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Hie iWeffe MONDAY MORNING Read and Use Observer Want 'Ads The Leading Newspaper of the Carolinas OCTOBER 28 1946 Listen World MONDAY NIGHT IS A GOOD NIGHT TO STAY HOME AND ENJOY THE VARIETY OF DRAMATIC PRESENTATIONS WBT Offers for your ontertoinment By ELSIE ROBINSON (Rer 8 Patent Office) ITAGE Entrance: When this col'm I TIME OUT WHILE A SCRIBBLER FEELS SORRY FOR HIS TRIBE CAPACI1T TO UNDERSTAND live in a world of capacities We measure and compare by them We go into a great hotel that has the capacity 8:00 INNER SANCTUM tion of one aisle-goer and his Mrs Everybody thinks his job the (we said it was Act III for their jhardest but a fair comparison will bliss) every married critic showed That you should be or do Believe me if I could I would not call you back I would not even Have you think That once I was your You my son Go on you're free! As you were free When first I held you In my hungry You were not mine Txcept to aerve and Go on with Life WORDS TO A BOY WHO DIED It is not easy to write of death It is not even decent or excludable to write out of self pity or to air one's agony But there is so much death in the worldtoday There are so many empty hands beating the air So if one knows even a little way to bear and share the lonelinessit may be a braver victory than to win a war) trast ct the diplomatic news: The same pages that recorded President optimistic speech before the United Nations delegates (and his statement that fear of war is unjustified) also recorded talk In which he accused Russia of violating the Yalta agreement He also demanded to know why the So-and-Soviets were massing 200 divisions in Eastern Yur-rop headline "Confusion Reigns on First Day Here we go again! It wa diplomatic and po- up at the very next opening with his wife! Artur Rodzinski the Philharmaestro celebrates his 25th as a aymphony conductor Nov 24th Martha Stewart may divorce the "Park show to be with her groom aon is reported coming here as an accordionist and 9:00 LUX Buddy Lester wonders if that's to lite for them all at Flushing to say RADIO THEATRE THIS DAY tarring JOAN FONTAINE AND MARK STEVENS And if I cry out In the lonely night only that I miss you Miss you lad And ao must pay the price We all must pay For aelfish love But I wish That I had one more chance To kiss you dear And hear your prayer And tuck you in And say Goodnight (Copyright 194(1 tor Th Obervr) get even? Since parting from actress Haila Stoddard producer Jack Kirkland dwell at the Columbia Univ Chub Xavier Cu-gat and Robert Diament hi mgr of long standing are no longer That Way Michael Bartlett the tenor was hoosegouged (in Bexar County Texas) for refusing to be a taxi cabman's sucker He won his they would get along this time The next day they began slugging again Just like fighters do in the ring (shake hands) before they start throwing uppercut John evidence which he brought back from Berlin official files (involving famed Americans playing footy with the Hitler Gang) was (for a hefty part) con My I wonder where you are What aeas you sail today What great campaign engage Your young end ardent heart For you were always venture some By all the counting Of the calendar They say you have hpen dead These twenty But love is timeless So is And those who bore you Reach beyond the years To follow blindly Where your young feet led freedom and a badge fromjfirmation of paragraphs first made Sheriff Owen Kilday however public by this column and broad- 10:00 caster years ago! show that a acribbler who writes for newspapers has the meanest job in the world In the first place there is no limit to hia hour He works 24 hour a day if he happens to be awake that long Whether reading the papers or shaving or brewing a pot of tea or wooing sleep at 2 a his mind never gets off the job (Hubbard aaid his mind worked best while he was chopping wood) When a youth is past his memory begins to play tricks on him but he is too vain to admit it On his desk he has a dictionary and a Bible Cruden's Concordance Who's Who The World Almanac and the Columbia University one-volume encyclopedia and these hold all the information he needs but he seldom consults them To do so would be an admission that his memory what it used to be So he trusts his memory and makes mistakes He places John Paul Jones In the wrong war! He makes the Declaration say all men are created free and equal though the word "free" isn't there He says Marshall was the first Chief Justice that Hastings was the last important battle in which troops depended on the bow and arrow that Charles Martel better known as Charles the Hammer slopped the Moslems at the gates of Vienna though it was done at the battle of Tours His only reward for these blunders is the discovery that his stuff SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS tarring SHIRLEY TEMPLE Since the Recreation Committee closed they report that it is "impossible to get theater seats for Vets well enough to leave hospital beds