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Friday Even
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tune In On KRBC
Friday Evening, January 17, 1941
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously
between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.-Deuteronomy 1:16.
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,ALLEN EPPES
" The Choice
Speaking of the rising deficit and the in-
creasing tax burden on the American people,
a man remarked the other day that Uncle
Sam may soon have to look at his hole card
It was an old poker player's way of saying
the old gentleman would have to look pretty
closely into his assets.
Higher and higher taxes are on the way, of
course; you can’t burn up billions of dollars
in war preparations without paying the fid-
dler. In spite of the inevitable taxes we be-
lieve the American people stand ready and
senate, in spite of his tremendous majority
at the polls, is a tenuous one. ,It is based
largely on fear of that tremendous majority;
not on love and trust of the governor. That
is unfortunate, but we believe it is so. Even
a governor elected by an overwhelming pop-
ular vote is powerless to get anything done
unless he has a strong personal following in
the legislature; and we doubt if Governor
O'Daniel has it.
We shall be able to tell definitely about
that later. Say in a week or ten days, after
the legislature has settled down to business.
SIGNS OF LIFE?
YESTERDAY: David and Peter
and Polly just have repaired the
swimming pool at the old inn Da-
vid's aunt left him when she died.
Nobody has ever been able to make
the inn pay, and it is vacant now.
But Polly thinks they can at least
have some fun out of it. Now Mar-
go Powers, who is glamour personi-
fied and the daughter of Davide
boss, is on her way to the inn
She has decided that she wants
David-Polly or no Polly.
Chapter 14
FOUR’S A CROWD
"Did you bring your suit, Polly?"
David wanted to know
"Certainly 11 did. You don't
think I'd let you two do all the
thought anything quite so depress-
Ing as a deserted hotel. Hotels.,
especially resort hotels, ought to be
bright with lights, and singing with
gaiety Freddy's Folly certainly
looked its name.
FIRST SWIM
“Cousin David,” Peter said. "I—
I guess you'll have to carry me
down to the pool ”
“Sure,” said David. "But I won’t
be doing it long. You're getting
to be a better walker everts day."
Peter, now dressed only in his
swimming trunks, looked down ay 1
his leg. "But—but—how 11 I stand
up in the pool?" he asked.
"The water will hold you up.”
said David. "All you’ve got to do
is stand on that fine left leg of
willing to pay them, whatever they are, not
because they enjoy paying taxes but because
they know it is the only way to preserve this
nation's independence or even its identity.
Consider Czechoslovakia. That unhappy
country lost both its independence and its
identity March 15. 1939. when the Nazis
marched in. If you thought that would also
end the Czechs’ "burden of taxes you'd be
terribly mistaken. They didn't know what
taxes could be like until the Nazi masters
took over.
Diplomatic circles in Washington this
week learned that in the 22 months of Nazi
occupation the Czechs have coughed up "at
least a billion dollars." This was the direct
product of the Nazi economic war—the sei-
zure of Czech businesses, properties and as-
sets of all kinds. On top of this tribute taxes.
Other Viewpo ints
Beware Appeasement
From Foreign Service:
Fortunately for the future of the United
States the dishonorable idea of appeasement,
or co-operation with the dictators, is repul-
sive to the vast body of American people.
The lessons of Europe are too fresh in our
swimming, do you?"
David laughed, and watched Pe-____,____...
ter getting a bundle out of the manage-you and I."
car.
"I hope my trunks aren't. full of
moth-holes," he said.
"There were a few in them," said
yours, and learn the breast stroke—
Don’t wory about that, boy. We’ll
A few minutes later, he, Polly
and Peter were in the water
He tried not to feel a great wive
Polly \ of pity sweeping over him when
"How do you know?" he saw Peter’s shrunken les. And
"Petter brought them over to me somehow or other he hated for
Polly to see it. But she acted as
though there was nothing at all
wrong, and he followed her ex-
for aid in the war against Britain, run to
/ about 100 million dollars a year The Nazis
took over key "positions in trade, industry
and government: The Czechs have not a
chance to retrieve anything from this de-
bacle if Germany wins the war and the Nazi
domination becomes permanent.
„ Great Britain is spending about sixty mil-
lion dollars a day to keep from becoming
another Czechoslovakia. This expenditure
may be considered an investment, for if the
effort to stave off disaster wins, Britain will
have a chance to retrieve her losses in the
years to come. If she loses, she loses every-
thing: even the heavy taxes Britishers are
paving—ten times more than Americans are
paying today—will have been paid in vain.
