The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 07, 1950, Image 3
BROADWAY AND MAm STREET
Brainy'Possum Hound Outwits
Sequatchie County Jewel Thief
By BILLY ROSE
Billy Bose
A few days ago I got the following letter from a Mr. Jake With
ers of Sequatchie county, Tennessee: *
Dear Mister Billy Rose,
In some recent issues of the Nashville Tennessean I noticed the col
umns you wrote about educated animals—dogs that could add and sub
tract, and horses that could figure out cube roots—and so I figured you
might be interested in hearing about the smartest four-legged critter in the
history of Sequatchie county.
To begin at the beginning, there’s
■a truck farmer down here by the
same of Lem Al
bright who owns
a ’possum hound
which is as black
as the inside of a
tar barrel. Lem
calls him “Ein
stein” and, to
hear Lem tell it,
the dog has more
brains than a pas-
sel of professors
—and after what
happened the other night at our
smoked-ham supper and square
dance, most everyone in Sequat
chie is inclined to agree.
Here’s what happened:
• • •
A COUPLE of weeks ago, Mrs.
Will Purd’ys mother, who lived
across the line in Grundy county,
passed away, and when the family
gathered for the divvying up,
Will’s wife got a gold brooch set
with eight diamonds, three of
them genuine. Needless to say, she
Wore the brooch to the smoked-
ham supper and square dance, and
seedless to recount, it got more
attention than a team-of-four with
their tails trimmed.
Everything went smooth as mo
lasses at the social until right in <
the middle of a r, swing your part
ner” when Mrs. Purdy let out a
screech and fainted dead away.
And when they brought her
around, she began hollering for
someone to lock the doors be
cause her brooch had been stolen
from right off her chest.
Fortunately, our sheriff was on
hand, and after he banged the lid
of the piano to get people quiet he
said, “Don’t nobody leave this
room. I hate to say it, but there’s
a low-down, thievin’ crook in our
midst, and I’m a-goin’ to search
every man-jack until I find Mrs.
Purdy’s brooch.”
“Sheriff,” said Lem Albright,
“I don’t think that’ll hardly be
necessary. My hound Einstein, as
you know, is the best-behaved ani
mal in Sequatchie county, but the
one thing he can’t abide is tfo have
a thief scratch his belly. So, sure
as shootin’, the minute he feels the
fingernails of the fella we’re after,
he’ll start in to yowl, and we’ll
have the thief in no time a-tall.”
SOME OF US began to laugh,
but the sheriff took Lem aside,
talked to him a minute, and then
banged the piano lid again.
“I don’t rightly know whether
Lem’s notion is going to work,”
he said, “but there ain’t no harm
in givin’ it a try. I’m goin’ to ask
him to take Einstein in the next
room, and then I want all of you to
get in single file and come in one
at a time and scratch the hound’s
belly.”
Everybody, including the fid
dlers, did as told, and sure •
enough, 20 minutes later the sher
iff pointed at a farmhand as he
came out from seeing the hound
and said, "It worked, like Jake
said—there’s the criminal.”
csCidtenina
I F I can learn some lesson through this pain.
If I can hear God’s voice above the Storm,
And catch His words and pass them on again
To other suffering ones, if I can warm
Some troubled heart with cheer and sympathy.
And help it find a haven of release.
If I can speak the words God speaks to me
To one soul that has loft its poise, its peace.
This, even this, shall not have been in vain!
God keep me quiet, keep me very ftill.
That through the heavy darkness and the rain.
The thunder crashing loud upon my sill,
I may discern Your voice, that I may hear
The gentle, helpful, loving words You say.
The ftorm runs high, God make the Words quite
•clear.
And I shall liften carefully today.
Nation Will Produce
More 'Green Pastures'
Grass and Mechanization
More Vital in Later Tears
Prospects are evident that Ameri
ca’s farmlands will grow greener
in the second half of the 20th cen
tury.
Outstanding in farming’s past 50
years and bound to play vital parts
in the years to come are the new
Importance of grass and the mecha
nization of the farm.
