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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
TUDY GARLAND was up a
J tree when she got that very-
special invitation to go to
Chile recently. It came from
the Hon. Claude Bowers, U.
S. ambassador, asking her
to be guest of honor at a
gala charity premiere of
Metro’s “Ziegfeld Girl” in
Santiago. (And if you think Metro’s
publicity department had a hand in
the matter you can’t be far wrong!)
Well, Judy couldn’t get away, be-
cause she’s working with Mickey
Rooney in “Babes on Broadway.’’
So she wrote a nice letter and ar-
ranged to send as proxy a doll,
three feet high, resembling her in
every detail. Wearing a modish
traveling suit, it was to take a
plane, be met by the ambassador
and a group of American women,
in Chile, and attend the dinner clad
in a replica of the gown worn by
Judy in one number of “Ziegfeld
Girl.” Which should satisfy even
an ambassador.
-&-
Ann Miller, whose motion picture
fortunes hit a new high in Colum-
bia’s “Go West, Young Lady,” has
been keeping it secret that she’s
really Lucille Collier, the girl who
ANN MILLER
seven years ago tried to land in pic-
tures as a dancer. She failed—she
was only eleven then—changed her
name and personality, and three
years later had won attention as a
night club dancer.
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If you liked that Dashiell Ham-
mett book, “The Maltese Falcon,”
you’ll probably like the picture
Warner Bros, have made from it,
called “The Gent From Frisco.” It
features Mary Astor, Humphrey
Bogart, Gladys George and Peter
Lorre. It’s the first directorial ef-
fort of John Huston, son of Walter,
who also wrote the screen play. He
did so well with it that he’s been
assigned to direct “In This Our
Life,” with Bette Davis, which is
quite a step forward for a young
director.
Daisy, Asta, and the other noted
dog stars of filmdom have had to
move over and make room for Rom-
ulus, the nondescript brown mon-
grel who made his film debut in
“Reap the Wild Wind.” Cecil B.
DeMille, who chose him from 200
applicants, says he’s the perfect
character dog. He won his second
role in Paramount’s “Midnight An-
gel,” in which he’ll appear with
Martha O’Driscoll and Robert Pres-
ton; they’re old friends, as he met
them when they all worked in his
first picture.
Seems that most Hollywood stars
become shy and embarrassed when
they have to play a love scene—or
so we’re told. But not Greta Garbo.
The director explains what he wants
and she falls into the mood of the
scene, relaxed and unselfconscious.
George Cukor, directing her in
“Twins,” says that some of the
finest love scenes he’s ever watched
are those between Garbo and Mel-
vyn Douglas in this picture.
--
When Fay Holden played Greer
Garson’s mother in “Blossoms in the
Dust,” Fay’s husband, David Clyde,
played butler. Now she’s being Rob-
ert Young’s mother in “H. M. Pul-
ham, Esq.,” and again her husband
is scheduled to “Yes, Madam” her.
“Bachelor’s Children,” winner of
the 1941 Radio Guide award as the
year’s best daytime radio serial, is
now heard from coast to coast over
the NBC red network. Now in its
seventh year, it still has the five
actors and actresses who created
the principal roles.
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ODDS AND ENDS—After working
safely with leopards in Universal’s
“White Savage,” Brian Donlevy had
to have first aid when he was bitten by
a baby pig . . • The Jerrie Walters
given credit for writing the story of
“Small Town Deb,” Jane Withers’ lat-
est film, is really Jane herself . . . Rex
Bell, former cowboy star and husband
of Clara Bow, former “It” girl, has an
important role in “Tombstone” . . .
Hedy Lamarr wears spectacles in some
scenes of “H. M. Pulham, Esq.” prov-
ing that glasses don’t kill glamour . . .
Arline Judge returns to films in a role
in Columbia’s “Harvard, Here We
Come.’"
Farm Land Speculation
Is Threat to Agriculture
Government Warns Fever of Land Buying
Would Start Another 'Unhappy'
Economic Cycle for U. S.
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
WNU Service, 1343 H. Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
Farm income—cash income—will
be nearly $11,000,000,000 this year.
That is two billions greater than last
year.
Money to burn!
