The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 10, No. 11, Ed. 1, Friday, November 21, 1947 Page: 2
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Cotnec
TN THINKING of It afterward
Nettle Bralnard could never get
rid of the feeling that the light actu-
ally did change In her empty tea-
room the telephone on the cashier
desk rang Although it was nearly
noon all of Broadway near Union
Square teemed to dim to a queer
eerie twilight
It thta Miss Nettle Bralnard a
mans voice inquired
Yes Nettle said into the Instru-
ment
Are you the daughter of Bena
mln Bralnard deceased and Nettle
Sharp
Yei Yes X am
la your mother there
Shes busy In the kitchen just
now Shell be busy for half an hour
Who Is this please
This Is Thomas Sharp Your
Uncle Tom
Nettie gasped Uncle Tom But
but but you are dead
The mans laugh had a hollow
sound Not quite he said
But five years ago up home in
Maine we got a registered pack-
age Nettle Insisted her voice
shaking slightly It held four Brit-
ish bonds and his your passport
stamped In Chinese and Russian
and a letter from Harbin signed by
Jerry Angus saying that you had
The mon laughed again Now
Nettle dont be so upset by thlsl
Anything may happen in the Far
East Besides I left home twenty
five years ago Before you were
bornWell
Well said Nettie swallowing
Now dont say anything to your
mother I want to speak to you
alone Ill be right over
He hung up The light seemed to
flood back Into the deserted tea-
room Heavens above Nettle
said aloud Uncle Toml Alivcl
Alive after all What ever shall I
say to him Why does ho want to
talk to me alone Why it s like hav-
ing a visit from from a ghost
Across the street her mortal ene-
mies the two quick lunch places
with their neon signs and their bar-
gains In coffee and doughnuts now
became friends for once They as-
sured her that she was not In some
timeless world of the spirit Instead
she was In the bustling world of to-
day where a girl of twenty twot
who loves a young doctor way back
in her home town Is glad to stand-
by her ailing mother in New York
and try to make a tea room pay In
a section where there Is no room for
tea rooms
Uncle Tom Nettie said again
All she could remember of him was
that he was a black sheep or some-
thing worse Her own father Bona
mln Bralnard never would permit
his name to be spoken This was
because over twenty five years ago
Tom Sharp nearly had broken oft
Bcnamin Bralnards engagement to
Nettles mother
Tom Sharp had brought home
some ruffian named Jerry Angus
ind had Introduced him to his sis
Ilorlxontal
I Ocean
4 Since
8 Arrogant
11 One who
ihirki hi
duty
13 Rough with
brlatlei
19 Part of
to be
It lie woa
struck down
or lying
IS French article
10 Pronoun
21 Epochal
22 Russian
Inland sea
34 Burden
24 Location
2s Consumed
29 Wild
31 For ear that
53 Sum
Indicating
past tense
34 Prussian
seaport
SO Assault
33 To exist
40 Heavy pli-
able metallic
element
42 To merge
43 Roman
greeting
47 Regretted
49 Wicked
50 Prefix hall
32 Husband of
Octavla and
Poppaea
Sablna
54 Article
35 Nook
68 Shakes
39 Earth goddess
01 Tolled
a Nourishing
a Pertaining
to the sua
C6 Pronoun
87 Blsng
Intense desire
Vertical
Music as
written
WtaMiUjtur
twatlng
3 Symbol for
gold
4 Girls name
3 Suns
OLOve potion
7 Inlet
8 Bones
9 Above
10 To expand
12 Molten lava
14 Removed
17 Slender
pointed piece
of metal
20 Resident of
Asia Minor
23 Hawk
headed deity
24 About
25 To navigate
27 Brother
of Jacob
SO Sinister look
32 Prong
85 To wash at
clothes
Prune dorm
GHOST ON BROADWAY
Br ROBERT McBLAIR
ter Nettle at a time when her
fiance Benamln Bralnard was out
of town on business Nettie Sharp
then a girl of seventeen had found
Jerry Angus the irresponsible wast-
rel more enchanting than her busi-
nesslike and absent fiance Her par-
ents ended that romance but not
before Jerry Angus and Nettle
Sharp pledged eternal devotion in a
secret meeting arranged by the
black sheep Tom Sharp It was a
heartbreaking farewell
Jerry Angus and Tom Sharp left
together to hunt gold In Alaska and
after that adventured In the Far
East Young Nettle Sharp married
Benamln Bralnard after all and
had one child Nettie before Bena
mln Bralnard died
Jerry Angus who played that joke
Bttsll la Nut lilt
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HEMPniLL COUNTY NEWS CANADrAN TEXAB
He told me about the operation your