According to experts on the sub
ject, grass is soon to rank as a
prime contributor to the health and
wealth of the United States. Farm
ers who will turn to the use of grass
as a real crop in itself, will find
ff GRACE NOLL CROWELL (
When the man was grabbed and
searched, the brooch was found in
his pocket, and so, on top of a
smoked-ham supper and square
dance, there was a running-out-of
town party to top off the evening.
And all in all, it was easily the
most successful social in a long
while.
Next day, when Lem was inter
viewed by the editor of our paper,
he didn’t brag much about his
hound. “To tell the truth,” he
said, •“the sheriff and me, we
The
EESOME Richard H. Wilkinson
Fiction THE THR
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•ssnpHAT MAN,” Janice thought as
she brought her roadster
to a halt, “has possibilities. It
can’t be that he lives here.”
He stood just inside the picket
fence—six feet of tall leaness. Fair
hair. .Blue eyes. Bespeaking the
easy arrogance of youth. He wore
« blue cotton shirt and blue denim
jeans.
“You’re not Janice Burdon?” he
said. And then at her expression:
“Heavens, you are! Why couldn’t
Aunt Bertha have warned me?”
“Is Aunt Bertha your aunt, too?”
“My real aunt. You only call her
auntie because she’s a close friend
of your mother.
3 _.. That makes us
-Minufft not cousins,” he
Fiction added with frank
relief.
Janice rescued
her suitcase from the nimble seat.
“This is like one of those things
you read about,” he grinned, tak
ing it from her. He studied her
with honest approval. “And I
thought my vacation was going to
be one of those dull, uninteresting
things.”
Minutes later Janice faced her
Aunt Bertha in the bed chamber
over the front parlor.
“Oh, Auntie, why didn’t you
tell me he was going to be
here? I didn’t bring a thing.
Not a thing, except my shorts,
two cotton dresses and a bath
ing suit.”
“Who?” Aunt Bertha asked in
nocently. “Phil? Land sakes, don’t
worry about him. He dropped in
unexpectedly yesterday and an
nounced he was here for two weeks.
He’s a dear boy. You’ll like him.
The next day Janice accompanied
Phil up to the north pasture and
watched him prune apple trees. “I
thought this was your vacation,”
she said after awhile.
“It is,” he told her. “I like work
ing on my vacations—out doors.”
She wondered about Phil.
He pointed away over the fields.
“Some day I’d like to see all those
fields set out to apple trees.”
Two days ago she wouldn’t have
believed him. She was city born
and city bred. To her a farm had
always symbolized hard work and
a poor living, bugs and snakes and
hot days in the sun, long lonely
evenings. Even the thought of a
farm had made her shudder.
She wondered about Phil. He
claimed to be a law firm member
on vacation. It occurred to her that
for a lawyer he was mighty skillful
handling pruning clippers. And his
knowledge of farming was pro
found.
T HE SECOND DAY of their
vacation they knocked off
early and went for a swim.
The third day they played ten
nis. The fourth Aunt Bertha
packed them a lunch and they
drove to Mount Carter, climbed
to its summit and watched a
glorious sunset while nibbling
delicious sandwiches.
On the second Saturday following
her arrival she was with Phil. They
had climbed Mount Carter again,
had sat for long, silent momtents
watching the afterglow of a blood-
red sunset.
Unexpectedly Phil said: “Well
it’s gone. And our vacation has
gone. Tonight winds up the two
weeks.”
“There’s always an end to nice
things,” she told him evasively.
“There doesn’t have to be.
Ever. Listen,” he went on
eagerly. “I gave you the wrong
impression about myself. I’m
not a successful lawyer. I
never should have tried to be
a lawyer. Thank heavens I
realized the mistake before it
was too late.”
“You mean you’re not leaving?
You’re staying here?”
He nodded. “I’m going to try
and raise apples. Auntie and I are
going to be partners. This fall I’ll
sell what we have and next spring
set out new trees. He picked up
her hand. “Honey, let’s make it a
threesome. I know it’s a lot to
ask,” he added wistfully. “A city
girl like you. It’ll be dull. But
eventually—”
“I could chip in my roadster,”
Janice cried excitedly. “It’s all I
have, but it ought to bring $500.
How many apple trees can you buy
with $500, darling?”
