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The El Reno Daily Tribune The Optimist
A Bine Ribbon Newspaper Serving a Blur Ribbon Community MHHflHHHI
Issued dally except Saturday from 207 South Rock Island Avenue,
and entered as second-class mall matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
RAY J. DYER
Publisher
BUDGE H.4RLE DEAN WARD
Managing Editor Business Manager
HARRY SCHROEDER
Circulation and Office Manager
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Elsewhere In State-One Year *8 50-Out of State __ $1100
Including Sales Tax
Friday. Aug. 5, 1949
All law is. Even physical laws must have a spiritual harmony. Else
the whole universe would be out of tune and.harsh. For we know that
the law Is spiritual.—Rom. 7:14.
Mere Warnings Inadequate
^FH P nntinnal nafot v nniiHnil pmuiptn tui.ri'!..
THE national safety council reports traffic fatalities for
the first six months of 1049 are the lowest in U. S. his-
tory for the number of miles traveled. But there is small
solace in this fact. For the actual death toll was. 13,810,
less than 1 percent below the 13,910 recorded in the same
period a year ajro. Projected annually, the figures mean
that the equivalent of the population of Miami Beach, Fla.,
will he wijied out in 1949.
The council has done a magnificent job, of course, in
keeping Americans constantly alert to the danger of motor
travel on increasingly burdened streets and highways.
There is something brutally grim about the council’s
accuracy in forecasting highway fatalities on big holiday
week-ends. A typical announcement may say: “Over the
Fourth of July there will be 290 traffic deaths in the
nation.” Inexorably, death will occur in numbers close to
the predicted figure. No matter how strong the appeals for
careful driving, the fatalities will happen.
* * *
D^ATH will come to drivers who have passed road tests
and to drivers who haven’t. It will strike everywhere,
but most heavily in the country’s big clusters of population
like New York and Chicago.
It is abundantly evident now that mere warnings plus
the simple road tests prescribed by most states will not
halt the carnage on the highways. What, if anything, will
check it? We suggest that motorists and all'public and
private agencies concerned with driving safely focus on three
main points:
First, present-day driving has certain inevitably explo-
sive factors—the speed and maneuverability of modern
cars, the inadequacy of most thoroughfares on which they
travel, and the consequent continuing menace that unavoid-
able errors of human judgment will turn any normal traffic
stream into a shambles of death in an instant.
* * *
^ECONI), if the driver wants the best chance of averting a
possibly fatal crash, he must recognize the explosive
situation by acting seriously and responsibly when he is
behind the wheel. He can’t ever relax fully.' The moment
he diverts his attention is the moment an accident is born
Third, the driver must not at any time assume that
his fellow motorist is attending to business the same as he.
Anyone who has plied the country’s highways for long
knows the only safe assumption is that the other driver
doesd° the W°rat possi,),e thin* in a Kiven case. He usually
•r ,These lesson« might sound a little commonplace. But
if they could be well learned by a majority of motorists
we believe prospects are great that few drivers would wind
up as added digits in the national safety council’s grim
statistics.
Auto tires gain pressure on long drives during the hot
days—somewhat after the fashion of the golfer.
According to a scientist, rattlesnakes have no sense of
hearing. Or of humor, just to be thorough.
. r :iil
iKs when a witness says “I can’t remember” that you’re
sure he knows all the answers.
dog.
A dog show is where folks spur dogs on to put on the
Down Memory Lane
Aug. 5, 1924
Judge James I. Phelps of El Reno was generally con-
ceded at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon to have won the nomi-
nation for justice of the supreme court over C. C. Smith.
I helps was running away from his opponent with a majority
of 7,000. Many predicted that Phelps would lead the ticket
in the district.
Mr. and Mrs. James Dooner of Chicago, 111., are guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Maher, 411 South Roberts
avenue. Mrs. Dooner was formerly Miss May Purdon, and
has visited here previously. Mr. and Mrs. Dooner have been
spending the summer on the Pacific coast and are enroute
home.
The Queen Esther girls met last night in their regular
meeting in the First Methodist church. Following the meet-
ing Mrs. Genevieve Braley entertained with several solos.
Aug. 5, 1939
Dr. L. G. Johnson, psychiatrist at the El Reno federal
reformatory since last January, has been transferred back
to the justice department medical center at Springfield, Mo
His successor here has not been named.
Opening of a district U. S. forestry service office in El
Reno to serve 10 counties was announced today by Mike F.
Thomsic, district supervisor. The service will promote and
assist in1 the planting of shelterbelts on farm lands in the
region. The service furnishes the trees and plants them for
farmers who will cultivate them.
