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ndoubtedly your .new way of life would be hard to endure despite the fact that you have been able to engage in sports and 80 places under your _own power for the greater portion of your life. What kind of a jolt would it be to start life out The above are some thoughts I had while attending the finest Boy Scout troop in existence. Right along with that, William Earle, scoutmaster of op 172, must be one of the finest in the wor ca §
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AN EVENING at the Crossroads Rehabilitation Center, my friend, and vou feel about an inch bigh after rubbing elbows with people who are do-. ing more than just taking up room on this ‘spinning hunk of rdck. - Makes you think of what you ean. yeport some day when the roll is called up Yonder and you're there, Holding an empty of deeds. : g : Pty bag
What's so remarkable about Boy Scout Troop
the troop assemble. One boy had to be carried into the room. Another used crutches to swing himself and his two almost useless legs into the meeting. There were boys who couldn’t use their arms. They used their feet to tie knots and write and other things Scouts all over the world do. One Boy Scout had td sit in a wheelchair and nod his head for yes or fio. That's all, if you discount the excitement and joy in his eyes when he watched his troop play games, ” A word about Bill Earle. He's a fireman, Sta‘tion 22 is where Bill works. He rides the engine to fires. If you passed him on the street and didn’t know him you might say, “There goes a pleasant-looking guy.” That wouldn't be enough. Try to imagine what 18 crippled kids think of a man who will come out every Monday night to help them pass their Scout tests, arrange games and take them out on hikes. To some of those youngsters, what happeris Monday nights is the greatest thing in their lives. In fact, you might say they live for Monday nights. I mentioned hikes. Some boys, it is true, will never know the joy of racing up and down wooded hills, but you take them out at least on location, let them see something besides four walls, let them smell a toasting weiner or marshmallow, let them get a lungful of clean air, and you've done something. Outings and hikes for Troop 172 are not easy to arrange. Transportation is a problem, for one thing. It takes a great deal of lifting and carrying to get the boys in and out of automobiles and to the camp site. Bill is thinking right now of the national Boy Bcout encampment at Valley Forge next June. It would be a tremendous achievement to take his troop to the historic site.” Takes money, people to help with the children, time-consuming arrange-
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ments. It would be wonderful for the kids. Nothing is impossible, | The Scout committee, Denny Hogan, Don, Wright, Raymond Royer, Ed Gable and Ray Davis, helped with the tenderfoot tests, - Only one made tenderfoot that night. It was an impressive sight to see him hobble up to his scoutmaster, salute, and do a left face and receive his badge from the assistant scoutmaster, Lloyd Burkhardt. When you talk of courage, you can't overlook
Scoutmaster William Earle a picture the Presi-
use a wheeichair most of the time. He is beginning to master the crutches. It's been an uphill fight for years, but Lloyd is as cheerful a young man as you want to meet.
THEN there's little Mike Harrison. He has to use crutches. Some time ago he messed around with a dictaphone and wrote a letter to President Truman. It wasn't long before the President of the United States sent Mike an autographed picture, There is no way of measuring what that gesture by the President did for the little fellow, The closing ceremony was led by a boy who fell once before he was able to stand at attention and make the pledge of allegiance. He didn’t cry out for help. He picked himself up, slowly, every withered muscle straining. No one at Crossroads asked me to buy Easter Seals. They won't have to, either.
NEW YORK, Mar. 25— Some time back I got on a boat to go to Africa and found it loaded with various State Department appointees to positions of delicate trust in the Near East—the oil country on which our future rests. The boat was also loaded with the Arabs and Egyptians with whom our people must work. The Arabs and the Egyptians almost died laughing at our people, One executive was an alcoholic. Another, a military attache, was so flagrantly homosexual that he regaled strangers at the ship’s bar with teary tales about his inability to write his boy friend every day. Still another was so stupid that he made obvious love to an obvious floozie in the deck chairs—and him with a wife and two children 3 aboard. : of
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. THIS WAS our delegation—a drunk, a homosexual and a flagrant fool. All going awny to work for Uncle Sam. A drunk is a pushover for any kind of blackmail or extortion. So is the homosexual. And the fool is easiest of all to handle, On any given day, he leaves himself open to compromise. ; ’ When a drunk is in charge of one set of papers and a homosexual is in charge of another and the fool has reign over still another, you don’t really need spies, Any half-stupid private detective, for 10 bucks a day, can catch any or all in compro-
mise, and shake him for whatever you wish...
‘Gimme thé plots and plans or I'll turn you in for what you are. os Later on I visited one legation that was a real beaut. The military attache was just about charming enough to wear a hostess gown in public. The head man was married to a French woman in a place where the French are despised. Nearly everybody. I met seemed to be either drunk or homosexual. The cultural attache was married to one of the most pathetic women I ever met. She was a violent alcoholic. She was known to have got drunk-
“renly ir at table dat a state Tunction. She hung
around bars and picked up strangers—sailors, soldiers and the local natives, - She would take off her clothes in night clubs, and dance—solo—bare-
footed on no provocation whatever. She wept, fought, and passed out publicly. She was a joke with whatever ship hit port. This is pitiful. This is pathetic. But she was, to my knowledge, condoned for over two ‘years, although the time came when she was no longer asked to state functions. onto his job as our public representative abroad. For all I know, he still has it, which would make a tenure of nearly four ‘years of unabashed derision by the people we pay him to impress with our dignity, : I do not blame this poor dame, nor censure her husband, nor place any personal fault on the drunk, the fool, or the homosexuals. But I sure don't like the idéa of having them represent me abroad. spies, intrigue, and opportunity for easy corruption. The blame is on the permission of one man to rig a whole hierarchy of misfits in the State Department, and on our failure to recognize the rottenness and cut it out after the big sinner was caught and fired by President Roosevelt. was a long, long time ago.
