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Show EVER SO GAY, TT I Kathleen Norris Says: Diary Doesrt Have to Tell g Occurrences Should a Crippled Woman Marry? BU Syndicates fMUn WNU Earth-Shakin- By BAUKIIACE WASIIINGTON.The nation, and particularly the nations capital, where we are highly national and international-consciouis suffering as never before from the result of memories, good and bad. The Roosevelt epoch produced a rash of reminiscences 200 books about FDR, 32 of them just since his death. s, Currently wo have with us the Churchill war memoir, a they are called, although when I wa young and read "The Memoir of Sherlock Holme," I thought a memoir wa something printed after a man death. Of course Sherlock came back, o I uppose that legitimize the terminology. Jiary-keepe- r, Churchill wa a great wa hi a Samuel Pepy, whose tuff was so hot that the British n, government still hasn't released all of It. Franklin n Roosevelt ever kept" a Mere t a r y of the treasury made up for this lack. Henry Morgen-- . than assembled Hi diary. of volume about 350 page lach, totaling about 80 million rord. The task must have kept ihree stenographer a day working m relay. He had the diarle bound, some said at government expense, . ilthough I daresay he paid for It In die end. 900 Juin Lundl 8. Pierre, 8. Paul Greek Bought Berlits Rustem Bey (The book wai purchased In Paris, where the years record The entry was made In began. Washington.) While the ancient throne of Haps-bur- g waa receiving the blood bath that was to sweep a half dozen rulers Into oblivion I wa buying a Berlitz textbook for the purpose of studying some foreign language I have no idea which one except that it was one I never learned. Rustem Bey, I remember was the Turkish ambassador whom I had to Interview. In all Justice, It may not bo eng tirely the fault of my n that I didnt record the of the archduke. Nobody In America took the tragedy very seriously. At that time few Americans expected mnrh else from Europes royal families but assassinations er les respectable peccadlllss. I ought to have known better than that since I had been helping cover the French foreign office for the two years preceding. But I had been drenched with war talk over there and had shaken it off when I returned. . Europe almost Immediately shrank into a dreamy domain of picture-boomemory with no connection whatever with my work a day world, Later on, to be sure, there is evidence that I, on second thought, felt 1 hadnt done my diary Justice insofar as Ferdinand was conBut I always was feeling cerned. congenl-tala Eathar'a about my diary and never that way which atated "fine boy arrived about it doing anything I p. m." X may ay tha fine" la I said, keeps my diaries as This, of a proud Che natural exaggeration from having the slightest value parent who didnt know what ha other than to exude a somewhat iras In tor. conscious-strickeodor and re1 mind me that the good young daye At any rate, If tied against me; I have two outa were no better than those bad old inones Insofar as my habits and conhardly anything, even of mild terest, 1 or will be recorded on the duct wer concerned, for an honest faded pages of my journals, and diary certainly has to be well edittecondly, because I write such a ed to conceal ones true character. You note in its pages some high rile hand that I can decipher only a few line here and there myself. resolve or noble undertaking which was more Important to you at the My mother should have most of moment of recording than the openbad handwriting, for blame be my canal or the of Panama the ing fact for the lust aa aha la to blame election. In of a presidential that I ean write at all She was ahort year you read It over and a it as writer a unique terself end, are utterly unable to recall the was ha those good old days, she lightest thteg about the events a a stubby typewriter, possessed chronicled. known fttla affair, affectionately Sometimes my old diaries, even is "tha Bllck. though they record no event of great historical significance, sound Of coarse it wee quite Improper to expos quite timely. For example on Oca child of It was not tober 3. 1914: . ago to a typewriter. my mothers fault. Back In the "Not much doing. 