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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
: Abilene, Texas, Monday Morning, August 22,1935
And it won known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord —
Acts 9:42.
When in Ged thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.
— C. G. Leland.
; IN
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Ruork's Remarks . . .
Selling Treasured Coonskin
Coat Not Believed Moral
Those ‘Courteous’ Chinese
mark when he suggested that baseball is
a durable symbol of America’s character-
istie good spirits in times which are free
of war.
By ROBERT C. RUARK
My old buddy from Texas, Cari
Little, did a piece the ether day
about what happened to father's
ancient coonskin coat. It seems
me easy, I’m getting old."
The hip flask was part of the
wardrobe in the North, but in the
It is becoming clearer with every pass-
ing day that the Communist Chinese are
not eager to identify themselves with
the new mood of “peace and good will”
emanating from Moscow.
To be sure, they have released the 15 _____. ,_____..... .uuucuuy pro-
American fliers held so long in Red vide them -
jails. But, as has been well noted, they Like right now in the American
had no right to hold them as they did. League, for instance. Four teams—Cleve,
stores to terrortoM dreed. “Rd pecking land. New York, Chicago and Boston
CoL John Knox Arnold Jr., a leader in
the group, told of hands being manacled
so that circulation wu cut off. He hinted
.at more brutal treatment, but could not
bring himself to speak of it meren .
inContronted with these accounts Peig: business, war cevelana anal
china I GenebandlyS.nd victories and only 43 defeats.
"Lies." In this reply was nothing but
contempt for the United States, for free
men, for anyone who puts value on in-
dividual human life.
But Red China’s ready dismissal of its
own brutalities is a sad miscalculation.
We and all free men want an easing of
tensions in Asia as we want it _
But as a price for that relaxation, we are
not prepared to condone criminal tor- .. MPV%%S waawrs swppeu u
tures or any other of the familiar forms "crucial series. They have
of Communist outlawry.
.We are talking with Peiping these . - - - - ----- -------.... .c-uc.
days not because we at last endorse the when form said they should lose..
* EMSESINC ALL ATA RACE SMEN J& pare swjswt £
might promise freedom for wrongfully endless succession of close
imprisoned Americans. -----.-
. Peiping should already understand
thoroughly, however, that in our quest
for that goal we will not play the Com-
munists’ game. We flatly refuse their
demand that in exchange for their re-
tease of some 40 civilians now either in
jail or denied exit, we should give the
Peiping authorities some kind of con-
trol over 5000 Chinese students in the
United States.
There can be no such bargain because
there is no parallel between persons
wrongfully, detained and a large group Big Four than for that other fuses*
of students who have come te America which met at Geneva toursome
of their own will. None of these latter geneva,
is in jail, and all have been assured they
may return to Red China if they wish.
This is a crass performance, of a piece
with Peiping S contemptuous shrug over
the torture of our fliers. It suggests
that the Communist Chinese are not yet
fit even to have a look at the U.N.’s back
door, let alone to make a dignified entry
front. . ' 65
Americans like a good running story,
and baseball is that—for six months a
year. They like smash climaxes, and the
big league pennant races frequently pro-
Like right now in the American
League, for instance. Four teams -Cleve
bunched at the top within a few lengths
of each other. Anda fifth, Detroit, press-
ing close behind.
Unless a whole flock of these con-
tenders suddenly crack under the strain
there’ll be none of this 1954 runaway
.amassing 111
. - AU the
leaders have already lost more than that
and the season still has six weeks to go.
Some days three teams were locked
in a virtual triple tie for first. For days
the difference between the top two was
a matter of a couple of percentage points,
n easing or Each, day’s games could scramble the
in Europe standings and drop a leader or elevate
aurope. one of the chasers to the top
Spot, wlter stopped tokreabout
crucial. Even the tag-enders developed
an annoying habit of toppling the leaders
—-------J games. Two
runs came to be viewed as a comfortable
lead.
Managers juggled pitchers, pinch hit-
ters and others like chess men. Games
were duels of strategy, with tension al-
meant tihand no place for the faint of
. Maybe the pressure will break some of
these fellows wide open before long. But
while it lasts, this one’s a peach.
Unless, the Russians soon do more
than just smile, 1955 may be remem.
bared more for the American League’s
THROWING
.. HiS
WEIGHT
AROUND
NN NGSE
The Athlete
Who's the Big Boss?
