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THE EVERYDAY MAGAZINE TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1948 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3D 50 Years' Honorable Service in Army My OPINION Contract Bridge By Ely Cplbsrtson By MARTHA CARR Dear Martha Carr: 1AM in my twenties and for the past nine months have been going with a man 18 years my senior. He boards with my paients. When I am not out in the evenings with him I am always home. Several evenings each week THE slip of the tongue made bv South in today's deal was not his worst mistake, by long shot.

South, dealer. North-South vulnerable. 4AJ KQlf) AJ10 jQ10843 NORTH I go to the place where he works and stay there just to be where he is. Some of the men we know are patrons there and will often sit and talk with me a while and help make the evening pleasant. So my friend jumps to conclusions and thinks I make dates and spend the rest of the evenings of the week with them.

How can I make him realize I am 4K973 42 J9752 Q865 432 4875 AK6 SOUTH PRESIDENT TRUMAN POSES WITH GEN. AND MRS. 0,4 VIS. Benjamin O. Davis, Only Negro General in Country's History, Says His Has Been Happy LifeSon Of Interior Department Messenger i Akah ff 'S I I ff rum COO By Virginia Irwin A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. THE only Negro general officer in our Army, kindly, soft-spoken 71-year-old Brig. Gen. Benjamin O.

Davis, sat in the pleasant living room of his home here in Washington the other day and talked of his half-century in uniform that has now brought him his well-earned retirement. "Mine," he said, "has been a happy life. I never wanted to be anything but a soldier. When I was just a boy my favorite picture was an old print of Sheridan's Ride to Cedar Creek. My favorite reading was Bond's History of the United States.

I remember watching the cavalry troops at Harrison's inauguration and thinking that there couldn't be anything finer in life than to wear a uniform and ride a horse. Not many kids grow up to realize their greatest ambition as fully as I did mine." Born in Washington July 1, 1877, Gen. Davis was the son of a messenger to the United States Secretary of Interior. His grandparents on his father's side were freemen, but his grandparents on his mother's side were slaves. "Although my father never made much money, he w-as a wise man and invested every cent he could lay hands on in property," Gen.

Davis said as he recalled his childhood. "He was able to send me to high school and it was during these years that I began to realize something of my ambition to get into uniform. I was the most ardent participator in our high school cadet corps." When the war with Spain came, the general's cadet training stood him in good stead. With a company of men he himself had recruited, he entered military service shortly after his twenty-first birthday as a temporary first lieutenant in Company G. of the Eighth United States Volunteer Infantry.

He served in this capacity until March 1899 when the volunteer infantry was mustered out and although young Lt. Davis had seen no action and had traveled no farther from home than Georgia, he had lost none of his enthusiasm for the Army. Three months after he was mustered out he enlisted as a private in Troop of the Ninth Cavalry of the Regular Army and in two years had risen to corporal, then squadron sergeant-major and finally in February 1901 was commissioned a second lieutenant in the cavalry. "The most exciting experience of my whole life was when I first saw active service against the enemy when our troop was sent as a member of an expedition to the island of Samao during the Philippine insurrection," the general said. telling the truth when I say I go out with no one but him? C.

This man is so much older than you that It is possible he resents these men who talk to you because they are closer to your own age, apd he fears you may prefer their company. If he continues to doubt your word, is suspicious and jealous, you will be much happier if you break with him. It would he simple enough for him to check on you ty asking your parents where you have been on the nights you aren't with him, but that would be presuming on his part and humiliating to you. I cannot see that dating this man for several months irives him any right to question you regarding your comings nd goings, unless you have a going steady agreement or are engaged to him, and apparently neither of these is the case. Find someone closer your own age to go with, who is Jess possessive and has more faith in you.

Oear Martha Can FOR QUITE A WHILE I dated a man I cared for very much. I tried to make him jealous several times by dating married man as well as several other men I should not have gone out with. When he found it out he was very angry and dropped me with no warning. He tells friends that he still loves me, but toward me he is stern and uncompromising. I know now my tactics were all wrong and got me nowhere and I am sorry.

