St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-02-08
IM WAY SEE
-. 81 NEIL O0DS0n RUSSELL

who boast the mental aertness Of their offspring
should teach the little dangs how the telephone friend
after telephone bout with the eghtyearOd Of an
acquaintance few weeks asked me: do you
think that child is quite brght?" She referring
to the fact she off second best in the encounter
1t usually goes like this;
You inquire enthusiastically "HellOH Is your mother
homer"
You begin to think perhaps you didn't make kA
yourself clear the first time and so you repeat slowly
and concisely:
lis your mother h-o-m-e?"
Stony silence from the other end Of the wire, and
so you begin shout fantNELL RUSSELL
gurgle proves where life hope Look
honey begin grm Pd like to speak mother Is she
there?"
lation from distance
May speak herr" persist wondering meanwhile
anything worth it all.
he rubbn the floor" Junior repeats enaciouy You spend
trying convey that the
srubpa telephone Then finally Junior,
in sudden burst Of ba out: There's
a lady wants to speak to you'll!
exhausted you sink back and try remember
what it you wanted in the first place
course who used train the apple
his all callers the dim wit treatment until he
wasn't Mays calling for the last nsament the living
The only his crones could the telephone
portals help the kid Tell old it's all right for him
I'm not bill collector"
Nelson pastor him
self embarrassment has not only taught girls
telephone calls taught them take
written AS result don't mixture of Hop In
dan Chinese Ubang 1--WE you
young 'uns grab the phone first
brigade taking pot Aquannial
float idea right schedule The is composed Of Of
fortnight outstanding citizens who neither individually collectively
produced somebody
with something and they long enough from
their suspended animation pieces sideways
upsidedown Any project somebody fer they're
They don't know why they're agn it, they're just agn it Haw
liberal PM newspaper a quote a
very practical Felix L. Paul. Navy
eran last Sundays edition of the paper:
But young white boys change this thing
like heck At young
but small of the ruling class of the South
of them having held public job and 20 Of
them according Army fgures) will home,
will And having fought
in segregated Army, of them in contact with
helped spread the Of hate in
But the dis
appointing the writer has had that Of seeing
how sOcaed CONVERTED people change they foot
Southern soil"
expect change things
of this with the
o the Rnkn and the Easand and the Of low raebaitng
that Senator John c. Mcclellan esorted the Meet the Press
program the Mutual network recently.
Mcclellan spoke of Negroes nggers without being of the
soldiers World War H. the fact
had fought for this country he had well what other
country could they fight for? They better off here than they would
be n Africa"
many youngsters impressonabe age
program had the planted
their minds the result of McCleans remarks
American the Of brother
hood brought home Them I'm afraid by first having live through
boodshd and chaos That sound like the
ahead and the shadows growing deeper and backe with each
passing day.
PURELY PERSONAL: thinking of starting
purpose getting rid radio
thriller programs confirmed
having detective heroes burdened with sticky