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“Did anyone take the pin ‘to the Theta house?” Brooks (Bucky): Walters, songleader, yelled in the
of everyone in the living room,
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Lou Toth, the pin man, showed his nervousness. Beads of perspiration dotted his forehead.
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songleader suggested with a hint of impatience, “The songs @ Phis were ready. There were several comments on the way out—"We're rugged tonight.” “That's solid sending.” ‘More than 60 men filed out on W. Hampton dr. and shuffled toward the Theta house,
Pins Over Doorway
FINALLY THEY were all assembled on the lawn
faging ‘the front of the sorority house. Over the
doorway were the lighted replicas of the fraternity and sorority pins. The doof of the Theta house opened with the first notes of “Come Out Tonight” and the girls lined up on the patio facing the*Phi Delts. There were several whimpers as they came out in the'cold night alr,
Deal in Grapefruit
‘WASHINGTON, Jan, 14—You could have bowled Austin Anson over with a grapefruit seed. For two months he’d been arguing (in a gentleTexas fashion) with the British food mission. 'd made a deal for Great Britain to buy of Texas’ finest seedless grapefruit, So Englishmen to lunch, x: were W. B. A. Beckett, chief of the mis- : PF. B. Powell, and a couple other gents whose I didn't get. They ate beef stew, composed steer and Texas vegetables, time came for dessert, Mr. Anson started te down grapefruit all around. The Britishers said ahem. They had chocolate ice cream pie.with marshmallow goo on top. 3 This so upset Mr. Anson, the secretary of the Texas Citrus and Vegetable Growers and Shippers association, that he squirted his own grapefruit in his own eye. This made him unhappier still; he's the fellow who has stumped the nation with the claim that Texas grapefruit is non-squirtable, Ah, well,
A Half for Everyone
“TO ENGLAND on or before Feb. 28 will go these refrigerator ships loaded with the best grapefruit in the world,” said Mr, Anson, with a gleam in his eye (the one that got squirted). “The wayswe figure it, there will be at least half
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Show Must Go On
° HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14.—For months Jimmy Durante drove Joe Pasternak half crazy with his radio and personal appearance commitments. When Joe objected to Jimmy's leaving the studio in the middle of a film scene to keep a date with a mike or an sudience, Jimmy always had the same answer: “Joe, the show must go on.” Finally, during the filming of “Two Girls and a Sailor,” Joe had an idea. In one sequence Jimmy had a lne, “The show must go on.” So Joe had June Allyson ad lib the response, “Why?” Jimmy had no answer, It was Joe, incidentally, who discovered June for pictures ‘when they bumped into one another in a studio ‘cafe door, The other day Joe asked June: “June, will you Sntonn: Did you bump into me intentionally that y ne laughed and said: accident was no accident.”
No Smile Needed
VERA RALSTON, scared to death of horses, has several riding scenes in Republic's “Wyoming.” She wag sitting on a nag, teeth clenched, when director Joe Kane said: “Smile a little more, Vera, and really look happy.” “I'm happy just to be able to sit here,” replied Vera, “without smiling about it.” H. B, Warner is doing a great deal of chuckling over his role of a rum-sodden; bewhiskered, tattered
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THE WOMAN head of one of New York City's leading department stores predicts that the “store
toriums for public meetings, new kinds of restaurants, and scentific planning to lessen shopping fatigue., It sounds nice. But Mrs, America would be happy
with a lot less than that. In fact, all she really asks
is a return to the good old pre-shortage days.
Pick Up Phone and Order
‘NO STORE would have to Junior for her while she shops, .
over the care of she could just go fo the telephone the way she used to. Then she could call her favorité store and give an order like
“two dozen diapers,” “six crib sheets,” or “three pairs
of nylons.” Shopping is hard today because it involves so much around--nov In an Stier to comp: Salty
RN) hE SE, © ie. room: Lets hit it" ‘Walter L. Manifold, president “of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was “hoya” up, In fifteen minutes the Phi Delts Were to _ give a pin serenade at the Kapps Alpha Theta house
trying to round the
over, Couple of the pledges took it called.
