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'B Friday July 23 1943
THE BARTLETT TRIBUNE
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Pot Holder Made
Of Brightest Prints
TpHESE pot holders proved to be
"best sellers" at a bazaar.
Most of tho materials can be
had from scrap bags. Pieces of
cotton flannel or sheet wadding
were used for Interlining. The ma-
terial was cut six inches square
LAAOE DESIGN
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PURPLE
DINDINOS
REPEAT
ORISHTGST
FABRIC
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and the corners rounded so that
the machine binder could be used
for the edges. The backing inter-
lining and top were basted togeth-
er before quilting them by stitch-
ing across from side to side and
then from corner to corner.
Book 7 contains directions for more than
30 things to make novelties as well as
really important things for your home
nook 2 also contains many bazaar items.
No patterns arc needed. Description o(
each booklet In tho scries Is contained In
Book 7. Orders should be sent to:
MRS. HUTU WYETH SPEAKS
Bedtotd Hills New York.
Drawer 10
Enclose
'desired.
Name
13 cents for each book
Address.
Cautions for Home Canncrs
Housewives 5 doing homj canning
with wartime jar caps are cautioned
to follow Implicitly the instructions
of the cop manufacturers if they wish
to avoid unhappy experiences and
waste in their patriotic effort to con-
serve. Spoilage of fqod and breakage
of Jars is certain to result if instruc-
tions are not followed to the letter.
Proper methods and careful can-
ning will insure excellent results
more important in the present food
situation than at any other time.
The Glass-Top Seal Fruit Jar Cap
a wartime product developed to con-
serve metal requires careful use
according to the homo service de-
partments of fruit jar manufacturers.
This cap consists of a metal band
class lid and rubber ring. With these
three widely varied materials making
up its component parts the cap must
be used according to important but
easily followed instructions. First of
all the cap Is not recommended for
and must not be used in oven can-
ning. If the food Is processed (cooked in
a jar) one inch of space must be left
'in the top of the jar when filled in
order to allow room for expansion.
If an open kettle is used a half-inch
of space must be left in the top of
the jar.
The next stoD is to nlace the rub
ber around the projection on the bot-
tom side of the lid and the lid must
"then be placed so that the rubber lies
between it and tho top edge of the
jar. All jars on which top-seal clos-
ures either glass or metal are used
must have smooth-top edges.
The band Is then applied tightly
arid Immediately loosened slightly
about one-quarter of a turn. Bands
must fit loosely during the processing
Or cooking. If an open kettle Is used
the bands are to be screwed tight as
soon as the jar is filled. After the
processing Is completed the bands
are screwed tight to complete the
seal. The bands may be removed
twelve hours after the canning opera-
tion. At no time should the filled
Jars be turned up-slde-down.
The housewife who takes no chances
on variance from any one of these
simple but important steps is assured
of success and the enjoyment of the
delicious flavor of home canned
foods this winter. Adv.
SKIN
IRRITATIONS OF
EXTERNAL CAUSE
acne- pimples bumps (blackheads) and
ugly broken-out Bkln. Millions relievo
miseries wun ouinno uuiua "f"""7
Goes to Trork at once. .Direct action olds
heal Inr works the antiseptic way. use
Slack and White Ointment only as di-
rected. 10c 25c 60c sizes. 25 years success.
Monoy-back guarantee. SZT Vital m
cleanslnc la rood soap Enjoy famous
iBlack and White Skin Soap dally.
SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
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At a Navy yard 3000 voik-
rs travel dally 60 to 05
miles round trip by automo-
bile a good reason why war
workers must have tires.
Tire uiers now restricted became
of the rubber shortage will have
de kixe road traveling conditions
open to them In post-war days If
State and Federal highway plans
materialize. Already twelve States
have approved building express
highways of tomorrow when peace
comts. Seven others are consider-
ing such plans.
A truck tiro that Is overload-
ad 50 per cent will only" de-
liver 44.S per cent of Its
mileage expectancy.
