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^lubs Churches Parties
Borger. Texas
Tuesday. February 9. 1943
Page 3
Americans in then Victory brig-
4-H Clubs Talk
Nationwide s,inne„ P.T A
Viclory Program To Meet Tonight
Mobilization ot 4-H dub girls
anci boys fora nationwide program
of Victory gardening amt poultry I
raising was discussed recently by
Spring Creek 4-H clubs, with then-
county agent, Miss Margaret
Moser and sponsor, Mrs. Wayne
Wheeler.
Mary Mary Wheat, Joyce Mc-
Donald, Kenneth Stone and Clyde
Messick were appointed to re-
present their club at a committee
meeting m Borger to plan, with
members of other county clubs
for an annual banquet.
Unusual interest was shown in
Miss Moser’s announcement that
demonstration in building proper
for poultry and their cars would
be given to several groups in the
neui future.
A recent drive for new mem-
bers has boosted the club’s mem-
bership for 41) girls and boys, |
ready and willing to do their
part with 2,000,000 other young I
Stinnett I’.- T. A. will meet to-
night at 8 o’clock, with a play
featuring the program.
With the theme, "Your Comm-
unity and You," the program will
got underway with a devotional
by Mrs. Luca Miller.
The choral club of the grade
school, directed by Mrs. J. N.
Weaver, will sing "It’s the Little
Things that Court,” and “Magic
of the Moon.”
To climax the evening the high
school speech department will
render a play, under direction of
Arnold E. Holmes.
Mind Your Manners
.1 Is It bettei to say ”1 went
to bed at ID o clock" or "I retir-
ed at 10 o’clock"?
4. Is it better to say "Pardon
me” or "1 beg your pardon?"
5. Is it good usage to say "I
was enthused ovei the book ’"
What would you do if—
You are leaving your hostess'
house after haying had dinner
* *4% ■. .,.'41.
unu aptjiii me- evening, am. mi
'a1 Say, "1 enjoyed the food”?
»b) 'I ejoved the evening”?
Answers
1. No. Say that it is delicious.
2. "I went to a party.”
3. ”1 went to bed at 10 o’clock”
4. “I beg youi pardon”
5. No. “I was enthusiastic about
the book.”
Better “What Would You Do”
solution—<b>.
• Lest You Forget
Meeting nights of tin CIO Aux-
iliary has been changed to Wed-
nesday nights, with a session
scheduled for tomorrow night.
All members are urged to be
present to get price ceiling books.
A price ceiling dairy will also
be available.
Girls Take Vital War Job
As Aerial Traffic Cops'
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Ihi-it ml-ml w point mentioned
ill the ration ofdei that It ni
tinning result* in little demand for
certain types rtf footwear now in
tuck, the • il'A may take (hern
"H the h*t and permit them to be
sold out unrationed .
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Reviewing
The War
Test your knowledge of correct 1
social usage by answering the |
following questions, then check- j
ing against the authoritative an- |
swers below:
1. Is it good taste to say about I
Lutherans are reminded of the
Bible Study course at 8 p. m.
tomorrow night at the Trinity
Lutheran church.
Rock tripe, a small lichen, has
saved the lives of numerous ex-
plorers in northern regions when
their food gave out.
• SERIAL STORY
THE TERRIBLE EYE
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BY EDWIN RUTT
COPYRIGHT, 19*3.
NEA 8ERVICE. INC.
HfvnnrknbU* Indeed In tlie de-
vice Invented lij Jonnli l.ntfiiii. He
call* 1C “The Terrible Kye.M
Through tliiai |»l>4»togrnphIc Inven-
tion* RceneM of hotli the dlutnnt
and fin me ilinfe |»n*f citn he re-
created and teletUed. To Mn«
honey* Mm loyal though unintelli-
gent n»»iMfi«nt, Jonnh re vein In hi*
plan to !ntere*t Henry I*. Clin li-
ning, the multi-milllnnalre camera
king, in hla Invention. |
LOVE AT FIRST LANDING
CHAPTER II
TAAY was parading in blue-and-
1 gold attire over Connecticut.