Zhukov May Call the Signals
WASHINGTON - Who to the
have some personal magnetism
which imposed them on the mass,
ee.
South a Maaoe jar was good
enough for the raw corn it carried.
The ukulele was on the way out,
and was considered corny, but the
portable record player was coming
in. As I recall it a man who didn't
get tried at the Saturday Grail
dance, or the Spring Frolics, was
these mothbits hides are being
chopped up into Davy Crockett
cape, and are drawing dowa a fat
price with the furriers.
I should hate to think that gross
commercialism would tempt any ________.__-___.__
man who went to school in my considered an utter cornball. By
time to sell anything as cherish- fried 1 mean stiff enough to be
able as a coonskin coat. I never heaved out of the dance and es-
had one, but I was in high school corted to the dormitory or the fra-
at the height of the coonskin coat ternity house by the c/upus cops,
era, and man, my eyes turned We were just between the
green with sheerest envy when I Charleston and the jitterbug, so
saw one of those Joe Colleges home we compromised on something call-
on vacation wearing about fifty ed the shag It vaguely resembled
pounds of dessicated coon. a bunch of Masai warriors compel.
It was a gay bunch in the John tag in a large ngoma.
Held Jr. time, when a man who As I remember a great deal of
was going to college was something necking and what they used to
real special, something to he call ‘‘petting” went on in the frater-
proud of. There was a fifty-cent nity houses and in the stadium on
book called "College Humor" that moonlit nights, and in the arbore-
catered entirely to the whoopee turn in the spring. But w.” a few
set (It later dropped to 35 and exceptions it stopped short of real
then to 25 cents, and finally with- trouble, because a girl who was
ered away completely.) not "nice" got talked about in the
The boy wore painted slickers coed shack.
with racy mottos and the picture Treasured Memories
of the current best girl on the back. I treasure very few things from
We wore wide pants, and I mean the past, but I can always look at
wide. I had me a pair that meas- an old slicker and smell honeysuck-
ured 28 inches on the cuff, and le heavy on a late spring night,
stood out in front of the toes of my just as by hanging onto an old Nav-
shoes. al uniform I can remember what
Those Big Knots being free of care for three years
Neckties were tied in as big a was really like. If I had a coonskin
knot as possible, and the shirt col- coat I’d have it mounted and hung
lar was always two sixes too large, on the wall, because it would mean
so that when you dragged it down youth and names like Helen and
with an elastic band moored to a Nan and Gracie and Mary, with
penta button, the tie spread flat all of whom I was desperately in
on the chest, and the Adam’s ap- love, with youth’s particular des-
ple had plenty of breathing room.- peration.
Them as could afford them own- Nossir, I got no time for a man
ed beat-up jalopies, with the tops who’ll sell a coonskin coat. That’s
cut off, and they too bore mottos, the kind of man who'd sell his best
The favorite of my time wa -.......-
sign on the stern, which said: "Hit ture Syndicate, Inc.)
K
wor
Ki
Kore
Corn
and
mad
was
Congressman Tries It
Radar Brakes Won't Let
Automobile Hit Anything
commands where he was under
strict surveillance of the political
commissars. Zhukov emerged
from that semi . obscurity after
boss man in the USSR these days?
This question is being anxiously
asked by our top level policymak-
Caul 1. ers who are meandering in the
Still Shrinking dark because they cannot find a
• definite answer.
was an historic moment at the U.S. The best guess is that Premier
Census Bureau some decades back when Bulganin, Communist Party Secre-
it was determined that more Americans tary General Khrushchev and For-
were living in cities than in rural areas, eign Minister Molotov are mere
Since that time, the percentage of peo- front men and that Defense Minis-
ple in cities has mounted steadily. Not ter Zhukov is the strong arm and
even the striking general increase in the brain behind them For rea-
U.S. population during and after World sons of high policy he prefers to
at War has materially arterea the Wend remain m the background for the
Now we = time being. This tentative conclu-
since down to 22 million out Of developments since the death of
more 185 million for the country Stalin.
