Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-06-25
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Late 4 fternoon:
A book of verse that said what we
could not
A sheaf of letters linked in young
romance
The wistful charm a two buck
brownie shot
A wilted flower from some forgot
ten dance.
These are the old, familiar souvenirs
That lonely men have used to carry
on,
Mementoes of the gay and fragrant
years
Before the shadows heightened on
the lawn.
Thus I set out to make the sloping
hill
That rises high above the teeming
town,
Where dreams are dead and all the
world goes still
AS pilgrims watch the evening sun
go GOWN
Not much, kno,c, to see q journey through
But these are all hare and they must do.
DON VAIN.
Things you prob'Iy didden know
til now: That some years before the
Declaration of Independence was
signed a fellow named Appollos de
Revoire changed his name to Paul
Revere so that his neighbors and
friends would better savvy it. 1t has
been estimated that more than half
the Smiths in the U. S. originally
were Schmidts or Smeds. Many
Johnsons were once Jansens. Pres
ident Polk traced his name back
to Pollock, while Herbert Hoover
traced his to Huber.
General Pershing is the descend
ant of one Pershin, who changed his
name from Pfoersching. General
Custer was the great-grandson of a
man named Rooster, and Admiral
Dewey's ancestors were named
Duce. Charlie Lindbergh's GRANDPA
Their was born Manson; and if you
want to make something out of
name-changing try changing the fact
that America came from the name
Amerigo.
Golfers runs what it believes is
scoop on the until recently hush-hush
subject of Radar.
One columnist got into lots of hot
water for simply mentioning the
word.
Mechanic Illustrated ran a de-
tailed technical story Complete with
drawings and diagrams) of how this
secret war weapon works-in its
January, 1912, number. The title of
the article was "Now Power Is
Broadcast" and Thomas J. Naugh-
ton auth'd.
Shortly after, the Satevepost ran
a piece on Radar describing it thor
oughly. But all the while there was
strict censorship in the United
States. Censorship, despite the fact
that when the Graf Spec was scut-
tied off the coast of S. America there
was Radar equipment on the mast.
And it was Radar that caused the
great casualties at Dieppe The en-
envy had it all the time. But it was
against the law over here to men,
ton it.
To make faces redder-as early
as 1882 the principles of Radar were
written up at length in German sci
entific magazines.
Congressman have been urging
Americans to make sacrifices. And
they have scolded John L. Lewis be-
cause he hasn't made any. But the
news is that because the Senate din
ing room didn't have bean soup on
the bill of fare because of the food
shortage) Is Senators left their ia
bleS in a huff.
Can you imagine the cause celebre
the Senate would make out of that
if Mrs. Roosevelt or Mrs. Harry
Hopkins did that?
The N. Y. Sun editorial page Of
fered this fond farewell for Admiral
Yamamoto who is said to have
led the sneak attack on Pearl Har-
Dor: g. A hard, tough graduate
of a hard, tough school. Yamamoto
was a fighting man, every inch of
him. He knew his job thoroughly
and did it we'll"
The inventor of one of our most
highly rated airplane engines was
lunching with a Congressman in
Washington. The legislator asked
him if he didn't consider it unfair
that whenever we enjoyed big VIC
tory in the air, the credit always
went to the fliers who used his en-
gines, instead of to him.
"Not at ALL" replied the inventor,
''who ever heard the name of Paul
Revere's horse?"
The decision of the Kremlin to dis
enfranchiSe the overseas Commy
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