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El Reno (OkJa.) Daily Tribune
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Serving a Blue ulbbon Community
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. BAY J. DYER
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Monday, June 20, 1947
They who are at one with God cannot be separated from eternal life.
—Luke 18:18: A certain ruler asked him, saying Good Master, what
shall I do to inherit eternal life.
Caesar Bows
1I/HEN Janies Caesar Petritlo of the musicians union bent
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his knee before the country’s highest tribunal the other
day he demonstrated the almost reverential respect that
most Americans feel for the supreme court. Nor was this
the only example of recent memory.
At the height of his popularity President Roosevelt
found that a loyal and heavily Democratic congress—and
the people who elected him—would not go along with him
on the so-called “court packing plan.” Even John L. Lewis
held his oratorical tongue when the high court decided
against him a few months ago.
Many reasons for this deep respect are evident. The
supreme court is, in theory and usually in fact, above the
hurly-burly of politics. Its members are appointed, not
elected, and the appointment is for life. They are the
courts of last resort so far as the law which they are
considering is concerned.
WITH the other two branches of government it is differ-
” ent. The president and his assistants and the members
of congress are subject, and rightly, to a sharp inspection
and criticism of their works. The executive and the legis-
lators are elected and paid by the people to do a job. Their
employers have a right to see that the job is done com-
petently.
But sometimes this criticism gets out of hand. We
have seen Mr. Petrillo refuse a request made by Mr. Roose-
velt and we have seen A. F. Whitney defy Mr. Truman,
though both presidents were obviously acting ip the peo-
ple’s best interests. We have seen Mr. Petrillo and Mr.
Lewis flout the authority of congress and invite legal
action by the government.
As a result congress has enacted a new labor law
intended to curb such actions. Immediately the country
has seen a widespread “spontaneous” and “wildcat” strikes
by coal miners in defiance of this law.
* * *
JT is all very well for Mr. Petrillo to say, "The supreme
court has spoken, and I how to its dictates.” That is
commendable. But lie and some other heads of unions
might well recall that the supreme court is only one of three
equal and equally important branches of government.
When congress passes a law, or the executive depart-
ment enforces it, or the judicial department judges it, the
government has spoken in each case. If the law is unjust
it can be amended or nullified.
But this immediate defiance by one group of an act
of the people’s government weakens the people’s govern-
ment itself. Such defiance may he within the law. But it
is rebellion, not criticism.
Monday, June 30, 1947 i
’TfaSottwori/j
stributed^by By MATEEL HOWE FARNHAM
XXVI
, "Do you think you could have who had refused to acknowledge
was perhaps ten days after made her happy bv marrvlne her. Mrs. Finneran had never be-
Amy’s and Nelson’s housewarm- her?” 1
tng that I happened one morning
to look out of a south Window and
saw Anna belle ToUlver run down
the steps and Join Father on his
walk downtown. I thought nothing
of It until the second or third
day when I saw the same thing
repeated. The following mornings
I watched openly. There was no
doubt about it; Annabelle was
making a point of sharing Father’s
morning walk to the office On
rainy days Father picked her up
In his car.
It was a small thing, nothing to
get excited about, I told myself.
Father liked companionship, liked
to talk, liked, alas, to be flattered.
Then I remembered how Father
jhad flared up and defended Anna-
belle the night after Amy’s party.
Oh, Lord, did I have to go through
that again?
The weeks passed slowly. Pres-
ident Wilson went to Paris with
his lady, came home, went back.
The peace conference dragged on.
Nothing much happened In Otsego
except that everyone was now
talking about Father and Anna-
belle and watching me to see how
I was taking this latest develop-,
ment. In late February, Flora had
her third baby. It was another
'girl and Flora named it Amy aftet-
her mother and sister.
Annabelle continued to walk
downtown daily with Father, but
Father never mentioned her. nev-
er suggested that I invite her to
the house. When we met her at
the other houses. Father, If any-
happy
asked.