And the burning question in Wash-
ington is how to stop the conflagra-
tion before it starts. The chief dan-
ger is another prairie fire of farm
land speculation such as started out
in Iowa in World War I. First there
were wash sales. They were publi-
cized. Real sales began which sent
farm prices up to the blue skies
and which ended by making a farm
mortgage the cheapest form of wall
paper.
Two years after that World war
started, the prices of farm land rose
5 per cent. Not much later they
leaped a hundred per cent and more.
The eventual collapse was forerun-
ner of the depression.
Today, two years after the pres-
ent war started, farm land prices
are up 1 per cent. That isn’t so
bad but the government is already
worried enough to consider it worth
while trying to start a back fire in
the hope of preventing a recurrence
of the unhappy cycle which began 25
years ago.
When Governer Black of the Farm
Credit administration called in the
farm mortgage bankers, the insur-
ance people, farm organization rep-
resentatives and others in the rural
real estate field he simply reminded
them that when the government
loaned the farmers the money to
bail them (the mortgagors) out last
time, it was done on appraisals
based jon normal values. Now it is
up to the real estate people to make
their appraisals on normal values,
too. That means on figures based on
the relationship between farm prod-
ucts prices and other prices estab-
lished for the years of 1914-1918.
A million farmers who were loaned
money by the Farm Credit admin-
istration during the depression have
repaid their mortgages. Those farm-
ers are keenly aware of the dan-
ger to agriculture and to the whole
economy if a fever of mad land-buy-
ing starts again. They will help
stop it, if they can. The govern-
ment will do all in its power in the
way of education—meetings will be
held—the house organ of the Farm
Credit administration which has a
million circulation will carry the
warning. The real estate operators
have indicated that they will co-
operate.
Whether money to burn will burn
the farmer is still uncertain. In the
end, stopping another drunken orgy
of land speculation and the terri-
ble headache afterward depends on
the word-of-mouth message of the in-
dividual. The burned child fears the
fire but there is always someone to
urge him to risk a blister for the
delicious chestnut he pees roasting
on the coals.
* • *
Policy—Orders—
Action—Silence—
“As Commander in Chief of the
Army and Navy I order the follow-
ing policy carried out at once: our
patroling vessels and planes will
protect all merchant ships—not only
American ships but ships of any
flag—engaged in commerce in wa-
ters which we deem necessary for
our defense. American naval ves-
sels and American planes will strike
the first blow against Axis subma-
rines or Axis raiders on the sur-
face of the sea.”
This communication in substance
was transmitted to the office of the
secretary of the navy from the
White House a few weeks ago.
There it was immediately trans-
lated, first into naval language and
then into code. Over land wires to
the wireless towers near Annapolis
it was flashed to ships of the United
States navy on the seven seas . . .
It is early morning. A thin steely
light spreads across the horizon as
the U. S. destroyer “Blank,” a part
of the Atlantic patrol, rides the easy
swells. On board, the smooth rou-
tine goes on with its clock-work mo-
notony. But there is the ghost of a
grim smile exchanged between the
captain and the executive officer—
they have both read the coded mes-
sage recorded by the wireless op-
erator a little while before.
Three minutes later the ship is
galvanized from galley to crows-
nest.
A strident gong has sounded. The
bos’n’s whistle is trilling hiyh above
the wash of the waves and the whirr
of the engines for the word has
come down from the lookout:
“Torpedo track sited. Starboard
bow. —4-0!”
The gong sounds—that might
mean any emergency but before
there is time to wonder the order
rings out—
“All hands to general quarters.1*
Before the gun crews have ripped
off the site covers, the executive of-
ficer has reported to the captain:
“Battle stations manned, sir.”
The “torpedo track,” a ribbon of
white moves forward toward the de-
stroyer at the rate of 1,000 yards a
minute. But the tube of high explo-
sive itself, which is sending up the
tell-tale “track” of bubbles is 40
yards ahead of the nearest one
that shows—it takes some time be-
fore those bubbles can reach the sur-
face.
The bearing of the torpedo is veri-
fied and the destroyer swings and
leaps “full-speed-ahead” to meet it.
