The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 13, 1952, Page 10

Page ARTIE, WHAT HAPPENED TO EY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, ember 13, 1953 WELL, HERE WE 6O, MARLA! STAND. Back way BACK! TAM LOTHAR, KING OF THE FEDERATED TRIBES? AND THAT ONE IS THE IMPOSTOR WHO STOLE MY THRONE! TT LOOKS LIKE+A DEATHS HEAD! HOW’ WE «+ALL GET ITZ Sealer 8 NSDERATE O' eR Wy | THADDELS! I OOLTLRDLCMON. Hh A" RIGHT CROSS! WE GOT A AY By Paul Robin: NEW YORK ® — Success can cost too much, And if men have to start wearing girdles to achieve it--well, success has plumb ‘priced itself out of the market for the average mah. The idea that the American male needs a girdle to get ahead in a woman’s world belongs to Dr. Bur- gess Gordon, president of the Women’s Medical College in Phil- adelphia. The distinguished medic says girdles contribute to a gal’s sense of well being by elevating her abdomen, thus allowing her to get more air into her lungs and oxygen into her body tissues, And if men are going to compete with women successfully, he be- lieves, they had better start wear- ing this secret success weapon, too. Well, I have just completed a poll of 15 men on this question, and they voted 14-to-1 as follows: “If wearing a girdle is to spell the difference between success and failure, we'll give up right now and go fishing. Let women rule the world.” The only negative vote was from a middle-aged fellow who pulled me aside and whispered: “T’ve been wearing a girdle for five years, but it has been ten years since I got a raise in pay. Do you think my girdle is too tight or too loose?” The surprising thing about the poll is that the men didn’t object to girdles on the grounds they were unmanly, or that George Washington had managed to win a war without the help of a corset. The chief objection was that gir- dles for men are basically imprac- tical. “My wife looks better in a girdle, and it ‘s only reasonable to admit that I would, too,” said one man. “But here’s the problem. It takes all the muscle that both my wife and I have to pour her into a girdle now. “There just isn’t enough strength in our family to get us both into girdles. If I started wearing a gir- die, she would either have to quit wearing hers or I would have to keep a hired man around just to help me squirm into mine.” Another man said he felt confi- By John Cullen Murphy dent about competing in the bus- iness world against women, be- cause he was sure their elastic armor was actually a handicap to them. “They have to struggle so hard getting into their girdles they ar- rive at the office exhausted, and it is noon before they have rested up enough to tackle any real work,” he said. “By then I’ve got most of my day’s work done.” And a third commented: “Oxygen isn’t so scarce a man has to wear a girdle to get it. If you need more oxygen, wouldn’t it be simpler just to keep an oxy- gen mask handy like airplane pilots do?” For two generations American men have forged ahead by follow- ing Horatio Alger’s two basic rules for attaining success: 1-Hard work. 2-Save a bankér’s child from being trampled by a runaway horse. Both of these rules are hard enough to follow. If Dr. Gordon is going to add a third formula for success--“‘wear a girdle’’-the ordi- nary man is just going to decide the game isn’t worth the candle. He'll go down on the Bowery and tell the nearest bum to move over. The Plimsoll line on ships is the line marking the depth to which they may sink when they have per- Chapter 4 T= celebration was brief, for once the decision had been made, Clay moved swiftly into action. Long before noon he had gathereq his captains around the council table of Palmentera, to demand an accounting of each troop’s condition and set the hour they could be ready to take the There were eight of the cap- tains there, fierce-eyed, bearded, long-haired men who moved like panthers and whose every word and look bespoke their instant readiness to match themselves ainst man or beast or i ‘eb Holland, the black-bearded captain who had known Clay’s father, sat directly across the table. Odis Nielsen was beside him, a short, square-faced man in| lips. his early thirties, speaking with a faint Scandinavian accent, There were Mel Kitsmiller; Patrick Tyree; and Miguel Garcia, Fran- cisco Hernandez, and Manuel Herrera, commanding the Mexican troops, Clay frowned a little as he studied the eighth man, Phillip Sarazan, as unlike the others as a Damascus blade is unlike a dou- ble-bitted ax. Where they