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"SO THE WORLD NEEDS PEACE~ OK!
WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT?"
THE HOSTILE PEACELOVER
World Copyright. By arrangement with Dalty lierald.
Is success STILL
worth while?
What of the human dynamos-the men who drive themselves on to success, knowing that the tax- Is success still collector must take most of the cash profit? worth while to them?
THE RICHEST
GARYCOOPER A
JANE WYATT WAYNE MORRIS WALTER BRENNAN
Written and Directed by DELMER DAVES
JERRY WALD
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IN THE CEMETERY
by HOWARD WHITMAN
FRIEND of mine has just committed suicide, but it didn't say so in the papers. The obituary said "heart attack." That was factually correct.
But anyone who really knew him could be sure he dug his own grave. He dug so fast that he fell into it at 47, instead of living an- other 20 years.
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MAN
an infant loves his toys.
170
He hopes his work will full
To amass infant's dream; more toys than any kid in the
eighbourhood.
3
MBC must prove he is not
"But there me don't go out to play a game of golf. They tight a game of golf. They're working, not playing"
I moked over the score sheet for a group of 142 executives of one Barge firm.
eye これ
1 WASHINGTON NIGHT COSTS YEAR'S SALARY
By FREDERICK Cook
Washington. parties in the hope that Gover- SK any British diplo- ment people with "pull where the pulling is good" will thaw mat ever assigned to up.
Washington and he Paying the bills for these are will tell you that the the great all companie, the hardest part of the job here railroads, the bir engineering concerns hoping for a fal con- la keeping up with the so- tenct, public relations outts. cin life. Party-giving has representlig ellents who dis become Washington's big greetly stay in the background but whose hand is clearly visible gest business.
to the initiated.
n
It calls for an fron digestion, Foreign embassies take caro strong pair of feel and 6 of the hunger and thirst of clear head to put in an apprar-" those close lo the Administra ance at a tenth of the parties tea or in Congress who, they given every season and still do hops, will wield some influenco nny worth-while work at the some day. Embassy next day.
#t
has been computed that
out
for the price of ons of Wash- Social climbers Puur
parties, ington's inonster
you their mey in the hope of could buy a fair-sized house Jamtig a party llon.
ro
and it with good furniture. Government officials provide A party given by anyone of free drinks and food to square The prominence of Secretary their social obligations. Dean Acheson and his wife may Biggst and brassiest of all
Washingten bring out anything from 1200 to the
binges 1500
Arrests.
these given by trade associn- In the course of the evening tons of groups of "Big Business" they will do away with seven men with axe to grind.
Cust Fallons of hol A thousand businessmen from Couroment; 60 or 70th of
America held a monster fish all over 50. of choice Mnine lobster; party the other day in an hotel 200th. of smoket Smithfield near the White House, and ham: 50 or colb, of beet; 40lb, spent £10,700 in three hours on of smoked
submon; 20. of food and drink alone.
Another mousse au foc gras: 001b, or so
Washington of chicken galantine; 30 to 50
30 considers it lan had an Kallons of salud; thousands of usually poor year if it has not
and sandwiches catered 10 Campes
at least 10 such thousanul hot roll and heal affairs, with at least 100,000
to
culable number of salted pan- nuts and potato crisps, not mention a few thousand packets of cigarettes.
means
hotel
un-
st. To wine and dine them all, this hotel employs 700 waiters and 110 chefs. There are not tess than 50 big catering firms in Washington who do nothing of the party but take care
Most Invish of the diplomatic are the rare but super-elegant affairs Elven by the Soviet Embassy euch year to mark the anniverary of the Oc- tuber Revolution.
A party of this size-by no
in Washington trade. will also drink up 16 or 20 cases of champagne; 15 cars receptions
Scotch: 1 of whisky, mostly couple of cares of gin 12 or bottles of sherry), and more
gations of orang countles
jules: Jt is by no means for a single party
in
to cost an
On
....