And, in mid-morning, Jonah Lo-
gan and Mahoney drove toward
tLj»- of Hi-nty 1, (.'banning
in a rattletrap Ford, vintage of
1935.
Between them on the front seat
was a small square box finished in
fawn leather. Save for this leather
finish, it was an exact miniature
of the big machine that stood in
their converted barn. In the back
of the car were two cumbersome
black cases, obviously containing
photographic equipment.
The country through which the
Ford rattletrapped was superb.
Undulating green fields, divided
here and there by stone fences,
stretched in all directions. An-
cient trees lined the roadside.
Over this lush landscape the sun
was laying a golden wash and the
light, glittering in on a million
grass-blades, created the impres-
sion that they were passing
through fields sown with emeralds.
“I understand,” Jonah said
presently, “that the Channing
estate is quite something. The
house is an exact copy of a French
chateau.”
“No kiddinV’ Mahoney said, with
interest^ “Any mamselles around?”
“Keep your mind on your work,
Mahoney,” said Jonah.
The car negotiated a fair-sized
hill. At the summit Jonnh pointed.1
“Unless I’ve been misinformed,”
he said, “that would be the Chan-
ning place.” #*
Below they perceived a broad
acreage surrounded by an ivy-
covered wall. From almost the
center of this hallowed ground
there arose a huge house of
weathered dun-vuloied stone, tow -
ered and turreted after the fashion
favored by architects of Old
France. Clustered about the man-
sion were a number of smaller
outbuildings, so that the House of
Channing had the appearance of
being the focal point in a tiny vil-
lage. In a corner of the property,
but still enclosed by the wall, was
something that looked like a large
white circle.
“What’s the round white thing?”
Mahoney inquired.
“Probably the fence around Mr.
Channing’s private race course,”
Jonah told him. “During my in-
quiries, I discovered that he’s a
great horse fancier.”
Mahoney was impressed.
“Look,” he said, “where do the
likes of us get off blowin’ in on a
guy that owns French chatty-os
and race horses? Hadn’t we ought
to phone him an’ . .
“Definitely not,” cut in Jonah.
“The phone’s been a total loss.
Furthermore, Mahoney, there will
be a gatekeeper here, but we shall
eschew him. I’ll have no more
dealings with underlings. I’m go-
ing to climb that wall and go
straight to the Big Wind himself.”
Mahoney whistled. “That’s the
nuttiest idea yet. They’ll run you
out by the seat of your pants, like
Jimmy Durante in the movies.”
“They will, eh? Not before I’ve
told Mr. H. L. Channing a thing
or two.” 4
• • •
'TONAH had been right. There
J was a gatekeeper who bestowed
a fishy and disinterested glance
upon the Ford as it chattered by.
Jonah didn’t even return the
glance. He merely followed the
road around the wall to a point at
which a curve hid the gatehouse
from view. Then he stopped.
L Mahoney’s eyes measured the
He landed on his knees in soft earth. In a successful
effort to save the Terrible Eye from disaster, he failed to
guard his chin. The chin struck Earth. For a brief mo-
ment Mr. Logan knelt there, like a monk in natty tweeds
at his devotions. And then, quite unexpectedly, a voice
sounded.
wall. “You're goin’ to have a | foregoing with a mixture of sun-
climb, Chief. That’s easy 10 feet i tan and rose leaves, and voila!
high.” ] You had the perfect face. So, for
“Nothing to it,” said Jonah. “I | Jonah’s money, had this girl.
come from a long line of wall
scalers. Besides, Mahoney, ob-
serve yon sapling. Yon sapling
will help me. And you will fol-
low, being careful to refrain from
damaging the equipment.”
With one finger locked tightly
around the handle of the little
fawn-leather box, Jonah climbed
into the tree. In a few seconds, he
reached the top of the wall.
