Imminent This Spring
Safety Shield May End
Power Line Accidents
It is beginning to appear that the
end of power line accidents may
be approaching faster than anyone
believed, for manufacturers of
farm equipment are now produc
ing power line safety shields that
cannot be removed when the shaft
is in operation.
These shields may be opened for
servicing and inspection of the
power shaft, but they cannot be
removed unless the operator goes
to work on them with a blowtorch
or a chisel—and nobody expects
that to happen.
For many years the manufac
turers of farm machinery have
been providing shields for power
lines, but many farmers have
failed to keep the standard shield
in place despite the fact that rapid
ly-revolving power take-off shafts
are a never-present hazard.
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Farmers cannot buy all the fer
tilizer they want when they want
it during the coming spring, ac
cording to H. J. L’Hote, supervisor
of the Missouri fertilizer inspection
service.
He explained that the fertilizer
industry is ' geared to furnish
farmers as much fertilizer as they
want for the 1950 crops if they fill
their needs early. Industry has run
out of storage space early.
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By WALTER A. SHE AD
W ASHINGTON is still talking
•bout the tense, dramatic
battle in the house of representa
tives in which a southern Demo
cratic - Republican coalition at
tempted to overturn the house rules
committee, grab control of the en
tire Truman administration pro
gram and again set up a totali
tarian dictatorship in which seven
men at their own caprice could
hold or withhold legislation from
action by the other 428 members'
of that body. * *
The coup Tailed by « vote of 236
to 183, but only after President
Truman himself had entered the
fray throwing the weight of his
entire administration into the battle
to hold the lines against the coali
tion. '■
The southern delegations were
pressured as never before by
the Dbdecrats. They used ell
the prejudice, fomented all the
intolerance engendered by the
civil rights program. They
played upon the desire of the
Republican leadership to stop
cold the Truman Fair Deal pro
gram. The administration sent
out wires, phone calls, feed
every pressure to bring back
house members who were ab
sent.
The tip-off came when a Repub
lican motion to adjourn was de
feated. It would have delayed a
vote until over the week-end. Then
with a packed gallery and a house
quiet with tenseness the vote came.
The Republican leadership could
not hold many GOP congressmen
in line, particularly in the New
England states. Truman won.
Here’s the background of this fight
which may have far reaching ef
fects on this congress. It could
cause a long session or failure of
this session to accomplish anything
for the nation.
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Powerful Group
For many years the rules com
mittee of the house was the most
powerful in that body. It still is.
It acts as sort of e traffic cop for
legislation. It has 12 members—
eight Democrats and four Republi
cans. In the 80th congress it had
eight Republicans and four Demo
crats. Under house procedure all
bills considered by other commit
tees go to the rules committee for
handing down for action.
Under the old procedere the
committee could (hold these
bills Indefinitely. Only e peti
tion signed by e majority of
fey
e bill.
At the last session of the 81st
congress when this same group
men tried to take over control
the committee from its chairman.
Congressman Adoltih J. Sabbath
of Illinois the house voted over
whelmingly to dip the power of the
committee and piece a maximum
of 21 days on the time the commit
tee could hold e bill. After that
time, the chairman of any other
committee could call down a bill
from the rules committee for house
action.
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Ghost ThsirxTImo
The rebel leadership on the com
mittee, headed by Congressman
Eugene Cox of Georgia, picked a"
time three days before the con
troversial Fair Employment Prac
tices bin was due for ^handing
down. - -
He corralled two other south
erners, Congressmen Howard J.
Smith of Virginia and William M,
Colmey of Mississippi, and had
little difficulty in persuading the
four Republican members to joib
them in a coalition taking opera
tion of the committee out of the
hands of its chairman.
deadline on
t to
Seeking to beat t«
the FEPC bill, they went to the
house floor with a majority motion
of their committee asking the old
dictatorial power of the committee
be invoked once again. It meant
the death of all civil rights legis-ll
l&tion and even of all the Fair Deal
legislation to which the seven men
were opposed.
Republicans Joining In the
coalition bloc were the GOP
ranking member, Lee E. Alice '
of niinois, chairman of the com
mittee in the 80th congress;
Clafence J. Brown of Ohio;
James W. Wadsworth of New
York and Christian Herter of
Massachusetts. They prevailed
upon the bouse GOP Leader
Joe Martin, former speaker, and
Charles HaBeck, former GOP
floor leader, to go along.
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Civil Rights Lost
There is every reason to believe
that the civil rights program of
President Truman will be lost in
this congress. There Is no effective
weapon yet devised against the
senate filibuster. But the rest of
the Fair Deal program was also
at stake and the President had
everything to gain and nothing to
lose, since the southerners ere op
posed to most of his program any4
way.
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