The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-30

same anemia. Why not save ex- penses by combining all of them with pr. Gideon Planish as the executive secretary of the lot?
 The idea was simple and bril- liant, he felt, and Colonel Mar duo approved it.
 The word "Co-operation" had long been one of the most valu- able in the organizational treas ure-house.
 Now, with his secretary, he be- gan to list all the national well fare and educational organizations with headquarters in New York City.
 He stopped when he had listed 2,000 of them.
 He arbitrarily picked out every hundredth league, called a taxi cab, started out to cooperate the 20 he had chosen = and quit his crusade at 437 that afternoon.
 By 4:37 p. m, the innocent Doc tor had been shocked by the whole business of organizationality. He had found that the National American Eclectic Institute for the Advancement of the Popular Principle in Education was one large, gray old gentleman who had a small desk in a corner Of a public stenographer's clattering office; that it's rival, the Society for the Humanization of Higher did have rooms and rooms and pamphlets and pam phlets, but was, all the while, just another league for attacking union labor; and that another rival, the Institute of Investigative Consid- eration of Education, was nothing at all but No. telephone in row Of 12 telephones upon the desk of a backroom real estate dealer, which desk was equally the head quarters of the Mount Celestial Cemetery Corp, the Fig Leaf Publishing Co.,, and the League for the Protection of Home and Marriage.
 Dr. Planish returned to his office, and left the world to darkness and to philanthrobbing. He was so sunk that for moment he thought of go- ing back to work, of taking a school so that some younger teacher might be released for enlistment.
 But, he snorted, what percent age was there in being profes- sional Light to the Toilers if you merely become a toiler? That would be as silly as for profes- sionaI evangelist to go to some body else's mission and get saved, with not even a look-in on the collection box.
 No, he would go on with his cooperation, but he would per- form it with sound, reliable or ganizators, the ones he already knew personally.
 NEXT morning, at II, he was in IN the anteroom of the Anti Racial Youth Committee for the Organization of Global Co-opera- ton, waiting to see it's managing secretary, Prof. Goetz BuchWald
 Into this room militarily strode still another friend: Commdr OrriS Gall, executive director of the Zero-Hour American National Con- mittee on Anti-Totalitaria Defense which even since Pearl Harbor had gone right on in surprised way telling the country that Adolf Hitler was no real friend of America.
 Well, well, well, Dr. Planish, this is swell finding you here. This will save me trip to your office. l phoned you, but they said you'd just left said the Commander. i've got a perfectly revolutionary idea Like this. I needn't tell you how the sources of philanthropy are threat ening to dry up. So why don't a lot of us that have a common theology join up and economiZe on expenses and efforts? Let's co-operate!"
 The Doctor glowed, Why, that's what I was going to suggest to you! suppose you'll be going back into the Navy.
 No, not - exactly. But I am going to take a key post with one of the most important manufac- turers of naval equipment in the public relations department. Right away"
 So thatll leave your FANG without a director. I'll be glad to take it over-'
 That wasn't exactly my idea, Doctor. The fact is, my wife is going to continue my work shes really a lot more capable than l am-and what I was thinking was that since your DDD has always merely covered the same field as our, like exposing scoundrels like Zeke Bittery-and after all, it was I who first showed him up!-Why, Marduc and you might like to put the DDD under Mrs. Calls super vision and you could - well, you could go on to something else, don't you see?"
 Dr. Planish was staring at this insolence when out of Professor Buchwald's office glided Dr. Chris tian Stern. He bubbled as he saw them:
 Well, well, boys, this is coinci- dence! I was going to call on you both this afternoon, but guess thisil save me some taxi-fares, ha, ha! What I want to talk to you about is You know how busy always am, with my big institutional church, but somehow this crisis gives one superhuman energies, and was thinking I might be able to combine your DDD and FANG with Professor BuchWald's ARYC, and serve, or shall I say function, as executive secretary of the whole caboodle and, particully speak ing, at no extra salary, say just 35 hundred beyond what I'm get ting noW--and thus release you boys for war work. I regret to say that Buchwald can't see it my way. If there's any cooperating, he wants to do the operating and let us do the co! But you boys are more like practical men of