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2 GLADEWATER (TEX.) DAILY MIRROR
Jeatured
Thursday, August 25, 1949
Officials of (he Air Farce gor all excited
last week when two disc-shaped planes were
found in a Man land tobacco barn. Ihe officers
thought these possibly were pilot models of
the famous "flying saucers" which have kept
the Air Force baffled for more than two years.
After investigation, however, (he air officials
gave out the following terse statement:
"The Air Force states that the two experi-
mental aircraft found near Baltimore have abso-
lutely no connection with the reported phenom-
ena of the fly ing saucers."
It turned out that the weather-beaten models
were left in the barn by Jonathan Caldwell, the
inventor, who disappeared in 1941 after a
series of frustrations in his scheme to develop
a new type of plane.
So the search for the "flying saucers" goes
on. The Air Force hopes eventually to solve
the mystery. But the saucers have not been seen
ot a long time now, and the mystery deepens.
Some say the whole thing is a hoax. They point
out that practically nobody will admit that he
has seen one of the saucers, but always knows
someone else who has. They think that the
whole thing is a figment of someone’s imagina-
tion, an example of mass illusion.
Hut the Air Force takes the matter far more
seriously than that. During its two-year inves-
tigation it has interviewed several .people who
claim to have seen the saucers, and in most
cases, these were people of unimpeachable
integrity. So the Air Force has dismissed the
idea that the thing is a hoax. The Air Force
admits the existence of some mysterious phe-
nomena, but can't decide what the saucers are.
Someday, the Air Force may stumble upon the
answer without looking. And it may be a very
simple one. Hut in the meantime, the search
goes on. So, if you find someone poking around
in your chicken house at 2 a.m., don’t shoot
him. It may not be a chicken thief at all. It
may be an Air Force investigator looking for
the original models of the "flying saucers."
Best Answer For Reds
The Communist ideology is uuilt on the idea
that all capitalist countries are due to experi-
ence alternate periods of prosperity and de-
pressions growing steadily worse until the
whole economy collapses. That was Karl Marx’s
theory, and it is the theory ot Stalin. The
theory hasn't always worked, and even where
it has worked, the results have not been what
the Communists expected. Despite the recurring
booms and depressions, the standard of living
in the capitalist countries has been moving
steadily upward during the past hundred years
until now it surpasses anything ever known
before in history. This is especially true in
the Inited States.
Still, the Communists keep telling us that
we are headed for another disastrous depression
that will just about spell the end of the capital-
ist system. The controlled press and radio have
been preaching this idea to the Russian people
with increasing fervency during the past year.
The Russians leaders evidently believe it
themselves. Some say that is why they have
shown a moderate attitude toward the ttest.
They think we are on the verge of economic
collapse and they will just wait and let us
grow weak of our own accord before they strike
us.
The depression, however, is not developing
as the Reds had expected. So far, we are riding
a wave of prosperity. There has been a slight
recession but we have suffered very little from
it. This was a natural readjustment that had to
come and American business is in a better
shape because ot it.
Later on, we may have another, and more
serious, economic setback. This will come
inevitably as a part of an economic cycle which
lias been in operation since this nation was
founded. Hut it need not give us too much worry
if we take thought in advance and prepare for
it. This we must do. Be can’t afford another
depression such as we had in the Thirties.'
It is a truism that cannot be repeated too
often, that the best way to prevent Communism
from spreading in this country is to make
capitalism work. The system is working marvel-
ously well now, but it could be improved.
Business and industrial leaders should use
every means at their command to keep down
unemployment and see that every person who
wants a |ob shall have one. »a(fs and prices
must be kept at a stabilized level that insure
general prosperity. So long as our people are
busy and happy, they will not listen to the
voice of the agitator seeking to foment unrest.
But Communism thrives in periods of economic
distress and uncertainty. If our industrial and
financial leaders are wise, they will do all
they can to prevent such conditions from
developing.
Tito Tolls 'Em!
Sometime back, when Marshal Tito’s gunners
shot down a number of American fliers and the
cocky Slav dictator refused to apologize to the
State Department or to pay indemnities, some
American newspapers carried a cartoon which
got a laugh. It showed Tito "talking up"to the
West while smiling Joe Stalin stood behind,
reaching his own hand over Tito’s shoulder to
thumb Tito’s nose at America. All the while,
Joe was whispering, "You tell ’em Tito!"
Tito "told ’em" for a while, but backed down
when the United States delivered an ultimatum
and rushed troops to the Italian-Tugoslav
border to back it up.