at drgea nly about 13.5 per cent. Premier Bulganin - neither •
. round the turn of the century, men politician nor a real marshal (de-
Who's Ahead Today? poseeror =
Former Governor Dewey of New York reality, and evidence indicates the trek tact with him during the last war
ones, oid: intonees =..: for more yemE: Ctm * will go on apace **-ts
Fen* A" V AST mh-moncatemnatee X^t^^
.and machines are taking S was Bulganin’s reversal of him-
while admitting that Americans are men. As this happens, the place of self last week within 24 hours after
often, impatient of the slow, plodding, work can be found men go where he had rejected the Eisenhower
middle course, one can still protest that never again The land likely will proposal for aerial inspection. It
this overstates the matter somewhat. reiving on with millions of hands plainly shows that he was told by
Nevertheless, Dewey was right on the wealths strength to draw out its somebody that he had committed
7 S w-a g tactical blunder and had better
retract quickly And the specula-
Other Viewpoints. was ho a iwunoca xaranar 2% professional and highly competent
--------------------------------------- kov. soldier. Like all Russian marshals
if T’ II I a . s He’s Superficial Zhukov came from the ranks but
• T Time Had Ary, V. Nikita Khrushchev, the Commu- obtained his strategic knowledge
Il IIII Ido AnY Value nist Party boss and the No. 2 man by studying for four years at the
7 ‘ quo to the present Soviet triumvirate, German Kriegs - Akademie (War
Bie Me Net St the e-mmulty has Me pros. =2***2 E son dee seween d. VamE: RUTH MILLETT
lems as well. And in an age when time N. show the effects of vodka in pub. Republic and the USSR. 5
become the most precious commodity of lie. He got out of hand during his Not Ambitious?
it’s doubtful whether the ran-eCl - pilgrimage to Belgrade where he Zhukov is not known to be polit.
moral * as have any cut a very poor figure. His past ically ambitious but since he hap.
to expect long lines of performances in the party where pens to be the only strong man in
traffic to wait fretfully for 100-car trains to he is supposed to fill Stalin’s shoes the present Soviet hierarchy be
clear surface crossings. are less than brilliant. He is not may not hesitate to take over
To the extent that time is valuable what made of the stuff of which sue- when events require such an ac-
really to happening is that the captive occi cessful dictators are made. Men tion.
pants of the waiting automobiles and truck, like Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussoli- Stalin worried about Zhukor,
are being made the unpaid partners the mi and their predecessors in his- popularity with the army and ex
mile-long trains’ profitable operations. tory, dastardly as they were, did iled him after the war to obscure
And with the passage of time # appears that Ihe " " ebicur
inelnert.. 2/22*nd.P scare, and trucks -i GRIN AND BEAR IT
For the railroads are under incessant
sure to seek ever sreater efficiency. In freight
operations that means more powerful engine,
and longer trains. engines
If hereafter there is in fact an easing
of Asian tensions, we must assume it
does not reflect a change or heart a
Peiping, but rather a change of circum.
stances which forces the Communists’
hand. We are learning not to look for
signs of humanity from China’s primi-
tives. P
Daily Oklahoman:
Of interest in every congested area where
sINace railway crossings exist is a proposal
that’s under consideration at See Francisco.
It’s ben proposed that the municipality im-
pose fines against railways which block the
city’s streets for more than five minutes at
a time with their lengthening freight trains.
The tremendous and increasing lengths of
present day freight trains were made possible
largely by the introduction of the more power.
full diesel engines. And of course this growing
efficiency in putting together ever lengthening
pay loads is what has enabled ths railroads
to keep abreast of their rising wage and tax
costs.
Legs Versus Legs
Chicago Daily News:
No doubt it is because our male pride was
scratched, but we are impelled to Luke issue
with another department of this newspaper and
some to the defense of men’s legs. One of our
lady writers asserted, and offered pictorial
evidence, that the trend toward Bermuda
shorts was uncovering an unsightly assortment
meneeand treos gnarled calves, and legs bowed.
But * some point the question certainly win
have to be asked whether vehicular traffic
phomare made to contribute further to the
pay loads lengthening railway
Of course there’s * way to eliminate the
public nuisance that's involved. Divided cross,
ings are becoming the rule on the open him.
ways and certainly they are needed M much
more hi congested metropolitan areas.
