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Show mUt "Say! What's He Got That We Haven' t Got? PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1944 Editorial ... . Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind the about thy neck; write them upon the table of thin hearts Proverbs 3.3. j It is said that truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished. Livy. The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By Drew Faron Col. Robert . Allan on actio duly) WASHINGTON Last week, this columnist made a million dollars. Furthermore, I didn't have to pay an income tax on it. But it was not easy money, for I had to sit for two weeks on the hard benches of a court room, hearine mvself called Easter's message Of eternal hope for the all sorts of names by attorneys for the man who world holds greater meaning than ever lorilives in the famous "big red house on R. street. The Spirit of Easter all of us this year. Through the iignt ior freedom which lies before us, we must have deep-rooted spiritual courage and steadfast f;V fVio trnnA fnr which we fieht. We J Cli VI I a I 1 liiv ft v - - w wish to give In other words I was being sued for a million dollars by John P. Monroe, the war-contract lobbyist lob-byist who sprang into fame just a year ago with his dinner parties for Secretary of the Navy Knox. we must give, the fullest j senators, and army and navy officers at his red measure Of support. In these Crucial days house on R street. At the end of two endless each of US has a very real, personal need for weeks, the jury, after only thirty minutes, brought Almighty guidance, the kind of guidance, in a verdict for the defendants. So I was in one that can be obtained by attendance at church i million dollars. to receive the renewed Strength that is ' The victory was won by the fact that the ar- Easter's shining promise to those Who listen icics complained of were true and that Washing- for its message of hope Prayers for our men and women in service, serv-ice, prayers for the victory of the Allied powers, these are prayers from our hearts. But the message of Easter has broader tonians, of which the twelve good men and true were representative, are fed up with the various J breeds of lobbyists who feed at the war-contract' trough. Credit for the able presentation of the de-! fens goes to attorneys Spencer Gordon and Edgar i TIP WrMk dimensions. This is an master season m. lUMmguin. , which we should give thoughtful considera-i John Monroe, the man who thought I owed him: tion to the better world that is the goal of a million dollars, is a likeable cuss and I bear; -n, 1 1 T 4 I, rui en i f illim Tf nftlir, T Vi o A mala. . - . 1. ; . , , OUr War. this HjaSLer Dlings uie Jiuot UJ- ; " .......v. . mn mm unui ine aay riHo-hter horizons, ror VUqhi gnu ihst VYlivuww " Ti Tl 1 T- T 1 CoprrtKM. 144. By Robert D. Lu.b XEA Scrticr, lac. i entered me court room, but now I can under-j stand why people enjoy going to his parties. But regardless of charm, when a man is as busy a3 a bird dog drumming up war contracts, then' the public has a right to know about his activities, j I am glad to say that the Washington Post,! co-defendant for an additional $350,000 felt like-1 wise and agreed to take the ordeal of two wcks this Dromise we can give thanks together. Toward the realization of this promise we can gain new inspiration by joining together on Easter Sunday. For this year, of all years within living memory, the real spirit of Eastertide is wnrl-inp in the hearts of men its hope, its assurance of the triumph of good over evil.; in court rathr than publish a retraction All over the civilized world, in great .cities, ,MISXAKES admitted and corrected j in the bombed, ruined towns of England, ! France Italy, in jungle chapels, free peopie. yi course, mis coiummst. being subject to the fl?"- of human nature, has made mistakes. are vunmm w"-1""" . . . V, , , i sometimes i nave writ miracle of mankind s history, ah oer me world, men and women are assembling to pray for victory and peace. written tinners about nonnlp which were wrong, or which created an erroneous! impression, but I have tried to correct this afterwards. after-wards. I Recently, for instance, I said that the OPA 1 had indulged in Iowa politics in appointing Rae j Walters as an OPA regional administrator. I i 'find that Walters is a real top-notcher and, though1 ; he was plucked from the bottom of a civil serv- j ice list and nut on ton. that is iustifiaVii nh Major Austin's Resolution 'Til never be a smug Vermonter again. Mai. Edward L. Austin wrote to his father, ; man is really worth it. il. oafnr frnm Wrmnnt. feometime ago. also. I made a mistake about me cnwi ..vw . a navaI captain who was raisins; hosrs at Camn Major Austin made this resolution after jpry. Va, and although i talked toth caPS Seeing the tank-destroyer battalion Which heifirst. I apparently misunderstood him and gave the! commands in action On the American beach-erroneous impression that the hogs were being! head in Italy. There were real cowboys and ZJ!n t2- feal Indians in the outfit. 