A long time ago - the way it was -
Years ago my son helped a neighbor clean up a barn - there were lot of old newspapers bundled together to get rid of - he brought home some - I was going through an old desk I have down the cellar and brought some up to look at - you might be interested in what was the news then - July 21, 1939 - some of the headlines - Polish Soldier Killed by Danzig Customs Officer , fatal incident increases tension along frontier - Berlin, July 20, Lieut. Gen. Walther Von Brauchitsch, commander in chief of the German Army told graduates of the Tannenberg military academy today that "we are not looking for a fight but we are not afraid to fight" - Fritz Kuhn pleads Guilty to being drunk; Fined $5; told he was near beating - "I at no time acted boisterously and directed no profanity at any person" insisted the stocky Nazi leader in a formal statement ..... but before he spoke Henry Plasse, the motorcycle policeman who arrested Kuhn early Sunday morning got a word in himself - Plasse, a former professional boxer accepted the hand shake Kuhn offered directly after the arraignment but said "I'll tell you something mister, if I was in plain clothes, I would have fixed you so your mother wouldn't know you. No man could call me the things you said" - Calgary, Alta, July 20 A pretty 24 year old model and her socially prominent mother tonight faced charges they tarred and feathered a young under graduate nurse in her apartment .....An advertisement - Men's 'Fruit. of the Loom' shorts, shirts, briefs $o.25 each - Classified add - For Rent - 5 rooms and bath rear porch h. w h. immediate possession - $25 - Autos - '37 Studebaker 6 sedan $495 - Food - Clams 12 cents a dozen - boy how things have changed - except for human nature - its still the same
