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THE FREEPORT FACTS, Freeport, Brazoria County, Texas 5-Minute Biographies of to Win Friends and Influence People." CLYDE BEATTY Stick His Head in a Lion's Mouth Without a Gas-Mask Clyde Beatty has one of the most, dangerous jobs in the world. He looks into the jaws of death, not once, but twice a day. The life insurance companies realize that he may be ripped to pieces at any time by savage claws; so they refuse to gamble on his life. He is the only performer in the circus who can't get an insurance policy. He told me he had sometimes thought of quitting the lion and tiger business; but he says that If he had to punch a time-clock in a factory or similar job it would kill him.

and if he's got to die, he'd rather be gored to death than bored to death. Clyde Beatty has spent half his thrilling exciting lifetime fifteen years of it under the big top. As a kid back in Chilllcothe, Ohio, he was crazy about the circus. One exciting day the Barnum and Bailey circus came to town. A laundryma'n stuck up a poster in his window.

A glamorous picture in yellow and purple and red, showing a heroic lion trainer bravely cracking his whip over a cageful of roaring, snarling cats from Africa. Beatty rushed inside and begged the owner of the laundry to give him the poster, after the circus left town. The laundryman said "Yes, I'll give it to you if you'll run errands for me for a week." He agreed to this. This twelve-year-old kid already had some roaring, snapping, snarling friends of his own. Or at least, he made believe they were.

He had five dogs which he had trained to sit up and beg, roll over and walk around on their hind legs. And every so often he would stick up his circus poster and put on a wild animal act for the kids in the neighborhood. Then one summer when the big caravan chugged out of town. Clyde Beatty was aboard, his heart palpitating with excitement. For three days, his desperate parents, frantically.

His mother spent nights of weeping before a letter came saying he hacLa-job of cleaning out the cages with the circus. He was only fifteen and ne was getting five dollars and a chance to live in Paradise. In the ten years' time, this youngster from ChilUcothe, Ohio outstripped every lion-tamer in history. He put on an act so daring, so fool-hardy that even circus men said it couldn't be done. And then when they saw him actually do it, they said he was a lunatic and Chat his life wasn't worth a plugged nickel.

He put forty snarling, spitting lions and tigers Into the same cage, cracked his whip and made them do their stuff. Forty lions and tigers bristling with hate and snarling with rage. No wonder the act created a sensation even among circus people, for lions and tigers are morta enemies they fight on sight. And more than on one occasion Beatty found himself in a cage of fighting, roaring, murderous jungle cats. Yet strangely enough, Clyde Beatty says that lions and tigers are not the most dangerous ani mals to control.

He's tried them al lions and tigers, leopards, bears hyenas, and elephants. And hi found that the most dangerous beast of all is the polar bear. And he says that the hardest trick all is to make a tiger ride on ai elephant's back. In fact, he himsel was nearly killed by an elephan one day, just because he had beet to the tiger's cage and the ele phant caught the hated scent the tiger. You've heard, haven't you tha animal trainers control their ani mals by looking them straight in the eye? Clyde Beatty told me tha that is a lot of nonsense.

The aver age lion wouldn't give two hoot even if Mae West looked him in the eye. He says the only reasoi he watches his animals is to fine out what they're up to and wha they're going to do next. Beatty says no trainer has eve actually stuck his head in a lion' mouth. It just looks that way. says: "I've known some prett reckless animal trainers, but I'v never heard of one crazy enougr to stick his head into the moutl of a lion." Besides lions have hall tosLs so bad that even their bes friends would have to wear gas masks.

There's another popular idea that lion-trainers use recl-ho pokers-to control enraged animals. But Beatty that if you want to commit suicide, jast enter the cage of a lion or tiger that has been burned with a red-hot poker. His harmless weapons are a kitchen chair, a whip and a revolver filled with blank cartridges. Clyde says he's tried working with tame animals ani- born in captivity, and he prefers wild ones any time. Tame animals are just like spoiled children they've been pampered and petted until they refuse to do anything.