1 dont aeem 90a, eome ef as werent vaccinatto be able to save my money." ed for anything but smallpox. I The Belgian . . . October I: waa too young to understand that eecretary appears, we consume at the time, and since typewriters quantities of beer and tells me his were ae rare aa porcelain bathlife story- - a bore, bnt business. tubs in a city of 80,000, who could (Just the weary routine of the guess their evB iaflueace? I supreporter) pose 1 oughtnt to accuse my parmy space is running Fortunately ents because I became teoraugh-- out. Nothing is more interesting tee typety inured to the use of to write or read about than oneself. writer long before I could balance Nothing is less interesting to anyone did my this a pencil,- and fad else. But I wish to prove my point, handwriting no good. namely, that no matter how ImporAt that time, what wa called tant may have been "Spencerian still was taught in the for the Churchills, the Marco Polos ichools of New York state, but very or the PluWchs. and perhaps few mastered it even without the therefore as harmful as Important, curlicues and shading of earlier mine was neither. And I marvel that any newslays. And Just as I was getting io I could make the wobbly "M's" man, press or radio, oho lives along-cam- o and the terrible in the midst of alarms, who "was a new Pbaroah to my scholastic there when- - most things hapEgypt and Introduced the vertipened and told at In breathless cal system;"' That was probably or microdetail via the copy-des- k where my uneducatlon really began. phone to millions of wide-eye- d I unlearned the Spencerian all readers ,or listeners would ever think of writing it down afterright, but I wa never able to go vertical. word. Note for instance a recent diary Nothing Important entry for June 5, 1947, which a It Eeer Entered brittle clipping of even date declares not only vibrantly but with But to get back to The least perfect Inexactitude "may go down it my illegibility., of. the entries in my in history as the day of the beginning of the real peace after World diaries Isnt really as Important a War II. the unimportance of their contents. (Lest you have forgotten, Let me Illustrate from one with that was the day Secretary of Stae worn leather cover which I have George C. Marshall proposed at at hand. It is dated 1914, a good Harvard university a new approach rehabilitation which year for a diary, but a bad diarv to European for the world. The record of war later became the Marshall plan, then E.R.P. and finally the eco day should have been chronicled nomlc cooperation administration of as the beginning dramatically Note my diary for that date: the end of an epoch, an epoch which A meeting of the Association breathed its last in the midst of ef Radio News Analyst. Kaltcn-bor- a another war. But did my record do to dinner. teatT Lets look at June 29, 1914. diary-makin- anas-ainatio- diary-keepe- k - O n diary-keepin- g re-au- lt pro-echo- hard-worki- diary-keepin- qa, diary-keepin- diary-keepin- Saddle NECANICUM. ORE. mountain has lost its rider. Teetering Rock has tottered from Its precarious perch without a trace. Teetering Rock, famed aa the most perplexing landmark in Oregon, was north perched atop Saddla mountain when the white man came to the Pacific northwest It would quiver at a baby's touch, yet withstood an assault of 50 CCC workers when they tried to pry the boulder from its mounts in top with stout poles. Hikers reported the disappearance of the rock. They said it apparently toppled from the rocky ledgo into a steep canyon. Soldier Wills Weekly Flowers Secret Love g RICHMOND, There is nothing in the loss of an arm to keep you from being a loving wife, a hajrpy mother, a successful woman, By KATHLEEN NORRIS HAS a girla who hasandlately perpainful manent disability the right to marry the man to whom she was engaged before the accident that has handicapped her? That is the question a New York state girl, Edith Wilson, asks me and she tells me the story. She was graduated from college four years ago, worked as a private secretary to a commercial artist, found herself talented as an artist, too, and at the same time fell In love with her employer. All this went like a roseate dream, and their wedding was all set. Then Edith was in a motor smash-up- ; Phil was driving, but it wa not Phils fault that a van, out of control, shot across the right-han- d lane and crashed Phil's car into a wall Edith woke up in a hospital and for some weeks, they fought to save the crushed elbow, but In the end It had to go and the right hand with it At first she took the blow, I gather, as a woman of strong character would, but it meant the cruel end of. all her hopes. She says now that she will not and cannot marry Phil; give him a crippled wife, a woman who is fated to be forever conspicuous because of that missing arm. Phil Still Loves Her When Phil tells her that it makes no difference in his love, she merely sighs. She knows in her heart that It does. Theirs would have been a successful business together, but a small one. Their borne would be Phil'a country atudlo. They had planned to cook