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IF FIRST SERGEANT CLAR-
ENCE A. GOLDSMITH bach in the
old battery whore I was supposed to
have learned the art of cooking for-
the army ever gets his hands on
this it will provide him with amuse-
mmt throughout a long hard ivin-
ter. When he reads that Private Ed-
ward Thomas Marion Laivton Har-
grove ASN 34116620 is giving ad-
vice to prospective soldiers his de-
risive bellow will disturb the train-
ing program in the next regiment
"My Godl" he tvill roar. "Look
who's learning who hoiv to do what!
My God! The blind leading tho
blind!"
It icas once said Sergeant Gold-
smith by the eminent vegetarian
George Bernard Shatv that he who
can does; he who can't teaches.
This dear sergeant is my contri-
bution to the army and to posterity.
Please go away and leave us young
people to our studies.
CHAPTER I
If I were giving advice to the boys
who have already been called into
the Army and will go away in a few
days I'd sum it all up in this:
"Paint the town red for the rest of
your civilian week. Pay no atten-
tion to the advice that is being
poured into your defenseless ears for
twenty-four hours a day. Form an
idea of what Army life is going to
be like. Leave your mind open."
Two weeks from now you will be
thoroughly disgusted with your new
job. You will have been herded
from place to place you will have
wandered in nakedness and bewil-
derment through miles of physical
examination you will look upon pri-
vacy and individuality as things you
left behind you in a golden civilian
society.
Probably you will have developed
a murderous hatred for at least one
sergeant and two corporals. You
will writhe and fume under what you
consider brutality and sadism and
you will wonder how an enlightened
nation can permit such atrocity in
its army. Take it easy brother;
take it easy.
Keep this one beam of radiant
hope constantly before you: The first
three weeks are the hardest.
For those first three or possibly
four weeks you will bear the great-
est part of the painful process of
adjusting yourself to an altogether
new routine. In those first three
weeks you will get almost the full
required dose of confusion and mis-
ery. You will be afraid to leave
your barracks lest the full wrath of
the war department fall upon you.
"You don't get anywhere by bay-
ing uoda pop or beer for your ser-
geant." You will find yourself unbelievably
awkward and clumsy when you try
to learn the drills and the knowledge
of this awkwardness will make you
even more awkward. Unless you
relax you can be very unhappy dur-
ing those first three weeks.
When you are assigned to your
basic training center you'll really
get into it. You'll drill and drill a
little more each day and when the
sergeant tries to correct or advise
you you'll want to tear his throat
out with your bare hands. You'll
be sick of the sound of his voice
before an hour has passed. The
only comfort I can give you is the
knowledge that the poor sergeant is
having a helluva time too. He knows
what you're thinking and ho can't
do anything about it.
You'll be inoculated against small-
pox typhoid tetanus yellow fever
pneumonia and practically all the
other ills that flesh is heir to. You'll
be taught foot drill the handling of
a rifle the use of the gas mask the
peculiarities of military vehicles
and the intricacies of military cour-
tesy. Most of what you are taught will
impress you as utterly useless non-
sense but you'll learn it.
You'll be Initiated into the mys-
teries of the kitchen police proba-
bly before you've been in the Army
for a week. Possibly two days lat-
er you'll be sent on a ration detail
to handle huge bundles of groceries.
You'll haul coal and trash and
Her
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narqrove
ashes. You'll unpack rifles that are
buried in heavy grease and you'll
clean that grease off them. You'll
stoke fires you'll mop floors and
you'll put a high polish on the win-
dows. You'll wonder if you've been
yanked out of civil life for This.
All your persecution is deliberate
calculated systematic. It is colle-
giate practice of hazing applied to
the grim and highly important task
of transforming a civilian into a
soldier a boy into a man. It is the
Hardening Process.
You won't get depressed; you
won't feel sorry for yourself. You'll
just get mad as hell. You'll be
breathing fire before it's over.
Believe me or not at the end of
that minor ordeal you'll be feeling
good. You'll be full of spirit and
energy and you will have found
yourself.
You'll look at the new men com-
ing in to go through the same hard-
ening period and you'll look at them
with a fatherly and sympathetic eye.
They will be "rookies" to you a
veteran of almost a month.
For practical advice there is none
better than the golden rule of the
Army: "Keep your eyes open and
your mouth shut."