for relaxation Showmen oughta be ashamed! Modern Etiquette BY ROBERTA LEE house over 2000 guests read of the new air liners that have the capacity to go ao many miles per minute and to carry so many passengers We speak of a public man or woman haying the capacity to do eertain things and no more The most important capacity however is the capacity to understand That is what is troubling this world We Jack the capacity to understand people who do not think as we think We confine ao much of our judgments upon surface knowledge We can well go a long way with the one who we feel has the caparily to understand That makes the patient teacher and makes possible the genius for lasting friendships None of us knows his own rapacity however nor do we know the capacity of anyone else even though we think we do The more we learn the more we Are stimulated lo Increase our capacity not only to know more but to understand belter Responsibility enlarges the capacity of anyone or shows up its lack It was indeed a 1 i i ed few who saw in the ability of Abraham Lincoln the latent capacity lo rule a great nalion And how that capacity for understanding palience tolerance courage and tact increased with the years as greater and greater responsibility was added to his shoulders to bear! And how outstanding his humility through those tragic years! Here was an outstanding example of a man who seemed to be born with the capacity to undersland What a weight of fear would fall from the shoulders of all humanity if it could but believe that Mr Stalin had the capacity to understand the alms and ideals of those who only want peace and the opportunity to live happily If he but had Ihe caparily to undersland that no nation upon this earth wants war or to start one! I was a guest at the Royrroft Inn at East Aurora New York many years ago and Mrs Elbert Hubbard the Second told me of a time when she was very ill She loved horses and rode one nearly every day One day Elbert Hubbard Senior came inlo her room silently left a new saddle and walked out It gave her a great lift she said and then remarked: "Elbert always understood" One thing I know! One thing bought With all these countless (ears You do go oni Life does not mock No least thing is lost That ever comes to birth! God does not save a worm Or turnip seed Through eons of lush growth Then throw away His greatest The soul The Premieres: A comedy nicknamed "Made in donned ils cap-and bells The majority of reviewers reported it sporadically amusing although it had the first night stub-holders gargling guffaws Critic Howard Baines raled it as "smart and superficially The Aislemen chucked their dignity and covered some music hall East Lynnfertainment titled Wnofle-water is served during the poorformance since (observed some) it is bearable only when viewed through the bottom of a glass Drinx were on the House for the critics that is The Intelligenerate (as James Durante calls them): Publisher David Stern (of the Camden Courier-Post) has a new tome titled about an army mule which lajks and pokes fun at brass hats partic 2nd Loots Two newsmags are reported planning to shave their staffs as a photo mag did recently dumping over 50 Since the Yugoslav incidents Kve novel "Journey Among Warriors" has fallen to 49c at Broadway book shops Stefan Lorant's New World" will arrive Nov 7 via Duell Sloan A Pearce "New Orleans Woman byiarnett Kane already has 5 film offers Caswell Adams televising the Army games is adroit at the new racket Slanwood Menken Ihe noled barrister has a book on politics "Treason's Peace" by Howard Watson Ambrusler (which powerful people scared Dutton out of publishing) will arrive vih Crossroads Press on Jan 20 an expose on the cartelisls After Countess Mara the Park Avenue shopkeeper read she sent out for some hand-painted ties Never carried them! Should friends be attired in black for a funeral? A It is not necessary to wear black any dark clothes will do but sports or gray aUire should of course never be worn How should a woman introduce her husband? A As nr "John11 In her social equals as "Mr Brown" to servants or business acquaintances Should you argue with tha waiter in a restaurant about your bill In front of guests? A No if a discussion is necessary slep aside Look very your Best is read by people who have bet- So fhey returned the hospitality by ter memories They set him right reviewing the revelry in the audi- You are not Somewhere you still go on Beyond the vision Of my earthly Somewhere you live In beauty Play and build And love and laugh And help to make A better brighter Somewhere you follow Your predestined way And do the job Which you were meant to do ence instead of the show "The Playboy of the Western Wen-Id" starring Burgess Meredith hoisted ils curtain as we tucked the col'm into bed How Can BY ANNE ASHLEY To give yourself that feeling of be ing perfectly dress ed send your gar ments to Valeteria where you are as sured of expert handling garments Go on my son! And do not for one second Pet