Verily we must count the cost of success-
ful defense, but we can't overlook the cost
of inadequate preparation or unsuccessful
defense
We are the richest country on earth, actu-
minds. We have seen too often how appease-
ment, like crime, has led to more and more'
appeasement, more and more conquest, more
oppression of free peoples.
In these danegrous times proposed ap-
peasement of the dictators must be distrust-
ed as a trick to ensnare America in the trap '
that has already been used by dictators else-
where to further their own vile ambitions.
We cannot afford to let down the bars to
any of the ideas of totalitarianism, whether
of bigotry and disunity., inequality and false-
hood. or of force and brutality. All of these
spell appeasement as much as out-and-out
co-operation with those who have sworn to
destroy our liberties.
The duty of every American is to combat
any treacherous attempts to undermine our
national security by suggesting that we
should meet on equal terms with the enemies
of democracy. There are no equal terms.
There can be only the terms of the dictators
—tyranny and despotism—or the terms of
those who demand Americanism — liberty
and democracy.
Beware the apostles of appeasement; They
are either misguided victims of clever prop-
aganda or cunning knaves secretly praying
for the destruction of America and our Amer-
icanism principles
to mend ”
"Well, I give up!” said David.
"And Peter acting as though he
had just discovered the trunks in
my closet.”
Polly was also watching Peter
now. She turned to David.
"How can he swim with that aw-
ful brace on?" she asked.
ample
While Polly swam and dived,
he stood in the shallow end of the
pool giving Peter lessons in swim-
rning The boy caught on rapidly,
and he was soon doing wonders
with his strong young arms, and
+He cant” said David, with his strong young arms, ana
"You know he can’t walk without his good left leg. Holding to the
it, though Remember how 'he fell rod that ran along the pool’s edge,
that day in the parlor? You told
me about it, David, and—and—
how's he going to walk down to the
pool after he gets his swimming
trunks on?" \
ally and potentially. We have our choice of
spending our dollars now that the blight
that fell on Czechoslovakia and all the other
victims of Nazi terrorism may be avoided,
or giving up our way of life and everything
we possess later on- This choice is not our
deliberate own. Circumstances have forced it
upon us. We can't escape the cost, one way
or the other, but we can be sure that what
we pay out will preserve our way of life and
our vast national wealth if what we do now
is done in time and in decisive quantity.
It is not our fault that this choice is thrust
upon us, but it will be our fault and our fault
alone if we don't make ourselves secure by
every means at our command.
Olive Brooch of Austin
Governor O’Daniel, in the first installment
of his double-barreled address to the legis-
lature. held out the olive branch of peace
to both houses He urged them to forget the
Cranium Crackers’
FAMOUS WOMEN
Until the 20th century, the woman's place
was generally considered to be in the home,
but before that time there were many who
played important parts in world events. How-
many of these famous women can you iden-
tify?
1. Name the Indian girl who reportedly
saved an early American colonist from death.
2. What archduchess of Austria, born in
Vienna, married a French king and was later
beheaded in Paris?
3. Who was the woman that offered to
pawn her jewels to aid an Italian navigator
in his business of exploration?
4. What Egyptian woman was wooed by
two well-known Romans?
5. Who was the 19-year-old girl that was
burned at the stake after leading French
troops into battle against the English?
Answers on Back Page
political squabbles of the last session, con-
centrate their time and energies on problems
now confronting the state Wisely he urged
them to attend to their own business and let
the national congress legislate on federal af- Record number of autos sold in 1940—but
"Not only was his appeal for friendship and it doesn’t seem to have m’de any more room
1 J 1 " in the street cars.
cooperation well taken and entirely reason- 1
able and sane, but the governor outlined 1
program of legislation which" includes many |
sorely needed items. In the elimination of 1
useless boards and bureaus Texas could save |
a lot of money and wasted efforts. This is a .
fact that has been preached for years, so in |
recommending it Governor O'Daniel is mere-
ly restating an ancient truth But it may well
be that in doing so he sowed the seeds of |
dissention which will make, his plea for i
friendly cooperation of no avail;.for in the |
elimination of useless deadwood in the state 1
government a great deal of political and per-
sonal power is involved, and taking any of
their cherished pelf away from legislators
and bureaucrats is like taking water away
from fish They can't live without it.
