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Show Thursday, November 11. 1937 C'.r,b t!ie Mountains Climb the mountain and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the 6torms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn. John Muir. THE NEVER LET THEM KNOW In 890 Will C. Ferril Received an Order for a Special Article from Irving Bacheller, Editor of a Pioneer Syndicate, and Hastily Wrote "No Grandmothers There"; Since Then It Has Been "Reprinted by Request" in Thousands of Newspapers All Over the U. S. 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON AN INSEPARABLE part of t the traditions which have clustered around our holi days is the literature associ ated with them. New Year s day, Easter Sunday, the Fourth of July, Christmas inday each of them has stoand spired many poems ries which never seem to grow old and which are repeated when those holidays come round each year. What is true of them is equally true of Thanksgiving. This is the story of a fa Pregirlhood to womanhood. 2. mous 'l hanks giving story. paring for motherhood. S. Approaching "middle age." Although it was written in wife,' Don't be a take LYDIA E. IMNKHAM'S great haste, it had some VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Co "bmihug ThrouKh." quality that was vastly appealing to its readers. So it has become "what is known In Action and Words There is a philosophy that ex- as a "Newspaper Classic," presses itself only in action as one of those journalistic comthere is the verbose philosophy of positions which are so often words. reprinted by request. . matter how much your back sdies mad your nerves cream, your buatnuui. becnum h. Is only a in&o, eaa oevr understand why you am ao hard to Uva with one week In every month. Too often the honeymoon la wrecked by the nagging wife. 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N.Y. war, t "w LongEnclnaad BnJ $1 lean er etamra) lor which eend me your apeciel Introductory TffTm Vl T1"B J Nmmrn Strt Addrm.. ! City ......... Stare. BJaiaimmmai far-awa- old-tim- - rl!Ntjjrf: GET RID OF BIG UGLY PORES ' - Thanksgiving and No Grand- mother supplied reading matter to several metropolitan newspapers for simultaneous publication. This material included serials, short stories, news letters from New Backbone Needed York and Washington and spehis for clamors Everyone cial articles. a finds needs and it "rights" One the contributors to Bach-great deal of backbone to defend eller's ofsyndicate was a young them. Denver newspaper man named Will C. Ferril. Early in November of that year, Bacheller wrote to Ferril and asked him for a special Thanksgiving article with a 'western slant. Thanksgiving was not far dis tant and there was little time for writing the article, sending it on to New York, having it printed and distributing it to newspapers using Bacheller's service. But Ferril set to work at once and the following article, headlined "No Grandmothers There" was the Ism. J white-haire- en Many doctors recommend Nujol because of its gentle action on the bowels. Don't confuse Nujol with unknown products. INSIST ON GENUINE NUJOL ,. result: "Can you imagine in these closing' days of the year with Thanks- giving close upon us a whole land That without grandmothers? seems almost incredible in the communities of the East and South, for no family reunion is complete without at least one venerable figure, so fa miliar and so dear m that household from the days of childhood's earliest recollections. Yet between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast there are nun dreds of homes where children are growing up without a glimpse of their own or any other child's grandmothers. They know noth ing of the dear, old face, the soft, gray hair, the quaint figure of that patient little woman who, day after day, sits in the quiet corner of the Old home knitting, knitting, and still knitting, while her thoughts are wandering far away into the long ago of her childhood, They know nothing of her gentle chidings, nor can they appreciate the quiet and kindly amusement in the household at grandmother's expense, when, after searching the house for her "specs" she is reminded, in response to her anx ious inquiry, that they are under the frills of her cap. Then there are the quaint old songs of long ago that even the fathers and mothers of the present day know not, but which grandmother, with a quaver in her voice, will hum and sing when she thinkj no one is near to hear. What fun it used to be, when she thought no one was near to slip up behind her chair, and, all unobserved, catch in the sweet snatches of the golden mel odies, wnen a boy, it was my delight to thus hide myself be d hind the chair of my mother from Virginia, and listen to her humming some old south ern air. One day she espied me and in a chiding voice said, look ing over her glasses: 'Don't tease your grandmother like that. I really believe she would have blushed, at being caught trying to sing, if the face had not been so old and wrinkled. tne was undoubtedly seemingly ruffled. into telling me but I coaxed long-settl- ed great-gran- hr a W self-relia- nt one-ha- lf Cuilt on Air Lots STAR DUST ward. His John and Margaret (Baughman) Ferril, were natives of Virginia who went to Kentucky over the Wilderness road in the days of Daniel Boone. While in camp at the famous Crab Orchard on that road, this party of immigrants, which was under