THE CENTRE REPORTER,
CENTRE HALL, PA.
Finally Name Was O. K.
Though Not ‘O,” but ‘K’
A gentleman had completed his
purchases, and the clerk, in filling
out the sales slip, asked:
“What is the name, please?”
“Jepson,” replied our hero, "Siz.
een twenty-one West..."
“Your first initial, please.
“Oh, K."”
“0. K. Jepson.”
“1 said ‘Oh.
“0. Jepson.”
“No. Rub out the 0.”
The clerk began to look hag
ard.
cay
Your initials again, please?”
Bruckart’s Washington Digest
‘Swing Style’ Reading Not New;
The Greeks Had a Word for It
Every now and then, the news-
| papers report a ‘brand new’ idea
{ or a ‘brand new’ discovery.
| Take, for instance, the report
{ about “swing reading.” Accord-
| ing to recent headlines, *‘‘swing
reading’’ is the latest thing imag-
inable—the invention of two smart |
eye doctors in Los Angeles.
As the papers say, the doctors
disclosed their “idea' a short time
ago at a national convention of the
American Optometric association.
Star Dust
%* Real Star Starters
* What a ‘Stand-In’ Is
% Jon Hall May Go Native
By Virginia Vale
T THE studios of Metro-
Goldwyn - Mayer there is |
renewed interest in the film- |
ing of *‘Pocahontas’’—if they |
do, they predict that early |
| American history will come |
President Hits Top in Precedent
Breaking in Thanksgiving Change
along the next, and so on.
Well, we don’t like to make our-
selves seem scholarly, but the doc-
tors have unwittingly dug up
something pretty old, As a mat-
ter of fact, the ancient Greeks
had a word for it, used the system
and gave it up. They called it
boustrophedon, and you can find
the word in a good dictionary even
to this day. Pronounced boo-stro-
fee-don, with the accent on the
third syllable, it means literally
»
"”
‘
Stirs Up More Comment Than Any Statement Ever
Emanating From a Chief Executive; Element of Un-
certainty Injected Is What Makes It Harmful.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—President Roose-
velt’s ability to keep things stirred
up has been demonstrated numer-
ous times since his accession to the
White House. He seems to have a
highly developed penchant for doing
the unexpected. He calls it ‘‘prece-
dent breaking.” The results have
been varied, although it strikes me
that more of the ‘*breaks’’ have been
against him in recent months than
when he first began to break prece-
dents as President in 1933.
It appears, however, that Mr.
Roosevelt reached a new peak in
precedent breaking when he changed
the date of our annual Thanksgiving
day. Probably no statement ever
forthcoming from a Chief Executive
stirred up as much comment—un-
less perhaps it was the famous
statement by Calvin Coolidge that
“I do not choose to run.” True, Mr.
Roosevelt moved the date only one
week, making this year's Thanks-
giving day, Thursday, November 23,
instead of November 30. The effect
was the same, however, whether the
change was one week or one month.
Next year, he proposes that the
date should be moved forward an-
other week so that thereafter the
date upon which we pay homage to
God, as a nation, will be the second
Thursday in November, instead of
the last Thursday of the month.
In announcing his plan, the Presi-
dent said he was desirous of rear-
ranging the November holiday so
that “‘holidays will be more evenly
spaced.” There is Labor day on the
first Monday in September; there
are no national holidays in October;
Thanksgiving day in November and
Christmas day near the end of De-
cember. So, Mr. Roosevelt said it
seemed better to move Thanksgiv-
ing day a bit forward.
he explained, was taken after many
business men had urged it as a
means of giving more time for
Christmas shopping. It well
known that shoppers do not really
get going in their Christmas buy-
ing until after Thanksgiving day,
gnd Mr. Roosevelt said the change
might spread out the usual rush.