The preliminaries of the new session have
been cordial and peaceful enough, but we
wish the governor had a stronger personal
following among the lawmakers This would
give him the strength to effectuate some of
the reforms he advocates in state govern- .
ment But the governor's hold on house and
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Pat Harrison Comes Into His Own at Last
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON—Political observ-
ers see in the election of Ser. Pat
Harrison, of Mississippi, as presi-
dent pro tern -of the Senate anoth-
er definite step for the preservation
of unity in Democratic ranks.
of the fact that when the post of
majority leader was open and he
definitely was in line for that im-
portant party assignment. President
Roosevelt threw It to Senator Alben
Barkley.
There is a story that Senator
voice has lost its whiplash sting
His once-red hair is thinning and
ashen His shoulders are a little
stooped, but when occasion arises,
he still is the same Pat who used
to delight the galleries with his ea-
“I’ll carry him.”
"He won't like that It'U make
him feel so helpless."
"It's the only way. Sweetness.
Don’t worry, well make a sort of
game but of it."
"Oh, David, you are a dear!" said
Polly. Then she called out to
Peter: "Dont forget the towels!".
“No," said Peter. "I got 'em."
He came hurying back to them
as fast as his lameness would per-
mit. We can go inside the hotel
and dress, can't we?" -
"Yes," said David. "Polly, you
take the Inn parlor and Peter and
I'll take the dining room.
"Why not use two of the bed-
rooms’Cousin David?" Peter asked.
"They're pretty dusty, I'm afraid.
Don't forget, all the cleaning we've
done has been confined to the
larger rooms downstairs."
The trio went on into the big
empty house.
In the lobby David glanced at
an ornate fountain that was built
in the center of the room, and
he worked his legs in sn effort to
get the crawl movement—the right
leg moving only feebly.
"You're doing swell." David en
couraged. "Exercise is all you need.
In no time at all you’ll be kick-
ing practically all the water right
out of the pool!"
"Peter laughed gaily "Go on.
now. Cousin David, and dive," he
said. “I want to see you dive.”
"Okay." said David, "but you
stay away from the deep water."
He swung himself up to the pool's
edge, and stood poised there; "Ill
fix a diving board one of these
days,” he said. Then he sprang
into the air and did a perfect
swan dive, hitting the water
with scarcely a splash "How was
I?" he called out to Peter, when
he came to the. surface.
“Gee. you were swell!" said
Peter. "You looked just like Weis-
muller."
“Exactly!” said a voice that
wasn't Polly's.
David looked up. Margo Pow-
ers was standing close by watch-
ing them
"Hello, Margo!" he called.
"Hello, yourself!" said Margo
"I’m sorry I didn't bring along
my swimming things." "
David again swung himself out
change of excoriations with
Hull
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TOKYO. Jan.
papers, reflecting
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lean foreign poli
that Secretary of
in his statement
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day, had outra
Japan's policies.
Koh Ishii, sp
cabinet's informal
pit known that th
Preparing a forr
reply to Hull aft
carefully reports
at Washington.
Subsequently, h
ernment reconsid
not to issue a sta
Hull's speech At F
for the decision
was reported tha
war anxious to a
saly aggravation
anese- American re
man said merely
ment has been
nitely."
It was reporte
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would nuke a 1
before parlian
Tuesday on J
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shrugged.
"Uncle Fred sure had high-
falutin ideas,” he said “Imagine
putting a thing like that in the "Hello, Peter - Hello, Polly!"
middle of the lobby." Margo said, but her eyes were
•Why not?" said Polly “It must I on David. \
look lovely when the water is He was all that she had imag-
turned on—especially when the col- i ince he would be in swimming
ored electric lights are in use. trunks. Straight brown legs: broad
the The sound of a fountain is always shoulders: golden-brown torso. And
Senator Watson soothing and nice." i again she thought ,of him on Long
Well see how it works one of ! Island's beaches gay and happy at
these days, said David. "I’ll have resorts she had visited What a
to do some work on the fountain’s shame for such a perfect specimen
piping before it'll be in working of young manhood to be wasted on
order But come on, we’ve got a
date to go swimming Had you two
of .the water
In-
diana's Republican Jim Watson in
the ‘twenties and could delight his
colleagues even more by whispered
Less serious probers into things | Harrison agreed to take the job of
behind the news see it merely as president pro tern, provided Vice
Senator Harrison’s coming to his President Wallace should stay on
own, after nine years in the House | the job The Senator said he did quips Of the latter an example:
of Representatives 21 years in the not want to be tied to the chair.’ After belaboring not only 41
Senate and 30 years of being He was assured that he would not [ Republicans but 1_______
one of the most consistently popu- be but the laugh may be on the personally. Senator Harrison cross-
lar men on Capitol hill. Senator on that score, for the con-ed the aisle and tapped his oppon-
The two observation, fall into a viction is growing that the new ent on the shoulder, saying, "Jim,
palter. The senators* acid tongue, vhcecpreslde nine soinsa Louis Pend I ain’t1 the worst demagogue you
has for many years made him one moth 2-1
of the moat feared adversaries in | Latin and South
debate in other days, when the American countries. , . .