Consulate Reflects Homeland A GOVERNMENT agency abrqad is paid for its clean social fingernails and its ability to reflect honestly and pleasantly on the people back home, That's why you have diplomats. I think it foolish, therefore, to allow a man whose daughter has been
publicly convicted of prostitution to-remain as ati
United States advertisement abroad, despite his innocence, since a well-publicized tart who lives in the consulate lends little tone to Uncle Sam's operation. Pe The State Department is largely a lip-service organization—much front, for advertising, and deeply involved in the welfare of our world. It seems awful dumb to put up with drunks and perverts and the husbands of town characters and the parents of prostitutes and fools and knaves when all espionage and checkmate diplomacy
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“ENRICO CARUSO in Sacred Songs for the Holy Year.” (Album on both 45 and 78 speed) — With religious fervor rekindled over the world in the Holy Year of Jubilee, this album is issued at a time when. the public is especially receptive to sacred music. The selections from Victor's previous reserve of Caruso mas-
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stunts. including ticipation in Lead a Band” Music.”
Verdi's Requiem: “Ingemisco”; tional Boy Scout Rossini's Messe Solennelle: “Do= mine- Deus”; Stabat Mater: “Cujus Animan” and two works by lesser known composers: Stradella’'s “Pieta Signore” and Jean Baptiste Faure’'s “Crucifix.” “Irish Songs by John McCormack.” (Album on both 45 and 78 speeds.) — Here's another release prompted by public demand. These familiar songs in the. beloved voice of the master of Irish
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bly MT. Acheson's public espousal of the cause of Alger Hiss. Except for a technicality Mr. Hiss’ conviction on perjury translates all too easily into peacetime treason.
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 25—The way I figure it, Edward W. Mehren of Los Angeles, Cal, must drink a lot of Squirt. ‘This is a grapefruitish concoction ‘of his own invention which comes in a (about which more in a minute), s good for him. He is pink-cheeked I and full of bounce. : Only trouble with- this health-giving potion is that when he sells a bottle of it for 5 cents he loses money. When he tries to charge a dime for it, he loses customers in large, er, squirts. The solution to him is obvious: A new coin, with or without a hole in:the middle, worth 71; cents.
Funny Money for Pop S80 A BILL now is before Congress providing for such a nickel and a half (or maybe we'd better call it three-quarters of a dime). The American Institute for Intermediate Coinage, of which - Mr. Mehren is chairman, is. in town to urge the law-givers on. Mr. Mehren, who believes thal the people would spend 7% cents as easily as they would a nickel for a bottle of pop, fortunately wears suspenders. His trousers do not sag under the load of silver pesos, pieces of eight, six-sided, 2-cent pieces. street car tokens, wooden nickels, and other monetary oddities he carries in his. pockets. The pop makers, including the bottlers of Squirt, are solidly behind his scheme. So is a blond housewife from Forest Hills, L:. I, who. believes that such funny money might save her a pretty penny on her baby food bills, and so are ~
What the latter want is- for the patrons of saloons to spend 7% cents to hear their brightlighted phonographs play that current classic,
~ Drop Another Nickel In,” or so said Edward H.
Renner, the juke-box king of Alexandria, Va. The odd-cent people all appeared before the Senate Banking subcommittee of Sen. Glen H.
~.the phone companies for true,
Taylor -of Pocatello, Ida. I'm afraid I'm not the right reportér to tell about them. simply because I always try to avoid, when thirsty, a saloon with a juke box inside. When I order a drink I do erably wi ree water. IT guess I'd better lean over backward to be fair. opr Juke-Boxer Renner said ‘the beauty about his machines is that when teen-agers are dropping nickels in, they're safe inside an ice cream parlor
and their parents need not “worry about’ them. |:
Each nickel, however, means a loss to him because recording of even “Mule Train” “costs 49 cents
wholesale and the big box with the flashing lamps
nicks him $1000. When he tries to charge a dime for these mechanical symphonies; his ex-customers sip their Squirt in silence. The only thing, said he, that can save the mighty juke-box industry is the 71;cent nickel. Still leaning backwards; IT have .no| comment.
Phone Fellow Objects
A FELLOW did come in, though, and plunked down on the mahogany desk a shoe box full of lead slugs, iron washers, European pengoes, and. Latin half-quetzal pieces. He identified himself as Clyde 8. Bailey, executive vice president of the Independent Telephone Association, and he said all this iron-mongery had been fished out of paystation phones. Foist some more trick money on the economy, he said, and it'll be gumming up the works of He's against the whole idea. A nickel is enough for a‘telephone call and I gather he wouldn't pay a cent for a bottle of Squirt. : And if all this seeems like heavy-handed spoofing, that's:the idea. The 7-cent dime hasn't got a chance, I guess Mr. Mehren's only hope is smaller bottles. : wi
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. Can the bird of paradise ‘raise its plumage as cock can? 2 ! The peas beautiful plumes can be raised and spread out at will, so as to almost conceal the wearer in a fountain-like rain of feathers. ad Eee. } ‘Where. is the oldest The Touro Synagogue, Rhode Island, is the oldest synagogue in America.
synagogue in America? ; built in 1768 at Newport,
For whom was Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, named?
Upon inheriting Little Hunting Creek Planta-|
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