Show Henry Mclemore NEW YORK Without a badge magnifying glass lass gumshoes or any of the other standard equipment of the sleuth I have turned detective From now on just call me Nero Lord Peter Arsene Sherlock Hercule Philo McLemore short I mean Because I Im I'm m on the trail r My quarry is that slippery elusive shadowy spreader of r rumors ors reports ports lies hes and misinformation misinformation tion known as they Its It's a tough Job No one has haser r rever ever er seen they No one has is ever et e heard the voice of they No one knows where they J lives fives or the habits of they ev- ev i Yet apparently they theY is ever everywhere ev ev- er Where 1 On buses trolleys in the barbershop bar bar- on the street corner 5 1 in the stores at the homes of friends they they is quoted by millions millions mil mil- lions of persons in this country every e day They has been with us for fora a long time but since the war with ith Japan broke out they has doubled tripled and quadrupled quadrupled quadrupled quad quad- in activity McLemore They say our Pacific fleet has been r ruined ined and ind will never be any good again f They say a Japanese aircraft is only a few miles off Boston They say that Manila will fall within two weeks They say German pocket battleships are in the Atlantic And so on and on and on For some unknown reason what they say is Sa accepted as gospel fact by thousands of Americans Americans Amer Amer- Without stopping to ask where they got the information Americans gallop off to repeat the misinformation in other ears and the owners of those ears in turn gallop off to fill still other ears ears with the news news They They is accepted as the best informed sources in all the world Not only does they have access to more information cone concerning concerning our armed forces than the heads of our government but it in constant touch with Tokyo Berlin Rome Vichy Moscow and all way places They knows how much oil Japan has stored away now many ships it has in the Pacific where Hitler will strike next how Turkey feels about the axis and what is going on in the mind of that sterling patriot Charles Augustus Lindbergh Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind Lind- bergh as he scans the sky for enemy planes between between be be- tween chapters of The Wave of the Future What does they look like mee Well to judge from present operations of that shadowy body it must have buck teeth wear rimmed horn-rimmed glasses stand about five feet two or three and sport a pair of weak almond eyes At least that must be its current disguise because because because be be- cause what little fear and doubt and jitters this country has shown since war was declared is largely the result of oP they say this and they say that reports The president has warned us against placing any stock in n what they they says He has asked us to turn deaf ears cars to whisperings and rumors and wait walt until the government which will hold nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing back bacle save information that might help the enemy gives us the honest to goodness lowdown The least that any citizen can do is to comply with this request It won wont won't t be easy for all of us since childhood have had what they ay drummed into our ears You know know Eat Eat your br bread ad crusts Nancy because because because be be- cause they say it will make your hair curl Dont Don t drink milk mille along with your fish They say it is bad for you I dont don't know what luck I will have down this rascal You can help me a lot though by asking every time you hear they say just who they is When I 1 finish this job I aim to sleuth around and find out how Burton K Wheelers Wheeler's s new backbone backbone backbone back back- bone fits him Ham Fishs Fish's too They chances are they still chafe the gentlemen a bit they having been acquired overnight Distributed by Syndicate Inc |