“How's it goin’?” inquired Ma-
honey from below, in a hoarse
whisper.
Jonah turned to make reply. At
the same time he moved his left
foot. That was an error. It
stamped him as a man whose an-
cestors were more likely to have
been Humpty Dumpties than wall
scalers. For the foot slipped on
the smooth ivy. The next instant
Jonah Logan was descending
swiftly into the preserves of
Henry L. Channing.
He landed on his knees in soft
earth. In a successful effort to
save the Terrible Eye from dis-
aster, he failed to guard his chin.
The chin struck Earth. For a brief
moment Mr. Logan knelt there,
like a monk in n&tty tweeds at his
devotions.
And then, quite unexpectedly, a
voice sounded. It was a low cool
voice, like the Bermuda night-
wind blowing over a banana split.
“What’s the trouble?” it said.
“Didn’t the parachute open?”
Jonah lifted his chin out of
Mother Earth. He perceived the
following items in logical order:
(1) a pair of small brown-and-
white sports shoes, (2) the neatest
ankles east of Shanghai, (3) long
silken legs that reminded him at
once of Marlene Dietrich, (4) a
whip-slim figure in a skirt of
summery green linen and canary
cashmere sweater, (5) the face
he’d been looking for all his life.
Jonah Logan had a recipe for
a face. You took a wide smooth
forehead, put a couple of eyes that
looked as if they’d been scooped
up out of the Mediterranean be-
low it; added a short straight nose;
laced n tiny line of freckles across
the bridge of the nose; tossed in a
generous red mouth; tinted the
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By NEA Service
The young lady at the blackboard, above, is demonstrating that
she knows how to bring an airplane safely into an airport by
radio. She is learning to be a “traffic cop” of the air, and is one
of some 350 women actually employed or under training as traf-
fic control officers along airways and at air terminals.
The traffic control man has been called the most important fig
ure at an airport. His job, like that of a railroad dispatcher, is to
expedite traffic and prevent collisions. Lives depend on the quick
thinking of the traffic control tower's personnel. There, errors
are no more permissible than in a surgery.
Called upon as a manpower shortage grew, the girls are doing
all right in this tough spot. The Civil Aeronautics Administration
likes their work and wants to go* more of them. A fi months train-
ing course, established last fall, has now been compressed into
four months. Co-ed classes are held in classrooms, laboratories
and in the field.
Women trained as aerial "traffic cops" are taught not only traf
fic control, but Civil Air Regulations, meterology, radio, flight
plans and many other technical subjects, to say nothing of learn-
ing to chatter intelligibly in aviation's peculiar jargon.
New CAA classes will get under way about March 1. Anyone
interested should get in touch with their local civil service offi-
ces. Trainees are paid $1800 a year, with a fairly good chance of
promotion when they finish.
We, The Women
J provision in Ihe rationing order
| that local boards can issue addi-
By RUTH MILLETT j tional certificates in the cases of
The “wives they left behind “need.”
While sales have increased
greatly in the last two years, the
per capita consumption of all
types of shoes for 1940 was 3.07
pairs; for women it 3.61; for men,
2.01; misses and children, 3.33;
them" are trying hard to make the
best of living alone while their
husbands are away helping to
fight the war—but they aren’t
all doing the best possible job of
it.
* uuaova ciiivi vn
A great many of them started boys and youths. 1.31
“Ha,” he said involuntarily.
“Ha, ha,” said the girl. “You
look as if you’ve been leading
with your chin.”
Jonah caressed the Logan jaw,
noting meanwhile that ashblond
hair with pin-dots of yellow fire
in it was the only possible hair to
go with a face like this.
“My chin?” he said absently’.
“Now don’t tell me you’ve hurt
yourself,” the girl said. “And, by
the way, what are you doing
here? And, by another way, who
are you?”
