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s' i' r-. T.xVadisonian Interviews Cartoonist Bill Freese In Tucson Egad. THE CAPITAL TIMES OF MOO nemos, i ecial Greetings to All Off MADISON, Tuesday, Slay; 17, 1955 (Ivan Clyde Lake, who wrote the following article on Major1 Iloople, and the Majors creator. Bill Freyse, formerly lived in llis family has been living in Tuscon for several months because of the illness of his daughter, hut he said they expect to return to Madison in a short while. EDITORS NOTE) Plant Grass and a In a 6AD MY VJISHSS TO ALL- I Si MADISONi, ANYD AT THE CAPITAL Times By CAPPY By IVAN CLYDE LAKE rpUCSON, Ariz.

Egad, friends, it was a pleasant vernal afternoon when; at long last I reached the home of Major Amos Barnaby Hoople, no less. This wa his house, I doubted not, in a new. section of the Old Pueblo, for I saw attached to the entry lamppost, of all fit places, the wrought-iron likeness of his beaming face. I was also certain that Bill Freyse lived there because he and the Major are like clock-hands at noon. Before 1 pushed the doorbell I glanced round at this new house in the neighborhood of the Santa Catalina foothills: Southwestern house of burnt-adobes, one storied, and as long as from here to there.

1 reckoned the patio big enough to hold all Our Boarding House folks, with elbow-room to spare. Then 1 fingered the doorbell expectantly, all eager to meet Bill Freyse and to see his ink from which the Hoople menage emerges. tiori which distributes the cartoon, and Freyse work as. partners in the production of the Braucher, lives In Cleveland, which i a far trek. from here, yet the collaboration, runs smoothly.

have added several new characters to. the Boarding House group, including Twiggs and Leander. Bom in Detroit on June 12, William II, Freyse finished his schooling there, and was married to Evelyn Schwabb of Highland Park. They have a By GENE COFFMAS The Capital Times will pay $2 for each question-submitted arid-used in Question of the Day. Winner of $2 question today is.

Mrs. L. H. Smith, Niles, l. YOU have a pine 1 cone that you picked up last winter, or if you can still find one under a pine tree can have fun by planting grass and flower seeds in it and watching the garden grow.

This is an indoor fun-project, so is igood for rainy days. The layers of a dried pine cone are open. If the cone wet or damp, it will close. This is important in growing this special garden. The first thing to do is to smooth off the bottom of the cone so it will stand upright in a saucer of water.

This may be done. with a saw and sandpaper. 1 You must then get some grass seed and, if you wish, the seeds of some small flowers. Sprinkle. these into the coneas the boy is doing in Figure 1.

Then place the cone in the saucer of water, standing it upright, of course. As the cone soaks up water from the saucer, it will, close, enfolding the! seeds. It will stay closed as long as you keep a fresh supply of water in the saucer. Soon the damp cone will start to sprout with little green shoots of grass and flower plants. The growth of greenery will become thick enough to coyer the entire cone as in Figure 1 Try it! Its fun! daughter, Lynn Marie, a senior, in Tucson High School, and a son, Stephen.

4 years old. Freyse did not attend an art school in residence. He had a few lessons in the old Landon correspondence school of art but his talent for drawing was really developed by persistent practice. He was an admirer of the late Bud Fisher and remembered particularly that period in Mutt and Jeffs careers when they were sojourning in the Border Country, not too far a piece from here. "I used to practice drawing Mutt and Jeff over and over, he said.

"I learned a lot, that way. But I never dreamed Id live In this part of the country. Several years passed before he came out here but he put them to good use. He set himself up as a com IIALF ACRE CASTLE ftkfOsiteys True fug AfEIAN MUPSK1PPBFZ PEN PS ML OP YTS TiMEs ONI LANE? FOE! INSECTS. A I Flowers DICK Life Adventures 0 Copy 1455 Wak Duacy ProducnoM World Rrghu Rtxmd fSlNS FINS FOK FEET, IT CAN SLITHER LONS AT 7- MILES PER HOD K.