The question he has been asked Thursday, June 27, 1940' Softball Standings BOYS' COUNTY LEAGUE Columbia Freeport Sweeny Brazoria Angleton Danbury Pet. 15 13 2 15 9 14 8 6 .571 14 8 6 .571 15 3 12 .200 15 3 12 .200 GIRLS' COUNTY LEAGUE Freeport Sweeny West Columbia Danbury Brazoria Angleton Pet. 15 13 2 .861 14 11 3 .784 15 10 5 667 15 0 9 .400 14 3 11 15 1 4 SENIOR CITY LEAGUE Pet. Field 5 4'u .526 Plant 10 5 5 .500 Park Avenue O'-S 6 1 .316 JUNIOR CITY LEAGUE Pet. Caddies 11 9 2 .818 Yankees 11'a 9 .783 Grammar School lO'i-46'i; .381 Clute 927 .22: Velasco 9 1 8 .111 Sportlight BY L.

D. HARRIS Remarks deleted our editors! THIS MAN Had Plenty to Say This man is sore about a sloppy printing job he got from out of town. He said plenty! But there are laws about putting what he said in print. There ought to be a law against bum printing. But we don't need that law for our company.

Years of experience have proved to local business men that they can rely on our work. They like its 'quality and low cost. We can do better work for you now! Letterheads Mail Pieces Circulars Blotters Cards Folders LOW COST PRINTING Freeoprt Facts The Danbury girls and boys softball teams came into Freeport Friday night with high expectation of annexing the two games played with the Freeport girls and boys They returned to Danbury highly disappointed. The girls dropped their game to the Freeport girls by a score of 6 to 1. It was a merry game for our girls.

They scored one run in the first inning, one In the second, and made a merry-go- round of the bases In the third inning, by scoring three more. Jane Gormey came through with a nice three bagger to make the three scores of that inning. Myrtle Crosby pitching for Freeport found hei control, used a speed ball and held the Danbury girls practically tc naught, except for one inning, a which time (2nd) Danbury scorcc their only run. Another additioi of the Gormey family played ai excellent brand of ball at th short-stop position, while Dorothj Faith, also a new addition to the team, played first. Frenchie Cayc jumped with delight when he sav, Dorothy Faith pick up one of Mi.ss Crosby's speed balls thrown to first and picked up off the ground.

It was really a nice piece of work, so we all thought. The ball hit the dust within two or three inches of the first base bag. and Miss Faith skillfully placed her glove in front of the bag. scooping up the ball for the out. Jimmy McReynolds.

alter three shaky innings in which the Danbury boys chalked-up three scores, settled down and prevented Danbury from scoring again. He received excellent support from his teammates, both In field and at bat, and the game ended with Danbury on the short 'end of a ti to 3 score. niest often is this: can a lion lick a tiger, or will the User lick the lion? Frankly, he doesn't know. He's been in the big cage dozens I of times with lions and tigers I fighting all around him. but the lions always gang up and tiger.s fight alone.

When one lion 1 fighting all the lions in sight come to his aid especially if the lions are brothers. Lions are just like boya theycan't see a scrap wilh- out mixing up in it But a tiger has no race consciousness he will sit up on his pede.stul and ac; tually yawn while some other tiger Ls being killed. One of the most amusing stunts Clyde Beatty does in the Big Cage is to make a bear turn a complete somersault the only trick of its kind in the world. He discovered it by accident Beatty was in the cage one day when the bear came I tearing at him. bared, claws tense, and murder u.

lii.5 eye bear was out to kill uiui was s-j iieict- that BealU u.i lliiny Uial i. to In- mii.d h.u..r.J oil and smashed tl.e bvar on Jlid u.3 L-LM- i-, painful to a bear J. unci as lJ'. A bear went over in ed a sumcliuiuU Ti.a'. what gave i j.

Ai.d all he to do to make Ur. same bear turn a c-jnipiete tlip- fiop la to tap him on Uie nose with hia whip Clyde Beutty wilu aiu- iiiuLs of the jungle plum knowo them belter tluu utner man Ir.ing Vet he say.3 hu favorite animal is the dog. June in January at the Fair HOWING what curious things hnppe.il at the Forty-Fair in New York, here's January harmonizing with June sweetly as you please, In the 1940 Ford Exposition. The girl at the keyboard IS Lois January of musical comedy fame and of Texas, too. She came to the World's Fair as official guest of honor one fine day In June.

