Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-26
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now
Jack Pickering
WAS talking to a AZ man

ONiANA
o..I.Xe been thinking" he said,
"abOut trying 10 form a club of
IFS. Maybe we could make a
national club of IT, sort Of
thought we could put In a dollar
each and maybe buy a bomber.
I don't know how many there
are Of us. Maybe we could buy
two bOmbers. We've been To the
Induction center and they've re-
jected ms, but maybe we can do
something just the same-you
see what I mean?"
/ said / thought / did.
/ said that I'd run a para
graph in the column about il,
and see whether any others felt
the same way.
Well this is the paragraph. If
any other AIS want 10 get
something started. all they have
10 do is write me, III pass their
names on TO this fellow, and
you can have a try AT il.
BAFFLED: A note SAYS:
Dear Jack--This business OF
Mrs. Stewart naming her cats
- Here and Now Is all very en-
PERTAINING, but-when she wants
Here Ia come will she say,
Here Here! When sine wants
10 reproye Now will she say
Now. Now: When she wants
90 reprove Here, will she say,
NOW. Here: When she wants
Now 10 come will she say, Here,
Now? It's all very discourag-
ing.--I.ouis Porter
No. Cats don't answer 10 their
names. They never pay any at
tention 10 anything you say TO
them. But it's quite all right.
. LINCOLN: The other day we
-opped in a sentence remarking
That we had seen a man on
Woodward avenue who looked
just like Abraham Lincoln
beard and all.
a couple of days later a man
appeared in the office and an
nounced. I'm the man you're
looking for"
To be strictly truthful. he was
not the same man we had seen.
but he thought he was, and he is
considerably proud OF his resem-
blance TO Lincoln, and anyway IL
doesn't matter whether there's
one man or two with the beard
like Lincoln's.
At that, I wouldn't want To
say that this fellow IN a dead
ringer for Lincoln, but there's n
certain resemblance. He's n
couple Of fingers over 8 feet and
Ian<y, and his heard IL rather
thin on his checks and tufted on
the chin.
He's Adrian Rickkers OF 1900
Boldt. Dearborn. a Ford worker
who helps build cylinder heads
for airplane motors.
We asked him how he hap
pened 10 grow the beard and he
said because OF Father Cough
lin. Seems he used 10 be a great
follower OF the Radio Priest but
later cooled off. He felt. for
some reason which he didn't
fully explain. that Father
Coughlin hadn't treated him
right. Something about saying
that Rickkers got in the way at
a meeting or something.
SO Rickkers grew the whiSk-
ers 10 attract attention 10 him
self and 10 publicize his side Of
the disagreement.
That was about 1899 or 10,
and as the whiskerS grew. peo-
pie began calling him abe"
or Lincoln"
. He even suggested that We
2heck mp his standing ms a citi-
rem and what-not. and showed
us his factory badge, hut we're
willing 10 let IL stand on his
say-so.
He even brought a photograph
Of himself. wearing whiSkerS.
fun dress suit and a silk plug
hat, riding on a tandem bicycle
with his son, in the same garb
except for the wirrSkers.
We Thought Of printing the
picture but it's pretty ~hig for
this column and the idea OF Lin
. coin OF y 49, ~ 49,. =. az
family incongruous. People call
him Abe" and that's that.
AFTERTHOUGHT; We men
toned the above To a friend and
ne reminded us Of the story from
Hollywood, attributed TO various
people but. am told. origi,.
nally having taken place behind
John Carradine's back.
Carradine used TO walk around
in Lincolnesque manner, shoul-
ders bowed and step slow
II reached the point Of bother
ing people They got tired Of
having him be Lincoln and
wished, for gosh sakes, that he'd
be lust Carradine.
Alfred Bryan the lyriciSt
who wrote Il Didn't Raise My
Boy 10 Be a Soldier" and lot
Of other songs summed II up
one day:
That guy" he said, pointing
a thumb at Carradine. "iust
isn't going to he satisfied until
he's assaSsinated."
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