The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 23, 1950, Image 3

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FATHER AND SON DIALOGUES #/j}OPPER, is gambling an evil?’* * “My son, I stopped answering that one after my last argument with mother over bingo." “But is it all something new in America?” “No.” “Then why is so much fuss being made over it all of a sudden by the V. S. senate and district attorneys' offices?” “Gambling has grown so big, my boy, that more people are paying attention to what horses are doing than to what congress is doing.” **The papers say the government is out to get the big racketeers who control gambling and corrupt law enforcement agencies. Can it do It?” “It depends on whether the prob ers are, as the racing sheets say, trying or just enjoying a workout.” • • • “Is it true that powerful ex gangsters, through millions of dollars at their control, bribe police, prosecutors, courts and politicians all over the coun try?” “The bigtime gamblers are so brasen about it they almost advertise it on airwave com mercials.” “But what about the people? Can*t they, as voters, stymie the gamblers by throwing out the corrupt officials?” “Easily, my lad.” “Then why don't they?” “Because they are indifferent, smug, lazy and more responsi ble for the crime situation than the gangsters.” “How so, popper?" “Because the gangsters are always energetic enough to work for an objective.” • • • “Popper, I read somewhere that gambling is in the blood of Ameri cans. Is that so?” “Yes, and they are in that respect terrific blood donors.” “Dan’t they realize gambling is bad for them?” “Only immediately after playing a bad hunch.” “What makes them gamble again?” “Another hunch.” ,• m • “If everybody gambles in one way or another why proceed only against the bigtimers?” “Because when an individual mpkes a bet he is only hurting him self or his family, while the big operators, mostly notorious law breakers, use vast sums to corrupt the very fibre of the country’s moral fabric. Now run out and play.” “But popper . . . .” “Scat! I’m already behind 15 minutes in my handicapping.” • • • TE GOTHAM BUGLE A BANNER Alfred Drake should have named •The Liar,” "Kiss Me, An anias” ... A nstdist camp in Pennsylvania has built an airfield. A super strip, obviously. Users of the field will come in on a wing and an oak leaf . . . Jitters are rumored at a height down in Florida among upper-setters who have been reported in on the big gambling "cuts?* down there . . . Mrs. Wilman Soss, bead of the federation of women stockhold ers, made a brave try to get a.. woman named on the board at the General Motors meeting, but didn’t get to first base. The auto world’s aversion to the back seat driver may be partly to blame, lady . . . . A Jersey chemist says that within a decade ways may be fottnd to prolong the average span of life to 120 years. That will give a fellow some chance of making the final payment on the icebon and sedan . . . The Broadway as sociation has come out for the or- {rest of jaywalkers who cross streets against the red light. Why? They are in much greater danger everytime they attempt to get across on the green, bub. • • • Edmund C. Berkley has invented a mechanical brain. It can add and subtract correctly. Washington will fight its introduction to the bitter end. • • • President Truman has decorated one Lloyd Reiser as the truck driver of the year. From our observation of truck drivers, we assume this one stopped on a red light, kept in line on a highway and slowed below 50 miles per hour in taking a dang erous curve. • • • They now say Your Host’s poor showing in the Derby was due to the fact he broke a tooth. **The skinner seemed to be wait ing for Hie dentist,” agrees Shudda Haddim. “In the stretch he eould of been read in’ Nation al Geographic.” • • • We will never consider the depart ment store slot machine perfect un til we can go up to a machine and get a pair of suspenders, a cup of coffee, a pjece of pie, a new neck tie and a chance on the jackpot Reader's Courtroom Curb Disservice Is But Isn’t * Samaritan Sues By Will Bernard, LLB. State laws vary. For personal ruidance. see vour local attorney. If a Roller-Skater Trips In the Street, May He Hold the City Liable? One spring day, a boy decided to skate to school instead of walking. Finding the sidewalk too rough, he went into the street and began skating along the curb. Soon he came to a little patch of sand, which had been left there by a city construction crew. The sand clogged his skates, and down the boy went. Injured, he sued the city for “leaving the street in such a dangerous condition.” But the court turned down his claim. The judge said that the city must keep the streets safe for ordinary use, by