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Night for the Morrow
By aOBZRT D. LUSK -
...CHAPTER KXIV
" My. grandfather lay back on his
pillows. He was exhausted after
his ]ong reading aloud. In a mo-
ment I.jnn Rhodes and his wife
arose to leave.
"We have taken too much of
your time and strength already,"
Rhodes said; "'but before we go,
could you tell us the message that
President Wilson gave you that
night?"
"'He wrote," the old man de-
clared, his eyes still closed, "that
a nation founded on the principle
that all men were created equal
could not deny the brotherhood
of man except it deny its own
self• He said that from such a
denial would come disillusionment
and confusion. The very fiber of
national purpose would be endan-
gered, the inner strength of the
nation sapped." There was a long
pause. '•There might come a time
again, he said, when the United
States could recover iLs soul, al-
though the price would be great
in blood and wealth. But that
price would have to be paid, if
the nation were to continue. He
said that if the nation ceased to
be the home of the brave, in the
full meaning of the world, it
would not long remain the land of
the free."
Old Jan's voice was nov: just a
whisper, barely audible.
"A nation, like a man." he con-!
tinued, reaching for my hand, "has
a soul. The soul of my America,
o2 our .America, is great. It was
conceived in the bloody labor of
revolution; it was baptized in a
mighty fire to set men free. Men
were to be free, not only here but
throughout the world. America, the
soul of America, must remain
great."
One night, about a week later,
Old Jan died quietly in his sleep.
The funeral was simple. Old Jan
would have wanted it that way.
There weren't many in attendance.
Old Jan wouldn't have been sur-
prised at that. Judge McNamara
was there, of course. He cried, too,
Old Jan would have guffawed out
loud. but been pleased inwardly.
After the funeral, I went over
to McNamara's. I told the Judge
the farm would have to get along
without me for a while, that I had
ome different kind of "ploubhing"
Copyright, NZA i-le.
cided to put up at the hotel over-
night.
I had a hard time getting a
room. There was a convention or
meeting of some kind on. Finally
the room clerk condescendingly
found a place [or me. When I
turned to follow the boy with my
bag, a crowd of people burst from
the bar into the lobby. All of them,
men and a scattering of women,
were middle.aged. The men had
reached that period in life when
they weren't physically what you
would call pretty. They sagged.
The fat ones sagged in the bellies
and under the chins; the skinny
ones under their eyes and at the
shoulders. Nor were the women
any more streamlined.
Everyone was laughing, laugh-
ing and shouting, shouting silly,
senseless things at each other. They
were high. I thought suddenly of
how out of place it was in a world
in which millions were hungry,
bombed, being slain, that these
people should be chasing about this
hotel lobby like children, compete-
ly unconscious of the world around
them. I wondered by what right
they were so privileged. What had
they done, what were they doing
to earn such freedom from the re-
sponsibilities of a world locked
in a death struggle?
Then, out of the corner of my
eye, I caught sight of a short
pudgy man. He was much older
than when I had last seen him.
But even in that flash there was
no mistaking him. He was walk-
ing with an arm around some
woman. It was my father.
"John," he said in a voice too
loud for conversation, "why John."
His right hand reached across his
chest, and he began tugging on
the lobe of his left ear.
"Hello, Dad," I said.
"Well John, what are you do-
ing here?"
"Just passing through," I told
him. Then he lowered his voice.
"I heard about your grandfather
Too bad. But he was getting old,
Past seventy, wasn't he? But he
was close to you. You were always
like him. Johnny, my boy, is there
anything I can do?"
