NOVEMBER 14. 1953

Strange But True I!) I. 5. MacArthur

Chapter V! I

ANYONE CAN BE A

CHAUFFEUR.

When I retiurnedhome everybody 1 inch and talked with had foxes lll'. the brain.

"why don't you buy yourself is pair," they said, "and get rich quick. Everybody”: doing it." And they were- I mean buying foxes .-not getting rich quick. So, along with a lot of other suckers I lmuglit foxes and of course lns.', my money pronto. I soon got mi up on foxes, as the saying -:nPS, and managed to trade my last. one for a second hand our tit ancient vintage and saw a bit ...' my native Province before she cave up the ghost. You didn't l..-we to have a license in those ilays because if you killed anyone ,t would most probably be yourself, or perhaps a passenger who ac- companied you at the risk of his own life. While I didn't liappr-rt lti kill myself I did run into sev- .m1 llatc posts trying to Ike:-p lilo nlcl lizzie on the all too nar- ;mv lanes that led to our house,

One day ll?-Z1" bogged down in tip rod on the main highway '.1lll in front of our home. No amount of scolding or SWM-l1'lll:Y (lid any good. so I left the pile of 'lllll( right where it was and took tllc lrriln for the City of Beans. The very next day the ad that vsuglit my eye in the Boston Post rr-id like this: itwnntod-Private uliauffeur. Aylply in person to 146 Pleasant St, Belmont, Muss. l clipped the ad and took a street car to Belmont. 146 was at the .-arner of Pleasant and Lconvtrd urn-is. I ran: the door bell, An Irish uiald answered it and usher- ed me into the living room Wherr- snt the man of the house, and hiswtfe. They were an old couple- tno old I thought to be needing 1 chauffeur. The old gentleman put on his spectacles and looked down his nose at me. His wife said nothing It was quite ob- vlous that he and not she ruled the most.

After he'd appraised me to his

nilsfactlon, he said, "Ever drive in heavy traffic?" 'tSur9." I said. "Drove in Mont-

real, and Montreal is just about me same size as Boston."

"then you have I. license to drive in this state. I presume," he rattled nn, ,

"Whv. no." I said "I only ur-

rived in Boston yesterday."

"Then get a license," he said. "and come back and we'll talk business."

I D O

Luckily, I passed my tests, got a license and became it private ehauffeur to the most unforget- table character I've ever. met. His name was Richard I-Iopgood, He was 82 and his wife one year younger. They had no family.

Mr. Hopgood had pulled himself up by his own bootstraps from it stable boy with the Electric Tram system to its superintendent at the time of his retirunent. What's more, he made himself a tidy for- tune in the climb.

I often pondered how he got the SIupor's position and a quarter of a million dollars because the man could hardly sign his own name. Later, when I had been in hisl em- ploy for some months, he revealed the mystery Namely, thnt he never drank. nor smoked, nor gambled, nor gadded about with wild wo- Iltfl.

Everything he had he put into ihe company. Hours never count- -d with him, nor did the small pay he got back in those days when he cleaned'the stable and groomed the horses for the. boss cars. Too, he was honest, re- ltsble and industrious. These were the good points the company checked up in his favor. so when the breaks catmc, he got them over more talented though less reliable men.

Having told me this but od per- annal history, he added: "But I'd never do it again for the best cornpnny on earth. I spent all my best. years slaving, for what? A position of importance and a pile of money that I don't know what to do with, When I was stwinrz t. I was too eager to hold onto it, When I'd got just about all I wanted I was too old to enjoy it."

0 O O

The first time I got behind the ivheel of my employers car he lied me drive him to the busiest n-rt of Boston. That was quite an ordeal for one who dldn” 'm"w the roads or the rules, or the city. When we got into lltr real heavy traffic of Tremont Hllll Washington streets my hands and Wt actually trembled at the con- ':'nl-. but I had plenty of spunk In those days so I trembled nnrl kriii. driving where my boss steer- Nl me and hoping tlint we'd ll” by without an accident. when wr- camc to A parking place in from "iutlge bank I breathed a sigh of re e ,

On the return trip. I somehow not. into a one-way street and got it bawling out from a policeman "0a.n1. you read English," he bark- ed out of the corner of his mouth "Bark your car out to where you helonz and than keep going!"

I could hear my boss chuckling in himself in the back seat I knew then that he had it sense 07 humor in spite of his usually Wrri face,

The brush with the law made me more jittery than ever and I laid a little silent prayer when wr retu-lied home without further in- Qldnvn. t

RV the and of the week, how- "H'- I got the know of shims MN-v well and from that time on I had no further trouble with the

W or the route. But I did have rlelnsh with my boss over tlin nr.

0 I I til”? doylwtliiln returning heme from ll" mirage (I was solo at the tlmcl " 0 rear left hand lire nicked -M flmod clued stone and lrllllrtlrrl lzo hard against the fcnrler that that digit ucluallv split mart tn the body "of the :- 1- It 1 '9 '.'Wml mintius to itniovc tllul l4

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stone A'I'hen I drove right home and tried to explain the odd hap- pening to the boss

"Here, help me on with my coat," he said, ”I want to take .1 look at the automobile," He looked. Then he swore, then looked again and swore some more. knew till that moment what a terrible temper my boss had. It was even worse than my own, I thought.

"You're telling me, a cock and bull story," he raged. "Why don't you tell me who you ran into or who ran into you. The car's ii total wreck, Why 3300 won't put her back in the shape she was. Now, Mac, let's have the truth. Just how did you come to smash up my car like tlmt?”