mother needs which requires
money He told me more Nettle
Something about himself But that
was confidential
Nettles heart stopped beating
Was It some other girl
What did he tell you she cried
Never mind But look Nettie
This cash came from smuggling
arms In a good cause Let it do
some good
He laid a brown envelope In Net-
tles palm His hand she noticed
was weathered and had on its back
a large strawberry birthmark
But Uncle Tom she protested
Now now He got up Of
course you wouldnt take ten thou-
sand dollars from Just anybody
He laid a brown envelope in Netties palm
had on Its back a large strawberry birthmark
Tom Sharp became an occasional
rambling letter from some unknown
far Eastern place Then from Har
bin his passport and his legacy had
come to his sister
Now Tom Sharp was alive again
and hurrying to sec his sisters
daughter
Just then the front door opened
In stepped a bouncy stocky gray
haired man
Well Nettie he said heartily
come sit by your Uncle Tom Yes
youve got your mothers bright
brown eyes
He led her to one of the yellow
tables
Yes yes my dear No one likes
to be visited by a ghost He
roared with laughter It was poor
Ills hand she noticed
Youve too much pride for that I
hope But bloods thicker than wa
ter child Besides If you and your
mother must have a tea room this
will let you have one back home
Take the advice of a wanderer
Nettie Marry Settle down Dont
miss love when It comes by
He kissed her roughly on the
mouth Then he was gone leaving
Nettie feeling that this visit from
one mourned as dead simply could
never have happened
The kitchen door opened Nettles
mother came in
How can I begin to tell her
Nettie thought
I couldnt hear what that man
was saying Her mother was talk-
ing But his voice seemed to be
one I had heard as a girl I kept ex
pecting you to calL me Nettie I
on me Left me with no passport wondered If I would know anyone I
and no money The crazy fool
He glanced toward the kitchen
But I mustn t waste time like this
I found you by phoning the doctor
in the old home town The same
name but the son of the one I used
to know Thats how time flics
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
hadnt seen for so long Like your
Uncle Tom well I suppose 1 would
know him
She sat down and picked up a
fork As or Jerry Angus she
went on the boy who wanted to
marry me years ago I would know
him anywhere He had a strawberry
birthmark on the back of his led
hand She cut off a bit of lettuce
Why are you suddenly looking so
happy Nettle Do stop mooning
dear and bring your mother her
tea
WATCH WHAT YOUR FACE
SATS
Probably it Isnt right but it cer
tainly is human nature to pass Judg
ment upon every stranger within
few seconds after you are Intro-
duced Later you often times have
to reverse your Judgment That
doesnt keep you from going ahead
and Judging everyone you meet
Some o the men or women you
meet win your heart Immediately
even before they say a word This
they do by the expression their
a
aces Others win ypur only after
days or hours or weeks of associa-
tion which causes you to overlook
their dead pan expression and rec-
ognize their worth
The faces we like the faces of
personality are beautifully de-
scribed by Rosamond Lehmann in
her novel The Weather In the
Streets One of Miss Lehmanni
characters says to a friend
1 like what what breaks out be-
hind the features and is suddenly
there and gone again I like a face
to warm up and expand and col-
lapse and be different every night
and from every angle A and not
be above looking ugly or comic
sometimes
In other words what this woman
liked and what others like in a face
Is life expression vitality anlma
tlon We all like faces that betray
the emotions that go on behind
them rather than the dull color
less cold unresponsive faces We
want to know that there Is friend
ship behind the aces we see
Study tho expression on your ace
if It Isnt what you think It ought to
be do what Napoleon did what
Cleopatra did Practice facial ex <
presslon until you develop this Im-
portant outward evidence of person
allty Into1 t great and enduring
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A VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY
Agricultural Revolution Dooms
OldFashioned General Farm
Editor Note This lathe first la a series of article on cur-