18
Thanksgiving Day Change
Stirs Up Unusual Comment
Whatever the reason for the
change, the announcement broke out
all
pent up. Business interests here
united front. But that was impos-
sible because retailers disagreed as
to its possible benefits. There was
no disclosure by the President of
ests he had consulted. Some lines
of trade felt that terrific damage
had been done them and their shouts
were angry. Religious groups have
remained silent, as organizations,
but their individual members have
had unpleasant things to say about
the change. Altogether, the picture
seems to show a bad reaction
throughout the nation.
Let us look at the thing, how-
ever, from a practical standpoint:
Mr. Roosevelt made his announce-
ment without consulting the state
department. If he had sought ad-
vice there, he would have learned
that a presidential proclamation can
be enforced only in the District of
Columbia and the territories of the
United States. No state needs pay
any attention to a White House proc-
lamation unless it desires to do so.
Hence, the declaration that Thanks-
giving day shall be November 23,
1639, is binding only upon us folks
here in Washington, and those in
Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
There are 11 states that have laws
fixing Thanksgiving day for the last
Thursday in November of each year.
Their legislatures are not in ses-
sion. They will not be called into
session again before the forthcom-
ing Thanksgiving day. Which day
will they celebrate and praise God
for the blessings He has given them?
There is no national statute fix-
ing the date. It is a traditional
ceremonial day, a day which, to
Americans, means actually the con-
nection between our economic life
and the Almighty Power that guided
our nation from its inception, the
link between material things and
religion.
For the reasons of its establish-
ment, it strikes me that there ought
not be a national law on the sub-
ject. It is a sacred thing. But my
guess is there will be a law and
that law will say that the last Thurs-
day in November shall be set aside
as a national holiday for expression
of our gratitude. I think such a
law will be passed at the next ses-
sion of congress,
Arouses Fear That All Our
People Are Being Regimented
Mr. Roosevelt surely could not
have guessed the repercussions, the
backfire, that has greeted his an-
nouncement and that has continued
in unabated fury. The politicians
seized upon it for some of the dirti-
est wisecracks I ever have heard.
I heard one that really warrants
repetition here.
called that King George, on his re-
cent visit to North America, reset
his birthday so that it could be cel-
and emperor. The question was then
propounded whether our President
contemplated a flexible
schedule that would permit celebra-
tion of events whenever the White
low.
just a laugh.
it is not possible of attainment. It
ple of Russia,
through that very stage.
ed as unimportant,
en down, living a life of fear.
Mr. Roosevelt's mind. I believe his
action was taken because of his
ever-present urge to make changes.
There are many persons who hold
that it was another move by the
President designed to keep people
from thinking of their troubles, to
help them forget the terrible strug-
gles through which we have been,
and are, passing.
| Take a Look at Practical
Side of the Situation
Again, as to the practical side
and the results flowing from the
breaking of another precedent:
Let us consider first the litho-
graphing and printing industry of
the country. There are thousands
upon thousands of other businesses
that use the product of the lithog-
rapher and the printer. Consider
the calendar that hangs on your
wall. It will show November 30 as
| the Day of Thanksgiving. The an-
nual bill for calendars, paid for by
by each of us who
buys a calendar, exceeds $100,000.-
{ 000. The calendars are not useless,
of course, but the fact that the “cal-
endar is wrong" has some inde-
scribable effect upon me.
Take the transportation industry.
{ Officials begin planning many
| months ahead for tours, special
rates, excursions. Public events and
| ceremonies have been scheduled.
| Each ties in with some other—sched-
{ uled for Thanksgiving day when
{ Thanksgiving day was to be Novem-
ber 30. The printing industry has
done its job for most of those things
ahead even of today. What a mess
that is going to be!
Many editorials have been writ-
ten, many interviews given out, con-
cerning the effect of the new
Thanksgiving date on the college
football “industry,” for college foot.
ball receipts run into millions of dol-
lars every year. Through all of the
years, traditional games—the big
games—the peak of the season—has
been the Thanksgiving day game for
hundreds of colleges. But if Thurs-
day, November 30, is just another
Thursday, what about the ‘gate’
of those games?