Initial step in the widening of U. S. highway 66, four
and one-hatf miles east from the U. S. 81 junction southeast
of El Reno, was reported today when the state highway
department officials began buying additional right-of-wav
along the route.
Invitations have been issued by Mrs. Joseph T. Phelps,
Mrs. J. M. Burge and Mrs. Ray Dillingham to a miscella-
neous bridal shower to be given Monday evening at the
Phelps home, honoring Mrs. Merritt Denison. The honoree
is the former Miss Laurabel Cosby.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wallace, 208 North Barker ave-
nue, have returned from a month’s trip to points in Cali-
fornia, Oregon, Washington and Canada,
• tlE STORY: A wealthy widow,
Mrs. Everson, believes that an
atomic war is impending and with
it will come the destruction of
civilization. She has sold all her be-
longings and put her money into
jewels. She has equipped two giant
trailers with comforts and is flee-
ing- with her servants to “a place
of safety.” In the party is Mrs.
Margaret Malone, her cook, who did
not understand the expedition until
she was a part of it and who has
since been tempted to run away,
litre.. Malone has learned that Mrs.
Everson is in love with her hand-
some chauffeur. Rudy, a disgraced
movie star, but Rudy likes Mrs.
Everson only for her money. Victor,
the Filipino houseboy. and the Mar-
chese Dellacasa, an exiled noble-
man, are the others in the party.
Mrs. Everson’s fear of the impend-
ing "great explosion" is heightened
by her frantic appeals to Rudy to
“hurry." “She's sure scared of that
bomb." Victor tells Mrs. Malone.
Mrs. ilalone answers: "Who isn't?”
* * *
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JIM’RS. MALONE peered out of
the window again and then
turned to Rudy.
Where are we?" she asked.
The arrow points toward Colo-
rado or Montana," Rudy said.
We're going the hard way, but
don't ask me why. Maybe she's
still throwing pursuers off the
scent.”
He stretched again.
"Me for the hoy!"
"I too.” Victor said.
"But Mrs. Everson ."
"Let her sleep,” Rudy inter-
rupted. "She’s out like a light."
How about the Bomb?” Mrs.
Malone said sarcastically. "If we
don't hurry along, maybe we’ll be
too late!"
Rudy's smile flickered.
“Ybu can only die once,” he said.
“As for me, I'm against driving
over a cliff In my sleep. Come on.
Victor."
The minutes passed in a silence
so absolute that Mrs. Malone found
herself pausing to listen, straining
to hear, holding her breath with a
sort of dread. It was a silence com-
posed of the loneliness of deserted
rocks and empty skies. Here, on
this high, still place, man the
builder and man the destroyer
seemed no longer to exist. The
fever and the fury of great cities
were far away, dwarfed into in-
consequence, left behind.
The steps were down; Mrs. Ma-
lone went outside and forward
along the trailer's shining flank to
the truck. Mrs. Everson was asleep,
her head on her arms, her face
hidden. Mrs. Malone hesitated,
then crossed the road and stood
on the brink, looking off at the
great platter of earth.
“I wish Joe were here,” she
thought.
* * *
A LL through those long years
with him there had been the
peace and security of love, his
strength and wisdom, a way of
striking through the mazes of doubt
to the heart of a situation, or to
the truth of a human being. She
had relied on him too long.
In a few brief days the protect-
ing wall he had built around her
had crumbled and fallen, had van-
ished forever. Joe was gone. Yet
with her eyes closed, now, she could
see his kind, quizzical American
face, could hear his voice, dry and
gentle, could feel his arms around
her.
She tore her mind away, know-
ing that it was hopeless and wrong
to remember. She must live, now,
with emptiness and loneliness. But
what would Joe have decided about
these people? Could she believe
Victor? Or the implacable Rudy,
tensed for some sudden, fierce
spring? Could she believe the for-
eigner? Or Mrs. Everson?
And then, suddenly, she knew
what Joe would have done: he
would have got out of there—fast!
Nothing in the world could have
persuaded him to string along with
such a gang. *
She turned, with some half-
formed idea of escape. She could
be halfway down the other side
of the grade before any of them
awakened. She might get a lift—
this road was used—surely a car
would overtake her.
"Malone!”
Mrs. Everson was sitting up. Now
she opened the cab door and swung
herself down.
"Where’s Rudy?”
"He and Victor are asleep, Ma-
dam."
* * *
VYRS. EVERSON’S face gave evi-
if 1 r
dence of the long night's vigil.
Her eyes were darkly shadowed; the
carefully painted lips were blurred.
She crossed the road and stood
beside Mrs. Malone. Two steps be-
yond. the mountain fell away into
space. They could see the grade
twisting down between the canyon
walls, coil after coll, to the valley
floor.