meals, do housework together. Edith feels that that dream la aver. In her deapair she doesnt want to see Phil or to talk abont the past at all. She wants to get away, to earn her obscure living somewhere, far away from all the world she knew before Just to get awayl But how can she make a fresh start with only a left hand to help her? The future looks all dark and she wants disinterested advice. What would be the wise and right thing to do? The wise thing, I think, Edith, would be to put off that marriage for some time, perhaps a year. At 23 that is not too long to wait. Then during that time, go about your life as naturally as you can. Go back to the office, file letters, answer the telephone, lunch with Phil, try to make yourself in every way just what you were a few months ago. Ask him not to discuss future plans. Just to let you go ahead normally and get yourself adjusted. It may help you to remember that some thousands of your fellow Americans, almost all young men of about your age, are facing the same hard problem. Some are blind, some armless, legless, --some disfigured, some never to recover from even more serious nervous and mental disabilities. Quietly and bravely, because everyone forgets their sacrifices nd their , predicament, these men must make their way into a new world, must postpone their hopes of marriage, of home of their own. until they overcome . the new, unexpected difficulty that the war brought into their lives. Youll find that you can do an amazing lot with only on a hand. I know this because my own right arm was out of commission for eight weeks a few years ago, and COURAGE People commonly regard courage as a soldierly attribute ichich properly belongs on the battlefield. Due to the wide newspaper coverage of heroic deeds during wartime, most Americans associate synonymously courage with war. But courageous conduct exists bountifully in the daily lives of numerous Americans. Edith lost her right arm in an automobile accident. At the time she was very much in love with Phil and the .. catastrophy occurred shortly before they were to be married. PhU still his love for her but Edith feels that she toUl burden him inasmuch as she is now a helpless cripple. She wants to forget about marrying PhU, flee from everything associated with him and start her life anew. Miss Norris suggests that Edith postpone her marriage for a year during which time she should attempt to regain her former self and strive to adjust herpro-Jess- es self to her handicap. Two types of Edith may result from her attempt at self adjustment: One , a -- g, Virginia supreme court of appeals left it up to a dead soldiers heirs today to decide whether "one perfect rose1 would be sent each week to the girl he loved secretly and in vain. The court ruled that the $3,600 estate left by Valentine Browne Lawless was willed to all his heirs. When Valentine Lawless went to war he made a will which mentioned that some of the money should be In spent for a "special purpose. a letter to Edward Lawless be told the story of his hopeless love for Mildred Fitzpatrick, who never knew he loved her. The letter asked Edward to hava a florist send "one perfect rose to Mildred each Saturday before 10 a. m. She was never to be told who sent the flowers. She was only to have the pleasure of recejving them. Velentine Lawless died in a plana crash In Austria October 16, 1944, but the only girl he ever loved never got the koses. She did not know of Lawless strange request until last summer, when the case reached the courts. She is now a ... wished.- The Norfolk court had held that the soldiers estate was left to Ed- ward Lawless. Tills ruling was reversed by the appeals court It held that the estate should be divided among all heirs. Since the perfect rose request was not mentioned specifically in the will. It was left up to the heirs to decide whether to carry it out Womon Pens Book on Arctic Explorotion From N. Y. Home - NEW YORK. Miss Jeannette Mirsky, an attractive anthropologist who has never been north of Buffalo, has written a book on polar exploration that the critics hail as the best thing done on the Arctic. "No, I never steered a kayak or yelled mush to a husky," Miss MirBut I read the sky confessed. private journals of all the great ex- a ' car, cooked garden for a big family, wrote typewriter letters all slowly, of course, but with increasing easiness. You probably will decide to have an artificial arm, which is a real help. After a year your nerves will be plorers and that made me feel faquieter, you will have discovered miliar with every inch of the Arctic what you can do and what you wastelands." cant, and I hope you and Phil will Her