me hold you back! Go on to greater wider Planes of life Fulfill yourself And all God meant The Cinemagicians: Gifted with Paul Muni's superior spoofing "Angel on My is a frisky funlasy light enough to be blown away by a baby's sneeze "The Cockeyed is right up to ils funnybone in whimsv with Frank Morgan and Keenan Wynn as the katzenjammpr kidders "Vacation in goes gag-ga with a passable slice of lunaev starring Jack Haley "Queen of unveils an inept script-tease "High School is a jivester's rhapsody in blah A British import titled: "Johnny Frenchman" whips up the cream skimmed from the milk of human kindness and serves some appealing character studies The fugitive from a blue-pencil "The (according to previewers) is a fair Cowboy-Makes-Girl show How can I make a good luncheon dish out of leftover fish? A Place the leftover fish in tha casserole with a mound of strained rooked spinach Covei with whit sauce and cheese and put in th oven to bake How can I remove grit from the eye? A By applying a drop of castor oil Or bathe it well with warm witch hazel or pure olive oil How can I remove scorched spots from cloth? A Wet the spots with water and cover with borax or cornstarch rubbing il in well Let it dry before removing it But his mistakes hurt only his own vanity The real trouble begins when he hurts the feelings of others When he ails down at his desk he work at a furious pace to get words on paper He sits and waits He knows that most people now as ages ago like "human interest long pieces or short paragraphs concerning the faults and foibles and follies of human kind So he sits and wails for that kind of idea He sits with his mind open like a trap and when a little idea wanders in he gratefully grabs it by the tail and never asks from whence It came He is too glad lo get it for of such are his bread and butter made But if it is universal if It really fils human nature near andj far every rpader will think it fits him and all persons who know the scribbler will think it a dirty crack at them and even remember the incident last year that prompted it And no denial or explanation can cool the hot water Into which the scribbler has wandered Oh he sits on a cushion In the shade and that looks soft but it is healthier in Ihe sun and cushions may hold pins and other sharp things Anyway nobody gets mad at a plowhand for plowing Just Folks BY EDGAR ED GAllAGHf ITS The Story-Tellers: Page 105 of the old yorker twits two midget mags for running the same quip credited to different claimants Funnier co incidence is that a new filler editor (at one of the accused mags) didn't know his boss published it long before and so he used it again! John Roy Carlson this new book "The takes up where left off) deftly strips the shabby pretense of Ihe Reac tionaryans in ihe weekly Henry Wallace will edit He sure has the goods on the no-goods Columbia Univ Prof Commager (in a paper's Sabbath mag seel ion) stated that Dies was retired from politics and public office by efforts The Professor means Labor and Winchell Vincent As-tor's news-weekly (on Thursday next) will feature a short on Church ill's latest joust with Herbert Morrison in Parliament Morrison rebuked him by saying Churchill face the fact that another Right Honorable gentleman was now head of the British Cabinet!" Churchill rose and facing Alt-Ire sourrasm'd: "I am perfectly capable of facing that fact such as it is!" Tomorrow Mr Adams will ialk on the subject: THINGS ENDURING Country going lo the dogs? Not at all There'll be garden catalogues Spring and fall everywhere Take Acts AT ONCE to Relieve and 'Loosen There'll be children Off to bed And some lovely simple prayer 3eing said My Word BE FRANK COLBY BEAUTIFUL CLEANING Cali 6123 for Delivery Service er Prop by One of Our Branch Office 811 Trade St-Dlal 128 Jl Trull IU rrk Arr HIM 7th Cor lh A Collrf There'll be tender songs e( love Poems penned There'll be faith in God bnve To the end (CAUSED BY COLDS) Tlia Airlstocrats: You should hear Hoagy Carmichael's own version of his ditty and Love that song! Starting Tuesday the Mel Blanc air begin a new policy starting with Bert Gordon Anyone ever call them queermercials? Veri-well just inquiring Perhaps a new era has dawned in radio Wed night we heard a commersh ack-chellv on the Henry Morgan program Fannie Hurst's drama comments for WJZ started auspiciously Thurs-midnighf Easy on the ears for one thing Litreate without being starchy for another Talu Bankhead and Fred Allen will repeat their travesty on morning groom-and-bridecasls Veddy fuddy Thd flrt spoonfuls of rnrrtTssiK muni promptly relieve such coughing or money back Prescribed by thousands of Doctors I prRTCssrN sets at once nol only to relieve coughing but It phlrqrn' snd makes 1 easier to raise Safe! Effective! Pleasant failing Buy pertussin today Men may quarrel as they will Tower to claim But the joys of life will still Be the same (Copyright 1946 for The Ohsrnpr) Quills VETERANS: WORDS TO WATCH Washington: Please give the proper pronunciation