At first probably you'll bo in
clined to tremble at the sight of
every corporal who passes you on
the street. You might even salute
the first-class privates. Then when
the top sergeant neglects to beat
you with a knout they rub GI (These
two letters arc the. cornerstone of
your future Army vocabulary. They
stand for the words "Government
Issue" and just about everything
you get in the Army will be GI.
Even the official advice. This story
on the other hand is not GI.) salt
into wounds you might want to go
to the other extreme. This way
madness lies.
When corporals and sergeants are
to be dealt with always remember
this: Make friendships first and
leave the joking until later. When
it's the top sergeant it might be
nest to leave the joking perma-
nently. It can' be very easy to start your
military life on the wrong foot by
giving your officers and noncommis-
sioned officers the impression that
you're a wise guy a smart aleck.
Soldiers like senators "don't like
for a new guy to shoot his mouth
off."
So much for the don'ts. On the
"do" side the most important Hung
for you to watch is your attitude.
As a matter of straight and practical
fact the best thing that you can do
is to reason that you are going into
a new job. The job is temporary
but while you have it it's highly
important.
As when you go into a new job in
civil life you do your darnedest to
impress your employer with your
earnestness your diligence your in-
terest in your work go thou and
do likewise in the Army. As in your
civilian job the impression is made
in the first few weeks. You make
that impression starting from the
very first day by learning as quick-
ly as you can by applying yourself
with energy to each task no mat-
ter how small or how unpleasant it
is. You don t get anywhere by buy-
ing soda pop or beer for your ser-
geant. -Ba-
Brodie Griffith mariaging editor
of the Charlotte News adjusted his
ancient green eyeshade and began
glancing through a sheaf of copy.
"Hargrove" he said' lighting a
cigarette "it beats the hell out of
me what fate did mean for you. Dr.
Garinger down at the high school
said years ago that it didn't write a
formal education in on your budget.
Belmont Abbey found out that you
weren't destined to be worth a hoot
as a public relations man for a Ben-
edictine college. The drugstore
chain in Washington said you had
neither the talent nor the tempera-
ment for soda-jerking. And you cer-
tainly fizzled as a theater usher.
Maybe fate don't know you."
"May I have a cigarette?" I
asked reaching before he-could pro-
tect them. "Day after day 1 work
my fingers to the shoulder blades for
neither thanks nor living wage. I
am the feature editor of a progres-'
sive growing newspaper. What
makes it that? My heart's blood
makes it that!"
"I would fire you tomorrow" he
sighed "if anyone else could possi-
bly straighten out the chaos you
have brought to this office. In the
most underpaid brotherhood in the
world you are the most overpaid
two-headed brother."
"I am the most underpaid six-
armed Siva" I snorted. "Look at
mel I am the feature editor the
obituary editor the woman's page
editor the hospital editor the re-
write man the assistant to the city
editor the commissar for paste and
copy paper and cokes the custodian
of oral memoranda the public's
whipping boy the translator and
copyist of open-forum letters tho
castigator of the composing room
staff the guest artist for ailing col-
umnists the tourist guide for visit-
ing school children the press repre-
sentative at barbecue suppers of
W o
HR nvict
the United Brotherhood of Plumbers
and Steamfitters the butt of the of-
fice jokes."
"Period" said Mr. Griffith "New
paragraph."
"I lead a terrible turbulent life"
I wailed. "I am tho man forgotten
by Destiny."
"If you will get your elbows off
my desk" he said "the boy can
put tho mail on it.
"What you need" he continued
sorting through a batch of letters
"is a tour of military service. The
Army would make a man of you. I
was in the Army in the last war. A
top sergeant at eighteen. The Army
did wonders for me."
"That's not much of a sales argu-
ment" I told him.
"Then again" he said "if we
must take up my whole busy day
weeping over your sorrows let's not
burden the Army when it has a
helluva job ulrcady. Concerning the
whole matter I would suggest that
you apply yourself to making up
the Woman's page right now lest
you come down tomorrow morning
and find someone else sitting in your
chair. Leave my sight."
"There's not a letter there from
New York" I asked "with my
"Well my lad" he said with faint
glee "we know what Fate means
for you. You can be happy now."
name written on it in a delightfully
illegible feminine and slightly red-
headed hand?"
