Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
Godfrey Broadcasts from the Morgue
Tells Vivid Story of What Happens to the Motoris Who
Was Hurryng Somewhere"

ing and the measuring they pick up
that wooden slab again and carry II
over to what looks something like an
operating table. I say something
INCORPORATING tables look different
now. Now they've got all kinds OF
drains on them, and little cans that
open silently to drop gauze and things
in and their legs are shiny like maybe
new nickels. But again this is differ
ent. This tables been here since
1904. It's just a concrete slab on
metal legs and 1t has a little trough
around the edge.
They put the poor man who was
hurrying somewhere on this. Then
they 60 over to shelf against the
wall. The shelf is all white. 1t looks
like it has -four all over it-only it's
not flour. It's talcum powder and it's
been dropped on the shelf lot when
the doctors spilled 1t as they rubbed
their hands in talcum powder before
slipping on a pair Of rubber glove:
that hang ON hooks above the shelf
The gloves were all covered with pow
der, too. They told me they'd been
used lot lately. So many traffic
deaths. So many people hurrying
somewhere. So many pink pinheads
on the map downstairs.
A Neat Saw, Too.
After they get their rubber gloves
on. they turn to cabinet over in
one corner. Through the glass door
you can see a lot Of shiny instru-
ments. don't know what they are
They said something about spatulas
and hemostatS and knives and shear:
and mallets and chisels. There is one
too, that looks like meat saw. They
told me it was meat saw. 1t works
better than some shiny rib-cutter. 81
they used the meat saw.
I don't know what they use al
these things for. I don't want to know
and I know you don't either. But i
gives you funny feeling to look at ZEN
and realize they're going to use thing
like that on the next poor fellow VIII
hurries somewhere too fast in his ca
or the poor fellow he hits. They hav
to find out exactly what happened t
change him from somebody hurryinl
somewhere to just a poor bundle o
clothes that won't ever hurry any
where again Sitting here now. thin
maybe 1 won't ever hurry anywher
again. I'd rather be out there on tina
water-sort of just drifting or float
ing along where I couldn't hit any
thing awful sudden or have any
thing hit me real sudden.
And then after I got hit to hav
that big telephone bell ring. It's I
big bell. You can hear it all over thi
old building. No matter what room
you're in-upstairs or downstairs. Ther
that ambulance bumps over the loos'
boards After a while it's back.
I think said few minutes ago i
bumped over the boards and came to ;
stop by the door there the other da.
when I was here. I felt like I ough
not to look. I sort of turned my head
But out of the corner of my eye
could still see that black ambulance
with red letters on it saying "Distric
of Columbia" Then they opened tn
black doors. I didn't want to see wha
they took out. But I couldn't help il
You couldn't have helped it either.
Like Hams, All Wrapped Up.
1t was two little bundles. don
mean anything disrespectful when
say the two little bundles looked hk
hams that were wrapped up. The maj
that opened the black doors of tn
ambulance had wrapped the two bun
dies up in newspapers, but at the end
you could still see the other wrapping!
They were two little babies that ha