of the word connoisseur-- Answer: Connoisseur is Ihe An glicized form of the French ron-naisseur from the verb connaitre "to In best usage connoisseur is pronounced kon-i-SER the third syllable rhyming with her per Some dictionaries also show a long lyoo) sound in the third syllable thus: kon-1- SYOOR However I do not recommend it for the reason that approaches or actually becomes thus giving the Problem BY ROBERT QUILLEN ITCHING discomfort reaM RELIEVED Quotation Marksmanship: Evelyn Knight: The new traffic rules in New York make parking such street sorrow Beatrice Kay: He's such an ignoramateur Thoma jnn: He deals in wordchandise Carol Lynne: Molotov's trouble Is that he eats too many vetomins Sian Arnold: Blanchard's number is 15 Davis's is 41 The Spirit of '76 No wonder nobody can beat the Army Curtis: He panthered up and down the room Peter BY GORDON Horn Loam To Build If you have a iteady income luffieient to make the required payments on a home loan we will he glad to help you with your home financing The Trees Box: The pro-and-con- It all Stalin's fault At Yalla we gave him his own price for help we didn't need Skilfully blending valuable medirtiMj ingredient in an oily prolong tnt their bmrhctal tehon bland KminnJ Ointment Km a 50 rear record for aurpruunft relief of itcbtnf and bnmtrvf in many akin fcrmatfrcxu A man gives $13 to each of his daughters and has $10 left Had he wished to give $17 to each he would have lacked $10 of having enough Brain Game The Ihoneers soon built a nalion from a wilderness There were no union rules to hold up the job pleture of word an unpleasant connotation Donald: I finally saw Goering I liked Buy Wheatfleld: What Is the origin How many daughters had he? Vilal project: Any kind of job for which Congress hasn't provided enough money (5 I Loans ore available on terms from 5 to 20 and at an interest rate of 4 ANSWER daughters Explanation: The amount $10 left and $10 short tola! a difference of $20 Subtract 13 from 17 divide this result Into 20 Refi nonet Little Benny Still why should everybody try lo speak in public? You don't try lo fiddle or sing if you can't Featuring Benny -A Boy of Today BY LEE TATE Refrigeration For Over 20 Years SUDOR BROTHERS IHC Low Interest Rates The way to a man's heart Is through his stomach The way to a woman's hrart Is by saying: "How lovely you are!" and correct pronunciation of amen Answer: Amen Is from the He brew' Ils literal meaning Is "firm truly" In ecclesiastical usage amen is equivalent to: So be it may it rome lo pass Tn speaking Ihe pronuncial ion is ah-MEN or ay-MEN In religious music hymns anthems oratories etc ah-MEN is universal Penticton Please define and pronounce the lerm sadist 'Mrs Answer: Generally speaking a sadist i a person who derives perverted satisfaction from the infliction of cruelty upon another The word is derived from the surname the Marquis de Sade (pro For complete onrl correct information come In and to I over your home financing problems with our I Home Loan Specialist 1016 1016 Central Ave Phone 3 8666 Slalin thinks we use llie bomb on his armies marrhing into Europe Did we use it on Jap armies? Us fellows were talking and arguing around the letter box about different subjects such as whether brrds feel they're going on a vacation when they fly South or whether they just feel they're going bizzness and Puds Simkinsjf on WMA I1MNS The obligation lo smile is not universal it is more kind to keep sons sober fare if your smile makes you look silly or queer (hi CITY SAVINGS BANK 120 East Third St Telephone 6121 Member I Our big problems as always result from the fact that too many people can be fooled by a good liar (In scoring give yourself 10 for each correct answer through question six 20 each for Ihe remaining two questions Any score 65 or higher is considered excellent 1 The Great Lakes with one exception are divided by the boundary line between Ihe and Canada Which these lakes is entirely within the boundary of one of these countries? 2 What important sports event recently took place at Sportsman's 3 True or false: (at The Berlillon system'! one devised for the measuring of per-as a means of identification especially criminals A rhinologist is one who makes a study of the rhinoceros 4 Would you guess that the river bottom of Ihe lower Mississippi is gradually building up or being cut deeper by the steady current? 5 What is the difference in operating range between the Army's M-29 and Ihe new B-36? 6 The region known as Patagonia is found: (a) In the mountainous area north of India (a) In southweslern Australia (r) At the southern extremity of South America 7 Spencer Tracy will portray the artist in the movie to be made from the novel "Lust For Life" About which famous artist was this book written? 