Democrats were in the minority he aiThat otoonoifitaaiinton the picture
was the “Democratic gadfly" sailing 1 drawn by political observers, for
about the Senate and .tinging the what man could be so valuable (to
Republicans on every issue “that 1 the administration) in the Senate
came up But through it all. he chair in absence of the Vice Presi-
managed somehow to salve the dent as Pat Harrison. The Missis-
sippian can pour more oil on trou-
bled party waters in a minute than
most Senate presidents could in a
lifetime.
ever heard?”
To which Watson replied, “No,
an isolated swimming pool.
HAS MELLOWED SOME
Pat, I am.”
Senator Harrison rose to his
high post from a newsboy in the
small Mississippi town in which
he was born He has been a poli-
tician all his adult life serving six
years as county attorney right aft-
er he finished college and coming
to the House in 1910. In recent
years, as chairman of the finance
committee, he has had a hand in
framing tax laws to raise the huge
Senator Pat is nearing 60 He has sums required for the New Deal ex-
| mellowed some in recent years. His I penditures and national defense
forgotten?"
“Oh, gee. not by a heck of a
lot!” said Peter
He went hobbing off to the din-
Ing room
David turned to Polly "Walk
into my parlor, said the you know
what!" he invited "Well meet you
down at the pool "
He went on into the dining room
where Peter was already unfasten-
ing the iron brace. He stood for
a few moments looking over the
double row of tables, and the
heaped-up chairs. There wasn't, he
"Do you swim?” Peter asked-
eyeing Margos slacks and stock-
ingless feet.
SENATOR HSRRISON
Ta
Steinbeck Switches From Novels to Films
By SAM JACKSON
AP Feature Service Writer
LOS GATO6, Calif—John Stein-
beck, whose “Grapes of Wrath" fo-
cussed a nation’s sympathy on
homeless farm workers, has turned
his attention to the children of
rural Mexico
Y 1 This time Steinbeck will tell his
wounds he made and pull ‘outhis story in » motion picture as un-
stingers, with a soothing word that conventional in subject and tech-
invariably left his victims more nique as his much-debated book
And as for any startling manu-
deeply in his friendship than be-
fore.*
THIRD TERM SUPPORTER
In the intra-party fracases of re-
cent years Senator Pat has been
on both sides He has scored the
New Deal on occasion and ripped
into administration policies But he
also has fought just as hard with
his shoulder against that -of the
most rabid New Dealers and when
the third term issue popped he was
one of the first to declare the coun-
try must have the President for an-
other four years And this in spite
script.to follow The Grapes of
Wrath his publisher can take his
choice from the following list:
“The Sea of Cortez: Distri-
bution of Marine Invertebrates
in the Gulf of California,”
(End of list.I .
This is a highly scientific volume
based • on a six-week collecting
cruise Steinbeck made last March
and April His companion, and his
collaborator on the book is C. F
Ricketts, who operates the Pacific
Biological Laboratories at Pacific
Grove, Calif
Another chore for Steinbeck is
to write the film continuity for
one of his early short stories. The
Red Pony." A
PLANS VISIT TO LONDON
When all this is over, he plans
to go to London. <
“Something tremendous is going
on over there—something in the
people. , he says.
About the Mexican film, "it real-
ly started as just one of those con-
versations," he explains "I was
talking with Herbert Kline, who
produced Lights Out Over Europe,
arid he said he was going to Mex-
ico I said I d like to go too '
Things developed from that point,
and Steinbeck spent six months
with Kline and other film people
in a primitive village of 600 people
in the hills 30 miles out of Mexico
City. The townfolk were their ac-
tors, their theme the toll of dis-
ease-plus-superstition
. “The witch doctors have a
strong hold on the people,”
Steinbeck said. 'There is a
dangerous pollution of the
water supply that causes an
illness — I believe the com-
mon name for it is infant
cholera — that can cause death
in 48 hours.