“Enough,” said Phil, reading her
eyes, “to keep from being lone
some—I guess.”
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wasn’t too sure Einstein could spot
the criminal, so we helped out a
mite. I rubbed a little soot from
the stove on the hound’s underside,
and every time anyone came out
of the room the sheriff looked at
his hands. The first person with
clean hands figured to be our
man, because the thief was a cinck
to make believe he was sccatchin*
Einstein without 'really touchin*
his belly a-tall.”
Yours truly,
Jake Withers.
iE^SCI
By INEZ GERHARD
S ALLY FORREST and Keefe
Brasselle are so enthusiastic
about Ida Lupino that they had to
be prodded into talking about
themselves at our interview. Both
got their big breaks in Ida’s “Not
Wanted” and “Never Fear,” (Eagle
Lion), thanks to her preference
for casting her films without in*
Scenes like this will be more
common throughout rural
America as farmers turn to
grass as a real crop. Here a
field forage harvester, one of
the newer developments in
mechanised farming, chops
and blows grass into a truck
keeping pace with the tractor.
that it prevents erosion, builds up
the soil, improves the land for
crops that are to follow and pro
vides greater profit through more
economical feed.
Because they can now grow more
grass with less work, farmers are
planting more and more acres in
green pastures. They are using
more grass as rotation and cover
crops and tests have proved to
them that grass in rotation with
com and cotton vastly increases
yields. •
The making of hay and grass si
lage is the basis of grassland farm
ing. This is a true product of the
20th century. Experiments started
about 25 years ago are just now get
ting widespread acceptance as
farmers find that grass silage is
second only to grazing in a good
livestock program.
SALLY FORREST
sisting on big names. Sally, now
20, had three years as assistant
director at Metro, playing small
parts; Keefe had more picture
experience and plenty of heart
breaks. Following “Never Fear”
he was given a supporting role in
Paramount’s “An American Trag
edy.” But Sally and Keefe were
really celebrating in New York—
both had been signed to long con
tracts by M-G-M.
Jane Greer wanted an operatic
career until, in her teens, she saw
her twin brother, Donn, play the
lead in a little theatre play. She
switched to the movies, and he be-
came a commercial artist. But
either Jane’s success or a liking
for acting made him swing over to
her side; he makes his film debut
in RKO’s “The Wall Outside,” in
which she co-stars with Lizabetb
Scott.
James Stewart is really playing
a supporting role in “Winchester
73,” with the historic Winchester,
often described as the “rifle that
won the West,” as the star. Ha
wins it in a shooting match; it’s
stolen, lost at poker, stolen again,
with Stewart after it all the way.
Shelly Winters is the girl involved
with Stewart in this super-western.
But the gun is more important.
Rick Jason was considered
for the starring role of “Luis
Bello” in Robert Rossen’s
“The Brave Bulls,” for Co
lumbia, but lost out because he
was too young. Now appearing
with Frederic March on Broad
way, he got a Columbia con
tract anyway.
Surplus U.S. army air forces
breastplates, made to turn anti
aircraft shrapnel, were convert
ed by Columbia armorers into me
dieval breastplates; they’re worn
by men-at-arms in the John Derek
Diana Lynn “Rogues of Sherwoot
Forest”
Handy Device
August Bruynell, proprietor of
the Forest Hill poultry farm.
North Weare, N. H., has a
handy device to carry feed and
eggs when he works in his big
laying house which houses
1,925 New Hampshire bred hens.
Cultivator Needed
In Control of Weeds
Chemical sprays are not yet
ready to replace the cultivator in
controlling weeds, according to Dr.
J. C. Willard, agronomist in the
college of agriculture at Ohio Uni
versity.
“No chemicals so far available
for use in crops will kill all
weeds,” Dr. Willard said. “If we
use chemicals without cultivation
to remove the weeds left after
spraying, it will be only a short
time before we have fields which
are as weedy as before, but the
weeds will be different and of kinds
harder to kill.”
Introduction of new chemicals
every year makes spraying more
of a specialist’s job, he pointed out,
cautioning farmers to beware of
the fly-by-night operator.