pedestrians and motorists, but not for roller-skating. • • • If a Woman Supports Her Husband, Is She the "Head of Family?" In the course of a criminal trial, the defense lawyer rose to make an objection. “Your Honor,” said he, “There is a technical mistake in the documents in this case. The scene of the crime is described as *the home of John Jones’ — and that’s wrong. It should say ‘the home of Mrs. John Jones’, because she is really the head of the family. She not only pays the bills but also is the undisputed boss of the household.” To prove his point, file lawyer put Mrs. Jones on the witness stand—and she frankly ad mitted her domestic supremacy. Bnt the court overruled the law yer’s objection. The judge said that, when husband and wife live together, the man is legally con sidered the head of the family— even though he actually isn’t! • • • If You Get Hurt Answering A Call of Distress, May You Collect Damages? The landlord of an apartment building lifted a trap door in the basement to repair some pipes— and then forgot to replace it. That evening, the laundress fell into the shallow pit. Though not injured at all, she let out a piercing shriek of terror. One of the tenants rushed down to help her—and he fell in too! The tenant fractured his leg, and later sued the landlord for damages. At the trial, the land lord argued: “The basement was dark at the time. Therefore, when this man went down there, he should have waited a moment until his eyes got used to the darkness. If he had, he wouldn’t have gotten hurt.” However, the court ruled in the tenant’s favor. The judge said a person can’t be expected to move with normal caution, when answer ing a call of distress. • • • Is it Your Own Fault If You Fall off a Cliff? A high-school boy decided to explore a state park near his home. Following the arrows toward a “scenic view,” he clambered down a steep and rocky ledge that led to a narrow path on the side of a 20- foot cliff. But when he got to the path, he couldn’t stopr—and went right over the cliff. Injured, the boy filed suit against the state for damages—under a law authorizing such claims in cases of negligence. State officials argued that the boy had only himself to blame for losing his footing, but the court ordered the claim paid. The judge said that such a dangerous spot should have had warning signs or guard rails to protect the unwary public. » • • A house in a congested neigh borhood caught fire, and the flames spread swiftly to several other buildings. To prevent a gen eral conflagration, the mayor of the town ordered the dynamiting of the next house in the path of the flames—and the firemen carried out his order. This helped stop the blaze, but it made the owner of the house very angry. In fact, he later sued the mayor for the value of the building. However, the court turned down the citizen’s claim. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Uncle Charlie and Leopard Had Much in Common; They Both Preferred Lunch to Love—Or Did They? By BILLY ROSE Some weeks ago when the newspapers front-paged the story of the leopard which strolled back into its cage after being AWOL for three days, a lot of people wondered whether it returned because it was hungry or because it was lonely for a certain lady leopard in the next enclosure. It so happened that around the same time, by a strange double- take of destiny, my Uncle Charlie also went on the prowl, and his re turn a few days later raised the identical question on the lower East Side—was it lunch or was it love? It all began when my Aunt Frieda got the social bee in her babushka, joined the Delancey Street chapter of the Daughters of Deborah, and went off to Atlantic City for its annual con vention. Knowing Charlie for what he was—a man with his feet in the clouds and his head on the ground —Frieda began to worry that he’d get ptomaine from eating a tainted blintz in a restaurant, and so one afternoon she boarded a bus and made a quick trip to New York to see if everything was all right. “YOU MISS ME, Charlie?” “Why should I miss you—you’re here. What gives in Atlantic City?” “In Atlantic City is giving speeches,” said my aunt. “Tomor row we are deciding about the hy drogen bomb, yes or no.” “In such a case, you better go right back,” said my uncle. “Bye- bye, and don’t take no wooden knishes.” On the street, Frieda met a gos sipy neighbor who said, ”Wben Billy Bose is away the cat, is playing the mice—and they ain’t playing kla- biash.” ’’You are implicating my Charlie is a rat?” ”Rat, schmat! Ask the widow Greenhouse.” A bit shaken, Frieda posted her self inside the candy store across the street, and when Charlie, wear ing lowed him—and sure enough, he high-stepped down the block to the home of Mrs. Greenhouse. Now, if