“How do you feel, Lou?” one of his buddies asked. “These are good cigars, Lou,” another, serenader
“Any time you men are ready, we'll start,” the
r the serenade were given the once-,
PIN SERENADE GLADNESS—The Phi Delis raise their voices in song and help brother Lou Toth and Kappa Alpha Theta sister Dottie Schwert cement relations,
- that Sunday is not a day for play. Yet one Sunday
- article of almost any quality and at almost any of tomorrow” will have kindergarten facilities, audi-
ly a Hearts. er brought his cigaret
5 Bo Tol. wah ating at the jah Hig finest our was approaching. ‘The Phi’s answered with “Always I've Been Dreaming.” The girls warmed the night air with their interprethtion of “There's a Theta Doll in Theta Town.” o "
A Shove for Lov
SOMEONE GAVE Lou a shove which sent him out in no man's land (the open area between the two groups), Dottie stepped out to meet him. They moved in close. Dottie's left arm went around Lou's neck—her right on his left shoulder, Lou's both arms circled Dottie and there was a gentle meeting of lips. This was it. With gusto, the Phi Delts gave forth with the traditional “Tell Me Why She Wears His Pin." The song lingered on. Lou and Dottie were oblivious of the outside world, The kiss outlasted the words and the music, - The serenade was over but not the kiss. A voice called—"Hey Lou—break it up-let's go home,” Another suggested that he come up for air, Dottie and Lou parted gently. That was the signal Jor the familiar “Good Night Ladies.” I've often been curious about the question “Tell Me Why She Wears His Pin” so betore Dottie disappeared into the house I asked her. A bit starry-eyed Dottie looked at me in surprise. “Why—just because I love him, I think” she answered. “I think?” “OH NO-—because I love him.” That's better. Ahhhhhh--college life.
By Frederick C. Othman
“We place each one of these grapefruit in a special wrapper with Texas written all-over it. That puts our advertising into 20,000,000 British homes, “The people are going to smack their: lips over our grapefruit. Babies are going to cry for it. And England will have to buy more and more and more.” “Perhaps we should charge you for distributing your advertising matter,” suggested Mr. Beckett, Mr. Anson, the supersalesman from Harlingen, Tex., choked. First time in his life, said he, that he'd ever ‘strangled on a Texas grapefruit,
Down Comes the Price
A COUPLE of weeks ago Mr. Anson said that the Texas growers were getting around four cents for the same dozen oranges for which some big city grocers charged up to $1.10, He aded that oranges on the tree never had been so cheap, nor oranges in the grocer's bin so high. , Since he made this announcement the price of nranges has been sliding downward everywhere, Mr. Anson _said this was pleasing to him, “Down in Texas,” he said, “we can take it when the price of oranges is low. What hurts us is when we can't sell 'em at any price, because the housewife simply can’t afford fo buy 'em. I blamed the grocers for this in the first place and some of ’em got awful sore. But prices came down and we hope to begin shipping oranges again. We'd better.”
By Erskine Johnson
a man in the final scenes of “It's a Wonderful ee.” Cecil B. DeMille once had him play the Christus in’ “King of Kings,” then never hired him again. To him, Warner will always be the Christus. “If Cecil B. DeMille finds out I'm playing an old drunk,” laughs Warner, “I'll bet he'll refuse to see the. picture.”
$29,995,000 Error
WHENEVER producer Jesse Laskey hears about motion picture deals in which ‘actors share the profits with the producer, he remembers the story of Dustin Farnum, the great silent star. Laskey signed Farnum, leading stage idol of his time, to star in Hollywood's first feature-length film, “The Squaw Man.” “Do you want 5000 shares of stock in my company or:do you want $5000 cash?” Laskey asked Farnum. Farnum took the cash. Had he taken the stock (Paramount) and sold it at its peak, the fee for his services in “The Squaw Man” would have been more than $30,000,000. Anthony Quinn's 4-year-old son has been taught
Tony found the youngster sailing his toy boat in the bathtub, “Son,” he said, boats on Sunday.” “Don’t get excited, Pop,” the boy replied. isn't a pleasure boat. going to Africa.”
“you know you shouldn't sail
“This This is a missionary boat
By Ruth Millet
and prices, but just in an effort to find a needed
price, ' With that chore eliminated, stores ‘won't have to worry over scientific plans for taking the fatigue out of shopping.