*“I doubt it—not for long, cer-
tainly. ft would have given her
a certain joyous satisfaction to hit
out at Amy, hit out at you, at the
town. But I imagine in a few
months. . . ”
He broke off and then said we’d
better not talk about it any more,
that it had been a trying and
unpleasant experience, that he'd
prefer to forget it. and he kissed
me good night.
I said; "There's always some-
thing doing In the Tolliver family!
I wonder what it will be next.”
Father said: “The ToUlver fam-
ily? Who's been talking about the
Tollivers?" He left me before 1
could reply.
XXVII
DREADED to face Annabelle:
so I kept out of her way That
was easy enough. It was not so
easy to avoid Flora, though I
sometimes dreaded to see her too.
Flora had cried for three days
when her last baby proved to
be a girl, and she made no effort
to get her strength back, had to
be forced by the doctor to nurse
her baby, to get out of bed. to
take up her normal life. Poor
Sam went around with his chin
on tlte ground. I never saw him
without his making me promise to
go and see Flora.
One June morning I went over
to the Forbesesywith a big dish of
extra special strawberries. Flora
__^ i was still in bed, propped on em
thing, avoided her. And yet he I broidered pillows and as pretty as
smiled at her across the room. |a Tink ancl white peony. She
I was not very happy. j thanked me mournfully, told me I
# * * * I was too, too kind to bother with
ntrnnvNiv „ ;a s'Hy 111tie nuisance like herself.
SUDDENLY it was spring. Fa--|ale a strawberry, said It was de-
er |thfr J: Went doWn 10 New illelous- pushed aside the dish, and
York to the big parade of our re- sighed,
turning soldiers.
By Patricia Clary
United Press Correspondent
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
ITOLLYWOOD, June 30 — (U.R)—
•* * Ladylike or not, Arleen Whelan
says cheesecake is more comfort-
able.
WASHINGTON, E| C.-(NEA)-Vice Adm. Louis E Donfleld
.n AC.omrna"d<-r->n-Chief of the PaeTflc Fleet and likeliest ’
to Adm. Chester W k.____. e. 1
'Flora, what in the world are
you sighing about?” I asked impa-
tiently.
"You wouldn't understand, dear
Most of America’s millions have
glimpsed and gasped at the Whel-
an gams. After a brief try at hid-
ing them, Arleen is willing to let
the public go on gasping.
Miss Whelan demanded and got
clothes In Enterprise studios’
“Ramrod," an outdoor epic star-
ring Veronica Lake and Joel
McCrea.
The man who knows he doesn’t know it all knows a lot.
We couldn’t understand women rushing to the stores
to overstock until we read that sugar was off rationing.
An Illinois nurse objected to expectant fathers croon-
ing in a hospital corridor. Aw, let ’em practice for the
nights to come.
"About time,” she triumphed as
she was fitted Into copious petti-
coats and ankle length gowns.
"I've been afraid of catching,
influenza, or pneumonia, or just I
turning into a chunk of ice. I’ve
worn less clothes than Gypgy Rose
Lee."
On the “Ramrod" location at
Zion national park, Miss Whelan
had practically a monopoly on the
wardrobe trunks. It took an hour
to get. her properly dressed up for
scenes and she loved every minute
of it.
Then came the heat.
'The rest of the cast was frol-
icking around in shirts and jeans,
she recalled. "I was sweltering
under enough petticoats to dress
to Adm. Chester W. Nfcnitz as Chief of Naval Operations
uig lobbyists out of so many officers.
kil0WS aU about the way these
battles of Washington are fought. He was Chief of
the Bureau of Personnel here during the war. His
observation about officer lobbyists is particularly
appropriate right now. Navy opposition to unifica-
tion of the armed services is more outspoken than
it has been at any time since President Truman
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.he, eTprZs‘"l^lmpS “mof'Ese Imce,
Remembering Bob Finneran, I
cried and cried. When the parade
was over. Father took me to the
Plaza and bought me a gorgeous
lunch. It was all I could do to L/3Ulse" Plora me gently,
eat it. "Why not?"