Now Tito's "telling ’em" again, but this
time it’s Joe who is being told. And Joe doesn’t
like it a bit. Moscow and Belgrade are engaging
in a regular name-calling contest.
If the situation gets any worse, Moscow will
have to take some action or lose face with all
the satellite nations. And the question is,
Vhat can Russia do?
She can tlireaten, but she already has done
that without results. She can attempt economic
reprisals against Yugoslavia, out doesn't seem
likely to get very far with that. The Inited
States and Britain already have demonstrated
a willingness to help Y ugoslavia out economi-
cally.
The third course, which Russia hesitates to
take, is the use of force. An attempt by the
Russians to invade Yugoslavia and unseat
Tito certainly would spark a general Balkan
war, and this could easily lead to a world war.
But then, the question arises,If Russia should
go to war with Yugoslavia, what would we do?
le don’t like Tito any better than we like
Stalin, yet we could hardly afford to sit idly
by and let Russia crush him. It’s a knotty
problem for our State Department to settle.
Uhile Tito defies Russia, we can’t help
wondering what course we would follow if
Stalin finally calls his hand.
• • • • •
Some folks are so thrifty that they will catch
the wolf at the door, skin him and sell his hide.
• • • • •
Sone people are so narrow that they can see
through a keyhole with both eyes at once, and
without squinting.
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DONT CARE IP IT DOES LOOK LIKE A PLYING
SAUCER - IT'S THE ROOF OFF THE SILO /
See Editorial, "Mystery Still Unsolved"
Being broad-minded is not always something
to boast about, Uhen a stream becomes too
broad, it usually becomes shallow.
• • • • •
People often complain that they "lead a dog’s
life," but seeing what an easy time the average
canine has, we sometimes wonder if that would
lie such a bad thing.
An Unexpected Customer
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Every time I hear some super-
charged doctrinaire expounding
on how the nation's economic
affairs ought to be planned and
managed, I have to snicker.
I always wonder how a self-con-
fessed fireball at planning would
come out If he undertook to rig
up a practical Sunday operating
schedule for our house.
This, I take It, Is a relatively
modest exercise in maater-mlncF
Ing. But It over-stretches my
capacities and makes me ex-
tremely dubious of all planning
on a nationwide scale.
Planning a Sundav often be-
gins the night before, when the
lord of the manor, in a weak
moment, resolves to get up at six
in the morning and go fishing.
The cold morning light, filtering
through one partly-opened eye.
reveals clearly that this was not
a good idea Sloshing around in
all that dew could not possibly
be as rewarding as catching up
on rest. So a quick change in
plana is improvised.
Soon after this the devloua de-
signs of others come into the
picture. At 7:30 The Sprout
pops in, with a chip on his shoul-
der, to inquire of whomever it
may concern whether he has to
wear a shirt today. U Is hot out-
side, he reports-practically
scorching.
This Issue settled with a mini-
mum of debate, the defense rests
-until 7:45, when The Sprout
hollers across the stre»t to find
out if his friend Charlie Is going
to Sunday school. Charlie is.
They both are. There follows
some long-distance discussion
about whoae Dad will take them.
So much for the rest period.
Comes now the Junior Miss with
an urgent need of a new shade ot
lipstick, which she guesses she
will drive to the drugstore and
get, stopping at Janet's for a
while on the way back.
At this point a deal can be
made for her to pick up the boyv
after Sunday school. Rather neat
planning, hut it gives her an open-
ing to hid for the car in the after-
noon, which in turn prompts The
Sprout to put up a howl to go to a
movie.
The question here is whether
It la preferable to sweat through
"Frankenstein" and six Mickey
Mouses or to sit at home and
HOLLYWOOD
BY IIOROTm MANNERS
INS surf Writer
I While I uuclla <>. Panuta.. is
on vacation tier column will lie
written by Itonithv Manners.)
HOLLYWOOD, Aug, 24 -<IN8>-
Result of a transatlantic tele-
phone call today from Stanley
Kramer, In Hollywood, to Marlon
Brando in Paris, Is—Brando comes
here the end of September to star
in "The Men.”
Kramer, who produced the sen-
sational “Champion" and "Home
of the Brave,” practically read
the script of his paraplegic drama
to Brando over the telephone and
the dramatic punch of the wounded
hem role cinched the contract.
The grab was made right under
the nose of Warners who wanted
Marlon for "Glass Menagerie."
I saw this actor in "streetcar
Named Desire" with Jessica
Tandy on Broadway and 1 can
tell you that he Is one of the
great young actors of today.