"Is there ever?" he snorted.
"Let's see " and he went through
the stack.
"Well my lad" he said with faint
glee "at last we're getting some-
where. We know what Fate means
for you. You can be happy now."
He handed me a long white innocent-looking
envelope addressed to
me. The return address read "Se-
lective Service System Mecklen-
burg County Board Number Three."
Tho President of the United States
to Marion Hargrove greeting!
-SB-
The boy across the table in the
Piedmont Grill lifted both hands and
clapped his brow three times. He
looked at the clock then back at
his breakfast then back at the
clock.
"My name is Hargrove" I said
handing him a cigarette.
"Mine is Piel" he said. "Melvin
Picl. Tomorrow maybe you can
make it 'Private on the front."
f ill yjij n
"So long as you're healthy" I
said shrugging a shoulder. "It cuts
down on the income taxV'
"My hay fever" he wailed. "What
will I do with my hay fever? In the
jungles of South Carolina for ma-
neuvers with my hay fever! Oy!"
"Just look at it" he said on the
way to the bus station "maybe a
posthumous medal my grandchil-
dren will get. Private Melvin Piel
who gave his life valiantly and
through the nose from hay fever yet.
Sneezing to glory."
The bus station on that morning
in July was a pathetic picture. Four
large groups of boys reconciled to
the grim and gruesome life ahead
of them were bade farewell by wail-
ing mothers and nobly suffering girl
friends who had come down to see
their loved ones off in a blaze of
pathos. It was pretty terrible.
The buses swung out of the termi-
nal through midtown and out to-
ward the road to Fayetteville. The
boys began to feel better shouted
farewells to startled girls on the
street and finally broke into raucous
song. Four flowers of the nation
started a blackjack game on a suit-
case in the back of the bus.
Brother Piei's spirits brightened a
little. His smooth voice found its
way through the hay fever and
emerged in song. "It's a lovely
day tomorrow" he sang. "To-
morrow is a lovely day.
"Look at me tomorrow" he said?
breaking off suddenly "Hay foot
Private Piel. Straw foot Private
Piel. Hay and straw and look at
what I've got. Hay fever yet! Oy
what a life I'll lead!"
"Maybe what I'd better do when
I get there I'd better tell them I'd
like to go north. They could use a
good man in Alaska."
"The South Pole is your meat"
I told him.
"That's it! The South Pole! Boy
I'm going to love the Army!"
The tumult and the shouting died
about halfway to Fayetteville. The
boys: become quiet and thoughtful
(TO DE CONTINUED)
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
Hy HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of. Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for July 25
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se-
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education: used by
permission.
BIBLE TEACHINGS ON THE
COST OF DRINKING
LESSON TEXT Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Proverbs 23:20 21; I Corinthians 0:911.
GOLDEN TEXT Know ye not that the un-
righteous shall not Inherit the kingdom of
God? I Corinthians 6:8
Billions of dollars how many we
cannot saymake up the annual cost
of liquor to America in dollars and
cents. Terrifying as it is that stu-
pendous waste is but a drop in the
bucket compared with the moral and
spiritual degradation the sorrow and
suffering the poverty and distress
which must be added into our liquor
bill.
For it is not only a matter of dol-
lars but of blood and tears or de-
stroyed usefulness lost virtue
wrecked homes and so on and on
and on. We go right on paying the
bill allowing ourselves to be misled
by clever propaganda and skillfully
manipulated statistics or it may he
our sheer indifference. When will
America awaken!
Our lesson faces us with the cost
of this despicable traffic in the life
of the individual to the social order
and in the light of eternity.
I. The Personal Cost (Deut. 21:
18-21).
Liquor destroys individuals relent-
lessly rapidly and effectively. Have
we forgotten that fact?
The passage in Deuteronomy pre-
sents a drastic remedy for a dread-
ful situation. Drink and gluttony
were recognized as the deadly in
strument which would bring a boy
to the place where he was incor-
rigible. Stubborn rebellious and
disobedient his parents were to
bring him to the elders for a final
judgment.