By comparison, Britain's big leial as much as he cares
Eminasy
Alassachusetts for the a year. One of Mr Acheson'e
Avenue outwardly by bigger affairs, for example, will
most impressive on Washington's Fifty-three had heart diseases, cost anywhere from £3,300 to
Einbar Row-is an abole of HIS nnnual pay in 15 had serious heart conditions, £5,000.
there are rare Justerity Parlies eight had ulcers, 35 had digestive £5,000.
and the fare in nudist. Fortunately for him, there is dinares, 52 bad nervous and i
Mr Truman (who, in addition mental disorders, 23 were psy-a rule that if he has two foreign to his £33,300 a year, gels a Bats (a single une will not us,
£ 10,700 tux free expenses al- cho-neurotic, 32 had
20
no matter how important) had skin other diseases,
and an additional £13,- Irty becomes a diplomatic oc-
300 for entertaining and travel-. diseases, and 28 had discuses of
casion and the State Department ? is no lover of big and Invih
Ung) the bone and organs of move- ment.
pick up the bills. This is true in various woyd for most of the givers of Wash- ton parties, who include all manner of people.
There are the frankly "in terested" lobbyists, who give
Many spilled over into two or
a failure." He throws him three categories. Only 12-out of 142 had clean bills of health,
welt inlo work with rim com- pulsion using the fear of failure an the whiplash across his back.
"Often such inen's fathers
failures," Bartemeier. Says
There is a warning here for wolves whose husbands are 'married to their jobs. are afraid of failure. who hate holidays, who take work as a dope ALFARE AVENTURA|||||||||||||||||||||
were Dr
Heart disease
STUDY by Dr H. L. Smith,
"They're trying to prose A portret in 1937, showed
how much better they
are,"
that heart (coronary) discare was twice as common amon
4 Mb is what be bikes and lawyers who work
Bartemeier
the
Panxiety rallen 12:214" He lives with it vague dread constantly inside
sitting down-as among sweating toiling farmers and Inbourers.
The body cems to have its
m. The only way he cwn cut-off for physical labour.
will
the
kowanic"
parties.
He has taken the opportunity
pairs and his temporary re- offered by the White House re- silence across the street to cut down on his entertaluing bits.
-London Express Service,
C. V. R. Thompson
on tour
Life starts at sunset
with six-shooters
FORT WORTH, Texas.
can quell it is by all-con- If we get tired mowing the lawnHIS is more like it.
suring worit,
we sat down and rest.
concentrate more life.
do is grow up
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drove 33 miles today.
UNITED STATES)-( ARTISTEN
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MAN WORTH)
•JEXAS
ATLANTIC FOCEAN:
Work is his medicine.
But the mind doesn't seem to and in Texas that is just But it is not trie medi-
like crossing the street. have any cut-off. cine, which eures, It is
Yet the short journey brought He killed himself just as
medicine. duper
which What to do? Perhaps we me from Dallas, a Texas city dozens of fine men do every bition, and all those noble things cures. It is dope in diee, which should concentrate less on mak: preoccupied with the less lively moother down the in a living. Perhaps we huid arts, into a city us rip-roaring day. They succeed them- we talk about. In healthy balance merely
n symptoms.
on making →
as any Hollywood has portrayed selves ta death.
the such qualities keep a man at In
for Us. great competitive scramble steady rate of production.
Let Mr D stop working-let
Coming Into Fort Worth. I relax and huds Maybe what we really need to could not lose the illusion that I DY 10 O'CLOCK their sirens
driving aeross the set of
screaming regularly, he can't live with himself,
"The Gal of Furious Creek."
I followed some of them, and The hard - driving
Even although cars, instead of psychologically like hursen, were parked by the pave- rubber is the bobby-stixer who must provements-pardon me, sidewalk ans and take one or both of them personal prestigs by collecting the kerbstones were two feet to what is known, I belleve, as
and auto-hirth. dango programmes
the Hoosegow. praphys.
COWBOYS, bowlegged from
and The saddle, strutted in nut of the swinging doors of taverns.
TAKE ANY EAST BOUND TRAM or ROUTE NO. 5 BUS they go hog-wild after that It is unh:althy balance which him try to
house on Moneybag-street, burns them out. Psychiatrist that square cut diamond call it neurotic drive, that cur.