Sleeping Sickness Menace
To Livestock Is Recounted
Each summer and fall livestock
owners are warned of the toll
which may be taken of animals by
sleeping sickness. Losses from this
disease showed a startling increase
in 1947 and 1948, and figures for
the past year are expected to show
but little decline when finally com
piled.
The virus of the disease may
have “wintered over” with more
virulence and in more placea.
Answer: No more so than any
other natural instinct—but your
way of trying to gratify it may be.
Everyone instinctively wants ad
miration and approval, and ac
cordingly the desire to show off
is universal even though in many
t people it has been so sternly re
pressed that they are not con
scious of it But to give way to the
desire is neurotic when you don’t
consider whether what you have
to display — whether it is beauty,
wit or talent—will be pleasing to
your audience. Mature people
show off only when they have
something to show.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
Everyone Wants
Admiration
By Lawrence Gould
Is wanting to show off neurotic?
Do pampered children tend
to stammer?
Answer: Yes, says Dr. Philip J.
Glasner of John Hopkins Hos
pital, Baltimore. From the study of
a group of seventy stammering
children under five years of age,
be concluded that their typical
background was a home in which
they had been sheltered and in
dulged but also had been expected
to be models of behavior. Stam
mering is basically the result of
a conflict between what we wish
to say and what we think we’re
expected to say, so that the more
afraid a child is to express him
self spontaneously, the more likely
he will be to stutter.
Does a psychoanalyst give
advice?
Answer: Not if he adheres to
the strict .psychoanalytic tech
nique. For the object of this tech
nique is not to remodel you ac
cording to somebody else’s pattern
but to help you find out what you
are and make up your own mind
what you wbnt to do about it. A
person who told you that you
should—or should not—get a di
vorce, for example, would be un
true to the psychoanalytic meth
od. By the time that you have rec
ognized the unconscious reasons
why you’ve been unhappy in your
marriage you’ll know what you
want and ask advice from no one.
THERE? IS AN ASTONISHING NUMBER OF WAVS IN WHICH CHRIST IS
SPOKEN OF IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: HE IS TEACHER AND HEALER;
HE IS THE FIRST-BORN OF MANY BROTHERS; HE IS PRIEST AND
SACRIFICE; HE IS PROPITIATION, THE RECONCILER OF MEN TO GOO.
he is Master and lord, he is the word, he is the son of
GOD, HE SITS ON the THRONE OF THE UNIVERSE AND WILL JUDGE EVERT MAN.
KEEPING HEALTHY (
Cancer of Lip, Diagnosis and Care
By Dr. James W. Barton
r/r IKE MALIGNANT growth else-
^ where, cancer of the lip is a
grave disease. It is carried to
lymph node* near by and will
eventually kill the patient unless
it is treated adequately and at an
early stage.
Fortunately an ulcer or growth
on the lip continually reminds the
patient of its presence. It can usual
ly be easily recognized by the
physician. Because it can be easily
reached it can be treated in a
number of ways.”
I am quoting freely Dr. C. C.
Burkell, Saskatoon cancer clinic,
Saskatoon, Sask., in “Canadian
Medical Association Journal.”
Dr Burkell presents a review of
some 534 cases of cancer of the lip
treated in Saskatoon cancer clinics
at Regina and Saskatoon, 97 per
cent of which were on the lower
lip. In one group of 131 cases the
cancers had been present from nine
months to as long as 20 years, the
average being about four years.
While some cases of cancer of
the lip, particularly where the ad
joining lymph nodes are involved,
require .surgical operation, where-
ever radium can be administered
in any of its various forms—the re
sults are much to be preferred to
surgical operation which in so
many cases leaves disfiguring
scars.
The result of treating 534 consec
utive cases of cancer of the lip by
radium showed that the overall
survival of life was 89.5 per cent
(about nine in every 10 cases) for
five years after treatment.
Dr. Burkell from his review of
these cases states:
1* Cancer of the lip can be cured
by radium treatment in a very
high percentage of cases provided
treatment is given early.
2. The choice of method in use
of radium is not important provided
careful care and planning are used.
3. Radium is not the treatment
of choice where neighboring glands
are involved.
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• • •
Tuberculosis is spread almost en
tirely by adults.
One treatment for epilepsy is a
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• • •
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