He’ll get every break In bin
screen debut because Kramer has
signed Fred /Jnnemann, who
made "The Search," to direct.
• • • • •
Florence Marlv, who plays
opposite Humphrey Bogart In
"Tokyo Joe." in on her way to
New York to meet her husband.
Pierre Chenai. the ETenrh di-
rector. They should have quite
a bit to talk about. They haven’t
seen each other In 23 months!
I suppose it was the long separ-
ation with Florence in Hollywood
and Chenai in Paris which brought
on several "romance" rumors,
very embarrassing to Florence.
She says her husband is the only
man in her life and her heart.
Chenai Isn’t as well known In
this country as several other
foreign movie makers, but he is
very well known for his "Crime
and Punishment" In Europe.
• • • • •
Comes a postcard from Richard
Ney. motoring with his bride,
Pauline, through France ami Italy
"We are headed back to Home
after the film festival In Venlce-
lt was wonderful. Thought you
might like to know that the Holly-
wood personality who scored the
biggest hit and was the best liked
was David Selznick. Incidentally,
he Just about hrnke the Casino
with hla gambling luck!
"The movie that created the
moat talk and pralae was 'The
Champion' with special pralae
for Kirk Douglas’performance."
Hollywood In shorts:
Ronald Colman, taken |J| on
the set of "Chairpagne for Caes
ar," Is home for two davs.
ne wouldn’t let the
photogs snap a picture of him with
hla ex, Jean Wallace, the other
evening. Hut he didn't object to
posing nretty with Ann Sheridan
when they dropped Into CYre's
Tuesday night.
Dinah Shore’s homecoming pres-
ent was a gold eagle from George
Montgomery on account of she was
Just made an honorary Colonel of
Tennessee by the Governor.
Jane Powell fractured the little
toe on her left fr>ot learning to
square dance which squares her
off that for a while.
Another foot casualty is Red
Skelton’s little girl, Valentina.
Her foot Is in a cast after tearing
the ligaments—no one knows how.
Henry Willson, former helznlnk
talent agent, has put Hteve Reeves
under personal contract getting
him ready for a screen career,
Steve is the athlete who Won the
"Mr. America" title In 1947 and
"Mr. World" In 1040. He la 23
years old. and good looking.
Betty Hutton has completed her
Christmas shopping!'!
That’s all today, see you to-
morrow.
Formal degradation of a
knight in England consisted of
hacking his spurs from his heels,
cutting his sword-belt, and
breaking hla sword over his head
(ouch!)
• • •
The banana plant la not a
tree, but is actually a giant
"shoot” with the stalk composed
of a sheaf of leaves through
which a stem shoots up and
bears the flowers and the fruit.
• • •
Maine la the only state In the
Union that touches only one
other state It Is completely cut
off from the other states by New
Hampshire.
• # *
None of the Great l-akcs ever
freesra over completely, accord-
ing to the United States Geo-
logical Survey.
• • •
In 1939. the total population
of tha world waa estimated at
2,170 000,000
• • •
"Shooting stars are not stars
at all. but flying meteorites
Snakes are so rare In Ireland
that when a small, harmless
snake, leas than two feet long,
waa found In Dublin It was put
on exhibition In the National
Museum of Ireland
• • •
Ben Jonann. the English poet.
Is believed to be burled In a
sitting posture because the plot
provided for him in Westminster
Abbey was too small for hla
corpae to be burled lying flown.
• • •
A famous Greek painter in
the Fifth Century B. C.. ia said
to have painted a bunch of
grapea that looked so natural
that birds pecked at them.
• • •
Fish usually come to the sur-
face when the water become)
foul or deficient of oxygen.
• • •
All present life forma were
on earth when man arrived, as
were hundreds of types which
have disappeared since
• • •
If s frog's mouth Is held open
too long, he will suffocate.
The "Hoi Id South Is
prised of Virginia. North Caro-
lina. South Carolina. Georgia.
Florida. Alabama. Tennessee.
Mississippi, Louisiana. Arkan-
sas and Texas
• • •
The Emperor Charlemagne,
although he could never learn
to read or write himself, waa a
great patron of learning and
established schools for children
throughout his kingdom
• • •
The kea. a New Zealand par-
rot about the rise of a crow,
kills sheep for the purpose of
obtaining the fat about the kid-
neys
• • •
Persons who have had limbs
amputated often feel heat, cold,
pain and other senaatlons that
seem to be In the loet limbs
• • *
Roughly 4,000,000 slaves were
freed as a result of the Civil
war.