'I'vc told you the truth," I said. "If you don't hzvlmvc me you don't have to. Besides, I won't. stand for your abusing me when .t was an accident over which I had

I never ,

no control. Just pay me what you owe me and I'll quit." , Then I turned on my heel, went to my room, and began pnckin-gt my bags fnr a quick get-a-way. I'd been told by the boys in Bel- mont that my boss was a hardy unfct-ling man. (I slave-driver all, .hls life, that. he could never keep: it chauffeur more titan a fowl weeks. I dldnlt believe t-heir stor- ies at that time

heard about my boss. thing I was likely to lie-tr about him in the future.

cover of my trunk when Mrs Hopgood came into my room, the tears runnini: like raindrops down her faded checks.

”Mac." she said, "Whit has happened between you and Rich- ard? Surely you are not lcaVll'llZ .us. are you?"

"Yes, Mn'am," I said. "The quicker I can get out of that man's sight the better I'll like if He may think himself a. pretty important person hill where came from he ll'Oiilflll'l. count for much."

”Now, now," she soothed. "Don't lose your tempcr because my bus- band lost. his. Try to be calm and I am sure everyihin: will turn out ul right in the end."

. . .

I felt sorry for Mrs. I-Ioptl00d becfiusc I had a hunch her life with her husband hadn't been any bed of roses. But I saw no reason why I should repeat to her a story which in say the least, did sound like a talhtale. But I was saved from saying anything by the sudden appearance at the door 0 my room of the brim himself. "Put .wva.v those have. M80-" ll" ordered. "You art! not leavm: Nell and me. when we need WU so badly. My wife says that years of bossing wild Irishmen and lazy Italians has ruined my disposit- ion Well, maybe it has. AnYW3.V. I'm- sorry, Mac, that I went into such a rage over a mere trifle. Put away your basis lmd I Dl'0l;1'l1S9 never to act like a fool siznln.'

I could see the surprised look these words brought to madam's face. It was quite obvious that her husband had a quick change of heart. Perhaps he was 801113 to die right away.

Anyway that ended the was Of words. The old man had at last hung out the flag of tnice. S0 I did the only thing most persons would have done under the cir- cumstances- stayed put.

And that, incidentally, first and last quarrel I ever had with my boss. From that day until the day of his death I was accepted as one of the family. I never wore a uniform. never ate my meals alone, never had to an-l count for my hours when away from the place, and always met; friends of the family on. equal; terms. All in all, my life with the I-Ictpgoods was for the first

year and a hall, a most happy experience (To be Continued)

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gloves at a formal reception, what does she do with them when eat- ing refreshments?

A. At a stand-up reception, she takes the right glove off and either puts it into her bag or holds it in her left hand.

Q. is it considered proper for a bridge player to begin arranging his cards before the deal has been completed?

A. No; this is very rude. He should not touch nor pick up his cards until the last one has been de.1lt..

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THE VALUE OF PREFTIONTAL LOBOTOMY WHICH RELIEVES GRIEF AND INTRACTABLE PAIN

It is only within recent years that we have hearing and reading about the operation known as prefxontal lobotomy in which the nerves controlling the front lobes of the brain are cut in order that patients suffering with great de- pression, uncontrollable pain and grief tlre given relief.

,Althuugh this operation has been used only in cases in which all other forms of treatment have fail- ed, it is now used in practically all parts of the world.

In The Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Lawrence C. Kolb, Mayo Clinic, Rochester. Minn. states that s. survey made by the National Institute of Men- tal Health indicates that by the end of 1949 about ten thousand persons in the United states had undergone lobotomy or other methods of destroying the nerves controlling the intellectual part of the patient.

After this operation, first per- formed in America by Drs. Freeman and Watts, it was found that while these patients lost their great pain. depression and uncontrollable grief, they also lost some of their intellectual strength and felt no responsibility about their everyday affairs or those of their families. Later, prefrontal lobotomy perform- ed by Drs. Freeman and Watts and other surgeons left these patients free of pain and grief and with ap- parently a full sense of life's res- ponsibilities and they returned to their former occupations or pro- fesslans.

Because of the great interest in this operation their families, Dr. Kolb reports that extensive surgical. anatomic, phy- slologlcal and psychological studies have resulted from the investiga- tion of patients treated by this method. showing that while many of these patients returned to their former kinds of work, close obser- vation by the families and social workers showed some decrease in their social adaptability and so

flullfdenlgned to give the . act silzllily. use of main-

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by patients and-

physiclans and social workers de- cided to await estimating the re- sults, beneficial or otherwise, for a period of five years after operation

was performed.

The summary as of today is u "Prefrontal lobotomy has proved, over 15 yea.rs' experience, treat- ment in certain emotional disord- ers and. causes of intractible pain." It has proved most effective in relieving destructive drives. chronic depression and obsessions, impul-

follows :

to be a. useful method of

siveneas and overactivlty.

"While most patients show evid- oper- ation, this deilcit is not often as disturbing as the emotional illness

ence of some deficit after

they had."

The above shows the great value of this operation, particularly when all other methods of treatment had

failed.

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For Tomorrow

TRY in get some relaxation this day. Put worries and problems aside and concentrate on the pleasant aspects of your life. You have no cause for pessimism now. Congenial companionship can be mentally stimulating, so why not go out of your way to entertain a bit or otherwise show hospital- ity to loved ones?

The evening hours are excellent for creative interests so you should

pursuits. Caution is advised in handling chemicals, electrical or mechanical equipment.

For the Birthday

If tomorrow is your birthday, the months ahead should find you in excellent position to forge

ties for expansion, but the hearty encouragement and support of per- sons in 9. position to help you. Sound judgment and meticulous at- tention to detail will be required

since these characteristics are in-

have no difficulties whatsoever. ,

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