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Show Tuesday, July 18, 1950 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE FOURTEEN Planning for the Future? Buy U.S. Savings Bonds! THE READER'S COURTROOM Golfers: Always Look Before Swinging - By Will Bernard, LL.B. If Hit By a Swinging Golf Club, May You Collect Damages? A young married couple went for a round of golf, taking a friend along to watch the game. On the third tee, the husband made a bad drive. His wife exclaimed: No, dear, you should keep your eye on the ball like this. So saying, she seized a club and quickly swung at an imaginary ball. Unfortunate Shortly after announcing his engagement, a young man was told by his doctor that he had a fatal disease and that marriage would only hasten his death. His fiancee wanted to go ahead with the ceremony anyhow, but he flatly refused. Sure enough, the youth died In about two months. Thereafter the girl sued his parents for damages charging breach of promise by their late son. However, judge said that the young man had the right to back out. t prove the girl liked what it said- or ever accepted its invitation. Is it Negligence To Pet a Strange Dog? An artist noticed that his bulldog was developing an ugly disposition, but he just couldnt bring himself to get rid of the animal. One day a woman passerby saw the dog on the sidewalk and reached out to Should a Wife Be Condemned For Saving a Love Letter From an Old Friend? man wedded a A girl, with unhappy conse- quences. It seems that the husband was jealous of a young man with whom the girl had formerly One fateful day, .gone steady. while rummaging his through wifes dresser, the man came upon a recent letter from the youth-propo- sing an illicit liaison. Promptly the husband filed suit for divorce on grounds of adultery. He told the court: Where theres If my wife Is fire. smoke, theres would she keep such innocent, why a letter? However, the court refused to grant a decree, ruling that there was insuffiicent evidence of adultery. The judge said that merely saving the letter didnt ly, the friend was standing right next to her and was caught unawares. The club hit him on the forehead, and knocked him flat Later he sued the young woman for damages, on grounds of negligence. She contended: "Anybody who goes on a golf course has to take the risk that accidents of this kind will happen.' However, the court ruled that she must pay for the friends injury. The judge said that when a golfer makes a sudden, unexpected swing, she should at least look around to see that the coast 1s clear. CROSSWORD English Love 5. Edible CALGARY, ALTA. played on horseback 10, Greek appeared recently Slopped over alike for Its rich taste and mild, cool smoking Joy. V tion of nickname 5. British poet 12. Witchcraft 14. Any place disgust 25. 27. 29. private soldiers 6. Topaz humm- of bliss ing-bird Author of The Wand- 7. Equips 8. Hatred ering Jew d 11. 17. Elevated birds train (shortened) 18. Shield . 20. Personal pronoun 21. Stitches 24. Pile 26. Decree 28. A pan of a balance 31. Sailors 16. Web-foote- . mark Kettle Ung i locks Medicinal plant 30. Pitchers 32. Dry, as wine 34. Strange with running knot 37. Italian poet 35. Rope 40. List 42. Toll 43. Cherished animals 45. Alcoholio beverage No. 60 Prince Albert'.? choice, crimp cut tobacco is specially treated to insure against tongue bite? For milder smoking joy, fill your pipe with P. A. juuwjl ivmmm mi wisaeiwewauMSMi t n imp jwees seeeespyijiewg twawww 33. Recognize 34. Ahead 36. Bamboolike 38. 39. grass Exist June-bu- g 41. Run away 44. Movable port: barriers "Loincloths were distributed as usual during the winter months to owners to protect their animals from cold winds and were much Christmas songs 47. Turn about a fixed point 48. Monkey 48. appreciated. We take these three instances from Dr. G. J. Renters minor classic, The English: Are They Human? Dr. Renter (who hails from the Netherlands) remarks that the English are not only conscious' of their tender attitude toward animals, but proud of it; it is one of the things that distinguishes them. He observes: It is 'a great experience to drive along a road in a Latin country by the side of an Englishwoman. She will sit, a picture of watchful concentration, waiting for the driver to be cruel to his horse. Her expectations are usually frustrated. We would not be willing to argue that the English care more for animals than they do for humans; but certainly they treat animals more kindly (and treat those who dont look after them more severely) than any other people in the world. ANSWER Utter 4. Girls II. Lassies in the classified section of the Times of London: Col. and Mrs. Arthur Foster feel that his many friends would like to know that their red bull terrier, Negus, passed away on Friday in his 13th year. A great gentleman. Canadians and Americans in London who spotted the advertisement were amused. The English were hot. The English . take animals seriously. The beasts of the field and the hearth are to them what mom is to the Americans. It seems to them right and fitting that a man should be convicted for blowing smoke into a dogs face. It seems to them right and fitting that there should be half a dozen or more national organizations solely devoted to helping animals; and that one of them (Our Dumb Friends league) should be able to announce in its annual re- WEEK'S lish political 19. Bag 22. Humor party 23. Wound 3. Troubles 9. Game The following LAST 13. C 15. Exclama- 2. Early Eng- rootstock Have Tender Regard For Beasts of Field advertisement 1. I.- Mix then bit her in the leg. When the woman sued the artist for letting such an dog run loose, he retorted that she was equally It is responsible for the mishap. he argued, plain carelessness, for anybody to pet a strange dog. However, the court disagreed and granted the womans claim. Hie judge said its not wrong to pet a dog even without a formal PUZZLE DOWN ACROSS Their Animals pet him. Re snarled, ducked, and (So. Am.) 49. Shade 50. trees Girls , The choice, tobacco used in Prince Albert is crimp cut for easier rollingpof neat cigarettes. And the humidor-to- p keeps P. A. fresh. name rich-tasti- ng B. J. Reynold Couple Finds Last Child After Eight Years was - 4 A Dutch army SINGAPORE his wife have found sergeant and their daughter after eight years. In 1942, when the Japanese invaded Java, the parents of Bertha de Hartogh, 13, gave their daughter to her amah (native nurse) because they feared for her safety. The parents were captured by the Japanese and , interned. When they were liberated in 1945, they began a search for Bertha, but could find no trace. Eventually they returned to Holland. - -d girl Reports of a a Malay village north living in Singapore reached a district offl- fair-haire- Cer. A check Tobacco Co., Wlnitoo-Salem- , N. C. Lien Smoke established it Bertha. Her nurse had fled with her to Malaya when the Japanese invaded Java. For nearly eight girl years the blond, blue-eye- d had been living as a Malay child in sarong and bolero, attending a Malay school. The child did not want to leave her ' amah; upon vhom she looked as her mother. And the nurse, to keep Aminah- Aminah, the child.? But Bertha was returned to her - t j I -- parents in Holland by two Dutch army nurses. fc. 1 TUNE IN GRAND OLE OPRY- -, thaiuany other. tobacco SATURDAY NIGHTS ON NBC |