this were a movie, our heroine would hold her tongue for six reels of misunderstanding and suspense—but Frieda was never one for slow emotiofk. She waited a jit tery five minutes, rang the widow’s bell and barged right in when she saw Charlie sitting In front of a mound of chopped liver big enough to feed the four Marx Brothers. “Pull up a chair,” said the wid- *Tm not doubting,” said my aunt. “From the medicine chest is miss ing a full box bicarbonate.” • • • ON THE WAY BACK to their flat, Frieda got right down to cases. “What is between you and Mrs. Greenhouse?” she asked. “Strictly a cash arrangement,” said Charlie. “Seven suppers for 10 dollars.” “You can’t pull the wool behind my back,” said my aunt “Just to eat, a man does not take a bath and wear a whole flowershop in the but tonhole.” ”1 am also enjoying her com pany,” my uncle admitted. ”On , wmatton.” c^r^r^hetot ’%%,!!***’ r " "If for widows you got such a liking,” said Frieda, "I could may be become one myself.” When they reached home, Frieda pulled the pin out of her hat “To morrow,” die announced, “is roast duck 6n the menu. Monday it'gives sauerbraten; Tuesday, chicken with mandlen soup.” “The widow makes a grade-A goulash,” needled by uncle. “Let her make,” said my aunt “and let her eat.” And that ended Charlie’s life on the loose and Frieda’s career as a clubwoman. lAs for the question: “Is love or lunch more important to the male animal?”—well, the leopard is dead ow. “I got a pot roast you could cut it with a fingernail.” Frieda sniffed. “To me, it smells like a boiled beef what boiled too long.” “Is that so?” said Mrs. Green house. “All week your husband is enjoying.” and my uncle isn’t talking. By INEZ GERHARD D AN SEYMOUR, despite his busy radio and television schedule, still manages to find time to lend a helping hand to those in need. The emcee of NBC’s “We the People,” CBS’s “Sing It Again” and other programs has accepted the invitation of the National Cancer Foundation DAN SEYMOUR to be the national chairman of its 1950 fund drive. This on top of his active participation with the Boy’s Clubs of America and other public organizations. And Seymour has no intention of being merely an honorary chairman and letting other people do the work. He’s busy as a beaver, lining up to peoples in all fields to act as his assistants; they’re accepting gladly. THE FICTION CITY COPS CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson I Bonita Granville plays the piano in Eagle-Lion’s “Guilty of Treason,” and actually plays! No off-stage double performs for her, as is us ually the case. Originally she in tended to be a concert pianist; ex perienced musicians say she easily could become one now if she would give up her .motion career and buckle down to practising and studying. •VE INVESTIGATED some queer cases but the jewel robbery up at River’s End Lodge topped them alL Tracy and I were dumb; we’re ready to admit that, but, after all, we’re city cops not primi tive wilderness natives. The reason we were called in was because Homer Liver more’s wife had lost $50,000 worth of gems, and neither she nor Homer trusted or had faith in Eben Jackson, the local constable. Jackson met us at the station, and it wouldn’t take a sleuth to see he was sore at the Livermores. “I’ll show yon what I al ready found out,” he told us briefly, “then let you smarties dope out the rest.” He took us up to the lodge and showed where a ladder had been placed against the house. Then he allowed the tluef had probably taken his loot and skun off in the woods to hide. Then Tracy had an idea. “If we gotta browse around through the bushes we ought to have a native guide.” Eben recommended Bronco Pete, who, it seemed, was a guide who didn’t have enough money to buy a license for himself, hence wax' out of work. We explained our pre dicament to him and he shrugged indifferently. Then Tracy flashed a $20 bill and he changed his mind. He took the twenty, and a prom ise of two more after a week’s work, and went away. He came back the next morning dressed up in new high-laced boots, riding breeches, a checked shirt and a big hat. He was mighty proud, and Eve Arden, winding up her stint in Warners’ “Tea for Two,” has both eyes on Broad way. Richard Whorf has written a comedy about life in a Boston boarding house, “The Birds Were Up All Night;” she wants to play in it. The newspaper plant operated by Macdonald Carey in the Pine-Thom- as in “The Lawless,” which is wrecked by a mob, was a real one. Bill Pine, on location, saw that it was what he wanted, told the own ers he’d have to wreck it for the picture, but would rebuild it after ward. They agreed. So he went ahead with scenes in the plant, it was wrecked, and he had it re paired, for $25,000. Mary Murphy has