1 here were also (patriotic, straight-forward officer, doing a real job boys from The Bronx, State-ofMainers. , for his country. But I take this opportunity to re-Pennsvlvahia re-Pennsvlvahia factory workers, and lads from Pat the correction, and to say again that the hog- miHTractprn farm's I"""1 " aa 1UI oeni'in 01 mc navy. I In its first action against, enemy tank, 'ta,t; the battalion took a toll of Tigers and Mark His charm, his energy, his mental adroitness. IV'S that played a major part in stopping specially his contacts with officials, are legitimate the big Nazi-counter-attack of mid-Febru-, mdlLcrs Ior PUD'1C comment. Rrv. : DINNER PARTIES CONTINUE It seems likely that there are thousands j H, jg Bti, carr.ng on jn reccnt m of American soldiers Who, Consciously or ;has ensconced himself in the home of Admiral Krn- otherwise, have taken a VOW similar to .Major , est King, commander of the U. S. fleet and highest Austin's. Most of us have a bit of the "smug Vermonter" in us. no matter what part of ranK nr orricir in the nw t . . a -j " ain ouir Lllu l U " miral King does not know it, because the Admiral the country we hail from. The average rotomac, but Mr. Monroe has' hern known to call 'American (like the average person of any i up prospective clients and have thrm meet him: nationalitv) Sticks pretty close to home andlat Admiral King's home, where they are received' bis own kind in thinking, however much hejf;Mrs- Eleanor Hempstead, the Admirals daugh-j may have traveled. Generally speaking, the I ' Als0i Monroe.s dinner partj appear to be as southerner Still distrusts the damyankee. (successful as ever. A recent guest list included' Brooklyn native looks down his nose at the iMlss Fior Tmjiiio. daughter of the dictator of the farm Knv - ; Dominican Republic. Senator and Mrs. Dennis: ittiiu uvy. ,.r,;t-Chavei: of Xew Mxico. broad-pauged conpressmanl The army affords a wonderful opportunity :and Mr John Coffpp nf XVnHhinttnn ON TIIE move again XIV iQLD JAN," I asked, "will you answer a very private question?" "Fire away," he said. "Do you believe in God?" 'Well, now that is a question," he replied slowly, "and, as you say, a private one. Do I believe in God?" t He was silent for a minute. He tilted back in bis chair. Finally he said: "Look up there in the sky and tell me what you see." It was one of those summer nights in the high plains when the skies are gloriously crowded with brilliant points of light. "Stars," I replied, r "How many do you think there are?" "Millions, I suppose." "Well," said Old Jan, "I didn't put them there. John D. Rockefeller Rocke-feller didn't put them there. Edison Edi-son didn't have anything to do with it. Why, even the Denver Post couldn't claim credit for it. They must have been put there by someone bigger than any of us human beings, so they must have been put there by God. Yes, Little Jan, it would be a pretty foolish, conceited man who didn't believe in God. But don't ask me to describe Him to you. I just know that Some Power exists, a Power greater than man, that we call God." "Did He create you, too, Old Jan?" "Well, I don't know whether I'm important enough for God to spend His time creating, but I know that He created the human race, or at any rate He created the situation from which the human hu-man race emerged. And the system sys-tem He established made possible my creation." T STARTED to ask another question, but he stopped me. "Wait a minute there, young fellow," he said. "You're dishing out some pretty fancy questions for a boy your age. Let's make it simple. "I believe in God, and I believe in man. I believe in the brotherhood brother-hood of man as it was preached two thousand years ago. I believe be-lieve in man and the brotherhood of man, because I have to if I want to believe in myself. I may get pretty disgusted with some people some of the time, and with myself, too, but I have to believe in people because I am a