Show St S 1 7 71 1 LOn LOnI I ewar t S I THIS STORM TOO MUCH FOR By Charles P Stewart NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON Jan 7 7 One of our leading admirals took me out outto outto to the naval research laboratory on the other side of the Potomac not long ago to see some scientific experimental work In progress there Just what It was has nothing to todo todo todo do with the story I didn't understand under under- understand understand stand It anyway The point is that the admiral admiral is very much Interested in it and wanted to to stir up a little publicity In its behalf with a view to ex- ex extracting ex extracting enough money from congress con con- congress con congress gress to develop elop it still farther The laboratory is clear to hell hell- hell the other side of and we ought to have traveled by auto but the admirals admiral's car was repairs I haven't got one I I didn't like to foot toot a taxi bill billon billon billon on an expedition I wasn't particular particular lar Interested in and the admiral I knew If it he did It that Raymond McCarl the comptroller general would disallow It So we tool too a street car We rode and we rode and finally we wet j carne came to the end of the line Now we gotta get a g gasoline I wagon said the admiral Hey he called to an African youth standing alongside a venerable flivver nearby the street car ter- ter terminus terminus ter terminus minus Can Can you take take us to the i naval laboratory You know where I It is sal said the sene Sene- gambian Sene-gambian I gambian This flivver was of the model of the early It was fastened together with wire A number of the parts were missing entirely I The wheels threatened to come off in fact It had asthma asthma It It had the blind staggers It had paresis It had everything I I To the laboratory from the place where we e took that derelict Is I down hill hIlI nearly all the way a way thundering long hill hill hill-a a mountain a a heck of a sleep steep one and one and crook crook- crooked crooked ed I-a I The Ethiopian Ethiopia steered his wreck to the top of ot the slope and took i i the cork out Gravity did the rest I Cripes Crapes worried the admiral In the back seat with me asye as rye ye gathered speed This roads road's nar- nar narrow nar narrow row Look a a those ditches both skies sides ot of us Why do they crown these country roads the way they do Oi oJ oil ol he almost had us over overLook overLook overLook Look a those wire barb-wire fences both sides of us Gee I wish I 1 had the nerve to tell that to go slower Hed He'd think Im I'm scar scar- scared scared ed though And aint I We e took a sharp curve on two wh wheels els Far down the road ahead of us loomed a huge navy motor truck From the rear red lag flag fluttered Cluttered Slow bell beIl Slow bell yelled the admiral Great gosh Explosives Explosives Explosives Like an aviator falling ailing from a great height without without-a without a parachute with wilh incredible velocity we gained on the obstruction obstruction Now lost to all sense of shame Full speed astern from the admiral brakes brake's no good he ob- ob observed ob observed served placidly Well Yell we missed that truck by bythe bythe the breadth of ot a hair to a chorus though only one voice furnished It of ot Port Hard o 0 port port Port yr helium and landed alive at atthe atthe atthe the the naval laboratory You can go home as you please said the admiral as we got out Im going to take an airplane |