A few weeks earlier I might
have made a quick reply that
there was something he could do:
that he could go to hell. And
looking around the room, I might
that I had to do. I told him I have added, you and your whole
thought it was more important ..... t^-
i ht h ' ........
r g at t e moment. Pearl Harbor But I didn't feel that way any
was still to come but he said he ...... " "
a reed th t - w 1 ...... more. 1 woma nave been unneces-
g . a ne ou a nave mougnr sa,- an,,a
it strange if I hadn't felt that way :f' " ". - - -
So did M " i was easler xo make a zew
"r ottar:,,, a. * . 1.. polite remarks, thank him for his
'uv T'her ......... v v._,-f sympathy, and walk on. It was
hS.sicaYe e were. my enns.uen% easier surely it was kinder and
p y I xamlnalons, anU all vile ' - • '
1*tI, rl,c,t=]le ,€ =,,,-,I 1{,,,. probably fairer ust to blame ev-
that hado be cleared up boe ;dyrYh. ge .aze PhStat°onccuteeraagt
the time I was to report Y' " g "Y " " 1
Then th-re was th- " -- • a terribly crucial point in war d
.... • .* ,.o,1 * m... history, the tragedy that hap-
ran'eme.:'- "for"h"a - -'- ""-'---" pened that September evening in
car of i m;absenc:? 1919, a little ways west of Wichita.
longer than I expected so I de- THE END
April 22, 1944
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Wd. ...... 0q0 ....... II
WlSBM ...... WCFL ...... 1000
WGN IWlBN Ll
4:(X)---WGN--Nav Bulletin Board
WISN-WBBM--Corli Archer
WTMJ-WMA--Your America
WCFI--Don Artiste, pianist
4:30---WGN--The Music Mart
WCFL---S*.ory Behind Hdlln
wISN-Wl]BM--Mother and Dad
WENR--The Cadets' Quartet
WMAQ---NewI o£ April 22
4:45---WENR--Hello, Sweetheart
WCFL--Three quarter Time
WMAQ---Medittlons
R:00---WGN--News Bulletins
WBBM--Rolrt Hurlelgh, new
%.IAQ--Bob Becker's Pet Parade
WCFL-WENR--News Reports
S:l---WGN--Garden Gossip
WBBM--People'm Platform
WMAQ--News: Sweet and SplmJsh
WCFL--Job Front News
WENR--Rhythm Edition
S0----WGN--Master Radio Canarlee
VLMAQ---Starrlng Curt Masey
WCFi.--Don Artiste, pialnst
WENR--News; Marching Alon
:---WGN--Saturday Sports Review
W'BBM--The World Today
WMAQ---Hub Jackson, news
V¢CFL---Leon Henderson, ne1l
ulian Bentley, ne
VCENR--Pop Concert
:0--WGN--Ralph Ginsburgh's Orh.
WTMJ- WMAQ-.--American Story
WISN-WB--M.ayor of the
Town
WCFL--News Reports
WLS--Julian Bentley, newe
4:IJ---WGN--The Telephone Quiz
WCFL---Harry Horllck Prmeut
WLS---Neightmr Williams
6:3(N-WGN----John Holbrook, news
WTM J-W'MAQ---Ellery Queen
WISI*-WBBMThanks to the
Yanks
WLS----Musle America Loves
WCFL---The Honor Roll
S:4--WGN--Say It With Mu.e
7:0---WGN---Confldentlally Your
WTMJ-WMAQ---Abie's Irish ROSe
VCBBM----Groucho Marx Show
WLS---Early American Music
V;CFL---New$ Reports
7.'.,.---WGN---Good Will Hour
WLS---The Melody Revue
"WCFL---Edward Tomllnn
7:30---WTMJ-WMA---Trth or Conl-
quences
WIS.' -B]BM--Inee mtum
WCFL---The Bton Symphonx
. WLS--Barn Dance Part
8:--WGN--Chlcago Theater of the Air
WISN-WBBM--Your Hit Parade
WMA Q---Hollyvod Theater
WTMJ-WLS---Natlonal Barn Dance
8:---WL---SpoUight: E. Howard
WTMJ-WMAQ--Can You Top
This?
WLabor Flashes
$:4S--WBBM--St. Night Serenade
WCFT.,---Reyond Victory
#:00---WGN--Del Courthey's orchestra
'.2[AQ----Party; Patsy KelIF
WISN-WCFI.--New
WI. --Ban-a_ Jamboree
:L---WC---Aa'tly FCI Present
WL.N-BBM---Cm'ret. on. Please
9:G--WGN--'he M.Titoa House
WTMZ-WMA---Grand o1 opr
WLS--I.ndon Cohmm
9:4,---WCFL--wlsmer's Sport Albu
%VL_%--ulian Bentley, news
V'BBM--FIhtlnE Men, U.S.A.