He seems determined not to make the first move toward making up. What do you think I should do? I've been pretty hateful at times, too, that I'll admit, though he was always very thoughtful and kind to me. J. H. 1042 VAJ975 KQ963 The bidding: South.

West. North. East. 1 Pass 2JU Pass 34(!) Pass 7 Pass As he explained very sheepishly, South had not intended to bid three diamonds over North's two clubs he had meant to say only two diamonds. Actually, of course.

South had a minimum opening. Even with South's slip. North had to be pretty aggressive to leap all the way to the grand slam, although in his defense it must be conceded that if South's jump re-bid had been intentional, there figured to be a very fine play for thirteen tricks. As a matter of fact there was a fine play, but South muffed, it! West opened the king of clubs. South ruffed, led a low trump to dummytand ruffed a second club, then drew one more trump and ruffed a third club with the trump ace.

He seemed pleased to drive out West's club ace, but at the end he discovered what should have been obvious all along that one discard, on the club queen, was worth exactly nothing. Since South had reached the grand slam in such a remarkable fashion, he should have given more careful thought to the play. This was a situation that clearly called for "dummy reversal." Observe how easily this works out when the trumps and the diamonds break normally: South ruffs the first club lead, goes to dummy with a trump, ruffs a second club, then Ifads a diamond to the ten. He ruffs a third club, goes back to the diamond ace, and ruffs a fourth club with his own last trump. Now he leads to the spade ace, draws the outstanding trumps whileVhe himself discards two spades, and overtakes the diamond jack to run the rest of that suit.

health and general well-being was that of a man 20 years younger. He attributes his stamina at 71 to the fact that he eats sparingly, always takes setting up exercises and walks at least two hours every day. "I'm still on infantry schedule," he laughs. "I walk every day from 7:30 to at least nine o'clock." Now that retirement has brought him his first real leisure in 50 years, he hopes to take up in earnest his life long hobby, the study of languages. He speaks French, Spanish and Italian.

He has visited or seen service on four continents and in 15 countries. BRIG. GEN. BENJAMIN O. DAVIS NEVER WANTED TO BE ANYTHING BUT A SOLDIER.

further service at Tuskegee Institute, at Wilberforce University and in 1938 was assigned as instructor and commanding officer of the 369th Infantry, New York National Guard and in 1941 was ordered to Fort Riley, Kansas, for duty as a Brigade Commander with the Second Cavalry Division. Few things have pleased the General more than his orders to command this horse cavalry brigade, because he was within a few months of being able to retire for age. And when he was retired as a Regular Army Colonel July 31, 1941, he was recalled to active duty the following day as Assistant to the Inspector General. He was assigned to the European Theater in 1942 and adviser to the Commanding General on problems involving Negro military personnel. In 1944 he became Special Assistant to the Commanding General of the Communications Zone of the European Theater of Operations and after returning to the United States after the war in Europe was over was appointed Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army.

"When I was holding down a desk in the Pentagon the officers were always asking me why I didn't use a messenger when I had something to deliver," the General laughs. "I never could make them understand that I needed every excuse I could find to get out of that chair. When I came home at night my wife used To remark that I looked tired and I always teld her that she'd too if she had to spend day sitting down." When Gen. Davis was examined at the time of his retirement last month, Army doctors told him his of General in the United States Army. I hope and believe and I am sure you share my confident wish that you are only the first of others who will come in the years ahead." In closing his letter, Secretary of the Army Royall wished Gen.

Davis "many years of a well-deserved rest." But the boy who wanted to be a soldier and worked himself up through the ranks isn't ready to rest. He hopes that when "the little old lady upstairs" goes to her rest, the State Department will still need his services as the United States Minister to Liberia. 332d Fighter Wing, Lockbourne, O. When Gen. Davis retired, President Truman summoned him to the White House and presented him with a -scroll which read in part: "You are one of the select few who have devoted a half century in the active military service to the defense of the United States of America and thr ideals of freedom and justice for which this country stands.