T\*o days later I had a slight "Because your happiness shuts
headache and went to bed early. you awav from nle Happy people
Father came in about 9 o’clock ' n®ver do understand the unhappy,
and sat on my bed. Il's not vour fault, darling. Don’t,
fore seen her grandchild. Gloria
left the little dog and ran to me. '
Couldn’t she have a doggie? . . .
Mrs. Finneran looked at me
fiercely.
"Whose child Is that?" sne de-
manded. Her eyes were hungry.
I told her that it was Flora Forbes’
oldest child. Mrs. Finneran turned
and walked swiftly away, dragging
the dog on the leash.
"Goodby, goodby, goodby,” Glo-
ria called after her.
When we got to the shoe store,
Gloria had the time of her life
fliriting with the clerk. I was hesi-
tating between high-buttoned white
shoes and sandals, when the door
opened and Mrs. Finneran walked
swiftly in. She came straight to
me and held out seven faded pho-
tographs of various sizes.
’Look at them," she command-
ed. They were all of Bob—Bob as
a baby; Bob in skirts, in kilts, in
a Lord Fauntleroy suit; Bob’s liead
and shoulders superimposed above
on a pedestal. “You see the like-
ness?” Mrs. Finneran went on
shrilly. “No one could mistake it.
The child is the living image of
her hero father, and that dreadful
woman has kepi her from me all
these years. My own flesh and
blood! I shall never forgive her.
She shall pay for It if it takes my
last cent. You can tell her that ^
for me. Tell Iter I mean to have
my rights. Tell her
1
rpHERE were many things I might
-I have said to Mrs. Finneran, but
THOUGH they have not said so In plain words, Navy officers’ oppo-
But theie is more to it than meets the eye.
When next year’s budget estimates were being prepared Secretary
of War Robert Patterson—like all other riPmrim.nt Z
u , Patterson—like all other department heads—had to
appear before the Bureau of the Budget.
Budget Director James E. Webb explained that the Resident was
PaUerson^aTd'Te'Zuldsee the need of^hat^Webb'Xnwem on "to
Hre Chinese army, I couldn’t even
sit i
The answer to what makes shoestrings break seems to
be being in a hurry.
The modern girl is on her toes, says a woman educator.
Yeah—we’ve noticed those high heels, too.
The pool player is the one man you can’t blame for
wanting to hit the high spots.
Nowadays the X-ray can determine the size of the
heart In olden days we used to judge by the amount of
a contribution.
hlL’d UuT’ program"'1 Wake
Down Memory Lane
down and mop off because It
took the wardrobe girls so long
over a hot iron to smooth out the
petticoats."
Unfortunately, Miss Whelan had
demanded her wardrobe and she
bad to stand in It.
"If I complained about the heat
of my costumes, they’d just say I
asked for it," she figured. "If
went ahead according to script, I
was afraid I'd fade away and end
up the picture a well - dressed
skeleton."
Nature finally saved Arleen. The
heat Subsided and she finMied
her location stint without melting
off any more pounds.
’Tve learned my lesson," she
said. T don't, care how much of me
the public sees anymore. I want
to be comfortable. If that means
legs and scant costumes, I’m all
for it.”
explain that the ceiling for the armed services had to be $11 billion
Patterson said he could see that, too.
Then Webb said the division would have to be $8.6 billion for
Army and $4.4 billion for Navy That Patterson said he didn’t see.
On what basis had the division been made?
The answer was that it seemed fair and equitable to both services
and in approximate ratio of past appropriations.
Patterson still couldn’t see it. He claimed Navy’s job was largely
done. The Army on the other hand had tremendous occupation duties.
“Can you keep a secret?" Father
asked. \
I said he knew I could.
“But this is a very special se-
cret,” Father persisted. “I’d leave
town if it got out. I’m really a
swine even to tell you. I think I
won't.”
I had to coax and coax.
Finally Father said: "I was
greatly honored last evening. I'm
not a young man and not rich and
no charmer, heaven knows, but be-
lieve it or not, my hand actually
was asked In marriage.”
“Not
think
I said briskly that Flora was
getting morbid from staying in
bed so much, that I v^as gotifg
downtown, and that she had better
go with me.