• • •
TONAH felt a little like a vicious-
** ly tackled halfback who is be-
ing walked around and questioned
by the referee.
“Me?” he said, somewhat daz-
ediy. “Why, I—I’m Jonah."
“I see." The blue eyes regard-
ed him gravely. “And what’s
tjiat? The whale?”
She pointed in well-bred fash-
ion. The countenance of Mahoney
was rising above the wall, like
the moon over Miami.
Jonah got hold of himself. He
was becoming aware of the reason
why he stood here rubbing his
chin, bewildered and inarticulate.
With the realization he had a
horrifying thought. In another
second Mahoney would take otf
from the wall. And this, Jonah
saw, mustn’t be. The conversa-
tion that he hoped presently to
conduct simply could not be clut-
tered up with Mahoneys.
“Stay where you are, Mahoney!’*
he ordered, extending a manda-
tory finger.
“But you says to folly you,” be-
gan Mahoney, “bein’ careful
to . . .”
“That’s canceled. At ease, Ma-
honey.”
The girl spoke. “We’re making
real progress. You’re Jonah and
that is Mahoney. Tarzan Mahoney,
I presume. Well, where do we go
from here?”
The familiar business of bark-
ing at Mahoney had restored
Jonah’s aplomb. He produced a
card, with a flourish.
(To Be Continued)
olt with several wrong ideas. For
instance, they refer themselves
as “widows" — which is about as
dreary and hopeless a sounding
word as they could have picked.
It has a depressing effect on them,
and makes them seem like objects
of pity to others.
Instead of saying "Living alone
is going to be mv life for some
time, and I might a.s well plan
to get as much pleasure out of it
as I can,” many of them are liv-
ing entirely in the past and in
the future. They make themselves
miserable remembering how
things used to
about a future
foretell.
They are banding together pret-
ty well, going around in groups,
but not always getting any real
enjoyment out of each other’s
company. Their husbands are en-
joying their association with ether
men that the war has afforded
them. But too often the wives
plan get-togethers in a “since
there is nothing better to do"
frame ol mind.
THEY'RE SELF-PITYING
And what is even worse for
them, they all too frequently
think of themselves a.s deserving
sympathy, and accept all that is
offered. Their men don’t feel they
deserve sympathy, and neither
should the wives.
They don’t laugh enough either.
Ghim faoe« don’t get them any-
where. Yet a great many lone
wives feel that it is almost their
duty to go around with smil-
ing- bravely -through -tears ex-
pressions.
No one knows how long the
war will last, so the best thing
for the wives who are left behind
to do is to make not only the best
but the most of today, and not be
“widows” before their time.
These figure's, of course, include
ca.- ual or "play" types.
Some of the trends indicated in
the day’s conversations:
1. “That’s all the shoes I’ll be
able to afford, anyway.”
2. Plans to purchase higher
quality shoes, spending more to
get 1> nger wear out of each pair.
3. Father and mother of chil-
dren who are hard on shoes will
have to wear their own shoes
longer. The youngsters may have
to cut down on jitterbug dancing.
4. People will take better care
Ire and worry - their shoes, get them repaired
that they can t i (-ftenor and wear old ones in bad
weather.
5. More women probably will
wear slippers (not rationed)
around the house.
6. One conversationalist sug-
gest >d women might wear ’’more
sensible" shoes — but some of the
women said they hoped footwear
wouldn’t become “too standard-
ized.”
7. Our interviewees seemed to
think wooden-soled shoes wouldn’t
be pc pular, except for some play
shoes.
8. People won’t be apt to spend
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By JAMES MARLOW and
GEORGE ZIEI.KE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. —(A1)
—In as many conversations a.s we
could manage in one day, we
found the average reaction to the
shoe rationing order was: “It’s
O. K. with me.”
The shoe problems of the indi-
viduals questioned vaired widely,
a.s might well be expected, but
each one expected to “get along
somehow," in spite of doing more
walking than in peacetime.