So, naturally, at sight of this inviting musical Instrument, she sat down and paraphrased, "It's June In That popular tune was January's theme song for her recent national radio Irotir. Since then she's been singing on Broadway and In one of Manhattan's swankiest nightclubs, sixty-five stories above the pavement. January Is her real name. Her branch of the French Jnnvlcrs. a family that's produced many prominent people in America, adopted the English form of the name a few generations ago.

Lois was born Just north of the Rio Grande, near Brownsville. Lois Is right down to etirth In this photo. She found the unusual Instrument In Garden Court at the Ford Exposition. The melodious player Is a Novachord, which reproduces all the sounds of a whole section of an orchestra. Famed Composer Fcrdc Grofe uses four Novachords In dally free concerts In Garden Court, and that's one reason why the Ford Exposition's beautiful patio attracts thousands of World's Falrgoers every day.

ness. Do not waste another's time and energy or your own patience by suggesting even indirectly that there Is more, than one course of action, if there Is only one which will get the result you require. The work to be done takes half the time if the attention is undivided and so Is free to go on to tho next demand quickly. By going over your day In imagination before you begin it, thinking of all the contacts you are likely to have and how they can best be handled, listening to your own voice and correcting It till you get the tone which is at once courteous and unanswerable, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. By doing so you will find thnt you get through your business day with less fatigue; with what you have left you can begin to realize some minor wish of which you have long dreamed In secret.

From there WAKE UP AND LIVE The softball team of Freeport journeyed to Angleton Tuesday night and trounced the Angleton girls and boys by a very large The girls defeated their opponent 14 to 0. The funs saw Lucille Kyle bang out a home run and witnessed excellent playing on the Here is an example of developing secondary talents so that confidence in important matters follows: A thirty-year-old clerk in a business office who had had no early advantages had wanted nil her life to play the piano. One day on her walk home, moved by an impulse which she fortunately did not resist, she turned into a house which advertised music lessons by a little sign In the window. Her success, of course, is only comparative. She hid not the time needed to make a really excellent musician, nor did she begin early enough to train the special mu.sele.s that a professional pianist use.s But she in reference to her own noal.

Her whole life has been altered by that moment of Besides the pleasure she has had troin understanding music as only the performer can ever understand it. she has, and knows she has, acted in an adult fashion which resulted MICKIE OH FA TltTlB MS OVERTOOK VOUR, SUBSCRIPTION, VQfir fr VIE O-FOLDAGEj corns 'M part of Connie- Cayer at shortstop. Connie collected three good hlt.s i-aim- oil ground approxi- matc-U two leet to Miag a bee hnei Hut about to intvel over in i I.II lie duplicated Cuiiiiu- i -'uiii in one ul he hulliv' hit ol the i aluy. All li.e pluieil t-xci lle.il oal! Ul thej going late aie tr.t-\ von aiiV 'rouble tiir- pei.iuml The bo 1 vvijii tin-ir game bv a 'core ol la-i Tin- AngleUjn pluyt-d a vcr, gume. and oiJi diun luive jjieal deal trouljif Irom Uiem i look, pi I in lo.c! What 5 wrong.

players anu Why not call in jscurt-a' ive uouui like to tell others about your big in giving her more confidence in every relation of her life. From being the overworked and oppressed drudge of her home, she came to live in her own small apartment, she visits her family on terms of amicable indifference, and has made a group of friends whose tastes coincide with hers. This case should give a hint, nt least, of the proper procedure. Take a definite step to turn a dream into a reality. Do something every day towards your intention, however re- I mote your noal may have to be Ahvuy.s your first question to yourself be.

