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FRIDAY DECEMBER 1, 1944
Today and Tomorrow
By DON ROBERTSON
REALITY . . . television
I sometimes wonder if television
finally will bring to and end what
we know as “reality.” Radio has
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ALLEN THUM,
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OF TORTURE?
it has never occurred to you that in
naming your wife or a friend as your executor, you
are imposing upon a single individual a difficult and
strenuous task.
You are asking one person to do many
highly specialized jobs—for Example, to probate
your Will; take inventory and obtain appraisals on
property; budget all expenses and raise cash from
the estate to eover immediate costs, family needs,
and taxes; prepare Federal and State estate tax re
turns within the time limit prescribed by law; and
perform many other laborious and unfamiliar duties.
**' *** How much more thoughtful to name as
your executor and trustee an organization such as
the Trust Department of the Valley National Bank
—an organization whose full-time duty is the admin
istering of estates—an organization that is always
on hand to give seasoned judgment and sympathetic
attention to the financial requirements of yoin* loved
ones. You are cordially invited to come in, with your
attorney and insurance counselor, and discuss your
estate plans with i-s.
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VALUEV NATDONAL BANK lIllfTr?
definitely tended to relegate ordi
nary living to the background, sub
stituting for it a sort of imaginary
life in which we are transported—
between advertising spiels—to a
world inhabited by Hollywood act
resses, 25th century supermen,
spies, adventurers and jitterbug
musicians.
Now, if we consider what comes
out of the radio merely as enter
tainment, there may be no harm :n
it, but in a televised society, when
we not only hear but also see these
people, it seems quite possible that
the glamorous and exciting visi
tors to our living rooms be
come our big interest —our closest
friends — our most important world
—and the business or routine living
will become merely something we
have to put up with between broad
casts.
Even in this pre-television day,
you can’t imagine a group of boys
and girls singing around the piano
—listening to their own amateur
ish voices —when, by a mere turn
of the radio switch, they can bring
Frank Sinatra’s or Bing Crosby’s
voice into the room,
pathies will probably go out to ail
ing television stars with whom we
are used to having daily visits.
As for children, in this future
world of make-believe, we imagine
that they will still give some recog
nition to their mothers and fathers,
but the people who will really
count with them will probably be
some Uncle Don and Aunt Mary
of television who will befriend
them every night, tell them stories
they love to hear and never raise
their voices at them.
I rather hate to think or reality
being so submerged. Having been
brought up in the “life is real, life
is earnest” school of thought, it is
hard to adjust myself to a “life is
radio, life is television” philosophy.
But as I listen to children pretend-'
ing they are radio characters, and
hear their parents discussing radio
stars, it seems obvious that if tele
vision stimulates this trend still
further, hum - drum living will
seem a very second-rate substitute.
ADS .... interruption
And in the world of tomorrow it
is even more difficult to picture the
same group laughing and talking
over their own doings, or paying
much attention to one another,
THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER
when, by turning another knob,
they will be able to have the Dor
othy Lamour of 1960 smiling and
talking to them from the living
room table.
1960 tubes
Os course, even when television
reaches its height, we will prob
ably still go on earning a living,
marrying, having children and
building homes is which to house
our television sets. But if the in
terest in the atificialities of life
continue at the pace they have
gone since radio and moving pic
tures “talkies” came into their own,
the matter of everyday living will
be so overshadowed by the life
coming out of electrical tubes that
it will hardly be considered.
In the television world of 1960,
we may still send flowers to sick
friends, but our deepest sym-
Perhaps the one thing which will
bring us back to earth in this fan
tastic world of tomorrow will be
television advertising.
FoV even though we may lose
ourselves temporarily in manufac
tured glamorourdom, we will be
brought back to reality with a thud
when our dream life is interrupted
by an advertising man who stops
the show to tell us how Wopper
Popper cereal will make supermen
of tiny tots, how Suddy Soap will
do everything but hang the wash
on the line for us, and how Colty-
Vites contain all of the 72 vitamins
a man or woman of 1960 will prob
ably need to supply the energy to
get back and forth to the family
television set.
At present the radio industry
No. 1955
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
PINAL COUNTY, STATE OF
ARIZONA.
In the Matter of the Estate of
JOHN W. WHITE also known as
J. W. WHITE, Deceased:
Notice is hereby given that Rob
ert E. Hamilton has filed In htis
Court a certain document purport
ing to be the Will and Testament
of John W. White also known as
J. W. White together with his pe
tition praying that said *document
be admitted to probate in this
Court as the last Will and Testa
ment of said John W. White also
known as J. W. White who. Bald
petitioner alleges, is deceased, and
that letters testamentary issue
thereon to said petitioner, and that
same will be heard on Monday the
4th day of December, A. D. 1944,
at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of
said day, at the court room of said
Court, in the Court House, in the
town of Florence, County of Pinal,
State of Arizona, ana all persons
interested in said estate are noti
fied then and there to appear and
show cause. If any they have, why
the prayer of said ■petitioner should
not be granted.
T. J. MARKS,
Clerk.
Dated November 15, 1944.
First published Nov. 17, 1944
Last published Dec. 1, 1944
NOTICE OF SALE OF CAR
FOR STORAGE
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, J. E. Watson, of Eloy,
Arizona will sell at Public Auction
at his home at 10:00 o’clock, a. m.,
on Monday. December 11, 1944, for
storage charges amounting to
$52.00, one Ford coupe Engine No.
A2536525, year 1928.
This sale is made pursuant to
and in accordance with Section 2044
of the 1928 revised code of Arizona
to recover the storage charges.
J. E. WATSON
First published, Nov. 24, 1944.
Last published, Dec. 1, 1944.
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COOLIDGE
ELECTRIC SHOP
claims that the average family ra
dio is turned on for four hours a
day. With television, some experts
estimate that sets will probably be
turned on for eight hours a day. If
that happens, our live will be
broken down into three even divi
sions—one for sleeping, one for
television and one for contact with
reality.
But we can hope that television,
unlike so many radio programs,
will take its power-to-influence
seriously and, instead of enticing us
into a world of blasting saxaphones
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WAR BONDS!
You have a weapon with which to help
shorten and win this war—just as surely as
' you ca nget together the $75 it costs to buy
* yourself a SIOO War Bond! Uncle Sam needs
nothing more of you—yet his need is so
great he promises to pay you back generous
ly for every War Bond you buy— Don’t put
\ it off—because the longer this war takes the
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will, at least part of the time, point
the way for better living and per
manent peace among nations.
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