the leadership of Capt. Jacob Baughman, brother of Margaret Ferril, was attacked by Indians. Captain Baughman, John Ferril and sev eral others were killed but a son. John Ferril, then a lad of about fifteen, with his mother and two sisters escaped and reached their destination in the "Dark and Bloody Ground" safely Missouri Pioneers When the younger John Ferril grew up he married the daughter of another pioneer family, Keziah Cook. In 1808 John Ferril and his wife, continuing the family tradition of moving westward, crossed the Mississippi river into the present state of Missouri, then known as Upper Louisiana. During the War of 1812, when the pioneers were in danger of Indian attack, they were among the Boone's Lick settlers who "fort-ed- " in the palisaded structure known as Fort Cooper. John Ferril's son, William Ferril, married Elizabeth Clemens and they also "moved West," this time to Independence, Mo., which in 1822 was taking the place of the earlier town of 'Franklin as the eastern terminus of the Santa Fe trail. Here William . Ferril, who was a minister, preached to a picturesque crew of frontiersmen, fur traders, Indians and team- jNLovic O it Radio The Merchandise Mart is built over tracks of the Chicago & North Western railway. The railroad retains ownership of the area on which its tracks operate. It sold air lots, representing possession of the space above ground occupied by the entire building, and numerous miniature ground lots necessary to sink caissons. The air was actually subdivided into lots and the diagram of the aerial real estate filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of Cook VIRGINIA VALE GRANT is all set to CARY the busiest actor in Hollywood for the next year. county, Now working with Katherine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby," he is all set to rush from that to "Love cn Parole," with Miriam Hopkins, after which he will support Ruby Keeler in her first R. K. O. picture. By Columbia pictures hold a contract with him also, and will have several stories ready him Just as soon T?' "1 for ai he finishes his stint on the R.K.O. lot. And somehow or other. Carv expects to find time to play i4one of the leads in Sam Goldwyn's pro- J...k! m uuciiuu vi .1uie ever- M nnnulnr romant. "Graustark." If you heard him on the air recently with Irene Cary Grant Dunne, giving excerpts from "The Awful Truth." which theaters will be showing soon, you don't need to be told that it is thoroughly delightful picture. Bing Crosby, who always insists he doesn't know anything about music, or about anything, in act, but race horses, received an honorary degree from Gonzaga college In Spokane, Wash. He was a student there before he joined Paul Wbiteman's rhythm boys and got launched on a radio career. Inci- v pioneers this time to Lawrence, Kan., where they settled in 1854. There Thomas J. Ferril, who was a Methodist preacher, became one of the founders of Baker university and, as an ardent Free Soil advocate, he was marked for death by Quantrill and his Mis-sourians when they made their raid on Lawrence in 1863. However, he was away at a Methodist camp meeting at the time and thus escaped the fate of other citizens of that town. Will C. Ferril, his son (the author of the Thanksgiving story), was a very small boy at that time. His mother had died a short time previously and he had been placed in charge of the Widow Jones who lived on the Wakarusa river not far from Law rence. Mr. FerriL remembers vividly the morning of the raid how a dark cloud, which later nroved to be smoke from the burning town, began to darken the sun, how several horsemen galloped past, shouting "Quantrill is burning Lawrence and killing all the men " ; how the Widow Jones and her daughter emptied their house of all its furniture to save it in case the raiders should burn their house ; how he was sent to guard the Jones' horses in the timber in a bend of the river. Saw Ruins of Lawrence "I felt very uneasy for a time and wondered if Quantrill would kill me if he found me hiding the horses," Mr. Ferril recalls. "But I soon became calm, thinking that I was too small a boy to incur his hatred." He also has a vivid recollection of his visit to Lawrence the next day, seeing the blackened walls of the burned buildings and hearing the people mourning for their dead. In addition to these members of the Ferril family already mentioned, the author of "A Land Without Grandmothers" had other kinsmen who were intimately associated with historic events in the West. Two of his Jonathan Ferril and Thomas Clemens, Jr., and his uncle, John D. Ferril, later of Humboldt, Calif., were captains of emigrant trains to California in the gold rush days. Thus his family has been linked with the frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Wilderness Trail of 1779 to the Santa Fe Trail and Oregon Trail of great-uncle- s, . 