If one thinks the penalty too harsh
he must remember that it was estab-
lished in the early days of Israel
when it was necessary for God to
use such drastic remedies to stamp
out incipient evil.
It must be remembered that in
ancient Greece weak children were
left out to die and in Rome a father
could at will put to death even a
grown up son.
The point of this scripture for us
is that a life of debauchery (and it
can start with ust a glass of vme)
leads to the ultimate destruction of
life. It is far too high a cost to pay
for a sinful indulgence.
II. The Social Cost (Prov. 23:
20 21).
Drunkenness and gluttony lead to
poverty and rags. The intemperate
man cannot keep up with the high
cost of supplying his growing appe-
tite. Even as he tries to satisfy its
insatiable demand it also renders
him unfit to earn a living.
So the vicious circle works its
way around and stops not until the
drunkard totters off in his rags un-
less perchance some loved one or
friend takes care of him.
Do we not all recall how families
in our own communities have been
ruined and become charges upon the
county or charitable organizations
because of the destruction wrought
by a father who was a winebibber.
Not only does it bring poverty
upon families but it reduces able
and gifted men to shambling wrecks
and thus deprives society of the
benefit of their lives and service.
A present-day illustration is the
unsolved problem of absenteeism for
days after pay day in our essential
industries. Again we say the cost
is altogether too high; let us get rid
of this monster before it destroys us I
III. The Eternal Cost (I Cor. 6:
9-11).
Money lost is serious. Life lost is
far more serious. But the saddest
cost of all is the eternal damnation
of the drinker's soul.
We quote from Dr. Horace Martin
these stirring and meaningful words:
"It is my calm judgment that any
man who names the name of Christ
should take an attitude of horror and
disgust at the liquor traffic and the
use of liquor as a beverage. There
are at least three places in the New
Testament where the Bible says that
no drunkard shall inherit the king-
dom of God.
"If any man takes that statement
seriously he must think twice be-
fore he refers to the use of liquor in
a joking manner or in any way con-
dones the use of alcohol as a bev-
erage" (Lesson Commentary).
Drunkenness is a foul and sinful
thing classed by the apostle Paul
with the lowest of human vices. Re-
view the list as it is given in verses
9 and 10 (and by the way notice the
other sins mentioned there) and
place drunkenness in its proper
classification.
Call it what it really is sin and
then call on the One who can save
from sin. You will then be washed
from your sin sanctified and justi-
fied in the name of the Lord Jesus
(v. 11). In Christ there Is hope for
the drunkard. A spiritual revival is
the real answer to the liquor prob-
lem. Let us seek to promote it even
as we at the same time give our-
selves to an intelligent and construc-
tive battle against this destructive
force in the life of our nation.
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Sister's Dress Has
Appliqued Flo wets
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Pattern No. 5527
T ITTLE sister will look like
- something right out of the
bandbox in this charming frock!
Make it her "best" little dress.
Do it in pale pink blue or apple
green organdie or dotted swiss.
Applique the flowers in white or a
darker shade of the dress ma-
terial. The dress Is designed for sizes 1-2-3.
Pattern number Is 5527. Applique Is in
the tame pattern.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions slightly more time
Is required in filling orders for a few of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
HOME NEEDLEWORK
530 South Wells St. Chicago.
YOUR looks better groomed with
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.. Gives lustre. Biff bottle
ALWAYS only 25c. Sold everywhere.
Precious Tilings
A precious thing is all the more
precious to us if it has been won
by work or economy. J. Ruskin.
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ANTISEPTIC
Used by thousands with satisfactory re-
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ents. Get Carboil at drug stores or write
Spurlock-Neal Co. Nashville Tenn.
Kindly Actions
It takes but one single kindly
action to cause many happy
thoughts to flow.
TO CHECK
Liquid for Malarial Symptoms.
"Dive Bombing" mosquitoes
"Four Motor" flies are just two of
the insect-enemies that wage wsr on
our soldiers on many battlefronts...
and two reasons why the army' uses
such vast quantities of FLIT and our
other insecticides.
For these super-slayers kill many
vicious foreign pests Just as they
mow down household insects hero
at home!
FLIT has the A A Rating ... the
highest established for household
insecticides by the U.3.
Bureau of Standards.
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