"You have exemplified by your distinguished accomplishments in places of great trust and responsibility all that is best in a soldier of the highest type." Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall in a letter of congratulations and praise took occasion to point out to Gen. Davis: "When you joined the Armv in IN the first 26 years of his service Davis had only five months' leave. He says that he couldn't afford to "play very much" because he was busy rearing three children. "When they were little folks I used to tell them that I would not have very much money to leave them, but that if they took an interest and showed progress I'd keep them in school as long as they wanted to attend," he explains.

"I'm happy to say that I have realized everything I wanted for my children." Gen. Davis's oldest daughter. Mrs. George W. Streator of New York, took both her bachelor's and master's degrees at Western Reserve University and did social work until her marriage.

His second daughter, Mrs. James A. Mc-Lendon. of Washington, receivpi" both her bachelor's and from Columbia University. His sor.

Col. Benjamin O. Davis was at the University of Chicago when he received his appointment to West Point. He now commands the SUPERFLUOUS HAIR Worts and Moles Removed Permanently By Elecrolysis Office Air Conditioned Ben Langan 1898, there were only five other Negro officers on duty. In today's i peacetime Army almost 1000 Ne- gio officers are serving.

This is the largest proportion of Negro officers that has ever served in the American Army in war or in tUtrmiogis Arcade llda. Suite 898 CH. 5213 812 OLIVE Ben Langan Langan Langan peace. Up to this date you are the only Negro to achieve the rank JUUUUUUU Instead of writing me all about it, why not go and say the same things to the young man in question? After all, he doesn't owe you an apology, you owe him one. Unless you had going-steady agreement or were engaged to this man, I fan't see what right he had to object when you daed others who were free to date.

It is the hatefulness and the deliberately trying to make him jealous for which you will have to say "I'm sorry." Your going out with a married man was completely wrong, of course. IX ANSWER TO "Trist:" I am sure your crowd would njoy my Leap Year Party as well as the General Party games for which you asked. But you sent neither name nor tamp. Send them and you shall have both these leaflets. IN ANSWER TO "Just Wondering:" By all means send the birthday card.

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George W. Crane CASE R. 239: Harry aged 34, is a famous obstetrician in the West. "Dr. Crane, he attended my wife when we had our first baby," a professor friend of mine commented recently.

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VAN DE VENTER LA-J6M OPEN NITES TILL 9SUN. 2-4- 1 5201 DELMAR FOrest 0922 Wvr IN August 1901 Lt. Davis was transferred to the Tenth Cavalry and returned from Ihe Philippines with that organization to serve as adjutant at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. "For three years we were garrisoned 160 miles from a railroad with the nearest town 300 miles away," the general smiles as he remembers the rugged life of those days. "Believe me we had no trouble with AWOLs out there.

The best duty you could draw was as a member of a hunting detachment sent out to shoot fresh meat. Army life there was somewhat different from the way I ended up wearing myself out by sitting down all day at a desk in the Pentagon building." After his tour of duty in the Jackson Hole country, Lt. Davis was appointed professor of military science at Wilberforce University and then sent as military attache to Monrovia, Liberia. "When I left the tropics of Liberia to rejoin the Ninth Cavalry at Fort Russell (now Fort Warren) in Wyoming I plunged from that intense heat into 20-below-zero weather," the General recalls. "But I was a tough guy in those days.

I could take it." After his three years of-border patrol duty, Davis was once more sent to Wilberforce University as a military science instructor and in 1917 returned to the Philippines where he stayed until 1920, when he was assigned as professor of military science and tactics Institute, Alabama. In 1924, he became instructor of the 372nd Infantry, Ohio National Guard. In 1929 he was detailed on special duty with the State Department with affairs relating to Liberia. Regarded as an expert on Li-berian affairs, Gen Davis has, since his retirement from the Army, been tendered a mission to Liberia by the State Department, but he has asked for time to spend with his aging mother, who now lives with him and his wife. "I want to make my mother's last days comfortable," he says.