1849. . ME STAY dentally, Bing gets so much fun out of his radio appearances that be would like to be on the air more than once a week. stars have their favorite performers, just like the rest of us. Rudy Vallee insists on having Jack Oakie in the picture he Radio and picture will make for Warner Brothers soon. He says Oakie makes any picture a success. Jack Benny would like to have Abe Lyman on his radio pro- gram permanently a lot of laughs. four-year-o- ld Closest friends of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., thought that his great success as an actor ' in "The Prisoner of Zenda" had cured him of all ambitions j to be a producer in Douglas England. say they are wrong. As soon as he finishes playing opposite Ginger Rogers 1 in "Having a Won derful Time," he will be off to London again to be the big Ginger boss of a production Rogers fucompany. In the ture, he will spend six months of each year in Hollywood working as an actor, the other six in London producing pictures. -- x" ODDS AND ENDS One of the most important instruments in B. A. Rolje's orchestra is an ordinary tin can filled with coins. Shaken by the drummer, this gives out those minor tinkling notes like Oriental bells that build up the gruesome atmosphere oj Ripley's weirdest Relieve It or Nols . . . Eddie Cantor's recent high spirits, even higher than usual, are due to the general verdict that his new picture "Ali Baba Goes to Town" is by far ihe best he has ever made . . . Ginger Rogers' favorite tribute came from a cameraman when she had finished her big dramatic scene in "Stage Door." lie hollered at her: r those dancing thoet." "Throw Western Newspaper Union. au-a- WHEN GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN EASES NOT HEADACHE fEW IN A m I I Hmin UTES he inexpensive way to ease headaches if you want fast results- -is with Bayer Aspirin. i '1 The instant the pain starts, simply take 2 Bayer tablets with a half glass of water. Usually in a few minutes relief arrives. Bayer tablets are quick-actin- g because they disintegrate in a few seconds ready to start their work of relief almost immediately after taking. It costs only 2 or 3 to relieve most headaches when you get the hew economy tin. You pay 25 24 tablets cents for only about 1 i apiece. Make sure to get the genuine tsayer Aspirin. 1 Rc" 11 B vS:3y virtually 1 cent a tablet Charm of Difficulties Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. Madame Swetchine. Yes, Constipation Is Serious But It Can't Poison You! thinks he adds Davis, the daughter of Joan Davis, that madcap dancer who risks breaking her neck in the Ritz Brothers pictures, gives imitations of her mama when she goes to parties. At a kiddies party she was not going over so well, because instead of laughing at her falls, the youngsters howled in fright, but everything turned out all right anyway. Along came a Twenofficial to call for tieth Century-Fo- x his youngsters, and he hired little Beverly to play a part. Beverly WORK? no smt s that ! 111. HOME FROM Practically all of the motion-pictur- e companies have decided that comics in sets of three bring; sure success. R.K.O. has tbe Marx brothers now. Twentieth Century-Fo- x sters who were engaged in the have the Ritx brothers with their Santa Fe trade and he often held hilarious antics, and Paramount has services under the trees which signed op the Yacht Club boys to stood on the present site of Kan- appear in three more pictures for sas City, Mo. them. The next generation, represented by Rev. Thomas J. Ferril land Hollywood producers wish that his wife, Minerva (Hornsby) Fer- plump girls were fashionable. Ing westward-farinril, were also sistence on streamlined figures causes them no end of worry. Many of the stars noted for their beauty and chic have to live on strict diets in order to stay slim, and when they are working on a strenuous schedule they get so run down that they have no resistance to colds. Recently on the ailing list were Carole Lombard, Alice Faye, Joan. Crawford, Virginia Bruce, Simone Simon, and Zorina, the lovely Russian danc er who is soon to make her debut in Goldwyn pictures. , oJ PAGE THREE Perhaps one reason for ' the popularity of this article was the ring of authenticity in its interpretation of the "mothers of the West." For its author is a descendant of a long line of pioneers who for several generations have followed the frontier west- out grandmothers, what will it not do when it has grandmothers of its own, and their kindly influence for good is everywhere felt. " No better mothers can be found a, fe. in the whole country than the mothers of the West. Many of them have reared model families in the face of almost overwhelmN v ....., . f ing obstacles. We have only to look forward a few years to see them peaceful, kindly, loving find li ,J ft ij honored grandmothers. Then, indeed, will the far West be at last in full possession of the greatest blessings of civilization that has thus far been denied to her. Thanksgiving without grand mothers is dreary indeed; but the western grandchildren forget them not. The grandmothers in y the East, in New Eng land nnd in the southern land, may rest assured that the hearts of their western grandchildren go out to them as tenderly as if they had known them and been rocked by them in the cradle. HILL C. FERRIL It is a kind of desert spot in chisome stories about the war oi ldren's lives not to have seen a 1812, and we were soon friends grandmother and felt her tender again. The children of the Far caresses. e Born In Prairie Schooner New West never hear the The birthplace of some of England and southern cradle songs, for the mothers of the those earlier grandchildren was. present day hardly know even in the pioneer days of the far their fragments. Nursery rhymes, West, in the old freight wagons nowadays, change, as do the and prairie schooners. On the fashions. Oregon, California and Pikes 'And think of a Thanksgiv Peak trails, many a baby was d ing without grandmothers. Why, born in an old in the land of grandmothers, it wagon, and all honor to the moth is she who on that day has first ers of the nation, who centuries claim upon all our gallantry and ago braved the dangers of the d belle, almost unknown seas to estab chivalry. A on that day at least, with graylish American .homes from the haired sons and daughters, and New England coast to the Geortroops of happy children around gia shore. Then over the Alle-to do her honor and bring to her ghenies they came, and then comfort and cheer.