There was a time, we brooded, when men
wore knee breeches and displayed their legs
fittingly and becomingly clad in silk We do
art recall that anybody sneered at the sixnedo
In this period, and for generations thereafter
women, were concealed right down to the an.
kies. We take this custom to have been an ad.
mission that men's legs were worth looking a . ... years
and women’s weren't. Shall we assume that propelled missiles
some, evolutionary process has reversed this? - —
Hardly credible, is it? W
believe it to be true that beauty is in
the eye of the beholder, else how account for
the fact that crocodiles have children? To some,
Pereas * soda, straw is always prettier than
a curved line more pleasing than
aprisht one - although our lady writer might
nt nk * M the side of the Daily News
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admiration whenever comparisons are made? Chinese. - ne received at hands of Red
Quotable Quotes
, Atomic energy alone will open to us the pos.
id- sibility of cosmic travel beyond the Mo.Th
at : few years’ time we shall perhaps see atom,
kiri stanyakowicr. in flight. - Russia’s Dr.
The Soviet leaders admitted that there had
been certain men who had done an injustice
to Yugoslavia, and that executed secret police
chief. Beria was the main one. I ook he
should be included, but that Stalin was the
main man - President Tito of Yugoslavia.
and
“Frozen Face” Molotov to a
good executive officer who has
been useful as an underling. When
he is told to scowl he does it ex.
cellently; when he is ordered to
smile he can make that effort, too.
As far as is known to those who
have followed Russia’s foreign and
domestic policies in the last 20
years, Molotov has never done
anything else than obey strictly
Stalin’s instructions, regardless of
whether his position in ths USSR
was that er premier or foreign
minister. Molotov has not changed
under the new setup. Nobody
knows whether he has any crea-
tive capacity. But having lived un-
der the regimes of Lenin and Stal-
in when men with personal initia.
tive died “untimely” deaths, he is
said to be determined to die in his
own bed. And this can best be
done in the USSR by continuing
as the colorless executive officer
he is now.
Stalin’s death and the scuttlebutt
in foreign embassies in Moscow
was that without his support
strongman Beria could not have
been liquidated. Rightly or wrong-
ly, many informed sources in
Washington believe that the pres-
ent smiling tactics of the Kremlin
bare been inspired by him.
Zhukov is a devoted follower of
the Lenin - Stalin principles and
believes in the establishment of a
world - wide Communist empire.
But being * careful soldier he does
not believe that the Soviet forces
are yet ready to win a smashing
victory over America. Like Gen.
MacArthur he believes there is no
substitute for victory. But while
USSR could take over Europe
whenever it likes by military
A triumvirate oligrachy cannot force, she is not strong enough at
continue for long. The strongest of this time * hope for * final vie-
the three eventually takes over, tory over the United States. As
But, as far as can be gathered, minister of defense and actually
there is no strong individual or commander in chief of the Red
personality in the Soviet “syndi- forces, Zhukov knows that Russia
cate. Hence the official Ameri- needs between three and five more
can analysts look behind the years to obtain superiority over us
scenes where they find the power- in intercontinental missiles. Until
ful personality of Georgi Zhukov . that day arrives he is willing to
-----—, —-----remain 1a the background and let
the puppets at present in the
Kremlin play their smiling and de-
ceiving diplomatic game. — (Bell
Syndicate, Inc.)
By Lichty
“It’s an awful price to pay for suits, dresses, shoes ...
Until you remember that we’re outfitting them for
school, dear!. .”
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
WASHINGTON. - Rep. Louis G.
Rabaut (D-Mich) was a scared
Congressman, sitting there in the
front seat of a new Ford sedan,
while the driver tried to run down
startled cops, smash into parked
automobiles, and wreck a series of
the capital’s moot heroic statues.
5 At the wheel, steering into what
seemed to be one disaster after
another, was the Congressman's —----—c -- won years
assistant, John Bourbon, who of experimentation. But he finally
didn't feel so happy, either, driv- perfected his working model and
ing like a maniac. In back, egging brought it to Washington for his
him on was Carl Rashid of Yale, Congressman to try.