Flora whimpered that she would
love to go downtown with me, but
the nurse had asked to go to Pat
Mason's funeral at 11 o’clock, and
Theodora seemed • to be coming
down with a cold, and the baby
had a horrid rash; but it didn’t
matter because she never did any- j
thing she wanted to do.
I said, "Nonsense!” rather sharp-
We’ll mention no names. But I i!y and got UP 10 g0- plora called
thought you’d like to know. I de- ' me back from the door to ask if
THE correct way to make a budget, Patterson maintained, was to
list the tasks that had to be done, with the cost of each item under
a master national defense plan. These items would then have to be
compared, and the budget made up of whatever total of the most
essential items came to, instead of dividing up the money first and
then seeing what could be done with it later.
It has been Pattwrson’s contention that the primary need for unifi-
cation is to set up a single Secretary of National Security who will
look at the entire defense establishment and make these basic deci-
sions on the needs of all the armed services, together.
The bill still has a chance at this session of Congress in spite of
Navy smokescreens to black it out. The Senate has rewritten the
merger bill to guarantee the Marine Corps and naval aviation con-
tinued existence, which were first Navy objections.
The War Department says that’s okay, though it is asking for no
similar guarantees for the Cavalry and Coast Artillery, which under
any modernization of the armed services stand an awfully good
chance of being liquidated in favor of a new and stronger Depart-
ment of the Air Force.
dined the honor as gently and
decently as I could.”
“Why?"
“Because the lady in question
and you don’t get along. I’ve been
fond of you a good many years.
At my time of life a man needs
his children and grandchildren.
No outsider, no matter how glam-
orous. can take a child’s place.”
It’s always been hard for me to
show emotion. I caught Father’s
hand and kissed it and tried to
tell him brokenly what a won-
derful father he had been to me.
He said all the right things, and
I was very happy.
* * *
I would mind taking Gloria Louise
i downtown and getting her some
new white shoes. Gloria Louise
hadn't had an outing for weeks,
and there was no reason why the
poor mite should spend her child-
hood in a sickroom.
* * *
QLORIA LOUISE and I had a
her faults, but she was no • snob.
not before Gloria. Foi getting the
startled clerk, forgetting my purse,
I grabbed Gloria and fled for ray
car.
I was well on the way home be-
fore I drew a long breath. Gloria
had been startled, but she took it
calmly, as part of the morning’s
entertainment.
"What’s a hero. Auntie Louise?”
she finally asked.
"A very brave man, usually a
soldier who fights for his country,"
I answered absently. How could I
tell Flora? Flora only recently had
persuaded Sam to adopt Gloria
fouise legally.
"Did Daddy fight for his coun-
try?” Gloria asked.
"No, Daddy was over age, too
old to fight."
"But the lady said Daddy was
a hero.”
I was afraid of the turn Gloria’s
catechism was taking and managed
to divert her attention by promis-
ing that Leah wouid nave cookies
y/hen we, got home to my house.
Luckily, Leali had made some just
that morning and while she fed
Gloria, I telephoned Sam and told
him of my unfortunate encounter
with Mrs. Finneran.
“Oh Lord,” Sam said. "Oh, my
gracious Lord."
(To Be Continued)
Lesson in English
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED Do
not say, "It is an actual fact (often
heard).” All facts are actual, and
all actualities are facts. Say, "It
wonderful time. Gloria had is a fact."
OFTEN MIS PRONOUNCED:
Ours was a triumphal progress Caramel. Pronounce kar-a-mel,
along Main Street, through the ! first a as in at, second a unstress-
stores. Gloria had a smile or a I ed, e as in bell, accent firs! syll-
UtUe cursty for everyone she mei. I able.