typewriter explorations behave learned that even under the she said, back in 1934 when gan, to want circumstances you changed be married. Believe me, time will she was reading a daily newspaper. A habitual obituary reader, she work its usual miracle even with noticed that a famous Arctic exnothis blow. this stunning There had died, and went to the ing inthe loss of an arm to keep plorer for a further account of you from being a loving wife, a library his life. happy mother, a successful woman. The result was "To the Arctic, That is entirely your's to decide; which Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefans-so- n Yon can make your misfortune has called "the best thing ever your great advantage if through done. on northern exploration. The it yon grow - kinder, wiser, petite blonde spent eight hours a stronger, the sort of woman to day for four years, she said, reading whom other troubled spirits turn source material for the book. for help. If you rise above this dark time to happiness, concentrating your interest on the other Surgeon Rebuilds Face of members of your group and their 'Mouthless' Baby Girl affairs, you will begin by lifting the darkest shadow from their UNIONTOWN, PA. A dental surlives, right here and now. geon at Uniontown hospital here Most of us dont have to take s performed a series of delicate operations which are expected to.giyg, severe a trial. In so visible and concrete a form. But every one of us a baby girl born with its mouth has to face terrible reality sooner sealed completely, a chance for or later, every one of us has to normal life. The baby, weighing only four accept the thing we would have said wa completely unbearable, pounds, was normal In every are facing yours now. and it Is J?pect when born except that its np- for you to say whether the family's per and lower jaws were grown comment on Edith in the next few tightly- together. Feeding was acyears is going to be Poor thing, complished by a tube through its she's never gotten over jt and you nostrils can't blame her! It just gives you Examination bv showed or that the lower jaw was much too the blue to be with her! You never small, and had grown to the roof Ediths wonderful. think of it, she's so sweet and so of the mouth. There were no joints busy there isnt a man in town by which the jaw could swing that doesn't envy Phil his home and The baby was taken to the hoshis wife and his children. pital immediately after being born, rhe staff dental surgeon performed :wo operations. Lipstick for Blind Women Two veteran LOS ANGELES. In the first operation, the upper vaudeville trouper have Invented a and lower jaws were separated and device to aid blind women put their the tongue freed. The lower jaw was lipstick on straight. manipulated into position. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sylvester The second operation removed were walking down the street when excess tissue and completely freed blind they noticed a die jaw. Since then the joints have woman with smeared lipstick. They ieveloped and the infant can move then designed a metal case in the ber jaws freely. shape of a pair of lips, bowed on examinations have shown A on the bottom. top and atraight hat the tooth buds were not damblind girl merely has to fit the conIn the operation. Apparently tainer to the comers of her mouth aged ibo child will bavt normal teeth. I drove lunches -- u tiss so sweet and busy . . . Hoffwit wants, of course, is to be able to stop news and radio people who keep the people informed about him . . . Anything a congressman of his ilk wants kept secret is a good definition of news . . . Must be awful to be the editor of a screen fan mag and come out with a piece on the happy married life of Susan Peters . . . She just announced plans for a divorce . . Repartee during the heavy rains while you were dreaming: Reporter to Cop: dull night . . . Cop to "Terribly Reporter: Wonderfully dull night. An English critic named Dick Richards summed up a falling flicker with these scallions: "No Leave, No Love? No wit, no taste, no fun. No good, no like, no go. John Steinbeck recently turned out a book which was favorable toward the Russian people. It criticism of the Soviet The So wot happened? govt Russian newspapers attack Steinbeck accusing him of being inaccurate . . . Haw! . ! . An editorial writer grumbles that all would be honky-dool- y if we allowed Hitler and Stalin to slug it out while we concentrated on licking Japan . . . Such lunacy . . The Japs and Nazis If we fought on the same side hadnt fought Germany, Hitler would have won in Europe. That means we would have been forced to fight the Japs and NaziS minus . the aid of