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Show Tale's Windup Merely Made Matters Worse Representative Homer Lyon of North Carolina was talking In Whitevllle about an Old World complication. "When America stepped In," he said, "a very plausible yarn was told us, but tills plausible yarn didn't alter a pretty horrid state of affairs. "A minister was calling on a lady when ber young son galloped Into the room. High over bis bend he held a rat by the tall. 'We got him In the cellar, mamma,' the llttlo fellow piped 'Don't be afraid. He's dead all right We lammed him and beat him and jumped on him till' "Here the boy noticed the minister for the first time 'until,' he wound up In a low, pious voice, 'God called him home.'" Los Angeles Times. |