Not because the captain wants to
contact the whirring death-bolt head-
on, but because there is less chance
of a hit if the ship shows its beam
instead of the length of its hull as a
target. And the objective of the de-
stroyer is a spot as nearly over
the point where the submarine is
submerged as it is possible to esti-
mate it. That point is reached for
the torpedo has missed its mark
while ears are glued to the sound-
detector straining for the noise of
the sub’s engines.
“Release depth charges.”
Down go the “ash-cans,” one after
another; mounds of water rise; the
sound detector is deafened. The de-
stroyer, turning sharply, returns to
the spot and releases another series
of charges.
The roar dies in the detectors.
There is silence.
And that is the end of the story.
Perhaps it is the end of the sub-
marine. It is quite possible that no
one will ever know what happened
until after the war—perhaps not
then. And even if some tell-tale
piece of equipment is blown from
the inside of the sub, and reaches the
surface, that does not mean that
the public will know. At least not
for a long time.
* * *
Seasonal Glory
In National Capital
Washington is standing on the
threshold of its seasonal glory—“Oc-
tober’s bright blue weather,” the
month of beauty in the capital.
Already the early morning sun
comes down in soft blue bars and
August’s heavy carpet of shadow on
pavement and lawn is thinned to a
lacework pattern as the leaves shriv-
el and drop.
Gardens have faded but there is
one hardy bush (Rose of Sharon?)
which blooms before the more mod-
est doorways. A cross between a
hollyhock and a morning glory it is
hardier than either.
The city wakes with a new vigor
now that the tropic days are over.
Women government workers are out
with a brisk step for a last stroll
with dogs or babies, whichever they
possess, before they go off to the
“office.” Landladies straggle home-
ward cheerfully with their bags and
parcels. But trolley cars still lag
and jerk, packed to the doors with
the new thousands who crowd the
sagging city with the clerks of Mars.
* * *
Suez Canal Symbol
Of British Power
Symbols are often more powerful
than facts or things in influencing
the public. The Suez canal has al-
ways been considered Britain’s life-
line. It is the symbol of Britain’s
sea-power, of the bonds that hold
the Empire together, of British
achievement.
And yet the canal is as much
French as British, both in construc-
tion and control. What is more,
months ago it became of highly
questionable value because for
weeks at a time it has had to be
closed as a result of attacks from
the air. ■
Long ago shrewd Britons realized
that they must prepare for the even-
tuality of the loss of the Suez. At
least five years ago a book was pub-
lished pointing out that in case of
war Britain must be prepared to
protect ship routes around Africa.
BRIEFS • • . by Baukhage
C, A high government official said
the other day (privately, of course):
“If 5 per cent of the people work-
ing on defense in Washington were
fired the work of the remainder
would be more efficient.” Oh, make
it 33% per cent!
C. Some 6,700,000 pounds of pots and
pans collected in the aluminum
drive are now being processed into
fighting planes.
C. “My colleagues have undoubted-
ly observed that the color of the
walls of the senate chamber is the
same as that of caskets.”—Senator
Andrews.
C. Warning to politicians: Nobody
has ever been elected on his oppo-
nent’s platform.
C. The big brass bell on fire en-
gines is doomed. The brass is need-
ed for defense.
Farm.
Topics |
CONTROL WEEDS
DURING THE FALL
Check Pest Growth Now;
Save Spring Trouble.
By JAMES W. DAYTON
(Agricultural Agent at Large.
Massachusetts State College.)
In the spring people talk about
weeds as well as about the weather,
only they do something about the
weeds. But in the fall, weeds are
overlooked. They are often accept-
ed as part of the scenery and noth-
ing much is done about them. In
fact, they are not always even
talked about. But the late summer
and the fall is really the time to
save a lot of future trouble. For
that time of year annual weeds are
forming thousands of seeds and lay-
ing the foundations for next year’s
abundance. Perennial weeds are
busy storing up food in their roots
for good, strong growth next spring.
The simplest thing to do about
these fall weeds is to see that they
never ripen seeds. Mow them, or
pull them before the seeds are ripe.
It is usually best to rake them uu
and destroy them after they are
cut, for weed seeds will ripen after
the plant is killed. They put their
last resources into preparing for the
coming generation.
The mowing machine, the scythe,
or just a plain knife may be used-
all depending upon the size of the
job; but don’t forget fence corners
and the patches of waste land.