"The witch doctors tell the peo-
ple it is caused by little gods along
the water courses whom they can t
see To tell the truth, when we tell
them it’s caused by a little germ
they cant see, it’s hard for them
to understand the difference.
The thing could easily be con-
trolled either by serum or by boil-
Ing the water. The Mexican public
health doctors are doing a grand job.
but the extreme poverty of the
country makes things difficult.”
The village people acted out for
the camera ancient customs sur-
rounding birth, sickhess and death
DOESN’T LIKE FICTION
Steinbeck and his wife are now
at their attractive but modest cot-
tage high in the Santa Cruz moun-
tains, whers they have for com-
pany a Japanese servant, a dog,
and a one-eyed pig named “Con-
nelly after the one-eyedgate-
crasher of that name. Though a
sociable man, he has secluded him-
"Of course!" Margo laughed.
"Gee!” said Peter s
Polly laughed and said “Peter
probably thinks you're far too
ornamental to get wet!"
“Do you know what I think III.
do?" Margo said suddenly "I
think 111 race right back to town
and get my bathing suit'"
-But Its getting pretty late,"
said David "Maybe you'd better
wait until another tune "
"But, David, I do so want to
swim!"
PARTY'S END
Polly shook out her hair. Iva.
got to get back to town now.” d
said "You can drive me in if you
don't mind Then you three can
have a swim in the sunset."
“Oh, that will be fun! said
Margo_______
‘You -mean you're
leave us
going to
now, Polly?" Peter
asked
Yes. Peter, honey I've got to
get Aunt Susan's supper, you
know.",
"Then I'll go too," said Peter
Margo looked at David.
“It
Present-Day Central Texas Is Land of Full Granaries, Blooded Livestock
EDITORS NOTE: The fol-
lowing observations on present-
day Central Texas will be of in.:
terest W the thousands now Hr.
tag to West Texas whs came
originally from that territory.
Mr Humphrey is editor of the
Tetaple Daily Telegram:
By WALTER R HUMPHREY
(Written for the Associated
Press)
Every newspaper’s territory is
packed with interesting people
who do interesting things
things which ordinarily don't
get into print Their homes,
. their communities, their work
and their hobbies often sre
"rich storehouses of newspaper
material
For two months this fall as
time permitted, I made the
rounds of Central Texas
just looking and listening and
digging out the little things
,about our neighbors ri
These trips carried? me’ to
communities with odd names
like Ding Dong Okay Friend-
ship two of them Lost Prairie.
Double Header, the Grove Fat,
1
Little Flock. Stringtown, Corn
Hill, Airville and Frog Hollow
They carried me up and down
many beautiful Central Texas
rivers like the Salado, the Leon,
the Lampasas, and the San
Grabiel, and across and along
such other streams as Cow-
house creek with one of the
most beautiful valleys in Tex-
as). Stampede Pepper's, Knob.
Buzzard Bee House Table
Rock Mustang, Deer, O'Possum,
Alligator Mesquite, Rocky Flint,
Sulphur and Indian creeks, and
many others with names as
picturesque.
Central Texas in the area west
of Temple is made fascinating
by endless hills and clear run-
ning streams, by thousands of
flowing springs, by inimitable
scenery given the touch of
usefulness by vast cattle ranches
and frequent goat herds brows-
ing in the scrub cedar and
tangled mesguite
To the east are the rolling
prairies graduating from black-
land inte sands, developing
| major soil erosion problems as
they ars cut deeply by risers
fed by ths endleu network of
creeks from the hill country.
Everywhere, particularly to
the west are evidences of the
Indian civilization which once
thrived in Central Texas . . .
Indian camps Indian trails, ana
I the Indian lore preserved in
flint in many a pioneer home
The watering places of the In-
dians are the .beauty spots of
today for the Indiana knew
well how to pick their camp-
site*. ...______________
There are crumbling monu-
ments to two early day educa-
tional centers of Texas at
Salado and Davilla, the first in
Bell, the second in Milam
j county.
And too there are still vis-
ible reminders of railroad en-
• terprises that fail’d across
„ Coryell and Bell counties the
almost obscured roadbed of the
Temple and Northwestern rail's
way which never got beyond
the roadbed stage across
southern Bell and northern Wil-
liamson counties several
weather-beaten ex-stations of
the Bartlett and Western, the
narrow-gauge road abandoned
but three years ago This road
running to Florence on the
west, had four unusual little
station stops St Matthew St
Matthew. St Mark St Luke
and St. John. Its depot at
Jarrell,’ on U. S. highway 1
now is a filling station and.
store.
