Radio mirror (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

WORDS WITH WINGS FROM THE RICH VEIN OF RADIO'S MINE OF WORDS COME THESE GOLDEN NUGGETS OF KNOWLEDGE, PHILOSOPHY AND HUMOR Charming Pollock, playwright and novelist: "Marriage is really only friendship set to music." IT'S my observation that the man or woman who can't be happy with one partner usually fails to be happier with half a dozen. Marriage jokes and silly solemn pronouncements have a good deal to do with matrimonial smash-ups. We read them and go into marriage as we go into a theater, looking around for the nearest exit. The things that make lasting marriages are the things that make lasting friendships, mutual respect and esteem; mutual consideration and responsibility; square-dealing; community of interest; companionship. Marriage is really only friendship set to music. It's a grand idea in marriage to stop, look and listen. The world runs on sentiment, only we're ashamed to admit it. Never mind what the jokers say about marriage, or the pundits write. It'll take more than Reno and the smart-alecs to make love unpopular. — Channing Pollock, famous novelist and playwright, on the Heinz Magazine of the Air, CBS. PSYCHOLOGY and Public Speaking are two valuable aides for the senior classman at college who is preparing for his future in the business world. Psychology gives the ability to evaluate human nature properly. . . . Public speaking gives poise and articulateness. It is advisable for a young man to learn how to become a good mixer and make friends easily. This is a natural gift with some men, while others find it difficult to overcome their innate shyness. In later years contacts assume great importance. Those who are inclined to be too reserved should work hardest now and acquire that invaluable faculty for making wide friendships. While in college, a man or woman should devote thought and energy toward perfecting himself as an individual as well as in his studies. If he does a good job of this, the employment problem will take care of itself. — Loire Brophy, leading employment counselor, on the Heinz Magazine of the Air, CBS. Loire Brophy, employment counselor: "Learn how to become a good mixer and make friends easily." Carl Carmer, writer: "Some of the finest houses in West Virginia are made from watermelon seeds." IN the high West Virginia mountains is the lumber camp of Tony Beaver. Tony had a yoke of oxen that could pull almost anything into the middle of next week. Each ox had a pair of horns with so much spread that it would take a jay bird six years to fly from the tip of one horn to the tip of the other. Tony never found anything his oxen couldn't pull to market except one of his watermelons — so big that even the smallest one wouldn't fit into the biggest wagon. So Tony wound a little one with ropes and spliced the ropes to the ox harness. The oxen got the melon started all right, but when they got near the Eel River the braces broke and the melon rolled right down into the river and hit bottom so hard it busted. Tony and his gang of lumberjacks jumped onto the seeds as they came to the surface and began spinning the seeds with their feet, and they put on the biggest drive ever seen on Eel River. When they got down to the sawmill dam they sold their drive as peeled logs and some of the finest houses in West Virginia are made out of planks from those very watermelon seeds. — Carl Carmer, in Your Neck O the Woods, CBS. (Continued on page 90) 29