Mich., only comfortable man in "We rode around the Capitol for
the car, some time, while Mr. Rashid
Every time their sedan started showed us the almost unbelievable
to careen into a cop, truck or hero features of this vehicle,” the Con-
on a bronze horse, it automatical- gressman wrote. "This car has a
ly slowed down and then stopped, radar screen directly below the
"I really tried to hit something,” front grillwork. This projects an
said motorist Bourbon. "But I nev- impulse that halts the car should
er could manage it That car al- anyone or anything appear in its
ways stopped before I got close.” path. There is a similar apparatus
Rep. Rabaut eventually relaxed the rear to prevent injuring pe-
and he was so impressed with the destrians, or damaging proper-
wreck - proof automobile of inven- ty while backing up.
tor Rashid that he wrote a piece "The natural tendency of,
about it in the final issue of Con- son viewing this invention for the
gressional Record. Then I had a first time is to expert to be hurled
talk with Bourbon, who still was through the windshield. Butthe
be- faster the car is moving the far-
the ther the radar beam is projected.
af you are approaching an object
st high speed, the radar is redue-
ing the car speed before you, the
driver, are aware of impending
danger The car will then, if not
manually halted, stop before strike
ing the object."
Rashid is a TV, radio and elec-
tronics merchant in Yale, a sub-
urb of Detroit. He got the idea
some years ago that if an automo-
bile had a radar set to front, it
could see what was coming and -
with no assistance whatever from
the human at the wheel — step on
the brake. So he built one.
Difficult to Perfect
This wasn’t easy. It took years
Run
EA
Dr. 1
marveling at his experience
hind the wheel and here's
dope:
In Hollywood
By ERSKINE JOHNSON
HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) - Ex-
clusively Yours: Now it’s a Mrs.
Deeds who's going to town. Colum-
Rashid has the radar adjusted so
E doesn’t work at speeds less than
miles an hour. This is so a mo.
torist for his wife) can drive into
his own garage. Try to go in any
faster and the radar brake goes to
work. 6-
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ADOUT People filmusical of "Mr Deeds Goes to
~ Town." Gary Cooper’s 1936 movie
When you are the hostess you bit. This time Mr Deeds will stay
know what you hope your guests home
will and won’t do. —
You hope they’ll arrive on time Gordon Scott, making like Tar-
—for the sake of the roast in the zan on location in Africa for “Tar-
oven — but not ten minutes early zan and The Lost Safari." suffered
in case you are running too close burns serious enough for a session
to your schedule for comfort with a medic. The film company
You hope there won’t be one lost control of a brush fire.
" the party Ex-kid star Jane Withers’ bat-
o a a production out tie with an arthritic ailment dur-
vs. , . ing her eight-year film retirement
a hope the guests will enjoy was * close call. At one Point she
the food you have prepared — and spent five months on her back in
the only way you can be sure that a Midland, Texas, hospital.
they do is by hearing some compli- ___
ments That “Bing’s Niece” label or a
You hope that no one guest win magazine cover of Bob Crosby’s
monopolize the conversation — 18-vear-old daughter, Kathy, -n-
and also that you won’t have to gulfed the mag’s editors with let-
cope with the droopy guest who ters of protest from Bob’s CBS-TV
waits to be amused. fans. The editors asked Bob for his
You hope there won’t be a long answer to the (signed) ’'Disgust-
strained period of polite but ed" letters. He wired them: - -r ever come when
ingless talk to get your party off . "Bing having only four sons I’m all automobiles are collision-proof
to a poor start, but that from the happy that the magazine gave him wed ---- -
moment your guests come into the opportunity of sharing any
your home they will feel relaxed daughter. I’m proud of Kathy,
and glad to be where they are. proud of Bing and proud of the
You’hope the men won’t gather association.”
together and leave the women by
themselves.
6 Cest - $170 Each
Bourbon said the device, which
trips a relay that turns on the
brakes, fits under the hood in a
case about the size of a storage
battery. He quoted the inventor as
saying it could be installed on any
car for $170. 7
“Rashid said a number of auto-
mobile factories were interested,”
Bourbon reported. “He also said
bed demonstrated his device for
several insurance companies, all
of which promised special low
rates for cars with radar equip,
ment.” *
I mean this is a wonderful world
for sure and if you’re interested
in more details, write the Con-
gressman, or perhaps better, the
inventor. I’ve told all I know.
Should the day ever come when
—J and incapable of running down
my hapless pedestrians it should be
fon to take a Sunday afternoon
drive. — (United Feature Syndi-
cate, Inc.)
You hope your women guests
will remember that there are men
present and talk about somethin#
besidestheir children, their maids,
what they are doing to their
houses, and their shopping experi-
ences.
You think about things like these
when YOU are the hostess. But do
you remember them when you are
the guest?
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