part of them." By this time he had forgotten ail about his audience, its age, its immaturity. "No sane man can do other than believe in God, in the brotherhood of man, in people. That is why our country, America, is so wonderful won-derful and the principes on which it is founded so important, so very important, because this country believes in the people, all of the people. Here in America the wise men who laid down the principles prin-ciples of our government made possible the greatest forward sweep ever in man's progress. For they made possible the self -development of the individual, and, through the individual, the group. "It may not always work out perfectly, but as long as the principles prin-ciples of free government are preserved pre-served it has a chance, and it has the best chance of any plan devised de-vised by man." "Is that," I asked, "why you told Judge McNamara that you were for the jury system even though it didn't do so good by you?" "America," the immigrant farmer farm-er said in reply, although the words did not seem to be directed at me, "is part of my deep be liefs and convictions. Yet it, today, to-day, is making a mistake. America Amer-ica is founded on the principles of men's brotherhood, yet it is seeking to limit that brotherhood selfishly. It is operating on the theory that that brotherhood can flourish in one part of a modern world and be denied the rest. It is a serious mistake. It will have to be corrected. "And what am I doing about it? I am like Tolstoy's peasant who was asked what he would do were he to learn that he would die that night. " 'I would plow, the peasant replied. "That is what I am doing plowing: It's not much, but it's something. And you can't go wrong plowing." He sat quietly for several minutes. min-utes. Then he started laughing, grabbed at me and 6houted: "Say, what is- this, anyway? You just started me talking eo you could stay up later. Well, school's out. Class is over. Get to bed." QUR visit with my grandfather in the summer of 1923 was our last for more than three years. Dad and mother and I kept moving mov-ing farther away from Colorado. In three years time we went from Kansas City to Racine to Terre Haute to Cleveland. Each job looked a little better to my father than the one he left; each city offered of-fered greater opportunities. But the greener pastures invariably had their drawbacks, which Dad was quick to discover. In a few months he could see nothing but the weeds, the stones, the bare spots. It was never my Dad's fault. It was always the boss who was shortsighted or stingy; or the car. which was really just a pile of junk and no one could sell 6uch a crate; or the other salesmen, who horned in on a guy's deals; or the town, which stank and he'd be damned if he'd live here the rest of his life if they gave him the city hall and the courthouse and the whole damn works. So we moved, and my grandfather's grand-father's letters followed us as we pushed eastward. (To Be Continued) to get over such insular attitudes. Dodpring the same bullets, sharing the same ditch, facing the same flak in a bomber teaches tolerance. When men live the same life and face the same dangers, they begin to judge each other according to character, rather than accent, religion, education, or the size of their civilian salaries. berause they were curious. Congressman Compton oi laano, a memDer of the Brazilian embassy, em-bassy, the society editor of the Washington Times Herald, a meat packer from New York, a member mem-ber of the war petroleum administration, and several sev-eral others. Monroe opened up a conversation by callinp attention to the speech delivered that day by Senator Sen-ator George, calling this columnist a "liar." ivoori speech. commented the man on n Forum and Agin' Em--- Letters to the Editor There are manv, of course, whose in- street, -r wrote it." grained prejudices will not be touched bv anv, "Well, if you did write it." shot back Senator of these factors. But if only a small minor-1 k? Jl"i1.0!!!L,l" I8" il' Furth"more; 1 . , a' j it ; Know Senator tieorge, and he is a man v.