10:(X)--WGNwing a- Show'
%%'B BM--M. Zllot
%VMAQ--Hub Jackson. new
%q---Ns,*lonal Barn Dance to 12
WCFD---Moulton Kelsey, news
0:l$---WGN---Chicago at Night
LMAQ---Adv. of Mark vld
BBM--KInE'8 Jesters, Janette
WCFL--Don Artiste, pianist
10;30---W GN--Now ullettn
WIAQ--I SuItL the W]nl
WBBM---Salute to Victory
WCFL-Music Lvers' Pro
10:45--WGN--Don eld's orhestrI
M--PI bile Aairz
I:00---ALL NETWORKS---Music and
Sorsdo News unUl 12 p. m.
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Tuberculosis is among the three
leading causes of death between
the ages ot 15 and 49.
Q--Where did Panama hats ori-
ginate?
A--Ecuador: they're called Pan-
ama hats because they were first
marketed to American travelers in
Panama.
Q--What element has the great-
est atomic weight.
AUranium, 238.2.
Q--What is the official language
of Haiti?
AFrench.
Q--What is the formula for
computing the area of a circle?
A--Multiply the square of the
diameter by .7854.
Q--About how much radium has
been produced up to the present
time?
ANot quite three pounds; the
element is refined into a radium
salt concentrate and weight is cal-
culated by measuring the rays,
Think Safely
Eight thousand li7es couid have
been saved in 1943 had the nation's
traffic death rate been as low as
• st of the four states which won
top honors in the National Traffic
Safety Contest.
This was reported today by the
National Safety Council, whic
conducts the contest.
The four states Connecticut
Oklahoma, Minesota and Utah
had a composite 1943 mileage
death rate 35 per cent below the
national average, the Council said.
If the national rate had been on
that level last year's traffic toll
would have been 15,000, instead
of 3,300.
72 Shcdes Camouflage
The War Department's exacting
specifications for camouflage calls
for 72 different shades of paint
Funny Business
By Hmshbmqm
"Short pumps make our customers feel better when they can only get
such a little gas:"
This Curious Wor, I¢t
By William Ferguson
U.S. Army Unit
Answer to Pl'evloua Izle
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28 Like 45 Shouts
29 Singing voice 46 Solicitude
31 Exist 47 Above
HORIZONTAL 53 Island (Fr.)
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insigne of 56 Shield
New York and hearing
Philadelphia 57 Irregular
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9 Sloping ways
14 Kept I Appearance
15 Preposition 2 Ply back
16 Opera (abbr.) , Overtime
17 Pare (abbr.)
18 Devotee 4 Short sleep
19 Music note 5 Row
20 Burmese 6 Sluggish
wood spirit 7 Lamprey
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9 Stratagem 34 Symbol for
10 Social insect erbium
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deduction
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Guido's scale ,I,
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selenium
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39 Calummate
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the insignia of
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Detail for Today
Hold Everything
The CIO in Michigan has organ.
ized • safety training course for
union representatives at Wayne
university, Detroit
WASH TUBBS Careful There, Boys
ammoek
It is the practice of many soldiers
to take HAMMOCKS into the field
with them. Perhaps it is their way
of making it obvious that they
prefer the Navy, but were drafted
before they had a chance to make
a choice. In some climates, sleeping
on the ground is not particularly
healthful, due to various and sun-
dry creeping, crawling creatures
that infest the area. It is here that
the HAMMOCK comes into its own
and is really appreciated.
--By Leslie Turner
C01NbTO LAD GONMA BE AWFDI.
?HI& LAME pUC< l ,A F YOU BOYS
WHEN WE ET ] DOkrT qlJtT MIJ$$1N'
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
.,._,,:.., 6y e sreeer AND Cve .wv.
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BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES Well! Well! --By Martin
RED RYDER
-Ready for Robbery
•--By Fred Harrnan
ALLEY OOP
That's a Thought
--By V. T. Hamlin
OUT OUR WAY
--By Williams
OUR BOARDING HOUSE
--with Major Hoople
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