'Let them sleep." Mrs. Everson
said In her somber voice. "The
rest is easy. We can make time
today. And day after tomorrow
we'll be there. Safe."
walls. And day after tomorrow
wel’U be there. Safe."
She was not speaking to Mrs.
Malone, but to herself. Her ex-
pression, as she looked off at the
panorama of uninhabited land, was
again triumphant. She made Mrs.
Malone think of some ruler or pre-
historic priestess.
The gulf of space beneath her
only deepened the impression. Mile
beyond mile the emptiness stretched
away, transfixed in silence. Over
it all the strange, pallid woman
seemed to hold dominion. As if.
somehow, she knew the secret of
its destiny . . .
Suddenly she said: "You were
meaning to run away Just now,
weren't you? Are you afraid of
me?”
"No," Mrs. Malone answered.
"You hate me."
(To Be Continued)
Problem a Day
A false gallon measure really
contains only 3 quarts, 1-1 2 pints.
This being so, what is the actual
value of a liquid which sold for
$240, using this false measure?
ANSWER
$225. Multiply 3 by 2 (number
of pints in 1 quart); add 1-1/2;
divide 240 by 8 (number of pints
in 1 gallon); multiply by 7-1/2.
Church
&
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCH
Jerome L. Clark, Pastor
Saturday, Aug. 6, 1949.
Sabbath school, 10 a. m. “Christ’s
Message to Laodicea.”
Church service, 11 a. m. "More
Than Conquerors."
lars was the greatest amount
known to mankind. Now we toss
billions into conversatins and I
urn waiting for the day when the
slang term jilllon becomes a word
designating a definite amount.
Had a plea.sant thirty minutes
with Mr. Frank Cleckler, the af-
fable and efficient manager of
the veterans administration re-
gional office in Oklahoma Citv
cio with the collection of the un-
paid hospital bill. I needed some
advice pertaining to the VA and
Mr. Cleckler Is the one who can
set me straight every time.
Every time my business carries
me Into the presence of the men
who occupy Important positions
I'm fully convinced that they have
urrived at the pinnacle of success
not onlj by their mental attain-
ments but by their consideration
of a lot of unimportant people
like me.
Followed tills visit with some
dashing around the various de-
partments of the VA in pursuit
of information on some of our
own veterans’ claims. Our Red
Cross field directors are covered
up with work but able to keep
fairly abreast of the case load.
Had some business with the
veterans assistance department. I
miss Mart Singleton but find his
successor most accommodating
and a "Good Joe.” . . . Having
no shopping to do and having a
few minutes between appoint-
ments downtown I took a bus-
man’s holiday and dropped in to
the Oklahoma county chapter of-
fice to see my good friend, Bill
Heaton, who is chapter manager,
and to thereby express apprecia-
tion for their help in steering me
straight on our participation in
the polio situation. Got in the 5
o'clock traffic coming home and
wondered as usual what the
drivers who seemed to be in such
a gosh-awful hurry would do
with the seconds they were so
anxious to save; particularly those
from California and Texas. I
wanted to yell at them that our
hospital is full to capacity but
perhaps Boyd Wilson and Gladys
Benson could make room for
them in the mortuaries. Exhibi-
tionists going to their doom and
taking a lot of good citizens with
them.
“Hi, Chief! You’re just in time to see ‘Mad Dog’ Morohn
show me how he can plug* the ace of spades back there!”
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN *
Secret Testimony on Arms
Needs May Break Opposition
BY PETER EDS ON
NEA Washington Correspondent
^fASHINGTON—Best testimony that the Congressional Foreign Re-
_, lations and Armed Services Committees will get on the European
Military Assistance Program will probably be given in secret session.
» e* * f!,ven !?y Lloyd V. Berkner, special assistant to the Secretary
01 Mate, Maj.-Gen. L. L. Lemnitzer of the general staff and their
assistants. They are "the experts” who worked up the estimates which
add up to the $1,450,000,000 program which President Truman ia
requesting.
. statements, by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense
-secretary Louis Johnson and ambassador Averell Harriman will be'
on general principles and grand concepts. Gen. Omar Bradley, Army
t-hief of Staff, will lay on the line the military strategy for the defense
of western Europe, to the degree that it can be given in open hearing,
inen will come the top secret stuff which should break down con-
gressional opposition to the Military Assistance Program, if anything
iisil!y suPPose> as some of the congressmen apparently do,;
that this $1,450,000,000 figure was pulled out of a tin hat. In the
s cret data to be presented to the congressional committees are country
by country and item by item estimates of what is needed.