-ho writes-' ity of service men bring out ol military life his own speeches." .ltsj less prejudice than they took into it. there; Monroe said that he had also written a speech can still be Cause for rejoicing. ln 'hich Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa attacked We are going to need tolerance and unscl- hc,!u nfV have rtplie.l ,hc d',in,t ro" ,. , j i- i . .member Gillette s speech. "But," he added. "J fishness during our peacetime readjust- hopo vou ,vm yoursuit against Pearson, it is ment. The Common purpose of war has not, time someone put him in his place." stilled our economic and religious and racial xquy bout i'kesident strifes. j The returning veterans are going to be a ; 711011 the conversation drifted to the President. great force in our civilian life. Their solidar- ior ShaZez told sto ?f how Roseveit. i j i , i Churchill and Chiang Kai Shek were drivinr 3t' Can Work great good or great harm, de- through the streets of Cairo and how the people pending Upon how much it is Organized andept running after the president and pointing to directed. jhim. The secret service men detailed to guard It does not seem too much to hope that ;Roosevet were worried by the shouts, which all , , ... . ' A , . seemed to say the same thiner. Finallv thev had the there may be enough men like Major Austin remarks translated. -y who have lost that "smug Vermonter" atti-j "people were all pointing to the president," tude to influence the veterans and the coun- concluded. Chavez "and shouting, 'That's her hus- -. wvm-V Iocs tnu-orH colfieVi nr,H cor-ti,! band! That's her husband!" aims, and more toward the common good." :Irntd Vs rmX), i Monroe pot to telling about how he was director! iof a psychopathic hospital in Boston tan honor! given him by Mayor Curleyt. j ' "I am one of the few nennle in the ITniterl' The country is indebted to Maury Maver- States." Monroe boasted, "who carries a cvrtif-j iek for gobbledv-gook. It is not to be con- icate testifying that 1 am sane." I fused with globaloney or lamzey divey. It i? LrJ,wc!! Coffee shot back: "Most mcni a new word coined to describe and to end After dinner, Monroe took Congressman White several Old words which have gotten in the upstairs to talk to the New York butcher about hair of Mr. Maverick, chairman of the Small-flla"s t0 handle certain meat deals with the opa er War Plants Con) i provided a group of butchers could raise one hun- rro. i u- i -ii ii i dred thousand dollars. These words which Mr. Maverick has ban-: Thlis rnriM nri the hiAnf irWn.iw. ished from the SWPC vocabulary form the lievable John Monroe, who shortly before the war Basic English Of bureaucracv. They areiPaid an income tax of only three dollars, but who smug, pompous and trite. Bird-brained gov-!last year ls making money at the rate of $100,000 ernment clerks have sworn them to death a year ,n the g0,den lobbying: era ,n "ashineton. trying to impress the boss, or playing at ! ' Copyright, 19 14, by United Feature being big shots. They have done much to j Syndicate, inc.) make bureaucracy unpopular. . ; Mr. Maverick, having read and heard them grams, 'finalizing contracts that 'stem from' day after day, finally came to a slow boil,' district, regional or Washington "levels. No rared back, and passed an edict: more patterns, effectuating, dynamics. Any- "Stay off the gobbledygook language." hejone using the words 'activitation' or 'irnpfe-ordered. 'irnpfe-ordered. "Let's stop 'pointing up pro-1 mentation will be shot!" FREE ENTERPRISE COMES coal and ore in her mines, and IP FOR DISCUSSION sent her ships on Seven Seas. Editor Herald: r 1 rny brain was born every It was refreshing to know that creature comfort you enjoy, someone had an idea as to the! L Private Enterprise, with my meaning of "free enterprise" even;frec laborers and my unshackled if we did have to get it from the,caPtalna of industry, built the vounger generation. My thanks jmuskets, the airplanes, the tanks, to you Miss RoDene Farrer for the submarines, the great guns your very fine contribution. And that wre "sed n the Revolution-mav Revolution-mav I offer the following: ar'. Civil and World War No. "I am the Spirit of Private En- anTd hat are n?w Protecting terprise United States from invasion. Wherever I have existed free-1 1 am the hoPe of Europe and dom of mind and body have ex- Asja- . . A . jste( I I, Private Enterprise, am the Wherever I have been murdered worKing classes, tne middle by collective laws and governmental govern-mental strangulation freedom of mind and freedom of body have died classes, and the well-to-do clas ses. I am the butcher shop, the bank, the revstand, tha great de- Gobbledygook RATION CALENDAR IM4 MAKCH tH4 I B4 APHH. i m rrt tvi m ni w ,i ... ..7 1 X 3 4 l M M I 10 11 t S 4 S f 7 II IS 14 1( 14 17 14 t 10 11 12 IS 14 IS I M tl 21 IS 24 IS 14 17 II 1 20 II 21 24 27 24 It 30 31 I tf 24 2S 24 27 24 I r a.. th nhviri ivr rtf;partment store, the