So They Say: When. I was making $3000 a year in. 53, I had to live on peanut butter sandwiches to keep alive. Now Im helping to sell the stuff. Fess Crockett) Parker.

Wc desperately oppose any surrender to the Reds, because we do not want to become slaves and give away our freedom and human rights. Syngman Rhee, ROK president. Farmers in these (low-income) areas are up against lack of enough good land, lack of equipment, lack of credit facilities and often lack of management information and Agriculture Secretary Benson. 1 Now we believe in teaching handwriting for use and not as an art. J.

Kendrick Noble, textbook publisher. BA By HAL COCHRAN Etiquette is a i No, thanks when youd really love another piece of that homemade pie. Put on too much speed In going ahead with your car and youre likely to meet with Lois of times its the guy' with lots of sugar who has a sweet disposition. Things may conie to those who wait, but only tbe things that are left by those who hustle. When a man comes home and finds the living room furniture, on the front porch, its spring house- cleaning time.

TODAYS QUESTION 1 What do you think is the most glamorous job a girl can have, WHERE ASKED East Side Shopping Center, THE ANSWERS Donna Bewick, 3901 Maher 8th Grade Student 1 think a position as top hair stylist would be one of the most glamor--ous jobs which- a girl could She would' able to meet' if many petipl including a lot- who were-r i or famous. As a hair stylist, she could exercise her creative ability, and perhaps. start trends which Would sweep, the country. Sharon Tnousand, 4512 Gordon 8th Grade Student -I think that fashion de--signing would be the most A designer can use her and design and create fashions wh id tastes The fact that perhaps hundreds of women through-out the country might be wearing clothes which she had designed would certainly be rewarding to her, both financially and men- tally. Mrs.

Vernon Miller, Lodi, Housewife Id. like to be a fashion expert with an exclusive womans cloth-1 firm. Id really, enjoy ing to all the top fashion shows, viewing the' pew i collections a d-meeting the. top fashion ers, both in this' country and: abroad, e-j cially in Paris. Id actually like to be a buyer for such a firm, and have the thrill of choosing front, among those lovely Hanson.

2334 West Lawn Ave. I think one of the best f. would be a posi-I- tion as a private secretary to a fa- mous writer. He would, of course, have to be a mature and cultured i i I al, intelligent, and good looking. The opportunity to.

travel with him, lands, would thrilling beyond words. A safari, to darkest Africa would be most Joyce Nelson, Be Forest, Sales Clerk I think that being a top fashion I would be one of the most fabulous jobs which a girl could have. It would be exciting. interesting and high paying. The chances are jt would, also provide an opportunity for the girl to get.

really nice clothes at a considerable: discount, would have a chance to meet some really important people. 7) (s coins to bank robbers: Dear Herb: About two, three years ago there was published in Life magazine a story about Willie Sutton and his attempts at escape from a penitentiary. Do you know if this story has been published in book form? If it has, where can it be bought and for how much? Mrs. B. P.

Portage, Wls. It has. with the simple title, Willie Sutton, a biography by Quentin Reynolds. It was published by Farrar and Straus in 1953 for $3.50. T.

L. Graham, of Grahams Book and Stationery Store, 3228 University who looked up this information for me, says that he or any bookstore can obtain the volume for you. I like the ambition of this let ter: Dear Sir: Im 12 years old and I'm interested la monologues. Could you please tell me where I could get some of these monologues so 1 can learn them and entertain people? Sharon Swenson, Cottare Grove, Wls. The Information and Program TTMIE LUTTHTLE And Bill Freyse was as pleasant as the afternoon, with a smile and a hand-shake Arizona-wise.

and he presently welcomed me into his studio. It was a sunny room with bookcases and files and the drawingtable whereon, under bis artistic hand, the inimitable Iloople and his crowd, and the zany Nut Brothers, Ches and Wal, come to life. Egad. I have been a follower of the Major for, alas, a quarter-century and more. The Iloople cartoon was begun by Eugene L.

