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TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1952
NUMBER 15
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AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING”
HOW WELL OFF
' -l? oss McLEOD, Flinders Park, South Australia, was in a hospital with
IV tuberculosis where he found there was an unwholesome honour
attached to being a pretty bad case.
He says every time he thinks of it now it sickens him. But at the
time he found a certain amount of glory in it, because he was one of
the venerated ones. In the first place he had a year's start on most of
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affected; and he had a cough that shook the rafters
and left him exhausted. For final measure, the germ
had a grip on his throat and had temporarily taken his
voice, and he was advised that unless he gave it com
plete rest by not talking at all, the larynx would be
destroyed irrevocably.
One of those cheerful fellows who was forever giving
the happy smile and bright word got on his nerves so
much he begin to detest the sight of him.
then one day this chap found he had to be in a cradle
for two years, and not allowed to move. The same day
he got this bad news his only child was stricken with
poliomyelitis, in a severe form.
Carnegie
As be was shifted out of the ward he broke Into a smile and called,
"Good luck chaps. Lode after yourselves/'
Boss says he lay staring at the doorway a long time. His eyes filled
with tears of admiration. Then he said to himself, "My God, I’ve got
troubles! But take a look at that guy. He’s smiling!”
Suddenly it occurred to him how well off he was. He was in the best
hands possible; his financial affairs were all right; his family was
well, and at least he could move around in bed.
Immediately he relaxed. Worry and despair fell' away like husks on
a ripening almond. That week, for the first time, he held his weight.
Gaining in hope and confidence, it was not long before he started to
put on weight.
Though hie didn’t speak for two years, and spent three years in a
v sanatorium, he now has his voice and is able to work for a few hours
each day. Some of those he envied and resented have never made
the grade. _
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A PEEK AT THE
STARS
By LYNN CONNELLY
C'iEORGE JESSEL is being men
J tioned as the star oi a TV
' series in a role in which he has few
equals, that of toastmaster. . . The
show would revolve around a ban
quet table idea, with Jessel intro
ducing famous guests. . . This
would be a natural for Jessel and
with the right handlers could be an
interesting show. . . NBC has suc
ceeded in selling Fibber McGee and
Molly to a new sponsor. . . For a
while it looked as though this pro
gram would have to be scuttled
after all these years.
Fred Waring and some of his staff
are conducting a summer workshop
on choral music at Michigan State
College' . . Danny Kaye is flying to
the Danish birthplace of Hans
Christian Andersen for a special
broadcast. . . Bob Hope cracks:
“What a break TV is for the voter.
. . Now when a candidate makes a
promise the people can see if he
has his fingers crossed! “ Marie
Wilson, star of "My Friend, Irma,"
is in Fort Lee, Va., where she is
co-starring in “Never Wave at a
Wac.” Art is no gag with Jack
(Queen for a Day) Bailey. . His in
terest in painting began years ago
when he was at the Walt Disney
studios and he now has reached the
point where he has been asked to
exhibit in New York.
Platter Chatter
CAPITOL:—This company has
come up with a Tory flue album for
children which should please not
only the small fry but their parents
as well.. . The latest in the “Boso”
series, this excellent album tells the
story of the greatest adventurer of
them all, Robin Hood. . . It is the
Walt Disney version and a very
ideasing one.
COLUMBIA:—Johnny Bay’s lat
est disc is a revival of an old
favorite, “All of Me,” which seems
to be revived periodically by every;
rising young singer. . . Must bring
them luck... At any rate, it’s a good
cutting of a fine oldie. . . Flip side
has “A Sinner Am I.” . Champ
Butler and Toni Arden combine
voices in two new songs, “Remem
bering” backed by “One Love Too
Many.” . . Sammy Kaye’s new disc
may well be a winner... IPs “God’s
Little Candles" with “I Don’t Know
Any.Better” on the reverse side.
It requires SO hours of hand
labor to produce atn> acre of pea
nuts with current methods.
An EDITORIAL entitled •‘The
• Parable of the Runt” which
ajfpeared in the New Castle Cour
ier-Times, New Castle, Indiana,
carries a message that is worthy
of consideration throughout the na
tion. It reads:
“Once upon a time in a neigh
borhood not far from here there was
a runt who liked to play ball with
the other fellows on the comer lot.
“He was perhaps a year or so
younger, his short legs didn't carry
hfm so fast around the bases, and
his arms were not so long in reach
ing for the balls.
"Now, there was nothing wrong
with his vocal facilities, and he com
plained long and loud to the other
boys that he was being treated un
fairly. He kept at them until they
finally agreed that he should have
four strikes at bat as a sort of
handicap.
Well, the summer passed and
other summers came and went, and
the runt grew into a big, strapping
6-footer. His arms and legs Were
as long as the other boys’ and he
could hit the ball as well as any of
them, but do. you think he would
give up his four strikes at bat?
“No, sir. That was his by right.
