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a , SHORT ST) Reputation For Fairness By Richard Hill Wilkinson Mike didn't intend to be unreds- « onable about it. He had a reputation "for fairness, and he meant to live up to it. 'Lhere wasn't a person alive whe didn't have faults. And. knowing this- to be a fact, Mike could understand why such a, gorgeous creature as Serena Wood fell short of being a paragon. ~ Not that Serena's faults were any- thing to worry about." If they had been Mike would never have asked her to marry him Serena's greatest fault, he thought, was her inability to get ready to go any place on time, Mike adopted a unique method in order to cure this deficiency. For a timy he decided to fall in with Serena's habits. ) Thus, he would dispel any pos- sible doubt in her mind regarding his purpose. Presently he would be- gin tc get himself ready on time and sit around waiting. Screna couldnt help nodcing and take heed. Then there was Serena's habit ot goin'r into a room, switching on an clecirie light and going out again without thiking extinguish it. Mike decided to adopt the method in effecting this cure also. During the next half year Mike noted with some satisfaction that to same Serzna had' already begun to feel- his stronger personality. She was allowing herself a bit more time to get dressed for $artizs, and once or twice suggested to Mike that he hurry up. By the time the six mondhs was ip, Serena had improved greatly. He decided to forego his tapering _off. letting well enough alone, Three months passed and the situation "I didn't mean that you were weakminded- or anything like that. We all have our faults." had taken on quite a new aspect. Serena, unconsciously, 'was doing a Jot of walking from ane room to another switching off lights that Mike had left burning. Things reached a point at the end »f a yeat that called for some sort of--undertaking-- Oddly, --it was Serena who brought mattérs to a head. © "I realize," she told Mike crossly, "that everyone has their faults. But it does seem to me that you could attach a little: more import- ance to things around the house. I've done my best to make you change your ways. I've even resort- ed to artifice." "Artifice" "I mean, like telling you we have to be at a party 10 minutes before hand in the hopes that you'll get ready on time. I've deliberately gone into the bedroom to swilch off the lights after you come out, hop- ing that you would notice. I've got out of bed and-padded away to the kitchen to shut off a dripping faucet that you left running. [I _declare, Mike, you can't have a very strong personality," "Now wait a minute," Serena. Something's wrong here, We've got to have an understanding." "We cettainly have, From now on af you leave the lights 'burning they stay burning and you can pay the bill. If tyou're late: for parties I'll go on ahead and you can make excuses." vour own . "But about this personality busi- | ness, Now-----o" : : "I didn't mean that you were weakminded or anything like that. Why, even I have some, | suppose. I've tried to help you overcome yours. But from now on you'll have to shift. for yourself, unless you - can give me some co-opera- tion." : "Co-operation! Why, hang it, I did those things deliberately to break you of them, and now I find myself doing them automatically and--and--liking. it. : Mr. and Mrs. Mike Graham star- ed at cach other. "It's my fault that you have faults and I have faults because of your faults. Oh, darling, Mike, don't you sce what's happen- ed? We made the mistake of--of thinking ourselves perfect. Let's start all over again--now that we have an_understanding, and work the other way." ; (ik: "0O.K.," said Mike, "OK." He grinned, remembering he had a reputation for fairness and now was "the time to live up to it. 'Corps Marshal Montgomery in the vital The Man Who "Doubled" -- For Field Marshal Montgomery Living in a quiet little house on | the South Coast is a sick, middle- aged actor called Clifton James, who once stood on the stagé of the world itseli--and played a part that every actor -alive would have ac- cepted with an excited, thumping heart. Clifton James is the one-time fieu- tenant in the Royal Army Pay who "doubled" for Field hours before D-Day. He 'came into the news again recently when the Press reported that his application for a disability run-about chair had been turned down because he was not tetally disabled, writes leonard Samson ina recent issue of "An- swers." : : > Jowent down to his home at Worthing to see him and hear again the fantastic story of how he hood-. winked- the Germans nto thinking that Monty was in Gibraltar at a time when he was really standing on the spring-board of the Euro- pean invasion. The orders given to James were probably the most vital and colour- ful ones ever put before an insig- nificant subaltern, and I. wanted to find out something of the years that had led up to one of the greatest deceptions in history. His First Battle He was seventeen years old, a schoolboy, when the First World War broke out, but he lied about his age and a few manths later found himself an_infantry officer in the British trenches, just another shy, frightened boy suddenly flung into the thick of the Battle of the Somme. He doesn't talk much about those _ days (although enemy gas may have contributed to his priésent_ill- ness) but