Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-12-04
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Notes of An
Innocent Bystander:
The Wireless: All the grumbling
you hear about the Army's morale
being way down to here is German
cooking. Gen'l Marshall, Army
Chief of Staff, made that warning
in his speech. Its all tricked up to
disturb the soldiers loved ones, and
it's surefire with the stupider Con-
gressmen Clark Cables nifty
via a Red Cross show: "Our an
cestors lived in log cabins and sod
huts to establish a govt based on
the theory of we, the People, and
not I, the State - Many of the
afternoon dramas contain some of
the theater's best players. Why
don't the sponsors also try to hire a
better grade of writer's? One
place where a writer is needed
but needed-is on the "single" shows.
The patter the announcer and artist
swap between numbers always
sounds as if they'd lost the script
and are covering up the wait
One headliner explained the reason
he never used guest stars is be-
cause he's never met star who
knew how to behave like a guest.
The Story Tellers: Correspondent
James Young, who was Jailed by
the Japs for reporting what he saw
in China, gives them real reason to
boiler copper in Readers Digest
hoticle. In "Japan Risks Destruc-
tion," Young should raise lots of
blood pressure in Tokyo {. Clarke
Robinson, profiling Admiral Harold
r. Stark in World Digest, reports
that the present Chief of Naval OPP
erations made his first hit with FDR
by defying him No punch
puller is Time, which describes pub
Usher Douglas M. Stewart of Com
mentator, to wit and to WOW:
"stocky, heavy-idded Boston aes-
thete with a taste for antiques and
Aryans" :. Golfers editorialist
lis that you Mauryo for Nov. l3
has a punchy crack He calls
Nazi-occupied Yurrop: "The New
Disorder"
When the news first came through
that those 95 refugees from Nazi-
land had been refused permission to
land in Argentina, and faced the
fate of being returned to concen-
tration camps, Selwyn James,
scrappy Britisher on PM, boldly
called Sir Gerald Campbell, chief of
the British Press service. He urged
him to have the refugees admitted
to British Trinidad. 1t would be ex-
cellent publicity for the British,
James said, aside from being a de-
cent and not too unlikely act of hui
mainly. He got a polite brush-off
The gloomy ship started for
Europe, and Rep. Sol Bloom rushed
in protest to the British Embassy.
He was turned down, too When
that happened, cocky newspaper
man James got Campbell on the
phone again, and ranted and roared
for half an hour 1t must have
been tophole as far as accents and
persuasion go Because, finally,
Campbell promised to have another
go at the Embassy Result:
The refugee ship has changed
course again, and British Trinidad
will be at least temporary haven
for those ninety-fve pushed-around
outcastS.
Ed Howe, the late editor of an
Atchison, Kansas, daily, was always
envied for his serene outlook on life
Celebrated writer's read his
stuff and wished they had his peace
of mind Now his son, Gene,
writes in magazine: "My father
was the most wretchedly unhappy
man l ever knew At the
same time, H. L. Mencken, the Bal
timore journalist, was hollering his
head off. People were clucks, he
yelped, and the world was hoose-
gov Now, in his fascinating
memoirs, "Newspap Days."
Mencken confesses he was always
as happy as a kid with his first
long pants, all day long.
Midtown Vignette: The other
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Canadian
soldier went into Hamburger Heav-
en- and wolf d about five hamburger
sandwiches, SO hungry was he {.
AS he went to the cashiers desk,
he was told: ooh, couldn't think of
taking money from you. You're do
ing something to make it better
world, and all I can do is wish
could. Sorry, no money from sol
der. And whenever you are in the
neighborhood again, please come
here and eat all you want!" :.
The Canadian said he'd like it lots
more if he could pay his way Z.
81 have the money!" he said, dis
playing wad Sorry" said
the cashier, wouldn't think of It'll"
The Canadian is one of the
wealthiest men in the world. His
name is Duncan McMartin. Has
about 40 million smackers.
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