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Show fJni.Phifipr P EDSE AND HENRY DISCUSS THE PLANE IDEA Edsel- Well, Pop, what do you think of it? Henry 1 never imagined I'd ever be in this business. How did it happen hap-pen anyhow Edsel We just got up one morning morn-ing and found ourselves in it. Henry Do you think we can turn out 1,000 a day? Edsel If it can be done you can do it. Pop. nT CAN DON E fcssio s sL u can do ir, pop Henry All I'm afraid of is that the government will keep changing the model. Edsel If they do that we can't turn out one a month. Henry You know how the government gov-ernment generally does things, but I've got a promise it will stick to one set of plans. Edsr-1 She's a slick looker, ain't she? Henry Not to me, son. I hate that kind of machine. Man's place is on the ground. He don't belong up in the air. Edsel Your early models kept him up in the air, Dad. Henry It wasn't the car's fault; it was the rough roads. Edsel I don't think there's much more work on this plane than on a de luxe sedan. Henry Not as much. There u De no women passengers in it; that'll save us a lot of gadgets and fan-cy fan-cy stuff. We won't fefgO' have to worry rjB&ff 5 where to put the -yj vanity case and S&ttttW Edsel We can '-"l?' save a lot of time there. Henry You're telling me! Edsel The upholstery won't be optional, either. Henry But it won't be easy sailing. sail-ing. We have to be careful turning out planes for war. We can't make any little mistakes. A loose nut may be okay in a flivver but it's bad stuff in an airplane. A driver who gets up a mile in the air and discovers something was left off his plane is in a tough spot. Edsel What colors are we going to make these war planes? Henry Now don't bring up that matter. One color is all I'll stand for. It's going to be hard enough satisfying everybody on this job without getting into any arguments over colors. Edsel Are you sure Washington won't insist on reds, pinks and greens? Henry Nobody can be sure of Washington on anything, but I've got a promise, and if some bureaucrat bureau-crat comes rushing in and demands that the air force works better in a light blue plane than a gray one I'm going to raise the devil. Edsel Have you ever tnougnt what may be the outcome of this job, Dad? Maybe after we get into production the public will want planes instead of autos. K Henry I'm afraid of that. Edsel Maybe the general public will always prefer to stay on the ground. Henry If you watched the average aver-age Sunday driver you wouldn't think so. Edsel Well, anyhow, we'll get busy and do our best. Henry (reflectively) Gosh, but this seems funny. And to think that in the last war my contribution was A PEACE SHIP! PLEA Be as brutal as you may-Bitter, may-Bitter, scornful, mean or clever; But treat me like a neutral? . . . Say, Positively, mister, never! Hit me till the harpists play, Kick me in the middle section, Scalp me, but, please never say "This is done for your protection!" Elmer Twitchell is so disturbed by fifth columns that he never reads beyond the first and second. Nobody gets more frightened by war than a holder of stocks 3,000 miles away. Elmer Twitchell was out on the lawn with his new gasoline-driven lawn mower last night. Causing a neighbor to sneer: "A mechanized mechan-ized attack again!" The President has decorated George Cohan for composing twe great war songs. They are given as "Over There" and "You're a Grand Old Flag." But if Irving Berlin Ber-lin doesn't get a little federal recognition, recog-nition, it won't seem quite fair. "Or How I Hate to Get up in the Morning" Morn-ing" was a favorite war song, too. Add similes: As futile as a fellow who finds he hasn't the house keys at three in the morning. Martin R. Ragawav. |