- Thousands across the Mississippi river. But of western boys and girls know American women stopped not nothing of this. A grandmother there. They, too, braved the wilis to them almost as much of a derness of plain and desert, and myth as the heroine of a fairy the storm and dangers of unstory. A little boy in the Rocky known mountain passes. The chilmountains on being told some dren whose first sight of the events about his grandmother in world was from a canvas wagon the far East actually asked what train, and who are now grown to kind of a being a grandmother manhood and womanhood, canwas. It is true there are some not look back to a mansion or a grandmothers in the far West, vine-cla-d cottage as their birthbut they are imported from the place. There is no such sacred East and South. For most of home for them to meet in for the them the West is too far away. happy reunion on Thanksgiving. No doubt their hearts often reach But they are proud of their birthout tenderly toward their grand place on the fleeting trails of children in and beyond the Rocky western empire, at a time when . mountains. brave men were blazing a path"As to native-bor- n grandmoth way for new commonwealths to ers, they are very hard to una the Pacific, and still more heroic west of the Rocky mountains. wives went with them. Sometimes their story, was a sad one. A grave was dug; a coffin was made from a few pine boards torn from the wagon bed. Her sisters for at such times all women are sis ters made what preparations they could; mother and child were buried in the same grave, and the caravan moved on. Neither minister nor priest was there; the board, with the name rudely carved thereon, has rotted away, and the drifting sands have long since obliterated what else could have marked the spot. 'No wonder, then, children born emid such surroundings have grown up into strong, and courageous men and women. Their hearts go out in this Thanksgiving season to the grandmothers of the East and South, to whom they claim kinThe Great Feature of Thanksgiv ship. Who among the children ing in the East. of the far West would not love to see one dear and venerable face With the exception of the early in the old homestead on Thankssettlements m the Oregon coun giving day?" try, the Mormons in Utah, and As so often happens with an arthe occasional home of the earlier ticle which becomes a "newspaor in the mountains, trapper this Thanksgiving ranchman in California, the civ per classic," ilization is too young for native-- storyan was not immediately hailed as outstanding piece of jourborn grandmothers. nalistic writing. But during the was "It only forty years ago next few years editors, who had that the great rush was made seen it, clipped it and laid it away to the gold fields of California, for future use, began reprinting and not until ten years later did it around time. the tide of immigration start for Others, who Thanksgiving had not done so, be-Cali Pikes Peak. Possibly, fornia may produce a few very youthful grandmothers, about, of age; but you say, forty years could scarcely- - find a native-bor- n grandmother of even that early age in Colorado. Nevertheless the state has a population of nearly two millions. Nebraska. too, has hardly a grandmother to the manor bom. Those two states were a waste of prairie and plain thirty-si- x years ago, the home of the buffalo and the Indian, where the lace oi a white man was hard in tne older 'new ly Known, West, consisting of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisi ana and Texas, they have grand mothers or their own. "But you can look upon all that vast region west of the states bordering immediately on the west side of the Mississippi river, and Texas, as having scarcely a Thanksgiving on the Plains. native-bor- n American grandmother among millions of people. gan receiving "please reprint" That region includes more than requests from their readers. So of the land over which the fame of the article spread. In some cases it was reprinted the flag of the republic will float on Thanksgiving day yet a native under the title of "A Land Withgrandmother can scarcely be out Grandmothers" and it is perfound. If the far West can do so haps better known by that name much in building an empire with than by its original title. canvas-covere- i cold, or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulslon. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulslon. which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids nature to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-ladphlegm. Even if other remedies have failed, Creomul-eion. don't be discouraged, try Your druggist Is authorized to refund your money If you are not thoroughly satisfied with the benefits obtained from the very first bottle. 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