“He is a grown man now. The
corner lot has a building on it, and
there aren’t any more ball games
there, but he’s still demanding four
strikes at bat.
“He’s a businessman who seeks
special privilege from the legisla
ture.
“He’s a laborer who wants pay
for days he doesn’t work.
“He’s a farmer who takes Gov
ernment checks for things he
doesn’t raise.
“Life is Just a big lollipop. All
privileges and no responsibilities.
“Like the runt, we forget that for
every privilege, somebody must as
sume a responsibility.
“A home in which everybody likes
to eat but nobody wants to work is
headed for financial and moral
bankruptcy. So is such a nation.
“Only as we render services and
accept responsibility in our home
are we entitled to its privileges, and
it is the same in any group; the
place where we work, the commu
nity in which we live, and the world
at large.
“Isn’t it about time we began to
appreciate the things that other
folks do for us; the teacher who en
dures and inspires our children; the
boss who spends a lot of sleepless
nights making the businesses go
that provides us with a good job;
the employe who is proud of his
work and sees it through; the wife
who puts up with all our little
peculiarities and binds our wounds
at the end of a discouraging day;
a God who pours out his mercy be
yond anything we deserve.
“Only as we are thankful for all
that is done for us and accept our
responsibilities shall we overcome
the childish notion that we are en
titled to four strikes at bat and
stand before Gt)d and our o.vn con
science as a man in all ti.ut the
word implies.”
From the Can:on Inde^< ndcnt
Sentinel, Canton, Pa.:
“Life has no secre’.s that a teen
ager can’t road about in s i.c of
I the magazines offered ior sa.e.”
This Week In Washington
By WALTER SBEAD
GOVERNOR Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois emerged as winner of
the Democratic presidential nomi
nation, the object of a true draft,
much in the same position as Eisen
hower, who became the GOP stand
ard bearer. Both must heal the
wounds of intra-party strife before
either can get down to the real
campaign issues.
There is little doubt that the
Democratic convention picked the
strongest man from its list of can
didates . . . for, as the successful
Governor of Illinois in the heart of
■ the great mid-west, Stevenson is the
1 one man best fitted to hold that im
portant sector of the electorate for
the Democrats in November.
It was this great farm belt in 1948
which carried President Truman to
victory , . . Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky,
Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee, Wis
consin and Missouri . . . with 123
electoral votes.
Democratic leaders at Chicago
took a calculated risk when they
forced through a loyalty pledge
which delegates must take if they
want to return to the 1956 conven
tion. They believe that even if they
lose the same four southern states
lost in 1948—South Carolina, Alaba
ma, Mississippi, and Louisiana,
with 39 votes and possibly Texas or
Virginia, a total of 72 electoral votes
—they will more than overcome that
handicap with a win in either New
York with its 47 votes or Pennsyl
vania with 35 and New Jersey with
16. It will be remembered that the
Democratic ticket would have car
ried New York and probably New
Jersey in 1948 had it not been for
the splinter party headed by Henry
A. Wallace.
One obvious result from both con
ventions is that the southern states
are to become political battlefields
in this election for the first time
since the civil war. For it is ap
parent that Eisenhower has strength
in the South far exceeding any Re
publican candidate in a generation.
It will mean the birth of a two
party system in the South. In the
Democratic convention the dele
gates told the southern 1 ciers
such as Senator Harry Byrd of
Virginia, Governor James Byrnes
of South Carolina and Governor
Robert Kennon, of Louisiana:
“You are here by suffrance of the
other delegates of this convention,
and you cannot participate in the
nomination of a ticket in this con
vention and then go home and use
the Democratic party label for any
other ticket.” That’s what the loy
alty pledge means which was
adopted as a permanent rule of
the convention.
It is expected to effectively pre
vent those states from doing what
they did in 1948—namely putting
the Dixie crat ticket, or any other
ticket under the party emblem of
the "rooster” and forcing write-in
votes for the nominees of the con
vention.
These southern leaders are mad,
they were humiliated, and for this
reason the administration will see
to it that for the first time in his
tory a real national campaign will
be conducted in southern states.
The Republican convention also
whipped southern states in line by
adoption of the "fair play” rule and
adtUtion of the incentive rule on the
naftraal committee giving more
recognition and membership for
those states which get in the win
ning column. It means that the
patronage hungry “rotten borough”
and “absentee landlord” system of
Republican leaders in the south is
ended and that if southern states
want equal- representation on the
national committee with other
states, they must get out and work
for the honor, work to win.
Action of both conventions means
an end to the denial of a right to
vote by both parties insofar as the
national ticket is concerned in these
southern states. On the GOP side,
they have everything to win and
nothing to lose by their disciplinarj
action. And as we have pointed out,
the Democrats believe they will gair
more in the north and western states
than they lose in the south ... if
they do lose any southern states.
North Carolina agriculturists1
are mating studies to dctem
ine whether fertilization of for
ests Is practical.