rent problems by Louis Bromfield One of Americas leading
writers Bromfield la author of The Green Bay Tree the
Pnlltier priiewlnnlng Earl Autumn The Bains Came
Fleasant Valley and numerous other books
By LOUIS BROMFIELD
tUltfaaad by WNU Featurt
Lately there has arisen In the mind of the writer doubts
concerning two patterns of American life in which all of us
have taken great pride in the past These are unwelcome
doubts but observation and study of the patterns in relation
to the highly integrated industrialized world in which we live
make them unavoidable They are
the oldfashioned plo
IThat
neer pattern of selfeuffl
clent general farm is doomed
That our present compll
2 catcd complex economlo
civilization cannot afford count-
less small enterprises save
under very exceptional circum-
stances
Both doubts are certain to arouse
protest and even abuse but both
deserve the consideration of every
thoughtful citizen
The general farm producing a
little of everything Is an American
Bromfield
pattern growing
out of life upon
Isolated frontiers
and no longer fits
into a highly com-
plex national econ-
omy A few acres
of corn or oats or
wheat or hay can-
not support a corn
picker a combine
or a hay bailer
Therefore the gen-
eral farmer is at
once at a great dis
advantage In competing with the
corn farmer the wheat farmer or
the specialist grass farmer or the
fruit farmer all of whom are do-
ing efficient jobs along specialist
lines with the high degree of mech-
anization which any specialist en-
terprise can support
Because the general farm cannot
support a high degree of mechanl
Because the general farm cannot
tupport a high degfee of mechaniza-
tion the general farmer mutt work
long hours do thingt tn an old
fasbtoned slow and inefficient uay
zatlon the general farmer must
work long hours do things in an
old fashioned slow and inefficient
way His gross Income Is almost
cdrtaln to be only a fraction of
that of the specialist in dairying
grass farming corn and hogs fruit
potatoes or any other undertaking
where a man is doing one or two
things efficiently and well instead
of 10 or 15 things inefficiently slow-
ly and painfully j
I know of one specialist farm of
160 acres raising apples raspber <
rles and hybrid seed corn which
last year grossed 33 000 It Is high-
ly mechanized Alfalfa Is grown not
to feed cattle but to mulch orch-
ards and raspberries The labor
schedule Is balanced the year round
with no peaks and no slack periods
All attention Is focused upon the
three specialties and high produc-
tion yields per acre rather than
gambling upon high prices to sur-
vive Is the basis of all operations
The Income Is high and the hours
short because the farmer is operat-
ing efficiently
The same acreage operatlnf
at a general farm with a few
chickens a few cows a > few
hogs a few acres of wheat
jats corn or hay could have
produced a maximum gross In-
come even In these times of
high prices of only about
6000 or 7000 with a net of
not more than 3000
The farmer would be at the
mercy of a custom bailer corn
picker combine or hay bailer and
would be forced to do things the
hard old fashioned way and fre-
quently suffer losses because the
machinery was not available when
his crops were ready Bad weather
or sudden decline In prices can ruin
him or reduce him to subsistence
level
X suspect that in another gener
ation the old fashioned general
farm will have become a curiosity
except In poor agricultural areas
where a few farms cling to the
old ways Anyone with an observant
eye driving through agricultural
country can see for himself the
waning of the old pattern
The well painted barns and
houses the new automobiles the
landscaped grounds around the
farm house the good fences all
of these one ices on dairy farms
fruit farms or potato farms The
farms that appear to be falling
apart are almost always practic
ing agriculture In the old pioneer
pattern A good many of them are
closing down each year or shift
ing over to specialization In order
to improve income and living stand-
ards or even to survive
It is all part of the vast agricul
tural revolution now In progress and
it Is the result of pressures from
our highly Integrated mechanized
Industrialized civilization The farm
is no longer a frontier outpost in
the defense against Indian attack
when it was necessary to produce