• • •
Some gold mines la Africa
and India are 0,000 feet deep.
ON THE LINE
■r bob common
(Distributed by Inlernallomai Mows
i)
glare at one another all afternoon.
The mice have It.
This brings up the compler
problem of timing. It appears
that the roast won't be done un-
til 1:30. If you don't get to the
show by 1:55. you won’t get nut
In time to listen to Jack Benny,
If you make the I 55 show you
can’t do Justice to the roast, and
there will be repercussions.
It Is possible, on paper, to
dovetail roasts, movies, teen-
agers and radio programs into a
timetable that will keep every
body on speaking terms up to
the curfew hour. Even though It
may schedule the dishwashing
(or 11 30 p.m.
Hut somehow It never works
out in practice. You think you
are all set and then something
comes up—like a casual remark,
as you are backing out of the
driveway, that there are six girls
waiting to be picked up duriif
the five minutes you have allowed
for the trip from the roast to the
movie.
National planning—phnoey!
(Copyright. 1949, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
NEW YORK. Aug. 24-GN8E- U> hk upon millsas.
Only 104 more shopping days till Orel told the Jap mJtun-
Chrtaonaa. but watch your step be- makem that they could go ba > to
fore you buy any knitted mittens work and suggested that they twjy
for tramps or baby. You might ba wool from Australia, where most n|
killing the city of Gkiversvllle, H Intended for mittens comes from
N y anyway. Whenevw a Jap muteo-
Japan, with the asslatance of maker said he was so»y. hut he
Occupation Fosres and our *iad not s ufflriant filthy lucre u
benevolent Qovemment, la In the >uy the wool, well, we advanced
act of exporting 300,000 pair* of him the dough-sometimes go p*
knitted gloves to the l’.8. That’s cent of hla mats,
about all the traffic will hear. And | np,tf Competition
the Association of Knitted Glove
A Mitten Manufacturers, of Glover*- The laps got their wool ant
vllle, la In an understandable dither, called back the* people to work.
We’re all tor rehabilitating Jap- The average Jap mitten-maker Is
anese industry," the Association’s now paid 19 a month. He or six-
spokesman. Claire A. Wolff, told makes something between five «nd
us the oilier day. "Buf we’ve got to 12 cents an hour. The rate at Ok .
sit down and tore tome facto. By eravtlle Is a minimum 88 cent* an
letting In the cheap-labor Japanese hotr. The finished Jap gloves cturn-
gloves-which are exact copies of to this country at prices so cheap
the best we can make, (or we gave that even with the faatenlng on ot
them the pattern* and procea*- he usual duties they coal only a
we’re killing a 115.000.000 s year slim fraction of what the same U..S
U.S. business and threatening toe gloves cost.
livelihood of 30.000 U.S. knitted But tost isn’t the extent of rat
glove-makers.” tors, 'span is also buying marliin-
The Association has been to ery (tom the C.8., and In some
Washington with Its complaint but, cases our machine-makers have
to date, has succeeded only in re- been talked into taking pan ol
during the Jap glove Impoits (Tom their money in mittens. Not being
385,000 to 300,000. Its next step In the mitten business they call In
will be a toble-poundlnc meeting at a wholesale Jobber and sell then
the Waldorf next month. Gold Star to him. lie in turn sella to UJL
mother* and other patriotic organ!- store* whoae buyers, comparing
rations have been alerted. the quality of the Jap and t\.v
t.lnie in<iie.trv----- products, and bugging their eye>
(.love liMimttv llnnm* lt thr vast difference In prices
Seem* that we have set a new are Inclined to choose the Jat
A.A.U. record for bendlng-over- mdurt.
backwards In stimulating the Jap- "I eg’a help toe Japs by raising
anese knit-glove twin in earn. Before their standan! of living," Mis*
the war. the Jap* had Juat about Wolff suggested. "Let's see to It
done in the metropolis of Glover*- that thwg glove-maketa, for In-
vllle and Its mills. U.S. gloves, stance, pay wage* somewhat com-
which coat so much more, were parable to our own-so tost the lap
going begging. ane-«e can hare enough money to
Then the Japs saved Glovers- buy various U.S. products and evwn-
> tile bv bombing Heart Harbor. That out this trade."
put ua In a war, cut off Jap ship- Mins Wolff, who won the Amert-
irents of gloves to this country, can Public Relations Association’*
and swelled the size of the Armed "Oscar** In 1947. and who has
Forces, wpp or whatever preceded been outstanding around these
It put knitted glove* In the high ports for 23 yearn. I* almost pee-
position of Number 14 on the list snnally responsible for toe hue and
of prtorttlen. Glover* vllle made cry In the mitten bustnes*.
millions of them for the fntces. «#cause of her les'ierahip, PJ9.
