Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-10-02
Arthur
Says
BY BILLY Arthur

nom Is putting away the dish
es, and there's nothing to do
but read the paper, the maya
zine, or the catalog till the
hands of the clock move to
the usual bedtime hour.
Nothing 10 do? Yes, there is;
take a chair and look at tele-
vision, listen to radio. The ma
ton has Just been treated -
well, that's what the networks
said-to the fall series of new
shows.
Newl
Not from where we sit.
All we get are the same old
cereals, razor blades and beer,
and the same old faces need
ing more Love Pat to cover up
the wrinkles and more Arid
to Danish the-well,
And the same old dramas.
We were told lately in the
press that some of the authors
dream the plots and the work
ings thereof in order that their
days may be applied to straight
writing without having to
stop and invent any plots and
characters.
AS we understand il, when
one of the writers has script
a al OF Il
three days, he stimulates his
mind with midnight lobster
and mince pie and is therefore
able to work "a hours a day
and still get in his eight hours
sleep.
The press reported that one
writer went to bed and slept
for two days. lie must be
working on one of those hour
and a half SpectacUlates.
The counSellng programs are
indentical 10 last spring. We
wouldn't give a cent for a fell
low who didn't give advice and
, that's just about the worth of
4 the advice given.
Next comes Ed Murrow,
n taking you into living rooms,
dining rooms and dens of fam
Gus people and promising that
next week you'll see Polls
Bcrgen'S structure.
That is preceded by a 10
round program on the art o.
self defense in which two
punch drunk young m n
whose fathers are preacher.
and mothers are CnUrmaids anc
= whose hobbies are ClasSica
Il music and Surrcalistic art
slam the iaylights out of eaci
other, jump with childish gle,
and hold their arms over thei
Il heads when pronounced tn
Y winners.
BctwiXt and between ina
mayhem we are sold raZo
blades guaranteed not to scrat
ch or cut. If they do, rctur
them 10 he manufacturer an
he laughs IN your bloody face
Mickey Mouse is OK, yo
say. Probably so, but we hav
had to add an extra cabinet i
the kitchen for the cereal. 81
kinds we've got on the shell
, L They range form brCakfa.
Nh food of champions to midnigf
SnackS for chumps. But we'v
y got to buy them. The kids de
mand thcm-not for the vita
- Minis and EiacinS but for III
-. cut-out doll clothes on the cal
ton, the plastic jet plane In
side, or for the oox top whic
with just 81 you can get
genuine 75c camera. Just thin
-, of it: we used to get the san,
:. things and a box of CraCkC
" Jack for a picket.
Then, there Is makeup tn;
VI stays on and keeps you fires
- and clean all day long. SIM
~ when did soap and water {
a. out OF style?
10 New stuff, they say, ar
" follow it with a singing con
/. mercial. That dates back
" 1887 when the Henderson Go
Leaf reported in Februal
that MIR. Davis was great
surprised TO hear singing whe
he opened his store. 1t can
from the remaining stock
overcoats, singing, How can
leave thee?'
IT. "I'll show YOU he sal
AZ marking them down one-thir
,es Now he's singing, L S,
ms my listers go round tic ben
Goodbye, my listers. goodby
is They're all filled Up with sa
rst isfied men. Goodbye, my u
en- Sters, goodbye"
1t used 10 be that we won
les sit in the evenings and Ia
or with our wives and famil
vn Noadays, If you've got som,
ice thing to say or you want
We hold hands with your wife, ST
10 demands. Hurry up, bccau
IS "Twenty-One" comes on
,es two minutes"
ess Sure enough there is an in
,r' age and sound, and you a
told how some poor woman
man has been snatched fro