Fancy Services Nof Needed
IT'S REALLY not fancy serviée Mrs. America is pining for these days. It is just to have shoppin back to the place where it is again a matter of ask or ordering—instead of endless looking. The fancy new Service visualized for the “store of tomorrow” will undoubtedly find Mrs. America ap- © preciative. | But-nothing stores: might offer in the way of serv-
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Tribunal’s Decision. Against Steamboat Monopoly Paved Way for Central Controls
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Robert Fulton's new steamboat, the
we now accept as commonplace. !
steam-propelled craft that ever got into regular commercial operation. And ambitious little New York, very trade-minded, envisioned great things from this. vessel that could defy winds and tides, and go where it would, when it would. The Clermont would have earned a big place in history simply as the forerunner of the modern superliners that now tie the world into unity. It played a bigger part in the unification of the United States, through one of the greatest judicial decisions of all times. The fundamental philosophy expounded and liberalized through the years, underlies the contempt conviction on
‘|which John Lewis faces the su-
preme court. » » »
THE MOST VITALLY interested New Yorker, when the Clermont proved its worth—aside perhaps from Mr, Fulton himself—was Robert “R. Livingston, justice of the state supreme court, member of three provincial congresses, dele-
gate to two Continental congresses, member of fhe committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, the man who swore George Washington into office for his first term as President, and— with James Monroe—the man who negotiated the purchase of the
Mr, Livingston early had foreseen the importance of steam propulsion for ships. He had sat in with Mr. Fulton on the Seine experiments. Since 1798 he had possessed an exclusive grant from New York 4f the right to navigate steamboats on New York waters. The Clermont was named for the town in which he was born and later died. Mr. Livingston was a great statesman, an eminent judge, a canny business man—and a good Republican. What, then, more natural than that the Republican legislature of New York should grant to him and Mr. Fulton, their heirs and assigns, a new and now valuable franchise for exclusive operation of steamboats in the state's waters? Louisiana followed suit. » # 2 > THEN NEW JERSEY, Connecti~
cut and Ohio forbade New York licensed steamboats to’ enter their
waters. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Georgia granted ex-
By 8 BURTON HEATH NEA Staft Writer It was a glorious day for New York, that August day in 1807 when
run on the Hudson river, inaugurating a regular service to the state ‘capital, Albany, and opening the door to the fast transatlantic service
The Clermont was noi the first steamboat. But it was the first
Louisiana territory from Napoleon.’
Woman Is Shining Example of Wonderful Work Done: in Small Bridgeport Center
Clermont, made its first spectacular
clusive franchises to others, which effectively barred Livingston-Fulton craft from their ports. The infant United States was well on its way to Balkanization— to creation of a chain of exclusive permits that would have utterly stymied interstate. commerce by steamboat. Aaron Ogden, former governor of New Jersey, and Capt. Thomas Gibbons, tried to buck the monopoly with a line from Elizabethport to New York, but Mr, Ogden capitulated when he met up with a New York court injunction. He took a license from Mr. Livingston and Mr. Fulton. But. Capt. Gibbons was made of sterner stuff, He declined to operate under anybody's license, and set up a rival line to Mr. Ogden’s. So, as it happened, It Wis Capt Gibbons’ ex-partner, Mr, Ogden, rather than the New York monopo-
got an injunction against him that reached the supreme court in 1822, ” » ” DANIEL WEBSTER argued the case for Capt. Gibbons two years later. Mr, Webster always rated his argument in the steamship case the top forensic effort of his career. Chief Justice Marshall, then 69, still was presiding. A conservative man, he still made his notes with a quill. He had no more use than Mr. Webster for that “barbarous abomination,” the steel pen. For two hours and a half Mr. Webster poured forth a great courtroom argument. It laid the cornerstone for the United States as a nation, rather than as a loose confederation. The court's decision was delayed because Justice Marshall dislocated his shoulder in a fall. so that he could not write. .Justice Story helped him prepare the opinion. But Justice Marshall read it himself. For three-quarters of an hour lawyers and spectators crowded informally around the bench, straining their ears to hear the aging justice’s feeble tones. » ” » : THE DECISION was for Capt. Gibbons and Mr. Webster — and against state monopolies. The
opinion leaned so heavily upon Mr. Webster's argument that the latter
lists, who hailed him into court and |
the nation.