Ahearn in 1921, but after a spell he left the Major. Bill Freyse began soon to put Marthas spouse through his paces, and hes been doing it now for nearly a score of years. A writer named William "Red Eraucher, connected with the Newspaper. Enterprise Associa- By inn-Mite I HAVE SIX friends with birthdays coming up but the gifts are no problem! ON HIS OWN Executive agreements entered into by the President of the United States with a foreign country do not require approval of the Senate except when money or war is involved. Services division of the University Extension Division, 1327 University has a great variety of monologues, plays and things like that, and they are sending you some monologues which will help you get started.

Miss Wilma V. Knope, who is in charge of this section, told me the division has about 15,000 monologues and plays of all sorts, mostly kept on hand to be sent out to high schools for their dramatic activities. WOMAN a HERES BILL Freyse, who knows Major Hoople 1 better than anyone else, lie lie creates the cartoon. mercial artist. Then, after a spell, a chance came to work as the editorial cartoonist (front page space) on the Detroit Journal, and he remained at that until the paper as sold.

He re turned to commercial art but again later left it to join the staff of the Detroit Times. For a time he syndicated his own cartoons. First was "Copper Penny, and then "Laughing Gas. These were one panel drawings in which a lone character, made remarks apropos of this and that. But bigger things were in the When Bill made connections with N.

E. the Freyses moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where they lived for three years. They made a cross-country tour in 1936 and at that time had their initial view of Arizona. They spent the winter of 1942 here and then, two years later, they came here for good. Recently they moved into their new home.

I stood and stared at the Ink bottle beside the drawing-table. One after another the life-like characters of Our Boarding House seemed to emerge and walk forth: the Major harrumphing up in a cloud of cigar smoke, and Martha after him, and brother Jake: and Buster, Mack, Clyde. and all the others, including Twiggs. Twiggs is a pint-sized individual but he has a clever head on him: he belongs to the Sherlock Holmes genre. I saw the interesting evolution of Twiggs: how the artist had drawn experimentally several types of faces till finally he hit upon the familiar phiz with the overhanding nose and egad, that was Twiggs.

Some 650 daily newspapers, including The Capital Times, carry the Hoople fortunes to thousands of and something like 275 -Sunday papers use the comic strip. In addition to Our Boarding House the colored comics include the Nut Brothers, than whom I know of none more nutty. Last year Freyse produced an hilarious book titled "Unofficial Hysterical Facts About Old The drawings show superb craftsmanship and the running comments are done in high humor. Old Tucson, the locale of the book, was a movie-set originally built to film Arizona. Located a few miles southwest of town, it is a replica of the Old Pueblo of trigger-happy days, and it is maintained as a tourist attraction by the Union Chamber of Commerce.

A Hoople museum is to be established at Old Tucson soon. It will contain a collection of originals of Freyses printed work, a gallery of portraits of the Iloople family connections, and other Hoople-ana. Egad, friends, I could go on like this for a long spell but I reckon Id better drop over to the Owls Club and see whats agoing on there. Its sure Ill meet the Major himself there, leaning on his cue. I want to thank him for the portrait of himself made especially for this piece by Bill Freyse.

You all can see what they think of you Midwestern folks! clear Research, made up of 12 European countries with Dr. Felix Block, an American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, as its director general. The purpose of this center is to pool European resources to carry out research with a budget too costly to be carried by the individual nations. To spread knowledge wre need books, and UNESCO has convinced 18 countries, including Great Britain and France, to wipe out customs duties on books, periodicals and newspapers. Many of us are apt to overlook two unpleasant facts first, that a very large portion of the people of the world cannot read or write; and second, that two-thirds of humanity scrape along on a yearly income averaging less than $100.

The growth of knowledge helps to raise living standards and to wipe out illiteracy, and this leads Into a great many ac- THE STORY OF MARTHA Doutbtfed by Ka huiw Syndics carries its water supply in SPONSy SACKS ON EACH SPB OF ITS HEAP. jTri and Stump Me! Old Stains, Old Robbers and Old Goins on Agenda Also Old 31onologues, or Maybe Its Old Plays, Some 15,000 of Them By HERB JACOBS OLD STAINS for pianos and other furniture, old money, and old escaping bank robbers occupy us.today. To say nothing of monologues and plays, of which the University is sitting on some 15.000, ready to shoot out to high schools and other places. 1 mistook the stains question at first for one about removal of 'same: John Milt Morris SOsjdirW GfcQEbGcmy QiEEECGflD NEW YORK As I go around the country I hear much unfounded criticism about the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, known as UNESCO.

