Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-27
Jack Pickering w
Here
and
Now
Jack Pickering

a WAS tdlhlnS 10 IT innh
l the other day.
"I'ye been thinking" he said,
"about trying TO form n club of
4-F's. Maybe we could make q
national club Of IL. I sort of
thought we could put In n dollar
each and maybe buy n bomber.
I don't know how many there
are Of us. Maybe we could buy
two bombers. We've been IN the
Induction center and they've re-
jected US, hut maybe we can do
something Just the same--you
see what I mean ?"
/ said l thought / did.
/ said that I'd run a para
graph in the column about it.
and see whether any others felt
the same way.
Well. this is the paragraph. II
any other 4-Fs want 10 get
something started, all they have
TO do is write me, I'll pass their
names on 10 this fellow, and
you can have a try at it.
BAEFLED: A note says:
Dear Jack-This business of
Mrs. Stewart naming her cats
Here and Now Ii all very en-
PERTAINING, but--when she wants
Here To como will she say
Here, Here? When she wants
to reprove Now will she say
Now. Now: When she wants
Ia reprove Here, will she say,
Now. Here: When she wants
Now 10 come will she say. Here,
Now: It's all very discourage
ing.-LouIs Porter"
No. Cats don't answer TO their
names. They never pay any at
tention TO anything you say TO
them. But it's quite all right.
LINCOLN: The other day we
/ dropped 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 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 II
doesn't matter whether there's
one man or two with the beard
like Lincoln's.
AZ that, I wouldn't want 10
say that this fellow " q dead
ringer for Lincoln. but there's .
certain resemblance. He's q
couple Of fingers over q feet and
lanky, and his heard ~ rather
thin on his cheeks and tufted on
the chin.
He's Adrian Rickl.erS OF 1000
BoIdt, Dearborn, a Ford worker
who helps build cylinder heads
for sirplane motors.
We asked him how he hap
pened 10 grow the beard and he
said because Of Father Cough
lin. Seems he used TO be 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 abont 1899 or 30,
and "a the whlskers grew, peo-
pie began calling him "Abe,"
or Lincoln"
, He even suggested that we
check mp his stasdlng as n citI-
rem and wbat-not. and showed
az his factory badge. hut we're
willing to let II stand on his
say-so.
He even kSought photograph
Of himself. wearing whiskers.
full dress suit and a silk plug
hat riding on tandem bicycle
with his son, in the same garb
except for the whiskerS.
We thought of printing the
picture bat It's pretty big for
this column and the idea qa- I'M
coin --.-. az 49,
family incongruouS. People call
. him ABE" and that's that.
AFTFRTHOUGHT We men
toned the shove to n friend and
he reminded US of the story from
Hollywood, attributed Ia various
people but. am told, origi-
haliy having taken place behind
John Carradine's hack.
Carradine used 10 walk around
in Lincolnesque manner. shoul-
ders bowed and step slow.
1t reached the point Of bother
Ing people. They got tired Of
having him be Lincoln and
wished. for gosh sakes. that he'd
be Just Carradine.
Alfred Bryan - the lyricist
who wrote II Didn't Raise My
Boy Ia Be a Soldier" and a lot
Of other Songs-summed il up
one day:
THAT guy" he said. pointing
a thumb at Carradine. "just
isn't going 10 he satisfied until