he did mention one inci- dent concerning a German soldier who surrendered with a grenade up to' find an M.O. picking lumps of metal out of his body. And the middle finger of his right hand was missing. That finger was to cause mariy a headache - in Whitehall nearly thirty years later. Two years after the Kaiser sur- rendered, James was still in hospi- tal, but a few weeks later he had ~recovered-sufficiently to try to pick -- up the threads of his pre-war life. "My father had died when I was one-year old, and my guardian was no longer responsible for me, so I was pretty well alone," he told me. "I decided to become an actor. It wasn't casy, but 1 gradually be- gan to make headway." There were long tours up and down Wales with a company that had fifty plays in its repertoire--a different play cach night; there were resident companies in England, and tours of the British Isles. The years passed, and James became a-reli- able, competent actor. Fle had a bad period of unemployment, when he tried his hand at selling pianos, but by the middle thirtics he was making a success -of his career. Then came the Second World War. . : "l joined the Army again, and this time I" was put in the - Royal Army Pay Corps," he said. "Being an actor, I organized entertain- ments and took part---in troop shows." : One day Clifton James was called to London from his unit in Leices- ter to meet Colonel David Niven and chat about Army films. But their conversation was only a pre- text. A few minutes after meeting cach other, Niven ushered him into an- other room where he was intro- duced to Colonel Lester. clasped _in_one_ hand. James woke, { was playing, "At least, that's what he called himself," James, went on. He asked me to sign an extract from the Official Secrets Act, and then told me that-I resembled General Mont- gomery so closely that, if-'1 was willing, 1 might be called upon to' 'double' for him. L was completely bewildered, but 1 said immediately that I'd do it." The curtain was about to be rung up on thé greatest role of Clifton James' career. i General Montgomery himscli was at a secret rendezvous on the South Coast, ready to watch a full dress r¢hearsal of the invasion. It was also a rehearsal for James. A few days Tater he had been "demoted" to .a sergeant of the Intelligence Corps, and posted to Montgomery's headquarters so that he could study the general at close range. "If I'd Been A Spy" "When thie cxercise ended," said James, *l travelled back to lLon- don by train. In the same compart- ment was a sailor who told me practically every detail of the inva- sion rehearsal I had just witnessed. If I'd been a spy the Germans would have had the whole set-up. Fortunately, it was just another lit- tle incident. Back at the \War Ofiice they told me that Monty ivas going to Scotland on a- fishing trip. 1 was to go up there and see him privately so that 1 could catch the-intona- tions and pitch of his voice. "I had two or three fifteen-min- ute interviews with him, when we would talk about the- theatre--he was deeply interested in it -- or Australia, the country where I was born. [ was terribly nervous, but by the time 1 returned to London I had begun to take on his charac- ter." Awkward Questions On Friday, May. 26th, Licuten- ant M._L._Cliiton--James--beecame--- General B. 1... Montgomery. He wore the famous beret and uniform, whitened his moustache and tem- ples -- and' tied a cunningly con- trived bandage on his. right hand in place of the missing finger. He drove through the streets ot London to Northolt, and along the route he returned the salutes and waves of soldiers and civilians. At the airport, highranking officers of the Army and Air Force saw him into the plane which was to fly him to Gibraltar. - "My 'aide' was a brigadier who knew Monty intimately. He was traveiling with me to Keep at a distance anyone who might ask awkward questions; the general's own relatives, perhaps." They-Saluted James laughed suddenly: "I wish 1 could have enjoyed the role 1 but the last words Colonel Lester said to me were 'Do your best, James. You've -got the lives of two divisions on your shoul- ders.' I was terrified that I would make that one little slip that would give the game away." As the plane approached Gibral- tar, James prepared himself for the scene that he had rehearsed so many times back. in London. stepped out of the aircrait and Fe- turned - the salutes of "the officers standing at attention to.greet hin "I was driven to Government House," James continued, "to meet Sir Ralph Eastwood, the Governor of Gibraltar. et "He and Monty were very old friends so, of course, he knew all about the plan. We wandered into the garden together and went through a pre-arranged conversa- _ tion. While we were talking, two sal Bucs Change Hands--Tom Johnson (left) and John Galbraith, new heads of the Pittsburgh Pirates Field in Pittsburgh for a look-see. Gall drop down to Forbes braith will be president and Johnson secretary-treasurer. Frank McKinney sold out his interest in the National League's cellar team. J He _ ern. Lurope. Tanks Are Coming--Light fod oe LL tanks of the First Marine Division are loaded aboard an LSU in San Diego, Calif. The tanks are part of the equipment of the Korea-bound Leathernecks. men walked up the path and the Governor introduced me to them. Later I was told that one of 'them was