These may be more expensive areas
than you might suspect if they
spread weeds over the rest of the
farm, and this is the time of year
to cut down their costs.
Encourage the weed seeds to
sprout in the land to be seeded this
fall. Then harrow them up at in-
tervals before seeding time comes
around. Soon all the weed seeds
in the surface soil will have sprout-
ed, and if, when grass and clover
are seeded, care is taken not to
bring to the surface new soil with
additional weed seeds, the crop nex1
year should be exceptionally clean.
Fall plowing is often a help in
killing perennial weeds such as
witch grass and other “tough cus-
tomers.” If weed roots can be ex-
posed to the cold and drying of win-
ter winds, the plants will have a
hard time starting in the spring.
Harrowing with a spring-tooth har-
row to bring these roots to the sur-
face is often a help.
Taking care of weeds in the fall
will make that spring weeding job
much less arduous. In the long run,
time spent fighting weeds at this
time of year will do more good than
it will in the spring. • And almost
equally important, fall weed con-
trol makes the whole place neat and
attractive and supplies a “Good
Farmer” label that no passerby
can miss.
Can Control Gullies
By Eliminating Cause
Keeping water out of gullies is
a sure way of controlling them,
and this can be done by terrac-
ing, explains R. C. Hay, exten-
sion agricultural engineer of the
University of Illinois college of
agriculture. The approaching
slack season after harvest is a
good time of the year to do ter-
racing work.
Gullies on cultivated slopes can
be starved and eventually elimi-
nated by terracing. The terraces
not only slow up and divert run-
off water from gullies but also
materially reduce sheet erosion
losses. Farmers’ experiences and
experiments conducted under the
supervision of farm advisers and
the college of agriculture show
that terraced fields lose only
about one-seventh as much soil
by erosion as comparable unter-
raced fields.
R. C. Hay explains that water
diverted from fields must be han-
dled with care or the formation of
gullies at the outlets may result.
Proper Planning Helps
Avoid Pasture Shortage
Livestock men who are finding
themselves short on pasture in late
summer and fall might well lay
plans now for better protection
against shortages next year.
W. H. Peters, chief of the animal
husbandry division, University farm,
St. Paul, urges rotation grazing of
permanent pasture.
For alternate grazing Peters ad-
vises fencing off a pasture into two
fields and running the stock into
one for two^weeks and into the other
for a like period This will result in
giving less strain on pasture plants.
Small Turkeys
In experiments to develop small-
type white turkeys, the U. S. depart-
ment of agriculture is not trying to
displace the larger varieties; it is
trying to develop small birds to
fit the needs of small families. In-
vestigators conclude that there is
room for the small-type and
medium-sized turkey, and that some
growers will find it very much to
their advantage to specialize in
small turkeys for small ovens and
small families.
New Set of Tea Towel Motifs
T TTENSILS appliqued in the eol-
^ or that is to be accented in
the kitchen—shall we say yellow
or red—would be pretty for this
set of tea towels. Lovelier still
are these designs when delicate,
harmonizing tints or shades are
used for the flower appliques as
an accent.
* * *
The panholder In Z9341, 15 cents, with
its plaid effect, may be made up using
small pin checks. Various motifs—the cup,
sugar bowl, or salad bowl might be used
to adorn the corners of luncheon cloths,
while a single flower, leaf and tendril
Affectation Vulgar
The simpler and the more easy
and unconstrained your manners,
the more you will impress peo-
ple of your good breeding. Affecta-
tion is one of the brazen marks of
vulgarity.—Etiquette for Ladies.
could be placed in napkin corners for a
set of distinct individuality. Send your
order to:
AUNT MARTHA
Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo.
Enclose 15 cents for each pattern
desired. Pattern No...............
Name ...............................
Address .............................
Simple Beauty
If you get simple beauty, and
nought else, you get the best thing
god invents.—Browning.
Lure of Nature
Those who love Nature can nev-
er be dull. They may have other
temptations, but at least they will
run no risk of being beguiled, by
ennui, idleness or want of occupa-
tion, “to buy the merry madnesa
of an hour with the long peni-
tence of after-time.”—John Lub-
bock.
Late Love
Like the measles, love is the
most dangerous when it comes
late in life.—Byron.
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