also hit the road to stardom—perhaps. Until recently she was wrapping parcels in a swank shop in Beverly Hills; she’d come to Hollywood from Cleveland in 1942. Now she has signed a long-term contract with Paramount. John Close, as doorman at Grau- man’s Chinese theater some years ago, spent his evenings handing ticket stubs to John Garfield and other Hollywood celebrities. Now he’s playing an important role op posite Garfield in “The Breaking Point.” It’s his third picture. He is a Los Angeles boy, a graduate of Hollywood High, where he appeared in class plays with Alexis Smith. He was mighty proud, and looked like the pictures you see of northwoods guides. looked like the pictures you see of northwoods guides. Well, sir, we started out We trekked through the woods for a whole day. Then Bronco Pete led us to a deserted shack. Outside we found a set of fresh footprints, the heels of which were marked with a common iron cleat. “Chances are,” said Eben, “if we find the owner of these here boot-marks we’ll have us the thief. I seen tracks like that around the lodge beneath the window.” Pete set off through the brush like a hound on the scent. Tracy and I followed wearily. Pete led us straight back to the lodge, and there, sure enough, were marked footprints beneath the bedroom window. “The thing to do,” Eben told us, “is for you two nannies to make yourselves comfortable in the shack, an’ nab the thief when he comes home.” r r WASN’T a pleasant prospect, but it seemed like the only bet. So Tracy and I bought ourselves some supplies, and moved into the shade. The third day, Eben dropped around to see how we were doing. We told him in no uncertain terms, and if he wanted to spell us for a day we’d split the reward. “Mean it?” he said. “Sure we mean it You lay your hands on the thief, you get $2500 cash.” ^, “Come with me,” he said. He took us directly to the jail and pointed through the bars at a prisoner. Bronco Pete. Well, sir, this was it: Brenco had committed the theft al} right, but it didn’t do him much good, because he coudn’t dispose of the jewels. Nor could he spend the $50 in cash he'd swiped along the rocks, because he hadn’t worked for months, and to do so would have aroused suspicion. Then we came along and advanced him $20 and he bought himself a new outfit with it, including a new pair of boots with cleat marks on the heels. Eben was suspicious because he knew you couldn’t buy a fancy cos tume like Pete had for less than $50. But Eben let us go ahead with the case, as per the request of the Livermores, till we got fed up; till, in fact, we offered to split the re ward. Vr:;- NEW OUTFIT . . . Home from Europe for a brief stay before she left for the Wimbledon ten nis matches, Georgeous Gussie Moran poses coyly with a sketch by Balmain of Paris of a new tennis outfit. This Is Your Paper Advertising Is Integral Part By William R. Nelson A dvertising is as much a part of American newspapers as the paper upon which they are printed. Without advertising this newspaper would be a very different publ s ca tion. Not only would it be less in teresting, but it also would cost subscribers considerably more. Advertising is commercial news. It is as valuable to readers as every other feature of a newspaper. It is so interesting, in fact, that there are papers in many cities devoted exclusively to advertising. The commer- Important cial and pro to fessional a n- People nouncements of this communi ty’s business’ civic and professional people are important to all who live here. They are also timely cross- sections of the needs, interests, hopes and desires of the people at this locality. In some communities there are those who apparently do not fully grasp the importance of the role advertising in the home town paper plays in their daily lives. There are merchants, for example, who seem ingly do not realize that failure to acquaint people with their goods and services handicaps both the store and its customers. Those who advertise in this or any other newspaper actually rent space in which to publish their own, generally commercial, news. The space is the property of the news paper. That has been confirmed by court decisions upholding newspa pers in their refusals to provide space for certain advertising uses. Space rented Source for advertising of is the principal Revenue source of rev enue to virtual ly all newspapers. Such revenue makes possible delivery of the pa per to subscribers for less than the actual cost of the blank paper in each copy. The use to which advertisers put the space they rent is of equal im portance to the community as a whole. Advertising is the lubricant that keeps the commercial machine of the community functioning at maximum efficency. Advertising id the home town newspaper is a sound investment, like buying a bond so a school can be built. The advertiser gets direct return in more business and good will, and the community benefits from the information. m mm LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ACROSS 1. Mountain pass (India) 5. Line of junction 9. Method of learning 10. Otherwise. 