CHIEF JUSTICE—John Marshall, chief justice of the supreme court, handed down the famous Clermont decision.
telling him it was “little else than a recital of your argument.” And it was popular, So popular that, for a time, it made the Fed~ eralist Justice Marshall almost a hero in .that ardently Republican generation, ’
usurping all the rights of the states and
hours that an elevator operator can work in an office building even if neither the operator, owner, nor any stick or stone or nail or bit of hardware in the building ever was near a state Ine. * =u» THE STEAMBOAT DECISION
later quoted Justice Marshall as
Learns To Use Crutches In Day After 50 Incredible Years In Wheel
Last of a Series
NEW. YORK, Jan: 14—For 50 to eat and sleep and fidget her way
port, Conn. Paralyzed from the waist down, an incurable paraplegia victim, she existed in her narrow, homg-bound the case came to the attention of the Connecticut welfare authorities, In an effort to help her to help herself they took her, and the verb is accurate, to the rehabilitation shop in Bridgeport, operated by the Connecticut Society of Crippled Children and Adults. » » »
THIS SMALL rehabilitation center, hidden in a basement on the outskirts of the city, is only a few months old. It lacks equipment, therapists, space and funds. The heating system is inadequate and on raw days the rooms are uncomfortable. Only within the last few weeks has the Bridgeport Medical society decided to support the project by establishing proper medical supervision, ) Handicapped, yes, but it has for’ its director Miss Virginia Hampton, a slim, vibrant ‘personality who, with her heart, her brain and her two small hanas, has performed major miracles. To her they brought Jennie, and in a day she taught her to walk with crutches. It was a sad little walk, a series of awkward steps like those a hobbled pony takes. There was no strong followthrough on the swing between the crutches. It wasn't even what the experts call a tripod pace. But she went places under her own steam. r » J
THAT NIGHT Miss Fampton
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took Jennie home in the station ‘wagon that shuttles about the city
By ALLAN KELLER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
called Jennie sat in her wheel chair, a hopeless, helpless fragment of humanity. She was helped from bed to chair and from room to room
She lived—not in some hut on the steppes of Asia or a hovel in the mountain fastnesses—but in the bustling, modern city of Bridge-
long, incredible years the woman
through a half century of boredom.
them back at the end of the day Jennie asked to walk up the path and did so while her astonished relatives and neighbors looked on, unbelieving. The drama of this isolated example of rehabilitation is offset by the tragedy that a citizen of these modern United States could have wasted her life In idleness because no one was equipped to train her to use the capacities she possessed after injury or disease had done their damage. A Every (ay in the small community retraining shop other miracles, less exciting, but more beneficial to the patients, are wrought by Miss Hampton and her therapists. : Its work has been’ ‘Supervised at long range by Dr. George Deaver, | medical ‘director of the New York! Institute for Crippled and Disabled. | He and Dr. Howard A. Rusk, head | of the new Institute of Rehahili- | tation opened last week at New York university-Bellevue con}
Center, are the outstanding author- | y
ities in their field. - ” ” »
THE STORY of the Bridgeport Rehabilitation Shop is typical of the program bélieved necessary for establishment of such centers all] through the country. They. expect to retain the millions of dis-| abled men, women and children now unable to find such services| under one roof.
which aided the Connecticut So- ) r Crippled Childrén and
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was urged to refer disabled persons to the new shop for retraining after injury ?
In no time at all the ability of the rehabilitation center to fit men for new jobs in the same plant impressed. the industrial It was a dollar and cents proposition. Instead of injured men going home and drawing pension and in surance funds, they .were back on new jobs in a few .weeks or months at the most, earning as much in some cases as they had before. Local factories gave the new center drill presses, mechanical lathes, woodworking machines and other equipment on which workers could be.retrained.
FULTON'S CLERMONT—This wos not the first steamboat, but the Clermont touched. off a legal fight resulting in a major supreme court decision against steamboat monopolies that Unified
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