I think perhaps we should take the trouble really to know a little more about this anization, so that we do not find our selves stirred up unnecessarily. You will hear people say, for example, that UNESCO is engaged in spreading world communism, yet In the same breath that it is fanning the flames of na-tiona 1 i m. You Mrs. Roosevelt hear also that it is tearing down our patriotic traditions by teaching a concept of one world, and again that it is preaching the interests of international capitalism. WHAT UNESCO was really set up to do was expressed in rather broad phrases, in its constitution, such as erecting the defenses of peace in the minds of men.

This is quite an undertaking, and under such a mandate you can do a great variety of things. Of course, some of the things tried have not been completely successful, and these became easy targets for the critics. But on the whole, the program is developing slowly into a very valuable international effort. Today, eight years after its founding. UNESCO has a membership of 72 nations and an annual budget of $10,800,000.

Its policy is laid down in a general conference of its members which meets once a year, just as the members of the U.N. meet once a year in the General Assembly and develop the policy of the U.N. The UNESCO executive board meets regularly between conference sessions. It has 22 nations now represented, and its members are responsible to their governments, following a decision taken with U. S.

support at the Montevideo meeting on Dec. 11, 1954. The broad phrases of the constitution are slowly being developed in programs which might be summed up in the words, the spread of knowledge. This is wide enough to cover such activities -as training better grade school, teachers or acquainting more people with the masterpieces of painting, ONE OF UNESCOS most recent moves has been to aid the establishment of the European Organization of. Nu- CtWTTOM CAM VOU OVERCOME A LOVE DISAPPOINTMENT BY USING YOUR WILL POWER? YES Nod 5-n ANSWER TO QUESTION NO.

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tivities. It is because we know so little about these in the. U. S. that people can be made to resent an organization which is vital in helping people learn to live in a peaceful world.

WAYNE DEAR SIR: Where may water Stains for refinishing pianos and other furniture be obtained? We have, inquired at several places where they handle paints, and they never heard of them. What kind of alcohol should be 1 used to thin shellac when the in-. on the can of shellac tell you not to use denatured alcohol? Mrs. 11 Hen Huenink, Emerald, Wls. stains, essentially earthen or powdered pigments mixed with water, weretj popular many years ago, but are now consld- Jacobs ered too messy, and they break down too readily, although they do produce fine finishes.

That what Fred Statz of the paint firm said. James F. Peshek, of the Forb-. es-Meagher Music 27 W. Main who does a lot of work in touching up the finish of pianos and radio cabinets, as well as In picture framing, says a complete variety of water stains can be obtained from the Golden Star Polish Manufactur-ing 2901-11 E.

13th Kansas City, The company han dies things like lacquer sticks, dry colors, and anything a fin-, Isher needs. he says. To thin that shellac, get 189 proof clear alcohol, used for that purpose because It is as free of water as the law permits, Mr. Statz says. A Belleville woman wants to know whether "very old paper money would have any value.

If it Is U. S. currency, it would at least be worth Its face value. A check with collectors In places like Hobby magazine would tell whether it Is worth more. For those who keep sending me questions on coins, the ry has books.

giving values, and Earl Clauder, 30 E. Mifflin also answers questions on their value. D. Hanson, Merrimac writes about two "coins, one of which deals with George Wash and the other with Na- poleon 111. but neither has an dication of value.

These are doubtless rather than coins. Again, the coin books or Mr. Clauder can supply the an swer. Its an easy transition from of them. It's too bod it isn't worth oil it.

costs to tell some people what you CNU By Wilson Scrngtfs Well, that takes me up to three years and six months. Youve only got ten more years to go..