giant furn- Athenian civilization. ace of Detroit and Pittsburgh I died in the collective feudal !and Geneva, and the electric light. aee. I was resurrected in the Re-1 naissance, beginning the modem age. With the rebirth of free private pri-vate trading came the vastest expansion ex-pansion in the arts and sciences the world has ever known. I, Private Enterprise, have brought more men of the aame countries and men of distant countries closer together in friendly friend-ly intercourse than all the Socialistic Social-istic and Communistic doctrines combined. My trade routes have been the routes of human progress. I am the expression and sus-tainer sus-tainer of all that is lordly in the human soul Self - Reliance the adventurous spirit, emotional and mental initiative, ambition, and Inventive resourcefulness. With my rebirth in the Renaissance Renais-sance y?e human level of living began to rise. The shackle on slave labor began be-gan to rust and crack. Money became international. Man at my touch took on something some-thing of the aspect of a creative God. I, private Enterprise, built Am erica MEATS, FATS, OIL, BUTTER, CHEESE Red stamps A8. B8, C8, D8, FS and GS. H8 and J8, ration ra-tion book 4, valid indefinitely. PROCESSED FOODS Blue stamps AS, B8 and D8. ration book 4, valid indefinitely. Blue stamps FS, GS, H8, J8 and K8 become valid for an indefinite period April 1. SUGAR Stamp No. 30, ration book 4, good for five pounds, cur-dently cur-dently valid. Stamp No. 31, ration book 4, valid April 1, good for five pounds. Stamp No. 40, ration book 4, for canning sugar, indefinitely. indefi-nitely. A new stamp becomes valid val-id April 1. SHOES Stamp No. 18, ration book 1, expires April 30. Airplane stamp No. 1, ration book 3, good indefinitely. A new stamp becomes be-comes valid May 1. GASOLINE No. HA gasoline If she is a giant today In prod-jSmps valid until June 21. Stamps I, Private Enterprise, am Edison, Ed-ison, Ericson, Goodyear, Wana-maker Wana-maker Westinghouse, Fulto n , Whitney, Morse, and the Wright brothers. I am that Free Business, big and little, on which civilization depends. I am the body of a great spiritual spirit-ual entity-Liberty. I am the body of a great sociological soci-ological and biological fact-self-Interest. It is I, Private and Free Enterprise, Enter-prise, that is winning this war for Russia, England, China, and the U. S. A. I Private Enterprise, am the power behind your son, your fath er, your brother fighting for you in Europe in Africa and the Pacific. Pa-cific. I am the minute man of Uncle Sam. I am the very essence and body of Jeffersonial democracy, for I am Private Property and Personal Person-al Liberty. I am the Old Deal. I am America." Am-erica." Submitted By JOS. H. TAYLOR The Chopping Block By Frank C. Robertson ?w -4v4.v -...'... 3 .iMfl$W"iifcr?'!Mw. uction it is I who have made her a giant. I cleared her forests. I built her railroads. I tunneled her mountains. good for usual three gallons each, but must last three months, cutting cut-ting basic ration average to two gallons per week. WASTE PAPER Save all I erected her factories, dug the i waste paper for April pickups. Q'S and As Q What is our federal debt limit? A $210,000,000,000. Q How much has the President Presi-dent asked Congress to appropriate appropri-ate for the fiscal year beginning July 1? A $99,000,000,000; $93,000,000-000 $93,000,000-000 of it for war. Q Where are the Galapagos Islands, recently visited by Mrs. Roosevelt ? A About 600 miles westward from Ecuador, their mother country. coun-try. Q What Is the world's pole vault record? A 15 feet, 54 inches: Cornelius Cor-nelius Warmerdam, June 6, 1941 Q What race horse holds the record for one year's winnings? A Gallant Fox; $308,275 in 1930. We are, it seems in for an epi demic of definitions of free enterprise. enter-prise. Everybody from college ,' professor to high school boy is irying nis nana ai u. as a poor old farm boy who doesn't know anything anyway it appears to me that the one so freely used by the greatest exemplars of free enterprise any time, any where, is still the most accurate. "Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost." If you want to be uppity about it you can choose the French phase, laissez faire. It means the same thing. The peculiar part about this whole argument is that the advocates advo-cates of free enterprise do not believe be-lieve in it, and the opponents of free enterprise are not opposed to it. Let's look into this seeming paraaox. lei us, t ask