a Spanish nobleman in the service of the Germans. Jt had all been worked out so that the enemy would know of my arrival on the Rock. . "And here's a thrilling sidelight on the whole thing. One hour after I arrived Madrid had the news. That same night about Montgomery's visit to Ci- braltar. The news reached Berlin through the most secret channels, but our own agents in the German capital were so well organized that they were able to pass the informa- tion back to London almost imme- diately." ' All Over From Gibraltar, James flew to Algiers, and -there he was driven by one of General aides to G.H.Q. It was a ride .plan- "ned _to_display_ himself as Mont gomery. When the car drew to a halt and he entered the house, the last act was over. The curtain had rung down." But there was no applause from an appreciative audience. All that remained was for the actor to terlin. knew all Maitland Wilson's sit down quietly, smoke a cigarette, and remove his costume and make- ap. 3 A. few days later, after an incon- spicuous stay in. Cairo, Lieutenant Clifton James flew back to England. The anti-climax_reached its lowest depths when his C.O. at Leicester threatened to put him on a charge for being absent without leave. A call to M.LS soon cleared matters up. ~~ i. . - - eo : "That Fake" The months dragged by and in June, 1946, he: was demobbed. Still sworn to secrecy, James. read an extract one day in Harry C. Butcher's book "My Three Years With Eisenhower," which stated that someone, with tongue in cheek, had reported to Montgomery at SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters American Jxpeditionary Force) that "the fake Moitgomery is swagger- ing about half drunk in Gibraltar, _smokmg_ mammoth---eigars--like--a-- chimmey." The information had never been refuted, so James contacted the War Oflice and was given permis- sion by Viscount Montgomery to tell publicly the true version of his dramatic flight and impersonation. "PEOPLE ARE READING "THE ATLAS AGAIN --- A few days ago a lot of people made the same old journey to the bookshelf to take down the atlas and look up the location- of un- familiar places. This time is was Seoul, the hum River and Taiwan. "there may have been a time when a man could be content if he knew his own country and the_towns in it,. but not in the past twenty-five years, During those years after the First Worid War there was many a journey to the shelf for the maps of places far away. The first time, _back in 1925; may have been for pleasant purposes. In those days maps showed chiefly where for- cign friends might. live or they route for a leisurely of England and West- mapped the bicycle tour showed the itineraries of Intourist journeys to the Soviet Union, m those days when tourists were wel- come. in those days when Stalin- ~ grad was simply" a two-hour stop in the evening on the boat ride down the Volga to Astrakhian. In the next years the atlas had other uses: to show. the exact location of Locarno and the treaty signers, and a close study of what was called the Great Circle route, which Lindbergh and other pilots were flying. ' In 1932 the atlas became some- thing else--a means for quickly lo- cating «the latest horror. The Far Eastern section showed just where the Japanese were landing in their punitive expeditions on Chinese soil. Not fong after, it was the maps. of Germany and - Austria, with Hitler in power and Dolfuss - dead. In 1935 'a man had to turn to a totally unfamiliar part of the atlas to search down the strange places named Addis Ababa, Adowa and Makale. There was one un- happy day, apart from wars and fighting in those years, when the atlas had to be used to locate Point Barrow, where Will Rogers had just died. The atlas was off the shelf almost every day after 1937, to fill out the details in the maps the newspapers were publishing. They showed Sev- ille, Granada, Cordoba and Guer- nica, the .towns of the Spanish Civil War. They showed the exact course of the Yangtze, where the Japanese had hit ar® American gun- boat. They showed the - route through Austria along which Hit- ler's troops were marching. They located the small towns of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. A little later they marked the un- happy places of Hitler's first blitz in Western Poland, from Bud- goszcs and Poznan to Zoppot and Westerplatte by Danzig. Soon thereafter a man had to turn to the maps of the coastal of Norway, Bergen and ies / tavanger, of the roads through i v \ \ They might-even-have- ¥. Holland, of the English Channel aud particularly of its width at various places. The list of places searched for lengthened and spread wide, from Dunkerque and Daver to Coventry, Sidi Bar- rani and Tobruk. Then to another part of the atlas for Pearl Harbor and a detailed map of the Bataan Peninsula, and anyone could be- come impatient with an atlas for not showing. everything in -the most - minute detail. An atlas was almost a necessity now, if only to know the distance between a man and the danger that could 'put an end to all he cared for. The maps of Western Europe, of the North 'African coast, of the Tar Fast, were always open then. The towns of Western Russia to the suburbs' of Moscow, the routes through the Ukraine and to the Volga were searched out on the appropriate map." A man's eye climbed the ladder up the Pacific, from Darwin in Australia