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ABBOTT and COSTELLO MEET the KILLER. BORIS KARLOFF'
Why boast?
Dr Leo II. Bartemeier, professor of paychiatry, let four examples of neurotic drive found in the oynamo typ: |--
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WHEN men die young, aside W
the human Kriet there's a drastic loss to the coun- le
iry.
from
MR. A throws himself into work with slavish devotion,
tats, drinks, und breathes his work. "He is punishing himself These dynamo types" with work." psychiatrists call them. Bre usually competent citizens with years of production left in them when they keel over.
He finally works himself to a frazzle, then he dosn't have to both living at all.
Not a clue
GOOD, honest work, sensibly tackled, doesn't hurt any- body. It may cause fatigue, but it doesn't cause sickness.
Grown up
Was
money-
But along the main street it seems more of a reality than o IX/HAT is maturity? *The
stage set. I was in a town where grown-up mun has his presmen live dangerously. tire and security within him, I felt silly without a ten-gallon says Detroit's Bartemeler.hat and attic uncomfortable "He doesn't have to make £10,- without a alx-shooter.
Dr They're
leaders, erentors, executives.
the human
more.
A man with a healthy attitude He doesn't feel he has any towards work stops automatical right to enjoy life. He must con- ly when he has had enough, he stantly pay penance by working. Recharges his batteries. He plays.
000 a year. He doesn't need the T NIGHTFALL I regretted The dynamo doesn't know how best car. He is able really to A
my lack of armament still Even when he goes love his wife and children. He to play. through the motions of playing has faith in them.
Apparently Fort Worth, a city he is not playty; he is simply
fiercely jealous of its reputation switching nil the tensions and
all, comes to life as the anxieties at work to another ac- mix play with his work. There the biggest cow town of them
is nothing eating him up inside." goes down.
Anyhow, I noticed that the Such a man is not a money stre:ta suddenly awarmed with stave. 13 realises that being the deputy sheriffs.
Unfortunately
Take this man on a holiday, dynamo has become a popular, and he has a gnawing uneasiness, Comewhat fashionable type. He feels he is free-riding:
be boasts that he works 10 hours a day and hasn't had a holiday for can't wait to get back to work. six
of yenr-Instead
being
MRR is "married to his divity.
ashamed of such miserable facts work." Ils work is his love,
Sometimes he falls over dead
Why boast about abuse of the Hls wife frequently says, “You human mechanism? Should the think more of your work than on the golf course. man who runs his car 5,000 you do of me." There is a lot of miles without changing the oll truth in her charte.
be proud of such stupidity?
"He can play. He can even
sutt
were
once or twice I arrived in time to see them part two fighting Tex-
But they assured me tonight, as week-end nights go, was n quiet one.
Of course, the people of Fort Worth do a great deal more of than kill cattle at the rate
1,500,000 head a year and, oc- rasionally, each other.
But it is na a cow town, and as the most "Texas" town in Texas. that Fort Worth likes to be: known.
Perhaps the chief reason for this preference is that it is what. Fort Worth's chief citizen, Amon, Carter, wants.
Carter, I scarcely med add, la (around. multimillionaire £50,000,000). and at 80 ho is still+ the cow town's most belligerent
booster.
They were not quite like the For every important visitor he "Yet the physical exertion in richest man on earth might have its advantages. But being the
surprise-a Stet- ones we see in the films, except provides two golf is almost negligible,' Dr
richest man in the cemetery-that they had that star on their son hat and a volley of blanks. Charles A. R. Connor. of the
breast and that Colt in their fred, usually during dinner Heart Association,
from his silver six-shooter. holster.
Thant makes the dynamo Mr Bhus not matured to the American whirr? Net brains, energy, am- point of adult love. He loves us points out.
NANCY
WHY IS YOUR WINDOW SO BLACK ?
DATS SOOT FROM TH'
COAL YARDS
Soot Yourself
DON'T BE SO LAZY-- WHY DON'T YOU
CLEAN IT SO
NOBODY
CAN
CALL
YOU CAN
ME
O.K.
LAZY
SEE
OUT?
that's not success.
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