a propon-,, ent of free en-' terpris e this question: "Do you believe in free and unrestricted unre-stricted enter prise ? " T h t cnances are he will begin to hem and haw and hedge and avow that ' of course there must be some restrictions. If he is stubborn ask him this: "If a truck load of bread was being d i strib- uted to a group Robertson of starving people would you favor fa-vor allowing the strong males to trample down the women and children chil-dren and the sick and get all the loaves; then turn around and exact ex-act tribute for the remainder after they had satisfied their own appetites?" He would protest, of course, that this was not a fair question, but in the light of the original definition, every man for himself him-self and the devil take the hindmost, hind-most, it is. He would have to acknowledge ac-knowledge that he did not believe in free unrestricted enteprise under un-der all circumstances. Ask an opponent of free enterprise enter-prise if he would favor allowing the government to tell him how he should spend his earned income, in-come, and where and in what kind of a house he should live. If he had a little money saved up and wanted to buy a farm, and a government gov-ernment agency ordered him to invest in a service station instead he wouldn't like it. So, he believes be-lieves in a measure of free enterprise. en-terprise. The trouble Is you can't argue for or against It without restrictions. restric-tions. What do the free enterprisers want? They can make a neat and tidy little list of the things they want to be free to do; free to work, to earn, to invest, to exercise initiative or creative g-enius. No one could possibly ob ject to that. To find out the rest of the things they believe m you nearly always have to look to the other side, because they stop just short of saying, "We believe in belnsr free to exploit those weaker than ourselves, and to restrict re-strict the exercise of enterprise upon the part of others. We object ob-ject to government setting up any kind of regulations which would give people less favorably situated sit-uated than ourselves a chance to compete with us." Or to put it in the idiom of the underworld, who are great believers in free enterprise, "We believe if. never giving a sucker an even break." Small business men, those who go in heavily for organizational uplift clubs in their communities are usually the most enthusiastic endorsers of free enterprise; yet they are not above trying to get the state to interfere with the free enterprise of the chain stores. It is all very confusing. There can be little doubt that the blossoms of free enterprise bloomed most profusely during the last half of the last century. Then it was that the initiative and created genius of such men as Gould, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Fiske. Rockefeller, Huntington, Hearst j and the other industrial giants' was exercised to the utmost with no restrictions and restraints! from government other than the criminal code and often that could be conveniently stretched. It would be well for the disinterested disin-terested inquirer after truth in these matters to get from his li brary a copy of Gustavus Myers History of Great American For-I For-I tunes, and read it carefully. Al though our tycoon heros and their descendants squealed like pigs caught under a gate, the highest paid corporation lawyers werei never able to disprove the cold facts in this scholarly study of industrial development. It is not nice to know that when the fate of the nation was at stake during the Cjvil War that the men who were credited with the building of our great Western railroads practically held a gun against the head of President Presi-dent Lincoln to exact vast land grants from the public domain, and huge bonuses in cash which meant that the public itself paid for the railroads. It is not nice to know that one enterprising tycoon ty-coon contrived to move the Rocky Mountains several hundred miles eastward in order to collect the higher bonus for mountainous building. Nor is it nice to read of the coldblooded cut-throat- conspiracies conspir-acies which ruthlessly wrecked going business concerns and forced for-ced weaker competitors into bankruptcy. It was free enterprise which by lying propoganda brought millions of illiterate foreigners here from central Europe, and worked them twelve hours a day, seven days a week, at starvation wages. This discussion of free enterprise, enter-prise, pro and con, will be continued con-tinued