"My mother is 93 and I'm all she's got left. I love that little old lady upstairs. I consider it my mission in life to make her last days comfortable. But I often tell her when we talk I'm trying to find out more about the history of my family that shell live to eat the goose that eats the grass off my grave." After his special duty with the State Department, Gen Davis saw How It Started By Jean Newton "To Fly Off the Handle." i i HP fly off the handle" is I one of the rare examples of authentic American slang although its author happens to have published in England the book in which the apparent source of the phrase is found. The allusion seems to be a literal one, referring to the head of an ax, if not secure when the ax was swung, could fly off the handle, to the peril of anyone in its line of flight.

And originally the expression was simply "off the handle." "Off. the handle" is found first in a novel, ''Brother Jonathan, or the New published in England in 1825 by John Neal, a young author from the State of Maine. In -this novel one of the characters describes an attack on an Indian village, as follows: "How they pulled foot when they seed us comin'! Most off the handle, some the tribe, I guess." And there is the metaphor, identical, except for lacking the initial word, with the slang expression today. It remained for Thomas Halibur-ton, the author of the famous "Sam Slick" stories, to make the first recorded usage of the phrase with the word "fly." This he did in "The Attache, or Sam Slick in England," published in 1844. Cotton VOICE.

Mezzo-soprano of rather unmusical quality. It is a rather old-sounding oratorical kind of voice that seems out of character with the slender, attractive, 45-year-old former Representative. Enunciation. Exceptionally good. Style.

She gives you the impression that she is trying to imitate the spread-eagle," cross-of-gold style of declamation that has been out-of-date since the invention of radio. I fear that someone has been giving Mrs. Luce elocution lessons. The last time I made an evaluation of her speech, I found her to be natural, charming, and feminine. Now, I am sorry to report, her speech is a curious combination of political bombast plus every trick of affectation in the book.

Her broad A's are the broadest ever heard; cawn't, disawster, awn-ser, awfter, lawst (last), chawnce. She prefers "eye-ther" and "ny-ther" to the Standard American ee-ther and neether. She gives the British telescoping to the -ary words, as "NESS-uh-sree" for necessary. She drips intrusive "r's" saying "propagander of the Kremlin; lawr of nature." She also drops her "r's" saying, "the Republican potty," etc. Pronunciation.

Otherwise very good. Score. Voice, 10. Enunciation, 25. Style, 10.

Pronunciation, 15. Total, 60. Rating, fair. The standard of good radio speech has changed for the better during the past 20 years. At first, when the inefficient" carborFmicro-phone was used, the broadcaster was concerned chiefly with his sat immediately in front me.

He was drinking whisky from a flask, which he was freely passing around to his companions. In addition, he pulled out a roll of bills and loudly dared anybody to accept a $50 wager. "Well, my wife was due to go t6 the hospital in a few weeks for our second baby. Fortunately she wasn't present. But I knew she'd never consent to having this doctor attend her again.

Consequently, I sought another obstetrician the very next $10 MacMne or MachTneless CLARE BOOTHE LUCE. articulation. He spoke in a manner that today would be regarded as over-precise, affected, pontifical. Today, happily, the emphasis is on naturalness and informality, or what has been called the style of well-bred ease. It is to be regretted that so brilliant a woman as Mrs.

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Crane, I'm surprised that a physician and surgeon would ever drink liquor. Certainly we wouldn't patronize a railroad if I knew its engineers were fond of alcohol. Most of us will not trust our loved ones to the care of a doctor who uses alcohol." SfAYBE IT ISN'T WISE to judge untilboth sides have been heard. Possibly the doctor had been up most of the night a difficult delivery. Perhaps friends of his college days were now in town, and insisted on his going to the game.

Maybe he took a couple of drinks at their insistence, and then as the anesthetizing influence of the whisky affected his nervous system, he lost perspective, and took a third, followed by a fourth, etc. In any case, you readers can see the disastrous ffect of this indiscretion. The patients whom he lost that day are talking to other people, just as my professor friend talked to me." It doesn't take long for such bad news to make the rounds. In one week this obstetrician may thus lose as much medical practice as he had gained during the entire preceding 12 months. ALCOHOL is a dangerous substance to deal with, for it lends itself to abuse so easily.

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