Sally’s Sallies
By Scott
... _ June 30, 1922
Lillian'Ortnnnnf1parCh fWil1 If™ as week-end &ueBts Miss
of Purcell Pmiceton’ Mo” and Miss Margaret Moore
day,MforaW„J-,?T “d wi" •»« in » few
June 30, 1937
^ayfi?ld’ Prip>tipal at Irving school has been
, 11"*.......*»*■ hi»i»chioi for is
SSi Vit a""°l"Ked ‘’“"I *■ T.»lor,
JJars; RoZ Stevenson, 828 South Ellison avenue was
ess to the Friendly circle Tuesday afternoon aLT
SEL'ESin: and £"*£«
Harr« Horr *
LtF V“9 her FirRee„t°: Mr’
and Mrs. Thomas G. Jackson, and other relatives
Mrs. Merle L. Potts of Tulsa is visiting here with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Baucom, and with her hus-
land s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Potts.
Look and Learn
1. How does the number of red
corpuscles In the normal human
body compare to the number of
white ones?
2. How many fluid ounces are
there in a gallon?
3. Who was the first president
of the United States to be in-
augurated in Washington, D. C.?
4. How many average-sized
houses would the largest redwood
tree of California build?
5. What is a herbivorous ani-
mal?
ANSWERS
1. About 5,000 red ones to every
white one.
2. 128.
3. Thomas Jefferson, In 1801.
4. About 22 houses.
5. One that, eats only vegetation,
and no meat.
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Poole
arrived In El Reno Saturday eve-
ning after visiting several points
in Colorado on their honeymoon.
They will depart tomorrow for
Grandfteld where they plan to
make their ham*.
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___“Help! Help! Not you—the other one!”
■piINALLY I asked: "What did you
* say to Ann ... to the lady
who proposed to you?"
“Oh, something along the lines
of what I’ve Just said to you. I
had to think quick. It wasn’t easy,
believe me.”
"Was she . . . terribly hurt and
disappointed?” a
'I don’t think so. There wasn’t
any love’s young dream to squelch,
remember. As a matter of fact
she didn’t pretend to be bowled
over by my many charms. Her
proposal was more or less along
business lines. She pointed out,
very reasonably and unemotion-
ally, that you would soon be leav-
ing me for a younger and hand-
somer man and that I inevitably
would be desperately lonely. She
said that she was lonely too, a
drag on her mother and sisters,
and she thought that we might
join forces to our mutual advant-
age.”
“And you said what?”
"That I was immensely flat-
tered, that she had paid me the
greatest compliment I had ever
had, that I was greatly touched
and would never cease to be grate-
ful. Then f reminded her that un-
happily she and you had never hit
it off very well. I said that I was
too old and set In my ways to root
you out of my life, that it wouldn’t
be fair to her to ask her to take
second place, that I was at the
age to look forward to grand-
children—a lot along that line.
We were walking home from down-
town. When I was in full flow
she said I needn't go on. I stood
there with my mouth open, blush-
ing Hke a fool, and then she
laughed and said we’d both forget
It and began talking about some-
thing else, as cool as you please.
But her eye* when she satd good-
by still hmint me. The girl’s
desperately Onhappy. I feel like a
heel.”
She enchanted the clerks with her
pretty ways.
Outside our paper store I re-
membered I needed some ink and
left Gloria at the door while I
went inside. When I came out
she was rapturously loving a little
white Spitz dog. The dog belonged
to a tall woman in rusty black,
who was bent over the child.
"Yes. I love doggies." I heard
Gloria say. "I love kangaroos too."
She was the proud owner of a
mechanical kangaroo that Jumped.
"Kangaroos?” the woman asked.
“Surely you don’t mean kanga-
roos, darling.”
My heart turned over. Gloria
was talking to Mrs. Finneran,
Bob's mother, the grandmother
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Embar-
rassment: two r’s and two s's.
SYNONYMS: Misconduct, mis-
behavior, misdemeanor, misdeed,
offense, delinquency, wrongdoing.
WORD STUDY: ’’Use a word
three times and it is yours.” Let
us increase our vocabulary by mas-
tering one word each day. Today'^
word: INDEFATIGABLE: incap-
able of being fatigued, or not yield-
ing to fatigue. (Accent third syll-
able!. “He was the quickest, most
indefatigable player on the field.’’
—H. G. Wells.
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Mrs. M. F. Jackson. Huntington
Park, Calif., was the week-end
guest of Mrs. M. F. Dobbs, 117
North Hoff avenue.
Mr. Brewer
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