11. Papal letters 12. Corrodes, as iron 14. Singularity 16. Slat 17. King of Bashan (Bib.) 18. Sweet potato 20. Eskimo tool 21. Oversee 24. Young hen 26. Rowing implement 28. Obtained 29. Little parcel 32. Largest continent 35. Skill 36. Loose-hang ing point 38. Two (prefix) 39. One of the apostles 41. Sloping timber of roof 44. Hillside dugouts 46. Scorches 47. Combining form mean ing Indian 48. Nymph (Persian myth.) 49. Tax (Scot.) 50. Spirit lamp DOWN 1. Resentment 2 Contain 3. A king who marries Gudrun (Norse myth) 4 Fretful 5- Varying weight (Ind.) 6 Jewish month 7 Onslaughts 8. Courage 11. Foot covering 13. Close 15. Bark 19. Drinking cup 22 A dreamy, pensive composition (Mus.) 23 Transport by relays (Ind.) 25 Larva of eye-thread worm 27. Color 29. 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When God said, “Preach to Nineveh,” Jonah decided' that was the very thing he did not want to do. ] When God said, in , effect, “Be a mis- I sionary,” Jonah thought he would rather be a tourist. CM all the prophets on record, Jonah was the peevish one. The remarkable and little beok of Jonah is the most misunderstood *k in the Bible. Nobody ink has ** ' the whale (wkn», was net a whale bat a fish!), Jonah Is not about wholes at all. It Is about taking the God to the la the world; it Is the story of how the very people who ought to be doing it, sometimes won't do It. o • o Does God Care? fvONSIDER the good reasons Jonah w might have given for not going to Nineveh. They are like the rea sons people give nowadays for not believing in foreign missions. (A mission to Nineveh was about as foreign a mission as any (me could have thought of. In those days. 'A So they Assyria, of which the capital city, weald do Israel The Ninevites were an unscrupu lous, greedy people. They knew no law but force. They spread by vio lence into many a country. They were the nation nobody loved. Should the message of God be ven to such a city? Jonai city? Jonah thought not; God said it should. And of course God was right. If the message of God had been sent only to peoples and nations that “deserved” fe^ch a favor, God’s messengers would all have stayed at home. • • • Too Far Frokn God R EASON number two: Nineveh is a long way off. Indeed it was. To reach Nineveh, Jonah would have to pass through at least a dozen other cities, all of which no doubt needed preach ers. Were there not enough people at home who needed preaching? Of course there were . . . Only Jonah did not preach to them. He had a wonderful missionary opportunity there on the ship. Every man of the crew was a heathen. But Jonah was fast asleep. This is often too true. People will protest about foreign mis sions: why send preachers and doctors and teachers and mon ey so far away? Aren’t there plenty of heathen right at home? Of coarse; bat yon won’t often find the objector to foreign mis sions doing much about it. Any church that is awake and active in supporting foreign mis sions will be found to be just as alive and intelligent in meeting the problems of the neighborhood. • • • Judge The World R EASON number three: (This sounds like a silly reason, but Jonah actually put it forward— Jonah 4:2.) God is too good! What was the use of preaching to Nineveh, Jonah wanted to know, if God was going to be gracious and not de stroy the city with fire from the sky? If God is good and merciful, why should we bother about sending missionaries anywhere? Won’t he save every one any how? Isn’t God too good to judge the world? Jonah overlooked the fact that God had mercy on the Ninevites because they repented. Nowhere in the Bible is there any encourage ment to believe that God has mercy on the unrepentant To all who turn to him, God is gracious; and the job of the missionary, what ever else he does, is to persuade people to turn to God. “Be, ye rec- conciled to God,” said Paul, the great Christian missionary. If' rebels will not lay down their arms, how can there be an amnesty? ^ The great tragedy of Juda ism is the tragedy of Jonah: God wanted his people to win the world; bnt they became in grown, they ceased even to wish to be a missionary faith. Shall the same tragedy over take Christianity? ci."3 p S33o5 St ^ Education on behalf of r— ommationa. Reieaa eaturea.) 40 Ft^catent a denominations. rv sv!".' They’re Easy >U CAN SEW these little clothes for no time at all. 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