One point perhaps not made sufficiently clear is that for every
dollar the United States puts into this arms effort, the western Euro-—
pean countries themselves will be putting in the equivalent of five
u. S. dollars for their own defense.
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31 Halt an em
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50 Swings
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66 Obstacle
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4 Tellurium
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1. What is the speed of the blood
through the human body?
2. Why is our 10-cent coin called
a dime?
3. Which is the most northerly
state of the union?
4. Which is the longest book in
the Bible?
5. Between what two countries is
the Bering strait?
ANSWERS
1. The blood circulates through
the body in from two to 30 seconds,
or from 3,000 to 4,000 times in 24
nours.
2. It is derived from the Latin
decern, meaning ten, or decimus,
meaning one-tenth.
3. Minnesota.
4. Psalms, with 150 divisions.
5. Alaska and Russia.
Lesson in English
LOOK at the record will show that over a year ago—on May 23
\94.8—the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously
adopted a resolution recommending that the United States give aid to
lriendly, regional groups of nations, "to remove any dangerous un-'
certainties that might mislead potential aggressors.” Autho? of this'
resolution was a senator from Michigan named Arthur H. Vandenberg
Senator Vandenberg and others now maintain that
the $1,450,000,000 should be cut down is a little hard to figure. There
were no reservations in the original resolution that the friendly asso-
'f'," of w,“t.?r" Eur°Pean nations be supported only by pins, peanut*,
or pious platitudes. The assumption was that they would not be^
supported by shootin’ irons.
All this double-domed thinking by the bi-partisan Senate Foreign
Relations Committee was done before the western European diplomats
met in Washington in May, 1948, to carry out the intent of the Van-
denberg resolutmn. Their conference resulted ultimately in signing of
the North Atlantic Pact in April, 1949. 6
fJ'HROUGHOUT the intervening year, U. S. General Staff officers
were in constant consultation with Brussels Pact officers in Europe
while strategy and defense plans were being formulated. Estimates
on European requirements were then being received, analyzed, and
revised downward to practical limits that the U. S. could supply
There is no need now for further delay to develop strategy 4
On Apnl 21 1949, President Truman informed the Congress what
r!fmmfA«lV°h bC i ThreC dayS l3ter the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee held a long executive session. Secretaries Acheson and
Johnson were both there, with their experts. They explained in detail
what they had in mind. There was no squawk from the senators then.
There was general relief that the cost would be less than two billion
It was during open Senate debate, on ratification of the North At-
fact tha* a11 these doubts and reservations began to appear.
But talk now of compromise is not as ominous as it sounds. It means
that some kind of arms aid is going through. The program is not
Sown.10 ^ defeated' But aU these cr*ticisms will have to be beaten
------i.
Texas ‘Doodlebug’
To Be Discontinued
WICHITA FALLS, Tex., Aug. 5
—(A*)—The Wichita Valley railway’s
"Doodlebug" was one toot away
from oblivion Thursday and its
chances for a stay of execution
faded abruptly when towns served
by the little gas electric motorcar
surveyed the situation and re-
ported; “No objection.”
Application has been filed with
the Texas railroad commission by
the Burlington lines for abandon-
ment of passenger service on the
Wichita Valley railway between
Wichita Falls and Abilene. Hearing
on the application will be Aug. 30
in Seymour.
At a recent meeting, S. A. Mitch-
ell, mayor of Seymour, declared
that "our town would like to be
able to say it has a passenger train,
of course; but as for giving the
railroad support—we just haven't
done it."
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FIRE CARE ORDERED
JACKSONVILLE, Fla _ (U.R) —
Anyone starting furnace fires In a
careless way in Jacksonville hotels
will be liable to a $100 fine under
a law adopted by the city council
Sally’s Sallies
By Scott
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do
not say, "We returned back home."
Back Is redundant, and should be
omitted.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED:
Different. Pronounce all three syl-
lables, and not diff-rent.
OFTEIN MISSPELLED: Decrepit;
it, not id.
SYNONYMS: Sparkle (verb),
shine, radiate, glisten, glitter,
glimmer, twinkle.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word
three times and it is yours." Let
us Increase our vocabulary by mas-
tering one word each day. Today's
word: RETICENCE; quality, act,
or habit of keeping silent; secre-
tiveness. "Such fine reserve and
noble reticence."—Tennyson.
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FORT WORTH. Tex.—(U.R)—Clin-
ton White, 27, elevator operator,
has had the breaks since he was
2, but they've all been the wrong
kind. He estimates he has suffered
80 bone fractures since childhood.
White is victim of a malady mak-
1 lng his bones extremely brittle.
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