4 des ys = A
| industry and
| Element of Uncertainty Is
What Makes Change Harmful
And that brings us to the crux of
this situation. It is the element of
uncertainty that Mr. Roosevelt in-
jected into our national life by the
change in one holiday date that is
harmful. Instead of promoting a
feeling of security, my hunch
he never dreamed.
sis will show that the change will
millions of dollars in net losses.
Our nation has grown up, not in
working as the gears of your auto-
mobile. When the engine turns over,
it exerts pressure on the clutch,
then on the drive shaft, then on the
gears and then on the wheels, and
the car moves. When any one unit
of industry in America—any one
phase of life—is changed suddenly,
the clutch and the drive shaft and
the gears and the wheels of others
are affected. More than any other
one thing that has happened in re-
cent years, I believe, the President's
announcement proves how closely
knitted our lives are. It shows, too,
that government can wreck national
He as well as preserve and protect
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spotlight.
Hedy LaMarr, to play the part
HEDY LA MARR
save him from death,
and was
beaten out.
8
push that started him or her on the
road to fame and fortune. All too
frequently those star-starters actual-
ly had nothing to do with
son's success.
There are two men who can shin
in reflected glory, if they want to,
but they're so busy shining in their
own glory that they can't be both-
ered. One is a well-known tailor in
Hollywood, Eddie Schmidt.
Adolphe Menjou went to him when
he first tackled Hollywood. He
knew the value of good clothes, but
he hadn't any money. He wanted
to make a bargain. If Eddie
Schmidt would make him six suits,
and trust him for them, he'd tell
everybody where he got the clothes.
That wardrobe was the thing that
turned the balance in Menjou's
favor,
star-maker Sardi,
in
The other is
who owns the famous restaurant
New York where screen and stage
players eat every day in the week.
Not so very long ago William Gar-
gan was stoney broke. He hadn't
had a stage engagement for ten
months, his wife was in the hospital.
But he had to be seen in Sardis,
so that the theatrical world would
know that he was still about,
Sardi had noticed him, and had
faith in him. He invited the young
to him.
about $800 altogether. Leslie How-
in the stage version of “The Animal
Kingdom,” Hollywood dangled a
contract—and Gargan was set,
backers’ bills the first moment that
they had the money.
Isabelle Sheridan, Mary Pick-
ford's cousin, is in the movies yet
not in them-—and she has no desire
to step before a camera.
She's a
that she wears a star's costumes
man figures what he wants.
stood
Eilers,
other actresses.
ter.”
iin fii
playing native of the South Seas for
the rest of his screen career.
ricane'’ started him, you may re-
call, and Edward Small’s “South of
sani
who've never liked her on the screen
before are now admitting that the
girl can act. And Warner Brothers’
plans for screening ‘“The Miracle”
have been speeded up and put into
production, after three years of dis-
cussion and preliminary work.
Miss Davis will have the coveted
role of the Nun.
iff
ODDS AND ENDS—Sol Lesser is allow
ing Principal Productions employees an
extra half hour for lunch, on condition
that they'll play badminton during their
i time, on the courts across the
street from his offices at Selznick Interna.
tional . . . After trying for a year, Charles
Correll of “Amos and Andy” has taught
a re ii,” waa ve
t t you, the ie, “t
her as the hard-boiled heroine of “From
Page,” so the part is being rewritten,
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would help t
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In
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“turning like oxen in plowing.”
It is a compound of two Greek
words—bous, meaning ox, and
strephein, meaning to turn,
P. 8.
quoted above reads normally this
way: ‘Many of the convention
delegates yesterday shunned ses-
sions for a day on the golf course,
The weather was fine.”
Anybody else got a new idea?
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““No. Not O, but K. Here, give
me the pencil and I'll write it my-
self. There, 1 guess it's O. K.
now.” —Annapolis Log.
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