"What would I be ddinn now if it were really im- passible for me to tail whatever jit is: traveling, modeling, willing. larmhiH''" It may be any of tlie.se or any one ol a hundred more Whatever it is. by thinking, you can discover easily what the lir.sl would be if you were engaged with reality, and not with a dre.un ot a different life. We realize how great an amount of the frietion we nil undergo in our lives comes from our expecting to be rebutted or ignored Think buck to encounlei you had today in your office, in a store, with a or tradesman in your home Try to remember just the form your request took. Making all due- allowances loi courtesy, or lor the respci tlulne.ss clue to and elders, was there not in addition a tentativencs.s about yoiii request? Didn't you u.sk tor cooperation in Mich a way a.s to leave room lor refusal, or grudging action, or tor bemi: ignored? Now think ot tile ideal way in which thai question could have been a.sked.

or that order given ll can be cast just a.s courteously as before, but in such a way thai the person of whom you asked help cannot refuse- you without being deliberately and hostile That is llie ol success When you tind it you benefit not only yourself, but the person with whom you must cooperate lor ellectlve- Freeport Methodist i Church REV A A THAltr. I'antor Cliiin School 10 III) A Worship Seivicc 10 A IVopie i MI-(-I in, 1 I i I' fr.vei.ii!,; (i UU All Intii'U anu nu iiiljri aie cd lu be till- fiSOll 1 'it-r u.ri-i lion ol Mis Tliomu, Urandiv, The I al VI-IOACO each nignt. ut All members Irit-nUo arc ui to be picsL-nl Hemcmuer the lutuie ol our hirijelv on our rlmrch and I-AU in- mu.it stand or lull to- aetlii-r And U.e> lull no oil-will want to lut- in our community Ko every oiie comt- out to these ie.rvu.-f.-> and help to make our town inviting. For a Sail The Modern Merchant Doesn't wait for SALES HE ADVERTISES It Is only a step to finding the courage to begin to do the major things which you have wanted and hoped to do. COLDWATER RITES ARE HELD FRIDAY Funeral services were held last Friday nt Brazorln for P.

E. Cold- wnter, who died at his Bra- zorin home Thursday, June 20, after an Illness of several months Born August 4, 1872, Mr. Cold- vvnter had been a resident of Bra- zorln since 1909, during which time he served as retail groceryinan and market merchant. At the time of his death he was employed by Commissioner W. H.

Brlgance. Survivors Include: his wife, Mrs. Emma Coldwater; two sons: F. E. Coldwater.

of Freeport and A. Coldwater of West Columbia- six daughters: Mrs. Ethel Lyons of Los Angeles, Mrs. Grace Brandos of Brazoria, Mrs. Mary Shaffer of Pledger, Mrs.

Mildred Stark of Hotiton, Mrs. Glen White of Oselousas, and Miss Ann Coldwater of Freeport; a sister, Annie Gusnaer of Denver, and one granddaughter and eight grandsons. Pallbearers were J. F. Harris, W.

H. Brlgance, J. S. Montgomery, Henry Harang, Geo. Badge and Randolph Prell.

NOTICE I would like to correspond with iomeone in or near Freeport who needs piano and could pay $1.50 per week. To such a person. I have a beautiful small piano which I will sacrifice rather than haul back to Houston. If you want ot see this piano, write or wire M. WOLFE, Credit Mgr.

Brook Mays Co. 1522 Main St. Houston, Texas I play safe. I've hud my cur Sinclnir-ized for Summer. That's a needed service because winter lubricants won't protect car in hot weather.

You, too, will ride safer this summer if you have your car Sinclair-ized now. This special service includes: 1. TRANSMISSION AND DIFFERENTIAL drained, flushed and refilled. 2. CRANKCASE drained, flushed and refilled.

3. FRONT WHEELS pulled and re-lubricated, as your car manufacturer recommends. 4. RADIATOR cleaned of anti-freezc. rust and sludge.

5. CHASSIS lubricated. 6. BATTERY tested and refilled to proper level. 7.

SPARK PLUGS cleaned and adjusted. BE SAFE! Sets yout nearby Sinclair Dealer. Have him ze your car today. Let us YOUR GAR FOR SUMMER R. W.

(BOB) EVANS.