The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 10, No. 31, Ed. 1, Friday, April 9, 1948 Page: 2
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ended and the benediction came
straight from the heart of the
broadshouldered figure In the pul-
pit The itlrrlng voice of the big
organ fined the church and the con-
gregation began to leave
Ilarry Thatcher and I were fur
rounded by aober thoughtful people
ai wo went to the car He drove
out toward the lake
Don Thatcher said abruptly aft-
er he got a cigar started We were
entering the lake drive There are
three million five hundred and
glitythousand four hundred and
eighty letters In the Bible
I suppose so I almost dropped
my cigarette His talking about the
Book took me by surprise His In-
terest was financial news exclusive
ir
There are seven hundred and
seventythree thousand seven
hundred and fortysix words In Its
thirtyone thousand one hundred
and seventythree verses
Sure I looked at him wonder-
ing
Ills gray eyes were half closed
bis broad face grave One could
see why he was called Bull dog
Thatcher He had a reputation of
going after business wherever It
was and getting It
Shortly after the war ended a
young man named Phillip Crasor
came Into my club one evening
Thatcher settled himself more com-
fortably In the broad front seat of
the car one big hand on the wheel
rim He had been a pilot I dont
know how many missions but
enough Star end at the university
before that All around athlete He
had been mentioned as a possible
Olympic chance Folks had a lit
tie money
The car rolled with almost no
noise I said nothing This wasnt
the Harry Thatcher Id known Id
dropped In on him last night since
I was In town for a few days and
hed insisted upon my going to
church with him this morning
Thatcher was not a church man so
far as I knew I waited
Phillip had got some cockeyed
Ideas In the army Thatcher went
on Some radical talk He started
griping about youngsters in the army
getting killed while the bigIncome
businessmen stayed home safe My
income runs up a little He couldnt
conceal a note of pride He looked
at me when be said it and I thought
he was making it personal I told
him bigIncome men were worth
what they got and he said they
were a lot of stuffed fools I got
sore I told him he couldnt handle
a 50000 Job for a month much
less a year
Thatcher coughed a little apol-
ogetically
I was a captain In the first
world war Infantry Shrapnel
His hand moved to his right side
They wouldnt take me the last
time
He straightened Breeze from the
lake swept our smoke from the car
Phillip Crasor said he had 5000
that said he could handle any 50
000 Job for 12 months Inherited
the money from an aunt I believe
Anyway he said for me to put up
or shut up The fellows in the club
laughed and I well I lost my tem-
per I called him at ten to one
betting 50000 against his five that
he couldnt handle the job I was
to name the Job It wasnt to be
Impossible or require technical skill
neither of us had It was foolish
but neither of us would back down
It was a bet and I couldnt call It
off Betting Is strictly business with
me If I win I collect and if I
lose I pay off Strictly business
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STRICTLY BUSINESS
Br ROBERT a BLACKMON
If a man cant look at it like that
be has no business betting
He tooled the big car around a
curve Sunlight was on the lake
a moving pattern of glinting water
under a cloud splashed sky
The club was In an uproar with
men betting each other wed both
back out or go on with it I went
over to the big bookcase at the other
end of the room to think It out
I saw the Bible In the book-
case and remembered my mother
telling me that the Book was good
to read when you didnt know what
to do I didnt know what to do
I took the Bible and saw in the
back where it had so many letters
and words and all that and it gave
me an idea When I was In school
I couldnt spell
The teacher used to make me
write missed words on the black
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plaee and the materials to do the
Job and 1 was to be the Judge of
whether the copies produced were
acceptable or not If we had too
much argument we could each
choose a friend and they would
choose a third party to settle the
argument There wasnt anything
left for me tcj do but go through
with It I was going to each Phil-
lip Crasor a lesson anyway
My forgotten cigarette burned my
fingers and I tossed it from the
car
I turned over a small cottage
down on the lake to Phillip Crasor
stocked It with a Bible paper pens
Ink and blotter and told him to go
to work I left a man there to see
that he didnt get outside help It
was strictly business with me I
had 50000 at stake
Thllllp Crasor was going to
produce 10 perfectly legible hand-
written copies of the Bible as the