in next week's Chopping Block. Desk Chat MAKE OTHERS FEEL IMPORTANT You will always be in hot water wa-ter if you do not make people feel important. A man selects his wife largely because he thinks she will always give him a big build-up. If she' does not do this, and he does not do the same for her, that marriage will soon go on the rocks. I listened recently to a divorce suit. They called it "incompatibility." "incompatibil-ity." Bosh! It was plainly because both of them wanted to wear the pants. Neither would admit the importance of the other's desires, drives and ambitions. Marriage counselors find in trying try-ing to patch up an unhappy marriage, mar-riage, they can get nowhere If they talk to both of them to-KCther. to-KCther. Each tries to beat the other to it and swell his own blamelessness and importance. I ; talked to one couple where the inian had a passion for studying 'birds; but she turned up her nose at such a "silly thing" as a man running about in the wood with field glasses. On the other hand, she was a social climber and he thought that was equally silly. They were not blaming each other's faults but were belittling each other's virtues vir-tues the very virtues through which each achieved his feeling of importance. I used the field glasses effectively ef-fectively in this case and finally convinced them that he was looking look-ing at his wife's desire for social so-cial prestige, and she was looking at his passion for birds with the field glasses wrong end to. I finally final-ly introduced them to turn their psychological glasses around. It worked. Since this is the biggest thing in every human being, what fools we are when we do not make it our guiding principle in getting along with other people! When j'ou try to down it or ignore it, whether it be your wife or husband hus-band or child or mother-in-law or boss or employee, you are in for trouble. It takes a lot of horse sense, too, to manage it rightly and be sure you are not making the other fellow feel unimportant instead of important. Albert Edward' Ed-ward' Wiggam. 0O0 THE LFMIT An Englishman and an American Amer-ican were discussing the merits of their respective fireproof safes. The Englishman said he locked up a little dog in his safe and put under it a quantity of coal tar. which he lighted. After the fire had burned out and the safe cooled down, the door was opened, and the dog was found to be all right. The American said he put a young rooster into his safe and surrounded the safe with wood, petroleum, coal and coke, which, when lighted brought the safe to a white heat. "I suppose," said the Englishman, English-man, "you are going to say that when you opened the safe the cock came out and crowed.!" "No, sir," said the American. i"it was frozen stiff." I 0O0 Phantasy This ia the Time of night You always used To telephone, Remember? And so, Even though You're far across The sea - When twilight comes My thoughts Still drift To you And I catch myself Listening for The phone to ring And half-way hoping I can hear Your cheery voice. And then When subconscious wishing1 Gives way To sober realization I feel, well, Lonely, And I may confess it now, A little worried. The telephone Still rings But other voices Hold little charm And every now and then, I hang up quickly Lest, while I'm talking You might by chance, Some time, Be home And try to call me On the telephone. oOo1 Not Wild "Son, who is this wild woman you are running around with?" "Aw Dad, she ain't wild. Anybody Any-body can pet her." oOo He was a great believer in Luck . . . the harder he worked, the more he seemed to have it. oOo Where Are They? Polly: Whatever became of those old-fashioned gals who fainted faint-ed when a boy kissed them? Dolly: Huh: Whatever became of the old-fashioned boys who could make 'em faint? 000 If you are not happy with what you have, you would not be happy with what you crave. OOO Envy and jealousy are both admissions ad-missions of inferiority. oOo Grammar Needed Lady of the house: No, I don't want no books or calendars neither. neith-er. We don't need nothin'. Salesman: How about a cheap English grammar? TOO BAD HE COULDN'T KEEP HIM THERE CHICAGO, April 7. U.E For four hours yesterday, Chief Deputy Depu-ty Sheriff John M. Lee had his opponent for Democratic ward committeeman, William E. Shaughnessy, right where he wanted him. Shaughnessy was held in the sheriffs lockup, under the supervision of Lee, for contempt con-tempt of court. He later was released re-leased on his own recognizance. |