8 What kind of a plane was the "Truculent the Navy plane which made the recent non-stop flight from Australia to Columbus recently? a LOAN ASSOCIATION nouneed: sarli who first wrole of the perversion Sadist is SAD-lst Sadism is SAD-Izm Sadistic Is: sa-DISS-tlk Wall'll the word tremendous Do not say There should bp no palatization of the Be sure to say tree-MEN-rltiss And walch Ihe accent on the yelled Oh boy fire Meening smoke coming out of Sam Cross's celler windows and we all ran over and rang the door bell and Sam came to Ihe door and Shorty Judge said Hay Sam your house is on fire Why riont you tell me something I dont know? Sam said This house is insured and so's everything in it If conscience is our guide how come we can't see the enormity of sin just before instead of just 4th St Charlotte Ft derailed IP It 116 Established 1SS1 after SPECIALIZING ON BURROUGHS We Also Repair Typewriter ADDING MACHINE SERVICE EXCHANGE Chamber Beasley 21 Years Experience 112 foplar Opposite Charlotte Hotel Tbone 6511 For quiet pleasure there is noth' ing like a good novel period Barbour Fxee Vlr PrM A Markey Bar A Trea Maltha wa Fra i Martin Jr Aat tar A Trea Frank Horla Vlra Fra John Boyd Asst Sec A Trea People of New England the Southeast and Iowa worry becaysc (heir talented youngsters go elsewhere What becomes of them? "Why fear living without price controls? We lived that way for With surplus money and scarcity of goods? EAGLE PICHER ROCK WOOL METAL WEATHERSTRIPPING No Down Fayment It Pays For Itself STANDARD INSULATING CO 514 Commercial Bank Bldg Dial 4-7553 PIEDMONT NORTHERN RAILWAY Common Slock word lainenlable Not There is only one accent: it falls on the first syllable thus: LAM-en-tuh-h'l The word traverse verb noun and adjeelive is accented on Ihe first syllable by most dictionaries TRAV-erss However Americans often accent Ihe verb on the second syllable: truli-VERSS Indeed two good dictionaries Thorndike Cen ury and Kenyon and Knott's list truh-VERSS as the alternative pronunciation Just out entirely new pamphlet listing and explaining familiar words derived from names of actual persons surh as derrick boycott bloomers sideburns sad-isl etc A valuable reference not available elsewhere For a free copy send a stamped self-addressed envelope to Frank Colby in care of this paper Ask bim for WORDS FROM NAMES pamphlet (Copyright 194 for The Observer) The sexes are alike in one way No matter low untruthful a compliment may be they swallow it whole "We own and oiler tuhjcrl to prior tala and change in price pari a Smooth Typing any and we're tired of living here so it's a good excuse lo movp some place else and get all new ferniltne he said and I said Well heck good night dont you want us lo send in fire alarm for you? Dont bother it's been sent in ai-reddy but the trubble is the firemen are delibritly taking their time coming on account of being mud al my father Sam Cross said and Sid Hunt said Go on why are they? Sure why should they be? I said and Sam said Because one time we had a kind of a little fire and my father put it out himself before the firemen got here and they got sore and claimed he should of minded his own bizness and ever since that they hardly even speek to him when he goes passed the firehouse Which just then Sam's father stuck his head out the celler window saying Counfound it give me air this is the last year going lo munkey with this old fashion fer-nace believe me I'm going lo put in a modern sislem before another winter rolls around Well heck Mr Cross aint the house on fire? Puds aid and Mr Cross said No it's just on smoke thanks just a same for your friendly intrist Proving Sam Cross is still the big- Note on shortages: The Com merce department says -manufacturers have over 18 billion worth of goods in warehouses Why? How much do they want? 150 68 Share PIEDMONT NORTHERN RAILWAY Common Stock Dividend $300 Yield 441 Telephone or wire orders collect North Rnd South Carolina share one bit of good fortune Anything bad printed about one is usually charged to the other by mistake There' no substitute for expert workmanship In repairing and rebuilding your typewriter Coll Kale-Lawing for prompt modernizing repairs ANSWERS 1 Lake Michigan entirely within (he 2 The opening of the 1946 World Series 3 (a) True (b) False He is a specialist in the diseases of the nose 4 It is building up because of the sediment ronstanlly carried downstream by the river 5 About 3000 miles The B-29 was designed for 7000 miles with bomb load the B-36 for 10000 miles with bomb load 6 (c) is correct 7 Vincent Vai Gogh 8 A Neptune P-2 a twin-engined land-based patrol bomber Slaughter said of electronics sales: 'Nobody knew what was going on" kt What other six words could describe DICKSON COMPANY the chronic situation in Washing ton? BA ALE-LA NG CO HARDWARE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO Cherlottr 218 East Thone 2-2119 Safety Saving Service hi vest merit Securities THE Or ICE" "EVERYTHING TOR 27 SOUTH TRYON STREET PHONE 181 Columbia "The Japs perfected an atom bomb equal to ours but too lale" They also perfected the art of lying but it's a little late lor that too Nmp Tnrk Ptllf if Wlrhmnnd Chittlnll (Copyright 194 for Th Observer gest liar around nr.