to New Guinea, Bougainville, the Solomons. Later the atlas came off the self for the maps of the North African and Ttalian coasts and then the towns of Normandy. Then Rema- 'gen, the Oder River, and Dongo, wheré Mussolini was shot. More recently it has been the towns of - Indo-China and Burma, of northern Greece, the deserts of Palestine varying - __the joy of the Lord is your strength, | T+ and the Bulgarian towns across from Yugoslavia, And now Korea. This generation has had to know its . geography, as a matter of life and death, probably better than any generation heretofore, To learn it from an atlas when some new trouble hits the headlines may be one way to learn it, but it is a -grim way. Once an atlas" used to be a pleasant book--a book that - merely showed pleasant places to visit and new seas to sail. --From The New York Times. THSIINDAY SCHOOL By, 2 "By Rev. R, Barclay Warren, B.A. BD. Ezra, Interpreter of God's Word Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8. 10, 18. Golden Text: This day is holy unto our Lord; néither be ye sorry; for --Ne¢h. 8:10b. ..Zerubbabel led the first band of captives from Babylon to Judea in 458 B.C. Seventy-eight years later, LEz:a, a priest and a scribe, returned to teach thi: people. In today's les- on we find the people asking Ezra to give them the book of the law of Moses. They made a pulpit, and Ezra stood on it. He and his thir- teen helpers "read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to un- |-~derstand the reading." This went on for a week. It was a time of happitiess. They - were happy not merely because they were hearers of the word, but be- cause they became docrs of the word. They confessed their sins and the iniquitics of their fathers. Then they could worship. They made a covenant with God. They brought in the tithes and offerings "which had been neglected. They observed the Sabbath. Nehemiah, the rileér, took a stern stand against those who persised in doing their work on the Sabbath and selling their wares. Likewise the practice of intermar- rying with the neighboring heathen was publicly rebuked. That was a great turning to God. . If only our nation would turn to God's Word for guidance today! If there were more Ezra's whose main concern was to give the meaning _ of God's Word to the people; de- fense of their denominational doe- trinal position being quite second-' ary. A national turning to' God's Word would result in a revival of righteousness. May it soon comel LESSON Ar I mn pL de eS A Bhi ASR REARS f Vi Hat Ny ny He Barbers Royalty Benedetto Viccari Is bald eaded, . but that doesn't worry him. He has made his name looking after other people's hair, Anyone can drop into his May- fair hairdressing saloon, but his appointment book reads like Who's Who. ; Thirty years. ago he camg to London with only a few shillings in his pocket. Today fifty-six-year- old Mr. Viccari is hairdresser to the world's kings, princes, diplomat and celebrities of every profession. After the first world war he was just one of Londgw's Italian bar- bers. He moved from saloon "to saloon, It wasnt until the early thirties, when he was appointed to Claridge's, England's top-ranking hotel, that he achieved eminence. His first famous client was the Aga Khan. . Some clients sign his autograph book, others read it. There is such a collection of well-know names scrawled across the pages that the illegible ones are almost ignored. A quick glance reveals the signa- tures of ex-King Alphonso of Spain (who would send a Rolls Royce for Mr. Viccari to visit him to cut his hair), the Duke of Milford Haven, 'Lord Anson, the late Jan Masaryk, "So determined is he to give thy of Czechoslovakia, Sir John Bar- birolli, Anton -Walbrook, Anthony Asquith, several Indian princes, and so many Ministers of the Crown that the pages read like an imagin- ary House of Commons roll call spanning twenty years. Mr. Viccari is a modest man and confesses in his Italiag accent that he is bewildered by his own pres- tige. "Some people have put it down to personality," he says, "but that's too easy an answer. All I know is - that I enjoy hairdressing, it's jn art to me, and every customer is someone different." A Precise Haircut finest haircut possible that he defies a golden rule and sits down to hi work. "That way," he points out, "I can take my time and make sur¢ of a precise haircut." Mr. Viccari will readily chat about himself, but rarely about his clients, He knows that, as the confidante of kings, tact is his greatest asset. Question him further and he re- plies with a smile: "I'm still working man. One day I'll retire-- and maybe write the memoirs of a barber." ; 4 They should. be worth reading. New Chief Of Railway Engin eers. -- James P. Shields of Cleveland, O., above, is the new grand thief engineer of the: Brotherhood of ILocoio- tive Engineers. Elected at the BLE convention, Shields suc- ceeds" Alvanley Johnston, whe was chief executive of the uniot for 25 years. Seventy-One Beds! For How Many Reds?-- Neighbors to the old J. P. Morgan mansion, above, on Mantinecock<Point, Glen Cove, N. Y., are concerned about: what their new neigh- bor, Leonid A. Morozov, Soviet diplomat at the UN, plans to-do with the 71 folding beds recently moved into the mansion. If he planned to use the property for a summer resort, : +. they say, he's violating zoning laws.