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Show The President and Horseshoe Pitching President Truman has decided to build a horseshoe pitching court on the White House grounds. This should make America feel better. Much of the trouble that the world is in today is due to the fact few, if any, rulers have been horseshoe pitchers. There is something about horseshoe horse-shoe pitching that keeps a man cool, eases his nerves and lessens the chances of his doing anything cockeyed. cock-eyed. We had a few horseshoe pitchers pitch-ers among our earliest Presidents, and their administrators were the most peaceful in history. Perhaps In these troubled times of Irascibility, frenzied disputes, hair - trigger decisions, impatience, impa-tience, with the other fellow's viewpoint view-point and the itch to settle everything every-thing overnight, horseshoe pitching pitch-ing may save civilization! Had Adolf Hitler ever gone in for pitching horseshoes the yen to conquer con-quer the world would never have' developed. In your wildest dreams can you picture Mussolini fooling around with a horseshoe? On with the horseshoe stuff, Harry! You're no genius in statesmanship. states-manship. You are not the wisest ruler of the day. But nevertheless when the atomic bomb crisis agitates agi-tates the great men of the earth, when potentates on all sides are shouting at one another and when so many big men have so many hot ideas for causing trouble, it will be good to know that you spend a little time each day out behind the White House pitching horseshoes. Circus Memories The circus is back in New York, and thousands of big city kids will be thrilled no end. But we pity the kid who never knew the circus in a small town. Back home in our boyhood boy-hood It was the event of the year. The first flush of posters on the billboards bill-boards kindled our imagination. . . . we were sleepless for nights before the great day . . . and we were up at 3:30 a.m. the morning the big show arrived. ... It was always unloaded in the freight yards down at Long Wharf off Water street, and what a thrill it was to hear the locomotive whistles and then see the circus trains ' pull in, unload and start on the five-mile trek to the circus grounds, which used to be in Elm City park back of the Hubinger mansion. After the unloading had progressed pro-gressed an hour or so, we hustled to the grounds to see the tents go up. . . . The rat-tat-tat of the stake-driving stake-driving crews . . . the rumble of the wagon wheels . . the smell of tambark and hay . . . the aroma of Iamb chops and boiled potatoes from the cook-tent . . . oh, boy! We" generally managed to get a job leading a pony in a parade and got a free pass to the show. The "O" has been knocked out of "UNO" which now becomes officially "f.7V.," which makes it sound like an Indian grunt. Now if they would only take the "N" out it seems lo us it would personalize its message tremendously. A head of the Mexican baseball league threatens to complain to the American ambassador about an American baseball player who has quit the league. The matter may get before the United Nations security se-curity council. Which is a fine idea. It would give the organization terrific ter-rific press notices, especially if any delegate walked out. General MacArthur recommends that the Japanese adopt the A. B.C. alphabet. The Japs are satisfied that they were nuts to stage the recent re-cent war and they may be ready to admit that the Jap alphabet drove them crazy. . But we still doubt that the Japs will seem any less warlike because they spell, "Does the cat see the rat?" our way. Soon we shall be hearing of the worthy citizen who started life on a shoestring and ultimately acquired a furnished room. Isn't it about time the book clubs began selecting the book clubs of the month? Laugh of the Year The announcement, announce-ment, with a sober face, by OPA enforcement agents at this late date that wholesale butchers have been forcing retailers to make, "tie-in" purchases! PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN "This is an outrage," he declares When In a subway jam; "There ought to be a law!" be screams, "What do they think I am?" . . . His squawks are terrifying, oh. They can be heard a mile Bnt at the race track he will stand And take it with a smile. The old league of Nations is now closing in Switzerland. It Is surprising surpris-ing everybody by a display of flrm- ness in this procedure. |