Greatest concern was expressed
by a couple of young women who j
said they wore out shoes in six
or eight weeks, and by fathers of
larger-than-avernge families,
whose children will make heavy J
demands on the family’s rations.
Some seemed reassured by a
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Wed. - Thurs.
“TALK OF THE TOWN'
By GLENN BABB
There are many indications that
another Axis peace offensive is
in the making or already under
way. In the few remaining neutral
capitals of Eiuope there has been
a revival of reports of Axis peace
moves, especially of effort to set
up channels through which re-
presentatives of the United Nat-
ions could be approached.
Germans or Italian peace
feelers, however, should not be
taken as indications of impend-
ing Axis collapse, either collect-
ive or separate.
Some of these gestures have
been made when Hitler felt him-
self strongest.
In neutral Switzerland especi-
ally, Mussolini’s appointment of
his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo
Ciano, as ambassador to the Vat-
ican is regarded as an effort to
establish contacts through which
Italy might ascertain her chances
of coming to terms with her en-
emies. Both the United States and
Britain, it is pointed out, main-
tain envoys in Vatican City well
known to Ciano when he was
foreign minister and Italy was
at peace with both powers.
One swiss commentator as-
itiia that Ciano, bereft of the
title cf foreign minister, actual-
ly is recovering some of the
functions of the office. Where-
as hitorto he has been little
more than a messenger between
II Duce and the Fuehrer he will
have the opportunity in the
serene, neutral, pacific atmos-
phere of Vatican City to estab-
lish relatively independent con-
tents with the envoys of nearly
every land.
Of course this speculation leaves
out of account the “unconditional
surrender” declaration with which
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill closed their
American m the Itr (fifth envoy
would entertain foi a moment
any approach from the suave
(’inner
One purpose of the current nr
imminent peace drive will be to
divide the Allies, especially the
Ang- Saxon newer* from Russia.
The Bolshevist bogey, which Hit-
ler is using on the one hand to
whip up m«>re help from hsa
satellites for his armies and his
iactni ies, wiii in.* cltipiwj trvl ■!’< u|,
peals, direct ur implied, to Rus-
sia's western Allies to rally be-
hind Germany in her role of
protector of European civiliza-
tion against the Red tide from the
east.
In fact one such call already
has been sounded. On that black
anniversary of Jan. 30 Goering
had this to say: “Today Germany
stands on guard for the whole
rntm
vH|
.Mile i>t friendly.
P »ll mind real
(firmany were
i m.inx would not
respect so as not
to < "Han*** the Ito
stop out of si
\ inlate, let us say, Swedish or
Swiss neutrality At that very
moment Bolshevism would sweep
urn *s Europe to its tip."
That k*ynct* will be repeated
and elaborated many timet in
thenext few months in the pro-
paganda on which Hitler hat
relied almott at much at on hit
• m'it fnrre to divide
and destroy his enemies.
Written records of dental dis-
ease and methods uf treatment
have been found dating back to
3700 B. C.
The element fluorine, in proper
quantities, has been found essen-
tial to health teeth.
FAST ACTION HELPS
PREVIN! MANY COLDS
From Developing...
At the first sign of a cold.
put a few drops of Vicks >
put a few drops
Va-tro-nol up each nos-
tril. Its quick action aids
Nature's defenses against
colds . . . And remember -
when a head cold makes
VICKS
“fills up” nose, S-purp*M
Va-tro-nol does 3 Impor-
tant things: (1) shrinks
swollen membranes, (2)
relieves irritation, (3)
helps clear cold-clogged
nasal passages. And brl
you suffer, or tran- mmm ^ reliefl Follow di-
stent congestion yAa||in>|NnA recUona in folder.
'Her lovely shining hair,
it did my heart ensnare'
n
Nothing makes a woman as al-
luring to men as shinning, lust
rous hair. Be his lovely Valen-
tine with a thrilling new "Hair- ‘dH
Do" and permanent wave.
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