Lend-Lease, etc. makers of rlastlcs, toys and silk
But when the Government stopped are putting up similar squawks a*
buylng. the town went pack to ihe bout what the tat*n we have re-
prospect of making the usual half- vitalized la doing to them. But. at
million nr leas gloves pre year. And the moment. Gloveravtlle and Its
all would have gone nicely If. In future la her chief concern,
our efforts to lift the bixden of the "Let's not let the Japanese make
defeated Jap economy off our Ux- a Hiroshima out of GtoveravUle."
payers* backs, we did not happen she slogans.
iPuui:
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Paula
Mr. and
brsted k
party at t
noon at 2-
Altcr th
By LOUELLA O. PARSONS
INS Motion Picture Editor
LOOPHOLES
in the Law
By WILL WILSON
and County Attorneys
J
<l mux's Note |hl* is imm- ol s He was both trunk and mean one
series ol Mian rase histories, all day at high noon. He staggered
token Iron. < nun retort*, showing down Main .-greet in his home town.
<• i.'m!
how legal loopholes olten enable
criminals u> es< ope punlshmenl in
lexan. Will Wllsun in rhsltman ol
a special steering lommlUre nl ihe
stale i.or, which I* working kw
revision ol tor wntiquaieu I ils.mal
(one and « oar ol tlln.lnsl pm-
i route in iwuet in rlln Inale torse
k»opl«>lrs.)
Joe was a snail town tough.
He had the reputaUon of taring
mean and when he got drunk, which
was often, he wan mean*
ever.
“It Says Here"
By Boh Hope
(Copyright 1949. by King
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Vaudeville Is hack on a big
scale.
Ye*, sir, storting on Labor (lay.
at the Winter Garden In New York,
Mike Todd will prenent the ok!
"two a day" vaudeville and hla
shnuUng and shouting s pistol Into
the air. He was arrested and
charged with unlawfully carrying
a pistol.
The charge read. In part, as
follows ".....that Joe —-------
did. on of about toe 4th day »f
October. 1939. In the County of
Harrison, the State 4 Texas, then
and there unlawfully, on or about
his person, carry a pistol.....”
Joe was brought u> vial, but
than then the rhargr waa dlarrlased
and ue was released.
■“““ The reason for thl* acUon was
that toe word "and" should hare
l»en used Instead of the word "r»”
In toe sentence about "did then
and Uitfe, on or about nto parson,
cam s pistol." joe couldn’t be
convicted of the charge because
the court ruled this should have
resd. "did then and Uiere, on AM>
shout hla person, carry a pistol.”
Technicalities like that one
often defeat justice.
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cokes, cook
guest*.
Attending
i Distributed hi Inirmatlonsl New*
Service.
MURING IIGWN ON I Ilf M Ws
opening show will star Eddie Can- Hy Arthur "Hues" riser
tor. Georgle Jessel and Ethel Mem
man.
I think It’s all a plot. Now that
they’ve got television perfected. Those minnows In the senator-
they’re hint trying to think up some- lal aquarium can sire chase Mr.
thing to replace It. Truman’s whales up on the beach.
Of course, each of these per
fnitnera la great because he’s din-
tinct and unusual...like the way What they dbtn’t do to the WeF
Cantor ningn "Ida" and clap* hi* fare Bill shouldn’t happen Inside
hand*. The first time | saw him | a frankfurter. They smeared It A0-
didn’t know whether he was doing 32 on the first ballot, it is a rec-
a new number or applauding his o*l for the track,
last one.
And Georgle Jeaael la such a
teirlflc emc*e„.h* can go on tolling It waa originally the Hoover
wonderful stories for five hours at recommendation with marginal no-
a stretch. And by the time he’s 'atinns by Mr. Truman. What was
finished, he’s still got stoitea he left could have been written on the
hasn’t even mentioned. back of a postage stamp. With a
And Etnel Merman I* one of the shaving hruah.
greatest show women of our day.
She must be. In 1936 she had me
as a leading man In "Red. Hot and The Senate took that one In Ita
Blue" and she didn’t even have to stride. First putting on Its fooF
make a comeback. hall shoes with the large c lea to.
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