any allies Besides, we didnt have the choice of fighting or not fighting Germany which declared war against the soft-pedal- ... ... U. S. . . . Rememberrrrrr??? the Acts: A1 Jolson about rumors that he along with a certain Hollywood. "Its not true, he told a group. "Why, only last week I had him out to my pool trying to teach him bow to drown! Between was Irked didnt get actor in Add Success Stories: Bob Cooke, the Tribs new sports editor, ran copy there 10 years ago after graduating from Yale . . . Stanley Woodward, who was fired after being there since 1931, allegedly refused to cover a golf "tournament played by the wives of advertising A lot of fancy East big shots side restaurants are so worried about the slump in business they are slashing prices. ... Sallies in Our Alley: After his opening night click in a Ziegfeld follies, Mr. Z. congratulated Will Rogers: Youre probably the only Oklahoman lucky enough to be in said show business . . . "Gwan, Rogers, "everybody else in Okla. . . homa is in the oil business! A few minutes ago Irving Hoffman was asked if he knew a certain tune-thi. . . "Only by repetition, was the reply. ef Quotation Marksmanship: H. W. The better a woman Newton: looks, the longer a man does . . . W. Fay: Only a few strong characters ean leave a ringing tele, . Jack Kilty: phone alone Success is like an insult; very few people can take it . . . Fanny Hurst: . Children Jingling with laughter as though they had swallowed sleighbells . . . B. Parstreet as dark as a tridge: pockef Several months after John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln, his brother, Edwin Booth (one of the greatest thespians of all time), starred in For gala occasions, gala aprons, Easy needlework variety too. 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They are rich in vitamin C; simply valuable amounts of Bi and P. They alkalinize; aid digestion. Not too iharp or tour, lemon in water has a refreshing tang clears the mouth, wakes you up. Its not a purgative simply helps your system regulate itself. Try it 10 days US( CALIFORNIA JUNKST UMONS smYM cide t One ounce phn loop woke 6 OOitont of effective eph4 proy. y - insecti Kills by contact ubteJvty MI by fames. Destroys plont Ken but spares beneficial insects. Insist Sn'fHw factory-seale-d cost taints to mskrt full strength, TOBACCO CHfMICAl CORPORATION Stcotme Socialists Since I89f LOUISVIUI X KCNTUCKY 2222 "Hamlet. the opening night a drunk shouted: Hey, Booth! What are you going to do for excitement tonight, now that Lincolns dead! The actor flushed and didnt know how to reply . . . A knocked the heckler down and called to Booth: Sorry for the in terruption. Please go- on. .The defender was Robert Lincoln, Abes son. On spectator - PILES TROUBLE? 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He had a dictograph hi hia office, - sad every word spoken In the supposed sanctity of his chamber ha the treasury, ..overlooking the wide eweep of , lawn and park teat flow down to the Potomac, wan duly transcribed. When ten newt of this eplo achievement became public - a terrible howl reonltod and some of the volume were returned to the government archfve. Whst n man! r arc I wonder If lormaL 1 would bate to admit to a a psychologist test i hv kept decades. I even for years, tiary itlll keep one. I don't know how ItiU have long ago 1 atarted. but no alim, green volume, dated 1804, The year 1904 In my possession. (hat waa just 13 year after another mtry, not to my diary, but in my g Too Much, Falls Down Decision of Roses Left up to Heirs Do we find the entry: "YESTER-DAARCHDUKE FERDINAND WAS ASSASSINATED AT SARAJEVO? We do not We find this: Hi (diary-keepin- Teetering Rock Sways vsittrs 'net Analyst and Commentator Winston Tuesday, June 8, 1948 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGS TWO Headline: "ERP AlD WILL BE CUT OFF FROM ANY. NATION IN EUROPE THAT SHIPS WAR GOODS TO RUSSIA? Wazzamatta? Cant we stand the competition? The Late Watch: Reports that H Young deserted H. Wallace are not true. He is working for the Wallace campaign in Texas. His slogan is "Christ and Wallace . . . Decent of him to split the billing . . . Mrs. Alexander de Seversky, wife of the plane designer, is at Doctors hosp . . . Harry Conover wonders if Arhne Judge has tried putting all her ex in one basket . . . Libertys editor got a telegram from the reverend who merged Topping ancTTurner, offering an article on it! (Titled: "Why I Married Lana Turner.) Let us all pray for the preacher. Help Them Geatse the Blood of Harmful Body Waste Your kidneys art filtering waata matter from thaaonatantly blood stream. 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