contract provided or he would
lose the bet
I didnt get back for a week
or two and Phillip had spoiled a o
of paper but produced nothing ac-
ceptable He wanted to fight but
I told him to read the contract and
My man cabled me that Phillip Crasor had locked himself In the
cottage and wouldnt let anyone n
board a couple of hundred times
X wrote about 20 words a minute
writing carefully I figured I could
write perhaps 30 words a minute
fast That meant about 15000 words
In a full day of writing At that
rate it would take 50 days to com-
plete a handwritten copy of the
Bible Ten good clear handwrit-
ten copies would therefore take
about 500 days and the bet was for
a year
Thatcher laughed softly remem-
bering
I realized that this was an ideal
Job for the purpose It required no
technical skill neither of us had and
there was a good chance that Phillip
Crasor couldnt do it I didnt want
to lose 50000 any more than he
wanted to lose the five Phillip
hadnt stuck at anything since he
came out of the army and I figured
hed drop out within a few weeks
at the most Then Id return his
money and teach him a lesson he
wouldnt forget about betting And
there was a very good chance that
after he learned what the job was
to be hed drop the whole thing
and agree to call the bet off That
would have been fine with me I
couldnt back down as long as Phil-
lip wanted to go on of course The
men at the club never would have
forgotten It and it would have hurt
me in a business way I went back
to the others
He nursed his cigar for a few
moments
Phillip Crasor exploded when he
learned what the job was to be I
didnt know It but bis handwriting
was awful He thought I was rib-
bing him The men in the club
were having the time of their lives
A wellknown lawyer drew up a
contract and both of us signed It
Phillip Crasor wouldnt back down
and I couldnt I was to furnish the
It was time for him to put up or
shut up I thought he would burst
The club was betting hed last about
another week X did not think hed
go that long
Thatcher looked out over the lake
then his eyes came back to the
drive before us
Business suddenly took me to
France and Italy and I stayed there
for months He coughed again
apologetically All wars are not
won on the battlefield and all sol-
diers do not wear uniforms yoJ
know Anyway I was gone over
nine months My man cabled me
that Phillip Crasor had locked him-
self in the cottage and wouldnt let
anyone in The year was almost up
when I got back home It had about
20 days to run I hurried down to
the cottage
Thatcher flicked ashes from the
cigar My man said Phillip Crasor had
been gone for a week The 10
handwritten copies of the Bible were
on a table in the cottage all per
fectly legible On top of one pile
was a letter to me from Phillip
Crasor I have that letter home
now in my Bible He said he
wouldnt take the 50000 end the bet
was off I paid though to the
church we attended this morning
When a man loses he should pay
Its strictly business If Id won
But what about Phillip Crasor
I held another forgotten cigarette
in my hand
Oh He preached that sermon
you heard this morning m
LETS TALK
ABOUT ymL
BY CHARLES B ROTH
GIVE YpURSELF TO A CHAIR
A friend of the late William
James greatest psychologist of bis
day asked the noted man if he
would mind giving a few rules for
the Improvement of personality
One rule X will give you re-
sponded Dr James a simple rule
but so important The rule is this
Learn to give yourself up to a chair
at least once each day
Mystified the inquirer asked what
Dr James meant when he said
give yourself up to a chair
Practice conscious relaxation
he was told Relax every day
Relaxation particularly the case
and restfulness associated with
utter relaxation la one of the best
aids 1 know in developing a
charming personality
How often one sees these futile
runa rounds men and women who
are busy from morning till night
who never relax who dash from
one thing to another who fidget and
fume who talk rapidly who burn
up energy and tire themselves and
everyone else out by their fruitless
display of waste motion And how
rarely ono finds the composed re-
laxed personality of power
I Dr James advice was of course
purely physical all you had to do
i was to give yourself up to the chair
relax utterly let your body sag
where It woultj But there la al-
ways a subtle and marked relation-
ship between mind and body And
thrf purpose of his counsel was to
let your mental moods take their
tone from your physical department
What mental mood jsan you ex
j tct it you are always physically
tense be inquired
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 10, No. 31, Ed. 1, Friday, April 9, 1948, newspaper, April 9, 1948; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47550/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.