were bearded, he wore only a dark ne of ene — his up- per lip. They were in homespun and buckski and was in broadcloth as fine as any Clay ever seen. But it was more than that. The difference was in the ee of his mouth and the insolence of his eyes, the half-scornful expression of his face and his air of holding him- self aside, as if he felt it he occupied a stratum these others could never hope to reach. When he’d been introduced to Clay he’d smiled a little, a slow, hall- mocking smile, as if he pos- sessed some secret that Clay and the others did not know. There’d been the merest instant of hesita- tion before he accepted the hand Cy held out to him. was across from Clay now, and as the others gave their nay he seemed oddly inatten- ive. ‘On the whole, the captains’ re- lees were good. There was much be done, perhaps a week’s work in all, before they would be ready to take the trail. But it was no more any garrison force would require if it were renee ordered into the field. Best of Replacement For Oregon Governor SALEM, Ore. #—The next gov- ernor of Oregon will be Paul L. Patterson, 52-year-old Republican attorney who will take over when Gov. Douglas McKay resigns in a few weeks. McKay has been named by Pres- ident-elect Eisenhower to become secretary of the interior. Patterson will take over by vir- tue of being president of the State Senate. It took a State Supreme Court ruling yesterday, though, to settle the matter of who was next in line. Some persons thought that Sec- retary of State Earl Newbry was the logical successor. The State Supreme Court held, however, that a recent state law was clear on the matter—that the Senatc president is the successor, even in the period between an election and the next legislative session. Patterson, from Hillsboro, Ore gon, will hold office until the next | general election in 1954. At that time Oregon will elect a governor to fill out the term frcm the elec- tion to Jan. 10, 1955, and a gover- nor to serve a four-year term start- ing Jan. 10, 1955, Utah State and Bringham Youn? \have played two nip and tuck foot missible loads and is named for |@ll games the last two season Samuel Plimsoll who fought for | State won recently, 27-26, but in marine safety measures British Parliament in the 19th Century. OZARK IKE in the | 1951 BY scored by 28-27. | Subscribe to The Citizen 1 THE CISCO KID WHILE THEYRE TAXING HOTHEAD HARRY TD JA I WANT TO LOOK AROUND INSIDE. YOU WAIT HERE, PANCHO, three | certain hour was the attitude of the men about the table. Like hounds long leashed my suddenly scent their in distance, they were St orem see ions, grudging ea task and obligation that delayed their departure for Velanto. All but Sarazan.,,, He was the last to give his re- port, and when Clay asked him lor it, he was irrita' and noncommittal. “They're not in bad shape,” he admitted carelessly. “No regular discipline, of course. It’s going to take a little time to get them ready for the trail.” “A little time? How much time, in Sarazan?” ‘azan looked up at him in- solently, the cigar smoke curling slowly up from the corners of his “Why, Mr. Farrar, that’s hard to say. Pll take what steps I can, of course, but I’m damned if Pll promise to have them ready to Tide out jako ge the gate at any a certain day.” Clay’s eyes narrowed beneath the frown that furrowed his fore- head and he tapped impatiently on the table. “Captain Sarazan,” he snapped, “both you and your men are un- der my orders. I want an under- standing about that, now or lati If you find yourself unable to di charge your duties in a satisfac- tory manner, I'll be obliged to re- —_ you with someone who can. that clear?” “It's clear enough,” he sneered, “but it doesn’t mean a damned thing as far as I’m concerned. The men of my troop chose me as their captain, just as the men of the regiment chose you as their com- mander. They put me where I am and I'll stay as captain until they tell to step down. There’s not one damned thing you can do about it, Farrar. Not one damned thing!” BRUPTLY the room was as silent as if every man in it had suddenly been turned to stone. Clay could hear Toni, sit- ting beside him, catch her breath in anger and surprise. He knew that the captains had become still, eumnoring. Aeneas in this first test of mettle of their new a pS eas And then the rage sudde: boiling below the surface erupted through his brain and his arms and the nerves and muscles tingly terse | boots his open hand. 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