Several things are conspic-
uous a bout the Central Texas
territory, things of which proe
bably are typical of Texas C
one is the increasing number
of rural schools being aban-
doned Everywhere I found
schools closed, their pupils go-
ing to larger communities or to
consolidated schools The day
of the rural school apparently
is nearing its sunset.
From farmers and others liv-
ing in the small communities
of Central Texas, I received
several explanations: (1) The
tractor s inroads, requiring few-
er farm families to work in
the fields:: O The government
farm program, which has re-
duced cotton acreage drastical-
Iv on the one hand and brought
the farm labor of years back
into the fold of WPA projects;
(3) And the consolidation move-
ment itself, with its advantages
of economy and better Instruc-
tion,
At any rate, schoolhouse sre
growing up in weeds. Several
I inspected were converted into
homes. One Highland school
near Rogers. just two years old,
is abandoned.
Everywhere barns and gran-
- aries are full Never has Cen-
tral Texas had such bumper
crops. The corn crop may
reach an all-time high The
quality ia excellent, the yield
extraordinary, and besides over-
flowing every available farm
building the crop has been
going out of Central Texas in
tremendous quantities to south-
west Texas to the south, to
the west coast, chiefly.
Sorghums and other feed
crops, have been just, as suc-
cessful while King Cotton,
•tumbling along “on reduced
acreage, produced well in spots
but provided hU usual disap-
pointment in the cotton terri-
tory as a whole And every-
where. livestock breeding and
feeding is on the increase
... particularly in Herefords.
And on all sides can be seen
Increasing evidences pt the
handiwork of Uncle Sam.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the
WPA.
It's a rare communitv that
doesn’t have a new “school
building or a new gymnasium-
auditorium, the latter being the
moat popular addition to the
school systems of Central Tex-
as Three or four, strange as it
may seem, have been home-
financed.
Almost all of these schools
have flagpoles, most of them
without flags. I've mentioned
that In my rambling reports of
the visits through the territory
... and here and there flags
have been rising each morning
where no flags has been before
self from the attentions usually
paid • celebrity.
J The author said he had neither
written nor planned a novel to fol-
. low The Grapes of Wrath."
"I don t 11kg fiction, he said "I
don t read much of tt. I dont know
how I ever started to write it."
Egypt May Pare
Cotton Production
CAIRO, Jan. 17.—Egyptian
cotton circles were reported today
to be sponsoring a move for fur-
ther curtailment of the country's
cotton production
Wide Interest was aroused it was
said, by the news the U. 6 depart-
ment of agriculture had acted to
put new limits on American cotton
acreage
(Early this week the agriculture
department at Washington offered
cotton growers $25,000,000 worth of
cotton goods free if they would re-
duce 1941 plantings enough to cut
a million bales off the govern-
ment’s previously announced pro-
duction goal of 12,000,000 bales.)
Urging immediate application of
cotton control. Egyptian cotton tn-
terests pointed out that this coun-
try, like America, had lost most of
her export markets as a result of
the war.
looks," she said, as Though we re
to swim alone." ‘
"I .think wed better all drive
back to town," said David "We
can make a date for a swim some
other time ”
"Very well" said Margo dis-
appointed T do hope I havsei
broken up your party.” "
“Of course you haven’t." David
assured We weren’t going to
stay late anyway."
. " Well, go on with your swim-
ming and diving." Margo urged. —
"I’ll have a smoke and watch
you "
Polly turned, did a neat diveS
and swam out David follows. * i
her
I'll run In and dress now,"
Polly said "You and Peter have ' i
another lesson. It take, me longer 1
tr dress than it does you two."
She ran across the grounds. ’
through the lengthening after- 1
noon shadows and Into the Inn
Margo watched her— Cute little
figure, she thought But probably
the sort of girl who would soon
become plumpish and matronly
Not at al the sort of girl David
Wiley should marry She would neg-
lect him just as soon as she had
a baby or two.
She’d give all her attention to
her children, anu practically for-
get that her husband existed.
David "Wiley ought to have the
kind of wife who would appreci-
ate him all the time, who
wouldn’t even let mother-love
keep her from always being a
sreetheart to him-
She dropped down cross-legged 1
near the edge of the pool.
“Let me see you do that swan
dive again, David," she said. "I
want to learn how to do it my- 1
sel..”
“It’ll be easier to do it,” said
David, "when I get a diving board j
fixed up." . 1
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