nearly everything that was con-
sumed
In most productive areas of
the U S today a farmer Is an
Integral part of our social me-
chanical economlo structure
using electricity gasoline ma-
chinery prepared feeds and
other things which bind him Into
the whole structure so that he
must integrate himself and his
farm Into the structure in order
to survive
The farmer of the future will not
be a huntertrapperfarmer but a
businessman a scientist and a spe-
cialist All of us will benefit by the
change In terms of prices lowered
through efficiency In terms of
health and In terms of taxes which
no longer will be needed to subsi-
dize farms living by a pattern which
has become obsolete and which in
the past has cost us dearly In
many ways
The passing of the general farm
does not mean the passing of the
familysized farm It is not a ques
tion of the amount of land but of
how it Is used and what the farm
plan is A specialized farm of 100
acres operated under an efficient
plan produces S to 10 times as
much income with much less labor
The farmer of the future mil not
be a huntertrapperfarmer hut a busU
nets man a scientist and s specialist
than the same acreage operated
under the old system of egg
money for the wife Sentimental-
ly the passing is sad but Im afraid
it Is inevitable
Black Flogs Spar
Army Safety Plan
FORT LEWIS WASH Designed
to keep army personnel accident
conscious a new safety program
has been launched by Fort Lewis
officials
Separate unit headquarters are
Issued white flags to be flown from
he roofs of headquarters buildings
In case of an accident resulting In
hospitalization or death of unit per
sonnel the white flag Is taken down
and replaced with a black flag
Never Too Old
ALBANY N Y Yon can
teach an old doc new tricks In-
sists State Sen Thomas C Des
mond chairman of a legislative
croup Investigating problems of
the aged As proof be offers
evidence that one oldtimer
over 65 listed himself as an
apprentice on a question-
naire
Lords Acre Nets 30000 for Needy
BYRON N Y Residents of
this farming community harvested
30000crop on Lords Acre with
all proceeds destined to go for do-
mestic and foreign relief
An auction sale offering mer
handlse collected through cooper-
ative community effort as well ns
the output from fields in the adja-
cent territory attracted 7000 buy-
ers to Lrfrds Acre a pleasant plot
t land Just Inside the village lim
its The auction climaxed a project
commenced a year ago when rest
dents of the village decided to do
something to relieve worldwide suf
fering and to promote human under
standing
Three charitable Institutions Na
tlonal Catholic Welfare association
Protestant Restoration fund and
United Jewish appeal will thsre In
the proceeds Nine needy families
in foreign countries will be aided
FRIDAY NOV 21 194T
Store Offers Anything
From Wife to Casket
No other department store in
the world offers such a v ide vari
ety of services as does Mltsu
koshis in Tokyo Besides offices
that moke reservations for theater
tickets train travel etc the store
has a shrine where one may pray
a bureau where one may select a
wife or husband a section where
a couple may secure a license and
be married and a department
where one may purchase a casket
and arrange for a funeral
Christmas shopping neednt be a
tiring experience If you follow this
suggestion For friends who enjoy
the pleasure of cigarette or pipe
smoking here are two great gift
items that are sure to please For
the man or woman who prefers
mild mellow richtasting ciga-
rettes select a carton of Camels
a national favorite And for the
pipesmoker wisely choose a
pound tin of the largestselling pipe
tobacco Prince Albert Both
Camels and Prince Albert come in
gay gift packages No other gift
wrapping Is necessary Camels
and Prince Albert are ready to
give At your dealers now Adv
HOME REMEDY TO RELIEVE
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chest and back at bedtime
It penetrates to upper bronchial
tubes with special medicinal vapors
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like a warming poultice And It
keeps working for
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 10, No. 11, Ed. 1, Friday, November 21, 1947, newspaper, November 21, 1947; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47529/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.