The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-04-20
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GEORGE RICHARDS,
L0OKA WHAT YOU DONE!"

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brother, if he had only lasted!
The Republican party wouldn't be
behind the eight ball, businessmen
wouldn't be talking in their sleep
and the life story of every man,
woman and child in the U.S.A.
would have been altered, and how!
Critic or glorifier of Franklin
d. Roosevelt, you can't "in-
olude George out" from now
on. George was just a char
acter in a novel begun by
Roosevelt as a young man.
F.D.R. created him, put him
into literary shape and then
let him die, after $50 words,
never to take him up again.
Through that decision fate al
tered the course of history.
Franklin ID. Roosevelt might
have become a novelist instead
Of Presiden Dropping
"Soapy" Richards was a de-
velopment which, had it been
appreciated, would have sent
the COP. fleeing across the
open spaces screaming, "To
the hills, men!"
The page of manuscript reveal
ing Roosevelt's ambition to be a
novelist begins:
SIN Chicago in the late eighties
anybody would tell you that George
Richards was a most able and sue
cessful business leader. Ten years
before, his little soap shop had
seemed a small thing. But now
he had become soap king Of Amer
lea ...
There you have it! George might
have put Franklin D. Roosevelt
in the field of book writing. But as
things turned out he, as much as
Lou Howe and Jim Farley, put
him in the White House. George
the Soapman threw the switch that
sent Franklin off the literary rails
and onto the tracks to Washington.
By such events is the course of his
tory changed!
We can fancy F.D.R., the
author, building George up as
a soap tycoon, finding him very
rich and meditating, "What
would this guy probably do
next. Get elected to the Union
League house committee and
then join the REPUBLICAN
CLUB" exit George Rich
ards, Chicago and soap; Enter
the Indispensable Man, Wash
ingtpn and the New Deal!)
Yes, Churchill, Willkie, Stain,
Howe, Farley, Hopkins, kings,
queens and emperors figure in
those Hyde Park papers, but
George Richards tops them. Critic
or booster of Roosevelt, thousands
will think Of George and murmur,
boy, if you had lasted a few
more pages!"-and wonder how it
would have seemed to have heard
Of F.D.R. only through a squib,
ED. Roosevelt, author of Rich
ards Sees It Through or Upward
and Onward in the Soap Mines is
at work on a new book. The author,
while not widely known, has a de-
voted following among lovers Of
whodunits." ~!
Under O,Dwyer
Things Wont be dryer.
Wallace C. HoWeU
Wrings q celestial toWeL.
If your weatber's too beetle.
Blame General Electric!
The first thing Harry Truman did
as he stepped ashore after that
rough ocean trip was to sign the
oleomargarine law. After a voyage
like that he was for anything that
would stay down.
A new drive on drunken auto
lists is under way. After this is
attended to, there may be time
to get around to the sober ones
who seem even more danger
Gus.
A jetliner carrying 16 people has
flown from London to Rome in two
hours. The rest of the day was
spent by all hands wondering what
to do to kill time.
Police airmen will be used to
spray clouds with dry ice in the
New York ~rain-making expert
ments. We hope no cop will get
confused to a point where he rid
dies a cloud with bullets and drops
dry ice on a bandit.
Examination of ~high-school test
papers reveal that students gave
these answers: 1.-TWO French ex-
plorers of the Mississippi were
Romeo and Juliet" maple
syrup is made by sterilizing sap"
-. salt Lake City was founded
by morons."
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